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A post-apocalyptic setting. Random dimensional storms that dump items from other doomed timelines into the world. There are ruined fantasy castles full of knights, futuristic space ships full of robots, dinosaurs, and Mad Max-flavored bandit tribes running around in this mostly desert world trying to survive on the random resources and artifacts that the portal storms leave in their wake.
Thats a really cool idea, I might borrow it for a campaign of my own - if thats ok?
@@walkedgrain1166 This is a mishmash of ideas that already exist, so I don't know if I Can completely lay claim to it. Go for it!
This is fantastic! Definitely adding this to my list of campaign ideas!
The devil went down to Georgia (minus Georgia)
The devil is still incredibly salty.
Johnny sings for the lady of pain now
As a Georgian, you now have my blessing. Use it well
My comedic dnd world is entirely composed of shower thoughts that i add because its cool or funny and only THEN write lore around them.
One of these things are moyai rocks and other funny stone faces… with absurdly detailed, big and buff legs hidden beneath the ground. In lore these came to life in an enchanted forest as first immortal representations of passion and art (by lore the world was grey and dull in the first place)
A "heavy barrel" style mortar. Built by an artificier for the sole purpose of proving that anything produced with magic could be reproduced with alchemy and engineering. It was fired once. The result? The creation of a crater lake miles away, which now supports a town named Tonrus, after the artificier that made it in the first place. It supports a large college of engineering, and it's considered good luck for an artificier to drink straight out of the lake before building their first firearm.
Living islands. If you've ever head of the Portuguese Man'O'War (known in some countries as blue bottle jellyfish), imagine one of those so large they can accumulate enough soil to sustain crops, or even trees. The largest one actually has a temple to the god of the sea on it known as the Wandering Monastery.
An island full of hybrid creatures with the same names as common creatures IRL. There are Tiger Moths, Tiger Butterflies, Tiger Sharks, Bull Sharks, Bull Frogs, Bull Elephants, Bull Dogs, Wolf Spiders, Horse Flies, and yes, the boss is a Dragon Fly.
There's also a wall-crawling, magma spewing lizard inspired by the Magmasaurs from ARC. Plus the drawf city has a pizzeria with an animatronic mascot.
I feel called out by the one about having pre gunpowder industrialization.
All beholders and their variants have the ability to just remove people from existence. Like, if they kill anyone, that person will have never existed. Idk why I did it, thought it was cool
My friend, who is really interested in lovecraftian lore, says that the Great Old Ones, such as Cthulhu, have the same exact ability. I don't know if this is true or not, but it's cool.
btw do NOT look up lovecraft's cat's name
Lately I have found myself preferring true renaissance setting where primitive guns are prevalent. Swords and plate armor would also be super common in a setting like that as well but also things that are quickly becoming obsolete.
Love that idea, only thing I do differently is set my stuff in the 1600s, so a bit later Renaissance/Reformation era.
There are two things that come to mind for me. I am mostly building in RIFTS so i’ll try to stop and explain when that becomes relevant.
The first thing I did just because it’s cool: an entire universe where space is a breathable liquid. You will not drown in space, you’ll just freeze. Planets have a magical barrier based off rotation that allows trees to produce air normally. There are many species of fish and other oceanic creatures.
The second thing I did was customizable lemurian armor. For those not in the note, Lumerians are a race in riffs that live in the water and live in harmony with nature, using Biomancy to create what they need and acting as guardians of nature. Some NPC’s, and some PCs, distinguish themselves, so they need to be remarkable in some way, which is difficult if all the armor is exactly the same. Thus, while armor does tend to have the same general look, customizations are common. For instance, one person may have wood by armor that tends to blossom in the sunlight, while others may have one that grows leaves.
2 things:
A) Apex predators- creatures that are just below legendary status as a species and serve as good mini bosses or NPC mounts. Examples include solar bears: bigger polar bears with additional radiant or fire damage options; Bunyips: displacer beasts that have adapted to wetlands and ontop of blur and displacement properties, can hide in shallow water and teleport between nearby bodies of water.
B) a lawful neutral Devil named Calcifer. I got the idea from a friends PC and he’s basically turned into a reoccurring NPC in all my settings as his title is the “Infernal Wanderer”. His whole thing is finding new worlds/dimensions and recording info on the simply because he enjoys doing it. He makes a great warlock patron as well
The party met a tinkerer/inventor that essentially tries to reverse engineer magic in order to mechanically replicate certain aspects of it into his creations. When several monsters attack, he excuses himself, activates a device that creates a small portal that he steps through. A few rounds of combat later the portal reopens and he steps through, decked out in some kind of tech armor with various attachments, essentially a steam punk inspector gadget. He holds out his arm and from a device around his forearm a handful of tiny glowing darts shoot out, loop through the air releasing a faint whistle and pierce into the attacking creatures. Yup, I ripped those Whistling Birds straight out of The Mandalorian to make a fully mechanical version of magic missile and it was freaking awesome!
I once ran a whole sci fi campaign with a lot of combined arms infantry/vehicle mechanics set on an alien winter wasteland like the game Lost Planet. The fun part was ripping off a ton of various IPs using mostly the inanimate objects and vehicles from those settings. Each faction my party met also had a certain vibe to them. For example; The United Nations of Earth featured mostly real world weapons and vehicles with a touch of sci fi technology and used Stargates for transport to and from their scattered bases. The Hookbeaks, a band of avian alien pirates, focused on trade with vehicles, aircraft, and weapons from the Titanfall/Apex Legends/Halo UNSC. The Extroids were a combination of reskinned alien races from both XCOM and the Covenant and thus had their respective equipment. The Warmbloods were a race of fluffy alien velociraptors akin to the Avali from Starbound using Planetside 2 gear. The Cordoids are a neat twist on a parasitic fungal infection in which the infected retain their sense of self while also inheriting a symbiotic mind fungus that physically disfigures them and thus all the infected tend to shy away from the other factions keeping to themselves. One of my players got infected by the fungus and used it to concoct a mind controlling powder that got loose and ended up in enemy hands. There was also the Xarcotan Hive Strain, AKA: THE BUGS. Going back to the Lost Planet/Starship Troopers inspiration, these bugs could adapt so fast they fielded strains that could fight tanks and helicopters. Last but certainly not least is my player's faction: United Evosia. While they are humans, like Earth, they're the only faction that possesses magic and technology. The catch is, magic and technology normally don't mix and the main reason why the players are sent to this planet was to harvest an energy dense mineral called Xelium that also has the power to bind magic and electronics. Their faction composed of weapons, gear, and vehicles I hand designed which made them distinct from the other factions using the assets from other IPs
A couple of things come to mind.
