The RotBTD+ Gang Plays DnD! (Feat. my ships, sorry not sorry XD)
So highkey Iâve actually been wanting to do a âThe Gang Plays DnDâ type post for AGES now, but then I saw @hobie-brown and @ohlooksheswriting-wips do DnD AU posts for RotBTD, and then I was like âAh shit, I really should finish mine, eh?â So thank you to both of you for inspiring me to get off my ass and actually write the post!!!
Hiccup DMs. He comes up with this super complex plot revolving around dragons (because of course) where the party has to dismantle this society ruled by evil knights who want to genocide all of the dragons. Imagine his chagrin when the party wants to do nothing but fuck around in towns and aggravate NPCs 90% of the time.
They usually end up playing at Jackâs apartment, mainly because Hiccupâs dad doesnât really want a bunch of loud nerds yelling about 20-sided dice in his household while heâs trying to work, if he can at all help it. Jackâs sister regularly barges into their living room and roasts the fuck out of Jack and his friends for being such damn nerds and eats all of their DnD snacks theyâve set out. If theyâre in the middle of a combat session, she always gleefully proclaims that theyâre all going to die. While Jack is annoyed by this, the rest of the party finds it deeply hilarious.
Jack Overland plays the absolute mayhem warlock Jack Frost, who got his powers through making a deal with the archfey Prince of Frost and has absolutely no qualms about being an evil godâs mortal Sower of Chaos. He spends the vast majority of the campaign doing such useful things as creating ice slicks under annoying NPCs and freezing peopleâs drinks. He also plays a Tiefling because absolutely no one can talk this boy out of playing the creepy demon race.
Rapunzel plays a woodland nymph druid who is also the party healer (because of course she is). Her name is probably Sunlily or something else suitably hippie-esque. Whenever thereâs downtime (or whenever the rest of the party is also dicking around, and she can get away with it), Rapunzel likes to go into the nearest forest and pick the best berries and nuts for the rest of the party. She also loves baking fruit pies and cooking the best nymph food for her companions when given the chance. Definitely the party Cinnamon Roll (every party has one!). She often will turn into cute animals to distract the guards while the party infiltrates a building.
Meridaâs character is the party archer and general ranged weapon master, as well as a raging lesbian. Hiccup learns very quickly that any male NPC who tries to flirt with her will very quickly get impaled with an arrow. She canât ever decide if she wants to be a ranger or a rogue, so she multiclasses in both for flare. She also plays a Tiefling, and continually insists that her character is both scarier and sexier than Jackâs. In combat, she either Leeroy Jenkins her way in with a sword and just starts slashing every which way, or just shoots 90% of the enemies with arrows before the fight even starts. Thereâs really no in between. She can get away with this because sheâs highkey one of the party tanks, and consistently deals a shitton of damage.
Anna plays a human bard, basically having read over the class options and going âWait, in this one I get to make stylish medieval music??? And wear dramatic and garish outfits and a dumb hat??? And cast wacky illusion spells??? And do silly little magic tricks??? And INSPIRE EVERYONE??? Hell yeah, Iâm in!!!â She mostly uses magic attacks in combat (definitely favors Tashaâs Hideous Laughter), but occasionally when sheâs out of spell slots sheâll just take to slamming enemies in the face with her lute. She also has WAY too much fun with Vicious Mockery, letâs be real.
Elsa, upon hearing Jackâs character concept, rolls her eyes so far up in her head she can see her damn brain, and vows to play his concept, but seriousâsolely out of spite. She rolls up a super OP elf Chaos Sorcerer, filled with lots of brooding angst about how uncontrollable her winter powers can get if she isnât careful. She combines it a bit with Storm Sorcerer so she can create literal blizzards, and Hiccup ends up allowing it just because he thinks itâs cool. Although Elsaâs character is undoubtedly aggravated by the rest of the partyâs antics, she starts becoming grudgingly protective of these idiots and can deal some pretty crazy damage when her companions are threatened. She also contains one of the partyâs only brain cells.
