DM of Reddit, what is your favorite way to troll your players? Part 3  

Another favorite tactic of mine: I throw a 10x10x10 Gelatinous Cube at the party as a minor annoyance. Inside floats a 6x8x4 treasure chest. Once combat against the gelatinous cube is over, the party will naturally want to claim their prize. BOOM! IT'S A MIMIC!

Asking everyone for initiative rolls when they are trying to sneak around quietly. They all get scared, then it's just them reaching to a branch snapping, or someone dropping something.

So potential name for those cursed daggers, blades of the Rick roll. They never gonna give you up, they’re never gonna let you down, they’re never gonna run around or desert you.

Sometimes when my players are exploring dungeons, I’ll randomly ask for passive perception. No reason, there’s nothing there. I just do it and they get scared

My dad ran a session once where we entered a magical laboratory with a bowl of random pills in the middle of it on a table. As he described it, he pulled out an actual bowl of mnms. Each one we ate permanently modified our stats. And there was no control over which one, and if it was good or bad. It really messed with us.

In one of my long running campaigns. The players had an encounter with a bandit who moonlit as a prostitute. Long story short, they brainwashed the bandit into thinking he was a Pirate prostitute. Flash forward 5 months IRL, the players are in the taverns back room preparing for the massive final battle with the BBG. I start rolling on the background (basically just to make the players nervous) I tell them they hear heavy footsteps. THUMP THUMP THUMP. The door is then kicked open with incredible force! With that at the top of my lungs I yell “YARR WOULD ANYONE LIKE A H***J*B?” The entire room lost their minds. It was chaos. In the end they recruited the Pirate prostitute to hand out cursed coupons that had a random negative effect. This actually worked so well about 30% of the BBG’s guards were immobilized. It was the funniest thing I ever had to DM.

Been playing for 3 years and DMed a one shot for the first time last month. The players were given a quest to hunt down a mysterious creature/force effecting the area. One of the quest givers is a mad scientist who asks them to bring back any interesting body parts, especially eyes, to make some amazing potions. After a surprisingly long session of getting through various puzzles and traps, they finally discover and defeat the Beholder boss. Of course they harvest several eyes and bring them back for their reward, only to have the mad scientist brew them some beauty potions. Yes my first time as a DM was a 6 hour long setup for a "beauty is in the eye of the Beholder" pun... no regrets :p

A rogue kept bragging about being the best while he was still low level. So, I threw the ole, 'old men in a profession is dangerous' at them. While in the tavern he tries to see if there was anyone they could steal from. So, who was at the other end of the tavern enjoying the finer off menu food without a care? Old Grogun the barbarian fighter. With a sleight of hand roll that failed he nearly took off the thief's head. Thanks to quick thinking he said he was just making sure the tiles on the wall weren't broken. Ole Grogun fell for the deception and the rogue sighed with relief...but only for a few moments. The old barbarian told him to wait while resting a heavy hand on his shoulder, grabbed the tile that the rogue was 'inspecting' and yanked it out with a chunk of wall before handing it to the rogue who nearly crapped himself just for the barbarian to say: "This one ugly. Needs fix."

Geezer here.... Never felt a need to troll the kittens. They are very good at bringing plenty of trouble upon themselves. Gaming on.

One of my favorite ways to troll players; place a valuable item/relic infront of them, and talk about the unique inscriptions. The inscriptions have no inherent meaning, but particularly curious players will go to great lengths to crack the code, such as wasting a wish to understand all languages.

I have a homebrew trait that can be put on magical equipment called faithful. The enchantment makes it so that whatever object it is on will always find its way back to you through logical and mundane circumstance. Lose a faithful key. It will wins up finding its wY back to you through a set of likelly coincidences. The troll is that faithful is a double edged sword. It can be put on any item, including cursed ones, weapons etc.

Guard: sir you must hand over all weapons before entering the castle Fighter: *holds out hand flat showing the sword wont fall out of their hand* wish i could...

