If I remember right he reached out thinking he would say no. When he agreed he gave him the line he wanted him to say but didn't tell him he was going to cut him off like that. Lol
This is far from a game ruining moment, but the other night we ran into a dragon and one of the party was more concerned with talking and bargaining with it (he wants a dragon friend, can't blame him) while the rest of us were itching to fight it before it got stronger. In the end it got strong and escaped. The best strat was to actually nuke it from the start, but we missed our chance because of the hesitation. This has caused a bit of distrust in the group and there's now a scary dragon we might have to look out for that'll be stronger later. So this little encounter revealed the party members having different goals and ideas but it ended up enhancing the campaign in ways we didn't expect. Really fun.
I know the feeling.. we ran afoul of an adult green dragon last week.. but before it could do anything, our Warlock cast banishment and we all said "Ala ka-YEET" and booked it tha fuq outta there before the spell faded.. we have the distinct feeling we'll run into them again later.
@@TheUnamazingRando mine went a little something like this “Hay lets attack the nice old woman selling pastries for no particular reason. I sure she won’t be a powerful cr 6 night hag while we’re a party of 3 level 3s” she was a night hag…
Yeah the figures all get moved around a little in various ways...my favorite one was having the Paladin standing on top of the Bard because the Bard is mad thirsty for the Paladin, it's a funny little subplot running in this series that I love.
Me and the rest of my group completely derailed our first campaign by overthrowing the leaders of a bandit camp and turning it into a legit kingdom over time and basically turned the entire campaign into a game of kingdom simulator
In my campaign the players were mercenaries tasked with finding a deserter but he convinced them to join him in his quest to revive a ruined kingdom using a reanimated corpse of it's long dead king and the whole story turned into tesco brand Overlord. And it was glorious.
Every single one of the people in this video are different D&D TH-camrs, not all of them do D&D session videos some do lore videos or other things but all of which are fucking amazing. And yes that WAS Matt Mercer. Seeing so many of my favorite D&D channels all Cameoing in this video truly brings a tear to my eye every single god damn time. This is without a doubt, the single greatest D&D video that has ever been created in the history of D&D ♥
I had a group of murder hobos that derailed my campaign idea a few years back. So I suggested that we turn the game into one of them on the run and trying to set up roots somewhere away from the lands they had crossed. It turned out overall fun. They had to form alliances with thieves guilds in various cities, had to use disguises after they had found out people had given pretty good descriptions to some of the artists that were helping the lords of the lands, and they even had to run from the law, the rulers, and eventually different hired hero groups sent to save the land from these evil bandits that the players had become. It was fun, especially when they got some hero on hero fights where I'd just make character concepts and test them on the characters. The zealot barbarian I threw at them much later scared the crap out of them.
My Table has an expression: "Dak is gonna Dak". Dakador is my groups Rogue stand in being a Way of Shadow Monk. As such he is the one that is going to stealth around and do the Rogue things. Dak decided it would be best to confront his former boss and two others, a Sorcerer and a Cleric, went with him. The Former Boss character knocked all three of them out and forced Death Saves on Dak. Sorcerer was revived by the cleric who then got knocked out, and Dak shoved the other two out the door and locked it. Cleric got stabilized so she didn't have to make saves but Dak was pretty much left to die, but he made his saves. Much yelling ensued when he rejoined the party.
I’ve been DM’ing an in person dnd group for about a year now and honestly I’ve loved every second of it. I’ve been a player before and honestly I think I prefer DM’ing I’m sure that I’m in the minority there but I love making stories and new scenarios and just world building and thankfully I think I’m doing alright so far. I still mess up a lot but it’s so much fun looking back at all the memories and am always excited for the next session.
I've been a DM for about 4 years now and frankly I love it. Sure I like playing too but I really enjoy crafting the world and guiding the players through it. That said my players have certainly gotten up to shenanigans including: - Rogue panics in a cellar full of oils and drops his torch in them, causing the haunted inn to explode - Party is trapped in a magical circular dungeon and out of desperation the paladin rolled to seduce the mountain. He rolled a 23 so the mountain was flattered but stonefaced - Party is flying in an airship when the druid accidentally summons a giant treant right under the balloon, popping it 10,000 feet up. Miraculously they survived. - Party is sneaking around a bandit camp when the paladin knocks a guard tower from the cliff face into the valley alerting the entire camp of kobolds and dragon cultists - Artificer accidentally puts bag of holding inside another thus accidentally banishing the Sorcerer to another plane of existence in the middle of a boss fight
The first game i DM'd was for my sisters (lost mines of phandelver), one of the was a druid and the other was a cleric (i know now, not the most noobie friendly classes), on their first time in Phandalin the druid tried to steal from the the innkeeper, IN FRONT OF A MILDLY FULL HOUSE. So guards arrived, the druid tried to fight the garrison, the cleric had to knock her out, apologized, they would do a night or two and/or do some quests to "pay" for the druid crimes but... The druid woke up when they were being held in a cell and tried to make a scene to get the guard to enter the cell so she could beat him up and take the keys. I had to use "rocks fall, everyone dies", i was just done. Turns out the druid didn't really want to play, me and my other sister (cleric) were the ones who wanted to play, so lesson learned. It's not worth the time to play with someone who doesn't really want to play a certain type of game. Some years later the druid found a system she really wanted to play, she liked Cyberpunk and never looked on d&d ever again.
One time i decided we were wasting too much time trying to pick a lock so i just firebolted the door open and burned the entire building down in the process. Gotta get shit MOVING sometimes.
@@vincentlefur4490 I've never been in a campaign long enough to actually get Fireball, only a Necklace of fireball that i dropped into a White Dragon's stomach. I also burned a warehouse down with Burning Hands cuz i rolled too high. I've sworn off Fire on recent characters XD
Me and a few friends are first timers playing dnd and our DM is being a good Dm by balancing between easing us in and not making it too easy during encounters. I was playing a ranger Dragonborn so when we encounter a dragon really early on we decided that I’ll talk to it as im the only one that speak draconic but our half orc Barbarian decided to go LEROY JENKINS!!!!
As a forever dm, I really don't mind being in the hot seat 95% of the time. I like it even. I ask that all my players take one, just one, turn behind the screen. If they hate it they don't gotta do it again. If they like it then bam, new dm. Like a toddler I only ask that you try it before deciding you hate it
I love being DM, but the problem is scheduling games and flakey players. :( Nothing is worse than spending hours preping a session then your players bail last minute and dont tell you or they forget or are 2 hours late.
We had a player not able to make it to a teaching game at a local table top store that runs a D&D 5e teaching campaign every month...they had to work late or something and couldn't make it, but they found a guy to take over the slot so we had a full party.
I've been GMing since my teens. So close to twenty years. I absolutely love it and have had a blast with friends. But at the same time it kinda stuck me in that pigeon-hole for a long time. I was still having a grand time but being the go-to guy to run tabletop games for my friend group got a little tiring. Still i would recommend the hobby to everyone. Try it at least once.
Oh for heaven's sake do you have ANY tips? I wanna try and get my friends into TTRPGS and only one of them has any experience being a DM and he's not available and often prefers to play anyway so I'm the next most likely as out of the 5 of us I'm the only other person who's played D&D. The best I got right now is a VERY newbie friendly starter box of a set called Animal Adventures that's meant for players new to RPGs and new DMs...it's basically 5e rules but the entire cast is animals and set in a world where regular animals can talk and cast magic and humans don't seem to notice this.
@@ShinKyuubi Being a DM isnt soo hard. Just start doing it. Write a story thread, meaning: Only a vague plot. Then fill it with "Hooks" and Characters. And then write sidestuff the players can do, but dont have to. In the end they are the characters of the story and are free to do as they want to, but there are also consequences for doing specific things as well. So why not write a fully fledged story? Because players are unpredictable and this makes it interesting. But being spontaneous and a king in improv takes time to learn, you dont need to be perfect with that in the beginning. Just write a baerbone story and fledge out from there. Also DnD is one of the simpler games to play, so you should also be fine with it (5e). But you can do any of the RPG systems you like. Wrath and Glory (Warhamer), DSA, DnD, World of Darkness, doesnt matter really. Pick one you like and go with it. Though i would recommend either Pathfinder or DnD. Really beginner friendly. Just go and do, it wont be perfect, but it doesnt have to. Doing the things will make you better at it. And if you dont want to write a story, thats fine too. Just use a pre written one and try doing some improv with it. In the end it comes down to "have fun". As a DM your words may be final, but dont be too harsh to players. Find a balance with cool stuff and rules and it will be awesome! For me when i DM.. there is nothing more heartwarming as seeing the joy of my players beating up a boss that i made. Or see the satisfaction and frustration of doing a quest, twist or hunt. Its really great.
@@ShinKyuubi the way I started, I just wrote a one-shot.. a simple plot that could be solved in one session. It was basically "an important relic was stolen from the town and the Mayor has hired the party to find it and bring it back before nightfall." It wasn't perfect, but we had fun all the same.
@@TheUnamazingRando @Ascalon223 Thanks both of you for the tips, lucky the set I mentioned has a story in there already to get things rolling. It's like I said a starter sex that comes with character minis for player characters, monster pieces, a map, DM screen, pre-made stat cards for the players...very beginner friendly and supposed to be good for new DMs too. Now I just gotta get more than 1 friend to hang out..everyone else has been so busy that getting more than one of my friends together to hang out and play table top games has been kinda rough.
11:38 What I like about this part of the video is that he managed to get well known DnD players that have their own channels. The Unexpectables are group that have their own special channel where they have videos of their sessions. And each person playing in that group have their own channels. The one playing the Kenku bird ninja is Gajin Goomba, by whom, has a channel with a wealth of Japanese lore on folklore, anime, and manga. Every other person after them also have their own channels and groups. I was surprised that he managed to get so many together for a mock sessions, each playing on their own personalities and characteristics.
10:01 This was my uncle. A spy for an enemy faction was stealing documents, and was in the process of running away with them. My uncle was playing a monk with a dash speed of 80 feet. He catches the spy and the campaign is derailed because the original plan the DM had was for us to infiltrate their headquarters to recapture the documents. But instead he now has to write an interogation instead, and we never played that campaign again
In my first adventure, a rogue decided to take a bath into a lake of an enchanted forest during an exploration mission. We received a druid's blessing in order to pass through the tree sentinels. We were banned from that place and if we appear again, we were going to be killed on the spot.
