Ooh, Those Wascawwy Fey! Introduction This list of fey pranks started when N'wah bribed the members of the messageboards with downloadable freebies.
Ooh, Those Wascawwy Fey! Prank suggestions for Kingmaker “Stolen Lands” Credits Author
Originally, N'wah from the Paizo Messageboards, and then, everybody who participated in the thread.
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Index Pranks............................1 vagrantpoet..................1 Renraku........................1 Cuchulainn....................1 Magical_Beast...............2 xorial.............................3 Mr.Fishy........................3 Goblich..........................3 Dank Grimwolf.............3 Dorje Sylas....................3 Kamelguru....................3 Dale McCoy Jr..............3 Golbez57........................4 Geistlinger....................4 Jess Door.......................4 DaBear1313..................4 Talbane.........................4 Neil Mansell..................4 Light Dragon.................4 Dr. GunsForHands.....4
Imper1um.....................4 Cordo.............................4 FenixFire007.................4 Sect................................5 Black Dow.....................5 Eric Hinkle....................5 Ambrus..........................5 Addax............................6 Gibberer........................6 BornofHate....................6 Jadeite...........................6 MDR001........................6 GM Aria........................7 Pezmerga.......................7 Jon Chambers...............7 Hairy Dude...................7 Castlepiece....................8 IcedMik.........................8 BenPel...........................8 BornofHate....................8
His original post was: CONTENT WARNING Potential Spoilers PCs STAY OUT. Or your GM might just leave the Tarrasque in your backpack when you're not looking. Now that that's outta the way... I've been reading "Stolen Lands," and I got to the part about some certain fey critters and some certain things they might do to certain adventurers. I thought I'd start a thread for folks to share their sample pranks for everyone to enjoy, and for everyone to cherrypick at will to make each prank the best it can be. Plus, I keep reading this thing when I'm sleep deprived, and I can only come up with bare bones "HA HA! Grease on the floor! You fell on your bum!" type stuff. Help a brother out, will ya? I'll keep making downloadable "Kingmaker" freebies if you keep me up to my eyeballs in fey pranks. :D. Let the PrankOff BEGIN! This is the compilation of the ensuing suggestions, as originally posted including repetitions for completeness sake. There are few editions; mostly to fit one prank per bullet. Nonprank text was removed.
Pranks vagrant-poet
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• If the PCs camp at night, have all of their weapons hung in the tallest branches of a nearby tree! • The Fey Dragon can cast greater invisibility 3/day, and with CMB +4, he can frequently trip up lowlevel PCs, if he does it as they climb over logs or are near large rocks they can be led to believe their falling over, at first.
Renraku • Ghost sound and dancing lights during the night as they camp, keep them up all night. • Grease an incline. • Grease the river bank in their hex of the map, force the party into the water.
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Ooh, Those Wascawwy Fey! Cuchulainn • Send a charmed squirrel or rabbit charging through the underbrush at the party accompanied by a ghost sound of an angry owlbear. Since the animal is diminuitive, and in underbrush, the party probably won't see it, but will see the brush moving and (obviously) hear the noise. • Assuming the party is lowlevel, put a sleep on all of them, then undress them and either switch their clothes or put them in embarassing/compromising positions. • Cast a create water spell right above a character's head everytime he or she says a specific, commonly used phrase. • Cast alarm on a character's belt pouch or backpack, set to go off (in loud mode) when it is opened. • Use an Unseen Servant to pick up a burning twig from the fire and give a sleeping/resting character a "hot foot." • Use speak with animals to convince the local squirrels to bombard the party with acorns. • Use Ray of frost on a character's torch, or the party's campfire. Do it again when they try to relight it, then do it again. Repeat ad nauseum. • Use mage hand to take food off a character's plate and drop it on or throw it at another character. • Use ventriloquism to make fart noises behind one of the characters while he or she is walking, or sitting around the campfire. Be sure to place rotten eggs in the character's belt pouch, or trousers.
