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  • @BlaineSimple
    @BlaineSimple  3 ปีที่แล้ว +389

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    • @liamwatson9749
      @liamwatson9749 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Hey Blaine I’m your biggest fan.Question- did you play this on the game or the actual game and if you did do it on the game what is the game called

    • @BlaineSimple
      @BlaineSimple  3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@liamwatson9749 Not sure what your question is referring to. Yeah we did all of this in-game. This was a homebrewed quest for the party.

    • @liamwatson9749
      @liamwatson9749 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@BlaineSimple bit like did you do it on a computer

    • @Slyther1O1
      @Slyther1O1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@liamwatson9749 I believe Blaine said that this campaign was online in the wish video.

    • @JosephMartinezWasHere
      @JosephMartinezWasHere 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You just got dr stoned so hard

  • @wulfleyn6498
    @wulfleyn6498 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3306

    I fear the person who knows how to make explosives out of clay, sunflowers and random shit they found.

    • @beaconblaster33
      @beaconblaster33 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      crap

    • @cyberwolfy37
      @cyberwolfy37 3 ปีที่แล้ว +104

      ....deidara?

    • @andrewlentner
      @andrewlentner 3 ปีที่แล้ว +88

      I...I want to know how

    • @NiteArtorias
      @NiteArtorias 3 ปีที่แล้ว +176

      @@andrewlentner you must first become a florida man before you can do the dumbest of shit but once you do the power to turn flowers into bombs is yours

    • @patryks9048
      @patryks9048 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      It's just using a player information. Nothing less nothing more.

  • @bionicdragon5
    @bionicdragon5 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2176

    The irony of the *cleric* literally pulling a Dr. Stone is not lost on me.

    • @FerretyZebra
      @FerretyZebra 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      100

    • @buterassassin1952
      @buterassassin1952 3 ปีที่แล้ว +159

      I would’ve expected this from a wizard or artificer since they would have the most access to scientific data, however I think a cleric knowing how to f- over magic with science is an invaluable asset

    • @R.E.E.D.
      @R.E.E.D. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      Why is it ironic? Seems fitting to me. The gods didnt give that cleric a brain to not use it LOL

    • @josiebianchi3481
      @josiebianchi3481 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      everyone really out here in the comments typecasting "cleric" as the devout, bible-thumping LG cleric of Pelor, as if Forge and Arcana clerics just straight up don't exist

    • @CallMeEmber
      @CallMeEmber 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yo dude, dr stone season 2 is out rn my gamer.

  • @HeadHunter-mv2ht
    @HeadHunter-mv2ht 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1590

    so. . . the party's cleric is a fan of Dr Stone i see.

    • @realrtdto
      @realrtdto 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      a little season 2 is going to be hype

    • @jonassturgeon5870
      @jonassturgeon5870 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      How much dice worth of damage was it

    • @anthonyvang9207
      @anthonyvang9207 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Was thinking the same thing lmao cant wait for more episodes for season 2

    • @beaconblaster33
      @beaconblaster33 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      diy: use sweat to escape jail

    • @gorillafighter4037
      @gorillafighter4037 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Or, a chemist.

  • @MegaAgamon
    @MegaAgamon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1802

    How I stop my one player who studies Geology and knows how to make bombs with literally anything?
    "Yes Mike, you know that mixing these shits together will bring you a bomb, but does your character know that?"
    I honestly fear the day he will choose to run artificer...

    • @user-mf5qu9qt1c
      @user-mf5qu9qt1c 3 ปีที่แล้ว +164

      The nuclear disaster approaches

    • @KarmaSangheili
      @KarmaSangheili 3 ปีที่แล้ว +148

      Never let them get to level 5 so they don't get expertise in alchemists tools, whatever you do.

    • @ericb3157
      @ericb3157 3 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      reminds me of a scene in the online comic "order of the stick", where the Fighter used his knowledge of Architecture to win an arena duel.
      -he tricked his opponent into knocking down a pillar, so part of the building collapsed on him.

    • @MegaBandolier
      @MegaBandolier 3 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      I once made child sized, acid spitting steel skeleton's covered in flaming rags that said "Are you my mommy?" As they tried to devour you.

    • @user-mf5qu9qt1c
      @user-mf5qu9qt1c 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@MegaBandolier 0-0... That's creepy

  • @karenbonds264
    @karenbonds264 3 ปีที่แล้ว +800

    Dragon Turtle: "Oh, You're approaching me?"
    The Party: "No." *Yeets Explosive Spear*

    • @sidneyswope3000
      @sidneyswope3000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      EAT THERMITE! WE HAVE PLENTY TO SPARE!

    • @jordanhansen5934
      @jordanhansen5934 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Mmmm! Tasty thermite! Just like mother used to make.

    • @kbecker3020
      @kbecker3020 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      ah yes my fav food *thermite spears*

    • @theguywiththeoldds3896
      @theguywiththeoldds3896 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      "A big fucking *dead turtle* coming right up"

    • @justafan9206
      @justafan9206 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      *thoooooooop*
      *Nuclear explosion*

  • @MilitaryMan3706
    @MilitaryMan3706 3 ปีที่แล้ว +273

    My favorite part of this was when the turtle first started saying how we were doomed and we would all die. Half way through was like "I'm dying"

    • @alittlecrow4615
      @alittlecrow4615 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Hahahah that was so funny

    • @eclipsekitsune2024
      @eclipsekitsune2024 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Could be so kind as to teach me how to make this dm destroying, game breaking, campaign ending weapon? Please.

    • @kajek1229
      @kajek1229 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't know how about you but I read that in Dallas's voice.

    • @Aredel
      @Aredel ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kajek1229 The turtle afterwards: "AAAAAAAH! I NEED A MEDIC BAG!"

  • @Mangoscats
    @Mangoscats 3 ปีที่แล้ว +744

    My dm once gave me a deck of many things as a joke I got a joker I think then I got the moon (3 wishes)and a wonderous magic item and I wished the final boss away and then my dm ended the session and said it was a dream

    • @Mangoscats
      @Mangoscats 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Wow this was actually similar to the story

    • @ultrainstinctichigo5788
      @ultrainstinctichigo5788 3 ปีที่แล้ว +94

      If I was the DM in your game I would say you didn't say where or when the final boss is sent away.

    • @Mangoscats
      @Mangoscats 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Also I wanted to be fair after wards and asked mirror image at will and a 5th level spell slot which the dm agreed to also he didn’t give us the xp for the boss but i don’t care

    • @Sleepless_Sam
      @Sleepless_Sam 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Don't know how you give someone that item without being prepared to throw everything away.

    • @Mangoscats
      @Mangoscats 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@Sleepless_Sam i was prepared to throw everything away just for fun and i think the dm was but it was final boss also he could have made the whishes backfire or something

  • @YourBoyNobody530
    @YourBoyNobody530 3 ปีที่แล้ว +707

    I would not be surprised if that player had watched doctor stone

    • @YourBoyNobody530
      @YourBoyNobody530 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@blankdragon1636 Sorry I don't remeber every line he said I haven't watched the dubbed version.

    • @torva360
      @torva360 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      My thought, too (or they've been playing Don't Starve).

    • @realrtdto
      @realrtdto 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      i did its great cant wait for season 2

    • @professorhaystacks6606
      @professorhaystacks6606 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      ...I can't remember, what chemical were the sunflowers providing? The clay is for the Aluminum, the weapons are presumably iron. Was the sunflower oil just an oxidizer so you don't have to wait for the iron to rust?

