What is too silly for D&D?

[doppelganger]

I find Paizo's Golarion deity Cayden Cailean to be too silly for D&D for me. He's a former alcoholic adventurer who became a god as a result of a drunken bet. Stranger things exist in real world mythology, sure, but the tongue-in-cheek silliness of this god singlehandedly ruins Golarion for me. I can't be sure of whatever other silly gamer jokes might also be inserted into the setting.

 

[Hunter In Darkness]

I was gonna say nothing is , it really depends on your world and game type.



But ya know what I drawl the line at snot golems

 

[Hunter In Darkness]

WOW that was my 500th post, it only took me 8 years of mostly lurking

 

[Oni]

WOW that was my 500th post, it only took me 8 years of mostly lurking

And you marked the occasion with snot golems.

Congrats.

 

[Hunter In Darkness]

well it wasnt planned could have been worse. I have seen many bad, bad things. I recall a naked shaved wookie pc once...

 

[Simon Atavax]

And he wrote a sequel.

Man, those articles were awesome. I had read the first one before, but didn't know there was a sequel.

The funny thing is, most of those monsters would fit PERFECTLY into a Gamma World campaign.

 

[Silver Moon]

For gods' sake man, tell me the name of that module!

It's a homebrew....I'll ask the DM what he named it at tomorrow nights game. I've been threatening to do a D&D/Toon hybrid for around a decade now but it took one of my more chaotic group members to actually follow through on it.

 

[I'm A Banana]

I think the wierdness is best when it is justified.

I compare it to myth.

Six-armed, hundred-handed, four-headed, eight-faced eagle/lion/goat monsters that light you on fire by staring at you and sing the praises of the Sky God eternally in his court in which they fly with their 10,000 wings, each feather possessing a face on which there sits a seven-pointed diadem...

Myth is really weird, but they usually have a reason for having all these insanities, a sort of anthropomorphic logic that implies all sorts of deliciousness.

Modrons fit into this category for me.

I also like weirdness when it is supposed to be alien. To have flumphs and nilbogs found on an obscure island off the coast where the PC's crash land makes it very distinctive.

Weirdness is good. Very little should be too silly for a game with goth-club fey and BDSM Nightmare Elves and hippogriffs.

Seriously, know your roots!

 

[Vorput]

What is too silly for D&D? Virtually nothing (as long as it's done creatively/well)

The 3.5e campaign I run features an NPC named Glutinous Maximus, a gelatinous cube monk --well, he's really a magical hybrid of a gelatinous cube and a partially-digested human monk-- and former pit-fighter turned political candidate, whose eventual fate was to be killed by the party, resurrected by chaos magic in the Land of the Dead, and then imprisoned --much to his delight-- in the court of a demon lord, where he was made to pioneer new forms of pornography with the help of the demon's 994 succubi daughters.

And then there's our new 4e campaign, where I play a jolly Dragonborn paladin (and slam-poet) who marks his foes with his own semi-divine semen.

...::blinks:: Wow.

 

[roguerouge]

It's a homebrew....I'll ask the DM what he named it at tomorrow nights game. I've been threatening to do a D&D/Toon hybrid for around a decade now but it took one of my more chaotic group members to actually follow through on it.

Have him write it up and then post it on the wiki on ENworld. Even if it's not complete it's all good.