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Halcyon_Dax
2006-10-16, 10:35 PM
I am creating a monster:

Living Spell: geas/quest

It is mostly assembled, but its main ability revolves around the rolling of a d% to determine the random geas from a table.

Now, all you creative people, what are some fun geas?

Silly or serious, both are good, but I dont want the creature to be a total joke.

One idea I saw from Fax Celestis

Geas: Attain Paladinhood.
Geas: Visit (Place, probably a different plane or specific city)

Etc, ive got a few more, but I want to see what you guys think!

Fax Celestis
2006-10-16, 11:58 PM
Find a nobleman and serve him for the rest of your life.

Join the military.

Found a university.

Defeat X dragon (who may or may not still live).

Learn X number of spells.

Krimm_Blackleaf
2006-10-17, 12:12 AM
Kill your father's greatest nemesis (or his closest living relative).

Kill your father.

Don't kill anyone.

that's basically all i've got

knightsaline
2006-10-17, 12:30 AM
Insult a god

Become a god

Stop the eternal elemental war

Stop the eternal war between the sun and the moon

Reawaken the Unnamed one and give him back his name

Kill a spider...in front of lolth

(for males only) watch the dark ladies venerate Eilistraee

(for females) challenge a male barbarian king to a fight

Jarl
2006-10-17, 12:30 AM
Find your true love and perform a duet.

Find and return some ancient artifact.

Become a Liche.

-I dunno. I'm bad at this.

Toric
2006-10-17, 12:52 AM
Say hello to a family member. (The interpretation of this geas/quest could be very broad, even so much as turning to the party barbarian and saying "Hi!")

Fetch a shrubbery.

Slay a particular creature type. (animal, construct, vermin, etc)

Make peaceful contact with at least one kobold.

Craft or finance the crafting of a masterwork longsword.

Deliver a message to a reasonably find-able NPC

Acquire an item from a dragon's hoard

Give 20 gp to a beggar

CockroachTeaParty
2006-10-17, 02:56 AM
Break a Staff of the Magi over a Balor's head.

Eat the eye of Vecna.

For every star in a particular constellation, slay a beholder.

Drink from the Chalice of the Damned.

...oooooh.... spoooky.

Krimm_Blackleaf
2006-10-17, 03:00 AM
oh oh, here's one.

Help concieve a half-hamatula.

Grim Greyscale
2006-10-17, 03:19 AM
Set EVERYTHING in sight on fire. Everything. >_>

Seek the Holy Grail (Or equivalent thereof)

Cut off the first finger on the right hand of the first dishonest merchant you discover?

TheOOB
2006-10-17, 05:20 AM
Find out first hand how half-orcs are made

Give away all your money and live the rest of your life as a pauper

Become the richest man/women in the world

Have secret affairs with at least 10 prince/princesses

Find an embaressing secret about Vecna

Pee on the alter of a major temple of Pelor...during a wedding

Be married to at least 15 men/women at once

Pretend to be a chicken for a month

Tame a basilisk

Find a place no one has ever been to before and open a gift shop

Fight in a great war

Start a great war

Have at lover on every every one of the inner and outer planes

Kill every person who's name starts with an X

Eat a mind flayers brain

Catch a blink dog in a game of tag

Defeat Mordenkeinen in a game of chess

Dance with Otto

Shake Bigby's hand

Help a satyr/nymph find true love

Become a satyr/nymph's true love

Map every tree in a great forest

Convince 100 people that you're immortal until proven dead

Become a dragonborn

Taunt 100 spellscales for having poor taste in clothing

Get Rary to appologize to Mordenkienen

Make Iuz cry

Climb to the top of the tallest mountain, live there, and taunt the next person who comes for getting there second

Save the world

Destroy the world

Destroy a world

Release the first issue of "Fae gone wild"

Find out if a half-elf/half-orc breeding combination is possible

Write a text on the breeding patterns of beholders

Put a sword in a stone and convince a country that whoever pulls it becomes king

Tormsskull
2006-10-17, 07:48 AM
Are you looking for good roleplaying geas or are you trying to mechanically make the spell uber?

Good roleplaying ones:

-Solve a specific conflict between two people.
-Reunite lost lovers
-Defend the rights of a foreign (falsely convicted) criminal.
-Befriend someone in need.

Ubermakers:

-Discover the meaning of life.
-Reform a demon to goodness
-End world hunger
-Stop all violent conflicts with nonviolence

Collin152
2006-10-17, 01:37 PM
Turn Right and walk forward.
I love that one.
Do cartweels until you hear someone say "Chowder"
Odd, but a classic.
Establish and maintain a homestead in every outer plane.
'You Balors bes' keep offa my Prop-eh-tee!'
Eat nonstop until you lose weight.
That ones A thinker.

