The “are you comfortable with romance” question is one I actually ask prospective players as a dm! It really works when finding what players will and will not mesh well together alongside getting the idea of boundaries. Granted, he was creepy afterwards, but I gotta advocate for asking the question as a DM
I think the issue is he asked it so early. It went from "what got you into the game" to that question. I don't think OP would have a problem if they were asking about her limits about what she wanted in the campaign before that question because as you said it is about boundaries.
Yes I agree, and do it as well. Although I do lead into it a bit more, and explaining my intentions, as well as having other questions like: Are you comfortable with detailed descriptions of violence? Are you comfortable with themes such as abuse and SA? Do you have any potential triggers? As well as other stuff. I usually prefer more horror oriented campaigns, and find horror to feel more grounded when it comes from realistic tragedy. And that is the type of stuff where you REALLY need to know boundaries. An example from around a year ago: (which quickly mentions SA, so skip to next paragraph if you need or want to.) I Had a campaign where a bunch of enemies were the ghosts of people who had been r*ped and brutally murdered, (inspired by Jack the Ripper) then brought to life by the person who did it and forced to serve him. Taking him down didn’t only mean no more ghost, it also meant final peace for all his victims, and even ended with all the ghosts dragging his screaming soul into hell when the players took him down. This allowed me to start out with describing messed up corpses, and ghosts, using some good old body horror, but as they found out what happened, every ghosts they encountered now had the added horror of the events behind it. It was super effective and we had a great time but WAUW could that have gone wrong if I hadn’t double checked with EVERYONE there, how comfortable they were with such things. I want to make them feel fear, it’s part of the reason we do this, but NOT by reliving trauma or having a panic attack. That is far from fun for anyone involved, especially the person going through it, so a good understanding of each player, gives me the perfect map of what the dues and don’t are for a specific campaign.
Agreed, those questions and more should be part of a session 0 and half these behaviors described here could be circumvented by setting expectations early.
Comparing this with my worst story being someone trying to hog one of my rp partners(I've done mostly forum rpg so it's mostly one on one or big group events) wanting to romance EVERY character she had. She knew damn well one of the characters was into mine but bc i am a dummy in the clinical way, I didn't know until I confessed. Long story short, the other girl was one of the administrators of the forum so when she left over one character of 4 romancing someone else, my amnesiac wizard with DID, the entire place had to restructure and soooo many things fell through. I ended up feeling guilty and unmotivated so I left, but guess who still can talk to the people there bc she didn't try to claim someone who's straight and dating the same dude for like 10 years. Maybe I am her RPG nightmare.
"Not sure if this is a horror story or if I'm just overreacting but the DM executed my parents in front of me, then kept me as a prisoner in his basement feeding me only crusts of moldy bread and subjecting me to all manner of tortures, may of them sexually charged."
Story 1. The trash took itself out well after the point where the poster stopped being interested. So that's convenient. Story 3. I'm pretty sure the developers of 5e were thinking of less creepy ways of abusing retainers, like using them as trap detectors, human shields or monster bait.
@@ettaetta439 But it is fortunate it covers that too so the DM can be just like "You read the thing when you chose it. Treat them decently or they leave."
Knight has all the charm of Crassius Curio with that line: "Your duties are to polish my spear." Mans really tried to make his life into the Lusty Argonian Maid.
Last Story: Yeeeaaah, this guy reminds me to the Bard we had in the party… who claimed in life that he murdered “millions” of people in a rebellion. We had to tell him no because “there is no way anyone in the party would want to work with a mass murdering terrorist”. Oh, and his sisters and mother were raped-only he tried to force it while in game without the DM’s consent. That was the last straw and he got pulled away and booted
In the early days of D&D, it was common for players to use their hirelings as trap fodder or to test suspicious magic items. NPCs were treated as disposable resources, sadly. I'm pretty sure the rule came out of such callous behavior.
tbh, makes sense you don't want to lose your own character hell, that's literally how knights and nobles often act in stories anyways in Baldur's Gate 3 I also made Karlach go through Volo's tadpole removal procedure because I didn't want anything to happen to my own character's eyes
@@letsplaysvonaja1714 Volo's procedure is actually a buff, despite the fact that he is about as trustworthy as the stories he tells. You lose nothing and get the permanent seeing invisibility status. Funnily enough I did the same thing with Karlach, but I made her undergo Auntie Ethel's procedure instead, which is all loss no gain. Also it's funny as hell. I start cracking up at the cutscene every time Volo pulls out the icepick. I've had him remove my character's eye in every one of my 6 playthroughs and I still let out a giggle every time.
@@letsplaysvonaja1714 I wouldn't say "ruin" your looks though, it at most gives you heterochromia. Nothing else lol. As for the bonus to intimidation, that's minimal. Especially since in act 3 you can face Ethel again, and now you have a disadvantage against her.
that very first story, when even an AI known for sometimes having unreasonable responses finds your response to be unreasonable, perhaps the problem isn't the women you're trying to romance
I *accidentally* stumbled into having every companion want to date me, the only one I actively worked for is Astarion. It's so easy getting them to like you, how does your friend have such a hard time???
I feel for Crispy. Imagine being ace and trying to wrap your head around the behavior of these players and DMs who insist on inserting sexual content into their games. 😬
As someone who is ace I kind of get why but yeah, it becomes annoying and unfunny very quickly, but I don't think is just because I'm ace is because people that make sex jokes every second are annoyingly immature to be around and everyone would agree with that fact...
Same. It's one of the reasons I INSIST on playing male characters who are explicitly Ace as well. Less likely to be harassed at least IN GAME. I will only play a female character if I know I am in a very safe group. I usually make all my characters OBSESSED with their goal, so I have an excuse to turn down any romance or sexual stuff.
I'm not ace, but I seemed to find a way around the constant horndogging on NPCa with my campaign. I had a friend that wanted to bang literally any woman she could in my campaign. So I brought in the "roll to seduce" concept, I gave her a DC check to succeed (no modifiers) that was based on how difficult it would be for each NPC to be romanced. Here's an example: if she wanted to bang a married straight woman, DC was much higher compared to someone that was single and at least bisexual. She failed every check (took it in stride and laughed it off which was as great) except one. Nat 20. The entire party demanded I let her bang the NPC, and clearly wanted to make me spell it out. So I did, and made them uncomfortable by going into detail. She banged a tabaxi, none of us are furries and they had to listen to how her character banged an anthro cat. Never happened again lol
That guy had to be an incel for thinking that his sexual harassment approach was somehow equivalent to the other players treating other people decently and getting to know them as people lol
IKR? Lol. Tell me you haven't properly befriended a female irl without telling me you haven't properly befriended a female irl 🙄 Because yeah! Obviously harrassing them and forcing them to have seggs with him is the ultimate way to romance 🙄 women LOVE that 🙄
What the fighter did in that last story is a bit more than "tweaking" their character, the first one is basically altering their core concept. And the last straw is a step too far for the majority of people. I'm just glad to hear that they took the criticism to heart.
That opener, all I could think was. "If anyone, insists on trying to force romance where no one is feeling it, want to be involved, and continue to pester to inflict us to be witness to such 'top-notch drama' that the campaign is missing, I would quickly send them a dozen links to apps of virtual boyfriend/girlfriend. And tell them to either take the hint or leave."
Nothing like starting the new year with some D&D horror while building a vampire house in the sims 4. I'm also enjoying Crispy's journey into becoming an e-girl.
