The DM Was Obsessed with Getting Her Cute Asian Girlfriend

[@batialite5080]

My heart goes out to the submitter with selective mutism! My table at my DND games is full of neurodivergent, disabled, queer people that require some accomdations (im happy to give them!). Everyone deserves to feel welcome in a TTRPG game, and Im honestly happy they have a prospective game lined up. Personally they sound like a joy to play with!

[@patdier5498]

what accommodations do you use? looking for ideas

[@jaxgilbert1652]

It breaks my heart she had to deal with someone so toxic. I hope she finds her group soon.

[@britnicox3929]

Agreed! I really hope their next game/party is significantly better to and for them

[@Omegan01]

"Oh, barbarian, you've come to take your turn in combat?" "In a sense, yes."

[@scolek22]

oh my god thats my story at the beginning! i didnt even realize it at first. the skit was perfect. also sorry about the pobodys nerfect thing. i did not realize it would be bad to read aloud. maybe its not as common a phrase as i thought.

[@geminiadastra8662]

I don't think it's you, Crispy is just being uncultured again

[@cervicalvertebrea]

I've heard it before and thought it was funny. Don't worry about it.

[@shadowman21282]

It's all good... Pobody's nerfect.

[@Chatedh]

Just crispy being crispy

[@angiep2229]

You're fine. "The Good Place" made good use of that phrase. It's a delightful show, if you haven't seen it. Out of curiosity, which edition of D&D were you playing? I've played most of them, and remember 4th edition having painfully long combats. We had one that went over 8 hours! So you still have us beat, but it's way too long!

[@CooperAATE]

My grandma banned Monopoly in the house because I took no prisoners 😂

[@blacksun3884]

My uncle and older cousin was brutal to play against on monopoly. Fun but punishing.

[@ForsakenSniper747]

Esther pretty much sums up the player of nightmares. That was pretty much every problem player I've dealt with in the past...combined. Obnoxous assholes and the DMs will turn a blind eye to them until its too late, or even sides with them against everyone else. The accusation of the OP for the story being a predatory White man taking on the guise of a half-Asian woman was an extreme stretch though, wow. And sucks that the DM ended up turning out to be an atrocious person too.

[@dionysus_adores]

Esther was trying to cause problems for op. There's a chance Esther didn't believe that someone could be mute.

[@rielzero]

I'm mute due medical reasons and its nice to hear that there are people with mutism out there getting to play ttrpgs :) Honestly having your only form of communication taken from you is incredibly anxiety inducing, and also.. ableist. RIP Getting yelled at to talk when you can't, or people being overly bothered by your disability is isolating. Having friends who accept you as you are, wholly, is the best.

[@TheMightyBattleSquid]

If you're still looking to get into ttrpgs, the way I got started was full text games on discord. We still used dnd rules and such, the only difference was we typed instead of talking. Such games will probably be advertised as "play by post" (so basically post whenever you get the time within a few days) but in my experience people eventually get tired of waiting and just start organizing full or mini-sessions, where most if not all of the group can be on to really get into the flow of things.

[@blackbird-sleeper]

Idk if OP of the title story is reading the comments but I wanted to let her know: you're not alone. I'm also mixed Asian (and neurodivergent like you, hey!) and I've been told I'm not "really" Asian by an ex-friend, among other awkward interactions, although none of them were THIS wretched. I'm sorry your ex-friends were that weird and creepy to you, I hope you've started to process by now that you deserve so much better. Hope it's not weird to say I feel a kinship with you as a fellow ND mixed Asian, and I really do wish you all the best. I hope you find a good game.

[@Inhaledcorn]

Okay, the second story was fucked enough, BUT IT KEEPS GOING?! The harem and then the attempted identity theft?! *WHAT THE FUCK?!*

[@roguebanshee]

"What the fuck?!" is the only appropriate reaction to that story.

