What are your best 'Are You Sure You Want To Do This?' Moments? #1

[@ericb3157]

i've probably mentioned this before, but this subject is SO perfect: "i cast Darkness on the dragon." -that's from a video by Puffin Forest called "read your spells BEFORE you cast them!" in short, the spell effectively backfired, the dragon could still sense them, but THEY couldn't see HIM, so the players were effectively helpless for the rest of the turn!

[@mattwatry7003]

I had this happen in a one shot I was playing in, except the player targeted Strahd. Never internally facepalmed so hard in my life.

[@Treblaine]

Even if it had worked it would have done nothing as the advantage to hit a target that cannot see you is offset by the disadvantage to hit a target you cannot see.

[@Roxasherz]

@@Treblaine also, most dragons have blindsense, against which Darkness does jack squat.

[@kjs8719]

The rogue told me she was going to stab the NPC. The NPC was an elderly druid who was bonded to a gigantic beehive. She was essentially their second queen bee. If the rogue attacked, the bees would have attacked, each doing 1 point of poison damage. There was 60 000 bees.

[@MasterZebulin]

That's 60,000 attacks! *That's alotta damage!*

[@kjs8719]

@@MasterZebulin 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@kjs8719]

@@MasterZebulin fortunately, when I asked if she was sure, she changed her mind

[@binjuice326]

How would the bees effect someone with a poison immunity?

[@kjs8719]

@@binjuice326 that's something I hadn't thought about. I had a player with poison resistance, but that's still going to kill them

[@bndllama9067]

That Monk Murder story reminds me of one of mine. A player found a little bird that he kept as a pet, another player "just for laughs" would swat at the thing with his 1d4+3 unarmed strike. It had 2HP, he eventually connected for max damage and it just splatter. He was super confused about why it happened, I explained, and to this day one friend is mad at the other and the one hes made at is mad at me for, letting it happen? Idk what people think when they roll attack dice on non-combat entities.

[@ladylunaginaofgames40]

He had no reason to hate you for that. He should of thought about the possibility of his attacks connecting

[@citizen_grub4171]

How old are your friends, exactly? And how long ago was this?

[@Saiaix]

"Putting a bag of holding inside a bag of holding..." My DM has learned to curb his dangerous encounters to keep me from doing this. If you have two bags of holding, or one and a portable hole, and a sense of duty, then when an impossible fight or a truly horrible threat to the realm dares to rear it's head and/or exposit a loud obnoxious bad guy speech in your general direction, make that kamikaze paladin charge and remind the DM that he can't run a game without heroes.

[@TheWeirdsound]

Fun fact, if you are artificer, you can use an infusion to make basically a free bag of holding. If your subclass is battlesmith, you have an expendable steel defender to put one back inside another.

[@VoidplayLP]

I mean, the any realm threatening evil can get back to the material plane, but your character probably cant

[@Saiaix]

@@VoidplayLP In his games, a bag of holding and a bag of holding isn't a dimensional tear, it's an explosion. Killed demons can't return for a set amount of time. As for the Astral rift when it's coupled with a portable hole, I've actually had a DM have everyone but me (the epicenter, who automatically fails) roll a reflex save... and tear a large creature in half (a drider wizard mob boss) because the portal only lasted a round, the drider almost escaped the tear... but not quite. Though I agree, it's a nasty backfire.

[@Saiaix]

@@TheWeirdsound I personally love taking giant ballista bolts, and replacing the sharp head with a clumsy balsa wood framework (it's an area effect anyway) that holds both bags front and back, the one in the rear open; fire, boom! Seige falls apart fast.

[@VoidplayLP]

@@Saiaix well thats on the DM then. Personally i feel like a BBEG should require some actual killing. Then again i like to run my games into high level so theyll be facing casters with level 9 spells and stuff like that.

[@LordSephleon]

