#bad rpg ideas

[slymewitch]

DND IDEA

So its a regular dnd campaign but every dungeon is a separate board game that you must play with the rest of your party completely in character. And to preserve dnd gameplay, you can use skill checks to do things in the games you normally couldn't. Want some extra money from the bank? Roll sleight of hand to steal an extra 500. Rolled a nat 1? Go to jail.

#bad rpg ideas

[parsnip-problems]

Dnd idea:

Make your world have had an ancient wizard named Geneva 

Have that wizard commit horrible acts of war and violence in ages past

The world had a convention to deal with the atrocities committed by Geneva

They made a set of rules of engagement based on the wizards actions

Set of rules is called “The Geneva Convention”

#dimension 20 #dungeons and dragons #ttrpg #brennan lee mulligan #dnd #ttrpg community #wizard #dropout #bad rpg ideas #critical role #funny

[a-nerdy-bi-idiot]

So, I played in a oneshot with a few friends. Set in a modern setting with a lot of fantasy elements. One of the races in the setting are Men In Black, which are basically an alien insectoid species that look specifically like a human in a suit so they can infiltrate the government.

My character was a one of these 'Men In Black', and my entire backstory was that he failed to join an office / government job. So he got a job as a construction worker, and got a drinking problem because he's sad. Also he's is awful at pretending to be human.

The entire oneshot was: Me (M.I.B. Drunken Master Monk), some War-forged Warlock, and a random Human Bard. We were all invited to a giant building in the woods. It turned out it was a cult. The War-forged was there to be an actual viewer (he didn't know what he was getting into), The bard was just a random comedian they hired, and I was the "Human" Sacrifice.

It ended with a fight against a demon that had a specific attack to break your spine (Bane vs Batman style), that like halved your Speed Dex and Str... After it already hit me... The DM realized that it specifically doesn't effect creatures without a normal skeleton...

I got snapped like a kitkat bar, then got back up like nothing was wrong.

And the best part? I named my character:

Mike Harrictor

#d&d 5e #cryptid #homebrew #d&d #bad rpg ideas #dungeons and dragons

[littjara-compleated-sage]

Bad D&D character concept: the Silvery Barb.

Silver dragonborn barbarian who does great control and disruption... by punching enemies really hard whenever they try anything. They also boost ally morale and rolls by flexing.

#theyre a mono blue barbarian and love saying 'in response' #bad rpg ideas #dnd #dnd 5e #silvery barbs #barbarian #dragonborn

[azzydoesstuff]

video game / dnd item idea: a magical top hat that when you stick your hand in it, you'll pull out a completely random item to "aid you" in battle. and when i say "completely random item", i don't mean a random item form the game, i mean a COMPLETELY random item. for all you know, when you stick your hand in there, you could pull out:

a stick

a massive katana

a nokia phone

a stick, with a lawnmower on it

a comically large spoon

an MP5 rifle

a nuclear bomb

a staff that launches anyone it hits 5 kilometers into the air

a stick, with a nuclear bomb on it

a frog on a leash

a comically large fork

a cat

a sniper rifle so absolutely massive it wouldn't even be worth it to try and use it

a grenade

a granola bar

an apple

a gravity-defying pineapple

a large battle hammer

a comically large knife

a tiny little bouncy ball

a taser

a shotgun that shoots airpods

a mace made out of rotting flesh with a gaping hungry maw on the front which can devour the corpses of your enemies, adding to the mass of the weapon and enhancing its power

a small white dove

a lamp

an anvil and a propane tank

a water bottle

a biscuit that's really really dry

an energy drink

a suitcase

literally fucking spy from tf2

ANOTHER FUCKING MAGICAL TOP HAT THAT PULLS OUT RANDOM ITEMS

#shitpost #shitposting #bad rpg ideas #bad rpg idea #bad item ideas #bad item idea #item asylum #hahaha... you foole!!! this post was about item asylum all along!!! get item asylummed idiot #the top hat itself isn't in item asylum though #BUT STILL MUAHAHAHAHA

[quinnyyyleft]

DM Tip - Feel around for what your players like to do, and just *lean* into it. Example? My players have a tendency of adopting everything and exploiting them - they now have a small orphan boy, a baby dragon, a bear, a cat, a drake and a hawk. All of which they forget they have but love very much.

