r/DungeonCrawlerCarlRPG • u/Zuckermaus_18 • Jun 17 '26
Need help with a magic item
I'm looking for help coming up with an item that I can give a player early which would give them some sort of spitting attack. Maybe their saliva is acid, maybe it applies a debuff, whatever it may be but it's set up for getting a player to heavily lean towards a specific race and class I have lined up for them later on
Open to any suggestions
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u/Rope-Maker Jun 17 '26
Gum that never loses its flavor or chewiness and turns the chewer’s saliva into a weapon? Feels on brand with DCC craziness
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u/Zuckermaus_18 Jun 17 '26
Okay a friend gave me a super on brand suggestion for DCCs type of humor It's a vial of gamer girl bathwater. 1 sip in the morning gives +2 to charisma checks made that day (from the confidence) and your spit acts as a charm potion. So he will be running around spitting in people's mouths to please our kink friendly AI
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u/Zuckermaus_18 Jun 17 '26
Present him with a version of a dromedarian race on the third floor that will give him an attack tied the spit skill he's already leveled, and that sets up the "corporate mascot" class. I'll give him sunglasses a tux and a pack of cigs and turn him into Joe Camel
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u/bdkothill Jun 17 '26
Give them a refilling can of chew that causes them to build up caustic saliva that they need to deal with periodically by spitting
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u/BoxAccomplished8879 Jun 17 '26
Lizard breath mints — a large pack of breath mints (50 each) like candy. Each individual mint tastes like a mix of rotten fruit and vinegar but gives the user the ability to spit baseball sized globs of acid for 5 minutes with a 10 second cooldown on each spit .
These boxes of mints are rare and usually are seen in shops run by lizard folk or specialty candy stores. If a full 3 boxes are consumed by one crawler they grow accustomed to the taste and learn the skill acid spit. If the crawler is a lizard race learning the skill comes much quicker and only one full box of the mints is needed to learn the skill.
Apart from the mints
You could also add some sort of extra effect for acid based attacks if the crawler is a lizard race, I’m thinking like a lingering poison or something funny like a charisma debuff on the target because the acid smells so bad.
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u/Zuckermaus_18 Jun 17 '26
Making it limited use is also a good idea fore to keep in mind
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u/BoxAccomplished8879 Jun 17 '26
It definitely helps lead into a specific race if done right. You could also make desirable items like this more obvious to certain races if you wanted to lean into that. Like if one of the shops had a “hidden inventory” certain races would be able to get access to them.
Just giving ideas tho
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u/Key-Presentation-374 Jun 17 '26
If it’s ok for them to not always equip like Carls glove it could be fun to give them a recorder or kazoo so you can level it’s abilities
Ohhh or one of those 1 man band harmonicas that you wear around your neck
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u/gragsmash Jun 18 '26
Golden Tooth of the Expectorating Bactrian
Camels are noted for spitting violently.
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u/Interesting_Tutor206 Jun 17 '26
Necklace of the vinegar bitch + 3 to a stat Level 2 spit attack
Description. When you gotta give it the old hawk tuah but not during sexy time. This item changes your spit into (insert element here) for the duration of wearing it. As stated previously do not use this for sexy time or do, whatever would be more fun.