Neat! I'll have to take a look sometime. Thanks for the explainer. I GM a fair bit, so the idea of a healthy collection of modules is compelling.

Technically there could be. After all, the GM has final say. But players will want to search for a reason, because they expect consistency. Spells don’t typically fail without reason. That reason can be a low die roll *if the spell description calls for it*, but many spells (like Prestidigitation) don’t require a roll. So having the spell fail “because the plot says no” is inconsistent. It would immediately throw up a giant red flag in the players’ minds, and make them think the item is much more important than they initially realized. After all, if the plot says the spell doesn’t work, then that means something in the world is preventing it from working. It makes more sense to have the item be cursed, or haunted, or protected by a god, or any other number of things that would give the players some sort of explanation to latch onto. If you keep it vague, the players will inevitably spend a *lot* of time trying to figure out why it can’t be cleaned. Because they expect consistency, and will keep throwing things at it until they find a reason. So it’s better to just give them a reason (even if you just came up with it in a panic) because that at least gives them some resolution, and they can file it away in their quest list for later.

You forgot the most important part: it isn't owned by Hasbro! Even if it didn't have any of the advantages it does over 5e, this alone would be huge.

This is not true. Oxidation is a broad type of chemical reaction involving the loss of electrons. Rust is a type of oxidation, much as a square is a type of rectangle. Oxidation can occur on the surface level (tarnishing of some metals, passivation of aluminum) or throughout (combustion). Rust actually only occurs on the surface as well, but the iron oxide is less dense than the metal and it increases the available area of the surface exposed to oxygen.

Touché! A truth I have really started to take for granted.

Yeah... Reading back my comment, it was badly written... I know rust is a type of oxydation, but that's not what I wrote!

I didn't know of other type of oxides that eat into the metal like rust does... But it's true that a "rusted crown" implies that it is iron-based, so the cantrip should work!

Lol thermite is my favorite oxidation & rust remover reaction

It’s artifact level - a cantrip simply doesn’t work on it. When the players ask why, you just tell them they don’t know - neither can anyone in the town/city whatever they’re in.

Ah yes, removes the rust, the object, and the table it was sitting on...

I never said anything even vaguely approaching that? What do you even mean by "told me from the beginning what he wants to do"? If I'm prepping a fantasy campaign and one of my players tells me, "I'd kinda prefer we do something sci-fi" then I have no obligation to change my entire campaign because a player isn't happy with it. I *might* still do it, if I felt interested in running that and the rest of the table does too, but imo I'm well within my rights to tell him no. If you mean that he wants a plotline of his own then I'd do my best to accommodate that, assuming it doesn't clash with the rest of the campaign horribly. If it does, then I'd just say that and offer alternatives if I can think of any. If I can't, then of course he can still play if he'd like.

How tf do I pronounce that*

Easy. He needs to roll 100 on a single d20 or the spell fails and creates a big neon sign above the player characters head that follows them everywhere and reads "annoying little shit"

I don't know if you're joking, but just for fun: Press-T-digi-tay-shun

>If you’re really not ready for it to happen, make sure they have some other quest to do that has a pressing time limit. So, distract the players as if they are children. Good idea.

> On the other hand, we got an absolutely precious scene where the one party member who wasn’t magic-affine and didn’t want to be involved with any supernatural stuff had to ride an unnaturally fast six-legged half-demon horse in order to catch up with the bad guys. Ardo still thinks that we should just leave this whole mess to the sun god's holy inquisition and get the fuck out of town, thank you very much.