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[@stilllostwolf8813]

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[@kobold_sushi_executive_chef]

I tell myself I'm here to learn about how to be more considerate at my table but I think I'm just here for the drama

[@718jef]

Im actually here for both

[@GraduateToast44]

⁠@@718jefDitto :)

[@Demigodacademy]

Aren’t we all

[@thatonewitch]

​@@Demigodacademy Guess so!

[@roberteriksson1248]

I am here for the drama but learning how to be nice at the table is an added benefit

[@BigBrain05]

If you really want attention, be the DM. You will always play a major role in every meaningful encounter

[@Sarkhan69]

what is minigfull?

[@loadsotroubleforyou]

​@@Sarkhan69don't be a jerk. They obviously meant meaningful

[@lauraw2526]

This is super accurate. I've had moments of jealousy playing a character in games. Then I tried being the DM and realized that everyone was hanging on my every word...

[@RedrumZombies]

@@loadsotroubleforyou Minigful, sounds like Dwarven to me.

[@400and4]

@@RedrumZombies That sounds about right. Dwarves live very miningful lives.

[@KatieGimple]

I'm not here for the drama, I'm here for you wife enthusiastically saying "I am wife"

[@walkervinshorts7268]

My parent's were playing a campaign and my dad tried flirting with my moms character. He got a 2 so i asked him to act it out and he said "can I follow you home?" The NPC they saved before walked by and went "WHAT WAS THAT???" It is my favorite moment in the campaign so far.

[@Sarkhan69]

parents* were*

[@walkervinshorts7268]

@@Sarkhan69 Grammer police over here!

[@nicolaslevasseur875]

@@walkervinshorts7268parents is a spelling mistake, nothing to do with grammar

[@walkervinshorts7268]

@nicolaslevasseur875 Thanks I didn't notice

[@Xanthriel]

Ive Never heard of players having to roll checks like that with each other, is that normal? I though charisma checks were only pc/npc.

[@ayf449]

Okay but why do I have a feeling the reason the DM of the first story said "I'm done with DnD" happened after OP left that day.. Like sure it could be burn out or the DM could have been done with the campaign for a while now... But what if paladin made a scene or threw a pity party for herself after OP left and the DM just thought "nope! I'm done with this group." because he knows if he excluded some and others found it it'll get sticky.

[@MrJerichoPumpkin]

exactly what I thought, No way someone crafting that meaningful piece of interaction with OP's backstory is burnt out or done with the campagn. He is clearly done with the party. More specifically with paladin.

[@ayf449]

@MrJerichoPumpkin thank you that's what I was trying to say. Especially that it took only two sessions after that incident for the "unfortunate tpk" to happen.

[@THEGRUMPTRUCK]

DM probably knew that if he kicked just Paladin from the game she would have taken massive Umbrage and made things miserable for everyone out of spite, so it was easier to just end the entire game.

[@Zedja]

I like to imagine you having an entire room filled with pillowsized plushies, much like a some restaurants have a big ballpit.

[@RobertTowell]

I have a very negative and non sympathetic reaction to weaponized crying. I have been around too many young kids (boys and girls) that cry when they don't get their way. I usually ignore them. If they become disruptive with it I uninvite them.

[@wuzzy41123]

For the first story, I think the group could have done one thing differently and then it would have been handled really well. Rather than asking the OP to go home, one of the boys should have just gone for a walk with the OP for like an hour to let the paladin talk things over with the other boys and let their emotions settle. When the two would have returned, and emotions have been more at ease, they could have talked things out.

[@ACDBunnie]

Honestly. You can just separate them while someone or a couple people help the paladin calm down, people don't need to go home

[@MrJerichoPumpkin]

guys, there was nothing to talk about. Those kind of people will simply not listen. The real solution was to kick out drama queen and merrily carry on without the hassle. "you all hate my characters plan, so you all hate me!" "well that was false before this little act of yours. What are you, a four years old with emotional management problems? It is a collborative game, not a play written with you as the main character. Grow the f up""

[@Lucky13Ravens]

Nah, if anyone left , even temporarily, it should have been Paladin. It may be easier to reward bad behaviour. But it isn't right and you end up hurting the person who isn't an issue and teaching the issue all theu have to do is throw a fit.

[@testerwulf3357]

@@Lucky13RavensTHIS!! People saying they should of left instead of miss crocodile tears 💀 Like they didn’t do anything wrong! They should not be forced to go anywhere.

[@faielyne]

That first story is like “This is my father so i will handle him” “But my friends so i murder” “No” *uncontrollable sobbing*

[@Dogsarecool2014]

this comment made me laugh way more than it should

[@Geo-Gun]

So, I usually watch these, and I was laying in my bed watching it, and then I needed to go to the bathroom. I left it going (I had an earpiece) and left. While I was walking back, I got to the part about doing coke. Then all of a sudden an add started playing saying, “this stuff tastes sooooo good” (it was an add for some food delivery app) idk it was funny to me

[@majinsole8554]

That moment about jokingly asking if everyone did a line of coke followed by the awkward pause feels like a comedy movie moment 😆 ~_~

[@romkin1197]

Reminds me of that meme template You guys didn't do a line of coke while I was gone right? You guys didn't do a line of coke while I was gone RIGHT?!?!?!

[@IHaveWaffles]

Paladin is toxic AF. When you start crying and saying "you all hate me" is a manipulation tactic.

[@SapphoForAphrodite]

not necessarily. can just be an expression of subjective perception

[@aetherius6221]

I'm autistic, so I have no way of knowing if people like me ✌️ help

[@IHaveWaffles]

@@aetherius6221 same but it's about body language and not only what they say but also how they say it. It takes time to learn but you can do it.

[@aetherius6221]

@IHaveWaffles I can do tone okay but I'm hopeless with body language. It's why I like physical affection so much, it's easy to tell. Too bad my friends aren't touchy people :(

[@IHaveWaffles]

@@aetherius6221I'm big on touch. Only from people I know and like. If I don't know you don't fucking touch me.

[@Dr.Starbound]

Here for the drama. I have a problem player but the entire table is aware and we are all working together to rein him in.

