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“Dgirrik thanks you.” If I had been standing in that chamber, the first town I helped build, I would fight tooth and nail to name it after our fallen kobold brother.
@@hahagivemesubs4008 not at all, I think Dagger said somewhere that they were attacking to add souls, hence why so many human souls, and the collars were simply for his minions to add on to it.
The first pathfinder character i've ever played was a kobold called Poncho, that campaign ran for almost two years, we played several different campaign since that one, but even now the other players still tell me that Poncho the depressed kobold was the best character i've ever played. Poor bastard, his only wish was to be happy.
now i wish to know of this pore sod as i had a liking of kolbolds before but not if i get back into dnd (5e but mea ad i had a nasty break with the current main dm as i can be that one person that no one can like to well for any reson for to long) and this lil guy had 1 goal in life as he kind of pope into existence.
That was a bit of a heart warming story about a kobold to helped hero's on his quest for ultimate redemption for his past sins that it was forced to commit.
I am practically a real life kobold. I never go outside, I hate gnomes, I would love to be a dragon, and I can cower as a distraction. I AM A FEKING KOBOLD.
"...but, sometimes, it was what we asked..." "...but, it didn't matter because, he did what I would have commanded him to anyways..." Like in life, as in death.
I have a one handed albino orc in my home grown world that players love. My players from 30 years ago tell stories that I had forgotten. New players laugh at his "je ne sais quoi". Thanks for your tale.
omfg.. thank you so much for sharing this story. I always worry that great stories from games might vanish into nothing. I'm glad you were able to share this one. Obongo will live on in my mind and, hopefully, something similar in my own games. I feel a Muse of inspiration grabbed your DM by the ears and said "Tell This! It'll be awesome!" Obongo has been added to my vocabulary. Thank you muchly
Made a DM Pc once to teach the group (first timers, worked as example for attack rolls and so on) Worked for a while as a comedy relief, died brutally in the next session.
Nah, you've got to make them like him first, then kill him horribly and casually. Imply that they can resurrect him with a quest, and they go for it. It goes well, but now he's evil and very powerful. So they have to go hunt him down while he builds his power base, leading to a climactic showdown where it's revealed that he's actually just a demon that possessed the corpse you guys offered it.
I don't know anyone that likes playing Thief. Then again, most of the people I've played with are either heavy-hitting murder-hobos or Paragon-good characters. There's literally no in-between. I just liked making goofy characters.
in my current game the players are all the crew of a merchant vessel sailing the world and getting into shenanigans, my "DMPC" for lack of better terms is an unleveled guy who serves as the owner of the company (to prevent the players from just selling the ship and company) its working out well so far, they mostly rely on him to do the taxes and have the right paperwork to get the in and out of different cities.
you are such a good storyteller. I feel like I'm sitting with a person who was once an adventure and who would talk about his exploits to the right person. I drink in every word...and see pictures in my mind. I want to here every story you have. Thank you.....
The fuck do you mean, Obongo practically took on the first waves of enemies all by himself it's like Darwin's law said, "Jirruk, I choose you to be my herald. Live longer than thy brothers and sisters. Get they revenge."
A interesting story. I like the idea of a little personal extra bit of an idea within that that the whole time he was soulless or at least mostly was and was with them trying to either get his soul back or at least free it to get to the afterlife to be with his family and friends in the afterlife, thus why even when reanimated he still moved on his own. Perhaps also the reason he didnt have a collor was because he broke it off leaving him in his current situation when the party meet him. A odd idea but if true adds more to the story.
For some reason I felt like his soul is like...bonded to the dagger,so when the corpse picked up the dagger the soul dagger linked to the corpse giving it will again
Love the story. I can only imagine how you could have felt through it (more details and whatnot). Thanks so much for the upload! This helps me shape my story better for when we get another campaign going (only in my second campaign now), if I make a dmpc at all.
Wow, sorry I’m finding all these videos so late, I’m actually very new to dnd me and some friends are running CoS 5E and I’ve only ever played a total of roughly 13 sessions maybe a few more. These stories are so awesome man I’ll be bingeing a lot of these videos for sure 👍
DM pc's are alright. I had a friend who was the DM who made a lawful good PC. Though annoying, I understood his issue with my chaotic neutral necromancer.
I'd like to believe that the biggest reason he was so thankful was because after his 'family' was destroyed, your spell allowed *him* to be the instrument of revenge.
