D&D Story: The Legend of the Legendary Aligaros Ashuin!
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- Опубліковано 12 жов 2018
- This is an animated Dungeons and Dragons story from my first character for 5 edition D&D. I only had a few minutes to make up his backstory, so I just kind of BS'd it and started playing him through. Without a backstory slenderman couldn't torture him, he didn't understand magic items, and he would often use his 'mind axe' to solve problems. Hope you guys enjoy!
End song: "My Train's A Comin'" from the UA-cam Audio Library. - Комедії
Aligaros has a great backstory.
He was a psychic, kicked out of school cause he kept getting black out drunk.
He woke up in a forest and hallucinated some dude who told him to go on a quest.
Due to the fact he could only use one spell, Mind Axe, he decided to take up a real axe to honor his lumberjack father.
Of course he never remembered to use Mind Axe cause he is always drunk.
No, too much details.
Aligaros had an epic backstory, ripe with epic deeds, sworn enemies and stalwart friends. But he spent the whole of it black out drunk, so the only part he remembered was being in the forset.
yeah, but where does the Mind Axe come in?
Chrono Mitsurugi from the mind
@mr nobody
*deadpan*
not sure if you are being sarcastic. but im going to go with that.
He was a psychic or wizard who sped so much time drunk, he forgot all his backstory and how magic works. He could use the mind axe all the time, but because he forgot all of the magic lore, it took him so long to actually do something. Oh and his drinking habit totally destroyed his non-physical abilities :D
My character hates bushes.
No back story. he just thinks they're bastard trees.
"Bastard trees" thats gold right there
If that isn't me I don't know what is
Maybe trees are just pretentious bushes, though.
Zotan Inoron : You want a pretentious bush? Roses man, poncy little pricks.
Maui Randall
I had one that disliked horses, always said “They’re weird dogs, and it’s fucking unnatural!”
Choose your fighter:
Psychic sword
Cranial cleaver
M I N D A X E
Brain pain train
Noggin knife? 🤣
Mental machete
Smarty McStabby
NPC: Adventurers, I require assistance on my arduous quest!
Paladin: You have my sword.
Wizard: And my spells!
Aligaros: AND MIND AXE!
Throw is literally the most under rated comment here.
"he doesn't understand magic." Literally my Fighter Half Orc. He thinks hes a wizard and casts spells through sheer force of will ie throwing a hand ax and yelling MAGIC MISSILE!
I cast FIST
*punches bandit in the face*
actual wizard *sighs*
GO WEB GO!
If it was Warhammer 40k Ork logic that would work... I have the greatest urge to cast SUMMON SEXY CUDDLE PARTNER. CRAP, I just realized one of the few gay guys I'm more okay being hit on visited my evil-twin sister housemate.
@@rafaelplugge3214 I, Cato Sicarius cannot feel my teeth...
He is a master at casting fist.
Character: Joe
Backstory: dad died.
Cause of death:
*fell and didn't become a swordmage*
F
Is your character hate something
why are you looking at my journal
He fell into an underground lake, and came across the wrong side of Whimsy.
REFERENCE
"no no, we're using our mind-axes here"
totally gonna tell this to our party barbarian
Considering the amount of times he's been blackout drunk, you could have hundreds of different things happen to this character, examples being...
A bookie comes to collect a debt he made, while drunk
Someone comes an expects him to fulfill a promise he made, while drunk
a paladin shows up for a duel he made, while drunk
A cult of followers proclaims him the messiah because of a miracle he performed, while drunk
His illegitimate child claims him as his father that had left his mother, while drunk
He contracts lycathropy after seducing and bedding a werewolf, while drunk
A princess of the king chases him down and plans to run away with him and get married because he serenaded her while she was on her balcony and he was in the street, while drunk.
I like the way you think.
I had a character go werewolf once because I forgot he'd been bitten during a fight. Our sorceress came up with the idea of trying to train his wolf-form to follow orders like training a dog.
Our minotaur, on the other hand, wanted to throw my dwarf into the middle of a slaver/bandit camp while he was transforming and let the werewolf kill half the camp for our group.
pretty sure the being blackout drunk is the issue here.
@@speedy01247 ... Naaaaaah.
I like it
10,000 xp is a small price to pay for a good joke.
How does that work? Is there a way to make magic out of xp in D&D?
It is called a character level up.
Victor Miranda koepke although some spells in 3.5 have an XP component cost. This one wouldn't.
Always, hell I was just in a session where I cut off a guys hand after we killed him cause I couldnt get his signet ring off to prove the deed was done. Enter endless hand puns for the next hour.
Merrick Miller
i could use a hand here.
ask merrick i heard he has a few laying around
"I don't like mayonnaise, my sibling drowned in a tub of it.
I WILL CONSUME ALL THE MAYO!"
Consume or be consumed.
one of my characters was driven insane by an eldritch horror, he has a crippling fear of flying milk (and other airborne white liquids) nobody is entirely sure why, he's fine with grounded white fluids, and puddles of white fluids don't bother him either, he'll even drink milk if presented with it (so long as it's not flying). but the moment a drop enters free fall he loses his shit.
note he is also an undead mummy because the eldritch horror made him immortal, but not unaging.
Huh, i wait for the Movie
Would be an interesting outcome of "The Blob"
@@Sparrow_Bloodhunter ...so basically Mumm Ra but instead of flipping out at your reflection he's literally screaming at spilled milk?
"Mind axe". So... wouldn't that be "diplom-axe-y?"
