Playing a Premade D&D Campaign the 1st Time VS the 2nd Time

What campaign did you play the second time?
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[@muskatDR]

"You enter a room, before you you see..." "I go over to the hidden passage and grab the magical item" "Youve played this before havent you?" "Nooo..."

[@Remagenify]

This is why I check to see if everyone's played it, and if they have, ever so not subtly change a lot of things. It'll create a new experience hopefully for the players, and if they lied about playing it before, sometimes they'll rush straight to the original spot and out themselves.

[@mistermaestersirthomas9164]

You need some periods before the “…Noooo…”

[@LocalMaple]

I once saw SkyDieRay cover this, I think in an r/greentext. Rogue knew every trap placement, every loot box, every mimic. DM had enough when Rogue bought climbing gear. Rogue: “I alone scale the tower from the outside, go to the 23rd floor, and enter through the window.” DM: “Every enemy in the tower is there waiting for you. You have one round before we roll initiative.” Rogue: “That’s not how it is in the book!” DM, smiling: “In the what?” Rogue: “I dive out the window.” DM: “Acrobatics check to catch the rope.” Dice: Fail. DM: “Let me see, 12’ per floor, 23 floors up… [lots and lots of clattering d6’s] Yeah, you dead.” I guess the BBEG was tired of having all his loot stolen.

[@curnott6051]

@@Remagenify I think most, if not all, of the modules are made with the intent that the DM is going add their own twists to the adventure. I've DM'd White Plume Mountain from Tales Of The Yawning Portal about half-a-dozen times now, but I make sure that no two runs are the same. I even ran a horror themed one for Halloween, which everyone loved.

[@dolofonosesostrefis]

I literally just started watching Critical Role before our campaign and the first quest we did was (SPOILER WARNING: RAT) The quest where daughter was a rat. She scampered past me and I was like "Ah, I see what this is, pretend you don't know". The DM knew I knew and I wasn't going to participate in puzzle but then one of my friends said "Wait, you're a Tabaxi, shouldn't you chase that?" And I'd like to note: I made my cat the most cat cat, down to being a Sorcerer because I heard they gain magic by sleeping (don't remember where I heard that but meh) so ofc I chased it, rolled well and chose the right direction in a 50/50. Mage hand grabbed her and brought her back. Only time I didn't want to role well...

[@TimeturnerJ]

The worst part: Knowing, but not being able to _act_ on that knowledge, because that's meta. :'D "Oh yes, hello old friend-npc-who-is-gonna-stab-us-in-the-back-later, look how happily and ignorantly my character is shaking your hand right now! Would you break this naïve little fresh adventurer's heart? Would you? Would you?? Oh, I know you will..."

[@torva360]

If I ran the same module twice, I'd switch out the traitor. Peter betrayed you last time? Good thing you can totally trust Betty over there...

[@LocalMaple]

Both can be the traitor. Switch it up depending on who the party adopts. Third time through, whoever is adopted acts shady, but it’s actually the shunned character as an act of revenge.

[@LocalMaple]

Also, I saw Puffin Forest covering Hoard of the Dragon Queen before my current DM suggested and started running it. So I know about the 2 big challenges. I designed my character before learning that. She isn’t the type to activate/participate in those challenges, aside from maybe barricading the keep. But if it happens, it happens. I won’t Metagame away from that challenge.

[@exodud5016]

@@LocalMaple 4th time, get a good player you trust with you and make them the traitor. Now it doesn't matter if the PCs all avoid recruitable NPCs like the plague!

[@TmanTheTdog]

*King Dragon sends his regards.*

[@O4C209]

"How have we not figured this out yet!" This hurt more than the betrayal.

[@r.s.2890]

That's why I change things on modules. "I remember this part. This is where the goblins show up." _bugbear sneak attacks_ "What the _(bleep)?!"_

[@hiimcrazyfordrwho]

In a Strahd campaign I was in, a player had played through one of the houses as a one shot. He arrived and expected 3 low level enemies. Except the enemies inside were dependent on level, and we were much higher level at that point.

