Thursday, June 19, 2025

D20x5 Great Grails

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D20 This grail is a
1 delicate chalice
2 hearty flagon
3 drinking horn
4 comfy mug
5 bit more of a soup bowl than a cup
6 regal goblet
7 schooner
8 tumbler
9 snifter
10 flute
11 stein
12 tankard
13 teacup
14 beaker
15 mazagran
16 thermos
17 quaich
18 masu
19 ochoko
20 lowball

D20 This grail is made from
1 crystal.
2 teak.
3 gold.
4 bones.
5 turtle shell.
6 tin.
7 a bird’s beak.
8 ancient, near-fossilized bread.
9 silver.
10 marble.
11 a hollowed mushroom.
12 stained glass.
13 temporally-frozen vapour.
14 the Platonic substance of grail-ness.
15 the resin-blood amberscab of a plantimal.
16 a chunk of salt chipped off Lot’s wife.
17 the finest porcelain.
18 magma-bee wax.
19 glamour-woven cobwebs.
20 red bamboo.

D20 This grail causes
1 those who drink from it to receive prophetic visions of heavens and hells.
2 water within it to be transmuted into (1d6): 1, wine; 2, nitroglycerin; 3, colourless, odourless poison; 4, soma; 5, acid; 6, holy water.
3 fluids within it to be purified of all contaminants.
4 fluids within it to drain into a huge extradimensional reservoir, which can be spilled out of the grail after.
5 those who share a drink from it to become unable to directly harm each other.
6 those who drink from it to gain preternatural talent at (1d6): 1, poetry; 2: brewing; 3, fishing; 4, smithing; 5, lying; 6, commanding troops.
7 those to drink from it to gain the ability to swallow swords and then spit them out again with impaling force.
8 dead warriors who sip from it to return to a fighting half-life, remaining animate so long as they remain on campaign.
9 those who drink from it to gain eternal youth.
10 those who drink from it to immediately ascend to a pure land or pleasure-realm.
11 those who drink from it to immediately achieve the physical prime of their species.
12 a cloud to form above the one who drinks from it, which perpetually rains droplets of milk and honey.
13 those who drink from it to be transmuted into (1d4): 1, gold; 2, adamantine; 3, a great big tree; 4, a living statue.
14 one who drinks from it to be healed from any wound, but only once.
15 the shape of the one who drank it to become fluid, allowing them to assume the shape of any animal they've seen before.
16 those who drink it to gain great wisdom, and be dispelled of any illusions, charms, or other impositions upon their mind.
17 the one who drinks it to receive a mark of divine protection on their brow - thereafter, should they die by violence or treachery, the one(s) responsible for their death will be struck with a plague of (1d4): 1, ravenous insects; 2, boiling boils; 3, lightning; 4, baleful winds.
18 the one who drank from it to be totally nourished, refreshed, and satisfied, as if they'd drank the nectar of the very gods.
19 the full knowledge of a future technology to sprout in the mind of its drinker.
20 those who drink from it to become immune to drowning, strong water currents, and getting the chills from rain.

D20 This grail is held
1 in the grip of a skeleton in the oubliette of a mossy and forgotten donjon.
2 in an overlooked corner of a merchant's warehouse.
3 in the mead-hall of an ancient chieftain cursed to relive the same violent night again and again with his retinue.
4 by a were-dragon princess self-imprisoned at top of a vitrified stone tower.
5 in the fortress-monastery of a militant order, who guard it as a relic of their founder.
6 as a conversation piece by the guildmaster of a guild of criminal stonemasons, who intimidate competitors into giving them free masonry.
7 in an ark borne at the head of a warlord's host - they consider it the source of their victories.
8 by a filthy though egalitarian under-republic of beggars, pickpockets, and pariahs who live in the sewers - whoever is speaking during an assembly puts their hand on it.
9 embedded in a sore on the forehead of the king of the giants.
10 as the heart of the tea-cup golem, enforcer of the Wizard of the Wizened Woods.
11 in the petrified arms of the most handsome man in the world, in the lair of the medusa who loves him still.
12 by the rattling husks of a legion of undead ant-people, cursed never to rest until they find its worthy bearer.
13 by a bitter old elf who lives in a bitter old tree, and who stole it long ago to deny it to humanity.
14 in a crumbling shrine in the wilderness where an immortal and addled knight dwells, unsure now of the test he must pose to those who seek the grail.
15 by the devil Mesostopheles, who is sure that someone will want to trade their soul for it eventually.
16 by a hydromancer who uses it for her divinations, and thereby has gotten very rich off gambling.
17 in the treasury of the pearlescent palace of the prince of oysters.
18 as the top prize for a tournament of martial artists coming in from all over the world for it.
19 in the hoard of the Pewter Dragon, who collects all manner of drinking vessels, and whose breath turns the air to stampeding horses.
20 by a hermit in their mountain-top retreat.

D20 This grail can only be taken up by
1 the truly virtuous.
2 the truly vicious.
3 the one who slays its guardian.
4 a total pacifist.
5 one who has never fled from battle.
6 a couple in true love.
7 someone who has royal blood or title.
8 someone who fights a duel to the death over it.
9 the weakest among any group that have come for it.
10 someone who doesn't actually want it.
11 a drunken sailor.
12 an oathbreaker.
13 the skyclad.
14 someone suffering from an incurable disease.
15 a wizard who's burned their books.
16 someone who's blind, dead, and/or mute.
17 the one who makes a proper toast to it, with the right vintage & the right ancient language.
18 someone who leaves something of equal value in its place.
19 one who has the blessing of the ghost of the craftsman who made it.
20 the one who solves its riddle.

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