Your GM has requested that everyone's character to be carrying an item that, were it to be discovered, would be very embarrassing for their character.
It very well may never come up in the game, but your GM hopes that you'll come up with an idea that not only helps establish what kind of person your character is, but perhaps can add a bit of comedy or drama to the story.
A small worn stuffed animal that they've cherished since childhood.
A badly written manuscript clearly based on the other party members.
A pair of women's panties.
He is wearing them.
No, he is not a trap.
I sometimes do this kind of stuff, even when I DM.
Pretty much every single sphinx I DM'd, had a giant ball of yarn hidden somewhere in her lair as a "guilty pleasure".
As player though, I had less issues in this regard, mostly because I always ended to play with people with little to no interest in what my character carried, or what kind of shenanigans it might had ended up to.
Anyway, to throw some ideas:
The Lusty Lizardfolk Maid book.
Kids fairy tale books.
Dresses.
Living parents' letters received regularly where they smother him of advice and hand-knitted presents from home.
Toys (of any nature)
Poorly written fanfics.
Erotic fanfics involving people he knows.
Self-help books of extreme low quality for silly hobbies.
My old baby blanket.
Love letter from another PC's mom.
Fuzzy handcuffs for my drow
my weener. it would greatly embarrass me were it discovered, but they'd have to invent strong lenses first
Wad of 2 dollar bills.
Small ornaments made of dried flowers. When they disintegrate he makes new ones. Keeps under armor and never shows anyone.
(Would spoil the image of a Mercykiller)/spoiler]
Perfect.
Been a while since I was a *player* in a game with a GM.
If I can use an ERP character, here's one for each:
>a sheet of parchment with a spell. The spell he uses to cheat at cards, suspected but unproven so far
>a picture of her as a child, dressed in far-too-large wizard's robes and pointy hat, beaming up at the camera
>a car, probably broken now. Didn't even have to come up with something for this thread.
>a little stuffed knight doll he sleeps coiled around
I have one of those IRL. Usually only carry a few at a time, but surprisingly helpful at trivia contests.
A copy of Lusty Dwarf Butler translated to Elvish
My character is an explorer that fled his native isolationist empire.
He carry around notebooks and often take notes. Everyone assumes it's just his travel diaries, and maybe people from the Empire would want his notebooks to know about the outer world.
It's actually materials for children books he's writing to encourage kids to go see the world.
A makeshift onahole made from monster spoils
>the party's been traveling and fighting through the Elemental Plane of Fire for the last several weeks
How.
a pouch of different colored shards of polished glass from numerous types of booze bottles. party might assume its some kind of bizarre record of where they've been.
actually making a kaleidoscope for a love interest.
A small book of flowery and very risqué libertine poetry.
...
A collection of plaster molds of erected monster penises he's taken over the course of the campaign.
Because we did chargen while drunk, we secretly rolled for backgrounds off a list our DM brainstormed on the bog, and my elf ranger ended up moonlighting as a procurement agent for what I surmise to be a renaissance version of Bad Dragon.
The money is really good.
Well you've stumped me. My current character is an alcoholic monk who is also a beggar based very loosely on Jackie Chan but of less than stellar moral character.
My GM likes to put characters in embarrassing situations, so I made went out of my way to make a shameless character.
He has no problem urinating in public, flirting with men who question his sexuality, begging for or stealing money, dancing and singing (badly) for coins or booze and other stuff like that.
I can think of stuff that would get him in trouble for having, or maybe stuff that would make him feel bad, but I'm having trouble of something thats just plain embarrassing for him.
He is in general an unpleasant person. I'm having tons of fun playing him.
My character had a necklace of severed ears if that counts...
Bard with some music sheets that are in tablature instead of traditional sheet music.
My character is already carrying such an item.
It's an erotic romance 'written' in Quipu, knot language.
When she left for an adventure she grabbed her entire library which was mostly magical, religous and political texts but also included this little gem.
I've described it as Romeo and Juliet, but between merfolk and trashy.
Dragon Dildo
Succubus smut on my paladin. Everyone has their fetish.
Obviously it's been a long work in progress and the fire elemental parts merely heat the device to keep it warm and better stimulate the genitals.
The only thing that could embarrass him might be an acknowledgment of his secret, alcohol-induced lusts on account of his Elven heritage, so maybe a collection of lewd woodcarvings depicting tieflings in various positions?
A stuffed animal he gave his son, if only he survived the winter. He adventures to try to forget. Not that he remembers where his wife went.
A lock of hair from her first and only girlfriend.
Since she's rigorously asexual to the point of seeming ignorance, it would be extraordinarily embarrassing to be revealed as having had a lover of any sort.
My female half-orc barbarian has an itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini. she has never worn it
The names of everyone they let die/couldn't save tattooed over their heart.
>Small ornaments made of dried flowers. When they disintegrate he makes new ones. Keeps under armor and never shows anyone.
Not even Flowers can escape JUSTICE, imprisoned for the CRIME of being PRETTY and SMELLING NICE.
