Crispy looking up a pronunciation and then turning around IMMEDIATELY to mispronounce it is the funniest gag on this channel.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

Sounded like he got a bad source.

@TheZMage

Жыл бұрын

@@ArcCaravan I mean I’m pretty sure that’s not a real word, but still mispronounced

@chio5709

Жыл бұрын

@@ArcCaravan As someone who sometimes looking up pronunciation, I can assure you sometimes I still managed to get it wrong 🥲

@MegaMato

10 ай бұрын

Cuisinartist!

@bigjelly3384

9 ай бұрын

​@@TheZMageit's the french word "cuisiner" which means "to cook"

That DM in the last story is an absolute legend. From the slow gathering of the d20s, to the final message spelled out in hot pitch. *Chef's kiss*

@aegisScale

Жыл бұрын

Lesson learned: *_Don't be creepy at an LGS._*

@schwarzerritter5724

Жыл бұрын

Much better solution that establishing expectations and saying "no" when they are crossed. Especially with newbies.

@foji-video

Жыл бұрын

@@schwarzerritter5724 sure, but still, the player did ask for realism. I would have done what the DM did (well maybe less dramatic in getting the dices, thumbs up to him for that :D) and then said that. There is a chance someone actually understands

*That Guy:* "I kill the bar tender and [!@#$] the waitress!" *The entire FLGS:* "You can have my d20!" "And my d20!" "And my axe!"

Me: you should always pick out of game solutions Me, upon hearing this last story: LET THE WRATH OF D20S BE UPON HIM

@hopejohnson6347

Жыл бұрын

a similar thing happened to one of our shadowrun players who felt kind of invincible because he was playing a shapeshifter with regeneration ability... and picked a fight in a Redneck bar with 40 patrons and a Troll bartender, all armed with run-off-the-mill semiautomatic heavy pistols... 80 bullets in one IP shut him up pretty quickly.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, saying "solve it out of game" feels like a go to response to problem players getting comeuppance. It's not like the other players did something worse than the original sick act.

@amaeliss7827

Жыл бұрын

@@ArcCaravan true but it can most definitely escalate needlessly the situation. Saying to someone "mate, we're playing a game with consequences, are you sure you want to do that?" amd giving them a chance to back out is fair tbh

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

@@amaeliss7827 Definitely fair, but either action can lead to needless escalation from a problem player.

The veteran players in the last story definitely had a hunch of what was coming when the guy asked for a "realistic setting". Seems like the only reason people use that term is as code for "I want racism/sexism/homophobia to be unquestioningly accepted".

Last story: Some people think of D&D as a simple game where the DM shields players from "facing bad consequences". Then, we have DMs like this who say "yea, no, there are consequences to your actions". Props to the DM!

Yet another creep: "I want this campaign to be 'realistic!'" Me: "You keep using that word. I don't think you know what that means."

@SnivyTries

Жыл бұрын

It was very realistic! He hit on a woman who wanted no part of it, tried to do ACTIONS to her, stabbed a man in broad daylight, then barely escaped having ACTIONS done to him by 20 drunks who saw him stab the bartender.

@TigerW0lf

Жыл бұрын

@drew23201 That's the joke.

@marcusreading3783

Жыл бұрын

'realistic/realism' are massive red flags to me when it comes to works of fiction. Mainly because it seems like people think that 'realism' means that everyone is a dick, incompetent, evil or all three, especially if they are in a position of power.

@gio-gioarmani2268

Жыл бұрын

@@marcusreading3783 the only part of the "Realism" they see is the rape stuff they read in dark fantasy books like The Witcher (wich even that has nearly none of that and its stated to be heavily frowned uppon), and thinks its realistic

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

@@marcusreading3783 They assume "realistic" means dark fantasy.

I think the DM in the last story handled it perfectly. They're all strangers in the situation from what I can gather, and it's easier to make a mark with humiliation than a talking-to that will likely get ignored.

That Mace Windu story isn't a horror story, it's an _awesome_ story. The heroes landing a one-in-a-million shot to take out the Bad Guy. Of course, the GM could have ruled differently, saying anything past 80 defense is unhittable. Or they could have rolled with it and made Mace's second-in-command the new BBEG. Or cloned Mace. Still it was a fun story.

