Had any mad DM campaigns? [Archive] - Wizards Community

Had any mad DM campaigns? [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Gammaman
03-22-07, 05:51 PM To start things off, I was once playing in a campaign where driders ruled the earth. Their secret underground castle consisted of a tavern and necromancers guild. That was it. Of course, being a fighter, the most I could do was knock back drinks in the tavern, while my necromancer friend has all the fun...
In the end, we killed all of the wizards that had power over the driders.

Told you it was crazy :looloo:
Prator_the_Legendary
03-22-07, 06:03 PM Our DM doesn't really have a continuous story to his campaign. Basically, there's a loose plot revolving around a BBEG called Master Kain, and everything else is just filler to justify the DM throwing epic-level homebrews at us.
KillerVole
03-22-07, 07:33 PM I'm currently running a campaign in which the PCs are freedom fighters, trying to save the world from the grasp of an evil, multi-planar elven corporation. It's a bit odd.

It all started with an improved one shot, where they worked for this company. I'm a fan of letting PCs make their own plots, so when one of them decided it was evil and had to be destroyed, I made it evil. After the quest, they wanted to keep going, and now it's in its second year.
Leo
03-22-07, 07:50 PM My DM has a giant city filled with a giant antimagic field, the human king there put us all under gueas/quest after we blasted his island wich contained the only source of iron from the kingdom, untill we kill the orc tribe next door(very long story).

There are also a family of brass dragons that loves to gamble, an arena full of high level characters when we are bored of fighting random monsters, a tribe of lycantropes that seeks to expand the disease among everyone they can and the typical gnoll tribe that already has learned to don't get in our way.
Prince_of_Murder_Kinghall
03-23-07, 09:13 PM Strangest thing that comes to mind is a huge city built on the back of a pod of flying whales that moves from city to city with trade goods and the like.
Krusk
03-24-07, 02:04 AM MY buddy ran one where the PC's would all periodically have hours or days missing from their memory. They would miss entire fights, and suddenly be in a different town with 15 hp. Or wake up lost in the woods with tons of gold.

I forget how it ended, something about a monster that was rampaging the countryside following them for some reason i don't know, and its power was the ability to fast forward time.

or something.
RodinGates
03-24-07, 07:50 PM One locale in our campaign was a mage's guild in an elven capital which functioned like a bureaucracy. There was a desk on every floor (About 17 levels I think) in which paper work was filed to receive the services from each floor.

After becoming frustrated with the bureaucracy my character filled out several requests for highly expensive magic items under the name of a retired PC and rival before leaving.
Gammaman
03-25-07, 06:58 AM These are all cool...

Shame my DM can't think of crazy campaigns like yours :P
*Truean*
03-28-07, 09:45 PM just curious, are we talking "crazy" as in good or bad?
Malwrath
03-29-07, 01:54 AM Hahahha the best campaign I played when I first began playing d&d. I was a
4th level Paladin and we were stuck in a seige. The barbarians on one side of the world we were on the other. I told the dm I wanted to throw the nearest throwable object over the wall and I wound up tossing over our gnome wizard. Ahahahahhah great fun.
GraveDigger
03-29-07, 01:34 PM I once hosted a campaign where the character generation was completely random from class to race. We had a gnome druid, a half Orc paladin, and a half dragon cleric that went chasing after a Lich wizard who was trying to gain control of the beholders so he could quickly disintigrate his way to the center of the earth and blow it up. When the lich came back cause no one could find the phylacrophy (Sp?) and he put a giant jewel in the center of Amn that when anyone with in 100' of it that didn't pass a fort save became an undead. One of the characters that died in the first battle came back as a human monk and baracaded the hell out of the slums and started his own little faction the rest were trying to make a ballista type weapon that would destroy the jewel, once that was accomplished the true army of bug bears showed up. turned out that the undead amn thing was simply a distraction... Fun
speedyhobbit
03-29-07, 01:40 PM I'd say the most random campaign I was ever in was when 2 characters were on trial... to determine who stole the cookie from the cookie jar. The defendants were a Halfling and a Drow.
High Octane
03-29-07, 01:41 PM I have a crazy DM. I dont know if he doesnt plan things out, or changes them on the fly, or if hes just brilliantly crazy.

Dr. Weird from Aqua Teen Hunger Force was a BBEG. Nuff said.
speedyhobbit
03-29-07, 01:44 PM The cookie jar one was definitely the DM pulling the campaign out of her ass, because her twin sister who is DMing a different campaign had not planned anything when I unexpectedly returned home from school for a visit, and was like "I want to DnD but haven't planned anything!" and then entreated the cookie jar DM to create something. She campe up with the campaign in all of three minutes; it was quite interesting.
Salla
03-29-07, 03:31 PM Well, I had a DM I thought was mad for giving the party a +6 stat boost item at 4th level ...
Sihaya
03-29-07, 09:40 PM Last weekend I played a completely improvised one-shot where we went to a cave and found ogres ...making pies. They made them for their god Nabisco, who taught them the art of cooking.

