Narrated D&D Story: How A DnD Noob Pulled Off The Craziest Plan Ever
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Hey I have a crazy story i want to be in a Video but its kind of long with a lot of backstory, is there some where else i can send it to you?
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Sassy.
Nice story.
Sounds like the Story Owner has a budding Laura Bailey on their hands. Still, nothing will beat the Laura Bailey Gambit! Outsmarting a Hag with a Cupcake! A HAG! WTF?!
Remember: It's only a STUPID plan if it fails. If it succeeds, then it's just a CRAZY plan.
Once in a Star Wars game, my first RPG ever, we were on a cruise ship captured by pirates. We couldn't find any way to get inside the bridge, the pirates had locked the reenforced door. There goes the noob on his second session and knocks on the door. I almost died, we were all captured, but a Jedi friend did a mind trick, and he made the pirates fight themselves.
After all, we did enter the bridge. I said "you may question my methods, but never my results".
That's the story of Sharr Brantov, The Door Buster.
And it's amazing how thin the line between those two is.
As the old Saying Goes, "If It's Stupid and it Works, Then it's Not Stupid"
I had a Chaotic Good Professor Bard Gnome that said something like that all the time.
Maxim 43. "If it's stupid and it works, it's still stupid and you're lucky. "
She also unintentionally linked the entire hive mind to her patron. The mind flayers were lucky that they didn't all go mad. I can just imagine the Patron going "Oh, they're so cute, they think that they know madness."
HAH! YEP!
That was the first thing I thought too. Imagine if she was of a high enough level to reflect the psychic damage back. She could've wiped out quite a bit of them.
I has imagineering the patron turning everyone insane
I was going down that road as well. I was ready to see dozens of people throughout the town dropping to the ground in madness.
I was expecting the line, "Let me introduce you to my patron..." as soon as she said she was going to mentally connect to the mind flayer. (Idea now stolen, yoink)
Mindflayer: "Imma eat your mind"
Theresa: "Hang on a sec."
*calls her manager*
Great old one: "The customer is always right!"
Lmaoooo
theresa manager to call
Chances are her middle name is KAREN...
Theresa said no u
In DND, all you need for crazy shenanigans is a good player, and someone willing to help.
And a lucky flick of the wrist.
Good information to save for the first time I'll play DnD.
Probably also a good investment into recovery schemes.
And the dice God's favour.
As well as a quick wit.
The intro may change, but a certain grey necromancer must always stay in it
Ooghie's in it 😄
When Oogie is here but not Grey Boi...
@@lordscrubugus9897 Astoshan is there, look closer
Ashtoshan appears like, 3 times in the intro.
“I want to enter its mind!”
Great Old One patron: Oh this I GOTTA see.
*Interesting*
When you unintentionally use a God call and the Deity's like I'm there, you definitely got my attention!!!
"That could've ended really badly."
"But it didn't!"
I feel like that is basically d&d in a nutshell
Or "WHAT'S GOING ON"
*"IDK SOME BS"*
-dingo doodles 2019
That is the fun of dnd when dumb shit works and smart shit fails
@@davidsequeira92
Only D20 roll difference.
Given that her Patron was one of the Great Old Ones, Eldritch Gods of Lovecraftian Horror, the mindflayers are lucky that they didn't find something worse in her mind.
And now I want to make Wizard who multiclasses into pact of the Tome/Great Old Ones Warlock and makes a pact with Yog-Sothoth. For those who don't know, Yog-Sothoth (quite apart from being Cthulu's Grandfather) is the Eldritch God of Knowledge. He's a generous and kind being as Eldritch Beings go, less inclined to flat out rend your mind and soul apart the first time you meet. His issue is that as the God of Knowledge most seek him out for that knowledge, and he shares it freely, WITHOUT RESTRAINT. He will pour the entirety of the knowledge of the universe into your mind, unable to comprehend that your mind is too small to contain all that knowledge.
@@PhoenixNorthstar Ah yes the difference between knowledge and wisdom
@@mcstrategist indeed. I see the character as a mad wizard switching back and forth between the smartest person in the room (or at least the most knowledgeable) one moment and then cowering in a corner gibbering the next as the totality of knowledge washes over him.
@@PhoenixNorthstar A bit like King Taravangian from The Stormlight Archive?
@blamatron I see you are man of culture as well
As a DM... I see my job as looking for a way to say "Yes" to the crazy ideas the players come up with.
It makes the players feel good when their nutty plans work. The game is about having a good time.
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The warlock SHOULD know who their patron is and what the terms of the pact are from day 1.
F Huber
Exactly, when you’ve got a source of weird magic power you’ve either bought or leased? You probably know the details...
Rj Ciralli
Some warlocks become warlocks unwillingly, it wouldn’t be impossible for something to grant you powers, but you are unsure of their origins. Terms are important, but not strictly needed as a warlock.
@@logankrohn1472 This.
My very first warlock became one after mishandling an unidentified mechanical device while he was assisting an archeological expedition in some old quarry.
