D&D Story: The Hero Of Parnast (Part 1)
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- Опубліковано 14 вер 2018
- Welcome back for another story from my Dungeons and Dragons game! The players took a job in a rural town of Parnast and were forced to take along a kid who does nothing but get into trouble and hinder them. Enjoy!
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Wallace: *gets captured*
Fairy: do you want to see this poor child hurt?
Everyone In the party: the law requires that I say no
In the kids perspective he probably already knows what the party is going to say and what's about to happen. XD
i personaly would have the fairy realize that the party was tormenting Wallace on purpose and fight the party for tormenting a child
How much HP must Wallace have in order to survive conscious?
Yes
@@NotASovietSpy1 Why? Are you expecting brownie points? Fuck you
Here's a story with the worst pun ever.
I was in a campaign of a friend of mine, we were all level 4. We had been told a strange man was walking around, we hunted him down. We encountered him, and he shouted "I am the Beholder!" I thought we were gonna die, because beholder, but then he took off his cloak, revealing tattoos of a homebrew goddess in this campaign: Marunia, Queen of Swarms. His cloak proceeded to turn into... a swarm of bees.
He wasn't a beholder.
He was a f***ing Bee Holder.
Joey Warren That...is a terrible pun. However, a Vermin Lord of bees could be a really terrifying encounter, depending on the players/characters.
I don´t know what you mean. I LOVE that pun!
*s l o w c l a p*
@@dustinsangrey6091 *slow clap*
I have a Kenku Warlock who uses a Crowbar
PF: There's no clause saying what happens if you don't take him. Sooo...he's going.
Sword of Warning: I WARNED YOU!
themettking this is underrated comment
defective
sword of warning
As a Dm i'm really against this. doing something you players say they don't want to do just because it's in the module is a sin i find. dnd is not about following a book, it's about having fun.
It’s adventure league
😂
Fairy: "That Stag is my friend! What if I hurt one of your friends I return?"
Group: "Deal."
Fairy: ".....wait. What?"
Group: "You offered to trade Wallace for the Stag. We accepted."
"Oh... so its ok when you, fey, make word play and trick us in their deal but when its US its bad?"
"I... wasn't... expecting you to agree"
"well we did so... if you excuse us you blocking my view"
My "deer" friend. Get it?
I remember that mod. The party didn't want to kill the stag because it was a bit suspicious, but Wallace did and crit shot it, instantly killing it. And then the treant instantly killed Wallace before any of us got a turn to act.
Beautiful
What is the name of the module?
I also want to know the name of this dreadful sounding module.
'Uninvited Guests'. I played it a couple of weeks ago.
"ooooh noooo.... Not Wallace....!" said one PC with "enthusiasm"
Is this part of Abserd's origin story? Lol
Cpt.Philippines YES! Real name is Wallace
If so, then I consider his annoyance of all his party members(and his mere existence) to be revenge for this single party's actions against him in his youth.
I know right XD
So i am not the only one who wants to hear more stories from Abserd?
Abserd is my hero! Maybe the most fun character ever ^^
Lol, perfect
Villager: *is very kind, and friendly*
Party: "These guys are clearly cannibals"
XD
Workers are very precious in a society that's like 98% manual labor, the only way I'd buy a cannibal village in D&D would be if the whole nation was dealing with drought for the past 2-3 years or if they lived in a frozen tundra where grain didn't grow.
@@kana22693 That is...worryingly sociopathic utilitarianism there bud.
@@kana22693 Sooooooo, Athas?
@@kana22693 Sure, but in d&d it's the narrative that counts, so it's far more plausible
@@StealthMarmot_so foreclamers?
Whole party: just straight up abuse an innocent child with no ill-intent
Wallace: "You're warming up to me"
I can only imagine that 30 years down the line, our heroes reunite to reminisce about the old days, only to be swiftly captured by a small army of knights and mages. When they are brought before their leader, he asks them if they think he is being serious. To their confused responses, he has his men beat them within an inch of their lives. Broken and battered, our heroes ask who he is.
The man holds up a single copper penny.
"Do you remember how much I was worth?"
He drops the penny. Upon his orders, his men leave the broken adventurers in the filth.
For Sir Wallace the Great is an arbiter of justice. They allowed him to live, so it was only right that he do the same
Muller Potgieter omg yes
Yes we truly need this as a module
Yeah that's usually how I have a lot of games go whenever my group decides to try screwing over an important or powerful character for no other reason then they simply can.
Except for the character was -forced- upon them in the first place. This is why I can't DM for AL.
Aceofspades3206 If I did that, I’m sure my players would just start killing people so that they can’t come back and get revenge later
I was half expecting the kid to end up being the villain. You know, some kind of mind controlling entity that had the whole town under it's thumb and was slowly expanding the mind slaves by getting in adventurers and then going along with them to slowly take them one by one.
I was expecting the kid to die and for it to turn out he was actually really important to the modual, so shit gets bad fast because they let him die.
turns out the players were the villains the whole time
well they didn't let him die
No, no, Akhier, Nyghtking... That would be *good* writing. You can't seriously expect *good* writing, y'know~?
That's actually not a bad idea if someone decided to mod that campaign.
I played my first session of d&d last week with some good friends and I had Accidentally derailed the campaign and cut out just about two real life days of work for the dm because I i didn’t know how one spell worked. I had used animal friendship on any spiders in the nearby area hoping that I could gather enough of them to slow down a vampire and help my friend escape, but instead of getting some little spiders to spin a web, I had actually tamed ten giant spiders who were in the next room over, letting us get the unattainable item and avoiding capture.
That's the tabletop equivalent of wall hacks. Well done!
If the gm didn't go through your list of spells and see that as a possibility that almost feels like its his fault for putting giant spiders in that area.
Well, that's the DM's fault for not reading the spell. It's supposed to work on 1 creature that can see and hear you.