Eugene of course plays dashing rogue master thief Flynn Rider. Although his high deception and lockpicking skills certainly come in handy, heâs the most chaotic neutral fucker youâve ever met and will take any excuse to rob NPCs blind or cheat them out of every cent they have in a tavern card game. Itâs nigh impossible to get him to cooperate with the rest of the party much of the time, and often Elsaâs character has to either bribe him with some of her familyâs gold or threaten to freeze him to stop him backstabbing one or more party members. Eugeneâs character forces Hiccup to add in many more heist plotlines than he originally intended. This delights Eugene immensely, and sometimes he goes a bit crazy planning elaborate heists.
Moana plays a sorcerer water genasi. She can control any body of water, but she has a special affinity for controlling saltwater (i.e. the ocean lol). She also requests an animal handling bonus, but only with marine animals, solely because she thought it would be funny. Sheâs also an ex-pirate who robbed a lot of wealthy merchant ships and freed their slaves back in the day, which Merida thinks is incredibly badass. Moana tends to get bored and unengaged when there are no bodies of water to play around with, so Hiccup ends up having to add a lot more lakes, rivers, and oceans to the campaign than he originally planned on. Moana also takes a sailing skill, and thus the party often ends up traveling by boat. Typically Eugene and Rapunzel will infiltrate and hijack it, and Moana will sail it. Moana probably contains the partyâs only other brain cell.
Astrid plays a gigantic berserker orc barbarian who is never without his trusty axe. Astrid is hands down the partyâs top tank, and unquestionably deals the most damage every combat session. Much like Meridaâs character, Astridâs character is absolutely a shameless power fantasy. Hiccup pretty easily picks up on this, but is too polite to say anything about it. Jack also picks up on this, but is hardly as courteous as their DM, and teases Astrid mercilessly. Astrid is not amused.
Rapunzel requests that her weapon of choice be a frying pan, her justification being that her character found a discarded one at the edge of a human village outside her woods and mistaked it for a highly-dangerous human weapon. Hiccup is like ââŠyou know what? Fuck itâ and rolls up stats for a goddamn frying pan. Jack has nigh-endless admiration for Rapunzel for choosing such a goddamn memey, absurd, yet oddly effective weapon and it definitely makes the poor boy even more smitten with her than he already is.
Eugene and Merida have a bet going on who can sleep with more sexy barmaids. Merida is currently winning, much to Eugeneâs chagrin. Sheâs not even inherently better at seducing NPCs, she and Eugene have the same charisma statâshe just consistently rolls better than Eugene. Eugene is incredibly salty about this.
Anna and Elsa want to be sisters in-game as well, but neither want to change their raceâso Anna decides her character was adopted. Hiccup and the rest of the party go along with it, mainly because thereâs something deeply hilarious about a regular human bard being adopted and raised by a family of high-powered elf ice mages.
Astrid is absolutely the sort of player who tends to get bored and restless outside of fights, and tends to fidget and twiddle her thumbs waiting for the next combat session. Jack picks up on this, and purposely does more roleplay for longer just to piss her off. Heâs also just a very dramatic fucker and highkey loves roleplay.
When sheâs not causing mayhem around the town or sleeping with hot women, Merida tries to entertain Astrid between combat sessions by offering to spar with her. Unfortunately, this does not usually end well for poor Merida, as even the most hardcore and badass of tieflings is prone to getting dumpstered by an 8-foot-tall barbarian orc with an axe. Astrid is, nonetheless, grateful to have someone to fight.
