#bad dnd idea

[azzydoesstuff]

dnd idea: have your players be ambushed by a creature when it's really dark and they can't see

so you DONT tell them what they're fighting and they just have to guess based on the enemy's attacks and resistances and shit

and you use vague language like "SOMETHING gets a SUPRISE ROUND..."

[isupposethisisagoodusername]

Bad DND character idea that's been on my mind for a while:

(I've never played DND in my life because I haven't had the chance to)

So, this guy's a tiefling, alignment chaotic evil because that's my personal alignment and the character came to me in a dream in which I was him.

This little shit is a direct descendant of one of the big demons that do important shit (my personal favourite would be Beelzebub because I just like the guy)

Starting the campaign, either the party captures him or some bullshit and he ends up stuck with them

He goes looking for tieflings in every town, he has a list, with towns and a bunch of surnames written on it. Which, more often than not, ends up being either a family that has or had a tiefling in it or a family that died out.

He tells every tiefling he fucking sees, "so, family reunion, you've been invited, presence is mandatory. Here's how to make a portal (hands them an instruction page) and this is a map. While you're down there, look for your ancestor"

The party DOESN'T know this

Bonus points if the campaign is to fend off a demon army that's being built by the biggest demons in hell and save the world

They think they've found one good tiefling that's stuck with them and uses his powers given by a big ass demon to help them fight demons

Also the tiefling is a warlock and his godly patron is his ancestor because yes I'll make sense later

And he's stuck with the party because as much as they're crazy and or annoying, they pay his traveling expenses and are strangely nice despite the horns on his head, grey skin and demonic whatnots

He has constant nightmares and through the campaign the party finds out that these nightmares are his patron and that he's threatening the tiefling to do something?

So they go like, obviously our ball of sunshine is in danger because of us sick fucks that made him betray his kin

They talk to him only to find out he's being threatened since far before he met them and that he didn't know they were going to fight this demon army (which he has been helping build but they still pay his travel expenses so he's gonna keep up the cinnamon roll facade)

And he didn't really know wtf they were doing

But the party investigates traces of portals to hell being made just as they arrived in towns, so they assume these demons are running away from them

More time passes and the party finds out that tiefling guy has a little brother and that his patron kidnapped said little brother to make him do his chores

This is right by the end of the campaign where they have enough equipment to try to pull bullshit and fight a whole army and they find out he's known how to make portals to hell all along and that he has a motherfucking map

Then his cinnamon roll facade goes to hell

He tells them that he's grown fond of them but truly his only duty is to save his little brother which is the entire world to him so he's been doing beezelbubs chores at gathering all the offspring because beezelbub was appointed that chore since he was the one who fucked more and so, logically, had more offspring (probably turns out to not be the case)

And the party goes "what? Gathering offspring? You've been helping build the demon army this whole time?"

Since our Guy is backed into a corner he explains

"no it's actually family reunion, an accountant was seeing weird debts on their servers and decided to check all the contracts. There was a policy installed long long ago that if a demon wanted to fuck something other than demon they'd have to either assume and raise the kid or pay child support and since it's so much child support they're trying to assume the kids and I was tasked with finding them. Here's my list (pulls out the fucking list with cities and names)."

And the party collectively face palms

And they go to hell to tell beezelbub to shove it up his fucking ass because how dare he kidnap Guy's younger brother to make him do his chores just because he can't talk to his kids

And then the other demosn go like "you??? Kidnapped??? A??? Child??? To??? Force??? Another??? Child??? To??? Do??? Your??? Work??? ????"

And then beezelbub has to pay child support, therapy and to pay the party back all their traveling expenses

Bonus points if Guy started dating one of the party members and beezelbub does not approve

Also I cannot imagine the amount of sucking off your DM that would be necessary to make them agree to this

And since one+ members of the party are dating a family member, they're invited to the family reunion and they're all a package deal so everyone ends up going

Also nobody dies I refuse

This is a campaign with one eldritch blast and a lot of bullshit and idk

Guy goes to college after the bullshit, because he had just finished high school when his little brother got kidnapped

Also yes, I know that no DND campaign goes according to plan, I dreamed this okay? I might write this properly idk, 2025 is another year so idk, disclaimer I just fucking woke up go to hell have a good year

[quinnyyyleft]

Our DM gave us a shared bag of holding.

