I’m aware of what was happening in the goblin-war-sans-goblins story, but I keep imagining that the party keeps getting really good at fighting certain kinds of enemies and just wiping them to extinction. “Where have all the goblins gone?” asks the warrior, the silver of his sword obscured by viscera.
I've always wanted to run a game where orcs are brought to near-extinction, only for an anthropologist to realize they are a very important part of the ecosystem in some very esoteric, magical way.
There’s a saying among DMs. If your monk has deflect arrows, you have to shoot some arrows at the monk. Just because someone can screw over your monster don’t stop them from doing it. They’ve been looking forward to that screw over since getting it
Its like on tiktoc people said tanks were obsolete... Because anti tank missiles and other things exist to take them down, just because something can be destroyed dosent mean its obsolete in military setting, why have fighter jets when opponent has AA missles?
@@skree272 the tanks are being designed to anti anti tank missile its a back and forth battle yes stuff gets left behind like metal armor but theres still daggers and knives around which have existed forever
'But the horde is to the south of you' 1. They demonstrably are not. 2. If they were, that would mean their capital was as vulnerable as it was ever going to get.
Straight Up Stalker - really pleased with the lengths the server admins went to to make it a safe space. I certainly wouldn't complain if someone said, "hey, before you join, you've got to do an audio interview to prove you're who you claim to be."
Kind of an unrelated note: Since it's established that Goblin Slayer takes place In a TTRPG game I'm 120% convinced that the Slayer Is either a DMPC or a DM's favorite player's character.
@@mqfii8992 If it is, it’s a campaign with a textbook That-Guy GM who should’ve been kicked from the friend group first session for having all the female characters get raped.
@@Dreigonix Even worse, the party who went In that dungeon were the Player Characters. The complete tonal shift after the solo missions between Goblin Slayer and Elf Cleric happened because her player probably convinced the DM to take things a bit easier. Part of me believes the second party of the Elf Archer, Dwarf Shaman and Lizaedfolk Priest are the second characters of the party who got TPK'ed.
In fiction or established relationships that line is sweet but when random dudes just say that shit it sounds so funny, especially to me who's like "glad you wanna wake up to seeing me sitting up in bed staring at my phone because I ended up unable to sleep AGAIN. I hope you're ready to take care of my chores for the day because at some point I'll pass out on the couch and you won't wanna know how I react to being woken up."
Heyo, this Is OP from the story of about a month ago about the blatant elitist, Tamara. Here to inform of 2 updates: 1 - After encouragement of the Reddit replies, I officially reported her to the adms and, reluctantly, they gave her a warn. When confronted about it, she gave, I kid you not, the "it's taken out of context" and "I don't remember because it was a long time ago" excuse instrad of an apology. 2 - I've been kicked out of the server because the mods there were A-Holes that didn't quite took kindly to me being quite a nuisance to them, mostly because I gave them cute nicknames, like calling "Caleb" as "Kaykay" or "Trevor" as "Tre". Welp, not a huge loss, it was actually quite funny seeing how passionate the top ADM was on the personal ban note.
@@mrroboshadow Anything to avoid taking responsibility for your actions and owning up to your mistakes. And I wonder which context justifies calling someone a trashy DM, offend one's style of running a game as being a stupid player and creating stupid players and that "TTRPGs are meant to be fun" argument being the slurs of slow people and people on the spectrum.
Geez, that’s kinda crappy. Oh well. Glad you can make light of the situation! I prolly would have just shut down in your situation. I wish you a fantastic day/week/month/year/life!
8:13 My party completely shut down an encounter with a powerful arch fey by bamboozling her and dropping the folding boat. They used their surprise round to ride off on their horses while she screamed profanities at them with her feet sticking out like the witch from Oz🤣 My players at their best
Intro story: OP, if you’re reading this, leave that group. You deserve better than a DM who treats you like that. First story: How are there so many DMs who get upset because players strategize and use their abilities? That’s literally what they’re supposed to do! The DM gives the players challenges, and they figure out how to overcome them! I love seeing my players find creative solutions, and they love winning through clever strategy, not just brute force or sheer luck. This DM clearly doesn’t know how the game is supposed to work. Second story: 🤮. That’s all I have to say. 🤮. People like Germ suck. Third story: Just why… why are people like this…? The homophobia, refusal to roleplay in a supposedly roleplay-heavy game, and general acts of rudeness and bullying are definitely much worse than the fact that the DM can’t tell a human from a tiefling, but the whole thing just sucks. Good on OP for eventually getting out of there! Fourth story: Ugh, what a scumbag! This guy should be shown to everyone as an example of how NOT to treat people.
Some dms still see themselves as an adversarial force and not the lead storyteller in a role playing game. That’s why I’d like to separate the positions of game master and narrator. Should also help make more narrators if they don’t need to know the math or rules and can focus on storytelling. Whoever knows the game best should be the gm
I agree. I had a DM who hated me because I was with my ex at the time. And she sided with him on things regarding me. Plus at the time I didn't know it. But I am on the spectrum. Well karma bit her and gave her a son with the same neurological condition. And she as far as I know, hasn't had a stable relationship as long as I've known her.
