#dm ideas

Introducing - Fabulous Fuablo's Fantastical Pets

A travelling pet store that appears right when it needs to, full of tiny adorable animals that will tempt your players and force them to come together to count gold for how much that fuckin bespectacled baby bat is.

I was thinking about how Laios’ ending to the manga is his own personal hell, and how he’s basically just grinning and bearing it through his kingly duties. He has advisors and friends to help carry the burden, but he can’t even take a break from ruling for a while to engage in some dungeon crawling. Not to mention the fact that monsters inherently flee from his presence.

It’s certainly noticeable by those closest to him, namely Marcille and Kabru. (Yaad is aware of the stress Laios is under but isn’t emotionally close enough to him to be able to meaningfully assist.) After some time, the two of them surprise Laios with something that will delight him: his own private garden filled with monster plants. “Falin brought the seeds from one of her adventures.” “Since they’re plants, they can’t run away from you like the monsters will.” “We walled this area so nobody will come in by mistake, but each of us have a copy of the key.”

This of course delights Laios. I just want him to feel loved by his friends and have them engage in his special interests for once. And it brings everything full circle from when Marcille burned Laios’ monster plant seeds at the beginning of the story.

Possible consequences could occur when the Lion’s curse manifests in the monster plants dying, rather than fleeing like the animals do.

I also like the idea of Laios and Marcille collaborating on researching/dissecting Izutsumi’s kills together, and the two of them writing books about dungeon monsters and the monsters’ ecosystems. Marcille also gets to continue researching on making domestic dungeons. While the infinite universe of mana is no longer accessible, there is still mana in the world. And the dungeoniums from the beginning of the manga show that it can make its own enclosed, self-sustaining ecosystem.

However, you can spice it up easily if everyone at the table wants to with this simple idea.

Product restriction, that's it.

Now you might be thinking that's not spicy, that's boring government meddling and well, yes but also no.

It all depends on why, and that question on its own gives you a great hook either for adventure or expanding the world.

Here's a few that came to mind:

Perhaps, a king keeps dying, and the kingdom has horded all the diamonds they can, guards have been sent out to shake down towns and villages for every last one.

Maybe, most of the diamonds have been used up, after all why wouldn't a rich royal or noble want to get resurrected? Now the only ones available are created through magic and well good luck getting an appointment with one of the towers wizards.

What if diamonds in your world come from another plane, so getting hold of them requires delving across the realm, and that's if you can even get there…

Old Man Riddles

(Can appear anywhere and it'll make sense)

Entire deal is he sits in a puddle of mud splashing about and throws mud at the party if they get a riddle wrong

Chester

(Again can appear anywhere without explanation)

A mimic that talks! He takes the form of a chest, you throw 10 gold into his mouth and he spits out a random, maybe useful potion. He does not know what any of the potions do

Sofa

Chester's best friend. Essentially a dog. Licks everything, but mimics are adhesive so he gets stuck to things a lot.

The Meat Traders

(Found on the road)

Curse by the meat witch to trade meat for meat. They can ONLY accept meat in payment and only have meat to trade.

Frat Boy Doomsday Cult

Having a massive rager to celebrate the end of the world. The world doesn't end. They fight with lacrosse sticks

Billy McGee

Local old man that does tours of the catacombs. All of his ancestors are in the your, having died of riding animals such as "2 dragons". When asked how they were riding multiple animals at once, his answer is "badly"

Thray

(Owns Thray's Curiousities)

Gay vampire that runs an Antiques Store. Refuses to uncurse the cursed items cause they're more fun the way they are. Beefs with all other arcane practitioners, currently banned from the wizards uni.

They see everyone and everything in their world, including the gods, as extensions of the will of a God Above Gods. However, there are a select few people who aren’t born of its will. Beings created and controlled by other higher beings.

Unlike the avatars of gods, they aren’t too far off from an ordinary being. However when they kill, they grow more powerful. The cult calls these beings Violators.

Their greatest goal is to kill these Violators and give the God Above Gods full power over its own realm. Only problem is that they don’t know who they are, but they do know they lurk among the common people…