@@TrueChaoSclx fr; I know some people who'd probably love a good cringe anime harem waifu D&D game. Maybe..... not as badly-executed as this one.... but still they'd love it! ANd with the right group honestly I might even dig it too. But I definitely wouldn't be anywhere near as excited if someone was like "this is going to be a super serious gritty game" and then dropped anime high school shenanigans on me xD
We all pictured the same loser as the GM when the story got going. Thing is, I wonder what the players were like. Just like every other horror story, they should have just got up from the table after the third red flag (if not the first) and left. People are so passive these days.
To be honest, I didn't even realize the humans didn't have a common room because I was still reeling from "the demon students torture actual people and it's all good because that's Just What Demons Do"
@@gwammeh if demons are allowed to torture people then all the other races, especially angels, would be fighting back, right? I assume there’s some anti death spell on the grounds of the school but even then, anyone studying to be a paladin or a hero would constantly be fighting with demons. The only way this would make sense is if the tortured people were undead and all fights were regulated by duels. You have to publicly announce that you will fight another student and someone from the student council has to supervise. Just a little bit of thought put into the setting makes the world go from edgy anime cringe to an actually interesting world.
The most ironic part about hiding the actual setting of your campaign is that it's not just bait-and-switch, it's actively setting yourself up for failure. Even if there was someone out there who would have had fun with that campaign... well, the GM turned them away the moment he advertised it as serious, mysterious and gritty by comparing it to Men in Black and Constantine.
@@Temperans Well, the situations in the movies and show are serious, but the movies (and tv show) are very goofy. Destruction of earth and the human race? That's serious. Squashing bugs underfoot to distract and piss off what's essentially a giant bug alien and taunting it (or getting eaten alive ON PURPOSE to retrieve your favorite gun) along the way? That's silly. Aliens are on Earth and have been hiding in plain site for decades? That's serious. Most of them are disguised as weirdos and animals (one of which looks like a pug and runs a newspaper stand while others ride bicycles to get around due to their body shape)? That's silly. A miniature planet the size of a baseball is in danger of overheating while it's twin-world is in danger of freezing putting all life on BOTH of them to be in danger of going extinct? That's serious! You use a shrunken (but skycraper-sized to them) AC unit to cool their planet and later use a scoop of ice cream to save the hot-world? That's effective, but silly. MIB doesn't pretend to be what it's not, and sometimes a silly solution can also be the most effective.
😅 comments likes these are what make me scared of sharing my stories.. cus I still don’t know if I’m the bad guy or not 😂 Cus either ill be infamous or just the guy that didn’t stop what was happening..
I have to say while this is all clearly a failure one of the funniest parts to me which no one seems to be mentioning is the blue haired girl. Like we’ve seen DMNPCs be unlikeable before, but seeing one who’s brought up, not mentioned again for hours of play time and then brought back and being told you’ve bonded is crazy. He made the waifu, the least he could do is put her in more scenes to develop some sort of relationship.
both me and my friends have done "magic school" (or rather, hero school) and we always allot for mingling / downtime rp just so the party can get to know the npcs (their fellow peers) better and for themselves. works extra well if you're good at juggling multiple personalities in the same conversation, so you can rope in other npcs the party might not have interacted with otherwise.
OP is in these comments. They might clarify if they see your comment. But the DM did mention her being very young. Maybe they sensed that and didn't bother asking HOW young
Like... One of the characters IS A COP! Why not have Blue Haired Girl have ALREADY called the cops and them wanting to keep it hush hush, so the chief calls the cop character like "Hey, since you're stuck in that school, I need you to investigate a disappearance" and then take the opportunity to drop hints on the importance of blue haired girl and such, don't just say "Oh no! You're totally best friends actually!" Like, the character is a detective, let him be a detective, I don't mind twists, but so far it feels like this DM didn't care about the PCs at all, he just wanted to make his own Harry Potter: The Anime >
From the way the story was written I think the GM panicked and said "you are BFFs" as a panic response when the players said no. Like the character was being given the ability to do their detective thing despite being "stuck in school" but the player said no because "go to the cops". I seriously think there was a lack of communication on what the story was going to be about.
Just skip the "stuck in school" part. Have one of their mystery/monster quests send them to the school. They still get to be investigator monster hunters. (And the put the devil waifu in cuffs for negligence, endangering students, and plying with alcohol, lol). Stupid GM should have just looked for a group that wanted a harem highschool game, instead of false advertising. GM mistake 101.
That was probably the most chill use of a DMPC ever. No railroading, no forced romances, not even a single "I'm the leader, do as I say" The fact that the party basically FORGOT about her is the cherry on top, it's like those bits in a show where something or someone out of place with the setting is just there, and only gets acknowledged at the most ridiculous times
@@BlueTressymI still think it’s better than having several scenes where the players stand and do nothing while another NPC talks about how important the DMPC is to the fate of the world.
I'm OP, he was very chill actually with his NPC, he probably understood that we didn't care about her, so he focused on waifu Dumbledore who doesn't drink water
What you said about taking inspiration is so true lol, just the other night I was watching the original SpongeBob movie and realized my main campaign’s arc matched it almost to a tee lmaoo
For some reason, the "occult investigator who hunts monsters" crossed a wire in my brain to "Colombo," and now I'm just thinking of a scenario where Colombo is a student investigating disappearances in an anime high school
When I heard that this was going to go in a weird direction and the boyfriend got turned into a were otter I for sure thought it was going to go into some furry direction but apparently not
I think there's a lot new DMs can learn from this. It's not a spoiler to let players know what they're getting into, it just gets them excited and prepared for game.
Agreed. I think a lot of GMs overvalue surprise to the extent that they try to keep EVERYTHING a surprise and kill excitement because no one can get into a world they can't imagine when the GM won't tell them things their character would reasonably know.
Theres nothing I dislike more in DnD than a DM subverting their players' expectations, and trap them as a captive audience, just so they can play the game that they know they only will really enjoy.
Hell yeah, were-people! The story will be about controlling your new awesome and terrible powers- **turns it into a cringe high school harem AU** Nooooooooooooooooooo Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy I love werewolves. Why would you do this????
OP said DM had planned with her boyfriend beforehand this big were-otter idea. Creep must have just straight up lied to the bf. Or only talked about mechanics. Weird and stupid, idek.
Were comes from old English and just means man so werewolf for example just meant man-wolf when it originated. The humorous result is that were-people would mean humans that have the ability to transform into people. Truly horrifying.
Imagine being a godlike being, you have power that people become liches just to obtain a fraction of. And instead of like being a god worshipped by a cult, trying to fix or destroy the world, or even just enjoying your infinite power just doing whatever you want. Instead you just decide to be a librarian at a magic academy.
