We’ve added another background to our collection! Hope you guys like the tavern’s newest look! Opening Song - Dead People Tea: autumnorange.bandcamp.com/track/dead-people-tea

@MrWD-tp7oc

Жыл бұрын

Dude love it!

@TigerW0lf

Жыл бұрын

It's gorgeous, Crispy!

@Nero_Eclipse

Жыл бұрын

Love the new design, not just saying that because I'm a fan of samurai.

@riddlemaster668

Жыл бұрын

In story one the dm should have really have enough and devorice his wife because she sounds like a really bad person.

It's perfectly possible for romantic couples to game together. They just both have to be SANE first.

@tizzywaggins2095

8 ай бұрын

Exactly! My fiance is my groups DM and we know it's a game for all involved, not a power trip, nor a romantic thing. It's an epic adventure for us and our friends! Then again, we are all super chill.

If I paid for a game and the favoritism was this extreme and obvious, they'd be seeing me in small claims court.

@JoyZoneYT

Жыл бұрын

You need to sign a contract for that, or have proves that you agreed to pay for that service, I think

@TigerW0lf

Жыл бұрын

​@@JoyZoneYTor multiple eyewitnesses

@JoyZoneYT

Жыл бұрын

@@TigerW0lf witness testimony can work if they aren't tempted by greed or thrown off through fearmongering tactics.

@unidentifiedbirb5337

Жыл бұрын

​@JoyZoneYT It's a DnD game, no one is going to employ Fearmongering Tactics on them 😂😂 I'd just ask for a refund. This DM seems reasonable enough, he knows how his wife acts

@JoyZoneYT

Жыл бұрын

@@unidentifiedbirb5337 seeing how he folds when his wife has a problem with certain players and makes a scene, I'd be more of the opinion of being a good mate to the guy and proposing that he divorces her.

Twenty years ago one of my coworkers invited me to play D&D with her and her husband. She was the DM, I was a half-giant barbarian, and he was some kind of amphibious anthropomorphic dog thing monk. After a somewhat awkward session 0/1 we began to get comfortable with each other and settle into our roles, but as the campaign progressed it felt more and more like my character was taking center stage, to the point where my backstory began to tie up with the main plot. Believe it or not, this was making me somewhat uncomfortable, as it felt like the DM was focusing more attention on me than on her own husband. After concluding a major story arc that prominently featured my character's family, I suggested that maybe we should do something where the monk could take center stage for once. Dude looked me straight in the eye and said, "My family and monastery are 400 meters beneath the ocean. How long can you hold your breath?" To this day I am certain that he deliberately designed his character with the specific intent that he could never be in the spotlight. Crafty bastard.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

I want to say there's magic for that, but it's funny nonetheless.

@ocinidolegna

Жыл бұрын

lol what an interesting ending XD

@scribblerstudios9895

Жыл бұрын

That's a brilliant means of spotlight deflection XD

yeah the wife is abusing dm outside the game 100%

“The bard accused us of not liking the bard and rouge ship” Gee I wonder why someone would have a problem with an INCEST SHIP

@studiogimli7645

7 ай бұрын

WEAK

I love how on one hand we have Ginny Di doing full, detailed character cosplays. And then we have Crispy, who puts a bunch on LEDs around his neck and calls it a day. Never change crispy, never change.

@iamaunicorn1232

Жыл бұрын

Cleric: white jacket and white led lights. Perfect. XD His "bad guy" is pretty good though.

@marissadougal5125

Жыл бұрын

@@iamaunicorn1232 I’ve seen enough TikTok’s to recognize a character change by the slight outfit change and camera shift

As a DM's wife, the only advantage a DMs SO should have is scheduling. Even that shouldn't be taken advantage of for dumb reasons. There will be times when the group needs to understand that the DM is a life partner first and a DM second. There are nights I need him to take care of me or we have a family event. That being said, the only look I get behind the DM screen is the hard work, the self doubt, and what was come up with on the spot after the fact. Being the DMs partner is a responsibility. Telling them how great they're doing and what could be improved. Be the voice of the player as best you can to the DM when needed, but always having the DMs back. You don't get special treatment in game.

I feel like if your partner causes that many problems in your life over a game, you might want to consider getting them help or getting some distance

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

Especially bad when there's actual money involved.

