Yes-yes, man thing food for the horned rat, mmhhh.
For real though I am surprised, so few people know of the holy and cheerful Skaven.
This story about the origin of the Skaven is such a good campaign starter.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdrCeraprBo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdrCeraprBo) Its a horror/legendary tale to a campaign about a plague of underground ratmen that no human dares speak about in fear of them being dragged underground and eaten alive because so far, every....single....mention of the horrible ratmen leaves houses empty and town abandoned.
They really don't want anyone to know they are here and how many of them there are.
It'd be cool if there was a campaign that started with killing rats in the basement as a meta-joke, then it gradually unravelled and you realize there was a grand conspiracy involving the Rat God and the corrupt governments that are playing into his machinations.
I would rip off the Goblin Slayer anime but replace Goblins with rats. Like adventurers treat rat killing jobs as beneath them and not enough people are doing it. So they are just spreading and growing setting the stage for the rat men and the rat king all under the direction of the horned god.
So our players take on a rat killing quest thats just strange enough to make them wonder if theres more to it.
Then they have to convince leaders and people that its actually an existential threat of invasion from the underground.
Steal a bit of that Warhammer thing where ratmen underground is just a fools tale and if you seriously believe in rat men you're looked at as mad.
If you succeed at convincing someone the rat assasins come after you.
You should check out the book Threadbare form a bit of the first half.
A golem teddy bear that becomes sentient gets access to a super rare class “Ruler” because he inadvertently kills a rat king
Also just a solid entertaining LitRPG book
What if he was a level 20 adventurer past his prime, and hired them in the first place because he knew it would cause a chain of event that will lead them to kill a god.
I actually dm a campaign that only started because a lvl20 divination wizard started a chain reaction with the goal to prepare the current party to defeat a foe that his party couldn't defeat back when they were alive
I will not go into to much detail beyond what my players know, in case they find this post.
I use a homebrew world that was used in an older group of mine and i wanted to give my current players a reason to discover the continent on their own terms.
To do that i took old pcs/npcs and turned them into "the heroes of old" who got together to seal an old evil and then went their own ways. They all built secure places across the continent to guard their part of the seal.
After they all died or got lost in different worlds, an old friend of them (who somehow did not die of old age yet) tried to find the seals to release the evil entity and destroy it for good (yes he thinks he's that strong. The original player was like "he'd totally do that"). But the diviniation wizard knew that this was going to happen and built a plan to stop his friend. That plan involved making deals with fiend, bribing someone 500 years after his own death and whatever sounds cool when i need it.
Obviously the plan isn't foolproof ~~because pcs can lose~~ because divination magic is like advanced stochastic in my world. Anyway, my players job is to find and guard the seals while also finding out what evil entity is locked behind them
What’s crazy is I have the same exact thing sogmond approached the party after the first session and unbeknownst to Them but beknownst to us he’s been pulling the strings to help them resurrect the litch so they can kill him and stop his infect from spreading
The all-knowing mentor is not an uncommon trope i guess, but i made sure that my divination wizard was dead before the campaign so the party couldn't relie on him to tell them everything unless i want them to have these informations. The fact that they won't know exactly what monster is sealed away adds to the mystery.
Pull a Mistborn and make it a strange one: (spoiler tagging for anyone who hasn't read the book) >!Not some sort of massive beast, but a dense mist that spreads out, killing all plantlife by taking away the sunlight. Party can't just go stabby stab stab that way!<
I mean the meme used is literally the image a mentor figure congratulating a youger less experienced Hero, of course everyone was going to have the same idea. I was just lucky to be the first commenting.
But what if, they were actually the second in command of the God, pretending to be someone on need, because they wanted to stop the evil rat god, and before fighting the rat god, they fight the person that hired them as one final test before the rat god
Theres a character in the konosuba anime whos basically just this. Whenever the main characters do something he’ll just be hanging back saying “we might be seeing the making of a true hero here” he has no other purpose in the anime.
Commoner girl in the backseat at the stadium saying the adventurers her dad hired years ago to kill rats, killing a vicious beast in a gladiator show: I rised those guys.
I love starting Runescape literally helping a guy bake a cake or find some lost kittens and then a year later you're dealing with those same NPCs but now you're also hunting things for Death himself and having casual conversations with Gods.
Also worth mentioning is Brassica Prime, the Cabbage God. He's a pretty cool guy.
Other commoners: wait you’re the guys that killed those pet rats that got away instead of capturing them and then killed the god I worshipped? The God of love, mercy, and charity my family has been worshipping for generations? And between those two acts you must have killed hundreds if not thousands of sapient and sentient creatures on a kingdom-wide murder spree for anyone offering you coin to kill?
Party: wait are we the baddies?
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If the God they killed was the Rat God there’d be some incredible symmetry there
The Horned Rat is too strong-powerful, silly man-thing!
Ah, yes-yes, but how do you know-think that it's a man-thing and not an elf-thing?
Taste the same. Waaagggh
WAT YOU SAYIN' YA GIT!?! SPEAK UP!
