Narrated D&D Story: Legendary Archer Single-Handedly Ends A War (ft. Runesmith)

Now I regret every archer I’ve ever played.
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[@felixlavulpe3506]

When I found out Runesmith would be reading this one, I just about cried. If you see this Logan, I love your stuff. Also nice job pronouncing the name right, I know it's a mouthful. Beautiful narration. If anyone has questions as usual I'm happy to answer.

[@DaBlueIghuana]

Epic story man, just like Astoshan. Btw you must have a pretty good DM. Have a great day!

[@garymcjerry]

This is gonna get buried but I like your stuff Felix 🤙 10/10 mudkip reviews

[@llewtree3013]

What was lewies real name that people couldn’t pronounce again?

[@felixlavulpe3506]

@@llewtree3013 Llywelyn Ap Maelwys. Remember that double L's in welsh are pronounced like the CH in Achmed.

[@felixlavulpe3506]

@@garymcjerry Don't worry I see you.

[@ssfbob456]

Persian army: our arrows will blot out the sun! Loui: Seems like a waste of arrows.

[@GM-lx7ji]

if you had 10 archer's with half of Loui's skills you whould win any war

[@MasterZebulin]

@@GM-lx7ji All I need is one.

[@ChaseMakes]

@@MasterZebulin Are you the one that created loui or are you suggesting that he already made a shot.

[@MasterZebulin]

@@ChaseMakes I don't understand the question.

[@ChaseMakes]

@@MasterZebulin When you said "all I need is one," I thought that might be a way of saying that you were Loui (the person that created him anyway, but I didn't know if you just making a joke about needing to only take one shot with an arrow and that ye (I accidentally spelled it as he) already made the shot at MasterZeb.

[@perrinhuff3583]

" he didn't miss a single shot that entire campaign " holy sit

[@felixlavulpe3506]

I mean I don't think I fired more than 100 times the entire campaign and Llywelyn's to-hit modifier was frankly disgusting. The hard part wasn't hitting the enemy, the hard part was the really long shots where I had to guess which freakin' square they were going to be on the next turn. Priority went to enemies that couldn't move or were stuck in melee with allies, god bless my party for being tanky and full of abilities that discouraged movement.

[@datalysjr3339]

Felix LaVulpe .... how on earth do you manage to predict something like that!?! (New player to this btw)

[@perrinhuff3583]

Yeah how would you do that. that is so cool.

[@TarsonTalon]

*'One Punch Man' season 1 opening beat about to drop... "ONE SHAWWWWWWT!"

[@kanishkakamble5186]

Legolas!!!

[@Tetsujinhanmaa]

Reminds me of a story I heard once. DM gave the Ranger a magic quiver. It would covert all arrows placed into it into a single arrow. If you fired that arrow, it would split into all the arrows inflight. The Ranger never used his bow. He always used his swords. But after every battle he collected any arrows he could find and in every town he bought all the arrows they had. Fast forward to the end of the campaign. They're called to help fight this huge army. Hundreds of thousands.The battle is going to start the next day. Everyone spends time prepping. The Ranger climbs a hill overlooking the soon to be battlefield. Then he pulls out a piece of paper from his notes and hands it to the GM. Its a list of every arrow he's collected. The Ranger is going to used his bow. The GM is silent for a moment, the he puts his notes away. He describes the archer nocking the arrow and letting it fly. The arrow splits. 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, soon too many to count. The sky darkens as the rain of arrows decimates the enemy army.

[@Snowblaze_]

Wow, that’s pretty badass!

[@buddyb3165]

My arrows, WILL BLOCK OUT THE SUN! (Someone had to do it)

[@GreyTalus]

Holy snap

[@buddyb3165]

Imagine if he used Hail of Thorns on that. So many arrows

[@gabthegreat01]

Sweet mercy...

[@JDNCLOWD]

Army captain: Send the artillery. Loui: I AM THE ARTILERY!

[@Gormathius]

I can’t read that without hearing it in LazyPurple’s voice. In the event you don’t know who LazyPurple is, I’m referring to the end of his How it FEELS to play Engineer video «I *am* the defence!»

[@Ittheboss]

Army: lewie what kind of artillery is this Lewie: I am the archery!!

[@matthewturner5178]

My favorite part is how he doesn’t even wait for visual confirmation on the last shot. The second he fires it, he packs up and goes home. This is the very epitome of “Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru”

[@axell15thewispmaster59]

And Ho-ho-holy SHIAT did he just Destroyed the campaign

[@ERBanmech]

Makes sense. The enemy lord was frightened and so that restricted the possibilities where he could be and if there was limitations on geography as well you could probably pin the location down to exactly where he could be in the next 2 turns. No wonder why he was so sure of that final shot.

[@Drenix]

@@Joe-sr6de *Dial-up conecting sounds*

Like this kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnSqfIOInq-jbpY to this kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnSqfIOInq-jbpY

[@adamhunter1223]

NANI?!

