Anyone else triggered that the hammer wasn't named "The Nutcracker"? Lost oppertunity right there

@CrispysTavern

3 жыл бұрын

Amazing, spectacular, incredible, phenomenal. Get this man a medal.

@Arcticmaster1190

3 жыл бұрын

I would have gone with “Ball Buster”. There were missed opportunities aplenty for that one.

@MenxiGoblinQueen

3 жыл бұрын

was just about to say...

@MetaGiga

3 жыл бұрын

I would have named it ‘The Cock Crippler’

@monkeysk8er33

3 жыл бұрын

I had a similar event happen in my campaign. The Paladin got "Dickpiercer, Holy Hammer of Phoenexia"

Paladin: "I sleep in my armor every night!" Me, as DM: "Okay, we've been traveling for 4 days, you have 4 levels of exhaustion because you haven't gotten any good sleep on the trip."

@jpjfrey5673

2 жыл бұрын

Not really. Unless it's the Darker Dungeons rule, armor doesn't affect resting

@ARViuff

2 жыл бұрын

@@jpjfrey5673 a google search informed me Xanathar's guide has a rule which does affect armor and resting heavy and medium suffer less hit point recovery and no decrees in any levels of exhaustion if the character has any more searching revealed the quote from the book itself "Sleeping in Armor Sleeping in light armor has no adverse effect on the wearer, but sleeping in medium or heavy armor makes it difficult to recover fully during a long rest. When you finish a long rest during which you slept in medium or heavy armor, you regain only one quarter of your spent Hit Dice (minimum of one die). If you have any levels of exhaustion, the rest doesn’t reduce your exhaustion level." according to my search this should be on page 77, alas I cannot check how valid this info is as I do not own the book. and I guess since the book is not the core rule book, you could always ignore as it is an expansion to the game. I am not adverse or knowledgeable in these "darker dungeons rules" but looking around makes it seem like they are homebrew rules and not offically made by wizards of the coast. I could be wrong. So if the guy did sleep in armor he would not have exhaustion but he would heal less and need to spend more healing to get his full hp back every long rest.

@jpjfrey5673

2 жыл бұрын

@@ARViuff he wouldn't need to spend anything. Long rest restores HP to full regardless of exhaustion. The only way to prevent this is casting Dream on the character and even then they get a save. Plus this rule is ignored by basically everyone who isn't going for gritty realism

@LuxDraconis

5 ай бұрын

*vibing as wizard who doesn't wear heavy armor*

Describes the DM doing something utterly disgusting and unfair (the lifeboat scene). _"The rest of them [besides Munchkin] were cool."_ No, OP, no they were not. Also the rest of the party basically stole from you with that party chest nonsense. None of them were cool.

@jpjfrey5673

2 жыл бұрын

This is exactly why the "party share" loot is an incredibly bad idea. It's like the prisoners' dillemma: someone is guaranteed to abuse it and steal

@gelusvenn5063

2 жыл бұрын

They were, in fact, not cool. *That music from that show about the idiots with danny devito plays* Also: Nice.

@APerson-ws4cw

2 жыл бұрын

@@jpjfrey5673 it works if the party are all cool

@ss3nm0dn4r8

2 ай бұрын

@@jpjfrey5673 it works if most of the players agree and the dm stops the person who tries to abuse it

"Everyone else was about being generous" Op, both the people you where playing with and their characters willingly didn't put any money into the party chest, but happily decided to take some out. Munchkins name fit perfectly

That fall damage ruling was dumb af. Everything about that whole scene screamed bad dming in my book. Enemy is wearing heavy armor on a ship- what fool goes on a boat wearing heavy armor unless they have water breathing in some form? Enemy falls off ship, life boat magically appears under them (unless it was already there, but doubt it) - good job dm taking away any rewarding experience from having a creative solution, all to save a basic mob. High dex bard PC takes fall damage for purposely jumping down to the life boat when heavy armor wearing enemy falling on their back takes none?! - not just an inconsistent ruling, but a plainly terrible one with completely backwards logic that only serves to punish the player and benefit the enemy. The epitome of stupidity, and I would have told the dm just that. Then lastly, not letting the player rescind their action after finding out that you're going to rule fall damage in the most ass backwards way just to punish the player likely for outsmarting the encounter - love how taking away player agency is the cherry on top of this shit salad. DM vs Player style is a bad way of running the game unless it's what everyone signed up for, in which case the rulings still need to be fair and consistent.