Well, to cut a long story short, the kingdom sent a gigantic army on the ogre's cave, so we made a gargantuan pie laced with LSD and dropped it on the army. It was so awesome.
DarkNick
03-29-07, 10:32 PM I played one game where at first level the party found a holy avenger just lying on the ground...
CaptainPicard
03-29-07, 11:02 PM This is my own campaign, but the BBEG (CE Half-Succubus Human Sorcerer/Paladin of Slaughter/Eldritch Knight/Abjurant Champion) is a fan of Shoujo anime. The campaign takes place in a distant, post-apocalyptic (sort of, things are stabilized for millenia) future of our world, and using magic people have restored a number of random old things. This guy has the entire DVD collection of Sailor Moon, Mai-HiME/Otome, Cardcaptor Sakura, and a number of others, and he watches them religiously (one of his affiliates, a CE Drow Swordsage/Master of Nine, explained to the party that he had watched HiME at least 47 times that the Swordsage was aware of). Because of his ridiculous access to resources and cronies, he started crafting frighteningly functional imitations of items and creatures from these shows. People laugh at him until they get sliced to ribbons by red strings or cut in half by his moon tiara imitation.

I think that counts as silly.
DarkNick
03-29-07, 11:09 PM I think that counts as silly.

Ahhhh, but perfectly ok for a girly boy...;)
Praedoran
03-30-07, 09:08 AM Okay, the second campaign I ever ran was completely over the top. Not saying my first one wasn't over the top (it was also completely weird because it was based on Evangelion, so the psychological trips I sent players on were mind numbing), but the second started as a street level campaign and ended up crazy epic.

The cast:
Niyu: A celestial angel who, after dying from a broken soul, caused from slaughtering an innocent, caused from the rage of being reamed with a bed post, redeemed himself at the last moment (with the help of his daughter who was almost as old as him due to a statis accident he suffered after conceiving her) by saving his wife who had been frozen in a block of magical ice and was ressurected. He fell in love with a cat girl (adultery!) that he was contracted to kill (but did this to actually save her) while pretending to be a cop, and his resulting battle with a second mercenary, sent the space station crashing into earth, which he survived when he realized his god like abilities. He also redeemed a big bad evil Gal, because he felt that since she had a part of his DNA, she was techincally his daughter (as if the gang leading rebellious one he had wasn't enough!)

Tommy: A demonspawn who rode around on a silver surfboard, enlisting his services to every big bad evil guy he could find, until he gained enough power from all of them he broke the power of the contracts that bound him, trapped Niyu and Tharivol in another dimension with hyper time, and corrupted the souls of the human metropolis and opened a portal to Hades, which unleased demons to roam the street, while smoking dope. He also ressurected his father in order to kill him and take all his powers and planned on turning the earth's surface into his very own plane of hell once he obtained all six artifact swords, only to find out he was a pawn in Asmodeus's scheme to destroy the world and collect all of it's souls.

Kade: A genetic experiment composed of three Starcraft races (Zerg, Protoss, and Terran) who started off as a ship's mechanic. When their ship crash landed, he found the Holy Avenger in the Terrasque's stomach dimension (a place completely devoid of magic, very similar to the dark ages), and decided to keep it from Tommy, who needs it (and 5 other swords) in order to become all powerful. He took to the Holy Avenger so well, he became a Paladin and undergone a trial that turned him into a Grand Crusade, and thus declared war on Tommy's city (his battle cry was MOOO! which summoned the Tarrasque, his mount)

Jack: A blind Revenant who was captured and outfitted with genetic augmentation, and had the ability to temporarily become the strongest being on the planet. However, he had completed his task of vengeance and the demon he had sold his soul to came around to collect. He fought with it, Gandalf style, as they plummeted towards the fires of Hades. Although he killed it before they reached the ground, he fell into a pit of molten metal and was disintigrated. A fragment of himself still existed, and a blacksmith, using the molten steel as a base, fashioned him as a Xodar. He came back to life, choosing purpose over true life, without a soul in order to repair the damage to the world that would be caused from the War between his old friends.

This is getting a little lengthy, but Tharivol (a reborn psychic with an unhealthy affection for his psuedo dragon), Falco (a power armor wearing starship captain), and Anubis (A mecha driving mercenary), still have stories that haven't been told either.
Gammaman
03-30-07, 04:10 PM just curious, are we talking "crazy" as in good or bad?