That reads so damn much like one of THOSE fanfictions x) you know the kind, it's a crossover of Harry Potter and your three favorite animes, it has a really cool blue-haired OC, you wrote it in middle school and the summary is "I'm bad at writing summaries lol"
Oh wow animals mating , angels being pure and boring, and demons being into S&M stuff; how very creative. Must’ve taken that GM quite a while to think of such interesting and not at all obvious world building.
I immediately thought that instead of weeby magic school, the character could be admitted to a medical center of sorts that helps with magical mishaps, like physical therapy for amputees, but it’s helping folks cope with their now possibly permanent magical maladies!
I'mma be level with you guys. When he started talking about the blue haired waifu looking for her brother, I was kinda thinking "You mean the wooden puppet?" (for those who don't know, in the original novel Pinocchio's benefactor is, in fact, described as a gorgeous, if rather sickly, blue haired girl, rather than a blonde fairy in a blue dress)
Wow, just from the first seconds of this video I've had an epiphany. I'm gonna create a Call of Cthulhu game but base it in the Roger Rabbit universe as a fun little diversion. Toon Town would be a great setting.
I've actually been kinda mentally debating the merits of running a hybrid of Call of Cthulhu with Tales of Equestria... Magical ponies versus eldritch horrors could make for a ridiculous short-term campaign
When the players say "oh, your brother is missing? Youd better tell the police!" Couldn't you just like... Ask the players to roll insight or whatever the equivalent is, and given an acceptable roll, say "you think she's not telling you something. Like she's afraid to go to the authorities, and even looks at you in alarm when you say you used to be a cop. She looks worried and stressed and desperate." As a way of just... Not dealing with the plot hole of her not going to the cops already? Then you can figure out a plot twist or reveal or something later to cover up for your own oversight. It's not railroading like the DM is currently doing. And it heavily implies there's a storybeat to follow. Potentially keeping some of that "noir mystery" from earlier. All by just pretending to tip your hand to the players a bit.
"You mean you didn't plan for this?" I would've given GM three chances, three strikes. If he failed to plan for critical details for the school, what about encounters?
The DM really goes hard on the implications that torture and being a complete menace to EVERYTHING is fun, and wanting to be more calm and relax is boring and bad. I'm not the only one picking up on that, right?
I have a horror story that is the mirror of this one: as a DM I had got my players into doing an investigation and roleplay heavy cosmic horror campaign in D&D. Everyone was on board and made cool thematic characters. Then on session 1 one of the players turned out to be playing a hiiiiiilarious comedy and was immune to any kind of horror. Would make silly jokes, interject quips during descriptions, and all around be a nuisance doing everything he could to derail the game. This was his MO, though. I should have seen this coming. He always plays bards or children characters.
My school time experience was a misery. I turned to RPGs to escape my problems in school and life. If a GM did this to me, I'd leave... just pack my stuff and leave...
I run a pretty kinky large scale erp adventure homebrew, but I make sure anyone I invite to it is fully aware of what it will contain. And if I can't accurately put it into words, I give them the guide I made on the entire game itself, with neatly sorted categories on the mechanics, variables, and what sort of things it contains. I've never played DnD, and I'm not even sure what I've made can even be called a "homebrew", but I take treating my players with respect seriously. I've put someone in it once that didn't feel comfortable being in there, I 'have' made that mistake.. And I won't make it a second time. My policy as a DM is "Player Freedom".. I make the world, they play in it.. That is the absolute first, utmost founding rule that I follow, as a DM.
I find this story a lot funnier because this campaign feels like something Vivziepop would write so imagining her as the DM made everything make so much more sense to me and I kept laughing at the idea.
No, with V, there would actually be *writing.* This had no thought whatsoever. Besides what someone might consider when they're spank banking. I'll stop here.
I've done the monster school thing in a game before. Had one guy try and get sexual. A maid body slammed him through a table. Did stop him from the sex crap. Didn't stop him from being a sexist crap stain or being a that guy trying to ruin the game. I let players get into relationships and did fade to black. Things that crossed a line got instant punished if it was pushed past me saying knock it off.
I could make a horror story about this but I am horrible with formatting so no one could read it without skipping over my long winded way of writing. I write things as facts, not interesting stories. It'd just be a list of grievances. Also, I am a horrible DM in this story. I was still fairly new and finding my style.
23:00 wait they're not even torturing random faceless people from outside, but STUDENTS AT THE SCHOOL?! There's an interesting plot about a civil war in the school where the other houses rise up and attack the demons somewhere in there
What hurts me is the campaign was a good idea, but then got ruined by weird anime monster school stuff. Moral of the story, clickbait sucks. And Why WAS ONE OF THE PLAYERS LOCKED IN A CAGE LIKE A PRISONER, AND WHY DID THEY WANT THAT CHARACTER TO ATTEND TO SCHOOL EVEN IF IT WERE FERAL! THIS DM IS A REALLY BAD DM AND I WISH TO CAST DIVINE CRINGE SMITE! AND WHY WAS THE ONLY THING THE MOST POWERFUL HALF FIEND HALF ANGEL THAT WAS THE MOST POWERFUL BEING IN THE WORLD, DARE I SAY UNIVERSE, NOT ABLE TO RESTORE SOMEONE FROM A LYCANTHROPHY CURSE, WHY? I HATE IT WHEN A STORY NO ONE WANTS IS FORCED UPON! IF I WERE A PLAYER IN THAT SITUATION WHERE I COULDN'T TALK OR DO ANYTHING BESIDES BE AN OTTER, I WOULD FLIP OFF THE DM AND LEAVE. AND WHY DID THE DM NOT PLAN EXTRACIRLICULAR AND STUDY COURSES FOR THE GAME HE PLANNED TO BE A CHEESY MONSTER SCHOOL ANIME ROLEPLAY?!?!?!?!? AND WHY NOT ALERT CAMPUS AUTHORITIES?! SERIOUSLY! THIS IS ABSURD! SO MANY PLOTHOLES TO POINT OUT! I WOULD LIKE TO USE MY BONUS ACTION TO RAGE AND USE MY REACTION TO BE ABLE TO CAST MAGIC AND USE MY ACTION TO CAST DIVINE SMITE ON THIS CRINGE! SERIOUSLY! THIS DM SUCKS! CURSE THE DUMB LIBRARIAN TO, THIS IS A LIBRARY! BRUH, THAT'S WHAT A LIBRARY DOES, BORROW AND STUFF! THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS! AND BRUH, IF SHE PERCEIVED THE INTENTIONS, SHE WOULDN'T LET THEM IN THE LIBRARY DUHHHH! I WOULD LIKE TO SEND SOMEONE TO THE DEEP VOID OF SPACE! I HAVE AN ISSUE WITH THIS DM! AND WHY WAS THE HUMAN COMMON ROOM STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION, THERE WAS NO HEADQUARTERS FOR THE LARGEST GROUP IN THE SCHOOL BECAUSE ITS STILL BEING BUILT AFTER THE SCHOOL HAS BEEN EXISTING FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS! GREAT, IF I GET ADMITTED TO A MAGIC SCHOOL WITH NO COMMON ROOM FOR OBJECTIVELY THE LARGEST GROUP OF PEOPLE THEIR, AND I AM IN THAT GROUP, IM JUST GONNA DROPOUT! ALSO ISN'T SERVING ALCHOL TO STUDENTS ILLEGAL, WHAT AN IMMATURE HEADMISTRESS, BET SHE GOT HIRED BECAUSE OF NEPOTISM, I AM GOING TO CAST A SUNBEAM ON THIS SCHOOL! IF I WERE THERE I WOULD GET THE LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT INVOLVE TO SHUTDOWN THAT SCHOOL!
