The whole thing about a bad roll leading to some of the best moments is so true. In one of my current games (we’re going through Rime of the Frost Maiden), my Paladin rolled a Natural 1 on his Survival check when we were fishing and got pulled into the freezing cold water. Our Druid, Fighter, and Artificer then epically team up to rescue me before I either drown or freeze to death
@steelshade3 жыл бұрын
What's so funny about that is how a natural 1 amplifies the risk compared to the real world. What might have been a 1 in 1000 risk of falling into freezing water while fishing becomes a 1 in 20 risk in game.
@nightfrostinfinite79903 жыл бұрын
I love your channel and have been a veiwer for a long time. I tell everyone to watch stories like these, bc it helps to understand builds, steryotypes, rules, and most importantly storys. A great way to enjoy the creativity of DnD.
@TexMeta3 жыл бұрын
I’ve learned a lot from this. I’ve only ever been in one two year campaign, so I’m still pretty new.
@dorianrpg3 жыл бұрын
I've played TTRPG'S for over 35 years and I still learn things from stories like these. It's never too late to learn.
@stephenstonge79682 жыл бұрын
My party is the opposite extreme. Almost all of us get self conscious after a bit of face time, but thankfully our DM intentionally shifts the focus in different quests by tying them in with specific characters. It kind of gives that one person a hall pass to "hog the spotlight" foe a session (none of us really do.. but it's good to not feel guilty).
@Psyker_Unredactus3 жыл бұрын
One of my greatest moments in DnD was the destruction of a powerful book tied to history and time itself. Cost me most of my HP and about 5 levels of exhaustion. As well as temporarily destabilizing my connection to magic. But it did cripple the big bad and prevent him from casting spells higher than 6th level.
@WDinATX2 жыл бұрын
When poor choices and a failed battle led to a character’s rebirth: I’ve mentioned this play-by-post RP in the comments section a lot but I feel like this story fits this the best. There was a party of 4, one of which is a DMPC, with a well intentioned extremist that had light and dark powers, a hired warlock with bat familiars and dark powers who doesn’t care about the mission at this point, (the DMPC) a high ranking captain who’s defected from the (equivalent) empire that has ice powers, and (my character) Raymond Swift who has wind powers and showed up seemingly out of nowhere right after a timeskip that happened right before I joined. While nearing an allied castle the party gets attacked by an anthropomorphic spider with a scythe that’s an evil outsider (in dnd terms. I don’t remember the terms in RP) and we do really badly. My character gets pushed out of the way of an attack that would have killed him by the DMPC who only survives because she uses her ice abilities to put herself in stasis, the well intentioned extremist gets hit into the distance while using a charging attack due to poor teamwork which left him without working legs, and the paid warlock ended up using a body double to run away. So my PC picks up an energy restoring potion, drinks it, and tries to fight his opponent until help can arrive despite stamina being his worst stat. Now to explain the next part we need to explain Raymond Swift up to this point: he was by this point little more than a 6th ranger who showed up for reasons beyond his comprehension in-story, with it being revealed later that he was sent by Fate, and completely lacks the ability to feel emotions outside of short bursts that leave him unable to control himself. So when he started fighting one on one the spider mentioned what was going on with his allies, how the only one who cared for him as a person (presumably) died saving him, and how it’s his fault that he’s alone in this group that doesn’t care for him. They didn’t know how weak Raymond was to this but it completely set him off to the point that him being a speed build only worked against him as he ran in a straight line to get slashed and pushed back. Seeing that Raymond’s strength was failing and the warlock was nowhere to be seen the well intentioned extremist used all his remaining power to send his most powerful attack (a thrown sword of pure light that explodes on contact) to blow them both up. Raymond was just standing up when he sees the blast and in a play that was from me not thinking (I forgot the attack had such a blast radius) used as much strength as he could into his wind attack to try to help. While the light attack was enough to kill the spider and the wind was enough to offset the light hitting him… the DM used dice (only for stuff that’s luck in-universe) to determine if the scythe would go for Raymond. Which, of course, it did. Now by this point Raymond had two options, put his faith into the gods with his ability to have supernaturally good or bad luck when the situation is fire… or just try to dodge it well enough that he doesn’t die even if he’s hit. The party was split due to different schedules IRL so the only healer there was the well intentioned extremist who couldn’t heal major wounds which, despite knowing out of character that that healing magic works better on Raymond than normal for (then) unexplained reasons, was enough for me to decide to risk it. The party’s abandoned him and the chances were moderate that it’d work and he’s already had something unlucky happen (that one having high odds of going poorly) so there’s no way Lady Luck would forsake him right? Wrong. The scythe hits him right in the heart alongside the scythe of Death itself and Raymond is sent to the underworld. This wasn’t the end though. One of the other two groups was actually looking for something there and were sent there while alive so Raymond was sent to the most moral of them all, precisely what he needed.
