"She trusts me, she just doesn't trust them" Bro, my dude, unless she's thinking they'll do things to you without your consent, it is very clear she does not trust _you_ to have a mind of your own enough to reject people and not cheat. It's controlling and gross and that's not the kind of person you need to be marrying. Ew.

@ArcCaravan

8 ай бұрын

That almost has me concerned about what she thinks the other female players will do if OP is actually trusted by his fiance.

@Xylarxcode

8 ай бұрын

That's what I was thinking as the story was being told. My literal thoughts were something like: 'What, does she think they'll strap him to a table and have their way with them? Perhaps she got the wrong idea when she heard that DM stands for Dungeon Master. It's not that kind of roleplay!'

@claressadubs

8 ай бұрын

Yeah "I don't trust them" clearly means "I don't trust them not to tempt/ seduce you"... which in turn really just means "I don't trust you". 🤦‍♀️

@tarotsushima3332

8 ай бұрын

Yeah I'm surprised they went all the way to engagement bc she sounds controlling and pretty dismissive from what we're hearing. Also agree with Crispy where it's one thing not being into your SO's hobbies but another calling them dumb or stupid.

@hatientacetlen4246

8 ай бұрын

Yeah "I trust you not them" stuff is a massive red flag unless they think those people are actually going to do something against your consent.

So my best friend's wife has a similar "no women around my husband" rule and she has recently banned him from talking to me because their son likes me as well and she feels threatened, although that isnt when she was screaming about when she forced him to call me and say he isn't allowed to talk to me anymore (their son is struggling at school and I said he might not be neurotypical. His Dad and I aren't and I see a lot of my younger self in him. She's a nurse and accused me of trying to diagnosis him). Over 20 years of friendship down the toilet because this woman can't handle other women around her husband of nearly a decade. OP, this is not just about D&D. Sit down with your fiancee and talk about this and get to the bottom of her issues with other women. If she can't do this work, she isn't ready to be married and will try to isolate you for the rest of your relationship.

@Zarlos01

8 ай бұрын

I know that happens, but i still can't believe that happens. If you can't trust your significant other, fiancee, husband/wife with be around the opposite sex, then why the hell you insist on being together? The closer that I saw, an attitude like that was my stepmother trying to ban my sister and I to be around my father, but he cut it as started: "my sons and daughter are my priority. If you force me to choose, you will lose. You can not interact with them, but you will never forbid them to come to my house", was what he said. Since then, I only said hello, good morning/evening/night to her. If someone that I have a relationship with, give a prohibition like that I would ask if they don't have trust om me to demand something like that or if is a joke, and I would sit down to talk about it. If this bs continues, it's over for me. This isn't something salvageable or worth the headaches.

@siobhanroberts2329

8 ай бұрын

@Zarlos01 you got at something beyond losing my friend that breaks my heart around this, actually. I'm really worried and sad that my nephew is going to start acting like this (only saying hello and otherwise avoiding her) around his mother because she's had freak outs that have changed his life before this one and he's a brand new teenager who has already had it with being babied. I worry this is going to drive him away from the adults in his life when he needs to be communicating with them the most and I'm devastated because I'm almost certain the jealous blowup will prevent him from actually getting the help he needs. She already did this with her oldest son over stuff that has nothing to do with me and he doesn't talk to her so much anymore. I know my friend loves her and loves being a family man; it was his dream since high school and he had a long road getting there. I'd never ask him to choose and reading what you wrote/writing this now is making me realize she keeps blowing up her family and my nephew was probably already shutting down like you're describing before the whole hammerban me thing. Well, big hug to my nephew and to the kid you were. No kid needs that crap.

@solosynapse

8 ай бұрын

​@@Zarlos01Unfortunately, the usual reason they get into relationships like that is because they want control. 9 times out of 10, it's an (at least psychologically) abusive relationship.

@midnights2631

8 ай бұрын

That's terrifying, if she gets jealous of the kid liking you, what will happen in the future when he gets a girlfriend?