[@chakatBombshell]

Ah the glory of the cragtop archer, the greatest most well aged of player cheese. He could have ended the war from his retirement home, he just showed up to be polite. I love this character.

[@felixlavulpe3506]

I miss my long-range, cragtop made my life worth it.

[@Things_I_wish_I_knew]

@@felixlavulpe3506 you have some really awesome character concepts. I bet you get lots of people asking for your spec sheets with the biggest puppy dog eyes they can possibly give you.

[@namonaite]

If that's the story of a retired hero I want to hear what he did before retiring.

[@dannywolfblood3704]

Ikr

[@maynardshellholeofrandom5069]

You know that one battlefield that has arrows littered all over but not a single bow?

[@chrisschoenthaler5184]

Corrupted Cyborg Pretty much the same thing, I would imagine. Planting arrows into the skulls of his foes long before they can see him.

[@WisdomThumbs]

He spent his whole life learning how to be 100% accurate.

[@JCDenton2012Modder]

Rambo ;)

[@uatu3021]

That character is a thing of beauty, terrible, unsettling beauty.

[@singletona082]

It is a beautiful nightmare.

[@lucielm]

@@singletona082 I think what makes it even more beautiful, the archer in question is played by a guy who knows how to use bows IRL.

[@MsKeylas]

@@lucielm exactly. Reality is often much more terrifying than any fantasy could be

[@CidGaius]

I do love a good “tired of this crap” kind of character. The kind of character that while the young super cool prodigy with the tragic backstory is talking about how cool he is, has killed the BBEG and started farming again.

[@Seri-tt3tf]

Remind me of a campaign where a single man start a civil war and single handedly ended it while everyone trying to eviscerate each other and when the winner still hustling try to decided who should ruled he eventually back to his hometown, buy some land with all money he got from pillaging at war time and start his new life as a humble potato farmer

[@bhargavavetsa6240]

"Oh come on, its harvest season. You can't pull me away from my farm during harvest season!"

[@ericward8459]

"Can we be back before the New Moon? It'll be Opening Day of Hunting Season, not to mention my daughter's birthday!

[@MrPlab1780]

Enemy soldier on the opposite side of the battlefield: "what's an old timer like that doing here?' Louie: "you're talking real smack for someone in range."

[@florentitan1474]

“Playing battleship with a railgun” enemy: SHOOK

[@alexanderzhmurov9624]

Edit: enemy: Husnock

[@davidjohnson6665]

I’m happy that the player knew archery in real life and showed his fellow players how archery works in real life to argue why his would be so powerful!

[@felixlavulpe3506]

The ranges in D&D for stuff always drove me nuts.

[@davidjohnson6665]

I’m with you there. I’m on my first campaign and I’ve somewhat avoided my pc’s archery skills and end up settling melee combat because rules on ranged weapons confuse me (also, my dm keeps giving me melee weapons that do more damage and has made it hard for me with good range). The only times I’ve used a bow is when the villain we are fighting can fly or if I have no other way of damaging our opponents.

[@samsadowitz1724]

@@felixlavulpe3506 as a fellow marksman, i have to sympathize with you on ranged weapons in general. Even with firearms with the different calibers and charges. It must be similar with longbows and archery because range depends on similar factors (arrow weight, draw weight, the weight of the head, and the draw length). Admittedly, i am a bit more well versed in firearms (murica), but the skills you displayed on the range and in character are amazing. Especially with that last shot, good lord that must've needed a LOT of lead. It takes a good deal of skill to take out a target moving at 30+ mph at less than 20 yards with a shotgun consistently (a score of 12/25 is average).... to take out a target moving at double that speed and with a single arrow is absolutely amazing.

[@MeeraTheMooneyed]

It is really cool. Though, I've always figured that the range restrictions in DnD are because its focus is as a game, rather than attempting to really simulate battles.

[@samsadowitz1724]

@@MeeraTheMooneyed well, it is focus is as a game, but even games that use instruments of war (games like war thunder, world of tanks, and world of warships) their baseline is in historical realism, but they then use gameplay to help balance it for pvp. In pve (like DND settings), the focus should have gameplay mechanics based on realism. That would help everyone most

[@videogamemaster2869]

The story: “Gods help everyone when he has the high ground” Me: “So this is what Obi-wan would be like if he was an archer.”

[@lolbots686]

exactly. may god have mercy on these poor fuckers

[@WorldWalker128]

Jedi/Sith with bows or siege engines. Now THAT is a terrifying thought! Then again, they'd pretty much just be Arcane Archers, wouldn't they?