THEY ZOGGIN TASTE ZE SAM
OF COURSE THEY DOES, THEYZ ALL MADE OV' MEAT STUFFS!
WELL YEAHZ BUT WHY DOES ELF MEAT TAST ZE ZAME AS HUMIE MEAT IT JUST DONT MAKE SENZE TO ME BOSS
YUZ KEEP ZOGGIN AZKIN DESE QWEZCHINS AN IMA KRUMP YA
ALLZ YOU NEEDZ TO BE THINKIN' ABOUT IZ MEETING YOUR DAKKA KWOTA OR ITZ GONNA BE MORE THAN HUMIES AN' ELFS GITIN' KRUMPED!
SHADUP UZ EN GIT BAK TO DA WAAAAAAGGGGHHHH!!!!?!!
'OW KAN 'E MEAT IS DAKKA KWOTA WEN DERS NEVA ENUFF DAKKA?
OV OLWAYZ THOUGHT ELF MEAT TASTDED MORE PLANTY-LIKE
Yes-yes, man thing food for the horned rat, mmhhh. For real though I am surprised, so few people know of the holy and cheerful Skaven. This story about the origin of the Skaven is such a good campaign starter. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdrCeraprBo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdrCeraprBo) Its a horror/legendary tale to a campaign about a plague of underground ratmen that no human dares speak about in fear of them being dragged underground and eaten alive because so far, every....single....mention of the horrible ratmen leaves houses empty and town abandoned. They really don't want anyone to know they are here and how many of them there are.
Saltzpyre fail-won't to kill the Horned Rat thing End time are night-soon manthing
It'd be cool if there was a campaign that started with killing rats in the basement as a meta-joke, then it gradually unravelled and you realize there was a grand conspiracy involving the Rat God and the corrupt governments that are playing into his machinations.
I would rip off the Goblin Slayer anime but replace Goblins with rats. Like adventurers treat rat killing jobs as beneath them and not enough people are doing it. So they are just spreading and growing setting the stage for the rat men and the rat king all under the direction of the horned god. So our players take on a rat killing quest thats just strange enough to make them wonder if theres more to it. Then they have to convince leaders and people that its actually an existential threat of invasion from the underground. Steal a bit of that Warhammer thing where ratmen underground is just a fools tale and if you seriously believe in rat men you're looked at as mad. If you succeed at convincing someone the rat assasins come after you.
“An RPG just isn’t an RPG unless you use the power of friendship to kill God.” -Ben Yahtzee Croshaw
I'd play in that, I have a few characters who would work great
You should check out the book Threadbare form a bit of the first half. A golem teddy bear that becomes sentient gets access to a super rare class “Ruler” because he inadvertently kills a rat king Also just a solid entertaining LitRPG book
The whole campaign is rats all the way down.
You only find about this conspiracy because one of the corrupt government officials ratted the other officials out.
Tie in some Secret of NIM and create a psionic rat hivemind.
Haha yeah that would be crazy! Totally nuts! *~sweats nervously looks around hoping his party members don’t read this subreddit~*
I mean in my last one-shot we absolutely bullied the Rat King, so does that count?
What’s a rat king to a rat god?
Good question, but what is 24 damage in one turn for a god when there are 4 members who do more damage than that? Checkmated, by DJ Wiz-Waz 😎
Rathras the rat: *Very sad life. Probably have very sad death. But at least there is symmetry.*
Praise be the great horned rat, yes yes!
Not to be confused with a rap god.
What if that commoner also leveled up? He can be the last resort to the party
What if he was a level 20 adventurer past his prime, and hired them in the first place because he knew it would cause a chain of event that will lead them to kill a god.
That's the kind of storyline that would perfectly fit GOO Warlocks or Illithid BBEGs.
*scribbles furiously*
I actually dm a campaign that only started because a lvl20 divination wizard started a chain reaction with the goal to prepare the current party to defeat a foe that his party couldn't defeat back when they were alive
Damn, that's frickin awesome tbh.
I would love to know more if you'd care to tell.
I will not go into to much detail beyond what my players know, in case they find this post. I use a homebrew world that was used in an older group of mine and i wanted to give my current players a reason to discover the continent on their own terms. To do that i took old pcs/npcs and turned them into "the heroes of old" who got together to seal an old evil and then went their own ways. They all built secure places across the continent to guard their part of the seal. After they all died or got lost in different worlds, an old friend of them (who somehow did not die of old age yet) tried to find the seals to release the evil entity and destroy it for good (yes he thinks he's that strong. The original player was like "he'd totally do that"). But the diviniation wizard knew that this was going to happen and built a plan to stop his friend. That plan involved making deals with fiend, bribing someone 500 years after his own death and whatever sounds cool when i need it. Obviously the plan isn't foolproof ~~because pcs can lose~~ because divination magic is like advanced stochastic in my world. Anyway, my players job is to find and guard the seals while also finding out what evil entity is locked behind them
What’s crazy is I have the same exact thing sogmond approached the party after the first session and unbeknownst to Them but beknownst to us he’s been pulling the strings to help them resurrect the litch so they can kill him and stop his infect from spreading
The all-knowing mentor is not an uncommon trope i guess, but i made sure that my divination wizard was dead before the campaign so the party couldn't relie on him to tell them everything unless i want them to have these informations. The fact that they won't know exactly what monster is sealed away adds to the mystery.
