This D&D player DIED to a gazebo?
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If it reacts its a mimic, if it doesnt react its a well trained mimic.
No it’s a gazebo they eat mimics
who hurt you dude ? X)
@@clood3713 the gazebo
@@chrisgomez1262Eric!?
@@chrisgomez1262DAMMIT ERIC!!!
"it's not good, eric, it's a gazebo" implies all gazebos are neutral or evil
They're always prowling around in parks, even at night!
Technically, they're N/A (not applicable). Same applies to God and genders.
Gazebos are neither, They(normal ones) would not show up on a detection spell meant for sentient/semi-sentient beings and magical artifacts. They are neither magical or alive(until the DM decided it would be) and so it literally can't be detected by the spell.
@@SkyEcho751 thank you for explaining why a joke is funny.
Naturally.
took me a whole read to realize that he just didn't know what a gazebo is. at first it just looked like he was psychotically paranoid
You can never be too careful with garden furniture.
Everyone is either psychotically paranoid or eaten by mimics
@@TronTuborg After accidentally learning a mimic was ina dungeon by turning undead and causing them to flee into it I spent the rest of the dungeon throwing zombie corpses at the chests to feed any more mimics ahead of time.
Tbh, gazebos are evil made manifest. Believe me, I know.
You're only paranoid until you're right. Then you're just well prepared.
Gotta love how the "it's a gazebo" is supposed to mean "it's not even a living being, of course it doesn't react", but without knowing what a gazebo is, describing it as "doesn't react, isn't good, not wounded by arrows" does make it sound like a rather threatening creature.
Indeed it does. I will now try to talk my DM into putting the Dreaded Gazebo in our next campaign.
No it doesn't it starts "ga" has the funniest letter "z" and ends with "ebo" it's like a kid named it imo lmfao. Pure gibberish from start to finish, it sounds like what a goblin child calls its grandpa when he's first learning to talk lol
Hey Gazebo's are terrifying.
Do you know how much knowledge, willpower, stamina, strength, focus, and precision it takes for a mimic to hold that shape?
Average mimics shape themselves as chests, legendary mimics shape themselves as gazebos.
It's a tarrasque
A lone big creature, that isn't good, is completely immune to arrows and most conventional forms of attacks, can only be destroyed by the most barbaric means (Fire/Axes) and cannot be reasoned with.
I can easily get why his reaction was "I run away", that is a terrifying foe.
This reminds me of a similar tale.
DM: "You enter the chamber, and at the far end of the room sitting upon a dusty throne, you see... A LEEK!" - DM pauses for suspense.
Players: "A leek?"
DM: "A leek!" - The DM reaffirms with menacing glee. >:3
Player: "Uh... okay... I walk up and poke the leek gently with my sword."
DM: The DM is confused and stunned for a moment. "Umm... well... ok. The leek casts finger of death on you."
( The tale of a DM who didn't know how to pronounce Lich.)
I laughed
Okay, that's freaking hilarious.
The thought of a death leek was funny enough, but it being a lich with an unreliable narrator destroyed me 😂
Almost died from laughter. Are you the source of this tale? I must tell my friends about this.
I have actually met people who didn't know what a Lich were, and when they saw the word for the first time they pronounced it LEEK too. So can't fault this DM at all. Hilarious though. The look of WTF on that party though. Would've loved to see it.
A few games later.
"Don't worry everybody, its just a gazebo, I've seen these before, its just a trick."
Dm: "No, I said, its a Glabrezu. A powerful demon. It is not a trick. You will die."
Hehe
Pc: “Nice try, but I know your tricks dm.”
Dm “roll for dodge”
Pc “wha-“
It's a trick, get an axe.
Or better yet, a boomstick, @@willdavis3802.
From now on I'm just calling them Gazebo demons and running them the way I run bridge trolls.
This is the "You are attacking an inanimate object for some reason, guess it's now a mimic" response. I find it nice that the guy who was so meticulous about everything, managed to attack and then get killed be a garden structure of all things.(DM likely rolled back the death, but still, he did irate the DM enough to get a "Rocks fall, you die")
People rarely see the old Murderous Gazebo trick coming
Reminds me of the were-house. It is now.
