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@p-__

Жыл бұрын

My farts are better than Critcrab’s farts

@SaboTheFish

Жыл бұрын

Find that burger yet?

@FretboardToAsh

Жыл бұрын

I found it hilarious how they went with "not sitting in a box", and went on to give you a text describing the most bland, bog-standard, buy-this-ig-currency 'game'. Still glad you're getting sponsors, but this one was hilarious.

@mslabo102s2

Жыл бұрын

Dragonheir is collabing this early, even before they establish themselves on their own. That sounds like a big no-no to me.

@aclaymushroomwithaberet7084

Жыл бұрын

@@toosmug5955 I read this

I never understood the mindset of "we hang out with this toxic person because we're afraid of them ruining our friendship". I can say from experience sometimes you need to cut off a finger to save a hand.

@emeraldtaco

Жыл бұрын

The problem might be that he's only toxic in this aspect. I have a friend I love, I hang out with him, we have great conversations, and we have a great time going to sporting events and watching sports together. He's generous and kind and supportive of me. Conversely he is a pain to play games with. He argues over rules, he makes games last forever, and he is the worst loser and the worst winner I know. Our friend group that used to play games together kind of dissolved, so I never really had to tell him that I don't want to play with him, but I would definitely be worried about having that kind of conversation with him in fear of damaging the part of our friendship I do enjoy.

@TheAltDotNerd

Жыл бұрын

@@emeraldtaco Totally understandable. I sadly cut ties with one of my closest friends about a year ago because they refused to change, even after the talk. We were friends for over 10 years, and it was heartbreaking to distance myself from him, but he was affecting our mutual friends as well.

@PixelLighthouse

Жыл бұрын

I have a good friend who becomes insufferable playing competitive games. Whats worse is he becomes more defensive and aggressive when he notices he's annoying other people. As a group we just don't play games with him.

@Arthas30000

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I totally get this mentality because I had this happen to me a number of times. Frankly, as @emeraldtaco said, sometimes people want to stay friends, but their friend is toxic in a single aspect. But to those situations, I don't get why people can't say "hey, we want to stay friends, we just don't want to game with you." If that breaks the friendship, it wasn't a good friendship at all.

@valivali8104

Жыл бұрын

@@emeraldtaco is he really friend, if he wants to end friendship because he's bad player and others don’t want to play with him because of that? Especially if you tell him that he's otherwise good person and friend but horrible player, and why his playstyle destroys fun of others? Is he really good person and friend or just good at pretending to be good except in games, if he's willing to destroy friendship over others not wanting to play with him?

Remember if you steal from one story thats plagerism But if you steal from many stories, thats INSPIRATION

@Voldrim359

Жыл бұрын

Well, there is nothing new to wrote about right now, mostly for how our knowledge is limited by our perception... Don't get me wrong, copying is not the answer, when you write stories or characters, you can take examples of those and give them some twist or changes so the entire development will be different than the original.

@JeevesAnthrozaurUS

Жыл бұрын

The hack steals from one source The maestro steals from many

@Konpekikaminari

Жыл бұрын

​@Voldrim Mightywolf my main tactic is usually: Step 1- take multiple references and make a metaphorical weave out of them. Step 2- fill the holes in the weave with whatever the game setting provides

@zer0homer

Жыл бұрын

It’s research ;3

@genericname2747

Жыл бұрын

I just make D&D campaigns about whatever random thing me and my friends are interested in. That is how I ended up with pirates, fairyland, eldritch horror, and Aztec inspired gods. 10/10 nobody else would like this

"Not everyone is a Tolkien or Shakespeare" when Tolkien drew direct inspiration and even character names from the Norse Eddas and epic poetry, and Shakespeare basically yoinked from a dozen classics. It's not coming up with an idea nobody's had before that makes you creative, it's presenting it in your own way that resonates with your audience.

@genericname2747

Жыл бұрын

Shakespear randomly had someone get chased by a bear. Dude was silly

@etcetera1995

Жыл бұрын

@@genericname2747 And getting chased by a bear was essentially a pop culture reference- bear baiting was a popular Elizabethan attraction and live animals were sometimes included in theater just for the spectacle of them because look! A real animal! Also, did I ever say Shakespeare was *bad* or uncreative just because he borrowed existing ideas? No.

@genericname2747

Жыл бұрын

@@etcetera1995 Man, I love Shakespeare

@scott4065

Жыл бұрын

Both of them also borrowed heavily from the Bible as well. Tolkien’s allusions are well known. Shakespeare’s bear inspo can also be found in 2 Kings 2. The biblical bears representing the wrath of God (well, Elisha in a way). In “The Winters Tale” the bear symbolizes the wrath of winter.

@TigerGoblin

Жыл бұрын

​@@scott4065 well those kids did mock Elisha's lack of hair 🤣

as a percy jackson fan my blood ran cold at the thumbnail

@p-__

Жыл бұрын

My farts are better than Critcrab’s farts

@ravingraven694

Жыл бұрын

@@p-__ Shut up bot

@AcedOrion

Жыл бұрын

As cold as the River Styx cold?

@mrchipper911

Жыл бұрын

@@AcedOrion Most likely

@ragalthor

Жыл бұрын

It was you, right?

