My players bought cursed bracelets that “kept them living when you die!” It would turn them into zombies when they died. Later in the campaign, there was a TPK so I turned it into an evil campaign.
Yeah, seeing how kenny was sometimes a enemy of the party aswell as tying to be an ally idk if that character should of been around too much longer. would of hated fighting beside that
I have played in a game where someone made a character like that. We ended up telling the player they could either have their character stop doing that or they could make a new character that was more party friendly. Their character doing that was fun for that but sucked the fun out of the game for everyone else.
Fun video, it does look like you learned your lesson though on the first character. It is fine having a detrimental quirk in a character, just make sure the entire party is on board with it, otherwise you're not just risking your character but everyone's and that is just not good or fun.
Having a group put up with something as detrimental as Kenny, having the DM work with you to make your character come to life, then quitting after your character inevitably dies sounds pretty toxic. Change my mind.
That school's form of dodgeball must be both the most deadly sport imaginable, and the most entertaining. Might need to use that for a one shot at some point. *Maniacal laughter*
The only character death I ever had was my Hex-Blade, Warlock, Tabaxi named Ara'beth in a campaign where the DM performed a TPK using a gnome wizard who could fly.
I guess I'm blessed with my groups because Kenny nerfing himself like that would have been a problem, he'd be stuffed in my bag of holding for a bit lol.
I'm blessed with a group we have been playing Avernus for a year now. We rotate DMs and the new player wants to try to run a game too. They deserve a hug and a bag of dice just because we mesh so well.
Rofl. Being a dungeon master for oh. Frack me. Almost 40 years, which times have changed but D&D shows how very little really has changed. A great soc8al game to help us nerds. Thanks Gary gygax!
@@RabblesTheBinx Depends what you mean by an entirely different game. AD&D (“1e”) and 5e at least still have classes, levels, hit points, and a pre-determined list of spells (among other things) in common, of which all are lacking (in some ways for the better) in the fantasy game I’m playing in now that uses the rules from a superhero game called Mutants and Masterminds 3. Compared to that game, and many other games out there, other than for relatively minor rules changes and tweaks, AD&D and 5e are virtual clones.
Wait, why the hell did YT eat my comment? Ugh, well, I'm not typing that all out again. Short version: No. Sure there are games that are more different, but there are also a lot of games that are more similar. They don't play the same, the balance isn't the same, entire classes have shifted in focus.
@@RabblesTheBinx Well, yes, but it still depends what you mean. Arguing that Pathfinder or indy “old school” D&D knockoffs, or even non-fantasy games like Stars without Number (1st edition anyway) are more like Basic/Expert or AD&D than 5e is quite valid, but than again games like Big Eyes, Small Mouth 4e, Mutants and Masterminds 3, the Fantasy Flight Star Wars games, Fate, or even Cyberpunk (the tabletop RPG) are light years more different than AD&D is to 5e. At least AD&D and 5e share the same basic skeleton. Now if you were talking about 4e, I’d definitely say that’s the edition of D&D that’s the most different. At least you can look at AD&D, 2e, or even 3e or 5e and see it’s basically the same game skeleton, even if some of the details are quite different.
@@RabblesTheBinx Yeah, UA-cam will eat the most innocent comments sometimes for no apparent reason. Censorship sucks, especially when it’s as haphazard and slap-dash as what UA-cam does.
Literally the first roll of a new Elder Scrolls campaign, my character summons a frost Atronach that he lost control of and that then cinematically slaughtered the party because it was too strong. We started in a prison too and I was just trying to get us out.
Loved the story! Thanks for sharing! A lot of RPG players are too afraid of their characters dying and miss out on the fun plotlines death can provide with a good GM.
I just revised something! You could make a clay, concreat, or metal sculpture of a pet you want and then cast animate objects to have very contaminated pets.
I kind of have a theme for my characters in that they are all the same guy but every time he reincarnates he has amnesia and has to go on adventures to make money and new memories (Exp) that vary each time. How does he do it? He’s basically a cursed immortal who’s only real ability is to reincarnate with clones but at the expense of his memories. The only clue to this is his first name is always a Latin number telling everyone what life he is on now. (Example: Primus Rex, Secundus Rex, Tertius Rex, and so on) The goal with this style is that it actually makes dying funny and my character sheets easier to write. Same guy with amnesia, different class, and re rolled stats, always start as neutral. Even if I can’t win I can still at least have a laugh as being the South Park Kenny of the group.