Magical_Beast • Put the camp guard to sleep and then draw a moustache and funny eyebrows on his/her face with soot from the fire. • If a character is particularly vain (and has long hair) perhaps tease their hair into a frightful bird's nest. Maybe even put an actual bird's nest in it!
lowperception fighter might not even notice while gearing up with sleepfilled eyes in the dawn's early light. • Old standby tie bootlaces together. • Switch items in backpacks or add unexpected items (rocks, twigs, bunnies) to backpacks/quivers. Open/close and Mage Hand can be extra helpful for this. This is infinitely more funny if someone has an item that is precioussss to them. Moving a family heirloom or 'Knicknack of the Chosen One' around capriciously should drive that particular PC bonkers in short order. • Putting unusual items/critters into bedrolls just before everyone lies down for the night (Dancing Lights to draw attention away whilst the bedrolls are loaded). • Put sleeping PC's into funny postions. Perhaps two lessfriendly members of the party awaken holding hands. Or a particularly tough guy awakens with his thumb in his mouth. • Use Open/close to keep slamming the wizard's spellbook shut while s/he is trying to memorize spells for the day. • Pyrotechnics to create fireworks when some PC says the 'word of the day'. • Entangle on a PC who has stepped away from the camp to 'answer nature's call'. Of course, you would want to wait until the unfortunate PC had dropped trou for maximum effect. Use Dancing Lights and/or Silent Image to get him scared enough to call for help while compromised. • Greased piglet (warthog or domesticated, depending on location) given a pinch and sent to tear through camp at dawn. • Skunks have pretty much unlimited comic potential, especially when placed, sleeping, into a backpack or bedroll. • If the party has a girlygirl, slugs and bugs (down the blouse, in the shoes, etc.) offer promise of hilarity.
• Weaken the stitching in the seat of someone's pants more appropriate for non or lightly armored types. Or stitch arm/neck/headholes shut on unworn clothing.
• Use of Flare, Dancing Lights, Mage Hand and Silent image to make it appear over time as if a particular item is possessed/magical/ haunted. Especially funny if only one or two party members ever see the item express unusual qualities.
• 'Decorate' heavy armor while it is unworn. There is nothing wrong with a hastily scrawled 'Kick me' appearing on the paladin's backside. A
• Depending on what natural elements you decide are available, a bit of poison ivy/oak unfortunately placed or rubbed on an
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Ooh, Those Wascawwy Fey! undergarment will make a statement. Stinging bugs can accomplish the same thing. • If temperatures will be dropping below freezing one night, soaking someone's pack before the freeze should be entertaining. Especially if there is an early morning camp encounter that forces them to fight in their pajamas. Hiding someone's armor away from camp would work too.
side and bring some dice and a new sheet if you can play straight enough. • Put out signs declaring it to be human season. Then give a racoon a knife.
Goblich • Put dehydrated milk in someones bed. The sweat and warmth while they sleep will rub it into their pores and cause it to curdle.
• Invisible pinches/slaps/etc. can stir up infighting, if the party hasn't caught on to the probable source of their misery yet.
• Soveriegn Glue in the fighters scabbard. • Cement the archer's arrows into his quiver, then put some black paint over the cement.
• Something messy/unpleasant in the sleeping PC's hand and then a light tickle of the nose. • Some sort of spicy hot or sour herb sprinkled into the evening's dinner (either for the whole party or just one lucky PC maybe a different one every night). If you're feeling a little extra mean, maybe some 'special' mushrooms or herbs...for a mildly unsettling experience. Depending, of course, on how that sort of thing would play with your group.
xorial • Mage Hand slaps to the back of the head is good to begin with.
• Paint the elf black, or use some minor illusion magic to do the same. • Give someone a marshmallow and cast enlarge while they chew.