[@Diaphat]

When the time comes, make it count. Humiliation can do one of two things: Give a reality check, or shame them out of your Dnd game. Both if you roll a natural 20. Both endings are glorious. Savor every moment!

[@MrJerichoPumpkin]

I'm sorry wife, but I hope you understand how many flavours of wrong there are in "the only reason I'm here is to hang out with the boys"

[@cheesycourt]

I’m glad I’m not the only one that felt off by that - like I get SO excited when there’s another girl because FINALLY And to be worried that she’d be “kicked out” because the other girl is better? Like those ain’t your friends in the first place then??

[@inkling457]

Right?? It sounded like she was trying to justify this childish behavior just because of the competition aspect. And I say that as a woman who was mostly friends with guys in school as well.

[@genericname2747]

Yeah that's a bit strange. I like playing with other ladies, makes me feel less awkward.

[@unfortunatefish3322]

She also talked about competition between 'females' which was also weird

[@pekkachugaming1462]

Meanwhile I’m in my first ever DnD campaign as a female, with 3 other females including our DM and one male 😅 I’m loving it so far they are amazing!

[@stevenfoster5217]

Anytime a player has a melt down over a game, there's more going on in their life than the game.

[@StaubZuStaub]

I'm cold like the 1st story OP, F paladin! You don't get rewarded for tantrums. I'm also a bit petty as well, so I definitely would have refused to leave and called the paladin out for her ridiculous behaviour.

[@minimoose7890]

Here for Duke and wife's facial expressions and reactions, not the drama itself

[@tatersalad76]

We had a similar situation handled dramatically better at my table. We had a Wizard working up to killing their evil dad. Their best buddy War Cleric offered to do it for them, because they killed their own father in their backstory and it still haunts them regularly (hi I'm the DM that tortures them with that). Their reasoning was that "You don't have that scar on your heart yet. But I do, and I can make room for another.". Eventually Wizard's father was at the mercy of their son, and they couldn't bring themself to bring the knife down. Cleric gently took the knife from their hands and killed Wizard's father. Wizard's player was happy with the outcome, Cleric's player was happy they could prevent more patricide, I gave them both Inspiration for it

[@laharlkent]

Wish GM or BF at table made this kinda offer, might have helped calm everything before the tears.

[@Maninawig]

Story 1: definitely sounded like weaponized tears. Yes, Paladin might have been embarrased the first time her idea got some pushback, but she followed it up with "everyone hates me, especially OP." I have actually been in that situation and, sadly, the guy who doesn't cater to a crying woman is seen as a mysoginistic monster. However, telling OP to leave is another way that Paladin can manipulate the situation, because she can just keep crying til everyone turns on her rival and OP isn't there to defend herself. Having ADHD, I have been that apathetic ahole to a woman cause her tears did not make logical sense. In this case, D&D is a collaborative game and this is a special moment for OP.... no matter what another player's desires are, OP's decision is the vito power.

[@thatonewitch]

Sorry if I'm being nosy, but what happened that the woman started crying for? Like did she just randomly burst into tears for no reason, did someone call you an a-hole for not sympathizing with her?? Cuz I've been at both ends before: not understanding the logic behind someone suddenly bursting into tears and crying for someone because I felt bad for them despite them not actually crying

[@Maninawig]

@@thatonewitch It is natural for men to feel empathy regarding tears, making it possible to be weaponized. In my case, I honestly forget the absurd premise she was proposing, something to make her boyfriend the victim when he did nothing wrong, but she gsthered a crowd withiso much gaslighting and contradictions that I ended up blurting them out (mainly to try and focus the story in my head). She got mad and, with the crowd there looking at me, I ended up defensively pointing out her argument points. It ended in most of the crowd taking me aside and saying "you didn't need to be so harsh" but agreeing with me. A week later, the couple broke up and she blamed me.

[@emberfist8347]

Half of me is here for the drama, the other half is for the hilarious stories you include to keep our spirits up.

[@samanthapalker1476]

Inside you live two different races and they want nay need very different things

[@RogerS1978]

It's purely emotional manipulation, the Paladin was trying to remove/surplant the OP for some reason, by telling her to go home it was a win for the Paladin. Of course the OP would also miss out anything that would make her look bad though.

[@Sarkhan69]

i'd bet you anything the paladin wanted to be the only girl there so she could 304 around with the boys.

[@RogerS1978]

@@Sarkhan69 Not at all, she probably couldn't care less about that, would be more the attention and gratification.

[@addison_v_ertisement1678]

The Palidin didn't tell her to go home, and you can't just cry on command.

[@Ahouro]

@@addison_v_ertisement1678 You absolutely can cry on command.

[@genericname2747]

​@@addison_v_ertisement1678Yes you can. It's easy, just act sad and tears will come out

[@evilsohn]

Duke should get a rigid headband with horns on them that he spectacularly puts on whenever he plays Devil‘s Advocate 😄 Your show has inspired me to recount the one time I was the culprit of a DnD Horror Story, so I‘m going to go to reddit today and share it 😅 (Edit: which took way longer to write than I had thought 😂)

[@FlamesofJagger]

I'm here for Duke and Wife's reactions... also the plushies

[@harrytattersall86]

here for the drama

[@AtlasAdratica]

Tea time ☕

[@littlepip8343]

Not necessarily here for the drama! Just vicariously enjoying these DnD stories when I’m unable to play myself!!

[@tzeneth]

I've had so many NPCs when I'm GM be described as "super competent" who can't roll worth a damn when it comes time to do stuff...

[@gregorybenson1054]

Drama is fun but I’m here for advice on hypothetical situations.

[@fyreman666]

Honestly, I'm here out of morbid curiosity, and also for the awesome stories in between!

[@ulvemann43]

The first story reminds me of someone, not DnD related, who had to have things their way, all the time. You could not disagree, you could not suggest something else, and as a group, you were not allowed to go against her. If you did, it was an instant tantrum, instant rage, instant tears. Someone used to get their way by tears and anger, with everyone around them bowing down to it.

[@CreamAle]

The paladin one.. oof that's a case of "hey, everyone gets their moment in this game.. and this plot hook is made for the other player. You can get with it or you can sit out. Just as they did for your own plot hooks" Crocodile tears dont belong on the table unless it's being used in RP to add to the storytelling rather than manipulation.