I love this!
Well, if you think about it...
Who would you think fought the hardest in the group with no context what-so-ever?
The three perfectly fine looking members of the group, or the one with a broken arm, two broken legs, with scratches and bruises all over them?
It's usually the lamest of the group that rushes and dies
The ones that aren’t torn to bits. They obviously defeated/drove off whatever nearly killed the injured one, or the injured one wouldn’t be there. Or I’d think they rescued the injured one after they ran away and went over a cliff/fell out of a tree they’d climbed.
not to mention gets tied up and dragged behind the cart at high speeds.
@@nvfury13It could show, without context, that the more wounded one fought while the others did nothing
I did an encounter where a child followed the party as they left the village, and implied he had a loving worried family, the question being if they would delay their mission to bring him home. They adopted him and LITERALLY BROUGHT THIS CHILD WITH THEM TO HELL. He started gaining levels pretty quickly (somehow not dying) and became a Zen Archer monk fighting with his rock sling
I mean what else were they suppose to do. Leave him at the brothel... that actually sounds like a real thing a group would do.
That's just awesome. Maybe I'll incorporate some weak NPC into my group. No, that's ridiculous. 5 players and a 3 hour session.
Technically wouldn't he be a Zen SLINGER..??
High lvl demon: "FOOLISH MORTALS! PREPARE TO FACE THE WRATH OF HE-What's that kid doing here?"
Veng3r- a Zinger?
4:21 "That there stag is my *deer* friend"
I see what you did there
He sure paid us a pun for our *Buck*
I'm quite *fawned* of this video.
I can see your having *faun*
@@deltazero7262 this is definitely getting out of *hoof*
It was why afterwords, it was a hoSTAGe situation
I think this is the problem with current DnD modules and campaigns. A lot of things pretty much railroad the party into a task. A good example is: The party enters the City Gate and a Guard stops them inquiring "Are you all adventurers? A Farmer outside town had his family kidnapped last night and we need you to find his family and apprehend the culprits" and the module wouldn't even have a scenario written for if the party says no and goes to the blacksmith.
Meanwhile older campaigns and modules would have this scenario: After spending some time in the town the group will begin to overhear bits of conversations about a local farmer offering a reward to find his family who was kidnapped recently.
Which sounds more reasonable?
Party Member: You're the town guard. Isn't it your job to investigate things like kidnappings and bring the wrong-doers to justice? Or, are your boots welded to the flagstones!?
@@timwoods2852”Actually, yes.”
They're both doing the same thing, just going about it in different ways
Players unfortunately love the railroad. If I give them a large world with infinite options, they will wait around doing nothing until I tell them what the right thing is. I envy old school groups.
"I think you're just bluffing..." That's a sentence that always leads to happiness.
I like the idea that the kid’s lv 1, but because he participates in a really high level encounter later in the adventure he instantly gains like 5 levels and becomes a badass
Pompadour Pug and then before you know he becomes abserd
My wallace leveled from a commoner to a scout and then a spy. They just finished the whole story from the AL modules and now want Wallace to be mayor of Parnast. :D
Not a kid he's 19 years old and has a girlfriend he is doing the adventure to avoid
@@DiploRaptor Ahh yes, very adult behavior, not at all childish.
@@kaldo_kaldo Yeah because she wants him to settle down and get married so as a 19year old in Faerun he wants to adventure not be settle ddown
Wait until they play more mods in that season and realize Wallace is a recurring character. They even get to learn about his star-crossed love-life.
What module is this? I want to try and find it for my group.
DDAL5-3: Uninvited Guests. You can find it on DM's Guild.
Nope, not kidding. He returns in "Bad Business in Parnast," where (SPOILER ALERT) you learn that he's more or less dating the mayor's daughter. But their fathers hate each other, and each blames the other for the town's troubles. Then he falls for a fake note and gets kidnapped.
And since pretty much all of the season 5 tier 1 games in Adventurers League take place in Parnast, it's not uncommon for DMs to bring him up every now and then.
@@EliteslayerX isnt this Romeo and Juliet?
They get to actually kill him this time!
Villain "Do you want to see this dear child hurt?"
Party: "Yes"
As a Chaotic player in general, my gut says to blame the town for the fact that they sent a child into the woods that they don't properly know into a territory owned by someone, and that they didn't warn us about. My Lawful side agrees, citing that they're encroaching on another territory without permission. My Evil side agrees because they're evil. And even my Good side is confused as to why the town was okay with this, thinking they wanted the child dead as well. So by every extreme of my alignment axis, they're not okay with this scenario being what it is.
What about Neutral? "I have no strong feelings ONE WAY OR THE OTHER." Welp, guess the child dies.
He's 18 and the townsfolk suggest him(he wants to be an adventurer and maybe ditch his girlfriend the cobbler's daughter... I think its the cobbler?)
But there is an option to recruit the actual hunter who leads the party into an ambush to be an asshole and if I remember he's a satyr.
And to be fair Wallace only has a chance to do this but seems most gm's just go with he does it
Aaaah, the pinnacle of fun: herding a useless, suicidal NPC on an escort mission.
If you need this for story, at least make the NPC amusing. I've always wanted to do an escort with and extremely powerful, and INCREDIBLY senile wizard, who keeps forgetting who he is, who the party is, and what his spells do.
Skyler Larsen is about to cast a reality warping spell, Dentures fall out
Skyler Larsen
You've just described Paladine from the Dragonlance books.
@@skylerlarsen1866 Okay, I'm gonna use that one in my current campaign.
Recommendation: Go up to injure pc. Say " Don't worry, I shall heal you with the power of god." Cast grease on their head. Then fall asleep on them.
My party would've seen this kid as a meat shield and when he died, keyword being "when". They'd take the family his corpse and act mournful. Enduring themselves to the town and getting a free meal from the family. Why do I know this, they've done it before.
