How can he not know!?! I was sure that it was a big joke. Telling you all that you need to take it super seriously then randomly going into obviously hilarious imagery.
Four people, standing in a circle, with involuntarily extended lightsabers touching (with or without explosions of white light) is circle-jerk imagery in any context.
He may very well have been picturing it as an epic sword-and-sorcery moment. The knights come together (stop it) and cross their swords as they swear an oath of loyalty. The dick joke makes it hilarious because you stop picturing the lightsabers as swords and start picturing them as dicks.
Nah man, as I writer I can tell you that sometimes something sounds cool on paper, akd then when you read it back to yourself later your want to slink off into a hole in shame. Unfortunately, I doubt many GMS proofread before a session . . .
I agree. I won't even listen to an RPG podcast unless it was funny. If it was just all serious, I'm just bored. Rpgs are fun to play, but BORING to watch unless they are funny.
Yeah, and sometimes it can lead to hilarious results! In my old crew, Sometimes we would joke around about things that obviously were going to go a certain way. I always played high level charismatic characters. In one session it saved the party from a dragon, Cause I jokingly said (since we were losing the fight). "I wish to charm the beast with conversation." Most people laughed. But the GM said okay and told me to roll. And that is how we got a low level dragon as a companion. Then we fought a lich. Good times.
He *_didn't_* want you to make jokes? Has he SEEN/HEARD *ANY* of the popular D&D series on the internet? That's _why_ people love them so much most of the time! There are serious ones, but almost all have at least some element of the jokes that come with friends and situations in them!
Micah Philson Yeah that’s why I listen to stuff like acquisitions incorporated it’s funny and when you listen or watch you have a fun time. If it’s not funny it’s just boring
One time, in a serious horror game my group busted up laughing and ruined the immersive description of the area. I thought they were punking me because I couldn’t imagine what was funny at the moment, but apparently my description of “...there was no Mist or fog, but a strange glow...” sounded like “Mister Fogbutt a strange glow” and that set them all off. It was a good time
If no one is laughing in a session then it's almost like they're not having any fun. There are way to hint at the players to settle down for epic story time. Then there's every other time which is do as you will and have fun
On one hand, I kind of see the GM's point. It's frustrating for a GM to come up with what they think is a very cool scene that the players are going to think is epic only for them to shit all over it. OTOH yeah, a light saber circle jerk doesn't really fit the definition of epic and the players were right to laugh
I mean, honestly, from a writer's point of view; all but the most obscure innuendos are easy to avoid when setting a scene xD I think the issue was that the GM was just tone-deaf when writing/planning the scene!
See, part of a GM's duty is to make sure that what THEY think is an epic scene...is what the PLAYERS think is an epic scene. Quite frankly? If I'd written that scene... I would have headdesked...and said "So, yeah...as soon as you get all yoru lightsabers, a blinding flash of light proclaims you heroes."
I would have just let my players laugh its his writing just cause you done goofed doesnt mean the scene cant be used but honestly that scene would have made most play groups die. The ones that dont die laughing just had the scenery go over their head...
To me, the GM/DM's job is to make sure the players have fun. The world and story that they create is nothing without the player characters, to bring it to life.
At first I thought he had written that stuff down as a way to kind of play along and use it as a way to twist Ben's words so they all ended up in a circle jerk. But alas it was not
Apart from having no fun on a podcast, which doesn't seem very.... well, fun? Has your GM heard of that secret technique that is called editing? Also makes for a nice blooper bonus.
Here in Brazil, there's group of players that did several RPG podcasts, once, they did a podcast playing D&D, their mission was to rescue a princess that was kidnapped by an evil mage, it happend that while they were killing the mage, the princess died, so they made a plan. They had a party member that was a doppelganger, so... He turned into the princess and they got the reward, he even stole from the castle while being a princess, it was one of the funniest rpg playtroughs I've ever seen :v (And my english's bad, sorry)
Also what kind of real "person" wouldn't be joking around? I mean come on even people being shot at will find time to laugh and make crude humor..it is natural it would honestly just be weird if there were no jokes at all and seem even less real.
except they do, trust me i live in a country wiht mandatory military service and the times it got shit down the hole were when people joked the most, everyone knew we were dug in deep shit, and that the situation should be taken seriously but not releasing or relieving tension in those situations in order to calm the forces is just asking to be murdered because someone is too nervous to actually do their job properly.
