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16h ago·2 min read·371 words

A wizard who accidentally turned themselves into a Sim. This means that when being asked to use their magic for literally anything, there’s a non-zero chance they will just ignore that request to do something random. “Can you use fireball or something please??? We need all the help we can get, these orcs are—” “Sorry, for some reason I have the urge to do push ups in the middle of the battle…”

18h ago·1 min read·73 words

Orc men when defending their honor or the honor of their women will challenge the offender to the ancient dueling art of Oil Wrestling! The two duelists wear nothing but a pair of leather breeches, cover themselves in olive oil, then grapple one another.

1d ago·1 min read·45 words

we haven’t had any ideas we can discuss on the podcast for a while (we’re working through the back…

1d ago·1 min read·87 words

Instead of hiring expensive hydrological and structural engineers, the city just hires a druid to get some beavers to build their newest reservoir

1d ago·1 min read·24 words

Party goes on random quests but there’s a little tutorial voice that tells you how to do things, and it’s slowly revealed that the tutorial is actually the villain.

2d ago·1 min read·32 words

In honor of Merriam-Webster canonizing it as a word in the English language: The Choppelgänger: like a Doppelgänger but it can only turn into ugly/offensive charicatures of whoever it’s trying to turn into, but it projects a psychic field that makes people who already didn’t like that person find absolutely nothing to be amiss about its appearance.

2d ago·1 min read·58 words

A very old lich is tired and ready to embrace death. The problem is he forgot where he hid is phylactery

2d ago·1 min read·22 words

humans produce FAR to much mucus, to remedy this we’ve made a potion that replaces all your mucus…

2d ago·1 min read·64 words

Vampires fear garlic, not because it hurts or burns them, but because it causes them to slowly transform into garlic.

3d ago·1 min read·21 words

A colorblind ranger, who wears a bright orange cloak thinking it’s forest green. Stealth is maxed out, and everyone is confused about how he manages to hide despite being the color of a circus tent.

3d ago·1 min read·46 words

Mega Magic Missile, which fires 32 missiles but not all at once - the first one is immediate and never misses, but each one afterwards is delayed by 1 second and follows the exact same path as the first.

3d ago·1 min read·40 words

Only War, but there isn’t actually any war and it’s just a series of delays until you get to the battlefield and it’s already over

4d ago·1 min read·26 words

magic sword that glows when is senses danger nearby, except the sword has anxiety and is almost constantly glowing

4d ago·1 min read·20 words

Instead of using encumberment rules in your D&D campaign, use cucumberment rules instead.

4d ago·1 min read·14 words

“I’m not kidnapping the children! They are volunteers for my cybernetic experiments! The parents are just mad they didn’t read the fine print! Look at Little Timmy! He’s having so much fun with the grappling hand I gave him!”

5d ago·1 min read·40 words

Channel 4’s Embarrassing Bodies, but it’s all weird magical diseases, curses from artifacts found in dungeons or bought from shady merchants, and encounters with fae gone awry.

5d ago·1 min read·28 words

A species of animal will be generally okay with you, if you have a tattoo of them The party is walking through the woods, and a group of bears atack everyone, except the one who has a bear tattoo somewhere

5d ago·1 min read·47 words

Your regular reminder that we write games!

5d ago·1 min read·99 words

You have heard of Doppelgangers, now get ready for the Authentic Grotesques. They use their magic powers to become an EVEN MORE REAL version of you. If anything, you are the impostor.

6d ago·1 min read·33 words

Enemy encounter: Dire bacteria. They’re twice the size of regular bacteria.

6d ago·1 min read·12 words

you know who you fuckers are - paper

6d ago·1 min read·42 words

Before the campaign has started, the BBEG has already sent an asteroid on an intercept path with the planet Every moment the party’s distracted, the chance of successfully preventing disaster falls, wether or not the villain has a change of heart

6d ago·1 min read·42 words

The caretaker says he hasn’t seen any cats around, but they tend to be most active around dawn and…

6d ago·2 min read·299 words

Move action renamed to Scuttle. That will be all.

Jun 8·1 min read·14 words

jesus-lizard-journal: sutured-infection: Cellulose nitrate...

Jun 8·1 min read·82 words

The element of Surprise, found in nature as the semi-pure Surprisium, has been crafted into an alloy in this blade. It will always catch a foe off-guard but, alas, every time you draw it you will also be shocked to suddenly be holding a sword.

Jun 8·1 min read·46 words

A pirate with a hook eye, peg hand, and leg patch. He is completely unaware that he mixed up what body part gets replaced with what.

Jun 7·1 min read·27 words

“Aura” is the name of a fictional crop, so aura farming is a legitimate industry. And since it’s seen as tedious work, “aura farming” could be an in-universe analogy for doing something boring instead the internet slang meaning of trying to look cool

Jun 7·1 min read·44 words

You defeat a mighty wizard and search his chamber to find: two wands of vibration, three potions of Grease (level 1), a large ring of rockskin, a necklace of three power pearls, and a rose of rot (small statuette of a rose which emits a fetid odor and drips a thick yellowed substance. Once attuned may be used to cast Fear at first level thrice per day)

Jun 7·1 min read·83 words

Tabaxi bard with a parrot who calls themselves the beastly bard. They rap in a familiar cadence, and the parrot says the last word of each line with them. “What’s up everybody I’m the beastly BARD, I joke and I jingle, yeah I’m a real CARD, Laugh in my face, expect to get MARRED I’ll make it look easy when I take you down HARD.”

Jun 6·1 min read·66 words

Owerpay Ordway: Igpay Atinlay

Jun 6·1 min read·5 words

dungeon where every single object is a mimic, except the big shiny treasure chest at the end. that one’s a false hydra

Jun 6·1 min read·23 words

from our oneshot: ancient spirits haunting the remnant of a crumbling castle who are in eternal anger because the british museum keeps stealing all their shit

Jun 5·1 min read·27 words

Dwarves do NOT drink foaming tankards of ale, as some would have you believe. Dwarves drink foaming tankards of foam. Dwarvish ale is like 90% foam, and master brewers can get it to a mousse or whipped-cream-like consistency. They say that as the craft advances there shall one day be ale you need to eat with a spoon. Elves drink hand sanitizer with cranberry flavoring.

Jun 5·1 min read·66 words

“If you move your hands in this manner instead, you get an effect similar to Firebolt but on a much...

Jun 5·1 min read·58 words

Dammit, my undead minions are too busy making out to stop the hero.

Jun 4·1 min read·17 words

While many have dreamed of dragon mounts, the fact of the matter is that dragons are simply undomesticable. For your homework, I want you to list all the criteria that makes domestication possible and why dragons pretty much fail in every category.

Jun 4·1 min read·173 words

While many have dreamed of dragon mounts, the fact of the matter is that dragons are simply undomesticable. For your homework, I want you to list all the criteria that makes domestication possible and why dragons pretty much fail in every category.

Jun 4·1 min read·116 words

Turn Undead’s verbal component is “Shitty Bullshit Skeletons”, a very mean cover of the classic…

Jun 4·1 min read·199 words

The nechiropractor; a necromancer who combines the dubious art of chiropractics with necromancy for...

Jun 4·1 min read·87 words

To the cemetery!

Jun 4·1 min read·190 words

Turn Undead’s verbal component is “Shitty Bullshit Skeletons”, a very mean cover of the classic…

Jun 4·1 min read·32 words

The digestive systems of the gods are absolutely 100% efficient, every single atom they consume is used So, they don’t really understand bio-waste They see their precious mortals going to the toilet, and just assume they’re falling apart And the time has finally come, to fix this

Jun 4·1 min read·73 words

This is one of the most powerful monsters in 3rd edition!

Jun 3·1 min read·27 words

The reason the party can’t keep rerolling checks is because skill checks are an in-game non-renewable resource. Skill miner spend long hours digging them out in the mines.

Jun 3·1 min read·39 words

My personal headcanon is that there’s a Power Word for every possible state a person can be in.

Jun 3·1 min read·56 words

Reverse of the usual pirate campaign: the party are stuck on an island and must deal with the assorted strange types who come to dock there (undead sailors, illithid brain-trawlers, smuggling gangs and spy rings making dead drops, treasure-hunting kobolds, the snurge, etc). Only at the very end do they amass enough ship parts to set sail themselves, after battling the antikraken (land-dwelling kaiju with a singular arm but dozens of hungering mouths).

Jun 3·1 min read·74 words

Due to THE INCIDENT at the local wizard academy, the city has been flooded with frogs that turn anyone they touch into frogs. It’s the party’s job to clear out the frogs and recover the citizens. Good luck figuring out which is which!

Jun 3·1 min read·44 words

This dungeon has no snares, traps, blades, pits or poison fog, nothing of the sort. There’s just an un-skip-able fifteen second ad every other time you open a door.

Jun 2·1 min read·36 words

The realm has instituted mandatory standardized education and since wizardry is a basic skill like reading, writing and arithmetic everyone graduates primary education with a level in wizard and secondary education with several wizard levels.

Jun 2·1 min read·62 words

A Sun-hat But whereas normal sun hats block the sun, this thing brings the sun may casue significant scalp burning

Jun 2·1 min read·34 words

Ye, you are an NPC in my campaign of Mutuals and Misfits, sorry you had to find out this way.

Jun 1·1 min read·95 words

Cleric fucking a warforged, call that Deus Sex Machina

Jun 1·1 min read·18 words

Don’t tell the players the rules.

Jun 1·1 min read·29 words

Enchanted orthopedic shoes: Prevent being flat footed.

Jun 1·1 min read·14 words

have a game where if a pc dies whatever killed them replaces them as a party member even a trap or a fall

Jun 1·1 min read·39 words

Oh no! All RPGs are delayed because the ontologically evil minions that it’s morally uncontroversial…

May 31·1 min read·71 words

Evil cult are planning a summoning ritual to call forth their dark god to the realm. If the PCs fail…

May 31·1 min read·65 words

Think a nice thing about your GM.

May 31·1 min read·21 words

Warlock who actually sold their soul to Asmodeous to resolve their game group’s scheduling issues,…

May 30·1 min read·42 words

Every. Single. Enemy. Is just three kobolds in a trenchcoat.

May 30·1 min read·18 words

Hunter support team who go around making houses Haunted so the Hunters have something to do.

May 30·1 min read·32 words

New egg-based alignment chart

May 29·1 min read·15 words

How long does it take for you to record vs upload an episode? I noticed when you read one of my ideas, you used my old username despite the episode coming out like a week or two after I updated my account (for context I’m Agent, from the Modular Synthesis submission)

May 29·1 min read·115 words

Unearthing the ancient arcane lore of the primordial wizards who strode the world at the dawn of…

May 29·1 min read·80 words

Make critical successes weirdly abstract.