@juliodavila424

Жыл бұрын

This same thing happened to me when I ran SWd20. I had a bit of a showdown in a reactor room against a couple of dark jedi under the influence of the Sith. I had designed your standard vertical reactor shaft with plenty of thin railways with no safety rails, as per standard SW architectural design. It was supposed to enable some fun jumping and swinging combat. I had let the wookie pc carry a heavy blaster cannon, though it was just for spray and pray fun because it was crazy heavy even for this strength. Well, don't you know that he steps up front and crits the dark jedi. I just ruled that while they are menacingly twirling their lightsabers, the Wookie just Indiana Jones them and blast them out of the walkway, Uncle Phil style. The players talked about that moment for years.

@Emilia-gw8so

Жыл бұрын

The force meant it to be, since in the lore the force has influence over events.

@spykewyn8395

Жыл бұрын

I cried laughing, they fucking vaporized Mace Windu xD

@juliamavroidi8601

Жыл бұрын

Somehow Windu returned

The sea of D20s from the last story was genius. I know out of game conversations are important, but a stranger is more likely to remember embarrassment such as this and learn something from it, than a lecture from someone they don't know or respect. I feel like talking to him would have likely been met with push back and a focus on "the rules" rather than the morality of such actions.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

Sometimes it feels like people have to say "handle problem players out of game" automatically.

@kyriss12

Жыл бұрын

I always figured that rule only applies if you want to play with the person again. But some bridges need to be burned.

Mace Windu being absolutely obliterated by the turbo laser just made my day.

honestly man if a situation is gonna be solve in game, the last story is a perfect example of doing that. As the saying goes *WHEN WILL YOU LEARN!? WHEN WILL YOU LEARN!? THAT YOUR ACTION HAS CONSEQUENCES!*

"dont attack the guy serving the drinks." lol best line I want to use that!

My only problem with how the last story was handled was how the dm and players were supposed to find whose d20s were whose after he made that mess.

@wolf1066

Жыл бұрын

A lot of long-term players are likely to have their own sets, so their D20s are probably unique to them. So long as he didn't buy the same as what the other players have, all the ones he bought should be easy to eliminate and then it would just be give the appropriate dice back to the players.

@catcrazycat66

Жыл бұрын

I imagine everyone grabbing a d20 and proudly saying "This d20 brought down a IRL jerk!"

That last story genuinely had me in stitches, once the DM started asking to borrow everyone's dice I knew exactly where it was headed, glorious.

_quietly fading into the background_ "Seriously, you allos get horny for robots?" I'm sORRY CRISPY 😭

@marcusreading3783

Жыл бұрын

2B. Nuff said.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

Rule 34: if it exists, there's porn of it.

I'm amazed at the balls the guy had to "accidentally" roll 6d20

"How could a half-orc have a human child?" I don't know, maybe his daughter inherited more of his human half than orc. There's always that chance.

Story 2 Just because someone is nice to a person does NOT mean it is love. It’s called SYMPATHY.

@marcusreading3783

Жыл бұрын

Or hell, just basic manners or being friendly. Positive interaction does not mean they want to smashy smash. For some reason, people have forgotten that.

@aegisScale

Жыл бұрын

It's a lesson lots of guys need to learn, but really struggle to . . .

@deancarruthers444

Жыл бұрын

As someone who was a part of that group the man was very desperate, he just had a falling out with a previous relationship that he didn't take well and he very much so started to adopt Nice Guy/Incel vibes and repeatedly tried to get back with the person who called the relationship off with him or and something I only found out about later on which pissed me off about him even more. Tried to get together with one of his previous girlfriends friends who was already married! He burnt down every bridge he ever had and even though he did a lot of terrible things and it's unlikely he'll ever change I still hold that shred of hope that he will since I tried my best to help him from spiraling like he did.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

@@marcusreading3783 Either forgotten or never learned.

@shinami3758

Жыл бұрын

@@marcusreading3783 You assume they ever learned it to begin with.

Was playing a rogue in a game when some new kid wanted to join and play one too. Tried to demand I change my class and that I was "playing him wrong" because I wasn't brooding and being mysterious and passive aggressive to the party. (I was playing a foppish and happy swashbuckler whose biggest loves in live were a good drink a good story and to teach children new bad words). When the DM told the kid to either get off my back or leave he relented and made his "proper" rogue. Said rogue's first action was to threaten the bartender who just so happened to be my rogue's childhood friend for free drinks and drawing his daggers on tbe barkeep. Not having any of this shit my swashbuckler strode up to him and plunged my rapier into his back killing his character instantly with a lucky crit sneak attack. To which the kid lost his temper saying I couldn't attack other party members. The DM told him if he wanted to play stupid games he would win stupid prizes.

