That is literally my group when I use to play. It definitely turned into a fun wacky adventures because we had a serious issue of wanderlust, curiosity combined with lack of morality and no desire of self preservation. We were low tiered likable villains that basically saved the world.
My party once constructed an airship out of the corpse of a gigantic bear, an uprooted tree, a levitation potion, a rudimentary knowledge of carpentry and taxidermy, and some rope. We called it the Bearship.
I’ve done similar, but less absurd. All of us has backgrounds which gave use proficiency in artisans tools, which we all had different stuff. So on day we made a small hot air balloon air ship which was our traveling basecamp up until the final battle were it was shot down by the dragon boss. It had a big balloon bit, and a small hut on the bottom. It had beds, a cooking set and an alchemists station.
just kill all of them in their sleep no one will suspect, they have a very bad detective work on skyrim. Like, real bad, they should put their shit together
Reminds me of the time I had a holy weapon possessed by a god and a demonic weapon possessed by an archdevil, The DM told me it that nothing good would come if I brought them together and that I couldnt physically make them touch by forcing them together. So i thought this through like a physics puzzle and put one on the ground and dropped the other one on top and let gravity do the rest. Long story short I cause a nuclear level explosion that killed the whole party because I wanted something interesting to happen.
He was experimenting with giving the players all kinds of powerful weapons that were all for the most part plot related. Any ways he ended up retconing it after 10 minutes because he couldn't figure out how to save his campaign. Instead I thought he was just going to kill me by having the archdevil just come out of the staff and off me, but the God showed up too and saved me and i nearly shit my pants. Glad it didnt end there because our party was beautifully dysfunctional.
Jason Lee I would've found some kids and given it to them as a present and cartoon tip toe outta town while they let the cosmic alignment penises touch that or just threaten to touch them like a cold war situation anytime someone argued with me about morals lol
I was in a group that did the same thing except throughout the game the big bad made illusions of himself to speak to us then wed interupt him. So at the end we all assumed it was just another illusion...until he broke our ships table probably the first time we shut up.
I find the show, don't tell rule applies to role playing pretty well. Don't have your villain spell out their plan, let the heroes piece that together on their own. The only time the villain should ever go out of their way to talk to the heroes is when they have something, or someone they can use to lean negotiations in their favor.
I'm about to introduce (well, they were in a PC backstory, but not a villain then, so maybe more reintroduce??) a villain as a bunch of smoke. I'm worried there will be interruption
I discovered a giant whale can safely cared a man with a machine gun and 476 sticks of dynamite a lot of ropes died in our campaign, somewhere between a million and too many, used it to kick off a character arc
At level 6? Sounds like a very possible number for a Paladin as well. Of course, it would require a near max damage crit, but it's possible. I've done something similar once.
My whole party are instigators. It's great cus I make up most up most things on the fly with only a basic premise and loose idea of what's going to happen. Shit goes off the rails pretty often but it's always a good time. One time I gave them a plot hook and just straight up ignored it and went on a quest to find the worlds greatest weed. Once while I was a player we saw a goblin ambushing a cart... we helped the goblin.
Warning! Extremely bad grammar! Our DM was a...how do I even describe it...chaotic instigator with homebrew rules. Half of our party were his friends, weirdos like him, and other half, me included, were so charmed by all the buffoonery they inducing, that sometimes become even insane than them. It was a shitstorm, every time I played with them I felt like my IQ dropping a dozen or two, but I loved it.
I'm doing a melee stealth build super mutant in a fallout rp group. It's exactly as crazy as it sounds. We hacked a sentry bot that was balanced specifically to kill our group off because the mods didn't like us setting part of oasis on fire.
@@hunterkoons2008 lol, it's funny, he called himself a "Steathbarian" and took expertise in stealth and athletics. He would constantly sneak up behind people, and then grapple them to choke them out. It was hilarious. He had 13 dex, 20 strength, and used a rapier and shield (using str with the finesse weapon to have STRONK sneak attacks).
I'm a DM, and I'm not gonna lie: I love playing with an instigator. Personally, there's almost nothing more entertaining to me than when my players do some shit I wasn't expecting, and I LOVE players that really take initiative. I can offer two pieces of advice for DMs with all types of players: One, never bring something to the table you're not prepared to entirely throw out. Two, if you haven't stated the explicit whereabouts of something, you can drag and drop it in front of the players no matter where they go. It just takes a little patience sometimes.
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This channel is genius. someone talking about what they know and putting together skits that actually make sense and give me a chuckle every now and then. Lots of heart and genuine interest in these videos. Subscribed. Keep it up dude.
I solved a puzzle in 30 minutes that was supposed to take us 3 sessions. I just kept staring at it when my character wasn't doing anything (and thus she was working on it too.) And I suddenly looked up and shouted "Its not a riddle it's a palindrome!" The look of exasperation on my GMs face was amazing.
Well done. Part of my pride in this achievement was being the token atheist in a largely religious group. Getting slurs from a religious gm with the majority of PCs was an achievement on its own
@@patrikg.6320 I don't even want to make riddle for my players that can't be easily solved in a way even a newborn wouldn't be able to catch on to just because..well..yeah...We think very differently what I might find obvious they wont and the other way around so have to think that through a lot.. Now I only make riddles/puzzles like "You see a hooded man force his hand into the spike screaming in agony before collapsing dead before the portal opens and then closes again almost right after again" Now there is an obvious easy solution to solve it..just have someone sacrifice themself! Now the question is raher or not you have anyone who want to sacrifice themself or if you are going to find someone to trick into it or if you are just going to force someone to do it. There are probably several other ways to do it as well if you just think and learn about the machine..I mean a portal that you can't use alone isn't the most useful thing but maybe you don't feel like you have the time for that and just force the poor slave you have with you to do it for you.