So he sounded like what any child with magic powers would sound like? lol Not great at controlling his magic, but thinks he's awesome anyways because he can shoot fire from his hands so it doesn't matter that he sucks
Most if my characters actually got a happy ending But 1 time my cleric did die (sacrificed himself) to stop a powerful artifact that enabled the creation of liches. Also one of my characters fell into a lava pool in the fire domain but got revived by a demon prince
next time you go for a character thats gonna bring death omens to the group, try making a luck based character. Halfling (mayb divination wizard) with lucky feat just to be sure you dont fail that death save
I’m a forever DM myself, but just this year I finally got a friend to dm. My second session, halfway through a cave crawl looking for missing party members and plot items, the human Druid of the party cast “Thunderwave”. In the depths of the cave. Bruno, my Lupin (dog folk) fiend patron warlock, his pet mastiff, an old human sorcerer played by a friend, the owlin rogue played by my sister, and the reborn Dragonborn monk played by one of my brothers, all were crushed and knocked over a ledge, which the captured party members saw. The human Druid and the centaur ranger survived, and discovered the death toll of the rocks. The Druid immediately leveled up from level 1 to level 5, the centaur and the captured, now rescued, human bard and owlin cleric, they got to level up to level 2. So not only was this my first character death, it literally was a “rocks fall, everybody dies.” Scenario. And I know I did my job well when the survivors were more mad at the Druid, of all people, having killed and gotten xp for killin my dog, of all things. I wasn’t mad. I was kinda giddy over having like this being my first character death. Again, I’m usually the forever DM. Can’t wait to play more, so we’ll see how soon I can be back from being behind the DM screen.
I ad a Kenny like character, except their powers activated when they die. Instead of going on death saves they gain one hit point back and turn into a gunslinging demon with 50 temporary hit points. The only peoblem with this is that they can no longer distinguish between friend or foe. My other party members often have to kill them. Once the hp is gone its normal death saves with one automatic failure. It only activated once per long rest. There have been times where I've had close calls though. That's the story of the character that I played about five years ago.
I just had a session today, my character that was introduced last session because the session before that my previous schizophrenic went full insane by putting on a mind control helmet that made his soul whole (which was his whole goal so I’m not sad he died/went mad) But the character I introduced after the schizo died today, neither I or the party had a chance to get attached to him. Although I was the one who gave him the cursed shield that attracted all of those exploding arrows. (Tbf it was the dm who gave kobolds exploding arrows). Welp Now to make another druid
I have set up a necromancer in the dark alleys of a magic based town that uses the clone spell on you if you pay him 2.500 Gold. My players are now deciding if they should warn the queen about the cult (main story) reclaim an artifact from that city, get clones or search for a bad guy turned good. Edit: I just checked the costs of the spell and decided to raise the price to 3.5k Gold.
@@Shalakor It isn't, what's on your mind? Getting some bones from a long dead human? A Bulvore's saliva? Or even get some ancient book from an evil wizard's tower?
@@OrangeDragon04 Probably something the NPC would expect the PCs be okay with doing, but would be hard to do themselves. Doesn't NEED to be difficult for the party, just out of the NPC's reach. Maybe they're banned from the local [library/church/school/tavern/restaurant/alchemist shop/boatyard/fish market/town square/ex's house/own childhood family estate/bazaar/wizard collage they were kicked out of/hideout of the cult the party has already been fighting/playground/queen's castle/taxidermist] grounds? They are hanging out in city alleys, so at least some of their wants are probably close by. If they've burned a lot of bridges in their life, might have errands in multiple of the example places, or with the other NPCs within them that don't want to deal with a necromancer. Like, if you're only making the cloning expensive to match better with the spell component cost and not to make it harder for the PCs to obtain, the favor is more about what value it holds to the NPC needing it done than how valuable carrying the favor out is to the party members. Can be serious stuff, quirky stuff, or a mix of both. Might want to taste the best sandwich in the nation again after 10 years going without, or a sentimental heirloom, or of course spell components they're lacking. Though, if the party will go out of their way for your specific examples, that's good too. If multiple clones are ordered, maybe the NPC trusts them with more complex requests the more they deal with them, starting with only very mundane favors for the first couple clones and some serious sidequest stuff for more than that (maybe even lowering the gold price for a bigger ask)?
@@OrangeDragon04 I'm just a chronic over-thinker. To be honest, tends to be way more helpful for making suggestions to others than it is for myself. 😜Actually been a couple decades since the last time I've been the DM of a group I've played with.
Did Kenny have any home brew with him and what spells did he use to summon creatures. I thought the idea of a cursed summoner would be very cool. Edit: Also if anyone has ideas for D&D characters please share them in the comments and also if anyone knows any campaigns that don’t cost money to join pls say it in the comments.
It was a modified version of 5E with special low level spells for conjuring. For curse effects, I just flipped a coin to see if the magic would be cursed, and manually controlled the spells in a way that'd mess stuff up lol
@@Shakespeare-_- for your party’s sake please don’t try to recreate Kenny in anyway, it’s a very bad idea. The sheer existence of a Kenny in a party is a burden to everyone else including the DM. Had I been a player at Kenny’s table I would have been absolutely livid to experience the dicking over he gave to everyone.
