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Minor gripe. Avoiding the blood of the sick isn’t “meta gaming.” Medieval people weren’t completely stupid, they knew that bodily fluids of sick people were bad, and they understood concepts like quarantine and isolating the sick. Some places had houses on the outskirts of towns to send the sick, and during times of plague, they would board up the homes where sick people were to keep them away from everyone else.

@demonic_myst4503

2 жыл бұрын

Yea they knew about spread and things being dirty they just didnt know the why of germ theory they knee the symotoms and out ome of germa tho just not that germs/ viruses caused it

@MrGamernova

2 жыл бұрын

Not to mention if healing magic and curses are a thing if anything this world should have a better understanding of health and sickness both physical and spirituality especially churches, so not only does it make perfect sense for the paladin to act how he did seeing him do that, the paladin should have known how to deal with the ring and if anything metagamed by not perfesonally despelling it, since it's spirituality just as toxic.

@demonic_myst4503

2 жыл бұрын

@Ethan Morrill but ops argument is based on ignorant misconceptions about medievil times so

@demonic_myst4503

2 жыл бұрын

@Ethan Morrill again its based on the ignorant beleif taht people were stupid they werent even tribes know that shit oh look jimmy got ill after touching sally whos ill must be no connection right even if a pc is dumb they would be surrounded by people who have 2 brain cells to learn diseases spread

@orangemc9358

2 жыл бұрын

@Ethan Morrill In a world where curses and healing magic are things, I'd argue a PALADIN, who eventually becomes immune to disease, would at least know a *little* bit.

To be fair, he played the plague thing perfectly. Medieval people wouldn't touch lepers because they thought leperasy was contagious, though they would touch plague victims trying to care for them. Easy rule of thumb: visible illness, don't touch. If you're going for low int medieval characters lol

@schwarzerritter5724

2 жыл бұрын

The Old Testament actually has lengthy sessions explaining quarantine.

@milo8177

Жыл бұрын

Fair, however the post specifically said that that world had never experienced a plague before

@Omnywrench

7 ай бұрын

Technically leprosy is contagious, it just doesn't spread very easily or develop symptoms quickly.

Gotta laugh at how DM in story #1 even managed to alienate his favorite player. I never expected Cleric to be a standup guy

@HighPhoenix1754

2 жыл бұрын

Huh. Cleric being good? Unheard of! Not in MY RPG Horror Story!

@gurmyigoll3535

2 жыл бұрын

What an awful human being that guy was. Then he yells at his friend's wife. Disgusting behaviour.

@mrroboshadow

2 жыл бұрын

@@gurmyigoll3535 i think you got the wrong story bud Your thinking of the intro story They're talking about the actual first longer story

@duskgaming18

2 жыл бұрын

The ironic thing is that, if I remember correctly, one of the Official Lineages introduced in Van Richten's Guide also has Advantage on Death Saves. So OP's character was similar to official content in that sense

@jdd11529

Жыл бұрын

@@duskgaming18 thiss

First story: "Which is unfortunate because he was a great DM" No, no he wasn't. There are way too many points of being a bad DM in there. Possibly he was good at world building. As in maybe he had some interesting ideas, but if he can't understand that a CHARACTER might not understand how magic works, seems unlikely that he is able to make the world seem cohesive and full and lively.

Honestly, OP's homebrew race in the first story sounds significantly less overpowered than the officially published Reborn race from Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft. If you really just want your character to never die, or at least have a ridiculously low chance of dying, a Reborn Shadow Sorcerer is way more powerful in that regard. If you really look at at all the officially published races and classes for D&D 5e, almost all of them overpowered in one thing over all the others. And if everyone is overpowered, why should anyone get upset about one character being good at the one or two things that they are supposed to be good at that the others aren't, especially if they're only using a homebrew race that is weaker than officially published content.

@alexinfinite7142

2 жыл бұрын

@@MarquisLeary34 why?

@thekaiser3815

2 жыл бұрын

You know, there was once a time when people would say 3 and 3.5 classes and races were overpowered, I guess power creep is inevitable.

