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The closest i ever came to it was my Preppy Rich-boy Necromancer, Orpheus Spyros. At the time i'd played mostly Fighters or Rangers(as they were easier to build and keep track of), so a Wizard sounded just different enough to give it a try...
I don't play dnd but I knew a guy that had a minotaur thief assassin build that was super huge and yet super stealthy. All the strength of a barbarian, yet so sneaky he'd pickpocket enemies while they were looking right at him and always got the drop on foes. Who ever heard of an assassin that uses a battle axe?
@FluffyXai If you fail the will save and you're any alignment other than Lawful Good, you instantly become Lawful Good, because if you don't listen to Grandma's rules and behave, you don't get any cookies.
@Josiah Sepulveda Oh I meant for the parson/creature making the saving throw, not the Grandma. Grandma can be any alignment she wants, she's lived long enough to have that privilege
I frickin love this concept! Aside from the fact that this is a badass granny, being able to disguise a Paladin as a Warlock was SO cool. The creator did such a great job conceptualizing her.
@@michaelsorensen7567 Because "role-play". When I tried my hand at DMing, I told my players that every character choice they made needs to have an In Character reason/explanation. Meaning, every Feat needs to have an explanation for it. 'Magic Initiate' lets you take spell from other classes, but you still have to get the power from somewhere. Warlock powers come from a Patron, Sorcerer from their blood, Cleric from the Divine, and Wizard from the tome. If you cannot come up for an IC reason for EVERY character building choice, then you don't have a character, you have a block of numbers. If you explain it all, then you enhance the RP for everyone and make a character who is all the more richer.
@@Lrbearclaw "I run my table this way so everyone else must necessarily also run their table this way" Honestly we don't have enough info to judge either way and the only reason I'm continuing this conversation is your adamant insistence that it *must* be magic initiate instead of multiclass. All the roleplay elements that justify "you have to get your magic initiate magic from somewhere" also justify "small dip into warlock multiclass", so without further information, like whether they even started campaign at level 1 (many like to start at 3+ so as to already have subclasses and not accidentally get one shot killed by a common housecat) we can't really say definitively.
(gloria used eldrich blast) Deroth: WAIT A MINUTE! alright guys just wait a second. you could use magic THIS ENTIRE TIME??? YOU NEVER TRIED TO DO ANYTHING UNTIL NOW? Gloria: uhh Deroth: you might be more trouble than your worth. well you can go I guess, now if you'll excuse me I need to deal with this uprising outside, see ya granny: well I saved my granddaughter and my grandson is a... warlord... well I accomplished everything I set out to do
The greatest spell that you can get after a certain age. You get bonuses if you're a brother/sister/parent/grandparent. The more older you get the higher the bonus. Jk
@@bethanysmith5856 No joke. I *still* answer to my mom. I am, shall we say, no longer on the younger side of 30. That Parental Disappointment (4th level) just gets worse with experience.
Being the group's mom or granny is a very important role to have and makes for memorable interactions. I once Gm'd a oneshot where the biggest damage-output was by the glasscannon 90-year old Grandpa. Close combat mages are a nightmare... :D
I know right, someone’s got to be competent in midst of the ultra impulsive chaotic characters. I am currently playing a celestial patron pact of the tome warlock who is basically a medical student, he’s warm and really cares about the parties wellbeing, being essentially a doctor and all, but he is not stupid or impulsive he is actually rather calculating and strategic. He has prevented the party from doing tons of rather stupid stuff but I also think that my parties impulsivity really helps him actually get stuff done and prevent him from overthinking situations. I as a player usually play side character roles since I’m not the best at role playing but this character (being the only charismatic character with intelligence to back it up in the party) has forced me out of my comfort zone as they kinda just look to me as leader of the party. It’s still weird for me but rather interesting because I’m also the party healer and utility spellcaster (tons of cantrips nuff said) which is a rather rare set of traits for a character to have in part dynamics.
Deroth: how am I a disappointment? I am an army leader, I have become more powerful than most people would hope to be! Granny: YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO DESTROY THE SITH NOT JOIN THEM! Deroth: Hey you started it! Granny: I SPENT YEARS LOOKING FOR YOU! Deroth: no I mean this particular fight (granny looks back to see an uprising and a floor full of corpses) granny: it was all for a good cause? Deroth: okay boomer (granny smites Deroth) Deroth: worth... (cough) it
Actually, she worked for the US's Office of Strategic Services, basically the CIA _before_ the CIA. (She was _too tall_ to join the Women's Army Auxillary Corps or the Navy's Women's Reserve.) She definitely had at least a bit of what you might call "spy training"; she kept an emergency signal mirror in her kitchen junk drawer for the rest of her life, and she worked in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and China cataloging and passing top-secret messages, but her most famous work was as a research assistant back home in DC, as part of the OSS' Emergency Rescue Equipment Station. They had her devise a _shark repellant_ to keep curious sharks from detonating Allied mines prematurely. That was actually her first time cooking. Her recipe is still used today, or so I've heard. Her full personnel file (as "McWilliams, Julia C.") can be found online, if you're interested.
Actually, that's not a rumor. While I can't confirm, my Gramps was USMC Spec Ops during WW2, He loved watching her show. Once again, I can't confirm. But I wonder if they had met.