[@dr3dg352]

The "You're LYING" story was such a ride! One of my favorites here in the tavern for a while. 🙂 I'm glad it got a mostly happy ending, and hope OP's prospective game happens and goes well! Also, the skit about a "long term" game not lasting beyond two sessions felt targeted at me and hit a bit too hard. 😆 The "stereotypical eyes" part made me laugh out loud. x) Please keep up the great work, Crispy! 💜

[@Jordan83709]

What really makes me mad about the mute story is, OP warned the party about what they were gonna do and even waited for them to move! And Ester chose to ignore them and not move! They have no one to blame but themselves! OP did nothing wrong! Screw Ester and screw that so called friend DM! That makes me so mad as some with anxiety and a speech impediment of my own. EDIT:Wow! That got worse and gross too!

[@RiveroftheWither]

Unfortunately some people have the mentality that if they don't accommodate people with these kinds of difficulties, then they'll just adapt and get over it. Speaking from experience. It's kind of like a knock off/ reverse Savior Complex, they think they're doing you a favor by making things difficult for you so you can "act normal". The rest of that story is a whole can of worms I don't want to open.

[@TheMightyBattleSquid]

​@@RiveroftheWither yup, pretty much. The "love hurts," "exposure therapy," "learn to swim by dropping you in the water to figure it out" sort. On the note of that last example, my family was actually that sort, which resulted in me not learning to properly swim until I was like 15. It was embarassing as all hell because I was the oldest kid in a summer camp and they required you pass a test before you were allowed past a certain depth. Even though I was tall enough to stand in said depth, I wasn't allowed until I took the test. So, knowing I didn't learn to swim, I just put up with hanging out in the shallow end. But... even the youngest kids eventually learned to swim well enough for the test. So I finally caved and learned to not be the only one hanging out in the corner. 🙃

[@SleepySheepy666]

FFS, we had a dps in our WoW raiding guild who was physically mute and if we could manage that with snap callouts needed, slow paced RP is nothing. Straight up ableism.

[@loselot6044]

Also, slow based rp can be nice. It lets take a second and think about what your character would do, plan a response and just take a sec

[@Inhaledcorn]

I had a DPS in my old FFXIV static who wasn't *technically* mute, but he basically never talked (he ended up with the nickname "Mute" because of it). Ironically, he played Bard.

[@marichka-mulligan]

We once had one combat encounter spread between four sessions. (It started at the very end of the first session, and the sessions two and three were cut short because of electricity blackouts. I don't blame the DM, honestly, I would definitely lose my mind were I in his place.)

[@xalgeon310]

Disabled person here, nonverbality even being a consequence of my condition, along with other similarities with the middle OP; live in England, got, non-sexually, groomed by someone who I thought was a friend, trouble finding a game, and I can tell you; being ignored and invalidated like that... It's not nice, to say the least and can even lead to feeling like you're not allowed to be a part of the TTRPG space, so I'm really glad girl hopefully has a prospective group lined up. Gives me hope that I can actually fulfil my new year's resolution of getting into some actual games, even if D&D isn't exactly my system of choice.

[@ArDeeMee]

@@xalgeon310 If you‘re ok with PVP, I‘m on an arena style server, and I and another player are from central Europe as well!

[@xalgeon310]

@ArDeeMee While I appreciate the invitation and I don't mind pvp, I prefer it to be interwoven into the PvE of a campaign.

[@ArDeeMee]

@ That’s fair. =) Though there is a bigger story at play, we just haven‘t really gotten started yet. But we do have a solid base of about 8 regulars by now, so the DM really wants to enter us into the first arc he has planned. I wish you the best of luck. ❤️

[@theazureog9555]

20:58 no the asexual confusion is hella valid cuz WHAT?!?

[@ArDeeMee]

It is also an allo confusion moment. Tf is WRONG with people?

[@TheLunarboy4]

It's called unicorn hunting. Basically a couple will look for a third person to engage in a threesome/begin a throuple.

[@nurakermmeho7908]

Nah, fam, that's no asexual confusion. I'm the polar opposite of ace, I am hypersexual, I always want more of it. But this... that's just fucked up.

