Crispy! Thanks again for having us at the Tavern! Excellent work man!

@chazzwozzio

2 жыл бұрын

I def need to check you guys out. I love me some home brew worlds.

@tabletoptotality2265

2 жыл бұрын

@@chazzwozzio Please do, friend! We have a Kickstarter that is live right now and a variety of adventures available on DrivethruRPG - Most of which are Pay What You Want. Cheers!

Decapitating your magical unwanted offspring is a power move. I approve.

@TrackerRoo

2 жыл бұрын

I mean, we've all seen enough horror movies to know if you end up magically pregnant the child is clearly going to grow up and be evil. Rosemary's Baby, Village of the Damned. Better to be safe than sorry.

@tsubakiofmelancholy6297

2 жыл бұрын

@@TrackerRoo Remember the kids in the sequel Children of the damned were actually good kids. And there was a sequel to the original Rosemary's baby nivel, where the spawn switches sides, becomes good, and undoes his own birth to save Rosmary.

@scottmm78

Жыл бұрын

Maybe the real virgin Mary should have done the same thing

Funniest part about the intro post is how the OP talks about how his game is for real "Real gamers" and how they play in a "high fantasy medieval game" then they go and use a weapon like a katana which was not in prominent use in japan until after the medieval period. In fact firearms made it to japan around the same time as the classical katana. But I don't think OP knows their history so they will probably continue to be annoying like this.

@endlessmisery15

2 жыл бұрын

Hilariously, the first recorded use of a firearm was in the 1364. You know, during the medieval period. But douches gotta douche.

@marshallm0992

2 жыл бұрын

@@endlessmisery15 spot on my guy. Hit the nail on the head.

@spacedustic

2 жыл бұрын

Moreover, DnD as a system is most easily used for high fantasy medieval settings, yes, but 5e's DMG also suggests ways to adapt the game for less conventional worlds, with ideas on how to implement firearms and such into a campaign. So that commenter is just... wrong on several fronts. And, if they don't want firearms in their games, why don't they ban them before going into pettiness?

@draconicfeline6177

2 жыл бұрын

And magic is also not medieval sooooo

@themilkywaygalaxy6484

2 жыл бұрын

@@endlessmisery15 not to mention theres a monster in the game that actively uses two guns, the giff

20:10 let's be clear even the actual St Mary according to the new testament had to give consent before bearing Christ Jesus, this DM was way out of line.

@AuntLoopy123

2 жыл бұрын

CONSENT IS KEY!

@DaWhiteWolffie

2 жыл бұрын

Henry Crabgrass agrees. Consent please!

The “forced pregnancy” via unnatural means is one of the most hated tropes in many forms of media, even before you take into account a player’s lack of consent. It’s usually a horror trope! You sure as heck better kill what comes out! What were the other players’ and the DM expecting? Hugs and tears of joy? One of the biggest controversies in comic book history was the pregnancy of Carol Danvers’ Ms. Marvel back in the early days. She had a rapid pregnancy and birth of her own mind controlling assailant, who then took her as his lover, back to his own dimension. It was basically a rape and kidnapping, but in the comic, all her superhero friends treated it as romantic. They threw her a baby shower while she was freaking out about the surprise pregnancy, then sent her off with this mysterious being with smiles.

@theRealSlimGordon

2 жыл бұрын

that's fucked up, holy shit

@realdragon

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly I never saw this trope in media outside of rpg horror stories

@jdc5352

2 жыл бұрын

I feel like if it's in the right setting and it somewhat makes sense, a forced pregnancy while yes it is totally fucked up, it might be able to work if the players at least know that things like that can happen or if it's in like a really messed up horror game. Like lets say for example some person makes a stupid promise or deal with a fey that has something to do with the person's next child and the person decided to use birth control and if they're a guy maybe get a vasectomy. I could see a fey saying "ehhh fuck that" and making it happen anyways as a way for the deal to be fulfilled. feel free to vote with replies and likes/dislikes if you agree or disagree with my statement.

@theinquisitorisamage1653

2 жыл бұрын

I can't remember his name, but didn't one of the artists get royally pissed at that whole scene? He wrote an add-on to it; had Ms. Marvel call out her friends behaviour and telling them how she escaped whats-his-face.

@animeotaku307

2 жыл бұрын

@@theinquisitorisamage1653 Chris Claremont, I believe

Honestly what did the group and DM EXPECT to happen with the pregnancy? “Ohhh no I can’t kill my daughter I’ve carried her for so long this is so cruel!” I feel like in one of those session I would’ve just said fuck it and tried to get a dangerous as hell medieval abortions

@TonksTheFool

2 жыл бұрын

I would have hated a forced pregnancy with a vengeance and done the same. Failing that, yeah, kill the spawn. If the first thing it does when being 'born' is be a grown up and try to threaten us, then yeah. Bye. It's also just extremely BAD storytelling.

@dracoflame33

2 жыл бұрын

Evil Wizard or random god put a baby inside me because _”hurr durr magik”?_ Well I’d be an idiot to NOT try and get this thing out of me!