Oh geeze, I've had so many ways players have fucked things up; I once had a player just say out loud "we should just kill this guy" when talking about the Sheriff of a town who was just coming up to welcome them and this was the very first thing that any character said in the campaign; just 20 seconds in and this guy was advocating murder.
Everyone talks about the virtues and pitfalls of the words "yes" and "no" but a big thing a DM can respond with that can save a lot of headache in situations where the players spout off what they want to do is "why" does their character want to try to do that.
I use numbered tokens, with the flipside the number is X'ed out to represent a corpse that is now difficult terrain. My players loved it! They were able to make a wall out of massed corpses.
One moment that nearly stopped our current objective in the campaign as the rest of the group left my character to do the actual mission solo. A lone cleric to stop three factories, not get caught and meet up at the designated time. The rest? Five distracting in the towns square(didn't help as it was localized, AWAY from all the factories) aside the last guy standing by to keep an eye on them. Against all odds and a merciful DM sparing me, I pulled it off using different tactics as the spell slots dried up fast. Was late and almost missed the boat, thank god one of them saw me and threw a line. Taught me that sure everyone can understand how important it is to tackle the actual mission while others head off to make it easier. BUT, the party(or most) can just as easily be much more eager for the side objectives rather than the main one. Definitely will need to keep in mind scaling difficulty for the brave soul sticking to the focus if left alone like I was.
I've been a dm for so long that it felt strange to be a player one time. I love playing as the dm because of the npc and monsters you get to play as for adventures!
One of the campaign my friends cooked up was an all easy in and out dungeon run. We were trying to get a relic for the innkeeper's daughter. Me (lvl 1 human Barbarian) and my other friend (lvl 1 dwarf Rogue) accepted this quest with little to no knowledge of how the campaign should go, which is good since my friend is good with improving his way out of situations. Like the time where I just burst in room to room with no hesitation only to get my ass shot with a sleep dart causing me to be asleep and having my friend haul my ass to safety as a bunch of goblins chase after us. This one room we got in was a waist line flooded room. In which there's a small eco system thrives in it. There were trees, grass and lilly pads as floura and fishes and bugs as the fauna. My friend decided to get one of the fishes to replenish some HP (cuz that's how we heal apparently) but he kept rolling bellow 10. He got pissy and said "Imma just drown one and call it a day". I thought he was joking for a sec, then my friend (the dm) asked him to roll for something, which my dwarf Rogue pal did so willingly. And lo and behold, a nat 20. The way he described how he got the fish was funny to me. Apparently, he got the fish by the body and just let it stay put underwater. Now, for a fish, it will live since it breathes underwater. But for some god damn luck, he manage to drown it... With sheer will. He took the fish out of water once it drowned and went to the next room to cook it. I sat there with disbelief and I just.. went with it. And since we're cracking up jokes and shit, I tried stealing his fish. Rolled a good ol' 17 and managed to get the fish with a bit of a cerfufle. This, again, pissed my dwarf pal. He then PROCEEDS TO STAB ME WITH A FCKING ROPE. In which he rolled a nat 20 to. AGAIN. Tldr: Dwarf drowned a fish to death underwater, Barbarian steals fish, dwarf stabs me with a rope and crit kills me.
I had a level 1-5 starting island in my latest campaign, but did warn the players that there will occasionally be very high level enemies that might be wandering the world, but they'd be given all the cues to avoid it if they wanted. Well at one point they were running away from orcs in an orc stronghold and there was a Death Knight (CR17 or basically level 17 while the players were level 4) in the dungeons beneath the stronghold. One of the players decided to release it to kill the orcs chasing them. It worked. But now they had an unstoppable force roaming around the island literally deleting every settlement on it and allied with the big bad of the island, so the players had to flee.
As we were starting the session I was thinking “As long as the fighter with a god complex doesn’t try and fight the t-rex, we should get done in a reasonable time.” The instantly tried to tame a t-rex and then criticize failed. The cleric was like “he got himself into this so I’m just gonna watch. Can I heal the t-rex?
10:19 The long form is on a playlist on my channel: The Iron Golems. A few sessions after the DM failed to kill my character, we were getting ready for the BBEG finale, and had 2 irl weeks to strategize. During this, I cashed the Orc Tribe favor to get them to help storm the keep, skipping roleplay due to prior roleplay and backstory. The DM, over that final week: Okay, so the Orcs will take on the Mind Flayers descending from the crack in reality over the BBEG’s keep, as well as the army of level 4 NPCs the sorcerer who mastered the Deck of Many Things summoned. The Orc leader will join them on the tower rush as they fight their rival party, leading up to the big finale after they’ve used up all their spell slots. We show up. Warforged Sorcerer: Okay, we all remember the strategy from the side text group? DM: what side text group? Me: With that cashed in favor of the Orc Tribe, I leave my Tabby Tressym Familiar Kitten with them. When we’re in position, I’ll desummon her to signal the attack on the keep. DM: What position? Me: Remember how you said the keep was almost against the rocky cliff? Yeah, my Ranger will help them get around to the back side. DM: Okay… Party: We have flight and a Bag of Holding. As soon as Ranger desummons his Familiar, we’re charging in through a window. _Two minutes of DM blue screen later,_ we busted through the window and began the fight. Funny thing: I had a Potion of Fire Breathing, which I fed said familiar. She did the most damage to the BBEG for the first minute of combat.
This is something from the first homebrew I ran, the party was confronting one of the last villains in the campaign and it was a fairly even fight. Then the wizard rolled a nat 20 on a concentration check to summoned 3 infernal t-rexes and everything went downhill from there. Long story short for starting DMs, always make sure your villains have dagger on hand for in case they get eaten by a summoned critter. Learning experience aside, it was one of the most hilarious moments in the game that we all enjoyed immensely.
One of my party got a nat20 on healing a rotten dragon egg that I was planning to hatch into a draconian but I guess they have an amethyst dragon egg now
In my friend group, myself and one other person alternate being the DM each campaign so that we both get the chance to play. Been that way for nearing on a decade back when we first started with the first edition of pathfinder. As far as how things got fucked up, we've really only had one major event. This happened about a year or so ago. In the group we had a player who wanted to be an evil sorcerer. The leash to keep this all from running wild was suppose to be the groups monk (who was to be the sorcerer's brother). He was suppose to rein him in whenever he would go overboard. Well one night the monk player was already a bit upset and standoff-ish for other reasons and didn't check the sorcerer. He went stupid evil and head on attacked a cities crime boss in an attempt to take over. He did so in a room with nearly a dozen of his guards and specially built trap door that lead to an ettercap and small variety of spiders. I asked them 3 times if they really wanted to do it and they still went through with it. The sorcerer got dropped down the trapdoor and both the fighter and the sorcerer failed dex saves to grab onto each other or something else to stop the fall. The monk basically pouted in a corner the whole fight not helping much, and the rest tried to intimidate the guards...while their boss was till alive despite almost killing him the first round of combat then leaving him alone the rest of it...Everyone just started ripping into everyone else. The sorcerer was blamed, the monk was blamed, I was blamed for allowing it to happen (we tend towards the safer side when we play and don't go medieval on killing characters). Thankfully we were able to talk it out and continue the campaign but the monk player and fighter player will never sit at the same table and play anymore. So now when we play we have to decide who is coming along for that particular campaign.
I decided, when one of my regs couldn't make to a future session, to have a flashback oneshot. The remaining players make new characters and I had them deal with a younger version of an elf npc they met before, whom is on there death bed due to age. I surprised them with, at the time, new offcial monster and nearly killed the elf npc because of rolls in favor of the monster.
So quick story time, I was doing a one shot for some classmates that wanted to learn and 2 +/- experienced players, I told them if you guys start to derail the things and being the shitters that they normally are (dumb memes and stupid side conversations that were taking to much time that not all of us had) so I said the magical words that means that they are fucked, "Clickery Clackery, your about to get attackity, roll initiative you fucks." almost killed them and they learned to respect everyone at the table. Yes it sounds like I was an asshole, but they needed to learn that not all DMs have patience, I didn't care if they went with that plot or not, just wanted them to play and stop fucking around with memes.
About all the setup... in my group there are different people whose obsessions and hobbies all give much to the table. We got our DM who is constantly developing plot and NPCs and loves to give small spoilers to his note taking little sister - hi - as well as a two players who are so into miniatures and all that, that we have a whole army of them and they're now starting doing terrain as well, a musician that started practicing some songs only to be put into our sessions and myself who is the defacto "artist" of the group who makes sketches of PCs, NPCs, Uniforms for organisations and so on and so forth... I love them all and it's so freaking amazing ^^ And it gets better every time ^^ I'm even practicing dice making now, because why not XD
Prior to the boom of DND content online, my only glimpse into it was a Dexter’s Lab episode where Dexter is the DM, and cheats so he can TPK his friends. I’ve since come to enjoy CR and D20 shows, but that was my baseline on how the game would go.
Before the artificer class was official material we were playing a campaign in which the DM presented the BBEG to us in an expository way (we were level 4 at the time) and the artificer shot them with a sniper rifle, only the barbarian survived
I was freaking out when I saw OSP in this the first time. If you wanna know something about past historical events or myths, they are awesome. Also that monster that the chi-beholder was giving Jocrap was a Terrasque, basically the strongest monster in the game.
Barbarian strapped his coin pouch to the front of his belt and started air humping. Eventually the druid got tired of it and shot him in the junk with blight
We had a player who didn't own a player's handbook. He was playing a monk, so I printed off the necessary pages, but he lost them. Every time he came to the table he had to borrow a PHB and would start geeking out over what his character was capable of doing - it was especially bad any time we leveled up and he discovered that the was able to do something new. We're sailing north, and he realizes that his monk can walk on water, so he spent 15 minutes describing how he could run across the freezing water.
In regards to minis, it's a personal preference. There are some that do maps and minis, and there are some that do what is called 'theatre of the mind' where you just kinda picture everything in your head. While I've never used maps and minis irl, I do use them on Roll20, and I prefer that, because I like having a visual guide where everyone is and what's going on. But I have also played theatre of the mind as well.
