Kind of sad how this is framed as a cringe horror story. I guess "no fun or comedy allowed" are part of the rules of this table. Also imagine roleplayers calling other people cringe. Maybe we should be a bit careful with the stone throwing in our glass house.
Honestly I just DM’d my group through a session where their first major villain was literally Dio Brando, and somehow managed to get in some nail-biting tension and fun roleplay out of that. I have plans to include Xander Bloodclaw as a brief inside joke later, too. Is it cringe? Eh, probably. I am cringe, but I am free.
One of my PCs was a combination of various Links from the Legend of Zelda games (both canonical and player controlled), adapted to the setting of the campaign. It took my party 4 months to realize this.
The character went from boring edgelord to masterpiece of ironic character design. I couldn't possibly be mad at anyone playing this. Even if the player legitimately didn't understand what they did and why it was genius, I'd still allow it.
Yea man all that edge in a cuddly package. I remember we ran an evil final fantasy skinned campaign and I was an evil moogle. Lotta dark threats with Kupo muttered at the end
He's silent, mysterious, seeking to break a dark fae curse, shows up regularly and speaks to no one -- but that's because he sounds completely ridiculous and it's super embarrassing.
Hot take: This is brilliant satire and everyone else in this story was just too stupid to get it. Making a hyper edge lord and making them speak cutesy anime style is fucking hilarious.
What I think it all comes down to is the delivery, though it does make me completely interested to know if this guy was a genius of comedy or just weird.
I'll add a slight adjustment to your most important rule: Make sure EVERYONE has the chance to have fun. You shouldn't feel the need to remove your fun so that others can have fun, and you shouldn't make your fun cost others at the table their fun.
@@gaybatgosqueak catpeople, basically, they like shiny things and stories about ancient lands and peoples! super fun to play and even more fun to make into silly little kitties that run around while the rest of the party fights for their lives
I literally have a character idea that's in a similar vein to this, exept instead of a tabaxi rogue, mine would be a small, fluffy, owlfolk rogue, who would also be a small child, and yes my idea is just intended as a shitpost.
This man is a comedic genius. Make the most stereotypically edgy character and give him the cutest voice combined with speaking owo. Nobody can take that seriously for half a second unless they literally can't experience emotion.
I do find it strangely clever. Like, at first glance it seemed like an unoriginal edgelord character , but in a comedic twist of fate, they talk with a cutesy language to throw people off/catch them off guard. As cringe as it might be for some folks, It's the kinda ironic comedy that feels like a breathe of fresh air for me. Like shit, never saw that coming y'know?
Sadly, it seems that the guy who was playing said character unironically thought that was the canon behavior of tabaxi. It's funny, and more than a little weird in a not-fun way.
I mean, instead of "It's how Tabaxis speak" he could've just said "You know, my character's an orphan and nobody bothered teaching him NOT to talk like that..." but that' would've required the player having some brain attached to the brainstem, which automatically would've disqualified him for being a furry with cat ears on his head... :)
@@s.m.2523 ^This right here. Adventures league is a "very serious game for very serious players." A lot of those DM's take the 'I'm god' thing to the next level during them... one of the reasons I stopped showing up to adventures league and just running my own game.
@@Xeno_Solarus It's still hilarious though, gotta love something as wacky as this... Plus, it's Adventures League so any fun or comedic moments you could have in it should be welcomed as... That particular way of playing d&d is known for being... Meh, although that depends on the DM. It's cringe but it's funny cringe, the way you used the word cringe by the way, very cringe.
This is my favorite way to play a D&D character; I did a very similar thing with a female centaur. Funny story: So in a campaign where I was somehow not the DM, I played an Aarakocra Blood Hunter/Fighter with 4 INT and WIS called "Birdfriend" ("Birdacquaintence" to new people, and "Birdfoe" to their enemies). Birdfriend was a silly dumb character, introduced jokingly with the name gimmick, very stupid with the low INT which led to a lot of misinterpretation-type jokes, a cinnamon roll sweet non-binary bird buddy, but over the course of several sessions I slowly revealed Birdfriend to be a very tragic and abused character, abandoned by their parents due to their mental difficulties from hatching, not able to keep up with their siblings or parents, and in general just being a bad egg. This led to a lot of sad tragic backstory stuff, blah blah blah, I tried to make a very comedic character eventually very tragic and serious. Birdfriend met their end via suicide over their best friend being killed. It was obviously very dark, sad, serious, and a bit edgey, and successfully I made most of the table cry as a result of the scene. After Birdfriend met their tragic demise, I had to make a new character. My DM told me that they'd be a gladiator in this coliseum the other players were going to; a fighting slave functionally, very crappy situation, and the coliseum kept the gladiators fit to keep fighting over and over with a magic fountain of blood that when drank have you the benefits of a long rest. Pretty edgey situation my new character would be introduced in. So I created a weird one: a centaur multiclassed one level into every class (at level 5, so Fighter/Sorcerer/Bard/Mystic/Rogue at the start). They had a very edgey design, with a kabuki mask, massive swords, gladiatorial armor, caked in blood from their enemies and this blood fountain. When the party arrived in the fighting pits, before we'd all be thrust into the ring, the DM asked me to describe my character when they first met eyes. I gave my best most edgey description ever: this tall intimidating figure of a centaur, dripping in blood, all these weapons, spiky armor, lot of black and red, muscles, etc. The centaur filled the inside of her kabuki mask with blood from the fountain, drank from the mask like a bowl, before affixing it back to their face, just as they turned to the party... (the edgey description worked a little too well, as I could see some of my fellow players get bored and literally roll their eyes as I went on) Then I belted out my best bubbly _feminine_ Irish accent and said in a high-pitch: "Heloo! Ha-ware-ya? Soo luvlee tuh mate ya ull!" This made my entire table burst out laughing (mission successful) 😁 I revealed the big super edgey-looking buff centaur to be a woman named Talya, with an incredibly happy, bubbly, friendly, and optimistic personality, who never shut up, speaking in her (very silly sounding) thick Irish accent. She was pretty unbothered by the gladiator stuff, and generally was just happy to be there no matter the situation. I spent hours studying Irish accents for that two-minute reveal scene, and it was completely worth it. Talya remains one of my favorite characters ever, and my best moment in D&D, turning the table's mood from bored with edge to laughing at the absurdity on a dime.
