I love the shift in tone that always happens when Crispy's reading a story and decides part way through that the OP is an asshole

@damienhailey118

Жыл бұрын

He's not the only one that does it(though the only one in the rpg horror scene AFAIK), and it's always a treat.

@NeoVault_

Жыл бұрын

Its becoming my favorite funny thing in these stories.

@sebastianoyarcepezoa8920

Жыл бұрын

gotta be one of my favorite genres

@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas

Жыл бұрын

I absolutely adore it when he does that.

@zashgekido5616

Жыл бұрын

It's like the verbal equivalent of slowly putting in clown gear

"I am the king and I owe you nothing"? That honestly sounds like what a villain, let alone a tyrant would say. Tragically rather fitting for both the character and that player.

@galiogargoyle6295

Жыл бұрын

That's true. Hell, I personally like to see it as the true BBEG being slain right then and there...

@BadassHater1

Жыл бұрын

Leoric: "Sounds like me but i don't remember saying it"

@notoriouswhitemoth

10 ай бұрын

King or not, we don't owe it to you to follow orders we were never given

@Tintelinus

9 ай бұрын

Tbh sounds like it could have been a neat part of the story. If it was intentional lmao

@anarky1765

2 ай бұрын

I would’ve said “‘Fine, and I owe YOU nothing.’ My character leaves the castle, hops on the first ship leaving the kingdom, and never looks back”.

That dragonborn barbarian taking out the OP Protag was pretty epic. The only thing missing was him wearing shades and smoking a cigar while doing it.

@BordrKing

Жыл бұрын

Protag got totally outplayed by his own BS it was incredible.

@aegisScale

Жыл бұрын

Or a one-liner: "Attacking me really blew up in your face."

@TheUnamazingRando

Жыл бұрын

We can all collectively say it happened that way. ^_^

@Taistelukalkkuna

Жыл бұрын

@@aegisScale This was a real blast.

@rhunter42dragon

Жыл бұрын

@@aegisScale At least Protag went out with a bang

That first story and it’s “these characters were completely the same, apart from their clothes, hairstyle and design!” has strong Anchorman energy. “This story is based on real events, only the name, places and events have been changed”…

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

What bugs me most is OP didn't even say what character was supposedly ripped off.

@akun50

Жыл бұрын

"LIKE, OMG, THE CHARACTER PRACTICALLY TRACED! Well, her eyes were a different color and shape; her hair was a different color and style; her height, musculature, bust, waist and butt were different sizes; she wasn't the same skin color or race, but LIEK, guys! This 3 foot tall dummy thicc muscle-bound barbarian kobold rocking a violet mohawk was TOTALLY Aeris Gainsborough from Final Fantasy 7!"

@roguebanshee

Жыл бұрын

@@akun50 That was exactly the energy I got from that story.

@robertbryant4669

Жыл бұрын

@@akun50 Okay, I need to see the entire cast of FF7 as kobolds now.

@kylecline5975

Жыл бұрын

​@robertbryant4669 does kobold sephiroth get an extra long stick with a scorpion tied to the end lol

Second Story: The fact that the DM built the entire story around Protag to the point where once he died, there was nothing else for any of the other players to do really says something about that DM. I mean, that lich is still a problem; maybe the party goes to deal with him, now that the supposed chosen hero who was the only one that could stop him is dead? Sounds like a pretty okay plot to me... No? I mean, it sounds to me like this guy was told by Protag to end the campaign now that his special boy was dead, and just caved to that. Also, that little racist dig at the end... cool. So the guy created his own nation in a world full of apparent racists, and seemingly made it another human-centric country rather than giving more equality to those similar to the party he adventures with, after seeing how unfairly they're treated throughout the world? Cool, very cool, great guy to run a country.

@ChuggleDBuglGames

6 ай бұрын

The story really made me appreciate my DM because our game is weirdly similar. In our game the main villains are very humans number 1 and doing some good cult and terrorist activists to frame and kill other races. My character being the only human but also the face of our party makes the social encounters very fun. On top of that about half way into the game my character who is like a 20 year old pact of the tome warlock who thought they were just a really bad wizard was told by their patron that the end of the world was coming soon and only she could stop it. She reacted to this news with anxiety, anger, stress, confusion, etc. they just wanted to cast silly spells with their friends and help people. It’s been super fun because the party dynamic didn’t really change because I was already the support of the party. Warlock spell slots are great for full party bless and cure wounds, so they were already big on protecting her, now they are just protecting her with divine justice. and I was already the face of the party so now I just more or less have an extra dialogue option where I (affectionately) pull rank or just make up legends about “the chosen one” because no one really told her what it means and until her patron tells her to stop it she’s just going to make up whatever helps in that situation. Gods I love games.

the fact the campaign ended after Protags explosive demise means one thing. The Dragonborn defeated the BBEG

The Paladin calling the Necromancer "That Guy" is the perfect example of why owning a mirror is important.

