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this dude does not understand consequences.
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[@freakishuproar1168]

_"...his introduction was to try and shoot one of our teammates..."_ Does anybody remember that Jackie Chan "WTF" reaction meme?

[@NerdEagle90]

If I was the DM, if he tried to shoot one of the players for his introduction and then **KEEP TRYING...** he would have been gone right then.

[@Vidkid131]

Honestly, that could be a neat way to introduce a character. Someone hired to kill the party to that point but loses the fight and is convinced they've been duped. Would definitely need to be discussed with the other Players beforehand, for obvious reasons, but could be a really cool thing. I get the distinct feeling it was nothing like that.

[@lostbutfreesoul]

@@Vidkid131 , I got the feeling he was trying to wound one of the player characters so he could open up with some ploy. The mistake - Not talking to players about it first....

[@ryanmyers7540]

I had a game once where our dm had a bounty on one of the player's heads and 3 of us were trying to hunt him for it. The bounty was bogus and a plot by political enemies to strengthen their own grip, but we didn't learn that until after some combat. It was pulled off fantastically and a great way to introduce the party to each other.

[@patrickdees5256]

The internet never forgets.

[@RPGTales]

Basically he wanted to be Megumin but without the charm.

[@spademagna2672]

Was looking for this comment

[@langying]

@Alfonso The Lie Weaver oh, relax it's wholesome!

[@KentaroMiyamoto21]

She'd at least make sure her party members weren't in range of the explosion.

[@johnnysizemore5797]

I always thought he tried to be Uncle Iroh myself.....

[@Aodhan_Raith]

@@johnnysizemore5797 Nah, he was an explosion mage. He'd be more Combustion Man, but far less cool.

[@Nobythulhu]

“After that, [R] learned better player etiquette and would never ever do that again ever!” Oh, neat, a short but fun story, wonder what’s ne- **almost ten minutes left in video** ... oh no

[@WildDragonSong]

Lol.

[@Calebgoblin]

Morally at this point I feel like PVP is acceptable or even necessary

[@johnsherfey3675]

Some players need pvp on constantly, is what this channel is slowly teaching me....

[@zanogre]

I'm running a campaign and this guy stole some important info about the parties objective and is trying to hide (it isn't even "what there character would" do as they're neutral good), I find PvP is usually necessary in these or similar situations (just not all the time)

[@Yroko]

@@zanogre yes. Especially when ur character is part of the zentarim faction and is trying to give a magic item the big boss. Only to fail persuasion to trade the item for a higher rank within the faction. Not only that telling him to be patient and have a few members follow us to the end. Prior to this i had 2 faction members try and poison and kill me for said item. Trying to take the glory for themselves. They didnt live long. Final ending being betrayed by the zentarim and our party finally knew what had happened and pvp happened. Needless to say i spent the next month in game finding low ranking members and converting them to devil worshippers to dissipater(my tiefling type). About a ⅙ of the faction is now loyal to me.

[@matskalot4299]

*draws sword with malicious intent*

[@akl2k7]

PVP is one of those things to use sparingly and only when absolutely necessary. This is definitely one of those times. When another player won't listen to reason and is about to do something incredibly stupid that could kill the entire party and screw up the game, you do what you gotta do.

[@jackbelmont4389]

"He blew himself up trying to escape" Me in my head: "CAUSE ART IS AN EXPLOTION"

[@magnificoabsol]

CritCrab: "end post" Me: well... at least his troubles end here also CritCrab: " i did find one more story..." Me: for the love of the Void...

[@shredditplays6021]

Yeah the writer cries more who cares

[@boyxgamer]

@@shredditplays6021 nice burner account "R"

[@LokiToxtrocity]

Void: Hey Kiddo

[@nickieBurke]

@@boyxgamer know whats funne? he didnt respond. it is absolutely R aka.... wait for it..... . . . . . ROWAN

[@strategicarchitect869]

This...why...? Oh my God, these freaking chaotic stupids are going to kill me mentally at this rate.

[@silence_dais]

R: I'm playing a Lawful Good old Vet that is just looking for an honorable way to die. Me: Nice, thats a classic archetype and would be cool to see role played out. R: I instantly lie to the receptionist, I lie to the guard and get someone else arrested, and now I have royally screwed the party's chances of keeping a low profile. Me: Dude none of that is Lawful Good!

[@crystal-sh8in]

I know right

[@TheAdarkerglow]

I mean, I knew it was going to be a troll when he blew up his last character.......

[@shredditplays6021]

Bro its lawful good when these organizations are evil. Yeah cry more when you aren't even in the campaign

[@shanerasmussen5225]

@@shredditplays6021 The organizations aren't evil.

