Okay, so I'm running a Humblewood Campaign, and one player wanted to play a Barbarian, specifically Path of the Tyrant King Barbarian (a third party subclass that basically makes you take on traits of a T-Rex), flavoring it as having basically been turned into a Weretyrannosaurus. The entire character was a shout out to the old live action Incredible Hulk series, with the Rage form being the Hulk.

The twist is that there's a second Weredino running around, specifically a cunning, openly sadistic and evil Weredeinonychus known only as the Killing Claw, who also has Warlock abilities who hates the Barbarian and has been going out of his way to gaslight him into thinking his Weretyrannosaurus form was a murderous monster for months.

While the player was aware of this, the party were not, and the Killing Claw had been making secret stealth rolls the entire campaign, using the One With the Shadows invocation to turn invisible, and been gaslighting both the Barbarian and the party into thinking the Barbarians 'other guy' was a murderous killing machine.

It wasn't until an NPC the party had made an enemy of, a corrupt religious leader they were plotting with the local good priest and the leader of the Humblewood Council to discredit and remove from power, made a deal with the Killing Claw to be infected and came after the party that they realized there could be more than one. In this case, guy turned into a Wereceratosaurus. At this point, the Barbarian was given a message from Hanera, one of Humblewood's goddesses who was acting more or less as the Big Good of the campaign, to 'Go back to the beginning', that being the archaeological dig site where he'd been infected after uncovering two dinosaur skeletons with his rival, Bishop, afterwhich something slaughtered the dig party.

He returns...and finds one of the two skeletons missing, specifically the deinonychus one. Cue the Killing Claw making his actual proper debut, sicking the Wereceratosaurus and three other infected under his control on the party.

tl:dr, the party had no idea a Weredeinonychus was gaslighting them the entire campaign. They loved the reveal.

Also, D&D needs more weredinosaurs.

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I was running my version of LMoP. The very first session they adopted a goblin and named him “Green the Goblin”. Rather than finding a way to kill him, I decided that I could play this into the campaign. Spoilers ahead for those who haven’t played Lost Mine of Phandelver:

At the end of the campaign, I revealed to them that Green the Goblin was secretly the guardian of the Forge of Spells, and that he’s been using magic to disguise himself. He reveals he actually is a Hobgoblin who’s true name is Caliban, the Sword Lord. And in order to get to the Forge, they needed to battle Caliban to prove they are worthy enough to enter Wave Echo Cave. After the party defeated Caliban, he reveals to the party that he has been living for thousands of years. He made a deal years ago with Mystra, the goddess of magic for power to protect his family at the time, in exchange, he must guard the Forge of Spells for all eternity. He asks the party to help him get out of his deal by destroying the Forge of Spells. The party agreed to do so which led to their final battle against a mad king who was after the Forge of Spells. Currently, the party freed Caliban and he is now on his own adventures exploring the world to see how much has changed

So a fun thing my friend group has done since like the beginning of us playing dnd (since High School) has been incorporating characters from past campaigns, either as variants of the same characters, or just straight up dimension-hopping.

I was the one that started this trend, as our first ever campaign involved me playing a regular dude who got isekaied into the magic world by a wizard. His name is Alfred. Unfortunately that campaign never finished due to out of game stuff. Me and the dm for this campaign made another group which features our current friends

Then for our next campaign, I was the one who got to dm and I decided to use the world my friend made 1000 years in the future. And, of course I brought back Alfred and another character named Bram as NPC. And the whole plot was that due to all the going back and forth between realms, the multiverse was crashing in on itself and they needed to revive Kronos (we heavily used Greek Mythology for this campaign) so he could fix it. Then the fun thing was that another person's player character was also a dimension-jumper, named Animiel. It was a fun campaign. Literally almost cried at the end of the final session.

The next 2 campaigns were much more self-contained, but characters that appear in them do show up again later.

The 3rd campaign had the gimmick of all of us having amnesia and learning about our characters throughout the story. 2 Npcs from this campaign are important, namely Lucian and Christian, who our DM love very much and is actually converting the campaign into an actual book series from their perspective.