I love how the first story could be summed up like: "Boyfriend accidentally saves girlfriend from a super akward and creepy social situation by sneezing loudly." and it would make perfect sense. Addon Edit as I kept watching: It's a pity that the DM in the second story valued shock value more than the player's fun and agency. I'm pretty sure if a dm asks the player if this could happen and discussed with them in advance it could have been a pretty cool plot twist and an intresting chance of development for the character. Of course in this case the shock value is mostly gone for that player, but it's still a twist for everyone else. It's not worth it to make a risky move like this as a DM as this can ruin the game for that player. This is the equivalent of telling a player how their character feels in a situation, it sounds cool in your head as the DM but it can really pull you out of the game as a player. The only thing the players have real control over is their own characters and actions, you cant just joink that away to try to surprise them.
In your "Jealous of the Sapphic" segment, I dont think your using that "push the right buttons to find love" metaphor right. Because he wasn't pushing any of the right buttons, in fact he was pushing all the wrong ones. If he did try to push the right buttons he might of had success but instead he was impatient and was hoping sexual harassment would get him to his goal faster.
I'd like to say as a female dm, I absolutely ask my players are they comfortable with romance at the table, not if they're comfortable romancing but if they would be comfortable having people romance each other at the table, I play with a lot of couples and there's been a few incidents where couples pair up, friends pair up, it happens in games so I make sure any one playing my games is comfortable with and knows there may be romance at the table, but if the player is uncomfortable with romance then I know to say in the beginning of the game there will be no romancing, but I also only play with friends, and not people idk so that is a totally different dynamic and not one im commenting on at all! Wonderful video! I always enjoy the DND horror storues😂
Love the new intro and all the skits. I also love the different ways you say (or skip) words. I play this in the background and snap back for the skit or times like “cuddle puddle” and “I’m not reading that”.
The note on the last story, about changing backstories is okay with caution, is a really good one. In one game im in, i play a noble paladin who was raised as a knight. Both his parents are dead, but notably his mother died in childbirth. Now, three important things to know or remember. 1, nobles have a scroll of pedigree. 2, due to having relatively low contact with my extended family (bc of distance) and being ND, i tend to forget that extended family exists. Parents, siblings, MAYBE grandparents. 3, i... really love to think and help the DM (my bf of 8 years) by giving him ideas of what could be neat to implement, such as suggesting that drake warden's of an elevated status should have armour made of their drake's scales. So im sat there one day, daydreaming on my way to work, when i realise that not only does my PC's mother not have a maiden name, but i dont have any concept for any grandparents besides the aasimar line, nor any idea of like. Aunts or cousins. I use a surname generator but his last name is Blackwood so i dont want to use another NounNoun name. So i use the french one just to have something different. Im also canadian, so theres that. Well one thing leads to another and i bring up the idea of his family on his mother's side being from some french region, since its been established in game previously that his maternal great grandmother was a traveller. And now theres a region or island in this world with a name, based upon a made up river with a similar name, a language that comes from it, denonyms, rough explanation for what formed the language, what each name actually means, and a monastery to train peace clerics and mercy monks. In other words, i realised my characters mother didnt have a maiden name and accidentally created france, helping to flesh out the world a bit
I fully understand having too much time to think about a character. Usually after I play a character in session I enter full brain rot mode and start thinking about them non stop. About how they feel about what happened and how they feel about other characters and what they might do next. So I get where the fighter was coming from honestly. I have a few characters from Games that I've have to put in a "what if" box. Where I have the game version of them that doesn't change states and then the other version of them who I do whatever I want with in my own head it other projects.
yeah that last story reminds me a lot of myself years ago with old OCs and RPs id be in lol. even still i go full autism brainrot about them, thinking up headcanons, writing half the story as i go. the main issue is mostly that in a TTRPG you cant just rewrite old rp interactions with new context, due to how TTRPGs work and all. i wonder if the guy was used to doing text RP or writing like that beforehand…. im glad he seems like a genuinely really nice guy though. some people dont fully get boundaries, we all learn from mistakes
I'm a nearly 40 year gamer and brand new to your channel. I really enjoy your channel and it's rapidly become my favorite rpg horror stories channel. Thanks for putting it together. Also, dropping the live action bits in is terrific. Keep up the good work.
TaleSpire is pretty good, albeit with a couple of drawbacks - currently every player will need a copy to use it (otherwise the host will have to move pieces for everyone, though there is a player/DM version being released in the future), and the learning curve gets a mite steep and mapmaking is a bit time consuming compared to other tools. With a few more months of game development completed and practice with mapmaking it might just be a killer piece of software for ttrpgs.
Warthog run had you leaning forward, gritting your teeth at every turn, leaning with every move. The intensity of that run for the very first time? Nothing like it! I'd give just about anything to play Halo:CE for the first time again!
Happy 2024!! It could be the leftover party vibes from last night, but I'm tearing up a bit at how far your channel has come. I've been watching since you first started to take off, and seeing you incorporate skits and things you're passionate about into your videos, and trying new things so you can continually grow as a creator... it's really cool! Your stuff has so much personality, and it's helped me through some hard times, from psychotic episodes to DM creative block. I hope you have a great new year, and that you don't get any new horror stories of your own.
I'm hoping to run Wild Beyond the Witchlight this year, and I just know your videos are going to not only help prepare me to be the best DM I can, but they're going to keep me sane while prepping.
One thing a DM could do with the SA knight (although it probably wouldn’t work as Knight probably isn’t the sort to recognise the parallel) would be, as he’s a noble, to have his family recall him home and tell him they’ve arranged a marriage for him, then make his bride be utterly repulsive to him with a horrible, repellant personality, and have her constantly trying to SA him the same way he’s been trying to to female NPCs. Someone with an iota of self awareness would connect the dots and realise the error of their ways. Of course, if they were capable of such self introspection they probably wouldn’t have reached that point in the first place. Plus, a good DM probably shouldn’t be comfortable subjecting a player to SA let alone subjecting the rest of the group to it by proximity, so this probably isn’t a viable option in the first place.
Yeah, not everyone views SA as a justified form of karma. Doesn't help how it has been considered a form of punishment for any promiscuity, like the victim had it coming or practically asked for it.
@@ArcCaravan agreed. Also, I think I misspoke when I said SA; I think what I had in mind was more harassment than full on assault. But that’s barely an improvement, and again is not something a DM should be comfortable forcing on a player or forcing the other players to sit through. It’s one think to use that in say a film to show men ‘hey, see this shitty thing? See how much you’d hate it if it happened to you? Well that’s how women feel when you treat them like meat’ but it’s a whole other thing to use it in a game and actually subject someone to. To be honest I wasn’t thinking of it as karmic punishment; earlier today I was watching the most recent FactFiend video which is on the Barbie movie and they were discussing how so many men were getting outraged over stuff in that and being oblivious to how it was being used to explore the themes of how women get treated irl, and I had that in the back of my mind when I was thinking of turning the Knight player’s action back at them as a learning point. But again, even if it was okay to subject them to it, such a person is not the sort of person that would reflect on it and learn from it. Sadly, if anything they’d probably use it as justification in their own mind to double down on their actions/attitude.
