Yeah she didn't want romance, she wanted a toxic drama piece, shes not interested in a character thats interested in her but is interested in evil, gay and married characters? Girls read too many bad fanfics.
Personally, I got the impression that she was one of those straight chicks who *says* she's bi- just so she can claim to be LGBT. It sounded like she only expressed interest in male characters, and she rejected the female NPC they made *just* for her to romance.
@@therealmaizing5328Definitely, the girl was tailor made just for her and she didn’t even try it. Maybe she has a very exact type of women like the men but I’m pretty sure she just says she says hee character is bi for the ‘aesthetic’ or something while not putting the effort to make it accurate for the character.
It sounds like she's one of those "yaoi fan girls". They're so obessed with gay men doing gay things they want to be a part of it. A now ex friend of mine was obessed with me being gay (I'm actually bi but she didn't know that) and either wanted pics of me kissing my then bf or try to talk to me sexually because I was the "gay top" she dreamed about
Funny thing about the last story and your mention of set sexualities in DnD; The Dragon Age games do go the route of having set sexualities for some companions as well (Alastair/Morrigan in DA1 being exclusively hetero and Dorian/Sera in Inquisition being exclusively gay/lesbian) so the problem player couldn't even use the game excuse to try and turn that one NPC who was gay.
@CrispysTavern The games do go way back, so it makes sense to forget some details. I played Origins when it was new, back when I was 20, so I'm legit surprised I can even remember some of the companion names lol Heck, you could even use Bg3 as a more recent example. Even though the companions can be romanced by any gender, their dialogue still makes mention of preferences: Astarion and Lae'zel leaning more towards men and Gale, Halsin, Minthara, and Wyll more towards women, with Wyll having more of a preference for Githyanki.
@kuramaai9486 Thanks for the reminder; edited to include her as well. I played DA 1 and 2, but only know of passing details from inquisition since DA2 left a disappointing impression on me, so I really fell off the series after that
Gortash has charisma, and is probably good looking when not dealing with Orin. At the beginning of the game, he was narrated as very attractive, I like to think about 1 month of dealing with Orin's vibes just caused him to visibly age three decades.
omg hearing that narration at the start of the game and then meeting him and making that connection late game (I literally didn't realise that narration was talking about him) killed me it was so funny. Like "A young and attractive man" like Narrator, dear, did he write this part of the script for you? That is not a young and attractive man that is a 45 year old dad who got divorced 13 weeks ago and is taking it really hard.
I like the ‘nat 20 does not mean desired outcome, it just means best possible outcome’ so if you kiss a gay guy and role a nat 20. You don’t get slapped for kissing someone none consensually
Gortash has the physical appearance of someone who's only just recently decided to give himself the bare minimum of care for his personal hygiene and appearance
So real I was just thinking “bro looks like he smells a little bad” with a specific smell in mind I couldn’t articulate until I read this. Like the smell of a shower that wasn’t thorough enough or being just like a day overdue for a shower.
Gortash looks like someone three days into the convention who hasn't changed cosplays once while also being a guy that's in his 40s that chooses to hang out with early 20 year olds
"Get to your ship consoles and update your gaydar!" cracked me up because I used to say to straights, "You better take that gaydar back to Radio Shack, because that shit is busted!" I had a full on flashback to me as an androgynous teen in the early 2000s. 😂 Crispy activated time travel with that line! Bravo! 💜
Crispy... Crispy. As an ace to a fellow ace. ARE YOU CALLING JASON ISAAC'S VOICE AN ICK?! Oh! Jail for Crispy! Jail for Crispy for One Thousand Years!!!!
While I'm not attracted to Gortash, after playing Durge and siding with him I do _like_ Gortash. Sure he's a devious villain but he's also straight with you and sticks to his word if you do work with him. I still remember what he says when trying to re-recruit a Durge: "I _tolerate_ Orrin but I _liked_ you!"
@@fylimar using Orrin was a necessity because she took out the Durge who initiated the plan. Say what you've will but I've actually seen his whole storyline play out from various angles and everything points to him being sincere if you work with him so long as you don't slip up when he tests you by asking to hold on to the Netherstones
@@M_Alexander he’s a traitorous evil bastard, but you like him because if you know what you’re doing he doesn’t turn on you during the time period of the game? Weird
I get the impression, given that she rejected both the tailor-made love interest and the opportunity to save tge BBEG, that what a part of her really wanted was an excuse to be mad at the group. Maybe I’m wrong, but still…
Another comment guessed she just wanted drama and I agree with that. Also curious if her character was actually bisexual or if she'd react differently if the custom love interest was male.
Gortash problem player story was mine. Webcams were totally understandable, but his tone when badgering us about it said a lot. I ended up streaming with my actual Live2D model, so you were able to see me emote while keeping my privacy but he was openly disappointed every session after that, that i was still wasn't showing my face.
We have board game cafes in Britain, while gaming bars are the introverts worst nightmare, the board game cafe is a safe haven. Very cozy and very nice.
Yeah, that description also confused me. That messy hairdo Gortash has might work if his character actually _looked_ like a young man, but just looks plain weird on someone who resembles his 60+ voice actor. It's almost like there was a miscommunication or change somewhere in development and they forgot to update the description in the narration.
I'm ace and even I was like "Okay, now where's the handsome younger man?" because it couldn't be that final fantasy looking guy lmao. I expected him to at least look better than my default halfelf, which shouldn't be hard but oh well. I really enjoyed his writing though. So punchable.
@meltingdragon2220 Ace here as well, and also confused with Gortash's description. His voice is a bit appealing, honestly, but damn do his hair and eyes remind me of a raccoon cosplaying as a mall goth
Honestly, I don't see the problem. His hair is obviously horrible. But everything else about him? I think he looks quite nice. I do like a rougher more natural look on people though. Nothing turns me off faster than those ugly smooth faces in final fantasy or some skyrim mods!
Crispy: "Hey, I played Dragon Age!" (proceeds to mention the one Elf character with no tragic backstory) ...basically, she wanted to play the City Elf from the first game. The one called The Bride. If you've seen Kill Bill, you know why.
As a writer, I've always said that readers DO NOT get to have input on how the story progresses. That includes characters and their sexuality. They can say that they didn't like something and say how it could have been done better, but criticism can be a good thing. To outright come in and say "No! The Author is wrong and this character is actually THIS sexuality!" has been my biggest peeve. It's never come in Tabletop thankfully. Probably cause my play group respects what I'm doing. Also, Crispy. Crispy, Crispy, Crispy. Bless your Aro heart. No one looks at Gortash and thinks he's "Daddy". They look at him and think "This is a massive Mistake that I look forward to making."
