#gming ideas

[idrawtooslow]

One of your players fails a success roll

Ask the player to describe how their character failed whatever they were attempting

Determine consequences based off their (probably humorous) description

[idrawtooslow]

"I used to be an adventurer just like you, until..." (list)

...I fell off a roof during a wild post-delve carouse, and ruined my back.

...my wife threatened to divorce me.

...I realized my kid was growing up without me.

...I found out I have a kid!

...I got turned into a frog. Never again.

...I realized that adventuring is an exploitative practice used by the mercantile class, to maintain their stranglehold on the wealth that rightfully belongs to the masses.

...a mime ate off half my face.

...my Party went in without me, and got themselves all killed.

...my Party and I got ambushed by about thirty Wotayrar warriors, and I was the only one who made it out alive.

...a monster mind-controlled me, and I killed one of my best friends.

...I ran out of gold to spend on potions and spikes and ropes and stuff like that.

...I lost an arm to dungeon rot.

...I go' hi' onna hed 'oo menny 'imes.

...I discovered Toresian cannabis. You got anything to eat?

...I realized there were safer ways of making a living. <leans on shovel>

...another adventuring Party stole all my loot, gear, and money, and left me naked on the mountain. I've had this cough ever since.

...I got the bends while exploring the ruins under the Pink Sea.

...I got killed. People aren't supposed to die more than once.

...I lost a leg at the battle of Kiit Deel.

...I got better! Baw haw haw haw!

...I made myself a ludicrous sum of money, and bought myself a peerage.

...they caught me. I spent five whole years in prison. Five!