Puffin Forest

Puffin Forest

I make animated videos about RPGs. Thanks for stopping by!

I animate using FireAlpaca to draw the images and Hitfilm 4 Express to give them motion. Both of those programs are free and great. I highly recommend them. I also used Moho 12 (Anime Studio) for the lip-sync scenes, but it's pretty bad as a drawing program. I use FireAlpaca to draw.

A few videos are exceptions to the process above. Adobe Animate was used exclusively for the following videos: Nobilis, D&D Character Cat, Should the GM Cheat, and Critical Role. However, I switched back because I didn't like Adobe Animate as a drawing program.

Also, all of my artwork, for the first year, was made using a mouse. The "Critical Role Animation" video was the first one where I used a drawing tablet (Cintiq 13HD).

I use a Blue Yeti microphone.

I closed my PO BOX recently!

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  • @kgmindustries8121
    @kgmindustries812111 сағат бұрын

    That story is awesome, though at least in 5e, SINCE you said they were high level PC's, I'm guessing either not optimized or not that strong. The PCs I DM for aren't this easy, especially because the Nalfeshnee is low in power even for a CR 13. I've had groups (of 4) nuke that thing down at literally level 8 with equipped with slightly below average magic items, using MAYBE 20% resources, it didn't even last 2 full rounds. Partially because it's AC was too low, and magic weapon spell is far too easy a fix. Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I wish monsters by the book were a LOT more powerful. I need 3rd party/custom material for it to even feel like a real fight. Power gaming PC's are far more than the rules were designed for.

  • @emceesmith6665
    @emceesmith666518 сағат бұрын

    One day Will will fulfill his destiny and play the character he was born to conquer all of TTRPGs with Chadwick Strongpants

  • @phoenixdzk
    @phoenixdzkКүн бұрын

    Sounds like the Once Upon a Time show, but hilarious!

  • @ErenOzsoy-mm7lp
    @ErenOzsoy-mm7lpКүн бұрын

    İ hate incompetent dm’s that cant kill there team when they do something like this also dont give them all the freedom they are free to coose how to hide but not free to confront the enemy Face on

  • @maxstone3779
    @maxstone3779Күн бұрын

    @0:40 Today I saw Wiggins Watermelons and thought of this video. Ü

  • @ErenOzsoy-mm7lp
    @ErenOzsoy-mm7lpКүн бұрын

    You are so toxic whith this overly opinionated idea of 4E also its night time so ofcorse they playing badly

  • @ErenOzsoy-mm7lp
    @ErenOzsoy-mm7lpКүн бұрын

    What ı hear is a good dm and a bad pufinforest

  • @InspectorGadget923
    @InspectorGadget923Күн бұрын

    Rather than splitting reality in two I would have had the players roll up new characters for the same quest. After all, multiple groups were heading to find the gold.

  • @Eantrin
    @Eantrin2 күн бұрын

    First level, Ben New player, Ben!

  • @elmeromogollon
    @elmeromogollon2 күн бұрын

    ace detective? more like [redacted]

  • @crossfiyah674
    @crossfiyah6742 күн бұрын

    Lmao did you ever actually play 4e or did you just make this video for clicks? Because I don't think you got a single thing factually right in 22 bloated, unfunny minutes.

  • @elmeromogollon
    @elmeromogollon2 күн бұрын

    Those old cards are played in gift decks xD, I mean that there are cards that the effect is that you give a card to the opponent, once a friend gave me the leveler so I lost the game, I dont see any other way that card could be played xD.

  • @IIIGioGioStarIII
    @IIIGioGioStarIII2 күн бұрын

    I ran CoS and when I saw the Gurtruda thing in the book, I was just so ick'd out. The book technically doesn't state how old she is, but the way they present her feels like at the oldest she is freshly 18 and at the youngest 14/15. Regardless of the situation, finding her in Strahd's bed under the Charm Effect from Strahd just felt like a can of worms. I get that WotC wanted to give us all the reasons to not like Strahd, but they didn't need to make him look like he needed the FBI called on him for the white van and candy.

