White death was an actual person he was a Finnish military sniper that fought against the Soviets in World War II with 219 confirmed kills during the span of a hundred days

@cyberdragonark9451

2 жыл бұрын

Oh that interesting to know, for a second there i thought he know the characters after white phosphorus cause of how quick he was to ignite a scene.

@UrbanBlom

2 жыл бұрын

@@cyberdragonark9451 Simo Häyhä en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4

@cyberdragonark9451

2 жыл бұрын

@@UrbanBlom man, to think a child of simple farmers, (who I mind you were living it up good cause they had eight kids) was so proficient at sniping the enemy had to use HE rounds against him. Life is strange sometimes.

@emberfist8347

2 жыл бұрын

@@cyberdragonark9451 And he has the record for most confirmed kills among a single soldier. And he wasn't even using a scope when he was sniping. He used the iron sights so the Russians wouldn't see the glint off the scope and spot him.

@roynicorn8361

2 жыл бұрын

Also interesting how he did not brag about "how great of a killer he is", instead saying "he just did his job".

story 2: not only did the dm kill a pc over a bruised ego, he killed the ONLY pc who DIDNT make fun of his cringe dmpc... this is some next level stupid

@paulman34340

2 жыл бұрын

And it's one of the major reasons no one likes DMNPC in general! The DM's who do so normally never balance them properly and always ALWAYS assure their just as equal PC killers as they are "Everything else killers!" I played with a DM who was smart when he made DMNPC to treat them like "that character" you meet in many RPG games, the one who's meant to carry you and help you learn how the game system and combat works by being at a good enough level where you can contribute and then leave the party at a good point so they as in the player can "play the game!" Basically around when the world is being open up to the player! It was fun especially when he made them slightly tougher by a level or so over the party that he can't solo everything on his own!" They were tough, but we can't let them take all the weight! I think those are the best type of DMNPC.....too bad many DM's have too big of ego's that they have to force players to "play their book" because they can't stand being in the background despite the fact that the DMNPC is suppose to be on paper exactly that! NOT THE MAIN CHARACTER. They are an avatar of the DM meant to guide and carry the party for abit, but not take the script from them and reduce them to living NPC's in their own story! That's not fun and it's the worse type of railroading. To the point when I did run into such a DM, I ended up playing my switch and waiting for her ego trip to end...she also killed my PC when she noticed me dong that, and I didn't argue, I took my shit and left as I planned to never come back to that anyway. Last I heard, said group fell apart a year later (I was surprised they actually wasted a YEAR WITH HER SHIT!)! From what was said, they actually believed she would drop that behavior, even fell for the "her DMNPC fell into a bottomless pit" part and had some fun....for a day before she had the DMNPC return in a bullshit manner and took the plot over again! If I didn't leave before, I would have left the moment she pulled the "She miraculously survived and wanted to adventure with us again.....as in YOU don't get a say in it" manner. But then I don't waste time on such BS! (The moment the Scarlet Red Flag is waved I'm gone, when it's light red, my guard goes up! But the moment it doesn't disappear or keeps appearing, It's the same as Scarlet Red! Time to Go!) If I ever do DMing and wish to do a DMNPC. I'm doing it in that manner I described (I tend to do this in MMORPG! When I'm high level, I tend to enjoy helping new players out as a guide and assistant in that manner! Not playing the game for them, but actually helping them understand the system if their new and get a safe head start from time to time. Especially if their a kid! As they say "do onto others, you wish done to yourself!" I treat others as well as I expect to be treated well in return! And treat others like shit when treated as such! I make no compromises in that regard! Be a shitty person, don't be surprised when you get treated like shit!)

He's so healthy, he falls into a coma, and dies, because he can't wake up to eat or drink. Because he's so HEALTHY. That is the stupidest rolling rule I've ever seen.

@prinnyramza

2 жыл бұрын

Like there are d100 rules where the DC is your stat, but usually they have it so you aim to roll UNDER thus making it easier to make the check the higher your Stat is. I have no idea how this guy missed the point so much.

I can believe an immature GM would try to block cars from leaving his home as part of a tantrum, but I have a hard time believing it would take hours to call the authorities.

"His name was White Death..." You're in the Sniper's Sight! The First Kill Tonight! Time to die! You're in the Bullet's Way! The White Death's Prey! Say Goodbye!