Dank Grimwolf • Cast ghost sound and mage hand on a barbarian's loincloth to make it shake and growl. Next stop, a naked raging barbarian axing a small piece of animal hide.
Dorje Sylas • Prestidigitation, cast on all PCs trail rations to "give them a delightful flavor."
• Moving items around a short distance can start the characters into believing that the woods are cursed.
• Target the party's cartographer and map keeper. Replace the maps they have with mirrored or inverted copies. Or replace with crude stick figure maps.
Mr.Fishy
• Place soot or ash coating along the eye peace of any spyglass or scope they have (the old black eye in a can).
• Steal some thing important then hide it on the victims person. • Steal a fighters sword then replace it after he accuses some one of stealing it.
• Repaint or alter the measurements on rulers and sextants.
• Leave a note warning of a prank from another character. • Leave a ransom note for an item that hasn't been taken.
• Rewrite scale bars or other references on existing maps.
Kamelguru
• Give them a minor cursed item. A bad luck charm acts like a bane effect on the carrier for a few rounds • Autumn leaves for gold (silent image). A bag of gold is really a bag of rocks and leaves. • Sent a racoon to steal their food. • Drop a hornet nest on them in a fight then roll random for targets. • Silent image and a five foot deep pit (looks deeper) with a log bridge...then cast grease. If someone falls into the pit tell them to step out
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• Give the wizard a pointed wizard cap hair do, complete with small moons and stars. • Mount giant ant antennae on a PC in his sleep. • Color someone's horse like a cow, affixed a bell, and randomly cast "Ghost Sound" to make it go "MOOOOOH!" at random intervals. • Get pyrotechnics going off out of someone's rear when he passes gas. • Dressed up someone with lovely long lashes and dilletante makeup in his sleep.
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Ooh, Those Wascawwy Fey! Dale McCoy Jr
Jess Door
• Cast sleep on whoever is on watch during the night. At that point, you can do some big stuff.
• Put shrooms in the cookpot one night (effects identical to dragon's breath). As they try not to be outright harmful, I would have them lead away danger from the camp if too many fall victim.
• The person on watch is naked. • The wizard has a smiley face on one of his pages in his spell book (disallowing him from memorizing that spell until making a Spellcraft check, DC 12, to remove the marks).
DaBear1313 • Use Prestidigitation to put a Bullseye target on the back of the Fighters/Paladins/Cavaliers helmet/cloak
• The cleric's armor is missing and is found the next day on an animal.
• Use Mage Hand to uncinch the horses girth straps.
• The map has East and West reversed (but nothing else is changed). • A familiar is disguised to look like a porcupine.
Talbane • When they left the horses behind (to fight the Kobolds in the radish patch), the fey scatter them off. They thought bandits had stolen them. I made it tack 1 hour onto there travel time to get them back.
• A waterskin is filled with dragon urine. • Use mage hand/prestidigation to make tall grass move so it looks like something small/tiny is coming straight at the players at a high rate of speed, but nothing is there. • Speak with animals to have vultures circle overhead all day long, they don't do anything but circle. • Trail rations taste like tree bark to one person.
Neil Mansell • Give those fey a bag of itching powder or some such.
Light Dragon • Tyg hide invisibly and woke up the group with ghost sound and dancing lights
• While greaterly invisible and the camp fire is going, have the dragon fart into the flames, causing a small weak fireball.
• Perlivash tripping the wizard and sending him flying into the mud twice the next morning, then slapping a note on his back reading "I R St00pid Sorcarrar"
Golbez57 • Ghost Sound Whoopie Cushion.
Geistlinger
Dr. Guns-For-Hands • I had my Abyssal Sorceror who is terrified of losing control of his magic wake up next to an illusion of the little halfling cleric's severed head in his bedroll. He woke up screaming and when everyone rushed over to see what he was talking about (even the halfling) there was nothing there.