CritCrab: "Have you ever experienced a person that genuinely saps the will to do anything?" Me: "Well of course I know him, he's me."

@smokescreen100

Жыл бұрын

IMPOSTER

@MadmanHelldiver

11 ай бұрын

​@@smokescreen100AMOGUS

@Azzy-04

11 ай бұрын

@@MadmanHelldiverbum bum bum bum bum bum bum. Badabum. BAMBAM

@One.Zero.One101

10 ай бұрын

Hello there.

@davidlewis5312

5 ай бұрын

the story of me and chronic depression, why did you bring it up?

"He's the only one who has *seen* or liked Percy Jackson." Fight or flight engaged

@sorendaniels754

Жыл бұрын

I was about to say, if he's only seen the disastrous movie, I feel very bad for him.

@masanthar

Жыл бұрын

The whole movie? I just managed half of it and I was craving for high fantasy at the time. Unwatchable

@Azzy-04

11 ай бұрын

@@masantharyes. The books are far better. I think we’re getting a tv show adaption soon so, we might be saved.

@ThePenguinMan

4 ай бұрын

⁠@@Azzy-04the show is really good, but (so far) the books are still better

@lindsayshanks7555

3 ай бұрын

​@@masanthar confession I watched the movie first, and managed to watch all the way through, but the stuff that happened sometimes just felt so weird and kind of inappropriate Then 2 years later I got the chance to read the books and man, I regret so much that I watched that dumb movie

If you can’t have normal and honest conversations with someone without it destroying a friendship than the friendship was never that strong to begin with. If the friend group is willing to completely disband because you can’t talk to one person like an adult than it’s not worth it

@danaslitlist1

Жыл бұрын

This!! Had a good friend and our DM of years flip out when I asked for us to talk issues out instead of blowing up at the group. Sad to say that even after weeks of trying to get them to talk to us like a grown up we ended up parting ways not so amicably. Friends should be able to listen to concerns without being afraid of someone.

@thelonleyUchiha1

Жыл бұрын

@@danaslitlist1 that’s the whole point of being friends! Friends should be able to talk to each other like adults because at the core of it if you truely care about each other you don’t want to be doing something that’s hurting them. If these guys are teens I get it more because teens arnt usually good at communicating and understanding emotions and such but if these are adults then you need to adult up and talk it out because that’s what friendship is otherwise your just a group of people who don’t actually like each other but are to scared to be alone…that’s not friendship

@kittehgo

Жыл бұрын

​@@danaslitlist1 Sadly many people can't take criticism, even if you aren't accusatory. It does not matter how you approach the subject, they will see it like a personal attack.

@dentheduck2095

Жыл бұрын

​@@kittehgo nevermind, they all understand each other now, decided to talk like real adults. Good ending.

@langying

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. I also had to deal with a guy like this. Dealing with him was a chore and eventually I had to put my foot down tell him to grow up. Of course I get the usual "Your bullying me!" Waterworks. After that, I was done. The group was kinda dead anyway. So, I left, and that was that.

“Have you ever heard of Dragon Heir” Yah, he’s my favorite pokemon

@hiro4344

Жыл бұрын

I heard that too and thought "Dragonair?" And was expecting to hear about a pokemon game as I had pokemon on the mind and was in a different tab so not looking at the video.

"Nobody has confronted him directly" followed by "I plan to keep playing in the slim hope he improves" brings me pain. He's not going to improve, unless you tell him that something needs improvement. I'm not saying they will, but they for sure will not, unless spoken to. You don't need to reef on them or chew them out, but - especially among friends - communication is key. I hope you and him will continue to enjoy friendship, and I hope your group confronts him - in some capacity - about this.

@mikhailthegreatestdragon3627

Жыл бұрын

Yes, it's the definition of bitchmade

@genericname2747

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, people can't improve unless you TELL THEM they have problems

@CritCrab

Жыл бұрын

I agree. I've dealt with people who were very "toxic" in the past, but after an honest conversation they fixed everything right up. I've also experienced the opposite, where they became worse. But I never regretted telling them, as it solved the problem once way or another.

@Manicies

Жыл бұрын

Yeah...he might be a problem, but he's also not psychic. If he's doing stuff that bugs you, you need to tell him, yknow? How can he even know he NEEDS to change/improve otherwise?

@Victoriomantic

Жыл бұрын

100%.... if I have a problem with someone and I choose not to raise it with them, that's on me to suck it up. How can we expect people to stop doing irritating things if we don't tell them it's irritating?

Thanks for making a video about this! I'm the guy who wrote the original post. After a lot of talking with commenters as well as my mutual friends, I've decided to hold an "intervention" of sorts where we tell him that he's making it hard to have fun in the games and ask him to be more mindful or change things. Hopefully he takes our words to heart and we can go back to being friends again. But also, after listening to what a lot of people have had to say, I've realized I also contributed to the issue by letting it persist for so long (not to mention that I got the rules about the Blindness condition wrong when I was DMing, a mistake I have apologized for). Needless to say, hopefully this is the start of something better in the future where the whole table can communicate and have fun together.