@@jeremiii6523 lmao ok Not sure why you felt compelled to comment if you didn't want to read, but you do you; sometimes saying words regardless of whether you read the thing you're saying words about is more important, I guess Just a silly dumb D&D story thematically similar to the video it was written on, a silly dumb D&D story
@@GunnarClovis Maybe the other person may have not read it because of the length of the comment. But that's alot of work you put into a single comment lol
As a huge cat fan myself, I can't tell if this guy is insanely clever and comedic, or completely lacking in self awareness. I don't know which would be funnier XD
@@NelsonDemifur "Without a clear indication of the author's intent, it is difficult or impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism. ".
Even if this was unintentional on the roleplayer’s part, giving an edgy-Mc-Edgelord character that kind of voice is sheer, golden perfection. I would’ve loved to be there! 😂
My first character was pretty edgy too, and we played him up for laughs a lot- but in a very different way than this guy. A half-drow, his human mother didn't follow his family back into the Underdark. He (sneakily) worked magic to help his father at the morgue, until one day he came home and found that his father had been killed for boning a human- and my character was being hunted! Escaping from the underdark as a homebrew necromancer (bodies are easier to move if they move themselves!), he was found as a goblin's prisoner by the party. He had zero social abilities and absolutely no experience with the "real world" OR the above-ground, so every new experience for him was either mind-blowing, terrifying, or immensely confusing. Taverns where the owner doesn't have slaves beaten within inches of their lives? Dragonborn? Prostitutes? Dragonborn prostitutes? All insane concepts that took some seroous adjustment time. His interactions with NPCs were the best, though. The DM was fairly new but very good, and when Necrodude came up to a citizen asking where the nearest corpse could be found (preferably with little to no decay), the party had to intervene to not only save face but also avoid prison time.
You know, I think a lot of folks who aren't part of the boardgaming community, or at least spend a good deal of time online would probably look at a niche group of people laughing at an even nicher community as pretty ironic an/or cringe.
To be based is cringe. To be cringe is based. I hate both those words, because both of them have been overused to hell and back. However, there is no denying that to reach the ultimate transcendent form of humanity, is to be binged.
@@friendist9323 That is the horseshoe theory of based and cringe. When you try too hard to become based, it becomes cringe, if you try to hard to be cringe it becomes based.
I love The idea and would love to have him in a game. however, the closest I've seen in-person to a tabaxi is a Kajiit from the elder scrolls...And the idea of "kajiit has ware if you have coin" in Uwu speech nearly broke me
This isn't cringe, this is genius. He made that one character from a tv show that's the ultimate villain, and sounds like a two year old child. Definitely a memelord
Just wanna say, thank you for reading a greentext post in a way that feels natural. Everyone just reads them word for word, and it just sounds robotic as all hell.
That's because greentexts are in fact often read by robot voices :P Literally 95% of greentext videos on RUclips are done by just running the greentext through a text-to-speech program, and turning that into a video
@@DrGromov I honestly prefer that format, so long as the content creators actually fix up certain words or errors in punctuation that can cause the TTS to hitch up.
What's wrong with that though? I'd genuinely love a player like that at my table. He attempts a voice, he clearly put thought, love and effort into his character. What more a DM can ask for?
why did my brain give me the abilty to translate this Edit: for anyone who can't tell, it says "crawling in my skin these wounds they will not heal UwU"
I wonder how many people watched this video without pretending to hear "this is cringy because furries and being silly is bad for people who play pretend 'round the table for hours"
You know that skit of Sung Wun Cho with the silly-voiced mob boss? Well... that is the feeling I get from Mr "Edgelord". Clearly, an edge as sharp... as a squeaky toy hammer.
That fucking twist, the two opposite ends of the cringe spectrum canceling out into the most funny nonsense ever. I'd love to see such a thing in action lmaoooo.
A thing I notice from these is the instant the DM says 'it cant be that bad' is that instant they need to punch themselves, accept its going to get worse and stop it right then and there.
@@dan4992 it's a harmless prank for the most part. Dude made a badass edgy cat character and intentionally gave him a typical cute kitten voice, which is a hilarious gag. Probably should have done it with friends, but maybe he wanted to pull a prank and not have to worry about seeing the other people ever again after.
A buddy of mine did the opposite sort of deal with this. Super edgy character, Tabaxi rogue, constantly spewing middle-school level "dark and brooding" lines, but his backstory was completely ordinary. No tragedy, no revenge plot, just a guy. He was role-playing an edgy roleplayer. And his name was Sparklefloof McButtertits.
I’ve had almost this exact character be played in my campaign. Just remove the edge and there you go, an owo tabaxi rouge. Yes I hated the wall climbing at first but that became nothing compared to the phase stalker ranger who could walk through walls.
I had a player who said he doesn't like cringy anime stuff. So naturally, as a dedicated DM, I fashioned him an early-game antagonist that was a catboy rogue speaking in owo. They worked at the same guild, but since the PC fell into some trouble, the NPC tried to fuck him over and even kidnapped him at one point. It was a contest, seeing who at the table will first get an aneurysm. I think he was satisfied to eventually teach that NPC a lesson. The NPC's name was Moe, and he had a pet ferret named Poggers that helped him steal shit.
