Second Story: In essence, if you are the DM, you determine what happens in the story. Even if you've got rules lawyers yapping away telling you what RAW says, at the end of the day, you can just say "I'm the DM, so this happens," and there's nothing they can do about it. If they want to come to you later after the game and ask about why something happened, or determine a change you may have made to the rules and set it or remove it going forward, that's something they can do, but it sounds to me like these veteran players are sort of taking advantage of a new DM so they can play a story out the way they want it, which is unfair.
Fourth Story: As someone who played through Curse of Strahd somewhat recently with a new DM, you don't need to play it as brutal as a lot of people make it out to be. It's intended to be tough, sure, but it doesn't NEED to be played as unforgiving as people say. I mean, everyone in that game made it through the campaign on the characters they started with. It all just depends on the DM. I just really hope the DM in this story didn't focus damage on OP as a lesson to teach them about the fragility of player-characters, because that's a terrible thing to do to a first-time player, even in something written to be as brutal as CoS.
With the Curse of S story, the player is absolutely right to be shocked and sad about their character dying for their first proper exposure, and the DM is also totally right about that campaign being BRUTAL. It’s just a bad combo for a first person hoping for a consistent character narrative inspired by CR/D20
Just adding on to this my table is playing CoS rn and and I'm pretty sure the module says you should be level 5 to start. (Or if not my gm has ruled it that way to balance it for our players specifically)
CoS is brutal and if The Death House module is being played (which is level 1-3) then there is a total chance a PC can be killed. It is even worse if you happen to run straight to the bit that is designed for being level 2 or 3 (which our party did). We were told many times before that we might go through one or two characters during it.
I literally had a player like Jay from the second story who was also named Jay lol like I kinda feel like it might be the same person bc our issues were soooo similar
Just finished a CoS campaign. We only had 1 character death but that was because of sheer dumb luck and min/maxing every character. Also my character was the one that died and she sacrificed herself so that the party could run away. My new character was a twilight cleric and was totally clutch in the final fight. That being said, we were told at the very beginning to have back up characters ready because it's such a hard campaign
Look forward to seeing your videos drop each week. Glad ypur channel is growing. You both deserve it so much. All the love from your friends in the USA.
My aunt encapsulates the stereotype of an old, uneducated, assumption-making Christian that bases decisions on a fear of not knowing. She wouldn’t let my cousin play a game I was running because “it’s a demonic game.” I explained it is simply a set of rules and explained how helpful it can be as a social experience (because my cousin would GREATLY benefit from this). Sadly, she wouldn’t listen to me. He will be 18 soon, and her claws can’t clutch him forever
Regarding the seeing colors when hearing loud noises, especially if its different colors for different sounds, .... maybe look up Synesthesia. Its a benign crossing of senses, where you experience one sense through another, so you might see sounds or smell words. otherwise it might just be sensitivity.
For the last story, my 9 year old nephew has started playing DnD with me (Humblewood campaign). If he gets older and gets friends to play, I'm all for it.
I'm with Margaret. There's people from my childhood that it'd just be on sight if I saw em. Science teacher who cut me out of a field trip I earned. Last minute. In front of everyone at lunch. 😡 She'd be about 90 by now, but still.
59:01 video game violence is does not cause real world violence. I play video games to prevent violence because killing someone in Halo or CoD is preferable to doing it in real life
Cassidy needs better players than those two DMs because they wouldn't take it if anyone treated them the way they are treating Cassidy.
Second Story: In essence, if you are the DM, you determine what happens in the story. Even if you've got rules lawyers yapping away telling you what RAW says, at the end of the day, you can just say "I'm the DM, so this happens," and there's nothing they can do about it. If they want to come to you later after the game and ask about why something happened, or determine a change you may have made to the rules and set it or remove it going forward, that's something they can do, but it sounds to me like these veteran players are sort of taking advantage of a new DM so they can play a story out the way they want it, which is unfair.
This is why it's amazing that you two can give both the DM and player sides, Really felt for Cassidy's story. Amazing as always!
