>The party is composed of grunge-styled losers living together in some bumfuck town on the mountains that nobody cares about. they have no sense of justice or desire to respond a call to adventure, in fact, they'd rather just get high in an empty bathub
how do you make campaign ideas based on this group?
The BBEG crashes the flat and is kind of a buzzkill.
Their bathtub gets stolen.
Protagonists are reactive, so this is fine. All you need to do is tailor the call to adventure so that it bothers them enough that they have to go on an adventure to fix it.
I was thinking of something similar.
>That rug really tied the room together, did it not?
Someone steals their drugs.
They run out of money for drugs/food.
Something big/crazy happens in their town that affects them whether they like it or not.
They start hallucinating that a diabolical specter is haunting the house and twisting their perceptions while slowly draining their sanity and will to live.
Just like real life
>Let us have a nice story about a bridge
>some pot disappeared, nobody is taking responsibility
>landlord(BBEG) found somebody with a more reliable income and is trying to throw them out
>one of them gets a new gf that wants him to throw out the others and clean up the house for her
This guy gets it. Take mundane stuff and make it important only compared to their uninspired lives.
>One of their brothers, who is a successful college grad, comes home to visit. Recurring antagonist.
>Landlord smelled weed one day and is constantly skulking around looking for a reason to evict
>Rival high school's stoner group always seems one step ahead when doing whatever it is that burnouts do
>Group finds some pot growing by the river. Monetize it? Keep it? Whose is it?
>Someone's bike gets stolen. Solve the mystery or deal with a relative lack of mobility.
kek
No.
Those are ideas for a sitcom, not an adventure. An adventure isn't adventure without danger.
They get stalked and killed by the Micheal Douglas character from the movie "Falling Down"
Their house is swept up by a tornado and transported to an Oz-like land. Upon arrival, the house lands on a witch, and her sister is NOT happy...
they get drafted into the service.
dats gay mang
they could be gnarly biker dudes who get turned into sexy rock and roll sluts too, but men have their fucking pride.
The question is the setting. Is this a world where they deal with the fantastically mundane and their landlord is a wizard or what?
You always make the most stupid threads.
if you want to discuss upcoming roles for your sitcom, do it at /tv
Puritan lich is out to enforce anti-drug laws and has brainwashed most of the city into following him. The only people who avoided his ritual were high and not in the state of mind to understand his command.
What, you don't want to save a whole nation from an evil witch? Are you some kind of coward?
Trying synthetic weed or a brand new strand that has alien shit in it.
Spooky yet occasionally kinda comfy urban legend type stuff with low, but still extant, adventure. Something like UA with the cosmic horror stripped away (assuming that's not just street level).
>one of the roomies gets drunk dared to summon Bloody Mary and she actually shows up, but mistakes the cocktail she shares her name with by the mirror as a gift. She ends up joining the sesh, but the mirror -the only one in the house- ends up broken and the party has to find another one at 3 AM to sneak a blood-drenched ghost back into her realm.
>party sees fairies while doing LSD and follow them to a Wonderland-style tea party, only to realize that the drugs have worn off, but they're still down the rabbit hole.
>They find Bigfoot, mortally wounded. After bringing back to their place and doing their best to make sure he doesn't die, he rouses them to find the son of a bitch who tried to kill him, with the promise of herbs that make weed look like Flintstones vitamins in return
BBEG steals all their weed and their super bong, but leaves a trail for the PCs to follow.
>your quest is to go into the sewers and kill the rat infestation
>no, really, dude. little bastards ate the brownies you left out, gotta get some traps down in that basement
>and your apartment building is over something like the seattle underground or the cincinnati subway
>earthbound-inspired "it's probably just in your head" battles with unusually large rodents
>vibrant culture of hobo npcs
>an array of "traps", some of which actually exist/some of which are omg is that a used condom eww/some of which are too many mushrooms and too much mario as a kid playing with your perceptions of large horizontal pipes
Doesn't make sense. Why would they even be in his way?
Sounds like Night in the Woods, or whatever its called.
I'd rather fuck the witch.
Hole appears in wall of the hallway closet.
Slowly gets bigger.
One day it's large enough for the slimjim to crawl into.
?
Land of Narnia.
>Are you some kind of coward?
yes
Witch is ok with that (even with all the PCs at the same time) but wants help with taking over the land. Also promises the best of drugs in any quantities.
Play CP2020. The hook is that they have to play the rent. I have run this game a dozen times and it never gets old.
Doesn't matter what the party is like, its the situation you put them in that causes them to act. A good campaign will change them completely and have them doing whatever 'fun' you want them to do.
>bumfuck town on the mountains
booze line of supply cut off. now they have to find out what happened, or no more drunken stupor
To be fair, the people in OP's scenario really do seem like they could be that kind of coward exactly
Could probably use some stuff from "Small Towns" when you want to mix in some supernatural elements.
Roll for the 'creature' and 'antagonists' and modify like
describes.
Escape the lame party your at
>not sober enough to drive, must travel on foot
>ex and her friends are trying to corner you so they can bitch at you
>streets are mean at this time of night, unscrupulous people prowl the perimeters of the building, ready to knife you for the $10 in your wallet should you attempt to exit
>you really have to poop but the bathroom's occupied and their are cops outside who might catch you if you try to shit in a bush
>music is so terrible that it's slowly driving you insane, if you stay too long your anguish might accidentally conjure eldritch abominations hellbent on slaughtering you and everyone in the party
*there are
not their are
you wanna get hammered but there is only ketchup in the fridge
>One of them opens the door to leave.
>Door opens into Totally Not Generic High Fantasy Setting
Alternatively:
>Hey who ordered a pizza
>Why does the deliveryman speak with, like, nine voices
>Where is his car
>The fuck's tromping around on the roof
>WHO FORGOT THE TIP
>SHIT
>MIDNIGHT PIZZA DELIVERY DEMON
>OH SHIT
>WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE
>and then we won't get anymore weed
>fuck
>okay
>time to hero up my dudes
>Need booze and snacks
>It's late
>Hit liquor store first before it closes; convenience store is open all night
>Get sidetracked
>It's 3:15 a.m. when finally get to convenience store
>It's the store from Night Shift
I actually ran a campaign like this. Party escapes from cyberpunk prison during the breakout of an actually important person and the rest of the campaign was them hiding out at a shitty punker squat doing under the table jobs for cash and trying not to go back. The spice/adventure was usually drifters and bands coming and going from the spot, until it ended in a police massacre. Called it "The Layin Low Campaign."
>"I look for a weak spot in the police line"
>"Roll for perception"
>17
>"Alright, among the flames and plexiglass snow you see a group of cops next to the APC. One of them has the Samurai style extra padding and you can tell the rest of his squad knows he's a pussy."
>"I rush him with my AIDS needle"
>BBEG
Spleh.
>getting really high one night
>experimenting with new drugs
>go out for late night trip for gas station snacks
>become embroiled in cult/heist/robbery/murder
>have to escape cult/be the getaway driver for a heist/rob the store/become hitmen
>all while facing drug fueled visions and paranoia
>"demons" and "monsters" they fight are just regular people
wow nice argument fagtron way to convince me with those hot opinions
Could be a great one off.
>how do you make campaign ideas based on this group
Easy. Horror.
As Mike rushes to the bathroom for a massive pizza-dump, he discovers an enormous man sitting in a hot tub situated right in the foyer. The man raises a sack full of beans and invites Mike on an adventure. The session begins from there.
Easy. Have the house be built on some sort of Indian burial ground. That gives you all kinds of options i.e skinwalkers, ghosts, goatmen, witch doctors, wendigos etc.