[@intergalactic92]

Hell, I’m straight…. And I don’t understand it.

[@AvatAR42420]

Esther is one of those people where you wonder how they have friends. The rage fueled tantrums and the paranoia.....she is one of those people where if she doesn't wake up, she will end up alone. Also Anne is fricking weird. Why are all these down bad people trying to hook up through D&D? I don't get it.

[@anonymous99632]

Okay the second story, Ester is just projecting her own issues with all those accusations.

[@SelfProclaimedGorl]

Reminds me of my sister

[@dinadina2000]

Considering Ann is the one luring people into relationships and pretending to be Asian it’s ckear Esther is projecting her insecurities with her friends actions on a convient scapegoat

[@tarotsushima3332]

Yeah it definitely seems like a jealousy issue to me esp with the reveal that Anne had been catfishing as OP and she had been in some situtationship with her.

[@HazooToo]

I swear that "Stop! No!" Banana gets me every time

[@MrWD-tp7oc]

Crispy giving QUEEN in the thumbnail

[@FallzVentus]

Okay for that last one, the DM could've like alerted the player like "Hey what you think happened didn't happen. We're not going to get to it just yet in plot, but want to assure you that this wasn't assault."

[@lanfae9353]

To be clear though, it was AT LEAST sexual harassment. Having a stranger come join your bath while you're too drunk to object is still bad, even if no touching actually happens. I think the DM intended for it to be assault and was trying to backtrack after OP spoke up, because otherwise, having the bartender press drinks on this character and sexually harass her and trying to play the "at least she didn't assault her!" card doesn't make much sense

[@ArDeeMee]

DM was just trying to lure back OP, to see how much of a gullible sucker he really is. I‘m glad he is not.

[@genericname2747]

I've had people argue with me about my own race in real life. I get it.

[@kaya_nori]

I've just finished all the RPG Horror Stories catalogue - and here's a new video! Lucky me!

[@genericname2747]

How long did it take

[@kaya_nori]

@@genericname2747about a week of 6-8 hours a day, sometimes longer (I have severe insomnia)

[@kaya_nori]

@@genericname2747 about a week, 6-8 hours a day, sometimes even longer

[@davidtherwhanger6795]

It's never over.

[@kaya_nori]

@@genericname2747 I have no idea why YT keeps deleting my answer, but for the third time: roughly a week, 6-8 hours a day, sometimes longer (ty, insomnia!)

[@loremipsum7510]

Oh hey that story at the end- I think you've read that one before! (May or may not have just finished binging the series haha) Never gets any less bizarre though and your reads are always phenomenal, so it's no biggie lol

[@Tytoalba777]

Honestly I don't know who's worse. Ester is more overt in her awfulness, which can be a punch in the gut, but Anne was more subtle and subversive, which when revealed is a real stab in the back, an awful betrayal.

[@ArcCaravan]

I'd say Anne is worse, though Esther is more common (at least I hope the other isn't common). Both are still horrible, but drunk rageaholic with racist/ableist incidents isn't as bad as adulterous manipulative betrayer using her victim's face without consent.

[@trentwilliamson1928]

That story from the girl with mutism is some of the craziest shit I've ever heard, like holy shit she really had a barrage of bullshit constantly coming at her with that group

[@not__jon]

The "Dude we are Asian" made me audibly laugh at work and my coworker came in to check on me haha

[@dwaynejackson551]

Mentioning monopoly gave me war flashbacks.

[@Aquaair911]

Ok to be fair to the first story, dnd combat can get insanely long at high levels. For example the final fight of the campaign I was in with level 20 characters with epic boons and extra hombrew powers like 2-3 sessions (4 hours each). The whole party dm included was exhausted after

[@panam6074]

Babe wake up! Another Crispy banger just uploaded

[@TheGolux]

sound being a stronger effect in water makes sense!

[@ArDeeMee]

Yup. Mythbusters tested just that with explosives in water. Basically, air can be compressed, which eats up energy, diffusing the explosive force over distance. Water is already maximally condensed, so the explosive force is carried fully over a much larger distance. That’s why you should never knock on a fish tank.

