Thank you all so much for 30,000 subscribers! Your support means so much to me and the tavern.

@KnightsRealm98

Жыл бұрын

Congrats on 30k, man. You deserve it

@kalas3132

Жыл бұрын

I think you deserve more, and actually thought you had more 😅 it just feels natural that you'd have more. Congrats, hope you get the other 30 in half the time. ✌️😎

Disrespecting player agency is the fastest way to make a player check out and no longer care for your game.

DM: "You can't do this thing. You have to but you can't. You aren't doing it RIGHT." Players: "Okay screw it, we're going off the rails then." DM: "WHY WON'T YOU PLAY THE GAME REEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

I don't know what's worse, a player being an obnoxious stereotype, or people obnoxiously forcing a stereotype onto someone, a bard entirely motivated by art is cooler than a horny bard, I even wanted to play a bard that's more of a introvert and plays more melancholic songs, like nirvana

@happybatty5142

Жыл бұрын

I played with a bard that was a professor. Pretty cool character and had a character tie to my druid princess. He still couldn't avoid the horny bard jokes from others even though he never flirted 🤦🏻‍♀️

@flaminyawn

Жыл бұрын

Personally I would rather have to deal with a horny bard than one that plays Nirvana, but I get your point.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

I now want to make my dragonborn bard and have them get requested to seduce someone with room for interpretation, then he takes it as intimidating the target with he/she not helping the party makes him/her an evil to be smited. My bard had the personality of a Paladin and was built for intimidation and combat.

@LewisBowels

Жыл бұрын

I made a College of Lore Bard that was an archeologist and huge history lover that found their way into a secret society to preserve all history and not let it be erased or altered. They also came across a Fey being that was very curious about mortal history and offered him powers in exchange for him learning more and teaching them. A little combo of Monument Men and Indiana Jones.

@chasesymonds4804

Жыл бұрын

People play how they want to play, stereotype or not.

As a rule of thumb, referring to the 3rd story: If a DM ignores the rules that work in favor of players, run. This is usually a red flag of either a railroading or an antagonistic DM

Last story: if you need "event X" to happen to progress a storyline, don't be fixated on HOW event X does happen. Focus on what and why and you'll find ways to make it happen in a way that doesn't compromise player agency. Even from a purely logical viewpoint, if "bad person" wants to steal "thing" from player, unless they're total idiots they'll have multiple plans. Failing to seduce someone is not an unlikely event. Any villain of average intellect would have a backup plan.

@exyzt9877

Жыл бұрын

for example, have the drow come in pretending to help with the lyrics, maybe? like, seriously, trying to push the horny bard stereotype makes no fucking sense, there's so many other bards you could play as. The Vain Bard. The Melancholic Bard. The Brash Bard. The Grumpy Bard. The Grieving Bard.

@davidtherwhanger6795

Жыл бұрын

When the bard first refused the drow's advances, I would have switched gears. Plead instead of seduce. Having the drow whisper to the bard, "Please, if you refuse me my boss will be displeased and punish me. Just let me stay in your room for a while." This way she still gets in the room. And getting caught stealing doesn't mean she actually doesn't succeed. It just means she didn't get it without being noticed. She could still grab and bolt, leading to a chase.

@exyzt9877

Жыл бұрын

@@davidtherwhanger6795 okay, no, this is perfect!

@PixieoftheWood

Жыл бұрын

@@exyzt9877 Exactly. I remember a dramatic, romantic bard I played that had a whole backstory involving a love letter and trying to woo a very specific nobleman, but her father didn't approve. There are plenty of reasons a character wouldn't be interested in sleeping with a drow prostitute, and plenty of ways they could steal without having sex with someone's player.

@Lurklen

Жыл бұрын

@@davidtherwhanger6795 Yeah, DM got fixated. Gotta stay loose if you're trying to pass one over a player (less so if you're just trying to fool the PC). But the real problem is DM wasn't paying attention to the player's needs in the moment, if a player is giving you that much resistance then you need to talk to them about what's up and put your cards on the table about what you're trying to do in this scene, and how they want to handle that. Also, if it don't work it don't work, the DM has an unlimited supply of resources, their thieves can always try another day.

1st story: the coded messages were far to nonsensical to be acually used. I've done coded messages before you drop a letter in the players path, the letter is some basic letter about orange shipments or a letter from doting grandma. The twist is you put an obvious notation that marks it as special and the players read every third letter or something to reveal plans to steal the crown jewels

@davidtherwhanger6795

Жыл бұрын

And that makes sense. What really got me was how the DM thought it was reasonable for the party to go to the alley and dig to china for the next clue. No reasonable person would have thought that. I've used digging for clues before. But I had the party get a tip from a villager that they saw one of the suspects "digging the other day by the big oak on the other side of the hill from the village". And then tell them it looked like they buried something and filled in the hole. It was a red herring, but it gave a reason for the party to dig and where.

