The Greatest Long Con A DM Has Pulled Off In DnD | Narrated D&D Story

[@garronn]

I am running a False Hydra campaign but the "long con" is that the entire campaign is actually in the past and the characters themselves are currently having their memories slowly devoured by the hydra so there are times the party finds that an entire week or month has gone by without them knowing what happened.

[@timespaceanomaly]

Love this.

[@TheMartyredextras]

Nice.

[@bloglazer9410]

I like this, I know there are HORROR stories about weeaboo ruining campaign, but hearing when actual anime fans create a perfect DND world (Chef kiss) perfection!

[@raielle]

They're a good bad people in all communities. The furry community isn't all bad or degenerate the Sonic Community isn't all toxic, the Twilight Community isn't all bad, the D&D Community isn't all bad not all anime people are bad either. And I know that's not what you're applying here but I'm getting to a point so give me just one second! But you only hear about the extraordinary things. The extraordinarily good or the extraordinarily bad. It's why you very rarely have a story centered around the character that's just living daily life normally and nothing really is happening, because it'd be a boring story. You only hear the worst of the worst and the best of the best about each community. Or tldr the squeaky wheel gets the grease

[@hotlavatube]

I'd imagine after the real Fred came back, someone must've quipped, "Meh, I liked the dupe Fred better."

[@MechbossBoogie]

My players are still under the impression their characters are still alive. You know that old trope of an eldritch being that puts you into a dream and everything just gets stupid easy for you, everything is handed to you and whenever you ask for something you get it? Because it's a dream that's purpose is to keep you in the dream. Eventually your body dies and you just become part of the dream. Every time they questioned it I gave them a will save. They never rolled high enough. In fact every time I gave them the save the roll came up stupid low or a nat 1. It wasn't even that high of a DC to begin with, but it was insurmountable and eventually they stopped questioning it completely because the one player decided that I was just being easy on them and that I couldn't say no, but he's also the kind of player who only plays against the DM like it's somehow upon him to outsmart me rather than actually tell a good story with his character. These people, out of character, put it down as me being a new DM. I'd been doing this for over 20 years at that point. I've used this scenario 2 other times and those players got it within that session. I was not new to this, it just wasn't going their way and no one figured it out, especially not the self proclaimed smartest person at the table. In fact he's the reason they stopped questioning it. He made them stop questioning it. I honestly think he wanted to have everything handed to him.

[@pierreolivierlepage664]

I once played a session of L5R that was essentially "Waiting for Godot". Roughly my plan was to have them meet a messenger, go to a tea house/inn to wait for him, and bring the messenger only at the end of the session. Roughly I did not have enough time to prep the actual thing that had to happen as a consequence of the message, so I placed a large cast of characters in the inn for the players to interract with and just let them wait. Obviously one of the character decided that the monk doing forms in the courtyard that I had placed there mostly as set dressing was someone he NEEDED to have a chat with. A bit stumped, I just answered everything in the most cryptic way possible, but somehow the player decided it was REALLY important and noted everything. A few sessions down the line, I retro-engineered a signification for my gibberish, because the player was adamant on finding what it meant and how it link to his own destiny. I had to sneakily look at the player's note while he was taking a piss to remember what that monk said and make it look like it was premeditaded.

[@JZer0X]

One I plan on using in my next campaign. They start in a keep. In the treasury they will find a ring of jumping. The one who puts it on will occasionally get prompts for perception checks to see kangaroos out the corner of their eyes, or up on cliffs or just somewhere they can quickly be obscured. He will be the only one to see them. The con is to see how long it takes him to realize the ring is cursed and he is being followed by spectral kangaroos. (Sometimes in costumes.) They will not affect the player in any other way, but really who expects to be followed everywhere by velocirabbits, much less that its because of a mildly cursed ring.

[@JacopoSkydweller]

That's fantastic.

[@philipplyanguzov9090]

this is the kind of thing that I feel is best used as "haha, this is just a joke with a lot of buildup" and then towards the end of the campaign you give it some actual significance.

[@Wagbag0]

I imagine Fred "THIS HAPPENED THAT 1 NIGHT I ROLLED 1,1,4,1 IN A ROW, THIS WAS MY PENANCE?!?!?"

