The Short But Horribly Annoying Life of Aladin the Paladin | Narrated D&D Story

[@judgedredd2039]

If the Dm had allowed it we could have had Saladin the sorcerer, Baladin the bard, Baaladin the Barbarin, Faladin the fighter, Wialadin the wizard, Waaladin the warlock, maladin the monk, Aaladin the Artificer, Daladin the Druid, Caladin the cleric, and Raaladin the ranger.

[@Solrex_the_Sun_King]

Bhaladin, the blood hunter

[@nvfury13]

Don’t forget Galadin the Gunslinger.

[@369destroyer]

Then the BBEG is their father, a Bard turned lich known by the name that sends chills down everyone's spine, Laladin, who turned Chaotic Evil after ALL HIS KIDS got themselves killed trying to avenge Aladin.

[@asteriondeltoro124]

I admit the bit about true neutral bards giving their kids away to balance their karma made me laugh non-ironically. Pity he couldn't apply that kind of clever thinking to playing nice.

[@Zarnirox]

Aladin: "I am a force of good and justice! I am the law!" *5 minutes later* Aladin: "I AM THE ONE WHO KNOCKS!"

[@MazzaAzi]

I love how this "that guy" made a actually interesting sub-plot about a couple of rhyming bards who keep giving off their "_lladin" kids to respective guilds to both pay off mysterious debts and "balance their karma" and managed to completely waste that interesting story potential. Like, who the fuck are these two rhyming bards and just how many [blank]lladins did they give up?!?

[@kardoxfabricanus7590]

I think we as DnD players should utilize this into the dumbest and funniest character joke or arc. Like make an entire story of it. My funniest idea is 2 bards who are polygamous and pan and repeatedly breed with a lot of dragons and gave birth to literally thousands of offspring and since they had so many of them they decide to give 99% of them up to adoption. Which results in them being incredibly lazy with their naming of their children etc. I think it's the perfect plot!!

[@exikat]

I like to believe there's one Lladin for every class

[@180msdavid]

the wild adventures of Bartlin and Rhymlin.

[@xendordawnburst9969]

I'm surprised that the party was still sticking together after this. I feel like Aladin/Raladin's player wasn't the teamwork-type, and was just getting frustrated that no one was giving him what he wanted.

[@rachelevil]

"Money-lending is evil" and "Drug addicts are evil" show an absolutely unhinged idea of morality

[@AdarinMonk]

Lucky for me I'm a money-lending drug addict, that makes it a double negative.

[@AuntLoopy123]

Money-lending is not evil. Charging exorbitant rates of interest is evil. But the party-member did not even mention interest. Just "Have this today, and pay me back later." And drug addicts are not evil. Doing evil acts to fuel their addiction is evil, but if they're not doing anything to hurt anyone, then they're not evil. And do you know how many drug addicts were PUSHED into addiction by adults trying to control them, as children? Or evil drug-dealers thinking "These kids at a playground are GREAT customers! Firsts one's free, and then they do whatever they can to earn money for their next hit, because they're young and stupid. HAHAHAHA!" It's not black and white. And even if it were, this guy is NOT "the law," and does NOT get to declare that RANDOMLY killing drug addicts makes him good, because "drug addicts are evil, anyway." The LAW requires a proper trial and execution BY the law, not RANDOMNESS. Also, dealing drugs, straight or cut, is ILLEGAL, no matter who is doing it. As long as the law against drugs is on the books, it's on the books, and even the crown prince is breaking the law, if he decides to do it.

[@rachelevil]

@@AuntLoopy123 Exactly

[@wesleythomas7125]

"My allies and I will send you to Hell where you belong." "Never seen this guy in my life. Tell you what, I'll look the other way if you deal me in on his pocket money."

[@Arcticmaster1190]

Raladin’s introduction to the group and their response to it just gave me an idea for a joke “Edgelord” character. XD “My name is Not Important to you… No, really, that’s it. I pronounce it Nauhimportand Taiyou to dress it up, but I am still very confused to why they wanted to name me that…”

[@LocalMaple]

Would that be a Tiefling name?

[@Arcticmaster1190]

@@LocalMaple Could be. Or an unfortunate human.

[@vasudeanguy8523]

I would have called him something incredibly stupid, like Nimrod, or Tighty whitey.

[@craigtucker1290]

I had a player that made several dwarven brothers after they were almost all slain by the same ogre chief in one on one combat. Bardahl Smokestop the fourth eventually defeated that ogre chief.

[@smallheals]

seems more like a kenku name

[@nes819]

To bad they didn't see the potential in this event. They could had have a new brother pop up outof the woodworks every session. Each one adding another letter at the beginning of the name.

