My group somehow roped me into DMing a skeleton only campaign in 5e. What should I put in it?
Skeletons, clearly.
>>46348819
>skeleton only
>"what should I put in?"
you fucking retard
>>46348819
Zombies dual wielding clubs.
Two clubs + 1 slam attack a round.
Past that you should put in a masquerade ball where they have to pretend to be matching nobles with magical outfits, but at midnight everyone doff's their costume. (roll knowledge noble to see if they know)
A bard who has the inexplicable ability to make them dance.
Dogs. Lots of dogs. Dogs who make called attacks on femurs and can run off with them.
The opportunity to hide as a medical skeleton in a surgeons place.
The opportunity to all hide in a nobles closet together, only to be discovered by that nobles cleaning lady who mutters "knew it" and quietly closes the door.
>>46348884
Sounds like you have a bone to pick with OP.
>>46348865
>>46348884
You guys suck.
>>46348894
you're okay.
>>46348819
Nothing. It is a completely normal campaign.
...except that the party is unaware that they are skeletons. They think they are regular people.
...everybody else is fully aware that the party are skeletons, though.
>>46348819
Skeletons.
>>46348894
Very humerus.
>>46348920
You mean like, they are skeletons, but have a wall of flesh and muscle surrounding their skeletons...
Like normal people?
>>46348819
Apprentice skeletal wizards selected to attend the magical academy based on their skullastic aptitude.
>>46348819
An evil empire ruled by an evil emperor. The evil emperor is a short, french bastards named Napoleon Boneyparts.
>>46348889
> A bard who has the inexplicable ability to make them dance.
While playing the tromBONE.
Calcium
>>46348819
Calcium, milk and bones.
You can make a camapign only with various undead. Normal humans exist a background, commoners etc but anything above lvl1 is undead:
Liches, vampires, dread knights...
I'm pretty sure D&D have a very long list of undead to chose from, not sure of how many of those are setntient enough.
>>46348819
Religion of The Bringers
Skeletons follow a belief that beings with meat are soon-to-be skeletons and that they are to be watched till their flesh grows weak and strong bones rise from beneath. These meatbags are called The Bringers.
Skeletons shy from direct confrontation with the Bringers and only engage when their territories are raided by meatbags, which is an event the skeletons don't quite understand. These fleshy beings walk to their homes, end their long lost relatives and in turn bring in more family for the skeletal tribe.
My 2cents.
>>46348819
Don't feel like answering to-day. Come back and ask again to-marrow.
Throw in some non-skeletons halfway through, and argue they're just skeletons with powered flesh-armour.
>>46349244
The well of skeleton jokes has apparently run bone dry.
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>>46348819
Skeleton only as in everyone is a skeleton? Or just the party is skeletons?
If it's the latter, I think it's obvious.
>>46349304
Whoops I meant the former. The former!
fuck.
>The opportunity to hide as a medical skeleton in a surgeons place.
lol, that's so boneheaded it just might work
>>46348819
Make it a joke campaign. Make it ridiculous and over the top. Have skeletons disguise as humans by dressing up in the right clothes, use cartons of milk as health potions, make up a stupid plot using cartoon logic. It's what the players expect if they're demanding a skeleton campaign. And if it's not, it's what they deserve.
one word: mariachi
>www.drivethrurpg.com/product/177596/The-Skeletons?src=slider_view
I dont have a copy but this might have some good intro concepts for you.
Otherwise like it has been said above, maybe make it humerus.
>>46348889
>doff's
Get ready, apostrophe! Here comes an s!
>>46348819
Spaghetti
>>46348945
No, no. I mean they are straight-up Skeletons. They simply don't know that they're Skeletons. Everybody else is normal.
>>46348819
TURKEY HEADED COOKING WIZARDS!
TREMBLE BEFORE THE MIGHT OF THEIR ARMY OF THE LIVING ALIVE PEOPLE!
>>46349244
I prefer the idea that they're fleshy parasites that have coopted poor innocent skellingtons
>>46350284
Nah.
They are just fleshy incubators that slowly construct and nurtures a healthy young skellington inside them until it is ready to molt and be born. Kind of like cocoon or larval stage of normal skellington lifecycle.
>>46348819
I suggest you put in about 20 minutes of prep. No more. This way you have a shot at running this campaign for longer than it took you to prepare to run it. The over/under is exactly 20 minutes.
>>46349391
>>46349304
Seriously, Mexican skeletons best skeletons.
Embrace los muertos
>>46348819
Clerics. Lots of Clerics.
>>46348819
Make the enemies disgusting flesh elementals / horrors.
>>46348899
You probably should have seen that coming
>>46350559
This
And an overzealous paladin or annoyed graveyard keeper / gravedigger BBEG (BBGG?) trying to hunt them down.
>>46348889
underrated post
Group of skeletons protecting their nation(graveyard) from filthy illegal immigrants, that to not even work(dead, non animated human bodies).
The PCs are afflicted by a horrible curse that they are trying to lift.
A cleric casted some sort of slowly acting delayed resurrection spell on them which keeps regenerating flesh on their bones.
Those muscle growths attempt to take control of their movements and they fear that they will be trapped inside a body of living flesh, turning them into horrifying flesh creatures.
>>46350662
>Gravedigger BBEG trying to catch the "runaway" skeleton PCs
I was going to point out that there needs to be some kind of explanation for intelligent skeletons wandering about and going on an adventure (Like a necromancer spell going wrong) but I see that the only answer is that they just were bored in their graves and are basically some elders running away from a old folks home to have a fun weekend.
>>46350904
>...I see that the only answer is that they just were bored in their graves...
They were bored to DEATH.
>Skeletons that don't know they're skeletons
>Skeletons that DO know they're skeletons, but pretend not to
>Skeletons that pretend to know they're skeletons, but don't actually believe it
>Skeleton bounty hunter that hunts skeletons
>Skeletons that hunt bounty hunters that hunt skeletons
>Skeletons that hunt animals for sport
>Skeletons that hunt animals to use in sports
>Skeletons that don't hunt animals, but instead just play sports
>Skeleton that has a bone to pick with someone
>Skeleton that has a bone to pick with himself
>Skeleton that bears no grudges, only bones
>Skeleton bears
>Bare skeleton embarrassed by its nudity
>Bare skeleton encouraged by its nudity
>Bare skeleton not particularly concerned with its nudity, since it's a bear
>Skeleton adventurer that barely thinks
>Retired skeleton adventurer, who has grown weary of thinking
>Skeleton adventurer about to retire, partnered with a loose-cannon paladin
>Skeleton paladin
>Skeleton paddlin'
>Skeleton prostitutes
>Boner
>>46349537
What is this?
>>46348889
>Dogs that steal bits of them
I came here to say this.
Depending on how they react, it could be a good one-off encounter, or a recurring thing. Don't force that, though. If they let the dog off the hook, have it come back later. Don't make it impossible to kill because it's 'funny' or some shit like that. Maybe they'll adopt it. Or kill it, then adopt the skeleton dog.
>>46351058
i love you
>>46348819
Other Halloween shit like scarecrows, pumpkins, and slutty devils
>>46348819
Can I join?
Skeletons trying to eat/drink.
>>46350647
Not OP, and yes I should have.
>>46357503
>waifu.club
notsureifserious.jpg
>>46357758
>not using cock.li
Nerd detected.
