I like how after Malikar trips and breaks his ankle he's never mentioned again, as if his anti-climactic escape was punishment enough to his story's demise.
I'd say it's an ignoble end, but it just keeps going. Functionally immortal but the results of all his skill checks are essentially halved. Rounding down. Forever.
If my players would say that I'd just smile and let them know how seriously they effed up with that sentence... Welcome to begging for quests like fetching apples. It's not level appropriate? Well, as SOMEONE said "life doesn't care about your level", huh? I'd probably ease up on them after one session, but I think that would be more than enough to teach them not to do meta-meta-gaming :)
@@awsomesaucekirby The DLC gives you a shout that let's you ride dragons. I either hit them with that, or summon two minions to help me shoot the dragon out of the sky.
Nah, he talked about one of his players being able to call all his twists because he's played too many games and watched too much stuff in a previous vid. Plus, it's basically the lore from the Darksiders game series, except it was Abaddon instead of Gabriel and he turned into a dragon instead of a flower.
It's nice when a GM can put all the pieces on the table so that things make sense to the players in hindsight. It also allows clever players to carve their own path through the world if they can see and act on it ahead of schedule. More work for the GM but also way more rewarding in a lot of ways, so long as everyone's up for it.
@@jakeroth675 Yeah... I'd even say "too obvious" is a lot better than "poorly foreshadowed and makes little sense" or "complete asspull", because in the first case you can plan for the twists and prepare accordingly, and at least be somewhat satisfied you predicted correctly, while the two other faulty types of set-ups just result in you being baffled and indifferent (or even somewhat insulted) at the plot twist it just created. Heck, you can even make a "complete mystery" kind of villain, just make sure it makes sense and let your players have their glory if they find a way to discover him before his actual reveal. Basically, there is such a thing as a D&D story looking like an improv skit, and that kind of story accumulates such shitty inconsistencies that I prefer the steady and predictable ones - after all, that kind of plot just means it's up to you to be creative with how you twist the cliché plot.
I think the key is in having an actual world hung around the events so that if players go off-script or just ignore an entire chapter of the story you know where to take it. I was playing in a game once where I managed to piece together what was happening from a bunch of really obscure clues and skip about six months worth of actual at-table sessions in a long campaign. The GM laughed, then screamed, then laughed, then topped off my action points and we got on with it - weaker than expected but ahead of schedule by enough that the next two sessions we kept catching the antagonist organization with their pants down.
@@jakeroth675 Fair enough. Part of the potential fun of roleplaying IS that kind of moment where you catch your antagonists (and possibly your GM) with their pants down. Having a lot of rebound plans and a good idea of the inner working of your world is exactly what you need to do to pretty much have the right setup for all your plot's turns and twists to unfold in a sensical way. The "asspull" and "poor foreshadowing" problems generally come from someone not planning ahead for the first, and someone unwilling to let the players outsmart them (or just being a pretty clumsy story-teller). The "obvious" kind is probably just the GM not being that creative and doesn't hurt the game that much imho.
I remember seeing commercials for California... then I talked to people that moved away from California... Those commercials are apparently f***ing lies...
That's half the plot of *a game I know* which I won't name for spoilery reasons (Even though it was ps1), only the guy was *petrified* for 10,000 years and his son is the hero who has to beat him up.
“Where was he going? What did he want to do? Nobody could say for sure, those stories are ones nobody has ever told and have been lost to time- “-Because he became *Permanently* _Invisible!”_
**windows xp message noise** Puffin_forest.exe has crashed, What would you like to do? A: Restart Puffin_forrets.exe B: Leave Puffin_forest.exe alone C: Drink orange soda pop I would pick C, most likely
*@Puffin Forest* 8:45 I really hope your group was playing this session in California, and the DM fulls out some potted flower and goes: "And here he is, Gabriel the flower" ;D
Michel's ending : He did not speak much to the others. Where was he going ? What was he about to do ? Noone knows. Or, as it probably happened, Ben's brother never told him what his character would do.
He actually did come back and you get to hear more of his stories.... he's ageless so 500 years from now when the next major campaign started he's still there.
@@skyblade7438 They congregate in popular tourist locations by large bodies of water like at a fabled place called Fisherman's Wharf in Sanf-Ran-Sisko. Then the seals use their hypnotic powers on unsuspecting passerbys where they charm them into servitude. For the time being the seals are perfectly content on gorging themselves on food but for those strong enough to resist their charm the unmistakable air of malice becomes ever so stronger in their presence as the seals grow more emboldened by their new found power. People call me crazy when they see me clutching my seal bashing club, but the day will come when THEY will be coming to me to save them from the inevitable, oh yes, the day will come.
I was kinda expecting something along the lines of 'so we got caught and spilled the beans and currently are distracting you from the army forming up around the building. Next time on TPK.
@@kmac291 I live there and can conform - it would be a fate worse than death for an inter dimensional traveler. Lot of xenophobia here, which sucks ass
Wait but if magic doesn't work in California, won't Gabriel revert to being an angel? Edit: Wait, but that means he can't be an angel either because angels are magic. So he'd just kinda... cease to exist? Holy shit, maybe California is evil after all.
"Magic doesn't work" might just mean that no magic can be cast, preexisting magic (or magical items) may well work. After all, that spirit got back out somehow!
