Post/Author/DateTime	Post
pierow37 06-15-06, 12:49 PM	Plz number all of these... 1.) Make a trap that when you try to disable it, sets of 6 explosive runes 2.) Have a potion baught at a store, really be poisen 3.) Riddles 4.) NPC traitors 5.) Cursed Weapons
HalasterAteMyHamster 06-15-06, 01:13 PM	6.) Well, you get some... Oh, wait. Sorry, I believe in making the game fun for everyone.
KVW 06-15-06, 01:28 PM	7. A brass dragon that follows the party and never shuts up. 8. one of the pcs has a jilted exlover silver dragon sucubus etc... that goes out of it's way to torment the party. 9. a super magic sword that sings everytime they get with in 100 feet of an evil monster
Ziggaraut 06-15-06, 01:38 PM	10: Making the cream you gave your player for his genital herpes actually bleach. Oh, you meant to torment their characters? I should probably apologize to Phillip then....
PurpleWorm 06-15-06, 01:42 PM	11. Accidentally standing on their miniatures when re-entering the room. They can't really do anything, because you're the DM.
GoldLeader13 06-15-06, 02:27 PM	12) Commodities as treasure. Instead of 5000 gold coins, 5000 gp worth of raw iron. :smirk: 13) When they leave and come back with a wagon for raw iron, they find a rust monster ate all of it. :evillaugh (hey, its their fault they chose to leave the dungeon for a week and come back)
goawayugh 06-15-06, 02:43 PM	14. ILLUSIONS!!!.........nuff said.
pierow37 06-15-06, 03:02 PM	15.) 100 kobolds
Pegasos989 06-15-06, 03:03 PM	15. Spellcaster enemies in a warrior campaign. Today we had: -one blindness -3 hold persons -2 fears -one wither limb And... That was for the barbarian/ranger alone! (okay, some of those are fortitude saves, bt at the 4th level, elite-array npc can have save DCs of 15+ spell level) My favourite opponent was: one 5th level cleric with only hold persons, blindness and fears prepared, with some ½cr skeletons and scythes for coup de gracing!
supersod 06-15-06, 03:04 PM	15. party hired coach driver, he fell asleep, they fell off a cliff
LCD2YOU 06-15-06, 03:07 PM	18: Forget the PCs. Just torture the players. Much more fun.
pierow37 06-15-06, 03:08 PM	19. real number, parashoots, with holes in them
Kyle_the_wizard 06-15-06, 03:31 PM	20.Send them to a layer of the abyss (beyond 10) and forcethem to bargain there way out layer by layer 22.make that nifty magical staff you gave them for healaing turn out to be create hostile undead (50' radius up to 50HD/charge)
supersod 06-15-06, 03:42 PM	23. eat them 24. DM "you know that amulet your father gave you?" PC "yes" DM "it just exploded in your face"
supersod 06-15-06, 03:52 PM	25. do the old two heads which one is lying with 3 heads 26. when they go through a door it leads to a pit 27. give one player a highly magnetic +5 longsword and another highly magnetic neckpiece :D :D :D :D
PurpleWorm 06-15-06, 03:52 PM	28. Players have to memorise their spells. ALL of them. By which is meant the full description, statistics, and some random words that you've decided make up the vocal components. They also must use any appropriate gestures. Player: Klaatu, birada... *cough* DM: Oh, that just happens to be my "Summon a horde of evil dead" spell. So yeah. They're on their way. Player: *Whimper*
Voldar_Mecorthio 06-15-06, 04:03 PM	29 Make a bottomless pit. 30. Target the weakest character with every monster attack. 31. Make literally every item cursed. 32. Make the king think the PCs are evil and have the entire country attack them. 33. Make a dungion that is impossable to leave (the door disappears or something) and make a random encounter happen every time they try to make camp so they can never replenish their per day abilities. Then put them through a 200 room dungion.
supersod 06-15-06, 04:27 PM	34.'it 'em in't face 35.nobody speaks common, only draconic
PurpleWorm 06-15-06, 04:29 PM	36. Use a 10 second sand-timer to denote each player's turn.
pierow37 06-15-06, 04:31 PM	35. [real number] learn sign language... have the entire village in the next campain use sign language.
supersod 06-15-06, 04:49 PM	tell them they ran out of food and make them take a will role or eat their own legs!
theblindman 06-15-06, 05:14 PM	36. Use a 10 second sand-timer to denote each player's turn. I actually really like that... Hmm... 38. Change the names of monsters in your campaign, and their descriptions. Keep the statistics the same (a thing called an "Orc" looks like a bugbear and fights like an ogre)
Romtos 06-15-06, 05:17 PM	[x] Refuse to put any type of melee weapon into the game. [x+1] Put randomly walls everywhere. Very high, very steep walls. [x+2] Pick one PC and let every NPC predict him his death.
