In a Pathfinder Game our DM thought it would be cool to have a shield used by one of the bad guys be made from a Gold Dragon's wing. It was supposed to be like a bit of flavor text for us to be like "Oh, that's cool!" Which was the pretty much the response from the rest of the party, but my LG Cleric of Ragathiel quickly had other plans. First thing I did was confiscate it, set it aside (I refused to use it, the idea being that it was insulting for such a noble creature as a Gold Dragon to be reduced to a piece of equipment) and started saving for a resurrection scroll (Almost 13,000GP). No one else used a shield, so no one questioned it. Didn't tell anyone in the party what my plan was either, so a few months later when I got my hands on a Resurrection scroll they'd all pretty much forgotten about it. Then we get back from one of our adventures, I go to my family's manor that I've been staying in while everyone else goes to the local tavern. I get out the shield and go full holy ritual with this, talking holy symbol carved into the garden, candles, the works. I figured I'd be placing a relatively powerful LG creature into the region that could help stabilize things and be an ally we might be able to call upon if the situation called for it. Turns out the DM had other ideas, because now I have trusty Gold Dragon sidekick filling my cohort slot from my Leadership feat.
I'm not actively DMing, but when I did I would give players magic items often from the recommended list for low-value things (typically uncommon or rare), but I had rules about how the characters had to figure out what the items did through experimentation. An Identify spell would also do the trick. The only thing is I ignored most text along the lines of "up to a maximum of 1 gallon a day" and the like as they seemed like artificial restrictions, and on occasion I would glam the item up a tad (folding boat could transform into a galleon, for instance). It lead to some interesting and extremely effective combinations.
@crimsonwolf8174 To clarify, I did tell the DM my plan the same night we got the wing. I just didn't tell anyone else in the party. A lot of that stemmed from the fact that trying to track down a resurrection scroll when there were no dead party members and no dead family/friends in my backstory would have raised some eyebrows from the DM anyway.
@@backonlazer791The Tavern Brawler feat. A ladder is classified as an improvised weapon, therefore the tavern brawler feat would give you proficiency with it.
"Local OSHA is tracking them since it breaks multiple codes." As someone with more experience with OSHA than is good for anyone, this is dangerously accurate. Can't wait for the campaign where the party has the ladder finally stolen by OSHA and they have to break into OSHA's Ultimate Safety Citadel (TM) to reclaim it. The campaign will span several continents and two realms due to them needing to travel to several OSHA branch offices just to find the location of the Citadel, which is a closely guarded secret which no one has ever bothered to uncover.
It's the ultimate safety citadel because everyone who tries to go into it dies before entering, and is therefore "safe" because no dumb sentient creatures can get insise to hurt themselves.
Ah yes the OSHA Ultimate Safety Citadel, guarded by a plethora of booby traps and deadly creatures... although the traps are clearly marked by flags and signage and all creatures are safely kept in a locked cabinet with one key and a punch in/punch out system which requires 16 forms filed 3 weeks prior to get access to. HIGHLY risky to break in to!
@@hamzamotara4304 MattPat used this joke when he made a video about Wonka's Chocolate Factory and all their violations of workplace safety regulations lol
*Playing Tomb of Horrors:* "There is an array of small holes starting approximately 5' from the end of the pit." "Is the wall at that end also 5' high, like the one at the start?" "Yes." "The root of half of 10' squared is 7'. I send back a mental command. Two (skeletal) monks hurry up behind us... with a 10' ladder. It can bridge the distance with 2' of clearance at both ends. The two skeletons hold each end of the makeshift staircase to secure it as we step up." "You have a 10' ladder?!" *Presents character sheet.* "Several. I also have shovels, picks, and 10' poles." "Well damn!"
@@askialuna7717 Clearance, as in it "shoots clear over the target" by some additional amount, leaving room for error. In this case, the base of the ladder is two feet from the suspicious holes, and the top of the ladder would pass two feet above the lip of the pit. This means that there is no chance that the ladder or skeletons fall into the trap, as there is an extra 1-2 feet of ladder at both ends that the skeletons can safely hold onto without being in the danger zone. For a counter-example: a 10' ladder cannot be used to get past a 10' gap, because it doesn't clear the gap with excess to hook onto either side -- it only fits the gap, falling into the abyss below.
