D&D Players, what's the COOLEST THING a DM has done for your campaign? #2
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- D&D Players, what's the COOLEST THING a DM has done for your campaign? #2
D&D Players, What was your best "Wait...what?!" moment?
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I was proud of this, so I'll share it.
I ran Tomb of Annihilation (spoilers ahead), and I gave my brother (not part of the campaign) all the players' phone numbers (we're friends, so no harm done) and had him play the role of Acererak. I fed him updates as to what they're doing and other such information and he would text them from an unknown number. This would include taunts, snide remarks, sowing lies and mistrust, etc., just over and over. When the time came, I had my brother call on and ran Acererak on the final fight.
that's.... amazing
That is sadistic dude. I love it~
I did a homebrew mix of curse of Strahd for the next campaign (same players) and without telling them, I had him call in again to play the final boss. Their reactions to once again have to face my brother were a mixture of anger, disbelief, humor, and other such emotions, but it was priceless to me
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Thats actually *amazing*. I love this. Im a new dm who's actually starting my first campaign in a couple weeks, and am actually playing through my player's backstories first to help get them more attached to their characters, and honestly, I've been looking through this stuff for ideas on how to improve my campaign. I can't do what you did here, but that's damned cool lol
@@gabrialsperka422 if you ever run tomb of annihilation, I highly recommend this tactic
I want one of “wholesome DND moments” it would be adorable
Agreed
Ditto.
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Imagine writing an absolutely amazing double group campaign ending in an also double group finale an STILL not thinking it was good enough for your players. I may be fresh to dming but I hope to be that kinda of dm some day
Nothing ever goes as planned and never feels good enough even when your players think it's perfect and enjoyed themselves.
I am currently doing that as Dm, they have been playing parallel for a year now, and have crossed once briefly, but will again soon, because their ultimate goal, of each campaign, coincides
Does, cleaning, setting up for the game, cooking, making miniatures, creating a homebrewed world with years of lore, creating and updating the players character sheets when they get bored and rerole on every five sessions, making a playlist for every single encounter and environment, designing dungeons, building terrain, and the countless hours of research count?
Well I’m a new DM and all of my players are all fairly new to DnD. And I decided to surprise them with world maps of the places they’ve been and are going to. Such as the whole continent the campaign is taking place on, the main inn the players are staying at, town maps, and even small planes where a few fights took place. I’ve also been drawing character designs of the players and the important NPCs they run into. And because we’ve been running the campaign over discord, I used screenshare to show off these designs, maps, and even had a player go into a separate call when he got separated from the party as they were solving a series of kidnapping cases in the first town they traveled to. And all of this prep was only made in a few days before the very first session
New players make up nearly HALF the player base nowadays.
@@deergod8292 I don't see anything wrong with that. It's people finding a new hobby and trying it out for the first time
That’s very cool of you, you seem like you’re doing very well as a DM
I'm stealing the idea of having an off-camera player controlling a BBEG.
My friend was DMing his first campaign and added three particularly cool features. First, he included a homebrew technique system that allowed each of our party members to have a random power from a list of over 100+ abilities. My monk got fire manipulation. Our barbarian could turn into a gorilla. The warlock could increase other’s strength. Our rogue could turn into a shadow form. Finally, our fighter could control the weather. The second cool thing he did was introduce a new material that could change forms when it was refined. We received an unrefined version, but it was not useless. We found a gnome who was willing to infuse our pre-existing items with it. Each infused item got a new perk of our choosing. My flame tongue deals radial fire damage now. Our fighter (a suit of animated armor) can now morph his hands into other weapons. etc. Third, our DM is making the campaign based on our backstories. He started us out with a simple bandit quest to try and get some health potions. After that, we began to do some guild work. We have done a few quests throughout the land for the guild, but our backgrounds keep coming back. Not too long ago, we came across an old friend of my monk back when he was a royal guard, or posing as one (long story, 4 pages in fact). Our fighter’s backstory was brought up in a book we checked out at one of the local libraries. After that, we began a kraken story arc. Surprise surprise, our warlock is a kraken cultist, and this is an enemy kraken. All of this is happening while the threat of an invading army looms closer and closer. An army which my character betrayed earlier in his life (once again, long story). Our campaign is not over, but our DM said everyone’s backstories will appear at least once.
The short version: In a campaign (that lasted 1 year irl) where demons, fae, evil gods, and anyone who worshiped them was hunted down, making Warlocks automatic criminals, I played a True Neutral Warlock whose patron was a Succubus, but portrayed myself as a devotee of the Goddess of Love, wielding enchantment and illusion magic to serve as support for the rest of the party. From Lvl 3 to Lvl 20, they never learned what class Pitorious truly was, thinking he was just a Wizard or Sorcerer, and we took down the BBEG, some Dark Lord obsessed with power, with me playing 2nd chair to everyone along the way. Each player says what our PCs do post campaign and agree to meet up 1 year then every 5 years after the Dark Lord's defeat.