Just wanted to thank you for giving CW at the beginning of stories before they even start. While I'm not sensitive to a lot of these things, I could imagine them being helpful for others. It at least gives me context on what I'm in for, rather than being whiplashed. xD
When Gortash was described as a "handsome young elf" by the narrator, I Googled what he looked like since he only appeared as a shadow in the initial vision you get. I was like " I got to see this because this game has very few Twinks in it and I want to see what counts as handsome young elf male. Saw Gortash and was like " this man looks like he's in his late forties and has some kind of ick" so yeah... I get it
The nat 20 on the unwanted kiss is why I exclusively use Pathfinder's "Nat 20s on skill checks do not mean auto success," they still have to beat a DC. Nat 1s/Nat 20s are only auto fails/successes in combat, on things like attack rolls or saves, etc. There is no, "I seduce the BBEG," (unless like the player talks to me before hand and discusses wanting to be a bad guy for a twist plot or something)
5:37 okay not a Gortash fan because I love Karlach too much. However I can see why many people consider him attractive and it's solely based off of vibes. He is smart, dominating, confident, has power, influence, and fictional you don't have to look like Astarion if you have those characteristics 😂
I've had that "co-GM" twice in my games. The first time was my first game I'd ever run with way too many people even though it ended up being a riot. My group's forever GM agreed to run one of my NPCs for me and help guide me if I started to falter. The most he had to course correct me on was making sure the quieter players still got input over our louder friends. It worked out great and the NPC still exists in my campaign, though I run them myself. The second was when I was teaching my kid to run a game a few years later. They wanted to play and learn how to GM. I let them have input on the storylines the players would be following and they got to run a different NPC that was near impossible to kill. They actually spent a lot of their time guiding the players when they went off on weird tangents. To this day, my kid loves GMing their own games and plays regularly with their own friend group but is always welcome in my own.
Lol my only explanation for Gortash love is that I have terrible taste in men. Funny lighthearted horror story relating to him, tho! I work very hard to never include DMPCs in my campaigns because I don't feel that they work out. But in my BG3 sequel campaign the player characters were hired by Wyll Ravengard's daughter to help her with a magical girl inspired quest. Gortash's daughter is an NPC who didn't know who her father was and is just a cute awkward tiefling artificer with garbage stats who applied to the same adventuring job to impress Wyll's daughter who she has a crush on(they're awkward teens, so par for the course), and the player characters like...basically adopted her. They will not let her out of their sight. If she doesn't appear in a place they've gone and I don't straight up tell them 'oh, she went to find out more about her father and who he was,' or 'oh, she's very tired from the last combat. She's having a nap at the inn', they'll ask "where's Teela????" To the point of becoming distracted from the main plot. I legit never intended this. Then they accidentally resurrect Gortash in a ritual gone wrong they disrupted, and now they've adopted him to to try and 'force him to reform and be a dad'. I don't have the heart to stop them. I love the shenanigans they pull with this.
I don't know why (maybe just because of the concept of "resurrecting Gortash and having a redemption") but that reminds me of my headcanon for one of the things that happen to my Tav after the game. Basically she is the foster sister of Durge (sole survivor of that family massacre) and at one point attempts to go to the afterlife with Jergal, sever Durge's connection with Bhaal, and bring her back. At Durge's insistence she does the same for Orin and Gortash, and due to the nature of the resurrection ritual used they are brought back as children at a formative stage (Durge after the family slaughter, Orin after killing her mother, Gortash after having been sold to Raphael). And until they grow older and gain enough stable and healing life experience that regaining the memories of their former lives won't cause them to fully regress into the evil monsters they were before, she basically has to raise them.
Yeah, that's fairly similar. Gotta admit, my fiancee is a major fan of redemption arcs so I'm super into them too lately. That story sounds like a good one!
Dorian was a solid companion back in inquisition, only reason i never romanced him in the game was because I love playing the female characters......that and sera is a interesting ball of chaotic grimlin energy.
I'm the opposet, I prefear to play male characters because I'm a guy myself so I usually end up going for Dorian, though Sera makes a very interesting friend. Should I ever play a female character I'd probably romance her.
Gortash uses the netherbrain to mindcontrol people of baldur's gate to see him as attractive. Thats the subtext of the netherbrain thing that happens when you reach the bridge. Because... they're in control of it
Bombarded is such a good DnD podcast! The players and their characters were so cool and they'd write and perform an original song every episode. The story was mostly lighthearted with some high stakes and emotional moments - very highly recommend to any dnd actual play enjoyers!
It's one of my favourites out of all actual play podcasts. Also I love how almost every episode turns into a fun music theory class since they're all music teachers.
If you have a player that's new to TTRPG, I think that a vital part of Session 0, or whatever point they get onboard, is to make absolutely clear that 'this is not a Bethesda/BioSoft game' (unless you're actually running your game like that). Players and NPCs are not automatically going to just go along with whatever your desires are. Even if you're highly persuasive, that doesn't mean they're going to automatically cave to you.' Also, side note...Crispy, have you ever checked out Blue Rose? Fantasy TTRPG from Green Ronin using their Fantasy AGE system (same as the Dragon Age TTRPG). Great narrative fantasy game where the setting is inclusive AF. All expressions of love and gender are accepted and valid, with an emphasis on 'dungeon diving to help/save the kingdom', rather than 'dungeon diving for XP and loot'. Plus, the ability to play intelligent animals ala Narnia. Great game!
Rogue story: I’m sure the other members were really nice, but the DM not sufficiently taking care of the rouge is probably why OP is reluctant to play with strangers in TTRPGs now even if she doesn’t realize it. Oof.
My personal story was like 2 years ago by this point. The dm and other players made me out to be the problem too. All i did was asking questions, trying to find compromises and simply trying to be heard amidst the chaos when nobody would listen to me. Their last straw was when i announced i had to take a break due to spiralling, and deleted that announcement when nobody gave me any type of comfort. They basically quietly bid me goodbye and kicked me out when i called them out on that. Dm blocked me, group friend blocked me, group clown blocked me...i didn't even get the time to process it all before i was thrown out on the street like a sack of rotten potatoes. Haven't been in a proper campaign since.
The reason why Gortash is so attractive to many people (including me) is completely the fault of Sir Jason Issac 😂😭 That voice alone gets me. But I understand he’s not everyone’s taste 😂
FaceRig is the first one that comes to mind but that’s multiple years old. It might be up to date enough for what you want but there is likely a plethora of other options as well.
@@quox3987 literally jumped into the comments to bring up Facerig. For those not in the know, it is a decade-old face tracking software where making yourself a dinosaur was one of its advertised features at launch. It was the first project I ever donated to on kickstarter, but no clue if it's still supported.
About the whole Gortash-Debate... I don't find him ugly, but not really attractive either. I believe the problem stems from the fact that Gortash was originally intended to be an old man but they changed that due to the voice actor performance. And I believe the voice would fit a good looking character. But the design didn't catch up.