You are going to hell
*bonk* No, go to ultrahell.
No
CARLOS
Your pun is fucking terrible.....I love it
I actually ran into something very similar to the true fear thing, except I kinda put the GMs expectations on their head he asked me what horrible terrifying thing my character saw (a character with no real interesting backstory hooks or major traumas and who became an adventurer because he just really enjoyed it. he was chaotic neutral but 90% of the time may as well have been neutral good). my answer was simple: a peaceful world. Ultimately my character (name Trosh Vernon) loved being an adventurer, it was my most fulfilling thing he had ever done an any attempts at settling down left him feeling bored and hollow. What is an adventurer but a less specialized mercenary? without conflict there was no adventure, no quest, no obstacles. His biggest fear was being confronted with the fact that deep down, he loved the violence, the cheap thrills, and nearness of death. Deep down, he loved the rush of hacking those orcs to pieces, the triumphant superiority he felt when he surprised them with a fireball. Sure he liked to think of himself as a good person who will save the innocent, but in truth, when he looks at a peaceful village that's not under attack, that doesn't need saving, he feels disappointed and deep down, wishes danger to come to them, so that he can have his adventure.
I think you created Captain America.
Liquid Snake to Solid Snake:
"...Why do you keep on fighting even after your government betrays you time and time again?!
I'll tell you why.
You ENJOY the killing! THAT'S why!..."
In a Pathfinder campaign, I played as an android. Androids cannot express emotion, so the fear thing was a little difficult.
"he was chaotic neutral but 90% of the time may as well have been neutral good"
So he was neutral good.
Dude the guy wanted people to be in danger.
Anyone watched "The Gamers" and remember that one scene where they come across a river, and there's a silence, then the GM says to the elf,
"Uh, aren't you forgetting something?"
And the player went "what?"
And the GM goes "You're character's paralyzing fear of the water?"
And the player says "oh" and the character immediately started screaming as the other characters pull him away?
Reminds me of a character I had that was cursed with what we called "Fear of the week." She was perfectly fine, then the DM would say "You are now terrified of water." We were in some hot springs, so she of course started screaming. I ran into the building stark naked, followed by my half naked companions trying to stop me. It was...and interesting experience to say the least. Or the time I was scared of books, so I tried to burn our Wizards spell-book, fun times. He was never malicious about it, usually making no difference in combat or the like. It was just a fun little thing for when we were between plot points.
sounds like the character was cursed. That (and not the silly curse) was the backstory.
One of my all time favorite movies.
Another good scene (later after the river "incident") is when the player rolled a new character who just happen to be on the way:
"You see a young man standing in the ruins. He's dressed in flowing magic robes and has an air of mystery around him. Remember, you've never met this guy before, the last guys tried to kill you and you're standing in the ruins of an evil, cursed castle. Just act appropriately."
"You seem trustworthy. Would you care to join us in our noble quest?"
"Yes. Yes, I would"
And that's all how the new wizard joins the group after they accidentally killed the old one and looted his stuff.
Kkkk
A solid use of the Mind-Axe. XP well spent indeed.
Roleplaying done right.
From a player perspective it was about the pun, solidifaction of a injoke meme.
From a character perspective, it was about developing "magic" talents without having any clue about magic.
It's funny, interesting and creative. Just how good roleplaying should be.
"You using your normal person logic, think about Harry Potter, use your wizard logic"
"None?"
"Exactly"
That killed me.
Also works for "Sierra Adventure game logic"
I had a Warforged Conquest Paladin who's backstory was just WAAAAR!!
*HE'S NOW A GOD*
With any other race, that wouldn't work.
Warforged paladin was my second character ever! Molag ,Mithiral Fist!
D.T.F.P.T
"Doing The Forest Person Things"
I think they call that camping.
Rangering
"doing the puffin forest person things"
Down to Fuck: Part Three
@@jimdanielhoxworth3374 *part time
Alagaroz has most powerful spell, mind axe.
It's literally in the thumbnail you should be able to spell it correctly.
Is that the abserd voice your doing?
I once made an NPC who was doing bad things because he got his jollies from it. The party was trying to figure out is MO and it infuriated them that he didn’t have some backstory that influenced his evil deeds. All the dude likes to do was cause strife because it was the only thing that made him smile.
They're my favourite kind of villain because as soon as I understand that there's no greater conflict to be resolved I can settle down to a good-old-fashioned face melting.
So you made the joker.
No he made a cunt.
Kotomine Kirei
Slender man will show you your greatest fear
Wallace suddenly appears
If Absurd shows up... it would backfire, as Absurd has many powers and can easily save the day--and would join the party and help you face the Slender Man with his great heroic abilities that Absurd has many of to make use with. Absurd is great hero.
Oh right... I keep procrastinating on making Rule 34 of Absurd...
That there Katrina Payne, That is my greatest Fear.
"Oh! Absurd is seeing greatest fear now. I see me but is not great hero."
Katrina Payne It still isn’t there.
Wallace suddenly appears, going: "Can I go with you guys? I know you care, deep deep deep deep down." Ends up being useless yet again. Crowned Emperor of the world? O.o (This Wallace guy is either a Trickster God, or he has a probability field around him...) XD XD XD
I made a character that hated Fish and when my crew asked me why i had hunted the local fish population to extinction i told them "idk some guy once told me fish were mean in a bar once i took it to heart"
... I'm just going to assume you are british
Are you sure he didn't say fish 'er mean...fishermen.