Do you think we could have an "RPG *Wholesome* Stories" episode. Yeah, there's a lot to learn from horror stories, in learning what to avoid and not to do, as well as behaviors to watch out for in both players and DMs. But I'm sure there's also heaps to learn from stories of D&D games of awesome and wholesome moments, both in game and from the players and DMs. IDK, just a thought I had.

@draconicfeline6177

Жыл бұрын

Seconding this

@ShinxyMuro

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. I agree. Sometimes hearing only the horror stories makes you feel like there's no point in trying to play D&D anymore

@davidmccall4024

Жыл бұрын

I also would like to see some videos of this at least to break up the negative stories a little so it isn't all doom and gloom.

@jamesblanton6277

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. All these horror stories make it seem like this is the way the game should be played or something

Story 2 - “Just Plain Creepy” This really is just plain creepy. Never let a person railroad you into creepiness-bow out.

Story 1 - “confusing one shot” The DM is too hands off. If someone is hoarding the treasure map-then have someone else provide the map. Also why the fuck are Bartenders picking fights over their own customers

@mrroboshadow

Жыл бұрын

"why do you want to give me money? you're obviously a thief, GUARDS!!!"

@emberfist8347

Жыл бұрын

"Why would someone want to buy ale from a tavern?" This has to be a joke. No DM wouldn't realize how stupid that sounds.

@robertbryant8243

Жыл бұрын

@@emberfist8347 "You're in the mall when you're attacked by sentinels." "Okay, I use my Control Water ability to summon water from the fountain." "There is no fountain." "Yes there is, it's right here on the map, I can see it." "There's no water in the fountain." "Okay, I use the water in the sprinkler system." "There's no water in the sprinkler system. In fact, there's no running water in the mall." "No running water at all? Then why is this mall even open?" Don't underestimate the stupidity of GMs.

@Gripen1974

Жыл бұрын

I have been at that bar/pizza place where the owner/bartender picked fight with all his customers, bad thing hsi place was the only one in the whole town.

@Priestofgoddess

Жыл бұрын

I believe because they went behind the bar of the tavern, so not the building. Customers are not really allowed to get there by default? This scripted message was such a bullshit.

"Actually your character is naked... Huh why did they disconnect? This is the 10th time this has happened... Do all girls just have terrible internet or what?"

Title Story: If the DM was trying to force my character to be naked, I'd have quit and stayed the f*** away from the creeper. Glad the OP didn't just roll with it and let him get away with it.

I made a crazed druid who left a letter in druidic for one of the PC's in the party, with a map showing where the Grove he would be at. The trick was the map was carved into the floor, and with a hint "The Stars show the way at Noon". They recreated the constellations using a board, and hold it over the window. Solved that puzzle in 5-10 minutes.

Story 3 - Anti Magic DM I get that martials can sometimes feel… powerless to casters wish stuff like Wish, Simulacrum, etc. But giving the Barbarian to get all the magical items and nerfing the mage?! Preventing the Op to make or buy anything somehwat magical?! This is just favoritism and the Barbarian being the main character.

@schwarzerritter5724

Жыл бұрын

Usually DMs just nerf martial classes to make the game "more realistic".

@Lobsterwithinternet

Жыл бұрын

@@schwarzerritter5724 Then why not just disallow caster classes up-front instead of screwing those players over for their choices later? Or even better, why not just go with a more low-magic system like the 2d20 Conan game from Modiphius? Or some OSR type game?

@schwarzerritter5724

Жыл бұрын

@@Lobsterwithinternet I see it far more often DMs mess with martial classes to improve the game.

@schwarzerritter5724

Жыл бұрын

@@BlueTressym I would say more it is like chopping the already short people at the knees.

do DMs like the guy in the second story expect one fantastic, amazing day, they’ll find a female player with a female PC who loves being perved on by the party or do they just get off on being creepy and making girls uncomfortable?

@asteriondeltoro124

Жыл бұрын

Neither. They want the girls to bail before session 1 so they can shrug and tell the other players she ghosted them and not have to play with any stinky cootie-having girls. *(Smart Eddie Murphy meme)*

@Wendy_O._Koopa

Жыл бұрын

@@asteriondeltoro124 Oh, that makes much more sense, thank you. I couldn't figure out why he had a creepy old man there, instead of "Original the Character" in all his buff studliness glory.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

They probably want a sex fantasy with a real girl's voice.

@patchmoulton5438

Жыл бұрын

@@Wendy_O._Koopa I think that was more of an anime thing more than anything else. The pervy old man is a common trope. In all due likelihood, the DM did that because it is a normal thing in anime. Keep in mind that while TTRPGs are social games, most people who play them are often the... socially stunted, shall we say.

@gregjayonnaise8314

8 ай бұрын

Creepy guys love the thrill of making someone uncomfortable. They are completely aware women hate it, they just like don’t care at all about her feelings and enjoy the sadistic joy of pushing other people’s boundaries

The anti magic DM. story had me realize that I would have been out there at the first overly lethal fight. There is no way I'd stick around for that alone.