In a 2nd Ed AD&D game I ran a long time ago (first year of college I think), the players were battling what I had nicknamed a "half-lich," an individual going through the process of becoming a full lich. He wasn't yet fully undead, so he was pretty much a sort of glass cannon. However, he had a few levels in Necromancer above the party's (who I think were in the 5-7 range). When it was clear that he was about to lose to the adventurers, he cast the best spell he had access to: a one-time use of a temporary version of Trap the Soul (it would have ended after 24 hours) that targeted one of the PCs. The PC failed, so his soul was instantly transferred to a specially-made gem on the half-lich. Through description, I made pretty clear what happened to their ally and where the soul ended up. The half-lich was destroyed soon after that, and the party deliberated on what to do about their friend in the gem. The battle had taken place on the roof of a tall ruined keep (I don't remember how tall as it was built into a mountainside, but it was definitely at least three stories). The party's fighter yelled to the PC who had taken the gem, "Throw me the gem!" to which the PC unthinkingly followed suit. Now, this particular fighter had been making poor-to-odd decisions the entire campaign, essentially acting as a buffoon of sorts (though the player was intelligent); we all jokingly said that the player was having a ridiculous amount of "off-days" with this character. Well, to everyone's shock (especially mine), the fighter threw the gem over the side, down many many stories, without any hesitation. I, as the DM, knew that shattering the gem in such a manner would simply free the soul into the aimless void as his body was with the party, thus effectively killing the character for good. So, I asked the player if he was certain he wanted to follow through. He explained simply that his character had no idea how magic worked (despite having had a bard in the party the whole time), and figured this should work to free his friend. Some of the other players at the table caught on to what was very likely to happen, and they only had time to breathlessly and visibly react to what they felt (correctly) was to occur. And so, with something akin to regret (for not having foreseen this possibility) and disappointment, I let it happen, simply telling the now-dead PC, "[Name of Player]... um... just... roll up a new character."

[@mythicalthings1796]

I would have fucking killed that player if they killed my PC like that

[@LordSephleon]

@@mythicalthings1796 Funny thing is that they're best friends since 2nd grade. :)

[@ladylunaginaofgames40]

Honestly, there were better solutions than to throw a soul gem out of range of the body.

[@LordSephleon]

@@ladylunaginaofgames40 Oh trust me... there were, and I had hoped that the party would have discussed them at least. Most options would have had the 24-hr duration run out (as the ruined keep they were in was located pretty far from most places where they might have thought to get any advice or magical aid) and the soul would simply return to the body, but the impulsive Fighter took care of that really quick. I can't remember which PC gave the gem to the Fighter to begin with, but that person definitely had a severe lapse in judgement despite having seen the shenanigans the Fighter had pulled up until that point. :)

[@ladylunaginaofgames40]

@@LordSephleon dumb tanks be damned, and its on that one person to trust the muscles of the group with another's person life without thinking

[@ultravorgan383]

This happened last Saturday during our weekly 5e campaign. We were fighting a werewolf that was supposed to be for more people than we had (some people didn’t show up) so out of our usual 5, we had 3 players. Our wizard got the initiative first. He casted hold person. Gm asked if he was sure he wanted to cast that. He did. We proceeded to kill the were wolf before it could do ANYTHING.

[@bibbobella]

That kinda sounds like the opposet of this though.... Normally when a DM asks "are you sure about that?" it isn't because it could ruin their encounter but because they are obviously missing something and their action will most likely mean their death....

[@aduckwithayoutubechannel]

The party, at level 4, had just gotten some good magic items and felt like their were tough shit. Especially the cleric. He had a shiny new +4 war hammer. Now, keep in mind, this is an Urban Fantasy campaign. Anyway, the party is at a dinner with the Fairy Mafia. They’re surrounded by about 40-50 fairies, with the mob boss fairy sitting at the head of the table. Words were exchanged, threats were made, and the cleric, in his infinite wisdom, decided to attack the mob boss. I explained the lay out of the room. I described the small army of gun wielding fairies surrounding them. But nope, he rolled an 18, which got buffed to a 22. He squashed the mob boss flat and was promptly riddled with bullets, left writhing on the table with 2 HP.

[@morgantaylor84]

I think the Monk was like "She must be secretly a Succubus or something" and was totally meta-gaming the crud out of that situation and got punished for it.

[@jasonrustmann9876]

To many choices to choose from, i ask that all the time lol i even ask when they're shopping, "you sure you want the axe? Not the sword?" "You sure you want to buy the green boots? Not the brown?" Keeping your players paranoid is one of the best parts of running the game lol

[@benthomason3307]

Don't overdo that though, because it could lead to a boy-who-cried-wolf moment if they get desensitized to it.

[@Somebeanwhoexists]

That little end bit was needed, thank you

[@primordial-chaos00]

That dragon and ballista was funny and I find it funny their attempt to tame a dragon knowing they are sentient creatures.

[@Michael-fd1gx]

The elephant one, I think they wanted an elephant for the party, not fight an elephant.

[@ladylunaginaofgames40]

Misinterpretation for the win.

[@Strativari]

They should have clarified

[@oz_jones]

No they were in a fighting arena

[@tetrik7]

Last night, party fought a group of cultist guarding there vampire lord, instead of waiting for the party to recover, group up and prepare actions, the cleric opens the vampire's coffin, gets hypnotized. Quits and leaves.