Me, my husband, and his sister were all in a campaign once. His sister's character was annoying him so much that he had his character pick up a brick from a pile next to a building that was being constructed, and tried hitting her with it. He missed, chased her, missed again, accidentally hit an elderly woman with it. Killing her instantly. They then found that a small boy was a witness, so he then killed the boy with the same brick. Which alerted the towns guards. Long story short, half a village was murdered by a brick, they were BOTH wanted criminals in said elven village, and could not return to it for the rest of the campaign. The brick got named old red, he was made a holster for it, and it then became his main weapon. He even grabbed an Actual brick from outside our house and took it to every session.
I did something like this once by constructing an ersatz war axe out of trash and taping a bottle mimic to the head. "It is not enough that my enemies should scream in terror, my weapons must also!" Then the DM ran with it and the axe turned out to be a mythic weapon of prophecy, the weapon of an eldritch deity that foretells his arrival in a world whenever it is constructed. In the same campaign I was also asked to introduce myself to the fae in the fae wilds when I had a broken jaw. The other players panicked, but before the DM accepted any of their hasty actions I interrupted them and said "I INTRODUCE MYSELF THROUGH INTERPRETIVE DANCE". The fae loved me and we got along well with them after that.
Please do more of these. I love the shorts, but really love when you go back through some of the comments and see how the community was able to build on it.
I was part of a group that got nicknamed "The Door Brigade" because we kept doing similar things with doors. Our first one was when we shoved a siege door through an entire necromancers tower using it to crush skeletons etc along the way. DM gave up trying to stop us when it became a choice of letting us have it, or accepting that we were going to take a new door from the first place that had one at every opportunity and his world could no longer have doors. lol.
When you dont have an artificer or forge cleric, so insetad of a magic item your party creates the most mundane warcrime producing weapon known to existence.
Cheese wheel of trap disarming. 100# cheese wheel with a dowel shoved through the center and a rope tied to each end. Kicked in front of you down a trapped hallway. Pit trap it is heavy enough to fall in, trip wire, proximity, motion, yep, blade or darts covered, falling block it will still works once. Poison just dont eat the cheese after. And you can melt and reform the wheel to use again for all but a block trap or burning traps.
My party stumbled into a larder. Amongst the many stored foods were several salted hams. If you don't know, a salted ham can weigh up to 50 lb and is solid as a rock. It takes hours and tons of water to get it back into a edible state. The party decided to tie a rope to a ham and use it as room trap detector. After it started to get worn, they made leather armor for the now dubbed 'throwing ham'. Later they added hooks to the throwing ham to be able to bring items from room back to them.
@@GenJeFT It is! A traditional one in an open sandwich, toasted bread, extra virgin olive oil, fresh tomato either pureed or sliced, and the jamón slices on top.
In one of my Dresden Files games, one of the PCs wound up having a car with Mythic Toughness; bypassed damage reduction as though it were silver, cold iron, holy, AND magical; had a modicum of Winter magic; and was semi-sentient. Its name was Tessy.
I think the dumbest thing I've experienced in a game, was probably in a game that started off as Eberron, but ended up being multiversal. Had a Rogue/Barbarian/Warlock/Fighter (Campaign went to level 60, the Warlock levels were story related). Anyway, due to a combination of the patron for the Warlock levels being a story mcguffin, the DM approving the pact Boon of Pact of the Shell, the Barbarian subclass, the fact that the rogue subclass was soul knife and the fight subclass was Psi-warrior, at the end of that campaign, provided I was below 25% HP, my character was a Titanic Psionic Werewolf with a 56 in strength. For those unaware, Titanic is two size categories larger than Gargantuan, it is 120ft x 120ft, and for every size category bigger than large, you're meant to temporarily add 4 to the strength score of someone. It was fun being the parties schemy stealth guy, but also just saying "Screw it" whenever combat starts, hulking out and just being a big angry werewolf.
@@darkmage212 To be fair, we also had a Warforged that was basically a living Artillery Platform, a kobold druid that would raise every non-construct enemy to fight along side us, a Owlin Cleric that would do the same but for constructs, a human monk... And a plasmoid wizard/Sorcerer/whatever the fuck, they would alternate between giving me haste, and giving the Warforged haste... Also we had a fleet that basically had a spaceworthy HMS Dreadnought as the flagship...