May 28·1 min read·37 words

An earthbending druid type character who is actually a necromancer because the world they live in was formed from a god’s corpse a la Norse or Sumerian mythology

May 28·1 min read·29 words

a seal that, when sufficiently stressed, detonates violently and rains down explosive chunks of blubber across a 20-meter radius.

May 28·1 min read·20 words

The party stumbles upon a very large room full of machinery, a wizards construction for time-travel Roll a d13 to determine which geological peroid you arrive in (Starting at the Cambrian, because that’s when multicellular life really starts popping up) Really want to use this idea, to have the party poking around and accidently send one of them somewhen, and see how long it takes them to figure out how to return them Though I’d probably send them to the Devonian period, let them gaze at som…

May 27·1 min read·88 words

After regaling the people at the pub with the tales of your adventures (and selling several of them…

May 27·1 min read·137 words

A penguin that temporarily gains the ability to fly when it believes in itself hard enough

May 27·1 min read·20 words

New stat: Combustibility

May 27·1 min read·4 words

NPC idea: Damsel of Distress Instead of being the one who has been made helpless by outside forces, she’s the one who causes helpless princes to being kidnapped and kept in towers, mostly for the fun of it, she is also very chaotic in fights having a wild magic effect on her gauntlets to randomise what her punches will do

May 26·1 min read·61 words

“vampire media should draw from bat behaviour more”

May 26·1 min read·27 words

Setting where it’s almost impossible to make food that isn’t inconveniently magical, add too much sugar to your tea and you start levitating. Making a turkey sandwich runs the risk of making you magnetic. Lasagna might turn you into a merperson for an hour

May 26·1 min read·45 words

fallen angels can no longer fly once expelled from the heavens, and are eternally cursed to only tumble around on the floor like a parlor roller pigeon whenever they attempt to do so

May 25·1 min read·34 words

What shall I do if a dm threatens me with a cursed amulet if i dont stop seducing the npcs…

May 25·1 min read·26 words

ypu come to 2 doors, guarded by 3 knights “halt adventurer!! one of us only tells lies*glaring at the other guard* "and the other only the truth” (adventurer) “and the third?” “divorce mediator”

May 25·1 min read·34 words

uno based resolution mechanic. success or failure is predicate on whether you play or draw. your stats are how many cards you draw on a failure

May 25·1 min read·27 words

BBEG: Ah! After ten thousand years, I’m free! It’s time to catch up on my soaps!

May 24·1 min read·17 words

Pathfinder but you can’t leave established routes. It isn’t called Pathloser, is it?

May 24·1 min read·26 words

Threequel!

May 24·1 min read·24 words

Put all your skill points into Performance: Halfling

May 24·1 min read·16 words

Foraging rules apply in dungeons too, don’t kill more than half of the wandering monsters or the…

May 23·1 min read·37 words

If I were a vampire, I would run a full campaign of every rpg.

May 23·1 min read·70 words

Me at all fantasy RPGs:

May 23·1 min read·5 words

Why the Raven Queen? Ravens are notably alive.

May 23·1 min read·32 words

“Sadly, the enemy has far more men then us.” “Don’t worry” Pulls out +3 hammer of forcefemming “I’m…

May 23·1 min read·38 words

All sharks know perfect kung-fu Doesn’t help them at all, thay don’t have the limbs for it, but they know it

May 22·1 min read·29 words

Unrelated to RPGs, but I had a dream where I had the rules of heaven explained to me, and here they are:

May 22·2 min read·271 words

The players are the personal guard to the king… Hype them up to the glamour and glory (along with maybe the idea of an easy paycheck) only to have them deal with the king’s dumbassery. “Guards! I fell in the royal toilet again and I’m stuck in the chute!” (all the toilets in the castle are on the one side of the building with their chutes pointed over the cliffside.) Good thing this is a constitutional monarchy.

May 22·1 min read·78 words

at the start of the adventre , the big bad evil curses the party with a spell that causes permanent hemorrhoids , which is very painful and limits movement. The curse is considered a level 9 spell , so impossible to remove by the party by conventional means, the curse stays until the big bad evil is slain

May 22·1 min read·59 words

The big bad is at all times accompanied by a bard and a pyromancer, but they’re solely there to hype up crowds with his theme and pyrotechnics.

May 21·1 min read·28 words

looking through past ideas and enjoying the combo of comments on this one from @dominyk9 and…

May 21·1 min read·57 words

Barbarians are actually really smart, they’re just raised to be really humble about intelligence so they act dumb on purpose so they don’t accidentally show off. Occasionally, the mask slips, and they’ll have to be like “Oh! Um, I meant kill him! That’s what I said! I said kill! I don’t know anything other than kill!”

May 21·1 min read·57 words

A young magic world Whenever a player wants a spell, the DM must decide wether the spell has entered common knowledge, if only a few people have developed it, or if it just doesn’t exist yet

May 21·1 min read·37 words

For regular dice rensday, may I submit my circus peanut orange dice? They’re completely normal, aside from the color choice.

May 20·1 min read·27 words

The Breadator, a gingerbread warrior who takes the heads of other gingerbread warriors as trophies

May 20·1 min read·16 words

For regular dice Wednesday. I needed more d6s at the same time and I could have just bought more RPG style dice (with numbers on the faces). But the idea of a very regular dice (with dots on the faces) rounding out the set just amuses me too much. It makes me grin every time I use my dice.

May 20·1 min read·60 words

any three animals in an encounter can spend a bonus action to polymorphize, becoming a chimera of their constitute parts. this includes chimeras.

May 20·1 min read·24 words

Are we still doing regular dice? Because I have two Call of Cthulhu themed sets that I got gifted like, two weeks apart from one another

May 20·1 min read·30 words

I got these for my birthday, and can’t wait to use them. They fit my character perfectly. Rubber dice! They promise to be a delightfully chaotic mess! Here’s hoping they don’t bounce off to get lost in the cat’s water dish.

May 20·1 min read·53 words

Here are my regular metal dice with a bonus glass d6 for a particular pc. The metal d8 is very tiny compared to the rest

May 20·1 min read·26 words

Regular dice Rednesday: This really cool rustic-looking set with a dragon on the front!

May 20·1 min read·15 words

If any weapon is used to kill enough people in a short enough time, it gains sentience Yes, that boulder that rolled down a hill crushing a small army, sentient

May 20·1 min read·36 words

The Elephant in the Broom, a tiny, ant-sized elephant who lives inside a small hole in the handle of a witch player character’s flying broomstick.

May 19·1 min read·26 words

Add unnecessary descriptive prefixes to otherwise mundane creatures, such as “land elephant” or “sea whale”

May 19·1 min read·17 words

A necromancer city/college where the tax is getting raised as a undead for an equivalent amount of years you lived there. (Possible party for setting) Party are tax collectors, collecting the bodies of those who mived away and died

May 19·1 min read·53 words

More RPG Ideas Based on Paper’s Typos

May 18·1 min read·27 words

A dodo bird that can summon a powerful familiar spirit in the form of a giant moa to aid it in battle.

May 18·1 min read·28 words

After a merfolk queen was cursed to fall in love with an enchanted manatee, she ends up giving birth to the Minotee.

May 18·1 min read·32 words

Someone tries to create an automatous land vehicle, main idea being to bring a boat on land and get it to move itself Legs, it has just so many legs

May 18·1 min read·34 words

Hey! I hope this isn’t a bad time but

May 17·1 min read·9 words

Bad news: the civilization of the planet Xalvon is under danger of extinction, as there are very few male Xalvonians left after a destructive planetary civil war. Good news: Xalvonians as a species can naturally change from female to male under the right environmental conditions. Bad news again: Nobody seems to remember what exactly those environmental conditions *are*.

May 17·1 min read·84 words

A young wizard awakens their loyal dog. Years later, that dog is on a quest to achieve lichhood so they can spend eternity by their human’s side

May 17·1 min read·28 words

Setting where all demons are fallen angels but demons can only be on the ground or lower otherwise they turn back into angels. This also means that angels can’t touch the ground or they become demons, roofs or second story buildings are fine though

May 17·1 min read·45 words

A ranger who has a legendary sword that can only be wielded by the pure of heart. Except it technically belongs to the ranger’s dog. Apparently all dogs are considered pure of heart for the purposes of the sword. The ranger is like level 3 and the dog is a level 18 paladin

May 16·1 min read·54 words

A cult of mice worship the extinct giant rodent Josephoartigasia monesi and are seeking to perform a ritual to resurrect it.

May 16·1 min read·26 words

The Sharque. It’s like a shark, but French.

May 16·1 min read·9 words

I hearby declare the first ever Regular Dice Rednesday on the 20th of May. Got a cool set that’s…

May 15·1 min read·73 words

Aliens make first contact with identical triplet astronauts, which goes fine for a while until they discover not all humans look exactly the same and are confused to see all the different “subspecies”.

May 15·1 min read·34 words

A zoo, but instead of animals they have trash cans. The layout is like a zoo and the trash cans are all put inside fenced enclosures all with signs telling what kind of trash can they are, such as foot pedal, wastebasket, dustbin, or dumpster. Everyone is acting like these trash cans are living creatures, even “feeding” them waste paper twice a day.

May 15·1 min read·74 words

New alignment: Waffle Evil (I know you’re British, so “lawful” and “waffle” don’t rhyme for you, but it’s still a good joke)

May 15·1 min read·28 words

A zoo, but instead of animals they have trash cans. The layout is like a zoo and the trash cans are all put inside fenced enclosures all with signs telling what kind of trash can they are, such as foot pedal, wastebasket, dustbin, or dumpster. Everyone is acting like these trash cans are living creatures, even “feeding” them waste paper twice a day.

May 15·1 min read·73 words

REFUSE to give your game themes.

May 14·1 min read·38 words

Werewolf: The Multilevel Marketing Scheme

May 14·1 min read·5 words

Speedrun your campaign by cramming every threat, clue, enemy and NPC into the first room the PCs…

May 14·1 min read·17 words

Rather then defeating the dragon in battle, you must defeat them in a philosophical debate regarding…

May 13·1 min read·16 words

Genuine question - can vampires survive off cum?

May 13·1 min read·8 words

the party runs into a village where everyone are animals as they explore awhile they turn into animals losing int the druid wildshapes and is unaffected the druid now has to either herd everyone out or figure out the cause

May 13·1 min read·40 words

Worldbuilding is hard. Ease the load by not doing it.