_Hey_
"I watched as my father was beaten to death with a salmon! I won't forgive them! And can't rest until every fish is dead!"
I can't XD
Basically Sharknado dialogue.
The aftermath of the Monty Python fish sketch no-one talks about.
I would love to hear the story of Katya. It sounds like she's been through a lot and it could be entertaining to find out why she toughs it out with Aligaros.
:D
Me: "You are by far the worst player in ttrpg's I've ever heard of."
Puffin Forest: "But you have heard of me."
Me: ಠ_ಠ
"The Legend of the Legendary Aligaros Ashuin" sounds like the tale of an epic Pokemon Trainer.
OOOHHHHH!!!! MAYBE WE GET MORE TRIXIE STARBRIGHT!!!
I think he just got so blackout drunk that his "magic" started working
I use the following home-brew rules for drunkedness in D&D:
Each time a player drinks alcohol, they make a con save. At first, it's just DC5, but for each extra drink, the DC increases by 2 (or more for strong drinks). If they fail by less than 7, I roll on the drunken shenanigans table. If it fails by 7 or more (or a nat 1), I roll on the Night on the Town table. Also, if the players want to do something extra, let them. And feel free to add more
Drunken shenanigans 1d10:
1 - You try to sing/perform. Charisma check with disadvantage
2 - You try to fight a strong or weak npc (Brute or Commoner, 50/50). Weapons are used
3 - Same, but without weapons.
4 - You lose your clothes and money
5 - You promise something stupid
6 - You try to steal something valuable. Let the players decide, checks with disadvantage
7 - You try to steal something worthless. Let the players decide, disadvantage
8 - You're robbed
9 - You try to show off. Any check with disadvantage
10 - You want another
Night on the Town 1d8, roll two times on the DS table as well.
1 - You wake up at home.
2 - You wake up in the bed of someone you really should've avoided
3 - You wake up in the bed of an NPC you like (or another PC, if they both got drunk)
4 - You wake up in the bed of an NPC you don't like (or just a random NPC)
5 - You wake up in a ditch or back street
6 - You wake up in prison, 10% chance of a serious crime
7 - You wake up in a temple
8 - You got married.
This seems like your trying to make a dynamic version of the quest 'a night to remember' from skyrim
My new favourite character’s backstory is Vivian: the dragon’s assassin. She was raised by a green dragon who trained her to stab his enemies and when Vivian escaped was again kidnaped by a necromancer who she killed rather brutally. What’s funny is she’s so stupid, she’s completely unaware about the darkness in her backstory.
Best moment was when my party started having nightmares and started screaming and I just said, in character, “ahh reminds of home”.
Reminds me of my one Warlock character who was literally raised by her patron in hell, so she saw demons as her people more than humans.
I have a character, Kassacktra Blackheart (Kass for short) who is the daughter of a cartoonishly evil family. Dad is a lich who's basically Skeletor, mom is a sexy vampire assassin, brother is a hulking warrior in spikey black armor.
She's the rebel of the family, joined a paladin order in her wild teenage years. She still has trouble sleeping without the sound of distant screaming.
As a DM, Not giving me a backstory is licence for me to write one for you...
As a player writing in part of our backstory to get us to the same place can kind of fuck with our character
I had to kind of build my character around the fact that he had to travel to distant land because he received a letter cuz that's what the DM said
If your players don't give you this back stories, then the characters now can't remember a thing. Make one long lost royalty, or an escaped prisoner and has a large bounty on their head. Seriously, have fun with this.
@@LeoForgetsToCreate done that. Once I had a D20 modern character whose whole arc was regaining the fragments of his memories after he escaped hell...
@@FrancisR420 As a GM I can say that we are REQUIRED to put in easily twice as much work as any player, so when you can't be bothered to put in the minimum effort, I won't willingly make more work for me. I'll just make you miserable by explaining you were raised by Kobold chicken farmers and call it a day.
I was gonna say something like that. my backstory? I have amnesia
Reminds me of my Barbarian Bonk, who took a level in wizard just so he could make up his own hieroglyphics. Removed the ability illiterate, but he still couldent understand common. That and the whole "Buttcheeks Ahoy" incident..
Bear with a Beer God I want to know what the “Buttcheeks Ahoy” incident was.
With an incident called "Buttcheeks Ahoy" i rather not know the details
I have mixed feelings about hearing this.
I must hear this story.
You must tell us
2:05 his greatest fear is CALIFORNIA
Aligaros is essentially that one kid who's a bit slow but everyone pats on the head and compliments
From this day forward I'm always referring to my brain as my mind axe
I'm not reading a book! I'm sharpening my mind ax!
The fact that the axe costed 10,000 xp makes it so much bettering
"he no evil he have tragic backstory " every fing evil NPC
perfect chance for something cool:
let the party find out about the backstory, and let them disprove the "tragic backstory" excuse by showing how they aren't bastards despite their suffering.
@@alecchristiaen4856 Strahd
This may just be me, but I don’t think those things are necessarily exclusive. A tragic backstory can drive someone to do evil, but that still means they’re doing evil.
aligaros isn't even wrong about magic being random noises to make stuff happen.