I lost 30+ characters over the course of 3 about months. to be clear: we played D&D once a week, and I lost over 30 characters. My record is technically eight in 1 session. The best way to survive is to stop rolling dice. Start as Rogue and go to 3 for Mastermind. Then start taking Divine Sorcerer levels, making sure to nab healing word and Spare the Dying. You can now give 2 advantages each turn without being in the thick of things. additionally, you can pick someone up from being downed, then dash/disengage to a safe distance. Take Magic Initiate: Wizard when you can (Variant Human is the best but Rog/Sorc 4 works) to get Find Familliar for 3 Help actions per turn and the abillity to cast Spare the Dying and eventually Revivify from a distance. Congrats, you no longer have to roll dice for anything that you don't have expertise and/or up to 3 other bonuses in and the party will fight tooth and nail to keep you alive since you catalyze their characters so hard they're effectively 2 levels higher than whatever level you're currently playing at.
Being a person of chronic bad luck, I too have had a lot of character deaths. I've played in two campaigns where I lost three characters each, and out of the three campaigns I am currently In, I have had a total of four characters die. Oh well though, if I'm the only player chronically dying all the time, at least no one else will.
I love the strix haven campaign idea, just the concept that students are punished by the school having to pay an extra 500 gold. seriously how does that place make enough money?
So Kenny died because he didn't want to be a team player and used magic on his own teammates to get his way. Cadence died because of unlucky and the supports failing to support The last one was just southpark dying over and over again
Yaknow, the one thing I'll give to dnd is the fact you can Essentially kill a turrasque with nothing but a endless quiver, a magic bow, and a fly sleep. Also it's simple junk food in terms of gameplay. Very easy to mow down on but little actual substance other then simple satisfaction. I like looking at TTRPG like foods because it's funny. Also the TT In TTRPG is a mini table, your welcome random reader or UA-camr who is really cool and scrolling to see which of the comments will be the funniest. Because self aware commentary is funny, isn't that right Velma? Oh wait she was supposed to be a punchline.
I hear so much shit thrown at people who like to play optimized characters (myself included), and every time I ask why they're like "well but like roleplay though," and I always point out you can roleplay well with optimized characters. The response I get is usually some form of "but like not as well as non-optimized characters though," which I disagree with, but, humoring them, I tend to follow up with "tell me about some of your non-optimized characters' epic sagas then!" And following this they're always like "well I had this one really cool guy! Who I put a lot of thought into the backstory and planned character arc for! ...and then he died before it happened BUT but there was this OTHER guy I made who was really cool! I mean he died before the backstory I wrote for him became relevant but THIS OTHER GUY I MADE had the most HEART WRENCHING BACKSTORY etc etc and then he died before I got to tell the story I wanted to..." and it takes so much energy not to cut them off at some point and be like "that's weird, the *cough* optimized *cough* characters I make usually survive to actually tell their stories, wonder what's up with yours"
idk love me some realism and mechanics that add more immersion. I'd love doin me some taxes xD As a cute anime babe... It can be hard for me to find the right campaign xD
I am fairly certain that the resurrections are paid for by people who find amusement in watching the students struggle and die. Of course, wish doesn't cost anything and has no chance to backfire if you use it to cast a level 7 or lower spell, but that would have some terrifying implications that the staff are overpowered Spellcasters with way to much free time on their hands.
I remember this one time I had a very toxic players where they had a he's a fit because I was playing a monster species race and I was playing a female you can see what this is going I was playing my character known as Maria striker the female Kobold bard who likes giving out hugs and getting head pets in return who is playing a support and healing class also keep in mind that DM was a little toxic as well I'm surprised I stayed in that campaigns for so long I should have got out as soon as possible basically the players were making some very unsavory comments to my character stuff that made me uncomfortable a couple times where they refused to heal me when I got injured because of their hatred to women and my character species after some arguing they healed my character but they are also the dumbest group I've ever met who in the right mind would cast a fireball in a room does located in the sewers with pounds and pounds of trash that is producing methane gas you can imagine what happens next knowing I was going to die I grabbed one of the shields from the party members and hidden a crack in the wall that was big enough to hide me the whole party got a little toasty even with their hatred of me I was able to heal them then later on we were supposed to travel through this desert I was the only one who came up the idea of gathering supplies the players thought to wing it I was able to bring enough food and water for us to survive across the desert until we came across a death knight the players decided to go and attack it as I stay behind feeling that something bad is about to happen I was right and those guys get their s*** kicked in by the death knight thing was way too powerful for us let's just say it took several tries of smacking this thing and me dragging the bodies back so I can heal them later on one of the players thought it would be a good idea to summon a demon to help us fly there that ended in failure and then demon end up trying to kill us when we get to this destination it happens to be a large Tower filled with monsters to stop a multi head dragon Lady for bringing put into this world there was missions and stuff like that that we had to follow but keep this is when the moment where I finally got fed up the moment that my DM had my character lose all her clothes and her favorite musical instrument that was given to her by her master that's when I decided to leave I also like to inform you that while this camping was going on my DM was one of those people that likes control people and force them to change without their consent he was trying to say that my Bard should be a front