Blood for the god of blood, skulls for the throne of skulls.

Does it make me evil if I have a little giggle every time Curse of Strahd comes up in a story because I KNOW Crispy just had an involuntarily shudder?

In a video full of top-tier bits, the "Womaaaaannnnn!" bit had me rolling. 🤣

@CrispysTavern

4 ай бұрын

That was actually a last minute bit I filmed at midnight! It wasn't even meant to be in the video. I didn't want the last story to just be a straight read, so I added it.

@stephaniejenkins7822

4 ай бұрын

@@CrispysTavern I'm really glad you recorded and included it, honestly, Crispy.

You know. The mushroom character feels like it could be fun if done right...but yeah a very frustrating situation

@ArcCaravan

4 ай бұрын

I've seen a mushroom character in a streamed gane with similar language limitations and he was beloved by the audience.

@aspacecocoon

4 ай бұрын

@@ArcCaravan Oh? Do you happen to remember what the channel was?

@ArcCaravan

4 ай бұрын

@@aspacecocoon Yeah. TFS Gaming Natural One-ders. I want to say chapter 4 is when he's introduced.

@aspacecocoon

4 ай бұрын

@@ArcCaravan Thank you! 😊

@ArcCaravan

4 ай бұрын

@@aspacecocoon Glad to help. Hope you enjoy it, it's the campaign that got me into DnD.

The description for the "subtle" death-god guy reminded me of a player I had one time during a medieval setting... *she comes through the door* "Oh hey, it's the witch" "I'm not obviously a witch! My class is not visible ingame!" "Describe your character then." "Okay, red hair, black cat on my shoulder, carries a broom....." She was serious at first, but quickly noticed what we meant :D

Oh! The story about edgy kid reminded me! I actually have an oc who is a priestess of a death god (technically two gods, one of death and one of time.) She's not evil, nor are the gods she worships! They teach living life to the fullest and not fearing death (seeing it as natural and the end to suffering and struggle, a comfort.) part of her temple duties include acting as a hospice nurse/death doula (basically caring for the dying and giving them comfort and even joy in their last days and helping them move peacefully on) She might be an interesting idea for a Cleric 🤔

Worst Friends Story. Some times you just gotta warn the jerks when they are crossing that line. In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny, "Because IF you go there I WILL go there and IF I go there I WILL be so there YOU will wish we were BACK HERE!" Never hesitate to stand up for yourself when it won't get you killed. And sometimes it is best to just walk away and never look back. Remember you are not the one who set that bridge on fire. Now trust me, I was in the military, I understand ribbing others. It is a common past time for current and vets. Even with complete strangers. But if they are really your friends they don't actually want to hurt your feelings. But you got to say something or they may not realize it. Even I have been socially ignorant to the point of making bricks look like geniuses. Some times they need a wake up call. And if they really are your friends that will be enough.

That last story left me feeling uneasy about playing a female character unless I ABSOLUTELY trust the table.

@IronLordEXO

4 ай бұрын

Definitely understandable. Though I usually find myself in a reverse situation where my character gets called a womanizer or predator for being one of or the only male in the group (something something dudes playing girls). And it gets really grating when they keep implying my character is thirsting for theirs when the rare times I'm not playing an ace character or a character who is straight up not interested, my characters usually have a love interest NPC in their backstory because I don't do player romance So yeah, people should just let their fellow players play what they want and have fun = =

@austinjerome5447

4 ай бұрын

Indeed it's why I usually play lizardmen. No one ever goes for em or accuses them bc of the cannibal and ugly stigmas.

@Nr4747

4 ай бұрын

I've played lots of female characters in a German Adventurers League discord with lots of players and never had any problems, despite internet + anonymity etc.

@alexisartfeild2807

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, the 'friends' in that last story were all round disgusting people who desperately NEED therapy and should NOT be allowed around civilized people until they get it. Unfortunately that attitude is isn't isolated to a small group of immature boys.

I think having a nuke present in a form is an interesting aspect in a fantasy world. I have written a place where a magic nuke exploded by accident and now the residents have to live in tunnels to avoid mutants and prevent from getting displaced in space and time by accident.