@360entertainment2

Жыл бұрын

Right?

@BadassHater1

Жыл бұрын

Pot calling the kettle black much?

I’m curious how he concluded the character was a ripoff of another when he also says the clothes, hairstyle, and colors are all different. She must be quite the artist to show such resemblance to what she was copying beyond the superficial details.

@Tytoalba777

Жыл бұрын

Well, you see, they're both human women! So they're obviously the same!

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

OP didn't even say who was ripped off. Maybe powers, personality, or mannerisms could have been taken but no evidence confirms that.

@SuddenReal

Жыл бұрын

It reminded him of something, therefor it's the same.

@insertianameia2224

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. Like those the key defining traits for characters like that.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

@@insertianameia2224 At least in a picture, which I think was all there was to go off of.

I feel vindicated that AITA story's op was a pissbag. His ass spent multiple paragraphs explaining the concept of the DMs game just to tell a story that needed none of that context!

This may be my favorite set so far. The main character syndrom guy being blown up by his own gun powder and super upset by a necromancer story both made my day.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

Both paladins too.

@ostrowulf

Жыл бұрын

@@ArcCaravan Yeah, while many people play them find, there does seem to be a certai kind of problem player that is drawn to paladins.

Story 2 I heard this one before and, yes, killing the mary sue with his own gunpowder rules? Epic. But yeah, if the story absolutely collapses because of a Mary Sue? Welp. That means the game is bad.

@TigerW0lf

Жыл бұрын

Or he was bullied into dropping by the Mary Sue

There was a story where an IRL death was handled well in CoS. I don't remember who covered it but I remember the gist of it. Group of people know each other for 15+ years. One dude passes. Party had been playing CoS. GM noticed everyone had trouble grieving. After a few months and the campaign eventually resuming, after long months of thinking and planning, GM decided he'd cross the line. When the party had their back against the wall, an angel descended. The NPC looked like the PC of the deceased party member. NPC gave a few encouraging words before cutting Strahd's hand off and walking back into the light. Party found a collective second wind, thought back, defeated Strahd, and then everyone had a cathartic cry.

@moriane.

Жыл бұрын

Aw, that made me tear up. Thanks for sharing.

@easiestcc6451

Жыл бұрын

That made me think of a scene from Xenoblade Chronicles 1 that I won't spoil.

@destroyerinazuma96

Жыл бұрын

@@easiestcc6451 Thanks, I'm considering playing it.

@easiestcc6451

Жыл бұрын

@@destroyerinazuma96 Please do. You won't regret it.

@t.estable3856

Жыл бұрын

That's a bit different though, the deceased player has a direct connection to the party and GM so it's a clear homage to someone they all care about. Unlike the story, and others I've heard, where the GM tries to "Help" a Player grieve someone completely outside the game that the GM doesn't know.

Killing the favored player is one of the most epic D&D stories I've ever seen. That was incredible.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

Yep. Like an IRL boss fight.

Necromancy isn't automatically evil. Yelling at your party and unilaterally attacking the necromancer player (let alone screaming at the DM when the DM didn't agree with you) is just awful. The Paladin doesn't realize HE WAS "THAT GUY". I hope he learns his lesson and improves, or else he will get kicked again

For the person critiquing the other player because of her choice of character design. It costs you nothing to mind your mind business. I guarantee you, you'll be less agitated throughout your life.

I especially liked the part where Protag didn't immediately get suspicious about the firebreather hiding where he put his high explosives. xD

@astralguardian5930

Жыл бұрын

Well he just felt like he had him on the ropes and was overconfident in his OP self. So can't entirely blame him not remembering that cellar was where he kept all that gunpowder at.