fighter keeps sending me these information about bards and stuff like that that I don't really care about I like to play as how I like to play then he had it where my character was forced into a relationship with a god and then forced into a relationship with a god forcing my character to play a Lyra instead of my guitar that my character got from her master keep in mind the reason why I chose bars is because I don't like dealing with gods I have problems dealing with them in the past pleasing them keeping them happy stuff like that I quickly told the DM I would not accept a God as a deity I think he just took that information and threw it away so he made it where the God if he's not pleased he can smite me pretty much I have no choice to have him is this one of those red flags that came up for this character I had a mission where I had to collect a few of these magical spell books that were very powerful that my character's Master used to have but someone stole them and my mission was to track them down keep in mind the master is more like a father figure who helped her out when she was in pain and lonely so when the DM had my characters guitar destroyed and had my characters clothing removed and then having them start doing some very uncomfortable and unsavory things to my character I finally just give up with a campaign and told them to go bleep themselves and left the campaign I was just sick and tired of the DM changing the rules harassing the crap out of me for choosing the type of healing and support kind of character like I like attacking creatures from a distance it's safer he was very control creep and the players were toxic so much that made me feel uncomfortable I know they're probably like those old people that don't think that monster races should be a playable character but still knowing them I have a feeling they might have their way with my character and then have her killed later on I had a feeling that was probably the planned before I left the players were acting very creepy when my character had no clothes on anymore as you can clearly understand why I left of course before I left I at least my bot that I have where it deletes all the messages in the server it basically prevents them to use any of the pictures I've posted or any comments I use I don't like having paper trails behind me. Anyway sorry about the vault text I hope you enjoy the story I can have given you but keep this in mind you're going to end up running into a toxic player base and DM keep your mind calm and collective and make sure that they can't get underneath your skin just be nice and if they're not the right people for you just leave the party but make sure you delete any messages that you left behind you don't want to leave that paper trail behind.
Yeah gotta say a 50/50 shot of a spell backfiring is pretty high and a bad idea. I would have either lowered the rate or made a separate table to determine HOW they backfire. This way not every spell is a complete detriment to the party.
If your characters keep dying, survive.
Idk why I never thought of this
Just get good
What was that purple creature in that last part of the vid? It was one of the PCs.
@@mrmackinac5266genuine skill issue
This reminds me of, “What do you mean you lost the baby? GO FIND IT.”
I admire your restraint in not making the obligatory "Oh my god, they killed Kenny" joke.
Especially since he has most of his face covered too-
The first was due to bad decisions, the second was due to bad luck, and the third was due to a cartoonishly bad establishment multiple times.
My players bought cursed bracelets that “kept them living when you die!” It would turn them into zombies when they died. Later in the campaign, there was a TPK so I turned it into an evil campaign.
I feel blessed with having the same group for over 2 years now and a DM who likes to do campaigns up to 15.
I would actually hate playing with Kenny, not for the fire, for the stupidity of it all.
yeah it sounds like an attention seeker
Ye Gods, I thought I was alone in that regard.
gonna be honest here, sounds like the group was ready to walk away from kenny the moment he died both in and out of character
Yeah, seeing how kenny was sometimes a enemy of the party aswell as tying to be an ally idk if that character should of been around too much longer. would of hated fighting beside that
I have played in a game where someone made a character like that. We ended up telling the player they could either have their character stop doing that or they could make a new character that was more party friendly. Their character doing that was fun for that but sucked the fun out of the game for everyone else.
Fun video, it does look like you learned your lesson though on the first character. It is fine having a detrimental quirk in a character, just make sure the entire party is on board with it, otherwise you're not just risking your character but everyone's and that is just not good or fun.
Having a group put up with something as detrimental as Kenny, having the DM work with you to make your character come to life, then quitting after your character inevitably dies sounds pretty toxic. Change my mind.
I agree, sounds like a "that guy" from DnD horror stories...
I was a bit shocked when he described that character. I wouldn't let a Kenny type in my games tbh, and I'm allowing a player to start as a weretuna.
Honestly anything that can directly harm the party is always iffy, but 50% chance is just absurd I think he was definitely in the wrong there
true
I agree that he was in the wrong but he did say until the curse was reversed so that might be something.
And so we wait For The Next episode of The student council arc
Bofuri: I didn't want to get hurt so i maxed out my defense.
Maple rules!
@@neillindgren8992 and so does Syrup!
@@clericofchaos1 Yeah!
I finished season 1 on Chrunchyroll and can second all of that!
This was a funny April fools joke. You are hallucinating Blane. You are still a DM, and this is just you trying to escape reality. Wake up Blane.
Why was specifically the Strixhaven campaign part so hilarious??
The massive absurdity of super-lethal mage schools?
That the underdark and the abyss were less lethal than this school for upcoming adventurers...I mean students!
That school's form of dodgeball must be both the most deadly sport imaginable, and the most entertaining. Might need to use that for a one shot at some point. *Maniacal laughter*
Of course the character that constantly burns himself is called Kenny
Kenny really took "friendly *fire*" to the next level
The only character death I ever had was my Hex-Blade, Warlock, Tabaxi named Ara'beth in a campaign where the DM performed a TPK using a gnome wizard who could fly.