• For those rogue type, blackguards, anyone else who wears all black and takes themselves too seriously, hot pink is a good choice. • Blaze orange for druid, rangers, and other woodsy types. • Clashing colors for bards, and the fashion conscious. • Black, maybe with a nice blood red skull motif for the paladins and goodly clerics. • Instead of painting someone's whole body black, as was suggested having done to an elf, just paint a male character's junk black, then wait for the wail when he goes off into the bushes to relieve himself.
Imper1um • I was thinking that they steal your Potion of Bull's Strength and replace it with...a Potion of Ray of Enfeeblement.
Cordo
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• Using Prestigitation or berry juice to write "Smelly Biggens", "Clumsy Biggens", etc. (whatever cruel nicknames the fey have given each PC) on the horses they are using.
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Ooh, Those Wascawwy Fey! FenixFire007 • Use silent image to make a small rock look like a valuable gem. As long as the fey concentrates, it will stay that way (drop the spell either as soon as a character puts it in their bag or if they call the others over to look at it). Especially effective against a greedy, selfish character with a low Will save. • Find a small dead animal. Put said carcass into the quiver of a melee character or into some other seldomused location. Wait for smell.
Eric Hinkle • The PCs see a ghostly image hurrying away from them, accompanied by moans. They follow and find a human skull on a stump which rises into the air and direly intones: "Pause, o mortal passing by! As you are now, so once was I. And as I am now, so shall you be! So prepare for DOOM and follow me!" And then it goes flying at the PCs, who (probably) cut loose with everything they have while the fey and faerie dragon laugh themselves sick.
• Coat the character's hair in honey as they sleep. Sticky and annoying to remove, and especially hilarious if they're a late sleeper and the ants set to work in the morning before they rise. • Silent image a rotting piece of fruit as a delicious apple and place it where either the players will find it or replace some food the player is carrying. • Coal dust in a lighthaired character's brush.
• Use Mage Hand and/or Prestidigitation along with Ventriloquism to make a PC think that something utterly horrible has crept under his covers and is crawling up his or her leg to bite them right on the youknowwhat.
Ambrus
• A berry in someone's boot as they sleep. If they fail to check them, a squishing berry feels much like a big spider. • After saddling their mounts for the day but before they leave, unbuckle the saddle so it falls when they try to mount. • Coat their hands in pepper juice as they sleep. When they wake up, they'll rub their eyes and mace themselves.
Sect • Perlivash spooked the horse of one of the characters as they were riding through the forest, making it panic for a while. • Tyg used pyrotechnics to make a campfire spark in another character's face just as he was lighting it.
Black Dow • Ghost Sound to make cries of help in the distance. • Grease on the saddle of one unfortunate party member as our heroes hustle to get to the poor victims.
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• As a character is attempting to light a fire of some sort Pervilash, hiding invisibility 30 ft. away (stealth +17) uses a flare cantrip to coincide with a spark being struck spark to turn it into a dazzling burst of light to try and startle that character (Fort DC 13). • Following up on her friend's prank, Tyg TitterTut uses her pyrotechnics ability (up to 760 ft. distant) to cause the party's campfire to billow out a great cloud of choking and blinding smoke that spreads 20 feet in all directions and lasts for 9 rounds. All within the cloud take –4 penalties to Strength and Dexterity (Fort DC 14 negates). These effects last for 1d4+1 rounds after the cloud dissipates or after the creature leaves the area of the cloud. • Perlivash, hiding invisibly 30 ft. away (stealth +17), repeatedly casts open (Will DC 13 negates) to unbuckle as many of the PCs' mounts' saddle belts as possible before scurrying away. Any character with an unsecured saddle will automatically fall prone the next time she dismounts or attempts a Ride check (whether it succeeds or fails). • TygTitterTut invisibly approaches and takes ahold of a PC's cherished item (such as a weapon, spellbook or holy symbol) that has been left unattended once the party is encamped and uses her invisibility ability once more so as to make the item disappear before scurrying away with it. She'll then leave the item in an amusing
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Ooh, Those Wascawwy Fey! place where the party is certain to find it after a frantic search. If the PC in question has been reacting poorly to the pranking she may hold on to the object for a while or make its return particularly traumatic; such as decorating a towering oak tree's branches with the torn out pages of a wizard's spellbook. The spellbook can be repaired with mending cantrips once its pages have been reassembled.