Me personally, I would’ve gave that GM exactly what he wanted. He wants to do a surprise anime school campaign, well guess what I’m about to go full Degrassi in that school.
I mean yeah, even questionable sources can be great. Years ago I watched a really good anime called "tears to tiara" that I highly recommend, I then learned from a buddy of mine that it was based on an erotic game... after many assurances that it was actually a good game and not just a lame excuse for Prawn, I gave it a go. It was really good, having some of my favorite combat gameplay ever! It did have quite a few er... scenes, but the option to skip was there.
Thinking about it, this strange set up COULD have provided a noir mystery in a very weird way. Strange attacks and occurrences involving were creatures and other oddities have been on the rise, leaving transformed victims mysteriously uncurable, others malformed, others dead or worse. Investigating and getting attacked leads not only to clue leading to the school but a party member changed, and now a way to get in the school without raising suspicions. Investigating while posing as students and teachers while encountering the completely bizzare and strange staff and students, some of who are stupidly powerful beings, all of whom may be involved. The important thing to make clear is the school wants nothing to do with what is happening and these beings also have a keen interest in finding and stopping whatever is happening. That way you can explore all the strange and dark(without all the needless nasty stuff most likely) with a cast of memorable npcs. Did the werewolf janitor seek revenge against the school for a lack of raise? Maybe the vampire social studies teacher has dark desires and is sending thralls into the world to create more thralls to take over the school and all its powerful beings, maybe some demon created a run away problem they do not wish to admit fault to that they need help stopping. With the party knowing the powerful faculty will be behind stopping the threat and supporting them if they find the culprit you can remove a lot of the overpowered nonsense when the party can even the odds with the right roleplay. Exploring all the strange creatures and subcultures in a school where dark things are afoot that are harming the outside world is ripe for dark noir mystery. But you need a good writer and gm to pull that off.
@@Temperans Yeah exactly. My players like some silly and strange stuff so I'll throw it in, but nothing like THIS story. I want players to have fun, not railroad into uncomfortable times.
17:13 Why did the DM do this like it would’ve been interesting for her to tear out the pages and than end up getting in a new problem for tearing the pages! Such wasted potential!
Outside of the weird anime stuff the whole wizard/monster school idea sounds pretty cool. If I was offered to join a game like that from a GOOD DM I’m join lol
Been litening to your channel since yesterday at work, it's quite enterteining! Some takes about this story: My take on bait-and-switchscenarios is: DON'T. But, for you who'll insist in doing it anyway: make sure both scenarios are stuff you KNOW the players (not just you, not just one player)will already like, think of stuff they might have mentioned on conversations before. My hint for improvisation: it's ok to improvise, my advice for prepping any table is "do your prep with improvisation in mind", but please if you're going to heavily improvise, give up on linear stories! Heavy or light prep you''ll be caught short eventually on something you haven't prep before. My ideal way to deal with it is be honest and say "hm, I haven't thought about that possibility in my prep, sorry" and ask "what you guys think that would make sense?". Trust me, most players would collaborate somehow, some would even be more invested in your game, because the cool idea they just had is now a true parte of the game world.Just make sure to think for yourself and ask for the players if the verossimilitude of the new element fits nicely.
So strange that the GM from the start wanted to do this high school setting obviously but also didn't plan enough of it out. Needing to rail road everyone due to the lack of planning is so funny considering he's the one that started it!
The magical creatures school thing mixed with detective work can work. Multipul students are going missing. What makes it strange is that the kidnappings seem to be at random. The players have to find out who or what is kidnapping students. Heck, staff memembes can be missing too. It can work. Up the stakes as bodies show up. (Think a Wolf Amoung us situation.)
It is, indeed, possible. The problem is lots of the animu, or "Japanimation", gets sexual all too quick itself. I say this as an asexual anime fan. That is... I mean not a fan of asexual anime but um, I as the fan am asexual... Heck even a series with an asexual protagonist can get oddly horny. ...And so can D&D... I've been following it for years and "weirdly horny" seems to have been baked into it from the earliest editions, both in the standard databooks and in the playerbase. It's just... when you get that cross section overlap between the two fandoms, you run the risk of some maxing out the unwanted sexuality. Jesus H.R. Puffinstuff I went and remembered a quick session I had at a convention nearly two decades ago... I was there with a friend and some woman was sat down with us while a DM led us through it. It was a "haunted house" setting, we found a little girl who any genre savvy adventurer could quickly guess was a ghost herself. You know the drill. The woman with us though, she took things in a bit of a different direction. She wanted to "tame" the ghost girl and keep her as a pet. At one point, I kid you not, she started singing that uncomfortable 80's song "I like little girls they make me feel so bad". I WANT to think she was just making inappropriate jokes to get a reaction. I hope that's all it was, but the only reaction I had was wanting to pull out a timeline of upcoming convention events and say "oh, X has an interview hey we better not be late for that" and leaving with my friend. The DM caught up to us later on and apologized for that. It's a good thing he took the time to, or I'd have guessed that kind of thing was common and accepted at public D&D events.
@@darkness32185 90's anime sexualized things a bit much too, and yes that includes Cowboy Bebop, but it's amazing that those examples are downright tame compared to the ridiculous stuff they get up to in a fair amount of modern stuff. Fortunately, I don't really watch all that much and the stuff that's most guilty of it is in genres I've grown sick of anyway. Don't even get me started on the "this fantasy world plays by literal video game rules" nonsense I see way too often. Like, .hack//sign was great... and I can't really think of any digital world anime that's been even half that good since then.
This one right here. This is exactly what I wanted in bad D&D stories. The twists and turns so funny it's hilarious. The absurdity like Cloud Strife suddenly appearing out of nowhere and Omnislashing everyone.
This whole school plotline sounds like a joke spin-off of a regular series that puts the characters in otherwise impossible situations to show how’d they’d react and expand on their personalities
I just wanna say these videos actually help a lot with me building my own campaign. Not only getting info on why doing something is bad but to have genuine advice about that to how they could have done better it amazing knowledge. I’m literally making a campaign from scratch (anime themed) and trying to make it as fun and epic as I dream it of being. So these videos help me learn more what I need to do. Keep up the work
I cannot for the life of me understand why he set up a mystery, then made one fo the best sources of information and possibly disinformation if done right, borderline unusable. A library at a magic school has so much potential for shenanagins.