@allamalad

Жыл бұрын

Bro I'm so sorry, as a casual percy jackson fan I've never been more disappointed of another fan 😭

@darrienjones8917

Жыл бұрын

The bad part is that A Percy Jackson "Themed" story could be great if you let people do what they want. The world building is good enough to allow it. What he did however was just bad

@allamalad

Жыл бұрын

@Darrien Jones fr! It could have been good but the execution was dumb.

@cygnia

Жыл бұрын

Good luck with the intervention -- but is this guy even worth keeping as a friend?

@BlueTressym

Жыл бұрын

I wish you the best of luck. Losing friends is hard (I know from experience) but sometimes you do have to step back and ask yourself why you are actually friends with someone and whether they really are a friend to you. Do they act as if they care about you or have your interests and fun at the table in mind? D&D can be just as good a 'veritas' as vino. It's amazing how many people are willing to show you who they are when they're pretending not to be. I hope your talk goes well and he realises his actions are having this negative impact on you all and resolves to do better.

The sad part is the Percy Jackson series could be a great dnd setting

@Kyman102

Жыл бұрын

There's honestly better games for doing Percy Jackson, IMO. Like Scion, which is literally about being the modern champions of the Gods of the World

@cleonasedai

Жыл бұрын

Setting sure.. but just forcing people through the story, maybe not so much

@ultimatedude80

Жыл бұрын

I did it for a while with my buddies called it dungeons and demigods and changed up the races to be different demigod children it was fun

@masterace9543

Жыл бұрын

​@@ultimatedude80 neat

@finnmchugh99

Жыл бұрын

​@@Kyman102 or City of Mist

As a avid enjoyer of Percy Jackson this makes me lose hope in my own fandom

@p-__

Жыл бұрын

My farts are better than Critcrab’s farts

@mrchipper911

Жыл бұрын

How do you know the difference?

@Saint_Wolf_

Жыл бұрын

Fandom should make you lose faith in fandom.

@draconicdemigod9696

Жыл бұрын

Same here my friend. I hat these types of people ina fandom.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

​@@Saint_Wolf_No fandom is good. Just like what you like on it's own merits, not based on what its fans are.

9:27 “I wanted to seem nice without actually losing anything of mine.” Sorcerer, my dude. That defeats the entire CONCEPT of “being nice.”

@Temperans

Жыл бұрын

I think that's the point?

@zacharysieg2305

Жыл бұрын

@@Temperans I’ll be charitable and say the guy was going for a “lovable asshole” archetype, but he missed the “lovable” part entirely.

@Lucky13Ravens

Жыл бұрын

He said 'seem' not 'be' he knows.

@davidlewis5312

5 ай бұрын

I want to ask, 'how did you plan for that to work the player knows what you are doing?'

"I can't just ask him to leave the session..." No. You can. You absolutely can. And if it affects your friendship, it's on him, not on you. I have some very dear friends, people who I consider to be family, who I will never, ever, EVER play D&D with again. These are things that don't always have to overlap. If they can't process that, that's not your fault.

@IzzyPR2010

Жыл бұрын

This. In way too many of those situations the toxic player gets away with their crap because the DM tolerates it.

Never thought I’d see Percy Jackson in a DnD horror story

My campaign started with a favorite series "The Obsidian Mountain Trilogy" by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory. However it took only a few sessions of PC shenanigans, that if I were to print, there'd be zero copyright issues...

@p-__

Жыл бұрын

My farts are better than Critcrab’s farts

@MAX-xd4uz

Жыл бұрын

@@p-__ your life must be great

@genericname2747

Жыл бұрын

​@@p-__ I don't even think crabs can fart

A point you missed: Trying to ignore the problems and just bottling up your frustrations, especially when you already know you're not the only one in the group that feels that way, will also end up ruining the friendships, anyway.

As a PJO fan, it would be fun to play in the PJO setting. It would not be fun to just "play" the story verbatim. It would be fun to play a storyline similar to PJO, making distinct choices that make the campaign different from the story itself. It would jot be fun to do whatever the DM tried doing.

@dimsufferer9951

Жыл бұрын

So long as it's the Book story, and not the movie “story”

@thericemenace

Жыл бұрын

@@dimsufferer9951 We don't talk about the movie

@pensandshakers

8 ай бұрын

What movie? There is no PJO movie. Just like there is no Avatar the Last Airbender movie.@@dimsufferer9951

As a Percy Jackson fan, this is super unfortunate but expectable -w- as a teenager every single media story gets some of these and I know it's inevitable but it sucks none the less qwp

11:15 After a certain "incident" with another person's edgy character, I've always followed the "Caring core" rule of writing dark, broody and mysterious characters. Sure yes, writing a badass that's super cool and mostly does stuff on their own is cool and all, but I always remember the "character" part. My creative writing professor told me a character has to have a motivation of some kind, and I thought of it as usually they have to care about *something* and having them act on their care for that thing. Be it an objective, a person, or a place. An example of this (not my character, obviously) I think is Homura Akemi from Madoka Magica. She is a dark, mysterious character, acts all cold and distant, and is definitely a Lone wolf. However, I believe she is an example because she cares about Madoka's safety underneath that tough-as-nails exterior. Those were my thoughts at least, thanks for listening.