[@Bladez10]

Funny you should mention that. There is another part of this story.

[@Dash_Rendar2050]

I’d imagine that at some point of rolling up the endless Aladin’s the name would become so unpronounceable that the players would just give him a number instead.

[@GoldenSunAlex]

@@Bladez10 Link?

[@Kronosfobi]

@@Bladez10 link?

[@verySharkey]

@@Dash_Rendar2050 Party meets: "I'm Aladin the 4th and you killed my great-grand cousin and their numerous siblings, sons and parents. I have come to join your party do do absolutely nothing bad to you at all ever."

[@JoshtheOverlander]

Aladin the Paladin: Druids can't use metal items! That's, like, you're opinion man. Personally I find the idea that Druids can't use metal items baffling, since metals and ores and the like are just as natural as plants and animals.

[@cesargeney5268]

Any person who tries to take away money when splitting the reward is an asshat

[@timtauber5557]

Metal ores are fine, it’s when those ores are corrupted by the process of smelting and forging is where the Druids have issues. Especially if the resulting metals end up becoming alloys.

[@JoshtheOverlander]

@@timtauber5557 Why is smelting an issue though? I can kind of understand alloys, but there's also a number of those that exist naturally too. Smelting on the other hand is just another way a person can take what nature offers and make it into something new. In a way, it's not all that different from carving out a staff or shaping one from a tree branch with magic.

[@craigtucker1290]

@@JoshtheOverlander Because it is a refining process that tends to be destructive and polluting to nature which goes against the core druid concepts in D&D. From mining/strip mining to all the unwanted waste/slag that just gets dumped, not to mention how much fuel is required for these processes which has it's own destructive effect on nature.

[@JoshtheOverlander]

@@craigtucker1290 I see. That explains how they don't like smelting, though I'd still argue a Druid can use money as a necessary evil as they can make monetary choices they believe can aid the party.

[@hyasome244]

Doing drugs? DM should've ruled that Aladdin broke his Oath and lost his powers.

[@emberfist8347]

He was just selling tainted drugs which would be breaking his oath as that isn't lawful or good that is what the villain of the second Kingsman movie did.

[@Ashtari]

@@emberfist8347 so in 5e paladins aren’t required to be lawful or good anymore. It’s more about the oath. And as far as I’m aware NONE of the oaths allow for the paladin to harm innocent non-combatants. That’s including oath of vengeance and oath of conquest, the two oaths that lend themselves best to the chaotic and evil end of the spectrum.

[@360entertainment2]

With his personality and backstory I half expected him to break into a song and dance to introduce himself!

[@craigtucker1290]

Trying to claim all the gold, no matter the need, is being chaotic (selfish), and selling harmful drugs is an evil act. The DM should have changed the PCs alignment and then checked to see if the paladin lost their status by violating their oath. This just highlights bad DMing when you have a problem player like this. A good DM might have curtailed the problem player by changing their character's alignment to reflect the character's actions, as the DM is supposed to do, and by stripping the paladin's powers for most probably breaking their oath, as the DM is also supposed to do. However, I like that DM let the PvP play out and correct the problem.

[@ZorgoXorgon]

Most tables nowadays don't stick so closely to alignment rules as it isn't required anymore, but yes such a move might've curtailed the behavior before it went this far. But then we wouldn't have Raladin, haha!

[@AuntLoopy123]

@@ZorgoXorgon It is not required that a paladin be lawful good. A paladin's alignment must reflect the god they worship, and whose holy (or unholy) power gives them their paladin abilities. In other words, they have to behave as a paladin of whatever patron deity they chose. If a paladin of Tiamat goes around founding orphanages and giving away money to widows and feeding the poor, then Tiamat is going to take away her powers, unless he has a VERY compelling reason, such as, "It's all part of my devious plan to convince the entire nation that I'm the best man around, and they should give me absolute power, because I'm so good and trustworthy, and then, when I have absolute power, and they are powerless to take me down, I will become an absolute tyrant, in your name!" But otherwise, if you claim one alignment, and then do the opposite, you LOSE your paladin powers. And dealing diluted drugs is both illegal and evil, the opposite of lawful good. So, he should have lost his powers, because he was breaking his paladin oath to be lawful good. It's like a True Neutral paladin would get in trouble with his god for choosing a side in a war, unless he justified it as, "That side has held power for too long, and now I need to balance the world, by ousting them from power, and putting this other group in power. For a time."

[@anionhero]

OMG! That is a horrible player! And he had the nerve to call the Monk out for what he himself was doing! There is no way Raladin would have even heard what happened to Aladin in such a short period of time! I'm surprised the DM allowed the guy to roll up a third character.

