#dnd quest

[dndo-you-think-thats-a-good-idea]

*Players enter a cave with a pit in the ground with nothing but a rope dangling down into the endless darkness*

Players, looking at me, their DM: … are we expected to go down there?

Me: *shrugs* you don’t have to

Players: *sighs of relief around the table* thank god. I go around.

The peaceful civilisation in the bottom of the pit: 😔

[the-gm-diaries]

Dnd session based off of hanahaki syndrome (not the song specifically but it got my creativity going) but with a twist

Depending on how much your party knows about the disease, you can even make this a whole 2 session thing (also depends on how long your sessions are. mine are usually around 2-2.5 hours long but you could def get this whole quest in one session if yours are longer) where your party has to find out what the disease is. For my campaign there's an area specifically made worshipping two gods of life and the elements so I may have a whole village that knows what the disease is but you could make it hard by having one or two books mentioning the disease and needing to have your party piece together clues and cures

In between quests, or perhaps just traveling to another quest area, the party stops at this town to stock up, rest, make some extra money. As they're doing that they meet a character who helps them find/do/make/whatever and somehow it gets out that they have hanahaki, albeit they don't know. They have all the symptoms, flowers, thorns, coughing fits that won't quit. The party has to find who their unrequieted love is. The only problem is that the character has some type of memory loss. They can't remember the past few months of their life and we're on their way to someone who could help them when they ran into the party.

The party helps them get to the person who basically tells them to go to spots they visited often or had important meanings to them. Around 3-5 areas should be enough for the quest. During the last quest the characters unrequieted love is actually found out to be the bbe who knew of the characters love but thought that it would be a mercy to wipe their memory. During the quest the disease gets worse until the party has to carry the character, thorns wrapping down their elbows, torso, knees and creating thick stems around their limbs. Flower blossoms bloom in their hair and petals falling out of their mouth with each word. The character does regain the memories and remembers everything about their love, nector tears falling as they explain how they knew the bbe was evil but they were willing to help them as long as they stayed with the character.

You could take this in a few different directions. The character could beg the party to kill them, they could sucumbs to the disease and become a giant flower bush, or they could become a type of plant monster.

If you choose to have them become a monster/a flower bush, you could be evil and have them come back the next time the party fights the bbe

[therockymarrow]

Yentil's Inn - Side Quest

Here are the overview to the side quest that can be found within the Yentil's Inn quest on my Questboard page. It's probably the easiest side quest I could give them, which was great because it's also the first they've done.

Player's have found a note on the corpse of a young tabaxi adventurer named Rusty Red Snow. The letter was an unsent note home explaining that Rusty was completing training with Titus Sparson, and would soon be returning home.

The letter contained an address for a storefront within the city, players can return this letter to Rusty's family (illustration of Rusty's dad can be found here). Rusty's father is incredibly grateful, and asks them to consider carrying an amulet to the Cat Lord in the spirit of Rusty, dropping it off at a temple or somewhere they think meaningful in remembrance of his son.

Rusty's father isn't able to afford giving a reward to PCs for this action, but if they haven't already bought items from him before handing over the letter, the DM can knock off a few gps as they see fit as a thank you to PCs.

I chose to have this as a good mission to hand out inspiration to the character that placed the amulet at a temple or special location. My PC was a elf druid so I thought it was very fitting and in-character for her to take a moment to place the amulet and recognize it's religious significance to the family.

[yourlocalcon-man]

Bad DnD sidequest: the party must find and recapture a farmer’s geese, but all of these geese behave like the goose from Untitled Goose Game.

[thescryingeye]

Hanging on the local bounty board is a strange piece of paper. The paper seems to be growing some strange fungus. The script on the page glows slightly and is barely legible. The parts that can be made out ask for a group of adventurers to help gather exotic shrooms. There are also instructions on how to find the man’s house.

Upon meeting the strange man, who lives in the middle of the woods, it is clear the shrooms aren’t being used in potions. The crazed man tells the party about a place deep in the forest where magic runs rampant. He begs the party to bring him back a dozen blue-capped shrooms with purple spots on them. If they do he will reward them handsomely.

What could be causing the flux in magical energy in the area? What could be protecting the shrooms? What properties might these strange fungi hold?

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[dndo-you-think-thats-a-good-idea]

Me, the DM: *narrates the players coming across one of the local guardians in the forest at night*

Player, suspicious (and a little drunk): “what are you doing out here this late at night?”

Me, in character: “you mean, my job?”

[dndo-you-think-thats-a-good-idea]

How to run a cult DnD Campaign:

Play fantasy

Dress up

Call your players by their character name

Give them a purpose

Support their ideologies and morals

Love bomb and reward your players

Give them a fun new vocabulary

Threaten them

Make sure all their ideas are your ideas

Always talk to them like equals (even though you’re not)

Do a fun, enchanting voice

Remember the RULES

[dndo-you-think-thats-a-good-idea]

Player: I take the corpses with me. Sidebar, what would I be able to loot from them?

Me, the DM: loot? They’re giant lizards. They don’t have pockets.

Player: no. I mean… what parts can I take?

Me, squinting: …why?

Player, looking innocent: so I can make armour…

Me: *sigh in relief*

Player: …and eat them

Me: GODDAMMIT WE HAVE RATIONS FOR A REASON-