To how the players strategize, whenever i finally run a actual campaign and not a one shot, ill have opponents such as leaders for the bbeg's group strategize against party, if enemy realises a flaw in the partys tactics, why not attempt to exploit it, also would show my bbeg and his army of skellies theyre just former military who are undead
Yknow, I've been watching all these videos, I think they've actually helped me realize what bad things I've done as a DM in the past and I have gotten better since that. In short, thank you, without videos like these I probably would've ended up as a horror story by now
After I turned into 'THAT GUY' for about 3-4 months in our weekend 3.5 D&D game and got yanked short by my Husband/GM... I actually started listening to a lot of Crispy, CritCrab, Den of the Drake, Bear Bard, and Dnd Doge. And I started hearing not only that bad behavior, but a lot of others that I'd been doing for YEARS as a player. These days, when I hit one of those moments, I cannot help but cringe and remember when I did 'THAT'. Cheers to having a weird competitive streak for games with more than one person, right? But seriously... treating D&D like it's a dating scene? I just cannot get over this. If you want to like on someone, do it AT LEAST post-session, if not after you've spent time getting to know them. Then you can learn if they're already involved, or just not interested. And if you get shot down... don't be offended. Don't make it weird, and don't make it seem like you're only there for the potential relationship. It's a disservice to whomever it is, masc, fem, or nonbinary. People who get hyperfixated on dating/sex forget that the basis of most good and long-lasting relationships is FRIENDSHIP. And friendship takes time, trust, and work to blossom on both end. Anyways... RANT OVER! GAME ON!
5:53 so honestly as a DM I can't help but think of so many good ways to spin this sudden disappearance, like maybe most of the horde wasn't really a horde but a powerful mage using magic to make you think there was really a horde and was also good at using that same magic to cover what few traces they did leave. Maybe some other entity has entered the picture and had enough power to wipe the horde out from existence, etc... They could really have made this pretty interesting.
if it were me in the goblin war story I would have had that talk with the DM right after getting that nat 20 for a 34 total to find nothing. There's no reason that high of a roll couldnt get at least a general location.
"34? Theres no trace of them" At that point the army had better have been magically transported to another plane or some shit, and I should be able to surmise something supernatural happened by the sheer lack of evidence.
As bad as that goblinless goblin war was, not the worst case of "DM/somebody goes out of way to spite player's build" The stalker story actually felt scary for how the DM knew nothing until after the session. I'd feel very guilty in their position and very glad they and others tried cleaning up the server. I actually looked up what CSA means, like a fool. After getting things about agriculture and confederacy, I found the definition matching the context.
Man, if someone in a game boiled my barbarian down to being gay, both he and i do the same thing. Give you a look of bewilderment before going “the fuck is wrong with you?” My barbarian is a man amongst men, who takes great pride in his masculinity. Think braum from league of legends, but without that glorious moustache. Just a well kept goatee. Moral of the story, my barbarian wont take your gay jokes.
@@mrroboshadow basically the whole idea for the character XD. He also has a step son…who was kidnapped by a religious order that also murdered his husband. You can tell what was going through my head when i made this character XD Still love him though.
@@realrealwarpet oh i imagine Its just the middle part seemind poorly worded to me Honestly never met anyone in the comments of these sorts of videos who was INTENTIONALLY mean spirited or offensive Sounds like a great character
@@mrroboshadow oh yeah, that was just me going off XD his whole deal is he wants to rescue his son and avenge his husband. Naturally, his son is not blood related to him, but when asked he’d respond with “he’s my son. Don’t matter that I didn’t make him, i raised him with his dad” because themes of family are also in this character.
I feel I should add, as someone who has in the past misjudged how close an interpersonal relationship is and made inappropriate jokes as a result, if the 'That Guy' is engaging in this sort of behaviour as a good faith mistake, IMO they would almost certainly want to know that they were over the line and would be grateful for being told, even if their embarrassment makes it hard to express that gratitude right away. Confronting the issue is the right thing to do, although people's natural defensiveness can make it a difficult thing to navigate.
If the dm from the 2nd story was new I can see them getting antsy about strong players. But its like the other one said, just add some class levels to them, or at the least beef em up a bit. Nobody would mind if that goblin they're fighting is a bit stronger then what normal goblins would be. Its never good to take away player abilities, I mean c'mon that rogue/wolf combo is preem stuff, let them revel in it. I may also regret this...but who is arcadum?
Arcadum was a twitch dm that got exposed for sexual harassment and manipulating many of his players, and I believe there was a sexual misconduct story in the mix as well. This is all an approximation as I don't remember the situation that clearly, but I think he still streams so it's important to know.
I *LOVE* adding class levels to npcs/critters, dropped the Paragon template with 6 class levels of fighter on a single goblin... boom, CR-20 Goblin... the fight was GOOD, they had to somehow knock the bastard prone and go for the coup de gras, made them earn the W
This really reminds me of my little brother spending all his gold on a vorpal sword and the DM had every single enemy from that point on have at least 5 collars that negated decapitations. They also melted into useless liquid aftet killing the opponent.
Damn, I remember Arcadum, I was lookin up to him as a DM. I really liked how he was doing stuff, his sessions, people he played with. But then... well, everybody knows what happened. I was destroyed by the news, I was looking to somebody like him, I felt terrible.
Fun fact: The confederate states of america used cloud security architecture to push forward their community-supported agriculture, as part of their Community Safety Accountability initiative.
In the campaign I play, every. Single. Encounter. We lose a party member. We all tpk’d last session and the gm is surprised..oh and before the “play smarter” response, my dudes a single connected attack from an opponent did enough damage to outright kill us. We did not do similar damage.
@@patchmoulton5438 I'm not a victim of CSA, so I'm not the best source, but I imagine it's a lot easier to say and identify with others if you see "I'm a CSA survivor" than I was a victim of pedophilia." Besides, language evolves over time, so new terms or phrases come into existence all the time.
"You know, you could have just given the goblins class levels, right?" "I can *what*?" Bwahahahahahahaha DMs, listen, never be afraid of your players steamrolling your encounters. It will happen. Even if you design a mini boss your players can figure something out. So, let them have fun dismantling your little plans. That's part of the point, to have fun.