[@TieflingUnshackled]

They handled it right until they sent OP home because she was crying.

[@ACDBunnie]

That first situation is bonkers to me. The way the wife described it, what happens when a 2nd woman joins the group and the first girl goes crazy with pick me energy, insecurity, and social heirarchy kind of stuff seems super catty and complicated. Its funny because girls who only want to hang out with guys say its because women are catty, yet this behavior of fighting to be the token female is catty too. Obviously, if you become drama when a 2nd female shows up, it isnt all women who are drama, its you. Peeps who play games tend to be pretty chill. You should be able to be in the same room as a 2nd person of your gender without feeling weird or threatened. Im so glad I play dnd with gays and neurodivergents (specifically the ones who touch grass) because Ive never had this kind of drama. Also, I could never be the only woman in a group, I would feel so unsafe. I hate being a token minority, I would hate being a token woman

[@Nico_M.]

@ACDBunnie "I hate being a token minority, I would hate being a token woman" I find really weird the idea of being the token woman. Like, we're talking about half the population.

[@larslionheart]

Exactly

[@testerwulf3357]

@@Nico_M.Literally this 💀 And it’s not like you’re with strangers?? Unless you play with strangers. If everyone is chill wtf is wrong with being the only girl?

[@JonnZth]

If i had a nickel for everytime i heard about a session where someone rolled 3 nat-1s in a row I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. That was hilarious, if i was one of the players hearing the DM announcing the results I'd need a few minutes to catch my breath after laughing my lungs out edit: grammar

[@GreyfauxxGaming]

Devils Devils Advocate: It can also be not healthy to relent to someone throwing a tantrum, because this may help encourage this behavior especially if they are a bit self-absorbed. As the DM, you and host you sorta need to be a referee/therapist for the group. If the DM sent the OP home, they should have spoken to the problem player, taking them aside and laying down ground rules. Explain that for other people's story beats its best to sit back a bit. It sounds like this pressure buckled the DM which is a very stressful role to fill especially when you have a ton of drama going on and you're the Ref.

[@NeViKble]

So happy that the hawk in the last story was not murdered! Maybe the DM will find a way to still use that dungeon.

[@xerxesqinalin3508]

RE: first story... Emotional manipulation is one of the worst kinds of abuse. The damage it does goes unbelievably deep.

[@adamrobertson2322]

I enjoy the drama. And I love to hear the crazy and how my group may have drama sometimes but it's not so bad lol

[@8.6GivenAdqVacSysm]

Yeah, paladin should pound sand. But yes, sadly it’s normal in a conflict of whatever sort, for the person in the right/has a handle on themselves, to yield to handle the issue. But that does feed easily into encouraging bad behavior. In that situation if you were the authority, ideally have both parties equally step away in some fashion. And then you take it upon yourself to address the issue with the person at fault and to the appropriate degree rake them over the coals. Reasonable show other parts how you have addressed it, and then go on with life (hopefully happily, and all together). I am here for the wholesomeness of the pride in ‘I am Wife’ and also the drama

[@Daktangle]

1st one kinda sounds like a BPD episode. The denial of plan over someone elses triggering a severe rejection reaction.

[@MrWhyte-np8wi]

As someone with BPD and bipolar... yeah it was BPD or she's a narcissistic c word and needs constant attention.

[@thembill8246]

"I hate you; don't leave me!" *Flashes back to their high school/early college girlfriend* yep. Borderline AF.

[@kobold_sushi_executive_chef]

In reference to OP 1's friends telling her to go home, sometimes the best way to resolve a situation isn't always going to be fair to yourself, but we occasionally have to make those sacrifices because we're the only ones we're allowed to be unfair to.

[@Sarkhan69]

absolutely not. the crying one should have gone home.

[@minimoose7890]

True. Plus if she was that emotional, she might not have been able to leave competently (-- and if she came from the college with one of the other players, then she may have needed them for a ride. Who knows without that context). It's certainly easier to ask the composed trigger-person to step away while the other friends monitor the lost-person until they calm down.

[@718jef]

​@@Sarkhan69I agree but dont disregard what they said. Try telling a crying person who is having a breakdown anything they dont want to hear without them doing something completely crazy. Ive tried, hell Ive been that person, and it does not work. The best course of action was to make the sitiation as bearable as possible, and she did so by leaving. I dont like seeing idiots get thier way, but again, sacrifices have to be made in life. What I will say is they could have continued thier campaign but without pal, as she was the cause of the discourse.

[@MrJerichoPumpkin]

@@718jef that way of thinking is exactly why idiots and manipulative a**hole get their way EVERY SINGLE TIME. The true way of handling things was to give her a glass of water, then gently ask to take her drama home with her, since she is no longer welcome to the group. If she wanted to continue play, point her to the nearest kindergarden. She started everything and is acting like an entitled child. You don't indulge entitled children EVER.

[@718jef]

@@MrJerichoPumpkin I agree but like I said, dealing with people like pal in a forceful manner, can end up with them making an irational and possibly dangerous decision. I will say that once she calmed down, or maybe talk to her at a later date, and discussing her behavior with her or kicking her out in general would be best after letting her calm down, tell her to evaluate herself and that this behavior is wrong and will not be tollerated. However, the choices made, as long as the leaving party conscented, which she did, then I believe the situation was handled very well all things considered.

[@KidarWolf]

Love that hawk familiar story! Hope they remembered to give the hawk a really good meal for that fantastic job. (But that's probably my Ranger side talking.) As to the crying Paladin? All I can say is, I probably wouldn't have handled it as well as that group did, so well done them for being better with people being emotional than I am. The party doing drugs at the table? Good decision by the DM to discontinue with the group after that, just not worth the trouble. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against drug use in a responsible way, but that was just disrespectful of them at best. While I had have some good D&D sessions while under the influence (marijuana, alcohol, and while taking a legitimate prescription for back pain), my best sessions were when I was totally sober and could put my best thought and effort into playing, so I don't really understand the charm of playing under the influence in the first place, to be honest. You're there to tell a collaborative story, so doesn't everyone at the table owe it to everyone else to do their best? Difficult to do while you're under the influence.

