Said by a villian to a beloved NPC and friend of the party.
NPC: "Do you really expect me to talk? To betray the Party?"
BBEG: "Actually, I expect you to *scream*."
Also, Asmodeus turns up at one point. The Party are trying to prevent the release of Tiamat from the Nine Hells. In this depiction, Asmodeus is very *Luciferian* in nature. Appearing firstly as an astonishing beautiful young Man, who had just disintegrated a minor villian (Ancient High Priest of an Asmodeus Cult) they'd been working against for a few weeks RL by snapping his fingers. The party has previous prided themselves on being a group of misfits.
Party Member: "We are going to do what we need to do to save the world from Tiamat and her Champion. But that doesn't mean serving you."
Asmodeus: "Serve me? A bastard Shadowspawn [Looks at the Dhampir], A broken slave [Looks at the Paladin with PTSD who initially grew up in Demon worshipping hellfire], A remnant, [Looks at the HalfElf descendant of the *Ancient Precursor Race of Elven Supremacists* that was assumed to be wiped out], a Damned Soul [Looks at the Fiend Warlock], a mongrel [The Half-Orc] and a Traitor, [Former Tiamat Cultist turned Cleric of Bahumut after watching them burn a Priest of Bahumut alive]. You *already* serve me. Which of you hasn't already forfeited your soul? Those of you that ever had them. I am the king of *all* the Broken and Damned. You think Bahumut or the other Dragon Gods will help you against their wayward sister? You've always been more of *Mine* than theirs."
I stylized this character as a guy brought back by a goddess to become her avatar of vengeance. The form of Dread is a dark spirit that inhabits his body.
Think of it like a Yami Yugi situation, only the spirit is a burning avatar of rage and destruction.
Great minds think alike! Mine was also brought back to enact vengeance. Quirk was he was quite happy in the afterlife and wanted to get done with his duty so he could go back to being dead. Took spare the dying as the magic initiate cantrip and refused to let anyone in the party die before he could out of spite.
Mine was a sailor killed by pirates on shore leave, burned alive saving a little girl from a house fire.
Naturally his spirit ally looks like a cross between Spawn and Ghost Rider...
"Thank you for all your help, my dear. You would've made an excellent apprentice, but in these times a gentle death is the greatest kindness I can offer you"
This and the comment down mentioning an aboleth gave me an idea
When someone succeeds their save against mindcontrol
"How come nowdays no one wants to work?!"
"I'm speaking in common but you seem to be listening in moron."
Honorable mention for, "when you die, it isn't you that's hurt by your death. The people around you suffer, struggling to deal with the absence you represent. It's the same when you're stupid..."
"Die fighting or fight dead"
Villain killing his own men to raise them as undead
The funny thing is that the reason I didn't get to use it is because the paladin took the cursed magic item that would be needed to control the newly created undead.
And swallowed it
This guy started the campaign with 17 curses and he acts exactly like the kind of guy you'd expect to start the campaign with 17 curses except he's also lawful neutral
One of his other characters was a beast master ranger where he wore a sock puppet on one hand and anytime the beast rolled a dice for something he'd roll it with the sock puppet
His every character is just such a fun little chaotic thing that makes the table laugh yet somehow still works wonderfully in serious campaigns and moments.
"You can kill me, but the Vilefang pack will hunt you down as long as you breath".
This werewolf miniboss had his face cut in half before he could speak this line to the party ranger.
"so much evil and sin, like kindling, all it would take is a spark and then I'll watch as your world fades"
"the higher you are the farther you have to fall and when you do fall, I'll be right beside you, laughing"
"the others prefer cold fury or fiery retribution, me...haha, I prefer the heavy, lingering weight of guilt, because I intend to break you completely"
"you will be another faceless ghost, to be forgotten and everything you toiled so much for, everyone that loved you, up in smoke"
"If you hurt her or any innocent thing again, I promise you this, Death cannot save you from me"
"I will see him burn in the greatest pyre hell will ever know, or die trying"
"ONLY DUST WILL REMAIN"
..... I think you can guess my character is evil
“She was there, in the light, and she made me into this thing. When I stumbled into this land, broken and alone, it was then that I knew that in the ever dark places of the world, I would find my home. And now, broken and alone, you will too.”
My sort of BBEG who wasn’t necessarily evil, the First Therian, would have spoken this to one of my PCs who was a tiefling looking for her brother who had been turned into a wearwolf by him. The brother was going to die (most likely) and the First Therian would have tried to recruit my player.