  • @Xytler2
    @Xytler22 күн бұрын

    HEY! as a californian, screw you ben XD

  • @TheCAPIreland
    @TheCAPIreland3 күн бұрын

    An interesting if doffernet take. I appreciste that, as ive grown older, ive started to like complex rules more. Pf2e is defo complex rules, but they serve a purpose of greater and greater freedom. If you consider the "creativity in a box" idea, I think pf2e is one of the best bixes ive ever seen. The insanity that i know someone whose played 3 clerics in back to back camphains and has said each of them felt mechanically and fundamentally different is such a boon to the system. I do see your point in it being crunchy, but its also crunchy in the best way in my opinion. +1 seems like nothing, but in a good party ypu'll habe a way to give youeself a +1, your team mates will give you antphwr +1, and then tactical play with ypur team could give you as much as +4 to hit, but you have to engage with them and the system and the fight to do that. Ive not had a fight yet in pf2e that I've felt bored dueing my teams turn yet, and thats because their turns matter to me. If they move and take his reaction, my turn is inpacted. If they grapple him that might change my turn entierly. If they cass bane then i need to work out how to work with that effect to increase its effectivness. Tldr: i see your point, but i cant go back to 5e after playing this. Its everything i wished 5e had been.

  • @Oroberus
    @Oroberus3 күн бұрын

    Putting Sorc and Warlock below Wizard is borderline a human rights violation tbh Wizards are the moooooooooooooooooooooooost boring class EVER

  • @Tuss36
    @Tuss363 күн бұрын

    That he mentioned picking a Warpriest would mean that he probably started with Essentials, which does indeed have much more limited ability choices as it was intended as a simpler onboarding approach. For a mental image, you know those intro character sheets where it also adds what you get at level 2/3? Imagine that but all the way up to level 30, admittedly with some choices between 2-3 powers. Not surprised one would find it less than filling in terms of choices.

  • @linuxwinbingingdunlopy5159
    @linuxwinbingingdunlopy51593 күн бұрын

    I've run alot of genesys, the setting agnostic version of the system used for fantasy flight star wars. In my experience players really enjoy the narrative dice system, it has baggage here and there when it's hard to interpret roles, but for the most part people like it.

  • @masonwilliams9545
    @masonwilliams95454 күн бұрын

    mon calamari are the akbar race not octopuses

  • @Oroberus
    @Oroberus4 күн бұрын

    Not understanding why they still make the monk drive was a joke, right? Please tell me it was a joke ... noone can be THAT smoothbrained to not get it ...

  • @Oroberus
    @Oroberus4 күн бұрын

    What is wrong with your brain dude? I can vividly remember pretty much the WHOLE of FF7 while having it played last in 1998 xD

  • @Oroberus
    @Oroberus4 күн бұрын

    In which world does 10x5 equal 12?! I'm thinking about this for 5 minutes now and I literally can't find ANY way in which 10x5 would equal 12, no read as 10d5, not read as 10.5, not read as 10*2-5, there's LITERALLY no way to get to 12 from 10x5 xD

  • @ZacHalls
    @ZacHalls4 күн бұрын

    So if the girl has the mind of the cat, then that means the skeletal cat has the mind of the girl?

  • @Oroberus
    @Oroberus4 күн бұрын

    Huh, interesting, just had a random encounter happen yesterday that ended with 3 dead Nalvashnee and perfectly healthy 5 characters xD

  • @LoarvicLoarvic
    @LoarvicLoarvic4 күн бұрын

    What level were they?

  • @Oroberus
    @Oroberus4 күн бұрын

    @@LoarvicLoarvic 11 and pretty minmaxed

  • @LoarvicLoarvic
    @LoarvicLoarvic4 күн бұрын

    @@Oroberus and I was fearing that one nalfeshnee and 2 barlgura is too much for 5 level 11 characters

  • @JaelinBezel
    @JaelinBezel4 күн бұрын

    Friends don’t let friends commit unlawful search and seizure

  • @BasementDweller_
    @BasementDweller_5 күн бұрын

    I think the lesson is that players should be able to change characters if they start to not like them. The fact you couldn’t have a story reason to leave so it resulted you to go to extreme lengths speaks for itself.

  • @BasementDweller_
    @BasementDweller_5 күн бұрын

    I need to use it in my future games.