There's a gazebo enemy in A Valley Without Wind. While the game is hardly something I can recommend, the devs are awesome and nerdy and it seems possible, at least, that such a strange choice was influenced by this story! (Assuming the story's been around for a while, anyway)
@@hazukichanx408yes lol this story comes from the very early days of DnD, I think it was related to Gygax somehow, but I’m not sure. Anyway, there’s also a card in munchkin (DnD parody card game) referencing this
The story of Eric and the gazebo is so iconic in D&D circles that it was referenced in the D&D parody card game "Munchkin." IIRC, the Gazebo was a level 8 monster with the special rule "No-one can help you. You must face the Gazebo alone."
YES. That’s exactly the line. It became a saying among my friends.
its also one of the few things that got a Wikipedia article on wikipedia.
there was even a sidequest in Final Fantasy XIV that referenced this old tale. I had to take a break for a few minutes for laughing, it caught me so off guard.
@@tona4x7 Wait! Which quest is that??? How did I miss that??? I thought I'd cleared out all the side content except Relics (still working on those).
...is it an EW side quest??? Or was it something from 1.0 days?
@@RenAsterion it was the Heavensward Hildibrand quests, the one that had Vivi from FF9
Edit: it was an early allusion, then kept referring to houses as gazebos after clearing up the misunderstanding
I love that this implies that all gazebos, once annoyed enough, will become sentient and end you.
Just don't shoot them with +3 arrows and you'll be fine
Fun fact my dad was actually one of the players in that campaign and Eric thought a gazebo is a giraffe lmao
...That only raises more questions?? Why would someone attack a giraffe that's just chilling???
Who would do that? Who would go on the internet and tell lies?!
Yeah, I’ll choose to believe this. It’s just more fun that way.
Dang, I thought he was mixing it up with a gazelle.
yeah eric always mistakes gazelle and giraffe so when he heard gazebo he knew its not gazelle but giraffe. make sense to me :P@@josephschubert6561
"It could have been worse; at least the gazebo wasn't on a grassy gnoll."
Me picturing a rather gigantic Grassy Gnoll with a gazebo on its back. With smaller Gnolls riding it and throwing spears: I am going to write this down. This is too good to pass up.
It's actually a reference to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
the gazebo is the equivalent of a howdah.
@@lachtigallYT Pretty sure they know. However you still imagine things.
I referenced this story in a game i ran.
the party made a Gazeb outside their home in the woods,
one day i just wordlessly added an arrow to the side of it on the battlemap. (it was on roll 20 and sometimes trouble came to them). Got a few chuckles when somone noticed.
A while later i added blood spatters around it and removed the arrow.
Haha, the gazebo must have been made out of a living tree and now it protects the party
@@NACLIMAN It´s a guard mimic. It considered attacking the party, but realized their presence brings it a constant supply of food.
@@johnyshadow why does the idea of a pet mimic sound both adorable and potentially terrifying.
@@AndyKennettbecause its guqrding you because you serve s purpose for it. when youre no longer supplying it with potential food, thats when its terrifying
@@AndyKennett if you play terraria you can obtain a ornate shadow key that summons a pet shadow chest mimic (think instead of a gold or brown chest it's like a purply blue one that occasionally spits out faux coins)
I believe they make a joke about this in final fantasy 14 as well, in the heavensward hildebrand quests one if the characters talks about gazebos being dangerous and how impressed they are that someone tamed it.
An Ascended Meme? Awesome!
DDO has two references to this:
-In Ataraxia's Haven, "the Deadly Gazebo" is an explorer objective. It's just an ordinary gazebo, save for the fact it's been used as a sniping perch. (Said Duergar sniper might show up there as a rare encounter!)
-In the quest "Good Intentions", a gnome's object animating golem goes haywire, making hordes of *hostile* animated objects, and it's up to you to stop it. In the boss battle against it, it uses an animated gazebo as a mount (until you damage it enough, at which point the gazebo breaks.)