I remember at one point a group I played with found a kitchen in a dungeon and in a storage area was a whole bunch of flour in bags. "How much flour is their?" I asked the DM. "Um, about fifty pounds I guess?" responded the DM. "How big are the bags?" "Like a pound each?" "Perfect." Our DM was a bit confused as my character gathered up all the flour bags and started sprinkling red pepper powder into each of them. I think he assumed I was going to use them for spicy pancakes or something. Next combat encounter we come up against a cyclops. On my turn I grab a flour bag and throw it in its face, blinding it. Our DM then realized to his horror that he had effectively given me access to a bunch of _3 Ninjas_ style chilli flour bombs that I was now hurling around like a deranged food fighter. We all had a pretty good laugh over it, but I'm pretty certain the next few encounters were tweaked to circumnavigate my new improvised weapon. Moral of the story: If your players start asking seemingly benign questions about ordinary objects, never assume their intentions are benign OR ordinary
I love it when this sort of thing happens. What could happen it is just a boat? Boat is now a weapon of ultimate power and the fastest ship in the sea, and can still be placed in the pocket.
Speaking of Ladders, My Party and I broke the Economy. In 3rd Edition official prices, a ladder (10 ft) can be bought for 5 copper. 10-ft poles sell for 2 Silver apiece. A cord of firewood (1 day's worth) is 1 copper. Therefore one 5 copper ladder sells for 4 silver, 1 copper. We bought every ladder in the Land. Source: Player's Handbook 1, pg 108. Table 7-7: Goods and Services
I would have but I was in the middle of my japanese but I absolutely adore his videos he is one of 2 of my absolutely favourite dnd content creators on here
Can’t even complain honestly, if there’s one type of magic item that has been earned by a party it’s the ones that they crafted themselves as the adventure progressed, that’s how you get 40% of legendary hero weapons(the other 60% are bestowed by “superior beings”)
Here I was thinking tactically, like placing it down and climbing it for a height bonus in battle, but no, most players would rather just hit people with it.
Imagine you join a random dnd game because your friend said the dungeon master lets anyone join at any time just to find out one of the strongest weapons are a ladder😂
0:37 - That Jackie Chan fight scene is something that inspired a friend to craft an encounter in D&D 3e when we were in high school. He put us up against a Halfling monk and equipped it with a 10' ladder. Some rule or Sage Advice article from the time suggested that -- on top of granting reach (because of course it frickin' did) -- one could use the spaces between the rungs to grapple with after a fashion. Said encounter resulted in at least two of the four PCs going down, and if I recall correctly, that included my low-level cleric (who foolishly stepped into reach to try to heal a teammate and provoked an attack of opportunity).
This sort of "why not, let's try this" at lower levels was my favorite part of playing 2nd ed AD&D. Almost invariably created the things that I remember the best about our games.
Reminds me of the one time my CoC was standing for 5 minutes around a well, trying to figure out what the strange metallic things inside of it were. My DM had them pulling and pushing on them without even blinking, while my alcoholic priest just lost his last corn of belief
It's really funny seeing this video, because there's been a running joke in my DND group for years about me and ladders. When I showed them this video, and told them I had nothing to do with it, they didn't believe me at first.
Imagine one of the gods wanting to talk to the party so they say they’ll “create a portal only you and your friends can enter” and when they get to the portal it’s just a normal portal but 10 feet in the air
I can imagine the group trying to intimidate a mass of enemies just putting up the ladder and it giving a bonus to intimidate or emit an aura of terror scaring away enemies.
This reminds me of the time my party weaponized magic mushrooms that make anyone that touches them magically switch places with a random person nearby.
Once I was playing D&D with friends and I found a glowing snail on the ground and I made it my familiar, that damn snail could teleport and spit acid, it didn't have that much damage, but when I went to kill an enemy, the snail always ended up hitting the last shot. He was very lucky. He leveled up more and more until he became so powerful that the dungeon master had to kill him to keep the balance... he was the D&D.
That's basically a spear with extra steps
highly underrated comment... this is genuinely such a good joke lol
10/10 pun
and an extra spear
lol, that works on multiple levels
You must have really *RUNG* your brain for that joke :D
I love it when the dm unintentionally adds in an item the players abuse tf out of it till it becomes op
In a Pathfinder Game our DM thought it would be cool to have a shield used by one of the bad guys be made from a Gold Dragon's wing. It was supposed to be like a bit of flavor text for us to be like "Oh, that's cool!" Which was the pretty much the response from the rest of the party, but my LG Cleric of Ragathiel quickly had other plans. First thing I did was confiscate it, set it aside (I refused to use it, the idea being that it was insulting for such a noble creature as a Gold Dragon to be reduced to a piece of equipment) and started saving for a resurrection scroll (Almost 13,000GP). No one else used a shield, so no one questioned it. Didn't tell anyone in the party what my plan was either, so a few months later when I got my hands on a Resurrection scroll they'd all pretty much forgotten about it. Then we get back from one of our adventures, I go to my family's manor that I've been staying in while everyone else goes to the local tavern. I get out the shield and go full holy ritual with this, talking holy symbol carved into the garden, candles, the works.