@TriaMaxwell

2 жыл бұрын

Well, the character WAS the healer. Roll a heal check

@friendlystoryphantom2043

2 жыл бұрын

My character's are normally pretty hard-core, so as soon as their belly was big enough...You know that one scene from Prometheus?

@belgarath6388

2 жыл бұрын

If magic can conceive a pregnancy, i'm sure there's magic that could abort it as well.

DM: BTW, you're pregnant😎 Me: *packs up quietly and leaves never to return*

I've heard of some contrived BS in my time playing D&D, but that pregnancy thing would have got me to leave the table on the spot.

@brettonalwood4173

2 жыл бұрын

That is a good attitude to have.

@marybdrake1472

2 жыл бұрын

@@brettonalwood4173 The point of playing is to have fun, not get put through arbitrary crap.

@allenyates3469

2 жыл бұрын

The only issue here is that this stuff wasn't covered before the game started. "Things you don't like may/will happen to your character." Give escapist players a heads up that the style is hostile rather than indulgent.

The only thing I can imagine with the pregnancy is the DM wanting a moral dilemma... but that doesn't work if it's not set up right... or if the PC just doesn't play the role the DM had in mind. Maybe the DM was hoping the PC would switch to Evil? 🧐

DM: BTW, you’re prevgnant Me: No, I’m not and we will not speak of this again or else I will have my character carve this demon out of her body and I will walk. And, in fact, we will never have something like this happen again without mine or anyone else’s ok, or else I will introduce Aliens-inspired abortion. Are we clear?

@HanDaimond

2 жыл бұрын

Jeez, just say "No thanks, I'm good".

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

Weirdly enough my response to this is, "My character is magically pregnant? LET'S GO GET HAMMERED!"

That stupid story about a wizard randomly making that woman pregnant with magic and so on, that's so damn stupid. I doubt I'd feel much paternal instinct if an evil clone of myself flew out of my junk and tried to kill me either... That reminds me of a story I heard about before where the halfling had no memories, and randomly the DM was like "yeah here's your family and they're begging for you to come home and live with them forever, if you don't you're chaotic evil now and go straight to the Abyss for abandoning your family".

@Meanlucario

2 жыл бұрын

I remember that one from Critcrab. OP had a DMNPC stalking her and was being an obsessive asshole to her, with the DM shock that she wasn't charmed by that.

@ZeoHidra

2 жыл бұрын

@@Meanlucario Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?

@ruecumbers

2 жыл бұрын

@@ZeoHidra 💀💀💀

@DaWhiteWolffie

2 жыл бұрын

Uhhh...which story was this? I'd like to listen.

@Kennisaurus

2 жыл бұрын

Creepy DM uses Self Insert to Flirt with D&D Character - Crispy's Tavern

Strangely enough, my DM tried doing this with me. My Paladin *(female)* got a female goddess pregnant in exchange for some big lore dump shit, and then later that son of her and the goddess came into the story as an aged up evil NPC through time bullshit that eventually had some sort of “alliance” with us. Nothing really came of it, and he spoiled it THE MOMENT HE WAS INTRODUCED so by the time my character figured it out months later there wasn’t really anything to be had from it other than play my character upset and disappointed and move on. An annoying part was that one of the player characters tried to convince my Paladin to *”Go talk to him, he’s your son”* and in character not even 6 months had passed between getting the goddess pregnant and this, so they were very Surprised Pikachu Face when my Paladin said no and that she wants nothing to do with the guy.

@arellajardin8188

2 жыл бұрын

That reminds me of Fallout 4, weirdly enough. The devs give you an ugly potato baby, that you interact with for 10 seconds at the beginning of the game. And that’s supposed to be your character’s emotional driving force for the next 50+ hours. Shockingly, most players did not care about the baby, and rolled their eyes at the dramatic reunion scenes later on. Like, I have no connection to this character, why do you think I should be invested in this plot point?

@dracoflame33

2 жыл бұрын

@@arellajardin8188 That’s a good comparison

@Jray608

2 жыл бұрын

@Arella Jardin I get the driving force wasn't that good but sheesh you gotta call Shawn an ugly potato baby. Lol.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

@@arellajardin8188 The downside of trying to make a fully customizable character have a premade story.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

@@Jray608 Sounds like most babies someone has no attachment to.

On the topic of that first one, the DM does know he can just say "Sorry, guns don't exist in this world. Technology is not that advanced," right?

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

Seemed like he just wanted to spite DnD guns and whoever wants them.

@bubbykins4864

Жыл бұрын

Their definition of medieval is horrible. One, firearms were first invented as hand cannons in ancient China, though they didn't exactly have a good accuracy score. Two, the European firearms we base modern ones on were first invented in the mid-14th century, which qualifies as Middle Ages. Three, katanas weren't even in Europe, which is clearly where the scum thinks "medieval" is relegated to, since they are ignoring hand cannons. Four, there are far better swords to use than a katana anyway. At that rate, I wouldn't be surprised if Say'dyzt had combat plate horribly underpriced, ridiculously sluggish, and be pierced by the worst sword to have ever been commonly used as a side-arm, and if the side arms that are swords were treated as a main weapon.

