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ChildOGaia • Offspring of other realm god, creates Stepford to conquer all. • Mutated Undead Orcs festooned with spikes, use tentacles to seduce. • Halfling Pie Eating Champion has challenged you! Eat or Die! • You can’t see. You can’t move. It… is behind you. • Goblin Hordes caravan west. What’re they running from, or to? • The Horns of War! A cry is heard, “To Arms!” • Find the forlorn friar of Festivus, or forfeit your face. • New virus targets bionics. Street Samurai everywhere, go line dancing. • The Great Old Ones suddenly take an interest in you. • Cabalists need sacrific to summon Cthulhu. Guess who they want. • It’s a beautiful day. All is serene. Let’s break stuff! • Jester insults Great Old Ones before the court. They’re doomed. • Pretty, pagan Princess passively pilfers priest’s prophetic pockets - Parish Panics! • From the front… doing it… Rogues are. Backwards Day, hmm • Modern day teenagers brought to mythic Ireland for God’s Game. • From the front… doing it… Rogues are. Backwards Day, hmm?
jason • Infant drow on doorstep. Adopt it or give it up? • The Tarrasque is sent to Asmodeus’ Lair. Asmodeus’ new pet? • Pirates and ninjas. Pirates and ninjas. Pirates and ninjas. Ho! • An island rises from the sea. Rival nations claim it. • Wizards get into Polymorph any Object duel! Details at 11th! • Necromancer steals the king’s Crown Jewels. No, the other ones. • El Pollo Diablo is coming soon. Need I say more?
greywulf • Kill goblins kill goblins kill goblins kill goblins kill goblins! • Find the three golden thrushes whose song will heal king. • Players will die unless find cure hidden on level ten. • Wizards lost plot. Can you save them from financial ruin?
Ripper X • Ghost of enemy killed haunts a PCs weapon, murders NPCs.
Darin • Sorry for your loss. The Princess is in another castle. • The dragon came to eat you. You aren’t that tasty. • Five caves have opened up. You get to pick one. • The summer sun is falling upon the fair realm. Literally. • You wake up with a written note and no kidneys. • Somebody tole your favorite pink teddy. Which kind? Gender specific.
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• Military captain becomes undead minion to increase a deity’s influence. • Local halfling brewery gets poisoned water. Town and trade sick. • Assassin turns over new leaf. Opens bar. Town not happy. • Dungeon found with lots of treasure. Everyone wants a piece. • Crazy man attempts to create half breeds. Nature not like. • Old technology needed for viewing secret data. Go find it. • Identification Database gets virus. Screws your identity. Clean it up? • Mailed movie rental service used by terrorists to send data. • You are computer felon. Uncover plot. Need to convince authorities. • You are hired to rig election. Candidate kills your mom. • You fathered illegitimate son. Need aire to throne. It’s him? • Cult camped outside city. Will commit mass suicide very soon. • Grab cursed gem. Town to perish. It’s all your fault.
Bobert Mk 2 • Airship fleet approaches your home town, can you defend it? • Mutant pheasants claim your child, an adventure in the wild. • Unnatural wind claims a local kingdom, has nature turned evil? • Technocrats’ son lost in latest project, a portal to beyond. • The world is flooded and angle’s rule with magical fists. • Five spells must be read to birth a new world. • Never ending winter caused by warforged wizards and lich queen. • Blue bolts rain from the sky, the god’s are angry. • Pun-pun makes an entrance, sanity is all but lost. • Nation of ghosts rise from the sea, they demand rights. • Warehouse of berserk animated objects, no more need be said.
Buzzregog • Demon summoned in bar offers last man standing one wish. • Elected ruler revealed as idiot, country seeks quick resolution please!
clem • Benevolent active gods, evil empires, the heroes are pirate clerics. • Searching untamed jungles on other planets for new alchemical components. • Earth Mother is insane. Cure her to save the world. • The President Elect has no children for the ritual sacrifice. • The mightiest superheroes turn evil. Second stringers must stop them. • Elderly magical girls must transform once again. Any power left? • The best magic items are dangerously radioactive. Find a cure. • Cheerful fairy tale characters are invading your gritty noir world. • Anvils, dynamite etc. are suddenly fatal. Toons are dying out! • Rogue censor programs are editing people when they jack in.
Sandrinnad • St. Nicolas is missing. The Prince requests your help. Now. • Elvis has returned! The world is covered in sequins. Help! • Hunted heroes, escaping enemies, stumble into another world and meet. • Fantasy game. 3 requests from each player. Thinking…. Let’s rock. • Mad God’s temple: will you find riches or insanity? Mwahahahahaha! • 40 teenagers camp by a lake. Your mission? Die amusingly. • Explore covenant, research spells, get powerful, research spells, explore covenant. • Someone’s stealing from the past - find them and stop them. • The world is ending. You can make it less horrific. • Everyone is suspiciously healthy. Is it something in the water? • Dragon seeks love, requests adventurers carry presents to distant penpal. • Kublai Khan’s stately pleasure-dome is deserted, loot-worthy, and possibly haunted. (with apologies to Coleridge)
Stan • Why does the snow over Fairyville smell like rotting flesh? • Vengeance does not stop with death. Whose sword is this? • When the monkeys stop falling, the real trouble starts anew. • Is hope for love worth pursuit for the perfect pancake?
