Keep in mind, Matt Mercer treats Marisha like just another player while at the table, even making her worry he'll kill her character during a live show like anyone else would.

@jonathancordova2415

Жыл бұрын

My fiancé plays in both of my groups and I have heartlessly murdered your PC with no hesitation.

@Red_Mag3

Жыл бұрын

I find he's a good deal more critical of her, whereas with someone like Ashley he's a little more forgiving when a mistake is made.

@TheRandomCrapSection

Жыл бұрын

"We're Golden Gods!" Gets me every time.

@wadejohnston4305

Жыл бұрын

Doesn't mean he wouldn't like to.

@IdiotinGlans

Жыл бұрын

In fact, SPOILERS: he DID kill her character very recently.

Sierra: "I have brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to my new empire!" OP: _"Your new empire?"_

@Zombiewithabowtie

Жыл бұрын

I'll admit, when the OP mentioned about the character who "went from a Paladin to an Anti-Paladin", I completely misinterpreted that in my brain to "Anakin".

@noahoakley339

Жыл бұрын

@@Zombiewithabowtie "correctly interpreted"

@personwhoexists1841

Жыл бұрын

Child Murderer to Child Caretaker

"If she's not leaving in tears, You're a failure to your peers!" -CritCrab 2022

@WobblesandBean

Жыл бұрын

Your*

@sircoletrain8373

Жыл бұрын

I was just about to comment this 😂

@MiraTheWarlock

Жыл бұрын

CritCrab for president

@LordSeal7

Жыл бұрын

@@WobblesandBean wrong

@Kastila

Жыл бұрын

@@LordSeal7 "You're" = "You are". So, you're wrong here.

“And yes, her character’s new name became that of a bladed melee weapon.” THIS IS KATANA. SHE’S GOT MY BACK. I WOULD ADVISE NOT GETTING KILLED BY HER. HER SWORD TRAPS THE SOULS OF ITS VICTIMS.

@1Kapuchu100

Жыл бұрын

COULD also be Saber!

@luigiboi4244

Жыл бұрын

Do you know how little that narrows it down? Seriously, I can name several super heroes and villains named after their weapon/weaponized gimmick. -Big Wheel -Condiment King -Green Arrow -Swordsman I could go on and on.

@Dreigonix

Жыл бұрын

@@luigiboi4244 Hell, I have a pair of chain-weapon-wielding supervillain OCs called Grimchain and Deathflail- the latter is a fangirl and copycat of the former. But at least they’re not called Chain and Chainette… though one of them is named Cheney Mace, so… >.>

@AWACS_Snowblind

Жыл бұрын

I almost forgot about that movie, damn you.

@merphul

Жыл бұрын

Now I want to play a PC named Samurai Sword. Not a samurai named Sword, but a guy actually named Samurai Sword. He's an artifacter.

That weapon solution was absolutely brilliant. She's starting to become childish in a power fantasy and he basically pulls a "nuh uh, didn't happen" from elementary school. He's fighting her on her level

@CompletelyNewguy

Жыл бұрын

It was SO cathartic to hear the OP say that.

@pwnorbepwned

Жыл бұрын

He did exactly what she asked of him. He competed with her at her own skill level. xD

@Vivian-eo3qc

Жыл бұрын

GOOD

@solarchos4352

Жыл бұрын

She must have been absolutely livid that OP dared to oppose her so openly.

@nachosanchez3623

Жыл бұрын

mfer got an irl anime power boost out of her sheer pettiness

All I'm hearing regarding the Steel Fist is: "I have brought peace and justice to my new Empire"

@vanerek

Жыл бұрын

Your new empire?

@birdjericho

Жыл бұрын

And then a whole lot of: "If you're not with me, then you're my enemiiiiiiiieeeeeee...!!!"

@filipaleksiekczuk3712

Жыл бұрын

Only sith deals in absolute

@solarchos4352

Жыл бұрын

You were the chosen ones!!! It was said you would destroy the Sith, not join them!! Bring balance to the Force, not leave it in darkness!!!