[@Anddq]

Dms roll very well. My Dm likes to name his dice based on success and he does not use the same dice for rerolls or advantage/disadvantage. The one we dread the most is named Lucifier. Red and black with gold numbers……. He rolled a dozen nat 20s with it. We survived that session only cause the wizard used all his slots on silvery barb

[@ashersdad1755]

Yep, that sums up the world today everyones feelings are more important then reality or logic. While i understand the motive to deescalate the issue giving the crybaby what she wanted or "taking her side" by sending op home was not the way to prevent similar issues in the future. I dont blame the dm for ending the sessions after that campaign i would have ended it that day if the issue couldnt have been resloved through lunch.

[@camilofam1252]

I usually don't comment, but wanted to speak up because I love these reddit reads you do! I am here for the drama, but I also love that you balance it out with positive stories as well. Thanks for not just being negative!

[@Toaster_Weevil]

The party in a campaign I DM managed to break out two prisoners from a stockade in the middle of the heavily guarded town square in broad daylight WITHOUT BEING NOTICED thanks to some insanely lucky & unlucky rolls. Won’t forget that any time soon.

[@ZyteXtrabyte]

Not exactly DND, but a roleplaying game that heavily takes stuff from DND. So I was walking into an apartment building trying to loot things, and roll for stealth after seeing a giant dark cloaked figure. Rolled a 3, here was the following encounter. Me: "YO WHAT'S UP" *Runs into the room loudly* Silence for a solid 30 seconds. Me: "You know, I gotta go mow the pavement, so I'm going to leave."

[@meggston6901]

My husband made a boss fight for us against a monster from the River Styx, I don't remember the creatures name, but he roamed the hells eating souls that got lost on their way across the river. This one was stuck under a small town eating the souls of the villagers. This dude had finger of death and a will save of +26 (Pathfinder 2e) We busted into the room where he was chillin' and I rolled REALLY well on my initiative, went first, and cast banishment. My husband/GM was like "are you sure? You only succeed if he rolls a 1* on his will save" I replied "Yeah, I guess" and started scrolling through my spells for something better to use on round 2, I heard him say "I'll open roll it" and next thing I knew everyone was screaming, the monster was back in hell, the town was safe, and I had my nose in my spells not even realizing what just happened. I felt a little bad that DM had hashed out this huge fight and I ended it in less than two seconds, but he swears it didn't upset him and agreed it was awesome. He also told us we probably wouldn't have all made it through that fight alive, as almost all of us would have had to roll nat 20's to even come close to surviving his finger of death. (There was a healing pool, it was a whole thing, he put a lot of work into it and I still feel a little bad) *In pathfinder a nat 1 is not an automatic crit fail, but it does make the result one degree worse. So a even if his total would succeed it would make it a failure. a failure (which wasn't possible in this instance) would go to a crit fail. Works in reverse for nat 20's. Even if the total would fail it bumps it up one degree to success.

[@davivignola5895]

Wife is awesome, and the way you two bounce off each other is just hilarious

[@Courtney_Blake]

I just stumbled onto this channel. My current boyfriend has played D&D for a long time but I haven't ever. I'm interested in learning how to play and watching these videos is really fun! Thanks for the insight! I hope we get a chance to get a group together and play!

[@rkcpek]

Enjoying these stories. Keep up the good work in all your presentations. Question for Duke. if you were to convert DnD 1e to a d6 only system, which one would you chose? Ideally it should be one with enough flexibility to fulfill the technical range "IE crunch" that DnD has for its existing players.

[@solsticestar5034]

Here for the drama I try to rationalize but nah I’m here for the drama

[@Safe-ld9yz]

Crying is manipulative in this case, and pathetic tbh.

[@franceskoz]

The female players competing with each other idea is crazy to me, as a female player/now DM. I *always* looked for groups that had at least one other woman in them, because it helped mitigate the (incredibly common) sexism I encountered in basically every DnD group I joined (which is a large part of why I became a DM; so I can keep the sexism out).

[@envymordecai4429]

First story reminds me of that bit from Vox Machina where Tiberius said “I hate the Briarwoods more than any of us. They toyed with my mind.” As Percy is explaining how the Briarwoods murdered, held hostage and tortured his entire family (including himself). It’s like dude, your time will come. Let the other players have some fun. This is clearly Percy’s backstory, why are you trying to hijack it?

[@wildraptor4638]

While I was playing a game with a group in Highschool, we got in a fight with a super powerful wizard. The biggest hurdle this wizard caused was that he disabled all modifiers while near the castle. We were a party of four. I was playing a ranger who was basically robin hood. A close friend of mine was playing an elven rogue. He also had a child, whom he had taught the clone spell. The other two players were a human wizard and a dragonborn paladin. This Evil Wizard was inside a massive castle. While Wizard and Paladin were distracting the guards, Rogue, Rogue's child, and myself, ran into the castle. Rogue owned a necklace of fireballs. Once we located the wizard, Rogue turned to his child and told it to cast clone on him(Rogue). The clone was a success(on the second attempt). Knowing Rogue as well as I do, I realized his plan. I told our DM that I tuck Rogue's clone under one arm the child under the other and run to as I put it then, "Get the hell outta Doge." I rolled a nat twenty, successfully getting us out of the castle. Seeing that I fled the castle the DM had Wizard and Paladin roll a saving through to avoid being dragged in by one of the Evil Wizard's spells. Wizard succeeded the saving through, but Paladin did not and was dragged into the castle. Rogue knew this but knew we needed to beat this Evil Wizard. Rogue burst into the room the Evil Wizard was in, took off the necklace of fireballs, and threw it at his feet. The entire castle was incinerated by the swarm of level 12 fireballs. The DM said that the Evil Wizard was dead and that Rogue died, but his consciousness was transferred to his clone. Then. the DM looked at Paladin and asked, "Any last words?" Paladin desperately tried to find a way to have survived, but the DM said no, he basically got hit by a nuke.