Last story rocked. It was way faster and more legendary than any out of game convo could ever be. If a player insists on such deranged acts (like sexual assault) that everyone else at the table is like "yeah, there's no salvaging this player", going ham on his character (then telling the player not to come back next session) is the sickest way to boot the player and will go down in history for the remaining party. I bet they still talk about it.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

It's not even like they had any reason to want the guy back, he was a stranger forcing his horny fantasy on a public game. There needs to be more reason to solve a problem out of game.

Yeah, that Mace Windu story, more accurately a variety of similar events, is probably why that vitality/wound point thing doesn't exist in later editions

@TheGolux

Жыл бұрын

I don't think it's necessarily a bad system in concept but the critical rule is a problem, it should be more like "critical hits automatically deal 1 wound" (or 1d4 wounds or something).

@aegisScale

Жыл бұрын

@@TheGolux well that and there should be a few natural increases to the total Wound Points (like a small bump once every 4-5 levels or something like that).

@TheGolux

Жыл бұрын

@@aegisScale Yeah a few natural increases (one per HD, or a couple per 4/5 HD, or something) would also help.

@alarkhar

Жыл бұрын

it exists in Starfinder, as Stamina/HP - but HP grow just like Stamina, so a dude whose Stamina gets bypassed still has a good chance to stay alive nonetheless.

@rorrim0

Жыл бұрын

@@TheGolux Well it kinda seems like in this situation something was off balance but if you pull back and think, mace was shot by a gun turrent directly. Jedi are still human and if he had lived wouldn't there be an argument for how video gamey thatd be?

Again, not really the main topic in the last story.... But my half-orc is hurt by the "How could a half-orc father have a human child?" thing. For the record, he didn't have a human child, but still, he gives the tusky frown of disapproval

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

Probably the problem player thinking it'd somehow excuse his "advances" on the barmaid daughter. Is the offense at general relationship getting questioned, assuming no blood relationship, or not acknowledging adoption in-story?

@marknezanuto

11 ай бұрын

Half-orc+human=3/4human who may look most like regular human. I had player who were half-orc and had child from half-elf in her backstory wich she wanted to save from some complain plot trouble.

@midnights2631

8 ай бұрын

Out of spite, I'm having some of my characters get adopted by a half orc

Last story reminded me a LOT about some teenagers who also stopped a player from having his way with a barmaid. Swap rogue assaulting with bard casting suggestion and it being the party instead of NPCs who beat the horny PC. Also straight up killed the Bard instead of leaving the Rogue humiliated.

“Seriously, you alos get horny for robots?” killed me 😂😂

@petrichor3797

Жыл бұрын

GPU is pretty hot, Big robot mommy energy confirmed

@draconicfeline6177

Жыл бұрын

Buddy, we get horny for everything. That's what's going to save us from the alien invasion. That and our wonderful, useful hands. The two points are not related.

On that last story, the first thing that came to mind was Grog from episode 6 of the Legend of Vox Machina. " What? Oh gods no... WHAT IS THIS HELL?!!" quickly followed by "I will fucking murder EVERYONE!!!"

The DM in the last story is an absolute legend.

The last story could have continued into a beautiful redemption ark for the rogue if only he had a good intention for his character. Props to that DM for doing that with the whole bar, read like a beginning of a cartoon.

That last one? That was BRILLIANT. I loved it so very much. Now, all right, giving the little dip-ahem-STICK a good old clue-by-four in direct talk would have been all right too. "NO, you are not doing that. Period." But that... Oh yes.

The fact of the matter is that the DM has final say over the game. I think the biggest misconception about DnD is that the rules are absolute. Sticklers of the rules are typically only sticklers cause they know how to bend/break em.

Monster sheets are never the same as player sheets, if a monster or NPC has an ability not available to players that’s nothing unusual, multi attack is likely the most common non player character ability.

I only wanna put this comment out there cuz of That Guy who took Eldritch Blast and Hex with a Warlock in the party. I had a lore bard woth Eldritch Blast and Spell Sniper (was a custom lineage), but I only used Eldritch Blast if I wasn’t playing support or using a long sword and the feat was for the eventual use of Steel Wind Strike.