During a get together following a one-shot a couple months later, the DM speaks with each of us privately, letting us borrow dice to make various rolls. One player rolls well and notices that, despite Pitorious letting everybody else take the spotlight, he was the most famous and possessed the most influence out of everyone in the party, so decides to investigate. That investigation leads me to be called in, a conversation between our characters, and Pitorious assassinating his comrade to keep the revelation he is a Warlock secret.
A couple weeks later, we meet up to play a sequel to the original campaign, with our first mission being to investigate our comrade going missing. The other players find a journal pointing to Pitorious being a Warlock, leading to another confrontation, which led to the other players fleeing the kingdom to one the party had previously helped win a war against to see help, believing Pitorious had gone evil and had used his vile Warlock powers to take control of the kingdom. Thus began a second 4v1 campaign (this one lasting 1 and a half years irl) between a band of heroes and a manipulator who was responsible for them becoming heroes.
It was sudden. It was unexpected. And it was glorious. The DM handled it perfectly, just presenting facts and had warned me during character creation something like this might happen, but I was thrilled. That second campaign caused all of us to play D&D in a way none of us had before; I had to take on the role of the BBEG while the rest of the party were forced to placate, work stealthily, and were constantly paranoid, where before they'd operated openly and directly, because now they were trying to turn old enemies into friends, old friends were now enemies, and had no idea who between nobody and everybody Pitorious was using his demonic powers to control. We all loved it.
The goblin commune was such a good callback. I chuckled at the thought of the goblin barbarian raging
Same, Id love to hear a followup to that and see if they ever did that gob party cuz that sounds amazing
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Those are cool dms. I am mainly interested in the book database for a high magic university of the vilhon reach.
I was actually the DM for this one but my players maintain it was the coolest boss fight they’ve ever had. Some backstory is required. My players have only recently started this campaign. I decided that to get a feel for being a Dm, as this is my first time being a Dm, that I would send them on a little side quest as a tutorial for myself on how they operate. The quest was from a lord questing them on behalf of the king to go clear a peninsula of monsters as the king wanted to expand his kingdom to the coast. The players were Dagz, a changeling rogue assassin serving as the kings personal assassin, Knuk-Knuk a human variant Barbarian who was a well known mercenary, and modron named Peg playing as a wild magic sorcerer who had existed for 63,000 years. (We had to home brew him as a rogue modron.) This turned into a full blown quest as the sessions went on including, making friends with a native were-tiger tribe, clearing an old abandoned port city of monsters, several plot related NPC’s, and two dungeon crawls. I just kept thinking of new things and added what I could. The second dungeon crawl is where this happened. This dungeon was rumored to house a mummy lord and Knuk-Knuk had a vision confirming it, but also that it was magically sealed within a sarcophagus. They thought they would be paid extra if they brought back a mummy lord. They were only level 4 and knew they couldn’t fight it. By the time they entered the dungeon the party’s cast had changed quite a bit. Peg had died quite early on and was replaced by a character with 4 different personalities each with their own class. The player would roll a d4 every time his character woke up and that would determine which character he would play until he next went unconscious, whether it be going down in a fight or just going to sleep. He was referred to collectively as Legion. A well known warrior. He was introduced as the intended 4th member of the party but he had been late and only caught up with the party after Peg died. And Knuk-Knuk had picked a fight with a level 20 Druid who one-shot him just outside the dungeon. His new character, a wizard named Josh, was searching the tomb for ancient knowledge. So they entered the dungeon and found a locked door with a six pronged keyhole down one of the two paths. After going down the other path and making it through a few fights and several puzzles, they arrived at a wall of blackness. My players had ended the last session half way through this dungeon and I already had the whole dungeon planned. So I spent the next day making the boss fight as cool as possible. I showed up at the next session with my speaker and songs prepped. Up until that point we had rarely played music during the campaign. As they stepped through the wall of blackness.They appeared in a large stadium an almost sports like arena with thousands of roaring spectators. As they appeared an announcer who’s voice could be heard over the crowd yelled, “And here are the challengers!” A spotlight illuminated them and music started to blare. I hit the play button on my phone and “Welcome to the Freak-show” started to play. I played it as if the announcer in the song was introducing them. After they made it to the center of the arena and the crowd calmed, the announcer yelled, “And now, introducing the reigning champion, Brutago the Brutal!” Music blared again. “King of Kings” erupted from my speaker as I described their opponent entering the arena sword and shield raised to the cheering onlookers. Black armor glinting, a six pronged key hanging from his neck. Brutago was a souped up Helmed Horror. Everyone rolled initiative and Brutago rolled highest. As “Courtesy call” began to play from my speaker I started to describe how the fight started. Just as the first big beat drop happened, Brutago charged. Legion had rolled his Paladin personality that day and Brutago charged him. Legion and Dagz began trading blows with Brutago as Josh tried, and usually failed, at using spells on Brutago from a safe distance. Once the final blow was landed, everyone had been injured. The final hit struck Brutago as it did, a shockwave emanated out from him forcing everyone back. Brutago planted his sword in the ground, went to one knee, and dissolved. Leaving behind only his helmet and the six pronged key. The announcer shouted, “Ladies and gentleman. Please welcome your new champions! The Freakshow!” The scene dissolved and they were back in the dungeon. My players absolutely loved that session.