@DaDunge

3 жыл бұрын

Medium armour, half plate is medium armour, and I think you could probably swim in half plate.

@goombrosaustrosity4277

3 жыл бұрын

Sometimes this can just happen. In my time DM'ing Ive made simmilar calls. Especially if theres a lot going on I could easily give damage to somthing that didnt earlier. These are of course accidental but in the intrest of keeping things moving forward id still keep whatever happend stand. If you tell me you jumped off then you did the second you said it. If he didnt take damage and you did there better be a reason. Thats the key to keeping the story moving In this case yes your on the boat and yes you took damage but id try to correct somthing like the enemy broke his leg and he had somthing nice on him. Yes i made a bad call and it took you out of the emersion but here take some gold and come back into the story. If it happens a lot then thats when you need to halt things and adress it. Ive had to retcon entire encounters because of failed mechanics. But one slip up with a boat really isnt that bad.

@AtelierGod

2 жыл бұрын

@@goombrosaustrosity4277 oh right the most reasonable of reasons, you meant to jump down he didn’t while wearing lighter armor than him.

@mikeharris6429

2 жыл бұрын

@@goombrosaustrosity4277 just stop making stupid decisions and if you do something dumb don’t just dig in your heels and refuse to acknowledge you were wrong when you’re called out.

The DM had lots of issues too in my opinion for allowing this to happen.

@jamiekamihachi3135

2 жыл бұрын

DM just seems like a problem player himself. The whole boat scene is just bullshit.

Friends is a terrible comparison for group cohesion. I never could understand why Ross, the largest friend, did not simply eat the other Friends.

@o__o.6212

3 жыл бұрын

Found the Lizardfolk

@macro3751

3 жыл бұрын

ikr, so weird

@nondescriptcat5620

2 жыл бұрын

perhaps they are saving that for sweeps.

"He casts shatter on eggs when he throws them into the air over the grill". Thus DnD was won.

@MrMonochromatic

2 жыл бұрын

Imagine how LOUD that show is though...

@Sellesion

2 жыл бұрын

What I want to know is, is it to de-shell/crack the egg, or make it scrambled? :3

@karlwilker579

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sellesion Scrambled.

@Sellesion

2 жыл бұрын

@@karlwilker579 Thank you, that's what I imagined too. Love it. Lol

@ZorotheGallade

2 жыл бұрын

How2Basic: Fantasy Edition

If dude was sleeping in his heavy armor, he shouldn't be getting his full hp back. Unless he never took damage, I would think that would catch up to him pretty quick.

@caiusdrakegaming8087

3 жыл бұрын

Relationship with the DM, favoritism happens. Plus I don't remember any rule in 5e that says you don't get full HP back if you sleep with heavy armor on. Might just be more like a house rule or something, not really a rule people will always enforce in the first place.

@CrispysTavern

3 жыл бұрын

Hmmm, not a D&D rule (at least to my knowledge). However, I really like this rule anyway. In fact, I might steal this for my campaign.

@jakethejax

3 жыл бұрын

@@CrispysTavern There's actually an optional rule for sleeping in armor in Xanathar's Guide to Everything on p.77-78. "When you finish a long rest during which you slept in medium or heavy armor, you regain only one quarter of your spent Hit Dice (minimum of one die). If you have any levels of exhaustion, the rest doesn't reduce your exhaustion level." I'm personally not a fan of it though as PCs are tough and sleeping in armor historically wasn't a huge deal.

@tommaydag420

3 жыл бұрын

@@CrispysTavern Maybe i'm thinking of a previous version, but sleeping in heavy armor used to cause points of exhaustion if i remember correctly, it's been a long time since i've seen it as a rule however. Recently at my table, you regain only about a quarter of your rest HP for sleeping in heavy armor, half for medium. Light get's off easy because usually it's only about as encumbering and uncomfortable as heavy clothing. Though it really depends on how heavy you want to go into don/doff rules and such.

@caiusdrakegaming8087

3 жыл бұрын

@@tommaydag420 Yeah, you were thinking of a previous version. Exhaustion barely gets applied anymore in the rules because it's just to damn hard to deal with. Like it's legit just annoying for everyone to deal with, as even one level can fuck you for the rest of the game. It's just not a fun mechanic, and people play this game to have fun.