@siobhanroberts2329

8 ай бұрын

@midnights2631 I want to be fair to her as a human and a mother at this point. She isn't Mommy Dearest, and she has a tremendous amount of love for both of her kids. She supports her youngest with his art, his tastes in media, and stuff he's interested in in general. If he got a girlfriend, she'd likely be thrilled and go Dorky Snack Mom and probably just generally embarrass him in Mom ways. She was a single mom for a long time who had a lot of losers who ditched her, so she's sensitive in particular about adult women but she's not "psycho". She's just a medium conservative south asian mom doing her best in diaspora. She's good my friend and they have a great partnership except when it comes to me. She's threatened by me in particular because we've been close since high school and did date back then....non-monogamously....for like 6 months officially....when we were 18. We're 40 now and I don't want to do the math but it's been a while. Their first new years apart before he even met her kids though, she demanded he stop talking to me because he didn't wish her a happy new years but we weren't even hanging out by midnight that night; he had gone home to see his family because that's their tradition. My other comment in this thread was that if you're too jealous of other women to handle your husband being around women at all, you aren't ready to get married. Her problem is extreme insecurity around other women and maybe when my nephew is an adult and looking to seriously commit to someone this behaviour could come out again, but my main worry is that she operates off the medical model of disability and I operate off the social model and I was the only person in my nephews life who ever knows there are two models. I feel like I fucked up by revealing too much too soon, but he was really excited to have information about himself so I asked questions at a family dinner that she thought were too diagnostic and invasive, and it set off her Whole Thing with me and ended up hurting everyone. I would have said all the same things to her as I did to my friend, but she's always had a wall up with me, so our relationship never made it far enough. Anyway, this is long again, but it's complicated and generally I just feel bitter because I miss my friend, and my nephew, and even her. She's generally good company and tries to see the bright side of things, so she'd cheer me up being a cute mom and being less of a nihilist than me. She's smart and lively and cool and I liked her a lot. They were my family and I had to leave because she has unprocessed issues with other women and kicking me out could cause my nephew to pull away from her like you described, and I don't want that because she's still a good mom. If the OP from the story is reading all this, my main point would be that these issues can seem small at first but then snowball over time if you don't deal with them. My friend didn't really deal with it when she tried to ban me that first new years and neither did I, and we both assumed it was fine until it wasn't and it blew up. I understand jealousy, but I definitely don't understand building it up like this. Thanks for listening, BTW. This just happened like 2 months ago and I'm still reeling/dealing. I don't think anyone, even her, is happy with her decision.

The "AITA for playing D&D with girls?" story... while I mostly agree that might not be a reason to call off the engagement per se... it is a pretty significant red flag. The fiance is basically doing the "you shouldn't be around any other girl than me" move, which doesn't just show distrust in OP, but also pretty controlling behaviour. Also agreeing to a compromise and then immediately reneging on it is also pretty bad. There's a notion that after marriage is when the spouse begins showing their true colours and if this is just a sample, I'm at least concerned about their relationship moving forward.

@roguebanshee

8 ай бұрын

That's where my thoughts ended up as well. If she's like this before settling in, I would not be surprised if the jealousy and controlling behaviour got worse over time.

@solosynapse

8 ай бұрын

Agreed. She's showing major signs of insecurity & extreme control issues.

The Worst Part of that Last Story is that the origins of Vampires in VTM are actually the most significant part of the metaplot. Trying to make up a new origin for Vampires actually fucks with a lot of stuff in the background of the world. You can't really change things with Caine, Enoch, and the Antediluvians without screwing over a lot of other stuff in the game. For example, you'd have to make an entirely new second sect for the Jyhad, since the Sabbat really can't exist without Caine, the Antediluvians, and Gehenna. Their entire rationale is based around what happens when the Antidilluvians come back, after all.

I hate it when people don't put in any work with a new game. I was in a group with a player like Karla. Rolled his damage die to attack and complained about it being impossible to hit, lied and stole constantly as a samurai and refused help when leveling because "he knew how to play". When someone got fed up with him being useless in combat and looked at his sheet it became clear that he had just been staring at the book and not leveling up for the last 5 levels. After that he just stopped showing up.

@Zarlos01

8 ай бұрын

Something in a much less impactant was when my players' group started to play Old Dragon 2nd Edition (a brazilian rpg) in the closed beta. I'm the house Rules Guardian (it's like a rules lawyer, but I don't interrupt anyone and help if asked or something important is going, and the person doing it forgot an important rule) and also the rules bender (I like to do strange characters, so I do something that bends a rule or involve a rules interactions that no one thought, or is a serious emergency in game and if I can I'll bend the fabric of the reality if needed, in this case I ask the DM authorization). As everyone had their characters prepared and knew what the race + class could do, I was a rogue, and a combat would start, I would get furtive and climb to a building/tree. Because my attack rolls would be strangely higher, and the damage was than expected (sneak attacks are multiplied (×2 until ×4). Another friend asked how my attacks were so high, and I said that the combat rules be hidden, in a higher level, or charging give bonuses to attack, but not damage. And I asked if anybody else had read the combat rules. Only the DMs of the group (the DM of that campaign, me, and another one said that he didn't finish it). I asked if it was hard to read the rules of the game? Everybody laughed, now the DM and I remember someone is forgetting some bonus in something. And everyone read the rules 😅.