It takes a few skills to learn or happen to have, such as being able to hold compelling conversations as different people, or being able to make random nonsense up on the spot, and most importantly, let go of your plans when it's clear your players want something else, but if you can handle it, being a DM is sooooo much fun
I am the dungeon master for my group, and I love it. While I do enjoy being a player from time to time, and even though I do suffer from burn-out on occasion, being dungeon master means I get to craft an amazing story and introduce the players to things in this world which I think they'll find cool. At one point, doing this lead to one of my players dating a prismatic dragon. To each their own, I guess. I wouldn't say that any of my players have ever ruined things, but one of them did prevent a two-part boss fight. I was running a campaign called The Book With No End and I had added a few things to elevate it above being a simple fetch quest. I even invented an NPC who was trapped in the tower they had to go to who offered to help them out in exchange for part of the treasure. At the end, while the party was fighting the four guardians in charge of protecting the book in a room that was slowly getting smaller, this NPC stole the book and was planning to leave with it. The party confronted him after they beat the guardians and he was not willing to give up the book. I was getting ready for the 2-part fight to start, but one of my players had been awarded a ring of three wishes with one wish remaining at the beginning of this campaign for things he did in a previous campaign, and he chose now to use it, wishing for the boss NPC to be banished while leaving the book behind. So, I cut off what he was saying mid-sentence and the NPC vanished and the book fell to the floor. I'm not even mad. It was a great use of his reward. Unfortunately, as a result of that he is no longer able to use Wish anymore, but he considered it to be worth it.
10:02 Oh boy do I got a story for you. A recent one We're playing Strixhaven, doing a mail delivery quest, simple-ish right?. Deliver a parcel from one genie sibling to the other genie sibling. The second genie offered to teleport us back to campus and our druid offers to direct the spell (Aka, think of the place best suitable for us to arrive) .... the druid pictures The Black Staff's tower in Waterdeep (keep in mind, Strix is near Silverymoon, quite a travel away...and we have classes the next day) We didn't land IN the tower thankfully as that would have been bad, but we arrived in the street randomly. A Cervitaur, a half dragon and a half tabaxi/half sphinx in school uniforms belonging to a school many many miles away.... My character is from Waterdeep but the DM and I never offically got her family set up as NPCs (although I did find pictures months ago about what I thought they could look like) and we both scrambled to find info to get us off the street, and back to school quickly. Thankfully my girl's mum knows Teleport...once she sobered up after drinking with Tasha... The Gm handled the whole thing really well despite the stress of having the frantically figure out how to get us back XD
An important line to remember when running any TTRPG is "You can certainly try" "Can I kill the king?" You can certainly try. "I'm going to steal everything in the orphanage!" You can certainly try "While they're talking I stab them for a coup de grace!" You can certainly try. The important thing is to let your players feel like they have options. And if you're worried about them detailing your campaign you can always set the DC higher than they're able to achieve in that moment baring a nat 20.
I started playing D&D about seven years ago, after a couple of failed starts some time before, and I started as the DM because I knew I'd never convince any of my friends to be one. I've never had any players completely screw up my campaigns, though I've had my fair share of facepalms over the years; the juice of being the DM is seeing what crazy scheme your players are going to come up with, and finding out what it can lead to.
15:22 These are Red and Blue. Their channel is Overly Sarcastic Productions. Their videos are really good. Actually most of the players have their own channels and many of them are worth watching.
Regarding using miniatures: Like almost everything in the game, it all depends on your group. Some use them for everything, some don't use them at all and only use theater of the mind, some use a mixture of both. In my game, I'll have everyone bust out the minis for combat, but use TotM for roleplay and pretty much everything else.
Been running a campaign for almost 2 years now and my players just hit lvl 16. One of their jobs they were hired for very early in the campaign was to entertain this vagrant who had coin and was looking for "strong friends". At first it seemed he wanted them because the organization that runs the city's underworld wanted him for various reasons but the truth was he was a werewolf and hired them on the night of a full moon to hold him off if he went berserk and stop him from hurting people without killing him. He was meant to be their first real boss fight with a multiclass in drunken master monk and swashbuckler rogue. He had max dex and chr so his initiative bonus was +10 and as a werewolf was immune to non silvered/non magical attacks. Not to mention a bite from him had the potential of transferring his curse to others. Not too terribly tough for the party; but with the caveat of if they kill him they fail their job and if they're spotted fighting in the streets they'd likely be arrested. So my plan was for them to make some noise beating him then escape to the sewers; which would then allowed them to see a yuan ti slithering around and give a clue for a future plotline. HOWEVER, i rolled super low on the werewolve's initiative even with a +10 and the artificer and druid ended up going first. The artificer cast levitate on the werewolf. The werewolf failed and was immobilized mid air. Then the druid cast moonbeam..... the werewolf failed again and immediately shifted back. And that was it. Combat over. I spent so many hours setting up the map and dynamic lighting to the sewers making an insane map to scale with the largest city in my campaign; not to mention all the encounters and lore i had hidden there. And to this day 2 years later its never been used; collecting dust in roll20s archived maps. Was a great session though; couldn't stop laughing at how my players just derailed every plan i had for that encounter in less than 1 turn.
10:14 I did. On the first campaign I ever played, one of my party members started knocking on walls and attracted the attention of (quite literally) ALL the monsters in the dungeon. Yes we shortly died after that. No I did not learn my lesson and I will knock on walls to try and find a secret room.
Probably the most recent fuck up one of the PCs did need up with 2 people dead by the hands of another. Our warforged had 2 main characteristics. They hate dragons and will attack on command, and will always help kids. The first thing that happened is a dragon was attacking the village, and he immediately stormed towards it. Keep in mind we are only level 2 and this is an adult black dragon. Somehow the dragon didn’t kill us but what he did next did. After the dragon flew off after destroying most of the town, he heard about a kid that went missing in an abandoned house. So again he goes strait there. Turns out the house is haunted by 3 ghosts. One of which possesses our Rogue. At this point rogue kept sneak attacking all of us. Killing our Tortle monk (who was named Oogway) and me (a dwarven warlock). So yeah fun times
I am so amused that Krimson has NO CLUE who these TH-camrs are. They are all D&D-related YTers. Red and Blue are "Overly Sarcastic" (who does Trope Talk), you have GajinGoomba who was the Kenku at the start of the game, and DOZENS of the best D&D TH-camrs (including Tulok the Barbrarian, before he truly exploded in popularity with "Building Character", he was the quadruple multiclass).
I accidentally ended a campaign playing a wild magic sorcerer and dropping a massive fireball on myself causing a TPK cause of everyone being close to me
I’ve got a friend that’s deaf, so I use figures and a Whiteboard mat so I can draw the scenery to help him understand a lot easier on what’s happening for when we play Dnd, plus it’s easier also for when for the person who knows sign language too.. granted I normally do this for any player, but he was the inspiration on getting the Whiteboard Mat.
One day I was playing a sci-fi one-shot (that is, a one session campaign), and one of the players decided to play a drunkard. Which was like, sure, someone with alcohol problems, why not, but they won't be able to drink during the one-shot since we're soldiers on a mission. He still roleplayed as if his character was drunk, being annoying even when we all warned him that what he was doing not only didn't make sense but it also was annoying everyone else. He ended up shooting a rocket launcher to a cave's ceiling instead of the enemies. We barely survived. We shot him in the back.
In one campaign a friend just obtained a super powerful bone sword, we were like lvl 1-2, and when the boss for the last fight of the night comes he decided to throw the sword, failing the target and failing the luck throw to get it back, so the it goes the best weapon we have at the moment and we almost get killed, but my battle cleric just crits 5 times in a row to obliterate the bosses head.
I had something happen literally today where ( context: sci-fi campaign setting) we were about to take off from the planet and one of our party members snuck in and fucked with the engine, and if we hadn't caught them we would have TPK'd when we tried to fly away. We spent 80% of our session today just dealing with the fallout from that ONE decision.
this story happens over 2 sessions. the party consisted of a paladin/sorcerer multiclass, a ranger specializing in killing undead, a rouge, and a wizard. the party was tasked to investigate a mining town that had suddenly gone quite despite a trade route going strait through the town. on their way there the run into an abandoned minors camp. the camp is absolutely trashed and looks like an animal mauled it. they barley investigate and proceed the town. now in my head i figured that they would explore every building as i put a clue in each of them as to what was going on. they checked 2 of the 6 buildings i drew up on the map. it was just enough information to tell them that something happened in the mine. they go to the mine to find zombies poring out of the mine. they cleverly use some rock to distract the zombies and sneak in and discover a blighted water elemental. end of season 1. after the session i asked why they seemed in such a rush. they said i wasn't painting the picture vary well and it made it hard to be immersed. ok...fair enough. session 2 the ranger had to cancel last minute. well crap. this was suppose to be a 4v1 encounter. guess I'll fudge some numbers. i explain that the elemental grabs the ranger and pulls him under the water. now water elementals can turn completely invisible so long as they are in water. so it kept popping up at random places and sneak attacking them. after a really hard fight the beat the elemental and free the ranger revealing a vary mystical looking door with runes covering it and a portal that you cant see through. the wizard cast detect magic. i tell him "it has more power than you've ever felt."(they were lvl4) now the big bad was on the other side of the door. the door lead to another location on the other side of the world. they absolutely refused to go through believing the door would vaporize them some how. after an hour of them trying to "solve the puzzle" i had to break character and tell them its just a dam door!
.. I'm my groups forever DM. The moment I picked up the DM's guide, my fate was forever sealed. But as a bonus my current campaign is almost running on 3 years now! WOOO!
While DMing can be hard, nerve-wracking, and utterly mentally draining, I find it to be incredibly rewarding. I love my players' enthusiasm and working with them on their characters. I have been a writer for most of my life, and while writing a campaign is leagues away from writing a book, there is just as much fun in the former as in the latter.
The fuck up story I have is how another player killed my character. To put it briefly, a giant fell from the sky landing on a cliff causing 2 of the party members to fall. Our Goliath threw me, a mini Minotaur, at them to try to catch them. Only thing is, he didn’t tie the rope off. So he yeeted me off the cliff with them. They survived because they landed in a river below. i however landed on the shore of the river because of course I did. I took 40 hits of fall damage instantly killing me.
