Thank you for sharing! I linked it to my DnD group and I will henceforth be saying "oh my Gob". I'll update when they get so annoyed with me that they kill me off.
@ALYSON MATSON nope! I was completely unprepared for that to happen. I never thought taking out a fallen god would happen so early on - let alone by BEES! Two weeks later, I finally figured out how to keep the campaign moving.
Notes from a NG human Idiot; Greetings from lovely Restenford(It's raining here again...)! First off, that was an awesome story and thanks for sharing. Now as for Gob, what have we, as DM's, learned from this story? I personally learned to pay close attention to everything my players secretly write to me, as you never know when they'll suddenly throw exploding undead bees at your BBEG... May your pantheon ever favor you Baron Trevelyan of Restenford
@Robert Parr You just chilled my blood. I didn't want to think about your proposed idea, as those monsters are worse nightmare fuel than a life-sized mosquito would be, but barely. Then again, I do like the idea of them exploding. Also, any Vampire Lord would be glad to have a swarm of burning undead mosquitos at their disposal. A handy swarm of minions for the DM to use.
Kobolds are really weak in Pathfinder. They could at least lose one of the minus two to a physical stat(keep the penalty to strength though) to make them more equal to goblins. Or at least give +2 CHR to represent their unintentionally endearing humor.
You have to be crafty to not get smited down by the party paladin in the first few sessions (and in my case, get the paladin to become an Oathbreaker) My Necro just had to only raise animals as undead and the party were fine with it then. My two wolves and 3 badgers were devastating combat forces that after a few undead upgrade spells (from book of lost spells by frog god games) made them actively nearly impossible to be killed but by magical monsters. (Adamantine Bones as a permanent 5th level spell that makes them immune to non-magical bludgeoning, slashing and piercing along with resistant to the magical versions.)
A crafty necro player is incredible. But there is a very large gap between a good necro and a bad one. Out of all of my campaigns I have learned one important rule of D&D. Do not mess with a good necro player. You will regret it lol.
I actually wrote a character I jokingly call the good boy tiefling necromancer. He personifies the denial stage of grief. So even though he has lost so many people he holds onto their remains in hopes of reviving them (refuses to say they are gone). Also names all the undead he had. My personal favorite is how he dresses; wraps his tail around his waist like a belt, wears a high collared coat, and best of all a hat with special holes cut in for his horns (in hopes people will think it is ornamentation). He seems so edgy when you first see him and his class but he is overly chipper and nice.
@Krystal Young Oh, calm your chest parts. The rape happened off screen, didn't show anything graphic, and it was only featured in a single episode. They haven't done it since.
Probably looked & sounded like the battle between Ainz's Pleiades battle maid (Narbaral Gamma) & the not so smart necromancer Khajiit, when she incinerates him & his 2 undead dragons, with a Chain dragon lightning & his boiled, burned & incinerated remains hit the floor, totally liquified... & she asks herself if it would be a nice/appetizing souvenir for her colleague Pleiades battle maid Entoma :p
@@TheDannyschoofs You my friend know your overlord noice. Probably, but I'm thinking like he went north, south, west, east like limbs and viscera everywhere.
Starting with Astoshan then the veteran and now this i learn how to fear when a necromancer is present for you can never know when death visits you earlier than expected
Remember kids, always pay attention to the goblins! They always try to one-up each other. First there was Jig the Dragonslayer, now there's Gob the Godslayer (or the Gobsmacker, whichever is funnier).
D&D 3.5 with a Commoner 1/Cleric 19. Chicken Infested flaw, Corpsecrafter and Explosive Retribution feats with Divine Metamagic Persist and Fell Animate on Greater Consumptive Field. 50% chance when you draw anything that you pull out a chicken instead, which Greater Consumptive Field will automatically kill and Fell Animate raises as a zombie. Since said zombie was created with a Necromancy spell, Destructive Retribution triggers on its death to make it explode for 1d6 negative energy damage. With a spell component pouch, it's possible to summon an entire army of undead chickens that explodeon death as a free action. Technically, 5% are alive, and only a certain number will be controlled, but that's kind of secondary.
ohhh how i wish i had one of my characters do something this amazingly badass. Off the top of my head, the only big thing my characters are known for are 1) creating a super undead cow that was referred to as my "pimped out COW". 2) same CHARACTER getting hit in the face by a shield by my brother character that he motify his shield to say "face here" 3) different character successfully killing another party member and nearly getting away with it. 4) same character getting thrown through a storm of blades spell and helping stop the big bad (but was more of a tool instead of an active player)
Lmao the irony of that death "I planned everything in your lives except you looks at the undead gobin-" and gets killed by a burning undead bee mega bomb from the one character he'd not planned for XD
I guarantee that the character's reaction to this, especially the 2 that wanted to kill the BBGE anyways, wnet up and hugged Gob shouting, "Gob dammit, c'mere you beautiful little undead bastard!"