I really hope that op's dragonborn said to protag "long live the king" before setting them on fire XD

Story 1: I could feel the tone shift going from “good guy” to “nice guy” Story 2: hubris and dm nepotism Story 3: BLUE FALCON! Story 4: 1st person perspective of a lawful stupid, with emphasis on the LAW and being stupid

The last one is so confusing to me, because if The Guy hadn't taken it personally, it could have led to some absolutely awesome RPing between them and the wizard. Like, I would be absolutely euphoric if I had been The Guy because, holy shit, there's so much juice to squeez outta there! Also, why do I get the feeling that this was not their first shitty interaction at the table? Considering how much bullcrap folks in this subreddit seem to be able to take before they decide to take action, him getting kicked right there and there makes me think that there was waaay more bellow the surface.

I hate the lawful stupid paladins that see everything as pure or evil, and most "evil" spells are only evil I used in a way that is actually evil

@lollma0

Жыл бұрын

I do enjoy Paladins going off the deep end characters. But most in game become Great Value Arthas.

Dragonborn Barbarian using the Mary Sue Protagonist's own tendencies against him was hilarious and justified. Protagonist should have just written his own book with DM. Seriously, that could not have been fun for anyone else other than those two. They both deserved a reality check, and they got it (IN THE FACE!). Beautiful

Last story reminds me, our group also has a cranky paladin who dislikes any spell from Necromancy school, even stuff like Boneshaker. Our wizard (main user of such spells) had a lengthy discussion about how necromancy is not inherently evil, neither is healing good (you can heal prisoners to torture them longer per se). So they agreed that as long as he doesn't actually raise dead, they are all good

That lawful stupid tardadin straight pisses me off as a paladin player and a long-time DM. That post just f**king OOZED main-character vibes

Enabling protagonist to do all this nonsense and watching him die to his power creep stuff is comedy gold

The nuclear revenge seems like something straight out of the Godfather! 🤩 Also Aurum Lux's player really needs some chill pills. IMHO lawful good characters are best when they're like Captain America, as opposed to zealous weirdos.

@360entertainment2

Жыл бұрын

Dude was trying to be Captain America but ended up being USAgent!

I once knew a DM whose game I almost joined who criticized my character's backstory for being inspired by Ghost of Tsushima's Jin Sakai and the "Ghosts" of the multiplayer game mode. The character was a Reborn samurai who was assassinated but revived by an old man with supernatural powers. In return for her revival, the man, who called himself "The Storyteller" (a reference to Gyozen) asked her to "make a good story with a better ending" AKA live an interesting life. The Storyteller left a mark on her back (the word "yurei" in kanji) that lets him see what she is doing, and therefore is learning the story she is creating as she lives her second chance at life. But no, it was a "rip-off" of Ghost of Tsushima! Glad I left that guy's game

@CrispysTavern

Жыл бұрын

*Casually steals idea* Seriously, great concept! Hope you find a game for them

@Turtle-Melon

Жыл бұрын

@@CrispysTavern By all means, steal away! I get so many ideas that I'll never get to play them all, so sharing them gives me comfort knowing someone might want to play my idea themselves, with their own little flair

@vincentdaniels2596

Жыл бұрын

That's an awesome concept.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of a bit of lore revealed in Blood Blockade Battlefront and Beyond's second to last episode. Nice idea, and pretty much everything is a "rip off" of something.

Honestly, if you took the explosive downfall of Protag out of the context of a (supposedly) cooperative roleplaying game, you could make that into a pretty solid story of a fallen hero turning into a mad tyrant.

Gosh, that paladin and necromancer story. The arguing should've stopped the moment the DM said necromancy wasn't inherently evil

Story 4 Oh my god, the moment OP had to explain his character’s name-dude was an arsehole. And the fact he whined about “being ganged up on” and “but I was the popular one”. Dude is definitely one of those “main character” douchebags that bullies people into following the leader

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

OP explaining his character name made me think of a certain video about the adventure of Night Light Heaven, Quick Silver, Fire Knowledge, and Sword Friendship.

@roguebanshee

Жыл бұрын

He revealed his arseholeness the second he claimed that the DM made a mistake by letting a player play a necromancer and that all necromancers were automatically evil.

@MrCrunchytime

Жыл бұрын

​@@roguebanshee Players like that forget that literally all healing spells in DnD are in the school of Necromancy.

@sirconstantine8329

Жыл бұрын

​@@MrCrunchytime Most healing spells are Evocation, not Necromancy.

@MrCrunchytime

Жыл бұрын

@@sirconstantine8329 Huh... I guess I forgot they changed that. I thought that's how they were in 3.5.

this isn't really a reaction to anything in the stories but i just want to say i'm now like. in love with Strahd suddenly being uber nice to a random player and just giving them a really powerful weapon as a bereavement gift along with a little kissie on the forehead. and then the next time you see him he's just utterly back to normal and has no memory of doing any of that.