@TwighlightLugia

2 жыл бұрын

I actually play a reborn shadow sorcerer. It's ridiculously more fun than it has any right to be, because I based her character on being haunted by a 'curse' that left her unable to die (she basically wanted to eliminate her bloodline and she's the last branch left on the tree). That said if you're that worried about death being not-trivial in your games, yeah, it can get pretty overpowered. But also, like. Isn't it rules as written that getting attacked while doing death saves causes an auto fail, or is that just a house rule of ours? Either way it's not really that hard to work around in you're THAT salty about it. (Also I'm pretty sure rolling above a 10 counts as a successful save, not above 15, but I also could be wrong about that) Sidenote: at our table, we have another house-rule: "You can have it until it gets broken." Basically meaning, you have made a verbal contract of sorts with the DM that you can have whatever weird homebrew you requested, but the moment it starts being stupid overpowered is the moment the DM revokes it. Now I should clarify we have a lot of trust at our table, all three of us live together, the DM is my boyfriend and our other player is his brother, but it's still not a bad house-rule to have if you're somewhat lax on homebrewed stuff at the table.

@Drakon_Minaka

2 жыл бұрын

I love the reborn more for lore reasons than the stat buffs. But I will admit the deathless nature features it has are pretty...hoo boy. resistance to poison, advantage on saving throws against poison and disease, advantage on death saving throws, no need to eat, drink, or breathe (I comedically play this as whenever my character bathes or gets embarrassed, he'll hold his head under water, much to the concern of others), and no need to sleep, can't be magically put to sleep, AND can finish a long rest in 4 hours? Jaysus. Still can't wait to play my reborn psion (homebrew class) though.

@alexinfinite7142

2 жыл бұрын

@@Drakon_Minaka lol holding his head under water to hide from being embarrassed is pretty great. I love reborn. They can be the perfect balance of edgy and silly if done well

I really like the idea of a naive, nice monk just wandering through the most dangerous parts of the world, but he can't be killed by all the highwaymen out to get him and he doesn't even have any valuables on him because he's taken a vow of poverty. That's hilarious. It's a Luke Cage of medieval times.

@jdd11529

Жыл бұрын

This is Exactly what I was going for lol Uh I’m op- btw Thanks for liking my story

"I should never have approved it!" "But you DID approve it. So, now, you need to deal with that, and stop cheating and trying to murder me. You're unfair and immature."

@KertaDrake

2 жыл бұрын

If you feel something is intolerable about a character after approval, it's way easier to just talk to the player and either have them adjust how they are playing or modify the character a little. Trying and failing to kill the character for ages before finally succeeding is just sad since you literally have the power to "rocks fall" them.

@jdd11529

Жыл бұрын

YES exactly

@jdd11529

Жыл бұрын

@@KertaDrake lol

I was pretty sure that story with the centaur paladin and the candle would end with the "candle" being a stick of dynamite that the paladin didn't recognize for the same reason that he didn't know germ theory. A looney toons ending would be appropriate for a joke of a player. :)

@Geth-Who

2 жыл бұрын

My god, that's beautiful.

The 2nd story, when they went after the succubus and her half-human child; that sounded a bit excessive. She was heart broken and wanted to raise her beloved. Shame on the party for that.

@Damalon01

2 жыл бұрын

What if they were all evil and the succubus and her child were murdering innocent people for those diamonds? Context matters.

It's funny the DM in the 1st proper story complain about the homebrew race having advantage on saving throws especially not too long after WotC made a race that does that the Reborn Lineage X'D

@jdd11529

Жыл бұрын

He was PISSED

"Roleplaying is for those who are not great at combat!" - That guy, probably.

was playing Destiny 2 and listening to this video in the background, and your ad had me looking for an exotic engram on the ground lol

@CrispysTavern

2 жыл бұрын

What can I say? Savathun’s trickery is rubbing off on me.

@aludarce8921

2 жыл бұрын

I was about to say something very similar. I'm like wait, when did I get a engram and I'm at work

'If you're going to drink the tears of your players remember to drink all their tears equally' Lol. I'll tell my players that one.