[@lord1315]

>be me, 7th level Bladesinger Wizard/Fighter >party chases down a person of interest and sets up a stakeout to find him there before he could escape >party bard decides to pulls me out of scouting with my familiar midway into the stakeout after recon >4 hours pass by into the stake out no one keeping an eye of what could’ve happened >party meets up in a warehouse discussing the next part of the plan >party laments and doesn’t like the fact we, as a group, may have lost this one. >I offer a solution that involves the Fae, for plot reasons my Wizard has the ability to call them, party agrees it would be a good idea to use them seeing as we don’t have any leads in this part of the job. >DM: “Are you sure you want to do this” >I say yes, and offer the Fae liaison a part of “my mind” as tribute to get it done cleanly >Fae does the job and I pray the price >Wake up the next morning not being able to connect with the magic in my spells books

[@Scorpious187]

PANR has not tuned in yet, but I'm here.

[@MrRipper]

PANR will tune in shortly 👌

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

PANR has tuned in. A little late. I was live.

[@bennetrussell3567]

@@MrRipper we have a party of 4, me the barbarian, the sorcerer bunny man and his snake person rogue. And my pirate turtle friend, grok. We enter the area and the DM, tired of us just gliding through the game said "roll initiative". So we have about 12 undead and 4 suits of armor to fight. I the barbarian said "maybe their friendly". Rolled a 17 on charisma. Now the armor lets us pass without a fight, I'm pleased. But that's not enough, we then convinced the entire group of undead to walk off a cliff. Then the turtle rolled a nat 20 on charisma. Long story short we turned a 5 hour session into a 2 hour session and now we have 4 suits of armor following us around

[@SilverDungeoneer]

Just happened a few hours ago. So my players beat some goblins and one of them had a vial of blood. I have three players. Two of them started talking but I couldn't focus on that because the third one said "Can I drink it?" I asked him to repeat himself. He did. I know its a vial of lycanthrope blood. I know he'll get a busted immunity if I let him. But I also know I would have to make up something believable on the spot which I can't. I ask him, "You want to drink... the vial of blood?" Yes. "Roll me a Con Saving throw" "Failed. You are now a weretiger." Other players begin panicking with one asking the other if they have lesser restoration. I'm just sitting their trying to come up with how to balance encounters now. I explain his allignment will shift to true neutral. "That's already my allignment." For simply drinking a random vial, my player became immune to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from non-magical attacks that aren't silver, the ability to transform into a tiger and half-tiger half dwarf, a +1 to AC. God I hope he doesn't read in depth on his new found abilities or find this comment, but he also has the ability to spread his curse. The only possible way I can see me being able to get rid of it is if he get's a bad curse that when they remove will also remove the lycanthrope.

[@damienclinch1967]

When he transforms next in combat, have a bad guy spellcaster cast remove curse on him.

[@mythicalthings1796]

Easy. Have him roid out during full moons. Have him attack party members. Etc. It's a curse, not a blessing.

[@SilverDungeoneer]

@@mythicalthings1796 Your're thinking of werewolves which are chaotic evil. Weretigers are true neutral. They aren't the same. If you have it, read the monster manual.

[@mythicalthings1796]

@@SilverDungeoneer You're absolutely right. I thought all Lycanthropes had the moon thing. That being said. Another easy thing, if he over uses the abilities have a local monster hunting group find out. Offer to remove the lycanthropy. If they say no, Silvered arrows and a firing squad will make em think twice.

[@mingling8559]

Simple, balance the encounters and leave the rest alone.

[@markrobertshaw886]

Second? But a quick story about the power of Sentinel Battle Master. Our Party was travelling when we rolled a Dragon Attack, the Dragon Landed and it had a hard time leaving because of Sentinel and when I did I would Trip it with Trip Attack, it only got away because it literally had to pick me up and drop me from the Sky after the Dragon flew away the DM said we were so close to killing it 1 more round would have done it. I love Human V Fighters With Sentinel and Battlemaster.

[@MrRipper]

Indeed

[@joshrowan8498]

Thank you for the speech at the end of the video bro I needed to hear that it's been rough the last few weeks.

[@Defested]

In the finale of one of my campaigns, my players were infiltrating the BBEG's compound. the 2 PCs that could deceive and disguise were staying a few rooms ahead of everyone to scout things out. While in one room with 5 minions in it, the BBEG walks into this room reading a book and pays no mind to the disguised PCs. One PC decided to catapult a rock into the back of the BBEG's skull. The BBEG immediately turned around and cast Reality Break on him. The PC is teleported to a random nearby room and knocked unconscious (and bleeds out before he could be found). The other PC in the room acted surprised and claimed not to be with him. The BBEG continued on his walk and that's how the party was 1 PC down going into the final fight.