Heat metal and Shatter are honestly the best spells out there.

@finnmchugh99

3 жыл бұрын

Especially against big armoured dudes, except Iron Golems and Fire Giants but Shatter is definitely good against Golems, I think but on guys like a armoured guards, cultists and bandits n stuff just great

@beastwarsFTW

3 жыл бұрын

I call them "Stake n' Bake" and "Frag Grenade", the frag grenade is obvious but "Stake n' Bake" refers to casting it my arrowheads or crossbow bolts and then firing them.

@mastertwitch1

2 жыл бұрын

Best spell I've ever seen used was Command. Our cleric used it against a corrupt magistrate while he was giving a speech. The command word? Deficate. It was tragically hilarious!

@gigaswardblade7261

2 жыл бұрын

There was a guy in my old group who thought the spell was useless. This was also the group who decided hold person and hold monster were too overpowered due to a storm giant battle we once had

@Anton_Jermakoŭ

2 жыл бұрын

in a world where web and hypnotic pattern exist they are not unfortunately

That fall damage and life boat situation almost seems like the DM intentionally targeting the player, like the DM and Munchkin was in cahoots to make him feel unwelcome and choose to leave without coming off as assholes to the rest of the group.

as a side note, heat metal doesn't require you to be within 60ft of the target for the duration of the spell, so as long as he goes first in initiative and can outrun the tank palidlock build, he can essentially kite him until he fries since there isnt a save. heat metal good spell

@demoninquisition7470

3 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, the good ol' cook-and-book

@alpharius7216

3 жыл бұрын

@@demoninquisition7470 the good old fry n' fly

@theuncalledfor

3 жыл бұрын

@@demoninquisition7470 _"Nooo... I still have nightmares about the joust..."_ -some gnoll

Weird, the only person spending money on a fund became the poorest? I wonder why? XD

@KirbyUber

3 жыл бұрын

Not to mention they gave the toddler logic later of "Yeah but when we had a party chest only the poorest player was contributing so it was pointless!" That's a whoosh right there XD

@DaDunge

3 жыл бұрын

@@KirbyUber I think he was trying to be funny.

@DaDunge

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah we also have a player who try to force standing jokes.

@TheNormExperience

2 жыл бұрын

I was NOT expecting a real life lesson on Taxes listening to an rpghorrorstories but that’s what that sentence made me think of; Everyone’s supposed to pay an equal percentage to help cover everyone’s needs for the greater good (the greater good), but the only one who does isn’t making as much as everyone else, and thus making far less by paying their percentage consistently, so the overall amount ends up obviously not being able to cover what it was made for and now everyone who did AND didn’t pay is mad.

One of my character concepts was a chef who made a pact with a cursed knife to win a cooking competition. So she's a Hexblade Warlock now. I've considered going Pact of the Tome for that cookbook flavor.

Ugh that DM with his "well you already did it so you can't take it back" nonsense. Since when did landing on your head do less damage than landing on your feet anyway?

@theuncalledfor

3 жыл бұрын

It would normally be an acceptable thing, but the nonsensical and contradictory ruling about having the enemy not get hurt while the player does take damage, as well as the fact that there was MAGICALLY just a lifeboat there for no reason in the first place, makes it utterly dogshit. The DM should have their (figurative) DM'ing license revoked.

I have a player who has memorized þe monster manual. I have almost exclusively thrown Homebrew monsters at þem to combat that. He’s not trying to metagame, but he just... *knows* everything.

@johndavis-si2oo

3 жыл бұрын

ok i know it is a bit annoying but that is just a bit toxic if the guy spent the time to do that you culd throw him a bone

@jacobvandiver2019

3 жыл бұрын

@@johndavis-si2oo how is it toxic? If the guy has read the entire monster manual then it’s probably exciting to face something he doesn’t know about. Besides he said that he “almost exclusively” does it, meaning he does use the monsters from the monster manual from time to time.

"Something real, like flute" and drums and lute aren't? What?

Im glad OP was forgiving to the DM because honestly I hate them. XD I guess in the moment Munchkin was the greater annoyance but for the party chest thing and the fall damage ruling I would be pissed specifically at the DM

@newbienoah9461

3 жыл бұрын

They shouldn't be left off the hook for tolerating it knowing that Munchkin was being a major issue.

i made a ranger that was entirely made to be a guy who just liked studying plants and animals. characters made based on backstory rather than practicality are amazing.