I wish this story came with Eric’s epiphany of what a gazebo was.
I can just assume the reaction would contain the words face and palm or head and desk ;-)
Given what the guy's personality sounds like it was probably a boring reaction, like "not my fault for not knowing what a gazebo is" or just "whatever let's move on"
Lol your profile pic makes me think of Datcord
To be fair I have made a neutral gazebo golem that wanted to watch sunsets and party... the players were an evil party and the gazebo tried to protect it's master the mayor
Well that’s sad… did the party die
@@JadeWasTakenof course Jade, it's a fucking gazebo!
He probably thought it was a Gazelle, the antelope. I've done similar things before.
Gazelle's are tricky, too, I think he played it smart.
I've heard he might have thought it was a glabrezu, a type of demon, and the dm was bad at pronouncing it
This is why you never mess with garden furniture. Ever.
I once saw a man die for disrespecting patio furniture
Especially those foldy chairs... They'll get you when you least expect it...
@@ZacSpeaksGiant That Irish bastard? I always check under my car when he's around.
Omfg, I've heard this story before a couple of times, I thought the ending was a reference to JFK or whomever was shot from a small mound of grass. I just realized that it's a play on words.
You know I never understood that line until now too! Is the joke that knoll/gnoll sound alike?
@@ZacSpeaksGiant yep, thats the joke. It's only until I heard it said aloud that I got it.
@@ZacSpeaksGiant I now want to make a gnoll druid who is themed around grass and other plants. Wears grass armor, things like that. See how long it takes my party to realize.
@@FondlesHandles 11 months late to the party, but I've done this, except as a ranger with a crossbow.
Ten sessions later is when it finally clicked for the players because I sniped a high ranking official. Should've known the DM knew (he'd never let on) when he set it up that way, because he chuckled when describing as "the enchanted arrow burst through your target's head with a burst of necrotic energy, the crowd going absolutely nuts as their organization's leader was assassinated by a grassy gnoll."
@@kingnekogon oh my god, thats great
Once I narrated that an Elf was sit inside a gazebo having tea. My players, all 3.5 veterans, dread the gazebo for that very story.
Many actual mimics later, now they own a mimic, who hides in the form of a barrel.
When you peev the DM so hard he throws a building size mimic at you.
My favorite part is when the DM is like... FINE! You want a fight! The Gazebo eats your ass! I still chuckle every time I hear this story oldie but a goodie.
The gazebo attacking while not indicating movement beforehand, means this is a Greater Mimic. The size and ease of it killing an adventurer that's close to but greater than the level 70 indicates that this Greater Mimic - Gazebo Form has a threat level around level 97. Run.
How much is 97 in this term
If we're following JRPG rules, the Gazebo would be just 2 levels beneath the max, meaning the Gazebo is, at minimum, secret final boss level of strength.
@@theastralsorcerer8380Tbh I just picked a random high number
@@lordawesome9060Tbh I just picked a random high number
To be fair, the word "gazebo" does kinda sound like it could be the name of a race like goblin.
Or some sort of archdemon or something
There was once a Time where Cali DMed for Gura... and Gura thought the Were-house was a house shaped monster
And cali answered... "It is now"
Well, Scout wasn't the brightest bulb in the box to begin with, so it tracks.
Wait, that's where that one came from?
“Oh, I was picturing a really stocky albino Gazelle.”
Gazelle's are the most dangerous creature on earth, it was the smart move to make
Eric and the Dread Gazebo is truly a classic for the ages
"He is playing a neutral paladin"
That wasn't DM fiat, that was divine punishment
A Neutral Paladin, aka a Fighter...
@@PirateMF a fighter without feats, at it
I didn't know paladins could be neutral. I figured they were either lawful good and thus a normal paladin or lawful evil and thus a death knight or oathbreaker. After all paladins are beings of conviction which drives their actions so being neutral would mean they don't care enough to do much of anything.
@@dreadcthulhu5they can't, and this is why I believe this was all good within rules and not a "rock falls" pull from DM.