[@slasherfd]

@@shredditplays6021 whether the organizations are evil is not the point. You clearly have no clue on how alignments work and your extreme tunnel vision along with your egomaniacal attitude is why you're stirring so much shit. Lawful means you follow laws, or a code (could even be personal), or a hierarchy, etc. You obey whatever makes you lawful, you don't try to bend it to suit your bullshit. A lawful good character like yours is supposed to follow a set of rules to do good deeds, like bringing down what you perceive as an evil organization. They wouldn't break the laws, wouldn't deceive left and right, wouldn't forge documents, wouldn't put an innocent bystander in jeopardy because of a failed attempt at trying to *lie to a city guard*. They would do everything lawful in their power to achieve their goals. You're not even being Lawful Evil, for what it's worth. You're not exploiting unfair laws and loopholes, or obediently carrying out the orders of an evil hierarchy, etc. You see "law" and you think "this doesn't help me, so I'll just ignore it". I doubt you're playing a rogue, but you're actually playing a rogue. A Chaotic Neutral rogue at best, but most likely a Chaotic Evil rogue in the making - if not already full blown evil and we just don't know it yet from these 2 stories alone, apart from the innocent NPC you've already screwed. Sorry to say, but currently you suck at this. That would be okay if you were willing to put a stop on this mess, really listen to everyone calling you out on what you're doing wrong and reflect on why you're causing so much grief at your table. OP praised you for the brief moment when you seemed to have learned and improved. Keep that up, drop the bullshit, profit. Else, you'll just make a new toon, repeat the mistakes, annoy the party in and out of character, get your toon killed, restart the cycle. Eventually, people will get tired of this behavior and you'll just be kicked out of the group, never to be missed.

[@BusterBuizel]

NGL, a diversionary explosion is a really good idea in most circumstances. This was not one of them

[@Aodhan_Raith]

If you're doing some classic in-nin style infiltration, then arson, and explosions would be fantastic diversions. Escaping among chaos is the easiest. This wasn't fucking infiltration.

[@YakitoriQueen]

I definitely agree. An explosion in a forest seems unwise overall, like, you risk the trees falling on you and stuff, the forest burning down... But during a Fallout-themed TTRPG session i did with some friends we actually did use that technique. It was very successful as well ! Just goes to show, context is important.

[@Silver_Unseelie]

I think my CoC party used it once. but that was (semi) well thought out!

[@babadraga3114]

Unfortunately in this circumstance, it was quite possibly the worst god damn idea possible

[@WearyWizard]

I agree. I kind of see the downsides, alerting the monsters that might not be aware of enemy's etc but year.. good idea really.

[@loganryoung2384]

oh it gets better, R's victim is met by the rest of the party. when they meet him, he explains how he lost everything because of R, and R CONTINUES TO BELIEVE THAT HE DID NOTHING WRONG!

[@patrickdees5256]

Oh wow. Yeah. PVP turned on, everyone can kill him

[@Chatedh]

@@patrickdees5256 because of a nameless NPC? Damn that's rough.

[@patrickdees5256]

@@Chatedh yeah. No, If this story has proven anything, R will screw over all the NPCs. Nameless or otherwise

[@Chatedh]

@@patrickdees5256 biased much? The OP himself said that R had been making improvements. And as you should know, people improve slowly. As I see it, R is doing better than when he started.

[@patrickdees5256]

@@Chatedh yeah I see your point there.

[@steel8231]

It looks like this guy doesn't understand that alignment isn't a normal stat, it's more of an RP trait.

[@patrickdees5256]

I mean yeah 5e's alignments are practically a suggestion, but this guy REALLY made it a suggestion.

[@kingdonut8272]

I'm just thinking of "Geneva convention more like Geneva SUGGESTION" now.

[@KumaoftheForest]

Comparing my friends Lawful chaotic and my Chaotic Fun

[@EliosMoonElios]

"A nice way to die" So in the instant they find a epic creature or any super dangerous situation he will go YOLO and drag the whole party with him.

[@Shay_Mendez]

From trying to better yourself to becoming lawful stupid in less than 5 sessions

[@ChouhouinNeko]

more like less then 1 session since it was a mini one

[@Shay_Mendez]

@@ChouhouinNeko I was going to say 30 minutes or less, but I wasn't sure if it would make much sense XD

[@ChouhouinNeko]

@@Shay_Mendez but that would have gotton you a free pizza D:

[@shredditplays6021]

Hey man hate harder

[@Poldovico]

Hey now, let's keep the name calling down. None of that was Lawful.

[@shanerasmussen5225]

Reminds me of a character played by a friend of mine a long time back. He was a wizard, over 3 sessions he dropped a fireball spell on my character 3 times. The first time the party yelled at him, in character. The second time I told him if it happened again I would kill him, in character. The third time, after our healer got me back up from 0 HP I walked over to him (clothes smoking, charred hair, etc) and put an arrow in his throat at point blank range. Then told the healer it was her choice to save him or not as I walked away. She healed him, he stopped targeting near party members with fireballs, and his, suitably chastised, wizard became a much more valuable comrade. The player is still a good friend. Oh and critcrab, R is trolling your comments.

[@wayjay4880]

Who is R trolling ? I'd like to see it to laugh

[@avacatherine5646]

It looks like this one commenter called Shredditplays?

