D&D Players and DM’s, What are your best campaign-destroying ideas?

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  • @hiroshock
    @hiroshock Před rokem +146

    Have a regular lizard gaining sentience and wizard levels. Have it speak in a third person calling itself Blizzard to mess with everyone.

    • @alharron2145
      @alharron2145 Před rokem +21

      I had a Lizardman wizard who focused on ice magic. He was, of course, the Blizzard Lizard Wizard.

    • @MultiFan30
      @MultiFan30 Před rokem +8

      He be like: I am Blizzard the Wizard Lizard

    • @Lost-My-Letters
      @Lost-My-Letters Před rokem +3

      ​@@MultiFan30He also somehow has a gizzard.

    • @scoots291
      @scoots291 Před rokem +2

      This gives me an idea. In session 1 one pc was shooting at lizards to try a new crossbow for target practice. And the Druid got angry and protected 1 lizards they were about to shoot. So using that lizard have him come for revenge (except the druid)

    • @JeedthejetDoe
      @JeedthejetDoe Před rokem +1

      Sounds alot like mercades lacky and the wizard lizard in one of her books

  • @Ilias2
    @Ilias2 Před rokem +80

    The Aarau's Destroy Universe homebrew spell is currently being cast as a 10th-level spell. It's already nearly halfway finished casting. The party has 23 days to find a Wish spell to stop it.

    • @enderskunk7644
      @enderskunk7644 Před rokem +4

      9th level magic can stop 10th level magic?

    • @iexplodonateri7378
      @iexplodonateri7378 Před rokem +12

      It can if the DM says it can

    • @Sorain1
      @Sorain1 Před rokem +3

      Slight revision: Miracle spell. Contact the Gods and point it out to them, then watch the fireworks. (Or, you know have them empower the party to go wreck face while being able to honestly say "We're on a mission from God!")

    • @enderskunk7644
      @enderskunk7644 Před rokem

      @@Sorain1 sorry that spell doesn't exist in 5e.

    • @nopenopington2880
      @nopenopington2880 Před rokem

      Final Fantasy 7 reference?

  • @jonathanfaulkner878
    @jonathanfaulkner878 Před rokem +52

    I am writing down that concept of the world ruled by halfling rogues because of shrubberies. That’s pure gold!

    • @Randy_Racc00n
      @Randy_Racc00n Před rokem +5

      I really like the giant turtles that goblins live in! And the hard to kill butterfly!

    • @whitemink0939
      @whitemink0939 Před 11 měsíci +3

      @@Randy_Racc00nand don’t forget that, ‘poultry man’ cannot fly, nor the butterfly, as stated earlier in the video, they just jump very high

    • @TheSkiingDragon
      @TheSkiingDragon Před 11 měsíci +3

      And they are secretly led by a group of nights who say Ni

  • @MK_ULTRA420
    @MK_ULTRA420 Před rokem +38

    The most surefire way to end a campaign in record time is to have it take place in Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, where evil and conflict do not exist.

  • @Ilias2
    @Ilias2 Před rokem +34

    Run two campaigns simultaneously, each party only knows about one BBEG, only receiving hints of the other, until it's revealed both are working together. The two parties have met each other, but only thought they were NPCs until then.

    • @samaxion93
      @samaxion93 Před 11 měsíci +4

      That requires having a lot of friends

  • @Zand0r
    @Zand0r Před rokem +39

    Poultry man is grian from hermitcraft lol
    The crossover we deserve

    • @nyx_the_misthios139
      @nyx_the_misthios139 Před rokem +13

      Was literally looking for this comment. When he first started reading it I was like "Oh hey that sounds familiar" and then he read the bit about the brightly colored parrot wings and I was like !!!! Grian!

    • @francenkovcan5211
      @francenkovcan5211 Před 8 měsíci +2

      "who is this Grain character?"

    • @michaelmann7816
      @michaelmann7816 Před 8 měsíci +3

      It wasn't him! It was the man in the chicken costume!

    • @EldritchCloudKitty
      @EldritchCloudKitty Před 2 dny

      @@michaelmann7816in no way is Grian related to Poultry Man. not at all

  • @davidkelvon7936
    @davidkelvon7936 Před rokem +15

    The inclusion of Baradun and the D heads made me chuckle.

  • @JacobL228
    @JacobL228 Před rokem +13

    I can't believe someone had the guy add the Epic NPC team to the game.