May 13·1 min read·10 words

A group of fey who work in witness protection

May 12·1 min read·9 words

The setting is on a planet with five suns: one red, one orange, one yellow, one white and one blue. Instead of day and night, there’s various color mixing of the different suns sharing the sky as they take turns rising and setting. Every now and then the five suns are all in the sky at once, which is immediately followed by the only occasional true night.

May 12·1 min read·67 words

Stone golems reproduce by laying eggs. These eggs are red, rectangular, and are nearly indistinguishable from bricks.

May 12·1 min read·17 words

Every time you get a Nat 1, something bad happens to Mike Donati.

May 11·1 min read·13 words

a horse that melts at 45°C

May 11·1 min read·6 words

When the setting’s gods die, they reincarnate as cats. They can only regain their godhood after 99 cat-lifetimes.

May 11·1 min read·18 words

Location in Villain’s Lair: Hall of Scooby Doors. The hero party and a team of enemy combatants all run about through the doors via rolling a d20. Even numbers are the left side, odd numbers are the right side. After everyone rolls, the left group works together to engage in a round of combat with the right group, regardless of if their partners are in the other group. If everyone’s on the same side, free round for everyone to relax, chat, heal up, make tea, what-have-you. Location can be finis…

May 10·1 min read·90 words

I think someone should make a bard based on notorious jester Triboulet. Dude was allowed to choose how he died after insulting the Queen of France and he picked “old age.” This amused the King so much, he banished Triboulet instead of executing him.

May 10·1 min read·44 words

The opposite of a moose.

May 10·1 min read·5 words

Centaurs reproduce through mitosis, with the human and horse halves separating and regenerating into 2 different centaurs.

May 9·1 min read·17 words

feral hogs but eusocial like ants

May 9·1 min read·6 words

game where all info the party receive has at least 3 levels of telephone

May 9·1 min read·14 words

feral hogs but eusocial like ants

May 9·1 min read·6 words

all enemies can, in theory, be fought via dance-off…but actually, fighting them is far safer than facing their schmooves

May 8·1 min read·19 words

Every time a cozy game is planned, things quickly turn into the Ghanaian Movie Poster version of whatever the game is. If you don’t know, look up some and marvel at the what-the-fuckery.

May 8·1 min read·33 words

Oh, well- they shamble. Why else call them Shambling Mounds? It’s much the same case with their identical-until-far-too-late cousins, the Sprinting Mounds.

May 8·1 min read·22 words

Elves that aren’t agelessly beautiful, but rather shivel and mummify while growing ever more magically powerful; an extreme form of asceticism. The leader of any particularly powerful clan looks ike a gnarled tree root: unable to move or speak, sustained by ambient mana, communicating through telepathy, and the strongest can warp local reality through will alone. (Inspired by Ma'nene ritual of Toraja culture in Indonesia.)

May 7·1 min read·65 words

As in folklore, elves, dwarves, gnomes, goblins, kobolds, fairies, bugbears, etc. etc. etc. are all part of a single, vaguely-defined family of creatures without clear borders between them. Characteristics and powersets are specific only to an individual, and the correct answer to questions like “so are you an elf or a gnome?” is “what are you, a cop?”

May 7·1 min read·58 words

Hello! Not a D&D ask, but related to the recent Welsh posts — would Mod Paper perhaps be willing to help me out with a (possibly-but-hopefully-not-foolish) Welsh-language-related question? (It’s fine if not.) Thanks!

May 7·1 min read·33 words

The Asdf Jackal, a medium-strength beast whose primary gimmick is applying aphasia, impeding all forms of speech, including those necessary for spells.

May 7·1 min read·22 words

Common problem players and how to deal with them

May 6·1 min read·9 words

WALES MENTION?? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

May 6·1 min read·3 words

Mae mod paper yn siarad Cymraeg?? :D

May 6·1 min read·7 words

a DM who does character voices for characters who have common as a second language, and drops the voice or changes it entirely when changing languages (eg: a dragon talks to the party in common, and has a deep, rasping voice, with elongated vowels. then the dragon speaks in draconic and their voice becomes a BBC british accent)

May 6·1 min read·58 words

terrible concept: BBEG who is sick to death of being forced to sign up to websites just to watch a tv show decides to enforce total anonymity on literally every person in the world in a twisted show of benevolence

May 6·1 min read·40 words

terrible concept: BBEG who is sick to death of being forced to sign up to websites just to watch a tv show decides to enforce total anonymity on literally every person in the world in a twisted show of benevolence

May 6·1 min read·40 words

BBEG’s plan is to LITERALLY steal the throne. It’s covered in gems that fell from the heavens and the BBEG plans to use the gems to power his machine. His nefarious device designed to produce the infinite energy to… SOLVE WORLD HUNGER!!! … Wait, what? … Uh… It would require destroying this priceless historical artifact! … That commemorates the geocide of several races… And the machine has the potential to revive these races… In fact the BBEG has this full roadmap of things that he plans to do t…

May 6·1 min read·89 words

vampires but instead of two fangs made of their canines or lateral incisors, they just have one huge fang in the middle

May 5·1 min read·22 words

vampires but instead of two fangs made of their canines or lateral incisors, they just have one huge fang in the middle

May 5·1 min read·22 words

Coffee Shop AU, but instead of a simple, casual and lighthearted setting it’s the most batshit insane plot that rapidly escalates. (source: former barista here who once had a customer newlywed couple on a date get into a riotous celebration with the bride’s family that led to security getting involved, her drunk uncle getting arrested, a live pigeon being let loose and another customer giving birth in the cafe)

May 4·1 min read·69 words

Each damage type has a corresponding healing type that can only be used to restore HP lost from that damage type.

May 4·1 min read·21 words

Every 1,000th person to teleport just completely vanishes forever (yes, this does mean keeping track of the entire world’s teleportation traffic… or just roll a big die)

May 3·1 min read·27 words

I love the idea of a wizard entering a no-magic zone and just suddenly being unable to do basic things, like tie shoelaces or cook

May 3·1 min read·25 words

The Dungeon of Dragons! No, not that type of dungeon. This is where the Conclave of Wyrms jails truant dragons or hoard-pilferers. Also drunk fliers Who need a decade to sober up.

May 3·1 min read·32 words

Ok.

May 2·1 min read·1 words

Any time the adventurers doff weapons or armor in a town/city, roll a d6. On a 3+, local kids start trying to grab it to play swordfighting with.

May 2·1 min read·28 words

The five-armed ogre is the plague of these villages, pillaging livestock and smashing houses in the dead of the night. As it turns out, the five-armed ogre is also the plague of the local ogre clan, as it is in fact two ogre drinking buddies who go around smashing up houses both normal and teeny-folk when they’re drunk.

May 2·1 min read·58 words

spell: summon whale when summoned inside a specific undersea cathedral, the particular whale summoned is the Humpback of Notre Dame

May 2·1 min read·20 words

Every time you use a healing potion, make a d100 roll.

May 1·1 min read·11 words

System with Rock-Paper-Scissors style weaknesses, but instead of Rock/Paper/Scissors, it’s...

May 1·1 min read·10 words

Healing magic harms undead, but so does non-magical healing. Give a ghoul the kiss of life and…

May 1·1 min read·17 words

You are all warlocks of the same patron who is uncomfortably affectionate to all of you except whoever is her least favorite at the time.

Apr 30·1 min read·25 words

if you’ve been on the fence about joining the probably bad patreon, perhaps i can tempt you with our…

Apr 30·1 min read·19 words

The players are on a quest to slay the ancient god whom, every spring since time immemorial, comes to steal away most of the town’s children. The party eventually learns that the god is sacrificing their children to monsters. The players are Darkling Beetles, and the ancient god is an old lady raising mealworms to feed to the bluebirds that nest in her backyard.

Apr 30·1 min read·64 words

Sirens are like amphibians, but in reverse. The adults are aquatic and the young are terrestrial, hatching from eggs laid on land. When they’re mature, the adults call them back to sea with musical vocalizations and pull them into the water to help them begin their metamorphosis, entering a coma-like state as their bodies adapt to aquatic life, before they can join their pod in the deep ocean. This, incidentally, means that sirens luring in sailors with their songs and drowning them are not an …

Apr 30·1 min read·86 words

Knight with high charisma and almost nothing else but all their armor pieces, weapons, and other equipment are shapeshifters and whenever they need to do a task that takes effort they have to persuade the relevant equipment pieces to do the work for them

Apr 29·1 min read·44 words

The party are a group of BBEGs from a kid show setting decide to weaponize the powers of friendship, love, etc. for evil!

Apr 29·1 min read·23 words

Rashomon RPG where every campaign starts at the end, and each player can only make rolls or take significant independent action in the parts they’re telling and most of the rolls are just to see if the character can be caught in a lie or if their bullshit goes unchallenged. And then the GM determines the real course of events afterward.

Apr 29·1 min read·61 words

Warlock who signed a pact with an avarice demon because they were broke, but didn’t read the fine print. Now they’re perpetually 3 days away from having their soul repo’d because the demon charges a subscription fee.

Apr 28·1 min read·37 words

Saw the sauropod hydra post, now just thinking about it standing in a lake, one head staying up as a snorkel as the rest chomp some aquatic flaura

Apr 28·1 min read·28 words

centaur but the horse part is a Chalicotherium

Apr 28·1 min read·8 words

One party member is an axe-wielding warrior who calls his axe his “brother”. The other parties think it’s a symbolic title of how bonded he is both to his weapon, and to his life as a defender of his kingdom. Nope. The axe is literally his brother. His mother gave birth to twins, one a baby boy and one an axe, wielded by its twin.

Apr 28·1 min read·65 words

If one of your players is sick irl, they get a bonus ability to kiss the enemy to inflict poison damage. They keep this ability for all sessions until they recover.

Apr 27·1 min read·31 words

Housekeeping

Apr 27·1 min read·1 words

The massive health potion brand is actually a tool of the BBEG to control the world as they have more or less a monopoly on the market, hundreds of patents, several massive plantations growing key ingredients, various nobles and officials in their pocket to make laws that throttles competition while preventing regulation on the brand’s production, sabotaging any worker protection or competition, and even engaging in outright illegal practices that never get addressed outside of minor lip servic…

Apr 27·1 min read·78 words

When players give you character ideas, only accept them if their backstory includes the word “red”.

Apr 27·1 min read·16 words

Shonen anime inspired TTRPG but it’s like, a narrative-first storygame designed to contort the PCs into the genre’s insane archetypes. Two character requirements are “unbreakable moral principle: Choose something your character cares deeply about and declare it a universal human right. If water is your thing you would give a glass of water to Dr. Hydro before fighting him because nobody should ever be thirsty. If medicine is your thing you might stay on an exploding space station to help save …

Apr 26·1 min read·82 words

How many submissions do you have queued at any one time?

