Karen Mom says in one breath, "maybe we're not the good friends you thought we were," and then in the next breath, "you'll be hurting people who care very deeply about you." Which is it? They can't both be true.

In the Knight background, it clearly states that the squires can leave if they are mistreated

@MyAramil

2 жыл бұрын

And can actually create a thread plot for the npc. He comes back later to seek revenge, or to put this obvious person who is a distasteful person where he belongs, beaten and broken.

@nvfury13

2 жыл бұрын

If the DM is wise, the squire might *also* be a member of a noble house (only the lowest Knights normally had a commoner squire) and then you have an entire noble family making trouble for the Knight, possibly along with others, including his own.

@psychowordsmith

Жыл бұрын

I think he was roleplaying Zapp Braginann with zero awareness.

@DragonsRPretty

Жыл бұрын

@@psychowordsmith That made me laugh 🤣

"I'm not attacking you - I'm *Defending* him!" Apparently, the stoked flames of a Paladin's oath burn hotter than that of a Flametongue sword. The more you know.

@richyofthevillagers

Жыл бұрын

This Deus Vult hit way harder than the usual ones, and I'm so down with it. 10/10 paladin right there

Inspired by the first story (not the intro): The Squire huddles in the darkness inside the tent, whimpering and shivering in terror in anticipation of Master's return. He could feel the bruises and scars, both old and new, all over his body; reminders of Master's cruel and vitriolic temper. He remembers how Master berated and insulted him even as he was beating him, calling him weak, pathetic, a useless wretch not worth anything. He dreaded Master's return from the most recent dungeon, recalling all too well Master's sadistic promise to use any fancy new weapon he finds on him. The Squire thought of running away many, many times, but how could he? His family were serfs in debt bondage to Master, that was how he was forcibly recruited into being his squire after all. If he ran away, he'd leave his family at the tender mercies of Master's violent, sadistic whims. He could only weather the storm of Master's brutishness so his family wouldn't. Suddenly, he hears a sound like an armored figure walking up to the tent. He feels as though his heart stops in fear. Before he could react, the tent flaps fly open. He throws his hands up in a weak attempt to ward off any blows. "P-please d-don't hurt me, M-Master!" he whimpers. "I-I-I-" "Ssshhh, it's alright, take it easy," comes the surprisingly soothing voice above him, one he recognizes not as the sneering, hateful tone of Master, but one of the others. It's the Paladin, standing over him. "It's alright, nobody's coming to hurt you. Not anymore." The Squire warily looks up and down at the Paladin. The older man looks as though he picked a fight with a band of orcs then got set on fire. He's wounded and bleeding from several places, his holy armor having taken quite a beating. "Wh-what happened, s-sir?" Squire blurts in surprise before he could stop himself. "Your 'Master' and I had a... disagreement," Paladin responds, eyes narrowing with a contempt and loathing for Master that Squire recognized all too well. "Let's just say I got him to sit down and rethink his treatment of you." Squire dares a peak past the Paladin, and sees Master being dragged back to camp by a braying mule, the other members of the party having a good chuckle at the lord's misfortune as they tag along. Apparently, Paladin had given just as well as he'd taken, with Master's face a swollen mess of bruises, swollen eyes, smashed nose and bloodied lips. Squire feels a mix of catharsis and pity looking at Master's face, "Starting today, you're no longer forced to be his squire," the Paladin adds, matter of factly. "You're free now." "Free...?" the Squire says, feeling a bit of happiness at long last as he feels a weight off his heart. Then he remembers something, his face contorting in fear as icy terror grips his heart. "B-but my family! They-" "Will be well taken care of," Paladin cuts in reassuringly. "I've already sent a message to my temple, and will pull strings to see their debt is bought out. It will mean they'll be working for my temple instead, but I think we can both agree that's the better option." "And what will I do...?" the Squire asks. "Well, you could either go home and help your family," Paladin replies. "Or..." He reaches to the crouched Squire with a hand. Not one stretched out in malice, to hurt or forcefully grab, but one extended in friendship and goodwill, one the Squire couldn't mistake even after years of abuse. "...you can become _my_ squire," Paladin continues. "What do you think? Work conditions aren't going to be great, pay's probably not going to be that good, hours are lousy, but we can both agree work conditions will be better." "Master barely paid me anything," Squire bitterly mutters. "He said repaying my family's debt was enough..." "Then we can add 'better pay' to those conditions," Paladin replies warmly. "You get a share of the treasure, but some of that will go towards repaying your family's debt. How does that sound?" The Squire felt himself smile his first genuine smile in what felt like a long, long time as he grabbed the hand and shook it. "I'd be honored to," he replies. "Sir." "Good man," Paladin replies, pulling the boy to his feet. "Now be a good fellow and help me to my tent; your previous 'Master' left a line of reasoning in my left leg that feels like an angry red dragon took a bite out of it..." And that's how a poor sharecropper's son and much-abused knight's squire took his first steps to be a Paladin of Righteousness, Champion of the poor and downtrod, and protector of the weak and defenseless...