    • @MrChupacabra555
      @MrChupacabra555 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I don't know, if I were DM I wouldn't have allowed that, at least not without having the cleric make several INt/Skill checks to see if they know how to make the explosive.

  • @aggapuffin
    @aggapuffin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +710

    Someone in the party really just has Giorno's hair, huh?

    • @jf2801
      @jf2801 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Don't forget a literal neko. 😂

    • @empoleonmaster6709
      @empoleonmaster6709 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      They better have had a dream!

    • @justsomeguywithahandlebarm2456
      @justsomeguywithahandlebarm2456 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      They are the druid as well

    • @Bluewolf-gu9ku
      @Bluewolf-gu9ku 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      whats next? he going to get a stand

    • @ultatack6020
      @ultatack6020 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Bluewolf-gu9ku *multi classes into astral self monk*

  • @jobot0114
    @jobot0114 3 ปีที่แล้ว +250

    _When you overprepare for the final boss in a JRPG or JRPG-like_
    (My personal example is the Mario & Luigi series. Literally _all of them_ )

    • @ped3752
      @ped3752 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      The Superstar one is totally bullshit tho, the 3ds version is much more easier.

    • @patrickdees5256
      @patrickdees5256 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ah I see you are person of culture

    • @creezza6711
      @creezza6711 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Bro just grind those machines in Peach's Castle and Fawful is a cakewalk

    • @richiewitcher4456
      @richiewitcher4456 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      When I used to play the Final Fantasies, I'd save all my elixers for the final boss fight and didn't even use them all after the fight was over.

    • @ChrisHinners008
      @ChrisHinners008 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I have beaten M&L paper jam a while back, and honestly I think I struggled MORE on collecting the damn toads and King Bob-Omb than I did bowser💀
      He was pretty easy from my hazy memory.

  • @Thissideup-box
    @Thissideup-box 3 ปีที่แล้ว +562

    Blaine: what is it
    Player: oh just a 4000 degree homemade explosive
    Blaine: *concerned dm noises*

    • @inventor121
      @inventor121 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      You should have seen what my wizard did with two very straight sticks, a bunch of silver, a cannon ball, and a 9th level Lightning bolt.
      I made a railgun that hits with the force of a nuclear bomb that can tear through cities and level mountains. Sure it costs 50 gp per use but it is SO much more elegant than Fireball.
      The DM rage quit that session after we annihilated a dwarf fortress he had spent a month planning, and the mountain range it was a part of, in all of 5 seconds.
      We were told to get rid of a mountain full of zombies including a zombie dragon, we were not made aware of any hostages (since we thought zombies were brainless).
      Another time my Cleric became a walking tank after collecting no less than 15 wands of magic missile, mithril plate armour, and a a shield +3. I now have a base AC of 27 and can get my AC up to 30 without issue (typically leave it at 29 so I can use my Amulet of Health)

    • @Thissideup-box
      @Thissideup-box 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@inventor121 noice

    • @thegradyfiles3272
      @thegradyfiles3272 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I don’t want to imagine what would happen if it went wrong

    • @realrtdto
      @realrtdto 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      well its only 2x the heat of magma in dnd so we went off that

    • @RandomMan1
      @RandomMan1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@inventor121 why would the DM rage quit? They allowed it to happen. It's easily nerfed while still being cool.
      Melt the silver and destroy the device after one shot if too high of a level spell is used
      the damage shouldn't be much more than the damage of the lightning bolt, maybe x2. x3 if it can fail disastrously. It is a prototype after all.

  • @MugwumptheGrand
    @MugwumptheGrand ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I still love when our DM threw a hydra at our level 6 party, thinking that we'd run away from it. They greatly underestimated our blood lust and the wizard's possession of the slow spell.

    • @elrondxiloscient
      @elrondxiloscient 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      i made the same mistake with a beefed-up shambling mound i threw at my level five party (a party of just TWO). stunning strike is one hell of an ability

  • @DrL5721
    @DrL5721 3 ปีที่แล้ว +340

    Everyone apart from the main team: I'm ready to defeat this turtle with nothing but our weapons and magic
    The main team: POWER OF SCIENCE BIIIIIIIT-

  • @15098D
    @15098D 3 ปีที่แล้ว +556

    I am so curious as to how you calculated the damage of an explosive spear

    • @duburakiba
      @duburakiba 3 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      Fireball with max damage + spear damage

    • @Ghorda9
      @Ghorda9 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@duburakiba i feel like thunder damage would suit better.

    • @duburakiba
      @duburakiba 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@Ghorda9 no heat from thunder damage

    • @Ghorda9
      @Ghorda9 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      @@duburakiba not all explosions are hot, an over pressurised gas canister for example, also i don't see how fire immune creatures would also be immune to explosive shockwaves.

    • @duburakiba
      @duburakiba 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@Ghorda9 they basically made dynamite thus fiery kaboom and you would separate the fire and explosive damage if an enemy is immune to one its half damage

  • @Zerum69
    @Zerum69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    There's nothing more human than looking at a big scary animal in the eyes, putting your own poop at the end of pointed stick and showing the monster who's the apex predator in this world

  • @FerretyZebra
    @FerretyZebra 3 ปีที่แล้ว +370

    Every time i hear the word D&D i imagine that D&D beyond commercial music

    • @TheSpencermacdougall
      @TheSpencermacdougall 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      You got your perfect Warlock. Her weapons and supplys. But you need a place to track your stats, cuz you're so disorganized. So you click open the web page, you heard about on critical role, and now you're ready to kick some butt, in a mineshaft full of KNOOOLLLS!
      (edit to fix typo, and yes, this was typed from memory.)

    • @dseray9494
      @dseray9494 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Same

    • @dragonarchive7443
      @dragonarchive7443 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      It's DnD! (DnD, yeah!)
      DnD Beyond!

    • @cptrevenant4088
      @cptrevenant4088 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@TheSpencermacdougall You horrible monster

    • @dorca9308
      @dorca9308 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@TheSpencermacdougall ITS DND! (DnD) DnD beyond, YEAH DND (DnD) DnD beyond. You got your spells, you got your stuff, and you got your invisible waaaaaaand. DnD. Dnd. DnD beyooooond.

  • @andrewgardner3540
    @andrewgardner3540 3 ปีที่แล้ว +265

    I had a gloom stalker ranger that multiclass into an assassin, he was a revenant too. In the final few session of the game he died right before they when to the castle. We all thought that killed the tension as he would come back anyway so I gave him the option to be brought back by the morning lord and he could swap two levels into paladin. then when they got to strand, they managed to get the literal drop on him. The player jumped from the roof of the church in raven loft and dropkicked Strahd. We then realized he got free crits on round one if you when before the target. SO, he got base hit, 1d8, 3d6 from sneak attack, and 6d8 from smite, and it was the suns word for another 1d10, all doubled from crit. He dealt 175 damage in a single hit and strahd did not have his crystal heart. they still had to find the crypt and nearly died because of them being over confident. but that fight has gone down in my group’s history as the funniest boss fight wave ever had

    • @jonathanflanagan1504
      @jonathanflanagan1504 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Strahd was like "hmm it's good to be all-powerful-*faint shouting*-wait what's that sound?"
      TO BE CONTINUED

    • @guyclykos
      @guyclykos 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@jonathanflanagan1504 "You fool! You fell for it! Thundercross swam dive split attack!"