Hahaha I love it! Gob help us all, and a God actually did!! And the hubris of the BBEG, not so end of the game after all. What a great game that must have been and how proud Gob must have felt. Truly epic gaming.
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That is so epic. I'm thinking after I find a d&d group to join I'll have a rogue/bard for a learning character, maybe throw in some ranks in druid for access to poisons. I'm thinking I'll try a necromancer in a later game and try to be as ingenious as some of the others I've heard about.
Reminds me of a time in one 2nd ed adnd campaign I was in. I was playing a halfling rogue because I'd rolled horribly on stats and that's what I had to do to get a minimum for any class. We were playing through the temple of elemental evil. The party (that I can remember) was our Dwarven cleric of mordin, elf necromancer, elf ranger/rogue (can't remember for sure which it was), a Druid (forget the race), and then I believe there was one other character who I can't remember enough about. But that doesn't matter really, not for this story. So our base was in a temple to mordin, and we had a mercenary army attacking us with the promise that should they win any who had died would be resurrected. Two members of the party were on the ground outside, one of them unconscious and the other pretending to be dead while reverse pick pocketing himself to eat good berries in an attempt to regain enough health to be able to get back inside with the other. I offered to go out and try and rescue the party members by using an amulet of recall under the pretense of bringing out Dwarven ale to the mercenaries. Well, this didn't work quite as well as was intended. I was brought before the captain (the one who would be resurrecting them) by two mercs and the captain started to pat me down, not trusting me. I quickly said "Mordin help me," which was the phrase for the amulet of recall, bringing me and the three others back to the temple in the entryway. I slipped out of the grip of the guards and scurried away just as a chest full of blastbone rats was tossed at the three. They were absolutely OBLITERATED. The only problem was, we had no way to prove to the mercenaries that the man who was to resurrect their dead was in fact little more than a smear on the floor.
I killed a party with kittens and swarms of ravens once, similar scenario. They exploded when killed and i just dive bombed them for days till they died.
See, I like this. This is what DnD is about. Not trying to wipe out the party every chance you get, but epic and imaginative storytelling and letting the party be creative. It’s storytelling, with your players as unpredictable protagonists.
This sounds like a game breaking strategy. Just one gob with a bag of holding enchanted to provide air could take down almost anything with little cost.
That is why this not really how any of that works. Swarms of vermin are treated like a single entity. By the normal rules, you would not calculate a necromacy creation hybrid effect for each individual part of a swarm, just once for the thing as a whole. There are also limits on how complex and how many undead can be created in a reasonable amount of time, as well as limits on HD worth of undead that can be controlled at any given time. Adding effects like Flaming or one of the Exploding elements, or Swarming increase the effective HD towards that limit. This is all part of the rules not to deny cool things, but to prevent necromancers from just always being the 'win button'.
This one. So your channel was randomly recommended to me like a week ago and I've been randomly binging on it since, enjoying the stories. Some good, some bad, some meh, some enrapturing, some I couldn't finish. But this one... This one is the best. I don't even have to watch any more of your videos to know this one is the best. I will keep watching, however. Mostly in hopes to hear more about Gob and his new religion
Might see about bringing my mom into the group I play (5e) with as a human Necromancer, with Inspiring Leadership, as she has been hearing me talk about it, and thus is interested in it. We'll soon find out how good she is.
Update - mom won't be coming in as a necromancer - seems messing with the undead is against the general idea of the reason the party was formed. On plus side, Tabaxi Monk was available for her. Say hello to the new Cheetara.