His whole plot line was about understandig: what his new, sudden powers meant and where did they come from; once he understood his condition he went about identifying his patron; then he had to figure a way to safely enter and walk the Far Realm...
It was a blast to play.
@@lucapiemonti9767 of course your archeologist would go about understandig 😉 his new powers. How else would an archaeologist react.
@@logankrohn1472 I have a Tome Pact Warlock whose life changed after stealing a 'talking book.'
Hive mind: TIme to die!
Noob: *pulls out uno reverse card*
NANII!?!? (⊙⊙)(☉_☉)(⊙⊙)
@@stevendeppe4778 you are not the only one
She literally went into it’s mind just to flex that she could lmaoo
If she went with the Great Old One (or friendly called, Old God) patron, I can imagine her patron being slightly proud and impressed by what she has done xDDD
I just have the mental image of cthulu emerging from her shadow and towering over the enclave as it connects to the elder brain and unleashes its madness. That would have been epic.
Wow, I gotta be real and say I never would think my story would turn into a video! Hi, I am the DM of the session, and this is really was such a proud moment I had. I decided to share this story as a way to celebrate new players and show a bit of love to them. We were all 'the newbie' at one time, but each newbie has that one moment. Each one has that one-story that takes players to the next level of their DnD journey. For that reason, I wanted to share this story.
I'll be here to answer questions and talk about what I can. (She watches this channel as well ;) ) If there is one thing I actually adore as a DM, it is for my players to do something that I had never thought of! I live for crazy plans! Also really fun fact: All things DnD literally got Theresa's look spot on. Like how she looks and that is the craziest thing I have ever seen! Because I didn't mention once what she looked like to them! Really cool!!
to be honest, given the patron being a great old one i almost expected her to try to connect to her patron inside the hivemind of the flayers and offer them as an sacrifice
SassyCassie heya! I’m a new D&D player and I have a question. Why is it a bad idea to talk inside the head of a Mind Flayer? I tried to look it up but I couldn’t find anything :c is it just because of the text that says that they’re connected to a hive mind, or are there actual gameplay rules that discourage it?
@@aleisshiki3649 It's mostly because of the fact they are a hive mind. They are interconnected with each other. There are no actual gameplay rules that discourage it, in reality! It is just something to keep in mind when dealing with them and each DM is different! No DM is going to run the same way or interpret the monsters in the same way. And, to be honest, I think that's an amazing thing! One DM may make the mind flayers you are dealing with a one-off encounter. Another may have an entire group of mind flayers on your tail for the rest of the game wanting revenge! Hell in one game I played, my DM had a friendly mind flayer NPC name N'thix( He was a tavern owner in the Underdark). There is a saying from Volo's Guide to Monsters that states " One mind flayer sees ye, and they all see.
One mind. One nasty, suspicious mind." I would say players don't usually mess with the mind of a mind flayer because you are inviting its entire colony to know about you. Maybe because you prove you do have some psychic abilities, they may think you are a great candidate to BECOME a mind flayer! It all depends on your DM! If you want to know more about them and their society I would highly recommend Volo's Guide to Monsters! There is an entire chapter on these amazing creatures along with plenty of other monsters! Also, WELCOME TO D&D!! I hope you are having an awesome time in your games! :D
What discord do you play on
So, she went into its mind and distracted it long enough for the rest of her party to show up, including the vampire. That's not crazy, that's brilliant.
Going to be real, I half expected her, with her eldrich god patron, to attempt to bring her Patreon into the mindscape.
Literally putting their punny hivemind up against a psionic god.
Do I think this is possible? Not entirely.
Would I as DM make you roll for it out of sheer insane planning? hell yes
*Who could win?*
A hivemind of eldritch beings
Or
A noob D&D player.
Now all those eldritch beings are going to dislike the video
@@allthingsdnd I already see one dislike. Omg.
5 eldritch’s disliked the video!
Even elder gods tremble before the dice gods
@@allthingsdnd That's just beauty in motion when the dice gods take a shine to a player with a plan or idea that's just crazy enough to work, and as far as the haters you know F****** **** them eldrich b******* I'm going to pretend I said 'beings' just then.
You're forgetting something... if her patron is "The Old Ones"... as in Cthulhu, Nyarlathotep, Azathoth, Yog-Sothoth... exposure to the Old Ones could have driven the illithids insane
The 'Great Old One' Warlock patron is _based off of_ the Old Ones. It's not actually meant to represent them... I think.
Can she contact her patron while she was in the mindflayer's minds? It may not go well for her but I would like to see what would happen. Old one barges into mindflayer discord.
You'd probably become the middle man of a telepathic war, which would be both terrifying and amazing.
@@palladin1337 what war, it would be a complete onslaught, that or the mindflayers end up serving her patron
*Obi wan intro* Hello there!
