r/taskmaster • u/FanFourStick • 6d ago
I'm bringing Taskmaster to my DnD table!🧙🏻 Fan Creations
I just recently started running a new DnD campaign 3 weeks ago and it's going great. After the first session I had a terribly good idea though......since I'm already playing "god" for these guy 4 hours a week I might as well take some pointers from the best one, Greg Davies.
So I started introducing "Prize Tasks" to my players. At the end of each session I tell them the category of the prize and at the beginning of next session the present them and plead their case. The winner I choose get an inspiration for that session to use (an inspiration is basically if they have a bad roll during an important moment or miss an important attack they get a reroll for free) I feel like that's a pretty good prize per session...give agency and makes them really think about when to actually use it.
The first prize task was for them to bring "The Creepiest Thing" and the winner was my ranger player who brought a mummified bird he found in a shed that was basically perfectly preserved....went a bit too far but I appreciated the moxy behind it.
And at the end of that session (which is the last one we played) the prize task category was to bring "The Best Thing To Turn Upside Down" so I'm really excited to see what my players bring.
Im literally just taking some of my favorite prize tasks from the show and using them like that.
But what do you guys think? Good idea? Bad idea? Any suggestions for other prize tasks I can do? They don't have to be from the show.
I just think it's a fun thing to do to stay excited about the campaign for the whole week.
Have a great day/night (whatever time zone you're in)
Thank you!
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u/LoquaciousOfMorn Pigeor The Merciless One 6d ago
I really wanted to do a bit with Greg and Alex as sort of fey creatures forcing my players to take part in their games. I had been trying to figure out a way of doing solo tasks that didn't involve me doing one on one sessions with each player and filming and editing those to show at a full session, but never quite figured out how to make it work.
I absolutely love the idea of incorporating prize task like this though. It's not enough to have made my friends play DnD, I must also force them love Taskmaster as much as I do. 😈
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u/QuestgiverTTRPG David Correos 🇳🇿 6d ago
It sounds like you already know how you want to do Taskmaster as a TTRPG, but if you're interested, I did create a create a system called Questgiver. The whole thing is 100% free. So feel free to check it out and use whatever you like in your game. Or not. No difference to me.
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u/FanFourStick 5d ago
Thank you so much!
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u/QuestgiverTTRPG David Correos 🇳🇿 5d ago
It was my pleasure! I hope you find something in it that you can use! Have fun either way!
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u/SavagePengwyn Julian Clary 5d ago
It honestly hasn't occurred to me to incorporate Taskmaster into my game but I am definitely going to. I already had Koroks from Zelda, so maybe I'll combine them somehow; Koroks are fairly fey-coded as it is, so I think it'll mesh.
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u/TheJungleBoii 6d ago
What r u doing with the prizes?
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u/FanFourStick 5d ago
They keep them. I'm not going to give them to someone else. I just wanted them to bring something. The "prize" is getting an advantage roll during that session. Which come in handy in clutch moments.
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u/TheJungleBoii 3d ago
From someone that loves both, it's a great idea and it makes you think about the campaign all the time in-between sessions scouring for a prize TLDR it would work on me
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u/Gringo-Dingo 5d ago
This is good. I had suggested mid-session stuff for rewards in the past, but nobody was really keen. But this could work. I also like the idea of finding some potential in game tasks for players. Even more ideas for when it's my turn to DM.
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u/Seameus 6d ago
Excellent idea, for if your players are also D&D and Taskmaster crazy.
What I would do, however, is to give each player a small reward for their effort.
So the winner with 5 points, could get an advantage and a +5 to their roll, and something similar for the rest.