In my worlds, things (usually weapons) can spontaneously gain magical abilities under cool or epic enough conditions. First time it happened was when a player loved this mace he found (a simple +1 mace that looked like a face screaming it pain) so much he named it "Soul Scream" (first time in over a decade of playing anyone had named their weapon). I decided that formed a bond between the two of them and that as he leveled up (and kept using the mace) it'd gain extra powers to keep it competitive. It got extra dice of sonic damage and sonic burst, and would have got more had the campaign continued.
The most recent was during the final battle of the first arc of the campaign. A battle against a black dragon, enhanced with the essence of the plane of shadow, boosted by the unholy energy of an evil God (Shar). A hard fight, the final blow(s) by the paladin using smite evil, critted twice in a row doing around 100 damage and massively overkilling the dragon (who had like 3 hp left). That feat has enhanced the paladin's blade, now I just need to figure out what ability would represent mixing that many things (dragon blood, essence of shadow, unholy energy, holy energy, and massive damage/overkill).
I also like to add things from books I've read into my worlds. Usually far enough out of the way that it's unlikely the PCs will ever notice. In Eberron a small continent that was focused on building things without magic and better weapons for warfare that any soldier could use (put in because one player wanted guns). In the current campaign the kingdom of Valdemar existed in the distant past and there's a few songs and legends of the place.
Finally, one that's not mine. Treedeer. In a magic heavy campaign we missed a lot with our spells, and the DM always described us as hitting a nearby tree. Until one of us joked about a roasted treedeer falling out of the canopy. The DM loved it and the biology of the treedeer developed (smaller than a normal deer with hooked claws on it's hooves to allow it to climb into trees to eat the leaves and hide/escape from predators). Our errant magic killed a lot of treedeer in that campaign.
In my setting, we had what was called the Wild Magic Wars. It was a a normal conflict between the major powers of the world but an abnormal amount of wild magic users were present, causing an epicenter of Wild Magic within the world that causes unexplainable phenomena across the world.
The one that sticks out is what happens after Winter ends. See, every year in certain parts of the world, the skies darken as small metal coils rain down. Spring has begun.
I groaned at the joke at the end.
As I've written and revised the lore, a few things have shown up.
Dwarven cavalry that ride cave bears called the Dwarven Brotherhood. They charge into battle, screaming their war cry, "Loose the dragon! Loose the dragon!" They don't actually have any dragons.
Final Fantasy style airships. Because they're friggin cool.
Sub-dimensional conduits that add near instant travel between continents. But they aren't always easy to get to or find.
Xenomorph/gene stealer hybrids. Because in space... ah, underground, no one can hear you scream?
The list goes on. To be honest, most of the quirks of my world are there because of the rule of cool.
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The coolest thing we added to our campaign for sheer cool factor... is Blood powers for vampires! We were chatting for a while, as I slowly was easing onto the idea of ghoul powers from Tokyo Ghoul but MESH them with her flesh eating vampires.
It started with the eye transformation to signify berserk mode. Then cool physiological enhancements focused on giving me speed and a healing factor! Keep in mind all she had for lore on her dhampires is that vampires and dhampir were the same and that they had an empire long ago. Only after i started suggesting this did we develop these neat hybrid dhampir with custom magic unique to them, manifesting in different ways, such as wings, shield/sword, tentacles, or a tail. And depending on what house you are from/what you feed on, also depends on what your weapon manifests as. Now the interesting part that we said is because Dhampir are undead, they cant make their own blood, or whatever they're using for consumption meaning their weapons use up the precious resource they store from consumption and use it as a weapon! And the same goes for the other vampires. Where they would use either Dream weapons or Life force weapons according to the house they're from.
My house and Dhampir, can use Tentacles of blood and bone with bone spear tips 😏. All because we both thought it was cool.
Later we plan to discuss what happens when a Dhampir feeds off another dhampir
There is a particular set of rivers in a region in my world where you can occasionally run into a Casino on a boat that is ran by a dragon I only added it because I thought it was cool
Riverboat casino's are a thing IRL, so that's pretty cool.
i recognized the background music belonging to the game pirate 101! specifically the starting menu when you are choosing which of your characters to play! awesome! also love the video. keep up the good work!
I've always wanted to add alternative crafting materials such as metals with odd properties. I have 3 that i've been wanting to use in something
1. Oscillium: a metal that when used in a back and forth motion well increase the momentum, It would make things like handsaws, thrusting weapons, and short bursts of movement more efficient because of a rubberbanding effect on them.
2. Gyronium: A metal often found near Occillium who's properties tend towards a circular motion and points along them. When rotary tools made out of these are spun, they maintain a perfect balance. When a weapon is made out of it, they'd tend to cause wide, sweeping motions. When an armor or wearable is mad out of it, the user can perform strange acts of balance that defy logic (think a goat climbing a sheer mountain).
3. Regenium: A metal that is able to regenerate itself if broken. Its typically not fast to regenerate, but tools made out of it will last for centuries. Weapons wouldn't lose their edge and would repair themselves when broken. Armor that is dented or severed would undent and repair itself. This metal does come with a dark secret though. When it comes into contact with iron, its regeneration properties go wild and the object's original shape becomes mangled. Bullets and ammunition made out of these become some of the most painful weapons to exist, however folks have learned to control the rate of regeneration with iron dust and sulfides.
For me, it's probably the precursor made race of creatures called Replicates for my sci-fi setting.
Their bodies are made out an alien material that is both organic and a metal at the same time, they have limbs that can shift into any weapon, they have regeneration to the point of being able to prevent death, and you can't really kill them for good unless you nuke them.
Scariest part about them, however, is the species-wide trait to adapt and learn at terrifying speeds.
On a frozen tundra world where food is scarce? They'll learn to hunt the biggest creatures in a week. On a peaceful plains world? They'll learn to farm after trial and error after a month.
