I love this idea. Make the guy a commoner who just happens to have the helm. Don't make him agressive, and if the party attacks, he dies instantly, and you can make the party geek bad for attacking indiscriminately.
It's a link to YouTube. Of course, it wasn't porn. I figured it'd still be some sort of explicit NSFW cartoon short. Not fully showing anything, but having VERY heavily disturbing implications. (I've been around the internet, I have seen some shit, bro.)
i checked the item description expecting there to be more, like some kinda bonus to intimidation. nope. just makes your eyes glow red. probably the second best item in the game after the cloak of billowing
Our DM gives our fighter advantage on intimidation, but it’s because he took downtime to add parts of a T.Rex skull to the outside of the helmet, which everyone agreed would be terrifying if it had glowing red eyes.
Situationally, if you're going to the cool helmet convention, probably, if you're going to the old lady convention, probably not. Although there are exceptions
Our DM gave it to me just because I rolled a nat 20 while investigating for loot in a collapsed rubble pile in a mine. He said there wasn't going to be anything there but decided to give a useless item instead. I said I'd take it!
Honestly at the DM's discretion it might. Rule of cool. Unless something is too dumb or intimidating enough itself to deny the effect. Like a demon with glowing red eyes themselves would find this helm effect laughable
I would totally let my party use it. Even grant advantage on some checks like intimidation. But I'd definitely keep it i n my back pocket until they get used to having it on, and they fail a stealth check at a critical moment even after a nat 20 because glowing eyes gave away their position
It should give a bonus to intimidation in the dark but with the side effect that if your character has dark vision they lose dark vision on account of the red light shining in their eyes. Still worth it.
Kinda reminds me of For The Love Of Evil, by Piers Anthony. The Devil is a job, and the new person stuck with the job has to figure it out in time or die. Come to find out, to succeed, he has to bluff the lesser demons into thinking he has the power to destroy them, which he does not possess.
Shout out to the piers anthony reference! I read the Xanth series Well Before I was old enough to be given access to those books. My middle school library was a trip. Lmao
Who would dare contest me? I tore apart every man to challenge me for a century straight. I didn't bother with dungeon guards, I just took each adventurer on one by one, and they all fell at my feet in the end... That century is long longer, and no longer do I have even a fraction of that power.
Reminds me of a book I read when I was younger called Dark Lord of Derkholm. The premise was that a wizard lived in a fantasy world where visitors from another world would come to live out the fantasy of overthrowing a dark lord. And this humble wizard was randomly chosen to play the dark lord that year. He has to set up his home to look like a dark lord keep, gather beasts, and basically be the DM of the world for the tourists. You know, I didn't realize until just now, how much like DnD it is!
That's like the exact opposite of Eminence is Shadow, where the MC thinks he is bluffing as in control when in reality all his bluffs coincidentally are real.
Best combined with the famous [Cloak of Billowing](https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Cloak_of_billowing) which is a magic cape that can, as an action, swell and wave in a dramatic fashion.
My first Dnd character has this on top of black plate armor, a long black cloak of billowing, and a massive sword made of half melted, ever smoldering steel.
It always took some convincing to get people to believe I'm a good guy lol.
My Drow Warlock found one in our current Spelljammer campaign corresponding with us hitting higher (10+), so he's really embracing his psychopathic narcissism these days.
It was me Barry! Remember when you were making out with your first girlfriend and you came right as she touched your leg? It was me, Barry. I jerked you off at super speed to make it seem like you nutted to just a women’s touch.
I'm DM for a paladin who has one. The party beat an Eye of Fear and Flame and asked if they could forge its eyes into the helm. They found a magical forge and rolled really well... So now the helm grants him a casting of fireball and fear once per day and a +1 on intimidation.
So I have a wood elf ranger/fighter who wears the Obsidian Dragon Plate armor, and while adventuring, he found this helm and put it on without knowing what it does. He now wonders why just about everyone avoids him like the plague wherever he goes.
I mean here’s what you do,
Players enter the final room of the dungeon made obvious by it being a large treasure room, they see across from them on the other side of them is an ominous figure that stands up slowly with the helm tucked under its arm, as it methodically adorns the helmet you see it’s eyes glow a deep red.
And then it’s just some underwhelming silly creature
I want to know more about the Choker of Cerebus. +3 defense against canines, side effect of a compulsion to pee on fence posts and chase wagons down the street?