[@williambarefoot3631]

There's refuge in audacity, and then there's building a summer home to live in.

[@shredditplays6021]

Shut up

[@shanerasmussen5225]

@@shredditplays6021 No.

[@williambarefoot3631]

@@shredditplays6021 you sound like spilled milk, no point in crying over it

[@jackmack4181]

Yes attack the snake that could eat a terrasque, sounds like a great idea

[@QaRajhCreations]

That's why I'm always cautious with bringing a big, overpowered monster into the campaign for the players to be like "gasp, that's dangerous, we can't take that yet", because I too have met a fair share of players who think "Man, wouldn't it be awesome if I (and I alone) slew that thing at level 3?" My best story in this was a Wood Elf Monk, who, is outpacing everyone else in the party, naturally was first in, flurry of blows and all that, sometimes that would even be enough to slay the initial monsters. He also took a lot of hits, and neither his HP or AC was all that high. More importantly the party healer was a Mountain Dwarf Life Cleric and the Cleric had even said to the Monk in game "Look, if you run that far ahead, I can't heal you, can you stay a little closer to the rest of the party, please?" prior to this, but the Monk, hungry for glory and fame and the kill-count (which he was the only player to care for), either ignores or forgets this plea, runs head first into a tomb, dodges past a dart trap and begins fighting the undead, with the rest of the party not even inside the tomb at this point. Most of the low tier minions, run of the mill Skeletons, go down quickly to the Monk dealing lots of damage (in part due to bludgeoning), but then the more advance stuff like Wights and Shadows starts to get in on it. One particular enemy, I forget exactly what it was, the Monk was informed was "excuming an aura of decay", warning him that close combat with this lumbering, festering corpse was a REALLY bad idea. At this point the party's Tiefling Druid, Half-Orc Barbarian, Human Wizard and Dragonborn Rogue have all made it in, and try to gain the attention of more Skeletons and Shadows. Dwarf Cleric rolled a poor initiative, and the 25 speed means that they just now have reached the dart-trap. Meanwhile Monk tries to fight the unique Undead, landing a couple of hard hits, but for all his speed and damage output, he has basically nothing to stop the corpse's 10 ft. Necrotic aura from hurting him, so by the time Cleric actually gets ready to toss some radiant damage out, or apply healing to the party, Monk have already been downed. In the aura of the corpse. That continues to deal Necrotic damage. And kills him. Afterwards he, of course, blamed the Cleric for "not healing a downed player", and basically the entire party was "stop running ahead all the time then." Cleric's player was kind of timid, though their Dwarf was brusque. Thankfully Monk learned from his mistake, and was brought back a couple of sessions later, with the party, begrudgingly, spending all the loot from the tomb on getting him back.

[@KumaoftheForest]

I once made a monster that becomes progressively more resistant to whatever kind of dmg it takes, first half dmg, 1/4 damage, 1/8 dmg. Took the party 4 rounds of terror. They loved it

[@spectralumbra1568]

All I can think of is, "FLUFFERNUTTER!"

[@lawsonbaber8126]

Think about it.. she throws it.. I shoot it.. it explodes! NO STRUCTURAL DAMAGE! Only damage to the creature! At least, that's how I see it going down.

[@spectralumbra1568]

@@lawsonbaber8126 Jester and Nott are both their own distinct types of gifts to humanity and I love them both.

[@cartergreen2309]

@@spectralumbra1568 every character in calpaign two is a treasure. I never thought I'd say it when campaign two started but the characters and story are just sooooo much better than campaign one. Scanlan, Tary and grog are the only ones even competing with any character in two and nothing in the story competes

[@bewareofsnow]

This is one of those "it's what my character would do" situations, but without it being what his character would do.

[@indumatipngtuber2790]

Someone is trying waaaaaay too hard to roleplay as Megumin.

[@Aodhan_Raith]

With none of the charm either.

[@crystal-sh8in]

Whose megumin and were is she from?

[@indumatipngtuber2790]

@@crystal-sh8in Konosuba, she's also a trigger happy mage with a thing for explosions.

[@indumatipngtuber2790]

@@Aodhan_Raith Lol, I know.

[@Aodhan_Raith]

@@crystal-sh8in She's from a Light Novel/Anime series that satirizes the sheer oversaturation of generic isekai genre anime. It's a pretty funny series, and she's actually a very charming character.

[@Poldovico]

I have another suspicion. This player may not fully understand that he can interact with the world by just saying things, without necessarily involving an aspect of his character sheet. I imagine a thought process that's sort of like this: "I could just ask to enter, but that would be persuasion and my character doesn't have a good modifier for it, so I have to use deception and come up with a lie". This could lie with a misunderstanding of how DnD works, tunnel vision, or even just a DM who asks for unnecessary rolls. The basic idea to me is that this player doesn't understand how to interact within the game.

[@Kenneth_A_H]

especially with the custom rules they seem to be playing with. Advantage or disadvantage not one advantage and four disadvantage wtf is this 5e mixed with age of rebellion sw system?

