Generator automator here: http://meanderingbanter.blogspot.com/2018/10/automatic-list-to-html-translator-v2.html
D50 | This being cannot be harmed by |
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1 | blades, spears, nor any edged or piercing weapons, |
2 | any beast of the land, bird of the air, or fish of the water, |
3 | anyone who seeks to do them deliberate harm, |
4 | sneak attacks, ambushes, and backstabs, |
5 | anyone who has killed before, |
6 | magic, |
7 | anything, |
8 | men, |
9 | women, |
10 | adults, |
11 | hammers, maces, or any other bludgeon, |
12 | any ranged weapon, |
13 | starvation, suffocation, nor any other sort of deprivation, |
14 | the living, |
15 | manufactured things, |
16 | fire, acid, or anything else that burns and stings, |
17 | mortal wounds (though not any wounds that fall short of mortal), |
18 | anything which does not come from the northeast, |
19 | sickness or poison, |
20 | the decrepitude of aging, |
21 | sighted people, |
22 | sober people, |
23 | people who are awake, |
24 | metal or stone, wood or bone, |
25 | anyone with all their limbs, |
26 | anyone who hasn’t been invited into their home, |
27 | anything that’s ever drunk its mother’s milk, |
28 | weapons that have been used before, |
29 | the same thing more than once, |
30 | anything which would not kill them in a single blow, |
31 | any attack that strikes their skin (orifices and internals remain vulnerable), |
32 | any attack outside the bounds of a formal duel, |
33 | anyone with hair on their head or face, |
34 | anything that is indoors or outdoors, |
35 | either the old or the young, |
36 | anything held in a hand, |
37 | any attack which comes from above or below them, |
38 | any attack which would leave a mark on their body, |
39 | any attack which makes a noise, |
40 | any moving object, |
41 | fire, earth, air, water, or anything derived from the same, |
42 | anything solid, |
43 | anyone who holds a worldly possession, |
44 | anyone who’s accepted a gift from them, |
45 | anyone they can perceive, |
46 | any attack aimed directly at them, |
47 | anyone close enough to touch them, |
48 | anyone wearing less expensive clothes than them, |
49 | anyone who can’t rightly answer their riddle, |
50 | anyone who’s told a lie, |
D50 | unless |
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1 | they’ve fallen in love. |
2 | they’re laughing. |
3 | their feet are touching the ground. |
4 | they’ve displeased their spiritual patron who granted their invulnerability. |
5 | it is a holy day. |
6 | they are directly beneath the open sky. |
7 | they’ve breached the code of hospitality. |
8 | they’re standing still. |
9 | their true name is known by one who wishes them harm. |
10 | they’re clean. |
11 | they’ve recently eaten meat. |
12 | the one who wishes them harm is a relative of theirs, by blood, marriage, adoption, or otherwise. |
13 | they haven’t slept in the dirt of their homeland in the last three days. |
14 | the horrific parasite that grants their invulnerability has been extracted or regurgitated from their stomach. |
15 | they’re officially recognized as a criminal in the land they’re in. |
16 | they are beaten in some non-violent contest. |
17 | they can hear music. |
18 | their special hat is knocked off their head. |
19 | they’re shown their own reflection. |
20 | the painting which receives wounds in their stead is destroyed. |
21 | they’ve done a kind deed since the sun last rose. |
22 | they’re upside-down. |
23 | the one who wishes them harm accepts an identical wound. |
24 | the harm is first dealt to a model made in their image. |
25 | someone is ritually harmed by the same mean(s) in front of them. |
26 | they believe it’s actually another source of harm. |
27 | it’s the night of the new moon. |
28 | they refuse an invitation. |
29 | their second heart which they hid in a chest is destroyed. |
30 | they’re inebriated. |
31 | they’re too distracted to concentrate on maintaining their partial invulnerability. |
32 | they’re in the shadow of a black cat. |
33 | they inhale the smoke from a cremated corpse. |
34 | three religious leaders of different faiths issue condemnations of them. |
35 | they’ve just had the best day of their life. |
36 | they’re prepared as a live sacrifice for a fell deity. |
37 | they’re beaten in a rhyming contest. |
38 | a mock funeral is held for them. |
39 | they believe they’re already dead. |
40 | they walk under a doorway where an iron horseshoe’s hung. |
41 | they’re slapped with a fish. |
42 | the harm is done with their opposite, a partially unstoppable weapon created in the same moment they became (sort of) invulnerable. |
43 | the means of harm has been coated or mixed with the juice of nightshade. |
44 | they want to die. |
45 | sunlight is shining on them. |
46 | they’re buried in the dirt. |
47 | a live snake is wrapped around their neck. |
48 | they’ve been staked to a mountaintop. |
49 | they’ve broken a hen’s egg. |
50 | they’ve got blood on them. |
D20 | Why is this being (conditionally) invulnerable? |
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1 | Fate has decreed that they must not die by certain means lest the fabric of the divine order of things be frayed. |
2 | They drank a potion distilled from the waters in which Achilles was dipped by Thetis. |
3 | They sold their soul to a demon for invulnerability, but had already promised a fragment of it to another entity so they didn’t get the whole package. |
4 | They’re the god-child of a witch, who granted it as a gift. |
5 | They’re a potent wild talent whose ability manifests in this manner duel to psychological idiosyncrasies. |
6 | They meditated for years without stopping until the cosmos recognized their merit with this blessing. |
7 | They’re a living glitch in physics. |
8 | They burned away their weakness in primordial fire, which is to the paltry embers of these latter days as the tyrannosaurus rex is to the chicken. |
9 | They were enchanted by a wizard to serve as a durable component in an occult machine. |
10 | They’ve been made the live phylactery of a distant lich. |
11 | They outwrestled an angel and so won a boon from it. |
12 | They impressed a fairy-prince who then blessed them with it. |
13 | The strength of their soul is such that some of its imperishable light reinforces their mortal flesh. |
14 | They exacted promises from foundational spirits of the world not to do them harm if they keep to certain taboos. |
15 | There’s an invincible adamant elemental somewhere up the trunk of their family tree. |
16 | They grafted a scrap of leather from the divine aegis onto their flesh. |
17 | They tricked the psychopomp responsible for managing their death. |
18 | They were a test subject for an attempt at one of the great works of alchemy, the creation of the invincible and eternal Resurrection Body. |
19 | For reasons unknown and incomprehensible to mortals they’ve gained the protection of an eldritch entity. |
20 | It’s merely pure, astoundingly unlikely luck that they’re not harmed in certain circumstances. |
I dig it! Gonna put this directly in my 'rogue sorcerer' materials folder.
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