D&D Story: My Fave TPKS
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I know this isn't a fools gold ep. but I'm working on it. Was in a bit of a slump but I'm enjoying working on the episode and am excited about this next chapter :3
Stay safe out there, love you all
When your names Adam it's as close as you'll get
thank you for confirming a fools gold is on the way
Lich: Asks nicely for his knife be returned.
Dingo Doodles: NO MINE
Lich: And I took that personally.
It's fine, good job.
Ok
One time my team tpked but our DM still had more lore so we had to play as our pets until we could revive ourselves… best campaign I’ve ever played in
That's adorable
AIGHFJFBV THATS SO CUTE
Now that’s a reason to collect pets and NPC followers.
I never would have thought of that
How was that experience playing the pets?!
Imagine walking through the desert and find a tiny glass Minotaur and thinking “Isn’t that the thing that killed the dragon last week?”
This wil make a fine house decoration
Thats some Skyrim bandit logic right there.
"Such is life in The Zone."
Lol
And the foolish heros were intombed in the freshly made glass desert.
If that was me as a DM... that "glass tomb" Would totally be in every world that other players could happen across any time they go into the desert and decide to explore the twinkling off in the distance.
That's such a good idea! I just started DMing my first campaign yesterday, I'm definitely incorporating something like that.
A glass desert sounds like an ominous place to explore.
I do something similar with the "cave of origin" which can grant a single wish, granted in good faith because I hate the wish bulshit
"Felix has this thing with his homebrew" is a disclaimer so often that Dingo should just make merch for it at this point.
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Damn, I was expecting the dagger tale to go more in the way of
"in the liches laire you see an amalgam of hands, feet, arms, wrists, livers, separated muscles and other random body parts rise up and turn towards you, leaning a bundle of heads, eyes, ears, tounges and noses in your direction. As it does you notice a familiar face in it. One you stabbed. One that you stabbed in the head infact. You can actually see the place you stabbed it and at the same time you notice that not a single body part is unscathed... All of them seem to have wounds upon them... The kind a dagger might leave to be precise..."
That would be amazing!
I love that idea, probably would have used it if they decided to fight the lich head on like a team instead of running.
But honestly I thought having the lich steward the library was a good idea. Where else would they have access to near limitless knowledge for a low yearly fee?
Also, would have been good if they were a mindflayer (or variant). Tasty, tasty brains filled with knowledge and experiences.
Maybe the Lich was in the library to get away from all the teleporting body parts, lol.
That’s some Giza Glass nonsense from The Monument Mythos…
I absolutely love how Adam draws Dingo like a little cat-gremlin
i mean, she is
Very much reminds me of Sr Pelo's stuff. Especially the smug face.
New character idea.
My party might be in the midst of a TPK. They went into a demon fortress in a city of blood cultists... with no anti-bleed or anti-demon.
So they're currently being bled and demon'd pretty hard.
The party I'm playing in is likely on the way to their TPK right now.
We average about level 5, there are four of us plus sidekicks and one NPC cleric, and we're off to kill a black shadow dragon of undetermined age.
We all have a selection of "next characters" ready.
Kinky
You know what they say. Better get TPKed in a glorious pyre of death than get TPKed by cancelation after weeks and weeks of unscheduling T.T
I feel personally attacked
Wait didn't Felix in a QnA reference that group of adventurers in the desert petrified in glass? I swear he did
And I think dingo told the dagger story in a qna too!
@@voidfloof I KNEW I HEARD THAT STORY BEFORE - I was going crazy wondering where I heard it, lol
If it's a good story, you tell it more than once.
@@asailijhijr truer words have never been spoken
Mine technically had a tpk, via exploding a blimp with dinos while in a festival town thing. But we're saved by The Traveler who is basically our party's God. Who we've done multiple quests for, mind you this was our fourth session.
4th session!? Not a record in most kills per second, but its there
I was the direct cause of my first technical tpk. I, the wizard, tried to stabilize a party member that had gone down while fighting a succubus. The succubus was at 1 hp, the npc whose turn it was next missed, and the succubus summoned a pyro hydra. The DM had pity on us and saved the cleric through unborn magic baby, and I got away by being a coward and running away. The paladin died running headlong into the pyro hydra's face and chopping off two heads in one turn with some divine stuff.