"HOW DO YOU KEEP GETTING ARRESTED?" "I don't know, ask the dm"
I have a backstory for him. When he was young, he was inducted into a school for mind magic, a lot like Hogwarts. In his 18th and final year, being the dumb and troublemaking mind wizard he was, he pulled a senior prank that went *SO* wrong, it got him thrown out of school, and he was treated to the worst punishment the not Ministry of Magic could dole out, he had all his memory of magic removed, and he was thrown into the woods, with everything but the first 7 years of his life gone. He was then approached by the mysterious figure. The figure sensed massive amounts of power, as the, let’s say, Republic of Wizardry(?) did not have the power to take away his magic. The mysterious figure happened to be looking for adventurers, but the caliber of this wizard was so great, he didn’t expect to be able to persuade him to go on the mission. The figure dropped to his knees, being a wizard himself he felt it was the respectful thing to do. He said “What brings you hear, oh powerful mind wizard?” “ I was hoping you could tell me that...”, Aligaros replied, “I have no idea where I am”. “What?” Asked the hooded figure. In response, Aligaros said “Yeah, I remember my name is Aligaros Ashuin, and that I went to school, and had friends? And then...” he paused, “... something, bad, happened. Then I woke up here” he finished. Seeing a great opportunity the figure stood up in haste, and said “Would you want to go on an adventure?”, Aligaros replied “Yes!”. He usually wouldn’t have, but something sparked in his head when he heard those words. “Would you like to go on an adventure?”... He knew those words... It was the first thing someone ever said to him... Someone who told him he had... Something...
The figure handed him an axe, “although it looks like a normal axe,” he attempted to inform Aligaros, “it’s imbued with a powerful mental magic, that will allow you to wield it with proficiency, and give it an extra kick...” but Aligaros wasn’t listening, “Oooh, shīny” he said, cutting of the strange figure as they ended their sentence. The figure introduced Aligaros to the others, and sent them on an adventure they would never forget... there was one thing to be remembered, though. At night, plagued by the words always in the back of his head, “Would you like to go on an adventure?”, when his mind was empty of all other things, not a rare occurrence, he focus on these words. They made him, unhappy, often angry, so he would drink his problems away. The alcohol would loosen his mind, and therefore the already poorly cast memory spell, and he would remember. Outraged, he would attempt to finish his prank, and do it right this time, just to spite those who took everything from him. To Aligaros, the two where oddly linked, finishing the prank, and regaining his lost life. Although, he was hammered, absolutely plastered, so he’d mess up every time, usually resulting in minor criminal charges. He would wake up in jail, and with the alcohol went the loosened memory charm, and went his memory, including, because of the large use of magic, and alcohol, everything after he remembered, and until he woke up. It is said, he now keeps himself constantly boozed, until one day he can release himself from the hell of loosing his past life to an innocent but woefully poorly planned prank. Maybe I should write?
Taking a test:
"Time to use my *mind axe!* "
Axe flies out and hits the teacher
Character backstories are very important. They help shape the way you will play and how your character will react.
My first character had the greatest backstory. He had a loving family who were liked by all and had NO ENEMIES! Both his parents were alive. His brothers and sisters had stable lives and jobs. THERE ARE NO ENEMIES HERE! Why was he an adventurer? Because he wanted to see the world and do good.......
I'm guessing your character was named "Mary Sue"?
With a backstory that happy & pure, it's the perfect recipe for a riches to rags, bring your character's perfect world tumbling down for a lesson in humility and appreciating what you have while you have it
... it's just a model.
My dm had fun. Everyone had really broody, what you call batman backstories, and he kept mine happy and pure. It ended up with everyone but me having miserable lives and suffering....and there I was the positive one.
sssshhh
People in my group are exactly like this, and exactly opposite. One person showed up one day with a character and no Info. Another guy spent 10 minutes telling us how his family met and where he was born and raised.
there is always that ONE person that has a 300 page novel as their backstory.
The best way to explain your backstory is to patiently wait your turn to get called on by the DM and immediately break into the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song.
Im Dming for a group just like that. One person with a paragraph, one with about a page, and one with 6 PAGES OF BACKSTORY!!!
My character has the character traits of absolutely despising Mola Molas (sunfish) because he grew up hunting them.
Improvised backstories are fun. He was literally dude pretending to be a noble that ran off to be a fisherman that hates mola mola because they're fucking useless fish.
I love how there so many cool looking characters... and then there's just the potato that is Puffin Forest...
I love that potato,
did... did he just spend a level in cleric just to take spiritual weapons?
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level well spent!
While this would make a lot of sense, Spiritual Weapon is a 2nd level spell, so he'd need at least three levels in cleric to get it.
+Greywander so instead of one... he spent 3?
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Even more well spent!
Or one in Mystic
UA mystic? I generally don't take UA into consideration, Mystic especially, so it's nice knowing others are having success with it. Thank you.
@@LoLCTHSKateer Considering he said this was one of his first characters, it was probably an older edition with a different mystic class, heh.
I know you probably won't see this but I really enjoy your content. I love the way you describe the table top games. I tried D and D it wasn't for me but I love these shows man.
At least you got to try it, I have no one to play with and this town is boring with their poor taste in music and pastimes...
Try to play again, with a different group or a another system than DnD. I love rpgs but DnD leaves me a bit cold.
@@NcrXnbi try checking out Roll20 forums, often there are people there that will do online games.
@@NcrXnbi I've been trying to find a group for the longest time. The most luck I've had is online, though, Roll20 is a place to start but I'd also suggest looking up tabletop gaming forums as those can have pretty great communities to help new players get started.
Try a Play By Post game on the Giant in the Playground Forums. Typically dozens of games are recruiting at a time.
0:53 Was it the Puffin Forest?
