"Stop being so sensitive" is the rallying cry of the 21st century bully

@shirlot

Жыл бұрын

Also tends to be said by some of the most overly sensitive people alive.

@nikolaitheundying

Жыл бұрын

I find this post offensive

@10thletter40

Жыл бұрын

And the opposing viewpoint, this is also just them being accurate and ya being sensitive

@shirlot

Жыл бұрын

Wow, 10 days. I didn't think it would take that long for an overly sensitive bully to show up and comment.

@nikolaitheundying

Жыл бұрын

@shirlot why are you calling me a bully? This is very rude. Can you be more sensitive to my feelings?

The third story the bit about visiting the afterlife to see if her dead wife IS OK is funny to me. "Hey honey you kinda got mauled to death by a bear i just want to ask if you're feeling alright"

@leila13dnd

Жыл бұрын

Lmao yes, but it's also really sweet in a way. Like you'd think she wants to get her wife back but no, she's fine, she just wants to make sure she got to the afterlife and is doing okay. Now that's love.

@britnicox3929

11 ай бұрын

I mean depending on the mythology she may have wanted to make sure her wife ended up in the good place of the afterlife or was being taken care of, you know?

@TheHumbleHollow

10 ай бұрын

Exactly. I'm not exactly the most sentimental so I could just be biased, but I feel like I wouldn't risk my life and go through absolute hell just to check up on my wife once to see if she's okay and then bugger off again. I mean, what am I even supposed to do if she's suffering for eternity? Hand her a spiritual "get well soon" card?

@rootfish2671

10 ай бұрын

"NO I'M DEAD YOU IDIOT!"

That laughing Charlie story really makes me angry! That whole group of "friends" are just shitty people! The OP should have left a long time ago.

@crystalcorrigan8573

Жыл бұрын

it was giving homophobia too.

@Jordan83709

Жыл бұрын

@@crystalcorrigan8573 propably Sadly, most people suck I'm glad that I've rarely dealt with toxic people like that. The second I do, I cut my loses

@iamaunicorn1232

Жыл бұрын

It seems to me they thought OP was "weird" and possibly "cringy" so yeah they were just bullying. Without going down the what is true dimension I think OP found their own college mean girls and a gaslighting dude.

@IaIaCthulhuFtagn

3 ай бұрын

I hesitate to take stories where EVERYONE else is the problem at face value. There is probably some greater context the OP is leaving out that might make the others behavior seem more reasonable. This story as written was giving me real if you have problems with everyone, then you might be the problem vibes.

@KalinTheZola

3 ай бұрын

@@IaIaCthulhuFtagn while I understand taking stories with a grain of salt, sometimes bullying situations literally just be this way and are completely one sided based on biases against the bullied person. This story doesn't feel that crazy or outside the realm of possibility.

People who act like assassination's attempts go off smoothly are being very unrealistic. Back then, nobles would leave loose floor boards in order to make it impossible to walk around without making noise, and food was often tested by people to ensure it was both up to the nobles standard and not poisoned. So people actually killed by assassins were far and few between, as people were paranoid as fuck and would make new laws to prevent assassins from using the same methods. And a level 20 wizard has at least a few thousand better things to do than to kill a random level one goblin. Like bullying an actual ancient dragon to show off.

@realdragon

Жыл бұрын

I would watch series about top level adventurer taking literally every quest, ni fact I was thinking about it some time ago

@TheHandgunhero

Жыл бұрын

People that think Assassinations go perfectly seem to forget that there were a total of 40 active assassination plots on Hitler throughout his time as Furher and not a single one succeeded.

@ClipperHorizon

Жыл бұрын

Also, the goblin absolutely could have been revived. You can certainly get someone back after their body is disintegrated, it's just more expensive and requires higher level spells.

@sam7559

Жыл бұрын

​@@realdragonthe wizard was just goblin slayer if instead of becoming a barbarian/ranger he instead picked up the arcane arts

Story Three: "Why are you Leaving?" -- the minute you mention Vampire and he rolls his eye and talks condescending to you is the moment you stand up, gather your things and say, "Sorry, this isn't a good fit. I don't play with dicks." And leave. No further explanation needed or expected. The DM is obviously a huge douche, and I haven't even heard the entire story yet! I know D&D (and TTRPG's in general) is the haven for the socially awkward, but that's not socially vapid, that's just rude. Always remember the cardinal rule, "No D&D is far, far better than BAD D&D."

@maeve615

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, without even getting into the 'what is true' debate, if the opening salvo from the DM was scoffing at another TTRPG system, that's an automatic exit stage left "Never mind there's other things I need to do."

@Przemko27Z

10 ай бұрын

Personal bias, but fucking especially rich coming from a D&D guy. Playing the most "basic bitch" system out there and judging people for actually trying something else.

Im sorry, Charlie thinks he's high and mighty but he's just a being intimidating to you. The group should be ashamed of their selves.

@pippo17173

Жыл бұрын

It sounds like op friends had enough of him. Now there is a chance that op could be not telling the truth on what he said about his mental health but if that is the case, they both suck for how it got to this point if charlie and the group are doing this as a defense.

@TheZMage

Жыл бұрын

@@pippo17173 They. OP is non-binary. I still think Charlie feels threatened by the OP in some way. My initial thought is that he thought one of the female friends was romantically interested in OP and Charlie was interested in her, but it could be that it was their GMing experience as well. Or maybe Charlie was interested in OP and was negging

@lyrienn1319

Жыл бұрын

Or it could have been just some "D&D elitism". It's weird but some people do this. Thinking "their version of ttrpg" is superior, no matter which it is and look down on the others. Sounds silly but some people can take this way more seriously than others and act like things are out for blood. Or simply being douches.

The Charlie story I would have absolutely snapped at all of those assholes. They kept them around simply to be a punching bag and to be the jester of the group, there was NEVER any mutual respect for them in the first place if they were willing to drop them so easily. Nobody who genuinely cared or in their right mind would have done that, those all were just bastards who probably didn't even considered them a friend in the first place.