Sometimes I like to imagine all of my fav DND YTers as NPCs in a game. If I missed any, it's probably because I couldn't figure out who they would be or I just forgot. Crispy runs a tavern (ofc), sharing his wisdom on preparing for adventures and talking of the characters that come through his bar Bear Bard makes music in the woods, telling tales of many adventures and campaigns and laying down interesting bear facts. Foxy Bard joins Bear Bard in the woods, making music and telling tales. She will kindly devour problem players, especially those who bully their party members. CritCrab rules a seaside kingdom, trading sand dollars and shells, and telling of the best and worst adventurers he has met Jacob Crowe runs a night watch troop, on the lookout for edgelords and weebs, seeking to bring them to justice Drake lives alone in a mountain, teeming with riches, skeletons of DMPCs, and lots of internet cringe

@TheJinx1441

2 жыл бұрын

What about JoCat and/or Puffin Forest and Dingo Doodles?

@TheJinx1441

2 жыл бұрын

I honestly think that this is some neat description and worldbuilding, too! Especially Drake and Crab's portions. Would they trade with each other from time to time?

@stephaniejenkins7822

2 жыл бұрын

Any ideas for Jacob Crowe from the Crow's Perch? 🤔

@me0101001000

2 жыл бұрын

@@stephaniejenkins7822 I got one! Made him a night watch leader that brings the law upon weebs and edgelords

@me0101001000

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheJinx1441 Aw, I'm afraid I don't know JoCat, Puffin Forest, or Dingo Doodles. I'll have to check them out! And I feel like Crab might send DMPCs on "quests" to meet Drake. Crowe would also capture and punish edgelords, weebs, and the likes by sending them to Drake as well.

i had a dm force a pregnancy on my character when i wasnt even there. i was out sick and had my party npc my character and the next day one of the other plays messaged me telling me what happened. it made me very uncomfortable and when i asked the dm to retcon it he kept saying "no no it'll be fun you'll have an imp minion!" and i said "no, i dont want a minion i dont want my character pregnant" this went on back and forth for like an hour and i finally said that i was leaving his game. i never played with anyone there again because they let that happened to me too. expect for the guy who told me. he was a real one. i had to take a 3 year long break from playing dnd because it put such a sour taste in my mouth. i finally got back into dnd with two amazing dms that would never do something like that to me and i'm starting my own game on saturday as a first time dm!

@AuntLoopy123

2 жыл бұрын

And I bet the group is still, to this day, wondering why in the world you would ever leave. "I mean, it's not like we disrespected her, or anything. It was gonna be great! She was going to give birth to her own monster minion!"

17:50 "Well, you wanted me to be the healer...." Makes heal check to yeetus that fetus

The GM for my regular group makes completely homebrew systems to play with pretty often, and he’s damn good at it. One time when the party was traveling on horseback, we noticed that the GM was making a lot of rolls and doing a lot of math to determine how fast the horses were going. So we started kinda riffing and making lightheaded jokes about the mechanics and how complicated they looked. You know what he said in response? “Yeah you guys are right I think my horse rules are a little too complicated, I’ll work on simplifying them for next session.” Imo that’s the attitude you need to take with any homebrew rpg content.

DM had a habit to "progress" our PC's story after the game to "continue" the world (different adventure in the same world). His favorite was get pregnant for females and bitter lone wolf for males.

Boy, Gunslinger hater in the beginning was stupid mad 🤣 I’d love to see someone just rip into them with some of that classic Vicious Mockery

@akun50

2 жыл бұрын

Sadder still is that he could've just said "Hey, sorry, but gunslinger breaks our immersion, so we don't allow it." Or even "Guns break our immersion, so I'll give you a clip-fed mechanical crossbow instead and let you treat it as a gun equivalent for your class features."

@silverbullet7691

2 жыл бұрын

@@akun50 yeah, DMs can decide not to permit things for atmosphere and just tell them.You know, like a healthy communicator. Most players would understand like, “sure no problem! full fantasy, no guns!” Not let them make the character to just to maim them as part of some really weird example.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

Really annoyed at him allowing a katana like that doesn't break immersion.

@easiestcc6451

Ай бұрын

Those idiots don't know that the age of the samurai and the wild west were happening at the same time. If I ever go to a table like that, I'll just ask them to guess what years that both the age of the samurai and the wild west were happening and then correct them on it.

@easiestcc6451

Ай бұрын

@@ArcCaravan Those idiots are just hypocrites.

I don't like guns in my games, so instead of being passive-aggressive and power-tripping, I just tell my players that guns don't exist in this world yet. And let them reflavor things like the artillerist as having wands or catapults of arcane energy if they want those mechanics. Much easier and more fun that way.

@emberfist8347

2 жыл бұрын

What about gunslinger class characters?

