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1. Read a book with a character that matches the race type you choose
2. Read a book with all the letters of the race type you choose in the title/subtitle/series (example: GOBLIN)
3. Read a book with the race type chosen listed in the text of the book: please state the page or % (example: DWARF)
Class Tasks: (choose one)
1. Read a book with a character that matches the class type you choose
2. Read a book with all the letters of the class type you choose in the title/subtitle/series (example: WIZARD)
3. Read a book with the class type chosen listed in the text of the book: please state the page or % (example: BARBARIAN)
Please choose one race & one class
Race options:
Elf
Dwarf
Goblin
Orc
Human
Shifter
Fairy
Class Options:
Barbarian
Druid
Ranger
Rogue
Wizard
Fighter
Monk
Link to Class options to explore skills: https://5e.tools/classes.html#barbari...
Please Note: Each player will read a total of 2 books for this. One for race & one for class.
In the solo game, I'd like to be an Elf Monk
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A prized 'sack of flour' has been stolen from you, but you've tracked it down to a highly secure bank. The bank will not give it back to you. Do you give up, or plan a heist?
If you give up: spell out CONCEDE
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If you plan a heist.
Step 1: Gather your heist materials
Minimum 4 books - items should be on covers or in the title
Step 2: Security - security guards & alarms
Read a book with a security guard character (to distract him)
Read a book with the word alarm in the text (to disable it)
{Create your own additional tasks as needed to fit your plan}
Step 3: Execute your plan - tell me your plan
Use book titles BUT please use filler words as needed to tell me your plan. Minimum of 4 books.
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I put on my hat, mask, & glasses to not be identified on cameras. I put on my gloves to ensure no fingerprints. My elf magic binds everyone in the bank under my spell. The hypnotised guard disables the alarm. The staff help me get the item and put it in my car. Another spell takes all their memories of me and the event. I drive away with no-one knowing what happened. Profit.
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Your plan was solid, however, the bank had planned ahead for something like this. They employed a wizard on staff. The wizard was able to resist your spell and replace the bag of flour with a decoy bag. The decoy bag of flour was taken to your car and you escaped with it unknowingly.
The real bag of bottomless flour that can end world hunger is still safe & sound in a secret vault at the bank. Do you plan a new heist? Or do you concede?
I'm ready for the next quest.
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Quest #2
After a night in a tavern, each member of the party wakes up in the body of another member with no memory of what happened. One party member's body is gone, however, their mind instead inside a sentient item... a bag of beans.
Are these magic beans? Maybe, maybe not; plant them and find out. Worst case scenario, you could eat them. Do you eat the beans? If they are magic beans, how do you use them? Can you get everyone back in their bodies?
If you eat the beans, spell out BEANS
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If you think they are magic beans, start here
Plant the beans
Read a book with dirt on the cover
Read a book with all the letters of BEANS in the title
Read a book with water on the cover
Read a book with a sun on the cover
Step 2: Find a solution to the body problems listed above. Use book titles BUT please use filler words as needed to tell me your solution. Minimum of 4 books. (everyone will do step 2 no matter the choices above)
For those of you playing solo... you will play this as if you were a member of the party experiencing this issue. How would you solve this? You can play as any member the party, one that is in another body or the beans. But you must present a solution
Alas, I'm currently in autistic burnout...so my capability for planning quests is gone. So for the time being, I'll be conceding most of the quests. So I can still do the spell-outs.
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Donna wrote: "Richard, you forgot to do step 2. I have to send this back to you to do step 2. You can resubmit it when you are done."But I didn't plant the beans; I ate them.
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You may take your time. This is not a race. You can take weeks or a month if you need to. I know you are in a burnout right now. If you would like, you can ask someone to write a story for you and you can just read the books to fit it. That is perfectly acceptable. I won't fault you for asking for help.
Quest 2:We don't know what to do, so we just take ownership of our new identities.
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Eating the beans might have been a bad idea since it was your teammate you were eating. Anyone who digested the beans is now an Ettin, commonly called a two-headed giant. You now share a body with the teammate that you ate. You are going to need some help. Do you seek the help of a high-level cleric? Or go on a quest for a cure?
Seek Cleric:
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Quest for Cure:
Read a book with a cave on the cover
Read a book with magic item
Read a book tagged magic
Read a book with all the letters CURE
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You found the cleric and he sends you on a mission to find a book called Cyrinishad. The red wizards of Thay currently have this book. To find this book complete the following tasks:
Read a book with a red cover
Read a book that ends with a letter in THAY
Read a book with all the letters in CYRINISHAD in the title/subtitle/series
Read a book a wizard character
Or you may opt to go back and quest for the cure instead.