I made a mini dungeon for the exact purpose of fucking with my players. While exploring the Underdark they came across an abandoned Mind Flayer outpost/laboratory. It was now home to a clan of Kobolds and their dragon master. The thing with Mind flayer structures is they're difficult to get around in since normally those living inside can levitate. The kobold had learned that they could crawl around in the science tubes and ventilation shafts to get around. They used these tunnels to set traps for any intruders. None of these were particularly deadly. A stink bomb, a bunch of old metal helmets falling from a false ceiling, a simple spike trap, and even having one of the kobolds sit in a hallways as bait before using gloves of Thunderwave to send anyone in front it flying back down the hall. But what made all of these traps better, was that every time the party would trigger one they heard dozens of voices just laughing at them through the walls. Oh they were pissed by the end. And then they had to fight a mutated dragon!

Just had one this session. My DM had us roll for death saves against enemies that were using non lethal attacks to try and capture us. The saves didn’t matter, but he wanted to put some extra drama in the session. What he didn’t account for was when our artificer’s goblin sidekick failed all his (meaningless) death saves. We all thought he was dead for about a half hour or hour, we even prepared a funeral brochure mid session, before our DM finally helped us realize the damage was non lethal and good old Droop was alive. Made for the most tense encounter we’ve had yet, and it was a clever if stressful way to troll with us.

To shorten a long ass backstory: One of our party members owns a bar in game and the cook is a succubus demon who always flirts with him. He's very concerned about keeping a lid on this situation. One day they have a food critic in the house and he wants to meet the cook. Player obviously wants to say no but then the succubus, demonstrating that she can magically disguise as a human, turns into a copy of him. And because I didn't want to pass up an opportunity to give my players a weird boner, I had her flirt with him, making comments about how "self love" is important.

having an NPC start his story all over again from the beginning whenever that NPC was interrupted.

I remember the original Jerrel story from a much older video. They used that trick to take down an entire camp full of bandits by luring them away one by one. "You know Jerrel, the new guy who came in last week"

A set of boots of stealth, but everytime you activate them, they fill with water, and your socks are now wet. Also *shlop shlop shlop* everytime you step.

My players had been hired to escort a caravan traveling from Rose Creek to Linhaven with various stops at small villages and towns on the way. They had finished the last leg of the trip and were about to enter the town of Linhaven. On the side of the road, carved in a large tree trunk, is a sign that reads "Welcome to" across the top, then a map of the town and "Linhaven" across the bottom. As I described the map, I set the map I'd drawn on graph paper down for my players to see. My players crowded around the map, each choosing a place they wanted to investigate. The druid, ranger and one of the Barbarians went to the Prancing Unicorn Inn for drinks, the rogue and the other barbarian went to the Wonders Of The World Curiosity Shop (the magic shop) and the Monk decided to check out Alcandice's Herbal Shop. Once the players announced where their characters were going to go, I casually slid the map behind my DM's screen and waited. Eventually, they wanted to go check out other shops. "Can I see the town map?" one of my players asked so he could plan his next destination. " What map?" I asked innocently. "The map you just had on the table," he replied, the situation completely going over his head. "You mean the map you saw carved in the sign next to the road? I don't recall anyone saying they copied or memorized the map." The look on my players faces was hilarious. I'd never trolled them like that before. Now they were lost in a strange town. I even told them, "Had someone the foresight to copy or memorize the map, perhaps that someone would've been awarded with inspiration." I doubt my players will ever encounter another map that they don't copy and try to memorize.

I like telling my players they're on the clock, but not alluding to what they're on the clock for. That's usually my way to speed the party along, but one time I was running a Candlekeep Mystery where there is an established time limit of 1 hour before the tower they were exploring rocketed into space. I used a stop watch on my phone and let it run while conversations/rp were going on. I would adjust it as they spent time exploring rooms. They ended up waisting most of the hour exploring the tower, but found out about the countdown timer in a secret underground chamber. They had all but 30 seconds to run back up stairs before getting toasted by rocket flames.

