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I had a level 20 mystic character who had a vendetta against the BBEG and when we finally got to the final fight the BBEG decided to attack him first cause he was an old man, but my character blocked his attack, looked him dead in the eye, and said "Fight me if you wish, but remember...I am old for a reason."
He gave me Knight Artorias vibes. Even as The Abyss was corrupting him and he was injured he still fought and tried to stop the Chosen Undead from entering The Abyss. There's cut dialogue of him pleading with the player.
@@actualteddybear891 Artoria's was successfully corrupted which isn't the same as Abrum's. Gael's far more similar to Abrum because his downfall was the blind faith in the Pygmys who gave him an impossible quest to fufill and only went mad due to his insurmountable determination to save the world and fulfill his duty. He even went so far see to it to the very end when he turned on the Pygmy lords to try and save the world what he believed was the solution.
If it helps, our DM later explained that the only reason we had a chance of beating him was because of his broken equipment, his age penalties, and all the bodily afflictions that he suffered from (he was basically constantly suffering from the 'sickened' and 'dazzled' conditions as well).
Abrum the Unyielding, a man of his word~ A man against darkness who'll be heard~ Across the sea, the mountains, the land~ Abrum the Unyielding, he who stood gallant~ Abrum the Unyielding, a man of his word~ A party who'll shall know him and quench his thirst~ For Pulura he fights, but is laid to rest~ By a band who never wanted to end his quest~ Abrum the Unyielding, a man of his word~ When Deskari tried to claim him Pulura said 'Absurd!'~ For ye who know, this tale of words~ When darkness is shrouding, know Abrum stood forward~
I'd say Abrum would more likely say: I hate the Evil people. As can be seen the party tried to get through to him, let him live through talk but he was so dedicated no persuasion could turn him. He meant no harm to those of good, only CE, NE, LE, TE aliments but his age and the constant whittling at the pillar of white marble that it was a mere splinter and his mind was almost finished. If these heros had not killed him he would of been Evils toy because they were literally cutting him off from the light and a evil hand would have sealed the conniving monster of the Chaos' goal of denying him rest.
Here’s to the most noble, unyielding, and selfless defender of good I’ve ever heard of! (Lifts up his drink) To the legendary hero of legendary heroes!
@@danielpratt1970 Nah, He'd be green. Blue is hopeful but Green is unbreakable will. But if he was next to a Blue Lanturn then we all know he could solo Supes.
I do not love Abrum, but I greatly honor his dedication and sacrifice. I feel that we saw how he died, but we did not know how he lived. If I knew how he lived then I could say I truly loved him.
Amazing story, really inspiring. We had a NPC who started as just a literal upstart whippersnapper, per description of the DM. Gung ho, wannabe Squire town boy, by sheer luck of dice, and growing town, and eventual kingdom popularity became a walking folk hero, dragonslayer, castle owner, full fledged Knight, and eventually King. DM never had intended it, he was supposed to die second session during a feast ambush. Fate smiled on his dice rolls, and he not only survived, but killed two kobolds. Party took him along as initially just a good luck charm and mascot, but he grew into his own. As said, got the killing blow on a dragon, among other creatures. Truly was a fate smiled character. Long may he reign, King Drance, the Champion of Fate
According to the Author, Abrum Stross, the Unyielding, was a level 20 Fighter. Venerable (65+ years old, likely in his seventies or eighties, -3 Str, Dex, Con, +1 Wis), constantly suffering the "dazed" and "sickened" conditions, and wielding a broken magic sword and broken magic armor. And the party *still* only barely won.
We're getting to legendary status with an NPC right now. A retired adventurer, now working as a barkeep, set in the Avernus campaign setting. Our DM is running it with some of the HARSHEST rules possible (short rest is a day, long rest is a week, crits taken cripple your character permanently, exhaustion takes shorter to affect you, etc.) and the flow of new characters has not abated, as we keep getting croaked repeatedly. The barkeep is starting to grow despondent, and has begun aiding us with more freebies, setting us up with allies, equipment, and even magical ingredients, or the contacts to gather them. He's even taken to organizing an unofficial watch to patrol the starter areas so that monsters and baddies don't come back. He's getting desperate, we think. The travelers keep going in, but most of them never come back out.
@@ab14967 I've never played Darkest Dungeon, but I do know the basic idea of it. If you're referring to how freaking difficult this campaign is, I think he just thinks 5e is much too lenient.
@@fatcoyote2 I won't say he is wrong, when comparing 5e to past editions. Still, it shouldn't end up being to a point where you go through more characters than a d100 based tabletop game.
@@ab14967 Yeah. I've blown through an entire clan of goblins at this point. The other players told me that this was a high-turnover game, so I fixed upon the idea that a whole clan of goblins had moved close by, so each one of my characters has been a sibling, cousin, in law, etc. Thing is, I've gone through about eight of them in ten sessions, and I'm not even the third worst one. I think I'm going to have to take a knee soon.