[@GM-lx7ji]

I am surprised the DM allowed him to roll a 2nd charcter.

[@Kontaro431]

@@GM-lx7ji I get this, one player tried something similar to alladin, when the dm was handing out loot that our players requested, all because my character wasn't gonna risk tossing the only bag of holding we had up to him via crossbow bolt(the ledge he used a 4E encounter power to fly to, as the only one to fly) he then refused to hand over the loot, this after he had found some +3 shortswords and kept them for himself to sell..so yeah, we koed him, at which point he left the VOIP, and then tossed his body down the casm(not sure how to spell it) and when the dm asked 'you wanna let him return?' we said no, figuring he was gonna make a character designed to kill us, and dm then admitted 'yep, he was saying that was what he was gonna do'

[@AuntLoopy123]

Clearly Aladin's ghost appeared to his long-lost brother, and told him, "I was just doing a perfectly legal and good thing, because it was ME, a lawful good paladin, doing it, so it MUST be legal and good, and just because they wouldn't give me ALL the loot, so I HAD to do it, and if kids died because I tricked them, that's fine, because who cares about stupid kids who got tricked, anyway? And then my party got all uppity and continued to save their comrade, instead of dropping him and saving me, instead, and letting him die, and so you have to go seek vengeance for me, and KILL THAT MONK, who had the nerve to NEED SAVING, all because of MY actions!" Wait, no way he said that last phrase. More like "All because he was too weak to last through a battle with the bad guys! The weak should just die, already, and decrease the surplus population." And then the ghost disappeared to go to an armor shop and try to haunt a suit of plate armor, and walk it out of the store, but the store keeper had magical wards set up, to avoid theft, so Aladin's ghost, who refused to just stop haunting the plate armor, has been stuck wandering around that warded shop, ever since.

[@Doctor-Stoppage]

I don't play D&D myself but I really enjoy the world's,creatures and lore. Awesome channel!

[@joseestevezhernandez558]

The sawdust part cracked me up.... what a "paladin"

[@Solrex_the_Sun_King]

Aladin the Paladin alignment: Chaotic/corrupted Lawful Good

[@georgemeyers7172]

I noticed the Dm made what was basically consquences for the Paladin's Drug Crap. Sounds like a Good Dm seeing some Potiental for some side plot.

[@tripple-a6031]

After Aladin he would already have been this close to getting kicked if I was the GM, Raladin was just the final nail in his coffin.

[@metanightmare4454]

I'm surprised that none of them were allowed to just call out to the first group of thugs and say "hey, we don't even really know this jerk or care about this drug business, so how about you just let us go on our way and you can do whatever you want with him?" It might not end up working, but I feel like most generic thugs would at least consider that deal since it would make their job an order of magnitudes easier, so you could at least let them roll for persuasion.

[@AuntLoopy123]

"How about we don't fight you, and you just let us walk away. Wouldn't you prefer those odds? Tell you what. We'll even give you our names, so that if we report you to the law, then you'll know who to track down. That gives us incentive NOT to report you, after all. And again, you get better odds in your fight against this selfish jackass who deserves to die for what he did TO US. We're JUST good enough not to kill him ourselves, but if you let us walk away, we won't fight you."

[@supermarioblacktiger]

Ngl, the giving kids away to two different organizations to balance out alignment sounds like an interesting story hook.

[@funnyblog100]

At this point I'd buy him his plate armor but I'd make sure it was the most cursed armor I could find.

[@letsplaysvonaja1714]

Hello Kitty design cursed or you can never take it off cursed?

[@funnyblog100]

@@letsplaysvonaja1714 Yes.

[@AuntLoopy123]

@@letsplaysvonaja1714 Both. Both is good. In fact, I'd add "Glow in the dark," so you always have a light source, even in the darkest dungeon. A loud, disadvantage-to-stealth-checks, can't possibly hide, because it's a bright light, cutesy armor that you can never take off, even to bathe or sleep.

[@Apocalythpe]

Good roller-coaster of emotions lol

[@GreaterGrievobeast55]

Even the auto correct be hatin “Aled in’s” name..wait Anti semetisim??! The actual hell? Saw dust drugs?? His patron allowed that?! I’ve known tiamat worshipers with more principles! *Yirbel lives!*

[@Deailon]

I sense Baladin the Barbarian. Bardladin the Bard, Caladin the Cleric, Daladin the Druid, Faladin the Fighter, Maladin the Monk, Randadin the Ranger, Saladin the Sorcerer, Waladin the Warlock and Wiladin the Wizard approaching.