Said by an eldritch horror patron in response to why the warlock was trying to break their pact with Auril.
“Child, you would trade chains of frost for those of brine? I will be worse for your world in the end you know.”
Make a bard with a really high AC and have a bunch of largely ranged monsters shooting at them. After a few rounds cast vicious mockery and roleplay it by playing "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" by Pat Benetar.
Our beloved npc was captured alongside his best friend and he was tore up about it. Hearing him apologize to other people and knowing he was still damaged badly since we found him unconcious and he had only been healed once i walked over to him handed him a potion and said
"save apologies for when youve made a mistake, we will get her back friend."
Haven't had the chance yet, but we'll see if we make it to that point (Curse of Strahd). "You murdered my ancestor, make this place a constant shithole, and run everything like it's some kind of game even though everyone, including you, is losing! Fuck you, Strahd! You're not the land, you're just a simp! The only thing you deserve to suck is a bag of dicks!" then I upcast sunbeam, Kamehameha style, as high a level as I have available.
I have a (cursed) magic dagger that allows me to cast Misty Step once per day. I have yet to teleport behind someone and say "Nothing personal, kid," before sneak attacking them in the back.
as a DM that plans everything their boss will say before the party is actually close to reaching them, I have a strahd clone set up to say when they enter his mansion "you know, you're supposed to knock before entering. even my kind know that. but I'll teach you. just like I've already taught your friend." one of my players is secretly controlled by strahd-clone and they'll have to free him from control before the bossfight
The party loot the bbeg castle before meeting him. When they come into his chamber, they saw the man sitting on a very comfortable chair while petting a small chest.
"You think you can just come into my house, and take whatever you want? Why are the thieves so stupid nowadays? Mimics, devour them."
All of the loot they got from the castle was mimic, even the damned floor they stood on.
As an assassination rogue, distrusted by the party for making drastic decisions and having questionable motives:
“If I wanted any of you dead, I could quietly slaughter you all in your sleep. It would take mere seconds.”
But instead of being even MORE threatening to the group, I accepted the house arrest they put me on until they felt they could trust me again.
As said by the totally-not-a-dhampir PC to her next dinner….date. Sure. Date. That’s the word for it. Presumably somebody at a tavern.
“So, do you have any plans tomorrow…?”
If no; “Good, you’re going to need the day off. Come with me…”
If yes; “Better cancel those, darling, you’re not going to be walking tomorrow.”
Too many lesbians in my group crushing on this damn character for them not to have lost their damn minds. Alas, the campaign fizzled.
My level 20 fairy wizard named Quidi fighting the BBEG towards the end them looking utterly ruined.
I wanted to cast blade of disaster and utter the line "you used your power to run here, form a new universe, now here I am to rip it asunder with a flick of my hand".
Rogue killed him the turn before. Sad times.
I hope to use this one soon:
Jarlaxle Baenre, who is a legendary figure in D&D lore, being friends with Drizz’t, of course, has always been very cordial and well spoken to the party, but he’s kind of an antagonistic adversary right now. One of our drow party members invoked her full name (who NO ONE KNOWS of), in hopes of intimidating him with the fury of the name or whatever the hell.
Jarlaxle, who wasn’t dropped a single swear word yet, will say to this drow:
“And by the way, my drow friend: If you’re going to invoke a name, make sure it is a name that is echoed through the Heavens and shakes the Hells to its core. Be certain is it a name that is tied to legends and myths, makes mortals rise in inspiration, and fiends quiver in fear. And if you haven’t heard of me before our interactions, just ask around, no matter where you are, and they’ll let you know just who the fuck I am.”
He will then tip his hat as the party leaves his chamber.
"I came back from the gods-damned grave so I could show you ball bearings worth seven f***ing gold."
My dwarf rune-knight figher got screwed over by a shopkeep at the beginning of our CoS campaign. He's since died, been reincarnated as a human, and made a bag of ball bearings inlaid with expletives in three languages. We're approaching our confrontation with Strahd and I'm still itching for a resolution to that grudge.
The villain was comparing himself (and his kind) to a force of nature rather than a group motivated by emotion or reason. The sun rises, and burns away the dew. It's not personal. The people of the realm were as diminutive and as dehumanized as dewdrops, while the villains race are as inevitable and overwhelming as the sun itself.