From the DMG page 211, "Make a ranged attack roll against [a] creature using your spell attack bonus. On a hit, the target is paralyzed for 1 minute." "At the end of each of the target's turns, it can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success." - I honestly don't even see how the fighter was paralyzed for even the entirety of Malikar's encounter (boss fight)....
ATFPredator if I remember correctly he said one of the players couldn't be at the session. That was his character, he was paralysed as a way to explain why one member couldn't join for the end of the adventure.
@@group555_ That would make way more sense, and if the player never played with them again he would remain paralyzed until he starved to death? What a terrible way to go.
@@ATFPredator also each round of an encounter (everyone taking a turn) is 5 seconds. it's unlikely the encounter lasted for 12 rounds (the average is 3-4, so maybe 9-10 since it was bigger) so that part makes sense
I just realized something, the dream team would have leveled up at least 3 times (I haven't memorized the XP give off and requirements) from bypassing/defeating the guards... Twice.
Namless's Media Dump Hence why I a Warior of chaotic good have infiltrated this fortress of evil to steal their secrets of world forging(game design) and then leave for more sane lands.
I wouldn't say that, but basically everyone in the army would be equivalent to a BBEG in strength and the regular police force would be a pretty high level boss. For the army, there is body armor, machine guns capable of killing dozens of people in seconds if they aren't prepared (which given the more fantasy-centered world most D&D characters are in, would be basically everyone), gas weaponry, fully automatic assault rifles, sniper rifles, fighter jets, tanks, attack helicopters, nuclear weaponry, etc. Seriously if one person with access to modern weaponry got into a D&D world and figured out a reliable defense against magic, they could probably be more powerful and a bigger threat than the vast majority of BBEGs or anything else, except for giant monsters, gods and possibly demons.
California resident here: I absorb fire damage, am a natural level 7 fire elemental sorcerer, and can multiattack if hit with a fire spell. We're not all high-level bosses, most of us are just high-end adventurer types.
As a Californian I can say yeah watch your back in some places and not all of cali is hot , cooler weather would most likely be near the beach and don’t go to the valley during summer (I live in the valley and it can get hot, but at least it’s not Death Valley :) )
>Hears the gnome monk's name at the end of the video "Wait a minute..." >Rewatches Chadwick Strongpants Will was the gnome monk that failed his attack roll? Well dang.
As someone who lives in California I burst out laughing at us being a plane of evil. It was described so accurately, I mean if we existed in a fantasy setting.
9:10 "Together they decided to become _immortal and stop aging_ " 9:17 "Our fighter returned back to the beast lands to spend _the rest of his days_ with his drow wife" ... Oh... Oh no...
One thing that I've learnt from D&D: Players like protagonist centred morally regardless of of how their actions seem or the consequences of said actions.
Your War-Forged's desire for power almost makes sense. Lack of former abilities as a Warforged (or even just a lack of iron-clad skin) might have caused him to feel vulnerable, or realize how vulnerable non-warforged humanoids could be, and felt the need to do something about that, but got a little too obsessed with it. Or even emotional differences. I'm reminded of Lex Luthor bargaining with Brainiac: "You lack something that I have in spades.....ambition."
So what you're saying is... That we're going to have the next video about a campaign that takes place somewhere in like the 1700's - 1900's or something similar to that? Im interested.
Continued from the end: New kingdoms rise and fall until all the old names are forgotten. So too were gods and magic forgotten as technology advanced. Eventually, pollution from the spread of industrialization darkened the skys with smog. And one day, a lone potted plant appeared from nowhere in a coastal city on the west side of the contenant, the city of angels.
A thousand years from now, a little girl falls into a hole... Gabrielle: Howdy! I'm Gabrielle! Gabrielle the Potted Plant. You must be new to the Underground, huh? Someone oughta teach you how things work around here...
This is another reason why I like dungeon and Dragon's . . . Even though I never actually played the game before in my life but still D&D a game I still want to play
You won't be disappointed, 4 years ago I was in your same shoes. I still have my first 3 character sheets (whom are still alive), and still am working on my own campaigns, still love the game. €:)
HOOOO THE CAMPAIGN WRAP-UP AT THE END WAS SO GOOD, I loved hearing the stories of where all these adventurers ended up and now I'm sUPER EXCITED for the next series!!
@@ZyroShadowPony too young to remember those movies? Lol, it's all good, it's like expecting a kid these days to get a MASH or Black Sheep Squadron reference, a bit outdated to be reasonable.
@@jamesmerkel1932 well I do show an interest in MASH after watching an episode when visiting family. I didn't get to watch indiana jones until I was maybe 16 and even then my mind was too adjusted to video games rather than classic movies from the past
In which video did he say that the fighter was paralized? Anyway, he went off to live with his wife so he probably isn't? (At the very least he is moving in the video)
@@MrMarcusvalerius The paralysed fighter was from another video about the previous campaign, when the party was fighting Malacar. They just kinda left a paralysed fighter near the end of the final dungeon. That fighter's never been mentioned since.
the adventurers told the town that he committed the crimes and framed an innocent man. They tried to send him to California but California was all booked out so they just kicked him out of the town
One of the lower circles of California, Enna Hyme, contains an immense torture dungeon called Dis’nee Land, which forces you to stand in place for hours for mere tiny snatches of joy, then extorts you of all your cash while doing so.
sit down kids let me tell you a story that will give you nightmares about a place that made of sunburns and mosquito bites that land is named... FLORIDA!