Are they on a shithole of a desert planet called Sargis that's basically if Mad-Max was in space aside from the corporate run city? YOU RUN, cause they'll become utterly terrifying.
Only reason Replicates aren't more terrifying? 1: Theirs not that many of them. 2: Their cat-like looks (They have cat-ears and tails) and personality (lazy fucks who don't listen to no one)
I just love these bastards so much.
Also in the same setting, aliens tried to assimilate humans into their big group in 2015, but made the mistake of bringing no weapons. And landing in Dallas, Texas.
And that's how humans had their tech level increased by 10,000 years, because the aliens are just as stupid as the rest of us.
2 things come to mind with my current game. It's a Wild West Setting in a style of magic and machinery similar to Deadlands. I made my own version of Ghostrock I named Soulslate, but made it incredibly volatile when harvested wrong. Safe to say during its infancy, a rather large vein was struck during a mass mining expedition, basically wiping this world's version of California off the map, replacing it with a vast, flat expanse of white desert I named the Divine Desert. Second, are the Wild Magic Storms, chaotic storms that occur in the Western Frontier where magic isn't heavily restricted from mass usage, so these condensed storms of wild magic kinda just rip across the landscape, and any who get caught in them often tell tales of seeing the embodiment of chaos itself.
1950-1960-ish muscle cars.
the campaign was modeled after Supernatural, but set in the 1920s or so. the fact that they kept their weapons in the trunk was immensely amusing when they got attacked in the parking lot, and the first guy to go made a mad dash for the car, only to realize that he didn't have the keys, and he was now unarmed and far from the rest of the party.
one guy had a Thompson SMG with a drum mag, which was used to clear a long hallway of Descent-style ghouls in a mine. though, the TNT they procured from the miners' stockpile did a way better job of clearing the room.
A wagon racing culture. Basically there’s a forest full of werewolves and a city in the middle that’s got important resources so there’s been a culture crop up around designing wagons that can get through the forest as quick as possible and outrun the werewolves. The players can purchase and upgrade a wagon for their own use in the world.
Currently in my world, fiend nests that pop up radomely like Doom's Gore Nests. Functional airships with actual drop pods courtesy of Helldivers 2 (flying ships utilizing meteorites as fuel and uses Glyphs of Warding ingused with Feather Fall for the drop pod part), an entire city in a desert region full of creatures from the hells acting more like Las Vegas taken from a reddit thread i cant remember reading from (or from ZachSpeaksGiant). And of course massive dragon-like beasties to hunt like wyverns, drakes, and leviathans to mix in a bit of Monster Hunter.
The pantheon of 8 Dragons from Cuirina's songs...
ive got a weather phenomenon/natural disaster called "Boom Tunnels" thats basically a rush of wind horazontally shot through magic dense air. it creates sonic booms and the force of the wind can damage buildings. its caused by magic build up of two different kinds of mana clashing till they burst
I have quite a few ideas that fall into this category, but one that comes to mind is the Velvet Room. Yes, this is inspired by the Persona games. Basically, if a God or other ascendant being wants to speak with a mortal, then they appear before them in a dream where they are in a room with velvet covering the walls. The room's colour and style is dependent on the God/being in question and the person receiving the dream. However, there's always the same music playing. Aria Of The Soul. Even the Gods don't know why this music is there.
Not in a campaign but in my writing: the setting of Fomor has a lot of ocean and very little land, so there's all kinds of sea monsters in that setting. One of my favorites was inspired by Avatar: the last airbender, a species of leviathans that are basically giant turtles so large they get mistaken for islands, and in fact are living, floating islands by virtue of having soil and trees and other plants and animals living on them. They range in size from "the size of a life raft" when young, all the way up to "could be mistaken for one of the larger Hawaiian islands." They differ from avatar's lion turtles by not being very intelligent. They're just big old dummies that float around wherever the currents take them, they eat anything that floats close enough to their mouths, and they have a very slow metabolism. The oldest ones can be thousands of years old. You can get an idea of how old one is by counting the rings on the oldest trees and adding about 500 years to their age from there.
Hybrid animals similar to the last airbender. I saw an artist post a great white wolfshark online and I thought i could immediately put that in my campaign. On the other hand there are also seawolves. Based on the real life vancouver island sea wolf, the subspecies of grey wolves. Just evolved more for a semi aquatic lifestyle like the evolution of whales. Of course there’s owlbears from different species blended together to make interesting combinations of owlbears. If there are others that i happen to find and like i’ll make a note of it and add it into the campaign somehow. The speculation of how they came to be in the world vary from either mad scientist experimentations to them migrating from the feywild.
I made up variant dwarves. Depending on where they live, they had VERY different lifestyles and abilities.
Hill dwarves were farmers who lived in tiny hill houses. Little more than a bed and dresser. Every meal they eat is a potluck with the entire community contributing.
Mountain dwarves were like typical dwarves, except they were able to use their beard hair to sense vibrations in stone to detect hazardous areas.
Plains dwarves have sprawling cities, but all underground. When they venture up to the surface, it's to play a game that's sort of a combo of paintball and American football. 20 man teams that are working for control of a stone the size of a basketball, shooting the opposing players with dye filled sponges fired from slings or cannons. It's colorful and brutal, and easily mistaken for a war when viewed from far away.
And lastly, the Sky dwarves live on the tops of mountains, usually ones controlled by mountain dwarves. They are all strangely light and get around by leaping from cliffs and gliding around with wing suits made from the leather of mountain goats they farm woven into their beards. Also, they all have very high voices because their lungs produce a small out of helium with each breath.
My setting tends to be a regressed society. Players can search and find ancient cities with high technology such as glowing walls, internal lights, fusion generators, and central heating. The fusion generators tend to run on crystals, which are kept in good condition by bulbous floating creatures (metroids) that eat excess energy and any corrosion on the crystals.
I am a WoW warlock person by my mom and dad alone!
Vecna invented Fireball. My world really leans into there being evil wizards.
