When A Wild Necromancer Kinda Destroyed The Campaign | Narrated D&D Story

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Story Source: Reddit
Video Editor: Shawn Kadian
Editors: Lonny Foran ([e-mail])
Narration: MyLo (Twitter/VoMylo)
Thumbnail Art & Channel Artwork: NalaFontaine (Twitter/@nala_fontaine)
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[@LegendaryCake-]

Necromancer Sorcerer PC after accidentally starting a skeleton apocalypse: *I'm only human after all don't put the blame on me*

[@MormonSwag66]

Don't blame me - you can blame my friends from the other side

[@TigerW0lf]

I can't help but think that the DM was being very adversarial with the way things played out but it still created a morbidly funny story

[@snakept69]

Honestly I did something similar. PC was always trying homebrews and I'd veto a lot of it or heavily modify what I allowed. PC called me out and other PCs agreed because he complained to them when I wasn't present. So I allowed the homebrew. The villain then used the homebrew teleportation spell that allowed you to deliver anything to anyone anywhere to deliver 10 barrels of gunpowder to the party then 6 seconds later a lit match. After a few minutes of arguing how the spell worked PCs agreed to my modified version and we restarted the session. It took me 5 min to show them it was bad rather than the 30min+ it could take in arguments.

[@azazel8700]

Necromancy became my favorite school all the way back with the story of the Grey Necromancer

[@LucRio448]

Damn, now I feel I have to re-re-re(-.......-)-watch the entriety of the astoshan-Story xD

[@azazel8700]

@@LucRio448 Damn, since I've made you feel that way guess I have no choice but to do it alongside you, let us go

[@krankkid7394]

Same here now I'm just trying to live out that fantasy in bg3😂

[@jaimereupert4247]

"how many skeletons would you like to create?" "Yes" 😂 As a necromancer, I approve. ❤

[@coolestmonkeyinthejungle97]

"I want to get off Mr. Bones' Wild ride" -some poor Rollercoaster Tycoon NPC

[@Oneofthecoments]

Yikes that DM really took some liberty with that bone spell… I’m sure they had fun but I wonder if the players did.

[@luigidreemurr6034]

Im glad the DM finished that campaign. Its always funny to see the extent of the decimation and ending it early is how you miss out on a great story.

[@azikhan1707]

Hey, everybody remember the grey Necromancer

[@LucRio448]

If anyone here even THINKS about saying "no", they are hereby legally required to watch the entire Astoshan-series right now^^

[@mixmastermike2128]

that first one felt personal between the dm and player. dm could easily not end the universe but hey was funny. story 2 hard no, they need to make their own character that can be similar, sounds like dm didnt care about the story in the end

[@ashwolf2006]

Well everyone got Bone'd in the end. EDIT: I just realized the first story is kinda similar to Disney's fantasia in where mickey used a spell to bring a broom to life and when mickey tried to destroy the broom by chopping it, the chopped peaces regrow's into another broom until the tower was overran by sentient brooms.

[@jonathanprince707]

I'd like to see this Skeleton Star thing continue. Imagine it becoming a massive existential threat like a Brethren Moon, but made of bone instead of necrotic flesh and tentacles.

[@allenr316]

Or perhaps something like instead of normal sunlight, the star radiates some type of necrotic radiation? Causes some type of bizarre warping of life on a nearby planet?

[@LegendStormcrow]

I heard "the skeletons have reproduced" in the same way as "the gerbils have reproduced" in the Rugrats. You couldn't see the floor

[@lexington476]

The skeleton-pocalypse was great ☺!

[@DesecrateFlames]

Take a drink Everytime he says skeleton

[@jaleik75]

I was laughing so hard listening to the first story. Hats off to the DM for creating a star of boney death.

[@marcusblacknell-andrews1783]

As a former necromancer, the best thing for that could have been a shadow portal

[@izraelburgess937]

I for sure would’ve done the same thing the Dm did except I would’ve then restarted the world and created the burning skeleton race . A race of self replicating skeletons that were on fire and randomly crash from space

[@eldritchepics1]

I finally did it and decided to make my own D&D channel for inspiration for DM's and players! Thanks for giving me the confidence to do so! Keep up the good work guys!