@whensomethingcriesagain

Жыл бұрын

Seems to me like he just wanted to nurse a petty grudge for some strange sense of gratification

What's especially infuriating about the Resources thing in the first story is that, explicitly, Resources 0 doesn't mean you're starving. It means that you don't have any spare cash on hand, but otherwise you're assumed to be able to at least handle your bare essentials. There's a specific Flaw you're supposed to take if you're impoverished to the point where you have a problem meeting basic needs, but either this Storyteller didn't know that, or didn't care.

@realdragon

Жыл бұрын

Food is part of resources

@Mrinsecure

Жыл бұрын

@@realdragon And? What does that have to do with the point I was making?

@SSDexter99

Жыл бұрын

​@@realdragon vampires don't pay for food

@phoenixmarktwo

3 ай бұрын

​@@realdragon Food for vampires isn't exactly purchased.

So in story two the OP talks about how player choices killed the party, but it seems like the player choices they made were to travel, which lead to a random encounter that killed half of them, and then to accept a quest to gather food resources. That was the point where the DM outed himself as an irrational sadist who will kill your players. If players put themselves in unwinnable situations after making unreasonable choices, that's on them. If players are put in unwinnable situations after making reasonable choices, that's the DM failing at his job.

After years of mastering the bow I've earned the highest title. A bowist. Well, after years of mastering the Rapier I've finally earned the master title of a Rapier swordsman. A Rap.... wait, what? It means what?!!!

To the "Why are you leaving" story: When I was about 25, I found a group of friends who complimented my wife and I really well. They had alternative lifestyles and we were looking for a more queer scene, so they seemed perfect. We even considered opening our marriage to the polycule in that group, and started lightly dating a couple of them. I quickly started to realize that an unnecessary rivalry had crept into the mix, between myself and the Charlie of that group. I found that I was being gaslit, that the girl I had dated was being duplicitous and sharing every detail about me with the Charlie, and that even my WIFE was starting to alienate me as she grew more attached to Charlie. I had a mental breakdown eventually, and my wife's compassion snapped her back to reality before we cut ties with that group. My Charlie was delusional and dumb, in many ways, but he had this eerie charisma that allowed him to be a cult leader for his group in spite of his obvious flaws. Because of this, the group apologized for his high school-drama games, and would side with him even as they admitted to me that it didn't make sense or make them particularly happy. That's what you have on your hands: a cult leader. By sheer charisma, and with a childish view of the world, Charlie builds a wall of supplicant sycophants around him, and manipulates them because he knows he has that power. I'm sorry that you had the misfortune of meeting him, OP. But count yourself lucky -- those he kept in his inner circle are stuck in his tar, and who knows if they'll ever have the presence of mind to free themselves.

I actually had something similar with the rapier story in the City of Mist game I'm in. During the set up session I mentioned my character owned and ran a pawn shop as both his possession and routine. We somehow managed to talk past each other for most of the session until I finally found out after a more obvious joke they made that two of them had thought I had said porn shop. Which made some other comments made on both sides suddenly make a lot more sense. Like a comment about selling sex toys and I was like "That's not really something you buy used.". Honestly it was pretty funny.

@KalinTheZola

3 ай бұрын

"That's not something you really buy used." Hate to break it to you, buddy...

I’ve known guys like Charlie for a while and most of the time they require a victim in their social groups, someone they know they can get away with picking on without anyone jumping to their defense. Usually after that victim leaves they’ll go for the “next weakest” and so on until they either dry up the group and move on or they’re kicked. With that said I’d love to find out if anyone else from the Charlie group had anything to say about OPs treatment, you never quite know what the truth is in stories like that. Also weapon terminology isn’t as well known as most would think. I never learned that the proper name for rapiers until I was in my 20’s, I always referred to them as “dueling swords” because I only ever saw them used in movies that featured sword dueling!

The Vampire one is just...oh dear me. The St was way off base. The book even states outright that not having any dots (it's a dot-based system, every dot represents a die in your dice pool) in Resources just means you have the clothes on your back and nothing else. Like, homeless or something (or maybe you're kept by someone who has all the money). Not _naked._ *Edit:* Also, "rapier" comes from the French word "rapière", which is pronounced "rah-pierre". So the problem comes entirely from the English pronunciation of a French word. 😆

@manticore6963

Жыл бұрын

in the current 5th edition it's even more lenient - 0 dots in resources means bottom of the barrel income. You can afford second hand clothes plus rent/accommodations for some shithole at best, but you're still not naked. You just can't afford things like weapons, phones or driving with public transport. You actively have to take a disadvantage that makes you so piss-poor that can't even afford a home. (and even then it's assumed you at least managed to steal some homeless guy's clothes and that you're spending the day in some abandoned building, tomb or something) - the point of the disadvantage being, that you get to spend more points during character creation. (though you have to take two dots in disadvantages at least)

@hellbreakfast1590

Жыл бұрын

I have literally never had a good experience with a vtm pbp. I do not know what it is, but it's literally the only game I've had that much trouble getting into. Usually if I keep meeting assholes, I assume I'm the asshole, but it very literally is only this one game series I have issues with, and usually it's stuff like people rules lawyering the very loosely worded rules and people acting like skeezes outside of character. The lesson I've learned is just not to play VtM with anyone I don't know and trust closely.

@iamaunicorn1232

Жыл бұрын

"Rah-pierre" is a cooler pronunciation. At the risk of sounding cringy and pretentious (and butchering a french word with my germanic but bastardized language mouth) I will be calling it that from now on.

Honestly, thank goodness OP didn't go to the 'goodbye' session. I have a lot of trouble saying no and often stick around doing things that make me unhappy for way too long for the sake of closure or whatever. It's not worth it. Not with those people. What a nightmare.

The rapier story reminds me of a time when GMing I kept mispronouncing brazier and made it sound like some woman was constantly flinging her undergarments on the walls of the dungeon.