@emberfist8347

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking of a Charlie Chaplin imposter making isane speeches in Europe.

This is completely unrelated to the point of this story, but now I’m imagining a polycule playing D&D together. Imagine-a game where every player has DM’s partner privilege!

@CritCrab

Жыл бұрын

"when everyone is privileged, no one will be" -Polycule D&D, probably

@theenderdestruction2362

Жыл бұрын

The one who isn't part of this: *if I am to be the bad guy then so be it let death flow like a river, let blood rain from the sky's, you all shall learn to fear and to survive*

@liangshanlun5142

Жыл бұрын

wouldn't be immune to favoritism, sadly

@notoriousgoblin83

Жыл бұрын

"I roll to seduce the dragon" "Oi, save some for us"

@HobGungan

10 ай бұрын

You mean The Dream?

I love crustaceans my favorite part is where they say “it’s crustacean time” and they crustace all over the place

@themilkman1938

Жыл бұрын

Last time I crustaced horseshoe crabs evolved

@WobblesandBean

Жыл бұрын

Crustaceans gonna crustate.

@themilkman1938

Жыл бұрын

@@WobblesandBean what a coincidence I just booked my crustate exam

My partner DMd a game i was a player in. There was no preferential treatment and my character got stabbed in a back alley. Relationship goals.

The destruction of that bone blade was poetic. It wasn't a powerful weapon or relic, but rather a symbol of understanding and the DM/Player pact of trust made manifest, and Sierra let it get destroyed. Nothing of major value was even destroyed, but it was what her intentions clearly were. Without actually saying it, she said "I'm going to do whatever I want and you will get punished if you oppose me."

Using radio code for character names in these stories is at least better than using letters…

@dragonesseather

Жыл бұрын

All exept Adam (instead of Alpha), but it still works honestly.

@merphul

Жыл бұрын

I hope "Mike's" real name is Mike.

@klodpraisor

Жыл бұрын

@@merphul kid named finger

@poppy4155

Жыл бұрын

@@klodpraisor Waltuh

@goatnorth1247

Жыл бұрын

@@poppy4155 waltuh, put your dice away we're not playind dnd right now waltuh

I'm surprised how many of the other players were willing to become Edge Lord murder hobos so quickly.

@Jermbot15

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's suspicious how out of sync the OP is with the campaign where, supposedly, someone else is the problem.

@Undomaranel

Жыл бұрын

It depends on their age, honestly. They sound like young college brats, perfect timing for the OP anime fantasy to kick in.

@solarchos4352

Жыл бұрын

Given all of the rewards and free levels they were offered by Sierra... And it make perfect sense when you keep in mind that Sierra sounds like she was just vindictive as hell.

@MrMViceroy

Жыл бұрын

@@solarchos4352 Or they were just down for the idea of their characters forming an evil stomp-circle around hers

@solarchos4352

Жыл бұрын

@@MrMViceroy Which sadly seems to be an occurrence that's NOT uncommon based on all the stories CritCrab and others have narrated.

'You gotta bully your partner' This is why i come here. Quality advice

@luigiboi4244

Жыл бұрын

I may have autism, but even I can register that this is sarcasm.

@REDACTED6

Жыл бұрын

Along with the quality advice part

@glcorpmember

Жыл бұрын

@@luigiboi4244 The extent is was taken too was sarcastic but it's not wrong. The only way to prove that you're not showing favoritism is by treating your SO as any other player and sometimes that means. Sicking their characters childhood friend on them while the rest of the party is dealing with their own shades of the past. Bully the whole party during game and no one thinks you're playing favorites.

@merphul

Жыл бұрын

We only hurt the ones we love.

@TailAbNormal

Жыл бұрын

"Violence is never the answer... Violence is the question, and the answer is FUCK YES!" -CritCrab.

To be honest, in any other circumstance, I think the plot laid out in the story is awesome and, in the hands of a good writer, would of made an epic story.

@CritCrab

Жыл бұрын

I am working on part two right now and you're absolutely correct. The lore becomes genuinely cool.