@solosynapse

8 ай бұрын

​@@Zarlos01Ah, you're what my group calls a Rules Librarian.

D&D with girls: "I trust you, but not them." This is such bull. What is there to be afraid of if you trust your spouse to be faithful to you and reject the advances of all others? For me, this behavior is a huge red flag in that the fiance is trying to control who OP is and isn't allowed to be around. I wouldn't say this sounds "manipulative" though. It sounds more like there are serious trust issues that OP and their fiance need to address together, possibly through therapy, before getting married.

Yeah story 3, she doesn't trust you. Unless she genuinely thinks those girls are fantastic jump you and sexually assault you, she doesn't trust you and is using that excuse to try and not tip you off that she doesn't trust you and once she has the ring on you, she's adding a leash. Dodge the hell out of that relationship before she uses the law to really fuck with you mate.

@ArcCaravan

8 ай бұрын

I'd want to dare her to explain why the other players aren't trustworthy. Like does she think they drug people, get easily violent, steal whatever they can, etc?

It is entirely possible to have an Urchin's pet mouse be part of their character in a more constructive way. For example, I'm in a game with an Artificer who has the Urchin background. She immediately fell in love with the idea of a pet mouse, and named him Quejo (Portugese for cheese). This setting also happens to involve mechs, and she decided to flavor her Steel Defender as a mech for Quejo.

@Zarlos01

8 ай бұрын

Cheese in Portuguese is "Queijo", "Quejo" is Spanish. Not to be a "grammar nazi", is because for non latin languages speakers is easy to confuse many words between Spanish and Portuguese, they are the most similar in the family; you can trust me, I'm a Brazilian that studied Spanish in school. It has a couple years, however, I remember a lot. Just don't ask me grammar rules, but I still remember the worst Spanish phrase to say around Portuguese only speakers.

@WaterWolf.

8 ай бұрын

That's so cute! I have a phantom rogue where we reflavoured the mouse to be a ghost mouse. This way I don't have to be scared of anything happening to his pet in-game either.

@I_want_a_discount_in_life

8 ай бұрын

yep, another brazilian here, some words are even similar in writing but have completely diferent sounds, but I will say, Quejo as is pronounced is a better name than Queijo it just...sounds better yk?

The girlfriend in the playing with girls story is the AH, not the OP (assuming there's not something big left out). She is at least one of insecure and taking it out on the OP, doesn't trust them and isn't honest enough to admit it or cheating herself and assuming everyone is as bad as her. I've seen this stuff happen to friends enough times to see the signs.

@Stephen-Fox

8 ай бұрын

Mm - I know there are some "men and women can't just be friends" folk out there, but the general vibe I got from it... "You can't hang out with your old friends without my prior approval?" ...That strikes me as a major red flag? Like, yeah, "don't break up over a board game" is one thing but... Fundamentally how does that differ from 'you shouldn't be going bowling with your old college friends to reconnect with them,' 'you shouldn't hang out once a week with your friends without me,' or, ultimately, 'you shouldn't be spending time with people outside of my company'? It just strikes me as an attempt to isolate the OP, or at least the start of behaviour that can lead to that.

@Nariasan

8 ай бұрын

I agree that she is the AH such as the story was told. I also don't agree with people who say "men and women can't be genuine platonic friends." That said, I didn't trust my ex with other women either... after he cheated on me at a party *I was also attending.* He slept with a colleague of his at the party because I didn't put out/meet his needs often enough. Stupid as I was, I did *not* break up with him over this. He cried a lot, said he couldn't live without me, he'd rather die than have me leave him, etc. etc. So I stayed with him. However, I made it clear he had betrayed my trust. Three months later, he wanted to go to a gaming convention that I couldn't attend because of work. No problem... until he told me the group he was going with were 3 other women. Needless to say, I went from having no problem with it to having a *big* issue with it. He got angry at me for not "forgiving his minor transgression" and asked "how long I would blame him." It had barely been 3 months... In any case, he broke up with me over text a few months later (while he was on a date with someone else) telling me he couldn't deal with my attitude over his "past transgressions" when he "forgave" all of mine. (My past transgression? A previous polyamorous relationship I wasn't in anymore. Apparently being poly made me unreliable and was something to be forgiven. Oh, and he assumed because I was poly, he could sleep with whomever he wanted without talking to me first...) Anyway. Sorry for the rant. Girlfriend is the AH here, for sure...

@l0stndamned

8 ай бұрын

@@Nariasan Sorry to hear you had to put up with that junk. If the OP had done something similar in the past then that GF's attitude might be a bit more understandable, but going of the story alone the GF is out of order.

