Jim Butcher stated that the Codex Alera series came about from a challenge of a friend. They had been discussing the concept of taking bad ideas and making them into good novels through presentation and writing. This individual challenged Butcher to write a good novel from a bad idea. Butcher upped the ante and asked for two bad ideas, and these were the results: the Lost Roman Legion and Pokemon. Taking these two ideas, Butcher crafted the "Furies of Calderon".
Therefore, I ask for the same challenge. Give me two bad ideas, and I will craft a homebrew setting from it. I will pick the "best", bad ideas from you guys...
marmite fizzy drink and drug-addicted skeletons in surfer outfits
Imagine the movie poster of a skeleton in a loud shirt on a surfboard, riding a wave and drinking some strange noxious brew in a glass with an umbrella in it:
Attack of the Undead Marmaid-Drinking Surfers!Damn, it won't leave my brain now ...
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marmite fizzy drink and drug-addicted skeletons in surfer outfitsImagine the movie poster of a skeleton in a loud shirt on a surfboard, riding a wave and drinking some strange noxious brew in a glass with an umbrella in it:
Attack of the Undead Marmaid-Drinking Surfers!Damn, it won't leave my brain now ...
then my job is done
1. Santa Claus IS actually a Greater Lord of the Planes Infernal
2. Smurfs
or
1. Orc flatulence as plague cure
2. LOLcats
or
1. King determined by arm-wrestling tournament
2. the bermuda triangle
Hey! My icon! AHhahahahahahahaaaa!
Is there a difference between two bad ideas and two abyssal ideas? Wow...I don't know where to start! However, I did lay down the challenge, so I have to follow through with it to the end.
I have got to say that the best "bad" ideas so far are ulgulanoth's "marmite fizzy drink and drug-addicted skeletons in surfer outfits", then maybe Kenderkin's "Teletubbies meets Ravenloft", and downrightamazed's "Santa Claus IS actually a Greater Lord of the Planes Infernal and The Smurfs".
Right now it's hard to pick, so keep the bad ideas coming. Alexander Kilcoyne, thos are actually two good ideas, so I can't use them for this challenge...
"Teletubbies Meets Ravenloft" is downright frightening. After all, it has in a way already been done but with a talking doll called Chuckie ...
Is there a difference between two bad ideas and two abyssal ideas? Wow...I don't know where to start! However, I did lay down the challenge, so I have to follow through with it to the end.
I have got to say that the best "bad" ideas so far are ulgulanoth's "marmite fizzy drink and drug-addicted skeletons in surfer outfits", then maybe Kenderkin's "Teletubbies meets Ravenloft", and downrightamazed's "Santa Claus IS actually a Greater Lord of the Planes Infernal and The Smurfs".
Right now it's hard to pick, so keep the bad ideas coming. Alexander Kilcoyne, those are actually two good ideas, so I can't use them for this challenge...
Why was I turned into a Smurf? Was that a sign?
1. King determined by arm-wrestling tournament
2. the bermuda triangle
Only if the current king is based after Sylvester Stallon.
I think I get it now. I probably won't turn into a Sm*** as long as I don't write the word Sm*** in this post. I think that The Sm**** could be one of the "bad" ideas...maybe not. I am looking for those two, bad ideas that will knock me on my a**!
Forum troll, Daycare
Wait, what meaning of "bad" are we talking about here? I don't see how either the Lost Roman Legion or Pokémon are necessarily bad ideas for what they are. Do the two ideas each have to be bad alone, or do they only have to be bad together?
Interesting question...you are right that the Lost Roman Legion and Pokémon are by themselves not "bad", but they become bad when put together. So it's like ketchup and ice cream being put together or jelly and bacon...
Shout out to Mr. Fishy and StabbittyDoom...
Call of Cthulhu and Looney tunes...
A campaing were skeletons speak like in Army of Darkness.
A campaing based on the D&D cartoon.
A campaing based on the D&D movies.
Call of Cthulhu and Looney tunes...interesting.
Cool on Army of Darkness and the D&D Cartoon...
HOWEVER, the D&D movie, which I paid to see, was beyond bad, it was insulting, it felt like the movie was reaching out and slapping me. I can't bring myself to think about it for too long...
Smurfs!!!
Call of Cthulhu and Looney tunes...interesting.
Cool on Army of Darkness and the D&D Cartoon...
HOWEVER, the D&D movie, which I paid to see, was beyond bad, it was insulting, it felt like the movie was reaching out and slapping me. I can't bring myself to think about it for too long...
Smurfs!!!
Did you see the sequel ?
Because they really made a sequel, you know...
EDIT : Great, I'm the smurfette now.
A campaing where the GM is an actual in-game being, and the PCs need to defeat him. To do so, they will have to exploit and bend (or even break) the rules a lot. ;)
A mind bogglingly badassed bad guy dude who is all powerful and hellbent on destroying or subjugating all life on the world...but needs a tiny ass 2000 gp item to do so...
World where the characters are actually the alter egos of pre teen children who acidentally get there via a magic portal in a piece of furniture (one of which is really into older creepy chicks). This world can also be a metaphor for a major world religion.
Aaaaand...GO!
I have noted your bad ideas Mikaze, Kryzbyn, Maerimydra, all very bad ideas...thank you. Once again, I will say Smurfs so I turn into a Sm
Wait, what meaning of "bad" are we talking about here? I don't see how either the Lost Roman Legion or Pokémon are necessarily bad ideas for what they are. Do the two ideas each have to be bad alone, or do they only have to be bad together?Interesting question...you are right that the Lost Roman Legion and Pokémon are by themselves not "bad", but they become bad when put together. So it's like ketchup and ice cream being put together or jelly and bacon...
