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Just tell people to learn jujitsu
what happens if I don't?
@@urielseptim910 crab police make you disappear
Time to play DND with CritCrab and roll to make him into a tasty crab soup/stew...
Sorry Critcrab, Overly Sarcastic got me on WA first
"The Fighter just can't have anything, not a bow, not a sword, not even a girlfriend."
That Ranger dumped all his points in shit-talking.
Ranger used Vicious Mockery
@@theblackantonio And that disadvantage on attack rolls was cancelled out by the fighter going aggressive, clearly.
@@nathanrailsback9667 reckless attack, did the fighter multiclass?
@@theblackantonio fighter counters with pencil shank
The ranger must have multiclassed into a bard or something
As a wise wiggler headed man once said
"ROLE-PLAYING?!! IN MY ROLE-PLAYING GAME?!! THEY SHOULD HAVE PUT A WARNING IN HERE SOMEWHERE!!" *zooms in to the cover of the PHB where it says role-playing game*
all hail the wiggler headed man
All hail the sword and shield.
Roleplaying?! EW
(all hail the fireball wiggler man)
Whats this from?
@@Blood-Lord JoCat's "crap guide to D&D"
The fact that that couple stayed mad even after the Session tells me that they're not the kind of People that are worth being friends with
It seems like they already had issues with OP and X and used the moment as an excuse to break ties.
I feel bad for OP in the first story. Not only would they have benefited from a session zero, the couple could have acted like adults and simply state their grievances to try and correct the problem.
They know is their fault, lack of imagination to actually RP in a RolePlay Game, so they stay silent and go the childish way.
@@EliosMoonElios it's just weird because they're perfectly capable of roleplay since they play Masquerade.
@Sara García a session 0 would have opened up the discussion on what players can expect in the game. The couple likely would have left regardless but yeah. Probably would save the time wasted on what they played.
It sounds like the couple wanted to play Hackmaster instead of D&D
As the OP of the first story, I appreciate the sympathy. I wouldn't have minded a hack-and-slash-only game at all if I would have just... known...
I guess since Couple did everything together they also shared their one braincell.
That poor DM in story 2 was like Brody in Jaws, he tried to warn the mayor but he didn't want to shut down the beaches.
Or the lead officer in The Crazies.
Officer: Hey, I have evidence that something's up with our water...could you shut it down, so we can investigate?
Mayor: This is a farm town. Gtfo, that'll cause a riot. Idgaf what happens, water stays on.
"You're gonna need a bigger abode." - The DM to the Store Manager
Poster: "I've been playing since 3rd edition was the standard."
Me: Oh, that's not too long.
Poster: "Roughly 20 years"
Me: *rapid aging.gif*
Oh, I feel this. XD
*sigh* Advanced D&D for me. 35 years.
GET OFF MY LAWN, YOU DANGED KIDS!
@@rylian21 I was about to make that comment too. *feels so old*
I still run 3.5. Didn't have people to pay with back when it was new and I got the books so now I finally get to run it regularly and I don't want to jump to 5e.
*snickers* Basic and 1e before 2e was brought to the table. :)
"they play DnD like VtM"
Me: they wear lots of goth clothing and drink red wine while playing?
look at me crawling through the woods in full lestat cosplay...acctually it sounds fun
WHQT IS A MAN, BUT A MISRABLE PILE OF SECRETS
That line threw me off, especially when they go on to explain that VtM is for deep roleplay but D&D isnt? You dont play them anything like each other.
I mean, I didn't before, but I sure as Hell will now.
The classic edgelord story of two childhood best friends from a small village eager to go out on an adventure.
Cliche VtM.
OP of the first story here-- I didn't realize I was listening to my own story until a couple paragraphs in, and then I yelled and scared my dog. So very glad that my weird RP experience made the cut!! (and sorry if my wording was confusing in my post, Couple announced that they wanted to play D&D, but they got Pirate to be the DM for it. Maybe it would have made more sense if they were the ones actually running the game and had that much of a problem with it... but they were technically only players, which is even weirder to me.)