Apr 26·1 min read·11 words

Venice like city with canals instead of streets, pristine looking on the surface but actually under the control of the merfolk mafia

Apr 26·1 min read·22 words

Counterspell as a ritual! It can only counter other rituals that finish casting in the same round.

Apr 26·1 min read·17 words

True love’s kiss is overdone. Give your players a curse that can only be broken with true hate’s punch.

Apr 25·1 min read·19 words

Invite your partner to the campaign you’re running if they aren’t already playing. Have the party raid a dungeon, loot galore. The final piece of loot taken by your partner will be a wedding ring, at which point you pull one out in real life and propose to them for their hand in marriage. If they say no they get disadvantage on all saving throws, as a failsafe.

Apr 25·1 min read·68 words

Giant elf - You know those skeletons of the ancient irish giant elk? Those are actually bad reconstructions of a giant elf skeleton. many bones were lost, but they had giant, boned ears with many points, and looked otherwise like normal elves save for being absolutely massive with 6 foot wide ribcages

Apr 25·1 min read·52 words

In the world there is an order of assassins who infuse their own bodies so completely with the essence of poison that even their saliva is lethally toxic to normal people. Able to kill just by spitting on someone, they have become so feared that even just saying their name -The Hawk'tuah- is enough to silence an entire room.

Apr 24·1 min read·59 words

The next session will involve Curling for rolls instead of dice. Get your skates and brooms ready.

Apr 24·1 min read·17 words

Game that ostensibly is a dungeon crawler where you play as things such as necromancers, robot focused artificers, and so on, but intentionally has you recruit more and more minions as time goes on until the core gameplay shifts from small scale combat and into the logistics of keeping a small army going in a dungeon as you begin fighting wars of attrition to keep progressing further while dealing with the adventurers coming up your back flank who seem to think you’re part of the dungeon.

Apr 24·1 min read·86 words

the entire campaign takes place inside one (1) dungeon, which is far bigger on the inside than the outside. said dungeon was built like a funhouse for adventurers.

Apr 23·1 min read·28 words

Merfolk but they can’t talk out of water. They can breathe both water and air, but above the surface their vocal chords don’t work and no sound comes out when they try to speak except for some faint wheezy noises.

Apr 23·1 min read·40 words

A dragon named Mysterious Circumstances keeps killing people by laying on them! They died under Mysterious Circumstances

Apr 23·1 min read·17 words

Wyverns, drakes and leviathans are the three life stages of the same dragon species. Wyverns are juveniles who eventually grow too heavy to fly and become terrestrial drakes, which then continue growing until they are too heavy to support their weight on land and become fully aquatic leviathans. When the time comes for them to breed, they lay eggs close to shore that wash up on the beach and hatch into tiny wyverns, starting the cycle over.

Apr 22·1 min read·77 words

Warlock patron idea, the character’s teenage OP oc. The character put their whole soul into making the oc somehow causing it to come to life. The oc thankful for the gift of life lends the pc some power

Apr 22·1 min read·38 words

The Evil Overlord is fully aware that the party sent to kill him are posing as his minions and sends them on various quests that are either pointless or are cleverly worded to convince them to do the opposite, thinking they are sabotaging his plans.

Apr 22·1 min read·45 words

Steel toe cap boots: can only be equipped by rangers but allows the wearer to safely kick orcish helmets

Apr 21·1 min read·19 words

A jellyfish with the intelligence of an octopus.

Apr 21·1 min read·8 words

While terraforming a distant planet to be habitable to transplanted Earth life, spacefaring humans make the mistake of planting mint in alien soil and it quickly takes over the planet.

Apr 21·1 min read·30 words

Mutagenic scientists have been pushing the bounds of ethics, their newest creation is perhaps a step too far The size and predetory capabilities of an eagle The coordination, venom, and colony structure of the bee Behold… The Beagle

Apr 20·1 min read·38 words

Item: Edible Tome of Knowledge. A book containing information about the places, people and objects of the campaign’s setting, that is also made of rice paper and its print written on with squid ink sauce. The book can be eaten and is actually quite delicious.

Apr 20·1 min read·45 words

If anyone rolls a natural 1, the entire table has to rotate seats and roles counterclockwise. This not only means taking on each other’s characters, but a former character being shuffled into the DM’s role, and the former DM now playing a character.

Apr 20·1 min read·43 words

A fishing themed RPG called Sturgeons & Dragnets Is this anything?

Apr 19·1 min read·11 words

All swords are lesbians. Yes, even the non-enchanted, unintelligent ones

Apr 19·1 min read·10 words

mermaid but based on an anableps fish

Apr 19·1 min read·7 words

The second heir of the kingdom is to away on some diplomatic mission, the party is tasked as their travel guard The monarch tells the party that intelligence shows there will be an en route kidnapping attempt, and they are to allow it. Can’t be letting their enemies know that they know, and all that Turns out that the attack and leak were orchestrated by the heir

Apr 19·1 min read·67 words

mermaid but based on an anableps fish

Apr 18·1 min read·7 words

All combat in a campaign must take place either going up or down a flight of stairs. Maneuvers for toppling opponents down the staircase are not only welcome but necessary.

Apr 18·1 min read·30 words

Dungeon room contains barrels of gunpowder, lamp oil, sacks of flour, lard, olive oil, charcoal, dry hay, wood shavings, stacks of paper, jugs of the sticky alchemical “Meletisian fire”, just keep going on describing how stupidly flammable the room is. There’s no particular payoff. The enemies in the room neither use fire or are vulnerable to it.

Apr 18·1 min read·57 words

In the Dungeon of Endless Doldrums, there is a five-mile stone corridor with no enemies, no traps, just a shallow ditch filled with water every half a mile. The treasure is in plain view at the very, very distant end. The last three yards are where the flaming buzz saws and one-ton crusher hammers kick in.

Apr 17·1 min read·56 words

Mimic Poison is sought after by assassins far and wide for its lethality. The party is sent into a known mimic hideout to fetch some. Not as in the venom of a mimic; they have to coax a mimic into taking the shape of poison, inside a vial. (The mimics usually rip the victim’s throat out from inside when drunk.)

Apr 17·1 min read·60 words

I see your Karma Chameleon and raise you… Commie Chameleon!

Apr 17·1 min read·10 words

And your treasure is…swords! But not just any swords. These are approximately thirty thousand swords. Also, peasants don’t know how to use them and soldiers already have theirs.

Apr 16·1 min read·28 words

Worm-like aliens who consider humans as “incomprehensible horrors” but only because every creature on their planet is some variation of “worm” and their minds cannot comprehend any being that isn’t just “long squiggly tube”.

Apr 16·1 min read·34 words

Uses my illusion powers to punch you in the face, call that Gaslamping.

Apr 16·1 min read·13 words

Dnd campaign where the players realize they’re reenacting fantasy Chernobyl but whenever it’s brought up the DM vehemently denies it

Apr 16·1 min read·20 words

What’s your favourite cereal?

Apr 15·1 min read·4 words

General fantasy style setting where all the legendary artifacts are weirdly sci-fi in nature. and for some reason most of them are laser guns.

Apr 15·1 min read·24 words

You’ve seen the Noun of Verbing Get ready for the Verb of Nouning

Apr 15·1 min read·13 words

What’s your favourite cereal?

Apr 15·1 min read·4 words

what hours in utc constitute ‘overnight’ for all persons responsible for checking this blog

Apr 15·1 min read·14 words

I had a dream we received 34 questions for the Probably Bad Podcast overnight so like…up your game…

Apr 15·1 min read·18 words

As far as d3s go these aren’t weird

Apr 15·1 min read·8 words

The Were-Doom spell, except it turns its victims into angry space marines

Apr 15·1 min read·12 words

The one true Bastard Sword, which instantly divorces the parents of anyone cut by its blade

Apr 15·1 min read·16 words

Crossbow trap! >>—-=> >>—-=>

Apr 15·1 min read·4 words

Let’s test how realistic this spell is!

Apr 14·1 min read·7 words

My favorite spell, by the way, is from the Book of Vile Darkness.

Apr 14·1 min read·13 words

Stone giant bandit lord who carries a whole gang of vicious halflings in his titanic cargo pants. Those they accost must surrender their food and valuables, or face the wrath of the Pocket Posse.

Apr 14·1 min read·34 words

I’ve been going through the later Monster Manuals, which of the following is NOT an actual monster from a 3rd edition Monster Manual?

Apr 14·1 min read·23 words

Fey Portal taskforce anon here Yes, Primeval is exactly where I stole got the idea

Apr 14·1 min read·15 words

Whenever a new portal in the fey wild is detected, a team is dispatched to contain & deter potentially dangerous incursions However, because of the temporal fluidity of the world, anyone stepping through a portal may either be met with fey population unaware of such things, or a fully funded and highly equipped taskforce, or anything between

Apr 14·1 min read·57 words

rattlesnake but instead of a rattle its tail is a gun

Apr 14·1 min read·11 words

Warrior Cats-esque xenofiction campaign but set 20,000 years after the Cretaceous asteroid and centering around the surviving birds, who are the last of the dinosaurs. The birds tell stories and legends about the “Great Purge”, where the heavens punished their ancestors for their hubris.

Apr 13·1 min read·44 words

Spooky RPG where the party plays as a group who pissed off the ghost of Gene Roddenberry by playing the FASA Star Trek game. Now they must survive a classic TOS adventure… As red shirts! For those of you who are unaware: FASA produced “Star Trek: The Roleplaying Game” which had lore that detailed a Federation/Klingon war that Gene absolutely hated because of how war-like the Federation was depicted.

Apr 13·1 min read·69 words

mosquito skeleton, it’s health is incredibly large, but the damage is so low you don’t wanna bother killing it. It follows you around hitting you

Apr 13·1 min read·25 words

Modern devil pact warlock who posts thirst trap succubus cosplays so when the men in her comments reply “you can have my soul” she has it in writing

Apr 12·1 min read·28 words

It seems like people are starting to use you as a new shittycryptids blog since the OG isn’t going anymore!

Apr 12·1 min read·20 words

In this setting, horses, rather than having one large baby at a time, instead give birth to very large litters of up to a hundred mouse-sized foals, which scurry away in all directions soon after being born, already able to fend for themselves like baby sea turtles.

Apr 12·1 min read·47 words

time travelling werewolf called a whenwolf

Apr 12·1 min read·6 words

The party is unknowingly spreading the zombie plague because one of the party ate the floor chicken.