My players always ask me to bring in a DM pc, because they think its interesting how hard I work to keep them out of the spotlight, and yet they end up fairly interesting as a fill role.
My DMPC started off the party to get them rolling and hooked into the campaign but I quickly realized the party was simply playing follow the leader with no direction. I was afraid they'd have followed him through the whole adventure and quickly noped him out of there. So I set up watches that night with the DMPC in the midnight - 4am shift... The PCs woke to him gone and no inkling where he went.
The man defied the structure of magic by pure fucking vengeance. Fuck Obongo the Zombie, he was Obongo the Revenant! As someone who loves playing little kobold fellas often, Jirrik hit home.
This was an amazing story. I love how out of *sure will power* the Kobold came back as a Revenant when the wizard resurrected him. These kinds of moments in role-playing games make me the most emotional. More than any slaying of a dragon could.
I experienced kind of the exact opposite during my first ever dnd 5e campaign, we were running Mines of Phandelver. In fact, during our very first encounter in the first session, we encountered a bunch of goblins, and pretty much slaughtered them, keeping only two of them alive, and tying them up in our cart. Then, my pc stayed outside while our sorcerer went in to interrogate the goblins. After he was done, he untied them both and let them go. thinking the goblins had escaped, my fighter took out his bow and screamed *TARGET PRACTICE!!!* as he shot an arrow and totally missed it, only to see our second fighter's dagger fly over my shoulder, right into the back of one of the goblins. The other goblin screamed and went to drag his dead friend into the bushes. From then on, we occasionally saw a pair of eyes in the bushes, or in the dark corner of a cave. Later on, the surviving goblin, Harry, swore to avenge his brother, Dobby, and turned into a major villain in the story, sending assassins after us (which we skilfully disposed of of course), ambushing us with his army of goblins on steep cliffs, and even conspiring with a young green dragon in the end. little goblin Harry turned into a fierce mage, controlling dozens of goblins at a time, simply because my fighter practiced his archery skills on his brother... may lobby rest in peace
You've got my attention. That was a throw back to my old ad&d games. Dm was a bit of a bastard but he told a good story! In that campaign it was a half orc barbarian with his tongue cut out. The party wizard saved him solo. We were off checking rest of the area. He found him in a cell crucified to the wall. That S.O.B. was a force of nature! Cross classed with a few levels of thief! Turned out a couple of potions of healing, and some iron rations go a long way. That game was set in the time of troubles campaign. We were working for the harpers. My ranger at the time had orc as his favored enemy. At first we didn’t get along. I was an in game di *k. The orc however turned out to have been raised by humans in an isolated village and was loved by the entire town. We arrived to a feast that would make a dwarf drool. It took alot of role playing to recognize my sworn enemy as an ally. Didn't know his intelligence was 16. He learned drow hand sign before leaving the village. It was one of the first languages I picked as an extra. Goes to show most think the game to be just that. Yet every once in awhile the DM drops a bit of knowledge like Yoda.
A game that I'm playing involved a DMPC prior to me and another player joining in. The party had thus far composed of a Bard and two Druids - what class did the DM deem most appropriate for providing them the full dungeon crawling experience? You guessed it - another Bard. The character left when our two characters joined in, who were a Fighter and a Monk, so that balanced things out a little.
Paused at the mention of the 5th level spell... walked to my book shelf... opened my 2nd ed AD&D PHB... and guessed the spell correctly... I played mostly wizards in 2nd edition. This story is awesome.
I'm fairly sure it was just a DM cop out to allow the players to have another member along, but never really have to build into his personality so that they could focus on other things, but I'm fairly certain that The Lean, Mean Greenbean was onto something a year ago with his comment. Citing back to you saying that picking magical locks in this version was difficult got me thinking that, what if the reason that he didnt speak was that he failed part of the challenge of removing the collar, so while removing it didnt kill him, it still stole the majority of his soul to the phylactery, rendering him in this strange inbetween state, and possibly even giving him some special abilities. The reason he followed the party was to free himself from the lich's control, but to do that he'd have to die by the lich's hand, something he couldnt tell the party because of his inability to speak due to his "accident", and simply had to hope that the party that he'd fought alongside and watched grow could finish what he'd started. He essentially took the biggest gamble on one ramdom group of adventurers and did his damndest to make sure they survived to help set himself free. OFC the less cool, simpler version of this is that he simply took a vow of silence until he could avenge his warren, but come on, thats not as cool now, right?