Both his god and whatever evil god would take a fallen paladin conspired to animate this particular gazebo to smite this fence sitter.
@@Mordecrox That would actually make sense.
When a overthinker is an idiot, but refuses to admit it.
This wasn't overthinking... he just didn't know what a gazebo was.
“I try to persuade it to or side” *rolls dice* “did it work?”
I get the feeling Eric doesn’t know what a gazebo is
I also think the DM didn't know that Eric didn't know what a gazebo was.
A little known fact about Krod's angry carpenter ability is that it often leaves his projects with serious anger issues after wards.
I think eric thought it was a Glabrezu, A dangerous but not too dangerous CL 9 demon. It's perfect fodder for a midboss for lower-level campaigns, and henchmen for 8-11 levels. Totally reasonable that you might just stumble across one.
This could have only happened with a Gazeebo in a TTRPG, and a highly intelligent player for whom English was not his First language... The full context (and while it's admirable that this version of the post has the whole story rather than just small snippets, it still leaves too much of the introduction out), although this is still abridged because the original written version was nearly 4 pages long, but the full context, which is written in the written versions of the story that I've yet to find in any web version, is that English was not the man's first language, and that is stated at the beginning of the story. This version has few truncations of the Gazeebo encounter, just a few steps that were whole paragraphs reduced to a sentence or two, but it greatly truncates the introduction of the player, and still leaves out the most important detail, that English is not the man's first langauge, and English not being his first language while playing with English speakers, more than his hyper-logical methodology, is the reason for his computational approach, because he's navigating the game mechanics and a language he has only a middling grasp of. Onto why the Gazeebo stumped him. He won't ask the DM to define a Gazeebo because in his mind that would be Cheating. Because he had no context of knowing that it was an out of game term, and not an in game term, so a lot of his confusion came down to not wanting to metagame, and he did not grock from the DM's descriptions of the object that it was a sort of open walled hut, because English was not his first langauge. So he got it into his mind that he was dealing with some sort of creature rather than an inanimate object, because it had an exotic name, and you don't give an exotic name to an inanimate object.
Which is again why it could only be a Gazeebo, or something of that sort. There are a small handful of words in the English language, that are unique to the English language, but they don't sound English BECAUSE they are English in origin, meaning an English speaker coined the term rather than deriving it... And that's why it follows similar themes to other things that were words that were just made up. Because some of the massive monster array in D&D were just made up names, and they had assuredly been thrown at this party a few times... Anyway. I don't know what it's actually called in linguistics, but whenever I encounter a word that sounds nothing like the language of its origin specifically because it came entirely from it's mother tongue and thus has none of the flavors of the grandmother tongue... I call it the Gazeebo Effect.
Fun fact. This story was originally written/told by the guy who voiced Cedric the Owl in Kings Quest 5, and who designed Ruins of Cawdor.
Graham, watch out! A poisonous snake. 🐍
I heard a variation on this in the late 90's. It didn't name names, so sounded more legendary than historical.
It was first printed in 1985 or 1986.
I'll be honest, I was also confused what a gazebo was the first time I encountered that word. I am, however, not a native English speaker. It was after years of reading books in English and I've only stumbled upon that word that one time.
I learned what a gazebo was from this story almost 20 years ago.
"We better not try another frontal attack, that Gazebo is dynamite! Bring out the holy handgrenade!"
The amount of times I've been hurt and or killed by buildings and inanimate objects in DND is mind boggling to the point I am paranoid of everything and anything. I poke everything with 10ft long sticks, then follow with a stab with a longsword, a bash of a hammer, a cut of a axe and THEN pierced with a arrow. And followed by detect magic, detect life, detect undead, detect good/evil, detect trap, detect illusion, detect curse, detect hunger(home made), detect ill intent(homemade) then lastly fire ball. If anything survives I happily take it. if not then it was trying to kill me so i happily move on. My Dm has made sooo many home brew monsters to fuck with me I am now having to content with a Cat dragon of nine lives(each time I kill it, it becomes immune to that way of death). And I've made it my character's sole mission in life to systematically eradicate cats and dragons throughout the world.