I don't know what makes him think being super serious is going to make for good podcasting, all the good dnd podcasts have dick jokes galore, Adventure Zone, C Team, Critical Role, they're all comedy podcasts!
Indeed I actually prefer the roleplay podcasts that do well on the comedy aspect! It's great finishing a 2+ hour radio session where you've lost at least 2k calories from sheer laughing!
You have to remember the most entertaining stories from RPG tables are the ones where something goes horribly wrong. It is fun to play a game where things go well but it is boring to listen to.
@@RexTheAlbinoGecko I mean DM don't have to be perfect Lord knows there's a million different ways to f up, but when they have a stick up their ass at the same time that's where I draw the line.
Here’s how the Gm could have written this better(Before, I mean come on how did he not realize?) Suddenly you feel a spark within yourselves, as all at once your blades ignite. The elegant weapons making the same humming noise in the same speed, as they seemed to begin to be wrapped in a strange aura that connected them all. The aura shines and bursts forth, the once dark cave now completely enveloped in this divine glow.
Sounds like the time we had a 4 hour argument on dragon anatomy and how my fighter's custom Gauntlet of ice could freeze it's throat shut when it ate him.
your GM clearly doesn't understand what makes D&D both fun to play and fun to spectate nobody wants to listen to four guys playing a game of D&D completely seriously and never breaking character
Depends, if you got an incredible story teller then yeah its definitely possible, but jokes are definitely preferred to make the whole thing a lot more entertaining. Being serious throughout the entire role play is gonna be a drag later in the roleplay at times, almost definitely.
The thing is: it's YOUR game, not the GM's. When the GM acts like it's their game and they have a story to tell and you're not doing it right - that's wrong (in my eyes). When i GM a game i work on the pretense that it's THEIR game, and my fun is finding out what they do while i get to sit in on their hilarious roleplay/dice rolls. I've set up some furniture backdrop and an NPC or two that'll make them laugh, sure - but it's them that decide where we go and what we do; i'm simply the laws of physics that reacts to their actions and suggestions. I don't know what's happening until they do! Would you believe me if i said we're in the middle of the 5e Starter Set, that we're only half way through, and that we've been playing for OVER A YEAR?!?!?! Sure, we've only just finished Thundertree; but the amount of other things we've done is INSANE! Simply because: the players want to go off the beaten path and i follow and let them know what they find - I find out when THEY do. That poor town has had giants and werewolves and all sorts of evil attacking it that you wouldn't believe, and they players have since acquired various followers (a la "Trent" the treant, "Harvey" the owlbear, and "White Fang" the winter wolf) - and the party have become quite taken with some "marvelous" tailors in Phandelver that are most reminiscent of the Wade Bros. from Dragonage Origins... "What's over that hill, where there's nothing written in your book?" they say (in essence). "Why, let's go find out," i reply. And thus our tale has woven on, and on, and ever on... Now, having finished Thundertree and heard that there was an eruption a number of decades ago, and that these ash zombies are a result of magic that spewed forth along with the eruption, the party wish to go to the top of Mt. Hatenow and find the source of the eruption [read: "source of magic and adventure"]. So i guess i'll find out what's in Mt. Hatenow next week... (",) TL:DR - don't tell the players what THEY'RE doing (because you have an awesome scripted story that takes away all agency from them); let the players tell YOU [the GM] what they're doing and a story will unfold more awesome than anything you could ever contrive in a hundred years!
It's interesting, now that you mention it, I think my DM has been trying to take my group somewhat in this direction. The thing is, though, its been over 10 sessions, and I don't think any of the players have this expectation; and relatively little plot get progressed. We never did a session zero, and the majority of this 8 player group has very little communication with the DM outside of game days. And the plot threads arranged with the players, those few whom are in a position to easily and regularly communicate with the DM, have been kept rather secretive to the other players, and the players themselves are not forthcoming with bringing them forward to the table. I feel both players and DM are in a reactive position, and the people whom are sitting on objectives are happy about it. Myself not being one of them. The main reason I've stayed after all this time is sinply because I really like the other players, and I wouldn't see them much if this connection severed.
this isn’t D&D but my Scottish pen pal and i have this little RP series on a downloadable computer RPG called WolfQuest, and it’s like the OP said, we both have fun, despite having pretty much everything planned in our heads, it’s an adventure and there are times where we truly have no idea what’s gonna happen next (note that this is coming from a gal whose never participated in any sort of TRPG in her life... i’d like to one day though...)
