Props to the girl (player) who stood up for the OP by killing the wizard who killed his pig just to bully him out of character. People like that are real ones who deserve the utmost respect 🫡 she also deserved more of a shout out.
Gob rants about D&D 5e being toxic and praising this DCC system, while at the same time being one of the most toxic, exclusionary and hostile DMs I have ever seen.
Chances are the "toxicity" he's gotten from the 5e community was just him being an ass and getting booted from tables for it. Seriously radiates some "everyone a jerk but me" vibes.
The Ingot story with Tulip the pig left me infuriated. That's such a fun idea for a character, and to have the party so callously bully the player and toss the pig over the side of the cliff for no reason makes me so angry.
I suspect that some players in the game use it to act out doing things that they wouldn't be allowed to do in the real world for whatever reasons. If a player is obsessed with certain negative behaviors, it could be a reflection of what he wants to get away with in the real world.
@@IzzyPR2010 Most likely that is the case. Still doesn't change the fact how insulting that was. Would've done more than just try to push the wizard to his death, tbh.
Not at My Table - Gob is jealous that OP made a game group better than his. He is petty, toxic and controlling-so he probably doesn’t attract a lot of good players.
Even if he did he's not gonna be able to keep them. Killing someone's prized pet in the first game you every run with them is not a good first impression. I sure as hell wouldn't be joining that group ever again.
@@SapphWolf I know that kind of groups, they take pleasure in hazing newcomers, be it via having their characters start much weaker than the rest or outright causing their death with direct PvP or indirect sabotage.
@@ZorotheGallade Which is fine if that's something you signed up for. If your join a frat you know hazing is part of it. D&D isn't like that normally so thst kind of thing needs to be communicated in advance. If it's not it's just bullying and being a shitty person.
That last story reminds me of a joke. Daughter 1: Dad, I’m lesbian. Dad: Okay? Daughter 2: I’m lesbian too. Dad: Does _anyone_ in this family like men? Son: I do.
"Playing lesbian characters when you're not lesbian is fetishizing actual lesbians." "Actually, I am a lesbian." "No, you're not. I, as a man, know what a lesbian is, and you are not a lesbian!"
I had this conversation once; rather than desist from playing lesbian characters, I began my gender transition 🏳️⚧️ Checkmate 🏳️⚧️ atheists 🏳️⚧️ /j /lh
@@ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos Yeah that's what I was going to say. Don't tell people they "can't play a lesbian character if they're not a lesbian" you never know what's really going on, they might be closeted (either sexuality or gender-wise) and live vicariously through the character. Or they might not but as long as they're not being creepy in game it makes no difference.
I genuinely cannot fathom what the new guy in the Post-apocalyptic game was thinking. EVERYONE IS EXPLAINING, REPEATEDLY, THAT WHAT HE'S DOING IS CLEARLY A BAD IDEA, AND HE CLEARLY DOESN'T HAVE A WEAPON POWERFUL ENOUGH, BUT DOES IT ANYWAY! AND HE IS THE ONE WHO GETS MAD AFTERWARDS! WHAT THE FUCK!?
I partially blame videogame tutorials. We've become so incredibly used to being told "nooo he's too powerful you can't possibly face him" when dealing with the easiest boss in the game, that for many new TTRPG players, I can see why they'd think it's the same deal at first. Him getting mad about it is some "mom's basement" behaviour, though. 100%.
idk it kinda remeinds me of the scene in every horror movie ever where the heavly armed soldier dies to the monster.. except you know unlike most of them he actually got a few shots off to establish that guns don't work
When you’re so nice as to help someone achieve the spotlight like a badass, only to get backlash because you were in the spotlight before them. Smh some people.
I like to consider myself a good player, and not even I would be generous enough to do that. OP had a heart of gold. Shame it was wasted on someone with brass balls.
Yea something like this happened to me unfortunately the player was also the DM's boyfriend and I got killed with the first boss like foe we came across I pinned this minotaur boss (he would charge and do big damage, had to stop him as he was hurting the party)with some lucky rolls and payed with my life because the bladesinger wizard or what ever was hasted so he not only fireballed me and the boss but actually stabbed me because I was low hp and the boss was dead
The story with the Wendesday DM, those types of people you don't have to do a single thing to them. Simply walking into their space and existing is a threat, especially if you're just showing what you do. Because they're senior and you're not, they'll do every single thing to shame and humiliate you. You don't be friend with those people, you don't share the space with them. You don't invite them to your DnD tables and house. You wall them off and make your own community elsewhere, and forget they existed. A "blank you" doesn't hurt.
Not at My Table - Yeah, Gob is just petty and jealous. He keeps doing what he's doing and he'll have NOBODY playing at his games. Guess you can say that OP is a real GOBSTOPPER.
The Paladin from the second story makes me think of people who treat d&d like Skyrim where they should be able to do everything on their own without help from anyone else
I unfortunately have two people like that too laying with us and it really sucks because al they care about is looting bodies and buying better gear and in fights all they do is just go off fighting by themselves. We had our cleric, rogue and myself (warlock) all go down because they were too busy trying to just beat on the guy they knew would teleport away. Our Rogue died that night because of that :(
Yeah it seems like another case of "main character syndrome" via thinking D&D is like Single player RPG, when D&D has more in common with MMORPG raids where no single person is the "main character" but rather what's important is team work. Though I do wonder if these people have ever thought why others would join a game where they are obviously secondary and could easily be replaced by nameless mooks. The fact that problem player here accused the OP of "stealing their spotlight" via support spell is a clear indication of "main character syndrome".
D&D can actually be Skyrim! It's called Solo and Duo campaigns! With things like Solo Adventures Toolbox and DMs able to run DMPCs (or buff you/nerf monsters), playing the game like a CRPG is completely viable and valid! I gave up on group play years ago, but tried to stick it out because I thought that's the only way to play. It isn't! My fiance has been DMing me duo for around a year now, and runs me 3 games with super fun characters that I could never play in a group game. An Assassin Rogue Mimic chest named Gobbles, my Pit Fiend named Mawl and his first adventures into the Material Plane (all Gnomes are dogs, this is a fact, do not question a Pit Fiend), and an Illithid named Xan Kor who's one goal in D&D space is to collect weird sparkly galactic space souls for THOON, ALL HAIL THOON!!! The issue is the Paladin has either never heard of this way of play, or just thinks he deserves everything to himself and no one else has a right to play. There's a lot of these in D&D, hence another reason why I'd much rather play alone, it's much less hassle and you have less headaches
Guns Don't Work On Cthulhu, without the "that guy" getting miffed at the end, sounds like playing the pilot cinematicly as the the character that panics and gets killed to demonstrate the stakes. Grounded pilots are always the first to die, so I bet they at least got to write it off pretty seamlessly in-universe.
I like to imagine Gob, in a Welsh accent, proclaiming, "But _I_ am the only DM in the village!!!" I think a very common problem in geeky spaces - especially when there's a reality element, like RPGs - is that sooner or later, gatekeeping only leaves you with an empty yard.
It honestly makes me wonder what the end game of people like Gob is. He tells OP to play his game, treats him like garbage the entire time (RIP Tulip), then acts indignant when OP makes a 5e group on a different day (following Gob's advice), which ends up being more popular due to OP and his crew not being jerks. You'd think that if he wanted a captive audience to show off his favorite game, he'd try to endear OP to his side to both gain a new player and stamp out any competition that he might've faced at the bar. Some people truly are their own worse enemies.
Personally I feel the Gob story is completely fake. Not only is Gob painted as cartoonishly evil and the OP as a perfect little darling, but OP slips up and acts snarky and narcissistic later which makes me think this is less about Gob and more about his self-gratification. "Took me one year to do what he couldn't in five years" and "He should stop trying to be like me" are my favourite bits of verbal masturbation.
I do agree that it all seems very... Well, artificial. Barring OP's potential narcissism, Gob doesn't really act like he's human. He has about the same consistency of your typical mustache-twirler, same with some of the people he played with. Nobody in their right mind behaves like that.
@@lawrencelopez9839 To be fair Gob could have intervened in the pig murder. But he probably didn't because this is a made up story and OP wanted to lead into Gob's shittyness as an antagonist.
As a bi guy, i can confirm, i like playing around with gender and orientation. I love my big wise himbo gay barbarian. My cruel, sadistic bi sorceress? A delight. My swashbuckling drow who views women as superior to men? Love it. My big firbolg who doesn’t really have an interest in that kinda thing, probably one of my favorites. Im not even ace, and i love my druid!
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ “Too many lesbians…”. My dude, that statement is equivalent to too much money or too much fun. As a lesbian, I can confirm this as fact. Unrelated: what kind of Druid are you running?
*high five for also playing a swashbuckling lesbian* (Though she's prrrrooobably bi, but just fell in with the first woman in the campaign she connected with)
I had fun with a Drow Fighter and making her the NEGA-MAGA. She yearns for an older, purer time when Women were Women, everybody was black, Everybody dressed respectably in flesh exposing s&m gear and Men knew their place, none of this woke-Drizzit shit. Dark elf Female Lloth worshippers are the most oppressed these days , when they should be doing all the oppressing! She hoped to murder, fuck and fuckmurder enough to trigger a revolution that would make Menzoberranzan terrible again!
Helping = Stealing the Spotlight I play as a Palabard. Some of my favorite moments have been when my inspiration to help people succeed, or casting well timed protection spells to save the party. It’s as nice as killing blow
Well shit, now I need to dream up a one-shot themed around "too many lesbians". Maybe a kingdom of lesbians has to assemble a band of heroes to go find the mythic Straight Woman who can awaken the cursed Sleeping Prince with a kiss and stop the apocalypse?
The story about 'spotlight stealing' breaks my heart because those kinds of plays are what I LIVE for in D&D. Like the time our warlock caused an enemy to retreat through dissonant whispers, giving most if not all of the party opportunity attacks on it. It was GLORIOUS, one of the best moments of teamwork we as a party ever had.