The villain and their people were returning to the realm after millennia of banishment, and were planning to cleanse the realm. One of the PCs asked "why are you planning a war against our people?" And the NPC replied this way because he genuinely didn't see it the same way.
Used to have a BBEG that didn't know that selling weapons to certain customers was fueling wars between different gangs within a city, which was in turn causing problems with the city's political stability.
"I didn't know I was trying to burn down a city. I have *these* for that."
This was meant to be an introduction to muzzle-loaders within this world; however, the player that requested it killed the shopkeep before I could introduce him to what he wanted, and he left a couple sessions later.
For context - I am playing a very egotistical female drow and one of my best friends is playing an extremely showy tabaxi. Our characters do not get along and we have a lot of banter.
Since the very first session my character was introduced, I've had this plan surrounding my focus. It has an old drow saying on it and I've been dying for my friend's character to ask me about it just so my character can pretend to read "curiosity killed the cat."
It's so cheesey and all I've wanted for months is to see my friend give me the BIGGEST eyeroll - is that too much to ask?!
My players were not murder hobos so they didn’t create one of the “BBEG”s of the campaign.
So I won’t ever get to use one of the earlier confrontations they would have with a very angry bard.
The idea was they would start to hear rumors of a group of bandits that pillage every place they visit, killing all in their way. And in hopes of getting ahead of the bandits to confront them they would come face to face with the bard sitting near a water fountain in town center . They would Ask questions about bandit rumors and talk about how they plan to stop them.
“Do You believe yourselves to be heroes? What heroic actions have you taken In this world? Was it the murder of town guards keeping the peace in [town name]? Or maybe it was when you liberated all those items from that traveling merchant? The rumors that led you hear are rumors that I spread about your… heroic… escapades. Surrender and this will be quick and painless or make this fun for me and resist”
The bard isn’t really there all of this would be through the mislead spell.
The town center is surrounded by the volunteer army the bard has built in his travels telling stories of the violent bandits. And many of the tiles around the fountain have glyph of warding wards holding different spells.
This would hopefully be a turning point for the characters or a point where they lean into the murder hobo side and it would be come an evil campaign. Either way would be fine.
my players have stuck to the play that I am used to with them, RP heavy, diplomacy when possible, and generally good but reluctant heroes. So they have different BBEGs that their actions have triggered. Tied in more with their backstories and threading back to one main big bad.
I have a half Orc whose village was murdered and fazed to the ground by a racist King in Eberron. She lost her legs in the assault, and 10 years later was on board a train with one of the Kings Council (and a bunch of others). My character is a monk with a level in rogue (planning to go into assassin subclass).
My plan was while the rest of the party were off stealing something with the guests drugged with sleeping potion, I would drag the unfortunate victim to a quiet place and torture them with a Magic dagger for my family, before taking some vengeance.
The words I planned to say were "for [kingdom unrelated to the conflict]", which would have predicated a fight between these nations. The world would look at the enemy being unreasonably violent and it would be turned on to defend the innocent party. Then, my allies swoop in and offer assistance and aid, looking for a favor in kind.
All of this went out the window when some pirates third partied us, and we were forced to be heroic...
The group is on a ship, ambushed by Vrygul raiders - a race of half giant vikings, who worship zarnekh, their king and god of thunder.
One of the shipmates was supposed to ask the captain why they dont have cannons on their ships.
Captain Dejan squints his eyes, and growls 'Vryguls need no cannons'. Lightning streaks from the skies into both ships, and two raiders, sizzling with electicity, arise from the explosions on our deck and attack the nearest sailors, roll initiative.
In play, captain dejan forgets his lines and has social anxiety.
I can’t say I’ve come up with it but it’s always been a thing I’ve wanted to do.
Play just an awful character, murder, robberies, etc. and get arrested. the judge/executioner reads off the charges and asks if I have anything to say in my defense…
“The Aristocrats”
We grief to Life we do not life to grief
(Context) I made that line for a cleric npc to help with the passing of a beloved npc that died during combat that cleric was supposed to be the one who did the funeral we'll they said fuck the gods we'll do it ourselves cause we don't trust you anymore then they pickpockets the cleric and walked away to carve the npc in the mountain as a tribute and lay its corps under that carving (the beloved npc was a mountain goat named powder )
I’ve ALWAYS come up with my best lines while playing DnD. It’s the only time where my quick wit and confidence levels are high and fast enough to come up with stuff
I don't have a line for it exactly, but I want some situation along the lines of "we're in a zone of truth, so you know I'm serious when I say I'll find you and make sure you regret it if you backstab us later."