@SuddenReal

Жыл бұрын

And when he's defeated, they find a note "reminder: don't stalk black-out drunk prey at the Gifted Horse Tavern. No recollection of what happened afterwards"

That was some fantastic nuclear revenge. Protag got what he deserved. That OP was way nicer than I would have been. I would have torn up his character sheet right in front of his face, then lay into him for how he treated everyone and the DM for letting it happen. I might be able to tolerate someone being an asshole to me, but not to my family.

I love the moment when Crispy switches to narrating a story in his asshole voice and you realize, 'oh, we're dealing with one of THOSE stories...'

The necromancy story reminds me a lot of how my brothers first character (a necromancer with good intentions at the time) saved the party but instantly was turned against by some cringe lord

@persona9709

Жыл бұрын

Most people who run necromancers tend to be rather chill individuals with either or (or both) the slightest amount of edge to keep them interesting or they're a total cinnamon roll.

@aegisScale

Жыл бұрын

What those cringelords seem to forget is that "necromancy" also includes Resurrection-type spells, _which they would definitely want to cast on their characters should they bite it._

First made me chuckle. "A new way to play!" *Proceeds to describe a West Marshes game*

@CrispysTavern

Жыл бұрын

Lol I was going to point that out but I thought it distracted from the commentary.

@MiggieSmalls-zn3bs

Жыл бұрын

West marshes? I've heard of west marches, but not marshes...

@alsenddrake7764

Жыл бұрын

@@MiggieSmalls-zn3bs wait, is it marches? I've literally always called it marshes, like the place, thinking it was named after like, a place the first was run XD

@Tytoalba777

Жыл бұрын

@@alsenddrake7764 Technically "Marches" is a place, too. It means, like, a military frontier. Probably the most famous march in the English world were the Welsh Marches on the English side of the England-Wales border, which was tasked to defend the country from Welsh raiders.

@zhornlegacy7936

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, was hearing this and was just thinking the whole time "So this dude's just gonna pretend to their table that they invented the West Marches concept?"

The main character guy getting blown up was amazing, but gradually realizing that the OP of the last story was the real asshole was pretty great too

Yeaaah regarding the intro story DEFINITELY DO NOT DO THAT. Do not spring tragedies on players in-game just to mirror tragedies they are experiencing IRL.

You know, my Paladin also conflicted with our Cleric who was also a Necromancer, as culturally my Paladin was always taught that it was bad. But he never went this far, we kept the conflict in-character, and Alistair mostly just looked the other way even if he was never truly okay with that aspect of our Cleric's character.

I congratulate the OP of Nuclear Revenge story for pulling at least .75 of a full Henderson. No lawn gnomes but lots of fire and it was all in game mechanics. Impressive.

Hey Mr. Deva, news flash you’re the “THAT GUY” in that situation.

I was playing a warlock in a campaign that was a servant of The Raven Queen. I gave him a trait that he absolutely abhorred necromancy in any form, as the souls of the dead must abide in their final resting places, and nowhere else, so he didn't have any necromancy spells. We ended up coming across another follower of The Raven Queen who had some sort of undead familiar. I didn't just stop the whole campaign and complain "my Lady wouldn't allow this sort of abomination!" Or anything like that. He just kind of shut down for a bit and had to pray to ask his Lady for guidance. Clearly she knows better than he does, so it became a moment of self introspection rather than outward anger.

Nuclear Revenge OP pulled a brilliant move! What an epic FU moment!

For that last story, with a character that was so important, i dont think they would risk their own death simply over morality. I think a paladin would commune with the cleric over such an important controversy, and ask the necromancer to explain the process behind the ogre's reanimation. If it were against the code, the paladin could probably inform the necromancer "For sake of my faith and service to the gods, you used illusion magic to hide this sacrilege from my eyes. Dispose of this unholy monstrosity if it survives the combat with the dragon." If not, then paladin could have probably said something like "... I admire your methods for making evil serve the cause of good in spite of an unwillingness in life. So long as the body doesnt contain its original owner's soul. Let us ignore this issue and press on." Or smth like that. Anything is better than trying to kill the necromancer over it.

