New OOTS products from CafePress
New OOTS t-shirts, ornaments, mugs, bags, and more
Results 1 to 20 of 20
  1. - Top - End - #1
    Ogre in the Playground
     
    Welknair's Avatar

    Join Date
    Dec 2009
    Location
    Surrounded by Books
    Gender
    Male

    Default [3.5e Bloodline] DM's Worst Nightmare (*Sobs*)

    People like my bloodlines too much. So I decided to make one everyone would hate. (Minor inspiration from Sereg's Keeper of the Fourth Gate)

    DM's Worst Nightmare


    There's the PC-Kin, the descendents of the most dangerous people ever known, and then there's the DM's Worst Nightmares, the individuals that destroy the world, not by accident or for the "shinies" but for the glee of the destruction. All they want is to watch the creator of the world cry. No one knows what went wrong when the Nightmares were conceived, but there most have been something. Some great curse that would inevitably bring about the end of the world. Or at least the campaign.

    And remember Nightmares, if the DM smites your character with lightning, rocks, or the like, runs away screaming, refuses to let you into their house any more, quits tabletop RPGs for all time, burns their books and/or is permanently scarred for life, you won.

    Level
    Minor
    Intermediate
    Major
    1 Bluff +2
    2 Bluff +2 Detect Plot Direction
    3 Charisma +1
    4 Bluff +2 Detect Plot Direction Slay Plot-Relevant NPC
    5 NPC Affinity +2
    6 Charisma +1 Demand Loot
    7 Diplomacy +2
    8 Detect Plot Direction Slay Plot-Relevant NPC Defy Railroading
    9 Intelligence +1
    10 NPC Affinity +2 Improved Hating This Campaign
    11 NPC Affinity +4
    12 Charisma +1 Demand Loot Metagaming
    13 Sleight of hand +2
    14 Diplomacy +2 Demand to See Life's Manager
    15 Wisdom +1
    16 Slay Plot-Relevant NPC Defy Railroading Irrefutable Logic
    17 NPC Affinity +6
    18 Intelligence +1 Break game
    19 Intimidate +2
    20 NPC Affinity +2 Improved Hating This Campaign Shatter Campaign

    Detect Plot Direction: "Knowing's half the battle". If you know where the DM wants you to go, you know where to go to most anger them. You have an intuitive knowledge of what course of action would be most beneficial to the plot. E.G. If you're supposed to follow a particular hook that you got, say, a barmaid mentioning an orcish raiding party in the mountains, you are notified that that is the course of action you are supposed to take.

    Slay Plot-Relevant NPC: Nothing angers the Creator more than killing off a major NPC. Thanks to this ability, they cannot come up with some lame excuse for how they don't die.

    NPC Affinity: Diplomacy is great. So is Bluff. You can stop people from killing you, convince them you didn't rob them and then convince them to kill their friends. It also makes the DM furious. The Nightmare gains a bonus on all social interaction checks with NPCs.

    Demand Loot: There's a reason there's WBL tables. To make sure you have all the resources you deserve. If you have less than the amount of total wealth indicated in the WBL table, obviously the DM is doing something wrong. Upon invoking this ability, you must come into an amount of wealth such that your total wealth will equal or exceed that listed within one in-game week.

    Defy Railroading: Thanks to Detect Plot Direction, Nightmares have a wonderful chance of going off the tracks. The DM's natural reaction to try to put you back on said tracks. Often forcibly. Once you obtain this ability, you're will becomes that of adamantine. If you detect that you are being railroaded, this feature may be utilized to simply avoid it. "I can't go to the mountains because I'm in debt to the king and they'll send men after me if I leave? So what. I leave." You're actions are entirely your own and the DM no longer has the power to force you into any course that you are not willing to take. As an added bonus, you get a +2 on saves versus enchantment and various objects thrown by your DM.

    Improved Hating This Campaign: Detect Plot Direction is great for fleeing a story altogether, but sometimes you want something a little more impactful. Worse than refusing to play along is playing along but doing so in the most annoying manner possible. Detect Plot Direction now additionally informs you what course of action would be most detrimental to the storyline.

    Metagaming: The bane of all DMs everywhere. Is now a bloodline feature. All player knowledge is character knowledge.

