Oh ewww, I was in a small roleplay server and someone kept begging to do NSFW teacher student relationships. The secret was a pg 13 highschool slice of life. Gross.
@@miguellastation5053They were playing a student and was trying to pressure one of the people playing a teacher into a romantic roleplay, then threw a tantrum when teacher player said no because it’s not right.
I would like to remind everyone that a natural 20 is the best POSSIBLE result, which isn't always the desired result. If an NPC wouldn't at all be interested in the player trying to seduce them, they should not suddenly find them attractive simply because the player rolls high. Sometimes the best possible result is that they don't get insulted and kill you.
It's funny how many forget that persuasion/diplomacy is not a dominate/suggestion spell. You're not magically mind controlling someone, just talking to them.
Once, my party’s cleric rolled persuasion. She rolled persuasion against Strahd, to try and stop him from charming the sorcerer to get information out of her. Cleric rolled a natural 20. I looked at my party and said “There is absolutely no reason why Strahd would stop charming someone. But I’ll say you actually confused him with your audacity and drew his attention, but just out of pure confusion”. I think it was the best possible compromise/outcome of the situation.
On-top of that rules as written critical successes DO NOT exist, natural 20s do not mean anything for skill checks so it might not even the "best possible result" which btw skill check DCs can be made up on the spot and can be WHATEVER the DM wants it to be so a 20 with modifier can be nowhere close given the circumstance, furthermore technically a fails a fail and you will fail the same way if you rolled a nat 20 as if you rolled a nat 1 if your modifier isn't up to snuff, most DMs are just nice and scale results off how low or high you roll.
We had a DM who had a verbal slip that we still mock him for, even years later. Our party encountered a locked door, and as we were tired of having just done a long dungeon crawl, our sorceress decided to just cast Burning Hands and burn the door away. DM panics and says "you can't burn the door down, it's made of wood!" Cue the entire party ripping into him about how wood is apparently non-flammable in his world, including me faking panic over our torches touching the "highly flammable" rock walls of the cave (since, if wood can't burn, maybe stone can, right?). To his credit, our DM knew immediately that he'd misspoke and let us get our ribbing on him in. Moral of the story? D&D is best played with good friends!
I was GMing Call of Cthulhu when the secretly evil PC secretly messaged me between sessions to acquire some chloroform. During the session, we referenced a certain package being delivered to him and the other players tried to work out what it was only for me to have a brain fart mid session and blurt out "oh the chloroform?". I have yet to live this down.
To be fair most wood isn't highly flammable. It should take damage from fire, but not necessarily go up in flames. Just had a session where the Sorc missed with a firebolt and the GM decided she set a tree on fire....I guess if you live in California. I'm in the Midwest, healthy trees take substantial effort to set on fire.
I started a curse of strahd campaign in December 2019 and immediatelyhad to switch to virtual. My party joked for the last 5 years that once they killed Strahd, the pandemic would be over.
Dude, as a teacher who is often mistaken for a student and HAS BEEN HIT ON, I completely second the absolute gross that is that kind of relationship. Super yuck.
Hey!! You actually read my story, and I loved the feedback LOL. I was the school romance DM. And to say a few things; i as well do not endorse the relationships, but I was young dumb, and just wanted to play. Thanks for the laughs, and my next session went a lot better after another friend of mine (who DMs a LOT more than me) told me about how to better do session zeros and talk above the table. Thanks so much for reading my story!! I worried I went on to much, so a few details got skipped, while others I def should have left out. 😂
Also would like to say because a comment had mentioned it-- despite the very comical stalking, I did NOT know that a nat 20, or charm, meant best possible option, a lot of things I read meant "players can do what they want, in reason" so I felt that was fair. God I wish I could turn back time.
Hey, at least you learned from your mistakes. You may not be able to change what happened, but now you know what to do if you’re ever in a situation like this again. You’re growing as a DM and doing better, and that’s what matters.
In a horror game, a player leaving the campaign having their character turned evil is a good turn, but maybe let the rest of the party know the player is leaving so they have a reasonable expectation of events. This is not a novel or movie, they are participants as well as audience.
I feel like it should be made 100% clear that just hijacking control of other players is 100% never okay, especially with stuff like the second story. That aside, a new official tabletop ruleset was announced last week based on the demon-based franchise Shin Megami Tensei so be on the watch for that. It's not bad, but I'm expecting some particularly bad stories from that since the mainline games are pretty dark
I gotta be honest, that whole thing with Strahd and the werewolf sounds exactly like the sort of thing that Strahd would do. Even so, if you're going to pull a stunt like that as a DM, do it with a NPC, not one of the players.
True! A way to have avoided that story would've just been... The DM talking to the player beforehand about their idea. And maybe talking to the players so they knew there was no win condition. Etc
"Bards do do that..." My changeling bard who went an entire campaign never so much as glancing at anybody (this may have been a bit before I was realizing I was ace)... "what exactly am I supposed to do?.... Who has time for that? I have Cthulhu cultists to deal with."
Yeah, I’m sick of the stereotype of bards seducing everyone. Bards don’t have to seduce, and they’re not the only class who can seduce either! When I ran Curse of Strahd, it was the monk who decided to seduce Ireena in order to piss off Strahd, and now the monk and Ireena are married and have a kid, and the monk’s player is playing as that kid in a new campaign. (Funnily enough, the kid is a bard/artificer multiclass, and this discussion started out about bards.)
Reason why I will *always* advocate for Session 0: I joined in on my friend group of 10 *years* D&D party. It was a brand new campaign. I no longer talk to any of them. There were other things, but idk if I’ll ever get past the hurt of the DM writing out a questline to go back to my rogues hometown and save it from her tyrannical parents, only to have the entire party unanimously decide “This isn’t our problem.”, get back in the wagon and leave. The quest they *did* decide to do tho? The fairy’s Dating Show style marriage conundrum that focused entirely on her (and one other PC who had a crush on her).
I have kinda played out a session 0 as a roleplay thing before, the idea was that as the characters were generating stats they were at a carnival as a mysterious figure read their fortunes as their characters were built
The girl in the second story sorta reminds me of me when I first started playing. I never freaked out or screamed, but I used to get incredibly stressed out and anxious whenever I would fail at something in d&d because I hadn’t quite internalized the concept that not everything has only one solution and I can find a other ways to accomplish what I wanted/needed to do. I sorta thought of it all in video game logic where I would only have one chance to do something, but in d&d, there are no save files, so I felt like I had to do it perfectly on the first try.
@CatCheshire No clue, from my understanding, it was her friend group that removed her, and everyone in it was already in a committed relationship and the dm never showed any signs of interest from what I saw
What has a head, but never weeps? Has a bed, but never sleeps? Always runs, but never walks? Has mouth, but never talks? I like to think Strahd's riddle is wordy, but simple and also intrinsically linked to his Vampire condition.
11:24 okay just wanna say, I had the same worries when I first heard about Dungeons and Daddies, but it’s genuinely such a good podcast that had me laughing like a maniac multiple times. It’s about a bunch of dads trying to save their sons after getting transported to the world of D&D and learning how to be better fathers along the way. I absolutely recommend it
Oddly, my group has also had problems running Curse of Strahd to the point where we've had to reboot it or change DMs several times. No horror story, they just fizzled out several times to the point where we joke that its cursed for us. We've at this point just put it on the backburner and will attempt again in the future. Lamordia's a better Domain anyway.
@itsyaboiChubbs I ran Curse of Strahd about a year ago, and we completed the campaign and had a great time. I think the reason you haven’t heard about the ones that go well is because people just talk more about the horror stories.