@ShinyAvalon

Жыл бұрын

I thought for years that they were pronounced the same. 😅

Dude the why are you leaving campaign made me so angry. That's not just gaslighting, that's the whole gas chamber. Even the player YOU brought in joined in on it and did nothing! For anyone experiencing something like this: When someone laughs at something you say or do, keep straight and don't let it go. Press them on why they did that and thought it was appropriate. "That wasn't supposed to be funny. Why are you laughing? Answer my question. Don't ignore me." Practice these exact words! Do not let strange behavior slide! Stand up for yourself! Insist on getting answers! Maybe they actually just misunderstood or they didn't and did it on purpose. And if they refuse to stop, drop them like the hot pile of garbage they are. Remember, people like Charlie and perhaps even the rest of the table, want to feel superior to you. They want to push you down so they can feel like they are above you. Drag them right off that high horse by not backing down. Stand your ground and confront them, that way you demonstrate that no, you are very much level with them and they are in fact not superior. You're not some pawn to be used or servant to be bossed around. This concludes today's episode of mental health tips.

I know the main point is obviously the horror stories, but those skits of yours are really fun. Kinda like how I mostly watch a Danny Gonzalez video for the skits! Love listening to your voice, love listening to his voice, but the skits are SO entertaining.

@SomethingWellesian

Жыл бұрын

It’s a nice difference from other RPG horror story channels.

@realdragon

Жыл бұрын

i never knew someone can watch Danny just for skits

@jasminecole8596

Жыл бұрын

@@realdragon I mean, 'mostly' being a key word there, and yeah! Some videos don't interest me, but the skits inside are highly entertaining for me to re-watch the whole video just for them.

I heard the third story elsewhere before, and a lot of people were saying the OP was the one who did something and was leaving things out. I disagree. Who goes out of their way to laugh inappropriately at only _one_ player?

@ShinyAvalon

Жыл бұрын

I know. I think I was in that comment section, and I was dismayed at the reactions.

@falxblade1352

Жыл бұрын

He did do something: Stop wanting to be the perfect punching bag

@ShinyAvalon

Жыл бұрын

@@falxblade1352 - Indeed. Bullies will often take "test bites" of their potential targets, and if they get away with small actions, they begin to ramp it up. One of the test bites used on me (that I didn't identify until much later) was as low-key as a slightly-sharper-than-necessary response. But then the responses got gradually sharper until it was outright verbally abusive, because I didn't object to that first one. And bullies count on that. They start out so small that you seem irrational if you say something about it, and they maintain plausible deniability until you're conditioned to accept it. They also start "smear campaigns" against you with everyone else, so that no one will take you seriously if you complain to them. They're very canny, those type of bullies.

Omg I didn't think my story would be just the warm-up to worse tales of nudity lol. Thanks for picking mine, crispy!

@kaylawoodbury2308

Жыл бұрын

Any resolution to that? Did she have a crush on someone in the group and thought she was being sexy? Did she actually think nudity was a joke? Or was she trying to turn this into an ERP?

@xthequietriotx

Жыл бұрын

@@kaylawoodbury2308 no clue to this day

The moment the Gm laughed about the vampire thing, we went, "We do not like the energy in the studio today" and it turns out, WE WERE RIGHT TO FEEL THIS WAY

From the literal Rulebook of VtM "A character with no dots in Resources may have enough clothing and supplies to get by, or she may be destitute and squatting in a refrigerator box under an overpass." Notice the total lack of "Your character starts nude hurr hurr hurr!" anywhere in there....

Story 4 is classical scapegoating. OP did the right thing by escaping their abusers but as of most scapegoaters, they'd do everything in their power to make sure their scapegoat stays and continue to be abused by him and his friends. They will gaslight, use their insecurity of losing all of their friends, etc etc if they leave.

As someone who has been a fan of fantasy (and sword fighting in general), I can easily see myself in the Rapier Bard's place. I have known what a rapier is for ao long it never would have thought someone didn't know what it was. I'm shuddering over here

That Charlie story. I'm so sorry, OP.

the reactions to the charlie story online were legitimately awful. people turned on op so quick. it was insane

@supotter377

Жыл бұрын

I really want to know if Charlie was shit talking behind op’s back based off of their first reaction.

I actually heard the story about the laughing jerk and his lackeys before. Just noting it because it seems rare for other tabletop horror story channels I watch to cover stories before Crispy.

That rapier story reminds me of the scene from Ed Edd & Eddy Big Picture Show, where Double D is explaining what a sextant is.

@KalinTheZola

3 ай бұрын

I'm still amazed they got away with that lmao Or the "they're feeling amorous!" joke about the Kankers from the TV show

23:31 - please tell me I'm not the only one who heard Crispy saying "whoreforged"

The "rapier" story reminded me of the early days of D&D. Gary Gygax and co. were very fond of flowery, old-fashioned language, and you couldn't really look things up easily in those pre-internet days. So we'd comically mispronounce words like "quaff" and "brazier" for ages before realizing our error. Never mind the arguments over whether a "lucerne hammer" was actually a hammer, and therefore usable by Clerics...

The last story reminds me of the guy who tried to fight a gazebo because the DM didn't realize the guy didn't know what a gazebo was.

