D&D Story: The first time I ran a D&D game. Swimming in the Sewers
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- This is a Dungeons and Dragons story from the first time I ran a game. Did you guys know that swimming in human waste is gross? Who knew!
Angel Incident Explained: In the video the Avenger summons an angel to help him. Let me clarify, in 4th edition D&D Avengers could summon an angel as a daily power. However, TECHNICALLY, the angel had a a lot of strings attached. It was ethereal and SHOULDN'T have been able to pick her up out of the water. The angel was supposed to just come in, do some radiant damage, and then fly away. He TECHNICALLY couldn't use the angel as a utility spell, but I allowed it. The story was TOLD correctly, I just don't know if it was GM'd correctly.
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"The sky is....up there still."
That's it, running a campaign where the sky is literally falling.
Stealing this.
To add to it, the sky is really a bunch of aliens looking for acorns.
Y'all joke, but a fantasy game set on an artificial orbital habitat where the big trouble is parts of the life support system failing and falling apart could be neat, if approached from the right direction
@@danieljames1868 Fallout 1
It would be the end for Asterix & Obelisk.
"They eat waste and garbage"
Well that explains why it grabbed the elf
Lol
fuckin rosted
Holy shit, you fucking killed her dude.
I don't know whether I'm the otyugh or the elf if that's the case tho
Pretty sure her name was Karen.
"Why do we have to go into the sewers?"
Because you are level 1, and this is D&D. It's either giant rats in a sewer, or giant rats in a barn. Take your pick!
I'll take the barn pls.
Or goblins.
Theres also giant rats on a ship or if you start underwater giant fish rats
Well my first campaign started in a burning tavern basement with rats, which is a bit different i suppose
Or an otyugh apparently...
"I decide to take a bath"
"roll for initiative"
The moral of the story: don’t poke the GM unless you want to almost drown in shit and get eaten by that tentacle monster from the Death Star’s trash compactor.
Ohhh looks like this story is about **explains the entire story**
Wait is that a tornado-
"My story would be about lo~ve"
"Well, my story is about shit. Get in there!"
Bloody hilarious. Very fun and enjoyable story
has that romanse game been played yeat
Sounds like hers would be about s$@@ too, frankly.
The first DnD game I ran had, at one point, the party fighting wolves in the forest. The party climbed the trees and were plinking arrows down at these wolves, so I had the wolves try and jump up at them, expecting very little out of it.
And rolled three crits on jump checks.
Ever since that day, jumping ninja wolves have been a running joke with that group, and I've never been allowed to live it down.
Stephen Burley you never know when those gosh darn ninja wolves'll get ya! As well as those gosh darn glass sharks!
I had something similar happen to me except it was in Ryuutama not DnD. Our party was tracking down a child that had gone missing on his mother's request. (Sounds normal so far right?) We tracked him down to a graveyard were the townsfolk said he often visited. My character spotted the child surrounded by animated skeletons but the other party member with me decided to hide in the bushes and watch what happened. (This guy tried to kill me at least once a session.) As I walked up to the skeletons they turned to me and chattered angrily. I put my hand on my sword as a precaution but accidentally provoked them. What started was a curb-stomp battle with two skeletons armed with shovels beating the crap out of my Bard armed with a sword. I tried to run away and one of the skeletons threw his shovel at me with a critical success to knock me unconscious while my 'companion' basically ate popcorn and watched. We learned afterwards that the skeletons were actually friends with the child and that they often played together. The mother actually knew this but didn't approve. The other party member bashed the weakened skeletons into dust after I was taken out which made the child cry. In the end the only thing I got out of the mission was an in-game trauma of shovels.
Kyle Pessell lol that is amazing
Its cool bro, in my group a running joke is riding grandmas as mounts who move by jumping like kangaroos.... also measuring distance in grandma jumps
make that a race
"This is my story and my story is about shit!"
Beautiful
Every DM in history
Just like my life
You know if I was DMing I probably would have to really resist the urge to completely change the story just to prove that one player wrong since they kept talking so self-assuredly about what was going to happen.
And when you do that they still find they have to bitch about it. Trust me, you cannot please those guys.
Yeah, same. I hate players like that. It's really hard not to make life harder for them
Yup.
If a GM becomes angry that the players are getting wise to their obvious cliches then they should throw in some surprising plot twists that could punish them for behaving how they think they should. For example instead of rescuing a helpless child you discover yourself trapped by a powerful warlock that had hypnotized the woman into asking you for help so that he could lure outsider adventurers into an summoning circle for his blood sacrifice so that he wouldn't have to deal with the local authorities afterwards. In other words a GM must be an experienced story teller that learns how to keep their players (and themselves) entertained (or terrified).
Or, if you're like me, never include an obvious cliche straight. In fact, every cliche I include in my stories is modified in some way. Everything is more realistic and logical than the tropes would suggest.
"This is my story, and my story is about SSHHIIITT." Love it. You would make an epic comedian.
Y'know, he kindof is
What do you mean he isnt aleready a comedien?
@@dragonwolf3527 That's true
THe first game I was the GM, i had the party escape a burning prison full of zombies with no problem, then they ran into a pack of 5 crows. 6 out of my 7 players died to the crows. Since that day when I want them to listen I talk about crows
Crows: KAW KAW!!! ~kawhwawhawa KAWHEAWa!!!
Party: What kind of fiend possessed those birbs...
Crow birb ritual translator: "I will find you, and I will kill you."
So I read that as cow and not crow.
vivas555 A bunch of crows is called a murder for a reason
I was playing a one off last week an a cosmic crow did the same thing to my group while one player off by herself killed a mimic, by herself!!!
They are the servants of Saruman!
My first time GMing, the group fought a gang inside a lady's shop who was requesting they do something completely unrelated.
Every time someone missed, I had them damage something in the store.
One player straight up jumped out the window for no apparent reason.
I had the lady dock their pay for every item damaged.
CHAOTIC GOOD
Jumping out of windows is always justified.
..im just imagining Scott pilgrim when he jumps out a window
Defenestrating oneself is always a good idea
That sounds like a really good idea, I’m doing something kind of similar for a side quests with a farmer and sheep
A kid went missing and the party tracked him to the sewers? I half expected a shapeshifting murderclown to appear after seeing IT
same
They float. They ALL FLOAT!!!!
NotThatSavvy
I was expecting them both to be dopplegangers
The first time I DMed, I very skillfully ALMOST killed a 1st lvl pc with an owlbear after splitting the party three different ways. The general shout of joy when our warlock didn't die from the cold of night afterwards (they didnt have blankets, a tent, OR a fire,) was so gratifying, I almost started cheering myself. Even with advantage on the death saves due to the shared warmth of his ally, it came down to the absolute final roll.
I taught the group not to split up, made it very clear I was willing to kill them if they were stupid, and had a really intense and victorious moment all at the same time.
And then next session they all became murder hobos.
Well I guess at least they didn't split up while murder hobo-ing?
0:10 read the notes
My first time DMing my players had to deal with political and magical forces waaaay above them but I couldn't provide proper challenge in combat. Since this day, one of my players says that "his fights are way safer than the social encounters. If you like your character, let the cleric talk for you".
"They had us in the first half, not gonna lie"
That last sentence confirmed the party's normalcy 😂😭
I’m not trusting Ben if he gives me a glass of water now
I was thinking the same.
Ben is just evil! XD
TheProfProfessor have a glass cup of water
On the table in front of you, there is a tiny thimble with a single drop of water i-OTYUGH-!
*Laughs in Tree.*
"And that is how i gave everyone i knew Aquaphobia" The End
OTYUGHPHOBIA - The Fear of literally any liquid ever to exist
Hydrophobia
To be fair hating a useless goddess is pretty rational.
@@tylerian4648 i got that, fellow weeb.
It was about 3 years ago that I first watched this video and I only now noticed that the GM note at 0:09 just said ‘Kill everyone' lol
Man, my dwarf barbarian made a name for himself by taking the sewage route to break into places in a campaign I was in. It all started in the first mission when my character was in a war zone (like everyone else to start with) face-down in the mud and had to escape a band of elven archers by running through a drainage ditch, where I eventually exited smelling like literal shit and found my to-be party members (we were all deserters). I continued to find myself in situations like this, as 3/5 members in our party were very stealthy and were able to sneak in through many riskier entrances for breaking into places (we were a band of very neutral bounty hunters, as it were), and the DM really liked the stealth mechanic. So, to not be labeled as incompetent like our orc fighter (who's player acted like a bit of a dumbass when it came to these kinds of things), I would try to find underground entrances that required minimal stealth checks to navigate without getting spotted. Unfortunately, this meant I often went in through the sewers or drainage tunnels. Eventually, the DM's NPC party character referred to me as the Garbage Man as a passing joke, and I stuck with it proudly. One day, we were sneaking into a casino that had a pit-fighting arena in its basement, and I took my usual route. Above me I heard the sounds of an announcer talking about a fight that was about to go down between two brothers from a nearby grate. I figured I'd pop in while everyone was watching the fight, so I opened up the grate and climbed out. I ended up in the middle of the cage match, and everyone went silent. I decided then to go full WWE with it and shouted "I AM GARBAGE MAN!", and the crowd went nuts! I then proceeded to fight the two brothers; I knocked out one and then got knocked out myself, but luckily the DM was nice enough to let me live. It was probably the single greatest thing that came out of a dumb joke in my RPG experience so far.
ThatPedanticCommenter That's a cool story!
ThatPedanticCommenter That was a very entertaining read.
I'M TRASH MAN
I EAT GARBAGEE
That is awesome.
Amazing, I once had a brute character in game based in WW2 europe with a magical twist (eldritch beings and the like). My guy was a pugilist, and the group was imprisoned in a hanger, all in separate rooms bound to chairs. Mine, being a strong ass pit fighter, simply broke the chair and freed myself. The door was locked however, so I did what any brute who punches things to death would do, I ripped the door off it's hinges and walked out with it like a shield. Around the same time the others were getting out their own way, and I noticed some Nazis about to come in through a doorway, so I waited till they were just about to pass through and charged at it with the door, slamming it into the doorway, knocking them back, and blocking the way in. I then proceeded to lean on it with my massive weight so they wouldn't get through while the rest of the team dealt with the others. When others looked over all they see is me leaning on the door with it occasionally bumping, while I just waved at them.
Rule 1 of Tabletop: Do not taunt the GM.
Rule 2: Do not. Taunt. The GM.
Rule 3: DO NOT TAUNT GOD!!!
Rule 4: Remember your dice in your book bag.
I would like this but it already has 69 likes
@@LadyGrayce Yup
The DM isn’t a God. Gods are NPCs under the DMs control.
@@Janders797 True. The DM is the game engine. =D
@@ArDeeMee the fabric of reality itself
This apparently small town has an impressive underground sewer system, rivalling Paris, and spectacular amounts of pouring sewer water from a series of gigantic pipes. How odd.
especially considering that modern sewers were a industrial revolution thing.
Slayer Jesse Well, ancient Rome had running water. Aqueducts, my man. Aqueducts.
Yes... theres also dragons, magic, orcs, goblins... do we really have to go there?
The sewers where obviously already there before the town was build. They are actually tunnels build by an ancient civilisation and the townspeople just use them as sewers.
Fun is fun man, who cares. I detest how people nitpick details and pass it off as a shitty joke.... Always comes out condescending... How odd.
“I take a sip from the cup of water.”
“Okay, a large tentacle emerges from it and strangles you. Nowhere is safe.”
That Elf player is literally the worst. The GM is also there to have fun, but its kind of frustrating that some people think that a GM cain ruin a player’s fun, but not the other way around.
Ay, mate. Ya stole my name
I bet her name was Karen.
If my players start doing this, I will have it be harder than normal - just increase its combat rating abit.
If a GM runs a cliché story, but he runs it well and doesn't override the input from our characters, I'll go with it no problem.
"That sounds like an evil scientist is involved."
My first reaction would have been "A fair guess! And since the bodies are never seen aboveground, the lair must be in the sewers! Not in the walkable parts, INSIDE the larger pipes! And guess who just volunteered to scout ahead - alone - to find it!"
"..And my storry is about shit !"
..Gotta hand it to you, that's not a line you hear often said with such confidence.
i cannot fucking stand players who make it their goal to destroy immersion wherever they see cracks in what they believe should be a perfect story.
5D6 BestOf3 Yeah!! Why would anyone do That? If I was running that game I would have instantly given them a disease, or made them slip and bang their head, or make an angry villager punch them in the face or something.
i had a player who would roll secret dice and if he rolled badly say "never mind"
I keep it to myself usually, write it in player notes vs character notes. Cause player knowledge ain't cool. 'Cause I 've played a lot of tabletop rpgs, so a lot of clichés are often hit.
But it's his first time GMing. You HAVE to make fun of the new GM and tell him that his story is garbage and predictible. I did it and it's been done to me. As it was to all GMs throughout history
yea that sounds like garbage and like something you should never do unless you want a gross, snarky, meme campaign
Ewww, sewers. -I would never have something like that in my campaign.- * writes sewers into city *
i had sewers in one of my runs. it gives easy access to enemies such as oozes, which are always fun.
It is either write sewers into larger cities in campaigns or write it lots and lots of disease. Your choice.
Why not both? :D
Where else are people gonna shit?
TheRealDerohneNick Hide another ancient city there. That'll make them WANT to go there.
"if iiiiiiii was gming a game" - "but you aren't. you're being crushed by a meteorite."
I heared of a guy who stepped into a bucked of water. His body was never found....
Nilus was he also naked and wielding a warhammer? If so he should get over it
Did you know everyone whose ever died has drunk water? HMmmmmm..........
Ben: The sky is... up there still
Chicken little: Im about to end this mans whole career.
The elf's player was so annoying.
If you do get the urge to call something out, do it the classy way - write it on a note and send it to the GM. That way, you have written proof that you had indeed called it.
but it wouldn't be really funny
Beyond just messing with them as a lot of comments were suggest you could also have that player start manifesting oracle powers and the ability to read a potential future.
Not a guaranteed one but a potential one. Use their mocking wit as fuel for the story. Have them be hunted by demons for her power of reading into the future or something.
Every time they get a prediction wrong something bad happens to the group.
@@Madhattersinjeans Now that is genius, better then killing her off, players would wish to kill the bitch off themselves, IRL
Doge Archon it made it worse because she sounded like Pearl from Spongebob
If i was dming i wouldve most likely found a way to just kill them
So the first campaign involved sewers, an elf chick who was uptight, and a bunch of tentacle monsters....
It'd pretty funny what context brings to a story.
3 years late, but... yeah. You're right.
back when D&D was a new game, back then, my mom went to a library that let players play there, my mom joined a group of kids around her age (about like 15) and started, now mind you D&D was a new game, not as many people played it, so my mom was the only girl, and the teenage boys, did not want to scare the girl off by letting her die, so the only logical thing to do was... LET HER BEAT A SEA MONSTER WITH STICKS AND STONES
Karina Carlson how did it go
not sure, my mom doesnt remember it in great detail sadly
In jr high, I was the only girl to show up at a lanparty....land party?....IDK...it was out curiosity and I was HORRIBLE at video games, although I did beat The Bernstein Bears game on Genesis😎.
Anyway, they were so forgiving (they totally felt sorry for me)and to this day I describe this to my 10 yr old who has no idea why they didn't just use wifi to game each other, lol. I dont regret it! Love new experiences. Id try D&D if given an opportunity.
@@brittnyrv5087 It's a LAN party. (LAN stands for Local Area Network)
Also, I really really miss them. I rarely had bad experiences with them. People were almost always friendly and interested in having a good time, rather than being toxic or overly competitive, which seems to be the norm with online matchmaking.
@@josiahgibson6373 good times, good times... yes I couldn't remember, i've been corrected on that by my fiancee who literally studies gaming behavior for his PHD! HA! Im still clueless but really enjoyed the experience!
I've permanently scarred any players who've been with me in any kind of swamp, fungal, or tropical setting. I like to throw a minor homebrewed monster pairing into this setting, which I loving call a "Bog Lantern." Basically, combine a shambling mound with some accompanying will-o-wisps, and boom: Bog Lantern.
I feel they are great for immersion, because "Bog Lantern" just sounds like something the local peasants/townsfolk would call something like that, and it really downplays the nastiness that will befall the party when (not if, WHEN) they encounter one (or a pair).
Love your content, always excited to see more!
So these bog lanterns, on a scale of 1 to cerberus chimera hybrid, how dangerous were these bog lanterns?
Sound pretty nifty.
@@MF-Spiffylad I know this is super old and you probably know this by now, but for anyone curious about it the basic idea is that a standard shambling mound heals from lightning damage, which wil-o-wisps can deal, and not only that but they also can make a character at 0 hp die with a single save and if they die, the wil-o-wisp is healed a bit, do the math.
Why would you ever trust water in Call of Cthulhu XD
In a game with everything trying to kill you. Water kills you the slowest.
Actually kyle life kills you the slowest
why would you trust anything lol in CoC
Because the GM will either break the table or his skull after he repeatedly slams his head into the table out of frustration. In either case, you are no longer playing a tabletop RPG.
Ze'ev Nation I never played CoC
But I did read a few H.P Lovecraft books
I wouldn't trust water either
I wonder how that must have looked irl.
"NO NO NO, WHY THE SEWERS"
"erm... you do realize that the sewer is not real right?"
"NOOOOOO!!!"
Any time they come across a pool of water, of any size, (toilet, puddle, ocean, etc) they have to roll to see if an Oteug comes out of it.
DND makes taking a simple shit unnecessarily hardcore.
Kellofkindles yes
we all know that time when we’re drinking a cup of water and a monster appears, right?
@@marianp.781 Ikr. Let me check if my saliva also contains monsters.
* rolls 1 *
A game about a stressed mother missing her child sounds like a game about love to me.
"Just kidding! Nowhere is safe!"
I cracked up.
Btw, I actually like the whole guard-taking-the-bodies thing, and I think I'll keep that in my back pocket for future games.
I had a character that needed to always be in water... His liver had been replaced with a dolphins and the "doctor" who did it kind botched it. So a stealthy assassin wolf in a barrel on wheels most of the time.
I just nearly snorted coffee. That's awesome. XD
But Ben, the Oteugs* (however it's spelled) could have just been collected by the town guard captain to be sold for tentacle meat at a competing meat store that he started, under the guise of a simple merchant. And...you know..he could have been causing the economy to plummet by using a magical spice that caused the citizens to spend all their money on Oteug meat...or...something.
Its okay because oteug meat is super nutritious. Not to mention that magical spice is basically grease-sugar flavored organic powder.
“Magic Spice”
So what you’re saying is…
*You Spice?*
Not all street kids spice, Scanlan.
I don't know. Wouldn't you need a black market for that.
@Darken De la Espada
lol , the villain who unintentionally does good things.
But at least you know your story was immersive enough to make your players paranoid/scared of water :)
I hate people like that. Especially people who act like that, but then are dumbfounded when the Gm screams rocks fall everyone dies and the flips the table in anger.
Well that just goes to show you never piss off the Gm
to be fair as both a player and a GM i consider rocks fall everyone dies as very very poor form, unless that itself is a plothook such as in planescape
Caleb Fancher I’m right there with ya, tho, I was never the DM to insta-kill a party like that.
The “lemme guess” players (or spectators, too) just remind me of the ppl who go to theaters and loudly exclaim, “Watch out! The killer’s right behind the door!” or the ppl who watch TV w/ you and keep predicting what’ll happen next.
If you (think you) know what’ll happen, keep it to yourself, please. You can have your “I knew it!” moment after the session.
To be fair, I've experienced a DM who had no storytelling skills whatsoever and thus people pretty easily predicted what was going to happen. (Of course later on when someone else was DMing he turned into a person who constantly ridiculed and bullied the DM relentlessly)
I guess it's like that saying goes, "Hate begets hate", except in this case, "Bad examples beget bad examples."
Even a DM really *was* that bad, I'd still keep my predictions to myself during the game; out of simple etiquette. On a break or after the session, I'd talk to them about how boring it was.
Besides, they could be a novice GM. First time GMing is not exactly easy with one or more "lemme guess" players breathing down your neck, every other sentence.
My first game turned into a city simulator when one player decided "I'm going to free all the prisoners in this town, and then take over said town with the prisoners, and then take over two separate towns."
The other players just left because it wasn't fun anymore and I just got tired of rolling for resource collecting every turn.
Your party, being terrified of water, reminds me of the Critters at Critical Role becoming terrified of doors.
The Morrigan's Crow
I've managed to traumatize mine in regards to pedestals. Our Tiefling won't going within 10ft of one without an Arcana check.
Im also terrified of doors, I tried to set a door on fire but I failed and set my self on fire, turns out all the doors in the dungeon were set on a very high difficulty, I was also wearing a cloak that made a duplicate image of me... so you seen two idiots running around on fire.
not really a Dnd mosnter nor a decorative construct but a group i once had in pathfinder were terrified of mites and tooth fairies because i roleplayed them as really annoying and screechy things that acted like Teemo from league of legends.
Mine are scared of wells...
Or Will wheaton's fear of acid
I once ran a campaign where the party was running around resurrecting long dead heroes to fight a threat (that they happened to have also resurrected) and one of the quests lead them into a Dwarven fortress that had crumbled to ruin. The Dwarf king had told them he knew where one of the dead heroes was, but had lost contact with his outer fortress for a while, and no one has returned from investigating it. If they were to find out what happened, he'd tell them with a bit of a pay bonus for the trouble.
Inside the fortress had looked abandoned for centuries, the dwarves were skeletons on the ground, and there was no signs of life. The constructs were damaged beyond repair and not a single dwarf remained alive.
The eventually found the source, what the three players from the game now call "The Lurker in the Deep."
The creature was actually the manifestation of a living nightmare brought by the fortress's wizard for use on their enemies, however it broke from his control and proceeded to feed off the fear of the dwarves who would see it, and literally see a nightmare in physical form.
When the party encountered it I gave them a description.
"Before you stands a vaguely humanoid creature nearly ten foot tall. It's body covered in stitches and decayed flesh, its mouth and eyes nothing but black voids with spiders and centipedes oozing from the eyes, mouth, and breaks int he stitches. It's arms, legs, and fingers all have additional segments that bend in odd directions, its whole body shuddering and moving erratically. The creature emits the stench of death and decay, but worst of all, you hear nothing as it stares you down, slowly creeping towards you in the darkness."
I don't remember exactly what I said, but I remember the fighter yelling "Nope!" and fleeing, with everyone else shortly after.
From that day on the three members of the party who witnessed it have refused to go into dwarven ruins, regardless of campaign, GM, or game, out of fear I or a different GM will use the creature on them.
MrFoxtheSpy This is great.
Why thank you. Funny enough, on Wednesday they debated abandoning a mission into an old mine just because it was dwarven and thus the Lurker might be there. Over four years later, they still think it's coming back....it is, but not where they'll expect it.
MrFoxtheSpy I did something similar, and made my players afraid of wells, after they failed to discover a contaminated one and were indirectly responsible for killing half a city. Now they paranoidly check all new water sources and go to ridiculous lengths to ensure all wells are safe. :/
Funny how it's the little things they remember for years to come XD
@@MrFoxtheSpy copy, paste.
I once did a story about aliens running a summer camp to try and learn where Elvis was and they still managed to Guess. I swear somebody has telapathy
Player: Oh a woman looking for help. Let me guess, her son is missing and she wants us to find him.
Me thinking: That was the plan, and she will still call it her son. Now though it's not a kid, it's a bag of old meat she put a face on because she has mental issues after losing her son. You won't know that till you find it though, and if you don't return it to her I plan on having her report the group for murdering her son.
Player: No one knows where the monsters are going? Let me guess, it's an evil scientist doing experiments and reviving the monsters to use in a secret army he is creating to take over the nation and maybe even the world.
Me thinking: That was the plan, but now it's not a scientist. It's a deranged psychopath reviving these monsters to capture females to use in an underground sex slave ring. Go on, guess more of my plans. I will turn this world into a nightmare that has you questioning my sanity.
I love your improv skills.
@@StarlightTrail3 Yes
part of me wants to be part of your campaign
You, uh, DMing anytime soon? Could you use a player?
Hey
Get me on your party
The only thi g i dislike about this channel is how infrequent these stories come out. Otherwise its pure gold
4:19
"Okay, 'Plan B: The Guard Captain is a black dragon looking for a free meal' is now in effect."
I have nothing but giddy joy whenever I get a bell notification and it's from Puffin Forrest. Thank you for existing.
I second that.
I third this.
I normally just watch videos while on wifi, but this was worth it
Now that I've seen all of Puffin's videos, I'm rewatching some of them as I bide my time until his next upload. I'm hooked. Love his style and humor. :)
Player: "Why do we have to go into the sewers?" Ben: "Because you pissed me off"
Ben, I've just recently started watching you, but now I really wanna try being a GM :)
DM... It's DM... He is said it wrong
Swimmer Nick GM means game master. It's just the generic term for the person leading the game, DM is specific to dnd
Swimmer Nick shut the fuck up you obviously know nothing, don’t try and correct someone else.
NO. DON'T.
IT'S A TRAP!
i start my first dm game tomorrow hoping for a good time
You never realise just how much planning goes into a good game before you setup one
Your content is superb.
Keep it up! 😁
How about you roleplay as zed in D&D? With some hombebrew rules or using a mystic class, just think about it
The man himself! Would never have expected it
Agreed
888 likes eh?
My response the elf. “No, she seems to be worried about the ancient red dragon which is flying towards town. And towards you, make a dex save.”
Same I had a player like that and it's fun messing with them
somehow that made me think of a silly story where a woman accidentally averted the end of the world when she misdirected Pestilence, Famine, War and Death to a city that was being attacked by a dragon NAMED Armageddon...
The First one I "ran" was less than a week ago, I just got into playing D&D and well, yeah I forced my best friend to be my player. My one player..... Went much better than expected actually, I used the starter kit so Phandelver and my victi....errr... friend started out by picking the pre-made character I thought least likely she would pick, the Dwarf Cleric. I lowered the goblin count in the goblin ambush from 4 to 1 because one brand new player. Goblin critically missed, yes my first roll as a DM was a critical miss, she suddenly asked if she had to kill him or if she could "knock him out and like talk to him and stuff" to which I was speechless.... You don't know my friend but she was the last person in my life I'd expect to take this seriously whatsoever, let alone actually use a bit of imagination and make it more interesting for me. Now I suddenly had to start thinking like a damn goblin! Unexpected goblin time if you will! Anyway she passed the DC and tied the green bastard up and I had to start doing my impression of Kermit the Frog on meth. After a few more DC's which she passed, she convinced him to lead her safely through the traps to Cragmaw Hidehout. She eventually trusted the goblin a bit too much and he turned on her, luckily for her goblins are squishy. We played for about two hours and ended with her saying she was surprised and had fun and asking me how we introduce new players in the future.
You have a good player there, and good for you thinking on your feet! I died at "Kermit the frog on meth" XD
Was that Bubbles reference there with “green bastard”? Well done on your GMing!
Great game it sounds like.
Congrats to you! I'm also planning on introducing my friends to DnD, soon, so wish me luck lol
This is why real RPGs trump any videogame.
i’ve never been a GM but my first fight that i can remember, it started at a place called The Full Moon Fall Fair Festival, we were there and after awhile of having fun, or in my case my fighter having arm wrestling matches with the barbarian.. and failing(why dice? WHY?!)... there was a magician and he said he was gonna cast a spell or something on this squirrel BUT it went horribly wrong and the squirrel turned into A GIANT SQUIRREL and ate the magician! so then we had to fight it, and while we were fighting the giant squirrel our rogue, while noone was looking stole some chicken on a stick, and he must have gotten a critical because he stole ALL OF IT, now its been A LONG WHILE since that happened but one time recently our ranger got invited to an archery contest, and we went, then i was like, IS THERE GONNA BE CHICKEN ON A STICK!?!? it was hilarious.... and again after stuff happened the contest was over, AND THEN A GREEN DRAGON BURSTS IN AND COMBAT STARTED! one of our players died! now its just a thing to think: everytime we do something that looks fun its gonna be interrupted isn’t it?
Running a game, 5th session in I ask the players for their character sheets before the game to”make sure my notes match what you have” a player says “I bet we are fighting copies of ourselves this game” like how can you know that!? Are you psychic?!
I honestly do not have any clue how they could have gotten behind your schemes any other way.
On the other hand: I often ask my players about contents of their character sheets (rarely the entire sheet, unless i need a specific piece of information I am unwilling to spoil them).
It's just overall usefull to every now and then check the characters. And you could slowly gather data to one day unleash copies of them on them, without having to scan the sheets right before :D
One year late reply, here it goes:
It is for things like these I always have the players hand me a fresh copy of their character sheets whenever they level up
I know I'm super late here, but one thing you might try is running a campaign holding onto the character sheets yourself. It can lead to a lot of interesting situations. Your players will lose a lot of info if they can't see their stats. You can be a lot more vague with damage saying stuff like "you take a grazing cut to your arm" or "that blow to your skull has you seeing stars" and they have to take your word for it because they can't see how much damage an attack actually dealt. Of course another benefit is they have no idea when you might spring a clone or a doppleganger on them, and they won't know for certain if you're not asking to see their character sheets. It also depends on the group, but I find it makes most players a bit more cautious in how they handle an encounter rather than just run in swords akimbo and less likely to turn murderhobo on you.
@@winterfire567 i think that's a bad idea, what would you not tell them there stats? Roll all there dice for them? Would you keep track of there inventory and take responsibility for updating it? It not only seem unfair to the players, but far too much work for you to if the players are constantly altering there inventory, what could they have 1 HP but you failed to explain that properly so they go back into combat instead of running away? And then they die? That just, Seems absolutely terrible.
@@connorschultz380 I'm not gonna lie, it takes a bit of effort on the GM's part. There's more bookkeeping involved, to be sure. It also requires you to be good at improvisation and detailed descriptions. Here's some tips to make it (mostly) painless though.
Try this out for a one-shot instead of a full-blown campaign. Pull your group together and say "Hey, I have a crazy idea. I want to try this out. You guys interested?" Explain to them exactly what you'll be doing and put an emphasis on the lack of information they'll have going in to this one-shot.
They get to create their character, but once the session starts, they don't get to use it as a reference. Think of it like this, as a person, do you know exactly how many hits you can take from a sword or an axe before you pass out and start dying from blood loss? Do you know exactly how much you can dead lift? How charming you are? A lot of it simply isn't quantifiable in the real world, and it tends to make a fantasy world more believable.
As for inventory, consider giving each player some note paper so that they can jot down and keep track of their items and gold, because that information IS quantifiable.
As for rolling, you can either keep the rolls hidden from view, or allow the players to roll the dice themselves. That really depends on how much information you feel comfortable giving the players. Rolling the dice yourself behind a screen means you'll have more control over the game. Letting the players roll openly leads to a more free-flowing plot and a character/player-driven narrative.
Lastly, if you think you'll fail to let a character know "You've lost a LOT of blood. You feel dizzy, and you're pretty sure even another grazing blow will be enough to knock you out." Then you should probably hone your descriptive skills before you give this method a try.
And let me reiterate: It takes effort on the GM's part. It takes the right group of players and the right mindset. But if it is done well, and it is communicated properly to the group ahead of time so that everyone knows what they're getting into, it translates into a unique and very memorable game. Over the years, I've run this way for probably 20 different groups. One-shots to test the waters with the group and campaigns with that group if they like the style. Some like it and some don't. The only way you'll know for sure is if you try. c:
I legit started my first campaign with a South Park reference:
"Hey, half-orc! We don't take kindly to your type round here!"
"Now, Skeeter, she ain't hurting nobody..."
Once I got my chops, Skeeter regularly returned as a minor/joke antagonist and drunken master monk
Small plastic child's pool:
Harmless summer fun or Horrible death-trap?
WHO KNOWS!?
So I run a bunch of Tabletop games on live stream, and I know you likely won't get this. But would you be interested in providing some outside perspective / commentary?
What's your twitch?
I'm actually a new DM (GM to you) and am trying the starter game; Lost Mines Of Phandelver. The funniest thing that happened so far was during an encounter with four goblins. My dwarf digs a hole with his war hammer (for some reason). Then, the halfing lin the group goes up to a weak goblin and say "do u no de wae?" this confuses the goblin. He takes slow steps backwards and then falling into the hole of my dwarf, who's name is Orsik Frostbeard. They acted as If thats what they wanted to happen and it was totally their plan.
DID HE NO DE WAE?!
O HEL YA BRUDDAH! CLAP FOR NEW QUEEN!!! * clicking noices *
THIS IS NOT MY QUEEN *spit sounds*
SPiT oN hIm BrUvas!!
Y u do dis bruvahs! I show u de wae!
3:02 "No, I get it sometimes you have to show the players who's really in charge around here" -EPIC CALLBACK-
I assume the sewer incident didn’t happen on your first day? Because I have no idea how a level 1 character could summon an angel. Otherwise: Making players paranoid for life is the privilege and duty of every gm!
Leaving a message because I'd really like to know how the fuck he did that!
I too would like to know.
I had a campaign where our entire party of level 1 characters were about to be wiped out in an encounter with a tribe of lizardmen. Our Cleric decided to pray to his god for salvation. He rolled a natural 20. Thus his deity descended upon our broken bodies and carried us from the swamp in a blaze of righteous glory. I imagine this situation was similar.
The other day I had the players encounter the tipical Green Hag disguised as young woman. Now they are paranoid with all the good-looking people they encounter. I love it.
I also would like to know about the summoning an angel thing. A natural 20 could be the reason, but I don't know... I still find it a bit unreasonable for a lvl 1 character.
I find a lot of this story to be a bit shifty tbh; Player calls every plot point, A parrty of level 1's vs CR5 and winning, the angel, the fact he put a CR5 against level 1's in the first place.
"The skies are still up there"
Me whenever i dont plan a description
I love your D&D videos
That's the best part of dnd. Having moments and characters that last throughout campaigns and stories. In my first ever game i was dming and my.group got into a fight with goblins, spared one for information, got what they needed and made him lead them to the tribe after cutting his tongue and arms. The goblin survived, escaped and became a running gag of the group ever since
After the party got out of the sewer I would have done something about the elf getting sick with some weird, crazy, and rare disease done by after the elf got out s/he fainted onto the ground or something.
This reminds me of the campaign I’m currently in.
TL;DR: Bad luck when we've been in a coastal town or on the ocean.
So... before the game even started our DM ran a special Session 0, where they were getting each player to the starting town. You’d think that would a fine story thing (which it was) but it turns out one of our players were killed by Sahuagin at the starting town (no I’m not joking) when trying to defend a boat. (Yet two of us survive an encounter with a dragon, nowhere near water)
Then in our first combat session only one person out of four got above a 10 in their Initiative (though we all managed to roll good enough to avoid being turned into stone so that’s not so bad).
Then SECOND combat, we were on a boat and four out of five of us rolled 10 or higher (only one above 15 though) and one of the Sahuagin we fight gets a FREAKING SUPER CRIT (Nat 20 + Max damage (and iirc a crit system used by Crit Role) and instantly killed one of our characters.
Thankfully the DM was way more lenient than they should’ve been and revived both of those players shortly after their deaths, but that’s the story of how our campaign has become afraid of water.
I'm naming my next town harvestfall
Mimi C XD Same
same
I’ve never run AD&D since I bought the books for 3.0 then as I was getting ready to run the game 3.5 came out and I gave up.
I had an idea for an adventure that begins with the players being told that Goblins have been raiding the poor innocent human villagers, what’s worse, their new Leader has been rallying goblins together against the Humans!
But as the Players go into the Swamps and begin carelessly massacring Goblins in droves, killing men, women and children wearing pieces together armor and sometimes pieces of rotted wood bound by cloth as protection, they soon start to see some things that begin to trouble them...
A Goblin School where young goblins are being taught to read and write, as well as the basics of Shaman Magic (the best they have without fancy education and advanced spells!) and the philosophies of their leader Azure the Wise.
Soon they meet Azure the Wise, a Blue Goblin Who claims to have fallen to our world from the Stars.
He was raised by the Goblins of the Swamp. After the Red Plague killed many of the Humans in the area, the Goblins were free to move out of the Swamps (where they had been forced to go by the stronger more aggressive Humans)
He theorized that if the Goblins had access to the same resources humans, Elves, and Dwarves had, they would have developed a mighty Kingdom just as strong as the Humans Have. But due to their small size, green skin and the fact that Humans have driven them into the deadly swamps for thousands of years, they have failed to achieve the same greatness. He says that The Goblins here have wanted to do Trade with the Humans and they want Teachers, but the Humans keep betraying them because of their otherness! They would like to hire the players as teachers and Diplomats between the Goblins and Humans.
Of course the Humans say deny this even as they have Goblin heads on spikes around the village, but children can be heard singing nursery rhymes about killing goblins and driving them into the swans like they deserve....
So do the players try to help bring peace to the area? Do they side with the goblins? Or do they side with the Humans? There are terrible people on both sides of this conflict.
As this story begins to come to a close, its soon discovered that a Rich vein of Platinum Ore is found here! Probably the Richest ever known in the lands! Now things are gonna get Really Messy!!!!
You know, I actually played a game where the GM tried to make us scared of windows. I get fed up with an untouchable enemy, in character, and just chucked a plot rock at them to shut them up. After they came in a window, and threw a guard three times our level out. After that we took turns hammering them with debuffs, me with buffs, and I threw and picked up the same rock over and over again. The final round I got a crit, rolled max damage, and a second character got an AoO from them running. They died falling on the plot rock from being tripped.
To this day I still make sure my equipment sheet has one random rock on it when I play a caster with that GM. No sling, just a rock.
A lot of my friends play D&D, I just started watching your channel to learn what the game was about, and now I'm considering playing D&D!
It reminds me of the time that me and someone else got separated from the group in the sewers. We were in a pool of water which rapidly depleted after I thought it was smart to pull a chain. So we basically got flushed down an oversized toilet.
"My DM notes!" (holds up a sign saying "Kill Everyone", hahahahah!
In d&d i once stole an entire vilages crop of wheat and then we made a 200lb loaf of pita bread that we sold to the mayor who we murdered tomget the bread back
Crazy day
noice murderous adventure you did
TF is wrong with you!?!?
I don’t usually comment of TH-cam, but I really wanted to say I love your content. I enjoy it all, and it’s the perfect length for when I go outside to have a smoke. Keep up the great work man!
Love your channel
My first time as DM, I had my party start in a tavern, very typical, in a port town. but I was purposefully lulling them into expecting the mundane. They talk to people and learn that tensions between neighboring governments(of which this port town is on the border of) are getting increasingly worse. Suddenly, war horns start blowing and drums start beating. The tavern comes under attack by a raiding army on its way to a bigger conquest. The party members either get captured, killed, or escape on a boat. At that point, it's a game of survival. No great destiny or over-arcing goal just survive. After an encounter with a school of suicidal dolphins and a kelp monster, they land ashore and unfortunately that's were it ended because we couldn't get together for another session
GMing has been my introduction to D&D, since it was that or bust.
So far it's actually going quite well. I spent a lot of time watching Colville and Mercer GM and talk about GMing before now, so I was pretty well prepared.
I plan to tag out for a bit eventually, but it seems like everybody is having a pretty good time so far.
I feel you, buddy. It always stings when someone makes fun of a story that you've worked hard on, and I've had that happen to me, too. It's also even worse when the person giving the criticism HASN'T EVEN TRIED DMING THEMSELVES
HAHAHA! Well my story's about SHIT hehe ugh I love these.