[@yoyoboy87]

That first story is something I’m going to take note of. Mainly because I plan to include a bunch of elaborated resident evil style puzzles in my campaign.

[@Gravity_Fish]

Gave a player of mine a deck of illusion, he found out later that it was a homebrew item that captures the souls of slain enemies. Then found out it belonged to a fiend that then became his patron. Fast fwd 2 years and he's finally taken enough souls to release his patron from a prison in the shadowfel. He never knew what he was doing and now has to choose to either try and stop it or free his patron, leave the party and join him (at which point he becomes my NPC)

[@smiles9882]

Man I missed these kinda videos, the trudge of horror stories that every dndtuber making was getting exhausting

[@aronlinde1723]

Agreed. Drama of the unwanted kind was getting old quick.

[@fabiansuckfull9446]

I'm currently playing a 3 campaign long con on my players. Their main quest giver throughout all 3 campaigns is a dragon polymorphed into a human and it will take until the very last campaign for them to find out that he's been responsible for literally all the grief they've been through. Best part is that I'm presenting him in a way where you could catch onto this but you're just as likely to believe that he's just a shady spymaster who does evil deeds to a good end. They are already aware that he doesn't seem to age and the running theory is that he's either an identity shared between several shifters or that he's a Rakshasa

[@theophrastusbombastus1359]

Well you've got two hopes: Hope your players don't frequent this channel; and hope they don't know your KZbin tag (although they may figure one without the other)

[@olearris]

Just make sure the party can counter all the bad that unfolded otherwise why should your party kill the BBEG if there's not gonna be a great boost of actual Good in the world.

[@fabiansuckfull9446]

@@olearris I am aware of how a heroes journey works. But thanks for your concern

[@NoInfoAvail]

Shape shifters. Their everywhere and everyone.

[@wingedlyon8430]

My greatest long con isn't terribly special, just a moment of trying to get a small one over on my DM. We played a pathfinder campaign that due to player issues and one character triggering the final encounter really early turned into one of our shorter. At the very start of the campaign I offhandedly mentioned maybe making a character named Zelda [cause I'm a big fan of the games], but my DM forbid it. Fair enough, he probably didn't want the relation to the games cause this was his original world. But for a little personal laugh I made a little bard and named him Adlez Eluryh [Ad-Lez Eh-Lur-Aye]. We went through the whole campaign and I played him totally straight, he was a very kind guy who wanted to help people. He even ended up in a relationship with an npc that still stands with the campaign over. And I held out until the campaign finished to drop the point that Adlez Eluryh is just Zelda Hyrule spelled backwards. He even has a little sister named Knil. To this day my DM can't believe he has an npc with Hyrule spelled backwards as his canon last name.

[@jasonroberts7558]

"As far as they could tell, the barrel was filled with red herring" I face palmed

[@efraim3364]

thought he said Red Hair Ring

[@jasonroberts7558]

@@efraim3364 double entendre. Red herring(false lead) was the first mention and the Red Hair Ring the second time. At least that was my understanding.

[@MrClarissacain]

Right??? But yet i sense there will be a rust colored lagomorph hopping around with a jingle bell collar in the near future

[@devonm042690]

@@jasonroberts7558 The hair ornament with the sigil on it was a red hair ring. The fish in the barrel were red herring. Both were wordplay-based imagery, but the latter was of course much more obvious.

[@lordmars2387]

Over 4 sessions they're going through a necromancers lair they find and crush wong wei's phylactory right in front of her to the horror of wong tym but refuse to follow the husband into the plane of shadows to destroy his phylactory. After signing off on completing the mission a professor tells them why his former colleagues went lich. "For you see they were cursed by a cleric that while they lived they could never create a sentient undead. For you see these 2 wongs could never make a wight." Insert whole table groaning Guess this riddle "what is the coolest bone in the body?"

[@JohnnyOMalley22]

Dynasties and a necromancer?...Yeah, I saw what would happen in this story a mile away.

[@catdust]

lol same

[@russdarracott395]

First story is a groaning laughing good one. Red Hair Ring lol

[@buttonsfan]

PC: But I killed you! Undead: Where was I supposed to go Detroit?