EH, it's the gm's world therefore their game and after finding players who want the same things as you out of a game your game is fine because the focus points are CHOICE and the PLAYERS. They're not there to listen o your story, YOU are there to find out how they react. Saying it's the players game not yours can getting really twisted, players turning the game into something it's not, what only this one individual wants, and then the DM stops having fun. DM is not having fun then there is no game. If you've done player searching properly then you end up with like-minded players, they want what you laid out.
A tabletop game where your not allowed to laugh or have fun .. Count me out. I mean now one likes the lolsorandum guy but not being able to laugh at something that is genuinely funny? Ktankxbai.
I've heard that pretty much everyone at the Jedi Academy experimented with touching sabers at some point. It's just part of exploring what kind of Jedi you wanna be.
I've seen enough of your videos that you do not need to explain that your group is not "super serious business" for how it role plays. On that note--you did not ruin the Podcast... the GM did... as if you had the campaign be the sort of nonsense that your videos contain... it would have been honestly awesome and great and people would love the crap out of it. It would have been like "An 8bit Reenactment of Dungeons and Dragons: Expanded Universe"... and people would all download it and listen to it for THAT reason.
one of my favorite stories.... lol!!! I had a few moments like this in my own campaign that I was DMing and I couldn't continue the narrative... I broke down and started laughing with everyone else. lol.
Whenever im DMing and I narrate a moment that I think is really cool but my players find goofy I just roll with it. I personally think that's the best way to handle a situation like that. Shit, half the time those moments get turned into inside jokes thus making the encounter memorable.
Something like that happened in a campaign where the dm had sent us to search for rebels hiding in houses. After a while, many of the people at the table made connections to tragic events in history, but at least it wasn’t on a podcast.
You didn't ruin anything so much as he ruined it itself by getting far too engrossed into his own 'epic' description and failing to see the reaction it had on all is players. And then getting angry all of a sudden without at leqst trying to just, stop or a moment and leave everyone the time to calm down. This guy was taking himself way too serioulsy from the start, that's never a good trait for GM and it never ends well. Don't get me wrong, I can undestand not wanting your sesion to devolve into hundreds of OOc jokes and monhy python or spâceballs or whichevr parodies relevant to the genre at end but 'no OOc jokes whatsover ever' is a bad start to a session
The end reminded me of my first time playing d&d, a ghost threw a table at us. Everybody dodged... and I jumped into the creaking table. GUESS WHAT I ROLLED!!! A 0. Also at one point the same ghost was throwing knives at two of us. One player stood there, and the other tried. The one trying got hit. And the other speaks for itself He wasn't hit
DM's fault. They described your lightsaber extending, which led to the gesture, and then the DM described them "coming together" which led to everyone bursting into laughter. That DM is a sweet summer child.
People really need to learn that the point of tabletop rpgs is to have fun telling stories with your friends, and the inability to make jokes takes away that opportunity.
Fun fact about the dragon buttwhole thing. Pathfinder as a rule for something like that, your natural armor is at half value vs things attacking from inside.
I've been recording play sessions for about 20 years now, and I've never thought to put them anonymously onto the Interwebs.... I kinda wonder if I should now!
The white light bursting forth is what pushed it over the top.
yes...almost like the scene has reached its climax
Groan.
If it were any other color...
Red? Yellow? Brown?
If it's not white, see a doctor IMMEDIATELY.
Come on, the GM seriously didn't see that coming? Lightsabers are, like, Dick Jokes 101.
I see your shwarz is as big as mine. Let's see how well you... handle it!
@@gundenordstrom8123: Exactly, you can't not associate lightsabers with dick jokes.
I saw it cuming from a mile away! O, kids um eh hem
Because it was such a bright light of course...
