The least fun anybody ever had on an airship since the Hindenburg.

@IseeDeadLlamas

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for making my day lol

@RealTrey19

2 жыл бұрын

shut up and take my like

@ieatpeopleand

Жыл бұрын

"GAWD DAMN!!!" ~Noob Noob

@Panzerless_SG

Жыл бұрын

I know it has been a year but this comment is still one of the greatest I have ever seen

@johnoneil9188

Жыл бұрын

@@Panzerless_SG Hey, thanks for the appreciation.

The fact the DM’s idea of revenge against the OP included having her raped when the OP is also a woman says… a lot of bad things about DM as a person-not helped by his nice guyisms. This is a man who should not be near women or girls.

@block2001

2 жыл бұрын

Soo...it would have been fine if it was a man he had raped?

@shroudshift9969

2 жыл бұрын

I think at the end of the day, this guy needs some serious help. Regardless of man, woman, or otherwise, this is not a healthy mindset to have afterwards for the sake of revenge. Just in case, this was directed at the DM in question, not to anyone here.

@nothanksnopenoname6403

2 жыл бұрын

@@block2001 The post is about a DM doing this to a female character and player. Did you really have to be that ass who comments that? Not once did the poster say it would be ok if it was a male. The comment was directed to the story in question.

@nothanksnopenoname6403

2 жыл бұрын

@@shroudshift9969 Agreed, and I’m sure the person who made the main comment here we are reply to feels the same.

@minamajikina8075

2 жыл бұрын

@@block2001 Oh, you're gonna be That Guy. You probably whine about feminism and call women "females" too, don't you?

Ah yes…the Airship story, THE premier RPG Horror Story It’s got everything: -DMPCs hogging the spotlight from players -impossibly difficult dungeons and bosses -railroading (via the airship and the OPs god telling her to get back on the airship instead of shaking up the status quo) -plot holes up the wazoo -unsubtle and unsolicited flirting -using excuses for yourself and your bad DMing -Weird sexual stuff (hello random orgy sessions!) -the…..r word It’s just missing racism and homophobia, but it’s close to getting the whole RPG Horror Story BINGO card filled out

@l.p.antaree8216

2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget IRL combat on that bingo card.

@Artemisthemp

2 жыл бұрын

This is clearly a case study in what not to do and only good thing about this story is the Thumbnail.

@redballoon9007

Жыл бұрын

Interesting enough, the “Military School” story DOES have all of these (including homophobia and racism) and yet it’s not as known as the airship……maybe that’s a good thing actually-

Crispy: "Hey Crab, can I borrow your airship story?" *USSR anthem begins playing.* CritCrab: OUR AIRSHIP STORY.

A bard was criticised for not being horny enough? Why is this is more common in horror stories than horny bards themselves?

@jdizzy192

2 жыл бұрын

Because horny bards has become so much of a meme that at this point people who lack self awareness assume it's a normal thing for bards to want to lay anything and anyone. It's due to a mixture of projection and an inability to read a room tbh

@shroudshift9969

2 жыл бұрын

It's a very unfortunate stereotype for what is otherwise a very fun class with a lot of possibilities for flavor and flare.

@shizachan8421

2 жыл бұрын

@@shroudshift9969 Especially since bards are not supposed to be horny. They are supposed to be spoony.

@MercenaryMuse

2 жыл бұрын

I don't get the trope hate, honestly. My bard was not just very promiscuous, she was professionally promiscuous. It was awesome.

@Vaslaganum

Жыл бұрын

@@MercenaryMuse kinda gravedigging with this reply, but... it's because whenever it does pop up, it's usually their only character trait. At least in my experience. Most players (and people in general lets be real) are extremely terrible at writing or playing slutty characters who also happen to be characters outside of being slutty. one of my favourite characters I've played was a literal prostitute who very much enjoyed being a prostitute, but she also had motivations and personality outside of wanting to fuck all the time. For some reason people have trouble with that kind of concept and idk why

The now-infamous airship story is an extreme example of something I see a lot from DMs, and something I personally had to deal with in a campaign that recently ended: DMs who are only really interested in telling "their story," and only really see the players as a captive audience. The fact that he couldn't stop his BS even when it was endangering his personal relationships with his friends is telling, to say the least.