@@lumberluc A lot more happened in that session, especially in the ones before and after
@@sarahluchies1076 how, like how did the succubus summon a pyro hydra
I've only been part of one tpk and it was the first fight of the entire campaign lol
Our group used to play AD&D, and our current campaign (which has now been running for like a year) was our first go at trying out 5e. Me and our DM were the only people to have played 5e before and that was still minimal, plus we had a new player who'd never played D&D before. Campaign starts and us 6 players (sorcerer, warlock, cleric, monk, ranger, and fighter who plays much more like a rogue) met in a wagon travelling to a city. Soon enough we're attacked by a group of bandits and the fight instantly starts going down hill. Doesn't take long until it's a tpk lol.
We then restarted the fight since we didn't want to immediately completely start again with new characters, and then proceeded to wipe the floor with the bandits. All it took was being slightly more smart and doing things like me (the warlock) hiding in the cart and lobbing eldritch blasts instead of standing out in the open.
Since then we're now over a year into the campaign, have fought zombie dragons, own an airship, pulled off the perfect kidnapping plan while our two good party members tried and failed to stop us, no characters have permanently died, and my character is secretly making plans to become a litch XD
The only real TPK I’ve been in was a practice session my dad put together when my brother and I were still new to D&D. So of course, he threw a dragon at us to fight which punted me into a wall almost immediately. My brother eventually figured out what was going on with the dragon, but died before he could actually utilize it. Turned out the thing was just an extremely convincing illusion that someone put together while they were hiding not to far away and casting other spells at us to make it look like the dragon was the thing attacking us, not them.
There’s also a spell called illusory dragon, which creates a tangible illusory dragon, complete with breath weapon
FINDERS KEEPERS
Also I almost TPKed a group with a book. It kept killing everyone who picked it up, and they KEPT PICKING IT UP.
How long did it take for them to catch on?
Why did they think it was a good idea to keep picking it up?
It’s what my character would do
@@seant1326 one of the last ones used a stick to push the book into a box and it promptly burst into flames and destroyed itself. Then the two still up proceeded to help the rest of the party back up and health potioned them
That reminds me of that one d&d tf2 comic
"The quest was to kill a lich."
"DON'T STEAL!"
TO LATE that's has been my parties quest for a YEAR.
We were fighting an ice witch and we weren't doing great. Our rogue snuck up and stole her staff away from her, he then points it in her (and our whole teams) general direction, and activates it. He rolls. And casts an upcasted cone of cold on us all. The ice witch is immune and fine, we are all dead. Not dying, dead. He then runs away and says he's not bothered to continue with the character/ campaign.
Now I get it, these things happen. The reason I'm salty, is because for a week he'd been bugging us all to cancel this campaign my friend had worked so hard on because he'd just heard about Pathfinder 2e and wanted to play that instead. So his motives were, questionable.
His motives were downright bullshit. I'm surprised his ass wasn't kicked the hell out for that.
Bro that’s messed up
For a long time my DnD group nicknamed me the TPKing because I had a habit of causing or participating in TPKs. My very first session actually I caused a TPK with a wild magic surge.
I know that all too well. I convinced my dm to let me use the d10,000 chart and accidently made the entire party incredibly depressed. All together we performed a ritualistic sacrifice to get into Valhalla with the help of our cleric.
Oh no....
I caused a tpk in a very dumbass way, we were in a city and this rival country was rigging its sewers with explosives, we find a bunch of bandits adding to the chain of explosives and we decided to fight them, me with my big brain casts *fireball*….. so not only did i tpk my team, but half of the city……
Self-fireball hits different when you are low level and surrounded by your friends
Never thought I'd imagine a crossover between TFS and Fools' Gold, but now:
"Excuse you. I'm a [quack]ing PROFESSIONAL [quack]-up. I killed a LOT of my own party members to get this title. I deserved to be called as such."
WELL. WELL. WELL.
I leave for a day and...
Fantasy Border Patrol is crusading...
while the Foreclaimers are invading!
@@bionicdragon5 Erina: "And before you ask - Yes, this _is_ a Jojo reference!"
@@bionicdragon5 sips: Gothi! It's been only 1 week, but feels like YEAR! And you
..um. How are... I wanna say, "jack"? Gothi what's that guy's name?