“His name was Xander BloodClaw” that’s not even how tabaxi names work. A more fitting tabaxi name would be something like: “Claws that Slash Through the Blood” or something like that
I have a feeling this is a guy that is well adjusted, but just decided that he was gonna do as much as he could to take the piss out of AL as he could in a single session. The fact he packed both the edge and the UwU in one character is honestly impressive.
That's it. When science cures my cat allergy I know the perfect name for my first feline. "What a cute kitty! What's his name?" OwO speak: "His name is Xander Bwoodcwaw!"
Imagine making THE edgiest fucking rogue that ever existed, and then he either is born or gets cursed with having an awfully high pitch voice that completely invalidates everything about his menacing identity. Imagine said rogue just outright learning sign language so he avoids having to embarass himself to any other person that ever comes his way. That's just hilarious. :D
I read a comic once where a dude who was half raven and dressed in edgy black clothes never spoke pretty much at all, because he had an embarrassing lisp, and everyone just thinks he's super angry and hates socializing when they meet him. In reality he's sitting there awkwardly contemplating how he can respond to them politely without actually talking lol
May I ask you @@catpoke9557… what comic is that? I really want to read it, it seems really interesting and a pretty good comedy concept now that I think about it
I can just imagine playing a character that just drips edgelord on top of edgelord who has a high pitched kitty girl voice. But playing it straight like nothing is wrong.
I think the funniest image here is the idea of the other members of this group having to either keep their composure/ losing their shit at this. Also the guy wearing cat ears the whole time.
honestly, that person rules, they should make their character whatever they like and give no fucks. I just admire people for being themselves. Kill cringe culture forever.
People who indulge in cringe culture are cringe themselves. You seriously want to shit on somebodys character because its not in your taste. F off. Let the kids do what they want.
I’m sorry, but I can just imagine the scene that went down when Xander’s parents were killed. “YEW…. YEW MUUDEWER…. YEW *KIWWED* MHY PAWENTZ! I’M GONNA SHTAB YEW OVA AND OVA AGAIN WHEN I’M OWD ENUFF!!”
@@tristanband4003 dude you are literally replying to everything, yes, stuff can be cringey. Idgaf how cringe you wanna be but if I don’t like it, I don’t have to deal with it. Cringe is more of a matter of opinion so stop taking others so seriously when they say you’re cringey. Just move on your day and don’t give a fuck about it for fuck’s sake.
@@PasteGames But that is precisely the argument I am making; the implication is that, if it is an opinion, then it should not be asserted so confidently as people tend to. If you don't want to deal with it, then don't comment on it. Put it out of mind.
@@tristanband4003 you know why people assert it confidently right? Because a majority% of the world agrees on a lot of things that are seen as cringe. I understand, you want people to stop bullying you, but kicking and crying like a baby everywhere you can makes it worse.
@@PasteGames I never said I wanted the world to stop bullying me in particular. And the numbers of people who agree on something doesn't determine shit. Millions of people agree open homosexuality is cringe, but that doesn't mean it is in fact cringe. Only that millions of people have a stupid opinion not worth bowing to, and worth opposing. The blessing of autism is that I neither am capable of imagining how others see me, or willing to respect that opinion; neither my opinion nor others are worthy of any respect.
This is the greatest thing I have ever heard. The mixture of cutesy and edge, and then that slap in the face at the end. I can only wish to meet this level of whatthefuckery
If this is real, he HAD to be doing it for laughs. I'm a furry with Asperger's, and I STILL cannot comprehend the kind of person who would do all of that, together, unironically. That had me laughing my ass off, amazing job on the voice.
"The guy looked the player in the eyes..." An autistic person would only intentionally make eye contact if the person they're looking at pissed them off. I doubt they'd do it to play a character.
@@jermfanaccount Dont know if this counts but I have ADHD and yeah this is stuff I’d do ironically. Probably wouldn’t have the guts to do it in public but yea.
You should have been there for my first readthrough of this… I was wheeze-laughing so hard that I literally delirious and couldn’t concentrate on what I was reading anymore due to oxygen loss.
This could go 1 of 2 ways: either he did this on purpose and is a comedic genius for shattering our edgy expectations, or he did this on accident and fully believes that's how the game works. I honestly don't know which I prefer, but I do know that I'll never be that funny.
Honestly thought this was hilarious. I imagine this character telling everyone he wants to avenge his parents and not getting taken seriously because he perpetually talks in owo speak
Counterpoint: that is amazing and I want him in my first party when I DM my first DnD campaign. Or, otherwise, someone being like that. Or a whole group like that.
I've only recently learned about dnd through the just roll with it podcast, and although I was in awe and admired how it all worked I didn't feel an urge to get into dnd myself or make an oc but now I want to make an owo cat character that says super dark shit
Kind of sad how this is framed as a cringe horror story. I guess "no fun or comedy allowed" are part of the rules of this table.
Also imagine roleplayers calling other people cringe. Maybe we should be a bit careful with the stone throwing in our glass house.
Honestly I just DM’d my group through a session where their first major villain was literally Dio Brando, and somehow managed to get in some nail-biting tension and fun roleplay out of that. I have plans to include Xander Bloodclaw as a brief inside joke later, too.
Is it cringe? Eh, probably. I am cringe, but I am free.
its cringe tho
Funny stuff can also be cringey. Especially if the guy wasn’t doing it as a joke but people just found it funny.
