Narrated D&D Story: How The Bard Discovered The True Cost Of Being Immortalized In Song
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Bruno Laget dude your gm is twisted
Yeah, I think I would be leaving the table after something like that
@@nreed200 why?? it's an awesome story and everyone on the table seemed to have loved it, and all you have to say is "i would have left the table".
you most likely don't even have a table you could leave.
@@XpVersusVista It does, but at the same time it seems that the gm just forced the player's death without giving much of a chance
@@nreed200 All great deeds have sacrifices.
I have a feeling this story is not yet done.....
When singing the song isn't enough, *become the song.*
Yo wait I felt that one... That hurt my soul
A better way to become immortal, less of a cost then a lich
@@bryce4724 even liches eventually disintegrate into just a head and even that eventually has to disintegrate into nothingness. And becoming a deity is its own... Complication. True immortality is transcending existence into Legend, but you lose the individual to the legend itself. But that Legend exists as long as the civilization it came from remains.
@@joshuacr You lose the individual to the legend itself... That was truly deep. Great words.
How dare you make my eyes water!
Playing curse of Strahd.
"It's a fun, relaxed game."
Fun maybe. Relaxed? Ehhh.....
Yeah, I know what you mean... I meant "relaxed" as in "there is no pressure to perform well, almost no rules-advocating, the dm is patient with indecise players and people on the table get along great".
The in-game atmosphere is horrid and morbid, as it should be, but the table atmosphere is great... perhaps I should have rephrased it
Yeah curse of strahd can't really be defined as relaxed lol
@@hadeskingoftheunderworld7010 i found out after we played curse of strahd(½ a yr later) that it was my friends paladin/cleric that kept screwing with me with this 1 doll. Every day id either wake up to seeing it staring at me, or find it somewhere when we would leave or camp. Hell, i found it i trees long before any of us would scout ahead. Our dm told us it was eventually possessed by a mischievous spirit and my buddy didnt knew about that cause he was also in the dark about why we found it after i tossed it in a camp fire. It gave my character a massive quirk about dolls. I ended up ripping a doll collection into shreds cause i saw that same doll within the collection.
@@Yroko yeah
Curse of strahd was my first campaign I joined near the end and by then everyone else had screwed everything up so badly, they somehow beat strahd who was still regenerating, one of the minor villains in the town around castle ravenloft had taken over because the lord was killed and they turned everyone into vampires and ever single place except for one small village to my knowledge was basically in ruin especially after we accidentally set fire to the forest, so yea fun times. I think the funniest part was that the party were mostly not murder hobos.
New artifact created.
Yirbel's Drum
In possession, provides a constant inspiration spell and +2 on all saving throws for the whole party.
When played by a bard and faced by insurmountable odds (at the discretion of the DM), the drum summons an avenging spirit (NPC controlled by the DM) to stand and fight along side the party (Max of 5 rounds). If the avenging spirit's time is maxed out and forced to quit the fight, it explodes with a wave of healing that washes over the party. All party members receive 2d10 HP/ character level, and return to the fray.
That sounds like a great artifact to add through homebrew.
@@Emerald__Ace I make stuff like that all the time for my homebrew games. And of course hide them in other homebrew campaigns.
This is pretty flipping overpowered.
As cool as the ghost thing is...how would that work? Yirbel's soul kinda ceased to be. There's no ghost left that should have any particular association with the drum.
@@0SC2 You haven't played one of my campaigns.
If I was in that party, I would've gone back to that library and make that Arcanaloth pay
Personally I would not hold it against them for being what they are. However, I would destroy such things that would do unspeakable horrific acts to make sure they can never do it to a single soul again. Assuming I had any semblance of goodness and my oath reflected that if I were playing said Paladin.
Burn the temple to the ground! Burn all the books! (they'll just turn to ash anyways)
@@kasper7574 I agree. When in doubt, fire good! 😃
@@kasper7574 oh you don't want to try to burn the Amber Temple to the ground my friend
i just finished the temple myself and that Arcanaloth is no joke. we had 4 near TPKs from it (we did have 2 people die from on the 3rd encounter) there are a few tricks but i will not say them because many people have not plaid CoS yet.