Wouldn't achieve anything but a little personal revenge, guys like more often or not believe that men behaving like this is justified, normal or even attractive whereas women or gay men cannot act like that for any reason, ever. It would just piss him off and never become a lesson learned. Especially if multiple attempts at sitting down and discussing why the fully consensual lesbian relationship is different from his blatant SA/SH and coercion, didn't get through to him.
I just joined my first online game via found via and lfg Reddit. Was very nervous in the beginning because I have been watching tons of your videos, but I gave them the benefit of the doubt. Well... I'm so glad I did that and put myself out there. So far we're all having an absolut blast as far as I can tell, and the only issues we've had were related to scheduling, but we still manage to meet regularly. In a weird way, I don't think I would have even thought about joining an online group if it wasn't for your videos, because I thought to myself: and can't all be terrible - and I was right! So thank you Crispy, and to the people discouraged by negative experiences - don't let it get you down. Try again, if you're mentally up for it. Have a lovely day everyone
I really like the new intro. I’ve been listening to your stories for the last several months (luckily no horror stories to share) and I am looking forward to seeing/hearing more stories this year.
I am thankful for my DM. When i was uncomfortable with a characters romancing another player for ingame reasons he was willing to ask them to stop but instead he worked with me so my character and I could be comfortable playing and they could still do their love thing ❤
Yeah, being a shy introverted adult myself I can understand the difficulty of finding people to play with in game stores and getting friends together to play. Typically I just play 1on1 games with my husband. We’re both pretty imaginative people so it works out and it eliminates a lot of issues that I typically see in these horror stories.
I know we rib WOTC for being greedy and unresponsive to their customers' wants, but the fact that they had the foresight to include the clause in the knight's retainer background that allows them to leave if mistreated, earns them a little leeway.
Hearing so many horror stories about finding games/DMs on Reddit, I'm beginning to think I had the Devil's Own Luck when it came to finding a game! Went on r/Traveller, asked if anyone in a compatible time zone was running a game and open for a new player. Very quickly got a message from a bloke in Canada whose Sunday evening game coincided with my Saturday afternoons (or late morning, depending on who is on daylight saving time). Chatted over Discord, ended up joining the game and I've been playing with this group for over a year now. Excellent Referee/GM, great fellow players... It's been an absolute blast. Gutted to know that other people's experiences have been so bad.
I’ll be honest, I’m guilty of sometimes wanting to build more up in my backstory as the game goes on and I get to know my character. However! I never change some main fundamentals of the character and always clear it through my dm, who is very experienced (I do not bring this thing to a table where the dm isn’t as experienced and is more a teaching table). Those are also my rp heavy campaigns though and the ones where I came in as a new player for an ongoing campaign. I am mostly filling in plot holes for the backstory at that point so the dm has stuff to work with. For instance, I realized recently that my character, with the relationship they have with their faction, means they need a handler and I had written the original mentor to be off on a secret mission. This means I had to come up with the faction’s substitute handler for my character in the mean time. So I discussed it with my dm and they approved me working on creating that character between games. Final say still goes with the dm on if this goes into the game and I make sure not to make any references one way or another until that approval process is completed. So yes, I spend time between games coming up with more backstory things but I keep my dm in the loop and try to keep it to a level where I’m not overstepping what my role is. Also I always keep the tone in mind too and also work on making sure that I’m not overlapping too much into another player’s character arc and stealing the spotlight of a moment that means a lot to them. Also not inventing too many “I know a guy” type of npcs. I’m making ones that make sense. For instance, the substitute handler? Is a former student of my character’s current mentor and they only weren’t concurrent students of said mentor because mentor is of a long lived race. My character doesn’t know everything. I like my character not knowing everything. Half the fun for me is exploring things and seeing how the party’s characters overlap, interact, and how their backstories relate and change. If I know too much, the discovery is ruined. Anyway, my point is, yeah I’m guilty of having too much time to think on my character and wanting to work more on their story, but I also temper it to keep it respectful and not stress my dm or overshadow any other party member. I don’t want to be a main character. I like being more of a support or side for the most part. I just also love getting to know my characters and filling that in. But this is also just because I play in roleplay and storytelling heavy campaigns and this type of thing can pay off as you try to convey more nuanced characteristics. Also I never try to change tone. I like building my characters around the tone and themes that are ongoing. And I always think of the implications of what I’m writing and if any of this might make the dm or other players uncomfortable. I like collaboration which was one of the biggest draws for me….oh and I just don’t really like to play edgy characters. I have some dark and difficult stuff in a backstory sometimes but those are in the table from day one so they can be discussed on how we are approaching that and how appropriate they are, not to mention comfort level. For instance, I have a character right now who is dealing with grief as a running theme to their arc. There arc isn’t about vengeance or forgiveness or being saved or whatever. It’s about learning to live with that grief and being ok with it. The other dimension of that character is also that we deal with parentification of the eldest child (for some, but yes, for this character’s household). Further, we have a dynamic within said family where my character loves their family member but also wants to walk away from them all for their toxic behavior towards them. That is what we address. Is the issue about abuse? Not really. It’s about taking on responsibilities that are not fair to a the eldest but they do so anyway because someone needs to. And then there is the caregiver burnout my character faces later in their life now that all the “children” are grown. The idea is that the character feels “unmoored” for most of their life but also weighted down by responsibilities to the point they have rarely allowed themselves to make decisions for themselves and figure out who they are beyond that context. So anyway, yeah I fill in pieces of this character’s backstory over time as dm and I outline what those family dynamics are, how the relationship with the faction factors in, and how the grief affects the progression and regression of my characters strengths and flaws. And yes, my character has flaws. They are a compulsive character. Yes, that is a bad thing when you are already on burnout from that and don’t limit yourself, but are doing it as a matter of habit than choice. So yes, a flaw. Basically taking responsibility for things well beyond their power and letting others pile those on them without establishing the boundary that it isn’t ok (yes, above table I talk this through with the party and dm so I myself don’t feel that way). It’s just the story I want to tell. But this means dm and I have to make sure we are in the same page with these relationships because they play such a key factor to the background character arc going on for my character. And yes, it’s background. I like character arcs that subtly happen in the background of the rest of the ones going on. I’m told that my style is a subtle style of roleplay that factors in a lot of foreshadowing and is conveyed in little actions and careful word choices that slowly paint a picture and the changes. But, again, this type of building more into the backstory? That part I only do with experienced dms at tables it’s appropriate for in terms of play style. I do not want to stress my dm or overstep and so I check in regularly with that part, make sure they actually are ok with what I’m doing and how I’m behaving and remind them it’s ok to call me out on things if I’m a bit much so I can and will change how I’m being. It’s supposed to be fun after all. Not more work.
“Having too much downtime to think. A classic. Start off simple but evolves.” My new Starfinder character started as a basic Ysoki (Rat-Folk) and very quickly morphed into a Frankenstein’s monster-esque creature with different rodent parts patched together. She has no idea *what* she is or *where*she’s from because of the experiments done on her.
Y'know, the squire leaving aspect seems appropriate in the circumstance to be absolutely certain, however, I feel as though the original aspect that they can leave was intended to be that they refuse suicidal orders or to be trap disarming tools. But... Gods above, quit while you are only severely behind, don't commit to making it worse.
So, you asked about Talespire, and I can confirm that it is indeed amazing. If you want to see it in action, there is a smaller D&D Actual Play show called Forge of Lore which uses it extensively and the DM Steve, has made some amazing maps with it. If you want more than that, Dimension 20 used it during A Starstruck Odyssey and made amazing maps with it.
