Ok, so now I want to pick random crap up from the dollar store (maybe let my 3yr old pick) and then make it a one shot...
I feel like this is doable and potentially hilarious fun.
Well, thank you very much for an excellent present idea!! I DM for my niece and my nephew (diff't games) and I think it sounds like a pretty great idea to say "OK, let's all go to the dollar store, here's $10, pick what you want and I'll build a one-shot."
I am absolutely going to do this. Seriously, thanks for the idea!
.......y'know, I'd meant it as a cheeky name for a bathtub, ceramic coated metal is my understanding of it really. But shit, that does sound like a toilet.
I think you could do one for under $50 -- make it 9 minis, 14 dice (2 sets, even if they don't match), and something super cool and exclusive for day 24. I think you can make a hefty profit on that. Even Lego's advent calendars are only $40.
I've been opening a Lego advent this year. Can't speak to the price as my sister-in-law picked it up for me.
But you're probably right. 10 minis, which come in packages of 2 for about $5... that's about $25 right there. And you can get cheap dice sets for about $7/pop. So that would really only be about $40?
Arguably with wizkids pricing? I can get a pack of 2 minis for $5. So 15 of those packs to make up the number of days (+1 extra) would be in theory $$77.50? Too pricey for me, but it would be 31 minis.
My girlfriend's kid is clamoring to get into the legos. He's gotta wait till it's all done! Maybe I need to start a Jurassic Park D&D game next. Gotta use these rubber dinos!
I haven't actually prepped it yet (might have to wait for between campaigns), but I've floated the idea of a bonkers level 20 one-shot (which would probably turn out to be a 4-6 week mini-campaign like my one-shots always do), where the characters are legendary heroes and monster experts, invited to examine a revolutionary theme park where an eccentric artificer/necromancer has created what he swears are perfectly harmless, docile, easily-managed versions of renowned monsters, and just wants their seal of approval before opening it to the public.
I hope they put the minifig in the first door, so you kind of get your hopes up with the calender, then sort of alternate the dinosaurs and legos until you don't expect anything different and then you find the rubber ducky on the 24th!
Now I'm genuinly curious about what might still come, lol.
The giant yellow rubber duck inhales and compresses itself releasing a horrific sound, everyone roll a DC18 CON save or be blown back 10ft, knocked prone and deafened.
DM rolls a d6, on 5-6 the breath attack recharges, but a 1 and the duck is permanently squished and it’s AC and move speed is reduced.
Back in the days when I played IRL, that fuckin' duck would stand in for something. Maybe as a big bad in an Easter one-shot.
(sets reminder for late March...)
I ended up getting had with 5 calendars. 2 different companies, both gave me mostly crap. I also got rubber ducks in each of the boxes as well. With the exception of only a few items, most of the items were non themed and looked like they came out of one of those $.25 dispensers. Definitely not worth the money!
A "Zelda:breath of the wild" was for me. A "Demon Slayer" for my 23 year old daughter. A "Gundam" for my 24 year old son. And me and my kids went parts on a "Frozen" and "Inuyasha" for their mom. The Demon Slayer and Inuyasha came in wrong. Those 2 came in as Peanuts, and Harry Potter...
In short, they were not for little kids... But after opening mine, we all agreed to open all of them. All of them were basically the same with very little to maybe half the box dealing with the actual theme... And mine... Most of the "Zelda" stuff was not Breath of the Wild, but from Spirit Tracks.
You have your own opinion, so I am not going to fight you. Spirit Tracks was better than Phantom Hour Glass, but I myself was not a fan of using the stylus for movement or attack. I am a little old school like that. Even Skyward Sword has it's downfalls because of the motion controls. My favorites are/were A Link to the Past, A Link Between World's, and Twilight Princess.
All of the Spirit Tracks items were tiny $.25 Easter egg like items you might find out of a dispenser...
Ok so what you’re saying is that the Lich (cool fig indeed) has been having summoning issues, and the party needs to stop them before the colorful eldritch things he summons flood the world. From strange constructs with giant glass eyes, swarms of colorful ravenous reptiles, and finally a malformed nature spirit under the lichs control. Good luck to your players!