TK Kennedy • Local church backs PCs in Anti-Paladin’s annual Three-Dragon Ante tournament. (Hyphenated words count as one, right?) • Stressed out rain god vacations in PC’s recently droughted homeland. • Archmages create private research demiplane. PCs must evaluate scholarly ethics. • Why is the King sending sealed letters to 100 peasants? • Anthropologists study dungeon. Nothing killed or looted until history traced.
Bjorn • What happens when you crossbreed red and white dragons? Science! • Annihilation looms. Earth’s last hope lies in the darkest shadows. • Half-orc wizard, dwarven druid, gnome paladin. Best of friends. • Supervillain threatens Moon destruction. Do not let UN pay ransom. • Three signs of the Apocalypse have passed. Stop four more.
Stuart • Find and destroy the altar before dawn. Reward: Your soul. • Receive a wedding invitation. Surprise! You’re marrying the Lich Queen. • Make breakfast fit for the King… with a roc’s egg.
Saragon • A haughty, tyrannical dragon suddenly requests help defending her desmense. • Unnatural wildfires burn the fields; who would starve our kingdom? • Annual festival games turn deadly serious, and everyone seems complicit. • A royal cook suspected of poisoning an ambassador claims innocence. • A murdered lord’s spirit refuses resurrection, but haunts his heirs. • Why would a wealthy, healthy businessman cooperate with foreign terrorists? • Nothing’s funnier than monkeys - until everyone’s pet simians awaken overnight. • How does one catch a doppelganger who’s gone to ground? • Three princes go questing, but one plans to return alone. • A mad druid holds the floodwaters hostage, threatening mass starvation. • Several seemingly sincere sirens seek silent solace sans standard seaside solitude. • Someone cast explosive runes on letters offering cessation of hostilities. • The city’s power goes out every sundown, without apparent cause. • Who ever heard of a princess kidnapping a mighty dragon?
max • PCs windfall actually loot stolen from dragon. Dragon is peeved. • Half-orc mercenary, Elven princess elope. Earn King’s ransom? Aide newlyweds? • Who’s teaching the dwarves magic? Wizard college wants competition squelched. • Swords against Axis: transdimensional adventurers battle Nazis for Europe’s freedom. • Beardless dwarf merchant losing business; can kidnapped goblin barber help? • Bardsport: minstrel in musical deathmatch lost voice! Rescue or cure! • King must wed or war; marriage fulfills doomsday prophecy • Ghouls Rebel, plan so crazy it just might paralyze everyone!
Arthur • Overthrow the mad king, but don’t become like him afterwards.
SuperSooga • Someone burnt down the old forest, the creatures are angry. • Borstam Keep has dissapeared and huge stone footsteps have appeared. • Miners have found Hell. The church are pleased, it’s proof! • The ghost of a foreign spy continues in his duty. • Incoming meteor. Shelters must be made or underground cities taken. • Caste of robots are transfering their minds to organic bodies. • The ooze has taken a dwarf city. Alchemist required urgently. • Paragon of each of civilised race required for fanastic voyage.
TheMainEvent • Paragon Ape lobbies for species recognition in a suit. Hilarity ensues. • Five Elemental Rings awarded by Wizard. You\’re stuck with Heart. • Warforged created by man. They rebelled. They have a plan. • Giant Jedi-piloted Mecha wage war against Space Ork Cyborgs. • Years of achievements threated by deities\’ updating rules of the universe. • Least-famous Wayons brother trapped in poorly rendered fantasy world.
Geek’s Dream Girl • Catch & release all harpies after fitting them with bras.
James • Liberate abused bulettes being used as ogre mage polo mounts. • Previously plundered artifact conduit for angelic possession of PC’s son. • Mayan human sacrifice awakens chupakabra horde nesting in limestone sinkhole. • Run down star salesman huckster who unwittingly acquires legitimate deed. • Hired by master dream thief to neutralize pursuing bounty hunter.
Patrick • Food grows scarce in post-apocalyptic wasteland. Who can help? • The corpse appears to have the same tattoo as you. • Something made those Imperial Guardsmen turn traitor. What was it? • Superheroes need anonymity, so make sure he doesn’t escape!
Degreeless • An intelligent sword demands a destined hero, their damnation ensues. • Dragon in lonely mountain seeks PC for friendship; maybe more.
David Wright • Stay in the tavern and adventure will come to you. • Cathedral walls are bleeding. Clerics are confused. All is lost? • The Tooth Fairy works alone. The Easter Bunny too. Why? • Indians on the horizon, watching your wagons circle. Fools gold.
Marcus • Trapped in another dimension. Escape from Ring of Death possible?
Captain Cursor • Kobold wizard changes sex of town, forlorn adventurers seek cure. • Emerald Claw need magical wood, elven forests face the axe.
Barbican • Steal Wand of Orcus. Survive interplanar chase to Mount Celestia.
Graham • It is dark. You might be eaten by a grue.
Lanir • Get kiss from lost faerie queen to save dying boy. • Evil uncle steals family jewels. Retrieve them to become king. • Drunken party seduced by transvestite hill giant, escape next morning.
labsenpai • Trick Norker hillbillies into stealing evil Mage’s laundered Elven finery. • Save inebriated King from Illusionist Medusa dating his charmed son.