As for a potential solution: You could have considered each Swarm as a single creature. Usually that is the *point* of swarm rules to begin with. Making the number of beings humanly managable is one important part, but I would say getting around such tricks is just another benefit. And the 3.5 ones I could find are pretty clear in that regard, that they do everything as "one creature": www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/swarm.htm Wich explicitly includes a "poison insect" example So I would also have it die and explode as a *single* creature. Wich would only be 1 explosion/swarm. Wich might not even be enough to cause a chain reaction. It is 100% understandable if you did not think of that on the spot. Just something for the future.
@@joshuacr 1. Pathfinder is a fork of D&D 3.5 2. The swarn rules in that area seem the same. Possibly to the letter: legacy.aonprd.com/bestiary/creatureTypes.html#swarm-subtype 3. This part of Swarm rules is shared across game Systrms with totally diferent heritages
I witnessed a VtM 5E table once where the DM wanted to ambush the party with a werewolf, his expectations were that the party would flee and eventually manage to talk with the werewolf, that would serve as a hook for a plot 3 sessions later (my character had died and since this was a “to the last man” kind of game, we were not allowed to make new characters, but I could watch both sides of the DM screen untill the end of the campaing, hence how I know the idea behind the werewolf), the Brujah, however, decided to punch the werewolf... strenght 5, brawl 5, Potency 5, dealing agravated damage to mortals and supernaturals alike, adding lots of dices to his attack pool, an he added Willpower. 23 agravated damage. The DM took advantage that only I knew how werewolves worked in the world of darkness and my character was already dead, and said some bullshit like “he have a power that decreases damage” to avoid his plot hook being monoed out of the game on his entrance. The players didn’t bought into it though, in a game where noone had more than 10 health points and even those with Fortitude wouldn’t go much beyond that, it was quite clear that anything surviving a 23 agravatted damage attack had the direct intervention of the DM, and the character became know as “the wolf’s bane” across the Bay (the game was set in a bay with some 3 or 4 major cities around it, each with their own politics and rulers, but each connected to the other)
i did something like this in my vary first campaign as a player. some wizard was using mind control or something on a bunch of drakes and our party was hired to investigate. on our way to the town wear the drakes wear most often attacked, we wear ambushed by a number of Drakes lead by a rage drake, witch is tamable. first we beat down his friends then we beat down him, then i used inanimate to end the encounter. i had taken a few ranks in animal handling in hopes of getting something to watch my fighters back. The DM wasn't happy, stating that he'd let me try but id be next to impossible, saying it would set the whole game off balance. i rolled a nat 20. we made vary short work of the wizard. with Lazzyl at my back i switch frome Group skirmisher to DPS. the DM was pissed, but i had fun.
So one of my favorite things to do is play a divine sorcerer and use quickened spell plus twin spell meta magic to blast an enemy with three inflict wounds for 9d10 damage
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I also used Aroden in one of my last campaigns... but it was only to reveal that his mysterious death was done by his herald. She killed him (at his request) because with his death, prophecy would also die, and therefor the dozen or more looming apocalypse's that had been foretold *might* be averted, as they were no longer set in stone. But the Protean Lord, Ssila'meshnik (lord of fate, freedom, and paradox) was actually responsible for setting that idea in his head in the first place, because with the death of prophecy, he was free to enact a plan to kill the Danava Pillar who held the Dimension of Time together, and thus completing his transcendence into full divinity as the God of fate, freedom, paradox, and time... with the party the unwitting pawns that finished setting the stage for his ascension!
I would never allow this cheese at my table. A swarm of monsters operate as a single monster. I'm sure that's how he managed to control 24 swarms simultaneously (he wasn't controlling hundreds of individual undead bees, but 24 swarms). So the bees would explode as 24 swarms, not hundreds of individual explosions. The BBEG should probably have survived.
This is so great! As the DM of this game, this is STILL one of the most talked about moments of this campaign. Thank you guys for narrating this!
Thank you for sharing! I linked it to my DnD group and I will henceforth be saying "oh my Gob". I'll update when they get so annoyed with me that they kill me off.
@@MistressHorrors hahaha that's amazing! I love it!
@ALYSON MATSON nope! I was completely unprepared for that to happen. I never thought taking out a fallen god would happen so early on - let alone by BEES! Two weeks later, I finally figured out how to keep the campaign moving.
This was a fun story. ...and what a great line. I definitely understand not having the bad guy miraculously survive that one.
Notes from a NG human Idiot;
Greetings from lovely Restenford(It's raining here again...)!