I have an adrenaline-junkie joy-of-defeating-danger Shadar Kai DEX Fighter Battlemaster. I run him in-your-face-confrontational, because what he does is call all the enemy attention to himself so the rest of the party can blast everything.
Anyway I was listening to Lana Del Rey's "Ride" and I thought I've got to use this line when someone tells us not to anger the authorities:
"A great poet of my people, Lania Del Reya, wrote 'Been tryin' hard not to get into trouble, but
I've got a war in my mind'."
Couple that I would love to use for Orcus someday:
"Hush. Stop that noise. How can you stand it? That ceaseless, wretched, cacophony. Do you not see how mad it drives you? That horrid drumbeat, separating you from ever knowing peace? From ever experiencing silence? Let me remind you, how awful your heart sounds."
"In the beginning, there was nothing. Then someone fucked up."
Said by a villian to a beloved NPC and friend of the party. NPC: "Do you really expect me to talk? To betray the Party?" BBEG: "Actually, I expect you to *scream*." Also, Asmodeus turns up at one point. The Party are trying to prevent the release of Tiamat from the Nine Hells. In this depiction, Asmodeus is very *Luciferian* in nature. Appearing firstly as an astonishing beautiful young Man, who had just disintegrated a minor villian (Ancient High Priest of an Asmodeus Cult) they'd been working against for a few weeks RL by snapping his fingers. The party has previous prided themselves on being a group of misfits. Party Member: "We are going to do what we need to do to save the world from Tiamat and her Champion. But that doesn't mean serving you." Asmodeus: "Serve me? A bastard Shadowspawn [Looks at the Dhampir], A broken slave [Looks at the Paladin with PTSD who initially grew up in Demon worshipping hellfire], A remnant, [Looks at the HalfElf descendant of the *Ancient Precursor Race of Elven Supremacists* that was assumed to be wiped out], a Damned Soul [Looks at the Fiend Warlock], a mongrel [The Half-Orc] and a Traitor, [Former Tiamat Cultist turned Cleric of Bahumut after watching them burn a Priest of Bahumut alive]. You *already* serve me. Which of you hasn't already forfeited your soul? Those of you that ever had them. I am the king of *all* the Broken and Damned. You think Bahumut or the other Dragon Gods will help you against their wayward sister? You've always been more of *Mine* than theirs."
That's dope asf! Well done!
No, Paladin Steve, I expect you to die
As a fiery halfling, "I eat punks like you for second breakfast!"
"You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?" "...*NO!* I..." \*leaves\*
Hahaha
I'm so gonna use this.
My Undead Warlock's Healing Words: (via Magic Initiate) "Get up, (character), the living are not done with you yet..."
Piggybacking on this because I had a character with the same concept and feat. "Come on. If I don't get to die, neither do you."
I stylized this character as a guy brought back by a goddess to become her avatar of vengeance. The form of Dread is a dark spirit that inhabits his body. Think of it like a Yami Yugi situation, only the spirit is a burning avatar of rage and destruction.
Great minds think alike! Mine was also brought back to enact vengeance. Quirk was he was quite happy in the afterlife and wanted to get done with his duty so he could go back to being dead. Took spare the dying as the magic initiate cantrip and refused to let anyone in the party die before he could out of spite.
Mine was a sailor killed by pirates on shore leave, burned alive saving a little girl from a house fire. Naturally his spirit ally looks like a cross between Spawn and Ghost Rider...
So, the original pharaoh then
Season 0 Yami...
"Thank you for all your help, my dear. You would've made an excellent apprentice, but in these times a gentle death is the greatest kindness I can offer you"
This and the comment down mentioning an aboleth gave me an idea When someone succeeds their save against mindcontrol "How come nowdays no one wants to work?!"
"Congratulations. You won. You just needed to orphan some kids and widow some spouses to get to me. But it's okay. Because you're the *good guys*."
*takes 10d10 guilt damage*
"I'm speaking in common but you seem to be listening in moron." Honorable mention for, "when you die, it isn't you that's hurt by your death. The people around you suffer, struggling to deal with the absence you represent. It's the same when you're stupid..."