@@tsifirakiehl4250 Yeah, pretty much this. I would love to play it through to the end, we just have had the worst luck with it is all. I have a strange fascination with the lands of Ravenloft, though Barovia oddly ranks low on my favorite Domains of Dread despite it being iconic.
The 23:54 one.. i had something similar to the talking donkey. Though in my case, we all agreed to "bizzare & anything goes" campaign settings made by the DM.. so it isn't a horror story per se (we all had a good laugh, too). In my campaign, instead of Donkey, it was Big Chungus (the fat-memefied version of Bugs Bunny). It was also a summonable creature that our party had. The Chungus would throw insults, usually at us, and whoever responds to it would suffer 10d6 psychic damage. Aside from that, he's just there to flame us for a good laugh most of the time, lmao
While the Strahd experience was pretty bad, maybe it's just me but it could have been a great story beat- IF the DM properly communicated his idea with the player and only if they got the player's consent to send off their character in this way. If the player was on board and the DM played this better (e.g. not blatantly disrespecting the character by saying "you know you can just kill him"), I feel like it would be awesome in a horror campaign, and would give plenty of motivation for the other players to go after Strahd.
Yeah, the problem wasn’t the concept. The problem was the lack of communication and consent. If this had been talked through and agreed to, it would have been great.
The Curse of Strahd story sounds to me like a serious miscommunication on both the DM and OP's part. I think the DM assumed that OP already broke the news to the rest of the party that they would be leaving, and planned that final encounter to be an epic, dramatic sendoff. He didn't realize that the other players didn't know what he was doing, and would think it was possible to save them.
Schoolyard Romance - The one thing I would add to your comment about how Session 0 should be an above the table conversation rather than involve roleplay is that Session 0 for me is the start of a conversation, not the end of it.
Raaa dndads mentioned! For real though, they're such a charismatic group and the campaign is genuinely funny and heartwarming. Season 2 is also a completely different setting from season 1 but still has the same charm thanks to the amazing DM Anthony and the players. I get the aversion due to the word daddy, but it's honestly not like that at all - they even start most episodes by saying 'not a BDSM podcast' - and it's mostly about dads who have to find their son's and become better fathers. It's my favourite DND podcast by far, I really hope you give it a chance some day!
Intro story: Look, running away is a valid choice, and in some cases, the smartest one. It’s perfectly valid as a DM to occasionally give your party an encounter they can’t beat and have to run away from. However, the player characters are supposed to be the protagonists of the story you’re telling together, and a story where the protagonists never have a chance to actually win is going to get tedious very quickly. First story: Wow, that sounds like an absolutely miserable experience. I’m glad OP got out of there and found a better group. I don’t like how incidents like this give Curse of Strahd a bad name, though. I ran Curse of Strahd for my first campaign-which in retrospect probably wasn’t the best choice of module for a new DM-and I’ll be the first to admit I was far from perfect, but it was still a really fun campaign! All the players enjoyed it enough to keep playing with me, and we never had any real horror stories. The module’s not the problem. The problem is railroading, boundary-violating jerks like that guy. Second story: Is this girl serious? OP let her do practically whatever she wanted, and she’s going to complain that they’re “too strict”? All because there happened to be one NPC that didn’t want to bang her? For a VERY good reason, might I add? OP was WAY more lenient than I would have been. I would have given her a hard no on flirting with the teacher, and if she’d persisted, there would have been a hard no on her continuing with this campaign. Third story: This DM a) didn’t think things through very well, and b) might want to try a more rules-light system than D&D. Other systems might work better for his style. (By the way, I really like Keys From the Golden Vault; I’ve run a couple of adventures from it and had loads of fun.) Fourth story: WHAT. THE. FUCK. I have so many questions about this, and I don’t think I want any of them answered.
The only student/teacher stuff that Id accept is college student and a teacher of like, high-schoolers to preschoolers, because the imbalance of power of professionals and their students is not ok, but the idea of the college student cussing and the teacher accidently activating "Thats not very nice, we dont say that to our friends" than experiencing an existential crisis makes me laugh so hard, but yeah, two adults in a healthy relationship outside of professional standards
I have a story, but I am not a Reddit user as I am allergic to most social media. There was this guy in my life who was a bit of an RPG snob. He hated D&D despite never actually playing it. He preferred his own homebrew system that was pretty much slapdash math made up on the fly that was typically a bizarre mix of older D&D and mechanics from video games, but I digress. I was playing a solo game with a mutual friend and she was having a blast, so he wanted in. He wanted to be a fantasy version of James Spader's character from The Blacklist. I have not seen this show, but he insisted on being higher level and having two NPC minions. I know, I should have pulled the plug there, but I was just starting to learn how to stand up to this guy. Probably the worst thing he asked for was to be the other player character's secret biological father. He did this without her consent. Maybe he felt he had the right because her character was a recreation of one of the characters she ran in his world; a princess who learned how to fight and steal while on the run from her tyrannical father. Still it was another bright red flag. Then came the actual session. He sneaks into her secure room and reveals his big secret and says that he is there to "protect her from what's coming". Of course she doesn't have it. The paranoid and anti-authority princess is not going to simply trust/believe some man she has never seen before. He tried to tell me my job and says there should be some combat. Being a pushover at the time, four assassins attack from the roof. He has barely picked up a die when the complaints about how bad a system D&D is start. This joker hasn't even had a turn in combat yet. Not even two rounds of combat go by before I am forced to pause the game and tell him "we are playing D&D. You can either stop whining and play, or you can leave." Thankfully he left in a huff. We retconned that brief encounter to have never happened and her character eventually went on to become a Demon Queen. I eventually broke all contact with that guy a few months later over his latent narcissism and gas lighting.
I honestly can’t recommend Dungeons & Daddies enough, it is super fun, very self aware, the whole “daddy” aspect is really a self aware joke and never an intended part of the game itself, the stories are super well done even if you account for all the liberties it takes with the game system itself, the latest season has also been a blast as well. Dungeons of Drakkenheim is also a great podcast show and the community there is perhaps one of the bests out there in terms of acceptance and respect. Dark Dice is a great horror podcast, the terror is amazing and incredibly well conveyed. Those are my recommendations Crispy and I dare you to tell me I’m wrong in the next video 🤣
I am always sad when people mention their cool homebrew stories and then talk about them just getting shafted... Like the Magic School story! That sounds really fun since i love magic!! (My original story has a magical school with some interesting stuff to it and one of my favourite ocs is literally a teacher at that school) I think it sounds like something that would be fun to try!!
Just gonna put it out there that it is absolutely possible to be traumatized by a bad RP experience and it's okay to acknowledge that. My very first RP experience was in a livejournal based game, and my character got into an incredibly toxic relationship. I won't go into the details, but in summary, I didn't have the safety tools necessary to navigate the experience, and I got hit with a bad, *bad* case of bleed. Twenty years later, in a completely different game, a situation came up that caused me to have a prolonged anxiety attack for two days, where I felt like everything was ruined and I'd never get what I wanted out of the game and it was all going to fall apart around me...and after trying to figure out what was wrong with me for those two days, it suddenly hit me that one of the characters involved was talking almost exactly like the character involved in that toxic relationship, and I was being triggered (ACTUALLY triggered, not 'triggered' the way people misuse the term now). Thankfully with time and experience on my side, I was able to talk it out with the new group out of character and they were extremely supportive and understanding. Sure, it sounds silly to say that in-character circumstances were traumatizing, but when you're young and in a situation where you don't feel like you have the agency to stop it, it can absolutely be traumatizing.
as someone with PTSD aka The Big Trauma DiseaseTM, seconding this. trauma can come from literally anything. i am glad to hear you have the tools and supportive group necessary now!