We all need to use our mind axe from time to time, otherwise it gets dusty.
Hey man, not everyone lives intresting lives. We need boring people representation
The problem is that boring people make for dull adventures. And really, Adventurers are, inherently, not boring, because they are motivated to go beyond the stagnant, stable existence of most people. A person disinclined to seek out danger is unlikely to ever do so. Instead, they are liable to assume a job as a shoe-maker or something, because stable employment that avoids risk will satisfy that person's needs ably.
Look at it this way: a person willing to descend into a dungeon, fight monsters, plunder tomes of ancient lore, and fight for every scrap of treasure is, by nature of definition, Not Boring. Even if they are the most milquetoast person, they are still an adventurer.
You do know what a joke is, right?
Bluecho4
Dude... people can will be boring in NATURE is what he’s saying.
The circumstances are existing, but the person could be doing it for the money, cause they simply wanted a change in life, or any other reasons. Not everyone sets out for the grand quest that saves the world.
@@bioniclink3026 He was giving us an example you ignorant fool! Be more thankful!
He is the most interesting ahh.... in the world.
I don't think everyone needs a tragic backstory. I have a player who only makes characters with tragic backstories....like, my entire family was murdered by a rival house and i've been living in exile since so i hate and distrusts everybody, that's why i kill anyone who even remotely annoys me. oh and did i mention I'm drow so everyone hates me and my family was a super influential and powerful family so i'm a fucking super important princess.
I agree. Sometimes people just thirst for adventure, kinda like my Human Bard who left home to learn the songs of other cultures. That's really it, no ulterior motive. His parents are still alive, he's welcomed back home anytime he wants, he's not hated by everyone who sees him. Hell, most of the time my character was the most well liked because he genuinely was a happy guy. A stark contrast to the rest of the group where everyone else seemed to mope about because of some tragic thing that made them hold to themselves and not trust the world. Only reason he's with these guys is because they are strong and travel a lot.
There was a weird contrast with that for me. The first character I made was for Curse of Strahd, and I took the module-specific haunted one background, so it was filled with terror and tragedy. The second serious character I made was a simple cleric of Chauntea, goddess of agriculture. He had a good upbringing on a farm, decided he wanted to go on an adventure, did til ran out of money, went home, joined the church, and was chosen by the Goddess. Went from "escaped from megalomaniacal sorcerer elven father and being burned to death by a pit fiend" to "a little jaunt and religious education."
+gui bin
Dood... all you have to write is "I'm drow"... and all that other stuff is implied.
@@NimhLabs
the drow thing was just the cherry on top
Crazy and tragic backstories are seriously over done. They really need to be used sparingly and the character in question's personality has to be more interesting than "I TRusT nO oNe anD KilL peoPlE". I have made 25 d&d characters, only 3 of them are orphans and those 3 are all perfectly sane and live meaningful, in no way vengeful lives and are adjusted members of society.
6:05 That’s like being the mom of the group.
That does seem to be the role Catia plays in Puffin Forrest videos.
That always happens to me. my friends background was "i came out of a cave"
Those players tend to be called murder hobos
You fool! I thought you were safe but ‘twas I TAR’HOGAR!!!!
Edit: thanks for likes!
GARATHOR?!
TAR'HOGAR?!
TAR'HOGAR?!
GARATHOR?!
TAR'HOGAR?!
I want to the stats for your characters.
I bet they are all 6
All 5 before modifiers because he exclusively plays humans
Clearly this is so that all his characters are total BEASTS!
(YOU FOOL KATRINA! THAT REFERENCE TO NERO CEASER IS FAR TO DERIVATIVE AND NOBODY WILL CARE FOR IT!)
he doesn't only play humans, he's played other characters before. Like Minron
@@chancejones6021 iirc Abserd wasn't human
Evan Scott Farshadow he wasn’t a human,he was a nightmare
Thing is, you could easily expand that into a fuller backstory: alegaros is someone who lived on the outskirts of a town and made his reputation as a solitary logger. The sheer strength he demonstrated by chopping down all the trees (and even building his own house) drew this mysterious guy to offer him a quest. Later, we find out that his exile from civilisation is less self-imposed as it is the natural result of all the shenanigans he gets to when he drinks, which he used to do. HEAVILY. Bam, backstory!
You know what could be fun? If you ever start needing ideas, you could have fans send you stories and then you just read and animate them, then credit them. That way your fans get to feel more involved and get their stories out, and you get more content! (To be fair, this has probably already been done and you've probably even thought of it before, but I just wanted to mention it anyways...)
I spent like 5 minutes trying to craft a good comment but couldn’t so
MIND AXE
5? Thats over DOUBLE the time it took for the back story
Ben why do you keep making such adorable characters? Aligarous and Walace are too freaking adorable. Whimsy too!
We hate Wallace for his crimes against Ben, though...
Then we have Absurd and Detective Savage Rage. *clenches butt cheeks furiously*
@@NimhLabs Abserd and Savage Rage are hilarious. And I still have the theory that Wallace is Abserd's son.
Adorable? ADORABLE?! *shivers in disgust of Trixie Starbright*
@@valentinmitterbauer4196 she's my favorite villain
It's generally been my experience, that when a Player doesn't write a reasonable effort for backstory, it's open invitation for the rest of the table to creatively suggest, vote, and derive a backstory for that Player...
...AS WE GO.
Now, for many of us dubiously more seasoned Players, this usually isn't a very big issue. It can be a lot of fun and humor to explore a backstory we don't create "all on our own"... AND it can get the rest of the table invested into a PC that they might not ordinarily invest in so easily.