There are online variations of the DM's table, the most popular being: WorldAnvil, Roll20 and DnDBeyond. Personally, only used the latter two for actual player games. WorldAnvil is a surprisingly good tool for DM' and keeping information
We were halfway through a campaign, everything going our way when a player character we rescued flipped half the party and killed the other half in their sleep, turning the campaign evil.
Not really someone ruining my campaign, but me accidentally ruining the dm's last few sessions by me destroying the world by sheer bad luck. So this dates about a year back. I was playing an lizardfolk Rogue/warlock multiclass. Most of my arcane trickster and warlock spells were related to illusions and spells that hinder vision. Such as hunger of hadar that ended the campaign. So in the dm's world the people were born at certain level and couldn't become more powerful. This rule was apparently placed by a man named Stellarck who had rosen to godhood after inprisoning the original gods (he was supposed to be the original BBEG, but we found out that wasn't the case later and that he also wasn't the one behind the rule either), but our group had an work around as we where contacted by an construck made by the original gods called god forged. He had been shattered in the battle with Stellarch. So he asked us to find his shards and for every shard we leveled up and thats how our adventure started. Later we learned that god forged was Stellarch's armor and it shattered against the entity of the universe and they techically were still fighting because timeline bs. With this we found out that gods are either embodiments of something or the first creatures to do something (we litterally met a god of bards. He litterally rised to godhood because he was the first bard. Well we met more too as we broke all of the gods out of tartarus where they were inprisoned). With all of the knowledge and equipment we were almost ready to fight the actual bbeg the universe itself. We just had to find the last two shards and deal with the church of stellarch (actually run by the vampires working for the universe) as they had started annextermination of the week. So we started to raid some of the churche's vaults as we believed they had the last shards. As we explored these vaults that were armed to the teeth with vampire guards and robots with cannons we found out these weren't actual vaults of the churchs but ships that travel through time and monitor the world from an other dimension, but they had crash landed on the world because of the bbeg. As being badically big time boats their entrance was in the material world but their other parts were in the void (basically realm of nothing but black holes). We were fighting an group of crocodiles that turn anything they touch to gold and an very angry and small psionic tank. (It had an flesh and a big eye that could stop spell casting because how furious its gaze was.) So i tried to cast hunger of hadar on the crocs and the tank. The tank cancels the spell. So wait for my next turn to cast it again and my companions do their thing, but the most important thing our other warlock doesnis he commands the mutating Zombie right next to the crocs. So it's my turn again and i cast hunger of hadar. Gm reads the description of it, it tears the fabric of dimensions so yeah i have accindentaly created an rift to the void. Gm was ruling that the void couldn't escape area of the spell, but that wasn't the issue that had the gm's attention. It was the zombie in the void radiated area. Remember when i said the gods where could be enbodiments of things. Well i just accidentally had created the perfect situation for the creation of a body for the entity of entropy. The entity doesn't have an body as if it had a body it would destroy the world and everything in it.(the requiremts for a suitable body for it are an undead creature that has mutated five times and is seeped in the energies of void. plus it having to succeed an really hard con save. It gets an nat 20 on the save). So i have released the entity of entropy and it deletes me and the party instantly and then the gm describes how this entity slowly wipes everything out of existense. And thats how that campaign ended.
Can’t recall a specific scenario, but one time my group and I nearly got wiped because the DM was able to roll god-tier rolls against us for enemy rolls. My healer character got a great workout that day, and we walked away with the skins of our teeth. No special mechanics involved, just bad rotten luck on rolls. And we were using virtual dice. No hacks on that d20.
quick story, cave, lots of dragon worshippers and they have drakes and shit locked away in a pen, friend goes to relock it before they can get out, rolls a Nat 1, trips and slams the door open then proceeds to get eaten alive, still hungry drakes look at the rest of the low hp and out of spell slots team. that was a beautiful tpk
I am always that guy.. nah but it’s chill, i love being the DM it’s great, as for miniatures it’s your choice you can have a whole set piece battle map or you can have theater of the mind
I'm currently running a campaign that basically Demon's Souls, and tbh I love being the DM. It was a bit bumpy at first, but as I gained experience and figured out enemy stats it got a lot easier and more enjoyable for everybody. After all everyone deserves to have fun, including the DM.
I enjoy being the DM, working on starting up my own campaign hopefully soon if things can calm down and I can properly focus on creating the maps/world. As for when a PC f*cked up a game, I got a good one. 2 years ago, had a session on the Fall Equinox where we had an extra hour to play since we "fall back" an hour. One of our players, nicknamed Ego Mage, decided to bring in a BUNCH of alcohol that he already started drinking of, while bringing his current squeeze at the time who was already intoxicated. The whole night, Ego Mage wouldn't let the story progress without his say so or his "orders" on "how it should go", as well as fucked up every single encounter we had that night. To keep it short, the session got utter destroyed thanks to their drunken stupidity, we lost the extra hour babysitting them as they threw up their guts, and essentially ret-conned the session because of how everything got utterly destroyed, thus having to go through with it all over again, to which Ego Mage constantly tried to make it go his way AGAIN despite the entire party keeping him in check
One of the worst game ruining experience I had was our party was exploring the sewers of the city we were in trying to intercept an exchange between 2 antagonistic organizations and when an encounter happened one of the party members got critically injured. So in a panic he tried to run into a different area for cover. He ran into 3 different rooms and causes different enemy encounters and all them to attack us. The end result being about half of the party getting wiped.
I think my group's session 1 encounter was pretty close to game ruining. 1 barbarian, 1 wizard, 1 cleric, 1 paladin, 1 fighter, and 1 ranger vs 8 wolves. Barbarian's rolls are basically cursed with how he's attacking and at one point hit the cleric, who is running pure damage control from everyone else's failed dodges. Ranger runs in, forgetting that he's one of the few ranged attackers and when they realized, they left the wizard to get downed. Fighter was being a glory hog and was only kept alive thanks to the paladin's dedication and patience. Once he went down, the ranger and the barbarian finally get smart/lucky and clean the rest of the mobs up, the barbarian getting the final kill a fish he found after falling in the lake. Final count, wizard and fighter down, cleric out of spell slots and paladin and barbarian at 1 hp each. But at least we lived
In regards to minis you don't need them but I've seen people use just specific colored dice for their mini. Once you get more then 5 players I think a battlemap does become much more valuable to ensure everyone has the same visual of the situation
Only a few sessions in as a new DM (with all new players) the whole story got turned on its head. The players were supposed to inquire about a missing wizard because they were sent by his friend to find him, but the charming warlock is a compulsive liar and well... Long story short he accidentally incriminated himself in the disappearance to the town guard and wound up getting arrested. Instead of explaining the situation (they literally had a letter from the wizard's friend!) the rest of the party decided to bust the warlock out. In the process they blew up a wall on the guard station and killed 2 of them, so they had to skip town and hide in the forest. You know... the town they were supposed to be investigating to find the missing wizard. I was so frustrated and angry at the end of the session and my players could tell. It took me a bit longer than usual but when the next session rolled around I'd written up a while thing about them joining up with some of the smugglers and thieves in the area to find out what happened. What followed was way more memorable, as they were now wanted in the city and balancing the knife's edge about maybe being betrayed by the thieves before they could find their quarry. Consecuences from that session followed us to the end of the campaign and now I wouldn't have it any other way .
"Has the most dice" This is so true. In all of my years of DM. Somehow I had the most dice out of everyone with only 3 sets of die. Now enjoying being a player I no longer hold that title.
One time we were playing and our DM put us against a couple of Wyverns that were attacking a merchant, so we rushed in to save the man. However, we have been followed by the main enemy faction's latchkeys and we desperately needed a fast way of transportation, so I figured we could try and tame one of them, with the DM's approval too. So here we were, trying to calm down the angry beasts and I even threw them my rations of meat to try and get them to at least not hate us... and there's one guy who ignored the plan I came up with and the others were up to follow and proceeds to murder one of the wyverns, which meant that the other ones would not be friendly to us and we were forced to kill them. The game continued after that but man that made me so angry, I was trying for a LONG time to get everyone to cooperate but this one guy just kept ignoring all of our talk and kept attacking the wyverns At least we saved the merchant, but yeah, no sick wyvern ride
As the defacto DM of a lot of the groups I play with, Yes, I do enjoy being the DM. I wouldn't say I'm particularly good at it, I just know my players and general plot points well enough to make things happen.
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Can we just appreciate how JoCat got Matthew freaking Mercer to cameo in this?? Amazing!
He even brought his pool noodles to throw.
And not just him, but all these other DnD youtubers for this massive collab.
If I remember right he reached out thinking he would say no. When he agreed he gave him the line he wanted him to say but didn't tell him he was going to cut him off like that. Lol
"When the fuck did the blind dragonborn get a gun?!" is forever my favorite JoCrap line ever.
classic
My personal favorite is "I hope you like being pavement lotion cause you're gonna be filling all the cracks in my driveway *SMACK*"
Pfff. Amateurs, the best line is
"JUST FIREBALL" and "What do you mean person whitin fireball distance"
@@AugustoEL person within fireball distance is something I regularly say as my Orc Wizard in my Sunday game.
@@Chernobog34 Well it is a very efective way of telling someone that they are fucked if they challenge you.
Fun fact: the Bard and Paladin minis are holding hands in the intro. The Bard got what they wanted! Hooray!
This is far from a game ruining moment, but the other night we ran into a dragon and one of the party was more concerned with talking and bargaining with it (he wants a dragon friend, can't blame him) while the rest of us were itching to fight it before it got stronger. In the end it got strong and escaped. The best strat was to actually nuke it from the start, but we missed our chance because of the hesitation. This has caused a bit of distrust in the group and there's now a scary dragon we might have to look out for that'll be stronger later. So this little encounter revealed the party members having different goals and ideas but it ended up enhancing the campaign in ways we didn't expect. Really fun.
I know the feeling.. we ran afoul of an adult green dragon last week.. but before it could do anything, our Warlock cast banishment and we all said "Ala ka-YEET" and booked it tha fuq outta there before the spell faded.. we have the distinct feeling we'll run into them again later.