@falxblade1352

2 жыл бұрын

Chills. Literal chills. You're a good writer, Shadi

@nvfury13

2 жыл бұрын

Ok, that was awesome…and a beautiful way to use it for a backstory if the Squire-come-Paladin becomes a PC.

@cuileth3369

2 жыл бұрын

Damn, I loved that. I'm not usually a fan of comment-spawned mini-stories, but you got the whump nailed perfectly. I am so invested xD Also, your way of describing terror and anticipation, feelings and mood in general, is really good.

@Yolashillinia

Жыл бұрын

That was so satisfying, thank you for writing it!

@jareddunn3512

Жыл бұрын

Thank you that helped make my day. Exceptionally good writing and message

To quote what one of my players told me: "I may be a straight white male, but once a week, I get to be a violently bisexual girl" Also, whenever I play a character, I won't make them gay just because I am, I usually make them bi since, hey, more potential character moments.

@maxmueller4576

Жыл бұрын

the greatest joy of roleplaying is exploring or experiencing new things without having to change yourself. thumbs up. i for one cant play female charackters convincingly so im stuck with males but always as nutty as a almond candybar.

Fighter: I challenge any of you to one-on-one combat! Paladin: Okay, I attack the fighter. Fighter: What? Why are you attacking me. Not exactly Professor Moriarty we're dealing with.

@FlatOnHisFace

Жыл бұрын

I felt like the squishy casters could've accepted the challenge. "Agreed. We shall duel at 600 paces, sir."

"I wanted to play a new race every session" sounds an awful lot like "I want to make the party think you're letting me cheat, so they can be mad at you".

Story 3 -oh god, the Karen clique. Momma probably wanted to use the game store as a baby sitter who would also spoil his son.

@TrackerRoo

2 жыл бұрын

Weird thing was she sat in on every session and just lurked

@CM-wv8ns

2 жыл бұрын

@@TrackerRoo maybe she was looking for a new husband

Kudos to the Paladin in story 1 for setting an example of what a Paladin (or at least the good-aligned ones) should be.

@paulman34340

2 жыл бұрын

I'm surprised he didn't do it sooner! I'm a Paladin Main myself and I feel for the Paladin player trying his best to avoid a situation like this to avoid being "Lawful Stupid"....but in no way would have been Lawful Stupid in the earlier incidents. Seeing how I would have defended the Squire earlier then he did mostly because I can understand Paladin player trying to avoid it, I do myself. But "That Guy's" are asking for it, they can enjoy calling me a cop and whining for as long as it takes my Paladin to pretty much curb stomp theirs!

@FlatOnHisFace

Жыл бұрын

Crispy (reading): The squire went on to become the paladin's squire.... Me: D'awww!

Story 2 - Yeeeeaaaah, abusing someone of lesser status than your character is a gross behavior. And to say “We didn’t shake hands to give him away”, dude, he’s your squire, not your slave-and even so, that is gross.

That story with the squire reminds of a news story from a while back where a guy put on a nice suit, went to a business he didn’t work at and told a bunch of entry level workers they were fired. And recorded the anguish. Nobody knows if those people had the story set straight for them and the internet tore that guy a new one.

One of these days I’ll get around to writing out my skyrim rpg horror story and see if it gets read out.

Every horror story I hear cements my belief that you should confront problem people as soon as possible and cut them out of a group without hesitation if they refuse to own up to their toxic behaviour. Trying to hold on to unrepentant toxic people in the hopes that they'll change always seems to end up costing more in the long run. It's like hoping that an infected toe will get better if you ignore it, only to end up losing the whole leg. Left unchecked these people can destroy an entire friend group, and will not hesitate to do so if it means not having to admit they're wrong.

Thanks for being open about your aceness, Crispy. It isn't often I see people who are open about that sort of thing, and I only recently realized that I fell into the ace spectrum myself. It is a comfort to know one is not alone. Please know that your pride in your identity has had a positive influence on at least one other person.

@mondenkindqueen

2 жыл бұрын

I’m also an ace. Aromantic too. Humanity is such a large thing, that it is statistically nigh on impossible to be the only xyz on the planet. Even the astronauts on the ISS aren’t alone. They have people who care about them just below on the planet. Hugs to my ace brothers and sisters.

@Crazyivan777

2 жыл бұрын

Ace also. With the help of a friend, figured out I was two years ago - age 48. It allowed me to look back and realize why I had some relationship problems when I was younger. I'm just so glad people can be open about it now. Knowing earlier... would've been nice.

@Densoro

2 жыл бұрын

‘Nother ace here. Figured it out around age 24, just turned 31. Always makes my heart sing when I see younger folk like Crispy finding the language to understand themselves

@beckawilk

2 жыл бұрын

Another here. Always validating to have a vontent creator be open about it and acknowledge it. Makes us feel welcome.