I guess I'm blessed with my groups because Kenny nerfing himself like that would have been a problem, he'd be stuffed in my bag of holding for a bit lol.
Don’t they die after 2 minutes in there?
I'm blessed with a group we have been playing Avernus for a year now. We rotate DMs and the new player wants to try to run a game too. They deserve a hug and a bag of dice just because we mesh so well.
Rofl. Being a dungeon master for oh.
Frack me. Almost 40 years, which times have changed but D&D shows how very little really has changed. A great soc8al game to help us nerds. Thanks Gary gygax!
I mean... 1e is pretty much an entirely different game from 5e, but okay...
@@RabblesTheBinx Depends what you mean by an entirely different game. AD&D (“1e”) and 5e at least still have classes, levels, hit points, and a pre-determined list of spells (among other things) in common, of which all are lacking (in some ways for the better) in the fantasy game I’m playing in now that uses the rules from a superhero game called Mutants and Masterminds 3. Compared to that game, and many other games out there, other than for relatively minor rules changes and tweaks, AD&D and 5e are virtual clones.
Wait, why the hell did YT eat my comment? Ugh, well, I'm not typing that all out again. Short version: No. Sure there are games that are more different, but there are also a lot of games that are more similar. They don't play the same, the balance isn't the same, entire classes have shifted in focus.
@@RabblesTheBinx Well, yes, but it still depends what you mean. Arguing that Pathfinder or indy “old school” D&D knockoffs, or even non-fantasy games like Stars without Number (1st edition anyway) are more like Basic/Expert or AD&D than 5e is quite valid, but than again games like Big Eyes, Small Mouth 4e, Mutants and Masterminds 3, the Fantasy Flight Star Wars games, Fate, or even Cyberpunk (the tabletop RPG) are light years more different than AD&D is to 5e. At least AD&D and 5e share the same basic skeleton. Now if you were talking about 4e, I’d definitely say that’s the edition of D&D that’s the most different. At least you can look at AD&D, 2e, or even 3e or 5e and see it’s basically the same game skeleton, even if some of the details are quite different.
@@RabblesTheBinx Yeah, UA-cam will eat the most innocent comments sometimes for no apparent reason. Censorship sucks, especially when it’s as haphazard and slap-dash as what UA-cam does.
Literally the first roll of a new Elder Scrolls campaign, my character summons a frost Atronach that he lost control of and that then cinematically slaughtered the party because it was too strong. We started in a prison too and I was just trying to get us out.
I am very happy this kind of content returned
This is a sign that you should stay as the Dungeon Master
Loved the story! Thanks for sharing! A lot of RPG players are too afraid of their characters dying and miss out on the fun plotlines death can provide with a good GM.
If you are having fun while playing D&D, you are doing it right. High lethality games are fun, and make survival all the sweeter.
That strixhaven campaign sounds so fun ngl
I just revised something! You could make a clay, concreat, or metal sculpture of a pet you want and then cast animate objects to have very contaminated pets.
everytime i see a dnd video i remember i have to finish my godam ttrpg, its a curse.
I kind of have a theme for my characters in that they are all the same guy but every time he reincarnates he has amnesia and has to go on adventures to make money and new memories (Exp) that vary each time.
How does he do it? He’s basically a cursed immortal who’s only real ability is to reincarnate with clones but at the expense of his memories. The only clue to this is his first name is always a Latin number telling everyone what life he is on now. (Example: Primus Rex, Secundus Rex, Tertius Rex, and so on)
The goal with this style is that it actually makes dying funny and my character sheets easier to write. Same guy with amnesia, different class, and re rolled stats, always start as neutral.
Even if I can’t win I can still at least have a laugh as being the South Park Kenny of the group.
7:24 An ad appeared right here and To Be Continued me 😂
Kenny just sounded like an assbole. Hehe
So he sounded like what any child with magic powers would sound like? lol
Not great at controlling his magic, but thinks he's awesome anyways because he can shoot fire from his hands so it doesn't matter that he sucks
I want a full video on just the Strixhaven campaign
Most if my characters actually got a happy ending
But 1 time my cleric did die (sacrificed himself) to stop a powerful artifact that enabled the creation of liches.
Also one of my characters fell into a lava pool in the fire domain but got revived by a demon prince
The return of the king.
next time you go for a character thats gonna bring death omens to the group, try making a luck based character. Halfling (mayb divination wizard) with lucky feat just to be sure you dont fail that death save
I’m a forever DM myself, but just this year I finally got a friend to dm. My second session, halfway through a cave crawl looking for missing party members and plot items, the human Druid of the party cast “Thunderwave”. In the depths of the cave. Bruno, my Lupin (dog folk) fiend patron warlock, his pet mastiff, an old human sorcerer played by a friend, the owlin rogue played by my sister, and the reborn Dragonborn monk played by one of my brothers, all were crushed and knocked over a ledge, which the captured party members saw. The human Druid and the centaur ranger survived, and discovered the death toll of the rocks. The Druid immediately leveled up from level 1 to level 5, the centaur and the captured, now rescued, human bard and owlin cleric, they got to level up to level 2.