@@TheItzal11 Australia is unimaginable. It is the true plane of chaotic evil, filled with scorching heat and populated by massive arachnids who's venom ensures an eternity of suffering, along with many other nightmarish beasts. It is the deepest part of the abyss.
@@arandomzoomer4837 Where there are plants and animals abounding that deliver instant death to those who lack poison immunity. On land a creature called the funnel web spider, in the woods the suiside plant, and in the sea the box jellyfish and the blue ringed octopus.
I have a player who is always like, "what? a bowling alley in the 9 hells? Seems unrealistic." Thank you for the beautiful discography of examples for me to show them of good dm worldbuilding
GM: "I am an NPC, you are adventurers and i am giving you a plothook you cannot say no." PC: "Screw you buddy i am an adventurer i don't have to take that from you"
But think about the loot, the encounters, the not being totally lost in a horrible jungle. Keep these in your mind as you travel to the hell jungle and search for the source of its false life and snuff it out.
The baby harp seals make a lot of sense and the great seal in the sky is perfect. I just imagine radiant energy blasting from his belly and smiting the forces of evil like a sunbeam spell.
I like how after Malikar trips and breaks his ankle he's never mentioned again, as if his anti-climactic escape was punishment enough to his story's demise.
I'd say it's an ignoble end, but it just keeps going. Functionally immortal but the results of all his skill checks are essentially halved. Rounding down. Forever.
Well maybe that's what meechel is up to?
It’s because he got SEALed away? 😛🙂😶... ok I’ll let myself out now...
I just finished watching the video but I still managed to misread the name as Markiplier.
"Life doesn't care about your level"
factually accurate. I'm way under level for the encounters I've been facing lately.
If my players would say that I'd just smile and let them know how seriously they effed up with that sentence... Welcome to begging for quests like fetching apples. It's not level appropriate? Well, as SOMEONE said "life doesn't care about your level", huh?
I'd probably ease up on them after one session, but I think that would be more than enough to teach them not to do meta-meta-gaming :)
@@Sparrow_Bloodhunter You have to grind your waybup. Go killing rats in the forest or pick mushrooms
@@mabus4910 but rats are so cute, also I don't have to go to the forest to find them, they show up in my kitchen late at night.
I want to quit the campaign.
THEY HIRED LITTLE WALLACE! THE HERO OF PARNAST HAS SAVED THE DAY AGAIN!
I was thinking the same thing
Also the blacksmith's apprentice for some reason
@@TheRainbowZip They wanted cheap labor.
What is cheaper than children?
Had the same thought, and this confirmed it
Seal: "You going to wash your hands?"
Malacar: "No. Cause I'm evil."
Ah, I see you are also a man of culture lol.
Great reference.
NO! He's a MONSTER! But I'm sure that if we show him the way, he'll learn that goodness really is good.
Mr. Outlaw seal: but we have sandwiches.
Flash masquerading as Lex Luthor?
Hey, if 0 levels can survive a golden dragon, 3 beholders, and a lich, they're goddamn amazing.
Probably had a LOT of good stealth rolls.
Plot armor
Munchkin rules. They ran and weren't pursued.
@@coranbaker6401 It wouldn't even matter, those enemies passive perceptions are high as fuck lmao
To this day surviving anything as level 0 is good although me and my friend, at lv0 as basically commoners managed to beat a young red dragon
I still think this is just the elaborate story of how Ben got a houseplant.
"Hey Ben, that's a nice flower, where'd you get it?"
"Sit down, let me tell you a tale..."
I thought it was an undertale reference to flowey
@@Gormathius lol
“You can’t ignore a plot hook”
Me: “Laughs in Skyrim”
No
"Laughs in Witcher"
That's literally me. I ignored the main story in favor of the much more interesting DLC island.
@@Mechagodzilla128 noted story beeliner here. Like, how do you play that game WITHOUT dragonrend?
@@awsomesaucekirby The DLC gives you a shout that let's you ride dragons. I either hit them with that, or summon two minions to help me shoot the dragon out of the sky.
"We're not giving it to you"
"Wha... why?"
"Because you're the primary villain!"
That's surprisingly refreshing and direct.
Nah, he talked about one of his players being able to call all his twists because he's played too many games and watched too much stuff in a previous vid. Plus, it's basically the lore from the Darksiders game series, except it was Abaddon instead of Gabriel and he turned into a dragon instead of a flower.
It's nice when a GM can put all the pieces on the table so that things make sense to the players in hindsight. It also allows clever players to carve their own path through the world if they can see and act on it ahead of schedule. More work for the GM but also way more rewarding in a lot of ways, so long as everyone's up for it.
@@jakeroth675 Yeah...
I'd even say "too obvious" is a lot better than "poorly foreshadowed and makes little sense" or "complete asspull", because in the first case you can plan for the twists and prepare accordingly, and at least be somewhat satisfied you predicted correctly, while the two other faulty types of set-ups just result in you being baffled and indifferent (or even somewhat insulted) at the plot twist it just created.
Heck, you can even make a "complete mystery" kind of villain, just make sure it makes sense and let your players have their glory if they find a way to discover him before his actual reveal.