At 4:20 “that stag is my *DEER* friend!”
But nobody cares about, “but that is a GAME two can play at”
"The module doesn't have a clause if the players decide not to take him so he's going."
Modules always look fun but its this kind of thinking from a DM that makes we stay away.
Adventure league
Well some DMs do this in a lazy way. But Ben was clearly using it as a comedic device.
Even if the DM wants him to be in the story.. he doesn't have to just go with "Well the book says!"
Ah, you all are an hour's walk into the forest, and have already killed several dangerous beasts, when someone in the party notices you're being followed. Well, it's much too dangerous to send him back to town now, if he dies you suspect they'll blame you.
@@Alibifire That would have been a MUCH better way to handle it
@@larrymanns364 Yeah, its pretty much how I handled it. But Puffin admits in several videos his improvisational skills are a bit limited. And adventure league does its best to stomp them out as well by insisting on using modules 'as written' and not all of them can be if the players make certain choices. For instance if they had killed Wallace off all the following modules where you go back to Parnast make no sense cause they revolve around him to some degree. Frankly I try not to run modules unless its an emergency. I prefer homebrewing my own worlds and letting them sandbox. Though to be fair I've been DMing longer than Puffin's been alive.
exact same shit happened when my party did this module
except we were smart enough not to attack the deer
wallace less so
so we talked the fairy king out of it and actyually became good friends
after that the goliath tied wallace to his back like a backpack and gagged him so he wouldn't mess anything else up
SonicCam04 one of my groups, before it dissolved, did this module. I accidentally killed the kid with my then Chaotic Neutral sorcerer and a fireball spell gone wrong.
I'm 100% serious it was an accident, the treants threw the kid at a tree that the fairy king was next to and in a flash that area was incinerated. I wasn't taking it well because my character never harmed a child before...BUT the paladin in our group was laughing his ass off while the cleric praised his God. Our half-orc monk was snickering but they're character was in shock. The kobold rogue...gave zero shits. Everyone in the party somehow convinced the town the fairy king killed him and erected a statue of Wallace in remembrance. And the DM made sure to remind me that I killed a kid in an event later on.
what is the name of the module
@@JoelFeila Uninvited Guests
This is odd considering he will only attempt to shoot at the deer if the party decides to not and they don't convince him to not. Doubly so since he's an 18-year-old.
Its not some little kid
@@DiploRaptor "We were smart enough to not attack the deer" - the party decided to not shoot the deer. So, Wallace would attempt to shoot the deer, no? Where's the odd bit? I certainly wouldn't babysit an NPC, just let them do what they want, they're not part of our group, we were forced to take this dude.
Poorly written module alert: 1)Obvious foreshadowing.
2)Railroading into taking a *child NPC* along on a quest.
Actually this could work if the kid was so annoying that the people there just hope he will get eaten by a bear or something. That is how I would make that work.
This feels like one of the module's writers had a son named Wallace.
funnyblog100 Or they all know that the kid is a changeling (mythology type, not player race from Eberron) placed there by the fae ruler of the nearby woods.
Nick V you could have just said doppleganger
Doppelgängers were generally just people or apparitions that looked eerily like someone, and usually represented doom of some sort, whereas changelings were literally babies swapped a little after birth with lookalikes by the fae. It was a common fear a long time ago that elves/faeries would steal your child and put one of their own in its place, making you raise their children because of how both freakishly lazy and mischievous the Seelie (or Unseelie) courts were. (I don't think they kept yours alive.)
I‘m the monk “pacifist” of my party who has to calm everyone down and prevent unnecessary suffering from NPCs because I’m nice like that
*HELP ME!!!*
Next time play a min/max paladin and use the threat of violence to make your party behave. "Rogue, return those coins you stole or I'll cut your hand off!"
Go the Samoa Joe route and Coquina Clutch the PC that's causing the most of the problem.
Technically it's not violence, it's conflict resolution...... via brutal submission techniques.
F
I am the exact opposite of the pacifist in my group. I made our wizard set an inn on fire to escape, and I stole a bit of armor, making the insane shop owner to set an owl bear loose on my friends! Yeah... I am definitely the opposite of a pacifist...
(By the way, the module was Lost Mine of Phandelver)
Try being a technical pacifist namely use violence just as long as it is nonlethal
Fae: "Do you want to see this *dear* child hurt?"
Me if I was a player: I mean, kinda
Wallace meets Trixie Starbright or Abserd. That would be the best tabletop rpg.
Would it make sense? No.
Would it be funny? Most Likely.
But Wallace *Is* Abserd, from the past!
Sam Austin I dunno. That’s just a THEORY! A GAME THEORY!
Dear god.
First order of business: Find nearest soul eating abomination. Succubus? Fine.
Step two, sell wallace to same monster.
Step three, well fed monster is a happy monster.
That sounds like it would be helluva illegal and filled with crime! You are under arrest! BY! DETECTIVE! DETECTIVE! SAVAGE! SAVAGE RAGE! RAGE!
Katrina Payne: You mean, you never abducted the townsfolk and sold them to the Drow or the Ilithids?
I'm...shocked.
You mean I'm the only person to have ever found that the conniving mayor of a certain unnamed town was better suited to being snatched and handed off in exchange for goods?
Thumbs up by the way.
This should be a stand alone module.
Abserd, Wallce, Trixie Starbright, Detective Savage Rage and whoever it was that revived the dark lord in that other run.
The cross over everybody wants... because it is just a terrible idea. Perhaps the Obelisk will be involved--but they can just cast darkness at it.
Obviously Wallace Is Abserd But Younger And Trixie From Another Universe And Her Dad Is Rage
My group just freed a mind flayer that was imprisoned by other mind flayers. 2/2 times any of my character's have survived combat with a mind flayer under lvl 3.