[@PugsleyThePear]

I could tell the Druid in the galeb duhr story was trying to get his character killed even before the warlock shenanigans. "I stay to make sure the party gets away" *after the party has already gotten away* is dnd shorthand for "I am tired of this character and want to make a new one".

[@ladylunaginaofgames40]

The first was Genius. They wanted an elephant, they GOT what they asked for, and ate their words for it

[@Treblaine]

An elephant never forgets... to kill!

[@blakeetter280]

Every time there’s a trap nearby I hit them with ‘are you sure’ which is fun to watch cuz they always freak

[@eros5420]

Started off a campaign that is intended to be a long term game. The majority of players are new but committed. Well one of them first change she got wanted to murder hobo two elderly in the sewers they were escaping with. I gave a stern, "are you sure you want to do that?" Then after a pause I said, "You can do what youd like, but actions have consequences; if youd like to attack them roll to hit." She did not. I think she was testing how far she could push the bounds of acceptable behavior and she found it. She was wise enough to not do it and hasnt given me any problems since. Though she has teased the party about potentially killing strangers. :) Generally DMs feel the need to do the "Essential NPC" like you would a video game... I think the organic nature of DnD allows for your creativity to be the limits. Party kills both kings of warring factions? Fine... What would naturally happen then, and go from there :)

[@LocalMaple]

I split my party to infiltrate a camp of 2 Orc tribes. And it worked out better than even the DM imagined. He had his head in his hands at least three times that session, unable to believe we got away with stealing every gold coin the combined tribes had.

[@chaos4654]

Well, obviously either the Monk paid absolutely no attention, or the DM was somehow too subtle about the daughter.

[@nomophobe]

Or the monk was like "haha the DM must be saying how good this character is for a reason, she's obviously the Big Evil in disguise, I'm so smart"

[@oz_jones]

@@nomophobe this was my read too.

[@agr0nianTV]

Beautiful "I believe I can fly" *wipes tear from eye* 👏

[@sherylcascadden4988]

I was DMing a one shot for three players who had also DMed in the past. They had no rogue, so I gave them a coice of three hirelings. They chose the one with mapmaking and calligraphy skills in addition to the usual trap finding and lockpicking abilities. She had a portable hole full of useful things like rope, ladders, 10 foot poles, cooking pots... One of the players offered to carry the portable hole for her, and soon after said he was slipping it into his bag of holding. Another player said "Are you insane?". so I didn't have to.

[@JAMBUILDER08]

With 3 lads and a shield guardian we killed an ancient white dragon, at lvl 7, a div sorcerer pullin out buffs, a barbarian druid tanking like a boss, a rogue sneak attacking with a few crits, and a shield guardian making our raging bear boi take half damage... The dragon clearly did not expect our raging bear of damage halving, and rogue abusing sneak attack...

[@maxmustermann-zx9yq]

if you're an evil DM, just put a "dont touch"-sign on something the players really shouldnt do anything to

[@Zarkonem]

Players were level 3 and facing an owlbear. Should have been a decent and totally doable encounter. The druid of the party casts speak with animals and tries to reason with it, fails her persuasion check miserably. The owl bear hits the druid and takes over half her health in damage in one turn. Her turn comes around and she has the opportunity to fall back behind the much tankier paladin and launch ranged spells at it. She instead decides that she is pissed off at this owlbear and continues to stand right next to it and hit it with poison spray saying that she "wants to hit it point blank in the face!" I ask her if she is sure, bringing up how much damage the owlbear did to her on it's last turn. She confirms. It was a learning experience for her as she rolled up a new character.

[@wuzhere7518]

Not a DM but the player who fricked up so hard we jumped pre-written module to home brew game. We where playing our 2nd session of HotDQ and it gets to that part where the that blue Dragonborn guy is challenging the strongest person in town in exchange for prisoners. Our Eladrin Fighter/Sorcerer takes up the offer and the fight commences. For RP reasons, my Dragonborn Paladin decides to cast chivalry to the wind and attack the other Dragonborn mid-duel While their where about 16-18 Kobolds who had promised to attack if anybody fell out of line. In fairness to the DM, that is the quantity HotDQ has and that anybody who fell out of line would get their lv 2 PC kicked into the void of turn economy by 16 Kobolds. In fairness to myself, the DM miscommunicated, so I thought there where only half that or less. After that half-TPK we decided that the Kobolds had enslaved us before we escaped after a year at lv. 5. While that campaign was eventually put on hold due to schedualling conflicts, we did have a good time in the long run.

[@matotry]

My GM created a small puzzle for us to solve during combat. It was my turn and so solved the puzzle. The GM wasn’t thrilled I figured it out and so kept second guessing all my moves for the rest of the night. Lots of “Are you sure you wanna do that?” I didn’t care tho. I’ve been waiting for him to kill my character so I can leave for like three sessions now.