Basically, there is such a thing as a D&D story looking like an improv skit, and that kind of story accumulates such shitty inconsistencies that I prefer the steady and predictable ones - after all, that kind of plot just means it's up to you to be creative with how you twist the cliché plot.
I think the key is in having an actual world hung around the events so that if players go off-script or just ignore an entire chapter of the story you know where to take it. I was playing in a game once where I managed to piece together what was happening from a bunch of really obscure clues and skip about six months worth of actual at-table sessions in a long campaign. The GM laughed, then screamed, then laughed, then topped off my action points and we got on with it - weaker than expected but ahead of schedule by enough that the next two sessions we kept catching the antagonist organization with their pants down.
@@jakeroth675 Fair enough.
Part of the potential fun of roleplaying IS that kind of moment where you catch your antagonists (and possibly your GM) with their pants down.
Having a lot of rebound plans and a good idea of the inner working of your world is exactly what you need to do to pretty much have the right setup for all your plot's turns and twists to unfold in a sensical way.
The "asspull" and "poor foreshadowing" problems generally come from someone not planning ahead for the first, and someone unwilling to let the players outsmart them (or just being a pretty clumsy story-teller). The "obvious" kind is probably just the GM not being that creative and doesn't hurt the game that much imho.
That California joke made me spill my guts. As a Californian, I can confirm EVERYTHING you said.
“They force you to stay?!”
“No, it’s just really bad traffic.”
---
“And the beaches are really cold”
way too close to reality
I remember seeing commercials for California... then I talked to people that moved away from California...
Those commercials are apparently f***ing lies...
California.
I live yhere and its a ok place as long as you have money and arnt 2 feet from a drug deel EVERY F#!&ING DAY!!!!
Beware California, and the dread capital Ell'aye
*places a reassuring hand on your shoulder*
I'm so sorry.
The paralyzed fighter should come back after the 500 years as an antagonist
WantaplayEN he probs has justification as he was abandpned for 500 years
That is a great idea!
He could team up with gundam robot guy be he was left behind while everyone was sent back to their world
Oh my gosh HE'S STILL THERE?!
That's half the plot of *a game I know* which I won't name for spoilery reasons (Even though it was ps1), only the guy was *petrified* for 10,000 years and his son is the hero who has to beat him up.
Clearly the seals were lawful stupid... This has my seal of approval.
HA! *seal* of approval
Lawful stupid is the best lawful
*You hear the sound of angry screaming in the distance, it fills you with DETERMINATION
lawful stupid :D Made my day
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
“Where was he going? What did he want to do? Nobody could say for sure, those stories are ones nobody has ever told and have been lost to time-
“-Because he became *Permanently* _Invisible!”_
And was high out of his mind
And hit schoolteachers with a boat while attacking a completely normal school 500 years later
**windows xp message noise** Puffin_forest.exe has crashed, What would you like to do?
A: Restart Puffin_forrets.exe
B: Leave Puffin_forest.exe alone
C: Drink orange soda pop
I would pick C, most likely
Hence the fade out in this video
I read the Permenatly invisible part in puffins voice
When you said "Malacar has been banished beyond the Seventh Seal" this wasn't what I thought you meant...
How do I give multiple likes to a comment?
@@paxgallery6646 Bring in multiple accounts
@@InfernosReaper I don't know how to do that
@@paxgallery6646 Sell your soul to El Diabro. or just create other accounts using different email addresses.
I feel like/thought it was Mali *k* ar
"Ell' Aye" is the perfect fantasy spelling for such an evil place.
Oh wait. It mean Los Angeles? Damn I feel stupid.
Yes... yes it is
5:18 - It is a land perpetually on fire
Me, joking: California
Me a few seconds later: *pikachu surprised face*
We haven't forgot about the origin of the turtle !#%#ers, Ben.
You owe this to us.
I AGREE
Gotta tell us ben
Tell us
We have to know.
prob saving for 1mil
We need to know about the Turtle Fuckers backstory, Ben
Ben? BEN! Turtle Fuckers backstory, Ben? Please?
??? It's always been turtle FRIENDS
He already said "NO!"
Yes. We NEED to know.
you are the "King" of problems and questions not answers...
Lemme guess....
next campaign a child goes on a killing spree with the Mourneblade.
lol I would love to see that
He Shore do that
Elijah Bolton I mean he was planing to give it to his kids
no, the fighter got out of paralysis and found the mourneblade.
From the distance:
"I WARNED YOU!"
*@Puffin Forest*
8:45 I really hope your group was playing this session in California, and the DM fulls out some potted flower and goes:
"And here he is, Gabriel the flower" ;D
It's flowey
@@jwmmitch I though the same thing
He lives in San Deiego . He has a PO box in his about section on the chanel page. so odds are yes he was
I kind of expected Gabriel to say "IM FLOWEY!"
"I'm banishing you... TO CALIFORNIA!"
"NOOOOOoooooooo....."
Be thankful that it isn't the Dakotas.
As a Californian I must advice you to no upset the sun or we will forced to banish you to Bakersfield and you may never leave that place
And thus flowey was born
@@jorgeguijosatellez509 As a fellow Californian...F*** you, banish them to Oxnard.
I was born banished then
holy shit that california bit. im laughing so much.
Even funnier this year.
It's all coming together now :(
I live in california so I can say with confidence that the whole bit is actually just facts.