    • @svendarsey8219
      @svendarsey8219 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      So 17th level ranger, lvl 5 rogue, lvl 2 paladin why were characters this high? This set is required to sacrifice a lvl 5 spell from the ranger and have 3d6 from the assassin.

    • @andrewgardner3540
      @andrewgardner3540 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@svendarsey8219no only level 10, all the dice get doubled tho, i think it was, before crit, 3d6 sneak, 1d6 from the weapon, and 4d8 from 2nd level smite, then since he was dule weilding, another 1d6 attack and 4d8 smite

    • @svendarsey8219
      @svendarsey8219 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@andrewgardner3540 then it would have been lvl 3 ranger, lvl 5 rogue lvl 2 paladin. 3rd lvl ranger has 3 lvl 1 spells to prepare, 2nd lvl paladin has 2 lvl 1 spells to prepare, total spells lvl 5 caster /2 rounded down 2nd lvl caster, 3 1st lvl spell slots. (2d8MH +2d6OH + 6d6SA + 4d8SM +4d8SM +2d10SS) +8(for str or dex stat). That would have been the attack. max damage is 156. The cinematic was awesome though.

  • @Sinsystems
    @Sinsystems 3 ปีที่แล้ว +182

    Something tells me that the Cleric player had been watching Dr Stone recently.

    • @realrtdto
      @realrtdto 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      not recently I watched it when it came out I've been watching science vids late at night

  • @Dreznin
    @Dreznin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Turns out your player made a tradition in my gaming group into a character. For nearly 20 years now, ever campaign will, at some point, feature a NPC that has a deck of many things and sells draws if anyone wishes to tempt fate. We've had that thing turn games on their head, end them outright, and sometimes just cause incredible plot changes.

    • @kamirostorino9416
      @kamirostorino9416 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I have something very similar to Deck of many things in my homemade TTRPG system... and yes... in current campaign there is wandering npc merchant that sells magic items and... card draws from this magical deck.

  • @Pyranders
    @Pyranders 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    This cleric be like "me and my 8 int are about to invent chemistry."

    • @Aredel
      @Aredel ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Unless they're a Forge Domain Cleric. Then they'd already have a good understanding of alchemical processes, especially pertaining to different metals

  • @archellothewolf2083
    @archellothewolf2083 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    "It's rare but when it happens it's so beautiful." I've gotten 6 separate GMs to ban the Bag of Holding because I stockpile resources for exactly this kind of thing.

    • @dementededge3266
      @dementededge3266 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      My DM just banned the decanter of endless water because I became an F16.

    • @TheBelgianEmperor
      @TheBelgianEmperor 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The bag can hold up to 500 pounds, not exceeding a volume of 64 cubic feet.
      It's not that big, maybe a large bag-pack. But it can hold heavier objects while weighing 15 pounds at all times. So unless you have a lot of bags of holding, you won't be able to fit that much in there, right? Volume is still a limit (just a little over 1 cubic meter)

    • @justafan9206
      @justafan9206 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dementededge3266 how?

    • @dementededge3266
      @dementededge3266 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@justafan9206 basically it takes two people. Both flying. One uses the decanter of endless water. The other freezes the water into a 5x5x5 block with the shape water spell. A block of water that sizes weighs over 200lbs. So you do all of that over an enemy and let the block fall on them for a smooth 20d6 damage if you're high enough up.

    • @Gamebuster1990
      @Gamebuster1990 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dementededge3266 No. The decanter of endless water makes a geyser that is only 1 foot wide, meaning the ice that formed would be a 5 foot by 1 foot cylinder, not a 5x5x5 cube.
      If the area the spell and decanter intersected were completely filled with water, it would freeze ~15.7 cubic feet (117 gallons) of water. This is over 900 pounds of water.
      HOWEVER, the item description states that only 30 gallons of water are created. This means that the area is not 100% filled with water. So we must calculate the density of the water that comes out of the decanter (density = mass/volume).
      The mass of 30 gallons of water is ~250 pounds. 250lbs/15.7ft3 = 15.924 pounds of water per cubic foot.
      The density of a snowflake is 0.13 grams per cubic centimeter (8.1 pounds per cubic foot). [Source: Cambridge]
      Essentially, you're just sending a column of slightly dense snow at them. Definitely enough to knock someone off their feet, but not enough to really do damage or kill someone.

  • @TheDaveMiller87
    @TheDaveMiller87 3 ปีที่แล้ว +261

    My dm once gave us the deck of many things at level 3, so that was nice

    • @ASuspiciousCrab
      @ASuspiciousCrab 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Oh- oh no

    • @ddnerd0534
      @ddnerd0534 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      😂🤣😂

    • @fenixmeaney6170
      @fenixmeaney6170 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      As a DM I'd totally do this

    • @Mistwolfss
      @Mistwolfss 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      My dm gave us a deck of many things probably about Level 4 but he was to lasy to make all the cards. 😂

    • @RedwoodTheElf
      @RedwoodTheElf 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is when you either sell them, or rent them out like our hero did here.

  • @shrek6723
    @shrek6723 3 ปีที่แล้ว +126

    DM: Oh boy, I sure do hope that my new encounter is fair and balanced!
    The player with degrees in Chemistry and Engineering: Oh boy time to cook up some thermite rockets.

    • @sydorovich2532
      @sydorovich2532 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      A player? Maybe yes.
      AN actual character that player is playing from the lore perspective which is not a super high-lvl genius artificer with maxed out intelligence and is 8int cleric instead? No fucking way.

    • @theblackoutexplorer2658
      @theblackoutexplorer2658 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@sydorovich2532 idk about level 20 like a low level artificer could probably already make alchemist fire so them being in the study of chemistry and going wow these regents make a way more potent burn doesn’t seem too far off. The rocket part that’s the questionable part but by that point they already got the bomb part their just gonna use like a fling spell or something and call it a rocket.

  • @gormold4163
    @gormold4163 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    I feel that in a game where a character makes thermite:
    1. it should already be something that exists/the character better have 18+ intelligence
    2. It should be possible for other people to utilize in the future, especially if there are witnesses.

    • @BushBumperBaker
      @BushBumperBaker ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think the bigger question is, how did the player KNOW how to make it? Lmfao.

    • @Aaa-bi8ly
      @Aaa-bi8ly ปีที่แล้ว

      The cleric probably already had 18+ intelligence,

    • @Aaa-bi8ly
      @Aaa-bi8ly ปีที่แล้ว

      With that level of Science

    • @Aaa-bi8ly
      @Aaa-bi8ly ปีที่แล้ว

      I disagree with the first one

    • @Aaa-bi8ly
      @Aaa-bi8ly ปีที่แล้ว

      But I agree with the 2nd one, it’ll be a nice callback

  • @neillindgren8992
    @neillindgren8992 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I loved this story! The part that made me laugh the most was the turtle telling the party that it’s breath would melt the flesh off their bones, then swoosh-BOOM! and then the turtle was going “help me, help me” in the background! lol!

  • @loganfrandrup6590
    @loganfrandrup6590 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Explosive spears
    sounds like my party, only in there case it was a mixture of the Catapult spell, two Javelins, two flasks of volatile explosive chemicals, and a very poor Roper.