The wild edgelord horror story is one of the funniest I've heard in a while. Blasted by a Turbolaser is great too.

While I do agree that talking to a player, or D.M., is something that should be done, I'm going to have to disagree on that last story. From just the way the rogue's player was described, he came across with major "I won't listen" energy. Sometimes, you're going to get forced to solve the problem in game. That's just how things can go. Still not my first recommendation either.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

People seem to say "solve it out of game" and either leave it at that or admit the in-game solution was fun anyway.

@marybdrake1472

Жыл бұрын

@@ArcCaravan Not really, there have been a number of incidents on this channel, and others like where people did exactly that, dealt with out of game. And it freaking works. That said, I have very severe doubts that this rogue's player would have been amenable to that. In fact, I'm fairly certain that would not have been the case.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

@@marybdrake1472 I didn't mean to say solving problems out of game never works (I too have seen times it did), just that it seems incredibly common for these guys to just say "solve it out of game, not in-game" with no follow up.

@marybdrake1472

Жыл бұрын

@@ArcCaravan We just don't see the incidents as they happen is all. There are so many of them, and they can't all be covered by a small handful of KZread channels.

I think the final story is the best way of how to handle that type of situation in game, sure crispy argues for this to be handled out of game but this was the most immersive, fair, and well handled while not screwing up the rest of the game for the other players.

I don’t see much wrong with playing from in a private bathroom as long as you’re not using the bathroom

@aegisScale

Жыл бұрын

A car on the other hand . . .

@TheZMage

Жыл бұрын

@@aegisScale again, I don’t see much wrong with that as long as it’s quiet, you’re not driving, and you’re not currently using the bathroom

@LeRodz

Жыл бұрын

​@@TheZMage _That_ would be fine, but the guy said "as he was driving back home".

@stormer_1039

Жыл бұрын

*Taco Bell sounds intensives*

@deancarruthers444

Жыл бұрын

@@TheZMage And a big part of that argument falls onto the quality of the mic/headset being used and what noises it picks up. Bathrooms can turn into echo chambers depending on the design of them and in a car if the mic is of bad quality you'll be hearing everything like the wind rushing past the car to the mic rubbing up against things because of bumps.

I think the consent form is generally a great idea for a game in which not everyone knows each other. I've never been in a game that used one, myself. But the best games I've played in have all had discussion in session zero about what to expect, and finding out if anybody had any things they particularly didn't want to see, and generally making sure everyone is a good fit for each other. Because not everyone wants the same things, and it's okay if your game is not for everyone, as long as the people you're playing with are happy. I'm in a Curse of Strahd game that I found on Roll20, run by a guy who is running two other Curse of Strahd games, and it's basically his specialization, he's added content and is very familiar with not just the text of the module but the spirit of it. When I asked to join that game, the DM actually interviewed me in a Discord call. Nothing stressful like a job interview, but a conversation to find out about each other, where he could tell me his style and learn what I want in a game, and ensure we'd be a good fit. I think this was an excellent idea that could save a lot of people some horror stories if more DMs did this!

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

That still requires everyone to take time to work out what everyone is okay with and they all follow through. Nothing really stopping a player/DM from lying or changing their mind.

@angiep2229

Жыл бұрын

@@ArcCaravan No. We can only do so much. At this point I wouldn't play in a game that isn't the type I would enjoy, and it benefits me and everyone else if I'm honest about what I want and don't want. The only reason I can think to lie about your boundaries and play a game that has upsetting content, would be if it's a person's friend group and they are afraid of creating conflict with their friends. Which absolutely sucks.

@adnaP_esreveR

6 ай бұрын

It *would* probably prevent that "I accidentally got myself into an ERP table" story I listened to recently

I spent MANY years doing ttrpgs, and then later morphed into larping, (mostly on the side of the game master/producer) and the one thing I can say is this - player characters can and will do the GODDAMMEDEST things. The only hope I can offer to the gm/game producers out there is a combination of the Boy Scout and United States Marines mottos (ahem)..."Be Prepared to Display Adaptability"

With that mace windu one… That sort of stuff would merit a war crime.

@deancarruthers444

Жыл бұрын

It's only a war crime if you're on the losing side my friend.

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

Which stuff? Mace Windu "guiding" the senate or the player shooting him after the space fight?

@RahkshiBoi

Жыл бұрын

@@ArcCaravan the shooting a pilot with a turbo laser one

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

@@RahkshiBoi Is that a war crime in Star Wars?