It's called the "Bag of Sharing" and we each got a fanny pack type bag that meets the big one that one of us carries. So all of our items and supplies can get shared.

Today, one of our party members stored a martini in her bag, and another party member dipped his hand in it.

10/10 Magic Item

[the-gnomish-bastard]

Bad DnD character idea:

A green-furred bugbear thief rogue who really, really hates his neighbors because every winter they make a shit ton of noise. So he devises a plan to steal all of their stuff by dressing up as a mythical gift bringing man, but instead he takes. Also has a dog, and he lives on a mountain.

[ddwhaleshark]

Silly idea

MD cast playing dnd

J: plays by the book and takes notes, not up for silly business. Is loving the math side of things an usually the one to create a verry well tought out plan of attack… all be it a boring one.

N: is there for the fun ! Does he know what he’s doing ? Not entirely, but he is learning!

Uzi: painted the lil figures for everyone. Had the most bad ass and traffic dnd character of all >:3 she also goes deep into the roll play aspect of it all!

V: lose cannon as ya may expect ! Likes killing and blowing shit up … and stealing. “ did I ask if there were kids nearby ? No. Do I know we are in an enclosed space ? Yes. I STILL CASH FIREBALL “/ref. For the rest actally is the one to work with Uzi on the rp aspect yet still calculates her moves.

Cyn: dungeon master. Do I need say more ?

Tessa: it’s game night ag her place. She watches them and often stands in for an npc ! ( J stop trying to romance that npc u ain’t slick-)

Doll: is invited over yet often doesn’t show up for many reasons, when she is there it’s often a hell of a good time as she adds some calm to the chaos party.

Thad: is the guy to bring snacks and game in the background, he doesn’t understand dnd but he’s there to chill.

Lizzy: … idk honestly I’m torn between her actively not liking dnd or just kinda not giving a shit and just chilling with thad?

That’s all I got lmao

[b4kuch1n]

siren

[miurenne]

List of known bugs with Minthara

Calling all Minthara fans and everyone who wants to see her fixed.

As of the latest update, Minthara is (sadly) still the buggiest companion in the game. And so I thought, what would be an easy way to gather more information about her bugs? Evidently, a lot of people are still clueless about them 🤔

I decided to make a Google Sheets document to compile all of Minthara’s bugs, old and new. Don't hesitate to leave a comment if you found a mistake or something that is not yet on the list!

Here's the link and a little preview:

Please reblog and share this to help out any confused players (which is most of us, half the time) and be sure to report the bugs you encounter in your game. This table will be updated periodically to bring you the latest info 🤞

[sadmages]

Blacked out and drew Alphonse Mucha's 'Flirt' but with my divorced clowns. for some reason!!!! (ref under the cut)

[bad-traffic-smp-ideas]

Lich Life. Upon reaching red, your final life is contained in a phylactery. If it is destroyed, you stop respawning. Imagine the WAR that would break out over Jimmy's phylactery. "Destroy it for the bit" vs "come on let him live SLIGHTLY longer for once". (Bonus: someone accidentally destroys their own phylactery.)

Hang on I have to google something.

Yeah this is a good idea.

[monerelluvia]

Iri'thiel reference sheet for lvl 10 (2023/2024)

---------- I post her often but if you're new here - she's a character from a homebrew The Revenants (Awakening) game that started as our first DnD one-shot 4 years ago. Today the game is separated into 3-4 different groups of players in different places around the world and time, trying to prevent it all from collapsing to an anti-magic calamity.

Iri is a customized Fey Wanderer Ranger that is based on slashing and psychic damage, blade dancing, misty stepping and invisibility. She's a good investigator and has the Observant feat that lets her see things others wouldn't. She also has more and more issues with having her mind safe from exterior influence and dangerously growing number of people to care about.