@shizachan8421

2 жыл бұрын

The other lesson is, never let an Incel into your social groups, there is a reason why they ended up as anti-social loners to begin with.

Visual Asexual Confusion? Nah bro, all of us are confused about this. It was just weird

This story is so infamous at this point that someone should make a module out of it.

@tsifirakiehl4250

Жыл бұрын

Honestly, I’ve been thinking a lot about this campaign, and I think I could fix it. My airship campaign would start out just like the original: the party is trapped on an airship, forced to serve a bunch of obnoxious, overpowered DMPCs-but then, a bunch of bad guys show up and murder all the DMPCs, leaving the party on an airship full of corpses. This is where we diverge from the story, though. The party now has their own airship. The world is their oyster. They might want to track down the people who killed the DMPCs and either try to defeat them or team up with them. They might want to explore the plot hooks that were carefully hinted at by the missions the DMPCs sent them on. They might just want to explore all the mysterious locales Eberron has to offer! What they do next is entirely up to them.

@Miranda17137

Жыл бұрын

​@tsifirakiehl4250 this seems pretty fun. Alternatively play it as Murder on the Orient Express But It's On An Airship

I'm a DM, and I do have one DMNPC that is most assuredly an "OH SH*T" button for my players. However, I've put strict limits on his use. 1 use per week, and he only heals my players to half health or resurrects a dead PC to 1/4 health. He doesn't attack or otherwise interfere as he is a new god with just over the minimum requirements for followers and the whole campaign is him setting the PCs up to be his champions in the mortal world. He also can't act on his own accord. He HAS to be summoned by one of the members of the party in a truly desperate moment. Most importantly, my players like it.

@whensomethingcriesagain

2 жыл бұрын

I've had one NPC who's ever been like that, and mostly what he does is give out magic stones that allow player characters to use the Joestar Secret Technique and run away if things get too hairy

Honestly, there's potential for a good hook. The players are "apprentices " to a legendary adventure party. Only to realize that they aren't the heroes they thought...and that the legendary party are the BBEGs...planning on useing their apprentices as part of their plan. The players can try and make their escape and work out how to stop a powerful group like that.

@willc3697

11 ай бұрын

“What?! My overpowered DMPCs are the bad guys! Of course not! They’re the legendary unstoppable heroes, everyone knows that! Why…why aren’t you guys worshiping them yet? Guys?”

Imagine if the Rogue didn’t revive the NPC’s and just stonewalled the dm until he gave the players actual agency

@magatsukeshin7180

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately due to the way the DM was dming he'd probably just say "You do it" and it would just be done. There was no chance for actual player agency in that game

"Pocket dimensions can't tether to relative objects" Bag of holding, portable hole, and handy haversack: Am I a joke to you?

I’d heard this story before, without the epilogue. I’m amazed how many players need a interactive tour of the Nine Hells, to realize that quitting a bad DM is always an option. I’m glad this group found a good one afterward. After experiences like this, some players never come back to the table. This guys biggest sin, however is using diagnosed mental health disorders as a crutch, or to justify bad behaviors. As someone who has struggled with mental health issues for literal decades, it makes me sick to see people doing this. 😡

@TigerW0lf

2 жыл бұрын

Preach, brother. I have struggled with asperger's and ADD all my life. Like I said in my own comment, he was probably faking it on top of it all. He has apparently used it to excuse multiple incidents of poor behavior. He uses that as an excuse to be terribly stupid. He was already outing himself as a serial liar, this wouldn't surprise me

I will just say that "no airships" is probably the least important part of having a new campaign because it's not the poor airship's fault that the DM is a terrible person

@drago3036

2 жыл бұрын

I feel the same, i love airships! :c

I wonder how the DM would feel if he knew he’s a legend/punchline to thousands of people on the internet.

@shizachan8421

2 жыл бұрын

He would bitch about SJWs/feminists/the alphabet crowd/females/cultural marxists/wamen/cancel culture/femoids/jews going wild and trying to push the REAL FANS™ out of D&D in favor of appeasing the woke crowd and cancel culture and how the left invades everything and feel easily offended by everything and try to censor him. Then he probably goes on and rant about how Crit Crab and Crisby are simps, beta males and soyboys.