[@aquabunny1992]

I'm picturing him launching his lightsaber like a javelin over a mile to hit someone

[@Elda.Handles]

"Don't Anakin, I have the high ground!" "What the heck are you talking about!?!" "We both know how this is going to end" *Arrow hits Anakin* "How?" *timeskip back seeing Obi-Wan nocking an arrow and firing it into the sky, then proceeding to fight Anakin with his lightsaber*

[@ARandomCogboi]

My character, Theta 6, has +9 to hit, as well as the “sharpshooter” and “crossbow expert” feats. His eyes are augmented with cybernetics, his metal arms are steadier than an oak tree, and he’s armed with a (thank you DM) homebrew sniper rifle, with which he can effortlessly shoot a tick off an orc’s back at 500ft. He lives for ranged combat. But this... THIS is what I aspire to be. Long live Lewie, God of Snipers. Theta offers YOU his prayers.

[@SharowbladyeGaymerPorate]

In my world I am now going to make a archery good based off Lewie

[@AJStarhiker]

Shadowrun?

[@ARandomCogboi]

AJStarhiker Descent into Avernus, actually. Theta 6 is a “Mekhanite”, a homebrew creature that I’m playtesting for a future spelljammer campaign of mine. Supposedly, a group of human explorers were trapped in one iteration the plane of Mechanus, and ran out of supplies. The first god to ensure their prayers was a primordial named “Mekhane”, who gifted them with “arcane” technology. After a confrontation with another god in which Mekhane dies, these “Mekhanites” start spreading throughout the multiverse looking for the pieces to rebuild him. My future campaign deals with a Mekhanite civil war, which bleeds over into the Forgotten Realms, but Theta 6 is just a soldier sent by his superiors to aid the party (and maybe find a piece of the broken god while he’s at it).

[@AJStarhiker]

@@ARandomCogboi ah, my bad. I saw 'cybernetic arms' and my brain jumped to Shadowrun. Probably because I'm currently in a campaign.

[@ARandomCogboi]

AJStarhiker No worries, I get a lot of questions about my boi Theta anyway :)

[@GreaterGrievobeast55]

WHERE IS THIS GUY GETTING ALL THESE ARROWS? yirbel lives but lewie IS THE DEATH THAT RAINS!

[@felixlavulpe3506]

When all you do is shoot arrows your entire life, you learn where to get the nice ones.

[@MaxRavenclaw]

This is the 2nd time I heard that name. Who is yirbel?

[@GreaterGrievobeast55]

MaxRavenclaw Yirbel is the hero bard! Who allowed six hundred souls in the place of her own along with her companion. Now I chant her name so thar she might find new realms to exist upon!

[@MaxRavenclaw]

Oh, I remember that video. I'm bad with names.

[@GreaterGrievobeast55]

MaxRavenclaw its alright no worries! You’ll have plenty of time to remember it with how much I comment yirbel lives pfft!

[@storyspren]

Gotta love the confidence in shooting a single arrow at a target a mile away, then unstringing your bow to go home before it even hits.

[@johnbastion747]

Dark Chapion: Bring me your strongest warrior- *dies* Lewie: sorry what was that? I was too busy aiming at you.

[@card9247]

Pop culture Archer: Exists Lewie: I'm about to end this man's career

[@SharowbladyeGaymerPorate]

From the comfort of my home

[@fenorlex1126]

@@SharowbladyeGaymerPorate *Few minutes later...*

[@francomaemori7123]

Now I have another english/welsh person to worship for his archery skills

[@garymcjerry]

Another? Who’s the first?

[@francomaemori7123]

@@garymcjerry There was a British Lieutenant called Jack Churchill who fought nazis with a rapier and a long bow. He was a true mad lad

[@werewulf22]

@@francomaemori7123 Mad Jack was the last man to get a confirmed arrow kill in war and carried his Scottish Broadsword into battle, believing that an officer without a sword was under dressed

[@Sibula]

@@werewulf22 Holy shit why does Sabaton not have a song about him yet!?

[@J.Valentine1031]

"And gives some poor fool a third eye socket" is my favorite quote from this awesome tale

[@allthingsdnd]

How was Logan? Do you want us to collaborate with Runesmith again? 🤔 Also, feel free to send us your stories here: [e-mail] or post it directly on our website or on our subreddit r/AllThingsDND. Stay tuned for our next video after 3 days around 6:30 PM GMT.

[@niko3648]

Yes please do collab again. I love watching the both of you.

[@dominiclarratt9968]

Please do more with Logan. Btw you were great in runesmiths video.

[@catramin]

Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease colab

[@Project_Lies]

Yesss... also Xp to Level 3. Just all the collabs!

[@catramin]

@@Project_Lies yea that would be amazing

[@bethanysmith5856]

i've barely started watching and i already love this, the guy who gave us Astoshan and he's welsh? loved the series and i have a bit of welsh ancestry, this was EPIC!!!!

[@felixlavulpe3506]

Gorau Cymro, Cymro oddi Cartref.

[@bethanysmith5856]

The clan I'm distantly related to is the Llewellyn clan

[@GamerJosh2611]

"The cleric and the paladin are both throwing blessings and prayers out like crazy. The Wizard cast some spell I can't remember and patted Lewie on the back" Nice support everyone

[@felixlavulpe3506]

Teamwork makes the dream work.