@EwMatias

Жыл бұрын

I think it's cheesy trash, and I love cheesy trash. No need to sully it with good writing. It just sucks that it was imposed on a group when not everyone was on board.

@DisneyChar

Жыл бұрын

Murder hobo power fantasy and pvpfest, perfectly acceptable when stated up front

@raoscometh

Жыл бұрын

@@CritCrab It sounds like a WH40k campaign going chaos side. The "moral ambiguity" take seems on character on that setting idk

@oldsoldier4209

Жыл бұрын

@@CritCrab I must be one of the luckiest players alive. I've been playing for 45 years. While I have had campaigns die due to life events moving people away from each other, or causing insurmountable schedule conflicts, I have never personally experienced anything approaching most of the stories you cover. At most, we would have someone create 1 bad session, after which they would get a 1-on-1 with the DM. Their behaviors would be listed, along with ways to correct it, and they would be given the choice to either shape up, or ship out. It's a system that, to my direct knowledge, has never failed. 🤠👍

How to counter the problem of "One of the players is dating the DM" - Be polyamorous and just date all the players. Now nobody has an advantage!

@ctnc6059

11 ай бұрын

This feels like the worst possible answer and completely brilliant at the same time. XD

@jinjia5896

9 ай бұрын

I was thinking you were going towards -date her dad. And I was very onboard with the idea

@lolucorn1

Ай бұрын

Dnd *is* the date

@bubbykins4864

Ай бұрын

How to actually counter the potential issue of "one or more of the players is dating the DM": *_treat them like the other players._* To do otherwise is to not just disrespect the other players, not just disrespect the art of storytelling in general, but to disrespect them.

You better use Sierra from Total Drama for the saga's next thumbnails lol

@CritCrab

Жыл бұрын

Hmm....

players in my games: leave because they'd rather spend their free time on tiktok players in horror stories: will literally subject themselves to torture if it means they get to play more dnd

@baburik

Жыл бұрын

both love and hate have Incredible magnetic power. but the opposite of love is not hate - it's indifference.

Even when it got called out several times that Cierra is trying to bully op and his character I can’t believe it went unaddressed this whole time. It seems like some people where on board for this and the others felt it didn’t involve them.

@solarchos4352

Жыл бұрын

I think it was more of a case of either A.) the others were new and didn't have much of a stake in things, or B.) they were intimidated by her. The "DM GF" card is a powerful thing.

'Bully your partner, it's the only way' - okay that made me laugh. My husband tends to be a very generious DM, and that extends to all of his players. Same with me when he's my player in my games. Giving people things they want mean you can just make the challenges you throw at them even harder!

@catandrobbyflores

Жыл бұрын

that's what my husband does in our game. his philosophy is: you get cool stuff and so do the enemies.

@AuntLoopy123

Жыл бұрын

Yeah! Give the enemies the cool stuff. IF you manage to beat them, then YOU have the cool stuff, and you've EARNED IT. My niece likes to design home-brewed, special-for-you items, but it's, like, ONE per PC. One special thing that is JUST for them. So cool! But it's also fair and even, because EACH PC gets one special thing.

The Bone blade thing is awesome, my signature gameplay mechanic is "Find a sentimental mundane item and treasure it" with the hidden benefit being that this will be turned into a legendary item based on the story of why it is important. Save a girl from a burning building by holding up the support of a house as it crashes down around you? Carry the support you held up and it will be made into an epic fire staff that if wielded by you can selectively burn only the things you want.

@luigiboi4244

Жыл бұрын

That sounds absolutely metal.

@tatersalad76

Жыл бұрын

Bard loves their guitar? They're on a journey to enchant the strings with different magics

@n0etic_f0x

Жыл бұрын

@@tatersalad76 That sounds fun. Take the hearts and guts of beasts as trophies and use those as strings. Take them get enchanted have the cords enchanted with fire, water, air, earth, light and void. Now you have the Cromacord now when you cast a spell you can change the damage type or perhaps you can split the damage into opposing types and have a fireball now deal half fire and half water damage.