Our group found a weird staff in the middle of town. DM said it was a staff of planar summoning. Each of our characters used it. Turns out we summoned our characters from other campaigns for us to use.
So my first ever campaign was a level 3 to 20, 2+ year-long journey. All of us were newer or completely new to dnd, and it was the dm's first time dming. He put so much creativity into everything though. Every character had a chance to shine, little inside jokes would find their way into the plot, he drew so much art, and did so many cool homebrew things, just to name a few of the things he did. The coolest thing he did, imo at least, was make an rpg maker game for us. There were these 2 powerful npcs that both used psionics, and at that point, we were allies with one and (somewhat hesitantly) enemies with the other. Our ally had used his powers to infiltrate the place where the other was to get info for us (without explaining too much it was another plane, so not easily accessible), and the game took place during this time, with us playing as him. In character, the dm explained it as him using his abilities to project his memories of what happened into our character's minds so we could relive what happened and learn everything he learned. It was so fun and an amazing way to learn little fun facts about the character that we wouldn't have gotten with just a recap.
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An all goblin party sounds fun! That whole goblin village one reminds me of my life as a slime lol
Let us drink healing potion as a bonus action
that's what I do with my players. they've consistently thanked me every time they do it lol. I just don't feel like it needs to take that long in game sense.
Not a player myself but the Entire Setting of Arcadum’s universe is a beautiful and breathtaking feat to pull off such as having maps for almost every place the players visit, running 9 different stream campaigns that play once a week every week for a year plus, keeping track of all the players actions as it could affect the world and the other campaigns in real time, having twitch subscribers play a part in the world and if they can progress far enough play a part in the stream games, marking every player have a cool aspect or crucial role (100+ players), and SO MUCH MORE I don’t mean to sound like a salesman or anything but I truly enjoy every second of watching the streams and I want as many people to have the opportunity to enjoy as well.
I had a touching moment as a DM that wowed a player and made them a lot nicer to a NPC that they initially hated.
The story: the party were taking a run away elf nobleman's son as a prisoner home for a reward. It was a long and dangerous journey deep into the elven woods. The ran away elf noble had been pretty much been locked away from the outside world by his family, only allowed to study at home and never leave. It made him as someone with a lot of book knowledge but a total lack of social awareness. Anyway when the party made camp this Elf talks to the party wizard, who at this point already despised him as a weakling needed to be protected in combat. The wizard was very outspoken as someone who liked and befriend the kobolds the party has meet during the campaign. The Elf very bluntly asked the wizard why he liked such "sad, pathetic creatures"? The wizard rightly took offense at this, threatened the Elf, and asked him what would he know about them? The Elf, not knowing what to say, took action. He grabbed a piece of bark from a nearby tree, some green berries nearby and a small stick. He mixed the berries together and used the stick to write on the bark. When the Elf handed the wizard what he wrote I physically handed the wizard a stylized Brown paper letter that looked like the bark with fancy green writing and all. It was a bit of lore on the kobolds and the kobold goddess, who loves and gives each of her children a warm hug in the afterlife. She herself said that life as a kobold can be seen as sad and pathetic by the other races, but she makes sure their life is happy in the end
This really touched that wizard player, and he started having some real doubts about returning the Elf to his noble family. The party did ended up returning the Elf to his family for the reward, but seeing how much the Elf nobleman mistreated his son and locked him away in his room, the party on their own planned a escape attempt to free the Elf and give him his freedom again. They succeed.
Honestly I've always loved the idea of two groups of adventurers being in the same world, for the grand final session for the two groups to work together. Cause it's awesome to see what each group has. I'd love to see this happen so I could work with another group of people I don't know, especially with my current character who's an Aasimar Devine Sorcerer/ Hexblade Warlock who is primarily a healer, utility, and eldritch blaster. With him being like this, I'd love to see the interaction with another player Cleric or Sorcerer with how unique he is.
When my boyfriend and our friend started our DnD group, they knew they were going to trade of DMing duties, so when our first campaign was winding down, my boyfriend had had a while to figure out what he wanted to do.
When the BBGE was finally defeated he dropped a peculiar amulet with a large red ruby that had a large A carved into it. His character, a Tiefling Bard (F), was the first to pick it up and she immediately disappeared. (That's how they traded over the DMing chair. XD) The party cautiously picked up the amulet and we could see her in the gem. She mimed that somebody had to touch the gem. The Elven Ranger (F) did.
At that point, the whole party was bound to the gem and we were all transported to a pocket dimension. The ER ranger could communicate with the TB through the gem and the TB was able to explain what was happening. The gem had been made by Asmodeus, as the TB was a descendant of Asmodeus, she had been sucked into a pocket dimension inside the gem that was basically a giant study/library (She was a Bard of Knowlege, so she was happy with that).
Basically, the TB gathered information from within the gem and told us how to proceed. The ER was now Queen of this dimension and we were her Advisors. We were on an island with a crumbling castle in the middle and surrounded by fog. Essentially, our mission, should we choose to accept it, is that solve the mystery of the dimension and fix up the neglected kingdom.