Everybody’s talking about the airship story itself, but the ranger using his swimming skill to dance on the floor? Top-notch funny

Moment you said "with every expansion and edition allowed" I knew EXACTLY where this was going

@jlaw131985

2 жыл бұрын

Did you? It seems like it went a lot of places that wouldn’t necessarily follow from that.

@whensomethingcriesagain

2 жыл бұрын

@Jim Lawrence It's because this story is extremely infamous and I've heard it so many times that I recognized that line immediately

@jlaw131985

2 жыл бұрын

@@whensomethingcriesagain ahh…I see. I hadn’t heard it before lol.

Me, after seeing the thumbnail: Say, this sounds an awful lot like the Airship story. Me, after the cold opener: IT'S THE AIRSHIP STORY! YAAAAAAAAY! Enjoy your VD everyone.

The airship... OH GODS NO HERE WE GO AGAIN

“Hey can I borrow the airship story” oh... oh god.

"If all else fails. She's a changeling, couldn't she just give Cook Cook here the big gay?" ~ Some well known Talking Crab

The Airship Story is a great example of why you shouldn’t let people with mental health issues get away with toxic behavior. Don’t enable anyone.

OOOOOOO WE REVISIT THE AIRSHIP STORY, now to vent all my curiosities with this DM: -Why did he hate his PCs having ANY sorta privacy (between having no space to be private and having mind reading NPCs) -Why have that many NPCs who are supposedly super interesting but also not doing anything about them in the missions at ALL, or making interesting settings related to them -I really wanna read those bad fanfictions -why the ORGIES

@aldahesu28

2 жыл бұрын

I've heard and read this story several times. What I made of it is that DM was the victim of abuse from an authority figure at home. The way to cope with it was D&D and lashing out at players. The DMPC's are the image he wanted to be.

@shizachan8421

2 жыл бұрын

@@aldahesu28 Or he was simply an Incel.

@vapx0075

7 ай бұрын

@@aldahesu28 Over time I hope the DM learns to keep his power fantasies in his private space where he can work through his toxic issues on the down-low. There's the 'I' space and the 'E' space. A healthy individual knows the difference and can break from one to the other without much mental bleedthrough ("How's it going?" "Eh, still alive." ) An unhealthy person can't help but treat the 'E' space as they would the 'I' space. Many people in the world have some toxic grievances who still have friends. People with a total lack of empathy for others, they tend to find a lot of doors shut to them when that part of them is discovered.

Oh no, the AIRSHIP STORY! My second favorite! My first was another one with some sort of empire with legendary heroes that forced a classchange on the barbarian and killed the party for having a lesbian kiss in public.

@BanditNation602

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, that one's a classic horror story!

@dychostarr

2 жыл бұрын

@@BanditNation602 he looks at you with doll like eyes and DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING

@nitayrafowicz5934

2 жыл бұрын

Man that one is old.... and God it made me hate the Neckbeard "You don't understand my vision " dm horror story

@mastersouth531

2 жыл бұрын

@@dychostarr Oh nooo, I read it in THAT voice =)))

@inky5574

2 жыл бұрын

And who could forget the Grimey saga?

Oh, I see what the Ranger was going for- the classic dance move The Belly Flop. Or perhaps the "Fish Out of Water"? Both show stoppers for sure, though not perhaps in the way he imagined.

@TheGolux

2 жыл бұрын

I think there was even a dance called "The Swim"

@catlover2223

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheGolux I imagine Drunk Ranger's version of that would be "The Drown".

It's distressing me how Crispy is just sitting in the fire. Please save your little rodent toes!

@tsifirakiehl4250

2 жыл бұрын

I guess they call him Crispy for a reason!

Airship or no airship, I am glad someone had the strength to get the party to leave the campaign. I had to deal with a bad DM several times, I actually threw my DnD stuff out of frustration.

"Airship" In fairness I gave my players an air ship and they seem happy 😅 I hope Oh God what have I done?!

Holy crap. First time hearing it, but this airship story is nightmarish beyond belief. It reminds me of a few forum RPs I did over a decade ago. One player would just railroad everyone into his own plots, but would not give anyone else ANY agency. Wanted to be an antagonistic? He would create a character specifically to counter you. Got creative with combat or defenses for a base? Nope, his characters just ignored every monster, trap or tactical play, and smuggly go on about how it was child's play. Tried to create an event to move the plot in a direction that wasn't his? Negative, His BBEG would turn up and smash that to shit. And possibly the worst thing about it, was all his characters were the exact same! Same smugness, same overpowered BS, same dark, brooding edgelord no one could ever possibly understand! There was also his weird obsession with black satin sheets, but honestly, I had noped out of there by the point it got too bad. But I've gotta say, and least my guy never did the [REDACTED] epilogue with anyone. That I know of, at least.