Okay, so I’ve seen this channel float around my suggestions and finally got to watching it and just wanted to say Fools Gold is absolutely horrendously AMAZING… LIKE BEYOND AMAZING. The story is captivating and uggggh so happy to see you posting other stuff. Love it so much. If there’s any merch with a Sips on it I’ll def be investing in it.
Yeah, there’s plushies and shirts and stuff like that
@@professorp1 *shoves my shillings towards nearest vendor* 😂
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The link is in the description
@@professorp1 I know lmao it was a joke 🤣
Aha! So you've joined the cult of Monke!
No, in all seriousness, congrats! Glad you're here in time for the finale!
5:30 OFFICIAL FELIXLAND AMUSEMENT PARK WHEN?
In Canon lore for my group's Mystara game where 4/6 of the players are newly appointed level 13 Barons given a piece of land each. The fiefs are invaded by Goblinoids lead by "Wyrmlords" who seek to conquer our lands bestowed upon us. We have already succeeded in defeating their advanced army by way of a bombing run made by our resident Sidhe (pronounced as Shee) Wizard (who is basically a genderbent Megumin from Konosuba) and made TNT with the creation spell and enlarged. We have also killed 1 Wyrmlord and proceeded to capture and kill another.
Now from the interrogation from the captured Wyrmlord, their main army had begun their full advance upon us. So our Wizard had thought that it worked once, it will work again, and proceeds to make TNT Bombs around the border area of our fiefs...(bad idea). So the plan worked...a bit too well in fact, as the bombs proceed to do more damage than previously thought of. As it turns out, our DM had secretly placed Nuclear Powerplants Undergound for us to find later (Mystara Lore, the world was a scientific "utopia" until the discovery of Radiation enhanced Magic). The TNT explosion dealt so much damage that it affected 2 of these Reactors that they also exploded. And since the Reactors were deep underground, it caused an earthquake and made fissure so large that it basically cracked the Mystara World in half killing everyone and everything in a fiery exploding planet.
tl;dr
Rocks Fall everyone dies? *scoff*
TNT Explosion, the World Explodes.
DM here, and I would like to correct Shadow here and inform you that it was enlarged plutonium (recent discovery during downtime) with Creation cast on it.
The nuclear reactors weren't set off until after continental cataclysm, which led to the global scale cataclysm afterwards.
So yeah, they TPK'd the planet
TPK? No, TWK
That artstyle just emanates goblin energy.
You got me into DND! And so far I have been LOVING IT! Thank you
Same! I just sadly can’t find anybody who wants to play it-
*ruclips.net/video/mCfYi7634rU/видео.html*
Finally it's here. *YES*
She got me into DnD too and it's my whole personality now
I've yet to experience a TPK, though your "QUACK" shirt(which I absolutely love wearing, by the way) has inspired some future NPCs which may very well result in a TPK depending on how the party handles them.
It should probably be noted that the man running our campaign learned how to DM from Tucker of Tucker's kolbolds. I am both excited and terrified.
I find this idea of having different animators animating these funny side stories while you work on the main story a genius idea. We get more content, without increasing your workload all that much.
Just imagine being in one of Felix's new groups where he's still using the world where the Minotaur party was and you're traveling through the desert and then all of a sudden you find a place where the sand turns into glass and you keep exploring and it's all glass mountains glass planes and then you find a crater of glass and all around the edge of it glass statues and then upon further inspection of the glass statues you realize they're not statues at all but people encased just creating the visual for that is wild to me
Edit: spelling
THE SMALL DINGO MADE ME SCREAM I ALREADY LOVE ADANS STUFF BUT THIS IS GONNA BE GREAT
I love all of your videos! Looking forward to even more!!
*ruclips.net/video/mCfYi7634rU/видео.html*
Finally it's here. *YES*
I love how positively devilish Adan made her look
Gotta love Adan's art style for this
Ah yes, the “That’s my phylactery!” Dagger story. Classic
I got a story for ya, here goes. For context I play as a Tiefling Rogue Warlock named Thrills, there's also a Dwarf Hunter Ranger named Bharagos Stormpike, a Half-Drow Elf Nature Cleric named Mitz'ry, and a Swiftstride Shifter(Monkey) Monk Bard named Zhuhua. We were in the high elven capital city where we had recently spoken to the King of Yellow about the return of the Lich King, after that meeting we gotten in contact with one of the leaders of the Thieves Guild who was well acquainted with my character given their history and he had asked us to meet him at his bistro down by the docks to discuss business.
