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More inadvisable ways to introduce a replacement for a dead Dungeons & Dragons character mid adventure: 

Hanging from a gallows, apparently dead, only to speak up and request help getting down at the party’s approach; when they ask how you survived, simply remark that you have a very strong neck  

Appearing in a flash of light in response to some seemingly innocuous action, tearfully thanking the party for “finally breaking the curse”  

The next ogre or other large humanoid the party encounters is wielding you as a club  

Wandering aimlessly from around the next bend, peering at an enormous fold-out map and loudly insisting you could have sworn this was the way to Waterdeep  

Falling screaming from the sky, and landing miraculously unharmed; if questioned, mutter something about bats and refuse to elaborate  

(replacement character is at least one size category smaller) It turns out that you were in the deceased character’s backpack the whole time

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You can't do the bury your gays trope if every character in your campaign is LGBTQ+!

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Did I ever share my character's personality on tumblr?

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Straight DnD parties be like: *calm elf warrior* *angry orc barbarian* *seductive tiefling rogue* *squishy human bard*

Gay DnD parties be like: *purple tiefling druid* *purple tiefling paladin* *purple tiefling warrior* *8 year old lizard* *drunken dwarf guy* *squishy human bard*

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D&D but with Dark Souls style lore- you can make your character, but the DM determine your backstory in addition to world lore.  The only way you learn anything about yourself is when you make rolls and the DM uses info from your backstory to give you the information you need.  

i.e.  "History- do I recognize the armor these soldiers are wearing?“ 

 "You do.  Soldiers like these stole your sister from you, imprisoning her far away.”  

“I- I have a sister??”

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Having trouble coming up with worldbuilding details for your setting? Why not browse Yahoo answers and take inspiration from there? Some of the most confusing questions about how things work could slot in perfectly in a magic setting.

If you act fast, your players won't be able to catch you since they won't be able to access the website in a few days. It's the perfect inspiration!

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Painted a dwarf.

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All dragonborn are called Reginald.

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Low-level diplomatic incidents for your Dungeons & Dragons game:

Two villages on opposite ends of a great valley have become embroiled in a dispute over hunting rights that’s about to boil over into open war. Each community is flat broke and can scarcely field a dozen men-at-arms, but neither can bow out of the approaching confrontation without losing face. Both village leaders attempt to hire the party as a secret weapon; neither is aware that the other has also done so.  

The local lord’s contemptible offspring has resolved to slay the dragon that lairs nearby. The townspeople, however, have secretly entered into a mutually beneficial arrangement with the dragon; they would prefer to resolve the situation without revealing the bargain, and ideally also without getting the awful brat killed and thereby sparking a vendetta that would likely result in real dragonslayers entering the fray.  

The party is accosted by robed acolytes who declare that one of the party’s number is the Chosen One, destined to defeat their god’s foes. The god in question proves to be a very minor deity whose domain consists of a stream that’s been polluted by a nearby smelting operation. In response, the small god of the hill the mine is sunk into – who benefits from the miners’ propitiation – soon nominates their own Chosen One!  

A gang of phantoms haunting the local graveyard have taken to holding nightly festivities so raucous, they’ve been declared a public nuisance. Being spirits, however, they’re immune to any force the townspeople (or the party) can bring to bear, and exorcism has thus far proven fruitless because – metaphysically speaking – they have every right to be there. How do you enforce a noise complaint against immaterial perpetrators?  

An enormous sinkhole opens beneath the town courthouse and plunges the building deep underground. Upon investigation, the party discovers not a monstrous incursion, but a Deep Gnome geological expedition that’s become lost due to a math error and ended up much closer to the surface than they thought they were. They don’t really want to hurt anyone, but they also don’t want their mistake to become public!

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I’m bored so anyone who reblogs this I’ll make you a DnD character sheet of what I think you’d be based on your tumblr

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martial class players be like “how do you remember so many spells? that seems so complicated” and then go “I attack with my greatsword and I’m going to use great weapon master so that’s 12+10 to hit but minus 5 so that’s 17. That hits? Okay then I get 2d6+6+10 so 23. Let’s go again, great weapon master, natural 19, that’s a crit with this weapon, so that gives me an extra attack, and I have savage attacker, so that’s…7x2+6+10+2 from savage attack so 32, so total damage 55, extra attack, not doing great weapon master…that’s just a natural 4, though, does 14 hit? no? Um…not going to action surge this round, I’m going to wait. Are they looking hurt? Okay, well, they used their reaction this round, right? Then I will move 20 feet - yeah over there - to get next to the guy the rogue was focusing on, and they can’t get an attack of opportunity. Okay that’s an entirely normal turn for me. Thank god my entirely normal turns aren’t checking if a single die roll with a single modifier exceeds a single other number and then adding up a few d6s and potentially dividing the result by two while remaining exactly where I am, 60 feet away.”

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Commission for @probablybizarrerpgideas! This is Feroxus.^^ They are a kineticist hobgoblin!

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More inadvisable D&D characters, silent protagonist edition:

A gym-rat-themed human barbarian who communicates exclusively via an ever-changing array of pithy slogans displayed on their enchanted novelty t-shirt  

An elven rogue who refuses to speak aloud out of a professional commitment to stealthiness; when the need arises, they produce artfully handwritten notes from their numerous pockets  

A halfling warlock who traded their voice to their patron for some unspecified favour; their toad familiar, who speaks on their behalf, sounds exactly like a 1950s radio announcer, static included  

An orc wizard who speaks a unique three-handed dialect of sign language with the assistance of the mage hand cantrip; when otherwise unoccupied, the mage hand is prone to rude gestures  

A bard whose spellcasting performance skill is being a professional sports mascot; nobody knows what species they are because the suit never comes off

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More inadvisable background templates for your Dungeons & Dragons game:

Time traveller

False cleric

Obstreperous peasant

Tax collector

Childhood friend

Failed messiah

Nefarious servant

Contrived example

Potion tester

Former skeleton

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If you don't have a fortune telling npc, you can always use fortune cookies as the results of an Augury spell. Just make sure to rewrite your adventure so the cookie isn't wrong!

Instead of dice everyone gets a fortune cookie at the beginning of the session and uses the lucky numbers on the back of the fortune as their roll. They can only use each number once and when they use up all of their numbers they get a new cookie and start all over again.

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Instead of dice everyone gets a fortune cookie at the beginning of the session and uses the lucky numbers on the back of the fortune as their roll. They can only use each number once and when they use up all of their numbers they get a new cookie and start all over again.

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Simple- order food to the player's physical address and ask the delivery person to write the magic item's information on the packaging. Easier with pizza than with takeout soup, but theoretically doable.

Looking to capture Critical Role's exciting energy of passing out cards with magic items on them to the players, but don't have the time or creativity to think up detailed flavor text? Buy a handful of greeting cards from your local dollar store and simply replace words, cross out or add as needed. Players will love the detail and effort put into the game, and you can wish them a happy new +2 longsword at the same time!