First off, that was an awesome story and thanks for sharing. Now as for Gob, what have we, as DM's, learned from this story? I personally learned to pay close attention to everything my players secretly write to me, as you never know when they'll suddenly throw exploding undead bees at your BBEG...
May your pantheon ever favor you
Baron Trevelyan of Restenford
"They're not just undead bees, they're burning undead bees."
...
"When killed, burning undead [bees] explode."
*Burning Undead Bee Swarms:*
**So, you have chosen death.**
Gabriel Lockwood 🤣 & I thought Wasps were bad. 😨😵😱
#cowabungaitis
@@amyliaclenny1866 hear me out real quick. Just imagine burning undead mosquitos.
@Robert Parr
You just chilled my blood.
I didn't want to think about your proposed idea, as those monsters are worse nightmare fuel than a life-sized mosquito would be, but barely. Then again, I do like the idea of them exploding.
Also, any Vampire Lord would be glad to have a swarm of burning undead mosquitos at their disposal. A handy swarm of minions for the DM to use.
@@ceonortex6468 O MY GOD!!! *swats burning undead mosquito...O-O" ...Goodbye cruel world!!!! may you burn in the firy pits of HELL!!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHA
“Not the bees, not the bees.” How ironic this quote is true for this video.
How is it ironic?
i was saying that as he said dead by bees
Ahhhhh not the bees!!,
Why do I hear the BBEG of that campaign as Nic Cage?
First Astoshan, then The Veteran, and now Gob! How are these guys not drinking buddies or something? 😂
I... would be horrified and also amazed if Astoshan and the Veteran and Gob were all in the same game. The universe would just explode.
I would love to be drinking buddies with those players.
3 drunk necromancers. Haha no
@@josephcarter1920 why not? I'm down to have a drink with astoshan's and the veteran's players if they want.
Don't forget Farmer Brown!
Whenever someone picks a Goblin or Kobold I pay attention to them cause they're very frequently trouble, clever and very fun to watch
Typically goblins less so than kobolds, those stats really are a crutch.
@@KageRyuu6 I've only seen Kobolds and gnomes be funny
Kobolds are really weak in Pathfinder. They could at least lose one of the minus two to a physical stat(keep the penalty to strength though) to make them more equal to goblins. Or at least give +2 CHR to represent their unintentionally endearing humor.
Goblin Necromancer here. Guilty
@@SkweezyCox the one from the story?
I swear it seems like all the best necromancer characters are played by extremely crafty players.
Those are how successful necromancers survive in a world of paladins XD (Also love the name)
You have to be crafty to not get smited down by the party paladin in the first few sessions (and in my case, get the paladin to become an Oathbreaker)
My Necro just had to only raise animals as undead and the party were fine with it then. My two wolves and 3 badgers were devastating combat forces that after a few undead upgrade spells (from book of lost spells by frog god games) made them actively nearly impossible to be killed but by magical monsters. (Adamantine Bones as a permanent 5th level spell that makes them immune to non-magical bludgeoning, slashing and piercing along with resistant to the magical versions.)
A crafty necro player is incredible. But there is a very large gap between a good necro and a bad one. Out of all of my campaigns I have learned one important rule of D&D. Do not mess with a good necro player. You will regret it lol.
And there deaths leave you with your mouth open in aww... In one form or another...
I actually wrote a character I jokingly call the good boy tiefling necromancer. He personifies the denial stage of grief. So even though he has lost so many people he holds onto their remains in hopes of reviving them (refuses to say they are gone). Also names all the undead he had. My personal favorite is how he dresses; wraps his tail around his waist like a belt, wears a high collared coat, and best of all a hat with special holes cut in for his horns (in hopes people will think it is ornamentation). He seems so edgy when you first see him and his class but he is overly chipper and nice.
"Goblins are not complete fools." - Goblin Slayer
wow. that's good.
*_" Necromancers... are not completely overpowered. But overpowered they are. "_*
@Krystal Young Oh, calm your chest parts. The rape happened off screen, didn't show anything graphic, and it was only featured in a single episode. They haven't done it since.
@Krystal Young Way to emphasize the "Young" part of your name; if you don't like adult themes, don't watch stuff rated 13+...
@Krystal Young Spotted the Normie.