[@tigerwarrior1787]

"It appears you misremembered this part... this is where the Goblin-OIDS show up... also, you got sneak-attacked by the Hobgoblin who's been following right behind you due to your low Perception checks..."

[@kharnthebetrayer8251]

Highrollers did this great. One of the players had done through the entire module before, so he switched a lot of things up on them. Adding in an extra plan for Strahd beyond just the girl. And actually killing off one of the major NPC's that drop lore. So the player had no idea if his knowledge from the module would even help. Some bits were the same, but large parts deviated massively, so he couldn't have metagame'd it even if he'd wanted to

[@thebickerer]

In my previous World of Darkness campaign I DMed, I gave my players copies of their starting characters about midway through the campaign and started them off where the whole thing began. They were really confused, asking if I'd decided to reboot the thing and stuff like that. I left the whole thing largely unanswered, giving rather ambiguous replies, so they just went along with it. They were a mix of annoyed and excited that they got to start out form square one, allowing for a bit of meta gaming since they already knew where a bunch of stuff was, when stuff would happen and what kind of people they'd encounter. They were just small things at first, and I was completely fine with it, but as soon as they tried to deviate majorly from what they had done, weird things started to happen. First they just thought I abused my "power as a DM" (or ST, "storyteller", as it is referred to in WoD) to ward off meta gaming, but I just said "Nope". One of my players instantly caught onto what was going on, but wanted to confirm it before informing the rest of the party. She kept on doing just plain weird shit, which instantly failed or resulted in things that would lead them to the same stuff that happened last time. Things like setting buildings on fire, kicking people, punching police officers, and even biting down on high voltage wires. Another player caught on and went on a suicide rampage that failed spectacularly, and both of the players' characters informed the party that they were in some kind of fake world, like a dream or a memory. Most of the other characters were sceptical at first, before the suicidal guy told one of them to load his gun with a full magazine and fire one bullet anywhere. They did so, not entirely seeing his point until he put the gun to his temple and fired off a shot. Or rather, tried to. The gun just clicked as if it was empty, since his suicide had not occurred in the original story, and as soon as he pointed the gun elsewhere, it fired normally, but when he pointed the gun at either of them, it just clicked again. That convinced them enough, so they retraced their steps from the last session, realizing that they had been poisoned and placed in some kind of ritual trance and that they had accidentally walked into the main base of the cult they had been following when they unknowingly checked into that hotel. I had given hints that when they did things that deviated from their memories, other odd things started happening in response (as whatever held them there was trying to correct the story again), but only when they did small things that weren't largely influential on the story as a whole. So, they did the most logical thing they could think of that didn't largely affect the story but still largely affected it: nothing. As a result, the dream spell collapsed and they were freed in the middle of the ongoing ritual, managing to avoid becoming sacrifices to the cult's otherworldly being they worshipped. It was a really fun mission, both for me to plan and (when they realized I wasn't just being an asshole) for them to play through. It was also really fun to watch them wrap their heads around the whole thing. I like doing memory-related stuff!

[@justinacosta6212]

That is really good. I am going to steal that for my game

[@224ryan]

That is honestly the coolest premise I heard actually be done in a table top game, but you have to have a group that really trusts you because you're essentially hardcore railroading them until they figure out why.

[@FlorisGerber]

I am going to steal this at some point :)

[@Phoenixqueen77]

This is amazing

[@sillyjellyfish2421]

This is some real cool shit right there

[@chaosjimthevoidlord3762]

When you read the second book in the series before the first.

[@r.s.2890]

Not read, but definitely buy in my case. 😆 I've bought an entirely prequel trilogy w/o reading its main 6 books of which i have 5, and missing 5th. 😆

[@joshuascully9041]

I once read an awesome book and got excited to read the rest of the series only to find out my mistake.... I bought book one of the last series... I bought book 13 of 16 (or so) books Totally worth it, awesome writer

[@allisondavis2475]

@@koningprogaming6346 same

[@thatonenoob7854]

I watched a sequel before the original and when I watched the original, I began to like this character but the entire time I was thinking "Wait this dude's going to die. No, stop."