EvilLuke • Rescue merchant’s son from mercenaries squatting at the family farmstead. • Get Gods of Cats and Dogs to fight Rat God. • Fiendwurm belches demons over landscape. Heroes needed for EPIC cleaning. • Three swordsmen fighting the Isle of Wights REALLY need cleric. • Psychically poisoned princess purloins the Terrible Tapestry of Trapmaster Tarquin.
Scypher • Fountain of Youth found! Drinks go to the highest bidder. • The Plane of Absolute Silence. Or is it just you? • Dragon seeking estranged child after polyamorous youth… Could be anyone! • In this foreign land, why does food taste like metal? • After looting jewels, shady wizard wants them at any cost. • Did you ever notice the moon is full EVERY night? • You left fresh half-vampire corpses. Of course rats eat it! • “I am your creator,” he said, “and you’re a mistake!” • Newfound constellations form demonic sigils. Coincidence? Or potential Space Satan? • Princess Harpy picked you as her prom date. Have fun…
onefreeman • Alien tech powers Nazi warbots in Paris. Find the source. • Dinosaurs in London. Time rift opened. Close at all costs. • Nazi supersoldiers, genetically engineered. Find the lab, blow it up. • What’s causing these sudden mutations? There’s money in rogue magic… • Demons possess Emperor. Major-domo hires you to exorcise them. (major-domo is one word, right? Or swap for vizier) • Across the burning sands lie untold riches… and grave dangers. • Dwarves threaten war over lost coronation gift. A dragon stole it… • Long-awaited crackdown on crime arrives. Pity you’re a thief • Enough of these murderous adventurers! We goblins must stand together! • A room 10 feet square. An orc guards a chest • The conquest was easy. Cleaning up the mess, mind you… • Civil war over mistranslated holy scroll. Go find the original.
GAZZA • Time traveller destroys past. Heroes stop him; things are worse. • Dying planet holds answer to everything. All life is threatened. • Dragon and vampire apocalypse. Can heroes use Great Ghost Dance? • Chaos reigns; broo invasion. Orlanthi cause more harm than good. • Shadow tendrils threaten Amber; Pattern unstable; Logrus adepts take advantage. • Elder vampires powers waning: mages suspected, mortal cult leader responsible. • Drizz’t DoUrden brutally slain; Elminster eviscerated; Simbul disintegrated; adventurers rejoice. • This is kind of like writing Haiku, is it not? Here’s a bit of shameless plagiarism: • Danger rears ugly head; Sir Robin turns tail and flees. • He’s not the Messiah, he’s just a very naughty boy • Why are we here? Turns out every sperm is sacred. • Parrot is definitely deceased. And now for something completely different.
Reverend Mike • The following entries all come from previous gaming experiences. Potato. • Go to tavern, look at bulletin board, pick a quest. • Prevent squirrel-induced apocalypse by collecting useless colorful orbs from everywhere. • Hack, slash, loot, hack, slash, loot; repeat until dungeon ends. • Kill owner of nearby manor, buy cheap at police auction. • Noise in dry woods! Throw torch! Face angry homeless druids. • Defend holy tree against undead legion with only you four. • Try clearing out Lady Hagerty’s rat-infested basement without dying this time. • Chick from future tells you, “Don’t fire DM Cannon”. DON”T! • Buy new bow. Don’t burn the shop down this time. • Save Krom from execution. He just wanted to eat cabbage. • Convince paladin he’s not invincible before he gets you killed. • Exchange dignity for co-adventurer’s resurrection by rolling naked in mud. • Wipe out peaceful islanders so eccentric employer gets vacation home. • Repent to island god by massacring several peaceful continent dwellers. • Find new continent to adventure where everyone doesn’t hate you. • Aliens invade from hovering castle; cast Fly, hijack that shit! • Dragons hold capitol hostage; ram them with your new fortress. • Collect useless items, open Garl Steppeman’s Emporium of Stuff, , PROFIT!!! • Escape from prison. Don’t use airducts, they’ll see it coming. • Ally with hobgoblins to defeat tyrant; make them slaves later. • Rebuild city in a day using Time Stop and slaves. • Sentient bunny rabbit glues pancakes to your ceiling. Plot revenge. • Too smart for carrot over pit trap. Try something else. • Rabbit accidentally poisons self trying to murder you. Make stew? • Horses have disappeared, replaced by coconuts. Furious paladins blame swallows. • Elderly historian killed in ride-by slashing, arrest the gallant perpetrator. • Knights require a shrubbery, a good one. Find it- GAH! • Tim warns, “Bunny: incredibly dangerous.” Not on stump, disregard him. • Mysterious last words scrawled on cave wall, “AAAAAARRRRRRGGGHH…”; cryptologists baffled. • Genius kobold manipulates reality to become God. Fix the loophole. • Bard only talks in iambic pentameter. Find a cure. Lobotomy? • Cat decapitates commoner in surprise round. Acquire a competent familiar. • I’ve degenerated into adapting movies. Still mixed with experiences, though! • Crazy 88 killers terrorize village. Kill…wait…THERE’S 102! WTF?! • Modify cybernetic arm to move unnaturally. Thrive as street performer. • “Supa Dupa Wookiee Crispa” discovered. Are they crispers or crispees? • Our sun is dying. Ride a bomb into