However, there are some tables/circles where the practice can create... um... problematic consequences. As one proceeds through the game, there's usually at least one "that guy" (or gal) who simply must suggest the most ridiculous and stupid (if comical) backstory ideas to plaster all through said "unprepared PC's life"... Sometimes, it can even be "with malicious intent" as if the Player is being punished for not writing up a complete Character.
I would urge some discretion in applying this notion at your own tables/circles for that very reason. While it is fun to help creatively with a PC who's Player lacks the time or creativity to generate a believable or useful backstory, we (Players AND GM's) should remember to be generous enough to allow for a relatable explanation for backstory even for the weirdest or least desired PC's at our tables. We are ALL here to have fun first, after all. ;o)
I SUCK at writing backstory s , i am more of a "I got a basic personality i want" then i'll play and let the character flush himself out ...more fun for me and it always seems to turn out fine with me and my normal groups
My new campaign they want me to write one out and i am so stuck ...i just cant write these things out the way i want -.-
Honestly, if you have it and it's 5e just reference XGtE's random backstory tables until you have some bullet points. Or talk to your DM about messaging them your character's 3rd cousins names in a month or two once you fucking decide.
>when it’s one in the morning and you need to sleep but notice puffin forest uploaded a new video. Oh boy
...Wait a minute. Since when are you bleeping out swears?
I don't know Aligaros, this is your comment.
The turtle “friends” and the warriors of really........Timing or worst for short
Okay, the whole treatment of Aligaros and mind axe thing is kinda adorable
Getting blackout drunk and going to jail every time sounds familiar. My cleric did the same thing.😂
I am gonna say it honestly, I don’t think I literally had the urge to tap a video as fast as I could before now, I seriously saw this in my recommended feed for about .5 seconds and tapped my iPad a bunch of times with heavy breathing.
I have a character who’s a chaotic 90s nightmare. Their entire backstory is they got shot in the head by a cursed arrow that was supposed to shatter someone’s mind. She thinks it did nothing
"Making Lightsaber noises"
yeeeaaah, as if you had seen any Star Wars movie at your first campaign
I had a character obsessed with sticks once, the story behind it was that he was secretly trying to amass enough sticks to create an army of literal stick people. He also was a demon who got drunk off of the slightest bit of alcohol (he was actually banned from Hell because of how bad his drunken rampage was,) and though he longer drinks, he still loves trying to get other people drunk because it was such chaotic fun to party with drunk people :P
My character’s backstory is that their entire party literally got killed by thanos
Would you *mind* if I *axed* you a question?
I axed where can we find a microwave oven?
Well this morning just got hell of a lot better
Puffin Forest, dude, your animating skills are improving! Thanks for working hard on them. It really does show.
YESSSSS A NEW VIDEO
I'm currently playing a character with my new favorite backstory. She is a klutzy airheaded paladin with a noble family in a long line of paladins. One day as a kid she sneaks out and ends up in the slums where she almost got the shit kicked out of her if not for a little rogue girl who saved her. After that she spent many years growing up in the library reading stories of noble thieves, kind of like the persona 5 cast. After growing up and officially becoming a paladin she is setting off to find that girl and on the way dreams of becoming a rogue. She also really likes pranks and thinks the pranks she does are more rogue like than they actually are. She's not the brightest tool in the shed but she tries hard and that's endearing. I really want to make her succeed
So Rose Cinderella with a twist???, you need to give her a chest so that she keeps a collection of "famous rogue's items"
@@anon2447 I dont know about her comparing to rose Cinderella since I'm not familiar with the character. I'm deffinately going to take your chest suggestion though. The first time i played her she tried to spike a drink, but she thought that just meant putting something unexpected in a glass of alcohol. On the spot she tried to put a cherry stem lying around into one of the partys drinks. Totally failed and the bartender gave her a dirty look. I totally imagined her thinking it was a brilliant prank and being legitimately dissapointed she got caught. I hope that gives you a little insight to her character. Other than her love of pranks and admiration for noble thieves she is a pretty standard paladin.
My DM did a similar turn-their-darkest-moment against them thing. It was a Dark Souls themed campaign, and we were fighting Sen, who in this interpretation was a powerful psychic magician. My Cleric relived the slaughter of his covenant and his own demise as we tried to hold back the tide of hollows from the First Flame, and our Deprived was forced to watch his village get ransacked by Capra Demons again. Our Pyromancer, however, didn't have a backstory. The DM worked around that by having Sen get really angry that he couldn't read him, and start hurling abuse about how the Pyromancer came from nothing. Presumably that will be a plot point once we get to the Great Swamp.
6:18 had me on the floor laughing. Thank you Puffin Forest!
welp, i know what my next character is going to be, those fish better get ready for Armageddon
I need to use my mind axe to understand this.
Instantly amazed by how much animation is in this video compared to your others, it makes your videos even more amazing, keep up the good work dude
I just love your storytelling! This was absolutely hilarious!
Oh my God, I now want to do a high level campaign where I am like a lvl 5 paladin and a lvl 10 sorcerer, and I spend the entire campaign pretending to be a lvl 15 paladin, then spring metamagic while fighting the final boss. I need a joke too. Maybe call myself two hand Stan, never explain the nickname, then use a twinned spell at the end...
YES!
No matter how many times I watch your videos it’s always funny. Thank you Puffin Forest.
watching your fantastic stories is just amazing!