[@AuntLoopy123]

Wrong. He'd never play a monk. They need no material possessions, and he can't be playing some POOR person.

[@Deailon]

@@AuntLoopy123 he played drug-selling paladin. I do not think such minutae would bother him.

[@fmor2779]

Surprised the player wasn't kicked out sooner specially because of his new character,. What a nightmare.

[@bartimaeus1887]

Look, Paladins are some of the most powerful diverse low level characters there are. Healer? Tank? Nuke? Bruiser? Yes. The only ONLY obligation they have for this power is strict adherence to a code. If I was a dm and the paladin wanted to deal drugs I wouldn't revoke their power then and there, I'd explain that that's not how the class works. Tough. Be an edgy rogue in your next life. Edit: LOL he actually did 😂

[@LocalMaple]

DM: Your Paladin remembers his oath, and how he shouldn’t do this. Player: I’ll do it anyways. DM: Says nothing. Any class features that involve magic, auras, or divine all fail, and when they long rest they don’t get their spell slots back. The Paladin kept their current slots for spells that aren’t subclass specific, but Divine Smite doesn’t work and wastes the spell slot. If the player doesn’t repent, then they remain unpowered. If they then change vows, including for dark ambitions, and get another divine being to acknowledge the act, _then_ they can switch subclasses. Paladin: Why are you doing this to me! DM: Your character broke their oath, which despite the name doesn’t automatically qualify you for Oathbreaker. I’m giving you the same treatment as a Warlock who hasn’t upheld their bargain. The Warlock: [Starts taking roleplay and their deal seriously].

[@Lady_in_Yearning]

@@LocalMaple Best ending

[@Lady_in_Yearning]

5:43 You forgot to add "the paladin"

[@novadrake9232]

Why is the name alidin so familiar🤔. 😂oh i got it funny (i might have heard this story from a differnt content creator)

[@Ashtari]

Critcrab and one other did it that I know of, but the story is good so I don’t mind listening again.

[@novadrake9232]

@@Ashtari same

[@kiritokazuto4383]

Den of the drake and critcrab did this Still an awesome video

[@Ashtari]

@@kiritokazuto4383 Thank you, I watch so many rpg horror story channels I forget who did what. I only remembered Critcrab because Den did a special shout out about asking Critcrab if he could do his take on it.

[@Chestbridge]

I can‘t find this story on CritCrab‘s or Drake‘s channel! The only one that I know of who covered it was Bear Bard! 😅

[@timtauber5557]

Lol the Paladin player is Toxic, I would have sent him packing after the drug buying fiasco, or he would have suffered an alignment change and lost any Paladin benefits and been at best a man at arms. Not a war just a guy with weapons

[@AuntLoopy123]

Yep. No holy symbol. No holy powers. No fighter powers. And no ability to level up in ANY class, regardless of XP, until he regained his paladin powers by making things right with his deity. Now, if the player was down for a redemption arc, that could be fun. But he has to PLAY THE GAME, not turn it into "Let's stab each other in the back and rob each other blind, while claiming to be lawful good."

[@atiredfloridian777]

After a while Aladin the Paladin stopped sounding like words...

[@renfieldgod]

Hey when is there gonna be another all guardsmen party video i love those

[@DisneyChar]

I would have mocked alidin the paladin for not being eladrin

[@Adam-wg2rf]

Hi sorry to ask but do you know how can i find a DND groop online?

[@Adam-wg2rf]

And sorry for my speling

[@TheRookCrows]

If you want a non-comital campaign that you can jump in and out of then I suggest the Forged concordance they’re really nice had a good time playing there

[@idkwhat___is]

Tbh I would like to find out too

[@docop8926]

@@TheRookCrows is it an app?

[@Adam-wg2rf]

@@TheRookCrows thenks i will check it hote

[@FoolsGil]

This could have had the potential to be a comedy, if Aladin's creator wasn't also a jerk

[@180msdavid]

I haven't dealt with the 5e paladin before. but I would question their paladin type. the god they fight for and how their actions can harm innocent people. in 3.5. I had the patron talk to the paladin. every time the paladin drew a weapon. who do you fight for. for example. when when this paladin drew his weapon to attack the thieves. "do you fight for me or do you fight for gold?" depending on the answer. or prayer. the patron could accept, punish or outright abandon him.

[@Chaosmage42]

this does sound like a good recurring gag for enemy flunkies to all be related to each other, if i can ever get another campaign going im thinking of them killing a series of borthers sisters cousins of these guys, im just trying to think of a good family name thats some kind of pun, like the space balls joke about a person being an "asshole" as their last name

[@macromondo8026]

But casters do need money tho, how else are they going to buy those expensive material components that can't be substituted by an arcane focus?¡

[@JoshtheOverlander]

Especially the occasional diamond for a revival spell when a psycho paladin tried to murder one of their own

[@AuntLoopy123]

Aladin the Paladin thought that sorcerers don't use material components. And even if that were true, EVERY class can benefit from magical items, which are costly.