To the second story, team attacks like that are the coolest shit to pull off. The sorcerer of the party tossed me a holy magic dagger, I used Deflect Missiles to catch it and stab it into the hellwasp below me. it was so cool of a scene, and the entire table got hyped. This paladin player obviously sees the spotlight as only having room for one, when in reality it should encompass 2 or the entire party. That's how awesome and memorable stories are formed. *this* is how horror stories are formed
Right? I always use my high AC, high Charisma Paladin to walk up to enemies and check their levels of hostility, see if there's any possibility of a peaceful resolution, etc, while our Assassin Rogue hides nearby. My Paladin will never pull her sword, she will always let herself be attacked first, and the Rogue always declares "I have my arrow ready in my bow, if anyone attacks Paladin, I'll shoot them." That allows us to: * Play on Paladin's high Charisma and diplomatic way of thinking, helping us avoiding unnecessary battles and bloodshed; * Play on Paladin's high AC and defensive spells. Even if Rogue misses his shot, which almost never happens, it will be hard to get past her defenses. If they do, too bad, but she can tank a few hits; * Play on Rogue's extremely high Stealth and especially, on his "Assassinate" feature, which a lot of people criticize for being difficult to use, especially in a team. Our DM will usually rule that the enemies are surprised by his attack, as my Paladin never makes a move to attack and does whatever she can to seem peaceful and harmless. All in all, perfect teamwork! We love using that strategy and variations of it, like having my character walk in the open, pretending to be distracted and acting as bait, while Rogue follows her from the shadows and counter-ambushes any ambushes other creatures try to pull on us.
@@brittlediamondPlus, with some enemies you might break your oath just immediately attacking and killing an enemy. Your strategy accounts for a lot, I'm glad you and your rogue can work together like that.
Guy of the last Story: let me tell it to you straight. I have to many lesbians in my game. Crispy: can't look at that with a straight face. Me: me neither 😁🌈
The GM from the last story seems like a perfect example of a “woke bigot.” He frames his discomfort in “progressive” language, but at the end of the day he’s still homophobic. He won’t allow an actual lesbian to play a character like herself because of his own discomfort, but he’s too pretentious to just say that. I hope OP ends up leaving and finds another group where she will be respected for who she is.
His "I can't be a bigot because my mom's a lesbian" vibe has strong shades of someone saying something racist, then trying to excuse it with "I'm not racist, I have black friends".
@@taddad2641 I come from the future to mention that yes, thank you, reasonable person. Person: "I assumed you were straigth because the vast majority of people are." OP: "the audacity and bigotry of this scum! How dare he make assumptions based on common statistics!"
for the last story, I get being worried about a sexuality being objectified in your campaign and voicing that to a player, especially if you or someone you know have experienced stuff like that irl. That should've been quickly handled with a "oh, I'm sorry I didn't know. Never mind then" though and been over with. Everything past that seems defensive
It does seem counterintuitive that OP said the DM's game encourages the expression of sexuality, but is concerned with objectification. Seems like a contradiction, but even when it isn't it's a very narrow margin. Either or both could be in the wrong on this one.
honestly, I don't even get being worried about it initially because he knew that she was a woman. If a woman wants to play a lesbian there's two options: a) she's straight and therefore has no reason to fetishize women because she isn't attracted to them or b) she's a lesbian or bi and is just trying to put part of herself or her experience into the character she's playing maybe there's some really niche scenarios where a straight woman fetishizes lesbians for some reason (idk I guess some straight women do the whole "I wish I was lesbian, men suck" thing) or a lesbian fetishizes other lesbians because some people are just weird I guess, but I feel like that's such a tiny percentage of people that it's weird for that to be someone's first thought
So it's impossible that a les can objectify another les? And there's also the chance that other players make comments when that stuff comes up. As a DM, if I ban a type of character, especially if it's because of a personal issue, saying "oh but I'll do it well pinkie promise" is never going to cut it.
The last one kills me. So many people I know in the TTRPG spaces have used playing characters of various genders and orientations to explore parts of themselves. There's a way to have a conversation about harmful stereotypes that doesn't include insisting people play straight characters. (Which having that as a default is in and of itself a harmful stereotype.)
@@ataleofcoffee842 i would argue the vast majority of the population is straight and so it is highly more likely that said character (atleast if human) would be straight than gay, lesbian etc
@@ataleofcoffee842 but i dont think it should be pressured or forced regardless of sexuality, just that there is nothing wrong with assuming a character to be straight
That last that guy reminds me a lot of those people who are so obsessed in declaring how "anti-racist"/inclusive they are and getting defensive when questioned that they completely fail to realize that they are in fact the most intolerant people in the room.
I have to agree that playing to your own sexuality is often the most comfortable, so I typically play ace folks but I've had a lot of fun playing the whole range of sexualities (on my own terms of course). And there has only been once that I've played someone with a sex drive, and I kid you not, I needed to perform a specific ritual to be him. I was basically summoning a demon to come play DND in my body. It was super fun but also super weird.
As a lesbian, when I'm fully embodying a gay/queer male character (maybe if I was playing a bi girl but I haven't), I suddenly experience attraction to guys. It's wild and I love it (this applies to dnd and fiction writing)
@@magicmoon65 i've had similar things happens, with me getting excited over things my character would but i wouldn't call it attraction, it's more that im full on seeing form the characters pov and the instant thing came back to real life it all faded away. It's feels kind of like method acting.
@@magicmoon65 I used to be under the misapprehension that I was a straight cis dude (I'm a trans lesbian, turns out, but haven't really played ttrpgs since figuring that out). The only time I've ever felt masc-attracted is whilst playing straight/bi fems, but boy howdy have I felt it. Such a strange experience.
One of the things I'm most proud of in my roleplaying career, it was during a some sort of homebrewed Stargate campaign about a ship getting lost in some remote galaxy (several years before SG Destiny, call it a funny coincidence XD). I started late and took a character that a previous player left. A nurse. My first time playing as the opposed gender. By the end of the campaign, the girl who created the character in the first place told me I was fantastic, did a wonderfull job. That felt great. It took away my fear of playing anything outsise what it was my confort zone back then.
In the second story’s problem player’s defense, it made a cool storytelling moment showing how outclassed the party was for this enemy. Had that guy’s character been an NPC in shock at his situation, acting firmly out of fight or flight, and being destroyed, it would’ve been a really frightening horror moment.
Honestly, this is probably my favorite channel to go to for rpg horror stories. Your voices are always fun, your content is high quality, you always give people the benefit of the doubt, and you're a lot less abrasive than a lot of channels with the same niche. Plus, it's always nice to see another ace person in the d&d community! Keep up the great work, Crispy!
Intro was a simple honest mistake. 1st story feels like the multiclass player was salty his build wasn't as effective on its own. 2nd story makes another tale with the lesson "make sure any and all players understand the campaign's premise" with someone trying to be a fighter in a survival horror game. 3rd I feel proud for the OP, making his own group in a place he loves while offering to bury the hatchet with a jerk. 4th reminds me of a story about a DM telling a gay player that him trying to make a gay character in his campaign was "bad roleplay" and "a sexual fantasy". I can understand not wanting to roleplay as a romantic partner NPC, not wanting objecifying/fetishizing in your game, or not knowing someone's sexuality. But at that point be upfront about it, allow players to make their case, and don't let yourself look like a hypocrite who'd let the above happen if it's straight.
The 4th story also reminded me of every single bard who can't keep their pants on, seriously stop jamming your sexuality into everything, it's damn cringe no matter which team you shoot for.
Tell the player he has to "Pay a fine," by rolling a d12 for all skill checks and attack rolls, for one hour. Just an hour. And don't make it dangerous. No biggie if he fails. I got that idea after one of the players at the table laughed after a particularly ridiculous combat where NOBODY MANAGED TO HIT FOR OVER TWO STRAIGHT ROUNDS! Then, she laughed, and said,, "DOI! I've been rolling a d12 all this time!" She switched to d20, and suddenly she was able to hit, and so were the rest of us, including the enemy. It was a good session, good time was had by all, and ALL OF US learned to CHECK OUR DICE.
2nd story: I would have asked him if he thought he could take down a Panzer tank with a handful of pebbles, and explained to him that in this situation, you don't even have pebbles, you have pocket lint.
25:00 "He told me he's not here to hand hold me, and that I'm calling him a homophobic bigot" He goes from "You shouldn't get offended so easily" to "I'm *so* offended by what I think you said" in the same sentence!!
Not to go off-topic or start a debate but lgbt ppl have told me that it's not like the ratio of lgbt/straight has shot up recently, they were always there but in the past they were forced to keep a low profile and were often harshly persecuted. Dnd has been around since 72, rpgs since forever. "Too many gays, or Mexicans, or deaf or stamp collectors in XYZ" reels of gate keeping, at best. I'm also reminded of an rpghorror story where a bitter rejected lad thought gay men somehow lure girls away from straight guys (?!).
Honestly the easiest way to resolve the one Cthulhu new player thing would have just been to have had the monster physically knock his character out and cause some lasting damage but not killing him out right. It's an FNB thing
Let’s be honest, that last guy should’ve figured his VtM game was gonna pan to different views. All TableTop games have these societal possibilities. He shouldn’t have gotten so Upset over that!
If you want to mess with the guy, make him roll his attack rolls with a d12, while still allowing him to use the d20 for damage It really sucks that the lockadin was so awful to that op, because that character concept and behavior is flipping awesome
Gob reminds me of that rant where someone was pissed that DND was taken over by “cosplayers” and “voice actors” I have a weird feeling that he wasn’t happy about the flood of newbies interested in the hobby when Stranger Things dropped.
Playing as Yourself - I can actually understand this, in a way. I got my older brother to start playing D&D 5e when he started driving me around in January of this year. He told me that he wanted to play as a character that he could relate to, because, as he admits, he doesn't have a lot of imagination to be a spell-slinging wizard, and he doesn't want to be the group's main talker. So far, he has played as a Fey Wanderer Ranger and a Rune Knight Fighter. Might get him to do Barbarian, possibly a Paladin. This is because he's more comfortable with hitting, shooting, and anything involving physical stuff. So, more than likely, I'll probably just keep making him a Martial/Tank/Striker sort, and not make him be a Wizard/Cleric/Bard sort of person.
