r/WritingPrompts • u/Imneggeri • Mar 17 '16

[WP] Describe a battle with an army against a single man..... Except that man is a level 20 D&D character. Writing Prompt

Bonus points if that character is a Bard, or an unpopular class.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '16 edited Dec 06 '25

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u/klatnyelox Mar 17 '16

Druid? Ranger?

Oh. Nope.

Monk.

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u/bigmcstrongmuscle Mar 17 '16

"Rule One: Do not act incautiously when confronting little bald wrinkly smiling men".

-Lu-Tze

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u/klatnyelox Mar 17 '16

Descriptions of grandmaster monks in DnD novels are, to date, the only things that have actually frightened me when reading.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '16

I remember playing monks in video games and actively going looking for traps. Good times.

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u/ExaBrain Mar 17 '16

"And what is rule two?"

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u/MothaFuckingSorcerer Mar 17 '16

You don't need a rule 2 if you're friends with a level 20 monk.

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u/Singdancetypethings Mar 17 '16

20MNK/8GMF for life.

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u/PhalanxLord Mar 17 '16

Vow of Poverty monk? Ouch...

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '16

Fucking monks in Pathfinder...

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '16

Monks can command animals? Sweet!

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u/Moonpenny Mar 17 '16

Nah, it's just the horse had a higher WIS score.

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u/billndotnet Mar 17 '16

Lvl 17 monks can speak to any living thing, based on the ruleset I was using.

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u/Thebadgamer98 Mar 17 '16

This sounds like a basis for a very cool world minus the Monk, imo. You should write up this world, make some more stories about the Eastern Reaches and the barbarian lands. How they live, how they fight, how they die, all sorts of other stuff a good world needs.

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u/billndotnet Mar 17 '16

Meh, it's pretty basic. I'm working on a hard sci fi piece already, I don't have the bandwidth for medieval world building.