I love deliberately describing the scene in a way that throws off my players. Like nonchalantly saying, "You see fresh blood dripping from the walls" in the middle of otherwise innocuous details, describing the tavern's furniture and decorum in much greater detail than the NPCs inhabiting it, or simply describing an NPC the party know and love with malicious vernacular.

PANR has tuned in.

Something I once heard was getting back at players with a full party with Perception proficiency by making indescribable horrors make reversed perception saves for sanity

I love this question. It needs to be done more often.

A favorite method of mine is teleportation traps. Generally once or twice a campaign, but it's a fun way to forcibly split up the party or get them from point A to point B very quickly. The first time I ever used it, it was in an old, crumbling castle where some of the magical defenses still worked. They were teleported to the castle dungeons, the majority of which had crumbled away and couldn't actually contain them - but it took them completely off-guard since they had literally just entered the castle and suddenly found themselves being teleported. Followed by a mimic encounter, of course.

A dagger that can only be 10 feet away from you. Sounds like an amazing weapon imo. If you ever get captured and all your items are taken away you’ll always have your dagger. Could be used as a diversion. Intimidation. Can be used to gauge distance. Almost infinite money if you don’t mind be hated. I’d love a weapon like this

4:00 Oh the bag of holding monster. Okay so their is this awesome YT Chanel called Dungeon Dad. I mostly watch him for his monster of the week videos. He mostly takes old or obscure monsters and updates them to 5e. On top of that he goes into some interesting details to help with injecting said monster into your game. He covered the bag of holding monster a while ago(can’t remember it’s name sadly. ) My favorite part of watching his videos is read the comments. They are all really fun to read and everyone just throws out ideas to use the monster. And I even see pole build of others ideas to make them even greater. There defiantly worth a watch.

that +1 sword of face smacking fish just make me think of that quick unsheath/sheath meme about slicing something real fast but instead a fish squares up with his face

That first story (the Jerrel one) gave off real Rusty Shackleford vibes😂

I made my players scared of approaching suspicious sliver buckets that were just there

I have a reappearing NPC in all my campaigns, based off the merchant from Resident Evil 4. No matter what the setting or plot, I find a way to sneak him in, and he’ll be selling items from our other campaigns (he once sold a player their characters shotgun from a previous campign). The most ridiculous Appearance of his was when he showed up in the Endless Space campaign we did as a Lumeris that set up shop close to the Academy and was on the payroll of Isyander. It’s a troll move on my part by far, but my players love him even so: they always yell “THERE HE IS!!!” with absolute glee as soon as they hear the voice. In our recently started Dark Souls campaign one of my players actually asked for THEIR character to be the Merchant to throw everyone for a loop. It’s glorious. He’s Patches’ brother XD

I'm setting up a temple/dungeon that my group are about to go into. Around the doorway are some swirling glyphs that everyone in the party struggles to read. (It roughly translates to 'Ye who be cursed shall find it abated here') My plan is to have the party have some of their ailments, just as people, suddenly feel like they're gone. The issue comes when they leave again... Also one of the party is a Lycan. There's gonna be some shenanigans with that.

Lol I like the Cursed obelisk idea. They willing touch it and have feign death cast on them. Detect Magic will let them know the "dead" person is just under a spell for a bit. Doesn't have to be the full duration.

Imagine that from the very beginning of the campaign, your players are being hunted by a spirit that is much higher in level than them. He is invisible, and the only sign that he is approaching is the yellowing of the surrounding trees and the beginning of leaf fall. After a while, the players begin to react to the falling leaves as to the sound of a siren before a bombing. And then autumn comes...

In one session I hosted, I smuggled a dragon mini inside a box of sparkling water to the host’s house, and kept it secret until the reveal. To this day, I still bring that sparkling water box in occasionally, with the text, “HERE BE DRAGONS” written on the side. Oh, and it may or may not have other monsters I’ve bought/3D printed.