@RahkshiBoi

Жыл бұрын

@@ArcCaravan it is in real life. Shooting pilots who have ejected.

The Stars Wars D20 story made me look that up as well, since I had played it before and didn't recalled a wound/vitality mechanics. Turns out, the system I played back in the day was called Star Wars Saga Edition, which was published around roughly five years later from Star Wars D20 (By the same people too) , in which they traded the Wounds/Vitality mechanic with an actual hit point systems. Just something fun that I learned. I don't have a ridiculous story to tell of my experience, saved for the fact that one of my friends saved enough money and went though all the pages of crafting to craft a net laced with thermal detonators, don't recalled how many, which they used to instant kill the BBEG sith lord. It was a experience that made me a bit annoyed afterwards, but couldn't help at looking bemused at the damages numbers that the DM calculated. We did have a good laugh from the most of it. It was a fun experience, but as said...Saga was not without its problems that DMs would probably need to be aware of.

@snorpenbass4196

Жыл бұрын

Wait, I have both systems and it was Saga edition that had the Wounds/Vitality thing. The first edition just had HP under a different name.

@Surllio

Жыл бұрын

SAGA has wounds and Vitality. I love the Saga edition. The original d20 had just hit points but its.....bad.

@jaredthehawk3870

Жыл бұрын

@snorpenbass4196 negative I'm currently playing a couple of Saga edition games and it does not have vitality and wounds. It has HP and damage threshold.

@Surllio

Жыл бұрын

@Jared the Hawk that is my misunderstanding. I knew it still had the two styles of wounds with threshold, hp, and actual wounds but at work, I didn't have the book with me to glance at.

@sheldonlarmond6217

Жыл бұрын

Shout out that old, beloved saga edition; in retrospect it was broken as all hell, but it's what got me and my friends into tabletop RPGs back when we were kids so I cant help but look back on it super fondly

The mace windu story was awesome. It truly showed that pride comes before a fall.

Glad I'm not te only person to immediately think of Vander during the last story

Thank you for calling adoption to the attention of the world that seems to despise it. As someone who is adopted and all 6 of their siblings are also adopted, it means a great deal to actually see someone besides the Shazam franchise mention it.

I would love to know what the homebrew guy would do if no matter what over powered class he said he'd play if EVERYONE in the party chose to play that too ...

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

Hard to say. Sounded like he relied on everyone being too new to intentionally try game-breaking homebrew.

Adding "I don't have enough d20s" to my list of scariest things a DM can say.

The turbolaser story isn't a horror story, but a cautionary tale about assuming what will happen in a session. No one is supposed to survive a turbolaser shot from a spaceship. Highly lethal combat is perfect for stars wars. Roll with it, make stuff up, this is why we roll dices.

That first story reminds me of something that happened in a game I played. Basically the party was going up against this mini-boss and the boss rolled the lowest in initiative. Everyone just destroyed him. I got the final blow with my steel defender that was polymorhed into a trex(we ruled that since it didn’t have immutable form, we could do that). A single attack from my giant mecha Dino finished off the boss. The funny thing is that the boss’s turn was after mine. Meaning he never got to go before the entire party just devastated him. I like to think that he was just about to give some monologue and we all just dog piled on him.

@marcusreading3783

Жыл бұрын

We had something like that happen in one of my games. Basically, we were against to high level minions who came in acting like they were tough shit and literally ended up getting ground into the lawn by us thanks to our Bard using a command spell.

@airplanemaniacgaming7877

Жыл бұрын

BBEG: _Inhales to begin speaking_ The whole party: *_"So you have chosen.....death."_*

Yeah I had an entire party who exploited my lack of knowledge. One player who I thought was my best friend who even said would let me know if. I made a mistake. Stabbed me in the back and kept lying to my face when he liked the benefits he was gaining because of a mistake I was making to exp rewards

The that guy sure seems like he's be a prime target for the old reliable *a strike of lightning hits you for 20 d10 force damage* out of nowhere DM manouver lol

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

I prefer turning every NPC into an effective enemy, personally. Both viable.

@crunchevo8974

Жыл бұрын

@@ArcCaravan same level of eff you but the npc one gives a justification in world the other is just rubbing extra salt in the wound and i... Well i am a salty bitch lol

@ArcCaravan

Жыл бұрын

@@crunchevo8974 Fair, oh so fair. I remember one story where a DM responded to a cheater by sending legendary lore figures to beat him up, promising they'd escalate into gods picking fights with him. Hilarious punishment.