@TigerW0lf

Жыл бұрын

Distance? that entitled behavior might lead to divorce

@Sanodi21

Жыл бұрын

@@TigerW0lf Me saying getting some distance was the nice way to say it because again, she's acting very poorly in regards to a game towards her husband. Divorcing over tabletop seems extreme but it can legitimately lead to mask off moments that can end real relationships.

@sailorsloth8183

Жыл бұрын

@@Sanodi21 Like the way she would give her husband the silent treatment for days until he gives her what she wants. If she’s acting that petty, entitled and cruel over a tabletop game, I feel safe assuming she does it to him over other things, too.

I am saying this as someone who has a very intense fixation on Eurovision for autism reasons: just watch the acts you missed later, watching it live doesn’t really add that much to the experience. Do you know what does need to be experienced live? In person, no less? And you get to interact directly (rather than paying for a vote that will probably mean nothing due to jury nonsense)? YOUR FRIEND’S HARD WORK.

@Karajorma

Жыл бұрын

To be fair, she was supposed to be watching with a friend and she did try to offer a compromise of doing it in her room and got nothing. So this is definitely one of those stories I'd want to hear from the other side before passing judgement. If it happened exactly the way OP says then bullet dodged.

@ocinidolegna

Жыл бұрын

@@Karajorma i feel like they still had little interest in dnd regardless. i mean, they made these plans knowing they had dnd at the same time? and op was only 10 minutes late, so was she just gonna listen for 10 minutes and then go to her other plans?

@Karajorma

Жыл бұрын

@@ocinidolegna Like I said, if it happened exactly the way OP said, fair enough. It's just that I have serious doubts that OP was only 10 minutes late. I suspect this is one of those stories where if the other side tells it they were 30-40 minutes late. Which is why I said I'd like to hear their side.

“So I’ve automatically killed your bard, chopped his head off so no saves for the attack or death saves for the result. You’ll just have to roll up a new character for next session.” “No, I don’t think I will…”

Honestly, if a paid game like that Wife Favoritism situation was one of mine, I’d be asking for a refund and never meeting with those folks again. I actually play in a game where the DM and another player are dating. They are great people, there’s no favoritism, and I think it’s easily the BEST game I’ve been a player in. So you can play a game where a player is dating/married to a DM easily, as long as it doesn’t become like the forst story, or even the opposite of the dm treating their partner even more harshly than the rest of the party.

The DM and his wife, yeah thats pretty scummy for getting paid and then the wife throws a hissy fit.

Concerning the title story, my gf and I play d&d with friends. We also each have campaigns we play with only each other. She DMs for me and I DM for her. It’s roleplay and story-based and we get to have fun and do literally whatever we want while making an entirely collaborative story together.

2 of my 3 players are a couple. They're engaged, planning their wedding, and having fun in a weekly dnd game with us. Their characters are only friends, and they play well with everyone. Couples can play ttrpg together without favoritism or power dynamics, it just takes communication like most ttrpgs do.

I love how crispy can buy cool shit like a katana and samurai helmet as a business' expense for the channel

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

That was a business expense?

My husband and I play together and he’s the dm. What makes it work is I play characters that either support everyone else or pushes story forward when the game stalls. He even makes sure to give special attention to each character so everyone is equally important in campaign. We’ve recently started Co-Dming and it has been working out great and we have kept the same 2 groups for the past 5 years now over multiple campaigns

The bit about charismatic characters really does play into whether the player is charismatic. Unfortunately i play with someone who only wants to play charismatic characters, but struggles with role play. Imagine talking to an npc. Character says something. Doesnt get the answer theyre looking for. Gets pushy with npc. Now they dont want to talk at all. Player gets mad. Cycle repeats ad nauseam. And they dont understand that theyre the problem.

A lot of times when you type out LOL you are not actually laughing out loud. Well that little skit with the cleric casting zone of truth had me literally laughing out loud in a room by myself at the part when he said "Let me just pray" and put his hands together over his head. Comedic genius!

intro story: If they're this dumb over 10 minutes... well, it's a good thing it happened here instead of in the campaign itself. Chalk up another win for Session 0 weeding out a bad fit for the campaign? Wife story: That's not a marriage between equal partners. That's a toxic relationship! Railroaded story: Since Crispy said "all together now"... Adversarial DMing is lame DMing. Nice Guy story: Uh... that initially sounded like a persecution complex. Bard's behavior does make sense beyond that though. The aggressive behavior could stem from something that threatening their creepy delusions of "romance". From the sound of it, I'm assuming this was an online game. If that's so, I'm hoping Rogue has been very, VERY careful with how much Bard knows about their personal life.