Ugh. I love the finished product. Probably in the top 5 sets I own (and I have a pretty big collection) BUT. God this build experience was insane. The roof tiles took some wind out of my sails.
I wish I thought of this as a character, I’m not into dnd but I love writing and making a story about a rat doctor curing the plague sounds like such a fun story 😂
Lmao I don't find Gortash attractive either, I just like the idea of him hopelessly pining after some of my characters for drama XD like I have a very cynical sorceress Tav, who I like to imagine Gortash is hopelessly pining for, meanwhile she and Astarion fall in love in the background and become the deeply sarcastic, cynical couple who like maybe six people on the planet jbhvhjbjhfbhvdfbjdhvf That's about the only stuff with Gortash I don't mind lol. Otherwise I think he looks like he needs a shower.
A Nat 20 isn't always a success. And it certainly doesn't change someone's orientation. Also, I'll bet Crispy is a fan of Karlach. She is the kind of girl that can carry you to safety, should the need arise. XD
I think the OP in this case was going more for a "This action is failing no matter what, but I let you roll to see HOW BADLY it fails" and a Nat 20 is was the most gentle of failure that still had some positive outcome (or at least would be for normal people)
This. A Nat 20 is _as successful as your character could reasonably consider possible_ (with plenty of room for extra drama, humor and/or general epicness if the DM decides it fits the scene and/or would just be more fun for everyone), not rewriting the world
Don't think anybody has mentioned it, but in the last story, the DM mentions that problem player, despite declaring their character as Bi at the start of the game, nearly exclusively targeted very masculine male love interests. Seems weird that after actively noting that, DM decided to make the hand crafted "perfect" love interest as a "futch lesbian". While the problem player was clearly a problem, do have to wonder if the DM isn't perhaps quite as innocent as they portray themselves here. Perhaps DM was perhaps just little bit more sick of problem player by that point than let on, and maybe let just a tad of malicious compliance slip in lol
I forgot the problem player actually claimed her character was bi, so I assume female love interest NPC was based on that detail to add variety. Seemed like an innocent mistake on OP's part that could have been avoided by problem player not falsely advertising her character as bisexual.
I remember the game first describing silhouette-Gortash as a "handsome young man" and was stoked to meet these three Chosen for real. When I did, I looked at the three of them and mentally counted: "So that's the 'elf exuding authority', that is the woman, and that... is that the 'handsome young man?' WTF he's disgusting!"
Not me pausing when Crispy says "DA1" instead of DAI as in Inquisition to verify what was written XD Tell me you haven't played all of Dragon Age without telling me XD
You know, I actually had nicknames for the chosen of the Absolute; Ketheric Thorm was known as “Elf version of my fiancée’s dad” *solely* based on his appearance, not his personality (may he R.I.P.) Thorm was, in my opinion, the best and most intriguing member of the Absolute. Orin the Red was known as “Ms. Coo Coo for Cocoa Puffs” for obvious reasons. She fell perfectly in the middle of the three. She wasn’t as cool as Ketheric, but she was fun in her own way, and had a memorable design and vocal performance that stopped her from becoming my least favorite. Also I had a laugh when I was able to tell her that she was an incest baby. My reaction to her (after laughing) was “What are you, a child!?”. And finally Envor Gortash was known as “Weird Little Raccoon Man”. Honestly, if it wasn’t for his connections with Karlach, I wouldn’t even really remember this character nor take him seriously. In fact, his battle was… well, I was going to say easy, but nonexistent would be better, since I had an invisible Astarion place the Runepowder Bomb and a bunch of explosive barrels around the man. Then I had Karlach launch a fire arrow at the bombs and watched the sparks fly, one shotting Gortash. This plan was known as Operation “You get what you Fucking Deserve” (another name I had in mind was Operation “Smile you S.O.B.” But I went with the former). And I’m with the group of people who don’t understand why people find Gortash attractive. GRANTED, I’m a straight man so I would feel any attraction to him anyway, but even if I was gay, there are plenty of other hunks in the game (I mean my gosh, have you SEEN Halsin?) that have better character than he does. And that opinion makes things all the more crazy when it shows that he was the one who came up with this whole plan (along side the Dark Urge I guess? I played as a regular Tav in my first playthrough but Durge’s stuff is still there all over the place, including his dead body in Orin’s room). It’s insane. Gortash feels like the advisor lackey. Ketheric is the one who felt like the endgame big bad. Also, he gay bro 😂
THANK YOU for saying that Gortash is disgusting. I don't understand why the narrator in BG3 said he was "handsome" when he looks like Darth Shaggy Rogers mixed with a skunk while radiating the visual vibe of a stump puffball.
Problem Player in the third story is what we call an RPG Terrorist. They don't care about doing anything unless they're the spotlight, and if they're not, they will grind the game to a halt and make a game about getting them to come along. They don't care about the story, the plot, or the other players unless they are the one taking all the action, glory, and spotlight.
That second one reminds me of one incident with a DM. The group needed a replacement player after one dropped out due to work so my fiance (Genderfluid) said they knew someone who had characters they had ready to go (Me, and I always have loads of characters to use). My fiance made it VERY clear that they were talking about their fiance who is also Genderfluid (They also mentioned my PTSD for reason I won't go into, but my fiance told them no flirting or sexual stuff; my fiance only made that bit clear because they have fun with playful character flirting for the laughs with NPCs and sometimes each other as long as you are ok with it). I get through a session zero with the DM to ease me into where the campaign will pick up with me so I'm not dropped in blind and so on, it went fine. The problem came in session six, my fiance was out on that session due to a migraine and was sleeping, when the DM kept pressuring my character with NPCs that were outright touching my character, and at first I, in character, brush them off trying to come off as annoyed (Was playing a Bard/Ranger who had a pretty cynical personality but would get lost in conversation with other players after the first session when they kinda bonded over an attack on a town they all saved). The DM kept it up and I had to stop them and asked them to please quit doing that because I was getting real uncomfortable, and they stopped... For a bit. Session seven is where it all hit the fan, because not only did an NPC again touch my character, it was when he was bathing and the NPC kept talking about his "breasts" which all hit a major trigger. My fiance immediately took me to a different room until I was calm, didn't explain to the DM who was pissed when we came back, but I told them I was out which is where the DM got madder. Quoting them, and this is stuck in my head: "Come on! It wasn't even serious, you're just too sensitive for D&D! Female characters get flirted with all the time!" But my character was MALE, I and my fiance said I was NOT ok with ANY sexual stuff not even flirting, and I wasn't sensitive at all because literally two sessions before that I had my character straight up torture an enemy with a dagger to rip their nails off in an interogation! We didn't stick around to hear anymore and later found out for others in that group that about 90% ditched the moment we were gone because they were NOT finding it funny at all (DM apparently laughed and made jokes about how PTSD being some made up Millenial BS; I used to work in the medical field and I have literally worked with Veterans who suffered PTSD, kind of something we bonded with oddly and darkly enough, only mine was not from war and stuff but something closer to "home"). I didn't play D&D for a few years after that until my fiance ran a campaign of Cyberpunk Red and I was hooked making a DJ character who worked for the mafia. Also, pieces I didn't say, during the DM's blowup towards me having a breakdown, they also kept calling me "she" repeatedly and made some inappropriate comments about my looks (Mostly how "ugly chicks" have no value; keep in mind I was engaged then and now and it's been a few years and also the DM was single having been divorced at some point during the early half of the campaign before I joined). My Sweetheart fiance kept correcting them at every turn and was beyond pissed the DM called me ugly and essentially called my health issues fake, that far beyond crossed a line. Sidenote: Not my first toxic DM but at least this one didn't draw a knife on me for not "playing right" (AKA playing how he wanted us to play; DM wanted their NPC leading us to be the hero and had so many rules, of which, we broke on purpose).