I usually make DM NPCs that tag along for better ability to influnece the PCs. usually in the form of a slightly stronger character that never acts outside of pc premission or as a means for me as the DM to comunicate something. They still have morals and their own persionality but I tend to let the NPC be leniant on what the party does. I also usually make checkpoints using these NPCs where they can influence the larger world on the request of the PCs but then has to leave for a while, (basically fetch supplies, establish communications with lords etc). this works wounders for my PCs as they can choose to deligate menial tasks to the NPC if they wish but they themselfs are still the athority in the campagin. I usually run Dark Heresy and then the best type of these NPC's are the one guardsman carrying the voxcaster that tags along.
I think there is a way to make DMPCs work, and it's just what you said in the beginning. Make them weaker,make them support instead of DPR monsters. Healers,buffers etc.
I have a funny tale of two Kobold twins named Rracecar and racecarR, (Played by me a my friend) both are barbarians and both are very powerful for there levels in 5th edition at least. As you see these two always have advantage on attacks and at level 5 have a +7 to hit and a 2d6+6 damage twice (four times since we attack together by holding an action) and 65 health as well as a magical thing called resistance to all damage not including psychic. They are look exactly the same as one another and the only way to tell them apart is how they act. One is good, the other is evil, here is the fun part they swap personalities all the time, meaning the one that is good now acts evil and the one that is good acts evil. The first tale of these two funny little kobolds begins with a few adventures meeting up with the little scamps and straight away hating them as within the first 5 minutes of the game we are already doing out little bickering bit, irritating one another but stopping for a brief moment to kick down a door and do a front flip and back flip, just to show off to the quest giver. After a bit of bickering and complaining to the party about hunting for boars and other things in the forest at night (We have sunlight sensitivity) we crumbled and left without them, generally we were only level 3 at that time but very cocky as we had +4 str +3 dex +2 con +0 int +2 wis and +0 charisma. (We had gauntlets of ogre strength so nothing was put into strength). We went out and then killed a deer in the forest, after that a spirit came out and was super pissed that we killed his deer friend, we didn't understand why he was pissed but he told us of an even better hunting ground that he'd even allow us to use and tell the villagers of, so we agreed and then headed back to town and rested since that only took like an 30 minutes then slept. The next day we told the party, they were pissed but happy to have that outta the way, so we then went to the hunting ground found a boar, we rolled decent on initiative since I went second and my twin went after me, since the cleric was next to the boar we one shot it since he was surprised (He said out of character he wasn't expecting that and wants to be surprised) It died. After that some gnolls showed up and stared at us, trying to take the boar for there own, we walked up to them and attacked them, two gnolls down and the last one ran away, though our party did try to stop it. We thought nothing of it and then went off and ended back at town with a few more boars, ate the meat and relaxed the night, the next day we went off to invesitgate for some gnolls, instead finding a massive camp with 4 goblins, 6 orcs, 1 troll and 1 orc cleric. We rolled high again and went first while raging and killed two orcs, then got surrounded by the remaining and the orc cleric, the troll was on its way towards us, the rest of the party literally sat in the back just shooting short bows and missing, like how! But hey oh well we took down two more orcs and the party then began taking out the goblins trying to fling stuff at us, 2 died that round of combat which was nice, next turn the troll came up to us and smacked three times and unluckily it crit THREE TIMES! WTF! Oh well we were fine since resistance and all, come out turn more orcs went down and so did the goblins, all that remained was the troll and orc cleric. To shortens things up My twin went down and the troll died luckily then we healed my brother and went on the unmerry way.
I had this specific event where there was this glamorous warrior that assisted them in one attack on the city, it was more for showing off the wide array of style these fighters here had and how potent they were... it didn't last long but the party seemed to like him even asking him to come along with him in other adventures
“Dgirrik thanks you.” If I had been standing in that chamber, the first town I helped build, I would fight tooth and nail to name it after our fallen kobold brother.
Bahamut is proud of this kobold.
Heck, Tiamat couldn't help but be proud.
My instincts tell me that this particular kobold somehow managed to survive losing his soul, hence no collar, no expression, no talking.
And that's why he was inside of it without having a collar on when he died
@@hahagivemesubs4008 not at all, I think Dagger said somewhere that they were attacking to add souls, hence why so many human souls, and the collars were simply for his minions to add on to it.