  • @boomkruncher325zzshred5
    @boomkruncher325zzshred5 Před rokem +19

    This is gonna bastardize the entire Lovecraftian Mythos in SO MANY WAYS, but it would be absolutely NUTS.
    Have the ENTIRE REALITY, INCLUDING ALL THE ELEMENTAL PLANES AND EVERY SINGLE DND SETTING THAT EVER EXISTED IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM, be dreamed up by Cthulhu. HOWEVER, Cthulhu is NOT evil; he's actually a nice guy, maybe something like an equivalent to a nerdy but sincere computer programmer, but he's asleep and dreaming of EVERYTHING. As long as Cthulhu dreams and doesn't wake up, the world as the player characters know it, continues to exist.
    Cthulhu also has a "dream avatar" of some description that provokes madness from even the most powerful sorcerers decked out with unlimited Wish spells. Yes, include an item that allows for unlimited Wish spells, and make it USELESS at either removing, damaging or banishing Cthulhu's "dream avatar". Can't even relocate it so much as an INCH Why? Because the Wish spell is a part of Cthulhu's dream. That means Cthulhu can just decide "Yeah, no" and just wave his "dream avatar's" hand and be completely immune to everything.
    This means that ALL OF REALITY in Cthulhu's dreams has NO IDEA Cthulhu is ACTUALLY a nice guy, because being in his "dream avatar's" presence is straight-up incomprehensible, to everybody in all corners of reality. And no, going mad does not somehow make someone "able to comprehend the incomprehensible", let the party chase down that possibility only to find that madness and insane ramblings... are just madness and insane ramblings. So the "dream avatar" isolates themself from all reality for the most part so that the dream can exist by itself with as little insanity-causing exposure to Cthulhu's "dream avatar", only coming out if some kind of reality-ending nightmare or some other threat is trying to disturb Cthulhu's dream (which, again, IS ALL OF REALITY).
    The problem? The real Cthulhu who's dreaming of all this, IS WAKING UP. So... what happens when the dream ends?
    How can the party survive all of reality coming to an end? They can't even get close to Cthulhu's "dream avatar", let alone do ANYTHING to the real Cthulhu, because they are just dreams in Cthulhu's head. If they disturb the dream by screwing with the fabric of "reality", that's just gonna accelerate the real Cthulhu waking up, like you normally wake up suddenly from an awful nightmare.
    So... how in all of Cthulhu's Incomprehensible Reality can the Party survive the actual Cthulhu waking up?
    Here's the kicker: Let the solution be: have the party's final moments be so GODDAMN MEMORABLE as all of reality begins to collapse that Cthulhu is like "OMG THAT DREAM WAS SO UNBELIEVABLY AWESOME!!!!!!" That would lead to Cthulhu, in the epilogue, trying to recreate his dream in HIS reality, so that the AWESOME DREAM he just had won't ever have to rely on his sleep cycle again. And maybe this time, he can rebuild the Dream to not be so vulnerable to his very presence 🤣
    Looking at what I just wrote... this is simultaneously both the best AND worst campaign Idea I've ever seen. I kinda love it 🤣

    • @Sorain1
      @Sorain1 Před rokem +5

      The idea of the good end being "That was so awesome I want to meet those people. Wait, I'm an Elder God! Alter Reality here I come!" so you can have tea with Cthulhu is great.

    • @Kerrigan-QOB
      @Kerrigan-QOB Před 7 měsíci

      That is definetly a 10/10 story.

  • @nickcampbell5626
    @nickcampbell5626 Před 11 měsíci +8

    I like to add history to the world by adding continuing effects of the wishes of past adventures. For example, in one city, a very impatient wizard made it so anyone who cuts in line bursts into flame. I'm still waiting for a player to exploit it in battle.

  • @NameIsDoc
    @NameIsDoc Před rokem +21

    There is a health potion prohibition lobbied by the local healing church going on in a major kingdom of the world. The Druids and Theives guild have hopped on the opportunity to smuggle or make health potions. Bootleg Health Potions exist and have various effects from not healing you properly, some making you into a zombie/tree for a while, some Healing you and then applying a poison that makes you have disadvantage at skill checks for a while, healing you too much to the point you need to cut your mouth, nose or eyelids open to being highly combustible. Many bootleggers exist from the ignorant to innocent to the outright malicious. One of the party is secretly a Pinkerton hired by the church meant to sniff out the speak-wells (healing potion speak-easys) and is using your party as cover

    • @ericb3157
      @ericb3157 Před rokem

      reminds me of a fan-made game i have, a brewable potion that instantly heals you (instead of heal-over-time like proper potions) BUT also poisons you...
      PS: the story is actually based on the Fallout games.

  • @dakinademino977
    @dakinademino977 Před rokem +15

    I say salt water is now Russian vodka and fresh water is Irish whiskey.
    Good luck getting through the campaign while completely drunk.

  • @ResidentEvilFan686
    @ResidentEvilFan686 Před rokem +9

    I'm so happy Viva la Dirt League D&D got into this video. love those chaotic boys.