[@hysteriathefox3825]

Just straight up defy everything you can do you can leave if you don’t want to stay.

[@karsten69]

Literally in the finale of my first campaign, the face of the party (undercover) sits down at the peace table, and starts talking smack about his closest ally at the table. I asked him if he was sure. "yep" he then proceeded to go back on multiple promises to other allies... Same answer. As the finale, he undoes his disguise and flips everyone off about how he deceived them.

[@Beargamer2749]

These outro talks have saved me from depression more than once. Love this channel and it’s narrators. : )

[@THEGRUMPTRUCK]

It's fun to note that the first story, the players were PISSED that the elephant TPK'd them too, as if they weren't warned many times already. Plausible deniability is big among some tabletop players.

[@Treblaine]

"Don't worry, the DM won't dare TPK us, its his responsibility to set fair encounters so he must be lying when he says this will TPK us."

[@oz_jones]

@@Treblaine my current DM has daid many times that he doesnt balance his encounters

[@RiskierGoose340]

I just had my first ever session of DnD with my school game club yesterday. One player, despite already owning some money, tried to steal from others, often when they’re looking right at him. He always fails and it nearly got him killed, it was hilarious.

[@Blockschrott]

a PnP without magic, one character notoriously cover his sword in flammable liquids to make a fire sword, found a new sword at the end of an encounter, after losing his sword, comes a cross a pit of tar: I prepare my next fire sword, by coding it with tar! Now I put the tar coded sword back in its sheath... took a minute to talk him out of this idea...

[@Kozmokast]

“What are your best are you sure you want to do this moment” First one is entirely stupid, amazin’

[@DomyTheMad420]

i once again wanna thank you for using those 'chapter markers' thingies

[@bobtdm190alt5]

Mine was when I had access to a spectral chef in a homebrew campaign and I ask if I could get a 5×5×5 ft cube of pure cheese. I now have a 100lbs block of cheese. That campaign is over and I plan on using Bob in a new campaign and buy a horse or tame a giant owl.

[@cameronpearce5943]

Most of these just sound like good opportunities for stories that get cut off too soon. Funnily enough I misty stepped onto a dragons back recently. My wizard had no spells left and was just pelting it with booming blade while it tried to make me drop out of our parties Feather Fall range. Killed the sucker and rode it down like Gandelf on the Belrog. Survived the fall damage somehow. Pretty great session

[@n3onvalkyrie936]

I accidently killed 3 gods with 1 wish spell without wishing for them to die. It changed the rest of the campaign

[@Darknova67]

There was the time my character and one of the other Pcs came up with the idea to kidnap the agent of an evil organization in the campaign that was leaving the town we were in. It turned out that they were actually the second in command of the entire operation and we were like lvl 3-5. We almost died but just barley managed to run away, But we blew up his cart so he had to walk the rest of the way to the next town.

[@hambone4984]

My level 5 players were in a bar that they had already figured out was actually a den of harpies ruled over by a powerful hag-raven type of monster and her mysterious muscle "The Bear" I emphasized that they were massively outnumbered. 3 players vs 4 harpies, a witch, the bear, and a bar full of magically enslaved/charmed bar patrons (at least 20 people) the party decided to split up and have 2 people kidnap the guy they were looking for and deliver him to his family while a single player decides to stay behind and take on the entire bar to steal a jewel in the witch's possession. I suggested that they all leave together and return later together, the guy staying behind just goes "I got this." Spoiler alert: he did not.

[@pogggaming4470]

What happened to him?

[@markrobertshaw886]

The EdgeLord went over the Edge

[@punishedbearzerker5400]

>Picks monk >Makes him a non-lawful alignment meaning he can't get *any* benefit from taking monk levels >Murders an innocent good natured girl for no describable reason Nothing about that character or his player makes any sense at all.

[@Rougesteelproject]

Why does alignment affect which levels you can take?

[@CiaranMaxwell]

@@Rougesteelproject Well, for starters, if you're chaotic evil, will *any* god believe you if you swear an oath to uphold justice? (Paladin) Edit: For the record, most classes do not have an alignment requirement. A very few do. Paladin is the most well known, with Monk just behind.

[@Rougesteelproject]

@@CiaranMaxwell Monk says "almost always Lawful" in the PHB, unless i missed something somewhere else. I doubt the Way of Shadow will always be lawful. They're ninjas.

[@punishedbearzerker5400]

@@Rougesteelproject "Lawful evil" is still lawful, and you don't have to be an evil ninja

[@punishedbearzerker5400]

@@Rougesteelproject Also from the guide: "Ex-Monks A monk who becomes nonlawful cannot gain new levels as a monk but retains all monk abilities."