Never invalidate the party's abilities. Seriously, cannot be understated. I ran a campaign once where one of the major reoccurring antagonists was an undead worshiping cult. One of my players wrote their character to be an ex-member of this cult now turned undead hunter. He had tones of abilities for both protecting from and subduing the undead, even spells to take control of the undead and turn them against the cultists. Did drop the cult angle not only invalidating his abilities, but his entire character concept of swearing vengeance against that cult? No of course not, that would be petty. I leaned into it, making the cult even more prominent and giving him more opportunities to shine. The only ability of his I ever did anything about was a spell where he could debuf any enemy that committed a crime, doubly so if the crime had been committed against him personally. The way I handled it, however, was to take him aside out of game and tell him I would no longer be accepting has dealt damage to him during the current encounter to count as a "crime", because I felt it went against the intended use of the spell and made it pretty much impossible to have any monster ever attack him without him being able to turn around and basically delete it from the encounter even if it passed its save. I did, however, after that provide an adventure where he got to confront not just more cultists, but the specific cultist responsible for betraying him, and I absolutely allowed that to count a crime he could invoke the full power of his spell with.
One way to Handle Traveling if you and your group doesn't want to have a Travel session if to have the players role a survival check for every day they travel. If they roll a Nat 20 take an extra day off their travels, if they roll a nat 1 add a day, for specific encounters or if rations are low, pause the travel sequence and allow rp and or battle commence. This is something my group does and it helps alot
@@therealfrosti42 CSA as in the abuse or assault of children. He would say things about his dad touching him as a joke. They weren't remotely funny, never got any laughs, but he persisted for years.
In a lot of these stories the toxic person continues because people allow him to, worse it's often the DM who tolerates this bullshait. Not taking care of that early on just enables the douche, they will never change their behavior if they never suffer any repercussions over it.
Most of my Googling of CSA was giving me Community Supported Agriculture or Client Server Architecture. I wish I hadn't kept looking for the definition OP intended.
thethird story is nice that it ended positive, but. the OP was like "moral of the story dont be a creep" yes, germ was being a creep, but that really fucking sucks that the mods werent doing their job of watching the chat logs to see that this dude gets banned constantly, how did no one know that this poor person was being stalked and harrassed??? i suppose its not really anyones fault but the blame just felt really heavy when there were other factors that could have helped avoid the situation
I feel so bad for Crispy every time he has to research a f-ed up term on google. It's always like: "NO POOR BABY DON'T LOOK THAT UP- NOOOO" So when he was like "he asked for what?", I WAS BEGGING HIM NOT TO LOOK IT UP, NOOOO xD Best wish, my good rat. Awesome vid!!
"Don't just cancel out your players abilities." I had a dm add that the a big monster's radiant damage ignored resistances; I was an aasimar and the only character with resistance to radiant damage. There was no other reason for him to do this. I'm willing to bet that he did this because my character was able to 1v1 one of his overpowered homebrew NPCs that mainly did radiant damage while the rest of the party fought his other 2 overpowered homebrewed enemies in an earlier fight. There's a reason we don't play in that campaign anymore.
[I Google CSA] What's wrong with Community Supported Agriculture? Waaaait a min... [I narrow the search] Yeah; Controlled Substance Abuse can get pretty dark, but.... HOLD ON A... [I further narrow the search] ... [I pour myself another drink and cry softly]
DM promotes goblin centric campaign lonely ranger builds his character to take advantage of his abilities and suddenly the problems are all resolved and gone. What type of DM gets upset and bent out of shape when player gets a plus 2
I would have kept pushing that DM's anti-specialization metagaming skills. Keep taking things that would work great against his next favored category until there's nothing left!
because from experience I can tell you that it's just more common than it should be, especially when you're a female 'gamer' of any kind. Blocking everyone ever who made lewd comments or jokes towards you, would soon leave you without a community to play with or at least limit your choices so severely that it's often the choice of just putting up with it, rolling your eyes and ignore the guys and keep playing or... losing your hobby.
I became the DM for my group after our last DM was a railroading, not reading backstory, memeing creep. He's also the reason I quit my job because he was also my supervisor, where he also sucked, lol. Don't play dnd with your boss. Do play dnd with your poly partners, roommates and his bestfriend 💗
Don't do anything with people at work, ever, and supervisors are forbidden to the max. The absolute last thing you want mixed up in your work environment is your personal life, especially if your boss is involved. You never know what they could use as ammunition against you to make your life Hell. Edit: Or they'll attach to you like a parasite and drain you of money and sanity. Take it from someone who used to be like this.
@@MrCrunchytime Yeah, learned that the hard way. He was just a coworker when we started then became supervisor. But he was a great lesson in what NOT to do as a DM or boss/coworker. So he was a good lesson.
@MrCrunchytime Oh yeah. I still have flashbacks to one particularly nightmarish summer job. My coworkers made my life a living hell and then some. Let’s just say I learned a few lessons about work environments the hard way.
Intro - My original group regularly made 'jokes' about female players getting sexual with the DM for in-game boons. I'm fairly sure this was only "taken advantage of" with one person, who proceeded to do literally nothing with what was potentially the strongest character in the group both in combat AND healing. 7:40 - ...FFS, if you as a DM are unwilling to do enough reading to find out that you can add to/edit the stock creatures listed in the books, than you shouldn't be a DM. Even without doing the reading, you are the one running the game, there's nothing stopping you from adding to existing creatures or CREATING YOUR OWN FROM SCRATCH instead of throwing increasingly random shite at the party because you're DMing without even the level of common sense you would expect from your players.
DM from the goblin war campaign needs to understand one fundamental thing. build AROUND your players, not AWAY from them. Players will want to exercise their strengths, such as rangers favoured enemies and rogues sneak attacks. As I dm you want to give your players challenges to fight against, and there are 2 ways to go about it A) build AWAY from your players. Instead of playing to your players strengths, play to their weaknesses and put them up against monsters that they will have a harder time fighting. This is a terrible idea. Building encounters like this makes players feel useless and frustrated. What's the point of having a favoured enemy if you never fight that enemy? What's the point of having a dragonborn's red breath weapon if every enemy is immune/resistant to fire? Playing to your players weaknesses is frustrating and a cheap excuse for a difficult encounter. B) build AROUND your players. A real challenge as a DM is to build to your players strengths, but still make the combat encounter challenging and fun. Building away from your players is a frustrating challenge but playing around your players is a fun challenge. Your players will want to use their special abilities, and you need to let them! That's not to say encounters should be easy, it's to say that encounters should be challenging in a fun way. Let players use their special abilities to their great effect but still utilize strategy to make the encounter challenging.