What was the title of the video with the dark lord reviver?
Ey! Someone agrees!
That's Detective Detective Savage "Savage Rage" Rage for you
I remember this one time. We had just beaten a big goblin giant monster that was attacking a town. And then one guy in the group walks up to the corpse, partially burns it and takes the ashes. Then another one grinds her heel into the corpse’s face and proceeds to wipe the blood on her shoe on the floor of the church. All because a stubborn priest from that church didn’t want to give us a magic sword.
When we played this adventure, our party pretty much failed to save Wallace from the treant but he basically had plot armor XD
"That stag is my DEER friend" - That was physically painful
(awesome! Top comment! BTW, Puffin Forest was in my pokemon tabletop game, if you subscribe to my channel you can see it :) )
My friend asked why i groaned then he did too when i showed him
TheLoadingCrew
Yeah, I felt a few bones crunch.
oof.
The suckiness of that pun was STAGgering!
this is why we have the Geneva convention.
I feel like Wallace wasn't intended to be this much of a nightmare but this is just what Puffin is capable of when he *really* loves a character.
4:30 "perhaps I should break on of your friends as well." I really expected the whole party to walk forward hands outstretched saying, "your proposed trade is acceptable shall we shake on that?"
One particularly magical session of DnD my party returned to a town dragging the corpses of a group of bandits we had been hired to kill behind our wagon. After turning in our bounty and scarring the local orphans (we made sure to drag the bodies by the orphanage on our way to the contractors) we decided to turn in for the night. One party member remembered a blacksmith he had met earlier who had had a pretty cool sword he had on display earlier, and planned on nabbing it for himself. He needed something to distract the guards, however, and decided to break in to the local church, steal the priests' garbs (because why not?) and burn the church to the ground.
Well he did burn it to the ground, which woke up the town, brought the guards over there trying to save the remains of the church, and left the blacksmith totally helpless against our party member, who broke into the house and murdered the blacksmith, his wife and kids. After that, he stole as much stuff as he could and hid it in the party's wagon before telling the party that they needed to go ASAP. Also, they barred the exits and burnt the orphanage down as well on their way out.
Needless to say, I don't DM for that party anymore.
Two Questions:
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#1 How many Tielfings were in that party ?
#2 Were any of the party members of Lawful Good alignment ?
@@veng3r663
Nope, one elf though.
Not after the first three sessions they weren't. They tried to start a communist revolution to take over the trade and get rich in one town which fell flat on its face due to a series of bad rolls on their part. They were professional murderhobos through and through.
why would you abandon such an amazing party?
+HMDragon 1
Surprised that people enjoyed my little story time. Anyways, most of the party was just doing it for jokes but there was one guy who we were all pretty sure actually had a gore fetish as he would intentionally do fucked up things with his homebrew race like try to impregnate the natives with a big syringe, where he would then go into depth about how the birth process brutally kills them due to the size of the baby.
I think he was the only person that was actually fucked up, and most of us disliked him as he kept asking for individual buffs and kept looking for women to be a creep around. Other than that though it was a college group and we unofficially disbanded after the funniest irl guy in our party graduated, one kept going through college, and I dropped out and joined the military. I still keep in contact with some of them and we post memes in our old college DnD discord even though we all split up (we keep it hidden from the gore guy of course).
tis a true shame when a DnD group is torn apart.
My version went a little differently... Party kills stag, Treant picks up wallace, treant rolls first in initiative, treant rolls crit, insta-kills Wallace. Rest of the modules in the storyline are suddenly about Wallace's father and Wallace's girlfriend overcoming the trauma of his death.
Wait he has a gf!?
yup, and it happens to be the daughter of the guy that sent you on the mission in the first place!
@@leerjawise Now it makes sense why he made him go. He was banking on the shit to die so his daughter can hook with someone less useless. Like a quadriplegic leper.
@@supajasiu savage
What module was this?
I think I played this once, and I think I circumvented Wallace by actively saying yes he can come and then using it as a way to teach him to hunt. And my character was a high elf Ranger.😀
I recently came back to these videos and all I can say is that the ending of this is why I watched these in the first place, the book module whatever it's called has an amazing and funny ending.
Oh my god, I love this xD
In a game I dropped an NPC when my players were climbing a mountain (a very dangerous one). When he told them that he wanted to reach the top no matter the cost they screamed "Noooo, now we have an NPC to protect :("
No mather the cost?... my players would had charged what he could pay (in advance of course) to guide him, while not guaranteing his safety.
If he then would manage to fall unconciouse along the whay, they would also not bring him back but loot his body.
My group would have just Straight up Killed the guy, and have the necromancer revive him as a Zombie (After looting the body, of course)
D: I just played this module last week in adventure worlds, Our wallace was op and carried the team with god-like rolls.
Meanwhile in Bizzaro Universe.
Which module is this?
Gaxlang I too would like to know
@@TrackerRoo
This specific one is
Uninvited Guests, and it loses a lot in Puffin's retelling, as he's cutting out a lot of the details that tie into the great story arc of the whole Adventure, called
Storm King's Thunder
You might be gratified to know that Parnast won't typically survive this adventure, due to a lot of other events, one of the later modules is even called 'The Siege of Parnast' and even if you save Wallace, he dies there(Though saving him earlier aids in saving people in the later module, as he's an 'experienced' NPC at that point)
My character went down after the monsters got insanely good rolls against me. Wallace managed to stabilize me so I didn't have to make any death saving rolls.
Honestly? I feel like Wallace deserved that statue this time.
Maybe not in part 2, but definitely now.
This is the most Abserd story. And hes not even in it...
you don't know it for sure :3 *spoiler alert*
"...my *deer* friend"
an audible grown is heard overcoming the party
im ashamed to admit that the stag and deer pun took me longer then necessary
@An Accessory to Mordor are you a moron? he used it as a joke which is WHY it was highlighted he was referencing the fey prince in the video that was talking about the deer being his "*deer* friend"
"The module says so" kills pretty much every official adventure...