@@bibbobella heh, welp I do a lot and I mean a LOT of descripton on everything and thus sometimes my players asume that thigs that are just there for flavor are somehow useful for the plot :D like one time I described a torch holder as being very wel crafted and the kept pulling it thinking it was a switch. It depends a lot on the players, some can have a dragon burn down a town before their eyes and dont realise that they should slay it and some check every stone you described just slightly more in detail then the other stones
@@jaxrammus9165 We're aware. Our bow was bought cheap at a flea mart and will be used for nothing other than videos, so we're not gonna be upset if it's damaged.
Rule of thumb, always add a beggar to your campaign in almost any city setting and make the beggar have a somewhat legitimate reason for being poor (such as getting laid off or more expensive housing costs). The reason for this is it create an opportunity to really let the players show a side of them when it comes to generosity. Some may be kind to them while others will spit in their face, so it may even cause moral conflict within the party. Plus it adds some realism into a city that most likely has an unemployment rate.
meeeeeee as hell. I was recently in a one shot that I ended up pulling the party into the sewers in attempt to get out of a heavily guarded city and the dm had to make a dungeon on the fly, and the shenanigans that ensued set the game back almost two hours
Amazingly, we had a case of this that sped up the overall campaign (though the DM had to make stuff up on the fly as well). We were hunting 1 half of an artifact and find it, along with a Warlock and 4 wererats after the same artifact. DM intended it to be a straightforward encounter, but party decides to talk because we had previously encountered the wererats (not in a friendly manner mind you). It turns out the warlock is working with a thieves guild and hired the wererats as goons, but as we deduce, the wererats are beeing screwed over in the deal. We manage to convince them to turn against the warlock who prombtly surrenders as it is now 9 on 1. He offers us information on the other half of the artifact in exchange for his safety. Turns out the other half of the artifact has been found by the warlocks compatriots, but is still in transit to the thief hideout (the hideout was an intended dungeon by the DM). We put together a quick heist at an inn where the people carrying the artifacts are staying (involving a Tankard of Sobreity to cheat at a drinking contest) and aquire the other half of the artifact without even a combat encounter. The DM subsquently praised us for our quick wit in turning the wererats on the Warlock (which he rewarded us with the additional info, normally we would just have gotten the hideout location from a piece of paper) and for putting together the heist, basically skipping a dungeon. It was really fun and might lead to some more trouble with the thieves down the line since we did not take out their headquarters.
It helps to know how to improvise both Player and GM side. My knight was attacked on a street by slave traders and decided to run away screaming until he attracted attention from both townsfolk and the police. So I was safe. Dunno how much I messed up the GM's plans but it was fun to challenge the "me stoic me accept this unfair fight" brave knight stereotype.
For anyone else wondering about the song playing during the "taking down the goblin camp alone" sequence (07:02): The lyrics are: "Just take it from me, I'm just as free as any daughter . I do what I like, just what I like and how I love it. " And the song is "Living in the sunlight" by Tiny Tim
I can imagine someone just watching these kids in Burger King crowns and weird costumes running and jumping around by a storm drain by their apartment reenacting dnd scenes
1:51 good to know i’m actually a good thing. i often feel as though i’m hogging the attention by barbarian-ing my way in and out of things when everybody goes dead-quiet for no reason.
3:48 Hero: Why man why’d you kill them? Instigator: Because they were there in the way of the explosions handsome hero: How’d you kill them Instigator: With explosions *cough cough* evoker 🧙♂️
The first campaign I dm'd, there was one person who basically lead the entire party. The others just went with it, since he was a Goliath Barbarian Fighter, with a pet Manticore (long story, he rolled a Nat 20 on animal handling and named it Spike) and basically couldn't be stopped. He ended up killing himself while trying to remove a cursed necklace from around his neck.
