@@seanstephenson8660 "I'M NOT ONE OF YOUR FRIED CHICKEN TRAMPS! I'm a woman. I like my men dangerous. Mysterious. You want to be my lover? Earn it! SEDUCE ME!!"
That's what I was thinking! Fighting the shopkeep is cliché. Having the shopkeep protected by a vastly overlevelled gang would be my strategy. Granny Shopkeep is actually the Godgrandmother
@@Fatalbeast22 Warlock pact of the archfey, whats even worse than her lv 20 grandbaby, who is obviously also a hexblood, is that her sisters are also with her and has not only has a coven but has a mutual beneficial pact with the city and weirdly enough treats everyone in the city like typical nice grannies
I like the idea that one of the party is a wizard and there is a silent alarm spell and a teleportation circle at the front door under a rug. And the moment she suspects anything 5 level 20 adventurers and 3 demon corpses appear and it all just suddenly smells like brimstone before *_gwazoosh_* and they are standing there
@@kenshinasakura3788 I didn't even get to your comment yet and I was already thinking the same damn thing. Sure earlier comments kinda set the premise a tad bit but I only needed one idea before I was thinking just like you.
Literally so true, becoming an experienced DM is just learning to let your party do the dumb shit and then punish them for it later in the most ironic and stupid way.
You don’t “punish” them. All actions have equal “reactions.” The Granny hires adventurers to find the thieves. The thick barmaid was a demon (and a contract was consummated “that” night). The goblin… well they were always murder hobos and the goblin sends them on adventures.
@@peterwhitcomb8315 +1 to not punishing players for playing the game. People have such a punishment boner. That said be careful. Not everything needs a reaction beyond the expected. Not every Barmaid should be a demon or whatever. That just feels wrong and is essentially just punishment. Go with stuff that makes sense. If the party is seducing too many barmaids you can have one be a hag or demon. If they are breaking laws you can call the authorities. I mean there has to be a Paladin Order nearby to various locations you can have enforce justice if you need extra muscle.
As they escape with their ill gotten and poorly guarded magic goods, Granny smiles. She's been trying to unload those on some unsuspecting sap for MONTHS...
"That "shut up stop looking at me" at the end was so genuine, I felt it in my soul. I definitely need to organize my notes better as a DM - the names in there, I just dont know where 😅
I have a name somewhere for my ship's First Mate... After multiple sessions of me not being able to remember or find it... He now has a different name. Which I can't remember at the moment, but my sister has written down, because she's a good note-taker. Thank God. I can't remember what I said for a lot of stuff.
I have well organized documents with names & a few facts to remember each npc. I never use names when I speak & my players just go by the titles I give them so it doesn’t even matter.
Reminds me of the dnd podcast I’ve been seeing all over YT shorts lately, “I think the children might’ve been kidnapped by the evil witch, Grylla” “Oh no, there’s a wild Gorilla on the loose?” “That Grylla, is it gas, or charcoal?”
I had a pair of Bugbears guarding the entrance to a dungeon in one of my first games; blindsided by the players befriending them instead of attacking, i panicked when asked for a name and called them "Hanz" and "Franz". Since then, Hanz and Franz the Bugbears show up in all of the games that I run for that group.
Fun fact: Kennedy Space Center's crawler-transporters are nicknamed "Hans" and "Franz", after the parodic Austrian body-builder characters on Saturday Night Live, played by Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon.
When i started dming i of handedly mentioned that there was a mafia tipe group and my players for some reason abandoned all the plot to hunt then down, in a panic i ended up calling the boss Italiano. The liano mob family is still a group in my games
Never insinuate, in any capacity, that there is a malevolent force other than the one you want the plot to revolve around. Players will always prioritize "The local thugs bullying fishermen and monopolizing the fishing hole" over "The Dark God of Megadeath intent on destroying reality". Immediate, probably solvable problem vs far-off, endgame problem. That said, good on you for rolling with it and making it a running gag.
@@superluigi6968 The Dark God of Megadeth always speaks french: "et tout le monde... et tout mes amis... these are the last words... that I'll ever speak.. and they'll set me free-e-e-eeeeee..."
My players always seem to latch onto the random npc I came up with on the spot and demand more info on them that I also have to come up with on the spot XD
Im part of a campaign and there was a character that died before I joined named "Pickle Pete" who mistook the cleric in the party for a little boy. Everybody wishes he could come back
I was in a party that did that once in a more modern campaign setting. A random taxi ride led to the creation of Jonas the best driver in the megacity who became a recurring character whenever we needed to get somewhere quickly.