@@TheUnamazingRando mine went a little something like this
“Hay lets attack the nice old woman selling pastries for no particular reason. I sure she won’t be a powerful cr 6 night hag while we’re a party of 3 level 3s” she was a night hag…
i love how all the figurines were moved to face the master
Yeah the figures all get moved around a little in various ways...my favorite one was having the Paladin standing on top of the Bard because the Bard is mad thirsty for the Paladin, it's a funny little subplot running in this series that I love.
Me and the rest of my group completely derailed our first campaign by overthrowing the leaders of a bandit camp and turning it into a legit kingdom over time and basically turned the entire campaign into a game of kingdom simulator
So D&D kingsmaker, you all just changed the system
Sweet
In my campaign the players were mercenaries tasked with finding a deserter but he convinced them to join him in his quest to revive a ruined kingdom using a reanimated corpse of it's long dead king and the whole story turned into tesco brand Overlord.
And it was glorious.
Every single one of the people in this video are different D&D TH-camrs, not all of them do D&D session videos some do lore videos or other things but all of which are fucking amazing.
And yes that WAS Matt Mercer. Seeing so many of my favorite D&D channels all Cameoing in this video truly brings a tear to my eye every single god damn time.
This is without a doubt, the single greatest D&D video that has ever been created in the history of D&D ♥
I could be wrong, but I think at 18:35 it's CamiCat, and I don't think she's a D&D TH-camr, rather she's a song cover artist.
There's a full version of Cami-Cat's bard song. She sings it too. It's on her channel, it's called Life of a Bard.
You should check it out.
I'm a little disappointed how long it took to see this comment. Cami-Cat makes some great themed music for D&D but seems to get so little notice.
I had a group of murder hobos that derailed my campaign idea a few years back. So I suggested that we turn the game into one of them on the run and trying to set up roots somewhere away from the lands they had crossed. It turned out overall fun. They had to form alliances with thieves guilds in various cities, had to use disguises after they had found out people had given pretty good descriptions to some of the artists that were helping the lords of the lands, and they even had to run from the law, the rulers, and eventually different hired hero groups sent to save the land from these evil bandits that the players had become. It was fun, especially when they got some hero on hero fights where I'd just make character concepts and test them on the characters. The zealot barbarian I threw at them much later scared the crap out of them.
My Table has an expression: "Dak is gonna Dak". Dakador is my groups Rogue stand in being a Way of Shadow Monk. As such he is the one that is going to stealth around and do the Rogue things. Dak decided it would be best to confront his former boss and two others, a Sorcerer and a Cleric, went with him. The Former Boss character knocked all three of them out and forced Death Saves on Dak. Sorcerer was revived by the cleric who then got knocked out, and Dak shoved the other two out the door and locked it. Cleric got stabilized so she didn't have to make saves but Dak was pretty much left to die, but he made his saves. Much yelling ensued when he rejoined the party.
I’ve been DM’ing an in person dnd group for about a year now and honestly I’ve loved every second of it. I’ve been a player before and honestly I think I prefer DM’ing I’m sure that I’m in the minority there but I love making stories and new scenarios and just world building and thankfully I think I’m doing alright so far. I still mess up a lot but it’s so much fun looking back at all the memories and am always excited for the next session.
I've been a DM for about 4 years now and frankly I love it. Sure I like playing too but I really enjoy crafting the world and guiding the players through it. That said my players have certainly gotten up to shenanigans including:
- Rogue panics in a cellar full of oils and drops his torch in them, causing the haunted inn to explode
- Party is trapped in a magical circular dungeon and out of desperation the paladin rolled to seduce the mountain. He rolled a 23 so the mountain was flattered but stonefaced
- Party is flying in an airship when the druid accidentally summons a giant treant right under the balloon, popping it 10,000 feet up. Miraculously they survived.
- Party is sneaking around a bandit camp when the paladin knocks a guard tower from the cliff face into the valley alerting the entire camp of kobolds and dragon cultists
- Artificer accidentally puts bag of holding inside another thus accidentally banishing the Sorcerer to another plane of existence in the middle of a boss fight
The first game i DM'd was for my sisters (lost mines of phandelver), one of the was a druid and the other was a cleric (i know now, not the most noobie friendly classes), on their first time in Phandalin the druid tried to steal from the the innkeeper, IN FRONT OF A MILDLY FULL HOUSE. So guards arrived, the druid tried to fight the garrison, the cleric had to knock her out, apologized, they would do a night or two and/or do some quests to "pay" for the druid crimes but... The druid woke up when they were being held in a cell and tried to make a scene to get the guard to enter the cell so she could beat him up and take the keys. I had to use "rocks fall, everyone dies", i was just done.
Turns out the druid didn't really want to play, me and my other sister (cleric) were the ones who wanted to play, so lesson learned. It's not worth the time to play with someone who doesn't really want to play a certain type of game. Some years later the druid found a system she really wanted to play, she liked Cyberpunk and never looked on d&d ever again.
One time i decided we were wasting too much time trying to pick a lock so i just firebolted the door open and burned the entire building down in the process. Gotta get shit MOVING sometimes.
As the mage's crap guide said : use Fireball and only Fireball 😂
@@vincentlefur4490 I've never been in a campaign long enough to actually get Fireball, only a Necklace of fireball that i dropped into a White Dragon's stomach. I also burned a warehouse down with Burning Hands cuz i rolled too high. I've sworn off Fire on recent characters XD
Me and a few friends are first timers playing dnd and our DM is being a good Dm by balancing between easing us in and not making it too easy during encounters.
I was playing a ranger Dragonborn so when we encounter a dragon really early on we decided that I’ll talk to it as im the only one that speak draconic but our half orc Barbarian decided to go LEROY JENKINS!!!!
As a forever dm, I really don't mind being in the hot seat 95% of the time. I like it even. I ask that all my players take one, just one, turn behind the screen. If they hate it they don't gotta do it again. If they like it then bam, new dm. Like a toddler I only ask that you try it before deciding you hate it
I love being DM, but the problem is scheduling games and flakey players. :( Nothing is worse than spending hours preping a session then your players bail last minute and dont tell you or they forget or are 2 hours late.
We had a player not able to make it to a teaching game at a local table top store that runs a D&D 5e teaching campaign every month...they had to work late or something and couldn't make it, but they found a guy to take over the slot so we had a full party.
I've been GMing since my teens. So close to twenty years. I absolutely love it and have had a blast with friends. But at the same time it kinda stuck me in that pigeon-hole for a long time. I was still having a grand time but being the go-to guy to run tabletop games for my friend group got a little tiring. Still i would recommend the hobby to everyone. Try it at least once.
I've been "that guy" (Dungeon Master) and it's just as much fun as being a player with the right group!
Oh for heaven's sake do you have ANY tips? I wanna try and get my friends into TTRPGS and only one of them has any experience being a DM and he's not available and often prefers to play anyway so I'm the next most likely as out of the 5 of us I'm the only other person who's played D&D. The best I got right now is a VERY newbie friendly starter box of a set called Animal Adventures that's meant for players new to RPGs and new DMs...it's basically 5e rules but the entire cast is animals and set in a world where regular animals can talk and cast magic and humans don't seem to notice this.
@@ShinKyuubi Being a DM isnt soo hard. Just start doing it. Write a story thread, meaning: Only a vague plot. Then fill it with "Hooks" and Characters. And then write sidestuff the players can do, but dont have to. In the end they are the characters of the story and are free to do as they want to, but there are also consequences for doing specific things as well.
So why not write a fully fledged story? Because players are unpredictable and this makes it interesting. But being spontaneous and a king in improv takes time to learn, you dont need to be perfect with that in the beginning. Just write a baerbone story and fledge out from there. Also DnD is one of the simpler games to play, so you should also be fine with it (5e). But you can do any of the RPG systems you like. Wrath and Glory (Warhamer), DSA, DnD, World of Darkness, doesnt matter really. Pick one you like and go with it. Though i would recommend either Pathfinder or DnD. Really beginner friendly. Just go and do, it wont be perfect, but it doesnt have to. Doing the things will make you better at it. And if you dont want to write a story, thats fine too. Just use a pre written one and try doing some improv with it. In the end it comes down to "have fun". As a DM your words may be final, but dont be too harsh to players. Find a balance with cool stuff and rules and it will be awesome! For me when i DM.. there is nothing more heartwarming as seeing the joy of my players beating up a boss that i made. Or see the satisfaction and frustration of doing a quest, twist or hunt. Its really great.
@@ShinKyuubi the way I started, I just wrote a one-shot.. a simple plot that could be solved in one session.
It was basically "an important relic was stolen from the town and the Mayor has hired the party to find it and bring it back before nightfall."
It wasn't perfect, but we had fun all the same.
@@TheUnamazingRando @Ascalon223
Thanks both of you for the tips, lucky the set I mentioned has a story in there already to get things rolling. It's like I said a starter sex that comes with character minis for player characters, monster pieces, a map, DM screen, pre-made stat cards for the players...very beginner friendly and supposed to be good for new DMs too. Now I just gotta get more than 1 friend to hang out..everyone else has been so busy that getting more than one of my friends together to hang out and play table top games has been kinda rough.
Truly the greatest crossover in gaming history.
11:38 What I like about this part of the video is that he managed to get well known DnD players that have their own channels. The Unexpectables are group that have their own special channel where they have videos of their sessions. And each person playing in that group have their own channels. The one playing the Kenku bird ninja is Gajin Goomba, by whom, has a channel with a wealth of Japanese lore on folklore, anime, and manga. Every other person after them also have their own channels and groups. I was surprised that he managed to get so many together for a mock sessions, each playing on their own personalities and characteristics.
10:01 This was my uncle. A spy for an enemy faction was stealing documents, and was in the process of running away with them. My uncle was playing a monk with a dash speed of 80 feet. He catches the spy and the campaign is derailed because the original plan the DM had was for us to infiltrate their headquarters to recapture the documents. But instead he now has to write an interogation instead, and we never played that campaign again
In my first adventure, a rogue decided to take a bath into a lake of an enchanted forest during an exploration mission. We received a druid's blessing in order to pass through the tree sentinels. We were banned from that place and if we appear again, we were going to be killed on the spot.
Oh geeze, I've had so many ways players have fucked things up; I once had a player just say out loud "we should just kill this guy" when talking about the Sheriff of a town who was just coming up to welcome them and this was the very first thing that any character said in the campaign; just 20 seconds in and this guy was advocating murder.