@@samueltaft4914 yeah fr some people are just rlly sensitive
One of my PCs was a combination of various Links from the Legend of Zelda games (both canonical and player controlled), adapted to the setting of the campaign. It took my party 4 months to realize this.
The character went from boring edgelord to masterpiece of ironic character design. I couldn't possibly be mad at anyone playing this. Even if the player legitimately didn't understand what they did and why it was genius, I'd still allow it.
emphatically based
Yea man all that edge in a cuddly package. I remember we ran an evil final fantasy skinned campaign and I was an evil moogle. Lotta dark threats with Kupo muttered at the end
merely pretending
Well, well, well, here we are again. And I know, funny line.
Oh I'm fairly sure that player knew exactly what he was doing.
"Orphan, bloodlust, affinity for blades-"
"Sir, this is a McDonald's's drive-thru. You're holding up the line."
The drive-thru person then breaks out laughing…
"Oh, swowwy. I'll twake a bwig mwac wif a spwite uwu"
@@xxarcangelxx143 *Laughing over the intercom* C-C-Can you repeat that, sir?
@@homuraakemi103 🤣 feck I forgot how funny uwu text speech was until seeing this video
@@xxarcangelxx143 "And a swide of fwies pwease. owo"
Not gonna lie, I would kill to have this guy in a session. Having the most edgiest edgelord character speak in uwu is comedy gold.
He's silent, mysterious, seeking to break a dark fae curse, shows up regularly and speaks to no one -- but that's because he sounds completely ridiculous and it's super embarrassing.
Not after an hour of that shit.
Seems like it would get very old really fast
So, call me to some session, i will be very ashamed, but, i'll do that, and kill me inside
@@BlueShellshock it would work better like that, an edgelord who doesn't talk too much cause he's embarassed by his own voice
Hot take: This is brilliant satire and everyone else in this story was just too stupid to get it. Making a hyper edge lord and making them speak cutesy anime style is fucking hilarious.
agree
Word
Im a dm, debating on making an npc that does exactly this
@@Illitha D O I T ! ! !
What I think it all comes down to is the delivery, though it does make me completely interested to know if this guy was a genius of comedy or just weird.
That guy knew exactly what he was doing and is a comedic genius
I like to imagine he was a troll
Brilliant play indeed
What a giga chad
But it was at the cost of unironic cringe thinking they’re in good company. They say a pack weebs followed him for days.
I agree and I think this is exactly what was going on
The two different kinds of cringe cancel each other out. It’s like when you mix sodium and chlorine and make table salt
Honestly, yeah its just plain stupid, but its just way too funny for it to be bad
who are you who so wise in the ways of science
And an explosion.
holy crap i was just about to say something like this, the salt comparison makes it so much better though lmao
That's actually a really good analogy.
This isn't cringe. This is a masterpiece. This dude trolled the entire table and the DM. Flawless victory
This person knew the (second) most important rule of role-playing: Have fun.
What's the most important rule?: Let others have their fun.
I'll add a slight adjustment to your most important rule: Make sure EVERYONE has the chance to have fun. You shouldn't feel the need to remove your fun so that others can have fun, and you shouldn't make your fun cost others at the table their fun.
That’s not cringe at all, that’s the funniest fucking thing you could do with a Tabaxi character.
Exactly lmaoooo
Yee a suppose murder machine is reduce to be being a *cute* murder machine
Nice pfp
Wtf is a tabaxi?
@@gaybatgosqueak catpeople, basically, they like shiny things and stories about ancient lands and peoples! super fun to play and even more fun to make into silly little kitties that run around while the rest of the party fights for their lives
That's not cringe. That sounds like the greatest shitposter who ever lived.
There's a really high chance that this person was serious. I had a friend who has first hand seen this shit. It's just as cringe as it sounds.
Actually, the greatest shitposter who ever lived was Herr Schnitzelnazi.
Yeah, i've never played dnd but this sounds like the funniest shit
I literally have a character idea that's in a similar vein to this, exept instead of a tabaxi rogue, mine would be a small, fluffy, owlfolk rogue, who would also be a small child, and yes my idea is just intended as a shitpost.
he ascended to shitposting irl. instead of reddit karma he will get real karma
I think that's actually a hilarious take on an edgy character, it had a twist that totally caught me off guard. I'd love to play with people like that
Kinda like how Shadow the hedgehog likes kittens and regularly takes care of the animals at the nearby shelter.
This man is a comedic genius. Make the most stereotypically edgy character and give him the cutest voice combined with speaking owo. Nobody can take that seriously for half a second unless they literally can't experience emotion.
being literally unable to experience emotion is also an Edgelord thing.
This… this isn’t cringe… this is high class trolling.
At its finest.
we do a moderate amount of tomfoolery
Certified badass
A very fine line, both in balance and class
The great work crafted at peak performance
I do find it strangely clever. Like, at first glance it seemed like an unoriginal edgelord character , but in a comedic twist of fate, they talk with a cutesy language to throw people off/catch them off guard.
As cringe as it might be for some folks, It's the kinda ironic comedy that feels like a breathe of fresh air for me. Like shit, never saw that coming y'know?
Sadly, it seems that the guy who was playing said character unironically thought that was the canon behavior of tabaxi. It's funny, and more than a little weird in a not-fun way.
I mean, instead of "It's how Tabaxis speak" he could've just said "You know, my character's an orphan and nobody bothered teaching him NOT to talk like that..." but that' would've required the player having some brain attached to the brainstem, which automatically would've disqualified him for being a furry with cat ears on his head... :)
Agreed.
