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[@GreaterGrievobeast55]

OOOH an episode on my birthday! And a relatable one at that!! I remember during a special session our whole party got stuck in front of a magic talking gate with a trick riddle thing for nearly an hour. Basically the password was written on to the wall but you had to trick the wall into saying the password. YIRBEL LIVES!

[@morthos-_-5873]

Happy birthday

[@GreaterGrievobeast55]

@@morthos-_-5873 ack just passed a few hours ago for me but thank you!

[@JDStone-jg8cg]

I am no longer allowed to play artificer's because i know too much chemistry . . . I know there's a difference between what I know and what my character knows. So I set the stage by gathering samples of things throughout our journey and practicing with my alchemy kit every evening. Several sessions later my character had discovered multiple ingredients and mixed them together. My artificer made a rocket launcher in a medieval setting . . . i blew up so many things . . . it was glorious!

[@kn1ghtsm1t38]

My group managed to completely skip a quest by managing to convince the shady quest giver that he was in a Zone of Truth and questioned him relentlessly until he slipped up on words. And that’s how my party avoided getting betrayed by him, him making a giant mech to overthrow the king, et cetera.

[@schwarzerritter5724]

The explosion story is the reason why you need to put the word "harmless" in the spell.

[@hackcubit9663]

That's actually a very good point and fantastic idea. Like granted, as a GM I would have been torn between telling them it's harmless, and answering "well, that's on me for not specifying harmless when I wrote it down." Especially knowing he wanted to make enough explosive chemical to make a dent visible from space, and an explosion that could be felt in the Astral Sea. Centuries later, the clerics would tell of the day that the creator god farted so hard his wife divorced him.

[@SaltpeterTaffy]

@@hackcubit9663 Anything can be harmful in large enough quantities. The problem isn't the substance, it's that the DM permitted the cantrip to be enhanced with spell slots.

[@judgedredd2039]

Now where is the fun in that.

[@alkatron768]

There was no reason for the rod to not just crumble against the stone wall or to vaporise itself later by the friction through the air. But this is way more fun

[@Tinmann_77]

It's magic. That's why it didn't crumble or vaporize

[@alkatron768]

@@Tinmann_77 you can say that, but it's actually not canon that all or even lots of magic items are indestructable, it's only artifacts that hold that power.

[@Tinmann_77]

@@alkatron768 its a homebrew item. There is nothing Canon about it.

[@alkatron768]

@@Tinmann_77 with this, nothing has been added from you. If we say it ignores the canon rules because it's homebrew, then your comment was completely useless, I hope you see how.

[@That80sGuy1972]

@@alkatron768 Decades ago, in the original canon, magic items of a permanent nature used to be virtually indestructible by default if not specified in the item description. Monsters, events, and objects that could destroy magical items had notes to specify how they could. That's no longer the case because WotC threw out a lot of the default AD&D reality when they took over from TSR.

[@That80sGuy1972]

"Backfire" from the Knack is an understatement. Oh, and I never disallow such repeats in my AD&D campaigns. Those things draw the attention of others in the campaign world, and such an event would draw the attention of the gods. The gods of nature and magic would probably agree to remove knack as an option for the spell after that while every power-hungry person in the campaign would hunt the characters down to learn how that spellcaster was able to do such a powerful blast. I have you beat. My players spent three hours in a room spinning a Homebrew Wheel of Fortune, three real-world hours like your session. They only stopped after they exhausted all their means to recover from future bad spins. They left the dungeon to resupply to come back to continue the adventure. They almost parked in the same room again but instead chose to complete the mission... and took the Wheel of Fortune with them on the way out.

[@recentteen14]

Knack? No, it's NaK. Sodium Potassium, in its Periodic Table of Elements shorthand.

[@That80sGuy1972]

@@recentteen14 That's beside the point I was making and I was spelling it phonetically, like how Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) in car racing is called Noz and spelled that way phonetically... and the inspiration behind the name of an energy drink. Google-based pseudo-intellectualism may seem smart because you stump people with random technically correct information but it actually makes you look like the geek that missed the point or didn't get the joke. It's okay, I used to do that sh^t too.

[@sharkjumpingwalrus6744]

@@That80sGuy1972 To be fair, I missed the joke until I read that post. Granted, I forgot most of my chemistry, not practicing a skill is a good way to lose it.

[@That80sGuy1972]

@@sharkjumpingwalrus6744 That's true. I was a tinker from my preteens to my early 20s. When I was almost 20, I opened up a couple of my gizmos and couldn't figure out how I built them other than getting the gist of the basics.

[@melkiorwiseman5234]

I was thinking when I saw the title that maybe they were in a room with a mirror and a pencil and no obvious exit... ;) You look in the mirror and then look again and see what you saw. You take the saw and saw the pencil in half. Two halves make a whole so you crawl out the hole. (Obviously, it works a lot better when it's spoken instead of written, due to the homophones) :D

[@Ashtari]

Reminds me of what our kobold artificer did...he made a magical bomb with the help of the warlock and sorcerer...10 levels of Sniloc's Snowball Swarm went into that bomb... We didn't find out for another two levels that the bomb tore open a hole into the primordial plane of ice. We had to go back to the castle where we set it off and close it...as well as fight an adult white dragon, several of these horrible giant fire/ice centipedes, and some large ice frogs. The paladin almost died three times on this little sidetrack.