Being drunk whole gaming definitely does sound like a recipe for disaster I’ve heard good experiences drinking and gaming with friends, but a bar is public. You’re getting drunk and then gaming with strangers. There’s enough horror stories that take place at local game shops, let alone one where everyone is drunk.
I have actually played a klepto rouge who occasionally goes through his companion' bags, but you have to build and roll play very carefully and give them endearing qualities.
I only like Gortash for the Durge lore drama that rolling up with a new crew (and sometimes lover) and learning you and Gortash used to be tight can bring. It's delicious and full of tension and angst - when the stabby gremlin and the handsome younger man with a quick easy smile finally confront each other once more. Of course, I'm a writer, so I dig that stuff. And an aro ace who loves writing interesting relationship dynamics that run counterculture to the usual platonic and romantic depictions of intimacy and boundaries.
I had one D&D session that went to 6am once. It was not supposed to go that long. We just got incredibly unlucky. We were trapped in a puzzle room which was on a generous timer. It should have been easy for us to unlock the door and move on and continue the planned path before we got to the spot the DM planned to end for the evening. Well, the entire group were just failing our rolls over and over and over. It was actually quite sad how bad everyone was rolling and failing to solve the last puzzle that would unlock the door. Well, the timer ran out and a combat started, and our rolls just continued to be horrible. No one died, but it really dragged things out. By the time we finished the fight, the sun was up and everyone was super tired and had stopped caring at all about what happens in the game. I discovered that if I'm sleep deprived I get really grumpy and am easy to anger which is SUPER unlike me. Everyone was too tired to drive so we all crashed around the living room of the hosting friend's place like a nerdy version of one of those crazy drinking house parties teens in movies have when their parents are gone for the weekend. So yeah, we made sure not to repeat that experience again. If we failed a timer puzzle room (or similar) again closer to our usual end time and got an encounter we weren't expecting to actually have to do, we'd end the session there and started the encounter in the next session.
on Gortash... His appearance isn't what makes him attractive to most of his fans (his outfit is pretty sweet though), it's his voice. Jason Isaacs IS DADDY, and that's a hill I'll die on. *hides all of my Lucius Malfoy fanfiction** Nothing to see here peasants lol.
It seemed like the problem player in the last story just wanted to chase unobtainable love interests. There some people who think pursuing someone who has no interest in them is romantic.
“I trolled him when I did get a webcam because I used an app to make myself a velociraptor.”
Clever girl!
"ALAN!"
@@gregoryvn3yes?
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"It's not giving Daddy, it's giving ick!" Love it 😂😂
Yeah she didn't want romance, she wanted a toxic drama piece, shes not interested in a character thats interested in her but is interested in evil, gay and married characters? Girls read too many bad fanfics.
Personally, I got the impression that she was one of those straight chicks who *says* she's bi- just so she can claim to be LGBT. It sounded like she only expressed interest in male characters, and she rejected the female NPC they made *just* for her to romance.
@@therealmaizing5328Definitely, the girl was tailor made just for her and she didn’t even try it. Maybe she has a very exact type of women like the men but I’m pretty sure she just says she says hee character is bi for the ‘aesthetic’ or something while not putting the effort to make it accurate for the character.
@@ohahmystical2976 Exactly. If the character was really bi- she should have jumped at the chance of romance with the tailor made NPC.
Yeah it seems like she can’t tell [playing hard to get] and [off limits] apart
It sounds like she's one of those "yaoi fan girls". They're so obessed with gay men doing gay things they want to be a part of it. A now ex friend of mine was obessed with me being gay (I'm actually bi but she didn't know that) and either wanted pics of me kissing my then bf or try to talk to me sexually because I was the "gay top" she dreamed about
Funny thing about the last story and your mention of set sexualities in DnD; The Dragon Age games do go the route of having set sexualities for some companions as well (Alastair/Morrigan in DA1 being exclusively hetero and Dorian/Sera in Inquisition being exclusively gay/lesbian) so the problem player couldn't even use the game excuse to try and turn that one NPC who was gay.
Yep! I've used Dragon Age as an example in the past. I can't BELIEVE I forgot about that in this video.
@CrispysTavern The games do go way back, so it makes sense to forget some details. I played Origins when it was new, back when I was 20, so I'm legit surprised I can even remember some of the companion names lol
Heck, you could even use Bg3 as a more recent example. Even though the companions can be romanced by any gender, their dialogue still makes mention of preferences: Astarion and Lae'zel leaning more towards men and Gale, Halsin, Minthara, and Wyll more towards women, with Wyll having more of a preference for Githyanki.
Don’t forget about Sera
@kuramaai9486 Thanks for the reminder; edited to include her as well. I played DA 1 and 2, but only know of passing details from inquisition since DA2 left a disappointing impression on me, so I really fell off the series after that
@@lechecbb ohh i see, opposite effect for me, tho im more dissapointed in DA4 and the dragon age netflix series, especially the netflix series
The person who wanted complete creative control over the story as a player... "That sounds like a great concept. For a novel. This is a game."
Gortash has charisma, and is probably good looking when not dealing with Orin. At the beginning of the game, he was narrated as very attractive, I like to think about 1 month of dealing with Orin's vibes just caused him to visibly age three decades.
Headcanon accepted!
omg hearing that narration at the start of the game and then meeting him and making that connection late game (I literally didn't realise that narration was talking about him) killed me it was so funny. Like "A young and attractive man" like Narrator, dear, did he write this part of the script for you? That is not a young and attractive man that is a 45 year old dad who got divorced 13 weeks ago and is taking it really hard.
That makes too much sense.
Aaah now I want to draw him de-aged but I should desperately work on my thesis lmao
@xGamermonkeyx
I felt the exact same way.
"Attractive young man,"
Upon meeting Gortash, I was like, so when do we meet the attractive young man?