Zombayz1 06-15-06, 08:26 PM	42. Nuke them. Literaly.BHUAHAHAHAHAA!! (http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?t=652571)
Kelwyn 06-15-06, 08:37 PM	Rust monster, Rust monster, R U S T M O N S T E R And now all together Rust Monster :D :P
Kyle_the_wizard 06-15-06, 09:45 PM	Making there npc ally a damnable annoying bard who never shuts up..yet when the party turns on him realises he could easily wipe them out so they must live with him ( loved watching them get ready to pull out they're hair because he had such bad songs about everything) rustmonster edited and revised into one of the following: Magic monster, raremetals or clothing (funny how people react when they're character has to run around nekid for a couple hours :P )
fefnir 06-15-06, 09:48 PM	44. turns out that you failed your reflex save and fall into the pit. 45. make another reflex save or you fall into the grey ooze and slowly get dissovled 46. have the distance of the pit incress, so the dc rises as well I had fun with this one
Whisper_Swiftblade 06-15-06, 10:00 PM	47(?) role several persentiles to determin if a pc spontainisly combusts, is struck by lightning, hit by a commit, landed on by a dragon (or othe collasal flyer) who sudently had a heart attack imn mid flight..........
pierow37 06-15-06, 10:28 PM	49, real number You know that one of your PC's is a pyro, therefore, he swore an oath to set everything he could on fire, without causing harm to any core race. which includes costing NPC's money. And if he broke the oath, he had to kill himself... but he got +6 on Caster level with fire descriptor. So you set a bed, which is flammable, in a room. Under the bed is 3 jugs full of something really flammable! then... hahaha... they all get blown up, then every monster in the whole dungeon comes to kill them.... becasue they hear the noise of the explosion Fun Fun Times.... i almost feel sorry for him... but thats what he gets for signing a stupid blood oath...
RoamingArcher 06-15-06, 10:30 PM	49: Have a large stone door in a dungeon. When the PCs push it, it doesn't move. When they pull it, they find out it has no hinges as it falls on them for 5d6, no save unless they have evasion. :schemes:
pierow37 06-15-06, 10:32 PM	51. once the adventure is over... ME: too bad u guys missed the magic weapon PCS: ... DAM YOU!
Archmage_Vall 06-15-06, 10:38 PM	48 (?). put a magic ring in a stash of loot. Turns out this ring sets off a deafening Alarm spell whenever an evil dragon passes within 1000 miles of it.
pierow37 06-15-06, 10:45 PM	53. real number My personal favorite is the alarm of enemy alert.. sounds great doesn't it... but really, it makes a very loud screach that can be heard within a 50 ft radius, whenever an evil creature is within 25 ft. Oh, and it's cursed so it can only come off the PC by ripping it out, which causes 15d8 dmg... then you bleed for 25 pts of dmg each round for 1 day. then it does no more damage, the bleeding cannot be stoped by spell or a heal check
DarthMarasmus 06-16-06, 02:19 AM	54) Jump campaign settings to Call of Cthulu on Earth. Common isn't English. 55) Throw in a half-orc bard who sings raunchy songs like "Transvestite Bar Wench."
towerwrath 06-16-06, 03:21 AM	56) PC traitors 57) Snakes, why did it have to be snakes? 58) Deus ex Machina 59) an army of hill giants at first level 60) send them to get eggs. (all they had to do was knock on the door and ask but no they spent 3 weeks in the forest digging traps and such so that they could break in and steal them but all they had to do was ask) :evillaugh
TheBigRagu 06-16-06, 05:04 AM	61) Have the next monster they fight be Katamari Damacy.
PurpleWorm 06-16-06, 05:06 AM	62) PCs have to use their *real-life* stats. There goes those 18 scores for Strength...
pierow37 06-16-06, 09:45 AM	63. making up houserules in game
LCD2YOU 06-16-06, 09:47 AM	62) PCs have to use their *real-life* stats. There goes those 18 scores for Strength...64) And anything over 10 Charisma.
Darth_Phantom 06-16-06, 10:21 AM	65) send an army of little white bunnies with a vorpal bite attack :D
LCD2YOU 06-16-06, 10:30 AM	65) send an army of little white bunnies with a vorpal bite attack :DGeez. Stop ripping off from old movies. 66) A old man, no woman, who makes the PCs answer 3, no 5 questions before they can cross a bridge, no the PCs stand on a trap door, correctly or they fall into a chasm of eternal peril. 67) Make the PCs rescue a wedding from a mad man who is killing everybody. See, nothing to it.
supersod 06-16-06, 11:42 AM	eat them
pierow37 06-16-06, 06:39 PM	start at lvl 1
Fabius Maximus 06-16-06, 06:58 PM	15.) 100 kobolds Hmm? How about 1 kender?