[@billygoat5944]

Damn you got me with that i accidentally got the 2nd and 3rd books of a series which i first thought were the 1rst and 2nd

[@otakitten8012]

This sounds like a wizard who does time magic going back in time to fix one very crucial mistake and has to go through everything again to get up to that point

[@hiimcrazyfordrwho]

That would be a fun concept if one player has done the campaign before

[@Fyreflier]

and he _still_ didn't go left

[@alakazam9776]

"I...am not ready to go through this emotional experience again." Best quote of 2021

[@forfaerghus8092]

That was everyone at the end of 2020

[@d.t.7819]

**Grabs sword** "I just want to talk." "Yes, **gathers DM things** and I totally believe, wait here while I run all this out to my car and I'll be back to... talk"

[@commandercaptain4664]

Player: I demolish your car before you escape. DM: That's not how real life wor- *looks to totaled car* -and that happened. Huh. Okay then. Rock falls, you die. *Player is crushed by a rock* DM: It worked... It finally worked! I AM ALL POWERFUL!!! FEAR ME!!!!

[@Claymore790]

I could see myself as the player way too easily............... must work on that.....

[@AidanWR]

I really wanted the 2nd time figuring out a puzzle to be, "I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT WE JUST HAD TO OPEN THE DOOR"

[@commandercaptain4664]

"Mellon..."

[@_jla619_]

As soon as you said, "If we went left", you brought me back to my Lost Mines of Phandelver campaign. That premade sent me for so much whiplash.

[@cheesybutters5053]

Oh no... Thats the one I'm currently doing

[@_jla619_]

@@cheesybutters5053 Klarg. That is all.

[@cheesybutters5053]

@@_jla619_ Oh no I have done it, and it was a disappointing fight for me as he didn't get a single hit in and was 2 shot. I was the dm

[@_jla619_]

@@cheesybutters5053 He man-handled and killed our Monk, my 8 intelligent Cleric was traumatized since our wizard basically decided to bail on us when things looked bad. Gooodddd times

[@cheesybutters5053]

@@_jla619_ the parties luck has not changed in the slightest, most fights even boss fights are over in like 3 rounds

[@siragon756]

My group recently rebooted a premade campaign for several reasons. We didn't get very far but the DM asked us if we wanted to play through the beginning again. Since we had new characters, we decided that yes, it was better, just to see what new dynamics would settle between us. When we arrived at the first dungeon, some goblins escaped by a door and I followed them. I knew where they were going and I knew the boss was just down the stairs. However, my character makes very bad decisions so when he passed the door and saw 3 other doors, he just went "ok, no time to think, I'll decide with head-or-tails". To which my DM said there were 3 doors and to which I answered "head for the door on the left, tails for the doors on the right and then head-or-tails again to decided between the first or the second if I get the ones on the right". I got tails. The stairs were on the other side, which means I stormed through the labyrinth of doors on the wrong side while yelling after goblins that didn't go that way, while perfectly knowing I was going the wrong way. That was fun.

[@linksstruepower7443]

If I could go back to the start of my last Campaign with all my knowledge, I wouldn't want to do anything different. The arc my character went through was mostly improvised and he was never meant to be more than build that I was wanting to play, but between being turned into a child, being betrayed ( the whole party agreed that was the worst part of the game ), repeatedly humbled, forced to see his kind as a bunch of shivering children, mindlessly following tradition and waiting for their god to save them, and pulling himself out of own stuck in a sense of Stagnation, he came out as a true Hero. You can't plan for that. 😎 Also, being a Max level Wizard makes DMs want to just quit the game or plan whole dungeons around stopping you from bullshiting encounters

[@newtonianlaw3249]

I would like to introduce you to my assassin: Mr/Mrs. Assassin-Kill-BS-Wizard-In-Their-Sleep-For-Ruining-My-Campaign. Please start a new character. And no... I have never assassinated a PC for any reason other than plot

[@linksstruepower7443]

@@newtonianlaw3249 1. He was an Elf, so he didn't sleep. 2. I had MANY safeguards against dying, including a Clone (That I never used) that was nice and safe in a Demiplane. 3. I was a very creative player and maximized my downtime. I had Resistance to ALL damage types. You don't reach level 20 as a wizard without playing really freaking smart.