[@stephaniejenkins7822]

The whole "DM rolls poorly" thing is something I've seen myself. It actually happened to me yesterday in the game *I'm* running. The party is made up of four level 4 characters and they're in the final room of a dungeon. They're up against a phase spider. The ranger in the party uses a spell to try to restrain the spider and it rolls a Nat 1 on the save. Fair enough. The phase spider tries attacking people and - I kid you not - I rolled five Nat 1s in a row 😂 My party finds it just as funny as I do, which is great, but they're shredding through this CR3 creature far faster than I'd anticipated while this spider hasn't managed to land a single attack yet. It's brilliant! 🤣

[@MKnowS]

As a fighter I stumbled on the dungeon boss early and was attacked in a surprise round, then a normal round by him. Brought me to 0 before I could move, I was half-orc, didn't down, barely made it. I ask the guy "what do you want?" He wants to kill us, take a book we have that is a key to a vault. My "friends" have the book the boss wants and after seeing me die-not-die have the briliant plan to EAT THE BOOK. In combat. As I am being killed. "Don't worry," says the bard, "I'll use my social skills to convince him that we don't have the book, and he won't see it because the ranger ate it." Fails to convince him of anything. Ranger takes a turn to eat the book and 3 turns later loses a turn because the DM says they have to vomit it back out. Crit explosive saves the fight and as soon as the dungeon is finished my fighter quits the group and I rerolled a new character. I made a new character, not because my old one died, but because there was no way I could concieve of my level headed fighter sticking around with a bunch of morons.

[@inkling457]

Wow, that first story. She's in COLLEGE and acting like that?! W o w. Spoiled brat much? Don't let a girl like that have her way. That just proves she can get away with it. No wonder the DM refused D&D after that. Who would want to deal with her again?? Should've not only had a long talk with her, but the friend who invited her in the first place.

[@Alex-on-youtube]

I don't believe the coke one. Like, at all. It sounds like the kinda story someone that's never done coke would make up. Generally speaking, it doesn't make you aggressive unless you're already particularly inclined towards aggression. But that doesn't sound like a D&D group. If suddenly everyone wanted to do something and talk to every guard and NPC, then maybe. But lets face it, you really wouldn't spot the effects of a single line on people that do it often enough, that doing it during a game seems like a good idea. It would seem, maybe like they're a bit hyperactive. Y'know, like some people get when playing D&D.

[@t.r2603]

Player: (Does line of coke) "Don't worry fam, i will take care of those dragons in the kitchen" (Murders the stove)

[@PhilosophicallyAmerican]

I dislike drama. I'm here because it's Duke and Wife.

[@Luptonium]

Being a DM is so fun because your bad rolls bring you as much if not more joy as your good ones.

[@jamesgotchall7205]

1st story: I feel DM has a right to make a decision to tpk a party and stop playing if the party is being toxic like that girl was. Don't use emotions as a weapon to get what you want. It's rude and very abusive to everyone involved. I understand there are times it can't be helped, but in general try to avoid it as it hurts everyone and can ruin a good thing. The DM planned this with op as part of their character, nobody else should be dragged into it or interfere. I do feel OP could have said out of character that this was part of their character's story and helped solve the issue there. I have each character have secrets in my games that need to be learned by others and it gives me more ways to involve the characters in some rp, as we are all on the autism spectrum so it keeps us involved in the characters when we have to step away.

[@shadowmaster335]

ngl, i suspect it was a case of not being able to seperate irl from rp, why?, you do not act out that way unless 1 of 2 things are at play, 1. you can't seperate irl from roleplay, or 2. she felt threatened, and wanted to split op off from the rest, could honestly be both, and before you say it's not a thing, uhm, im a living fact that some ppl shouldn't roleplay because they can't seperate the 2, in my case it's cuz i base my roleplay off of a part of me, then crank it up to the nth degree, which makes me unable to stop

[@JacobE92]

I have magic crack In the game I'm running which has been fun because sometimes you have to do a line in battle to hopefully get a boost

[@Ambers128]

I have a player whose PC is addicted to potions of speed.

[@matthewg.kazmierzak373]

Here for the drama mostly, but also hoping someone will cover a situation close to my struggles with the human fighter in my group who only shows up once every three weeks -_-

[@Duke00x]