2 min to make a backstory? That's plenty of time!
Exactly. A backstory doesn't need to be minutely detailed and intricate. It just needs to tell us 1) where the character came from, 2) how they got here, and 3) what their motivations are going forward.
Here's one: a second son of a noble, who loved reading and learning as a child. His fascination with scholarship led to study of magic. So he read a bunch of magic books, until he became a wizard. Since he's now come to the limits of what he can learn from the books he has available, he's going out adventuring to find forgotten lore, and amass treasure that he can use to buy more books. And maybe create his own wizard tower, so he can research magic further.
The details took a bit to hammer into place, but the basic premise took longer to _type_ than it did to think of. A character doesn't need a novel's worth of backstory. They just need compelling motivation. And "compelling" can be as dirt simple as "I love to learn, and want to do more of it", because it stems from fundamental motivations common to the human condition. Lots of people love to learn. Other people have a desire for wealth, or harbor anger for wrongs committed against them (real or imagined), or want to build something of lasting value, or simply want to do good. What matters is that these motivations are strong enough to get the character out adventuring, instead of seeking other means of pursuing their goals, or else living a normal life and stewing impotently in their unfulfilled desires.
I tend to think that elaborate backstories are sort of a dead-end, in terms of character creation. Now, I love _Lore_ as much as the next nerd. But Lore is only useful if it informs the current story. You don't need a hugely involved backstory. You just need to know what your character _wants_ , and maybe why they want it. Even the latter part is somewhat optional, since, to me, the best motivations are rooted first and foremost in the human experience. Broad imperatives don't need to be explained or justified, if they are rooted in love, greed, resentment, nobility, curiosity, or the like. The particulars may differ, but the base desires are common to all people, and can affect everyone at some point in their lives.
Not coincidentally, these desires - these aspects of the human condition - work great for establishing the _real_ purpose of a character: to provide Motivation to action.
In my mind, every player who shows up at the table should be able to answer these questions first and foremost: Why is your character adventuring? What is their Motivation? Why are they raiding dungeons, fighting street samurai, or involving themselves in vampire politics? Rather than, say, becoming a shoe-maker or retiring to a study to read for decades? And what
Making a backstory can, yes, be _very_ useful for story-telling and roleplay, and doing so really helps your GM. You should always be looking for ways to make the GM's job easier, since they have enough on their plate as it is. But Motivation itself is a storytelling engine. The best and most rewarding games can arise entirely from a player being _proactive_ about where and how they adventure. It's a better situation than having the GM twist themselves into knots, trying to _force_ you into engaging with a story.
Entire sagas can arise from a player pointing in a random direction on the map and asking, "what's out here?", followed by the GM saying, "You don't know. Why don't you find out?" And then the PC just goes there, and sees where it leads.
Having a PC be self-motivated can be tricky for a GM, but only if they see it as an impediment to their own masterfully crafted tale, rather than as an opportunity to create dynamic stories. If a PC wants to found their own fortress or thieves guild or wizard's tower or temple, that creates possibility space for the GM to create stories around the formation and maintenance of those structures. If the PCs seek a magic item or a lost secret or books of magical knowledge, the GM can easily place those things at the end of whatever elaborate adventures they want to run the players through.
An elaborate backstory can be all well and good, but is less than useful if it doesn't tell us what the PC wants and why they seek it through adventuring. Whereas there's nothing more compelling - from the subjective perspective of the players and their GM - than a character who _wants_ something, and will go to great lengths to pursue it. Even if it's something as simple as "I want to become a lord by my own hand", or "I hate X person", or "I have a deep, abiding love of learning", or "I have the power to do good, so that's what I'll do", or "I have a goal, I need wealth to achieve it, and adventuring could make me rich quick".
Best of all, even simple motives can provide backstory hooks, since a character's abiding goals inform us about their character and what they value.
i have three standard backstories for creating characters and not come super cliche like the brooding loner
1. His hometown was stricken by an unknown sickness and some people have died but there's still time to save the rest everyone so he's adventuring to find the cure, also his family is still alive and not all of them are sick, but enough of them are sick to prompt him to find the cure, and he knows tha tbeing friendly and coopeartive is a way more efficient way to get people's help that being a brooding loner that doesn't share his problems.
2. Character wants to open a 5 stars restaurant so he travels the world looking for the best flavors and ingredients ever so that his menu is always top notch, plus looking for merchants to learn the tricks of a succesful business.
3. He is raving mad and thinks he's a spy, he goes to other nations "secretly" (he basically tells everyone that he's a spy) gathering information, finding and recording what the thinks are weaknesses and weak spots of other nations so that eventually his glorious nation can exploit those weak spots if need be.
My favourite backstory is fairly simple. Kid grows up in your typical village and meets barbarian adventurer who regaled him with stories of his adventure. This creates a sense of wonder and awe. Over the years he learned from this man until he stopped coming back. Many years later he decides to go on adventures! That's it. No other motives or wants. He adventures for the love of adventuring. I only added the man in there to give my GM something a bit more substantial to work with for the character arcs he had planned on doing later.
SaberShock could also be that your PC is from a poor background and the family trade hardly covers the families debts, so in an effort to make good money like the Barbarian adventurer you had known in your youth you decide to try your hand at adventuring.
Still a basic backstory but gives some more motivation for why your character decided that persuing a high risk high reward lifestyle rather than just setting up in a steady trade
I am so stealing the mind axe and "not knowing how magic works" for my dumb as a brick barbarian. Thank you for the inspiration. xD
Yah know I love the fact that everyone is having a blast coming up with their own backstories for Aligaros.