So the second story is just an inexperienced DM panicking and trying to fix a problem that didn't exist on the fly? I mean, that is basically as benign as you can get when it comes to bad DMs. Also, that was way too good of a punchline to end it on. It may cause people to question the validaty of the story.
could you help me on that one?, I'm fench and search for CSA mostly give me the large amount of french significations for it and nothing that clear when I'm trying to filter to english.
"Germ" is pronounced as "Gurm???" Hmm... What about vih-rroose, bact-eh-riae, parraseetaes, and pat-hoghue-ens? I'm pronouncing THOSE correctly, right?
The goblin one is probably the most unusual one of these stories, but the one with the nudes creep is the worst. I mean come on man that is the quickest way to make people not want to play DnD online.
Im new to DND Im on my like second campaign and my DM is a good friend, but I found out that her boyfriend is in this game and is 3 to 4 lvls higher than everyone else and was given the sword of cast* I think that's what it's called at lv 7. I'm not sure how to bring it up to her as she is a friend and I don't really want to leave the campaign, but the fairness isn't there so i'm not sure what to do.. Listening to these videos though are amazing. Note the boyfriend is PLD that is lvl 11 and the other players are 7/8 respectively
I’m aware of what was happening in the goblin-war-sans-goblins story, but I keep imagining that the party keeps getting really good at fighting certain kinds of enemies and just wiping them to extinction.
“Where have all the goblins gone?” asks the warrior, the silver of his sword obscured by viscera.
I've always wanted to run a game where orcs are brought to near-extinction, only for an anthropologist to realize they are a very important part of the ecosystem in some very esoteric, magical way.
@@ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos oooooo i like tht idea!
There’s a saying among DMs. If your monk has deflect arrows, you have to shoot some arrows at the monk. Just because someone can screw over your monster don’t stop them from doing it. They’ve been looking forward to that screw over since getting it
Shoot your monks
Its like on tiktoc people said tanks were obsolete... Because anti tank missiles and other things exist to take them down, just because something can be destroyed dosent mean its obsolete in military setting, why have fighter jets when opponent has AA missles?
Yeah. When a character has an ability and the the story gets written around that ability, then that would make it feel pretty much like a waste.
@@lexa2310 Spent seven merit points for silver tolerance, ST never uses silver.... WtA not D&D but still
@@skree272 the tanks are being designed to anti anti tank missile its a back and forth battle yes stuff gets left behind like metal armor but theres still daggers and knives around which have existed forever
[insert Megamind meme] No goblins?
I fucking choked
No undead?
No Oozes?
Not even a spare Mind Goblin either
No beasts?
'But the horde is to the south of you'
1. They demonstrably are not. 2. If they were, that would mean their capital was as vulnerable as it was ever going to get.
Straight Up Stalker - really pleased with the lengths the server admins went to to make it a safe space. I certainly wouldn't complain if someone said, "hey, before you join, you've got to do an audio interview to prove you're who you claim to be."
"We are going to do a Goblin War campaign so there is going to be a lot of goblin killing."
Goblin Slayer: *visibly shaking with excitement*
That got me good, take my like 😂
Kind of an unrelated note: Since it's established that Goblin Slayer takes place In a TTRPG game I'm 120% convinced that the Slayer Is either a DMPC or a DM's favorite player's character.
@@mqfii8992 WAIT HOW DID I NOT REALIZE IT TOOK PLACE IN A TTRPG IT LITERALLY MENTIONS GODS ROLLING DICE TO DECIDE FATE
@@mqfii8992 If it is, it’s a campaign with a textbook That-Guy GM who should’ve been kicked from the friend group first session for having all the female characters get raped.
@@Dreigonix Even worse, the party who went In that dungeon were the Player Characters.
The complete tonal shift after the solo missions between Goblin Slayer and Elf Cleric happened because her player probably convinced the DM to take things a bit easier.
Part of me believes the second party of the Elf Archer, Dwarf Shaman and Lizaedfolk Priest are the second characters of the party who got TPK'ed.
Dudes being completely disrespectful and petty after rejection must really reassure the person of the rejection
"You're NOT Gay. You haven't met the RIGHT GUY."
"I'm in a Relationship. You knew that."
"AAAAARGH."
Clearly she met the right girl. Hopefully.
To his credit, 50% would be a pretty good hit-rate in baseball /s
I'm just waiting for the day I hear a story where the "right guy" line gets used and the girl simply responds "And I still haven't".
@@sxatcychan1988 As funny as that sounds, it'd still imply "the right guy" would convert a lesbian.
@@sxatcychan1988 And now I wanna say those guys should meet the right guy who'll make them give up women.
Player: Wow, I can't wait to try out this skill against the goblins!
DM: [Screaming internally]
"I want to wake up next to you"
This is when I just say "Your desires are irrelevant"
I snore.
I have gas.
I'm with someone else.
You would be miserable.
In fiction or established relationships that line is sweet but when random dudes just say that shit it sounds so funny, especially to me who's like "glad you wanna wake up to seeing me sitting up in bed staring at my phone because I ended up unable to sleep AGAIN. I hope you're ready to take care of my chores for the day because at some point I'll pass out on the couch and you won't wanna know how I react to being woken up."
8:01 basically, “I was afraid of you guys killing the campaign so I killed the campaign “
"What's arcadum?"
**Typing noises**
"AH GAHD!-"
Heyo, this Is OP from the story of about a month ago about the blatant elitist, Tamara.