I've attacked PCs in my group for being murder hobos. If I was DM, and a Lawful Good character was abusing someone, I would warn them the first time, then start dropping their alignment toward Chaotic Evil, one move per session.

Story 1- The Paladin acting like a traditional paladin was the real story here- here, here i say! Story 2- The only thing missing from this hodgepodge of tropes was The Neckbeard Story 3- If you can't be bothered to keep track of your own game world and events, why are you trying to be a DM? Just say you lost track of things or use an NPC to ask the players what the plot point was again. Story 4- While all of my characters are straight or neutral nearly half of them are of the opposite sex- and what sex they engage in is no one else's business, in and out of character.

I would confidently bet that the knight who was bullying his squire while asserting being good was abused by an authority figure.

@ZorotheGallade

2 жыл бұрын

That or he's just projecting his wish to be an authority figure who can abuse others because he's a piece of shit. The fact he resorted to the typical "I can kill your character when I want to but you can't do anything to mine because we're supposed to be a team" logic would suggest so.

@coda821

2 жыл бұрын

The character playing the knight seemed very smug. He was trying to force them into accepting obviously wicked behavior as good, and rub the stink in their faces. He displayed contempt for kindness and compassion. That contempt could have been enough motivation, without him being abused.

@Zahnzak

2 жыл бұрын

Or he is an authority figure, and that is how he treats his underlings.

@diamondflaw

2 жыл бұрын

@@Zahnzak The "Cycle of Abuse" would suggest most likely both.

@jackofastora8962

2 жыл бұрын

@@diamondflaw some people are just flat out pieces of shit, the cycle has to start somewhere after all.

I sacrifice the "mom" on the altar of the algorithmic gods! May they sustain you, bless you, and rain curses down on your enemies! 🤘

As long as your players are HAPPY, and YOU are enjoying the surprises, it doesn't matter if they MAKE UP THEIR OWN QUESTS ALONG THE WAY! Like, "HEY! This NPC the DM just made up on the spot, because we wanted a blacksmith, made an off-the-cuff comment about how steel is hard to come by these days. LET'S GO ON A QUEST TO FIND THE BLACKSMITH SOME HIGH QUALITY STEEL! RIGHT NOW!!!" This, btw, is something my group would TOTALLY do. I have learned that from experience. OMG, they throw me for SUCH loops. But! I get SUCH a kick out of it, because surprise fun is something that I'm here for, as well. It's like you say: Everyone needs to know, FROM THE START, what sort of a game it is. If the DM wants pure combat, just run a gladiator "pit," where the "overlords" take their gladiators from setting to setting, so the they can see the gladiators fight under different conditions and against different foes. It could be fun, for people who just want combat, and just want to say, "Look! I have a character built who can do these power moves in combat! WHEEE!" Utility characters need not apply, unless the utility players can, routinely, pull a utility out of their butts that can save the day IN COMBAT. But whether you're running a pure combat game, or not, IT IS THE DM'S JOB TO REMEMBER HIS PLOT HOOKS! You can forget little things, but NOT PLOT HOOKS! So, yeah, the DM is completely at fault here. And then, to bash his players to other DMs? SHAMEFUL!

the first story reminds me of blitz tank from akatski blizkamf lol

The way Crispy pronounces isekai is quite interesting

@Densoro

2 жыл бұрын

I came here for this comment lol When he says he doesn’t watch anime, I believe it xD

@Magnet_Chaos

Жыл бұрын

Doesn't beat the way he pronounces "Inuyasha."

@namjoonssexybrain1679

Жыл бұрын

@@Magnet_Chaos Oh my god I died laughing hearing that, he adds a w noise in there for no reason, it’s glorious.

I hate when players just decide they're starting their level 1 characters with absurdly good gear or whatever, either without telling them, or they're the DM's bestie and get special treatment. The cleric in a campaign quite some time ago decided she was gonna start with +3 armour, the DM explicitly told her that wasn't okay, and that it wouldn't be balanced, and she said fine, and showed up to the game with the armour anyway like "it's in my backstory, so you can't take it away". There was also the guy who decided to bring a homebrew legendarily powerful longsword which was red and black and housed the soul of an elder vampire he killed (level 1...) and it trapped the souls of anyone he killed with it, which made the sword stronger and glow brighter as the vampire tortured them for all eternity... edgelord.

@hollowblaze2320

2 жыл бұрын

If I was the dm. I be like okay. You get to have those items. A minute layer. Oh whats this. It seems your good equipment magically turned to starting equipment. Take it or leave it. My opinion I want you yo leave. Get the f**k out.

@animeotaku307

2 жыл бұрын

It's the equivalent of hacking a video game so that your character starts out with late-game armor and weapons.