Oof. Little awkward to find out you just unintentionally destroyed 200 innocent souls. :/
Tristan even more awkward when the paladin destroys 200 more.
then purposely did it out of anger. kinda makes you neutral at the min. evil most likely though if you use the alignment system. i find it too stupidly restrictive. just change over all the detect alignment to detect faith to know if someone is against your god.
@Ryder Steel no you don't, since they are already dead. it's nowhere written that destroying souls grants exp.
And no one knew dispel magic
@@grozzarkazoku8757
Just because someone is against your God doesn't mean they're against you, and vice versa.
I'm so used to rpg horror stories so to see these damn good stories is very refreshing.
Thank you!
@@allthingsdnd No, thank *you* for taking these players' and Dungeon Masters' stories and sharing them with us!
I think this is a necessary counterweight, as horror stories sell more because people are moved by outrage, but the sheer number of stories of sessions/campaigns gone wrong is discouraging for new people. We must also show what makes this hobby fun and meaningful.
We definitely need more "wholesome DnD" stories.
I just got into these. I was shown this one and the one about the chaotic neutral party that was kinda evil. Are there more on here?
@@riley9491 It is probably my favorite dnd channel. Because it isn't all horror stories. He has tons of videos!
This definitely seems like a case where you would take it up with a god: stealing souls from faithful believers like this is the kind of thing you ask the Cleric to call to their god for, and most of them would bring down the hammer HARD on any demon so brazenly treading on a god's domain.
Even devils might back you up
Give my life to save 600 something souls from eternal pain?
Yeah maybe.
Not your life. Your existence.
Daras Thrae Yeah, I would be nothing more than a forgotten memory, and I think I would be ok with that.
@@nexelray3207 Thing is, you wouldn't be ok with it, because you would not be anything.
The Outer God That’s not true.
I believe in reincarnation, that my soul will one day return to earth and have another chance at life.
I of course wouldn’t be myself, but if everything about me would be forgotten, all my problems, all my faults....then I would be ok with it.
@@nexelray3207 I also believe in immortal life, but in terms of the story, of the lore, this was absolute deletion, nonexistence, THE worst fate of all. What is Eternal torment compared to this. There you at least have some distant hope of freedom, but when your soul is destroyed, casted into nonexistence, there is no hope anymore. No preservation of the self, because there is no self anymore. You don't exist and as such you cannot return from the great beyond.
"Logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.”
"Or the One."
Live long... and prosper...
The needs of the many does not mean the few must unwilling suffer.
@@Michael-fd1gx
Needs, not wants, if survival is of the highest priority, the will of the few is not to be considered. Do not let your emotions cloud your judgment, the truth is harsh, the world is cruel, but that is how we prevail, through sacrifice and equal, unrequited love.
If you claim to love humanity but you are not willing to suffer for its prosperity, then you are already damned.
To cry as you make the call is human, to not make the call is stupid.
The hearts of commanders are hardened by battle, if you cannot make the right judgement, you are unfit for leadership and you will kill more than you wish to save.
Im a barbarian with intelligence of 7, logic can go suck the shaft of my battleaxe
@@enochlo9156 This is flat out wrong. The needs of the many never outweigh the needs of the few.
It's a case by case basis.
I wouldn't have just immortalized that Bard in song, I would become a Bard if I already wasn't, and sing that song to every town I came across, so we could all enjoy her memory together
MaxZaps Gaming My Bard’s not a singer, but you get your ass he’d become one if something like this happened to a party member.
Hi guys. I'm the one honored to be the DM for this table. This is a heavily modified CoS campaign and the group has been doing a fantastic job of chipping away at Strahd's allies and becoming powerful enough to one day face of against He Who is Ancient and the Land. Barovia is a land of zero sums and pyrrhic victories and I make absolutely sure the player are not railroaded into making impossible choices so that their victories feel real and earned. Testing their morals and convictions is pretty much par for the course. Thanks for the beautiful narration of this tragic but memorable moment. I consider myself a vessel for their story and I'll make sure that this is not the last epic moment this rag-tag band of misfits will have to brave.
Hey, was this whole Acheron horror part of the campaign ? I need to know because I deal very badly with that kind of experience firsthand 😅
Mox Mox hi there. This part is anchored in a section from the book but is almost entirely homebrew. I will say that RPG is the perfect place to test your convictions and moral code so don’t be afraid of balancing happy and dark adventures.