@OrangeyChocolate

4 ай бұрын

The event known as The Mourning in the Eberron setting could be read as a magical nuke. Like many things in Eberron, it's deliberately left vague so the DM can decide for themselves. Mutated creatures and temporal and spacial anomolies are of least concern to a party brave or foolish enough to tackle the Mournland.

@tamabasil9998

4 ай бұрын

Sounds like fun! For me it could be like, its from old times (ours) and one survived all those years and magic

18:11 I think a good idea for this unusual (yet not surprising) situation, Is eventually have this kid meet his God of death. Only to discover that the cult that he’s a part of is kind of a radical version of the original. Because the God of death is actually a pretty chill guy. He’s not the dark brooding, “bring death to all things” God of death. He’s the, “ death is the ultimate fairness” Kind of god of death. Why hunt for and spread death when it’s just a natural part of life. And character that could be an interesting crisis of faith, kind of thing.

@ArcCaravan

4 ай бұрын

Gives me a vibe similar to revealing the lawful good orphan finding out the parents who were supposed to be avenged were total scumbags who had it coming.

I have a Grave Domain Cleric character who's a follower of Hades, and she's not evil. Honestly... I don't understand why people see grave or death cleric domain deities and immediately think that that makes them evil 🤦‍♀

I keep hoping for a greatest hits video where it's the top 5 pieces of advice acted out by the Crispyclones 1.) Out of game problems need out of game solutions. 2.) Have a session zero to discuss everyone's comfort level with the content. 3.) Speak up when someone crosses a line- whether it's directed at you or not. 4.) It's a game not a job, it's supposed to be fun for everyone- including the DM. and, of course, 5.) No DND is better than bad DND One day, maybe, the halls of DND horror stories will be empty but then what would we watch?

Man, I wish my family was interested in playing BG3 with me. I usually prefer playing solo games, but it'd be so fun to play BG3 in multiplayer.

I once had a friend who similarly tried to keep me to himself. He convinced me to run two 1 on 1 campaign for years, long after inspiration had run dry. 😭 In fairness, one of my most memorable RP moments happened during the d20 Modern 1 on 1 campaign. Was a toxic dynamic, though, and went on for far too long. Also, it's so frustrating how the table in the last story were *so slow* to realize OP's character's gender. O_O Just assuming a character matches the player's (presenting) gender is such a n00b faux pas. This story hurt! Table from the Nine Hells!

Don’t worry, I also played Red Dead… still kinda mad I didn’t get the finishing shot…. Kill-stealing, two-timing, betraying Dutch!

“It’s always something!” Honestly, it’s usually the same thing.

That initial squeak from the gag in the skit... XD

So now we have a Yandere Crispy, well, that happened. Is it just me, or are Cripsy's bits getting more over the top?

Glad to see you liked the story! (Im the nuke guy)! Made me happy to hear it read out!

I love these stories despite never really having played DnD. I mean... I wanted to join a group of family friends who played with my parents but... He was a terrible DM. First he didn't let me play the race I wanted (I wanted to be a half elf he made me a halfling) then when I asked to sit in on a game for a session or two to get the vibe and become familiar with HOW TO PLAY (and maybe we could play it off as my character following at a distance to see if she could trust them)...he said no and threw me in the story without teaching me the basics and proceeded to get annoyed that I didn't know what was going on (I am talking about not even knowing which dice to use for what). I hated it and never went back.... Until a homebrew game was starting up and I thought maybe it would be better to start from the beginning everyone else... Yeah no, I think we were just incompatible with each other's style.... Haven't played DnD ever since....

Techically multiclassing is an optional rule that is confirmed by the dm. If you read the habdbook it isnt a standard rule. That being said most tables and even my own pretty much treated as a standard rule lol

@ArcCaravan

4 ай бұрын

Good point on that multiclassing rule.

@Crazor2000

4 ай бұрын

yeah, the same is technically true for feats, but because everybody uses them, it's usually assumed you play with these rules, unless told not to by your dm.

@AnnaMno1

4 ай бұрын

The first time I DMed I said from the start no multiclassing or homebrew in that campaign since I was a newbie DM After that though multiclassing is allowed (though if we're starting at a higher level they start as one class, and can just add multiclass later through playing) and any homebrew needs to be run past me first

The best red dead reference I've seen in a while tbh

Goblinheimmer? GOBLINHEIMMER!!!!