So you walk eternally through the shadow realms, standing against evil where all else falter. May your thirst for retribution never quench, may the blood on your sword never dry, and may we never need you again. Corrax 7 17
@@somebodynobody718 It is from the country singer Rodney Atkins and the song is fittingly "If You're Going Through Hell" Country Music is way too under appreciated, seeing how it is the second language of the US and third language to many other nations. It is so much more than many credit it for you know.
@@Plokman040 oh wow that's cool. I agree with you country is really under appreciated i recently started to get into it and I'm glad i did i found some really good gems
@Magi V -- thank you. As a not-quite fan of the show(my little brother being a diehard fan) i tend to mess-up the quotes more than i'd like to admit....
@@johnnysizemore5797 Absolutely fine. I mean, there's so many good quotes (excluding later seasons of course, we don't talk about those), you're bound to mess up, especially as a "peripheral" fan.
This is how you know that you have a good (not alignment) party of players. When they don't want to kill someone that attacks them because of a sense of respect.
This is 100% the creative work of the gm. I don't remember there ever being a scenario like this is Wrath of the Righteous (the adventure path this game followed).
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The mighty daran glasstaff who is a powerful wizard. Constantly uses burning hands as his favorite spell reply to me if you really want the crazy story
The dnd campaign I’m playing has a dm that hasn’t tried to understand wizards and one of the main NPCs is a wizard. I’m going to cut to the chase by saying he made a box levitate. Normally that wouldn’t be much but he kept it levitating for the three day journey. He told us that the NPC was a level 3 wizard. In actuality there’s no way he could do it if he wasn’t at least level 18.
I had 2 NPC's who've become Legends to my group(both of which were unintentional): -- In a game of Dragon Age RPG(we were trying to "broaden our horizons" using different systems), the party met a Dalish Elf(it's a whole thing. If your intrestied, look up Dragon Age wikiup for more info) named Serenas. She started out as the quest-giver but(due in large part to the Party caster's wheedling) she joined them for the Quest & ended up accidentally showing the entire Party up..... -- Next we have Meepo The Kobold. Meepo himself can be found in the 3.0-3.5 adventure The Sunless Citadel(which has been placed in Tales of The Yawning Portal fyi). Two of my players at the time(specifically my Half-orc & Casual) were players characters based on The Oriental Adventures supplement, so they decided to Train Meepo to be a Paesent Warrior(which was all he could socially be trained for), which is basically a Fighter that just gains extra attacks. Meepo went on to have the Highest number of attacks i've ever seen in the game(it's somewhere in the neighborhood of 14-15 by the time he hit max level) He was where we learned that the "Death Of A Thousand Cuts" is one of the worst way's to go out in the D&D world......
Our DM made a middle age arab shop keeper name Abdul. From this he assign mission and such to us from time to time. Every time we come back to his mythical shop it would change. Abdul interactions with his assistant is hilarious it was mainly college humor. He essentially became our god of travel but usually get curse in a particular way which helps or hurt us in the process.
Before watching video: Yirbel lives!!! After watching video: Hawt Damn! Can’t say abrum’s quite as influential on his world as that sly necromancer but he is certainly a compelling character! I can only imagine how epic all those battles for his soul and his prison was. I would have considered looting some of the bodies for armor but its what it is! I remember my cousin describing this one paladin character npc that had a amulet thst allowed her to regenerate, where she was imprisoned and repeatedlt fed to a hydra by a group of cultists i think so that their other prisoners woukd bot be fed to the hydra long enough for them to be rescued.
Flynn Curtis eh it was more like several months of therapy for the npcs and shocked expressions for a bunch of new players. BUT THAT BEGS THE QUESTION! Is hydra meat any good?
Great story but the most incredible thing is the patience of the players to sit through that lengthy explanation of Abrums backstory from the DM as the goddess. Sadly if I tried that with my DnD group I know more than a few would stop paying attention and pull out their phones. Also, my players would have fully stolen the magic equipment after having it repaired instead of burying it with him.
I’m amazed you could recall so much detail! I’m not sure how much time has passed since this adventure, and of course your group could brainstorm. But still...
He held the line no matter the Cost and and held his vow to the end for he is a Warrior of honor and so let his legend be Heard for all time and for all to hear
When I hear 'we must destroy the artifact' I just laugh, which the artifact itself is also likely is doing: Those things require a specific event in order to undo them, often with insanely difficult steps that require a whole campaign in and of itself to achieve. Now those can be fun to plan and play, but it is a gamble to expect your party to want to undertake that adventure in the first place. It is more likely the common outcome of the party will be trying to use the artifact themselves, just sticking the artifact in a guarded location better then the one they found it in, or putting the artifact on display like a trophy. That last one being why my party ended up with a museum dedicated to all the fine work they did in archaeology.
**slow clap** It is insanely hard to put together a story of true "good" but this succeeds. It even allowed all parties (even and especially the antagonist) to be the good guy. I truly enjoyed this tale and deeply wish to play someday with a group that can have this degree of "good" in their hearts.
