Narrated D&D Story: How The Party Used An Exploding Gnome As A Bomb

[@felixlavulpe3506]

Sound effects are a nice touch. I like it. As usual if anyone has any question or anything, I'll do my best.

[@popeofpuns5722]

could ben heal or was his max hp 1?

[@johnnysizemore5797]

@Felix LaVulpe-- so whatever happened to the group after "The Bendinberg Incident" and what other creature did the player make?

[@craigtucker1290]

Have you ever played a legitimate game that followed the rules? Because I am starting to notice a pattern...

[@Things_I_wish_I_knew]

You created this guy? Again, amazing concept

[@EtnaBoy666]

So Ben got fused with the phoenix as it died? Well, phoenixs do have the ability to come back to life if they are slain. Man, nothing is worse than becoming a living bomb trapped in an eternal inferno. Sure, you are immortal, but you never get to enjoy your immortality because you keep dying every second. I'd feel bad for the gnome, but he dug his own grave by suiciding himself into that phoenix. :p

[@DoomedPaladin]

Worst wish I've ever heard of was, "I wish for weapons out the ass!" To which the wish-giver gave the (newb player) PC a second chance to change their wish. They did not. DM took the player's sheet and tore it in half. Told him to make another character. Fast forward 6-ish months with the same group, minus that player, and the group's characters stumble across a pocket-plane jam-packed with weapons of every make, model, and size. I the center of the plane, on top of a mountain of weapons, is a humanoid skeleton with lots of spiky and bladed weapons fused into its tail and hip bones. All share a good laugh.

[@taiga738]

If the DM was feeling merciful he could've just let him fart weapons as some kind of really embarrassing summoning ability or something.

[@Gormathius]

...That is legitimately horrifying.

[@MsKeylas]

@@taiga738 well dm gave him a chance to change his wish

[@syncringe1885]

@@MsKeylas Its still terrifying

[@wildstorm3486]

Just from the title alone I know this is going to be a good one.

[@irishspartanstudios]

Loki: I have an army. Tony: We have a Hulk! Party: WE HAVE A BEN!!!

[@Kyzen_Wrell]

Party: We have a Hulk AND a Ben. (Don’t forget the earlier part of the story)

[@ashannahensley3288]

Having a Ben wins.

[@benkayvfalsifier3817]

Yeah I bet Ben will return in a later campaign to get his revenge on his "companions".

[@TheJacob232]

you guys LEFT ME! Dying over and over wasnt enough for you guys, you had to perfect the loop! do you know how many times i died in that fire?!?!? I KNOW I DONT!

[@maxharter5716]

Wazdak: "Now self destruct." Ben: "Finally! Nyeheheheheh!" *explodes*

[@ghostlynose2091]

This gnome literally became a cluster bomb nuke hybrid at the end.

[@singletona082]

So the alchemist could spike the gnome like a football? Nice.

[@allthingsdnd]

Did you like the music and SFX? 🤔 Its all thanks to Syrinscape. I hope you all liked Ben as well, the ever immortal gnome who never stops exploding.

[@UndeadSteampunk]

I think the dragon next to my name is awesome. And i am glad that the money I spend to keep it there is well used on the making of the awesome and ever so entertaining.

[@taoin5560]

you had me at exploding gnome, immortal was unnecessary.

[@imeize]

OMG I can’t stop laughing! It’s been a shitty day so far for me, so this was a welcome relief! Thank You!

[@JonathanToolonie]

Have a good one mate

[@Nightken91]

I've had a ring of wishes in one campaign. The DM gave the party a ring with a single charge for the greater wish spell. We all agreed to save it for an emergency and we were so glad that we did. The emergency that it was used on literally ended a continental war. At the time I was an elf ranger and was the one of the two standing players. Without any hesitation I did something that the DM didn't expect. Grabbing the ring out of the party bag of loot I quickly put the ring on and spoke my wish, "I wish that this war was over and that we were transported to the peace agreement signing with both sides agreeing to the treaty" He was so shocked that I used the one wish to not only save my friends, but it literally ended the campaign story without further bloodshed.

