Comically dumb ideas a braggart of a mayor could have?

[Misterwhisper]

- Because they could all just be evil Druids coming to spy on the town, all animals are banned from inside city limits, he even employs multiple archers to be his "ADDICT"s - Airborne Disguised Druid Infiltrator Countermeasure Team"

[Sigreid]

I actually love this one! You could also say the dragon agrees to it knowing that it'll never allow money to be withdrawn from the vault. The mayor could do a surprise unveiling of the new bank security in front of the whole town. They see the dragon just sleeping on all their gold. Then the mayor is stuck between a dragon and an angry village. I smell a plot hook for your friendly neighborhood adventuring party!

Those minimum balances are a killer.

All gnomes and halflings are required to walk on stilts so they are a proper height and not under foot.

[Bohandas]

Having seen depictions of a person with a little devil on one shoulder and a little angel on the other he has hired a demon and an eladrin as advisors

[Tvtyrant]

Having seen depictions of a person with a little devil on one shoulder and a little angel on the other he has hired a demon and an eladrin as advisors

Going a step further, every person in town gets a free imp and lantern archon to act as their advisors. The mayor believes every story has two sides and they deserve to be heard.

[noob]

Going a step further, every person in town gets a free imp and lantern archon to act as their advisors. The mayor believes every story has two sides and they deserve to be heard.

Would not that result in imps trying to kill lantern archons and lantern archons reciprocating?

[Bohandas]

Would not that result in imps trying to kill lantern archons and lantern archons reciprocating?

Not if they're both under contract

[noob]

Not if they're both under contract

Lantern archons are not devils they usually do not do twisted contracts nor are they obligated to follow them.
They are lawful to good not to the inconsequential papers you want them to sign.
If somehow the contract was magically binding or if following the contract was of capital importance the lantern archons and the imps would probably spend comparable efforts in twisting those contracts(like "I am not allowed to kill the second adviser of the person for which I am an adviser but I did not sign anything about the advisers of the other people").
By the way are not lantern archons homebrew in 5e?

[Segev]

Insists that people dress for the weather the Weatherman has predicted. Anybody not doing so is arrested and charged with altering the weather without a license (if dressed for the weather as it is and not what was predicted), or "attempted alteration of the weather without a license" (if dressed inappropriately for the weather and the weather is what the Weatherman predicted).

Those minimum balances are a killer.

All gnomes and halflings are required to walk on stilts so they are a proper height and not under foot.

Alternatively, has ordered that all sidewalks have elevated platforms exclusively for gnome and halfling traffic, so all are travelling at the same height. Small creatures must use them; medium may not.

After the party (or irate townsfolk) point out, strenuously, that the elevated platforms serve as barriers to human-tall creatures and make the walkways far less convenient, has the platforms turned into 3-foot-long posts with 3-foot gaps between them, so medium creatures can walk between them and small creatures have to leap from platform to platform.

Also requires that all buildings have counters and tables on elevated platforms for Small creatures, and that Small creatures exclusively use those (and no Medium-sized ones use them).

[TrashTrash]

That mayor is coming straight from pathfinder where animals can be retrained to talk and where being retrained in doing so makes them stop having the animal type(the type they get is not indicated but they no longer fit the less than 3 int condition because being able to read and write makes you have 3 int at least)

Oh, didn't know that, thanks for the info ! Well, maybe change it to all rocks are exiled because he thinks they're eavesdropping on everyone or something.

[iTreeby]

The mayor enforces multiclass stat requirements, because "min maxing has its place but some things go against the natural order".

No adventurer is allowed to long rest without having spent at least half their hit dice as that practice encourages "taking it easy on the monsters".

[Bohandas]

*Due to budget cutbacks and poor oversight an attempt to magically feed the town has resulted in a combination of Strega Nona/Sweet Porridge/Why The Sea Is Salty and the Great Boston Molasses Disaster

*He's tired of buildings made of stone. Let's try the other elements. He's tried igloos for water, but they melted in the hot weather. Now he's going to try to find a way to make buildigs out of fire.