One of my friends has this NPC named O'Malley that shows up in every game just so he can try to kill him but for some reason O'Malley always survives despite being just a normal guard. Once even went up against one of the Boss characters for our first session and dodged every blow. Even during test rolls this NPC never gave an inch and my friend has surmised that anything short of poison or aoe attacks were simply just not going to kill this man.
i missed the game this happened in: we sacked a cave looking for a cursed artefact, inside the cave we found skeletons that could speak. we kept the skull of one prisoner. we learned that the artefact caued them to forget everything that had happened in the last day, and they essentially relived the same day over and over again for 500 years. this one skeleton we captured, we returned his head and freed him, taking him with us to the main city (in which necromancy is forbidden), and got him a special pardon, as he was the victim of necromancy, not the culprit. we helped him find his closest relatives and although they didn't accept him at first, they grew to love him and he lived with them. we called him john.
Very Nice! Instead of making the story about your party murdering a Guardian/ Warden, you made it into a story about the Guardian being heroic till the end.
This story definitely reminds me of a campaign I went through. This was back with my old group. Back when I used to play a Dragonborn fighter. We were playing this new campaign in 5e that is the current campaign that I'm in now with my character goldtooth. Me the kobold druid. Gwen the tiefling Paladin. Vaz the Rogue Ranger. And broxigar the Barbarian. At least me and the Barbarian knew each other from that campaign where my Dragonborn was in and I've told my DM about this character a few times how he was a champion of Bahamut and fought against the evil powers of necromancy that was solely corrupt in his lands. After playing a few campaigns and get in our characters up there and some levels RDM decides to throw a little Homebrew side quest for us and tells us to meet everybody at waterdeep. So we get to waterdeep and then we are given the task of finding a rare artifact up in some mountains near waterdeep. So we take silver Fang the brass Dragon to get there that is gold tooth wife and once we get there she decides to go back home for she was not needed there and gold tooth does not want her in any combat. So the five of us now finally make it to the mountain and we're going through this small dungeon complex find an ancient symbols that used to indicate about a civilization that used to be here and tattered flags that still blew in the Wind of a black hand. The more we ventured in the more dead that was apparently here we had to face. And then we get to a throne room as soon as the doors opened torches lit on each side of the Halls and down it was it destroyed throne with bones and armor scattered on top of it. Believe in the artifact the be here we went into the room then the doors behind a slam shut are there DM then describes that in front of us we see the bone shaking and rattling. We all get ready for combat when the bones reform themselves into a Dragonborn in Black armor wielding a powerful flaming Claymore. At this point I knew exactly what the hell happened. My DM had brought back a dead champion from my past and is now using it against me hohenheim the Dragonborn was back in 4th edition the only campaign I ever done in 4th edition. He was 10 levels as a fighter in 10 levels as a paladin and like I said a champion of Bahamut. So fighting a reanimated champion with all the abilities that he had in the past was not fun in fact he almost killed me a few times. The black armor he warned was armor made from the tarrasque and allowed it to deflect any magic that I threw at it the Claymore was a very powerful level 3 flame and Claymore. How he got it back in the day was it was a gift first saving in Elvish Prince. Yes my character back in the day sound very crucial. But I never finished his story and this was the DM I think in a way allowing me to put this character to rest. So we fought for 5 hours both parties clashed in trying to fight each other. A skeleton hero with some of his skeleton minions that were agents of the black hand use the fight against the necromancy cult clashing with my party the D Destroyers. After 5 hours of fighting we finally succeeded as the Dragonborn hero fell to the ground and the only thing that could be heard left was a very weak thank you as his bones turn to dust and all the equipment on him also turn to dust RDM was not going to allow it to get any of those powerful items. After that hohenheim the Dragonborn sworn protector and champion of Bahamut finally was laid to rest. It did make me happy but I kind of wish he Nerf my character😂
A brave man stood Despite the cold Fighting the fight No matter how old A oath he gave His word, his bond To stand guard and watch Though years did grow long Demons and devils Did try to defeat This brave man But they fell at his feet His oath was his bond And he would stand tall To hold back the tide Till finally, hed fall But let it be said And his tale be told His will never wavered Now his watch is over It's time for a rest This brave warrior He passed every test And now, at long last His soul has been blessed To finally rest in heavens breast.
This is a story to remember. In times such as these, this year being so many's worst, we need to remember to push through. Keep on going. Push through the pain. Both mental and phisical. Remember the story of Abrum always. P.S. Amazing story Sinlesssoul!
in the famous words of Zephram Cochrane, "Don't try to be a great Man, just be a man. Let history make it's own judgements." I honestly can say this applies to Abrum, for to him he was a man doing what he was called to do and with his ever long vigil and final sacrifice he has become a Great Man and a Legend for future Adventures to aspire to become one day.
I listen to these while playing videogames. I gotta say the opening scared the heck out of me as im currently playing a space game on mars an it was dark and I was suddenly hearing monsterous growls from the opening and I couldnt see anything around me in the game. That sounded like a very good game.
Party: *walks forward and intends to talk with the Abrum* Abrum: My name... Is Gyoubu Masataka Oniwa! As I breathe, you will not pass the castle gates!