    Demand to See Life's Manager: The world is a messed up, hackneyed place with errors everywhere. EVERYWHERE. If you can make a good case for why something is wrong with the world, the DM must fix said incorrect aspect.

    Irrefutable Logic: You always have a good case.

    Break Game: I'd be disappointed if you hadn't already by now. But hey, let's make it official. Choose one of the following: Infinite standard actions each round, infinite speed, infinite melee damage, infinite spell damage, unlimited health, immunity to everything, ability to shapeshift into anything or a similar feature of your creation.

    Shatter Campaign: You win.



    You know, I think this one may be just a smidge too powerful.
    Last edited by Welknair; 2014-05-04 at 08:18 PM.
    Avatar by Araveugnitsuga

    Fourthland: A Game of Abstraction
    Quotes
    Spoiler
    Show

    Quote Originally Posted by Daverin View Post
    Welknair, you are like... some living avatar of win. Who's made of win. And wields win as if it were but a toy. Win.
    Quote Originally Posted by Virdish
    Welknair you are a god among men. Thank you for creating a playground for the completely insane.
    Quote Originally Posted by Morph Bark
    There have also been times where I was jealous of your ingenuity and skills.

    Extended Homebrewer's Signature

  2. - Top - End - #2
    Bugbear in the Playground
     
    Dust's Avatar

    Join Date
    Feb 2009
    Location
    Canada, Eh!
    Gender
    Female

    Default Re: [3.5e Bloodline] DM's Worst Nightmare (*Sobs*)

    Love the DM of the Rings shoutout there.

  3. - Top - End - #3
    Ogre in the Playground
     
    Welknair's Avatar

    Join Date
    Dec 2009
    Location
    Surrounded by Books
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: [3.5e Bloodline] DM's Worst Nightmare (*Sobs*)

    Quote Originally Posted by Dust View Post
    Love the DM of the Rings shoutout there.
    "AM I SOME SORT OF UNCERTAINTY LICH?"



    (If you look closely, there's a Portal 2 one as well)
    Last edited by Welknair; 2011-07-13 at 03:43 PM.
    Avatar by Araveugnitsuga

    Fourthland: A Game of Abstraction
    Quotes
    Spoiler
    Show

    Quote Originally Posted by Daverin View Post
    Welknair, you are like... some living avatar of win. Who's made of win. And wields win as if it were but a toy. Win.
    Quote Originally Posted by Virdish
    Welknair you are a god among men. Thank you for creating a playground for the completely insane.
    Quote Originally Posted by Morph Bark
    There have also been times where I was jealous of your ingenuity and skills.

    Extended Homebrewer's Signature

  4. - Top - End - #4
    Barbarian in the Playground
     
    Griffon

    Join Date
    Oct 2008
    Location
    South Africa
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: [3.5e Bloodline] DM's Worst Nightmare (*Sobs*)

    If you meant my Keeper of the Fourth Gate, then thanks for the credit (pity that I never finished it, even if it was a joke. I did wonder if there was a way to adapt it to not be overpowered and actually playable). Anyway, very nice. I also liked the DM of the Rings refferance.

  5. - Top - End - #5
    Ogre in the Playground
     
    Welknair's Avatar

    Join Date
    Dec 2009
    Location
    Surrounded by Books
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: [3.5e Bloodline] DM's Worst Nightmare (*Sobs*)

    Quote Originally Posted by Sereg View Post
    If you meant my Keeper of the Fourth Gate, then thanks for the credit (pity that I never finished it, even if it was a joke. I did wonder if there was a way to adapt it to not be overpowered and actually playable). Anyway, very nice. I also liked the DM of the Rings refferance.
    Ah, it was yours! Proper credit as well as the link have been added.
    Avatar by Araveugnitsuga

    Fourthland: A Game of Abstraction
    Quotes
    Spoiler
    Show

    Quote Originally Posted by Daverin View Post
    Welknair, you are like... some living avatar of win. Who's made of win. And wields win as if it were but a toy. Win.
    Quote Originally Posted by Virdish
    Welknair you are a god among men. Thank you for creating a playground for the completely insane.
    Quote Originally Posted by Morph Bark
    There have also been times where I was jealous of your ingenuity and skills.