> 40 year old woman working as a trucker > weeb DM i think i know where this is gonna be going > wizardry school eh? that was disappointing was he really even a weeb? that was a missed opportunity to get isekai'd by a truck did the perverted stuff give the impression that this was somehow "anime"? that could have been from any fandom. also, the angels and demons were played straight - "anime" would have subverted the tropes
Dear DMs out there: *Be honest about the content in your game.* Period. End of. Don't hide things for the purposes of 'spoilers;' you don't have to give plot beat by plot beat, but you NEED to give your players an idea of the setting and what kind of potentially upsetting content is involved. Not only will it diminish the risks of you potentially triggering or squicking your friends, but it will help insure that the people who want to play in your game ARE interested in the content you listed.
Instead of giving them the idea of potentially upsetting content, I think it’s best to just straight up ask “is there anything triggering or upsetting that you don’t want in the campaign. Examples like animal abuse, sexual crimes, racism”. Sometimes a player may not tell you about a specific triggering topic for themselves, but it’s usually a good way of getting to know their expectations and then changing the story in a way that suites them.
@@phabiorules I think it should be a little of both, a: because players may not always think of things without specific examples, and b: because if you want to run a specific style of campaign it's more productive to attract people who will also be interested in that style of game.
I once made up a d&d gone wrong story and everyone believed me. After hearing many of these d&d gone wrong stories I was inspired to tell my own. I thought it would be fun,that everyone could tell the story was fake and have a good laugh. So I posted my fake story to the Internet only for people to believe it. I started to feel so guilty that so many people was fooled I took the post down.
Remember, it's not about if the fantasy is in the game - it's about if your party consents to the fantasy being presented.
Real. A session 0 where you're openly honest about being a pervert is better than dropping the party into a magical realm.
@@SecuR0M facts. My current group, we're all openly lewd and dumb, and it's great. But we established that at session 0 and it hasn't been any problem
@@TrueChaoSclx fr; I know some people who'd probably love a good cringe anime harem waifu D&D game. Maybe..... not as badly-executed as this one.... but still they'd love it! ANd with the right group honestly I might even dig it too. But I definitely wouldn't be anywhere near as excited if someone was like "this is going to be a super serious gritty game" and then dropped anime high school shenanigans on me xD
Indeed. Also, to me, this weeb!DM sounds like he'd be much better off using the Big Eyes, Small Mouth system...
@@keybladewizard49 We're a group of sci-fi/cyberpunk furries lmao.
Probably only said it was some noir blablablabalblah so that he could have a reason to wear his prized sweaty fedora
Exactly my thought as well
It pains me to know that people like that have tainted the noble fedora in the eyes of the public.
Wouldn't surprise me in the least
@@TheEmeraldWeirdo Agreed. Such a shame, that is.
We all pictured the same loser as the GM when the story got going. Thing is, I wonder what the players were like. Just like every other horror story, they should have just got up from the table after the third red flag (if not the first) and left. People are so passive these days.
10:00 "Waifu Dumbledore" has me dead
I just imagine Dumbledore looking the exact same but with massive bazongas
In certain circles, those are called man-tits.
reminds me of the gandalf meme
Autogynephilia Dumbledore 😂
Dumbazongdore
Allboobs Dommiedore.
To be honest, I didn't even realize the humans didn't have a common room because I was still reeling from "the demon students torture actual people and it's all good because that's Just What Demons Do"
Yeah I like how everybody glosses over that and us here going "Whoa hol up, why is this allowed to happen?"
@@gwammeh if demons are allowed to torture people then all the other races, especially angels, would be fighting back, right? I assume there’s some anti death spell on the grounds of the school but even then, anyone studying to be a paladin or a hero would constantly be fighting with demons. The only way this would make sense is if the tortured people were undead and all fights were regulated by duels. You have to publicly announce that you will fight another student and someone from the student council has to supervise. Just a little bit of thought put into the setting makes the world go from edgy anime cringe to an actually interesting world.
The most ironic part about hiding the actual setting of your campaign is that it's not just bait-and-switch, it's actively setting yourself up for failure.
Even if there was someone out there who would have had fun with that campaign... well, the GM turned them away the moment he advertised it as serious, mysterious and gritty by comparing it to Men in Black and Constantine.
What?! You don't remember the stealthily friendly blue haired girl and her ultimately powerful schoolteacher/bartender friend in Constantine?!
That's as bad as me trying to find the murder mystery in "Maid-Sama! Seika High!"
@@Squidbush8563 Of course not, that's obviously from men in black
Since when is Men in Black serious? Those movies are pure comedies with a slice of action as a treat.
@@Temperans Well, the situations in the movies and show are serious, but the movies (and tv show) are very goofy. Destruction of earth and the human race? That's serious. Squashing bugs underfoot to distract and piss off what's essentially a giant bug alien and taunting it (or getting eaten alive ON PURPOSE to retrieve your favorite gun) along the way? That's silly. Aliens are on Earth and have been hiding in plain site for decades? That's serious. Most of them are disguised as weirdos and animals (one of which looks like a pug and runs a newspaper stand while others ride bicycles to get around due to their body shape)? That's silly. A miniature planet the size of a baseball is in danger of overheating while it's twin-world is in danger of freezing putting all life on BOTH of them to be in danger of going extinct? That's serious! You use a shrunken (but skycraper-sized to them) AC unit to cool their planet and later use a scoop of ice cream to save the hot-world? That's effective, but silly. MIB doesn't pretend to be what it's not, and sometimes a silly solution can also be the most effective.
You think Critcrab gets a little pavlovian response of happiness from seeing these horrid stories bc they help him keep the lights on
I do 😭
@@CritCrabThe Crab life is a tough life but it's got it's bright spots
@@jbktpl1245 especially with the electric paid
Undoubtedly
😅 comments likes these are what make me scared of sharing my stories.. cus I still don’t know if I’m the bad guy or not 😂
Cus either ill be infamous or just the guy that didn’t stop what was happening..
Dude knew exactly how much he wanted to railroad the party, but tried to hide it behind some handwavium curtains
PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE CRINGE BEHIND THE CURTAINS!
*THE CRINGE RADAR HAS DETECTED THE CRINGE*
I have to say while this is all clearly a failure one of the funniest parts to me which no one seems to be mentioning is the blue haired girl. Like we’ve seen DMNPCs be unlikeable before, but seeing one who’s brought up, not mentioned again for hours of play time and then brought back and being told you’ve bonded is crazy.
He made the waifu, the least he could do is put her in more scenes to develop some sort of relationship.