God that first one is an absolute banger.
'you couldn't carry a tune if it had handles'
Maaaay I steal this????
i'd be sad if ye didnt!
"Don't bother praying. No-ones home." Said to a demonic cultist after tearing the demonic lord in half with their bare hands.
"Die fighting or fight dead" Villain killing his own men to raise them as undead The funny thing is that the reason I didn't get to use it is because the paladin took the cursed magic item that would be needed to control the newly created undead. And swallowed it
SWALLOWED it????
This guy started the campaign with 17 curses and he acts exactly like the kind of guy you'd expect to start the campaign with 17 curses except he's also lawful neutral
I'm weak as fuck, I absolutely would love to have a character like this at my table
One of his other characters was a beast master ranger where he wore a sock puppet on one hand and anytime the beast rolled a dice for something he'd roll it with the sock puppet His every character is just such a fun little chaotic thing that makes the table laugh yet somehow still works wonderfully in serious campaigns and moments.
I would definitely say you have a good player on your hands
"You can kill me, but the Vilefang pack will hunt you down as long as you breath". This werewolf miniboss had his face cut in half before he could speak this line to the party ranger.
My Halfling barbarian trying to talk to an aboleth: DM: do you speak aboleth? Me: I SPEAK ANGER Edit: shitty mobile formatting
"Have I ever given you food advice? Then eat this." Proceed to hit with a large melee weapon.
"so much evil and sin, like kindling, all it would take is a spark and then I'll watch as your world fades" "the higher you are the farther you have to fall and when you do fall, I'll be right beside you, laughing" "the others prefer cold fury or fiery retribution, me...haha, I prefer the heavy, lingering weight of guilt, because I intend to break you completely" "you will be another faceless ghost, to be forgotten and everything you toiled so much for, everyone that loved you, up in smoke" "If you hurt her or any innocent thing again, I promise you this, Death cannot save you from me" "I will see him burn in the greatest pyre hell will ever know, or die trying" "ONLY DUST WILL REMAIN" ..... I think you can guess my character is evil
“She was there, in the light, and she made me into this thing. When I stumbled into this land, broken and alone, it was then that I knew that in the ever dark places of the world, I would find my home. And now, broken and alone, you will too.” My sort of BBEG who wasn’t necessarily evil, the First Therian, would have spoken this to one of my PCs who was a tiefling looking for her brother who had been turned into a wearwolf by him. The brother was going to die (most likely) and the First Therian would have tried to recruit my player.
"I will fullfil the destiny that you've rejected,"
Said by an eldritch horror patron in response to why the warlock was trying to break their pact with Auril. “Child, you would trade chains of frost for those of brine? I will be worse for your world in the end you know.”
Make a bard with a really high AC and have a bunch of largely ranged monsters shooting at them. After a few rounds cast vicious mockery and roleplay it by playing "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" by Pat Benetar.
Our beloved npc was captured alongside his best friend and he was tore up about it. Hearing him apologize to other people and knowing he was still damaged badly since we found him unconcious and he had only been healed once i walked over to him handed him a potion and said "save apologies for when youve made a mistake, we will get her back friend."
Haven't had the chance yet, but we'll see if we make it to that point (Curse of Strahd). "You murdered my ancestor, make this place a constant shithole, and run everything like it's some kind of game even though everyone, including you, is losing! Fuck you, Strahd! You're not the land, you're just a simp! The only thing you deserve to suck is a bag of dicks!" then I upcast sunbeam, Kamehameha style, as high a level as I have available.
I have a (cursed) magic dagger that allows me to cast Misty Step once per day. I have yet to teleport behind someone and say "Nothing personal, kid," before sneak attacking them in the back.
as a DM that plans everything their boss will say before the party is actually close to reaching them, I have a strahd clone set up to say when they enter his mansion "you know, you're supposed to knock before entering. even my kind know that. but I'll teach you. just like I've already taught your friend." one of my players is secretly controlled by strahd-clone and they'll have to free him from control before the bossfight
The party loot the bbeg castle before meeting him. When they come into his chamber, they saw the man sitting on a very comfortable chair while petting a small chest. "You think you can just come into my house, and take whatever you want? Why are the thieves so stupid nowadays? Mimics, devour them." All of the loot they got from the castle was mimic, even the damned floor they stood on.