  • @timothys4884
    @timothys4884 Před rokem +10

    All's fun and games until the rules become mutually exclusive. The rule of cool shall decide what takes priority.

  • @scorpioperk1137
    @scorpioperk1137 Před rokem +9

    Something my DM did after me and another player pulled off complete bs against all probability. As in we each asked/prayed for divine intervention twice, DM asked for a number between 1-100, we said a number, and he rolled the number.
    Primordial Chaos took an interest in us. The warlock (myself) having the most communication due to compatibility (the other player was a paladin dedicated to things like 'redemption' and 'justice') So... throughout the campaign and especially during moments where we cause chaos, he pipes in and does things such as making ice slipperier than normal, or giving someone an extra eye. Usually after I make cracks about how 'Chaos should get the popcorn for themself and the Raven Queen, cause something stupid is about to happen'
    It will become even more chaotic after last session. During a fight with a HEAVILY modified boss from Rime of the Frostmaiden (minor Spoilers) We had beat this thing to shit, and it was still kicking. it gets its big breath attack back. It targets Three NPCs no where near us that we deeply care about and who are trying to escape. Wizard is compromised, paladin is too far away, cleric and sorcerer have been maintaining concentration spells, and I don't have any reactions that draw attention.
    So with the sound of popcorn in my ear, I do a stupid. I give Chaos a blank check. DM ask for a number. dice are rolled. And the result makes the breath attack become a stream of butterflies that do nothing but look pretty. The boss goes down a turn later to a VERY mad paladin. And my DM is laughing maniacally with the blank check of pure madness I just gave him.
    Worth it.

  • @professorsponge1554
    @professorsponge1554 Před rokem +12

    Not mine but a constructed module from AD&D. The Apocalypse Stone.
    The party is made aware of a magic stone that can do wonderous things and is only worthy of the mightiest heroes. but they gotta find it and the castle it resides in because it teleports around randomly. The party is presented with a challenge that they will surely attempt to solve.
    The castle is full of super tough monsters (for AD&D) and if they get the stone, that's when the real fun starts. The material plane comes free of the great wheel and starts drifting away.
    clerics and other divine casters begin losing spell slots.
    the dead can no longer go to the afterlife
    the gods grow ever more distant and harder to communicate with
    interdimensional travel stops.
    long forgotten evils start breaking free
    and worst of all: Moloch, the archdevil was trapped on this doomed plane with you and you just fucked up his plans. The satan gets a month to plan how he'll take revenge on you, and its not pretty.

  • @BuffaloBaymax2187
    @BuffaloBaymax2187 Před rokem +7

    Introduce a new sub-class: The Mirror Mage (Can be a Wizard, Sorcerer and/or Warlock). Their spell slots and health pool can function as normal but their other stats based mechanics are reversed. The lower the stat, the more powerful it is (negative modifiers become positive and vice versa). In order to hit the Mirror Mage you need to roll at or UNDER their AC. Alignment can be reversed as well, at the DM's discretion (i.e. Lawful becomes chaotic, good becomes evil, Neutral stays neutral because it has no opposite). Also, in order to cast spells, the player or DM needs to say its name backwards (i.e. Fireball becomes Llaberif, Mage Hand becomes Dnah Egam, etc.).

  • @JAY-gl5xd
    @JAY-gl5xd Před rokem +7

    This is great! I've been playing with the idea of running a campaign that's not set on the material plane. Rather, the party will start in an outer plane that's infinite in size. The size will be a big factor because in an infinite plane, anything that has a not zero chance of happening, will happen, somewhere on the plane.
    A village where everyone is named Carl, but is otherwise unremarkable. (credit to my brother for already naming it Carlton. Idk how he beat me to that.)
    The sentient hair could be there.
    Monsters so powerful they can kill gods (in this the gods would be administrators for the planes. And have many incarnations traveling around. But they wouldn't all have super diefic powers. You might walk past a lvl 6 Garl Glittergold. Or lvl 16. Really depends on how close to his plane you are.
    I'm going to finish watching the video now and borrow more ideas.

  • @postapocalypticnewsradio

    PANR has tuned in.

    • @billcox8870
      @billcox8870 Před rokem +1

      I've been continuing to trek to the centre of the island where that strange town of Harbor is located. Apparently there are some cultists who worship someone or something called Atom. I will keep you informed as to what I discover on my travels

    • @postapocalypticnewsradio
      @postapocalypticnewsradio Před rokem +2

      @billcox8870 interesting. We have a tangently similar exploration in progress here. We have begun an exploration of the sea. After many reports regarding monsters and serpants from the fishers. Though, not long ago, we lost contact with them. Their most recent report declared they had been caught in an incredibly powerful current and signaled for rescue.