#dungeons and dragons #lol #being a dm #cant make this shit up #out of context stuff #brennan lee mulligan #critical role #dying inside #bad dnd ideas #bad rpg ideas #Pets

[renaissancewoodsman]

Bad RPG Idea: Make characters in the most "Just a Guy" system you have handy. Halfway into session one, you are all hit by a truck.

You get isekai'd into a world that operates on a new game system. Your character sheet does not update to match, but you can level up using the new game systems. Just tape two levels of 5e Ranger to the bottom of your call of cthulu detective, or whatever.

If you die again, and you will, you get shuffled on to the next system. If you're playing in a group, the truck comes outta nowhere and kills all your other party members (Don't want to split the party now).

#rpg #d&d #ttrpg #isekai #bad rpg ideas

[the-gnomish-bastard]

Bad dnd character idea: a bard that took one level in wizard for the sole reason of being able to call himself a wizard. Because of this, he now calls himself the Rizzard. All of his party hate him for it.

He also just gaslights his enemies into thinking he’s a high level wizard. He’ll cast something like mage hand, but then try and convince everyone that it was Bigby’s Hand

#dumb shit #dumbass #shitpost #humor #unmatched stupidity #comedy #funny #i dont fucking know #dnd #dnd5e #d&d character #D&D #dungeons and dragons #bad rpg ideas

[guybitesatgames]

Following the death of the queen, a vampire tries to stake a claim in the royal bloodline because they drank all the prince's blood.

#bad rpg ideas #Vampire #Pathfinder #ttrpg #dnd

[boredomspecialist]

imagine fighting a dragon because it kept stealing stuff from towns but realising that the dragon has no idea of what's worth so it kept collecting comics and math tests became it thought those were magic scrolls

#d&d #dnd #dungeons and dragons #bad rpg ideas

[cipheramnesia]

Here's my pitch for the dumbest ever TTRPG module called "The Fantastic Journey: Battle for the Heart of Colossus."

The premise of the story is that your characters must stop a truly enormous rampaging giant mechanoid, orders of magnitude bigger than your average skyscrapers, large enough to constitute a small moon. The only problem is that the robot is inhabited. It's a mechanical colony ship which, in the longstanding traditional scifi trope, went off course.

The inhabitants have long since forgotten they are inside a ship / robot, and largely unaware of the destruction it is wreaking across the galaxy. Attacking it from the outside causes dozens of injuries, maybe deaths. You, the players aren't sure how many or how bad. The only thing you know is this: if you try to destroy it, millions will die, but if you don't, billions of others will die.

Your quest is to find your way inside the giant, and make your way through potentially dozens of varying alien cultures and geographies, to defeat a giant robot in the only way you can: speed running the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy, in space, in a giant robot.

#ttrpg #my writing #i guess #bad rpg ideas

[samuriadi-unfiltered]

a dating sim where everyone is a bazooka

a rpg rpg

#bad rpg ideas #rpg #bazooka #soul eater #boyfriend dungeon

[freck-water]

Instead of asking your players what setting they want to have a campaign in, ask what accents they want to attempt (and brutally slaughter).

My players said they wanted to do southern. Wild West here we come

#dnd #dungeons and dragons #mid dnd ideas #bad dnd ideas #bad rpg ideas #cowboy

[3d34-2]

#osmosis jones #fantastic voyage #probably bad ideas #bad d&d ideas that are actually great #bad rpg ideas #ttrpg #d&d #dungeons and dragons #d&d memes #ttrpg memes #ad&d 1e #old school renaissance #osr #ad&d #ttrpg community #fantasy roleplay

[thedownfallofamerica]

A dnd party that’s actually just the characters from scooby doo

#scooby doo #scooby gang #dnd stuff #dnd #dungeons and dragons #dnd ideas #rpg idea #bad rpg ideas

[miathebottom]

DnD a Chaotic evil warlock trying to make a deal with a devil or something, but he fucks up and makes a pact with an angel. The angel gives him power, but in exchange he can never do anything the angel deems unfitting of her servant. When he is about to make a bad decision he sees a vision of the angel just staring at him not with anger but with disapproval with their arms crossed. He's constantly annoyed but can't punt the child like he wants to. Idk why but I think that would be a fun Character to play.

*a child comes up and asks for some food*

*he's about to give the child a rotten applez then looks past the kid to see the angel staring at him shaking her head slowly. He groans and mumbles obscenities under his breath before giving the child his last fresh ripe apple. He's incredibly pissed but he wants his spell slots more*

#dnd #dnd character #bad rpg ideas