Knocked out a high-ranking guard while he was visiting some "tavern" (a brothel, to no ones surprise,) to take his keys, but discover that we can't actually make a move that night like we planned (we were on a strict time limit, but the guy mentioned to one of the girls that someone we knew was *crazy* strong happened to be there, but was leaving in the morning.) We do some math, and discover we can wait one night if we if we do some work to make the escape faster. We bind his hands, leave some "lash" marks, a bit of makeup, LOTS of booze, strip him, and move him outside near the guardhouse with nothing but a sheet on him. A party member (disguised as one of the girls,) drops his clothes off there shortly before daybreak.
Come morning, he wakes up, runs to the guard house to raise an alarm..and everyone just laughs at him, with a PISSED boss yelling at him to find the damn keys even if he has to break the brothel apart to do it. Same party member returned the keys later (we made duplicates that only worked once,) spikes the day's alcohol on the way out, and everything goes on as normal. That night, we basically just walked in, grabbed some documents we needed, and walked out.
To get the docs to the local lord in time, we had to tie a party member to a ballista bolt with a ghetto rocket attached and launch it across a river (yay gnomes!) but we got it there.
I had a druid in our campaign who always did the craziest things
0) His backstory involved him getting a pet wolf until his wolf ate his parents so he boiled his wolf alive
1) He broke his own finger as "evidence" in a trial to claim he was injured
2) He enacted martial law on Chief Yorb and fed him to a T-rex
3) He was the worst puzzle solver in the group but the only one brave enough to try
4) There was a puzzle requiring a player to make a shadowy projection to drink the soup in the mirror but the druid snapped the neck of the shadow. The shadow respawned 3 times and got its neck snapped 3 more times until the Druid gave up.
5) The Druid ripped the Eldritch Knight's ears and hair after the IRL player taunted the Druid cause he failed a DC 10 athletics check (he had a +6) with advantage (he rolled a 1 and a 2).
6) The Druid finds a clone of himself and snaps the neck of his clone
I think he just likes breaking things
That druid did so much snapping, I would've thought it was in a jazz band
His finger? Why not take a page out of Trixie Starbright's book and break your arm?
Was this player perhaps playing as Floridaman?
Sounds like fun
I LOVE MIND FLEXES! getting into the head of those damned mind flayers is very impressive. One of the best fight in my OG campaign was against a psionic assassin and he was a tough S.O.B. Floating swords, mental armor junk like that. He’d often make the archer shoot at my character too, he eventually caused most of our characters minds to go into a temporary vegetative state. The funniest one was our undead slaying paladin who was left on the floor with wide yes constantly yelling. “Vampires...vampires VAMPIRES!”
for whatever reason my character had fared exceptionally well against him, a dragonborn paladin with a meek intelligence I was lucky enough to roll a nineteen when the psionic tried to invade my mind, all he was able to see was the dragon equivalent to the inside out emotion cast arguing. When all the other members were stupefied and I was out of special abilities I actually managed t land the fatal blow! Though he had the last laugh with his sword loot blowing up with mind energy when i tried to take it. Didn’t kill me but I was grumpy about it.
When you started talking about taking the great old one pact and with the mindflayers in the drawings I was really hoping it would have a greater impact than that, like the Patron intervening and its completely alien mind being a foe the mindflayers don't know how to fight back against or something like that.
I can already tell this is going to be legendary
Noobs and things they do, duh
*I use my ability to speak in the mindflayers mind*
DM: what do you do now?
Me: make fart noises in it's mind
DM: .......
Everyone at the table: 🤔
So basically Theresa just pulled the biggest uno reverse card on the mindflayers.
Nah the biggest reverse card would be feeding their entire hive mind (and possibly the motherbrain too) to her patron. xD
Just... wow. Sometimes all it really does take is a newbie with a nat 20 and the courage to go through with something experienced players have always thought crazy.
I'd have given her an extra level or just something shiny for pulling that off- especially now that she just pissed off an entire network of flayers...
Not a level, but maybe a boon, like resistance against mind based attacks
Just for that stunt, if I was the DM, I would have given her something like advantage and a bonus to enter a hive mind from then on out. Since she had already done it once before so perfectly, her consciousness would be already adapted to the psionic wave lengths that would drive her mad. That still wouldn't mean she'd be safe of course, I mean their freaking mind flayers and your a little ol' human in a hive mind of them. Every round your there you'd have to be making will saves even with your advantage. I would have probably also given something like a bonus towards mental attacks. That's how nutty that move was to me lmao
MindFlayer: Obey Prey. Teresa: No, I don’t think I will.
2:42 Surely I'm not the only one who heard "*After* (after) meeting...", right?
No, I heard it too.
Ditto
That freaked me out.
It would have been funny if her Patron entered the hivemind through her and left all the mindflayers drooling idiots.
The most insane thing I ever saw in a campaign I was running was player runs purposefully into the path of a Tarrasque. As the monster was about to step on him, the player lifted up his Warp Marble and spoke the command word. Since he was still holding the warp marble when it was activated, I stated that both the player and monster was placed inside the warp marble. The party was left with a dilemma. How do they free the player without also freeing the monster. We never did figure out a way to do that. The campaign ended soon after.
Whomever they are, they just made themselves into the ultimate plot device. And that's a good thing.