[@apersonwhoexists546]

Fun story one time like I think 4 years ago I did a thing where we played dnd I was young and at some point we fought some skeletons i asked what the bones where held together by the dm said that they where held together by hate so my first instinct was to hug one and it kinda worked

[@chrisalessio8934]

Love these videos

[@bmyers7078]

I vaguely remember a Critical Role episode where Percy won a cannon ball splash contest that used Nak. He rolled the same as Pike, however, only his drew blood. (Edit: they were jumping in a swimming pool, not shooting cannons at opponents).

[@noneofyourbuisness1679]

*Paladin in second story:* I WAS GONE FOR FIVE MINUTES

[@gothicbuzzsaw]

I'm trying to figure out where from they determined the concussive forces of NaK I'm sitting here trying to do the math myself and I'm missing that key component

[@Trivial_Whim]

Easy explanation: deck of many wonderous things. Effects of wonderous items mixed with deck of many things.

[@willparry530]

ohhh man, that explosion is bigger than the Tsar Bomba...glorious!

[@donald9377]

For a one shot that had my party and i was in in it for 2 hours game time. The gm had a room filled with chest's in it and we faught a group of mimic's in the previous room that took differant form (mimic bed, mimic chair and mimic door's . Us being paranoid we try everything in to make sure they were not mimic's and after enough time passed. We said enough was enough and decided to destroy the room filled with chest's in them to make sure they were not monster's.

[@levisays7676]

My idea im hoping to get to do an theoretically should be allowed to do is have my Tortle Hexblade Warlock travel around a hollowed out reinforced barrel of 5ft in height as a portable ¾ cover, hoping i get a good DM that allows me to do so as i truly find it a funny & uniquely quirky character design, Basically a Turtle carrying a item to use as a second shell to hide in if combats too hectic lol😂❤

[@Drizzt12321]

Let's see... The most absurd item I ever gave my players was an enchanted (or cursed, I suppose) ring, that the players found on the floor beneath a hanged skeleton, which had been a sorceror's apprentice, the creator of the ring. Thing is, the ring had the purpose of identifying every enchanted item the wearer carried. Which It would do. One by one. Including itself. As if a male voice was speaking over and over and over again in the wearer's mind. And it would never cease, not even If the ring was thrown away. It HAD to be taken (or, hilariously enough) reverse-pickpocketed. That ring was the best thing ever. It was, in the end, sold to a shopkeeper that had tried to outsmart the party by accepting a "measly enchanted item" in return for repairing their weapons and armor, as well as a general restocking of items. We laughed ourselves for weeks on end over that. LMAO

[@christopherandresen9790]

That reminded me of the time when we played shadowrun and the driver just outdone all the fighters with his motorcycle and some propane tanks killing a normal dragon with that XD

[@stephenadams8712]

When I started DnD i played a ranger but forgot to add a bow managed to get range attack using a cooking pot and high power stream

[@MrDmitriRavenoff]

The transmute liquid one would have gotten a hard NO from me as a DM. Know when to say NO.

[@aarons.8161]

My thoughts on the second story. "Just wen you think players couldn't come up with anything worse than stuffing a Portable Hole into a Bag of Holding." Might just be lucky he didn't use a 9th level Spell Slot. lol

[@shirlot]

On the second story, the portal would have transferred some of the explosion through it, right?

[@morgantaylor84]

That's probably what killed the rest of the party (minus the Cleric).

[@CampanellaJ]

That was a clever advertising plot. 👏 I approve.

[@vicenteisaaclopezvaldez2450]

If you detonate a lake with an olimpic-pool-worth of nak, is the hole heavier?

[@TheBoneBrew]

Your discord links don't work

[@Adam-wg2rf]

The cores dice of bad lack. The whay it work it when you need to role a dice like lets say a d20 dice hif you not role 20 you will need to roll a d6 dice and what will cam hote of it, it will work like a mines to the arigenol namber anles you rolld 20 if that what apend you don't need to roll the secand one

[@Tinmann_77]

I love the knack one

[@AdarinMonk]

This makes me want to try transfiguring a BBEG's wine into liquid nitrogen.

[@JB_2529]

Video beings at 1:45

[@novadrake9232]

The last story they surely had a blast

[@hackcubit9663]

Hate to say it, but, I'd definitely stick objects through a mysterious portal if I knew that vaguely-related things came back out of it. Granted, I'd also assume that the more things I threw in the more likely I'd get something really bad back out, like a cursed version or something.

[@laggybum3218]

I agree! With my luck though, I would end up with all cursed items or NPCs that are worse than what we had faced! Remember, there are an infinite possibilities!