@jacquelinealbin7712

2 жыл бұрын

@@emberfist8347 I don't allow them. I have issues with the balance of that homebrew class even putting aside the fact that it doesn't make sense with the lore or worldbuilding in my setting.

Okay but… a PC pregnant with what is essentially the personification of Armageddon would be pretty sick. I am writing this before watching the video. Edit: that was a terrible way to implement this idea, especially with no consent from the player wow

@TriaMaxwell

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, the DM wanted her to play a healer. Make the heal check to yeetus that fetus.

As a gaming system creator (still a work in progress) myself, the first thing I've learned is: LISTEN TO YOUR PLAYTESTERS! The second, of course, is "test things, test things again, test them a third time, and when you're sure everything works just fine... test them a fourth time.". Seriously, it took me half a year to notice how a single digit screwed up skill and combat rolls AGAINST the players, and the difficulty system made some things actually impossible (as in "only the top master crafter can make a normal, run-of-the-mill plate mail armor" impossible). To all the creators out there: remember that you're no God. A creator, whether he's assembling a campaign, a setting or a whole gaming system, is seriously out of his league 90% of the time. Sure, Gary Gygax managed to put together D&D just fine, but the end result... well, anyone who played D&D Red Box knows how seriously messed up that game was (nonhumans were shafted in just a few levels, starting clerics were pretty much just worse warriors, stuff like that). And we're no Gary Gygax, that's for sure. So, my suggestion is: BE HUMBLE. ASK FOR HELP. And when everything comes tumbling down, don't be afraid to restart - and take your time.

"There's no such thing as firearms in the DnD settings!" *Me, with an offical AL WotC certicied, mastercrafted drow handgonne* "Yeah, sure buddy"

@joshuaharmon6684

2 жыл бұрын

There's a purchasable Arquebus in the 2nd edition Player's Handbook for D&D

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

Pretty the same applies to katanas.

Y’know, as creepily horny as that ERP ad was, I’ll take it over most of the other horror stories. DM’s upfront about what the game entails, they’re not springing it suddenly on unsuspecting players, all things considered it’s fairly courteous…

Completely off topic but I am absolutely LOVING the ghost of Tsushima backgrounds! Please keep using those and don’t be afraid to get experimental with them either!

The ending of the pregnancy story was perfect and I’m glad the OP didn’t go back, lord knows what that DM would’ve had in mind for a punishment!

I wish, wish i could bash it into the skull of those who need it that pregnancy does not automatically equal an unbreakable bond between mother and child. Of course there can be a deep emotional connection formed but it's sort of hard to do that when the conception is "magic or some shit" and the pregnancy hasn't even lasted the full period. Also some people are just not like that.

I have had this happen at least a half dozen times. I can only say that I was young, and desperate to be liked, so I didn't protest or walk out. Forced pregnancy sucks.

@ruecumbers

2 жыл бұрын

Thats a pretty horrible string of luck. Glad its all behind you now. Im really greatful that at least the stories like this are so much more accessable to people. The more people can learn this secondhand, the the more they know the signs and the less they have to go through bs like this themselves.

@josephmatthews7698

Жыл бұрын

HALF A DOZEN?!???! I choose to believe you played with the same DM and he just couldn't come up with any better ideas after watching aliens too many times.

I don't even know why you would let a character using guns into the game to begin with if you don't like it. I don't like it either, that's why I simply don't have them available as options.

@arellajardin8188

2 жыл бұрын

Player: “Here’s my sheet, I thought I’d play a gunslinger.” DM: Do I tell him there’s no guns in my setting? Or, do i waste his time by crippling his character and mocking him? Which will all my toxic friends think is cooler?

"you use guns in your campaign, that's not fantasy though, its to realistic" "This is a sci-fi fantasy world with alians, technology, magic, etc. If you don't like it beam outa here you wet noodle"

Purist: DnD is high fantasy! Guns don’t fit and are stupid! Me: *cough cough* Mind Flayers. *cough cough*

@themilkywaygalaxy6484

2 жыл бұрын

Other than the fact guns were created in the 1300s during the medieval era and flamethrowers were used in the crusaders, so those guys were just being asses to be asses

@draconicfeline6177

2 жыл бұрын

@@themilkywaygalaxy6484 a dragon is just a flamethrower with wings

@draconicfeline6177

2 жыл бұрын

Also the Romans were steampunk

@zashgekido5616

2 жыл бұрын

Eberron-

@procrastinatinggamer

2 жыл бұрын

@@MarquisLeary34 they’d probably have conniptions if they ever looked at a certain sourcebook for Pathfinder 2e called *Guns & Gears*. That book introduced full on Tesla coil-based tech to Golarion as well as early cameras (albeit the kind that need exposure times of about 20 minutes). Not to mention their reaction to the setting also having a nation full of androids, robots, and other alien sci-fi tech from an alien spaceship that crashed there millennia ago (though nothing from there’s made it into 2e yet other than the androids as a playable race). Or the old AD&D (or older) module that inspired that nation - “Expedition to the Barrier Peaks”, a dungeon crawl through an alien starship that crashed there so long ago that it got buried just by time.