I have to agree with you on not setting a backstory in stone. I know from my experience that I tend to take a few sessions before I finally figure out what my character to be often based on how it would best work with the group. I don't want to the player who comes in with a character that doesn't fit the group's theme at all.
It feels pretty awful to post about that last guy. Especially when he was so willing to accept a simple no and hadnt considered the deeper ramifications.
I think the reason people always lead with "this isn't really a horror story" is cuz on the rpg horror story sub I swear no matter what you post there SOMEONE in the comments will go "this isn't really a horror story cuz...." and then they list some super pedantic reason like "you didn't make the ideal choices in every scenario" or "you're just overreacting" or "this doesn't involve RPGs enough so it doesn't belong here"
There's always someone who'll call a tabletop horror story fake. Or someone who'll call the OP/group idiots for not immediately ending the problem player scenario. Downplaying the horror feels rarer, but not impossible.
@@ArcCaravan maybe we've just read different stories, but all the ones I read had people arguing it isn't a horror story cuz of x or y so it shouldn't be posted on the sub either way, redditors can be so particular often-times
As an introvert myself, when I really had the hunger to play some DnD, a friend got me in one of her other friend's games. And then when I wanted _more_ I started DMing for a few of my other friends
Talespire is really fun imo! It's more immersive for me personally, because when we play irl (which is most of the time), i forget elements easily and am way worse at combat. You can also very easily bring tour Heroforge characters into it so you can have customized minis! .....sadly my group only uses it when we're sick, so we almost never use it. Ive never tried to make maps on it though, so i cant tell you how it is as a DM
I feel like a lot of the dms in these stories have forgotten that dnd is a collaborative effort in the story department; dm determines the past and the lore and the rules of the world, but the players write the future of the world by their actions
The first story was relatable; I used to listen to Crit Crab while folding laundry! And your new music sounded great. 😊 PS: I like Season 1 Jamie Lannister. 😶
So, I wouldn't call it a horror story, but there was a guy I played alongside for a while who had patience issues. Fun guy overall, but he just could not wait for a change of pace. We'll call him Paladin, since played one in the main campaign. Basically, whenever plot was happening, he wanted to rush to the next combat, and whenever combat was happening, he got bored of it if it lasted more than a few rounds. There were two standout moments for me, though. The first was when we ran into a couple guys whose plot we had foiled earlier in the campaign. They were actually fairly chill about the foiling, so I was prepared to have a fun chat with them, but Paladin immediately leapt into battle after an exchange of greetings. I responded by sitting on the side of the road and watched as he got his butt kicked, sarcastically mutter his catchphrase "it's that time again." The second time was when the party discovered a sealed monster. Two of us decided we were probably strong enough to beat it, but Paladin decided he wanted no part of it and left. Even one fighter down, we still managed to kill the Thought Devourer and its minions.
for that last story, i try my best to usually stick with a backstory that ive chosen in a game. this doesnt mean id NEVER play an augmented backstory, but i like to think of it as alternate timeline/universe to other versions. theres one idea i have for a character that can go from chaotic evil to neutral good, with varying degrees of "edge" that can be applied.
About Talespire, it's actually pretty good. You don't have to build every map yourself as there is an online library of lot of location/map/slab other players built. I run Starfinder campaign on Talespire and am in Cyberpunk campaign on Talespire. The sudden shift of where party will be depending on decision CAN throw GM off but you can do a reasonable search and drop to find good enough map within five min. (In which case you'd just ask players to take 5 while setting that up)
When you have a deep-seated insecurity, anything can exarcerbate it, especially if it involves people who are seemingly having fun while you are feeling miserable. Personally, I've been blessed with not being much of a jealous person. A little jealousy is fine (in my home language there's even such as thing as "white jealousy"), but a lot will consume you and hold you back.
Crushing it as always, bud! Honored to bring some vibes to your channel 🧡🎶
"Hear that? It's a cow, cause it's going to age like milk!"
Fucking got me.
I thought that the joke was going to be like "oh hear that it is a bull because this is bull sh-"
@Kevinthedrawer oh cool it was not just me.
The “are you comfortable with romance” question is one I actually ask prospective players as a dm! It really works when finding what players will and will not mesh well together alongside getting the idea of boundaries. Granted, he was creepy afterwards, but I gotta advocate for asking the question as a DM
I think the issue is he asked it so early. It went from "what got you into the game" to that question. I don't think OP would have a problem if they were asking about her limits about what she wanted in the campaign before that question because as you said it is about boundaries.
Yes I agree, and do it as well. Although I do lead into it a bit more, and explaining my intentions, as well as having other questions like: Are you comfortable with detailed descriptions of violence? Are you comfortable with themes such as abuse and SA? Do you have any potential triggers? As well as other stuff.
I usually prefer more horror oriented campaigns, and find horror to feel more grounded when it comes from realistic tragedy. And that is the type of stuff where you REALLY need to know boundaries. An example from around a year ago: (which quickly mentions SA, so skip to next paragraph if you need or want to.)
I Had a campaign where a bunch of enemies were the ghosts of people who had been r*ped and brutally murdered, (inspired by Jack the Ripper) then brought to life by the person who did it and forced to serve him. Taking him down didn’t only mean no more ghost, it also meant final peace for all his victims, and even ended with all the ghosts dragging his screaming soul into hell when the players took him down.
This allowed me to start out with describing messed up corpses, and ghosts, using some good old body horror, but as they found out what happened, every ghosts they encountered now had the added horror of the events behind it.
It was super effective and we had a great time but WAUW could that have gone wrong if I hadn’t double checked with EVERYONE there, how comfortable they were with such things. I want to make them feel fear, it’s part of the reason we do this, but NOT by reliving trauma or having a panic attack. That is far from fun for anyone involved, especially the person going through it, so a good understanding of each player, gives me the perfect map of what the dues and don’t are for a specific campaign.
@@emberfist8347 I think one other thing is also that he insisted after she established the boundary
Faaaaiiir. Atm I co-DM with a friend and we mostly just play with OC's as two asexuals who wanna make weird lore and write. It's very funny and dumb.
Agreed, those questions and more should be part of a session 0 and half these behaviors described here could be circumvented by setting expectations early.
Typical DnD Horror Story:
"Yeah, I don't know if this is really a horror story but--*recounts blood orgy scene from Event Horizon*"
Either that or "Yeah, I don't know if this is a horror story, but I experienced discrimination/a crime while playing DnD"
Comparing this with my worst story being someone trying to hog one of my rp partners(I've done mostly forum rpg so it's mostly one on one or big group events) wanting to romance EVERY character she had. She knew damn well one of the characters was into mine but bc i am a dummy in the clinical way, I didn't know until I confessed. Long story short, the other girl was one of the administrators of the forum so when she left over one character of 4 romancing someone else, my amnesiac wizard with DID, the entire place had to restructure and soooo many things fell through. I ended up feeling guilty and unmotivated so I left, but guess who still can talk to the people there bc she didn't try to claim someone who's straight and dating the same dude for like 10 years. Maybe I am her RPG nightmare.
event horizon is a romance
Love that movie
"Not sure if this is a horror story or if I'm just overreacting but the DM executed my parents in front of me, then kept me as a prisoner in his basement feeding me only crusts of moldy bread and subjecting me to all manner of tortures, may of them sexually charged."
