7 Encounter Ideas for DnD (March 2024 Supercut)

7 different ideas for your next DnD sessions. Each can effectively be run for an entire session, as a one shot, or in shortened versions.
00:00 Four Borks and One Dog Year Ago
00:55 Thomas, The Thank Engine
01:53 Marsh Madness
02:47 Orc & Beans
03:52 St. Ratrick's Day
04:57 Con(struct) Air
06:00 Feaster Egg Hunt
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[@Rechanmole]

The con air one is great. The Saint ratrick one tho, that's cute and interesting.

[@taka7369]

Fun! But in my group I think the references would not go well with the suspension of disbelief.

[@DumbestDnD]

Not even Con Air 😆? These were pretty on the those this month, so we'll see about being a little more subtle in April.

[@taka7369]

@@DumbestDnDBy all means no... maybe I'm just underestimating them. Also the Ideal would be grat for April fools :D

[@DumbestDnD]

@@taka7369 they're definitely not for every party, but we've got a bunch written up on dumbestdnd.com in case you change your mind!

[@stm7810]

@@taka7369 you can change the names to not be references, other than the specific names this can feel very original.

[@stm7810]

1: my current Character given they started off as a genius in poverty reached the logical conclusion of socialism. the blink dog is violently threatening an oppressed people and if the party is strong enough they're going to old Yeller him. not literally of course, since the setting only has tech level 2 weapons and some experimental tech level 3 use of steel weapons for the very rich. I doubt I'm making a good enough lave and such to get guns. 2: since this character was isekaied (GM wanted it) they'd likely want to try non lethal takedowns for engineering (robotics) or Computer programming/computer hacking rolls at -4 for unfamiliar coding. further encouraged by graples and such being more fun for the rest of the party. then as bonus fun, unionize the robots, Thomas is very useful and should be recognized as such. 3: (I really love this, our GM has a relative who does black smithing as a hobby so she likes being accurate about how it's specialized and a profession.) This will require an interesting combination of social skills, Savior-faire (merchant) to talk with the blacksmiths, this even gets a small bonus after improving our parties standing with the black smiths guild from an earlier event, uses of metalurgy and maybe geology to figure out the metals and the cave, reading the books to find useful information before encountering the devil, then it's likely up to someone else in the party to use diplomacy, fast talk or take advantage of how attractive they are. I doubt that I could use the politics or propaganda skill here. 4: This 1 is amazing, even if most of the party are children coffee with enough sugar will tempt them, that would be an awesome fight, likely to require a pincer attack, full on gorilla warfare would expend out resources, would also be a good excuse to gadgeteer some herbicides and such to make it past the bean traps. 5: Jokes on the Game master, I might have will so low it's a disability, but my character built gas masks, so at least for those who are species that can use them (slimes, orcs due to tusks, and sharklings due to more permiable skin can't), we should be ok about the fumes. we wouldn't want to steel from the rat, just see, but upon the cult stuff, especially if the forbidden god is involved then we'd need to do something. 6: I don't know how this 1 would work, airships are at least tech level 5, but perhaps there's some rare exception using flying creatures or more likely you need a crew of mages taking shifts to keep the flight spell active, like how large boats need a crew to row them, with the difference being that if the mages get injured or unable to focus the ship will start listening to newton again and want to give the ground a big hug. also screw the 25% chance, something cool is going to happen. 7: I'd help, with the mimics we have a slime capable of copying the form of organic creatures she has eaten a sample of, or at least a similar looking member of their species, so she might be able to convince the mimics she's 1 of them, communicate and socially solve this, sinceit's very very hard to fight a creature that has no vitals, brain or other easy weak points to go for, especially when the elder means explosives and other destructive magic or items could kill him. the second will be funny to solve, we need someone with animal handling, but at least eagles die when you shoot them in the head or plumet when you stab them through the wing. 3rd guy is likely trying not to get eaten by an inverse ware rabbit, a creature that becomes a bigger more powerful rabbit with carnivourous desires when there's plenty of sun and especially spring energy. These are all fun scenarios and awful puns.

[@DumbestDnD]

Awful puns are what we aim for, so I'm glad we hit the mark 😆