[@Densoro]

@ArDeeMeewhoa, TIL

[@mrmizzx6843]

The stereotypical eyes bit made me laugh way too hard 😂

[@gc-painter9535]

...I've gotten to the end of the RPG horror story playlist. ...dear lord.

[@Ozzy08018]

The second story had so many twists to it that I thought I was dreaming it up.

[@BiggerinRealLife]

“…there’s always the UKELELE!” 😂😂😂 Classic.

[@etcetera1995]

Jesus Christ there even *was* an actual predator in the group.

[@rinkuraku5251]

Okay what the hell. I'm a trans woman. I really want, but will probably never be able to get facial feminization surgery. But like, I don't want to get someone else's face. I want my face but girl. The idea of using another person's face as a guide is kind of bizarre to me.

[@guidingontheside]

Lol. The breaking of the 4th wall with the eye comment…you are hilarious!!! ❤❤❤

[@MaxKarmaCat]

"We're human." Said the talking rat.

[@ArDeeMee]

Imposter!

[@ATerribleFate.ButAGreatStory.]

So, after seeing all that, all I can say is. WTF man!? this sounds like some straight up nightmare fuel. This could easily be a b-tier horror movie.

[@Rowan_93]

Used to do 10-12 hour sessions for a pokemon ttrpg that ended up being psychological horror themed more often than not. Everything was much darker and more violent than I expected, and because I was only like 19 and my whole friend group played I didn't feel like I could speak up or leave

[@zanderford4179]

not the shadowheart "just look like em" bit. it took me out.

[@morrowbelfry]

My last Pathfinder campaign had several multi session combats, though I don't blame the DM for that. High level Pathfinder with a party of 6 can get... wild. Those multi session combats were rarely more than 10 rounds of combat 😂

[@hadespuppy]

We had a combat that lasted probably close to 10 hours also, a good six months real time when you consider all the sessions that got rescheduled in between. We kept just barely surviving, and then doing something that would throw more bad guys at us. It was really probably three fights strung together, but gods did it feel good when we finally escaped.

[@erin1569]

That last story gives me deja vu

[@ArcCaravan]

Same. Happens when watching multiple tabletop horror story channels.

[@banana9494]

the plum lip is GIVINGGGGGG keep wearing

[@TheIzzlzzy]

That “heyyy” at the end gave me life

[@Amy-oo7mm]

Please forgive my dice goblin-ness, but that metallic d20 with the hexagon pattern is *so pretty!*

[@Mr_GoR_]

WHOA! The Esther story took a sharp left at the end there!😅

[@pastelfancy6868]

20:42 that answer gave me so much whiplash my shoulders are missing a head what the actual shit???? and HOW is it still getting WORSE?!!

[@skeem_]

The first story reminded me of a time during my first campaign where a op asf bossfight took an entire month irl time to fight. And we didn't even win

[@evilauthor13]

I sort of had something similar to the 10 hour combat from the intro. It was split between three weeks. It was a major climax fight that we'd spent months building up for and it lasted three sessions...the difference being it wasn't a solid non stop combat. It was just several back to back fights that were discussed in advance as part of a larger story moment.

[@alexk8083]

On the topic of the opening story. I too once had a 10 hour combat. Unfortunately, mine was *all in one sitting.*

[@lithius00]

I like the androgynous crispy art at the end there!

[@anniebot_45-73]

i once joined a game with my friends that was in a setting inspired by ancient greece. my character was an escaped slave who grew up in an (illegal) physically underground coliseum. she was taught how to be a druid by an emotionally distant and fierce old man, who had no tolerance for weakness, and after teaching her the basics, he turned into a spider and left. once she managed to ace her wildshape, she turned into a bear and *slaughtered* her way out. (btw she was a spore druid because the only plants that grew in the cells was fungi, and a connection to nature was necessary) that was all backstory. i asked a friend about his character being my connection to the party and he was cool with it. we plotted a little about how to do it. when we met up in-game, my character gave him an active bitch face and threw a rock at him and said "don't like it, DO YA?". it was so out of left field that the rest of the group (including the DM) intervened, worried about pvp. my character later went on to VIOLENTLY chastise the (very honourable) king for doing nothing about the illegal arenas. i explained my backstory (which the dm was already aware of) and the king was so mortified that he put his best men on the job immediately.