I added a crystal called "Hydrotetrozine" you can use it to do basically whatever you want IF you know how to handle it, i once showed the crystal in action my having the shopkeeper npc make a "perfect potion" that basically made him omnipotent for 5 minutes, now the players use it for weapons, armor, bombs,and even their airship
In one of my worlds there is a crack in the world. If you stand on the edge and look out all you see is empty space, but if you climb down using ropes you can reach the other side of the crack. It doesnt matter what side you start on, you can reach the other side by climbing down. If you have a long enough rope, you can throw one end off the cliff and wait for it to fall past you to create a loop.
In my setting I have Airships ranging from those that look like large blimps or boats suspended from a balloon to large Magitech Airships akin to what The Alliance from World of Warcraft use, the main flagship of a great Magitech/Steampunk empire in my world setting is set up like a massive Steampunk style Hellicarrier that has its own contingent of Wivern Riders (the empires own air force) stationed on it. I also have a faction of people who make a living by flying specially made Airships into lightning storms to harvest lightning directly from it's source, they are known as Storm Riders and are some of the most hardend and crazy people in my world setting.
Futuristic weapons, because sometimes that BBEG needs a laser rifle to wipe that smirk off his mug.
Boss fights can be more interesting when firearms and explosives are incorporated with classic weapons.
TBH, I'm not sure what to pick out specifically, but I'd say the magitek is pretty high up there. Specifically meant to contrast against the other kingdoms of the setting, Haebar Principality is essentially Imperial Garlemald to the rest of Telvyan's Eorzia, with a monopoly of Spelljammer relics from ancient astral elves, mad science technologies from hosts of high elves that evolved into Forclaimers, and then they lost a chunk of their precursor races due to a massive dragon-fueled war where the Forclaimers teamed up with the Ancient of Yellow and the Ferrous Lords and subsequently got their arses handed to them by the rest of dragonkind. While the rest of the world is in the funky transitional period between feudal combat and the renaissance thanks to the arrival of Blackfire weaponry, Haebar has gone full Ebberon, with an abundance of high tech gizmos, gadgets, and Warforge, both dating back from the Yellow War and also slowly having been built up and reverse-engineered since then. Haebar's the number one source for infernal engine reskins, spelljammer add-ins, and basically any weird homebrew futuretech that can be knocked into the magitek area, while their highly isolationist, paranoid, and snobby nature also helps makes it pretty unlikely for others to get ahold of this technology and ruin the delicate balance of progress outside of it's walls.
Not D&D but it you want Air Whales, look up Star Citizen's space whales. They live in gas giants, so they're really air whales. There's plushies of the 'space' whales mascot Finley. It's f***ing adorable to see my 4yo fling it around and complain it doesn't float in the living room.
So my setting is mostly inspired by several myths and legends, as well as their being some inspiration from JRPG's and Shonen I wanted to add in as well. with that being said, I think there's some absolutely bonkers stuff in this world to the point that I have no goddamn clue how humanity hasn't gotten eradicated yet. Here's just a few I can list off the top of my head:
An entire power system known as Aura, which is a form of energy theorized to come from the Big Bang itself, and can show up in a myriad of forms, with their own rules and uses, which include but are not limited to:
-Magic, which is self explanatory
-Physical, which is just things people do naturally (Punch, kick, bite, breath fire, drink blood, turn into a damn lycanthrope, the usual)
-Ki
-Psionics
Faeric, which is fueled by emotions and comes from the fey
-Shadow, which is fueled by a lack of emotions and comes from, obviously, the Shadowfell
-Nature, used by druids and comes from living things
-Negative, used by Necromancers and comes from dead things
-Elemental, which is also self explanatory
-Holy
-Fiendish
-Divine, which can basically do anything depending on the domain
and lastly,
-Equinox, the power of order itself, which, if you have it, lets you freely alter reality however you wish (although you must obey the laws of physics to do so), &
-Paradox, The powers of Chaos, which allows you to the opposite of Equinox and break any of the laws of physics for free as long as you have Paradox.
In one region, known as Anansi (which is based primarily of Africa, but also a bit of Egyptian, Arabic, and Australian mythology). one person found some giant bones sticking out of the ground near the area, and decided to do the STUPIDEST THING YOU COULD DO and decided to see what would happen if he used the sands of time (a powerful artifact that lets you change how time flows, but you can specify an object by sprinkling some sand on an object), as well as a mix of Faeric aura's potential for Time Dilation (hence the idea of people getting lost in the Feywild) on these bones..............so now there's just random fucking DINOSAURS running around, on top of other chaotic shit like the Adze, Serpopards, Set Animals, Drop Bears, Werehyenas, Grootslangs, Bunyip's, and the Goddamn BEHEMOTHS
Speaking of the behemoths, Behemoths are basically what would happen if you cross a rhinoceros, a Hippo, an alligator, and then made it the size of a literal mountain. Being directly what I heard was in the actual BIBLE, Behemoths CANNOT BE CONTROLLED IN ANY WAY, you can't tame them, you cant kill them, you can't have them as agricultural animals, period. According to scholars in the world, these things were created by some sort of god (which one, they're not sure, but they theorize its either a creator deity or a god of nature) to flex their power over humanity. when they started to cause chaos, the god in question did two things, 1. they made them Herbivores (specifically eating entire sections of forests, with their preference towards those filled with Nature Aura so the forest reproduces quicker, which is still terrifying, but still less scary.) and 2. MADE THE TARRASQUE SPECIFICALLY TO EAT THESE THINGS.
The entirety of Yokaima (because apparently Anansi wasn't already chaotic enough, and was in fact deemed to be on the CALM side of the mainland), which is based on Japan and other parts of Asia. Allegedly, Yokaima was part of one of the biggest Natural events in the history of the world, where four ELDER elementals all happen to meet in yokaima at the exact same time, somehow stabilize themselves, and decide to settle in one area. due to this, the sheer amount of nature aura in the area caused life in the area to begin MUTATING, which caused several.....things, to happen:
Sharks gaining barbed skin (Isonade)
Spiders and Centipedes growing in size (Tsuchigumo & Omukade)
Chickens gained the ability to breath fire (Basan)
Foxes gained magic powers and Multiple Tails (Kitsune)
Tanuki also gained magical abilities (that's all I'm gonna say about them)
Cats Gained multiple tails...and magic (Bakeneko & Nekomata)
Basic Objects begin coming alive like Mimics and begin pranking people (Tsukumogami)
Skeleton Whales (Bake-Kujira)
Normal Humans who were born on the islands have a chance to develop mutations of their own, although their fairly harmless or even helpful (e.x. Rokurobiki, Dodomeki, Futakuchi-onna, among others)
Goblins who settled here before humans who mutated to become aquatic and amphibious (Kappa)
Hobgoblins who developed long noses, Wings, and a sense or righteousness (Tengu)
and lastly,
Ogres who gained Heightened intelligence and started worshiping and even BREEDING with Demons (Oni)
and that's only a few of the monsters here.