Here to inform of 2 updates:
1 - After encouragement of the Reddit replies, I officially reported her to the adms and, reluctantly, they gave her a warn. When confronted about it, she gave, I kid you not, the "it's taken out of context" and "I don't remember because it was a long time ago" excuse instrad of an apology.
2 - I've been kicked out of the server because the mods there were A-Holes that didn't quite took kindly to me being quite a nuisance to them, mostly because I gave them cute nicknames, like calling "Caleb" as "Kaykay" or "Trevor" as "Tre". Welp, not a huge loss, it was actually quite funny seeing how passionate the top ADM was on the personal ban note.
NOTE: Caleb and Trevor are fake names, obviously.
lol how does she know its out of context if she doesnt remember it?
@@mrroboshadow Anything to avoid taking responsibility for your actions and owning up to your mistakes.
And I wonder which context justifies calling someone a trashy DM, offend one's style of running a game as being a stupid player and creating stupid players and that "TTRPGs are meant to be fun" argument being the slurs of slow people and people on the spectrum.
Geez, that’s kinda crappy. Oh well. Glad you can make light of the situation! I prolly would have just shut down in your situation.
I wish you a fantastic day/week/month/year/life!
@@mqfii8992 Wait, are you calling people names they don't like and insult autistic people?
Yeah I'd ban you too
8:13
My party completely shut down an encounter with a powerful arch fey by bamboozling her and dropping the folding boat. They used their surprise round to ride off on their horses while she screamed profanities at them with her feet sticking out like the witch from Oz🤣
My players at their best
Your players sound great and you sound like a wonderful DM.
Intro story: OP, if you’re reading this, leave that group. You deserve better than a DM who treats you like that.
First story: How are there so many DMs who get upset because players strategize and use their abilities? That’s literally what they’re supposed to do! The DM gives the players challenges, and they figure out how to overcome them! I love seeing my players find creative solutions, and they love winning through clever strategy, not just brute force or sheer luck. This DM clearly doesn’t know how the game is supposed to work.
Second story: 🤮. That’s all I have to say. 🤮. People like Germ suck.
Third story: Just why… why are people like this…? The homophobia, refusal to roleplay in a supposedly roleplay-heavy game, and general acts of rudeness and bullying are definitely much worse than the fact that the DM can’t tell a human from a tiefling, but the whole thing just sucks. Good on OP for eventually getting out of there!
Fourth story: Ugh, what a scumbag! This guy should be shown to everyone as an example of how NOT to treat people.
Some dms still see themselves as an adversarial force and not the lead storyteller in a role playing game. That’s why I’d like to separate the positions of game master and narrator.
Should also help make more narrators if they don’t need to know the math or rules and can focus on storytelling. Whoever knows the game best should be the gm
I agree. I had a DM who hated me because I was with my ex at the time. And she sided with him on things regarding me. Plus at the time I didn't know it. But I am on the spectrum. Well karma bit her and gave her a son with the same neurological condition. And she as far as I know, hasn't had a stable relationship as long as I've known her.
To how the players strategize, whenever i finally run a actual campaign and not a one shot, ill have opponents such as leaders for the bbeg's group strategize against party, if enemy realises a flaw in the partys tactics, why not attempt to exploit it, also would show my bbeg and his army of skellies theyre just former military who are undead
Poor Crispy, having to find out what CSA stands for by Googling it because of a RPG horror story.
Yknow, I've been watching all these videos, I think they've actually helped me realize what bad things I've done as a DM in the past and I have gotten better since that. In short, thank you, without videos like these I probably would've ended up as a horror story by now
So you stoped handing out overpowered weapons for nudes?
This my friends, is Character Development
After I turned into 'THAT GUY' for about 3-4 months in our weekend 3.5 D&D game and got yanked short by my Husband/GM... I actually started listening to a lot of Crispy, CritCrab, Den of the Drake, Bear Bard, and Dnd Doge. And I started hearing not only that bad behavior, but a lot of others that I'd been doing for YEARS as a player. These days, when I hit one of those moments, I cannot help but cringe and remember when I did 'THAT'.
Cheers to having a weird competitive streak for games with more than one person, right?
But seriously... treating D&D like it's a dating scene? I just cannot get over this. If you want to like on someone, do it AT LEAST post-session, if not after you've spent time getting to know them. Then you can learn if they're already involved, or just not interested. And if you get shot down... don't be offended. Don't make it weird, and don't make it seem like you're only there for the potential relationship. It's a disservice to whomever it is, masc, fem, or nonbinary. People who get hyperfixated on dating/sex forget that the basis of most good and long-lasting relationships is FRIENDSHIP. And friendship takes time, trust, and work to blossom on both end.
Anyways... RANT OVER! GAME ON!
I'm holding you personally accountable for the sheer panic I felt when I heard "Arcadum moment" and what followed. Great video.
5:53 so honestly as a DM I can't help but think of so many good ways to spin this sudden disappearance, like maybe most of the horde wasn't really a horde but a powerful mage using magic to make you think there was really a horde and was also good at using that same magic to cover what few traces they did leave. Maybe some other entity has entered the picture and had enough power to wipe the horde out from existence, etc... They could really have made this pretty interesting.
if it were me in the goblin war story I would have had that talk with the DM right after getting that nat 20 for a 34 total to find nothing. There's no reason that high of a roll couldnt get at least a general location.
"34? Theres no trace of them"
At that point the army had better have been magically transported to another plane or some shit, and I should be able to surmise something supernatural happened by the sheer lack of evidence.
Story 3: Everything else in the story, it bothers me that Crispy pronounces Germ as "Gurm" instead of "Jerrm"
I liked it because Gurm sounds funnier and doesn't spoil the twist.
I feel bad for the 3e GM that didn't know how easy it was to add class levels to NPCs.
I’m going to use that showman bard! He sounds so sweet and honestly as an ace myself it’s perfect for me!!!!
Remember: always call out toxic behavior. It's always morally correct.