One of the DMs I’ve had accidentally made the Acronym for a group KFC, considered as the group worshipped a bird that dropped bones on them (my Aracokra character with… unusual quirks) the jokes about Baja Blast and other KFC/Taco Bell items were flying 😂
My dm never gave us guides he just made us interact with people who had information about the quest knowing we would try for seduction in the long run somewhere
"How do you make love to me," is a near-perfect phrase to include in the FAFO lexicon. Just needs an occasional bonus of, "IN EXCRUCIATING DETAIL," for extra spice.
“Toaster Strudel” reminds me that one of my friends (who I’m pretty sure was a first-time DM) ran a campaign with an NPC who was named Mr. Shrimp and had the catchphrase “As shrimple as that”. He already mastered that skill in his first campaign
A Nat 20 on a seduction check in my game is “not getting whacked over the head” a Nat 1 is “getting dragged onto the street by the bouncer”. Forcing your players to actually do the uncomfortable thing they just tried is genius, but takes a level of will power I simply do not have
@@Rhulk_Disciple_of_the_Witness Yeah, I already made the boundaries clear before the game started. If you try to push yours I'll just go along with it after asking the table if they are sure this is ok. Honestly no idea why people are so uptight over seduction checks. Do they not do those in real life? I know I do and sometimes they work like magic. Other times you don't even get to roll for it. I can only assume it happens too much. I would consider that an issue you solve outside the game though.
My first campaign was a completely home brewed world, and important NPC’s names were all based on synonyms of the world’s core word/meaning. My players never asked their names 😭
It's my favorite right now! Geek Tropical is the maker btw I think if you use runDMG at checkout they set up a 10% off coupon a while back if you end up buying anything
Shop keeper in my campaigns: a little goblin that gives them magical treats after each purchases. Sometimes it's an invisible spell that last 1 hour without concentration, a 3rd cure wounds (full heals), heroism, lesser restoration, etc. Has services for identifiying magic items, and tells them rumors and stories as part of their chit chats. Thowing a little bit of Q from James Bond with the magic items and treats.
Big mistake on that last one. You look at the player in their eyes and say, "Good Question, what *is* this guy's name?" It doesn't matter if they say "NPC McNpcface," roll with it and have the characters act like this is completely serious. Players will love it.
I couldnt for the life of me think of a name for a goblin character, so i just made them mute so no one actually knew his name, and one of my players named him Silent Bob, and it stuck lol
Player clearly wanting to put the poor dm on the spot: what's your name random npc? Npc: what's my name? Oh [insert character name], you mean....you don't remember me...?
Solution for the first one and my favorite shop keeper. Make a little, old, and blind shop keep. But every item in her shop, even if they aren't for sale, is cursed somehow. The only way to remove the curse is to have her remove the curse herself. Example: A basic cauldron. But, if stolen, it's cursed so that any item that is attempted to cook, the pot will instead melt and the item is left undamaged.
😂😂😂😂😂 I had a goblin rogue that had no stats and was the King's right hand for any dirty work. He always appeared wherever necessary, gave out juicy jobs and then randomly disappeared leavinf dead bodies behind. Yes absolutely beloved and favourite at the table.
This is so incredibly accurate! 😂😂😂 it's me, my first game vs. our 10th. At a certain point, you make loose plans with intentional holes so you can herd your gagle of cats back into the right direction when they get stuck for a month gambling the old one warlock's soul over and over.
for magic shops, you can keep all the stuff in the back (or even better under the effects of the instant summons spell) and display a bunch of illusions. That way you can’t have any theft through sleight of hand as well because all the items have to be gone and gotten. It’s sometimes fun to just switch up the methods for preventing theft that magic shops have. Not keeping the stuff on hand would be the average Joe’s method and you’d pretty much have to pre order things then hang around a bit but the more magically powerful shop keeps could have some other stuff.
This little old granny is an infernal. When you cross the threshold it is assumed that you have knowingly entered into an unspoken contract mentioned in the tsa that was released in the local paper. Any actions pre-defined as 'undesirable' will instantly teleport you, and your loved ones, to the underworld.
Watched it once, snorted a little, watched it a second time just for the delivery of "Toaster Strudel" (or however you wanna spell it) because gods damn is that funny.
Tostaire StruDelle really hits home for me... 90% of my NPC names come from me looking around my office and forcefully mashing random words and the names of random objects I see together. Haha!