@dr3dg352

8 ай бұрын

Even worse, she was his fiancé, not just GF. 😬 I'm genuinely terrified for OP.

The reason Karla’s character was cut off from the group was because Karla couldn’t reliably make their sessions because of the baby. It was explained in the story Sounds like maybe most of her research was Vampirella comics. Vampires are from the planet Drakulon there

@schwarzerritter5724

8 ай бұрын

My first thought when talking about alien vampires was Lifeforce.

@K.Esmerelda-zy7cf

8 ай бұрын

They're also aliens in Vampire Hunter D.

@darklord884

8 ай бұрын

OP of the Karla story here, I have no idea just what she based her ideas on, but from what I seen, it looked like a jumbled mishmash of any and all pieces of vampire fiction without any idea of coherence or such.

@K.Esmerelda-zy7cf

8 ай бұрын

@@darklord884 Sounds about right. Probably thought it would be cooler if she was all the things. Probably didn't think past "Oh, that sounds cool".

Wait.... Dresden Files RPG is a Fate game. Part of CHARACTER CREATION involves the players creating links for how the players already know each other. That creates THREE out of your FIVE aspects... and aspects are the central mechanic of the system.....

@unhackerthelaziestbastardo6083

8 ай бұрын

Yep, it's hella fun!

Thank you so much for reading my story about Karla the Weird Vampire Lady and also thank you for making it so entertaining to listen to! (That reading skit was hilarious and Astarion's "People will ask questions" line fit ridiculously well!) To answer your lingering questions: Having her child required a lot of her attention and she openly told us she would not be able to make it to group sessions for a long while. To remedy this, I kinda split her character off from the party so she could operate solo and the others wouldn't suffer from her absence either. The problem this led to is when she abruptly tried to re-join the group without any idea of where or even who they were. That's why I denied her the opportunity to just up and find them again. I did have contingencies in place to re-attach her story to the main group when she was ready, but that obviously went out the window when she threw a tantrum and quit. Thank you for the advice and I hope you had fun reading and editing this story! I certainly did listening to you, and will most likely send another of my stories soon! For those fine folks in the comment section with some lingering questions, ask away!

@Luxormeister

4 ай бұрын

I will take you up on that offer gladly. For one: This might not be horror related, but: Where's your coterie now?/How did their story go and end? Secondly, what version of VtM did y'all play? Thirdly, what has your experience as a VtM storyteller been like? In my experience, it can bring incredibly deep characters and stories, exploring the darker depths of the human soul (if everyone makes sure to not cross lines others are not comfortable with), but it also tends to attract people who think it's okay to be the abolute biggest human scum in game because "it's a darker TTRPG".

@darklord884

4 ай бұрын

@@Luxormeister Hi! Thanks for reaching out! My coterie is in Chicago, in 1990, currently hunting down Thin-bloods trying to hide from persecution. It's still ongoing luckily, with the group having previously killed a supernatural serial killer who was using a mage's item, settled a dispute between two vampires who controlled rival street gangs and uncovered signs of a conspiracy against the local Tremere faction. We're playing Revised Edition, which is 3rd Edition if I remember correctly. I've been lucky so far, my weirdest players as an ST have been this lady and a guy who wanted to be Raziel from Legacy of Cain and wanted a Gen 4 vampire ultraboss to be awake and just walking around in the city like nothing. I've generally had good experiences with my players, though I've also been lucky to have kept a single campaign going, with a consistent player base, for years. The only scumbags I've really met were actually STs, not players. One openly tried to defeat his players by narration and made sarcastic comments at our playstyles, all the while punishing newbies for not acting on knowledge they didn't have and the other guy was an egotistical, edgy douche, with a touch of misguided elitism about playing VtM. I'll send these stories to Crispy one day as well. 😆

@Luxormeister

4 ай бұрын

@@darklord884I definitely relate to that last ST. I've met similar people who think that people who don't play VtM, or people that don't play VtM the way they do, are inherently inferior to them. Your game sounds great. Thanks for the info. Hope you have a great time going forward for as long as possible. ^^

@darklord884

4 ай бұрын

@@LuxormeisterThanks! Lots of well-wishes to you too! Have a good one!

Yeah that gf is a red flag

The vampire player reminds me a little of a player in our Curse of Strahd group. She started to learn how things work. If this player gives a shit, she'll learn. If not, then she won't.

The weirdest vampire..... The weirdest Vampire game I played in, everyone (independently) created a Malkavian (certfiably insane) character. The GM called it quits four hours into session one and declared the game over.

The number of times I've been at that exact table in the first story is honestly insane. The stuff each character is doing should be no more than a couple minutes to establish personality and behavior. Then you should immediately be showing them all the cool stuff to bring them together.

