People are saying that that's why you have party members, but i theorize that he did have party members, but his perception is so bad that he didn't realize he left them behind.
PLOT TWIST: his perception is fine and this was all just a ruse to have the RP-focused bard(?) distract the necromancer while the combat portion of the group cleared the dungeon.
Meh, just max out your dexterity, then you can have spider sense. Instead of finding the trap, you just walk through, trigger the dang thing. then use your lightning fast reflexs to get out of the way :) still wont find the door though..................................
A running joke in my dnd campaign is that when we role low perception we tend to say something along the lines of, These snozberries taste like snozberries
Dicocraft Games I have a party of three what is a cleric with high perception another is a druid with high perception the last one is me a dwarf Barbarian with 8 wisdom so whenever I roll to "check things out" and fail miserably the DM or I alwats say "you/I see a wall" hell the first role of our game was a natural one of perception check from my dwarf
"Why did you bring me back to life?" "Because I stayed up 'till half four in the morning, laying out this intricate necromancer dungeon, and it's no fun for me if some idiot comes along, and dies slipping on the bloody doormat." As funny as this may be to anyone else, as a DM myself, this is too real. As a side note, I once had a character with absolute crap charisma, but rolled a natural 20 and avoided a fight altogether which the DM had spent hours setting up. Again, too real.
Jocose Sonata - There was a party in my college RP club, playing 7th Sea. One of the characters had been a victim of the inquisition and REFUSED to go back to not-Spain. They spent the next 3 IRL months shopping while the villain carried out their evil plan. Still won, though, because one of the PC’s stole the villain’s shoe earlier in the game... it’s complicated.
"Still won, though, because one of the PC’s stole the villain’s shoe earlier in the game... it’s complicated." So... even though the 'heroes' did not at all deal with the villain, they still won, all because one of them stole the villain's shoe. Complicated does not even _begin_ to encapsulate a shred of that statement. Defeating a villain, that was left to do their bidding unhindered for 3 real months, all because someone stole their shoe some time in the game. How in the fuck!? D&D is goddamned magnificent!
Jocose Sonata - The shoe was part of a magical outfit that would allow the wearer to ascend to godhood. The villain went around gathering the other pieces, but without the one shoe, her power was incomplete. With all but one piece, she was super-end-boss powerful, but not unbeatable. They won, never realizing until later that the shoe was actually even important... one of the PC’s just stole it because she was annoyed at the owner (who wasn’t even the villain).
A blind dark elf in sunlight after being hit with a point blank pyrotechnics explosion while it's foggy and under the effects of a bane spell still has more perception than that player.
The thing is even if they do find the door they're not going to trust the thing anyway. No, there must be some kind of secret trapdoor ingenously hidden somewhere around here.
Oh my God, imagine if the character realizes that he and his world are just figments of people's imagination and some words and numbers on a piece of paper. That would be amazing.
It also happens sometimes when you roll a 1, but the tone is of course different. The character looses all will to live and goes into an existencial crisis.
You should do a sketch about "The unlucky one" for D&D. That character who is so great, so powerful... But always seems to roll 1's at the worst possible moments.
Louis Sutton That's literally my friend's warlock. He's nails every single social encounter and is a literall devil when it comes to bargaining but he went unconciouss literally every fight.
i had a warrior that looked old, and was the last to enter the party, so they didnt trust him that much, his first fight was a duel to the death,it started with losing 80% of his hit points in the first hit, while he missed the 3 first hits, and as everybody tought "he is dead", and them the oponent started to miss too, suddenly he hits a critical leaving the oponent with one hit point, that was based on luck but was so into character that could as well be made on purpose, he is not a skilled fighter, he is just a hero for less than a year but is 70 years old, with the health of a 20 years old, i am a different kind of the unluck one, i miss every roll except the most decisive, during 3 seasons straight i did nothing outside of roleplay the entire season while missing every test, wasting heals of my allies, to at the most decisive moment hit 3 sixes in five rolls incinarating the strongest foe that was about to kill the tank
2 of the players in my games are just exact opposites. The Rogue constantly rolls shit all the time, thankfully he got that Rogue luck thing so he never gets below a 10 now so he can actually do stuff out of combat now. The Paladin doesn't roll particularly well, but enemies just roll absolute shit to hit him. Last fight he solo'd a boss for about 6 turns while the others killed the mobs. The boss just couldn't roll above a 10 and whiffed for ages. Then the other PC's get involved and he just smashes the Rogue down to half health in 1 turn
The best part is that if he does have a high intelligence then he should be able to get a decent score on an investigation check but the lack of dice rolling sounds makes me think he didn't even bother making one
That's why you have a party instead of adventuring solo; one sees things, one figures things out, one fights things, one talks to people, and one heals them all back up after they encounter things. ;-)
DM: How do you have a negative perception modifier. Me: Because wisdom is for losers DM: Is that why your character has the impulse control of a small child? Me: I have a big sword, thinking is what the rest of the parties for. DM: You see that forehead shaped indent in the table? Me: Yeah. Is that from you? DM: No it's from you, your decisions caused this. (This is what happens when you role a 7 on wisdom)
There was one character that rolled a Natural 1 during character creation. He put that 1 into wisdom, needless to say I spent way to many revives on him.
Well high int characters are likely to remain in the back of the party, or be surrounded by allies during battle so it doesn't hurt too much. For solo play of course you would need perception and stat distribution that maxes out chances of survival, but in parties? Why not min max something silly?