My necromancer wizard Dragonata Desdemona, a prodigy from a Noble family of prodigies, lawful evil in the best ways. He was the reason the dragon who became our ally didn't eat us thanks to etiquette skills and knowing draconic. He Bartered our way out of a giant tribes ambush, he did this alone while the party was held at arrow point, thanks to diplomacy and knowing the language of giants. He almost (failed by one check) got a group of named villains to fight each other instead of us do to bluff checks and ventriloquism spell. He regularly worked the kingdom's laws to benefit the party regularly, lawful evil can be a LOT of fun, and greatly benefits the party as a whole.
@@WorldWalker128 There's variants. While I mostly play Vermintide 2 (Warhammer Fantasy Left 4 Dead 2), I at least know a few: - The Affable - The Idiot - The Edgelord - The Big Bad Loony
@@rodrigosierpe5995 ..............,......................... Dam....he insest Ed her? Uuuuuuug. Was wondering why she wanted to kill him instead of fix him. Hell not even the granny thought that he needs a theripist.
You know what's better than a crazy character? A crazy character getting thier own side story with enough love and care that they become more than a joke.
One of my favorite characters ever was a female dwarven bard who had been raised on the surface by humans. Her performance skills were clay jug and rambling oration (think Grandpa Simpson ramblings). She had a love of cooking and adopting anything the party didn't end up killing in battle, taking great care to keep them fed, clean and pretty by braiding ribbons into their hair. Eventually she got her hands on a rod of wonder (and then a greater rod of wonder). She decided to tie a ribbon to then end and started to learn how to ribbon dance. The party was full of OP extremely effective combat characters, so she became the comic relief, eventually turning herself several sizes, colors and genders through the rod's powers. She ended up also turning into two different kinds of dragons and being reincarnated as a unicorn at one point. Man, I miss that game!
I created an artifact for my world: Goblins Bane. It’s the shovel Farmer Brown used to defend his home from goblins. It’s a +3 weapon, that does 1d4 bludgeoning damage (unless you have an intelligence score of 14 or higher, then you rotate it and it does 1d6 slashing damage). It is a sentient magic weapon, and if you are in the presence of goblins and are holding Goblins Bane, you must make a DC 30 Wisdom Saving throw, or be possessed. While possessed you basically become a 20th level berserker barbarian, in a frenzied reckless rage, and remain in that state so long as there are goblins that are still alive that you can see. When you come out of the possession, you take 1 level of exhaustion. There are a couple more benefits if you are using it exclusively as your weapon, but that’s the gist of it.
At the start of my campain, I also made a tiefling Hexblade that disguised as a human Fighter. He looks super frail (Str-1) yet hits like a truck. He also has a "special move" that he calls Falcon punch, basically an Eldritch Blast with knockback. He would pretend to punch, but instead cast the spell. Didn't work out because this proved too much work for DM so I revealed it early
My character that I have planned for the next campaign is a crippled old granny druid. Except she is a druid in nothing but purely tobacco. She is constantly smoking from a knotty wood pipe and has a very rough Smoker's voice. In exchange for 1/2 movement speed she has an extra spell slot
This is a beautiful story. Grateful old lady is in fact a fearsome and strong grandmother. They say that the love between grandparents and grandchildren doesn't have boundaries. And it is sure that the love between this grandma and her granddaughter is endless. So is the love for her new family
OMG. I have a similar character as in the video. A sweet dwarven grandma who loves baking and helping others, whose name is also Gertrude. Except, rather than a warlock, she is a barbarian. XD I am known on my community discord as Grandma Rage.
I played a mexican vampire that missed the sun of Acapulco in a Vampire the Mascarade campaign. He was brutal and light hearted. Like some kind of a cartel leader. He had three personalities, the first was a regular vampire, the second was a vampire hunter and the third was a snobish british vampire. The gm was in total control over which personality my character had at every given moment because I had to explain the rules that made change his personality and those of his brothers. When he was a vampire hunter he was in the hunt of himself as vampire and he was not aware of the fact that he was his own target. He was very noisy, obsessed with Mexican culture but never once dropped the mascarade. Though it exasperated the other characters quite a bit. The players enjoyed him, though. He was a very flawed character in campaign of perfect vampires. He was a gust of fresh air. It was very fun to play.
I had an idea for a conjurer back in 3.0 I wanted to play buy never got to. She was called Granny Summons. She was an elf, a very old elf, who had seen so much over her lifespan that nothing surprised her. She was going to be a quick-witted, iron-willed high-society lady who could have a devil over for tea and negotiate favorable terms, but also was very sweet to her friends and would give kindly life advise. This story reminded me of her. Tough old ladies rock!
I made a Wholesome Grand-Ma who was looking for her little kitten Fluffles, A Gaint Sabertooth tiger. She had lots of handle Animals and a few craft. What class? An Elemental Fist Monk of course!
