Last year, I had a great concept for a Blood War campaign, inspired by M*A*S*H, Catch-22, and Blackadder Goes Forth. The players would be conscripts in the Blood War who fought demons once in a while, but the main objective was to outsmart their officers to keep from being sent “over the top” for an apocalyptic offensive that no one would survive. Haven’t found the right group to spring it on and it needs a lot more work to give it a beginning and an ending, but I think it’s a fairly solid idea.
Now I'm stuck wondering what class Corporal Klinger would be!Probably some kind of rogue/bard combo.
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Tayn of Darkwood. Lvl 10 human Life Cleric of Lathander. Retired.
Ikram Sahir ibn Malik al-Sayyid Ra'ad, Second Son of the House of Ra'ad, Defender of the Burning Sands. Lvl 9 Brass Dragonborn Sorcerer + Greater Fire Elemental Devil.
Viktor Gavriil. Lvl 20 White Dragonborn Grave Cleric, of Kurgan the God of Death.
Not mine: The players are the self-aware quest-giving NPCs of an MMO whose routines are disrupted, forcing them on quests to return things back to normal.
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Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
With the introduction of the harengon race in the Feywild book: a party of all animal-based races (tabaxi, loxodon, tortle, etc.) having a Disney's Robinhood type adventure
I have been toying with a "Backwards Lord of the Rings" Evil campaign which I would love to run one day.
Basic premise is that Sauron has discovered that Gandalf & co are planning to destroy the one ring in the fires of mount doom - he doesn't know where it is, but he knows it's out there and how it can be destroyed. He summons the party, who are all evil characters high in Sauron's regards, and sends them on a quest to take the Fires of Mount Doom (now in a handy, travel-sized magic red lidded bucket with "FIRE" stencilled on the side) to a magical spring which is the only thing in middle earth which is capable of quenching the flames - a spring which causes everything and everyone around it to become calm and peaceful. It resides in a cave system beneath a place called "The Shire".
So commences a journey across middle earth to drop the fires of mount doom into the spring under the shire!
With the introduction of the harengon race in the Feywild book: a party of all animal-based races (tabaxi, loxodon, tortle, etc.) having a Disney's Robinhood type adventure
Humblewood takes that to the next level. It's quite well done, probably the best thing Hit Point Press puts out.
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Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
I've been stewing with this idea for a while: Isekai D&D! Although, like, reverse-isekai? A campaign taking place in the real world, except, all the different worlds and universes of D&D are real and exist in parallel with Earth. And some powerful extradimensional force is ripping open tears in the fabric of reality, causing monsters and magic to leak onto Earth and cause chaos. Enter the party of heroes! Ordinary humans who, by a power granted by a separate more friendly extradimensional entity, transform into their characters' races and classes to send these things back from whence they came.
I mentioned this one as a joke I tossed out off the top of my head in another thread a while back but I'm kind of tempted to actually make an arc in a potential game I might DM in the future. A Fathomless warlock using the racial stats of a Simic hybrid (in a non-Ravnica setting so those don't normally exist) is leading a series of increasingly aggressive incursions by kuo-toa onto the surface world. Most of the attacks are against elven settlements or enclaves but aside from that there is not much to connect them or suggest an overall plan. The warlock is in fact the mortal offspring of a human sailor and Blibdoolpoolp, and he's on a mission at the behest of his mother (who's also his patron) to harass the elves because there are no drow in the region and he, his kuo-toa minions, and/or Blibdoolpoolp herself is/are too unstable to differentiate the various subspecies of elves. Various false leads will be dropped to encourage the PCs to speculate what the ultimate plan might be, including various hideouts, bases of operations, dealings with shady criminal types for supplies and information, and even conversion of surface folk to their cult. The ultimate villainous plan is, in fact, just a bunch of crazy fish people being generally chaotic and violent while attempting to deprive the elves of the means to make shampoo.