"Because i stayed until half four in the morning laying out this intricate necromancer dungeon" I actually watched this at 3 in the morning, while creating the next advanture for my party. This video probably saved my sanity.
Jaedon McDonald Sorry if I’m being confusing, only know 5e stuff, but I thought Intelligence would be more dump than Wisdom, considering Int is only good on Wizards or smart characters (for RP) while Wisdom has important skills and requires many more saves. And I don’t think there are any "bad wisdom" races...
Ah I see. I’m more used to 3.5 and pathfinder systems. In character creation, you can REALLY min-max. If you choose a race like an orc, and subtract points from wisdom, you can effectively be blind. It is truly an amazing experience XD
I'm running Tomb of Annihilation right now. This is pretty much how my players have been acting. Example (Maybe spoilers?): Me: "Alright, after going through the underground river, you come to a chunk of land that has a staircase leading to a door. The air smells of rotten eggs. Judging from the fact that the door is made of stone, with the hinges on your side, you can guess this is the back side of a hidden passage." Player: "I examine the door for traps. Got a 12 on investigation." Me: "The rotten-egg smell is distracting, but you take a look anyway. The door is solid flint, set in a steel frame. That's all you notice." Player: "I open the door!" Ever other player: *Heavy sigh of exasperation at the obvious trap being triggered* Me: "As you open the door, the steel and flint rubbing together produces sparks, igniting the foul-smelling gas. Take 30 fire damage as the stairs and island are engulfed in flames and a 15 foot long blast of flame shoots out the opened door." Player: "Oh, that's what that was? Anyway, I'm down, so if someone could feed me a goodberry or something?"
@@crazy4bricksthebrickbrothe722 I had to LITERALLY spell out to my players at one point that there was a VERY likely case of...natural gas in a cave system they were entering..with torches.. It was kind of hillarious. They were staring down the rather badly lit old mine. The lighting coming from some mossy stones that had been clearly added to the walls. A few metal rods sticking out of the side of the wall that seemed to have been a holding spot for a torch. The walls slightly burned for some reason and a smell of rotting eggs and sulfer in the air. One of the players then had the amazing idea of taking out a torch...I just stared at him for a moment as he asked if he could light it and I told him to roll a wisdow check. He rolled pretty high so I just went "You have this..weird feeling..lighting this at this moment might not be the most optimal thing right now..especially since you have the light cantrip!" He stared at me for a moment before it seems like he finally put two and two together and just went "oh..ohhh! There is gas in this mine, aint there...right...duhh" It was honestly hillarious. Normally I wouldn't be that nice but they were both new players and level 1 without a healer..it would have been baaaad
I thought natural gas didn't actually have a smell, and that the egg smell was manually added in order to make it more obvious. Pretty sure that's why miners kept canaries, so they would pass out, alerting the miners to the gas they couldn't smell.
To be fair, thats how I distribute my points in RPG's and I end up fine! As a side note, it's nice to see the mighty Rodriguez ElCazorro again in some form. *insert obligatory "A Fable III Experience" release date question*
I was expecting him to roll a nat 20 perception roll for an invisable ghost... and his attack roll on said ghost. Then just walk off a cliff to his death. Not that im speaking from experience or anything.
Let's be honest. With how often she's done the undermining, I should downgrade it in score. I think we're fine where we are on this one. She's been much more edgy.
Christian Smith I rolled a 13, so I can vaugely tell the outline of a video, but I can't see much beyond that. JP's Living Forever is just a little to distractingly catchy for me to properly focus.
I don't even play D&D and I still find this top quality humour. Edit: can't believe I didn't notice, but that's the Dell laptop isn't it. Edit 2: by which I mean, that's the guy who voices the Dell laptop.
Imaginary roleplay scenario: Cleric: "I go to retrieve the body." DM: {How do I get them to notice that the NPC they're digging a grave for isn't actually dead?} DM: "Cleric, I need you to roll a perception check." Cleric: "natural one" DM: "You don't notice the rock at your feet and trip. Role a dexterity saving throw." Cleric: "natural one, for a total of negative one." DM: "You fall, headfirst, into the open grave and take {roles} 3 points of bludgeoning damage." Rogue: "I start going through the NPC's stuff." DM: {okay, at the very least, if they find the secret pouch, they can uncover the story hook without talking to my NPC} DM: "Role and investigation check." Rogue: "zero" DM: ... Rogue: "No! Wait! Negative one. DM: {sighs and puts away carefully prepared bag of props} "You sort through the bag and find a number of interesting things. Some shiny beads, a rusted dagger, and a bag of stale pastries. Barbarian, roll a perception check {if he rolls an 8+ than he notices Rogue going through his stuff}" Barbarian: "natural one" DM: "You walk face first into a tree trunk." Barbarian: "I smash the tree with my hammer." DM: "Okay, roll for... wait!" {Checks notes} "Role a d100 for me." Barbarian: "98" DM: "A swarm of bees pours forth from the tree and begins stinging you incessently." Barbarian: "Ooh, honey. I grab some of the bees and eat them." DM: "lets take a break." {Maybe they aren't ready for time travel}
Arcordia He *does* spend most of the movie either chasing someone else, falling downhill into conflicts, or getting dragged unconscious to new locations. XD
Luminous Lead you have now opened my eyes to see that he isn't actually some super bad ass and is actually just some guy with a specific set of skills and absolutely nothing else
In contrast, I once built a character who, despite being blind and without turning to look, could address a disguised, shapeshifted, invisible stranger sneaking up on them in magical darkness on the ethereal plane from behind a wall by name, comment on their surface emotions, then ask about the magic item in their pocket which they themselves didn't know was magic. Their minimum perception check was, like, 27 to boot. Of course, it was a level 20 build, most of those features were limited use activated abilities, and I never got to actually play it, but still, would've been amusing, especially with E.B. as their main weapon.