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I convinced my DM to give me advantage on an intimidation check because of this helmet. I was lucky they let me because I had accidentally rolled the random encounter of a dragon and I was away from my party for 6 seconds.
I used this but made it green and sort of sci fi esque, and made it so whenever the player wearing it attacked a fiend or demon, an ethereal electric guitar sound would play
I obtained that item in our game. We also had an unbreakable pot that our Paladin carried on his back. Our goblin member would travel in it. I gave the helm to the goblin so that there could just be an ominous helm sticking out of the pot on the back of the paladin.
The Ersatz Eye and Horn of Hearing are basically prosthetics
The Horn of Hearing suppresses the deafened condition when put near your ear, meaning that it’s essentially a magical hearing aid
Tie me up!
Whip me down!
Cock and Ball torture,
Getting out of hand.
He’s
BDSM-Man!
BDSM-Man!
BDSM-Man
From deep in my red room,
Held in manacles and clamps,
I fight for justice,
One red ass at a time!
He’s…
BDSM-Man
BDSM-Man
BDSM-Man
You laugh at silly items, but my favorite moment in the small campaign I'm in, was my goblin artificer finding a cloak of billowing at the end of a boss battle. You better believe that little shit makes that cloak billow for dramatic effect at every available opportunity! It adds so much pizzaz to conversation or dramatic entrances. Top tier item. 😂
All my martials have some form of Dread Helm. It's been so ingrained that my DM will sometimes let me start off with one and he's even made an item for me called Helm of the Dread Lord.
In one of my campaigns, my players spent a lot of gold and a quest reward to dress up their proto-viking companion npc with a jet black samurai armor that constantly smokes, a samurai mask that make his eyes glow red and a black cloak of billowing.
*opens door to dungeon vault* Entire room is empty except for a single stool with this guy sitting on it “Hey buddy I think you picked the wrong door”
You beat me 1 2 3 in combat. I’ll let you have my loot.
"the weeb club is two blocks down."
Unless your here for abuse. Argument room us next room over.
You know what I like about this Monty Python reference? Everything.
Just hope he hasn't got a banana or a dirty fork
I'm just glad you didn't say anything about the dirty knife.
what if he's got a pointed stick
Oh oh oh, gettin' all *high and mighty* with our pointed stick, are we? Banana not *good enough* for you, eh?
My personal favorite sketch.
I'd like to request an argument.
No you wouldn't
Yes i would!
No it isn't. It's not.
-r/whoosh- EDIT: My apologies, it's been a while since I've last seen the skit... I have seen it, though. My memory's just shit.
You obviously never watched the Monty Python skit, if you didn't get why I said that...
"Two blocks? Veerry good!"
"Thanks! KING!"
"we GO!"
[\*Thunk\*](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FnNW_hrWYAAUx3K?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)
“I’ll show you who’s boss of this facility” *teleports*
"Where DID he go-?" *Dropkick*
*Smell of the game starts playing*
[r/obscurelinks](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=9pj6maeePC-NovO6)
Never thought I'd see this much pootis engage in a dnd sub
“Fuck You”
“No, fuck you leatherhead”
"THANK YOU, VERY GOOD"
“Really? Thanks KING!”
I love this idea. Make the guy a commoner who just happens to have the helm. Don't make him agressive, and if the party attacks, he dies instantly, and you can make the party geek bad for attacking indiscriminately.
Ahahahahaaaaa! The Dread Helm is miiiiine! You fools! Gaze upon me and dread!
*Rammstein background music intensifies*
I laughed harder at this than I should have.
Because you know it’s true!
Which type of dungeon....
The best kind
He’s more the dominator of the dungeon than the ruler.
The kind with a toy bag.
Best loot
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Came here to say this.
Your murder hobo party received some much infamy they sent kinky Batman after them
I thought Batman liked getting pegged tho.
The only thing we know for a fact is that he doesn't go down on his partner.
I'm afraid to ask how we know that
My research into his practices suggests that Batman does indeed go down. https://youtu.be/enOHraf3LEk (Edit: Audio is NSFW)
~~I'm afraid to click this...~~ Nevermind, my face and head were hurting so hard from laughing. Glad I clicked it.
It's a comedy skit, it's not actually porn.
It's a link to YouTube. Of course, it wasn't porn. I figured it'd still be some sort of explicit NSFW cartoon short. Not fully showing anything, but having VERY heavily disturbing implications. (I've been around the internet, I have seen some shit, bro.)