Apr 11·1 min read·17 words

The game starts with no skills. Each time the DM calls for a skillcheck a player must try and convince the DM that a skill they already have is applicable to the situation. If they fail to convince the DM then a new skill for that specific action is created and players can choose to invest in that skill or not. Players get more skillpoints at the start of each session. The skills should be as specific as possible to make the game as convoluted as possible.

Apr 11·1 min read·87 words

Boss encounter: giant hermit crab wearing a rusted old construction truck as a shell

Apr 11·1 min read·14 words

Magic item: the pussy magnet as a magic action you can expend a charge to call cougars to your location and eat you. regains 1d4 - 6 charges at dawn

Apr 10·1 min read·30 words

i love that you brought up getting lots of moby dick asks and associating it with schools because it reminded me of the time back in high school in the 2000s where our class picked an abridged adaptation of moby dick as our year-end school play, except they turned it into a fucking jukebox musical where all the songs featured were nautical-themed parody covers of 90s-00s pop songs. at one point captain ahab even sings a parody of the Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way” except it’s “I’m Huntin…

Apr 10·1 min read·90 words

A horse that has a 0.0001% chance of exploding each February 2. It is otherwise identical to a normal horse.

Apr 10·1 min read·20 words

The currency of the game world is beans

Apr 10·1 min read·8 words

Stereotypical Cupid character but his bow is one of those big Dragonslayer Greatbows from Dark Souls

Apr 9·1 min read·16 words

New enemy: scimitaur. Body of a horse, head of a curved blade.

Apr 9·1 min read·12 words

Transmute character to the weird fandom version of that character (level 9 spell, banned by all…

Apr 9·1 min read·16 words

bard who got famous in his teens and now only does weird songs called robert pattersong

Apr 8·1 min read·16 words

Just don’t have any world-building.

Apr 8·1 min read·5 words

One of my dad’s old wargaming dice. It’s a 20 sided d10, with 0-9 each appearing twice.

Apr 8·1 min read·17 words

The “This Is Not A Place Of Honour” plaque but it’s over a big vault of gold and vital information…

Apr 8·1 min read·20 words

Moby Dick except the great white whale is a whale merfolk who the crazed sea captain is hunting down since they’re his ex who cheated on him

Apr 7·1 min read·27 words

Vampires aren’t blood starved, they’re touch starved.

Apr 7·1 min read·7 words

Idiom Check

Apr 7·1 min read·2 words

New metal Seraphillium Made by alloying Adamantine with the fresh bone marrow of a powerful celestial Doesn’t actually do anything useful, more like when people wear gold-plated armor to battle

Apr 7·1 min read·30 words

elves can fly with their ears, dumbo-style

Apr 6·1 min read·7 words

After his defeat, the BBEG genuinely repents and realizes the error of his ways, and then just as he promises to help undo his mistakes, the roof of the boss arena, damaged during the final battle, falls and crushes him.

Apr 6·1 min read·40 words

Player character: a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder. He treats the parrot like some kind of avian ChatGPT. The parrot regularly spouts dubious facts, such as “less than 4% of Dutch sailors excrete gold” or “dolphin milk is rich in vitamin C”.

Apr 6·1 min read·44 words

Play Bunnies & Burrows but the party are all predators disguised as bunnies. They are unaware of the fact they are not bunnies and are constantly trying to eat each other.

Apr 5·1 min read·31 words

A god of death yet everything living in its approximate area ceases to die even for a moment in its presence as it passes by It’s common for its dwelling to have rotting and skeletonized creatures around it, yet still alive and behaving like any other creature would do. Even vocalize if the vocal chords are still intact. The only ways to truly kill affected beings is to cut off or destroy the head, or to lure the creature outside of the god’s presence

Apr 5·1 min read·84 words

Dragons have returned! ….. Turns out popular media has greatly exaggerated their sizes. They are only around the size of a draft horse but they can blast things with Godzilla breath.

Apr 5·1 min read·31 words

RPG where the player character has preset male and female options but the female option is fully…

Apr 4·1 min read·17 words

Monk who fights unarmed and unarmored because he cant even afford equipment

Apr 4·1 min read·12 words

RNGesus (or whatever you want to name them) is real and a prominent member of the godly pantheon. Fail a check? As a member of the faith, you can request a re-roll of an kind once a day, but in return RNGesus will command you re-roll something else (at the GM’s discretion). Don’t get greedy for divine intervention, because that clutch Nat 20 which just saved your ass might might get nullified…

Apr 4·1 min read·72 words

Orcs aren’t chaotic evil, it’s just that when they see humans they’re overwhelmed with cuteness…

Apr 4·1 min read·15 words

If you critically fail at disbelieving an illusion, it stops being an illusion. That’s real now.

Apr 3·1 min read·16 words

Banish everything.

Apr 3·1 min read·2 words

No R, no P, only G

Apr 3·1 min read·6 words

A chimera, but by layers Looks perfectly normal from the outside

Apr 2·1 min read·11 words

Spell which requires no spell slots to cast and stretches a rope across the path just above ankle level. It makes it so you can trip.

Apr 2·1 min read·26 words

The main player character of the campaign is a merfolk warrior going full John Wick on a fishing village after their local restaurant turned his pet octopus into takoyaki.

Apr 2·1 min read·29 words

Show up to the session with pizza… topped with anchovies and peanut butter

Apr 2·1 min read·13 words

A giant shark lives just off the coast of a large city The locals quite like it, occasionally worshiping or giving tribute, as they prey on the smaller marine predetors that can be dangerous to the population Granted, it may, on rare occasion, go on an all-boat diet, but 75-90% of the time it’s fine

Apr 1·1 min read·55 words

What About the Concept of an RPG where the Party are in a Time Loop on the Titanic and the Only Way to Get out of the Time loop is to Prevent the Titanic From Crashing

Apr 1·1 min read·36 words

Exciting news everyone!

Apr 1·1 min read·3 words

everything is the same as usual except you can buy overpriced items from resellers on eBay. there is no advantage to this. you just spent all your money on a sword that is broken bc the seller said it was a ‘rare- vintage sword, good condition considering its age.’ the sword is three years old and extremely common.

Apr 1·1 min read·58 words

Ok, I know this is pretty much exactly like the other ones, but i have a d3, d5, d14, and d16 The d14 has two of each day of the week. None of the numbers on the 14 or 16 are painted, though they'relikly from the same set. Notably not from the vsause box. The d3 has an “R” on “1” side, “P” on the “2” side, and “S” on the “3” side. I got these trinket trading at a con, and I don’t know if there’s more in the set or not. Tried to make the numbers visible, but again, they are painted either poorly…

Apr 1·1 min read·106 words

Cursed item: The Doom Scroll A magic scroll that updates with all of the current bad news, lies, and ill omens happening in the world at the moment; and an enchantment that compels the reader to keep unwinding it and reading everything along its length. It never ends, of course. Prolonged exposure leaves victims deeply depressed or overtaken with misanthropic wrath.

Apr 1·1 min read·61 words

The Fire Age, an era of prehistory when everything was on fire and the world was roamed by creatures such as the flammoth, the blaztodon and the lightsabertooth

Mar 31·1 min read·28 words

Instead of bringing one extra rule book you may remove one rule

Mar 31·1 min read·12 words

trans people, remember you’ve got disadvantage to stealth today. i love you - mod paper (thon/they)

Mar 31·1 min read·16 words

Warlock actor who’s patron is a director and grants them chronomancy so they can go back in time when the mess up a line

Mar 31·1 min read·24 words

Centaurs start life as a humanoid being and a headless horse-like being that then fuse together upon maturity Slowbro-style.

Mar 31·1 min read·19 words

The cleric discovers that their god is dying when every healing spell they’ve ever cast slowly starts to unwind.

Mar 30·1 min read·19 words

y r u pixelated ?

Mar 30·1 min read·5 words

Another necromancer idea: a necromancer who has set out to personally ensure disco’s not dead

Mar 30·1 min read·15 words

A Druidic tribe where, when your time is up, you’re called back to the forest to make your return to nature. The druid just becomes part of the forest as a tree or something.

Mar 30·1 min read·34 words

Just got back from the DMV and I want to make someone else suffer too. The kingdom requires a license to ride/drive a mount. The Royal Guild of Mountsmanship is notorious for long wait times, tedious paperwork, and nonsensical testing. Also they don’t issue licenses for flying mounts, that is a separate group, the Royal Guild of Skymanship. A Mountsman license is required to purchase mounts and is valid ID for buying booze, smokables, certain drugs, etc.

Mar 29·1 min read·77 words

RPG Life Hack

Mar 29·1 min read·3 words

If your party lets the BBEG finish their monologue without interruptions or other rude behavior, the BBEG has a chance to abandon the evil plan and become an orator

Mar 29·1 min read·29 words

The Fire Age, an era of prehistory when everything was on fire and the world was roamed by creatures such as the flammoth, the blaztodon and the lightsabertooth

Mar 29·1 min read·28 words

After dying in a previous campaign, the BBEG is resurrected in a new body made out of tofu.

Mar 28·1 min read·18 words

The party defeat the BBEG but the rogue decides to steal the crown. The crown is actually the BBEG and now they need to make a critical success on a saving throw or get possessed.

Mar 28·1 min read·35 words

As Dame Judi Dench once said, Orphans always make the best [spy] recruits Unfortunately for the kingdom, a period of peace and prosperity has caused a lack of maladjusted teens to have their parental figure replaced with blind patriotism And that is where the Orphan Factory comes in

Mar 28·1 min read·48 words

When the players do something where the outcome is uncertain, do a three card spread using Tarot to determine what happens next.

Mar 27·1 min read·22 words

The magic sword in the stone is actually enchanted to only be drawn by the person whose leadership will destroy the kingdom fastest. The god or wizard who left the sword just despised the kingdom and made up the true king story so people would obey whatever jerk drew the sword

Mar 27·1 min read·51 words

The Hero with a Thousand Faces: One or more PCs have been cursed so that the more fame they garner, the less likely anybody will be to recognize them. Insisting that you deserve credit for The Hero’s exploits will always backfire and make you an enemy of the people. Turning in a MacGuffin to finish your current quest? You must have stolen that from The Hero, didn’t you? You may go on to save the whole world, but not even your closest friends and family will recognize you…

Mar 27·1 min read·88 words

Everyone is trying to capture or kill the party because the rogue stole a box of candies. Turns out the fancy box hid important information on a conspiracy that the Great Houses don’t want seeing the light of day.