Oh, man. When I first read this, I thought it was somehow an extremely salty comment about how they "never put out any videos" or similar, but then I put on my glasses of +10 Insight.
I have a terrible perception in real life, and I'm glad this video (albeit talking about fictional content) distinguished between intelligence and perception, even though I also have a terrible (and steadily worsening) memory, too. I've always felt dumb because I couldn't find things, especially when they were right in front of me. This happens every day, and I can't seem to force my eyes or my brain to acknowledge various items of interest. I'm surprised I even found the comment section, regardless of the fact that it's been in the same position for over a decade now.
i really love this channel it has both grown and stayed the same in all the right ways. As i look at the old stuff i see how much it has grown, but also how your guys drive and sly humor has remained. All the positives have stayed and with steadily increasing quality. thnx for providing great entertainment
I’ve had a kobold cleric not notice gunshots going off nor the party reacting to such. And was infinitely more focused on cleaning the room they were in
How to recognize a villain? Simple. Dose he talk like a old britt? Then he is a villain. Wait a minute... James Bond talks like a britt! but then he was the the villain all a long. Sneaky bastard, hiding his true side all this time. And we thought all this time he work for the good guys but no he dose not.
*LOL* This is actually what it would look like if we dumped Kyle into a D&D world. .....ok maybe there's less screaming and blood in this, but it's generally accurate.
Man!!!! This channel has grown at a amazing rate since I subscribed at 30,000 subscribers. It keeps on growing at an exponential rate, clearly because of this channel’s quality! 😀
Thank you for your videos they have been a great help for both me and my brother. We both had re-rodding and remodeling surgery on our legs recently, and these videos were the first things that made us laugh.
It was very hard to understand exactly what was the Dell Laptop doing in this fantasy setting, or how it even survived getting shot in Self-Fulfilling Idiocy 3. Then again as evidenced by SFI3 it does have a tendency to pop up out of nowhere.
This happened to me once. The player kept dying so fucking often than I gave him a sword with 3 wishes which he could use after death to rewind time back to the start of the encounter that killed him.
I don't even play D&D but I've invested so much time watching it and listening to it, that stuff like this hits as close to home for me as an actual D&D player.
I remember following a group into a secret meeting. This particular GM allowed Stealth to be maintained (but not initiated) in plain sight, but without mitigating circumstances you'd get a -20 penalty on your check. I didn't even try to hide. I got natural 20s on all my Stealth checks and they got natural 1s on all their Perception checks, which allowed me to stand at the table and watch and listen to their very secret discussion for five minutes before someone came in to deliver a message to one of the group and rolled anything but a 1.
"One Time a guy in our party rolled a nat 20 on a perception check, but there was nothing he didnt already see, so the DM said "You're not quite sure, but for a few seconds it seems like you're standing on a giant's table. surrounded by 5 giants. Your party seems to look stiff and fake, and Large papers and Dice are strewn around you. Then, everything goes back to normal."
And then the Doormat, which was actually a mimic, ate him. Even though the evil necromancer was kind enough to specifically write "Not a doormat" on it.
One time my friend tried to see if there was a second floor on the tavern we were in, rolled a 1 and the dm just said “It’s the most ceilingish ceiling you’ve ever ceilinged. So ceilingish in fact that you fall over in awe”
People are saying that that's why you have party members, but i theorize that he did have party members, but his perception is so bad that he didn't realize he left them behind.
Roll again, they're actually standing right there.
Check again, they already cleared the dungeon while the necromancer was busy yelling.
That's actually pretty smart
PLOT TWIST: his perception is fine and this was all just a ruse to have the RP-focused bard(?) distract the necromancer while the combat portion of the group cleared the dungeon.
That is clearly wrong...Didn't you see them standing behind him? Maybe you should roll a perception check?
I feel I've been cast as the villain, purely based on my nationality.
Squire yes
I think it's the hair
I thought it was because of the dungeon you clearly built
Also your nice nice voice
Gonna have to agree with Reign here. Seems like the most logical explanation
"I think you'll find I have one of the highest intelligence scores in the land."
Well THERE'S your problem. Perception runs off of Wisdom.
Oh, I didn't notice that...
I have made a character with 20 wisdom and still couldn’t see the first trap into the dungeon.
@@samgrad7199 Investigation runs off Intelligence
@@U.Inferno very different ability checks. Traps and secret entrances are supposed to be perception
Meh, just max out your dexterity, then you can have spider sense. Instead of finding the trap, you just walk through, trigger the dang thing. then use your lightning fast reflexs to get out of the way :) still wont find the door though..................................
"I've defeated entire dungeons with my eyes closed."
Is that why your Perception is rubbish?
i think he has so low perception that he did not notice that his eyes were open.
I doubt having his eyes open would improve his performance
A running joke in my dnd campaign is that when we role low perception we tend to say something along the lines of, These snozberries taste like snozberries
Dicocraft Games I have a party of three what is a cleric with high perception another is a druid with high perception the last one is me a dwarf Barbarian with 8 wisdom so whenever I roll to "check things out" and fail miserably the DM or I alwats say "you/I see a wall" hell the first role of our game was a natural one of perception check from my dwarf
Normally when my players fail in their perception rolls I just say "You suddenly notice that you have feet!"