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Nice story! The goddess happened to be quite puny, but that certainly helped the story a lot :)
@@rodrigosierpe5995 Thanks so much. I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
I expected a sad plot twist, however, an emotional ending and closure for a hero was unexpected. Awesome story, Sinlesssoul.
@@mariapazgonzalezlesme I'm happy you enjoyed it. My DnD group still talk about Abrum to this day.
Your party sounds quite wholesome. I wish I had a table like that. The ones I play with have a "good characters are lame" policy. 😒
Never forget the Rules Of Old Man Encounters:
Rule#1: If you see an old man standing by himself in an odd setting, it's safe to assume he's a badass.
I had a level 20 mystic character who had a vendetta against the BBEG and when we finally got to the final fight the BBEG decided to attack him first cause he was an old man, but my character blocked his attack, looked him dead in the eye, and said "Fight me if you wish, but remember...I am old for a reason."
I learned this from anime.
Beware an old man in a profession where one usually dies young.
Rule #2 never underestimate the old man/woman their old adventurers for a reason
@@marethyuretnuh9407 This. Everything about this.
This guy feels like a Dark Souls boss: extremely powerful, tenacious, and heart-breakingly tragic.
Not gonna lie, the art work and the story made me thought of Gael.
@@TheMagictinou He even has a broken sword and broken armor, love the inspiration from Gael though.
Slave knight Gael flash back... yep this guy is the (slightly) lesser embodiment of Gael
He gave me Knight Artorias vibes. Even as The Abyss was corrupting him and he was injured he still fought and tried to stop the Chosen Undead from entering The Abyss. There's cut dialogue of him pleading with the player.
@@actualteddybear891 Artoria's was successfully corrupted which isn't the same as Abrum's. Gael's far more similar to Abrum because his downfall was the blind faith in the Pygmys who gave him an impossible quest to fufill and only went mad due to his insurmountable determination to save the world and fulfill his duty. He even went so far see to it to the very end when he turned on the Pygmy lords to try and save the world what he believed was the solution.
Heros are remembered, but legends never die.
people who pluralize wrong, however, are forgotten.
@@reverie5760 Well....shit.
This comment is especially amusing, seeing the edit... And a plural spelling error, lol.
"heroes"
Giin uhhh. Shit. I did it again.
And if you don't know now you know.
This is the definition of a badass hero! Soloed a demon army, soloed a dragon, and then resisted temptations for decades. What a guy!
If it helps, our DM later explained that the only reason we had a chance of beating him was because of his broken equipment, his age penalties, and all the bodily afflictions that he suffered from (he was basically constantly suffering from the 'sickened' and 'dazzled' conditions as well).
When the solo player has one job but then gets ganked when his armor's broken, old and with nerfs
How do you solo a white dragon? Asking for a friend.😉
@@swiftbiscuit8624 Imagine if this party came here pre venerable age. They would not leave alive.
@@IveBeenWithBruma Yup sure would
Abrum the Unyielding, a man of his word~ A man against darkness who'll be heard~
Across the sea, the mountains, the land~ Abrum the Unyielding, he who stood gallant~
Abrum the Unyielding, a man of his word~ A party who'll shall know him and quench his thirst~
For Pulura he fights, but is laid to rest~ By a band who never wanted to end his quest~
Abrum the Unyielding, a man of his word~ When Deskari tried to claim him Pulura said 'Absurd!'~
For ye who know, this tale of words~ When darkness is shrouding, know Abrum stood forward~
This was very touching. Well done :)
This is amazing 👏 👏
This bardic tale brought tears my eyes. Oh to toast a drink in memory of such a legendary rarity, is a grand gesture from another kindred soul.
"toss a golden coin to you" for you my bardic friend, keep the good work, may pulura bless you on your travels
Cadia and Abrum still stands!
Abrum: "I shall not let you pass!"
*Megalomania plays*
Vania not mania
@@biblebot3947 Meh. In the spirit of Sans, what's done is done.
A lot of demons had a bad time!
YOU SHALL NOT PASSSSSSSSSS
I was really hoping this was meant to be a Live A Live reference, but of course it's not
*Demons:* How many do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?!
*Abrum:* I hate demons and crussaders!
Abrum: *gandalf you shall not pass scene, but it goes on for the rest of your natural life*
I appreciate Spongebob references
I'd say Abrum would more likely say: I hate the Evil people. As can be seen the party tried to get through to him, let him live through talk but he was so dedicated no persuasion could turn him. He meant no harm to those of good, only CE, NE, LE, TE aliments but his age and the constant whittling at the pillar of white marble that it was a mere splinter and his mind was almost finished. If these heros had not killed him he would of been Evils toy because they were literally cutting him off from the light and a evil hand would have sealed the conniving monster of the Chaos' goal of denying him rest.
I'm so jealous. I've never encountered a legend that was literally created while I was there. Rest easy old man. Your journey has finally finished.
Abrum is now a legendary hero in my world, sung of in songs and likened in statues. May no one ever forget his legacy.
The story of Abrum Stross was honestly gripping. Wonderful piece of writing.