@TheMightyBattleSquid

8 ай бұрын

Yeah honestly my favorite sessions are when the dm asks for some BASIC info and jams it together to wing a narrative and whatever the DM has planned will happen no matter where we are. Like recently started a campaign for a different ttrpg where it was just "okay, 2 of your backgrounds say teacher, 1 says student, and 1 says nomad. Player1 you're organizing a field trip, player2 you got roped into helping, player3 youre a student in player1's class, and player4 rent's expensive here so you signed up for a student housing program so you're a "student" so long as it help pays the bills... does that sound good to everyone?" BOOM, into the RP with some guidance on what to do, felt great.

Never would have thought that MAGUS gets mentioned in any DnD horror story videos. Also tradition dictates to me to say: Bojler eladó!

@darklord884

8 ай бұрын

Op of Karla's story here, nice to meet a fellow man of culture here! Bojler eladó indeed!

OP OF THE AITA QUESTION- DUDE. MY EX WAS THE SAME WAY. I BROUGHT HIM UP ON MONDAYS VIDEO BUT LIKE. IM NOT GONNA GIVE YOU RELATIONSHIP ADVICE BUT THAT IS VERY CONTROLLING. THAT IS NOT OKAY.

The pet mouse is the PC's cursed father? This smells of a cursed king...

@LordSvzklx

8 ай бұрын

Oh that might just be the wheel of cheese

"Bedeviled sack of glue-eatinh ferrets." ... yep imma start saying that irl.

I think the first session for my in-the-works Harry Potter game will probably start in some kind of magical shopping district where everyone is getting their starting gear and school supplies, or with the party members all meeting on whatever takes them to whichever school of magic the game takes place at within the Harry Potter Universe

The intro is extra BS because linking backstories IS LITERALLY PART OF CHARACTER CREATION in the Dresden Files RPG. I'm speaking from the pain of trying to get a game started several times.

@1Ring42

8 ай бұрын

@BlueTressym unfortunately most of my friends are either not ttrpg oriented or already have a full slate of games.

Ive started listening to these stories a week ago ago ive already lost a billion brain cells and my faith in humanity has finally hit the bottom of the barrel thanks crispy :)

@TheMightyBattleSquid

8 ай бұрын

Oh my sweet summer child you have so much further to fall 😂

The Story with Carla makes me think that she thinks TTRPG is like Improv going by "Yes, and" idea vs the GM having control.

Absolutely love the thumbnail art, it's a Magic card that I really like! 😊 Anyway, that fiancé story hurt. In addition to not trusting her fiancé, despite saying otherwise, it's a horrible sign that she's calling something her fiancé clearly loves "dumb". I can't venture into the "what is true?" dimension, but the red flags here are extremely distressing. OP sounds like they're signing up for a life of being controlled around the clock, while wondering if they're the asshole for questioning it.

Story 3 sounds like someone wanted to play out her Twilight fantasy and was shocked Pikachu that she couldn't.

Every video is made better with the addition of SHEOGORATH!

17:06 I know this was a typo but the last sentence in this tips slate read "I can be a pain for a DM to handle" and it just made me laugh.

I'm pretty sure Karla _didn't want_ to "rejoin" the other player characters! It's mentioned she never tried to make contact with the other players, neither in-character nor IRL via their Discord server. She expected to be served a solo game. And when she finally rejoined the live in-server vociechat sessions, she didn't ask questions what the others had been up to, she made no efforts to have her character meet up with the group, nothing. It's not a GM's duty to babysit one single player. Helping a newbie with the game rules or by answering some questions about things the character would know... absolutely. But not carrying their characters around and handing them things on a silver platter.

Dungeons and Drunkards is my favorite game, right behind ouijia.

actually he should end the relationship over this

That woman that wasn't ok with her fiance playing with a party of all women is 100% insecure but I don't think it is that she thinks they will do something, rather that she tried and couldnt get into what her husband likes and feels threatened that he'll leave her because they do like it.

Crispy I haven’t watched the video yet but I just want you to know I’ve been binging all your stuff and I love it so much

That intro... ..."It's a typical day, what are you up to?" can work as the start of a session 1, give players a quick way of introducing their character and their usual schtick - one or two sentences, not even really spotlight time, before Plot Hook Happens, but it needs to be quick, and get out of the way rapidly. It shouldn't take an hour, and it certainly shouldn't be the entirety of the first session (Also - Mention in Session 0 that you're going to give that sort of prompt going in, that's not always the easiest prompt to riff on on the spot. Heck, mention in Session 0 what the start of Session 1 will be, generally. One of my current games did that - actually possibly in the pitch - and it definitely helped build anticipation at least for myself as a player)

That first one gave me flashbacks to my own first (and only) experience actually playing D&D. Painfully boring, and constantly talked down to whenever I try to do anything or find the plot. No hints. Just a barren wasteland of a story.