[@bubbanator3340]

Great Classic. Defintely belongs in the Hall of Fame

[@Nazo-kage]

I think the DM’s actions during the whole necromancy story were very heavy-handed and unnecessary. I mean, everybody knew that essentially the original story had collapsed because of one players actions. (which, by the way, the DM was the one who decided to make the situation worse and worse.) The DM could’ve changed the spell on the fly, Added a limit, to how many skeletons that could be made, just about anything, but what he actually decided to do. At the last moment, he could’ve even made it so that everything snapped back to normal. And the sorcerer is standing there, right where he was when he first cast the spell, and out of the ground a single skull with enough bones to form a hand coming out of the base and basically just kind of wobbling back-and-forth like thing with a skull on top of the stump. The whole thing was just a delusion that he had based off of panic attack or something. There’s so much more that could’ve been done other than this doomsday scenario that ends up with the entire planet, imploding, and becoming a star.

[@kuronanestimare]

Never have I ever liked Material Components for Spellcasting. They just make it so you have to keep track of more stuff on your character sheet and spend money you could spend on enchanting your equipment or learning new spells just trying to make sure you can cast the spells you do have, with the major exception of spells like Revivify. However, this DM going so far off the rails he straight up killed a planet over one player forgetting to put a limit on it... definitely has me understanding why Material Components exist for even 5th level spells that I wouldn't consider Apocalyptic or even Encounter-breaking.

[@ryanfladung8490]

I mean a skeleton apocalypse is a cool story. And it’s kinda the necromancers fault for being so bad with the wording of their spell. Dm was just rolling with it

[@Nazo-kage]

@@ryanfladung8490 yeah but then he decided to keep on going despite the other players basically figuring everything was over. And it was the DM, who decided that it got so bad that the planet collapsed to a star from the sheer mass. Especially when he decided to calculate that, even if they could kill 1 million skeletons in a single turn, it still wouldn’t be enough.

[@the_multus]

@@kuronanestimare skeletons wouldn't reproduce infinitely anyways: their spell-slots aren't infinite. And, I guess, it's not like there are many dead mages in the first place. Or any dead.

[@anonyme4881]

I would have changed the campaign into a normal zombie apocalypse campaign

[@78endriago]

Do you know the key strategic weakness of the human race? The dead outnumber the living. - missy (doctor who)

[@mixmastermike2128]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="83">1:23</a> start

[@timwoods2852]

So, what you're saying is that, in the first campaign, they created a Death Star? 😂😂😂😂😂 That has some potential world building opportunities to it; a star made of death and the confused, tormented souls of those who died not knowing what was happening. Could be the birthing place or perfect release condition for a god of death to emerge into the universe. Or a source of untold power for some other foolish necromancer to try and harness.

[@ProdigalMadness]

Feels like a crappy DM trying to "teach" their players a lesson instead of simply correcting the wording of a homebrew spell they allowed.

[@user-jq2vj4mi3q]

1000%%

[@jaleik75]

I disagree, I thought it was a great teaching moment. Would of loved to play in that game.

[@mysticx0]

gods would have stepped in immediately. all those dead followers....? yeah, they'd be pissed and step in quickly.

[@DHS222]

To answer the question at the end of the video in my first campaign the BBEGs second hand (really he was more of a BBEG cause we knew stuff about him and he impacted our backstories) was hated by the party and we all wanted to kill him. Several of our party members villages were destoryed by this guys bidding, others were formerly his servants. We got to fight this guy but then the fight took so long we stretched it to 2 sessions. The DM then (in the second session) stopped the fighting and claimed that this guy was never actually behind any of it, it was a god one of our clerics followed disguesed as him. We killed the god since he appeared while this was being discovered. After killing the god the dm begins to invite a new player to the table to have the BBEG second hand join our party. Our campaign died then and there. We stayed together as a group but kicked the DM.

[@KoreAkmoros]

Wouldnt the mass of skeletons weigh the same? We bury our dead in the ground, so it would be the same. Unless they were just conjured up out of nothing, then wouldnt they weigh nothing, just magic taking form? Stupid question

[@peteralexandergraae2830]

So this is how it ends. Not with a bang but with two nat 1s in a row

[@Kintaro316]

New drinking game... take a shot every time he says skeletons.

[@scottdoering1386]

That's entirely on the DM. If you summoned a fiend, it could summon in more, but they'd be weaker, and it could only do it like once a day.

[@Vol-Tear]

And that day shall forever be remembered as the Calcium Calamity ;p

[@GreaterGrievobeast55]

YIRBEL LIVES! Oh gosh the Backgrounds the Damn bro meme....The skeletons can MULTIPLY?? It's like World Z but with skeleton!!!! Why?! WHY?!?!?! **SKELETON TIDE?!* you gotta be kidding me...g.. that one guy was right *this is stupid* THIS IS STUPID THIS IS STUPID! THIS IS STUPID! Pretty funny tho...