[@Pundae]

@@Kenneth_A_H I thought that meant he had to roll a different check for each lie, each at disadvantage

[@Pundae]

That wouldn't really explain the explosions though. His plan isn't motivated by his character sheet in that case, it sounds more to me like "my character blows things up, I'm going to use this ability on everything. It's what my character would do"

[@mr.doppelganger4716]

@@Pundae that one is more of a bad idea, but who doesn't have bad ideas while playing dnd, atleast he tried to help, even if it was a stupid idea

[@Pundae]

@@mr.doppelganger4716 I feel like someone trying to help their party wouldn't actively and consistently try to do things they are repeatedly asked not to do by said party members

[@Nazo-kage]

I could try and come up with a long post about how R’s character could be fixed/how some of his actions make sense for the backstory but not alignment, and how it still doesn’t make his actions right. I could talk about how the DM could’ve quickly defused at least the situation with the snake. (but that’s only with the power of hindsight helping) but no instead I am going to give one single pearl of wisdom that I hope anybody else who reads this will be able to understand. If there is a monster that sleeps for a long time, only wakes up on a specific date like clockwork, and that the rest of the continent/world is fully aware of this creature and comes together to fight it off. The never... never do anything that could possibly prematurely wake it up. Because even if you somehow survive your moronic decision you will most likely be found out and become persona-non-grata to the entire continent/world and it won’t matter if you’re trying to be great heroes you will be slapped with the big bad evil guy moniker.

[@shredditplays6021]

Too much text, I'm R and I don't care to read

[@Nazo-kage]

RebornRainzGamez the TLDR: if there’s something that awakens yearly and it takes everyone in a continent banning together to stop it. Don’t wake it up early or you might as well give up your hero license and just start calling yourself the BBEG (Big bad evil guy)

[@Chatedh]

That's some very niche advice. The kind of advice that's equal to "don't do that" and only can be give in hindsight.

[@Nazo-kage]

Fernando Rüth wow I do agree it can be considered situational. I don’t think you need hindsight to understand the awakening and ancient evil/huge threat (by throwing the equivalent of fireworks at it) might be a bad idea.

[@paulcurran302]

When you read the original post for the story, so when CritCrab publishes a video on it you already know the ending _The problem with being faster than light is you can only live in darkness_

[@ericevans1148]

Ironically I'm more concerned about the DM here. WTF are these monsters.

[@chrisrudolf9839]

Apparently he wanted some homebrew stuff with Kaiju in it. Nothing to say against that, but the story does suggest that the GM didn't put his foot down strongly enough. At least at the incident with the giant snake, the player was acting unrealistically disruptive. In such a moment, the GM should clearly tell him what is common knowledge about this entity and that the player character KNOWS that he cannot possibly put down that monster with a single powerful spell and that awakening this creature can only result in a catastrophee, thus his character wouldn't do it unless he'd want to roleplay him as being terminally insane.

[@Logandroid]

“And this monster makes you relive all your past traumas every time it looks at you... and also your flesh melts off.” -This DM probably.

[@if7723]

@@Logandroid I murder my cleric because lolz :;

[@lucasky1394]

The mini session idea is ok But not when you get to say “and all the rest of the party come too” because that takes player agency away

[@Sabbathtage]

I had a guy like this. In the basement level of a huge underground city the PCs were being chased by two agents in a huge crowd of people. Our "That Guy" rigged explosives to the load bearing pillars and was going to bring the entire structure down on top of everyone. My little brother was playing and even he was like "We haven't found an exit. You're going to get us all killed" and "these innocent people are going to die". No change in this guy's plans, his only focus was killing the two agents. He destroyed the city killing himself and nearly everyone else.

[@benjilesue8697]

The burrowing tree seeds make me really uncomfy

[@DANTVSVERGIL]

“We end up stuck in an inn being chased by an unknown monster that erases people from existence...” The Dahaka? Quick, someone call the Prince.

[@zettavago2385]

Do you smell that? It smells like Greg here. Maybe we got ourselves another saga?

[@burritodoggo122]

Or Craig

[@jonathanmarks3112]

@@burritodoggo122 Or, pantheons forbid, Ross.

[@Aodhan_Raith]

@@jonathanmarks3112 The Big Three

[@Chatedh]

@@jonathanmarks3112 Was Ross that bad? I believe in the end the OP in those stories was the real ass.

[@BrenTenkage]

as someone who loves to play explosive lovers...this is idiotic, you save big explosions for the finale of an encounter, plus ya gotta save your resources

[@petrusspinelli6661]

"its fine, we're gods!"

[@AnonYmous-mc5zx]

Party: "OK we have this challenge that we need to pass by or we all di-" That guy: "THIS SOUNDS LIKE A JOB FOR FIREBALL MAGE!"

