My players have not yet found this creature. Buuut. In the process of 3D printing a mimic mini, there was an error in scale and I accidentally made a really teenie mimic. And I can’t wait for them to encounter it.
28mm hero fig and actual mimic on the left. Mini mimic on the right. (Painting was still in progress as of this pic)
We adopted a crazy guy who lived in the sewers. We’d check up on him whenever we were back in town. Ended up giving him a neat magical item that let him cast prestidigitation a few times a day or something, and some other amenities hoping he’d clean up his act. We never finished the campaign, but I like to think he got it together.
Sometimes it isn’t the one you expect, either. My group fell in love with the magic shopkeeper I improv’d on the fly. He was just a super ancient wizened dude named Mortimer who was always polishing a skull or dusting a stuffed rat or something when they came in.
An awakened shrub they found standing under a sewer grate, moving around in the sewer as the beam of sunlight shifted about. Discarded by a wizard as trash, it literally grew up with his roots digesting the town’s shit. It grew good berries, and offered the party some when they encountered it in a session one “rats in the sewers” scenario. They immediately adopted it, and it became their mascot of sorts, named “Stem”. I had a great time RPing Stem, with this child-like wide eyed wonder as the party took it out to explore the world with them.
I wondered off on my own while my party argued over something and stumbled upon a room occupied by a dog like creature that eats pretty much anything with a heartbeat. I thought he was cute so instead of preparing for battle I prepared for scritches. When I rolled a 20 I think my dm got excited because it’s my pet now and he can talk.
I was running a D&D campaign for my son before and the two most liked NPCs were two goblins. One was a snivveling little companion who was actually a decent, though stupid goblin. The other goblin was a conniving, manipulative little shit that would backstab the group at any opportunity, yet they couldn’t ever bring themselves to kill him. Voiced them pretty differently with almost opposite personalities. It’s so great having characters that get that kind of reaction.
My NPC was the insane BBEG at the beginning that took a liking to the party and changed his ways because of them. He became something of a patron to them.
Ah yes, Petyr, the retired barbarian who takes care of the various animals the PC's adopt. I think right now he's caring for a couple horses, a fluffy cow, and a dinosaur.
My party doesn’t use lemmy so I can drop some setting spoilers
They don’t know that the adorable orphan they adopted in their time travel adventure is actually the evil lich queen in the modern day, and I’m looking forward to dropping that bomb on them
I kept the hazards in mind, “Time travelling adventure” is short for “Yanked into the past due to an apocalyptic event that cannot be replicated” and the time travel is a problem to be solved, not a solution
Made a 4ft tall tabaxi who the party found sealed into a cavity in the wall of a museum behind a painting after they heard scratching, on the verge of having starved to death in there.
Anyways she only had 4sp on her, and she used 2sp to buy the party some flowers after they took her back to the inn to help her recover. Also she looks up to the artificer as a father figure.
(She also has a Highly Extensive tragic backstory that the players are in the process of discovering, but basically the BBEG previously kidnapped her and attempted to brainwash her into unconditionally loving him and only him, because she used to hand out flowers to everyone and he thought that meant she was propositioning him. Incel Wizard moment.)
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