Sure is insane since a warp marble can only capture a single large size or smaller creature and if you are holding it when activating it, you are the closet creature, not the tarrasque. The only way the above scenario could work is if you house ruled the warp marble to be able to affect much larger creatures like a tarrasque and also allowed it to affect more than 2 creatures at a time rather than 1 as is stated in the description since it cannot do either of these things.
@@craigtucker1290
its called rule of cool
@@mageofvoid4282 The "rule of cool" is just a bad cover for poor DM-ing and also de-legitimizes their game at the same time when comparing such stories. Like the example above with the warp marble where the story is so unbelievable and implausible that the story belongs in the same category as one where a character defeated a god with their bare hands because they rolled a natural 20 or some other silly nonsense. Of course a DM can do whatever they want in their game, but by breaking the rules of the game in such a way they are making such achievements by their players hollow and without merit.
It is sad when the players feel they achieved something significant only to find out that the DM cheated and made it happen, not them. I know I would be disappointed if the DM cheated to make something happen that I though I had done.
@@craigtucker1290
Lol, you must be fun at parties.
DM: "That is crazy and most likely wouldn't have worked."
Player: "But it diiiiiiid!!"
lol goes into the Mindflayers hive mind and gives it the middle finger saying two can play this game lol
Oh wow. I would have cheered so hard for Theresa seeing that role play go down. Awesome. 👏
«I don’t think you understand; that could have ended *really* badly.»
«But it didn’t!»
...I’m in love with this player. She’s adorable.
this was decades ago in the 90's so... old school DnD. it was a two man 'side quest' i did while the rest of the party was recovering after a KILLER dungeon crawl. i was a rogue human specializing in 'above second story work' so i loved free-climbing and parkour, my buddy was an elven psionicist, he'd rolled lucky and got a REALLY middle aged elf. we're talking 100 or so years old. btw house rule of my group at the time was elves had to roll 2d100 for age then the DM would work out around how experienced that elf would be for it's class.
so it begins with, i get hired to 'fifth story' this guy's home and steal "whatever you can find, just don't get caught." very very VERY shifty-crappy job the local Thieve's Guild 3rd in command wanted me to do. i wasn't popular yet with 'the locals' since i was from 'out of town' but i'd paid my dues recently so was on 'ok but shaky ground' with them according to our DM. i get with my buddy the elven 'mind mage' later on and sneak him into the 3rd in command guy's 'hideout'. while bossman is snoring in bed the psionicist does a 'deep dive' into the guy's head. guess what, yup, it was a setup. house in question was warded to the nines and nobody knew exactly what was inside, or even owned it. but it was probably high dollar stuff. if 3rd in command pulled this off, MAJOR kudos for him, but if i croaked no skin off bossman's nose.
so we sneak out and the mind mage and i scout the house in question for 2 days and 2 nights. no movement. nobody in or out. even the mind mage couldn't exactly figure out what was up with this house. nobody in the neighborhood really thought ANYTHING about the house. so the psionicist tries a 'hail mary' and takes over the mind of a mouse on the 2nd night n sends it into the house. as soon as the mouse gets into the house it INSTA DIES. creepy huh? not even VERMIN can make it into the house!
my loot senses are tingling off the charts and my elven mind mage buddy is keen to figure everything out. i've been looking the house over as sneakily as i can every night but even MY expert fingers can't seem to get a grip on even a WINDOWSILL! so, my buddy picks me up with his head stuff and gets me onto the roof of the house and i ninja around sniffing, poking, looking, talking to my buddy in my head, a few times he even takes over my senses and checks out the roof, we find pigeon droppings. interesting hmm? mice can't get in but birds can roost and crap on the roof? so i look down the chimney. i can't fit down it, but my rolls tell me this chimney is dead stone cold. even the SOOT is months if not almost a year old! who has a house and never heats it or cooks even a single meal for nigh on a year!?
so i take a silken rope i'd brought wrapped around me and tie it to the chimney and haul my buddy the elven mind mage onto the roof. no alarms, no sounds, nothing. even when his feet or body touch the walls of the house. the walls were weirdly slippery and he'd thought the house was enchanted. but since psionicists don't exactly SEE magic (back in the day) we weren't sure. i wrap my rope back around me and we begin to quietly and slowly pry up roof shingles, him with his mind mojo and me with a normal dagger. the ONLY weapon i brought. i've got the silken rope, some thieves' tools, and a pair of really woo woo enchanted thieves' gloves. plus neither of us is wearing armor. we're going full on ninja here, stealth over AC. my elven buddy also brought a couple of normal daggers and a nice and empty bag of extra extra holding. our DM didn't mind bumping up the capacity of the bag or stretchability of a bag of holding's opening. as long as the item was smaller than an elephant and you had two or more people to stretch the bag open with.