I had a npc with a powerful magic item players instantly thought of trying to steal it issue was they where low level and the magic item they wanted to steal was one meant for combat specificity the robe of stars which at the party level could if rolled lucky would take out multiple people in one turn for the next following turn take out the rest.
that small old lady reminds me of an npc in our campaign. old lady, real grandmotherly type, very out of place in the Tavern filled with veteran mercenary types whom she affectionately calls her grandkids.. we all knew if anyone mess with her then just about every level 12-20 merc/knight/ and one publicly approved necromancer would be on our asses forever.
A friend who was GMing had to invent an NPC on the spot because we examined a couple of books we found. One of them was written by... Ug the Wilderness Poet who spent 10 years hitting a rock with a stick until the rock broke. We went on a quest to find the stick, because it had become a magical artifact.
The joy of being an actor proficient in improv is that when anyone asks me for a random piece of information like the name of a random NPC…I can come up with something completely random on the spot. If they challenge it, I counter with “why did you ask if you already knew the answer?” They never have an answer to that question.
As an (aspiring) author, same really I made the villan do the most reprehensible things so that my hypothetical future fans will not like him and just hate him, and then later on i just like "eh, why not, time to make him hot, people will like that"
In my first campaign I made all the inn keepers identical siblings all named Bodf. It was a reference to one of the Bards Tale games, but they all thought it was a set up for a balls joke. They had fun guessing how the next Bodf they met would be different from the last.
Our friend who was DMing our group had us go to a wizard who used a diamond to revive a dead friend. The wizard sent a skeleton familiar to follow us in order to make sure we stuck to our word which was to bring him back another diamond. We ended up naming said skeleton Larry and begged to keep him after completing the mission
always make them understand that in a world in where people with superpowers travel like that, the most op of them all are the retired ones that opened an inn or a shop somewhere, they are the ones powerfull enough to survive and trive
Our local potion merchant was some kind of primordial pre-God. You try to hit him with the orb of null space to steal that interesting looking bottle of white darkness ONE TIME.
I am very much new to dm'ing, but this made me realize that my 8 years of world building and writing and roleplaying and theatre DID give me a lot of knowledge about what my players are like bc when I dm'ed my first game, I knew exactly how to make my characters hate the people i wanted them to hate and love the asshole sentient box
I literally looked a rogue player in the eye and said "Do not steal from the traveling merchant. You will get caught. I have made him so he will catch you. And then he will ban you from his shop. This is going to be your party's only source of healing. Do not be stupid." Guess what he immediately did. Go on. Guess.
@@isaiahf-d846 it's not a challenge if I'm telling him there is no way he can succeed, will not be rolling for it, and if he insists on making the attempt there are immediate consequences that will affect literally everyone in the party. No one in the party is a healer. I straight up told the party I would make an NPC that would travel around to sell them healing potions. It was the player spitting on my good will and his party members.
Reminds me of this gem I had with one of my players: Player: "But if I kill the shopkeep it'll be free" Me: "Sure, go ahead" Player: "Wait... that's it?" Me: *rolls a d20* "Hm? Sorry what did you say?" Player: "I leave the shop"
FantasyNameGenerator has become the single most valuable tool in my DM kit. It's now at the point where any time we ask for the name of a random no-name NPC in any of our games with this table, whoever is DMing just goes "Give me a moment to consult Emily" (FNG is run by a woman named Emily)
My go-to shopkeeper was (before Baldurs Gate 3) a hag in disguise who sold slightly cursed, but generally better than average items tailored to the party specifically. Now, after Baldurs Gate 3, she now calls them all Petal too.
In one of my earlier games, we hot up a shot and found many magical items we couldn't afford. I looked over at a fellow player and saw something spark in her eyes as she asked if I'd like to stick around till after dark. I said I am as well. With no plan at all, we snuck in and knocked the shopkeeper unconscious in his sleep, robbed him of a few items, baracaded the doors, and ran to the woods to bury them. The whole party was pissed when they found their favorite shop was robbed. My fellow partner in crime became discouraged and gave up the goods when our DM demoted her from chaotic good to chaotic neutral.... I turned to her and said this is why you always start as chaotic neutral....
My favorite event was when my party arrived to a village and one summoned the illusion of a dragon to impress. The mayor shot at them because they had been raided by dragon cultists recently (and party knew it). They asked who the mayor is and rolled massively on local knowledge. I had not actually thought about it much other than "mayor who wants to protect village", so I went "Oh, he is Lame Lacris. He is the drunk mayor who hates the forest and thinks it houses his spiteful wife who is actually a dragon. She isn't." with zero hesitation.
“Seduce me.”
“Uh. What?”
“SEDUCE ME!”
YOU WANT TO BE MY LOVER! EARN IT!
@@rileyscott8811SEDUCE ME!
Hey there...