Oh, i pooped out a fully grown woman who drew a sword at me? Kay lemme show ✨love and affection💫 🧡

That first story makes me irrationally angry. I DM a table where the fan favorite PC is a gunslinger. Which is far from OP given late game full casters exist.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I was filled with rage particularly at him spiting guns for clashing with medieval European fantasy setting while bragging about a katana he allowed.

@bubbykins4864

Жыл бұрын

@@ArcCaravan Whilst punishing someone for playing something they allowed that is accurate for late Middle Ages Europe.

Is Gunslinger really that frowned upon as a class? Really new to DnD in general and the only real time I've heard it used was in Critical Roles 1st campaign by Taliesin Jaffe as Percy.

@CrispysTavern

2 жыл бұрын

No it’s not. I played a gunslinger in a live campaign and the reception was awesome! As you mentioned Percy is a gunslinger who is beloved and most people are perfectly fine with the existence of the gunslinger spec.

@WingZero-us5df

2 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it,sounds like great potential for some really interesting backstories as well. Keep up the awesome content

@BillytheCorgi

2 жыл бұрын

The vast majority of DMs that don't like gunslinger in their game, for whatever reason, are typically a lot more mature about it. As in they'd explain why it wouldn't work in their world. Which is entirely fair. In my experience though, most DMs I've met are fine with it. Most people are playing in a world with races like gnomes and dwarves, races known to invent and tinker, and there's machinations far more complex than the flintlocks/matchlocks gunslingers tend to use. Definitely doesn't help anyone's argument that guns don't fit when Dragon Heist, an official adventure released by WotC, taking place in their official world of the Forgotten Realms, has drow gunslinger NPCs, lmao.

@dudemcguy8949

2 жыл бұрын

@@BillytheCorgi Pretty much. It’s really just setting dependent

@DaWhiteWolffie

2 жыл бұрын

No Mercy Percy woooooo!

New crispy upload! lets goooo~

That happened to me! I took it well and made it work but it was still weird… Spoilers for Out of the Abyss: ***** My party had encountered Grazz’t and were able to get away without any ill effects because the demon lord had a weird obsession with my naively innocent gnome divination wizard. The Demon Lord would contact her throughout the campaign sometimes and it all felt copacetic with the creepy vibe the whole campaign was putting off. But when our party TPK’d and were Deus Ex’d by Grazz’t, it was discovered that not only had the demon lord been making clones of my wizard, but he had impregnated her during their time “out”. Ugh. We ended up needing to provide a living sacrifice at the very end battle and I gave up my unborn demon child. lmao

@DaWhiteWolffie

2 жыл бұрын

ROFL Reverse Uno?

"My character is a man now, but it's fine. He can totally still be pregnant. Magic and all."

Love your channel Crispy. I thought I had bad experiences, but I should have guessed the kind of crap women have to deal with trying to find a good DnD group. Spot on about walking away as soon as you can stand to.

oh so that first post is why it's so hard to find a dm willing to let me play a Renegade fighter in a pirate campaign.

Someone should explain to the first guy that firearms existed during the late medieval period. And the medieval period is usually understood to have lasted through the 15th century, during which time the Ottoman Empire used firearms regularly

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

It'd probably be pointless as he likely doesn't care about history, just playing generic bland fantasy.

Reminds me of a homebrew system I played where 4 out of 5 of my attacks simply didn't do anything. Add that onto how the DM coached me into making a plot device character and I lost interest quickly

7:20 The campaign world I play in was created by my friend when he was 14- he' just turned 50 last year. During that time the mechanics of the game has grown and changed so much that it's basically on it's 4th generation. Trying to build a campaign world or system on the fly is nothing short of impossible- these guys seem like they just wanted a system to goof around in with their friends rather than try to make an actual gaming system.

Did that guy at the start not know how misfire works? It doesn't make your gun explode, it effectively jams, and it's based on the player roll Just tell your players that guns aren't allowed. It's not that hard

@ruecumbers

2 жыл бұрын

But then you cant mock them behind their back with all your toxic friends! Much more entertaining and easy than talking to your player when you still have the mindset of a 4th grader.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

@@ruecumbers Huh. Sounded like they mocked the player to their face and just retold the story. Probably my mistake.

Oof! It feels like every time someone/group wants to make their own game system there is always at least one person that tries to add their over powered concept. My high school friend group wanted to make a Sci-fi space battle game with everyone coming up with their own alien race ideas so to give it unique things. I was helping design & drawing the spaceships based on each of their concepts. Well one of them ended killing the whole project before getting passed the concept stage. He was also the one with the least creativity. His meshed idea was basically taking the zenomorphs template from Aliens and smashing in stuff from predator and 4 40K's tyranids. He wanted to make them as a forever adapting species that they could bypass any defences and defend against any attack. knowing this was supposed to be a balanced game with each race bringing one or two advantages and flaws to balance those. Not to be the flawless race that no one else could ever win against. And to top it he barely gave any discriptions of the race or its vessels. Only giving art clips from those sources and told me to just take elements from all of them, but not what. Say the least I didn't draw much of his "unique" race or ships.