[@Avaira]

Actually getting powerful item at first time and not getting it on second is waaaaay more frustrating.

[@justmonica9253]

I recently played in a CoS campaign, which I dmed myself a couple of years back. The dm knew I knew the campaign- he used my copy, after all- but we colluded to try and make my being there be a net positive. I did my best to not meta- generally leaving actual decisions to the others- and planned my character to be as narratively interesting as possible (which wasn't much, CoS is pretty inflexible to the players all things considered, little room to be a part of the world or shape it, beyond the obvious vampire slaying to be done).

[@alexandramusilova8148]

Just depends on your dm. You could possibly play someone who grew up in Barovia, that would also help you with metagaming.

[@williamv7286]

Meeting the cute NPC for the first time: Aw! I'll do everything I can to protect you. 2nd time, during first session: Aw! I'll do EVERYTHING I can to protect you!

[@LocalMaple]

0:35 That NPC is loyal this time, the traitor was replaced with the other NPC. 1:40 This is why you prepare backup… wait. I know this channel… I CALLED IT!

[@Eemi_Seppala]

Not quite same, but I once ran two Dark heresy campaigns simultaneously(mostly, once a week for each group). Twist is, it was the same custom campaign for both groups and they had..... varying results. Couple of highlights: Group A joined a pit fighting tournament to get information and while doing so bet most of their money on the lucky chosen who had to be their inside man. After various 1-on-1 fights and a half dead Arnold look-alike, hey got their info and the money. Group B found out where the fights were going to happen and knew they needed the info from there, so they planned a police raid on the place at the night of the fight. After interrogation(or torture) they got their info.

[@LordBrittish]

You all meet in a tavern, and an old man approaches you with a proposition…

[@LordBrittish]

Not THAT kind of proposition!

[@WildBluntHickok]

@@LordBrittish The old man is an ex-bard, and so isn't attracted to you because you're not a dragon or a kraken.

[@tigerwarrior1787]

"It's dangerous to go alone, Take this!"

[@lambentlamprey]

@@tigerwarrior1787 Dammnit old man, PUT THAT AWAY!

[@ori-oh7uo]

"i just wanna talk!" i dont think he just wants to talk

[@alarkhar]

He talks. The DM, on the other hand, mainly screams.

[@propheinx2250]

Never trust "I just want to talk," It's never just a talk.

[@ryanyoung8136]

1st time: the happy go lucky helper 2nd time: veterans in 20 different ways

[@TamTroll]

recently my group picked up a campaign that i played a few sessions of years ago. i only remembered three things from my first go around. 1. My character became the party cook. 2. My character won a brawl. 3. My character found a masterwork shortsword in the ocean. Going through it a second time with the same character, i aimed to re-create those moments as much as possible. 1. My character became the party cook. (Success!) 2. Another player's character won the brawl (to be fair, it fit them better, as my character was reluctant the first time, and theirs was eager) 3. Nobody found anything in the ocean (i kept getting low rolls, and everyone else found nothing special) well... one out of three ain't bad :D

[@forfaerghus8092]

House of Lament from Van Richten's. Or rather, I ran the adventure for three of my friends...wanted to complete it, too, but the warlock tried to solve the biggest problems by burning things down and the whole party paid for it. Now, when a different group of mine opened a Ravenloft campaign, I was excited to join as a player, and what do I know? She's starting with the House of Lament.