[@onimenno]

Best line: "I believe I can flyyyy.... "

[@enderskunk7644]

The Druid was really sure he wanted to punch the skeleton in the face... with a strength score of 11... that was 1 dammage, 2 after vundeberality...

[@slicedice2284]

Dnd 5th edition i decide to do an evil campaign just for fun and let the party have some fun. Decide to have a lich and his umdead dragon revive some of the most notorious criminals back to life to fill his army. Party gets revived in a grand way with the lich insisting that they would be generals of his army to take over the world of good. What does my party do in the middle of a monologue at level 4? Of course one of the players pulls his bow declares i attack the lich. Me: what he brought you back to life and has a pet dragon? Them: yeah idc i attack him thats how i learned parties are dumb and one tpk later i brought them back to life again

[@gamebrainjagras4193]

The BBEG not believing that someone would kill their love interest is on the DM for playing the BBEG as a person with no emotions while whenever else they did have emotions apparently.

[@fateric007]

I tried to start a war between two mercenary companies. Also our group thought it would be wise to deceive a white dragon.

[@Dragonsofchaos852]

5:25 untill 6:30 Little bastard got lucky, his friends saved his ass XD

[@BarrakDraconis]

Players open a door to a large room. There is a trap in that room, a 20x20ft electrified floor plate right in front of the door, covering the entire doorway. There is also an encounter in that room, a small group of orcs. One of the orcs charges at the players, runs onto the electric plate, takes a large amount of lightning damage and immediately dies. The entire floor plate lights up when this happens. I even draw it on the map. 1st player: "I charge the orcs." Me: "...Are you sure?" 1st player: "Yes, I rush the orcs." He moves his token right next to the orcs and begins making attack rolls. Me: "No... that's not what happens." I move his token back onto the (again, clearly marked and labeled) trap that he just charged across, and roll lightning damage. He dies. 1st player then proceeds to rant about how unfair that is, and leaves the table.

[@JooJoo-uz2wc]

So a dm onced said "are you sure you want to trigger the trap" I said i wanted the brick so yes *Promptly becomes the first death of the campaign*

[@ForgeMaster27]

6:26 as shanks from one piece once said “guns are meant for actions, not for threats”

[@KCBtheAMIGO]

My DM killed my clerics god for lore reasons but he teleported to her used true resurrection on the dead god brought her back then my cleric proceeds to get killed by the thing that killed his god in the first place, PS: the god escape because of my cleric noble sacrifice

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

PANR has tuned in.

[@joedan5366]

Late or early

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

@@joedan5366 I try to be early, but I was dreadfully late for this broadcast. It aired while I was live I'm afraid.

[@joedan5366]

@@postapocalypticnewsradio I was saying would you rather be late to something or early to something

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

@@joedan5366 I'd much rather be early

[@eros5420]

If a player, human or one of the other common races ate unholy human entrails, theyd be enjoying the rest of the games as Gnolls or Minotaur or some other curse Race 😂

[@Treblaine]

DM must call shenanigans on that: "I thought you wanted to go on an adventure, if you **instead** want to role play depraved acts for the sake of being depraved while someone reluctantly plays along then call a premium rate Sex Line. They're paid to deal with that shit, I'm not."

[@gxtmfa]

“Where’s my elephant?”

[@redacted606]

My "You killed an innocent female cultist turned nun" story. (Concept not an actual game) Me: you see a what looks cultist casting illusions near children, creating a few snow colored rats. The rats squeak and the children- Paladin: I tackle the woman. 18. Me: you sure? Paladin: yes. Me: you tackle the woman, her back makes a shaping sound as your heavily armored body crashes into hers, the children pick up the rats and pet them, but the rats disappear and the people who noticed you tackle the poor woman yell out in terror"no! She just found god and became a nun!" The children scream witnessing the look of fear and terror on the nuns face as she lay there, she asks you "why?", then falls into a sleep she can't ever wake from. Paladin: why didn't you warn me!? Me: you wouldn't let me finish, so i resided to teach you a lesson, this is the city of "renyu" the capital of redemption and you just killed the newest nun, the people all scatter and you feel a something fade from you, your oath? Broken.

[@pogggaming4470]

Would be perfect if the Paladin is also executed or worst, then into bbeg

[@Natt_Skapa]

Thank you

[@chrisb9143]

9:16 wait, fireball DIDN'T WORK ?!!!