I was a bit confused as to who the DM was at first, thinking it was someone random until you clearly stated that it was Pirate running it. All good, didn't make the point of the story or the overall flow of it any more confusing. Also, hope that your relationship to "Ex" was solved better than Couple's ability to voice their grievances over a game, cause yikes. Even without a session zero, if they were that upset and you'd been on pretty good terms before hand, I'd have thought they would at least have spoken up during play or something. It almost sounded as if they had issues with you and "Ex" before hand, and that was just the excuse they were using to not be as friendly to you guys.
I've found that players who roleplay tend to enjoy themselves more often than "I kill the bartender" type players. And if you get two or three eager roleplayers, you're in business. But if you have one roleplayer and no one else wants to, that's probably not going to be a good time for the roleplayer (I speak from experience on the last one)
My current problem is that I was tied between my low charisma fighter and my bard Tulip, who isn't as charming as he thinks he is. I end up playing fighter, but his roleplay capacities aren't as obvious to me at Tulip's charming, weasly flattery
Me: “They’re narcissistic sociopaths, fighting over a girl, and stolen magic cards, and in game items, and still playing at the same table? And it turns to hospitalization? This story can’t be real.”
Critcrab: “Btw this story takes place in Florida.”
Me: “...ok nevermind.”
"In russia the players are the table pieces *dm pulls out gun* roll for iniciative"
Ok, am I the only one who thinks that the ranger didn't really do anything wrong? I mean sure, he probably should have just avoided the fighter instead of antagonizing him, but it sounds like he was well within his right to be pissed.
Motion to wipe Florida off the face of the Earth?
@@MasterZebulin they have florida man, the equivalent of a demigod. They have free available alligators. They are madmen and you want to fight them OwO
@@jackbelmont4389 "Takes out tank" Natural 20
No one:
Absolutely no one:
Every Barbarian PC: “I got an axe that axe’d better then my other axe!”
THE BEST KIND OF AXE
What more could one *AXE* for?
In my game, the Goliath barbarian was asking my blacksmith/retired soldier fighter to make him an axe that was better than his current axe
that couple needs to just play DnD Online.
Or, Neverwinter.
Or any of the other dozens of DnD games that involve "nothing but dungeon crawling".
Not in my online game. They'd hate it
@@samanthacousland870 Just to clarify, I'm not talking about Roll20 online games.
I'm talking about the video game by Turbine called "Dungeons and Dragons Online".
The reason I brought it up is that those games are designed to be more or less what the core of DnD is, running dungeons and min-maxing your character.
or just play Diablo 3, or Bards Tale, or any of the dozens of hack and slash dungeon crawlers out there no?
Descent: Journeys in the Dark is exactly what they were looking for. Spectacular game to boot.
Neverwinter has a huge RPer player base, so that's out.
In that first story it sounds like that couple just wanted to play a video game but couldn't afford a console
"...but otherwise Ex and I would get the cold shoulder from them."
And nothing of value was lost.
In the case of the Fighter/Ranger thing, I actually blame the shop owner abit. He was made aware (and I can't be sure that they didn't know to begin with) of the problem. Surely if you have a history with another person and they're not going to get along in the same place, don't let em be together
"I guess, don't go around stabbing people?" - CritCrab, 2021.
Yeah, or as a DM control the table, if players are causing issues kick them the fudge out before it escalates. Honestly, the store owner should take responsibility also.
@@vaguedreams To be fair, the DM went to the owner before the session started and suggested that they be in different groups, unfortunately the owner decided that if they did it for them, everybody else might want to change their groups and vetoed the suggestion.
This was all on the shop owner's fault for not listening to the DM - he realized there was some problems with the players before it even started.
@@TBaker-xu5is That is true, and that is why I said the owner is also responsible. The thing is that the DM let it build up over time and they were both actively derailing the campaign. That's why I am also blaming the DM.
Give them the opportunity, but when shit started getting real petty that's when it's time to take them aside and have a heart to heart. Hell bring the owner into it.
Well if it’s not definite...
Critcrab can't tell me what to do! (Holds up pencil).
A session zero would have really helped with communication, but the couple refused to communicate their dissatisfaction. It's really frustrating when people would rather just drop someone, than even attempt to resolve a problem.
Every RPG is for role playing; people who say one game is for RP or isn't are one of my pet peeves in the gaming community. The OP in that first story was doing it right.
