The lake of rage is just a lake, save for it's dark powerand the dark tale that gave birth to it
Lake of Rage
Location: Northern Tugues Mountain Range, ESE of Mt Ardel
Location Type: Lake
Environment Type: Northern Temperate
Description: The lake of rage is set high into the south eastern foothills of Mt Ardel. The lakes appearance of a small pristine C-shaped lake with no apparent water source (rain feed). Strangely, only plant life can be found living in and around the lake itself. There About ten miles from the lake, there is a three foot stone border that in encircles the whole lake. This stone border carved with an unreadable script and every forty feet there rises a pillar with a 9x9 foot base and if unbroken, all forty towers thirty feet tall and is 1x1 with a 3x3 foot top stone.
Location History: Up in till three hundred years ago, the infamous lake of rage was a sacred grove to a group of elfin druids call "Add name here". All was well until a small theological debate blew up and all but three of the druids preceded to kill each other off (most of them drown each other in the lake itself). The lake is now considered to be a cursed grove by all local druids and a gate to the nine hells by all other.
Magical Effect: Those who come in contact with the water must save vs. spell or go in to a violent rage and will attack the closest target (friend or foe) in till the lake water is washed and or dries off + 2d6 rounds. If drank, save vs. spell at -2 or alignment permanently changes to chaotic evil till "remove curse" then a "Restoration" is use. The lake water can be made save to use by removing then casting of a "bless" spell on the water that one want to make safe (1 8oz cup per level), or leaving a holy symbol in it for 1d4 turns. To cleanse and sanctified the lake, a druid of good alignment must destroy all water that is in the lake then let the rain fill it naturally (No Magic Help or outside water allowed)!!!
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BLARGH!
TOOOOOOOO D&D!
Plus, it needs a better backstory.
3/5.
this idea sounds unorigional. I'm sorry, but this sounds like something ive heard before. I cant really make any recomendations though, which is a good thing.
Thats caust I posted it on one of the forums way back so I could make better. But I'm not a good story teller and tried evey every thing I could think of to make it better and it didn't work (AD&D the only game I know). So sents you so good at this, why don't you make it non-D&D and give it a better back story then!!!!!
Hey, Fast, chill out.
We aren't making personal insults against you.
We are just providing constructive criticism for your setting.
Yes, im sorry if you got the wrong idea. I am a extreamily pessimistic person, so anything i can find wrong with anything i will yell it out for all to hear. I didn't mean to insult you, I too, have made a few items that have been rather unorigional to others. But back to my previous comment, im sure it is not something that ive seen at this site, so it wasn't you i heard it from.
err, sorry?
Good hook. It's somewhat sketchy, but the idea is good.
An interesting idea - it can be made non game specific simply by indicating that the drinkers will be affected by magical rage and leave it at that. Timing, how to resist, etc, can be implemented by whoever uses it.
What this post really needs to improve it is _why_ the lake causes rage? Is there an imprisoned evil god buried in the sediment below the waters? Did 100 berserk demons die in a battle eons ago on the site? Etc.
This is one of those subs that needs rewriting.
Perhaps the rage effect preceded the druids' falling out: Let's say the lake of rage was where millennia earlier (gleefully ripping off Valadaar's idea!), a legion of demonic Furies were bound into the living stone. The druidic ceremonies on the site were meant to keep the Furies' baleful influence from contaminating the land, but the druids eventually fell under the sway of the very power that they struggled to confine. Overcome by a mood of demonic wrath, they fought until only a handful were left.
As time passes, the spells binding the demons gradually grow weaker and their influence grows stronger...