101 Inspiringly Punny Titles...

[Pbartender]

I'd like to start a list...

What I'm looking for are puns that are based off of short, common phrases, sayings and proverbs, that would work well as the title for a D&D adventure, and that also inspire the plot of the adventure itself. For example:

1. "To Heir Is Human" - An adventure about foiling a usurper, or perhaps a murder mystery concerning a large inheritance, or maybe the search for a long, lost son of a noble... Could also involve human/humanoids half-breeds (like half-elves or half-orcs).

2. "Feud For Thought" - A psionic doppleganger is instigating a war between two clans for his own gain.

 

[Zephrin the Lost]

'Small Medium at Large' is the punchline of a joke and the title of a quest I'll be sending my players on down the line. A gnome fortune teller/mystic gets himself in trouble with the local thieves' guild and turns to the players for help.

 

[NMcCoy]

'Small Medium at Large' is the punchline of a joke and the title of a quest I'll be sending my players on down the line. A gnome fortune teller/mystic gets himself in trouble with the local thieves' guild and turns to the players for help.

I am so yoinking that for my own game. Thanks.

 

[Richards]

I've often used pun titles for some of my adventures. There have been:

"Centaur of Attention," about a captured centaur used to pull a cart for an evil wizard

"Invisible Stalker," which was not about the monster, but rather a human stalker with a ring of invisibility

"Peer Amid the Waters," about a flooded pyramid (that one was even subtitled "You Conduit If You Try," since there was a pair of conduit bracelets featured in the adventure)

"Time Well Spent," about an artifact, the time well, that was currently "spent" of its stored temporal energy

"A Boring Little Adventure," in which an aspis hive is blamed for attacks by a group of boring beetles​

I even managed to get the first three published.

Johnathan

 

[Nymrohd]

'Small Medium at Large' is the punchline of a joke and the title of a quest I'll be sending my players on down the line. A gnome fortune teller/mystic gets himself in trouble with the local thieves' guild and turns to the players for help.

That is from the powerpuff girls if I am not wrong

 

[Mark]

I suppose that The Whispering Woodwind qualifies.

 

[Zephrin the Lost]

That is from the powerpuff girls if I am not wrong

I heard it as a quick gag on NPR about a midget psychic who robbed a bank. Like many puns, I think it's old enough to vote.

 

[On Puget Sound]

See: Piers Anthony, Xanth series. Pretty much every title, and at least two decent puns (and 20 miserable ones) per chapter.

 

[Evilhalfling]

"B-Quest"
Party was offered a heirloom treasure map. The quest featured every monster type starting with "B" from the Monsterous Compendium. I was especially proud of fitting the Barracuda in a forest environment.
I don't remember when the Players figured it out, but they began throwing dice.

 

[Random Axe]

I wrote an adventure called Kwai on the River Bridge, which involved a band of giants besieging a bridge to search for their lost relic.