I know right? I always think that if you don't want the RP you should just play a board game, then you'll just get the story and the combat.
RolePlay Game
Totally agree and also to the couple "if you don't like something, just fucking spit it out, instead of not telling anyone and becoming offended for no reason"... I am more than sure that op and ex would have replied "sure, let's do dungeon crawl if you want"
That second story was wild. Pencils as improvised weapons are scary as hell.
That’s the only improvised weapon with a d6 damage die
Can confirm, had to get one of my players to drop a pencil when they attempted to stab another player
John wick has entered the chat.
But seriously yes they can do damage if the wielder wants to
@@DarthAxolotl Or Jason Bourne. I'm pretty sure he used a pen once, at least
@@NathanHydra Lego pieces instead of caltrops would be another.
I blame the store owner in that last story. GM knew something hinky was a-brewing and tried to nip it in the bud by getting one of those players reassigned and the owner wouldn't let him.
Eh, it's still mostly on the players for being so aggressive.
It's the store owner's fault, 100%.
@ChipTuna Eh…including the DM is reaching too far and spreading the blame too thin. He was on point enough to sense the tension and inform the owner, even suggesting a solution. Expecting even more from him is unfair. 100% on the owner for not listening to wise words. Although, to be fair, I doubt anyone could have predicted a pencil-shanking to come of it…
With the benefit of hindsight I guess. I don’t think anyone thought it would get that extreme, so while the store owner isn’t blameless they’re definitely not in the full blame.
"Florida man stabs nemesis with a penicl for imaginary bow and stolen imaginary sword, after fantasy game"... This isn't even the weirdest thing I've heard about Florida and I'm from Europe xD
Florida Man gets around.
That Florida man shit is just an overplayed joke people started oh actually believe to real. I remember the same week some guy from Florida did something weird was the same week “California man sets dog on fire” happened. Guess which one people paid more attention to?
Penicl
Hey I live in Florida, and shit like that happens here quite a bit. It's the heat... and the drugs
Seems like the fighter went rogue.
I see what you did there and I don't like it......
I love it.
Regarding the last story: Can't help but look at the shop owner and say they were a factor in all of that. They were warned that the two people involved had issues and shouldn't be put together. Why would the shop owner deny the DM's request for them to be separated?
Because rules, or something. And if he makes an exception for GM, he has to do it for everyone. *eyeroll* Sure hope it was worth the cops getting called to his store and an assault happening there, but at least his rules were followed!
@@rainfeather2997 lawful evil owner
@@VoidplayLP I dunno, I think Lawful Stupid would be more appropriate in this instance
@@VoidplayLP Pretty much the definition of Lawful Neutral, "The law is the law and it bends for no one" types
Same thought, while the Rangers comments were uncalled for and Fighter shouldn't had resorted to violence over it, the whole case could've been prevented by a simple (silent) table change for these 2.
Ok, Obviously Fighter should NOT have stabbed the Ranger.
That being said, The Ranger talked Too much shit, and it was time to get hit
Honestly hard agree. That girlfriend comment crossed the barrier and with how supposedly aggresive the Fighter was the Ranger got what he asked for. It does not excuse the pencil in his shoulder of course.
I would argue the brawl was gonna happen not because of loot, but because of that girlfriend comment.
@Naukumaija Mau-mau wholeheartedly agree with you it was just bound to blow like a volcano with all of those things happen.
@Naukumaija Mau-mau Correction, he was _being_ an idiotic asshole. As far as we know, the worst he ever did was troll someone who had been spreading nasty rumours about him.
@@Pyranders At least someone here understands you need to have been there to make outrageous conclusions like that.
@@CaptainDCap But we can all agree that if you talk shit you have to be prepared to get some thrown at you, better be worth it.
@Captain D Cap Never! Making outrageous, baseless assumptions of the characters of strangers without the risk of repercussion is our God-given gift of the internet! You…self-righteous, grandstanding, One Piece-watching, dandy man of wisdom! Suck it!