Rapunzel, Elsa, and Moana will humor Hiccup and attempt to actually play the main plot. Meanwhile, Jack, Merida, and Eugene are a DMâs worst nightmare. They constantly derail the damn campaign to fuck around, cause mayhem, and do inane shenanigans in every. Damn. Town. They go to. Anna is kind of a wildcardâsheâll typically go with whatever group looks like theyâre going to be doing something more interesting. Astrid will go along with whichever group is more likely to get into a fightâwhich, often as not, is Jack and his posse of terrible Chaotic Neutrals (who have definitely pissed off a number of NPCs into attacking them).
As the campaign goes on, Elsa and Eugene become the beleaguered Party Mom and Dad. Both are quite aggravated by thisâespecially poor Eugene, who just wanted to play a morally-gray charming rogue who stole everything and got away with it and then accidentally ended up caring about these idiots he got stuck with.
Anna initially joins the campaign because she has a planet-size crush on Hiccup, and inevitably is the one who dragged Elsa into it too. Being the hopeless romantic that she is, Anna writes a love interest into her backstory. Hiccup eventually has the party run into said love interest, and Anna is overjoyed. He starts flirting with her as the love interest, and itâs easily the best 30 minutes of Annaâs life.
Moana and Elsa also give Hiccup pretty detailed backstories, and he works in little subplots for them. Moana gets to bring water back to a dying part of the jungle in the middle of a draught, while Elsa gets to go on a whole sidequest to explore her family history and how they came to be sorcerers.
Jack, Merida, and Eugene also give Hiccup fairly elaborate backstories, but Jackâs and Meridaâs are like 99% memes and Dumb Shit. Hiccup tries to give all of them backstory-related plot hooks, but inevitably any hooks he provides are either stabbed, robbed, or frozen. Honestly any plot hook offered to these 3 will be all but spat in the face of and tossed off a cliff.
The one relevant part of Eugeneâs backstory is that he and Rapunzel decide they used to be partners in crime before the campaign started. Rapunzel would infiltrate and scout out places he wanted to rob as small, unobtrusive animals (her preferred Wild Shape is a chameleon) and later distract the guards as a bunny or kitten while he went in and took every gold coin in sight. In return, Flynn Rider would bribe builders to not develop into Sunlilyâs forest. Rapunzel and Eugene partly came up with this For Funsies, but also it was Rapunzelâs sneaky way of tricking Eugene into having prior connections in the party so heâd be less likely to betray them. It works pretty wellâalthough the entire party is protective of Cinnamon Roll Sunlily, Flynn is certainly especially protective of her.
Astrid does the absolute bare minimum as far as backstories go. She is literally just here to smash stuff, slice people, and beat some fuckers up.
Rapunzel has a backstory, but sheâs typically so invested in the main plot and the other party members that Hiccup rarely needs to bring it in to keep her engaged. Sheâs highkey the party emotional rock, and probably the only one keeping them all together.
On that note, Rapunzelâs character is the ONLY one who can get Jackâs character to take the plot even REMOTELY seriously. Like heâll be dicking around in the nearest tavern challenging the nearest orc to a drinking game, and Rapunzel will come in and ask him to help them on a Main Plot Quest. And heâll be like âcome onnnnn Iâm having funnnâ and sheâll be like âJack pleeeeeease?â and you just. Canât resist Sunlilyâs puppy dog eyes. At all. Also, whenever Sunlily is genuinely threatened, any silliness immediately goes out the window and Jack Frost is OUT FOR BLOOD.
For better or for worse, Rapunzel is not immune to being looped into Jackâs shenanigans. Occasionally if either Merida or Eugene have a particularly hare-brained scheme sheâll go along with it, but by and large Jack is the most successful in convincing her to temporarily abandon the plot and cause mild mischief with him. They once wasted half a session creating an elaborate âice theme parkâ for some squirrels in the forest.
Hiccup tries to get Merida to play the main plot by eventually having there be no more sexy female NPCs to seduce in the towns they go to. Unfortunately, this backfiresâMerida just hooks up with Moanaâs character instead. When asked to roll for how good the lay is, Merida gets a nat 20âand thus her character and Moanaâs character end up hooking up regularly throughout the rest of the campaign.