@ezekielellis7471

2 жыл бұрын

Gotta love some Sabaton! Lol

@Tytoalba777

2 жыл бұрын

@@ezekielellis7471 Hell yeah man

@shadiafifi54

2 жыл бұрын

Simo Hayha would own this clown so bad. Respect to the *real* White Death!

@asdlom

Жыл бұрын

I WASN'T THE ONLY PERSON WHO IMMEDIATELY HAD THAT PLAYING IN THEIR HEADS

Wasn't the Ranger also the only one of the pcs that liked him? Wtf?

@ezekielellis7471

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah thats my question its like “uh your killing the only PC, that liked your character, and was willing to work with him...?!? Wtf? Lol

@shadiafifi54

2 жыл бұрын

@@ezekielellis7471 I think he went for the only PC who was out in the street, as the others were sleeping in their beds. Still, a very crappy thing to do regardless.

@JohnYoo39

2 жыл бұрын

The Sasuke maneuver

Story One: Um, half of the party I'm currently in is made of players playing their opposite gender (girls playing boys). There's nothing wrong with someone of one gender playing a different gender. It's handled very well in our game, and most of us are new to DnD. It's honestly so stupid to see people tell people "no" to playing a character solely because of their gender and class because they believe it'll be a problem only to prove themselves to be a bigger problem over changes they demanded.

I think DMPC "white death" he heard about Finnish wwii sniper Simo Häyhä and thought "yeah I wanna be him" 😂😂😂😂

@brittanybecker170

2 жыл бұрын

The worst is that Simu was a humble, soft-spoken man who's over-all opinion of his wartime efforts was 'I did what I had to.'

Grain of Salt I can make “White Death” sound cool 1) Based on “Masque of Red Death”… anyone who catches it turns bone white and became emaciated so that the skin clung to their bone-making them a [briefly] living skeleton. 2) A snow-themed assassin.

@whensomethingcriesagain

2 жыл бұрын

I mean there's the obvious inspiration of Simo Häyhä, it's pretty common for people to throw in references to him, and having to fight a guy like that could be a cool encounter

@akun50

2 жыл бұрын

While both could be usable, I personally would look into other languages. The Tolkien Elvish translator, for example, would translate "White Death" to "Thilivern Gurth", their Quenya translator would produce "Ninque Faire", and had the character been Orcish "Orgad Vras". It would lend a bit of mystery to a character if others didn't note his name and use said translators while letting the DM keep the implied name. Hell, he could've had it as a subtle reveal by having his targets sweat over having "the White Death" after them, and have the players wonder "What do they mean by 'White Death'?" Edgy as hell, but it would be a far sight more interesting.

@pantscatcher7547

2 жыл бұрын

Those sound pretty sick, and I hate to be that guy, but the word you’re looking for is emaciated

@starbird3939

2 жыл бұрын

@@pantscatcher7547 nah it’s cool. I appreciate the correction

Mock the DM all you want, but there WAS a guy called "The White Death", and he was the absolute terror of the soviets when they invaded Finland during WWII. The guy got the most confirmed kills than any other soldier that has ever existed (over 500 sniper kills),.

@emberfist8347

2 жыл бұрын

But this character had White Death as a legally born name. It wasn't a name his enemies gave him.

Lol we had a DM that did a simple house rule as the first story. He quickly realized how flawed it was when a DM PC couldn’t put strength a Pixie PC because the DM PC couldn’t roll past his own strength check but the pixie easily even with the negative modifier. The pixie had I believe a 9 or a 10 strength so it would usually pass with just a dice roll. After we trolled him a few more times with his flawed homebrew rule the DM eventually relented and used the official D&D save method

As someone who also made a kobold player and ended up gorwing attached to them I totally understand the player's concern.

Funny, "White Death the infamous 15000 year old immortal death magic bounty hunter" has the maturity of a 5 year old.