Forever engraved into memory!
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...and much later in the campaign one of the players gives the middle finger to that demon by using a Wish to reform her soul and put it in a happy afterlife, moved by the song that is still sung.
That is a really sad, but heroic story. That’s also one evil DM.
The setting was Curse of Strahd, and considering the content, me thinks the players have a go ahead before it was run.
Blitzwaffen agreed, it’s still evil 😈. I don’t mean it in a bad way, but in a good way, as it fits the campaign... it’s not easy to be that evil.
@@tthung8668 Acheron, one of the outer planes in DnD.
@@tthung8668 as mentioned in the narrative this is the plain of eternal conflict and battle, Acheron
I'm playing through a curse of strahd rn, it is... heavy to say the least. My first character was killed, and another retired their character to play something with more survivability, and we're only like 6 sessions in.
That was beautiful. I identify more w/ the bard than the party, but I think people of most philosophies can see the beauty in this. Bravo all!
Ruby321123 True. I think attachment to the bard has blinded them, but in the end they realised they needed to respect her wishes.
Sounds like someone pissed off the DM.
You really don't know ravenloft, do you?
@@joshuacr I think this was a joke because of how stacked the odds were against Yirbel. Its like the DM was trying to kill her even though in all probability S/he likey wasn't.
well when you normally die in ravenloft you might come back without a soul, or turned into a were-creature with a new alignment and class, or with a very bad new flaw, or you might just stay dead and spend every night having to sever Strahd. there are no "nice deaths" in CoS!
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Depending on Character Concept, yeah. My Usual PC alignment being NG would mean me asking the other party members to end me to save them would actually be rather poetic, in all honesty....
I'd sacrifice my character to save others, but I'd do it reluctantly. I hate Kobeyashi Maru situations like this one.
nope sorry to say most of those souls were most likely people who did nothing to make the world a better place. I am a realist. if all the heros die saving every single person they can in the end the bad guys win by attrition. plus who is stupid enough to trust what amounts to a neutral evil demon?
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I would kill miself to save even 1 lide in real life so to save 600. What do you think.
A unselfish sacrifice, a deed that would require a strong will.
She died with a cause. Toast to both the Player and the OP
XAnonAdviserX
And the DM
Right time to slaughter an arcanoloth. Slowly.
good luck
This actually made me cry. :(
I just missed the premiere. Feelsbadman
It is okay. Next time!
Legit they should have grabbed the guy who trapped the souls and trap his soul in eternal torment like he planned to do to others
If I played a chaotic good character that's exactly what Id do.
"There are fights for honor and fights for live. You need to learn to tell the difference.
If you save him now, his life might be spared. But what of his honor?"
- Bleach
Bruno Laget - you have succeded in immortalizing Yirbel's life and honorable deeds. She will live on through this story forever.
(Or at least as long as the Internet exists)
And that's PRECISELY why I wrote it, to immortalize a memory doomed to be lost from people's minds.
Nice to see so many people who like to watch DnD
Omg that was so touching such a beautiful way to be sacrificed 😥
We humans like to think we're so noble, but I can say from certain experiences in my own life, both in game and out, there are some questions you can't honestly answer until you're standing there, staring it down for real.
SO... in-game... Any decent PC of mine would casually toss his or her life aside for the salvation of even two others... especially two innocents. A life for a life is where it gets dicey.
Any villainous SoB's I've concocted are by their nature ego-centric SoB's... AND wouldn't toss a life to save anyone without some contingent strings attached...
AND having never been faced with sacrifice on such a scale personally... I can only say I've risked it... but never tossed it. It's a decision I wouldn't wish on anyone... torture or pain or not.
It's also worth pointing out that THIS is a GM with "juice"... That's not all together an easy commodity to find, either. It's not just a matter of knowing how to stick it in and break off the blade. Anyone can know or learn that. The trick to being a GM with juice is taking the risk of the whole Table turning on you to truly Role Play it... To follow through with sticking it in there and breaking it off.
As storytellers and artists we ALL have to take those risks to have "juice". If you never risk someone absolutely HATING the work in part or whole, you can't get the chance of anyone truly LOVING it either. That's what juice is... This was/is/and will be a good game... AND it's the GM's juice that lends the Players and by rote their PC's the chance at becoming more than sheets of paper... checkered over with numbers and stat's to determine odds and evens at a glorified dice rolling competition... They grow up through it all to become friends, not so very different than real people we learn to know just that well... AND when (not if) they go away... whatever that narrative is, they are mourned and missed...