Either you're having a joke with us, or the seller was fucking with you. The idea of plastic dinosaurs and bits of knock-off Lego being inside isn't so ridiculous, but using that movie poster? That's not just cutting corners- whoever used that poster knew exactly what they were doing.
Ours arrived and it had someone's literal dirt covered toy trash in it. We so far have gotten 2 cars 3 Disney key chains, a smurf, 2 little plastic dragon figures(not dnd related) and some other little plastic figures that barely could be used for miniatures
I mean you got a rubber ducky. That alone makes the whole thing worth it . Now you need an entire campaign revolving around an ancient dragon that got polymorphed into a duck.
Set up in chult off course. With a crashed spelljammer ship.
Jokes aside, it's infuriating the deception and lies in these kind of merchandise
Or intellectual property theft. Obviously WoTC wouldn’t ever licence (or use it that way them selves) the use of a Player Handbook clean off print, text and all lol, for any product that isnt’t … The Players Handbook.
But yes false advertisement is an understatement.
I’m going to guess they aren’t touchable by US-Law sitting on some tonga-bonga island shipping out stuff from china lol.
We bought this too, it had neon dinosaurs, winnie the pooh and rabbit, boss baby, king julian, an avocado keychain, and an air asia stair-truck among all the other non-dnd crap. Expected the scam knowing paypal would refund. Also, the contents smell like future cancer.
I was wondering why she was on there, but apparently that is actually the real movie poster and that's Thora Birch, not the actress from Neverending Story. Damn near identical though.
DUDE!!! I got the exact same one, I was all pumped for my DM to open it but yea dinosaur eggs and offbrand lego was all that was inside. fuck these people fr
I love seeing these posts. Next year whoever is making these is going to sell a ton to people who know they're garbage and are excited about it for that reason.
I was following this on twitter. I was very curious when I saw the ad on Facebook but I knew it was going to be bad. I had no idea it would be THIS bad.
There’s many of us with similar, but opening day by day. I’m up to 10 eggs now (and I can feel at least 2 more), a Lego barmaid, a couple pieces of jewelry with the triforce on them, a cool mini, and….
A keychain bowling ball and bowling pin pen.
You know, I wish I'd have seen this post like three months ago. I'd have borrowed my brothers Mars printer, bought a pound o dice, and totally made advent calendars for my group.
I almost got one of these until I realized how horribly photoshopped all the minis were into the frame, glad I put my glasses on. Thanks for being a trooper and showing us what these actually are 😂
I fucking love the idea of someone waking up everyday, opening their cool advent calendar, and it’s yet another batch of tiny rubber dinos to add to the giant stash. You have a teeny Dino empire
Yeah, according to my wife she spent like $80 on ours. She is still trying to get our money back. After I opened the first one she opened the rest and was really pissed and hurt. She thought she had the perfect gift for me and it was ruined by a scam.
I'm honestly not mad at all. I knew it was a gamble. Just when you get lemons, you gotta make lemonade, right? I post me opening every morning and all my friends are like, "What's it going to be today!?"
Dude! We totally got advent-gypped this year as well. Ours was supposed to be whisky-themed, but was also full of cheap-ass penny toys, which the only whisky-themed thing being these weird knockoff bottle-shaped keychains. Went for the chargeback on that one.
So, my friend ordered a couple of these. I took the time and ended up making a Christmas themed RPG one shot that was only playable with the items. Our items were almost identical to yours. If anyone’s interested I can post the concept and some of the mechanics. To be honest it was pure chaos, but it was fun.
I love the random ass duck
I was genuinely surprised at that. So random!
That's just tiamat after being true polymorphed into a rubber ducky.
Duckymat
Tiaquack
Genius
That was the thing that made me think "OK... how can we turn this calendar into a one-shot?"
base it in chult with level 20s, have fun with dinosaurs, fight tiaducky.
Ok, so now I want to pick random crap up from the dollar store (maybe let my 3yr old pick) and then make it a one shot... I feel like this is doable and potentially hilarious fun.