As someone who's suffered a near TPK due to a Goblin with a lighter, the thought of Goblins building a nuke fills me with existential dread... and I'm nowhere near that campaign.

great video man, also the destiny withdrawels are so REAL!!! 😭

@CrispysTavern

4 ай бұрын

Hey that "into the light" concept art has my ATTENTION though.

“I felt a little depressed then, so I silt one of my ristz…” -Crispony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way

The family game story is kinda why I avoid BG3 multiplayer unless I'm playing with my girlfriend since we're usually on the same page on what kind of run we wanna do while we're in character creation. My other experiences with more than one other player have been a complete shitshow, like one I got invited to join while still ongoing in act 1 where everyone was going in different directions, the Durge kept killing NPCs some of the others wanted to talk to and the Circle of Moon Druid who was allergic to wild shape (I kid you not, they wild shaped once within the span of 4 hours) threw a fit over getting turned down by Astarion in the camp party At least my cleric had his gay moment with my homeboy Wyll, but suffice it to say, that save never picked up again and I sure as hell wasn't in any hurry 🤣

Yandere Crispy has arrived

Something tells me Crispy plays Destiny…

@CrispysTavern

4 ай бұрын

Wonder what?

The RDR 2 reference. I normally play good aligned characters in video games but when I saw the ending for evil aligned characters was that Micah gets to kill Arthur I made damn sure to be the best goodie two shoes cowboy I could be by the end of the game just to make sure that bastard didn't get the satisfaction of taking out my Arthur.

I see that Smite Skin thumbnail, great taste.

Listening to this while doing prep for my game tomorrow. Keep up the good work, Crispy!

@VeronicaWarlock

4 ай бұрын

Taking a short break from touching up my map to play… an hour from now. 😅 It will be fine!

Ranger is my main class and I quite enjoy it. But it’s not for everyone so there is that. Weirdly, my current favorite of my characters I am still actively playing is one of my samurai fighters (I have more than one but for different tables). It’s my linguistics scholar samurai fighter. They are really fun to play. But I think that is more to do with having a super compatible table and dm to play with as well as a campaign story I’m very invested with, adding the fact that I made a insanely compatible character for said campaign and party. It just all…clicked. Lol it’s a great feeling. Top favorite character of mine I ever made is still my first character which is a gloomstalker ranger drow with a dip into scout rogue. First ever dnd character and first ever campaign I ever played start to finish. Definitely checked that off my dnd bucket list.

I wanna see one that has a Death God more like Death of the Endless. So the Death Cult is like…super kind to everyone and helpful and empathetic. At first they seem like they’re the antagonists, but as you go on you find out it’s just prejudice and they’re cool, and actually the good guys

Why is *22:03** violin screech sfx* so common in these RPG horror stories? Bonus points if it happens in Curse of Strahd. It is concerning how often that comes up in these.

@CrispysTavern

4 ай бұрын

I'm REALLY trying to find another one.

Reminds me when me and friends BG3, we started literal war over Shadowheart

16:52 *insert plague doctor with life saving thighs* need i say more?

yessssss more house of usher references 👀

Had to look up the sword from story two. It's just a d4 to attack rolls against creatures who don't have all their hp, not enough to rage over if you ask me.

Yandere crispy?!? Intresting. Good job crisp, hope tonsee more intresting skits

In my most beloved game we secured a nuke from a giant who was wielding it as a holy weapon and plan to use it in the cross campaign fight against what is essentially a version of Asmodeus. Not convinced it's the best idea, but our Artificer has been spending a lot of timing on building a detonation mechanism that should work as intended :>

Mrykul isn't strictly the god of death. His lore after the Second Sundering has him somewhat sharing a portfolio with Jergal and the SCAG doesn't give clear info. His relationship with Kelemvor, a person he tried killing often, is Mryky. Bum tiss.

Crispy was a little too convincing when he went yandere

House of Usher Reference woaah.. still not recovered from watching it

All deities of death in my campaign worlds are true neutral. They don't kill, and they don't glorify in slaughter or plagues. They give a single gift to all, only once, regardless of gender, or race, or wealth, or status.

With Toll of the dead on the cleric spell list you can just grabbed the blessed warrior fighting style and grab it that way.

Wow. First 20 comments? Much wow. Much excitement. (Is old and misses old memes)

Its always a Micah...