[@fenorlex1126]

And then suddenly, *A reason to unite, as a greater evil made its influence known...*

[@mrcombustiblelemon2902]

And suddenly both armies dropped dead, as well as the civilians, leaving only the local Romeo-and-Juliet lovers alive. The lucky surviving couple decided to officially sign a peace treaty on behalf of their many, many dead compatriots.

[@ProjectRedfoot]

Sounds like more than one wish lol

[@asbestosfish_]

Ah yes, “The Hindenburg Manoeuvre”.

[@goldchild100]

Don't you mean HINBENBERG Maneuver

[@KingOfLesbia]

More like the drow heard "Kirov reporting"

[@emberfist8347]

Reminds more of the Marvel villain Nitro.

[@OverReaperCh]

Evil: I'm most powerful entity! PC: We have gnome and you have been Gnomed!

[@sharkdentures3247]

"A one gnome carpet bomb" - I lost it on that one! I actually remember a similar thing in a VERY old game I was invited to play in that a bunch of older guys played (my dad's friends / coworkers)! We are talking homebrewed merged rules from 1st Edition & CHAINMAIL! (yeah, that old) As I was a late comer I didn't know the full character backstory / details, but there was this warrior character who was like Part-Phoenix(?). He found it very difficult to wear ANY armor for any length of time (even light armor) because of his high body temperature, and he would quickly overheat in all but the lightest of clothing. Full plate? Forget about it! if he even TRIED to don Full Plate, by the time the last piece was in place, he would have to IMMEDIATELY start the removal process or he would soon find himself under the effect of a 'Heat Metal' spell! He would usually walk around scantily garbed. (think gladiator skirt/loincloth, light shoulder guard & a handful of harnesses to carry weapons & equipment) BUT, if he every got KILLED, he would explode in a non fire-resistable (i.e. Fire resistance / immunity did NOT apply) 20d6 Fireball! And then be Resurrected (no success roll required) 1d4 rounds later. (full hit points but naked). This was very cool, but it did NOT make him "immortal" since (as Resurrection was back in the day) he would permanently LOSE 1 point of Constitution each time this happened! (or maybe it was a Level? Or both? I dont remember.) Made for a very interesting character!

[@dominiclarratt9968]

All things dnd: What happens when you mix Paranoia Insanity And an idiot? Me: an American election

[@Avigorus]

Correction: several idiots. 🤣

[@rockspoon6528]

Yeah, Biden is insane. Elder abuse to run the guy at this point.

[@bruceweiner5306]

Mad we're not propping up whatever useless country you're from?

[@blindedjourneyman]

@@bruceweiner5306 its a joke....chill.

[@zacharygadzinski3147]

@@rockspoon6528 Yeah and not to mention that every Democrat , or at least the leaders of the party, ranges from lawful evil to chaotic evil. Definitely voting Trump again. I would rather have my freedom than become a government slave. Not to mention I'm tired of the left politicizing everything. They are out of control and need to be stopped.

[@truthfulkarl]

i was dying laughing for this entire story, thats bloody hilarious

[@GreaterGrievobeast55]

YIRBEL LIVES! i have a friend who *absolutely* hates gnomes" she would be elated to know that one became a bomb. I have another friend that had an scp related rp where the base got infiltrated by gnomes grouping up like cheerleaders into a giant gnome mech.

[@CordeiroViivi]

Is your friend secretly a kobold?

[@DragonGunzDorian]

Giant gnome mech reminds me of gravity falls.

[@jameswyatt2525]

@@DragonGunzDorian dude me too

[@Gormathius]

Why do so many people hate gnomes? I just don’t get it.

[@tye64]

@@Gormathius While growing up, they had bad gnome life experiences.

[@vendrexlorddragon]

Lmfao, I loved the bomb gnome of never ending explosions. I only wish I had the ability to do some thing like this with My artificer so I can shoot it out of my eldritch cannon. Just block off a door way and fire him out of the fire cone cannon. That would be so funny.