we get a hole open in the roof and the elf sticks his head in and does the night vision thing. nothing, empty attic. so we get into the attic. nothing. not a thing. not a trap not a spider nothing but dust. so i find the trapdoor down to floor 5 of this house and slowly open it. nothing. we check out floor 5, nothing but dust, still no mouse tracks or spider webs or anything. not even furniture or signs of anything walking through the dust. no hidden anything. no traps. so we walk down the stairs to floor 4. same thing. room by room check. down to the ground floor checking everything. nothing is in this house. but i finally find a hidden trap door under the dust in a far corner of the ground floor. its got a wood veneer EXACTLY like the rest of the wood flooring around it. lucky roll. :> my buddy the elven mind mage makes me stop while he meditates to rest his abilities and 'scans' under us. "something intelligent is down there." is all the DM will tell us. "you hear nothing but creaking settling house, you see nothing strange, no smells except dust and abandoned house, not even damp or dank from must or mold."
so far i've checked every window and the doors. they're all nailed shut, bolted and shuttered tightly. even if i'd tried a window the DM says, "since it's so hard to open one from the inside you think it nearly impossible to silently open one from the outside." i ask, 'so what killed the mouse? where's its corpse?' the DM smirks, "you didn't even smell the mild rot of the mouse's corpse or see where it entered the house through a tiny crack in the outer wall." 'even the doors?' i check, "yup!" the DM says, "they're nailed shut from the inside. yeah you could get something or somebody to chop or bash etc. the door(s) down but that'd be VERY noisy!" the elf and i decide to open the basement trapdoor and sneak inside down the ladder. oh fun fun glowey purple fungus growths on the walls. the elf stops us both and mind tells me 'mindflayers live here, they love the glowing fungus'. so we silently creep creep around this big open basement and yup. there's a squidhead standing still in the center of the basement. meditating.
the elf gives me both of his daggers and faces the squidhead. i hold my dagger in my teeth and make a makeshift garrote with one end of my silken rope wrapped around the hilts of the elf's daggers. on the count of three the elven psionicist does his mojo. now according to my DM squidheads and other 'mind monsters' are the reason the different ideas and schools of psionicists were founded. and yup, my HIGHLY middle aged elven buddy had been trained to fight em, but hadn't had the pleasure. so he goes for the whammy and boyo BOFFS THE ROLL! for his first attack. el squiddo wakes up and starts with the blasty blasty nommy nommy brain stuff. but. the ELF has Squidward's aggro and it fails to notice me at all. i get wonky and numb tinglies from aftershocks of the ether and mind fighting but i manage to get my cord around Squidward's neck and he FINALLY tries to hit me with a whammy. but i'd gotten the cord tied tight with those woo woo mondo cool thieves' gloves and my skills and surprise attack and even with my slack body and nigh unconscious state the cord doesn't loosen. so i choke Squidward enough that my elven buddy brain BOOMS Tentacle face and i rouse just enough to stab one of the cord wrapped daggers into one of the monster's eyes and slump... it's dead.
after stabbing the OTHER eye and slitting it's throat nigh on enough to sever it's head! i'm satisfied it's squid sushi and start searching the bugger's robes. nothing. the room. empty. nothing but a very VERY specific teleport circle that neither of us know what in the hell to do with. well we THOUGHT it was a teleport circle! how else would the mindflayer get in and out of a completely sealed house? my buddy the elven mind mage has mondo mojo hangover and we both need to get the fudge out of dodge JIC more tentacle faced baddies show up. and i get the damn genius idea. we STUFF THE MINDFLAYER into our bag of holding and skedaddle BACK OUT THE HOLE IN THE ROOF AND away into the night.
oh and that Thieves' Guild 3rd in command bigboss guy? i murdered him in his sleep less than 24 hours later and ransacked his hideout. never sleep in the same bed two days in a row. :> if you're a crime-boss.
i brought the mage of our group to the mindflayers' house before the murdering of the boss though. she blew the door open for me and wrecked the teleport circle in the basement. she also told me the outer walls of the house had been very very mildly enchanted but probably not in a very long time. only to keep expert freeclimbers like me from getting finger and footholds. neither she nor i could tell how long the house had been sealed up. but the previous owner probably did it under the mindflayers' control and then they nommed him and his staff and took everything in the house out through the teleport circle.
the lady mage thought maybe they had altered everybody's minds around the house to ignore it but my buddy the elven psionicist wasn't able to find any large scale stuff like that. maybe a hint here and there to just ignore the house like normal and everything about it was fine. very very mild and low level mind-trickery he thought.
our lady mage knew a guy who knew a guy that bought the mindflayer's corpse off me. :> i DIDN'T want to know what he did with it, the guy who introduced us told me before the meeting. :> come to find out mindflayers' corpses ARE worth their weight in platinum. :> at least to that guy. :> but he wasn't happy i'd stabbed out both eyes and nearly severed the head. so he took a pound or two of platinum off the payment.
You brought back the old laugh!! That makes the intro a 1000 times better. I approve!
Nice job with the new intro!
This isn't the finished product but we're still working on it, trying to make the transitions more smooth.
@@allthingsdnd love how Ooghie was added in 😄
What would have made it more awesome if her Patron somehow appeared along side her considering it's a Pact of the Old One.
Would have been a good one.