@fatterperdurabo42069

Жыл бұрын

@@n0etic_f0x half fire and half water damage? Sounds like a home insurance nightmare

@sillyking1991

Жыл бұрын

i have a player in my current campaign who took their bow as one of their bonds. she's a...relatively standard...wood elf ranger, archer. the bow she made herself (only superficially like vex. but the character was formulated long before the player knew anything about critical role.). anyway, they just got to a big city that has a magic shop in it. Im sure that she won't want to replace her bow (she's already demonstrated, in character, actual loyalty for it) , but im hoping i can bait her into submitting it for examination to, perhaps, be custom enchanted. All so i can reveal that its actually developed magical properties as a result of her loyalty and bond with it.

Brian gang, rise up and treat your loved ones with respect, and try to be aware of your actions!

@servantofwriting2814

Жыл бұрын

Brian ganger for life

I physically shivered upon hearing Fate/Stay night heard. Knowing how.. crazy that series can get, I feel sorry for everyone.

@dontnerfmebro8052

Жыл бұрын

The Fate series crosses SEVERAL lines, but its writing and characters pull a lot of it off. I shudder to think what a...less practiced hand did with it.

Finally! An OP that actually stands for themselves and actually throws that BS back at the problem players.

Being a critcrab fan is forgetting he exists and then getting mildly happy that he posted.

My group tends to have a simple method to keep a "main character" in check, since someone will inevitably catch fire when their concept gels with a setting: make them earn it. They're interacted with more, tested more, actually have to lead the action directly rather than by coincidence, and by the end of any campaign, they're naturally the ones we all rally around, and end up making sure we interact more exactly to keep us from all just being side characters. Legends are made, not born.

Well, if I was dating my GM I wouldn't want him to give me special treatment either. That would just be weird, and it'd ruin the game for me as well.

@GarkKahn

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, for example if you're "innocent" your partner just gives you unwanted bad attention even if the intentions are good and doesn't mean any harm Like in school when someone becomes the "teacher's pet"

There are 2 ways of seeing this: 1) OP is right, and this thing is terrible 2) OP is the real problem and we have an extremely one sided story, maybe he was envious of sierra and bravo relationship

"If she's not leaving in tears, you are a failure to your peers!" CritCrab, you're gonna need to calm it with these one-liners. My face hurts from laughing.

14:36 is poetic, destroying the reminder that symbolizes that no DM should trample on other players and not expect consequences.

I saw the person at the beginning of the video and thought it was a face reveal

@CritCrab

Жыл бұрын

Never.

@soultpp

Жыл бұрын

Crab reveals his face to us every episode! Crab is crab! I mean, he may use a filter or two to get his shell JUST perfect and sparkling but he's still crab! 🦀

Okay, some of the edge lord transformations could work with tweaks. The righteous Paladin could have faced an enemy that honor alone was impossible to defeat, the fact that he held to his morals meant many died a needless death. That fear of weakness was exploited by the entity, and cruelly morphed into a mindset of total victory at any cost. The freedom loving character could simply be turned chaotic evil, where they desire to spread "freedom" no matter who it may harm. Essentially becoming an avatar of pure anarchy. Basically, make the antagonistes be very clearly corrupted by a higher being. There deepest desires and fears used to twist them into something unrecognizable. They think they are the heros in their own twisted way. Also remove the targeted attack on OP.

@tonuahmed4227

5 ай бұрын

This

You know, my husband has turned into my weekly D&D groups main DM, and I am super self conscious about taking a leading role in the game, biting story hooks, even role playing, because I don't want the guys to feel like I'm getting special treatment. The one short lived game I did take the leader position in dissolved after three sessions. I was having a blast, hubby was, and I thought everyone else was too, but they voted to start a different game and I have stayed firmly in the backseat since.