Hawk story kind of feels similar to just my group overall. It was common for us to do stuff that made the DM cross out whole lines or paragraphs or even throw away pages of his prepared session while saying things like "well thats gone" "those pages are useless". Just huge chunks of his story g9ne because one of us came (mostly one player who is the embodiment of chaotic good/chaotic neutral in real life (the three of us were roommates for years. Once the DM came up from his room in the basement to find chaotic player casuallyreading the mail while sitting/croutched on top of the refrigerator. The DM was not even shocked just curiousand asked why he was reading the mail while sitting/crouching on top of the refrigerator to which the chaotic player said "just felt like it" to which the DM said "ok" and went back to what he came up to do. That was the kind of stuff we dealt with). But we both being it was mostly a three person group counting the DM and his character but sometimes we had others join and at the end we started having one or two regulars joining us most games had our moments) up with. Like once we had a whole plan to block train tracks to stop a train to take something on it (yes it was heavily inspired by firefly train job episode) DM character is waiting at the ambush spot ready to roll huge boulders down the hill into the valley to block the tracks. Me and Chaotic player are on the train ready to steal the thing when the train stops and DM character and NPC's attack as a distraction. Chaotic player asks "so this is a normal train (old west style) right?" To which the DM says "Yes. Other then it hovers it is a perfectlynormal train" So the Chaotic player says I use the trains Emergency break manual to stop it" the DM (and I) had forgotten trains (old west) have manual emergency breaking back up systems that are easily accessible to anyone. This caused the train to start and finally stop breaking early (just before it entered the valley) meaning the DM character and NPC's are out of position to attack to cause a distraction. So clearly the plan has gone to hell. Thinking fast I use my characters mimic ability to copy the chaotic players character (that was in range of my characters abiliy) shape-shifting ability (his character was a hatchling dragon shape-shifted into a human) and turn into a dragon busting open the wooden rail car I am in sending other passengers flying and causing chaos before turning back into myself and mixing into the fleeing crowd. This buys some time for the DM's character and the NPC's with the character to run down the hill and in our direction. At the same time the chaotic plays character runs to the train car the package is in. Bow the original plan was that while the DM's character and the NPC's with the character attack my character and the chaotic player's character were to attack and take out the four warlocks (not D&D. In this system warlocks are more elementalists that have an affinity for one or maybe two elements through a link with an elemental intelligence so it is kind of like a pact but different. And then they would have spells granted through this and all the spells had an elemental nature to them related to the elemental affinity) guards. But of course because of what he did the DM's character and the attacking NPC's are not there yet. I am mixed in with the fleeing NPC's and can't help. So he is no match for the warlocks. So what does the chaotic player have his character do? He busts down the room door at full run grabs the huge crate (character has super straight because of being a dragon even in human form) at speed and jumps out of the room through the windiw/wall turns into his dragon firm and Flys away in the direction of our waiting vehicle (it was a mech walker/RV type thing. It was what we were going to use to push the boulders down the hill with). Right about this point the DM's character has finally arrived at the stopped train. The Chaotic player's character Flys over DM's character as he Flys back to our vehicle. Ofcourse the warlocks are chasing the chaotic player's character (this is still the second/third round by the way. From the moment the train stopped until now only like two rounds had happened and we were e tering the third) guess who now has to fight four warlocks alone? Yep the DM'S character. Let's just say by the time the fight was over (like two rounds maybe three. The chaotic player's character turned around to help and I also used some long ranged attacks to help) we had the package and the guards were dead the DM's character was heavily injured and the chaotic player's and my character were unharmed and we were leaving the scene as fast as we could in our vehicle. This was our second mission (first after the mission that brought us together and hired by the NPC that gave us the vehicle and this mission. Speaking of the first mission. It ended with us needing to get a key from the middle of a 30x30 for room that had fire traps constantly going off. The DM's character and mi e were going through different options on how to get to the key safely. As we did this chaotic play has his character use its telekinesis power to grab it and bring it out the door to us. That should have been our first sign if what we were dealing with. At another point here circumvent a tower climb mission by jumping a huver bike off a cliff through a big hole (that was not much bigger then his hoverbike and him) in the upper levels of the building to get inside. Not only was this player chaotic good/neutral in real life he was also unnaturally lucky and at times even seemed to defy reality itself (we were once heading home at night. And we were goofing off acting like spys/soldiers it was like 2am we pasted this restaurant and it had a wooden deck at ground level over the sidewalk/street he does a one handed sideways vult over the railing Well it had been raining earlier and the wooden railing was slippery as he got horizontal with it and the grou d his hand slips forward off of it and he flys forward with his leftside facing down and his right side facing up. Then he just kind of hangs there in mid air fir like a full second or two before slaming down on the wooden deck super hard. It was like gravity had forgotten he had existed for a bit like a loonytoons cartoon and then remembered him and reched up and quickly pulled him diwn and in doing so pulled him down extra hard abd this was not the only time gravity seemed to at least partly firget about him He was completely fine. Not hurt at all. Didnt even wind him).

[@maxgehtdnixan4913]

We never did coke, but we had some wild rp sessions during college. A keg or crate of beer was the minimum we drank, usually. 😂

[@dorkydragon]

I love these stories. Specially your reactions to them. like.. out of these ones. the person with MCS bugs me. not listening to the group as a whole and letting a character have their moment. a nd insisting they will fight and kill the father. i kicked a person from mytable from having this kinda thing. i could certainly add my own stories here witht he 3 people over the last 3 years i ahve had to ask to leave. :D and i have good stories as well. from my players ganing up on me. in a good way.

[@skittlemenow]

Weird that girls feel like they have to be the only girl in a group of guys, I've never had that issue with groups of girls, guys or any mix. That seems really unhealthy. There's no reason for anyone to have to leave to make someone comfortable in any situation. Allowing anyone's emotions to determine who is allowed to hangout in a group of friends is ridiculous. Just because it feels easier to ask the person who isn't throwing a temper tantrum to leave because the one throwing the tantrum is doing it to get rid of that person doesn't make it the right choice for any reason.

[@unfortunatefish3322]

Agreed, wife's comments about that in the first story were extremely off-putting.

[@skittlemenow]

@@unfortunatefish3322 Yeah I work in mental health and have for almost 20 years. I can definitely say that no matter the age you never give a person throwing a tantrum what they want.

[@Retrofun69]

He did a line of coke? Hits bong* Thats outrageous!

[@Sellesion]

Im here for the drama, I cant help but laugh or gasp at it all and be entertained, but I do really appreciate the Glory Stories that you mix in! Theyre usually just as fun to listen too.

[@lauramarschmallow2922]

**I** am here for the drama! ✋

[@gxsliver]

I admit I am hear party for drama. Also hear because you two are so entertaining together

[@Drako999x]

Okay... to be fair... didn't we all at least once did a session on some drugs? We... we all did... didn't we? qwq Just... make sure EVERYONE is on board with this or at least okay with it.

[@singmeastory6634]

I heard story 1 on Crispy Tavern's channel so part of the way through I was like 'Ooooooh! This one. Yeah, I remember.' Stories 3 & 4 are both funny in different ways.

[@samanthapalker1476]

I’m here for the plushies and the opinions. The drama is the farthest thing from my mind

[@andrewswanson369]

Wife you are glowing today. Here for the stories. Duke I can't wait for the upcoming streams.

[@tytoalba605]

I think of called it Saladin was fake upset because the guys were before catering to only her but now that theirs another woman its both be nice to the newbie and be nice to the lady, and possible dating partner subconscious giving of favor so paladin was playing as normal others acted offended on op's behalf and paladin got embarrassed and mad as her boyfriend probably was on the side of others of being chill to the new player. And paladin felt betrayed because he should in her mind only favor herself, same bs take as cashiers being nice being vied as flirting. So paladin is actually upset because her boyfriend was nice to another woman, and because she got embarrassed because the dudes didn't like her messing with the new players backstory \game play.

[@laharlkent]

paladin is the new girl, OP said she had been there in the group since high school, I'm guessing a few years. paladin is GF of one of the other players so paladin is new girl here.