Mar 26·1 min read·39 words

The book of many answers For every question there is an answer and this book has those (It has every word in the dictionary scrunched together)

Mar 26·1 min read·26 words

lovecraftian cult that refers to their deities as “the elderly”

Mar 26·1 min read·10 words

Paper can no longer protect you from my evil blast attack pencil.

Mar 26·1 min read·12 words

Paper can no longer protect you from my evil blast attack pencil.

Mar 26·1 min read·12 words

The Incredibly Unwieldy Chainsaw: on a hit, it removes a limb from the target, but on a miss it removes a limb from the user. A critical hit removes a head from the target, and a critical miss removes a head from the user.

Mar 25·1 min read·44 words

Spell idea, take any firework name and decide on the effects, damage and school the spell comes from, the player has no idea either

Mar 25·1 min read·24 words

i’m going to be mostly without tumblr for the rest of week so everyone be extra nice to pencil ok? -…

Mar 25·1 min read·21 words

for weird dice Wednesday, this one’s got powers of two!

Mar 25·1 min read·10 words

These are the denary dice. They were made by Vsauce and contain dice with from 1-10.

Mar 25·1 min read·16 words

Boss encounter: Stephen King It’s just ten random guys all coincidentally named “Stephen” who are knotted together by their hair similar to a rat king

Mar 25·1 min read·25 words

“Raining jellyfish” is a very common weather phenomenon in the setting.

Mar 24·1 min read·11 words

“While there’s nothing technically wrong with your necromancy school application, I really must…

Mar 24·1 min read·13 words

A courtly stage magician who is INFURIATED by the constant suspicion that he’s using real magic. He worked HARD to do all that palming and passing and whatnot, you ingrates, and his assistant is utterly invaluable too, she knows more tricks than there are in the book! They’ve polished their routine for years! They don’t just wave about wands and actually conjure things!

Mar 24·1 min read·63 words

Cassowerey. They become huge ill-tempered birds in the light of the full moon.

Mar 24·1 min read·13 words

CHOMP. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MANY DICE I’VE EATEN SINCE I BEGAN TO RP. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES…

Mar 23·1 min read·20 words

Real estate developers are going CRAZY over the potential in the Dungeon of Ever-Changing Corridors. Their sole competitors are the wholesale stone suppliers who have been stripping each ahllway bare of flagstones and masonry and moving on to the next. The wizards say this might be a bad idea but eh, what do they know?

Mar 23·1 min read·55 words

Waitttt Paper has a degree in archaeology? That’s so cool, I’m currently in school for that. What’s your area of focus?

Mar 23·1 min read·21 words

“What do you MEAN you brought back those ancient relics we’ve been seeking? What- no! They’re, they’re- you’ve ruined it! They’re solely of value in situ, we’ll never be able to get the same level of archaeological information out of them now! Did you at least have a scribe sketch what the thane’s burial chamber looked like when you first got there?”

Mar 23·1 min read·62 words

Among all the humanoid fantasy races of the setting, such as elves, dwarves, halflings, orcs, goblins and trolls, to name a few, humans are the only ones with non-opposable big toes on their feet. “Pawfoot”, “stumptoe” and “shoe-wearer” are some of the common degratory terms the other races have toward humans.

Mar 23·1 min read·51 words

a dolphin but instead of saying “eeee eeeee EEEEE EEEEEEE” it just says:

Mar 22·1 min read·13 words

Time magic is actually quite common. Paradoxes aren’t, though. A team of mages once set out to find why this was so- only to re retroannihilated by a time paradox. All at once. It was brutal. It has since become common knowledge that time paradoxes are like vampires, they can only get you if you let them in. You’ve got to take your time jaunt nonchalantly talking about how you intend to kill your grandfather and teach your younger self to time travel, and the confidence you project will keep yo…

Mar 22·1 min read·91 words

A lot places in the capital have heated floors by letting fire salamanders roost under their buildings.

Mar 22·1 min read·17 words

Magic doesn’t work in hardware stores since those places are made extremely rigid in form and function. The rules of reality are empowered in such places and forces of chaos like magic have trouble maintaining form

Mar 21·1 min read·36 words

Every time a pc takes a blow to the head, the player takes a shot of absinthe. If they pass out then their character is out.

Mar 21·1 min read·26 words

Instead of rolling xdy, roll (y-1)*xdy and take the highest number not rolled* *this is definitely not mathematically equivalent.

Mar 21·1 min read·19 words

Chimera but it’s all goat, except it has the eyes of a lion and the metabolism of a snake

Mar 20·1 min read·19 words

Knob Goblins. They are like regular Goblins, only horny.

Mar 20·1 min read·9 words

Zero night penultimate werewolf

Mar 20·1 min read·4 words

Reverse wizard.

Mar 19·1 min read·2 words

Needlessly confusing spells by school

Mar 19·1 min read·5 words

All religions have their version of a Pope, High Priest/ess, or whatever And by some happenstance of birthright, vote, soothsaying, and what have you, someone in the party is all of them

Mar 19·1 min read·32 words

Setting where the title of king is decided by who is currently sitting on the throne in that moment. you manage to sit on it? you’re king now. someone pushes you off and sits on it? they’re king now you can sit on it for any length of time but once you get up/get pushed off you can’t be king again either forever or for a few years laws made by previous kings cannot be undone until they’ve been in effect for 3 years would this country be even remotely functional? not in the slightest. but it wou…

Mar 19·1 min read·98 words

Every character whose name starts with “M” inevitably has to have an archnemesis whose name starts with “W”, like Mario and Wario.

Mar 18·1 min read·22 words

Vampire the Masquerade but the Nosferatu are the fancy, upper class sophisticates and the Toreador…

Mar 18·1 min read·15 words

Deck of no things.

Mar 18·1 min read·4 words

I cast- the GM got covid the day of the first session and had to postpone it cause they barely function. (It’s me. I’m the Gm).

Mar 17·1 min read·26 words

Your blog seems like the authority to ask: booping the super evil and mean Count Strahd Von Zarovich on the nose…good or bad idea? (Stick figure sketch added for visual imagery of scene, atrocious handwriting says thusly: image 1 - strahd von zarovich (evil, menace) saying “now look here” while bending menacingly over my halfling artificer Hestia, who has +3 Int and -1 Wis, is a chaos junkie. Image 2 - Boop. Strahd is confused and annoyed.) Thoughts?

Mar 17·1 min read·78 words

Post-Partum Lycanthropy

Mar 17·1 min read·2 words

No NPCs.

Mar 17·1 min read·2 words

Shadowrun but everyone’s besties.

Mar 17·1 min read·4 words

Power word: Yippie!

Mar 17·1 min read·3 words

“So, have you created a character?” “Sure, here you go!” “Excuse me, this is a character sheet. I…

Mar 16·1 min read·18 words

Guess who accidentally clicked Reblog rather than See Reblogs? the answer may surprise you!

Mar 16·1 min read·14 words

Werewolves who transform when they see a full anything.

Mar 16·1 min read·9 words

Ensure that your game is truly balanced by giving all characters and NPCs exactly the same stats.

Mar 16·1 min read·17 words

Roll your dice in a box and close it before anyone can see what you rolled.

Mar 15·1 min read·16 words

Your character has a dark, terrible secret.

Mar 15·1 min read·7 words

Reverse mimics. Doors and treasure chests disguised as monsters.

Mar 15·1 min read·9 words

Killing the final boss destroys the world.

Mar 14·1 min read·7 words

The Stalker Of The Darkness Between The Worlds, the Ur-Dragon, The Throne Of Unholy Flames, The…

Mar 14·1 min read·16 words

All enemies have super-hearing,

Mar 14·1 min read·4 words

The party is called to investigate a village whose inhabitants have become love obsessed zombies, and they find the source is magic stinkbugs have consumed a long spoiled cache of love potions that had been stashed in a nearby abandoned mine and are releasing potion fumes onto the village

Mar 14·1 min read·49 words

The party is a team of pixie detectives who are trying to bust the Tooth Fairy and her illegal underground black market trade of “child ivory”.

Mar 13·1 min read·26 words

Morally grey enemies

Mar 13·1 min read·3 words

I cast… You all agree to play something different while the Game Master works out his problems! He is now a player and is enjoying himself due to having one less stressor to deal with!

Mar 13·1 min read·35 words

Avoid minmaxing by having everyone make the character of the player they hate the most

Mar 13·1 min read·15 words

I cast… Game master is actually dealing with a lot of personal issues at the moment and does not feel like playing but didn’t want to delay the session anymore after three weeks! He is sorry for the bad session!

Mar 13·1 min read·40 words

Look, you can’t expect all quests to be epic.

Mar 13·1 min read·9 words

Folk horror, a phrase which here means standard horror but all the monsters are badly playing a…

Mar 13·1 min read·17 words

I didn’t know people had favorite limbs and now I want to know which one yours is

Mar 12·1 min read·17 words

I cast… LAZY GAME MASTER! *cut to you having a really boring time as the GM gives little to no description, your “map” is a blank tablecloth, and the enemies are either very easy or very hard based on whichever gives the GM less work.*

Mar 12·1 min read·45 words

I didn’t know people had favorite limbs and now I want to know which one yours is

Mar 12·1 min read·17 words

I didn’t know people had favorite limbs and now I want to know which one yours is

Mar 12·1 min read·17 words

“Oh no, the last Dark Lord was the one focused on Dark Conquest. My platform is focused more on Dark…

Mar 12·1 min read·20 words

Summon Enriched Uranium Elemental

Mar 12·1 min read·4 words

the shed skin from a dragon coming alive as an undead.

Mar 12·1 min read·11 words

Person with OCD plagued by teleporting succubi, call that suffering from intrusive thots .

Mar 12·1 min read·14 words

This game has three skills:

Mar 12·1 min read·5 words

Redemption Points, Zoot Suits, and Tax Tingles

Mar 12·1 min read·7 words

No-one will tell the PCs about plot hooks, because they like the PCs and don’t want them to die.

Mar 12·1 min read·19 words

“The Curse of the Mummy” but it’s just a mummy who says “fuck” in ancient Egyptian

Mar 12·1 min read·16 words

The Ork Empire is still so prestigious that, even 3,000 years after it’s fall, Monarchs are still claiming to be successor states. The Elves claim that they are the true successors as they inspired Orc culture and held onto Buzinium for centuries after the fall of the West. The Antalians claim they are the descendants of the original Orcs and rule the core lands of Orkinium. The Dwarves of Tussia claim that they are the Third Orcs through their connection with the Buzinium Empire. Meanwhile the…

Mar 11·1 min read·86 words

The Karma Chameleon Sort of a year-round lizard-person santa If you’ve been good, it does nice things for you Otherwise… not so nice

Mar 11·1 min read·23 words

A time fly. A fly species that can manipulate time.