On the making fun of things part, my DM can relate for the dumbest reason. He made a map of the continent and on it, is a river called, Long Lake. We can’t take it seriously and this DM, being a spiteful person, still has the maturity not to take it out in character. Honestly some DMs are just too proud of their own writing to accept anything other than pure awe and wonder for it

My current character, my second one ever, is a girl. I play her as perpetually moody, sarcastic and not exactly the friendliest bunny you've ever met. Actually, now that I think about it, none of our players are playing a character the same gender as them. While we do have a horny bard, its played remarkably well and doesnt cause us problems. I'm still trying to figure out what the F that DM was thinking. What possible reason could ANYONE have for tying a rope to their wang and use it as an anchor point for their party?! Oooof, the mere thought is making me shudder!

Story 1- Dick strength? Did he think the player was a reincarnation of John Holms (you might have to Google him depending on your age)? Story 2- Reminds me of the time the Animaniacs met Death- it was a Tuesday. Story 3- I'm not sure if 5E Adventures still come with premade characters but hell- why didn't the DM just make up a character of his own to give to the other player?

I had a sith assassin nicknamed "White Death". Used a sniper rifle and double bladed saber. Actually killed off a decent number of NPC allies, and nearly killed half the party before he had to retreat. Showed up in the follow-up campaign working for a crime lord the party liked. Interesting seeing some Jedi on the run from the Empire working with a Sith Assassin.

Story 1: The DM wanted to turn the Dexterity Check into a Dicksterity Check

Story One: Thought this was "just" some casual transphobia to roll my eyes at. IMMEDIATELY got so much weirder. Story Two: "I never miss" ain't no "Nothing personnel, kid", smh. Also it got the TikTok in my head so I can't even try to take it seriously lol. Story Three: Why did he need the specific character sheet anyway? If he was that set on taking it like that, he could have always just copied the stats lol. He's the DM, it's on him to know the sheets of his party members.

@eloidasarmi6815

2 жыл бұрын

3.a: nah, the copy wasn't his goal. He want YOUR character xd

The DM threw a temper tantrum and killed... the only potential ally he actually had in the party, the one who said, "Guys, let's actually think about this guy's offer." Brilliant. There is only ONE way to fix this, and that is, "You all wake up (including the ranger), feeling very sick, as if you had a hang-over, but different from any hangover you've ever had before, and realize that you all were drugged last night. Oddly, you all seem to have shared the same hallucination, and you wonder what that means." Then, the DM had better give them a dang good mystery to solve, around that shared hallucination and being drugged and all that. Seriously, that's the only way I'd let that kind of jackassery go.

If I did put in a DMPC, it would be a Sidekick whose primary job is to fill a role the party was lacking, such as a healer or a sneaky sort. Their reason for joining the party - group's Patron hired them to help the group out, or the survivor of another group slaughtered by the BBEG's forces and they want to get some measure of vengeance, even if it's by proxy, or something that would otherwise fit. In General Roleplay situations, they'd take a backseat while the party chatted with whomever they were talking to, and if a player was to go "Scout/Medic's been quiet. I turn to see what they are up to." Scout/Medic would be spotted talking to a servant/guard, or other harmless things.

The first one reminds me of this tumblr post where the player was so busy with uni that they didn't have the time to take part in the session for over a year. For over a year his character was put into a sleeping curse and to this day that is all I remember. May someone someday awaken the sleeping orc Prince uvu

If you write something serious and it winds up being comedic that's AWESOME! What sucks is when you write something comedic and it's taken serious or even worse - completely bombs. Pelor knows I've done that more times than I'd like lol.

Lack-of-Color State-of-Non-Life has my least favorite trait possible. A level 20 backstory at like… 1

Funny story. I actually have a monster in my world named "White Death". It's a dire bat (yes, ripped from Conan Exiles) and it's the first antagonist of a small campaign I was running for a while

8:20 so…… to get back at the party who mocked his precious DMPC, he decides to kill the ONLY character that wasn’t mocking him? Mensa’s newest member right here. (Face palm) Also while there is no excuse the DM could come up with to explain the detect magic thing I will defend dispel magic not working. Because if you cast a spell at a high enough level dispel magic wouldn’t affect it unless it to is cast in a higher level. As an example in one D&D group I watched, they were attacked by a panther like construct. It had managed to sneak up on and nearly one shot they are bard. The second time it ended up showing up (it had ran off after losing half of its health in the first altercation) The bard didn’t even hesitate. As soon as he noticed it he hit it with a 6th ‘Dispel magic’ at which point it was shut off and knocked prone for a whole turn. Afterwords it turned itself back on and restarted the fight. So while dispel magic is a powerful spell unless you cast at a higher levels it’s nowhere near the catchall you think it is if you cast it vanilla.