Opening Story: Uh, yeah. Wow. Story 1: What the heck? He ran this several times with similar results? This is the definition of insanity. Repeating the same thing every time; expecting a different result but doing nothing to change the outcome. Or something like that. Story 2: Oh, this one. This one's bad. Story 3: What is this guys problem besides favoritism and hating magic casters? Story 4: Oh this one! Yeah; it's bad.

@Seth9809

Жыл бұрын

Story 2: "Oh, yeah rail-roading....WTF..... She's naked? Lust in his eyes?" RUN GIRL RUN!

"Demonic Butterfly" Did he also call himself "The Monarch"?

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

I'm guessing it's using mythology where butterflies mean death. I forgot the specifics.

@battyrae1398

Жыл бұрын

@@ArcCaravan greek maybe? i think it was greek

@foisopracurtir6389

Жыл бұрын

@@battyrae1398 Japan has some of that I guess...

Title Story - “Don’t Do That” Jared wanted this honeypot scene to happen and did everything to make it happen-player consent and ACTUALLY RULES be damned. There is not helping these DM’s or this game. You won’t have fun, you’ll just be treated like the DM’s chess piece and have your agency stolen at the drop of the hat. Leave and do not look back.

@LadyVixenGames

Жыл бұрын

Some girls like that me partly being one granted he went wrong way about it, But each to their own.

@a_threat

Жыл бұрын

Consent?

Intro story: That sounded painful to witness. I’m starting to think those two didn’t really want to play D&D at all; they just wanted to go on dates. Why they didn’t just do that is a riddle for the ages. First story: Oh, DM… how on earth do you manage to fuck a game up that badly? I could go through every single thing he did wrong, but we’d be here all day. New DMs should be shown this story as an example of how NOT to DM. Second story: Okay, this guy should also be shown to new DMs as an example of how not to DM. What a fucking creep. This story should also be told to new players as an example of why they shouldn’t stick around in a game that’s giving them bad vibes. Not all bad DMs are disgusting perverts, but a sizable percentage are. Third story: If you don’t want players to use abilities from certain classes, JUST DON’T LET THEM PLAY THOSE CLASSES! All you have to say is: “I’m running a low-magic campaign; bring martial characters,” or something along those lines. Also, don’t play favorites. That’s just rude. Fourth story: That’s just sickening. I desperately wish I could unhear that. Fuck you, Jared.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

Is it bad that I think the 2nd DM with the forced nudity was worse than the 4th railroading a honeypot plot?

@tsifirakiehl4250

Жыл бұрын

No, especially since you’re probably right. I just kind of ran out of things to say by the time I got to the forced honeypot story.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

@@tsifirakiehl4250 Fair. Definitely a disgusting group of stories this time.

Many years ago I was playing a half dragon in 3.0. my character was immune to fire. I had her run through a wall of fire to clothes with a baddie. The GM started laughing. I asked him why, saying my character was immune to fire. "You are, but your clothes aren't." 🤬🤬🤬

@crypticcryptid4702

Жыл бұрын

I had a front line fighter who didn't really have durable clothing but my GM decribed it as being tactically placed tatters and I was pretty grateful, unfortunately the that girl of the group wasn't.

@realdragon

Жыл бұрын

I mean yea, he's right

@asteriondeltoro124

Жыл бұрын

"FULL FRONTAL ASSAULT! CHAAAAAARGE!!!!"

Being a DM myself I would have so many things be able to take that heirloom that didn't comprise the sexuality topic. Talking like a friend, showing professional interest, hell setting up a mid boss that threatens the character just to even think about it. I don't get why so many dms need to get their rocks off on those topics. Honestly just having a friendly PC that was that a courtesan and betrayed the PC has me already thinking what kind of character is she. Even giving the edge of redemption from an unexpected interaction of a nice talk instead of a "professional exchange"

Intro story: is just honestly cute. They shouldnt do it but i cant stop imagining a husband going "my wife liked this game and i like wife so i guess i'll play too 😖" Reminds me of another story of a husband asking the dm while blushing like mad if he could kiss his wifes imaginary character.

Thinking of 9 players stresses me out

@sherylcascadden4988

Жыл бұрын

I had one DM who runs a group of 7 players, he was a bit railroady and I ended up quitting the group. Thinking back on it, the railroading may have been a response to 7 players running up to two characters each.

@lucasball5336

Жыл бұрын

I'd actually rather run 9 players over 2; having small groups in my experience means if someone can't make it (which happened every week) then nobody wants to play because there wasn't enough players.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

@@sherylcascadden4988 2 characters per player sounds horrible. Only way I can comprehend that working would be limiting one of those characters to one-shots in the same setting.

@sherylcascadden4988

Жыл бұрын

@@ArcCaravan I agree, but it was the way the DM set things up. I had two characters, but each was on a different "team" and seldom met each other. I quit the game when the DM started throwing tantrums when we weren't following his story plot.