@roguebanshee

Жыл бұрын

The players in the last story were stated to be a group of long term friends, so I'd expect them to know where each other live at the very least. Unless we're talking US style friends (also known as acquaintances everywhere else)

In a game, someone cast Zone of Truth in an inn. Oh, the joy of unexpected truths.

In theory, there's nothing wrong with pursuing a romantic subplot like the one from the last story, but given the *incredibly* sensitive nature of it all, you should definitely get consent from all the players first. No matter how interesting it might be in theory, there are plenty of people who might nope out of it simply because they don't want to deal with that kind of traumatic baggage, and frankly? I'd be one of them.

I’ve played D&D with siblings, and other members of the family (mother and father to the DM), one person of whom is married to the DM’s sister(none of which are related to me) you can run a fun game without any favoritism even towards your family.

The problem with zone of truth is that many npc's react poorly to spells being cast on them. Insight checks are less flashy

@JelenedraKTulsa

Жыл бұрын

Very true but Insight checks also don't give you magic soothsaying abilities. The person you are talking to may not have all the information or may be getting manipulated themselves. Just because someone uses Insight on someone, that doesn't make them trustworthy.

So college was the first time I got to really indulge my 'nerdy' side and play tabletop games. My spouse introduced me to TTRPG and a one-on-one DnD campaign I ran for them ended up being the inspiration for our child's name irl. Sure, not every couple can play DnD together- sometimes because the couple itself doesn't work in general, and sometimes simply because the couple has different things they want from a game and understand that together. But each couple is unique and if you both share the same desires in game or, at least, can be supportive while following your own interests in game- playing together can be really amazing. Honestly part of why I love watching a lot of Dimension 20 seasons is seeing some of the couples play together.

Those flowers are soooo pretty. Love the little pop of color

Loving the bits where you cut to facecam and act out the interactions. Really adds to the fun of your storytelling style

To story one: It is possible to have a couple in a game together. My best friend and her boyfriend are the ones that invited me to their group. They've been playing with the same friends for years and I got added since I live with my friend and her bf. FBF runs one shots sometimes when the current DM can't play the alt game isn't possible. No favoritism and we all have fun. Sometimes FBF has an NPC that my friend flirts with but it's never done in poor taste or to any extreme. They're great players and I'm so lucky the group adopted me.

My fiance and I play DnD together. He's the DM. I do get a unique race feature from his homebrew stuff but that offer was open to anyone who wanted to play that race. He did custom intros for everybody. I've DM'd for him. We're just not immature or insane.

I have to ask if the DM's wife's name started with an A and DM's name started with M. Because I think I might know this couple.

The wife played an intelligence based class but was dumb enough to think someone she's hostile towards would willingly give her incriminating evidence.

Yes partners playing D&D can be good. My husband likes being DM, as long as it's not every week. We've been in groups where we rotated DMs, playing multiple campaigns each one played every other week, or other DMs were running their game every week. I had a lot of fun, even with my husband not giving me anything that migh be construed as favoritism.

Has Crispy always done the cut-away gags? I feel like they're becoming more frequent. Either way, they always make me laugh lmao

If one person in the group “doesn’t understand “ your character that’s on them. If it’s the whole group, take a long look in the mirror.

Power trips in D&D are never a good thing

You know the voice. "DM's Wife!" Very nice.

So, fun fact abt partners playing D&D together: I play in a game that my partner runs, and I'd like to think that there's no issues with the game or other players! (nobody has said anything, anyway). We all get excited about our characters (both initial and secondary), we tease each other and have fun, and it's all good! It kinda makes me wonder if there's a communication breakdown somewhere in the relationship between the DM and his wife, but I dunno. Good comms might not be the be-all-end-all there, idk. Thank you for sharing these!

My current DM is running our campaign with his wife in it, and there's no favoritism here. No one likes to feel marginalized just because they're not married to the DM. My DM and his wife are fun to play with, it's pretty sweet.

And just as I've been getting into playing a samurai character in a friend's campaign, ya had to make this background. Respect.

ok, no eurovision slander

1st story: The The player could always DEMAND their money back. 🤣🤣 Bruce sounds like he's real fun to play video games with.