@theuncalledfor

2 жыл бұрын

Incorrect. RAW, Dispel Magic can dispel spell effects of ANY level. If the spell effect is of level 3 or lower (or the level you cast Dispel Magic at or lower, if you upcast), then Dispel Magic is a guaranteed success. Otherwise you roll for it with an ability check using your spellcasting ability. So you would know if it might not have succeeded. If you don't have to roll, then it succeeded.

That saving throws ruling is just...... Incomprehensible.

If I got a DM who was convinced that Bards all had to be horny, I would immediately change the character to still be a bard, but be an asexual museum curator and student of the occult. Basically being a lore master kind of bard who ends up behaving more like an austere wizard. No instrument, no performance, reflavour the inspiration abilities to be more direct magical augmentation, etc. Either they’d realise there’s more to the class than the stereotype or I’d get the satisfaction of watching their brain break.

The White Death was a Finnish Sniper that killed 259 Soviet soldiers during the Winter War, which lasted less than 3 months if memory serves.

It feels like Sam planned to take OP's character from the begining, moving the game an hour away and demanding that the new player gets their character means knew player didn't have a character.

Yeah reminds me of a D&D horror story of my own.started a new campaign. Session 1 went good, but DM couldn't make session 2. My two friends were trying to flesh out their PCs backstories, so I messaged them and said why don't you come over to my place, and I'll DM a non-canon 1-shot. That way they could get used to their new characters. The DM chews me out in the groupchat. How dare I use characters from HIS GAME! He wouldn't stop spaming the group chat until I publicly apologized to him. I did apologize, but didn't mean it. Was just tired of arguing with him over the fact they were our friends characters not his, and they could do whatever they wanted with them.

I usually play male characters in TTRPGs but will occasionally play a female character, if I have a concept that just flat-out works better for a female somehow. Sometimes my initial concept immediately says female, like my Deadlands Noir psychic. When I learned that all psychics in that game are bald, I thought right away that a female psychic would be fun to play because she could have a collection of wigs and be skilled at disguise and infiltration. Sometimes it comes to me while working out a backstory; I might visualize some key event, and think that a male would react one way while a female would react another way. Sometimes my concept just better fits the way I think a female would react to that event. My regular gaming group also has a female player who enjoys playing male characters sometimes. Her male characters tend to be these charmingly derpy young melee powerhouses who'd be right at home as the hero of a shonen manga, and are a lot of fun to have in the party.

Instantly forgot what I was supposed to type here to indicate that I made it to the end…. But I made it to the end!! Thanks for the great video

Grain Of Salt! Thanks for the episode.

the only 'white death' that's actually cool is the badass finnish sniper who got over 200 confirmed kills in ww2 when fighting the soviets. look up 'simo hayha' and be amazed. also, he has a sabaton song named after him.

The second guy from the story sure needs to take some of their stuff with a grain of salt. Considering that while it sucks that some might make fun of your concepts, you shouldn't punish them for having some fun, and if it's that much of an issue, talk it outside of the game.

Years ago I was visiting a friend up in Auckland and got invited to play a D&D game being run by his (at the time) fiancée. Agreed readily enough and was pleased to note they were less restrictive on playable races than previous games I'd been in and races typically viewed as nothing more than monsters for the PCs to fight were allowed. So I thought Drow would be fun. My friend asked "male or female" and I decided to change things up and go for female rather than the male characters I usually played - largely, I think, because I was actually asked rather than someone automatically assuming I'd play my own gender. Turned out to be a good choice as female Drow get more magic than male Drow. Had an awesome game, quite a few laughs, friend's fiancée was a great DM and was sad it was just a one-off. So when I joined another game near where I lived, I chose female Drow again and played that character through an awesome long campaign and finally retired her off when the party got too powerful for adventuring (seriously, nothing short of a god could touch us). Great times. Never had any weird or messed up experiences running a female character - other players and DM were all cool and I tend not to think about my characters' "love life" - I'm not into ERP.

It's a reference to IRL 'White Death' Simo Hayha. A bad reference, but the guy's very interesting (Simo, not the story person).