Yeah, its very clearly a joke
The whiplash is funny.. for 20 seconds
In a game which sessions can last several hours
I'm gonna be honest, sounds like a high quality joke character in my book. Edgy Rouge combined with OwO talk sounds absolutely hilarious
I’d love an entire campaign where it’s just characters that subvert expectations so hard they give you a seizure
Barbarian weak af for example
@@TippedScale
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Works in customer service
Channels that Rage into an adventuring career.
That guy _must_ have been taking the piss.
There's _no way_ that he took any of that seriously.
I appreciate your faith in humanity
No, no, you don't understand
I have met people who are dead ass serious about this shit and it's still gaslighting me
@@KittyKatty999 this simply the best reply you could've given
As someone who hangs around furries? No. They ABSOLUTELY think it's serious. It's ... honestly terrible.
As someone who hangs around furries, he was absolutely taking the piss. Owospeak is a meme.
This isn't cringe. That man is a true genius. Give him a fucking medal for making everyone's day. Seems like that DM can't take a joke.
Nah, it's cringe. Even if something is a joke or trolling, it can absolutely still be cringe. I think you just don't understand what cringe means.
He's a adventure league Dm, I think their sense of humour and fun is surgically removed before each session.
@@s.m.2523 ^This right here.
Adventures league is a "very serious game for very serious players." A lot of those DM's take the 'I'm god' thing to the next level during them... one of the reasons I stopped showing up to adventures league and just running my own game.
@@Xeno_Solarus It's still hilarious though, gotta love something as wacky as this... Plus, it's Adventures League so any fun or comedic moments you could have in it should be welcomed as... That particular way of playing d&d is known for being... Meh, although that depends on the DM. It's cringe but it's funny cringe, the way you used the word cringe by the way, very cringe.
@@Xeno_Solarus I think you just don't understand what irony means
As this progressed, I realized that this is the type of shit I would pull as someone who has never played DnD before. Hats off to him.
This is my favorite way to play a D&D character; I did a very similar thing with a female centaur. Funny story:
So in a campaign where I was somehow not the DM, I played an Aarakocra Blood Hunter/Fighter with 4 INT and WIS called "Birdfriend" ("Birdacquaintence" to new people, and "Birdfoe" to their enemies). Birdfriend was a silly dumb character, introduced jokingly with the name gimmick, very stupid with the low INT which led to a lot of misinterpretation-type jokes, a cinnamon roll sweet non-binary bird buddy, but over the course of several sessions I slowly revealed Birdfriend to be a very tragic and abused character, abandoned by their parents due to their mental difficulties from hatching, not able to keep up with their siblings or parents, and in general just being a bad egg. This led to a lot of sad tragic backstory stuff, blah blah blah, I tried to make a very comedic character eventually very tragic and serious. Birdfriend met their end via suicide over their best friend being killed. It was obviously very dark, sad, serious, and a bit edgey, and successfully I made most of the table cry as a result of the scene.
After Birdfriend met their tragic demise, I had to make a new character. My DM told me that they'd be a gladiator in this coliseum the other players were going to; a fighting slave functionally, very crappy situation, and the coliseum kept the gladiators fit to keep fighting over and over with a magic fountain of blood that when drank have you the benefits of a long rest. Pretty edgey situation my new character would be introduced in.
So I created a weird one: a centaur multiclassed one level into every class (at level 5, so Fighter/Sorcerer/Bard/Mystic/Rogue at the start). They had a very edgey design, with a kabuki mask, massive swords, gladiatorial armor, caked in blood from their enemies and this blood fountain.
When the party arrived in the fighting pits, before we'd all be thrust into the ring, the DM asked me to describe my character when they first met eyes. I gave my best most edgey description ever: this tall intimidating figure of a centaur, dripping in blood, all these weapons, spiky armor, lot of black and red, muscles, etc. The centaur filled the inside of her kabuki mask with blood from the fountain, drank from the mask like a bowl, before affixing it back to their face, just as they turned to the party...
(the edgey description worked a little too well, as I could see some of my fellow players get bored and literally roll their eyes as I went on)
Then I belted out my best bubbly _feminine_ Irish accent and said in a high-pitch: "Heloo! Ha-ware-ya? Soo luvlee tuh mate ya ull!"
This made my entire table burst out laughing (mission successful) 😁
I revealed the big super edgey-looking buff centaur to be a woman named Talya, with an incredibly happy, bubbly, friendly, and optimistic personality, who never shut up, speaking in her (very silly sounding) thick Irish accent. She was pretty unbothered by the gladiator stuff, and generally was just happy to be there no matter the situation.
I spent hours studying Irish accents for that two-minute reveal scene, and it was completely worth it. Talya remains one of my favorite characters ever, and my best moment in D&D, turning the table's mood from bored with edge to laughing at the absurdity on a dime.
Beautiful stories, that was wonderfully fun to read--thanks for leaving this comment :)
@@Gwesster gee thanks! 😊
Thank you for your comment!
Ain't reading that, but I'm happy for you, or sorry that happened :)
@@jeremiii6523 lmao ok
Not sure why you felt compelled to comment if you didn't want to read, but you do you; sometimes saying words regardless of whether you read the thing you're saying words about is more important, I guess
Just a silly dumb D&D story thematically similar to the video it was written on, a silly dumb D&D story
@@GunnarClovis Maybe the other person may have not read it because of the length of the comment. But that's alot of work you put into a single comment lol
Poe's Law is in full effect and I am HERE FOR IT.
As a huge cat fan myself, I can't tell if this guy is insanely clever and comedic, or completely lacking in self awareness.
I don't know which would be funnier XD
Poe's Law?
@@NelsonDemifur "Without a clear indication of the author's intent, it is difficult or impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism.