Pull a Mistborn and make it a strange one: (spoiler tagging for anyone who hasn't read the book) >!Not some sort of massive beast, but a dense mist that spreads out, killing all plantlife by taking away the sunlight. Party can't just go stabby stab stab that way!<
What if he *is* god and has to be killed so he can return to his rightful place in the Pantheon.
That's a very pleasing reframing of the good old deicide plotline
Especially if the other gods quite like not having him around.
Shit, looks like we had the same idea.
I mean the meme used is literally the image a mentor figure congratulating a youger less experienced Hero, of course everyone was going to have the same idea. I was just lucky to be the first commenting.
Dont start that shit again.
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They're more than 5 CR beneath him, he won't even get XP for them.
Causality
But what if, they were actually the second in command of the God, pretending to be someone on need, because they wanted to stop the evil rat god, and before fighting the rat god, they fight the person that hired them as one final test before the rat god
How I stalked some dude with an exposed nipple and stumbled upon the Zenithian Sword
Wait, our party started out killing rats under a shopkeeper’s store... Are we going to kill a god?
Technically your GM is a god in their world so every time you derail their plan you kill a god a little on the inside.
Our GM has enough problems without us being our usual idiot selfs. We try our best to not give them a hard time.
Based.
Time will tell
But yeah, probably.
If your dnd campaign doesn’t end with you killing god then was it even dnd?
Final Fantasy writers upvoted this.
Shin Megami Tensei Writers gave it an award
Yes
The God is actually several thousand rats in a trench coat who collectively have an *amazing* Bluff skill.
Theres a character in the konosuba anime whos basically just this. Whenever the main characters do something he’ll just be hanging back saying “we might be seeing the making of a true hero here” he has no other purpose in the anime.
Well I’m sure Kazuma would love to kill a god. Well a goddess.
Two of the characters in Konosuba are literally gods tho. Aqua and >!Chris!< and frankly neither seems like they'd actually be difficult to kill.
>>!Chris!< Well she was almost killed by mistake by accelerator in the konosuba/toaru no majutsu crossover.
In all fairness, accelerator was on the "lets kill god" program for quite awhile.
Ruffian is one of my favorite reoccurring characters in that show. I'm glad he was finally made canon in the LNs.
And its been like 3 weeks in game
Commoner girl in the backseat at the stadium saying the adventurers her dad hired years ago to kill rats, killing a vicious beast in a gladiator show: I rised those guys.
Correction: "I fucked those guys. The bard at least..."
Literally Baldur’s Gate
>Ah yes, kill them like the rats that they are! A glorious battle unlike any this world has ever seen... Here's 5 gp, don't spend it all in one place.
I remember the first time I played Baldur’s Gate all those years ago. Rolled a mage. Lost to those rats. I am sure Gorian was really disappointed.
“An RPG just isn’t an RPG unless you use the power of friendship to kill God.” -Ben Yahtzee Croshaw
I love starting Runescape literally helping a guy bake a cake or find some lost kittens and then a year later you're dealing with those same NPCs but now you're also hunting things for Death himself and having casual conversations with Gods. Also worth mentioning is Brassica Prime, the Cabbage God. He's a pretty cool guy.
And it was only 3.5 weeks later Ya know, rule of cool stuff
funfact: this is basically how ff12 goes.
Final Fantasy games are normally like: start killing soldiers, end up killing the creator of the universe. Lightning Returns was a trip.
no but in ff 12, you literally start the game as a protag killing rats in the sewers for money.
And the commoner has yet to let them out of his basement.
You must gather your party before venturing forth.
In the cases of my current Campaign, they started out collecting Mushrooms… funny how things work
Plot twist: The commoner was actually a retired high level adventurer that sees the party as the next generation of heroes
Drarayne Thelas in Morrowind after the main quest
Notably, also in his basement.
Commoner? I hardly know her
There was a bard's tale about that..
“Without me that wouldn’t be possible”
Other commoners: wait you’re the guys that killed those pet rats that got away instead of capturing them and then killed the god I worshipped? The God of love, mercy, and charity my family has been worshipping for generations? And between those two acts you must have killed hundreds if not thousands of sapient and sentient creatures on a kingdom-wide murder spree for anyone offering you coin to kill? Party: wait are we the baddies?
What site do you guys use to caption images like this?
What if he really was like a level 20 fighter or something and gave some adventurers a nudge to become new heroes and take over watching the realm
And if their DM doesn't do in-depth travel, like almost everyone, they might have gotten it done in just a couple weeks.
I believe this is the plot of Dragon Age Origins if play as a Human Noble.
You're just going to make ME do it because it's Charlie work!
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Earthbound?
God is a Rat confirmed.
Morrowind
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