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Spice things up: the adventure starts with the players accidentally killing a dragon. As it turns out, though, this dragon was rather benevolent to the people around, very gallant dragon, and now the party’s task is to prevent anyone from finding out that they slew the dragon.

Weekend at Burny's

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The party has to help Cinderzilla the kaiju princess defeat her evil stompmother and her wicked stompsisters.

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Werewolves are an ethnoreligious group with various rules and restrictions that govern their society. The players are non-werewolves who have to navigate the culture’s rules to solve a murder.

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D&D, but the entire campaign is the party being tasked with smuggling a King, who is a mimic that accidentally made a kingdom and doesn’t know how to expose itself safely without being mauled by a bunch of angry peasants, out of the kingdom to the wilderness so it can live a happier life.

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Jun 13

Party goes on random quests but there’s a little tutorial voice that tells you how to do things, and it’s slowly revealed that the tutorial is actually the villain.

"would you kindly"

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Jun 8

Before the campaign has started, the BBEG has already sent an asteroid on an intercept path with the planet Every moment the party’s distracted, the chance of successfully preventing disaster falls, wether or not the villain has a change of heart

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Jun 3

Reverse of the usual pirate campaign: the party are stuck on an island and must deal with the assorted strange types who come to dock there (undead sailors, illithid brain-trawlers, smuggling gangs and spy rings making dead drops, treasure-hunting kobolds, the snurge, etc). Only at the very end do they amass enough ship parts to set sail themselves, after battling the antikraken (land-dwelling kaiju with a singular arm but dozens of hungering mouths).

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Jun 3

Due to THE INCIDENT at the local wizard academy, the city has been flooded with frogs that turn anyone they touch into frogs. It’s the party’s job to clear out the frogs and recover the citizens. Good luck figuring out which is which!

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May 27

The party stumbles upon a very large room full of machinery, a wizards construction for time-travel Roll a d13 to determine which geological peroid you arrive in (Starting at the Cambrian, because that’s when multicellular life really starts popping up) Really want to use this idea, to have the party poking around and accidently send one of them somewhen, and see how long it takes them to figure out how to return them Though I’d probably send them to the Devonian period, let them gaze at som…

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May 22

The players are the personal guard to the king… Hype them up to the glamour and glory (along with maybe the idea of an easy paycheck) only to have them deal with the king’s dumbassery. “Guards! I fell in the royal toilet again and I’m stuck in the chute!” (all the toilets in the castle are on the one side of the building with their chutes pointed over the cliffside.) Good thing this is a constitutional monarchy.

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May 14

REFUSE to give your game themes.

You have a sword and THAT’S IT! NOTHING ELSE! Do NOT try and find a moral in this! You WILL be removed from the game group!!

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May 14

Speedrun your campaign by cramming every threat, clue, enemy and NPC into the first room the PCs…

Speedrun your campaign by cramming every threat, clue, enemy and NPC into the first room the PCs enter.

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May 13

the party runs into a village where everyone are animals as they explore awhile they turn into animals losing int the druid wildshapes and is unaffected the druid now has to either herd everyone out or figure out the cause

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May 8

Every time a cozy game is planned, things quickly turn into the Ghanaian Movie Poster version of whatever the game is. If you don’t know, look up some and marvel at the what-the-fuckery.

this one's my favourite - paper

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May 6

BBEG’s plan is to LITERALLY steal the throne. It’s covered in gems that fell from the heavens and the BBEG plans to use the gems to power his machine. His nefarious device designed to produce the infinite energy to… SOLVE WORLD HUNGER!!! … Wait, what? … Uh… It would require destroying this priceless historical artifact! … That commemorates the geocide of several races… And the machine has the potential to revive these races… In fact the BBEG has this full roadmap of things that he plans to do t…

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May 3

The players are on a quest to slay the ancient god whom, every spring since time immemorial, comes to steal away most of the town’s children. The party eventually learns that the god is sacrificing their children to monsters. The players are Darkling Beetles, and the ancient god is an old lady raising mealworms to feed to the bluebirds that nest in her backyard.

