I hereby challenge Paizo's authors to prove the nay-sayers wrong. Write the zaniest, funniest adventure you can! Are you going to let yourselves be typecast? Sure... you can be sick and dark and have a screw loose, but can you be screwy too?
What DM couldn't use a side quest or a standalone module that showcases the lighter side of life? Since when is there no place for farce, slapstick comedy, and the ribald in DnD? I think there's a market here. Who's with me?
Inspired by "Is Pathfinder too dark?"
What do you want it to be like?
Want new feats for all classes, like Improved Pun? The exotic weapon "slap stick"?
Enemy robots being dis-arm-ed and de-feet-ed?
A dungeon full of traps that put custard down your trousers, spill whitewash on you, distract you and then put a "I'm a random encounter, kill me for gold and xp" sign onto your back?
Rules for insult fencing?
Instead of character hooks, have their favourite jokes in the stat blocks?
What, Logue can't think up ideas without our help now? (kidding...)
Anyway, the sky's the limit for zaniness:
Perhaps the show must go on, despite a disgruntled ghost's determined efforts to stop this terrible play!
Perhaps the PCs have to help love-sick but incompetent nobles pitch their woo!
Perhaps a love spell has gone awry and it's raining men, Hallelujah!
Perhaps the party gets kidnapped by fey to represent mortals in their Funlympics!
Perhaps drunk wizards get together to invent the Owlbear 2.0 and they must be stopped! Or maybe it's a purple bag of tricks!
Who knows? Who. Knows.
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I like the Owlbear 2.0 idea...trying to fix the mistake causes an even bigger mistake. and I did the whole Cyrano vibe too.
here's a Zany Idea i've been working on: perhaps a family has been cursed to be Were-Coyotes and the only way to break the curse is to catch a Were-Roadrunner while transformed. therefore the town is split by the two families, hostile during the day, and during a full moon it's outright pandemonium. throw as many bad puns and hilarious weaponry in there, involving at least, but not limited two, two pie shops and a cakery. anything to catch a were-roadrunner. and the players just happen to be spending the night, the day of the latest full moon.
What, Logue can't think up ideas without our help now? (kidding...)
Of course he can. But his sort of humour's probably not what we want for this.
I hear he was laughing the whole time while he wrote Hook Mountain. ;-)
He was recently asked what his favourite comedy was in recent years, and he couldn't decide between Saw 2 and 3. :D
What, Logue can't think up ideas without our help now? (kidding...)Of course he can. But his sort of humour's probably not what we want for this.
I hear he was laughing the whole time while he wrote Hook Mountain. ;-)
He was recently asked what his favourite comedy was in recent years, and he couldn't decide between Saw 2 and 3. :D
Whoa. Nasty! Randal, you're mad. And schitzo.
What, Logue can't think up ideas without our help now? (kidding...)Of course he can. But his sort of humour's probably not what we want for this.
I hear he was laughing the whole time while he wrote Hook Mountain. ;-)
He was recently asked what his favourite comedy was in recent years, and he couldn't decide between Saw 2 and 3. :D
Nice one!
What, Logue can't think up ideas without our help now? (kidding...)
Anyway, the sky's the limit for zaniness:
Perhaps the show must go on, despite a disgruntled ghost's determined efforts to stop this terrible play!
Perhaps the PCs have to help love-sick but incompetent nobles pitch their woo!
Perhaps a love spell has gone awry and it's raining men, Hallelujah!
Perhaps the party gets kidnapped by fey to represent mortals in their Funlympics!
Perhaps drunk wizards get together to invent the Owlbear 2.0 and they must be stopped! Or maybe it's a purple bag of tricks!
Who knows? Who. Knows.
I stole this from somewhere and can't remember where exactly, but I have only one word for you....ORCTOBERFEST!!!
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I don't really have anything to add to this one, except to say I really like the idea of some off the wall and un-serious adventure that accomplishes nothing but to get a lot of laughs. There's always the idea of the ubber-wizard who just has one too many screws go loose and decides to make a dungeon filled with cream pie traps, pits of pudding(edible kind, not the killer ones), and the only way he will let you win is if you can beat his best creation in a snow ball fight, then we will stop sending out his rubber-band made and sized golems out into the country side to trip, shoot paper wasps, and mess with people's lives. I don't know what any of that means that I just said, but it made me gaffaw, so I like it.
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Some day I do hope to do a zany, humor-filled adventure... but the main thing working against this is the fact that humor is just hands-down a harder genre to write well than pretty much any other genre. It's easy to do a pun-filled adventure that's self-depreciating or self-mocking, or one that's filled with anachronistic jokes or meta-humor, and I'm not interested in publishing anything that relies on that kind of humor.
We've published a few comedic adventures in Dungeon, though; check out "The Menagerie" or "The Devil Box" for examples of the kind of humor you can expect to see in a zany adventure if we ever do one...
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Some day I do hope to do a zany, humor-filled adventure... but the main thing working against this is the fact that humor is just hands-down a harder genre to write well than pretty much any other genre.
You'll not have to look further than PF#2's editorial to find a recommendation for a very talented writer who has already proven that he can deliver such adventures.
;)