So not only was this my first character death, it literally was a “rocks fall, everybody dies.” Scenario. And I know I did my job well when the survivors were more mad at the Druid, of all people, having killed and gotten xp for killin my dog, of all things.
I wasn’t mad. I was kinda giddy over having like this being my first character death. Again, I’m usually the forever DM. Can’t wait to play more, so we’ll see how soon I can be back from being behind the DM screen.
I ad a Kenny like character, except their powers activated when they die. Instead of going on death saves they gain one hit point back and turn into a gunslinging demon with 50 temporary hit points.
The only peoblem with this is that they can no longer distinguish between friend or foe. My other party members often have to kill them. Once the hp is gone its normal death saves with one automatic failure. It only activated once per long rest. There have been times where I've had close calls though.
That's the story of the character that I played about five years ago.
I just had a session today, my character that was introduced last session because the session before that my previous schizophrenic went full insane by putting on a mind control helmet that made his soul whole (which was his whole goal so I’m not sad he died/went mad)
But the character I introduced after the schizo died today, neither I or the party had a chance to get attached to him.
Although I was the one who gave him the cursed shield that attracted all of those exploding arrows. (Tbf it was the dm who gave kobolds exploding arrows).
Welp
Now to make another druid
They killed Kenny
Those Bastards!
I have set up a necromancer in the dark alleys of a magic based town that uses the clone spell on you if you pay him 2.500 Gold. My players are now deciding if they should warn the queen about the cult (main story) reclaim an artifact from that city, get clones or search for a bad guy turned good.
Edit: I just checked the costs of the spell and decided to raise the price to 3.5k Gold.
Could do the lesser gold plus a minor favor if it's not too late?
@@Shalakor It isn't, what's on your mind? Getting some bones from a long dead human? A Bulvore's saliva? Or even get some ancient book from an evil wizard's tower?
@@OrangeDragon04 Probably something the NPC would expect the PCs be okay with doing, but would be hard to do themselves. Doesn't NEED to be difficult for the party, just out of the NPC's reach. Maybe they're banned from the local [library/church/school/tavern/restaurant/alchemist shop/boatyard/fish market/town square/ex's house/own childhood family estate/bazaar/wizard collage they were kicked out of/hideout of the cult the party has already been fighting/playground/queen's castle/taxidermist] grounds? They are hanging out in city alleys, so at least some of their wants are probably close by. If they've burned a lot of bridges in their life, might have errands in multiple of the example places, or with the other NPCs within them that don't want to deal with a necromancer.
Like, if you're only making the cloning expensive to match better with the spell component cost and not to make it harder for the PCs to obtain, the favor is more about what value it holds to the NPC needing it done than how valuable carrying the favor out is to the party members. Can be serious stuff, quirky stuff, or a mix of both. Might want to taste the best sandwich in the nation again after 10 years going without, or a sentimental heirloom, or of course spell components they're lacking.
Though, if the party will go out of their way for your specific examples, that's good too. If multiple clones are ordered, maybe the NPC trusts them with more complex requests the more they deal with them, starting with only very mundane favors for the first couple clones and some serious sidequest stuff for more than that (maybe even lowering the gold price for a bigger ask)?
@@Shalakor My man, you have so many cool/creative ideas.
You gave me a new perspective on DM'ing. How did you get so good?
@@OrangeDragon04 I'm just a chronic over-thinker. To be honest, tends to be way more helpful for making suggestions to others than it is for myself. 😜Actually been a couple decades since the last time I've been the DM of a group I've played with.
8:25 clemensia moment
In waterdeep we opened a tavern and I took the liberty of rolling a d100 to see how well are tavern did… I mean a 23 is ok right (we lost 2k+ gold)
Kenny seems like a terrible character idea. Anything that detrimental to the party ought to be cleared with _everyone_ at the table, not just the DM.
He's trolling yet he still got a sponsor.
Great to see the stories return
Note to self. Pirate campaigns are cursed. I was on character number 5 in the one I played in during lockdown. Not to mention it ended in a TPK
Expert advice given to me: Git Gud. 😮
I'd love more storytime vids!
OMG, you killed Kenny!
Hey thank you for reminding me to do my taxes
Eyyyy, the content I subbed for is finally back!!!
Much love man.
1:49 start checks out
8:20, scorpions d8 damage is enough to 1 shot a level 1 spellcaster.
5:32 Oh my god they killed Kenny!
The bugs are the only thing you mentioned that wouldn’t happen in Harry Potter
You get use to it . . . eventually.
1:08: SINGULARITY?!
Did Kenny have any home brew with him and what spells did he use to summon creatures. I thought the idea of a cursed summoner would be very cool.