Fourth Story: As someone who played through Curse of Strahd somewhat recently with a new DM, you don't need to play it as brutal as a lot of people make it out to be. It's intended to be tough, sure, but it doesn't NEED to be played as unforgiving as people say. I mean, everyone in that game made it through the campaign on the characters they started with. It all just depends on the DM. I just really hope the DM in this story didn't focus damage on OP as a lesson to teach them about the fragility of player-characters, because that's a terrible thing to do to a first-time player, even in something written to be as brutal as CoS.
With the Curse of S story, the player is absolutely right to be shocked and sad about their character dying for their first proper exposure, and the DM is also totally right about that campaign being BRUTAL.
It’s just a bad combo for a first person hoping for a consistent character narrative inspired by CR/D20
Just adding on to this my table is playing CoS rn and and I'm pretty sure the module says you should be level 5 to start. (Or if not my gm has ruled it that way to balance it for our players specifically)
CoS is brutal and if The Death House module is being played (which is level 1-3) then there is a total chance a PC can be killed. It is even worse if you happen to run straight to the bit that is designed for being level 2 or 3 (which our party did). We were told many times before that we might go through one or two characters during it.
I literally had a player like Jay from the second story who was also named Jay lol like I kinda feel like it might be the same person bc our issues were soooo similar
Just finished a CoS campaign. We only had 1 character death but that was because of sheer dumb luck and min/maxing every character. Also my character was the one that died and she sacrificed herself so that the party could run away. My new character was a twilight cleric and was totally clutch in the final fight. That being said, we were told at the very beginning to have back up characters ready because it's such a hard campaign
Stayed home, played fortnite and realised it was two years ago since our dnd group had our first full session.
Look forward to seeing your videos drop each week. Glad ypur channel is growing. You both deserve it so much. All the love from your friends in the USA.
I really recommend Loop earplugs for noise sensitivity, they stay in my ears the best out of all the earplugs I've tried
My aunt encapsulates the stereotype of an old, uneducated, assumption-making Christian that bases decisions on a fear of not knowing. She wouldn’t let my cousin play a game I was running because “it’s a demonic game.”
I explained it is simply a set of rules and explained how helpful it can be as a social experience (because my cousin would GREATLY benefit from this).
Sadly, she wouldn’t listen to me. He will be 18 soon, and her claws can’t clutch him forever
Regarding the seeing colors when hearing loud noises, especially if its different colors for different sounds, .... maybe look up Synesthesia. Its a benign crossing of senses, where you experience one sense through another, so you might see sounds or smell words. otherwise it might just be sensitivity.
For the last story, my 9 year old nephew has started playing DnD with me (Humblewood campaign). If he gets older and gets friends to play, I'm all for it.
1:10 I avoided an old coworker today if that counts?
8:09 have you tried loops? They've really helped w/my sensory issues!
I just lost my paladin character in session 2 of curse of strahd last weekend 😂😭 thankfully the DM was very clear that this would be a brutal campaign
I'm at work and I just got back from lunch. And I ate it out of my clogs
This is "Mags being deeply relatable: the episode" and I'm so here for it
In the moment when I say "lets hang out" I have never meant it one time. Thats just what you gotta say
It's Clogging Time, and I want that t-shirt
It's cloggin' time! Oh yes, new t-shirt hype.
tbh I watched all your tiktoks. Even the 10 min ones. It's what got me to come to the channel for the full episodes! :)
Maybe the DM we have changed Strahd around......but I didn't feel like it was as harsh everyone was saying when we ran it.
“Karma now streaming by Jojo Siwa” I cackled at my desk 😭
I truly desire that T shirt, I don't even wear tshirts with graphics anymore but I want that one ❤
The Paladin being downed is exactly what happened in a Strahd game I’m in. It’s soooo rough, but the DM being like “get used to it” is yikes.
I'm with Margaret. There's people from my childhood that it'd just be on sight if I saw em. Science teacher who cut me out of a field trip I earned. Last minute. In front of everyone at lunch. 😡 She'd be about 90 by now, but still.
ITS CLOGGIN TIME !
listening to this as I make a prop guitar for a dungeons and daddies cosplay 💜
59:01 video game violence is does not cause real world violence. I play video games to prevent violence because killing someone in Halo or CoD is preferable to doing it in real life
I think most of us cloggers would totally accept being called out when we are being assholey. 💃
Oof yeah I never suggest anything lower then level 5 for CoS, its so brutle.
Would it be possible to add timestamps for each topic?