"First: I am not your prey!
Second: I would like to introduce you to my boss"
Then the mind flayer collective shits their pants and kicks the one the PT is fighting from the group because they want nothing to do with that.
Old One God: diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle... Ayy lmao.
Illithid Collective: WTF.
The moment you realise u understand nothing of what's being said but still are captivated by the story...that's how I feel by watching these
I'm so glad you dropped this so late for me. Saw it at 11:08.
As always great story telling. Good story pick btw, never would have guessed delving into the mind flayers head would cause such trouble I didnt even know they had hive minds. Keep up the good work
Notes from a NG human idiot;
Greetings from lovely Restenford(it's a suprisingly nice day here...)!
When i heard this story, i was reminded of something my old Teacher once said: "Evil can be suprised when the Good are clever..."
and the Warlock's actions in this are a perfect example of what i was told. It's doubly nice when It's a Newly started Adventurer that does it. Well done my friends, well done indeed !
May your pantheon ever favor you
Baron Trevelyan of Restenford
Greetings once more baron! I do hope that restenford finds itself safe today!
It was indeed most impressive that this girl was able to do such a thing to mind flayers, dastardly creatures they are.
"She had only played 4e and only eight hours at that" So she only played a single encounter ?
Currently one of my favourite moments in DnD is convincing an entire cult I was one of them, much to the annoyance of the DM
This is why I often love playing in games with new players. They have next to NO preconceptions about a lot of the things you encounter so they sometimes come up with the craziest plans ever, plans that players who "know better" would never even consider trying. They don't always work out but when they do it's always epic.
I have had a psion challenge a Mindflayer to a battle of the mind. It did not end well. The player and creature died in a deadly embrace. The player died from the constant mind blasts and feeding, and the creature from the entire party wailing on it. It was so enraged it ignored everyone except the psion who dared challenge it. That player was brave, to say the least.
That is an awesome way to die. Also I would say it still counts as a victory.
This isn't really a DMs story but my mom, who's never played D&D in her life, has provided excellent story ideas to me on several occasions and deep character moments. Again she's never played and yet is a better DM and player than I am
*when the dice gods got you covered to where u just sip beer (even theoretically) and role high* thats mental
Had a dragonborn friend who got drunk and ravaged a town with a top hat and a moustache and a chicken. To get the guards off of his tail, we enlarged a salamander several times, trained it to wear a tophat and a moustache and gave him to the guards because it looked similar to the wanted posters. Then broke the salamander out and burnt the guardhouse down, to make the salamander escape look more convincing.
Woah, linking up with a Mindflayer, that's NEXT LEVEL crazy, Writer, if you see this, I hope we get to hear more of this crazy elder warlock and what I can only assume will/has led to a rivalry with a hive of Mind Flayers!
OP please keep us all posted with this campaign
Yay a story where a dnd noob isnt trashed by their group! i hear so many of those stories it makes me sad, i like to think that most of the veterans are willing to help if the new player is willing to try
We did some pretty silly stuff, including assaulting an orc-held stonehold with a flaming wagon.
My halfling thief was famous for channeling George Peppard, lighting up a cigar and saying "I love it when a plan comes together." after a successful adventure.
“How dare you come in my mind!”
...L-lewd...
Does that mean she was.....Mind fucked?
HEY-OOOOOO
Just curious anyone else randomly have captions turned on for just All Things D&D? Like just them.
Alexis Beatriz
Yeah I think they write their own captions instead of the RUclips auto-generated ones so the video starts with them.
They're pretty helpful since there are so many strange names, so I decided to leave them on.
Alexis Beatriz odd I agree
I've always had them on automatically for this channel. One day they randomly were in another language though and since then they sometimes act a little funny.
For some reason this title reminds me to how 2 strong knights failed to knock in a door, and me a tiny wizard just screamed "I kick the door in frustration!" and passed the diceroll.
I think one of the most remembered memory that I can think of with my group is, we played a game of Deadlands. Which is the wild west in DnD. With gunslingers, shootists which make pacts with demons for power(warlock basically) Psychers which are basically monks who use their minds to force ppl to do whatever they want. To the storyline....