6:58 I hear that destiny exotic engram noise. That's a good reference.

@RodieTheNightblade

2 жыл бұрын

I was playing some D2 while having this on in the background and was very puzzled just what exotic I found and why it wasn't in my inventory.

Hmmm I'm early, but I appreciate the video as usual. I've binged damn near all your videos up to this point, so I need more!! But seriously good job and I hope the channel continues growing.

> Hates stupid gunslingers > Have katana How is any of this able to see themself as better? Personally, I do NOT like guns, or Eberon, but I simply say "No, not allowed in this campaign" ... LIKE ALL NORMAL PEOPLE resolve their conflicts.

"I'm going to build a system that allows me and my friends be CRAZY powerful while everyone else sucks! Wait... Why aren't people having fun!?"

That opener is like: "How fake do you want this to be?" *"YES!"*

I have been watching these kinds of channels since last year, and I will say it's help me get interested in DnD along with finding how crazy these stories can be. And at least I have friends who dont turn out like these. Although I have had to deal with some who didnt know how to RP or play. These kinds of videos also help with coming up with characters and such ^V^

Guns in a European medieval setting is totally unrealistic. Katana's, however, that's perfectly accurate and fine

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

Assuming you are being sarcastic, I agree. That story makes me consider turning against "weeb" elements out of spite.

I wouldn't mind a DnD game where there were guns but they were suitably fantasy, like strapping a mini pirate ship style brass cannon to your forearms, or other weird inventions from a society that hasn't figured out the ideal shapes for guns.

I have played on erp servers for almost two years now. I never partake and just ignore the erp channels. ERP is really not as bad as most people make it out to be. When you're not playing with creeps.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately people only hear about the creeps, especially here.

"You killed your daughter what's wrong with you???" "Even if anyone can _prove_ that this random woman that suddenly appeared out of thin air is my daughter, _she literally threatened me with a sword!!!_ What did you expect me to do exactly??"

Firearms existed in the middle ages. They were used in the Crusades, and were a real-world example of something considered a magic weapon. Also, Eberron is very explicitly dieselpunk - with oblique references to World War 1 - and the Barrier Peaks module was about investigating a starship. That first post is... irritating.

So, magically and remotely impregnated by an evil entity against her will, and when the spawn arrives a trimester early, it reveals itself as a full grown woman with a weapon and malicious intent. So strange, can't possibly imagine why she didn't take to it as a mother 🙄. Its almost like she treated it like the demon spawn it WAS. Like, aren't there horror movies with this plot point?

@ruecumbers

2 жыл бұрын

DM was clearly going for a conflicted, nuanced show down, and missed it by a mile. Just assumed maybe that the player/character would conform enough to mind-dead tropiness that he wouldn't have to actually try with the emotional setup?

Intro OP: GuNs dOnT bElOnG iN DnD" Me: *adding biplanes piloted by knights*

Wow, that DM creep decided that Avengers 200 was actually a GOOD story, jfc.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

Worse, the rest of the table acted like the girl was wrong for her justified actions.

That online jump in jump out can actually work with like a consistent time frame say like 15mins cause you never know what that person situation is gives them time for restroom, get a drink, quick food break, or just internet connection

man really took the "now draw her giving birth" meme seriusly

OP just killed RPJesus with a greatsword

Loving the Ruined Karma thumbnail! It's what brought me here 💜

@CrispysTavern

2 жыл бұрын

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@lunuly4526

2 жыл бұрын

@@CrispysTavern thanks for the link!

"What do you mean when you say "Combat is Deadly"....why am i dead?" Lessen learned. When a DM tells you "Combat is deadly" that means 1 bad round and some bad luck can end your char easy.

I don't blame the girl for not liking Shadowrun. Maybe she was looking for something different to get her ttrpg fix as well and wanted to try another system. You can like the idea and sound of something, but until the actual practice of it, you don't know. I've loved Shadowrun since I started playing the games and reading the novels in the 90's, however, I am still confused with the dice system when playing the ttrpg. It's not exactly the easiest to comprehend. D&D is much easier to understand and pick up.

That comment at the beginning is more than likely fake, yeah. But what if it was real? Has that DM never read the DMG? Pretty sure halfway through it there is a page dedicated solely to firearms from flintlock pistols and black powder muskets all the way to energy rifles and plasma cannons.

@TrackerRoo

2 жыл бұрын

Page 268, a little before that cannons are mentioned under siege weapons. So you were right, it does exist in a core rule book.

I'm glad my only real D&D horror story was when I played Curse of Strahd and my Cleric wasn't allowed to use cleric abilities because the DM was an Atheist.. These stories are just the worst thing. I feel bad for all these horror story victims

@AuntLoopy123

2 жыл бұрын

Should have told the DM, "Read the novel. It's not the god that gives the cleric his power. It's his faith."