[@SkeletonLeiutenant]

4:34 Damn, the low tier god meme would have been perfect here 😂 That third one (second?) was fucken wild! like holy shit that's something out of a fucken TV show!

[@zshnippeh]

Makeup today looking FIRE crispy

[@samanthapalker1476]

Your laugh is infectious,crispy.

[@CrispysTavern]

My laugh is mostly just annoying. A little wicked. But thanks.

[@samanthapalker1476]

@ have a wonderful day

[@marybdrake1472]

What the actual what is that is that first story? Yikes, that's quite the mess.

[@MaxKarmaCat]

My sister always gets mad at me when we play Monopoly because I never really buy any property and offer to give up things.

[@jingbot1071]

Communopoly

[@lanfae9353]

Okay, I HAVE had a couple of multi-session combats in one of the long campaigns I was in, but 1: Our sessions are about 3.5 hours, and we usually talk for an hour before we start, so that's about 2.5 hours at most of actual game time per session. A 3 session combat would still only be like 7 hours, max. And 2: Those were only at the end of each arc, so we were all invested in having a long, hard fight to finally beat the boss of each arc

[@teheles]

If the "You're lying" story is the DnD adaptation of "Komi-san can't communicate.", I wouldn't be surprised.

[@rh3280]

I am actually guilty of the 10 hour combat thing, it was a campaign inspired by a video game me and several players were into, it just didn't work out and we made some pretty big changes after that

[@rh3280]

The video game was "The Last Spell" and if you know that game the issue becomes obvious

[@TheFuriousScribbles]

"To years of adventure!" ...Ow... Ow... My heart...

[@artemislove2941]

Don’t get me wrong, combat is one of my favorite parts of DND. But the idea of doing combat for more than two hours actually makes me want to jump.

[@jlaw131985]

The idea, I think, with Thunder doing more damage with water is that explosions actually do some whacky things with water. It's kinda stretching it though.

[@EarnestEgregore]

I have had a combat last two full sessions but that was kinda just how it played out and everyone had fun... They got the bad guy really low the first session but just never prioritized attacking him that second session, and kinda got distracted by other stuff going on around them, even though I had made it pretty clear that based on the narrative context if they took him down it would end lol

[@MichelleYoung-c6u]