Raffaello Nardin I mean, its ADL, there's certain limitations. You change a module too much and then when people find out about how it was supposed to be, people complain that you made it too easy, or too hard, or ruined the story, or whatever.
Better to tell people: "This is organized play, there are certain concessions because of that. If you don't like it, there is the door over there."
I have no patience for petulant manbabies whining about "muh immersion" when I'm already struggling to ensure that we even have enough DMs for everyone to play.
@@Elamdri organized play -> he didn't even read the ending of the module...
Jack Blackthorn
Maybe you're not getting it so let me paint a scenario for you.
You sit down and you play a module with a group of people. But you're not guaranteed to play with the same group every time. If your DM takes you too far off of the module, it will cause problems the next time you play if you don't play with the same people.
Let's say the party for whatever reason decides to kill a key NPC.
The next game you sit down with a completely different group of people and a completely different GM. You are playing the next module in the story, and that key NPC is a primary figure in the module.
"Wait!" You exclaim, " that character is dead I killed him"
Everyone at the table looks at you in confusion.
Eventually the GM will have to explain to you that your other GM should not have let you do that, and that for the sake of the story it didn't happen. Because there are five other people at the table who have no idea what you're talking about.
Again these are concessions you have to make for organized play. If you don't like it then there's plenty of other tables you can try to join.
Raffaello Nardin yeah I noticed that too. Puffin, if you have not watched some of his other videos, is not the world's greatest DM.
However I have a just a general problem with the way people are treating this, because I think a lot of them have disdain for the story without a fair understanding of the context organized play.
For example I am heavily involved in running the organized play group for my local gaming shop. Every week we had between 16 to 20 players. And not enough DMs. Never Enough DMs.
And I feel bad because just about every week I have to turn someone away because we don't have space at a table. And that's a really shity feeling.
I keep trying to ask people to step up but very few of them have ever DM'd before, and they are nervous about it. So it really kind of pisses me off when I see people complaining about shit like railroading and shity DMs. There are a lot of entitled fucking man babies out there who don't understand that some people organized play is the only chance they get to play the game. And it's really shity to shit on the person who steps up to the plate to try to do the dungeon mastering.
And there's a lot of other factors in play. For example at my store we got a pretty strict 4 hour time limit. We can't always spend all day taking our time running the modules. There needs to be a timed out story to progress the party through.
And the most difficult thing that happens, it sometimes someone doesn't show up, and someone has to run a story off the cuff, with no preparation, or six people don't get to play. That just really sucks no matter what, and when that happens you just need to expect a little bit of railroading because the person's going Page by Page.
Like adl's not perfect, but for some people that's all they get to play, and it really bothers me that people shit on it.
When a kid was giving me a quest the DM was using the most ANNOYING VOICE POSSIBLE for him and before he finished giving me the quest I killed him
The mayor walked in, saw what I did and was screaming at me
I killed the mayor too
After we did a few quests we went back to the town
Dead people were everywhere, gangsters were killing each other, I’m the most wanted criminal and there’s a big riot going on
Your animated vids really capture how funny playing RPGs can be. A lot of people don't play these games because they're nerds, we play because at some point, we end up laughing hysterically with our friends.
This stag is my deer friend!
My favorite is the NPC the players are actively trying to kill. I once had an NPC named Mannie who was the classic over-entitled rich brat of a local noble, and because he was so annoying his parents sent him off to apprentice with a local wizard.. who 'conveniently' gave Mannie the key item the PCs would need to unlock the treasure vault in the dungeon, so he would have to go along. Mannie was low level but decked out with a bunch of magic items, so on top of the key item the PCs would get his stuff too (as well as shutting him up for once); the problem was all his magic made him nearly indestructible comparative to the level of the party. So the whole time the party kept 'accidentally' pushing him onto suspicious floor tiles and locking him in rooms with monsters, and to be fair I did consult Mannie's list of magic items and even made rolls for his survival each time. He never even took a point of damage.
It did help that the party realized pretty quick that I was playing the whole thing off for laughs, especially when over time the voice I was using for Mannie went from mildly annoying to becoming the embodiment of every annoying Hipster/Millenial stereotype I could find, so it gave them free reign to really explore the Batman Begins principle that, though they were good and wouldn't just kill the kid in cold blood, they 'didn't have to save him either.'
He survived due to the magic items,not any actual skill or abilities if anything they should get to the original wizard and steal his stuff,learn what they can (not in that order) thrn get to mannie,unenchant his gear or at least wait until he falls asleep,remove his gear since that in and of itself isn’t a harmful act then slit his throat and feed him to one of the monsters.Now that is how it becomes a win and justified lose situation
I imagine them just asking him if they could ‘hold’ his stuff for a while so that it wouldn’t weigh him down, just to kick him into a ravine later.
THAT IS, if he didn’t sound fun-as-hell to have in your party.
Party steals Mannie's stuff in his sleep. Rolls a 20 just to do it.
Now what you gonna do?
Remove Talos
Kind of that but also the exact opposite. Mannie started off tossing off both his Gems of Fireball at the first random gnolls they encounters, since he didn't care about replacement costs, but at that point the party wasn't watching him suspiciously so they just assumed he was casting two Fireballs; this was when the party was about 4th level. They didn't dare try to trick him or ambush him because if it all went south they were assuming he could take the whole party.
Over time though they figured out he was leaning almost exclusively on one-shot magic items, which made them doubly mad because he was burning through them at an alarming rate. At one point he drank a healing potion because he was thirsty. They never stopped being wary of him though because they didn't know what other tricks he had up his sleeve, so stuff like jumping him in his sleep _might_ have worked but if it didn't they couldn't be sure he didn't have like a Pearl of Demon Summoning or something to utterly mess them up.