[@silvermagpie1071]

Tbh, the dm could have probably just said no, at least in the first story

[@shredditplays6021]

He didn't say no because he understands I'm better then the other players

[@thekillkill9366]

Yeah, but it wouldn't be fun lol

[@alphaapx1013]

RebornRainzGamez Of course you are! You are the best player in existence better than those normies like Matthew Mercer, and those other people who play dnd. You are totally the best I have no doubts that you are the best player. I love you so much I could marry you R. I mean of course you would’ve been able to kill that world snake in one hit! It’s so obvious it can die to a fireball explosion! You are so smart and cool! Did I say I want to marry you? I love you R, The DM was just suuuuppppeeerrrr stupid wouldn’t you agree? I love how you care soooo little about your party members it just makes your characters that much more love able. You are so special to me R, and since you are so great and awesome will you marry me? I am proposing but it’s okay if you reject me since you are just that great and it’s fine if you don’t need me R. Anyways much love XOXOXO UwU

[@15oClock]

And this is why you need to be strict with players with a history of disruptive behavior.

[@FlyingWolfWings]

Okay, but the Super-fast growing tree and the giant monster that warrants its own holy day sound... Super badass

[@LordOfRaven621]

I actually had to kick one player out of our group because they were saying that d&d is more important than my health because I was not feeling well on one day when we play d&d and I dm the group and I told everyone how I was having some health issues and I slept past the time that we start and how I was not feeling well everyone else besides one person in our group said it was fine, she said that I was making excuses and that I’m a horrible dm and that I’m not sick and how D&D is more important than my health. Funny thing was that one of my other friends in the group was in the call at the time and heard everything she said. So I told her this was her last chance to apologize ( I had warned her many times about being a jerk to me and everyone) and she said that I can go f my self so I said ok your out of the group and never coming back have a good day *click*

[@dynamicworlds1]

Good for you. You don't need people like that in your game...or life.

[@fallingcow5278]

I would've given him a chance by taking some of the trees seeds and planting them onto the massive monsters spine. The plants will burrow deep into the spine, and one explosion would leave the thing crippled. Might've worked, but a lot more exciting.

[@astral_ragtime5365]

This DM needs to learn the very difficult challenge of "crits don't automatically mean success"

[@StubbornFox]

The part of the seeds almost going into their skin and growing out of them triggered my trypophobia

[@adriannaranjo4397]

I'm gonna be honest, this guy straight up doesn't know how to play. It's like he refuses to learn

[@3adgamd3r]

“A creature that erases people from existence” *cue flashbacks to RE:Zero*

[@Flame-rp6yq]

He wants to wake up literal Jörmangandr And sees nothing wrong with this? This man is the embodiment of chaotic neutral

[@TheLuigiguy64]

Ok but I wanna know more about how everyone comes together to stop a 50 MILE snake from just flattening everything

[@shoyru266]

I'm imagining a number of ways R being tackled to the ground in the first story

[@bluestarcmdr350]

I have been binging your videos a lot lately. You know just putting it on in the background listening. It paused right when you said that "actions have consequences" and I laughed so hard only due to the pure silence matched with the intense crab stare. I was not prepared for that and really brightened my day.

[@thedarkdungeon1083]

These videos make me laugh. Thanks Critcrab!!!

[@jaderade4662]

I uhhhh, I think homie has a real life deathwish.

[@TossedPhilly]

Oh boy...25 xp sounds like...not alot

[@Poldovico]

depends on the game system.

[@lazymasterkillr9106]

6:35 that monster is the false hydra, I believe, and it's obsoletely terrifying.

[@ixelhaine]

I actually did TPK my party once (non-lethal), but in my defense I was a Paladin and the party tried to steal back the money I had donated to a local charity. Part of my character was that he would donate his worldly wealth (aside from a few specific magic items that he himself helped to make in his down time). Over the course of the campaign my character had created his own charity organization that more or less managed most other charities around the continent, so stealing from this charity would have gotten them several million gold and easily paid for everything every party member could want, and the Rogue's player had convinced the party that the charity had enough gold that it wouldn't be missed, but that what it could buy for the party would ensure that we could defeat the BBEG, and that they would do far more good than harm by commiting the heist. I was able to convince the DM that, for trying to steal from the charity, the party could be considered Chaotic Evil for the encounter (one of those magic items I mentioned earlier was a sword that dealt bonus damage to Chaotic or Evil targets, double if CE).

[@Twitchy_McExorcism]

I wonder if he thought D&D was like a TV show where the main characters never suffer significant consequences, let alone die, so no matter what he did, it _had_ to work out fine for him.

[@theredscum4202]

A good man from the church: attempts robbery twice attempts murder

[@darkonetzeentch8214]

This is probably the earliest I've been to one of your videos!