"Why did you bring me back to life?"
"Because I stayed up 'till half four in the morning, laying out this intricate necromancer dungeon, and it's no fun for me if some idiot comes along, and dies slipping on the bloody doormat."
As funny as this may be to anyone else, as a DM myself, this is too real.
As a side note, I once had a character with absolute crap charisma, but rolled a natural 20 and avoided a fight altogether which the DM had spent hours setting up.
Again, too real.
I feel like it's an innate trait for every player to have, at least once, the mindset of: "Fuck your plot! Derailing for life!"
Jocose Sonata - There was a party in my college RP club, playing 7th Sea. One of the characters had been a victim of the inquisition and REFUSED to go back to not-Spain. They spent the next 3 IRL months shopping while the villain carried out their evil plan.
Still won, though, because one of the PC’s stole the villain’s shoe earlier in the game... it’s complicated.
"Still won, though, because one of the PC’s stole the villain’s shoe earlier in the game... it’s complicated."
So... even though the 'heroes' did not at all deal with the villain, they still won, all because one of them stole the villain's shoe.
Complicated does not even _begin_ to encapsulate a shred of that statement. Defeating a villain, that was left to do their bidding unhindered for 3 real months, all because someone stole their shoe some time in the game. How in the fuck!?
D&D is goddamned magnificent!
Jocose Sonata - The shoe was part of a magical outfit that would allow the wearer to ascend to godhood. The villain went around gathering the other pieces, but without the one shoe, her power was incomplete.
With all but one piece, she was super-end-boss powerful, but not unbeatable. They won, never realizing until later that the shoe was actually even important... one of the PC’s just stole it because she was annoyed at the owner (who wasn’t even the villain).
Ajehy That sounds like it would incredibly hilarious to watch.
A blind dark elf in sunlight after being hit with a point blank pyrotechnics explosion while it's foggy and under the effects of a bane spell still has more perception than that player.
i feel like this is an incredible roast but i don't play d&d so idk if it is or just a little laugh.
thomas smith that’s pretty much the most blind you can be
But if you're blind you automatically fail
Damn savage🤣
Would not the drow still have proficiency in perception. Sure, they can only hear, but the still would be able to do something.
As a DM, I confirm this is exactly how players behave.
The thing is even if they do find the door they're not going to trust the thing anyway. No, there must be some kind of secret trapdoor ingenously hidden somewhere around here.
"why don't we go look for a tribe of cute scaly bundles of joy.... I mean why don't we convince a tribe of kobolds to attack the evil lair with us?"
ChibiNyan iii
ChibiNyan I
(I definitely don't have a fetish for kobolds... Not at all... Nope...)
**sweating and looking around the room**
“You walk into a castle hallway”
“I roll perception to look for traps”
*natural20*
“The main villain is standing behind you invisible”
Does that mean the main villain is a trap then?
maybe..................
My character is a trap... and a warlock... and its name is Fluffy...
"And they look like a girl, would you like to make another roll?" - With_A_Smile_And_A_Wink ;)
P.S. We call him Smiles.
"I don't need to notice things to defeat them!" Me in every D&D game.
Just learn fireball. You're bound to hit something.
Krazy Kat me no need know me just need smash until dead (half my characters)
In this party, we disarm traps with our hit points!
Mason K quite a bad idea to disarm the trap wit your hp, status effect are double the annoyance of the trap
Omega Bondnok chill it was a joke
Alternatively, if you have a high Perception and roll a 20, you can see everything including the universe and occasionally break the fourth wall
Oh my God, imagine if the character realizes that he and his world are just figments of people's imagination and some words and numbers on a piece of paper. That would be amazing.
Finn ·-·
Someone did do that in their game. Since they ran out of things to see and the player rolled Nat20, the illusion broke for a moment.
Finn ·-· actually this has happened a couple of times in my clubs campaigns.. it is scary
It also happens sometimes when you roll a 1, but the tone is of course different. The character looses all will to live and goes into an existencial crisis.
you're telling me Deadpool is the result of HIGH wisdom rolls!? 0.o
You should do a sketch about "The unlucky one" for D&D. That character who is so great, so powerful... But always seems to roll 1's at the worst possible moments.
Ah! The Will Wheaton syndrome!
I've had one of those. I was very effective, manipulative, and charistmatic outside of combat but the first to go down every encounter.
Louis Sutton That's literally my friend's warlock. He's nails every single social encounter and is a literall devil when it comes to bargaining but he went unconciouss literally every fight.
i had a warrior that looked old, and was the last to enter the party, so they didnt trust him that much, his first fight was a duel to the death,it started with losing 80% of his hit points in the first hit, while he missed the 3 first hits, and as everybody tought "he is dead", and them the oponent started to miss too, suddenly he hits a critical leaving the oponent with one hit point, that was based on luck but was so into character that could as well be made on purpose, he is not a skilled fighter, he is just a hero for less than a year but is 70 years old, with the health of a 20 years old, i am a different kind of the unluck one, i miss every roll except the most decisive, during 3 seasons straight i did nothing outside of roleplay the entire season while missing every test, wasting heals of my allies, to at the most decisive moment hit 3 sixes in five rolls incinarating the strongest foe that was about to kill the tank
2 of the players in my games are just exact opposites. The Rogue constantly rolls shit all the time, thankfully he got that Rogue luck thing so he never gets below a 10 now so he can actually do stuff out of combat now. The Paladin doesn't roll particularly well, but enemies just roll absolute shit to hit him. Last fight he solo'd a boss for about 6 turns while the others killed the mobs. The boss just couldn't roll above a 10 and whiffed for ages. Then the other PC's get involved and he just smashes the Rogue down to half health in 1 turn
I love this, because it’s half Squire being amazing, and half Kyle running through a field.