I used to run a years-long campaign of Orpheus (World of Darkness) where the players are either ghosts or people capable of projecting their soul out of their body (either through meditation or flatlining). The game's main bad-guys are spectres, basically evil ghosts so far gone their souls mutate into real horrors. One of these horrors is the Chupacabra. It has a bunch of twisted powers but the one I trolled my players with was it's ability to possess swarms of tiny insects or herds of small animals. I went with a murder of crows. There are also Reapers (very OP scythe-wielding, very intelligent, Grim Reaper looking spectres). Those had a frost aura which did actually neglactable damage compared to the scythe that one-shots them. In the end pretty much EVERYWHERE they went they were constantly asking "it's not getting colder, is it?" when things started to feel creepy for them. (I tended to have my named Reaper stalking them have the frost aura on by default as a calling card of sorts) They also were insanely suspicious of crows. That's because the longer they stayed at a location the more crows would just be in the trees, street-cables, etc... watching them. Cawing. They usually left before it was like 20 crows. Probably because the Chupacabra was subserviant to the Reaper and it's hunting hound of sorts and it's sole mission was to keep tabs on the player characters and if they were in a place the Reaper didn't want them sure enough more spectres would show up soon, or they even get a visit from the Reaper itself. While I used ambush tactics with the Reaper in places I never chased them with it. It always just went after them with a leisurely walking pace. It will get them eventually. It has time. Did I mention Orpheus is supposed to be a Horror TTRPG? Probably should have lead with that. Anyway cutting the long setup short: Somewhere along the lines I simply forgot about the crows myself half the time and the players always kept reminding me by asking "are there crows around?" and the like. There almost always were at least a few. Were they real crows or the Chupacabra? Honestly it almost never really mattered because THEY NEVER CHECKED. They always assumed the worst. In reality about half the times they stressed about the birds it was literally just crows being crows. Oh and they really get upset by fridges being left open or unexpected cold drafts in run-down buildings for some reason. Heh. I'm a horrible person.

6:37 I got the idea of the adventurer retiring and opening Gary's Fish Fry 🙂. He won't even have to go fishing to get the fish.

In a homebrew campaign I'm setting up as one of my first times DM'ing, one of my friend's wants to be a fighter that used to be a paladin that was the equivalent of a Chosen, but disrespected his god (will be god of war and whatever) in an argument over the honour of war and subsequently lost all of his would-be levels before being cursed by this god. Part of this curse is a javelin head that is binded to him, and when thrown returns like a magnet. the plan is for him to repair it and be able to give it elemental components through specialists. I'm really looking forward to how creative he gets with it.

I once gave a player an item that was "cursed" in a very unexpected way. The player was a very indecisive rogue who would go into places they shouldn't despite warnings from me, the DM. On this one particular occasion, the person who's quarters they were stealing from was none other than Tasha the Witch Queen. Inside of her personal quarters, at the top of this school for magic, rested a pretty wicked looking sword, wrapped in silk inside of a wooden box. The rogue, not knowing who they were stealing from, agonized over whether to do it or not, when suddenly a voice told them to "Take it, coward!" With this sudden taunt, they stuffed the box into their bag and walked out of the school before Tasha returned home. As for the sword, the moment the rogue removed it from the box, the sword began to speak to the party. Instead of imparting words of wisdom, however, it insulted them and told terrible puns and dad jokes. The rogue and the party grew tired of the swords antics so they all decided to put it back into the box. Bad idea. Whoever wielded the sword was stuck with it, and if the wielder became separated from the sword for too long, it would throw a tantrum, casting Tasha's Hideous Laughter. The area of effect was 120 feet and the DC for saves were equal to those of what Tasha's would have been as an epic level character. They found some interesting uses for the Hideous Laughter aspect of the weapon, but it taught my rogue friend one very important lesson - always find out who you're stealing from.

Getting 'Matches' Malone vibes from the 'Jerrel' story. Pretty funny!