  • @patdav56
    @patdav56 3 ปีที่แล้ว +113

    my ONLY gripe here is saying what you're making AFTER its done and not asking GM if its possible
    though it's probably just a skit done for the comedy, and since it was all in good fun, i have no qualms seeing this. i hope this party does even more greatness such as this :P

  • @kingconniebonnie2178
    @kingconniebonnie2178 3 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    That Dr. Stone Reference was amazing

  • @Cyberlong
    @Cyberlong 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    i mean, is obvious if you use that kind of combo thing pawah you can defeat anything in an instant
    edit: knid -> kind

  • @tkrowgamer
    @tkrowgamer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Blaine: The parties will have to work together to beat this boss.
    Players: Haha WMD goes boom

  • @joris3193
    @joris3193 3 ปีที่แล้ว +302

    Why did Sebastian lose the deck if he didn’t draw from it this just confuses me???

    • @deadgirl1172
      @deadgirl1172 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      It probably includes the deck in the rules of the card

    • @unrandomman3946
      @unrandomman3946 3 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Yeah, was a little confused about that too. Probably it was just one of those minor details he didn’t have time to explain.

    • @arkar5945
      @arkar5945 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Vanished because of the talons Card

    • @Maverickzeros
      @Maverickzeros 3 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      @@skymanta1222 My interpretation is that when he loaned people the Deck of Many Things for 100 gold, they had to be in possession of the deck and having drawn Talons the deck that was in their possession was teleported.

    • @ronaldmullins8221
      @ronaldmullins8221 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      @@Maverickzeros If Talons acted as an extension of the deck then it being in the hand of the drawer would transport the deck to whoever hated the drawer most. That's the only way to explain it

  • @markcrumbz3172
    @markcrumbz3172 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    With each video I watch I get more confused about the DM style and how the sessions go. Some of the weird homebrew rules and lack of logic amongst players apparently getting to do things in secret just puzzles me.
    But looks like you all have plenty of fun so that's the main thing :D

  • @BrunoHenrique-gi1wd
    @BrunoHenrique-gi1wd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Dragon turtle: alright adventurers, lets get ready to rumble!
    Crew: you thought it was "adventurers", but it was me THERMONUCLEAR WARFARE.

  • @thequalitycomedian7842
    @thequalitycomedian7842 3 ปีที่แล้ว +131

    “The second summoner me to be his personal assistant/waifu.”
    Simps: “Is it possible to learn this power?”

    • @defensivekobra3873
      @defensivekobra3873 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      i mean if you really want an personal assistant / waifu, all you would need is to learn both true polymorph and find familliar, and then use true polymorph to permanently turn your familiar into a human commoner. Of course this requires being a 17th level arcana cleric, bard, warlock or wizard, something that is insanely hard to do

    • @kylescott9031
      @kylescott9031 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not from a wizard.

  • @trashcatlinol
    @trashcatlinol 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Reminds me of the time my husband crushed the main plots big bad, completely killing him and upsetting the DM's entire storyline...during the DM's Halloween themed side plot. XD He had some weaknesses as a DM, and reacting to clever players was definitely one of them, though he's better at setting up a scene...sometimes.

  • @MrRochester1206
    @MrRochester1206 3 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    Dm "what are you planning"
    Player "I don't have to tell you"
    Yikes

    • @Senok13
      @Senok13 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Well, you doesn't need to tell, what are "planning", but you MUST, what are you "doing"! Explosives and stuff has a Difficulty Challenge, and if you doesn't throw it, then you failed about, what you tried to do. You miscalculate the ratios, or just remembered wrong about the ingridients, and instead of an explosive, you stand there with an useless smelly heap of goo. What you do not tell the DM, it isn't happening!

  • @kodyjayvin
    @kodyjayvin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    Someone in a fantasy realm wouldn't have known how to make such a deadly weapon in my opinion. It may be rule of cool, but I'm not sure if I would have allowed it because it was metagaming super hard

    • @Dreznin
      @Dreznin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I'd offer them a compromise - If it's a chemical reaction that could be explained as alchemy, have them roll a check to see if they know how. As much as it is rule of cool, it's also hard to believe that a cleric that channels the power of a god to harness powers of life and death or to smite their foes with the raw might of their deity's wrath would have ever had the first thought be, "nah, screw looking to the powers granted to me by a literal god, I'm going to whip up some science!"

    • @spiiwii
      @spiiwii 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I agree, it came across in the video as if the Cleric just made it without the DM's knowledge, but that implies no skill checks at all, and just auto success on creating superweapons. I'm glad they all enjoyed it and had fun, but it seems like there aren't any more combat challenges they could ever have.

    • @Rockzilla1122
      @Rockzilla1122 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You realize not every fantasy setting is faerun, right?

    • @D1gi4rs
      @D1gi4rs 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Maybe they knew which rolls they had to make for it to work and made them without telling Blaine

    • @Aredel
      @Aredel ปีที่แล้ว

      @@D1gi4rs That was definitely done for comedic effect.

  • @segevstormlord3713
    @segevstormlord3713 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    I'm slightly confused: if Talons gives your magic items to your worst enemy, why did it affect the bard, and not the guy who paid him 100 gp for the privilege of drawing the card? Did the bard draw from his own deck finally or something?

    • @defensivekobra3873
      @defensivekobra3873 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      no, the talons card affected that random person, but that random person happened to be holding the deck at the time, and thus the deck dissapeared

    • @segevstormlord3713
      @segevstormlord3713 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@defensivekobra3873 Ah! That's what I did not understand. Had I been the PC's player, the PC wouldn't ever have had the deck in the customer's hands. The customer would draw from it off the table or from my hand. Which is why I was confused.

    • @jimvoozhenzhan8435
      @jimvoozhenzhan8435 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I mean it would still be the Customer using the deck either way so the effect skill wouldve triggered even if Sebastian held it in his hand while the customer drew

    • @segevstormlord3713
      @segevstormlord3713 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jimvoozhenzhan8435 Sure, but the deck couldn't be said to be the property of the one who drew Talons if the bard owned the deck, and never let the draw-er hold it.

  • @stevecarlstine3566
    @stevecarlstine3566 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    I'm gonna be honest, that sounds like meta-gaming, unless the cleric specialized in researching explosives, their is no way that she should have been able to do that, maybe I'd allow it if they were an atritficer, but letting your players do stuff like that is more trouble then its worth unless you want them to start making nukes and driving cars (I would at least make them roll for it).

    • @curnott6051
      @curnott6051 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Eh, for me, I'd rule it possible depending on their INT and WIS score.
      If they had an 8 or 9? Yeah, unless the character had proficiency in a profession that would have lead them to come across this knowledge sometime in that career, it ain't happening. Even then I might ask for a INT or History check just to make sure.
      But if they had something like a 14-16+? Then I could see it happening. A 10 in a stat is considered average, so someone with Intelligence in that range would be very well read and it could be hand-waved as them just naturally being smart enough to put the pieces together from what they naturally know. A decent Wisdom score would also help in this situation (Survival and what not).
      Cleric's naturally have a high Wisdom score, so long as INT was at least a bit above average on this character I would allow it without any rolls or anything.