After a good meal the Thieves Guild leader who goes by the name of Paps told us that someone had placed a hit on him, with the assassin being identified as a Wood Elf named Lamia who was recognized in the guild for working under a rival gang of thieves at a night club downtown. So we headed there and at first me, Zhuhua, and Mitz'ry planned on sneaking in...Bharagos on the other hand, decided to simply walk up to the front of the building and begins to try climbing up it. When he was caught trying to break into the building, he gotten swarmed by like 7 bouncers that had high CR at the time. Unfortunately or fortunately however you'd want to look at it, Bharagos wasn't locked in combat with the seven bouncers, the seven bouncers were locked in combat with him.
You see, Bharagos has made his character DUMMY THICC to the point that not only did he had a high AC with his Half-Plate armor, not only was he dealing some serious damage with his dual battleaxes, not only did he had a high Constitution to where our combined health pools of both me, Zhuhua, and Mitz'ry would barely be close to his health, but the bouncers were just getting bad after bad roll! Our DM then decided to throw even more bouncers at him, with Mitz'ry even joining in but she was also throwing some bad rolls with her crossbow and rapier to where upon first drawing out her rapier she accidentally slung it out of her hand and into the nightclub! Yet even with all that, it was still not enough to put a dent on Bharagos. It was an absolute massacre of elves, until he eventually casted Thunderwave with his axe causing an explosion and sending half of the entire city into panic!
Me and Zhuhua did get the information we needed from the nightclub by sneaking in during the commotion, turns out the assassin has gone rogue for some reason and even worse was now targeting me for a specific reasoning that also involved Thrill's background and we all managed to get away before the guards came to see what the hell was going on. Long story short, if you have a problem that needs to be solved; send in a Dwarf.
I frickin love Aidens art style in this video, drawing all the stumpy people (especially the rouge) to look really squashed! I love it
I’m a simple person. I see a Dingo upload? I click. It just so happens to be a fun topic :)
Agreed
I’ve only had 1 TPK, only half the party died, and it was emotional as all hell.
I like to imagine npcs of that world, traveling as merchants, starting to find fragments of glass as they walk through the desert, and just finding where a fucking goblin nuke went off
So, talking about TPK made me remember an old campaign, long story short it was a lot of time travel mumbo jumbo, time loops, both stable and unstable and the likes
Basically we went back in time to try to discover why the weave (for those who don't know think of it as a magical atmosphere that make it possible to cast spell) was shredded in our universe.
Now, I don't remember the details, but what I remember is our wizard thought it was a good idea to stop a ritual of both the gods of magic and the God of time, causing a big fu*quack*ing explosion that took out half of the region, and what after the end of the campaign we discovered was the cause of the damage done to the weave
And the funny thing is? Everyone in the area died, party included, exept my character, a dragonborn barbarian who spent the entire campaign surviving these kind of situations, literally to spiteful to die, and with him being stuck in the past, became the one to unite the various tribes in a near region and rallied them against an undead menace (but that's the story of another campaign) and became an historical figure
You know what is the opposite of tpk.
Accidentally cheesing the final boss (who is an oni) with *GREASE.* And yes, that actually happened, courtesy of my gnome artificer Aritix Reese, whose flaw is that instead of running away from a demon (which onae are) he instead, studies it's anatomy. Because you only get one chance to examine a nalfeshnee's diaphagram.
Grease IS the most powerful spell after all…
After seeing you and Felix at a panel and him appearing really proud of torturing you and fellow players... your stories have a better sense of realism and pain now...
I’m so glad I got to TPK my party in my first true campaign. It was glorious and out of no where in one word
i once tpkd a entire party by rolling a 1 3 times in a row to defuse a bomb
Hell yeah, Adan is fantastic. Great to see him animating this
I’ve heard the first story on another DND channel Dingo guest starred in.
I was nearly part of a TPK… except 2 party members out of our party of around 10 survived. One was a teifling bard who a summoned hag took to safety after she was knocked out. The other… was me.