I think I needed to hear that "why are you leaving story." Recently I lost one of my D&D groups and a handful of people I thought of as my friends and looked up to. I won't go into a lot off detail as I'm aware I'm a biased narrator, it's a long story, and I've been questioning myself and how I remember things going/how I maybe came across. I've been mentally spiraling after how everything went down, going back and forth between "I'm the worst person in the world and I did everything wrong" to "actually fuck them they're being extremely harsh, unfair, and cruel to me." And of course it all kicked off from me wanting to leave our "off" campaign. Basically, we'd play our main game 3 weeks in a row and then for 1 "off" week we played another campaign with different characters/world. There are a variety of reasons I wanted to leave that "off" game, but it seemed like no matter how I tried to explain it, they considered it a personal insult or some horrendous act and my reason for wanting to leave wasn't good enough. And yet, despite how angry they were with me and how they spoke to me, they seemed to want me to stick around and keep playing. But then it also seemed like they really didn't want me to stay because they made it sound like I'm a bad player/they hate playing with me/I build my characters wrong. Some of them also talking about how I was breaking a promise because a while back I did promise, along with everyone else in the server, to see the campaign through to it's conclusion . But you know, shit/life happens and even back then I was feeling uncomfortable with that promise because I knew things can happen and it really just felt like a metaphorical gun to my head telling me "you better keep playing or else because you promised." But I had to promise or else the DM was going to stop the campaign entirely, and I didn't want to be the one person not to make the promise and end the campaign because I had a bad feeling. "It's just my anxiety," I'd tell myself. "Of course you're expecting the worst and have a bad feeling, you always do." Or they'd talk about how this was a "pattern" with me because I'd left games previously (again, variety of reasons I won't go into detail on because I feel that would also be biased [due to the nature of why I left in certain cases],multiple reasons why I left different games, and I understand why they were upset. Then there was also the bit about how everyone "deserves an apology for how I hurt them and putting them through so much after they went to all this effort with the game." Mentally I've just been in the absolute gutter. But hearing a story about someone else going through a game where they weren't having fun, getting shit for leaving, and losing friends, I guess it's in a way comforting to know I'm not the only one. And to see that there is support for people going through that, and I and others shouldn't have to stay in a game where we're not having fun/play with people we aren't comfortable with anymore. I certainly won't pretend I was perfect in my situation. I know I probably fucked up and did make mistakes, but I'm slowly coming around to the idea that I'm not the one and only person at fault who deserves to take all the blame and every single thing they said to me. And that it's a good thing I didn't give in to that voice in my head telling me to "just keep playing" but basically become a bot (meaning I would do literally zero RP and only roll dice when prompted [because I didn't even feel like I could plan or try and be creative with tackling problems anymore with how they spoke about my "issues"/"mistakes"). So I guess, thanks Crispy. Listening to your videos has been a comfort and your advice has been very helpful. I look forward to listening to/watching more as time passes and I try to recover from this heartbreak and get myself in a state where I feel ready to try and find a new group. Hopefully one where we all manage to get along and are on the same page about what we want from the game.

In Vampire the Masquerade, Resources for vampires go mostly to pay for luxuries, and the associated expenses of developing and maintaining Status, Influence, and other Backgrounds. A character with no dots in Resources may have enough clothing and supplies to get by, or she may be destitute and squatting in a refrigerator box under an overpass. One Dot in Resources is called Sufficient. You can maintain a typical residence in the style of the working class with stability, even if spending sprees come seldom. Not having this is far form being completely destitute with not even clothing on your back, tho it could be homeless.

We had a hilarious nudity scene recently in a dnd game. It was not intentional one bit by anyone. So we were in a dungeon where wild magic happens. Not something that effects me given I’m the full scout rogue. But it definitely effects our Cleric and Wizard. Well cleric ends up grappled but manages a spell to end the beastie. What happens next is hilarious. So our dm has a table that has 100,000 possible results. You roll a d100 that chooses a sub table and then another d100 to choose the result. What happened is that the wild magic melted (harmlessly) all of the clerics clothes off. Luckily we had mage armor on him earlier (enemies were tracking us via the magic of his armor) so that didn’t get effected but his clothes were all gone…in the middle of a dungeon. Did I mention we were lost at that point and didn’t know which level we even were on anymore? Yeah so we couldn’t exactly send someone to the store for new clothes. So I dug through my bag of holding (which has been great because I stuffed a ton of nonmagical shit in there because dm gave me way too much starting money) hoping I had something in there. In our campaign it’s basically been joked as being the Mary poppins bag because it almost always has anything you need in there. Well I did find some clothes….winter clothes. Lol. Wizard goes through their stuff and notices they have a scarf that glows in moonlight. Ok. So we offer these to cleric. Cleric is now deciding between furs and a scarf. In the most hilarious end, he is now wearing winter pants and boots and a scarf for his top. He is very fashionable lol.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

I was hoping the Cleric would become Frosty the Snowman.

As someone who works for World of Darkness, that first story was infuriating. I hope the OP finds a group to have fun with because VTM can be awesome.

For the Rapier story, I'm not sure my first response would be to say sorry. I would be too busy being utterly flabbergasted that someone could play DnD without knowing what a rapier is. That just... blows my mind and I'm not sure I would be able to recover in time to apologize for any confusion.

@pallydan893

Жыл бұрын

Honestly that part irks me, Crispy is literally telling someone to apologize for a misunderstanding on someone else's part

I’m absolutely loving all the recent community clips in these videos!

Instantly had to click this because I was joking with my group about Flirting with Guards/NPCs to distract them (I of course mentioned other ideas as well. Flirting was just one. Others included getting them drunk, or treating them too good food). We are, kinda dungeon crawling through the Xanathar Guild hideout right now? We have ways to move and sneak, and a few of us have access to methods of disguising ourselves. But still, we have no idea what we are in for, we have a sending stine for the party to talk with our employer, and a pair we have split in case of emergencies (and being outside Message range), and I have a silver raven that is fairly distracting when used. But yeah- we sre all nervous and terrified, and we have 2 days till our next session. Time to enjoy some horror until then.

That community reference was "chef's kiss" perfect

I was almost going to play under a DM using (his) homebrew were-beast race... he insisted that when my (female btw) character turned, she *had to* rip all of her clothing and *would not budge.* Never mind that the Blood Hunter Lycan's clothes can be worn in both forms or meld into the hybrid form. I told him that making my character nude every time she turns (full moon transformations were forced as well) made me uncomfortable, and he basically gave me the "suck it up, buttercup" treatment. Yeah... I bounced, not just because of the obvious *"hehehehe you must be nuuuuude"* thing but I also wanted to play her as a classy, sociable character to make her a little unique from the typical depiction of werewolf, and she'd *never* allow herself to be indecent at any time

@damned0wl

Жыл бұрын

Honestly, a character who would never allow themselves to be indecent having to rip their clothes when they transform sounds like a good contrast and/or a comedic opportunity for them to consider lycanthropy a curse purely because of that. But yeah, obviously a DM insisting on something you're not comfortable with is a bad sign.