I like the ‘nat 20 does not mean desired outcome, it just means best possible outcome’ so if you kiss a gay guy and role a nat 20. You don’t get slapped for kissing someone none consensually
Gortash looks like, if he was on trial, the best evidence for him being evil would be "fuckin' look at the guy"
he looks like he got really hard into emo music in his 40's
Heeeey first story was mine!
And yea the skit was very much how it felt... You hit the nail on the head.
Gortash has the physical appearance of someone who's only just recently decided to give himself the bare minimum of care for his personal hygiene and appearance
Yeah he stinky when the clothes come off
So real I was just thinking “bro looks like he smells a little bad” with a specific smell in mind I couldn’t articulate until I read this. Like the smell of a shower that wasn’t thorough enough or being just like a day overdue for a shower.
Gortash looks like someone three days into the convention who hasn't changed cosplays once while also being a guy that's in his 40s that chooses to hang out with early 20 year olds
“Grimey” is the word that comes to my mind.
He literally looks like me before my post depression shower. I know bro smells at least a little. He crusty in a realistic way, not a charming way
"Get to your ship consoles and update your gaydar!" cracked me up because I used to say to straights, "You better take that gaydar back to Radio Shack, because that shit is busted!" I had a full on flashback to me as an androgynous teen in the early 2000s. 😂 Crispy activated time travel with that line! Bravo! 💜
Crispy... Crispy. As an ace to a fellow ace. ARE YOU CALLING JASON ISAAC'S VOICE AN ICK?! Oh! Jail for Crispy! Jail for Crispy for One Thousand Years!!!!
Look. Physical appearance matters to me, His voice doesn't cover up that damn haircut.
😂😂😂@@CrispysTavern
While I'm not attracted to Gortash, after playing Durge and siding with him I do _like_ Gortash. Sure he's a devious villain but he's also straight with you and sticks to his word if you do work with him.
I still remember what he says when trying to re-recruit a Durge: "I _tolerate_ Orrin but I _liked_ you!"
Bet he said that to poor Karlach too... I don't trust him so far as I can throw him without telekinesis or a throw build .
@@fylimar in his defense he never did turn on me. It's a shame what happened to him instead
@@M_AlexanderNo, because Orin was quicker . The perils of hanging out with the local murderhobo gang 😊
@@fylimar using Orrin was a necessity because she took out the Durge who initiated the plan. Say what you've will but I've actually seen his whole storyline play out from various angles and everything points to him being sincere if you work with him so long as you don't slip up when he tests you by asking to hold on to the Netherstones
@@M_Alexander he’s a traitorous evil bastard, but you like him because if you know what you’re doing he doesn’t turn on you during the time period of the game?
Weird
I get the impression, given that she rejected both the tailor-made love interest and the opportunity to save tge BBEG, that what a part of her really wanted was an excuse to be mad at the group. Maybe I’m wrong, but still…
Another comment guessed she just wanted drama and I agree with that.
Also curious if her character was actually bisexual or if she'd react differently if the custom love interest was male.
My theory is that what she actually wanted was a fanfic, but she wanted the DM to write half of it for her.
godamn that charismatic lesbian was a) wayy too much of a callout in terms of type and b) cosplay of it looked pretty damn good!
Man, thank you. Baffled the hell out of me when Gortash was described as "handsome".
Gortash problem player story was mine. Webcams were totally understandable, but his tone when badgering us about it said a lot. I ended up streaming with my actual Live2D model, so you were able to see me emote while keeping my privacy but he was openly disappointed every session after that, that i was still wasn't showing my face.
We have board game cafes in Britain, while gaming bars are the introverts worst nightmare, the board game cafe is a safe haven. Very cozy and very nice.
When the bg3 narrator said "Handsome young man" about Gortash i was like "SAID WHO??"
Yeah the amount of people who are thirsty for him confuses me, hes got emo anime hair for crying out loud
Yeah, that description also confused me. That messy hairdo Gortash has might work if his character actually _looked_ like a young man, but just looks plain weird on someone who resembles his 60+ voice actor. It's almost like there was a miscommunication or change somewhere in development and they forgot to update the description in the narration.
I'm ace and even I was like "Okay, now where's the handsome younger man?" because it couldn't be that final fantasy looking guy lmao. I expected him to at least look better than my default halfelf, which shouldn't be hard but oh well. I really enjoyed his writing though. So punchable.
@meltingdragon2220 Ace here as well, and also confused with Gortash's description. His voice is a bit appealing, honestly, but damn do his hair and eyes remind me of a raccoon cosplaying as a mall goth
Honestly, I don't see the problem. His hair is obviously horrible. But everything else about him? I think he looks quite nice. I do like a rougher more natural look on people though. Nothing turns me off faster than those ugly smooth faces in final fantasy or some skyrim mods!
Gortash is the human embodiment of Crabs
Do you mean the animal or the std?
@@aangrylemon1291 std
@aangrylemon1291 I was thinking of the Mr.
Crispy: "Hey, I played Dragon Age!" (proceeds to mention the one Elf character with no tragic backstory)
...basically, she wanted to play the City Elf from the first game. The one called The Bride. If you've seen Kill Bill, you know why.
As a writer, I've always said that readers DO NOT get to have input on how the story progresses. That includes characters and their sexuality. They can say that they didn't like something and say how it could have been done better, but criticism can be a good thing.
To outright come in and say "No! The Author is wrong and this character is actually THIS sexuality!" has been my biggest peeve.
It's never come in Tabletop thankfully.
Probably cause my play group respects what I'm doing.
Also, Crispy.
Crispy, Crispy, Crispy.
Bless your Aro heart.
No one looks at Gortash and thinks he's "Daddy".
They look at him and think "This is a massive Mistake that I look forward to making."
Just wanted to thank you for giving CW at the beginning of stories before they even start. While I'm not sensitive to a lot of these things, I could imagine them being helpful for others. It at least gives me context on what I'm in for, rather than being whiplashed. xD
I think people thirst for Gortash because he gives "disaster man i can fix him" vibes
I love old ugly men
"over a decade older!" was the most teenage thing I've heard all week.
And yet I was just in my late 20's when that took place. Although our youngest was like 24.
I agree Gortash isn't a mood. GALE THOUGH *wantw to cuddle and protect Gale at all costs because he's adorable*
The rizzard of waterdeep
When Gortash was described as a "handsome young elf" by the narrator, I Googled what he looked like since he only appeared as a shadow in the initial vision you get. I was like " I got to see this because this game has very few Twinks in it and I want to see what counts as handsome young elf male. Saw Gortash and was like " this man looks like he's in his late forties and has some kind of ick" so yeah... I get it
The nat 20 on the unwanted kiss is why I exclusively use Pathfinder's "Nat 20s on skill checks do not mean auto success," they still have to beat a DC.
Nat 1s/Nat 20s are only auto fails/successes in combat, on things like attack rolls or saves, etc.
