Gone are the days of nondescript attack and damage rolls! Injuries & Vile Deeds restores excitement to 5e combat, providing rules for cinematic, tactical encounters. PC Injuries create narrative tension, keeping the party on its toes as they weigh the risks of pressing on or allowing their enemies to get a step ahead. Meanwhile, players can now add mechanical effects to descriptive combat, inflicting Injuries on their enemies and causing negative status effects with every action. Injuries & Vile Deeds contains Injury systems for PCs and their enemies, adding rules to encourage tactical and descriptive combat for Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition. It also comes packed with 220 pages of new feats, items, spells, subclasses, terrifying monsters, and villainous NPCs to use at your table. The book is filled with gorgeously detailed artwork illustrating every magic item, monster, and NPCs. If you're a fan of the combat aesthetics in shows like Castlevania or The Witcher, or love the kill animations in games like God of War, Sekiro, and Shadow of Mordor, the Injuries and Vile Deeds will be the perfect addition to your game. A video walkthrough of the Injury systems found in the book (mechanics and a couple of practical examples) can be found here. The book includes... A set of injury systems for player characters and their enemies that promise to improve your cinematic and tactical combat experience in 5e 50+ magic items, including new potions and poisons 50+ spells, including new ‘Lair Magic’, spells for enchanting a villain’s lair 40+ monsters that use the injury systems to create new and deadly threats for your adventuring party 20+ NPCs including plot hooks, personality, and lore for named characters 20+ feats 12 new subclasses (one for each class) with villainous flair 10 backgrounds for villainous and ex-villainous characters Over 100 gorgeous (and terrifying), full-color illustrations A new 5e character sheet stylized with a dark fantasy flair, including a page to track injuries and diseases Guidelines for incorporating villainous actions and violent scenes into safe gameplay