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May 2

Rashomon RPG where every campaign starts at the end, and each player can only make rolls or take significant independent action in the parts they’re telling and most of the rolls are just to see if the character can be caught in a lie or if their bullshit goes unchallenged. And then the GM determines the real course of events afterward.

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May 3

Invite your partner to the campaign you’re running if they aren’t already playing. Have the party raid a dungeon, loot galore. The final piece of loot taken by your partner will be a wedding ring, at which point you pull one out in real life and propose to them for their hand in marriage. If they say no they get disadvantage on all saving throws, as a failsafe.

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May 3

the entire campaign takes place inside one (1) dungeon, which is far bigger on the inside than the outside. said dungeon was built like a funhouse for adventurers.

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May 3

The Evil Overlord is fully aware that the party sent to kill him are posing as his minions and sends them on various quests that are either pointless or are cleverly worded to convince them to do the opposite, thinking they are sabotaging his plans.

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May 3

The second heir of the kingdom is to away on some diplomatic mission, the party is tasked as their travel guard The monarch tells the party that intelligence shows there will be an en route kidnapping attempt, and they are to allow it. Can’t be letting their enemies know that they know, and all that Turns out that the attack and leak were orchestrated by the heir

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May 3

Whenever a new portal in the fey wild is detected, a team is dispatched to contain & deter potentially dangerous incursions However, because of the temporal fluidity of the world, anyone stepping through a portal may either be met with fey population unaware of such things, or a fully funded and highly equipped taskforce, or anything between

Primeval should have done this

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May 3

Spooky RPG where the party plays as a group who pissed off the ghost of Gene Roddenberry by playing the FASA Star Trek game. Now they must survive a classic TOS adventure… As red shirts! For those of you who are unaware: FASA produced “Star Trek: The Roleplaying Game” which had lore that detailed a Federation/Klingon war that Gene absolutely hated because of how war-like the Federation was depicted.

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May 3

The party is unknowingly spreading the zombie plague because one of the party ate the floor chicken.

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May 3

Play Bunnies & Burrows but the party are all predators disguised as bunnies. They are unaware of the fact they are not bunnies and are constantly trying to eat each other.

abunus

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May 3

The cleric discovers that their god is dying when every healing spell they’ve ever cast slowly starts to unwind.

The idea that Gods actively hold the people they heal together is neat.

You read the God Delusion and instantly all your old wounds come back and your head falls off again.

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May 3

Everyone is trying to capture or kill the party because the rogue stole a box of candies. Turns out the fancy box hid important information on a conspiracy that the Great Houses don’t want seeing the light of day.

It's carved into the candles, and they want to stop you before you light them and they lose all their records.

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May 3

The party is called to investigate a village whose inhabitants have become love obsessed zombies, and they find the source is magic stinkbugs have consumed a long spoiled cache of love potions that had been stashed in a nearby abandoned mine and are releasing potion fumes onto the village

Love is in the air!

Retreat to a secure location and keep the windows sealed until the Love dissipates. If someone you know is contaminated by love, put them in an isolated area without access to pop songs, chocolates or Hugh Grant until the symptoms pass.

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May 3

The party is a team of pixie detectives who are trying to bust the Tooth Fairy and her illegal underground black market trade of “child ivory”.

The reason that Fae keep stealing children is that if you ever got money from the tooth fairy you're technically an accomplice and you're going to fairy jail.

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May 3

Power Rangers themed campaign but never tell the players, the magic crystal in a device that gives you a chromatic themed outfit with an animal companion, get missions from a mentor that’s locked in an another dimension and can only appear as a big head in a big crystal within a hidden temple, you fight a monster per session to learn whose making them with the different villains in a hierarchy with a different boss you have to face after the previous one

If anyone says "wait, is this power rangers", the world explodes.

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