I also live in California and can confirm Tdog Johnson's statement that its facts...
@@solar7775 same
Michel's ending :
He did not speak much to the others. Where was he going ? What was he about to do ? Noone knows.
Or, as it probably happened, Ben's brother never told him what his character would do.
Wait.. So Michel is Chadwick Strongpants?!
He's going to retrieve the mournblade?
He's probably high on mushrooms at the same park.
He actually did come back and you get to hear more of his stories.... he's ageless so 500 years from now when the next major campaign started he's still there.
He turned permanently invisible du
As someone from California I can completely agree with how it was described
Are there any harp seals or do they stay as far away as possible?
F
obviously youre lying because California has never been that nice
You forgot the pocket dimensions within California. Bakersfield?
@@skyblade7438 They congregate in popular tourist locations by large bodies of water like at a fabled place called Fisherman's Wharf in Sanf-Ran-Sisko.
Then the seals use their hypnotic powers on unsuspecting passerbys where they charm them into servitude. For the time being the seals are perfectly content on gorging themselves on food but for those strong enough to resist their charm the unmistakable air of malice becomes ever so stronger in their presence as the seals grow more emboldened by their new found power.
People call me crazy when they see me clutching my seal bashing club, but the day will come when THEY will be coming to me to save them from the inevitable, oh yes, the day will come.
"California?! What kind of sadistic creatures could live there?!"
Me: Hah. Ahhaha. Ya. It's hot here.
THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU
@@RomeDawg24699 HISSSSSSSSSS!
Same! XD
@@SadBoy-pe5oq BEGONE DEMON
@@RomeDawg24699 We'd all leave if we could.
How many levels did that level 0 adventuring party gets just because they survived that mission, not once, but TWICE?
I was kinda expecting something along the lines of 'so we got caught and spilled the beans and currently are distracting you from the army forming up around the building. Next time on TPK.
Plot armor.
They're NPCs, they don't know about "levels". :P
About six
"Sorry, Kid, we use milestones around here."
LOL Dark citadel Ell Aye
You can check out any time you want but you can never leave.
Because of.... TRAFFIC!
Classy Reference my friend.... I see you are a man of culture aswell
Some might even call it a hotel.
Apparently you can't kill the beasts there, even if you stab them with your steely knives.
player: I KNOW EXACTLY WHERE TO SEND HIM
villain: no you wouldn't
player: yes … I banish you … TO CALIFORNIA
me: *laughing to death*
I got a better idea
AUSTRALIA!!!!
K Mac better Saudi Arabia and write gay on his face
Well, the Angel's dead.
Even worse place. Banish him to
NEW JERSEY
@@kmac291 I live there and can conform - it would be a fate worse than death for an inter dimensional traveler. Lot of xenophobia here, which sucks ass
1:57 The return of Wallace and the Blacksmith's Apprentice... :D
*They are Legion*
OMG! That must have been so cathartic for them to finally defeat little Wallace the hero of parnast!
I’m already in love with the Baby Harpseals
Wait but if magic doesn't work in California, won't Gabriel revert to being an angel?
Edit: Wait, but that means he can't be an angel either because angels are magic.
So he'd just kinda... cease to exist?
Holy shit, maybe California is evil after all.
But it has a magical place
Angels aren't magic
"Magic doesn't work" might just mean that no magic can be cast, preexisting magic (or magical items) may well work. After all, that spirit got back out somehow!
Ya “maybe”
Whether or not he reverts depends on whether his transformation is a continuous spell or not. If it's not, then he would just stay as a plant.
Anyone remember the paralyzed fighter they left outside Malikar's dungeon?
From the DMG page 211, "Make a ranged attack roll against [a] creature using your spell attack bonus. On a hit, the target is paralyzed for 1 minute." "At the end of each of the target's turns, it can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success." - I honestly don't even see how the fighter was paralyzed for even the entirety of Malikar's encounter (boss fight)....
@@ATFPredator they probably just forgot
ATFPredator if I remember correctly he said one of the players couldn't be at the session.
That was his character, he was paralysed as a way to explain why one member couldn't join for the end of the adventure.
@@group555_ That would make way more sense, and if the player never played with them again he would remain paralyzed until he starved to death? What a terrible way to go.
@@ATFPredator also each round of an encounter (everyone taking a turn) is 5 seconds. it's unlikely the encounter lasted for 12 rounds (the average is 3-4, so maybe 9-10 since it was bigger) so that part makes sense
See, banishing Gabriel to California is funny because Los Angeles means "City of Angles".
Very clever.
Pretty sure R'lyeh is the City of Angles...
Is there any difference? Both are eldritch horrors incomprehensible to a sane mind. @@Endoptic
Nellie Bachesneg Wow geometry!
How has no one mentioned "angels" yet??
@@shadowofroserade I have no regrets.
"A land that's perpetually on fire, where the air could kill you" My god did this age like wine!
so um, its aged even better
@@MaskedRokho Yep, 106 where I'm at baby!
WE NEED BACKSTORY FOR THE TURTLE FUCKERS, WE WON'T STOP ASKING BEN, GIVE US THE BACKSTORY.
WHERE'S THE BACKSTORY BEN?
Agreed.
(pulls out revolver) TELL US THE BACK STORY DO IT NOW
Show no mercy!
What happened to the turtle
See it went a little something like this
they F$%&ed a turtle.