@BlueTressym

Жыл бұрын

Maybe have a talk with them. I'm in a similar position in that I was once a player in my BF's game and became co-GM, then main DM. worried about eh same issues as you, I practically hamstrung my poor character in my desperation to avoid both being 'the dreaded DMPC' and any accusations of favouritism. After YEARS of this (long-runner game), I finally explained all this and the players told me they wanted my character to do and guide MORE, not less. Relief combined with "Yes, I'm an idiot!" ensued.

this is giving 'I have brought PEACE, JUSTICE, FREEDOM and SECURITY to my new empire' vibes

Nothing better than seeing Critcrab upload after a test

I dated my dm for a short while (we ended up splitting up with a mutual decision for unrelated reasons), but we absolutely made sure that I as his partner and I as his player were two different entities, and players called us out of things seemed unfair

If my husband doesn’t treat me like the rest of the table, I don’t want him. I want to be just as bullied as everyone else

Ah yes, the start of a new Saga. Always good to see one. Wonder how well Sierra would play with Craig.

Whenever I've dated a gm I've always ended up being a support character focused on keeping the group together and making the gms life easier (this did backfire when we played together because he would complain out of sessions that he was important enough (he had major mcs) so I had to sacrifice my whole in character purpose to him to keep him from throwing a hissy and he expected it because I'd always done it to help him out when gming

Eat goose Worship crab

@CritCrab

Жыл бұрын

This is good advice

Me and the group I play with have just finished our first campaign together, it started off with me, DM and Artificer, but then another person joined a few sessions in, Paladin, and they soon got into a relationship. It changed ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about the game other than adding an extra character arc and after this week of rest and we have another campaign lined up because we loved DMs DMing so much, playing together and our personalities bouncing off eachother like a rubber ball in a space station... Our group is strong, friendly and equal and it's fantastic. When a group works, it really works.

“I WILL BRING PEACE, JUSTICE, PROSPERITY, AND SECURITY TO MY NEW EMPIRE” 11:30

@solarchos4352

Жыл бұрын

YOUR new empire?

I'm so glad my S/O DM breaks my character's back the same as they do to the rest of the party

The DM GF’s story might have been actually pretty cool, if the ‘corrupted/amoral’ characters had been NPCs instead of PCs. I really want to know what happens next!

So only sort of related but this story got me thinking it might be interesting to do a few sessions in a campaign with doppleganger bizzaro counterparts to your party. It would have to be done properly and respectfully of course, you'd probably have to plant the seeds of it early on maybe even in a session zero kinda thing, but I think there might be some potential there. I might just be thinking this because our DM recently introduced some of our previous campaigns characters as NPC's since they left off in the same place our new party started.

@tonuahmed4227

5 ай бұрын

When i was watching it...I was constantly remembering injustice,god among us...shame the GF weren't creative...

"If she's not leaving in tears, you are a failure to your peers." Something my husband and I live by when we play anything that puts us on opposite teams. I refuse to let him actually use one specific model when we play warhammer, always nuking it in the first turn, and then he turns around and just wipes my battle sister squads off the table. Any game of cards, you can bet we're going to pick on each other. Hell, even when we're on the same team in shooters we sometimes turn and shoot each other up a little bit. He straight up got me kicked out of an among us lobby after also having me shot into the vacuum of space during the game, just for kicks and giggles.

"If she's not leaving in tears, you've failed your peers" -Ancient crab aphorism.

