Friday, September 12, 2014

Truth or Dare as D&D Adventure



Want to play Dungeons and Dragons but have absolutely nothing planned? Instead of straining your bullshit muscle or spend the night rolling on a million random tables to generate an adventure, just have the characters gather in a tavern and play a good ol' fashioned game of Truth or Dare. Everyone knows how to play Truth or Dare.

Players will role play the game of Truth or Dare, challenging the other characters to perform foolhardy tasks or divulge dark secrets. This is an excellent time to get to know the characters, practice role playing and get the players into some pretty sticky situations.

Players can come up with their own truths or dares, but in case they are stuck on what to ask, consult the following tables. In instances where a dare involves going to another location, hand-wave all travel, dungeon crawling, or any other boring logistical details and get right to the good stuff.

Some of the dares can lead to benign consequences, while others will get the whole party in a heap of trouble. It's up to the GM what amount of trouble each dare causes.


Truths

  1. What's up with your family? 
  2. What would you do if you had all the gold in the world? 
  3. If you had to kill one person in the group, who would it be? 
  4. Do you have any secret talents? 
  5. If you had one day to live, what would you do? 
  6. What's the stupidest thing you've done in front of a crowd? 
  7. What's the biggest lie you ever told? 
  8. What is the cruelest thing you've ever done? 
  9. If you could have anything in the world, what would it be? 
  10. If you had a ring of invisibility, what would you do? 
  11. Who was your first love? 
  12. What is your guilty pleasure? 
  13. Who in this room would be the worst to be trapped in a dungeon with? 
  14. What fear keeps you up at night? 
  15. What is your best physical attribute? 
  16. Have you ever used recreational alchemy? If so, what substance? 
  17. What prejudice do you harbor? 
  18. What is the worst thing about being an adventurer? 
  19. What is the longest you have gone without taking a bath? 
  20. What is the worst crime you've ever committed? 
  21. Do you really think your patron god cares about you? 
  22. If you came across a room filled with infant hobgoblins of a blood-thirsty tribe, would you kill them or leave them alone, knowing that they would grow into killing machines? 
  23. Would you make a deal with a devil if you had the chance? 
  24. What would make you give up adventuring? 
  25. Have you ever prayed to Mord to kill someone? 
  26. Have you ever taken advantage of someone weaker than you? 
  27. What's the strangest thing you've eaten? 
  28. Have you ever had to give up some great treasure? 
  29. Have you ever patronized a brothel? 
  30. Are you afraid of dying in a dungeon in the middle of nowhere, never to have your body discovered until some other adventurer stomps over your bones or you've turned into some ghastly undead creature devoid of humanity and fueled by the shallow breath of chaos? 


Dares
  1. Kiss a medusa on the lips. 
  2. Take something from the superintendent of Vornheim's bed chambers. 
  3. Drink this expired health potion. 
  4. Challenge the toughest guy in the tavern/town/immediate area, to unarmed combat. 
  5. Run naked through the nearest nunnery. 
  6. Clip a hill giant's toenail. 
  7. Swallow a baby otyugh whole. 
  8. Hump the statue of Saint Luca, the Beneficent. 
  9. Buy some Ghoul Fingers from a dealer in the shady part of town, grind them up and smoke 'em. 
  10. Steal one piece of gold from a dragon's hoard. 
  11. Tell a half-orc to lighten up. 
  12. Swim in the River Carpathian, which is known to be filled to the edge with leaches. 
  13. Go to the middle of town and yell "I can only be aroused by goblin feet!" 
  14. Climb to the top of the church steeple. 
  15. Get hit in the face with a magic missile. 
  16. Be buried alive. 
  17. Steal a skull from the Tomb of the Magi. 
  18. Purchase the nastiest Drow pornography you can find. 
  19. Get elected to the Council of Elders within one week. 
  20. Kill a garter snake and have a wizard cast the spell written on it's skin on you without knowing which spell it is. (Random cantrip.) 
  21. Act like an owlbear for one hour. 
  22. Write a love letter to the Count of Lumeria. Make it really juicy. 
  23. Kiss the next person the party encounters. 
  24. Pat the closest halfling or gnome on the head. 
  25. Pickpocket from a member of the city guard. 
  26. Write a piece of poetry about being an adventurer and read it out loud. 
  27. Go into the latrine and summon the Bloody Hag. 
  28. Drink a shot of green fey essence. 
  29. Take the ruby eye out of the demon statue. 
  30. Climb the thousand steps of the wizard's spire. 

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