For context our party had been on the run from an evil empire that conquered most of the continent. The empire found the rebellion we joined up with and sent a land-ship with one of its generals, his army, and 3 mercenaries to take us down. The 3 mercenaries were played by the DM’s friends, and had more experience playing D&D than we did at the time. The mercenaries were 1 or 2 levels higher than us.
Initiative was rolled and both our rogue and one of the mercenaries rolled a nat 20. In that group this means they go before everyone else. Somehow the mercenary, a Barbarian, went before the rogue. He then walked up to the rogue and rolled another nat 20 on his attack. The rogue was killed before they could even move.
Realizing the mercenaries were the primary threat the party decided to take them on and have me, a circle of the moon Druid, take on the general and part of his army by myself. I was rolling well, and holding my own against the general and his troops. But the other party members begin to drop like flies as this Barbarian mercenary keeps cutting everyone down while a bard-barian mercenary played support. The DM, who was lenient with the rules, allowed the hag summoned by a killed party member to have a witch’s broom and carry the unconscious bard out. That left me, our fighter, the nearly dead general, his army, and all 3 mercenaries.
I finally manage to kill the general just as his more of his army arrived. The fighter wants to fight until the end, refusing to give up. But my character knows there’s no point in staying. The mercenaries were still going pretty strong, and the army is now completely focused on us. After destroying the army’s land-ship as an earth elemental (siege damage ftw) I sadly had to leave the fighter to his fate.
So yeah not exactly a TPK but it was pretty damn close.
Best tpk I've been a part of is one where a group of 6 people ranging from lv 8-11 all died from one of our party members making some food so bad it caused like 100 damage to each of us and we all failed our saving throws to spit it out
The DM was so astonished that he just kinda refused to accept it for like a good solid 20 minutes
I do love it when your hand slips and you accidentally kill all your friends!
Having a dead character expend all their leftover spells is a really fun* idea.
*I say fun because I too love laughing maniacally as my players freak out & panic.
As for favorite TPK, mine is... in Rokugan. So. we are running a Heroes of Rokugan module in the L5R system, which is a D0 based system that really does need more love for those who don't get too attached to their character in theory, as it essentially is a softer version of your "roll again to see what happens on your crit" idea (despite us having 8 deaths in the campaign and 3 of them mine, INCLUDING the near-TPK in question).
So yeah, half the deaths in the entire campaign, which was the Heroes of Rokugan 2 campaign just being adapted for use in 4th edition L5R, where we actually had two characters per person so that we could play the low level modules too (it was originally a thing where Gencon and similar events would be where the events played out, and had living campaign elements to it, but we played it after the fact as the modules were available to those who wanted to play it and didn't mind basically playing a railroad with side modifiers, bonuses, benefits, and occasional plot twists, or in one case, a custom mission to fix something the high level group did so that the low level group could actually do a module).
Right, the actual TPK.
So, in Rokugan, which is basically, eastern D&D where you are samurai and shugenja and courtiers and such (yes, there is essentially a class type dedicated to talking yourself out of or through trouble, and there were times we wished we had on), and so.... well, its an eastern hybrid setting, which takes influence from Korean and Chinese mythology too. So one of the divine realms is the Realm of Thwarted Destiny. Short version: gods should not forget to name the moon's shadow. I honestly do not know much about the full lore though.
So, we go to a shrine, some stuff happens, we are now in the realm of thwarted destiny. It is (in its apparently modified form due to a couple of us being new to the time and our DM actually wanting to keep us alive with hints when needed and pre-module modifications to how the story goes due to several of us still being somewhat new) supposed to be a "we find and negotiate with a fallen hero, then return with a minor boon."
ME, having read the core books and made a shugenja who is properly book-abiding in mindset and having disadvantages that make me hard to persuade... "That thing has somewhat visible horns. JADE STRIKE, JADE STRIKE... " It was supposed to be a homebrew redemption for someone who wouldn't matter too much. Instead, the only party member who survived was the one who actually just stayed behind and slept in context, since they did not come with us. He had new low level characters that he just happened to meet up with before the next low level module.
I gotta say I like this art style of smug a.f. Dingo
I was expecting the halfling rogue to poke herself wit hthe dagger to teleport out of there...
