concept: d&d campaign, mid-length to long, in which the party are reincarnations of the Knights of the Round Table. Key feature: neither characters nor players are aware of this. They have to figure it out. The Lady of the Lake should be an NPC who knows the truth.
Nah, cuz it’s just a reincarnation. Only the broad strokes need to match up, and you’d build the references slowly. Start the campaign in the Feywild (Avalon), maybe, and/or make sure they get there about 2/3 of the way through for answers. The cleric (or paladin) was Galahad once; give them a quest for a holy relic. A wizard or sorcerer or maybe bard is Merlin. Hell, maybe even Druid – absolutely primary spellcaster. Those are the only two for whom class really matters, though ofc it’d be nice if the new Arthur is proficient with a sword. Are there any siblings? Orkney bros, the poor sods. I’d be hella game for blade pact warlock Lancelot with the ‘son of the Lady of the Lake’ background, and his mom didn’t give him The sword (it’s not for him) but she did give him A sword, and it’s damn fine.
Y’know, you could just make up accents in dnd. Tried to give ur character an Australian accent and failed? Well, there is no Australia in this fantasy universe, but there is conceivably a settlement of people who all speak in an accent which sounds, to our ears, like really bad Australian.
What I’m saying is just use the worst fuckong voices for all ur characters and if u get called out on then just say it’s how people talk in fricking green-mushrooms or wherever ur character comes from. Make your party suffer.
More unreasonable D&D magic items: an enchanted ring that appears to grant the wearer occasional strokes of plausibly deniable good luck. What it actually does is confer upon the wearer the near-religious loyalty of a mob of small, extremely stealthy goblin-like creatures who believe that it’s their sacred duty to help the ring’s bearer without allowing their involvement to become known. This works well enough in wilderness or dungeon; problems start to arise when the wearer gets back to town for some downtime, as the ring’s minions have never been outside the dungeon and have no idea how civilisation works, but still feel obliged to help.
i love these goblins and will defend them with my life.
Just saw this on Twitter. An awesome idea for players who are stuck and for DMs to foster more involvement from your party in the world. @probablynpcrpgideas
The Storypath system actively encouraged this sort of gameplay as part of its core design.
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