That was amazing! As Gob's player, thank you so much. I dont know how I'm ever going to top Gob now.
Thank you for ths awesome story. Laughed a good 2 minutes at the bees question cause I figured what was to come. Best use of an obscure detail ever.
you're awesome, I wish I had a full party of sly killers like you
Gob is the premiere example of Chaotic Neutral done well and not devolving into Chaotic Stupid
I'm literally crying laughing at what you pulled off. Well done!
You sir are a genius.
"Not the Bee....."
*massive explosion*
*surprised pikachu*
A horde of deadly bees. Bees. My God.
This is why I love Necromancy. The absolute versatility of the school of magic is amazing.
_Kelemvor Hated That_
Aroden's last words as the bees explode: *"Gob damni-"*
Aroden: NOT THE BE-! (BOOOOM! and what I can only imagine is the sound of wet paint hitting the walls)
Probably looked & sounded like the battle between Ainz's Pleiades battle maid (Narbaral Gamma) & the not so smart necromancer Khajiit, when she incinerates him & his 2 undead dragons, with a Chain dragon lightning & his boiled, burned & incinerated remains hit the floor, totally liquified... & she asks herself if it would be a nice/appetizing souvenir for her colleague Pleiades battle maid Entoma :p
@@TheDannyschoofs You my friend know your overlord noice. Probably, but I'm thinking like he went north, south, west, east like limbs and viscera everywhere.
*NO NOT THE FLAMING ZOM-BEES!!!*
Y'know, if Terraria should've taught anyone here anything, it's that beenades always work. Gob knew that, he just took advantage of them.
Not always. There was a kobold who thought one could kill 2 giants.
@@LegendStormcrow Ehh, alright. beenades _nearly_ always work.
Molotov's works even better
@@doomslayerplushie6662 beenades are faster stronger and easier to get/use (no rng needed whit a rare mob)
Starting with Astoshan then the veteran and now this i learn how to fear when a necromancer is present for you can never know when death visits you earlier than expected
When my current character dies I'm making my first necromancer
"If a Necromancer was killed easily you did something wrong"
Remember kids, always pay attention to the goblins! They always try to one-up each other. First there was Jig the Dragonslayer, now there's Gob the Godslayer (or the Gobsmacker, whichever is funnier).
Definitely Gobsmacker!
Swarms of undead kamikaze bees. Welcome to D&D.
You mean Pathfinder.
D&D 3.5 with a Commoner 1/Cleric 19. Chicken Infested flaw, Corpsecrafter and Explosive Retribution feats with Divine Metamagic Persist and Fell Animate on Greater Consumptive Field. 50% chance when you draw anything that you pull out a chicken instead, which Greater Consumptive Field will automatically kill and Fell Animate raises as a zombie. Since said zombie was created with a Necromancy spell, Destructive Retribution triggers on its death to make it explode for 1d6 negative energy damage.
With a spell component pouch, it's possible to summon an entire army of undead chickens that explodeon death as a free action.
Technically, 5% are alive, and only a certain number will be controlled, but that's kind of secondary.
OH GOD, NOT THE BEE'S. *Smiley face*
Oh GOB not the BEES
Me playing donkey Kong
@@carbonbeaker409 That is actually soo much better, I wish I'd thought of that!
ohhh how i wish i had one of my characters do something this amazingly badass. Off the top of my head, the only big thing my characters are known for are 1) creating a super undead cow that was referred to as my "pimped out COW". 2) same CHARACTER getting hit in the face by a shield by my brother character that he motify his shield to say "face here" 3) different character successfully killing another party member and nearly getting away with it. 4) same character getting thrown through a storm of blades spell and helping stop the big bad (but was more of a tool instead of an active player)
The DM should have ended that session with a resounding "Gob damn it!"
Lmao the irony of that death "I planned everything in your lives except you looks at the undead gobin-" and gets killed by a burning undead bee mega bomb from the one character he'd not planned for XD
Nah, the necromancer goblin knew that as the BBEG hasn’t planned for him, he is perfect for speedrunning the campaign.
Fun fact, a diminutive flying swarm, wasps for instance, typically numbers five thousand.
Gob danmit!
I have been told its number is **Over nine thousand!**
Sweet jesus
since there was 24 swarms, that would mean there was about 120,000 bees
Its always the necromancers that flip the script ain’t it? _Yirbel Lives_ !