...Only with PC's and NPC's we get to roll up new ones and nobody has to feel guilty for killing them... retiring them... or otherwise letting them go.
We are the weirdo's who get groups of grown adults to play pretend so they can throw dice and shout at each other for hours at a time... because that's not weird at all. Great story, great GM, and some pretty great Players. That's a Table that'll be talking and telling their war stories for generations. Hat's off. ;o)
My Goliath Barbarian lost a friend to self sacrifice too. He was a Gnome Nature cleric and a pacifist which was funny as my barbarian thrives in combat. Little guy helped me break a curse on me and started me on a path of light that’s turned into some great role play. He was my barbarians only real friend at the time. He sacrificed himself so my party could get away. My barbarian is still all bent up about it. Hello path to Redemption paladin hahahaha
or vengeance.
Groz'zar Kazoku I had considered that but the cleric was killed by a necromancer and we have a necromancer in the party so I didn’t want any kind of in party character drama cause I know vengeance pali’s are hardcore as hell against what they’re taking vengeance against
@@blackreign92. well it shouldn't be necromancy he hates but the individuals that do things like that. Kill good people and heros. So his hatred should be focused on anyone he's sees as a villan.
hi i want to start playing dnd
Go for it you won't regeret it
When I heard the Wine thing... I heard Lauren’s Interlude from Hamilton, and now I’m crying
This is why I love d&d the good role playing can get you to cry, laugh, and tell as if it was real and happening in front if you
Yell*
This reminds me of our last plight. It was a beautiful bitter sweet story. In our homebrew campaign, the archdevil Zariel set up a plan to turn the material plane into the next level of the 9 hells and our party and a small troop of warriors were the only ones left to stop her. We had heard about her plans from a mortal clone of Mask, the god of deception. Mask lost her divinity to Zariel and regained her mortal thoughts and emotions. Masks mortal name was Shay. Shay explained to us that we were really the only capable fighters left to stop Zariel and repair the divine gate, which had been destroyed by Mask during the fall of the mortal plane. We also had to remove a mystical veil that was keeping the gods from being able to impact the mortal plane.
Long story short we found out that in order to repair the divine gate, and remove the veil we had to remove Masks divinity from Zariel. Either we had to convince Zariel to remove the divinity willingly from herself or kill her and someone had to be by her to take it the moment she died. The problem was, whoever took it would eventually fall pray to the madness that consumes Mask and they would eventually repeat the cycle that Zariel started. So whoever took it would have to repair the divine gate, remove the veil, and then die. The only person who could take it and have the willpower to withstand Zariel's influence was our Dragonborn Cleric. The character was a thick headed smart ass with a heart of gold. He had personally revived every member of our party (except the only two who didn't die) at least once, and constantly got into heartfelt dialogue with the party. He often felt like our glue and It really stung as players and as PC's to know that if we couldn't convince Zariel to give up her divinity, our cleric would have to die. So we derailed the campaign and tried every angle to find another way. We discovered a sentient sword that would turn anyone who attuned to it into an angel, and determined that we would convince Zariel to take it, and then channel her divinity to do good after she shifted into an angel.
Fast forward to the Zariel fight, a 6 hour real time combat ensues. We fought hard and long, all of our resources were spent, we tried numerous times to convince her to claim the sword and become a being of good. Everytime we rolled nat 1's on our persuasion checks and Zariel would have none of what we had to say. In the end, our Dragonborn did what he said he would do, and struck the last blow to take claim to the divinity. Many tears were shed after he made multiple sacrifices to revive our fallen PC's family members, and restored the world to it's proper place. He had a heartfelt speech for each of us and brought all of us and our PC's to tears before he plunged his own sword into his heart and stopped the vicious cycle that mask Zariel had started.