[@timwoods2852]

That first story felt like a dad joke. A good one, but one nonetheless. I saw the second one coming as soon as I heard "necromancer." Feel bad for Mimikyu in the last one. They could have found it a different host.

[@jamesalexander7540]

The longest con that I pulled on players was eternal. The major object was to eliminate a red dragon that was eating all the livestock of a farming community. This dragon was not your standard dragon. He enjoyed the study of magic and found that taking the form of a human allowed him access to more spells. His treasure was not mounds of gold but a library that put every city to shame. After defeating the dragon the players decided to take all the magic books and scrolls. I wanted them to leave them there so that anyone could learn. I did not want to take the time to figure out what spells were in the books. So, I created a trap, book worms. Book worms are a mostly harmless monster, unless you are a book. They were held in suspended animation while inside the library. The dragon did not want his books to be taken and used against him. They stop for the first night after leaving the caves and start to look at the books. They discover the book worms. I told them that the mage and cleric knew that the worms must not be allowed to spread and the books must be burnt. They were upset but realized that if one book worm were to make it to another library, then that library would be destroyed. The players started burning the books in the fire. I rolled to see if fire would set of any spells and cause any reaction. Yes. After randomly determining the number of spells and then which spell. The following happened: the fire levitated, dark fire made it invisible, magic mouth and another spell made it sing, a portal opend to the elemental plane of fire, and the final spell was permanence. What had the players accomplished? They had created a tourist destination for fire elementals, salamanders, and efreeti. Those monsters could visit a frozen mountain top in the safety of the magical fire and enjoy opera. All because I did not want the books to be taken out of the library.

[@PygKLB]

I ran a long con as a player. My halfling thief was the go-to for locks and traps, and usually worked by himself. I arranged matters with the DM that if any small items could be slipped into my pouch, they would be.

[@ghjuyt101]

Cleric-warlock trifling just found out her patron is trying to siphon the power of her master in the hells and her diety... best part? Hes a lich that had her collecting the scattered parts of his phylactery. Its been three years of her getting attatched to all three as sources pf power, and now she has to choose who dies

[@gregwunderlich4253]

Wow! Finally a new one! I've been bingeing on this channel for a few weeks now. Love it!

[@HonestDoubter]

My longest was about 2.5 years. He thought is patron was Baba Yaga but it was actually Cochei. He spent 14 levels saving his Cochei from Baba Yaga who had captured his soul. His character literally retired after that.

[@grotteboy8th294]

Me and my siblings were attempting the retirn to the tomb of annilation and when we caught the vampire headmistress for the school of necromancy and defeated her she dropped her items including her fancy necklace which the DM thought the rouge would quickly pickup but instead he let the wizard loot the magic user first while he looted her bedroom. The necklace actually transferred her soul into the body of the first person to put it on and since the wizard was already kind of evil we didn’t pickup on the change even when we noticed people waking up from rest with fang marks, we just assumed the deaf wizard failed at watch. He even kept up the act when we cast healing magic on him. We finally found out when he had to go all out using all his magical and vampiric tricks in the final battle against asererak.

[@gijustin5930]

The dynasty system gave me a great idea for some Pathfinder games I play.

[@crystaltydemagic]

An accidental long con from what was supposed to be a quick NPC mission that turned into a long side quest. There were strange happenings around a NPC. People hearing voices. Being persuaded to do things. Objects and people being moved or touched. Went on for months irl and weeks in game. Hunting for telepaths, demons, casting protection circles, everything with no results. No one was ever hurt, but it was annoying. The PC was at their wits end after resisting a suggestion. Then as a last ditch effort, after months of being pet, bopped on the head, pinched, they grabbed at the invisible hand. And broke the invisibility spell of the imp familiar. The NPC was a budding mage and didn't even now they had magic. The player was all but smacking their forehead at never thinking of trying to grab it. It was a good laugh at frustration and to not over think things.