@TheGhostFart

Жыл бұрын

that'd require the player to be good at ad libbing rp

@boundc.napalm3084

Жыл бұрын

@@TheGhostFart Nah, only gotta be average with improv to come up with it, at best. If I came up with all of the above shit on basically the moment the issue came up, then it wouldn't be too hard to do something like that. Plus, there's always the option of DISCUSSING IT WITH THE PARTY. IF that player felt that there was an issue relating to their character, they could have just brought it up like: "I got a problem. My character would react to this action pretty violently, but I don't want that. I just need to know some things and some time to come up with a response to this." Of course, that'd require someone who is actually able to communicate with other people and who doesn't let their out of character thoughts influence their in character acts. Or just someone conscious of the fact that PCs shouldn't want to kill eachother unless both players are very skilled at navigating that. Clearly, OP in that last story is not the type of person to think of that.

Had a similar but less Ahole version of undead argument within my group once. One of the factions in my homebrew setting use undead made from folks who'd given their consent pre-morten (they got a bunch of perks like reduced taxes and free life insurance if they agreed to this). The players had a bit of the chat about it with an NPC to check everything about it was legit, then all but one were cool with it. Oddly the one who wasn't okay was the most conventionally evil of the group. That player was about the leave the group for work-related reasons, so I suspect he was deliberately disagreeing to justify his character separating.

The only good thing I can say about the last story is that it did open up an interesting moral dialogue in terms of the DM's lore. Kinda reminds me of "The Black Arts on Trial", a book in Skyrim where mages are arguing the merits of whether necromancy is merely a tool or whether it's an evil practice, taking into account how multiple schools of magic actually touch on some of the same conceptualized "evil" that necromancers are said to practice. Interesting stuff. I love it when there are these kinds of debates, but imo, something like this should be either purely IC or handled as an intelligent lore discussion ooc.

Pastel obsessed necromancer sounds like the most Tim Burtony thing ever I love it.

We once had a LG paladin and a NE necromancer cleric coming to session zero. We as players looked at each other, realized there was a conflict brewing there, laughed about it, and tried to find a way so both of our characters could be in the party. Ended up being an epic, RP-driven character development arc on both sides that led to an amazing game.

Crispy's voice change when he stops feeling neutral about an op will never not be fantastic

Paladin things to do: Save people, Fight injustice. Murder people while screeching: IM AM KING! wait.... what?

The barbarian story, that's the best bbeg kill I've ever seen, blowing up the racist human in his own castle? Actually epic.

I’ve played paladins who are all about vanquishing evil, but I also understand a broad interpretation of what goodness is. In my friend’s Dungeon of the Mad Mage game my paladin, who was the team leader at the time, befriended a community of goblins, and a group of hobgoblins, as well as a team of duergar explorers and a community of fish folk (locathah?) even making binding promises. I mean, this poster was so invested in their own “lawful stupid” they didn’t even mention the necromancer’s alignment. I mean, in the Diablo universe the necromancer is a hero of the light in three games.

Lawful stupid is infuriating. Like... The proper response if your character believes the necromancy is an evil act in this context is: "We fight this dragon, and you immediately dispel that abomination afterwards. We're going to have a long talk afterwards, and you'd better have a strong case lest I smite you myself." Fight the dragon, then have a really awesome RP discussing the nature of the necromancy, the reasons behind the paladin's logic, and overall a chance to RP a scenario that could lead to an awkward alliance based on the previous understanding between the two. The Paladin can even maintain his suspicion on the necromancer. It could lead to fun interactions down the line! I've played a character with a strong dislike for another PC. The peak of the disagreement led to my character hiring an NPC brute to scare and mug the other player after a tournament that he helped my character win by cheating. My character was not in on the plan to cheat and got upset when he found out. As a person, I knew the player of that character was a wily sort, and would pull off some shenanigans. We inadvertently learned a secret about him that none of us as players knew (which was intended to be discovered at some point). It ended with my character getting caught in the ploy, and it didn't even become an argument. The other PC willingly gave the money to the NPC as the NPC was the one who was cheated against and it just seemed fair after the case was made. As for the shenanigans themselves, he got a great axe slammed next to his head as a wake up call for the intimidation, and he used illusions to run away while leaving us facing a duplicate of himself completely unaware while he got the rest of the party. The NPC became a hired tank for our team of squishies even, and a romance option for my character.

Wizard: "You'll have to trust me that I'm doing this with everyone's best interests in mind." Paladin: "Sure. Go ahead." ... Paladin: "You're evil and should be arrested. Cleric! Help me arrest him!" ... Paladumb: "How come I got kicked just for arguing with everyone including the GM? It's not my fault my character is holier than the gods themselves." I mean, honestly, the only sane response - when you're a bunch of low-ish level characters off to fight a dragon and your wizard animates a recently-killed monster to use as dragon fodder - is "how many more of them can you make? Do you need us to gather spell components or kill more monsters for you?"

