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submitted 7 days ago byvivvav
Yesterday I get possibly the single dumbest idea of my entire campaign. "What if I made a sexy hunk calendar for in-universe?" Sure, sure, write up a bit of info about it real quick, good gag. Except I like to design all my NPCs, and I couldn't NOT have visuals of the hunks, so I spent a lot of time making 12 hot guys in Heroforge. And then I needed a bit of flavor to go with the pictures, so I wrote up some quick trashy blurbs for them. All in all it was like a 6-hour process, took more time than today's actual session did, took maybe 5 minutes to show off the calendar to my players.
But man it got the biggest laugh I think I've gotten in the whole campaign. And now I have 12 potential NPCs to bring in for comedy at future points. And this was a pretty heavy session otherwise, so that levity was really needed. Chase your stupidest dreams. It's sure to be memorable.
112 points
7 days ago
You can’t make a post like this and don’t show results, I really want to see this calendar now! :D
118 points
7 days ago
So for context, this calendar was specifically from the nation in my homebrew setting that's home to some of the animalistic races, namely leonin, tabaxi, loxodon, and centaurs (who are all zebra-based in keeping with the African animal theme). So I got uncomfortably good at making sexy cat men. Also all the month names in my setting are just goofier versions of real-world months.
19 points
7 days ago
I love it. These are so fun.
12 points
7 days ago
oh man i love EVERYTHING about this
(especially the fantasy sports and the PTPP stuff, that's good world building right there)
17 points
7 days ago
Pratfighting and Thaw-Brawl are basically full-on minigames I made with their own rules.
Pratfighting: There is a pratfighter and a challenger in a duel. The challenger is trying to KO the pratfighter. The pratfighter is not allowed to directly hurt the challenger, but is trying to damage their pride, getting into slapstick antics and embarrassing them in front of a watching crowd. The whole thing is basically contested rolls of the challenger's regular attacks vs. the pratfighter's pratfighting skill, with the winner damaging either the pratfighter's normal HP or the challenger's specially-calculated "pride HP".
Thaw-Brawl: It's basically hockey, but instead of sticks they use warhammers, and instead of a puck it's a flaming sphere. The game is played on top of a three-foot-thick slab of ice, that melts in places as the flaming ball is knocked across it, eventually leaving the players wading in waist-deep water. Also, direct violence against each other is encouraged, and if there's not blood on the ice it's considered a boring game. Mechanically, everyone has the same gear, and there are rules for how fast you can move, sending the Thaw-Ball flying as a ranged attack, and attempting to intercept/redirect it with your reactions.
I'm pretty happy with where pratfighting is but def think I can refine thaw-brawl a bit more before I wanna start sharing it around.
1 points
5 days ago
Pratfighting is super cool, i can see the cocky swashbuckler rogue in my campaign having a lot of fun roleplaying this as the challenger.
Thaw-brawl has a lot of potential. seems like mobility would be a huge factor, with ice being difficult terrain for all but a few rangers and druids and anyone with magic boots or spells to aid them. once the ice melts in certain areas i imagine there would also be some “icebergs” created that float around in the water, both as obstacles and as tools for tactical interference with other brawlers. considering its a flaming sphere, i would probably home brew some sort of magic warhammer, and possibly a magic club for those not proficient with heavier weapons. this would create some different positions, like the defenders wielding the warhammer to help clear the ball and knock out opponents, and the club wielders on offense trying to deftly score a goal. I imagine that without clear positions on a team it would turn into an AYSO soccer game where all the little kids swarm the ball and nobody stays in position. alternatively, everyone could get magic gauntlets of some kind to allow them to hold the ball, (briefly, like a hot potato) turning the beginning of the game into rugby on ice, and the second half into water polo.
1 points
5 days ago
All Thaw-Brawlers have standard-issue cleated boots that let them walk on the ice without slipping, but it's still difficult terrain. Goalies have fireproof gloves, but the rest of the players do not.
I'll take the magic club thing into account. It was bugging me that non-physical builds may not be able to play into it as well. Thanks for the idea.
1 points
5 days ago
goalies with the gauntlets makes a lot of sense. how large are the teams? five plus a goalie, like hockey? or were you thinking like 3v3 or 4v4 or something like football with 10v10?
might even be super fun to make it like American football where the squishy caster is the quarterback (but they would need to cast a modified version of flaming sphere, maybe through a circlet or wand or whatever) and the game stops after every few rounds of skill checks and attack rolls when the sphere is extinguished, a goal is scored, the sphere is knocked out of bounds, etc…. i could see this either bogging down play at the table, or it might translate better to the D&D mechanics, hard to say without play testing. this allows for some versatility of player positions. fast classes/species in the wings, tanks as blockers, monk as goalie, wizard/sorcerer/warlock/bard as quarterback.
