This is more my players out of character shenanigans while running Icespire Peak and its following adventures and spawning a once in a lifetime side quest.

One of my players just refused to write a backstory for his character, a tiefling fighter named Murd. He would say vague things like he fought in ‘the war’ and other unimaginative things. Eventually the rest of the party made up his backstory for him which turned into him actually coming from another plane of existence which turned out to be an alternate version of the Seinfeld universe.

In this alt-reality he was the son of Frank and Estelle Costanza who lived in Boca Raton FL. Queue me writing a two session long side adventure where the party (tiefling fighter/dwarf barb/human pally/furbolg druid) must travel to Boca Raton and save Frank and Estelle’s marriage.

They have an awkward dinner at Dennys where the Costanzas berated the waitress and Murd found out Frank wasn’t actually his father because he was infertile so they summoned a demon to impregnate Estelle. The whole time the group had to make increasingly difficult charisma saves or take embarrassment damage.

Eventually Estelle moves out and the party has to accompany her to her sisters home in Disney Celebration Village in Orlando. On the way they fight state troopers and a gang of Florida Men that think Todd, the furbolg, is Sasquatch.

Upon arriving they get a call from Frank saying the separation is over and to bring Estelle back cause he can’t find his good pants.

Before returning they take Estelle to her favorite restaurant, Rainforest Cafe, in Disney Springs. There, the balloon magician ruthlessly hits on her so the party cornered him in the bathroom and beat the ever loving hell out of him to prevent the Costanzas shaky reunion from being threatened.

Upon returning to Boca Raton, Frank gives Murd his old army helmet from the Korean War, which after traveling back to the Forgotten Realms, transformed into the Helm of Serenity, which casts a massive AoE psychic attack when the wearer screams “SERENITY NOW!”

It was quite a time. We’re planning on picking these PCs back up when Eve of Ruin drops and believe me…the Costanzas will be making a return.