PCs are agents in the late 1930s working for the Vatican, trying to keep holy relics away from the Nazis. (think Indiana Jones) In a high fantasy earth.
But they are somehow linked to D&D characters (alter egos) who are facing down evil in a high fantasy earth early first century.
The Villains are Vampire Nazis who can be present in both timelines.
PCs are agents in the late 1930s working for the Vatican, trying to keep holy relics away from the Nazis. (think Indiana Jones) In a high fantasy earth.
But they are somehow linked to D&D characters (alter egos) who are facing down evil in a high fantasy earth early first century.
The Villains are Vampire Nazis who can be present in both timelines.
I want to play a campaign where each character is based on their players favorite hobby. You pick skills and spells and such based on how they would enhance your hobby. Like to drink, play a Druid who grows and makes their own wine. I sew and knit so have my girl would duel wield knitting needles like daggers.
I want to play a campaign where each character is based on their players favorite hobby. You pick skills and spells and such based on how they would enhance your hobby. Like to drink, play a Druid who grows and makes their own wine. I sew and knit so have my girl would duel wield knitting needles like daggers.
So people who spend way too much time surfing the internet would be barbarian [forum rage] trolls who fight with flails [corded mouse] and shields [keyboard]? And if somebody is way too obsessive about their dog they'd be a beastmaster ranger but the crazy cat man/lady would be a Circle of the Shepherd druid. Stoners would be pacifist druids...party animals drunken master monks...
Of course this would only satisfy everyone except...everyone...if the other members of the group decide on what each person played.
I love that everyone would be deciding what each person played. That guarantees you will get some fun characters. Group creativity is random and amazing!
I haven't worked out the fine detail yet but I have had an idea for a while where all the player have to do is decide how their character died, the character can be any level or an npc, it doesn;t matter, they just have to know how they died.
Then the first session has them waking up and escaping some 'birthing' pods and they find themsleves in Sigil the City of Doors (thats the Planescape setting) where they have all been reincarnated as the lowest form of fiends (Lemures, Nupperibo's, Abyssal Wretches etc, the form is decided by the alignment they were in life) and are greeted by a Tiefling who leads a mercenary faction in the blood war. The Tiefling has purchased their souls and wants to train them up so whenever they gain XP and level up they can either change their fiend form (such as changing from Abyssal Wretch to Quasit) or gain a class level. The campaign would then be about escaping the Tiefling and regaining their souls but because the base of operations would be in Sigil the actual adventures could go to any setting for any reason.
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I've recently had an idea for a D&D campaign themed around discord servers. A world ruled by big fat men with beards on their necks, females are simped for by all, and a few people have the power of Nitro (its just being born with the prestitigitation spell)
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Tempted to turn Collinsport into a Dark Domain to do a soap opera-ish spoof of Ravenloft
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Active characters:
Askatu, hyperfocused vedalken freedom fighter in Wildspace (Zealot barb/Swashbuckler rogue/Battle Master fighter) Green Hill Sunrise, jaded tabaxi mercenary trapped in the Dark Domains (Battle Master fighter) Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
Last year, I had a great concept for a Blood War campaign, inspired by M*A*S*H, Catch-22, and Blackadder Goes Forth. The players would be conscripts in the Blood War who fought demons once in a while, but the main objective was to outsmart their officers to keep from being sent “over the top” for an apocalyptic offensive that no one would survive. Haven’t found the right group to spring it on and it needs a lot more work to give it a beginning and an ending, but I think it’s a fairly solid idea.
PM me if you need players for this later. It sounds like a hoot!
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Share your wackiest campaign premises, for the general amusement of all!
To start: A party entirely composed of bards. They're in a band together on tour, and their adventures involve fending off various monstrous groupies.