He's like a make your own story PC, but for a story and character that finished years ago.
Q&A Character Creation Backstory.
1. Where was your character born? (don't have to do this one right away if you do not know the map of the world, + it's best to work it out with the GM)
2. Who are the parents? (there jobs, how they meet each other, and personalities. There is also adoption in to the family and if so how where you adopted.)
2a. Are they alive and are there more?
3. What was the character doing before level one?
4. Why did the character leave home?
5. What did they leave behind?
6. What does your character want?
Gennisa Rosebane
1: Boring little farming village where nothing of excitement really happens.
2: farmers, working a small godforsaken plot of land barely able to make ends meet.
2a: parents worked themselves to death trying to scrape a living together out of the dirt.
3: prior to level one my character was following the same path as his parents, working hard to try and make the farm he inherited work.
4: one evening a small band of adventurers stay at his home for the evening and in talking to them he realises there is a world and riches to be had outside of his boring little town and dead end farm.
5: he sells his small plot of land to a larger neighbouring farm and with what little money he made from the transaction left for pastures new, with no reason to go back.
6: the character wants a life of grand adventures, with high risks and even higher rewards. Just like the ones that small traveling band of adventurers had.
Never actually played DnD or any other tabletop RPG, so do you think this is enough to make a semi interesting character or is it to boring a backstory?
@@themadhammer3305 It's a fine backstory and does not have to be exciting at all. I played D&D when I was younger and started getting back in to it recently by Fantasy Grounds (tho there is Roll20, but that is more expensive in the long run. FG my have a high price to pay at first, but when you pay the one time for a lifetime it beats out a monthly pay).
Of course you can still play without paying for anything on either one and you can find a group on both. All you gotta do is download the FG demo to play and Roll20 is a browser base so all you need to do is to sign up.
Right now i'm in a group playing every thursday online (only been 3 weeks and only 3 days). I like the story telling and the acting & the mechanics help you improve your character (witch is kind of new to me since only playing up to AD&D and coming back to it about 20 years later or more).
All & all it's fun and you should try it out with a one shot to see if you like it.
Omg yay just found you and finished all your back log ywyyyy one more video! N
i have been binge watching ALL of these because of my erratic work schedule i cant play DnD anymore....so this gives me joy to watch these day by day and enjoy your grand tales of adventure heroism and pure idiocy and lunacy XD
I find myself watching these shorts again and again. they're great!
0:13 Goblin Slayer in a Nutshell...
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Gold. Also BTW, what do you think of this stupid controversy surrounding GS? Srsly berserk didn't get this much hate, but as soon as Goblin Slayer comes out everyone goes crazy!!! Then again berserk had terrible animation... Sorry I meant CGI.
The biggest thing was there was no warning what so ever that those "things" would happen in that show, to the casual viewer who knew nothing about the series going into it they wouldn't realize how messed up the first episode would be and be shocked at what they see.
Except it's rated R- for Violence, Blood, Profanity. Having what happened would be considered violent. If you watch a higher rated show then it has a chance to show that stuff. Kinda why the ratings are there. Only reason it's not rated higher is that it doesn't show actual nudity.
Well goblin slayer is actually set in dnd5e, the main character is given an “adventure sheet” in one seen at it look literally identical to an official wotc character sheet
Am I the only one here, who would have spent more time thinking of ways to keep that guy from coming back from the dead? Like did you try cutting him up into several pieces (and then splitting among the party or around several hundred miles even), or boiling his corpse, then dipping in acid, then pouring molten iron over, then burying in a deep grave. or if you are really worried about things like true resurrection, bring his corpse to a necromancer and raise him as a zombie (don't know about 5th, but traditionally mutilating a body, or being undead stopped even true resurrection as it bound the soul to the body).
Revanants cannot be truly killed until their unfinished business is fulfilled. Even with all of that.
so then, don't kill, imprison for all eternity in a container, or turn it into something like a troll gut rope without killing, un-killable evil's go way way way back, and killing is not the only way to deal with evils. lure something into a granite quarry, then use stone shape to encase in granite. there is always a way, even if it's not easy.
How about trowing him in a water well, if it is like 6 meters deep it shouldn´t be possible to scape
@@Motorata661 He can't die. Thus he has a long long time to forcefully make hand holds my repeatedly punching the rocks in the side of the well walls until he finally climbs back out. Though I imagine it would take him at least a year if it was 6 meters deep.
The most amusing characterization I have seen for a while, props my dude.
Mind axe ... is my favorite word now thank u
*M I N D A X E*
"What if it was a weapon shop that was filled with books only" and she says, "they have that it's a library." lol was so funny with the look on this character's face.
We had a similar thing. An orc in the party struck up a conversation with beast hunters about werewolves, acting as if he knew all about them. I asked him to roll to see how much he knew about them, to which he rolled a 1.
And so, Hogath the Ork was absolutely convinced that "Where" wolves were just like normal wolves, only more lost, and trying to find their way home.
Didn't help that he spent the entire encounter inside of a werewolf infested dungeon trying to help them find their way home.
It's always fun to see videos from you pop up in my feed. Keep on doing cool stuff, Ben! :)
Get here within 7 minutes of the upload and you have 242 likes (now 243). Nice.
10,000 exp for a 1 time joke? Yeah, sounds reasonable
I would do it