That explosive revenge was fucking beautiful.

I played a Grave Domain cleric who freely used mindless undead throughout my campaign. My character saw dead bodies as nothing more than meat as the important part (the soul) had long since departed. He was vehemently against any form of sentient undead for exactly the same reason the DM here gave. Binding souls (in my characters case even willing ones) into their former bodies was a violation of the natural cycle.

Third Story: I mean, if Paint left the party and headed out the exit of the labyrinth, and Mother wanted them to stay that badly, the door of the labyrinth should've shut in front of them; Mother should've held the key to escape at all. I'm not going to begrudge the DM on this, as it was his first time, but if this is repeat behavior, the DM could've used this as an opportunity to prevent Paint from running from a big fight again and forced them to stay and fight. But why roll up a fighter if you're just going to run from combat? At least make a ranger or rogue, something that can do ranged attacks to keep your character away from melee? Or just stand and fight like you're supposed to? It's a weird choice for a player to make.

The Dragonborn (D.B.) v. Protagonist story reminds me of the climax of the Horror film "Let Us Prey" This campaign should have ended with the protag barely surviving with 1HP left and paralyzed, and the D.B. emerging from the smoldering debris, walking up to the king who tries to curse out the D.B. before getting stomped dead under a dragon heel.

@boundc.napalm3084

Жыл бұрын

And then rose the Dragon King, who brought hell to oppressors, freedom to the oppressed, and unity to the separated. By will, or by force.

On the contrary, for that intro, Strahd is 100% the type of guy to go "Oh, your master is dead, but here, have a cookie," and just hand you a fuckin Berserker's Axe or something dumb like that, he'd absolutely fuck with the party that way, there's a whole event in one town where a random party member sees themselves or someone important to them hanging when it's just an illusion. The master won't even have to be dead, mf would just DO it.

I remember how once we had too much lawful good player who hoped that paladin will join them in everything Imagine that surprise when paladin took Oath of conquest

the AITA post, this is the WORST thing you could say to an artist. Having completely original designs it's almost impossible.

Here I was hoping "mother" would be Ariadne, Lady of the Labyrinth. I guess she was associated with snakes. In the original Breath of Fire, there's a town called Romero, that's plagued by zombies - but they aren't directly hurting anyone, outside causing a food shortage, and the widow who could break the curse doesn't want to because it's reunited her with her dead husband.

I love how you changed your tone to the snooty-little-ass at around 2:20 and 20:33. Great way to let us know we're seeing things from that-guy's perspective.

Woah, I'm here faster than usual. 😅 Thanks for the fresh Video Crispy! Edit: That third story where someone referred to as Paint, abandoned the party? Ouch. I played in a game where our Rogue did that! The rogue was always Roleplayed as being literally dirty and cowardly. So we got into this fight with 3 Gorgons and didn't have a way to cure petrification. However, our PCs didn't know what the monsters could do until it was too late, and my monk was not the sort of person to leave a party member behind. So when someone got petrified in round 1 and the rogue ran away, it was just my monk and I think our squishy wizard left standing. My monk wanted to subdue or avoid the Gorgons so she could grab the petrified party member before running. We both went down within a round or two. The entire time the DM asked the rogue player what they were doing, and she always replied "I keep on running." And the campaign ended there because "Its what my character would do." We had had those characters for at least a year of weekly sessions. I still firmly feel that those moments are when you let your character /grow/. Sure the Rogue was always a coward. But after a year of being with those party members she didn't care about them enough to even *try* to be brave? Smh.

Omg, the last story... nevermind Crispy's change of tone, it's painfully obvious the guy is lawful stupid. Like, I knew exactly where it was going

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

The title usually gives it away.

Huh, normally I don't trust stories where the OP "outplays" a corrupt DM and favored player. But this one makes the formula work.

Ahahha that's amazing how your voice will just automatically change 21:24 the change in vocals from the normal readings to the cringe reading voice was awesome

1:40 for as much as this sound cool it just reminds me of the “The Gods must be crazy style of campaign” with a slight change

I think the only time I’ve seen one person running away working out was in a game of Call of Cthulhu, where the answer to beating a boss was in another room, and the guy who ran away figured out how to complete the puzzle while everyone else held off the boss in actual combat.

The satisfaction I felt when Protag got blown to bits!