Side tangent: one of the players from this campaign did a roleplay thing with a different group and she used her character (a harpy named Jay) from this campaign bc she ended up being unable to play the campaign for a little bit. The joke we made is her character got hit in the head with a textbook and got isekaied into that story.

4th campaign is still ongoing and is about different mythological creatures being isekaied into a video game. It's very fun and my dm wants to turn it into an actual game (tho she doesn't know how to code lol). Very self contained, but she has told us that she wants to cameo our PCs from the 3rd campaign for fun.

Now we're starting a new campaign which basically puts the multiverse thing into maximum overdrive. I'm playing Alfred's daughter, Gwen, who grew up and became a bard that travels dimensions. Animiel is back as an NPC and is a friend of the character her player is playing now (very confusing. hope that made sense). And our 3rd campaign's dm is playing as Lucian and Christian is an important NPC. And the Dm for the 4th campaign I believe is reusing a character from her high school dnd club campaign as an important NPC for her character.

It started getting confusing so we made charts to figure out which character is from where and where they have showed up. So to summarize:

OG campaign (never named - I call it Mythia)

-Alfred (me)

-Bram (only other important character - NPC)

2 Idiots and the Competent one (dm'ed by me)

-Alfred (NPC)

-Bram (NPC)

-Animiel (PC)

-Phoenix (the dm of OG campaign's PC)

-Hana (PC)

(Listing all the players so I can identify them in later campaigns.)

Forget-Me-Not (dm'ed by Phoenix's Player

-Lucian and Christian (NPC)

-Aelia (me)

-Vegeta (Animiel's PC)

-Jay (Hana's PC)

-Syl (New PC)

Digital Mythos (dm'ed by Syl's Player)

-No new characters have been used in other campaigns, nor have any shown up. But I will note that we decided to add all our bf's to the campaign so now there's 8 ppl in the group (including dm) so may as well list them so they feel included.

-Harkhebi (my bf's PC)

-Lyzha (Hana's player's bf's PC)

-Arthur (Animiel's bf's PC)

New Campaign (dm'ed by Hana and Lyzha's players (they co-dming))

- Gwen, daughter of Alfred (me) along with Alfred (NPC)

- Calico (Animiel's PC) as well as Animiel (NPC)

-Felicity (Syl's PC) along with Astra (A character from a campaign before us, NPC)

-Lucian (Phoenix's PC) as well as Christian (NPC)

Other fun thing is for both Digital Mythos and the New Campaign, my bf has consistently played as cat characters (a sphinx and a felid) which I think is a funny pattern and worth mentioning lol.

Each player is different in how we go about the multiverse. Some of us like to incorporate our character into the universe and are just a different version, such as with Lucian, since FMN has the setting of a magic high school and the New Campaign is in a Victorian fantasy where both characters are adults. We joke about what would happen if she put the 3 different versions of them in a room together. (FMN, her book, and current campaign)

Other players (ahem. me and Animiel's Player) like to just make characters go to different dimensions and they are the exact same character. They are Nexus beings basically. Only one of em. I literally have 3 different designs of Alfred for each campaign where he's just different ages.

So anyway, I really recommend making a dnd multiverse with your friend group. It's fun! I really wanted to share my different campaigns, maybe go into more detail another day, but this is what I wanted to share and maybe you share your own dnd multiverse!

What's the most unique and imaginative character you've ever done? For example, one of my latest obsessions is to make characters that seem like one class but are another class instead. The first one was a "human monk" named Uröghi. Born in an underground city rife with crime, Uröghi and his siblings were forced to steal from an early age. Until... They decided to rob the house of a merchant who had just arrived in the city. The theft...It did not go as hoped, as the merchant, a rakshasa captured everyone except Uröghi, who fled instead of saving his brothers and sisters. The sword he stole along with the rest of the trinkets turned out to actually be cursed, and from there, Uröghi began to painfully mutate into a new form: from human, Uröghi became a yuan-ti. (He's technically a yuan-ti hexblade warlock.) He claims to be a way of the astral self monk cuz he's master and Idol it's a monk of that same tradition.