Jelly and bacon are delicious together
The sun is sentient and has fallen in love with a white dragon.
Barney the Dinosaur is elected dictator of the world.
smurf?
My last one :
One of the PC is like Kenny in South Park. Every time he dies, he just come back alive at the beginning of the next game session, and nobody remembers that he died. :)
Smurf !
I have noted your bad ideas Mikaze, Kryzbyn, Maerimydra, all very bad ideas...thank you. Once again, I will say Smurfs so I turn into a Sm
SO you're gonna combine Lord of the rings and Narnia? KICK ASS!
Smurf.
Count me in the camp that thinks it slightly odd that "Pokemon" and "Lost Roman Legion" - both concepts that have made large sums of money from mass appeal - should be considered bad ideas, and thus see the question in terms of "bad idea together, perhaps, or at least highly incongruent at fist glance..."
In that spirit:
(1) The Mongol Invasion of China
(2) Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears.
EDIT: (And I'm already blue, so I don't feel the need to S***F out...)
Oh yeah!?!
Garbagepail Kids...
and
Krull.
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Jim Butcher stated that the Codex Alera series came about from a challenge of a friend. They had been discussing the concept of taking bad ideas and making them into good novels through presentation and writing. This individual challenged Butcher to write a good novel from a bad idea. Butcher upped the ante and asked for two bad ideas, and these were the results: the Lost Roman Legion and Pokemon. Taking these two ideas, Butcher crafted the "Furies of Calderon".
Therefore, I ask for the same challenge. Give me two bad ideas, and I will craft a homebrew setting from it. I will pick the "best", bad ideas from you guys...
Actually I think Butcher said he could take two clichéd ideas and turn them into something unique and cool. Clichéd ideas might have some merit, bad ideas are just bad. I might be wrong, memory is fallible.
My last one :
One of the PC is like Kenny in South Park. Every time he dies, he just come back alive at the beginning of the next game session, and nobody remembers that he died. :)
This was already made awesome in Planescape: Torment.
Edit: w00t! It's only $10 if you haven't played it.
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Actually I think Butcher said he could take two clichéd ideas and turn them into something unique and cool. Clichéd ideas might have some merit, bad ideas are just bad. I might be wrong, memory is fallible.Jim Butcher stated that the Codex Alera series came about from a challenge of a friend. They had been discussing the concept of taking bad ideas and making them into good novels through presentation and writing. This individual challenged Butcher to write a good novel from a bad idea. Butcher upped the ante and asked for two bad ideas, and these were the results: the Lost Roman Legion and Pokemon. Taking these two ideas, Butcher crafted the "Furies of Calderon".
Therefore, I ask for the same challenge. Give me two bad ideas, and I will craft a homebrew setting from it. I will pick the "best", bad ideas from you guys...
Pop Singers have Superpowers (other singers don't, it's based on popularity or similarity to popular music)
Cult attempting to summon elder evil
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My last one :
One of the PC is like Kenny in South Park. Every time he dies, he just come back alive at the beginning of the next game session, and nobody remembers that he died. :)
This was already made awesome in Planescape: Torment.
Edit: w00t! It's only $10 if you haven't played it.
Holy crap, great game! ^.^
"Adahn"
My last one :
One of the PC is like Kenny in South Park. Every time he dies, he just come back alive at the beginning of the next game session, and nobody remembers that he died. :)
This was already made awesome in Planescape: Torment.
Edit: w00t! It's only $10 if you haven't played it.
I tried to play it, but because of the lack of diversity (you can only play a fighter, a rogue or a wizard, and you have to put all your points in wisdom), I just ended re-playing Baldur's Gate again. I know I'll probably burn in the gamer's Hell for this. :P
Maybe I'll give it another shot after completing The Witcher. :D
Oh yeah!?!
Garbagepail Kids...
and
Krull.
I actually saw Krull in a movie theater when it first came out. It's a B movie, not very good, but it had cool things in it. For example, The Beast lived in a fortress that went to a different place everyday, the Cyclops were tall, not giant, but they could see when they would die. It was very cool for a kid too see...Liam Neeson was in it too.
The good aligned deities are all names after pharmaceuticals, i.e. Avodart the Just, Claritin the Pure, Viagra the Bold, etc.
All of the elder evils are named after STDs.
Credit Default Swaps
and
Snuggies
Okay, I have two boxes of ideas, most of them lame. Let's see what I can find for you:
Card 1, from the left box, has: Fiddlers on the Roof, except these are literal fiddlers who are literally fiddling on literal rooftops.
Card 2, from the right box, has: A monster with a large tail, except that instead of a tail, has kind of a centaur-woman thing going on where her hips grow out of the tail at some point.
Do you want something weirder?
Jim Butcher stated that the Codex Alera series came about from a challenge of a friend. They had been discussing the concept of taking bad ideas and making them into good novels through presentation and writing. This individual challenged Butcher to write a good novel from a bad idea. Butcher upped the ante and asked for two bad ideas, and these were the results: the Lost Roman Legion and Pokemon. Taking these two ideas, Butcher crafted the "Furies of Calderon".
Therefore, I ask for the same challenge. Give me two bad ideas, and I will craft a homebrew setting from it. I will pick the "best", bad ideas from you guys...
To get in the spirit of things, how about if I take a pair of ideas that you don't. Others can pick other pairs of ideas. Et so on.