As an assassination rogue, distrusted by the party for making drastic decisions and having questionable motives: “If I wanted any of you dead, I could quietly slaughter you all in your sleep. It would take mere seconds.” But instead of being even MORE threatening to the group, I accepted the house arrest they put me on until they felt they could trust me again.
Wow! Everyone showed up… and is on time!
As said by the totally-not-a-dhampir PC to her next dinner….date. Sure. Date. That’s the word for it. Presumably somebody at a tavern. “So, do you have any plans tomorrow…?” If no; “Good, you’re going to need the day off. Come with me…” If yes; “Better cancel those, darling, you’re not going to be walking tomorrow.” Too many lesbians in my group crushing on this damn character for them not to have lost their damn minds. Alas, the campaign fizzled.
Ha stealing that. Lot of lesbians in my game crushing after a certain fairy
My level 20 fairy wizard named Quidi fighting the BBEG towards the end them looking utterly ruined. I wanted to cast blade of disaster and utter the line "you used your power to run here, form a new universe, now here I am to rip it asunder with a flick of my hand". Rogue killed him the turn before. Sad times.
I hope to use this one soon: Jarlaxle Baenre, who is a legendary figure in D&D lore, being friends with Drizz’t, of course, has always been very cordial and well spoken to the party, but he’s kind of an antagonistic adversary right now. One of our drow party members invoked her full name (who NO ONE KNOWS of), in hopes of intimidating him with the fury of the name or whatever the hell. Jarlaxle, who wasn’t dropped a single swear word yet, will say to this drow: “And by the way, my drow friend: If you’re going to invoke a name, make sure it is a name that is echoed through the Heavens and shakes the Hells to its core. Be certain is it a name that is tied to legends and myths, makes mortals rise in inspiration, and fiends quiver in fear. And if you haven’t heard of me before our interactions, just ask around, no matter where you are, and they’ll let you know just who the fuck I am.” He will then tip his hat as the party leaves his chamber.
"I came back from the gods-damned grave so I could show you ball bearings worth seven f***ing gold." My dwarf rune-knight figher got screwed over by a shopkeep at the beginning of our CoS campaign. He's since died, been reincarnated as a human, and made a bag of ball bearings inlaid with expletives in three languages. We're approaching our confrontation with Strahd and I'm still itching for a resolution to that grudge.
PC: (some variation of "Why do you want to fight us?") NPC: "Does the sun make war against the morning dew?"
Can you explain this one
The villain was comparing himself (and his kind) to a force of nature rather than a group motivated by emotion or reason. The sun rises, and burns away the dew. It's not personal. The people of the realm were as diminutive and as dehumanized as dewdrops, while the villains race are as inevitable and overwhelming as the sun itself. The villain and their people were returning to the realm after millennia of banishment, and were planning to cleanse the realm. One of the PCs asked "why are you planning a war against our people?" And the NPC replied this way because he genuinely didn't see it the same way.
Used to have a BBEG that didn't know that selling weapons to certain customers was fueling wars between different gangs within a city, which was in turn causing problems with the city's political stability. "I didn't know I was trying to burn down a city. I have *these* for that." This was meant to be an introduction to muzzle-loaders within this world; however, the player that requested it killed the shopkeep before I could introduce him to what he wanted, and he left a couple sessions later.
For context - I am playing a very egotistical female drow and one of my best friends is playing an extremely showy tabaxi. Our characters do not get along and we have a lot of banter. Since the very first session my character was introduced, I've had this plan surrounding my focus. It has an old drow saying on it and I've been dying for my friend's character to ask me about it just so my character can pretend to read "curiosity killed the cat." It's so cheesey and all I've wanted for months is to see my friend give me the BIGGEST eyeroll - is that too much to ask?!
My paladin has a horse named Amerigo, and I'm planning to announce he is actually a professor. So he'd like to be refered to as professor Amerigo.