I've heard that last one before, it's actually kind of funny. How people can jump to totally wrong conclusions when they don't know what something really means.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

I wonder why they did mention anything or ask about it until a weapon change.

@dionnejinn3789

Жыл бұрын

@@ArcCaravan Indeed.

The rapier one had me dying.. thats hilarious

Wooo! Samurai background theme is back!

The title reminds me... I feel like people treat charisma rolls as "if I roll high, you MUST be madly in love with me" or like charm person as a roll.

@jacksonhoiland2664

Жыл бұрын

People do and try to not let them when you can, people doing this never ends well and it is also not RAW or RAI.

The last story was more of a funny misunderstanding story.

I really feel for the OP in the Charlie story. I was essentially dropped by a group of my friends bc someone on the sports team we were all on committed animal abuse and I spoke out against it (everyone else condoned it). Also like the OP, I was a nonbinary person in a group of primarily chicks.

I have a not-so-horror story from my first ever D&D campaign.... My first character, a Half-elf Draconic Sorcerer, born with the soul of a Dragon, (He look like a normal human Draconic Sorcerer because of the Dragon Soul). Played with him for a total of 3, or 4, session, which, after a series of consecutive nat20s, became a King, and then a God. The other players hated me, but the DM was ecstatic that I was able to do what I did. What makes it, in a sense, a horror story (for me, anyway) is the fact that I had to retire that character....

Rocks Fell. I Died: I would've thought that there should have been numerous counter rolls - "saves" - against all of that if the DM had any intention at all of being fair and not, for example, being a complete shitstain that outright kills off a PC for no reason at all. At the very least, I'd expect a saving throw against the scrying and a reasonable chance of waking up when the wizard teleports in. Depending on whether or not the character wakes or is awake when the wizard teleports in (having unsuccessfully determined the characters wakefulness by scrying), there may be more rolls required as combat is initiated.

LOL, Crispy - your acting skills just keep getting better and better. The demonic laughter drinking the healing potion - wonderful!

I feel like the “Seduce the guards “ story was a reverse Skeletor meme. Like the guards look at her and then at each other with wtf look and say “ jokes on you, we’re not into that sh!t

That last guy shouldn't be embarrassed at all in any way. It's not his fault at all in any way shape or form.

WAAA GREAT VIDEO CRISPY!!!

For the last story, I don’t agree that he should have apologized. He didn’t do anything wrong at all and it’s mostly on the girls for being ignorant. It’s not a bad thing and they aren’t bad people but I don’t think people should apologize when they didn’t do anything wrong. That creates bad mentalities and then you become a person like me…who apologizes to other people when THEY bump into me like by existing I’m a nuisance. I don’t like that. Him explaining what the sword was makes sense and if something he should have done for sure but not apologizing.

Sometimes you have to wonder just how many of these stories are actually true and not just someone going off ranting over imagined slights or snubs. Not to mention you definitely know they’d omit anything they may have done that could be negative or antagonizing the situations.

@KalinTheZola

3 ай бұрын

Unless the story goes beyond the realm of possibility or they're calling someone out by name who would need to defend themselves, I really don't care to nitpick at a story about bullying the way some have done for the Charlie story. Assuming it's a true and real accounting of bullying, imagine trying to open up about that only to have a comment section repeatedly telling you you're actually the one in the wrong and clearly hiding something. That's what happened to op and it sucks.

@wreckedgamerqq5001

3 ай бұрын

@@KalinTheZola yeah, I’m not gonna assume it’s true. It’s the internet and anything out there should be taken with a grain of salt. Especially when it’s coming from a singular biased source. If folks can’t handle skepticism or criticism then the internet really isn’t the place for them.

@KalinTheZola

3 ай бұрын

@@wreckedgamerqq5001 healthy skepticism is well and good but knowing how to pick and choose situations to call out is even better. Whether assuming it true or assuming it false, it's still an assumption.

@wreckedgamerqq5001

3 ай бұрын

@@KalinTheZola I’m curious where exactly in my comment you think someone has been called out? For someone saying skepticism is good you seem to have an issue with mine which wasn’t directed at any particular story. Though I suppose I could give it another listen and see if any of them in particular just come off as utter BS.

@KalinTheZola

3 ай бұрын

@@wreckedgamerqq5001 nah sorry I'm not talking about you so much as the people who use a mentality adjacent to that to justify calling out the op of the Charlie story on the reddit post itself. Since I was talking about that situation in my first response I sort of assumed that my point was understood which is my bad. Rereading my message it's even more obvious I wasn't clear I what I was talking about which is double my bad oof

My non-problematic DnD nudity: My party and I fought a hag and her two big water snake familiars. My peppy bushwoman ranger fought the snakes, bit the head off one and started eating the meat. Got blood on my reindeer cowel and just threw it off revealing my blood soaked tits. One player quickly covered the eyes of the child captive we were rescuing and another slapped my character on the back of the head. It was HILARIOUS and everyone was comfortable with it. It can happen.

@somenerdpng

Жыл бұрын

Nudity is pretty easy to make no weird in any normal dnd game, at least in my opinion, like just pointing out that someones naked in a situation like this is funny and nobody is gonna go “OH THATS SEXUAL” like???

@GoblinGirlLindsey

Жыл бұрын

@@somenerdpng Yeah, when I was DMing I had my players visit a bathhouse and the world didn’t end.