Mercykiller, truly your Justice never sleeps.
A notebook filled with kind comments and appreciation for the other part members bordering on creepy stalking.
A letter from his daughter. She's a Druid now.
He was raped by the mother, who showed up a year or so later with a tiny half-elf and told him to deal. He didn't have any social influence (or physical strength) so basically had to just shut up and deal.
He's kind of fucked up his brain on magic a lot since then, and his daughter ran away when she was fourteen. He's horribly, cripplingly ashamed for driving her away, for not confronting her mother, etc.
He's also memorised every letter.
It really depends on who were to find it.
He's got an old handkerchief given to him by an old lover who (from his perspective) turned on him and let him into a binge and rut that derailed his life and indebted him. Due to some combination of obsession and the aftereffects of suggestion spells, he still can't let her go, and anyone finding that token who knew who it belonged to would be in for a swift upcoming.
A self-help guide
My paladin follows a God of flames, he still carries around with himself an old and broken magical lighter that he received upon initiation in the order.
I have something along these lines.
I play a nobleman in WHFRPG and he has in his manor (which me and the other PCs use as HQ) a plush griffon in his bedroom
One character is an amnesiac, so nothing he'd remember as embarrassing.
Big hulking warpriest doesn't canonically have anything, but retroactively, I'd say ribbons on his hammer given to him by his mom when he was younger. That, or play manuscripts, but they wouldn't survive long with all the water they're in right now.
Medieval version of a penis enlargement tool.
>Sneaks out of camp at night
>removes pants/underwear
>Ties rope with rock at the end to dick
>Searches for heavier rocks each night because it isn't working while naked
A lock of hair from the elven kithband warrior he endlessly argued with. She died, he didn't. He's a trollslayer.
**Searches for heavier rocks, while naked, each night because it isn't working.
Dat sentence structure, youch.
I actually made a character like this. Elf spellslinger, full sergeant no nonsense kind of person. Her secret? A well read trashy bodice ripper type romance novel that she hides in her kitbag.
>unbeknownst to him, one of his companions is carrying one of their products with them.
beautiful
My jaded, grumpy magus collects lovey-dovey vanilla porn. Real hardcore stuff like hand-holding and confessions of love.
So many of these are bullshit like "letter from a loved one" or "trinket their parents gave them."
That shit isn't embarrassing, you fucking autists. Do you think soldiers make fun of each other for getting letters from their wives and family or something?
If the crux of your embarrassing object being embarrassing is that it reveals that your character has feelings, you made a stupid character.
>being a man
>admitting having feelings
Look at this numale and laugh.
It sort of counts, but my half elf cleric has most of his body covered by tattoos because his elven side is a wild, mercenary tribe. He doesn't want people to know this, really.
A bag of cut off dicks.
>Do you think soldiers make fun of each other for getting letters from their wives and family or something?
They do, but any gathering of men will inevitably be full of friendly banter like that.
And yeah, those same soldiers will quite often keep their private lives to themselves- and be embarrassed if it gets revealed, even if it's not really anything to be embarrassed about. People are like that.
My paladin has a dress. It's a very expensive dress. It's a very feminine dress. He keeps it in the bottom of his pack.
He is a dwarf.
It's not that he dresses up in womens clothes or anything. As a novice he sought to 'correct' a wrong by stealing a dress back for a woman in the peasant quarter.
He stole the wrong dress.
Now he could have admitted his mistake. He could have gotten rid of the dress. But a) would show he fucked up and b) would mean disposing of stolen property. Another crime.
So he's just going to keep the dress. Forever.
Literature. Smutty literature.
There's a first time for everything, user.
Why not today?
Because she's gruff 'n tuff and makes a point to let make sure no one forgets, but sometimes, she secretly wishes she could be pretty.
Modern world, she grew up in a terrorist cell. She's always packing enough survival gear and is currently looking for people that can fix her a fake ID and the like.
It's shameful, because if found out the players would question why someone has these things. And it is because... She's afraid and would abandon her friends and family for what could be considered no good reason.
Her emotional side is in control and it is very afraid of confrontations and can't deal at al with rejection.
>half-Orc ranger
A hand knitted doll he made of the little wood elf girl he adopted and misses terribly. Not because she's dead mind you, but because he had to leave her with a few close friends while he helps sort out this lich business. Giving him shit about it would be embarrassing but tolerable, trying to take it to tease him on the other hand may lead to someone walking away minus a few fingers.
Probably has set of lingerie or similarly revealing clothing locked away.
She's already been mistaken for a succubus twice. Wouldn't be surprised if she secretly wanted to play the part some time.
If you bare your heart for everytging, it means nothing. It is not shameful for a man to weep or rage, if the cause is right.
Strap-on cock. Character has spent years trying to hide the fact that a wizard magicked away his dick in battle.
>not making clothes out of heavy rocks in hopes that the reason the plan isn't working is that you don't have clothes.
>A girdle of feminity.