Good looking, I got a bucket of chicken
"hey I got some chicken."
@@seanstephenson8660 "I'M NOT ONE OF YOUR FRIED CHICKEN TRAMPS! I'm a woman. I like my men dangerous. Mysterious. You want to be my lover? Earn it! SEDUCE ME!!"
"We're not fading to *anything.* I *am* the thicc barmaid, *you* picked this, *details now!"*
:'( been through this, but it was a big muscular orc lady. PTSD exist for D&D
@@Shive1337 tbf, the provided context explicitly says the player brought it on themselves. If it was forced on you, that's a whole other thing.
I write stuff, so I hope they're ready.
@@Shive1337I know it well. I will explain my secondhand ptsd with a few words and no more: Earth Genasi seduced by a Tiefling bard.
@@RaccoonScholarSomething something "rock hard"?
Toaster strudel had me on my ass laughing.
It's "Tost'eyr Strúdelle"!
@@Silverin_ my American ass brain just hears toaster strudel but you're right
the best part of the video
Same I love him and I don’t know or want to know anything about him
@@Silverin_ pretty sure he's saying "toaster au strudel " as his npc seems french xd
"How do you make love to me?" Is so bizare and funny
I've done this before, held eye contact the entire time, didn't have to worry about suduction attempts from that player ever again.
I'd be terrified lmao
@@stephenjames2159Omg that sounds like so much fun!😂
Way to call their bluff!😂
@stephenjammes2159 THAT! and afterward you also give them some fantasy triper....
Ask them how do they seduce the dragon, and the only answer that passes the skill check is quoting Shrek.
This is the way
@@run-dmg Only if your bard is an ass.
@@Tomyironmane they're bards. they automatically pass that qualifier
@@romanplays1No, he means they literally have to be a donkey.
@@romanplays1 he means the original meaning of ass - a donkey
No no, the granny isn't the level 20. Her grandson is, as is the rest of his adventuring party. And they all love her.
That's what I was thinking! Fighting the shopkeep is cliché. Having the shopkeep protected by a vastly overlevelled gang would be my strategy. Granny Shopkeep is actually the Godgrandmother
Her grandson is the level 20 warlock.....the granny is his patron
@@Fatalbeast22 Warlock pact of the archfey, whats even worse than her lv 20 grandbaby, who is obviously also a hexblood, is that her sisters are also with her and has not only has a coven but has a mutual beneficial pact with the city and weirdly enough treats everyone in the city like typical nice grannies
I like the idea that one of the party is a wizard and there is a silent alarm spell and a teleportation circle at the front door under a rug.
And the moment she suspects anything 5 level 20 adventurers and 3 demon corpses appear and it all just suddenly smells like brimstone before *_gwazoosh_* and they are standing there
@@kenshinasakura3788 I didn't even get to your comment yet and I was already thinking the same damn thing. Sure earlier comments kinda set the premise a tad bit but I only needed one idea before I was thinking just like you.
I will be using “how do you make love to me” in my campaigns from now on. Thank you for this gift
Happy to help 🫡
your players on the other hand will hate this gift, go ham brother! and come back with tales of your mighty player traumatizing conquests!
It is no longer “How do you want to do this?” lol
All fun and games until you get that one player with the _extensive_ Ao3 browser history who responds with “I’m so glad you asked :D”
@@riverstyx7251 That's when someone pulls out some browser tabs and starts flicking through them going "Alright so we'll start with..."
Literally so true, becoming an experienced DM is just learning to let your party do the dumb shit and then punish them for it later in the most ironic and stupid way.
You don’t “punish” them. All actions have equal “reactions.” The Granny hires adventurers to find the thieves. The thick barmaid was a demon (and a contract was consummated “that” night). The goblin… well they were always murder hobos and the goblin sends them on adventures.
@@peterwhitcomb8315 +1 to not punishing players for playing the game. People have such a punishment boner.
That said be careful. Not everything needs a reaction beyond the expected. Not every Barmaid should be a demon or whatever. That just feels wrong and is essentially just punishment. Go with stuff that makes sense. If the party is seducing too many barmaids you can have one be a hag or demon. If they are breaking laws you can call the authorities. I mean there has to be a Paladin Order nearby to various locations you can have enforce justice if you need extra muscle.
dont forget learning how to also be dumb, mostly with joke NPCs
@ if you're not losing a couple of brain cells every session, you're not playing DND right.
Little old granny? Oh, you mean the Grandmatriarch
As they escape with their ill gotten and poorly guarded magic goods, Granny smiles. She's been trying to unload those on some unsuspecting sap for MONTHS...