it! YEEEEEEHAWWWWW! • LG hamlet has little crime, many accidents. Investigate, guns blazing. • Players get 23 on checks after watching Carrey film. Coincidence? • Women everywhere, sterile. Well, all except one. Protect the baby! • One ring must be destroyed. Why walk? Catapult! Mangonel! Trebuchet! • Bacon?! SWEET!! Bacon Bacon Bacon Bacon Bacon Bacon! It’s BACON!! • Lead gnome commoner strike force to defeat pig-man overlord, Hogger. • Terrorists attack National City Guard Convention. Inept remainder needs back-up. • Ancient catacombs discovered under tavern basement. Adventurers flock; admission charged. • Weave destroyed. Find Boccob’s Band of Arcanity. Restore multiversal order. • Newly ascended gods attack Material Plane. Older pantheons mighty pissed. • Legendary performing troupe has lyric competition. Devise more than rest. • Schizophrenic psion knows government secrets. Protect her and discover truth. • Town considers PC hero for unknown reason. Mayor wants revenge. • Drunk PC gets hitched. Wife has hidden agenda. OH NOES! • Isolated society considers witchcraft to be technology and vice versa. WTF? • Elven noble despairs, unable to grow beard. Cure facial baldness. • Chancellor goes mad. “Universe reduces to singularity. Pi!” Key lime? • Newspaper mogul dies. Mysterious last words. Find sled before incineration. • Hunter of dead goes crazy, hunts living with silver hammer. • Entire campaign is really TV show. Throw dice at DM. • Unbeknownst to public, superpowered assassins coexist. Investigate their sinister motives. • Killer tomatoes attack! “Seriously?” “Yep! Stop ‘em.” “Lamest. Adventure. Ever.” • Worst evils eliminated. Moral standards change. Hunt down serial litterers. • Port city’s eggs cause explosive diarrhea. Why’re they so GOOOOOOD? • DM checks carrying capacities. Some loot must be disgarded. Lame. • New campaign. First adventure - salvage mission: collect disgarded loot pile. • Warrior-king’s spirit haunts operahouse. “Madness?…THIS!…IS!…OPERA!!!” Exorcise him (Disqualified, Opera House is 2 words). • Retrieve Armor of Invincibility from the Cave of No Return. • Nazi supersoldiers are cliché. Werewolf Women of the SS Win! • Sewers flooded with toxic waste every night. Just in case. • Creatures escape from zoo! Shouldn’t have taunted the caged dragon. • Dolphins everywhere have disappeared. Search for them. Bring a towel
JADettman • Psionic extradimensional spiders attempt to conquer your world. Stop them. • Angels implore you to free the imprisoned soul of god. • The unquiet dead rise, hungering for your living flesh. Survive.
BlueHairSar • A kiwi is thrown into a lake by swiss elephant. • Four year old girl is kidnapped by a camel driver. • Oh shit, did you know that Rasputin isn’t dead yet?! • If that guy doesn’t lose his virginity, all will die. • People are turning orange. The colour, too, not the fruit! • Electro-screws in jaw are malfunctioning. Stop me from eating everything! • Killer giant echidnas are on the loose. Run, fucking run. • The galaxy implodes if anyone tells another “your mom” joke! • DM is choking on D20! Why was he eating it?!
Acksiom • 1/100th size characters battle everyday insects in gladiatorial arena competition. • Familiar hires party to infiltrate inexplicably sealed wizard master’s tower. • Demons will invade if innocent child dies before ritual purification. • Rebellious intelligent construct seeks assistance in achieving freedom and autonomy. • Monster accidentally drinks love potion; sees character, changes alignment, courts. • Mr. H. G. Wells is hiring ghostbusters; specialized equipment provided. • Inheritance letter must be delivered across world in ten days. • Save framed Prince by finding real St. Paul’s Cathedral murderer. • GIgantic steam-powered automaton runs amok at World’s Fair; stop it! • I for one do NOT welcome our new martian overlords! • Immature narcissists egotistically force ignorant politics into contest; discipline them.
Graeme • Lich King plans grand party, PCs are the main dish • Robot wreaks havoc on future city, citizens cry for help
Ariamaki Risenki • Go to Vegas, find stripper-nee-goddess, wake her up. • Low-Earth orbit, rocks are falling- fish out useful stuff.
BeastMasterJ • Sneak into guarded temple, steal magical sword. Catch: It sings. • Family’s heirloom necklace caught on Infernal Dire Boar’s Tusk. Fetch. • Return archmage’s Iron Golem. He lives within dense rust monster population. • Duke’s ‘niece’ is actually succubus. Sabotage wedding between noble families. • Show up dwarven king on his own turf: DRINKING CONTEST!! • Raise money to save orphanage from global corporation’s land grab. • Plant bug on Dictator’s lapel while avoiding his Doppleganger bodygaurds. • Stop Madman from unleashing Virus. His soldiers are all carriers. • Evacuate scientist and daughter from mothership. One escape pod left. • Aprehend father’s killer; who must be executed before your coronation. • You’re infected with memory poison. Retrieve cure from… uh… hmmm… • You’ll die within moments. With last breath, warn world about- • Seek racist dwarf apothocary, convince him to heal elf companion. • Nine bloody weapons, four impaitent heirs, One vacant throne. Whodunit? • Powerful Artifact on Angelpearch Summit protected by Solar. Bring rope.