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Sup, Josh! Long time fan
ive never heard of that,but its good that i know know what that is called,thx
Perfect. Honestly one of the greatest deconstructions of edge I've seen so far. Shame it was accidental.
would be the best character if it was intentional
You're assuming it was accidental. Sounds to me like the guy knew exactly what he was doing.
@@draco6349 he knew exactly what he was doing
@@draco6349 it was 100% intentional lmaoooo
You don’t know that
Even if this was unintentional on the roleplayer’s part, giving an edgy-Mc-Edgelord character that kind of voice is sheer, golden perfection. I would’ve loved to be there! 😂
My first character was pretty edgy too, and we played him up for laughs a lot- but in a very different way than this guy.
A half-drow, his human mother didn't follow his family back into the Underdark. He (sneakily) worked magic to help his father at the morgue, until one day he came home and found that his father had been killed for boning a human- and my character was being hunted! Escaping from the underdark as a homebrew necromancer (bodies are easier to move if they move themselves!), he was found as a goblin's prisoner by the party. He had zero social abilities and absolutely no experience with the "real world" OR the above-ground, so every new experience for him was either mind-blowing, terrifying, or immensely confusing. Taverns where the owner doesn't have slaves beaten within inches of their lives? Dragonborn? Prostitutes? Dragonborn prostitutes? All insane concepts that took some seroous adjustment time.
His interactions with NPCs were the best, though. The DM was fairly new but very good, and when Necrodude came up to a citizen asking where the nearest corpse could be found (preferably with little to no decay), the party had to intervene to not only save face but also avoid prison time.
Is there some record where I can read more about this?
Dude, this isn't cringe. This is pure, comedic brilliance.
Ima be honest, if his response on why he did it was “because I thought it was funny” I would’ve 100% backed up his agruement.
He did it because it was unironically funny.
He was having fun playing DnD.
A shocking concept.
@@tristanband4003 I don’t think you entirely got the point of my comment
@@craftyplayz8150I did, I was agreeing with you.
@@tristanband4003 ok
Oh, 420 likes. Cool
Gods if this was a satirical take on edgy characters, it would have been a brilliant start
I fucking love this, unironically it sounds like it'd be fun to be in a campaign with him.
This is proof of the horseshoe theory of cringe and based. He ironically created a character so cringed it circled back around into based.
You know, I think a lot of folks who aren't part of the boardgaming community, or at least spend a good deal of time online would probably look at a niche group of people laughing at an even nicher community as pretty ironic an/or cringe.
Guess he's God now 😹
To be based is cringe. To be cringe is based. I hate both those words, because both of them have been overused to hell and back. However, there is no denying that to reach the ultimate transcendent form of humanity, is to be binged.
@@friendist9323 That is the horseshoe theory of based and cringe. When you try too hard to become based, it becomes cringe, if you try to hard to be cringe it becomes based.
This made my mitochondria shut down
The most important rule before starting in D&D: There are NO limits for how awful a character can be.
It’s what makes it fun!
YES! ThankYou!.gif
It's supposed to be stupid.
Like a self conscious piece of bread that summons magic hands to do anything
Including communicating, so its a magic bread that speaks in hand signs
As someone who plays a melee divine soul sorcerer who collects kobold eggs while the party is fighting a dragon in the next room, I agree
That man knew exactly the juxtaposition he was creating and honestly I'd want him to come back to the next session that's great.
I love The idea and would love to have him in a game. however, the closest I've seen in-person to a tabaxi is a Kajiit from the elder scrolls...And the idea of "kajiit has ware if you have coin" in Uwu speech nearly broke me
This isn't cringe, this is genius. He made that one character from a tv show that's the ultimate villain, and sounds like a two year old child. Definitely a memelord
Those villains were ahead of their time
It's Alpha from the Up movie
Just wanna say, thank you for reading a greentext post in a way that feels natural. Everyone just reads them word for word, and it just sounds robotic as all hell.
exactly
I think it's because of the part where he dies laughing halfway in
That's because greentexts are in fact often read by robot voices :P
Literally 95% of greentext videos on RUclips are done by just running the greentext through a text-to-speech program, and turning that into a video
@@DrGromov I honestly prefer that format, so long as the content creators actually fix up certain words or errors in punctuation that can cause the TTS to hitch up.
@@digiquo8143 agreed, i felt him stopping just to have a laughing fit for several seconds uncut was unnecessary and not all that funny tbh
They had a comedy genius in front of them and they never realized
What's wrong with that though? I'd genuinely love a player like that at my table. He attempts a voice, he clearly put thought, love and effort into his character. What more a DM can ask for?
The “that’s how Tabaxi speak” at the end now has me in a frightening confusion of whether or not they were being serious
I would've replied "No it is not. That doesn't mean stop".
It sounds like a he
Catman was being very serious. Why wouldn't he?
Well there's a new canon for whenever i DM.
I don't care what the source book says, The Tabaxi's native language is now Uwu.
@@akale2620 because it's really funny if it's a joke
cwawling in mah skeen dese uwunds dey wiww not heaw UmU
I love how google offers to translate this
In spanish this says “ screaming in mah skeen ....” xd
Weird how translate to English did not work
Feaw ish how I fawl, Confuwusing wah ish weaw. •w•
why did my brain give me the abilty to translate this
Edit: for anyone who can't tell, it says "crawling in my skin these wounds they will not heal UwU"
This guy is a legend. He went as far as to put on cat years just to make some amazing shitpost
I wonder how many people watched this video without pretending to hear "this is cringy because furries and being silly is bad for people who play pretend 'round the table for hours"
You know that skit of Sung Wun Cho with the silly-voiced mob boss? Well... that is the feeling I get from Mr "Edgelord". Clearly, an edge as sharp... as a squeaky toy hammer.