    • @johnyshadow
      @johnyshadow 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@curnott6051 Even with a stat of 19 you "only" get a bonus +4 to your rolls. So I personally wouldn't pass on the rolls. Otherwise what´s the point if you always succeed.
      (At higher levels I´d be looking at proficiency and expertise if I wanted to make something succeed automatically.)

    • @curnott6051
      @curnott6051 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@johnyshadow I'm not talking about "numbers and bonuses", I'm talking about how intelligent/ Wise a character would realistically be based on their ability score. A character with an INT of 19 would be nearly twice as smart as the average person, nearly 200 IQ. That's super genius level, Jimmy Neutron levels of Brain Blasting.
      And the point is to award the players for talking time and care to be creative, not EVERYTHING has to come down to a number on a piece of plastic. Now, you can certainly have your characters roll for something in this situation. I was just saying what I'd do.

    • @johnyshadow
      @johnyshadow 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@curnott6051 I suppose I understand, just a bad experience on my part.
      (One of our first games for our party, with one "veteran" friend. Everyone was hoping for fun with swords and arrows and magic. he kept trying to make grenades and I didn´t know how to stop him. I´m sorry, but I doubt that goliath barbarian, however smart or wise, would have the same chemistry classes as our class.) It was also the way he went about it, pretty similar to the video. "Here, let me collect random junk. Why? Because! Anyway, now I have grenades..."

    • @ZeroAngel
      @ZeroAngel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yeah, it was too absurd and made no sense in the context of the video.

  • @Readasaur
    @Readasaur ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I appreciate that 1. Players used real world chemistry to do this. 2. The DM was cool with it.
    Also! Can we hear those homebrew rules for the Deck of Many?

  • @jmtrollmaster8922
    @jmtrollmaster8922 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Right so I'm going to need a step by step guide on how to pull this off

    • @_lucas_2066
      @_lucas_2066 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Me too

    • @realrtdto
      @realrtdto 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      if you need a step by step guide add me on discord RT#0077
      (edit) im the cleric

  • @oldsoldier4209
    @oldsoldier4209 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I gotta say, you’re really blessed to have this party in your games. Every DM should have a group that challenges them, by making everything go wrong in exactly the right way. 🤣👍

    • @corynehila5948
      @corynehila5948 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      instead of killing it like a normal person my rouge jumped on it from a tree and due to his injuries endded up skipping most of the campaign i made. so my party isnt all that smart but they sure are fun!

  • @thomasjenkins5727
    @thomasjenkins5727 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Players: So, there's gunpowder in this setting, right?
    Me: Yep. You literally have barrels of it sitting in the hold.
    Players: So can we...
    Me: Probably not. This is a world where magic exists, so normal laws of physics and chemistry can get a bit wonky. Why else do you think your gun only deals 1d4 damage?

  • @thelegend8570
    @thelegend8570 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Reminds me of that one time me and some other people abused a special rule and a wand of fireball to build a nuke and deal enough damage in one turn to kill anything with a stat block.

    • @D1gi4rs
      @D1gi4rs 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Even Tarrasques or enemies inmune to fire?

  • @Necrotoxin44
    @Necrotoxin44 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    This is an example of a very different style of DMing. I understand a lot of details were left out, but so many things seem patently ridiculous.
    One, it seems like a rather likely case of meta-gaming, but cool idea, we can let that slide. Two, whether they would actually be able to find all these items (like sunflowers) in a timely manner. A DM should allow a path, but this seems like a lot of things which all must succeed, but maybe they were successful on several difficult rolls, fine. Where I would definitely choose to draw the line is on the actual damage.
    If it's able to actually get as hot as claimed, then the damage from poison and bacterial infection would be rendered null. Second, gunpowder is fairly fickle, especially when it comes to grain sizes and purity. It would be very easy in a survival setting to get something which just fizzles out. You can't really claim to be using science with full honesty when making explosives, with what I can not imagine to be anything other than hobbled together tools, out of hobbled together ingredients, and then producing a result which is purely fantastical in nature.
    Creative thinking should be encouraged, but overblown expectations of the results should be reigned in. Another way to keep the fight memorable while bringing it back down to Earth could be for their makeshift weapons to completely back-fire on them. Be up front with your players, and let them know that for their idea to work, it's going to take a hell of a lot of luck on the part of their rolls, and even with that their imagined efficacy is not guaranteed.

    • @xplicitmike
      @xplicitmike 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Totally would've had the spears blowing up in their hands if I were DM.

    • @TheBelgianEmperor
      @TheBelgianEmperor 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It's hard to let your players know the possible set-backs and difficulties of a plan if the players don't tell you their plan, which is where it all went 'wrong' in my opinion. They all enjoyed it, so that's fine, but I wouldn't enjoy it :p

    • @KayKayLemur
      @KayKayLemur 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well then again the gunpowder is the least important part. It simply acts as a spark that incites the reaction. And the clay helps with causing a greater pressure build up. I agree that it would be hard to do so so quickly with out the powder igniting from the heat though the science is fairly sound considering you are making a bomb with plants, shells. Poop, sulphur and aluminum

    • @TheBelgianEmperor
      @TheBelgianEmperor 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@KayKayLemur While my science on bombs isn't up-to-speed, I'd imagine that making one without the proper tools to do so (and a simple alchemist kit probably doesn't suffice) is asking to have it blow up in your face?

    • @D1gi4rs
      @D1gi4rs 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Maybe Blaine didn't think all of that considering that was not the idea
      You can't predict what your players will do
      Also Blaine is not like a rules lawyer or a railroader, so that made that the players were able to do that

  • @mrspriggs3256
    @mrspriggs3256 3 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    So.... where exactly did that character learn how to make thermite?

    • @jjbpenguin
      @jjbpenguin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      MGU. MetaGaming University

    • @falkyrie5228
      @falkyrie5228 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      And that's why I think metagaming can be a good thing if used properly 😌

    • @Hoovt
      @Hoovt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I was looking for this. Either he had to be working on it for a while or this is complete meta..

    • @Bartoc1988
      @Bartoc1988 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The game master rolled with it so it is OK :3

    • @mrspriggs3256
      @mrspriggs3256 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@Bartoc1988 which is fine for that table. I personally would not let that fly. I've played with a lot of people who have a terrifying set of real world skills. In a game that's based on "balance" I don't want to have to factor in that a person knows how to forge all the parts for a machine gun, while another can genetically splice DNA; while the accountant keeps track of the gold.

  • @darkherculeskabuterimon7203
    @darkherculeskabuterimon7203 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Dragon turtle: *being the final boss*
    *Gets nailed in the eye with a poop-coated nuke spear*
    *_KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!_*
    I wonder what the Elder Brain was thinking when it saw the nuke?

  • @zidanetribal1406
    @zidanetribal1406 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I’m more concerned about the fact that one of the players knows how to make explosives

    • @gluttonousgoddess
      @gluttonousgoddess 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Out of pretty common materials too...

    • @CyberRattt
      @CyberRattt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@gluttonousgoddess not to mention making one that can be applied to the tip of a spear, remain stable without going boom in hand, and provided a large amount of damage on impact form the spear being thrown, despite modern day technology not really having anything equivalent, thermite comes close but still a no

    • @gluttonousgoddess
      @gluttonousgoddess 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@CyberRattt ok that much can be hand waved with "it's fantasy", it's more worrisome they know this stuff in reality.