One time my party was in a no magic cell, with a hand sized hole leading to a magic zone. We had our wizard point their random spell wand out into the hole, so that the wand was pointed towards our cell door. The way the wand worked was that it would fire a random spell dependent on your roll out of 100. The only thing that would for sure kill us was fireball. He rolled and got a 72. Fireball. We all died.
the lich being viego is so hilarious!!! I also like how he kills players by piercing a hole in their chests like the one he has. I have to say, this animator is so funny 🤣
I love how Adan draws you as a little gremlin
The audio editing is BRILLIANT! Actual amazing technical progress good job.
Dingo, you make me love Dnd and I really apreciate that. I love your content and I want to just say thanks ❤
We need more of Adan’s animations
We were doing a campaign for Call Of Cthulhu. Story was a mixture of Re-Animator, WWI and SCP. We were SUPPOSED to figure out where the zombies/ghouls are coming from in the trenches. We find em, freak, run, get cornered by a huge group of em, and tried chucking grenades at them. We all failed our rolls, got blown to bits, and my character's last moments were being pulled into the old man SCP'S pocket dimension to be his new "toy"
My best moment of TPK was in AD&D. For some ungodly reason, I was allowed a firearm. A simple flintlock pistol and me, not understanding methods of measurement at the time, bought *waaaaay* too much ammunition- which I just carried in a reinforced backpack so it could carry more without ripping. Alongside the paper cartridges was a number of helpful objects. A crowbar, mess kit, tinderbox, a couple spare daggers.
I was basically the group packmule.
For anyone experienced in AD&D, you know where this is going.
A fight broke out in an inn, fairly enclosed space, and our Wizard tried to cast a spell. Funny thing with this Wizard, he had a curse on him. Any time he tried to cast magic, he had a 10% of the spell turning itself into a Fireball. Well, that magic missile turned itself into a Fireball... which hit everyone in the room. I failed my dexterity saving throw with a natural 1, so my stuff started to catch on fire. It was at that time that the DM remembered I had far more ammunition in paper loads, and it was all in my backpack, so he rolls a dice in front of us all.
Long story short, kaboom. I turned into the equivalent of an IED and sent several lead loads and now recently shrapneled metal equipment soaring through the air and impaling everything. The enemies were dead, my party was dead, the innkeeper is dead, and a good half of the building now no longer existed.
Man, Felix glassed you guys... Sounds like y'all are the most fun group ever, or the biggest group of that guys.
Either way, sounds amazing
My first TPK was also my first time playing.
Everyone was new to the game: we fought goblins as an intial encounter... we died.
We reset the encounter... we died.
Some how Noone in our group was able to roll above the goblins AC. (There was also a carrige mishap where the one player ignored a trap, and sent everything flying, including an unconscious body, causing a failed death save.
Good times.
(After the second TPK we were told that the goblins didn't bother killing us outright, but just stole all of our stuff, as a way to let us actually try to progress.)
Thanks for introducing me to more d&d RUclipsrs! I’m always on the lookout and you seem to recommend really cool ones, so thanks!
One time, we entered a giant lava area that had metal platforms leading to different rooms, standard with a giant area in the center that suspiciously looks like a giant monster could comfortably be. Well, our fighter that didn't want to play his character anymore (he went through 5 for the campaign this one he played for 1 hour and was like nah anymore jfc) hit a switch in one of the rooms that released a homebrewed hydra with 5 heads that was red. Lava Hydra, noice. Well, in that same room there was a way for us to escape but we couldn't because the fighter somehow flipped another switched locking half of the room off, him being on the side with the escape and us on the other trapped...with a fire hydra...shooting gas/fire to ignite it at us... needless to say TPK for all of us. The fighter decided that his character couldn't "live on" without his new found friends and took his life... The worst part, we were all level 3, and our DM stated there was only 1 way to get that monster to awaken and that was through a very specific way of switches being switched which the fighter did...
This is awesome, love Adan's work
Oh gods, the black glass thing gave TAZ (The Adventure Zone): Balance arc flashbacks.
I had one where we were a group of Gith trying to take out a mindflayer super weapon, and we were all overwhelmed by the unreality of the far realm and got squished by giant hands.