I have tried a lot of variations of tropes for a game. But some of my most common are.
Flying Aquatic Creatures for a world made up of floating islands.
Kingdoms ruled by, run by, or mainly made up of, dragons or dragonkin.
An extra-dimensional prison in the shape of a large island on a never-ending sea where hundreds of dungeons spawn monsters to feed the prisoners.
A neutral magic university in an empire whose principals and teachers have sworn magic oaths to maintain the school's neutrality and to restore one of the largest wastelands of the empire. It has been active for over 2 centuries and only accepts people who show promise, nobody gets special treatment, not even nobility.
Empires based upon ancient china, greese, rome, or other ancient civilizations, whose purpose is to be either a large place to explore, a danger for the kingdom the player is in, or who are going through some kind of turmoil. Be it war, civil war, succession war, natural disaster, and so on.
I added a city near the cursed forest
Or what i like to call it "the spooky land"
Forest itself is a byproduct of a conflict between goddesses of life and death
Now basically nothing can die in here but it's far from being alive because healing magic sometimes instead of healing wounds grows new limbs and things like that
So there are a lot of human like spiders, wendigo looking spirits and flaws that affect the city
Plus this forest is somewhat none euclidian because you basically can get lost as soon as you loose the sight of the city's walls
People of the city are chill because they've seen a lot of stuff
Basically everyone knows how to identify a doppelganger and everyone knows how to fight in case they see a random shadow in their room
Which happens quite often
So when you visit it and guards ask you "do you have a weapon?" It's not because they are worried that you will kill someone
It's because you'll need it
Basically most of my thought out/written lore stems from random “I like this, so in the game it goes.” Moments.
Some of these moments include but are not limited to:
1. A section of the worlds massive ocean known as “The Sea of Endless Mist” which has its center be a strange island in the perpetually covered in thick swirling fog that causes confusion and shipwrecks.
2. The legendary Moth knight, which became a historic hero in the country of the current campaign simply because I read a DND horror story that ended with the DM getting revenge through the use of moths
3. Demons and Devils both live in the 9 hells because I didn’t fully read the monster manual when I first started DMing and didn’t understand the Abyss for a long time.
4. A traveling merchant Halfling and her bugbear companion named Fred, who is only able to scream the words “MY NAMES FRED”
my underworld and shadowfel are the same place, and is an M.C. Esher-esque place. I just call it the Boneyard. my group has yet to get there directly, but it's always there, feeding the undead coming out of graveyards, and the bumps in the night.
and the feywild is bordering the Far Realms, so the Winter and Summer Fey Courts have to share the task of defending against incursions from there. got that from The Dresden Files, and my next campaign will have that as a main story arc feature.
Bellerophon is so revered that I even made my life long email address after him
Magical accessibility. So completely improvised as part of the initial plothook the party met in tavern at the city of Portland. The players were new so they were kinda sheepish about roleplaying. I had a typical bounty board one of which had a flyer for an expedition that needed more hands for the crew. On the flyer was a little fingerprint that when you touch it produces the words on the flyer as if spoken out loud in a language you understand (common for most people). So the second a player touched it I started in a loud old timey radio voice "Visit the wild lost continent of Zhon! See untold wonders, hidden secrets, and exotic locales! See Captain P.T. Diggums for details! Join today!" My player responded "Wow talk about accessibility." and I go "Yeah when you have a magic settings you'll start to see solutions like this to common issues." My next idea? Stairs that will magically slide into ramps for wheelchair accessibility.
My party in Pathfinder's starting to toy with the idea of breeding smaller draconic creatures such as wyrms and using them to ferry the party around and engage in air to air combat with any enemies up there. I admittedly stole the idea from watching Luke in House of the Dragon on his tiny dragon, but it checks out in universe so...
The weirdest but also the funniest that my players still live encountering is an immortal dodogama from monster hunter. If they kill it, it reforms after 1d4+1 weeks and continues on like nothing happened, it's not evil or hostile towards the party even though they've encountered it a bunch, heck for one of its lives it was even a part of the party. My players never since were so heartbroken about a creature dying.
a super old shop keeper who looks like a hundred year old human. He can't hear at all and constantly sells the wrong items such as a potion of poison resistance instead of a healing potion (usually before a poison based dungeon). The players call him the lottery cause you never know what youre going to get. He is secretly the god of the universe.
Guns and mechanical prosthetics. All thanks to research into an advanced precursor race that disappeared.
(You know, that old trope
Earned an early rep as "the proton kid" by birthplace and childhood alone...almost ended up sideways in 'Straya when I was 9..
11:40 so this sounds like he mixed, cymothoa exigua, rabies and teichuris 😂 cool
I put Magic Storms in my campaign. Their origin is mysterious since some are believed to be natural disasters, some to have a powerful creature at its core, some are temporary, some need something beaten or an unknown condition met to disperse. Inside them, all magic, even cantrips, triggers Wild Magic and rare more powerful breeds of creatures variant of the natural ones for the environment. My party crossed a desert for 1 week wholy covered in such a storm witnessing the appearence of a mysterious wild creature at the core that though medium, single handedly fought and slaughtered a simingly purple dragon.
Another thing I introduced was a Shadow Matron deity like entity and encarnations of the seven deadly sins, each imbued with a corresponding Authority of Sin. This idea was very inspired by Re:Zero but essentially consists of entities that though not impossible to beat for a smart and cunning party at a higher lvl, would very unjustly slaughter simple NPCs even lvl 20 ones. Beating them is intended to be a quest given by the Shadow Matron to a party member that also wants some Shadow powers like an NPC they fought and were defeated by displayed. She will ask him to reclaim the Authority factors from the unruly Sin encarnations that have been disobeying her and in doing so, he will prove himself worthy, pherhaps even of gaining his own Authority factor, all while improving Shadowy themed magic items on the way.