I figured I'd be placing a relatively powerful LG creature into the region that could help stabilize things and be an ally we might be able to call upon if the situation called for it. Turns out the DM had other ideas, because now I have trusty Gold Dragon sidekick filling my cohort slot from my Leadership feat.
@@jasonreed1631 it sounds like he saw this coming
I'm not actively DMing, but when I did I would give players magic items often from the recommended list for low-value things (typically uncommon or rare), but I had rules about how the characters had to figure out what the items did through experimentation. An Identify spell would also do the trick. The only thing is I ignored most text along the lines of "up to a maximum of 1 gallon a day" and the like as they seemed like artificial restrictions, and on occasion I would glam the item up a tad (folding boat could transform into a galleon, for instance). It lead to some interesting and extremely effective combinations.
@crimsonwolf8174 To clarify, I did tell the DM my plan the same night we got the wing. I just didn't tell anyone else in the party. A lot of that stemmed from the fact that trying to track down a resurrection scroll when there were no dead party members and no dead family/friends in my backstory would have raised some eyebrows from the DM anyway.
As a DM, I would absolutely encourage the players to do stuff like this 😂
This is my stepladder, I never knew my real ladder
Edit: These replies are incredible
That’s…. Actually funny lol
Good one! 😆
"That is my real ladder. Just because it's a step ladder doesn't mean it isn't the ladder that raised me." ua-cam.com/video/7bLDjMhxSVg/v-deo.html
Sans please, we're at a funeral
Help me Stepladder im stuck
Jackie Chan is the only person in the world who would have a proficiency bonus with a ladder.
That's the part I was wondering about as well. Where would you even get such a proficiency? Lol
@@backonlazer791The Tavern Brawler feat. A ladder is classified as an improvised weapon, therefore the tavern brawler feat would give you proficiency with it.
@@kiritotheabridgedgod4178 That is a good point.
@@kiritotheabridgedgod4178 proficiency to hit, not to damage. No one adds proficiency to damage.
@@backonlazer791 After enough uses I would just give them proficency XD
For a simple ladder I think it ESCALATED quickly XD
The glories of it's dungeon use RUNG around the realm XD
This is truly the HEIGHT of comedy.
It really is STEP UP from most magic items.
Truly, that ladder CLIMBED to the top.
I hate everyone in this reply thread simply because of how funny these puns are to me
"Local OSHA is tracking them since it breaks multiple codes."
As someone with more experience with OSHA than is good for anyone, this is dangerously accurate. Can't wait for the campaign where the party has the ladder finally stolen by OSHA and they have to break into OSHA's Ultimate Safety Citadel (TM) to reclaim it. The campaign will span several continents and two realms due to them needing to travel to several OSHA branch offices just to find the location of the Citadel, which is a closely guarded secret which no one has ever bothered to uncover.
The OSHA Vault of One Too Many Violations™
Only to find out that they stole it so they could use it to create a hexblade Warlock
Just imagine all the other unhinged confiscated items they would find there
It's the ultimate safety citadel because everyone who tries to go into it dies before entering, and is therefore "safe" because no dumb sentient creatures can get insise to hurt themselves.
Ah yes the OSHA Ultimate Safety Citadel, guarded by a plethora of booby traps and deadly creatures... although the traps are clearly marked by flags and signage and all creatures are safely kept in a locked cabinet with one key and a punch in/punch out system which requires 16 forms filed 3 weeks prior to get access to. HIGHLY risky to break in to!
🎵come with me
And you'll see
A world of OSHA violations 🎵
I swear I've heard this
@@hamzamotara4304 most likely have, I took it from someone else lol
@@hamzamotara4304 MattPat used this joke when he made a video about Wonka's Chocolate Factory and all their violations of workplace safety regulations lol
Yea the og song is I think called world of imagination
Ricky and the breadsticks. Good channel.