[@Dewani90]

you can basically do that on bomberman for the SNES, while you have starter invincibility or regular invincibility place a bomb and explode it near you, for starters when you place a bomb near another one it will detonate the other, so just use the "place bomb" button once your bomb explodes and press it over and over, there, you're a walking disaster of explosions and brimstone, make sure to stop once the invincibility shine is almost over otherwise you will die for sure... grab a lot of [Fire] items for maximum fun.

[@therobokraken7595]

This, this is why i love D&D.

[@angrymike590]

The sound effects were quite awesome this time around and the story of an immortal exploding gnome named Ben was really great

[@michaelsanford1525]

Have to say this is the best D&D story I have ever heard. i love it!!

[@kelticjoshkeltichunter4426]

I want to hear more about this guy.

[@Gormathius]

His name is Ben, he’s short and fat and he has a bright blue shirt? Is this a Puffin Forest crossover? Random player: «How much damage did that explosion do?» Gnome: «IT’S MATH TIME WITH BEN!»

[@JXEditor]

What else can you use an exploding Gnome (or really exploding anything) as if not a bomb?

[@jsheski2734]

You had me at Exploding :D

[@ПламенПетров-г5н]

Hail Astoshan and self like mode on. I won't say anything else just to be part of the society for once)

[@redraptorx1066]

i keep coming back to this story... so much so that if i ever do pick up DnD and one of my players a gnome like Ben, i'll at sompoint allow them to become a one Gnome apocalypses that ends the second the last enemy in an army dies.

[@kemix1006]

Exploding Gnomes can't melt steel beams >*watches video* Weeeeeelllll...Shiiiiiiieeeeet...

[@iciclecold2991]

I can't imagine the player was too pleased... Either that or he too found it hilarious and the tower just made it more fun.

[@UndeadSteampunk]

How are you doing everyone?

[@dominiclarratt9968]

Good and you?

[@UndeadSteampunk]

I am doing well

[@UndeadSteampunk]

@ajs1031 that is awesome

[@UndeadSteampunk]

@FlySpyGuy me

[@UndeadSteampunk]

@FlySpyGuy fare

[@Zer0C0re]

Giving the phrase, "Get Gnome'd" a whole new meaning.

[@krvys7226]

What were the players alignments again? I would argue condemning someone to a fate of eternal death and rebirth is pretty evil... And doing it not for something they did, but rather as a side thing to completing a different story mission...definatly chaotic evil

[@craigtucker1290]

Definitely evil. Think of what that would do to your mind, constantly being used as a bomb, dragged out of your home, drugged up until you were needed? But then again, this seems to be typical for this poster and their group. If they didn't change alignment for doing so, I would question the DM's competency.

[@williamlai29]

This reminds me too much of "Squee, Goblin Nabob" from magic the gathering. He just cannot die lol.

[@jonathanmarks3112]

Easily one of the craziest ideas I've yet heard of in DnD. Yet somehow completely awesome.

[@jaleik75]

I think Ben ( screaming ) would go insane by the 24-hour mark of constant exploding and being revived. Eventually, there would be nothing left to burn, but the ground would be so hot. He would stop exploding and die his last death from heat exposure. 😂

[@TacDyne]

We had a megalomaniac part time DM who wrote out a 3 page legal document to use any time one of his characters was going to use a wish. This was a guy who, while DMing, would bring along a level 20 DMPC ringer to accompany a level 4 party just to make sure his level 4 DMPC didn't die (I never played with him while he did this, but did witness him doing it on multiple occasions). Yeah, that guy. So anyway, the other guy who mostly DMed our games would spend hours coming up with creative ways to corrupt that guy's wishes in spite of his 3 page legal contract, and he would be horrifically creative about it.

[@Solrex_the_Sun_King]

My LARP used Syrinscape for music once.

[@Chaosmage42]

that would be a great place in dnd a cannon that is constantly on fire because of the gnome exploding and reviving and all you can hear is him screaming curses at the people who dropped him there.