"Your duties include to polish my spear"
Someones been reading The Lusty Argonian Maid.
That is a line from Tusk Love my dude.
Story 1. The trash took itself out well after the point where the poster stopped being interested. So that's convenient.
Story 3. I'm pretty sure the developers of 5e were thinking of less creepy ways of abusing retainers, like using them as trap detectors, human shields or monster bait.
Yeah, since it specified "danger" rather than abuse.
@@ettaetta439 But it is fortunate it covers that too so the DM can be just like "You read the thing when you chose it. Treat them decently or they leave."
@@shadenox8164 Of course lol. Even if these retainers are fictional, it's weird what ppl would do to them given the chance.
What’s the point of a squire if they can’t be used as monster bait smh
@@HobbiesGamesChillinright??? Do they wanna become a knight or not smh my head
Knight has all the charm of Crassius Curio with that line: "Your duties are to polish my spear."
Mans really tried to make his life into the Lusty Argonian Maid.
That has to be bait In The beginning.
Edit: OMG EVEN THE AI REJECTED THEMA AHHAHA
Bwahahaha it's so good.
I’m pretty sure it’s a lonely island reference. It’s my **** in a box!
"It's a cow because that's gonna age like milk!" See I thought you were gonna say it's a load of bull
Last Story:
Yeeeaaah, this guy reminds me to the Bard we had in the party… who claimed in life that he murdered “millions” of people in a rebellion. We had to tell him no because “there is no way anyone in the party would want to work with a mass murdering terrorist”.
Oh, and his sisters and mother were raped-only he tried to force it while in game without the DM’s consent. That was the last straw and he got pulled away and booted
In the early days of D&D, it was common for players to use their hirelings as trap fodder or to test suspicious magic items. NPCs were treated as disposable resources, sadly. I'm pretty sure the rule came out of such callous behavior.
I figured it was an attempt at keeping backstory intact instead of just free lackeys.
tbh, makes sense
you don't want to lose your own character
hell, that's literally how knights and nobles often act in stories anyways
in Baldur's Gate 3 I also made Karlach go through Volo's tadpole removal procedure because I didn't want anything to happen to my own character's eyes
@@letsplaysvonaja1714 Volo's procedure is actually a buff, despite the fact that he is about as trustworthy as the stories he tells. You lose nothing and get the permanent seeing invisibility status. Funnily enough I did the same thing with Karlach, but I made her undergo Auntie Ethel's procedure instead, which is all loss no gain.
Also it's funny as hell. I start cracking up at the cutscene every time Volo pulls out the icepick. I've had him remove my character's eye in every one of my 6 playthroughs and I still let out a giggle every time.
@@ettaetta439 i mean, both procedures ruin your looks
And auntie Ethel's thing gives you a bonus to intimidation, so it's a little gain still
@@letsplaysvonaja1714 I wouldn't say "ruin" your looks though, it at most gives you heterochromia. Nothing else lol. As for the bonus to intimidation, that's minimal. Especially since in act 3 you can face Ethel again, and now you have a disadvantage against her.
that very first story, when even an AI known for sometimes having unreasonable responses finds your response to be unreasonable, perhaps the problem isn't the women you're trying to romance
I have a friend playing BG3 who is perpetually unable to romance companions. I don't know HOW he manages to make it not work over and over...
0 rizz
Skill issue.
No game 😔
@@RaptorRocka that's like, negative rizz lmao. How do you get rejected by a dialogue tree you can reload?
I *accidentally* stumbled into having every companion want to date me, the only one I actively worked for is Astarion. It's so easy getting them to like you, how does your friend have such a hard time???
Okay, I love that endgame of the final story was such a nice change of pace. That could have turned out so freaking awful and didn't.
I feel for Crispy. Imagine being ace and trying to wrap your head around the behavior of these players and DMs who insist on inserting sexual content into their games. 😬
Same could apply to any romance.
Don't need to, it's me
As someone who is ace I kind of get why but yeah, it becomes annoying and unfunny very quickly, but I don't think is just because I'm ace is because people that make sex jokes every second are annoyingly immature to be around and everyone would agree with that fact...
Same. It's one of the reasons I INSIST on playing male characters who are explicitly Ace as well. Less likely to be harassed at least IN GAME. I will only play a female character if I know I am in a very safe group. I usually make all my characters OBSESSED with their goal, so I have an excuse to turn down any romance or sexual stuff.
I'm not ace, but I seemed to find a way around the constant horndogging on NPCa with my campaign. I had a friend that wanted to bang literally any woman she could in my campaign. So I brought in the "roll to seduce" concept, I gave her a DC check to succeed (no modifiers) that was based on how difficult it would be for each NPC to be romanced. Here's an example: if she wanted to bang a married straight woman, DC was much higher compared to someone that was single and at least bisexual.
She failed every check (took it in stride and laughed it off which was as great) except one. Nat 20. The entire party demanded I let her bang the NPC, and clearly wanted to make me spell it out. So I did, and made them uncomfortable by going into detail. She banged a tabaxi, none of us are furries and they had to listen to how her character banged an anthro cat. Never happened again lol
That guy had to be an incel for thinking that his sexual harassment approach was somehow equivalent to the other players treating other people decently and getting to know them as people lol
IKR? Lol. Tell me you haven't properly befriended a female irl without telling me you haven't properly befriended a female irl 🙄 Because yeah! Obviously harrassing them and forcing them to have seggs with him is the ultimate way to romance 🙄 women LOVE that 🙄
I believe the retainers leaving thing was added because of how hirelings were treated in earlier editions.
Lol, that AI is on point! That's some next level insight into the human incel condition.
What the fighter did in that last story is a bit more than "tweaking" their character, the first one is basically altering their core concept. And the last straw is a step too far for the majority of people. I'm just glad to hear that they took the criticism to heart.
That first change felt like a big violation of the group's "no evil characters or murder hobos" agreement they had.
That opener, all I could think was. "If anyone, insists on trying to force romance where no one is feeling it, want to be involved, and continue to pester to inflict us to be witness to such 'top-notch drama' that the campaign is missing, I would quickly send them a dozen links to apps of virtual boyfriend/girlfriend. And tell them to either take the hint or leave."
Story 4:
"Looking at my OC's writing
When suddenly it changes
Violently it changes (oh no)"
OH-WA-AH-AH-AH!
Jesus Christ, that Knight player fuckin quoted the Lusty Argonian Maid, absolute opposite of charisma
1:36 People who fell victim to Karlach’s romance bug: Too real man, too real.
Nothing like starting the new year with some D&D horror while building a vampire house in the sims 4. I'm also enjoying Crispy's journey into becoming an e-girl.
whats your name in the sims 4? im goth and got curious, would love to see this vampire house!!!
That intro story: Well, I guess that's about as good as giving someone a centipede in a box could possibly go.
I love how the first story could be summed up like: "Boyfriend accidentally saves girlfriend from a super akward and creepy social situation by sneezing loudly." and it would make perfect sense.
Addon Edit as I kept watching: It's a pity that the DM in the second story valued shock value more than the player's fun and agency. I'm pretty sure if a dm asks the player if this could happen and discussed with them in advance it could have been a pretty cool plot twist and an intresting chance of development for the character. Of course in this case the shock value is mostly gone for that player, but it's still a twist for everyone else. It's not worth it to make a risky move like this as a DM as this can ruin the game for that player. This is the equivalent of telling a player how their character feels in a situation, it sounds cool in your head as the DM but it can really pull you out of the game as a player. The only thing the players have real control over is their own characters and actions, you cant just joink that away to try to surprise them.