Said it on CritCrab's video, I'll say it here (hopefully better): "Someone signed this contract on your behalf and it is binding whether you consent or not. You remain here, at the beck and call of your 'employers'. Your employers may, at their discretion, verbally and physically abuse you, pressure you into sexual acts and shame you if you refuse, isolate you in solitary confinement, refuse you contact with the outside world (including your family), refuse to let you leave, and if you attempt to escape, kill you. You have no right to your own wealth, the fruits of your labors, or any credit for your work. You have no legal recourse, no right to terminate the contract, no privacy, and no right to your own personality or preferences." What an appropriate story for this month, much less Valentine's Day.

Yessss!!! THE AIRSHIP STORY BOIS!! ALL ABROAD THE U.S.S DMPC!!!!

These stories make me feel like my games are not so bad.

Normally “In vino veritas” never leads to anything good, but this time it did.

Imagine, being trapped in the god of sphincters because you stole a pastry? Yes, the battle scars of being forced out of a smelly god orifice by using alchemy to produce a super laxative greatly scarred me and several other players to the point we burned the dms notebook in a trashcan and vowed we would never let him dm again. We likely should have known we were in for a real treat when he said the name of his homebrew world was "Dystopara" but we all thought, hey it's his first time! The premise was the world had been wracked by war, all cities were in ruins, but small communities were built from and on the ashes. It sounded pretty cool, but then after four sessions of acting as freelance salvagers he introduced his gods. One was a god of food and fine dining? Another was a god of reproduction and rebirth, I think? It was the last, and most powerful, a god of justice and punishment that had destroyed our will to play and caused our characters to suffer mass trauma; the mother f'n god of mf'n sphinters. I guess he wanted to showcase his pantheon or something, it didn't go so well. TLDR: An a-hole trapped us in a shthole that ruled over shtholes on a shthole planet with a very telling name that all of us are pretty sure he did not google once. (AKA: Shtception ^^)

"You feel a need to touch the dead NPCs." No I don't. I run off the airship to my death and keeping the others dead with me

me: idk why but crispy has Something about him that i just Like that most other dnd commentary youtubers don't crispy: visible asexual confusion me: ah, yes, that.

... Okay, that epilogue *especially* disgust me, because as a DM myself, one of my cardinal rules in RP is to respect the players' characters as theirs, and under no circunstances ever have them killed, maimed, or.... *that* when the players leave, even if they left on bad terms. I saw it happen once and I remember feeling it was incredibly petty on the DM's part. Usually I just come up with an excuse to say their characters had to leave to justify their absence, so they get a respectful exit. You just don't do... *that* in my opinion.

This horror story had everything. Nice guys, DMPCs, Railroading, missed opportunities, and a freaking air ship. If ever someone asks me for an example of an RPG horror story I will show them this

It's hilarious to me how many of these DMs get mad that bards "don't seduce enough" I DM'd a campaign that lasted 6 months with two bards in the party the closest thing to seduction that happened went like this: Bard - So....what's [NPC]'s deal? Me - She's 17 Bard - Nevermind

The drunk party member trying to swim on the dance floor is definitely me, I can never take DnD sessions seriously. I don't get combative or try to derail the story or anything, I just can't stay in-character for very long.