[@johnnysizemore5797]

Notes from a NG Human idiot; Greetings from lovely Restenford(i had a suprisingly pleasent visit from my in-laws yesterday.....)! Wishes are always considered double-edged swords to me: you get what you've been wanting, but the price is always too steep. Ben the exploding Gnome reminds me of something our Group Thief said once: "It's not paranoia if something really is after you." May your pantheon ever favor you(especially in these trying times), Baron Trevelyan of Restenford

[@druid_zephyrus]

That is because you have not set up the proper precautions in your wishes. this is how you wish. 1st wish: I wish that this wish and all other future, past, and present wishes act in accordance with how I expect the said wishes to occur 2nd wish: I wish for omnipotence and omniscience. 3rd wish: I wish that my wishes cannot be undone by any force, fictional or real, without my willingness for such to occur. boom done. good luck rule lawyers!

[@johnnysizemore5797]

@Matthew Koller -- ah, but you normally only get one wish so unless you can make all that one long wishy run-on sentence your kinda stuck with picking a priority....

[@druid_zephyrus]

@@johnnysizemore5797 simple solution, pick the first my wish. Then all you have to do is think that any other wish being cast also imparts an additional wish to you, the source of wish#1. "... *_ALL_* wishes past present and future..." Edit: it is not just a loophole clearing device. it is pure power, the other two wishes just five you clear ability to k ow everything and be capable of doing anything, which can all change on a whim. you control all Universal forces and constants, in addition to preventing others from taking it away, which is kind of redundant with the third, but better safe then never.

[@johnnysizemore5797]

@Matthew Koller -- Nice loophole! I'm goona have to find a way to close that when i'm DMing again....

[@druid_zephyrus]

@@johnnysizemore5797 Genies ain't got nothing on me! Hopefully soon you can abuse your players with such unlimited power! Give them all the wishes they want! But that is just another wish for Al'Uhdean "The Dragon Whom Hoards Wishes"

[@robinthrush9672]

Liked the fitting use of "Terrible Writing Advice's" most common background music.

[@OnbanadritheMad]

another wonderful story. i laughed, i cried (from laughter). True immortality! At least until it blasts deep enough to create a volcano then who knows?

[@xendakakorva3267]

becomes a bomb? YOU MEAN A FLIPPING NUKE!!! XD

[@shachar9111]

So, basically he's in hell and keeps on burning until the flames around finally dies down. I don't think he's immortal now because there will be a time where there would be nothing to be burned down and then he'll reappear and won't explode.

[@hemiwarrior6226]

Ben: "Kaboom?" Party: "Yes Ben. Kaboom."

[@Kochers27]

This story just got in my top 3! Epic

[@R3GARnator]

This guy would fit right in with the Doom Diver Catapults of Warhammer Fantasy.

[@DragoniteSpam]

These are the kind of absurd stories I live for.

[@jand1993]

I almost died laughing! How the heck does someone get a ridicoulus idea like that?

[@GCJACK83]

Mother of god. It's Konosuba with Megumin replaced by a dwarf.

[@j.w.7608]

It actually isnt

[@R3GARnator]

Skaven do this to skavenslaves all the time in Warhammer.

[@mathunit1]

@@j.w.7608 Yes, it is.

[@ProjectRedfoot]

6:30 I can't stop laughing dude! lmao

[@misamisaa4547]

Not exactly "be careful what you wish for" but my last character somehow managed to sneak into some big shot wizard's bedroom in the middle of the night (my babysitters... I mean the rest of the party were pass out drunk) and her high ass AC prevented him from turning her into a frog. So DM rolled dice and the dice gods decided that the wizard panicked and cast wish in order to wish me out of existence...