Mar 11·1 min read·10 words

Heroes have to go take on beings from another dimension that cannot be perceived without causing screaming psychic trauma because of their otherwordliness. But this works both ways and these beings can’t perceive the heroes without also receiving screaming psychic trauma.

Mar 10·1 min read·41 words

Like all reptiles, dragons have to shed their skin every now and then. However, they come out of a shed as a different-colored dragon. This can even change them from Chromatic to Metallic- with all attendant powers. (A dragon only halfway through a shed is truly a force to be reckoned with.)

Mar 10·1 min read·52 words

The Broad Sword, which turns its wielder into a broad, is well-known. Other weapons with the same variety of magical powers include the Battle Axe, which causes battles to erupt, the Morning Star, which instantly makes it morning, and, ahem, the Long Bow.

Mar 10·1 min read·43 words

Power Rangers themed campaign but never tell the players, the magic crystal in a device that gives you a chromatic themed outfit with an animal companion, get missions from a mentor that’s locked in an another dimension and can only appear as a big head in a big crystal within a hidden temple, you fight a monster per session to learn whose making them with the different villains in a hierarchy with a different boss you have to face after the previous one

Mar 9·1 min read·83 words

“ if I summing swarm of mosquitoes what are the chances they can give someone malaria?” “Google says its 10%. So if you roll a 90 or higher then we flip to see if its dengue or malaria?” At no point as the dm did i agree with this but now summon insect swarm is known as casting malaria

Mar 9·1 min read·59 words

The BBEG, upon acquiring a McGuffin that allows him to travel through time, travels back 10 minutes to steal the McGuffin from himself so he can have TWO of the McGuffin, leading to his past and future selves fighting each other and disrupting the entire timeline.

Mar 9·1 min read·46 words

Fuck it, try and deduce the plot of my game from these zero context memes we made

Mar 8·1 min read·17 words

Elven wizard has a magic collar that forces him to do what his Orc boyfriend says otherwise the Elf gets so engrossed in his research that he forgets to eat, sleep, bath, etc. And the Elf cusses out the Orc every time as he’s force marched to whatever he needs to do.

Mar 8·1 min read·52 words

Dnd setting where everything is fairly standard except for the fact that baby goblins are referred to as “goblets” Unfortunately, goblets (the cups) are also a thing, which causes some confusion when someone hires the party to find them a “Cursed Goblet”

Mar 8·1 min read·42 words

base a dungeon on home alone and see how long it takes people to notice

Mar 8·1 min read·15 words

Using a virus head as a d20.

Mar 7·1 min read·7 words

Had an idea for a TTRPG. Gunpowder Fairies. You play as gun wielding fairies in an apocalyptic world where magic has died.

Mar 7·1 min read·22 words

Fey invented anarchism by roaming into human communties and asking for everyone’s rank and title.

Mar 7·1 min read·15 words

Instead of giving your players exp or advantage for good roleplaying, give them a little smooch.

Mar 6·1 min read·16 words

Bard Spell: Mass Debate Allows you to DESTROY 1d10 people per bard level with facts and logic

Mar 6·1 min read·17 words

All the great forces of evil have been defeated, leading to the new scourge - all the mighty…

Mar 6·1 min read·18 words

Quick ways to build a character if you’re struggling

Mar 6·1 min read·9 words

The Orcs are trying to clear up their image, so now they’re reverse-raiding villages to leave behind…

Mar 5·1 min read·17 words

Make the main superhero team of your setting the Justice League but they say “fuck”, so now it’s not…

Mar 5·1 min read·19 words

Just don’t free Cthulhu from his eon-old prison beneath the waves.

Mar 5·1 min read·11 words

an old pirate ship that causes everyone who boards it to develop scurvy. apparently the ship somehow drains its passengers of vitamin c for unknown reasons

Mar 4·1 min read·26 words

Worried about how your players will respond to your big reveal?

Mar 4·1 min read·11 words

“Oh no, the last Dark Lord was the one focused on Dark Conquest. My platform is focused more on Dark…

Mar 4·1 min read·20 words

For the Weird Dice Wednesday, if this has not been submitted before: These are copies of the dice alledgedly found on the ship burial site in Salme. They are basically like regular d6 except they are not cubical. Pretty cool though

Mar 4·1 min read·41 words

Save the... Princess?

Mar 4·1 min read·3 words

centaur bard taking the realm by storm. her name is apple roan

Mar 3·1 min read·12 words

idea a campaign where every session everyone changes character however everyone keeps their original character sheets and is not told the other players lore “would a 10 hit uh john would a 10 hit”

Mar 3·1 min read·34 words

The BBEG is capable of portal travel, teleportation and flight, yet prefers to chase the heroes on foot just for the psychological warfare aspect.

Mar 3·1 min read·24 words

Clawed gauntlets, but with the sharp bits missing on the index and middle finger

Mar 2·1 min read·14 words

Be neat to see someone in a fantasy setting using silverpoint. Silverpoint is a drawing style where the artist uses a thin rod or wire of silver in a stylus or holder to draw. The lines would go down practically invisible then darken with oxidation. …. Now I’m imaging a guy fighting off a werewolf by slapping it with a silverpoint drawing.

Mar 2·1 min read·62 words

I, uh… man, I don’t know… I’m not prepared… How about we just roll in the TV set and watch like....

Mar 2·1 min read·21 words

DBZ-style shonen RPG where everything is 37 nested tables with no indexing so a 2-3 round combat takes 5 sessions.

Mar 1·1 min read·20 words

Megaprawn, the Transformer who transforms into a shrimp

Mar 1·1 min read·8 words

Megaprawn, the Transformer who transforms into a shrimp

Mar 1·1 min read·8 words

Megaprawn, the Transformer who transforms into a shrimp

Mar 1·1 min read·8 words

Whenever the party comes across a body of water in the wilderness, there’s about a 75% chance that swimming in it will kill them in a variety of horrible ways

Mar 1·1 min read·30 words

base each session of your campaign on an episode of the D&D cartoon

Feb 28·1 min read·13 words

Halfway through session one, the entire party gets cursed so their races are shuffled around, dungeon meshi style. They then spend the rest of the campaign trying to get back to what theyre used to.

Feb 28·1 min read·35 words

A character who died by beheading in a previous campaign returns on a new adventure, except now his head is grafted onto a chicken’s body. He’s adjusted quite well to writing and holding items with his feet, finds it liberating to not have to wear clothes anymore, and the only downside, from his perspective at least, is that he now occasionally lays an egg.

Feb 28·1 min read·64 words

Drop hints that the shadowy mastermind behind the grand plot has been dead all along. At the...

Feb 27·1 min read·17 words

Magical item: unshittable pants

Feb 27·1 min read·4 words

Big bad who can only be killed by a cisgender, heterosexual adventurer in a monogamous relationship

Feb 27·1 min read·16 words

Use power word kill 7 times in a row, call that a death sentence

Feb 26·1 min read·14 words

Book of vile darkness is outside your price range. We have the book of passive-aggressive meanness,…

Feb 26·1 min read·16 words

D1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00…

Feb 26·1 min read·1 words

Goblins have 2D100 teeth

Feb 26·1 min read·4 words

In this setting gender reassignment is performed by a ritual where a trans person’s deadname is exorcised from them, which then takes physical form and then they have to defeat their previous self in battle to complete their transition

Feb 25·1 min read·39 words

Implement critical fumble tables and nat-one-is-an-autofail but only for the player you like the…

Feb 25·1 min read·14 words

Probably Bad Podcast: Loose Matilda, Big Bandit, and Dr Claws

Feb 25·1 min read·10 words

I just remembered this poll series thanks to going through the archive for something. Brimsbificus…

Feb 25·1 min read·15 words

In this setting gender reassignment is performed by a ritual where a trans person’s deadname is exorcised from them, which then takes physical form and then they have to defeat their previous self in battle to complete their transition

Feb 25·1 min read·39 words

if I had a pound for every time we’ve been tagged on a prokopetz post we wouldn’t need a patreon

Feb 25·1 min read·20 words

An artificial lifeform of unknown origin sits alone upon a hill, its only command was to bear witness It has sat upon that hill as wars have been fought, civilisations rose & fell before it People would make pilgrimage to seek its wisdom and insight into the mortal condition It has however been focusing more on the lives of the local insect population

Feb 25·1 min read·63 words

The reason why fictional empaths tend to be Captain Obvious is because they are so used to their powers telling them how someone feels that they lack the observation skills to pick on subtle cues AKA Empathy powers make you Autistic.

Feb 24·1 min read·41 words

Dwarves and Elves are doing a job swap thing.

Feb 24·1 min read·9 words

at the start of a session, send a dm to all of the players simply saying “you are not a doppelganger”

Feb 24·1 min read·21 words

The party is searching for an amulet of power. At the end of the quest, they discover that there’s...

Feb 24·1 min read·19 words

Remember: before you go into the Feywilds, change the name of you and your party members to Who,...

Feb 24·1 min read·18 words

Big bad who keeps doomscrolling instead of finishing off the chosen one, call that executionive…

Feb 23·1 min read·15 words

If a player rolls 3 natural 20s in a row, they get to remove any one NPC from the campaign no…

Feb 23·1 min read·21 words

Fire Proof Rings. They cause immediate immolation, proving the existence of fire.

Feb 23·1 min read·12 words

Evil AIs but they act like actual AIs. The Shadow Network tries to take over the world but it…

Feb 23·1 min read·19 words

Gatorbolds. Kobolds of the bayou.

Feb 22·1 min read·5 words

lycanthrope spellcasters, or witchwolves

Feb 22·1 min read·4 words

Cthulhu isn’t trapped in R'yleh because of any mystical bindings or incorrect stars or anything,…

Feb 22·1 min read·15 words

Slutty wizard. Whorelock, if you will

Feb 22·1 min read·6 words

D&D but without the rule where anyone can eat anyone else’s character sheet at any given time.

Feb 22·1 min read·17 words

Boss encounter: a caveman named Grok and his pet mammoth, Elon Tusk

Feb 21·1 min read·12 words

when the dice explode they break into smaller pieces. rolled a nat 20? cool, now hit me with 1d12 +1d4+2d2

Feb 21·1 min read·20 words

The bard has a necklace of wedding rings that the party thinks is meant to be some weird flex on their ability to bed married folks until the group visits their place and learn that they’re practically married to the whole town with all the kids being theirs.

Feb 21·1 min read·48 words

In a modern horror game, a series of disturbing snuff videos appear on the dark web that all appear to feature the same woman being killed over and over. See how long it takes for the party to figure out she’s a horror movie actress.