Here’s to the most noble, unyielding, and selfless defender of good I’ve ever heard of! (Lifts up his drink) To the legendary hero of legendary heroes!
HEAR HEAR!!!
"I fear not the man who has practiced 1000 kicks one time. I fear the man who practiced one kick 1000 times"
Enough said
I can never remember where this comes from
Bruce Lee
Abrum would be so OP with a green lantern ring.
Pretty sure he'd be a blue lantern.
Parallax takes one look at this old man and shouts at the guardians
"WAIT THATS CHEATING!!!"
@@danielpratt1970 Nah, He'd be green. Blue is hopeful but Green is unbreakable will. But if he was next to a Blue Lanturn then we all know he could solo Supes.
Wouldn't be so sure given how often lanterns in general are jobbers when up against literally anyone that's _not_ a lantern
BEWARE MY POWER.
So who here loves Abrum?
I felt that in my soul. I'm tired too man let's go rest
I do not love Abrum, but I greatly honor his dedication and sacrifice. I feel that we saw how he died, but we did not know how he lived. If I knew how he lived then I could say I truly loved him.
This guy. He will be added into a campaign of mine. His Legend will live on
I will definitely add this legend into my campaign this was amazing !!
Im sure that corrupting demon of eternal darkness loved abrum as well.
Amazing story, really inspiring. We had a NPC who started as just a literal upstart whippersnapper, per description of the DM. Gung ho, wannabe Squire town boy, by sheer luck of dice, and growing town, and eventual kingdom popularity became a walking folk hero, dragonslayer, castle owner, full fledged Knight, and eventually King. DM never had intended it, he was supposed to die second session during a feast ambush. Fate smiled on his dice rolls, and he not only survived, but killed two kobolds. Party took him along as initially just a good luck charm and mascot, but he grew into his own. As said, got the killing blow on a dragon, among other creatures. Truly was a fate smiled character. Long may he reign, King Drance, the Champion of Fate
This is a story that is essentially saying how overpowered level 20 paladin's are.
*Looks at Level 9 Divine Smite damage output* Yeah.
According to the Author, Abrum Stross, the Unyielding, was a level 20 Fighter. Venerable (65+ years old, likely in his seventies or eighties, -3 Str, Dex, Con, +1 Wis), constantly suffering the "dazed" and "sickened" conditions, and wielding a broken magic sword and broken magic armor.
And the party *still* only barely won.
We're getting to legendary status with an NPC right now. A retired adventurer, now working as a barkeep, set in the Avernus campaign setting. Our DM is running it with some of the HARSHEST rules possible (short rest is a day, long rest is a week, crits taken cripple your character permanently, exhaustion takes shorter to affect you, etc.) and the flow of new characters has not abated, as we keep getting croaked repeatedly. The barkeep is starting to grow despondent, and has begun aiding us with more freebies, setting us up with allies, equipment, and even magical ingredients, or the contacts to gather them. He's even taken to organizing an unofficial watch to patrol the starter areas so that monsters and baddies don't come back.
He's getting desperate, we think. The travelers keep going in, but most of them never come back out.
Well, he retired for a reason.
Why is your DM turning D&D into Darkest Dungeon?
@@ab14967 I've never played Darkest Dungeon, but I do know the basic idea of it. If you're referring to how freaking difficult this campaign is, I think he just thinks 5e is much too lenient.
@@fatcoyote2 I won't say he is wrong, when comparing 5e to past editions. Still, it shouldn't end up being to a point where you go through more characters than a d100 based tabletop game.
@@ab14967 Yeah. I've blown through an entire clan of goblins at this point. The other players told me that this was a high-turnover game, so I fixed upon the idea that a whole clan of goblins had moved close by, so each one of my characters has been a sibling, cousin, in law, etc. Thing is, I've gone through about eight of them in ten sessions, and I'm not even the third worst one. I think I'm going to have to take a knee soon.
So you walk eternally through the shadow realms, standing against evil where all else falter. May your thirst for retribution never quench, may the blood on your sword never dry, and may we never need you again.
Corrax 7 17
When you're going through Hell, keep on moving, face that fire and you'll get out before the devil even knows you're there.
@@Plokman040 wheres that quote from?
@@somebodynobody718 It is from the country singer Rodney Atkins and the song is fittingly "If You're Going Through Hell"
Country Music is way too under appreciated, seeing how it is the second language of the US and third language to many other nations. It is so much more than many credit it for you know.
@@Plokman040 oh wow that's cool. I agree with you country is really under appreciated i recently started to get into it and I'm glad i did i found some really good gems
Ayy doom slayer
That has to be one of the most epic DnD stories ever 😎
I've been playing for over 40 years. In my opinion, it is.
Abrum the Unyielding, the proudest and brightest of the Abyss Watchers. May his youl rest in peace.
To quote Game of Thrones:
"His Watch was finally Over"....
"And now his Watch has ended."
@Magi V -- thank you. As a not-quite fan of the show(my little brother being a diehard fan) i tend to mess-up the quotes more than i'd like to admit....