This is SO me! At the start of the campaign we where attacked by Bugbears, three had died and only two remained. One with it’s arm missing and the other completely unharmed. My Sorcerer persuaded both with a Natural 20 to leave, as they would’ve died otherwise. Later on we where attacked by Merfolk on a bridge, and I froze the water, stopping them from attacking further. After that we went to the Dungeon where a Red Dragon Wyrmling was guarding the artifact we sought. Because of my Draconic Bloodline I maneged to persuade the Dragon to stop attacking. We had a brief conversation before I Intimidated him. I completly obliterated it with 24 damage. The Dragon was at 4 HP, so that was pretty badass. In last week’s session we found a Goblin that had a seemingly infinite stash of wares. I wanted to look behind his table to see what was going on, and I rolled a Natural 1. I fell into a pocket dimension where I saw his infinite amount of wares just floating around before the Goblin pulled me out and told me to leave his shop. In that sane session, we also found an old man in a cave, waiting for a letter. One of our clerics knew from a rumor that the one that would give him the letter would be rewarded. So instead of doing the entire quest, I hit him with a FIREBALL for a total of 36 damage. Instantly killing him. It only got crazier, my entire group, except for the Bard, turned on me. That same Bard was also attracted to my character and was gay. My character didn’t feel that way about him. So the Fighter/Rogue charged at me and I attacked him. The Elf Wizard tried to bring me to the authorities, I declined. The other Cleric (who also Multiclassed into Monk) was furious about this betrayal (his and my character where bros up until this point), which made it kinda sad. My character tried to justify his actions, but the group didn’t agree with his methods at all. So without warning, the Demon Lord Graz’zt showed up and asked me to be his servant. I agreed, as did the Bard (Graz’zt offered me as a reward). The group ran off except for the Cleric/Monk who told the others that he would never forgive himself if he didn’t fight till the bitter end. This turned into an utterly badass moment, because he was only Level 6 at this point. Graz’zt tried to use Crown of Madness on the Cleric/Monk and the Cleric/Monk BARELY SUCCEEDED his saving throw. Then he made an attack, almost killing the Cleric/Monk. My character’s turn was now. I missed with my cantrip. And described how frustrated he was at this point. So I then made my damage roll for Scorching Ray, and I rolled a *NATURAL 1.* I took 36 damage. With my arm blown to pieces and with only 6 health left, Graz’zt teleported to my character and stabbed him through the head, killing him. The Cleric/Monk multiclasser summoned his God, the God charged at the Demon Lord and both vanished. Now with only the Bard and the Cleric/Monk left, he wanted to kill him. He would’ve done so too if it wasn’t for his God telling him that redemption was possible. And so just knocked the Bard unconcious. Now I play as my Sorcerer’s sister Eldritch Knight. Who’s not at all like her brother. Now, I spoke out loud how awesome it would be if my Sorcerer was revived as one of Graz’zt’s minions, and the DM seemed to have liked that idea, as he told the others that the Demon Lord had taken my body with him. Which probably means that he’ll be a Miniboss of sone kind. Needless to say, this was the best session yet, and I can’t wait for this week’s!
I played in a large party of 7-9 people per session, our bard never had much to do in combat because he mostly existed to role play and help in other aspects. Before battle one time he found some things in the dirt and a few bottle of components from around the party to make a bomb, i wild shaped into a giant eagle and dropped it on the skeleton army from the sky, honestly one of my favorite experiences in that campaign.
5:11 i love this part i just love how cheap it is they just grabed some branches and no rope its the kind of cheap that isnt anoying but funny as hell kind of cheap
As a DM who’s not always the best at planning but is alright at improvisation, these sorts of players can be a real help for me. I can totally see why these types of players would be a problem to those who like campaigns that are very planned out and set in stone, but I’ve always found that discovering half the adventure alongside my players to be more entertaining. In a way these players are perfect for me.
DM: "you track the goblins footprints and arrive at a small cave entrance" Me:"okay i fill the whole Thing up with flammable Material, pour all my oil on it, and Set it on fire. Then i Cover the entrance with my tarp and get ready to stab any Goblins that come running out from the smoke"
Everyone bitches when we interrupt the story to help some random unwritten homeless npc accomplish his newfound childhood dream of being an astronaut. But no one complains when there are adventures to be had, *IN SPAAAAACE*
4:38 I actually love this as an idea. The party went off to do their own thing? Well, they weren't there to protect the city when it was being sieged. Just as long as it isn't pulled out of nowhere.
to me as DM an instigator is mainly a blessing. dealing with every possible situation possible? np, give me a couple seconds. but i'm not assertive enough to move people along should they start to slow down. (yes, i'm a nonassertive DM)
My brother in law is the instigator of our party. He's caused a combat encounter in a bar twice. One of those times getting the party arrested while he booked it and hid in the slums of the city. Though the encounters were planned for and the party were released after several hours from jail because they were needed for a mission and had done several favors for the city's guard and their queen. So no harm done. However, one time his shenanigans did result in his character pulling from the deck of many things and getting the donjon card. It left our party without our fighter against an adult blue dragon. We nearly got party wiped by that dragon, lost the powerful artifact it wanted from us to not be party wiped, and we still had to go find him putting aside our current mission.
Definitely me, a DM described me as "A person who wants to make all who oppose you regret their actions, you would not kill your worst enemy, no you would make them commit suicide because you bought the house across the street" and that is just too awesome not to use.
I am the instigator in both games I play. One is a cult leader and the other is the fabled Godking from a faraway land. Both are SOCIAL WIZARDS but talk in the most frustrating accents for the rest of the group. The trick, I found, is to provide a lot of ACTUALLY helpful information in the most unhelpful way possible. The others tend to start "Ok Artyom, let's go before you-" and then are flabbergasted that a +12 to persuasion and a generous amount of gold tend to solve many of our problems. /shrug
I've played with an instegator, we had alot of fun, because it gave our DM NPC attachments and other motivations that helped drive the campaign forward.
I honestly love my instigator player. He’s the only one that advances the main story line so while the other players are running around doing side quest he’ll randomly fly in on his dragon from time to time with new characters and plot hooks. He’s basically the Gandalf of the party. If you got players who are ok with splitting up and waiting it’s extremely fun. (Also I fully intended the majority of the party to do mostly personal side quest while the main story happens in the background. Makes the world feel more open when the players can basically go anywhere and do whatever they want.)
This is my whole group. I had a scene were a local hero was talking them out of prison, after ward they said it was like a boring monologue. I was just trying to help developers the detective's character as they would come back later.
Barb 5 rouge x. Gets you 2 attacks from barb, then maximise the sneak attack dmg. If your barb path has a nice 6th bonus you can go to that, and 7th works well with assassin, so you might want to consider going to 6,7, or even 8. Note that sneak attack requires you to use a Finesse weapon, but not to use dex, while rage requires to use str. So your best bet is using a rapier. You can also either use a shield for +2 ac, or have a free hand for Grappling (since you have str advantage from rage, expertise from rouge can be put into athletics, and cunning dash, you make a very good grappler). You could also use 2 short swords or scimitars for dual wielding.