@somenerdpng

Жыл бұрын

@@GoblinGirlLindsey it’s literally like that simple, It’s only weird when someone makes it weird, which most people are pretty normal and don’t

@Shlock7

Жыл бұрын

It was my character's birthday and we had a bunch of awesome celebratory moments and roleplay, when my character closed out the evening by going off to sleep with someone. Surprise twist, bounty hunters attack our crew in the night, and the DM realises my character will have literally no clothes on (except the boots of speed. they stay on. always.) we were all on board to see my character kick all kinds of ass with nothin' but a smile (and boots), plus it was *supremely* in character for her. we swiftly had to escape town, burning a few buildings down as we fled (we are called the Disco Inferno after all) that was one of my fav sessions ever, speaking as an asexual guy lol

@GoblinGirlLindsey

Жыл бұрын

@@Shlock7 that sounds incredible and something I would most welcome at my table

I submitted the Alice and Beatrice story, it was a blast listening to your delivery of it. Loved all the added jokes. Great stuff.

Wow that Pierce Hawthorne reference. Respect.

@CrispysTavern

Жыл бұрын

FINALLY! You're the first one to get it.

I am totally stealing that rapier misunderstanding for an appropriately inappropriate game with people who share my tastes, assuming I ever find any.

Wow. That rapier story was wild!

As hilarious as that last one is, I gotta ask: how do you grow up never hearing about something as basic as a rapier?

@wilfulbuckle13

Жыл бұрын

How does knowledge of a rapier come up? I didn't know of it till I started playing dnd

@SteamS01dier

Жыл бұрын

​@@wilfulbuckle13fencing, Princess Bride, 3 Musketeers, stuff like that.

@dashiellgillingham4579

Жыл бұрын

@@SteamS01dier Fencing is weird and niche, and the kind of sword is irrelevant in all of the other examples.

@wilfulbuckle13

Жыл бұрын

@SteamS01dier ah yes all things EVERYONE knows

@situpeutparlemoi

Жыл бұрын

Lol, man, I'm still wondering how some of my (young!) coworkers don't know about alt-tab.

I so identify with the rapier story. I once made a joke about my sleeping throughout her father’s birthday, and she heard it as me saying he’d like to…. Sleep with his daughter for his birthday. I was so close to dropping the subject after seeing her disturbed reaction, but thank God I said, “sorry, what did you think I said?” And the situation was clarified. COMMUNICATION PEOPLE. I feel so disturbed thinking what could have happened if I hadn’t pursued the confusion, and people had thought I was that girl who promoted incest.

Thanks to having seen more than one "Three Musketeers" films growing up, I new from an early age what a rapier was. But I must admit, it is a poorly named sword when considering how it sounds in "English" language. 😅

Also the little skits are hilarious

HOW HAVE I GONE THROUGH SO MANY VIDEOS OF YOURS WITHOUT SUBBING- anyways, motifs on now 😅

I just realized that we had a Nudity Moment in our campaign a couple of sessions ago. When we were taken as prisoners for experiments we were of course stripped of our equipment... And for our Satyr Dhampyr Barbarian it meant being left naked. Granted, she was a satyr, covered in fur and all, so it was never accented, but still, in hindsight... Man. Fortunate that our party consisted of of a 16yo tiefling girl, a life cleric elf, quickly dead magus oni and a genazi phoenix sorc hellbent on his murderous mission who replaced the magus, so no one really was left in a weird mood in-game.

The sudden loud Thorn sound effects caught me so off guard I actually fumbled my phone

Not gonna lie! Had I been in OP's shoes for the last story, I would have probably joked something along the lines of "Well my rapier might just be the rapiest..." and, depending on their reactions, it could have become a horror story and would have been entirely my fault.

Bet it didn't help that rapiers are thrusting weapons xD

@ShinyAvalon

Жыл бұрын

True dat!

Ayee, is that a new background? Looks good.

Humorous unproblematic RPG nudity story - I'm playing a very silly game of WFRP with some old friends of mine and I joined mid-campaign, they're all playing humans but my character, Eregdin, is a wood elf. At the GM's prompting I rolled on the distinguishing features chart during character creation, got birthmark (along with broken teeth, an extra long nose and extra body hair) and asked if I could make that into vitiligo so Eregdin has dappled skin. The GM thought this idea was so cool he gave me a bonus to stealth in woodland *if* Eregdin was naked. Obviously we're both leaning in *hard* on an unsettling woodland fae vibe for this character. So obviously, I used that ability at the first possible moment (again with the GM's prompting), shedding the hooded cloak Eregdin usually wears around humans and the rest of his clothes to go hunting. Another PC, Trosso, a slimy, greedy, snake-oil merchant, initially grabbed the clothes in order to hold them for ransom but was so disturbed by Eregin's appearance he actually gave them back without a charge.

"Oh, you naive fool..." XD

That last story is why i pronounce it as "Ruh PIER," rather than "Rape yer."

26:33 why should anyone apologize if they didn't do anything wrong? Apologies are meant for wrongdoing. Someone else not knowing what a specific type of sword is to the point they think it's a tool used for crimes, well technically it can be but for a different type of crimes, when google is free and they should've had access to the PHB that would've had rapier in it so they could at least had spelling for it to search. If anyone the person that should apologize would've been the people assuming the worse of OP.

Love the samurai helmet

…are there seriously people who don’t know what a rapier is? Well, that’s news to me.

The last guy must have been pronouncing the word “rapier” with a twang or drawl. Because I don’t see how “rapier”sounds like “raper” when pronounced properly 😆

So late to this but in old world of darkness no don't in resources is listed as "you have no permanent haven and no physical resources save the clothes on your back and possibly a weapon and a few coins in your pocket" in v5 it is "you have no MONEY and no home." In no way can this be translated to no clothes. It's all about the funds you can get together to pay for something.

"All we can do is make up for our mistakes in the future." the mistake of using a well known sword which no one brings up for TWO MONTHS?

the no-no stick

"Pawn shop" and "rapier" have to be the terms most rife with potential for inflamatory reactions by those who don't know. Is it Session Zero worthy? Possibly. Several terms that sound like other terms can be cause for confusion, so a discussion on that sort of thing in Session Zero is a very good idea. But I don't believe it is mentioned in any "how to session zero" content I've seen, yet.