In the first campaign I ran, I had a player who kept rolling a d12 for hits and I believe skill checks so they kept failing their rolls. I was like "how come you are getting hardly any success rolls?" I believe they were rolling their own dice, so I couldn't very well see what they were rolling. It wasn't until I ran a one shot for them (since they wanted their character to head off with one of my NPCs as said npc went to leave the country the party was in), that I realized that hey were rolling the wrong dice.
I felt pretty bad for the OP in that ‘Gob’ story. They seemed to just want to make friends and build a community (which they did successfully regardless, happy for them) Obviously this is just from their perspective, but from the post they seemed very friendly. I’m impressed by their patience as well
For story 1, this is not from D&D but from Masks: the New Generation. (Basically teenage superheroes ala Teen Titans or Young Justice respectively.) I have a very fun co-op relationship with another player on my team, our characters are best bros and basically fight and investigate stuff togethem. Both street level heroes, he's a suburban demigod, I'm a hooded teleporter in a long white jacket. In most our fights, we go back to back and a fair few times against bosses, we assisted each other and narrated it being like Cap and Bucky beating on Iron Man. And it's awesome, we basically work as brothers in arms and have actually gotten one or two co-op story arcs where one of us has a problem the other helps obviously and we gather the team for it. And our team and the GM loves it too. For story 3...gotta be honest, it just sounds fucking fake. I mean the whole gloating and masturbatory aspect makes it sound empty and fake. "Tries to be like me" in particular, but also "took me one year to achieve what he couldn't in five years" sounds like OP is jerking themselves off to how great they are and it makes them insufferable but also pretty unbelievable.
I’ve met a few people who went out of their way to help my character’s play style and build including another player who straight gave me a super expensive and rare jetpack for free so i could be more mobile in combat, an item his character totally could have used as well. There’s honestly nothing more flattering to a shy but avid player like myself, god bless that valor bard.
The only excuse for that last story is some really bad luck involving other players making poor lesbian characters. I can think of two I've played with where their entire personality is "lesbian" and spent every waking moment trying to sleep with anything vaguely feminine and not paying attention otherwise (Basically the horny bard problem player that happens to be lesbian). It's unlikely though, I can't picture that happening in enough quantity to assume it became an assumption all characters would be that way
First story: Helping is so much fun sometimes too! In one of my first games, the bosses rolled rather high quite a lot while me and the two other players (it was just a one shot, one of us was a first time player) rolled... consistently low. We both only had 6hp left and two nearly full health bosses to kill. We ended up killing both of them- with no healer, no npcs, no dmpcs, and no deus ex machina. Because we happened to have two abilities that worked exceptionally well together. It's still one of my favorite dnd memories.
Story 1: Sounds like OP is not the spotlight hog here. Guess that this group all has a serious case of main character syndrome. Story 2: That was mean-spirited indeed! You just don't mess with a player's animals, full stop. If that were one of my characters, they'd just be minding Tulip like 'who's a good little piggy?' the entire time. No joke, someone at my old table had a dog named Boo: a scruffy little mutt, but adorable. And the party had asked my not-so-stealthy Barbarian to mind him while the party sorcerer (Boo's owner) and the party Cleric snuck in somewhere. I failed a Perception check when they found the monster in the basement, so I just said he was too distracted by Boo being cute. My Barb also agreed to mind the dog when the Sorcerer had to go over to Strahd's castle alone due to a lie: we had to save an NPC from this guy, so we pretended to be on his side just so he'd go away. That backfired: the Sorc's player left and the campaign fizzled out. But I like to think that my Barbarian from that campaign adopted Boo now, and retrained the dog to sic him on enemies. Story 4: Lez be honest here... that mage character sounds cool, and i don't know what Storyteller is on about. In his shoes, I'd probably just be like 'Phew, that's a relief'. I mean, everything past OP revealing that she's a lesbian just sounds weird, and this should've definitely just been done off with a 'Oh, never mind then' and approving the character. You can always go 'rocks fall' and kick a problem player from the table if shit goes awry. An actual lesbian playing a lesbian is clearly a whole different ballgame from either a neckbeard or a 'that guy' playing one, so just giving her a chance at this character is really the least you can do. And that's all coming from an autistic girl! So this presumably neurotypical DM has absolutely no excuse here, he's just acting like a weirdo. I know it can be scary to read those 11 messages, but OP should do so when she feels calm enough for it, and is in a clearer headspace. An emotional response won't help her here, but this should still really be a make-or-break moment for his general presence in her life. If he ends up doubling down on this, then she should seriously reconsider keeping him around.
I agree as a gay man myself that it is more comfortable for me to play a gay character than it is to play a straight one. I can also relate to the OP on the "Too Many ... Lesbians?" post. Its a very common thing for LGBTQ+ people to be accused of being a "bad gay" for not living up to the stereotype. It's a problem that plagues both inside and outside the LGBTQ+ community. I have been told I am a bad gay for having stereotypical straight guy hobbies. Knowing a lot of lesbians, I 100% agree with the OP. Lesbians I know don't objectify other lesbians or themselves that much. It is actually straight men that tend to objectify lesbian women to a point where it is beyond creepy. However, just because straight men objectify lesbian women, it doesn't give the DM the right to bar a lesbian player from creating a lesbian character. If I was barred from creating a gay character, I would have noped right out of there. Luckily it seems these instances seem a lot rarer in D&D when compared to other hobbies and activities.
Help action is really good! My current character is a peace cleric and half the fun of combat is taking creative nonviolent actions to assist my party. Last session, I used help to set up my barbarian so they didn't have to use reckless against powerful martial enemies.
...The help action is the ultimate "you got this bro! This is all you! I got nothing but You. Got. This!" How someone can possibly arrive at that being an act of spotlight hogging is beyond ridiculous, you really have to stretch to perform those mental gymnastics.
SO. The 'too many lesbians'. Considering the DM didn't realise op was a lesbian, and came to them telling them to essentally change the sexuality of their character to be compatable is the main threwline here. The 'too many lesbians' part makes absolutely no sense, op says he doesn't come for an inclusive community so the idea of him genuinely thinking it's objectification is out the window, especially since theres infamous objectifcation of lesbians and especially lesbian characters BY men. Therefore he's using inclusive language in an attempt to seem reasonable. As such his genuine intentions won't be reasonable and requires keeping them a secret. The fact he came to her about this, seemed to blow up at her in the sense of many messages, and pretty much everything else, tells me this dude was probably into op and wanted to use the game as a mechanism for flirting... Especially with the sexual themes present in the game plan. I mean I've literally lived this behaviour countless times in men who were into my friends or myself when it wasn't reciprecated.
That was it, you cracked the code! He wanted to smash, or at the very least have their characters bang, and he can't do that if either one is a lesbian. (Bi/Pan, yes-- well, maybe, but not lesbian.) So he instantly flipped his shit, and possibly started shouting the most PC reasons he's heard for hating lesbians, or the only reasons progressives haven't corrected him for using; seeing as how he's dealt with lesbians in the past.
Have you considered instead that maybe a DM looking at a character whose only personality trait appears to be "lesbian" would reasonably appear as a red flag? And that the fact that OP gets hysterical as soon as anything happens makes her version fundamentally unreliable?
If anything, to me, he sounds like he's making excuses to not have Lesbians in his game period (even though everyone is assumed to be pan which is bizarre). However, I think we should definitely be careful not to slip into the "What is true?" dimension.
@@cammyshill3099 He literally never said there's too many lesbians, nor did he imply the issue was 1 dimensional queer characters, but specifically framed it as too many players were lesbians and they were 'objectifying' lesbians. Also, 'only personality trait is being gay' is such a weak dogwhistle dude, 99% of the time I see people claim that's an issue with a character or person is when they're a tunnelvisioned homophobes who see everything a queer person does as queer. Nevermind calling a woman hysterical when her response was honestly measured. "you realise I'm a lesbian right?" is not hysterical
Gob is a perpetual leak sinking that bar and 110% deserves to be fired. Imagine having that bad of a business mentality that you actively try to screw over other employees out of I’m assuming jealousy.
When I was a new player, I was DEFINITELY one of those players who took the "use a d20 to do everything" literally. Fortunately I'm also paranoid about stuff and I asked the group right away to confirm what I was doing was correct.
Imagine if your party consist of 5 lesbian bards who go around hitting on girls and singing about how cool it is to be a lesbian... basically gender swapped rappers. Actually I'm glad there's drive-bys now.
Noticed your description. If you're looking for side scrollers, I recommend Copy Kitty. It's very interesting with its core mechanic of taking your enemies' weapons and combining them for different effects, and it also has an incredible soundtrack and a surprising amount of lore, and some of the best bosses I've ever seen. Edit: Too many *what?*
You know, I hear really good things about DCC, and the game does seem really, really cool. I hope if I ever get a chance to play it I don't run into folks like Gob... Also the phrase "too many lesbians" is... just hilarious, somehow. XDD
@@Lobsterwithinternet Did you listen to the story? Every 50HP = 1 integrity point, so presumably you could take him down with, say four level 20s... maybe. I assume he effectively 'only' has 50 times the HP of a dragon... or something (they didn't specify). However, my statement still stands. One handgun ain't gonna do shit.
@@Wendy_O._Koopa Then maybe that's something the DM should have told the new guy instead of throwing him into the deep end and getting angry when he drowns. That's what a proper GM does.
Honestly for the ”AH DM at the bar” story: Just leave Gob alone, he’s clearly determined to be the most toxic, rude, disrespectful person to anyone who tries to take his spotlight. OP has his own event night. Just stay away from Gob, it makes a much more peaceful environment, and as much as I hate to say this… people have a right to not to like someone and not make friends. Trying to get to know a person who clearly does not want to borders on harasment
"Even some people who had tried the Wednesday night group and had bad experiences with them had showed up.".... So they already had bad experiences with Gob and you STILL let him join you???