[@davidwooster2076]

Is it weird that All Things DnD posted a video about something the group of people I play DnD with joked about our Ranger turning into a suicide bomber and making jokes about 'stitching' his body back together so we could cast revivify on him to do it all over again? Long story short we are playing homebrew races in a frost punk based game and the race that our ranger has Hellish Rebuke and the whole party forgot the guy had a full gunpowder horn which can hold enough powder for a 100 shots and he has set himself on fire a lot of times...That and how the joke was made was he was asking if any the party members could teach his character to make dynamite. (My character is a Artificer and is subclassed as the Artillerist.)

[@arcanecontent]

Drow Elves: We have an army! Party: We have a Ben!

[@confectortyrannis275]

Ok. The marriage counseling Raid ad was pretty funny 😆😂

[@gphoenix51]

That...was...AWESOME!

[@thenakash6368]

That is sick. I LOVED IT!!

[@obsidiandragon1385]

THIS IS FRICKING AMAZING

[@delsinlarson9160]

XD this reminds me of the time I threw a Gnome up into a Giants Nose

[@PrinceSheogorath]

To quote a friend “CHUCK THE LITTLE GNOMED SHIT”

[@WandererCayne]

Love Syrinscape!! Can’t wait for an app!!

[@jeremiahlewis410]

Hoh, that does look like a better sound program. Thanks. And that gnome... where do you get these stories, man they are the best. And gold mine for ideas.

[@nerdybard3762]

This story was everything it promised it would be and so much more...

[@pandoratheclay]

BEN Used Self-Destruct...It’s Super Effective!

[@DetectiveLance]

Ben the Bomb. I'm not sure we at our campaign would do that, but at the same time, I do have a kobold with exploding shot, so if we had someone that functioned like that...

[@NobodyDungeons]

Dying repeatedly every second does not sound like a kind fate

[@ianfairfield8373]

So this is the origins for Garden Warfares "Gnome Bomb"

[@EuelBall]

An immortal, exploding gnome... Does it say something that this is not the strangest thing I've heard of?

[@sharonblankcanvas7173]

My cat is not happy with you. He was sleeping peacefully until I heard this story, and started laughing so hard he got up and went to find somewhere quiet to sleep.

[@vallettapetracyneran8587]

I almost feel for the little bugger.

[@shadowstorm79mc]

This reminds me of the Zombie Bomb a old 3.5 campaign I played in I had a friend that was running a necromancer and his crowning achievement was to create the Zombie Bomb they were zombies wearing Helms of brilliance they would run into wherever he wanted them to go and light themselves on fire dealing 10 d-10 damage to a 60 foot radius reflex save dc17 He would usually have these zombies dropped onto unsuspecting groups of enemies by his flying Undead

[@thomassierp5583]

Brilliant ☺️

[@edgarlarios4718]

Afraid of being hit by a cat so he goes nuclear. 🤣

[@Avigorus]

Now I want to see some madman conjure some kind of Fire Elemental or maybe a demon/devil and send it in to get Ben out as part of a follow-up adventure years later lol (something immune to fire theoretically might be able to move him a few inches at a time between detonations till he's out of the main inferno, even if that took a few years to achieve; alternatively, send in something immune to fire that possesses some form of teleport other ability it could use on him in that split second between appearance and detonation).

[@roboraptorwolf9726]

This is a very “explosive” laugh

[@royc7695]

The Flaming Lawn Gnome Dart? Or would he be the Flaming Lawn Dart Gnome?

[@PozerAdultRacingTeam]

Wow,that was a crazy story.

[@ronansmith9148]

They figured out how to make a fat man bomb in d&d. I never thought a nuke was available.

[@gothicshark]

poor gnome. /drinks a fireball schnapps shot for Ben

[@agamerdoesthings9317]

I mean, this isn't related, but one time, I walked into a thieves guild and cast thunderclap by accident I was being chased by guards, ok?

[@ronansmith9148]

1812 overture is Ben's theme song.

[@jessicaginocchio9973]

Had a new player use a wish to turn 3 wolves into her "wolf army" she asked if they could fight for her. I told her they could. However, she neglected to ask for trained wolves, just for the wolves and asked if they COULD fight for her. She took them immediately into the final battle of the campaign, and the wolves attacked creatures at random.