Plus yeah, the whole party was good, they didn't know if he would be needed/beneficial later not just for the key item, and one of the PCs remembered I made a point of telling them about the Crystal Ball in his master's house; so they knew it had to be a legit death. Plus I didn't make it a secret he was there just to annoy them so they were in on the joke and laughing the whole time, he was like a parody of every annoying escort mission.
what's the name of the module?
Edit: It is Uninvited Guests from season 5 of adventurer's league
I must have watched these two videos through 10 times at least and so I added Wallace into my campaign knowing that they were new players and wouldn't have seen the video or played the module. He went with them to hunt an Ettin. I worked wonderfully - they really hated him (and pickpocketed his copper penny) and several of them vowed to do him in if they were ever to go through Parnast again.
In the next town they did a major module and at the end of it, when they mentioned that they were going to have to travel back through Parnast a trusted NPC was in awe that they knew Wallace - he was the hero of Parnast because he was such a brilliant artificer and had turned the finances of the whole town around with his Workshop of Wonders. He was the inventor of the luck candy that they had been using.
He has now become a major NPC from whom they commission snacky kit like flying brooms and smoking bottles and then come back again. Such fun.
I had this mission and I tried to get Wallace killed so many times
why not try to muder him directly and test why he seems to be immortal, some magic must be involved - gabing the magic of immortality truly justifies the torture of one child
Best thing you can do. When you get railroaded this hard, the most fun thing is to derail it even harder.
I mean if Wallace is supposed to represent the village on the hunt, wouldn't they be a bit pissed off if he died?
@@nekrosis4431 that's what our party did. At the feast I kept making grapples against Wallace and throwing him at enemies.
R00KIE GUY WHAT THE FUCK? HE'S A FUCKING KID?
I've played this one, for some reason the thought of cannibals never entered my mind. I'm now deeply disappointed in myself.
The 'deer friend' pun went over my head for a long time.
These situations are why I want to record the sound of a diesel locomotive blowing its horns on my phone.
Players: "uh, we're not going this way"
GM: "so the party goes that way-"
Players: "no, we're not"
GM: "So the party *GOES THAT WAY* "
Me: (plays diesel loco horns)
I have a story all too similar to this. We recently ran through Tomb of Annihilation. Part of that adventure is picking guides to help you through the forrest. We picked, probably, the two most useless options. River and Flathk (Flask). Two tabaxi with possibly the worst sense of direction in DnD history. Flask is describes as quiet, with a lisp and frequently repeating what his partner said. Our DM quickly starts playing them almost like a child. Our party quickly begins to tun on them as we get lost time after time again. They are also pretty useless in combat, constantly rolling low and missing badly. Eventually, we reach the tomb part of the module. By this time we are actively referring to them as the "redshirts" and no fewer that two party members tried to just kill them off in their sleep. We enter the tomb and River, the tolerable one of the two is quickly killed off, but not Flathk . Time and time again he somehow dodges certain death. As the tomb goes on and PCs are falling like f**king Omaha beach, Flathk keeps going. Somehow, at the end of it all, we finish the tomb with just one of the PCs that entered...and Flathk. And because the PCs quickly disperse and return to the mainland after the adventure...Flask, the most useless NPC I have ever seen, becomes the GD hero of Chult because hes the only survivor to stay on the island long enough to tell the story.
That is just, wow. I'm speechless.
Flathk was at least talented at survival :D
IIRC. The Tabaxi have the best survival pluses of the NPCs. In my AL group, they were dead before Chapter 4. I think the big frog ate River.
"The module doesn't have a clause that the players decide not to take him!" - THIS. This is the very thing that ruined all of Adventurer's League for me and honestly, for me, this is just plain bad dming. If they dont take him, fine. If he's essential send him after them and they become aware that he followed them in the middle of the dangerous forest. Now they can't send him back, he would get lost or die. But please, for the Sake of Tiamat, do not give players the reason "It's not in there!". I had it multiple times and it ruined about the whole evening for me. I could go play a video game if it was for dead ends and choices not being choices.
This is just a poorly designed module... like everything WoTC produce. At this point, I wouldn't let my players touch something WoTC touched just like I wouldn't serve a beloved king dog-shit for dinner.
In my games, rail-road or no, players can do whatever they want. There will be consequences, and some of them may be unpredictable, but the choice is the players'. The only distinction is that all of my games focus on realism. That's just how it is.
The thing with rail-roads, is I default to open-ended experiences... but if the players ask for a railroad, I can try to deliver... it's just that a singular branching path isn't railroad. It's laziness on the GM's part. You must give them options. They must be able to choose between radically different experiences every single session. Something so small as an NPC going with the party. I'm not even thinking about how I can shove the NPC into the party again unless that was the central tenant of the quest. In this case, it wasn't. It was just a feature.
The only excuse I can think of to force an NPC to tag along with the party is if that NPC was either a key or a choice. If the NPC is a key, that means there is a lock somewhere, and the party will need to have taken the NPC with them through that experience to proceed past that point. For example, the NPC is actually a high level wizard in disguise and they will encounter a great evil and try to track them down, but be unable, and the wizard will reveal himself as hiding with the party so that he could get closer to the enemy, and help them track. Or maybe the NPC is a choice, and depending on how they treat the NPC, they might send the party on an exciting quest, or that might have implications long-term.
In either case, that's just one possible adventure out of multiple the party must be presented with. They could choose not to escort the NPC and pursue some other venture. There would be consequences such as a lost opportunity etc. But they must always be able to do whatever the want at any time.
I wouldn't think of something like sneaking the NPC with the party anyways. It's one way of doing things, but it leaves open the possibility the party can just turn around and drag him back home immediately. Who says the party has to take him with? That's dumb.
mathig nihilcek "This is just a poorly designed module... like everything WoTC produce."