Fin
OH MY GOD LITTLE WALLACE AND THE BLACKSMITH'S APPRENTICE ARE ON THE DREAM TEAM?! HOLY CRAP!
I don't remember the blacksmiths apprentice!? 😭😭
Daniel McDade Daniel McDade The video "funny moments from my campaign", about 4 minutes in.
"And the tyrant of California is a great immortal machine known as the t-100 or ARNOLD!!!"
GASP
AHNOLD
It's not over.
You still owe us an explanation where the "Turtle F*****s" name came from.
Maybe not an animation, but an _explanation._
Turtle *_F R I E N D S_*
Forget it unless you want to turn it to a revolution. And I not a fan of rebellion and revolution.
I love how the two names fit in the asteriscs
Isn’t it obvious? They f***** turtles. What else is there to say other than what fetishes did your characters have?
@@themanofsex3173 I thought the verb for "turtle friends" is "they befriend turtles". Why do your verb start with an f?
I love these kind of endings where your character becomes part of the lore of the world for the next campaign
I just realized something, the dream team would have leveled up at least 3 times (I haven't memorized the XP give off and requirements) from bypassing/defeating the guards... Twice.
The dream team has Wallace!
Wallace! The hero of parnast on their side. Truly they can take all that and more.
They also have the young apprentince blacksmith.
Yes I hoping someone noticed the hero of parnast
I think everyone who watched hero of parnast and funny moments in my campaign saw Wallace and the apprentice
I think that's how the manage to survive.
Legends say that Michelle is still sitting somewhere in the central park drunk and high.
...& passed out
As a potted plant
@@gunjfur8633 this whole campaign was actually just a huge fever dream from him.
@@TamTroll
Mind = 💥
Чам Чам Ништяк generations of guilt and now immortality never have I felt this bad for a drug abuser yucking it up in a park
I live in Ell'Aye, and I can in fact confirm we're all 4th dimensional devil summoners from an even greater evil!
Socialism?
@@jamesmerkel1932 Yes
Namless's Media Dump Hence why I a Warior of chaotic good have infiltrated this fortress of evil to steal their secrets of world forging(game design) and then leave for more sane lands.
Isn't Ell'Aye the source from which all evil spreads?
Or is it just one of the nodes of Evil like the terrible Knu Yorcc?
**falcon punches the bad guys**
Note to myself if I travel to California: Every single person there is a high-level boss.
Watch out for the epic level bums.
I wouldn't say that, but basically everyone in the army would be equivalent to a BBEG in strength and the regular police force would be a pretty high level boss. For the army, there is body armor, machine guns capable of killing dozens of people in seconds if they aren't prepared (which given the more fantasy-centered world most D&D characters are in, would be basically everyone), gas weaponry, fully automatic assault rifles, sniper rifles, fighter jets, tanks, attack helicopters, nuclear weaponry, etc. Seriously if one person with access to modern weaponry got into a D&D world and figured out a reliable defense against magic, they could probably be more powerful and a bigger threat than the vast majority of BBEGs or anything else, except for giant monsters, gods and possibly demons.
I live in Visalia California and that's so true lol
California resident here:
I absorb fire damage, am a natural level 7 fire elemental sorcerer, and can multiattack if hit with a fire spell.
We're not all high-level bosses, most of us are just high-end adventurer types.
As a Californian I can say yeah watch your back in some places and not all of cali is hot , cooler weather would most likely be near the beach and don’t go to the valley during summer (I live in the valley and it can get hot, but at least it’s not Death Valley :) )
I am now making Mount Clelestia and Elysium just full of baby harp seals.
The land of fire! California. Fun fact, today’s temperature was 109 degrees Fahrenheit. Or roughly 42 degrees Celsius if you aren’t in the US.
>Hears the gnome monk's name at the end of the video
"Wait a minute..."
>Rewatches Chadwick Strongpants
Will was the gnome monk that failed his attack roll?
Well dang.
Omg youre right!
It was an intentionally bad character too, yet was the only one that managed to make it out of that tower.
My sister plays a gnome monk when I saw that video I laphed hard
BY ONE!
Oof that was a nice end though I bet Michele will reappear as an npc into the new campaign.
but its 500 years later
Gopnik Dragonborn They said they all became Demigods, that’s the lowest tier of god, they are immortal
@@erickchristensen746 *seems legit*
It's called CALIFORNIA (Tell my family I died of laughter)
"Now, your bathroom will be used, for the purposes. Of EVIL"
One would think deliberately not using the bathroom would be the path of evil.
Evil happens every time I go to the bathroom. The Bowels of Hell are my bowels.
"you have fallen for my deception"
"The Asriel towers".
(glances at talking flower)
Seems legit.
Azure Balmung this is undertale
D&D = Undertale
Amirite lads or amirite lads?
@@justagremlin0 you are right lad
@@theguyman256 Cheers lad.
“Instead of going to the left, he went RIGHT!”
*goes left
As someone who lives in California I burst out laughing at us being a plane of evil. It was described so accurately, I mean if we existed in a fantasy setting.
You and I both know it's not just accurate if we were in a fantasy world. This place is hellish.
The Truest thing
Californian citizenship might as well just be called slavery.