In your "Jealous of the Sapphic" segment, I dont think your using that "push the right buttons to find love" metaphor right. Because he wasn't pushing any of the right buttons, in fact he was pushing all the wrong ones. If he did try to push the right buttons he might of had success but instead he was impatient and was hoping sexual harassment would get him to his goal faster.
“This guy wants to be season one Jamie Lannister!!!!”
Literally got me on the floor dying 😂
Damn. That lipstick suits Crispy.
I'd like to say as a female dm, I absolutely ask my players are they comfortable with romance at the table, not if they're comfortable romancing but if they would be comfortable having people romance each other at the table, I play with a lot of couples and there's been a few incidents where couples pair up, friends pair up, it happens in games so I make sure any one playing my games is comfortable with and knows there may be romance at the table, but if the player is uncomfortable with romance then I know to say in the beginning of the game there will be no romancing, but I also only play with friends, and not people idk so that is a totally different dynamic and not one im commenting on at all! Wonderful video! I always enjoy the DND horror storues😂
Love the new intro and all the skits. I also love the different ways you say (or skip) words. I play this in the background and snap back for the skit or times like “cuddle puddle” and “I’m not reading that”.
Newest intro feels like an awesome blend of your old intros where you had Skyrim backgrounds and your more recent ones. My favorite one so far!
The note on the last story, about changing backstories is okay with caution, is a really good one. In one game im in, i play a noble paladin who was raised as a knight. Both his parents are dead, but notably his mother died in childbirth.
Now, three important things to know or remember. 1, nobles have a scroll of pedigree. 2, due to having relatively low contact with my extended family (bc of distance) and being ND, i tend to forget that extended family exists. Parents, siblings, MAYBE grandparents. 3, i... really love to think and help the DM (my bf of 8 years) by giving him ideas of what could be neat to implement, such as suggesting that drake warden's of an elevated status should have armour made of their drake's scales.
So im sat there one day, daydreaming on my way to work, when i realise that not only does my PC's mother not have a maiden name, but i dont have any concept for any grandparents besides the aasimar line, nor any idea of like. Aunts or cousins. I use a surname generator but his last name is Blackwood so i dont want to use another NounNoun name. So i use the french one just to have something different. Im also canadian, so theres that.
Well one thing leads to another and i bring up the idea of his family on his mother's side being from some french region, since its been established in game previously that his maternal great grandmother was a traveller. And now theres a region or island in this world with a name, based upon a made up river with a similar name, a language that comes from it, denonyms, rough explanation for what formed the language, what each name actually means, and a monastery to train peace clerics and mercy monks.
In other words, i realised my characters mother didnt have a maiden name and accidentally created france, helping to flesh out the world a bit
Damn the new intro hits hard
I fully understand having too much time to think about a character. Usually after I play a character in session I enter full brain rot mode and start thinking about them non stop. About how they feel about what happened and how they feel about other characters and what they might do next. So I get where the fighter was coming from honestly. I have a few characters from Games that I've have to put in a "what if" box. Where I have the game version of them that doesn't change states and then the other version of them who I do whatever I want with in my own head it other projects.
yeah that last story reminds me a lot of myself years ago with old OCs and RPs id be in lol. even still i go full autism brainrot about them, thinking up headcanons, writing half the story as i go. the main issue is mostly that in a TTRPG you cant just rewrite old rp interactions with new context, due to how TTRPGs work and all. i wonder if the guy was used to doing text RP or writing like that beforehand…. im glad he seems like a genuinely really nice guy though. some people dont fully get boundaries, we all learn from mistakes
20:39 - OMFG, I thought this was one of Crispy's jokes, but NO! that trash fire actually exists!
Never go full Jamie Lannister.
I'm a nearly 40 year gamer and brand new to your channel. I really enjoy your channel and it's rapidly become my favorite rpg horror stories channel. Thanks for putting it together. Also, dropping the live action bits in is terrific. Keep up the good work.
TaleSpire is pretty good, albeit with a couple of drawbacks - currently every player will need a copy to use it (otherwise the host will have to move pieces for everyone, though there is a player/DM version being released in the future), and the learning curve gets a mite steep and mapmaking is a bit time consuming compared to other tools.
With a few more months of game development completed and practice with mapmaking it might just be a killer piece of software for ttrpgs.
Warthog run had you leaning forward, gritting your teeth at every turn, leaning with every move. The intensity of that run for the very first time? Nothing like it! I'd give just about anything to play Halo:CE for the first time again!
My dad knows nothing about Halo. I showed him just the SONG and he was jamming at the edge of his seat.
Congratulations on getting the music from Autumn, it's very fitting. Also love a wholesome ending.
Happy 2024!! It could be the leftover party vibes from last night, but I'm tearing up a bit at how far your channel has come. I've been watching since you first started to take off, and seeing you incorporate skits and things you're passionate about into your videos, and trying new things so you can continually grow as a creator... it's really cool! Your stuff has so much personality, and it's helped me through some hard times, from psychotic episodes to DM creative block. I hope you have a great new year, and that you don't get any new horror stories of your own.
I'm hoping to run Wild Beyond the Witchlight this year, and I just know your videos are going to not only help prepare me to be the best DM I can, but they're going to keep me sane while prepping.
thank you so much for linking the thumbnail art. its so pretty omigod
Please support the original artists! They are always linked in the description.
I do laundry for my job so that first one made me worried I'd somehow sent a horror story I didn't even know about lmao
Okay but I actually screamed mentally when you played the clip from The Fall of the House of Usher, I love that show!
One thing a DM could do with the SA knight (although it probably wouldn’t work as Knight probably isn’t the sort to recognise the parallel) would be, as he’s a noble, to have his family recall him home and tell him they’ve arranged a marriage for him, then make his bride be utterly repulsive to him with a horrible, repellant personality, and have her constantly trying to SA him the same way he’s been trying to to female NPCs. Someone with an iota of self awareness would connect the dots and realise the error of their ways. Of course, if they were capable of such self introspection they probably wouldn’t have reached that point in the first place. Plus, a good DM probably shouldn’t be comfortable subjecting a player to SA let alone subjecting the rest of the group to it by proximity, so this probably isn’t a viable option in the first place.
Yeah, not everyone views SA as a justified form of karma. Doesn't help how it has been considered a form of punishment for any promiscuity, like the victim had it coming or practically asked for it.
@@ArcCaravan agreed. Also, I think I misspoke when I said SA; I think what I had in mind was more harassment than full on assault. But that’s barely an improvement, and again is not something a DM should be comfortable forcing on a player or forcing the other players to sit through. It’s one think to use that in say a film to show men ‘hey, see this shitty thing? See how much you’d hate it if it happened to you? Well that’s how women feel when you treat them like meat’ but it’s a whole other thing to use it in a game and actually subject someone to.
To be honest I wasn’t thinking of it as karmic punishment; earlier today I was watching the most recent FactFiend video which is on the Barbie movie and they were discussing how so many men were getting outraged over stuff in that and being oblivious to how it was being used to explore the themes of how women get treated irl, and I had that in the back of my mind when I was thinking of turning the Knight player’s action back at them as a learning point. But again, even if it was okay to subject them to it, such a person is not the sort of person that would reflect on it and learn from it. Sadly, if anything they’d probably use it as justification in their own mind to double down on their actions/attitude.