An instigator can provide so much improv material the DM can craft on the spot, to the point where prep is nearly nonexistent or pretty much was already taken care of in the previous session.
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I dmed a game with 3 Instigators.. In a game of 3 players. It basically played itself.
I can’t decide if that sounds awful or amazing
Emma Rose we need to know MORE
@@kaimcdragonfist4803 a lot of improve but a lot of fun
That is literally my group when I use to play. It definitely turned into a fun wacky adventures because we had a serious issue of wanderlust, curiosity combined with lack of morality and no desire of self preservation. We were low tiered likable villains that basically saved the world.
I want to be you.
Please.
"Turn a commoner's life around" *flashbacks to when Grog gave the drunk guy a card from the Deck of Many Things*
that dudes life went 540 degrees
@@firstnamelastname7298 Or 180 degrees (haha I am funny math nerd oh boy). I got the joke, before you ask.
It’s still changing his life if he instantly dies.
Im curious to know what happen?
@@mediatorraptor3349 the commoner pulled the card that grants you Wishes
My party once constructed an airship out of the corpse of a gigantic bear, an uprooted tree, a levitation potion, a rudimentary knowledge of carpentry and taxidermy, and some rope. We called it the Bearship.
Im imagining the look on the dms face when you did that.
How about Bearforce 1 ?
I’ve done similar, but less absurd. All of us has backgrounds which gave use proficiency in artisans tools, which we all had different stuff. So on day we made a small hot air balloon air ship which was our traveling basecamp up until the final battle were it was shot down by the dragon boss. It had a big balloon bit, and a small hut on the bottom. It had beds, a cooking set and an alchemists station.
I bet the smell was unbearable
and that's how teams rocket's balloon came to life
That person who kills all of whiterun because Nazeem is annoying
Jaydon Vermillion And leaves Nazeem alive.
The only reason I do the companions quest is to become a werewolf and eat the preacher.
I'm doing a Skyrim based d&d campaign right now
*blushes in homicidal maniac*
just kill all of them in their sleep no one will suspect, they have a very bad detective work on skyrim. Like, real bad, they should put their shit together
Reminds me of the time I had a holy weapon possessed by a god and a demonic weapon possessed by an archdevil, The DM told me it that nothing good would come if I brought them together and that I couldnt physically make them touch by forcing them together. So i thought this through like a physics puzzle and put one on the ground and dropped the other one on top and let gravity do the rest. Long story short I cause a nuclear level explosion that killed the whole party because I wanted something interesting to happen.
I think your dm might be an instigator too.
He was experimenting with giving the players all kinds of powerful weapons that were all for the most part plot related. Any ways he ended up retconing it after 10 minutes because he couldn't figure out how to save his campaign. Instead I thought he was just going to kill me by having the archdevil just come out of the staff and off me, but the God showed up too and saved me and i nearly shit my pants. Glad it didnt end there because our party was beautifully dysfunctional.
Jason Lee :)
Worth a shot, the alternative is you have a hover board sword
Jason Lee
I would've found some kids and given it to them as a present and cartoon tip toe outta town while they let the cosmic alignment penises touch
that or just threaten to touch them like a cold war situation anytime someone argued with me about morals lol
6:25
“Ouch my bones”
-Dark Lord
... I heard balls
I heard bollacks or was it gonads
I knew my party would try to jump the BBEG when I introduced him, so I used a hologram.
They still interrupted his speech.
_Repeatedly._
I was in a group that did the same thing except throughout the game the big bad made illusions of himself to speak to us then wed interupt him. So at the end we all assumed it was just another illusion...until he broke our ships table probably the first time we shut up.
I find the show, don't tell rule applies to role playing pretty well. Don't have your villain spell out their plan, let the heroes piece that together on their own. The only time the villain should ever go out of their way to talk to the heroes is when they have something, or someone they can use to lean negotiations in their favor.
@@sharkjumpingwalrus6744 Oh, I know. But my villain was supposed to be a very theatrical character, so I gave him a cheesy monologue on purpose xD
I'm about to introduce (well, they were in a PC backstory, but not a villain then, so maybe more reintroduce??) a villain as a bunch of smoke. I'm worried there will be interruption
It's not as bad as having that one instagator that also attacks allied characters constantly
"why did you kill all those people?"
"they were in the way of the explosion"
"how did you even kill them?"
"*explosion*"
"what was that?"
"Death"
"What kind"
"Instant"
I discovered a giant whale can safely cared a man with a machine gun and 476 sticks of dynamite a lot of ropes died in our campaign, somewhere between a million and too many, used it to kick off a character arc
@@prankonic4735 overlord
4:00
Fjord better at least once say "you have yee'd your last haw"
Mate, you're not on a CR video.
@@MazrimTaim shit ur up
@Nobody Really Nah, people would understand the reference. "You've yee'd your last haw" isn't exactly unknown, and it's not hard to figure out.
"how r U doing 127 damage?!"
the right answer is: "I'm a Mystic"
JoaoG R Or a Min/Maxer, 20th Level Fighter/Multiclasser.
At level 6? Sounds like a very possible number for a Paladin as well. Of course, it would require a near max damage crit, but it's possible. I've done something similar once.
Hexblade pact of the blade warlock
I did 127 dog as a pally at lvl 5 once with a crit
Queue the falling anvil sound
Villain" "Why did you do this?"