Read a book with a cave on the cover
Read a book with magic item
Read a book tagged magic
Read a book with all the letters CURE
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The cleric is pleased that you have found the book. He informs you that it is a Cyric artifact and sends you on another quest. This time you must find 7 keys. They must all be different. Then you must take them to the shrines of Mystra and insert them in the statues. Place the book upon the altar in the middle.
7 Keys
Find 7 keys on the covers of 7 different books. Each key must be distinctly different from the others.
Statues
Read 7 books with statues on the covers or with the word STATUE (intact) in the title/ or text
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Oops… you released Cyric, and he likely has no intention of helping you to retain your original form. He is the God of lies and trickery. He is known best for killing other Gods. You may want to move on to the next quest. You may choose to try to convince Cyric to help you, go back and quest for a cure, OR you can move on to Quest 3 (you will still be stuck in your new form).
Try to convince Cyric to help you retain your original form
Read a book with a powerful artifact
Read a book that is full of chaos
Read a book where a kingdom or region is destabilized
Read a book where someone is challenged or their power is tested
Quest for Cure
Read a book with a cave on the cover
Read a book with a magic item
Read a book tagged magic
Read a book all the letters CURE in the title
Spell out CURE (One book per letter – Title, Author First/Last initials, Series)
Move to Quest 3
Read a book 3 in any series
Read a book with a 3 in the page count
Read a book with the word NEXT or THREE in the text
Read a book with 3 in the published date
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The party finds a "Wanted" poster with one of your members on it. A Fiend (a demon) is going around committing crimes in their likeness and leaving the victims in compromising situations. You have no idea why the Fiend has chosen a member of your party to impersonate.
If you decide to collect on that bounty and turn in your friend, Spell out BETRAY
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If you decide to fight the Fiend
Step 1: Collect weapons
Minimum 4 books - items should be on covers or in the title
Step 2: Track the Fiend
{Create your own tasks for this step}
Step 3: Execute your attack - Use book titles BUT please use filler words as needed to tell me how your attack goes down. Minimum of 4 books.
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You betrayed your friend, who went insane in prison. He started following the Mad God, Diinkarazan. He broke out of prison and offered Cyric a favor to in exchange to free Diinkarazan from his prison in the abyss (which only a greater deity like Cyric could do). Do you meet with the Illithids (Cthulan like people with mind control) or the Circle of Greater Powers?
To meet with the Illithids:
Read a book tagged aliens
Read a book where a character has mind control abilities
Read a book with all the letters of FLAYER in the title/series
Read a book that ends with a letter in GHAIK
To meet with the Circle of Greater Powers:
Read a book with a 12 in the page count (example: 312, 123, etc)
Read a book with all the letters of BALANCE in the title/series
Read a book with a circle on the cover
Read a book with a character who has a great power (your interpretation)
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Congratulations! You have levelled up a class level. You are now level 4.
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The Circle of Greater Powers agrees to hear your case—but warns you that freeing Diinkarazan will fracture the divine balance. Every major force in the cosmos will feel the repercussions. You must prove your intent and accept one of three difficult paths:
Path 1: Redemption through Light
Try to undo the damage and atone for betraying your friend by convincing the Circle to imprison Diinkarazan forever.
📘 Read a book with a prison or imprisonment
📘 Read a book with a paladin or cleric (or someone who channels divine light)
📘 Read a book where someone seeks or finds redemption
📘 Read a book that ends in peace or reconciliation
Path 2: Bargain in Shadows
Convince the Circle to let you free Diinkarazan—but only if you agree to become his tether to the material world. This puts your soul and mind at risk.
📘 Read a book with the word SHADOW in the text
📘 Read a book with a split/mirrored identity character
📘 Read a book where someone makes a dangerous deal
📘 Read a book with all the letters of HOST in the title/series
Path 3: Break the Balance
You reject the Circle’s control and decide to side with Diinkarazan and Cyric. You will bring about divine chaos—but first must break the seals of Balance.
📘 Read a book with a broken seal, chain, or barrier on the cover or in the story
📘 Read a book with a character who defies authority
📘 Read a book with a god, demigod, or fallen celestial
📘 Read a book with all the letters of CHAOS in the title
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The seals that hold the Elder Evils were bound by divine pact after the Dawn War. Each is hidden across the planes, tied to a specific force of cosmic stability. To free them, you must:
*Discover their prison
*Break the seal
*Withstand the consequences
1. Bolothamogg – The Forgotten One (Anti-divine presence)
His seal lies buried beneath the ruins of a fallen god’s temple.
📘 Read a book with a god who is dead, missing, or forgotten
📘 Read a book with the word “SILENCE” in the text or a silent character
📘 Read a book where faith is tested or lost
2. Holashner – The Hunger Below (Body horror, ooze, consumption)
His prison lies beneath a city plagued by rot and gluttony.