@DaWhiteWolffie

2 жыл бұрын

..................wot. Then Strahd himself wouldn't exist either nor the whole location of the campaign cuz it takes place in a corner of hell, right?

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

That definitely sounds like a crappy DM. At least he could have let you change classes or warned you he'd depower religious classes in a fantasy setting.

7:00 omg, I didn't expect that face reveal though. X'D

I'm happy I started playing before the internet was a thing. I'm also happy my DM style was forged in the fire of base D&D and Heroquest. Much like the people of today, modern D&D has an identity crisis.

Maybe this is just me but I think if you’re creating a system it’s better to not run a game in it at the same time as creating everything. It’s good to do little beta runs to figure out balancing, and general testing s, but to be like”oh we’re going to wing it while we play” seems like a bad idea

There has to be an additional layer to that last story about the player who claimed to be into playing wizards, made a streetmage in SR and got her character killed unceremoniously without doing any mage-y stuff at all. If I had to make a guess I would take her at face value and say she just wanted to get in touch with OP about that DnD round and had no interest in anything else to begin with. Maybe she thought she would get a higher spot on the "wait list" that way.

> This is high fantasy, there are no guns! *Warhammer Fantasy has left the game*

Personally, I hate guns in DnD. But I acknowledge that others can be into it and honestly, Percy from Critical Role is one of my favorite characters. When I DM, I don't typically allow guns or robots in my settings. But if I'm not the DM, then it isn't my call. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I've seen some contrived ad breaks before, but man, I've never seen a storyteller disguise an ad as a regular *story* before. That shit shnasty bro.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

It's a running gag this guy does.

Wander if you will make your animated rat on t.shirt designs with crispys tavern written under that would be epic

I'm still stuck on that first comment. Isn't a typical pistol like 1d8 or 1d10 damage? Dude really shouldn't DM if a 1d8 weapon gets his dander up enough to fudge rolls. Doesn't a katana do 1d8 too? Like bro if you're pressed about a "historically accurate FANTASY setting", just call it a hand cannon and call it a day. Those were things. XD

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

Those types of DMs likely don't care about history, just remaking generic fantasy.

I let artificers into my Hyrule game. It's perfectly fine.

@wolfherojohnson2766

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly! Heck, it’d make no sense not to considering characters like Robbie and Purah exist in breath of the wild

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

@@wolfherojohnson2766 Assuming Breath of the Wild was out during that game.

8:20 cool, White wolf designers origins story

You've definitely got to make sure you're joining the sort of game you want to play rather than joining something else and then being disappointed that it's not what you wanted. For all Shadowrun has typical Fantasy Races, it's closer to Cyberpunk 2020 than it is to D&D, and if you're wanting a level-based game where you go adventuring and fight monsters, then a skill-based game where you're basically playing an alt-universe sort of Cyberpunk game is not going to be remotely close. Sure, you _could_ find that you enjoy it, but it's not going to "scratch the D&D itch". I somehow wound up becoming a bit of a Forever GM - Cyberpunk - and recently I'd been in a funk because I hadn't actually _played_ a game in literal *_decades_* so I went looking for a game. I didn't want to join someone else's Cyberpunk game - I get my Cyberpunk "fix" Refereeing my own heavily homebrewed games - and I did not want to play D&D (which is a pity, because that would be the easiest to find a game of). No, I specifically wanted to play Traveller. Even more so, after watching Seth Skorkowsky's videos on Mongoose Traveller 2e. So I joined r/Traveller and asked if there was a game going. Within an hour I was approached by someone in Canada (so not *too* different, Time-Zone-wise) who was running a game via Discord and the following weekend I joined in their game. And it's exactly what I wanted and needed. Had a really enjoyable gaming session - 5 hours just flew past - and I'm seriously amped for the second session this weekend. If you're looking for a specific game, do everything you can to track down a good bunch of people (i.e. not the sort of people you find described in these videos) running *that game* - you'll thank yourself for the effort in the end.

(Post) 1st story: Man, ppl like that are the type that get cancer, die, and no one shows up to their funeral.

Reminds me of a weird game I was in once. Fairly generic dnd 5e with pregens, designed for new players. This one, comparatively young player apparently found pregnancy hilarious and kept jokingly rolling to get everyone and everything pregnant. GM seemed to just ignore it completely, 'yeah whatever the orc is pregnant, next!'. Pregnancy is a bit of a squick for me and the whole game was very chaotic so I left.

I think no one was wrong for the shadowrun game. The type of game was explained. She decided to give it a go, try it, she didn't like it and sent her character out in a 'blaze of glory'. No hard feelings were had, it just wasn't her thing. People shouldn't be wrong or punished for being willing to try other things or new things.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

While she's definitely far from the worst problem player, she does come off as dishonest in her attempt. Like she was pretending to try but not even attempting to learn even when assistance was offered. Seemed she just wanted to find a DnD DM. Again, far from the worst.

yay new vdo !!!!