[@jeffreyweevers3919]

Love these videos, really exited where its going to go this time

[@garettlake4148]

I love the ways to improve part because I am hoping to run my first campaign sometime after a lot of planning, but hearing how to be better or not fall into bad habits or control heating situations is helpful for me

[@devonmcdaniel1176]

I guess I'm here for both. I love the drama, but the advise I get from y'all about this is still really helpful

[@abrahamarciga3334]

i litterly make myself a drink before siting down to listen to these D&D Reddit stories

[@DanicaPerry-hi8qx]

*raises hand* I will admit I'm mainly here for the hilarious drama, but I think y'all have really good advice as well, which I enjoy listening to 😊

[@KnicKnac]

It is interesting to hear some of the same stories from you guys and Crispy.

[@wisd8mEDM]

Why no Spotify for this episode?

[@billrights2476]

I love the clap at the beginning of every episode 👏👏👏

[@vampire9545]

Yes drama, as many of the stories are somewhat absurd Asking op to is also a dik move

[@raznaak]

I have a story similar to the last story: I'm the GM in an Alternity game (Sci-fi), and while there are sci-fi and psionic parts to the setting, it usually is quite realistic. You may skip the explanations to the story itself, I just like to give context. RULES: Example: There are three type of damage, Stun, Wounds and Mortal. They are pretty self-explanatory, at the end of combat/scene, you regain all your Stuns; if you get hurt, you heal your Wounds only once a week and the amount of it depends on your rolls, and it's quite low, between 0 and 4 Wounds per week for an average of max Wounds from 9 to 12 (total range 4 to 14 (24 for one race), and getting medical attention may heal you of quite a bit, but the rest must heal naturally after a surgery); and if you have Mortals, you get a malus on ALL your checks for EACH Mortals, and each hour you must make a check to see if you don't get any more mortals (you apply that malus to this check also), it becomes each day if you get First Aid, and you must get a surgery before dying, as nothing else can heal mortals (except high-level psionic powers). Fall damage is intense. Getting shot without armour can be devastating (but armour counts a LOT in this setting). Not getting proper care can hurt your character a LOT. It's a d20 system, with degrees of success depending if you roll under some thresholds. Nat 20 is a critical fail (BAD things happen), 19 to your Skill Score+1 (stat+skill rank+1) is a fail, an Ordinary is Score to Score/2+1 rounded up (ex: Strength 12 + Athletics(Throw) 2 = 14 to 8 for ordinary), Score/2 to Score/2+1 for Good, and Score/4 and less for Amazing (nat 1 isn't better, BUT it makes you success even if you get some malus that would otherwise make you fail, and it's just the best score). You get some malus or bonus on most checks depending on the difficulty, feats or tools that give you help or hinder you, the opponent's resistances if you try something on someone else, and many other factors. You add all bonus and malus to give you the situational die to throw. A total malus of +1 makes you throw a d4, +2 a d6, +3 ad8, +4 a d12 (yes they skipped the d10), +5 a d20 and any other malus after that adds up a d20. The bonus are the same but in the negative. Most checks are done between a final bonus or malus of ±3, with me rarely giving a malus worse than +3, +5 being the hardest I usually give before the players add or remove malus or bonus because of their feats and other character details. BACKGROUND: So, my players start in a prison in the year 2489, for various crimes against Halimazaun, the Corporation from the Conglomerate of Companies owning the planet they're on. They get injected with a "vaccine", which is obviously not something normal (and they learn later all the plot points to it, but long story short, it's an alien artifact that gives them kinda-superpowers or things like that although it was not supposed to be that at first), and I have a dozen NPC prisoners with them to help them escape or hinder them with how they act with each one and what they decide to do (they're in a special wing, so not many of them). I expected they either: a) Go through the "sewers" accessible from the locked and guarded machines room, which are in fact an undergrounds complex with more prisoners (these are officially declared dead so they're used for unethical experimentations), a modified experimental space shuttle (I mean, the shuttle is normal, they are in the Gravity Age while we're not even in the Fusion Age IRL, but it has a lot of things on it that are from a later Age of science), and a few major plot nodes. This is what I expected was the most probable and what I made more efforts to flesh out. b) Attempt a prison revolt and use the prisoners to get out unnoticed, there are many other paths from there. c) Try to sneak out "conventionally", climb the walls of the court, dig with their powers, make a catapult or whatever. d) Try to either steal the Chief's access codes or kidnap her and use her as a bargaining chip/meat shield as they try another plan (she lives on the second floor, accessible only by hover discs by the guards, so they would also need to steal that or find another means to get there). e) Just do nothing and let the month pass (they are in a special project where the "vaccine" is an experimental medicine to help brainwash citizens, but it was swapped by one of the PCs' minions as he is a secret society leader, in addition to other brainwashing events and experiments they would need to resist from), and try to pass as "cured from crime" but they're not actually brainwashed and they start their adventures as "normal citizens" instead of escapees. f) Do either of b) to e) options but try to force their way into the transport shuttle that I said was coming each day at noon to deliver supplies. I told them it was guarded by four guard towers and eight automatic turrets, in addition to the wall's defences that could also spot them and fire on them. THE PLAN: What do they decide? Kinda e), but with a plan I barely gave more than a thought when constructing my options because it was insane (I knew them for being crafty and thought of a LOT of starts for my campaign to have things ready for them): they ask the NPC that can get invisible for 5 minutes per day to go into the machine room while one or more prisoners are assigned to trash punishment task for something bad they did to get there (this,I expected as I had two players get into troubles for a small fight so they could scout that place and think of ways to get out, mainly to notice the water mains which would be large enough for them to go into), then she GETS INTO THE INCINERATOR while invisible and gets yeeted to the chimney 10m higher by the Werren (imagine an Orc female mated with Chewbacca) as they put the trash into it (they noticed it last time the players were there but I didn't expect them to use it as an escape route), she climbs up the chimney deactivating her invisibility (to get more time out of it) and the two others distract the guards so the incinerator doesn't get fired before she gets out, she gets to the top and reactivate it, climbs DOWN (the chimney is about 20m high), run on the roof (it's a dome so it's hard, and she's not exactly "invisible", more like light distorts around her so it's perfect in darker conditions but less practical in plain sight at noon with about 20 guards looking in that direction (it was a maximum-plus security wing)) to the shuttle courtyard, sneaks into it, and take control from the pilot to move the shuttle into the prisoners' court, where they wait for her and get into the shuffle and fly away. While evading weapons from the guards and turrets. I explained all the steps to them for that to success, and how difficult it would be, and she had to do that within five minutes, any delays from not getting the rolls (each "turn" is about 12 seconds in that system, separated into 4 phases, and she can climb about 2-4 metres per turn if she don't fail), and she could be a sitting duck for the guards as her invisibility expires. They decided it was their MAIN plan, and if it didn't work, they try something else while the commotion happens (without any other prep...). Okay. THE STORY: So the Werren flings the NPC. He amazingly succeeds, and she succeeds into holding the sides of the chimney. BTW, the rules say that if you fail three times during a climb, or if you get a single Nat 20, you fall and take fall damage. She had to pass at between five and ten checks each way, on average 8-9 (depending on the degree of success), with the last of the climb up and the first of the climb down the worst of them. She then proceeds to pass EVERY. SINGLE. CHECK. for climbing the chimney, and EVERY SINGLE CHECK climbing down, many Good and a few Amazing so it takes no time to clear the chimney. She failed none. Okay, she still has to run onto the roof at noon unnoticed and enter the shuttle. EVERY. SINGLE. GUARD. failed their checks to perhaps notice her, two of them critically failing and causing commotions distracting the others, while she failed once but it was against a guard who crit failed... Alright, now she has to drop down a 10-meter roof onto concrete AND GETS A NAT 1, with 1 on the malus d12 dice, which is exactly the 2 she needed to get an Amazing falling roll, so she takes literally no fall damage and makes no sounds. So she gets into the shuttle within 3 minutes, snaps the neck of the pilot second try, fly to the other courtyard around the prison dome, only two NPCs died to the guards shooting into the courtyard (one player disabled the automatic turrets so it helped a lot), with the players saving three other NPCs from certain death while getting to the shuttle (I expected at least eight of them die during the escape, if not all), and take off, shrugging off the pursuit and get to a "safe place". The Werren player had to succeed an insane Throw check to start the sequence (if he failed there, she could just have died from fall damage or getting burnt while unconscious), the NPC had to succeed at LEAST thirty throws with some hefty malus on barely better-than-average stats, ALL guards had to fail their checks to notice her AND do not enough damage to the shuttle and the players and NPCs to make it fail (the damage dice were pathetic too). The players were cheering madly, and I had to DRASTICALLY change my scenario and planned events and lore to catch up to what they did XD It was amazing, and sure I could have fudged some dice (I show all allies' rolls and some enemies' rolls, but I hide some enemies' rolls depending on the situation), but I dislike fudging, and also the string of events that happened to make that possible was so exceptional I couldn't just fudge it. It was just too epic that their insane plan ACTUALLY WORKED. RNJesus blessed these throws that day.