Played a character that was a sell-sword, fighter. He was a high/low that was a difficult one to run because he couldn't use magic, in so far as spells and magics that effected him (potions) so need to eat and sleep to recover HP. The trade off was he could use magic items (wands, cloaks, etc, with scrolls being if-y,) The trade off was a special ability gained through the primary weapon used, it would suck Hp off those killed with one hit, and add it to his hp count. The weapon was a sword that was as lethal to victims and could, unless used precaution against, be just as lethal to the user. It gained 'power' for every one hit kill it made which after four one hit-kills in a single encounter wold add a die to it's to hit and add a die to damage, so you could, in a large encounter of low level (kobold swarm), start throwing handfuls of dice at a time. Anyway, he spoke primarily bestial as a language, but also had common. No one else in the party spoke bestial and for nearly the entire run that he was with the party he only spoke bestial to them and required an interpreter if they wanted to talk. Otherwise it was all hand signals and body language, that was until the group was captured. He'd entered the party as a hire early on and stayed for a whopping sum of 100gp a week, for that they got an excellent tanker killer. So now we're captured and before a queen/empress and he steps forward and speaks in perfect common "I'm not with this group, I'm only a contractor and they have a contract with me that is finished in the morning for they have not yet paid me for this week. I'm telling the truth because I have this.' and pulls out a ring of truth (area effective 10ft) 'I was hired and they have paid me to be with them.' They're surprised and saying he's a liar etc.. to which he looks at them and them her and says. 'I'm sure they said I only spoke beast as well.' He hands the ring to her artificer to check and steps back, out of the effect range so when he goes back in, wold need to make a roll against the effect. Because up till then he never told a lie, he just didn't speak in a language they (the rest of the party) could understand when they asked if he knew any other languages. Anyway, he barely beats the dc (it was at disadvantage) but the best part, was he can now lie even while holding the ring. Since the head honcho saw clearly he was telling the truth up front, and had her own people make sure that the ring he had was in fact a ring of truth, she believed everything he said. Lies poured forth and he was given freedom to walk around, and ended up killing their guard general, the only actual magic user in the room by paralyzing him in checking out his most used weapon, which was a bad one. That in order to gain all the benefits it offered, you needed to beat the weapon's dc on just touching it. Which was a 17. If you failed you took 3d20+d10 damage and if any of them rolled higher than the dc, you were paralyzed and couldn't move or drop the sword or make a sound. You were just frozen in place soaking in damage. Next round it would repeat until you beat the dc, though you had to do it at disadvantage each time. Otherwise it was 3d20+d10 psychic each round of touching the sword until you either beat it, or died. Their magic user never beat it. My character bypassed that by wearing psychic blockers, so he never got the advantage the sword offered which was a mental clarity of +8 to any roll save for psychic attack, with two successful saves gave you immunity for the day as long as you were holding the sword. If you let go or slept, you lost the advantage and had to re-roll against it's dc, etc. In the end when asked, after the party realized the entire time they'd been badmouthing and insulting him and he understood every word, they demanded to know why he never spoke in a way they could understand. His answer was 'Because if I did before then, it wouldn't have been so funny to see the looks on your faces.' He was chaotic neutral but not an asshole wanna be evil. He just saw it as a fantastic joke that got better day by day until the punchline was ripe to be dropped. They stopped paying him and he departed way, laughing into the sunset.
I currently play as Crazy Old Uncle Ned. A retired adventurer that treats the adventure in the form of a tourist. He's a warlock that after all this time has gone a little insane. He talks about impossible things from his past that no one believes. He's all around funny to watch and listen to. Think of him more as a hillbilly town coot.
Now I’m going to make a non-magical ‘cleric’ via Spheres of Power who ‘casts’ using Profession(Cook). ‘Oh here deary, have a cookie, you’ll feel better.” “But she’s missing an arm!” “Just eat the cookie.” “Wtf how does a cookie make you regrow limbs?” “Secret ingredient is love, and a spoonful of vinegar.”
I have played something out of the norm before, and it was also related to cookies! We used a homebrew for a homonculus as a base, but I had it tweaked into a little pixie theme. Then we used a homebrew class for cooking, cuisiner, and thus--the "Keebler Elf" was born. A sarcastic little fairy that healed people in battle with his little cookies. There was an obscene backstory about him leaving the other 'keebs', due to a sort of work station abuse. Minimum wage, extra hours with no pay -- that old dastard who ran the place may be cute, but he was a sick, demented fairy. The climax for the character was a heart wrenching and gruelling civil war between keeb kind.
I saw part of this on skydieray's channel not saying its bad just kinda cool to get more context for anyone wondering this story showed up in part 53 of his greentext series
I am currently playing an elderly gnome woman who is a cook (by profession), she also has a thick italian accent and mostly goes by Nonna with her party. I love playing someone older it gives the group a very intersting dynamic and the choices you make as someone late in life are different than someone young with their whole lives ahead of them.
Awesome story. I had some unique characters too. One of my characters was a modified bard that masqueraded as a mage... and he was a bit mixed up. His name was "Deja Vu" and he always seemed to have deja vu. He did offer insights and answers with "Oh, I think I did this before. Try (insert thing here). It worked last time." He had elfin chain mail under his robe and his quarterstaff was a concealed word... kind of like a modern umbrella sword or cane sword.
Never underestimate the power of Granny. Mine taught me patience and the importance of Education she also gave me some of the best advice I've ever had and helped me get my life straightened out long after she was already gone. Just by getting around to doing what she told me to.
Mouse necromancer who is a necrophiliac.....named Narf. "If it ain't dead i can't heal it" or "make sure he isn't breathing, can't do anything if he still jas a little life in him. A few more stabs will do the trick, or i could just venture inside and have a little snack."