    • @CyberRattt
      @CyberRattt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@gluttonousgoddess i doubt it would work the way it worked in game, im pretty sure it was thermite they where basing it off of and thermite dousnt work that way, although there are contact, explosives, none really work via layering it on a spear and throwing it that im aware of, but im hardly a expert on explosives, and honestly im not really worried about people knowing how to make them cause there are to many easy to make explosives from everyday chems, and i would never be able to sleep if i worried about stuff like that

    • @KayKayLemur
      @KayKayLemur 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@CyberRattt I think the only reason it exploded like that in game is because they mixed it in clay. Doing so seals the thermite in clay pockets and as such when it react the heat and kinetic energy have no where to go causing the clay to burst from the sudden pressure inside it. While this may not always happen there is a chanelce it could explode

  • @smith7979
    @smith7979 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Any time i watch blaine's vids i wanna play D&d with him

    • @smith7979
      @smith7979 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Maybe one day ill be able to play with him but that shant not be this day

    • @realrtdto
      @realrtdto 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      hey he doses dnd one-shots for patrons just saying and if you want to ask me questions about him add my discord RT#0077

  • @Simon-mj8bb
    @Simon-mj8bb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Cleric: " Lets do this... SCIENCE STYLE "

  • @montithered4741
    @montithered4741 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A one-shot adventure I played was all about the deck of many things.
    The basic premise being that all cards were drawn at the same time.
    The challenge: survive and have fun
    20 years later, that’s still one of my Top 5 favorite TTRPG moments.

  • @keyoha7565
    @keyoha7565 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It reminds me A LOT of one thing we did in a session. We had to find and bring back a two-weeks old baby white dragon for a group of Kobolds to get a key, but we didn't wanted to really deal with them because they were pretty mean to us (to the rest of the party at least, they didn't let me enter to room with them to talk to the chief). After a litteral hour of discussing a plan, we finally popped one out of our brains. There were a monster we couldn't slain and just ran from it, why not guide them where it was? We did that. This has led to the most MEMORING sentence of this scenario.
    "Si si, le dragon il est dans le tonneau j'te jure" (Yeah, the dragon is in the barrel I swear to you)
    With a nat 20 persuation check. We locked the kobold in the room, waited for it to go silent and them we opened but couldn see the chief's corpse, so our monk yelled "OH JE FRAPPE DANS LE VIDE" (Oh I punch in the void) and the DM, after recovering from a sudden laughter, said he'll count it only if he did a nat 20 to hit. Wich he succeeded in front of everyone. The entire party sarted to yell of excitation and the chief kobold (one of the boss of the dungeon) was killed in two hits, one very violent from the monk and a well placed arrow from my rogue. The dragon in the barrel is still a private joke/meme we bring back a lot, along with some other stuff. Plus I had the chance to take a photo of the face the DM had when the player said that, wich is absolutely epic.

  • @morgantaylor84
    @morgantaylor84 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Whenever a D&D story video brings up the Deck of Many Things in the first 75 seconds, you know it's going to be a good one!

  • @callousstrider
    @callousstrider 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Ah yes, th Dresden fire bombings, my favorite dnd encounter

  • @morepenguins6247
    @morepenguins6247 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Blaine: How are you going to defeat this deadly turtle dragon
    The players: *Nuke Javelins*

  • @FelixArgyleAUS
    @FelixArgyleAUS 3 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    Woah, a new video? Looks alright, I hope my $20s a month isn't going to Genshin Impact

  • @madchad7385
    @madchad7385 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    When I heard clay, I knew thermite was in the oven

  • @PhilipLORdefender
    @PhilipLORdefender 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Turtle: JoJo reference*
    The party: interrupts him by throwing a spear*

  • @little_isalina
    @little_isalina 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I like players finding creative clever solutions, and its the sign of a great DM for rewarding them for it. Yet... how did the cleric know how to make gunpowder, much less thermite explosives? Not the cleric's player, the cleric.

    • @Aredel
      @Aredel 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Maybe he’s a gunsmith on the side

  • @Lazuli_the_Blue
    @Lazuli_the_Blue 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Okay, real talk, can someone explain how clay and sunflowers create an explosive hotter than the f*cking sun? I can’t find the answer online.

    • @IndigoTail
      @IndigoTail 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I did some google search and found out that sunflower absorbs heavy metal.
      So, I'm assuming they made Thermite since it's just finely ground iron oxide + aluminum powder. Gunpowder for explosion, and spider venom + poop for extra toxic damage
      Clay is for storage and mixing since it's heat tolerant

    • @ahardworker2154
      @ahardworker2154 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Were you on incognito mod whiles searching because if not you might be on a list

    • @newlegend2402
      @newlegend2402 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ahardworker2154 even if they were posting it here already puts them on at least one list

    • @ahardworker2154
      @ahardworker2154 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@newlegend2402 true

    • @samreid6010
      @samreid6010 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Before it was discovered you could use electrolysis to refine aluminum from bauxite, one of the ways to get aluminum was to burn certain plants and then you could extract metals from the ash, usually by putting it in a barrel of water and letting the metals settle out. This doesn’t make very pure metal, but it’s good enough for thermite. The iron oxide is literally just ground up rust. The clay was probably used to make a shell that would contain the reaction until it explodes violently

  • @oscarpeck8492
    @oscarpeck8492 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is a great plot nice job

  • @arnijulian6241
    @arnijulian6241 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Judging by the fact you said poop, sea shells, sulfur & sun flowers. I assume the poop & sea shells where used to extract (salt peter) which would have taken weeks minimum. saltpeter & sulfur acting as the oxidizer. sulfur also as ignition agent.
    sun flower? was it the oil as a fuel alternative for charcoal which seems more tedious less effective in truth then raking burnt logs on a fire?
    subpar black powder more so then therm-mite?
    I highly doubt such a concoction would be 3000 degrees. maybe hotter then embers at 400 degrees for a short period.
    whats descibed if it would work? This would be a deflagrate reaction same as gun powder not a true detonation explosive or thermic reaction.
    Therm-mite is reduction reaction that occurs between finely ground similar metal & oxide metal. For a brief time it creates a very hot but short duration exothermic reaction.
    Know don't try to argue with an engineer & welder please. Nitric acid is the way to go for explosives but you'l likly blow your self to pieces if you don't know what you are doing practice & theroy.

    • @CyberRattt
      @CyberRattt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ya meta gaming aside the concept that they made a substance that was able to be applied to a spear, remain stable enough to be handled that way safely and explode on contact, and reach that level of damage "instantly" from the amount that could be applied to a spear tip, all of which was not contained inside anything to increase pressure or create shrapnel, although I assume it was a faux thermite, which would be heat but, once again we go back to the remain stable but activate on contact. add it all together and you get partial knowledge and lots of fudging, and a DM going mmkay, then confused how his boss fight got derailed

    • @Aredel
      @Aredel ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If you look at the spears, they just smeared shit onto the ends for some extra poison/disease damage.

    • @arnijulian6241
      @arnijulian6241 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@Aredel Pretty much Antonio!
      But smearing filth onto spikes & spears was tribal warfare 101 in human history.
      worked shockingly well by the Vietnamese, North Korean & Japanese troops in relatively recent warfare.
      As British ww1 troops learnt from our former colonies, ''tomtit is a weapon, aim for the eyes''.
      more so then ''blood poisoning'' is (infection) for if not in means of immediate treatment due to isolation like say in a jungle it will take it's toll.
      Disease is more a chronic problem generally if present.
      infection is far more likely to do you in then any disease if left untreated.
      There is a reason spike trap & smearing faecal matter-poisons on weapons is banned under most human conventions of war.
      Oh yes; never get mud or dirt in a open wound if you can help it, not as bad as tomtit but is filled with bacteria for infection.