    • @billcox8870
      @billcox8870 Před rokem +1

      @@postapocalypticnewsradio I have heard of a monster with glowing red eyes that is the bane of fishermen.

    • @postapocalypticnewsradio
      @postapocalypticnewsradio Před rokem +2

      @billcox8870 this is new to us. We have heard of no such thing. But will be mindful of such a report.

    • @billcox8870
      @billcox8870 Před rokem +1

      @@postapocalypticnewsradio I will keep you informed

  • @Allycat-wc8hj
    @Allycat-wc8hj Před 11 měsíci +1

    I was so NOT expecting a poultry man reference! The whole time I was like there’s no way this is what I think it is… then it name drops it, and I’m dying of laughter with the stupidest grin on my face. 15:54

  • @otakubancho6655
    @otakubancho6655 Před rokem +2

    The players are on a quest for the most powerful sword ever created,the sword of King Arthur,Excalibur,except it's Excalibur from Soul Eater!😱😱😱

  • @JohnDoe-dh5jg
    @JohnDoe-dh5jg Před rokem +3

    When the players create characters, they are in fact possessing that person in the game world. There are people who are aware of PCs, seeing them as an invasion from the far realm.

  • @theworldstoryteller1197
    @theworldstoryteller1197 Před rokem +3

    How about this for a campaign idea: the magic in the world is slowly corroding. The higher level the spell, the worse the effect, eventually driving all magic users insane. This doesn't seem to affect clerical or psionics, however. Through the quest the characters come across a BBEG who is a demigod who has been driven insane by a sentient antimagical artifact that is slowly poisoning the Weave whom the demigod thinks is his spouse. Eventually, Azuth begins to notice the effect on the Weave and contacts the party and helps them in their most dire needs, but cannot help against the BBEG.

    • @MK_ULTRA420
      @MK_ULTRA420 Před rokem

      ....You like FF7 don't you, Squidward?

  • @kayq3231
    @kayq3231 Před rokem +2

    At the end of each session, each player rolls a d20. If a player rolls a natural 20, their character gets to spend one minute talking to the narrator in private where they can ask any question related to the campaign.

  • @shmeee8458
    @shmeee8458 Před 10 měsíci +2

    I think all kobolds should talk like 1920s mobsters

  • @Pizza-gremlin
    @Pizza-gremlin Před rokem +1

    On an island in the middle of the sea is a kingdom led by a a young necromancer who leads an army of zombies but is also a very great mechanist who make giant mechs to help fight as a last resort. But also on the other side of the island is a kingdom led by two humans and there populous are sentient plant people and are the only thing stopping the necromancer from attacking every one else on the mainland. Some say that this war has been going on since the dawn of time since they have time travel, those people also say the first zombie came from the time travel. For these two are locked in a forever war.

  • @gaminmorty
    @gaminmorty Před rokem +2

    Describing the NPC man DND group caught me off guard

  • @burningxnecro
    @burningxnecro Před 6 měsíci +1

    When it mentioned that thing about growing corn, it hit me that it was the plot of he movie Interstellar.

  • @emiliavalentino7226
    @emiliavalentino7226 Před rokem +1

    I want more of this one.
    I absolutely do.

  • @ryanperpich2501
    @ryanperpich2501 Před 11 měsíci +1

    I like how someone slipped in the party from Viva La Dirt League's DnD campaign, lol

  • @ashtongiertz8728
    @ashtongiertz8728 Před rokem +3

    15:51 dang it, Grian, hermitcraft wasn't enough for you?

  • @whitemink0939
    @whitemink0939 Před 11 měsíci

    15:50 “it wasn’t me! It was the man on the chicken costume!” - Grian

  • @antisanity_
    @antisanity_ Před rokem +1

    A creepy as hell mannequin carved from wood that seemingly stalks the party everywhere they go, never moving as if it spontaneously vanishes and re-appears elsewhere.
    Its uncanny with no face, limbs slightly too long and spindly, its arms ending in sharp points instead of hands, and entirely painted blood red.
    Only mention it like once every session or two after a party member makes a random perception check, and describe it being far in the distance, facing the party.
    It serves no purpose to the story other than freaking the players out.
    There's my contribution :)

  • @ajh22895
    @ajh22895 Před rokem +1

    A portal to another plane. In my campaign, I added a portal to Ravnica which was at the bottom of a lake. The Simic had made it and sent through a creature to see how it does in the other world.

  • @caritahearts2405
    @caritahearts2405 Před rokem

    Everyone should be under the effects of Otto's irresistible dance at all times

  • @MechbossBoogie
    @MechbossBoogie Před rokem +1

    My best campaign destroying idea: I invite "that guy" back to my table.
    No one else will show up if I do that.