I once played an half-orc barbarian that was actually an extremely composed grammar teacher. He discovered he could rage after getting angry at his students, and during fights, out of habit, he often addressed enemies like they were kids, shouting things like: "You are the worst class I ever had!", "You all fail!", "You should have studied more!". Later, he would regret loosing his temper and confess his sins to the party's cleric (which didn't help at all because he had the war domain)
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So is this all you do?
The closest i ever came to it was my Preppy Rich-boy Necromancer, Orpheus Spyros. At the time i'd played mostly Fighters or Rangers(as they were easier to build and keep track of), so a Wizard sounded just different enough to give it a try...
I do this alot like a goblin rogue that sounds like kermit,
i had an elven character that enjoyed going into underground dungeons, wears dwarven armor, and gets drunk more often than the party dwarf.
I don't play dnd but I knew a guy that had a minotaur thief assassin build that was super huge and yet super stealthy. All the strength of a barbarian, yet so sneaky he'd pickpocket enemies while they were looking right at him and always got the drop on foes. Who ever heard of an assassin that uses a battle axe?
"Did I stutter,"
Damn
Granny doesn't mess around.
badass.
4:20 in the video
When granny said those words I instinctively snapped to attention, and voice in my head said “yes ma’am uh no ma’am”
Grandma casts disappointment
It was super effective
Attack and defense sharply decreased.
All attacks, ability checks, and saving throws against Grandma have disadvantage
@FluffyXai If you fail the will save and you're any alignment other than Lawful Good, you instantly become Lawful Good, because if you don't listen to Grandma's rules and behave, you don't get any cookies.
*rolls for crit*
@Josiah Sepulveda Oh I meant for the parson/creature making the saving throw, not the Grandma. Grandma can be any alignment she wants, she's lived long enough to have that privilege
Granny: "I'm going to smash the door open."
DM: "The guards will hear you."
Granny: "Did I stutter?"
Best. Response. Ever
Well, Granny *is* a Paladin, not a Rogue.
I would have replied "Good" instead
@@ladylunaginaofgames40 hearing that line i was like 'holy shit this is going to be a good fight'
Couldn't have said it better!
Granny: I'm not mad, just disappointed.
DM: Roll for psychic damage.
this is Vicious Mockery at its finest!
@@jgr7487 but granny gets advantage and +10 also she gets to roll a d20
Nah that an 20 damage hit regardless
I dunno what people are surprised about; this sounds like a perfectly normal grandmother to me.
Yep. Don't mess with granny
It the faact it so normal
Well, perhaps if she's a Russian granny... ;)
Damn, how badass is your granny then? lol
@@dorianrobinette9712 in the past a 7 now 4
(When you haven't eaten in half an hour)
*Granny kicking down door* _"Where the hell are my grandchildren!?"_
I frickin love this concept!
Aside from the fact that this is a badass granny, being able to disguise a Paladin as a Warlock was SO cool. The creator did such a great job conceptualizing her.
Good multiclass RP
@@michaelsorensen7567 That's not even a multiclass. Granny was (probably) a Variant Human and took the Magic Initiate feat.
@@Lrbearclaw then why the "swore my soul to the stars" bit? That sounds like GOO patron too me.
@@michaelsorensen7567 Because "role-play". When I tried my hand at DMing, I told my players that every character choice they made needs to have an In Character reason/explanation. Meaning, every Feat needs to have an explanation for it.
'Magic Initiate' lets you take spell from other classes, but you still have to get the power from somewhere. Warlock powers come from a Patron, Sorcerer from their blood, Cleric from the Divine, and Wizard from the tome.
If you cannot come up for an IC reason for EVERY character building choice, then you don't have a character, you have a block of numbers. If you explain it all, then you enhance the RP for everyone and make a character who is all the more richer.
@@Lrbearclaw "I run my table this way so everyone else must necessarily also run their table this way"
Honestly we don't have enough info to judge either way and the only reason I'm continuing this conversation is your adamant insistence that it *must* be magic initiate instead of multiclass.
All the roleplay elements that justify "you have to get your magic initiate magic from somewhere" also justify "small dip into warlock multiclass", so without further information, like whether they even started campaign at level 1 (many like to start at 3+ so as to already have subclasses and not accidentally get one shot killed by a common housecat) we can't really say definitively.
Johnathan: okay boomer
Granny: I'm not mad, just disappointed, you have failed me for the last time
Johnathan: why do I hear boss music
XD
Jonathan: okay boomer
Granny: actually, i am from the silent generation
HAHAHA when the boss hears boss music gods run in terror
(gloria used eldrich blast)
Deroth: WAIT A MINUTE! alright guys just wait a second. you could use magic THIS ENTIRE TIME??? YOU NEVER TRIED TO DO ANYTHING UNTIL NOW?
Gloria: uhh
Deroth: you might be more trouble than your worth. well you can go I guess, now if you'll excuse me I need to deal with this uprising outside, see ya
granny: well I saved my granddaughter and my grandson is a... warlord... well I accomplished everything I set out to do
Boss music? I hear a funeral dirge.
Not Boss music doom music
Gloria "You have a new family to take care of"
Im not crying, you are
It's dust. Who opened the door and stirred up the dust?
We all knew the fight was over when she casted "Dissapointed", the greates Warlock spell.
