Worried about how your players will respond to your big reveal?
Have 5 big reveals, one after the other, and then let your players vote on which one gets to be canon.
"Oh no, the last Dark Lord was the one focused on Dark Conquest. My platform is focused more on Dark Agriculture and Dark Healthcare Reform."
base each session of your campaign on an episode of the D&D cartoon
Book of vile darkness is outside your price range. We have the book of passive-aggressive meanness, though.
Implement critical fumble tables and nat-one-is-an-autofail but only for the player you like the least.
Dwarves and Elves are doing a job swap thing.
The Elves have dug a hole 2ft by ineffectually flailing their picks at the ground while Dwarves have found the answer to all philosophical questions as "who gives a shit?"
Big bad who keeps doomscrolling instead of finishing off the chosen one, call that executionive dysfunction.
If a player rolls 3 natural 20s in a row, they get to remove any one NPC from the campaign no questions asked.
Evil AIs but they act like actual AIs. The Shadow Network tries to take over the world but it immediately fucks up the maths and is completely wrong about how politics works so it's mostly just annoying.
lycanthrope spellcasters, or witchwolves
Cthulhu isn't trapped in R'yleh because of any mystical bindings or incorrect stars or anything, it's just because he's big and can't get through the door.
D&D but without the rule where anyone can eat anyone else's character sheet at any given time.
Some genre ideas based on how I, Mod Paper, have mistyped when tagging
fantasty
fatnasty
skyfi
hooror
sigh-fi (this one was autocorrect's fault)
Talking to someone who doesn't know rpgs and they mentioned their son preferred being GM. I said me too.
Their reaction implied they thought this made us rivals competing for players and if we met we'd fight to the death.
Anyway my point is you other GMs better watch your back.
"you spent how long exploring that dungeon? no there's no treasure! it's a folly.
the minotaur? it's fashion, like a hermit that kills burglars"
Fuck it.
Port your game group into D&D 5th edition.
wizard named Webinar who keeps summoning you for meetings that could have been telepathic messages
Hype up your GM
"WHAT'S UP BITCHES! LET'S DO SOME MOTHERFUCKING D&D WITH MOTHERFUCKING JIMMY!" you scream, smashing through the GM's window waving sparklers
Spell that halves your hitpoints but never kills you, a la Zeno's paradox
Rules super-light. There's no way to get across what your PC is doing.
Just sit there and imagine it, and hope it matches what everyone else is imagining.
be sure to make sure the other creatures don't get jealous of goblins by including "hob" versions of everything
Aw shit, Strahd is packing heat!
Weird to think we're now only one month away from the end of 2025
wizard named Webinar who keeps summoning you for meetings that could have been telepathic messages
Thief who specializes in stealing other character's narrative arcs.
New elf racial feature - you can put one person on the naughty list, no questions asked.
Werewolves're only supernatural at full moons, otherwise they're just a guy.
This means anyone can be a werewolf. If the story doesn't take place at night on full moons it just doesn't come up, you know?
Make it so in your setting everyone's a werewolf. It's just a new moon, so you don't find out.
Zeb-ska, the two-tone horse
magic wand that's made from a werewolf's baculum
dare you see what it does?
Drink your GM's pop to establish dominance