This character is definitely someone who would say "You'll be sleeping with the fishies"
@@jeepercreepers9 "you'w be sweepin wid da feeshies"
@@doomguy19931 "chugs down 2 gallons of water breathing potion" yea sure bud
@@platinumchromee3191 chwugs dwown twow gwallwons of wawter bweathin pwotion ywe shuw bwud
@@edgecrow5492 If you keep tawking wike this i _shaww wend you apawt_
This man was absolutely taking the piss. He knew combining edge with owo would be fucking hilarious.
This really does seem to be a case of high class trolling and the DM didn't roll a high enough perception check to get it.
This makes me want to be there for my kid so they dont end up like this
That fucking twist, the two opposite ends of the cringe spectrum canceling out into the most funny nonsense ever. I'd love to see such a thing in action lmaoooo.
This is not cringe; this is someone, taking a standard trope, and turning it on its head. Masterfully done.
He managed to salvage that character from being cringe and I'm very impressed
A thing I notice from these is the instant the DM says 'it cant be that bad' is that instant they need to punch themselves, accept its going to get worse and stop it right then and there.
Then we wouldn’t get funny shit
like
THIS
And honestly it wasn't that bad
he intentionally sabotaged the Cringey Furry and the Edgy Rogue sterotypes in a double-homicide, nicely done
Unironically, the idea of the edgiest character saying the most dark and angsty shit you've ever heard in owo speak is super funny to me :'D
This guy had to know what he was doing and I am here for it.
This isn't cringe, this is comedy gold. Dude definitely did it on purpose. Congrats, OP, you've been had.
Joining up with a group of strangers in D&D just to troll them is super cool. Comedy gold
@@dan4992 it's a harmless prank for the most part. Dude made a badass edgy cat character and intentionally gave him a typical cute kitten voice, which is a hilarious gag. Probably should have done it with friends, but maybe he wanted to pull a prank and not have to worry about seeing the other people ever again after.
A buddy of mine did the opposite sort of deal with this. Super edgy character, Tabaxi rogue, constantly spewing middle-school level "dark and brooding" lines, but his backstory was completely ordinary. No tragedy, no revenge plot, just a guy. He was role-playing an edgy roleplayer. And his name was Sparklefloof McButtertits.
Did he do the Chris Bale voice?
I’ve had almost this exact character be played in my campaign. Just remove the edge and there you go, an owo tabaxi rouge. Yes I hated the wall climbing at first but that became nothing compared to the phase stalker ranger who could walk through walls.
That isn't cringe, it's pure comedy gold. This guy was a madlad.
I had a player who said he doesn't like cringy anime stuff. So naturally, as a dedicated DM, I fashioned him an early-game antagonist that was a catboy rogue speaking in owo. They worked at the same guild, but since the PC fell into some trouble, the NPC tried to fuck him over and even kidnapped him at one point. It was a contest, seeing who at the table will first get an aneurysm. I think he was satisfied to eventually teach that NPC a lesson.
The NPC's name was Moe, and he had a pet ferret named Poggers that helped him steal shit.
That is incredible. I was already cracking up but Poggers slew me
“His name was Xander BloodClaw” that’s not even how tabaxi names work. A more fitting tabaxi name would be something like: “Claws that Slash Through the Blood” or something like that
So basically argonian naming
So basically Halo engineer naming
So basically Warriors mountain tribe naming.
So basically google translate naming
@@spoonlord5149 tabaxi names are less conventional names and more phrases
I have a feeling this is a guy that is well adjusted, but just decided that he was gonna do as much as he could to take the piss out of AL as he could in a single session. The fact he packed both the edge and the UwU in one character is honestly impressive.
That's it. When science cures my cat allergy I know the perfect name for my first feline. "What a cute kitty! What's his name?"
OwO speak: "His name is Xander Bwoodcwaw!"
Imagine making THE edgiest fucking rogue that ever existed, and then he either is born or gets cursed with having an awfully high pitch voice that completely invalidates everything about his menacing identity.
Imagine said rogue just outright learning sign language so he avoids having to embarass himself to any other person that ever comes his way.
That's just hilarious. :D
I read a comic once where a dude who was half raven and dressed in edgy black clothes never spoke pretty much at all, because he had an embarrassing lisp, and everyone just thinks he's super angry and hates socializing when they meet him. In reality he's sitting there awkwardly contemplating how he can respond to them politely without actually talking lol
@@catpoke9557 ngl that's adorable
May I ask you @@catpoke9557… what comic is that? I really want to read it, it seems really interesting and a pretty good comedy concept now that I think about it
@@catpoke9557
Story?
@@catpoke9557 that sound fun can you share the comic name pls
Alex losing his shit at the OwO speak part has the EXACT same energy as handsome jack telling his spoon story.
Exactly
Oh boy I live for that line
The only spoon story I know is the Clint Stevens spoon story
Frankly, I think some of the professional D&D shows could pull off a character like this and manage the fine line between cringe and comedy.
I can just imagine playing a character that just drips edgelord on top of edgelord who has a high pitched kitty girl voice. But playing it straight like nothing is wrong.
I think the funniest image here is the idea of the other members of this group having to either keep their composure/ losing their shit at this.
Also the guy wearing cat ears the whole time.
honestly, that person rules, they should make their character whatever they like and give no fucks. I just admire people for being themselves. Kill cringe culture forever.
SPEAK TO THE HEAVENS
People who indulge in cringe culture are cringe themselves. You seriously want to shit on somebodys character because its not in your taste. F off. Let the kids do what they want.
@@coffintears5821 the guy was in his 20’s but yea
@@nikkifish S T ILL you still shouldn't shit on peoples creations regardless of their age.
@@coffintears5821 I never said that I was shitting on him though-
when the owo part came up every cell of my body went into fight or flight mode.
