We’ve all witnessed it being done, and some of us have done it ourselves! Whether it’s stealing that one goblin ambush setup from Critical Roll, or having your campaign be putting the one ring in the fires of Mount Doom, or having your BBEG be a large purple ogre named Thanos , it’s a milestone in the dnd experience. So I have to ask, what were your favorite (or least favorite) instances of copied content? Comment below!
Mine would have to be either one of my players making their character Judy Hops from Zootopia, or my DM just literally putting my party through the plot of the Matrix.
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbithole, and that means comfort.”
I once run a short adventure inspired by the movie The Missing, where a frontier farm woman's daughter is kidnapped by orcs led by a shaman and a hot pursuit of the orc tribe goes in the countryside.
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbithole, and that means comfort.”
My absolute favorite is the situation set up in Seven Samurai (one of the all-time great movies).
The scenario is simple. Villagers come to the characters asking their help to defend their village from bandits. It seems simple but it leaves lots of opportunities to customize it:
- Who are the villagers? What makes them unique? - Who are the bandits? What makes them unique? - Where is the village located? What makes it fantastic? - Where are the bandits hanging out? What makes that place fantastic? - What secret are the villagers hiding? Make sure it's not so bad the characters no longer want to defend them.
This is an awesome situation-based scenario. You set up the situation and let the players decide how they're going to interact with it. Are they going to work on building defenses? Training the villagers to fight? Do they go to the bandit hideout and try to take care of them there? A bit of all of the above?
When I say "bandit" don't get too caught around it. It could be goblins, it could be skeletons, it can be any opposing force.
It's my absolute favorite D&D scenario and one of my favorite movies.
My absolute favorite is the situation set up in Seven Samurai (one of the all-time great movies).
The scenario is simple. Villagers come to the characters asking their help to defend their village from bandits. It seems simple but it leaves lots of opportunities to customize it:
- Who are the villagers? What makes them unique? - Who are the bandits? What makes them unique? - Where is the village located? What makes it fantastic? - Where are the bandits hanging out? What makes that place fantastic? - What secret are the villagers hiding? Make sure it's not so bad the characters no longer want to defend them.
This is an awesome situation-based scenario. You set up the situation and let the players decide how they're going to interact with it. Are they going to work on building defenses? Training the villagers to fight? Do they go to the bandit hideout and try to take care of them there? A bit of all of the above?
When I say "bandit" don't get too caught around it. It could be goblins, it could be skeletons, it can be any opposing force.
It's my absolute favorite D&D scenario and one of my favorite movies.
We’ve all witnessed it being done, and some of us have done it ourselves! Whether it’s stealing that one goblin ambush setup from Critical Roll, or having your campaign be putting the one ring in the fires of Mount Doom, or having your BBEG be a large purple ogre named Thanos , it’s a milestone in the dnd experience. So I have to ask, what were your favorite (or least favorite) instances of copied content? Comment below!
Mine would have to be either one of my players making their character Judy Hops from Zootopia, or my DM just literally putting my party through the plot of the Matrix.
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbithole, and that means comfort.”
I once run a short adventure inspired by the movie The Missing, where a frontier farm woman's daughter is kidnapped by orcs led by a shaman and a hot pursuit of the orc tribe goes in the countryside.
The only thing I can think of is the Monster of Caerbannog
Cool!
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbithole, and that means comfort.”
I was part of a Twitter thread where we were converting Disney animated movie plot lines into DnD plot lines.
It was a lot of fun and I've still got plans to turn 101 Dalmations into a dnd campaign.
Many Skooby-Doo scenarios have great D&D adventure potential!
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InsiderMy absolute favorite is the situation set up in Seven Samurai (one of the all-time great movies).
The scenario is simple. Villagers come to the characters asking their help to defend their village from bandits. It seems simple but it leaves lots of opportunities to customize it:
- Who are the villagers? What makes them unique?
- Who are the bandits? What makes them unique?
- Where is the village located? What makes it fantastic?
- Where are the bandits hanging out? What makes that place fantastic?
- What secret are the villagers hiding? Make sure it's not so bad the characters no longer want to defend them.
This is an awesome situation-based scenario. You set up the situation and let the players decide how they're going to interact with it. Are they going to work on building defenses? Training the villagers to fight? Do they go to the bandit hideout and try to take care of them there? A bit of all of the above?
When I say "bandit" don't get too caught around it. It could be goblins, it could be skeletons, it can be any opposing force.
It's my absolute favorite D&D scenario and one of my favorite movies.
That sounds just like the old 60's movie The Magnificent Seven
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054047/
Akira Kurosawa Is one of my favorite writer/directors. I just wish they had more English subtitles for them.
Odd. But a truly classic theme just made for role playing scenarios and games. Not just D&D.