@TheFatalcrest

Жыл бұрын

That is a good thing to recall, it helps you ground them because it's easy to put them in the 'They are so cool and dark, and unfeeling that they become to feel flat as paper' category.

@giulioceresini1435

Жыл бұрын

you just end up wirting a character following a different stereotype, not a better one. motivation doesn't have to be a wholesome softspot, it can be spite, hatred or madness. it doesn't make it any less of a character. it all boils down to talent, both at writing and acting out a character. i don't even like this type of character archetype, but you all hate on it way too much.

For my very first game of DND, I made my character fit the “quiet loner” style, but I backed it up with a backstory that explained his antisocial personality while also giving him some humanity and characteristics beyond dark and quiet.

'legally distinct orphan child' what a great sentence

All complaints aside, a campaign in the Percy Jackson universe does sound interesting. Each player plays as a demigod from a certain Olympian (probably restrict the Big 3) and thus they have their own innate powers, advantages and feats. Guaranteed to fight epic monsters and adventures.

@Prince__Teclis

Жыл бұрын

There are actually d&d stats for most of the Greek gods I believe so rule wise that probably would be possible to do.

@headphonesaxolotl

Жыл бұрын

Hermes fans unite

@Azzy-04

11 ай бұрын

I’d do a Dionysius kid.

@PhantomGato-v-

10 ай бұрын

@@Azzy-04 Dionysus isn't an Olympian sorry

I had a DM start Curse of Strahd for us. Came up with her own fanfiction using our characters, gave use the google link to her 40 page long fan fic and then tried her darnest to make us reenact her fic. She didnt tell us to act it out, but she was doing her best try to make us follow her fan fic. (In her fan fic Rahadin and my character were madly in love with each other at first sight. She expected my character to fall in love.)

@davidtherwhanger6795

Жыл бұрын

You know. It seems CoS is the starting point for about half of the D&D horror stories I hear on these various channels. Maybe it really is The Curse of Strahd!

@Center-For-I.E.D.Mismanagement

Жыл бұрын

​@@davidtherwhanger6795 More like "Cringe of Strahd."

@emberfist8347

Жыл бұрын

I know the module only from Puffen Forrest's series on it, but it sounds like your DM missed the point. I am willing to bet she wanting the party to help Strahd reunite with his lost lover too.

@ctje1638

Жыл бұрын

Thats not DMing, that’s literally just writing. Different skills.

@Center-For-I.E.D.Mismanagement

Жыл бұрын

@@ctje1638 More like bad writing, worse DMing, zero skills. 🙃

I used to be a That Guy. Arguing with the DM, rules lawyering, bad or non existent rp, talking over other party members, and just doing random stupid crap when ever I got bored despite the current mood of the session. I'm so thankful my group held on to me for the months necessary for me to become self aware of my actions, and for these videos that helped me recognize my flaws as a player.

@J05TI

3 ай бұрын

There you go. This is why it's important to talk these things out.

The oldest game I've been in (still running) was actually inspired by a story inspired by Percy Jackson. The concept in her story, though, was the Olympian's powers reincarnate and in the TTRPG version the players didn't even know their characters were reincarnations!

As a DM that has run a Percy Jackson/Riordan-verse campaign I can truly say the railroad is the fastest way to kill the story. When I ran my players were other half bloods and the first 'book'/season of the campaign they were tasked with saving Percy Annabeth and Grover as they were captured. There are so many ways to incorporate the books/universe without railroading or having the players replace the main characters.

I think that what’s sad is that Percy Jackson does have a very interesting setting since is essentially Ancient Greek myth’s in the modern world and none of the d&d classes would be out of place for that setting. If the guy had focused on just using the setting without trying to reenact the movie it would have been a really interesting campaign

@locarno24

10 ай бұрын

Scion is a very good system for that.

Weirdly enough I'm doing a Percy Jackson Greek mythology esque campaign and it was studying a while for sessions being correct and this is a good thing to look at to not do and tbh I know for sure I never railroaded that much at most was the beginning and the pirate mutiny and I know I borrowed ideas for some parts of it but most of it is original Unlike Percy Jackson I'm staying closer to the canon material but I'm using the names=power and the personalities of the gods as well as monsters reviving after killing them but it isn't immediately but eventually giving me more widespread monsters to throw at them

Dude, i don't know how many times i've absent-mindedly watched those waves while listening these stories and waiting for that one wave that fills the bottom of the screen. It's so hypnotizing 😁

@kittehgo

Жыл бұрын

The interesting thing is that the calming waves, makes the horror easier to deal with 🙂

I was in a campaign where the DM broke the campaign very early. He accidentally gave us platinum pieces at like level 3. He gave us enough to buy and fully fund a warship including enough horses and carts for it to be pulled over land. Nothing in that campaign really stood a chance.

So, a small note about the blindness: You are allowed to fight normally while blind, you just get a massive debuff on your ability to hit. It's a bit counter-intuitive, but it makes it a lot more objective, which is intended to prevent the very situation we see in this story.

@throwaway-og7qs

7 ай бұрын

yeah, you just have disadvantage on the attack, which is meant to simulate the fact that you can hear them moving but don't know exactly where they are. rolling two dice simulates the fact that it's partly sheer luck where you're aiming for. also, cantrips that say "make an attack roll against a creature you can see" would have no effect since you can't see them, but that's only for when something specifically targets someone you can see.