[@michaelleader633]

Some of your subjects have me laughing before I click them! Hoo Boy, here goes! God grant me the strength to type this out without snorting my coffee outta my nostrils and passing out from lack of oxygen. A new girl at the table (girlfriend of a good player) joined us for a session, to see what all the fuss was about. We rolled her a character, explained the basics, I illistrated her character based on her descriptions and we sat down to get serious. Little did we know, all our hard work was about to be for nothing. DM: You enter the lab and the first thing you notice is the large giant's skull supported from the vaulted ceiling above. As your eyes a just to the moonlight streaming through the murder holes on the eastern wall, you see the glint of many alembics, vials, bottles, and pure silver implements. Along the west wall are three cages, all empty, and at the north end of the room you see a raised pedestal with a fairly new book on it. Permeating the room are particles of dust hanging in the shafts of moonlight before drifting to the floor, and the smell of acrid chemicals. (To save time here I'll abbreviate to the good part. Let's just say she studied the book, which contained a lovingly scrawled treatise about slimes, molds, and puddings and was investigating the bottles while we were discussing a lead we found in one of the cages) Callipso: Can I drink one of the potions? DM: You could, but do you have the alchemy skill? Callipso: No. Guess I'm winging it. DM frowns and says: Can you read ancient Thay? Callipso: No. Why is that important? DM: All of the bottles are marked in ancient Thayan script. Callipso, looking frusterated: I'll just pick randomly! So far the groups stopped me from touching anything without permission and it takes too long for the wizard to identify items. DM: Are you sure, it's risky. Callipso nods. DM rolls on a table and frowns: You grab a random bottle and the contents is pond scum green by the candle light. You swear you can feel it vibrate a little as the cold glass of the bottle warms up in your hand. Callipso: Oh? So, kinda like Harry Potter stuff? DM tries to keep his neutral face on but we can all see he wants to tell Jeff his gf is in danger. Catching the silent cue, my character turns and sees her about to drink an unknown substance. He slide vaults over the table but rolls a 6, effectively slide vaulting into the opposite wall yelling "Calli, no!" Callipso defiantly lifts the bottle toward her lips and downs it before anyone else can react. The DM winces as he realizes he has to do something or Calli's a goner. He seems to give up as he whispers "Green slime," helplessly at the table and we all sympathy wince. Callipso, meanwhile has just realized we all look like we're saying goodbye to an old friend and panic sets in. Finally, Ron tries to bargain for her life with the DM "Active or docile?" DM rolls and looks upset: Not magically tamed... Callipso: Why do you all look so worried?!!! DM gets a resolved look on his face as he says: Callipso. You feel the substance wriggle in your stomach before you feel it expand explosively through your throat and down through your intestines. Suddenly you become aware that your briches are ripping, being devoured along with your thighs and bottom. The last thing you see before your lower half falls to the floor and is greedly consumed by the green substance is a pseudo pod hoisting you up into the air via your ribcage as it wags you around like a hand puppet. Callipso's player spent the rest of the session disrupting the game with small apologies and playfully screaming "I killed Hermoine Granger!" comedically, which suited us fine since we'd lost the desire to play that night from the DM's graphic description. XD

[@CooperAATE]

...why did the monk do that?!

[@that-1_guy]

Hey!! 39 minutes and I'm here. I never got a long enough game to do anything like this

[@brandonmarr9080]

The most chaotic player in our group got a wish Que everyone panicking

[@scoots291]

I'm a big fan of letting the players do what they want but have consequences and adapting the story from that. Only 1 time have I ever asked "are you sure you want to do that?" I was helping out a lgs with a game day event I was running 3 different systems that day but this story came from fantasy flight edge of the empire. The Players were close to the end of the adventure and located the mark(bounty) to a asteroid's that had machines that gave a carven partial gravity and limited breathable air. They make their way to the mark's ship. How the ship was designed on the map/adventure the bay doors were a level below the raised cockpit. One of the players said "I want to spend a destiny point to make a rock fall and crush the cockpit with the bad guy". I asked "you want a rock in low gravity to dislodge itself and with enough force to crush the cockpit that you are directly under?" They said yes. I asked "Are you sure you dont want to reword it or do something beforehand?" They said no!. "I asked the infamous question Are you sure you want to do that? Exactly as you said in the location that you are in?" They responded with yes! One of the other players spent their last destiny point and said "the rest of us (key words) get out of the way of danger" so I narrated "a large piece of the asteroid starts to move. Most of you can see it and are able to get to a safe distance but one of you stays under the cockpit as this piece comes with enough force to smash the cockpit and everything underneath it. " before I could say anything else the guy got up and left

[@ninjagia1234]

My party had a scroll with a very clear "do not open" sign on it and the paladin sanctified the area with a nat 20 sanctuary spell and we deemed it safe to open here. It was not, it held one of the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse, specifically death and we "died" and got sent to the river of Styx and the paladin dragged himself and the 2 other party members out and we made our way back to the mortal realm but we were branded by death and now we have the other horsemen to deal with plus the 7 deadly. By the way this is a campaign based off jojos bizarre adventure so most characters also have another character sheet for their stands too. We are still going 3 years now and we are about to get revenge on death in his tower and after we deal with him its down to war.