Everyone talks about the virtues and pitfalls of the words "yes" and "no" but a big thing a DM can respond with that can save a lot of headache in situations where the players spout off what they want to do is "why" does their character want to try to do that.
My wife and I alternate as DMs of our group and we love it
I use numbered tokens, with the flipside the number is X'ed out to represent a corpse that is now difficult terrain. My players loved it! They were able to make a wall out of massed corpses.
One moment that nearly stopped our current objective in the campaign as the rest of the group left my character to do the actual mission solo. A lone cleric to stop three factories, not get caught and meet up at the designated time. The rest? Five distracting in the towns square(didn't help as it was localized, AWAY from all the factories) aside the last guy standing by to keep an eye on them. Against all odds and a merciful DM sparing me, I pulled it off using different tactics as the spell slots dried up fast. Was late and almost missed the boat, thank god one of them saw me and threw a line.
Taught me that sure everyone can understand how important it is to tackle the actual mission while others head off to make it easier. BUT, the party(or most) can just as easily be much more eager for the side objectives rather than the main one. Definitely will need to keep in mind scaling difficulty for the brave soul sticking to the focus if left alone like I was.
I've been a dm for so long that it felt strange to be a player one time. I love playing as the dm because of the npc and monsters you get to play as for adventures!
Fun thing about the song fragment, is that Cami-Cat made a full song from it called Life of a Bard.
One of the campaign my friends cooked up was an all easy in and out dungeon run. We were trying to get a relic for the innkeeper's daughter. Me (lvl 1 human Barbarian) and my other friend (lvl 1 dwarf Rogue) accepted this quest with little to no knowledge of how the campaign should go, which is good since my friend is good with improving his way out of situations. Like the time where I just burst in room to room with no hesitation only to get my ass shot with a sleep dart causing me to be asleep and having my friend haul my ass to safety as a bunch of goblins chase after us.
This one room we got in was a waist line flooded room. In which there's a small eco system thrives in it. There were trees, grass and lilly pads as floura and fishes and bugs as the fauna.
My friend decided to get one of the fishes to replenish some HP (cuz that's how we heal apparently) but he kept rolling bellow 10. He got pissy and said
"Imma just drown one and call it a day". I thought he was joking for a sec, then my friend (the dm) asked him to roll for something, which my dwarf Rogue pal did so willingly. And lo and behold, a nat 20. The way he described how he got the fish was funny to me. Apparently, he got the fish by the body and just let it stay put underwater. Now, for a fish, it will live since it breathes underwater. But for some god damn luck, he manage to drown it... With sheer will. He took the fish out of water once it drowned and went to the next room to cook it.
I sat there with disbelief and I just.. went with it. And since we're cracking up jokes and shit, I tried stealing his fish. Rolled a good ol' 17 and managed to get the fish with a bit of a cerfufle. This, again, pissed my dwarf pal. He then PROCEEDS TO STAB ME WITH A FCKING ROPE. In which he rolled a nat 20 to. AGAIN.
Tldr: Dwarf drowned a fish to death underwater, Barbarian steals fish, dwarf stabs me with a rope and crit kills me.
I had a level 1-5 starting island in my latest campaign, but did warn the players that there will occasionally be very high level enemies that might be wandering the world, but they'd be given all the cues to avoid it if they wanted. Well at one point they were running away from orcs in an orc stronghold and there was a Death Knight (CR17 or basically level 17 while the players were level 4) in the dungeons beneath the stronghold. One of the players decided to release it to kill the orcs chasing them. It worked. But now they had an unstoppable force roaming around the island literally deleting every settlement on it and allied with the big bad of the island, so the players had to flee.
As we were starting the session I was thinking “As long as the fighter with a god complex doesn’t try and fight the t-rex, we should get done in a reasonable time.” The instantly tried to tame a t-rex and then criticize failed. The cleric was like “he got himself into this so I’m just gonna watch. Can I heal the t-rex?
So, if you explicitly paused on a four-way multiclass, you may not want to know more about *Abserd.*
10:19 The long form is on a playlist on my channel: The Iron Golems.
A few sessions after the DM failed to kill my character, we were getting ready for the BBEG finale, and had 2 irl weeks to strategize. During this, I cashed the Orc Tribe favor to get them to help storm the keep, skipping roleplay due to prior roleplay and backstory.
The DM, over that final week: Okay, so the Orcs will take on the Mind Flayers descending from the crack in reality over the BBEG’s keep, as well as the army of level 4 NPCs the sorcerer who mastered the Deck of Many Things summoned. The Orc leader will join them on the tower rush as they fight their rival party, leading up to the big finale after they’ve used up all their spell slots.
We show up.
Warforged Sorcerer: Okay, we all remember the strategy from the side text group?
DM: what side text group?
Me: With that cashed in favor of the Orc Tribe, I leave my Tabby Tressym Familiar Kitten with them. When we’re in position, I’ll desummon her to signal the attack on the keep.
DM: What position?
Me: Remember how you said the keep was almost against the rocky cliff? Yeah, my Ranger will help them get around to the back side.
DM: Okay…
Party: We have flight and a Bag of Holding. As soon as Ranger desummons his Familiar, we’re charging in through a window.
_Two minutes of DM blue screen later,_ we busted through the window and began the fight.
Funny thing: I had a Potion of Fire Breathing, which I fed said familiar. She did the most damage to the BBEG for the first minute of combat.
This is something from the first homebrew I ran, the party was confronting one of the last villains in the campaign and it was a fairly even fight. Then the wizard rolled a nat 20 on a concentration check to summoned 3 infernal t-rexes and everything went downhill from there. Long story short for starting DMs, always make sure your villains have dagger on hand for in case they get eaten by a summoned critter. Learning experience aside, it was one of the most hilarious moments in the game that we all enjoyed immensely.
One of my party got a nat20 on healing a rotten dragon egg that I was planning to hatch into a draconian but I guess they have an amethyst dragon egg now
In my friend group, myself and one other person alternate being the DM each campaign so that we both get the chance to play. Been that way for nearing on a decade back when we first started with the first edition of pathfinder.
As far as how things got fucked up, we've really only had one major event. This happened about a year or so ago. In the group we had a player who wanted to be an evil sorcerer. The leash to keep this all from running wild was suppose to be the groups monk (who was to be the sorcerer's brother). He was suppose to rein him in whenever he would go overboard. Well one night the monk player was already a bit upset and standoff-ish for other reasons and didn't check the sorcerer. He went stupid evil and head on attacked a cities crime boss in an attempt to take over. He did so in a room with nearly a dozen of his guards and specially built trap door that lead to an ettercap and small variety of spiders. I asked them 3 times if they really wanted to do it and they still went through with it. The sorcerer got dropped down the trapdoor and both the fighter and the sorcerer failed dex saves to grab onto each other or something else to stop the fall. The monk basically pouted in a corner the whole fight not helping much, and the rest tried to intimidate the guards...while their boss was till alive despite almost killing him the first round of combat then leaving him alone the rest of it...Everyone just started ripping into everyone else. The sorcerer was blamed, the monk was blamed, I was blamed for allowing it to happen (we tend towards the safer side when we play and don't go medieval on killing characters). Thankfully we were able to talk it out and continue the campaign but the monk player and fighter player will never sit at the same table and play anymore. So now when we play we have to decide who is coming along for that particular campaign.
love how there are so many other dnd youtubers in this video Jocat made including Mat Mercer himself
I, as a DM, gave my players a deck of many
one void'd himself, one gained three levels, and it escalated from there
I decided, when one of my regs couldn't make to a future session, to have a flashback oneshot. The remaining players make new characters and I had them deal with a younger version of an elf npc they met before, whom is on there death bed due to age. I surprised them with, at the time, new offcial monster and nearly killed the elf npc because of rolls in favor of the monster.
So quick story time, I was doing a one shot for some classmates that wanted to learn and 2 +/- experienced players, I told them if you guys start to derail the things and being the shitters that they normally are (dumb memes and stupid side conversations that were taking to much time that not all of us had) so I said the magical words that means that they are fucked, "Clickery Clackery, your about to get attackity, roll initiative you fucks." almost killed them and they learned to respect everyone at the table.
Yes it sounds like I was an asshole, but they needed to learn that not all DMs have patience, I didn't care if they went with that plot or not, just wanted them to play and stop fucking around with memes.
About all the setup... in my group there are different people whose obsessions and hobbies all give much to the table.
We got our DM who is constantly developing plot and NPCs and loves to give small spoilers to his note taking little sister - hi - as well as a two players who are so into miniatures and all that, that we have a whole army of them and they're now starting doing terrain as well, a musician that started practicing some songs only to be put into our sessions and myself who is the defacto "artist" of the group who makes sketches of PCs, NPCs, Uniforms for organisations and so on and so forth...
I love them all and it's so freaking amazing ^^ And it gets better every time ^^ I'm even practicing dice making now, because why not XD
JoCat still talks about one of the best things he ever has gotten to do is to yell at Matt Mercer.
Prior to the boom of DND content online, my only glimpse into it was a Dexter’s Lab episode where Dexter is the DM, and cheats so he can TPK his friends. I’ve since come to enjoy CR and D20 shows, but that was my baseline on how the game would go.
Before the artificer class was official material we were playing a campaign in which the DM presented the BBEG to us in an expository way (we were level 4 at the time) and the artificer shot them with a sniper rifle, only the barbarian survived
I was freaking out when I saw OSP in this the first time. If you wanna know something about past historical events or myths, they are awesome.
Also that monster that the chi-beholder was giving Jocrap was a Terrasque, basically the strongest monster in the game.
A moniker perhaps no longer true in 5e, seeing how you don't need a Wish or other divine intervention to get rid of one for good anymore.
Barbarian strapped his coin pouch to the front of his belt and started air humping. Eventually the druid got tired of it and shot him in the junk with blight
There was a few close calls for me, but I managed to find a compromise
We had a player who didn't own a player's handbook. He was playing a monk, so I printed off the necessary pages, but he lost them. Every time he came to the table he had to borrow a PHB and would start geeking out over what his character was capable of doing - it was especially bad any time we leveled up and he discovered that the was able to do something new. We're sailing north, and he realizes that his monk can walk on water, so he spent 15 minutes describing how he could run across the freezing water.