I have a whole other bunch of homebrewed shenanigans but I believe these ones may be interesting to mention.
1. 100,000,000 health per character at level 100. (It tends to melt fast in allot of stories and i dont want characters geting downed easy)
2. Nine classes at once at level 1 (because of #1)
2.5. classes give specific skills every 10 levels and the limit is 10 skills per class.
3. Blatant videogame terminology used, because isekai anime does it and I'm not about to change my lingo replacing "passive skills" or "semi passive skills" with the word "feat", as im already used to those instead.
3. Gacha summons that can be used like afk arena's system and it does allow you to evolve your characters. (Its also plot relevent)
4. Engravings and signature items from afk arena, but instead if boosting your characters stats and skills, it effects yiur signature item/weapon, so that when your using it you get those stat boosts. Signature items/weapons also gives you a skill, it can be unique to the user or just a standard skill that you dont want a skill slot to use.
5. Cooldowns, because the spell castung system didn't make sense to me, so i put a cool down period that rekates to the actions you take, the nore action ooints soent the sooner a skill becomes available again. This is effected by my homebrewed stat(s) stamina, which act as action pints with decimals, ex: mibe takes 0.05 action points, attacking yakes 0.1 action points, skills taking 0.15 action points to use. Its nit fully fledged jusy yet, but yhe cool downs take more points to regain than activate, so theres that.
Sky Shimp, the giant shrimp that floats high above the world, lighting up the night (don't think about the implications)
Kaiju are in each campaign somewhere in the setting. My main campaign has them be the near endgame bosses. still translating effects from a recent realm book to spice up the combat. Wood block printing presses are a bit earlier than the era i am drawing some inspiration from so to make non magical gear that can give skill boosts when read enough. Also books that are complicated enough will count as a encounter completion to incentivize looking through libraries.
The wild west localized entirely within a desert/badlands type area.
Kinda how my troubles started in '18, good call
There's a species of horse called paint horses. They come in monocolours of all kinds. When they're born they are in greyscale of multiple shades. Their tails are forked up and stiff like a brush. When they mature they form bonds with other paint horses or a rider. This causes the tail to descend to the ground and their true color is revealed. The tails are known to magically stain anything it brushes against. Unfortunately, they're mostly extinct in the wild. There's a tract of land known as The Rainbow Run. Paint horses used to roam the wheat field in the south there. The horses would graze in straight lines denoted by marking a trail in the grass as their tail dragged behind them permanently coloring the grass. This not only distinguished the various colors from each other, but it gave me an excuse to just put a big rainbow on the map.
I hear that Pirate101 music in the background!
I made an entire country of undead centered around the splatterpunk genre. Flesh and bones made into walls and fashion, annual hunts to gain more, and all ruled by organized anarchy. Added it cause I think the splatterpunk genre is cool
Matter decompression machines that sit in geostationary orbit around black holes/neutron stars/pulsars that use both the energy that splitting the weave on such a cosmic object and materials from it to fuel stardocks in my sci-fi setting.
Monsters having their flesh and blood charged with magic properties. What differentiate a normal beast to a monstrosity or other non humanoid creature types is that those creatures have their blood and flesh charged with magic.
It's because of this magical flesh that people are able to make a magic item while not using artificer infusions. Monster blood can be concentrated into a special ink that can be used for spell books, runes for magic weapon, spell scrolls, or magic circle components.
The flesh can be used to create magic items such as the skin being turned into leather in order to withstand being turned into a bag of holding. Or the meat being cooked in a special way to give you a temporary boost to stats or bonus effects.
Depending on the cr of the monster, the more you can do with their parts, and the better rarity of magic item you can create, like using acient dragon blood for a 9th level spell in a spell book or scroll. This is why even though a kingdom of orcs in my world is in a monster infested area, they are able to thrive as being one of the main exporter of magic item materials from monster hunting.
I also use "weird random things just happen sometimes " to excuse me saving my players from inevitable doom or causing them to feel unforgettable pain
The one about pegasi, griffons, and dragon mounts just sounds like Fire Emblem lol
in my spell jammer game i included lasers pew pew! but there rare or hard to manufacture ( because its a magical medieval world) currently only one dealer can make them Sloppy Joe a car machic 🚗 ispiared plasmodid artificer who build laser weapons for profit 💰
A civilization that could spawn Orkimedes. It was once the most advanced civilization in the world, and was modeled after the Grecian and Roman empires.
Very few things have I added to my setting that could ONLY be justified using Rule of Cool... But there are a few things that sound like they could have been; such as "Super Hell" (I call it Tartarus, but its basically Super Hell), King Arthur god of Time, and making the Akashic Records a god in themselves.
A lot of my setting is basically giving a middle finger to some of the more frustrating parts of Official Pathfinder Setting cosmology, and coming up with the most excessive solution. These three are no exception... This could also apply to the goddess of death situation, but that one's complicated and ("allegedly") involves Tiamat self destructing to destroy her.
Oh wait, there is ONE thing I might include just for rule of cool, it had an actual reason when it was made in a Pathfinder setting game, but less so for porting it over to my own setting... The Steam Powered Colossus Dragon Lord, champion of the goddess of draconic sorcerers and technology. Basically Chaotic Good Mecha Godzilla.
I always favored magic rail/coil guns for my artificer characters or try to produce a form of droid army to fight the gods with.
Jak and Daxter's Eco in Crystal Form and what would happen if a Fantasy Wild West Setting found it.
So Green Eco heals immediately and Potions heal over time. It can also Overheal you.
Red Eco Gives a Melee Boost (and if crafted into ammo, makes it explosive ammo)
Blue gives a Movement Speed Buff (if crafted into ammo, makes Shock Ammo)
Yellow, Light, and Dark Eco I'm still trying to figure out.
Because of Eco's Involvement... WW1 Era equipment is being introduced as well as Cars as prototypes so not Mass Produced to be seen across the continent and only in the Wealthy Cities in small numbers.
...though the idea of flying cities brought up in the video sounds "interesting" for the world space (Brain whet to Bioshock Infinite immediately)
Perhaps a fail state if the good guys fail to beat the big bad?