[@alexanderlehane3459]

This is the shit that makes people like Hawkeye, Green Arrow, the Sniper, and Archer Kirby look like absolute chumps. And I love it.

[@tonywalker3541]

Basically, this is the story of an archer who just so happened to be the god of all snipers 😂

[@alexanderthegreat6682]

@Aidan Hall I mean, it is a good job...

[@snarkangel7791]

So...... Sogeking? Just saying. Never seen them in the same room.

[@andresmarrero8666]

He might as well have GPS tracking.

[@teepithegoblin8779]

Then when he die he become the god of sniper

[@morgantaylor84]

@@khajiitimanus7432 Goddess of the Hunt and War, which is why she lacked any amount of chill. Pretty sure Orion became her husband too after ascending. To be fair, Ares also lacked any amount of chill, but his wife who's name slips my mind made up for the both of them since she represented the tactical side of War. Yes the Greeks had three different deities for War each one representing the three different eras so to speak of it. Ares represented the earliest where numbers = victory. Artemis represented the glory/reputation victory and skill in war gained the city states such as Sparta and Athens. And Ares' wife represented the tactical side of warfare. And if you think that's ridiculous overkill, almost every Norse deity is also a God of War.

[@johnsmithfakename8422]

This is how I imagine an archer should be played in a world where magic exists.

[@ralexcraft990]

I already know what my next character is gonna be.

[@StormTheSquid]

This mildly reminds me of a sniper I played in an old game. Dude was named Wolfram Nocte, and shot the king of an enemy kingdom from a ridiculous distance, starting a massive war. He also once shot a zeppelin down with an explosive bullet, making baaaasically a nuclear explosion leveling a large chunk of the enemy's capital due to a nat 20 and targeting the balloon section. Was a fun first session XD

[@ARandomCogboi]

Ah, yes. A man of culture like myself. My character is currently shooting his way through Hell (of his own volition, mind you), and won’t stop until he finds what he’s looking for. It’s fun, being that one guy who snipes all the enemies before your teammates even draw their weapons. At least, it was until the (literal) devils started using ambush tactics. “Clever Girl”... Honestly, I’m sure my character amounting to what’s basically a terminator helped the party a lot, but I feel like they’re more terrified of ME than they are of the actual demons. Maybe charisma shouldn’t have been my dump stat.

[@devinwhite5064]

@@ARandomCogboi Shooting your way through hell? Is your bard friend strumming Rip and Tear by any chance?

[@anonomusperson]

@@ARandomCogboi LOL!

[@bogustoast22none25]

Evil: *arises* Boss battle music: *Starts playing* Evil: Hey! That’s not my boss music! Composer: I know. In the distance, a black dragon is letting off an archer and seems to have a grey cloaked person riding on top as well.

[@AngelicEternity92]

I can actually really dig the concept, especially the "I AM the artillery" line.

[@gelbadayah.sneach579]

The last line about being put in dungeons to punish that kind of character made me twitch a little. A GM should never punish a power build, but rather challenge it! (Unless the player is being a total jack-hole, in which case, have at it.) Make the enemy adapt. The DM can power build too, and the only way a power build can break the game is if the DM assumes that the player's character is the only person who could ever pull off what they're doing. The most common solution for me when challenging a power player is to have a new antagonist pop up, saying "You thought you were the only one?" All you have to do is think of something that would make the power build's abilities less of an advantage and throw that at them; not enough to screw them over completely but just enough to give them a little tension. Imagine how interesting a snipe battle between two master arches would be! Then again, hot damn if this didn't make for an awesome story! This is why I hesitate to come down on a power player and usually wait until they start ruining the fun for other players before taking action. Runes had that motive for his character to just go home and retire, so there was no real threat of the character going on to bulldoze the whole campaign or wreck the campaign world. He was under the narrative limitation of just wanting to get the job done and go home. This ultimately lead to that final moment where he fired the arrow and packed up to go home while it was still in flight. That was bad ass!

[@rowanash5378]

This is the funniest story I've ever heard, made even better by Logan reading it. My favorite line was, "It's like playing battleship. With a rail-gun."

[@silvertheelf]

Archers in real life are just as OP in a fight, after all the Peeps who learned what an English long bow was said “unfair” when they first discovered how far it shoots XD

[@melkiorwiseman5234]

The English long bow is the reason why yew trees are still recovering from near-extinction in some areas.

[@silvertheelf]

Melkior Wiseman, as I said, every peep who saw what an English longbow is said “unfair”, even the trees.

[@fenorlex1126]

@@silvertheelf Imagine their melee capabilities when given a proper weapon. Longbows need good arm strength to draw straight, and any medium armor is enough.

[@silvertheelf]

@@fenorlex1126 hulk with a bow and arrow be like:

[@vasudeanguy8523]

@@fenorlex1126 A longbow is a proper weapon.

[@Oswen120]

I have read the rangers apprentice and know the saying "a ranger practices until he never gets it wrong". This guy just puts that saying to shame.