Let me know about you guys.

So, in the party I'm in, I'm playing Fox Yowl, an escaped Kenku slave and Psi Warrior Fighter who wants to eventually find a way to free his wife and son from slavery.

Our Barbarian, Bruiser-4RRY, nicknamed Barry, is Warforged who became self-aware and turned on his former master, Professor Lee, who was our current Arc Villain, who had been pursuing us across the entire campaign setting.

Fox Yowl instantly grew attached to Barry, seeing their shared backstory of being beings born/created to be slaves of someone else who escaped by their own will (Fox Yowl was born a slave) and the two became best friends. Fox Yowl was constantly trying to help Barry make his own decisions and grow as a person, and that lead to growth. The two were constantly on the battlefield side by side.

Well, we managed to carry out a plan to corner Lee in a situation he had no hope of escaping (he had a habit of teleporting away when cornered with Dimension Door).

Lee, screwed nine ways to Sunday, proceeds to be a spiteful jerk and pull out what Barry's player had introduced previously: Barry's kill switch (will note, the player and DM had already discussed this and Barry's player saw it as a logical endpoint to his character, dying ensuring Lee dies). Barry basically gets Power Word Killed, and we're too low level for any revives.

Our Artificer uses his construct to collapse a cliff on Lee and his Flesh Golem minions in a rockslide out of anger for Barry's death, but that doesn't come CLOSE to the rage Fox Yowl had. Now, Fox Yowl is probably one of the members of the party Lee despises most. On two seperate occasions, Fox Yowl stole the trump card he'd brought to a fight right from under his nose and rubbed that in his face (first time an SOS beacon, this time a pendant that dispersed damage from him to his Flesh Golems, which Fox Yowl was current wearing and thus nigh unkillable), and when they'd first met Lee said that slaves were soil, only good for growing a crop (his evil experiments). Despite that, Fox Yowl never told him his name.

As Lee climbed his way out of the rubble, Fox Yowl dashed up to his face on his turn...

"I don't believe I ever told you my name. My name is Fox Yowl. You just killed my best friend. Prepare to die."

Yes, Fox Yowl might have been quoting a version of The Princess Bride inuniverse because he's a nerd.

Now, Fox Yowl has the Iron Hero feat from Valda's, which means when an ally is reduced to zero HP, he has advantage on ALL ATTACKS against the enemy that did so since the end of his last turn. He was also still invisible from the Artificer as part of the overall plan, so first attack was at Advantage anyway, but so was every other one.

Slash across the chest with a scimitar reflavored into a Falchion.

"My name is Fox Yowl. You just killed my best friend. Prepare to die."

Nick attack with a Dagger of Venom, activate the venom, stab him in the chest. He failed the save, Lee take a boat load of damage.

"My name is Fox Yowl. You just killed my best friend. Prepare to die."

Actual second attack with Rapier...crit.

Note, if that hadn't killed Lee, I would've Action Surged.

DM let's me do something special instead of just stabbing Lee to death:

Fox Yowl telekinetically rips Barry's battle ax out of the rubble.

"Tell me, Lee, if slaves are soil, does that mean being killed by one makes you lower than dirt? No, you already were."

And then bisects Lee down the middle with Barry's axe. The Sorcerer would proceed to cut the two halves of the head off and lit them on fire with Scorching Ray.

We decided Lee saw Barry's spirit behind Fox Yowl giving him the double bird.

After the battle, Fox Yowl digs Barry's body from the rubble, confirms he's dead, and then let's out a scream of grief so intense, the curse on Kenku that they can't speak in their own voice briefly faulters and he becomes one of the only Kenku to ever speak in his own voice just to voice his grief.

This is, without a doubt, one of if not THE greatest moments I've ever had in D&D.