We all know it's actually a paladin/cleric spell, but when clerics cast it, it never has the same weight as when it comes from a paladin.
The greatest spell that you can get after a certain age.
You get bonuses if you're a brother/sister/parent/grandparent. The more older you get the higher the bonus.
Jk
@@bethanysmith5856 No joke. I *still* answer to my mom. I am, shall we say, no longer on the younger side of 30. That Parental Disappointment (4th level) just gets worse with experience.
I'd love to see Granny's character sheet!
Seconded
Same
me too
I'm guessing arcane initiate for warlock stuff.
You sick bastard
“Ok boom-“
“OK ZOOMER” *eldritch blast*
Scariest part of the story was the first sentence. The INK was barely dry? They filled out character sheets.... In *gulp* .....pen????
Horrifying! How dare they!
Probably a figure of speech
Probably referring to the sheets being printed out tbh ;p
Me, who used a pen, pencil, and the computer and its printer: So what you cowards.
The horror
*reads title*
Gentlemen, you had my interest....but now you have my attention.
Being the group's mom or granny is a very important role to have and makes for memorable interactions. I once Gm'd a oneshot where the biggest damage-output was by the glasscannon 90-year old Grandpa. Close combat mages are a nightmare... :D
I know right, someone’s got to be competent in midst of the ultra impulsive chaotic characters.
I am currently playing a celestial patron pact of the tome warlock who is basically a medical student, he’s warm and really cares about the parties wellbeing, being essentially a doctor and all, but he is not stupid or impulsive he is actually rather calculating and strategic. He has prevented the party from doing tons of rather stupid stuff but I also think that my parties impulsivity really helps him actually get stuff done and prevent him from overthinking situations.
I as a player usually play side character roles since I’m not the best at role playing but this character (being the only charismatic character with intelligence to back it up in the party) has forced me out of my comfort zone as they kinda just look to me as leader of the party. It’s still weird for me but rather interesting because I’m also the party healer and utility spellcaster (tons of cantrips nuff said) which is a rather rare set of traits for a character to have in part dynamics.
Grandma and grandpa
I’m not angry...... I’m just disappointed
8:01
Nat 20 crit to feels :(
Deroth: how am I a disappointment? I am an army leader, I have become more powerful than most people would hope to be!
Granny: YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO DESTROY THE SITH NOT JOIN THEM!
Deroth: Hey you started it!
Granny: I SPENT YEARS LOOKING FOR YOU!
Deroth: no I mean this particular fight
(granny looks back to see an uprising and a floor full of corpses)
granny: it was all for a good cause?
Deroth: okay boomer
(granny smites Deroth)
Deroth: worth... (cough) it
"I'm here to smite evil and bake cookies. The cookies are already in the oven."
Hardcore Granny now has a whole new meaning.
WAI-
@@crabboboi1938 Do you really want to think about it? Just ... let it go.
Grannies make some weird characters.
TeamFourStar did a campaign where there was a sea-hag in the party that cooked for them and was named “Grammy”
I thought this was going to be about her tbh.
The legends were true... The Legendary Super Senior!
Reminds me of the legends surrounding Julia Child. Rumor was she was a British spy before becoming the master chef we see her as most of the time.
Actually, she worked for the US's Office of Strategic Services, basically the CIA _before_ the CIA. (She was _too tall_ to join the Women's Army Auxillary Corps or the Navy's Women's Reserve.)
She definitely had at least a bit of what you might call "spy training"; she kept an emergency signal mirror in her kitchen junk drawer for the rest of her life, and she worked in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and China cataloging and passing top-secret messages, but her most famous work was as a research assistant back home in DC, as part of the OSS' Emergency Rescue Equipment Station. They had her devise a _shark repellant_ to keep curious sharks from detonating Allied mines prematurely. That was actually her first time cooking. Her recipe is still used today, or so I've heard.
Her full personnel file (as "McWilliams, Julia C.") can be found online, if you're interested.
@@Anastas1786 Shark repellent? Is Julia Child secretly Batman?
@@maximumdon7637 That can neither be confirmed nor denied by a reading of her OSS personnel file.
@@maximumdon7637 Have you ever seen her and Batman in the same room ?
Just as I thought
Actually, that's not a rumor. While I can't confirm, my Gramps was USMC Spec Ops during WW2, He loved watching her show. Once again, I can't confirm. But I wonder if they had met.
My necromancer wizard Dragonata Desdemona, a prodigy from a Noble family of prodigies, lawful evil in the best ways.
He was the reason the dragon who became our ally didn't eat us thanks to etiquette skills and knowing draconic.
He Bartered our way out of a giant tribes ambush, he did this alone while the party was held at arrow point, thanks to diplomacy and knowing the language of giants.
He almost (failed by one check) got a group of named villains to fight each other instead of us do to bluff checks and ventriloquism spell.
He regularly worked the kingdom's laws to benefit the party regularly, lawful evil can be a LOT of fun, and greatly benefits the party as a whole.
When played right, and if allowed to be played right.
Someone
Someone being a rules lawyer in a good way?
“I’m so disappointed!”
Damn granny... *rolls for crit* 😂💀
Deroth: I am I high ranking member in an army WHAT MORE DO YOU EXPECT FROM ME?!?