Be wary of that 10 foot Pole, especially if it knows RPN
Ok, but I have to know what he imagined it looked like. A gorilla-zebra?
... So if I understand you correctly he just didn't know what a gazebo was?
And also never thought to ask what a gazebo was, just heard a noun and assumed it was something he could kill, and became increasingly determined. No matter the descriptions, and it being in the well trimmed garden of a Noble, and the DM being incresingly aggressive in wondering why he's trying to attack it. DM's a bit dense too for apparently not understanding that his player was confused, but at some point the player really should've asked what he was randomly attacking. or why he was killing every unknown thing in this noble's garden
@@maromania7the mimic disguised as a flowerpot:
@@maromania7 Given that the guy is reportedly methodical and plays it smart most of the time, I'm guessing he a) mistook it for some specific type of creature, and b) was trying to attack the noble's residence for some reason which might entail defeating any guardians present
I seriously want to know what the hell did Eric thought what a “gazebo” is in his weird mind…that’s what I really want to know!
All time favorite D&D story
Was funny 7 years ago and it still is.
You never know, it could be a mimic
As a non native English speaker who plays DnD in English, this is one off my worst nightmares. Although I play with people who would explain it if I asked (I hope) 😂
"ITS A GAZEBO!!" Will forever slay me XD
I love this story lol. I’ve played munchkin a million times and making some reference to sentient gazebos never fails to make me crack a smile
And thanks to Eric, there are now dice towers and trays in the shape of the Dread Gazebo
Ohgie the honorary dwarf has got to be my all time fave DnD story. But I love the "No Eric... It's a gazebo"
I can feel the DM's pain
Dreaded Gazebo is monster in Muchkin if I remember right.
Yup! Level 8 and you can’t have help
I knew Eric, and Ed, both are long dead, now.
I was not in the game, but I first heard the story, the following evening, from one of the players.
Ed owned the game store where the story occured (La Maison Du Guerre), in the San Fernando Valley.
I was still in highschool, when this took place, and as of this posting, I am 58.
Good times, good times.
None of the younger regulars at Le Mason.
"the door is ajar"
i do a perception roll to figure out whats inside the jar
You may be heartened to know this tale lives on in FFXIV, a (very silly) side quest chain leads to the mention of a "dread gazebo" and fear from characters involved. When it does nothing, IIRC they conclude it's just dormant.
In honor of this, I feel like there needs to be an actual giant spider tree monster made for D&D that disguises itself as outdoor lawn furniture as a reference to this, as well as make the adventurer who was eaten retroactively right to be fearful. Maybe as an extra layer, make the name an anagram for gazebo.
To be fair, he was right to be cautious. It ended up killing him.
I read this in Dragon a LONG time ago and ever since, there has been a sentient gazebo in every game I run. The players don't always know he's there. He has good stealth and loves disguising himself as sheds, small barns, even a trade tent once.
I'M SO FREAKING GLAD SOMEONE IS COVERING THIS!! The gazebo is a running joke in my family (all nerds) so any time we pass one we all make jokes about the terrifying gazebo
I wonder if this is where Munchkin got the Gazebo monster from.
Well, this particular D&D story has been around since at least the 90s, but I think its older than that, so yeah, Munchkin def played homage to it.
@@pumkincrab Yeah this story has been around since I started playing in the 80's...
Of all the D&D classics, this is the most legendary.
The Gazebo is a monster in the base Munchkin card game, which is most likely an oversized mimic.
This is a classic Knights of the Dinner table story - love it
This is one of the most famous dnd stories of all time. I heard this story over ten years ago.
This is my all-time favorite DnD story as well. I've loved this story for years. Lol.
Story reminds me of the old school Unforgotten Realms animation series, where two DND characters find a Carriage in the road. And one player is ADAMANT that it's a monster, using several attacks/spells on it. After learning what a Carriage is, he blinds his companion to steal all the loot for himself.
I love the story of Eric and the Dread Gazebo.
I encountered that story, but, in that version, it's not just a single character that react to the gazebo as a monster. It's the WHOLE party !!!