[@CAVEDATA]

“Best reveal ive ever dropped on anyone”? Jesus

[@oniminikui]

Inspired by Skinwalkers, I plan on running a campaign in a small, quiet town. There will be a sighting of a strange creature (or creatures?). In truth, it's a town of mimics of doppelgangers that integrated peacefully with one another. Visitors are lured away from the city ("safety") and killed, which the mimics and doppelgangers feed on. Some - if not all - doppelgangers will have access to the goodberry spell, so no one starves while they wait for their next walking meal. The leader will actually be a changeling.

[@s4cr3dw3st9]

Currently running a campaign with a long con. To prevent spoilers for my followers I'll not disclose the reveal yet, but it's been almost a year and no one has caught on.

[@ArcaneSorceror]

One I never got to pull off... as a player. I was playing my Dread Necromancer (the one who leveled an Astral Deva to a Planetar by helping her discover the location of a very powerful Necromantic artifact). The setting was a large island which used to have multiple religions, until one religion wiped out the rest in a bloody war. This religion was (and this is conjecture) trying to establish their Patron, The Living Saint, as an actual deity by getting him to sit at the Empty Throne, a chair at the Council of Gods that was awaiting the next deity. (End of conjecture) This religion was revealed to be causing enough upset on the island (setting up a long/eternal winter, likely as a way to force worship) and only my party were aware of it. As a Dread Necromancer, I immediately clued into their ambition, and knew I had to work hard to get my party able to defeat them. But I could not be a part of it. Part of this religious cult was your typical anti-undead stance. My class, if it got high enough, let me turn into a Lich at Level 20. I was a threat to my party, and a boon for our enemy. The campaign died before the conclusion. But I did have a plan. Since I had proven trustworthy in letting that Artifact be destroyed (literally asked the first person I saw who knew their divine parents for help), so I was going to get the other piece of that set which would have made my character a game-breaker. (In D&D 3.5e, you can control a particular amount of undead based on certain rolls made, and you could only animate bones of the recently deceased. The Artifacts broke those rules. The item I had destroyed was a Mourning Bell, which would animate any corpse that heard it regardless of age. The second item I needed to hunt down was a Shawl (Ceremonial cloth corn by priests around the shoulders), the Shawl allowed the wearer to control any amount of undead, with no limit. I was going to have the Shawl destroyed and using our Planetar contact get me in touch with what was left of the Old Gods. I was going to get them to pick their new Herald out of my party, and I was to be sent elsewhere in the multiverse as my presence would allow the enemy faction reasons to rouse the citizens to turn against my group. My 'death' would have to be public, brutal, and at the hands of my friends. Sadly, I never got the chance to roleplay that, but I will always remember how the entire group turned to me in shock when I asked the Astral Deva if she could get the Mourning Bell destroyed if she verified my findings about its location. Would have been an epic send-off

[@ajgraham7085]

IM still a fan of the idea of a wand or gun that immediately "gets rid of" the enemy. What happens though is every enemy hit is transported to the bbegs room right as the party arrives.

[@FatedGamer]

The concept of the second ones game is something I've kinda debate. But more history based since I enjoy it. Having the players start at the founding of roam choosing between the two factions arguing over what hill the new city would start on. Having them do stuff and the dying from old age and picking up as their decendents with the city growing until they get to the full blown empire and dealing with plotical intrigue more than monsters. But I don't fully know how I would keep it interesting.

[@JeshieWafflez]

....... Nuh-roo-dough? ....... IT'S NAH-ROO-TOE! XD

[@zschunbm]

He did the same thing to Gurren Lagan in another video

[@buttonsfan]

“The Scarlet Hairband” Me: *snicker* Red Hair-ing. *Gasp* Red Hair Ring!