I used to rp constantly, mostly Danganronpa themed rps where everybody has a custom character and they’re trying to escape a killing game. And I’d always be one of a handful of moderators for the groups; fairly small group roleplays, the other mods are just my friends, we were doing this for fun and nobody got paid; all that. I wasn’t the main one, but for a while, I was the only one in charge of running the trials. So I’d be in charge of taking murderer request; informing the person who played the victim, help them set up the death scene, the murder clues, additional hints that would pop up during the trial, and the eventual execution for when the character was caught. It was fun to roleplay, but playing that role got so fuckin’ stressful because if anything went wrong, the blame would always be placed on me. Whether if it was the person in charge of the murder suddenly becoming too busy and forcing everybody to stall because nobody could question them, or people purposefully trying to make bullshit nonsense cases that nobody would ever guess; or people changing murder details mid trial to suit their best interest, causing the rest of our predecided details to not make sense. Of course if anything went wrong, people would just get so pissed over me, and they’d bring those errors into the larger roleplay community and it was just so very stressful. I started feeling physically ill throughout the trials. I’d be spending time with my family and have to split my attention with the trials. Even after we got one of our other moderators to team up with me, it took them four or five trials to learn the ropes enough to deal with the trials on their own. And once they did, I stopped being present for trials entirely. Would just completely mute everything until they were over because I’d be so worried about something going wrong. Nowadays; I only rp with my close friends. Just the thought of starting a new group makes me feel ill.
0:42 It sounds like this DM was incredibly heavy-handed in trying to teach his players a lesson. I wonder if that he realized his error after his players left him.
Yo as someone with a fellow issue with the word daddy - when I was a teen I stopped calling my dad daddy bc of all the BS I'd seen on the web and other teens being douche bags, and it actually made my dad really sad. He thought that he'd done something wrong to make his kid just start calling him "dad" instead of the more affectionate term, and I eventually started calling him papa instead (which helped) but he still thought I didn't like him anymore or smth. My mom had to tell me about it bc my dad is mildly incapable of communicating lol. Since my mom told me that I decided screw everyone else, I know that it's just a thing for my dad and ppl can be stupid about it all they want. I think everyone else should stop using a single kink to ruin an entire word for them, but it's up to y'all! My reason was more personally affecting people in my life, so if you never need to use it don't! But it does feel wrong to let the societal view of "daddy" run your life.
I miss my old Underdark campaign that featured a non-schoolyard romance. 😊 Back when my wife (from a previous Crispy story called "Rocks Fall. Literally.") was my girlfriend her dashing sorcerer rescued my beautiful eladrin bard, Verity, from some duergar clerics. 🥰
So, I just want to comment on two of the stories... For the Curse of Strahd story, the DM definitely took it way too far, but the scenario itself could have worked. First off, the DM planning it with the player would have helped this a lot. After that, run the scenario as it started (Strahd showing up, dominating the Fighter and forcing him to fight their party). Then, when the Fighter is close to death and maybe they could put him in a spot to save him, Strahd finishes the Fighter off and leaves, mocking the players. Breaking the PCs is something Stahd would do. He'd rarely get his hands dirty, but perhaps giving him a reason (like Strahd seeing him as the party's heart and soul and removing him would demoralize and terrify the party) does work, allows the player to make a new character while the party rallies against their friend's death with defiant hope instead of despair like Stahd had hoped. It *is* a good set piece if done well, which the DM did not do. As for the last story, I have the impression that the other player being kicked from the group first was because they spoke out against OP's mistreatment to the DM... or that the rest of the party were more like the DM and wanted to get the players that weren't immature edgelords out of their game. That would explain the abuse. Honestly? Glad OP got out of there. That sounded like a very toxic group.
My buddy is always recommending Dungeons & Daddies: Not a BDSM Podcast to people getting into D&D streams. I've not seen it myself, High Rollers already gives me everything I'm looking for. As for the stories, there are far more respectful and tactful ways to retire a player character, and the DM of that CoS game did it in one of the worst ways possible. Also, romance is something I'm quite reluctant to include in my games, but I would definitely *not* do any student-teacher stuff...
Oh, my sweet summer child. I’m so sorry that you had to experience Pretty Little Liars and the show insisting that a groomer and his victim was romantic, actually.
I've only played one adventure from Keys to the Golden Vault, but it was pretty fun. I haven't read the book because I don't know if my DM is gonna put more from it in future sessions, but it sounds like it's an anthology book of different adventures you can add to your game. So from a player side, I think it'd be fun to look into. : D
Keys from The Golden Vault is a pretty good book. It just came out during the OGL fiasco so people didn't want to talk about anything that WoTC produced.
Dungeon and Daddies (Not a BDSM podcast) is a comedy dnd podcast and the horny is fairly minimal and all done in humor. There are far, far, far more dad jokes. Also stabs to the heart. It can be a very good time if you can overcome the trauma of the word daddy. Who knows, they might even help because they acknowledge the connotations.
I remember writing a student/teacher thing ONCE a looooing time ago. I still feel guilty about it. (Thankfully I'm ace as heck and the sex was so vague that I'm not sure I wrote any, lol 😂)
Damn bro I feel so bad for Twain (a fictional character in a game I do not play bc idk how and don’t have anyone to play with) just because of how much his student tried to seduce him 😭
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I could imagine designing a session 0 game that is made to check how people like to play the game, or check for weird behavior, but it would not be part of the larger campaign story, and it hopefully wouldn't intentionally bring any elements that would land it on this channel. In some sense, doing a session 0 mini run actually feels like a good way to suss out any weird behaviors, esp when it doesn't have long term consequences for the main campaign.
That Strahd story would be actually quite good idea if you wanted to change character/leave game due to what ever reason. If talked ahead of time, went with whole possesion and ended up on self sacrifice note to raise stakes for party. Imagine where our leaving player wrestle over control with strahd and in last moments sacrifice himself to save party members. It would certainly made long lasting impact and add personal investment from rest of group. But there should never be situation where you are killing PC like that without planning ahead with player.
“The DM had a weird habit of making all the NPCs flip me off” (Looks around the DM screen to see DM watching “Rick & Morty”) Rick: “I told them it means ‘peace between worlds’, Morty.”
Second Story: I mean, yes, it does suck that the DM let Wizard seduce the principal, but it seems like "roll to seduce" is literally all she was doing. It sounds like DM knew that this game was going nowhere, and just decided to giver her what she wanted in hopes of ending the campaign and giving her some level of satisfaction, maybe in hopes that Wizard would come back to play again. It's just pretend fictional fantasy junk, being played by someone who doesn't seem to grasp the concept of the game (given the type of creature they were playing), so just giving them something to latch onto and giving up is, at that point, just kind of the only option.
After that school story I want to become an DM just so I can do that campaign but when everyone is gathered just start playing ABBAs “when I kissed the teacher” on repeat and when everyone is sweating and feeling uncomfortable and that girl tries to seduce any of the teachers reveal that they are ace and 100% un-seduceable
I am a veteran of the Gestalt class system in 3.5 D&D. I do not recommend it for use in 5e, or a full group in 3.5. Some combinations, like fighter/rogue are busted A.F. Same with fighter/monk.