OH NO, I'M PLAYING COOKIE CLICKER, I KNOW NOT TO TOY WITH THE GRANDMATRIARCHS. NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NONONONONON
GrannMatriarch
her real name is Vera
Clown suddenly appears "WAR CRIMES, did someone say WAR CRIMES"
"no"
"I'LL BE WANTED IN AT LEAST 13 COUNTRIES"
"Their bones are unguarded!"
i know what you are *is looking at a mirror*
Chuckles the Clown, can it be?
Geneva convention more like Geneva suggestion! COME MY CHILD ARMY
"I scream... you scream... we all scream... in the terrible house fire at the family reunion"
"That "shut up stop looking at me" at the end was so genuine, I felt it in my soul. I definitely need to organize my notes better as a DM - the names in there, I just dont know where 😅
Feeling 5 sets of eyes staring at me as I fumble is my worst nightmare 😂
I have a name somewhere for my ship's First Mate... After multiple sessions of me not being able to remember or find it... He now has a different name. Which I can't remember at the moment, but my sister has written down, because she's a good note-taker. Thank God. I can't remember what I said for a lot of stuff.
@@havenparksstop exposing me 😭
@@skyguytomas9615 😆
I have well organized documents with names & a few facts to remember each npc. I never use names when I speak & my players just go by the titles I give them so it doesn’t even matter.
we had a fey lord name gal'tain we started calling him gluten and now every fay name is based of of baking or baked goods.
Ah the Toriyama approach
😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
Reminds me of the dnd podcast I’ve been seeing all over YT shorts lately, “I think the children might’ve been kidnapped by the evil witch, Grylla”
“Oh no, there’s a wild Gorilla on the loose?”
“That Grylla, is it gas, or charcoal?”
@@BasketChase98 😂😂😂
@@BasketChase98 that’s a once upon a witch light
You know you fucked up when your dm says “we’re not fading to black”
In that context, he really fucked
I almost choked on my lunch at "bonjoir, my name is Toastar Sturdael"😂😂😂😂
Tohstair Strhhhhhhhhuduhl
Hey, hey, you don’t invent war crimes.
Geneva just decides that nobody else can have the same fun as you.
"They are gonna love him so much they are gonna invent new warcrimes for him" canada is that you?
"The world is dimensionally unstable and connects to Michigan. Bob is an exotic name to them. Deal with it"
I had a pair of Bugbears guarding the entrance to a dungeon in one of my first games; blindsided by the players befriending them instead of attacking, i panicked when asked for a name and called them "Hanz" and "Franz". Since then, Hanz and Franz the Bugbears show up in all of the games that I run for that group.
Fun fact: Kennedy Space Center's crawler-transporters are nicknamed "Hans" and "Franz", after the parodic Austrian body-builder characters on Saturday Night Live, played by Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon.
*Hanz* "I'm Hanz" *Franz* "And I'm Franz" *together* "and we are here to pump YOU UP!"
'You wanted to make things uncomfortable, now we're gonna make things uncomfortable.'
When i started dming i of handedly mentioned that there was a mafia tipe group and my players for some reason abandoned all the plot to hunt then down, in a panic i ended up calling the boss Italiano. The liano mob family is still a group in my games
Never insinuate, in any capacity, that there is a malevolent force other than the one you want the plot to revolve around.
Players will always prioritize "The local thugs bullying fishermen and monopolizing the fishing hole" over "The Dark God of Megadeath intent on destroying reality".
Immediate, probably solvable problem vs far-off, endgame problem.
That said, good on you for rolling with it and making it a running gag.
Turning that into the “Liano Family” is the best thing I’ve seen today.
@@superluigi6968 The Dark God of Megadeth always speaks french: "et tout le monde... et tout mes amis... these are the last words... that I'll ever speak.. and they'll set me free-e-e-eeeeee..."
The DM remembers the mistake of ever thinking "They'll hate the serial killer goblin!" as the artificer gives him a flamethrower
The veteran DM also knows to never add any way for the party to access the wish spell
It's def a way to end a campaign QUICK unless I'm playing and old school game I don't give out wishes until near endgame
Wishes shouldn't be part of a spell list, only a feature of an artifact (such as dragonballs).
"My characters would love him so much they'd invent war crimes for him."
Is the essence of almost every rpg I ever played. 😅😂
My players always seem to latch onto the random npc I came up with on the spot and demand more info on them that I also have to come up with on the spot XD
We can smell the fear in you and want moreeeeee
My players threatened to unionize my wizard's apprentices and staff.