Playing a dark edgy character can be possible and forgivable, as long as they're not acting in a way they want to be independant from the party. As always, it's a coop game, so if you want your sad and tortured character to go on his quest for vengeance, gotta remember you have to include your partners' desires and own plan in your preparations.

I think you've found a really nice groove in your editing. The mix of peaceful ocean and additional visuals is well balanced. Well done, I enjoyed this as all previous, keep up the good work. You provide an essential service

As a Pecry Jason fan and a not so great DM, I will try to use Mythic Odysseys of Theros and make sure PL's includes something from Greek myths if I want to run a Percy Jackson campaign, and I will keep the main goal from Percy Jackson like finding something and plan something new based on PL's back story. Or maybe I will use some campaign or dungeon I know and put some interesting Percy Jackson characters and monsters into the journey.

As a Percy Jackson enjoyer, we will “deal” with this man immediately

People really need to learn to approach people, tell them that their behaviour isn’t appropriate, give them an opportunity to change and then cut them off In this story it also seems like the rest of the friendship group would stand by OP

I personally don't have an issue with anyone using an existing story as their D&D campaign, so long as they don't restrict the players for the sake of keeping the story the same. I think improving what happens based on the parties actions can make for a really interesting fan fiction of a popular story. I would love to see how this would go with a Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter campaign, when the party tries something like taking the One Ring or killing an essential character. Changing the story that much could lead to some pretty interesting non cannon outcomes.

@genericname2747

Жыл бұрын

The party beats Quirrel to death for being annoying. Voldemort is dead now.

Honestly, TTRPGs and the Percy Jackson books feel like a pretty natural fit. You'd create a character and pick a God to have as your parent which would give you specific powers. Done right, that could be a lot of fun. Railroading the players in to reenacting the book beat for beat is not doing it right.

That gem exchange in the bag of holding in isolation was hysterical, but can totally see how that'd get old.

Percy Jackson is a story about a party of teenagers with divine power from their curse bloodline with a mission to save the day and probably the world. It is a perfect setting to an adventure if managed correctly.

As a DM I am disgusted about how Sorcerer showed he had some form of Main Character Syndrome. Also the player attempting to reenact a book page by page and scene by scene is more confusing than the making your own campaign from scratch

There's literally a wizard boy in my campaign with a raincloud shaped scar named Garry Stoddard.

I have a little bit of an issue with people feeling like they don’t get enough attention in the campaigns I play with my friends. It mostly has to do with what these people do with their characters that has everyone telling them “no”. One guy is always making his characters as minmaxed as possible and doing anything the dm has not yet specified cannot be done. He is very quick to jump in and take control if no one else speaks up for a second, and is just always very extreme in everything he does. The other has a habit of forcing his fetishes into his characters, and in as many campaigns as he was able to, basically made his character the richest person in the universe with enough power through money to basically do anything and everything. They basically made it to where everything could be solved with money. There are reasons why these two don’t get as much attention because when they do, the reaction from the rest of the group is always “No, don’t do that”. I really like these people and they can make great characters to play with, but these issues are hard to get through to them and I’m not sure how without sounding like an asshole. I have tried to suggest they don’t do these certain things, but they get upset because they don’t want to change their character in order to make others happy when no one else has to change their characters. Any advice?

@BlueTressym

Жыл бұрын

It's not the double standard it sounds like they're claiming it is if their characters are problematic in ways that others aren't. Issues only have to be treated the same when they actually *are* the same. I'm sorry but honestly, you guys need to collectively put your feet down and say No when they try to do things that make it less fun for everyone else. Expecting one person to change for others is way less 'unfair' than forcing multiple others to work around one person who is being a problem for all of them and the GM. As for 'sounding like an asshole,' it's not arseholish to call people on their bs unless you're being gratuitously nasty about it. Putting one's foot down and saying "You need to stop doing these self-centred things and show consideration for other people at the table," is not being an arsehole. Getting upset when asked to stop making the game all about their fun at the expense of others is being an arsehole. Maybe they'll change for the better. Maybe they'll instead find another group whose style is more compatible with theirs. Either way, continuing to let them cause grief like this solves nothing. We *cannot*, no matter how we might want to, go through life never upsetting anyone. Trying to avoid upsetting people is great but sometimes doing so is inevitable, especially when upset is already being caused by inaction.

"Have you ever heard of Dragonair??" - Hm, yeah, the po-- "Dragon Heir is an RPG!" - Oh, ok.

All hail the Crab king and his glorious Claws!

“Pretend your a Chinese company” me over here bing chillin

If your FRIEND is acting up on a consistent and constant basis, you should 100% talk to them about it. People are often scared to lose a friendship because they say what bothers them. If there's a barrier so strong between you, that you are too scared to talk to your friend, either your interpretation of the relationship is wrong or maybe they aren't a friend after all. In truth, you have nothing to lose. Either they are your friend and there's nothing to worry about or they aren't and therefore there's no relationship to be lost. And if you don't talk about it, the barrier will grow and grow until there's no point to even try anymore. Also, think of yourself as a friend of theirs. Someone has to bear the harsh truth. In a way, by taking that upon yourself, you're doing your friend a favour, even if they don't realize it immediately. Either you say it or not, the situation is there. And at least if I'm doing something wrong, I'd prefer a friend telling me that over finding out the hard way.