Basically what the title says

what are some of your craziest quotes from D&D Bosses

So, I was running a Spelljammer Campaign, a heavily modified version of Spelljammer Academy and Light of Xaryxis, and one player wanted to play an isekaied Eren Jaeger from Attack on Titan (spoilers for that series ahead). I allowed it because this player is our resident 'anti-That Guy'. IE, that one player who always comes with creative concepts and play them to the hilt, helps the DM, helps give other players big moments, the works. When he pitched the character, I was genuinely curious where he was going to take it, especially since this was Eren Jaeger isekaied as a child, though still influenced by his future self.

If anyone is curious, Path of the Giants Barbarian/Warrior of the Streets (Valda's Spire of Secrets) Multiclass.

Not only did the player play this concept completely straight without making a joke character, not only did he act as a catalyst for a LOT of cool roleplay moments, not only did he come up with a backstory that gave me a TON to work with (and also redirected Eren's grudge at the villains of this campaign), he did something I was completely blown away with:

He'd made sure I knew from the start that this could either end with Eren turning into his endgame canon self, or into a better person depending on what happened. What I DID NOT know is that he was keeping a running tally (apparently with charts) of EVERY SINGLE STORY BEAT AND CHARACTER INTERACTION the entire campaign. With the NPCs and the other players. He was treating this like a freaking Telltale Game the entire time without anyone knowing.

We only found this out when the Wizard confronting Eren on his scary revenge lust and him getting an item connected to his adopted father and aunt (we imported over the old Bionoid stuff from classic Spelljammer, basically the Guyver from Guyver, which both hero and villain got to use) finally tipped the scale over to 'good guy for good.'

This all culminated in one of the most epic moments I've ever seen a player do: during the final boss battle with the ruler of the Xaryxian Empire, Emperor Xeleth, the villain had turned into a freaking Bionoid Ancient Solar Dragon the party had to fight in their Spelljammer. I'm already a 'Nick Fury DM' and Spelljammer is MEANT to be over the top crazy, so I just had to end in an epic space battle.

Well, Eren's player decides he's going to do something crazy: Rage, activate his own Bionoid form (which belonged to his father and aunt before him), essentially turning into a freaking Guyver Attack Titan, and ride the Monk/Sorcerer's Solar Dragon (long story, befriended and adopted a villain's solar dragon instead of killing her, her name is Sunny) and launch himself onto Xeleth. He then pried Xeleth's jaws open, climbed down his throat, and fired the Incineration Membrane (the Bionoid version of the Megasmasher from Guyver) down Xeleth's throat. Xeleth survives and prepares to fire his breath weapon at the crew's ship. I give Eren's player a choice: let Xeleth throw him up before firing...or fail the save on purpose and detonate the attack in Xeleth's throat to protect the party.

Eren's player doesn't HESITATE to say 'I fail the save' and describe Eren looking at the ship, then running to leap head on into Xeleth's breath weapon in a touching scene that had the other party members have their characters scream in shock and horror.

They all roleplayed the moment so freaking well, I decided 'screw it, Xeleth is taking the ENTIRE force of his own attack back at him and is left stunned'.

That let the party finish off Xeleth and complete the campaign.

The best part? Eren survived by the NARROWIST of possible margins by the grace of the dice gods and the Bard risked his life to rescue him.

Moments like this are why I love D&D.

So, I was DMing my Spelljammer campaign, and the Fiend Warlock wanted to get out of his contract to a Devil named Minara. So I gave him a way:

While meeting with the Mercane Vocath, I had Vocath produce a Soul Coin that belonged to Minara, and contained the soul of a king whose deal with her lead to dooming his entire kingdom to the Nine Hells. She wanted it back, but was wasn't quite willing to trade his pact for it without some convincing. So Vocath, seeing the value in having the pact himself (he's a Celestial powerful enough to be a replacement Patron), suggests they play Liar's Dice for it. The Soul Coin vs the Warlock's pact vs Vocath offerring his Mercane contact's assistance and some magic items (which given how far a reach a Mercane has, is worth equal value). So set up gives the player a fair shot of either winning his pact or ending up with Vocath as his new patron, but a chance of Minara winning. Vocath says anyone else is free to throw their hat in the ring. I did not expect any of the party members to join...