@Mark73

Жыл бұрын

I've done 11

Third Story: That sounds like a DM who played a martial character in a campaign with a caster who could deal more damage than them, and thus has a "magic users are OP, the martials need huge buffs to even things out" mindset. Not to mention the absolutely blatant favoritism. Like, man, that barbarian sure did get anything and everything they could want before mid-tier. And as though the wizard alchemist couldn't write down recipes in code or something to recall how to make potions. Would've been insane if that PC had died and the player made a fighter, and suddenly was getting magical gear and boons left and right. EDIT: Oh yeah, the bit about how attack spells "hit the monster's tail and it falls off without hurting it" is insane. That's tantamount to saying "you blast the creature and its arm falls off, but because the body part you hit falls off, it takes no damage." It lost part of its body. That's damage.

Ignoring everything else about the last story, Kirkwall would simplify the DM's job. Just come up with 5 maps and recycle them with different set pieces to denote its a bar/house/lord's manor/dungeon/dragon's lair/Deep Roads/the Fade/etc. Players: So we're finally leaving town? DM: Yup. *DM sets up dragon lair* Players: Isn't that just the bar tender in a blow up T-rex suit? DM: Nope. Definitely not.

Intro Story: If they didn't go out of their way to hog the spotlight and force the game into becoming a two-player dating sim, I don't think that the party would've had any major issues with them playing a lovey-dovey couple in-game. Though the wife inviting the husband along without even telling the group, let alone the DM, about it beforehand really rubs me the wrong way, since they probably knew that the GM would let him join just to avoid drama. Pretty underhanded stuff all around. 1st Story: Protip for any DM's out there, if you want the players to do X and you base your campaign around the players doing X, just start the game off with the players already in the process of doing X so they can actually get on to the actual campaign. Also, having every NPC treat the party like garbage with little justification or provocation is the easiest way to make them either quit the campaign or become murderhobos who become legitimate problem players down the line. Not to say it justifies anything, but it's something that'll cause issues down the line and is very counter intuitive if you really wanted the group to do X. 2nd Story: It's clear that this GM either doesn't watch One Piece or only used it to bait people like OP into their crappy campaign. It's bad enough taking away someone's agency, but to take away agency to try and force someone into a situation involving SA just pushed the situation over the edge. At least OP left as soon as she realized what the GM was actually after. 3rd Story: It always sucks when you get stuck in a campaign where you're not allowed to do the thing that your character is literally built to do, especially when other members of the party are allowed to do whatever they want and more, thanks to the DM showering them with magic items, magic weapons, and more perks than you can think of. Unfortunately, there's no real way to salvage the campaign, especially if the GM doesn't understand why it's an issue, it's just a shame that the entire experience turned OP off to D&D as a whole. Last Story: I've said it in another video where this story was featured, but I'll say it again. There are multiple ways the DM could've done to resolve this issue without involving SA, which only makes the way that OP was railroaded into the situation makes it so much worse.

1st story: how would someone get from "go behind the bar" to dig a hole in an alley behind the bar? What if we dig the hole 5 feet away from where they wanted the party to dig? 2nd story: Um... no one ever suspect the surprised nakedness. So yeah, most people would bail right at that point. 3rd story: Someone really likes his pet barbarian. 4th story: Wow... Heavy handed DM and ignore player agency. I need a shower after that story. I feel dirty...

As someone with a one piece OC, two in fact, if someone tried groping either of them, they’re gonna find out why nikki wants to be the strongest woman in the world…and get called weird, because my other oc is a male half fishman, and really confused why you’re touching his chest.

The first story reminds me of a game I DM'd once where a player spent 3 sessions straight ignoring the plot just to romance an NPC, then got angry when the party didn't share the quest rewards with them. He didn't come back after that last session.

Unless player intrigue versus player intrigue is the norm, secret messages need more than one person or means to solve. I don't mean one person has part of the message and needs to combine it with another, but if it's in an unusual language, you make sure multiple players have it, or you send in an NPC to prevent soloists. If it's encrypted, have an NPC around to help (not recommended), let them make checks for hints (recommended), or have an NPC in the room do something to give a tip (if every third word, have a gambling table shout My three three's beats your pair of aces!). I ran a little mission for the start of the campaign a while back where I gave each player an envelope with a number 1-5 on it. Inside was the same greeting paragraph, but the bottom paragraph was nonsense to any one player. All 4 of my players who were there were pointed out to each other as they asked the bar staff for more info. They started talking about the letters they all had, and the nonsense below. Since one of the players I prepped for never showed, I had a barmaid present them with the fifth note, as a rouge popped in the back and said: "Thanks but no thanks" to the obvious job. I think I reminded them at this point that the envelopes do have numbers on them, and that they have everything they need. It didn't take them too much longer to figure out that the bottom paragraph was split into 5 and divided amongst their letters, and the numbers on their envelopes were the order to read. This was a test by their future employer as if they couldn't solve it, then he wouldn't really want them and try to shoo them away as nothing more than meatheads when he wants thinkers. As a DM, that would mean instead of running missions that require careful thought, just send them into a dungeon crawl.