Maybe something else idk.
Guns lol. They are rare and mostly show up with artificers learning new technologies
Steam Tank
Cannon mounted on the back of a giant
The bbeg, a dragonborn archdruid turned mindflayer who kept her dragonborn and druid powers post transformation
(WIP) a death knight equivalent of an astral lich (bbeg’s second in command)
The Industrial Revolution
All that gold on the Inspectors would be heavy as frick, though. Gold is very heavy.
Techno medieval campaign so I added cyberhorse !
Sci-fi weapons modelled heavily off of 1980's guns. I just think old-school red dots and fancy heatshields are neat. Does it make sense for people to still be using wood furniture on an AK over 300 years in the future? Maybe, maybe not, but damn does it look cool.
Thunderbugs (like orange lightening bugs, the boom when poked). Furry snakes that live in snow. Most of my high fantasy settings have three organizations. The Merchants Guild. The Red Dragon Consortium, which is a bank for guilds, temples and nobles. And The Society of Gentlemanly Adventurers, which adopted an infant god not from the local pantheon and has grown up to be not just a member but the patron of adventurers, pilgrims and orphans. Because those SGA's orphans with talent apprentice to parties before becoming adventurers, so as L1, there is a reason you not only aren't worthless but you might actually know everyone in the party and have something in common even if not.
A dragon who rather than raiding worked out a protection deal- the villaged and towns feed him, he protects them. Loves BBQ, smoked meats, eggs, cheese. And one day, quite suddenly, he passed. In mid air. Massive heart attack. Veins the size of your thigh solid with cholesterol. Lots of people saw it and set off a race to find his lair and claim his treasure.
And when the GM is pissed, power armour based on golem magic. Even the Spirit Warrior, which is mecha. But the GM has to be PISSED with your sorry BS because you were told "no murder hobos, no lawful stupid, no scumbags- big damn heroes only".
So much. I tend to start out with 'it could be cool' and then world build around all those things as much as possible XD
Fairy mice. They're just regular old mice with fairy like 'wings' that can't fly but do look very attractive to other fairy mice and spook some animals away from eating them.
Lizardfolk bladed tail whips. Is basically custom non magic weaponry for tailed humanoids aka a whip/weapon that doesn't require the use of hands.
Also desert adapted Lizardfolk who live on a desert so hot sometimes the sand melts (naturally it's called the glass desert and the glass shard sandstorms are *greatly* feared).
Clerics being so common in universe there are a few cities that include resurrection in their free health care systems. -diamonds therefore are in HIGH demand and research into 'cheaper resurrection spells' is the source of much idealism and horror =D-
Some cities having phones that work off the local 'magic grid'. The internet also exists but may frequently contain monsters. Some deities have social media accounts and/or automated answering machines for prayers/Augries.
Local Blacksmithing/Death goddess is now the patron deity of scientists and OSHA compliance after she got invested in trying to stop at least *some* of the mad scientist types from blowing themselves up before finishing their really interesting projects. (She is SO stressed you have no idea)
Friendly spider people called Charletts (who are 100% 3 to 6ft spiders who just so happen to be able to talk). They like to eat pests, civilian ones are generally in the pest catching or window/roof washing business and due to reasons they view the OSHA goddess listed above as their mother figure/patron goddess.
Tree monster people called 'Seedlings'/Grovemakers born from all the cross bred offshoots of abandoned Awakened Shrubs and various plant monsters. Pretty much all natural druids, fiercely territorial with each other but super nice to everything else (that isn't threatening whatever territory they've decided to shape) and most are really, REALLY into terraforming, both their surroundings and themselves (got a Wildfire NPC one, one that's helped build a giant green house over an entire city, a villianous one trying to kill the Ocean Dragon Goddess with kuzdo, etc).
Psychic rat people called Ratkin who basically function more akin to an ant colony with tons of regular ratkin (the meekest small ones are called 'meeces', the more rough natured medium kind are 'raates') serving a Ratking which is formed from of roughly 10 to 20 'rat king larve' who hide themselves amongst the regular population until they are ready to merge into their horrifying 'all tails and minds melted into each other' singular form to take over everywhere and/or have lots and lots of ratkin kids/servants.
(Basically, psychic hive mind rat people. Stat block wise usually have them just ripping off the Kalashtar stat blocks but instead of 'dream spirits' its 'hive mind/auto reporting to the nearest complete Ratking' stuff).
A type of undead Slime called The Tarr that's basically an inteligent zombie plague that wells up from the depths of the earth every few centuries (is creator god's malice/nightmares in physical form blah blah blah Fire/Earth Dragon God does his best to smite it all before it can reach any kind of surface but there's a LOT) to mass possess all the creatures it can until it builds up from its weak 'puddle' and 'bucket' stages to its magically resistant/immune 'lake' and 'ocean' forms. Fortunately for all it is critically weak to fire, poison and sunlight unless it's attacking people with body jacked flesh suits (people, monsters etc), and it can be frozen solid temporarly so. It doesn't *have* to be an eventual BBEG unless I want it to be~ XD
Lots of little hedge gods under various pantheon banners (like 'the Deed' for ex mortals turned into deities upon their deaths due to various deeds/signing a contract with one of the preExisting Deed for their services, or the Star Army made up of eldritch 'things' recruited by the Moon Deity to fight off aliens/invasive things from other planes), and niche deities/patrons out there like the Violet Dandy who's whole thing is being a psychopomp/dead spirit escort for dead children and a specialist in 'celestial corruption', 'The Bell That Chimes Like Echoes On The Edge Of Dreams' who's a very benevolent eldritch abomination/celestial star that spontaniously appears and swallows heroes to have them kill all the horrors/people it rescued from dying worlds it ate and it's insides are now festering with (also spams dreams of bell chimes and blue butterflies when trying to giving people visions of things it thinks they need to know but it *sucks* at communicating clearly), and the Keeper, a deity of trade who randomly opens and runs people's shops for them in their forms while they're asleep to make sure they get 'the customers they need' (also has their own shop and 'hidden market' which naturally is magically wherever it needs to be one day and mysteriously gone the next)~ XD
Also the Avatar of one of the two Greater Deities of Love and War is constantly just wandering around the country side looking for the shards of their shattered other half and they WILL gleefully murder anything that stands in the way of those or any TRUE LOVE they take a liking to so er, marriage laws in setting tend to be very pro gay, poly, divorce etc everywhere because *no one* wants the newest incarnation of Monde Ailes to decide that their entire country is in the way of their new favorite ship (again) XD
And. I'll stop for now. All these snipits are more than enough to get across how much I just yeet into the setting because why the heck not? XD
I added the mythical male song dragon as well Barnaby the dragon because his story inspired me. I plan on creating a custom race called puff dragons who exists entirely based on the creature that believes they should exist. They hoard memories in an attempt to keep alive should there host belief system ceases to believe and they face back into non-existence. They also share an alignment with whatever dreams them up to begin with. Because Puff the magic dragon was cool and the ending was lackluster for me so this is my solution
Cannibalism.