You have some strange interests there pal.
Ah yes, "kyle running through a field," my third favorite genre.
Oh i never thought this would come out :D It was fun helping to film
Thanks so much for the help! :D We have the behind the scenes video with you coming out next week!
When unrelated channels your subbed too come together it gives an unsettling feeling.
The Iron Armenian aka G.I. Haigs
YOU LIER
HE IS ENGLISHMAN!
"With a perception this low, you wouldn´t even be able to see a bloody aircraftcarrier, not that I know what that is or what it would be useful for"
By interest, what did The Iron Armenian do in the skit?
I guess everyone going to ignore the
"I am not a doormat" doormat in front of the dungeon...
I hate to be the one to tell you, but that is clearly not a doormat.
@@belzedk and it's probably a mimic
*rolls -20 on perseption:
That is a rectangle made of fabric which is used to wipe ones feet, and to greet people, and I believe it is called a door.
we already established the deadly spheres of shiny are the doormat, so that rectangular rug can't possibly be the doormat.
it's obviously not a doormat can you read?
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"Yup, looks like a pretty standard magical portal to me."
XD
Standard, run of the mill regulation portal.
Dominus Empyreus cave Johnson approved and everything!
The best part is that if he does have a high intelligence then he should be able to get a decent score on an investigation check but the lack of dice rolling sounds makes me think he didn't even bother making one
Why make an investigation check? He can tell it's a portal just by looking at it.
StAnDaRd
That's why you have a party instead of adventuring solo; one sees things, one figures things out, one fights things, one talks to people, and one heals them all back up after they encounter things. ;-)
Yep, recently played a game, where I was the only one in the party that can read... :D So I had to read everything my illiterate buddies would find.
Yep. Ranger, wizard, fighter, rogue, and cleric. 2 casters, 2 non-casters, 1 half caster, all 3 main types of magic. Always a nicely balanced party.
Together we combine into one reasonably functioning person.
It sucks if your entire party is like "I forgot how strong our enemy is so let's just get in and punch it and decide if we need to run afterwards"
My current one burns things. It's not as useful as I thought at first
DM: How do you have a negative perception modifier.
Me: Because wisdom is for losers
DM: Is that why your character has the impulse control of a small child?
Me: I have a big sword, thinking is what the rest of the parties for.
DM: You see that forehead shaped indent in the table?
Me: Yeah. Is that from you?
DM: No it's from you, your decisions caused this.
(This is what happens when you role a 7 on wisdom)
ERROR 0_0 So much for intelligence.
Rolling for stats is stupid, point buy for life.
“I have an intelligence of 6 I know what I’m doing!”
There was one character that rolled a Natural 1 during character creation. He put that 1 into wisdom, needless to say I spent way to many revives on him.
@@Significantpower Because unless you are randomly determining your race, rolling for stats does not make sense.
Man..............
That dungeon was really well hidden.
Even I didn't see it until the end!
There was a dungeon?
DarthR0xas . . . What's a dungeon?
Reinboa I, I don't know.
Holly Heavens, there was more to your comment? I barely noticed!
That's what he gets for min/maxing
No real min-maxer wouldn’t take perception. It’s tantamount to suicide.
If you play in a group you don't need it, if someone else sees it, you see it too.
Cyryl Chołodowski if you're alone, you're 100% not dumping wis. You'd be dead before you enter the dungeon. ;)
If you don't have Perception, you'll literally always be surprised when enemies ambush you.
Well high int characters are likely to remain in the back of the party, or be surrounded by allies during battle so it doesn't hurt too much.
For solo play of course you would need perception and stat distribution that maxes out chances of survival, but in parties? Why not min max something silly?
"Because i stayed until half four in the morning laying out this intricate necromancer dungeon"
I actually watched this at 3 in the morning, while creating the next advanture for my party. This video probably saved my sanity.
Necromancer: "Are you incredibly stupid?"
Dashing Rogue: "Seems unlikely."
"I don't need to notice things to defeat them" "Yes! You DO!" was my favourite part until that last line xD
First time i see Squire in body. Also such a fun video
Also perception score=1
Still not as bad as Many a True Nerd.
Jon has -10 Perception. We all know this.
Night Raven you can see him in the top 5 tanks in the bovington tank museum he is featured there
He had a cringey top 5 tanks thing
This must be how Will Wheatons characters live...
YES!
I named a Fallout 4 character after Thorbir. Despite having to live through a survival mode run he was still more lucky than his inspiration.
Sarah Andrea Royce i just got past thar episode and could I ask you something? Do any of the guest charachters come back someday?
Yes. Not all of them, though. When they do, it is usually epic.
Sarah Andrea Royce awesome! Ty, i'll be waiting...
This, children, is the downside to min maxing.
Keldor314 what downside? This is pure role playing gold!
I’m sorry but what class would have Wisdom as a dump stat?
Barbarian typically, but this guy looks like a thief. Still could work if you choose a bad wisdom race.
Jaedon McDonald
Sorry if I’m being confusing, only know 5e stuff, but I thought Intelligence would be more dump than Wisdom, considering Int is only good on Wizards or smart characters (for RP) while Wisdom has important skills and requires many more saves. And I don’t think there are any "bad wisdom" races...