Oh Lord, I love the airship story. It's a certified classic 👌

I had what looked like a airship terror story once. We were essentially conscripted into the King's Hand adventuring ship, if our backstories didn't give us a good reason to be there. The crew, and the first mission, was exactly like the one above. There were more than these, but I rememeber a goliath that killed three dragons with his bare hands at the same time. Someone who bound a prince of hell to their sword as a prison, someone who outwitted an elder fae, and a literal demigod.The party is given a mission, despite not being experienced enough for the "easy mission beneath the King's Hand". No way the party could win, dmpcs save us, then mock us. Then that night, the airship is attacked by literally a swarm of dragons, both chromatic and metallic, alongside custom dragons, like deep ocean dragons. Dragon slaying goliath got both hands bitten off then was hit with scalding water that boiled him like a prawn. Demon slayer man was frozen in a block of ice, then hadn green dragon acid slowly melt through the ice onto his skull. The demon was freed...and then imediaty devoured whole by a black dragon. Demigod started to fly around and summon lightning bolts...and was atomized by the combined breath attack of over 20 different dragons. The ship, understandably, went down. The only survivors other than the party were the captain, who was a legendary rouge pirate, but lost both legs and an arm in the dragon attack, one novice healer, a humble dwarven engineer, and a kobold stowaway that the party instantly adopted (and the unofficial party leader married, much to everyone's delight.) The campain was exploring this continent we were marrooned in, gathering the tools, materails, and crew needed to fix the ship to get home, while also figuring out what is going on with the dragons of this land. And, as it turned out, those heroes had each slighted the dragons in their own way, as well as disrupted their attempts to consolidate into their own kingdom. (Dragons in this setting were near extinction, so putting aside their diferences in order to repopulate made sense.) In the end, we became the new King's Hand...in service to the Dragon King. Overall, a very fun campain.

AIRSHIP!! DM pull this boat over. We want get off this nightmare campaign.

When I ran my session 0, some of the players saw each other but saw a black figure constantly in the distance, only to vanish at high speeds upwards. Come session 1, the players go about trying to figure out answers (split, but nonetheless, got them motivated to figure out a character that will end up being a player character spirit of previous life)

I thought it sounded familiar at first and then at about the halfway point it hit... Airship.

The infamous Airship Story, back once again.

If you are playing 3.5 and your character can’t take ever the mortal plane, you haven’t truly delved into the brokenness.

In-universe the super-powerful NPCs literally enslaved the party. Maybe no one called it that, but that's what it was.

Ah, the airship story. A classic.

I’ve said this piece before on other tellings of this story, but I like Eberron, so this detail of the story always gets me. The part where the sorcerer’s god comes down from heaven to tell her his will is antithetical to the spirit and the themes of Eberron as a setting. Eberron is effectively a post world war setting which has more in common with the 1920s than the Middle Ages. What form divinity takes, what the gods are like, and whether they even exist at all are unknown and unanswerable questions. Several of the religions of the world can only truly exist in a place like Eberron. The Silver Flame is effectively the force from Star Wars, the Blood of Vol reject the gods entirely, and the elves worship their eternally preserved undead ancestors. Eberron is a setting where being a cleric, a Paladin, or even a Druid actually means something. Being a character of genuine faith in a rapidly modernizing world where there are no answers is one of Eberron’s masterstrokes, and for that reason this one pedantic little detail stands out.

I haven’t played since I bought the worst 2nd edition monster manual. There were almost no women playing back then, and if there was one, they had to contend with every worst male archetype you can imagine. Even the most experienced “Gygaxian” was not immune. Almost no one got an introduction to the game or even homebrew content if a girl was playing. I don’t like when people are excluded so I mostly made character sheets back then and played females because they were so rare in game. I became insanely protective of their stories and would get up mid game when someone tried to engage romantically with one of my characters. (My favorite was a home brew Drow Ranger who had a name so unpronounceable for most of the players, that much of the “romance” angles wouldn’t work. She had the unique ability of gaining advantage checks against bluff and diplomacy, but a disadvantage to intimidate and taunt skills if the PC/NPC - inevitably - mispronounced her name). I remember one especially persistent guy who insisted the pronunciation was “Oily” (spelled Oiola) and she tolerated it until the GM brought the character trait up during a combat session (by this time even the DM didn’t know how to pronounce her name). It was my first PK in game (was a crit with a homebrew version of vorpal) beheading the character and ending the session. I never returned after that.

I have DMNPCs who I literally just use to add intrigue. They have been playing chess master in order to get the party together and point them at the BBEG because they physically are unable to stop him due to the immortality spell they used on themselves linked them to the BBEG in a way that if they tried to go after them, they would be turned into rampaging monsters.

I think I remember hearing that first story through CritCrab or Drake. That DM was an idiot and had a story he wanted to tell without thinking of his players.

They should've just left the ship after the DMPC slaughter.

Airship. Anything else I could say has already been said by others.