Damn and this is a story from a family player party like irl family player party lol that’s a dark dark family
my first dnd group i played a tiefling bard. we set out on our way, DM gives us a phase spiderling (we had barely made 2nd level). the spider played dead twice. the third time, it was finally dead. i approached and cut off its head (so i could have a blacksmith turn it into a helmet at a later date. and to ensure it was actually dead).
the following session, we came across a fort in the middle of the road. inside we got ambushed by a giant owl, when it grabbed our fighter. i ran in to convince it to befriend us. i didn't have rations, so i asked the fighter, who tossed me some. i got nat 1'd the catch, causing it to sprawl across the floor. i went with it and got a nat 20 on deception, convincing the owl i had left the food there for it. after that, it was friendly and stayed with me the rest of the dungeon.
a little while after that we came across two giant crabs. i ran in and intimidated them (24 non nat). after scaring them both, i persuaded them to join us as well. one of them died in our final boss fight, but after we left the fort and got back to town i had a saddle crafted. i was also allowed to take a feat (played off as training, since DM decided two years would pass in game time, so he could start a proper war). so, i took mounted combat.
after two sessions, i was a bard with a phase spiderling head-helmet, with a giant owl companion, and a giant crab mount. that character (may she rest in peace, as my cat ate the character sheet) was known as Elena Crabsknight, the animal singer.
this was a while ago, so i can't remember most of the finer details. but i remember charging into combat atop my mighty-shelled steed.
Curse of strahd....fun and relaxed game....smells fishy
1:09 "We lost her in our last session yesterday."
I was thinking that someone may have died irl because this wording, i had to go back to check, and yeah you said "PC" before hand but still.
If you think about it immortality means the chances of you getting trapped somewhere and never found are 100%. Its only a matter if time.
I dont think this is over. Remember where they are travelling! They are carrying a fragile sphere of 600 innocent souls! One mistep, one mistake, one lapse of attention and that will be stolen or destroyed, rendering the sacrifice in vain.
Whats more, what if they face the same choice again of souls or self? Will they remember why they carry it and be able to make the same choice again?
also who said the neutral evil being just didn't send them to open the apocalypse? i mean he could have been lying just to fuck them over in the long run.
and the land they are in is a bad place for those souls if something happens to them.
@@sirachxi3918 Definitely. As a DM, a player roleplay and event like that would definitely keep that orb as an exciting story device. I hope that they share with us how this story concludes and their DM facilitates their goals.
@@russelljacob7955 yes I want the rest of that story
There is a continuation to this, which I already handed over to the channel. It's a shorter story, but shows how things ended up.
Only one year into DMing and I'm in awe on how one can get that deep into the emotions with the players. Perhaps one day I'll be able to reach that point.
I have a story i was a monk level 20 and in the story monks can get to the point were you can channel all your chi and banish anything but you must sailfish your life but it must be evil, The final boss was a dragon born necromancer and when i banish the final boss my life force was drain and shot into the dragon born heart and banishing him instantly.
I'm not crying, you'r- OK I'M CRYING
This is like the extreme version of the trolley problem.
That made me tear up a little
I’m not crying tears of the bloodfelt, YOURE crying tears of the bloodfelt 😭
Non existence is not so bad. Everyone is non existent for most of time
Not to belittle the bard's sacrifice, but "non-existence" is far from the worst of fates, someone could suffer.
I would give you some examples of people you could ask but we don't know they exist. Agreed.
Yeah.... I mean if you dont exist you arent there to suffer it?.... come to think of it.... there are some pretty bad things you can immagine if you add the inability to get used to whatever it is as well as preventing you from going insane.... like every morning you get reset so you cant get used to it and even if you go crazy from it, the next morning you would be sane again... rinse and repeat... that would be pretty bad I think.. makes me depressed just thinking It through :(
And this Is the perfect exsample why people play dnd
I mean after killing 400. And with her having no hand in the killing of and torturing of a thousand Souls. Its more of a smack in the face. That the player should have made there sacrifice mean something. They would not Harbor any ill will towards her. If anything these lost souls would want a hero with such stature to hopefully have the opportunity to save their loved ones from suffering the same fate.
So that she could do what they could not. I would imagine being tormented for over a year they would have seen the strength of character and mind that this hero has. And also being thankful that they had the opportunity to still be in some form. For whatever time was given by her great sacrifice by not giving into the pain.
Dont get me wrong I see the other side of the coin. But especially after already destroying 400 Souls. Who knows had she been brave enough to live with the burden she may have saved many more then just a mere 600. Just a thought.