    Extended Homebrewer's Signature

  6. - Top - End - #6
    Bugbear in the Playground
     
    radmelon's Avatar

    Join Date
    Feb 2010
    Location
    The Blind Eternities
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: [3.5e Bloodline] DM's Worst Nightmare (*Sobs*)

    Demand to see lifes manager. Classic.

    "FEAR my citric wrath!
    Homebrew:
    Spoiler
    Show

    Misc:
    Spoiler
    Show
    Quote Originally Posted by A Friend Of Mine
    Bloody Mess: The gift that keeps on gibbing.
    Fatigue makes me wax philosophic and/or babble. If I've posted something strange and tangential, that is probably the cause. This entry would be an example.

  7. - Top - End - #7
    Bugbear in the Playground
     
    Daverin's Avatar

    Join Date
    Apr 2011
    Location
    Illinois, USA
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: [3.5e Bloodline] DM's Worst Nightmare (*Sobs*)

    Oh dear lord, I hope this never is found by one of my friends who plays DnD. The results would be... less than desirable.
    Awesome avatar by Abscondcrow

    Spoiler
    Show
    Former awesome avatar by Zefir.

  8. - Top - End - #8
    Ogre in the Playground
     
    Welknair's Avatar

    Join Date
    Dec 2009
    Location
    Surrounded by Books
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: [3.5e Bloodline] DM's Worst Nightmare (*Sobs*)

    Minor Bloodline: Annoyance.

    Intermediate Bloodline: Possible danger to the campaign

    Major Bloodline: OH PELOR, WHY?


    I like to make a joke bloodline after every few serious ones.
    Avatar by Araveugnitsuga

    Fourthland: A Game of Abstraction
    Quotes
    Spoiler
    Show

    Quote Originally Posted by Daverin View Post
    Welknair, you are like... some living avatar of win. Who's made of win. And wields win as if it were but a toy. Win.
    Quote Originally Posted by Virdish
    Welknair you are a god among men. Thank you for creating a playground for the completely insane.
    Quote Originally Posted by Morph Bark
    There have also been times where I was jealous of your ingenuity and skills.

    Extended Homebrewer's Signature

  9. - Top - End - #9
    Barbarian in the Playground
     
    Griffon

    Join Date
    Oct 2008
    Location
    South Africa
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: [3.5e Bloodline] DM's Worst Nightmare (*Sobs*)

    Quote Originally Posted by Welknair View Post
    Ah, it was yours! Proper credit as well as the link have been added.
    Thank you. Glad to be a source of inspiration. And yes, no sane DM would let this (or even my PrC) into their campaign (which, of course, is the idea) but as I said, I still think that a playable version might be fun as well.

  10. - Top - End - #10
    Firbolg in the Playground
    Join Date
    Mar 2011
    Location
    Australia

    Default Re: [3.5e Bloodline] DM's Worst Nightmare (*Sobs*)

    This Bloodline is just plain wrong , in all the right ways .
    Spoiler: Quotes!
    Show

    Quote Originally Posted by Sun Hunter's Recruitment
    Quote Originally Posted by Sliver View Post
    Saying no to a Sun's Hunter is as close as it gets to an invitation to have your place destroyed by them)\
    Quote Originally Posted by Vedhin View Post
    In other words, be nice to the murderhobos so they don't murder you?
    Quote Originally Posted by JanusJones View Post
    The professional, well-funded, well-backed, card-carrying, licensed murderhobos, yes.
    Quote Originally Posted by Chilingsworth View Post
    Congrats, you made me laugh hard enough to draw my family's attention.


    Life is Hectic.

  11. - Top - End - #11
    Ogre in the Playground
     
    Welknair's Avatar

    Join Date
    Dec 2009
    Location
    Surrounded by Books
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: [3.5e Bloodline] DM's Worst Nightmare (*Sobs*)

    Quote Originally Posted by Erik Vale View Post
    This Bloodline is just plain wrong , in all the right ways .
    Good. That's what I was going for.
    Avatar by Araveugnitsuga

    Fourthland: A Game of Abstraction
    Quotes
    Spoiler
    Show

    Quote Originally Posted by Daverin View Post
    Welknair, you are like... some living avatar of win. Who's made of win. And wields win as if it were but a toy. Win.
    Quote Originally Posted by Virdish
    Welknair you are a god among men. Thank you for creating a playground for the completely insane.
    Quote Originally Posted by Morph Bark
    There have also been times where I was jealous of your ingenuity and skills.