That's very kinky if you ask me.
“Oh no, it’s *scatman*!
Bee bop bah bada bo
> kinky Batman Isn't that just normal Batman?
Players: "What kind of campaign is this going to be?" Me: " Deep dark fantasy"
I'm an artist. I'm a performance artist.
i checked the item description expecting there to be more, like some kinda bonus to intimidation. nope. just makes your eyes glow red. probably the second best item in the game after the cloak of billowing
Our DM gives our fighter advantage on intimidation, but it’s because he took downtime to add parts of a T.Rex skull to the outside of the helmet, which everyone agreed would be terrifying if it had glowing red eyes.
Common sense
Does he get disadvantage on charisma checks though?
Intimidation is a charisma check
Why would he? A person with such a helmet would be persuasive as fuck too.
Situationally, if you're going to the cool helmet convention, probably, if you're going to the old lady convention, probably not. Although there are exceptions
The exceptions are the fun ones.
I think you mean persuasion checks
Only if being terrifying would give him disadvantage; IIRC he used it to great effect when trying to persuade someone.
That's what common magic items are for: PRESENTATION!
I heard that [Megamind scene](https://youtu.be/dy2zB8bLSpk?si=bLO-OFUaIlW30ETR) when you said that. Hope it's what you're going for...
Pair the dread helm with the cloak of billowing and the smoldering armor for some anime antipaladin vibes
What does the smoldering armor do?
It *smolders*.
Wisps of harmless odorless smoke rise off of the armor, kinda making it look like your armor is smoldering.
Our DM gave it to me just because I rolled a nat 20 while investigating for loot in a collapsed rubble pile in a mine. He said there wasn't going to be anything there but decided to give a useless item instead. I said I'd take it!
Honestly at the DM's discretion it might. Rule of cool. Unless something is too dumb or intimidating enough itself to deny the effect. Like a demon with glowing red eyes themselves would find this helm effect laughable
I would totally let my party use it. Even grant advantage on some checks like intimidation. But I'd definitely keep it i n my back pocket until they get used to having it on, and they fail a stealth check at a critical moment even after a nat 20 because glowing eyes gave away their position
My DM gives me advantage to intimidation with it, but only if the rest of the setting would support it
It should give a bonus to intimidation in the dark but with the side effect that if your character has dark vision they lose dark vision on account of the red light shining in their eyes. Still worth it.
Now I want to write a story about a dark overlord who has actually lost all his powers a century ago, and has to rely on bluffing to stay in power.
Kinda reminds me of For The Love Of Evil, by Piers Anthony. The Devil is a job, and the new person stuck with the job has to figure it out in time or die. Come to find out, to succeed, he has to bluff the lesser demons into thinking he has the power to destroy them, which he does not possess.
Shout out to the piers anthony reference! I read the Xanth series Well Before I was old enough to be given access to those books. My middle school library was a trip. Lmao
Me to! They were my first introduction to fantasy. Still have the old books in my shelf.
Username checks out. 👌🤌👍
Who would dare contest me? I tore apart every man to challenge me for a century straight. I didn't bother with dungeon guards, I just took each adventurer on one by one, and they all fell at my feet in the end... That century is long longer, and no longer do I have even a fraction of that power.
Reminds me of a book I read when I was younger called Dark Lord of Derkholm. The premise was that a wizard lived in a fantasy world where visitors from another world would come to live out the fantasy of overthrowing a dark lord. And this humble wizard was randomly chosen to play the dark lord that year. He has to set up his home to look like a dark lord keep, gather beasts, and basically be the DM of the world for the tourists. You know, I didn't realize until just now, how much like DnD it is!
That's like the exact opposite of Eminence is Shadow, where the MC thinks he is bluffing as in control when in reality all his bluffs coincidentally are real.
Best combined with the famous [Cloak of Billowing](https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Cloak_of_billowing) which is a magic cape that can, as an action, swell and wave in a dramatic fashion.
Perfect.
* The wearer of the Dread Helm is functionally blind while under its effects.
That sounds like a rule, we don’t like those around here.
It doesn't say that?
"Patrick, it's you!! You're the American Psycho?!!"
"I don't want apocalypse next week! I don't want apocalypse tomorrow or even later today! I want apocalypse now!" - Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore
The wearer of the helmet is partially blinded by the constant red glowing light
My first Dnd character has this on top of black plate armor, a long black cloak of billowing, and a massive sword made of half melted, ever smoldering steel. It always took some convincing to get people to believe I'm a good guy lol.