Theren Amakiir | elf | ranger
Dizzy Moreau | dhampir | bard
Yara | human | druid
Ai Lan Wen | reborn | bard
Last year, I had a great concept for a Blood War campaign, inspired by M*A*S*H, Catch-22, and Blackadder Goes Forth. The players would be conscripts in the Blood War who fought demons once in a while, but the main objective was to outsmart their officers to keep from being sent “over the top” for an apocalyptic offensive that no one would survive. Haven’t found the right group to spring it on and it needs a lot more work to give it a beginning and an ending, but I think it’s a fairly solid idea.
M*A*S*H!!!
Now I'm stuck wondering what class Corporal Klinger would be!Probably some kind of rogue/bard combo.
Tayn of Darkwood. Lvl 10 human Life Cleric of Lathander. Retired.
Ikram Sahir ibn Malik al-Sayyid Ra'ad, Second Son of the House of Ra'ad, Defender of the Burning Sands. Lvl 9 Brass Dragonborn Sorcerer + Greater Fire Elemental Devil.
Viktor Gavriil. Lvl 20 White Dragonborn Grave Cleric, of Kurgan the God of Death.
Anzio Faro. Lvl 5 Prot. Aasimar Light Cleric.
Not sure if this is "Weird", per se...
Making a campaign with a supposed Illithid Army threat but actually just a lich toying with the characters
Frequent Eladrin || They/Them, but accept all pronouns
Luz Noceda would like to remind you that you're worth loving!
Not mine: The players are the self-aware quest-giving NPCs of an MMO whose routines are disrupted, forcing them on quests to return things back to normal.
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
With the introduction of the harengon race in the Feywild book: a party of all animal-based races (tabaxi, loxodon, tortle, etc.) having a Disney's Robinhood type adventure
Theren Amakiir | elf | ranger
Dizzy Moreau | dhampir | bard
Yara | human | druid
Ai Lan Wen | reborn | bard
I have been toying with a "Backwards Lord of the Rings" Evil campaign which I would love to run one day.
Basic premise is that Sauron has discovered that Gandalf & co are planning to destroy the one ring in the fires of mount doom - he doesn't know where it is, but he knows it's out there and how it can be destroyed. He summons the party, who are all evil characters high in Sauron's regards, and sends them on a quest to take the Fires of Mount Doom (now in a handy, travel-sized magic red lidded bucket with "FIRE" stencilled on the side) to a magical spring which is the only thing in middle earth which is capable of quenching the flames - a spring which causes everything and everyone around it to become calm and peaceful. It resides in a cave system beneath a place called "The Shire".
So commences a journey across middle earth to drop the fires of mount doom into the spring under the shire!
Make your Artificer work with any other class with 174 Multiclassing Feats for your Artificer Multiclass Character!
DM's Guild Releases on This Thread - latest release; the Harvest Sprite, a playable Jack-o-Lantern Race!
Or check them all out on DMs Guild!
DrivethruRPG Releases on This Thread - latest release: The College of Fisticuffs Bard!
I also dabble in art on here (my art thread)
Humblewood takes that to the next level. It's quite well done, probably the best thing Hit Point Press puts out.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
I've been stewing with this idea for a while: Isekai D&D! Although, like, reverse-isekai? A campaign taking place in the real world, except, all the different worlds and universes of D&D are real and exist in parallel with Earth. And some powerful extradimensional force is ripping open tears in the fabric of reality, causing monsters and magic to leak onto Earth and cause chaos. Enter the party of heroes! Ordinary humans who, by a power granted by a separate more friendly extradimensional entity, transform into their characters' races and classes to send these things back from whence they came.