So if I can make a tiny little confession here where surely no one will see it, w/r/t the first story... I struggled SO MUCH to do ANY roleplaying in VtM when I played it for a couple of years. I found the game unfathomable, for some reason, and often just sat in silence not knowing what to have my character say or do. D&D brought/brings me out of my shell roleplaying-wise. But it's also wild to me to think that anyone thinks that you can't/shouldn't roleplay in some tabletop RPGs but not others...
"Vampire the Masquerade is for role playing and elaborate characters..."
Ah yes, my apologies. I should have played Evanescence on full blast, wore heavy eyeliner, and explain in great detail as to why my character is an orphan, alone, edgy, and totally super cool while brooding in every dark corner.
ty raven for help & editing luv u grrl xxoo
🎶WAKE ME UP INSIDE🎶
Roll to regain consciousness.
VtM is.. too edgy. I've given up on the whole Role Playing aspect. It's just become a drag and difficult. It's no fun anymore because of complaints, fights and stupidity.
@@CozyCabinLife5301 I'm sorry to hear that. Has it completely killed role-playing in general or have you been able to enjoy DnD or Pathfinder or any other ttrpgs?
@@TriTomMaximum Unfortunately it has. I have friends who role play and have begged me to join. I only ask "Do you know any Karen's, Rule Lawyer's and That Guys.". They say yes and I tell them I am uninterested and never will be until people act like adults. When people act like adults at the role play table and shut their mouths about loot?? I will find the passion again.. Until then?? I take that passion to use on restoring old classic cars.
Ah yes, the Florida Man. The one who forgot their knife in an alligator's skull.
I guess I should create a Florida Man DnD build.
lol at that last punchline. The Florida men, indeed :D
I got a vision of two Florida Man neckbeards attacking each other. It wasn't a pretty sight.
@@philippschmitz1787 I don't think there's a douchebaggery skill.
Florida man is just built different
You have to give the DM credit for recognizing there would be an issue and try to prevent something from happening
Really hope he gave the owner a "told ya so" glance as the cops arrived.
Yeah a certain portion of the blame needs to go on the shop owner to be honest, that kind of stupid rigidity causes problems like... well exactly like this
It's surprising how the first story took place in college. Based on the couple's actions, it sounds like they were children.
college is a glorified children's playground anyway
As someone who works in a college, they are children
As I heard the latter story, about the Warrior spreading rumor about the Ranger, and the Ranger dating Warrior's ex, I thought that was all in-character banter... oh what a naive fool I was until the Magic the Gathering cards were brought into the picture.
Honestly, warrior kind of sounds like a psycho, and definitely deserved the job at him, even if it was an unwise thing to do for personal safety.
When I clicked, I wasn't expecting this to be a "Florida Man" meme in the end... Now that's a plot twist.
When Florida man starts playing D&D. Also nice Thumbnail for the video that’s really funny with the Michael Myers mask
Don't let these people make you believe all players in Florida are like this. As a Florida man myself, I've been playing D&D now for about 5 years and have been having an absolute fun time playing with my friends.
@@IMXLegedaryBard My apologies I didn’t mean to come off mean I was just going off of the Florida man meme
@@therealscorpion95 it's ok bro lol. I understand the reputation of florida man, and even I myself wasn't shocked that those two were from Florida lol.
As a Florida man of palm beach county i can tell you this is a pittance of a Florida man we are a proud chaotic people who love our gator rides to work
No, no, I am Florida Man in Jax and I could totally see this happening lmao
I wanna say I'm mad at the obvious problem players but I'm honestly more mad that the store owner didn't allow for a switch when the DM requested it and advised it to avoid trouble. An event for fun should be fun not a baby sitting session. If the group can already see the smoke there will be a fire its best to douse it out (In this case make an exception to the party swapping) before you have a raging inferno.
To be fair, hindsight is 20/20. I agree to an extent, but I imagine neither the DM nor the store owner thought physical violence would occur. I have games where players don't necessarily get along, but we still function as a group.
@@HipposaurusRex That's fair I guess but if it's an event open to the public. It would make sense to allow at the very least a redraw to avoid problems like this. Asking the two problem players if they'd like to switch tables or if there will be a problem would also help alleviate the situation.
People like couple obviously never read even the cover a dnd guide seeing that they have roleplaying game on the cover
Dm: "the loot goes to the ranger"
fighter: "i demand a trial by combat"
Why can I only imagine the DM and store owner conversation going something like
DM: "Dude, there's some bad blood here- can we move them around?"