Players: Because we hate you
Villain: That's fair, I'm very hateable.
My whole party are instigators. It's great cus I make up most up most things on the fly with only a basic premise and loose idea of what's going to happen. Shit goes off the rails pretty often but it's always a good time. One time I gave them a plot hook and just straight up ignored it and went on a quest to find the worlds greatest weed. Once while I was a player we saw a goblin ambushing a cart... we helped the goblin.
Warning! Extremely bad grammar!
Our DM was a...how do I even describe it...chaotic instigator with homebrew rules. Half of our party were his friends, weirdos like him, and other half, me included, were so charmed by all the buffoonery they inducing, that sometimes become even insane than them. It was a shitstorm, every time I played with them I felt like my IQ dropping a dozen or two, but I loved it.
@@Sintarzus Your grammar is amazing my man
@@Sintarzus I wish to aspire to that level as a dm.
When he said "Barbarian Rogue" it made me laugh uncontrollably. A player in our group played one, and it became an inside meme.
I'm doing a melee stealth build super mutant in a fallout rp group.
It's exactly as crazy as it sounds.
We hacked a sentry bot that was balanced specifically to kill our group off because the mods didn't like us setting part of oasis on fire.
@@ebolachanislove6072 lmao
@@ebolachanislove6072 Nightkin OP man
You have to have decent dex and strength to create something with that much silent rage.
@@hunterkoons2008 lol, it's funny, he called himself a "Steathbarian" and took expertise in stealth and athletics. He would constantly sneak up behind people, and then grapple them to choke them out. It was hilarious. He had 13 dex, 20 strength, and used a rapier and shield (using str with the finesse weapon to have STRONK sneak attacks).
I'm a DM, and I'm not gonna lie: I love playing with an instigator. Personally, there's almost nothing more entertaining to me than when my players do some shit I wasn't expecting, and I LOVE players that really take initiative.
I can offer two pieces of advice for DMs with all types of players: One, never bring something to the table you're not prepared to entirely throw out. Two, if you haven't stated the explicit whereabouts of something, you can drag and drop it in front of the players no matter where they go. It just takes a little patience sometimes.
There are two of them in my Edge of the Empire Campaign, and it is wonderful to just sit back and watch two scoundrel builds bounce off of each other.
I would watch a feature film with Dr.Cowboy as the main antagonist.
dm: And then a devil appears! Roll initiative!
me: Can I make a deal with her?
Bard : HER?!? 😏
*Actually i was going to that anyway*
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Cleric: Careful, your red dragon wife might get angry.
@@IrvingIV we all know bards don't pay child support
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Good bards use the adventuring money for it.
@@IrvingIV wizard: its ok im not married *Rolls seduction*
I didn't know people stored bread in the fridge.
It does not go moldy
It will still get moldy. Though your storing it in a cold place which will make the molding take longer.
It's great if you have chronic insect infestations like my neighbourhood does.
Huh we've always stored it in the bread box. You know the box specifically designed for bread. I'll keep the fridge thing in mind though.
@@davidnunya1943 hey dave bread boxes are actually one of the worst places to store bread
"sorry. I almost had a brain aneurysm, because you just said that combination to me."
Oh God I love you guys so much. I don't care which channel it is on just keep making these amazing, and hilarious videos.
barbarian rogue
Jacob's cut reaction to barbarian rogue is the greatest thing ever
This is a prime example of splitting the party
Paladin (emotional) vs glue sucks oil rules
@@Stupisms Reading the second line made me almost have a brain aneurysm.
@@VOZmonsoon I rewatched that part maybe ten times 😂
4:13 now that is dedication to a bit.. that slow fall and not bracing for landing.
Yeah he hit the ground like a particulary clumsly bag of bricks
You make amateur acting not be cringey, well done!
nah it's cringey, just very purposefully done that way
0:57
"the guy who challenges the dm to a battle of wits"
*shows the card art for battle of wits*
ha
I like the original
Was I the only one who thought this was about the investigator class
No. I read it as investigator too.
No I read the same😂
The jester is very much a investigator
Dyslexia strikes again
The “turning someone’s life around” part was actually quite wholesome and happy, I loved it
This channel is genius. someone talking about what they know and putting together skits that actually make sense and give me a chuckle every now and then. Lots of heart and genuine interest in these videos. Subscribed. Keep it up dude.
I once had a DM call me a bastard for solving a puzzle she spent hours on in less than half a minute
I solved a puzzle in 30 minutes that was supposed to take us 3 sessions.
I just kept staring at it when my character wasn't doing anything (and thus she was working on it too.) And I suddenly looked up and shouted "Its not a riddle it's a palindrome!"
The look of exasperation on my GMs face was amazing.
Well done. Part of my pride in this achievement was being the token atheist in a largely religious group. Getting slurs from a religious gm with the majority of PCs was an achievement on its own
NICE, my players usually take 3 hours on a ridle that i should take half minute :D
@@patrikg.6320 I don't even want to make riddle for my players that can't be easily solved in a way even a newborn wouldn't be able to catch on to just because..well..yeah...We think very differently what I might find obvious they wont and the other way around so have to think that through a lot..
Now I only make riddles/puzzles like "You see a hooded man force his hand into the spike screaming in agony before collapsing dead before the portal opens and then closes again almost right after again"
Now there is an obvious easy solution to solve it..just have someone sacrifice themself! Now the question is raher or not you have anyone who want to sacrifice themself or if you are going to find someone to trick into it or if you are just going to force someone to do it.