[@firecrow7973]

god i couldnt even finish this one, i would have attacked the paladin as soon as it bought drugs

[@angramainyu4599]

If Aladin was with my RK fighter it'd be hilarious because they're 8ft 7in and has a death wish and is a blasphemous Goliath NG-CG-NC alignment depending on mood and mission

[@jordanpeterson5140]

Ahhh, Lawful Stupid. Never change. I'm kidding. Change immediately.

[@lafeaschronicle3218]

Why in the world did anyone put up with that, like at all?

[@DBArtsCreators]

I'd have kicked the -Adin player out of the group. If they refused to leave, I'd kick them out a real-life window and told them not to keep wasting everyone's time.

[@shadowhog777]

Ralad-in Ralad-out

[@maximselan200]

After that, as a dm I would have kicked out that problem character.

[@GM-lx7ji]

I am surprised the DM even let Aladin's player continue to play in their group after everything he did with his 1st charcter, let alone let him continue play with them.

[@clericofchaos1]

I mean, technically aladin was right. He's the only class in the party that actually needs money to improve his character and giving the party's tank plate armor at level 1 is a really good long-term investment. Maybe if he'd been nicer in how he asked, or if he'd asked out of character they might have agreed, but he was still right to ask.

[@AuntLoopy123]

HE could have accepted a loan, for example. After all, borrowing from a friend, who is not charging you interest, and who will benefit from the thing you buy with the loan is no more evil than drug dealing, right?

[@clericofchaos1]

@@AuntLoopy123 yeah, but he couldn't have gotten the entire 1500 that way. if ALL of them agreed to give him a loan, than yea sure. As it sits, he was absolutely right to point out how none of them actually need money except him, and really the monk shouldn't be buying anything at all if he can help it. That whole material attachments will keep you from attaining spiritual enlightenment thing. So monk was definitely being antagonistic here but again they could have gotten over that if al had asked nicer or explained better ooc.

[@letsplaysvonaja1714]

"Every drug addict is evil" Good one

[@Lady_in_Yearning]

neoliberal paladins be like:

[@jeremiahhuntley4224]

Oh by the grace of heronious I am so tired of people playing paladin and acting like this. As my groups resident paladin play (almost no one is our group wants to play marshal classes) this fill me with rage. If I was dming I would make his powers shut off for not playing by the tenants of his class.

[@verzeihturncoat27]

a disgruntled Paladin that does not understand what is good or evil other by some "book knowledge" of his order. I am good because my occupation says so. Could make a good story.

[@ETOILEPHANTOME]

4:18 how is that anti-semitic?

[@JupitersTears]

The stereotype Jewish people are all about money and the way op worded it was like its a long shot

[@ETOILEPHANTOME]

@@JupitersTears sorry i don’t remember the video but I don’t recall anything anti-semitic was said.

[@JupitersTears]

@@ETOILEPHANTOME it's okay I'm just explaining

[@ETOILEPHANTOME]

@@JupitersTears so I just rewatched the thing and I still don’t see it. He just said « money lending is evil ». Looks to me like the op is projecting

[@JupitersTears]

@@ETOILEPHANTOME oh no I totally agree with you I'm just pointing out that it's a long shot

[@docop8926]

"anti semetic stereotypes" why is there so many woke people in d&d?

[@Adam-wg2rf]

Probebly bicos they have an no problems making a fins bad or wost or just very funy

[@shirlot]

For the same reason why science fiction is so woke, because geeks and nerds typically have really high compassion stats.

[@lkriticos7619]

Am I the only one who is really bothered by the fact that that's.... not how you say 'Aladdin'?

[@Flasa]

It gets so tiring to hear “Aladin the Paladin” over and over again. OP should have used different ways to refer to him. I know it probably was intentional due to the irritating character, but it makes listening to the story quite too grinding.

[@GM-lx7ji]

I wounld't be surprised if Aladin's player refered made Aladin refer to himself in the 3rd person, and OP wrote Aladin's dialogue like that so we chould understand how annoying that player was.

[@lunavarion]

Was it really necessary to say "Aladin the paladin" so much instead of just "Aladin"? It gets annoying really fast.

[@TrentCowley]

Why did he randomly call hom anti Semitic when he didn't want to be a part of money lending? That's literally racist to think all jews are involved in money lending. Weird projection by the author there