Ah I see. I’m more used to 3.5 and pathfinder systems. In character creation, you can REALLY min-max. If you choose a race like an orc, and subtract points from wisdom, you can effectively be blind. It is truly an amazing experience XD
I'm running Tomb of Annihilation right now. This is pretty much how my players have been acting.
Example (Maybe spoilers?):
Me: "Alright, after going through the underground river, you come to a chunk of land that has a staircase leading to a door. The air smells of rotten eggs. Judging from the fact that the door is made of stone, with the hinges on your side, you can guess this is the back side of a hidden passage."
Player: "I examine the door for traps. Got a 12 on investigation."
Me: "The rotten-egg smell is distracting, but you take a look anyway. The door is solid flint, set in a steel frame. That's all you notice."
Player: "I open the door!"
Ever other player: *Heavy sigh of exasperation at the obvious trap being triggered*
Me: "As you open the door, the steel and flint rubbing together produces sparks, igniting the foul-smelling gas. Take 30 fire damage as the stairs and island are engulfed in flames and a 15 foot long blast of flame shoots out the opened door."
Player: "Oh, that's what that was? Anyway, I'm down, so if someone could feed me a goodberry or something?"
Omg it was so obvious. Whenever I see the words “steel” and “flint” in the same sentence, I think, “fire”.
@@crazy4bricksthebrickbrothe722 I had to LITERALLY spell out to my players at one point that there was a VERY likely case of...natural gas in a cave system they were entering..with torches..
It was kind of hillarious.
They were staring down the rather badly lit old mine. The lighting coming from some mossy stones that had been clearly added to the walls. A few metal rods sticking out of the side of the wall that seemed to have been a holding spot for a torch. The walls slightly burned for some reason and a smell of rotting eggs and sulfer in the air.
One of the players then had the amazing idea of taking out a torch...I just stared at him for a moment as he asked if he could light it and I told him to roll a wisdow check. He rolled pretty high so I just went "You have this..weird feeling..lighting this at this moment might not be the most optimal thing right now..especially since you have the light cantrip!"
He stared at me for a moment before it seems like he finally put two and two together and just went "oh..ohhh! There is gas in this mine, aint there...right...duhh" It was honestly hillarious.
Normally I wouldn't be that nice but they were both new players and level 1 without a healer..it would have been baaaad
I thought natural gas didn't actually have a smell, and that the egg smell was manually added in order to make it more obvious.
Pretty sure that's why miners kept canaries, so they would pass out, alerting the miners to the gas they couldn't smell.
Do INSIGHT next!
That would either end up as mindreading or beeing completely socially incompetent.
Ben Rosman they did a bluffing one it’s called “ D&D diplomacy
Diplomancy*
Lukas Dapkus I’m shit at spelling ok!
You spelled _a_ word right, but the "n" _is_ hard to notice
Player: Is there a door in the room?
Dm: Roll perception.
P: *rolls 10* I DON'T SEE ANYTHING!
Dm: Were your eyes open?
P: Oh...
Good God, you think the bit would get old after the first few gags but that was amazing start-to-finish. Good work!
Video Graham
I wondet how did they do that.
Good writing
Don’t think for a second we don’t recognize where that mask comes from. I see through your prop reuse Kyle
Tyler Smith I didn't roll well on my history check can you remind me
Cult of GaLm Do not disrespect the bandana mask! Clearly it could only be the one and only iconic mask of the legendary Rodriguez El Cazoro!
It reminded me very much of The Princess Bride.
I don't see any mask.
To be fair, thats how I distribute my points in RPG's and I end up fine! As a side note, it's nice to see the mighty Rodriguez ElCazorro again in some form. *insert obligatory "A Fable III Experience" release date question*
I feel like I've watched this video already... ON THE DOOR MONSTER WEBSITE! Several hours before it was released on RUclips!
LforLight ohhhhhhg!
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haha
Nice video! I dont even play D&D but you make these in a way that is understandable and funny.
I was expecting him to roll a nat 20 perception roll for an invisable ghost... and his attack roll on said ghost. Then just walk off a cliff to his death. Not that im speaking from experience or anything.
Allison Edge Meter: 6
We're back with the whole undermining thing. But this time she tried to subtly do it off camera.
I would give it a +2 for conspiring fit in some edge from the endslate, because she wasn't in the actual video.
Normally the low-key undermining gets a 5. Because of how it was done in such an insidious way prompted the additional point.
What about her outright dismissal of the current regime in the Patreon bit? I'd say that's at least another +3.
Let's be honest. With how often she's done the undermining, I should downgrade it in score. I think we're fine where we are on this one. She's been much more edgy.
YunsAvatar what do you mean? Of course she was in the video
She was dressed up as the doormat labeled
"I am not a doormat"
This is what happens when you let a malicious AI laptop DM.
I wonder how many viewers are around since that time.
Klobi for President anytime is that time with the power of the internet.
So you’re saying Kyle is in the Matrix?
Klobi for President I wasn’t around for it, but I get what he means
i rolled a 1 on my perception cheek so im almost 100% convinced this video is a cat
make 110% percent out of that!
I rolled a 7 which means that the video is between 3 and 10 minutes long.
Christian Smith I rolled a 13, so I can vaugely tell the outline of a video, but I can't see much beyond that. JP's Living Forever is just a little to distractingly catchy for me to properly focus.
i question how a cat can be 3 to 10 minutes long?
There is a cat in the video though.