My very first role-playing game was a very large group of us we were all teenagers in total there were 11 of us. We were using a system called Lost souls basically the idea was we were a bunch of ghosts with unfinished business. Our DM was very experienced and we had the best two-year campaign with that story. It's the whole reason why I love role-playing games to this day.

I could see One Piece being a cool setting for an RPG with how big the world is, how many weird and colorful characters there are and how the environment can be vastly different from island to island. Probably would have to work around the whole devil fruit thing but still, sounds like it could be fun. if you don´t do it like that GM that is.

@marcusreading3783

Жыл бұрын

There are actually full on homebrew conversions for One Piece and Naruto that I'm aware of. They are actually pretty good for the most part from what I've seen.

8:00 sounds so much like how my first experience with DnD went. The DM, who I was friends with, decided without telling any of us players, that he wanted to run the campaign like Dark Souls. Not grimdark, but just everything was made more difficult than it needed to be. And when we all got frustrated and gave up, he got upset because harder = more fun, right?? Why does nobody like my campaign??

Doge and Crispy's for today. Love it.

Makes me wonder if the OP in the last story named the DM "Jared" because of Jared Fogle, the former Subway spokesman who was later charged and convicted of "child sex tourism" and possessing child pornography. I don't understand all of this sexual content in DnD. "Grown up", hopefully. "Adult?" Why?

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

Because doing sexual content badly is where these horror stories come from. I doubt we'd hear about good campaigns (sexual or not) on this channel or any that focuses on horror stories.

@michaelcohen8259

Жыл бұрын

@@ArcCaravan That's a fair point. Maybe someone should do a "BEST campaign" series, not always concentrate on horror stories,

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelcohen8259 I wouldn't be surprised if somebody does. I recall hearing the counterpart to horror stories is glory stories.

You know, I was worried that I hadn't had enough nausea today, but then I heard about that creepy DM.

"What's D&D without fun?" Most of the stories you read on this channel.

@CrispysTavern

Жыл бұрын

Fair point.

The DM hates high damage but will make over powered items?¿ That DM is just dumb.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

Seemed to hate high damage from his not-favorite player.

@draconicfeline6177

Жыл бұрын

Me: gives my players cool things Also me: why can't I challenge my players

The intro one made me laugh. This is when you open a discord server and make an RP channel for them.

"Every time I run this campaign the players eventually burn the mansion down! What is wrong with everyone else?" Lol

good onya for just leaving the call. it never ends well to stay.

I'm dming icewind Dale. I have four full-time players. My boyfriend is in the group and often the only one who gives me any way to make the story continue. The last couple sessions I really worry that I'm favoring him, but it's just so hard to get two of the players to roleplay at all. And the one guys character is sort of a that guy, making me nervous that it's just how the man himself is. Not sure yet, but definitely gonna have a talk with him if it continues

The last story reminds me of the campaign I'm in (in a good way, I assure you). DM has this NPC that's very flirty tried laying it on very thick with my goblin barbarian. My boy, being built for fighting and only fighting, catches none of these hints so she gets very overt with him. Cue gob-barb excusing himself thinking she wants to kill him, so he excuses himself and basically barricades the room in the tavern he's staying in. Now he boobytraps his lodgings every single night and is very suspicious of the sea (she's a Triton), so that he's absolutely ready for this shark women when she comes for him in the night.

For those interested, I have found that a great way to write and run mysteries in ttrpgs is with “city of mist”. It’s a ttrpg centered around mysteries and investigation and it’s super fun. The MCs toolkit “GM guide” also has some amazing tips for writing an running mysteries and overall it’s just a great experience. It’s easy to run and my players love it.

@Puzzles-Pins

Жыл бұрын

I recently picked it up, been looking forward to trying it! Hopefully gonna run it after my current game ends.

Soooo here's what might be a dumb question for the last story, but... if the DM really was THAT sure about wanting to introduce that whole spy plot, couldn't he just, you know... have her seduce another player?

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately it sounded like that plot was too integrated into the OP's noble backstory. I honestly feel more concerned with the OP keeping the asexuality of the character a secret from the DM, though the DM is DEFINITELY still in the wrong for forcing a sexual encounter.

@Theokal3

Жыл бұрын

@@ArcCaravan Right, my bad. I must have missed that part.