There was a very long 3.5 thread about a city built atop an unconcious tarrasque which was harvested for its food, bone and other resources. It also meant the city had a nuke in that attacking it meant they could wake it up.

Having the mayor actually succeed would be hilarious, and provide a unique setting piece.

Edit: apparently that idea got big, there is a a published kick starter setting for it called Salt in Wounds and a reddit for it.

Is that the one Dingo Doodles is playing?

"Welcome to the first annual running of the giant sharks! Wait, where are the sharks, I ordered giant sharks!?!?!?!"
"But sir, giant sharks can't run...

"Then build them mechanical legs"

[Tvtyrant]

Channeling Zapp Brannigan, he could spend the entire budget on a flying fortress or super-weapon but then let the towns' enemies inside because of the whole "keep your enemies closer" thing.

Or he goes full villain and decides to invade the neighboring town on his "deterrant."

[Bohandas]

*Declares a state of emergency because he's out of beer

*Forces the town crier to convey all messages through pantomime

[Bohandas]

To save money the town guardsmen will use hobby horses instead of real horses

[Rockphed]

To save money the town guardsmen will use hobby horses instead of real horses

They will also use the hobby horses as staves.

[noob]

I am sure a town with buildings made out of fire would attract adventurers: you do not have to work for seeing the town on fire.
Also houses of fire makes garbage disposal easier.
If only humans survived being on fire.

[Segev]

He has ordered the construction of an enormous vault that is a combination of the most ostentatious security and the most gaudy decorative features imaginable, in which to contain the town treasury. To protect it from embezzlers. He spent the entirety of the treasury on the vault.

[noob]

He has ordered the construction of an enormous vault that is a combination of the most ostentatious security and the most gaudy decorative features imaginable, in which to contain the town treasury. To protect it from embezzlers. He spent the entirety of the treasury on the vault.

It explains most dungeons.
Also the day he gets the town treasury to move around (one cheap stronghold enchantment) it will be a deadly war weapon (and look even more silly).

[Velaryon]

He orders the construction of a grandiose water fountain in the town square. Water is provided via an open, unguarded portal to the plane of water.

[The Jack]

Stops over-fishing by burying the rivers and lakes.
Prevents a wall from being built by building a wall where the first wall would've been built.
Encourages a minority he hates to increase their population so that he doesn't feel guilty about hating a minority.

[Bohandas]

Requesting any kind of government service requires something similar to creating an account on a website. You have to register a secret password which must meet ridiculous requirements that make it impossible to remember and make it a de facto necessity that it be written down somewhere, and also register security password change security questions that any acquaintance of the person would know. The effect of this is that now any townsperson's identity can be stolen by anyone who finds where their password is written or succeeds at a gather information check (wih the DC being lower for more well known figures)

[TrashTrash]

Mothers are only allowed to discipline their children with the written consent of a city official, thereby creating even worse of a problem with bratty, out-of-control children.

After noticing that people liked to stop and read the plaque about a historic building, he paid for plaques to be set up every ten feet to educate people about the town. The only issue is that the plaques all have the same message, which is mainly dedicated to dedicating the plaque to the Mayor.

[Toofey]

well... that was in the totally wrong thread... sorry

[Bohandas]

*Has the police randomly strip search people

*Tries to improve health statistics by kicking all the sick people out of town

*Trades the city hall for magic beans

[TregMallin]

*He's tired of buildings made of stone. Let's try the other elements. He's tried igloos for water, but they melted in the hot weather. Now he's going to try to find a way to make buildigs out of fire.

The new town motto: This is fine.

[TrashTrash]

- Setting up a monument to his clothes
- holding a city-wide seance without actually knowing how to hold a seance
- trying to set up a tourist attraction in the shape of a giant gardening hoe. (Note that depending on your players, they might make some somewhat inappropriate jokes about this :)
- hiring a hype man with so low of an INT score that the only word they know how to say is yes

[jdizzlean]

The Mod Life Crisis: Thread Necromancy is bad.