  • @Lexie-nc2vl
    @Lexie-nc2vl Před 10 měsíci +1

    Yo Poultry Man is a hermitcraft reference. Grain back when he first joined hermitcraft would spawn chickens in other hermits bases and it was so funny LOL.

  • @gratuitouslurking8610
    @gratuitouslurking8610 Před 6 měsíci

    I'm pretty sure 'the entire world is run by halflings' is why Darksun is such a clustercrap.

  • @ericb3157
    @ericb3157 Před rokem

    a running gag from "el goonish shive" comes to mind:
    "Hey! Is that a demonic duck of some sort?"
    The Duck: "Everywhere I go, i get used as a distraction..."
    also, a video called "worst campaign-breaking monsters" comes to mind:
    Doppelgangers and Mimics.
    an encounter with THEM will make the players VERY paranoid and wary of everyone and everyTHING...
    oh, i just remembered a gag in the webcomic "order of the Stick", where the Dwarf Cleric thought that trees are evil...because he completely misunderstood something he heard about tree ROOTS causing problems in their cavern...
    so when an evil Druid conjured up some tree-like monsters, he panicked and fled screaming!

  • @riluri2619
    @riluri2619 Před rokem +1

    Glyphs of warding, holding polymorph on all party members. Multiple on each player char.

  • @ContagiousRepublic
    @ContagiousRepublic Před 11 měsíci +1

    The main plot: the SCP foundation has lost a paperclip and needs it back to prevent cultural influence.
    .........late campaign reveal: the local mad wizard animated it and calls it "clippy". The wizard wasn't mad until recently.

  • @MaxOutOfTen
    @MaxOutOfTen Před rokem +1

    15:50 has to be a reference to the youtuber Grian lol

  • @ZizZap4
    @ZizZap4 Před 11 měsíci

    Whenever there is fog or whenever someone magically creates fog, it is instead a colossal clump of dense pea soup.

  • @MattHew-rq8zw
    @MattHew-rq8zw Před 9 měsíci

    06:39 sounds very reminicent (in name alone, but only that) to: Viva la dirtleague (their CZcams handle). All of these names, reminds me of their Epic NPC stories, and D&D campaigne with semiliar characters! hahaha.... I could be wrong, but it made my day.

  • @LegendStormcrow
    @LegendStormcrow Před 11 měsíci

    The high technology people are the show runners. Poultry man feeds the monsters.

  • @ARViuff
    @ARViuff Před rokem +1

    Rocks fall everyone dies is a very real threat
    as rock storms are sadly common and very very devastating,

  • @robertheinrich2994
    @robertheinrich2994 Před rokem +1

    for the star trek fans (especially, if the DM is a star trek fan... why should just the players be the ones suffering):
    when the players enter a city, or town, or village, they sometimes should encounter children. these children should play a very popular game, where they hop through some squares, and sing a phrase:
    "Allamaraine, count to four,
    Allamaraine, then three more,
    Allamaraine, if you can see,
    Allamaraine, you'll come with me…"
    have fun 😀

  • @mikewithington4755
    @mikewithington4755 Před rokem +1

    Oh I got one.
    Your party comes across a magic amulet that gives resistance to all damage,
    However it is cursed...
    If worn for a day it attaches itself to the wears chest and can't be removed without damaging the character's heart.
    After that the character receives 1 exhaustion level every 7 days they wear it, this exhaustion cannot be removed by normal means. If a character should die from exhaustion while wearing the amulet they become a lich.
    A ritual only known by an underground cult can remove it but they plan on using it on themselves.

    • @Sorain1
      @Sorain1 Před rokem

      Honestly, the idea of the underground cult greeting them with "You want us to take that off? We just want the amulet back, so we will gladly just get it off your friend and we can all go our own ways." when the party expects the usual 'cultists fight to the death' tickles me.

  • @tysondennis1016
    @tysondennis1016 Před 6 měsíci

    The tornado asteroid sounds like a good idea for an plot hook.

  • @vee1267
    @vee1267 Před rokem +1

    I unironically love the “casting couch” idea. Like, does every piece of the couch inherently have those magic properties, or does it only work when all pieces are together? Because if it’s the first option… imagine a party taking a cushion off the couch, putting it on the seat of a wheelbarrow, strapping the wizard into said wheelbarrow, and then facing off against a dragon. The wizard can deal WAY more damage than usual since he won’t burn through his spell slots, but the tradeoff is he has zero independent mobility - obviously a dangerous scenario for a squishy wizard. Basically the party can turn the wizard into a living magical artillery launcher for the duration of the fight.

    • @kyrar.j.4856
      @kyrar.j.4856 Před 11 měsíci +1

      Why not just tie a pillow to each party member? Run around like kids in icy weather padded up to the neck throwing spells like snowballs!