7:12 i believe the percy jackson fan guy jumping into the bag while saying something cool also flipping off the boss (depending when this campaign happened) just like in infinity war with star lord doing something similar but instead of saying what the percy jackson fan guy said, starlord say boosh (if i remember that correctly) then jumping in backwards into doctor stranges portal while also flipping off thanos.

This whole group doesn't seem to be handling their problem player very well at all. They need to talk to the sorcerer's player. It won't get better any other way.

Tip for wanting to play a moody character: Playing a moody and dark character as a complete lone wolf can subtract from other players enjoyment when they can’t interact with you so a good way to handle it is have your dark and moody character have some level of care or compassion for those under their watch (the party) and interacts with them on a more friendly level than they would with an npc!

Critcrab telling us to let out our inner Chinese bootlegger energy.

“I’ve tried everything but actually addressing the problem, what should I do?” 😂

I could see a Percy Jackson based Dungeon Crawl. But, it can't be so streamlined that players are rail roaded.

Ima be honest, I’ve never played Dungeons and Dragons, and have no idea how the game works. Yet, I still watch these videoed and I’m able to follow along, and they’re quite entertaining

@CritCrab

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Thank you so much! Here's a free crab 🦀

@ybouzl2191

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Carb 🦀

Had to click this because I had someone do this WITH PERCY JACKSON. We were supposed to be playing a Demi-God game in Ancient Greece. I’m a son of Aries, and I’m getting along with a barbarian son of Poseidon. We’re crossing a bridge on a cart, when we are about to cross, the DM says the bridge starts to break. We ask how close we are to the other side, he says the front wheel was on the ground but was now slipping backwards. Son of Poseidon and I jump off cart, and with our obscene Demi-god strength, are barely keeping it from slipping in. DM didn’t like that and literally had a divine hand of god push us over the ledge, like literally a hand came down and pushed us in. Now we’re in a modern word, going to some summer camp for the gods. Immediately quit at the end of that session.

I made a PJO dnd game that was an altered storyline to make it work. They were also gods trapped in mortal forms. One big change was that one was playing as Ares, and another was Hades. As an example for the lightning thief portion, I changed Ares to Nemisis. It was changed so that Nemisis found Luke first and was easily swayed to help him overthrow the gods. So she played the role Ares originally did. We all knew it was PJO, but I did everything possible to make it not as much as a railroad. There were parts I had to railroad, such as them leaving the lotus casino, the player for Apollo didn't want to leave. I feel like if the whole group is in on it, the little railroading you need to do isn't as bad.

Honestly a Percy Jackson based dnd campaign sounds really cool when it's not attached to someone who's incredibly toxic and just doing the same story

Ah yes, main character syndrome and unhealthy obsessions. As a fan of the Percy Jackson series as well, I hope this guy grows out of whatever phase he's in. lol

Percy Jackson is an amazing story to make a campaign setting out of. But definitely not if it's forced in any way. And also going through the exact same story just sounds like a shame when you have SO MUCH that you can create in the PJO universe

if done right this sounds like it could be fun but..judging from the title and thumbnail i guess it wasn't 💀

@p-__

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My farts are better than Critcrab’s farts

Here's my take on playing a brooding character well. They need to clearly have the want and desire to do the right thing but be at odds with themselves and feel like they need to keep people at arms length. Batman (honestly i think of TAS from the 90's) is a prime example of being dark and brooding but still looking to help redeem people like Harleen.

"Legally Distinct Magic Orphan" is the greatest thing I've heard this week

I wanna see a DM who blatantly wants to re-tell his favorite story, but he actually fleshed it out so that it could be told new by the party, rail-road free.

14:00 fk the mary sue in this story, but RAW the enemy needs to take the hide action prior to disappearing from vision, this goes for both players and npcs/creatures dms run.

Lary pooter The magic dropout with his iconic chainsaw scar and being a living lightning rod (every time he uses magic he gets struck by lightning)

This is always my favrote kind of horror story. I have frequetly let my players do things that I simply could not have thought of. A good example is that I had a door that was blown off the hinges, I made the door sound like it could be opened and lead to a basemnt, it coulden't it was just a door on the ground that did not lead to anything but the players rolled and should have opened the door if it was a basemnt What did I do? I slapped tougher a single room. It was a joke room with a huge amout of wine and a refrance I thought nobody would understand. But no, a player knew I made a Julia Child refrance and wanted to save her so I just made it a small part of the story, the entire time they made jokes about it, it was awesome they came back saved her and got a chef and a ton of wine. You have to just let people do stuff, that is the game. That is why you are not booting up Divinity or Skyrim, those games can not on the fly just make new content, you can. Your content can be new every session, it will take some time as a player or GM to pull off but it is kind if the goal of the game, to make a new story.

