In-setting, what are the craziest rumors going around about your players' party?

In-setting, what are the craziest rumors going around about your players' party?

They're jews and jew sympathizers.

>ww2 setting.

They're homunculi created by a Mage to give credence to his faked death and inheritance ploy, in a plot to destroy the city.

You did ask for the craziest one, and that guy is batshit insane.

In Shadowrun your characters don't have crazy rumors about them, they have crazy stuff they actually did, and can prove they did, because the street sam recorded the whole thing with his eye cameras.

All of them are secretly having sex with each other, and everyone involved thinks they're the only one having said affairs.
This is not true.

They're gods following orders from Yahweh. Super hero game.

We're working for mages in a low-magic setting, so the commoners believe everything from us being mind-controlled puppets to us being augmented with magic and demon organs witcher-style.

Some of it is true. Mostly the augmentation stuff.

Working for the Germans?

They're both crazy.

Like, rumor has it that both of the party members are insane, possessed, and/or delusional.

Playing a ninja-style game where the entire party is in service to the lord of the region. Given out positions, information about us and what we do is so hilariously skewed it's like the stuff of ghost stories children's gossip. Some people think we can do magic, some people think we're non-human demons of death summoned by the emperor himself, some people think we're anywhere and everywhere at once...

The sad part is, we're just people who are good at our jobs, and when we're doing those jobs right, 99% of of the time nobody even knows, thinking us just to be normal people like they are.

Man that sounds awesome. Is the a homebrew system or something I can run?

Not OP, but I know Rokugan RPG has ninja rules.

They're competent

That we triggered an ancient superweapon and blew up a county. Said superweapon was an ancient wizard tower that channeled negative energy into a beam and when last activated glassed a kingdom into what is now a desert. What we actually did was re- write the runes to stop it from drawing energy and removing the risk of it going critical. Unfortunately, when my cleric testified against the local count when he tried to falsify a holy relic in order to sell it the land it was on to the church, we didn't count on how petty he could be and what lengths he would go to to sully our name. In hindsight, agreeing onmaking the local baron's layabout son the caretaker of what we thought was now a defunct tower wasn't the smartest idea we had.

Not so much rumor, but does "robot-worshiping cult decry us as false prophets creating a dragon-tank machine abomination that takes away honorable worship from the Allfather" count in any way?

Also not OP, but to be honest you could probably do this with DnD with a team full of bards/rogues/maybe even fighters, as long as everyone has points in disguise or stealth.

Pathfinder also has a literal "ninja" class... but I really really don't recommend playing Pathfinder under any circumstances aside from being a game designer and using it a case study of the dangers of rules-bloat and "Ivory Tower" game design.

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They're all related, and one of them impregnated the sister.

>TFW when people actually believed these things about ninja IRL.

Points for historical accuracy.

The craziest rumor? that they're competent adventurers

Define rumour. Everyone believes that they're the chosen ones, even the party but only some of them are.

Super generic, I know.

The party paladin has been sighted visiting strip clubs and brothels and coming to the inn late at night with little to no armor or clothes on, locals believe he's fallen from the grace of his god. The party mage is believed to be a hardcore drug addict who sales dangerous magic items to kids for drugs. The party fighter is believed to be part cow or zebra and is possibly a woman.

The paladin has been stripping to get information for a drug bust. The mage is indeed a hardcore drug addict and only gave away a magical item to a youth one time. Said kid was then exploded. The party fighter is black but has a skin condition and is indeed a lady.

The party, due to a series of crossed wires and the world's biggest game of telephone, have been deemed international criminals. They've been charged with conspiracy and high treason (a half-truth), murder (true, but just barely), possession of a weapon of mass destruction (false, but they're on the right track), evasion of justice (true, but for the wrong reasons), granting sanctuary to a high-profile criminal (again a half-truth), and several other minor offenses that added up over time and got blown out of proportion through the criminal underground.

Truth is, all they've got is a tool to find a MacGuffin, and they ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time. Repeatedly.

The southern nation's upper-crust are the actual "conspirators". Their smuggled shipment containing this MacGuffin-Finder was accidentally intercepted and went through a conga line of contrivances before winding up in the players' hands. Now this secret cult/government/military union needs to spread the word and capture the party before they--and the world--know too much.

>They're heroes chosen by the gods to restore the world to it's former glory.

They were a bunch of bums sent out on a scouting mission who happened to not die for a few levels. They are technically building a !bomb that will remove all the bad leftovers from a war in the past, but they aren't being especially heroic about it. We actually had a conversation after the last game about the genocides they've committed.

>A !paladin who fights for glory, has gone mad with confidence since meeting his god
>a pit fighter who cares about her family and the next fight, has a lesbian elf girlfriend
>a red dragon shaman who was a member of a cult in the first city, earned an artifact, chaotic neutral but played well, will someday rule over the orc "kingdom" beyond the wall
>Some green dragon loving warmage, player is a faggot and either just dies or gets ignored, I hope he ragequits someday, but he isn't bad enough to ask to leave, kind of anti social with people but gets along well with monster races, I think he was also in the aforementioned dragon cult

That one of the party is a mother fucker.

They're not false rumors though, it's pretty common knowledge.

Half the party is just summoned creatures brought forth by the rookie summoner. The miner is an archlich. The amazon warrior is completely feral and insane, and the cleric and paladin are both cultists of an eldritch god of evil, who in turn is actually the summoner.

None of this is true. Miner's just a regular lich made with irregular means, the summoner's only summoned creature is a floating death mask demon thing think Nikapous from Dark Chronicle, Amazoness is by far the most refined and intelligent member, and both cleric and paladin are followers of the same benevolent/neutral eldritch god, who is actually the miner.

One rumor that's still on the fence has it that the Summoner's dad is an eldritch creature. This because the last our group saw of him, he stayed behind to secure the rest of the party's escape, and was left trapped in a room with a teenage Lesser Old One. Summoner's trying to find him and bring him back home.

that they fucking suck at everything and argue over every individual action for half an hour.

They are good, honest and reliable people who can be trusted.