Their was one where my goblin ate the McMuffin so the BBEG couldn’t get it, we all died in a prison riot except for one who managed to get away who the BBEG thought had the stone, meaning they never got it and we post mortem saved the day
Adan's artstyle fit so well w/ the narration I luv yall !
I’m relatively knew to D&D so have only had one TPK and it was quite recent. It was in a Homebrew campaign of a friend of mine. We had just gotten through this really creepy psychological horror dungeon where we saw illusions of our friends dead. It then opened up into this massive room which looked like a dragon hoard with all the gold and jewels in it. But the creature in there wasn’t a dragon. It was a Homebrew creature our DM called Predator. It was this weird dragon, snake, wolf hybrid thingymajig.
So anyway we were getting our asses handed to us when out of nowhere this ball of bright blue fire appears in the middle of the hoard room and the Predator runs away from it like a scaredy cat. Our Barbarian sees this and looking at how dangerous the Predator was, he decided it would be safer to jump into the strange magical blue fire than to deal with the Predator. When he did, the look on our DM’s face was priceless, “Roll a Wis save”, Nat 1. Our DM just hit his head on the table so hard and kept his forehead there whilst saying in a pretty monotone fashion. What kind of idiot jumps into unknown magical fire?
Then one by one, those closest to the fire began to collapse one after the other, their souls being ripped out of them by the fire. First our idiot Barbarian, then our druid, then her bear, then Predator. Luckily, my bard was being a scaredy cat and hiding far away from everyone and definitely not looking for valuable jewels from the hoard to steal. So as she saw this happen and panic she used the hoard as components to reincarnate her two friends before the spell reached her (she didn’t reincarnate the bear). She then died and since our Druid hadn’t taken reincarnate she was dead.
Not sure if it counts as a total party kill since two were reincarnated. But if it wasn’t a slow attack we were 100% screwed and all dead. Looking back our DM clearly hadn’t planned for everyone to die and was being lenient with the rules so I could reincarnate people. Since he made the casting time Instantaneous instead of an hour.
I really like Adan's style with your story telling! I definitely wouldn't mind more
Love your videos, glad to see you post another so soon!
Dingo drawn by Adan is a thing I didn't know I needed to see and it made my whole week already.
My favourite TPK was in a Star Wars game we were playing. The GM had set everyone up with secret backstories that only they knew about and we all kept them secret for a long time. Then one game we were on the run from this crime syndicate and the GM took some of the people away from the table to have a private conversation. I got really paranoid and convinced the people still at the table that they were plotting against us. It all culminated with all the secret backstories coming out, we blew up a hotel, there was a chase scene, we got into a huge fight, pretty much everyone died. I think like one person got away so it wasn't really a TPK but the game definitely ended.
The second one reminds me a lot of my goblin, Fect, from Pathfinder. He was an alchemist that was just a tad bit obsessed with fire. Ended up getting charged by a minotaur skeleton and ended up just being turned into a greasy goblin pancake. Well the DM rolled for what happened to the bottoms of alchemist fire he had and one went off. He forgot that he was carrying a huge amount of alchemist fire and normal oil. I don't remember the exact amount of damage, but I believe it was over 200 points of damage done from the sudden alchemical explosion that turned the stone walkway into soup, as well as destroying everything (including another player) within ten feet.
I just recently DMd a TPK.
In my games I like to have a loz of consequences and guards are no joke. They have martial training, are many and if you mess with one soon the rest will know.
Our local Sorcerer did not respect that despite knowing I like to play with consequences. He straight up murdered 2 guards, no negotiation. They needed to get somewhere and he murderhobo'd... So it was quite a shock when a few weeks later a group of veteran guards, silencers and officers showed up at their doorstep to apprehend them for the murder of 2 guards. The sorcerer instantly tries to attack and got counterspelled... He was killed on sight which lead to a chain reaction where everyone got arrested/trialed or killed on spot.
I love the idea of the clerics of fire explodibg and laughed when the goblin glassed the area thinking to myself "man... what a legend"
has anyone else noticed the sips on the bookshelf at 1:56
edit and 6:06 there is also a bunch of other easter eggs I think they are really cool
I love these guest animators episodes. Fun to see different styles.