Dante • Three demon warlords oppose each other, protect your hometown! • The President ate some magic mushrooms, defend the Middle East!
Tangent128 • Fate of the world decided by ping pong playing orcs. • Figure skating puzzle seals ice dungeon. Is treasure worth it? • Twenty one sided die discovered. Can civilization handle newfound power? • The world is disintegrating. Can it be saved? Probably not.
Asmor • The orc and the pie. What’s stronger: love or hunger?
Matthew • The king is dead. Why do we still hear him? • It was once a church. Now it’s cold and unhallowed. • The sword you seek is inside a dragon. Good luck! • I’m not kidding: he ended up inside the troll. Yuck. • I’ll pay you double if the kobolds eat him afterward. • Uh, where did the city go? Oh, right: Dis. Whoops. • I hate orcs. Kill them all. Except the hot one. • Steel failed. Fire just angered it. You’ll think of something. • Hey, do you like money? Do you also like murder? • The graveyard is full of angels and the dead can’t sleep. • Deliver him here. Ignore his words. He will only lie. • Jewels sparkle like fire. “Bring its head and they’re yours.” • Say nothing. This tomb has ears. Hands, too. Also: teeth. • It started with a gnome and a bucket of ale. • Surrender now. I won’t harm you. Honest! I never lie. • We entered the temple. I returned afraid. He returned insane. • You’re going to kill Bane? Who’s your next of kin? • The bridge collapsed. The castle burned. The prince smiled quietly. • What part of “eats people for fun” don’t you understand? • I’ll give you ten gold if you pull this lever. • He’s angry and he’s made of lightning. You’re immune, right? • Doppelgangers abound. You’re safe here, though. Here, eat this, friend! • We’re surrounded. Let’s worry about that later. The tarrasque awoke. • I dare you to steal that lich’s phylactery. No? Chicken. • It’s my sister’s child. My child. Do it now. Please. • Once, long ago, someone teleported the tarrasque to the Abyss. • Say, where can I find a book about breeding beholders? • Bring me my mother’s right hand. She won’t need it. • Dead men roam the swamp. Therein lies your fallen god. • It’s sharp enough. But can you really kill your master? • A ghostly figure. You remember her. She’s here now. Why? • The eyeless child brings ruin. The stars will depart. Darkness. • Hone your skills. Losing means they starve us. Beatings, too. • Mangy. Gnawing teeth. Rats? I guess they look like rats. • “For sale: two bloodstained daggers. Very sharp. Never used. Cheap.”
Deadshot • Wars raging, food riots, global warming. Now we launch invasion.
oddysey • Bear attack! They breathe fire! What makes them so angry? • Earthquake rocks sleepy coastal town, annoys mayor. Next: sea monsters. • Bad bite gets infected, arm goes all gooey. Seek help. • Evil empire tests cyborgs on peasantry. Their one weakness? Drugs! • The football-sized ruby? Good. The deathtraps? Not so much. • Goblin civil war. Pick sides, or just protect the townsfolk. • Strange disease turns flesh to gold. Who gets the vaccine? • Villain kidnaps your best friend. Then she does it again. • Nobles getting married. Crash it, kidnap the bride and groom. • Clockwork gorilla has a map in heart, murder on mind. • You are unwashed Scots. Hide, then restore the deposed king. • Chaos magic messes with city finances. “Solution” summons tentacle horror. • History class interrupted by dinosaurs. Is it on the final? • Dinosaur Escape: Washington DC. All agree, the best filibuster ever. • Wizard builds a better fireball. Guild says: Take him out. • Escape from Dr. Zod’s twisted lair. Main complication: robot mongeese. • Jewels of Tanar’zhu are missing! Vizier did it, hates apostrophes. • Warlord seems okay guy, keeps ordering you to slaughter peasants. • Godzilla attacks New York. Again. Bored, no good movies playing.
Sham • Giant Legendary Ape terrorizes frightened city, just wants some nookie. • Bobby the Paladin keeps dreaming of naked Clerics, blames youth. • Boy sells his cow for beans, has a giant erection. • Balrogs forge alliance, play benefit concert for convicted Hobbit plagiarizer. • Wizards Confuse young Halflings into conducting melee with playing cards. • Adventurers keep vanishing, seems the dreaded “Mmo” is consuming them. • Umm…Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain? • Boy saves his city from disaster by fingering a dike. • Wizards flog a dead horse, convinced it’s full of life. • Grognard takes up his lance, mistakenly charges Windmills. Then Wife.
Mystrich • Doppleganger asks evil PCs for new face. Might be misunderstood.