@richyofthevillagers

Жыл бұрын

I mean I'll give it to the player, it sounds like a pretty cool sword with an actual story behind it so it balances out the generic edginess... however you just completely missed the point of playing the game when you added it to a new character, and need I say a 1st level character. Full facepalm.

@biffwellington6144

Жыл бұрын

The one time I wanted to do something vaguely similar, in 3.5, I planned on taking the Ancestral Relic feat. I had a specific weapon in mind for it, a Large-sized falchion (the character was a goliath). Rather than beg the GM to let me randomly get my hands on a Large masterwork falchion, I instead backstoried it that he had a broken falchion that held great sentimental value for him. He carried the shards around in a chest. It would be useless as a weapon until I reached level 3 and could reforge it (as that was considered the appropriate level to have a masterwork weapon, and so it was the minimum level to take Ancestral Relic); all it would do until then was take up a fairly significant amount of weight in my carrying capacity. The GM liked my concept, and let me roll with it.

3:56 Good for the squire! I love endings like this.❤️

The first story... now that's a proper paladin

Playing characters that aren't "you" is a really fun way to branch into new RP aspects of the game, and as long as you do it from a place of respect and genuineness it's all in fun so long as people aren't uncomfortable and you're not playing stereotypes. I've got a character up my sleeve for my next game I'm excited about for these reasons, my partner is Ace(I'm not but I respect her and her boundaries) but still loves romance and couple things, so I had this build in mind and while designing the background and personality, the idea of the character being Ace kind of organically worked into it. I showed my partner and told the background and she adores the idea. I'm excited to play it and feel like it will help me see even more into her viewpoint, which isn't that why we play characters that aren't "us". To get a new perspective from a place of respect.

MOM!! For the last time stop trying to make my barbarian a lawful good baker of cute cakes!

Always nice when players try to insult the GM's intelligence by sending in a video of their dice rolls. I mean, at least it's a step up from a photo, but it's still quite difficult to resist asking how many takes were needed for those results.

After Story 1, I kind of want to play a character modeled after John Rabe, the Good Nazi.

Story 5 - Ah, I love it when the trash takes itself out for me.

come on Crispy, you're doing that on purpose with the ads now!xD. "her response was just [start of ad] "I DONT CARE, I LOVE IT" Love it man ;)

First story. Lawful Good Paladin actually being a Lawful Good Paladin. Haven't seen that in a while. As for the fighter, as DM I would be slowly changing his alignment. I think Professor Dungeon Master on the Dungeon Craft channel here on KZread has a good method for tracking and doing this.

German here: "I am not a Nazi, but" is a very common thing used by German people before saying something racist. It got more common during the Syrian war when the refugees arrived in Germany. The fun thing is though...it makes everything sound purely evil. "I am not a Nazi, but I don't like Uber" see? Sounds kind racist.

@angiep2229

2 жыл бұрын

In the U.S. it's typically "I'm not racist, but (racist statement)."

@mondenkindqueen

2 жыл бұрын

Sometimes, you just have to remind people that the word “but” is a negation of everything before it. This is true in all languages. So yes, if you say “I’m not a racist/Nazi, but…” you are admitting to being racist.

4:24 The line of thinking our 'lawful good' knight here cited is pretty disturbing, if you think about it. "I declared myself to be good, therefor anything I do is good." Hope that doesn't bleed into his real life too much...

Wait wait.... Wait... DMs are people?!?! You mean we are not mindless game running machines with no schedule and no claim to also enjoy the game? ***Gasp!***

I mean lets be real, the germans have always made badass tanks, King Tiger tank was a bamf machine.

oof the Warforged Barbarian. Especially disappointing to me because I also play a Warforged Barbarian. Mine is obviously much less rude to her group (she's more like a big sister to them)

3:07 *paladin says* I'm your huckleberry...

Did I hear that right? They used the dead barbarian's body as ARMOR?! I am both disgusted and joyful. Again, if everyone left at the table is on the same page for it, go for it.

Bruh, the mother and son story reminds of the time my dad let his, 5 Year Old, play god of war for up until the end of the tutorial level. It baffles me that the same parents that worry about their children experiencing bad influences will ignore little tim being the most violent psychopath to roam the playground.

I just have to say...... MAMA MIA, here we go again, my my, that's just quite ridiculous

A Paladin who actually plays his oath right? Wow.

*Nazi tank that got Isekai’d into the body of a warforged, who over the course of the campaign realizes that in their past life, their country was the villain, and they now have to cope with the fact somehow* is added to my list of characters to play in the very, very far future after checking with whoever happens to end up being my DM

I would have allowed that wehraboo to play, but force his character to suffer the same reliability issues that plagued late war german tanks.