Biggest exaggeration I've seen so far. Almost like you have a biased hate boner for WoTC or something.
I'll be honest I hate it more when a GM gives me the illusion of choice more than just telling me that the module doesn't allow one. Having the kid follow us after we decide not to take him honestly would just encourage me to take him back personally and make sure he doesn't come back. I would specify that should he follow I will not be held responsible for his life nor will I feel inclined to keep him alive. If you chose to follow the adventures into the dark forest and you can't handle yourself that's your problem
DigitalDoom Agree 100%. I'd also like to point at that modules should be used more as guidelines, this game doesn't run unless the GM and players are capable of putting in there own creativity. I really disliked running Adventure League modules. Especially for the players that where just there to crank through AL levels to bring to events at Conventions. No role-playing, no real consideration for story or consequence. They just wanted to grind adventures.
WotC modules are basically:
If you don't play the stuff that we put effort into creating for this module you will not receive XP and will eventually die due to lack of levels...
Which makes sense, but I hate this random leveling thing... Checkpoint level-up is much better.
"That stag is my dear friend" please say you got the pun
This is exactly how my second campaign began...
"Are you guys... cannibals?"
*quietly squeaks*
And... exactly how it ended.
Is it just me or is the art exponentially better. Did puffin get help, or is he stepping up his game
He leveled up and put more ranks into craft(animation)
Yea, the art does look better.
practice makes perfect
puff's out there fighting the good animated dnd stories fight
LMAO. I remember playing this module. We were referring him as Walter, Warren, Willis, everything but his name. I'm glad that we were not the only ones to share the same sentiment. The townspeople were as useless too.
What module is it? I want to torture my players!
It's an Adventurer's League Module of DDAL05-03 Uninvited guests with a loose sequel where you meet Wallace again in DDAL5-12 Bad Business in Parnast.
Definitely gonna look for that sequel. I want to bag on Wally more. .
Commoners are not know to be great fighters. Also the Satyr is worse he purposefully leads you into ambushes
Keep it up puffin you rock man. Cant believe I've been watching almost a year now. Been lots of fun adventures and storys. Thanks a ton!
Puffin, your animations are superb, and you definitely got me back into DnD with my party. Happy to see you producing more content all the time! Keep it up!
Thank God you made new content!! I was looking every day and rewatching all of your old stuff. I was dying for more of your top quality stuff!!! I love every minute of them!
You may have seen it but if your looking for more content from him you should check out "Disaster Squad". It's a super hero game he gm'd. It's very fun.
Sooooooooooooooooo wait...
They weren't cannibals in the end and they were legit want a feast from their hunt? Was expecting they would put Wallace in some kind of large pot, boiled him up or lead him in a kitchen/butcher shop where they chop him into bits.
Beside that, was expecting that Wallace would tell the Adventures the the Village are Cannibals or something... guess I'm wrong then.
No joke, I was half expecting Wallace to be a powerful villain/fiend/deity in disguise.
Treat unwanted NPC like shit. Towns praises the NPC for living through all the torture inflicted. PC's rage. Yeah karma is fun like that.
I felt really bad for Wallace when they took away his copper penny. Now that's just mean.
Nah man we once were forced into a similar situation so we killed the bad guy doing the ritual. We then did the ritual ourselves and fed the npc to the elder god in exchange for power and items
It’s not really karma?
Hmm... it sounds like using the pre-made adventures for DnD would be a good way to start learning how to make your own adventures. They leave out important parts such as "What if the party does not want to bring along the NPC with no redeeming qualities?" for you to make up yourself.
Maybe leaving Wallace behind would cause him to snap from all the years of rejection with this being the last straw, so when you return to the village, there's a swarm of demons ransacking the place because Wallace went and performed some dark ritual to "gain the power to never be rejected again" or something like that. :P
This is why i feel my characters will always end up being evil even if they start out good. It only takes running into a few NPC's like this before 'casual murder' no longer seems like such a bad thing.
I usually just make them Chaotic Neutral so they can go any way the wind blows. Little Wallace would've gotten beaten like a pinata when he was hanging from the trap because he was a sweet child... maybe TOO sweet... mmmm.... candy.... :)
To be fair, one copper piece is the correct response to a forced, one-off NPC (that you're not allowed to kill) demanding a share of the treasure. :V
Honestly, I would've probably had my character shit in his hand, throw it in his face and laugh at him.
he's pretty useful tho, as long as it isn't in wilderness, he deals decent damage with the llongbow and provides ranged dps and a tank for the low level party that decided to pick all wizards
Only thing you arnt allowed to do in d&d is change the rolls except sometimes you can. Kill the little bastard murder hobo that town. Begin a brigade of brigands that then turns to revolution where you over throw the lord of the land, then the king, the take over other kingdoms till you rule the world. Then start dimension hopping taking over one planet then the next enslave zeus. MURDER ODIN, MAKE RAW BOW BEFORE YOUR MIGHT. AND BECOME THE TRUE GODS OF THE MULTIVERSE. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.
I sure hope those characters were evil-aligned
I had this NPC that everybody hated named Gunter who, when rolled a natural 20 with such low stats, nocked out one of the players and brought him down to 1 hp🤣
And this is why I no longer have any interest in running Adventurer's League modules. I ran three adventures and they were painfully rail-roaded. In each of the adventures a "Person of Interest" completely slips away from the party no matter what precautions they take. In one adventure the PC's "rescued" a burned human woman who was believed to be a witness to the destruction of a nearby village. The PC's took her to a "safe location" that was attacked in very short order by a group of cultists because the PC's were spotted taking the woman to the location...because...because that is what the adventure says happens. The PC's then fought off a small army including an Evil Cleric and 4 standard cultists, a pair of Spies and several fire mephits in addition to other encounters that I honestly can not remember (by the way this was a Teir 1 module) despite the odds the PC's protected the unconscious woman, drove off the cultists and escaped the burning manor and after all that effort the woman simply disappeared leaving nothing but burning embers behind. Also as it turns out she was a part of the fire cult...as a generic cultist...with 11HP. She died in one hit.