    • @vee1267
      @vee1267 Před 11 měsíci +2

      @@kyrar.j.4856 lmao that’s even better. A bunch of highly-trained warriors charging into battle wearing PILLOW ARMOR!

    • @innocentbystander3317
      @innocentbystander3317 Před 11 měsíci

      ​​@@vee1267
      Cushions against blunt damage?

  • @jamestaylor3805
    @jamestaylor3805 Před 10 měsíci

    The level 5 awaken spell to raise an army of awakened beasts. "Im saving the species" you claim as the relic sloth honor guard push back the naysayers.

  • @hollowblaze2320
    @hollowblaze2320 Před rokem

    I would love to hear more about these things

  • @lathier
    @lathier Před 9 měsíci

    The Llama should wear a hat, be named Carl, and his hunger for human flesh would be mostly for hands and faces

  • @sabliath9148
    @sabliath9148 Před rokem +1

    The party is tasked with investigating the disappearance of a trio of Gnomes in a local village. The villages simply call them the brothers Hawgg, and the Gnomes seemed of accept this nickname. the first of vanish was Davhik 'Thatch' Temblepemble. the next to go missing was Kasmin 'Twig' Deepfern. The people are worried as they've not heard from the third Gnome, Xoybar 'Stone', Broadwander, for several days, and they suspect foul play.
    Some are pointing the finger at the 'Old Witch' that lives out in woods. If the party investigates the woman, they discover she's a harmless old Herbalist. She does mention that someone stole an old supposedly cursed amulet from her. She will tell the party that while the amulet can grant its bearer great strength, if someone were to reverse the effect, the curse would activate.
    Search the homes of the missing Gnomes will reveal that they were most likely attacked by a werewolf. more than that, it appears that unlike the other two, the damage at Xoyvar's house was inflicted from the inside.
    It is eventually revealed that Xoyvar is in fact the werewolf, and that he has additional magical abilities, including a breath weapon that deals magical bludgeoning damage that push people away and deals bonus damage to structures.

  • @MadMax-el2el
    @MadMax-el2el Před 11 měsíci

    5 months of work crafting the opening part of a campaign as a dm it had been my best work yet.
    Player shoots guard in the head point blank in front of the king and court, an hour into a new campaign. Character alignment neutral good.
    Player Reasoning, the guards where threatening us... because they were in the room

  • @raywhitmire2738
    @raywhitmire2738 Před rokem

    I'm gonna have to "borrow" some of these ideas. They're just great.

  • @bidoofapostle8910
    @bidoofapostle8910 Před 11 měsíci

    I've never been in a Mr. Ripper video. Neat.

  • @shaunabbott8078
    @shaunabbott8078 Před rokem +1

    All the characters know they're in a game and under the control of the players. Said characters are cursed to adventure until the players actually finish a campaign.

  • @G-Cole-01
    @G-Cole-01 Před 7 měsíci

    if all of these kick in at once, that poor dude's campaign is going to turn into a post-false-vaccum-decay nightmare where causality doesn't exist

  • @TheNightFalxon
    @TheNightFalxon Před rokem

    Love the viva la dirt league reference.

  • @ProfessorWowa
    @ProfessorWowa Před 6 měsíci

    Was not expecting a Hermitcraft reference at 15:20, @Grian has got to see this, his alter ego turned into a D&D character.

  • @notimportant4329
    @notimportant4329 Před rokem

    Glyph of warding superbomb with genie warlock levels. Load fireball glyphs into a book while using bottled respite. So long as you never take the book more than 10 feet from your medium the glyphs will never be dispelled.

  • @enderskunk7644
    @enderskunk7644 Před rokem +1

    People are convinced that it is extremly healthy to do backflips before bed. Might be true...

  • @alyssavanderklift9296
    @alyssavanderklift9296 Před rokem +1

    one i had in a campaign i ran was an NPC called Peeping Tom, who was the result of player shennenigans during a 'intimate' moment between the Goddess of Death and one of the pc's. (yeah, i allowed romance with npc's in my campaign and one player managed to woo the freaking goddess of death, but ascension to godhood was a part of the campaign's premeise and long term goal.)
    what ended up happening was that the pc went to visit her goddess gf during some downtime aiming toi also get some additional information, once done and aiming to return to the main realm of the world there was an issue (don't recall why been a long time) so her pre-built portal stone wouldn't work. as a result, once she got, quite literally, yeeted back to the realm of the mortals by her divine gf peeping tom was caught in the crossfire as he had attempted to fix the portal stone and got yeeted through as well... as a result he was neither alive nor dead... and not undead. he was forcefully locked into limbo with the ability to change between the realm of the living and the etherial plane (basically free phase shifting) but he had a perpetual 1 hp and rather quickly became the butt of a lot of jokes which usually resulted in him taking damage and turning to dust.
    Why the name? because the pc had not gotten dressed after some 'private' time with the goddess because of a realization of differing time flows but not knowing what the differing aspects are, so rushed back to see what the state of things were... when she came to in the room in the party's mansion where the portal shrine was built, Tom simply reminded her to cover herself... and such by sheer happenstance Peeping Tom was 'born' since he was actually named Tom in life and had no last name due to his low standing.