If the dagger teleports back to you at 10ft. Throw it at an enemy at 9

After running a campaign with a false hydra in it, random wisdom checks/saving throws will give them the nervous tics

In my players' last fight, they were in catacombs under a cathedral in the capital city. There they wiped out a bunch of people before making it out. What they failed to notice was that thesd guys were all poorly armed, armored, and were practically one hit kills. They kill a couple dozen commoners who were effectively defending their goods. One of the PCs left due to the excessive killing (out of game the player just couldnt keep attending) Next session will see them sneaking across town, covered in blood. They will also have to deal with hearing all the cathedral bells ringing in mourning; all of the wailings of widows, mothers, and children; and encounter countless wakes in the streets as well as heightened security and investigations. All of this to prevent them becoming murder hobos.

Perfect call back

Randomly rolling behind the board. It always makes them shit themselves

Those cursed throwing knives are actually blessed throwing knives. Yes, they can’t be ridden of, but you can just chuck it away and immediately grab an enemy by the throat. The knife is going to conveniently reappear in ther trachea.

Fake door. Traps in front that auto reset. Once you get to it you can tell its fake, but then you got to go back through trapped hallway. Also the line "You don't seem to feel any different" after asking for any kind of check/save. And "put a mark on your sheet." After that. No reason.

I reverse this trollage: I like to respond to "Does an X hit?" By "Just barely!". GMs tend to freak out when you state that at level 1, a 23 hits "just barely"

A player of mine immediately put on a ring they found that was magic. It was cursed. Took them a good few days of in game, they didn’t have identify, to figure out it was ‘The Cursed Ring of Flatulence’!

Two words, intelligent weapons.

I'm DM'ing my very first campaign, and its for entirely new players so I've been making it and entirely original story and just making up a lot as I go. The most entertaining things I've made happen revolve around our homebrew 'feline' race wild magic sorcerer, Bingus. I managed to get an oversize d12 in a "defective dice" goodie bag so I've been letting them use that for all wild magic rolls.... first roll determines if wild magic activates but.... I created 3 x12 effect tables, one with good results, one with bad, and one with mixed/neutral... so the next roll tells me which table to pull from (weighted by their in-game morality choices) and the third grabs a unique effect. My best troll involves forcing a particular effect... The party decided to have a Viking funeral for their heavily damaged ship, and decided to use a spell to ignite it. And right as the ship ignited, all of Bingus's fur instantly shed in a large poof. A few sessions later another wild magic surge happened. This time the real rolls ended up doing something similar.... He turned blue.... entirely blue... and spent several sessions just being blue. Eventually he drank holy water which dispelled the 'curse' but it was rather entertaining how they kept asking "Is Bingus still blue?" and all I said was "Yup."

I had a dinner table set for 1 just to the left of the main road. Some light foreshadowing of missing people reports and brother this stalled them out for half an hour. Yes, it was a trap. No, they couldn't tell why

The party is in a dungeon. They find a very fancy white book with golden decorations sitting on a golden pedestal. There is a magical spotlight that illuminates the book and pedestal from above. The room is otherwise dim light. The title of the book, written large golden letters, is “This is a Mimic.” It’s not a book nor a mimic. It is a true polymorphed flameskull with 1 HP left that is covered in sovereign glue.

The party finds a door in the middle of an open field. The door is a simple door and is not attached to anything. However trying to move it from its upright position. The door is locked and cannot be moved, nor damaged or effected in any way other than unlock. The door unlocks when the lock is picked, Knock is cast upon it or when someone asks the door to unlock. Once the door is opened the party sees that it is actually a portal to another plane of existence. Upon passing through the door they wined up on the other side. The portal is an illusion and the door is just a door.

Playing in Roll20, it's fun to sometimes edit the monster stats because there's more of a veneer of legitimacy for a second. Last weekend, my wife's Rogue makes a Stealth check. So, I edit the Perception of the spider she's sneaking by to +42. She calls "bullshit" when the spider rolls a 61 for Perception.

I am an evil dungeon master I often roll dice and then react randomly and sometimes it actually means something And sometimes they just see a deer in the woods in the close distance

"Accidentally" turning on the combat theme for their current area, or the party combat theme. Gets em every time.