" what should we do, best friend, Whatsyourname?" (Name sounds Japanese to me! 😉)
both me and my friends have done "magic school" (or rather, hero school) and we always allot for mingling / downtime rp just so the party can get to know the npcs (their fellow peers) better and for themselves. works extra well if you're good at juggling multiple personalities in the same conversation, so you can rope in other npcs the party might not have interacted with otherwise.
It's strange; usually, they're shoehorning them in EVERYWHERE.
I actually forgot she was part of their party until I read this comment. That just proves your point more 😆😆
I'm surprised the Half-Angel/Half-Demon Principal wasn't a Loli also.
Or maybe she was, but OP just spared ous from that detail.
I mean they did mention her being really young
OP is in these comments. They might clarify if they see your comment. But the DM did mention her being very young. Maybe they sensed that and didn't bother asking HOW young
Thank you for sharing my story!
Remember guys, stay hydrated drink a lot of water, demons don't like it 😛
I'm surprised you didn't gtfo as soon as he made Anime Hogwarts mandatory.
Like... One of the characters IS A COP! Why not have Blue Haired Girl have ALREADY called the cops and them wanting to keep it hush hush, so the chief calls the cop character like "Hey, since you're stuck in that school, I need you to investigate a disappearance" and then take the opportunity to drop hints on the importance of blue haired girl and such, don't just say "Oh no! You're totally best friends actually!" Like, the character is a detective, let him be a detective, I don't mind twists, but so far it feels like this DM didn't care about the PCs at all, he just wanted to make his own Harry Potter: The Anime >
Because that would take more of a thought process then insert Harry Potter iseaki fan fiction.
From the way the story was written I think the GM panicked and said "you are BFFs" as a panic response when the players said no. Like the character was being given the ability to do their detective thing despite being "stuck in school" but the player said no because "go to the cops".
I seriously think there was a lack of communication on what the story was going to be about.
Just skip the "stuck in school" part. Have one of their mystery/monster quests send them to the school. They still get to be investigator monster hunters. (And the put the devil waifu in cuffs for negligence, endangering students, and plying with alcohol, lol). Stupid GM should have just looked for a group that wanted a harem highschool game, instead of false advertising. GM mistake 101.
That was probably the most chill use of a DMPC ever. No railroading, no forced romances, not even a single "I'm the leader, do as I say"
The fact that the party basically FORGOT about her is the cherry on top, it's like those bits in a show where something or someone out of place with the setting is just there, and only gets acknowledged at the most ridiculous times
The GM failing to undetrstand why the PCs forgot the person the GM hadn't included in any scenes, though...
@@BlueTressymI still think it’s better than having several scenes where the players stand and do nothing while another NPC talks about how important the DMPC is to the fate of the world.
I'm OP, he was very chill actually with his NPC, he probably understood that we didn't care about her, so he focused on waifu Dumbledore who doesn't drink water
Imagine your DM saying people who enjoy company of friends without alcohol or drugs are perceived as lame in the magical school 😂😂😂
I'm OP, that part was wild, he was basically roasting us, him included 😂
What you said about taking inspiration is so true lol, just the other night I was watching the original SpongeBob movie and realized my main campaign’s arc matched it almost to a tee lmaoo
"a mix between Men In black and Constantine" So, basically the original Men In Black comic that ran from 1990-1991?
Hey, someone else who knows that comic exists.
Men in black animated series did a good job. Trust me watch it you will love it
@@reihidezero Best agent is agent U.
@@dwaynejackson551 he is butt of everyone joke lol
Hahahah
Thought the same thing
For some reason, the "occult investigator who hunts monsters" crossed a wire in my brain to "Colombo," and now I'm just thinking of a scenario where Colombo is a student investigating disappearances in an anime high school
That GM could just grab Strixhaven. It is literally Harry Potter in D&D. He just had to say what he wanted to play and find people interested in that
My first impression was "just a were _otter?"_
Then I thought about how scary a giant otter, an active predator, would actually be
When I heard that this was going to go in a weird direction and the boyfriend got turned into a were otter I for sure thought it was going to go into some furry direction but apparently not
@@eirinymI literally thought the GM was gonna force weird stuff on that otter dude
Having Hifumi, aka the pervert in the Danganronpa series, as your thumbnail, is a good touch to talk about the discussion in hand
He ain't the biggest pervert in DR Mark. My. Words.
I think there's a lot new DMs can learn from this. It's not a spoiler to let players know what they're getting into, it just gets them excited and prepared for game.
Agreed. I think a lot of GMs overvalue surprise to the extent that they try to keep EVERYTHING a surprise and kill excitement because no one can get into a world they can't imagine when the GM won't tell them things their character would reasonably know.
Theres nothing I dislike more in DnD than a DM subverting their players' expectations, and trap them as a captive audience, just so they can play the game that they know they only will really enjoy.
“Ah crap! I built a school and forgot to add all the actual school bits!”
Hell yeah, were-people! The story will be about controlling your new awesome and terrible powers-
**turns it into a cringe high school harem AU**
Nooooooooooooooooooo
Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
I love werewolves. Why would you do this????
sigh, Some people just don't appreciate a good shape shifting story.
Furries ruin everything, dude...
OP said DM had planned with her boyfriend beforehand this big were-otter idea. Creep must have just straight up lied to the bf. Or only talked about mechanics. Weird and stupid, idek.
Were comes from old English and just means man so werewolf for example just meant man-wolf when it originated.
The humorous result is that were-people would mean humans that have the ability to transform into people. Truly horrifying.
@@griffindault So, why do only humans qualify as people?
Imagine being a godlike being, you have power that people become liches just to obtain a fraction of. And instead of like being a god worshipped by a cult, trying to fix or destroy the world, or even just enjoying your infinite power just doing whatever you want. Instead you just decide to be a librarian at a magic academy.
You become Librarian Blight Ganon with the only purpose of stunning students who try to damage your books, that's a good 20 wizard levels investment
Run. Just run.
That reads so damn much like one of THOSE fanfictions x) you know the kind, it's a crossover of Harry Potter and your three favorite animes, it has a really cool blue-haired OC, you wrote it in middle school and the summary is "I'm bad at writing summaries lol"
Problem is that he shared this thing with us 😂
This premise with consent sounds dope, the supernatural investigator who are used to grim dark horror have to investigate a monster school.
Almost forgot it was Wednesday.
So did CritCrab apparently.
it is wednesday, my dude
@@CritCrab 🐸
Nah it's my birthday Wednesday!!
Oh wow animals mating , angels being pure and boring, and demons being into S&M stuff; how very creative. Must’ve taken that GM quite a while to think of such interesting and not at all obvious world building.
The GM could easily sell people on this campaign if he simply called it Monster Prom.
"As long as the group is right", so many problem players forget this key part...