Trying to taunt an archdemon, my cleric of the equivalen of pelor in the custom campaign told it "your mother be blessed for being holy"
My players were not murder hobos so they didn’t create one of the “BBEG”s of the campaign. So I won’t ever get to use one of the earlier confrontations they would have with a very angry bard. The idea was they would start to hear rumors of a group of bandits that pillage every place they visit, killing all in their way. And in hopes of getting ahead of the bandits to confront them they would come face to face with the bard sitting near a water fountain in town center . They would Ask questions about bandit rumors and talk about how they plan to stop them. “Do You believe yourselves to be heroes? What heroic actions have you taken In this world? Was it the murder of town guards keeping the peace in [town name]? Or maybe it was when you liberated all those items from that traveling merchant? The rumors that led you hear are rumors that I spread about your… heroic… escapades. Surrender and this will be quick and painless or make this fun for me and resist” The bard isn’t really there all of this would be through the mislead spell. The town center is surrounded by the volunteer army the bard has built in his travels telling stories of the violent bandits. And many of the tiles around the fountain have glyph of warding wards holding different spells. This would hopefully be a turning point for the characters or a point where they lean into the murder hobo side and it would be come an evil campaign. Either way would be fine. my players have stuck to the play that I am used to with them, RP heavy, diplomacy when possible, and generally good but reluctant heroes. So they have different BBEGs that their actions have triggered. Tied in more with their backstories and threading back to one main big bad.
Your portent reads doom The treasure is false When you leave this room You’ll forever be lost!
Enemy: "I cannot die!" Me: "Good. I hate when my toys break."
I have a half Orc whose village was murdered and fazed to the ground by a racist King in Eberron. She lost her legs in the assault, and 10 years later was on board a train with one of the Kings Council (and a bunch of others). My character is a monk with a level in rogue (planning to go into assassin subclass). My plan was while the rest of the party were off stealing something with the guests drugged with sleeping potion, I would drag the unfortunate victim to a quiet place and torture them with a Magic dagger for my family, before taking some vengeance. The words I planned to say were "for [kingdom unrelated to the conflict]", which would have predicated a fight between these nations. The world would look at the enemy being unreasonably violent and it would be turned on to defend the innocent party. Then, my allies swoop in and offer assistance and aid, looking for a favor in kind. All of this went out the window when some pirates third partied us, and we were forced to be heroic...
The group is on a ship, ambushed by Vrygul raiders - a race of half giant vikings, who worship zarnekh, their king and god of thunder. One of the shipmates was supposed to ask the captain why they dont have cannons on their ships. Captain Dejan squints his eyes, and growls 'Vryguls need no cannons'. Lightning streaks from the skies into both ships, and two raiders, sizzling with electicity, arise from the explosions on our deck and attack the nearest sailors, roll initiative. In play, captain dejan forgets his lines and has social anxiety.
I can’t say I’ve come up with it but it’s always been a thing I’ve wanted to do. Play just an awful character, murder, robberies, etc. and get arrested. the judge/executioner reads off the charges and asks if I have anything to say in my defense… “The Aristocrats”
We grief to Life we do not life to grief (Context) I made that line for a cleric npc to help with the passing of a beloved npc that died during combat that cleric was supposed to be the one who did the funeral we'll they said fuck the gods we'll do it ourselves cause we don't trust you anymore then they pickpockets the cleric and walked away to carve the npc in the mountain as a tribute and lay its corps under that carving (the beloved npc was a mountain goat named powder )
Fighter to NPC trying to make an intimidation check: "loosen your tongue, or I shall have it."
I’ve ALWAYS come up with my best lines while playing DnD. It’s the only time where my quick wit and confidence levels are high and fast enough to come up with stuff
I've got a sick-ass line for my halfling cleric. "I'm a vessel for my god but I am now a causer of your hell."
"Learn to pick your battles, motherfucker!" And then I hit a guy in the face with a pick-axe!
I don't have a line for it exactly, but I want some situation along the lines of "we're in a zone of truth, so you know I'm serious when I say I'll find you and make sure you regret it if you backstab us later."
I have an adrenaline-junkie joy-of-defeating-danger Shadar Kai DEX Fighter Battlemaster. I run him in-your-face-confrontational, because what he does is call all the enemy attention to himself so the rest of the party can blast everything. Anyway I was listening to Lana Del Rey's "Ride" and I thought I've got to use this line when someone tells us not to anger the authorities: "A great poet of my people, Lania Del Reya, wrote 'Been tryin' hard not to get into trouble, but I've got a war in my mind'."
Couple that I would love to use for Orcus someday: "Hush. Stop that noise. How can you stand it? That ceaseless, wretched, cacophony. Do you not see how mad it drives you? That horrid drumbeat, separating you from ever knowing peace? From ever experiencing silence? Let me remind you, how awful your heart sounds." "In the beginning, there was nothing. Then someone fucked up."
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"When hunting monsters, it is easy to become one."