D&D 5E Military Boot Camp Dungeon

Richards · Jan 7, 2022

aco175 said:
Dungeon Magazine has a few 'Challenge of the Champions' series that had traps and puzzles you can pirate for your needs.

The "Challenge of Champions" series of adventures has the advantage of being based on "Project X," an obstacle course sort of set-up used during the USAF's Squadron Officers School and during the field training they send their officers-in-training through. (I got to go through one version during AFROTC after my sophomore year in college and another version during SOS as a Captain.)

Johnathan

aco175 · Jan 7, 2022

Richards said:
The "Challenge of Champions" series of adventures has the advantage of being based on "Project X," an obstacle course sort of set-up used during the USAF's Squadron Officers School and during the field training they send their officers-in-training through. (I got to go through one version during AFROTC after my sophomore year in college and another version during SOS as a Captain.)

Johnathan

All we had was the 'Tire House', but that was mostly shooting and not thinking.

Oofta · Jan 7, 2022

My wife did something along this line in a previous campaign. It was a combination holograph deck and X-Men danger room. We faced various scenarios, including one where we were supposed to fail a la the Star Trek Kobayashi Maru scenario where Kirk was supposed to fail but succeeded because he cheated. My PC figured out a way to cheat so it was quite apropo.

In any case, she just set up whatever scenario she thought would be fun and then our instructor (my PC's older sister) gave us a review. No real monsters were killed, it didn't matter if a PC died, we just explained the fact that it felt real as "magic". I wouldn't worry about trying to justify individual spells if I did this, if nothing else it was just a magic room the training center found and understands it well enough to use it but don't understand how it really works. Which of course could be fun later on when it turns out it was just run by some aberration that was trying to understand our weaknesses.

Cadence · Jan 7, 2022

A Bard modeled on Gomer Pyle USMC? (Jim Nabors was quite a singer).

aco175 · Jan 7, 2022

Back in 3e days, the DM had us go to a monastery to train in order to level up. The first night we were sleeping, the temple was attacked and we had a large fight. Turns out we were sleeping and the fight was just the training. It worked out good since some of the PCs used abilities they were planning to increase. Nobody died, but it was a big fight.

Not sure how that would fit here with 1st level PCs unless you have a lot of magic in your world.

HammerMan · Jan 7, 2022

GreyLord said:
Waking up waaaay to early in the morning.

Going to bed waaaaay to late at night.

Sleep deprivation

fatigue... multi days without a long rest giving penelties but you have to push through it

GreyLord said:
rope climbing.

Mud crawling.

Str and Con checks to get past obstacles

GreyLord said:
Grenade (well, maybe vial of oil) throwing

i will do you one better... illusions of fireballs. make them make dex saves, then give them the fact that it isn't damage... but it colors them with something akin to fairye fire so it shows if you made it or not

GreyLord said:
And absolutely, absolutely, being yelled at for no apparent reason they can fathom but makes complete sense to the ones yelling at them.

Is your bunk in order? If so I may mess it up and yell at you anyway.

HammerMan · Jan 7, 2022

aco175 said:
Have you been to boot camp? Besides the yelling and not being able to do anything right, it was boring and monotonous. I would not recommend it for a game.

yeah a realistic boot camp would suck (except maybe the air force...everyone tells me they don't have a bad one)

HammerMan · Jan 7, 2022

wait bonus idea (stolen from stargate)

weapons that look and act real but when they reduce you to 0hp only give you the stun condition(no save for 1d4-1d10 rounds)

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