*EDIT* or should I say YirBEEl lives?
Big bad: I never planned for you.
Gob: I'm about to ruin this boi's whole career.
Best Quote Ever!
All hail Gob. In Gob we trust. And Gob said, "Let there be bees."
When i heard “Solitude” i had flashbacks to “did someone steal your sweet roll?”
I guarantee that the character's reaction to this, especially the 2 that wanted to kill the BBGE anyways, wnet up and hugged Gob shouting, "Gob dammit, c'mere you beautiful little undead bastard!"
I'm now going to have the Gob be an ancient legend in whatever campaign I next run
I was waiting to hear the DM scream GOB DAMNIT at the top of his lungs somewhere in there! lol
megumin and Deidara are very proud of this fellow artist.
Here’s a life lesson for DM’s: Don’t DOUBT your players
-insert obligatory Nicholas Cage Wickerman scene quotes:
NOT THE BEES!
Hahaha I love it! Gob help us all, and a God actually did!! And the hubris of the BBEG, not so end of the game after all. What a great game that must have been and how proud Gob must have felt. Truly epic gaming.
That goblin was a Pink Panther legend.
Well played Gob, well played
Thank you! It one of my favorite stories as a player
This is like Goblin Slayer throwing a bag of flower at a Beholder.
Gob: This guy is full of himself...hold my ale....
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That was simply amazing. Gob is just plain epic
"Not the bees! NOT THE BEES!!! AAARGGGHHHHHH!!!"
KABOOOOOOOOOOM!
Yup
I can imagine myself in the place of this DM alternately laughing, crying, shouting "What the f*ck have you done Gob?," and just confused screaming.
That is so epic. I'm thinking after I find a d&d group to join I'll have a rogue/bard for a learning character, maybe throw in some ranks in druid for access to poisons. I'm thinking I'll try a necromancer in a later game and try to be as ingenious as some of the others I've heard about.
Never underestimate a crafty player that thinks outside the hack/slash fireball box.
Believe it or not, I actually did the same exact thing with one of my characters and I was so excited to hear someone else had the same idea
_Oh my GOB!_
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Great now i’m just thinking of adventuretime!
NOT THE BEES!!!!
That was the most humiliating way for a god's avatar to be destroyed. They never expect the goblin.
Alot of strangely good Necromancer hype on this channel, I love it.
9:24
"I am currently writing this with a skeleton hand."
"Ohoh ho you caught me monologuing!"
Omg! That bee crap was nuts!
Please let the story of gob continue: PPPLLLEEEEAAASSSEEE!!!!!!!!!!
THEFIRST39 I’ll see about writing up more of his adventures after leaving the party.
Reminds me of a time in one 2nd ed adnd campaign I was in. I was playing a halfling rogue because I'd rolled horribly on stats and that's what I had to do to get a minimum for any class. We were playing through the temple of elemental evil. The party (that I can remember) was our Dwarven cleric of mordin, elf necromancer, elf ranger/rogue (can't remember for sure which it was), a Druid (forget the race), and then I believe there was one other character who I can't remember enough about. But that doesn't matter really, not for this story. So our base was in a temple to mordin, and we had a mercenary army attacking us with the promise that should they win any who had died would be resurrected. Two members of the party were on the ground outside, one of them unconscious and the other pretending to be dead while reverse pick pocketing himself to eat good berries in an attempt to regain enough health to be able to get back inside with the other. I offered to go out and try and rescue the party members by using an amulet of recall under the pretense of bringing out Dwarven ale to the mercenaries. Well, this didn't work quite as well as was intended. I was brought before the captain (the one who would be resurrecting them) by two mercs and the captain started to pat me down, not trusting me. I quickly said "Mordin help me," which was the phrase for the amulet of recall, bringing me and the three others back to the temple in the entryway. I slipped out of the grip of the guards and scurried away just as a chest full of blastbone rats was tossed at the three. They were absolutely OBLITERATED. The only problem was, we had no way to prove to the mercenaries that the man who was to resurrect their dead was in fact little more than a smear on the floor.
I once killed my party of five with Henry the bartender
Okay.
Dd he poison their drinks or just overserve them? Blood-alcohol contemt can be deadly.