I'm. I uh. Crispy. Did. Did Crispy just not recognize the word "germ" or is this some sort of regional dialect I'm not aware of--
Oh thank god, someone else bothered by this, I thought I was going crazy.
I liked it with the nonsensical "gurm" pronunciation. Hid the twist well.
Making jokes about csa is an automatic red flag for me and I either leave then and there or throw hands.
Yeah. The moment I heard that I was like: oh no.
What is CSA?
@therealfrosti42 Child s*xual ab*se. (Censored so UA-cam doesn’t remove this.)
As bad as that goblinless goblin war was, not the worst case of "DM/somebody goes out of way to spite player's build"
The stalker story actually felt scary for how the DM knew nothing until after the session. I'd feel very guilty in their position and very glad they and others tried cleaning up the server.
I actually looked up what CSA means, like a fool. After getting things about agriculture and confederacy, I found the definition matching the context.
The DM wasn't spiting their built he was spiting the players for being smart.
@@emberfist8347 Sane thing to me. So many stories with DMs trying to make players less effective out of spite.
Leave it to Crispy to actually make me laugh with an among us meme. Seriously that got me good
Same here. That legitimately caught me off guard.
Man, if someone in a game boiled my barbarian down to being gay, both he and i do the same thing. Give you a look of bewilderment before going “the fuck is wrong with you?”
My barbarian is a man amongst men, who takes great pride in his masculinity. Think braum from league of legends, but without that glorious moustache. Just a well kept goatee.
Moral of the story, my barbarian wont take your gay jokes.
yeah....obligatory "being gay doesnt make someone any less masculine"
just maybe word it a bit better i guess
@@mrroboshadow basically the whole idea for the character XD. He also has a step son…who was kidnapped by a religious order that also murdered his husband. You can tell what was going through my head when i made this character XD Still love him though.
@@realrealwarpet oh i imagine
Its just the middle part seemind poorly worded to me
Honestly never met anyone in the comments of these sorts of videos who was INTENTIONALLY mean spirited or offensive
Sounds like a great character
@@mrroboshadow oh yeah, that was just me going off XD his whole deal is he wants to rescue his son and avenge his husband. Naturally, his son is not blood related to him, but when asked he’d respond with “he’s my son. Don’t matter that I didn’t make him, i raised him with his dad” because themes of family are also in this character.
I hope you barbarian can dash to teammate and shout
STAND BEHIND BRAUM
I feel I should add, as someone who has in the past misjudged how close an interpersonal relationship is and made inappropriate jokes as a result, if the 'That Guy' is engaging in this sort of behaviour as a good faith mistake, IMO they would almost certainly want to know that they were over the line and would be grateful for being told, even if their embarrassment makes it hard to express that gratitude right away. Confronting the issue is the right thing to do, although people's natural defensiveness can make it a difficult thing to navigate.
Tip to guys, if you're going to confess your feelings to a girl, do it in neutral ground. Not your place. Especially if she's never been there before.
If the dm from the 2nd story was new I can see them getting antsy about strong players. But its like the other one said, just add some class levels to them, or at the least beef em up a bit. Nobody would mind if that goblin they're fighting is a bit stronger then what normal goblins would be. Its never good to take away player abilities, I mean c'mon that rogue/wolf combo is preem stuff, let them revel in it.
I may also regret this...but who is arcadum?
Arcadum was a twitch dm that got exposed for sexual harassment and manipulating many of his players, and I believe there was a sexual misconduct story in the mix as well. This is all an approximation as I don't remember the situation that clearly, but I think he still streams so it's important to know.
@@GeuseWRLD Oh...oh damn...well that is one streamer I will never follow. Thanks for that knowledge, I'll warn some others I know about him too.
I *LOVE* adding class levels to npcs/critters, dropped the Paragon template with 6 class levels of fighter on a single goblin... boom, CR-20 Goblin... the fight was GOOD, they had to somehow knock the bastard prone and go for the coup de gras, made them earn the W
This really reminds me of my little brother spending all his gold on a vorpal sword and the DM had every single enemy from that point on have at least 5 collars that negated decapitations. They also melted into useless liquid aftet killing the opponent.
Damn, I remember Arcadum, I was lookin up to him as a DM. I really liked how he was doing stuff, his sessions, people he played with. But then... well, everybody knows what happened. I was destroyed by the news, I was looking to somebody like him, I felt terrible.
Fun fact: The confederate states of america used cloud security architecture to push forward their community-supported agriculture, as part of their Community Safety Accountability initiative.
Lol the guy nuking his d&d game for nudes makes me rofl every time I see it, and I even read it but it still makes me die inside.
In the campaign I play, every. Single. Encounter. We lose a party member. We all tpk’d last session and the gm is surprised..oh and before the “play smarter” response, my dudes a single connected attack from an opponent did enough damage to outright kill us. We did not do similar damage.
Crispy: Huh...what's 'CSA?'
Me: NO, DON-
Crispy: OH GOD!
Me: I'm so sorry >_
What is Csa? Only thing I get with search is Canadian Space Agency.
I got community-supported agriculture and confederate states of America.
Then I found out the story and Crispy meant child sexual assault.
Why do people keep making up terms for "pedophillia"? First MAPs and now CSA.
@@patchmoulton5438 I'm not a victim of CSA, so I'm not the best source, but I imagine it's a lot easier to say and identify with others if you see "I'm a CSA survivor" than I was a victim of pedophilia."
Besides, language evolves over time, so new terms or phrases come into existence all the time.
@@mistahl5350 Kinda hard to identify with someone when they dont know what you are saying in the first place.
"You know, you could have just given the goblins class levels, right?"
"I can *what*?"
Bwahahahahahahaha
DMs, listen, never be afraid of your players steamrolling your encounters. It will happen. Even if you design a mini boss your players can figure something out. So, let them have fun dismantling your little plans. That's part of the point, to have fun.