C'mon, all the classes are busted, but there are rules that make things more difficult. You can't make a full attack if you move and sneak attack is WAY harder to get. You want broken? 3.5 druid buffs are insane. Still, a good dm makes good challenges no matter how powerful the party. The Justice League is just a bunch of gods essentially, but they continue to have crazy challenges. 3.5 and 5e are great and awesome, same with PF and PF2.
@@Freshpickedrainbows True enough. My DM for my 3.5 days was great. The other player wound up being a disruptive "that guy" though. Also accused our DM of going after him for his own poor judgement.
If there's ANY "student/teacher romance" that I'm just SLIGHTLY okay with, it's university students above the age of 20 meeting a new professor barely above 25. Like, anything else makes me queasy.
That first one makes no sense. You get the full xp for running from an encounter too. If you’re 1st level and run from a bar fight with a 20th level group, the xp on that should put you 1 point short of level 3 (1 xp short of gaining a second level has been the xp cap for an encounter since AD&D). Those four encounters should have put the party close to 5th level without anything else, if not over it.
well student teacher so you know i got to the end. ah yes that feeling where you get a message you wake up to "oh mommy!" (daddy i your case i imagine) messages you feel your eye brow twitch and close the messages with a simple "yeah nope!"
Funnily enough, I have actually been told I can't play in a game because I wanted to play an overweight character. They let me in after I made her skinny, but the dm told me that it was "too unrealistic" to have a chubby adventurer. That was my first ever dnd experience.
I mean if the Wizard of the second story really wanted to be a cringy romance Mary Sue like that she could have just gone and written fan fiction, no need to drag other people into your shitshow like that
I highly recommend Dungeons and Daddies: Not a BDSM podcast. The first season is more character driven than the second, which is more narrative driven. There is a jokey episode about bdsm, but theres no actual sex.
See, as funny as your skit was, the biggest problem with the character having the tiger skinned and its hide tanned in only an hour, *isn't even the skinning process.* Having watched a lot of videos of various critters being skinned, I can 100% believe somebody skilled enough could skin a tiger in under an hour. No, the problem is that the tanning process takes *weeks.*
Honestly the student romance chick sounded like she was just EXTREKELY insecure and desperate for validation through sexualization. If she isn't an object of everyones greatest desires it means shes rejected and everyone hates her. I hope she grew out of that and learned not only how to love herself but also how to play group RPs properly if she did ever continue them.
17:50 this is more frustrating because with a good role player who's focused on being a social butterfly who's secretly a manipulative person could have made this a D&D success story
Whatever your advances are being rejected for shouldn't really matter to you unless it has to do with lies being told. If you're fat and ugly and you get rejected for that, just move on because why would you ever want to be with someone who doesn't like what you are.
Hey Crispy, I always see the need for a session zero, but never got a nice guide on how to make a good session zero. What and how should we talk about? Do you happen to have a guide of your own or would you be interested in filming and publishing one? Ty.
As a player who HAS played a character that has slept with her university instructors in university-based campaigns (which um... it has happened more than I would like to admit especially given I'm ace and don't actually like power-imbalance relationships personally), I can confirm this player did not go about it the right way. If your character is making a move on an NPC, you need to be considerate of if the NPC is into your character or not and considerate of if they are willing to engage in the dynamic. If either is a "no", then the relationship is not happening and, frankly, you should take a hint. (Take a hiiiint!)
The curse of Curse of Strahd. Once again CoS shows up in another rpg horror story. It's makes me think of Why is it always you three from? Harry Potter.
Story 1: you may hate my opinion but I like the idea of the Fighter Werewolf being turned into a thrall of Strahd. The DMs execution was awful. The player was leaving I think the character succumbing to their werewolf side and becoming a sub boss serving Strahd for a few encounters could've been cool. Maybe act like the human side is trying to slip out once or twice in order to make a sneak attack or an escape.
Story 2: I was listening to an okay fan fiction where multiple girls crushed on their teacher and I commented on the video that if the (22 year old) teacher reciprocated the feelings of one of his (17/18 year old) students I would skip to the next video on my playlist. This video is on that playlist previous video a good to evil ranking, next video a movie reaction.
student teacher- even as a bard I am not that horny..and SHES A SUCCUBUS. I play her a strategic style. As succubi are effectively infertile as females (but dnd succubi can 'part swap' with a roll) Collect the powerful make more power for hells army. Shes a CN alignment and has convinced our dwarf that her hat is alive. (turns out it is! It bit me!!) and she also convinced the innocent Druid that hand holding gets you pregnant.
Kind of funny in reverse situation. My fiance and I have found a dnd group, this is her first time playing. I have been playing dnd for years. I have never really done romance in game at all other than the time I was DMing and my girlfriend at the time's sorcerer seduced an NPC once lol. Anyways. Our characters, me, a 19yr old shithead trickery domain changeling, and her 200+ year old eladrin sorcerer are travel companions. She keeps shipping us even though I clarify that my character is not really thinking about romance (mostly gold and power) and also... the age gap is about 200 years lmao. It appears like her character is trying to take advantage of my character, albeit unintentionally, being an eladrin (from the feywild directly), not understanding mortal plane culture or psychology
Oh ewww, I was in a small roleplay server and someone kept begging to do NSFW teacher student relationships. The secret was a pg 13 highschool slice of life. Gross.
Were they the student or the teacher in that scenario?
What server
@@miguellastation5053They were playing a student and was trying to pressure one of the people playing a teacher into a romantic roleplay, then threw a tantrum when teacher player said no because it’s not right.
@@Buck_BentleyI think the server got shut down, I can’t remember the name of it anyway.
@@snekbetch5674 Good grief. PG-13 means all content is supposed to be family friendly, right?
I would like to remind everyone that a natural 20 is the best POSSIBLE result, which isn't always the desired result. If an NPC wouldn't at all be interested in the player trying to seduce them, they should not suddenly find them attractive simply because the player rolls high. Sometimes the best possible result is that they don't get insulted and kill you.
"hahaha, you're cute, but not really my type."
It's funny how many forget that persuasion/diplomacy is not a dominate/suggestion spell. You're not magically mind controlling someone, just talking to them.
Once, my party’s cleric rolled persuasion. She rolled persuasion against Strahd, to try and stop him from charming the sorcerer to get information out of her. Cleric rolled a natural 20. I looked at my party and said “There is absolutely no reason why Strahd would stop charming someone. But I’ll say you actually confused him with your audacity and drew his attention, but just out of pure confusion”. I think it was the best possible compromise/outcome of the situation.
On-top of that rules as written critical successes DO NOT exist, natural 20s do not mean anything for skill checks so it might not even the "best possible result" which btw skill check DCs can be made up on the spot and can be WHATEVER the DM wants it to be so a 20 with modifier can be nowhere close given the circumstance, furthermore technically a fails a fail and you will fail the same way if you rolled a nat 20 as if you rolled a nat 1 if your modifier isn't up to snuff, most DMs are just nice and scale results off how low or high you roll.
counter point: if you dont want a 20 to succed dont allow the roll.
We had a DM who had a verbal slip that we still mock him for, even years later. Our party encountered a locked door, and as we were tired of having just done a long dungeon crawl, our sorceress decided to just cast Burning Hands and burn the door away.
DM panics and says "you can't burn the door down, it's made of wood!"
Cue the entire party ripping into him about how wood is apparently non-flammable in his world, including me faking panic over our torches touching the "highly flammable" rock walls of the cave (since, if wood can't burn, maybe stone can, right?). To his credit, our DM knew immediately that he'd misspoke and let us get our ribbing on him in.
