Wyrmshadows
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I am a dedicated Homebrewer though I do enjoy high quality published settings. I am pretty picky in regards to what I would consider good but I think that most of us know terrible when we see it. I'd like you to write down some of the worst/most ridiculous homebrew campaign ideas you've ever experienced.
I'll start.
I was playing in a game with a pretty experienced DM but it was my first session with him so i didn't know what to expect. When I sat down at the table, things went from stupid to more stupid quickly.
Myself and the other PCs were forced to travel with a talking, hopping rock about the size of a man's fist. This rock was a jester who was petrified (and turned into a rock?!?) but was still ambulatory and could speak and annoy everyone. The stone was also indestuctable and had awesome magical power. If we offended it, it would interrupt spells in the middle of a fight and toss endless bad puns. It didn't have an AC, we couldn't strike it because it was always able to avoid blows.
The DMPC was a homosexual druid (not that there is anything wrong with that) who would hit on my character constantly. My character was a paladin who was quite uncomforatable with the whole thing but tried to laugh it off. The druid was the most powerful druid in the world and traveled with us as an advisor and helper on this important quest.
The DM told me that my character would have the chance to meet my god. I thought that it was nuts because I was only a 3rd level paladin and didn't do anything to earn such an honor...but it was his game so I tought I should just go with it.
After entering a barrow and killing some minor undead we encountered a hideous dwarf eagerly devouring the severed arm of a woman. The dwarf looked up from his meal and called my PC out by name telling me that he was my god. My character, believing it was a trick attacked te cannibal dwarf but I found himself unable to harm this dwarf who had awesome magical powers. The other PCs attempted to attack him and they were subsequently rendered powerless.
I stopped the game. I asked the DM what was going on. He calmed me down and then the cannibal dwarf revealed himself as my god whose true form was.....a hideous, dirty, cannibalistic dwarf who was also the god of justice. The DM explained to me that indeed my character sensed that he was in the presence of his god.
Well I let te adventure continue and this DM's homebrew of 10yrs was a land where over every hill a random encounter check had to be made to see if we encountered hill giants and that the other NPCs we met were Higgerdoo the elven prince along with Barbatine and Barbantos the barbarian brothers.
The whole experience was made more horrible because the DM thought this was a "serious" campaign and apparently too great pleasure in the setting that he had taken such time to build. I was disgusted and never played in that game again.
Wyrmshadows
I'll start.
I was playing in a game with a pretty experienced DM but it was my first session with him so i didn't know what to expect. When I sat down at the table, things went from stupid to more stupid quickly.
Myself and the other PCs were forced to travel with a talking, hopping rock about the size of a man's fist. This rock was a jester who was petrified (and turned into a rock?!?) but was still ambulatory and could speak and annoy everyone. The stone was also indestuctable and had awesome magical power. If we offended it, it would interrupt spells in the middle of a fight and toss endless bad puns. It didn't have an AC, we couldn't strike it because it was always able to avoid blows.
The DMPC was a homosexual druid (not that there is anything wrong with that) who would hit on my character constantly. My character was a paladin who was quite uncomforatable with the whole thing but tried to laugh it off. The druid was the most powerful druid in the world and traveled with us as an advisor and helper on this important quest.
The DM told me that my character would have the chance to meet my god. I thought that it was nuts because I was only a 3rd level paladin and didn't do anything to earn such an honor...but it was his game so I tought I should just go with it.
After entering a barrow and killing some minor undead we encountered a hideous dwarf eagerly devouring the severed arm of a woman. The dwarf looked up from his meal and called my PC out by name telling me that he was my god. My character, believing it was a trick attacked te cannibal dwarf but I found himself unable to harm this dwarf who had awesome magical powers. The other PCs attempted to attack him and they were subsequently rendered powerless.
I stopped the game. I asked the DM what was going on. He calmed me down and then the cannibal dwarf revealed himself as my god whose true form was.....a hideous, dirty, cannibalistic dwarf who was also the god of justice. The DM explained to me that indeed my character sensed that he was in the presence of his god.
Well I let te adventure continue and this DM's homebrew of 10yrs was a land where over every hill a random encounter check had to be made to see if we encountered hill giants and that the other NPCs we met were Higgerdoo the elven prince along with Barbatine and Barbantos the barbarian brothers.
The whole experience was made more horrible because the DM thought this was a "serious" campaign and apparently too great pleasure in the setting that he had taken such time to build. I was disgusted and never played in that game again.
Wyrmshadows
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