Dungeons and Dragons scenario elevator pitches

Yezidi Fan Club

Yezidi Fan Club

kiwifarms.net
Joined
Aug 3, 2022
Dungeons and Dragons scenario; you are a cybernetic space tiger from the future. Your high octane personality provides succor to the sick but terribly annoys the ruling class of the region. Men push your buttons to make you look like godzilla so they can beat you down to impress women. The harming of noncombatants is not authorized by the Mother, the ancient and powerful gestalt consciousness that sent you to this place.
 
  • Dislike
  • Autistic
  • Like
Reactions: TrulyMan, Mr.Miyagi and Maskull
If I ever hated myself enough to DM, I always thought a short-ish campaign based around amnesia would be fun. The players can pick their race and class, but they have to discover their background, personality, and what they're supposed to be doing. I imagine it would be tricky to run though.

The other one I would want to do is a campaign with an initial employer who ends up serving as a sort of anti-villain. A Paladin, part of a group of adventurers who came to a city state to try to (semi-)peacefully end a civil war. One by one his party was picked off by the violence, until only he remained, at which point he abandoned his good and holy principles, starting playing dirty, and ended up ruling the city-state with an iron fist. And as oppressive as it is, it's still far better than it was before. The new justice is harsh, but at least it's not mob justice. But both parties of the civil war are still lurking on the sidelines, and neither of them like the new king...
 
  • Like
Reactions: Gog & Magog and Dammit Mandrake!
Hmmm... Sounds a lot like the DA series of modules for AD&D. @AnOminous might know about them.

DA1: Adventures in Blackmoor
DA2: Temple of the Frog
DA3: City of the Gods (great module right here. Adapt it now!)
DA4: The Duchy of Ten

Really this was a great series. Check 'em.
 
Whatever it says on the back cover of a randomly selected Fighting Fantasy Games CYOA book loosely adapted for multiple players has always worked for me.
 
What if you have to fight an evil wizard that creates chimeras out of your party and innocent woodland creatures like a blue hedgehog or a twin tailed fox.
And the adventurers then have to escape and fight the evil wizard and his army of mechanical golems in their new chimera forms.
 
  • Thunk-Provoking
  • Deviant
Reactions: Gog & Magog and I'm Retarded?
you are a small group of terraformers on a distant planet, clones of the original pilot of the one-man mission that landed on this place, each with memories slightly edited to facilitate your various roles. you are tasked with the utter eradication of all natural life on this planet, and the complete replacement of its hostile geography with gentle artificial surfaces, to prepare it for habitation by the far more fragile natural-born members of the race whose already-departed vessels will arrive in the next century. however, the planetary AI, whose prime directive is to exercise complete control of the resultant man-made environment and to eliminate any unsafe variables, is becoming silently impatient with the chaos of your fleshly imperfection
 
Skullport has been taken over by a gang of city orcs whose half-orc leader, Bragbama, is more deranged than Xanathar himself and has dedicated himself to destroying all humans and their civilization. Every day orcs pop out of their sewers to sow chaos in Waterdeep, but the city guard is afraid to fight back because of a strange bit of sorcery which is affecting the minds of the Lords of Waterdeep. No matter how brutal the orc, no matter what crime it's committing, the city's rulers accuse the guard of being the real criminals.

The captain of the guard turns to the PCs for help. They are all exiles from the city, cast out for using taboo words in public, and he knows that they will not be deterred by feelings of guilt or mercy for orc-kind. The mission: find and eliminate the gang's allies in Waterdeep, and then take the fight to Bragbama in his lair. 5e game, all content from Strixhaven is FORBIDDEN.
 
The Timemasters detect Demorean activity in 1940s Europe, apparently an attempt to interfere with a genocide which was quite controversial in its era known as the Hollacaust. PCs who are dispatched to the era to ensure that the Hollacaust goes as planned will discover that not all is as it seems, and sometimes even "real" history is a lie. Recommended for Arab characters from the 1960s-70s or European characters from the medieval era.

Mysterious Girlfriend X said:
Someone has been printing magically-enhanced pornography and releasing it to teens.
Click to expand...

Definitely a Strixhaven scenario.
 
Mysterious Girlfriend X said:
Someone has been printing magically-enhanced pornography and releasing it to teens.
Click to expand...

Death is my prescription, but it's a good thing I'm not in charge of anyone or anything other than myself. Nobody should have to have the best of themselves exploited while they meander through life ignorant of the cost until they find themselves surrounded by a strokemob. Nobody, not even Hitler kicking a puppy into a ravine.
 
Imo a good scenario is one that allows the players to be creative and cooperate.

I did one based on the lonewolf gamebook series.
 
Agents of the Inquisition are sent to a decrepit hive world known as Porsyat to investigate reports of a new "genemixer" cult. Players will be horrified to learn that this is not the work of tyranid genestealers, but deranged Highborns who, guided by ancient texts written by a Chaos cultist named Karmarks, have sterilized themselves with poorly thought-out cosmetic surgeries and now seek to combine Ork, Eldar, and Tau DNA to create a new species which will replace Man.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back