Personally I'd amend it to just be LA. Every time I enter or leave LA I feel like I passed through a hell portal
Bro you need to put governor brown in prison. He turned knowingly spreading HIV in your state into a fucking misdemeanor.
DRAGON
FORNICATORS!
Tell us! I will keep writing these comments until you tell us!
I approve of this name.
KILL IT WITH F I R E
Well boys our cover had been blown... Californians out
Leave Bakersfield bahind it will only slow us down
You should casually have a potted plant named Gabriel that you bring to sessions
Only in California tho, or he will escape
9:10 "Together they decided to become _immortal and stop aging_ "
9:17 "Our fighter returned back to the beast lands to spend _the rest of his days_ with his drow wife"
... Oh... Oh no...
that's what i was thinking. I mean when does he realize his mistake?
maybe he rejected the immortality? (I hope he did)
Well... SHE'S not immortal...
@Ellobats NANIII?
@Ellobats Maybehapssibly
“He didn’t go to the left but went to the right!” *goes to the left*
One thing that I've learnt from D&D:
Players like protagonist centred morally regardless of of how their actions seem or the consequences of said actions.
And I like to punish that..
As someone who actually is from California all of this is accurate
You are pure evil i will not succumb to your plots and trickery or your bad traffic
I agree with you john i too hail from the dreaded California
And the Dark Lord Mu'Scum.
loved that bit.
2:55 "A gold dragon"
Wait, how is he evil? Gold dragons are usually Lawful gud.
To be fair they are stealing stuff from the military for forgery.
maybe they pissed it off
That's such a cool idea to have a campaign pick up in the same universe where one campaign ended!
When my characters finish Mines of Phandelver they are jumping into Tomb of Annihilation. Maybe they will be different characters, maybe not.
Me when I saw this video: Hey, maybe he'll finally tell the story of how the turtle *FRIENDS* got their name!
(watches video)
Me: ....
"California! Ahahahahahahaaaaa!"
In the distance: "I waaaaarned youuuu!"
TELL US THE TURTLE F#*%@^S BACKSTORY!!!
Give us the backstory of the name turtle f*****
I thought he did in a previous episode
Seems like it explains itself.
Tortoise rape
Your War-Forged's desire for power almost makes sense. Lack of former abilities as a Warforged (or even just a lack of iron-clad skin) might have caused him to feel vulnerable, or realize how vulnerable non-warforged humanoids could be, and felt the need to do something about that, but got a little too obsessed with it. Or even emotional differences.
I'm reminded of Lex Luthor bargaining with Brainiac: "You lack something that I have in spades.....ambition."
Demon:your fear my lord?
Devil:CALIFONIA...
CaliFONia?
caliFONTia!!!
So what you're saying is... That we're going to have the next video about a campaign that takes place somewhere in like the 1700's - 1900's or something similar to that? Im interested.
that would be awesome. i’m in!
Well, I mean, the 1700's-1900's didn't have airships, so who knows?
Im thinking starfinder
1900s had Zeppelins
Pretty sure it's just Eberron :P I could be wrong of course.
I can’t be the only one who needs to know how The Turtle “Friends” got their name 🐢
Shiro and *Asriel* banished a flower in a flower pot?
Funny, I never thought Undertale would get here.
why did you specify a flower pot, what were you expecting, a fish bowl?
@@nahinshadab202 'Cause it could have just been a fucken flower lol, besides, Flowey's in a pot.
Lunar Scorpio
No he isn’t... if he was in a pot, he wouldn’t have been able to run around the entire game.
@@lunarscorpio3987 floweys not in a pot, how the hell do you think hes descending into the ground
Lunar Scorpio oh I thought it was azrael the biblical angel.
CALIFORNIA! THE DARK PLANE OF EVIIIIL
Also I love stories like that where earth is this death world
More like the Plane of Stupidity, they outlawed plastic straws.
@@GunManGunHand the plane of the seventh largest economy in the world
@@FrancisR420 yet are bankrupt and need federal funding
1. This was uploaded on my birthday woooow
2. Why did that ending make me so emotional
Continued from the end:
New kingdoms rise and fall until all the old names are forgotten. So too were gods and magic forgotten as technology advanced. Eventually, pollution from the spread of industrialization darkened the skys with smog. And one day, a lone potted plant appeared from nowhere in a coastal city on the west side of the contenant, the city of angels.
A thousand years from now, a little girl falls into a hole...
Gabrielle: Howdy! I'm Gabrielle! Gabrielle the Potted Plant. You must be new to the Underground, huh? Someone oughta teach you how things work around here...
Kill it. KILL IT WITH CLEANSING FIRE.
Bard force go
Grab the ....
Friendhip! Pellets!
Hi undertale.
dork yface I love you for this oh god thanks
2:16 "Can't say no to a plot hook" says someone who has clearly never been in a game with the players I DM for.
(curtain falls)
Yaaay!
(applause)
Woooo!
(standing ovation)
You're the best Ben!
(roses are thrown)
Then tomatoes. Then bricks.
*they all became immortal. and they **_never_** saw them again* wow. not just end of mortal life times never but IMMORTAL nevers. damn.
Demigorgon: I am scared of nothing
Spirit:California
Demigorgon: *screams like a little girl*
As a Fire Elemental from The Elemental Plane of Fire, I can confirm the natives refer to it as California.
So Malakar's escape seemed irrelevant....
To THIS story!
I see what you did there...