Im part of a campaign and there was a character that died before I joined named "Pickle Pete" who mistook the cleric in the party for a little boy. Everybody wishes he could come back
I was in a party that did that once in a more modern campaign setting. A random taxi ride led to the creation of Jonas the best driver in the megacity who became a recurring character whenever we needed to get somewhere quickly.
When i put in a guide npc to help them if they got stuck, they just tried to trick and charm him.
One of the DMs I’ve had accidentally made the Acronym for a group KFC, considered as the group worshipped a bird that dropped bones on them (my Aracokra character with… unusual quirks) the jokes about Baja Blast and other KFC/Taco Bell items were flying 😂
My dm never gave us guides he just made us interact with people who had information about the quest knowing we would try for seduction in the long run somewhere
"How do you make love to me," is a near-perfect phrase to include in the FAFO lexicon.
Just needs an occasional bonus of, "IN EXCRUCIATING DETAIL," for extra spice.
This went from D&D to FATAL in seconds flat.
The toaster strudel bit feels like a Markiplier quote
“Toaster Strudel” reminds me that one of my friends (who I’m pretty sure was a first-time DM) ran a campaign with an NPC who was named Mr. Shrimp and had the catchphrase “As shrimple as that”. He already mastered that skill in his first campaign
"shut up stop looking at me" banger of a line and said a lot.
Putting a Stuck-up Paladin in your game is like stuffing a pumpkin full of ground beef and chucking it into a tiger enclosure. It's for enrichment! :)
The "stop looking at me" as you flip through an eon of notes is too real XD i usually tell my players to restock their drinks or grab a smoke
Yup, fantasy name generator is a godsent. Thank you, Emily!
A Nat 20 on a seduction check in my game is “not getting whacked over the head” a Nat 1 is “getting dragged onto the street by the bouncer”.
Forcing your players to actually do the uncomfortable thing they just tried is genius, but takes a level of will power I simply do not have
If a dm asks me for the description, it's going to him and the party that are uncomfortable. Not me.
@@Rhulk_Disciple_of_the_Witness Yeah, I already made the boundaries clear before the game started. If you try to push yours I'll just go along with it after asking the table if they are sure this is ok.
Honestly no idea why people are so uptight over seduction checks. Do they not do those in real life? I know I do and sometimes they work like magic. Other times you don't even get to roll for it.
I can only assume it happens too much. I would consider that an issue you solve outside the game though.
My first campaign was a completely home brewed world, and important NPC’s names were all based on synonyms of the world’s core word/meaning. My players never asked their names 😭
Going home to make a Blood Elf named Tos'ter Stru-Del 😂 That's too good.
When you spend so much time planning your campaign as a dm you forget to seek love, only for your players to deliver it to you face to face
Normally I'm not big on D&D merch, but that shirt is stellar
It's my favorite right now! Geek Tropical is the maker btw I think if you use runDMG at checkout they set up a 10% off coupon a while back if you end up buying anything
No longer a bad number this is number 667
I'll be DMing for the first time at the start of the year, I'm taking notes from this.
Welcome to the club! It's a ton of fun and I hope these help 😂
@@run-dmg You think a player has ever said 'I roll to persuade the NPC to flirt with me' in a game, and the DM had to suddenly be the flirter?
"Shut up. Stop looking at me." Was so real.
Tostere Stroodel? That guy helped me get rid of the bandits! Hell of a guy!
He tasted good too! Ciao fellas! *cough cough... COUGHCOUGHCOUGH!*
Now i take names from anything around me drop a letter and hope nobody says anything.
"Ilwaukee Rill" "Hite Utpen" "Hermos Offee"
"I need to make her a level 13 warlock, just so she stands a chance"
"Bonjour, my name is Toaster Štrudelj."
Brilliant!
Animals
What can go wrong?
Everything can… E V E R Y T H I N G
As a newbie myself, this is so accurate.
Shop keeper in my campaigns: a little goblin that gives them magical treats after each purchases. Sometimes it's an invisible spell that last 1 hour without concentration, a 3rd cure wounds (full heals), heroism, lesser restoration, etc. Has services for identifiying magic items, and tells them rumors and stories as part of their chit chats. Thowing a little bit of Q from James Bond with the magic items and treats.
Big mistake on that last one. You look at the player in their eyes and say, "Good Question, what *is* this guy's name?"
It doesn't matter if they say "NPC McNpcface," roll with it and have the characters act like this is completely serious. Players will love it.
My dm uses this and it’s really allowed us to connect with characters we normally would have brushed off
I couldnt for the life of me think of a name for a goblin character, so i just made them mute so no one actually knew his name, and one of my players named him Silent Bob, and it stuck lol
Thats how my dm got stuck with "Ester Gooch" the creator of a fabric named "Gucci" lmao.