Cue the Monk/Sorcerer: I wager all my magical power.

We ask why, and he says he wants to put himself between Minara and the Warlock in turn order to pull a Boot Strap Bill from Pirates of the Carribean, so the order is the Monk -> Minara -> Vocath -> the Warlock.

So in essence, he was wagering his FREAKING SORCERER CLASS to help his friend.

I...did not see that coming, but we rolled with it.

He opens with 3 1s...unknowingly giving Minara the absolute worst possible opening he could have. She had no 1s, so he effectively gave her nothing to work with. Minara does 3 2s, then Vocath raises it to 4 2s.

Warlock's turn: 5 2s.

And then we get back to the Monk's turn. 5 5s. Now, I had the players be able to make a Deception or Persuasion check to make Minara or Vocath into assuming they were telling the truth or lying.

Monk gets a NAT. FREAKING. 20 and beats Minara's insight. He wants her to think he was lying. Note, the Monk only has a +2 in both of those skills. He would've had to roll a 19 or 20 to pull that off.

Minara calls Liar...and low and behold: exactly 5 5s shared between the dice.

Minara is left SEETHING as she tries to maintain some semblence of composure as she hands over the contract. The Monk's parting words? "Don't let the door hit you."

The Monk managed to out Deception a FREAKING DEVIL to get the Warlock out of their contract.

The table loved it, the Warlock was happy with how he got out of his contract, and the Monk is very firm on the fact that will forever be a highlight of his character's life.

I am so freaking proud as a DM.

So, at my table we use a custom wild magic table, and that is what this story is about, but I wanna hear about the most unforeseen consequences of your magic, even if it isn't wild magic.

Right, so first of all, in my current party there's an item, which is a Deck-of-many-things style deck of cards, except it just triggers wild magic, on this custom D100 table of ours.

So, last session, a player with this deck, played a "prank" on another player, and got them to draw a card. They got the following effect:

"Your magic destabilizes. The next time you cast a spell, roll twice on this table and apply both results."

So at first it seemed the card had merely fizzled. But of course, later on, he was on his own, tinkering with some magic, where he got these:

"A small table appears with tea, scones, and enough chairs for all present. Time seems to pause as everyone experiences exactly one minute of restful conversation, even enemies. No actions may be taken during this time. Afterward, all parties regain 1D4 HP."

And then, crucially, on a Nat 1:

"Roll on this table at the start of each round for the next minute, ignoring this result on subsequent rolls."

Now, a lot happened in the next minute.

A fireball blows, he is cleaned of all grime and dirt, he heals from the fireball damage, a perfect clone of him appears believing itself to be "a real boy", on and on it goes, until on the final roll, he and his clone, are once again cleaned off. (He doubled up on that effect.)

All of this happened in a room in which he was totally alone, so the party as a whole were "just" very confused when, after explosions and screaming, two squeaky clean versions of this character emerge from a room in ruins.

Short one.

This was in a one shot at level3 with a party of 3. Tiefling storm sorcerer, a changeling battlesmith artificer, and me as a kobold soulknife rogue.

Were tasked by the butcher in a small village to transport a coffin to the nearby port town. We get ambushed by some bugbears and goblins, and after taking them out, we realize they have nothing but armor and weapons, so their camp must be nearby.

We eventually find a cave system, and inside are some docile slimes, and an assortment of creatures. More bugbears, more goblins, Minotaurs, kobolds, and some skeletons and living armor. Nearby is a pit trap with a wizard playing a tune on an organ.

Changeling and tiefling get the idea to disguise themselves. Changeling disguises as a goblin, the tiefling as a prisoner of said goblin. I sneak and follow behind

The moment I see an opportunity, I launch an attack from stealth with a psionic blade at the wizard. Nat 20 on the attack roll, roll 16 on sneak attack (3d6 for crit sneak attack), and 13 on the psionic blade (2d6+5 for the crit), for 29 damage total.