@@johnnysizemore5797 Absolutely fine. I mean, there's so many good quotes (excluding later seasons of course, we don't talk about those), you're bound to mess up, especially as a "peripheral" fan.
"We shall not see his like again... and now his watch is ended."
And now his watch has ended.
In dark soul our term is for this great warrior
"the legend never dies"
I got emotional for this story.
May the sun shine upon this man
This is how you know that you have a good (not alignment) party of players. When they don't want to kill someone that attacks them because of a sense of respect.
wow, now this guy is a god damned paladin through and through, his oath was more powerful than evil darkness and even time itself
A story as beautiful and epic as it is sad. I raise my goblet in Abrum’s name this night. May he know peace, and may his name never be forgotten.
Every game over level 10 should secretly have an Abrum the Unyielding.
This is 100% the creative work of the gm. I don't remember there ever being a scenario like this is Wrath of the Righteous (the adventure path this game followed).
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The mighty daran glasstaff who is a powerful wizard.
Constantly uses burning hands as his favorite spell reply to me if you really want the crazy story
The dnd campaign I’m playing has a dm that hasn’t tried to understand wizards and one of the main NPCs is a wizard. I’m going to cut to the chase by saying he made a box levitate. Normally that wouldn’t be much but he kept it levitating for the three day journey. He told us that the NPC was a level 3 wizard. In actuality there’s no way he could do it if he wasn’t at least level 18.
I had 2 NPC's who've become Legends to my group(both of which were unintentional):
-- In a game of Dragon Age RPG(we were trying to "broaden our horizons" using different systems), the party met a Dalish Elf(it's a whole thing. If your intrestied, look up Dragon Age wikiup for more info) named Serenas. She started out as the quest-giver but(due in large part to the Party caster's wheedling) she joined them for the Quest & ended up accidentally showing the entire Party up.....
-- Next we have Meepo The Kobold. Meepo himself can be found in the 3.0-3.5 adventure The Sunless Citadel(which has been placed in Tales of The Yawning Portal fyi). Two of my players at the time(specifically my Half-orc & Casual) were players characters based on The Oriental Adventures supplement, so they decided to Train Meepo to be a Paesent Warrior(which was all he could socially be trained for), which is basically a Fighter that just gains extra attacks. Meepo went on to have the Highest number of attacks i've ever seen in the game(it's somewhere in the neighborhood of 14-15 by the time he hit max level) He was where we learned that the "Death Of A Thousand Cuts" is one of the worst way's to go out in the D&D world......
@@johnnysizemore5797 to be fair my whirling dervish in 3.5 eventually got 19 attacks at the end of his progression, but he is no Meepo....
Our DM made a middle age arab shop keeper name Abdul. From this he assign mission and such to us from time to time. Every time we come back to his mythical shop it would change. Abdul interactions with his assistant is hilarious it was mainly college humor. He essentially became our god of travel but usually get curse in a particular way which helps or hurt us in the process.
Before watching video: Yirbel lives!!!
After watching video: Hawt Damn! Can’t say abrum’s quite as influential on his world as that sly necromancer but he is certainly a compelling character! I can only imagine how epic all those battles for his soul and his prison was. I would have considered looting some of the bodies for armor but its what it is! I remember my cousin describing this one paladin character npc that had a amulet thst allowed her to regenerate, where she was imprisoned and repeatedlt fed to a hydra by a group of cultists i think so that their other prisoners woukd bot be fed to the hydra long enough for them to be rescued.
After the rescue: Hydra head barbecue! Get your hydra head here! All you can eat, grilled to perfection!
Flynn Curtis eh it was more like several months of therapy for the npcs and shocked expressions for a bunch of new players. BUT THAT BEGS THE QUESTION! Is hydra meat any good?
@@GreaterGrievobeast55 Good enough for Goblin Dan to serve.
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I get such a strong sense of lore akin to Dark Souls. Well written, tragic, and beautiful. Well done!
giving up was never an option.
His magic was never giving up?
@@CptnJaymz I guess.
@@CptnJaymz A believing heart is his magic
Blessed by thy name, Abrum the Unyielding
This story honestly brought me close to tears. I am greatly moved by the story, and thank you for the heartfelt emotion that it stirred.
Some years later, an old wizard would remember Abrum's resolve as he himself would utter the phrase "You shall not pass!"
Wow. Whoever came up with that adventure did such a good job that nobody could see what was coming. I love it!
Thanks for sharing your adventure!
Abrum, I salut your bravery in the face of overwhealming odds and the sacrifice you made.
(weeps a single manly tear)
Great story but the most incredible thing is the patience of the players to sit through that lengthy explanation of Abrums backstory from the DM as the goddess. Sadly if I tried that with my DnD group I know more than a few would stop paying attention and pull out their phones.
Also, my players would have fully stolen the magic equipment after having it repaired instead of burying it with him.
Abrum need to become like an Archangel for pulura
as the Navy says: Fair winds and following seas, we have the watch.
I’m amazed you could recall so much detail! I’m not sure how much time has passed since this adventure, and of course your group could brainstorm. But still...