Intro: To be fair, most DMs aren't married so giving their friends special treatment is the next "best" thing. Jokes aside, favoritism can come in many forms, very rarely good. Spouse/Lover, long-time friend, or trying to get into someone's pants. It's all the same once you look past the who. DON'T USE THE HOMEBREW I APPROVED: The DM being a toxic person according to the friend would explain why he didn't just talk to OP about it (that and the toxic "punish out-of-game decisions through the game itself" mentality). It wouldn't be too hard for a DM and player to change a trait that the DM overlooked, assuming both parties act like mature adults. Lawful Good = EVIL?!: I heard this one from the Crab. Yeah, this guy is an aggressor. Shame that they moved and wasn't kicked out, since DMs need to be willing to do that in cases like this. I actually have a LG paladin written up who is a bitch herself, but it's due to her living a hard life and represents good not being nice (base on 3.5's Grey Guard). The idea is that she slowly warms up and starts being nicer, and stop using the end-goal to justify the means. Playing a mean LG character is possible, but what this player did isn't how. "Your Spell Just... fAILs!": I think the DM wanted to kick OP for awhile and saw this as a prime opportunity to do so. And got to love DMs blaming the player for thinking outside the DM's box. "bUT rOLePLaying is bOring": If it wasn't for Steve being a problem in combat, I'd say he needed to be in a dungeon crawling group. However, it's obvious that he was a problem player overall. I assume the DM mention that there would be RP in his game, and Steve just ignored him. That sounds like he would do base on what OP told us.

I personally don't see death saves at advantage as an issue. But that's just me tbh

My first proper DnD character had advantage on death saves because he was an Unliving. The flip side was that he only healed half as much from magic or potions, so it balanced out.

"Wisdom death saves"? Death saves are never connected to ability scores, what. This DM is so bad.

@draconicfeline6177

2 жыл бұрын

Otherwise fighters and barbs would never die...

My dm does allow homebrew but only if he approves it first and we discuss fixes if it ends up op. He’s also willing to work with us on making homebrew that is to op work in our game.

@jdd11529

Жыл бұрын

And this is what would have worked

I listen to these during lunch or during dish washing

5:58 no need for homebrew now, there is an ufficial race with advantage on death saving throw The reborn

@jdd11529

Жыл бұрын

Yippee

I was playing Destiny 2 while listening to this and hearing the prime engram/exotic drop noise scared the hell out of me lol

What is the point of playing an RPG if you aren't gunna... you know... RP

@chaineyhines6006

2 жыл бұрын

Dungeon crawl of course, or play 1st edition which is combat heavy

@eintorpid9101

2 жыл бұрын

Playing as a role and Role Play are two different things. One is TF2, the other is story based.

@joshuawiener5003

2 жыл бұрын

At that point if you take the RP out of RPG, you just get G. Just play some video games, man.

Not gonna lie I feel the first DM, having a close friend who is a good friend but a terrible player. And not even from a roleplay perspective, I had a friend who'd literally argue with me and accuse me of taking away his agency....because he chose to do something and failed the roll. Tried to run from Boss fights too.

In the first rp I ever participated in, another person wanted to join and straight up told the DM that he wanted his character to be, "really smart but really annoying." I was concerned because that's how the person claimed he was was IRL. (Annoying yes. Smart, not so much.) DM told me he was going to allow this person's character but warned the guy that his character was going to be immobile in case he got to be too much and would respect the party's decision if we wanted to just ditch the character.

Should have made one of the NPCs a secret dragon and tell Steve "roll initiative, deadman."

Actually magic wands are how magic works Considering that there are staves that double as spell foci and actual wands that can be used to cast spells "for free"

@Logan_Baron

2 жыл бұрын

Well that's more "That's how magic wands work" rather than "That's how magic works". If it were "That's how magic works, by using a wand" then other magic user who doesn't have a magic wand would not be able to use magic.

My phantom rogue in the previous campaign had advantage on con and death saves as long as she had at least one of her soul tokens

"Roleplaying?!"

@DallasBrownridge

2 жыл бұрын

What's that :0 never heard of it

@carolinelabbott2451

2 жыл бұрын

Perhaps it is the rolling of the theater plays?

That centaur story was a real case of the DM needing to kick the player much earlier.

I once was a player that was easily bored when it wasnt my turn and so I would tell other players at the table to hurry up and slightly complain if they took to long. Later I realised that I was behaving in a very rude and unpatient way, so I started to controll myself and waiting way more patiently at my turn. Sometimes, when I realise that I am again not giving the other characters enough attention by going on about what my character is doing, when its actually their turn, I am kind of ashamed for my exuberant enthusiasm, apologize and tell them to continue with their characters. Fortunately my DM is very patient with that (Me, the DM and the players are friends irl).