There is no, "I seduce the BBEG," (unless like the player talks to me before hand and discusses wanting to be a bad guy for a twist plot or something)
5:37 okay not a Gortash fan because I love Karlach too much. However I can see why many people consider him attractive and it's solely based off of vibes. He is smart, dominating, confident, has power, influence, and fictional you don't have to look like Astarion if you have those characteristics 😂
I've had that "co-GM" twice in my games. The first time was my first game I'd ever run with way too many people even though it ended up being a riot. My group's forever GM agreed to run one of my NPCs for me and help guide me if I started to falter. The most he had to course correct me on was making sure the quieter players still got input over our louder friends. It worked out great and the NPC still exists in my campaign, though I run them myself.
The second was when I was teaching my kid to run a game a few years later. They wanted to play and learn how to GM. I let them have input on the storylines the players would be following and they got to run a different NPC that was near impossible to kill. They actually spent a lot of their time guiding the players when they went off on weird tangents. To this day, my kid loves GMing their own games and plays regularly with their own friend group but is always welcome in my own.
This just gave my faith in humanity a much-needed boost. 🙂
Nice!
Lol my only explanation for Gortash love is that I have terrible taste in men. Funny lighthearted horror story relating to him, tho! I work very hard to never include DMPCs in my campaigns because I don't feel that they work out. But in my BG3 sequel campaign the player characters were hired by Wyll Ravengard's daughter to help her with a magical girl inspired quest. Gortash's daughter is an NPC who didn't know who her father was and is just a cute awkward tiefling artificer with garbage stats who applied to the same adventuring job to impress Wyll's daughter who she has a crush on(they're awkward teens, so par for the course), and the player characters like...basically adopted her. They will not let her out of their sight. If she doesn't appear in a place they've gone and I don't straight up tell them 'oh, she went to find out more about her father and who he was,' or 'oh, she's very tired from the last combat. She's having a nap at the inn', they'll ask "where's Teela????" To the point of becoming distracted from the main plot. I legit never intended this. Then they accidentally resurrect Gortash in a ritual gone wrong they disrupted, and now they've adopted him to to try and 'force him to reform and be a dad'. I don't have the heart to stop them. I love the shenanigans they pull with this.
I don't know why (maybe just because of the concept of "resurrecting Gortash and having a redemption") but that reminds me of my headcanon for one of the things that happen to my Tav after the game. Basically she is the foster sister of Durge (sole survivor of that family massacre) and at one point attempts to go to the afterlife with Jergal, sever Durge's connection with Bhaal, and bring her back.
At Durge's insistence she does the same for Orin and Gortash, and due to the nature of the resurrection ritual used they are brought back as children at a formative stage (Durge after the family slaughter, Orin after killing her mother, Gortash after having been sold to Raphael). And until they grow older and gain enough stable and healing life experience that regaining the memories of their former lives won't cause them to fully regress into the evil monsters they were before, she basically has to raise them.
Yeah, that's fairly similar. Gotta admit, my fiancee is a major fan of redemption arcs so I'm super into them too lately. That story sounds like a good one!
Dorian was a solid companion back in inquisition, only reason i never romanced him in the game was because I love playing the female characters......that and sera is a interesting ball of chaotic grimlin energy.
Sera do be like that and I can't help but like that about her
Too bad the entire rest of the game was the worst thing ever
I'm a Cullen girlie. The way he stole my heart and just his story in general. I have loved seeing him in all of the games.
*Swoon*
I loved the friendship you could form with Dorian as a female Inquisitor. ❤ Just as fulfilling.
I'm the opposet, I prefear to play male characters because I'm a guy myself so I usually end up going for Dorian, though Sera makes a very interesting friend. Should I ever play a female character I'd probably romance her.
While I am ten years older than some of my friends (I went back to college at 30) I am glad I'm not _that kind_ of weird old friend
9:22 Very much appreciate the dropout reference 😆
Gortash is like a pug Ugly-cute and has power
Please tell me someone else’s brain also automatically filled in “Is my client a perfect person? No.” @9:24 with “I killed him, yea”
Not Gortash catching strays 😭
Gortash uses the netherbrain to mindcontrol people of baldur's gate to see him as attractive. Thats the subtext of the netherbrain thing that happens when you reach the bridge. Because... they're in control of it
I was not prepared for the Simu Liu moment 😂
Bombarded is such a good DnD podcast! The players and their characters were so cool and they'd write and perform an original song every episode. The story was mostly lighthearted with some high stakes and emotional moments - very highly recommend to any dnd actual play enjoyers!
It's one of my favourites out of all actual play podcasts. Also I love how almost every episode turns into a fun music theory class since they're all music teachers.
If you have a player that's new to TTRPG, I think that a vital part of Session 0, or whatever point they get onboard, is to make absolutely clear that 'this is not a Bethesda/BioSoft game' (unless you're actually running your game like that). Players and NPCs are not automatically going to just go along with whatever your desires are. Even if you're highly persuasive, that doesn't mean they're going to automatically cave to you.'
Also, side note...Crispy, have you ever checked out Blue Rose? Fantasy TTRPG from Green Ronin using their Fantasy AGE system (same as the Dragon Age TTRPG). Great narrative fantasy game where the setting is inclusive AF. All expressions of love and gender are accepted and valid, with an emphasis on 'dungeon diving to help/save the kingdom', rather than 'dungeon diving for XP and loot'. Plus, the ability to play intelligent animals ala Narnia. Great game!
Dude your skits are genuinely so funny HAHAHAHA The lawyer one made me chuckle
Being hot for Gortash isn't as icky as Cazador/Astarion shippers. Yes they exist and it is such a mega huge red flag.
I shouldn't be surprised, but I am. This is horrifying information.
Rogue story: I’m sure the other members were really nice, but the DM not sufficiently taking care of the rouge is probably why OP is reluctant to play with strangers in TTRPGs now even if she doesn’t realize it. Oof.
What did the DM’s makeup have to do with anything?
For those curious the Ink Hydra doesn't exist and was the DM fever dream.
XD
Everyone say it with me….
Charisma is NOT mind control
Gortash is every elder emo kid's babygirl
Gortash looks like Final Fantasy character got transplanted into Dungeons and Dragons.
My personal story was like 2 years ago by this point. The dm and other players made me out to be the problem too. All i did was asking questions, trying to find compromises and simply trying to be heard amidst the chaos when nobody would listen to me. Their last straw was when i announced i had to take a break due to spiralling, and deleted that announcement when nobody gave me any type of comfort. They basically quietly bid me goodbye and kicked me out when i called them out on that. Dm blocked me, group friend blocked me, group clown blocked me...i didn't even get the time to process it all before i was thrown out on the street like a sack of rotten potatoes. Haven't been in a proper campaign since.