@@amyliaclenny1866 no he just flat out grabbed a knife and started killing them after they started to burn down his tavern
Shadowing foryou I was pretty close to doing something very similar with a group I most recently GM’d for
glorious
Just to let you know...burning undead are immune to fire damage thus cannot cause eachother to explode...but still really cool.
Okay that was actually rather awesome. It's not everyday the BBEG dies....to bees.
I killed a party with kittens and swarms of ravens once, similar scenario. They exploded when killed and i just dive bombed them for days till they died.
"A chain of exploding undead bees." Oh D&D, you so crazy.
Nick Cage would be terrified of gob and his bees
See, I like this. This is what DnD is about. Not trying to wipe out the party every chance you get, but epic and imaginative storytelling and letting the party be creative. It’s storytelling, with your players as unpredictable protagonists.
Lmfao!!! As a DM, I can only imagine my response to this turn of events. "UMMMM, session end. Need time to process..."
He cranked that Wickerman dial to 11
Now I really want to try to replicate those undead bees!
Man, that whole thing is basically the bbeg ending up like *NOT THE BEES!*
This sounds like a game breaking strategy. Just one gob with a bag of holding enchanted to provide air could take down almost anything with little cost.
That is why this not really how any of that works. Swarms of vermin are treated like a single entity. By the normal rules, you would not calculate a necromacy creation hybrid effect for each individual part of a swarm, just once for the thing as a whole. There are also limits on how complex and how many undead can be created in a reasonable amount of time, as well as limits on HD worth of undead that can be controlled at any given time. Adding effects like Flaming or one of the Exploding elements, or Swarming increase the effective HD towards that limit. This is all part of the rules not to deny cool things, but to prevent necromancers from just always being the 'win button'.
Truly a deadly bee weapon
Bees. My god.
@@ZeroCanalX Just beta me to saying this
@@topazsullivan328 BECAUSE I AM A MAN! *PUNCH*
This is one of those stories where the more I think about it, the harder I begin to laugh.
Oh my God! That was hilarious. I'm going to have to share this with my group.
Oh my Gob!*
Jeeeesus that is rough lol you got to love outside the box thinking. Especially the necromancers.
Good thing I have a fresh necromancer for my furture games. Gonna have to find some bees now
This one. So your channel was randomly recommended to me like a week ago and I've been randomly binging on it since, enjoying the stories. Some good, some bad, some meh, some enrapturing, some I couldn't finish. But this one... This one is the best. I don't even have to watch any more of your videos to know this one is the best. I will keep watching, however. Mostly in hopes to hear more about Gob and his new religion
Aroden Exploded like a boss did in Legend of Zelda Link to the past.
Might see about bringing my mom into the group I play (5e) with as a human Necromancer, with Inspiring Leadership, as she has been hearing me talk about it, and thus is interested in it. We'll soon find out how good she is.
Update - mom won't be coming in as a necromancer - seems messing with the undead is against the general idea of the reason the party was formed. On plus side, Tabaxi Monk was available for her. Say hello to the new Cheetara.
So wait... If gob became a god does that mean the phrase "gob darn it" is now a curse in that world?
I love the game of thrones reference 3:30
It was incredibly appropriate
7:30 I guess you could say "that blew up in his face".
As for a potential solution: You could have considered each Swarm as a single creature. Usually that is the *point* of swarm rules to begin with. Making the number of beings humanly managable is one important part, but I would say getting around such tricks is just another benefit. And the 3.5 ones I could find are pretty clear in that regard, that they do everything as "one creature": www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/swarm.htm Wich explicitly includes a "poison insect" example
So I would also have it die and explode as a *single* creature. Wich would only be 1 explosion/swarm. Wich might not even be enough to cause a chain reaction.
It is 100% understandable if you did not think of that on the spot. Just something for the future.
@@christopherg2347 You might want to reference the Pathfinder not the 3.5 rules next time as this is a Pathfinder not D&D game.
@@joshuacr
1. Pathfinder is a fork of D&D 3.5
2. The swarn rules in that area seem the same. Possibly to the letter: legacy.aonprd.com/bestiary/creatureTypes.html#swarm-subtype
3. This part of Swarm rules is shared across game Systrms with totally diferent heritages
Afoden: OH GOB NOT THE BEES!!!! AAAAAAA- "Bees explode"
me: hears the plot of the story
MMMMMMMMMMM, YES, DIVINITY 2 ORIGINAL SIN DEFINITIVE EDITION
This story has officially changed my view of goblins.