"I've been waiting for you, Obi-schlong. When I left you I was but the learner. Now I am the master(bater)."
Like, if he'd just said "ignite" instead of "extend", everything would have been fine...
the sabers touching and emmiting white light would still be funny just considerably less funny
That got hot!
Guy obviously doesnt know how a lightsaber works in canon. They totally ignite, they even say it in the lore.
How can he not know!?!
I was sure that it was a big joke. Telling you all that you need to take it super seriously then randomly going into obviously hilarious imagery.
Keep in mind that this is a retelling for comedic purposes.
Four people, standing in a circle, with involuntarily extended lightsabers touching (with or without explosions of white light) is circle-jerk imagery in any context.
This sounds like a pretty funny idea, have all players take everything dead serious while continuously putting them into more ridiculous situations.
Absolutely best thing about watching RPG games is completely RANDOM shit that players can pull up XD
He may very well have been picturing it as an epic sword-and-sorcery moment. The knights come together (stop it) and cross their swords as they swear an oath of loyalty.
The dick joke makes it hilarious because you stop picturing the lightsabers as swords and start picturing them as dicks.
The truth is, you didn't ruin the campaign, the GM did. Honestly, they sound like a terrible GM.
Yeah I'd have slapped the guy.
GM needs to come out of the closet
he also doesn't understand what people want in podcasts. that podcast sounds super boring.
Nah man, as I writer I can tell you that sometimes something sounds cool on paper, akd then when you read it back to yourself later your want to slink off into a hole in shame.
Unfortunately, I doubt many GMS proofread before a session . . .
zenogias01 yes....cause jerking of your buds is really.....epic
That gm sounds awful, to be honest. I've *never* seen a campaing podcast that wasn't funny and at least somewhat comedic.
I wouldn't listen to it if there WAS one.
Yes i imagine it would be very hard to see a collection of sounds
I agree. I won't even listen to an RPG podcast unless it was funny. If it was just all serious, I'm just bored. Rpgs are fun to play, but BORING to watch unless they are funny.
of course you haven't seen a campaing podcast, because it's a campaign, not a campaing xDD
Yeah, and sometimes it can lead to hilarious results!
In my old crew, Sometimes we would joke around about things that obviously were going to go a certain way.
I always played high level charismatic characters.
In one session it saved the party from a dragon, Cause I jokingly said (since we were losing the fight).
"I wish to charm the beast with conversation."
Most people laughed. But the GM said okay and told me to roll.
And that is how we got a low level dragon as a companion.
Then we fought a lich.
Good times.
He *_didn't_* want you to make jokes?
Has he SEEN/HEARD *ANY* of the popular D&D series on the internet? That's _why_ people love them so much most of the time! There are serious ones, but almost all have at least some element of the jokes that come with friends and situations in them!
Sam Riegel. 'Nuff said.
Micah Philson ikr what a p.o.s.
Micah Philson Yeah that’s why I listen to stuff like acquisitions incorporated it’s funny and when you listen or watch you have a fun time. If it’s not funny it’s just boring
dungons and randomness
@@tedcomet3121 I have autism, and I like jokes
One time, in a serious horror game my group busted up laughing and ruined the immersive description of the area. I thought they were punking me because I couldn’t imagine what was funny at the moment, but apparently my description of “...there was no Mist or fog, but a strange glow...” sounded like “Mister Fogbutt a strange glow” and that set them all off. It was a good time
The shwartz is strong in this one!
Hendrik van Leeuwen thank you XD
I see your Schwartz is as big as mine
Lmao
@@imjustryley2197 Now let us see how well you handle it
It's reasonable to want a podcast in which players stay in character the whole time.
It's unreasonable to expect to do that without editing
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obviously this DM has never watched Critical Role...
or most successful D&D play through series I've seen XD
If no one is laughing in a session then it's almost like they're not having any fun. There are way to hint at the players to settle down for epic story time. Then there's every other time which is do as you will and have fun
And DEFINITELY hasn't listened to Nerd Poker.
critical role is good they have rp moments and less serious moments its good to have that if your group is into to it
Fudge, beat me to it haha
They should see Team Four Stars D&D campaign.... they'd hate Ezra and Eloy if they don't like characters having fun ;3
Zito is such a good DM.