Most D&D players are so dang wholesome and squishy. All of the apologizing for not wanting to be abused, or apologizing for having personal boundaries...❤

@newbienoah9461

Жыл бұрын

This comment sounds pretty sad tbh

Its sad how many races i have to test the waters of a group with before i play, because of how much they've been put in the "sex object," box by the creepier side of the hobby. Even when players weren't, themselves, forcing sexuality upon races, ive experienced the flipside of people being belligerently angry at me for playing a race because they automatically assumed id be playing the character as a nymphomaniac, and REFUSED to accept assurances or evidence to the contrary. (Weirdly happens a lot if i play a goblin)

Kind of reminds me of my first dnd campagn it was online from reddits lfg and I eventualy ghosted. Basicaly there were only two players allowed to do anything relevanr, get anything more than the time of day from npcs and get non cursed magic items, effects or pets. The rest of us got to fuck right off during any roleplay, be brushed off by every npc, have out decsions and precautions retcomned if the dm felt like it, be hopelessly undergeared, and be cursed or killed off by anything because it was all balanced to be fought by the two geared up magiced up players. I left ofter the dm decoded to keep a ruling that i was stunned for a round even though i wanted to use a feature to roll again and one of the favorite players said "well you weren't going to do anything useful anyway. The dm had even told me that being new to dnd wasnt going to be a problem.

Finally…… after months of being subscribed and hearing the legends, I’m finally going to hear the airship story!!!!! Truly an amazing valentines gift

Why did OP stay in that game so long? You aren't having fun, stage a full on mutiny and leave the table. Give the DM an ultimatum, either provide one good session next time or you're out. And stick to it. Leave him to find another group to harass.

@whensomethingcriesagain

2 жыл бұрын

Because she seems to have convinced herself she was the only one not having fun, and this is a common social fallacy among nerds, that leaving will ruin everyone else's fun

So this is the airship story I've heard so much about

Airship. Yeah, seen the Crit Crab video. Love their channel! Also love yours! Your voice and story telling is very enjoyable! Thanks for the lovely content. 💛💚

"and there were NO AIRSHIPS!" is now an immortalized line for the bad rpg reddit community. This whole thing was so bad!

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!

Asking for permission from the start...that's what a true bard does. Thank you

See this is why you don't walk on eggshells just because someone has mental health issues. I've got mental health issues of my own, and I've been to enough CBT, 1 on 1, and group therapy to realize that MOST people have some mental health issues. I'm all for being sympathetic and understanding, but I will not ever force myself to suffer in an effort to coddle someone else, and I don't expect anyone else to do it for me.

So, I'm a big fan of taking bad ideas and making them good. And honestly the part of this story which has the most potential is the NPC's on the airship getting slaughtered. Imagine this: the party wakes up in the night because the ship is jostled. They go to investigate to find the usually crowded ship is practically silent... Going up on deck they'd see in the darkness the person at the helm slumped over the wheel... Going over to investigate they'd find his throat slit and they'd realize that's the thing that'd woken them up, the ship getting knocked off course. Combat would start with the assassins and they'd have to work quick or they'd crash. The players now have an airship if they could stop it crashing. But they'd need to be able to fuel it. Figure out who can actually operate it. Maybe deal with law enforcement who might assume they killed the crew to take the ship. Lots of potential opportunities for story, plot hooks, and challenges

I'm glad to say I've never run into any of these while running my homebrew campaign Lone light Plateau, The currency is fingers that must be appraised for value, heads are also accepted but people will be standoff-ish because heads are tainted with plague light, said to slowly drive primal, its a horrible place where death is life and life is for the gifted but you may wish you hadn't attained it, at least until you progress more haha!

If I started a game I would do what he did and had some BBEG kill all of over powered characters and say they where "too weak" for his time. It would show how scary the BBEG was but I wouldn't make the npcs level 20, and instead they would be 5-13 to show there is still hope for them.