I really love that take on Necromancy. It changes world to world too. One of my favorite takes of Necromancy is that it's less "control the undead" and more "control over life", like in pathfinder 2e, where the Heal spell IS Necromancy, or the old Sega game Rings of Power, where the Necromancers both heal and harm. They're also really rad cause their most powerful spell summons a giant skeleton head with a top hat.

@ Leaving Everyone to Die Agreed, fuck that noise. They're supposed to be here to play. If they're just leaving and scrolling on TikTok for half an hour repeatedly, then they're obviously not.

I had the pleasure of playing a character with an empires worth of resources at my disposal and an ungodly amount of power once. But I was playing the bbeg in that game and had an entirely different set gameplay mechanics to try and keep track of the meddlesome heroes and the only time I was in the same room as them was the last couple sessions when they finally reached my castle.

Can we talk about how good the song at 20:56 is?! I was not expecting to get hit by that BEAT

"It may be nothing like [character], but it's basically exactly [character]"

See what is often mistaken especially by lawful stupid types is that necromancy is an entire school of magic. So unless he wants to go and fight every single wizard and his precious healers that keeps his ass healthy he'd shut up

The dragonborn explosion was the best story ever.

As someone whose favorite Class is Paladin, I found Protag’s behavior personally insulting.

1:18 First, that sounds a lot like the premise for the campaign I started (a series of interconnected one-shots), though the players all play the same characters. Second, I assume I'm not the only player who intentionally borrows from established IP for character ideas. In 1 campaign I play a swashbuckler rogue who is modeled on a mix of Westley and Inigo from The Princess Bride; in another game that just started, my character is basically Uncle Iroh from ATLA. The goal isn't to just come up with something completely unique, but to play what you want to play and make the character your own. 5:06 I don't see anything necessarily wrong with a character becoming the leader of a nation/kingdom/etc. However, the party needs to be on board with that, and that role can't take away player agency for the rest of the party. In one campaign, our Lizardfolk Ranger is charged with rebuilding his people, making him the sort-of king of the Lizardfolk. However, he is still just another member of the party (none of whom are also Lizardfolk); the most exciting effect it had on the party is that he convinced one of the Lizardfolk groups to give the party their land to found our city-state. 17:15 If the party agrees to get out, that's one thing; if a player just runs away, that's something entirely different. And I don't know about anyone else, but when I make a melee character, my whole goal is to be the tank and protect the rest of the party. 20:57 That paladin player doesn't understand how to be a part of a team. Also, why is it always with paladins that people suddenly lose their ability to be a team player???

And that, kids, is why you never favor one player over the other in D&D. There is no main character in D&D, only main characters. Okay, that last story was a particular brand of lawful stupid. What kind, I don't know.

@TigerW0lf

2 ай бұрын

The narcissistic kind

oooh that last one with necromancy is..... interesting lol, like I understand not liking necromancy but come on the DM said "depends on certain things" XD

The fact that once the Protag's character died DM could not continue the story in any way shape or form says alot about how bad he is at DMing. That and the most blatant favouritism i've ever seen. At this point why would they even need other players? Just RP this shit between you two in private. Oh that's right. They need AN AUDIENCE.

As an artist, I’m calling BS. They only told us what differences M’s character had to another character, but nothing as to what was so similar. They were referring to a drawing and not a character sheet. In fact, I would even say that they checked off enough differences to suggest M’s character was a lot more original than they were letting on. Artists, even professional artists, will use existing characters for a base. It’s called a reference point. It’s not that uncommon. Even animators will use existing animations for their base. There’s a scene from Disney’s Mr. Toad that is a one to one copy of a scene from Disney’s The Jungle Book (or visa versa). Some people call it lazy, but it takes a lot of time to draw up and color pictures, especially for an animation and when there are deadlines to meet, they’ll use what they have to cut corners and meet those deadlines. It sounds like M’s character may have had a pose similar to this other character. Again, not that uncommon. I have a lot of images saved that I use for references, because taking something I see in my mind and putting it down on paper isn’t as easy as some people think it is. Don’t shame artists for doing this.

your narration has always been great but this video knocked it out of the park. the subtle changes for clearly-in-the-wrong narrators? hilarious, I laughed in real life, keep up the great work!!