Most people in a D&D setting probably DON'T understand how magic works. Magic is the realm of the educated. In a philosophical or spiritual tradition if you're a cleric, druid, or paladin. The arts and social studies if you're a bard. The science of the Weave if you're a wizard or artificer. So on and so forth. It makes perfect sense that a character like that would be confused by and curious about magic.

I have a serious gripe with that first story, see, there was a very simple solution to the DM being annoyed that OP’s homebrew race was “too powerful” or whatever, get this: It’s called: “Tell them you changed your mind on the homebrew and ask them to stop using it, you twat” (insult is optional of course) I’ve been on the receiving end of a DM who okay’d a risky character concept and then proceeded to punish me in-game for… Them greenlighting it in the first place. It sucks, it’s frustrating, and it’s a really easy problem to solve if you have a mouth and common sense, but for some reason these kinds of DMs always skip right over any kind of peaceful negotiation and jump right to slamming the nuclear button, it boils my blood to no end

Love these ^^ Always a pleasure to listen to as I cook and game prep!

SCP 049 really blowing up here on YT

@Yaboi_Phantom

14 күн бұрын

Who knew he had such a passion for DnD 🤣

Loved the Engram Decrypting sounds during the sponsorship bit!

Short Story 1: Ah yes, insult the host’s wife-that will go very well. … Seriously though, Op dodged a bullet if DM refused to kick out a racist. DM is either spineless or just as racist.

I can’t help but think that the Paladin of that last story just couldn’t turn off the “Speedrunner” mindset. *sigh* Why is is always the Paladin that’s the problem…?

@nvfury13

2 жыл бұрын

Not sure why Paladin seems to be a class that attracts so many psychos and jerks, but it is. Rogues for some reason have a reputation for it, but I’ve seen way more Pally problem players than Rogues over ~30 years around the table.

"Roleplaying is sooo boring!" But it's the whole point of the medium. RPG. Role-Playing Game. Quid pro quo.

I like that you have that book in the back, Necronomicon, Iown one myself, great taste in books.

I love when characters think of something I did not as the DM it truely makes the game that much better!

Role playing? In a roleplaying game? But of course. D&D horror stories mainly exist because bad behavior is tolerated. If chatting with the player doesn't get them to sort out the problems, then remove them from the game. Giving someone a second chance if they promise to do better can also work out, though if they havn't changed then there is no need to let them take advantage of your kindness.

He’s saying that he wouldn’t have approved homebrew for advantage on death saves, but there’s already a lineage that gives you advantage on death saves, it’s base game at this point 💀

Wait, wait, wait, the guy in the first story was playing a Monk with 6 Wisdom?

In light of the absolute clown that stepped on the creation wizard because they apparently had a specific solution in mind and couldn't be bothered to do improv, I'd like to share one of our often-recounted stories. In my homebrew Ravenloft setting, my players are a gentlemanly british journalist rogue, a Catholic-adjacent monster hunter sorcerer, and their wereraven noble sidekick. They arrived in a town and very quickly met the sight of a masked killer over a body, had a brief encounter in which the killer demonstrating being an EXTREMELY powerful caster, before they escaped. Later they came to learn that this was a serial killer who had been draining blood from the bodies of all of their victims. Along their investigation, they narrowed down two prime suspects; a quirky meteorologist with some form of vampirism she was hiding, and a troubled teenager who seemed to have one of the knives used when the players encountered the killer. By this point, there was an equal amount of evidence for both parties, and they were stumped on how to proceed. So what did they end up doing, you ask? You see, the sorcerer had the spell Sending, which allows you to send a short message to someone you are familiar with. The description only specifies 'familiar,' no further knowledge required other than vaguely knowing the individual. So they had the wereraven observe one person, and the rogue observe another, while the sorcerer maintained telepathy with the rogue. Then they transmitted a loud scream, sent to the killer, looking to see which one of them flinched. Now THAT is how you use your abilities creatively! I allowed it because that was some clever shit!!

@Damalon01

2 жыл бұрын

Your story doesn't make any sense.

@silentdrew7636

2 жыл бұрын

@@Damalon01 which part are you having trouble with? Or has the story been edited since you posted?

@EyeOfEld

Жыл бұрын

Which was the killer?

I recognize those engram sounds!

Wait... what is a wisdom death save...? Like... they said it was 5e, but theyre using Wisdom on their death saves...? Sounds like DM might be misleading the players about shit to make them roll with penalties...