One could say it’s a laddering ram
Take my like and leave good sir!
no please dont leave I crave more 😂
*Playing Tomb of Horrors:* "There is an array of small holes starting approximately 5' from the end of the pit."
"Is the wall at that end also 5' high, like the one at the start?"
"Yes."
"The root of half of 10' squared is 7'. I send back a mental command. Two (skeletal) monks hurry up behind us... with a 10' ladder. It can bridge the distance with 2' of clearance at both ends. The two skeletons hold each end of the makeshift staircase to secure it as we step up."
"You have a 10' ladder?!"
*Presents character sheet.* "Several. I also have shovels, picks, and 10' poles."
"Well damn!"
This, i like this 😂
Clearance? Like the clearance section in an art store?
@@askialuna7717 Clearance, as in it "shoots clear over the target" by some additional amount, leaving room for error. In this case, the base of the ladder is two feet from the suspicious holes, and the top of the ladder would pass two feet above the lip of the pit.
This means that there is no chance that the ladder or skeletons fall into the trap, as there is an extra 1-2 feet of ladder at both ends that the skeletons can safely hold onto without being in the danger zone.
For a counter-example: a 10' ladder cannot be used to get past a 10' gap, because it doesn't clear the gap with excess to hook onto either side -- it only fits the gap, falling into the abyss below.
@@askialuna7717No, clearance as in unobstructed space
of course i have multiple 10' ladders in my backpack.
I am so glad you showed the Jackie Chan clips, because it's simply PERFECT
Me, my husband, and his sister were all in a campaign once. His sister's character was annoying him so much that he had his character pick up a brick from a pile next to a building that was being constructed, and tried hitting her with it. He missed, chased her, missed again, accidentally hit an elderly woman with it. Killing her instantly. They then found that a small boy was a witness, so he then killed the boy with the same brick. Which alerted the towns guards. Long story short, half a village was murdered by a brick, they were BOTH wanted criminals in said elven village, and could not return to it for the rest of the campaign. The brick got named old red, he was made a holster for it, and it then became his main weapon. He even grabbed an Actual brick from outside our house and took it to every session.
The murder brick
It's not red because it's a brick.
"War crime this, Can't chuck a brick that"
Reminds me of that one Ace Attorney villains that ran over someone and then proceeded to go on a murder spree for any witnessess
Name of the legendary item: the Ladder of Success.
The ladder TO success.
That has a nice rung to it.
Nope. Stairway to Heaven.
Jacobs ladder
I did something like this once by constructing an ersatz war axe out of trash and taping a bottle mimic to the head. "It is not enough that my enemies should scream in terror, my weapons must also!" Then the DM ran with it and the axe turned out to be a mythic weapon of prophecy, the weapon of an eldritch deity that foretells his arrival in a world whenever it is constructed. In the same campaign I was also asked to introduce myself to the fae in the fae wilds when I had a broken jaw. The other players panicked, but before the DM accepted any of their hasty actions I interrupted them and said "I INTRODUCE MYSELF THROUGH INTERPRETIVE DANCE". The fae loved me and we got along well with them after that.
Please do more of these. I love the shorts, but really love when you go back through some of the comments and see how the community was able to build on it.
"What are you DOING step la-
/bludgeoned by a sharp poisoned ladder/"
"No."
Game of Thrones: Chaos is a ladder
Game of D&D: A ladder is chaos
I was part of a group that got nicknamed "The Door Brigade" because we kept doing similar things with doors.
Our first one was when we shoved a siege door through an entire necromancers tower using it to crush skeletons etc along the way.
DM gave up trying to stop us when it became a choice of letting us have it, or accepting that we were going to take a new door from the first place that had one at every opportunity and his world could no longer have doors. lol.
Is this worthy of standing next to The Dread Gazebo? I think YES!!!!
"The Ladder of OSHA Violation"
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Average DnD shenanigans right here.
When you dont have an artificer or forge cleric, so insetad of a magic item your party creates the most mundane warcrime producing weapon known to existence.
@gastonzamora4985 I beg to differ, the ladder's mere EXISTENCE is a war crime.
Cheese wheel of trap disarming. 100# cheese wheel with a dowel shoved through the center and a rope tied to each end. Kicked in front of you down a trapped hallway. Pit trap it is heavy enough to fall in, trip wire, proximity, motion, yep, blade or darts covered, falling block it will still works once. Poison just dont eat the cheese after. And you can melt and reform the wheel to use again for all but a block trap or burning traps.