Here's the hook, every time we opened a door in the castle, we would be transported to a significant event in the castle's past. We'd fight the dragons and giants (by this time we were already 12-15 level) and every time we triumphed we'd come back and the castle would grow larger and the fog would become more lifted. Sometimes months would have passed and the servants would have had the Kingdom more built up. We'd find new areas of the island and form alliances with the people there.
The thing is because we were actually going to the past, we were literally becoming the Kingdom's legit legendary Heroes. Like, they had history books that talked about the mysterious heroes that showed up and saved the day, and it would describe us. It seriously blew our minds when we realized that. Talk about playing 3D chess, or perhaps, 4D chess. XD
For a Hoard of the Dragon Queen campaign, our DM gave us each a small piece of campaign related backstory, usually relating to some place or organization in a small way. In my case, it was a childhood sweetheart who went missing around the time the Cult of the Dragon became active. Towards the end, we were tasked with hunting down a high-ranking cult leader, Rezmir. On the way, we ended up having to take on a lesser cult leader to get to him. Guess where that but of backstory came in? We ended up negotiating, and she decided to help us get to a flying castle a few of the big baddies, including Rezmir were hiding, but only if we killed off a rival cult leader of similar rank to Rezmir, so that she could take his place. I don't know if the good we did there outweighs the potential bad...
In our last session, we enter a room, and we walk this path around a minature sun in a magic casing, anyway when we walk the path we have our worst memories being replayed in our minds, except the fox, He was fudging his rolls to pass the wis saves, anyway, I really liked how the dm worked our backstory into his narration. I thought it was the coolest thing ever
I'm hoping to get a Cameo from Kevin Conroy for the introduction of one of my major NPCs.
The last story sounds so fricken cool.
Not a DM moment, but I once catalogued the whole campaign through in-character journal entries and the whole table seemed flattered. Actually, that's a good idea as a DM, stick them with a bard (not the class) a la Witcher, have him spread word of their deeds...
So good! I've been DM'ing the same campaign for about 3yrs now, playing fortnightly, with the exception of temporary breaks during covid, and have just reached past our 40th session. What I've been doing for my party that I'm really excited about, is organising within the home-brew world I've made, to have everything act as of it were autonomous. In doing so, when party members interact with something from a party member's backstory, that element is then in action and moves as if it were part of the real world. Due to my large party size, I have 6 - 8 elements all moving at once. I have 1 kingdom in the brink of a civil war, an Imperium that is at war, a kingdom attempting to establish prosperous relations with kingdoms across the continent and archipelago, a flying city of Dragonborn, and various other things all continuing in the background as the party moves forward, chasing hints on who a potential bbeg might be. (I've pit a shadow dragon who is insanely strong against a group of mixed coloured chromatic Dragons. The party will decide whether or not they join one side, or backstab the side they join, because, you know, crazy powerful Dragons may not be good in world.)
Just got a new job that allows me to listen, so glad to be here!
My hubby and I DM for each other, though he runs much more because his stories are amazing. VEEEEERY long story short, I have a half-elf/half-orc princess who will eventually become a planeswalker. Her job is to lead, that's literally the name her orc mother gave her while a "slave" to her elven father. Anyway, originally picked the homebrew Dancer class, switched to bard College of the Dancer. I IRL sing, but Leadas can't carry a tune in an adamantine bucket. I picture her dances as very tribal, i.e. haka.
Anyway, her elven home is burning down. I have been stuck in the same spot for /almost a year/ due to life and my indecisiveness coupled with I don't want to make my husband's life miserable by dealing with my pouting. So I finally reached an idea. Said home is a giant tree. Guess what, that tree is sentient, and has chosen Lea as the next true successor by telling her all it's secrets (thanks, two nat 20s). Cue amazing story-telling as hubby tells of the tree showing Lea life before her, her half-brother being alone, and then the light and warmth her birth brought. She asks the tree to take her to the source of the undead invading and trying to open a portal to hell. The tree wraps her in vines and moves her down to a cavern within the roots.
Lea proceeds to mark magical tattoos her (dead?) mother gifted her with blood from the tree (demon tree, really, but very good). She then pulls amazing power from her friends and family, dancing into the heart of an undead swarm. (These moments are usually played to actual music. I think we started with Doom, so it was epic.) Her only thought is cleanse, mostly in the "I'm going to kill them all" sense. Hubby changes it to what Lea has always tried to do: heal. A golden dome erupts around Lea and anything that steps within is no longer undead. She finally goes nuclear and cleanses the entire cavern and surrounding area. There's no body to bury, and also blew the top out of the tree, thus killing it. Maybe!
Cue Lea waking up in a plane of Hell and there's her mother, waiting for her, to help her get back home. So many f*cking tears.
TLDR: slave princess character goes nuclear and reverts massive area of undead to life in wholesome session that made player cry a lot.
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You could even say that the inquisition was very inquisitive...
Here’s a idea, I’ve seen stories of people using anime/other fiction character inspired PC’s or such. What are some stories of where a character seemed to start out as a copy cat, but turned into there own person in the end?