@averycheesypotato

Жыл бұрын

Without a language barrier of some kind, I don’t understand how those words could become problematic at all? Then again, I was severely told off once for bringing up “necromancy” in a conversation about video games… “You’re all doing WHAT to dead people?!”

Oooh, I'm early. Hype.

I'm using a raper sword from now on, even on my barbarian, lol.

Charlie should be constantly bullied, it would be cheeky

As a dyslexic I am parrinoied of making a spelling mistake when mentioning in messages that I plan on using a rapier for obvious reasons

How many Crispies are there?!

Dang I didn't realize nudity was this big of a deal. I mean I know better than to go flaunting around but I've had characters that sleep nude/druids who grew up with the idea the clothes are for utility such as protection from the elements and armor and when the party tells them to cover up they do. Tbh I've played nude before (camera off) and it's never come up.

The whole rapier situation made me so angry tbh I don't believe that anyone who is into DND new or old has not seen this type of blade somewhere weather it's movies , books , school history lessons , history in general videogames , ttrpg as a whole . That's like saying you don't know what food or water or lamps are

@rootfish2671

10 ай бұрын

There are lot of new people to the hobby and the fantasy genre in general so I don't blame them for not knowing. When I started playing d&d 1e as a child I thought a pole arm was literally just a regular pole you smacked people with

@Przemko27Z

10 ай бұрын

I mean, they've likely seen it, but not unlikely they would either forget it was called that or simply not see it referred to by name (at least enough for it to stick).

"All we can do is make up for our mistakes in the future" good tip! Great tip really, but not applicable to this OP. This wasn't a mistake on the OP's part. It's great OP said sorry, but I hope the other players also said sorry.

If they think rapier is bad wait until they hear about rapeseed oil

@Ellie-rx3jt

8 ай бұрын

Reminds me of Aldi UK selling wall paint the colour of the flowers of the plant that produces rapeseed oil. They called it r*pe yellow 🤦🏻‍♀️

25:00 You have nothing to apologize for. They were the ones being ill informed and not asking. It's like if you saw a bottle of Eau de Toilette on a woman's shelf and just assumed she washed her face in bottled toilet water. She would have nothing to apologize for, just like you have nothing to apologize for in this situation. Don't say sorry when you don't mean it and have legitimately nothing to apologize for. Explain the situation, but don't be a doormat.

That guy with the rapier story must have the worst pronunciation of rapier it should sound like some dudes name: ray pierre

Please don't seduce the guards... I have no words and I must sigh.

For once, I got nothing. Please don't seduce the guards.

Please don't seduce the guards.

I never had a character start completely nude. But I did have a fighter start without equipment and not getting any for 4 sessions.

@ShinyAvalon

Жыл бұрын

That's insane. What the heck was the DM's rationale for that?

@schwarzerritter5724

Жыл бұрын

@@ShinyAvalon We did not get class specific starting equipment. But since I joined the game as it was running, I did not know that means everyone was supposed to pick the equipment they thought was appropriate for their backstory. Every time there was an opportunity to find equipment, I asked if I find something and was told "no".