James Hutchings • Hobgoblin haiku better than bugbear haiku. Liar! This mean war! • Defeat an army of insane, sentient furniture - the random tables. • The king, driven mad, stops living in a fantasy world. • Wizards live on the coast. Everyone argues about their alignment. • Defeat the Frill-Necked Wizards. Escape the kangarorcs. Save the Downunderdark. • Albino minotaur rules cannibal cult of children in the sewers. • MohawkShamanVersusGermanAgentMagicalWesternDesertShowdown! • You are regular solids, thrown around by the uncaring gods. • It’s locked? He’s dead? A puddle? Elementals, my dear Watson. • There are two commoners for every noble in Serf City. • Look, I’m for free speech - but not for Wight supremacists! • “I love Ugluk!” • Next, on The Kobold and the Beautiful. • Up next: 30-ish demons, unfunny and inexplicably popular, on Fiends. • ‘I’m literally out of my tree’ said the giggling Rasta-fairy-un. • Monster kidnaps maidens, tells them interminable anecdotes. Slay the Drag-on! • ‘Me have eaten two of every animal!’ cried Noah’s Orc. • 1. ‘We will manufacture no more Consent Golems!’ said Gnome Chomsky. • 2. In the sequel, Chomsky is joined by Gnome E. Klein… • In the Underbasement the Dork Elves kidnap noobs, for Lolz. • The Round Knights of the Table: defenders of the Shire. • Gods creating the universe: “oh sweet! Doubles add and re-roll!” • They’re called Great Old Ones - but they’re actually pretty lame. • In the Caverns of Dyslexia, you meet the Dark Elvis. • Advanced Back Passage Dungeon Crawl: the new edition of FATAL. • Halfling takes ‘Chaotic Good’ that one step further - Lorena Hobbit. • A princess cursed with Tourettes. Bold knights, help YOUFUGGINBAAAASTARDS! me. • Werewolves! No, robots! No, aliens! No, wait…alien robot werewolves! • A paedophile vampire sires a clan of unaging child concubines. • An Elf, fulfilling prophecy, gives elf-service to an elf-raising flower. • The Book of Unerotic Fantasy. Chapter Ten: Teenage Mind Flayers. • Concealing your pregnancy is very difficult if you’re a flumph. • This isn’t the gnome’s kingdom - it’s an exact, clockwork replica! • A ghoul, disgusted by the killing of animals for food. • The severed head of a great orator, still making speeches. • Dark portents in the stars, and blood in the sky. • A shambling horror, falsely accused and without a single defender. • A dungeon, where the treasure consists entirely of glass eyes. • The painting of the city is really the city itself. • A dungeon where every encounter requires the Use Rope skill. • Emonic posession, alternative rocs, and shog-goths at Lolthapalooza: indie gaming! • You have the body of a Greek god. Return it. • Naked nymphs, mocking your impotence: the Book of Nuerotic Fantasy. • GURPS: Tom of Finland LARP rules alienate some, liberate others. • Criminals steal time machine! They must have been stopped! Then! • George decided to demonstrate the difference between Lawful and Good. • ..in an eternal loop, you escape but find yourself trapped… • There’s nothing big or clever about playing a retarded dwarf. • Gullible dwarves lose all their gold to Girenian money scam. • Dragon picks lock, robs you, asks how you like it. • Heaven hates you, Hell’s afraid you’ll take over, Mechanus sucks. • It’s the Plane of Snakes, what did you expect Samuel? • In the food court, your soup is accused of treason. • Bloody Health and Safety. It’s *meant* to be a deathtrap. • Drive rogue supercomputer insane. Ask it about Attacks of Opportunity. • Ron Jeremy sues Wizards over their new race, the Engorged. • The Gods announce an upcoming new edition of the universe. • FATAL Expansion introduces Were-Goatses, Tubgnomes, and Two Gnolls, One Cup. • Game about magical vampire wars introduces new maturity to role-playing. • Boom! Smoke! He appears. “Oh…that’s what that spell does.” • A half-flooded cave, where a cult worships the sea demons. • An ancient sorcerer-king sleeps, preserved by his dark arts. • In a hidden cove, pirates have founded a secret city. • An insane god-king, his home palace, prison and tomb. • The kind and heroic priest of a vile demon god. • A city of ruins, filled with angry and vicious spirits. • A missionary who has secretly converted to his hosts’ religion. • An army of animates waiting for their dead masters’ return. • The tattooed skin of a great king, tanned and cured. • A skeleton race, who grow flesh and muscle after death. • An underground inn, filled with all tribes of the underworld. • A mirror whose reflection has a devious plan for escape. • A ship, equally at home in the sea or clouds. • A noble’s rickshaw, pulled by a finely-dressed animated skeleton. • A giant scarab beetle, carapace polished and studded with jewels. • An abandoned building, secretly used as a site for duels. • Fauns and dryads, raucously celebrating the death of an enemy. • A castle, in ruins and overgrown but for one tower. • The corpse of a prophet, preserved by trick or miracle. • A clockwork ogre, the crowd’s favourite at the public executions. • A wagon full of a non-existent denomination of gold coins • A new playwright has set the stage on fire, literally
Sam Judson • Nuclear bomb goes off, not if president killed by you
MAK • Farmer topples standing stones - threshold to another dimension gapes open. • Frost giant shaman steals Drum of Winter - will spring arrive? • You wake up chained to galley oar - escape or perish! • Help Templar ghost guard gate to Hell under Solomon’s Temple • Nazi occultists revive dead soldiers by truckload for Eastern front • Cemetery symbols removed - the Dead just want to return home • Persuade sleeping giant to teach you forgotten Songs of Power (the Kalevala, rune XVII) • Brave Wall of Serpents to woo daughter of the North (the Kalevala, rune XXVI) • Far Northern winter - sun doesn’t rise, the dead won’t rest • Sinister creatures offer to repel invaders, but at what cost? Palindrome, as requested. Not much of an adventure, more like the memory of a failed one… • Dog mood: sword was evil - live saw drow’s doom god!
gospog • Old man says he is not a dragon. He is. • Gnomes want to become werewolves for respect. Capture one alive. • The robot impersonating the king is doing a better job. • Anyone who follows the rainbow does not come back. Why? • Driud stuck in bear form. Heroes need info from him.