There are probably several other ways to do it as well if you just think and learn about the machine..I mean a portal that you can't use alone isn't the most useful thing but maybe you don't feel like you have the time for that and just force the poor slave you have with you to do it for you.
@@bibbobella heh, welp I do a lot and I mean a LOT of descripton on everything and thus sometimes my players asume that thigs that are just there for flavor are somehow useful for the plot :D like one time I described a torch holder as being very wel crafted and the kept pulling it thinking it was a switch. It depends a lot on the players, some can have a dragon burn down a town before their eyes and dont realise that they should slay it and some check every stone you described just slightly more in detail then the other stones
ThE BOw IsN'T sTrUng RiGhT
U cAN't DrY FiRe a BoW
That's a sword.
I trigger
If you dry fire a bow it can and probably will damage the bow. That's why peoppe get uppity about it
@@jaxrammus9165 We're aware. Our bow was bought cheap at a flea mart and will be used for nothing other than videos, so we're not gonna be upset if it's damaged.
When you realise you're the only one disappointed by this brilliant plan being cut off. 8:52
Nah me too.
Rule of thumb, always add a beggar to your campaign in almost any city setting and make the beggar have a somewhat legitimate reason for being poor (such as getting laid off or more expensive housing costs). The reason for this is it create an opportunity to really let the players show a side of them when it comes to generosity. Some may be kind to them while others will spit in their face, so it may even cause moral conflict within the party. Plus it adds some realism into a city that most likely has an unemployment rate.
I lost it when Jacob heard mystic. Good meme.
I hate mystic just as much as he does
How about a mystic druid?
4:07, c'mere, I have a secret
5:31, best villain
7:47, I know that Jacob feel
9:18, these skits keep getting better
I hope the nefarious Doctor Cowboy makes a return in future videos
@@VOZmonsoon MI TU!
I wish my instigator was more "let's go fish" than "I would like to steal all the ale and throw the barkeep in the hole."
that reaction to "uuh barbarian-rogue" would fit perfectly into r/perfectlycutscreams
Wowee both a how to play and know your players
meeeeeee as hell. I was recently in a one shot that I ended up pulling the party into the sewers in attempt to get out of a heavily guarded city and the dm had to make a dungeon on the fly, and the shenanigans that ensued set the game back almost two hours
Amazingly, we had a case of this that sped up the overall campaign (though the DM had to make stuff up on the fly as well).
We were hunting 1 half of an artifact and find it, along with a Warlock and 4 wererats after the same artifact. DM intended it to be a straightforward encounter, but party decides to talk because we had previously encountered the wererats (not in a friendly manner mind you). It turns out the warlock is working with a thieves guild and hired the wererats as goons, but as we deduce, the wererats are beeing screwed over in the deal.
We manage to convince them to turn against the warlock who prombtly surrenders as it is now 9 on 1. He offers us information on the other half of the artifact in exchange for his safety. Turns out the other half of the artifact has been found by the warlocks compatriots, but is still in transit to the thief hideout (the hideout was an intended dungeon by the DM).
We put together a quick heist at an inn where the people carrying the artifacts are staying (involving a Tankard of Sobreity to cheat at a drinking contest) and aquire the other half of the artifact without even a combat encounter.
The DM subsquently praised us for our quick wit in turning the wererats on the Warlock (which he rewarded us with the additional info, normally we would just have gotten the hideout location from a piece of paper) and for putting together the heist, basically skipping a dungeon.
It was really fun and might lead to some more trouble with the thieves down the line since we did not take out their headquarters.
It helps to know how to improvise both Player and GM side. My knight was attacked on a street by slave traders and decided to run away screaming until he attracted attention from both townsfolk and the police. So I was safe. Dunno how much I messed up the GM's plans but it was fun to challenge the "me stoic me accept this unfair fight" brave knight stereotype.
For anyone else wondering about the song playing during the "taking down the goblin camp alone" sequence (07:02):
The lyrics are:
"Just take it from me, I'm just as free as any daughter .
I do what I like, just what I like and how I love it. "
And the song is "Living in the sunlight" by Tiny Tim
thank you
... I'm playing a barbarian/rogue.
...I greet people with grapple checks because it's what I know.
10:10 that scream of pain broke me
So like a chaotic version of the storyteller. Yeah this is me.
"Why are you doing this?
Because we hate you.
...
That's fair I'm very hateable"
Im done xD lol. So many good moments in this vid!
I can imagine someone just watching these kids in Burger King crowns and weird costumes running and jumping around by a storm drain by their apartment reenacting dnd scenes
1:51 good to know i’m actually a good thing. i often feel as though i’m hogging the attention by barbarian-ing my way in and out of things when everybody goes dead-quiet for no reason.
3:48
Hero: Why man why’d you kill them?
Instigator: Because they were there in the way of the explosions
handsome hero: How’d you kill them
Instigator: With explosions
*cough cough* evoker 🧙♂️
"Why would you throw bread at me?!"
*dude aborts mission*
"...can I legally chase him?"
"Okay, I'm thinking a... Barbarian Rogue-"
" -*NOOOO* "
actor/instigator that's me! never a dull session when my eloquently voiced character with a very shitty accent is off doing god knows what
Bra'ad?
It's 1 in the morning dude
23:09
Suck it up bitch boy
alex, wheres the vine comp.
@@skeletorg no u
that THUNK when the third guy hit the ground was so satisfying
The turning a commoners life around bit was honestly just way too sweet. ❤️
"Why did you kill them?"
"Because they were there, in the way of the explosion."
I am using this line.