I plan on doing something like this with an upcoming character of mine. I want to make a Dragoon from Final Fantasy
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Marissa/Pyra was very thoughtful, you could say. She did have a rule system of her own, but it was easy to follow. Basically, you roll for everything. Something she did for me was... well... not kill me. Early on, Hue had this rock that had a demon inside it, and it always told her to fight Pyra (btw, I would usually play both the demon and Hue) Hue never won these battles, and usually got hurt. I believe, after the third encounter, I just gave up and Pyra asked me if I wanted the rock destroyed, Hue said sure, and so that was that. After that, Hue tried to friend Pyra... I believe it worked, because she never died in the campaign by Pyra. (Pyra is technically part demon, and only shows her demon side at night, or enraged.)
That crossover finale sounds really awesome, even if it got derailed the players clearly had a great time with it
That ending to the video so wholesome
Matt Mercers resurrection Ritual is my favorite way to do it Ever!
This doesn't completely match the topic, but I believe it's close enough to work. MANY years ago I was DMing a campaign for some friends. My female roommate sat in as an observer on a couple of sessions and was curious. Now my party at the time was all 5th and 6th level. No way to throw a 1st level newb into it. So I suggested that if we could find a couple more new players, we could start a game. Roommate, who I will refer to as Jr. here on out, recruited her Mom (Sr.) and her boyfriend Billy. I don't want to go into IRL personalities too deeply, not enough time. But they played classes that best fit their IRL interests. Jr played a druid. Sr. Played a Wizard and Billy played a fighter. Long story short, it was the best game I ever DMed. So many stories to tell from that campaign.
So i was and still runing my first campaign that goes on in Shadowfell themed homebrew plane and i created a library that i am very proud of. It is called The Ash. From outside it looks like it is made out of burnt oak trees which are dark dark black and a lot of smoke rises from this building. When you step inside your foot immediately plunges into of ash and you see a lot of mist like smoke on the surface which escape from the windows. The source of all these smoke is the books that lie in the long bookcases. When you open a book you see the page begins to burn like a cigarette from a random point and after some time the ashes move, combine and create the page again with all the writings on them. So the library is constantly burning and fixing itself. As an outcome of all those smoke in the library people who spend a lot of their time in there (like wizards) have the tendency to cough a lot. The lore behind all of this is war very long ago. Two wizards one mastered in fire magic the other divination fought for the library as it is the source of all the knowledge in the city. And the fire wizard casted a spell that still runs today to burn this place down while the divination wizard used a wish spell to protect the books whatever happens to them. So the library is cursed and blessed at the same time.
ive heard stories about some first time DMs being potentially better than more experienced DMs, purely from writing skill and the enthusiasm of a new experience to go above and beyond. its genuinely amazing
Gave us folders, paper, filled in some empty logistical info/stat stuff for me on my character sheet in between sessions that I didn't know much about (as a beginner) so it would be ready next session, gave everyone dice sets with dice bags to borrow for the campaigns, bought a tv to use as a digital tabletop, and is overall a very fun dm
3 things my dm did that was pretty cool.
1. My shadow monk can give up some movement speed instead of bonus action to shadow step. That way I can shadow step and use flurry of blows in the same turn.
2. Our cleric throws his shield a lot, and rolled a crit fail and would have hit me but my dm let me use deflect missiles on the shield to redirect it to hit the archmage we were fighting at the time. I rolled a nat 20 to use deflect missiles and he said I didn't have to roll anything else . The archmage was low enough on hp by that time that he only had one hit left and if the shield would have hit it would have downed him so he just applied the damage. I was within 5 feet so I would have rolled at disadvantage but he said since the first roll was 20 to not worry about it.
3. We came across some water in a chamber and it had magical properties. We found out because it removed petrification from one of us. I gathered some and tested it out by mixing it with acid and poison. (The water is a homebrew of his that is basically god spit) It enhances whatever its mixed with to extremes. The poison, acid, water mix melted stone in the dungeon we were in. I'm going to eventually get glass darts made so I can throw the acid, I'm getting wax tablets made so I can mix the water with health potions and make them stronger and when needed we just pop the little tablets in our mouth to gain hp instantly in a fight. And I'm going to have access to the chamber that the water is made. So I'm definitely going to come up with more ideas.
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Was thinking about it
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I have no idea how entertaining I'd be for yall personally, but the cast itself would probably be awesome.
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Our DM had such an extensive story and such detailed plots for all of the NPC’s, that he literally changed the landscape with what armies were doing. And it was all decided by us, the players. Every so often he would give us a multiple choice of what each of the clans are doing (L5R), so by popular vote, the history of the world was decided!
It ran for four years, that campaign.
In my DM's Campaign, were doing a homebrew in the world of RWBY an Anime. Our Party was exploring the City of Mantle looking for a cave. I asked my DM if we had could have a map, she just looked around the room and jokingly grabbed a Birthday card. It had 4 different colored Llamas on it, so our party started joking around that each Llama was a trap that we had to get past. We even started saying it was the map to the Cave Of The Great Llama Grimm, and the cult that once worshiped it. By the end of the session our DM was 100% on board with this and actually changed the entire cave and the creature that lived in it to the Llama Grimm. We still don't even know what the original fight was supposed to be. But we all had a great laugh, and we even created out own type of Grimm, all because our DM used a birthday card with Llamas on it as our map.