@GreaterGrievobeast553 жыл бұрын
PFFT loooaf! But hey, didn’t know until know goblins worship a spider of all things. Makes well enough sense YIRBEL LIVES!
@lanfae93533 жыл бұрын
That's not always the case. Lolth is the patron of drow elves, and some goblins work for drow, but many don't. The Monster Manual says that goblinoids (including bugbears and hobgoblins) worship Maglubiyet the Mighty One, but in the context of the Phandelver module, it makes more sense to have them follow Lolth since the players are also going to encounter drow that the goblins are working for. So yeah, I think that was really creative on the DM's part and a good way to set up future plot!
@TacticallyInferior3 жыл бұрын
We just finished our first campaign which ended with my warlock becoming a. God and will be the BBEG for the sequel story in so hyped
@willparry5303 жыл бұрын
nice!
@dsareis91343 жыл бұрын
Loving recent stories , also can't wait for next guardsmen
@cesargeney52683 жыл бұрын
For the first one. The real Bbeg is the friends we made along the way?. For the second one. I played a bard/sorc. And understand the feeling when I take the spot to talk and past a few encounters. Then i shut up because i fell i ve been hogging the game for a while
@magnusmikkelsen37573 жыл бұрын
i can tell this is a banger
@Bonobo90013 жыл бұрын
I'm trying to remember an older story where the party slaughtered a town of monsters, and they turned out to be people. I remember they helped someone in a Swamp? And they came back and it was actually a person who starved to death after they left him. I know its super vague, but if anyone remembers it, drop me the title!
@FreshBarn2 жыл бұрын
I gave my players ptsd? I dunno i vaguely remember one like that as well.
@R3GARnator3 жыл бұрын
7:20 (Critical Roll flashbacks intensify)
@kylegovender62113 жыл бұрын
The real bbeg was the spear
@ElfMaidWithInternet3 жыл бұрын
kyle govender thank you, the story makes so much more sense now.
@a.m.pietroschek19723 жыл бұрын
My malfunction chromebooks! 🤣🤣🤣
@a.m.pietroschek19723 жыл бұрын
Just my oldschool life-lesson: Subliminal hyping is OK, but no advanced roleplayer considers purchased adventures worth playing.
@knightwolf1593 жыл бұрын
Is there another link to the discord? I click the link but it says expired.
@mykehill443 жыл бұрын
Except goblins don't worship lolth. "The chief goblin deity is Maglubiyet, who urges his worshipers to expand their numbers and overwhelm their competitors."
@joshuacr3 жыл бұрын
As was said in a later reply Lloth does have some goblins worship them. Just like Morden and dwarves not all goblins worship the main deity.
@brandoncozad40533 жыл бұрын
What? With the plethora of goblinoid gods why would you try and change Lolth to a goblinoid god….
@kcollier21923 жыл бұрын
Totally organic outcomes from creative role playing? Say it aint so! J/K great stories from these OP's.
@willparry5303 жыл бұрын
totally agree!
@GlitchGhost12853 жыл бұрын
inspired!!
@SiNFPVGUAM3 жыл бұрын
yall fast
@elden_lord223 жыл бұрын
Where can i share my story of trying & suffering as i'm deciding after 5 years of trying to give up i love the idea of D&D and all that it represents to me i've watched so much D&D but after 5 years i have 4 hours play time in actual sessions I've even wrote out my own campaign that no one will ever see as it seems no matter where i go who i meet online or irl i'm always the spectator and never involved at all or i'm out right trolled and deceived i am tired of it i cant even word how i feel so defeated
@michaelperkins38143 жыл бұрын
Hey baba babush
@coreymorgan92733 жыл бұрын
Hi
@origaming_plays5733 жыл бұрын
wtf is with these unnaturally long pauses for no reason? just making the video longer??
@archonofcommorragh12213 жыл бұрын
Explore your creativity but remember...Green is not a creative colour.