  • @That80sGuy1972
    @That80sGuy1972 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As frustrating it is, I do feel proud of my players when they totally dominate my encounters I plan via their creativity without trying to be special princesses who demand.
    One world power in my campaign used Arrows of Cancellation. They were rarely used because they were really expensive to produce and took a long time, they were missile versions of Rods of Cancellation. One of my players looted a couple from one encounter. Game years later, an encounter came up where the orb in the middle of the room animated the objects and all bodies to attack the intruders (players) under its direct control. The players were supposed to have a hard time surviving and eventually figure out that the orb in the center of the room, the hardest thing to hurt, the thing that did damage to anyone who hit it, needed to be destroyed in order to win the encounter. The guy with the Arrows of Cancellation opened up combat by launching both of them at the orb. He killed the encounter instantly. That was the final boss of that gaming session. Round 1, battle won by the non-strategic guy launching the only anti-magic micro-nukes he guessed as important.

  • @radicalpineappleproduction8839
    @radicalpineappleproduction8839 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was eating during the poop line. But good video man I love these... Please make more

  • @Archistrategos11
    @Archistrategos11 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    2 things.
    1. That story is awesome!
    2. How did you calculate thermite/explosive spears doing damage? As far as I can tell, that would just be up to the discretion of the DM.

    • @Marveryn
      @Marveryn 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      not to mention home made explosive can be unstable, there a good chance it blow up in there faces

  • @exstromb
    @exstromb ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Question to the players. “How would your character know how to make this?”

    • @Aredel
      @Aredel ปีที่แล้ว

      *Laughs in Forge Domain*

  • @SAFTY-pq9zy
    @SAFTY-pq9zy 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Same kind of thing happened in my campaign. A Drow city had been taken over by Miconid hive mind spore outbreak and the party was tasked with destroying the wizard who the patient zero.
    They had gotten past the infantry and town with quite ease as the barbarian would assist weaker characters by throwing them across buildings then making the jumps himself. The Rogue tried to stealth in, and was knocked unconscious due to failing a con save and triggering a spore trap in the City Hall. They were then taken to a dungeon in the City Hall, and the party decided for form a plan to break them out. The party caused a distraction with an ambush outside, while the rogue broke out of the cell and began to assassinate the foot troops on their way to the BBEG chamber.
    They made an explosive out of their oil flasks which they had, threw it in, and torched the house, escaped out a window, and torched everything inside.
    I had spent like 3-4 days making this dungeon and planning out how it’d go from getting to the city, to infiltrating the city, to the layout of the City Hall. In about 1 1/2hr they had destroyed it all and I couldn’t have been prouder of the out of the box thinking

  • @ashton1114
    @ashton1114 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sooo close to 100 k keep up the good work

  • @patrickdees5256
    @patrickdees5256 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Cleric: *tosses thermite bomb* Omiwa mo shinderu.
    Dragon turtle: Nani!?

  • @AtticusStar
    @AtticusStar 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    What’s the recipe for those explosives (and the stats)

    • @realrtdto
      @realrtdto 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      hey im the cleric add me on discord if you want to know how to make it RT#0077

    • @TrenchCoatDingo
      @TrenchCoatDingo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@realrtdto i dont get it you need rust and aluminum powder.....why sunflowers

    • @martinsmouter9321
      @martinsmouter9321 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@TrenchCoatDingo sunflower oil maybe?
      At the end everything needed for a bomb is an exothermic reaction and a case to lock it in.

    • @KayKayLemur
      @KayKayLemur 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@realrtdto also could you add me for how you did this?

    • @theshadowyparasite9448
      @theshadowyparasite9448 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Well we're all on a watch list now.

  • @maxell957
    @maxell957 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    i love your work keep going !

  • @christopherballard1348
    @christopherballard1348 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "Hey Dm, can I make explosives out of random stuff I find?"
    "No"

  • @DarthSironos
    @DarthSironos 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "We decided to make the deck less murdery and more plot hook relevant"
    -EVERY MAGIC ITEM YOU HAVE DISAPPEARS AND IS GIVEN TO THE ENEMY!
    ---Wow, that is f*cked up brutal even by Gary Gygax standards.

    • @D1gi4rs
      @D1gi4rs 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The deck isn't less murdery, Blaine made it so that it was less RNG based, but still. Funny how that goes

  • @skycaptain95
    @skycaptain95 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    How this should have ended:
    Blaine: what are you doing?
    Cleric: I don't have to tell you
    Blaine: the cauldron melts your face off, you die
    The cleric forgot rule 0.

    • @jacobthurmond6210
      @jacobthurmond6210 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      THANK YOU! I hate these kinds of things. Even the one person I know who pulls shit like this off explains it, how the physics works, then asks if it is okay? And even then they are okay with the DM saying no or compromising on what it does.

  • @jameshunter6121
    @jameshunter6121 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The sounds like an absolutely awesome session

  • @fish-zn4mm
    @fish-zn4mm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Something similar happened in a game I played, long story short we were fighting a god that awoke from a temple we were fucking with for some reason, so the mage used a lightning spell to catapult like 100 ball bearings at it, essentially making a magic shotgun. One shot dealt something like 700 damage and we killed it instantly

  • @Nomadic813
    @Nomadic813 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    this makes very little sense to me. How were you blindsided by their powerful weapons when you as the DM would make the ruling on on much damage it would do in the first place?

    • @D1gi4rs
      @D1gi4rs 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Maybe the in game math wouldn't let Blaine change the damage output without it being unrealistic
      Maybe he didn't wanted to give the players a harder time with how the monster was considered deadly
      But mainly is because Blaine wants his players to have fun, and if that implies using thermite sun bombs to defeat a monster, so be it

    • @matthewlowe2193
      @matthewlowe2193 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@D1gi4rs a single spear did over 100 damage while a 9th level fireball does 49 and meteor swarm does 70. There's no universe where that damage makes sense.

  • @davidhawkeye864
    @davidhawkeye864 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    imagine if they had a ranger that knew conjure barrage to turn that single thermite javelin into an aoe thermite javelin.

  • @WolfBoy-om6dw
    @WolfBoy-om6dw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this was amazing

  • @justsomejerseydevilwithint4606
    @justsomejerseydevilwithint4606 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    When the chemist in your group is like "Wait, I got this!" You listen.

  • @skyesilverwing8922
    @skyesilverwing8922 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    My tendency when the party starts messing with science (especially gunpowder) without okaying it with me first is to have it blow up in their face because magic interacts badly with Real-world science when not properly considered as an active force.

  • @Spartan-yq4qp
    @Spartan-yq4qp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    I truly cannot tell if the girl voice is you or an actual girl and I wish for this power

    • @johnsonbaroncaveler6634
      @johnsonbaroncaveler6634 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same(2)

    • @Davlamenn
      @Davlamenn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I belive it's his sister, he has mentioned before he has done a D&D game with his siblings.

    • @johnsonbaroncaveler6634
      @johnsonbaroncaveler6634 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Davlamenn ah.