Edit: Also if anyone has ideas for D&D characters please share them in the comments and also if anyone knows any campaigns that don’t cost money to join pls say it in the comments.
It was a modified version of 5E with special low level spells for conjuring. For curse effects, I just flipped a coin to see if the magic would be cursed, and manually controlled the spells in a way that'd mess stuff up lol
@@BlaineSimple Thank you for sharing, I recently got into D&D and am looking for cool ideas.
@@BlaineSimple Im surprised the DM allowed it. As hilarious as it sounds, it sounds like a pain for the party.
@@BlaineSimpleWhat subclass was Kenny?
@@Shakespeare-_- for your party’s sake please don’t try to recreate Kenny in anyway, it’s a very bad idea. The sheer existence of a Kenny in a party is a burden to everyone else including the DM. Had I been a player at Kenny’s table I would have been absolutely livid to experience the dicking over he gave to everyone.
7:49 - I mean that’s still just Harry Potter lmao
that sound effect at 2:20 gave me a huge hit of nostalgia and I have no clue why, it sounds familiar but I can't remember where it came from
Omg I wanna watch the Blaine Simple and Davvy Chappy dnd games.
I've played with people who over-nerf themselves and detract from combat. It sucks. Please don't be that guy anymore.
Plot twist Kenny is the bbeg of the new campaign 😂
"I hate politics in my games"
"Say can we have a student council election?"
Fuck I don‘t want to run Strixhaven, but a Student Council Arc sounds amazing.
Political intrigue is a lot like sibling rivalry but with higher steaks.
sounds cheaper to have the academy on a plane where people are brought back to life at dawn.
I want to hear more about this Strixhaven campaign
Just saying I would love if you did some more Pathfinder videos
I lost 30+ characters over the course of 3 about months. to be clear: we played D&D once a week, and I lost over 30 characters. My record is technically eight in 1 session. The best way to survive is to stop rolling dice.
Start as Rogue and go to 3 for Mastermind. Then start taking Divine Sorcerer levels, making sure to nab healing word and Spare the Dying. You can now give 2 advantages each turn without being in the thick of things. additionally, you can pick someone up from being downed, then dash/disengage to a safe distance. Take Magic Initiate: Wizard when you can (Variant Human is the best but Rog/Sorc 4 works) to get Find Familliar for 3 Help actions per turn and the abillity to cast Spare the Dying and eventually Revivify from a distance. Congrats, you no longer have to roll dice for anything that you don't have expertise and/or up to 3 other bonuses in and the party will fight tooth and nail to keep you alive since you catalyze their characters so hard they're effectively 2 levels higher than whatever level you're currently playing at.
I like to see you create a book of d&d for Kingdom hearts.
Being a person of chronic bad luck, I too have had a lot of character deaths. I've played in two campaigns where I lost three characters each, and out of the three campaigns I am currently In, I have had a total of four characters die. Oh well though, if I'm the only player chronically dying all the time, at least no one else will.
Oh heck I need to do my taxes
Oh my God, they killed Kenny!
Play an undead character then so long as a necromancer is alive you can come back
I love the strix haven campaign idea, just the concept that students are punished by the school having to pay an extra 500 gold. seriously how does that place make enough money?
As a wise man once say "If your your party keeps dying then don't die"
you would think someone would like... sue the school or something for causing harm to students so blatantly
Loved the video
Goddammit Kenny!
More if this please
Don't worry, I have a friend who aways dies as well when a certain someone narrates, and somehow someway I always survive :/
So Kenny died because he didn't want to be a team player and used magic on his own teammates to get his way.
Cadence died because of unlucky and the supports failing to support
The last one was just southpark dying over and over again
Anyone knows what happened to Chat jr in the 400 player campaign?
guillotine the bugs
Yaknow, the one thing I'll give to dnd is the fact you can Essentially kill a turrasque with nothing but a endless quiver, a magic bow, and a fly sleep. Also it's simple junk food in terms of gameplay. Very easy to mow down on but little actual substance other then simple satisfaction. I like looking at TTRPG like foods because it's funny. Also the TT In TTRPG is a mini table, your welcome random reader or UA-camr who is really cool and scrolling to see which of the comments will be the funniest. Because self aware commentary is funny, isn't that right Velma? Oh wait she was supposed to be a punchline.