I mentioned this one as a joke I tossed out off the top of my head in another thread a while back but I'm kind of tempted to actually make an arc in a potential game I might DM in the future. A Fathomless warlock using the racial stats of a Simic hybrid (in a non-Ravnica setting so those don't normally exist) is leading a series of increasingly aggressive incursions by kuo-toa onto the surface world. Most of the attacks are against elven settlements or enclaves but aside from that there is not much to connect them or suggest an overall plan. The warlock is in fact the mortal offspring of a human sailor and Blibdoolpoolp, and he's on a mission at the behest of his mother (who's also his patron) to harass the elves because there are no drow in the region and he, his kuo-toa minions, and/or Blibdoolpoolp herself is/are too unstable to differentiate the various subspecies of elves. Various false leads will be dropped to encourage the PCs to speculate what the ultimate plan might be, including various hideouts, bases of operations, dealings with shady criminal types for supplies and information, and even conversion of surface folk to their cult. The ultimate villainous plan is, in fact, just a bunch of crazy fish people being generally chaotic and violent while attempting to deprive the elves of the means to make shampoo.
For a long time my dream campaign has been:
PCs are agents in the late 1930s working for the Vatican, trying to keep holy relics away from the Nazis. (think Indiana Jones) In a high fantasy earth.
But they are somehow linked to D&D characters (alter egos) who are facing down evil in a high fantasy earth early first century.
The Villains are Vampire Nazis who can be present in both timelines.
Theren Amakiir | elf | ranger
Dizzy Moreau | dhampir | bard
Yara | human | druid
Ai Lan Wen | reborn | bard
I want to play a campaign where each character is based on their players favorite hobby. You pick skills and spells and such based on how they would enhance your hobby. Like to drink, play a Druid who grows and makes their own wine. I sew and knit so have my girl would duel wield knitting needles like daggers.
So people who spend way too much time surfing the internet would be barbarian [forum rage] trolls who fight with flails [corded mouse] and shields [keyboard]? And if somebody is way too obsessive about their dog they'd be a beastmaster ranger but the crazy cat man/lady would be a Circle of the Shepherd druid. Stoners would be pacifist druids...party animals drunken master monks...
Of course this would only satisfy everyone except...everyone...if the other members of the group decide on what each person played.
I love that everyone would be deciding what each person played. That guarantees you will get some fun characters. Group creativity is random and amazing!
I haven't worked out the fine detail yet but I have had an idea for a while where all the player have to do is decide how their character died, the character can be any level or an npc, it doesn;t matter, they just have to know how they died.
Then the first session has them waking up and escaping some 'birthing' pods and they find themsleves in Sigil the City of Doors (thats the Planescape setting) where they have all been reincarnated as the lowest form of fiends (Lemures, Nupperibo's, Abyssal Wretches etc, the form is decided by the alignment they were in life) and are greeted by a Tiefling who leads a mercenary faction in the blood war. The Tiefling has purchased their souls and wants to train them up so whenever they gain XP and level up they can either change their fiend form (such as changing from Abyssal Wretch to Quasit) or gain a class level. The campaign would then be about escaping the Tiefling and regaining their souls but because the base of operations would be in Sigil the actual adventures could go to any setting for any reason.
Working on a campaign where the part must haul a powerful wizard across the world to a small town.
The twist? the wizard is undergoing mindflayer ceremorphis.
I also once played a campaign where the main goal was to kill a god of knowledge.
My homebrew content: Monsters, subclasses, Magic items, Feats, spells, races, backgrounds
I've recently had an idea for a D&D campaign themed around discord servers. A world ruled by big fat men with beards on their necks, females are simped for by all, and a few people have the power of Nitro (its just being born with the prestitigitation spell)
my name is not Bryce
Actor
Certified Dark Sun enjoyer
usually on forum games and not contributing to conversations ¯\_ (ツ)_/
For every user who writes 5 paragraph essays as each of their posts: Remember to touch grass occasionally
Tempted to turn Collinsport into a Dark Domain to do a soap opera-ish spoof of Ravenloft
Active characters:
Askatu, hyperfocused vedalken freedom fighter in Wildspace (Zealot barb/Swashbuckler rogue/Battle Master fighter)
Green Hill Sunrise, jaded tabaxi mercenary trapped in the Dark Domains (Battle Master fighter)
Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
PM me if you need players for this later. It sounds like a hoot!