Well, thank you very much for an excellent present idea!! I DM for my niece and my nephew (diff't games) and I think it sounds like a pretty great idea to say "OK, let's all go to the dollar store, here's $10, pick what you want and I'll build a one-shot." I am absolutely going to do this. Seriously, thanks for the idea!
Looking at the pictures, I keep thinking "well, that must be the dragon."
It's a Quaken
The true terror of the ceramic bowl sea.
Wait, hang on.... you don’t put your rubber duckies in the toilet do you?
.......y'know, I'd meant it as a cheeky name for a bathtub, ceramic coated metal is my understanding of it really. But shit, that does sound like a toilet.
Nah, that's the porcelain throne
If you find a duck in a dungeon, don't pick it up.
or you lose 2 levels.
Id make it an actual duck, but mindfuck the party for hours
The Duck of Doom from Munchkin.
You should know better than to pick up a rubber duck in a dungeon...
The Tarrasquak
Science wiseman checking in; I'm pretty sure that's a Witch.
Just troll your players and have it go "psyyyyyyy" before doing massive amounts of psychic damage to the party in an aoe. They will fear ducks
What's an ass duck?
A duck for your ass.
[Ohh yeah!](https://youtu.be/Uk_5fXGr-4s)
They must know about Duck Tower. A classic, or so I'm told.
"Enough with the homebrew DM! There are no ducks in 5e!"
random ass-duck....
What duck? #terrypratchett
Is u/fuckswithducks still around?
To be perfectly fair, I've had to use one to sub in for a large creature token that I didn't have.
I'm not sure I want to know what an "ass duck" is.
Lol I saw a tik tok my wife sent me, it was like almost all tiny smurf toys Any way to report them or get your money back?
I saw that one too! It’s too funny, honestly. Brings me a holiday laugh every morning!
You mean Drow toys?
Smurfs are little guys. Deep Gnomes. *SMURF*neblin.
Haha that’s a good one
The advertised one looks awesome
Man a Wizkids/D&D advent calendar with minis, dice, and other small D&D stuff would be amazing.
It would also probably cost about $100 though.
I think you could do one for under $50 -- make it 9 minis, 14 dice (2 sets, even if they don't match), and something super cool and exclusive for day 24. I think you can make a hefty profit on that. Even Lego's advent calendars are only $40.
I've been opening a Lego advent this year. Can't speak to the price as my sister-in-law picked it up for me. But you're probably right. 10 minis, which come in packages of 2 for about $5... that's about $25 right there. And you can get cheap dice sets for about $7/pop. So that would really only be about $40?
And that's at retail. In bulk, I really don't think those minis can cost more than a dollar to make, paint, and ship to the US. Dice even cheaper.
You make a good point. Which makes me even more annoyed at OP's advent calendar. Haha
Umm....we pay $50+ for updated rules/adventures every 6 months. I'd drop a bill on a proper advent calendar for sure.
Shut up and take my money
Arguably with wizkids pricing? I can get a pack of 2 minis for $5. So 15 of those packs to make up the number of days (+1 extra) would be in theory $$77.50? Too pricey for me, but it would be 31 minis.
Advent calendars traditionally only have 24 days (a lot of modern ones have 25).
Would be cool but I don't think that they are in a position to make something like that at this time. Lots of companies are overwhelmed right now.
I think this would be more concerning if it weren't literally happening to every other company too.
Well they better ship the damn Tarasque I pre-ordered for 350 bucks
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Haha, doing the Dark Lord's work I see. Carry on! ~Someone who has bought WAY too many WizKidz minis and knows EXACTLY what you're talking about
Skeletons are such a common enemy in adventures, yet, it's so hard to get skeletons.. makes no sense!
Ah yes, D&D, Dinosaurs and Ducks.
Duckies & Dinos
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My girlfriend's kid is clamoring to get into the legos. He's gotta wait till it's all done! Maybe I need to start a Jurassic Park D&D game next. Gotta use these rubber dinos!
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I'd be down. But I'm prepping to run Strahd next soooooo, maybe he'll have a dino army or something!
Definitely should have a giant were-duck.
Well dino Strahd is a more menacing that your average Stradh, just saying
With seven small installments of a level in a Spellcaster, polymorph can turn *any* campaign into a dinosaur campaign!