[@KyleSage35]

I feel THIS is how a veteran archer SHOULD BE as long as they have line of sight borderline NOTHING should deter them with the right buffs & dice willing

[@YourCorvus]

Good old Runesmith + Archers and Accuracy, this story has always been one of my favorites.

[@felixlavulpe3506]

Honestly one of my favorite campaigns, all the players were great and being stuck in the woods made the atmosphere fantastic.

[@CyberCowboy-gv2jg]

When he started listing the arrow types I was laughing hard and grinning uncontrollably. This man was goddamn terrifying and I love it

[@landracet]

The enemy army- send out the golems Luis: hold my ale

[@bitethedust3561]

"Legendary Archer Single-Handedly Ends A War " Sooo, Arash Kamangir?

[@xan7292]

I was wondering if anyone else would make that connection. Good to see I'm not the only history and/or Fate fan in these comments.

[@griffgraffjammyjam1142]

STELLA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@WDinATX]

@@xan7292 Same! It was worth sifting through these comments for.

[@williamfrench842]

That's a lot of smack for someone 1.2 miles away from Llywelyn ap Maelwys

[@afeliskdistell5963]

Your talking a lot of smack for someone in magic arrow range.

[@SolarDeceptionNetwork]

@@afeliskdistell5963 You're talking a lot of smack for someone in every arrow range.

[@alejandroespinosa7542]

“I am the artillery.” Oh that was gold!!! I loved this story so much!! I hope we can get something like this again!!

[@R3GARnator]

This is basically how I imagine how all Lvl 20 characters should seem to normal folk.

[@kaelang12]

i guess the saying really is true: to train an archer, you start with his grandfather

[@deathbuda]

my cat's name is luie... and the little guy scare dogs and other cats

[@goodname6807]

ALL HAIL LUIE THE CAT

[@alexanderzhmurov9624]

Let me guess, demonic possession?

[@jamesrichards2720]

The Farmer Brown character still remains one of my favorite stories.

[@felixlavulpe3506]

I'd like to think him and Llywelyn would have gotten along great. Two grumpy old farts who just want everyone else to leave them alone.

[@zoruathecunning5434]

I have an archer Character I've been using in my friend's D20 future campaign. Though I don't have the godly accuracy of this one, but I don't need it when I'm the one who can control the flow of the battle. My character is a Canine Moreau set in the year 4000 or close to it. My friend's campaign has nearly anything you want lazer rifles, star ships, and more form D20 future. Well I asked for a compound bow, and he was like really you can have anything else, but you want a bow. After a few minutes he was like give me a good reason and I'll let you have it. Well fast forward a bit and I have a compound bow while many, many arrows types. My current count of arrows, at the time of this post, 21 different arrows. My most used arrows at the moment is the Smoke arrows they work just like smoke grenade, EMP arrow works the same as EMP grenade, costume arrow "Jammer Arrow" used to block radio communications locally. My character named Ahri Kozlov is a Transporter, but has been modified to First Respond-er, because I'm playing the fish out of water. She is a caring individual that has had to deal with a rough childhood trying to help and save lives gets caught up in a mercenary operation because she has one of the fastest star ships. Up till recently I've been playing with low range because we classified the arrow into two types; Type 1 is the standard arrow which has normal range and Type 2 that has half the range. the Smoke, EMP, and Jammer arrows are classified as Type 2. So my range is limited, but I don't fight to hit people . My arrows are setup in a way that I can fight using the environment to my advantage. Allies got pinned Ahri shots a Smoke arrow at allies feet providing instant cover. Enemies have heavy armored powered equipment Ahri shots the ground nearest with EMP arrow disabling them till they are powered back up. Large group of enemy spotted Ahri shots off a Jammer arrow cutting off radio communications. We have currently only done one mission but with that one mission Ahri has completely controlled and devastated the enemy by not letting them get the upper hand. She is the one who is there for tactical support. Since her arrows all have secondary uses they each have some penalty to damage so she hasn't been able to kill intently. Edit: fixing grammar and misspelling.

[@GaleHUN]

The evil lord tried to cross the ranger with a big stick on his hip.

[@conradshtock3039]

I've seen/heard this before, but daggumit, is it glorious.

[@rollfortales3069]

That man has, at this point, an inability to make normal characters and they're all just epic, right?

[@felixlavulpe3506]

I've got more than a couple average joe characters. It's fun being the underdog.

[@noahhornbeak8831]

@@felixlavulpe3506 pre city of dead astoshan or this dude and his army?

[@nathanielhollinger4686]

"I am the artillery." point proven.

[@admiralsloth89]

I've had the pleasure of playing with LaVulpe both in Mordhau and DnD and damn it's ridiciolously fun.

[@felixlavulpe3506]

Oh hey sloth!

[@arjara85]

Reminds me that story from the books in skyrim, where the only shot that ever missed it's target, the lodged arrow hit the mark, long after the archer was dead.