Wouldn't achieve anything but a little personal revenge, guys like more often or not believe that men behaving like this is justified, normal or even attractive whereas women or gay men cannot act like that for any reason, ever. It would just piss him off and never become a lesson learned. Especially if multiple attempts at sitting down and discussing why the fully consensual lesbian relationship is different from his blatant SA/SH and coercion, didn't get through to him.
Just commenting to let you know the lipstick looks good :) happy New year crispy! Looking forward to your content this year
"I'm just a boy! Awful!" is how I felt growing up
I love autumn orange and am excited you commissioned them for the new tunes! Love this channel!!! 💙
TY! I was excited to work with Crisp :)
@@autumnorange613 your work brings me great joy! I listen to your tracks often on Spotify to lift my spirits.
I just joined my first online game via found via and lfg Reddit. Was very nervous in the beginning because I have been watching tons of your videos, but I gave them the benefit of the doubt.
Well... I'm so glad I did that and put myself out there. So far we're all having an absolut blast as far as I can tell, and the only issues we've had were related to scheduling, but we still manage to meet regularly.
In a weird way, I don't think I would have even thought about joining an online group if it wasn't for your videos, because I thought to myself: and can't all be terrible - and I was right!
So thank you Crispy, and to the people discouraged by negative experiences - don't let it get you down. Try again, if you're mentally up for it.
Have a lovely day everyone
“This guy wants to be season one Jaime Lannister” 🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀
Save the cat ear! Use hot glue! 😂 (And I DID like the new music! And thank you for finally capitalizing "Horror" in your intro!)
The other font just has a bigger “h” for its uppercase.
I really like the new intro. I’ve been listening to your stories for the last several months (luckily no horror stories to share) and I am looking forward to seeing/hearing more stories this year.
I am thankful for my DM. When i was uncomfortable with a characters romancing another player for ingame reasons he was willing to ask them to stop but instead he worked with me so my character and I could be comfortable playing and they could still do their love thing ❤
Good video, I'm glad the Fighter in the last story realized what he was doing was making people uncomfortable and fixed it! The music is also cool!
You know it’s gonna be crazy when you get the ~ᵈᵃⁿᵍᵉʳ ᵈᵃⁿᵍᵉʳ ᵈᵃⁿᵍᵉʳ~
Yeah, being a shy introverted adult myself I can understand the difficulty of finding people to play with in game stores and getting friends together to play. Typically I just play 1on1 games with my husband. We’re both pretty imaginative people so it works out and it eliminates a lot of issues that I typically see in these horror stories.
Story 1: Oh, that guy _definitely_ owns a "robe and wizard hat".
I know we rib WOTC for being greedy and unresponsive to their customers' wants, but the fact that they had the foresight to include the clause in the knight's retainer background that allows them to leave if mistreated, earns them a little leeway.
Hearing so many horror stories about finding games/DMs on Reddit, I'm beginning to think I had the Devil's Own Luck when it came to finding a game! Went on r/Traveller, asked if anyone in a compatible time zone was running a game and open for a new player. Very quickly got a message from a bloke in Canada whose Sunday evening game coincided with my Saturday afternoons (or late morning, depending on who is on daylight saving time). Chatted over Discord, ended up joining the game and I've been playing with this group for over a year now. Excellent Referee/GM, great fellow players... It's been an absolute blast. Gutted to know that other people's experiences have been so bad.
I’ll be honest, I’m guilty of sometimes wanting to build more up in my backstory as the game goes on and I get to know my character. However! I never change some main fundamentals of the character and always clear it through my dm, who is very experienced (I do not bring this thing to a table where the dm isn’t as experienced and is more a teaching table). Those are also my rp heavy campaigns though and the ones where I came in as a new player for an ongoing campaign. I am mostly filling in plot holes for the backstory at that point so the dm has stuff to work with. For instance, I realized recently that my character, with the relationship they have with their faction, means they need a handler and I had written the original mentor to be off on a secret mission. This means I had to come up with the faction’s substitute handler for my character in the mean time. So I discussed it with my dm and they approved me working on creating that character between games. Final say still goes with the dm on if this goes into the game and I make sure not to make any references one way or another until that approval process is completed. So yes, I spend time between games coming up with more backstory things but I keep my dm in the loop and try to keep it to a level where I’m not overstepping what my role is. Also I always keep the tone in mind too and also work on making sure that I’m not overlapping too much into another player’s character arc and stealing the spotlight of a moment that means a lot to them. Also not inventing too many “I know a guy” type of npcs. I’m making ones that make sense. For instance, the substitute handler? Is a former student of my character’s current mentor and they only weren’t concurrent students of said mentor because mentor is of a long lived race. My character doesn’t know everything. I like my character not knowing everything. Half the fun for me is exploring things and seeing how the party’s characters overlap, interact, and how their backstories relate and change. If I know too much, the discovery is ruined. Anyway, my point is, yeah I’m guilty of having too much time to think on my character and wanting to work more on their story, but I also temper it to keep it respectful and not stress my dm or overshadow any other party member. I don’t want to be a main character. I like being more of a support or side for the most part. I just also love getting to know my characters and filling that in. But this is also just because I play in roleplay and storytelling heavy campaigns and this type of thing can pay off as you try to convey more nuanced characteristics. Also I never try to change tone. I like building my characters around the tone and themes that are ongoing. And I always think of the implications of what I’m writing and if any of this might make the dm or other players uncomfortable. I like collaboration which was one of the biggest draws for me….oh and I just don’t really like to play edgy characters. I have some dark and difficult stuff in a backstory sometimes but those are in the table from day one so they can be discussed on how we are approaching that and how appropriate they are, not to mention comfort level. For instance, I have a character right now who is dealing with grief as a running theme to their arc. There arc isn’t about vengeance or forgiveness or being saved or whatever. It’s about learning to live with that grief and being ok with it. The other dimension of that character is also that we deal with parentification of the eldest child (for some, but yes, for this character’s household). Further, we have a dynamic within said family where my character loves their family member but also wants to walk away from them all for their toxic behavior towards them. That is what we address. Is the issue about abuse? Not really. It’s about taking on responsibilities that are not fair to a the eldest but they do so anyway because someone needs to. And then there is the caregiver burnout my character faces later in their life now that all the “children” are grown. The idea is that the character feels “unmoored” for most of their life but also weighted down by responsibilities to the point they have rarely allowed themselves to make decisions for themselves and figure out who they are beyond that context. So anyway, yeah I fill in pieces of this character’s backstory over time as dm and I outline what those family dynamics are, how the relationship with the faction factors in, and how the grief affects the progression and regression of my characters strengths and flaws. And yes, my character has flaws. They are a compulsive character. Yes, that is a bad thing when you are already on burnout from that and don’t limit yourself, but are doing it as a matter of habit than choice. So yes, a flaw. Basically taking responsibility for things well beyond their power and letting others pile those on them without establishing the boundary that it isn’t ok (yes, above table I talk this through with the party and dm so I myself don’t feel that way). It’s just the story I want to tell. But this means dm and I have to make sure we are in the same page with these relationships because they play such a key factor to the background character arc going on for my character. And yes, it’s background. I like character arcs that subtly happen in the background of the rest of the ones going on. I’m told that my style is a subtle style of roleplay that factors in a lot of foreshadowing and is conveyed in little actions and careful word choices that slowly paint a picture and the changes.