Moral of the story? D&D is best played with good friends!
I was GMing Call of Cthulhu when the secretly evil PC secretly messaged me between sessions to acquire some chloroform. During the session, we referenced a certain package being delivered to him and the other players tried to work out what it was only for me to have a brain fart mid session and blurt out "oh the chloroform?". I have yet to live this down.
@@eroseland Regardless of what the spell actually does, it was the DM blurting out "wood can't burn" that we were mocking 😂
Fire can’t burn wood, in the same way that jet fuel can’t melt steel beams /s
To be fair most wood isn't highly flammable. It should take damage from fire, but not necessarily go up in flames.
Just had a session where the Sorc missed with a firebolt and the GM decided she set a tree on fire....I guess if you live in California. I'm in the Midwest, healthy trees take substantial effort to set on fire.
I started a curse of strahd campaign in December 2019 and immediatelyhad to switch to virtual. My party joked for the last 5 years that once they killed Strahd, the pandemic would be over.
I suggest doing it soon!
I believe the full name is “Dungeons and Daddies (Not a BDSM Podcast)”
Yep, four dads from our world flung into the forgottin realm to search for their lost kids.
Except for that one episode it explicitly WAS a BDSM podcast
It's such a good podcast. Their Patreon content is top tier as well.
Dude, as a teacher who is often mistaken for a student and HAS BEEN HIT ON, I completely second the absolute gross that is that kind of relationship. Super yuck.
Hey!! You actually read my story, and I loved the feedback LOL. I was the school romance DM. And to say a few things; i as well do not endorse the relationships, but I was young dumb, and just wanted to play. Thanks for the laughs, and my next session went a lot better after another friend of mine (who DMs a LOT more than me) told me about how to better do session zeros and talk above the table. Thanks so much for reading my story!! I worried I went on to much, so a few details got skipped, while others I def should have left out. 😂
Also would like to say because a comment had mentioned it-- despite the very comical stalking, I did NOT know that a nat 20, or charm, meant best possible option, a lot of things I read meant "players can do what they want, in reason" so I felt that was fair. God I wish I could turn back time.
Hey, at least you learned from your mistakes. You may not be able to change what happened, but now you know what to do if you’re ever in a situation like this again. You’re growing as a DM and doing better, and that’s what matters.
"She tried seducing the principal, who was actually the villain of the school."
I mean, he is evil, but even he wouldn't get it on with a student.
And I'm pretty sure not as lap dog
XD
The first story is cracking me up, cause the DM is like, "If you feel overwhelmed, just run!" And so, irl, the party ran away from him.
The saxophone skit, particularly Crispy just running with it, made me laugh so hard. 🤣
In a horror game, a player leaving the campaign having their character turned evil is a good turn, but maybe let the rest of the party know the player is leaving so they have a reasonable expectation of events.
This is not a novel or movie, they are participants as well as audience.
I feel like it should be made 100% clear that just hijacking control of other players is 100% never okay, especially with stuff like the second story. That aside, a new official tabletop ruleset was announced last week based on the demon-based franchise Shin Megami Tensei so be on the watch for that. It's not bad, but I'm expecting some particularly bad stories from that since the mainline games are pretty dark
player is leaving, the moment the dm took control, it became an npc.
I gotta be honest, that whole thing with Strahd and the werewolf sounds exactly like the sort of thing that Strahd would do. Even so, if you're going to pull a stunt like that as a DM, do it with a NPC, not one of the players.
True! A way to have avoided that story would've just been... The DM talking to the player beforehand about their idea. And maybe talking to the players so they knew there was no win condition. Etc
"Bards do do that..."
My changeling bard who went an entire campaign never so much as glancing at anybody (this may have been a bit before I was realizing I was ace)... "what exactly am I supposed to do?.... Who has time for that? I have Cthulhu cultists to deal with."
Yeah, I’m sick of the stereotype of bards seducing everyone. Bards don’t have to seduce, and they’re not the only class who can seduce either! When I ran Curse of Strahd, it was the monk who decided to seduce Ireena in order to piss off Strahd, and now the monk and Ireena are married and have a kid, and the monk’s player is playing as that kid in a new campaign. (Funnily enough, the kid is a bard/artificer multiclass, and this discussion started out about bards.)
I loved Dungeons and Daddies and I guarantee that daddies is used in the most literal sense of the word
If there isn't dad jokes, I'll be sad
@@yi-hiraThe entire game revolves around dad jokes
Reason why I will *always* advocate for Session 0: I joined in on my friend group of 10 *years* D&D party. It was a brand new campaign.
I no longer talk to any of them. There were other things, but idk if I’ll ever get past the hurt of the DM writing out a questline to go back to my rogues hometown and save it from her tyrannical parents, only to have the entire party unanimously decide “This isn’t our problem.”, get back in the wagon and leave.
The quest they *did* decide to do tho? The fairy’s Dating Show style marriage conundrum that focused entirely on her (and one other PC who had a crush on her).
I had a friend try to hijack our Ravenloft game for something similar. DM told her no.
"Bludgeoned to death with a saxophone" is now on my "Dumb ways to Die"-list. 😂
As a Dungeons and Daddies long time listener, it’s amazing. Truly everything I didn’t expect and more. 1,000% recommend Dungeons and Daddies Odyssey ❤
Another one of my stories (the Keys Heist)!! Thanks Crispy ❤
I have kinda played out a session 0 as a roleplay thing before, the idea was that as the characters were generating stats they were at a carnival as a mysterious figure read their fortunes as their characters were built
Last Story: Are we sure that an upraised middle finger in this kingdom isn't just a sign for "peace among worlds"?
The girl in the second story sorta reminds me of me when I first started playing. I never freaked out or screamed, but I used to get incredibly stressed out and anxious whenever I would fail at something in d&d because I hadn’t quite internalized the concept that not everything has only one solution and I can find a other ways to accomplish what I wanted/needed to do. I sorta thought of it all in video game logic where I would only have one chance to do something, but in d&d, there are no save files, so I felt like I had to do it perfectly on the first try.
Hey, that last story was mine! Glad you enjoyed it!
Do you think that sweet girl rejected someone and that's why they wanted her dead?
@CatCheshire No clue, from my understanding, it was her friend group that removed her, and everyone in it was already in a committed relationship and the dm never showed any signs of interest from what I saw
@@MiddnitePare you sure all the NOCs weren’t wishing you “peace between worlds”?
What has a head, but never weeps? Has a bed, but never sleeps? Always runs, but never walks? Has mouth, but never talks?
I like to think Strahd's riddle is wordy, but simple and also intrinsically linked to his Vampire condition.
22:02 He clearly wanted to trigger bullet time, but forgot he hadn't acquired a paraglider to cancel fall damage.
11:24 okay just wanna say, I had the same worries when I first heard about Dungeons and Daddies, but it’s genuinely such a good podcast that had me laughing like a maniac multiple times. It’s about a bunch of dads trying to save their sons after getting transported to the world of D&D and learning how to be better fathers along the way. I absolutely recommend it
Oddly, my group has also had problems running Curse of Strahd to the point where we've had to reboot it or change DMs several times. No horror story, they just fizzled out several times to the point where we joke that its cursed for us. We've at this point just put it on the backburner and will attempt again in the future.
Lamordia's a better Domain anyway.
Is that the curse of Strahd; that no good game can come from it? Seriously; i have never heard a good or complete game come from this
@itsyaboiChubbs I ran Curse of Strahd about a year ago, and we completed the campaign and had a great time. I think the reason you haven’t heard about the ones that go well is because people just talk more about the horror stories.