This is mY tAbLe story: Yeesh. I would have waited for an opportunity to cause a full TPK to shat on Gob's campaign for allowing the warlock's action of throwing Tulip down the mineshaft. Although, I expected the party to kill, clean, and cook Tulip through some means while Ingot was scouting and then trick OP into unknowingly eating their own pet.
Second Story: If that was my group, you can bet someone would've shouted out the Tenacious D quote. "That's fucking teamwork!" For a team effort like that. D&D is a team game, after all. The Paladin seems like he might be more used to Video Games, where there's one main character.
The only reason why anyone would care about being helped at all in DND is that they want all of the lime light and having someone help you forces them to share...
Re: Guns Don't Work on Cthulhu I think the guy just joined to make a mockery of the Cthulhutech system, like, intentionally be stupid just so he could prove to others that it's bad and never to play it.
Sounds more like a bunch of tryhards who didn't properly inform the new guy about the system he was playing. And, contrary to popular belief, CoC isn't as deadly as people make it out to be. The main issue is that you have people who take their first impressions of ttrpgs from D&D and try to play it or GM it like it was D&D. They forget that there’s a major difference between a level-based system like D&D and a skills-based system like Cox or Cyberpunk 2020.
"tHe 5e cOmMUniTy Is sO tOxIc!" (immediately enables player harassment and in-fighting) Dude is not making his system's community look good at all, it must be said.
"Too many Lesbians" My sapphic ass would squee with glee. : V Anyways, I can at least buy and understand what the Storyteller is coming from if his bad experiences stem from cis het men playing lesbian characters with the "thirsty Lesbian" and other sex pestery fetishizing. However, "that guy" is out of pocket and should be called out on it if thats his reaction to her character backstory. But IIDK. I hope we hear more about the DMs they received.
I mean, on one hand, kinda Chad to try and fight an Eldritch horror. But on the other hand, also incredibly stupid in a game where attacking said horrors is about as sane flossing with barbed wire
I remember one time I was playing low level d&d as warlock (and a new player). A T-Rex came by sniffing our jungle camp at night and somehow ended up being spotted while others hid. I had the repelling blast invocation for my Eldritch blast, so I "reasoned" that Between taking a dash action to run 30 more ft or shooting a bolt and push the T-Rex 10 ft away, the latter option sounded more "efficient"...
I mean, if it were 20 feet or more away from you at the time, you'd be right, and it'd have been some super cool way to play your character risky in a realistic way. So long as the attack didn't miss, you'd be fine (and T-Rexes are more damage sponges than they are dodgy). And, as far as things your character would reasonably know without being more knowledgeable on the beast's speed, recognizing weapon attack reach is typically considered to be a given quantity in the rules, if you were within 5 or 10 away from it, it would have just batted you down with an opportunity attack anyway, so it had to be just the wrong distance away from you for the Repelling Blast to be the bad play (unless someone tankier in the party already used up its reaction running from it). If you were playing theater of the mind instead of on a grid, were I the DM I would have given you the benefit of the doubt as long as you still used your normal movement to run away.
Story 1: literally my favorite DnD moment of all time was when when I was playing a rogue gepettin and my friend was playing a pig with human arms (bear with me). Pig had gotten this hat of teleportation off a bounty hunter that was after one of our other players, and this hat teleports the wearer to its location whenever it's thrown. We were fighting priests that had staged a coup against the other religious leaders of the temple, and my rogue teddy bear was attacking two of them- and missed the attack. Which lead to this interaction: Priests: HA! You missed! Snuggles the Bear: No I didn't! Priests: Yes you did! Snuggles: Nope! I'm just the distraction! Priests: For...what? Snuggles: for *THAT!* I was just gonna use this to get the priests to turn around and look at the statue behind them then use my next turn to backstab them, but Pig's turn was right after mine- and Pig threw his hat onto the statue, then appeared underneath the hat, with the priests both staring dumbfounded at the 300-pound pig with with human arms that proceeded to blast them with emotion magic. 10/10, I love DnD :)
Give “d20 for everything” Guy a magic mace that’s basically a d20 on a stick that X amounts of times per day instead of normal mace damage deals 1d20 damage.
and this is why you should use Roll20/DNDbeyong/etc for online dnd. it helps with rules and dice confusion. I have played a lor of DND but I sometimes forget things too, so these things help me a lot! I also ask questions and for clarification ofc
too many hwhat? i am aro ace, and every single one of my characters is always aro ace, usually explicitly. i make sure my dm and party always know that I'm not comfortable with sexual advances and am only comfortable with having platonic relationships with other characters. that doesnt necessarily stop our parties from devolving into polycules, but if that does happen im basically queerplatonic with maybe one other character, almosy always another girl (typing that out i just realized exactly how queer the group i run with is haha). i cannot imagine someone deciding to steamroll over something so integral to who i am and ban me from playing aro ace or sapphic characters. like? what? what impact does whether my character likes kissing and whom they will cuddle if given the choice have on the game when ive already asserted a boundary stating that i, personally, as a human, am uncomfortable with sexual and romantic advances anyway?
DCc can absolutely have power gaming. Might be just me but the one game of DCC I've been in wound up being heavily derailed by an exploding squid blowing up the Kings castle and the King. Wizards are pretty op. The player used a whole load of exploding scrolls shoved in the squid and then activated them by teleporting. The magic system is very vague and moderately ridiculous compared to fighters and stuff
It is truly funny to me that people keep trying to recreate their version of Critical Role and Dimension20 without the basic formulas they use. It's the Underwear Gnomes plot all over again Step 1: Throw some people together to play TTRPGs Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit The people in those shows truly enjoy one another and always work to lift each other up; the people with dollar signs in their eyes just see the profit (Dropout's platform and/or the legendary LoVM Kickstarter). My family and I play some great games full of drama, intrigue, battles, with everyone showing their strengths and weaknesses keep driving the story forward (i.e. my Thief failed an assassination attempt on a corrupt government official, My Mom, the creepy psychic Bard, was about to go to prison for being involved. Long story short, had to sneak in and find info to exonerate us. It led to an escort mission of 1000 people that's already going wrong LOL) Anyway-- is it stream-worthy? Who knows? All that matters is we have fun. Don't play DnD for profit alone. Always make sure your group is focused on that goal alone. Sorry to be preachy, but my favorite love/hate horror stories are the ones about people trying to break into Actual Play. If you're one of those people, I wish you luck, but more than anything, I hope you remain focused on the having fun part.
Props to the girl (player) who stood up for the OP by killing the wizard who killed his pig just to bully him out of character. People like that are real ones who deserve the utmost respect 🫡 she also deserved more of a shout out.
Gob rants about D&D 5e being toxic and praising this DCC system, while at the same time being one of the most toxic, exclusionary and hostile DMs I have ever seen.
DCC is a great system and it pains me that someone like this is running it.
I mean…I’ve seen more toxic, exclusionary, and hostile DMs through these videos…but yeah, he did have more than enough already.
Ill be honest, DCC is my favorite system and i hope you try it despite this story
Self awareness isn't all that common
Chances are the "toxicity" he's gotten from the 5e community was just him being an ass and getting booted from tables for it. Seriously radiates some "everyone a jerk but me" vibes.
The Ingot story with Tulip the pig left me infuriated. That's such a fun idea for a character, and to have the party so callously bully the player and toss the pig over the side of the cliff for no reason makes me so angry.
I suspect that some players in the game use it to act out doing things that they wouldn't be allowed to do in the real world for whatever reasons. If a player is obsessed with certain negative behaviors, it could be a reflection of what he wants to get away with in the real world.
@@IzzyPR2010 Most likely that is the case. Still doesn't change the fact how insulting that was. Would've done more than just try to push the wizard to his death, tbh.
I wouldve instantly went out of character and started rippin up character sheets if they did tht shit to my character
Now I want to include Ingot and Tulip as NPCs in a game I run. But now Tulip has a history of murdering asshole wizards who step out of line!
I tell you what; you throw my virtual pig off a cliff, I'm going to shove you off the cliff too; wizard or no wizard. Who's with me?
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Gob is jealous that OP made a game group better than his. He is petty, toxic and controlling-so he probably doesn’t attract a lot of good players.
Even if he did he's not gonna be able to keep them. Killing someone's prized pet in the first game you every run with them is not a good first impression. I sure as hell wouldn't be joining that group ever again.
Yeah it's painfully obvious that a majority of players don't like him and only played his games because he was the only DM in town
@@SapphWolf I know that kind of groups, they take pleasure in hazing newcomers, be it via having their characters start much weaker than the rest or outright causing their death with direct PvP or indirect sabotage.
@@ZorotheGallade Which is fine if that's something you signed up for. If your join a frat you know hazing is part of it. D&D isn't like that normally so thst kind of thing needs to be communicated in advance. If it's not it's just bullying and being a shitty person.
@@SapphWolf I don’t think hazing should be acceptable and Frat houses have gotten into hot water for the severity of their hazing rituals as of late.
That last story reminds me of a joke.
Daughter 1: Dad, I’m lesbian.
Dad: Okay?
Daughter 2: I’m lesbian too.
Dad: Does _anyone_ in this family like men?
Son: I do.
This made me laugh
Ngl that was solid
"Playing lesbian characters when you're not lesbian is fetishizing actual lesbians."
"Actually, I am a lesbian."
"No, you're not. I, as a man, know what a lesbian is, and you are not a lesbian!"
As a (presumably) straight man as well!
Lmao lesbianism is a fetish anyway, so why does it matter? Lesbians aren't some separate species.
Let people do what they want, play what they want. I thought gatekeeping was bad in gaming?
I had this conversation once; rather than desist from playing lesbian characters, I began my gender transition
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@@ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos Yeah that's what I was going to say. Don't tell people they "can't play a lesbian character if they're not a lesbian" you never know what's really going on, they might be closeted (either sexuality or gender-wise) and live vicariously through the character. Or they might not but as long as they're not being creepy in game it makes no difference.