[@forfaerghus8092]

@@coveyhough2524 Funnily enough I'm playing a fire-based Draconic sorc

[@tigerwarrior1787]

*Prepares Fireball with Happy Son Noises for Draconic Headpats*

[@artloveranimation]

Using a premade campaign as a guidebook to then improvise/homebrew on top of it, could be a really fun way when learning how to DM

[@tigerwarrior1787]

"Before you, you see Strahd riding in upon his Nightmare, the townsfolk are still outside upon his arrival-" Cleric: "Wait, why aren't they running?" "And as soon as he dismounts his Nightmare, small explosions pop off in the sky, bringing color for but a moment to this dreary city before Strahd starts to perform, right there, in the middle of the street-" Bard: "Wait... isn't that my Shtick?!" "And to best clarify the performance Strahd is doing... allow me to show you Smooth Criminal." Everyone: *ANGRY GROANS*

[@aldahesu28]

To honor this channel the next sword I get in a game I'll call it "The conversation opener", although it won't be soon I'm the forever DM.

[@Eramiserasmus]

This makes you aware of your skill at dealing with meta-knowledge.

[@OnyxHC]

The meta is strong on this one

[@DaBuGor]

Dm: Have you played this before? Me: No....

[@Complexicon_of_a_Startist]

0:27 My Rogue could never be so courteous as to let them join without even the slightest of inspections

[@KnicKnac]

Sounds like an Out of the Abyss game.

[@rachdarastrix5251]

Just go around the cave. Genius plan, requires power level 3rd round.

[@Nazo-kage]

How about this for the idea for a skit. What each of your characters are like, Lvl 1 vs Lvl 10 (or higher)

[@plasant8408]

clerik level 1: In the name of my god i will heal your wounds and safe you! clerik level 20: i controll your fate my words can heal uncountable numbers of people I AM A GOD!!

[@after_alec]

Man I wasn’t ready for the 5e Deathloop crossover campaign yet

[@jamiekelley4076]

I think DMing in this scenario could be fun by altering some details of it to throw curveballs. Like changing out the type and location of a trap. Or making switching which NPC is going to betray you.

[@christhiancosta1844]

0:18 - me after trying lost mine of phandelver for the fifth time and never getting beyond 4 sessions or so because the group always implode

[@taramaforhaikido7272]

I been playing pathfinder: wrath of the rigthious lately. One of the best RPG games made IMO. Despite having played basically every other RPG game around it still surprised me with some plot twists. For a start the traitors, while seen coming, have real depth to them. Really brings out the solid reasons for the unpleasent events they go through. Then we got things like multiple paths that you can take in the game, which can lead to things like being either a angel, demon, some sort of "fey" with a pet dragon... Which joins in conversations as well. All while running a kingdom with armies, buildings and questing around. It's as overwhelming as it sounds and in the best possible way. The "second" time would be Baldur's Gate 2 for me. Baldur's Gate 1 was the first. Technically there's Knights of the old republic but that's more sci fi then D&D. Clearly the Bladur's gate games paved the way for pathfinder. I'd call the original pathfinder game average, while wrath of the rigthious improves in everything. Pretty much like how BG2 is better then 1 basically. Actually, now that I think about it, it's Neverwinter Nights 1 that was my second D&D game. What stands out the most is being able to talk to the kobolds instead of being forced to fight them. And their dragon leader too. One's even a companion. This would be in the expansion packs though, not the base game. BG2, NW1, and Pathfinder wrath of the rigthious seem to do player choice and different race characters better. It's the little things. Like how a werewolf will help fight against shadows, or how a single action from earlier affects things later. Done right in computer games it's done very well (which is rare because games tend to be lacking enough content). Tabletop wise you have to think on your feet more. If you haven't played Pathfinder: Wrath of the rgithious, I highly recomend it. Enjoy a fun game while picking up some tricks for when you play tabletop. Wonder how a player part running a kingdom together would work in tabletop D&D? Now there's a thought.

[@MrPtrlix]

My first time playing CoS was DMing the group. A few years later I played in a CoS campaign as a player, but I already knew everything, so I went the old stupid Barbarian Hulk-Smash route and it was pretty fun. It was the other players' first time and it was fun seeing them walk into the Bonegrinder carefree haha.

