[Plots] D&D ideas from webcomics

[blargney the second]

It occured to me that webcomics are a wonderful source of D&D plots, monsters, and other ideas! Try these on for size:

(Idea originally from my Populating the World thread):
Sluggy Freelance's satanic kittens. They're invulnerable to every weapon that's been tried so far, have bat wings, bad tempers, and really sharp claws. And they want their mittens. Likes: milk, catnip, any toy that attracts cats. Dislikes: water. Their weakness is that milk turns them into ordinary (if still indestructable) kittens.

Also from Sluggy: Evil Moths. They're like rust monsters, except they go for clothing!

Your turn.. Show me what you've got!
-blarg

 

[Dark Jezter]

Campaign based on Megatokyo:

The campaign starts out entertaining, but then starts to focus on a single PC and the schoolgirls who angst over how they feel about him.

</used to be a fan of Megatokyo before Piro assumed creative control of the strip and turned it into a self-indulgent "shoujo" comic>

 

[Gez]

Read Mixed Myth and you'll have a lot of cool ideas. It's a very nice webcomic, although there are some typos in the earlier strips.

A Dragon that can't be dead because he hid his mortality away.
Said mortality becoming the villain of the story.
Selkies whose affinity with seals is also an affinity with seals. (This is untranslatable from the English.)
And a very nifty extradimensional plane.

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

Bruno the Bandit: D&D played for laughs, with a healthy dose of the Cthulhu Mythos thrown in. The main protagonist certainly behaves like a stereotypical "adventurer"...

 

[Gez]

Funky database screwups.

 

[blargney the second]

DarkJezter: *laugh* Piro's such a whiny little brat... at least Largo's interesting! I really like the guardian angel idea. I've been trying for ages to figure out a way I could include them in a D&D game. I also want mix that up with CS Lewis' Screwtape Letters, where devils are the little evil voices that prompt people to do petty things.

Gez: I've bookmarked Mixed Myth for extensive perusal when I get back from my game tonight

Jurgen: I used to read Bruno the Bandit, but stopped when I realized that he just keeps using the same jokes over and over.


To add to the list, this one's from College Roomies from Hell. A pool of that causes somebody who falls into it to mutate. I'm thinking of placing it underneath a wzards' academy, where alchemical products combine. I'd probably use a PC's familiar or animal companion to lure them down there. Here are mutant bachelors 1-3!
- One gets laser vision (Searing Light)
- One gets a functional eye in his hand (bonus to Spot checks, can't be flanked if hand used only to watch his back)
- Another gets a super-strong tentacle in place of his arm (bonus to Grapple, natural attack).

Incidentally, the drawing quality gets MUCH better as the comic goes...
-blarg

 

[Andre La Roche]

A Dragon that can't be dead because he hid his mortality away.
Said mortality becoming the villain of the story.
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Sounds like whoever made that webcomic played way too much Planescape: Torment.

 

[The Goblin King]

Dominic Deegans older brother Jacob is an interesting villian. I would suggest reading the whole strip from the begining to get the continutity but if you want to skip right to the evil part you can start here. I want to make a Necromancer who can travel through earth and is creating an Infernal Super-Zombie.

 

[Impeesa]

Sea of Insanity. Have the PCs be gods and mythoi with only a hint of their former power due to lack of worship and the ravages of time.

--Impeesa--

 

[blargney the second]

I'm trying to figure out how to get D&D ideas from Clan of the Cats, but they're just not coming. The comic is far more of a World of Darkness than a medieval fantasy setting.

-blarg