@solosynapse

8 ай бұрын

Ouch, I'm sorry you had such a bad experience. Hopefully, if you try it again, you find a better DM!

I am quite familiar with VTM. In most vampires universes are not known for sun bathing. Carla in her case she doesn't have time and new characters in this setting take flaws.

Karla Story: You invited someone who, in a previous game, casually set a random family's house on fire and then laughed as the mother and children from the house burned to death??? She a grade-a psycho!! 😳

@darklord884

8 ай бұрын

OP here, not a random family, we were fighting some weird hostile cave-dwelling pygmy villagers. She got out of the fight and hid from a patrol of them in their village separately from us. That is when she got burn-happy, so it was at least partially justified since SOME of the cave-dwelling villagers attacked us. This was still a (partially) innocent family that had done nothing to us, so you are partially correct. Second, I didn't invite her, I was playing MAGUS with the group and offered to run Vampire. She came as a package-deal essentially and we started playing Vampire BEFORE the "Burn yo house down" incident.

@rocketraccoon1976

8 ай бұрын

@@darklord884 Ohhh, ok. Phew! 😮‍💨

Crispy, hi. That’s all

Absolutely love your channel. Just stumbled on it one day and now I'm hooked xD

Had a dm just like that initial story, everything was just a cardboard cutout of a location with nothing to actually do. Here's a bit of a quick version of each "downtime" session/event... DM: "You're at a festival, what do you do?" PCs: "What is there TO do?" DM: "Nothing!" PCs: "Then why did you even ask, DM?" DM: "So you had a break from combat. Speaking of- roll for initiative!" PCs: "Yaaaaaaay..." 🙄

NEW CRISPY VID YEAAHHH

For engagement ! Supporting Crispyyyy

4:36 - As somebody with experience... Yeah, I'd just... I'd let it play out at that point. Players are all hyper focused and at that point I'd just need to see where this goes. Not like retcons don't exist

Can't get over how often you add an 'h' to some of your 'w' words. Not saying don't do it, I just find it interesting.

@ArcCaravan

8 ай бұрын

I'm guessing an accent or intentional joke like on Family Guy.

NTA, she sounds insecure tbh. If you don't give red flags then there is no need to be this paranoid.

How do you fail to learn to play the game while playing the game? Wow, VTM is definitely not my cup of tea, but I could at least figure out how it freaking works. 🤦‍♀

@solosynapse

8 ай бұрын

It's actually pretty simple, too.

@marybdrake1472

8 ай бұрын

@@solosynapse I did get to read into a Werewolf the Apocalypse book one time and the mechanics didn't feel too complicated to me. And that, is the limits of my exposure to the system.

Not even the weirdest vampire, there are weirder

The weirdest vampire

The whweirdest vampire.

9:20 I think its time to throw out the whole girlfriend, mate. This is classic controlling behaviour and a huge red flag.

Ayooooo... Karlach is just Karla + ch 😮

@darklord884

8 ай бұрын

Except Karlach was never this chaotic. :D

Man, I always hear stories about VtM but never VtR, so either Requiem players are better or (my theory) no one even plays it.

@l0stndamned

8 ай бұрын

Most vampire fans I know seem to always drift back to Masquerade whenever they try to get into Requiem. The later's setting doesn't seem to have as much to hold their attention as the former.

@Shinji_Dai

8 ай бұрын

@l0stndamned I've only played Masquerade in the form of Bloodlines on PC. If that's 1:1 with tabletop rules, then I could learn it pretty easily. I bought the book when it came out for Requiem, so it's the system I know better. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@solosynapse

8 ай бұрын

​​@@Shinji_DaiRequiem uses nearly identical mechanics as Masquerade; it's just the setting that's different. It was meant to be a reboot, but failed to hold interest because it felt like the writers got bored halfway through. So basically, nobody plays it. To the point that the creators even went back to just releasing new barely-changed editions of VtM. Which is a pity, because it has a lot of cool aspects (I'm a big fan of the Sekhmet & the re-working of Malkavians).

The Weirdest Vampire

THE WEIRDEST VAMPIRE ...

That was one hhhhwheird vampire.

Let me guess teh Girlfriend story, it was her idea to get engaged, dude shes a control freak drop her fast and run or you'll be the guy who home be 8 every night to tuck the kids in so she can go do what the hell she likes.

Anyone know how to find a DnD game with 0$? Ive been wanting to play for YEARS but cant find anyone to play with and online groups always try to charge for the experience. Is locking participation in tabletop games behind paywalls normal?