[c-kiddo]

at one point i didn't like caduceus' epilogue, that he just stayed home for a long time and eventually travelled again and eventually calliope joined him too. but i think actually i love it. something so gentle about him returning home to a temple that was once empty and lonely but is now healing and full of family who he loves so much. and to not have anything particularly asked of him apart from tending the garden and his small routines. especially thinking about how tired and sad he is by the end of the campaign, compared to the beginning when hes so giddy to just be interacting with people and seeing things he's never seen before and to have guidance from the wildmother. and then later, after aeor and so many more horrible things have happened, he admits to calliope that its too much and the outside world is scary and big and he's so so tired and he keeps saying how tired he is. so basically ideal ending that he gets to go home and get better and heal enough to be excited when he heads out into the world again

[chikinan]

modern nuzlockes are crazy because. look it's not unusual for highly technical/strategic games to get turned into way more narrative, soft skills affairs (look at dnd etc), but it's rare for the opposite to happen. like yeah this way of playing pokemon that's all about getting emotionally attached to your shitty zigzagoon and was made by someone making a comic should. definitely turn into a cold stats game of efficacy. what the hell

[shitty-dnd-character-ideas]

Shitty DnD Character #78

Ratatouille a tarrasque. I will take no questions as to what this means.

[shadowszestysilhouette]

MOUTHWASHING!!!

AHHHHH!!! Guyssss!!! Mouth washing is such a good game, i hate Jimmy so much, he sucks, butbi love Curly!!! Hes so babygirl, even when he’s circumcised all over, love that for him, i made art but idk, il post it on Saturday if i feel inclined to do so, also i love drawing horror and blood!??? Hellooo!???? Its so fun to mess around with my reds and oranges, sometimes a bit of lavender too!! I love curly and Anya, theyre my favorite

[the-gnomish-bastard]

Bad dnd character idea:

A ruined background (take alert) custom lineage human gloomstalker Ranger with the gunner and sharpshooter feats. He uses a flintlock pistol or revolver as his main weapon. His goal is to find an outlaw with a bounty on his head. He comes from the far away town of Arizona.

[eldritchwaffless]

A couple of months ago I came up with a campaign idea/concept, a sort of isekai/Meta Game (a game within a game sort of deal) mainly inspired by Solar Opposites C Plot "The Wall".

Essentially the plot of the game would be that a group of player joined a weird DND via like an online LFG, and once they joined and met at the location they all faint. They wake up in a medieval fantasy tavern as their characters, isekai style but every NPC is acting strange... Suddenly the roof gets grabbed by some giant hand, which turns out to belong to the GM who is a witch that shrunk the player and turned them into their characters so that they could play DND. All the NPC are also some random people that she shrunk and turned into characters and the whole map is like a huge series of interconnected terrariums that she as made. At first the game would be quite meta, with the players literally "Larping" while the "in game DM" throws the dices and narrates. I would personally allow metagaming in situations were the PCs are playing because they might know rules and such but they'd need to roll to make sure that the "in game DM" does not noticed that they're meta gaming. Each encounter could have some meta like

Bandits: Give me all your gold or I'll gut you like a chicken!

DM From above: Like a fish

Bandit: *sight* like a fish...

Other situations could be like;

DM: Suddenly a dragon appears! *drops gecko in the terrarium*

Players: *genuinely panicking*

DM: Guys chill. Guys. Guys! I won't let it actually attack you!

Gecko: *grabs some random NPC and shakes them around*

DM: Kiwi! Kiwi let go! LET GO!!

Eventually the game could become about the PCs trying to escape and find help and this becomes like a Borrowers style campaign!

Edit: I just thought of that, alot of the NPCs could have been players that she didn't like, like edgelords or "That Guy" or just people she didn't like. So you could have that random quest giver NPC trying to take the spotlight or the bartender being this overly edgy brooding dude, etc