Again Ethan's outros make an already 10/10 video into a 12
I don't even play D&D and I still find this top quality humour.
Edit: can't believe I didn't notice, but that's the Dell laptop isn't it.
Edit 2: by which I mean, that's the guy who voices the Dell laptop.
Squire looks amazing with that getup. He actually looks like a d&d villan. Probably the best person to cast in that role.
That time when the Glasses of Perception give you enough passive check to pass a DC of 10
"I look around the room"
"Alright, roll perception"
*Natural 1*
"You notice that you, in fact, have hands"
Imaginary roleplay scenario:
Cleric: "I go to retrieve the body."
DM: {How do I get them to notice that the NPC they're digging a grave for isn't actually dead?}
DM: "Cleric, I need you to roll a perception check."
Cleric: "natural one"
DM: "You don't notice the rock at your feet and trip. Role a dexterity saving throw."
Cleric: "natural one, for a total of negative one."
DM: "You fall, headfirst, into the open grave and take {roles} 3 points of bludgeoning damage."
Rogue: "I start going through the NPC's stuff."
DM: {okay, at the very least, if they find the secret pouch, they can uncover the story hook without talking to my NPC}
DM: "Role and investigation check."
Rogue: "zero"
DM: ...
Rogue: "No! Wait! Negative one.
DM: {sighs and puts away carefully prepared bag of props}
"You sort through the bag and find a number of interesting things. Some shiny beads, a rusted dagger, and a bag of stale pastries. Barbarian, roll a perception check {if he rolls an 8+ than he notices Rogue going through his stuff}"
Barbarian: "natural one"
DM: "You walk face first into a tree trunk."
Barbarian: "I smash the tree with my hammer."
DM: "Okay, roll for... wait!" {Checks notes} "Role a d100 for me."
Barbarian: "98"
DM: "A swarm of bees pours forth from the tree and begins stinging you incessently."
Barbarian: "Ooh, honey. I grab some of the bees and eat them."
DM: "lets take a break." {Maybe they aren't ready for time travel}
"I knew I shouldn't have accepted that brownie from the Warlock's patron..."
Perfect reenactment of Jon from Many A True Nerd!
Hey now! Kyle's character isn't that blind.
Jon only has -1 Perception, this guy has totally dump-statted it
Who knew Dread Pirate Roberts only got through the entire princess bride without even knowing where he was going
Arcordia He *does* spend most of the movie either chasing someone else, falling downhill into conflicts, or getting dragged unconscious to new locations. XD
Luminous Lead you have now opened my eyes to see that he isn't actually some super bad ass and is actually just some guy with a specific set of skills and absolutely nothing else
In contrast, I once built a character who, despite being blind and without turning to look, could address a disguised, shapeshifted, invisible stranger sneaking up on them in magical darkness on the ethereal plane from behind a wall by name, comment on their surface emotions, then ask about the magic item in their pocket which they themselves didn't know was magic. Their minimum perception check was, like, 27 to boot.
Of course, it was a level 20 build, most of those features were limited use activated abilities, and I never got to actually play it, but still, would've been amusing, especially with E.B. as their main weapon.
I thought his perception was so high, he only noticed the details.
He didn't see the forest because of all the trees standing around
Stranger Nah, he just got a series of really bad rolls. Though in fairness something as huge as a door shouldn't need a perception check to see.
I like how there's actually a doormat with the text “I am not a doormat” just to make good on the earlier joke.
If people donate to Patreon, you'll have enough money to not make any more content! That's why people who dislike you should donate!
Oh, man. When I first read this, I thought it was somehow an extremely salty comment about how they "never put out any videos" or similar, but then I put on my glasses of +10 Insight.
. . . What if I like them and I want to donate? Do I have to throw money in the trash?
weird deja vu im getting from this comment
I have a terrible perception in real life, and I'm glad this video (albeit talking about fictional content) distinguished between intelligence and perception, even though I also have a terrible (and steadily worsening) memory, too. I've always felt dumb because I couldn't find things, especially when they were right in front of me. This happens every day, and I can't seem to force my eyes or my brain to acknowledge various items of interest. I'm surprised I even found the comment section, regardless of the fact that it's been in the same position for over a decade now.
the dice rolls were a nice touch. nat20 on the humor!
“In my defence, closed doors look a lot like walls” nice top down map refrence.
From Australia was about to go to bed but then saw this
Liam Fosdike heh me too worth it!
same
It is near 9:40 here in the Philippines when I got a notification of this with the legendary squire
You must have pretty good perception if you saw this all the way from Australia.
i really love this channel it has both grown and stayed the same in all the right ways. As i look at the old stuff i see how much it has grown, but also how your guys drive and sly humor has remained. All the positives have stayed and with steadily increasing quality. thnx for providing great entertainment
“Oh look my glasses of +10 perception right in arm’s reach!”
“Where?”
I’ve had a kobold cleric not notice gunshots going off nor the party reacting to such. And was infinitely more focused on cleaning the room they were in
Hey look, it's *RODRIGUEZ ELCAZORRO's* bandana-mask
"I don't need to NOTICE things to defeat them."
THIS line, is one of my all time favorite Door Monster one-liners.
How to recognize
a villain?
Simple. Dose he talk like a old britt? Then he is a villain.
Wait a minute... James Bond talks like a britt! but then he was the the villain all a long.
Sneaky bastard, hiding his true side all this time.
And we thought all this time he work for the good guys but no he dose not.
Webknut GET THE SERVICE REVOLVER
The Dose makes the Villain.