In regards to minis, it's a personal preference. There are some that do maps and minis, and there are some that do what is called 'theatre of the mind' where you just kinda picture everything in your head. While I've never used maps and minis irl, I do use them on Roll20, and I prefer that, because I like having a visual guide where everyone is and what's going on. But I have also played theatre of the mind as well.
It takes a few skills to learn or happen to have, such as being able to hold compelling conversations as different people, or being able to make random nonsense up on the spot, and most importantly, let go of your plans when it's clear your players want something else, but if you can handle it, being a DM is sooooo much fun
O MY GOD. My D&D player group is chaos.
But I usually roll with it. And it turns out really entretaining and fun.
I love them.
I am the dungeon master for my group, and I love it. While I do enjoy being a player from time to time, and even though I do suffer from burn-out on occasion, being dungeon master means I get to craft an amazing story and introduce the players to things in this world which I think they'll find cool. At one point, doing this lead to one of my players dating a prismatic dragon. To each their own, I guess.
I wouldn't say that any of my players have ever ruined things, but one of them did prevent a two-part boss fight. I was running a campaign called The Book With No End and I had added a few things to elevate it above being a simple fetch quest. I even invented an NPC who was trapped in the tower they had to go to who offered to help them out in exchange for part of the treasure. At the end, while the party was fighting the four guardians in charge of protecting the book in a room that was slowly getting smaller, this NPC stole the book and was planning to leave with it. The party confronted him after they beat the guardians and he was not willing to give up the book. I was getting ready for the 2-part fight to start, but one of my players had been awarded a ring of three wishes with one wish remaining at the beginning of this campaign for things he did in a previous campaign, and he chose now to use it, wishing for the boss NPC to be banished while leaving the book behind. So, I cut off what he was saying mid-sentence and the NPC vanished and the book fell to the floor. I'm not even mad. It was a great use of his reward. Unfortunately, as a result of that he is no longer able to use Wish anymore, but he considered it to be worth it.
10:02 Oh boy do I got a story for you. A recent one
We're playing Strixhaven, doing a mail delivery quest, simple-ish right?. Deliver a parcel from one genie sibling to the other genie sibling.
The second genie offered to teleport us back to campus and our druid offers to direct the spell (Aka, think of the place best suitable for us to arrive)
.... the druid pictures The Black Staff's tower in Waterdeep (keep in mind, Strix is near Silverymoon, quite a travel away...and we have classes the next day) We didn't land IN the tower thankfully as that would have been bad, but we arrived in the street randomly. A Cervitaur, a half dragon and a half tabaxi/half sphinx in school uniforms belonging to a school many many miles away....
My character is from Waterdeep but the DM and I never offically got her family set up as NPCs (although I did find pictures months ago about what I thought they could look like) and we both scrambled to find info to get us off the street, and back to school quickly. Thankfully my girl's mum knows Teleport...once she sobered up after drinking with Tasha...
The Gm handled the whole thing really well despite the stress of having the frantically figure out how to get us back XD
"Is it important?"
My dude, my red dragon was a fucking gummy bear.
Things I learned from this video: KB would definitely fuck that table.
Look.
If I were a table
I would eff that table.
IF I WERE A TABLE.
An important line to remember when running any TTRPG is "You can certainly try"
"Can I kill the king?"
You can certainly try.
"I'm going to steal everything in the orphanage!"
You can certainly try
"While they're talking I stab them for a coup de grace!"
You can certainly try.
The important thing is to let your players feel like they have options. And if you're worried about them detailing your campaign you can always set the DC higher than they're able to achieve in that moment baring a nat 20.
I started playing D&D about seven years ago, after a couple of failed starts some time before, and I started as the DM because I knew I'd never convince any of my friends to be one.
I've never had any players completely screw up my campaigns, though I've had my fair share of facepalms over the years; the juice of being the DM is seeing what crazy scheme your players are going to come up with, and finding out what it can lead to.
We were hoping to sneak up on cult members with chaos making magic but one of the barbarians ran in and literally disarmed someone
15:22 These are Red and Blue. Their channel is Overly Sarcastic Productions. Their videos are really good.
Actually most of the players have their own channels and many of them are worth watching.
So very often, my first campaign had the party beat a boss outside their dc to beat thus upending parts of the whole story I had made
Sometimes I hate how much I have to babysit my party, but they're all good people 😊
Regarding using miniatures: Like almost everything in the game, it all depends on your group. Some use them for everything, some don't use them at all and only use theater of the mind, some use a mixture of both. In my game, I'll have everyone bust out the minis for combat, but use TotM for roleplay and pretty much everything else.
My brother and I used LEGO figures since we didn't have any actual miniatures.
It worked decently enough for us.
Those guys that showed up first are The Unexpectables. The orc is played by Takahata101. The surfer bro clownfish triton is Octopimp
Been running a campaign for almost 2 years now and my players just hit lvl 16. One of their jobs they were hired for very early in the campaign was to entertain this vagrant who had coin and was looking for "strong friends". At first it seemed he wanted them because the organization that runs the city's underworld wanted him for various reasons but the truth was he was a werewolf and hired them on the night of a full moon to hold him off if he went berserk and stop him from hurting people without killing him.
He was meant to be their first real boss fight with a multiclass in drunken master monk and swashbuckler rogue. He had max dex and chr so his initiative bonus was +10 and as a werewolf was immune to non silvered/non magical attacks. Not to mention a bite from him had the potential of transferring his curse to others. Not too terribly tough for the party; but with the caveat of if they kill him they fail their job and if they're spotted fighting in the streets they'd likely be arrested. So my plan was for them to make some noise beating him then escape to the sewers; which would then allowed them to see a yuan ti slithering around and give a clue for a future plotline.
HOWEVER, i rolled super low on the werewolve's initiative even with a +10 and the artificer and druid ended up going first. The artificer cast levitate on the werewolf. The werewolf failed and was immobilized mid air. Then the druid cast moonbeam..... the werewolf failed again and immediately shifted back. And that was it. Combat over. I spent so many hours setting up the map and dynamic lighting to the sewers making an insane map to scale with the largest city in my campaign; not to mention all the encounters and lore i had hidden there. And to this day 2 years later its never been used; collecting dust in roll20s archived maps. Was a great session though; couldn't stop laughing at how my players just derailed every plan i had for that encounter in less than 1 turn.
You should see the DnD roast
10:14 I did. On the first campaign I ever played, one of my party members started knocking on walls and attracted the attention of (quite literally) ALL the monsters in the dungeon. Yes we shortly died after that. No I did not learn my lesson and I will knock on walls to try and find a secret room.
Minis and mats are for tactics, theater of the imagination is for bullshitting for the story.
Probably the most recent fuck up one of the PCs did need up with 2 people dead by the hands of another.
Our warforged had 2 main characteristics. They hate dragons and will attack on command, and will always help kids.
The first thing that happened is a dragon was attacking the village, and he immediately stormed towards it. Keep in mind we are only level 2 and this is an adult black dragon.
Somehow the dragon didn’t kill us but what he did next did.
After the dragon flew off after destroying most of the town, he heard about a kid that went missing in an abandoned house. So again he goes strait there.
Turns out the house is haunted by 3 ghosts. One of which possesses our Rogue. At this point rogue kept sneak attacking all of us. Killing our Tortle monk (who was named Oogway) and me (a dwarven warlock).
So yeah fun times
I am so amused that Krimson has NO CLUE who these TH-camrs are. They are all D&D-related YTers. Red and Blue are "Overly Sarcastic" (who does Trope Talk), you have GajinGoomba who was the Kenku at the start of the game, and DOZENS of the best D&D TH-camrs (including Tulok the Barbrarian, before he truly exploded in popularity with "Building Character", he was the quadruple multiclass).
I believe the last one is for Character Sheets.
I accidentally ended a campaign playing a wild magic sorcerer and dropping a massive fireball on myself causing a TPK cause of everyone being close to me
I’ve got a friend that’s deaf, so I use figures and a Whiteboard mat so I can draw the scenery to help him understand a lot easier on what’s happening for when we play Dnd, plus it’s easier also for when for the person who knows sign language too.. granted I normally do this for any player, but he was the inspiration on getting the Whiteboard Mat.
One day I was playing a sci-fi one-shot (that is, a one session campaign), and one of the players decided to play a drunkard. Which was like, sure, someone with alcohol problems, why not, but they won't be able to drink during the one-shot since we're soldiers on a mission.
He still roleplayed as if his character was drunk, being annoying even when we all warned him that what he was doing not only didn't make sense but it also was annoying everyone else.
He ended up shooting a rocket launcher to a cave's ceiling instead of the enemies. We barely survived. We shot him in the back.
In one campaign a friend just obtained a super powerful bone sword, we were like lvl 1-2, and when the boss for the last fight of the night comes he decided to throw the sword, failing the target and failing the luck throw to get it back, so the it goes the best weapon we have at the moment and we almost get killed, but my battle cleric just crits 5 times in a row to obliterate the bosses head.
I had something happen literally today where ( context: sci-fi campaign setting) we were about to take off from the planet and one of our party members snuck in and fucked with the engine, and if we hadn't caught them we would have TPK'd when we tried to fly away. We spent 80% of our session today just dealing with the fallout from that ONE decision.
One of them decided to slap my grandma quest giver… they rolled a natural 20 and the NPC died instantly
If you want order, 3-6 players. If you want chaos, 7-30 or atleast one wild magic sorcerer that actively tries to make all magic wild.
this story happens over 2 sessions. the party consisted of a paladin/sorcerer multiclass, a ranger specializing in killing undead, a rouge, and a wizard. the party was tasked to investigate a mining town that had suddenly gone quite despite a trade route going strait through the town. on their way there the run into an abandoned minors camp. the camp is absolutely trashed and looks like an animal mauled it. they barley investigate and proceed the town. now in my head i figured that they would explore every building as i put a clue in each of them as to what was going on. they checked 2 of the 6 buildings i drew up on the map. it was just enough information to tell them that something happened in the mine. they go to the mine to find zombies poring out of the mine. they cleverly use some rock to distract the zombies and sneak in and discover a blighted water elemental. end of season 1. after the session i asked why they seemed in such a rush. they said i wasn't painting the picture vary well and it made it hard to be immersed. ok...fair enough. session 2 the ranger had to cancel last minute. well crap. this was suppose to be a 4v1 encounter. guess I'll fudge some numbers. i explain that the elemental grabs the ranger and pulls him under the water. now water elementals can turn completely invisible so long as they are in water. so it kept popping up at random places and sneak attacking them. after a really hard fight the beat the elemental and free the ranger revealing a vary mystical looking door with runes covering it and a portal that you cant see through. the wizard cast detect magic. i tell him "it has more power than you've ever felt."(they were lvl4) now the big bad was on the other side of the door. the door lead to another location on the other side of the world. they absolutely refused to go through believing the door would vaporize them some how. after an hour of them trying to "solve the puzzle" i had to break character and tell them its just a dam door!