[@lockwoan01]

Kind of reminds me of Dafydd Ap Hywel from "The Dragon Knight" series by Gordon R. Dickson. A Welsh bowman, who is the finest in the land, and will prove it to anyone who says otherwise. Took out several charging armored men-at-arms before the rest retreated, and killed five more before any alarms were sounded, plus other expert shots.

[@Treeco44]

Ok Felix just need to write a book already. His way of describing stories is something else.

[@felixlavulpe3506]

Tried. I'm not made for books, I just write lore.

[@Treeco44]

Felix LaVulpe Well what ever you do, you have a gift my friend.

[@dominiclarratt9968]

Thanks for bringing runesmith and I loved your cameo on his channel. Finished the story loved it.

[@devinvia9655]

I've made a few archers in my day that made DMs cry. Love this channel and all the content you guys make!

[@frostfox6020]

My favorite part is whenever he says the party crabs on brick whenever Louis brings out the magic arrows

[@ПламенПетров-г5н]

F for first *an enemy army aproaches* Lewie: *I am range* Oh? you are aproaching me? Dark champion: I can't beat the shit out of you, witho- *dies due to Lewie and youtube's censorship* (Hail Astoshan and self like mode on Latest edit: The jojo reference

[@DaBlueIghuana]

hello again

[@DaBlueIghuana]

hello again

[@ПламенПетров-г5н]

@@DaBlueIghuana sup. Just realized I missed my chance on saying "are you aproaching me?!"

[@goodname6807]

Edit it

[@noahhornbeak8831]

Who would win though

[@CL30]

Single-handedly, except for the vast army of meat shields stopping him from dying. At least the player had knowledge of bows and archery irl. I appreciate that a lot

[@felixlavulpe3506]

I told them it wasn't single handed. The rest of the party did some heavy duty carrying, if it wasn't for the paly and cleric we would've gotten wiped.

[@Alphadog2064]

Felix LaVulpe yeah, those golems were a serious threat

[@guyclykos]

Before I play the video, let me guess: The Legendary Storm Quiver? Edit: A different story. This one is also impressive.

[@Alphadog2064]

I thought it might be that as well, though this is definitely a very awesome story

[@apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868]

Is that the one where you have a quiver that compacts all your arrows into a single arrow that splits when you fire it? And then the player just keeps on hoarding arrows like its BOTW out here until they can take out an army with one shot?

[@guyclykos]

@@apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868 yup

[@samuelrodriguez9801]

I love how that Archer is practically Archer from Fate/staynight, LOL!

[@BaoHadir]

That was freaking awesome! The kingdom had better spread legends of this guy far and wide and have a statue of him. Just have the legends say he died shortly after the battle was won so nobody comes to bother him and his family.

[@wisdomhall2941]

This is by far one of the best characters that I have heard of, standing right up there with astoshan, the author did amazing. I love the end, his complete unwavering confidence.

[@Bossaru9000]

This had me fucking laughing the entire time. This character would be terrifying to fight against, and I just love the roleplay potential for what very well may be the best archer on the material plane.

[@Hyperion5182]

My Archer in a 5E Forgotten Realms campaign is working on being THAT good.

[@sharkdentures3247]

SPECTACULAR post! Love the story. Vaguely reminded me of an Archery focused, early edition Ranger I once played. (VERY vaguely) He wasn't anywhere NEAR as OP as THIS guy. (if fact, he wasn't even on par with his melee party member - especially after Mr Melee got a pair of Boots of Speed) But he DID study a particular archery style called "One Shot, One Kill". (basically, take longer to shoot, get a hit & damage bonus)

[@playerblu3694]

That ending line is so true from the dnd horror stories i'I've listened to you have to be really lucky getting a good dm to allow a character like this and players to go along with it

[@Aberrant17]

There is no sentence, phrase, or metaphor that cannot be made more colorful by Runesmith's voice. You made the right call, inviting him to narrate this story. Love both your channels, guys, and well done. :)

[@OnbanadritheMad]

another felix special, damn good story! thank you for sharing another wonderful character even if it was a one-off

[@Drahjan_TheoryBREAK]

This man is a pure genius. And he made Ashtoshan! His characters make any I have designed pale as bones in comparison. My "best" was a Half-Elf Sorcerer who is the adopted son of Bahamut. And he was clumsy in battle [I have never rolled well in melee combat; he always hit himself with his quarterstaff somehow].

[@dodo_doggy3045]

When I heard Astoshan mentioned, I knew this was gonna be good.

[@Its.Daem0n]

Wow, lack of Any sort of language I feel bad for Runesmith, having to calm his normal demeanor Miss those F bombs and the comical onslaught of babbling that makes him funny Still. This also makes me miss 3E for all its glory and crazy stunts that could totally be done with all the feats and skills allowed Sigh. Such a great system. And this can even be shown in Church, I'm so proud..ish...

[@felixlavulpe3506]

I think he did a good job keeping the emphasis of my swearing without actually cussing, personally would have preferred him being able to go ham.