Store Owner: "If I do it for you I'd have to do it for everyone, it'll be fine"
One ambulance and arrest later
*Owner sweating as the DM looks pointedly at them*
I have some advice for the last story, if you got two players who hate each other that much the shop owner should be doing whatever he can to keep them in separate groups. Also "Whoever loses the bow gets the sword" instead of setting up a situation where a person can lose both rolls
Someone else: who’s gonna be awake at 9:30pm just for critcrab to upload a video?
Me: oh boy 9:30pm!
The two would fight for anything, the store owners should have been wiser to the situation, or maybe they didn't really know/the DM didn't tell them
I believe the story said the DM asked the store owner to relocate the problematic players, but he refused.
@@Torchflare yes indeed, but it's not clear if there was lack of information or foresight
You should obviously not attack other people, and the fighter should obviously be charged for it.
12:36 "You cannot have anything, not even a girlfriend"... saying this to the guy whose ex you're dating... don't. This wasn't about loot, it was about a woman. When you're f*****g someone's ex, do not EVER taunt them about it. It obviously doesn't excuse assault, but it is likely to cause it, especially if the person getting taunted in unstable.
I repeat: It is obviously not okay that he attacked him, and he should go to court for it, but it is likely to happen when you taunt someone about whose ex you are f*****g, especially if they are unstable.
7:30 how dare you roleplay in a roleplaying game....... WTF? Maybe the couple should say something so the group can have a discussion about their crazy misconceptions about DnD?
Honestly he did it to himself for mentioning the ex. Not saying he should’ve gotten stabbed cuz of it but him mentioning the ex was the dumbest thing he could have said to him
Why imagine two guys in armor having a bagel bidding war when you can imagine the two sweaty neckbeards having a pretend bidding war over a bagel
I can’t imagine going into a roleplaying game and trying to make it into a typical boring computer game
Despite playing dnd for five years, I’ve never actually had a session zero. The idea was foreign to me until I started watching this channel.
It hurts my brain to think of these people ruin the RP part of RPG
Crab: "The fighter legitimately stabbed the ranger"
Me: "bro what?"
Crab: "it took place in Florida"
Me: "it checks out"
As someone who is just getting back into D&D after 15 years these stories are always so interesting to hear. But I gotta say the second one in this is unfortunately a common occurrence here in Florida and not just during D&D games, I've witnessed this happen a lot during Magic the Gathering and Yu-Gi-Oh games (even once during a Smash tournament held at a convention). Just another day in Florida!
"not stabbing people" seems to be pretty solid advice.
Everytime I start too crave a tabletop game I watch Critcrab, clears that right up. Another layer of dust coats my books. Good vid.
Oh man get your popcorn. This is gonna be great.
What're they gonna do? Slap eachother rapidly while staying a safe distance apart
Will Korn pops work? It's too early in the morning for popcorn right now.
You can always tell it is a quality session when the words "pencil-shanking" are used.
"The Fighter just can't have anything, not a bow, not a sword, not even a girlfriend"
I didn't realize you could use the Savage Attacker feat with Vicious Mockery
I have experienced something similar in the first story, in Final Fantasy 14. In me own experience, the one party that has a problem must talk it out with the other. It can wait til after that session but the problem must be communicated between both parties to save the game itself!
I hope the actual end of that story was the DM looking the owner in the eye and just being like, "I told you so."
I just thought of something...what if crabs had eyebrows
*perfection*
I could have sworn he did in earlier videos.
hearing that last story was in florida made me wonder if it was in my own local floridian game shop, which incidentally is where I was imagining the whole scene taking place as it went lmaooo
I once had to jump in to prevent two of my players from coming to blows. I had just started a new campaign, and I was running a scenario out of Dungeon Magazine for 2E AD&D, "A Night At The Inn." Basically a storm blows in and traps a bunch of travelers in an inn with a doppleganger, who is murdering his way through the guests. All throughout the session, I kept taking players aside and consulting with them privately. I very deliberately but subtly planted the idea that one of the players was working with me in all of their heads. Well, Daniel became convinced that Damian was the secret agent, which immediately convinced Damian (who knew he wasn't the turncoat) that Daniel was the turncoat and was trying to throw him under the bus to distract from himself. Things were getting really tense and everyone was super engaged in the game, with Daniel and Damian getting more and more agitated with each other as the night went on. Finally, after they had eliminate all other living suspects, it boiled over and they both stood up and start walking around the table with the clear intent of throwing fists. I had to jump between them and reveal the doppleganger was hiding in the form of one of the murdered victims to get them to calm down. One of the best games I've ever run.