Toloran 06-16-06, 07:17 PM	24. DM "you know that amulet your father gave you?" PC "yes" DM "it just exploded in your face" I've had that exact situation happen in my group. 31. Make literally every item cursed. Not nearly evil enough. Because then they expect it and don't do the stupid thing of putting on equipment before checking it first. 49: Have a large stone door in a dungeon. When the PCs push it, it doesn't move. When they pull it, they find out it has no hinges as it falls on them for 5d6, no save unless they have evasion. You, sir, are my hero. :D Anyway... 68) Cover a room that has paper walls with explosive runes that says (in common) "DO NOT READ". 69) Allow NPCs to do called shots and send them against alot of enemies with True Strike (DM: The ranger uses his truestrike amulet and calls a shot to Jeffs nuts; Jeff: :censored: )
NightBreeze 06-16-06, 07:18 PM	Hmm? How about 1 kender? c'mon, no DM is THAT evil...
Archmage_Vall 06-16-06, 08:35 PM	68) Cover a room that has paper walls with explosive runes that says (in common) "DO NOT READ". 70. And they're all brightly colored in big bold letters, blinking, and have big floating arrows pointing at them. Then, when the runes explode, the arrows each add 1d6 piercing damage for shrapnel. 71. Have the party rogue be cursed with the Reverse Midas Touch. Any gold they touch turns into ordinary stone. Then have it take a Miracle/Wish to get rid of the curse.
BRJN 06-16-06, 10:07 PM	72. Undergarment of Resist Fear This is a pair of undershorts. Boxers or briefs, doesn't matter. It responds to Detect Magic and Identify normally. When the PC dons it, however, it does not help him resist Cause Fear (or anything else fearful) ... the first time. It will help him thereafter. At DM option, it may give him a + to his save, act like the feat Iron Will, or it may make him immune to fear effects. You see, this pair of undershorts only works when it is wet or soiled. Actually, immunity to fear might be good for the Improved Undergarment.
pierow37 06-16-06, 11:05 PM	c'mon, no DM is THAT evil... OH i am that evil... thats why i started this thread!
pierow37 06-16-06, 11:06 PM	73. The titanic template on a penguin... with advancentment to 99HD
Insanit 06-16-06, 11:10 PM	74 geas/quest spell
tharivol266 06-17-06, 01:23 AM	75) i pulled this off of someone else so if they see it feel free to take credit. have a permanent npc bard follow the pcs around taking notes and making fun of them whenever they get in a compromising situation. he never fights and he is never attacked. he has plus 5000 to all saves and improved evasion and uncanny dodge (rogues have to be level 41 to sneak attack him) have him have sr 6000 and dr 100/- and immunities to all energy types. whenever they talk to him he just makes alot of refferences to "not wanting to interfere with the plot" when they ask his name give him yours and when they ask his professoin have him say "well isn't it obvious? im the DM" then run as your players throw themselves across the table to kill you
TheSkinnySkeleton 06-17-06, 03:39 AM	55) Throw in a half-orc bard who sings raunchy songs like "Transvestite Bar Wench." Heehee! I actually have a re-occuring orc bard villain in my campaign. The PCs were imprisoned by orcs for a short while at level 1, and there was this orc bard constantly singing "Working on chain gang!" and thumping his big wardrum. Needless to say, when the PCs escaped, he was the first to die. And every session since, my players force me to bring in another orc bard so they can kill it again. Seriously, if I don't have an orc bard, they simply take control away from me, say there's an orc bard themselves, and kill it anyways. It's hilarious. :P 76) Every battle encounter has an invisible wizard readying his action to counterspell.
Darth_Phantom 06-17-06, 08:58 AM	Geez. Stop ripping off from old movies. 66) A old man, no woman, who makes the PCs answer 3, no 5 questions before they can cross a bridge, no the PCs stand on a trap door, correctly or they fall into a chasm of eternal peril. :ahem: Stop ripping off from old movies yourself
Ziggaraut 06-17-06, 10:40 AM	:ahem: Stop ripping off from old movies yourself Technically, they needed to answer 3, not 5, and it was a catapult that threw them in to the chasm of eternal peril.