Intro: I get liking tanks and admiring the ones made by scummy people/organizations, but going to such lengths to play as one in a setting that doesn't make sense for it is just too extreme for it to not be something more. "Why Don't You LoVE My Character?!": Weird title for this story. On the actual story, he knew what he was doing and the DM needed to step in earlier. There's a time for the players to have their freedom, and a time for the fighter's superiors to step in and save the squire from his abuser since only that guy was having fun. Karen Mom RUINS D&D: Yeah, that mom messed up her kid by babying him. Also, got to love how manipulative she was near the end. I don't think she even realized how she was among those "not very good friends" when she said that bit. Bet she blamed everyone but herself for DMing being difficult. The powergamer was also a piece of work. Not for powergaming, but how as well as everything else. "You Are iDIOTs for... Playing My Game?!": I don't know if the GM was saying that to absolve himself of responsibility, or because he just didn't care enough to write it down. Either way, it wasn't just a communication issue, he was also just not caring about the players. It's like if the DM from the All Furries story didn't even care enough to add his own DMNPC. Homophobic "That Guy" Rage Quits: Yeah, this guy is a bad person. Something weird to consider is that homophobic people might fly under people's radar if they don't act this way. Not related to this story but it popped into my mind while thinking about this story. And if you say that all homophobic people are like this, just remember that most of these stories are from people who don't hide it or do a bad job at hiding it. There is even a Critcrab one where the guy was (base on what we're told from OP's secondhand knowledge) like that on Facebook but not at the table at all, so the DM and other players bully him out of the campaign (with the excuse that he was violent and would have beat them up if they talked to him, which makes no sense considering that being made uncomfortable should also make him violent). Sorry for the rant, that story just angers me.

‘I, the fighter, challenge all you squishy casters to a duel.’ Squishy caster: ‘kewl [shakes on it] as challenged, it will be starting (long distance + 10/lvl) away on a flat plain with broken ground That way, I get my long distance spells off, you can’t charge and you can’t hide.’ LG Fighter: ‘wait, no.’ SC: ‘you already agreed, we shook on it, and, as Lawful Good, you have to go through with it.’

What's funni about the story with the kid is I was tasked with making a new character at one point with random core stats, so I did... but I unintentionally fudged it, rolling with a d20 when I was supposed to do the "4d6, drop 1" method (my favorite of the stat methods), so all of my base stats were higher than expected It flew under the radar at least but I still felt bad about it postmortem, _at least none of them were a raw 18_

I like the theme in this video of dirtbags being confronted with documented evidence of what they said and subsequently lied about lol

Crispy's NPCs from now on: Shadow Clone Jutsu

Oh man, that last guy would love me. I am currently playing a 17 year old aroace half elven wizard girl with 19 intelligence. I on the other hand am a 35 year old bisexual human man with maybe 12 intelligence on a good day.

Yes, I can see it: the campaign in which every NPC, every single soul the players meet, is the same race, gender and sexuality as the DM. Just DM in different hats. Bonus points if everyone at the table is male. Guess that's one way to get around the "i roll do seduce the barmaid" issue,

That last story,,,just wow...Thing is I have friends who arnt like this, sure some are crazy and weird, but the more fun kind. So it's baffeling that you find these that are just,,well the oddoneout

Sounds like the Only War GM was trying to imitate The All Guardsmen Party, without any sense of why that story worked so well. Yes, Only War makes a good Character creation funnel for Dark Heresy, but Dark Heresy is a different game for a reason.

Why don't you love my character - I certainly hope that the fighter's player never ever gets a job position where he has authority over other employees.

i will never understand the "you cant play something youre not! thats WEIRD" mentality. if that were the case, they only race would be human, and we'd have to add classes like "accountant" "retail/restaurant employee" "student". These are called FANTASY for a reason. And, pertaining to the "you cant play a sexuality youre not" mentality Barbarian had...like, as long as youre not disrespecting someone of that sexuality, who cares? Im straight, and i rp a lesbian in WoW. Shes a shy, cute cinnamon bun of a Priest who just happens to be in love with a woman.

Gonna be real, I get "and then everyone clapped" vibes from the last story. idk why tho

You can’t really say “he’s 13?” when the mom is obviously filling his head with shit. Like he’s entitled to everything and that he should always win. 13 is still a child, and 13 years with a mother like that… he’s gonna learn the very fucking hard way that the world is harsh, and it’s his mom’s fault.

That last story Homophobe: it's rude/disgusting to play as something you're not! "Oh, so you're made of metal?"

Mom? I feel like I should type Multitudinous Overbearing Matron...

Lol I was dming for a store and this middle aged guy and his 16 year old son showed up. The kid's edgelord character immediately got mouthy with a powerful npc. After several fair warnings and a couple glances at dad to reign him in the NPC wiped out the teen in a single round. After the session I felt bad and told the dad I was sorry and I hope there's no hard feelings and he just laughed and thanked me for killing his son and putting him in his place lol.

To be fair, a CoC plotline where everyone in the obligatory small seaside town was inexplicably an asexual asian male would probably work just fine.

That's a great paladin story, even better because it happened organically! Shame the fighter was such a douch though.