Bottom line just because you're thrust into circumstances that can make you feel as if you're becoming some form of a monster. It takes a much stronger character to live with such a sad burdens. But knowing that they can become better because of them not weaker. Self-sacrifice is never really the answer.
Rurouni Kenshin battousai the manslayer after slaughtering multiple people in order to create a new government. He whines up becoming a Wandering Samurai after the new government is put in place. Valuing never to kill again using a reverse blade sword. While at the same time helping and saving others. Protecting life instead of destroying it. Etc..
Anyways just a thought nothing more. Good video keep up the good work
I wish my group could get into things as much as this group. I try to build a character, but it's hard to roleplay them with how we play things.
Reason 1: We play short sessions. As in once a week, for about 2-2.5 hours.
Reason 2: Most players don't build deep characters. At the beginning there was more thought put into them, but less and less now. Of course, the DM has said that we should try building characters with more thought. The DM has also said his goal is to kill all our characters, because he thinks the best part is building a new one.
Anyway, that's my rant. To the group of players from whom this story came, I'm sorry for your loss. She was a true hero in the end
So I'm listening to these while playing another game, and the game music took a really epic turn at about 9:00 in the video and it felt really appropriate.
i shouldn't have been chopping onions while listening to this.
Kinda messed up for a DM to punish a player so harshly though. Your permanently banishing a character over a book? I don't find the Bard's sacrifice meaningful at that point.
"Because I can" - DMs
For heaven's sakes. Stop commenting on the world of barovia and ravenloft if you don't know what you're talkin about. This is very common in that land it is not a DM out to get you situation.
I'm not crying, you're crying
I'm not crying, you're crying!
Dude, i actually teared up during this story..
WOW what an intense session.
It was beautiful, and sad, dark but happy...just everything on an extreme level.
Theres only been a few times in my whole life where i felt all that over a game.
#1 Critical Role during the Vecna encounter.
Scanlan used counterspell at 9th level against Vecna's teleportation spell; he was saving it to use Wish to bring Vax back when he dies
#2 Final Fantasy 7
Aeris death scene, 'nough said
#3 Critical Role when the group gets Champion of the Raven Queen's armor and the death curse that was on it takes the life of Vex
Was not expecting to choke up at work. Damn.
I didn't like the amount of railroading and deus ex machina in this story: "You survive an overly tough surprise fight, but you can't go, because, surprise, some dude spawned before you and is op and would kill you unless you sacrifice a specific pc." I would be pissed off at the DM if he did this to my character, because it was too random with no way to battle the odds. Oh and the "nonexistence" fate was probably inspired by one of the Nier endings.
It's Ravenloft.
This was a just and merciful end, when discussing that place.
As an Athiest, non-existance is already what i'm looking at, so its not "the worst thing' like they said to me. 600 innocents or myself with no punishment? hell yeah, hero sacrifice time!
Me:*gets to the end*
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Okay, philologist nerd over here; Acheron is named for the mythological Greek river of woe, in the underworld, Aχέρων (A Kh Ey R Oh N). The Greek ‘X’ makes a “Kh” sound but words from Greek spell it “ch”. So next time just remember it is like the ‘CH’ Christmas.
PS that is also why X-mas is the short hand for Christmas
You would have MUCH fun with DnD lore in general - lots of references to european and middle eastern folklore and mythology, medieval demonology and occultism.
Most inferior planes have places and names based off greek myths or Dante Alighieri as it is fitting, as well as its inhabitants and deities.
There are subtler influences too; the dragon who created the world is Ao, clearly taken from IAO which is a cabbalistic name for yahweh, the Drow goddess Lolth clearly comes from Lilith, and so on.
As an ancient religions nerd, this is one of the best things in DnD!
Bruno Laget, ☺️ I did in college; no time or players anymore😞
It’s become a phase at my table if I die let me be a hero (it basically means I’m bored of my character I’m gonna make a new one so the dm will give them a heroic death)
love those words on the back of the medallion truly inspirational and something to think on.
Wow, that's a table I would love to play at.
Truly that is what a Bard is.
I would say they would take their honor among the Nameless Bard of Pool of Radiance/Curse of the Azure Bonds history, but no one will remember them in a year anyway. Accept the history that has been carved, perhaps they will, or not, I cannot say. Only the party can.
someone needs to compose a real epic song for yirbel !!