[@ricardotorrence6459]

So... Ben is still exploding to this day?

[@IamaPERSON]

Not gonna lie, this video is a blast!

[@Things_I_wish_I_knew]

Poor gnome.... I feel bad for him actually.

[@bethanysmith5856]

poor Ben, just wait for when he can finally escape and gets found by someone else

[@cashewmiranda5155]

I love him... I want one

[@Infernoblade1010]

In my last session my wizard used dead bodies that were being sacrificed to an ooze "god" and put "fire bombs" that he created and blew it up and destroyed the monster

[@Xiterok]

Can eternal dying and reviving be considered... immortality?

[@samueltheblonde]

Immortality is everyone else dying... Sooooooo.....

[@Sparkbomber]

I'm not really feeling the sponsor, but the story's something else. Poor gnome.

[@DragonGunzDorian]

The gnomes appearance reminds me of a gravity falls gnome, but considering they're just generic gnomes that's not surprising.

[@gibbous_silver]

I’m a gnome and you’ve been gnomed

[@CommanderM117]

that title sound a lot like my Gnomes that explode when they store Mana for to long gnome in my world have to state solid and normal in there solid state they cant move and are like Gargoyles but can cast spells and stuff in there normal state they can walk around and be a pain in the ass their also naturally Immortal if they die they simply reform in the Realm that created them my party was going to keep a Gnome as a pet and a living Battery as they have a lot of mana however i used there greediness against them and had the Gnome store it mana it then Imploded sending them to the Void a place in between reality they had to fight 1 of the voids native Creature a Void elemental they ended up getting help from an npc that could escape it and had them reach there destination a little faster but they will likely not try that again and the reason they captured the gnome is that it was using Mind Tricks on the Party to get them to leave it Lair as it made it home in a basement of a mayor party was tasked with killing or removing it.

[@maloydonedidit2903]

Fizzbin... Well he is a God...

[@thatluckydragon8088]

That's not a bad idea, a character that dies in a blast of fire then is reborn in three turns makes for a excellent challenge and a fun idea granted the whole 1 hp thing is a bit annoying but hey it's a challenge I would take

[@Leostar-Regalius]

the ending, if is was the player i would've been kind of POed at them, but also kind of fine since being stuck with 1 hp and just never being to level up would've sucked

[@felixlavulpe3506]

Ben's player wanted to kill him off so he could do something else. You can only self destruct so many times before it gets old

[@novadrake9232]

Id be having a blast

[@richardarriaga6271]

Should have named him Kenny

[@griffen121]

Jesus Christ 5000 gallons of aclamist fire So basically a nuke

[@TheBas239]

Lol wishes don't get me started. We play 5e at home my brother dm's and we have 4 players in an evil campaign. We have an eladrin druid focussed on the chaos within nature, A gnome necromancer wizard who wants power and knowledge, A warlock bonded to a devil in a weapon that just wants to kill things and lastly a tabaxi rogue that wants to be the most beautiful, rapist/hooker, in all the lands and wants to become immortal. So we are in the capital of the land we play in and are browsing a shop linked to our orginasation. It has this golden skull that holds 3 wishes, a dancing scimitar and some other cool stuff. Shit was expensive though and we disn't have funds. Luckly we have a really good rogue who always manages to pull everything off. So we setup a plan to steal the items from the shop. After some planning we head out to the market where the shop waited for a good raid. We all take position and our tabaxi rogue goes in. He manages to vind 2 items the sword and the skull. But doesn't tell us in game and makes us think shit has gone ham. So we put up a diversion as we had planned and went back to our place we stayed to wait and sleep. In the middle of the night our rogue comes back with the items and goes to his room. This is where that game stopped. Next game his first wish was that we felt so sorry for him he could keep the items, next wish he wanted white wings with golden outlines and lastly he wrote an entire page about some super version of his caractar a white an gold tabaxi hero and in the end only wished for his looks. That is how he waisted one of the most powerfull artifacts ingame luckly he rolled bad and can never wish again now.🙏🏼