Bartoneus • Lost and within the footprint of a Tarrasque, they awoke. • “They came from the north, with the gnashing of teeth.” • A bard, goblin, and a lich walk into a bar. • Endless rains, flash flooding, sinkholes, and pirates. Aquatic Campaign: GO!
Marcel Beaudoin • Elemental lords possessing bodies to take over prime material plane.
Tommi • Terrible fate it is to marry monster - squishy, defenseless human. • The world will burn - you have three days. Have fun. • The riddle was spoken: 3, 4, 7, 11. Answer promptly. • A glorious host of paladins to be buried, for now. • The summer is coming, the ice melting. Where to live? • Why was Descartes forgotten? How to defeat the ubiquitous demon?
Zippy • Tarrasque disturbed prematurely. Evacuation required. Loot as you go. Profit! • High-level cleric excommunicated. Seeks revenge against her deity and church. • Noble’s adventurous daughter needs bodyguards. Visiting Carceri can be deadly. • Elvis reincarnated as two-headed wolf boy. Needs to be housebroken.
boswok • Procrastinating deity lets opposed servants decide for it. Survivor’s choice.
Chgowiz • Guards vanish then Merchants then Commoners Leaving Only Council. Why? • Deep holes appear everywhere. Those who enter vanish. Where? • The Sun didn’t come up. Stars are gone. The prophecy? • One murder then a second and third. Blame the children. • Orcs at the gates begging for succor. Goblins close behind. • You’re in a maze of twisty passages all look alike.
Bob at DnDReviews • PC’s benefactor murdered by randomly ravening horde of fomorian foes. • Disguised antagonist steals all-powerful artifact from under party’s nose. • Party wakes up in alternate universe, i.e. Drow are good. • Tarrasque defeated by goblin who wants to be king now. • Orc has pie. Kill orc. Eat pie. Find another orc. • PCs must become evil to defeat greater evil. No prizes!
Vyper909 • “Who needs a mage when you already are a God?”
Ostar • Nordic gods return to lead Nazi’s in WWII - Allies losing.
Mark • A plague rat infestation is more than anyone bargained for. • Space aliens invade Middle Earth in a Victorian-looking mothership. • Astronauts make emergency landing; undiscovered alien natives take violent offense. • Will players realize the campaign is based on song lyrics? • King without heir obsessed with relic. Steal and ransom it.
mike • The empire built on the wasteland festers; underground, something awakens. • You all meet in a bar. Chaos, hilarity, slaughter ensues. • The king is dead! One problem: you’re the king. • Arcane and Divine magics switch, meanwhile Druids make their move. • Unstoppable juggernaut rolls towards the Eternity Gate. Find the source.
Felonius • Kick down doors, slay the baddies, steal all the loot • 1. “Evil I slayed that others could live,” quothe the Paladin. • 2. Space derilict drifts into sight… valuable salvage, or certain doom? • 3. Someone let the kender control the time travel device? Oops. • 4. You gaze upon the face of Cthulhu. Roll for insanity. • 5. The end is nigh. The giant robots must be stopped. • White dragon attacks nomandic tribe? Sounds like “Barbarians on Ice”.
Randy Nichols • Powerful pcs ressurrected to defeat major baddie then killed again • Pcs escort child-god through Sigil before the Lady discovers
Jozie • Steal rare Dwarven Ale casks before the Giants drink them.
Greenvesper • Resurrections cause rupture in boundary between life and death. Repair. • Gnome must collect all mustard jellies to revive ancient hero. (2nd Edition) • Elven encampment is actually a colony of albino drow. Surprise! • Tarrasque spontaneously starts reproducing asexually. World seeks Tarrasque birth control. • Depressed demigod attempts suicide with disastrous results. Cheer him up. • Death god is slain and suddenly no one can die.
Ray K • Betrayed baron returns for vengeance disguised as entertainer, wants help. • Planted crops stand up, migrate south, children claim stalks talk. • Goblin tribes unite, form nation under prophet leader, pet basillisk. • Lesser storm goddess calls in debts, destroys what’s not offered. • Day of Fools tournament in forest: Go, hunt, play pranks.
niilov • Disease spreading from unknown source - connected to rise of ritualists?
nw_meyer • The Sunkiller seeks its divinity through a dead god’s remains. • Free the Paladin-king, reclaim his soul from the seven crows. • An elder vampire seeks help destroying spawn, do you dare? • Restore the Remshibar clans warlocks, imprisoned within the Wraith Blade. • The Wight Lord has besieged your city-state, resist the undead. • Cunning were-rats are mining plague-steel, stop them before it spreads. • The Magister’s College is abandoned, re-take it from the golems. • Twelve kingdoms sponsor the Great Griffin Race, can you win? • The last royal heir is found, restore the sundered throne. • Break the Temporal Lock, or the next sunrise never comes.
shadow145 • “Dark Jedi’s Zombie Stormtroopers take over Endor Battle Droid Factory!”