@RiversEagle_

Жыл бұрын

@@ArcCaravan Why are you concerned with OP keeping a character's sexuality to themselves? It's not that important compared to the DM ignoring a player's wishes and sexually assaulting them. I'm OP of the story btw A) It's not really relevant until it suddenly was. Even then DM should've just accepted a No. Man is literally ignoring consent. B) It was stated that it was a sexuality I myself were exploring and wasn't 100% fully comfortable with it. Coming out saying "my character is asexual" would've effectively been me symbolically coming out of the closet. Which I wasn't ready to do with a DM I barely knew. Again, it shouldn't have even mattered. It shouldn't have went beyond "I don't want to do this." The onus is not on me to provide the DM with every piece of information he might need about why he shouldn't rape my character. He should just not fucking rape my character and to a point me.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

@@RiversEagle_ I probably should have phrased it better, less concern and more a detail that caught my attention. I'm probably too used to player's letting the DM know nearly everything about a character to better craft the narrative. And unfortunately DMs forcing sexual assaults on players isn't uncommon in these channels, even with knowing of the players' and/or characters' sexuality and often without any form of plot justification. And I would like to reiterate the DM was ABSOLUTELY wrong and worse, I am not trying to deny that. Merely noting something I don't see often in these stories. My apologies for any offense.

So they're all stories about railroading? Story One - Railroad of secret messages fails because the DM hides the tracks and won't hint where they are. Story Two - Anime game railroaded into sudden sexual joke at female character's expense. Story Three - Dm favoritism, railroading one player to victory and others to failure. Story Four - Railroaded into unwanted intimacy and also a trap.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

The intro story didn't have railroading. Just an annoying couple.

In regards to that roll20 story I think runesmith said it best "a dm should keep secrets, but don't keep them for too long"

The coded message story I think was a repeat, almost thought this video was a reupload. Can agree that you don't want mysteries too complicated, but also can be good if the DM asks if anyone wanted to roll perception or insight if the party isn't very inquisitive

In fairness, metaknowledge aside, if the guy in story one was explicitly told to trust nobody else, leaving solo to follow the message only he understands and ditching the other people pressing him about it makes sense. It is what his character, told to be a bit shady, should realistically do.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

While technically correct (the best kind of correct), the guy in the story doing this seemed more likely to be doing this out of spite than the character's distrust or orders.

@kagato23

Жыл бұрын

@@ArcCaravan hard to say, though the dm remains most at fault either way. Ic a reason to share was never given.

Hey Crispy, dig the video! Just wanted to give a lil feedback. I've got nothing against whispers (they're super relaxing in the right context haha), but using the whispers to warn about 'danger danger' makes me feel like the creeps from the stories are right in my ear haha idk if it's just me, and it's not a deal-breaker, just thought I'd throw that out there xD

The "The worst thing a DM can do is to ignore a players clearly stated boundaries after acknowledging them" thing in the last story? I have a WILD horror story about that that I probably will post on that reddit eventually! Super short version is, IRL romantic partners get into a fight as one (player) has a big issue with charm and mind control spells in D&D based on IRL trauma while the other, DM, thinks she's over reacting and should be less hard line in her stance. They agree to drop it and NOT have mind manipulation in that game and just talk about it later... Then the DM has an NPC use mind control on the player and has her violently attack her friends in a scene that comes off less like, "Hey let me show you how this is fine" and more, "F YOU! THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR NOT LETTING ME WIN THE ARGUMENT!" I had not been in that session, but player was my roommate and I saw the fallout IRL (game was online) and basically everyone, but DM confirmed that it was SUPER F-ed up and ugly.

@juliamavroidi8601

Жыл бұрын

It's confusing to me how she had irl trauma about mind control

@Duhad8

Жыл бұрын

@@juliamavroidi8601 The IRL trauma was about emotional manipulation, gaslighting and abuse of various types which was triggered by the idea of losing control to someone else who could just make you a puppet in your own body and do whatever they wanted with you.

The Most Confusing DM story: What the f***? This DM is a terrible DM. His brilliant ideas are convoluted. His NPCs are unnecessarily aggressive. He is unable to actually reign in the problem player or at least adjust to give the players the info they need. He made the entire thing frustrating and utterly pointless. I would have wanted to burn the mansion down as well (if I had stayed long enough).

Favoritism is the most annoying thing a Dm can do

"why does EVERY ONE WANT TO BURN IT DOWN?!?!?!!?" this has happened BEFORE?! LOL

Great comment at the end. As a player, being obviously railroaded is bad but still tolerable. However, being railroaded into FAILURE is just the worst and should never happen.

Ignoring the creepy tendencies of the DM in the one piece story, any DM that says "DnD is about improvising," and then also says "No, you don't respond that way. It's gotta be this way" just sucks as a dm

I made enemies that halved magical damage by a crystal on their chests. The other half of the damage becomes stored energy. when they die (they were low hp enemies) they would fall and blow up dealing the stored energy or if they met the stored energy cap (like 20 damage) they would run at the party and blow up dealing that damage in an aoe. fun encounter.

@LewisBowels

Жыл бұрын

May I borrow this? That's an awesome idea for an enemy.