Players entered into a demi-plane where the when the residents died, they essentially respawned, or born somewhere else on the plane with a new body as their was no place for the spirits to go. It was an endless circle basically, but it left the question of what would happen with the numerous bodies of the former dead.
Me at the beginning of the session: "Whose ready for cannibalism!?!"
Players half way thru the session: "We thought you were kidding about the cannibalism."
I bought a book from Amazon with A LOT of NPCs , Maps and stuff that I use all the time !
In this book I found some kind of Magic Items that inspired me to make "the sword of infinite stabbing" .
Basically as long as the guy holding the sword Is willing to he can make you feel the same pain you felt when the sword stabbed you the First Time but this pain doesnt wound you so It Is basically a torture device, even on long distances. This corrupted the Groups Paladin soul tho 😂
Worth the buy, 100% gonna buy newer ones when they come out
Book title? I've got to know!
@@twinkdeer174 Dungeon's Master Book of Many Things , there are 3 of them
@@stefanokodmar8110 who's the author? WotC recently published a "Book of Many Things" and it's dominating the search results
The flying whales reminded me of Levitaths from Xenoblade Chronicles X. That game was cool. Cheesy as hell, sometimes, but still cool.
The branches of a massive tree that grows through the planet, and connects it to hundreds of other planets and planes of reality. The branches are slowly pushing the planet apart.
And the continents are basically moss on the backs of massive dragons.
Hey ,, that legendary healing sword belongs to sheshomaru xD
Bloodsteel. Mystical materiel that can only be made by refining blood from one person. Grows with the wielder. All the best Adventurers have something made with it. Racial Lords that have the blacksmith skill get it added to their materiel list. Only the Ancients knew how to reattune forged bloodsteel for someone else.
I created an entire bestiary for my world, but you already covered that one.
A bazzar between time when my party uses their special teleportation orb. The shop is owned by a mysterious Kenku who occasionally shuts down at states a random news story before snapping back to normal
Oh yeah: my entire setting is homebrew DND in modern times
motercycles... I'm using magic to run them...
A second moon in the sky that is the real god/giver of magic of the setting through his eternal sleep.
Unrelated, but if you want to place some insane things in your setting i recommend looking through american projects that were deemed bad or imbecile, like the spiked monuments that would contain the radioactive wastes of the future, or the radioactive cats
0:43 They're skymammels!
12:07 Another mistake in the editing. Mr. Ripper videos rarely lack such oversights because this guy cares more about hamming it up with his voice acting than making a good quality video.
Cursed items in Twilight: 2000. One of the players picked up a Mini-14 that was used (unsuccessfully) by a mother to defend her family. If a female character uses it, there will always be one round in the magazine; it never runs completely out of ammunition. A male who uses the weapon will find it jams often.
Not sure if this counts because being cool isn't the only reason but, trains powered by phantom steeds running in giant hamster wheels. Could treadmills work as well if not better? Maybe, but hamster wheels
To start with... Dinosaurs. Cause who doesn't love dinos. Then I made the planet hallow, artificial and a starship. Of course the starship had to be an ark (players needed a few minutes IRL to catch their breath and wrap their heads around that). I've been tossing one or two homebrew creatures at them each session; for months (we meet weekly). My most recent mad creations are. A golden retriever sized lobster with 4 arms and a hell/death cat (I used Latin for it's name) crossed with a beholder (extra tails instead of eye stalks); which was also a coworker for the warlock. My party said nope, backed out and closed the door on the lobsters...my sanity has been questioned...more than once.
I have the idea for a mad Doctor/Wizard who enchanted a pack of Wretched in Shadowfell who maul you back to full wealth when you come to him to get healed.
My players are in Shadowfell. I like making them think an NPC is gonna hurt them wheb they are at their weakest.
Wildlife being playable species' from the start...
Because why not be a relatively intelligent Radscorpion, or one of the other player's pet Mutant hound, perhaps you just feel like playing non-humanoids for a change and just want to be an angy lil' cyberdog.
Options, we love em' OuO
A god my DM created (and i stole for my own campaign) is the called Samhain the Pumpkin King. He is the god of Mischief and patron of thieves. True Believers follow the doctrine of "if you can't hold onto it, it was not meant to be yours". Any and all objects they steal can be offered to Samhain. These stolen Objects are then spread and hidden throughout the world by the god. And thus we have an explanation for finding random items of value in long abandoned places.
The witching hour.
Every night at exactly midnight, my world is struck by a phenomenon known as The Pulse. Nobody really knows where it originated from, but everyone knows the effects: for exactly one hour, the landscape is bathed in magical radiation, casting a supernatural darkness that aggressively snuffs out light over time and even shuts down darkvision. No light can pierce more than a few tens of feet in this darkness, although some plants feed on this energy and function as beacons in the dark. As if the terrifying gloom wasn't enough, at this hour giant, winged blind leeches come out shrieking out of their nests, feeding on anything unlucky enough to be caught not in a shelter.
Initially I designed this because i was annoyed that every freaking character would trivialize darkness, then took the concept and ran with it. My players are now terrified of the night and I'm on cloud nine as a DM
First guy thinking he’s very clever for adding sky whales. They’re called Wailord, sir.
The Sasquatch Nation….
a t rex with laser eyes
Fun fact:
Sky whales are a thing in MULTIPLE fantasy forms of media.
For example, Dragon Quest XI gives you one as a way to travel during the second arc.