The weapon destruction/recovery part reminds me of a fantasy-themed forum I used to be a part of 13-ish years ago. We had a hierarchy based on contributions and activity on the forum which was mirrored by power levels of our PCs/avatars. It was not D&D based but you could compare, say, newcomers to lvl 1-2 characters, veteran active members to 10-ish, and so on up to admin (AKA Grand Master in our setting) power level of 20. At some point we started doing co-op writing of our adventures with each of us obviously writing from the POV of their respective avatar. One of the few rules was: you couldn't be more powerful in those adventures than your forum rank indicated. One of our members, a relative newcomer was also the baby of the bunch. He was 15 or 16 when the vast majority of members were in their 20s with a few odd 30-40 yo's. He was a super-anime-otaku obviously molded by shonen genre (hey, I'm a fan too just not obsessed with it). So whenever he was describing his PCs competence in combat you could expect a Bleach/SAO level of fencing mastery whereas his PC would at that point be an equivalent to a level 3 fighter (sorry, samurai, duh!). It quickly became a running gag amongst our group that after each paragraph of his stock-shonen-protagonist shenanigans someone else's character (whoever's turn was it to write) woke him up from a dream on a claim of "you were again shouting and twitching through your sleep, seriously dude get some calming herbs!" before getting the story back on track. Sure, initially the guy was annoyed that we invalidated his feats just like that but eventually he did get the message and started asking me (I was always on good terms with him despite being the biggest "wakener" and mocker of his achievements) for writing advice that I happily gave him: I explained the importance of hero's journey, power scaling, and all the good classic tropes (hey, you need to know your basics BEFORE you start subverting). Eventually he grew both as a writer and as a valuable member of our community. When the forum imploded because of a bunch of toxic assholes taking over as admins and their lackeys (I'm no snowlake so I don't throw that word lightly but I draw the line at provoking self-harm to someone with crippling depression, crazy, IKR?) he was one of the few I kept in touch with for several years afterwards. Eventually, as it's common in life, our ways parted permanently, but I still treasure this guy's memory and growth from a hopeless teen fanfic-maker to a blossoming writer with some hidden potential. He was my apprentice if I ever had one (even called him a padawan both IC and jokingly OOC).

This is a reason why I absolutely avoid having a dmpc character in a game and avoid bringing a RL relationship late into a game. It undercuts the expectations and experiences of the other players as well as your partners. When you make it easier for them to enjoy. The entire idea of pitting players old characters against these newer ones I’d admit does sound appealing if it’s done correctly and have some thought put into the previous characters backstories (like having a character fixated at bring back a loved one and willing to go down that darker path to accomplish it) but my feelings is Serra didn’t much care about that and wanted this huge power goddess trip that the simp of a dm was oh to willingly provide. To have characters simply be edgelords or take a complete 180 in their character is just terrible writing and just makes it feel cheesy if that’s not the tone everyone was going for. Half this party seems to not understand what amorality is and be on a moral crusade. I’m feeling most this party is just fawning over what ever hill Serra is soapboxing about and just going far out on left field. Plus I’m going out on a limb as why is the party so fixated at bringing down ops character and the just toxic us vs them mentality Serra has is terrible. Destroying a player’s items just to prove a pissing contest point of this being tuff and ooooh it’s serious bruh. Just makes you look like an insufferable ass. But yes the best response if godmodding is off the table and your dm girlfriend is getting all high and mighty is just tell them No.

She demonstrated exactly what happens to those who don't earn power. But she probably considers herself immune or exempt.

The, "Steel Fist," is such a hacky name... A poor hacky substitute for, "Iron Fist."

What kills me is that a dragon ball esque DND campaign, especially maybe adding the fun goofiness of OG dragon ball, would be awesome

I watched my entire groups jaw hit the ground as my axe struck her head from her body during an uncontrollable rage from am NPC barbarian she thought she could calm. They and her were in disbelief

having the DM's SO playing is a very common recipe for catastrophe, I've been witness to it.

"If she's not leaving in tears, you're failing your peers." -Critcrab

The changes to Lima and Echo are when I would have walked out of the campaign on the spot. I can see a cleric of love getting manipulated in that direction but adding on Echo’s changes…just nope. I don’t care if a character is designed with scars and sado-masochism, but turning a free spirited character into that overnight, even with the player’s approval, goes well beyond simple manipulation and possession would bring, especially without a half-decent explanation. And the biggest joke is how the already free spirited character becomes less free spirited for the sake of….freedom.

"We think that it's good to be entirely liberated and free to do whatever we want even if it's self-destructive... NOW WE WILL USHER IN A NEW AGE OF CONTROL" Well, people do legitimately think like that nowadays without realizing the cognitive dissonance...

Bully your partner? 10/10 dat is da best way to learn how to never know the tender touch of m'lady.

@JaelinBezel

Жыл бұрын

Sounds good!