I think you have two kinds as well. The instigator who pokes everything to keep himself busy and the instigator who likes to think around the problem.
Great music during the goblin camp. Best cut scene!
4:11 That delayed fall had me dying, so legit. Took a moment... but really committed.
"Doctor Cowboy, who is also a wizard." XD I am dead!
He will be laughing still... at the end.
The first campaign I dm'd, there was one person who basically lead the entire party. The others just went with it, since he was a Goliath Barbarian Fighter, with a pet Manticore (long story, he rolled a Nat 20 on animal handling and named it Spike) and basically couldn't be stopped. He ended up killing himself while trying to remove a cursed necklace from around his neck.
This is SO me! At the start of the campaign we where attacked by Bugbears, three had died and only two remained. One with it’s arm missing and the other completely unharmed. My Sorcerer persuaded both with a Natural 20 to leave, as they would’ve died otherwise. Later on we where attacked by Merfolk on a bridge, and I froze the water, stopping them from attacking further. After that we went to the Dungeon where a Red Dragon Wyrmling was guarding the artifact we sought. Because of my Draconic Bloodline I maneged to persuade the Dragon to stop attacking. We had a brief conversation before I Intimidated him. I completly obliterated it with 24 damage. The Dragon was at 4 HP, so that was pretty badass.
In last week’s session we found a Goblin that had a seemingly infinite stash of wares. I wanted to look behind his table to see what was going on, and I rolled a Natural 1. I fell into a pocket dimension where I saw his infinite amount of wares just floating around before the Goblin pulled me out and told me to leave his shop. In that sane session, we also found an old man in a cave, waiting for a letter. One of our clerics knew from a rumor that the one that would give him the letter would be rewarded. So instead of doing the entire quest, I hit him with a FIREBALL for a total of 36 damage. Instantly killing him. It only got crazier, my entire group, except for the Bard, turned on me. That same Bard was also attracted to my character and was gay. My character didn’t feel that way about him. So the Fighter/Rogue charged at me and I attacked him. The Elf Wizard tried to bring me to the authorities, I declined. The other Cleric (who also Multiclassed into Monk) was furious about this betrayal (his and my character where bros up until this point), which made it kinda sad. My character tried to justify his actions, but the group didn’t agree with his methods at all. So without warning, the Demon Lord Graz’zt showed up and asked me to be his servant. I agreed, as did the Bard (Graz’zt offered me as a reward). The group ran off except for the Cleric/Monk who told the others that he would never forgive himself if he didn’t fight till the bitter end. This turned into an utterly badass moment, because he was only Level 6 at this point. Graz’zt tried to use Crown of Madness on the Cleric/Monk and the Cleric/Monk BARELY SUCCEEDED his saving throw. Then he made an attack, almost killing the Cleric/Monk. My character’s turn was now. I missed with my cantrip. And described how frustrated he was at this point. So I then made my damage roll for Scorching Ray, and I rolled a *NATURAL 1.* I took 36 damage. With my arm blown to pieces and with only 6 health left, Graz’zt teleported to my character and stabbed him through the head, killing him. The Cleric/Monk multiclasser summoned his God, the God charged at the Demon Lord and both vanished. Now with only the Bard and the Cleric/Monk left, he wanted to kill him. He would’ve done so too if it wasn’t for his God telling him that redemption was possible. And so just knocked the Bard unconcious. Now I play as my Sorcerer’s sister Eldritch Knight. Who’s not at all like her brother. Now, I spoke out loud how awesome it would be if my Sorcerer was revived as one of Graz’zt’s minions, and the DM seemed to have liked that idea, as he told the others that the Demon Lord had taken my body with him. Which probably means that he’ll be a Miniboss of sone kind. Needless to say, this was the best session yet, and I can’t wait for this week’s!
That Homeless man story was the most heartwarming thing I’ve seen all week
Add "The Pungeon Master" to the list of player profiles. Basically, the guy who won't stop cracking jokes no matter what.
I played in a large party of 7-9 people per session, our bard never had much to do in combat because he mostly existed to role play and help in other aspects. Before battle one time he found some things in the dirt and a few bottle of components from around the party to make a bomb, i wild shaped into a giant eagle and dropped it on the skeleton army from the sky, honestly one of my favorite experiences in that campaign.
Wait, Amino is still considered "New"? Thought it was around for years now.
*AMINO 2*
*CLONE WARS*
It's new for as long as people don't use it.
Maybe it's the specific community that's new
you legend uploading at this time
great video I'm gonna try this to spice up my groups games
5:11 i love this part i just love how cheap it is they just grabed some branches and no rope its the kind of cheap that isnt anoying but funny as hell kind of cheap
As a DM who’s not always the best at planning but is alright at improvisation, these sorts of players can be a real help for me. I can totally see why these types of players would be a problem to those who like campaigns that are very planned out and set in stone, but I’ve always found that discovering half the adventure alongside my players to be more entertaining. In a way these players are perfect for me.
Oof I am an instigator because I helped make all the characters and they ask me for insight in the world ( I was the DM before this ) more then the DM
8:52 WAIT NO I WANTED TO KNOW WHAT THE END OF HIS PLAN WAS!!!
This video is pure gold. Just found out about your channel and I'm loving it
"I'd like you to fuck off and make a new character."
*D E A D* 😂
4:15 is a slapstick Blessing
DM: "you track the goblins footprints and arrive at a small cave entrance"
Me:"okay i fill the whole Thing up with flammable Material, pour all my oil on it, and Set it on fire. Then i Cover the entrance with my tarp and get ready to stab any Goblins that come running out from the smoke"
Well damn, this was a fun video. I've wanted to find videos like this for a while. Keep up the good work!
