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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One party member is an axe-wielding warrior who calls his axe his “brother”. The other parties think it’s a symbolic title of how bonded he is both to his weapon, and to his life as a defender of his kingdom. Nope. The axe is literally his brother. His mother gave birth to twins, one a baby boy and one an axe, wielded by its twin.

­sounds like a @swordscomic character

The Hero with a Thousand Faces: One or more PCs have been cursed so that the more fame they garner, the less likely anybody will be to recognize them. Insisting that you deserve credit for The Hero’s exploits will always backfire and make you an enemy of the people. Turning in a MacGuffin to finish your current quest? You must have stolen that from The Hero, didn’t you? You may go on to save the whole world, but not even your closest friends and family will recognize you…

Joseph Campbell hates your guts.­

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