Goblin players and necromancers are smart.
*Gob, upon seeing bees*: "Yes... Its all coming together..."
I witnessed a VtM 5E table once where the DM wanted to ambush the party with a werewolf, his expectations were that the party would flee and eventually manage to talk with the werewolf, that would serve as a hook for a plot 3 sessions later (my character had died and since this was a “to the last man” kind of game, we were not allowed to make new characters, but I could watch both sides of the DM screen untill the end of the campaing, hence how I know the idea behind the werewolf), the Brujah, however, decided to punch the werewolf... strenght 5, brawl 5, Potency 5, dealing agravated damage to mortals and supernaturals alike, adding lots of dices to his attack pool, an he added Willpower. 23 agravated damage. The DM took advantage that only I knew how werewolves worked in the world of darkness and my character was already dead, and said some bullshit like “he have a power that decreases damage” to avoid his plot hook being monoed out of the game on his entrance. The players didn’t bought into it though, in a game where noone had more than 10 health points and even those with Fortitude wouldn’t go much beyond that, it was quite clear that anything surviving a 23 agravatted damage attack had the direct intervention of the DM, and the character became know as “the wolf’s bane” across the Bay (the game was set in a bay with some 3 or 4 major cities around it, each with their own politics and rulers, but each connected to the other)
Dude!!! That is one of the most epic deaths I've ever had the pleasure of hearing!!!
i did something like this in my vary first campaign as a player. some wizard was using mind control or something on a bunch of drakes and our party was hired to investigate. on our way to the town wear the drakes wear most often attacked, we wear ambushed by a number of Drakes lead by a rage drake, witch is tamable. first we beat down his friends then we beat down him, then i used inanimate to end the encounter. i had taken a few ranks in animal handling in hopes of getting something to watch my fighters back. The DM wasn't happy, stating that he'd let me try but id be next to impossible, saying it would set the whole game off balance. i rolled a nat 20. we made vary short work of the wizard. with Lazzyl at my back i switch frome Group skirmisher to DPS. the DM was pissed, but i had fun.
The splot of the story you explained first sounds like a Divinity original sins 2 spin off. Neat twist.
nobodies just asking "random questions" that's the first red flag.
love this channel dont get to D&D anymore this brings all my own storys back to me
So one of my favorite things to do is play a divine sorcerer and use quickened spell plus twin spell meta magic to blast an enemy with three inflict wounds for 9d10 damage
I could be misremembering the specifics and limitations of yhe metamagic but I don't think you can twin spell on the same target?
That is awesome! My, oh my... this is quite the story to tell! Moments like this are what D&D is all about for me!
Indeed. Gob has many more stories as well!
@@Pandathewarrior Awesome! I greatly look forward to hearing them, should we be so very fortunate. 😊
"Gob Dammit!"
Here's the like that you deserve, my good man.
NOOO, NOT THE BEES AAAHHHH!
Necros are AMAZING! 😁
This is the 3rd time Ive had to resubscribe to your channel. TH-cam being classy again
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I heard the name and I immediately was reminded of one of my players with a halforc named og
I also used Aroden in one of my last campaigns... but it was only to reveal that his mysterious death was done by his herald. She killed him (at his request) because with his death, prophecy would also die, and therefor the dozen or more looming apocalypse's that had been foretold *might* be averted, as they were no longer set in stone. But the Protean Lord, Ssila'meshnik (lord of fate, freedom, and paradox) was actually responsible for setting that idea in his head in the first place, because with the death of prophecy, he was free to enact a plan to kill the Danava Pillar who held the Dimension of Time together, and thus completing his transcendence into full divinity as the God of fate, freedom, paradox, and time... with the party the unwitting pawns that finished setting the stage for his ascension!
That was great I love that little goblin.
Oh my I laughed so hard, this is awesome!
“Ah, the bees! They’re in my eyes!”
This is freaking amazing!
Love your videos
I would never allow this cheese at my table. A swarm of monsters operate as a single monster. I'm sure that's how he managed to control 24 swarms simultaneously (he wasn't controlling hundreds of individual undead bees, but 24 swarms). So the bees would explode as 24 swarms, not hundreds of individual explosions.
The BBEG should probably have survived.
That ending was hilarious. 😄