The glass tomb thing honestly sounds like a fun setup for a video game dungeon. Might raise questions when you add enemies in, but I mean, lots of RPGs just handwave that question or ignore it outright.
But yeah, have an encounter that leads to a huge explosion in the desert. Your party has a one off protection (a la cutscene Second Hymn in Tales of the Abyss) to not get killed in the explosion, but now the surrounding desert has become a glass dungeon you need to find your way out of.
I love the animation style !!!
My favorite TPK was a Call of Cthulhu one shot. Of course a lot of CoC games have a lot of player deaths so it's not super uncommon. But my players got to witness the climax of their worst possible outcome before the last one of them died aafter he unknowingly opened a portal between realms to let out the unspeakable horrors of the night into the world. Fairly satisfying conclusion and there's no major downside since it was just a 4 hour one shot the players enjoyed.
I was told afterwards that it played out exactly like an H. P. Lovecraft story minus the racism. Which I think is pretty good considering I've never read one.
My group hasn't had a TPK but we came damn close one time. We were fighting a Mutant Psionic Jellyfish person who could manipulate projectiles, and was basically unkillable. Except then it turned out someone in our group had randomly rolled the exact power to one-shot the Jellyfish.
Had it not been for that stroke of luck and my GM mentioning it we'd have all died for sure, since he was otherwise unstoppable.
Im stealing the fire cleric idea for my own homebrew campain so I can threaten my pcs thanks!
I’ve been playing a campaign as a 3’6” barbarian goblin named Biebs and I accidentally tpked my party by summoning Cthulhu bc i wanted to change my class to a warlock :) thankfully our dm said that my character just zoned out lmao
This video was amazing! Keep up the awesome work, Dingo!
I love your videos so much, always make my day
I think they should be reused in a campaign . Those that were glassified. They could be glass warriors that were cursed, forever to live an undeath made of glass which I suspect is magical so its probably more like diamonds. It would be a fun way to show that the world keeps on building even if your character dies.
Dingo Doodles! I don't remember exactly who told me the story but I recognize that dagger. the dagger was the lich's phylactery and you got it from robing a temple early in the campaign.
I really like the idea of spell casters on death using the rest of their spells for an explosion
Two things.
1: I'm exited for the next Fool's Gold episode.
2: If you get another DnD animator to do an episode for you, I'm hoping you do that with Puffin Forest.
Hits before death: I ain’t hear nothing, did y’all hear sumthin?
Hit that kills: *LEGALIZE NUCLEAR BOMBS* *SWAG MESSIAH*
I was instantly hyped seeing Adan helped, dude is the best
I think Adan was the best animator you could have gotten for these kinds of stories also he makes Dingo look super cute!
Love Adan's animation as well, so this is all amazing
the clock-like rotation as the mini-minotaur attacks the BBEG is freaking GOLD xD
Nice dinamics, the help for the animation will give us more funzies to watch and hear ... givememor
adans style is so funky and it just fits so well w the vibe this video
I haven't been in a tpk yet, but one time, my brother was playing with their group and was misted by a chest proceeded to mame his entire team while hypnotized and then when he decided to quit cause he doesn't like not having control over his character the dm revealed that non of it actually happened and he was just sauced out of his mind
My dad told about a game he played while in the military. He was play the vampires of something or other, as an insane sorcerer. In their last encounter he happened to posses a holy light grenade. The party gave it to him to hold for some reason. All the enemies were undead, so it was an instant death weapon. For this particular game. His party is right next to the enemies, but being insane, he doesn't care. Pulls the pin throws the grenade and kills all but one person, other than him self. They finish off the remaining enemies and then stopped that campaign since there was no way a revive was happening and they all wanted to play a new one anyway.
I love the crossovers! Adan's videos are awesome so great choice 👍
yeah my first ever dnd journey, campain, or whatever you call it, it was the last session everything was going good, and then i was like, "huh time to go dow this corradoor and not look for any traps in this deadly place" so then i fell in a hole, and everyone jumped down to save me where everyone almost died, and we were supposed to actually or it felt that way as we needed to solve a puzzle and if we didnt in time we would die, and yeah we lived on the last turn, and we didnt even have a final boss it was us almost dying which ended it
I like to think that all these campaigns are in the same world, really adds to the chaos
BIRDS!!!
is such a mood