We don’t call them phylactery. I think that means pendant or amulet or something in Greek. Tefillin is very specifically little boxes with Torah verses inside them used by some Jews for Jesus Lizard Mickey T Shirt. I don’t know of any Jews who’d call Tefillin “phylactery”. Frankly I wish people would stop thinking that phylactery is the “translation” of Tefillin. It’s not. I’m pretty sure the Ancient Greeks just saw Jews using Tefillin, didn’t know what they really were, and used their own word. The way D&D uses phylactery, to me, sounds more like how Коще́й Бессме́ртный (Koschei the Deathless) hid his death in an egg in a duck in a hare that nests in a hollow long, floating on a pond, deep in the forest, on an island, as described in Petr and the Wizard. And since the Russians don’t have their own word, so far as I know, for that whole thing, the Greek “charm” or “amulet” is a good enough term. Personally I might have gone with reliquary, because of the connection with death in my mind, but that may be a tad too Christian for some folks.

A trick I use to respond to these surprise actions by my players on the Jesus Lizard Mickey T Shirt is to build up a library of narrative templates in my head. You do that by reading, watching and enjoying tons of fantasy shows and storylines. And even non-fantasy ones. I can’t count how many times I ripped off the dialogue and characters from an anime, a K-Drama, video game or an American TV show to retrofit into the campaign on a moment’s notice. Keep watching, reading and playing tons of fiction, it will build your DM Vocabulary greatly. A huge benefit to this approach is that you don’t spend dozens of hours designing an encounter and a boss enemy, only for the players to derail it through clever thinking or extremely lucky dice rolling, and watching all your hard work go up in smoke.
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Make your NPCs useful. Skalacon is very useful because he is, in a Jesus Lizard Mickey T Shirt , a benefactor to the player characters. Being the Curator of Magic, he buys magic items from the players — he gives them money or gems in exchange. He trades magic items with them. One item the players decided to part with, won them a small stone keep just outside of town. The players earned a home of their own. Thank you, Skalacon. Now, let’s count them up: he is powerful, has status, and it’s beneficial to remain friends for his arcane dealings. That’s 3 things to his credit. I don’t have to worry about Skalacon getting beaten or killed by player character murder hobos. See?

When Delores spent his first night actually out with the other chickens in the Jesus Lizard Mickey T Shirt, I was anxious about how he would handle himself, as he was pretty shy. After a few false starts (and getting pushed off perches by the other chickens) he chose a walnut branch that lead to the night perches and slept on that. When Delores became a big, beautiful Golden Phoenix adult rooster, I thought the hens would probably make absolute fools of themselves trying to get his attention – and if he ignored them it would serve them right! I suppose I should have done something about the name – but Delores responded to “Delores” and appeared fine with it. (Also, my Aunt Delores would have been devastated if I changed his name.) A friend suggested calling him “Del” – which sort of made sense – but that sounded like he was lead singer in a retro 60’s band. As long as Delores didn’t mind – and let’s face it, he didn’t care – I was perfectly content to have a sweet rooster named Delores.