The Tubolaser one made me remember a situation from my first ever GMed campaign in Warhammer 2ed. SPOILERS WARNING for Ashes of Middenheim campaign. There is this High Priest of Ulric that leads the temple in Middenheim while Archpriest is out leading his followers against Chaos Invasion. This man at one point sends PCs to find and obtain a certain Chaos artifact that he deems to dangerous to exist and vows to keep safe in his temple until a method of its destruction shall be devised. He actually wants to use it for his ritual of releasing Khorne Demon that was sealed inside this artifact. At the moment I'll be telling about, High Priest already acted against the party once, when he ordered their arrest amidst the chaos of citizens turning into mutants through city wells corruption when PCs were trying to find out who stood behind this devious act. Some o PCs still thought at the moment that High Priest really did suspect them and that he was just acting accordingly to law, but the others already started thinking of him as their enemy, they didn't just yet know of him being a leader in a local cult of Khorne. So when the characters freed themselves they were sent by the opposing Sigmar Temple to investigate certain tavern under suspicion of Chaos cult hideout being hidden inside of it. There was a funny part there when the party tried to get through the doors to the private section of the building in a crowded tavern that involved Halfling PC characterising herself as little girl (to this day no idea how he thought this will let him get in :D) and Dwarf PC passing out in a drinking contest against the barkeep that was meant to let others slip through unnoticed and eventually find trap door leading to the hideout. In the end all besides the Halfling Vampire Huntress went through to the hideout while she decided to "investigate" private rooms of the Barkeep in order to steal his valuables. The High Priest was meant to arrive at the scene and send two of his brotherhoods knights in order to kill party members in the hideout since they became a real pain in the ass for him. Since the Halfling was going downstairs now I figured that she might be the witness to High Priest ordering his men to slaughter those behind the trap doors which was meant to be the final confirmation for the party, she managed to peek from behind the corner unnoticed and when the knights went downwards, player of the Halfling laughed. So now is the moment to mention that this Halfling was initially a Grave Robber and the first thing she has done after getting free time in Middenheim was to search for some shady place where she could buy some not so legal equipment that came to be a poison with the paralysis effect of which I managed to forget about. She then dipped a dart for his blowgun in the bottle and asked if she can shoot it at the High Priest. With some sort of fear growing inside of me I let ger do that since it was fair game for her to try. She hit, but fortunately for my plans at the moment she rolled the exact amount of damage that would be blocked by her target and had to take evasive actions afterwards. Had the PC used her hand crossbow instead, the amount rolled on the dice would be enough to wound the Priest and all that would've been between him living and the BBEGs life being at the mercy of PC way sooner that it was meant too would be just one roll to see if the poison will take it's effect. To this day I remember the tension raising within me with every single second until the Player rolled for damage. Thankfully for newby me it went according to plans since at the time I might've not handle it so well. Funny thing was that the same PC through her greedy attitude and shady background tried to rob the High Priest even before those events but rolls weren't in her favor and Priest let her of the hook as a gratitude for the party retrieving the artifact (he still wanted to act as friendly towards them back then), would she succeed back then she would find out the artifact in his belongings whilst it was meant to be hidden in a vault deep under the Temple. Since then I always look through my PCs equipment and abilities to know what they can do to my plans and if I need to revise them. Sometimes it's good to just let them do that and I'm leaving the opening knowingly but there are times when I'll want to keep some parts of plot in my hands and prepare for what they can throw at NPCs or BBEGs.

My rule is "if it's unbalanced you will allow me to rebalance it on the fly." I trust my players to balance their own classes and to correctly spot and nerf abilities. You can play your weird dnd wiki class, but if I find out you have a 7d6 attack at lvl 1...give me your sheet, right now and I'm going to nerf it MORE than if you did it yourself. If you took it down to 2d6 from 7d6 and I think it's too much, we'll talk with the whole table and check it against everyone elses abilities. If it is too high, it is fine for this game, but from the next one it will have the lower stats.

Oh man, I would LOVE to be present at the table in the last story. Priceless. 🤣

The last story had me frustrated with the Newbie wanting to be realistic but I laughed when the DM had everyone attack the Newbie's character. I wish I was there in person to witness it.