I immediately thought that instead of weeby magic school, the character could be admitted to a medical center of sorts that helps with magical mishaps, like physical therapy for amputees, but it’s helping folks cope with their now possibly permanent magical maladies!
Anything would've beem better than this 😂
I'mma be level with you guys. When he started talking about the blue haired waifu looking for her brother, I was kinda thinking "You mean the wooden puppet?"
(for those who don't know, in the original novel Pinocchio's benefactor is, in fact, described as a gorgeous, if rather sickly, blue haired girl, rather than a blonde fairy in a blue dress)
I've only made through the first 17 seconds and the emotional whiplash was beyond anything I've felt in a while. HOW DO YOU GO FROM NOIR TO TO THAT?!!
Alright, boys, let's bust this-
Kon'nichiwa, koko ni kite hontōni ureshīdesu! Gakkō e yōkoso!
I'd outright leave after that, I mean cmon!
@@ghostslayer1981 Riiiiight?!!!!
GM: Okay we're now going into an anime magic school-
Nope.
The reason Dimension 20’s Fantasy High works is that the players knew what they were getting into.
0:15 ...I mean got a boiling pot ready to go.
19:08 Those angels sound dope XD
I bet they sit around the table Role-Playing mortals doing silly things.
Wow, just from the first seconds of this video I've had an epiphany.
I'm gonna create a Call of Cthulhu game but base it in the Roger Rabbit universe as a fun little diversion.
Toon Town would be a great setting.
I’d play it
We don't talk about Bruno. Besides that sounds fun!😂
I've actually been kinda mentally debating the merits of running a hybrid of Call of Cthulhu with Tales of Equestria... Magical ponies versus eldritch horrors could make for a ridiculous short-term campaign
@@elizabethk8718kind of love this idea lol
@@elizabethk8718if you need players and do it online, count me in!
When the players say "oh, your brother is missing? Youd better tell the police!"
Couldn't you just like... Ask the players to roll insight or whatever the equivalent is, and given an acceptable roll, say "you think she's not telling you something. Like she's afraid to go to the authorities, and even looks at you in alarm when you say you used to be a cop. She looks worried and stressed and desperate." As a way of just... Not dealing with the plot hole of her not going to the cops already? Then you can figure out a plot twist or reveal or something later to cover up for your own oversight.
It's not railroading like the DM is currently doing. And it heavily implies there's a storybeat to follow. Potentially keeping some of that "noir mystery" from earlier. All by just pretending to tip your hand to the players a bit.
"You mean you didn't plan for this?"
I would've given GM three chances, three strikes. If he failed to plan for critical details for the school, what about encounters?
Hifumi Yamada coming at it with another weeb horror story
The “Alpha and Omega” strikes again.
"a big, muscular chad looking angel with a perm" 😭
ultrakill reference
The DM really goes hard on the implications that torture and being a complete menace to EVERYTHING is fun, and wanting to be more calm and relax is boring and bad. I'm not the only one picking up on that, right?
I'm OP, I also think so, he probably thinks that violence and edgy demons are cool, while being the hero guy is boring
I have a horror story that is the mirror of this one: as a DM I had got my players into doing an investigation and roleplay heavy cosmic horror campaign in D&D. Everyone was on board and made cool thematic characters. Then on session 1 one of the players turned out to be playing a hiiiiiilarious comedy and was immune to any kind of horror. Would make silly jokes, interject quips during descriptions, and all around be a nuisance doing everything he could to derail the game. This was his MO, though. I should have seen this coming. He always plays bards or children characters.
This is actually a very informative campaign because now I understand why players become trolls and try to deliberately ruin everything
You can't sell your players on Dresden Files, then deliver them Madoka Magicka.
YOU ARE DOING MADOKA SO DIRTY.
true but also: Madoka Magica is peak
tho i do get the sentiment
Clearly, the reason the human common room isn't done is because everyone in the school has been too busy.... "Studying" ... to do construction.
OP should have stood up, packed their stuff, and walked away without a word long before the end of this tale.
I'm OP, you're totally right, I guess I just didn't want to be rude with a friend of my bf, at least I had the possibility to share this 😂
The gift of hindsight.
I don’t get why people do this. It should go without saying, but don’t subject other people to your weird crap without their consent!
I heard it explained this once: D&D is like having kinks. You have to know when and where to talk about it. And you need their consent.
Boo hoo. Cope. Its make believe nobody needs fucking consent
No social awareness because these people have not interacted with people outside the internet
Sounds like the GM could have described the Demons' Common Room by just saying "... the Aristocrats!"
In this episode of: "Talk to your f-ing players"...
Brian gang, rise up and advocate for honesty and openness between dms and players! (Also as always don't railroad players)
hell yeah Brian gang for life
GM trust is just like IRL trust: everyone gets one(and ONLY One) for free at the start.
Once broken, it CANNOT be(efficently) repaired.
The weirdest part about this is the players not leaving and telling the DM they won't be playing this nonsense.
My school time experience was a misery. I turned to RPGs to escape my problems in school and life. If a GM did this to me, I'd leave... just pack my stuff and leave...
I run a pretty kinky large scale erp adventure homebrew, but I make sure anyone I invite to it is fully aware of what it will contain.
And if I can't accurately put it into words, I give them the guide I made on the entire game itself, with neatly sorted categories on the mechanics, variables, and what sort of things it contains.
I've never played DnD, and I'm not even sure what I've made can even be called a "homebrew", but I take treating my players with respect seriously. I've put someone in it once that didn't feel comfortable being in there, I 'have' made that mistake.. And I won't make it a second time.
My policy as a DM is "Player Freedom".. I make the world, they play in it.. That is the absolute first, utmost founding rule that I follow, as a DM.
Hifumi getting put through the wringer in your thimbnails
Well, considering what he’s like in the game…
Not necessarily unwarranted.
8:00 Blue haired Girl? Lets play: Spot The Anime Protagonist!
I find this story a lot funnier because this campaign feels like something Vivziepop would write so imagining her as the DM made everything make so much more sense to me and I kept laughing at the idea.
No, with V, there would actually be *writing.* This had no thought whatsoever. Besides what someone might consider when they're spank banking. I'll stop here.
@@joshuacr Well her writing is often just as inconsistent and nonsensical as this campaign is, especially with world building.
The guy pretty much played alone with how much impact the players had.
I've done the monster school thing in a game before. Had one guy try and get sexual. A maid body slammed him through a table. Did stop him from the sex crap. Didn't stop him from being a sexist crap stain or being a that guy trying to ruin the game.
I let players get into relationships and did fade to black. Things that crossed a line got instant punished if it was pushed past me saying knock it off.
I could make a horror story about this but I am horrible with formatting so no one could read it without skipping over my long winded way of writing. I write things as facts, not interesting stories. It'd just be a list of grievances. Also, I am a horrible DM in this story. I was still fairly new and finding my style.