If a parent keeps helicoptering their child, they will not grow up. The kid will not learn to cope with difficult situations or to regulate their own emotions, because their parent does it for them. It's a recipe to raise an emotionally and mentally underdeveloped narcissist.

That fighter sounded more lawful-evil than lawful-good

That barbarian was a weird amalgamation of 4chan and Twitter somehow

Mom.

I want to see the "lawful good" fighter (not paladin) be arrested for breaking the law and performing evil against an NPC. "What?! I never did that! I treat every NPC we meet with honor and dignity!" "Dude. Your squire is an NPC. You abuse him at every turn, and you DEFINITELY break the law with your treatment of him." "But that doesn't count. He's MY SQUIRE! That makes him my SLAVE! I can treat him however I WANT!" "Nope. Not a slave. Slavery is illegal. But you just claimed him as your slave, which makes you a slaver, which is both illegal and evil, which makes you Chaotic Evil. Sooooo... That's a thing." And then see how being Chaotic Evil works in this game world. Although, out-of-game shenanigans should not be punished in-game. They should be dealt with out-of-game. If he's a perfectly fine person out of game, then treat him well out of game. If he is only horrible in-game, then he gets IN-GAME consequences, including arrest, imprisonment and execution. Sometimes, good people play bad characters. It can be very cathartic. HOWEVER, either you play in a game without consequences ("Come on, guys! Let's have an evil murder-hobo run! It will be FUN!), or you play a game with consequences, and the PCs, good, evil, or neutral, have to face ALL the consequences. A good person playing an evil character facing consequences can be a blast. It can be cathartic, too. "Hehehe... I'm going to create a copy of my pointy-haired boss, but as if he was a dwarves fighter. With a pointy-horned helmet. Hehehehee... Let's see him get his comeuppance!" Actually, that sounds like a REALLY fun thing to do. Only, PLEASE, if you're going that route (I'm going to be SOOOOO STUPID, as well as malicious!) tell the other players first, so that they can either play as your also-evil party, or else play as the put-upon good guys who are STUCK with you for plot reasons, and have to spend all their time and energy cleaning up your messes. I mean, DM Dilbert could be a BLAST, but ONLY if everyone knows what they're getting into and AGREES to it AT THE START. Also, if anyone wants to do that game, I volunteer for Secretary With a Crossbow, the Rogue who knows how to get stuff done, but only for the people she actually LIKES. Alice, with the Fist of Death, should definitely play a Monk.

@AuntLoopy123

2 жыл бұрын

I mean D&D Dilbert. And I am now going to approach my group to see if someone wants to DM that for a one or two shot game. Or maybe a long-term "campaign," where we can do one-shots now and then, when we're in the mood for mass hysteria. Maybe just quarterly sessions. Actually quarterly sounds good. It's very "business world" to deal with the dreaded QUARTERLY REPORTS. And of course, End of Year reports, right when you're trying to wrap up for Christmas. The quests are "I need you to get those numbers for the quarterly report!" And then, you have to do favors for the various department heads, before they will release their data to you. That's actually the only "quest" you need. Every time. The individual favors necessary will change, but the quest is the same, every time. Hehehe. Even if they say no, I can have so much fun, in my own head, imagining it all. Dogbert, of course, will be the DM. Not, "The DM will play the role of the NPC Dogbert." Nope. DOGBERT WILL BE THE DM. Complete with crown and scepter. OMG! SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME ARRANGE THIS GAME!!!

Mom!

Four Shields Tavern is a comfy little place.

Story 3. OP showed a screenshot of what DM had told them. To me that means having notes about what was said and what happened should not be a problem for the DM at all. DM was just lazy.

Tbg at first I read as "DM attracted to D&D Edgelord's mom" and was expecting some very crazy shit

Those players who defended Squire - They should have start with in-character actions, not just out-of-character

About the intro- i know that are some people that don't enjoy this take ( specialy "this days"), but i think that first seeing how the player was RPing the char. Before saying if it's ok or not?

It ain't what you do it's the way you do it. Knights can be abusive to underlings and still be lawful good. In the middle ages it was probably the norm. That is until the great plague created a labor shortage. If you played the situation for laughs, or as social commentary, you could make it work.

Story 4 - Don’t blame the group for a shitty DM’s planning.

Lawful = abusing and harassing people Good = bullying and demeaning people Was the DM in a coma? What do you have to do to get an alignment shift at this table?

Story 1 - Red flag red flag red flag. Seriously DM.

Just as a note - isekai is pronounced like EE-seh-kye. It’s from the Japanese 「異世界」, “another world.”

Dang, the mom dounds really toxic and like she's teaching her kid to be a spoiled brat. I hope he grows out of it when he leaves home.