    Extended Homebrewer's Signature

  12. - Top - End - #12
    Halfling in the Playground
     
    Keeper of Starlight's Avatar

    Join Date
    May 2011
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: [3.5e Bloodline] DM's Worst Nightmare (*Sobs*)

    Sorry, I believe you mentioned that bloodlines are never ridiculously overpowered, did you not?
    Also, does this come in ASW format?

    Also, this is what I was talking about. The rest of them have no clue. Muahaha!
    Last edited by Keeper of Starlight; 2011-07-17 at 12:36 AM.
    Avatar by Elder_Tsofu.

    Spellblade

  13. - Top - End - #13
    Ogre in the Playground
     
    Welknair's Avatar

    Join Date
    Dec 2009
    Location
    Surrounded by Books
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: [3.5e Bloodline] DM's Worst Nightmare (*Sobs*)

    Quote Originally Posted by Πέρα από τον Ορ View Post
    Sorry, I believe you mentioned that bloodlines are never ridiculously overpowered, did you not?
    Also, does this come in ASW format?

    Also, this is what I was talking about. The rest of them have no clue. Muahaha!
    Well this is a joke Bloodline. My serious ones are relatively balanced, I think. And ASW doesn't yet have a bloodline system. And when it does (I do intend to add one), it won't be based on levels. Because ASW doesn't have levels.
    Avatar by Araveugnitsuga

    Fourthland: A Game of Abstraction
    Quotes
    Spoiler
    Show

    Quote Originally Posted by Daverin View Post
    Welknair, you are like... some living avatar of win. Who's made of win. And wields win as if it were but a toy. Win.
    Quote Originally Posted by Virdish
    Welknair you are a god among men. Thank you for creating a playground for the completely insane.
    Quote Originally Posted by Morph Bark
    There have also been times where I was jealous of your ingenuity and skills.

    Extended Homebrewer's Signature

  14. - Top - End - #14
    Bugbear in the Playground
    Join Date
    Mar 2011
    Location
    Arse end of nowhere, UK
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: [3.5e Bloodline] DM's Worst Nightmare (*Sobs*)

    I am mighty amused by this bloodline, but alas, my players need no help in destroying my carefully and lovingly crafted worlds. One player in particular has managed to do pretty much all of this in game as it is, at least now I have something to show him which justifies his actions (well, not really, but I'm laughing anyway so it's fine!)

    Worst bit is, some of this could actually have relevance in a serious campaign, and that's not fair!
    All I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer her by.

    My homebrews Moloques! Sagacious Defender of the Forge, The Open Palm, Sacred Scourge, The Bastion
    Co-Developer of the Mutant Powers Project:
    World Warper
    Telekineticist and ACFs, Feats, Shadow Hand PrC

  15. - Top - End - #15
    Halfling in the Playground
     
    BlackDragon

    Join Date
    Dec 2010

    Default Re: [3.5e Bloodline] DM's Worst Nightmare (*Sobs*)

    So, looking at "Slay Plot Relevant NPC", and your NPC PrC, "PC Proof Ones", which one trumps which?
    "To play a fighter is to play the game.
    To play a wizard is to understand the rules.
    To understand the rules, and play a fighter, is to understand the game."
    -Lycar
    Quote Originally Posted by jiriku View Post
    ...magical trumps mundane so often that mundane really needs to be able to give magic a good kick in the junk now and then.

  16. - Top - End - #16
    Ogre in the Playground
     
    Welknair's Avatar

    Join Date
    Dec 2009
    Location
    Surrounded by Books
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: [3.5e Bloodline] DM's Worst Nightmare (*Sobs*)

    Quote Originally Posted by Sypher667 View Post
    So, looking at "Slay Plot Relevant NPC", and your NPC PrC, "PC Proof Ones", which one trumps which?
    That's a very good question.

    And quite frankly, not one I have an answer to.


    If such a matter came up in a game which I was running (I.E. A DM's Worst Nightmare of at least 4th level slew a PC Proof One), I would:

    1. Question what sort of game I'm running. Like seriously.
    2. Try to avoid that eventuality.
    3. Say that the result is the same as when you divide by zero.

