The party, pointing to an NPC that the DM never intended to be a recurring character: That’s My Child Now
@caffeinatedwriters Now you gotta write them a quest where they get the chance to bring him back!!
The first dungeon-boss that my group was meant to just quickly kill at the end of their very first session, they saved from death. Repeatedly. She’s now a reoccurring character who despite the fact that she is defs evil and showing no signs of redemption (yet) they keep. Saving?? So I guess I’d better write a redemption arc?
I love your players so much. I’m imagining Local Villain turning good mainly out of confusion because why they save me tho????
We’ve adopted our first small villain to the party as a DMPC. During the interrogation he suddenly bursts into tears, says the villaining was his last desperate try to unfuck his life and now we can do whatever we want with him, cause he’s done. He’s out of ideas and his life is still fucked up. The whole party went all “aaaaww there there pat pat poor thing” and now he’s our token pretty boy and an in-game DM’s snarky voice.
We found a 20 ft cube of gelatinous acid in the underdark. He wanted to see sunlight. He was perfect. So he became part of our party. He’s slow so he always follows behind us and every now and again he has a few new skeletons inside of him of the fools that tried to sneak up behind us. He’s my favorite.
I love this. I support you and your sun-loving acid dog
This has happened so many times in my current campaign.
Giant, green, three-eyed cat monster? Now my character’s pet and steed
Big, blue dragonborn lady who nearly chopped of the players in half? Now said character’s love interest
And ironically enough, the two characters who were supposed to be reoccuring, we killed
My D&D dice bag design, a sleeping dragon on its hoard of golden treasure, is up for voting on fanforge! Please help it get produced by giving it 5 stars and a comment! Click here!
They’ve
asked me to make a prototype of it, and while I warned them I haven’t
made anything functional like a bag before, they want to see what I come
up with anyway. I’m pretty nervous about it, but hopefully it can
become official D&D merch!
It’s a well established fact that various fantasy races like to have interracial sex (yes, even orcs. The ritual gangrape thing can go die. They just like fucking non-orcs sometimes). But there’s no reason why the beauty standards have to be the same between races. A fat middle aged guy might be really mediocre by human standards. But for elves, visible aging takes absolutely forever and is a sign of great wisdom and fat is hard to accumulate when you live an active forest lifestyle, have a mostly vegetable diet and your treehouse is 300 steps off the ground, so all the elves think he’s a hunk. Meanwhile, this elf dude he’s hitting on is youthful and leanly muscular, with blond hair and a tan..because he’s an elf, they’re all youthful, being outside almost all the time gets you blond hair and a tan really fast and the amount of treeclimbing they do means everyone is leanly muscular. So they each think they’re both mediocre people and the other is highly attractive. This knowledge is useful for worldbuilding, roleplaying, comedical purposes or the intersection of the three.
i have a personal headcanon that for dwarves, the ideal body shape is a perfect rectangular block, no curves at all, they really like right angles
so dwarven women wear really big shoulderpads to try to square off the silhouette and dress in thick layers to obscure narrower waists
meaning a chunky solid human woman would be astonishingly attractive to dwarves for instance, while a lady dwarf who’s feeling down about her hourglass waist and busty curves would find a very appreciative audience among humans
Now I’m imagining a dragonborn or a sentient dragon being really into someone who tans yellow, bc holy shit they look like gold.
A quick little something I knocked together, the patented tragic backstory generator ™ is the easiest way to give your character a mythically horrible origin.
(actual tragedy may vary, results are final and non-negotiable, i am not responsible for any tears you may shed while imagining the sad life your character must have led up to this point)
Roll this for every single character in your campaign
A D&D party is just half a dozen people who each think of themselves as the only adult in the room.
I appreciate the sentiment, but has any bard, sorcerer, or barbarian ever considered themselves the only adult?
Considers themself the only adult: Cleric, Monk, Paladin, Wizard
Knows they’re maniacs (will not stop): Barbarian, Bard, Sorcerer, Warlock
Depends on the day tbh: Druid, Fighter, Ranger, Rogue
This is the kind of content I’m here for.
I would like to add that in my DnD group, the Bard really is the only adult in the group. Meanwhile our Rogue and Paladin are both bi-disasters, and our Wizard accidentially assaulted a Prince
more dnd campaigns with overtly fantastic plots. full on fairy tale bullshit. like something out of mythology or a fable.
the party is tasked to retrieve the moon, which has been stolen from the sky. 87% chance the moon is also sentient.
a color that was locked away by the gods for being too beautiful/terrible/powerful is released again and a dragon of that color now threatens the land. also because it’s new it’s in fashion and everyone who can get their hands on it is wearing this color and it’s starting to give you a headache.
relieve the land of their drought by finding what happened to the rain and bringing it back.
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