Regarding Safety checklists: When DMing for my family, I don't bother with safety checklists, because I KNOW THEM. And I mean, I know them WELL. Moreover, they know ME, and they have no qualms about saying, "Hey! STOP THAT!" the minute I make them feel uncomfortable. Confrontation fears aside, it's a lot easier to stand up to a sibling or an aunt/uncle than it is to stand up to an acquaintance. Your family HAS to love you and not let a little thing like, "You hurt my feelings on Tuesday," get in the way of having you over for Thanksgiving. An acquaintance, on the other hand, may very well say, "You misgendered me on Monday and I WILL NEVER SPEAK TO YOU AGAIN." So, yeah, the stakes are WAY different, and at least in MY family, practically non-existent amongst ourselves. We don't have "falling outs." We have minor tiffs, now and again, that get resolved quickly, with more apologies than the original pain. I LOVE my family! I used to think ALL families were like that, and then I grew up, met other people, and became ABSOLUTELY AMAZED at my parents and how they managed to raise a bunch of children into BEST FRIENDS FOR LIFE, as well as fully functional adults in society, able to make friends with other people, as well. However, when setting up to DM for a group of mostly strangers, with one or two acquaintances that I know I LIKE, but haven't had a lot of history with, having only been loosely acquainted, mainly through a third party, for a few years, YOU BET I am doing a Session Zero with ALL the safety checks. In fact, I'm a middle-aged person, getting ready to DM for a teenager and her friends (she asked me to teach her how to play D&D), and I said, straight up, "First off, we are inviting at least one parent, so that EVERYONE FEELS SAFE. You'll feel safe with your mother (plus, I LIKE your mother), and your friends you invite will feel safe with your mother, because they know her, and your friends parents will feel safe with your mother, because they know her, and if they still want some reassurance, they are welcome to come and watch the game, or play with, but I have room for four players, no more. YOU choose the make-up of the group, and be sure to invite people who make you feel safe." That might have made her wonder why I was making a big deal of it, but I have SEEN the "I should have seen the red flags!" stories, where they mention a middle-aged person and a young protagonist, who didn't know they were being groomed. And I know that gender does not equal safety. And I know that GOOD parents want to VET the people their children play with, at least at first. I know mine sure did. So, making it clear that I'm doing my best to make them feel safe about the age difference is not JUST for them. It's for ME, too. Because sometimes, people LIE. And darn it, I WANT WITNESSES. If anyone should ever accuse me of something (this particular young person would not, I'm sure, but I don't know who they might invite), then I want trustworthy witnesses to say, "What? No way!" and diffuse the situation. You see, I have ALSO seen/read the "THEY LIED ABOUT ME" stories. Safety and checklists is NOT just about role-playing at the table. It's also about "CYA" and about protecting in-real-life vulnerable people, who are not strong enough to stand up for themselves, and say, "Stop that, or I'll kick you where it hurts." That said, as my family grows and the younger generation wants to join in, I think having a Session 0 with safety checklists, even for the ones I know and love, is a good idea, if only to establish in their minds that THIS is the WAY THESE THINGS ARE DONE, and that if they join another group where this step is skipped, then "That is a red flag." It MIGHT just be laziness, or an excess of trust. Or, it might be part of a nefarious plot to take advantage of noobs. Better to set a good example. And then, they can spread that example to THEIR friends, when THEY start running their OWN games. ALSO, even if you've known someone for a long time, and you think you know all their triggers, it's still a good idea to verify that there are no NEW triggers of which you were unaware. Also, sometimes, old triggers go away, and it's cool to be aware of that. It can open doors to knew plotlines, sometimes. Plus, it's just good communication, when you care about someone. TL;DR: ALWAYS do safety checks, unless your relationship with the person is so deep that every day, you're checking on their safety, and you already know what makes them tick. And then? Check, from time to time, anyway, in case of unexpected changes, or even expected improvements, from therapy. "Do you think you might be ready to face an episode set on a ship? No? OK, we'll table that adventure. Maybe in six months, you'll be ready for it. I got a COOL battle map model of a ship, and some minis that I am just ITCHING to use. Keep up the therapy!"

[@mydogcanmath]

19:37 glorious villain arc, i salute you

[@TheMightyBattleSquid]

You think a 10 hour combat is bad? One DM of mine pitched this idea of a campaign where he got to break out all of his unnused/underused homebrew and we'd do a "boss rush." We were playing something like level 12 characters but we'd also be getting homebrew stuff added on from his old campaigns. The problem? We got stuck on the first boss for something like 8 sessions of 3-4 hours. We ended up just ending things there. As for why it took so long... 1. he didn't tell us that this first boss fight was not 1 strong enemy and a bunch of minions. No, this was the final boss of a past campaign with all of the bosses (like 20) from that campaign helping. All of them had gotten their numbers upped as well, to make them a challenge in their own right. The boss even had an extra phase where he brought all of the others back to life at 50% hp. 2. Every one of the goons had a gimmick and most of their gimmicks involved being hard to kill. One guy took a quarter damage from all sources, one guy healed from fire damage while spamming fireballs centered on himself, one guy forced disadvantage and roll penalties that stacked, one guy couldn't be hit by single targets, one guy was immune to anything that lasted more than a turn (poison, moon beams, etc.), and much much more. 3. One of our players who signed up didn't mention he would have big college exams every day *after* session. So he'd constantly miss session to study and leave early when he did show to get more sleep or wake up early to study more. 4. The final boss himself had a bunch of immunities that he started off alternating and then he started stacking until he had all of them. The only way to damage him during this time was to successfully grapple him (and he had like a +17) then drag him to one of the small black holes he put in one of the corners of a huge map. Did I mention he could teleport so you had to manage it in one turn and half the party was weak casters who could never grapple him unless they rolled a nat 20?