4:20 THE BAGMAN

My players by now know, oh they Know, that I love my perception checks in any game where I DM. I used to call for perception checks but never told them if it was a success or failure. I just ask for the dice results and go from there. Eventually they wisened up to it so now I have each players dice pools for stuff like danger senses, perception, traps, etc all on a sheet behind the DM-screen. They KNOW I could be rolling for any of their "are we getting fucked over soon?"-pools... but I also just like to randomly roll a bunch of times, usually once for each player and make a concerned face looking at the dice, sighing, etc. Tends to keep them on their toes, especially since I tend to reserve it for scenes where shit could concievably happen to them.

That needy/lonely/clingy dagger is an AWESOME idea!

Running Dungeons of Drakkenheim right now, before starting thr campaign I saw that meme about orcs chasing a dog and none of the players not having seen The Thing. So far, my players haven't noticed anything wrong with their canine friend. They will.

8:36 that also means that said players can never be disarmed or have their dagger taken away and do some pretty impressive intimidating throwing it directly at someone only for it to disappear right Infront of their face

Hear me out a barrel stuffed full of kobolds trapped in stasis, that when thrown breaks open unleasing a group of very angry kobolds at your target. Or anything near by where the barrel broke open

Party is traveling through a tunnel that was punched through a mountain by a rampaging monster. In the middle of the tunnel they encounter a tall robed figures, tentacles dangling from its hood. It demands that the party drop their gold and depart, or it will eat their brains. Two party members decide to comply, they're too low level to fight a mind flayer! Third says to hell with it, charges on his horse. His lance strikes... and cuts the creature cleanly in half! The two halves then shriek, get up, and dart into a tiny side tunnel. On the ground the party finds the cloak, a dead octopus, and reptilian footprints.

Inspired by the 'Can O' Whoop Ass', allow me to present... [Jar of Beans, Spicy] A common-looking pocket-sized clay jar labelled 'Spicy Beans'. When opened or damaged in any way, the DM rolls on the Spicy Beans table to determine the outcome. SPICY BEANS TABLE [1] The jar contains common beans flavored with strong spices. Eating them dulls your ability to taste for 1 hour. [2] The jar contains only one bean that glows with a dim red light. When planted, the magic bean grows into a towering colossal beanstalk after one hour, easily reaching up into the clouds. The bean must be planted outdoors in good soil or the magic will not take effect. When fully grown, the beanstalk will immediately begin growing Needle Blights all along its surface, 1d20 to begin with and an additional 1d4 for each hour afterwards. The Needle Blights will defend the beanstalk, attacking any creature they see while inhabiting its surface and the ground in the beanstalk's immediate area. The beanstalk continues generating Needle Blights until it is destroyed. [3] The jar contains 2d4 common beans in a strange sauce that glows a dim red light in the dark. Any creature that consumes one of the beans temporarily gains 1d4 uses of a breath weapon (use the Burning Hands spell). This effect wears off one hour after the bean is consumed. [4] A Shambling Mound covered in baked beans erupts from the jar. It will attempt to flee towards the nearest swamp, forest, or other verdant natural refuge and attack any creature that gets in its way. [5] The jar releases the spell Stinking Cloud into the area, centered on itself. [6] 1d4 Fire Elementals erupt from the jar. They will attack any creature on sight, having been driven mad by their confinement in the jar. If there are no other creatures in sight, they will attack each other and then wander at random.

Pointed out an empty bucket in a room. Player jokingly rolled arcana, which I ruled as more of a magic sense ability instead of magic knowledge, but you needed to be proficient with it to use it this way. I told him he could sense that it was cursed, but no other details. He didn't go anywhere near that bucket. Every now and then I'll throw in a random empty bucket where it wouldn't be out of place. He doesn't even roll. He just avoids it. Nobody else wanted to go near it either. I to this day have no idea what that bucket would actually do if anyone interacted with it properly.

