King In Red |
Hello everyone, I've come up with a nice idea to bring a group of novice players in Pathfinder with a comic relief adventure.
A funny adventure game in the style of "The Order of the Stick" or "The Gamers" or "Discworld", in short a comic fantasy.
I was thinking crazy evil unicorns vs. kobolds, goblins ninja and more.
Do you have some suggestions or advice?
Some crazy, funny, weird encounters?
Jericho Graves |
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Honestly, my favorite funny encounter was from an old free Wizards of the Coast module. It was a level 2 adventure called "Something's Cooking."
The premise behind the module was that two people, a master female chef and a male wizard who had love of a good meal decided to settle down together. They would bake and experiment and just enjoy life. Then one of their experiments went crazy.
A calzone golem.
Yeah, a calzone golem. Referred to by my players as the "Walking HotPocket"
I don't know where the link to the adventure is anymore, but if you PM I can upload or email it somewhere.
Delarrin |
We had a lot of fun with a t-rex ninja, and grizzly bears with chainsaws.
I went through an "everything's a sorcerer" phase, too, with a cult of kobolds worshiping a powerful draconic druid, who turned out to just be a dire black bear with the Verdant and Elemental (fire) bloodlines.
Troth of the Forgotten Pharaoh can make for some pretty funny situations, like a room full of desert-y goblins all killing each other after the first one goes down -- the tease of an overwhelming battle that ended itself in a round or two is one I still chuckle about.
I had a group of skeletons rise up in the area of a thirty-foot burst completely surrounding our two-man party, which terrified them until the cleric remembered he could channel energy.
So you know: things that shouldn't be, anachronism, things that aren't what the in-game world thinks they are, things that at first appear challenging and then immediately aren't or have very simple effective solutions.
...or an ale-emental and a deep-rock salt golem out 'tequila.' So puns, basically.
Dragonchess Player |
Check out We Be Goblins!, We Be Goblins Too!, and We Be Goblins Free!. They are all available in .pdf for free, as well.
If you want some additional inspiration for creepy/wacky goblins, there are some examples of alternate "pre-gens" in this thread.
Gohaken |
Honestly, my favorite funny encounter was from an old free Wizards of the Coast module. It was a level 2 adventure called "Something's Cooking."
The premise behind the module was that two people, a master female chef and a male wizard who had love of a good meal decided to settle down together. They would bake and experiment and just enjoy life. Then one of their experiments went crazy.
A calzone golem.
Yeah, a calzone golem. Referred to by my players as the "Walking HotPocket"
I don't know where the link to the adventure is anymore, but if you PM I can upload or email it somewhere.
++ 1 for Something's cooking -- that was frickin' awesome!
Best moment: Rogue sneaks around and stabs the thing with a rapier, Calzone golem spurts piping hot marinara sauce on everyone adjacent for burn damage... with basil.
FO' real.