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I am playing Pathfinders in a Pirate themed Homebrew campaign. Yes the same one where I oblitered a ghost with a mini cannon
And yes, my troublemakers were at it again.
Earlier in the campaign one of them had bought a dagger that we discovered had been cursed, no matter what we did we could not get rid of it, it would just come back to the character (I actually thought this was pretty neat, throw the dagger as an attack, and it returns to you? Do you know how much gold that is to buy as an ENCHANTMENT?!)
He of course had other ideas, namely selling the dagger, having it return so he could keep reselling it
He manages to sell it off and hears a voice whisper something to him,
Our adventure at the port concludes and we all hear "The Sea Gods are appeased"
For breaking the dagger's curse the Sea Gods removed the entire poop deck of the ship!
I was and still am running a Fantasy Steam Punk Campaign, and man is it a blast the coolest thing I allowed, was having the party ram their airship into a dock (which they stole from one of the civil waring factions) and it was pretty epic, now the Airship was fubared, but they made sure they destroyed a lot of things.
I’m just about to start a steam punk campaign with my friends as well haha I can’t wait
The session I joined a game the other players got gifts from a god and later I talked with the dm what I would ask for, if I would ever get the option (basically in exchange for little boons my rogue would be the God's assassin and thief), so he gave me a little list with like 3 options who would go along with that
I picked the one that fitted my char the most and then looked for ways to learn of the goddess's existence ingame, eventually I found something, tried praying and unexpectedly summoned the goddess
After some communication difficulties (goddess doesn't talk) we agreed that my char kills all undead she encounters while traveling with the party and as upfront payment she got a ring that makes her wererat transformations easier to pull off
Honestly didn't expect an upfront payment, the original plan was to earn that gift, which made me quite worried about getting divine judgement because we didn't run into any undead for quite a while
But last session my char finally found one and we ran into 2 dhampirs trying to revive some "Grand Elder", so I plan to call the goddess again soon, question her a bit about what responsibilities her champion has (the spot is apparently currently empty) and ask for general guidance on the enemy and on if my character's general behavior is in line with the goddess's wishes
Our DM had us marching with members of an army that we had gathered and recruited from different parts of the country towards a lake where the main hook of the campaign had started. The army we gathered were to assist in opening a way for our PCs to charge through and get to where a ritual was taking place to bring the god Bane into the Mortal Realm.
As our PCs arrived, we were taken aside by a general into a tent with a map of the battlefield. Each of us were given a group to control in how we planned the battle out.
Our Cleric controlled the members of the kingdom who's king assigned us the task of finding the minions of the BBEG as well as recruiting an army to fight in this battle.
Our Elven Warlock controlled the army from her Kingdom that we helped to wrest control back from a Succubus that masquerade as her mother.
Our Tiefling Paladin controlled a mercenary band called the Silver Chain that he was once a part of that we recruited after defeating the corrupt Minotaur General who was leading them.
And my Forest Gnome Rogue controlled the Orc band I recruited who were on the other side of a siege with the Silver Chain mercenary group.
The DM even set up a sketch of the battlefield and allowed us to give commands on where to deploy troops. Honestly a great first part in the lead up to the Final Battle.
I tried a new juice recipe today, turned out ok. Weird, but ok. It had blueberries in it.
Thank you for sharing all of these cool DnD stories!
I'm doing well, keep up the good work. Also, these messages at the end of the vids always make my day 💕
Had a DM that implemented physics-bases flying rules for things that could glide rather than hover. This significantly increased typical flying speed, but also allowed for maneuvers that would have otherwise been impossible, such as pulling out of a dive to pass over the enemy at about 275 MPH, dropping the bomb and being well out of range before their anti-air defenses could even prepare to fire. (With RAW, the character would have been limited to 5.7 MPH and become a pincushion) The only thing the character has to do to gain this ability is have a tail fin, or else they don't have the required pitch control and will end up pointing retrograde.
I half expected that last one to end with the big bad of the different groups to be the other group. Then the finale would be the two groups facing off against each other.
Mess with player knowledge.
White Wolf mash-up. The group was a Redcap, an Iteration X cyborg, a Son of Ether, and an ancilla Ventrue. The GMPC was a Black Spiral Dancer. We players figured it out before too long. We knew he was the most evil thing we were going to encounter. We were just waiting for him to eat one of us, or reveal he was the campaign villain the whole time, or something. But none of our characters knew anything at all about werewolves. So we had to roleplay like "oh hey Rex, how's it going?" while internally we were just like shitshitshitSHITSHIT
yo that last one, amazing.
Doing great Brian thanks for the videos!