If I was deeroth would of used my last words to ask whatever grandma gertrudes cookie recipe was.
Greater Grievobeast 55
“I said over MY dead body, not over yours”
"The recipe was love, you ungrateful brat!"
Never thought I'd hear of a slavelord who's basically a psychopathic edgy teen.
You mean they aren't like that to begin with?
@@WorldWalker128 There's variants. While I mostly play Vermintide 2 (Warhammer Fantasy Left 4 Dead 2), I at least know a few:
- The Affable
- The Idiot
- The Edgelord
- The Big Bad Loony
This was so cooooool.
Ah that ending....at least deroth kept his sister safe by his side. Even if she was in chains.
Don't want to go to any dark places, but chained to his throne? To me that looks like a sex slave or similar
Rodrigo Sierpe They are safety chains. Blankets didn’t fit the aesthetic.
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Dam....he insest Ed her? Uuuuuuug.
Was wondering why she wanted to kill him instead of fix him.
Hell not even the granny thought that he needs a theripist.
@@kharijordan6426 ain't no therapists in the magic world, however there are spirits and eldritch beasts!
You know what's better than a crazy character? A crazy character getting thier own side story with enough love and care that they become more than a joke.
Granny be like: ya heathens, return my grandkid or be smite like a heretic you are!
Aslo Granny: Cookies, anyone?
Granny:
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You're approaching me, sweety?
One of my favorite characters ever was a female dwarven bard who had been raised on the surface by humans. Her performance skills were clay jug and rambling oration (think Grandpa Simpson ramblings). She had a love of cooking and adopting anything the party didn't end up killing in battle, taking great care to keep them fed, clean and pretty by braiding ribbons into their hair. Eventually she got her hands on a rod of wonder (and then a greater rod of wonder). She decided to tie a ribbon to then end and started to learn how to ribbon dance. The party was full of OP extremely effective combat characters, so she became the comic relief, eventually turning herself several sizes, colors and genders through the rod's powers. She ended up also turning into two different kinds of dragons and being reincarnated as a unicorn at one point. Man, I miss that game!
Sounds fantastic! The best games leave marks. I still have the 3 ring binder of a player group I used more than 10 years ago.
That sounds hysterical and I would've loved something like that.
The one true hero she is the grandma we need but not the one we deserve
Granny Goodness character build.
no
If she was sadistic, yes
The god of cookies has descended Upon us
I’ve head of this warlock granny PC before, but I’ve never seen the epic conclusion to her story. Thank you!
FUNNY, My son Josef, USMC said nearly the same thing about my Mom, his Grandma. I informed him that he was correct.
next up. a ninja granny with killer cooking skills, and she is well versed in alchemy too.
So Rosie Beestinger? (Acquisitions Inc C Team)
Julia Childs re-worked as an RPG character? Cool!
So, a Paladin of Vengeance with Magic Initiate (Warlock)? Neat.
Yirbel lives! Oooh my its that farmer with the shovel all over again! The hidden badass lurks in every corner.
No no, that's the edgelords. Real badasses hide in plain sight.
Khadharphak ah good point!
stubby hands good to see ya!
stubby hands good to see ya!
I created an artifact for my world: Goblins Bane. It’s the shovel Farmer Brown used to defend his home from goblins. It’s a +3 weapon, that does 1d4 bludgeoning damage (unless you have an intelligence score of 14 or higher, then you rotate it and it does 1d6 slashing damage). It is a sentient magic weapon, and if you are in the presence of goblins and are holding Goblins Bane, you must make a DC 30 Wisdom Saving throw, or be possessed.
While possessed you basically become a 20th level berserker barbarian, in a frenzied reckless rage, and remain in that state so long as there are goblins that are still alive that you can see. When you come out of the possession, you take 1 level of exhaustion.
There are a couple more benefits if you are using it exclusively as your weapon, but that’s the gist of it.
At the start of my campain, I also made a tiefling Hexblade that disguised as a human Fighter.
He looks super frail (Str-1) yet hits like a truck. He also has a "special move" that he calls Falcon punch, basically an Eldritch Blast with knockback. He would pretend to punch, but instead cast the spell. Didn't work out because this proved too much work for DM so I revealed it early
She reminds me of Lily Bowen, A character from "Fallout: New Vegas"
I had the exact same thought!
"Oh, don't you worry your silly little head about that, pumpkin. Grandma knows what she's doing."
I loved this and can only imagine how the role-playing was handled.
This is one of the only D&D stories that has ever made me cry. What an absolutely beautiful story.
This is actually a pretty interesting turn on the "captured relative"-trope. I'd love to see Granny meeting Uncle Iroh.
Tea and Cookies being shared. With a very confused Zuko. Not against it just confused about this new woman
Then gloria sits on the throne and giggles to herself
me: reads title
also me: wut
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I dont know anything about DND but damn do I love these stories!
The heavens will claim a great one when she dies.
Bold of you to assume Death can stop Granny.
@@UltimaXReborn death will never kill granny because death likes her cookies to much
I am inspired to make a character that embodies the "wolf in sheep's clothing" idea. But i havent played a single campaign. Any ideas would be great 😊
Wow...I honestly didn't see that plot twist with the grandson coming! Cool story!!!