Of course they're railroaded. Adventure League isn't meant to be open ended. The PCs are not active protags. Instead they're passive protags in a pre-prepared story because AL has to have specific structures in it so that it runs as intended. That said, the hardcovers are where you're at if you want some prepared material that gives you more leeway as a DM.
Ragequit.exe
What if you tread the modules as guidelines instead?
You should play an actual RPG. D&D is about 20 years behind in RPG development and is more a rail-roaded table top game with some RPG elements. If you still want to play D&D for some masochistic reason, never touch premade adventures, they're always garbage. But if your DM is inexperienced or garbage, I guess you're stuck with boring railroads. Those are just a waste of time.
Carpet Climber You are welcome to your opinions, but insulting everyone who plays D&D isn't really a great place to start. Also, it might be more constructive to mention which RPGs you think people ought to play instead, and why.
Love your D&D stories! ❤️❤️ Hope people start collaborating with you more often.
Don't wanna take an extra NPC? No problem.
"Oh no, so many bandits!"
When players are on their last breath
"Looks who came to the rescue!"
The ultimate underdog story.
*Lord Wallace, ruler of realms.*
Sounds like the origin story of a major villain. Abused that badly, he would likely want revenge down the line.
Snacker6
That would be nice, but naw, he forgot it all cause the townspeople made him a hero.
I have to admit, Puffin. It's the little details of your animations that oft cause me the most laughter. When you drew the snout of a crocodile or alligator when mentioning "attracting a bear or wolf, or something..." I completely lost it.
The animations in this video were a lot better, I'm glad to see you improving. Also freaking hilarious story, keep up the awesome work
1 hr until my wedding, still have to watch.
Congratulations! This was his gift to you for the wedding.
Hope it goes well
Dungeons and Marriage
Good luck.
Anthony Impellizzeri good luck
Better art, better animation, better voice work... Puffin is really stepping up his game! Awesome work!
'dear friend'
That had to be intetional
Iäm from Estonia, we donät have anything like Dungeons and Dragons here. But i enjoy listening to theses stories, purely because of how amusing they are!
Every time a middle-school kid plays D&D a Wallis is born.
Literally me next week except it’s high school
Every time an adult plays DnD a Wallace is open for an easy crossbow shot
And when it grows up it becaumes an Abserd
lol me too granted
Fun fact: this story isn't about an NPC from a module at all. It's about how every DnD group he's part of feels about Puffin Forest!
Do you remember the video where he told a story about a teleportation tower, that kicked the party to the Moon without a chance to return? Classic Puffin. His stories are funny, but whenever he is DM chances are high that he is not ready for his players to do something out of rails.
Vladimir Serpov I seen that one. He wasn't prepared for RNG Gods turning their favor for his party's antics. After all, Nat 20s happen for the strangest things...
Or the players are just to stupid to live.
@@kevinsullivan3448 In the context of your comment, that is very ironic
You know his video's are hilarious but I'm not sure I'd want him to GM my group.
I always find it hilarious how many of Ben's characters just straight up sound like and have the mannerisms of Morty from Rick and morty lol
Did you get extra XP.
Yes.
What did it cost?
Everything.
Me: Bring this child with you he will be helpful.
My players: MuRdEr ThE cHiLd
Edit: Jesus Christ thank you children for top comment!
did they cast darkness tho?
lol still funny
Child: Aha! Yes, i have betrayed you. Haha!
We call it the terabithia clause: "little girl dies"
Me: a stranger fights your battle for you wiping out the enemies
Them: LeTs FiGhT hIm
Me: *doesn't roll for anything* you all die in one shot
Them: Da hell
Me: HE WAS SUPPOSED TO FIGHT THE FINAL BOSS AND WIN, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT!
"I think you're just bluffing", that is beautiful btw, I need to use it I organized play with NPC XD
duck dm pcs and party npcs =p =]
I love how much your art has evolved.
The art and color in this one is on point.
The kid should have been Abserd.
Barry Bend it is Aberd’s origin story
@@Audiotrocious maybe we should have a story where he replaces Wallis with Abserd and just see how his PC's react.
I feel like he would have been killed the first time he opened his mouth.
@@CallenExile I think they would make it more entertaining than with Wallis.
Now, I have to wonder. What's supposed to happen at the end if the party doesn't bring Wallace back alive? I'm assuming they decide Wallace sacrificed himself like a true hero to save the party or something similar, but I'd like to know for sure.
I can assure you that the module does not address that, or any other, contingency.
The following modules have Wallace as a recurring character and plot hooks. So he has the best armour. Plot armour.
@@666lupine666 I feel like it wouldn't be too hard to just improvise around it.
it's adventures league, he doesn't have a choice. To keep everyone on the same playing field you have to follow the published modules to the letter.
My guess is if none of the members have revival spells and Wallace dies in battle, Puffin has to intervene and revive Wallace through plot armor or something.
Your animations are getting better!
Good work Puffin!
I really love this end song, its got a really good end of video tune to it
Welcome to The Hero of Parnast Module, where literally everyone involved, players and NPCs, are just the god damn worst!
I can’t get enough of these stories
Your animations are getting better and better, good job.
Sometimes it's these moments that make D&D too much fun
So it seems they were forced to take along a Morty.
I feel for them.
I was waiting for the Morty comparison
why were they forced to take Wallace if literally no one wanted him to go with them?!?
@@liamdalemon1525 Railroading!
Except in the module the kids like 18 he's not bad he just has a chance of getting lost. Well, the other guide leads the party into a trap to fuck with them.