[@GhostMas7er]

I would tell the player that he is now a doppelganger and let him play as a doppelganger. This way the player can have some fun as well

[@greytrainingrounds9344]

Bro actually created a tabletop 4th great ninja war

[@mycroft_moriarty]

Sadly Covid ended our party and we haven't had the time to reassemble the party, so the final goal never happened, but I'll explain the whole deal. Background Note: I am a huge fan of Cyberpunk and my favourite novel is Neuromancer by William Gibson, which is both one of the foundational novels of the genre and the first book to use the term "Cyberspace". It ended up in a heist known as "The Straylight Run". The book has individuals with a variety of talents and abilities that are all needed to pull off the heist. We were playing a Tier 3 game in a modified version of the Eberron Setting (5e). I'd advanced the tech level a bit via "Gnomish Magi-Tech". It allowed me to create magical versions of high tech cyberpunk items like hacking decks (magical item that allowed access to a special demi-plane called "The Great Mind") and other such things. I had slowly shaped the party over the course of the campaign to resemble the characters from The Straylight Run as much as I possibly could, getting each of them excited about their new homebrew special abilities and was just about to start the plot, when we had to stop due to the pandemic. It would have been one of the best D&D plots I'd ever run in my opinion.

[@MitchT97]

I heard the last story about the doppelganger and had to try to contain my laughter at work. I’m doing the same sorta thing with three npcs in my campaign. They meet the players, helped them even at many points, then we’re replaced with only one or two clues they’re different than the real person. When in reality it’s one person in their place. As they’re all never in the same place at the same time either. They still help the party as it’s in this persons best interest but I’m curious as to if they’ll figure it out before the big reveal. Edit: They still haven’t figured out the who but they did find the body of the mayor one of them had talked to the day before. But when checked they realized the body been there for already three or four days. They’re getting nervous now.

[@GreaterGrievobeast55]

3:24 well this feels like really heavy foreshadowing, lets see where it goes! YIRBEL LIVES!

[@brandonduer2971]

It's an ongoing con It started after the players inadvertently had a rakshasa summoned after selling a cursed tiger statue (psudo long con the player that touched it can't short rest but can long rest in half the time) They confronted the rakshasa but it escaped I messaged all the players between sessions "Duck, shhh don't tell anyone) Except one player i messaged goose and had them make a save against plane shift they rolled a nat 1 The rakshasa has since assumed the identity of the player and has some soul fragments it can use to emulate spell effects, so the player can cast their spells, as well as do what is needed to hide their identity. The player is having a blast taking the players for a spin The party also has to go to court for killing a town guard who was under the seeming spell to appear as the rakshasa. The rakshasa player was able to fabricate evidence to frame the towns high priest for the summoning ritual The player who got plane shifted is also having a solo session to get back to the party and learning about other parts of the world and story that will be important for the players to learn It's been a lot of fun If the rakshasa manages to get the party of its trail before the player gets back to town it will modify their memories and assume the role of the new high priest in town, we'll see what happens

[@RichWoods23]

I managed to keep one long con going for a year before, unfortunately, the gaming group split up thanks to a lethal combination of family and career changes hitting almost everyone. I was the DM for an AD&D campaign which, during that final year, took the party from 5th/6th level to 9th/10th. The con started in one scenario where the party were hired to investigate a series of warehouse burglaries, when they tried to gather additional information by seeking out a fortune-teller. She told them that the stars foretold a further burglary, giving a cryptic clue for them to solve to determine the exact time and location, and once this interception had worked for the party by enabling them to scare off the thieves, they started to rely more and more upon the fortune-teller. What they didn't know was that the fortune-teller was just a persona created by the Thieves' Guild mastermind behind the burglaries, intended by her to ensnare and misdirect the City Watch's superstitious chief investigator, while I'd intended that the party uncover her and denounce her to the Watch and thus bring the scenario to an end. But they missed all the clues I'd laid for them to find that would expose the identity of the mastermind and they just fell ever deeper into the con, which I happily played along with (although I had really been looking forward to the Scooby-Doo unmasking moment: "But you're our fortune-teller!", "And I'd have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for you pesky adventurers!"). By the end of it, they were unwitting agents of the mastermind, taking out all her rivals in the city and its adjacent towns, killing old enemies hiding away in dungeons or rebuilding their strength in distant keeps, and passing useful information to her from the local nobility, amongst whom the party were lauded for their tenacious pursuit of law and justice, being invited to all the best parties in all the finest treasure-laden mansions in the region. One player did ask me, out of game time, how I was justifying the divinatory skills of the fortune-teller, because he knew I was a stickler for the principle that whatever skills and abilities NPCs could have should also be achievable in some fashion by PCs. I told him I was playtesting an idea I'd had for latent psychic talents, which he swallowed completely because he liked the idea that one day, under the right circumstances, his own PC could be the proud possessor of some useful psychic ability. When the group finally had to split up I did tell them all exactly what they'd been doing for the past year, and the look he gave me would have turned me to stone if I hadn't had my mirrored shield ready...