Never have I ever heard foreshadowing be said this way 17:42
"This is for shadowing" I wasn't reading, I thought that he was doing something for the shadows?! 😂
23:00 wait they're not even torturing random faceless people from outside, but STUDENTS AT THE SCHOOL?!
There's an interesting plot about a civil war in the school where the other houses rise up and attack the demons somewhere in there
Probably they were humans, you know, they don't have a common room so they probably end up there 😂
What hurts me is the campaign was a good idea, but then got ruined by weird anime monster school stuff. Moral of the story, clickbait sucks. And Why WAS ONE OF THE PLAYERS LOCKED IN A CAGE LIKE A PRISONER, AND WHY DID THEY WANT THAT CHARACTER TO ATTEND TO SCHOOL EVEN IF IT WERE FERAL! THIS DM IS A REALLY BAD DM AND I WISH TO CAST DIVINE CRINGE SMITE! AND WHY WAS THE ONLY THING THE MOST POWERFUL HALF FIEND HALF ANGEL THAT WAS THE MOST POWERFUL BEING IN THE WORLD, DARE I SAY UNIVERSE, NOT ABLE TO RESTORE SOMEONE FROM A LYCANTHROPHY CURSE, WHY? I HATE IT WHEN A STORY NO ONE WANTS IS FORCED UPON! IF I WERE A PLAYER IN THAT SITUATION WHERE I COULDN'T TALK OR DO ANYTHING BESIDES BE AN OTTER, I WOULD FLIP OFF THE DM AND LEAVE. AND WHY DID THE DM NOT PLAN EXTRACIRLICULAR AND STUDY COURSES FOR THE GAME HE PLANNED TO BE A CHEESY MONSTER SCHOOL ANIME ROLEPLAY?!?!?!?!? AND WHY NOT ALERT CAMPUS AUTHORITIES?! SERIOUSLY! THIS IS ABSURD! SO MANY PLOTHOLES TO POINT OUT! I WOULD LIKE TO USE MY BONUS ACTION TO RAGE AND USE MY REACTION TO BE ABLE TO CAST MAGIC AND USE MY ACTION TO CAST DIVINE SMITE ON THIS CRINGE! SERIOUSLY! THIS DM SUCKS! CURSE THE DUMB LIBRARIAN TO, THIS IS A LIBRARY! BRUH, THAT'S WHAT A LIBRARY DOES, BORROW AND STUFF! THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS! AND BRUH, IF SHE PERCEIVED THE INTENTIONS, SHE WOULDN'T LET THEM IN THE LIBRARY DUHHHH! I WOULD LIKE TO SEND SOMEONE TO THE DEEP VOID OF SPACE! I HAVE AN ISSUE WITH THIS DM! AND WHY WAS THE HUMAN COMMON ROOM STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION, THERE WAS NO HEADQUARTERS FOR THE LARGEST GROUP IN THE SCHOOL BECAUSE ITS STILL BEING BUILT AFTER THE SCHOOL HAS BEEN EXISTING FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS! GREAT, IF I GET ADMITTED TO A MAGIC SCHOOL WITH NO COMMON ROOM FOR OBJECTIVELY THE LARGEST GROUP OF PEOPLE THEIR, AND I AM IN THAT GROUP, IM JUST GONNA DROPOUT! ALSO ISN'T SERVING ALCHOL TO STUDENTS ILLEGAL, WHAT AN IMMATURE HEADMISTRESS, BET SHE GOT HIRED BECAUSE OF NEPOTISM, I AM GOING TO CAST A SUNBEAM ON THIS SCHOOL! IF I WERE THERE I WOULD GET THE LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT INVOLVE TO SHUTDOWN THAT SCHOOL!
Me personally, I would’ve gave that GM exactly what he wanted. He wants to do a surprise anime school campaign, well guess what I’m about to go full Degrassi in that school.
The proper response to every step this DM took: "NOPE! F$%& YOU! I'M OUTTA HERE! NEVER DM FOR ME AGAIN!"
Exactly!
Yeah the players were way too kind sticking around for as long as they did
Which is all well and good for a complete stranger, but when it’s your friend whom they have played with several times…..
Imagine planning on being a detective in a noir mystery but then being told, you gotta go to school. INSULTING!
I mean yeah, even questionable sources can be great. Years ago I watched a really good anime called "tears to tiara" that I highly recommend, I then learned from a buddy of mine that it was based on an erotic game... after many assurances that it was actually a good game and not just a lame excuse for Prawn, I gave it a go. It was really good, having some of my favorite combat gameplay ever! It did have quite a few er... scenes, but the option to skip was there.
Thinking about it, this strange set up COULD have provided a noir mystery in a very weird way. Strange attacks and occurrences involving were creatures and other oddities have been on the rise, leaving transformed victims mysteriously uncurable, others malformed, others dead or worse. Investigating and getting attacked leads not only to clue leading to the school but a party member changed, and now a way to get in the school without raising suspicions. Investigating while posing as students and teachers while encountering the completely bizzare and strange staff and students, some of who are stupidly powerful beings, all of whom may be involved. The important thing to make clear is the school wants nothing to do with what is happening and these beings also have a keen interest in finding and stopping whatever is happening.
That way you can explore all the strange and dark(without all the needless nasty stuff most likely) with a cast of memorable npcs. Did the werewolf janitor seek revenge against the school for a lack of raise? Maybe the vampire social studies teacher has dark desires and is sending thralls into the world to create more thralls to take over the school and all its powerful beings, maybe some demon created a run away problem they do not wish to admit fault to that they need help stopping. With the party knowing the powerful faculty will be behind stopping the threat and supporting them if they find the culprit you can remove a lot of the overpowered nonsense when the party can even the odds with the right roleplay. Exploring all the strange creatures and subcultures in a school where dark things are afoot that are harming the outside world is ripe for dark noir mystery. But you need a good writer and gm to pull that off.
This. But also you need players who want to do that.
So here we have both a GM that is not skilled enough and players who don't want it.
@@Temperans Yeah exactly. My players like some silly and strange stuff so I'll throw it in, but nothing like THIS story. I want players to have fun, not railroad into uncomfortable times.
17:13 Why did the DM do this like it would’ve been interesting for her to tear out the pages and than end up getting in a new problem for tearing the pages! Such wasted potential!
Outside of the weird anime stuff the whole wizard/monster school idea sounds pretty cool. If I was offered to join a game like that from a GOOD DM I’m join lol
... That's not isakai. Unless I missed the "other world" moment
Been litening to your channel since yesterday at work, it's quite enterteining! Some takes about this story:
My take on bait-and-switchscenarios is: DON'T.
But, for you who'll insist in doing it anyway: make sure both scenarios are stuff you KNOW the players (not just you, not just one player)will already like, think of stuff they might have mentioned on conversations before.