"Magic loser" text whilst speaking about a magic orphan made me let out a burst of laughter with a post laugh clarity "I'm definitely going to hell." 😂

So many times the stories CritCrab tells come off less like "Listen to the story of this terrible player" and more like "How my friends and I passively aggressively bullied a socially awkward child." Glad to that Crab generally sees this and calls it the way it is.

Although now that its mentioned, a free roam Percy Jackson campaign does sound pretty cool! I think I'll try it!

Thanks for always deliver good horror stories so i can write! :D

Legally distinked magic orphan 😂😂

We had 2 sessions with such a dm, just rail road and he didn't even noted damage that we did to the bid bag because he was making up the thing as he went along. There was another couple at the table that only played under him. I invited all to play with me as dm for stormwreck Isle. The couple was lost saying 'you tell the story, we don't know how the story goes' i said that they are the story. If they decided to leave the island then and there they could and it would be my responsibility to give that part of the world life. Now 2 sessions in, they start to roleplay, they were each searching for something so i gave hints to other locations (other short stories). Last session they completely went off story because the mushroom queen as they knew her was still ill and they wanted to heal her. 90 minutes of improvisation and i was soooo proud of them❤. As i should not have don, i told them that the first 90 minutes was completely off the book, just to show them that they can do whatever drives them, i'll make sure they have a work to explore. They loved it

I watched a couple of these and I found that these intolerable child like narcissist need to be put in their place. To many concessions for people who fundamentally don't understand the point of DnD. I've DMd past campaigns with these types involved, and it kills the campaign on my end and other times on the players side. I've had to be creative to ease some these people into understanding that it's a group game, or they are role-playing. It can be exhausting. Try to be understanding, but don't be afraid to drop the hammer when necessary. I don't take it personally, but I do this to have fun and watch the group have fun. When it turns into everyone's time being wasted, that's when I get intolerant of feelings. I've stopped sessions half way through, because of one person's shenanigans ( the nicest way to put it). We were still friends, but I had to be honest with the situation. Some people no matter how many times you tell them how things work, refuse to listen. If a friendship can't survive an argument over Dnd, it wasn't much of a friendship in the first place. Also, DnD is fun, but it can also be miserable. I will not force or subject myself and others to a horrible night to get some DnD fix. If you can find a good group cool, if not, don't force it.

I rolled up a dark elf gloomstalker ranger for a heist three-shot recently and decided on the day to play them as an emo. We started in an alley and the DM described a dead rat in the alley. For my character intro, I described my elf kneeling beside the rat and saying something along the lines of "you understand how I feel inside, dead rat", which set everyone around the table laughing. Later, I used disguise self to turn into a human and made sure to describe them as an early-tumblr emo with the massive side fringe and snake bite piercings. It was so much fun playing a moody character who spoke in a monotone voice, but my group understood that it wasn't me being an edgelord, just having some fun with the character. I probably wouldn't break out a character like that around people I'd never played with in case they thought that was what I was like lol

I love your advice about stealing stuff for the campaign like a Chinese bootleg company. My current game is kinda like that, but with a mix of a bunch of stuff. "Oh, so the villain of this game is a forgotten goddess who controls dreams, light, and who turns people into beasts with a plague" *"DM, isn't that just Radiance from Hollow Knight?"* "Uuuuuuh... NO, of course not, she's the all-powerful... uuuh... ILLUMINA! Yes, Illumina, my creation!" "So, there are three factions, one is a republic who was very heroic in the past but now is corrupt and imperialistic. The second is an empire of greek-inspired soldiers who are really authoritarian and crucify people." *"you've played too much New Vegas"* "What? Can't hear you, those two are very original since one is actually a religious faction of templar and the other an intelectual society of mages, they're definitely not just the NCR and the Legion, haha!" *"ok, what's the third faction"* "A bunch of underground-dwellers with all the technology in the world who..-" *"THAT IS LITERALLY JUST THE INSTITUTE."*

I understand the premise of this video, but why did you have to use the Percy Jackson movie version for the thumbnail?

@p-__

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My farts are better than Critcrab’s farts

@Lotan_

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Because the books don't deserve to be lumped in with guys like this.

This makes me want to cry I know what it’s like to now have to dread the thing you loved

@BlueTressym

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*offers hug*

The biggest problem I have seen when people make a character who is 'based' off another character from media, is the fact that the character they are basing off of, is seldom the same level as what they are playing.

Just heard the AD in the background while building 40K minis. My first thought was "False, Dragonair is a pokemon."

Oh damn, I read this one on reddit the other day. I think this is the first time you've featured a horror story that I've actually read before

I agree here, when dealing with someone who is unaware of the issues with their behavior, and whom no one confronts with it, talking with them about it absolutely SHOULD be attempted. Worst case, they don't welcome your efforts and you know for sure this isn't a friendship that's worth trying to salvage. Best case, they may actually apologize and start changing for the better. Not everyone behaves in an odious manner in the knowledge that it is odious. Many do so in ignorance of what is truly good and what is truly odious.

As a Percy Jackson fan, I speak for all of us in saying we do not associate with this man.

As a Percy Jackson fan, I am very sorry to hear that this person ruined the party.

Can definately agree with the message to the end. If you've got an issue amongst a player, air it out otherwise you'll just start bubbling resentments until it comes off like you've been set off out of nowhere.