[@shirlot]

Currently putting my players through a long con. Will post about it when it's over.

[@letsgowithgrampa6066]

You can use that first con for better effect by making it a text or clue that was translated incorrectly. A dramatic reveal that furthers the story. "Fire's Laughter" becomes "Fire Slaughter". "War Ship Oars" becomes "Worshipers". Etc

[@shadowmancy9183]

Wite Dragon, as written in Draconic by Kobolds. Party stopped for a rest, Wizard redid his abjuration spells to protect against cold. Next day, they went and found the Wight Dragon, who very much breathed fire.

[@Amaraxis]

Where did the second story come from? And where do I find the system they used...would love to do something like this for my group

[@ProjectRedfoot]

That first story 👌

[@MemphiStig]

I was hoping all the pc's in turn would get nabbed by doppelgangers. Then one day...

[@rexromana]

Red harring....I groaned

[@ryanquist9978]

Current longest con for me, is about two campaigns long. Can't say too much in case one of my players sees this (you know who you are), but suffice to say a character that has been very good to the parties of the campaigns has been using them to accomplish an unspeakably horrific action that will change the world, and its all because of the players choices.

[@themightytalkingsalamander5169]

i slowly turned a friend of mine into a vampire without him knowing. he was playing a tabaxy bard and saw a woman dancing on a stage mesmerizing the entire crowd with her insane roll in performance. the bard took out his lute and preformed with her and though his dancing wasn't on par the music enhanced the atmosphere considerably. he sedused the woman who was all for it. im more of a fade to black guy but for purposes of this there was just minimum description. added in the bite at some point but didn't emphasize on it. a part was i never made them make all there saves on the spot, for instance they walk out of the tavern and could you make me a con save (for the vampirism). or where walking out of town. could you make me 2 perception checks (for 2 encounters while traveling). what that did was i could tell the story and have a few rolls on paper to just look at and keep the narrative going without interruption. well anyway they got a quest to slay some goblins in a dungon that had a dragon inside it while the higher leveld people follow them so there fresh for the dragon fight. the party is llvl 1 or 2 i forget. well anyway the vampire lady was tagging along and the bard takes 2 arrows so she hands him 2 ''potions of healing'' (actually vampire blood) so he wouldn't die on her. well after that we did a 4 session dungon crawl with multiple rests in the dungon and he starts taking necrotic damage by session 2 and fully dies and reanimates session 3. i had homebrew rules on how to make a vampire needs 2 things. one was vampire needed to drink your blood and 2 you needed to drink vampire blood. otherwise you would have vampires everywhere. ghouls where just humans drinking vampire blood. well anyway after the full month of me explaining the process of him dyeing slowly i tell him he wakes up feeling better than ever and his hd is now a d12 (mainly for the shit he went through) he got to discover some of his vampire ability's himself as i told him nothing and eventually he sided with the bbeg (the vampire lady) when he put all the stuff together. btw the dragon was dead and the goblins where protecting a baby gold dragon.. the entire time the guy thought the dungon was just killing him because his friends where warforged and not organic.

[@themightytalkingsalamander5169]

oh yah the guy wanted to have a vampire character in a previous game so i tried to sneak it on him this one. he didnt like it so i was planing on a way to cure him but we never made it that far

[@TheMemo659]

My daughter is freaking amazing at long con DMing. She has had several cons run 6+ levels before reveal. It's gotten to the point her players never trust ANY of her NPCs yet she STILL fools her players with how she introduces them and changing the personality type of her plants. Demure and friendly? Sus (now) Cocky and over confident? Sus (now) Etc etc etc. It is a given about half her quest givers ARE the bad guys and her players are very aware of that, but her shell game is on point... she currently has 1 player in an active "ship" with a winter court Fey bad guy, one player has a demon lord possessing their familiar, and one player is romancing an undead who isnt a plot point bad guy... they just dont know it is undead yet. Amazing knack for continuing to pull it off, but her party IS inevitably going to murder hobo any NPC who speaks to them from lack of trust. 🤣

[@kingmasterlord]

excellent, a challenge

[@adamka-1]

I don't know who needs to hear this but I an living inside your walls.