It should be noted that for a very long time White Wolf games, specifically Vampire, had a massively bad reputation as did their players and GMs. A big part of this was that both the original printings of the rules, and a lot of their support communities, basically argued story over everything including player agency. Pre-internet things like the Fidonet RPG echo actually banned discussion of White Wolf games because they argued that they were not RPGs, and their community was basically problematic to real role players. This did of course change, but it took a long time, the problem was of course a lot of entrenched writers and personalities like Bruce Baugh and Deidre M. Brooks who I had the misfortune of dealing with online a few times. This is not to say that nobody ever managed to run a good, actual RPG campaign using these rules, but it was the minority of situations. Indeed if you carefully examine the rules you will notice that is is INCREDIBLY easy for players to dominate each other, and beings like elder vampires can pretty much force regular PCs to do whatever they want as the game is intended to be played. Indeed in many of the early printings the so called "Storyteller" is pretty much told to tell the story and remember that the PCs are there to play their part, and anything they do outside of the parameters set by the storyteller, whether they know it or not, should be curtailed either gently, or violently. It also explains pretty much flat out that you should feel free to just use PCs as props in your personal fantasy, as that is what they are there for, though later editions and community advice contradict this. Let me give a couple of examples, since everyone loves text walls and is here for horror stories, so why not write an essay. My very first WW experience involved pretty much being told a newbie vampire should be close to a normal person and I shouldn't have anything as far as skills or backgrounds above two or three dots. For my very first "encounter" I was chatting with another PC in a coffee shop after dark, and some "Paladin of The Sabbat" rides up outside on a Harley, throws a harpoon on a chain through the window of the shop, drags me outside, and then chain drags my vampire through town on his bike while neither I or anyone else can do anything because we simply don't have the stats to touch this guy whose physical abilities were all 5 plus vampire augmentation. Funfunfun. My second WW experience involved the same game but from the other side, the Sabbat, with another group. I pretty much was being recruited as a lost vampire where I run into this asian vampire who is super hot and uses the "cool" name "Creamy Jade" (laugh if you want that was her name, I obviously remember it for a reason) to send me to this 9 levels of hell themed sex club, where I apparently can't really deviate much because apparently she's just that charismatic. But I do have some agency, but I'm supposed to be totally convinced to do this. So basically I walk through 9 levels of sex scenes (I have no problem with such content) and meet some goddess-beautiful androgynous female vampire on the bottom level who proceeds to somehow talk me into letting her have massive tortureporn sex with me involving buzzsaws and mortuary tools (I am not bloody kidding, I have some interest in BDSM, but seem to attract some people who take it to a disturbing level). Fortunately she likes me so I get to be her slave after she uses blood to regenerate me, and also get me addicted to as it's some special blood variant that gave me a stat bonuses but allowed her additional control. I spent the rest of the campaign pretty much playing "gofer" and whenever I wanted to do something off script or look into something on my own I was reminded by the GM that "my mistress wouldn't like that" and of course how persuasive they were. It was basically "what if Renfield was a sex gimp". One of my final WW experiences was with a game called "Aberrent" which I played with a couple of close friends via ICQ, two girls I used to date in fact, along with the GM who I knew from an early MMO (Ultima Online), and two other other guys he had found. This was one of my early attempts at playing a lesbian character for reasons, and I had worked it out with the two girls and we had coordinated background and stuff. We weren't together as it wasn't supposed to be that kind of game really, and we basically just knew each other. We had a bit more than starting characters, and the basic gist was that we were all supposed to wind up working for "Team Tomorrow" which is an in world super team that is a front for a nasty global conspiracy that is part of the multi-title metaplot. At any rate the two girls were playing Torque, an "elite" (super powered mercenary) who was coming over to that team who was basically all mega attributes, durability, and military skills, and Flaming Jane who was a human torch type character who also had super power detection who was a recruiter for T2M and a world class super model who due to taint (a corruption on super powers) literally had hair made out of fire which didn't ignite anything because it was mostly just an FX thing. At any rate my character was this goth girl hacker who was in medical school and was freelancing for a suicide girls like agency that was really minor just to pay for school, but she knew Jane from high school where jokingly she had been one of the girls who semi-picked on my character though there were kind of friends. My character had entropy based powers and some other weird stuff, but a lot of taint that gave her a unique look where she had milk white skin, skull pupils, and pretty much a complete edgelord work. She didn't actually have a ton of super appearances, which is why she was on that fringe site, but part of the recruitment was Jane was going to promote her if she joined T2M so she could you know... have money. Torque was a friend of both of us, as my character had done hacking for her in support of some of her merc jobs. Art any rate the basic gist of this is my character who was sort of a nerd despite that look walks into this rowdy night club, and one of the dudes who has decided he is pretty much a super human porn star who has a bunch of super speed type powers, using the unsubtle name of "Max Thrust" comes running up to my already uncomfortable character while she's on the way to meet Jane in her booth (notable because of the hair) and proceeds to make unsubtle come-ons, my character pretty much does the "not interested, not into guys" thing and tries to push past and so he goes "well you said IRL your a straight guy, so I'm sure you get this... your character is super hot so play along, I'm gonna bang you straight". So he goes mega-social which basically means he can reduce me to basically a difficulty class and then force me to do whatever he wants via sheer charisma including I quote "give me a life changing experience just by meeting them". This is pretty much a super version of what the vampires were doing in WW... pretty much common to their games up until this point where it was meant as a storytelling punkhammer but could very much be used on PCs by other PCs, and kind of the point of the story. It's also why I have pretty much ruled for the last 20 years that social skills do not work on player characters in my own games. Well at any rate to finish the story this de-railed the whole game. We got past the whole "it's not mind control or immortal since it's just charisma, no harm in asking just because you can't say no because I'm just that hot and persuasive" argument when Jane (she was about 30' away) saw this, knew my character, and also thought he was a creep since he was described as running around the club in nothing but a rhinestone codpiece and a pair of cowboy boots (I am curious to this day how this worked with the plot of joining a specific public super team), detected he had super powers and this was a mutation (no question it costs super build points so it is a power) and decided "fuck it I work for a super team with massive influence, this is just wrong" and hit him with a massive fire blast. "Max Thrust" had his wingman get involved though, the other dud I didn't know who was playing a guy called uh "Nightbat" who was pretty much a Batman rip off who had low end super attributes, every skill at 5 via backgrounds, and then a ton of gadgets and resources via other backgrounds, and a massive club destroying fight broke out which left "Max Thrust" and "Night Bat" in the hospital and the campaign ending as me, my two friends, and the GM all decided to play Cyberpunk 2020 without those two bozos. To be honest I have no idea how well "Night Bat" would have worked as a support character, it was an interesting idea, but Torque pretty much one shotted him as strength was as broken as mega social abilities in that game, and actually had to pull the punch to not kill him, he pretty much went down as soon as he started to fight. The club was mostly destroyed due to Max Thrust being unable to really hit or hurt any of the other characters but being crazy good at dodging and throwing multiple attacks that tended not to do much (not well designed) but there was massive property damage and with two characters in the hospital and an irreconcilable IC conflict, that was it for the campaign obviously. The point being 3/3 WW games which were spread out over years all involved the same kind of "you can't do anything nonsense" and even if most people don't play that way anymore, let's just say I'm not the only one with these kinds of stories, so let's just say the stink sticks for a reason.

Wrong thumbnail source! The artwork is from Katya Cyan, rather. ("ART WAR3 Mononoke doll master / Illustration")

Wait, in the rapier story OP never once said out loud "I attack with my rapier?" Or are they just really bad at pronunciation? XD

Please don't seduce the guards

Idk I don't think op should be embarrassed for using a very commonly known weapon with a differently spelled name then that word....I think the girls should be embarrassed for being dumb and not asking or speaking up lol like u don't have to be embarrassed cause others misunderstood a basic thing

@ShinyAvalon

Жыл бұрын

If someone mistakenly thinks I've done something awful, I'm automatically embarrassed, even if I didn't do anything wrong. Just the idea that someone thought I was deliberately cruel or crass and I had no idea makes me cringe...it's nothing to do with feeling guilty, but you still feel terrible. It's like...if you step on someone's toe by accident, you feel awful even if there's no way you could have known their foot was there, you know?

@damned0wl

Жыл бұрын

Eh, being unfamiliar with a term someone else considers commonly known is no reason to be embarrassed either. But embarrassment is rarely rational. Also, you probably shouldn't call people dumb based on one silly misunderstanding. Everyone has moments like that.

@BurroughsProductions

Жыл бұрын

@ShinyAvalon no I don't lol

@BurroughsProductions

Жыл бұрын

@damned0wl thinking someone is using a weapon to sexually assault enemies even tho it's spelled different is definitely dumb

@BurroughsProductions

Жыл бұрын

@damned0wl you have moments were you don't understand spelling and assume someone is raping enemies for weeke without saying anything? Cause I don't