[@phillipribbink6903]

Probably the closest I've come to this, is running Keep on the Shadowfell back in 4th Edition. Then going through it as a player.

[@brandonfazbear4219]

I will always remember the infamous Jade Frog Statue from the beginner's premade campaign that we all thought had a big importance but turned out to be just useless. Then my sister added the frog statues in her last campaign we just finished and has an actual purpose for them and despite only finding one of them out of the total there was, it still brought us to a realm with strange and terrifying puzzles where we played as frogs and more humanoid frogs and even having to make jumps onto platforms hovering over a bottomless pit. 2 of our members fell but were brought back to the main temple but both the the bad/rogue and me, the wizard, were able to survive by the tip of my Frog's tongue that I'm surprised no one even tried to use to boost the odds of making the jump, but just the 2 of us had to fight a freaking Froghemoth. The bard/rouge was eaten by this beast multiple times and I was eaten once but struggled to escape multiple times and barely managed to survive. My sister wanted to murder this party so badly around this time but we kept finding ways to survive and we only had one person die towards the very end from risking his life to save our Bard/rogue. Also the adopted child that our fighter cat adopted was killed all of a sudden towards the end. So yeah. That whole campaign was madness.

[@adembenson9860]

you progressed so much during this last year, and i'm glad i was here for it, and the compain worldbuilding streams have been a real bliss, thanks.

[@mnms1716]

Curse of Strahd in a nutshell. I’m playing my second game of it soon.

[@Jeremy-rp3in]

So good I had to watch this twice

[@ollllj]

"i now push into the huge wall painting at a very specific spot for no apparent reason, until i hear a clicking noise of a hidden mechanism"

[@faylinnmystiquerose2224]

"Are you sure about that? ok..." cue being turned into a pincushion as poisonous darts bombard you from the opposite wall, "roll a CON save."

[@bengamingames5002]

"I just want to talk" gets me every time 😆

[@Deinzu]

Me: yeah let's let this guy join us party: but what if he betrays us? Me: then when its our fault when they die we won't feel bad Dm: did you say that in or out of character Me: both Npc: you guys are gonna kill me Me: not unless you betray us, but our track record on useful people isn't great

[@dragonkitty7519]

1:02 made me laugh so loud haha

[@ArastaSilmar]

My D&D group had a saying on all left/right decisions, "Left is the path to glory!" When in doubt, always go left. Do other people have this thing?

[@nathanieljefferies5491]

“I just wanna talk” while grapping a sword seems so relatable

[@simplyhammer5105]

I feel like as a DM, I would "tweak" the story... like saving a demon who made a contract with a princess who used his powers for her gain... who's like 12. And she kills the party more times than a demon who in the earlier campaign toyed with them.

[@RadxPLord]

Tried running out of the abyss once, I messed up the first session so bad that I straight up told the players we'd either need to start over or we play something else. We played something else

[@pitrXane]

OSQ be like: "*pulls out sword* I just wanna talk to him"

[@d.t.m8393]

I did lol at the puzzle one. Sometimes you give the players a puzzle thinking; "This will keep them entertained for 20 minutes" only to have them trying to decipher it for the next 20 days. 😅

[@Aarynor]

That ending was unexpected :D

[@danieldonnert3747]

"Don't go that way. Never go that way." "If they'd have kept down that way, they'd have gone straight to that castle."

[@vederianl9723]

Is that from Labyrinth?

[@legendsofrei]

i didn't know that premade campaigns existed at first but i loved the fact that you can make your own story so until now i waste everyday of my life preparing something that will be destroyed by my players :)))) but its just awesome to play your own campaign with your own rules

[@mewbusi]

Playing a pre-made a second time: Nice! I can roll up a divination wizard for this one.

[@1stHorseman171]

I CANNOT believe you only have 300k followers, underrated. Funny as all heck, and spot on with the satire.