Feb 21·1 min read·45 words

A cursed amulet that forces yoi to misspell your spells. One letter is changed, added, or removed. The effect reflects that change, but fizzles if one of the words isn’t recognized. For example, Fireball could become Tireball that could either cause exhaustion or conjure a large amount of rubber tires. You choose the letter, but the dice choose what happens to that letter.

Feb 20·1 min read·63 words

Character concept: A halfling tailor rogue named Bobbin Weave? Haha

Feb 20·1 min read·10 words

a hedgehog that can travel through time and space

Feb 20·1 min read·9 words

You can always turn a critical failure into a critical success by giving a new book to your GM

Feb 19·1 min read·19 words

If you need an eldrich language, run a sentence through Translation Party, then into German, then run it through a caesar cipher. It worked for my sister’s group for one day.

Feb 19·1 min read·31 words

Filler arcs will happen to the NPCs if everyone cancels and I’m stuck with 3 batches of cookies all to myself; you’ve been warned.

Feb 19·1 min read·24 words

setting where all people explode upon death regardless of the cause. be it accidents, murder, disease or old age, once a person breathes their last everyone else has 60 seconds to clear the area before they blow up into a massive fireball.

Feb 18·1 min read·42 words

Don’t tell the players but you lost the rulebook and have been running everything out of an old betty crocker cookbook your mom had laying around

Feb 18·1 min read·26 words

Sending this cube shaped d12 my mom made (she is trying to start an etsy dice shop) for weird dice wednesday!

Feb 18·1 min read·21 words

a clockwork dog that follows the party around but instead of begging for treats it begs for scrap metal and copper pieces. the dog doesn’t really do anything a regular real life dog wouldn’t do except it’s more durable because it’s made of metal

Feb 18·1 min read·44 words

A Lovecraftian cult, only the stars won’t be right to perform the ritual to awaken their eldritch god for another century or so, so right now they’re more like a book club with a weird theme.

Feb 17·1 min read·36 words

your regular reminder that we have a podcast where we try to make these ideas workable! and we need…

Feb 17·1 min read·19 words

The Pedant Pendant: a necklace or amulet that curses the wearer to be extremely precise about the smallest of details and obnoxiously correct anyone and everyone around them when they make a mistake, no matter how irrelevant the error

Feb 17·1 min read·39 words

Item: Chick Magnet. This item attracts chickens from within a 50-meter radius. When upgraded, it not only attracts them but causes them to magnetically clump together around the item as a giant chicken sphere.

Feb 17·1 min read·34 words

Someone is given a vision The star will enter a phase of extreme unrest, firing out hugely destructive waves of power, with the potential to end civilisations Years go by, and nothing happens Turns out that even extremly powerful solar storms don’t effect much for non-electricity dependant people Just some impressive auroras

Feb 16·1 min read·52 words

ive had a dream about dnd and there was some sort of a mechanic about a huge pet wild cat basically you could own a child of it that cant walk on it’s own and you need to carry it and it will do nothing but be heavy and debuff you with being slowed down and some other thing that you get for carrying something heavy and then after some levels it kinda grows up becoming bugger able to walk on it’s own and attack enemies and it was a pretty useful companion so kinda a risk reward huge pet wild cat…

Feb 16·1 min read·102 words

Hidden Homunculus

Feb 16·1 min read·2 words

Were-dachshund. Even in human form, they have a very long torso and short limbs.

Feb 15·1 min read·14 words

Some genre ideas based on how I, Mod Paper, have mistyped when tagging

Feb 15·1 min read·13 words

I remember learning about how tea during the colonization of the Americas was sold in these flat bricks of compressed leaves. It makes me imagine the colonists behind the Boston Tea Party chucking them like Frisbees into the harbor. If you’re wondering how people used these tea bricks, they’d just shave some off when they wanted to make tea.

Feb 15·1 min read·59 words

A faction of werewolves who hate their transformation plot to launch a nuclear missile to destroy the moon.

Feb 15·1 min read·18 words

Ithillids experimenting on lycanthropes to create highly intelligent and psionically powered Whywolves

Feb 14·1 min read·12 words

A superhero whose powers depend on her current hyperfixation, allowing her to transform into forms inspired by her blorbos. Unfortunately she has terrible taste and tends to transform into werewolves, but will occasionally whip out a magical girl transformation, or her own OC’s.

Feb 14·1 min read·43 words

Anaconda with gorilla arms.

Feb 14·1 min read·4 words

Just learned about Russians putting frogs in milk to keep it fresh in the days before refrigeration. Now imagining a setting where people keep ice frogs to store their food long term. Just remember to feed them or they’ll eat YOUR food.

Feb 13·1 min read·42 words

Crafting and smithing takes real time. Your enchanted sword finishes forging in six real world weeks.

Feb 13·1 min read·16 words

dragon who hoards hoarders because they come with a hoard of their own

Feb 13·1 min read·13 words

A barbarian vampire studying magic, science, etc. to develop space travel for his single-minded mission to beat up the sun.

Feb 12·1 min read·20 words

On the Topic of Skyrim NPCs, Hired Thugs appear when you’ve murdered someone or stolen from someone and they’re there to teach you a lesson. The problem? The Thugs were hired by the Bandits you killed a long time ago.

Feb 12·1 min read·40 words

I wonder if there are any TTRPGs that has the party playing as a sub crew? I can see each playing navigator, sonar, firing solution, comms, etc.

Feb 12·1 min read·27 words

the skyrim courier is in ur next campaign *in the middle of bbeg fight in hell* >random normal ass dude comes outta nowhere “been looking for you, got a letter, your hands only”

Feb 12·1 min read·33 words

Bag of scolding: It acts just like a regular bag of holding, but it yells at you like you’ve done something wrong whenever you put something in or take something out

Feb 12·1 min read·31 words

(Based on a character I played in a theatre skit): If your party is having difficulty staying on the quest, simply introduce the Mystery Man: A wandering wizard guy who subtly infers that you should get on with your quest. To help, he will give you something from the following D20 chart: 1-10: a hot dog (or your universe’s equivalent). 11-19: a big lore dump. 20: an extremely OP item.

Feb 11·1 min read·70 words

Cousin Crate, Practical Issues, and Blasting Problems

Feb 11·1 min read·7 words

cursed amulet but instead of being evil it’s toxic positive

Feb 11·1 min read·10 words

Been meaning to share this one for a while: zodiac die from killer bunnies

Feb 11·1 min read·14 words

Cousin Crate, Practical Issues, and Blasting Problems

Feb 11·1 min read·7 words

NPC idea: a carter called Magnus who is of Lawful Neutral alignment and has very firm opinions about...

Feb 11·1 min read·18 words

You’ve heard of acid rain Now get ready for my new creation: 🌨️Acid Snow🌨️

Feb 10·1 min read·14 words

Roughly 40% of the world’s adult dragons are all part of a single massive, complicated polycule with each other. The happiness and wellbeing of the dragons tends to have corresponding knock-on effects on the world around them — for better or for worse — and so it’s the party’s job to help smooth over any relationship drama they may have, figure out how each dragon can best coexist with any nearby towns, untangle the whole messy web of relationships that not even the dragons themselves keep clos…

Feb 10·1 min read·87 words

Chemistry is just a bit different, so sulfur and saltpeter are fire suppressors, and extract from blue bread mold actually speeds up bacteria infections.

Feb 10·1 min read·24 words

Boss encounter: Recursive Sabertooth. Its saber teeth have smaller mouths of their own, which have a pair of tinier sabers of their own, which also have even smaller mouths with even smaller sabers and so on.

Feb 9·1 min read·36 words

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Feb 9·1 min read·6 words

rob goblins literally no difference to a hob goblin, theyre just all named rob no matter what. except steve. nobody knows how stevegot here.

Feb 9·1 min read·24 words

The deck of many kings you pull a card, you summon a very confused male monarch. There is no benefit to this, they probably don’t listen to you, and they’re sent back to where they were after 60 seconds

Feb 9·1 min read·39 words

have a game where every 5 minutes the dm swaps with a random player

Feb 8·1 min read·14 words

Talking to someone who doesn’t know rpgs and they mentioned their son preferred being GM. So I said…

Feb 8·1 min read·18 words

Along the way to fend of an invasion of malevolent lovecraftian entities, the party finds and befriends a small, cute, unidentified creature. It isn’t later that it turns out to be more important to their quest: their new critter friend is actually the natural predator of the eldritch beings back in their home dimension, and proves to be a valuable asset to their mission.

Feb 8·1 min read·64 words

One player character’s pet snake is actually a lock of hair from their deceased gorgon lover to “remember them by”.

Feb 8·1 min read·20 words

Open monster manual to random page. That monster is now an in-universe cryptid. Scattered reports or fabricated cadaver supposedly attest to it, but its never been verified to be real.

Feb 7·1 min read·30 words

The party is a group of drug addicts who have run out of money and must do jobs for their dealer in exchange for their fix. Most wrecking rival drug dealers’ business and stealing whatever stuff they got. Then they are sent to take out a group of scholars researching a medicine to cure their addictions and make them never want their drugs again. The fantasy part is that the scholars are funded by the government who genuinely wants to help people and not weaponize the research into something hor…

Feb 7·1 min read·90 words

When a player encounters a horror beyond their comprehension, roll 1d6. if the number is even, they gain a phobia. if it’s odd, they gain a fetish.

Feb 7·1 min read·27 words

How many Kermit the Frog based ideas have there been?

Feb 6·1 min read·10 words

Kermite, a species of frog that burrows through wood. A single hive can destroy a house in a matter of hours

Feb 6·1 min read·21 words

Add an imp to every combat. Invisible, though. It can be killed with splash damage and so on. It doesn’t attack, just watches. Never reveal who sends them or why.

Feb 6·1 min read·30 words

For reasons unknown to magicians, sages or physicians of the realm, dwarves have six stages of grief, orcs eight, and elves four. Gnomes have none. Gnomes feel nothing in the wake of tragedy. They smile through it all, and worse, that smile is real.

Feb 6·1 min read·44 words

Snob goblin, a more refined and presumptuous goblin subculture. They bash in kneecaps with only the fanciest hammers and spikes.

Feb 5·1 min read·20 words

any seedy fishing town name is a great name for a fancy seaside restaurant (ex. The town of breakwater/the breakwater) annoy your players by having both with the same name

Feb 5·1 min read·30 words

You have 20 minutes to explain the rules of dnd to your parents. Then they try to repeat the rules as best as they can. Whatever they cobble together from memory is the ruleset.

Feb 5·1 min read·34 words