If I paid for a game and had that happen, I would demand a refund.

My goodness. My boyfriend and I play D&D with our friends. Sometimes we’re both players sometimes one of us DMs. But we know how to separate our relationship from the game. We have characters that like each other we have characters that don’t. Because the characters are their own entities separate from ourselves that we take the role of. It’s not hard people.

“You can guess the symptoms, right?” Untreated borderline personality disorder?…

Ooh I’m digging the new music and new set up! Love the sword

I love your new intro screen :) beautifully done!

I DM for my partner of 11 years + best friend of 5 and love it :> I trust both of them a ton though and we try to talk about limits and stuff

Yeah, I would have dropped OOC the second she ignored the three failed insight checks and asked the player flatly what her angle was, what story she was trying to tell and how she thought this was such a great way to move the game forward that it was worth metagaming. Then, when she failed to have any kind of decent answer, the ball is in the DM's court to convince me he's going to do something about it. Huh, tokens that make a utility belt. Neat. But there's a reason Arcane Trickster's are one third casters and Rangers/Paladins are half casters.

@Potatoesop

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, if I were in that situation I would have IMMEDIATELY called the DM out for not stopping her as she decided to ignore the game and was just going on a power trip. The only saving grace in the scenario was the other party members playing like they didn’t know the character’s race…honestly feel a little bad for the DM since his wife sounds terrible, but don’t DM if you’re gonna engage in severe favoritism to the detriment of the group

I’ve played with two different GMs who had their spouse in the game with no favoritism so it can be done. That having been said I have seen several others with severe cases of “Significant Other Syndrome.”

14:34 *wearing a headset* LOL MY EARS!!!! 🤣🤣🤣

It is perfectly possible to play DND with your other half me and my fiance have since we met and we've never had any issues I'm a forever DM never once treated him special in game

Damn, that "sibling love" gave me Black Lagoon flashbacks

The last guy with the bard and rogue- that DM I swear is an only child. As a sibling I have no fucking clue how you could let that slide.

Me and my fiance have been playing various TTRPGs for years (Call of Cthulhu, DnD, Pathfinder, Shadowrun, The Dark Eye) and never had a problem even if one of us was the GM. We treat each other the same as our friends. I would feel bad otherwise cause it would ruin the fun. It can be done but it needs a healthy relationship with boundaries and good communication and a clear understanding that the game has NOTHING to do with your relationship.

"Of the Targaryen variety" :D :D D:

A lot of gaming couples I know, myself included, play family members so that they can be close without RPing any romance.

The first story is why I will never be a part of any game where there is a romantic partner involved. I'm not sorry, I just won't take that risk, ever. Also, Crispy, your comedy is really on point my dude. 🤣🤣

In "Railroaded to Death" he should have just quit after getting killed instead of rolling a new character.

26:51 wasn't expecting the sorting algo asmr in a crispy vid

As someone who is just starting out as a dnd player/dm this helps alot

1. You were late you automatically are in the wrong. Being late says your time is more important than the other persons time.

But Crispy you misunderstand: Eurovision provides viewers the gospel truth about conspiracy theories and lizard people. Of course it is more important than enjoying a fun game in an in-person social setting with friends 😅

@realdragon

Жыл бұрын

Then you know nothing about Eurovision, it decides politics of entire continent, what parliament does, what are the rules it is decided by Eurovision. At some point they decided Australia is part of Europe and since then still is on European continent

@shadenox8164

Жыл бұрын

@@realdragon I mean we're still in the commonwealth so might as well get something out of it.

As far as Bruce playing an inquisitive rogue as a human lie detector, it's not really min maxing. The whole conceit of the subclass is that you're particularly good at telling when people are lying to you and rooting out secrets through observation, mechanically the subclass is built around the insight skill (both the level three subclass features center around insight, and one directly relates to telling if people are lying to you). The problem with the way Bruce was playing his character was that he insisted this made his lie detection abilities infallible; which no, that's just not true. There's no mechanical way to make insight succeed 100% of the time, and the game would be pretty boring if you could; you have a good shot at reading people's intentions and falsehoods as an inquisitive rogue, better than most people (and in some ways, better than zone of truth, since it's an always on ability, you don't have to cast a spell which means the person you're trying to insight doesn't know that you don't trust them, and it's a contested roll rather than a save which means legendary resistance can't apply to it), but it's not a guarantee. Hell, if I had a choice I'd want an inquisitive rogue with expertise in insight *and* zone of truth up, there's plenty of good synergy to be had there; the rogue could try an get a read on anyone that made the wisdom save and the people that didn't make the save would be compelled to speak truthfully. Railroading your party into your way or the highway is never good, it's only going to lead to conflict and bad play experiences, especially when your skill at something inevitably eventually fails and ends up adversely affecting everyone.