[@Its.Daem0n]

@@felixlavulpe3506 I greatly enjoy listening to seemingly calm and collected people go all out and let others know the inner workings of their inner dialog. F*ck being one of my all time favorite words, its hilarious to see others so calmly go all out. Eh. Well. Runesmith was kind enough to be a good little narrator and make sure he doesn't sully such a family friendly channel.

[@Its.Daem0n]

@Vampiresoap I honestly fell out of DnD for a short while just as Pathfinder was on its way, and before 4E(ive heard mixed reviews on that one) But what I remember of 3-3.5 There were tons of books and resources that were available from WotC and its affiliates The customization you could achieve was dumbfounding at times

[@Its.Daem0n]

@Vampiresoap And I wouldn't say 5E sucks Its coming up with some things slowly, compared to its predecessors, but I would assume that is the point They had an Overabundance of material out and now they are sifting thru it all to find what is suitable for the Now generation and will be accepted by the Older generation of players Personally I do wish they'd make an update to many of the Older books, like Dark Sun especially. The barren wasteland of how Magic destroyed the area, very apocalyptic medieval fantasy feel

[@Its.Daem0n]

@Vampiresoap Look for a game called The Bards Trilogy Its very reminiscent of DnD in how you set-up a party based on race/class combo You're experience and leveling is built on each characters personal experience Its rudimentary movements is similar to a virtual DnD grid map. 4 cardinal directions and interactive environments

[@canedy999]

ahh I love playing snipers, always a joy to put a bolt or arrow from outside their sight, for all their hp. edit; grammar.

[@rickyroughton8098]

Reminds me of when I built a character to have stupid range and accuracy multipliers, then nat 1'd my first attack roll. My skittish character was proving his aim and shooting a dead pig at range, but managed to shoot the entirely wrong direction, through a hole in a door, and into an NPC that was helping us inside. Luckily the PC my character was proving himself to didn't like that NPC and just chastised him with "wrong pig," allowing me to roll something OTHER THAN a nat 1 and prove that yes I could shoot straight.

[@azurephantom100]

"its like playing battleship with a railgun" well now i want a story where that is the case

[@Stuff8522]

Yey! Runesmith! Love you man, and I'm happy you are finding success after "leaving" XP to Level 3". I know you guys are still great friends, but you have truly created a niche for yourself. I'm so happy to see you on other channels.

[@SymbioteMullet]

Makes my favourite arcane archer build look a bit wimpy. I love the utter madness 3.x allowed.

[@craigtucker1290]

It is clear that the player homebrewed some overpowered additional trade offs with a DM who did not know any better under the guise of historical knowledge. Basically the player cheated and the DM allowed it to happen. Not much of achievement unless the achievement was to make a broken character and bamboozle the DM.

[@SymbioteMullet]

@@craigtucker1290 i dunno, arguing to have your shots take multiple turns to hit doesn't sound like much of an advantage, especially as it's not a standard rule in 3.5... And the level of power the shots are getting is entirely plausible at high level (lets not forget this is a 3.x game) and the special arrow types are straight off the arcane archer class features. It sounds more like arguing for tradeoffs than baboozling for extras.

[@craigtucker1290]

@@SymbioteMullet Except it isn't a tradeoff, but the player is trying to pass it off as a tradeoff when it is a min/maxing rules lawyering attempt. There is at least one ability that eliminates all range penalties for the Cragtop archer, but the legitimate tradeoff is that for this benefit, the archer can only make a single attack a round. So when the player gets the DM to allow them to.combine all the damage for the multiple attacks they would normally get in a round into a single attack, they are getting around the legitimate limitation while making it seem like they're are giving something up in return when in fact they're gaining something. Hence, they bamboozled the DM by knowing what the rules and mechanics limited their abilities to and successful argued in a way that seemed like they were giving something up to gain something of equal or lesser value when what they really did was break the limitation the game set to balance the class. Rules lawyering at its finest... I would also suspect a similar thing happened in the group to nerf the miss an a natural roll of a 1 on attack rolls as never missing is a but unbelievable as well, but that us only a guess.

[@SymbioteMullet]

@@craigtucker1290 hmm, i don't know Cragtop archer, I'll have to look that one up... There are however (epic) feats that also remove range penalties, and he did mention having a custom bow (i do not beleive for a second it was actually nonmagical), and from my own experience i know how easy it is to smash damage upwards with a fully customised bow and enhanced arrows.

[@craigtucker1290]

@@SymbioteMullet At the 2:00 minute mark is when the OP states that they worked it out with the DM to allow for "more damage and a higher crit" than what a single shot will allow. This is basically cheating to overcome some of the limitations with imposed by some of the class abilities. I would like to see all the feats, skills, equipment and whatnot that went into the character to see what the character should have been capable of as opposed to how this characters was improved. I would be interested in the bows stats as well to see what was done. All in all, it is not a legitimate character, build, or accomplishment as there was some critical rule and game mechanic violations that had to occur to make the story happen. Are there any feats that make it so an archer never misses? I could understand a feat that might allow a reroll with some limitations, but this story seems to defy what was allowed under the madness of the 3.5 rules which speaks to power gaming, something one shouldn't be proud of achieving if they had to further break a game that already allowed for it. Rules lawyering at its finest and most deplorable since it happened and the DM was none the wiser to what the player was able to pull off.