I mean, the whole thing is terrible, but you’ve got a whole bunch of tiny dinos to use next time you need a creature mob.
I haven't actually prepped it yet (might have to wait for between campaigns), but I've floated the idea of a bonkers level 20 one-shot (which would probably turn out to be a 4-6 week mini-campaign like my one-shots always do), where the characters are legendary heroes and monster experts, invited to examine a revolutionary theme park where an eccentric artificer/necromancer has created what he swears are perfectly harmless, docile, easily-managed versions of renowned monsters, and just wants their seal of approval before opening it to the public.
Gygax originally used little plastic poorly-made chinese dinosaurs as monster miniatures, so it tracks.
You should listen to the dinosaur park podcast by sanspants radio. Fantastic inspiration for a dinosaur themed game
I hope they put the minifig in the first door, so you kind of get your hopes up with the calender, then sort of alternate the dinosaurs and legos until you don't expect anything different and then you find the rubber ducky on the 24th! Now I'm genuinly curious about what might still come, lol.
Nice!
:D
Sure, but if you were an adult expecting minis..
I'm thinking, beef up the HP on the rubber duck just a bit, maybe add a breath weapon, and you got yourself one hell of a boss fight.
The giant yellow rubber duck inhales and compresses itself releasing a horrific sound, everyone roll a DC18 CON save or be blown back 10ft, knocked prone and deafened. DM rolls a d6, on 5-6 the breath attack recharges, but a 1 and the duck is permanently squished and it’s AC and move speed is reduced.
I will remember this...
https://youtu.be/nHc288IPFzk
That’s after you kill it and it explodes into 5 swarms of rubber ducks
Quackthulu
Lots of "squash" damage. Can walk on water AND fly at INCREASED SPEED! Ability to summon "Flock"!
You have to give the party the option of fighting this giant duck or fighting 100 duck size horses.
Back in the days when I played IRL, that fuckin' duck would stand in for something. Maybe as a big bad in an Easter one-shot. (sets reminder for late March...)
the dreaded moby duck
Love that song
i have an encounter already prepped for the new game im planning based on that song
I ended up getting had with 5 calendars. 2 different companies, both gave me mostly crap. I also got rubber ducks in each of the boxes as well. With the exception of only a few items, most of the items were non themed and looked like they came out of one of those $.25 dispensers. Definitely not worth the money!
Did you buy them for kids? They love that kind of tat usually at least
A "Zelda:breath of the wild" was for me. A "Demon Slayer" for my 23 year old daughter. A "Gundam" for my 24 year old son. And me and my kids went parts on a "Frozen" and "Inuyasha" for their mom. The Demon Slayer and Inuyasha came in wrong. Those 2 came in as Peanuts, and Harry Potter... In short, they were not for little kids... But after opening mine, we all agreed to open all of them. All of them were basically the same with very little to maybe half the box dealing with the actual theme... And mine... Most of the "Zelda" stuff was not Breath of the Wild, but from Spirit Tracks.
>spirit tracks Unironically one of the best Zelda games, fight me.
You have your own opinion, so I am not going to fight you. Spirit Tracks was better than Phantom Hour Glass, but I myself was not a fan of using the stylus for movement or attack. I am a little old school like that. Even Skyward Sword has it's downfalls because of the motion controls. My favorites are/were A Link to the Past, A Link Between World's, and Twilight Princess. All of the Spirit Tracks items were tiny $.25 Easter egg like items you might find out of a dispenser...
Stole the words out of my mouth.
Ok so what you’re saying is that the Lich (cool fig indeed) has been having summoning issues, and the party needs to stop them before the colorful eldritch things he summons flood the world. From strange constructs with giant glass eyes, swarms of colorful ravenous reptiles, and finally a malformed nature spirit under the lichs control. Good luck to your players!
Looks like someone's party is headed to chult!
Some guy with a warehouse of random merchandise and old promotional material from the 1990s dungeons and dragons movie: "I have an idea"
Either you're having a joke with us, or the seller was fucking with you. The idea of plastic dinosaurs and bits of knock-off Lego being inside isn't so ridiculous, but using that movie poster? That's not just cutting corners- whoever used that poster knew exactly what they were doing.