I genuinely cannot fathom what the new guy in the Post-apocalyptic game was thinking. EVERYONE IS EXPLAINING, REPEATEDLY, THAT WHAT HE'S DOING IS CLEARLY A BAD IDEA, AND HE CLEARLY DOESN'T HAVE A WEAPON POWERFUL ENOUGH, BUT DOES IT ANYWAY! AND HE IS THE ONE WHO GETS MAD AFTERWARDS! WHAT THE FUCK!?
He thought all games are Skyrim. Also his iq is lower than is normal.
@@nitthecroller Don't be to sure, because what he did was basically running after Giants with an Iron Dagger and leather armor at level 15 in Skyrim.
I partially blame videogame tutorials. We've become so incredibly used to being told "nooo he's too powerful you can't possibly face him" when dealing with the easiest boss in the game, that for many new TTRPG players, I can see why they'd think it's the same deal at first.
Him getting mad about it is some "mom's basement" behaviour, though. 100%.
idk it kinda remeinds me of the scene in every horror movie ever where the heavly armed soldier dies to the monster.. except you know unlike most of them he actually got a few shots off to establish that guns don't work
When you’re so nice as to help someone achieve the spotlight like a badass, only to get backlash because you were in the spotlight before them. Smh some people.
“You made me look cool. Asshole!”
I like to consider myself a good player, and not even I would be generous enough to do that. OP had a heart of gold. Shame it was wasted on someone with brass balls.
Yea something like this happened to me unfortunately the player was also the DM's boyfriend and I got killed with the first boss like foe we came across I pinned this minotaur boss (he would charge and do big damage, had to stop him as he was hurting the party)with some lucky rolls and payed with my life because the bladesinger wizard or what ever was hasted so he not only fireballed me and the boss but actually stabbed me because I was low hp and the boss was dead
Even worse, his immediate response was being frustrated that he didn't kill his character.
The story with the Wendesday DM, those types of people you don't have to do a single thing to them. Simply walking into their space and existing is a threat, especially if you're just showing what you do. Because they're senior and you're not, they'll do every single thing to shame and humiliate you.
You don't be friend with those people, you don't share the space with them. You don't invite them to your DnD tables and house. You wall them off and make your own community elsewhere, and forget they existed. A "blank you" doesn't hurt.
Don't even bother to try to buddy up with Gob, people will notice who is running the better game and not bother with him.
what is a 'blank?"
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Yeah, Gob is just petty and jealous. He keeps doing what he's doing and he'll have NOBODY playing at his games.
Guess you can say that OP is a real GOBSTOPPER.
The Paladin from the second story makes me think of people who treat d&d like Skyrim where they should be able to do everything on their own without help from anyone else
I unfortunately have two people like that too laying with us and it really sucks because al they care about is looting bodies and buying better gear and in fights all they do is just go off fighting by themselves. We had our cleric, rogue and myself (warlock) all go down because they were too busy trying to just beat on the guy they knew would teleport away. Our Rogue died that night because of that :(
Yeah it seems like another case of "main character syndrome" via thinking D&D is like Single player RPG, when D&D has more in common with MMORPG raids where no single person is the "main character" but rather what's important is team work.
Though I do wonder if these people have ever thought why others would join a game where they are obviously secondary and could easily be replaced by nameless mooks.
The fact that problem player here accused the OP of "stealing their spotlight" via support spell is a clear indication of "main character syndrome".
D&D can actually be Skyrim! It's called Solo and Duo campaigns! With things like Solo Adventures Toolbox and DMs able to run DMPCs (or buff you/nerf monsters), playing the game like a CRPG is completely viable and valid! I gave up on group play years ago, but tried to stick it out because I thought that's the only way to play. It isn't! My fiance has been DMing me duo for around a year now, and runs me 3 games with super fun characters that I could never play in a group game. An Assassin Rogue Mimic chest named Gobbles, my Pit Fiend named Mawl and his first adventures into the Material Plane (all Gnomes are dogs, this is a fact, do not question a Pit Fiend), and an Illithid named Xan Kor who's one goal in D&D space is to collect weird sparkly galactic space souls for THOON, ALL HAIL THOON!!!
The issue is the Paladin has either never heard of this way of play, or just thinks he deserves everything to himself and no one else has a right to play. There's a lot of these in D&D, hence another reason why I'd much rather play alone, it's much less hassle and you have less headaches
@@SampoPaalanenEasy - these people are egotists who think people actively want to admire and praise them.
Guns Don't Work On Cthulhu, without the "that guy" getting miffed at the end, sounds like playing the pilot cinematicly as the the character that panics and gets killed to demonstrate the stakes. Grounded pilots are always the first to die, so I bet they at least got to write it off pretty seamlessly in-universe.
I like to imagine Gob, in a Welsh accent, proclaiming, "But _I_ am the only DM in the village!!!"
I think a very common problem in geeky spaces - especially when there's a reality element, like RPGs - is that sooner or later, gatekeeping only leaves you with an empty yard.
Love that Little Britain ref
"Gob, you bloody poff, you're full of sh¡t, you are!"
As a Welsh person I'll have you know that we do not claim Gob at all. He's a prick and comes off as more of an Englishman than a Welsh one.
It honestly makes me wonder what the end game of people like Gob is.
He tells OP to play his game, treats him like garbage the entire time (RIP Tulip), then acts indignant when OP makes a 5e group on a different day (following Gob's advice), which ends up being more popular due to OP and his crew not being jerks.
You'd think that if he wanted a captive audience to show off his favorite game, he'd try to endear OP to his side to both gain a new player and stamp out any competition that he might've faced at the bar. Some people truly are their own worse enemies.
Personally I feel the Gob story is completely fake. Not only is Gob painted as cartoonishly evil and the OP as a perfect little darling, but OP slips up and acts snarky and narcissistic later which makes me think this is less about Gob and more about his self-gratification. "Took me one year to do what he couldn't in five years" and "He should stop trying to be like me" are my favourite bits of verbal masturbation.
@@darklord884 If it’s at all real, OP is probably the actual problem.
Tulip was killed by another player though, not Gob's fault. That monster and stopping a well deserved tpk was a dick move though.
I do agree that it all seems very...
Well, artificial. Barring OP's potential narcissism, Gob doesn't really act like he's human. He has about the same consistency of your typical mustache-twirler, same with some of the people he played with.
Nobody in their right mind behaves like that.
@@lawrencelopez9839 To be fair Gob could have intervened in the pig murder. But he probably didn't because this is a made up story and OP wanted to lead into Gob's shittyness as an antagonist.
as a person who never played dnd the concept of a campaign where you fight ancient unspeakable horrors with mechas sounds fucking awesome
As a bi guy, i can confirm, i like playing around with gender and orientation. I love my big wise himbo gay barbarian. My cruel, sadistic bi sorceress? A delight. My swashbuckling drow who views women as superior to men? Love it. My big firbolg who doesn’t really have an interest in that kinda thing, probably one of my favorites. Im not even ace, and i love my druid!
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ “Too many lesbians…”. My dude, that statement is equivalent to too much money or too much fun. As a lesbian, I can confirm this as fact.
Unrelated: what kind of Druid are you running?
*high five for also playing a swashbuckling lesbian*
(Though she's prrrrooobably bi, but just fell in with the first woman in the campaign she connected with)
I had fun with a Drow Fighter and making her the NEGA-MAGA. She yearns for an older, purer time when Women were Women, everybody was black, Everybody dressed respectably in flesh exposing s&m gear and Men knew their place, none of this woke-Drizzit shit. Dark elf Female Lloth worshippers are the most oppressed these days , when they should be doing all the oppressing! She hoped to murder, fuck and fuckmurder enough to trigger a revolution that would make Menzoberranzan terrible again!
@@ArawnNox nope. Just a drow. Men are for breeding purposes, or to be used for fun. Technically bi, but she very much prefers women*
@@8bitlatina845 circle of the shepherd XD
Helping = Stealing the Spotlight
I play as a Palabard. Some of my favorite moments have been when my inspiration to help people succeed, or casting well timed protection spells to save the party.
It’s as nice as killing blow
The most popular Kame Hame Ha in DBZ history isn't one of Goku's solo blasts. It's the Father-Son combination one that Gohan beats Cell with.
Well shit, now I need to dream up a one-shot themed around "too many lesbians". Maybe a kingdom of lesbians has to assemble a band of heroes to go find the mythic Straight Woman who can awaken the cursed Sleeping Prince with a kiss and stop the apocalypse?
That honestly sounds awesome 😂
Did you ever make that one-shot or is it still in the Fun Ideas folder percolating?
The story about 'spotlight stealing' breaks my heart because those kinds of plays are what I LIVE for in D&D. Like the time our warlock caused an enemy to retreat through dissonant whispers, giving most if not all of the party opportunity attacks on it. It was GLORIOUS, one of the best moments of teamwork we as a party ever had.
To the second story, team attacks like that are the coolest shit to pull off. The sorcerer of the party tossed me a holy magic dagger, I used Deflect Missiles to catch it and stab it into the hellwasp below me. it was so cool of a scene, and the entire table got hyped.
This paladin player obviously sees the spotlight as only having room for one, when in reality it should encompass 2 or the entire party. That's how awesome and memorable stories are formed. *this* is how horror stories are formed
holy shit using deflect missiles to catch something a friend threw at you sounds so bad ass!
Right? I always use my high AC, high Charisma Paladin to walk up to enemies and check their levels of hostility, see if there's any possibility of a peaceful resolution, etc, while our Assassin Rogue hides nearby. My Paladin will never pull her sword, she will always let herself be attacked first, and the Rogue always declares "I have my arrow ready in my bow, if anyone attacks Paladin, I'll shoot them." That allows us to:
* Play on Paladin's high Charisma and diplomatic way of thinking, helping us avoiding unnecessary battles and bloodshed;
* Play on Paladin's high AC and defensive spells. Even if Rogue misses his shot, which almost never happens, it will be hard to get past her defenses. If they do, too bad, but she can tank a few hits;
* Play on Rogue's extremely high Stealth and especially, on his "Assassinate" feature, which a lot of people criticize for being difficult to use, especially in a team. Our DM will usually rule that the enemies are surprised by his attack, as my Paladin never makes a move to attack and does whatever she can to seem peaceful and harmless.