He held the line no matter the Cost and and held his vow to the end for he is a Warrior of honor and so let his legend be Heard for all time and for all to hear
There was no line, but there was a door.
When I hear 'we must destroy the artifact' I just laugh, which the artifact itself is also likely is doing:
Those things require a specific event in order to undo them, often with insanely difficult steps that require a whole campaign in and of itself to achieve. Now those can be fun to plan and play, but it is a gamble to expect your party to want to undertake that adventure in the first place. It is more likely the common outcome of the party will be trying to use the artifact themselves, just sticking the artifact in a guarded location better then the one they found it in, or putting the artifact on display like a trophy.
That last one being why my party ended up with a museum dedicated to all the fine work they did in archaeology.
**slow clap** It is insanely hard to put together a story of true "good" but this succeeds. It even allowed all parties (even and especially the antagonist) to be the good guy. I truly enjoyed this tale and deeply wish to play someday with a group that can have this degree of "good" in their hearts.
One of my friends has this NPC named O'Malley that shows up in every game just so he can try to kill him but for some reason O'Malley always survives despite being just a normal guard. Once even went up against one of the Boss characters for our first session and dodged every blow. Even during test rolls this NPC never gave an inch and my friend has surmised that anything short of poison or aoe attacks were simply just not going to kill this man.
I hope O'Malley has been getting XP and leveling up between all these encounters.
I want to hear the full story of this.
i missed the game this happened in:
we sacked a cave looking for a cursed artefact, inside the cave we found skeletons that could speak. we kept the skull of one prisoner. we learned that the artefact caued them to forget everything that had happened in the last day, and they essentially relived the same day over and over again for 500 years. this one skeleton we captured, we returned his head and freed him, taking him with us to the main city (in which necromancy is forbidden), and got him a special pardon, as he was the victim of necromancy, not the culprit. we helped him find his closest relatives and although they didn't accept him at first, they grew to love him and he lived with them.
we called him john.
These stories are such a blast to listen to, truly lovely
Thank you for fun stories like this both to the players and our reader
Very Nice! Instead of making the story about your party murdering a Guardian/ Warden, you made it into a story about the Guardian being heroic till the end.
Daaaaaaamn. Almost cried with this one. F for Abrum
I swear I shed a tear. Gosh that was just... amazing.
What an unbelievable story. Very moving, hard on the soul really. Powerful.
That’s the first DnD story that almost made me cry
That was probably the coolest D&D story I've heard to date.
That is one of my favorite stories by far. I always loved a well thought out narrative. Very well done.
I have to say, hearing Abrum's story put me on the verge of tears. This was so good!
What an legendary NPC. I hope I could come up with something like that in the future. What a campaign to be a part of.
Jesus, i teared up listening to this, dont know why. Just awesome.
This is the best dnd story I've ever heard
Evan LaMartiniere it is pathfinder not dnd
This story definitely reminds me of a campaign I went through. This was back with my old group. Back when I used to play a Dragonborn fighter. We were playing this new campaign in 5e that is the current campaign that I'm in now with my character goldtooth. Me the kobold druid. Gwen the tiefling Paladin. Vaz the Rogue Ranger. And broxigar the Barbarian. At least me and the Barbarian knew each other from that campaign where my Dragonborn was in and I've told my DM about this character a few times how he was a champion of Bahamut and fought against the evil powers of necromancy that was solely corrupt in his lands. After playing a few campaigns and get in our characters up there and some levels RDM decides to throw a little Homebrew side quest for us and tells us to meet everybody at waterdeep. So we get to waterdeep and then we are given the task of finding a rare artifact up in some mountains near waterdeep. So we take silver Fang the brass Dragon to get there that is gold tooth wife and once we get there she decides to go back home for she was not needed there and gold tooth does not want her in any combat. So the five of us now finally make it to the mountain and we're going through this small dungeon complex find an ancient symbols that used to indicate about a civilization that used to be here and tattered flags that still blew in the Wind of a black hand. The more we ventured in the more dead that was apparently here we had to face. And then we get to a throne room as soon as the doors opened torches lit on each side of the Halls and down it was it destroyed throne with bones and armor scattered on top of it. Believe in the artifact the be here we went into the room then the doors behind a slam shut are there DM then describes that in front of us we see the bone shaking and rattling. We all get ready for combat when the bones reform themselves into a Dragonborn in Black armor wielding a powerful flaming Claymore. At this point I knew exactly what the hell happened. My DM had brought back a dead champion from my past and is now using it against me hohenheim the Dragonborn was back in 4th edition the only campaign I ever done in 4th edition. He was 10 levels as a fighter in 10 levels as a paladin and like I said a champion of Bahamut. So fighting a reanimated champion with all the abilities that he had in the past was not fun in fact he almost killed me a few times. The black armor he warned was armor made from the tarrasque and allowed it to deflect any magic that I threw at it the Claymore was a very powerful level 3 flame and Claymore. How he got it back in the day was it was a gift first saving in Elvish Prince. Yes my character back in the day sound very crucial. But I never finished his story and this was the DM I think in a way allowing me to put this character to rest. So we fought for 5 hours both parties clashed in trying to fight each other. A skeleton hero with some of his skeleton minions that were agents of the black hand use the fight against the necromancy cult clashing with my party the D Destroyers. After 5 hours of fighting we finally succeeded as the Dragonborn hero fell to the ground and the only thing that could be heard left was a very weak thank you as his bones turn to dust and all the equipment on him also turn to dust RDM was not going to allow it to get any of those powerful items. After that hohenheim the Dragonborn sworn protector and champion of Bahamut finally was laid to rest. It did make me happy but I kind of wish he Nerf my character😂
@@tthung8668 ya. It is
5:40
The corpse of a GREAT WYRM WHITE DRAGON...