[@whitefox3189]

Is it just me or does the variant doppleganger sound almost exactly like Zygons from Dr. Who.

[@v3rlon]

Okay the red herring was good, but it pales in comparison to the head of Vecna. Just search it in your favorite search engine.

[@shadowmancy9183]

That con's been running so long that it transcends editions.

[@Workman-rs3sc]

So one game I’m playing(mutants and masterminds) in I talked to the DM about something. In his world, Heroes are regulated due to them having genetic defects called the Hero Gene. This Hero Gene can give you incredible powers and abilities to do whatever you want. However, if you injure/kill someone, that gene mutates into the Villain Gene, meaning if you had an ability that gave you an exo suit or amplified your abilities, you would look like Venom or the Hulk! You essentially go through Gene therapy to get yourself back to normal. I play a blind densely powered superhero with no eyes but can see through his ears and vibrations in the ground. He weighs several dozen tons and has unnaturally smooth skin. Everyone shrugged it off as him being born with a defect and his hero gene is simply giving him the ability to be dense. One of my players is playing essentially a “bigot genius.” He is playing tony stark genius that has a thing for Heroes and villains. He thinks humans deserve their time to shine and chastises the heroes for not being innovative and learning to be more than just their powers. The long con is: I am a villain on the run trying to atone for what he’s done in the past several years ago. To the point he changed his own name to get a license to be a hero since he believes he did something he will never be forgiven for. He used to live a happy life being a stellar kid that got a perfect score on every test and even teaches some of the classes! Oh how the mighty have fallen and fallen HARD! The dm and I are working on some “bigots” so to speak, about villains not being real people about it as well as a hidden organization that tries to work on people that are down on their luck getting their hero gene suddenly turning into a villain.

[@unknownuser6940]

Yeah, I'm not so sure DnD is for me if all my effort in a campaign turns out to be wasted in as a secret bad guy or my time is wasted.

[@InfernoProj]

Real vid starts at 1:21 enjoy the skip!

[@Jonboy2312]

First? :D I love seeing how the animations Nala works so hard on turn out :)

[@notoriousthief]

That first story was hilarious XD

[@shadowmancy9183]

Not a long con, but a story of rushing to conclusions. 2E AD&D- Party was two Wizards, a Thief, a Fighter, a Cleric, and a Ranger. They come out of a passageway and see an Illithid about 80' away. Party gets the surprise round. Wizards start casting Fireball. Cleric starts casting Bless. Thief hits on a 10 using his crossbow. Fighter hits on an 8 with his throwing ax. At this point, the players became suspicious, but figured it was due to the surprise round. Fireballs go off, party all have to save vs breath, twice. Wizards are the only ones who succeed, rest of the party dies to the pair of fireballs that hit the Illithid 20' away, as no one had checked for illusions. Now, for obvious reasons, they want to res the party. The problem is getting them back to town. The Cleric's player suggests sweeping them all into a bucket, so they do that and carry the remains back to the temple in town. They ask the head priest to raise their Cleric. The priest looks in the bucket and asks, "Which one's the Cleric?"

[@harvenkarr]

Two minutes in and I get "red hair ring..." :D

[@karsonkammerzell6955]

His wife was pissed? I must know why, lol.

[@derekthomas2940]

Hehe run time is 12:34

[@hamiltoneu]

Favorite amount of time

[@JafenKtair]

A red hair ring. wow

[@pandurangpatil1355]

4:07 I saw on another channel

[@theautisticowl7153]

when did /start start this account?

[@Davidthestratman7]

Run a campaign where they think they are doing good and reveil that they are actually the bad guys

[@jeanremi8384]

And henceforth ruin the freedom of choice from dnd, great idea !