2:22 as soon as i heard your voice shift i instantly thought oh no the ops the real villan in this story

Hears a hint for OP from the first story: just because M makes a character that looks almost exactly like Dante from DMC or Kratos from GoW or (insert vg protag here) from (insert vg name here), that doesn’t mean M is going to play their characters as those she may or may not have drawn inspiration from for their design/aesthetic

@ultrakitten674

7 ай бұрын

I was also thinking about cases of people who dont have artistry skills. What would they say if you did a google search and come back with an image you liked and felt would look like the idea you had come up with? I know there are plenty people who do that, and before AI art become so saturated most of the time they were a character for *somewhere* even if the person using the art didnt know what it was originally from.

@brianvance1178

7 ай бұрын

@@ultrakitten674 photoshop is also not that difficult to work with, so you can use an image template of whatever character to edit until you make them look like you want them to for your character

The first story sounds like.. A saltmarsh compaign. Dudes got real "isnt this amazing and completely unheard of? Also I am the de facto knowledge bearer of what is good character design".

The necromancer story gives me cringe so bad it’s physically painful

Oh god that paladin in the last story reminds me of the paladin that completely derailed my entire character concept (I was basically making a character who was nice, friendly, and did the "right" thing but didn't see undead and necromancy as evil, just an efficient use of resources) because he wanted to play a Lawful Stupid paladin. I went from my concept being creating my own undead minions using long-dead skeletons to...needing to summon *extraplanar* skeletons. Because he would merely frown at that rather than try to smite me on the spot. In PF1e this meant a completely different set of feats. My necromancy specialization had to be redirected towards Inflict and Curse spells. Which, looking back is a bit weird: It's wrong to animate a corpse to fight for the side of good, but he had no problem with me PERMANENTLY CURSING PEOPLE and ripping the soul out of their body while they were still alive. I'm still kinda proud of how the character ended up, with a really neat weapon that I think I might include in another campaign if I get a chance (an elysian bronze longspear of spell storing, and I'd put Bestow Curse into it) but THAT GUY really made the campaign hell. We were at odds a lot especially because we were both divine charisma casters (I was an oracle) and he INSISTED on being the Baron/Duke/King, even though he was a frontline fighter and most likely to die (in Kingmaker your best option for the king is a cleric/oracle, sorcerer, or other charisma caster. A paladin can work too but it's highly recommend you use a goddamn shield in combat rather than charge off on your own while riding a mount, out of range of the bard and oracle's support abilities.)

Story 1 - YTA Sounds like OP is jealous of Marisha. And yeah, it’s ok to base your character’s off a video game character… Also “she looks like character… except x, y, z”

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

What bugs me mist is OP didn't even say what character was supposedly ripped off. Nor was there mention of other traits that make the character "obviously" a rip off of sorts.

The last one, I have to say that it all depends on how you use necromancy. Spare the Dying is necromancy but no one complains when it gets your character stable and most clerics have Toll of the Dead, a cantrip that causes necro damage. Hell, you can argue revivify, Resurrection, and True Resurrection are necromancy because you're messing with the balance of life and death. In a war one shot I ran, I had the necromancer general who was in charge of the party give them skeletons and zombies to balance out the fight and allowed them to give them items as weapons or basically wrist guns along with armor because I made the encounter with three people in mind and one person dipped

I've read rpg horror stories before where the jerk player was hoisted by his own petard, but that Protag story is the first one I've come across where it happened *literally* 😂

If the design changed the clothes and the hair and all of the colors... was it just in the same style as the video game character? Like what was really left if everything was changed?

Those Small Shots sound similar to what I'm trying to set up for my friends, running one to two session modules to put together a longer campaign

I was in an online RP group and got into an argument on design for my character. The character wore coveralls and was called 'Gadget' because she was a mechanic so a guy in the group was convinced that she was the mouse inventor from Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers. They didn't look alike and didn't act the same, but that guy argued then apology argued after getting called out by other players. He didn't shut up until an admin issued a warning to him.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

Huh, my first thought went to Inspector Gadget. Makes about as much sense considering "rip off" tabletop characters.

"So our main DM has invented a new way to play the game!" Bro.... that's just Living Greyhawk, or PFS, or Adventure League, or any of the thousands of Discord groups that literally do exactly the same thing. Do y'all live under a freaking rock?!

Literal nuclear revenge

As someone that loves playing paladins, it pains me how often the problem player is a paladin.

I guess it's not surprising that a young new D&D would think that they had invented a new way to play, and describe what half of us have been doing forever.

The second you said Paladin I knew there was going to be a problem lol

I like how the 1th story discribe the concept of online guilds we use here in brazil

I love that you can hear the moment Crispy realises OP is the asshole