My hint for improvisation: it's ok to improvise, my advice for prepping any table is "do your prep with improvisation in mind", but please if you're going to heavily improvise, give up on linear stories! Heavy or light prep you''ll be caught short eventually on something you haven't prep before. My ideal way to deal with it is be honest and say "hm, I haven't thought about that possibility in my prep, sorry" and ask "what you guys think that would make sense?". Trust me, most players would collaborate somehow, some would even be more invested in your game, because the cool idea they just had is now a true parte of the game world.Just make sure to think for yourself and ask for the players if the verossimilitude of the new element fits nicely.
1:05 I get my story ideas from Friday night funkin lmao
I can’t blame you 😂
Based af not gonna lie
Hello? Based department? Id like to file a claim
So strange that the GM from the start wanted to do this high school setting obviously but also didn't plan enough of it out. Needing to rail road everyone due to the lack of planning is so funny considering he's the one that started it!
Why these people gotta give anime fans a bad name 😭
Anime fans give anime fans a bad name. That's just the rules.
bro this is anime fans
@@AFluffyLombax can't really argue with that, bad fans are still fans
@@AFluffyLombaxLike all fans.
@michaelgeorge2217 Truthfully every group has bad seeds. These are the ones that people hear about because bad news travels faster than good.
The magical creatures school thing mixed with detective work can work. Multipul students are going missing. What makes it strange is that the kidnappings seem to be at random. The players have to find out who or what is kidnapping students. Heck, staff memembes can be missing too. It can work. Up the stakes as bodies show up. (Think a Wolf Amoung us situation.)
Why did the players hang around for this long? After a single session I would've been like "Man, F this." and left
Oh, it WAS one session....Yikes
It was really commendable to stay until the actual end of the campaign.
Anime fans trying not to sexualize everything that exists challenge: Impossible
"i'M nOt WiErD, yOu'Re JuSt SiDe ChArAcTeRs...BaKa!!!"
sad but true. you should just watch coybow bebop, it's not to sexualized.
It is, indeed, possible. The problem is lots of the animu, or "Japanimation", gets sexual all too quick itself. I say this as an asexual anime fan. That is... I mean not a fan of asexual anime but um, I as the fan am asexual... Heck even a series with an asexual protagonist can get oddly horny.
...And so can D&D... I've been following it for years and "weirdly horny" seems to have been baked into it from the earliest editions, both in the standard databooks and in the playerbase. It's just... when you get that cross section overlap between the two fandoms, you run the risk of some maxing out the unwanted sexuality.
Jesus H.R. Puffinstuff I went and remembered a quick session I had at a convention nearly two decades ago... I was there with a friend and some woman was sat down with us while a DM led us through it. It was a "haunted house" setting, we found a little girl who any genre savvy adventurer could quickly guess was a ghost herself. You know the drill. The woman with us though, she took things in a bit of a different direction. She wanted to "tame" the ghost girl and keep her as a pet. At one point, I kid you not, she started singing that uncomfortable 80's song "I like little girls they make me feel so bad". I WANT to think she was just making inappropriate jokes to get a reaction. I hope that's all it was, but the only reaction I had was wanting to pull out a timeline of upcoming convention events and say "oh, X has an interview hey we better not be late for that" and leaving with my friend. The DM caught up to us later on and apologized for that. It's a good thing he took the time to, or I'd have guessed that kind of thing was common and accepted at public D&D events.
Hey! I don't play bard!
@@darkness32185 90's anime sexualized things a bit much too, and yes that includes Cowboy Bebop, but it's amazing that those examples are downright tame compared to the ridiculous stuff they get up to in a fair amount of modern stuff. Fortunately, I don't really watch all that much and the stuff that's most guilty of it is in genres I've grown sick of anyway. Don't even get me started on the "this fantasy world plays by literal video game rules" nonsense I see way too often. Like, .hack//sign was great... and I can't really think of any digital world anime that's been even half that good since then.
This one right here. This is exactly what I wanted in bad D&D stories. The twists and turns so funny it's hilarious. The absurdity like Cloud Strife suddenly appearing out of nowhere and Omnislashing everyone.
This whole school plotline sounds like a joke spin-off of a regular series that puts the characters in otherwise impossible situations to show how’d they’d react and expand on their personalities
To be honest, I probably would have left that campaign after it turned into the school thing.
I lost it at, "Waifu Dumbledore"
I just wanna say these videos actually help a lot with me building my own campaign. Not only getting info on why doing something is bad but to have genuine advice about that to how they could have done better it amazing knowledge. I’m literally making a campaign from scratch (anime themed) and trying to make it as fun and epic as I dream it of being. So these videos help me learn more what I need to do. Keep up the work
Imagine: you are a crab. Click your claws chat
Man I love me a good horror story but I have to shower after this one.
The disdain in which you said 'waifu dumbledore' killed me lmao
14:15 Your neckbeard voice is so perfect.
I cannot for the life of me understand why he set up a mystery, then made one fo the best sources of information and possibly disinformation if done right, borderline unusable. A library at a magic school has so much potential for shenanagins.
Hi, a chill devil here, traumatised
Men in Black + Constantine = A BIG SUPRISE
The best and easiest way to get out of these scenarios is to secretly text your mom or dad to call you and have then tell you to come home.
> 40 year old woman working as a trucker
> weeb DM
i think i know where this is gonna be going
> wizardry school
eh?
that was disappointing
was he really even a weeb? that was a missed opportunity to get isekai'd by a truck
did the perverted stuff give the impression that this was somehow "anime"? that could have been from any fandom.
also, the angels and demons were played straight - "anime" would have subverted the tropes
Dear DMs out there:
*Be honest about the content in your game.* Period. End of. Don't hide things for the purposes of 'spoilers;' you don't have to give plot beat by plot beat, but you NEED to give your players an idea of the setting and what kind of potentially upsetting content is involved. Not only will it diminish the risks of you potentially triggering or squicking your friends, but it will help insure that the people who want to play in your game ARE interested in the content you listed.
Instead of giving them the idea of potentially upsetting content, I think it’s best to just straight up ask “is there anything triggering or upsetting that you don’t want in the campaign. Examples like animal abuse, sexual crimes, racism”.
Sometimes a player may not tell you about a specific triggering topic for themselves, but it’s usually a good way of getting to know their expectations and then changing the story in a way that suites them.
@@phabiorules I think it should be a little of both, a: because players may not always think of things without specific examples, and b: because if you want to run a specific style of campaign it's more productive to attract people who will also be interested in that style of game.
Hifumi would fr do this....
I once made up a d&d gone wrong story and everyone believed me. After hearing many of these d&d gone wrong stories I was inspired to tell my own. I thought it would be fun,that everyone could tell the story was fake and have a good laugh. So I posted my fake story to the Internet only for people to believe it. I started to feel so guilty that so many people was fooled I took the post down.
So the title of the video is just a brief definition of D&D
Were-otter is new.