@paulman34340

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, causes these spoiling idiots never think "what will happen once I'm gone or can't save them from consequences!" They never think ahead because for some insane reason "they think they'll live forever!" Kind of sad once they're "gone" they spoiled kids start to see just how much life's going to suck for them if they don't trouble those "bad traits" they're parents allowed to be installed into them REAL QUICK (But you know how hard those habits can be dropped and changed!) Hopefully he's like the Karen kids you hear yelling at their Karen Parent acting like an embarrassment and using them as a "jumping board" to start trouble because "it's about them while their crying IT'S FOR MY LITTLE ANGEL!" like the POS abusive parent always does

First Story: Ehhhhhhh, if the player is bullying an NPC, I don't really think that's too huge of a deal. However, when it comes to physically abusing the squire, that should have consequences, such as causing the squire to second-guess his employment, and considering that the squire wasn't a character with actual stats, a way to resolve this would've been for the fighter, when abusing the squire, to accidentally kill him. Maybe going a little hard on him during training and beating him unconscious, but he doesn't fully recover or fails his death saves. Teach the fighter directly that being a piece of shit to their underling can have actual consequences. Or just have the kid run off in the night with the fighter's equipment. Either way.

@epsilon-eleven

2 жыл бұрын

It's a big deal when the NPC is an innocent kid & the character is supposed to be good-aligned. He's acting 100% chaotic evil, insisting that acting like an abusive slave-owner makes him the "good guy." Says a lot about the player himself, tbh.

@zixserro1

2 жыл бұрын

@@epsilon-eleven I mean, yeah, but if it's the only character he's treating that way and he's treating everyone else respectfully, I could see it being chalked up as sort of a character vice, like this is the one person the fighter looks down on in the world and thus treats him like absolute garbage. I'm not saying it's right, but it'd be worse if he was treating other characters that way. If the player needs an in-game punching bag to feel good about himself, at least it's one he made up for himself instead of the DM's or other players' characters. It almost seems like the guy knew he was toxic, and decided to try to mitigate it by making up a character to act that way towards. Again, it's not right or cool to act that way; I'm just saying it's not as bad as it could have been, and if that's what someone needs to have in order to get something out of D&D, maybe they shouldn't play.

If you want to blow things up and nothing else, play a skirmish level war-game. I enjoy those more than the mass battle games.

ngl, I kinda wanna play an isekai'd tank warforged now. tbh I kinda wanna see how that would be as an anime

Mom? Mommy? Mama? HEY MOM!

Not gonna lie, thought crispy was a opossum for months.

I mean, to be fair I also made a warforged who was animated by the bottled soul of a U-boat, but that was stolen from an American museum by the Nazis moonbase in 1967 specifically before a plucky teenage body and his hot alien girlfriend from a species that primarily communicate through the jiggles of their boobs teleported up to the base, reprogrammed the robot, and then yeeted the robot into the three dimensional rector to destroy it, casing the robot across time and space and completely destroying its memory of this entire backstory when it hit its head crashing at terminal velocity seven hexes away from the party.

Okay. I guess I'm a little confused. In the Intro the problem player (now referred to as PP) Isekai'd the spirit of something that didn't have a spirit to begin with into a warforged? How do you put the spirit of something with no spirit into a warforged in the first place? As DM I think I would have stopped it there on that grounds.

No, mommy, no!

Intro Story: There are dark humors, there are light humors, however here's one for y'all: "How I know anybody can be non-binary? They can go from zero-to-ten *really* quick with a very bad joke!" First Story: I have a severe dislike for adults bullying children. It is less so with kids on kids (still severe) because nobody spelled it out to the bullies that what they are doing is wrong. I would have gutted the fighter in his sleep for bullying his squire. If I have a squire and some dumbarse adult is bullying them, ya bet yer arse that I would gladly switch from oath of redemption to oath of conquest very quickly as both mama bear and papa bear come to play as one paladin. Second Story: _to "see if this wouldn't be too violent for the little guy." I guess Power Rangers and He-Man are part of the ban list? Apparently the _little guy_ did not catch the memo that no violence is a rule while the mom did not enforce it on her son; _CLASSIC "rules for you and not for us!" trope._ E-gad-zooks! If there's going to be an overflow, stand yer ground because full-is-full! Can't fill the pot with more water without it spilling over the electric stove! Furthermore; they did not sign up for the event, they do not get to play. Events are organized so we would have paper trails incase of problems like theft and lawsuits. Funny how the the mom and wizard made their own social dirt nap. Third Story: Well. Talk about not reading the room; I was thinking that perhaps a mix up in expectations, but then the combat slough was the red flag. If we look at different shows like the ones I mentioned before in the second story, the combat happened in one to three sequences. I've been in a slough where each combat would take up to an hour, which led to dungeons taking 1-2 sessions per floor. While I understand that a lot of the game's mechanics are more for combat simulations, if you had cake too regularly, you're gonna get sick of it to the point that ya rather have Styrofoam cups to get the sweetness out of yer mouth than to see another fondant icing-covered pastry good. Fourth Story: Riiight. (plays a tune) It is not unusual to be loved by anyone! It is not unusual to have such a great time! What is unusual is him cr-ey-ey-ey, "he should've died!" (stops the tune) OP's not weird, the problem player is a self-projecting weirdo with values too old to work here. Yeah...seriously? Murdering a fictional character because he did not like a character? Then again, I'm guilty of still having thoughts about doing that when I know betrayal is right around the corner. Thankfully, I chose to pick up gamemastering so I can justify kicking out problem players for being uncivil savages that hates those outside their own tribes and try to strongarm players into a dictatorial slavery (aka bullies and abusers).