[@kylestark1800]

I detest DM/GMs that use this style of play. I had a guy who would run a weekly game and while everyone had work during the week or other commitments there was one player who basically worked from home. Through out the week he and the DM would play while the rest of us patiently waited until the Saturday. At first it was mostly character development stuff for the guy but soon enough it was story elements that he was progressing that we agreed to approach the next session. We told the DM we didn't like it and it would unbalance the game along with destroying everything we worked for but he refused to listen. Guess the other player stroked his ego so much that he was willing to risk it all. Eventually there came a Saturday where a different guy came early to catch up and the GM allowed the same razzle dazzle he did with the other player. We all arrived and were told that the game was over because of the choices the player made. I told him to kindly fuck off and he, not the player, just killed a 5 year campaign in a year for allowing what he did to transpire. No one returned to that guys table except the original offending player because we didn't want to deal with the bullshit. The rest of us still gather on the regular while the DM moved to another city because no one wanted to hang with him anymore. Sure there were other reasons behind the split but this was the death knell that sounded the end.

[@lightning_bishop260]

I don’t mind that kind of thing in games like Vampire the Masquerade where everyone kind of has their own agenda, and being too free with information about yourself can give your enemies a huge advantage. I do mini-sessions for characters in 5e from time to time as well, but I won’t let anyone try and fuck over the party on purpose. What happened to you and your friends is unfortunate. Good riddance to that DM!

[@kylestark1800]

@@lightning_bishop260 I was typing out a reply and mate...let's just say it started to ramble for all the messed up parts of the experience. I believe you have valid points with the WoD games, but I'm sure you give equal time and surely any game played that way should have things metered so no one player begins to outstrip the others by orders of magnitude. The effort of the group was disproportionate to that of the one guy. He was getting the rewards by showing up everyday to side game when we had people that could only do the weekend game.

[@lightning_bishop260]

Kyle Stark on that we are absolutely in agreement. The key to a successful game is balance. As long as everyone gets equal opportunities to shine, and no one player gets an absurd advantage over the others through opportunities not presented to the rest of the group, balance can hopefully be maintained. But yeah, as far as people who try to become the main character of a group are concerned, I tell those people to hit the bricks, because there is no room for glory-hogging at my table. TRPGs are collaborative storytelling. Extra sessions in my games are just to give players opportunities do do things that the whole party doesn’t need to get dragged into. Shopping for items, sending a letter, getting information at a temple or library, exploring a town to find out more about the area, or doing things related to their backstory. I never let players maliciously interfere with each other. I did that ONE TIME in a homebrew game I was running, and have regretted it ever since. It didn’t end on a good note. We’re all still friends, but we’ve never really tried to play with each other again.

[@FenrisChosen]

It seems like so many of these stories have people who act like they are playing a solo-RPG video game. Lack of consequences and the ability to "reset."

[@DrPinkieDie]

"just wants to find a nice way to die" I would have instantly distrusted this character's actions

[@mr.dantastic5073]

“The biggest monster was one of us.” Lol, sounds like a zombie movie, ‘the real monsters are mankind’. Really entertaining story, and geez that was a crazy player.

[@360entertainment2]

You should totally cover the rest of this guys stories. They’re pretty damn entertaining!

[@TrueHavoc13]

When I heard the words world building I fully expected a world anvil ad. Xp to level 3 and runesmith have conditioned me apparently.

[@jackgraham5555]

Horror story aside, that DM sounds incredible

[@Chatedh]

I disagree, I would say he is a creative DM, but the whole mini session thing, is a weird thing that invites trouble such as this. I get that OP and others might think is cool, but for new players (As I suspect R to be) is just confusing and invites trouble and insults from his toxic party.

[@jackgraham5555]

@@Chatedh It's about execution, I think the concept of mini sessions is excellent and I've employed something similar in my games. Especially for new players having to actually roleplay their characters absent from a group can really help flesh out their character. Also an excellent way to introduce more plot hooks.

[@Breadothy]

Reminds me of the time one of our warforged tried to pretend to be a guard and convince people that his mission is classified *to other guards and high ranking military*. Actually that's a running thing with them. Was pretty entertaining and a good distraction though

[@wuboPTCG]

The true question is. Why do people have the need to tpk people? To assert dominance? For fun? I NEED THESE ANSWERS.

[@bitethedust3561]

beacuse the gods tell them

[@Ashtari]

Bite the Dust more like because the voices in their head tell them.

[@Nyghtking]

I would file it under "For fun" since it's almost always an attempt to assert dominance, just because they want to screw up the game for other people, or to get revenge for something they think wronged them.

[@Calebgoblin]

@@Ashtari for most people the difference is scant

[@wuboPTCG]

Holy crap this is my most popular comment ever. Lmao.

[@zacharycondon1098]

How do I know that critcrab is a real crab? When talking about burning one's hand, it being tastier is just as important as the pain.

[@clockworktri]

this campaign setting sounds super cool!

[@Arcticmaster1190]

Apparently English auto-generated subs say you’re QuickCrab. I’m now imagining a crab going at the speed of sound. Also there’s one more story on this guy?! I heard about the first two already but R has more antics?! Ho boy...

[@almadelsur01]

"Sonic, he's the fastest crab aliiive!"

[@arnoldschpeiker7887]

First story: The story of Megumin's previous party before she met Kazuma and Aqua.