[@jakubmakalowski6428]

I’ve definitely heard that scythe story before, just not sure where.

[@angiep2229]

I was going to make some sarcastic, snarky comments about how Asian girls aren't real, but I can't, I felt too dirty to even be sarcastic. (Also, the person who said OP's eyes were too round... does she know that Asian is a pretty general category that includes a wide variety of people who can look very different from each other?)

[@MichelleYoung-c6u]

Not only did this guy give his group two and a half sessions, STRAIGHT, of combat, but he was doing it AT WORK?! He was DMing from a guard shack, where he was supposed to be WORKING?! SECURITY?! I REALLY hope none of the VULNERABLE PEOPLE at that workplace knew that their PROTECTOR was PLAYING D&D ON THE JOB! Sure, sure, it MIGHT have been "just a matter of policy and procedure. Nothing to it. Just checking badges. NOTHING could POSSIBLY go wrong." But, the military brat in me, who lived through several terrorist scares in the area, and verifiable threats against our base, including having to evacuate our school for a bomb threat, is shouting, "NEVER AGAIN! NO DISMISSIVE OR INATTENTIVE GUARDS AT THE GUARD SHAAAAAAACKS!" Just sayin'. The lengthy combat issue was NOT the only issue with this guy.

[@scolek22]

op of that story here! he was guarding a warehouse with only frozen produce in it. no other human beings were there. it was fine.

[@chrisvossler8795]

2:23 There are plenty of movies and books where a character's arc involves confronting and overcoming their inherent bias against a new form of life - the influences mentioned for this one-shot have that as a major theme. Bringing that into the game as a character's arc sounds like a good thing, and could have been what the GM had in mind. But it only works when the players in question are on board with it, know what the plan is, and let that story develop. And have enough of an understanding between them to be able to tone it down when it gets to be too much.

[@roarshach13]

I'm a little frustrated by the person in the Second Story saying they didn't want to tell the asshole player to stop picking on them because they didn't want to "personalize" the issue. My dude. They're the ones making it personal by constantly picking on you. They're the one at fault not you

[@thesirenfox3017]

I'm halfway through You're Lying and just wanna say that girl has lost her last mind if she can rant for 6000 characters about something that she hasn't even confirmed. edit; I've gotten further 👀

[@kathylennerds750]

Im surprised the first OP didn't start off by playing play by posts! :o feel like it would be a good intro to gain some confidence before putting yourself out there in other ones, considering she wouldn't stand out at all there.

[@SoraPierce]

Ive experienced the beginning but due to players refusing to learn anything and taking their sweet time with no consideration for other's time. Like dudes playing wizards for 8 months and taking 30 minutes on a good day to use fireball.

[@clarehidalgo]

They were playing as a Drow and have arachnophobia, that can't possibly end well

[@ArDeeMee]

I‘m playing a Drow paladin and cannot WAIT for „find steed“. I‘m weaponising my phobia. =D It also helps if spiders are your favorite animal. And I know I‘m not alone due to all the other arachnophobes in comments of a tarantula breeder‘s channel. „Dave‘s Little Beasties“. His videos are basically little documentaries, and he‘s just the most chill person you‘ve ever seen.

[@ArcCaravan]

Could be connected, like this drow's arachnophobia is connected to abusers who worshipped spiders.

[@enigmachaos4413]

@ArDeeMee in the Crooked Moon setting, there's a spider race! and any find familiar/find steed is forced to be insectoid for that race

[@darkluxgames2347]

New version of "Gay or Eruopean?" just dropped. "Girl or Asian?"