I was expecting something terrible. Instead I left with one of the best introductions in dnd history
I’m sorry, but I can just imagine the scene that went down when Xander’s parents were killed.
“YEW…. YEW MUUDEWER…. YEW *KIWWED* MHY PAWENTZ! I’M GONNA SHTAB YEW OVA AND OVA AGAIN WHEN I’M OWD ENUFF!!”
Okay there's a difference between cringe, and unironic cringe, and this man's a comedic genius.
Eh, nah. There isn't. The problem is taking seriously the idea of cringe.
@@tristanband4003 dude you are literally replying to everything, yes, stuff can be cringey. Idgaf how cringe you wanna be but if I don’t like it, I don’t have to deal with it. Cringe is more of a matter of opinion so stop taking others so seriously when they say you’re cringey. Just move on your day and don’t give a fuck about it for fuck’s sake.
@@PasteGames But that is precisely the argument I am making; the implication is that, if it is an opinion, then it should not be asserted so confidently as people tend to. If you don't want to deal with it, then don't comment on it. Put it out of mind.
@@tristanband4003 you know why people assert it confidently right? Because a majority% of the world agrees on a lot of things that are seen as cringe. I understand, you want people to stop bullying you, but kicking and crying like a baby everywhere you can makes it worse.
@@PasteGames I never said I wanted the world to stop bullying me in particular. And the numbers of people who agree on something doesn't determine shit. Millions of people agree open homosexuality is cringe, but that doesn't mean it is in fact cringe. Only that millions of people have a stupid opinion not worth bowing to, and worth opposing. The blessing of autism is that I neither am capable of imagining how others see me, or willing to respect that opinion; neither my opinion nor others are worthy of any respect.
See, at one point you just embrace that you're the weird one. That's what happened to me at least, and I'm happier than ever lol
This is the greatest thing I have ever heard. The mixture of cutesy and edge, and then that slap in the face at the end.
I can only wish to meet this level of whatthefuckery
If this is real, he HAD to be doing it for laughs. I'm a furry with Asperger's, and I STILL cannot comprehend the kind of person who would do all of that, together, unironically.
That had me laughing my ass off, amazing job on the voice.
"The guy looked the player in the eyes..." An autistic person would only intentionally make eye contact if the person they're looking at pissed them off. I doubt they'd do it to play a character.
@@cyber_dragon_123 Not necessarily, but yeah, a lot of people with some form of autism have trouble making/keeping eye contact.
same here, i'm not a furry but i have autism, and like, this is the kinda stuff you'd do for shits and giggles and that's hilarious in of itself
@@jermfanaccount Dont know if this counts but I have ADHD and yeah this is stuff I’d do ironically. Probably wouldn’t have the guts to do it in public but yea.
As furry,i would do it for shit and giggles.
+everytime my brain has to work with uwu accent it hurts
This is actually genius.
Bros character could say the most serious death threat and would intimidate absolutely nobody
Creating a super edgy character that talks like an anime cat is actually pure genius
What? No. Tabaxi speak like, "Khajit has wares if you have coin."
...
(Oh my gosh! Are you okay? That wheezing sounded painful.)
You should have been there for my first readthrough of this… I was wheeze-laughing so hard that I literally delirious and couldn’t concentrate on what I was reading anymore due to oxygen loss.
Honestly this player knew what he was doing. A perfect way to subvert expectations.
I think this is one of the best characters I ever witnessed. Sounds like a fun DnD session.
This could go 1 of 2 ways: either he did this on purpose and is a comedic genius for shattering our edgy expectations, or he did this on accident and fully believes that's how the game works.
I honestly don't know which I prefer, but I do know that I'll never be that funny.
This actually kinda sounded funny until he said that’s how tabaxis speak
This man is not an edge lord.
he’s a fucking genius
Props to the dm for not losing it, I'd lose it halfway through
Honestly thought this was hilarious. I imagine this character telling everyone he wants to avenge his parents and not getting taken seriously because he perpetually talks in owo speak
This guy simply made the best character i've ever seen in terms of subverting expectaions
Xandew Bwoodcwaw is a goddamn legend.
I was prepared to be horrified and instead broke out laughing, I would love to play on a table with someone that dedicated to the bit.
This was beautiful. Never knew the the voice of Spamton G. Spamton dubbed over masterpiece comments like this.
The only thing I really remember from a game is that my friend had a goblin character that would try to steal someone’s lungs at any chance they get
I’m sorry, WHAT
I know this off topic, but hearing the music made me simultaneously feel calm, yet sad due to a certain point in the story
Dang, didn't know you made this video, I'm learning things today.
this mans wheezes are solid gold
Counterpoint: that is amazing and I want him in my first party when I DM my first DnD campaign. Or, otherwise, someone being like that. Or a whole group like that.
I agree
Same. It means actually role-playing, not just minmaxing and crunching numbers.
@@tristanband4003 I minmax, but my characters are outright insane. I have scared a succubus into celibacy with a mad scientist type wizard
To be honest this ain’t bad. It’s pretty tame compare to other stories from ppl I knew where things gone really x rated somehow.
i should do that at my next session where i'm playing a tabaxi
Please, I'm trying not to laugh my ass off so my parents don't wake up.
Making it too difficult, bro, holy fuck lmao
That ain’t cringe, that is comedy gold
Damn I spit out my coffe. I did not expect that🤣
I've only recently learned about dnd through the just roll with it podcast, and although I was in awe and admired how it all worked I didn't feel an urge to get into dnd myself or make an oc
but now I want to make an owo cat character that says super dark shit
You completely breaking down and wheeze laughing brings this content up to 11, great work.