    • @BlaineSimple
      @BlaineSimple  3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      In this video it was all me lol

    • @johnsonbaroncaveler6634
      @johnsonbaroncaveler6634 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BlaineSimple
      I have a question, do you also do full scale artworks outside of the board game-like people you draw?

  • @necroarcanistxiii
    @necroarcanistxiii 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've had my party achieve a similar feat, wiping out a room stacked with cultists, cyber clone soldiers and an immortal Warlock with a satchel full of grenades.
    These grenades dealt 5d6 Bludgeoning + 3d6 Thunder on a DC15 Dex Save. Average damage was 28 on a failed save, now multiply that by 20, the number of grenades looted from previously slain enemies. Even on a successful save, the most powerful enemy in the room couldn't survive the raw damage output from the chain reaction. It's fun watching the party come up with ways to skip combat encounters.

  • @project4061
    @project4061 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Third most amusing one round boss fight I ever have heard or experienced (in part because this is the third one I ever heard of).

  • @CosmicNebula444
    @CosmicNebula444 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I'd like a thorough explanation on how they made these nuke spears tbh, I'm morbidly curious for... no particular reason.

    • @firebladeentertainment5739
      @firebladeentertainment5739 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      i dont know what exactly they used but since they used science and blaine called them thermite bombs they most likely obtained some elemental aluminium, iron oxide and some sort of impact explosiv to make thermite warheads for the spears
      iron oxide and elemental aluminium makes thermite, which when ignited burns INCREDIBLY HOT and you get elemental iron and aluminium oxide out of it, we had that experiment in chemistry class.

    • @CosmicNebula444
      @CosmicNebula444 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@firebladeentertainment5739 That's a kick ass chem class!

    • @firebladeentertainment5739
      @firebladeentertainment5739 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@CosmicNebula444 default chem class in germany.

    • @bobbycrosby9765
      @bobbycrosby9765 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@firebladeentertainment5739 obtaining elemental aluminum is pretty hand wavy. May as well say they acquired weapons-grade plutonium and dropped a nuke on it.

    • @firebladeentertainment5739
      @firebladeentertainment5739 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@bobbycrosby9765 yeah
      prolly handwaved to get elemental aluminum
      but there are spells with which you technically could get it

  • @gabrielthegalliard9366
    @gabrielthegalliard9366 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I need the blueprint.

  • @bigbaddawg101
    @bigbaddawg101 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Our DM hates us because we managed to break most of his combat encounters by doing stuff like this. Like the time we faced some cultists and my druid summoned a pack of wolves to attack their leader. Turns out the cultists had an affinity for wolves and seeing their leader being attacked by a pack of wolves made them think that he had fallen out of favor with their god, resulting in them leaving combat while he killed their leader in 2 rounds.

  • @gaven9863
    @gaven9863 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I ran a game with a few friends, they had to fight Tiamat. On the path to Tiamat, they fought a couple ancient red dragons, adult red dragons, and adult amethyst dragons. These were split into iirc, two encounters. Those 2 encounters took like 2 hours. A couple of them went down, but no one died. When they reached Tiamat, the ranger/rogue rolled the highest and he killed Tiamat in his turn alone. I didn't even have the opportunity to take any legend actions. Tiamat just died... ik Tiamat isn't always a final boss and it wasn't designed to be for the overarching world. But.. I thought it would last longer than 1 turn.. it was fun though.

  • @cthulhufhtagn2483
    @cthulhufhtagn2483 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    3:56 Strange aeons have passed...

  • @ThatReplyGuy
    @ThatReplyGuy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I'd like to know how you calculated the damage for those spears.

  • @spiderbink8531
    @spiderbink8531 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    7:08 No one can tell me those coconuts aren’t staring into my soul....

    • @afellowpotato
      @afellowpotato 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why did you say that? Now I can't unsee it!

  • @WackoMcGoose
    @WackoMcGoose 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "I just, y'know, didn't expect them to use _thermite bombs"_
    has the same energy as
    "I want you to try to _uncroak the volcano"_

  • @Thaumcraft2323
    @Thaumcraft2323 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    I NEED to know exactly how to do this

    • @darinhardie8514
      @darinhardie8514 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      As do i

    • @Lh0000
      @Lh0000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Okay: so google told me that thermite is made from One of the following: aluminium, magnesium, titanium, zinc, silicon, and boron (as fuel) + some form of metal oxide (I.E. rust)... so if I HAD to guess I’d say they extracted the fuel substance from the clay and sunflowers then got the rust from somewhere else, I’m not sure how exactly mixing fuel substances would impact the reaction but it probably doesn’t matter In-game, Lesson learned don’t fuck with science.

    • @Thaumcraft2323
      @Thaumcraft2323 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Lh0000 Thanks!

    • @darinhardie8514
      @darinhardie8514 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Lh0000 You are a hero

    • @realrtdto
      @realrtdto 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      if you need the exact details on how we did it add me on discord RT#0077

  • @younggamer7218
    @younggamer7218 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The jojo references!

  • @bridgetreeves7471
    @bridgetreeves7471 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I had a similar thing happen with a carrion crawler, the rouge did 35 with a knife and the two clerics both did at least 20 with spells

  • @TheRemixer124
    @TheRemixer124 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    i love dnd because you can do stuff like this

  • @torva360
    @torva360 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Someone's been watching Dr Stone (or playing Don't Starve).
    How did you determine the damage dice for the spear bomb?

  • @frigidmagi
    @frigidmagi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I’m sorry to be that guy and I’m not trying to criticize but I got to ask how did the character know how to make those explosives? I mean if it’s something they learned or they had skills for then fair game but otherwise I would have questions....

    • @Dreznin
      @Dreznin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Nah, no need to be sorry for asking legitimate questions about what sounds on a surface level to be some serious metagaming. It would be easier to hand waive it if the character were an Artificer or a character that routinely had reason to make alchemical explosives, but otherwise it should be asked. There's a difference between player knowledge and character knowledge - an engineer playing D&D may know how to build and operate a CO2 laser, their 13th level Fighter does not.

    • @adamsturge4622
      @adamsturge4622 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yeah it's pretty clear this group doesn't maintain a clear distinction between player knowledge and character knowledge from this video. And Tbh I find this kind of thing more lame than impressive. Not to say they can't have fun their way, it's their game after all. But bringing in modern day knowledge goes against the conciete of the game to my mind. It's like bringing a gun to a knife fight. It's not impressive that you googled how to make homemade explosives and spent all session gathering fertilizer. Personally I'd rather have had the cool 3 way fight with the big monster than just dropping a nuke on it.

    • @Fredawan
      @Fredawan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@adamsturge4622 this is why you play Artificer. So you can use real life science to DnD.

    • @adamsturge4622
      @adamsturge4622 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Fredawan eh. I mean again it's up to your group and setting. Artificers to me are a mix of magic and steampunk and not grounded in real life science. Plus, no matter how smart you are, you're still held back by the collective knowledge of your age. Issac newton was a genius but he wasn't slinging high yield explosives

    • @dragonnasxavier3473
      @dragonnasxavier3473 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Very much this. In character knowledge is separate from out of character knowledge. RP fail.

  • @zorroxemo
    @zorroxemo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    At 4:14 all I can think of is:“TOOOURNEMENT AAAARC!“