A portable hole in the bag of holding? "I've got a hole in me pocket."
Never invalidate the party's abilities. Seriously, cannot be understated.
I ran a campaign once where one of the major reoccurring antagonists was an undead worshiping cult. One of my players wrote their character to be an ex-member of this cult now turned undead hunter. He had tones of abilities for both protecting from and subduing the undead, even spells to take control of the undead and turn them against the cultists. Did drop the cult angle not only invalidating his abilities, but his entire character concept of swearing vengeance against that cult? No of course not, that would be petty. I leaned into it, making the cult even more prominent and giving him more opportunities to shine.
The only ability of his I ever did anything about was a spell where he could debuf any enemy that committed a crime, doubly so if the crime had been committed against him personally. The way I handled it, however, was to take him aside out of game and tell him I would no longer be accepting has dealt damage to him during the current encounter to count as a "crime", because I felt it went against the intended use of the spell and made it pretty much impossible to have any monster ever attack him without him being able to turn around and basically delete it from the encounter even if it passed its save.
I did, however, after that provide an adventure where he got to confront not just more cultists, but the specific cultist responsible for betraying him, and I absolutely allowed that to count a crime he could invoke the full power of his spell with.
Discovered this channel today, but already love it
One way to Handle Traveling if you and your group doesn't want to have a Travel session if to have the players role a survival check for every day they travel. If they roll a Nat 20 take an extra day off their travels, if they roll a nat 1 add a day, for specific encounters or if rations are low, pause the travel sequence and allow rp and or battle commence. This is something my group does and it helps alot
oh god nothing tilts me more than remembering Arcadum is still around...
Love when people say "content warning" and then don't say what content the warning is for. Like ok, thanks
OP of that post here, the original *does* have a content warning for mild homophobia. For whatever reason it was cut out!
@@Kilaicious My bad, then! Appreciate the warning! (Also, sorry you had to deal with that. Hope you're well!)
Love listening to these while working.
It's probably a good thing that I haven't the faintest idea who Arcadum is.
This is a good channel to learn what not to do
That's what I use these tabletop horror story channels for.
Crispy - "Wait, what's CSA?" *Goes to Google*
Stewie - "No, wait, DON'T!"
What is it? I googled but found nothing.
@@therealfrosti42 Honestly, I don't know either. But I've a feeling I don't want to know. My comment is more just a bit of a joke.
@@therealfrosti42 CSA as in the abuse or assault of children. He would say things about his dad touching him as a joke. They weren't remotely funny, never got any laughs, but he persisted for years.
I was like what the hell is CSA? Looked up: Community Supported Agriculture. Ok, what's the joke? And then I looked into other meanings...
In a lot of these stories the toxic person continues because people allow him to, worse it's often the DM who tolerates this bullshait. Not taking care of that early on just enables the douche, they will never change their behavior if they never suffer any repercussions over it.
Most of my Googling of CSA was giving me Community Supported Agriculture or Client Server Architecture. I wish I hadn't kept looking for the definition OP intended.
First Story: It isn't a problem for players to play smart. That should be rewarded.
That or the DM should be smarter than they were.
thethird story is nice that it ended positive, but. the OP was like "moral of the story dont be a creep" yes, germ was being a creep, but that really fucking sucks that the mods werent doing their job of watching the chat logs to see that this dude gets banned constantly, how did no one know that this poor person was being stalked and harrassed??? i suppose its not really anyones fault but the blame just felt really heavy when there were other factors that could have helped avoid the situation
I feel so bad for Crispy every time he has to research a f-ed up term on google. It's always like: "NO POOR BABY DON'T LOOK THAT UP- NOOOO"
So when he was like "he asked for what?", I WAS BEGGING HIM NOT TO LOOK IT UP, NOOOO xD
Best wish, my good rat. Awesome vid!!
"Don't just cancel out your players abilities." I had a dm add that the a big monster's radiant damage ignored resistances; I was an aasimar and the only character with resistance to radiant damage. There was no other reason for him to do this. I'm willing to bet that he did this because my character was able to 1v1 one of his overpowered homebrew NPCs that mainly did radiant damage while the rest of the party fought his other 2 overpowered homebrewed enemies in an earlier fight. There's a reason we don't play in that campaign anymore.
I had never heard of Arcadum prior to this, just went down that rabbit hole.
"What is CSA?"
- Crispy seconds before disaster
Ayeeee we first? Uhm.. uhm.. BALONEY
Bologna
@@realrealwarpet im so balonely
@@talkingwithadam812 banana phone
“what’s csa-OH GOD!”
me: *unexpectedly laughs in trauma*
[I Google CSA]
What's wrong with Community Supported Agriculture? Waaaait a min...
[I narrow the search]
Yeah; Controlled Substance Abuse can get pretty dark, but.... HOLD ON A...
[I further narrow the search]
...
[I pour myself another drink and cry softly]
Hey DM, just add class levels to the freaking Goblins! 3.5 doesn't even make it that hard.
"BuT yOu'Re GaY!": I know it wasn't the point, but I couldn't help thinking, "EMOOOOOOOTIONAL DAAMAGE!?!?"
Thassa lotta damage
"what's CSA?"
*keyboard sounds
"OH GOSH"
XD
Thing about the Arcadum stuff is that he still has campaigns going with a decent number of players even
He's dming again?! Last I heard he was taking a sabbatical.
@@GeuseWRLD maybe he did, but now he's uploading sessions as early as last week
I'm confused. What's the deal with Arcadum?
DM promotes goblin centric campaign lonely ranger builds his character to take advantage of his abilities and suddenly the problems are all resolved and gone. What type of DM gets upset and bent out of shape when player gets a plus 2
I would have kept pushing that DM's anti-specialization metagaming skills. Keep taking things that would work great against his next favored category until there's nothing left!
Damn, the 3d story sounds EXACTLY like one of my friend's experience o:
You're asking for what?!