Gonna show my age here for that second story...but...to quote YYH Kurama: "Nerd violence."
The fighter Vs ranger thing reminds me so much of Fandel Vs Sven for Camilla
Your videos have shown me that although DnD sounds fun it is anything but DnD just sounds like an absolute nightmare no one communicates and literally anything and everything is a problem
If that last one was purely in character and they were good sports about it, i can see the bidding wars and bitter rivalry being a funny highlight to a campaign, and that being a really fun character dynamic between two good friends irl. Emphasis on the good friends irl part.
I spat my drink laughing the moment you said and I quote: "..screaming with a pencil sticking out of his shoulder." I get that random fights can happen in game and out, but the pencil bit was even more random. It's humor comes in leu of the pencil's origins being explained after the initial observation.
As for the pencil, I believe he was trying to hurt both the kid and his ranger, since that pencil is Sacred to DND of all editions.
Ngl as someone who used to live in Florida, that Florida Man meme at the end had me cackling
I face palmed when the couple complained about the role-play
The 30% off sounded so jarring lol, "to get THIRTY percent off"
All jokes aside, I absolutely love your content and am super happy the algorithm showed me your videos!
Can’t wait to see “Florida man shanks friend over Dungeons and Dragons campaign” in the news headline
Loving this channel. It makes me aware of things I do in game and what habits I should stop
As someone from Iowa, what OP said about finding groups in the Midwest is true.
Man... with how Ranger got described I've had to deal with a player like that. Would be hard to not cheer on fighter.
But all seriousness good to hear OP is safe
The DM from the two nerds story has both my sympathy for dealing with these two and respect for trying to find a solution. I feel that they needed justify the swapping of players if its apparent that these two are fighting.
i love starting my mornings with a new d&d crab video
In the middle area of America, it’s still pretty difficult. I know three DMs, one of which only DMs when his homework takes less than an hour per week(so never), the other railroads, and the third is too busy to host me as a player, what with me being said DM.
Just woke up after falling asleep to vids from years ago from you, new upload hype
I understand the owner not wanting to mix-up players in the 2nd story, because the randomness is the fun. But if tensions were so high between those 2, I feel like there really should have been an exception just to prevent drama.
I always run a session 0 for any game I run... I use it to get the party to make their characters and set up the team filling the necessary roles. I also give them all my standard house rules and expectations for how I run games as well as getting their feedback on wyatt they enjoy.
Critcrab with session zeros is exactly like Dani with unity's particle system.
8:30 what do you mean this is a case of the players needing a session 0? They had a session 0, as a matter of fact that's all they had, exactly as described.
What they really needed was for the couple to say they didn't want any roleplaying in their TTRPG, just dungeon crawling and combat. If the others had known they just wanted to play it like a videogame it would have gone way better.
In the second story - OP says that the GM handled it well, but no the fuck he didn't, LMAO. Obviously, he was not the primary culprit, but he made a lot of mistakes, culminating in him having the players roll to see who gets what.
Like, dude, why? To what end? Don't try to solve out of game issues in game, people. It's never a good time.
Yea... at that point the DM should have just said "since you two are making this an out of game issue and I'm the DM I'm making an out of game ruling. Ranger gets the bow, fighter gets the sword. End of story."
Why the fuck did he let the ranger roll for the sword at all??? Rangers aren't even that good with swords, especially since that sword was for the fighter so it was probably a strength weapon. If one of them already got something then you shouldn't have let the other try for more.
@@Lycaon1765 Honestly i can't blame the DM for that one. If the fighter is allowed to roll for the bow the ranger should be allowed to roll for the sword. Just because he wanted to steal away the ranger's bow and failed doesn't mean he suddenly gets protection when it's the other way around.