@nvfury13

2 жыл бұрын

Just a nature documentary show host as a Ranger? Cool concept. I’ve seen another cool one, Steve Irwin the Beastmaster Ranger.

they should've named the hammer "the nutcracker"

I don't understand why DM's allow metagaming when its so easy to fix. If someone wants to look something up, they got to roll for it. A quick skill check to see if your character has picked up some trivia or just happen to know this particular monster. Then they know its vulnerable to this or immune to that and can tell the party if the other characters want to know. Is that really so hard?

@CrispysTavern

3 жыл бұрын

As the OP mentioned, there was likely an out-of-game reason why Muchkin's in-game BS was tolerated.

@H240909

3 жыл бұрын

@@CrispysTavern I know but I'm speaking generally.

@XMaster340

3 жыл бұрын

I find it way more effective to just switch around the stats. A fire-resistant troll with weakness to fire, a ghost that can only be hurt by rusty weapons, etc. Bonus points for designing the monster in a way that gives everyone disadvantage who tries to metagame.

@matheusmoreira9951

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that's what most games I've been in allowed us to do. If anyone would have a character that could have knowledge of that type of creature could roll for the specific knowledge (usually nature for weird animals, history for humanoids and arcana for abyssal, infernal, draconics or aberrations ) and depending on the roll he would disclose resistances, weaknesses... and if the roll was way too high, he would even say " okay, meta-gamming unlocked, it's this monster" for us to look it up.

@caiusdrakegaming8087

3 жыл бұрын

@@matheusmoreira9951 I allow that for rangers on their first favored enemy type. If they devoted their life to hunting this specific group of enemies, then I can allow them to basically metagame abilities and such on the monster.

I audibly yelled out "WHAT?!" on my way to work when I heard the metagamer tried to argue that shatter isn't a bard spell.

Traveling hibachi chef bard is a really good concept. I hope they don’t mind if I steal it for a character I’ve had in mind. The character was already a Warforged college of swords bard, but the original concept was a ronin-like character who was a wizard’s personal assassin/bodyguard until he failed and is now masterless. I’m thinking I’ll alter it so that he was the combat butler type instead, much like Sebastian Michaelis from Black Butler (using the character as an example, not playing him.) He would have been his master’s head chef/personal assistant/bodyguard instead.

Sleeping in armour according to Xanathar's optional rules: "Sleeping in light armor has no adverse effect on the wearer, but sleeping in medium or heavy armor makes it difficult to recover fully during a long rest. When you finish a long rest during which you slept in medium or heavy armor, you regain only one quarter of your spent Hit Dice (minimum of one die). If you have any levels of exhaustion, the rest doesn’t reduce your exhaustion level."

Seems like DM and Munchkin were both big problems

ok, missed opportunity to call the hammer "Ball Breaker"

One of the greatest moment in Session 20 was my PC getting Petrified due to a bad knowledge roll about Baslisk.

Talking about meta gaming reminds me of time when we where fighting an ooze I can't remember the type but it's one that splits if you attack it with anything apart from fire. There was six of us in the party and five us new the fact that every time attacked it would split if you didn't use fire but none of characters knew so all us except for the sixth member where all holding our actions as to not attack the slime. eventually the area we were in was so full of oozes we just left the area.

@MrSasukeSusanoo

3 жыл бұрын

well you could've attacked so in game your characters knew what wasn't effective and sort out what was effective, and just use it, I don't know if you had fire magic or other means to make fire, but if you had, you could've done just that. I know that as a player you don't want to make things difficult for you, but if you don't do that sooner, then later, your characters won't know nothing of how to effectively combat, and will be utterly useless, and you'll have to force some metagaming to actually be able to fight, because you know how, but you didn't let the character learn it through the campaign because of your player knowledge, and that makes a weak character who will make roleplaying very difficult for you. So, just play fair as if it's your first time in D&D, just as your character without your player knowledge would, and all is fine. If someone gets triggered by you doing that, then they're not really good players, because they can't win without metagaming, and the game is about Role-play, not metagame, no matter how skilled of a player you are, your new character isn't, and you have to play just like that, you can make a strong build and justify it with your background or your intentions for your character's plot developement, but the rest and the most important thing depends on the roleplay, because with that, your character gains knowledge, experience, and you'll be able to use more of your player knowledge, to your advantage, without it being metagaming, because the character knows that too, making it legal

The first time I had a player start quoting the stat-block like that I did something simple. I just made my own monsters. He got so upset with me.