• Instead of "kick me" written on the back of someones armor write either ◦"Stab here" with an arrow pointing to the characters butt OR ◦"Weak spot" with an arrow pointing to the characters head • Placing slugs in boots is great but slipping them in waterskins is awesome! • Tie the laces of a players boots together and silent image a crazed naked kobolds running at the PCs. When the characters attack and fall flat on their face either have the image start to dance wildly in front of them or urinate on them.
• Perlivash attempts to thwart the PCs' attempts to keep watch at night by casting a sleep spell on the persons (up to 4 HD of creatures in a 10ft. radius up to 130 ft away) left awake (Will save DC 14). • In an effort to better his friend's prank, Tyg TitterTut uses her entangle ability (up to 760 ft. distant) to cause vines, grasses and weeds (in a 40ft. spread) to softly entwine the slumbering party members. When they finally awaken naturally in the morning, the PCs will find themselves eerily though harmlessly enshrouded by the surrounding vegetation.
• Have the PCs follow a trail of coins to a pit trap that is filled with skunks • Replace a belt pouch with a tanglefoot bag. • Remove a characters weapon from its scabbard while the character is sleeping. Position the character so he is in the fetal position cradling the weapon while sucking his/her thumb. On top of that don't forget to drop a thunderstone into the scabbard.
Addax • Pitch is a wonderful source of pranks; it's sticky, takes forever to get out of cloths etc. Put it on saddles, handles of weapons, pull a cruel variant of the shaving cream on the sleeping person's hand prank.
• Replace the druids supply of goodberries with deer or rabbit poops. • Silent image the spells OUT of the wizards spell book. • Replace with funny drawings of recently successful pranks.
• A boot full of slugs. • Tinder that kept getting wet in a rain storm.
Gibberer • TygTitterTut decided some face painting was in order but one of the sleeping party members woke up and managed to catch her. Before she could take action and before he could do anything Perlivash decided on the best joke of all to finish the competition. A sleep spell!
Jadeite • Using ventriloquism to let the animal companion 'talk'.
MDR001
• The rest of the party woke up, three out of four with some rather elaborate face masks painted on, and found the fifth member sound asleep with a catsized creature, half woman/halfcricket, sleeping peacefully in his arms.
BornofHate • Silent image a golden weapon clearly identical to one of the PCs. The image is placed on a small rock in the river and all of the rocks leading to it are greased. (Pranks are great but self inflicted embarrassment is golden)
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• Patch of poison ivy imaged to look like strawberries. • Horde of fieldmice trappling the camp (figured the fey could work the animals and such pretty well). • A large snake levitated down from a tree and around the person on watch'es shoulders. • Skunk in the backpack. • Many animals letting their eyes reflect the campfire and then all disappearing (again, assuming the fey can command animals pretty easily). • I wanted to have the sound of heavy breathing coming from the latrine trench, but
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Ooh, Those Wascawwy Fey! thought that would sound more perverted than disturbing.
GM Aria • I turned my party's horses into My Little Ponies.
each has had their combat round, explain that the potatoes are just normal potatoes with small spears attached.
Hairy Dude • If the party has an archer, swap some of their arrows/bolts with sticks of the same length. When a fight happens and they try to draw an arrow, there's a 50% chance they drew a stick instead of an arrow, wasting a move action.
Pezmerga • Have the fey make a silent image of a beautiful nymph or such and use ventriloquism to "seduce" one of the characters. Convince him to strip and when he or she tries to go and get their love, have them fall into a pit trap set up beneath the image. Make it deep so that they have to get help from the others to escape from most likely.. Or Could also fill the pit with a sticky substance and have em climb out and get feathers dropped on them!