This story is amazing! It’s so heartwarming
"now where the hell is my grandchildren"
No matter how many times I hear this story I chuckle when granny reveals her oath
My character that I have planned for the next campaign is a crippled old granny druid. Except she is a druid in nothing but purely tobacco. She is constantly smoking from a knotty wood pipe and has a very rough Smoker's voice. In exchange for 1/2 movement speed she has an extra spell slot
I never thought you’d ever release something as good as the Grey Necromancer, boy was I wrong! I absolutely loved this story!
This is a beautiful story. Grateful old lady is in fact a fearsome and strong grandmother. They say that the love between grandparents and grandchildren doesn't have boundaries. And it is sure that the love between this grandma and her granddaughter is endless. So is the love for her new family
OMG. I have a similar character as in the video. A sweet dwarven grandma who loves baking and helping others, whose name is also Gertrude. Except, rather than a warlock, she is a barbarian. XD
I am known on my community discord as Grandma Rage.
You find some of the most awesome stories out there, man.
I played a mexican vampire that missed the sun of Acapulco in a Vampire the Mascarade campaign. He was brutal and light hearted. Like some kind of a cartel leader.
He had three personalities, the first was a regular vampire, the second was a vampire hunter and the third was a snobish british vampire.
The gm was in total control over which personality my character had at every given moment because I had to explain the rules that made change his personality and those of his brothers.
When he was a vampire hunter he was in the hunt of himself as vampire and he was not aware of the fact that he was his own target.
He was very noisy, obsessed with Mexican culture but never once dropped the mascarade. Though it exasperated the other characters quite a bit. The players enjoyed him, though.
He was a very flawed character in campaign of perfect vampires. He was a gust of fresh air.
It was very fun to play.
Still makes cookies. lol.
I'm so glad I stumbled upon this channel months ago!
We need a Babushka barbarian who's weapon is a massive soup ladle and who speaks in a deep manly Russian voice. That I would pay to hear.
Heck yes!!
I had an idea for a conjurer back in 3.0 I wanted to play buy never got to. She was called Granny Summons. She was an elf, a very old elf, who had seen so much over her lifespan that nothing surprised her. She was going to be a quick-witted, iron-willed high-society lady who could have a devil over for tea and negotiate favorable terms, but also was very sweet to her friends and would give kindly life advise.
This story reminded me of her. Tough old ladies rock!
I remember reading this one on Facebook. Loved it.
Subtitles: Walking stick
Audio: Wonking stick
Me: I don’t know who to believe!!
I made a Wholesome Grand-Ma who was looking for her little kitten Fluffles, A Gaint Sabertooth tiger. She had lots of handle Animals and a few craft.
What class? An Elemental Fist Monk of course!
I wanted to watch an unstoppable yet wholesome granny fight bad guys and bake cookies, not make me cry. 😭
Played a character that was a sell-sword, fighter. He was a high/low that was a difficult one to run because he couldn't use magic, in so far as spells and magics that effected him (potions) so need to eat and sleep to recover HP. The trade off was he could use magic items (wands, cloaks, etc, with scrolls being if-y,) The trade off was a special ability gained through the primary weapon used, it would suck Hp off those killed with one hit, and add it to his hp count. The weapon was a sword that was as lethal to victims and could, unless used precaution against, be just as lethal to the user. It gained 'power' for every one hit kill it made which after four one hit-kills in a single encounter wold add a die to it's to hit and add a die to damage, so you could, in a large encounter of low level (kobold swarm), start throwing handfuls of dice at a time.
Anyway, he spoke primarily bestial as a language, but also had common. No one else in the party spoke bestial and for nearly the entire run that he was with the party he only spoke bestial to them and required an interpreter if they wanted to talk. Otherwise it was all hand signals and body language, that was until the group was captured.
He'd entered the party as a hire early on and stayed for a whopping sum of 100gp a week, for that they got an excellent tanker killer. So now we're captured and before a queen/empress and he steps forward and speaks in perfect common "I'm not with this group, I'm only a contractor and they have a contract with me that is finished in the morning for they have not yet paid me for this week. I'm telling the truth because I have this.' and pulls out a ring of truth (area effective 10ft) 'I was hired and they have paid me to be with them.' They're surprised and saying he's a liar etc.. to which he looks at them and them her and says. 'I'm sure they said I only spoke beast as well.'
He hands the ring to her artificer to check and steps back, out of the effect range so when he goes back in, wold need to make a roll against the effect. Because up till then he never told a lie, he just didn't speak in a language they (the rest of the party) could understand when they asked if he knew any other languages.
Anyway, he barely beats the dc (it was at disadvantage) but the best part, was he can now lie even while holding the ring. Since the head honcho saw clearly he was telling the truth up front, and had her own people make sure that the ring he had was in fact a ring of truth, she believed everything he said. Lies poured forth and he was given freedom to walk around, and ended up killing their guard general, the only actual magic user in the room by paralyzing him in checking out his most used weapon, which was a bad one. That in order to gain all the benefits it offered, you needed to beat the weapon's dc on just touching it. Which was a 17. If you failed you took 3d20+d10 damage and if any of them rolled higher than the dc, you were paralyzed and couldn't move or drop the sword or make a sound. You were just frozen in place soaking in damage. Next round it would repeat until you beat the dc, though you had to do it at disadvantage each time. Otherwise it was 3d20+d10 psychic each round of touching the sword until you either beat it, or died. Their magic user never beat it.