About the first small segment: there exist games where you're supposed to match your own attribute but in those instances it's usually aimed to get LOWER (not higher) than your attribute! So you would need to roll 18 or lower to wake up, in that example. The DM was being very illogical.

Gaston is useless... Duh fuk No one Rolls like Gaston Shares loot like Gaston No one's rolls a strength build cleric like Gaston And yes he's still proficient in intimidating My, what a guy, that Gaston

Regarding that last story with the situation about characters and players: I’m a person whi can get very attached to a character if given enough time to play and develop them. So while I’m not as attached to littke one off or Mini-Campaign characters like Kohri the Kobold Sorcerer, Braum the (now ghoul) Half Orc Rogue, or the LG Townguard that is Theobald the Human Rogue, I do get attached to pcs like Variak the Goliath Monk (who I made into an npc in a game I run. Party enjoys seeing the himbo werebear on occasion), and more so, Tarak the Half Orc Cleric. Tarak was my first I ever played, and I LOVED him. And I had been wanting to be a Tanky Front Line who would be anle to help heal his allies when needed. So my only real requests for him were either things for movement, or extra ways to heal from a distance in case I was too far to reach someone while limited to 20ft move speed (pathfinder rules). The dm did start with a couple items like that, being a 1 a Day circlet, and a set of armor that I could use one of 5 charges on to fly up to 60ft in a straight line towards a source of Bright Light. But, over time, he began sending me other things that he thought I should add onto my cleric, and I naively accepted. One was the Angelfire Apostle Archetype, meaning no more winged armor, and limit to Light Armor. On a character with 11 Dex. Sure, I got other healing options, and a later ability that I only got to ever use ONCE that paired with my fire magic focus, but it was a huge mistake. Seeing as the dm then killed my character off and actually dismembered him with beheading. Not even a vorpal weapon, no, it was just his “How do I wanna do this” moment of killing a player for the first time that game. That stuff made me almost never accept stuff for my cleric that was “designed for him” as I realized I was being forced to move out of fights and into a backline roll of being a weak and helpless Healbot. The final item he gave me (while I was DEAD, AGAIN, because he changed a prewritten module so a random npc had the instant death soell Phantasmal Killer) was a book that completely ruined my character. Essentially, I would get a buff to the Save DC of my spells, but only if they don’t do damage. On a cleric with Fireball and Wall of Fire. In addition, if I ever hurt a Humanoid of any kind in any way, I would lose this buff until I went out of my way to “attone” like I would have to if I lost my cleric powers. And then, worst of all, if an ally hapoens to do something like torture a humanoid while within a certain distance of me, they get a -1 to ALL d20 rolls for the next 24 hours. However, if they do it again before that’s up, the timer resets and ANOTHER -1 is added. I was so angry and burned out with how I had fallen into this trap of changing my character that I wanted to retire him. Decided I would swap to a Ranged attacker, a Slayer with a Long Bow, as we had too many melee players at this time. But when the dm sees the race I chose (Skinwalker, since it was fairly human like but had extra skills that I thought were suoer cool and could make use of in rp and helping the party), the dm told me to instead play a melee focused Ogre named Jaagrath. An npc my cleric talked too before leaving the group. And to just, change his Anti-Paladin class to a Sanctified Slayer Inquisitor. I ended up playing him for a bit. Trued to make the most of it (heck, reflavored a Scimitar so it was an Ogrehook he straightened a bit to mimic my cleric’s sword), and made him into a tanky, heavy armor rogue of the party (with the ability to disable traps like we needed, some support spells, and a MASSIVE bonus to stealth for scouting). But after a few sessions, I was realizing that I knew next to nothing about this character, as the dm both gave me very little backstory to build on, and I was also simultaneously expected to have inside knowledge of Jaagrath’s old clanhold the oarty was entering. I hated him, I realized, because Jaagrath was maybe 5% my character (some class choices and such), but ultimately I felt like I was playing an npc the dm had reflavored to be like a dmpc. I haven’t sat at that table on Roll20 in a couple months now, between getting sick around the time of my last session, and just never goind back to it because I no longer had fun, the reason I had been returning for so long. Truth be told, I’ll probably take Tarak and remake him to either play a different pf game, or convert him to 5e to either be a pc there, or an npc for my party to meet someday. But not at that DMs tabke, because he twisted my ideas and used my naivety and love for the game against me.

too powerful to wake up 😤

Pinch of Wheat, close enough... Still that DMPC sounds.... So familiar to a friend of mine back when I rped on Wow, way too uncanny.