• After the PCs get Old Sharptooth from the mites, put it in front of a PC's eyes so the demon statue is the first thing they see when they wake up. For extra points, actually wake the PC up with a ghost sound of a roaring demon. • Hang up a bucket full of muddy water and rotten leaves in the canopy and rig it so that it tips out its contents when Perlivash pulls a string. He then gives a pious PC telepathic directions to the place where the bucket is rigged, convincing the PC that he's getting messages from their god. When they get under the bucket, tell them "Look up" and pull the string.
• Have two of the party members wake up next to each other with an empty wine or rum bottle nearby and each smelling like alcohol! • If you have a cleric or religious party member a fake visitation from their deity is always fun. Send them on a fool's errand! Could also use this as a creative way to send the party to a location the fey know about, or have them walk into another prank.
Castlepiece
• Replace a random waterskin with a potion of reduce or enlarge person. • Temporary gender change. Either with Silent Image as an illusion or a potion or something that they are tricked into drinking.
Jon Chambers • When the PCs go to sleep, immediately ask the players to read aloud all the items in their backpacks for your personal reference. If they ask why, just smile and refuse to answer. • When the players awake, they see their bags, UPSIDE DOWN!!! • As the players go through their bag to see which possessions have been stolen, read aloud the following text, making sure to prolong the pauses: Much to your shock and horror... you discover... that ALL of the items you have placed in your bag... are now... ... ... STORED NEATLY!!! • Have them wake up to find they are surrounded by a gang of spear wielding potatoes. Have the players roll initiative. Once Special thanks to N'wah and the Kingmaker Paizo Messageboards
• Remove all the stitches from backpacks or saddle bags so when said bag is lifted everything falls out as the bag falls apart. • Tie an archer's arrows together in groups of 5 so when they draw an arrow to notch it, it unfurls a la Robin Hood Men in Tights. • Pink ribbons in a Dwarf's beard (Unless its female). • Braid armpit hair. • Shave beard. • In my campaign to this point the only description the PCs have of the Stag Lord is he is a half man half elk, so have an image of that creep around the camp. • An image of bandits (or something else the Fey have seen) scooby doo sneaking up on them. • When the PCs are camping, use the sleep trick, only add empty skins of booze, stripping and spooning. • For a female PC sleep (on guards) make her look disheveled and take her a little ways from camp while hiding her undergarments. Let her stagger back to the party under the effects of
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Ooh, Those Wascawwy Fey! the euphoria gas. (Perlivash calls this one, "walk of shame") • Talking horse, "Hey get the heck off me!" "Ok, ok you have ridden long enough, its my turn." "I'd like a raise." "I want an apple pie! (Which Perlivash tries to get)"
IcedMik • Grease the tank's main weapon to fly out of his hands. The dragon casts sleep on the enemy if anything goes wrong. • Create a silver squirrel illusion darting into a large bush. If someones follows it, create the sound of an owlbear from within the bush.
BenPel • Entangle to trap the group's horses (while they are mounting them). • "I am an ass" written on a character's horse. • Write "I compensayte for sumthin'" on the back of the largest weapon's owner. • Make invisible the main weapon of the party's tank. • Tie the armor of one of them high in in a tree; use grease when the owner tries to recover it. • Cast Sleep on a character midsentence, and midwalk. • "Helpfully" undo the tent of a character. They were so helpful, in fact, they did it for him before he even wake up! • Use a mix of Silent Image and Ghost Sound to make some loud singing animal appear (à la "Hello my baby" frog from Looney Tunes) when the character were busy, possibly making them forget what they were going to do/say because of the distraction. • Keep using Flare in the face of a character several time.
BornofHate • Mage hand the wizards spell book to the next page while he is studying. Over And over And over And over And over
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