My character bypassed that by wearing psychic blockers, so he never got the advantage the sword offered which was a mental clarity of +8 to any roll save for psychic attack, with two successful saves gave you immunity for the day as long as you were holding the sword. If you let go or slept, you lost the advantage and had to re-roll against it's dc, etc.
In the end when asked, after the party realized the entire time they'd been badmouthing and insulting him and he understood every word, they demanded to know why he never spoke in a way they could understand. His answer was 'Because if I did before then, it wouldn't have been so funny to see the looks on your faces.' He was chaotic neutral but not an asshole wanna be evil. He just saw it as a fantastic joke that got better day by day until the punchline was ripe to be dropped. They stopped paying him and he departed way, laughing into the sunset.
This is still only the 2nd most terrifying Granny I have heard of.
Who is the first?
That Was absolutely Astounding!!!!! I was on the edge of my seat for the entire story!!!!!
*bursts into tears and applause* omg that was heart wrenching and awesome at the same time!!!
*one year later: Still bursts into tears and sobs*
*Fallout 4 plot flashbacks*
Sole Survivor:...I know your pain..
WTF! I didn't expect to cry this hard today! I love seeing a hardcore granny character, those are just awesome.
Granny's a warlock! Sounds like a metal song to me!!!🤘🔥🎸
That made me cry. I want this player in campaign 1 of the world I'm building!
Granny sounds like a cool PC
Wow. And I thought I was being off type when I played the wicked queen from Snow White.
ok now I want to make a Granny inspired build Especially with the ruse of Warlock actually turns out to be a paladin.
I currently play as Crazy Old Uncle Ned. A retired adventurer that treats the adventure in the form of a tourist. He's a warlock that after all this time has gone a little insane. He talks about impossible things from his past that no one believes. He's all around funny to watch and listen to. Think of him more as a hillbilly town coot.
this made me cry like a baby
Granny goes hard in the paint
Now I’m going to make a non-magical ‘cleric’ via Spheres of Power who ‘casts’ using Profession(Cook). ‘Oh here deary, have a cookie, you’ll feel better.” “But she’s missing an arm!” “Just eat the cookie.” “Wtf how does a cookie make you regrow limbs?” “Secret ingredient is love, and a spoonful of vinegar.”
😂
I have played something out of the norm before, and it was also related to cookies! We used a homebrew for a homonculus as a base, but I had it tweaked into a little pixie theme.
Then we used a homebrew class for cooking, cuisiner, and thus--the "Keebler Elf" was born. A sarcastic little fairy that healed people in battle with his little cookies.
There was an obscene backstory about him leaving the other 'keebs', due to a sort of work station abuse. Minimum wage, extra hours with no pay -- that old dastard who ran the place may be cute, but he was a sick, demented fairy.
The climax for the character was a heart wrenching and gruelling civil war between keeb kind.
I saw part of this on skydieray's channel not saying its bad just kinda cool to get more context for anyone wondering this story showed up in part 53 of his greentext series
I’m not angry...... I’m just disappointed
man that hurts
She protecc,
she attacc,
but most importantly,
she baked you a snack!
And the 'Granny of the Year from here on' award goes to.......
Until Granny dropped her cloak, I was kind of expecting Baba Yaga. LOL
this is awesome. i would love to see granny's character sheet.
Probably just a bog-standard paladin with the Magic Initiate feat.
I am currently playing an elderly gnome woman who is a cook (by profession), she also has a thick italian accent and mostly goes by Nonna with her party. I love playing someone older it gives the group a very intersting dynamic and the choices you make as someone late in life are different than someone young with their whole lives ahead of them.
You have to be a monster not to cry during granny's story and when her grandson tried to kill her.
Ink on character sheets
*screems a blood curdling scream*
Awesome story. I had some unique characters too. One of my characters was a modified bard that masqueraded as a mage... and he was a bit mixed up. His name was "Deja Vu" and he always seemed to have deja vu. He did offer insights and answers with "Oh, I think I did this before. Try (insert thing here). It worked last time." He had elfin chain mail under his robe and his quarterstaff was a concealed word... kind of like a modern umbrella sword or cane sword.
Never underestimate the power of Granny. Mine taught me patience and the importance of Education she also gave me some of the best advice I've ever had and helped me get my life straightened out long after she was already gone. Just by getting around to doing what she told me to.
Mouse necromancer who is a necrophiliac.....named Narf. "If it ain't dead i can't heal it" or "make sure he isn't breathing, can't do anything if he still jas a little life in him. A few more stabs will do the trick, or i could just venture inside and have a little snack."
Damn granny be the best character in the party
Got to say, I love how the art makes her look like Murial from Courage the Cowardly Dog.
And that, boys and girls, is why you should *always* respect your elders.
That was awesome and tear jerking. I loved it.
This is my favorite story on this entire channel.
I once played an half-orc barbarian that was actually an extremely composed grammar teacher. He discovered he could rage after getting angry at his students, and during fights, out of habit, he often addressed enemies like they were kids, shouting things like: "You are the worst class I ever had!", "You all fail!", "You should have studied more!". Later, he would regret loosing his temper and confess his sins to the party's cleric (which didn't help at all because he had the war domain)