I'm not even gonna lie, that narration at the end was sick though. Why is nobody talking about how great it was?
This is another reason why I like dungeon and Dragon's . . . Even though I never actually played the game before in my life but still D&D a game I still want to play
You won't be disappointed, 4 years ago I was in your same shoes. I still have my first 3 character sheets (whom are still alive), and still am working on my own campaigns, still love the game. €:)
@@project4061 starting my first campaign with friends hopefully Thursday and I'm excited for it
@@biscuithead99100
Hope you have fun, and don't be surprised if chaos ensues after a few sessions.
Huh... you were actually nicer about describing California than it really is.
THRUTH!
although the beaches aren't too cold here in SoCal
@@ufospiral3199 All of the beaches ive been to down here can be pretty chilly.
Arnold hurt his Paw? WHERE IS MY RAGATHIEL CLERIC? IAM OUT FOR VENGENCE!
Malakar truly is a master of deception
HIS MACHINATIONS LAY UNDETECTED FOR YEARS
*KING DRAGON SENDS HIS REGARDS*
This world is imperfect
@@blackcitadel9 *IT'S A GOOD THING I ALWAYS CARRY TWO GUNS*
#game of thrones 😌?
@@Sam-pu7xc Nope, look up ProZD
@@MoonPatch Did you weep when you watched Archibald bleed to death?
HOOOO THE CAMPAIGN WRAP-UP AT THE END WAS SO GOOD, I loved hearing the stories of where all these adventurers ended up and now I'm sUPER EXCITED for the next series!!
Best end to a campaign I’ve ever seen was the end to grave of man
You have to get... The Covenant?...
[halo theme slowly intensifies in background]
Now i wonder if there's a halo theme tabletop game
God you kids make me feel old. I heard covenant and the first thing I think of is Indiana Jones lol
@@jamesmerkel1932 well i have a slight excuse but its not a good one
@@ZyroShadowPony too young to remember those movies? Lol, it's all good, it's like expecting a kid these days to get a MASH or Black Sheep Squadron reference, a bit outdated to be reasonable.
@@jamesmerkel1932 well I do show an interest in MASH after watching an episode when visiting family. I didn't get to watch indiana jones until I was maybe 16 and even then my mind was too adjusted to video games rather than classic movies from the past
Woah woah woah, what about the fighter???? Is he still paralyzed? We need answers
he is def still paralyzed
In which video did he say that the fighter was paralized? Anyway, he went off to live with his wife so he probably isn't? (At the very least he is moving in the video)
@@MrMarcusvalerius The paralysed fighter was from another video about the previous campaign, when the party was fighting Malacar. They just kinda left a paralysed fighter near the end of the final dungeon. That fighter's never been mentioned since.
KCHgamer OMG YOUR RIGHT
he's right … we need awnsers
we NEED to know Ben.
2:00 is it just me, or is one of those adventurers WALLACE?! Second from the left
I think so
Why did you have to say that
@@guccicosmic3985 because anyone who's seen 2 specific videos of his will recognize and HATE Wallace
I know I’m it’s just now I can’t I’m see that
the adventurers told the town that he committed the crimes and framed an innocent man. They tried to send him to California but California was all booked out so they just kicked him out of the town
Thanks to this channel I've started playing dnd my self
Omg....o.o that...that like ended SO beautifully!!! I got chills!!! I actually felt like it was almost a bittersweet end. That was so lit!!!
One of the lower circles of California, Enna Hyme, contains an immense torture dungeon called Dis’nee Land, which forces you to stand in place for hours for mere tiny snatches of joy, then extorts you of all your cash while doing so.
sit down kids let me tell you a story that will give you nightmares about a place that made of sunburns and mosquito bites that land is named... FLORIDA!
If California is a hellscape what is Australia?
Pythons and Alligators rule over the swamps the further south you go, each side fighting for dominance
...But we locals can be much, much worse
Inhabited only by the mad and those haunted by the specter of death
@@TheItzal11 Australia is unimaginable. It is the true plane of chaotic evil, filled with scorching heat and populated by massive arachnids who's venom ensures an eternity of suffering, along with many other nightmarish beasts. It is the deepest part of the abyss.
@@arandomzoomer4837 Where there are plants and animals abounding that deliver instant death to those who lack poison immunity. On land a creature called the funnel web spider, in the woods the suiside plant, and in the sea the box jellyfish and the blue ringed octopus.
PuffinForest upload at 1 o'clock? I guess I'm taking a break from work right now.
I have a player who is always like, "what? a bowling alley in the 9 hells? Seems unrealistic." Thank you for the beautiful discography of examples for me to show them of good dm worldbuilding
Wow that ending was very nicely written
Thank you for telling this story
69 likes: *Nice*
GM: "I am an NPC, you are adventurers and i am giving you a plothook you cannot say no."
PC: "Screw you buddy i am an adventurer i don't have to take that from you"
But think about the loot, the encounters, the not being totally lost in a horrible jungle. Keep these in your mind as you travel to the hell jungle and search for the source of its false life and snuff it out.
The baby harp seals make a lot of sense and the great seal in the sky is perfect. I just imagine radiant energy blasting from his belly and smiting the forces of evil like a sunbeam spell.
NOOOOO NOT CALIFORNIA!!!!!! *every baby hawk seal screams in fear of california*