I have to say, I am still a sapling DM, only having run fewer than a half dozen games (but played in more), and I'm still guilty of some CHOO CHOO railroading where it's not appropriate here and there. And I'm not the most gifted at improv, so I struggle sometimes to entertain the prompting I get from players. I love tabletops though, and so I'm working on doing what I can to always be improving (I'm even developing my own system). THAT SAID, I have to hold onto hope that I'm not approaching the level of terror that Airship DM is foisting upon people. It's a good cautionary tale for all of us fledgelings out here. What's really sad is that I imagine a lot of these terrible DMs and players that lovely Crispy reads to us about are clearly crying out for help. They're grasping for some sense of control, competence, etc. that they just don't feel in their normal life, and the only way they can deal with it is to "work it out" on the tabletop. There's a fine line between enjoying a power fantasy and NEEDING the power fantasy, y'know? If you're concerned you might be one of these people, please consider therapy! It's helped me a ton. You can start just once a month if it's hard to afford, and also check to see if your health insurance covers it if you have health insurance, because some policies do! Search for "mental health counseling" and "outpatient mental health services," etc. Thank you for being a good story rat, Crispy!

That is just one serious rail road, dues ex machina, mcguffin and more.

If I was doing fanfictions, and includding people I know, I would at least not pull these.

Confused the hell out of my family when I audibly started saying “no no no no no” the second I heard the word airship

BRO MY ANGER ISSUES COULD NEVER

This story is the reason why we all take the Lighting Rail.

>00:36 the *airship* story Oh god, dnd stories and airships always seem like a messed up combo XD Edit: ah yes, an old classic

“But I’m mentally ill!” Then please get help. I’ll admit my mental health isn’t the greatest depending on what happens during the day but if you’re using that as an excuse for any negative behavior then please get some help.

i was howling at 19:29 XD such a MOOD

P.S. having mental health issues isn't an excuse for anything, ever, short of an actual panick attack. Beyond that, unless it's a severe enough disorder along the lines of bipolar, dissociative, or schizophrenia, it's not an excuse for ANY bad behavior.

The only airship I am willing to be trapped in is the Spirit of Grungni, of Gotrek and Felix fame.

Honestly, after the "we tactically lead the bbeg here, let him take what he wanted, and then got murdered on purpose" speech, I wouldve had my character just dive off the edge of the airship, either the NCPs use magic to catch them and prolong the hell they are trapped in or they hit the ground and are freed from this torture and I leave the campaign.

This story almost sounds like it was written as a D&D version of the 'It was a dark and stormy night' contest where the aim is to intentionally write a story as bad as the one this infamous line starts. If you could convert this into Cringe Coins you could retire a billionaire.

As soon as I saw the air I knew what was coming. My wife hadnt seen that story yet she's still scratching her head.

Airship story Certified hood classic

Ok the main story was just abysmal all around, but the DM forcing his gross br33ding k1nk on the players got me heated. You do not take player agency away like that, EVER.

I KNEW EXACTLY WHAT STIRY THIS WAS as soon as I heard the open 😭😭😭

Honestly, I kinda of love these PCs. They seem really cool and its a bummer they were stuck in such a god-awful campaign. Someone should make art of them all celebrating in burning airship rubble or something.

"Visible Asexual Confusion" describes most of my daily life when interacting with media. XD Asexual solidarity.

Eh... Wiseau learned that he wasn't really good at what he did after a while. He's also really good at taking a joke now.

‘The Airship Story’, _aka_ TTRPG Hell.

Finally "satisfied evil grin"

Holy crap, that was an absolute disaster. I honestly didn't know it got that bad in D&D.

@necrowolf2564

2 жыл бұрын

It's pretty bad, but I've heard worse.

@marybdrake1472

2 жыл бұрын

@@necrowolf2564 Oh crap.

Crispy: *plays discord ping* Me: *not realizing it's in the video* Wait my discord isn't even open wtf

If it was twenty years agp, I would say it was Cat.

Call forth the Airships!!

I would include an airship full of godlike DMPC's - and then crash it and kill them all to ramp up the 'oh Cr@p!' of the story.

If I were to gut every creepy, controlling, & unfun element from this debacle, yet keep the airship of op npcs an element of plot: each has a niche tactic that combos with others, but everytime the party is out on a journey, they're escorted by ONE veteran who's locked down by some conveniently placed trap that likely won't stop the party so they can actually play. A few dungeons in & this happening everytime, it becomes clear the vets are being targeted & the party has become the wild card that's saving their lives. Insert a full campaign of heroism & world saving where the vets are allocated to airship crew for the party here.

How do you make yourself sit through multiple sessions with a DM like that, it just sounds like constant, severe misery

Your reading style is so much better then critcrabs I listen to him too but your are so much better

The DM in this story is...just wow