[@LuckasSilver]

I'm a trauma writer, and the ending of this video is why I don't share those stories with people. 😅

[@DanielLCarrier]

I think it would be fun to play through it again with everyone knowing what's going to happen and using out-of-character knowledge, like in all those Peggy Sue stories. Maybe even let them keep their levels and items from the first time around.

[@darkcodes9748]

I think he's referencing the "worst dungeon ever made" which has so many traps that can all be avoided by going through a fake wal.

[@tigerwarrior1787]

@@shortkyuu7390 Ah yes, the real fake walls of Tomb of Annihilation, created by a Lich who committed Patricide upon his Demonic Father to attain more power and to gain this form of immortality, and is now creating an Undead Fetus God... where is that nuclear egg that shoots 50 million Magic Missiles?

[@Loyal2law]

The distinction between innocence and jaded is spot on *LOL* !!!!!!

[@Zalied]

going down the other hallway and finding out it was easier is always a treat

[@duke13j]

I would love to see this but from the DMs perspective. I played HotDQ twice as the DM and the two experiences were vastly different.

[@mermidion7552]

Oh wow, you play How obviously to Date Queens too?

[@daviddolan8247]

You forgot the bit where official DnD campaigns tend to start with badly tuned encounter that will get at least one player killed. Or an evil dragon that will gladly just kill a player.

[@ShePlaysIt]

I like to add homebrew elements to pre-written campaigns. I’ve seen how players who know whats coming can ruin the experience for players that don’t (I was one of them that had no idea what was in store.) So now that I’m DM, I move traps, change monster stats up, switch up npc traits, add new events. While the overarching story might be pretty much the same, it adds a new experience for even those that ran it before :3

[@fandomcake5158]

The collective groan of the TTRPG community over PUZZLES

[@RyuzakiHirokai]

Rewatching a TV show with a friend who hasn't seen it before:

[@WitheringAurora]

Tbh, a perfect opportunity to play a time traveler pc. Maybe even an Echo Knight

[@velvetbutterfly]

He shouldn't be too surprised with the DM having big shining signs pointing to the Left and would say things "are you sure?" "I mean, you CAN go there..." "you're not wanting to backtrack and try the other way?"

[@Duke00x]

That is the funny part my group always ends up going left and avoiding most of the bad stuff.

[@darkjackl999]

As someone who's played curse of strahd numerous times, yeah

[@sirken2]

I can't tell you how many times I have replayed the first night in greenest trying to get a group on r20 for horde of the dragon queen x.x

[@luigiye6243]

2:01 this is literally what happends with the videogame *telenet megami tensei* , at the start you can pass through two rooms, if you don't go throght the correct room (not randomic generated, so it is always that room every time you play the game), you will miss an important item that allows you to make your playthrough playable.

[@IceMetalPunk]

That guy in the second playthrough must have lots of conversations with his pigeons 😁

[@brentage5000]

The easy solution is to play a barbarian and then torture the information out of that betrayer NPC and then be a Supreme tank for the rest of whatever happens

[@privateeyety5735]

Dragonheist. Did not know that we weren't supposed to escape from the guards in 1st session.

[@articusramos808]

DM: *Furiously makes minor rewrites a plot a bit* ok uuhhh you err......uhhh it was a dream! Yes a very...uhh VERY lucid and potentially powerful vision of the quest yet to come. Here have this +3 gear and a list of legendary items.

[@TheHeartlessAlchemist]

Imagine me rolling up to play the Sunless Citadel for the 6th time.

[@Pundamental]

The beauty of tomb of annihilation is, it doesn't matter how many times you play the party dies anyway

[@happywiz1833]

2:00 If I had a nickel for each time this hapoends to my party, I'd have 3 nickels. Which isn't much, but that's all of the campaigns I've ever played.

[@jeluenhayo2410]

A solid video. The last joke was a bit underwhelming - but only because all the others were so funny and on point!