  • @Lionheart-tu4zs
    @Lionheart-tu4zs Před rokem

    Suddenly hearing a list of epic NPC man names surprised me

  • @williambenz9335
    @williambenz9335 Před 11 měsíci

    15:50 Did not expect Grian to be mentioned but here we are.

  • @lpsjewel
    @lpsjewel Před 8 měsíci +1

    15:53 AHHHHH! WAS NOT EXPECTING A HERMITCRAFT REFENCE HERE!!! POULTRY MAN!!!
    p.s. Hermitcraft is a Minecraft multiplayer series.

  • @DekrosnaArcana
    @DekrosnaArcana Před 3 měsíci

    15:28 ... DAMN IT GRIAN!!! Poultry Man left Hermitcraft and came to D&D.

  • @somegoodsoup7008
    @somegoodsoup7008 Před 10 měsíci

    11:37
    Me a Kirby fan: **HYPERVENTILATES**

  • @zifir4803
    @zifir4803 Před rokem

    All horse is upside down. They work normally, just upside down.

  • @tracidundas2283
    @tracidundas2283 Před rokem

    Plants grow to mature as soon as there planted

  • @ironized
    @ironized Před rokem

    The big bad evil guy is chaotic good but no one realises

  • @danadnauseam
    @danadnauseam Před rokem

    5:10 Look out, there are llamas!

  • @Xecryo
    @Xecryo Před 6 měsíci

    Once your players reach high level and start killing gods start them on the path of "I would like to speak to your manager where they keeping getting pointed to a more powerful god until they eventually come to...the DM in game who is sitting at a table scribbling furiously before crumpling up the paper frustratedly. If the party talks to him he will reveal he's out of ideas and without more the universe will end. If one of the player volunteers to take his place, they become the DM. If they fight the DM he puts up a (performative) fight since he can basically do anything but wants to be free of his burden. Whichever player lands the killing blow becomes the DM. All other characters get reincarnated into whatever the players make next. If no player takes the DM mantle the universe starts to slowly unravel and disappear.

  • @Randy_Racc00n
    @Randy_Racc00n Před rokem +2

    As soon as I heard Poultry Man, I SCREAMED! hermitcraft finds its way into everything, ig!

  • @nabra97
    @nabra97 Před rokem

    10:33 I mean, wood elves can hide in place like that as well. So I guess they would either be a part of the world conspiracy or will fight against it on it's own field.
    14:12 It reminds me of one vulgar post-Soviet joke about the guy who took all the medicine against his impotence, which killed him and made his member to grow forever. It grew through the Earth eventually (he was buried upside down for ethical reasons) and some guys started to make fast food out of it.

  • @pulsefel9210
    @pulsefel9210 Před rokem

    the poultry man bit got me thinking of hermitcraft

  • @ihormelikhov
    @ihormelikhov Před 7 měsíci

    I can smell Viva La Dirt League's NPC DnD series somewhere between the lines 😁
    Bob, Bodger, Baradun and Greg are all the characters of that series 😁

  • @WMFawn
    @WMFawn Před rokem

    I WASNT READY FOR THE FUCKING POULTRY MAN REFERENCE

  • @the_multus
    @the_multus Před rokem

    Such a cool reference to the Viva La Dirt League!

  • @BassGSothertype
    @BassGSothertype Před rokem

    Oh, the duck is a Fangbone reference, the Duck of Always!!!!

  • @Slavecutter
    @Slavecutter Před 11 měsíci

    Not so much world destruction but more of a ... Sidequest. Have the party encounter a dormant gateway marked with Halaster's rune (Arcane check dc18). When (not if) they go through it the roll a d20 and they end up on that level of Undermountain.
    (If Halaster takes pity on them, they might get sent back).

  • @williamsrdan
    @williamsrdan Před rokem

    A dungeon portal transports the party to the Plane Of Cute.... They are met by Care Bear guards, riding My Little Ponies, and taken to King Elmo. The city looks like Candy Land. And all maner of other supposedly cute things that would make one vomit... (This actually happened in a game in college, some 18 years ago)

  • @BassGSothertype
    @BassGSothertype Před rokem

    I like the one where the Npc sees the players

  • @jamesherndon5258
    @jamesherndon5258 Před rokem

    whatever happens to the minature happens in game (i.e. miniature gets hit with a dice and falls over character is now prone and takes 1d6 damage for getting hit with a giant rock, pet jumps on the table and knock miniature all over the place, new boss fight has started, and characters get blown to wherever their miniature ends up)

  • @RensStoryteller
    @RensStoryteller Před 11 měsíci +1

    15:27 GRIAN!!!