Shotguns, enough said, okay maybe not, I play artificer and at level 7 I have a shotgun prototype, also the possibility of turning a ballista into a tank. Second one would be our first campaign would be Greek fire and the primordial god chaos, the main protagonist/antagonist (he had two separate personalities, one trapped in my head the other was the antagonist, along with this were the improvised explosives I wanted to make one of which resulted in said primordial god)
The video: "A combination bethween IT and The Joker"
Me: The Jiter?
I love this channel, so positive and makes sure we are ready for an amazing vid with drinks and snackies
I have a story:
This is a totally homebrew world and we don't really go by any rules, just play for the stories. The party was a ranger, a witch-cleric, a sorcerer/warrior, and a goblin fighter who they rescued from bigger, evil goblins. This quest started with them seeking a lich in the far desert and, after defeating it with the help of imprisoned spirits that the party released, went to the sea to find passage home. They ended up passing by the little port town and going to talk to merfolk to ask for help getting to bikini bottom. The merfolk agreed to help on the condition that the party find and return a magical conch that had been stolen by someone from the little aquatic town. They go and find the shell, but are confronted by an angry angler fish that turns out to be plankton in a robot. The party blows the conch which summons the mer-king who then sends plankton to jail. The party is thanked by the merfolk and then ascends to the surface, to the next phase of the DM's insidious plot...
I will share more if asked.
what happened next
@@teethpilled3894 I'm glad you ask. The party went on land and journeyed to Shrooming Keep, Castle of the Gnomes. Upon arriving they found that the gnomes had a sacred gauntlet stolen from them by a group of evil henchmen. The party followed their tracks back to the sea, back to bikini bottom, to a run down old warehouse where they confronted and defeated the henchmen, regaining the gauntlet. They promptly brought it back to the gnomes but found them all in some sort of trance. After waking a few up they went to the main hall and there met (a) BBEG, a vampire who had been responsible for the theft of the gauntlet. He put the party into a similar stupor and took the gauntlet from the one who was carrying it (the ranger). The ranger and a couple gnomes broke out of the spell and attacked the vampire but it was too late, he was gone.
I don’t know if this one was somehow intentional, or pure coincidence...
Currently, I’m playing a DnD campaign with some friends from my university, I’m playing as a Half Elf Ranger and it has been the most fun I’ve had with the game in a long time. My character was someone which tried his best to save as many people as he could due to his kindhearted nature, so instead of slaying down possessed people (More on that later) I tried to keep my damage to the point they would simply drop unconscious.
During the course of the campaign, we’ve taken the role of a gang of mercenaries hunting down a group of criminals kidnapping people, early in the game it got revealed said criminals were working under a specific order to possess the people they kidnap to grow larger in number. In a certain encounter, my group had to confront a pair of sorcerers from said collection of bandits, and I ended up rolling a crit which managed to kill one of the sorcerers. After that, my character was about to go down a crisis until my party found out after the encounter the sorcerers had no marks of being possessed at all, so it meant we were getting more near the cult which the campaign has been building up to and I managed to drop death one of the people guilty of the kidnappings and thefts.
I still believe my DM just improvised it to not make my character look as bad, but it has been building up to a lot of great stuff recently!
One cool thing I did was in game was have my adventurers guild be run by fiends who wanted to snag adventurers when they were low level with a convoluted membership contract so I wrote an actual contract and wrote it on parchment like paper sealed them with a custom wax seal and gave one to each party member it had all the details the loophole the cleric noticed later on and the characters signatures on the bottom.
My dm let's me flavor my galders tower to be filled with whatever decorations I wanted. Paintings, magic pantry that gives whatever ingredients you need regardless of rarity (though it did spit out a live and very angry croc once, not a fun surprise as a wizard), the works. He's cool.
Great session as always.
this man is swaggersouls, change my mind
Peculiar Jaque? You mean the Canadian version of Weird Al? 😆
The last story where 2 group get together could be even more fun if bith group with Good alignment finish fighting each other because each DM would describe the other one as doing bad and evil. 1 wanting to rebel against a bad king the other one wanting to stop a rebellion of bad people. Showing at the end that good and evil is always based on interest and perception.
Since good guy always win. The winner of the big finaly where in fact from story wise the good guy.
What I'm doing is if the player wants to do street magic, or sleight or hand, they have to proove they can do it in real life
That's a thing i dislike, i play RPG to be able to live or experience thing i cant really do.
In IRL ill be closer to a barbarian or fighter. But i like to play charismatic character having my DM asking us to talk like our character does each word count. Make me dislike the game more and more since im not good at this. So my character wasn't good at it even if he got all the stat for.
I have mentioned this in a comment in a vid made after this. He let my Chaotic Good Rogue Drow ride his family's Giant spider, Fluffy.
Only been (am) in one campaign. Our sorcerer died 4 sessions in by huge slab of stone. Our DM was nice enough to let us wrap a skeleton in bloody moss (cause sorcerer’s powers come from blood) AND tell us some items needed to raise the dead and long story short we now have a skeleton wrapped in bloody moss as a party member
My “first proper DM” allowed my Great Old One warlock (who worshiped the fertility goddess of the lovecraftian pantheon aka Cthulhu’s grandma Shub Nigurrath aka the black goat of the woods) to find some Milk of Shub Nigurath. The milk of Shub nigurrath can be both a life saving blessing or a powerful mutagen. I took a sip and fed the rest of it to my quasit. My left arm mutated into a squid tentacle that had a 10ft attack radius and was dexterity based. My quasit mutated into a mini version of my goddess, Shub Nigurrath. I had the Eldritch invocations: investment of the chain master and gift of the ever living ones at level 4.