"Legally Distinct Magic Orphan & the Geode Which Apparently Has Magical Abilities"

Thats gotta be a plus sized bag of holding to hold a player's loot and several people inside it all at once.

This first part reminds me of how my dm turned a filler mission that we were on into something special. Essentially we had down time and we needed more cash so we escorted a caravan through a mountain. Along the way, people were disappearing and no matter what, all signs pointed to this father and his twins. Turns out one was blessed with divine powers while the other made a deal and became a vampire and was sucking the life out of people. We confront the vampire just after killing the dad and we fight. The session ends half way through the battle and we grab some food. The dm on the way was talking about the session and that it was all based off of jojos part 1. Tldr spooky escort mission based on jojo's part 1 was fun.

My SO DMd a Percy Jackson campaign. It was hilarious and fun. We got a lot of agency.

If I ever made a 'edgy' guy, I'll make it that he does have a hard life and has a major distrust with people. But he clings onto the party for dear life since he's scared of being alone again. But he'll never admit it. That would allow story for the character and give the party a means of connecting to him. Like that 'cool kid' that puts on a show to seem tough but is just really scared of not having anyone around. Being very protective of the party and not wanting them to be in needlessly dangerous spots but never outwardly being kind. More like a 'Hey, don't go in there. It seems dangerous. Let me scout it out before you break your neck or something'

I once played a lone wolf, edgy character. I had been told prior to character creation that the campaign was more about the relationship between players than anything. My character was a street punk muscle head who didn't like the party to start and was only there as she was hired as a bodyguard for another PC, a mob boss. Over the course of the campaign she began to open up and slowly became less antagonistic. It's important to point out that the other players knew that I would be playing a "punch first, ask questions never" type character, and when it came time for combat, my player was happy to be the tank. And while lore wise she didn't care about the others, I played her to give advantages to the others fighting so they could play their roles effectively. I knew the risks of an edgy character and was determined to help the party while still playing someone who was only with them for the pay.

With the blind spell, the ruleset does say that creatures can use other senses like hearing to determine where an invisible or obscured creature is, I'd have made him roll with disadvantage

About the last story: we have a person in our friend group like Sorcerer. He plays the edgelord main character, uses exclusively tropes in his storytelling, likes to be contrary to the party’s goals, and plays some slight reflavor of the same three characters every time he plays. He’s brought memey tabaxi into serious campaigns, he’s been the edgelord railroading the session onto his plot specifically, he’s even been the guy who brings a child character into a bounty hunting session without explicitly asking beforehand (we were okay with it but it caught us off guard, and he has the gall to be annoyed when we poke fun at the child in the bounty hunting group, because… he’s a child.) I pulled him aside one day, and told him, straight out, that many of our friends were annoyed at the way he was playing. I laid out a few concerns about his use of tropes, memes, and other such cliches. And he was like “oh, I didn’t realize it was that bad, I can pull back a bit?” And I realized he knew he was being contrary and annoying, and did it because thats what he found fun in the sessions. He wanted a little turbulence in the party. But was bad at communicating that. Once we broke down that wall, and I opened the “let’s talk out of character and properly plot this stuff out” he improved drastically. I don’t think this would work for everyone, but that dialogue, the honest communication not only from player to DM but between players, is so important. My whole party is wonderful with it, dropping hints and ideas and theories about each others arcs, as well as our own planned stories out of character and in. It’s wonderful! One of our campaigns turned one year old this month! And we’re going on to session 50 this week! Good communication, honesty amongst the entire group, and an open chat about expectations, limits, and desires is the key to a successful table. 100%

In one game, I and my friends were going through a dungeon filled with undead. At some point, my character discovers the blueprints for a device that traps souls in crystals which then can be used to fuel horrible magical gadgets. Tick... Tick... Tick... DING! I gave out a loud "OOOOOOOOHHHHH!!" followed by a playful laugh. I was the first of our group to realize they were Soul Gems from Skyrim! Our DM actually seemed really happy that someone connected the dots and recognized the reference. I'm certain he was making this face when he noticed I figured it out- :3 Though it wasn't an original idea, I absolutely loved it! Probably because I love playing Skyrim.

Lol I've had the broody and dark character, and I tried to execute it well, and learned that I just couldn't do it, so me and the DM talked over him developing into a less brooding person, and frankly that story was WAAAY better and he ended up being extremely optimistic of his future with an npc (really good friends with a hint of romance who changed his life)

Hey critcrab ! First of all, this is another very entertaining video, you're awesome ! Personally, I preferred when you showed Reddit screenshots instead of white text with a black background, but that's just my opinion :)

i always say to my party: as long as you do it right, you can write virtualy anything. its all a combination of 'knowing when to say what' and 'knowing what to do at this and any other moment'. i always see it as a 'lets see how well they react to certain situations' game. than again, i play a weird version of homebrew.

Don't diminish your teammates Don't hog the spotlight. Engage with other characters Be involved Be attentive It's so easy couldn't have said it better myself

To add on to what Crab was saying about being a good player, D&D is a lot like improv for a lot of reasons, but one of them is sharing the spotlight. You never want to hog it. In fact, you want to put the other player in it and them do the same. Now you all are the center of attention and no one is left out.