For a second with that last story I thought the Edgelord was going to get a concussion from multiple D20's landing on him... this works out better though lol

Story 1 Ah yes… when the BBEG gets pwn’d by the party. First off, never have your BbEG face the party alone. Second, give them Protection or a powerful stun spell (forcecage, globe if invulnerability).

@ArcCaravan

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Sounded like Mace Windu wasn't alone and DM didn't expect an overpowered ship to get 2 nat20s.

That bartender fight was a good laugh. Well deserved.

That Windu situation reminds me a bit when I tried to run a campaign of the old Fuzion Dragon Ball Z game. It gets to a point where the ridiculous numbers in a high power setting are impossible to balance. You're either helpless or dominating with very little in between.

Never threaten the guy that pours the drinks.

7:41 Can't believe Mace Windu got blasted with an Anti-ship cannon like Mu La Flaga from Gundam Seed

25:55 HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! That's GREAT! Give that DM an award!

Yay! I was just trying to find something to watch while I get ready for work.

Crispy, I adore your videos. Thank you so much for keeping me entertained at my very boring job.

I was not expecting an Arcane refference in my fix of RPG horror stories.

I've been listening to your videos for a while now and just now watched through your intro, love of the esthetic.

Newbie edgelord from the last story sounds like such a peach. I bet he practiced exactly what he was gonna say in his car outside the store before walking in. He probably had a whole Google docs file on his phone of "cool" lines for different moments in the campaign. Probably has line art of that character that steals elements from other people's DeviantArt pages. I bet he streams RuneScape every night to his 4 twitch subscribers and talks about how cool his characters are.

@ArcCaravan

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You expect this guy to have subscribers? Followers at best, possibly a mod.

"No beer?" is one of my favorite rpg horror stories. I think the in-game punishment fit the crime. It didn't kill him either, and I can imagine a bunch of townsfolk defending the bartender and his daughter

I really thought Crispy was reading my own Star Wars d20 horror story at first she got weirded out cause I posted that YEARS ago 🤣

Very satisfying episode. yes there was creeps but all creeps where met with commupance.

That no beer bit was brilliant.

Being a bit of a star wars fan myself, the second he said "With the heavy turbolaser" I immediately burst laughing before I realised that the whole campaign would be derailed.

That alternative Star Wars story actually sounds kinda cool. Wonder what side Anakin would've taken.

The last one was chef's kiss!

This video gave me an amazing idea for the intro session for my friends who are new to dnd for a homebrew world I've been working on, long story short, the characters would be discovering magic for the world, or more accurately, rediscovering it. However I could start it off with combat and a tutorial of sorts, before they "awaken" their full classes mid combat.

"NO MORE BEER?!" lmao what a great DM

I actually own the WotC Star Wars game (pre-revision). 😊 The campaign from this story sounds cool! I was inspired to get this game in middle school, because a starter box for it called Invasion of Theed was my very first introduction to this hobby of ours!

@ByrdieFae

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It honestly did sound like a cool story.

@emberfist8347

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@@ByrdieFae Only if you ignore the lore. Mace going tyrannical would be horribly out of character. He is not the nicest person in the world but he is still a Jedi and wouldn't take power for himself. A person who took himself hostage as he felt that was the only moral option to use as a hostage isn't going to become a dictator. Plus the idea the Jedi weren't onboard with the plan ignores that Yoda was in on and agreed with these talks about the Jedi temporarily holding power until they held a special election for the next Supreme Chancellor.

That final story with the sea of D20's made my day XD

Oh crispy, being shocked/horrified at the idea of sexy robots. For your own health probably don't do any diving into the transformers Fandom xD

@ArcCaravan

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Any fandom, really. If it exists, there's porn of it or there will be.

The Mace Windu moment brings to mind a philosophy I have DMing my new game: always plan for multiple outcomes. I go by the three S's, "going straight," "going south," and "going sideways." Going straight is when things go according to plan. Good luck seeing this most of the time. Going south is the Bad End when the party fails but the campaign isn't over. Going sideways applies to both Hail Mary successes or "Mission Failed Successfully" moments, preparing for unlikely outcomes. I mean, if you put your BBEG in front of your party before the findle then you've gotta expect them to try something and have a plan in case they gain thr upper hand, ideally something that isn't a copout, railroading, or a deus ex machina

Last story is amazing

much fun, very entertainment

For Star Wars fans who might not know: there's now SW5e! Still different from normal D&D (e.g. uses a single pool of Tech/Force points rather than spell slots), but it's fun as heck!