Everyone bitches when we interrupt the story to help some random unwritten homeless npc accomplish his newfound childhood dream of being an astronaut.
But no one complains when there are adventures to be had, *IN SPAAAAACE*
4:16 That was a professional stunt fall.
Falling hurts his soul but "rogue barbarian" killed ours.
I went to school for acting and 4:15 this guys commitment to that fall is pretty damn impressive, lol
4:16 Oscar worthy fall. No joke. That dude didn't even flinch. Litterally died on screen.
This sounds a lot like me, as when i'm playing, i'm SUPER involved in everything. '-'
Good to know that this can lead to problems sometimes.
It's a darkest dungeon thumbnail! :)
A trifling victory, but a victory nonetheless.
@@theburgerfarm that quote is perfect for this i swear
@@dawsonbrown2116 Word is travelling. Ambition is stirring in distant cities. We can use this.
@@theburgerfarm Many fall in the face of chaos, but not this one, not today
@@dawsonbrown2116 www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected_Ancestor/
4:38 I actually love this as an idea. The party went off to do their own thing? Well, they weren't there to protect the city when it was being sieged. Just as long as it isn't pulled out of nowhere.
4:15 that’s a very realistic fall 😂
Yeah, i'm definitely that guy.
Nice Thumbnail. Love Darkest Dungeon.
It is wonderful to see that your videos are still justbas good as they were when you were on XP level 3. Good luck in the future
a dm that is good at improvising and adapting with a group that has multiple instigators sounds like a load of fun.
to me as DM an instigator is mainly a blessing. dealing with every possible situation possible? np, give me a couple seconds. but i'm not assertive enough to move people along should they start to slow down.
(yes, i'm a nonassertive DM)
Sounds like your DM needs to join that support group for GMS that the GM from the Man Shorts channel joined a couple months back.
My brother in law is the instigator of our party. He's caused a combat encounter in a bar twice. One of those times getting the party arrested while he booked it and hid in the slums of the city. Though the encounters were planned for and the party were released after several hours from jail because they were needed for a mission and had done several favors for the city's guard and their queen. So no harm done. However, one time his shenanigans did result in his character pulling from the deck of many things and getting the donjon card. It left our party without our fighter against an adult blue dragon. We nearly got party wiped by that dragon, lost the powerful artifact it wanted from us to not be party wiped, and we still had to go find him putting aside our current mission.
Definitely me, a DM described me as "A person who wants to make all who oppose you regret their actions, you would not kill your worst enemy, no you would make them commit suicide because you bought the house across the street" and that is just too awesome not to use.
I am the instigator in both games I play. One is a cult leader and the other is the fabled Godking from a faraway land. Both are SOCIAL WIZARDS but talk in the most frustrating accents for the rest of the group. The trick, I found, is to provide a lot of ACTUALLY helpful information in the most unhelpful way possible. The others tend to start "Ok Artyom, let's go before you-" and then are flabbergasted that a +12 to persuasion and a generous amount of gold tend to solve many of our problems. /shrug
7:04 music pls?
This was one of the greatest D&D related videos I have ever witnessed. Well done, to everyone involved.
I've played with an instegator, we had alot of fun, because it gave our DM NPC attachments and other motivations that helped drive the campaign forward.
I died at barbarian rogue
I'm currently playing the equivalent in a fallout rp.
Many have died, more were enslaved.
Isn’t this just... the Chaotic alignments? 😂
I honestly love my instigator player.
He’s the only one that advances the main story line so while the other players are running around doing side quest he’ll randomly fly in on his dragon from time to time with new characters and plot hooks.
He’s basically the Gandalf of the party. If you got players who are ok with splitting up and waiting it’s extremely fun.
(Also I fully intended the majority of the party to do mostly personal side quest while the main story happens in the background. Makes the world feel more open when the players can basically go anywhere and do whatever they want.)
This is my whole group. I had a scene were a local hero was talking them out of prison, after ward they said it was like a boring monologue. I was just trying to help developers the detective's character as they would come back later.
How is Barbarian Rogue overpowered?
I think it's because you can sneak attack every time you attack, and you only take 1/4 damage.
Not really "overpowered", more just fun.
@@ushiromiyabattler3424 you negate 3/4ths damge and can get like 2d8 damage or so almost every round
Leeroy Jenkins so does the multiclass rogue or barbarian as a primary class or is it more 50 50 for levels?
Barb 5 rouge x. Gets you 2 attacks from barb, then maximise the sneak attack dmg. If your barb path has a nice 6th bonus you can go to that, and 7th works well with assassin, so you might want to consider going to 6,7, or even 8.
Note that sneak attack requires you to use a Finesse weapon, but not to use dex, while rage requires to use str. So your best bet is using a rapier. You can also either use a shield for +2 ac, or have a free hand for Grappling (since you have str advantage from rage, expertise from rouge can be put into athletics, and cunning dash, you make a very good grappler). You could also use 2 short swords or scimitars for dual wielding.
I imagine the combination of Brutal Critical, Sneak Attack, and the Assassin's ability to automatically crit.
In my experience poeople who usually dm are the intigators when a player.
An instigator can provide so much improv material the DM can craft on the spot, to the point where prep is nearly nonexistent or pretty much was already taken care of in the previous session.
The Mystic Druid, to Barbarian Rogue made me crack up for some reason, and guess it was the delivery - good job.