@@luxj.9451 thank you for this kind sir. Have a wonderful day
Lux J. So he went Revenant.
Oh shit, that's why the animate dead spell didnt give the wizard control!
"Jirrik Thanks you."-An Ultra bad ass.
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Kobolds have always had a place in my heart, but this one... this one is special.
I would usually murder them... But to every rule an exception.
Agreed
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Obongo the Kobold and Oohgie the Ogre and Honorary Dwarf, heros of our time.
Frozen Dino
> Oohgie
> I-I'm not crying, YOU'RE CRYING!
And Solomon, the unknown hero
@@boneking591 that dude would destroy you before an attack was even thought of
The first pathfinder character i've ever played was a kobold called Poncho, that campaign ran for almost two years, we played several different campaign since that one, but even now the other players still tell me that Poncho the depressed kobold was the best character i've ever played.
Poor bastard, his only wish was to be happy.
Did he ever get his wish?
Considering the past tense, something tells me he didn't.
Tell us the story.
now i wish to know of this pore sod as i had a liking of kolbolds before but not if i get back into dnd (5e but mea ad i had a nasty break with the current main dm as i can be that one person that no one can like to well for any reson for to long) and this lil guy had 1 goal in life as he kind of pope into existence.
The best stories are the ones that are told quite by accident, because these stories are the ones most like life.
Joel Gawne big if true
*chitters in the distance....*
clanging in the distance...
That was a bit of a heart warming story about a kobold to helped hero's on his quest for ultimate redemption for his past sins that it was forced to commit.
Best dmpc ever, oohgie honorary dwarf. RUclips it. You'll cry.
It's on this very channel.
That isn't a DMPC...
I watched that before this, my heart
oohgie best craftysmith
Oohgie, best dwarf ever to smith armor
Rest In Peace, Obongo
Obongo Foerever!
Listened while mowing the lawn, now all my neighbors know how much of a wimp I am. Thanks
@@bornajap I think it was from him crying about the story. Not because he was listening to this per se.
I am practically a real life kobold. I never go outside, I hate gnomes, I would love to be a dragon, and I can cower as a distraction. I AM A FEKING KOBOLD.
DO YOU MEAN
KABOB?
I met a woman at work who was short enough and proportioned like a DnD Gnome. I kid you not.
A very good use of a DMPC is what is known as the Paragon. A guide for the party, very well used in this situation.
"...but, sometimes, it was what we asked..." "...but, it didn't matter because, he did what I would have commanded him to anyways..." Like in life, as in death.
I noticed that too you legend
youve got a good voice for this stuff dagger
Yeah, I think he should start a RUclips channel or something.
I have a one handed albino orc in my home grown world that players love. My players from 30 years ago tell stories that I had forgotten. New players laugh at his "je ne sais quoi". Thanks for your tale.
I desire to know more about this one armed orc.
omfg.. thank you so much for sharing this story. I always worry that great stories from games might vanish into nothing. I'm glad you were able to share this one. Obongo will live on in my mind and, hopefully, something similar in my own games. I feel a Muse of inspiration grabbed your DM by the ears and said "Tell This! It'll be awesome!" Obongo has been added to my vocabulary. Thank you muchly
This... right here. Made me wanna cry at the end. There are no words.
You go, Jirik. You go.
I'm not crying...YOU'RE CRYING ;A;
Yes I am.
@@MizukiStone44 Me too... T_T
Made a DM Pc once to teach the group (first timers, worked as example for attack rolls and so on) Worked for a while as a comedy relief, died brutally in the next session.
Nah, you've got to make them like him first, then kill him horribly and casually.
Imply that they can resurrect him with a quest, and they go for it.
It goes well, but now he's evil and very powerful.
So they have to go hunt him down while he builds his power base, leading to a climactic showdown where it's revealed that he's actually just a demon that possessed the corpse you guys offered it.
Obongo the Kobold: what every Edgelord player wishes they were.
Already unbelievable. Many players in an AD&D game, and noone rolled thief? Like, it's probably the best class.
That was Obongo.
@Dewani90 If the wizard was still kicking by the last round then they were probably great tanks. Just unlucky ones.
I don't know anyone that likes playing Thief. Then again, most of the people I've played with are either heavy-hitting murder-hobos or Paragon-good characters. There's literally no in-between. I just liked making goofy characters.
in my current game the players are all the crew of a merchant vessel sailing the world and getting into shenanigans, my "DMPC" for lack of better terms is an unleveled guy who serves as the owner of the company (to prevent the players from just selling the ship and company) its working out well so far, they mostly rely on him to do the taxes and have the right paperwork to get the in and out of different cities.