On one hand, I kind of see the GM's point. It's frustrating for a GM to come up with what they think is a very cool scene that the players are going to think is epic only for them to shit all over it.
OTOH yeah, a light saber circle jerk doesn't really fit the definition of epic and the players were right to laugh
I mean, honestly, from a writer's point of view; all but the most obscure innuendos are easy to avoid when setting a scene xD
I think the issue was that the GM was just tone-deaf when writing/planning the scene!
See, part of a GM's duty is to make sure that what THEY think is an epic scene...is what the PLAYERS think is an epic scene. Quite frankly? If I'd written that scene...
I would have headdesked...and said "So, yeah...as soon as you get all yoru lightsabers, a blinding flash of light proclaims you heroes."
I would have just let my players laugh its his writing just cause you done goofed doesnt mean the scene cant be used but honestly that scene would have made most play groups die. The ones that dont die laughing just had the scenery go over their head...
To me, the GM/DM's job is to make sure the players have fun. The world and story that they create is nothing without the player characters, to bring it to life.
At first I thought he had written that stuff down as a way to kind of play along and use it as a way to twist Ben's words so they all ended up in a circle jerk. But alas it was not
Apart from having no fun on a podcast, which doesn't seem very.... well, fun? Has your GM heard of that secret technique that is called editing? Also makes for a nice blooper bonus.
Hiramas maybe he just was lazy and didn't want to edit
Was it live maybe?
Here in Brazil, there's group of players that did several RPG podcasts, once, they did a podcast playing D&D, their mission was to rescue a princess that was kidnapped by an evil mage, it happend that while they were killing the mage, the princess died, so they made a plan.
They had a party member that was a doppelganger, so... He turned into the princess and they got the reward, he even stole from the castle while being a princess, it was one of the funniest rpg playtroughs I've ever seen :v
(And my english's bad, sorry)
Nerdcast rpg temp 1 kkkkk
in all honesty....who goes full serious and in character without jokes in an rpg session?i certainly dont!
Also what kind of real "person" wouldn't be joking around? I mean come on even people being shot at will find time to laugh and make crude humor..it is natural it would honestly just be weird if there were no jokes at all and seem even less real.
Ethan Steel Well, if you know you're going to die, go out with a laugh.
Have you not met military?
Just look for some stories about shit they do.
except they do, trust me i live in a country wiht mandatory military service and the times it got shit down the hole were when people joked the most, everyone knew we were dug in deep shit, and that the situation should be taken seriously but not releasing or relieving tension in those situations in order to calm the forces is just asking to be murdered because someone is too nervous to actually do their job properly.
...and white light BURSTS FORTH from the tips of the light sabers, bathing everyone in its radiant glow!
A rpg podcast with no humor is an rpg podcast with no viewers. Tell the gm to lighten up and get his lightsaber out of his sarlac pit already
I don't know what makes him think being super serious is going to make for good podcasting, all the good dnd podcasts have dick jokes galore, Adventure Zone, C Team, Critical Role, they're all comedy podcasts!
Indeed
I actually prefer the roleplay podcasts that do well on the comedy aspect!
It's great finishing a 2+ hour radio session where you've lost at least 2k calories from sheer laughing!
Don't forget the Unexpectables! My favorite balance of comedy and grimdark.
Don't forget Dimension 20!
Or critical chaos (pretty sure nobody here will know what that is though)
And they still say on a clear night you can hear that gm yelling "I'm not gay"
@Kai Houston [further in the distance]
I waaarrrnnned yooouuu...
He's not gay and neither is his life-partner Frank. ROOMATE! I meant to say roomate!
I've watched a lot of your videos by this point and I have come to the conclusion that most of your DMs are horrible lol.
HeimdallsDottir it would seem like that, since he tells stories where things went wrong or the dm makes a mistake
Except for Pokemon GM, he was a victim of the players.
You have to remember the most entertaining stories from RPG tables are the ones where something goes horribly wrong. It is fun to play a game where things go well but it is boring to listen to.
@@RexTheAlbinoGecko I mean DM don't have to be perfect Lord knows there's a million different ways to f up, but when they have a stick up their ass at the same time that's where I draw the line.