I might just have a story for thus category soon, looking at how our campaign is going. Especially with my character, who's backstory I left VERY open for the DM to toy with.
I got a new job at fedex recently, I'm super excited!
I love hearing from you and your friends
A 10 hour long game consisting of 30 players, 2 and a half DM’s (one gave up randomly) of our servers bravest fighting a war against a man who became a god opposing our DM/god emperor ending with a player victory with only 2-4 deaths
My DM and Inwas gonna combined campaigns but his had to end due to a pregnancy in the party IRL.
so good to hear about Gm's that are not tpk monsters
Our dm had a one time player with us für a pretty Strange Session that gone gar but didnt Ended in any way. Investigating a town and so on. Nothing special. A oneshot with a friend who wanted to play with us one time. Endet early with exploring a cave and we just quite out because of time . 3/4 year later we are tasked with investigating a town. Very mysteryise , Strange thing start to happen . Finding random shit in Monsters and so on . With the ongoing Session did the dm put on a white noice to our normal background nice tracks and music. No one notist really and it got louder and louder with time. To make a long story Shorts. It was the first town and we simply forgot about the town . The oneshot happened and the oneshot character of our friend was eaten by a false Hydra. The white noice was the song of the hydra . Was pretty greate and totally mindblowing .
I like your funny words, magic man
I’m so excited for the finished product, i’m forging a blade based on a magical blade in the campaign, it has a secret compartment for a small phylactery or a valuable item.
I'll give you a comment. Keep doing this. It's better than the people that ask you to subscribe..... though I might even do that too for your content. (Please don't start to ask. That one type of show when I feel a specific way doesn't need to come to me every day.)
I want to aspire to run multiple games in the same world like the DM in the last story did.
This is awesome, i very much like these vids and i sometimes use them as "things" for my own char in DND. I hope you are good, and keep up the good work with DaveMakesNoises and RipDaddy
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Did you mean Yugioh's shadow realm?
Because that's English dubbed censorship of death and murder.
coolest thing that made me go wow? the dm showed up 2 sessions in a row XD (we have had every second session cancelled in our weekly game, one time because slightly into the session a player got a phone call and had to go to the hospital, other than that its the dm not feeling it that evening)
My email told the rouge that he suddenly realised he was a fire elemental
o great youtube algorithm! i sacrifice this comment to you, that you may be pleased, and present more of house ripper to the wide world! take now this comment, and be pleased! also, hi brian. great work as always! thanks for another great vid.
I have a plan currently with two groups to do something similar to something someone in video did. I'm excited to talk about it but don't have time to write every detail.
Goretooth love the goblins you made me goblin ((I love that))
i spent 3 weeks hand sculpting a mini for each of my players out of green stuff, and hand painted them as gifts
I am commenting!!!!!
As a goblin myself, I approve this story.
I love this Chanel
I have never played D&D, but am somewhat interested. Unfortunately, none of my friends play and I have crippling social anxiety so going out to a game shop and meeting new people isn't really my jam. So I'm forced to live vicariously through RUclips.
You should teach some friends how to play
First time I ever played D&D. I had no idea what I was doing. I played a rouge. We had some spare time looking for an adventure in town. I stayed at the inn we arrived at while everyone else explored town. I wanted to see what the other players did so I got a feel for this new game. The DM wanting to include me most likely noticing I was a bit nervous. Said I seen a pretty girl across the bar. So I played along. I wanted to roll perception because others where are times. I rolled low. He said “yup you are pretty sure it’s a girl.” We laughed and I proceeded to make conversation. The DM had me roll a saving throw. That I failed. I was compelled to follow her to her room. Then another saving throw I rolled a one. He said “well this is your first character so we will just say you were terrible in bed.” After the game. He said that I was talking to the end bad guy. She stole my soul on that one roll. She could speak to me telepathically across any distance or plain of existence. It was a secret from my entire party. So during play if I had a opportunity or a way to gain advantage “the succubus” would text a suggestion to my phone. It was a very fun way to get someone into D&D.
Looking for a D&D group in Houston, id prefer meeting up up if possible! 🤗😁
Some really good DMs, in the video but also in the comments.
Blood sacrifice time, I’m doing quite well! Starting up a campaign I’ve been planning for a long time next week!
Currently playing descent into Avernus and my dm let me buy both a cloak of useful items and a portable hole. So now I can be the dumb but amazing tool for everything. I can waterboard npcs while interrogating and kill them with either that hole or one of the items I get.
i accidentally had 1.5x speed when starting the vid, it sounded like brian was on various substances
I added more weapons and my player in a solo campaign wanted a claymore and a pulled something outta my a and it was in this chest on an adventure that a modified from some official material so it felt like a simple puzzle
I really want a part 2 of dnd character development.