Hiccup introduces a few Wise Old Mentor-type NPCs to guide the party throughout the campaign. While Rapunzel, Elsa, Moana, and Anna actually try to listen to them and take their advice, Merida, Jack, and Eugene absolutely refuse to take them seriously and mercilessly play pranks on them.
At one point, Hiccup gives the party the option to attempt to tame a group of wild dragons and use them as mounts. They all have to make animal handling checks. Anna, Rapunzel, Elsa, and Moana pass. The rest of the party fails, with Jack and Eugene crit-failing. Hilarity ensues.
Hiccup ends up bringing back Annaâs backstory love interest as an NPC regular. Anna thinks heâs just being a good friend and a good DM and trying to incorporate her backstory as much as he can, but really, he just wants an excuse to regularly flirt with her. He hardly has the balls to out-of-game.
Merida comes out as gay toward the end of the campaign. Everyone in the group is extremely supportive, of course, but everyone is also like âMeridaâŠwith the amount of barmaids youâve bangedâŠand the amount of times you and Moanaâs character hooked upâŠthis isnât exactly surprising.â
Hiccup actually finds a way to use Jack and Elsaâs same-concept-opposite-execution characters to the plotâs advantage. He decides one of the main villains will have a prophecy saying heâll be taken down by a powerful ice mage. The party manages to fool this guy into thinking this ice mage is Jack, and sends Jack to fight him. As soon as the villain sees Jack, heâs like âWHAT??? THIS clown???â (word has absolutely spread throughout the land of Jack not using his ice powers for anything besides mildly annoying trolling). Naturally, the bad guy lets his guard down after thinking heâs going to fight this literal joke, and then Elsa crashes in from the side and absolutely dumpsters him.
Jack tries to defeat the final boss by just annoying him so much that he leaves. Unfortunately, he just annoys him so much that he attacks Rapunzelâs character. Jackâs just like âoh HELL noâ and attacks with absolutely nothing held back. Turns out heâs pretty terrifying when heâs not using his magic for Dumb Antics.
During the final boss of the campaign, the Big Bad tries to one-shot Moanaâs character, and Meridaâs character super theatrically jumps in front of her to take the blow instead. Rapunzel just barely manages to heal Meridaâs character, but itâs a really close call. During all this, Merida is like âah shit...maybe Iâm NOT just in this to get fantasy-laid.â After the fightâs over, her and Moanaâs characters have a big dramatic love confession and share a Big Damn Kiss in front of everyone. Itâs pretty epic.
After the final session of the campaign, Merida drags Moana outside Jackâs apartment and sputters and trips over her words for a solid minute before she finally gets out that through all this nonsense...well...maybe itâs not just in the game that she thinks Moana is hot. Moana just gets this HUGE grin on her face and says âcâmere, Leeroy Jenkinsâ and just pulls Merida in and kisses her. Cue the rest of the party barging in on them. Merida and Moana freeze, and thereâs a moment of terrified silence...and then the entire party starts cheering them on like âtook you long enough!â
The entire rest of the party could detect the sexual tension. Literally all of them.
But Eugene is like âHA, THIS MEANS IF WE DO A SEQUEL CAMPAIGN IâM WINNING THAT BET! BECAUSE YOUâRE GONNA BE DATING MOâS CHAR AND THUS NOT ABLE TO SLEEP WITH ANY MORE BARMAIDS!â
By the epilogue session, Jack and Rapunzel are dating. Merida and Moana are also dating. Hiccup and Anna STILL havenât figured out why theyâre so prone to spending half the session flirting when Annaâs love interest shows up, and Hiccup STILL hasnât figured out why he likes to have Annaâs love interest show up so often. Bless their souls. Maybe theyâll figure it out next campaign...?
Damn I actually really like this...maybe if people like it Iâll do some incorrect quotes or a drabble or something??? Or maybe some HCs from next campaign???