[@Crowscythe13]

I was clueless until you mentioned the mini session of the second one and I didn’t realize I’ve heard it before.

[@kelvin.davies1704]

have no idea why i have been watching your videos i dont even know what DnD is but makes me want to give it ago

[@CritCrab]

Do it.

[@TheAdarkerglow]

No, he's obviously a troll, kick him. If he "doesn't understand why everyone's so mad" is the equivalent of "it was just for the lulz", and it also means that he's going to do it again. He's playing nice OOC so he doesn't get booted, because the point is to ruin the game for the other players by being intentionally obtuse in game. While I'm all for three chances, he spent two of them trying to TPK the party, and the third blowing himself up instead of sitting in jail (because he's seen that his explosion casting can be countered and disabled). He figures, "start a new character, totally different type, and they won't be able to anticipate my next TPK attempt". Now, if I'm wrong, that's a shame, because I'd kicked a nice guy from the game, but at least my table wouldn't have a shitheel in it.

[@SeventhSeraphOfficerRevolver]

I feel like you've had previous experience with this.

[@Chatedh]

I feel like R is just a new player, he will get better over time.

[@LazyCharms]

I think you're right. This guy may not be a troll, but he sure is acting like one.

[@PlayerZeroStart]

If you think he's just a troll, you are massively underestimating how stupid people can be.

[@masternemo2366]

I once accidentally tpk my own party (I was a player) because i corrected my GM on how much damage meteor swarm did.

[@MichaelB-jw5po]

I like that idea of running smaller minisessions throughout the week for players if they want them. I would definitely offer that if I thought any of my players would actually show up to them.

[@user-pm1xk5vw3u]

. . . I get the feeling R just literally copied and pasted Megumin, and now everytime R does an explosion, all I can hear is "EXPLOSION!"

[@angie.castle]

Bruh. I love explosive characters, but there is a limit to stupidity. Thank God our fellow explosive Kobold is played by a player who has some sense to know when to back down and give it a rest. When done right, they are super fun to watch and interact with. That little Kobold is my favorite out of the group

[@doghinho7996]

Me watching the 5 last minutes: Am I having a stroke or he js playing 4d chess 3?

[@kittyelf1485]

During the intermission I was thinking “Crit Crab has seen some things.”

[@calvinthegreat69]

So I tried running a Shadowrun campaign one time. Had a session 0 and told my party a few things. 1) some missions will need to be loud or stealth, some can be either. 2) I'm very much going to lean into "rule of cool" so while I will always give them obstacles, I will try to give them the tools for any scheme they come up with to complete a run. 3) I would try to do 2-3 hour sessions where about 45 min would be plot and all the prep they would need to do for a run, and the rest would be doing the run. They basically would just argue for 45 min about how to do the run, shoot down every idea as unrealistic, assume every bit of info I gave them about security was me trying to point them away from trying what they were looking into, then they would wing it, shoot everything, never do stealth, and run away. I actually needed players like R. Come up with a crazy idea and try it. Blow shit up one time, lie your way in the next. Obviously he was blind to group dynamics which is annoying to everybody but him, so not justifying his actions, but his fly by the seat of your pants style and propensity for out of the box ideas could fit another group/setting.

[@goosle]

I just got a story for this. This is set in a inn, in a creepy 400 year old abandoned town. So my younger brother was keeping watch for 2 hours while the rest of us long rested. He looked out the window of the inn (because we blocked up the entrances after I had to give cuthulu a paper cut) and saw a parade of ghosts. There was talking, laughing, Mexican music, the lot. He then WENT OUTSIDE AND 10. GHOSTS FLEW THREW HIM. He got aged up 10 years, his strength is lowered by 5, (a problem, he's a fighter) and his hitpoints reduced to one. My level one paladin had to expend 3 out of 5 of my lay on hands health pool. He did plenty of jackass stuff later, like split the party and try to rob the bank as lawful good, but non of its worth writing.

[@vsGoliath96]

It turns out the biggest monster... was the friends we made along the way.

[@ravvij9643]

Tastier than usual... omfg, that's gold!

[@6d9dnd74]

Lol I like that he blew him self up at the end

[@combinationcalligraphy4448]

i feel like the “forest watcher” or the serpent, was just a reskin of jormundgandr

[@lapislazuli9961]

"What am I doing wrong, guys? A party is where you get boozed up and *don't* care about whatever happens after. Why are you all packing up?"

[@pepekovallin]

maybe the biggest monster is the friend we made along the way

[@LGDarksteed]

This DM and game setting sound super cool.

[@aba1design]

Ahhh thats definitely me. Love being chaotic. Realized over time though that you gotta be careful because not everyone is in for that

[@TigerKirby215]

Got confused when it was labeled "D&D Story" and not "D&D Horror Story"

[@CubeFrog]

I really wanna read a book about this setting, it sounds so fucking cool

[@madmohawk6560]

Plz crab update us when more R stuff comes out we must see this festival of incompetence

[@jaffarebellion292]

This guy was roleplaying Andy the Bomb from Red vs. Blue.