5:23 I have seen that in person its in paris by the way
I hear so much shit thrown at people who like to play optimized characters (myself included), and every time I ask why they're like "well but like roleplay though," and I always point out you can roleplay well with optimized characters. The response I get is usually some form of "but like not as well as non-optimized characters though," which I disagree with, but, humoring them, I tend to follow up with "tell me about some of your non-optimized characters' epic sagas then!" And following this they're always like "well I had this one really cool guy! Who I put a lot of thought into the backstory and planned character arc for! ...and then he died before it happened BUT but there was this OTHER guy I made who was really cool! I mean he died before the backstory I wrote for him became relevant but THIS OTHER GUY I MADE had the most HEART WRENCHING BACKSTORY etc etc and then he died before I got to tell the story I wanted to..." and it takes so much energy not to cut them off at some point and be like "that's weird, the *cough* optimized *cough* characters I make usually survive to actually tell their stories, wonder what's up with yours"
More! :D
Idk if I have soft GMs or what, but I've yet to lose any characters after playing for 3+ years in several different campaigns and groups.
idk love me some realism and mechanics that add more immersion. I'd love doin me some taxes xD As a cute anime babe... It can be hard for me to find the right campaign xD
Your games sound fun
Hi blaine ive been a fam of yours for a while
I am fairly certain that the resurrections are paid for by people who find amusement in watching the students struggle and die. Of course, wish doesn't cost anything and has no chance to backfire if you use it to cast a level 7 or lower spell, but that would have some terrifying implications that the staff are overpowered Spellcasters with way to much free time on their hands.
I remember this one time I had a very toxic players where they had a he's a fit because I was playing a monster species race and I was playing a female you can see what this is going I was playing my character known as Maria striker the female Kobold bard who likes giving out hugs and getting head pets in return who is playing a support and healing class also keep in mind that DM was a little toxic as well I'm surprised I stayed in that campaigns for so long I should have got out as soon as possible basically the players were making some very unsavory comments to my character stuff that made me uncomfortable a couple times where they refused to heal me when I got injured because of their hatred to women and my character species after some arguing they healed my character but they are also the dumbest group I've ever met who in the right mind would cast a fireball in a room does located in the sewers with pounds and pounds of trash that is producing methane gas you can imagine what happens next knowing I was going to die I grabbed one of the shields from the party members and hidden a crack in the wall that was big enough to hide me the whole party got a little toasty even with their hatred of me I was able to heal them then later on we were supposed to travel through this desert I was the only one who came up the idea of gathering supplies the players thought to wing it I was able to bring enough food and water for us to survive across the desert until we came across a death knight the players decided to go and attack it as I stay behind feeling that something bad is about to happen I was right and those guys get their s*** kicked in by the death knight thing was way too powerful for us let's just say it took several tries of smacking this thing and me dragging the bodies back so I can heal them later on one of the players thought it would be a good idea to summon a demon to help us fly there that ended in failure and then demon end up trying to kill us when we get to this destination it happens to be a large Tower filled with monsters to stop a multi head dragon Lady for bringing put into this world there was missions and stuff like that that we had to follow but keep this is when the moment where I finally got fed up the moment that my DM had my character lose all her clothes and her favorite musical instrument that was given to her by her master that's when I decided to leave I also like to inform you that while this camping was going on my DM was one of those people that likes control people and force them to change without their consent he was trying to say that my Bard should be a front fighter keeps sending me these information about bards and stuff like that that I don't really care about I like to play as how I like to play then he had it where my character was forced into a relationship with a god and then forced into a relationship with a god forcing my character to play a Lyra instead of my guitar that my character got from her master keep in mind the reason why I chose bars is because I don't like dealing with gods I have problems dealing with them in the past pleasing them keeping them happy stuff like that I quickly told the DM I would not accept a God as a deity I think he just took that information and threw it away so he made it where the God if he's not pleased he can smite me pretty much I have no choice to have him is this one of those red flags that came up for this character I had a mission where I had to collect a few of these magical spell books that were very powerful that my character's Master used to have but someone stole them and my mission was to track them down keep in mind the master is more like a father figure who helped her out when she was in pain and lonely so when the DM had my characters guitar destroyed and had my characters clothing removed and then having them start doing some very uncomfortable and unsavory things to my character I finally just give up with a campaign and told them to go bleep themselves and left the campaign I was just sick and tired of the DM changing the rules harassing the crap out of me for choosing the type of healing and support kind of character like I like attacking creatures from a distance it's safer he was very control creep and the players were toxic so much that made me feel uncomfortable I know they're probably like those old people that don't think that monster races should be a playable character but still knowing them I have a feeling they might have their way with my character and then have her killed later on I had a feeling that was probably the planned before I left the players were acting very creepy when my character had no clothes on anymore as you can clearly understand why I left of course before I left I at least my bot that I have where it deletes all the messages in the server it basically prevents them to use any of the pictures I've posted or any comments I use I don't like having paper trails behind me. Anyway sorry about the vault text I hope you enjoy the story I can have given you but keep this in mind you're going to end up running into a toxic player base and DM keep your mind calm and collective and make sure that they can't get underneath your skin just be nice and if they're not the right people for you just leave the party but make sure you delete any messages that you left behind you don't want to leave that paper trail behind.
would love love to have kenny at my table!!! would be so fun
What spell does Kenny use?? I would love to use that in my games( not with the 50/50 chance to hurt the party though)
Poglin peglin
Yeah gotta say a 50/50 shot of a spell backfiring is pretty high and a bad idea. I would have either lowered the rate or made a separate table to determine HOW they backfire. This way not every spell is a complete detriment to the party.