I would of called that hammer "The Ball Buster"

I only “Mettagamed” when I chose to use Firebolt instead of Eldritch Blast on a Troll but even then I had a reason. My character loves to read and Trolls are known monsters in the world, he merely read at some point a survival tip for a Troll attack.

@GhostRavenFIN

3 жыл бұрын

If your character can reasonably know it it's not exactly metagaming.

So the passage at around the six minute mark, ingame characters do not have guaranteed access to out of game knowledge, and if the monsters they're fighting weren't undead or demons, the Paladin probably wouldn't be the one to know that shit anyways.

You sleep in armor every night? Bet. Your now at 5th level Exhaustion. I'd love for you to sleep tonight. -Later that night Hey Munchkin, make a Wisdom Save at disadvantage. Aw shucks you died bro. Yeah someone used Dream.

On metagaming: I DM a 5e campaing on a homebrew world. One of my player's character has quite the knowledge about nature, beasts and whatnot. Whenever she makes a successful relevant check, I share a piece of information about the creature she is asking about. That's her in-character knowledge. Never once she felt the need to look up statblocks. It would be useless anyways, since I changed almost everything that exist.

Using Harry Potter as an example of a character that drives the plot is hilariously wrong

A really good point about modding monsters. I already know looking up a stat block would be useless with my DM, as he likes to customize them, and it keeps them really interesting. One example being a legendary Behir that would take on the breath weapon of a dragon that it ate, and before knowing this the party found white dragon remains at the entrance of its lair.

I would've convinced my friends to kill Munchkin's character

He can reach the Giant’s hip but “can’t make a solid hit from that”? Somebody has never taken a bat to the hip or heard of kneecapping.

Sleeps in his Armour, fine all enemy's have advantage on Perception checks because of the smell, oh and his little Darkness thing is mute as the smell means enemy's are at advantage, so with his disadvantage that's a straight roll

I felt OP on the wanting to find a reason not to go to a session. I've been there. I finally just said screw it and left the group.

My current DM had to nip the whole looking up monster stats in the bud with our new game. We have a new player that kept asking "this monster should have x hit points right?" Or "why aren't they using multi attack when they have that skill?" My DM just came back with "They're a baby so they're not as smart or strong as the full adult monster". Then after the game she taught him about how DMs will modify monsters to fit the current level of the party so as to not just kill the party every time the DM wants to use a strong monster. I much prefer that to the game I was in with a different DM who would use the strongest attack on the weakest character every turn. I think adjusting levels or what attacks are used shows that the DM is more engaged with the players.

As the sourcebooks are intended as real world items, id allow info gathering from the books. 1: does your character own that book? 2: how familiar are you with the book? 3: roll me intelligence to find that page. 4: here's what ill let your character know.

Another example for how there isn't just one main character is with the Hero's of Olympus book series, and with how it rotates from each character's viewpoints.

Every supposed "Powerful Build" will always have a counter somewhere. Munchkin, for example, would be utterly screwed fighting any dragon higher than a wyrmling. Blindsight negates the perks of his darkness, or the dragon could just fly out of reach and shower the area with their breath weapon.

I’ve done something similar to OP, in that I left after things built up. Though the problems all stemmed from my DM (and during a one shot I ran, from him and from another player). Difference is I never talked with my dm about leaving and what to do with my character, as the character I was playing at the moment was basically an npc the dm told me to Re-Class and play, rather than the idea I brought to him when I was retiring my first character (something that was only happening because I was constantly at odds with the party and the dm as the only Good aligned npcs, and more so, as the cleric.