But, again, this type of building more into the backstory? That part I only do with experienced dms at tables it’s appropriate for in terms of play style. I do not want to stress my dm or overstep and so I check in regularly with that part, make sure they actually are ok with what I’m doing and how I’m behaving and remind them it’s ok to call me out on things if I’m a bit much so I can and will change how I’m being. It’s supposed to be fun after all. Not more work.
“Having too much downtime to think. A classic. Start off simple but evolves.”
My new Starfinder character started as a basic Ysoki (Rat-Folk) and very quickly morphed into a Frankenstein’s monster-esque creature with different rodent parts patched together. She has no idea *what* she is or *where*she’s from because of the experiments done on her.
Crispy is great he's such a modern lesbian icon
Y'know, the squire leaving aspect seems appropriate in the circumstance to be absolutely certain, however, I feel as though the original aspect that they can leave was intended to be that they refuse suicidal orders or to be trap disarming tools. But... Gods above, quit while you are only severely behind, don't commit to making it worse.
I absolutely love the new music!! :D
So, you asked about Talespire, and I can confirm that it is indeed amazing. If you want to see it in action, there is a smaller D&D Actual Play show called Forge of Lore which uses it extensively and the DM Steve, has made some amazing maps with it. If you want more than that, Dimension 20 used it during A Starstruck Odyssey and made amazing maps with it.
I have to agree with you on not setting a backstory in stone. I know from my experience that I tend to take a few sessions before I finally figure out what my character to be often based on how it would best work with the group. I don't want to the player who comes in with a character that doesn't fit the group's theme at all.
The Knight literally did the deadalewives bit "If there are any girls there I wanna DO THEM!"
Crispy hitting the new year with crispy new music for the intro
AI has become so human-like that it rejects the advances of "Nice Guys". Classic!
It feels pretty awful to post about that last guy. Especially when he was so willing to accept a simple no and hadnt considered the deeper ramifications.
If the knight guy was being played for laughs ironically it would he peak comedy rp.
I think the reason people always lead with "this isn't really a horror story" is cuz on the rpg horror story sub I swear no matter what you post there SOMEONE in the comments will go "this isn't really a horror story cuz...." and then they list some super pedantic reason like "you didn't make the ideal choices in every scenario" or "you're just overreacting" or "this doesn't involve RPGs enough so it doesn't belong here"
There's always someone who'll call a tabletop horror story fake. Or someone who'll call the OP/group idiots for not immediately ending the problem player scenario. Downplaying the horror feels rarer, but not impossible.
@@ArcCaravan maybe we've just read different stories, but all the ones I read had people arguing it isn't a horror story cuz of x or y so it shouldn't be posted on the sub
either way, redditors can be so particular often-times
@@greycat1246 Honestly I didn't take into account Reddit itself, just RUclips comments on videos reading tabletop horror stories.
@@ArcCaravan oh that explains the difference
I was talking about reddit, the culture in youtube comments is a bit different
@greycat1246 I love reddit horror stories, but man reddit has some absolutely insane comments
love the new intro theme :) especially the crunchy bits near the end
8:46 Oml please keep popping out these banger one-liners
As an introvert myself, when I really had the hunger to play some DnD, a friend got me in one of her other friend's games. And then when I wanted _more_ I started DMing for a few of my other friends
Talespire is really fun imo! It's more immersive for me personally, because when we play irl (which is most of the time), i forget elements easily and am way worse at combat. You can also very easily bring tour Heroforge characters into it so you can have customized minis!
.....sadly my group only uses it when we're sick, so we almost never use it. Ive never tried to make maps on it though, so i cant tell you how it is as a DM
Crispy's new years resolution was obviously to slay. I love your lipstick and hope one day I can be confident enough it wear it as well as you do!
I feel like a lot of the dms in these stories have forgotten that dnd is a collaborative effort in the story department; dm determines the past and the lore and the rules of the world, but the players write the future of the world by their actions
Lipstick looking on point crispy!
At least even AI has standards
“I’m not an E-girl anymore I’m just a boy!”
Peak comedy bit
Got no game...
The new intro and music are pretty smooth, I like them. Hope you have a good and safe 2024, and that you look after yourself.
That outro, omg breath Crispy! I was almost was out of breath with how fast you were speaking
I was a competitive improv speaker for a good amount of my life. I can talk REALLY fast and for REALLY long. Don't worry.
The new music took me a bit by surprise, but new year, new music. Sounds good. ❤🎶
The first story was relatable; I used to listen to Crit Crab while folding laundry! And your new music sounded great. 😊
PS: I like Season 1 Jamie Lannister. 😶
Happy New Year Crispy and fellow taverngoers!
Ok hold up for a second, i want that cat staff.
"I'm not an egirl anymore! I'm just a boy!"
Jesus, that hit me hard! My thigh-high's roll down, and I have a "no, mah femme-boyness!" attack.
So, I wouldn't call it a horror story, but there was a guy I played alongside for a while who had patience issues. Fun guy overall, but he just could not wait for a change of pace. We'll call him Paladin, since played one in the main campaign.
Basically, whenever plot was happening, he wanted to rush to the next combat, and whenever combat was happening, he got bored of it if it lasted more than a few rounds.
There were two standout moments for me, though. The first was when we ran into a couple guys whose plot we had foiled earlier in the campaign. They were actually fairly chill about the foiling, so I was prepared to have a fun chat with them, but Paladin immediately leapt into battle after an exchange of greetings. I responded by sitting on the side of the road and watched as he got his butt kicked, sarcastically mutter his catchphrase "it's that time again."
The second time was when the party discovered a sealed monster. Two of us decided we were probably strong enough to beat it, but Paladin decided he wanted no part of it and left. Even one fighter down, we still managed to kill the Thought Devourer and its minions.
How to tell someone is after your pants. Like damn dude, the guy legit was hoping to start a relationship with her so badly.
Harassment IS flirting if done well.
I the the retainers leaving thing was so you can't use them to as cannon fodder but if someone is that creepy then it works too.
for that last story, i try my best to usually stick with a backstory that ive chosen in a game. this doesnt mean id NEVER play an augmented backstory, but i like to think of it as alternate timeline/universe to other versions. theres one idea i have for a character that can go from chaotic evil to neutral good, with varying degrees of "edge" that can be applied.
I really like the new format, acting the text directly is really immersive 👍
lol perfect use for that house of usher clip
About Talespire, it's actually pretty good. You don't have to build every map yourself as there is an online library of lot of location/map/slab other players built. I run Starfinder campaign on Talespire and am in Cyberpunk campaign on Talespire. The sudden shift of where party will be depending on decision CAN throw GM off but you can do a reasonable search and drop to find good enough map within five min. (In which case you'd just ask players to take 5 while setting that up)
When you have a deep-seated insecurity, anything can exarcerbate it, especially if it involves people who are seemingly having fun while you are feeling miserable. Personally, I've been blessed with not being much of a jealous person. A little jealousy is fine (in my home language there's even such as thing as "white jealousy"), but a lot will consume you and hold you back.
9:59 tailspire was great! We used it for an online campaign and worked fairly easily though I wasn’t ever the one playing
Damn I didn't know ChatGPT was that good of a DM 😂😂😂