Good, caus bad is not fun.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Gammaman 03-22-07, 05:51 PM	To start things off, I was once playing in a campaign where driders ruled the earth. Their secret underground castle consisted of a tavern and necromancers guild. That was it. Of course, being a fighter, the most I could do was knock back drinks in the tavern, while my necromancer friend has all the fun... In the end, we killed all of the wizards that had power over the driders. Told you it was crazy :looloo:
Prator_the_Legendary 03-22-07, 06:03 PM	Our DM doesn't really have a continuous story to his campaign. Basically, there's a loose plot revolving around a BBEG called Master Kain, and everything else is just filler to justify the DM throwing epic-level homebrews at us.
KillerVole 03-22-07, 07:33 PM	I'm currently running a campaign in which the PCs are freedom fighters, trying to save the world from the grasp of an evil, multi-planar elven corporation. It's a bit odd. It all started with an improved one shot, where they worked for this company. I'm a fan of letting PCs make their own plots, so when one of them decided it was evil and had to be destroyed, I made it evil. After the quest, they wanted to keep going, and now it's in its second year.
Leo 03-22-07, 07:50 PM	My DM has a giant city filled with a giant antimagic field, the human king there put us all under gueas/quest after we blasted his island wich contained the only source of iron from the kingdom, untill we kill the orc tribe next door(very long story). There are also a family of brass dragons that loves to gamble, an arena full of high level characters when we are bored of fighting random monsters, a tribe of lycantropes that seeks to expand the disease among everyone they can and the typical gnoll tribe that already has learned to don't get in our way.
Prince_of_Murder_Kinghall 03-23-07, 09:13 PM	Strangest thing that comes to mind is a huge city built on the back of a pod of flying whales that moves from city to city with trade goods and the like.
Krusk 03-24-07, 02:04 AM	MY buddy ran one where the PC's would all periodically have hours or days missing from their memory. They would miss entire fights, and suddenly be in a different town with 15 hp. Or wake up lost in the woods with tons of gold. I forget how it ended, something about a monster that was rampaging the countryside following them for some reason i don't know, and its power was the ability to fast forward time. or something.
RodinGates 03-24-07, 07:50 PM	One locale in our campaign was a mage's guild in an elven capital which functioned like a bureaucracy. There was a desk on every floor (About 17 levels I think) in which paper work was filed to receive the services from each floor. After becoming frustrated with the bureaucracy my character filled out several requests for highly expensive magic items under the name of a retired PC and rival before leaving.
Gammaman 03-25-07, 06:58 AM	These are all cool... Shame my DM can't think of crazy campaigns like yours :P
Truean 03-28-07, 09:45 PM	just curious, are we talking "crazy" as in good or bad?
Malwrath 03-29-07, 01:54 AM	Hahahha the best campaign I played when I first began playing d&d. I was a 4th level Paladin and we were stuck in a seige. The barbarians on one side of the world we were on the other. I told the dm I wanted to throw the nearest throwable object over the wall and I wound up tossing over our gnome wizard. Ahahahahhah great fun.
GraveDigger 03-29-07, 01:34 PM	I once hosted a campaign where the character generation was completely random from class to race. We had a gnome druid, a half Orc paladin, and a half dragon cleric that went chasing after a Lich wizard who was trying to gain control of the beholders so he could quickly disintigrate his way to the center of the earth and blow it up. When the lich came back cause no one could find the phylacrophy (Sp?) and he put a giant jewel in the center of Amn that when anyone with in 100' of it that didn't pass a fort save became an undead. One of the characters that died in the first battle came back as a human monk and baracaded the hell out of the slums and started his own little faction the rest were trying to make a ballista type weapon that would destroy the jewel, once that was accomplished the true army of bug bears showed up. turned out that the undead amn thing was simply a distraction... Fun
speedyhobbit 03-29-07, 01:40 PM	I'd say the most random campaign I was ever in was when 2 characters were on trial... to determine who stole the cookie from the cookie jar. The defendants were a Halfling and a Drow.
High Octane 03-29-07, 01:41 PM	I have a crazy DM. I dont know if he doesnt plan things out, or changes them on the fly, or if hes just brilliantly crazy. Dr. Weird from Aqua Teen Hunger Force was a BBEG. Nuff said.
speedyhobbit 03-29-07, 01:44 PM	The cookie jar one was definitely the DM pulling the campaign out of her ass, because her twin sister who is DMing a different campaign had not planned anything when I unexpectedly returned home from school for a visit, and was like "I want to DnD but haven't planned anything!" and then entreated the cookie jar DM to create something. She campe up with the campaign in all of three minutes; it was quite interesting.