@@tsifirakiehl4250 Yeah, pretty much this. I would love to play it through to the end, we just have had the worst luck with it is all. I have a strange fascination with the lands of Ravenloft, though Barovia oddly ranks low on my favorite Domains of Dread despite it being iconic.
I love the ending to the intro, that was a perfect response to that kind of DM.
Lutes can make great weapons. Anyone questioning that should look up Jeff Jarrett and his guitar attacks.
Chai. Hi Fi Rush. Need I say more?
or the D&D movie@@CrispysTavern
Also dob
A wild slapnuts appears
The Orc/Uruk bard/singer/rhymer epitaph from Shadow of Mordor/Shadow of War. Those axe lutes hurt like hell
The 23:54 one.. i had something similar to the talking donkey.
Though in my case, we all agreed to "bizzare & anything goes" campaign settings made by the DM.. so it isn't a horror story per se (we all had a good laugh, too).
In my campaign, instead of Donkey, it was Big Chungus (the fat-memefied version of Bugs Bunny). It was also a summonable creature that our party had.
The Chungus would throw insults, usually at us, and whoever responds to it would suffer 10d6 psychic damage.
Aside from that, he's just there to flame us for a good laugh most of the time, lmao
While the Strahd experience was pretty bad, maybe it's just me but it could have been a great story beat- IF the DM properly communicated his idea with the player and only if they got the player's consent to send off their character in this way.
If the player was on board and the DM played this better (e.g. not blatantly disrespecting the character by saying "you know you can just kill him"), I feel like it would be awesome in a horror campaign, and would give plenty of motivation for the other players to go after Strahd.
Yeah, the problem wasn’t the concept. The problem was the lack of communication and consent. If this had been talked through and agreed to, it would have been great.
Dungeon and Daddies got me into dnd as well. Definitely recommend listening to it
Never knew I wanted to see Crispy beat himself up with a saxophone. 😂
The Curse of Strahd story sounds to me like a serious miscommunication on both the DM and OP's part. I think the DM assumed that OP already broke the news to the rest of the party that they would be leaving, and planned that final encounter to be an epic, dramatic sendoff. He didn't realize that the other players didn't know what he was doing, and would think it was possible to save them.
😂 the run in with the saxophone! You just have that lying around!?
Schoolyard Romance - The one thing I would add to your comment about how Session 0 should be an above the table conversation rather than involve roleplay is that Session 0 for me is the start of a conversation, not the end of it.
Raaa dndads mentioned! For real though, they're such a charismatic group and the campaign is genuinely funny and heartwarming. Season 2 is also a completely different setting from season 1 but still has the same charm thanks to the amazing DM Anthony and the players. I get the aversion due to the word daddy, but it's honestly not like that at all - they even start most episodes by saying 'not a BDSM podcast' - and it's mostly about dads who have to find their son's and become better fathers. It's my favourite DND podcast by far, I really hope you give it a chance some day!
"I'm a teacher and you're my student"
That just reminds me of that one legendary Persona meme
"That's the best part!"
Intro story: Look, running away is a valid choice, and in some cases, the smartest one. It’s perfectly valid as a DM to occasionally give your party an encounter they can’t beat and have to run away from. However, the player characters are supposed to be the protagonists of the story you’re telling together, and a story where the protagonists never have a chance to actually win is going to get tedious very quickly.
First story: Wow, that sounds like an absolutely miserable experience. I’m glad OP got out of there and found a better group. I don’t like how incidents like this give Curse of Strahd a bad name, though. I ran Curse of Strahd for my first campaign-which in retrospect probably wasn’t the best choice of module for a new DM-and I’ll be the first to admit I was far from perfect, but it was still a really fun campaign! All the players enjoyed it enough to keep playing with me, and we never had any real horror stories. The module’s not the problem. The problem is railroading, boundary-violating jerks like that guy.
Second story: Is this girl serious? OP let her do practically whatever she wanted, and she’s going to complain that they’re “too strict”? All because there happened to be one NPC that didn’t want to bang her? For a VERY good reason, might I add? OP was WAY more lenient than I would have been. I would have given her a hard no on flirting with the teacher, and if she’d persisted, there would have been a hard no on her continuing with this campaign.
Third story: This DM a) didn’t think things through very well, and b) might want to try a more rules-light system than D&D. Other systems might work better for his style. (By the way, I really like Keys From the Golden Vault; I’ve run a couple of adventures from it and had loads of fun.)
Fourth story: WHAT. THE. FUCK. I have so many questions about this, and I don’t think I want any of them answered.
The only student/teacher stuff that Id accept is college student and a teacher of like, high-schoolers to preschoolers, because the imbalance of power of professionals and their students is not ok, but the idea of the college student cussing and the teacher accidently activating "Thats not very nice, we dont say that to our friends" than experiencing an existential crisis makes me laugh so hard, but yeah, two adults in a healthy relationship outside of professional standards
Man you have to turn just the running of the saxophone into a meme please.😂
I have a story, but I am not a Reddit user as I am allergic to most social media. There was this guy in my life who was a bit of an RPG snob. He hated D&D despite never actually playing it. He preferred his own homebrew system that was pretty much slapdash math made up on the fly that was typically a bizarre mix of older D&D and mechanics from video games, but I digress. I was playing a solo game with a mutual friend and she was having a blast, so he wanted in.
He wanted to be a fantasy version of James Spader's character from The Blacklist. I have not seen this show, but he insisted on being higher level and having two NPC minions. I know, I should have pulled the plug there, but I was just starting to learn how to stand up to this guy. Probably the worst thing he asked for was to be the other player character's secret biological father. He did this without her consent. Maybe he felt he had the right because her character was a recreation of one of the characters she ran in his world; a princess who learned how to fight and steal while on the run from her tyrannical father. Still it was another bright red flag.
Then came the actual session. He sneaks into her secure room and reveals his big secret and says that he is there to "protect her from what's coming". Of course she doesn't have it. The paranoid and anti-authority princess is not going to simply trust/believe some man she has never seen before. He tried to tell me my job and says there should be some combat. Being a pushover at the time, four assassins attack from the roof. He has barely picked up a die when the complaints about how bad a system D&D is start. This joker hasn't even had a turn in combat yet. Not even two rounds of combat go by before I am forced to pause the game and tell him "we are playing D&D. You can either stop whining and play, or you can leave." Thankfully he left in a huff. We retconned that brief encounter to have never happened and her character eventually went on to become a Demon Queen. I eventually broke all contact with that guy a few months later over his latent narcissism and gas lighting.
I honestly can’t recommend Dungeons & Daddies enough, it is super fun, very self aware, the whole “daddy” aspect is really a self aware joke and never an intended part of the game itself, the stories are super well done even if you account for all the liberties it takes with the game system itself, the latest season has also been a blast as well.
Dungeons of Drakkenheim is also a great podcast show and the community there is perhaps one of the bests out there in terms of acceptance and respect.
Dark Dice is a great horror podcast, the terror is amazing and incredibly well conveyed.
Those are my recommendations Crispy and I dare you to tell me I’m wrong in the next video 🤣
Plot twist: someone did build a new physical table to play at.
I am always sad when people mention their cool homebrew stories and then talk about them just getting shafted...
Like the Magic School story! That sounds really fun since i love magic!! (My original story has a magical school with some interesting stuff to it and one of my favourite ocs is literally a teacher at that school)
I think it sounds like something that would be fun to try!!