So on the topic of Metagaming, I have played two campaigns before, using the same character where I was a passive PC, more or less there to help along new players. I play a werewolf monster hunter, sort of like a witcher. This allows the DM to have a way to give the players a hand in game without direct intervention on his part. In the case of my monster hunter I am always a few levels higher and mostly avoid combat (at my request, though the DM can ask me to intervene if he thinks the party is risking tpk). I avoid blatantly telling players things, while answering when directly asked (in character) about certain things. In one case during a session, the players couldn't figure out what the mysterious monster was, and after a few IRL hours of trying, finally asked my character, to which I told them they were dealing with some type of hydra (I forget exactly what it was) and on another occasion, when asked, gave them details about how to defeat a dracolitch. Imho, that is one of the few acceptable uses of metagaming

@CrispysTavern

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely, I have a Blood Hunter and Knowledge Domain Cleric in the party and I let them do something similar. It gives those classes more identity and can be useful if the DM needs to give some exposition.

Guitars have existed since the high middle ages in Spain, you should absolutely be allowed to have one in D&D

i like the bard named Jethro Tull and plays a flute, thought that was really clever.

Jethro Tull the band is named after the 18th century British agriculturist of the same name. The band also famously includes fluteplaying. Something that I’ve defenetly heard A LOT as a flautist myself who like a bit of rock.

Anyone who says they sleep in heavy armor should have to try to get 8 hours of sleep in an IOTV with four plates, kevlar, 200 rounds of linked ammo, shoulder pads, neck protector, throat protector, and groin protector.

This is why I don't have fun with the folks I play Pathfinder with. Both players min max whatever character they play while I stick with standard set up. Nothing sucks the fun out of a game when the melee fighter (myself) receives max damage/get killed in almost every battle while the magic users (the other two players) always roll great numbers, delivering max damage even at level 1. (doesn't help they roll off of discord, so you never see if they're actually rolling the numbers they say they are - but the DM never questions it). Next time they want me to play, I'm going to insist that min maxing is thrown out the window and all rolls must be done on Discord to avoid cheating (because there is no way these other two players were rolling that good that often).

Did the DM have a stroke at 13:00? Those judgements were insane.

What a saf DM, even IF they had a relationship you can still easily change the stat-block and switch stuff around.

2:03 missed opportunity for it to be named the nut cracker

The hammer should have been named “the nutcracker”

How could you not notice that you were the only one contributing, like in what loot format would you not be able to notice that the balance is matched exactly to what you've paid in? Not Roll20. Not Foundry. Not Discord. There's no "I put the money in" cause you're doing the Math.

@CrispysTavern

3 жыл бұрын

Good point, but based on the way OP described it, the loot was hands off after you paid in. I imagine the DM just asked each player individually how much gold they wanted to contribute. Then afterward, the DM would just tell them that the gold pile was used to pay for whatever they needed. OP only checked the amount when they were lower on funds. That’s when he realized no one else contributed.

@KirbyUber

3 жыл бұрын

@@CrispysTavern Yeah that's kinda what I assumed. I was thinking though, when the character contributed to the chest, they should have noticed and the DM should have said (They'd know this was happening). It's a mark against the DM that they let this happen without telling them. In my book at least :/

Looking up monsters in a campaign I run is a plan to fail. I mod all of them!

the mulitple story lines is so true: our dm has one for my ranger, one for each of our bards, I think one for our wizard, one for our cleric I think and the only reason our 'monk' doesn't have one is...he's a walking chaotic cloud cukoo lander with the attention span of a ferret and is hilarious

From another channel, "Just pay the gold piece... It's not even real!"

For the "finding out about enemy monsters" since me an my players (we rotate who the dm is and the dm always has a pc of same level as the rest of us to have a 3 man party super small group ik) what we do before the dm says "roll for imitative" is we say "roll to see what you know about this thing" normally ether a flat INT roll or a nature / religion / arcana roll dm's call on wich. THEN depending on what each of the characters get he says what person X knows about this thing. then gives us a few in game seconds to "cliff notes" that info. never stats like str/dex/con ect ect hp or ac just resistances, vulnerabilities, usual languages (if it knows any) and abilities. that is the most we ever get even if we have a +10 in the called for roll and get a nat 20 for a 30 total. even if us as playeres have encountered that creature a dozen and a half times we have the "i as a player know X Y and Z about this nasty but what does my character know about it? lets find out"

The first story they missed the name of the ball breaker!

im a huge fan of the . "YAY the MC was on time! , We can't continue with out the MC. Don't worry guys the MC is with us! we can't lose! " All the tongue and cheek. Sarcasm. "What you fail to realize is that I am an MC and you are an NPC. "

One of my players had a habit of trying to outshine everyone in their rolls of the party.