We had a bunch of different people. Like 9 people in our group at the time, We had a priest named Mac, my Psycher named Ralph, two twin gunslingers played by my best friend and his wife. A shootist who was a noob and was the youngest son of the DM. Like 15 at the time. So we get our group to go through Dodge City and the noob takes my out of game knowledge and walks up to the Sheriff station ratting me out that I was a wanted man. Needless to say. The priest speaks up about that I'm just a hired gun to protect the church's pastors on their way back and forth between the cities. And have been a defender of the church for many years now. What crimes I have or haven't been convicted of, doesn't matter anymore because I have atoned for it. He rolled extremely high. A few dice exploded I remember that. When you roll a dice and it rolls a 10 on a D10. It's considered exploded and you roll again. Anyways he pissed me off at that point so I waited until he went to bed. I snuck into his room in the Inn. I hog tied his character. And drugg him out to behind the shed. Poured every ounce of oil that I had saved on my character for the lamps that I had been the pack mule of the party. So preceded to light him on fire then walk away. I went back to bed like nothing happened. I later was woke up the his character lighting the entire town on fire just to make sure that I was killed even though he didn't know who had burned him alive. His character had third degree burns on like 80% of his character and needed a hospital for months. Anyways it wasn't quite over yet. As the party gets woke up to the new party member trying to destroy the town. The priest runs over and knocked him out and tied him to a tree so he couldn't do anymore harm while we put out the fires. So the next day as the town decided to put him to Death. I pipe up that while he's waiting to be hanged, he should have kept his mouth shut. It cost him dearly for opening his mouth to the authorities. The rest of the campaign, not a single person who found out what I did, told a single sheriff or anyone else along the storyline. And he had a new outlook on the game. It's not just all hack n slash. It has a bit of real life in it and you can't just betray someone who you don't even know or what they are capable of....
Yesh diving into a hive mind, is like looking at a group chat. I'd personally go insane.
I find it difficult to believe that you naturally intonate your voice like this in real conversation.
High Risk, High Reward. Hot dang, that was incredible!
Takes some serious spine to "no u" a mindflayer :D
The DM and the Party: You're mad!
Theresa: Well thank goodness for that, or this'd probably never work.
Everyone watching the video: Do you think she plans it all out, or makes it up as she goes along?
That's got to be the best Warlock I've ever seen.
One of my D&D groups are about to start a new campaign, and I decided to play a warlock with a pact with a Great Old One called the Black Hood. She's very insecure and nervous, not wanting to be a warlock but forced into a pact as a child when her patron saved her life when her village was slaughtered by a horrific monster. She's trying to find a way to break her pact with her patron, hopefully not get herself killed in the process, but I've worked it out with the DM to have her go through a character arc where she grows in confidence and becomes more accepting of her warlock powers. Maybe, if I'm lucky, my warlock will have a moment where she can freak out an enemy by speaking in their mind like the warlock from this story. That'd be quite the boost in her confidence!
i managed to turn a fish into a hostage...it was xanathar's fish. i still have the fish now...xanathar had to unfortunately part ways with his fish...and now i lead the Xanathar thieves guild. also having a bag of holding full of daggers aimed at a group of enemies is very convincing when the opening is aimed at them.
I love your little intro animation!
Yay the dragon is back in the intro!
Also the story was great.
a friend of mine have told me a story yesterday of which I only remember the bit how three gods were fighting each other in one dudes mind, literally toasing chunks of hims memories and sanity at each other... apparently after that poor fellow was unable to evem speak for whole month
Ngl i would have given the warlock advantage on that second wisdom save JUST because her patron was a lovecraftian elder god. Im posotive she has experienced some insane visions and mind games just because of her patron.
Don't mind flayers look similar to said Lovecraftian elder god?
Inverse Ninja Theory and a well- played, slightly crazy GOOlock. Excellent!
You know what they say: Sometimes you just have to cast Insane Bolt and hope it kills Malistaire the Undying. Great job on the campaign and great player friend and wacky plan. Reminds me of my Pyromancer running into the lairs of Warlords. ^_^
Ooghie is a sad boi, but the goodest boi
YO! YO! YOOOOOOOOOO!! That was so clutch!!!!
The time the rouge yang xiao long’d someones head into a bowl of brain soup.
So me and some buddies if mine (at the time it was just me one player and a first time dm) were running a sci-fi campaign before the time the possible WW3 freakouts (which was ironic because this story took place just after WW3) and i played a rouge (now multiclassing into a little paladin for some healing stuff and more health) named ero who was kind of a sassy sarcastic mercenary ex-guard of military barracks that got bombed. (He ended up replacing his arm with robotic augments by himself. Even included a way to store guns in his arm which comes into play later) while my buddy played a serious battle medic fighter/druid/cleric multi-class (he started in fighter snd got the rest later on after i nearly died...a lot.
Fast forward i wanna say somewhere between 4-7 sessions later.
Were ambushed by bandits in the nuked remains of canada. And the encounter goes like this
Bandit:“Hey! We want ur stuff”
Ero:”nah thanks I’m good”
Bandit:”give us your stuff or that lizard becomes a nice stew!”
It was that line, that one damn like that pissed me off. Nobody hurts my boi Florida gator )an acid spitting lizard that was my pet that i pampered like a momma bird.) now at the time i was in i wanna say part4 of JJBA (jojos bizzare adventure) so i told the DM “one second” as i started playing jotaro a combat theme and described my characters next line and movements as follows: i look pissed as i walk up to him slowly and confident. I say
“sorry but gator isnt on the menu tonight, todays soup of the day is BANDIT BRAIN!”
I then go for a right hook and give him a yang xiao long style shotgun punch to the temple (yang is a character from rooster teeths rwby who had these gauntlets that punch with a shotgun blasts for those who are unaware)
Nat. And i cannot stress this enough. 20
Dm: (looking astounded that a rouge is doing this, describes the bloodbath) “you turn his lower jaw into the bowl for the gorey soup that USED to be his head.”