Top ten anime sacrifices
He never stole the spotlight... But he stole our hearts.
you are such a good storyteller. I feel like I'm sitting with a person who was once an adventure and who would talk about his exploits to the right person. I drink in every word...and see pictures in my mind. I want to here every story you have. Thank you.....
I'm not crying! I'm not! I just... It's raining... in this room... and... there's dust... *sniffles and blows nose* and I think I have a head cold...
I agree with the Dmpc he has to be played like a npc and never steal the spotlight
The fuck do you mean, Obongo practically took on the first waves of enemies all by himself it's like Darwin's law said, "Jirruk, I choose you to be my herald. Live longer than thy brothers and sisters. Get they revenge."
Scott Bruckner In the overall story.
As a teary person this honestly made me sad.
I've got a goblin NPC the party recruited, who's basically become a DMPC
A interesting story. I like the idea of a little personal extra bit of an idea within that that the whole time he was soulless or at least mostly was and was with them trying to either get his soul back or at least free it to get to the afterlife to be with his family and friends in the afterlife, thus why even when reanimated he still moved on his own. Perhaps also the reason he didnt have a collor was because he broke it off leaving him in his current situation when the party meet him. A odd idea but if true adds more to the story.
I'm 5 minutes in and i'm calling it: Obongo is a sith lord.
well i'm wrong.
SOMEONE NEEDS TO ANIMATE THIS
like most of the stories on this channel
Well, I can really only say to this what my Kobold Paladin would say:
Xaxti salutes you, Jirrik.
Bless the kind supporters on patron
100% not afraid to admit this. i fucking cried and im proud to say it
Dude now I know what I'm doing if I ever need to fill in for a rogue roll in one of my Champaigns
For some reason I felt like his soul is like...bonded to the dagger,so when the corpse picked up the dagger the soul dagger linked to the corpse giving it will again
That is the saddest, greatest D&D adventure I have ever heard.
Love the story. I can only imagine how you could have felt through it (more details and whatnot). Thanks so much for the upload! This helps me shape my story better for when we get another campaign going (only in my second campaign now), if I make a dmpc at all.
Wow, sorry I’m finding all these videos so late, I’m actually very new to dnd me and some friends are running CoS 5E and I’ve only ever played a total of roughly 13 sessions maybe a few more. These stories are so awesome man I’ll be bingeing a lot of these videos for sure 👍
DM pc's are alright. I had a friend who was the DM who made a lawful good PC. Though annoying, I understood his issue with my chaotic neutral necromancer.
Jirrik thanks you.
At first I was thinking that obongo was a ghost of some sort before the defection bit came up.
either way Best DM PC ever
I'd like to believe that the biggest reason he was so thankful was because after his 'family' was destroyed, your spell allowed *him* to be the instrument of revenge.
I feel warm and fuzzy after listening to this. How heart touchingly sweet.
I love kobolds. I have a kobold pc named K'Boodyl.
He's a chef.
You told this story very well and the DM was awesome.
My players always ask me to bring in a DM pc, because they think its interesting how hard I work to keep them out of the spotlight, and yet they end up fairly interesting as a fill role.
Dmpc's are fine. They fill out the world and make your pirate crews more fleshed out
Jerrick thanks you.
I hate the fact I'm crying over this
A ache in my heart and a tear to my eye.
Now *THAT* is how you make an ending for a campaign!!!!!
I'M NOT CRYING, YOU'RE CRYING
My DMPC started off the party to get them rolling and hooked into the campaign but I quickly realized the party was simply playing follow the leader with no direction.
I was afraid they'd have followed him through the whole adventure and quickly noped him out of there. So I set up watches that night with the DMPC in the midnight - 4am shift... The PCs woke to him gone and no inkling where he went.
The man defied the structure of magic by pure fucking vengeance. Fuck Obongo the Zombie, he was Obongo the Revenant!
As someone who loves playing little kobold fellas often, Jirrik hit home.
This was an amazing story. I love how out of *sure will power* the Kobold came back as a Revenant when the wizard resurrected him. These kinds of moments in role-playing games make me the most emotional. More than any slaying of a dragon could.
