Recently, an idea
came to me, and while still currently raw and unrefined, has
something that I can work with and add onto. My working title for
this is Muppet D&D.
What Muppet D&D
isn't is Muppet characters reenacting the Lord of the Rings or the
Dragonlance Saga. What it is, however, is an attempt to craft a
setting that takes the feel of the Muppet Show, and adapt it to the
D&D milieu. (Your Muppet D&D may be different from mine,
however).
South of the Barbed
Crags, and the Gloomy Thickets, past the Nebulous Moors and the
Gibbering Bog, the Exuberant Runnel flows southward, going past the
goblin village of Flopburg
(though calling that
fiasco a village is kind of pushing it) towards the dark waters of
the Tenebrous Loch.
Flopburg, while a
chaotic mess most of the time, somehow thrives regardless of whatever
natural rules that may be followed elsewhere. The goblins spend most
of their days building or repairing houses (or what passes for them
at times), collecting food, tuning instruments, cooking or making
things to blow stuff up with.
It is with bombs
that the goblin begin to excel. While the method of bomb making is
generally known to to the Mad Bombers of Flopburg, they will teach
anyone who asks (and in many cases, didn't ask). The bombs tend to
have two general purposes in goblin society; fishing and
entertainment.
Every night, the
goblins of Flopburg gather, and have a wild party, glad to have
survived yet another day. These parties are accentuated with music,
laughter, feasting, explosions and more laughter.
An interesting
feature of goblin explosives is that they really don't injure
anyone-- even when one is sent flying and hits something, it laughs,
and runs back to the party. It had been discovered that blunt force
trauma had little effect on anyone, other than perhaps knocking
someone out for awhile. While goblins are curious and inquisitive,
they long ago learned to shrug and get back to whatever they were
doing, but did note that this effect only carried over to other
sapient races, not to animals and many of the monsters (goblin
explosives, however, had no ill effect on anything)
It is to this
almost idyllic setting that I intend to introduce science fiction
energy weapons, because such weapons in the hands of the goblins
would be funny, even if they do happen to inflict serious damage.