So that's where the whole killer Gazebo thing comes from.. have wondered what kind of daft tale started that. Well now I know.
You know, DDO has the gazebo in one of the adventure packs, there is a dead paladin leaning up against a part of it you need to really work to see...and it's got a rare encounter version that animates and attacks if you're to close to it
I love these guys who just try *everything* in their ability to avoid asking a question that could lead to somebody thinking they are dumb.
So they just assume stuff and roll with it. Hilarious to derail them xX
And it was this story, that inspired me: a newish DM to run The Dread Gazebo as a large wooden construct. 😄
Turns out, he was right. The gazebo was actually a werehouse.
I don't know how many people I've linked this to, or how many times I've watched it, but this always makes me laugh 😂 Long live the Dread Gazebo!
The number of my fellow grognards who insist that they were at the table when this went down is truly amazing. Near as I can tell, damn near 20% of the gamer population of that era was playing one of Eric's teammates.
This is where Hackmaster got the idea of the aggressive gazebo.
When I was a kid, I twice misheard "casino" as "gazebo", in the context that the bad guy in a cartoon wanted to tear down buildings to construct one. I knew what learned what a gazebo was and I was so confused as to why the villain wanted one, why it required tearing down buildings, and why it was bad otherwise. I just concluded that somehow gazebos were evil; apparently they attack if provoked
I'm shocked that Eric's first question would be "What color is it?" and not "What's a gazebo?" or similar lol
And this is why we have a Gazebo in Munchkin
Our druid found a barrel of hardtack and tried to set it on fire to see if it would explode - the player had never heard of hardtack before. After we explained it was food, from then on they took a bite out of basically EVERYTHING to see if it was also food. Lol. Much, much later we came upon an enchanted/cursed feast and they ended up stuck in the form of basically a yeti because they wouldn't be dissuaded from tasting every dish.
At least he didn't run into a were house...
It's EVERYONE's all time favourite D&D story, just as Leeroy Jenkins is EVERYONE's all time favourite gaming story. Some things are... timeless.
This happened to Me and Tim Lam while playing with Eric Cavender. We figured out that he didn't understand quickly. It also happened in a tournament in 2022, the DM posted video to his Facebook. So, it seems to be a Ongoing juxtapositional even only found between Erics and Gazebos.
This story is also told in the 3.0/3.5 3dition Splatbook "Portable hole full of beer."
This story is one of two reasons why I am incapable of being normal about gazebos.
Next week's monster battel: Gazebo vs Warehouse
Dude pulled a Don Quixote
The DM HAD to know that the guy didn't know what a gazebo was and was just fucking with him.
Nothing good happens when In the Hall of the Mountain King plays in the background. *grabs the popcorn*
"This reminds me of the time we lynched that davenport."
-- Knights of the Dinner Table (I forget which of the Knights said it, probably Brian)
No one can help you, you must face the gazebo alone.
The first time I heard of a gazebo was in Fraggle Rock: One episode had a minor running joke about Ma Gorg wanting one for her garden and Pa and Junior thinking it was a "smelly animal".
In all fairness I was well into my teens before I knew those were called gazebos. You either hear it casually to randomly at an older age.
To be fair, I didn’t know what a gazebo was either until watching this video and frankly it does sound like a fantasy monster
You gotta blame gazelles for existing here
You realize I'm now compelled to create lore, and a stat block for a Dread Gazebo monster
Lesson learned: if you don’t know what a word means, it’s an enemy.
Is this why my co-dm insisted the name of the monstrous eldritch walking city in our setting needs to be a reference to gazebos?! (It's named Gaziba the dread city now)
Almost certainly.
to be fair if you've never heard of a gazebo before, it DOES sound like a creature from some horror film
Knights of the Dinner Table parodied this with a "whistling zephyr"
I know he probably thought it was some kind of monster but I like to think that Eric, in not knowing what a gazebo was, thought Ed was talking about a gazelle.
Poor Eric dying to a frustrated DM
I actually almost killed a PC with a gazebo in a pre-written module. It was a mimic in disguise.