[@Slye_Fox]

That unit conversion in the second story is wrong. 1,500,000 liters is ~549923 Imperial gallons. The gallons used in the story is US gallons, not Imperial.

[@Mi-le9pp]

So a item story that I have (this was like three years ago details are a little fuzzy) Is I worshipped Loki the god of mischief and we had to go to this town right before we got to this town he gave me a special coin that caused madness to whoever I gave it to and I believe who ever they touched after being affected with the madness this was pretty early on in our campaign so this town we had to go to I think was like anti magic and the guards took over the town and like kidnapped us as soon as we walked in and tied us to poles in town square they were about to begin looting us before killing us and I convinced the guard captain to rummage through my pocket and take the coin because it was SUPER valuable so he does and is then promptly cursed and so do all of his men eventually and they wipe them selves out by killing each other/committing suicide and this was like when we were level 2-3 so that was a pretty fun item story that I have

[@Sparrow_Bloodhunter]

so a 5th level spell slot is able to do more damage than a level 9 fireball? interesting. next time just use a lower level spell slot and you won't accidentally nuke the party.

[@shikaio]

Indeed... Creation is a 5th level spell...... An official spell and not a homebrew like the transmits water. So yes a 5th level spell can do more dmg than a 9th level fireball. Potassium 😉

[@novadrake9232]

@@shikaio depending how you use it

[@KeithOlson]

So you're saying that that player had a knack for over-the-top destruction...

[@theofficerfactory2625]

Darn it. I can't figure out how big a 50mx25mx2m tablet of Na/K would be.

[@jesseyancy1160]

Only two hours? My players have essentially been in the entrance hall of a dungeon for many many sessions because of an aboleth I thought would scare them away

[@Azriclu]

Wow, I've lost control of games but never like this, my rule is you can try anything so player killers think they'll love my table but hate it when the entire tables ends them, but this, wow

[@recursiveslacker7730]

The reaction with water would have been rate-limited by surface area, so it probably wouldn’t have been Hiroshima sized, just really big.

[@FlyingDominion]

Wait, you've already shared both stories in this video.

[@izraelburgess937]

This just inspired me to for a one shot campaign. Where the entire campaign takes place in one room . Except the party is stuck there because the room continuously transforms 😈 Also I’m totally gonna use transmute liquid like this . Except changing it into holy water or acid hehe

[@idkwhat___is]

Hmmm yes casually makes big af bomb

[@wcraven100]

Okay... So we where on a rescue mission in this modern magic homebrew session and we are sneaking around this corporation building that one of the players significant others works in turns out the said player is an experiment for this corporation to grow plant people and ya know build an army well our drugged friend is being escorted down the stairs by like eight people we are like level five I'm the only one who can turn invisible so I'm following so we don't lose track of them the rest of the party is panicking and I get the message that everyone is leaving them behind and we have to leave so I start to panic and... I remember how to make a bomb sense I'm invisible I can gather the materials I need to to quickly whip this up crude explosive roll really well to improvise and set it off I expected dynamite damage the Dm ruled that it was so well made that it was 5th level fireball level damage in a stairwell with locked doors so that's how the party became domestic terrorists in the matter of 5 minutes so to quote hitchhikers "Don't Panic"

[@davidmcfall9169]

NaK + H2O = boom

[@Chaosmage42]

and this is why if your planning to use magic to preform alchemy you study your chemistry. Seriously what kind of damage was that math wise. are we talking equal to a nuke or equal to a meteor strike or are we talking end of the world blowing off a good chunk of the planet

[@idkwhat___is]

You could use the rod to make a rail gun

[@schwarzerritter5724]

You can already make a rail gun with enough peasants.

[@idkwhat___is]

@@schwarzerritter5724 yes but with enough speed it just kills all peasants

[@4ncientGu150]

He gave the players a gacha. Yeah, that's going to waste a lotta time XD

[@laggybum3218]

This totally sounds like something my group would do! The knack I mean.

[@yourfoxydm_vt]

Third....I guess....my Internet is shit so probably not!!

[@clericofchaos1]

The first story may not be about something like a puzzle, but that's still the reason i stopped using puzzles in my games and hate when other gms put them in theirs. For me at least, there's nothing more boring for the dm to just sit there for 2 hours listening to the players argue about how to solve a puzzle you thought would be easy, and as a player there's nothing more boring than listening to your fellow players argue for 2 hours trying to solve a puzzle the gm thought would be easy. Just make it a knowledge check and let players take 20 if they want. Whatever keeps the game moving forward. As for the second story, nice use of magic and science. I always allow similar effects if they have a grounding in real world science.

[@kingwildcat6192000]

8th comment

[@baziwan9407]

Wait other's players don't take this long?

[@p_wac4437]

fourth.. maybe??

[@craigtucker1290]

Just handing out magical items until the player gets what they want? Really? Just terrible DMing...

[@badbear6390]

First hahah