Of course he’s the villain. Would a good guy crack so many jokes immediately after killing people?
It's always the one's with the heavy accent...
If they’re a guest star on a Door Monster Video, they’re the villain. Simple as that
This is just your best one, i've come back to it 6 times.
I feel like this is a conversation between the DM and a player.
Lucky that he managed to find those glasses!
After over a year, I finally found out what the intro music is! It's Knights Templar 2 - Johannes Bornlöf
Omg, thank you :D I was just searching for a comment like this
I love you guys as always, serious, every video including the comments and behind the scenes crack me up. Enjoy your summer fun and project work!
*LOL*
This is actually what it would look like if we dumped Kyle into a D&D world.
.....ok maybe there's less screaming and blood in this, but it's generally accurate.
I love perception checks and getting a one like investing the floor and the dm says “ah yes the floor here is made out of floor”
Hurrah! He's found the entrance! Now he will die to the very first monster he encounters due to not knowing where the pain is coming from.
John Meyer No no no, if he doesn't notice the pain in the first place, he can never get hurt!
Man!!!! This channel has grown at a amazing rate since I subscribed at 30,000 subscribers. It keeps on growing at an exponential rate, clearly because of this channel’s quality! 😀
Nice video!
Thank you for your videos they have been a great help for both me and my brother. We both had re-rodding and remodeling surgery on our legs recently, and these videos were the first things that made us laugh.
It was very hard to understand exactly what was the Dell Laptop doing in this fantasy setting, or how it even survived getting shot in Self-Fulfilling Idiocy 3.
Then again as evidenced by SFI3 it does have a tendency to pop up out of nowhere.
I dunno if it's on purpose, but I love how zoomed-in the whole video is. Really hammers in the point of view of the Rogue.
At the beginning of the skit Kyle looked like a mix between Wesley from the Princess Bride, and Captain Jack Sparrow
Lovely sketch here! maybe my favorite of the D&D series. Good work!
The guy playing the evil necromancer was great. You should use him again in your vids.
He is (theoretically, at least) a War Thunder RUclipsr. Look him up
He's also a recurring character who's name starts with D and ends with ell Laptop ;)
That's some nice camera work, effects and acting you got there. I rly like it
Haha!!! Another victory for Rodriguez el Casorro!!!
Wow, it's been a while.
I came looking for this comment.
**shovel**
*Glasses of +10 perception*
"That I just happened to accidentally drop next to you"
My take away from this video is make your character infuriatingly bad at something, and your DM will get you free boosts.
@@1TW1-m5i out of exasperation with your ability to do ANYTHING
This happened to me once. The player kept dying so fucking often than I gave him a sword with 3 wishes which he could use after death to rewind time back to the start of the encounter that killed him.
those are just normal glasses
I don't even play D&D but I've invested so much time watching it and listening to it, that stuff like this hits as close to home for me as an actual D&D player.
I'm surprised didn't try to convince the DM to let him use investigation
I remember following a group into a secret meeting. This particular GM allowed Stealth to be maintained (but not initiated) in plain sight, but without mitigating circumstances you'd get a -20 penalty on your check. I didn't even try to hide. I got natural 20s on all my Stealth checks and they got natural 1s on all their Perception checks, which allowed me to stand at the table and watch and listen to their very secret discussion for five minutes before someone came in to deliver a message to one of the group and rolled anything but a 1.
When you're a DM and your players keep rolling perception when you just put a bloody map in front of them.
That was great, and to see Squire on this channel is an additional treat
Aha! Another victory for RODRIQUEZ ELCAZORRO!
That conversation would've never happened with a Charisma of 1.
But he is RODRIGUEZ EL CAZORRO and is the most charismatic man ever
This was great! Was half expecting the "portal" to be a sphere of annihilation but this was more fun, great work you guys!!!
Did he get NO bonus for his bandana mask. THIS is an outrage!!
Probably a -1 for his perception for the fact that it blocks his eyes on occasion
+ 5 diplomancy
-99 suspicion
"One Time a guy in our party rolled a nat 20 on a perception check, but there was nothing he didnt already see, so the DM said
"You're not quite sure, but for a few seconds it seems like you're standing on a giant's table. surrounded by 5 giants. Your party seems to look stiff and fake, and Large papers and Dice are strewn around you. Then, everything goes back to normal."
Can he see green?
You...
...I like you.
I love the dice roll sound between looking around.
This reminds me so much of The Princess Bride 😂
Adam Gonzalez Me too! Except that Westley and Vizzini switched intelligence levels.
This is just perfect, well worth the wait. Thank you Door.
plot twitst: the door of the dungeon is a "door monster"
hehehe
And then the Doormat, which was actually a mimic, ate him.
Even though the evil necromancer was kind enough to specifically write "Not a doormat" on it.
This game must have had a _very_ nice DM.
No, just one who wanted to show off the awesome dungeon he designed.
This is a surprise! When two unrelated channels I like come together. I love it.
Hi keep up the good work 😊😊😊
One time my friend tried to see if there was a second floor on the tavern we were in, rolled a 1 and the dm just said “It’s the most ceilingish ceiling you’ve ever ceilinged. So ceilingish in fact that you fall over in awe”
Who´s the new guy? Love his accent
And where can I get this "I´m not a doormat" doormat?
I absolutely want that :D
(even though no one else who ever saw it would understand lol)
MajorMoron He's Squire, he has a vidya game channel.
i'm happy finding this channel after what 4 years?
Better late than never! Happy to have you here :)
So close to Rodriguez ElCazorro xD