"You want to fight the entire police force. Are you sure?" "Yes." "Really, are you sure?" "Yeppers." "No, seriously, last chance to back out, are you really completely certain you want to do this?" "Abso-friggin lutely, let's go man!" One hail of bullets later: "I didn't know that I could just get killed without warning!"

I mean this was clearly an abomination created via magic and without the player's consent. What was she supposed to do? Go and hug that thing?

Broken System - watched this while not 100% well so wasn't firing on all cylinders.

gonna be honest, i think that last story was a case of the player joining the game out of romantic interest for the DM instead of any interest in the game itself and he just wasnt picking up what she was putting down.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

@@bodesmcbodeson686 Ain't the DM's job to know if a player only wants a relationship rather than play the game they joined like everyone else.

Remember folks, plate armor and flintlock pistols were both used around the same time!

@joshuawiener5003

Жыл бұрын

@@bodesmcbodeson686 cool

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

@@bodesmcbodeson686 But he clearly wanted it in the setting to complain about it.

The funniest thing about the first post is that a katana also doesn’t belong in classic high fantasy. You could have a single edged sword but high fantasy originates from and largely draws from Europe, the near East in Asia, and Northern Africa. North/South American, Eastern Asian and even Russian cultures don’t have much influence. If you want to throw katanas in there, have fun with it, but if you want to gatekeep guns out of your game because m’high fantasy, keep your weeb-ass katanas out of the game too.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

Perfectly summed up my thoughts on that story.

What post did the intro post respond to

Jesus Christ that's one hell of a "broken system"

Okay I get the mockery but seriously, “you’re the Venus de milo only with even less hands and tits,” is kind of an epic diss.

So the first thing about hating the gunslinger sharpshooter etc. statistically just heavy crossbow and sharpshooter does the same thing. Some people smh

I actually liked Shadow Run but could find no one to play it with. I did after a few years find a DnD cafe to play DnD at, and that was fun too. Different systems, but I liked both.

Huh. Getting upset about a combustion-based projectile launcher in a fantasy game where we have magical robots that can crush our heads in between their thighs without needing clockwork engineering. Oh no! We won't have that despite that we have black powder, a tall pot on a wooden cart, and a cast iron ball of impending doom! They effectively made smaller versions of cannons (early firearms) because you can suit a cannon crew with them for the amount of materials it takes to make a cannon. Folks back then are not that dumb as to not take advantage of the invention of the black powder to kill each other faster than the archers with less training needed. first story 1: Threatening someone in Roll20...Yep. It checked out. You can destroy someone through a screen, but you're gonna be replacing the screen in the time it takes for a KZread upload at least. first story 2: New or not, working against the party should have been an illegal act in Adventurers' League. If it is not, then what to stop the party from _intentionally_ stated that one of their mates was killed in the action? first story 3: Don't tell me! ... It lasted that long because nobody (including the DM) did not want to cause waves or rock the boat. Am I right? first story 4: Just like a bad phone connection...*(snapping fingers for a rhythm)* Just check your services... There are better options... than this shit... first story 5: Kudos for bravery, but we do have _dedicated_ sites and forums for kinks. Everything under the sun have an interested party involved. second story: Well. That went as well as asset flipping. Perhaps I should continue studying the differences between editions of Shadowrun to wipe doubts about my competence as a GM. third story: Hmm...I would not ask the OP why didn't she stop it right away, and more on "That's terrible! Where?!" while wearing a nerd beater shirt, a pair of jeans, a pair of purple sneakers, and a holding baptized baseball bat because that's some devilish crap going on with that evil wizard and that GM.... and I'm not Christian (partially Christian, but still!) last story: Oh! Shadowrun! Lemme get the popcorn...! Minor note for Shadowrun; "chargen" is char-gen; shortened way of saying character generation. Well. If I was the GM, I would have trusted my friend a little less from that point because I would be quite enthused to have another person interested in Shadowrun. D&D ain't bad, but people sucks when they join and disrespected us like that player did. She really just sabotaged herself in that because even if OP is doing that D&D game, OP should not allow her in because of how disrespectful she is of OP's time.

This reminds me of the first time I ever played a female character in a TTRPG, back in '84. As well as one of the last times I played a TTRPG, back in '03...

There were a lot of stories in this one, and oh boy they were doozies.

I don't think that Shadowrun player was necessarily all that in the wrong. Maybe she didn't know that wasn't her type of game until she tried it.

@mikeesplace

10 ай бұрын

That said, it also sounds like she didn't really try so she's definitely in the wrong for that

"Everybody knows Dnd is a mediaeval high fantasy setting!" Well, the first guns were used in europe from the 1390s. So yeah, mediaeval.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

Like that guy care's about history.

so there are actually some systems where 1s subtract successes (some versions of oWoD do it that way) but it's usually done in a context where you're using a higher die than a d6 or where you're deliberately going for something swingy, as well as when dice pools are expected to get quite high (I think there are versions of Shadowrun wich use ones-are-subtracted). But you should design around that rather than just hrowing it in, and you should DEFINITELY know the math of how it works

Someone who watches the movie Alien and thinks the crew of the nostromo are the villains