@jdd11529

Жыл бұрын

They were. Yeah. They were.

I know the dm of the thrid story would have hated one of my characters from Werewolf the Apocalypse. If that dm was my story teller for my character Shake n Bake's, SnB for short, story he would have hated the mentality SnB had. One session the pack and their rivals were challenged to create a new fetish, think spiritually imbued weapon or tool, in one day's time. Now creation of such objects requires purifying the base object itself by either keeping it in running water, burying it in the ground, or placing it in a burning fire all options takes three days to purify. As the only wolf born werewolf, SnB simply chimed asking' "Why not use a river stone for the base item?" When the suggestion came from his "mouth" his pack just looked at him as if he was a genius. The reason they were surprised is SnB was easily known for being a very dim bulb, prior to his First Change he was a domesticated zoo wolf and he as old as a young teen in human years, so not really smart or even knowledgeable. That simple solution to the problem of purifying for three days probably would have enraged the dm.

But don't the Reborn get death saves advantage in official material?

@jdd11529

Жыл бұрын

YES

So about the Homebrew Race story... How did he fail on those rolls and where is that -2 coming from since in 5e death saves are 10 or better on a bare (no stat) d20 roll? Only 1 of those 4 shown rolls should have been a failure, and that Nat 20 would have been complete success since it should have restored 1 HP. I can only assume that something else was changed in the rules (maybe out of spite, maybe just in that DM's world) since instead of having a 55% (10-20) chance to pass each roll and overall a 59.5% to survive, he seemed to have 20% or less chance (This assumes that a 15 would have succeeded, which he would need to roll 17+ to make) to pass any one of them. That being said, love the stories Crispy, keep up the good work!

@demonic_myst4503

2 жыл бұрын

As op stated it should of suceeded I asume he also meant that rule wise that woud suceed with nat 20

@jdd11529

Жыл бұрын

Mmmm yeah, yeah I realized that not long after

I’m sorry, advantage on death saves is NOT broken… all it would mean is that your character will more often than not stabilize themselves. That does not prevent enemies from hitting them while they are down and/or indirect damage from hitting them. They can still easily die when downed and faster than it would normally take to die from saving throws.

I like crispy's voices :)

Because why the hell would you want to role play in a role playing game? That guy should never join my games, they're 90% roleplaying

If you’re a DM and you don’t set ground rules and boundaries with players, then there are no boundaries and you’re just enabling the shitty player. Put your foot down, my dudes.

Roleplaying? Also thanks for the fun stories, Crispy

Way the destiny engrams sounds

Roleplaying?! In MY roleplaying game?

I feel like the funniest part about the Steve character is how I tend to find combat super boring in comparison to good role playing. Even as a DM I prefer to have people roleplay over just straight combat.

I started to play DnD last year just by random, and I'm now in 2 campaigns, soon to be 3. One of which is streamed. I'm so happy that none of these horror stories have happened to me yet, as the group I play with are some of the nicest people I know. I also use these videos for guides on what not to do, as I realised I did start to have Main Character Syndrome, so now I'm starting to catch myself out when I notice it,

I think the way that I personally would make the death saving throw work for any of my games is they would have advantage on the first or last death saving throw and the rest are just straight rolls….even then xD it might be a bit broken

@draconicfeline6177

2 жыл бұрын

It's... Not really broken? Its easily countered by an enemy that confirms kills, and considering how often people can flub even with advantage... Yeah. Might as well stay that relentless endurance is busted, or, for an enemy, undead fortitude. Reborn race has other things that are "worse," like the +1d6 to a few checks a day, but even that is negligible. Adds a bit of utility and is fun in skillmonkey builds.

@jdd11529

Жыл бұрын

@@draconicfeline6177 yeah true

Opening Story: I wonder how long it took the “best friend” to attack the wife as this seems like something he would have done a long time ago.” First main story: Yeah, this was a DM vs PC grudge thing and petty in the extreme. The advantage on death saves does seem a little OP, but otherwise, there should be nothing wrong with a naive character, and the DM sounds like a control freak. Second Story: So much Edge, no sharpness. Third: DM doesn’t like his players trying to think creatively? I had DM’s that would have KILLED for these players. Final Story: How dare he ruin the name of Steve.