Dick... Strength? Is he expecting the bard to run up on a fully armored guard and beat him down by swinging his flesh mallet at them? That dm needs a better outlet for his weirdness. Unless your a Finnish sniper in ww2 the white death is just a goofy name. That guy however kinda earned that title.

...what's with wannabe Main Characters with "Death" in the name? I had a teammate that wanted his character to be nicknamed "Black Death" because he was the only survivor of his squad. A STARTING character, and he wanted him to be an ace pilot (we were playing Mekton). Another player said "So, he's the only survivor, his entire squad gets butchered (nevermind that they're MECHA pilots) and he wants to be called "Black Death"? It's more like "Dread Jinx" to me!" Guess what? THAT nickname stuck. Every time he does something really stupid with his characters the others in the team start calling him "Jinxie" - even though the team disbanded. Seriously, it's not really easy to take Edgelord backgrounds seriously, unless you're playing something Edge-heavy like Vampire the Masquerade. That said, why the pootis did White Jerk go after the ranger, given that the ranger was the only one to defend his Edgy McEdgelord's ass?

The only time i could imagine someone using "White Death" as a character name is a edgy Tabaxi rogue, because that is part of their naming convention. Even then though...

I started playing TTRPGs with my brother as GM, oh, 30 years ago, his rule was, "You can't play a character of the opposite gender, unless you're actually good at it." So, he didn't deny that it could be done. He just really hated it done badly. Note: He gave me permission to play a character with a split personality: three different personalities and two different genders, and none of them knew which one was the "prime." He figured, I may not be the best actor around, but at least I won't get all caught up in "Men are from Mars; Women are from Venus" stereotypes. On the topic of the first DM, who wanted to know if Tanda, the female bard, had a dick, and how long it was, and how strong it was, and if she thought of tying a rope to it, to support the entire party, and how he was SURE the male player had thought about his female character's dick: Do we file this under r/accidentalally? Or was that his warped version of transphobia? Or was he just plain stupid? I honestly can't tell.

I love plot armor, it's so gud.

Only time I one shot a PC on purpose was because the player asked me too. The original character they had was made as a joke and they regretted using them, so they asked me to kill that character so they could come in with their new character. I don’t really like the guy anymore but I still think it’s kind of funny that he didn’t realize that playing a joke character who was likely made for a one shot in what was supposed to be a long campaign would cause him to crash and burn

9:32 Yeah, that is how I’ve handled many pizza cutter (all edge, no point) NPCs, they seem like a DMPC horror, until it turns out their reputation and power is all just…something that happened to them. That incredibly powerful magic weapon? Found it in a tomb they went into to take shelter from a storm. The ancient BBEG they took down? Total accident, they were trying to figure out the weapon and ended up getting pulled along by it so fast all they could see was color streaming by like a hyperspace effect until they stopped…with the weapon hilt deep in the BBEG, who was disintegrating since it destroyed his artifact heart. All those big important bounties? All accidents or the weapon taking control when *they* attacked *him.* The near immortality? He has no idea, maybe it’s the weapon, maybe it’s just something he was born with? Maybe something he killed?

I have a hard time playing female characters, mostly because I have a hard time doing voices for them, and doing silly voices is a big part of my enjoyment of playing characters.

And you shall know me as … TAZERFACE!

i cant imagine being a game that restricted gender, pre transition playing women rly helped ms connect w femininity when i didnt know how much i needed it, i still only play women characters but mainly just out of my comfort at the table, but i have a cis guy friend who will play characters of different genders and he does a good job roleplaying regardless of gender

He thought op had a futanari bard. Mah lawd

@biffwellington6144

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like he failed his Detect Traps roll.

As DM I made one NPC that I enjoyed so much I chose to make them into a pc. It was a completely different experience but I enjoyed the character all the same. He is an odd build against type and with a very unique accent.