All in all, perfect teamwork! We love using that strategy and variations of it, like having my character walk in the open, pretending to be distracted and acting as bait, while Rogue follows her from the shadows and counter-ambushes any ambushes other creatures try to pull on us.
@@brittlediamondPlus, with some enemies you might break your oath just immediately attacking and killing an enemy. Your strategy accounts for a lot, I'm glad you and your rogue can work together like that.
Guy of the last Story: let me tell it to you straight. I have to many lesbians in my game.
Crispy: can't look at that with a straight face.
Me: me neither 😁🌈
I'm WAY more upset about Tulip than I thought I would be. #JusticeForTulip
The GM from the last story seems like a perfect example of a “woke bigot.” He frames his discomfort in “progressive” language, but at the end of the day he’s still homophobic. He won’t allow an actual lesbian to play a character like herself because of his own discomfort, but he’s too pretentious to just say that.
I hope OP ends up leaving and finds another group where she will be respected for who she is.
His "I can't be a bigot because my mom's a lesbian" vibe has strong shades of someone saying something racist, then trying to excuse it with "I'm not racist, I have black friends".
eeeeeeh.... i was also getting 'overreacty' from the op of it myself.
You find plenty of those people on twitter, they'll speak for minorities playing on some general stereotype. I hate them sooo much
@@taddad2641 I come from the future to mention that yes, thank you, reasonable person.
Person: "I assumed you were straigth because the vast majority of people are."
OP: "the audacity and bigotry of this scum! How dare he make assumptions based on common statistics!"
for the last story, I get being worried about a sexuality being objectified in your campaign and voicing that to a player, especially if you or someone you know have experienced stuff like that irl. That should've been quickly handled with a "oh, I'm sorry I didn't know. Never mind then" though and been over with. Everything past that seems defensive
It does seem counterintuitive that OP said the DM's game encourages the expression of sexuality, but is concerned with objectification.
Seems like a contradiction, but even when it isn't it's a very narrow margin.
Either or both could be in the wrong on this one.
honestly, I don't even get being worried about it initially because he knew that she was a woman. If a woman wants to play a lesbian there's two options:
a) she's straight and therefore has no reason to fetishize women because she isn't attracted to them
or b) she's a lesbian or bi and is just trying to put part of herself or her experience into the character she's playing
maybe there's some really niche scenarios where a straight woman fetishizes lesbians for some reason (idk I guess some straight women do the whole "I wish I was lesbian, men suck" thing) or a lesbian fetishizes other lesbians because some people are just weird I guess, but I feel like that's such a tiny percentage of people that it's weird for that to be someone's first thought
@@jojo-7306 normally you would think it's statistically unlikely, but this community has an uncanny aptitude for beating the odds.
@@jojo-7306 i mean lesbians have sex with other lesbians so technically lesbians can fetishise lesbians really hard, like man women or woman men)
So it's impossible that a les can objectify another les? And there's also the chance that other players make comments when that stuff comes up. As a DM, if I ban a type of character, especially if it's because of a personal issue, saying "oh but I'll do it well pinkie promise" is never going to cut it.
The last one kills me. So many people I know in the TTRPG spaces have used playing characters of various genders and orientations to explore parts of themselves. There's a way to have a conversation about harmful stereotypes that doesn't include insisting people play straight characters. (Which having that as a default is in and of itself a harmful stereotype.)
It makes complete sense as a default, thought it shouldnt be forced on characters if the choice is there
@@toxxickillerzz5114 I'd argue the better default is to assume ace aro until proven otherwise, if you MUST default.
@@ataleofcoffee842 i would argue the vast majority of the population is straight and so it is highly more likely that said character (atleast if human) would be straight than gay, lesbian etc
@@ataleofcoffee842 but i dont think it should be pressured or forced regardless of sexuality, just that there is nothing wrong with assuming a character to be straight
@@toxxickillerzz5114 you know what they say happens when you assume something right?
That last that guy reminds me a lot of those people who are so obsessed in declaring how "anti-racist"/inclusive they are and getting defensive when questioned that they completely fail to realize that they are in fact the most intolerant people in the room.
The OP who got called a Pig **#*#* is better than me, cus I would've left the table and thrown a book at them.
I have to agree that playing to your own sexuality is often the most comfortable, so I typically play ace folks but I've had a lot of fun playing the whole range of sexualities (on my own terms of course). And there has only been once that I've played someone with a sex drive, and I kid you not, I needed to perform a specific ritual to be him. I was basically summoning a demon to come play DND in my body. It was super fun but also super weird.
As a lesbian, when I'm fully embodying a gay/queer male character (maybe if I was playing a bi girl but I haven't), I suddenly experience attraction to guys. It's wild and I love it (this applies to dnd and fiction writing)
@@magicmoon65 i've had similar things happens, with me getting excited over things my character would but i wouldn't call it attraction, it's more that im full on seeing form the characters pov and the instant thing came back to real life it all faded away. It's feels kind of like method acting.
@@magicmoon65 I used to be under the misapprehension that I was a straight cis dude (I'm a trans lesbian, turns out, but haven't really played ttrpgs since figuring that out). The only time I've ever felt masc-attracted is whilst playing straight/bi fems, but boy howdy have I felt it. Such a strange experience.
One of the things I'm most proud of in my roleplaying career, it was during a some sort of homebrewed Stargate campaign about a ship getting lost in some remote galaxy (several years before SG Destiny, call it a funny coincidence XD). I started late and took a character that a previous player left. A nurse. My first time playing as the opposed gender. By the end of the campaign, the girl who created the character in the first place told me I was fantastic, did a wonderfull job. That felt great. It took away my fear of playing anything outsise what it was my confort zone back then.
@@Veridiano02 it's a fantastic thing to play outside of comfort zones. Things get super interesting
In the second story’s problem player’s defense, it made a cool storytelling moment showing how outclassed the party was for this enemy. Had that guy’s character been an NPC in shock at his situation, acting firmly out of fight or flight, and being destroyed, it would’ve been a really frightening horror moment.
Honestly, this is probably my favorite channel to go to for rpg horror stories. Your voices are always fun, your content is high quality, you always give people the benefit of the doubt, and you're a lot less abrasive than a lot of channels with the same niche.
Plus, it's always nice to see another ace person in the d&d community!
Keep up the great work, Crispy!
Intro was a simple honest mistake.
1st story feels like the multiclass player was salty his build wasn't as effective on its own.
2nd story makes another tale with the lesson "make sure any and all players understand the campaign's premise" with someone trying to be a fighter in a survival horror game.
3rd I feel proud for the OP, making his own group in a place he loves while offering to bury the hatchet with a jerk.
4th reminds me of a story about a DM telling a gay player that him trying to make a gay character in his campaign was "bad roleplay" and "a sexual fantasy". I can understand not wanting to roleplay as a romantic partner NPC, not wanting objecifying/fetishizing in your game, or not knowing someone's sexuality. But at that point be upfront about it, allow players to make their case, and don't let yourself look like a hypocrite who'd let the above happen if it's straight.
The 4th story also reminded me of every single bard who can't keep their pants on, seriously stop jamming your sexuality into everything, it's damn cringe no matter which team you shoot for.
Tell the player he has to "Pay a fine," by rolling a d12 for all skill checks and attack rolls, for one hour. Just an hour. And don't make it dangerous. No biggie if he fails.
I got that idea after one of the players at the table laughed after a particularly ridiculous combat where NOBODY MANAGED TO HIT FOR OVER TWO STRAIGHT ROUNDS! Then, she laughed, and said,, "DOI! I've been rolling a d12 all this time!" She switched to d20, and suddenly she was able to hit, and so were the rest of us, including the enemy. It was a good session, good time was had by all, and ALL OF US learned to CHECK OUR DICE.
2nd story: I would have asked him if he thought he could take down a Panzer tank with a handful of pebbles, and explained to him that in this situation, you don't even have pebbles, you have pocket lint.
25:00 "He told me he's not here to hand hold me, and that I'm calling him a homophobic bigot"
He goes from "You shouldn't get offended so easily" to "I'm *so* offended by what I think you said" in the same sentence!!
Not to go off-topic or start a debate but lgbt ppl have told me that it's not like the ratio of lgbt/straight has shot up recently, they were always there but in the past they were forced to keep a low profile and were often harshly persecuted. Dnd has been around since 72, rpgs since forever. "Too many gays, or Mexicans, or deaf or stamp collectors in XYZ" reels of gate keeping, at best. I'm also reminded of an rpghorror story where a bitter rejected lad thought gay men somehow lure girls away from straight guys (?!).
My term for a warlock/paladin multiclass is an Oathlock, & the right patron/boon can make a paladin a much better paladin.
Honestly the easiest way to resolve the one Cthulhu new player thing would have just been to have had the monster physically knock his character out and cause some lasting damage but not killing him out right. It's an FNB thing
3rd Story: Gob, my guy, this is a gamer bar, not Jerusalem, you have no reason to be violently overprotective.
Let’s be honest, that last guy should’ve figured his VtM game was gonna pan to different views. All TableTop games have these societal possibilities. He shouldn’t have gotten so Upset over that!
I don't think we should mistake a call for better lesbian characters (i.e. not tokenistic ones) as a call for less lesbian characters overall.
I find it almost unbelievable that he assumed a VtM player was straight
@@HereTakeAFlower I was thinking that he wished she was straight.
Once they flung the pig off the pig I would have left immediately. This dude who took all this shit, good on him for being the bigger man.