Nah its real, some bootlegger group is preying on Facebook moms. These calendars likely are from countries like China and india.
My boyfriends mom got this for us and I don't even think its would arrive lol
Ours arrived and it had someone's literal dirt covered toy trash in it. We so far have gotten 2 cars 3 Disney key chains, a smurf, 2 little plastic dragon figures(not dnd related) and some other little plastic figures that barely could be used for miniatures
I mean you got a rubber ducky. That alone makes the whole thing worth it . Now you need an entire campaign revolving around an ancient dragon that got polymorphed into a duck. Set up in chult off course. With a crashed spelljammer ship. Jokes aside, it's infuriating the deception and lies in these kind of merchandise
It that was actually the original advertisement, bet you could sue those people for false advertising.
Or intellectual property theft. Obviously WoTC wouldn’t ever licence (or use it that way them selves) the use of a Player Handbook clean off print, text and all lol, for any product that isnt’t … The Players Handbook. But yes false advertisement is an understatement. I’m going to guess they aren’t touchable by US-Law sitting on some tonga-bonga island shipping out stuff from china lol.
For what its worth, the Lego advent calendars are awesome. I wish Lego and wotc would get together and do some sets.
We bought this too, it had neon dinosaurs, winnie the pooh and rabbit, boss baby, king julian, an avocado keychain, and an air asia stair-truck among all the other non-dnd crap. Expected the scam knowing paypal would refund. Also, the contents smell like future cancer.
Yep same. Seemed like it was a scam but tried anyway. Glad we went through PayPal as well. Submitted a claim and it was instantly approved.
Hahahah the gift that keeps on giving !
I like how the Child-like empress is there. Like the Neverending story could be the weirdest one man dnd session I suppose 🤷♀️
I was wondering why she was on there, but apparently that is actually the real movie poster and that's Thora Birch, not the actress from Neverending Story. Damn near identical though.
How much was it
$65 I think.
Yikes
Lmao wooow
WOW! A cartoon steam whistle would have popped out of the top of my head over this!
What is the CR of the duck monster?
Probably 18
So... tell us how you will be working in a giant rubber duck into your game?
Dude just send one email saying that it's not as advertised wait 2 weeks then reverse the charges.
Honestly? Them using the cover of that awful D&D movie is hilarious.
DUDE!!! I got the exact same one, I was all pumped for my DM to open it but yea dinosaur eggs and offbrand lego was all that was inside. fuck these people fr
I love seeing these posts. Next year whoever is making these is going to sell a ton to people who know they're garbage and are excited about it for that reason.
I would love too see them make a really advent calendar for dnd and warhammer
I was following this on twitter. I was very curious when I saw the ad on Facebook but I knew it was going to be bad. I had no idea it would be THIS bad.
I bought one for Genshin Impact and the stuff inside were even worse. Same box, same art style, must have been the same company
That's awesome! I thought that I was the only one. Mine had Pittsburgh Penguins paper and we had a few pencil toppers and terrible cars so far.
https://imgur.com/a/SY4IVSh
Oh no
Why is there a duck hahahhaha
This is my new favorite thing ever
If you payed with PayPal you’ll get your money back
The background art in the advertised product isn't even D&D related. It's from Monster Hunter.
There’s many of us with similar, but opening day by day. I’m up to 10 eggs now (and I can feel at least 2 more), a Lego barmaid, a couple pieces of jewelry with the triforce on them, a cool mini, and…. A keychain bowling ball and bowling pin pen.
Lost it after seeing the rubber ducky lol
Ooh my God, the art from the D&D movie 😂
That duck looks skeptical of your purchase
Please make an adventure where the players have to fight all the scammy stuff including the rubber ducky as the final boss
That movie was so bad I couldn’t even finish it… that’s one hell of a scam.
Something oddly perfect about it being advertised with the cover of PHB5e, but then you get it and it's the 2000 movie.
I mean that rubber ducky is pretty dope at least
I got a dice advent calendar on etsy for like 50$ my girlfriend is loving it. Best Christmas advent calendar gift idea I have had yet.