.. I'm my groups forever DM. The moment I picked up the DM's guide, my fate was forever sealed.
But as a bonus my current campaign is almost running on 3 years now! WOOO!
While DMing can be hard, nerve-wracking, and utterly mentally draining, I find it to be incredibly rewarding. I love my players' enthusiasm and working with them on their characters. I have been a writer for most of my life, and while writing a campaign is leagues away from writing a book, there is just as much fun in the former as in the latter.
The fuck up story I have is how another player killed my character.
To put it briefly, a giant fell from the sky landing on a cliff causing 2 of the party members to fall. Our Goliath threw me, a mini Minotaur, at them to try to catch them. Only thing is, he didn’t tie the rope off. So he yeeted me off the cliff with them. They survived because they landed in a river below. i however landed on the shore of the river because of course I did. I took 40 hits of fall damage instantly killing me.
There are online variations of the DM's table, the most popular being: WorldAnvil, Roll20 and DnDBeyond. Personally, only used the latter two for actual player games. WorldAnvil is a surprisingly good tool for DM' and keeping information
We were halfway through a campaign, everything going our way when a player character we rescued flipped half the party and killed the other half in their sleep, turning the campaign evil.
Not really someone ruining my campaign, but me accidentally ruining the dm's last few sessions by me destroying the world by sheer bad luck.
So this dates about a year back. I was playing an lizardfolk Rogue/warlock multiclass. Most of my arcane trickster and warlock spells were related to illusions and spells that hinder vision. Such as hunger of hadar that ended the campaign. So in the dm's world the people were born at certain level and couldn't become more powerful. This rule was apparently placed by a man named Stellarck who had rosen to godhood after inprisoning the original gods (he was supposed to be the original BBEG, but we found out that wasn't the case later and that he also wasn't the one behind the rule either), but our group had an work around as we where contacted by an construck made by the original gods called god forged. He had been shattered in the battle with Stellarch. So he asked us to find his shards and for every shard we leveled up and thats how our adventure started.
Later we learned that god forged was Stellarch's armor and it shattered against the entity of the universe and they techically were still fighting because timeline bs. With this we found out that gods are either embodiments of something or the first creatures to do something (we litterally met a god of bards. He litterally rised to godhood because he was the first bard. Well we met more too as we broke all of the gods out of tartarus where they were inprisoned). With all of the knowledge and equipment we were almost ready to fight the actual bbeg the universe itself. We just had to find the last two shards and deal with the church of stellarch (actually run by the vampires working for the universe) as they had started annextermination of the week. So we started to raid some of the churche's vaults as we believed they had the last shards.
As we explored these vaults that were armed to the teeth with vampire guards and robots with cannons we found out these weren't actual vaults of the churchs but ships that travel through time and monitor the world from an other dimension, but they had crash landed on the world because of the bbeg. As being badically big time boats their entrance was in the material world but their other parts were in the void (basically realm of nothing but black holes). We were fighting an group of crocodiles that turn anything they touch to gold and an very angry and small psionic tank. (It had an flesh and a big eye that could stop spell casting because how furious its gaze was.) So i tried to cast hunger of hadar on the crocs and the tank. The tank cancels the spell. So wait for my next turn to cast it again and my companions do their thing, but the most important thing our other warlock doesnis he commands the mutating Zombie right next to the crocs. So it's my turn again and i cast hunger of hadar. Gm reads the description of it, it tears the fabric of dimensions so yeah i have accindentaly created an rift to the void. Gm was ruling that the void couldn't escape area of the spell, but that wasn't the issue that had the gm's attention. It was the zombie in the void radiated area. Remember when i said the gods where could be enbodiments of things. Well i just accidentally had created the perfect situation for the creation of a body for the entity of entropy. The entity doesn't have an body as if it had a body it would destroy the world and everything in it.(the requiremts for a suitable body for it are an undead creature that has mutated five times and is seeped in the energies of void. plus it having to succeed an really hard con save. It gets an nat 20 on the save). So i have released the entity of entropy and it deletes me and the party instantly and then the gm describes how this entity slowly wipes everything out of existense.
And thats how that campaign ended.
I had a dnd where one of my player character kept throwing rocks at npcs and gaurds
Can’t recall a specific scenario, but one time my group and I nearly got wiped because the DM was able to roll god-tier rolls against us for enemy rolls. My healer character got a great workout that day, and we walked away with the skins of our teeth. No special mechanics involved, just bad rotten luck on rolls.
And we were using virtual dice. No hacks on that d20.
quick story, cave, lots of dragon worshippers and they have drakes and shit locked away in a pen, friend goes to relock it before they can get out, rolls a Nat 1, trips and slams the door open then proceeds to get eaten alive, still hungry drakes look at the rest of the low hp and out of spell slots team. that was a beautiful tpk
I am always that guy.. nah but it’s chill, i love being the DM it’s great, as for miniatures it’s your choice you can have a whole set piece battle map or you can have theater of the mind
I'm currently running a campaign that basically Demon's Souls, and tbh I love being the DM. It was a bit bumpy at first, but as I gained experience and figured out enemy stats it got a lot easier and more enjoyable for everybody. After all everyone deserves to have fun, including the DM.
I enjoy being the DM, working on starting up my own campaign hopefully soon if things can calm down and I can properly focus on creating the maps/world.
As for when a PC f*cked up a game, I got a good one. 2 years ago, had a session on the Fall Equinox where we had an extra hour to play since we "fall back" an hour. One of our players, nicknamed Ego Mage, decided to bring in a BUNCH of alcohol that he already started drinking of, while bringing his current squeeze at the time who was already intoxicated. The whole night, Ego Mage wouldn't let the story progress without his say so or his "orders" on "how it should go", as well as fucked up every single encounter we had that night.
To keep it short, the session got utter destroyed thanks to their drunken stupidity, we lost the extra hour babysitting them as they threw up their guts, and essentially ret-conned the session because of how everything got utterly destroyed, thus having to go through with it all over again, to which Ego Mage constantly tried to make it go his way AGAIN despite the entire party keeping him in check
One of the worst game ruining experience I had was our party was exploring the sewers of the city we were in trying to intercept an exchange between 2 antagonistic organizations and when an encounter happened one of the party members got critically injured. So in a panic he tried to run into a different area for cover. He ran into 3 different rooms and causes different enemy encounters and all them to attack us. The end result being about half of the party getting wiped.
I think my group's session 1 encounter was pretty close to game ruining. 1 barbarian, 1 wizard, 1 cleric, 1 paladin, 1 fighter, and 1 ranger vs 8 wolves. Barbarian's rolls are basically cursed with how he's attacking and at one point hit the cleric, who is running pure damage control from everyone else's failed dodges. Ranger runs in, forgetting that he's one of the few ranged attackers and when they realized, they left the wizard to get downed. Fighter was being a glory hog and was only kept alive thanks to the paladin's dedication and patience. Once he went down, the ranger and the barbarian finally get smart/lucky and clean the rest of the mobs up, the barbarian getting the final kill a fish he found after falling in the lake. Final count, wizard and fighter down, cleric out of spell slots and paladin and barbarian at 1 hp each. But at least we lived
Also Matt Mercer was holding foam noodles.
In regards to minis you don't need them but I've seen people use just specific colored dice for their mini. Once you get more then 5 players I think a battlemap does become much more valuable to ensure everyone has the same visual of the situation
Only a few sessions in as a new DM (with all new players) the whole story got turned on its head. The players were supposed to inquire about a missing wizard because they were sent by his friend to find him, but the charming warlock is a compulsive liar and well... Long story short he accidentally incriminated himself in the disappearance to the town guard and wound up getting arrested.
Instead of explaining the situation (they literally had a letter from the wizard's friend!) the rest of the party decided to bust the warlock out. In the process they blew up a wall on the guard station and killed 2 of them, so they had to skip town and hide in the forest. You know... the town they were supposed to be investigating to find the missing wizard.
I was so frustrated and angry at the end of the session and my players could tell. It took me a bit longer than usual but when the next session rolled around I'd written up a while thing about them joining up with some of the smugglers and thieves in the area to find out what happened. What followed was way more memorable, as they were now wanted in the city and balancing the knife's edge about maybe being betrayed by the thieves before they could find their quarry. Consecuences from that session followed us to the end of the campaign and now I wouldn't have it any other way .
"Has the most dice"
This is so true. In all of my years of DM. Somehow I had the most dice out of everyone with only 3 sets of die.
Now enjoying being a player I no longer hold that title.
One time we were playing and our DM put us against a couple of Wyverns that were attacking a merchant, so we rushed in to save the man. However, we have been followed by the main enemy faction's latchkeys and we desperately needed a fast way of transportation, so I figured we could try and tame one of them, with the DM's approval too. So here we were, trying to calm down the angry beasts and I even threw them my rations of meat to try and get them to at least not hate us... and there's one guy who ignored the plan I came up with and the others were up to follow and proceeds to murder one of the wyverns, which meant that the other ones would not be friendly to us and we were forced to kill them. The game continued after that but man that made me so angry, I was trying for a LONG time to get everyone to cooperate but this one guy just kept ignoring all of our talk and kept attacking the wyverns
At least we saved the merchant, but yeah, no sick wyvern ride
As the defacto DM of a lot of the groups I play with,
Yes, I do enjoy being the DM.
I wouldn't say I'm particularly good at it,
I just know my players and general plot points well enough to make things happen.