Kyle_the_wizard 06-17-06, 11:10 AM	Take the bard idea,,,and make it a kender who is constantly stealing (and always suceeding) exactly the item they need in a dire situation eg. caltrops when the 5 ogres are running at you full speed. and the kenders got em 500ft that way wondering what they're for. Pcs Hated it...it was wonderful everytime they said pulling out this... i'd say (just to make them happy) roll search, *roll* *fail* *look at the kender* *sees him with item in question just because they were going to pull it out*
Damior 06-17-06, 12:25 PM	78. Send a rust monster after the party warforged.
Voldar_Mecorthio 06-17-06, 12:31 PM	79. Make a creature only portal (PCs come out with no equipment, naked) lead to the middle of a huge town. 80. Give the PCs a uranium sword that kills them with radiation. 81. Put them tied up in a pit with antimagic field in it with about ten monkeys that poke them constantly. Then simulate what they feel.
Archmage_Vall 06-17-06, 01:15 PM	82. On a similar note, have Olidimarra get bored and cast "Bigby's Poking Prodding Finger" on each PC. Simulate how it feels.
supersod 06-17-06, 03:17 PM	83. ooh ooh i tried this last night make them kill an explosive dwarf I'm SERIOUS!
Whisper_Swiftblade 06-17-06, 04:03 PM	when the barbarian is seperated from the group have peaple place explosive runes all over him and clame that it's warpaint that will make him stronger, then let him find his way back to the others.
coppro 06-17-06, 04:26 PM	85. "I prepared Explosive Runes this morning" 86. Lycanthrope that attacks the person with the lowest Will save, or just kidnaps the whole party. 87. Magic items that disintegrate as soon as it comes off a monster.
Rodger 06-17-06, 04:35 PM	88. "NPC: The item you seek is in the nearby lair of a great copper wyrm." 89. Deck of Many Changes. Cruelest artifact ever.
tharivol266 06-17-06, 07:02 PM	90) four words : unlabled potions of fireball
pierow37 06-17-06, 07:33 PM	90) four words : unlabled potions of fireball You sick sick man, i love it 91. the best hiding spot ever: the trassque's nostril
Voldar_Mecorthio 06-17-06, 07:40 PM	Have an enemy use Evan's Spiked Tenticles of Forced Intrusion (http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/GiantITP/ootscript?SK=20) on PCs. Ouch.
DeWayne 06-17-06, 11:40 PM	93. Have an enemy kill their familiars and/or animal companions. It's just the sort of thing a villain would do. When our druid awoke to find his snake pinned to the ceiling the players all stared at me in disbelief so I explained "Imps are devils. Devils are EVIL. What part of 'evil' is it that you guys are having problems wrapping your minds around?" It was actually quite gratifying when the party leader announced "All right, THAT'S IT! In the morning we are going imp hunting!" (I'd actually goaded them into doing something.)
tharivol266 06-18-06, 12:54 AM	Have an enemy use Evan's Spiked Tenticles of Forced Intrusion (http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/GiantITP/ootscript?SK=20) on PCs. Ouch. "I'm not comfortable being grappled there!!" who here doesn't like the order of the stick? i even have my gf getting interested. and she doesnt even play dnd 93. Have an enemy kill their familiars and/or animal companions. It's just the sort of thing a villain would do. When our druid awoke to find his snake pinned to the ceiling the players all stared at me in disbelief so I explained "Imps are devils. Devils are EVIL. What part of 'evil' is it that you guys are having problems wrapping your minds around?" It was actually quite gratifying when the party leader announced "All right, THAT'S IT! In the morning we are going imp hunting!" (I'd actually goaded them into doing something.) one time after a run in with a band of bandits and an unlabled potion of subdual fireball they woke up to find the druid's wolf's head on a stick in front of them. they couldn't find the body.
ChaoticGod 06-18-06, 02:20 AM	95) Glyphs of Warding everywhere loaded with Bestow Curse which secretly raises the DC of everything they do by 4 if they are affected but they have no way of knowing if they saved or not or even what they were saving against
pierow37 06-18-06, 10:22 AM	96. ahh the classic scene, a brave warrior of good in full armour standing on a hill in the storm. Sounds more like a lighting rod to me, so i made him a lighting rod. he was struck 16 times before he got off the moutain. he never had any more dramatic scenes again
R99 06-18-06, 12:38 PM	97: Paragon Tarasque 98: PUN PUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
pierow37 06-18-06, 05:05 PM	99. No snacks, they distract from the realism [espically good way to torture them if you have a long gaming session 100. ATTACK OF THE TEDDY GRAMS! I'll let someone else finishh it off
priestofroadkill 06-18-06, 05:34 PM	101.five words.. full party death from kobolds (should thi still be carried on? it's wuite the awesome thread)