[@terononoo5835]

The all thing with avoiding trouble by going left remind me of the audio serie on the French tabletop rpg "the dungeon of Naheulbeuk" in which they learn after defeating the boss of the dungeon that they could have gone straight to him without trouble just by going straight ahead instead of left or right and that is was built like this because adventurers never go straight ahead

[@beebee3293]

That's why true adventurers always go left

[@AflacMan13]

That's why it is vital to alter the original adventure's names, setting, and placement of certain parameters so that it is inrecognizable as the original adventure. For example... I could run you through Phandelver 5 times before you realized it was Phandelver. :-)

[@teaganfrizzell5158]

That ending tho🤣👌❤💀

[@joyeuse8524]

Would be rather interesting to do a redo type of campaign after a tpk, maybe have the characters cursed so that they cannot truly die so long one of them remains alive, they can still get completely incapacitated in battle, but so long one survived they'd get up somehow, unless their body is too mangled, in that case they'd have to spend some time fixing up their dead comrade, if one is eaten they'd have to kill whatever ate them otherwise they'd remain there forever being dissolved by the stomach acid without ever dying... That is unless everyone else dies, if that happens they go back to the start of the whole campaign as level 1s... Only armed with whatever they had at the time and the knowledge they gained from the future events that might or might not happen

[@lighthadoqdawg]

on the real, this is the actual definition of metagaming. lol

[@springerjkreb]

Always always ALWAYS take the left turn. ESPECIALLY if you're in Albuquerque.

[@shadowboyd6914]

I love your channel One Shot Questers!

[@andrewg9216]

Pathfinder Rise of the Runelords....i have started this campaign 10 times, currently on attempt number 11........BUT HEY, at least we are getting farther this time.

[@demi-femme4821]

I homebrewed an SMT campaign. I am definitely doing to run it more than once with my main group. They'll probably pick Chaos first time through (Though I have my suspicions that one player will want to go Law). They might go through and get the Fiends ending the first time, which would be impressive because they have to fight 6 Fiends, each of which is 2 levels higher than the party and are designed to kill you if you're not playing optimally because it is very much stressed that the Fiends are like that. They'll probably do it the second time, though. Then probably a third run for them to do whatever crazy shit and see where we end up. But, as an extra caveat, their previous characters will be bosses if the players take a different route, and the nature of these fights will vary depending on their previous route.

[@wittyjoker4631]

Always listen to the friendly worm in the wall.

[@relhaz4326]

Very different party than what I play with :P "hey uh... why don't you take the lead on this hallway?" *newby springs trap* *maniacal laughter*

[@EndRift]

putting a party through a one shot over and over again for a campaign until they figure out how to stop it could be interesting

[@kazuya2190]

Love the content and still love the D20 vibes.

[@IceMetalPunk]

I'm currently in a campaign that's only the second time I've ever done a premade module... and it's the second time of the *same* Phandelver module. Different DM, though, half the players are different, and of course totally different characters. Good thing is we didn't make it too far into the first one before scheduling/etc. ended that campaign, so we're already getting to new stuff we haven't played before. Funny thing, though: in both attempts at this campaign, my characters wanted a certain NPC alive for two different reasons (first time because my guy very strongly believed in "punishment should always fit the crime" and the NPC hadn't actually hurt anyone; second time because the NPC's magic and philosophy was very close to my guy's, and I wanted him as a mentor). And in both attempts, the same player *murdered* that NPC immediately for two different reasons. (First time because "good-aligned Paladins murder anyone doing necromancy no questions asked" and second time because "I'm evil-aligned and he caught me trying to steal his shit, so I had to murder him or I wouldn't get his shit".) It's like no matter what characters we play, this NPC is determined to make this player and I resent each other 😂

[@mangaartist303]

The player has obtained the Observant feat.

[@irksomeknot4437]

This vid is facts just straight facts

[@artloveranimation]

Wait, people replay written campaigns, and they stick to the same storyline as the first campaign? Having the characters actions/decisions cause the plot to happen sounds way more fun than characters reacting to the plot, let alone following the same trail as before.

[@cohenvale6342]

Im like 2/3 of the way thru Dark Souls, but i feel like i could relate... especially when he mentioned, going the opposite way