At this point I brace for it. I started watching Animated Spellbook partly just because the DMs aren't batshit.
I just finished your playlist with this episode. What a grand finale. Laughed so hard I cried!
Here’s how the Gm could have written this better(Before, I mean come on how did he not realize?)
Suddenly you feel a spark within yourselves, as all at once your blades ignite. The elegant weapons making the same humming noise in the same speed, as they seemed to begin to be wrapped in a strange aura that connected them all. The aura shines and bursts forth, the once dark cave now completely enveloped in this divine glow.
Your art has really gotten much better! It's interesting going back to these older videos.
Sounds like the time we had a 4 hour argument on dragon anatomy and how my fighter's custom Gauntlet of ice could freeze it's throat shut when it ate him.
That's the kind of DM I would've walked out on when he first said no laughing or joking. It's a game for Odin's sake!!!
Who Summons me?
The problem here is that the GM wanted to take the groups game and make it his.
When the GM has no self-awareness, THAT'S when you know you're in the wrong game...
"Ah, I see your schwartz is as big as mine."
“Now let us see how well you handle it.”
i love how you have improved over the years it shows how far you have come
your GM clearly doesn't understand what makes D&D both fun to play and fun to spectate
nobody wants to listen to four guys playing a game of D&D completely seriously and never breaking character
Moon Man I don't mind it, running a serious Role that doesn't break character. However, the way his DM was playing it even made me chuckle.
does the video of a Puffin Forest playing this game exist? was it ever uploaded to the Internet?
It was never uploaded
Puffin Forrest that's too bad.
A real tragedy. . .
Puffin Forest i wish ya had, man. that sounded so dang funny XD
Wait, does that mean the clip still exists somewhere?
That was funny as hell. You allways make me laugh , but that made me laugh uncontrollably . Still kind if laughing
Sounds like he should have run it as a 'who can go the longest without laughing' campaign lol
can't make jokes or do silly things. super serious. always
seems like the most boring podcast ever. who would ever listen to that?
himself afterwards while making white light exudes from his saber
Touche
Depends, if you got an incredible story teller then yeah its definitely possible, but jokes are definitely preferred to make the whole thing a lot more entertaining. Being serious throughout the entire role play is gonna be a drag later in the roleplay at times, almost definitely.
How does this video NOT HAVE WAY MORE LIKES!?!
This video was golden
...shower.
But seriously, this is one of the best Puffin videos, ever.
where, was this podcast.
Jonas Boel I agree we need to see it
He said it wasn’t uploaded :(
Better, where's the clip from this podcast? That shit'd be viral.
The thing is: it's YOUR game, not the GM's. When the GM acts like it's their game and they have a story to tell and you're not doing it right - that's wrong (in my eyes).
When i GM a game i work on the pretense that it's THEIR game, and my fun is finding out what they do while i get to sit in on their hilarious roleplay/dice rolls. I've set up some furniture backdrop and an NPC or two that'll make them laugh, sure - but it's them that decide where we go and what we do; i'm simply the laws of physics that reacts to their actions and suggestions. I don't know what's happening until they do!
Would you believe me if i said we're in the middle of the 5e Starter Set, that we're only half way through, and that we've been playing for OVER A YEAR?!?!?!
Sure, we've only just finished Thundertree; but the amount of other things we've done is INSANE! Simply because: the players want to go off the beaten path and i follow and let them know what they find - I find out when THEY do. That poor town has had giants and werewolves and all sorts of evil attacking it that you wouldn't believe, and they players have since acquired various followers (a la "Trent" the treant, "Harvey" the owlbear, and "White Fang" the winter wolf) - and the party have become quite taken with some "marvelous" tailors in Phandelver that are most reminiscent of the Wade Bros. from Dragonage Origins...
"What's over that hill, where there's nothing written in your book?" they say (in essence). "Why, let's go find out," i reply. And thus our tale has woven on, and on, and ever on...
Now, having finished Thundertree and heard that there was an eruption a number of decades ago, and that these ash zombies are a result of magic that spewed forth along with the eruption, the party wish to go to the top of Mt. Hatenow and find the source of the eruption [read: "source of magic and adventure"].