The problem is that the two of them were allowed to roll for the weapon meant for the other player in the first place, when it was clear they were both only doing it to spite the other person.
"The Fighter just can't have anything, not a bow, not a sword, not even a girlfriend."
*Fighter jumping over the table*
Morgan Freeman: "It was at this moment ranger knew, he fucked up"
Florida Man was the final boss of a short, silly one-shot I ran for April Fools day.
The first one, CritCrab is right, do a session zero or at least a short convo on theme and expectations. The OP was right, their reaction was "shocking and bizarre". I give props to the DM in the second one, he handled and tried to head off the problem at the pass, but got shot down. At least the DM can now tell the Shop owner, "I told you so." :P Still, In character rivalries can be fun, IF.. the out of character players are legitimate friends.
in my case, I have Session -1, Session 0, Main Campaign.
Session -1 is usually to gauge interest in an idea as my gaming group is pretty much locked in
For that last story I feel like the DM should of Explained the situation to the shop keep more to seperate the problem players.
The potential for in-game conflict to create real world conflict is the reason why my group doesn't generally allow PvP. The only exception I can think of was when I was playing as a fairy with a -1 strength modifier. The damage of a punch is equal to your strength modifier +1. So, if it seemed like something my character would be inclined to do under those circumstances, my character was allowed to punch another player character for a guaranteed zero damage.
We only had one real issue that came about as a result of the way loot was distributed. One PC hid a weapon he found from a different PC. The person playing the second character got upset about it in real life. We had to put the game on hold for a bit to explain to him that nobody had anything against him IRL but some of the characters in the party just didn't trust his character because his character was literally evil. In the end, everything was resolved amicably.
Couple story: I guess at the very least they have been quite civil about it. They didn't like the way OP played, they quit the campaign and that was it basically.
Random group: Fighter being really invested in roleplaying his character
The 2nd story would have been funnier if they were just roleplaying their characters to be jerks to each other like that, but the ending was just sad, and shame on the shop owner / manager for letting those two in there at all with that crap going on. Props to the DM for trying to defuse it before it even started, sounds like at least he tried.
I personally like the phone sound at 8:54
I have a player that doesn't roleplay, so he just let's the group translate whatever he's doing into roleplay form. It doesn't ruin the game for him to have several people in the group that get really into their characters.
Ugh.. I'm looking forward to play my first dnd game with my cousin and a couple of other guys I've never met once covid is gone. The thing is I'm sitting here watching horror stories after horror stories while I let my anxiety ramp up. I'm hoping everyone turns out to be okay
As the OP of that first story... there is every possibility that your first game will suck, and that's okay. The first few real games I played were pretty awful, but that just gave me more to compare to (as well as opportunities to practice and get comfortable) for the really kickass games that came along later. I'm in some really baller games now, years after that story happened, and I know I wouldn't be as good of a player now if I hadn't gone through those less-than-stellar ones first.
I've been playing with a group for probably 4 years and each new campaign we have a session 0.
That was a rotten move! Says the ranger. The fighter shrugs. "It's what my player would do!"
You made me spit out my drink with that one. Bravo.
Hopefully that store in the second story allowed for player swaps after what had happened.
Or lost business.
8:53 Did I hear our beloved king crab recieving a notification on his royal phone? Are you being harassed by the overthrowing party of turtles? The plot thickens...
CritCrab, you did it again! Rockin' story for sure!
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Is it just me or did that Ranger and Fighter's character dynamic sound kind of cool? Other than the fact that they seem to have overdone it *before* it spilled over to the game of Outside they were also playing?
It doesn't sound like a fun dynamic for anyone else involved.
@@grasshopperjohnson184 I'd say that if they didn't mess with the DM's earmarked loot and sort of counted their back and forth against their spotlight allotment, it would be fun to watch.
Yes the first one probably needed a session zero but that group being apparently so connected they probably didn’t expect to need it
Not surprised the fighter had a higher CMB for his grapple check. I guess shit talking provokes attacks of opportunity.
I love your content, and the only sad thing is that I’ve already burned through your entire catalogue. Now I’m waiting for more stories like it’s a weekly tv show.
That Florida jab, so accurate