The hweirdest vampire.

Big Red Flag with the gf

it sounds to me like she has a side thing going on with somebody at her d&d campaign and that's why she doesn't want them to go

@ArcCaravan

8 ай бұрын

But it was stated she thought DnD was stupid.

First guy has never seen a woman

For the mouse cheese wheel story: Nahhhh I'm sorry but continuing to play a game with a player who interjected a plot point and created a Homebrew monster out of nowhere that was seemingly invincible is an absolute no go. Maybe it worked out for you but for the vast majority of people that's only going to cause more problems

@ArcCaravan

8 ай бұрын

Definitely something to earn kicking the 3rd or 4th time it happens, even if they're brand new.

@july7498

6 ай бұрын

So you're saying that continuing to play with your friend that is a new player is a no-go because they made a single "transgression"? Instead of like explaining to the guy why he's not allowed to do that so that he corrects his behavior you should just stop playing with him immediately? *That* makes more sense to you? Are you socially inept or somethin, I cannot understand how that makes any sense to you

10:19 Heterophobia strikes again. /j

tbh gm for vtm (karla) is the asshole. karla was a new player, and that system is hard. you could definitely read the book and not understanding how it works, especially if new to ttrpg! i find it insane that from the gm's description, they basically assigned the whole book as reading and expected a player new to ttrpgs to get it. i have played a system with the same basis and found it extraordinarily confusing, even coming from other rpgs, and only got it because of my gm making helpful docs themself and talking through the rules. karla also tried to quit when she wasn't understanding things or enjoying herself. the gm allowing karla to be separate from the group? there's a lot of big mistakes on the gm's parts in dealing with new players.

@darklord884

8 ай бұрын

Op here to clear up some misunderstandings: 1, I didn't *"assign"* anything as reading material. I led each player through character creation and explained the basics about how the world works. And before that, I gave them a pdf of the book and precise page numbers on where to find the info, asking them to read it *"if they could"* but not making it mandatory. Worse yet, *she* claimed to have read everything herself, making her lack of understanding of even basic concepts to be rather strange. 2, I admitted to being at fault for pressing her to not give up, but in my defence, she wasn't THAT outrageously weird before and I figured she was just misunderstanding things. In hindsight, I should have just let her go, but that's hindsight, I admit that it was a mistake. 3, They were all new players, not just her. And guess what, the other guys were perfectly fine despite the new system. They were getting into things smoothly and with no big issue, simply because they bothered to read the parts I suggested and asked questions when they were lost instead of just making stuff up on the fly. 4, Allowing Karla to be separate was an entirely different issue. Due to her child, she couldn't rightly pay full attention to the group session while having to take care of a baby and so I split her off from the main group so neither she nor the others would be pressured into accomodating a bothersome circumstance. And everyone, including her, was all for it. It only became a problem when she abruptly decided to rejoin the group and I pointed out how she couldn't really since her character has no idea where everyone is. (And because the other players were not in session at the time and so couldn't react to her suddenly showing up and talking to them.) I hope this clears up the misunderstandings. I admit to some fault on account of my handling of the situation, but I wouldn't say I was an "asshole" and I definitely didn't expect anything of anyone, knowing full well they were newbies. (Also, she wasn't completely new to TTRPGs in general, she was already a player in another group by the time my campaign started.)

Hweirdest vampire

First let’s go

I feel really bad for Karla in the last story. It was obvious that she was trying and just didn't understand. It was clear to me even through this story that she really enjoyed it and wanted to engage in the story but didn't understand the rules. It genuinely secondhand hurt my feelings that her showing her excitement and asking question was rebuffed so strongly that it made her feel the need to leave. I hope wherever she is now, she has a more understanding DM that won't shit on her in a public forum for the crime of being new to a hobby and also having a baby.

@darklord884

8 ай бұрын

OP of the Karla story here, I think you misunderstood something. I never 'shit' on her and never claimed she was a bad person for her lack of understanding. In fact, I gave her every chance I could and even helped her with bits of lore and suggestions where I could, just as I said in the story. However, as I also stated, she was NOT asking questions, a lot of the time, she simply decided how something was and tried to act on it, often contrary to any logic of the game or vampires in general. As for "rebuffing" her excitement and questions, I wanted to help her, but I couldn't just hand her the victory and pat her on the head. I couldn't make the choice of investigating for her, so the frustration of not making progress is due to her own inaction, not because I made the game impossible or something. To be honest, you seem to be doing the same thing she did, blaming me for her lack of action and understanding causing her frustrations. I respect your opinion, but you are wrong. No excitement was rebuffed and I did my best to be understanding. However, being understanding is not enough to get past "I had a chat with a vampire in the daylight" levels of weird.