The reason why Gortash is so attractive to many people (including me) is completely the fault of Sir Jason Issac 😂😭
That voice alone gets me. But I understand he’s not everyone’s taste 😂
Two old ladies like “I’m not touching you! I’m not touching you!”
AMITY CRISPY CAMEO YAYYYY
Hold up what app can I get to make myself a dinosaur? That's the entire reason I might even consider vtubing
FaceRig is the first one that comes to mind but that’s multiple years old. It might be up to date enough for what you want but there is likely a plethora of other options as well.
@@quox3987 literally jumped into the comments to bring up Facerig. For those not in the know, it is a decade-old face tracking software where making yourself a dinosaur was one of its advertised features at launch. It was the first project I ever donated to on kickstarter, but no clue if it's still supported.
About the whole Gortash-Debate... I don't find him ugly, but not really attractive either. I believe the problem stems from the fact that Gortash was originally intended to be an old man but they changed that due to the voice actor performance. And I believe the voice would fit a good looking character.
But the design didn't catch up.
30:04 “he’s gay bro.”
FINALLY SOMEONE WHO FREAKING HATES GORTASH. THANK YOU !!!!!
I thought I was just Weird nice to see others
Sera is my favorite DA:I character, followed by Josephine
The lesbian desire to sweep Crispy off his feet and carry him
That lego set was really fun to build. I watched dimension 20 while I built it.
I watched the Owl House!
@@CrispysTavern Lol! It took meeee.... Eight episodes and like 5 days? to finish. But I had to take breaks for hand cramps. XD
Ugh. I love the finished product. Probably in the top 5 sets I own (and I have a pretty big collection)
BUT. God this build experience was insane. The roof tiles took some wind out of my sails.
@@CrispysTavern after I built it a cat decided to play tarrasque and bat the top part of the tower off and I had to start over XD
That gurl had those blue arkham exclamation marks multiple times in a row and did nothing
“It’s not giving Daddy it’s giving ICK!”
- Crispy, 2024
I'll give bombarded a watch even if Crispy won't 😂 It sounds great!
I am not attracted to Gortash, but this knife in my hands certainly is
I fully agree with you on Gortash. Nothing about him doesn't come off as slimy.
Oh wow, two crispys sharing the same screen... Never thought I'd see the day
It happened in at least one earlier video as well.
@@NerrawGnap I did catch up on other videos and know which one you mean
I always love the snippets of art, they're always so crisp.....y
1:55 Never before did I feel more connected with Crispy than I did here.
I wish I thought of this as a character, I’m not into dnd but I love writing and making a story about a rat doctor curing the plague sounds like such a fun story 😂
Lmao I don't find Gortash attractive either, I just like the idea of him hopelessly pining after some of my characters for drama XD like I have a very cynical sorceress Tav, who I like to imagine Gortash is hopelessly pining for, meanwhile she and Astarion fall in love in the background and become the deeply sarcastic, cynical couple who like maybe six people on the planet jbhvhjbjhfbhvdfbjdhvf
That's about the only stuff with Gortash I don't mind lol. Otherwise I think he looks like he needs a shower.
A Nat 20 isn't always a success.
And it certainly doesn't change someone's orientation.
Also, I'll bet Crispy is a fan of Karlach. She is the kind of girl that can carry you to safety, should the need arise. XD
I think the OP in this case was going more for a "This action is failing no matter what, but I let you roll to see HOW BADLY it fails" and a Nat 20 is was the most gentle of failure that still had some positive outcome (or at least would be for normal people)
This. A Nat 20 is _as successful as your character could reasonably consider possible_ (with plenty of room for extra drama, humor and/or general epicness if the DM decides it fits the scene and/or would just be more fun for everyone), not rewriting the world
My BiFi is always down. 😂
So glad I tend to avoid romance in games.
"is my client a perfect person"
was half expecting you to say "I killed him yea"
Don't think anybody has mentioned it, but in the last story, the DM mentions that problem player, despite declaring their character as Bi at the start of the game, nearly exclusively targeted very masculine male love interests. Seems weird that after actively noting that, DM decided to make the hand crafted "perfect" love interest as a "futch lesbian". While the problem player was clearly a problem, do have to wonder if the DM isn't perhaps quite as innocent as they portray themselves here. Perhaps DM was perhaps just little bit more sick of problem player by that point than let on, and maybe let just a tad of malicious compliance slip in lol
I forgot the problem player actually claimed her character was bi, so I assume female love interest NPC was based on that detail to add variety. Seemed like an innocent mistake on OP's part that could have been avoided by problem player not falsely advertising her character as bisexual.
Every time I hear someone say they hate the false hydra, it makes me want to go back and relisten to the best false hydra adventure ever.
I’m not a Gortash fan but from what I’ve read of their tweets the ick is precisely the draw 😂
I remember the game first describing silhouette-Gortash as a "handsome young man" and was stoked to meet these three Chosen for real. When I did, I looked at the three of them and mentally counted: "So that's the 'elf exuding authority', that is the woman, and that... is that the 'handsome young man?' WTF he's disgusting!"
Not me pausing when Crispy says "DA1" instead of DAI as in Inquisition to verify what was written XD Tell me you haven't played all of Dragon Age without telling me XD
Why is Gortash attractive. It's the voice, it's Jason Issacs!
GORTASH IS GIVING DADDY!! HOW DARE YOU!
Gortash looks like he chimes in about people closing the goddamn door at a wedding
You know, I actually had nicknames for the chosen of the Absolute;
Ketheric Thorm was known as “Elf version of my fiancée’s dad” *solely* based on his appearance, not his personality (may he R.I.P.) Thorm was, in my opinion, the best and most intriguing member of the Absolute.
Orin the Red was known as “Ms. Coo Coo for Cocoa Puffs” for obvious reasons. She fell perfectly in the middle of the three. She wasn’t as cool as Ketheric, but she was fun in her own way, and had a memorable design and vocal performance that stopped her from becoming my least favorite. Also I had a laugh when I was able to tell her that she was an incest baby. My reaction to her (after laughing) was “What are you, a child!?”.
And finally Envor Gortash was known as “Weird Little Raccoon Man”. Honestly, if it wasn’t for his connections with Karlach, I wouldn’t even really remember this character nor take him seriously. In fact, his battle was… well, I was going to say easy, but nonexistent would be better, since I had an invisible Astarion place the Runepowder Bomb and a bunch of explosive barrels around the man. Then I had Karlach launch a fire arrow at the bombs and watched the sparks fly, one shotting Gortash. This plan was known as Operation “You get what you Fucking Deserve” (another name I had in mind was Operation “Smile you S.O.B.” But I went with the former). And I’m with the group of people who don’t understand why people find Gortash attractive. GRANTED, I’m a straight man so I would feel any attraction to him anyway, but even if I was gay, there are plenty of other hunks in the game (I mean my gosh, have you SEEN Halsin?) that have better character than he does. And that opinion makes things all the more crazy when it shows that he was the one who came up with this whole plan (along side the Dark Urge I guess? I played as a regular Tav in my first playthrough but Durge’s stuff is still there all over the place, including his dead body in Orin’s room). It’s insane. Gortash feels like the advisor lackey. Ketheric is the one who felt like the endgame big bad.