@Miranda17137

Жыл бұрын

It's a pretty fun class for the right campaign. Whether it's the right one is another thing entirely.

Tenno Heika Banzai!!! *proceeds to faceplant onto the ground and snoozes*

11:14 decided to give it ONE SHOT! 🥁

Sounds like that DM in his wife need a divorce, there's absolutely no excuse for her to act that childish over a game.

THAT is a pretty intro

It's possible to ttrpg as a couple and make it work. My last group consisted of mostly couples, and my hubby and i play a D&D game at our LGS on Saturdays.

I DM with my partner as a player and it's totally fine. I have also DMed an ex which was...decidedly less fine lmao.

2 dating players I've seem work well but there has always been favoritism when one was a DM. Some times the DM doesn't realize it though.

Feel like the DM has no right to be running paid games with his wife involved like that. "Hey, come pay to be in this game. But also, one of the players has the ultimate authority to just kick you out."

In my group the dm's wife plays, the only thing that happens is we joking that her character can only die if we have a tpk.

About being in a game with someone you are in a relationship with. Me and my gf pretty much flirted through Rpg. We met by a common friend and each offered the other to play in our campagne (she is a barbarian in my 5e game and I'm a samurai in her PF1e game). And we have had several one shot in team in addition plus an other PF2e where I'm the MJ and she's a player. Everything is working great in each of those. Once the game start we are just players among the other.

Nice sword!

the DM’s wife needs to chill 😭

8:39 The real horror story here is their marriage. I have my wife in every group I DM, and she makes every group better by basically being my "in" into the group. I need an instigator for a slow party? She plays an instigator. I need someone to bring them into the roleplay and lore? She whips out the Bard. What i'm saying is, you can either have a partner, or a miserable marriage. This being paid is the cherry on top of the awful.

😤✋️ - Over priced wall hanger...? 😍👉 - Business Expense!

I'm sorry, but for Eurovision I would put my own mother out of the house if I needed to haha

The DM's wife.

It’s totally possible for romantic couples to play together, in my corrent campaign of 7 years, we have 2 couples: me and my partner and the dm and his partner and never had any type of problems. I think is all about being a good human being 😅

Bard and Rogue are giving me Ultimate Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver flashbacks 🤢

The DM's wife sounds like an abusive, toxic person. Hope DM escaped.

"cOuPLes sHouLn'T pLaY dND, iT nEvER wOrKs oUt!" 4 out of 8 members of Critical Role are married to each other and they have successfully made a franchise from their DnD roleplay group. Hell in campaign 2 Ashley's character Vasha FLIRTS with Beau (Misha's character) and Beau flirts back, and Matt Mercer is 100% okay with it.

Hey I'm that first story!!!

I've listened to this episode before, but it still blows my mind that the game the wife is in is a paid game. Like, don't charge for shit if you can't be professional, what the hell!

What websites do yall recommend for online campaigns?

DM's wife is metagaming.

the DM's wife

For the final story: Ok I get having a secret crush on a friend, and it coming out in weird ways because the crusher has no emotional intelligence. It's a thing, it happens, whatever. But why the 1nc3st route? Like literally WHY? Someone explain that creepy shit to me please.

I suspect the DM's wife thinks she is playing Skyrim in person. XD

The DM's Wife.

Honestly I think min maxing is perfectly fine but the players shouldn’t just do it to make the campaign less fun for everyone else, or complain when things don’t go their way

I'd ask for my money back and tell EVERYONE that the DM lets his wife into his PAID game to play the way she does because that is not in any way acceptable. Just, no.

I'm in a pay-to-play d&d game and my DM's wife is a player and she's lovely

Crispy, I like your HotD hoodie. Who's your favorite character from the show?

My girlfriend us a player in my games. I have literally never showed her favoritism. It's not at all difficult unless your partner is entitled adult child.

The dm's wife

W... what are you doing... Step-Bard?

THE DM'S WIFE!!!

The DM's Wife