I experienced kind of the exact opposite during my first ever dnd 5e campaign, we were running Mines of Phandelver. In fact, during our very first encounter in the first session, we encountered a bunch of goblins, and pretty much slaughtered them, keeping only two of them alive, and tying them up in our cart. Then, my pc stayed outside while our sorcerer went in to interrogate the goblins. After he was done, he untied them both and let them go. thinking the goblins had escaped, my fighter took out his bow and screamed *TARGET PRACTICE!!!* as he shot an arrow and totally missed it, only to see our second fighter's dagger fly over my shoulder, right into the back of one of the goblins. The other goblin screamed and went to drag his dead friend into the bushes. From then on, we occasionally saw a pair of eyes in the bushes, or in the dark corner of a cave. Later on, the surviving goblin, Harry, swore to avenge his brother, Dobby, and turned into a major villain in the story, sending assassins after us (which we skilfully disposed of of course), ambushing us with his army of goblins on steep cliffs, and even conspiring with a young green dragon in the end. little goblin Harry turned into a fierce mage, controlling dozens of goblins at a time, simply because my fighter practiced his archery skills on his brother... may lobby rest in peace
Right in the feels.
You've got my attention. That was a throw back to my old ad&d games. Dm was a bit of a bastard but he told a good story! In that campaign it was a half orc barbarian with his tongue cut out. The party wizard saved him solo. We were off checking rest of the area. He found him in a cell crucified to the wall. That S.O.B. was a force of nature! Cross classed with a few levels of thief! Turned out a couple of potions of healing, and some iron rations go a long way. That game was set in the time of troubles campaign. We were working for the harpers. My ranger at the time had orc as his favored enemy. At first we didn’t get along. I was an in game di *k. The orc however turned out to have been raised by humans in an isolated village and was loved by the entire town. We arrived to a feast that would make a dwarf drool. It took alot of role playing to recognize my sworn enemy as an ally. Didn't know his intelligence was 16. He learned drow hand sign before leaving the village. It was one of the first languages I picked as an extra. Goes to show most think the game to be just that. Yet every once in awhile the DM drops a bit of knowledge like Yoda.
A game that I'm playing involved a DMPC prior to me and another player joining in. The party had thus far composed of a Bard and two Druids - what class did the DM deem most appropriate for providing them the full dungeon crawling experience? You guessed it - another Bard.
The character left when our two characters joined in, who were a Fighter and a Monk, so that balanced things out a little.
What a lovely story. I'm glad I came across your videos.
My gm had a pc that started level 13 while we started level 1, but he gave him, .0001 exp for every 1 we gained
I ended up crying at the end.
I'm... Not crying... I'm not...
C&D, your reading for this is... amazing. I kid you not, I nearly cried over a fictional little lizard dude because hot damn!
Kobolds are best
"Deekin greets the noble Hero!"
You have a gift for weaving a powerful tale.
Look at you go. Making me cry although I'm new...
Beware of the silent ones..........and be kind to them too!
Good story-telling/DMing on the DM's part.
Paused at the mention of the 5th level spell... walked to my book shelf... opened my 2nd ed AD&D PHB... and guessed the spell correctly... I played mostly wizards in 2nd edition. This story is awesome.
For the first time. I cried to a youtube video.
I’m not crying, you’re crying!
This legit gave me feels.
This dmpc store was awesome
God damn great story telling
Yo holy shit this actually got me to tear up
I'm not gonna lie, I cried a little. Holy hell.
this one was fantastic!
I agree with the other comments, great presentation. I hope you keep this up!
can i get an rip for my boy Obongo
wow, just wow. Great DM
Obongo is the Harambe of D&D now.
OK, that does it. I will get into D&D some time this year.
I'm fairly sure it was just a DM cop out to allow the players to have another member along, but never really have to build into his personality so that they could focus on other things, but I'm fairly certain that The Lean, Mean Greenbean was onto something a year ago with his comment.
Citing back to you saying that picking magical locks in this version was difficult got me thinking that, what if the reason that he didnt speak was that he failed part of the challenge of removing the collar, so while removing it didnt kill him, it still stole the majority of his soul to the phylactery, rendering him in this strange inbetween state, and possibly even giving him some special abilities. The reason he followed the party was to free himself from the lich's control, but to do that he'd have to die by the lich's hand, something he couldnt tell the party because of his inability to speak due to his "accident", and simply had to hope that the party that he'd fought alongside and watched grow could finish what he'd started. He essentially took the biggest gamble on one ramdom group of adventurers and did his damndest to make sure they survived to help set himself free.