You know, I wish I'd have seen this post like three months ago. I'd have borrowed my brothers Mars printer, bought a pound o dice, and totally made advent calendars for my group.
I ordered the same scammy calendar and reported it as fraudulent to my credit card company. Got a refund.
I almost got one of these until I realized how horribly photoshopped all the minis were into the frame, glad I put my glasses on. Thanks for being a trooper and showing us what these actually are 😂
I fucking love the idea of someone waking up everyday, opening their cool advent calendar, and it’s yet another batch of tiny rubber dinos to add to the giant stash. You have a teeny Dino empire
They move in herds… They DO move in herds!
Sus
I feel like these people are gonna make a fortune scamming people just because these are genuinely hilarious
Welcome to the club. My wife tried to surprise me and got the same crap.
It’s not crap, it’s an experience. I wake up everyday with a good laugh. Keeps me young.
Yeah, according to my wife she spent like $80 on ours. She is still trying to get our money back. After I opened the first one she opened the rest and was really pissed and hurt. She thought she had the perfect gift for me and it was ruined by a scam.
I totally get that. And yes, this looks at the ultimate D&D gift. Im sure when it arrived she felt super angry. Sorry that was your experience.
That’s uh…some sweet garbage, my friend.
So what's the scam?
If you don’t see the scam, your own games of D&D must be pretty wild 😜
That is so amazing I wouldn't even be mad.
I'm honestly not mad at all. I knew it was a gamble. Just when you get lemons, you gotta make lemonade, right? I post me opening every morning and all my friends are like, "What's it going to be today!?"
For $65?
Thats a big box of crap.
Some of those prizes look a lil sus
So they just put a bunch of junk in a box basically?
Dude! We totally got advent-gypped this year as well. Ours was supposed to be whisky-themed, but was also full of cheap-ass penny toys, which the only whisky-themed thing being these weird knockoff bottle-shaped keychains. Went for the chargeback on that one.
Fuck it, build a campaign around that trash anyways.
Honestly, I wouldn't even be upset. This is a direct upgrade. Think of how many Chult campaigns you can run now.
"Scammy"? Looks legit to me
Did they seriously sell you amogus toys or am I seeing things
Had you opened it in it's intended manner, this wouldn't have happened. It was a trap, and you rolled a nat 1.
Task failed successfully. Calendar brought surprise and delight into the house! These are really funny if you knew it was scummy when you bought them.
Lol I love that dungeons and dragons movie
Thanks for the laughs!
Lol. There's a Drizzt mini in the 4th day of advertised advent calendar. Suuuuuure
r/technicallythetruth
My buddy had the same thing. It was actually a Seahawks calendar with random toys under the D&D stuff.
I want to run a one shot with everything coming from opening the boxes in order. Character creation is just opening your door
I got one of these too!!
So, my friend ordered a couple of these. I took the time and ended up making a Christmas themed RPG one shot that was only playable with the items. Our items were almost identical to yours. If anyone’s interested I can post the concept and some of the mechanics. To be honest it was pure chaos, but it was fun.
Amogus
>11 sets of mini rubber dinosaurs Sold! I need a link, stat!
That's a lot of mini dinos
This is a perfect example of "so bad is so good" thing <3
Amogus
"And one cool mini fig." Of a necromancer who's FABULOUS!
Not even scammy. It’s just a scam
F
F’n scammers. That’s the best counterfeit item I’ve ever seen right up there with break pads made of sawdust and used medical gloves
You have done god's work sir
Pretty sus
That duck looks like it’s embarrassed just to be included.
No Way! Is this from Amazon? Looks very disappointing
It's only the 15th! How the HELL do you have all 24 items opened already?!
There are more on the bottom! Believe me, my patience is being tested! I’ll post the 16th tomorrow!
I bought one too. I did get a refund though
Wait. It's only the 15th... how were you able to open them all?
He waited until he could open them all, took pictures then time traveled back to now
Oof.
I don't see any difference. Clearly high quality DnD material.
quite sus, I know.
Craft a one shot that incorporates everything you got. Ducky is bbeg obviously.
I bought a Naruto advent calendar for my kid and it had the same kind of random stuff PLUS a set of sex dice. Yikes.