I can't wait for a part 3

That cliffhanger... it burns 🔥

You should probably mention that things like the “leave her in tears” thing was a joke. Some people honestly won’t be able to tell.

@CritCrab

Жыл бұрын

I would like to have faith that people are smarter than that. However... You're probably right.

@soultpp

Жыл бұрын

@@CritCrab Keep the faith! Twas a hilarious joke and any disclaimers that shouted it out as such would have harmed it! Anyone who would take such a joke as legitimate advice was just looking for an excuse to be awful already. You are epic! You are crab! You rock! 🦀

@dragonturtle2703

Жыл бұрын

@@CritCrab soul TTP might have a point. I am rather cynical with little faith in humanity. And people who couldn’t tell that is a joke, or be aware of that problem and take things with a grain of salt, will be a problem regardless.

@WobblesandBean

Жыл бұрын

@@CritCrab Have you MET people? Especially geeks like us. Parsing sarcasm is not a skill many of us have.

@vsGoliath96

Жыл бұрын

Wait, it was?! I think I might owe my girlfriend an apology... Nah, I'm sure she's fine!

I want to say this after mulling The Steel Fist's motives. They're basically the defense of Megatron's morality from Transformers in the Aligned Continuity. If no one knows, the Aligned Continuity was meant to make a streamlined Transformers Universe. In this universe, Megs was morally grey and leaned more to the dark than light. But this is flawed because Megatron chose violence because he "felt betrayed by Optimus (Orion Pax at the time)". There's a hypocrisy the Aligned Continuity makes when trying to adapt the ruthless Megatron we know into a morally grey person.

A new saga is always quite appreciated.

When my boyfriend DM’s he goes harder on me 😂 I swear. My friends? Dead. My HP? Constantly at like 2. My sanity? Gone.

The (playful) rant at about the 6:00 minute mark would be a lot funnier to me if that wasn't exactly what my husband did to me the last time he DMed a table where I was a player. XD He was so worried about showing me any kind of preferential treatment that he veered HARD in the opposite direction. It got to the point that I would have panic attacks before sessions. Took me over a year to realize I should just bow out from that campaign.

this was uploaded on my birthday :)

Im hysterically laughing at king crab saying that the only way to maintain the power balance is to bully your partner. My partner and I run a guild and take turns DM-ing for the same group and honestly, to an extent this is kinda what we do to make sure that fairness is maintained. We've talked about it and agreed to like safety-tool-like terms for it so it doesn't ruin us but we antagonize eachother more than we do any other players and make sure to share time, resources and attention equally with everyone while playing the respective games. If we wanna be all lovey dovey and gross we can do that in our free time. Nobody wants to be the third wheel and subjecting multiple people to that at once is gross.

i was worried i wasn't doing well dming my first campaign. then i watched this. and i went "welp. at least it's not that"

My partner and I became friends through DnD, and from the beginning he made it clear to me and everyone else at the table that he will not play favorites as a DM. He's been true to his word, and I think the games are way more fun for it

All of these people, OP included, sound exhausting to play with.

God, love that "You did not destroy this bkade" moment

So far, definitely some red flags and rookie DM behavior here, and yeah, it’s shitty to sideline players in favour of a SO, but honeymoon periods do end. Hearing this, I am super aware that this is only one side of the story. I actually kind of like the idea of splitting a massive party and have half do a heel-turn, especially with a party of what? 10!? And edge-lord stuff can be fun if it’s done with self awareness and especially since they became the literal bad guys. And their issues with OP’s character? That just sounds like fun conflict to me, does OP suddenly not want the attention? Yeah, their moral logic is flawed but they are literally being the bad guys. I don’t really get OP’s issue with this.😅 Right now, it seems like a lot of the players were having fun, and OP was being a bit of a stick in the mud and getting IC and OOC stuff confused. But I’m only through 1 of 4 videos about this issue, so I will reserve judgment until the end.

Ooh a twoparter!