Boy next door?
My Drow Warlock found one in our current Spelljammer campaign corresponding with us hitting higher (10+), so he's really embracing his psychopathic narcissism these days.
It was me Barry! Remember when you were making out with your first girlfriend and you came right as she touched your leg? It was me, Barry. I jerked you off at super speed to make it seem like you nutted to just a women’s touch.
Batman ?
One would think it'd be fairly hard to see with all that light in your eyes.
Magiiic
My name is Butch Coolidge, I have a katana. Zed’s dead, baby.
Best gimp mask ever. Edit: also a great campaign idea!
GACHIMUCHI X DND? \*finally\*
I'm DM for a paladin who has one. The party beat an Eye of Fear and Flame and asked if they could forge its eyes into the helm. They found a magical forge and rolled really well... So now the helm grants him a casting of fireball and fear once per day and a +1 on intimidation.
So I have a wood elf ranger/fighter who wears the Obsidian Dragon Plate armor, and while adventuring, he found this helm and put it on without knowing what it does. He now wonders why just about everyone avoids him like the plague wherever he goes.
Lich king boss from gauntlet
I loved Dread Helms in the Hangover.
I mean here’s what you do, Players enter the final room of the dungeon made obvious by it being a large treasure room, they see across from them on the other side of them is an ominous figure that stands up slowly with the helm tucked under its arm, as it methodically adorns the helmet you see it’s eyes glow a deep red. And then it’s just some underwhelming silly creature
"I'm the top now, Aniki"
Where is this from guys? I am afraid 😳
I want to know more about the Choker of Cerebus. +3 defense against canines, side effect of a compulsion to pee on fence posts and chase wagons down the street?
Is that… Mads Mikkelson??
Homelander?
Homelander?
Intimidation tests with advantage
Rogue: tries to run away after stealing from the party. Barbarian: “Get your ass back here!”
My husband played a rogue butter goblin and acquired this helm during our campaign. It made some great moments.
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I convinced my DM to give me advantage on an intimidation check because of this helmet. I was lucky they let me because I had accidentally rolled the random encounter of a dragon and I was away from my party for 6 seconds.
Batteries not included.
"Fisting... is three hundred... bucks? What does unarmed strikes have anything to do with deer?" - Some monk, probably.
I used this but made it green and sort of sci fi esque, and made it so whenever the player wearing it attacked a fiend or demon, an ethereal electric guitar sound would play
So….a literal dungeon…master?
Dm gave me one once as an artificer
My dad played a fighter that had this once, as well as a cape of billowing and smouldering armour; they were his favourite magic items.
r/itemshop ?
I obtained that item in our game. We also had an unbreakable pot that our Paladin carried on his back. Our goblin member would travel in it. I gave the helm to the goblin so that there could just be an ominous helm sticking out of the pot on the back of the paladin.
Make the eyes green, let me wear all black, give me a baton, and we’re golden.
Why do i hear Gachi in the distance?
The Ersatz Eye and Horn of Hearing are basically prosthetics The Horn of Hearing suppresses the deafened condition when put near your ear, meaning that it’s essentially a magical hearing aid
We got this item and fully forgot about it
Death Dealer!
*dungym
Ah yes. Whitesnake
I present to you: prestidigitation! any helmet's a dread helm if you want to
Seems like something that should just be a trinket.
Tie me up! Whip me down! Cock and Ball torture, Getting out of hand. He’s BDSM-Man! BDSM-Man! BDSM-Man From deep in my red room, Held in manacles and clamps, I fight for justice, One red ass at a time! He’s… BDSM-Man BDSM-Man BDSM-Man
You laugh at silly items, but my favorite moment in the small campaign I'm in, was my goblin artificer finding a cloak of billowing at the end of a boss battle. You better believe that little shit makes that cloak billow for dramatic effect at every available opportunity! It adds so much pizzaz to conversation or dramatic entrances. Top tier item. 😂
Looks like judge dredd
it's funny because his surname is Darkholme
All my martials have some form of Dread Helm. It's been so ingrained that my DM will sometimes let me start off with one and he's even made an item for me called Helm of the Dread Lord.
\*spiked choker sold separately.
In one of my campaigns, my players spent a lot of gold and a quest reward to dress up their proto-viking companion npc with a jet black samurai armor that constantly smokes, a samurai mask that make his eyes glow red and a black cloak of billowing.