Roleplaying? In a roleplaying game? It's more common than you think

11:16 My healer character would would hold the child wearing gloves and a leather smock. And with her wis score and heal check, even if she didn't know about THIS specific disease, she does have some guidelines. But then again, that character is an Aasimar so I had 20 in Wis/Cha in a game that lets you have one free 18

I LOVE ROLE PLAYING but when i say that I mean MY ROLE playing! i'm REALLY bored by other people's role playing

Hey, man, advantage on death saves is something that is reserved for upper level material. Could you change that? Other then that I'd love to have you back for next session.

The DM In the first one, the guy said "Otherwise he was a great DM." It sounds like he was a dreadful DM. Hating a player at your table and getting mad at their RP as well, that's just sad. If you read this, know well, you are a terrible DM.

(Role Playing) I have a story about an awful player in D&D: for context I was told this from my friends who had to deal with this person I wasn't there to experience it so all the information might be a bit muddled. The person who I'm going to call him Ken, and my friends who I'll call Ron, and Sean who played with him played several games of D&D together and my friends and the other player HATED him. The best I can remember what they told me about Ken was that he was very problematic to play with, kind of like Steve and the Paladin in this video combined. He was angry that things didn't go his way and sometimes wasn't even in his own games that he ran. All the people my friends included have not heard from him or left him, and it's probably for the best.

The Reborn race from Van Richten’s guide gives you advantage on death saves. Would you ban them too?

That centaur guy. They must have been young. There's no way an adult would tolerate that behavior from another adult.

Pain from hearing engrams drop and not being what I wanted

"I'm going to turn back into an animated rat" 😁 Roll playing?

I dunno if it's just me but that Centaur seemed like a stereotypical "stupid evil" player, someone who plays evil(or in this case play a good allinged character like they were evil) characters just to be an edgy jerk. Now you can play evil, even chaotic evil characters without being a total jerk to other players you just need to play with notion of "my goals demand that I stay on the good side of these people". As for that story with the Creation wizard and the door, I suspect the DM had very specific encounter in mind (probably a fight to keep the enemies from the person casting the teleport spell or something like that if I had to guess) and panicked or got mad when the player was easily able to bypass that encounter and instead of adapting chose to punish the player for not reading their mind.

@andrejg4136

2 жыл бұрын

If you want to play evil without being an edgelord jackanape, think Xellos from Slayers series. Evil but willing to break bread to serve his motives.

Story 1: that player's character had such a minor racial it seemed, since ideally you're trying to have your character avoid dying and that would be the only time that racial would kick in at all, and it doesn't seem like it does anything else, so it only has an impact if you're in a situation you already didn't want to be in and have been doing your best to avoid, like a dwarf's poison resistance is already better then that simply because it will come up far more often ideally. That racial only becomes a problem however if say, your goal as a DM was to kill the player's characters, in which case it would probably get annoying as the DM as it would make it a bit harder to complete your goal of killing characters.

It's so easy to get around death save advantage? Confirm kill, autocrit, bam that's two fails. One fail, or one more attack, and who cares if you don't die easy? That'll do it. Like there's really no issue?

@draconicfeline6177

2 жыл бұрын

Ok getting de ja vu, I think I made this comment on this video before, guess I feel strongly. Or just adore the Reborn race.

@jdd11529

Жыл бұрын

Dm was creative, but not very smart

Trying to intentionally kill your players in a heavy rp campaign is already cringe enough. Ps, why would jackalfolk have advantage on death saves? Is that a thing jackals are well known for in real life?

@draconicfeline6177

2 жыл бұрын

Anubis mythos

@gigaswardblade7261

2 жыл бұрын

@@draconicfeline6177 oh yeah. forgot about that guy.

I'm confused why would you put -2 wisdom on a Monk? Isn't that heavily nerfing your abilities or is it one of those things that are weirdly viable?

Question: why do some people refer to a single person as they, when that word refers to two of more?

I loved the background story excuse for the low wisdom score in the first story. Shame the dm was such an a-hole.

Maybe the real demons were our paladins all along!

Is advantage on death saves really that big of an advantage? I mean they still need to make a 20 to regain a hit point. To get back up. It’s taking a player need to use their turn to heal them to wake them up. Doesn’t matter if they stabilize if they’re Ally’s still lose.

if something overpowered makes it into a dnd game i think it should be fine especially if its not enough to hinder everyone elses fun

Even if I had 8 Int, I wouldn't touch the blood vomiting child either to be honest.