@WhyYouMadBoi

2 жыл бұрын

I'm taking the non-binary joke. Like he wasn't even a Nazi solider or a person he was a tank. He could easily play it off as warforged are just living weapons for a massive war. Imagine being just a weapon doing whatever someone else wants. Then suddenly BAM you can think you can remember, do you like killing things or is it just because you was made for it which you can justify. Overall the salute thing is whatever but the idea is ok. Nothing I haven't heard before.

@UnholyCameraman

2 жыл бұрын

@@WhyYouMadBoi As much as I am highly against the hate group, I do like what they came up with for arsenal such as the Panzerfaust and the Tiger Panzer. If the V2 missiles became a reality (and it almost did), the pre-existing threat of the 3rd Reich would have escalated. However, back to the point; even if you can see all the potential, it will get wasted for a simple reason; clout-chasing and being edgy with no prior experience nor education as to understand the meaning behind them. To play anything that is remotely evil or related to evil is usually prepared with an agreed contract between the player, the GM and the group. To surprise the group with it is simply a big no-no for perceived evil characters.

@WhyYouMadBoi

2 жыл бұрын

@@UnholyCameraman What clout is there to be gained my man? But I do agree on the edgy without experience, to truly be one with edge you gotta know what the fuck to do. I am playing an evil character currently and it was basically due to story reasons I never planned on it happening but the GM helping me. Along with that on a different strand I am currently DMing a mutants and masterminds 3e villain game so far it is going well. But then again I allow them to do evil shit.

@UnholyCameraman

2 жыл бұрын

@@WhyYouMadBoi Hell if I'd know how some folks thought it through as to gain something of value through being offensive without a point or trying to get a rise out of as many people as they could. Beyond that; that is pretty awesome that you're playing an evil character and the GM is helping you. I usually have bad experiences when trying to play an evil character, so the perspective is quite different on my end. I swore off playing evil characters (except for when GM'ing) because either I get exposed early or otherwise sabotaged despite GM okaying it. Then again; my skewed perspective also said that the good guys are far more malicious than one evil guy who happens to just be there. Luckily, I have friends who helped me readjust that perspective.

@WhyYouMadBoi

2 жыл бұрын

@@UnholyCameraman Yeah, alot of GMs don't really have you be evil to most things. Even to other evil things, like my character is a human supremacist and what not. But like he has layers and shit, the point is to try to work with the players on what they can do.

counter bullying is also bullying.... thats the same problem that exists with tolerance.... to be truly tolerant one has to also tolerate intolerance.... so yeah no good job on the knight story group turning on a member to force him to see things their way is also just bullying... the way to go would have been having the dm mediate or if it fails punish the fighter first by switching his alignment ( lawful good that doesnt act lawful good gets punishments is not bullying its how the world in dnd works.) or if all else fails liberate his squire at some point with a side story( power of the dm off screen is almighty). if you bully the bully your also just a bully .....

Mommy? Wait sorry mo-momm? No sorry mommy! M-M-Mommy. Sorry again mommy?

That mom was a tool.

Lol, the warforged barbarian is actually a robot IRL, right?

Im just gonna play devils advocate here for a second: Just because the guy likes a certain tank model, DOESN’T mean he’s anti-semitic. The AK-47 is the best “machine gun” to date, but it was created in Soviet Russia.

*M O T H E R ?*

Does that barbarian only play humans then?

MOOOOM!

Look. Unironically. I'm not a Nazi. But they did have some sweet tanks. Even the theoretical ones. The Rat is fucking hilarious because how stupidly big it was, the Schwerer Gustav is literally a tank train, and the Alkett looks like goddamn roided out R2-D2. What's not to love? (Besides the horrors of war) No, I'm not defending German technical superiority, I'm stating the fucking obvious. That dude was totally a Nazi though. PS: It's not just German Tanks. I just like tanks in general. My favorite is the Soviet KV-2. Mostly for the memes.

..........mom?

The warforged killing machine hates that his companion is gay when all it had done is give them a combat advantage. Seems legit.

It's not a joke if you're the only one laughing.

nothing wrong with having a fixation on heavily armored vehicles, i'd honestly love to cater to a player who want to see more vehicles in a game and would love to see it myself... but wtf?

@Magnet_Chaos

Жыл бұрын

It brings a bad name to Tank enthusiast. And like it is not our fault that the Germans made so many tanks. XD