For me, I very much have to literally do, very little. DM only of 2 to 3 years coming up (one campaign die from loss of all players (f), current campaign going past the first quarter of its second year). My Players are a real band of misfits, two out of four of em are DM's themselves or have been so they've been having a blast, but also like to theorize, or come up scenarios or solutions that are worse than I can imagine. I just have to bring out my note book an write down what they say quietly, or let them prattle off whatever the possibilities are in complete silence. We play online, and I have nearly wet myself finally bursting into laughing hearing one of them say 'HEY! I can HEAR your evil scheming DM smirk from here!'. Or, as some parties can be like, hoard things for ages without even checking wtf I gave up to them. They only 'roughly' ended up getting a friendly reminder of material in the 'party fund bag' holding a mysterious book that they got over twenty sessions ago an finally looked at it. Finding out it was tied to a high level Arch Fey who wants worthy folk to do tasks on their behalf for great rewards. I just gotta sit an wait for when they realize 'wait something up isnt it/we forgot to do something important' and I just gotta be silent. Best trolling is just rolling on by quietly heheheh...

I have a creature that I made called "Lure leeches" They are like mimics but they disguise as items that are valued by the person who views them. I have only used them once and they are amazing and all my players hate them.

Worst thing a DM can do is say “hey can you roll a D20 for me?” The player rolls and then the DM says “one moment” and then mutes for about 1 minute and then when you come back pretend that roll never happened

Oh man, I have one. I introduced this Stoner druid halfling to my PCS think Tommy Chong if he was a Halfling. Anyway, the way his magic works if he believes and the PCs believes it will work. He told the the PCs to go find a Magical Bull, that will help them greatly in their adventures, before meeting them one of the PCs had a dream about riding a Bull that when they hold their hand up in the air it will turn them and the bull invisible. The PC(Rouge) heard of the Dream Bull and had to have it. They went looking for the Bull brought it back to the Druid, the Rouge asked about does it turn u invisible, the Druid then explained how he would have to take literal bullshit and rub it on him and the poo will turn him invisible after saying the magic Words...E-I, E-I, OOOH. One PC said "That's Horse shit" The Druid simply replied "No sir, Bull shit I was very clear on that"

Ah yes the good old bag man. Never made into a monster sadly but RU-vidr called dungeon dad gave it pretty good stats for it.

I like that 9belisk puzzle im stealing it.

tree ways: 1 l had a trio of psionic creatures called "pituriatos" that always appeared from nowhere and walked by the group, the first did nothing, the second did nothing the third always did something ( a fart, a laugh, a burp...) they never had the guts to attack those little creatures...👽👽👽 2 turning a hourglass in front of them without any comment and explanation...that cause sort of panic if sometimes, just sometimes, you make something bad happens...😁😁😁⏳⌛ and 3 using the preassure plate that only makes "CLICK" it does NOTHING ELSE but experient players tend to become paranoid !!! "if nothing happened when I steeped on it, SOMETHING BAD will happen when I take my weight from it!!!"😰😰😰(of course this must wotk like the hourglass on item 2 and sometimes something must happen...) it's completely hilarious to see the players looking desperatly for something...anything heavy to replace their unfortunate partner!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I keep an over sized solid steel d20 right next to my mic, and sometimes I'll just roll it for fun :3

I had a npc allied goblin critically fail a grenade throw, in my game grenades have a one turn fuse, the goblin threw the grenade at my players feet, they spend their turns reacting to it, it fizzles

I liked to mess with players that were clerics. Get them used to weak undead that disintegrate under turn undead. Then sneak in animated wax dummies disguised as mummies (DC 19 disguise) and watching their confusion and frustration rapidly grow as not even their highest role had any affect.

I am going to use that can of whoop ass gonna call it the tin of oop whazz.