Yay I love rpghorrorstories

If you put something in a fight, some players will assume that they can kill it (or sometimes adopt it). That's just how player-minds work. The Starwars DM had only himself to blame have having such rigid story ideas and not taking player antics into consideration.

@ArcCaravan

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Probably relied on everyone being familiar enough with the plot to avoid fighting a top tier character so soon. That and not expecting a game breaking ship and double nat20s.

@l0stndamned

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@@ArcCaravan People highly familiar with the plot/setting are the most likely to try something like that. They're often the ones with over-thought ideas about possible weaknesses and the like.

I'd call that Mace Windu story a win. I've had my own bosses completely obliterated unexpectedly early, and the only thing to do is take the L and tell the players how thoroughly they have saved the day

No joke that Star Wars system sounds cool I might have to try it out

Playing from a bathroom is not as bad as one guy I played with who played from a TRUCK HE WAS DRIVING. In the middle of the game, he muted himself, and left the call a few hours later. I've never heard from them again. Hope nothing happened to them.

Gooooood ass day when crispy update

I know how to save the Star Wars campaign, just hit the players with a “somehow, Palpatine returned” and by killing Windu he’s able to take control of the senate. I’m sure players universally would love that

Okay, not gonna lie. That Star Wars AU? I'd so watch that setup in a show or something.

@CrispysTavern

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Yeah, I really enjoyed the read. That AU was actually pretty creative and well thought out. For a fan AU, of course.

@pallydan893

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@@CrispysTavern A Droid harem is an actual thing and it's not what you think, it's a collection of astromech droids (R2's model) purpose varies, but most notable is in the finale of the Droids cartoon The Great Heap's that was used as disposable batteries. And yes the exact words Droid Harem were used.

@emberfist8347

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@@pallydan893 And R2-D2 fell in love with one.

As a new dm i 100% ran sus stuff past my dad who was a forever dm who played a ton of rifts, wich is its own jankfest so hes super good at balance. He caught a ton of broken b.s. some of it a few levels ahead of time. Ill never forget when i sent a pic of a sheet while on the phone and he just laughed and said no. Edit: Never even told me why

Ugh. ADOPTION IS A THING, YA'LL. And BOOM, a half-orc miraculously has a human daughter. EDIT: LOL yay, Crispy agrees with me.

@ArcCaravan

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Both adoption and half half-orc are valid.

@shadiafifi54

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Or she could be his niece from a human half-sibling.

@ArcCaravan

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@@shadiafifi54 That'd still be niece, adoption, or a lie about her being his daughter.

I remember one game a girl got back late due to either doing drugs? or being at I think an orgy? maybe both, and then started showering in the middle of the game. She was late often in that way but she was a blast to play with

Situations like the first story explain why you should never have the party confront BBEG before it’s part of the storyline. Make it their right hand/ substitute or anything, that way if they get destroyed it just adds motive for BBEG instead of destroying the scenario.

@emberfist8347

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I would have used a body double or something.

Intro. It's the other relatives pounding on the door and saying "hurry up in there, I've gotta go!" that'd make the game very interesting...

I shamelessly stole a joke from Cyanide and Happiness that ended very similar to this, but it was playing a game called "The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen" . One player tried to trip me up by saying that I had to fight the biggest guy in the yard (I had gone undercover in a Chicago prison to get a clue to find an ancient treasure, don't ask), and after I punched the guy everyone in the yard turned to me. "He just punched out Big Hug Bill!"

Now I'm imagining a homebrew stat block for a "Drunkard Swarm"

TIDAL WAVE OF D20S I LOVE IT!

Mace windu was vaporized like Gohan versus cell the final beam struggle.

For the Mace story, I think the key is to not make the story based on a single plot point or character at critical points if you want it to advance. If it had been Mace with a group of Venators that were about arrive out of hyperspace at xxxx time after the master attacked to bombard the battle site if the fight was going bad for the BBEG, then there would be a backup to Windu being less then a fly on a jet going mach 2. While I do not like railroading, if the plot was to let them play to escape, then have a simple backup. Never have one point of failure in a plan, even Mace would agree...maybe not as we all saw in the movies. Honestly, did none of the Jedi think have little floaty droids that could have recorded the whole thing and live-streamed it to the Republic social media when Palpatine went bad in the movies?

Never mess with the bar owner, either.