If you want to mess with the guy, make him roll his attack rolls with a d12, while still allowing him to use the d20 for damage
It really sucks that the lockadin was so awful to that op, because that character concept and behavior is flipping awesome
Gob reminds me of that rant where someone was pissed that DND was taken over by “cosplayers” and “voice actors”
I have a weird feeling that he wasn’t happy about the flood of newbies interested in the hobby when Stranger Things dropped.
8:10
Guy: *shoots a gun at a god*
God: *doesnt care and kills him*
Guy: * surprised pikachu face
The Cthuhlu one... wait til the new guy meets territorial Rothbart
Playing as Yourself - I can actually understand this, in a way.
I got my older brother to start playing D&D 5e when he started driving me around in January of this year. He told me that he wanted to play as a character that he could relate to, because, as he admits, he doesn't have a lot of imagination to be a spell-slinging wizard, and he doesn't want to be the group's main talker. So far, he has played as a Fey Wanderer Ranger and a Rune Knight Fighter. Might get him to do Barbarian, possibly a Paladin. This is because he's more comfortable with hitting, shooting, and anything involving physical stuff.
So, more than likely, I'll probably just keep making him a Martial/Tank/Striker sort, and not make him be a Wizard/Cleric/Bard sort of person.
In the first campaign I ran, I had a player who kept rolling a d12 for hits and I believe skill checks so they kept failing their rolls. I was like "how come you are getting hardly any success rolls?"
I believe they were rolling their own dice, so I couldn't very well see what they were rolling. It wasn't until I ran a one shot for them (since they wanted their character to head off with one of my NPCs as said npc went to leave the country the party was in), that I realized that hey were rolling the wrong dice.
I felt pretty bad for the OP in that ‘Gob’ story. They seemed to just want to make friends and build a community (which they did successfully regardless, happy for them)
Obviously this is just from their perspective, but from the post they seemed very friendly. I’m impressed by their patience as well
1st Story: That Guy became the dumb side character in a horror movie 😂
For story 1, this is not from D&D but from Masks: the New Generation. (Basically teenage superheroes ala Teen Titans or Young Justice respectively.) I have a very fun co-op relationship with another player on my team, our characters are best bros and basically fight and investigate stuff togethem. Both street level heroes, he's a suburban demigod, I'm a hooded teleporter in a long white jacket. In most our fights, we go back to back and a fair few times against bosses, we assisted each other and narrated it being like Cap and Bucky beating on Iron Man. And it's awesome, we basically work as brothers in arms and have actually gotten one or two co-op story arcs where one of us has a problem the other helps obviously and we gather the team for it. And our team and the GM loves it too.
For story 3...gotta be honest, it just sounds fucking fake. I mean the whole gloating and masturbatory aspect makes it sound empty and fake. "Tries to be like me" in particular, but also "took me one year to achieve what he couldn't in five years" sounds like OP is jerking themselves off to how great they are and it makes them insufferable but also pretty unbelievable.
Also who gave him the right to post his products on the other guy's group at the end. Maybe ask him before using his group for promotion.
RIP Tulip. You were the MVP. 😔
I’ve met a few people who went out of their way to help my character’s play style and build including another player who straight gave me a super expensive and rare jetpack for free so i could be more mobile in combat, an item his character totally could have used as well. There’s honestly nothing more flattering to a shy but avid player like myself, god bless that valor bard.
The only excuse for that last story is some really bad luck involving other players making poor lesbian characters. I can think of two I've played with where their entire personality is "lesbian" and spent every waking moment trying to sleep with anything vaguely feminine and not paying attention otherwise (Basically the horny bard problem player that happens to be lesbian).
It's unlikely though, I can't picture that happening in enough quantity to assume it became an assumption all characters would be that way
Well if this was California it'd be weird to assume it'd be any other way. Hope Putin nukes us first.
First story: Helping is so much fun sometimes too! In one of my first games, the bosses rolled rather high quite a lot while me and the two other players (it was just a one shot, one of us was a first time player) rolled... consistently low. We both only had 6hp left and two nearly full health bosses to kill. We ended up killing both of them- with no healer, no npcs, no dmpcs, and no deus ex machina. Because we happened to have two abilities that worked exceptionally well together. It's still one of my favorite dnd memories.
For the intro, good on the player for coming to the dm to own up to the mistake, here's to hoping they continue to have fun
Gob is more like a gangster getting upset a new gang moves in on "his turf" when it was never his to begin with.
Gob needs to learn to shut his Gob!😒
Story 1: Sounds like OP is not the spotlight hog here. Guess that this group all has a serious case of main character syndrome.
Story 2: That was mean-spirited indeed! You just don't mess with a player's animals, full stop. If that were one of my characters, they'd just be minding Tulip like 'who's a good little piggy?' the entire time. No joke, someone at my old table had a dog named Boo: a scruffy little mutt, but adorable. And the party had asked my not-so-stealthy Barbarian to mind him while the party sorcerer (Boo's owner) and the party Cleric snuck in somewhere. I failed a Perception check when they found the monster in the basement, so I just said he was too distracted by Boo being cute. My Barb also agreed to mind the dog when the Sorcerer had to go over to Strahd's castle alone due to a lie: we had to save an NPC from this guy, so we pretended to be on his side just so he'd go away. That backfired: the Sorc's player left and the campaign fizzled out. But I like to think that my Barbarian from that campaign adopted Boo now, and retrained the dog to sic him on enemies.
Story 4: Lez be honest here... that mage character sounds cool, and i don't know what Storyteller is on about. In his shoes, I'd probably just be like 'Phew, that's a relief'. I mean, everything past OP revealing that she's a lesbian just sounds weird, and this should've definitely just been done off with a 'Oh, never mind then' and approving the character. You can always go 'rocks fall' and kick a problem player from the table if shit goes awry. An actual lesbian playing a lesbian is clearly a whole different ballgame from either a neckbeard or a 'that guy' playing one, so just giving her a chance at this character is really the least you can do. And that's all coming from an autistic girl! So this presumably neurotypical DM has absolutely no excuse here, he's just acting like a weirdo. I know it can be scary to read those 11 messages, but OP should do so when she feels calm enough for it, and is in a clearer headspace. An emotional response won't help her here, but this should still really be a make-or-break moment for his general presence in her life. If he ends up doubling down on this, then she should seriously reconsider keeping him around.
I agree as a gay man myself that it is more comfortable for me to play a gay character than it is to play a straight one. I can also relate to the OP on the "Too Many ... Lesbians?" post. Its a very common thing for LGBTQ+ people to be accused of being a "bad gay" for not living up to the stereotype. It's a problem that plagues both inside and outside the LGBTQ+ community. I have been told I am a bad gay for having stereotypical straight guy hobbies. Knowing a lot of lesbians, I 100% agree with the OP. Lesbians I know don't objectify other lesbians or themselves that much. It is actually straight men that tend to objectify lesbian women to a point where it is beyond creepy. However, just because straight men objectify lesbian women, it doesn't give the DM the right to bar a lesbian player from creating a lesbian character. If I was barred from creating a gay character, I would have noped right out of there. Luckily it seems these instances seem a lot rarer in D&D when compared to other hobbies and activities.
I like your reading style. Subbed.
Help action is really good! My current character is a peace cleric and half the fun of combat is taking creative nonviolent actions to assist my party. Last session, I used help to set up my barbarian so they didn't have to use reckless against powerful martial enemies.
...The help action is the ultimate "you got this bro! This is all you! I got nothing but You. Got. This!" How someone can possibly arrive at that being an act of spotlight hogging is beyond ridiculous, you really have to stretch to perform those mental gymnastics.
SO. The 'too many lesbians'. Considering the DM didn't realise op was a lesbian, and came to them telling them to essentally change the sexuality of their character to be compatable is the main threwline here. The 'too many lesbians' part makes absolutely no sense, op says he doesn't come for an inclusive community so the idea of him genuinely thinking it's objectification is out the window, especially since theres infamous objectifcation of lesbians and especially lesbian characters BY men. Therefore he's using inclusive language in an attempt to seem reasonable. As such his genuine intentions won't be reasonable and requires keeping them a secret. The fact he came to her about this, seemed to blow up at her in the sense of many messages, and pretty much everything else, tells me this dude was probably into op and wanted to use the game as a mechanism for flirting... Especially with the sexual themes present in the game plan. I mean I've literally lived this behaviour countless times in men who were into my friends or myself when it wasn't reciprecated.
That was it, you cracked the code! He wanted to smash, or at the very least have their characters bang, and he can't do that if either one is a lesbian. (Bi/Pan, yes-- well, maybe, but not lesbian.) So he instantly flipped his shit, and possibly started shouting the most PC reasons he's heard for hating lesbians, or the only reasons progressives haven't corrected him for using; seeing as how he's dealt with lesbians in the past.
Have you considered instead that maybe a DM looking at a character whose only personality trait appears to be "lesbian" would reasonably appear as a red flag? And that the fact that OP gets hysterical as soon as anything happens makes her version fundamentally unreliable?
In all honesty I think forcing a character to change sexuality wasn't a good idea.
So even if the DM assumed so, he went about it in a very wrong way.
If anything, to me, he sounds like he's making excuses to not have Lesbians in his game period (even though everyone is assumed to be pan which is bizarre). However, I think we should definitely be careful not to slip into the "What is true?" dimension.
@@cammyshill3099 He literally never said there's too many lesbians, nor did he imply the issue was 1 dimensional queer characters, but specifically framed it as too many players were lesbians and they were 'objectifying' lesbians.
Also, 'only personality trait is being gay' is such a weak dogwhistle dude, 99% of the time I see people claim that's an issue with a character or person is when they're a tunnelvisioned homophobes who see everything a queer person does as queer. Nevermind calling a woman hysterical when her response was honestly measured. "you realise I'm a lesbian right?" is not hysterical
A bar with TTRPG's Cheese Curds, and heavy metal? Ha, I may finally have found a bar I could care about as someone who doesn't want to drink.
Cthulutech sounds like a deep ones version of Shadowrun... plus interplanetary travel. Sounds like you could have some wild stories and battles.