I will actually give the DMNPC one bit of credit. If you lived for 15,000 years, it's not inconceivable or even implausible that you could learn every language on the planet/multiverse. That's a LONG time

@theuncalledfor

2 жыл бұрын

Incorrect. You don't have that long to learn every language. Languages change over time. He has maybe 300 years to learn all actively used languages before they've changed so much that he can longer understand them properly. All _old_ languages that aren't in use anymore? Maybe. Still unlikely because more are added as old languages morph into new ones. Split, merge, intermingle. Exchange parts. Additionally, a brain cannot store infinite amounts of information. What kind of supernatural memory does one need to have to remember that much time in enough detail to recall _all_ the languages?

@Dareon0

2 жыл бұрын

@@theuncalledfor If we were solely talking human, you'd be right. The human brain can only hold an estimated 300 years or so of information. However this particular character is an elf. Assuming elves are evolved in a similarly efficient manner in regards to information retention and the average lifespan of an elf being over 750 years while a human's is around 60. I'll even lowball it and go with a roughly 10:1 ratio. That puts it to around 3,000 years of information potentially able to be stored. That and if you consider all the languages used primarily by extremely long lived or immortal beings which wouldn't change to nearly the degree human languages would in the same time frame, you'd have to worry about maybe half the languages in the game world. You bring up very good points and if the character was human, I'd absolutely agree with you, but they said it was a scarred elf, so we have to do some extrapolation and estimations, not 1 for 1 it to human limitations.

@theuncalledfor

2 жыл бұрын

@@Dareon0 That's kinda like saying an ant could lift ten tons if it weighed one ton. You're ignoring physical limitations. There's no reason to assume that an elf can store any more information in their head just because they live longer. There's a physics-based limit to how much you can store.

@Dareon0

2 жыл бұрын

@@theuncalledfor We aren't talking a physics based size limit though as that's based solely on human brains and I'm giving the assumption that the brains of elves would have a similar level of efficiency compared to their life spans. Similar level of evolutionary progress and efficiency. That is, unless you are presenting that either humans have the absolute limit of efficiency in regards to memory storage compared to brain size or presenting that a fictional species that has evolved to live over 10 times the length of a human would also have the same physiological restrictions that modern humans do rather than what would have evolved for their own species

-- Looks at my character sheet with "Evening Ward" written in the name spot and sweats profusely -- Yeah. Uh. Titles as names are dumb.

“Grain of Salt.”

IDK how I would react to this with my current character that would be complicated because she was originally a NPC that my DM created who then became attached to my previous character and when my previous character became a god I started playing this NPC

I’m a lady in real life. My D&D character is a male Wood Elf. He’s a Ranger with bow and arrow! 😊

Throwing hundreds of forks? Was this guy trying to be Dio Brando?

A grain of salt?… nah enough salt to fill a sandal? Hell yea

I'm going to leave my grain of salt

I used to hate it when players make fun of my very serious NPCs. Now I just make everyone sort of ridiculous on purpose, with crazy accents and bizzare appearances, so that when I want my players to take a character seriously I can just make them a normal dude, because I set the funny bar so high up.

A campaign I was in awhile ago was where everyone had to play the other gender boys play girl characters and girls play boy characters. It was meant to be a few sessions of stupid fun nothing serious but we actually enjoyed it and liked the characters we throw together in 5 minutes that we keep them. Still stupid as all hell but just as fun

9:20 Your name is tazerface!?

Grain of salt - I at least was entertained

You van take this with agrain of salt but i thinn this was a fun episode.