@TheVampireking330

Жыл бұрын

@@LewisBowels of course. It's a fun encounter. I'm not a big fan of counter spell but when the damage can be redirected players will think more carefully

In one of the campaigns I’m in has 11 people including the dm and yes it takes us so long in combat but hey it’s fun, the biggest problem we have is finding a day and time that works for everyone cause 11 people

Who knew a board game could be this intense

I knew someone just like the intro story couple. They would hog the spotlight with lying in bed and brushing each other's hair before breakfast. The DM wouldn't step in, so the rest of our party set them up on a date night, robbed them of the stuff they left in their rooms and ditched them.

“Don’t do that” for the algorithm

Woot you're the Greatest 🎉

The DM says don't trust anyone and expects them to work together

Only parting message I'd want to give Jared would be extremely brief and obscene. I wouldn't waste words explaining why I left.

"Why would you drink ale in a tavern" cause.... that's what you usually do.....at a tavern?

"Why would anyone want to buy an ale? Sounds pretty suspicious if you ask me." Tell me the beer sucks without saying "The beer sucks."

Don't do that Great video as always

Barbarian with +7 greatsword they're not even proficient in with a 15 foot range & higher crit chance, necklace of delayed fireball, magic wand that can copy any spell, and can make potions that can make them into a demon: "I don't get why you guys aren't having fun"

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

I don't get why a barbarian wouldn't be proficient with a greatsword. Maybe I missed the system, but barbarians are proficient in all simple and martial weapons, which includes grwatsword.

final story Half-Elf uneffected by magical sleep or charmed person.

God, the mystery DM reminds me a bit of one of my ex-DMs. Especially with the NPCs. BF and I have talked about how almost every interaction with an NPC in that game turned into us trying to talk them down from violence, which if it wasn't already directed at us would usually result in it being directed at us. Then one time, when we failed to talk some bandits out of fighting us (cause the DM wouldn't even let us roll for it) he was shocked and confused that we tried to fight them?? He had apparently planned for us to get captured and taken back with them and expected us to just... go with it... without a fight.

Damn remember when the only thing anyone had to worry about was Timmy having a peanut allergy.

I'm hearing train whistles in most of these stories

The anti-magic DM: I genuinely don't know how being an unkillable god is fun. Isn't the fun of TTRPGs overcoming challenges and telling interesting stories? If there's no risk of failure, then there's no tension or drama

Hey there I enjoy your readings a lot and it's nice to get some variety in the DnD-stories-narrated KZread genre, but can I suggest that you slow down a bit? I often watch stuff at 1.25 speed, but with your videos so far I struggle to keep up even at regular speed. I don't know if it's just me (I'm not a native speaker), but I think the narration could really benefit from changing the tempo a little

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

I take it slowing the video doesn't help?

@bfarewell296

Жыл бұрын

@@ArcCaravan it helps a little, but it sounds a bit distorted and when he slows down to normal speed, it's suddenly way too slow

I feel lucky that I have found a few groups to play with that don't pull this pervy crap without consent. The most that has happened recently is someone making some horny bard jokes about a not-horny at all bard and it just... felt weird and the jokes didn't land with the rest of the group. I think he eventually got the hint.

Play my characters for me and I leave it's simple as that

@emanymton713

Жыл бұрын

Surely some sessions occur when you can’t attend. Having someone else play your character happens sometimes.

@sherylcascadden4988

Жыл бұрын

Stepping on player agency is a crappy way of getting them to quit... But it usually works.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

@@emanymton713 There's a difference between auto piloting for an absent player and preventing said player from controlling their own character.

@emanymton713

Жыл бұрын

@@ArcCaravan fair enough, but we also only know what actually happened from one side in this campaign.

@dead_vibes

Жыл бұрын

@@emanymton713 this is late, oddly this has never happened. I missed a lot of part 1 of the campaign because of work and I was either in doing stuff off screen or used a whacky side quest (I fell asleep in a cart and goblins stole me. Which is hilarious and I love it.)

RE: the anti magic DM, this is the exact kind of game I'd have quit way sooner. As a DM I actually keep an eye out for "value" and if one player isn't getting as much value then they're next for a buff to balance with the party. (value can be DPR, CC, healing, buffs, anything that contributes to the party's success, and I don't expect everyone to have the same combat output). I also have a preference for starting a game gear starved and then trickling the gear players want throughout the game, but I also express that in session 0 so that everyone knows. This guy is the worst of all worlds, explicitly unbalancing the party and only gear starving some characters while gear feasting another. +5 stuff doesn't even exist in my games and in the unlikely event that it did, it would absolutely be end game. No DnD is better than bad DnD.

Re: The confusing dm story Sounds less like a new dm and more like a loon. Dude is straight up making up conspiracy theories when more than 9 people (counting the prior games mentioned) all tell him the same issue is his stupid convoluted railroady set-up.