Captain van der Decken
2006-10-17, 02:00 PM
Don't let your feet touch the ground. :P
Burn down all the forests.

EDIT: :-[ hit enter too soon.

Kill so and so.
Drink an ooze. :o
Give away everything you own.
Sell your soul to [insert devil here]
Collect and use cursed items.
Destoy all Gnomes!

EndlessEnnui
2006-10-17, 03:17 PM
Hmmm. How about injunctions not to do stuff.

1) Don't speak for a week.

2) Fight your next few battles without your favorite items.

3) Cannot look at the sky.

4) Harm no-one with a name beginning with a consonant.


I'm sure there are many others in this vein...

Halcyon_Dax
2006-10-17, 03:20 PM
Leave the grounds of [campaign setting].

heh, could be going to a different plane, or the far realms, or simply jumping, thereby leaving the ground, temporarily.

Captain van der Decken
2006-10-17, 03:32 PM
Prevent your party from defeating this monster

Mewtarthio
2006-10-17, 05:43 PM
Stick your hand into a bag of devouring
Become a wraith
Go to the Plane of Negative Energy
Independently research five hundred and ninety-two unique cantrips or orisons (your choice)
Wear a necklace of strangulation
Break a staff of power
Disjoin a major artifact
Locate a Deck of Many Things and draw from it seventy times
Perform the incantation Fires of Dis (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/magic/incantations.htm#firesofDis) in the most populous city you know of

DoomHat
2006-10-18, 01:50 AM
Find the Tarasque, make it intelligent, teach it ranks in structural engineering and Profession: Architect and negotiate with it until it’s alignment becomes lawful good thus making it the Ultimate Engine of Construction!

Jack Mann
2006-10-18, 06:42 AM
Found an empire.
Build a tower to the gods.
Lead at least three hundred men in a major battle in the next war.
Stop the moon in place.
Collect the whiskers of nine and ninety black cats without a speck of white on 'em.
Learn twenty languages.
Get the scale of a wyvern, the tooth of a dragon, the hag eye of a hag covey, and a serpent from the head of a medusa. Dry them out, crush them, and mix the resultant powder into a cold iron cauldron with a silver handle. Add twenty gallons of water from a nixie's pond, a flask of holy water, and a potion of heroism. Start a fire under it at dusk, letting it slowly come to a boil. Drink a flask of the resultant mixture at midnight.

vanyell
2006-10-18, 11:48 AM
Cut down the largest tree in the forrest... With A HERRING

Fax Celestis
2006-10-18, 12:32 PM
Get the scale of a wyvern, the tooth of a dragon, the hag eye of a hag covey, and a serpent from the head of a medusa. Dry them out, crush them, and mix the resultant powder into a cold iron cauldron with a silver handle. Add twenty gallons of water from a nixie's pond, a flask of holy water, and a potion of heroism. Start a fire at it at dusk, letting it slowly come to a boil. Drink a flask of the resultant mixture at midnight.
...I know that formula. What is it?

Captain van der Decken
2006-10-18, 01:56 PM
Cut down the largest tree in the forrest... With A HERRING

Bring us....

A Shrubbery!

Jack Mann
2006-10-18, 05:33 PM
...I know that formula. What is it?

No idea. I just made it up. Used the classic fantasy/fairy tale style for the recipe (scale of this, feather of that, mix in a special way with special water). I leave it to the DM to determine what the potion actually does.

Captain van der Decken
2006-10-18, 06:05 PM
Amass all arcane knowledge.

TheOOB
2006-10-18, 06:05 PM
Replace all of a potion shops potions of cure light wounds with potions of inflict serious wounds

Beat a beholder in a starring contest

Gamble a dragon out of their riches

Find a chaotic good duel scimitar wielding drow ranger and kill them

Travel the river styx on a raft

Bring evidence to Hera of Zeus adultry

Dig to the other side of the world

Write an informed thesis on which can be kicked further, a halfling or a gnome

Find an ancient slug god and throw a handful of salt on them

Yell "Hextor Rules" in the middle of a major temple to Herioness

Mewtarthio
2006-10-18, 09:26 PM
Convince Vecna that, since he's already missing a hand and an eye, he should buy a hook and eyepatch and become the god of pirates! ARRRR!

Captain van der Decken
2006-10-19, 01:51 AM
;D Lol

Join a pyramid scheme.