Salla 03-29-07, 03:31 PM	Well, I had a DM I thought was mad for giving the party a +6 stat boost item at 4th level ...
Sihaya 03-29-07, 09:40 PM	Last weekend I played a completely improvised one-shot where we went to a cave and found ogres ...making pies. They made them for their god Nabisco, who taught them the art of cooking. Well, to cut a long story short, the kingdom sent a gigantic army on the ogre's cave, so we made a gargantuan pie laced with LSD and dropped it on the army. It was so awesome.
DarkNick 03-29-07, 10:32 PM	I played one game where at first level the party found a holy avenger just lying on the ground...
CaptainPicard 03-29-07, 11:02 PM	This is my own campaign, but the BBEG (CE Half-Succubus Human Sorcerer/Paladin of Slaughter/Eldritch Knight/Abjurant Champion) is a fan of Shoujo anime. The campaign takes place in a distant, post-apocalyptic (sort of, things are stabilized for millenia) future of our world, and using magic people have restored a number of random old things. This guy has the entire DVD collection of Sailor Moon, Mai-HiME/Otome, Cardcaptor Sakura, and a number of others, and he watches them religiously (one of his affiliates, a CE Drow Swordsage/Master of Nine, explained to the party that he had watched HiME at least 47 times that the Swordsage was aware of). Because of his ridiculous access to resources and cronies, he started crafting frighteningly functional imitations of items and creatures from these shows. People laugh at him until they get sliced to ribbons by red strings or cut in half by his moon tiara imitation. I think that counts as silly.
DarkNick 03-29-07, 11:09 PM	I think that counts as silly. Ahhhh, but perfectly ok for a girly boy...;)
Praedoran 03-30-07, 09:08 AM	Okay, the second campaign I ever ran was completely over the top. Not saying my first one wasn't over the top (it was also completely weird because it was based on Evangelion, so the psychological trips I sent players on were mind numbing), but the second started as a street level campaign and ended up crazy epic. The cast: Niyu: A celestial angel who, after dying from a broken soul, caused from slaughtering an innocent, caused from the rage of being reamed with a bed post, redeemed himself at the last moment (with the help of his daughter who was almost as old as him due to a statis accident he suffered after conceiving her) by saving his wife who had been frozen in a block of magical ice and was ressurected. He fell in love with a cat girl (adultery!) that he was contracted to kill (but did this to actually save her) while pretending to be a cop, and his resulting battle with a second mercenary, sent the space station crashing into earth, which he survived when he realized his god like abilities. He also redeemed a big bad evil Gal, because he felt that since she had a part of his DNA, she was techincally his daughter (as if the gang leading rebellious one he had wasn't enough!) Tommy: A demonspawn who rode around on a silver surfboard, enlisting his services to every big bad evil guy he could find, until he gained enough power from all of them he broke the power of the contracts that bound him, trapped Niyu and Tharivol in another dimension with hyper time, and corrupted the souls of the human metropolis and opened a portal to Hades, which unleased demons to roam the street, while smoking dope. He also ressurected his father in order to kill him and take all his powers and planned on turning the earth's surface into his very own plane of hell once he obtained all six artifact swords, only to find out he was a pawn in Asmodeus's scheme to destroy the world and collect all of it's souls. Kade: A genetic experiment composed of three Starcraft races (Zerg, Protoss, and Terran) who started off as a ship's mechanic. When their ship crash landed, he found the Holy Avenger in the Terrasque's stomach dimension (a place completely devoid of magic, very similar to the dark ages), and decided to keep it from Tommy, who needs it (and 5 other swords) in order to become all powerful. He took to the Holy Avenger so well, he became a Paladin and undergone a trial that turned him into a Grand Crusade, and thus declared war on Tommy's city (his battle cry was MOOO! which summoned the Tarrasque, his mount) Jack: A blind Revenant who was captured and outfitted with genetic augmentation, and had the ability to temporarily become the strongest being on the planet. However, he had completed his task of vengeance and the demon he had sold his soul to came around to collect. He fought with it, Gandalf style, as they plummeted towards the fires of Hades. Although he killed it before they reached the ground, he fell into a pit of molten metal and was disintigrated. A fragment of himself still existed, and a blacksmith, using the molten steel as a base, fashioned him as a Xodar. He came back to life, choosing purpose over true life, without a soul in order to repair the damage to the world that would be caused from the War between his old friends. This is getting a little lengthy, but Tharivol (a reborn psychic with an unhealthy affection for his psuedo dragon), Falco (a power armor wearing starship captain), and Anubis (A mecha driving mercenary), still have stories that haven't been told either.
Gammaman 03-30-07, 04:10 PM	just curious, are we talking "crazy" as in good or bad? Good, caus bad is not fun.