Roleplaying? You mean the R in RPG?!?!

@jdd11529

Жыл бұрын

I guess they just want to play a “playing game” lmao

@jdd11529

Жыл бұрын

I guess they just want to play a “playing game” lmao

I'd like to find a dm who is willing to let me start off with an Oathbreaker Paladin. After a few levels, depending on how things go, the paladin takes the Oath of Redemption. Had anyone tried this already? How'd it play out?

So I have a strange problem. I've only been dm-ing for about a year on and off. Probably a total of 25 sessions. Recently started dm-ing at a game shop and have two other dms in my party. One is my boyfriend. I play in his game too. Because I'm new I ask how certain mechanics work. Last problem was how improvised weapons work. Essentially 1d4 and then some kind of bonus. Problem dm starts out by saying how some dms rule it, saying it's ok to use a similar weapon, aka a club ect, as weapon damage. Which isn't what I was asking. I can't help but feel like he's backseat dm-ing while trying to rules lawyer his own preference. We literally argued until I told him it was just a single d4 plus his strength. Am I an a--hole?

@vernandsockey8611

2 жыл бұрын

No. No, you are not. It's fine to give some input if your DM is asking for it, but once they have settled on a ruling that should be that. He should have shut up and accepted your ruling instead of trying to force you into his home rules.

Why is it that every one of these D&D stories all seem to revolve around 5e? Hmmm I wonder?

They said everyone votes to kick you, you have every right to verify that information froms others.

For the centaur story why was he rolling d8s and not d10s which is what a paladin has as hit dice?

@EyeOfEld

Жыл бұрын

It said 8 or higher, and he probably figures all 10s was too unbelievable.

How do you play DnD

Scree you guys, I’m going home

Roleplaying?? In an RPG??? What are these people, crazy???

Roleplaying?! Uuggh, not in MY dnd!

Why was he playing a mink with -2 Wisdom

Was Steve named after Steven Seagal? Because that's how he come across.

I cannot believe someone was having an issue over advantage on death saves. First of all, they're often rare. Second, the best standard result would be that they stabilize at 0 hp, still out of the fight, just not dying. Boo hoo?

Isn’t nat 20 up on 1 hp?

@jdd11529

Жыл бұрын

Yes. Yes it is.

People who don't enjoy role playing at all should maybe reconsider playing a role playing game

Role Playing!

@carolinelabbott2451

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed. I too have never heard if such a thing.

@marybdrake1472

2 жыл бұрын

@@carolinelabbott2451 I didn't have anything else. It's hard to respond to the idiocy of some of these players and D.M.s in these stories.

@nanotfound1042

2 жыл бұрын

@@carolinelabbott2451 is that like some skill listed on the book only? What do I add to it and when can I use it?

@carolinelabbott2451

2 жыл бұрын

@@marybdrake1472 That be true. Sometimes it's all you can do just to listen to these horror stories. No words, no wise advice, instead just silenced horrified dumbfoundary that people like these exist. On a plus side hearing these horror tales will prepare us, hopefully, for when it might happen to us.

@carolinelabbott2451

2 жыл бұрын

@@nanotfound1042 Either 42 or "throw the cheese!", I can't remember which. 😉

I am actually ok with self inserts, they can be done well, but you need to be honest with yourself, and other players, so when you for example make the stats, if you know that yourself isn't very strong, maybe putting a 15 in strength won't be the best of ideas and so fourth. But doing it well can unlock a wonderous part of yourself that can be hard to find nowdays.

@sybaen5931

2 жыл бұрын

That's a very different kind of "Self-Insert" than what the story is talking about. A self insert in most cases is talking about someone trying to live out their power fantasies. They make characters better than themselves in most every way, but don't actually play a 'character'. They just keep their own personality while wearing the skin suit of someone they'll never actually be. It can take a lot of forms, from "this character is super powerful" to "this character is really charismatic and can have sex with anyone they want".

Advantage on death saves sounds like a lame bonus that’s not op at all. Like it just means your character is less likely to die. Not better at fighting, not better at social interaction or exploration, just less likely to die. Why would that break your game or ruin your experience dm? Why? Give me a good reason that doesn’t make you sound like an evil dm.