Nice story though would I do that with my characters - no. I understand the power of wish, resurrection and reincarnation. Kirk does not believe in no win situation and I don’t believe in any action that can’t be undone in a Magic world.
Is this the same Captain James T Kirk who died in Star Trek generations who sacrificed himself in a no-win situation? Thought so.
joshuacr Naw. That was (supposed to be) a heroic situation.
@@leodouskyron5671 fair enough. But even Kirk in the end realized you couldn't cheat death. I've been told however that is ego took several years to die after he did 😁
Not even gonna bullshit I shed a few tears at this
1:23 and than you looted his corpse :D
How my heart aches as a warsong maiden fell to this fate to save many...
Lowkey convinced the DM just wanted the character gone. Still, an amazing way to make a morally ambiguous puzzle for the players. ❤️
I look forward to your releases so much. Thank you to everyone that submits your stories. This is what DnD was always meant to be!
'Bout to burst into tears here at work, dammit!
That party is a mouthful huh?
Another day and another sacrifice for a great bard
oh great now *i'm* crying /o\
Hol up
*WERE-RAVEN*
Damn, that's deep.
Ok, I would be pissed at the DM if that happened. Someone makes a mistake that was out of their knowledge, and the punishment is to have your character not die, but to be erased from existence. Bull! Shit! If it was a extremely cruel and unforgiving game, like D&D Dark Souls, but if it was literally any other scenario, I would punch the DM after it was all said and done.
Ravenloft and Barovia the Material demiplane which Ravenloft is located in is the Dark Souls of D&D
Yeah they got railroaded, bad dm
Damn. Just ... Damn.
Video was nice.
my throat hurts
Damn, this had my crying while watching.
RIP yirbel
Aaaa I always look forward to the next video, but I'm not taking any chances with this one, as I'm playing through Curse of Strahd myself atm! I'm glad it was stated early in the video what campaign they played ^^
So now I'm even more eager for the next upload :D
My philosophy background would cause shattering of suspension of disbelief at that whole thing.
These are the stories I love. I wish I could have games like this, the ones that the players really get involved in
Ok so I dont know why but the thought of people rallying together through a song just seems so cool like imagine that the whole party is facing off against the bbeg and they are getting beaten badly and they are on the verge of giving up and then the character that is the POV of this story (forgot thier role) just starts singing the ballad that they wrote for her and then the rest of the party joins in and wins through the power of friendship
Like I'm imagining the episode of the magicians where they sing under pressue
Congrats on 100k!
Wow, that GM is very evil
Now THIS is how you make a tragic anime.
Me, the resident murderhobo at times: roll to make the yabbaloth free both with intimidation.
It's not like your actual freind died IRL. Cant they just make a new character or someone use a wish spell?
They definitely could do that, but the attachment that can come from a long running campaign can be very powerful. Often that make believe character is a part of the person playing them. Over time, in my home campaign at the table players referred to each other as their character. At first it was a conscious effort to be immersed, but then it became how it was and when you have players that form that level of connection with their character things can get very emotional.
@@enfiniti81 I guess, I'm new to DND so i cant really relate to that yet.
That kind of attachment, when it happens, come with immersion AND time. I was surprised when I realized it could exist, but then, you may not notice it before a character is lost in a tragic way...
Oh wow that was a deep and difficult situation. I think that most people who get emotional easily would shread a few tears.
My heart! , it beats with feeling once again, I cannot have this! *rips out own heart and throws it to a good tabaxi friend who has a serious drinking problem and proceeds to die *
epic video thank u for the free encounter
Hey I'm completely new to DND does anyone know somewhere to play in deleware with experienced people that can help me
See this is why Clerics are important!
-Channel Divinity: Speak with your god about these stolen immortal souls (there's a good chance a few hundreds there belong to THEM) & about what this brave mortal is willing to do for them and Demand justice from Big Daddy in the sky themselves!
Also question for DMs out there: if you play a Paladin and something like this happens in a campaign, is it good enough of a motive to change subclass into Oath of Vengeance? because BOY DO I WANNA HAVE A FEW "words" WITH THAT ARCANALOTH LEMME TELL YA!!!
There are sacrifices deeper than death... but not as deep as generosity of our sponsors!!!