Jack Mann
2006-10-19, 02:54 AM
Serve faithfully the next person you meet, until either death parts you or you have saved his or her life three times.
Challenge the next ten warriors you meet to duels to the death.
Give a thousand gold to the church of a deity whose alignment opposes your own on at least one axis (if true neutral, donate to any non-neutral deity).
Train a bulette as a mount.
Measure the full length of a Marilith from head to tail tip to the nearest inch.
Take a voyage around the world.

knightsaline
2006-10-19, 05:38 AM
heres some more:

insult lolth in front of selvetarm
become king of the pirates while wearing a straw hat
seal the elemental planes
try and set up a religion in Aos name
create a ring of bigbys vulgar gesture
learn to turn your self into a dragon man and BURNINATE all thatched roof cottages, while avoiding being SWORD'D or ARROW'D!
bring the fantasy world into the modern age
blind helm
set fire to auril
invent a spell that the somatic gesture is the double deuce
make a magic show that looks like "strongbad is a bad guy"
kill a random person, rez them, then kill them again,in front of a village, all without losing your LG alignment
train yourself to become a fighter/barbarian/ranger multiclass, while looking for a wonderous figure that summons an astral panther, also while insulting your racial diety
create an internet
turn bane into the god of love and peace
make tempus fall in love with sune, while sune is male
in addition to the watching elistree's priestesses venerating thier goddess, perform sunes "rite of self love"
win a drinking contest....against a dwarf cleric of moradin
go up to house baenre and slap the matron mother with the corpse of a spider. survive
fight 1000 orcs with nothing but two scimitars, no potions and a wonderous figure that summons an astral panther

(i apologise for the drizzt references, but i just finished reading the legacy of the drow series)

InaVegt
2006-10-19, 05:40 AM
Retrain (Or whatever it's called) all your class levels to commoner levels.

AKA_Bait
2006-10-19, 10:17 AM
Teach a kobold to farm.
Gain the bardic music ability.
Take a vow of peace.
Keep a gray render as a pet.
Make peacful contact with an outsider of opposing alignment on at least one axis.
Raise an orpan monstrous humanoid until the age of 18.
Befriend a true dragon.
Convince a drow matron of the equality of the sexes.
Dance with a Succubus.
Drink the blood of a vampire.
Bite a lycanthrope.
Cast magic missle at the darkness 50 times and take notes about the result.

Captain van der Decken
2006-10-19, 03:03 PM
Take a vow of peace.


Do or don't take the feat?

I prefer don't.

AKA_Bait
2006-10-19, 06:41 PM
I prefer do. It's a 2 feat chain and demands an entire lifestyle change on the part of the player. Make them earn the benifits with RP or make it a waste of 2 feats.

others:

Create a new magical beast.
Kill the last member of (insert species here).
Write a book about your party's exploits (particularly fun for the barbarian).
Start an organization and grow it to span (insert size here).
Wander the desert for 40 years.
Learn to cast (x level) (y school) spells.

MagFlare
2006-10-20, 12:24 AM
There are some excellent (and hilarious) suggestions here.

I don't see some of them working, however. Geases like "find a nobleman and serve him for the rest of your life" and "give away all your money and live the rest of your life as a pauper" don't have clear enough conditions for ending the quest; you can only cash out your chips and go home once you've died. Or, more appropriately, once the geas/quest spell runs out of time and ends on its own.

Captain van der Decken
2006-10-20, 02:23 AM
There are some excellent (and hilarious) suggestions here.

I don't see some of them working, however. Geases like "find a nobleman and serve him for the rest of your life" and "give away all your money and live the rest of your life as a pauper" don't have clear enough conditions for ending the quest; you can only cash out your chips and go home once you've died. Or, more appropriately, once the geas/quest spell runs out of time and ends on its own.

Thats a good point.

Jack Mann
2006-10-20, 04:15 AM
There really should be a more powerful version of Geas/Quest with a duration of permanent. Possibly:

Geas/Quest, Greater
Enchantment (Compulsion) [Language-Dependant, Mind Affecting]
Level: Clr 9, Domination 8, Nobility 9, Sor/Wiz 9
Duration: Permanent, or until discharged (D)
This spell functions as Geas/Quest, except as noted above.

Captain van der Decken
2006-10-20, 10:49 AM
That does make sense, yes.

Toric
2006-10-27, 08:46 PM
Convince somebody of the opposite gender to wear a pair of your pantaloons, or equivalent article of clothing.

Acquire a copy of "A Thesis on the Origin of Metamagic" and proceed to read any three pages of it to a barbarian. The barbarian must be awake to hear each word.

Give the party face (designated speaker) a wet-willie.

Blow a raspberry at/moon/otherwise taunt the next foe you encounter.

Return something you have taken without permission.

Use a different weapon from your favorite medium of pain in the next encounter.

Teach/learn how to punch a guy to/from a friend.

Construct a personal symbol out of available materials at a crossroad.