Gob is a perpetual leak sinking that bar and 110% deserves to be fired. Imagine having that bad of a business mentality that you actively try to screw over other employees out of I’m assuming jealousy.
When I was a new player, I was DEFINITELY one of those players who took the "use a d20 to do everything" literally. Fortunately I'm also paranoid about stuff and I asked the group right away to confirm what I was doing was correct.
WHY CAN’T I HOLD ALL THESE LESBIANS?!
Imagine if your party consist of 5 lesbian bards who go around hitting on girls and singing about how cool it is to be a lesbian... basically gender swapped rappers.
Actually I'm glad there's drive-bys now.
Noticed your description. If you're looking for side scrollers, I recommend Copy Kitty. It's very interesting with its core mechanic of taking your enemies' weapons and combining them for different effects, and it also has an incredible soundtrack and a surprising amount of lore, and some of the best bosses I've ever seen.
Edit: Too many *what?*
Seemed to me the the guy in the last story was projecting his insecurities onto the OP.
You know, I hear really good things about DCC, and the game does seem really, really cool. I hope if I ever get a chance to play it I don't run into folks like Gob...
Also the phrase "too many lesbians" is... just hilarious, somehow. XDD
Tulip will live on in our hearts
Guns Don’t Work
Some games are about surviving, not winning.
Also how many horror movies featuring big monsters and guns where guns worked?
Resident Evil
Silent Hill
SCP Containment Breach
I mean, Godzilla shrugs off armor piercing tank rounds, so Cthulhu (who is notably stronger) should easily be taken out by a handgun, _right?_ /s
@@Wendy_O._Koopa That depends.
Does Cthulu have an HP bar?
@@Lobsterwithinternet Did you listen to the story? Every 50HP = 1 integrity point, so presumably you could take him down with, say four level 20s... maybe. I assume he effectively 'only' has 50 times the HP of a dragon... or something (they didn't specify). However, my statement still stands. One handgun ain't gonna do shit.
@@Wendy_O._Koopa Then maybe that's something the DM should have told the new guy instead of throwing him into the deep end and getting angry when he drowns.
That's what a proper GM does.
The person that killed the OP's fantasy pig pet Tulip was indeed a dick!
Honestly for the ”AH DM at the bar” story: Just leave Gob alone, he’s clearly determined to be the most toxic, rude, disrespectful person to anyone who tries to take his spotlight. OP has his own event night. Just stay away from Gob, it makes a much more peaceful environment, and as much as I hate to say this… people have a right to not to like someone and not make friends. Trying to get to know a person who clearly does not want to borders on harasment
"Even some people who had tried the Wednesday night group and had bad experiences with them had showed up.".... So they already had bad experiences with Gob and you STILL let him join you???
This is mY tAbLe story:
Yeesh. I would have waited for an opportunity to cause a full TPK to shat on Gob's campaign for allowing the warlock's action of throwing Tulip down the mineshaft. Although, I expected the party to kill, clean, and cook Tulip through some means while Ingot was scouting and then trick OP into unknowingly eating their own pet.
Second Story: If that was my group, you can bet someone would've shouted out the Tenacious D quote. "That's fucking teamwork!" For a team effort like that.
D&D is a team game, after all. The Paladin seems like he might be more used to Video Games, where there's one main character.
The only reason why anyone would care about being helped at all in DND is that they want all of the lime light and having someone help you forces them to share...
Re: Guns Don't Work on Cthulhu
I think the guy just joined to make a mockery of the Cthulhutech system, like, intentionally be stupid just so he could prove to others that it's bad and never to play it.
Sounds more like a bunch of tryhards who didn't properly inform the new guy about the system he was playing.
And, contrary to popular belief, CoC isn't as deadly as people make it out to be.
The main issue is that you have people who take their first impressions of ttrpgs from D&D and try to play it or GM it like it was D&D. They forget that there’s a major difference between a level-based system like D&D and a skills-based system like Cox or Cyberpunk 2020.
First time here cool thorn replica dude
"tHe 5e cOmMUniTy Is sO tOxIc!"
(immediately enables player harassment and in-fighting)
Dude is not making his system's community look good at all, it must be said.
Ngl, i thought Tulip was going to go the way Cluckers did. RIP Cluckers.
That's a Thorn in the background! Someone plays Destiny!
"Too many Lesbians"
My sapphic ass would squee with glee. : V
Anyways, I can at least buy and understand what the Storyteller is coming from if his bad experiences stem from cis het men playing lesbian characters with the "thirsty Lesbian" and other sex pestery fetishizing. However, "that guy" is out of pocket and should be called out on it if thats his reaction to her character backstory.
But IIDK. I hope we hear more about the DMs they received.
I mean, on one hand, kinda Chad to try and fight an Eldritch horror. But on the other hand, also incredibly stupid in a game where attacking said horrors is about as sane flossing with barbed wire
"Too Many Lesbians...." I would so much like to read that Nero Wolfe pastiche.
I remember one time I was playing low level d&d as warlock (and a new player). A T-Rex came by sniffing our jungle camp at night and somehow ended up being spotted while others hid.
I had the repelling blast invocation for my Eldritch blast, so I "reasoned" that Between taking a dash action to run 30 more ft or shooting a bolt and push the T-Rex 10 ft away, the latter option sounded more "efficient"...
I mean, if it were 20 feet or more away from you at the time, you'd be right, and it'd have been some super cool way to play your character risky in a realistic way. So long as the attack didn't miss, you'd be fine (and T-Rexes are more damage sponges than they are dodgy). And, as far as things your character would reasonably know without being more knowledgeable on the beast's speed, recognizing weapon attack reach is typically considered to be a given quantity in the rules, if you were within 5 or 10 away from it, it would have just batted you down with an opportunity attack anyway, so it had to be just the wrong distance away from you for the Repelling Blast to be the bad play (unless someone tankier in the party already used up its reaction running from it). If you were playing theater of the mind instead of on a grid, were I the DM I would have given you the benefit of the doubt as long as you still used your normal movement to run away.
Story 1: literally my favorite DnD moment of all time was when when I was playing a rogue gepettin and my friend was playing a pig with human arms (bear with me). Pig had gotten this hat of teleportation off a bounty hunter that was after one of our other players, and this hat teleports the wearer to its location whenever it's thrown. We were fighting priests that had staged a coup against the other religious leaders of the temple, and my rogue teddy bear was attacking two of them- and missed the attack. Which lead to this interaction:
Priests: HA! You missed!
Snuggles the Bear: No I didn't!
Priests: Yes you did!
Snuggles: Nope! I'm just the distraction!
Priests: For...what?
Snuggles: for *THAT!*
I was just gonna use this to get the priests to turn around and look at the statue behind them then use my next turn to backstab them, but Pig's turn was right after mine- and Pig threw his hat onto the statue, then appeared underneath the hat, with the priests both staring dumbfounded at the 300-pound pig with with human arms that proceeded to blast them with emotion magic. 10/10, I love DnD :)
Give “d20 for everything” Guy a magic mace that’s basically a d20 on a stick that X amounts of times per day instead of normal mace damage deals 1d20 damage.
This is the eighth video I’ve put off from this channel, yeah I should stop that
For the first one:
I'd make an enemy that is the exact same character (class wise) but with a weapon that does a d20 damage
and this is why you should use Roll20/DNDbeyong/etc for online dnd. it helps with rules and dice confusion. I have played a lor of DND but I sometimes forget things too, so these things help me a lot! I also ask questions and for clarification ofc
too many hwhat?
i am aro ace, and every single one of my characters is always aro ace, usually explicitly. i make sure my dm and party always know that I'm not comfortable with sexual advances and am only comfortable with having platonic relationships with other characters. that doesnt necessarily stop our parties from devolving into polycules, but if that does happen im basically queerplatonic with maybe one other character, almosy always another girl (typing that out i just realized exactly how queer the group i run with is haha). i cannot imagine someone deciding to steamroll over something so integral to who i am and ban me from playing aro ace or sapphic characters. like? what? what impact does whether my character likes kissing and whom they will cuddle if given the choice have on the game when ive already asserted a boundary stating that i, personally, as a human, am uncomfortable with sexual and romantic advances anyway?
5:40 Death before Dishonor!!
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15:10 "Look! There's a bug on the rope! I'll get it! Oops!"
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DCc can absolutely have power gaming. Might be just me but the one game of DCC I've been in wound up being heavily derailed by an exploding squid blowing up the Kings castle and the King. Wizards are pretty op. The player used a whole load of exploding scrolls shoved in the squid and then activated them by teleporting. The magic system is very vague and moderately ridiculous compared to fighters and stuff
Gob is super jelly.
The lesbian story is funny to me cause I never heard of having too many of them in a story.
I guess if they all tend to end up as porn fan fic, it gets boring after a while.
It is truly funny to me that people keep trying to recreate their version of Critical Role and Dimension20 without the basic formulas they use.
It's the Underwear Gnomes plot all over again
Step 1: Throw some people together to play TTRPGs
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit
The people in those shows truly enjoy one another and always work to lift each other up; the people with dollar signs in their eyes just see the profit (Dropout's platform and/or the legendary LoVM Kickstarter). My family and I play some great games full of drama, intrigue, battles, with everyone showing their strengths and weaknesses keep driving the story forward (i.e. my Thief failed an assassination attempt on a corrupt government official, My Mom, the creepy psychic Bard, was about to go to prison for being involved. Long story short, had to sneak in and find info to exonerate us. It led to an escort mission of 1000 people that's already going wrong LOL)
Anyway-- is it stream-worthy? Who knows? All that matters is we have fun. Don't play DnD for profit alone. Always make sure your group is focused on that goal alone.
Sorry to be preachy, but my favorite love/hate horror stories are the ones about people trying to break into Actual Play. If you're one of those people, I wish you luck, but more than anything, I hope you remain focused on the having fun part.
It's me, I'm the too many lesbians in D&D.
Lockadin? Thats new, I've always seen it called a Pallock.