[@Davidthestratman7]

@@jeanremi8384 that's the beauty. It is thier choice. They don't know the whole story in the background till it's done. So they do what they're going to do, murderhobos, like serial killers. They know thier morality and they do it anyway by thier choice. Example scenario for the murder hobos... Their actions cause a hunter of some kind that's LAWFUL evil, a strict cop that follows the law but has no remorse.... Only respect and love for the law and thrill for the hunt.

[@jeanremi8384]

@@Davidthestratman7 this only works if they're all murder hobos. If one PC is lawful good, you're basically forcing him into the exact opposite of what he wants in a matter he should control. It is his character, after all

[@Davidthestratman7]

@@jeanremi8384 really? How many dnd games have you been apart of or seen that 1 pc isn't a murder hobo in a crowd of murder hobos? Besides where is the no freedom of choice? The roleplay will dictate and the dm will in fact say..."what is your character doing in all this?" People play for adventure and exploration. They want story amongst the simulated violence. But let's face it..... A group can take it too far like murder hoboing. In that case... Heck yeah they are the bad guys and they don't even realize it...."let's see how long we can keep this up before the jig is up."

[@JohnDoe-di2bp]

Wife was mad!. Good storys. But... What about those guardsman? You know twitch and the boys.

[@pandurangpatil1355]

4:07 that's a copy

[@danieldragonslayer9409]

Great stories. Side note: That's not how you pronounce "commune", the verb.

[@bernardputersznit64]

Red Her(ring)? GROAN - you are the WORST ;-)

[@bernardputersznit64]

. . . wait you got it from another - please pass along my comments to them . . .

[@jasonOfTheHills]

I despise puns. I loath them. I can't decide if I want to m!rder the pun teller or off myself first. But I have to admit, this wasn't completely horrible. I gotta give you the multiple layers of it.

[@kodytiffany5686]

My players roll unnaturally well. So I had a long con in mind... it was a grandiose plan meant to be "Super effective" role play damage to the society they were in. A planted kill switch to purple lightning the team in response to them screwing up royaly down the line. You see there were 7 deities I planned on existing from the outset but region locked into obscurity. Father of all lies Mother of all Invention Sister Slaughter Son over the Rainbow The Daughter of that which is Rite Daughter Nightmare Calm before the Son Each name may have been a bit different but the important one to the Long Con is "Mother of all Inventions". Each of these 7 are Insane and twisted revered by a culture built on Sacrifice and blind worship. So What makes Invention Scary? She builds for the sake of creation and is apathetic to the plight her children might bring once unleashed upon the world; shes as likely to invent the cure to a horrendous plague as she is to make monster capable of obliterating existence. She is a twist upon the theme of freedom of speech (sorry but meaning the aspect where your free to think how you will) and unrestrained progression. So she made a replicator (SG1) but modified so it would only eat Gold/Silver/Copper/Electrocoin or whatever... each of the money metals. The Long Con was going to be that they bought something using coin taken from criminals. Unknowingly setting the replicator among the coins. This would devour and replicate every coin in the world. To be able to spring financial collapse of basically everywhere tracable back to the party. As I was saying meant for if the party was murder hoboing or some other unlikable thing... nope 5 nat 20's in a row solved that problem. Also another of those coins was a Liches Horacrux.

[@samjohnson3124]

plot twists. always very curious. hehe

[@SeizureNoodles]

12:34

[@TheBirdsDen]

bro that advert at the start had better not be using fucking AI art. That shit looked like AI generated art when it showed 'goblin tactics'

[@JacobL228]

You pronounced "commune" like the noun, not the verb.

[@TheRealKLT]

I would not recommend making your players the punchline of a joke because they dared to think the plot hook you'd given them would lead to something interesting or beneficial. Your player "walked away from the table" because you did them a disservice. I would have left your campaign.

[@derajtheyuler7101]

114

[@BlackXanthas]

I cant. Not only is guys voice annoying, the almost deliberate mis-intonation on the grammar..... If this was your BEST take, sorry dude i just cant

[@DellikkilleD]

I sense the inclusion of a Ruby Beard Band in a future campaign.

[@notoriousthief]

That first story was hilarious XD

[@jimvenanzio6561]

Red Herring Feesh, Red Hair ring mini-quest hook. Literally worst DM ever. Best Dad Joke ever done!!