I feel like most of these DM's just have no imagination or improv skills. I DM'd a home brew campaign on Roll20 a few years ago. At one point the party came upon a set piece boss (a big magi-tech robot) that I worked really hard on, and was super excited for the fight. The party managed to kite the golem back to the portal they came from and unleashed it upon the mercenary fort (and the poor countryside). I let it happen, because it was awesome, and they deserve to have fun in their adventure. After that session, I went back and adjusted the merc fort map to be half destroyed and strewn with bodies. I made it a point that whenever the party was out in the wilderness, they could hear it's thunderous footsteps and robotic voice echoing through the valley. TL:DR Don't railroad the players, improv on the fly.

1st Story I am Shocked SHOCKED they did not talk about adopting a Dog

@raicantgame6634

Жыл бұрын

*Looks at one of my games in which the rogue is now engaged to an NPC and they have, in fact, adopted a dog*

"What do you mean you want to buy ALE from a TAVERN... verrrrry suspicious...." like. What.

On the just plain creepy, crispy I don’t know if you know, but there is a One Piece dnd series that has been running for awhile run by Rustage (who is a nerdcore rapper) with some other one piece / anime youtubers, and having been following that community for awhile and been in one of biggest fan areas of that series (both the discord and wiki), I’ve seen quite a few one piece inspired dnd games pop up since then, and my god are some of them just as bad. Having had a look at a few, a lot of those creepy and weird one piece fans see it as a way to indulge in their fantasies. It hasn’t been a major problem, but I’ve definitely seen a couple examples of it, not a fun time, I imagine that game and that dm is definitely one of those people. But also, if ya like one piece and dnd, check that series out while you’re at it, it’s a great example of what a good one piece inspired dnd game looks like.

Pov your name is jared and your listening to this awkwardly

Quick question as someone playing a Sorcerer for the first time: With Quickened Spell, is it like.. a point of contention or debate as to whether you can cast multiple spells per turn or not?? I thought that, as long as the casting time allowed it, you could cast as many spells as you wanted per turn

@TheGhostFart

Жыл бұрын

that would be INSANELY broken if it worked that way

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

Apparently the rule with quickened spell (or any bonus action spell) is you can only cast one leveled spell per turn. If you use a bonus action for a leveled spell the action that same turn can't be a leveled spell, but it can be any other action or a cantrip. Quickened spell could also be used for two cantrips in one turn.

@friendbright5375

Жыл бұрын

@@ArcCaravan Thank you for explaining! I only play with one or two close friend groups, swapping DMs, so a lot of the times smaller or more technical rules like that tend to be forgotten or just ignored lol, I'll talk to the current DM to see if he wants to play with that rule or just toss it since we've gotten this far with ignoring it

@bellumdorf3360

Жыл бұрын

@@ArcCaravan from what I understand once you cast a spell as a bonus action(Before or after your bonus action) you are locked into a cantrip as the action(or something like that), that being said, action surge can let you cast 2 leveled spells EDIT: Been a while so I could very well be wrong

That anti-magic GM sounds exactly like an old GM I played with once. Yikes, did they read from the same book on how to be a bad GM?

I heard the first story before.

ANTI magic DM: are you shitting me what in the actual fuck did I just, he is supposed to be a DM, My first campaign ever that Im running right now looks better, AND IM MOSTLY WINGING THIS SHIT

That second story: Look I do a lot of RP/ERP and my advice here is to do exactly what OP did, as a matter of fact, don't wait for a second red flag. If the entire store/group/server thinks your an idiot for doing it, let them, especially if you made the personality for your character.

That creep DM should be able to be prosecuted for harassment. No way he does that in a game and doesn't do it in real life.

Last DM is gross. May evil be upon him.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

Not as bad as the "One Piece" DM.

How do you make a role play fantasy work?

Okay. That first game should have been interactive fiction (meaning the video game genre). On the one hand, nine or ten players aren't a problem when you've taken away their ability to do anything but the one action which advances the story, and I can see that having more players might imply a greater chance of somebody doing the right thing at the right time. The problem is you've also told them all to solo the adventure. Also, you forgot to tell them they can reload the game every time they do something that doesn't work - or forgot IF kind of depends on that ability because it isn't flexible enough to let players find their own ways of approaching problems. I'd like to think I'd have given it five more seconds to see if somebody came out of nowhere to clobber the old man, and then tried to do it myself, just to make sure this isn't the kind of anime-inspired setting where characters can be openly perverted because they still have no chance of getting anywhere. (While I'm dubious about inserting that into a One Piece campaign it's possible.) But honestly, I probably wouldn't have waited either.

I've been in 14 player game, comes down to Professionalism.

About the last 3 stories... yeah, I don't think "don't do that" can be stated enough.

Every single DM just needs to write a book. D&D is the wrong medium to express their self-indulgent stories and creepy fucking desires.

Both stories seem to have trolling DMs.

bard = not horny? THIS IS BEYOND SCIENCE

To Jared, Don't do That

There is a One Piece ttrpg? Anyone know when i can find it.