[@nyotamwuaji6484]

So, they dont attack, the just keep summoning?

[@Metalisalearning77]

How many times has the word "Skeletons" been used 🤣

[@mrjamieb1899]

Video begins at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="85">1:25</a>

[@gamerjoe3297]

Feel like the necromancer skeleton world ender was 100% on the DM. There was no reason to take it that far other than the DM looking for an excuse to wipe the campaign and setting just because.

[@roundcube3]

How many times did he say skeleton?

[@bryanrichardson8912]

The grey good problem but with skeletons. Terrifying.

[@PozerAdultRacingTeam]

Wow,just wow.

[@codyreeves1869]

Seems like the DM in first story just desided he was done with that campaign. What better way to end it then have a PC cause a world ending apocalypse😅

[@BlackAndWhiteBird]

DM's fault. This could be stopped and controlled in a thousand ways, from bringing logic to the game (where the skeletons come from and how soon they end), to deus ex macina.

[@rpghorrorstories]

It sounds like the DM just was tired of the campaign and just let the infinitely summoning skeletons infinitely summon. What, the spell doesn't have a duration? And where are all these skeleton mages coming from? You'd think they'd run out at some point.

[@greg61377]

Thats just the dm being a poor dm. He trashed his own game

[@logankress]

Sweet

[@guldrev]

Allowing for a sing spell to reproduce exponentially is just lazy on the dm's part, in every other instamce of creature summoning creature its a hierarchy where you can only summon someone lower.

[@evmarekaj]

I don't think there is anything at base with a person taking control of an npc as a pc, but it has to be done well. And the dm should also consult the rest of the party. Its just a dick move in this circumstance to circumvent all the hard work that one player put in.

[@theFrozeman]

It becomes extra problematic with the romance. Role-playing a romance in game can be tricky depending on how much goes behind the veil. Throwing the player into a romance could be anywhere from a little awkward to "dude taking over the npc has a crush and sees this as his shot" territory. Either way, not cool without prior discussion. If I ended up in the players' shoes, I think I'd very quickly break off the relationship, RP some suspicion, and shift the existing down time activities to investigating why he "came back wrong" and whether or not he was possessed or something.

[@zimattack9994]

Mad no one sad well were boned

[@Tom-bi7ir]

It is a lil rough he lost his NPC romance but remember it wasn't that npc you were romancing it was your DM doing all that talking so being upset over the loss seems freaking weird considering it was your friend the DM not an actual individual which it sounds like OP thinks of this NPC as, it's own individual

[@timtauber5557]

Just change the skeleton summoning spell, don’t be silly. Second situation, the D.M. Should not let the player use the dead N.P.C. Especially while it is deeply entwined In a character’s plot to resurrect the dead guy. I have always understood there is a time limit where a dead person can no longer be resurrected, perhaps I am mistaken.

[@avakio19]

Always bring your A-game with coming up with and submitting homebrew content to your DM.

[@Exaltable]

Or just have a dm who isn’t a nonsensical jackass trying to gotcha their players

[@jaleik75]

​@Exaltable I disagree, though it was a great teaching moment. Would lf loved to play in that game.

[@jaleik75]

Correct, LOL!

[@mrmannsalt2444]

Planet of the skeletons

[@kevobot9342]

Doesn’t anyone both pc or npc know turn undead or better yet fireball

[@craigtucker1290]

First story is just stupid in that the DM should have never allowed such a broken and problematic spell that in reality was more powerful than a wish. Just bad DMing... Second story, the DM should have asked when they decided to just handwave something that the player had invested a lot of time into as story arc. As for the NPC now PC being played differently, that could be simply explained as a result of the death experience incurring a change, not really up to the player.

[@isaacgorski6054]

Haha perfect

[@LikeButton7]

The word skeleton has lost all meaning

[@Oneofthecoments]

That second DM was kind of a jerk, or maybe just really dense. If a new player joins a campaign they should make a character not just take over a dead npc imo. Especially if that dead NPC has become a major plot point for another character.

[@TheScribe_TheScribe]

🤣

[@Firefox1252]

First view and comment!!!! Glad you’re doing well. Love the vids

[@tripple-a6031]

Blatantly obvious bad GMs and boring stories.

[@0rangeSpaceMonkey]

This was the dumbest story I've ever heard. If you didn't want tonplay the game, don't play.

[@piRatCaptain]

What kind of children play this game these days. This is pathetic