Man, when I played games where I was dating the DM, I always got shafted in everything, my character could never succeed at anything and they were prime target for being attacked. My bf claimed 'didnt want to show favoritism'. I dont know which is worse..

If she's not leaving in tears You are a failure to your peers ~Critcrab Man this line made my day xD

yes, 100% bully your partners. My characters are annoyed but his characters presences 😂 that’s our dynamic in game

Lmao "if she's not leaving in tears you're a failure to your peers" yoink stealing that

Thats just so good man

I am the partner of a dm, in our current ongoing game we had a few sessions where we went through a large dungeon and pretty much every enemy we encountered would usually have a focus on my character. My character gets too close to something out of curiosity? Bam! Its a slime, she gets enveloped and now is suffocating. Walking innocently? Bam! Face hugger bats attack her and one other player. It got to the point where we had a running joke of 'Hey babe, did i do something?' in a light hearted way, it was all in good fun

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Same, he's great at it and I'd never ask to shoehorn myself into his campaign like this.

This is sounding like Rings of Power. 🤣

"If she's not leaving in tears, you're failing your peers." -CritCrab, 2022 Best "bros before hoes" alternative I have ever heard.

Yay, a new saga! ❤️

I like how he sort of paraphrased a quote by the historian Lord Acton: "Absolute power corrupts Absolutely", nice touch and very fitting.

Crab moment

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Crab moment

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Mega crab moment

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Ultra crab moment

Nooooo!!! The wait is going to kill me!!!

When you put Zack Snyder to do the sequel of your light hearted movie.

That uno reverse card though lol

To be fair changing a characters alignment could work in a sorta alt universe setting. In one rp I once played a serial killer that after meeting another character turned better yet still violent in ways; in a semi connect alt universe setting she never met that character and became even worse.

Ngl, I feel like OP is probably more at fault than he lets on. First red flag is playing 40k Batman in a fantasy setting. It's just about as cringe as playing an anime character or a S&M body modder. A lot of his mentions of being "specifically targeted" by Sierra, just seem like roleplay scenarios that he fumbled. Like "Oh no, the villains of this campaign destroyed this largely symbolic dagger that my character didn't need for combat and specifically singled me out as the their direct ideological counterpart. This is godmoding and I'm going to immediately retcon it at the table." Like, that's a real softball plot hook that he just whiffed completely. For a guy who goes onto say that he was more concerned with story than minmaxing, that makes me raise an eyebrow. Also "railroaded their relationship at my expense" is real hater energy. Reading some subtext here, it seems like OP was initially trying to create a partnership in game with Sierra and got pissy at her when she decided she wanted to RP romance with the dude she was actually dating. Just saying. Don't think OP is that much better than the girl he's dunking on.

Damn it now I gotta wait!

How did this get recommended to me 2 minutes after it was posted

As a DM, when I get a girlfriend, she's gonna play just like everyone else. If she takes too much damage and falls to 0 hp in combat she is knocked unconscious same as everyone else

If anyone's seen Sou Eater, my face was that of mentioning Excalibur when it was revealed that Sierra and bravo hooked up

"more free and do what you want"? That sounds like a villain to me.

7:13 This is literally just the plot of Mother 3.

I know that everything can happen in life, but this story feels kind of made up or at least altered to make it more interesting to read. At least with the dagger situation, there should have been more interaction with the DM or other players, it probably got boiled down to the main conflict, between op and the gf, to make it look like op won on his own, but he was probably not the only one not ok with the situation or he would have been over ruled.

There is a curse upon my games, if the damned words "It's what my character would do" are uttered, their character would be transformed, irrespective of level or class, into a Level 1 Life Domain Cleric

Love test uploads

I'm the GF of my groups DM. He does not give me any special treatment. He tells me my ideas are stupid if they are stupid and the party splits loot fairly. The only thing I get is some insider knowledge after games and I have ownership of the discord. This is fine because i dont know how to use discord and couldn't lock it down or anything if I wanted to.

What?! A clifhanger!! good becouse this tale was hurting my bones.

6:00 Words to live by truly the words of a great philosopher