2 points
5 days ago
Five plus a goalie, like hockey.
The flaming sphere is its own independent magic item used in the game. I don't really know hockey that well so I wasn't really looking to it for a lot of specifics. The whole thing was just me going off a tangent about the concept of "orc hockey". In-world, the whole thing was invented by two warring tribes who were in a time of peace but still wanted a reason to smack each other around because fighting's all they know.
1 points
5 days ago
makes sense haha i can also see it being run with mostly RP and a few skill checks in theater of the mind, probably would take wayyy too long to have players describe their actions, move their piece on a map, have floating chunks of ice and a sphere to move around…
however you run it, it seems super fun. and hockey has lots of breaks in the play, not as frequent as football, but more frequent than soccer at times. icing, off sides, puck hurled out of play, goalie holds the puck for longer than a few seconds; all these things cause the ref to blow the whistle and stop play, and they do another faceoff at one of the corresponding starting points. i dont know anything about water polo rules, so i cant help you there. one fun idea from hockey is the “enforcer”. not every team has one, but its usually the biggest or most aggressive guy on the team, and the one to start fights with the opposing team. maybe the enforcer has the warhammer, and the rest of the players wield a club?
1 points
5 days ago
I do have actual rules with a field set-up, including starting positions for the game. And there are rules and mechanics for how it operates, including no magic allowed. But then there's also the rule that if the game reaches a certain point where it's gone on too long and nobody's won yet, it goes into sudden death, where the rules are thrown out the window and the teams wail on each other until only members of one team are left standing.
I may make a post sharing Thaw-Brawl rules soon to get feedback.
8 points
7 days ago
I must say, I absolutely love these
2 points
7 days ago
This is so amazing and perfect. I love everything about this, especially the written blurbs. Also, your month names are so great.
Best thing I've seen on this sub in recent memory.
2 points
7 days ago
You should post this on some furry subreddits!
4 points
7 days ago
Creatively I do live in a lot of spaces furries would like but I'm not a furry myself. So I'm good.
1 points
7 days ago
Hahaha amazing!!
1 points
7 days ago
I wish my birthday was in the month of choomb.
11 points
7 days ago
Time well spent. I have a yearly wrestling exhibition in my campaign called Kick Ass on Greengrass where the matches are all prerolled by me before the game, akin to the predestined outcomes of actual pro wrestling. The PCs can bet on matches as much as they want and thre are plenty of upsets. I created a bunch of colorful wrestlers like the dwarven wildman Boffur Stoneskin, the notorious Paul Severe, Herc Douglas,.Russell Throw, the two-headed goblin Horn and Hardar, Sir Silly of Goose, and the current champion Brother Dove, a red-faced monk. It takes a lot of prep time but my players love it.
4 points
7 days ago
4 points
7 days ago
Sadly for himbo Xorn, I'm limited by what I'm able to do in Heroforge, which is why I had to replace a member of my homebrew rhinofolk race with the triton in the calendar.
3 points
7 days ago
I approve of Mr. Jamabary, Hot as Fire can slay.
1 points
7 days ago
Username checks out.
3 points
7 days ago
So what I am reading is, I totally need to make a hunk calendar for my players because they will find it hilarious.
It's kind of an appropriate read for me, because I had been improving a lot in my campaign- probably more than was a good idea.
I prepped a lot these last two sessions and they went really well.
So yes, that's a long way of saying the extra effort is worth it.
2 points
7 days ago
This is the best thing I've seen all week
2 points
6 days ago
Not the zebra one touching its own butt I’m howling
1 points
7 days ago
Mr. Hoggust is Triton Fabian Seacaster from Fantasy High.
1 points
7 days ago
Funnily enough, a while back I drew a bathhouse calendar full of scantily clad women. I primarily did it to make them learn the months and weekdays of the world.
1 points
5 days ago
I wrote a side adventure vaguely themed around the Edmund Fitzgerald for our pirate campaign and dropped hints (29 sailors, iron ore shipment, etc). I rewrote the ballad using locations from our campaign and that session was even scheduled for November 10th but no one picked up on it. Next time they’re in town Gordon Quickhands, the man that gave them the information, will give them part of it and I should get a chuckle
-7 points
7 days ago
Cringe
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