If it's because jarrel is getting there rewards of the wizard's actions because he got summoned back to be the most powerful man in a kingdom he rules

Have a peasant or 30 mention a "beholder hive"

I think i have heard at least 5 different stories of Delkesh, makes me wonder if that is the same character every time.

ah so with that stick hand sword id love if you make it story so upon cutting off your hand the sword doesnt leave it embeds itself into the arm and the hand pulls an addams family and returns to the cave and you must fight it there its the same sword and upon victory you are granted an iron fist hidden arm blade permanently "silent steel"

The two-bore of punting. No, not a two-bore punt gun, but you're getting the idea.... Looked like a punt gun, handled like a punt gun, but occasionally produced opposite recoil.... Had many a pc "punted" off castle battlements during sieges. I wasn't well liked for a while....

Schrodingers mimic

Frog analogue creatures. they have been a trouble for the players all throughout the games we have played. even online games frogs were a hinderance to some progress. My favourite creation is a cr 1/2 tiny frog, spore frog. while it deals only nonlethal damage with bites, if it is killed or hucked it will burst into inhaled poison in a 5 ft burst. this is a chain reaction to other spore frogs in the area. not a strong poison to deal in dmg for 3 rounds. this is still perfect for their foraging as animals dont have a high intelligence. these aberrations will grow from the spores over time and can spread by the adventurers themselves if their gear isnt clean of bigger bits of the spore frog.

Im using the can of whoop ass idea to troll our rogue in the party or the wizard. Have the can be golden or something like that.

The classic..... rust monsters

An extremely rushed season 0. I had so much stuff prepped except the start. Apartly my party didn’t expect me to use horde of exploding immortal bandits as first season

omfg the bag man yes! i just stumbled upon that and i plan on putting my players through a backrooms inspired realm which is where my bagmen will be based

I always make my players roll random saving throws or checks even when there’s no reason. Just to keep them on their toes

IDK if there is an actual video for this but I am just going to post it here. I just joined a campaign today and have already speed run my character to death took about an hour irl time. bit of back story this game takes place in a broken country that had a magic glass organ that kept it as a eutopia well hundred years ago it was shattered and a apocalypse happened now it is made of a few major city states. Out party is starting in Strife which is very dystopia esc with everyone looking the same doing the same things just that creepily unison thing. So my Reinvent warlock decides to get the shard of the organ from the lord and decides the best way of going about that is threatening various government employees and mob bosses to get him an interview. well long story short I end up in the main building of the lord and are talking to the secretary have a conversation the other pc who is a guard brings up that I have been causing disturbances, so the secretary who is also right hand man to the lord and the executioner asks me to place my head on the desk. Me being and overly cheerful individual with no sense of self preservation and one goal I do so and promptly get my head removed. now the next morning I am tapping on the pc guards window and asking when I get my interview with the lord, which is where we left off. Also turns out when you threaten a mob boss you get a gun pointed at your face, also turns out some mob bosses don't have the guts to pull the trigger when dared. In essence I have become a living sleep paralysis demon for another player.

Video suggestion. What was your Favorite Monstrous Player character?

I’m gonna put some of these in my 1e campaign I’m preparing

Subtle spell counterspell on revivify attempts.

Always put a very obvious statue on a map which does nothing, describe the room in great detail except the statue. The party will, without fail spend ages investigating the statue with nothing happening. I have constantly explained that I do this to my groups. They all fall for it every time.

Outro speedrun!

i just use logic, me and my players don't usualy play d&d because we play it scince we ware young and it was getting old, soon we got on systems like mask of red death and cyberpunk. so when my player that usualy dont care about the others and just dont listen to the story say "i want to press the trigger while spining" i just turn to the other players and simply say "dex check or you will take 3D6 from friendly fire"

Are you okay, there, Brian? You seem a little lower energy than usual. Don't force yourself to work sick just for us

Okay okay okay, answer me this, for the can of whoop ass; is it actually labeled as a can of whoop ass, or is it just like a can of beans and you open it and BOOM there's said pissed off Air Elemental.

Dude, "nuisance" is not only not *pronounced* like "nuance," it also has a completely different meaning; the two words have nothing to do with each other.

The bag of holding story is talking about the bagman right?