Just gonna put it out there that it is absolutely possible to be traumatized by a bad RP experience and it's okay to acknowledge that. My very first RP experience was in a livejournal based game, and my character got into an incredibly toxic relationship. I won't go into the details, but in summary, I didn't have the safety tools necessary to navigate the experience, and I got hit with a bad, *bad* case of bleed. Twenty years later, in a completely different game, a situation came up that caused me to have a prolonged anxiety attack for two days, where I felt like everything was ruined and I'd never get what I wanted out of the game and it was all going to fall apart around me...and after trying to figure out what was wrong with me for those two days, it suddenly hit me that one of the characters involved was talking almost exactly like the character involved in that toxic relationship, and I was being triggered (ACTUALLY triggered, not 'triggered' the way people misuse the term now). Thankfully with time and experience on my side, I was able to talk it out with the new group out of character and they were extremely supportive and understanding. Sure, it sounds silly to say that in-character circumstances were traumatizing, but when you're young and in a situation where you don't feel like you have the agency to stop it, it can absolutely be traumatizing.
as someone with PTSD aka The Big Trauma DiseaseTM, seconding this. trauma can come from literally anything. i am glad to hear you have the tools and supportive group necessary now!
I used to rp constantly, mostly Danganronpa themed rps where everybody has a custom character and they’re trying to escape a killing game. And I’d always be one of a handful of moderators for the groups; fairly small group roleplays, the other mods are just my friends, we were doing this for fun and nobody got paid; all that.
I wasn’t the main one, but for a while, I was the only one in charge of running the trials. So I’d be in charge of taking murderer request; informing the person who played the victim, help them set up the death scene, the murder clues, additional hints that would pop up during the trial, and the eventual execution for when the character was caught.
It was fun to roleplay, but playing that role got so fuckin’ stressful because if anything went wrong, the blame would always be placed on me. Whether if it was the person in charge of the murder suddenly becoming too busy and forcing everybody to stall because nobody could question them, or people purposefully trying to make bullshit nonsense cases that nobody would ever guess; or people changing murder details mid trial to suit their best interest, causing the rest of our predecided details to not make sense. Of course if anything went wrong, people would just get so pissed over me, and they’d bring those errors into the larger roleplay community and it was just so very stressful.
I started feeling physically ill throughout the trials. I’d be spending time with my family and have to split my attention with the trials. Even after we got one of our other moderators to team up with me, it took them four or five trials to learn the ropes enough to deal with the trials on their own. And once they did, I stopped being present for trials entirely. Would just completely mute everything until they were over because I’d be so worried about something going wrong.
Nowadays; I only rp with my close friends. Just the thought of starting a new group makes me feel ill.
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It sounds like this DM was incredibly heavy-handed in trying to teach his players a lesson.
I wonder if that he realized his error after his players left him.
Yo as someone with a fellow issue with the word daddy - when I was a teen I stopped calling my dad daddy bc of all the BS I'd seen on the web and other teens being douche bags, and it actually made my dad really sad. He thought that he'd done something wrong to make his kid just start calling him "dad" instead of the more affectionate term, and I eventually started calling him papa instead (which helped) but he still thought I didn't like him anymore or smth. My mom had to tell me about it bc my dad is mildly incapable of communicating lol.
Since my mom told me that I decided screw everyone else, I know that it's just a thing for my dad and ppl can be stupid about it all they want. I think everyone else should stop using a single kink to ruin an entire word for them, but it's up to y'all! My reason was more personally affecting people in my life, so if you never need to use it don't! But it does feel wrong to let the societal view of "daddy" run your life.
Overpowered may be a typo. Underpowered or overwhelmed would more sense grammatically.
I miss my old Underdark campaign that featured a non-schoolyard romance. 😊 Back when my wife (from a previous Crispy story called "Rocks Fall. Literally.") was my girlfriend her dashing sorcerer rescued my beautiful eladrin bard, Verity, from some duergar clerics. 🥰
So, I just want to comment on two of the stories...
For the Curse of Strahd story, the DM definitely took it way too far, but the scenario itself could have worked. First off, the DM planning it with the player would have helped this a lot. After that, run the scenario as it started (Strahd showing up, dominating the Fighter and forcing him to fight their party). Then, when the Fighter is close to death and maybe they could put him in a spot to save him, Strahd finishes the Fighter off and leaves, mocking the players. Breaking the PCs is something Stahd would do. He'd rarely get his hands dirty, but perhaps giving him a reason (like Strahd seeing him as the party's heart and soul and removing him would demoralize and terrify the party) does work, allows the player to make a new character while the party rallies against their friend's death with defiant hope instead of despair like Stahd had hoped. It *is* a good set piece if done well, which the DM did not do.
As for the last story, I have the impression that the other player being kicked from the group first was because they spoke out against OP's mistreatment to the DM... or that the rest of the party were more like the DM and wanted to get the players that weren't immature edgelords out of their game. That would explain the abuse. Honestly? Glad OP got out of there. That sounded like a very toxic group.
Your acting here was on point!
My buddy is always recommending Dungeons & Daddies: Not a BDSM Podcast to people getting into D&D streams. I've not seen it myself, High Rollers already gives me everything I'm looking for.
As for the stories, there are far more respectful and tactful ways to retire a player character, and the DM of that CoS game did it in one of the worst ways possible. Also, romance is something I'm quite reluctant to include in my games, but I would definitely *not* do any student-teacher stuff...
I could see the teacher/student romance plan being mistaken as just a crush plotline that'd end with realizing the student must move on.
Me when I have a horror story to share but am afraid that my party will see this:
Oh, my sweet summer child. I’m so sorry that you had to experience Pretty Little Liars and the show insisting that a groomer and his victim was romantic, actually.
I've only played one adventure from Keys to the Golden Vault, but it was pretty fun. I haven't read the book because I don't know if my DM is gonna put more from it in future sessions, but it sounds like it's an anthology book of different adventures you can add to your game. So from a player side, I think it'd be fun to look into. : D
I did laugh at the "everyone flipped me off" thing. The donkey was too far.
Honestly, I was expecting the donkey to flip him off as well. I don't know _how,_ but I don't think it would have been an issue for this DM...
Dungeons and daddies is mostly a bunch of dad jokes.
Dungeons and daddies is actually a podcast from the writer of borderlands 2.
Also, he even got his sister who voices Tiny Tina to Hop in a couple sessions
Keys from The Golden Vault is a pretty good book. It just came out during the OGL fiasco so people didn't want to talk about anything that WoTC produced.
Dungeon and Daddies (Not a BDSM podcast) is a comedy dnd podcast and the horny is fairly minimal and all done in humor. There are far, far, far more dad jokes. Also stabs to the heart. It can be a very good time if you can overcome the trauma of the word daddy. Who knows, they might even help because they acknowledge the connotations.
The internet has really destroyed that word hasn’t it
New to the channel, very enjoyable love the little skits as well.
Student teacher ;)
Dungeons and daddies is indeed great, but the plot of this game sounds a lot more like Fantasy High.
I remember writing a student/teacher thing ONCE a looooing time ago. I still feel guilty about it. (Thankfully I'm ace as heck and the sex was so vague that I'm not sure I wrote any, lol 😂)
Damn bro I feel so bad for Twain (a fictional character in a game I do not play bc idk how and don’t have anyone to play with) just because of how much his student tried to seduce him 😭
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I could imagine designing a session 0 game that is made to check how people like to play the game, or check for weird behavior, but it would not be part of the larger campaign story, and it hopefully wouldn't intentionally bring any elements that would land it on this channel. In some sense, doing a session 0 mini run actually feels like a good way to suss out any weird behaviors, esp when it doesn't have long term consequences for the main campaign.