So i guess i'll find out what's in Mt. Hatenow next week... (",)
TL:DR - don't tell the players what THEY'RE doing (because you have an awesome scripted story that takes away all agency from them); let the players tell YOU [the GM] what they're doing and a story will unfold more awesome than anything you could ever contrive in a hundred years!
It is as much his game as it is yours.
Everybody should be having fun (unless you are actually paying him... then screw that guy!)
It's interesting, now that you mention it, I think my DM has been trying to take my group somewhat in this direction.
The thing is, though, its been over 10 sessions, and I don't think any of the players have this expectation; and relatively little plot get progressed.
We never did a session zero, and the majority of this 8 player group has very little communication with the DM outside of game days.
And the plot threads arranged with the players, those few whom are in a position to easily and regularly communicate with the DM, have been kept rather secretive to the other players, and the players themselves are not forthcoming with bringing them forward to the table.
I feel both players and DM are in a reactive position, and the people whom are sitting on objectives are happy about it.
Myself not being one of them.
The main reason I've stayed after all this time is sinply because I really like the other players, and I wouldn't see them much if this connection severed.
this isn’t D&D but my Scottish pen pal and i have this little RP series on a downloadable computer RPG called WolfQuest, and it’s like the OP said, we both have fun, despite having pretty much everything planned in our heads, it’s an adventure and there are times where we truly have no idea what’s gonna happen next (note that this is coming from a gal whose never participated in any sort of TRPG in her life... i’d like to one day though...)
EH, it's the gm's world therefore their game and after finding players who want the same things as you out of a game your game is fine because the focus points are CHOICE and the PLAYERS. They're not there to listen o your story, YOU are there to find out how they react.
Saying it's the players game not yours can getting really twisted, players turning the game into something it's not, what only this one individual wants, and then the DM stops having fun. DM is not having fun then there is no game. If you've done player searching properly then you end up with like-minded players, they want what you laid out.
The horrified looks on their faces are really what make this video a work of art.
This whole scenario sounds like when someone says "You will have fun..... OR ELSE!"
I love these videos! They always cheer me up and make my day better!
DAM has your animation improve over the last year! Well done!
A tabletop game where your not allowed to laugh or have fun .. Count me out. I mean now one likes the lolsorandum guy but not being able to laugh at something that is genuinely funny? Ktankxbai.
Brief character breaks are some of my favorite moments in critical role.
Imagine a game, where Puffin is the DM and then he clones himself so all the players are Puffin as well.
i'd love to hear a podcast by yourself and your pals any day
This old video proves Puffin Forest should make cartoons for a living.
0:35 - 0:45
He's only spoken for 10 seconds and I already hate that GM.
I think critical role pretty much confirmed that that is exactly what people want to listen to at home with their families.
Now I want to hear the pod cast
This is probably my favorite thing from Puffin Forrest xD
I've heard that pretty much everyone at the Jedi Academy experimented with touching sabers at some point. It's just part of exploring what kind of Jedi you wanna be.
The GM wasnt mad bc of the joke. He didnt get the joke and was mad bc he thought they were laughing of his scebe, which would be very hurtful tbh
Kinda sounds like the GM who wanted a bunch of robots to roleplay for his show got mad because they made a joke.
Puffin forrest you are the best man! Love watching your videos! They are awesomes!
This feels like that scene from the life of Brian where Caesar is talking to his soldiers about his good friend Biggus Dickus
I was taking a sip of coffee when you told the white light shit, had to clean my monitor afterwards but did it with a smile.
I've seen enough of your videos that you do not need to explain that your group is not "super serious business" for how it role plays.
On that note--you did not ruin the Podcast... the GM did... as if you had the campaign be the sort of nonsense that your videos contain... it would have been honestly awesome and great and people would love the crap out of it. It would have been like "An 8bit Reenactment of Dungeons and Dragons: Expanded Universe"... and people would all download it and listen to it for THAT reason.
What kind of GM blows a gasket at players having fun?
Oh yeah a terrible one
Ben. Pleeeaaase remake this someday. It is too good to not pass up!
GM: now all of your lightsabers extemd
Me: they do..?