BobG Palindromes: • Lost! I wait… I’m mad dammit! I, a wit, SOL. • “Evitarr, an evil here?”“Red Rum Murderer!”“eh.” live narrative. • An era, A dog, a panic in a pagoda arena! • Pots! No Garden? old evil Deified! lived lone Dragon. stop! Standard Entries • Dimensional travel to a popular setting from another game/movie. • Pandemic! Must find cure, and find new bodies for dead. • Talking cheetah challenges party to a race: for map home. • Scavenger Hunt! Find: his head, the weapon and the murderer. • Kill dragon, get maiden, get paid. Not in that order? • Anything touched turns gold, for an hour. Midas has debts.
Bo • Boogeyman kidnaps visiting martian’s baby as ploy to summon satan. • Child vampire “turns” orphanage into minion army. Plans world acquisition. • Rediscover zombified planet’s technology for homeworld’s protection from similar fate. • Ocean is emptying. Must find solution before world dries up. Melissa Donovan • Idaho bank teller inherits mysterious samurai swords from unknown ancestor.
Dire Human (New Submitter) • The captain of the local town guard is an illusion.
Sean Freeman • An intelligent storm has stolen people’s ability to have faith. • A castle’s owner dies and possesses it, rampaging across time. • Assassin children infiltrate society at the behest of the King.
Ben • Slaver raid, airship chase, cult volcanic sacrifice thwarted, demon unleashed! • Masquerade party mistaken identity, framed for kidnapping, burning building rescue. • “Help me Obi-wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope,” said Leia. • “They’ve stolen my wife! Send your armada; we’ll rescue her!” • “Only a clever ruse will work after this siege. Listen…” • You are cordially invited to the Nakatomi Corporation Christmas Party. • “It’s an obscure body in the S-K system, your Majesty…”
Yan • Rumours are, that an army is forming. Care to investigate? • Something is amiss in town. People are disappearing at night. • Investigators required to thwart the returns of a loftcraftian horror. • Rise of the archlich in a steampunk meets vampire universe. • Transporting military secret experiment, can be hazardous to your health. zozeer • Players are Time-Lords, fighting the Daleks in the time war.
Cake • Drow try to take over the world by destroying magic.
Brian • Woeful wyrms wreak wreckage while wrathful weapon waits weak-willed wielder.
Fayd • Decendants of an ancient empire return to find world chaos. • Infiltrate pure evil empire, gods will absolve you of sins. • For hire, drug addicted assassins trained in heavy crossbow use.
Noumenon • You’re colorblind to beat hypnotic pattern? Meet this gray dragon. • Dragons’ hoards empty. To get rich now, quest for endorsements.
Ed • Good versus Evil, until Lawful Neutral gets sick of it.
Red Nikon • Assassin’s guild spreads rumor of ancient artifact to attract PCs.
Alex Schröder • Rescue spy on plane of fire. Maximized enlarged fireball salamanders!!
Murk • Universe is disintegrating. Elder god responsible. Heroes must escape. Where??
tim • Rescue President’s daughter from clan of alien-human-hybrid cultists. • Stop Neo-Nazi’s from rebooting Hitler’s cryogenically preserved brain. • Pilfer the basement of my Aunt Sadie’s purported haunted house. • Deliver a satchel of condoms to the Religious Underground Movement.
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• Kingpin who framed characters murdered. Who stole his tongue? Why? • Gorilla legionnaires take gala hostage. Demand polyoscillium returned. Whay’s polyoscillium? • Why is everything on fire? I hate PCs so much. • Nazi supersoldiers drag diplomat to sewers of 1960s berlin.
Jerm • PCs ambushed by Hatfields, earn trust, resolve feud. Or not. • For sale: baby medusa shoes, never worn. Find rightful owner. • Find guru: climb, rockslide, yeti’s, chasm, whiteout, receive wisdom, return. • Mafia birthday party. PC’s entertain kids, repel crashers. Refuse “offer”? • 1000 gp bounty for each greased dire blink-pig caught.
Margaret • Pesky pixies pants PCs, powerful pixie princess pleads: “Parlay, perhaps?”
EotBeholder • Forge alliances, fortify defenses, train dinosaur cavalry – yuan-ti armies march. • Sleeping god’s nightmares invade waking world. Kill? Imprison? Cure? • Idiot king’s intelligent sword advisor stolen. Recover, before kingdom crumbles. • Baal develops eldritch nukes – demons mutate, angels duck and cover. • A map, an ancient treasure, a flying ship: Sky Pirates! • PCs, dwarves, goblins – in Carceri, each with 1/4 way out. • Magical drug grants sorcerous power, communication with dead. Side effects?à • Flocks of ravens gather to witness birth of half-ogre messiah. • Crucial artifact prize in gladiatorial arena. PC’s sibling enters match. • Evade golems, empty vault, out-maneuver pursuing dragons in canyon. Easy!
Streebor • Plague cult is looking for ancient tome in remote orphanage. • Find the serial killer of harlots for desperately amorous noble. • Falsify the magic scrolls by stealing secret gnome printing technology.
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