Halfcaster supremacy!!!

For my myconoid homebrew race (The mushroom this Micah was playing) they just have basic telepethy

WHY would you put the idea of nuclear warheads into the heads of dnd players?! You really thought they wouldn't try?

THIS GAME AINT FOR ME!

The way you pronounce the "Wh" is intentional?

I still can't find that wrong notes Mario song u keep playing.

@CrispysTavern

4 ай бұрын

The Mario tune is just the normal theme in the minor key! Usually though, I use Temmie from Undertale or a tune from Kirby.

Ranger is your guiding/hunting dog.

29 seconds... dang

still miss my thriller dance fromd estiny 1 indestiny 2

@CrispysTavern

4 ай бұрын

I miss the Carlton! Loved Fresh Prince when I was a kid.

@nardopolo7407

4 ай бұрын

@@CrispysTavern i forgot that dance was even in D1 but i mean d 2 does have the bad romance dance and the time warp

This game ain't for me. 😅 Also 'jokes on them' because SA is Unisex and unfortunately happens regardless of sex/gender. 😢 If they wanted to SA your character it wouldn't matter what gender they were. Assholes are also unisex and comes from all places. Stay safe out there everyone. You are worth respect. ❤️

All my homies hate Micah

D&D is PG13 etc. etc. /The Edgelord is a Kid comment

Second. Ill take it. Sup crispy

This game ain't for me

Session 0's are cool and all, but meh. Make a character and go! This is why I love Curse of Strahd. It doesn't matter where your character is from, it's the middle of nowhere from anywhere. Make the character you want to play. This session 0 stuff is just a barrier of entry.

I don’t know if “constructive criticism” is invited - if so, I personally find it jarring when memes and comments are interjected into the middle of sentences/paragraphs of someone else’s story. I find it disrupts the flow and eventually makes me click away because I’m trying to follow the story, and the tangents (“Destiny withdrawals” or whatever, for example) totally take me out of it when they happen in the middle of the sentence. Most story-reading channels seem to wait until the end of the sentence if not of the paragraph or even the broader section of the story before interjecting (unless it’s something super egregious in the story, e.g. grapey behavior by a problem player, in which case I think a narratorial “oh, god, I don’t wanna read that” is warranted). So that’s how I prefer it because it gives me as a listener a “structure” for when an interjection to the story may occur, if at all. However, perhaps that’s something your viewers like about your channel - that you do this differently from other channels. If that’s the case, more power to them and to you and I’m not trying to take away something that makes you stand out from other channels if your viewers like it. I also understand that the other extreme is just robotically, monotonously reading the story while adding nothing original or idiosyncratic, which I would say isn’t necessarily better - but I definitely think there’s a lot of middle ground between the two in which you can carve out your own space. I just figured I’d write this to say that I, personally, find it makes the videos a lot more difficult to consume, and 1) I’m pretty confident I’m not the only one and 2) I’d definitely be a regular viewer otherwise - that’s really the one big obstacle for me in terms of getting into the content.

@CrispysTavern

4 ай бұрын

Channel grew a lot ever since I started doing skits and commentary. If you want to leave, leave. We aren't for you.

@blazaybla22

4 ай бұрын

@@CrispysTavern Fair enough; I did feel like I tried to be pretty clear that it wasn’t the skits or commentary that were an issue for me (those I think are both positives) rather it is the timing of them. It was a long way of saying “I’d personally prefer if the commentary and memes and skits didn’t jumpscare me in the middle of reading a sentence”. Also there’s not really any leaving to be done as that was more me deciding “whether I stayed to begin with”. Anyway, fair enough, and all the best.

@blazaybla22

4 ай бұрын

Actually, I reread my comment and I could see how if one didn’t read it closely past the beginning then it might have seemed like I was criticizing the interjections in general. So just to reiterate, I think the commentary on stories is welcome and even if the skits aren’t my personal cup of tea I think they add something unique to your videos and set your channel apart from others in a positive way. It’s the timing of them - in the middle of paragraphs and sentences, as opposed to after one is finished - that I personally find disruptive. But I do stand by that.

13:36 “The final boiling point was when my dad wanted to get some special secret sword off a guard in a burning building.” Me: “Svartlebee’s Woundseeker!” 🫡