  • @starblast16
    @starblast16 Před 10 měsíci

    11:37 Morpho Knight, is that you?

  • @princealigorna7468
    @princealigorna7468 Před rokem

    I thought Poultry Man was going to be Richard from Hotline Miami at first. I think that would be cool. Every time the party is about to do something stupid, there's a man in a rooster mask and a letter man's jacket and a club waiting to warn them off. The party obviously doesn't have to listen to him, but they'll regret not doing so in the long run

    • @antman4513
      @antman4513 Před rokem

      Poultry man is a reference to the Minecraft CZcamsr Grian

    • @needoriginalname
      @needoriginalname Před rokem

      ​@@antman4513I was going to mention that too

  • @yootto5085
    @yootto5085 Před 11 měsíci

    Ah, yes, i have a story. I was de DM.
    The party managed to catch a big cart with a cage on it in which were 30 or so war prisoners. They dispatched the soilders transporting the people and then, after taking everything from the corpses, decided to burn them all. Prisoners included. Alive prisoners with children and elderly included.
    The others watched and didn't try to impede it. One PC who was away at the moment, when he knew what happened, abandoned the party and went to report them to the authorities, which recruited him temporarily to help catch those criminals.
    The campaign turned into a persecution and in the end they had a fight which the law won. They were all executed and the PC who helped capture them was given a place in the military police to help capture more dangerous criminals.

  • @shinobiighost6946
    @shinobiighost6946 Před rokem

    I had a humanoid thing follow my players through the mountains, it's job was to constantly yell for help from a high place and lure the players over. When they approach it continues to yell help while standing almost perfectly still and oblivious to their approach.
    Players said "NOPE" and skipped sleep through the wilderness to get away from it.

  • @mrmannsalt2444
    @mrmannsalt2444 Před 7 měsíci

    Depressed dragon who wishes to be left alone but is almost constantly under attack by mercenaries

  • @tylerlarson1037
    @tylerlarson1037 Před rokem

    Speaking of "Deck of Many Things", has anyone ever tried to do a "swicheroo" with said deck and a real one in a casino before? Or even a taro deck owned by a fortune teller? Just an evil thought.

  • @robertpowell1464
    @robertpowell1464 Před rokem

    All cheese becomes sentient when subjected to magic and all seek to return to their lord Sheogorath, master of all cheese. The catch? They can only communicate telpathically and can't do anything.

  • @BluMNBafnGaming
    @BluMNBafnGaming Před rokem

    The bard is a sentient potato and when the big bad threatens the potato bard with a fire ball the bard uses viscous mockery and says you don’t have the heat to bake this spud ya over grown hairy raddish

  • @Dr.Callaham
    @Dr.Callaham Před rokem

    Lol i know what 15:30 reffers to, and i love it

  • @RequiemWraith
    @RequiemWraith Před rokem

    I'd have no difficulty with the dice one, I don't roll rice, I just simply drop them into a dice tower. This is simple enough to do with either hand 😅

  • @mackinzeystassen2251
    @mackinzeystassen2251 Před 6 měsíci

    Well as long as they have good canning or pickling skills they won't be without food you just have to wait patiently for the poultry man to summon very many chickens and pickle or can the chickens

  • @user-gc8qv9gr2b
    @user-gc8qv9gr2b Před 11 měsíci

    Idk if this counts, but maybe a character being such a nerd and wanting to improve SO much that they learn everything they possibly can (in game) and possibly become semi op via learning a bunch of proficiencies or something

  • @Tototoron
    @Tototoron Před rokem

    Female Dragonborn ovulate unfertalized eggs when it’s “that time of the month”. When they do, these eggs can be used as a projectile with a 20/60 range and on a hit, break dealing 3d4 of whatever damage type is associated to the Dragonborn’s breath weapon in a 5 foot radius. The egg can also be cooked into a meal with a DC20 cooks utensils skill check. The egg can feed up to 4 humanoids and grant them a 1 time use of the Dragonborn’s breath weapon at the Dragonborn’s current level. This use disappears when used or after 4 hours have passed since eating the egg. If the cook fails the check to cook the egg properly, it instead explodes

  • @Hungry_Raccoon_
    @Hungry_Raccoon_ Před rokem

    I destroyed my campaign by blowing up the heart of a dragon which destroyed the world and irreversibly changed the world forever, it got so hot that the fire immune found it uncomfortable and left.