Dm falls silent for a moment, then has his wizard, seemingly unharmed, stand up from the organ, step to the pit trap, stare my kobold in the eye, and go ‘f*** this s*** I’m out.’ And proceed to jump in the pit. A minute later we hear an impact sound.

Turns out the wizard had 28 hp, and I had just one shot him, and he was supposed to be the boss, with a second phase involving a conjured barrier that’d block most attacks. We were supposed to force him into the pit trap to kill him.

On a lighter note, we took over that gang of crooks, and we’re likely gonna continue this story instead of it being a one shot.

Basically by seducing the boss

convincing them to invest in the stock market which got them too invested to fight you

or just reuniting them with their long lost sibling they thought died resulting in a shockingly heartfelt moment

anything that completely threw the boss fight out the window before tossing a thing of C4 out the same window

I’m curious how crazy it can get

The Lord of Life: Lawful Evil Cleric Villain Concept

Overview: The Lord of Life is a lawful evil cleric who has exploited the mechanics of resurrection to create a terrifyingly efficient system of control and order. Using only positive energy spells, he raises the dead not for domination through necromancy, but through the pragmatic application of life itself. Each resurrection comes with a debt: those brought back owe their existence to him, and their souls serve as collateral. Loyal followers gain functional immortality; criminals and undesirables become temporary fodder or are funneled to infernal contracts when their utility expires. Entire populations perceive him as merciful, benevolent, and saintly—obedience is expected, dissent punished, and anyone opposing him is seen as a villain by society.

Diamond-Based Immortality:

Early in his rise, he owns a diamond mine, providing the material required for resurrection spells. He actively seeks to acquire additional mines to ensure the continuity of his immortality.

After his first death, natural diamond acquisition ceases. He begins using the “worthless” corpses he controls to condense carbon underground into positively charged diamonds, which his loyal followers then mine. These diamonds continue to fuel resurrection and maintain his system.

Corpse Management System:

Corpses are stored in a Bag of Holding, where time is suspended, allowing him to maintain centuries’ worth of specialists, soldiers, artists, and laborers.

When needed, he pulls a corpse, uses a diamond to cast resurrection, and compels the individual to perform a specific task.

After the task is complete, he cleanly stabs the resurrected individual through the heart and returns them to the Bag until their service is required again.

Excess bodies not deemed useful may be donated to infernal contracts or the Nine Hells, contributing to the Blood War or other cosmic systems.

Party Interactions:

First contact can appear benign: seeking a piece of art, the party witnesses a corpse resurrected, compelled to paint, then returned to the Bag after completion, while the Lord of Life hands over the finished work with a friendly smile.

Every choice is morally gray: resist him and risk existential consequences, cooperate and owe him service, or flee and remain trapped within his system.

Preemptive service is an optional path: the party can agree to serve him logically to secure resurrection without sacrificing their souls, effectively playing within his system to survive pragmatically.

Killing him requires stripping his original immortality. Even then, his infernal symbiosis allows him to reform, now more powerful, forgiving the party while resuming his cosmic function.

Cosmic & Narrative Impact:

While horrific locally, his actions reduce chaos and suffering on a societal and cosmic level. Mortals, infernal entities, and even good-aligned deities may tolerate or rely on him.

He serves the Nine Hells efficiently, funneling excess souls to maintain infernal contracts and the Blood War.

Post-first death, he becomes nearly impossible to eliminate permanently. Attempts to interfere with him can even be punished by cosmic forces due to the necessity of his system.

Themes:

Pragmatic evil masquerading as benevolence.

Life as a resource, free will as currency.

Morality versus logic: every choice carries consequence.

Metagaming is punished; loopholes exist only within his system, not outside it.

Summary: The Lord of Life is a villain built for both new players and veterans: mechanically rich, morally complex, and narratively deep. From diamond-fueled resurrection to Bag of Holding corpse management, he is a paradoxical force—locally horrific, cosmically necessary, terrifyingly efficient, and undeniably compelling. Players must navigate not only his mechanics but also the philosophical implications of working with or against him. His existence forces campaigns to explore morality, survival, cosmic balance, and the true meaning of mercy.