Dungeons&Dragons

[Cruel2BKind]

Does anybody ever get plot bunnies or stories from D&D?

I've been playing a campaign with a few of my friends, and it all started as a joke. My one friend (playing a spellscale sorcerer) was trying to appraise a small idol that we found on an island. When he was trying to appraise it, he rolled a 1 (ask your nerd friends if you don't get it) so our DM said that he pricked his finger and took one nonlethal damage.

That normally would have been the end of it, but he (the spellscale) was having a conversation with an NPC at the time. I started making jokes about the NPC (a sailor on the ship we were on) having him suck on the sorcerer's finger, flirt with him, etc.

Now I'm nearly done with a twenty-page joke story. I'm going to call it 'Fingering the Idol; Mating Rituals of the NPC'

Does anybody else get ideas from the great Dodecahedron?

 

[patientlee]

Does anybody ever get plot bunnies or stories from D&D?

I've been playing a campaign with a few of my friends, and it all started as a joke. My one friend (playing a spellscale sorcerer) was trying to appraise a small idol that we found on an island. When he was trying to appraise it, he rolled a 1 (ask your nerd friends if you don't get it) so our DM said that he pricked his finger and took one nonlethal damage.

That normally would have been the end of it, but he (the spellscale) was having a conversation with an NPC at the time. I started making jokes about the NPC (a sailor on the ship we were on) having him suck on the sorcerer's finger, flirt with him, etc.

Now I'm nearly done with a twenty-page joke story. I'm going to call it 'Fingering the Idol; Mating Rituals of the NPC'

Does anybody else get ideas from the great Dodecahedron?

I'm not that kind of nerd.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Real combat beats the shit outta anything college asshats do for goofs.

 

[Acktion]

Nothing that I've submitted thus far.

However, I admit to beginning one or two attempts with an inn up in mighty tree with the smell of pan fried potatoes drifting down to the ground as adventurers gather...

Sadly, I only got to roll the four sided die on plot and it ended up languishing after the three faced off against the skeletons in the graveyard outside of town. (And yes, I made all sorts of impolite references about "killing boners")

 

[slyc_willie]

I've gotten quite a few ideas from a campaign I was in a while back that allowed players to make characters from The Book of Erotic Fantasy. I've long considered writing a series based on it. We played out about ten sessions, all of which were quite . . . interesting . . . .

The Book of Erotic Fantasy

 

[AMoveableBeast]

I've gotten quite a few ideas from a campaign I was in a while back that allowed players to make characters from The Book of Erotic Fantasy. I've long considered writing a series based on it. We played out about ten sessions, all of which were quite . . . interesting . . . .

The Book of Erotic Fantasy

"How is that goblin kicking your ass so fucking hard? You're tenth fucking level!"

"I spent all of my feats on Increased Sexual Stamina and Superior Fertility."

"Great, well after you're done sucking ass, you can plunder the shit out of this cave with your heroic bedroom prowess."

"Funny, your wife said the same thing on our last adventure. "A Dagger in the Dark: Impregnating Castle LonelyBitch." You were asleep for that quest, I think. Was worried I failed my sneak roll. Guess not."

"What?!"

"Did I also mention I picked Improved Deception? I'm just teasing you, buddy. Let's get some booty!"

"Whew. You had me worried for a second. I mean, with something besides your poor strength stat."

"Really? How's that low wisdom score working out for you, Sir Cuck?"

"I don't get it."

"I do."

 

[slyc_willie]

Actually, you're not far off, AMB . . .

 

[StrangeLife]

Real combat beats the shit outta anything college asshats do for goofs.

As a former LARPer and NCO I must disagree.

True - you lack the crazy white-robed guys trying to snipe you and blow you up all the time, but even a padded sword hurts like a bitch when somebody drops ten feet down from a tree and hits you over the head with it.

I have visited the ER more as a LARPer than I ever did in the armed forces. Being a geek is not for pussies...

 

[Bramblethorn]

Does anybody ever get plot bunnies or stories from D&D?

I've been playing a campaign with a few of my friends, and it all started as a joke. My one friend (playing a spellscale sorcerer) was trying to appraise a small idol that we found on an island. When he was trying to appraise it, he rolled a 1 (ask your nerd friends if you don't get it) so our DM said that he pricked his finger and took one nonlethal damage.

That normally would have been the end of it, but he (the spellscale) was having a conversation with an NPC at the time. I started making jokes about the NPC (a sailor on the ship we were on) having him suck on the sorcerer's finger, flirt with him, etc.

Now I'm nearly done with a twenty-page joke story. I'm going to call it 'Fingering the Idol; Mating Rituals of the NPC'

Does anybody else get ideas from the great Dodecahedron?

Yeah, I've written a few inspired by gaming stuff, though nothing posted here so far. I have a long piece in planning that came out of trying to work out rules for Orcish polygamy.

ITYM the great Icosahedron, BTW - unless it's changed since E3.5, the dodecahedron is mostly for rolling HP for barbarians and battle-axe damage, not much else.

 

[slyc_willie]

Yeah, I've written a few inspired by gaming stuff, though nothing posted here so far. I have a long piece in planning that came out of trying to work out rules for Orcish polygamy.

ITYM the great Icosahedron, BTW - unless it's changed since E3.5, the dodecahedron is mostly for rolling HP for barbarians and battle-axe damage, not much else.

Geek check.

I'd nearly forgotten I have a two-part series posted here that was based on a few solo sessions from years and years ago. I added the sex just so I could post it here, but otherwise it's pretty faithful to the actual game.

Waxley the Bold

 

[VenusButterflies]

Never played D&D but the aliens in one of my [very unfinished] story series were based off the Dranei in World of Warcraft. Shhh!

 

[Blind_Justice]

Yes. It worked well for Weis and Hickman, and it works great for me. And why not? I have a whole arsenal of well-defined characters, and since my business as a Game Master is making up stories for them anyway, it's not such a stretch at all. I just don't close the bedroom door when the Charisma checks are critical hits

The characters in "Leo and the Dragon" are borrowed from my regulars, setting and story are mine. The real art is hiding the dice rolls and avoiding RPG speak, as my editor for the follow-ups pointed out. If you look closely enough, the story has an almost classic "one shot adventure module" vibe to it.

 

[RejectReality]

Oh, virtually everything I've written as Darkniciad. The pen name is one of my characters.

90% of the characters have been around since the 80s. I'm taking their brief history paragraphs from the back of character sheets and expanding them into full stories, writing tweaked versions of actual game events to make them better reading, taking quick conversations about how this character or that "passed time" while we were playing other characters in our rosters, and turning those into stories.

Most of these characters I'm writing I know as well as I know family members. They've been with me that long.

My stories are so I can introduce everyone else to them

 

[Hypoxia]

D&D or WoW or any of that ilk? No.
Games that I wrote myself? Yes.

I have a few games pieces in the pipeline. Some are from concept games I wrote some time ago -- and I'm still trying to figure how to adapt them to LIT. A couple emerged from rewrite and were accepted here. Guess which? I must say that I *was* interested in game-playing... until I wrote some vid.games. Now, other people's games just seem tedious. Writing games is much more interesting than playing them. Sort of like, writing erotica beats reading it.