A tabletop version of a LARP setting, where they've tried to replicate the setting as accurately as possible.
The players have enough followers to make a party of around 15-20. NPCs never appear in groups of more than 5. Any group larger than this always divides people into groups of 5 or less, and sends each group out one at a time, even entire armies are deployed in groups of 5 that never get in visual range of each other.
Incorporeal creatures that require magic to be hurt can still be defeated by hitting them in the groin really hard. We're told there's a totally logical reason why Wraiths have corporeal balls, but no explanation ever happens.
A world where everyone is terrible, filled with a--holes, murders, liars, rapists, thieves, and without hope of anything getting better.
Where any friends you make stab you in the back and where any alliance is doomed to failure. Where everything that could go wrong does go wrong, that any good you try to do is thrown back in your face.
That you will see only selfishness, violence, and death. Where pretty much everyone laugh of the very idea of there being any good in the world or calls you out for foolish, naive, or unrealistic.
has anyone either played or read "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream?"
A dungeon where the GM thematically designs each room after a room in their house, but thinks they're being clever about it.
(Soooo many new GMs do this. It rarely works as well as they hope.)
Here's a bad idea, have a prank show set up a jump scare just when you have that monster encounter, in game.
Imagine, if you will, a world exactly like our own except all spam is true, and also there's vampires.
It could be a world severed in to two actual nations. One of these worlds is a fantastic place, almost modern day but with magic, and set it in Chicago. The other is a very irritating land, Victorian Era, with steampunk, and zeppelins, and cats...and the players know of the wonderful modern era, but they're stuck in the GM's hellworld as the stupid steampunk Victorian hell tries to rally a reason why we need to focus on this...WHY BUTCHER, HAVE YOU FORSAKEN MEEEEEEEEEE!
DM: "Alright everyone. This game setting moves away from all the tropes of dystopian futures. Why do they always have to be dystopian?"
It's a utopian future. Everything's worked out and... probably will keep doing so for the foreseeable future. There's a lot of harp music, gentle breezes, and flowing white garments. Fields of flowers, indeed.
No... there's no hidden danger. There are no subterranean, cannibalistic degenerate mutants. Humanity's worked it all out.
This setting would work well for a group of evil characters. Try to stir up chaos for the fun of it.
A world allowing in Avatars of supercilious extradimensionals whose only purpose in life seems to be to ridicule and denigrate everything they see?
This setting would work well for a group of evil characters. Try to stir up chaos for the fun of it.DM: "Alright everyone. This game setting moves away from all the tropes of dystopian futures. Why do they always have to be dystopian?"
It's a utopian future. Everything's worked out and... probably will keep doing so for the foreseeable future. There's a lot of harp music, gentle breezes, and flowing white garments. Fields of flowers, indeed.
No... there's no hidden danger. There are no subterranean, cannibalistic degenerate mutants. Humanity's worked it all out.
Or maybe the inhabitants play violent RPGs out of boredom.
Nope. It's not boring. Didn't you read the part about the harp music? And the fields of flowers?
Rolling around in the fields of flowers (no allergies), laying in the sun, and imagining the clouds are in the shape of... flowers and... your flowing white clothes.
"Make a Will save against euphoria, am I right?"
I guess Morpheus is banned from this world, right? Well...What if I told you that this world was just an construct of your imagination?
This thread is just asking for a world of Rick Rolls and YTPs.
This thread is just asking for a world of Rick Rolls and YTPs.
The definition of Rick Rolls.
I was looking over some fantasy world hooks lately, and I thought to myself, "Wow these are really bad!" So the thought came to me to think of the worst possible idea for a fantasy world. For example:
Golarion.
Bronyland.
And not good bronies like me, but really bad people who molest horses or do art of the characters cut into bloody chunks.
Some people are called bronies just because they like the show.
This thread is just asking for a world of Rick Rolls and YTPs.The definition of Rick Rolls.
X,D...I'm laughing so hard, I'm crying...
Anyways, the gods of this world are Weegee, CD-I Link, and other prominent YouTube Poop characters. Rick Astley will be there, either as the supreme god, or is basically Chuck Norris in this world.
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Post the worst idea for a fantasy world that you can think of!
Gor.
Interesting. I've had one like that. not quite as severe. It seems the old guys who play 1st edition seem to run that way. Very cheap shotty and deadly.
I remember one game where I (ranger) saw a kitten with a hurt paw in the wilderness. I picked it up to treat it. apparently its claws were had paralytic poison. Then its buddie cats all come in and naw one you while you can't move.
He tried it again at a much later game. I (giant) threw a boulder at it as soon as I saw it. Flattening the little beast.
He called them kill kittys.
C'mon DAW!! I know you chuckled at that one too.
Vidmaster: Dave Hargrave's Kill Kittens, and many other odd and terrifying monsters can be found in the old Arduin Grimoire game system.
From back in the early days of the hobby, when everyone was still experimenting; Arduin was an interesting, completely unpolished, and sometimes broken game mechanic. However, it was chock full of amazing ideas and materials. My early gaming groups, mined Dave's materials endlessly, and ported tons of monsters, spells, materials, items, races into other game systems that we played.
Post the worst idea for a fantasy world that you can think of!Gor.
So, I only know Gor through reading the first book, but I've read that the series as a whole is considered very male-fantasy-centric and blatantly sexist. Is that the issue you have with Gor, or is there something else weird with the world that makes it a bad idea?
So, I only know Gor through reading the first book, but I've read that the series as a whole is considered very male-fantasy-centric and blatantly sexist. Is that the issue you have with Gor, or is there something else weird with the world that makes it a bad idea?Post the worst idea for a fantasy world that you can think of!Gor.
No, that's pretty much it.
Take a fantasy place, like Gor or Keoland, and introduce a revolution. The PCs are rebels. Good characters trying to keep their hands clean are a challenge.
An all-Suli party, set in a Philip Roth knowledge.
Have an entire campaign of obscure references that gamers will not get. What could go wrong?
This thread is just asking for a world of Rick Rolls and YTPs.The definition of Rick Rolls.
X,D...I'm laughing so hard, I'm crying...
Anyways, the gods of this world are Weegee, CD-I Link, and other prominent YouTube Poop characters. Rick Astley will be there, either as the supreme god, or is basically Chuck Norris in this world.
Wait. What kind of gods would Weegee and CD-I Link even be, or Rick Astley, for that matter?