    Other may choose differently. It's really a matter of personal preference on the DM's part.
    Avatar by Araveugnitsuga

    Fourthland: A Game of Abstraction
    Quotes
    Spoiler
    Show

    Quote Originally Posted by Daverin View Post
    Welknair, you are like... some living avatar of win. Who's made of win. And wields win as if it were but a toy. Win.
    Quote Originally Posted by Virdish
    Welknair you are a god among men. Thank you for creating a playground for the completely insane.
    Quote Originally Posted by Morph Bark
    There have also been times where I was jealous of your ingenuity and skills.

    Extended Homebrewer's Signature

  17. - Top - End - #17
    Ettin in the Playground
     
    enderlord99's Avatar

    Join Date
    Jul 2011

    Default Re: [3.5e Bloodline] DM's Worst Nightmare (*Sobs*)

    Quote Originally Posted by Welknair View Post
    That's a very good question.

    And quite frankly, not one I have an answer to.
    I do have an answer!

    You don't get to invent an excuse for why he comes back (DM's Worst Nightmare); he just does (PC-Proof one).
    Spoiler: Vanity quotes
    Show
    Quote Originally Posted by Strigon View Post
    Wow.
    That took a very sudden turn for the dark.

    I salute you.
    Quote Originally Posted by AuthorGirl View Post
    I wish it was possible to upvote here.

    I use braces (also known as "curly brackets") to indicate sarcasm. If there are none present, I probably believe what I am saying; should it turn out to be inaccurate trivia, please tell me rather than trying to play along with an apparent joke I don't know I'm making.

  18. - Top - End - #18
    Firbolg in the Playground
    Join Date
    Mar 2011
    Location
    Australia

    Default Re: [3.5e Bloodline] DM's Worst Nightmare (*Sobs*)

    Quote Originally Posted by Pokemon-freak89 View Post
    I do have an answer!

    You don't get to invent an excuse for why he comes back (DM's Worst Nightmare); he just does (PC-Proof one).
    Im suprised he didn't think of that.

    Though I agree with his first action. Personally, thats the smashed sort of campaign, or the one where you are deliberately torturing yourself for whatever reason.
    Last edited by Erik Vale; 2011-10-07 at 11:28 PM.
    Spoiler: Quotes!
    Show

    Quote Originally Posted by Sun Hunter's Recruitment
    Quote Originally Posted by Sliver View Post
    Saying no to a Sun's Hunter is as close as it gets to an invitation to have your place destroyed by them)\
    Quote Originally Posted by Vedhin View Post
    In other words, be nice to the murderhobos so they don't murder you?
    Quote Originally Posted by JanusJones View Post
    The professional, well-funded, well-backed, card-carrying, licensed murderhobos, yes.
    Quote Originally Posted by Chilingsworth View Post
    Congrats, you made me laugh hard enough to draw my family's attention.


    Life is Hectic.

  19. - Top - End - #19
    Titan in the Playground
     
    Morph Bark's Avatar

    Join Date
    Oct 2008
    Location
    Freljord

    Default Re: [3.5e Bloodline] DM's Worst Nightmare (*Sobs*)

    Quote Originally Posted by Sypher667 View Post
    So, looking at "Slay Plot Relevant NPC", and your NPC PrC, "PC Proof Ones", which one trumps which?
    You think about this the wrong way.

    PC Proof Ones are PC Proof because they are NOT plot-relevant.
    Homebrewer's Signature | Avatar by Strawberries

  20. - Top - End - #20
    Barbarian in the Playground
    Join Date
    Aug 2011
    Location
    lost in my own mind

    Default Re: [3.5e Bloodline] DM's Worst Nightmare (*Sobs*)

    Quote Originally Posted by Welknair View Post
    That's a very good question.

    And quite frankly, not one I have an answer to.


    If such a matter came up in a game which I was running (I.E. A DM's Worst Nightmare of at least 4th level slew a PC Proof One), I would:

    1. Question what sort of game I'm running. Like seriously.
    2. Try to avoid that eventuality.
    3. Say that the result is the same as when you divide by zero.

    Other may choose differently. It's really a matter of personal preference on the DM's part.
    This thread made me smile. Then I hit this post and cracked. My sides seriously hurt right now from the laughing. Thank you.

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •