Every D&D player when there's a mystery
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- idk if you guys could tell, but this video had zero script
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Eat a banana, they're getting all spotty and you need some potassium.
make that bag
The Factor site looks nice but your examples look like prison meals lol
Cooking with fireballs.
There are DND jokes of Dreamwork's *Road to El Dorado' as a campaing of roque and bard, and I'd like to ask you make 'Road to El Dorado but it's D&D'
The lack of script just makes this so much more accurate
Ayyy, this guy! Big fan. Waiting on the Curly and Brace D&D campaign animtion. Wink wink nudge nudge
Wot r u doing here?
More Pathfinder vids, pls.
This feels like what rick and morty writers are always trying to achieve when they adlib but it just turns into silly voices.
oh i know you, you're the guy who anthropomorphized a sperm bank collection machine
The concept of hunting down the killer, only to murder them and leave _the same note_ that was on the other guy for a future adventuring party to find is comedy gold.
Sounds like some sort of cursed object, an innocuous note that mentally compels the person that finds it to kill the previous owner and place itself on the next body, then re-writes itself to give clues to the next victim.
Actually sounds quite horrifying.
@@Hawk_of_Battle Thats legit a hawt idea
@@Hawk_of_Battle the worst part is that if you manage to defeat the person coming for you, they have the note
@@Hawk_of_Battle xD
@@Hawk_of_Battle Maybe the real cursed object was the players we made along the way.
"I leave a note on his body to perpetuate the cycle so someone will murder me."
Priceless.
This is the plot of Dark Souls
somehow reading this before watching the video made me laugh super hard when it happened
@@danielbutka8854I hate that you're right.
God, now i want a fantasy themed Hotline Miami campaign.
"I have decided that your answer was actually the correct one"
I'm ashamed of how often I've done that in my own games. Sometimes the players just have waaaaay better ideas
Been down that road!
@@grimbobagman4133Ashamed? thats literally the best way to DM, you dont have to mentally prepare a whole lot and the players get to feel cool they were "Right". its a win win.
DM: _leaves a clue in which the answer insinuates the BBEG was behind something nefarious_
The players: "I know exactly who could have done this. It was you!" _points at the comic relief reoccurring gag character they happened to constantly roll terrible against_
DM: "... N-... Yes. Yes it was!"
Literally my entire DMing style, lmao
"Your character pulls out the note in his pocket-"
Well that was rude of me, I put it back into his pocket.
literally players do this stuff >.
I mean, no DM should ever dictate what your character does without your input, even to advance the plot, so telling someone their character does a thing that they didn't is just rude and wrong anyway.
This is hilarious, but it got me thinking, would it be more rude to stick your hand in his pocket again just to put it back?
@@0Kasada "You open the door" "WHAT THE FUCK DM, MY CHARACTER, PISS FART THE CUM GOBLIN, WOULD NEVER!"
@@0KasadaI think that's the idea - the DM is at their wits' end to make things obvious for the player so they step into the unreasonable territory of straight-up making the player's character do the thing they need them to do.
From the tavernkeep's perspective, he heard an extremely loud knock, his locked door was thrown open, and a piss-drenched stranger accused him of serving pork.
10/10 Vox Machina season 3 confirmed
Nah, vox machina wouldn't be able to make it past the door.
@@aleph1916 Ok you got me there.
Detect thoughts + dispel magic + speak with dead
Dm tip #1, you can get the same reaction of a dead body from the remains of where a dead body was
Don't forget Speak with Animals/Plants.
In the world of D&D, there is no such thing as "no witnesses"
This sounds like it should've started with "L + ratio +..."
my brain read "Speak with Dad", which would be a great spell.
@@UndeadMark A cell phone materializes in your hand...
"I kill the serial killer, by the same modus operandi he used for killing.... then I continue his work" is one of the best plot twists I've ever seen.
"dragged him here, laid the blood down" i started crackin up XD
2:17 Hehe :>
Also, "You think he died of high blood pressure", "Who could have done such a thing?!" had me dying
6:32 "You! You served him PORK!" got me so hard i cant get out of laught send help please
It got you WHAT
“Well there’s a first day for everything, I walk down it.”
*HehHeh*
That close up heheh fucking killed me
When the bartender wouldn't go outside in the rain, my first thought was "Aha! He's actually made of salt and would dissolve in the rain, that's how he killed him!"
Me: "There are two chests in the room."
Players: "We open the one... wait which one? OK that one."
Me: "You find [something moderately interesting]."
Players: "Neat! We leave."
Gotta leave something for the next group of adventurers to find.
I have a continuous campaign going where people from years agos action have effect on the world. So once a dungeon is cleared, either new monsters or a group or the players take it over.
Anyways I had a character who would craft potions and scrolls and he would restock dungeons.
A good archaeologist only examines half of the dig site.
This.
Group goes through dungeon, clears EVERYTHING out.
Enter the room of the guy they're looking for.
Desk, bed, empty chest.
"What, no loot? We're leaving."
Condemning evidence on the desk: untouched
Its like improv classes. "Don't shut down ideas, embrace them and expand ideas" 😂 yes it was the porkchop that got your boss in a dark alleyway.
They call me DJ Porkchop. I go ham on the mic.
"I perpetuate the stream of hatred" goes hard
The biggest mystery is why DnD skits like these ones are funny but I can still count on my hand how many funny DnD memes there are.
Cuz D&D memes ony have three punch-lines. "Bard = Horny" "rolled a 1" and "rolled a 20"
Maybe it's because memes tend to only be a few lines and an image, or one or the other, while even a short skit can fit in quite a bit of dialog. Since D&D tends to be more longform and more about stories of things happening, it makes sense that jokes about it need to be a bit longform as well.
IDK, the D&D dumps on Imgur are generally full of gems. A have an entire folder on my computer filled with memes that made me laugh or I found interesting.
For real. I get excited for an XP to Level 3 skit but I want to burn my eyes out with a cattle prod every time I see a "the final boss is scheduling conflicts" or "take a cat video and caption it to be about a 'tabaxi rogue'" meme.
> When your [party member] does [thing]
> *reaction image*
HOLY SHIT, He's such a great detective! When my party played this module we didn't even find out about the pee rain until the second to last session!
"YOU SERVED HIM PORK!!"
"NoooooOOO?!"
No! No mystery! Give answer or I have to use brain and I no like brain! I WANT FIGHT!
Fight me coward
Found the barbarian
Tbf, my brain has been the cause of 100% of my pain, anxiety, and sadness so removing its use could only be a net positive
My players anytime there's a puzzle or mystery.
This sums up half of my party.
I love how chaotically scuffed this video is in comparison to your other ones, it’s hilarious and you can tell you guys were just having a fun time making it
Ngl, this actually sounds quite horrifying. Like a genuine cursed object; an innocuous note that mentally compels the person that finds it to kill the previous owner and place itself on the next body, then re-writes itself to give clues to the next victim.
Oh, I'm definitely going to lab this. Need to find a way to keep the players from falling for it immediately, though. Maybe a DC 13 Charisma save?
I'm writing it down...
*Print screens
I had an experience like this the first time I dm’d. Basically, I had the party investigating an orc attack on a merchant caravan, but when they kept searching for loot I decided to give them something. That something ended up being a minor necromantic artifact I made up on the spot (the player searching was a necromancer) that the caravan’s owner was going to sell. Thankfully they didn’t ask about what it did, so I figured I could come up with something later- maybe use it to give the Necromancer some kind of bonus or at least let the party sell it for money
Unbeknownst to me, the party assumed that the artifact was illegal and sinister, and _murdered_ someone to hide that they had taken it. I didn’t want that to lead to nothing, so I gave the item a bit more lore, and it’s already becoming the central plot Mcguffin the BBEG wants
Players wanting loot... a true classic.
"can i roll an intelligence check to learn more?"
ughhhhh this one hurts
Wait, what's wrong with it?
@@Yoroiful Two things. First, the players are trying to have their characters solve the mystery instead of solving it themselves which isn't as fun for the DM. Second, no matter how much info you give them, players are never satisfied with the result so they constantly try to learn more.
@@ShadyDoorags I don't understand.
Players actively trying to use their stats/skills to overcome challenges isn't as fun for the DM? You are playing as your character, yes? It's a roleplaying game. You should be using their wits, not yours. A roll to connect the dots can be helpful both to a frustrated player and to the DM. Same for rolls to determine how good of a plan something is (according to your character) etc.
@@Yoroiful But they aren't connecting dots. They're just asking the DM to solve it for them.
DM: ....It's completely dark and-
1: Darkvision
2: Me too
3: Cast Light
4: My sword actually glows
DM: Ok, it's magic dark! You can't darkvision or see or glow or whatever! You hear-
1: I take out my 30ft of rope and start swinging it like a lasso.
DM: What..?
1: Who ever feels my rope hit them is the closest to me- grab the rope! Together, we will sweep the area for the others.
No one likes the dark.
Magical darkness? Good thing I casted Continual Flame at 3rd-level on a piton 22 sessions ago.
RIP John Von Bunkleberry, you will be missed.
greatly 😢
A -2 to Intelligence for a mystery solver is hilarious to me
The tavern keeper must have fed him a Turducken but he thought it was just a really thick turkey. He just kept taking giant bites, and didn’t look at the food.
5:45 the exact moment when the master accepts the direction of the story and abandons his own script to follow the players' reasoning
Alternate Title: "Why you should use Call of Cthulhu instead of DnD for mystery campaigns"
"You look around looking" is such a strong opener
Remind me to equip an umbrella next time I go to Sharn.
Fun fact! Sharn has magical amulets known as drybrooches that function as full rain force fields specifically for this purpose!
I disagree with the last statement of the video, at which point I was actually laughing tears at the reaction to "I kill him"
Condolences to the family of Jon von Bungleberry.
My Bard with a fascination for death is playing Amazing Grace in a minor key...in the DAMNED PEE RAIN!
I was hoping for Employerostein.
Barely holding it together during the "he had high blood pressure" line is gold.
I'm going to have to bring up the famous Sharn piss rain next eberron game I play in, the eberron experts in the group will be so impressed I know this little known lore fact
The skyway is built on a solidified cloud above the city. Where do you think their plumbing goes? Right into the cloud.
I have a friend who is 100% like that. Derailing is like his superpower.
"Aha! The most absurd thing was the answer the whole time!"
"...Nyesn't." [appends notes]
This is a bad video?
No.
This video is gold.
Literally happened to me last night while I was trying to lead my party through the mystery of who stole the bones of St Andral in CoS.
They spent over an hour doing everything but talking to potential witnesses 🤦♂
Yeah but to be honest... The witness was probably a liar.
It took my party until an hour before Strahd was gonna attack before they returned the bones. Even that was only because one of my players wanted to steal a coffin and they happened to find them
The noir music is a chef's kiss
I'm gonna add more noir atmospheres in my campaign.
I feel like this is one of the few TH-cam channels I click on immediately when the notification comes up
you just know it's gonna be a banger
Likewise. It never disappoints:)
what was missing was after the dm said "the streets get darker" there should have been three players saying in unison "I have dark vision!"
This timing cannot be real. I am literally working on making a murder mystery one-shot for my friend group and you upload *this*????
Some may call it coincidence, others call it fate.
Now you have to include piss twin in it
@@sunbleachedangelI'm assuming that was supposed to be piss rain but a urine-based simulacrum is a brilliant idea
Reverse engineering the murder, and then applying the 5 Why's to the perpetrator is the bread & butter of a good mystery design. Sometimes when you're done, you wind up with a sympathetic murderer who killed an evil person, and then the players have to figure out how they're going to handle it. There are so many possibilities, and on the DM side moderate upfront prep. After that, the session itself is just free-flow jazz.
Also, since you might see this Mr.XP
I want you to know that because of your content, I looked into DnD, as it’s never been something I was interested in, and I can’t say I’ve ever had so much fun.
A friend of mine is the DM of our campaign, and I’m now hooked to the story of my half orc, Paladin, Barbarian seeking revenge against a death knight that killed the love of his love right in front of him during our second session.
It’s so much fun, I didn’t know it could be. And I want to thank you for helping changing The way I see DnD.
Sorry for the typos 😅
But seriously, thank you
that's so awesome! gald you're having fun
@@XPtoLevel3 "Gald" is a great name for a PC.
yes dude!
"ugh what's that word, someone who has a job?"
".... employer? O.o"
"YES!"
bruh, way to show your hand xD
i will never get tired of jacob's dramatic gulps
Okay but having to improv increasingly deranged twists is EXACTLY how every mystery I've ever run has gone 😭
The one true way to write mysteries is to not write them at all, and just go with the resolution being whatever the most utterly deranged theory your players come up with.
That is supremely unsatisfying for anyone who likes mysteries.
@ZombieApocalypse09 The players never notice. Also, the people who love mysteries are the toughest to please because they always think their idea is better.
Hence, going along with the players, for you I'd go with everyone else and wait towards the end for you to be "right all along" you would just be happy.
@@xandermichael836 that is extremely condescending and insulting to a stranger you know nothing about.
The problem with going with whatever a player comes up with is that mysteries are about planting and payoff. A deranged theory from a player has no planting therefore no payoff. It is just bad.
Invariably it will have holes and just generally feel unrewarding to people who were invested in the narrative.
Here's an idea: if you don't like mysteries don't run one.
@@ZombieApocalypse09
The players usually care less about the intricacies of the lovingly crafted scenario...mystery or not...than the DM.
@@ZombieApocalypse09 Have you ever DMed? What is your experience with table top games with a mystery as the theme?
"YOU! You served him pork!" Awesome. One of my favorites was the blooper at the beginning. "The man was the job the whole time!" :)
Perhaps the Real piss rain...is the friends we made along the way....
Jacob hitting Colton with the “Why must you say words to me” as best friends always do
Time???
@@VeronicaWarlock 7:00
@@MadHarrier lol 🙏
i just usually let the players decide and the best answer gets to be the next part of the mystery, is a good improv exercise
great idea
5:57 incredible acting
Testing out the speech wheel on an NPC in Oblivion be like
But theres no acting. LULE
At first im like "haha this is so silly" then i remembered that my party spent a real life hour trying to open an unlocked door
The outtakes at the beginning was a bold but enjoyable play.
The dead body is merely to throw you off the trail of the real murder victim: The dead pixel.
Jacob this is the best video you ever made. its even better than "Saving Throws are Dumb".
I love your videos together, it's like pure TTRPG, an initial idea that snowballs into anything else by improv and disturbing choices.
Reading the description helped a lot actually.
I’m glad that Sharn has continued to be in content. Eberron is just so good.
He died of high blood pressure after seeing the price of Factor meals.
This is probably my favorite video next to the bad homebrew series.
I love that you left the bloopers in, do more of that!
6:17
Reminds me of a BG3 playthrough i have with a friend of mine and I’m talking to a magic mirror and say, out of game, “Don’t worry I’m a master negotiator.”
*throws rock at mirror*
“Negotiation complete!”
Was that the mirror with the necronomicon room somewhere behind it? In the abandoned village? I just *threatened* to throw a rock at it and it let me in.
I'm still in act 1
Ive truly grown so addicted to your channel, I've rewatched so many videos waiting for the next upload
Mysteries are tough to run, especially when *both* the DM and the Pc's have no idea what's going on.
I know these take time, but I am really here for your skit videos. 💕 Thank you for another!
Perpetuating the cycle and keeping the mystery going is a pretty 5head play, ngl.
I hate mysteries in DND and this video truly encapsulated why
I do love the concept of a cursed piece of evidence that implicates the murderer in a never-ending cycle. Every person has to make a saving throw whenever they make physical contact or be compelled to murder them, which leads to the next person being implicated, then murdered.
"This is a bad video"
*proceeds to make the funniest shit i've watched on YT in ages*
The moment Jacob said "𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓭𝓪𝓻𝓴 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓻𝓪𝓲𝓷𝔂 𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓮𝓮𝓽𝓼" with that face made combust into laughter so quick frfr
The piss rain killed me 😂
I like the ad being first in this video, it breaks it up less. So happy you and Spencer are liking this routine and doing well
Thankyou SO much for now eating sounds in your food ad :)
When there's a mystery...I cast fireball.
I love your guy's chemistry just as much as your solo scripted videos. Equally awesome.
Loved the addition of the bloopers!
This is a great video, ngl I had my doubts in the beginning, but the second half didn't disappoint
Thank you for making this. I'm running my first proper campaign and it's a mystery thriller but I frankly have no idea how to run a mystery lol now I have that idea
That ending made me lol pretty hard - great vid
The close ups and the forced surprise faces are killing me.
I love the film noir kind of jazz at the beginning.
Speak with dead, speak with animals, speak with planets the bane of any and all mysteries.
Like i love them but they double my prep time.
I love that you keep in all the struggles to get through this one :D
"I.rolled a nat 1"
"You believe he died from high blood pressure" yo why is that so funny to me
I love "I leave the same note behind, so now someone has to find me" XD ahhh always giving me ideas to mess with my GM
"This is a bad video" I disagree, it was funny! Loved it.
This is, actually, the perfect example of a DM sighing, throwing all their loose paperwork with notes and plans over their shoulders, and just giving in to the smooth brain.
the best mystery in dnd is the woven by the own player's stupidity and misunderstandings
Sharn having pee rain is actually semi-canon. There's a literal cloud district above the rest of the city, so it's likely that it get's rid of its occupant's waste in the form of rain.
Come to think of it, if a player asks something specific like "I check his pulse", you just answer whether they feel a pulse or not. You can save medicine for something more trained like "can I determine how long he's been dead" or the like.
The biggest horror was that one dead pixel in your camera. Gave me a real good fright!
I got some solid laughs out of this. I hope you had fun making it!
"This is a bad video"
This is a funny video and i hope you make more videos just like this. Looking forward to hearing the continuation of this story.
5:20 Man it would be fun to do some Phoenix Wright style mystery in a DnD game
I knew the channel peaked years ago but god damn, I did NOT expect to come back and see a video thats 30% bloopers.
I love jacob's confused face at the end
I honestly love the videos where you guys clearly have no script and just a loose concept. The ab-libbing is great.
This was a great video! Lmao, I love campy dumb RP sessions. Long campaigns are fun, but a 30-45 minute clown fiesta is always a blast. This video captured that perfectly.