[@jordananderson2728]

That monk is 'neutral something', but that 'something' ain't 'good'.

[@darkmanafest63]

must have been a homebrew elephant .-.

[@funnyblog100]

I wasn't the gm but this one was great. The red button. You see the gm had put a very obvious trap and there was a wall with holes and a big red button over it. The rest of the party had correctly identified that it was a trap. Did they move on? No. They kept poking at it and pushed the big red button. This is clearly a trap yeah I wonder what it does lets activate it. Both me and the gm had this look of utter disbelief. And that is why I had to help rescue the rest of the party.

[@AliceRinGameLand]

I'm pretty sure the ranger wanted his brother dead

[@CarsonZXY]

I thought putting a bag of holding inside another was fine, it's turning one inside out that causes problems.

[@oz_jones]

Oh god now i want to try that

[@arielmatiauda5110]

@@oz_jones turning inside out just, spills the contents violently and inutilizes the bag until it's turned over again, putting bag inside of bag creates a vortex that sends to another plane

[@themaddoctor5304]

Whenever I say this...my players take it as a challenge.

[@cygnusereve4779]

The monk punching the nobles daughter with a natural 20. What else was he expecting? The girl to have sex with him afterwards? Was he hoping to declare a non-lethal attack? Or did he expect the girl to survive the attack?

[@WolfBoy-om6dw]

I have mixed feelings about what Dave said at the end of the story with the Rangers brother

[@crispyzee2660]

It's nothing to lose your head over. Don't worry about it too much

[@Treblaine]

The ranger refused to engage with the story. They had a hostage situation and instead of changing their tactics in response to the very clearly stated threat they just ignored it and attacked anyway. It is clearly trying to coerce the DM to make the game easy mode, i.e. DM: "a pool of lava blocks your path" PC: "I walk over the lava, now you better make it easy mode so the lava doesn't hurt me or else you'll be a bad DM." DM: "you didn't even let me say what your passive perception reveals about another path" PC: "I don't want to think about another path, now what insignificant amount of fire damage did I take, it better not use many of my healing potions"

[@aiodensghost8645]

Dude at 7:11 wanted to act like DnD is Assassins Creed

[@IaeyanElyuex]

*"He died."*

[@articusramos808]

I'm going to question the mentality of people at times when the obvious is stated.

[@clivevii2231]

How does a Level 1 Character use Misty Step?

[@punishedbearzerker5400]

Poorly, apparently.

[@brandongalvan6603]

Maybe it was an Eladrin and they meant to write "Fey Step"?

[@Scorpious187]

Could have been a Variant Human or Custom Lineage with the Fey Touched feat, too. That feat grants a once-a-day free use of Misty Step.

[@Dragonsofchaos852]

13:05 untill 13:15 I am just astonished....

[@iacomplete_cyclepath9320]

0:56 isn't misty step a level 2 spell

[@jonathanwilson4791]

Love you too boo.

[@starhalv2427]

The monk was probably trying to knock her out so that she didn't have to see her family being slaughtered. Then again, if that was the point why did he celebrate the nat 20?

[@oz_jones]

Im assuming that the player thought that tje daughter was the BBEG

[@misterdjpookie5790]

Freaking murder hobos, hate these kind of players, always chaotic neutral, but act like the worst chaotic evil slashers ever.

[@peachypotato460]

The dm killed someone for jumping down two stories.....? That's not that much XD you could easily survive that jump/fall with out damage maybe some scraps and bruises and depending on how u fall maybe some serious damage but it'd take a lot and an unintentional fall from two stories to kill you lmao

[@DanulisMF]

I hope the world does provide what I need otherwise I'll have to do what I want instead

[@mushroomsoup2866]

Not gonna lie, I might be a little bit thick. I only just realised that he's saying "Brian Vaughn VA", as in Voice Actor, and not like "Brian Vaunvié" like some french surname...

[@spookieboogi6161]

I got one I wanted to try to perform and emergency viscecomy on a demon I instead knicked it angered it then got sent to hell and seduced satans daughter to get out my life as a puckish rogue ended that day and I became the single most important person on the surface world lol

[@nikoladedic6623]

They named earth elementals after a seagull?

[@theinternetwasamistake]

Yeet

[@mrpizzacat8273]

Third?

[@MrRipper]

Yes sir!

[@shadows8034]

First?

[@MrRipper]

Confirmed

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

Speedy boi!