@old_manclearwater3438

2 жыл бұрын

All of his characters eventually morphed into the same person.

Jethro Tull... *slow clap* One of my favorite childhood bands

Personally as a player and a dm I don't have a problem with people looking up stat blocks partly due to what you mentioned that a lot of dms modify the stats but also because as a dm and a player I'm constantly looking up different monsters I might want my players to face and sometimes that inspiration comes from the things we are fighting in the games I play in

Honestly, I think this channel is a little bit better than most d&d horror story channels.

A hibachi chef performance bard is such a fun idea tho 😄

I've never heard of Jethro Tull as Jazz fusion 😂🤣😂

lol...as soon as someone tries to metagame vulnerabilities and stuff, I just change everything on the spot. But tbh my group is pretty good with this stuff and at most ask to roll knowledge checks to see if they know the necessary information. But I still surprise them sometimes. Last session they thought they were facing a regular giant snake (even though I described how diseased it looked), and were super shocker when the snake went into a rage-like status after falling below half hp, including becoming immune to charm and fear and gaining extra reactions for retaliatory attacks. That was fun.

as someone who often homebrews monsters and plays with a few newbies i feel i dont have to worry about them looking up monster stats

"Ball buster" would have been a better name

"The DM isn't bad overall, even though he outright shat on OP during the whole boat debacle and yadda yadda." I'm in complete disagreement with you on this one Crispy. Anyone stupid enough to go "Yeah, you take fall damage but my npc enemy doesn't, lawl!" needs to be banned from DMing, that isn't just stupid it's ACTIVELY wrong. You are essentially punishing your player for making a good move by, FIRST OF ALL, giving the fucking enemy PLOT ARMOR and preventing them plunging to their death in the ocean by a MAGICAL lifeboat that I can almost guarantee was never mentioned before, and then dumping on them a SECOND time by refusing to acknowledge gravity for your enemy but nailing the player for it? Nah, I would have told them "That's not how gravity works, and if you argue with me on this you will not like how this discussion ends for you." "OH! And the other players only made a mistake by actively ignoring the suggestion of having a group money cache that everyone can use for necessities like traveling expenses." That isn't making a mistake, you are again failing to recognize people being actively malicious in their intent and actions. These people blatantly shafted OP by not donating a single copper to the party necessities fund, that's the kind of thing people got murdered for in those kinds of settings and you can bet that I would enjoy seeing to it that they died for it. "Oh, you were just a little too close and I couldn't help the placement of that Shatter, sucks hard man but you'll be alright just roll up a new character. What? Healing Word? What kind of Bard do you take me for? I'm a Hibachi Chef baby! Besides, I took Cure Wounds because it heals better. Yeah, I know it's touch, but I'm already a melee style Bard so why not?"

'Friends'? Ha! A better example would be NCIS - they're all professionals part of a team that works together to solve problems and deal with threats

I have a legitimate question that I’m not sure if it would be considered meta-gaming and if it is would it be considered OK? An artificer item that is the equivalent of the DBZ Scouter The only thing it would really be able to do is figure out the HP of the current monster. (this would basically be a way for anybody using the item to know how much more it will take to kill whatever monster they’re fighting.) I’m trying to figure out if this would be an OK kind of item or if it would be too much it wouldn’t say anything else about the monster just how much health they have left.

@CrispysTavern

3 жыл бұрын

Happy to help, I wouldn’t recommend including that item in your game for one reason: scaling monster difficulty will become incredibly difficult. I sometimes adjust the HP of monsters by minor amounts, this item would make that impossible. I would change it to show something else about the creature, resistances?

My character is a cleric with the intel skill so i roll for the stat block which after a few turns we'll know its whole xP unless i roll and sometimes we don't know nuffin

I have to monster-adjust on the fly because we're playing LotR without buying the expensive region guides and thus I need to keep the orcs' levels updated.

Made a cleric an old dragonborn on a pilgrimage to take a teaset to her sister in a different town. Gets sucked into Avernus. Still makes it work. But we also have a fighter bugbear minmaxer. The player does this Everytime with every character. If he minmaxes again, I'm not joining

I still have no idea why he's called munchkins

So technically the guy was beaten by sanji

@zach415

2 жыл бұрын

Heat Metal=Diablo Jambe

@shayukitsune8879

2 жыл бұрын

@@zach415 especially based on what we learned recently

I will just absolutely never understand how some people can be that non-selfaware. How primitive does your mindset have to be, to wrestle a now npc in a imaginary world just to serfe your own ego?! I get it, I am sometimes angry during games on other players and of course I would try to get back on them. But the egocentristic nature of some special individuals is just absolutely mind boggling...

