So, my GM style is pretty silly. I like to run the ridiculous. There is seriousness in the campaign, but on the whole it's generally an "Anything could happen here" situation and I've had good feedback from my players. I really only GM on occasion (like at Conventions), so I end up being the "I'm tired of all the serious campaigns I've played in, comic relief time!"
Well, being funny isn't as easy as it seems. I think I do a fair job, but who can't use more ideas? So, here's your chance! I want to hear the silliest ideas, traps, magical items, etc that you can come up with. I don't care if it's something you just thought up or if it's something you actually pulled on players before. Let's hear it!
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In my game they have this switch, they roll a 1d25 and what happens changes on the switch. Most of the rolls teleport them. Roll a 1 and all their gear disappears. When they stitch it back which usually reverses the teleportation, it instead creates a shovel and grants them the knowledge that their gear is now five feet below them.
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a quartet of adolescent kappa trained as in ninjutsu by a wererat.
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I recommend something along the lines of "Finding Charlie" wherein an old woman tells the PCs her grandson Charlie was playing adventurer in some caves, and she thinks he might need help.
Lucky7,
That's hilarious.
Rapthorn2ndform,
I have no idea what that means.
Ruske Bell,
Nice! Make them work for it!
One module I've written for a Convention one shot has an encounter that is basically just one giant brawl between the PCs. It makes all weapons disappear and all knowledge of offensive spells (spells that actually do lethal damage) forgotten for the time being. It looks like it's going to be pretty funny to watch (as GM) and to play for the players.
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Idea #2: Alcohol rots instead of ferments. The PCs, with unusually high bar tabs, are sent to figure out why. It's all the plot of some bumbling wizard with a convoluted plot to rule the land by using an incredibly powerful artifact he has no idea how to use (think Dr. Doofenshmirtz)
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The guild of clowns has been taken over by a demonic entity. This has both goofball moments but also plays on the fear of clowns so many of us have.
Custard pie inna face traps, but the base has spikes hidden by the custard.
Bucket on the door trick, filled with acid.
Electric buzzer hand shakers.
Squirty flowers as special attacks from possessed clowns
Overly large feet for slam attacks
Cursed hats that won't stay on your head and keep blowing just out of your reach as you go to pick them up, but you need it to get past the stretchy mirrored corridor.
Stretchy mirrors in the corridor summon clones of the players with distorted features they have to fight, unless they can catch the cursed hat.
Final boss fight in a three ring tent with tumbling clowns as minions, and the main demon as the circus master.
Weird I know, but it might work.
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The guild of clowns has been taken over by a demonic entity. This has both goofball moments but also plays on the fear of clowns so many of us have.
Final boss fight in a three ring tent with tumbling clowns as minions, and the main demon as the circus master.
Weird I know, but it might work.
I just keep picturing Killer Klowns from Outerspace
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An encounter that is nothing but Goblins with the Roll With It feat.
I just keep picturing Killer Klowns from OuterspaceThe guild of clowns has been taken over by a demonic entity. This has both goofball moments but also plays on the fear of clowns so many of us have.
Final boss fight in a three ring tent with tumbling clowns as minions, and the main demon as the circus master.
Weird I know, but it might work.
I was just thinking about making a Circus. Not sure how to fit my BBEG into the circus though. But I might be able to think of something. She is rather crazy...
I mean, the BBEG just put the PCs through an arena of sin, why not a circus of something else.... Hmm... that has potential...
I was just thinking about making a Circus. Not sure how to fit my BBEG into the circus though. But I might be able to think of something. She is rather crazy...I just keep picturing Killer Klowns from OuterspaceThe guild of clowns has been taken over by a demonic entity. This has both goofball moments but also plays on the fear of clowns so many of us have.
Final boss fight in a three ring tent with tumbling clowns as minions, and the main demon as the circus master.
Weird I know, but it might work.
As a breather from the heavy storyline of the main game I once ran my PCs against a Halfling, Gnome, & Goblin Circus with a Giantkin(Homebrewed Race) Ringmaster with the Bard Class. Needless to say I think one of them still has nightmares about Goblin Clowns.
"Dungeon" magazine had many silly moments. The matter was discussed in the following thread:
Witty Dungeon Magazine Adventure?
On a more personal note, back in the 1980s, during the first truly successful campaign I ever ran, in BECMI, I wrote an adventure right after the cleric, during promotion, picked up a "Speak With Animal" spell. The party investigated mysterious killings in a castle, found a hidden network of tunnels accessed by secret doors, and tracked down the monster that had killed people in the castle. The party could have chosen to fight and kill the monster, and the adventure would have proceeded just fine. Instead, however, the cleric did what I had hoped he would do by using the "Speak With Animal" spell to talk to the monster, finding out that the monster was just an animal, forced to kill by the REAL main villain of the adventure, who starved the animal to keep it killing. The party brought the animal out to the main part of the castle, and upon seeing the kitchens, the animal charged into the food, sending the pots flying and the cooks running and screaming.
The player laughed, and much later mentioned that as a favorite moment.
As a breather from the heavy storyline of the main game I once ran my PCs against a Halfling, Gnome, & Goblin Circus with a Giantkin(Homebrewed Race) Ringmaster with the Bard Class. Needless to say I think one of them still has nightmares about Goblin Clowns.
As a breather from the heavy storyline of the main game I once ran my PCs against a Halfling, Gnome, & Goblin Circus with a Giantkin(Homebrewed Race) Ringmaster with the Bard Class. Needless to say I think one of them still has nightmares about Goblin Clowns.I reiterate, clowns are evil.
Yes, I suppose they are. :)
So the adventure I'm working on is going to have a circus, the encounters will be like different circus tents randomly chosen. I'm using the cards (Physical cards) from a deck of many things to do the choosing and the encounters are based on the Major Arcana from the Tarot. Now, here's the trick, I want these to be more than just hack and slash (Although a couple of those will do as well) but they need to have some silly aspects to them. What I'm having trouble doing is thinking up carnival events for the encounters. The only one I can think of is the strongman :P So, any ideas are welcome :)
I used once in my game group of npc adventurers, who were extorting money from people.
The pc rogue decided to steal a pouch from their stupid fighter and got pouch full of dust and ashes. When he found out that other group needed money to resurrect their own rogue, he returned the pouch to its righteous owner, after he had mixed it with bit of garbage. Much later, he heard story of group of adventurers, whose rogue was now called Ed Fishfinger.
Thanks, All good suggestions.
Cnetarian,
I really like the Moon, Chariot and the Hermit. I think I may just use those. :) Possibly the Wheel of Fortune to, with a few ridiculous things thrown in because my game is silly. :)
Bunnyboy,
Heh, silly rogue.
Also an enchanted weapon-example fire blade. Any mention of it's property
i.e warm day,I'm burning up etc. causes it to build up energy.PC's must b
be careful about what they say. Hope this helps,Happy Gaming M
Love this. Stealing. :) Thanks!