[@Hydro_Hell]

Not a dnd player but love the stories it creates thank you for sharing them all with us

[@themanformerlyknownascomme777]

I remember hearing this story elsewhere, glad to hear it again!

[@icepheonix142]

Good lord this was a good story also glad to see runesmith here

[@gurugurukuma]

for a second I thought I heard a whole regiment of gollums. now that's crazy!

[@dreamfire3133]

You did

[@NEKOEVE]

Sounds like a pathfinder vital strike archer build. Ah I like the more "I fire 3-6 arrows every 6 seconds" Archer.

[@shaderax_storm6165]

Gotta love "True strike"

[@marks3416]

Happy to see you colab with some of my favorites!!!!

[@firestorm165]

As a history nerd that character set up put a serious smile on my face

[@rypoleon6932]

Great to see you guys collaborating, this was awesome!

[@BarcusFeshca]

I built an archery fighter in 5E, using the sharpshooter archetype from the unearthed arcana, when the archer at 10th level beat a kraken with his insane archery buffs the DM asked me to alter my play style because if he built encounters to challenge me he would wipe the party but if he built challenges for everyone else I would steam roll them. Gerdine is still a legendary name in my group

[@ramares4827]

Wow this video changed my perspective on archery in dnd. I never knew archer's could be that scary. As always I love the content 👍👍

[@vasudean]

They're always scary in the right hands. It's just that people have a tendency of sleeping on it. The ability of drawing first blood cannot be understated.

[@WumboGuy]

Cragtop Archer is one of the funnest characters I ever played. Mine was a half-giant with a with a giant 12 foot tall bow and javelins of returning that I shot through it as arrows. From the tower in the center of the city ruled by one of the other players I could easily hit anything out to the horizon in any direction. Basically just Hawkeye Gough from Dark Souls, believe it or not before DS came out though. Except my guy was a loud obnoxious mercenary instead of a quiet giant.

[@79thinline]

Felix I know you go through these comments XD I’ve seen you on most any video about your characters and you sir are a madman and a genius I love hearing about your characters keep it up 😄

[@erikkennedy8725]

He created Hawkeye. Wow. And what an ending line. Love the idea of formation rules- been trying to mix Kings of War with D&D myself- my current campaign is leading up to it eventually.

[@ashenmask5301]

So, THAT'S how Hawkeye should have been in Avengers

[@lockskelington314]

I remember this story on another channel. This was done well.

[@azevol216]

I was waiting for this collaboration to happen

[@Artemisthemp]

I have been looking for this history and it's one of those stories that makes me wanna play a Ranger.

[@Omniroc]

Wow that sounds like my current Pathfinder character, a geslaut psionic Marksman (sniper mantra), and a sould knife, soul bolt archetype into sould Archer. I have the same range, less penality, and use psionic arrows so I can new run out. Being able to fly and having the hover feat also helps.

[@ryanlexow3875]

This is by far my favorite "All things DnD" story.

[@VaderViktor]

This sounds really cool, and I think I will incorporate this into a ranger subclass.

[@Aazdremzul]

We had a literal Sniper in my current campaign. He was able to make shots from about 2 miles out, and had spent alot of his hard earned time and gold to get that Sniper. He was a pretty good mercenary, not too renowned but he proved to be quite the hero in this part of the story. Unfortunately, he died to the final battle of that part of the story, and his body and soul couldn't be recovered.

[@devinbrynjulson4052]

I loved my archer. She was a ranger/magic crafter who made a bow of multiplicity. Basically a bow that tirns one arrow into 5. It was fun.

[@Donkeyearsa]

I have an anthropomorphic bear that is so massive and strong that he uses a light ballista as a heavy crossbow and uses a heavy crossbow as a light crossbow. In the games rules it takes three rounds to load and fire a heavy crossbow and a light crossbow can be loaded and fired each round. The chances of him hitting is not all that good but when he does hit he can kill almost any person in the game as no matter how strong or week a person is as everyone has twelve hit points and he can do twelve points of damage with one hit. Most weapons in the game can only to one to three hits of damage each round depending on how powerful the weapon is and how much armor the defender is wearing. You are walking down a trail and you see something fly past you. What ever it was hits the guy next to you and you see the guy fly back as a massive hole in his chest sprays blood for a very short time all over the trail. What do you do? (A) Shit in your pants? (B) Drop your weapons and run for your life? Or (C) Surrender and pray to what ever gods you believe in that they are taking prisoners? Oh by the way A and B or A and C are also acceptable options.