Oh, me? I'm, uh, 's sister. What am I doing here? Well, uh, you see, forgot his lunch, so I brought it. Yeah, I didn't expect you guys to make camp at a dungeon entrance with owlbears guarding the exit. I uh, snuck past them! Where's ? Oh, you know, he... had to take care of some business. I'll go see if I can find him!
...
Ah, hey, guys! Did you see my sister around here? Yeah, crazy how she can sneak past owlbears, that girl. Where is she now? Uh, once she found me, she remembered an important errand. She left. What? The dungeon entrance caved in last night? Oh, I didn't know. Maybe she was alreasy in here... heh, heh... I'll go see if I can find her.
...
Hey~. Apparently the entrance caved in! Huh, my armor? Yeah, it looks a lot like my brother's, doesn't it? Oh, my brother went to scout ahead a bit. I'm sure we'll catch up and see him again later.
(I think they're buying it)
DELET THIS
>Because she's gruff 'n tuff and makes a point to let make sure no one forgets, but sometimes, she secretly wishes she could be pretty.
I feel as thought you missed the joke.
hemorrhoid balm
Eldritch artificer has a setting-appropriate variant of Kama Sutra. Suffice to say, because of his lovecraftian origins, he has no idea how sex works for humanshape creatures. He just wants to be able to please his potential future wife without scaring her to death.
A small plush toy's torn off face. Permanently stained from the blood of the characters parents the toy leaves a grim reminder of why hes chosen a life of evil
What moment in the characters life sent him down the road of self hate?
A box that has cuffs, and a whip tipped with iron.
She's a total masochist.
An excessively large amount of sherbert
In the vein of martial arts movies, his father was an important person in his community who also had a martial arts school, he was also the third son so nobody paid him any attention, regardless of how good he was fighting. As a result, he was an entitled little shit, a womanizer and he liked to drink, he also has trouble controlling himself in fights, always takes it too far. Predictably that eventually got him disowned, expelled and exiled. His love for the drink turned into full blown alcoholism and his latent depression turned into full blown depression.
Basically it's a traditional martial arts story arc, only he never found a wise teacher when he was at his lowest point, and instead just kept on digging after hitting rock bottom.
A massive stack of ntr doujins
A small notepad full of poetry in various languages, all in the traditional styles of their respective cultures, all of them awful.
Embarrassment is my magical realm
I love this whole thread so far but this is the post that made me crack up
>fuzzy
is it embarrassing due to the fuzziness implicating their into GFD instead of the hardcore stuff?
A small glass bottle, with the lable "My tears" on it. It is half full.
I like this one, kind of like one of my characters right now.
he's a inquisitor of smiad who works as a Monsterhunter, who keep notes, and journals of his travels to submit to the Pathfinder society's journal, he was inspired by them as a teenager to become what he is now.
kek
let's see... I had an Orc street sammy who was cybered out by his girlfriend, an elf, who's very much the boss in their relationship. makes up excuses for why his cyberware is rather "elfy" looking. but makes sure no one ever sees the LED light up Evenstar necklace (she's a Fantasy buff on top of working with cyberware) that only lights up when touches the matched one she wears.
HA
A collection of aphrodisiacs and items to "improve your manhood"
A girlish keychain for a manly mercenary. He just liked it and it wouldn't really be hard to carry it around, and likely wouldn't be noticed because he wasn't going to be using his keys any time soon, he isn't driving.
Dwarf: We have to tell him.
Elf: Nah, let's see how long he can keep this up.
Halfling: (I wonder how much that belt is worth.)
>Human Paladin (and a noble)
Favor from a lowborn girl he's secretly been sleeping with. She's below his station, his dad already betrothed him to a viscountess, his vows of knighthood and religion in general forbid premarital sex, and she's a half-elf.
>Wood Elf Bard
She was captured Leia-style once.
She kept the slave outfit.
I didn't.
Feminine hygiene products. No one in the party knows she's female.
Well, with normal handcuffs you can always say they're for restraining people like normal (Drow are slavers after all), with fuzzy handcuffs there's no denying it's for bondage purposes.
You created Diogenes?
10/10
Jesus, user, watch where you post that, I almost lost a finger. Does somebody have a band-aid?
He should kill his father, enslave the viscountess, and impregnate his half-elf waifu.
That's fucking brilliant, that's fantastic, I love it.
Its edgy, but it created a really fun revenge story that ended with my fighter/assassin killing his own father after he walked out of a portal to hell. The token of my past was the catalyst for the ritual that opened the portal
He still has her bracelet, the one he found right before getting drafted. He was going to give it back to her and ask her to the equinox festivus... how many years ago was that now?
Look at all these filthy degenerates, reading smutty literature in their shame.
My wizard noble carries a pair of manacles and a set of candles. Nobody has bothered to question why he has these, but it's always that little bit awkward when we use them to restrain enemies.
If he's also got a bit of chalk for drawing circles, that sounds like typical equipment for a ritual human sacrifice. Which, really, I understand why he wouldn't talk about how he does that sort of thing.
>chalk
What do you need chalk for if you're doing human sacrifice?
You've got a ready supply of "ink" right there.