Glorious plan, flawless execution, and one of the like 6-7 bandits gone. Felt GLORIOUS.
(I reaaaaally hope allthingsdnd uses this for a story one day so please like and get it to them)
I can't help but think someone's mind being so warped it scares an Ilithid off.
She may have entered a noob. But she understood better than any pro what truly matters. Having fun. Excellent tale.
This is literally every RP plan I've ever come up with in pure perfection
hears zendikar
hears great old ones
expecto eldrazi
You gotta swing for the rafters, if it fails, they'll avenge you, but if it succeeds, gold lol.
I need more stories like this one just amazing.
When I first joined a DnD group as a noob I came up with a brilliant assassination plan with science and stuff that in theory would have worked great, and everyone thought it was an awesome idea... then we all got stage fright as soon as we reached the scene, failed our lousy persuasion attempts, and we all got thrown into prison, someone died and someone else almost died, and when we finally were let go only two of us still had their memory. The moral of the story is, if you plan to kill an old evil king by giving him heart attack flowers, you better make sure you have some dialogue rehearsed.
Theresa just led her Eldritch deity to a huge snack and it worked
I really want more stories from this campaign!
Great inspiration for a game idea. Thank you so much
i remember my first time ever with Pathfinder. my first ever intro to d&d... we were a party of Drow (except for the one human fighter), not sure what the plot was exactly but not important, it was a small lets say "testing"... just something to pass the time on a long bus trip... we found ourselves in a castle courtyard. we fought against the castle guards, one went to the ranger, another to the fighter and rogue.. i was staying back and assisting where i could with spells/abilities.. my character happened to be some form of psionic drow.. then my friend JC, who was playing some kind of vampire. he tried so hard but couldnt seem to roll. first attack. miss. second he was disarmed. third, knocked to the ground. 4th attack against the ankles the vamp trying to land a bite attack... i rolled and somehow managed to pick the vampire up and throw him at the guard using my mind powers... the vampire finally landed the attack with a nat 20... max damage and the vamp drained him dry... probably the weirdest fight the DM has ever seen.
This opening was perfect. Not too long and enough callbacks to good episodes.
One time my best friend temporarily joined our group as a Warlock. Let’s just say that Cthulhu carried us in that Black dragon encounter.
I like the way Mind Flayer is portrayed in this. I usually see them as alien, detached beings. The villain in this peace is an arrogant jackass who's not so different than the "prey" he looks down on (he's just a brain eating serial killer) and totally had it coming. It's an interesting portrayal.
I remember my first D&D Character, a Red Dragonborn Monk. My friend who was the DM made us go up against these goblins and I one-shoted them all with my fire breath XD only their Leader survived and he just ran away, my favorite moment.
I had planned an encounter where my players had to infiltrate an enemy base and place markers for friendly artillery to bombard the key parts of the base. One of my players goes, "Oh! I can turn us all into birds and we can just fly over and drop the markers!" They even thought to ask a local what the most common type of bird for the area was. All my planning was ruined lol
i creeped out my fellow players when we took a hostage and while everyone was arguing on what spell to cast or how to get information out of the prisoner, i speak up and say to the GM, "i grab a hammer and start smashing his toes and work my way up till he talks", no roll required, got the info.
Had to come back to this story after firing up "Baldur's gate 3" still one of my favorites.
DM spends weeks planning the adventure to the deepest caverns for the final confrontation.
Newb blows up the plan and ends the adventure before they ever get out of the Tavern sequence.
Mindflayer: *invades mind
Theresa: "No, u."
I really like when new players just do things, because they are not tainted by meta knowledge and do know nothing about the lore of the world. This is one of the best experiences you can have as a gm.
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but it worked! I LOVE these stories so much. ❤️❤️ I can't believe she WILLINGLY talked back to a freaking MINDFLAYER🤣🤣🤣
kind of lame what happened there... i mean, sure, it was dangerous to enter the mindflayers mind... but... she did so little in there... not even delivering a powerfull message outside of "i am not prey"...
i would have at least sayd: something along the lines that he became the prey of mine...
Ok, I'm as new as the character in the story. Why is that so much more crazy than a standard game of D&D?
Because as mentioned in the video it is suicide if you don't roll a Nat 20 on your will save.
I agree! Nothing about this was truly extraordinary.
The only reason it was “crazy” is because everyone else in the group was metagaming. There is no reason to assume possible madness by simply trying to talk back to him. Something only appears to have risk if you know all the consequences. All the seasoned DMs knew the Mindflayer’s stat block and knew it would be risky.
@@xxTifaxForeverxx It was still audacious. It is like knocking on the front door of an enemy compound and being asked to be let in.
@@emberfist8347 not only that but she told them how cute they were and she wouldn't sit back and be a nice slave....lol
The fun thing about being new to the game is that you have NO idea how any of the monsters work, so you basically have no fear to do crazy shit. But of couse, you could always throw veterans off their track with a little bit of homebrew.
The dice gods smile