  • @Akeche
    @Akeche5 күн бұрын

    Wait wait wait, your combats have been TWICE as long in PF2e? How??

  • @mcostagirl123
    @mcostagirl1235 күн бұрын

    I'm sorry, but how did you think 10 x 5 equalled 12? It's pretty basic math.

  • @Oroberus
    @Oroberus6 күн бұрын

    The thing I noticed in most of such horror stories, both from DMs and from players is that the DMs are just REALLY bad and/or lazy DMs in terms of actually 'mastering' instead of just do what a module tells them to do. Information X is at Place A but it's obvious that the group will NEVER go to Place A? Well, how about you tell the module to fuck off and relocate the information to Place B? Being a DM is NOT just acting along the module, being a DM is improvising a fun and interesting adventure, if this works alongside the module? Cool! If it doesn't? Yeah fuck the module, it's your responsibility as DM to MAKE it work

  • @Oroberus
    @Oroberus6 күн бұрын

    The lack of animated turtle shagging is quite dissappointing!

  • @Oroberus
    @Oroberus6 күн бұрын

    13:05 Arcane Blacksmith: "Most of the work is done, the magical speaking sword is nearly finished, I just need to work out the kinks now!" Sword: "I like feet!"

  • @Steve19906
    @Steve199066 күн бұрын

    This is so cute

  • @gearsofdawn
    @gearsofdawn6 күн бұрын

    What edition was this? I think 5th requires a 13 at least in each stat to do this. I have rolled that well once, but i didnt realise the hyjinx i could have pulled.

  • @CatLover-gk8uu
    @CatLover-gk8uu5 күн бұрын

    Well you do by the rule books, but if the group chooses you can always just ignore that rule.

  • @dragonmaster613
    @dragonmaster6136 күн бұрын

    What happened to Garo reminds me of how i multiclassed my Assimar (fallen) Blood Hunter (Lycan) into Hexblade. Same event but with the Raven Queen blessing.

  • @Oroberus
    @Oroberus6 күн бұрын

    8:20 I'd like to quote one of the really important canonical characters of DnD: Fireball! - Nixie, Tiefling Sorceress

  • @mythicus420
    @mythicus4207 күн бұрын

    man, the Animated Armor + Specter at level 3? i just got a party through the same fight at lvl 1! now THEY had a struggle! lol

  • @lilapy1430
    @lilapy14307 күн бұрын

    Im a huge fan of character customization.

  • @koltantolliver7098
    @koltantolliver70987 күн бұрын

    Use pulp

  • @icesharkk6399
    @icesharkk63997 күн бұрын

    wait a second. the stone... has an entire aboleth inside of it? you know one of the only monsters in the manual that has more mental fuckery going for it than the chin tentacles they nopeaway from... fuck man thats evil.

  • @sebastionherring4196
    @sebastionherring41967 күн бұрын

    Puffin it’s been months, where have you gone my friend?

  • @Jo-Heike
    @Jo-Heike8 күн бұрын

    A little more positivity and you might redeem yourself from your first review video.

  • @Carpalorbit
    @Carpalorbit8 күн бұрын

    Japan isn't real, stop spreading this propaganda

  • @Sahlokhviir
    @Sahlokhviir8 күн бұрын

    Langdedrosa Cyanwrath is male btw, also love hoard of the dragon queen, hard af but good

  • @christianlecroy980
    @christianlecroy9809 күн бұрын

    I kinda miss the long form story version of this.

  • @benjaminoechsli1941
    @benjaminoechsli19419 күн бұрын

    "This clumsy character with a high chance of damaging allies carries dynamite with him everywhere. If you think you know where this is going-" _laughs_ "-the answer is yes!"

  • @mechaulfr9600
    @mechaulfr96009 күн бұрын

    I forget if I've responded to this or not. My Barbarian managed to rock his shit. The dragon fight happened before. It was a nasty encounter, but my barb managed to avoid being hit at all. (The dragon fire straffed the fortress.)

  • @justing2324
    @justing232410 күн бұрын

    Smiling? In Call of Cthulhu? Obvious villain

  • @schwarzerritter5724
    @schwarzerritter572410 күн бұрын

    Do you have more information about All-Play?