Like no, seriously. Why have someone like that in your life who casually ask for Bob pics.
Validation. Alwasys validation.
because from experience I can tell you that it's just more common than it should be, especially when you're a female 'gamer' of any kind. Blocking everyone ever who made lewd comments or jokes towards you, would soon leave you without a community to play with or at least limit your choices so severely that it's often the choice of just putting up with it, rolling your eyes and ignore the guys and keep playing or... losing your hobby.
I became the DM for my group after our last DM was a railroading, not reading backstory, memeing creep. He's also the reason I quit my job because he was also my supervisor, where he also sucked, lol. Don't play dnd with your boss. Do play dnd with your poly partners, roommates and his bestfriend 💗
Don't do anything with people at work, ever, and supervisors are forbidden to the max. The absolute last thing you want mixed up in your work environment is your personal life, especially if your boss is involved. You never know what they could use as ammunition against you to make your life Hell.
Edit: Or they'll attach to you like a parasite and drain you of money and sanity. Take it from someone who used to be like this.
@@MrCrunchytime Yeah, learned that the hard way. He was just a coworker when we started then became supervisor. But he was a great lesson in what NOT to do as a DM or boss/coworker. So he was a good lesson.
@MrCrunchytime Oh yeah. I still have flashbacks to one particularly nightmarish summer job. My coworkers made my life a living hell and then some. Let’s just say I learned a few lessons about work environments the hard way.
fuck sake that Arcadum callback hit me like a stunning strike
Problem person "(Insert akward incident) is gonna me the game weird."
Everyone: "Well that was a fucking lie."
¡Gracias!
Now I'm scared to find out what CSA is 😰
Intro - My original group regularly made 'jokes' about female players getting sexual with the DM for in-game boons. I'm fairly sure this was only "taken advantage of" with one person, who proceeded to do literally nothing with what was potentially the strongest character in the group both in combat AND healing.
7:40 - ...FFS, if you as a DM are unwilling to do enough reading to find out that you can add to/edit the stock creatures listed in the books, than you shouldn't be a DM. Even without doing the reading, you are the one running the game, there's nothing stopping you from adding to existing creatures or CREATING YOUR OWN FROM SCRATCH instead of throwing increasingly random shite at the party because you're DMing without even the level of common sense you would expect from your players.
The amazing, fantastic, glorious Goblin War that wasn’t.
DM from the goblin war campaign needs to understand one fundamental thing. build AROUND your players, not AWAY from them.
Players will want to exercise their strengths, such as rangers favoured enemies and rogues sneak attacks.
As I dm you want to give your players challenges to fight against, and there are 2 ways to go about it
A) build AWAY from your players. Instead of playing to your players strengths, play to their weaknesses and put them up against monsters that they will have a harder time fighting.
This is a terrible idea. Building encounters like this makes players feel useless and frustrated. What's the point of having a favoured enemy if you never fight that enemy? What's the point of having a dragonborn's red breath weapon if every enemy is immune/resistant to fire?
Playing to your players weaknesses is frustrating and a cheap excuse for a difficult encounter.
B) build AROUND your players. A real challenge as a DM is to build to your players strengths, but still make the combat encounter challenging and fun. Building away from your players is a frustrating challenge but playing around your players is a fun challenge. Your players will want to use their special abilities, and you need to let them!
That's not to say encounters should be easy, it's to say that encounters should be challenging in a fun way. Let players use their special abilities to their great effect but still utilize strategy to make the encounter challenging.
This hoard of cringe would have made the Den of the Drake proud. No wonder the aliens always want to exterminate humanity.
And the victims too.
You're asking for WHAT?!
Yo, when I released what happened in that creep stalker story it felt like someone walking over my grave.💀
Emotional Damage!!!
*has a very similar reaction to the csa bit as crispy one googling later* He's joking about farming?
YIPEE
Your asking for what? For the Algorithm! But seriously Peters.... yikes
LMAO ARCADUM 🤣🤣🤣🤣
You're asking for what?!
you chose "gurm" as the pronunciation in story 3 but I think "jerm", also the spelling, might have been more appropriate lol
just my opinion
... So do I even dare ask what the "Arcadum" incident is?
So the second story is just an inexperienced DM panicking and trying to fix a problem that didn't exist on the fly? I mean, that is basically as benign as you can get when it comes to bad DMs. Also, that was way too good of a punchline to end it on. It may cause people to question the validaty of the story.
Ok sadly. I giggled at your reaction to CSA Google search.
could you help me on that one?, I'm fench and search for CSA mostly give me the large amount of french significations for it and nothing that clear when I'm trying to filter to english.
ok, I saw the answer down in the comment, never mind but for G sake...
I assume he wasn't talking about Community Supported Agriculture.
"Germ" is pronounced as "Gurm???"
Hmm... What about vih-rroose, bact-eh-riae, parraseetaes, and pat-hoghue-ens? I'm pronouncing THOSE correctly, right?
What is CSA?
Law and Order SVU. That should give an idea.
The goblin one is probably the most unusual one of these stories, but the one with the nudes creep is the worst. I mean come on man that is the quickest way to make people not want to play DnD online.
Goblin story seemed common, though seemed less inherently spiteful with the DM possibly learning something.
11:50 Is there such a thing as *good* fanfic...?
Im new to DND Im on my like second campaign and my DM is a good friend, but I found out that her boyfriend is in this game and is 3 to 4 lvls higher than everyone else and was given the sword of cast* I think that's what it's called at lv 7. I'm not sure how to bring it up to her as she is a friend and I don't really want to leave the campaign, but the fairness isn't there so i'm not sure what to do.. Listening to these videos though are amazing. Note the boyfriend is PLD that is lvl 11 and the other players are 7/8 respectively
Everyone started lvl 2/3 only 1 lvl apart at most
Yer askin' for *_HWAT?!?_*
Action economy is a thing