GM: and they all meet together, and they all rub their tips together
Me: n-no...
a game without laughter and jokes is no real game...
I still love this to this day 😂
man if a GM told me before we started that I couldn't joke around, I'd just leave right then and there.
Brilliant video. Cracked myself big time. New subscriber and look forward to more vids
The GM sounds like he has a lightsaber shoved up his crev.
one of my favorite stories.... lol!!! I had a few moments like this in my own campaign that I was DMing and I couldn't continue the narrative... I broke down and started laughing with everyone else. lol.
Whenever im DMing and I narrate a moment that I think is really cool but my players find goofy I just roll with it. I personally think that's the best way to handle a situation like that. Shit, half the time those moments get turned into inside jokes thus making the encounter memorable.
Sooo....he wanted to rule out a lot of the stuff that made Critical Role and other streaming podcasts work?
"in what universe will this work this one apparently" points at galaxy
Everyone laughing is how you know everyone is enjoying themselves!
Something like that happened in a campaign where the dm had sent us to search for rebels hiding in houses. After a while, many of the people at the table made connections to tragic events in history, but at least it wasn’t on a podcast.
So you were nazis.
This was the precursor dm to "I want what mat mercer has" but puffin version
Don't break character... that alone had me laughing!
Tears... Your story had me in tears ROFL
"teh interwebz"
This right here is art in its purest form.
The naughtiest animation Ben has done.
What if you had a gym intentionally do this and you end up with a life of Brian skit.
Biggus.
Dickus?
You didn't ruin anything so much as he ruined it itself by getting far too engrossed into his own 'epic' description and failing to see the reaction it had on all is players. And then getting angry all of a sudden without at leqst trying to just, stop or a moment and leave everyone the time to calm down.
This guy was taking himself way too serioulsy from the start, that's never a good trait for GM and it never ends well. Don't get me wrong, I can undestand not wanting your sesion to devolve into hundreds of OOc jokes and monhy python or spâceballs or whichevr parodies relevant to the genre at end but 'no OOc jokes whatsover ever' is a bad start to a session
The end reminded me of my first time playing d&d, a ghost threw a table at us. Everybody dodged... and I jumped into the creaking table. GUESS WHAT I ROLLED!!! A 0. Also at one point the same ghost was throwing knives at two of us. One player stood there, and the other tried. The one trying got hit. And the other speaks for itself
He wasn't hit
Did... did he seriously not pre-read that line because... my goodness...
"He thought podcasting one of our games was a good idea for some reason."
That reminds me, I like that podcast you've been doing of one of your games.
oh god, I'm dying! I'm choking from my laughs, I'm getting light headed, please send help!!! XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
"rocks fall, everyone is dead"
That had me cracking up for some reason. What a quick and random way to go, just end it. lol
I'd really love to hear more about this Star Wars system. :o
Love your stories, reminds me of when i used to play.
Honestly, the best gaming podcasts are those where the players screw up and are not serious...
I couldn't find this vid forever. I thought PF took it down. I'm so glad he didn't! 😂
God your art has improved
2:31 ...yup, that's how I look when my, uh, _white light_ bursts forth.
Com'on, can I get a "Amen" mah bruthas?
DM's fault. They described your lightsaber extending, which led to the gesture, and then the DM described them "coming together" which led to everyone bursting into laughter. That DM is a sweet summer child.
Another fine addition to my collection
Damn, I want to game with Puffin
Seeing that one of my favorite UA-camr series is tfs at the table I like this idea and want to see more
I NEED to find a clip of this. I must witness the glory of the lightsaber benis pun.
"so this GM decided to put together a team of his best and brightest players.
also he brought me along for some reason."
ROTFLMAO!
This is when he swore ahh the adpocalypse ruined UA-cam
Unintended innuendos are the best
People really need to learn that the point of tabletop rpgs is to have fun telling stories with your friends, and the inability to make jokes takes away that opportunity.
Fun fact about the dragon buttwhole thing. Pathfinder as a rule for something like that, your natural armor is at half value vs things attacking from inside.
"It appears freud was right" - Agent Smecker
I've been recording play sessions for about 20 years now, and I've never thought to put them anonymously onto the Interwebs.... I kinda wonder if I should now!