7 Ways to SURPRISE Your D&D Party...

THE FLAMEHEAD IS MOVING, THAT'S SO COOL!

NO NOT THE DISPLACER KITTEN FOOD. TIME TO SHARE SO MY FRIENDS CAN ALSO HELP. NOT MY PARTY THOUGH AS I TAKE WAY TOO MUCH INSPIRATION FROM YOU IN MY OWN GAMES

I ran a one-shot once where all of the players, for different supposed reasons, wanted to meet with the king and petition him for something. Unbeknownst to each other though, I gave them all the secret goal of killing the king and taking his crown for themselves. They co-operated together really well, fighting through the king's guards and the plague-ridden commonfolk to get to him, and once they had him alone they ripped each other to shreds. It ended with a lone knight in service to the king slaying the last remaining party member, and promptly being executed for his crimes.

"Daddy party" in the subtitles going crazy ahah

#7 worked extremely well for the group I DM for! One of the encounters my players say they enjoyed the most involved an undying assassin. They were essentially cursed to return to life any time they were killed (after several in-game days), and my players had to figure out a way to trap them, undo the curse on the spot and destroy them for good. In the meanwhile, they had to survive about four more "Resident Evil Nemesis"-style encounters where this assassin popping up at the worst time at a higher level than before; always with better gear, different tactics and deadly new powers or combat mechanics to deal with Awesome list, and thanks to your disclaimer I actually remembered to subscribe this time so the displacer kittens won't go hungry!

1:57 spot on. We had an under dark campaign, and a thrust for a lot of the story from about the end of the 1st act was reviving the NPC drow we befriended

I had a brilliant (but difficult to pull off idea) to surprise your party. Or should I say parties? Host multiple (I would do three at most if the party is a traditional five-person party) different DND campaigns with different players set in different locations through the same world. What one does will affect the world and thus the other party. Eventually after some build up the parties would have to meet at the same location. Next session instead of hosting an individual party, have all the parties meet at the same table. They'll be confused why suddenly more players are at the same table, until as you go on they realize that they were all in the same adventure the whole time. The plot twist would make the world feel more alive and show great planning on the DM's part. Granted it would be exceptionally difficult to pull this off properly.

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My players rested in a little clearing full of flowers in a swamp. Well those flowers turned out to be able to shrink them. They then had an adventure as ant sized party and I found some little ant figures on amazon like 3 bucks for 30 of them. They had to choose sides in a war between two ant colonies. The queen of the one they chose ended up being the Warlocks patron in disguise who was able to make them normal size again.

Another banger vid, I’ve used a couple of these and they’ve worked really well for my party as far as I can tell.

My favorite surprise, though there were a number of learning lessons, was to assign 4 of my 5 players NPCs from the 5th PC's background story. Ran them through a small adventure that explored more of that PC's hometown and circumstances they were raised in.

Currently running a campaign with the internal betrayal and it’s been super fun to plan it out with the player

One of my main NPCs was possessed by a demon while the party was away, due to the NPC finding an artifact while they were searching for a different artifact. This gave the players a hint at the BBEG, encountering a weaker version of them as an aspect, but also gave the players a choice: they either kill the NPC or figure out a way to un-possess them. It gives an interesting moral dilemma and allows them to think creatively to figure out ways to save the NPC.

I appreciate all the tips!

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Good stuff, my favorite is the betrayal.

I've just realised that I wasn't subscribed. I'm sorry Tobias... I'm subscribed now

Wow thank you!👍💪

He caught me in that first part. I just subscribed lol