[@lukesguywalker]

The first story made me sad. That was just bullying straight up. (Kiiiinda creepy!)

[@M_M_ODonnell]

I could see being in _initiative order_ for two and a half four-hour sessions if it was a big climactic five-plots-piling-up situation where some combat, some breaking and entering, frantically trying to complete a magical ritual, infiltration, and trying to distract the attendees of the big social even from _noticing_ any of that are all happening at once and the timing is important. Ten hours of combat, though? Yikes.

[@ArDeeMee]

4e vibes.

[@nomoretelekom]

in general, as an older player i come from a time where you could count on people knowing what they were getting into when joining a game like Vampire, or KULT or Call of Cthulhu and just played something else when they were too fragile in any way for that, and that was fine on all accounts. that said, times have changed and now i do session 0s for all my games and suggest it for other peoples games i join. That works out very good to my experience. i usually don`t need them for myself but it helps other players, so i have them, no harm done. And if that gets more players into the hobby, thats great.

[@ckd8520]

Girl thought she was playing with C.B. Cebulski

[@veathx]

Hmm… that was creepy and sometimes I can’t believe would think or try to set things up like that… (p.s. can anyone tell me what the episode with the rose gold warforged? I love that episode because I like hearing about people’s characters.

[@Nr4747]

Very long combats don't bother me too much (I actually like combat in D&D if it's challenging and I get to use my strategic prowess to get through encounters - with a bit of luck, of course), but 10 hours is a bit excessive. I played through Princes of the Apocalypse online with a DM who insisted on playing everything really close to the book, meaning it was a very grindy dungeon delve with lots and lots of long combat encounters - and even I got sometimes a bit bored by it.

[@Iameepytired]

Ayyy, I’m finally early to one of these videos 😌

[@OnlyRanss]

Didn't you already cover that last story? I've been binging your videos and that one seems *weirdly* similar in structure and exact events to an older video.

[@geeknupthenight7417]

Hey Crispy what's the deal with that...human? Is it like a pet or something?

[@dragonmasterknight7]

AIRSHIP!

[@eflarsen]

ukelele is not an option. it's the only option. sing all your apologies, and i'll grade them 1-10 /j

[@Angel-db8fc]

Crisppppy

[@TheMightyBattleSquid]

@You're LYING Yeah, fuck that group. You're good, OP. You don't need to apologize for anything that happened in that session. 22:08 ah, projection, the classic. They accuse you of pretending to be someone you're not on the internet for attention because they're planning to do it. So they out themselves either unknowingly or to make it seem like "everyone is doing it so it's not a problem for me to do it now." 🙄

[@MrRevilnemesis]

Nah, that is not just confusion for asexuals. This allo is just as confused at Annie's actions.

[@soistngcatstritchfavor]

Do the youth of the day still post saying first?

[@_PannieCake_]

Stop with the "first" thing.

[@soistngcatstritchfavor]

@_PannieCake_ are you a youth? Does this mean the youth do not do this?

[@stard9864]

That is crazy assumption that person made. My god they really had something agaisnt them. It's jealousy bro. I really feel bad for that girl because they were in danger around those crazy predatory people. I still don't like this riley person red flags. Sorry AHAHA It's giving the movie get out when this woman wanted to become her. Its weird fetishization vibe an I wish op learned more about that. It seemed like they arent aware about red flags. (I am poc black and its something to be aware of so you can protect yourself and feel confident on your boundaries if you know what that is. I feel bad for her bc she seems like she was unprepared. )

[@nemerly_00]

The BladeRunner campaign - If the OP doesn't tell people how they feel or what is nothing them, then people probably will not know. Don't expect people to "read the room" or "understand your feelings". You usually need to speak out so people know and understand.

[@hannahnohlgren989]

Kiiinda creepy. 😅

[@galdrnixthral6140]

This story sounds completely bogus

[@Kristanite]

Kinda creepy............

[@cervicalvertebrea]

kinda creepy

[@bibbidi4616]

Hehehe