Holy mother of god
The sword in the gif looks like the Leper's sword from Darkest Dungeon
He sounds almost like Slave Knight Gael.
Correction, he sounds exactly like Gael.
Might’ve been based on Gael, that DLC is 3 years old at this point
campaings like this one are good enough to inspire real books or shows
i hope ill encounter even remotely close epic character like this
This story literally gave me chills and gives me more inspiration than a bard ever could.
Oh this sounds like an amazing campaign. Wow, I mean WOW. Between the excellent story and and players, such rare games are diamonds in the Ruff
Gosh I nearly cried from that ending. Beautiful campaign
Got to watch it live, countdown included :)
And he stands tall the faithful watchman who guards the gates.
Outstanding story. Thank you for doing these. Not what I expected at the beginning.
A brave man stood
Despite the cold
Fighting the fight
No matter how old
A oath he gave
His word, his bond
To stand guard and watch
Though years did grow long
Demons and devils
Did try to defeat
This brave man
But they fell at his feet
His oath was his bond
And he would stand tall
To hold back the tide
Till finally, hed fall
But let it be said
And his tale be told
His will never wavered
Now his watch is over
It's time for a rest
This brave warrior
He passed every test
And now, at long last
His soul has been blessed
To finally rest in heavens breast.
Such a beautiful and moving story!
I wish there was a channel that dedicated to Roleplay stories in general and just tapletop RPG’s.
I will be adding this (or a similar) epic NPC to the world I run!
This is a story to remember. In times such as these, this year being so many's worst, we need to remember to push through. Keep on going. Push through the pain. Both mental and phisical. Remember the story of Abrum always.
P.S. Amazing story Sinlesssoul!
This was legit so moving, I started to cry!
Brought tears to my eyes. Incredible story.
So much feels! An amazing story indeed
Yoooooo! This story was amazing 👌 It was definently worth watching
in the famous words of Zephram Cochrane, "Don't try to be a great Man, just be a man. Let history make it's own judgements."
I honestly can say this applies to Abrum, for to him he was a man doing what he was called to do and with his ever long vigil and final sacrifice he has become a Great Man and a Legend for future Adventures to aspire to become one day.
...why did you use that quote?
ChiakiNanami is the best because it fits Abrum to a tee on why he did what he did in the Temple.
@@sebastianhopkins7322 ....no
That is your opinion, does not bother me regardless what you believe.
@@sebastianhopkins7322 why, don't his actions fall under trying to be a great man?
I love this so much. I wanna put this in my campaign now
17:53 I guess that there badassery overflowing my monitor
This was absolutely amazing
I was crying at the end. That was beautiful.
Awesomeness, I'm totally using this🙂 thanks for sharing!!
I listen to these while playing videogames. I gotta say the opening scared the heck out of me as im currently playing a space game on mars an it was dark and I was suddenly hearing monsterous growls from the opening and I couldnt see anything around me in the game. That sounded like a very good game.
im not crying you crying. for real though, that was both sad and awesome to listen to.
Great character and story. This is my favorite story on this channel.
Party: *walks forward and intends to talk with the Abrum*
Abrum: My name... Is Gyoubu Masataka Oniwa! As I breathe, you will not pass the castle gates!
YES! What an epic tale! Mad props to the DM.
Just started playing D&D, wish me luck!
Good luck man! I have been playing since 2nd Ed AD&D I love to hear when new people begin to play!
Jacob Ballenger I started a few months ago, I’m still new player, but I can tell you it is the most fun I’ve ever had!
"only 120 feet" You guys know that it's the height of a 15 or so story building...
lol fair point. :)
A story generally is 15 ft so we're talkin 8 stories but still a hundred and twenty feet is pretty far just not bottomless.
@@joshuacr 4,7 meter? Well maybe where you live, in the Eastern europe, it's usualy 2,5-3m/story
@@warwolf3005 noted. I'll make sure to include that for European eyes as well in the future.
This had me at the feels....
Doom Slayer would be proud of this man
10 out of 10 would watch again (a add played before the vid)
Wow... That was so awesome! I love this story!
Beware any old man in a profession where one normally dies young.
Is anyone else crying?? Idk why but DAMN that touched me
We need more stories like this and Astoshan
gosh i love npc focus stories more please