Player clearly wanting to put the poor dm on the spot: what's your name random npc?
Npc: what's my name? Oh [insert character name], you mean....you don't remember me...?
That's fine by me, but if I don't see players jot their own goofy NPC name down, I see a TPK on the horizon.
Fun fact, you don’t need your shopkeeper to be a high level class, you just need them to be prepared.
When they attack, "Kronk! Pull the lever!"
@@TorporTorpid _"s q u e a k e r s"_
Solution for the first one and my favorite shop keeper. Make a little, old, and blind shop keep. But every item in her shop, even if they aren't for sale, is cursed somehow. The only way to remove the curse is to have her remove the curse herself.
Example: A basic cauldron. But, if stolen, it's cursed so that any item that is attempted to cook, the pot will instead melt and the item is left undamaged.
😂😂😂😂😂
I had a goblin rogue that had no stats and was the King's right hand for any dirty work. He always appeared wherever necessary, gave out juicy jobs and then randomly disappeared leavinf dead bodies behind.
Yes absolutely beloved and favourite at the table.
Ahh mr stabby, hes actually quite nice when you get to know him
This is so incredibly accurate! 😂😂😂 it's me, my first game vs. our 10th. At a certain point, you make loose plans with intentional holes so you can herd your gagle of cats back into the right direction when they get stuck for a month gambling the old one warlock's soul over and over.
"My name is Towester Stroodell" really got me. Thumbs up.
Players will take any NPC any direction you just gotta make them flexible
Lol accurate as hell, blacksmiths are always former adventurers who just hid well
for magic shops, you can keep all the stuff in the back (or even better under the effects of the instant summons spell) and display a bunch of illusions. That way you can’t have any theft through sleight of hand as well because all the items have to be gone and gotten.
It’s sometimes fun to just switch up the methods for preventing theft that magic shops have. Not keeping the stuff on hand would be the average Joe’s method and you’d pretty much have to pre order things then hang around a bit but the more magically powerful shop keeps could have some other stuff.
I've learned that no party can resist the cuteness of a kobald spinning around like a cat before going to sleep on a party members' lap.
They’re going to take they serial killer goblin on as a pet 😂
“Bonjour, my name is Toastal Struudal” got me cracking up
Can absolutely confirm the goblin thing. Introduced a small gobbo thief to pass on some info, rob them and leave.
They adopted him.
My DM calls any NPC's he has to unexpectedly name Tom and John. Being nice to Auntie Magda the shopkeeper has gotten us out of trouble many a time.
You never know what the players' hivemind will fixate before a session.
This little old granny is an infernal. When you cross the threshold it is assumed that you have knowingly entered into an unspoken contract mentioned in the tsa that was released in the local paper. Any actions pre-defined as 'undesirable' will instantly teleport you, and your loved ones, to the underworld.
Toasteir is the mastermind, of what the plot will decide.
Watched it once, snorted a little, watched it a second time just for the delivery of "Toaster Strudel" (or however you wanna spell it) because gods damn is that funny.
Tostaire StruDelle really hits home for me... 90% of my NPC names come from me looking around my office and forcefully mashing random words and the names of random objects I see together. Haha!
“Bonjour my name is Toaster Strudel.” 😂😂😂😂
Sir. That is a grand beard!
Thank you!
I had a npc with a powerful magic item players instantly thought of trying to steal it issue was they where low level and the magic item they wanted to steal was one meant for combat specificity the robe of stars which at the party level could if rolled lucky would take out multiple people in one turn for the next following turn take out the rest.
that small old lady reminds me of an npc in our campaign. old lady, real grandmotherly type, very out of place in the Tavern filled with veteran mercenary types whom she affectionately calls her grandkids.. we all knew if anyone mess with her then just about every level 12-20 merc/knight/ and one publicly approved necromancer would be on our asses forever.
1st campaign and im already a vet, that's not a flex that's just how my players be. i love it though
The last beat made me feel so much better about myself.
A friend who was GMing had to invent an NPC on the spot because we examined a couple of books we found. One of them was written by... Ug the Wilderness Poet who spent 10 years hitting a rock with a stick until the rock broke.
We went on a quest to find the stick, because it had become a magical artifact.
I've decided that planning is for nerds, DMing should be done on a whim, let the players have advance ideas, I'll make stuff up in the fly
The joy of being an actor proficient in improv is that when anyone asks me for a random piece of information like the name of a random NPC…I can come up with something completely random on the spot. If they challenge it, I counter with “why did you ask if you already knew the answer?”