[@400and4]

I'm here for both the drama and the advice. Didn't get a lot of either out of this one, but had fun anyway. Nice work as always!

[@barriegraham4306]

I'm not here for drama, I'm here for "I am Wife"

[@Whitewolf1984p]

I'm just here for the plushie

[@cavik977]

Guilty as charged, I'm here for the drama

[@AtlasAdratica]

Emotional M A N I P U L A T I O N!!!! 🐙🐙🐙

[@trunkmunky5763]

@19:50 im a forever dm and i used to not be that player thats all "DONT ROLL MY DICE OR I WILL END YOU!" until i let my daughter roll a set that i really liked using as a dm. they had a tendency to roll low. i know, its weird because people dont want a set that rolls low. they werent "fail/minimum damage ALL the time" low, but low enough that i wasnt constantly telling my players they failed or were taking half their hp in one hit. well, after she rolled the d20 ONCE, the whole set did nothing but crit and max damage for everything. im not kidding. where the d20 would rarely roll higher than 14, it stopped rolling under 14. the d4 that only rolled 1s? always a 3 or 4. d6? 4 for higher. the next 2 encounters after, at least 1 pc went down because, in each encounter, i got 3 crits at max damage. in one round, the wizard was downed. not surprising, i know, but this wizard had 18ac and 34 health. they were facing goblins..... there arent many things im superstitious about, but now rolling my dice is one of them

[@bluelionsage99]

With one of my old, way back regular groups (we were all friends outside of gaming), the GM was drinking beers as he ran the game. We reached a point where we were expecting an ambush at a collection of destroyed armor vehicles. [Playing Twilight 2000, 1st edition]. One player is trying to driver a HUMVEE across the area. The GM spends a long time looking at something behind his screen. Stares at the play map. Then just falls backward to the floor in his chair and states "F^^^ It. I don't know what you need to roll or what happens. I'm too drunk to GM. Session over."

[@mojyoqueen350]

When I started dnd I met a woman. She was my first female friend for years, other players were males. And we may be in competition, but we weren't at all. The fact that she was married and I engaged probably helped. Fun fact - most "Main character" person in the group was her husband, but nobody mined and it was actually really fun experience. He played a bard...

[@LamanKnight]

If I have this correctly... the odds of rolling a D20 and getting a natural 1, three times in a row, are 1 in 8000. Or in other words, there was only a 0.0125% chance of that encounter in the last story happening that way. I'm pretty sure it's possible to play TTRPGs your whole life and never once see that happen. So, it's kind of amazing that it happened here. Oh, as to why I like these videos? It's actually not for the drama; I just miss meeting with my TTRPG groups, and the general fun and positivity they tended to bring with them. So, I'm here to remind myself of what I miss so much. Thanks for making this enjoyable, Duke and Wife. ;)

[@artan6966]

I have a story> I was GMing and playing a character in a Rifts RPG homebrewed campaign. All the group of player characters had psionic abilities. An enemy we faced died before we could get information from him. My character looked at everyone and said, "Damn, why didn't you bring him to me. I can talk with the dead!" The NPC Captain of the ship we were on said while miming using a hand bellows. "What are you going to do (Insert using the bellows and pressing down on the dead man's chest). To blaive." (Taken from the Princess Bride). Needless to everyone at the table started dying from laughter.