That character sounds awesome.

I became the leader of the group cause everyone else was new so I chose to be the best damn healer and keep those fuckers alive

The true horror story is giving DM free pass.

... so there are people out there who dont know who Jethro Tull were? Amazing...

Reading stat blocks might be frowned upon by most groups, it might even be against the "spirit" of the game, but it is NOT cheating. The knowledge absolutely is out there and publicly available, and especially for experienced DM even if they aren't looking up stat blocks, they may simply remember the stats from having run those monsters themselves. That kind of meta knowledge can be an entirely valid way to play. It's arguably not even that "meta", if one considers that heroic adventures who spend their time going around fighting monsters would have good reason to be well informed about the kinds of threats that exist in the world. HOWEVER... ...continuing to spout off numbers when the rest of the group has asked you to stop is just straight up rude.

just saying meet cheaters with cheats, you look up a creature guess what it can cast fireball at 9th level. the point in range your colon. also minmaxers get really upset when they get solo'd by a druid with conjure woodland beings.

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@CrispysTavern

3 жыл бұрын

[Appreciation Given!] Happy to have you friend.

@aconfusedcomputer1072

3 жыл бұрын

@@CrispysTavern In all seriousness though, keep up the good work, I shall witness your growth with great interest.

That is the best bard char I have heard about. At least he wasn't trying to put his d into everything with a pulse.

Probably too late for anyone to see this but: "He wants a minimum of 2 pages of backstory, so I wrote up just shy of 5. He calls me out on it, which is fine, I deserved it." This is driving me crazy. What am I missing? I have no idea what he would be called out on. Did he mean to type "maximum"?

@RosesSpindle

2 жыл бұрын

Going over twice the requested length is overkill and more likely to be bogged down with excess detail, as I understand it.

I see how power gaming of the minority of the group can ruin the game because it makes it hard for the DM to balance the encounters (challenging the power gamers will ruin the fun for everybody else and normal encounters, for the majority of the group, will be cheesed by the power gamers making combat trivial and boring) In my opinion, however, this is something that should be discussed in session 0. If some players want to minmax because they want to try out an overpowered build they've come up with, while being able to support it with proper background and good rp, it is unfair to ruin their fun just cause the build is too op. Maybe the DM can crank up the difficulty and help all party members (with the help of the minmaxers as well) to come up with strong characters that also fit with their RP ideas or they can nerf some OP combos by adding rerstrictions or penalties on them when used. For example the darkness+devil's sight combo could give one level of exhaustion whenever used or make the character blind until they finish a long rest after, making it useable but not abusable. But that should be discussed beforehand, otherwise the player may accuse the DM for arbitrarily nerfing their character because the hate them or they are a bad DM that can't handle their awesome build smth. And if that's something that has to happen mid campaign they should discuss it with the player, before making any adjustments. And if some things the DM does not want to allow, like sorlock getting infinite spellslots, they should tell the players from the begining. Managing expectations is probably the most important thing in this kind of games.

2:09 Is op sure he ain't a munchkin too?

Being a main character is not about being a min maxer it is about working the party and DM in such way they make you main character out of their own volition... I might need to see a psychiatrist...

Ah controlling buttons.

When the minmaxer was minimized

There's power gamers and then min/maxers, there is a difference

Aqua Lung

Did you mean Tiberius Stormwind from critical role?

Only Monster Slayer Rangers are capable of researching Monster Manual stuff, it's an ability where they take time out of combat or something and brush up on current monster health, weaknesss and other stuff and is balanced. But it's good not to know what the monster is for other classes as it makes it more fun and learn from experience. Also Crispy is right, it's cheating and lqme and downright boring. Cuz the MM is a guideline than a full set of rules

the information is out there so why not use it? the door is right over there not do as you said and use it? preferably in the same amount of time it took to look up the information about the creature we are fighting.

Tells everybody "We have to be serious GUUUYYYYSSSS" Is also an unrepentant metagaminh munchkin Narcissist. Yet total "serious and realistic! 😊