First time I played is when I was a Dm and I didn’t really consider the time it would take one player to finish my campaign. He finished it in one session. I actually got inspiration by combining things you have done in the channel it helped a lot. I wonder how I am supposed to make a big campaign. I’m trying to make it long term but the mist I can come up with are in the same world but different story’s and hero’s.
"halfway across a tentacle came out and tried to grab it"
Oh so it's THAT kind of hentai
Dude I love your relaxed attitude to playing characters
I hate that Elf girl
You and me both. Let's expose her to severe mental trauma from session to session... I mean work out our differences...
Yep that player sounds annoying
Ben's "a dozen more monsters appear" reaponse tends to work well for making them shut up. lol
Tom O'Neill
Yeah. Meta-commentors are infuriating, especially if they're basically snarky twats that actively try to figure out the plot in advance and just cannot shut up about it because it makes them feel oh-so-smart.
Heh, my players became paranoid of doorknobs after a... strange... incident with a trapped doorknob lead to an instant kill of a PC. For years they would even waste spells blasting doorknobs at range, or crossbow bolts etc.
(It was a spring-loaded spike in the key-hole that shot out, shanked, and had juuuust enough poison to instantly kill with some bad rolls. Which happened. Didn’t expect that.)
...was pretty funny though :) and ridiculous traps became my thing. Even tried to build some working scale models in woodshop class which the teacher was... less than thrilled about.
Okay, stay with me here, so on my first ever game of DnD (as a player) I played a zealous high elf and, through a series of events that can only be described as insane I became the bane of a local towns existence. I, in this order: Threw a guy through a window, slapped a barmaid for her dress, called my friendly dwarf ally "Dwarf-scum" on first seeing him, called the halfling a "rat", got in a religious debate with a priestess who I greeted by punching her in the back of the head for worshipping a false god (I would later, when we returned to the town, I hunted her down and football kicked her in the lady bits) and burst in on a den of bandits to make them fist fight the "rat" halfling. I want to stop at the bandit part, because this has become a running joke, this was my first real fight (my DM was being very generous and we were all having loads of laughs with my actions) I was IMMEDIATELY sliced open when I tried to cast sleep....quite bad....I was lucky that my friendly dwarf was able to bringing me back from the verge of death. As I had just enough strength to live, a bandit was charging at my friendly dwarf, and, with a scream of reborn insanity- proceeded to grab him with shocking grasp. Where did I grab him? you might ask- well since I was on the floor I went for the most sensitive area...his balls. I rolled a score enough to sizzle his nuts right proper and FUCKING MURDERED HIM WITH NUT LIGHTENING! and this caused a great amount of fear (I even kept his crispy nuts)
This became a nice running joke, so much so that it became my character's signature move.
This wizard also became a insane salt obsessed lunatic, with me trying to choke out a bugbear with my salty magic; I should also mention that this bear was the returned rival of the friendly dwarf, and that we had never met before. The bear had lost his lower jaw in the last fight with the dwarf, who now wore it. I, after some attempts, managed to magically rip his metal jaw off, and I now wear it.
Other things I've done include, doing a thunder wave that both managed to stun a fleeing wizard, and also fry my whole party who were down a corridor. I also stripped the wizard naked and stole his stuff. I shoved my hand in the gashing wound of a goblin (who had previous been putted into a camp fire and returned, unwillingly) with the bugbear; I also electrified my hand to frizzle his insides. I also, may of, caused enough of a bang to unearth some ancient evil (but that's neither here nor there).
At the time of writing we've only had 2 sessions and- to give you an image. I am a malnourished, mentally unstable high elf wearing the stolen peacock style robes of a elderly man, seasoned with teeth (I collected them off corpses) and beaver skins, who is also sporting an iron lower jaw of a "dead" bugbear. Knowing my nut roasting actions, the table seems to enjoy the fun, but I am going to murder the priestess....maybe with a ladle.
I also stole a goblin's underwear.
this story killed me with laughter XDDD
I am a GM as well in my group of friends and your vids are so funny and even bring up new ideas every time i watch one! Keep up the great work😊
You have me cracking up in the first minute dude. Comedy gold.
Pretty funny, and surprisingly relevant. Just two days ago I was in the sewers fighting robots, and before that water being dangerous has been a running joke in our group after several whole party near-wipes. Not form monsters. Not even from the acid water that showed up later, but just regular drowning from a regular lake. It's cool that other people can have totally different events but that we can kinda have a shared reaction.
5:10 "I'm not at the beach, this is a bath tub!"
Quickly becoming my favorite rpg-related channel. Hope you get many more subs!
When the dm dies inside, everyone else will too
I love the way you say "Thanks for watching." There's just some sass, some abandonment to judgement, some "long hair don't care." I love it.
Hey Puffin Forrest do a collab episode with ProJared.
That would be great
can it even work, though?
Well Puffin Forrest can animate and make d&d scenarios for d& December.
that is an idea
not sure how jared would think of it, chances are they maybe don't even know each other exists
I basically asked the same thing on ProJared d&d videos.
Your first game as a GM had a so much better scenario than my first one! :D
My first time DMing, I gave my goblins class levels and one-shot the cleric in the first round of the first combat.
I am not allowed to DM anymore.
"My players are paranoid of water."
Heh.
Mercer C2: '...and a single chair in the middle of the room.'
M9: _"OMG we investigate the chair (and all other chairs in the campaign)."_
'It's JUST a chair.'
_"I hurl it across the room. I poke it. Does it react?'_
'It's. Just. A. Chair.'
My first time gming I had never been a player before still haven't only ever been gm it's a sad existence
If I had that annoying elf, I would definitely make her regret her smugness. Most likely by taking whatever she said, and taking it to the extreme. Or going somewhere completely random and just have fun with whatever reasonable torment I can think of. Like bringing in more monsters to hold her in the sewer.