While I can understand being annoyed by a supposed edgy NPC, the OP in the White Death story really took the antagonisation a bit too far. It's a justified reaction to confront the dude, but animating his chair to walk him over to you is one, immediately hostile as you are forcing him to come to you against his will and two, you are basically striking the DM first when all you've seen is a guy eavesdropping on you. That said, the DM also dropped the ball with the White Death immediately bragging about how many they killed and how long they lived. Especially since the party started out by noticing them, this line of thought is almost completely lost from the get go. What I did in a Trail of Cthulhu campaign once, I inserted the chaos god Nyarlathotep disguised as a human. The players were looking for a mysterious eldritch object and he dropped in to see what the fuss was about around another god's items and to stir the pot a little, have some fun in the meanwhile. However, instead of approaching the party directly or being spotted by them to be eavesdropping or anything, instead I made the players themselves overhear a conversation between the Chaos god and some other NPC about an item he was looking for, which was connected to something the players were looking for, thus making them interested in the guy as opposed to being antagonistic. Then, for a second introduction, I had Nyarlathotep help them in a small way, acting more as an aid to the group than just a bystander or enemy, but I also made clear that he had some creepy vibes. He seemingly knew more than he let on, had some odd mannerisms and had a strange symbol on his necktie that the group recognized as some occult sigil. It was obvious the guy had some form of bad news on him, but I did my best to make his personality (or his pretense at least) as friendly and helpful-sounding as it was logical, essentially doing a slow-burn creeping fear for them as they noticed more and more odd things about him. Looking at this example, the DM could've saved a lot of nerves by simply making White Death approach the heroes with information or just give some sign of his presence without fully revealing himself and giving the players this opportunity. And of course, not immediately bragging about how many they killed or what they have seen, but approaching them through functionality, saying that he was a bounty hunter checking out new meat in town (the party) and was curious about them so he wanted to check if they were on the up and up, perhaps they had info on stuff he was looking for. As for the players, OP could use a lot more chill than just "animate his chair to walk him over to us" and start immediately mocking the allegedly dangerous stranger.

200 orcs sounds amazing

Grain of salt… a very important figure of speech!

Why fill out the whole character sheet, when all you need is the EDGE!?

bruh white death was a bounty hunter during the dinosaur days?

dnd helped me realize I was trans because I liked playing the other gender WAY more than my AGAB

While I know my DM wasn't mad about it, but before the campaign fell apart cause of time scheduling. I killed his DMPC he was planning to be a sort of mini BBEG causing the campaign to go on hiatus for a bit cause DM had to rewrite his campaign without him. The DMPC's name was Silver Suit lol

@theuncalledfor

2 жыл бұрын

So, a BEG or even an SBEG.

Grain of Salt.

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This was an interesting video. But I'd take all the stories with a grain of chili powder...

My dmpc: hey giys who wants healing and free shit? Or maybe some helo durimg combat? Their dmpc: i stand in a corner, wearing bloody blavk leather with a black hood, and a rusty sarated long sword laying beside me, i walk up to you. make you you feel uncomfortable, and kill you ally, then say, "can i join you on your adventures?"

A giant grain of salt

simo haya!!!!

rolling health for orcs? isn't that why average stats exist? XD

As a trans person, I strongly encourage allowing people to play the opposite gender. You never know when someone is trans and is using the roleplay to be the only way they can come out. Also... There's really no reason to disallow it. If they play a really horny character, they probably would've done that anyway.

I almost always play male characters. I'm a tomboy. Plus I can't draw women as well as I can draw men.

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Do you still take submissions for RPG horror stories here in the comments section, or just off of Reddit? Please let me know. Thanks! 👍

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I'm sorry, but a 15000 year old elf? If he's somehow not a decrepit corpse, why would he even be adventuring? Unless he's spent the last 14500+ years doing other things and just got into adventuring in the last 100 or so years to die against something he felt was worthy of taking his life, I just don't see why someone would've continued. If he's one of the supposed "Immortal Elves", it would make even LESS sense to be wasting their own time on something so menial.

@theuncalledfor

2 жыл бұрын

Hey hey, he's lived for 15000 years, okay. Everything else is _boring_ now, adventuring is the only thing that's still thrilling after this long!

A grain of salt for the algorithim. :)

grain of salt :3

I would probably give the DM some ribbing over a dumb NPC name, but I wouldn't draw it out like in the "White Death" story. Taunting the DM is not cool.

@emberfist8347

2 жыл бұрын

Taunting a minor NPC (at that point) isn't the same as taunting the DM.

@DrPluton

2 жыл бұрын

@@emberfist8347 The DM certainly thought they were taunting him.

Some poor Finnish dude now get make fun of cuz his nickname, white death.

Grain of salt 🧂😸 =^..^=

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Grain of salt :)

I cross play when I DnD. I just enjoy playing as a dude than a girl

The opening mini story confuses me. A character has AMAZING con so he sucks at con saves? How does that make any sense?

@Gamemaniac92711

2 жыл бұрын

I think that homerule is half-baked from hearing about systems where you roll against your stats... without realizing those involve rolling _under_ your stat to be successful, or if you need to roll over, that having a **low** stat is good.

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