They never have an answer to that question.
"They're not gonna steal from the granny..."
"I BURN DOWN THE SHOP!"
"Bonjour, my name is Toh'Stayr Shtru-Dale" I'm dying
As an (aspiring) author, same really
I made the villan do the most reprehensible things so that my hypothetical future fans will not like him and just hate him, and then later on i just like "eh, why not, time to make him hot, people will like that"
In my first campaign I made all the inn keepers identical siblings all named Bodf. It was a reference to one of the Bards Tale games, but they all thought it was a set up for a balls joke.
They had fun guessing how the next Bodf they met would be different from the last.
Our friend who was DMing our group had us go to a wizard who used a diamond to revive a dead friend. The wizard sent a skeleton familiar to follow us in order to make sure we stuck to our word which was to bring him back another diamond. We ended up naming said skeleton Larry and begged to keep him after completing the mission
always make them understand that in a world in where people with superpowers travel like that, the most op of them all are the retired ones that opened an inn or a shop somewhere, they are the ones powerfull enough to survive and trive
That pencil is my favorite type and colour of all time.
Our local potion merchant was some kind of primordial pre-God. You try to hit him with the orb of null space to steal that interesting looking bottle of white darkness ONE TIME.
As someone who is interested in becoming a dm this is really helpful
I am very much new to dm'ing, but this made me realize that my 8 years of world building and writing and roleplaying and theatre DID give me a lot of knowledge about what my players are like bc when I dm'ed my first game, I knew exactly how to make my characters hate the people i wanted them to hate and love the asshole sentient box
I literally looked a rogue player in the eye and said "Do not steal from the traveling merchant. You will get caught. I have made him so he will catch you. And then he will ban you from his shop. This is going to be your party's only source of healing. Do not be stupid." Guess what he immediately did. Go on. Guess.
you just issued him a challenge
@@isaiahf-d846 it's not a challenge if I'm telling him there is no way he can succeed, will not be rolling for it, and if he insists on making the attempt there are immediate consequences that will affect literally everyone in the party. No one in the party is a healer. I straight up told the party I would make an NPC that would travel around to sell them healing potions. It was the player spitting on my good will and his party members.
I burst out laughing at the idea of lvl20 warlock granny running the little shop
"They will invent new warcrimes for him" killed me!
Brother I am actively taking notes!
I gave them a chaotic evil bard to guide my first party along.
the veteran DM actually just says "oh their name is bob" because they're making it up on the spot
Reminds me of this gem I had with one of my players:
Player: "But if I kill the shopkeep it'll be free"
Me: "Sure, go ahead"
Player: "Wait... that's it?"
Me: *rolls a d20* "Hm? Sorry what did you say?"
Player: "I leave the shop"
FantasyNameGenerator has become the single most valuable tool in my DM kit. It's now at the point where any time we ask for the name of a random no-name NPC in any of our games with this table, whoever is DMing just goes "Give me a moment to consult Emily" (FNG is run by a woman named Emily)
My go-to shopkeeper was (before Baldurs Gate 3) a hag in disguise who sold slightly cursed, but generally better than average items tailored to the party specifically. Now, after Baldurs Gate 3, she now calls them all Petal too.
This was like a combo, and the "thicc barmaid" "finished me off"
The two most memorable NPC names from DnD campaigns ive been in:
Chilb Linton
Hames Jetfield
Tos’tair Stru’dyl is my favorite npc, if anything happens to him I will invent new war crimes
Toastairé Strùdelle is a name i will forever love.
In one of my earlier games, we hot up a shot and found many magical items we couldn't afford. I looked over at a fellow player and saw something spark in her eyes as she asked if I'd like to stick around till after dark. I said I am as well. With no plan at all, we snuck in and knocked the shopkeeper unconscious in his sleep, robbed him of a few items, baracaded the doors, and ran to the woods to bury them. The whole party was pissed when they found their favorite shop was robbed. My fellow partner in crime became discouraged and gave up the goods when our DM demoted her from chaotic good to chaotic neutral.... I turned to her and said this is why you always start as chaotic neutral....
My favorite event was when my party arrived to a village and one summoned the illusion of a dragon to impress.
The mayor shot at them because they had been raided by dragon cultists recently (and party knew it).
They asked who the mayor is and rolled massively on local knowledge. I had not actually thought about it much other than "mayor who wants to protect village", so I went "Oh, he is Lame Lacris. He is the drunk mayor who hates the forest and thinks it houses his spiteful wife who is actually a dragon. She isn't." with zero hesitation.