why does my dude pronounce all his w's like the worlds hardest h's. man says weird like he has bad breath and wants you to smell it

Story 1: A zero context, deep end dive RPG might be good, but you'd have to clear it with the party first. a shock like that has to be agreed upon. but this was a case of lazy DM who made no plans and was killing time until he could come up with something. nothing else really to go on. Story 2: Buddybuddybuddybuddybuddybuddy. Okay, so we have experienced DM and 4 newbies and one is the boyfriend. So alex wasn't invested or... made a jokey character and sounded bored. A few ways I can take what OP's saying. Yup. joke character. Alex thinks D&D is a cartoon. Sounds like a new player who has no idea what the tone is. "I don't know what happened next" that's a red flag there. If the mouse was so annoying, what did it do that was annoying? Otherwise it sounds like the group decided to smash it with mallets for the lulz. Without context I can take this however I want. And... here we have a player that treats a TTRPG as 'its all fiction, so anything can happen, especially things that let me win." That's when you gotta humble your newbie. "and that's when I felt like quitting D&D." "This was the first game I ran ad a DM" So you're not really an experienced player. Nope. OP wrote this one. Or at least exaggerated it. Things are not adding up. Alex likely came to the game with a joke character, didn't tone it down, and began getting frustrated when the other players chose to try to kill his character's mouse which then spiraled into PVP. Then there's the 'i'm experienced, but not really' thing. OP's not being honest with what happened. Story 3: The title alone screams "give me updoots." Not a good start. "Your hobby is boring and dumb." Sounds like a great relationship you got there OP. So controlling, jealous girlfriend who thinks your hobby is dumb. OP does your girl keep your testicles in her purse or in a box under the sink? This sounds more like a r/controlling girlfriends thing than an r/D&D thing. Story 4: Why would you propose a newbie who knows nothing about the setting run it? Especially a setting as deep in lore as WoD? This is asking for trouble. It sounds like she's trying to fill in the massive gaps with star wars and D&D. So she acts like someone who's taking the pi$$ out of the storyteller, doesn't try to RP, and acts like a 14 year old. oh god, she reproduced. pray for the kid, folks. And she flat out tries to strong arm plot points that never happened. Which in game should be treated as a blatant lie. This is a player trying to twist the story so that they win, and if you let this, this player will do this every. time. There's creativity, and then there's just expecting the game to tie itself in narrative knots to let you get away with anything. Okay, so she threw her hands up and walked away when presented with something requiring a modicum of thought and threw a fit. She also proved that she doesn't play her clan (she talked about oofing a lot of cops, then tried to play it non-violent. I don't buy that she even knew what a brujah is.) WoD. "restrictive and strict." Effing wut. And she blames the DM for not having luigi win the level for her. So she quits, then sits in acting passive aggressive. I'm on the fence of whether or not this happened or if the DM wrote this one. I could believe it more without that first part about putting a newbie who knows nothing about the lore in charge of a WoD game and then acting shocked she didn't get it right. This is like expecting a newbie to get 40k right in a weekend of looking at the wiki. Plausible, but I have my doubts.

@darklord884

8 ай бұрын

Op of Story 4 here, I assure you my friend, it happened. Though I am baffled as to what gave you the idea that she was *RUNNING* the game. My good sir, *I* was running the game. She was a player. What on Earth made you think she was in charge of anything beyond playing her character?

Crispy your skits are very funny but they're a massive tone breaker when they're in the middle of a reading and makes them feel really annoying. Maybe post them with the relivent story extract as shorts or as a compilation video like the one you did before. Maybe even do longer skit videos. But please stop putting them in the middle of the horror story readings because they are super out of place.

These crispy videos always expose the boring ass ttrpg players in the comments. Most of these stories were innocent first time players, learning to play, and you guys are all acting as if they committed crimes. The gatekeeping in this community is sick.

@darklord884

8 ай бұрын

Op of the Weird Vampire Lady story here. Some people do gatekeep, yes, though there are a lot of folks who come in expecting something completely different than what RPGs actually are. Worse yet, upon being proven wrong about their expectations, some of these folks get frustrated and lash out at others instead of looking at things and saying "Hmmm, maybe I should ask questions and learn more about this game I want to play." Karla for example kept on saying she read the material and claimed she was doing what the book said even as she was going headlong against any established lore and mechanics in it. And in the end, she quit on her own out of frustration because the game just didn't work how she envisioned it. I get being against gatekeeping and I disagree with it myself, but lowering your standards to ridiculous degrees is also not a good idea.

The weirdest vampire

The weirdest vampire

The weirdest vampire