📘 Read a book involving rot, decay, or infection
📘 Read a book with a cave, underground lair, or sinkhole
📘 Read a book with the word HUNGER in the text, or a ravenous monster
3. Piscaethces – The Blood Queen (Aberrant sea horror)
Sealed beneath an endless ocean trench, she dreams of transforming all into her spawn.
📘 Read a book set at sea or involving deep water
📘 Read a book with the word BLOOD in the text or featuring transformation/mutation
📘 Read a book with a queen or ruler of monstrous nature
4. Shothotugg – The Eater of Worlds (Apocalypse bringer, water elemental force)
His seal is carved into the bones of drowned continents.
📘 Read a book with a flooded world or natural catastrophe
📘 Read a book that ends in destruction or a broken world
📘 Read a book with all the letters of DROWN or TIDAL in the title/series
5. Y’chak – The Violet Flame (Madness, parasitism, psionics)
Imprisoned within a mindscape formed by the dreams of a dying god.
📘 Read a book with madness or insanity themes
📘 Read a book with a parasite, mind control, or body horror
📘 Read a book with a purple cover (min 50%) or a flame on the cover
Final Task: Herald of Madness
Once all five are released, you must declare yourself the Herald of the Elder Evils.
📘 Read a book where a character becomes a prophet, harbinger, or chosen one
📘 Read a book that causes or predicts apocalypse
📘 Read a book with all the letters of DOOM in the title/series
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Donna wrote: "Bumping to show activity"What does that mean, Donna?
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Donna wrote: "Nothing to worry about."Ok, thanks. I appreciate your explanation. I thought you wanted me to replicate what I put in the spreadsheet into this thread. Good to know I don't have to navigate that exercise. All good.
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The release of the Elder Evils has torn the fabric of reality. Time splinters and rewrites itself, fracturing your world into overlapping, conflicting timelines. Every choice, every moment exists simultaneously in countless alternate versions — some familiar, some terrifyingly strange.
To navigate these fractured timelines and prevent complete annihilation, you must seek understanding and mastery of time’s broken strands.
Your Tasks: Mending the Shattered Hours
The Mirror of Other Lives
Read a book set in an alternate universe or parallel world.
Find how a character’s life could have gone differently — a glimpse of what “might have been.”
Facing Yourself
Read a book where a character encounters a version of themselves — a doppelgänger, alternate self, or shadow self.
Confront the duality of your fractured identity.
The Broken Clock
Read a book with time, clocks, cycles, or temporal disruption as a theme or symbol.
Learn how time’s broken pieces can be understood — or shattered further.
Tangled Threads
Read a book with nonlinear storytelling or shifting timelines.
Discover how stories can be unwound and rewound, rewriting fate itself.
Final Task: Stitch the Fragments
Once all four tasks are complete, you must choose:
Attempt to weave the fractured timelines into one reality, restoring order but at great cost.
Read a book one in any series
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Embrace the chaos of multiple realities, becoming a guardian of the multiverse’s infinite possibilities.
Read a book with multiple timelines
Your choice will shape the fate of existence itself.
Quest 3D:The Mirror of Other Lives
Facing Yourself
The Broken Clock
Tangled Threads
Final Task: Stitch the Fragments
Attempt to weave the fractured timelines into one reality, restoring order but at great cost.
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You have woven the fractured timelines back into one reality, but the cost weighs heavy on your soul. Echoes of lives you never lived whisper in your mind. Flickers of alternate selves blur your vision. The balance you restored is fragile — and unseen forces watch, waiting for the moment to tear it apart again.
To hold this new unity and face what comes next, you must explore the consequences of your sacrifice.
📚 Reading Tasks for The Price of Unity
Echoes of What Was
📘Read a book where a character wrestles with lost memories or forgotten pasts.
What is real when memory bends? Can you hold on to who you truly are?
The Watchers Between Worlds
📘Read a book featuring mysterious observers or entities existing between realities.
They see the seams, waiting for the moment to pull them apart again.
Shadows of the Price Paid
📘Read a book with a character suffering from the consequences of a great sacrifice.
Every stitch you sewed frayed another thread somewhere else.
The New Balance
📘Read a book where fragile peace is established, but hints of coming turmoil lurk.
The world is quiet — for now.
Once you complete these tasks, you will have faced the true price of your choice — and prepared for what lurks beyond the veil of unity.
I'm going to stop my challenge here, if that's okay, Donna.
January 1, 2025
Open-Ended
Individual
Race: Elf
Class: Monk
Class Level: 4
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Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Challenge Rules
📘No graphic novels, poetry, or cookbooks allowed.
📘Standard Rules Apply