That Strahd story would be actually quite good idea if you wanted to change character/leave game due to what ever reason. If talked ahead of time, went with whole possesion and ended up on self sacrifice note to raise stakes for party. Imagine where our leaving player wrestle over control with strahd and in last moments sacrifice himself to save party members. It would certainly made long lasting impact and add personal investment from rest of group. But there should never be situation where you are killing PC like that without planning ahead with player.
“The DM had a weird habit of making all the NPCs flip me off”
(Looks around the DM screen to see DM watching “Rick & Morty”)
Rick: “I told them it means ‘peace between worlds’, Morty.”
Dungeons and Daddies really is a good podcast
Second Story: I mean, yes, it does suck that the DM let Wizard seduce the principal, but it seems like "roll to seduce" is literally all she was doing. It sounds like DM knew that this game was going nowhere, and just decided to giver her what she wanted in hopes of ending the campaign and giving her some level of satisfaction, maybe in hopes that Wizard would come back to play again. It's just pretend fictional fantasy junk, being played by someone who doesn't seem to grasp the concept of the game (given the type of creature they were playing), so just giving them something to latch onto and giving up is, at that point, just kind of the only option.
After that school story I want to become an DM just so I can do that campaign but when everyone is gathered just start playing ABBAs “when I kissed the teacher” on repeat and when everyone is sweating and feeling uncomfortable and that girl tries to seduce any of the teachers reveal that they are ace and 100% un-seduceable
I am a veteran of the Gestalt class system in 3.5 D&D. I do not recommend it for use in 5e, or a full group in 3.5.
Some combinations, like fighter/rogue are busted A.F. Same with fighter/monk.
C'mon, all the classes are busted, but there are rules that make things more difficult. You can't make a full attack if you move and sneak attack is WAY harder to get. You want broken? 3.5 druid buffs are insane. Still, a good dm makes good challenges no matter how powerful the party. The Justice League is just a bunch of gods essentially, but they continue to have crazy challenges. 3.5 and 5e are great and awesome, same with PF and PF2.
@@Freshpickedrainbows True enough.
My DM for my 3.5 days was great. The other player wound up being a disruptive "that guy" though.
Also accused our DM of going after him for his own poor judgement.
These stories….my god these stories 🫠
If there's ANY "student/teacher romance" that I'm just SLIGHTLY okay with, it's university students above the age of 20 meeting a new professor barely above 25. Like, anything else makes me queasy.
That first one makes no sense. You get the full xp for running from an encounter too.
If you’re 1st level and run from a bar fight with a 20th level group, the xp on that should put you 1 point short of level 3 (1 xp short of gaining a second level has been the xp cap for an encounter since AD&D). Those four encounters should have put the party close to 5th level without anything else, if not over it.
well student teacher so you know i got to the end.
ah yes that feeling where you get a message you wake up to "oh mommy!" (daddy i your case i imagine) messages you feel your eye brow twitch and close the messages with a simple "yeah nope!"
Funnily enough, I have actually been told I can't play in a game because I wanted to play an overweight character. They let me in after I made her skinny, but the dm told me that it was "too unrealistic" to have a chubby adventurer. That was my first ever dnd experience.
I mean if the Wizard of the second story really wanted to be a cringy romance Mary Sue like that she could have just gone and written fan fiction, no need to drag other people into your shitshow like that
Crispy! Where did you get your leviathan axe???
Lmfo I also missed Gale entirely in my first playthrough because the portal looked too ominous.
I highly recommend Dungeons and Daddies: Not a BDSM podcast. The first season is more character driven than the second, which is more narrative driven. There is a jokey episode about bdsm, but theres no actual sex.
Jeez louis some of these people 💀
My gateway entry was Natural 1 by Quests and Chaos
See, as funny as your skit was, the biggest problem with the character having the tiger skinned and its hide tanned in only an hour, *isn't even the skinning process.* Having watched a lot of videos of various critters being skinned, I can 100% believe somebody skilled enough could skin a tiger in under an hour.
No, the problem is that the tanning process takes *weeks.*
To be fair the npcs all flipping off op actually sounds kind of funny. Not what came after tho lol
Honestly the student romance chick sounded like she was just EXTREKELY insecure and desperate for validation through sexualization. If she isn't an object of everyones greatest desires it means shes rejected and everyone hates her. I hope she grew out of that and learned not only how to love herself but also how to play group RPs properly if she did ever continue them.
NOT THE GOTHIKANA REFERENCE
17:50 this is more frustrating because with a good role player who's focused on being a social butterfly who's secretly a manipulative person could have made this a D&D success story
Whatever your advances are being rejected for shouldn't really matter to you unless it has to do with lies being told. If you're fat and ugly and you get rejected for that, just move on because why would you ever want to be with someone who doesn't like what you are.
17:10 Yeah, but can it play a tune though?
Hey Crispy, I always see the need for a session zero, but never got a nice guide on how to make a good session zero. What and how should we talk about? Do you happen to have a guide of your own or would you be interested in filming and publishing one? Ty.
As a player who HAS played a character that has slept with her university instructors in university-based campaigns (which um... it has happened more than I would like to admit especially given I'm ace and don't actually like power-imbalance relationships personally), I can confirm this player did not go about it the right way. If your character is making a move on an NPC, you need to be considerate of if the NPC is into your character or not and considerate of if they are willing to engage in the dynamic. If either is a "no", then the relationship is not happening and, frankly, you should take a hint. (Take a hiiiint!)
The curse of Curse of Strahd. Once again CoS shows up in another rpg horror story. It's makes me think of Why is it always you three from? Harry Potter.
Story 1: you may hate my opinion but I like the idea of the Fighter Werewolf being turned into a thrall of Strahd. The DMs execution was awful.
The player was leaving I think the character succumbing to their werewolf side and becoming a sub boss serving Strahd for a few encounters could've been cool. Maybe act like the human side is trying to slip out once or twice in order to make a sneak attack or an escape.
Story 2: I was listening to an okay fan fiction where multiple girls crushed on their teacher and I commented on the video that if the (22 year old) teacher reciprocated the feelings of one of his (17/18 year old) students I would skip to the next video on my playlist.
This video is on that playlist previous video a good to evil ranking, next video a movie reaction.
Personally, I hate the "Roll to seduce" that's not an ability, sorry.
student teacher- even as a bard I am not that horny..and SHES A SUCCUBUS. I play her a strategic style. As succubi are effectively infertile as females (but dnd succubi can 'part swap' with a roll) Collect the powerful make more power for hells army. Shes a CN alignment and has convinced our dwarf that her hat is alive. (turns out it is! It bit me!!) and she also convinced the innocent Druid that hand holding gets you pregnant.
Kind of funny in reverse situation. My fiance and I have found a dnd group, this is her first time playing. I have been playing dnd for years.
I have never really done romance in game at all other than the time I was DMing and my girlfriend at the time's sorcerer seduced an NPC once lol. Anyways.
Our characters, me, a 19yr old shithead trickery domain changeling, and her 200+ year old eladrin sorcerer are travel companions.
She keeps shipping us even though I clarify that my character is not really thinking about romance (mostly gold and power) and also... the age gap is about 200 years lmao. It appears like her character is trying to take advantage of my character, albeit unintentionally, being an eladrin (from the feywild directly), not understanding mortal plane culture or psychology