[@gxtmfa]

2:55 Only half an hour?? Jeez. Oh well. Classic Scoots.

[@ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos]

In fairness, solo sessions have a way of causing players to forget they are playing a team game. In that moment, they aren't.

[@thecomfyshirt]

The whole “dementia” angle reminds me Disco Elysium.

[@dmilnejones]

I played years ago... (2nd edition) and my little brother was a LOT like R. We finally got tired of his shit and came up with a plan. You see, he played a Dwarven Battle Rager who LOVED spikey armor. Well, another one of my friends played a Furbolg and while we visited a tavern, before the questline even began, we decided to ditch the pain in the ass. We had my brothers character sit at the end of a bench. Then the Furbolg comes running across the room, jumps off a table and does a cannonball on the OTHER end of the table and launches the dwarf into the ceiling. The DM called for a roll to hit. I shit you not, a natural 20! We stuck the obnoxious dwarf to the ceiling of the tavern and left to fulfill our mission! LOL. The BEST part of this came about 2 months later. We're sitting around playing, my brother had calmed his antics down... A LOT... since the battle rager incident. However, he was getting a little cocky during our campaign. SO, the DM, remembering the incident, maneuvers us to a tavern. Where upon entry, we all have to roll a perception check. The few of us that passed it noticed a dwarven skeleton, clad in spikey ass armor stuck to the ceiling! We all lost it, laughing hysterically and my brother just says "Fuck you guys." and hangs his head. One of the funnier moments we had while playing. We're currently collecting the books and stuff to start again. My wife and I are trying to figure out all the changes to 5e and I've invited a few of the guys from all those years ago to join us, as well as some new friends and even my little brother. Looking forward to seeing what kind of dumbfuckery we can get into now that we have a couple more decades of experience in being dipshits!

[@Vplayer_]

one choice don't change your alignment

[@AnvilPro100]

Hey I wrote these stories, nice

[@wayjay4880]

What happens to R? I know the saga. But wasn't clear or don't recall what happened to the player. Did he keep playing and get better later?

[@RealTrey19]

WHEN WILL YOU LEARN WHEN WILL YOU LEARN THAT YOUR ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES

[@Cellidor]

See, this is why I use an alternate set-up from the 'good/evil/lawful/neutral' chart. I don't like telling players what their characters are, but in this situation I would have to tell him 'Given your actions, you'd have to be neutral evil, perhaps chaotic, you are absolutely not acting in a selfless way'.

[@ArawnNox]

I almost feel like Alignment could be totally cut out of DnD these days anyway. Aside from a few magic items, nothing keys off it anymore. Even the Detect/Protection from Good/Evil spells don't detect alignment.

[@Cellidor]

@JustDev For sure, yeah. In RAW the DM should absolutely be enforcing an alignment change if someone consistently acts outside of alignment.

[@Cellidor]

@JustDev That's why I prefer an alternative set up. It's not 'good' and 'evil' but 'positive' and 'negative', in the sense of magical energies (think radiant and necrotic). Fire magic would be on the positive end, cold magic on the negative, but neither magic is 'good' or 'bad'. That way spells that care about alignment (in this case magical alignment) still matter in game. Lawful and Chaotic are the same way, whether your attunement to magic is uniform or sporadic. Someone with chaotic-positive leanings may find lightning magic appealing, those with lawful-negative may be drawn to magical poisons. Psychic could be considered neutral, as another example. That way I leave _personality_ up to the player, but can still have them keep a strict 'magical alignment' otherwise. I even renamed 'positive' and 'negative' to 'Generative' and 'Entropic' so people can avoid confusion by still using the 'CE/LE/LN' alignment short-hand, or even making 'Lawful' into 'Linear' to fully separate 'your character's alignment' from 'your character's personality'.

[@sakaue]

40 seconds and im second damn, congrats mike for being fast af

[@mikeknight1778]

Thanks maybe you will be first next time

[@gelbadayah.sneach579]

"...and tastier than usual." THAN USUAL? LMAO!

[@TF2BluSoldier]

> Story ends > Video is only halfway through Oh no.

[@chaoseclipse0121]

You know, I played a character who, at one point, was a walking TPK waiting to happen. Not because I was out trying to kill the party or ruin sessions on purpose, but because of how Frenzy mechanics work, on top of having a 15 foot reach weapon and having a stupid amount of damage output...on top of having a stupidly high mobility...at least that got fixed once my character became a Legendary Dreadnought. Moral of the story is, professionals have standards. Rather than be an edgelord trying to actively kill your party, just make your very existence be the thing that might bring about a TPK. Things are a lot more hilarious that way and people have a lot less hard feelings for it, especially if you can roleplay the character as being an introvert that's given himself PTSD and is terrified of himself.

[@_malprivate2543]

Those minisessions seems like a reaaaallly bad idea, even without this dude...