OFC the less cool, simpler version of this is that he simply took a vow of silence until he could avenge his warren, but come on, thats not as cool now, right?
The Antagonist is also a good role. So long as the PC's end up getting over on him in the end. Or at least a shot at it.
I usually make DM NPCs that tag along for better ability to influnece the PCs. usually in the form of a slightly stronger character that never acts outside of pc premission or as a means for me as the DM to comunicate something. They still have morals and their own persionality but I tend to let the NPC be leniant on what the party does. I also usually make checkpoints using these NPCs where they can influence the larger world on the request of the PCs but then has to leave for a while, (basically fetch supplies, establish communications with lords etc). this works wounders for my PCs as they can choose to deligate menial tasks to the NPC if they wish but they themselfs are still the athority in the campagin. I usually run Dark Heresy and then the best type of these NPC's are the one guardsman carrying the voxcaster that tags along.
God damn that was a great emotional story
I think there is a way to make DMPCs work, and it's just what you said in the beginning. Make them weaker,make them support instead of DPR monsters. Healers,buffers etc.
I have a funny tale of two Kobold twins named Rracecar and racecarR, (Played by me a my friend) both are barbarians and both are very powerful for there levels in 5th edition at least. As you see these two always have advantage on attacks and at level 5 have a +7 to hit and a 2d6+6 damage twice (four times since we attack together by holding an action) and 65 health as well as a magical thing called resistance to all damage not including psychic. They are look exactly the same as one another and the only way to tell them apart is how they act. One is good, the other is evil, here is the fun part they swap personalities all the time, meaning the one that is good now acts evil and the one that is good acts evil.
The first tale of these two funny little kobolds begins with a few adventures meeting up with the little scamps and straight away hating them as within the first 5 minutes of the game we are already doing out little bickering bit, irritating one another but stopping for a brief moment to kick down a door and do a front flip and back flip, just to show off to the quest giver. After a bit of bickering and complaining to the party about hunting for boars and other things in the forest at night (We have sunlight sensitivity) we crumbled and left without them, generally we were only level 3 at that time but very cocky as we had +4 str +3 dex +2 con +0 int +2 wis and +0 charisma. (We had gauntlets of ogre strength so nothing was put into strength). We went out and then killed a deer in the forest, after that a spirit came out and was super pissed that we killed his deer friend, we didn't understand why he was pissed but he told us of an even better hunting ground that he'd even allow us to use and tell the villagers of, so we agreed and then headed back to town and rested since that only took like an 30 minutes then slept. The next day we told the party, they were pissed but happy to have that outta the way, so we then went to the hunting ground found a boar, we rolled decent on initiative since I went second and my twin went after me, since the cleric was next to the boar we one shot it since he was surprised (He said out of character he wasn't expecting that and wants to be surprised) It died. After that some gnolls showed up and stared at us, trying to take the boar for there own, we walked up to them and attacked them, two gnolls down and the last one ran away, though our party did try to stop it. We thought nothing of it and then went off and ended back at town with a few more boars, ate the meat and relaxed the night, the next day we went off to invesitgate for some gnolls, instead finding a massive camp with 4 goblins, 6 orcs, 1 troll and 1 orc cleric. We rolled high again and went first while raging and killed two orcs, then got surrounded by the remaining and the orc cleric, the troll was on its way towards us, the rest of the party literally sat in the back just shooting short bows and missing, like how! But hey oh well we took down two more orcs and the party then began taking out the goblins trying to fling stuff at us, 2 died that round of combat which was nice, next turn the troll came up to us and smacked three times and unluckily it crit THREE TIMES! WTF! Oh well we were fine since resistance and all, come out turn more orcs went down and so did the goblins, all that remained was the troll and orc cleric. To shortens things up My twin went down and the troll died luckily then we healed my brother and went on the unmerry way.
to talk with kobolds is to speak dragonic
I had this specific event where there was this glamorous warrior that assisted them in one attack on the city, it was more for showing off the wide array of style these fighters here had and how potent they were... it didn't last long but the party seemed to like him even asking him to come along with him in other adventures
“Fairly well”? Fuck, if I’m finishing a gane and it ends up this well that character will be a saint, of not a god
The feels
Why am I crying in the club rn :'(
I love Obongo.
This is amazing!