Also, he gay bro 😂
The comment section looks very weird right now
THANK YOU for saying that Gortash is disgusting. I don't understand why the narrator in BG3 said he was "handsome" when he looks like Darth Shaggy Rogers mixed with a skunk while radiating the visual vibe of a stump puffball.
Problem Player in the third story is what we call an RPG Terrorist. They don't care about doing anything unless they're the spotlight, and if they're not, they will grind the game to a halt and make a game about getting them to come along. They don't care about the story, the plot, or the other players unless they are the one taking all the action, glory, and spotlight.
That second one reminds me of one incident with a DM. The group needed a replacement player after one dropped out due to work so my fiance (Genderfluid) said they knew someone who had characters they had ready to go (Me, and I always have loads of characters to use). My fiance made it VERY clear that they were talking about their fiance who is also Genderfluid (They also mentioned my PTSD for reason I won't go into, but my fiance told them no flirting or sexual stuff; my fiance only made that bit clear because they have fun with playful character flirting for the laughs with NPCs and sometimes each other as long as you are ok with it). I get through a session zero with the DM to ease me into where the campaign will pick up with me so I'm not dropped in blind and so on, it went fine. The problem came in session six, my fiance was out on that session due to a migraine and was sleeping, when the DM kept pressuring my character with NPCs that were outright touching my character, and at first I, in character, brush them off trying to come off as annoyed (Was playing a Bard/Ranger who had a pretty cynical personality but would get lost in conversation with other players after the first session when they kinda bonded over an attack on a town they all saved). The DM kept it up and I had to stop them and asked them to please quit doing that because I was getting real uncomfortable, and they stopped... For a bit. Session seven is where it all hit the fan, because not only did an NPC again touch my character, it was when he was bathing and the NPC kept talking about his "breasts" which all hit a major trigger. My fiance immediately took me to a different room until I was calm, didn't explain to the DM who was pissed when we came back, but I told them I was out which is where the DM got madder. Quoting them, and this is stuck in my head: "Come on! It wasn't even serious, you're just too sensitive for D&D! Female characters get flirted with all the time!" But my character was MALE, I and my fiance said I was NOT ok with ANY sexual stuff not even flirting, and I wasn't sensitive at all because literally two sessions before that I had my character straight up torture an enemy with a dagger to rip their nails off in an interogation! We didn't stick around to hear anymore and later found out for others in that group that about 90% ditched the moment we were gone because they were NOT finding it funny at all (DM apparently laughed and made jokes about how PTSD being some made up Millenial BS; I used to work in the medical field and I have literally worked with Veterans who suffered PTSD, kind of something we bonded with oddly and darkly enough, only mine was not from war and stuff but something closer to "home").
I didn't play D&D for a few years after that until my fiance ran a campaign of Cyberpunk Red and I was hooked making a DJ character who worked for the mafia. Also, pieces I didn't say, during the DM's blowup towards me having a breakdown, they also kept calling me "she" repeatedly and made some inappropriate comments about my looks (Mostly how "ugly chicks" have no value; keep in mind I was engaged then and now and it's been a few years and also the DM was single having been divorced at some point during the early half of the campaign before I joined). My Sweetheart fiance kept correcting them at every turn and was beyond pissed the DM called me ugly and essentially called my health issues fake, that far beyond crossed a line.
Sidenote: Not my first toxic DM but at least this one didn't draw a knife on me for not "playing right" (AKA playing how he wanted us to play; DM wanted their NPC leading us to be the hero and had so many rules, of which, we broke on purpose).
That Amity cosplay is really good!!! 😮
DAI is Dragon age Inquisition. “Dragon age 1” is Dragon age Origins or DAO
Bombarded mention!
One of my favourite actual play podcasts!! It was so creative and refreshing to listen to
@@littleleccie yeah! and it also was so cool to casually learn some music and music terms.
Being drunk whole gaming definitely does sound like a recipe for disaster
I’ve heard good experiences drinking and gaming with friends, but a bar is public. You’re getting drunk and then gaming with strangers. There’s enough horror stories that take place at local game shops, let alone one where everyone is drunk.
Just here to jump in the “Gortash is giving ick” traim
Gaslight
Gatekeep
Gay Kiss
I have actually played a klepto rouge who occasionally goes through his companion' bags, but you have to build and roll play very carefully and give them endearing qualities.
he's gay, bro
(Thank you for the stories, Crispy! Be safe out there!)
I only like Gortash for the Durge lore drama that rolling up with a new crew (and sometimes lover) and learning you and Gortash used to be tight can bring.
It's delicious and full of tension and angst - when the stabby gremlin and the handsome younger man with a quick easy smile finally confront each other once more.
Of course, I'm a writer, so I dig that stuff. And an aro ace who loves writing interesting relationship dynamics that run counterculture to the usual platonic and romantic depictions of intimacy and boundaries.
I had one D&D session that went to 6am once. It was not supposed to go that long. We just got incredibly unlucky. We were trapped in a puzzle room which was on a generous timer. It should have been easy for us to unlock the door and move on and continue the planned path before we got to the spot the DM planned to end for the evening. Well, the entire group were just failing our rolls over and over and over. It was actually quite sad how bad everyone was rolling and failing to solve the last puzzle that would unlock the door. Well, the timer ran out and a combat started, and our rolls just continued to be horrible. No one died, but it really dragged things out. By the time we finished the fight, the sun was up and everyone was super tired and had stopped caring at all about what happens in the game. I discovered that if I'm sleep deprived I get really grumpy and am easy to anger which is SUPER unlike me. Everyone was too tired to drive so we all crashed around the living room of the hosting friend's place like a nerdy version of one of those crazy drinking house parties teens in movies have when their parents are gone for the weekend. So yeah, we made sure not to repeat that experience again. If we failed a timer puzzle room (or similar) again closer to our usual end time and got an encounter we weren't expecting to actually have to do, we'd end the session there and started the encounter in the next session.
on Gortash... His appearance isn't what makes him attractive to most of his fans (his outfit is pretty sweet though), it's his voice. Jason Isaacs IS DADDY, and that's a hill I'll die on. *hides all of my Lucius Malfoy fanfiction** Nothing to see here peasants lol.
Gortash is attractive because he gives off indie sleaze vibes
It seemed like the problem player in the last story just wanted to chase unobtainable love interests. There some people who think pursuing someone who has no interest in them is romantic.
Gortash looks like that one rock drummer dude that is really good in a relationship.