Add another cheese wheel and make it a yo-yo
Ladders give so many opportunities…
My party stumbled into a larder. Amongst the many stored foods were several salted hams. If you don't know, a salted ham can weigh up to 50 lb and is solid as a rock. It takes hours and tons of water to get it back into a edible state. The party decided to tie a rope to a ham and use it as room trap detector. After it started to get worn, they made leather armor for the now dubbed 'throwing ham'. Later they added hooks to the throwing ham to be able to bring items from room back to them.
Eh, as a Spaniard, let me tell you it's edible as is. Thinly sliced is best. Look up "jamón ibérico" or "prosciutto" (same thing but Italian)
@@Fridelain A lo mejor esta hablando de lacón? Porque esa mierda hay que dejarla en leche 24 horas pa que deje de parecer un fósil del paleolítico.
@@Fridelain Mmm, prosciutto...
@@Fridelain I looked those up and bookmarked it. It looks good for sandwiches.
@@GenJeFT It is! A traditional one in an open sandwich, toasted bread, extra virgin olive oil, fresh tomato either pureed or sliced, and the jamón slices on top.
I was waitin', I. WAS. WAITING. for a Jackie Chan clip. Ladder Fu is serious business.
Considering how many takes he had to do to make the scene perfect, I’m not surprised.
The immovable ladder at the church of the Holy sepulcher in Jerusalem:
“FINALLY, a worthy opponent”
If it exist in DnD, it can and will become a weapon.
I thought they would use the ladder for...normal ladder shenanigans..
It's DnD, what did you expect? the strange thing is that they haven't traded it as a back scratcher for dragons in exchange for their services.
@@unlimitedslash _YET!_
All the while, the fighter becomes a Jackie Chan type master of ladder Fu.
In one of my Dresden Files games, one of the PCs wound up having a car with Mythic Toughness; bypassed damage reduction as though it were silver, cold iron, holy, AND magical; had a modicum of Winter magic; and was semi-sentient. Its name was Tessy.
I think the dumbest thing I've experienced in a game, was probably in a game that started off as Eberron, but ended up being multiversal. Had a Rogue/Barbarian/Warlock/Fighter (Campaign went to level 60, the Warlock levels were story related). Anyway, due to a combination of the patron for the Warlock levels being a story mcguffin, the DM approving the pact Boon of Pact of the Shell, the Barbarian subclass, the fact that the rogue subclass was soul knife and the fight subclass was Psi-warrior, at the end of that campaign, provided I was below 25% HP, my character was a Titanic Psionic Werewolf with a 56 in strength.
For those unaware, Titanic is two size categories larger than Gargantuan, it is 120ft x 120ft, and for every size category bigger than large, you're meant to temporarily add 4 to the strength score of someone.
It was fun being the parties schemy stealth guy, but also just saying "Screw it" whenever combat starts, hulking out and just being a big angry werewolf.
@@kiritotheabridgedgod4178You were basically Fenrir if he was a werewolf but with an added side of Shinobi huh???
@@darkmage212 To be fair, we also had a Warforged that was basically a living Artillery Platform, a kobold druid that would raise every non-construct enemy to fight along side us, a Owlin Cleric that would do the same but for constructs, a human monk... And a plasmoid wizard/Sorcerer/whatever the fuck, they would alternate between giving me haste, and giving the Warforged haste... Also we had a fleet that basically had a spaceworthy HMS Dreadnought as the flagship...
The king swears the ladder will never leave the realm. :P
Don't worry son, I'll get the ladder.
Ah, dad's ladder. It is always tall enough, no matter the height.
c&h reference?
@@isaiahf-d846
Yup
*Stabs you in the eye while wearing a purple t-shirt*
Legendary Item origin story.
I remember at one point a group I played with found a kitchen in a dungeon and in a storage area was a whole bunch of flour in bags.
"How much flour is their?" I asked the DM.
"Um, about fifty pounds I guess?" responded the DM.
"How big are the bags?"
"Like a pound each?"
"Perfect."
Our DM was a bit confused as my character gathered up all the flour bags and started sprinkling red pepper powder into each of them. I think he assumed I was going to use them for spicy pancakes or something.
Next combat encounter we come up against a cyclops. On my turn I grab a flour bag and throw it in its face, blinding it. Our DM then realized to his horror that he had effectively given me access to a bunch of _3 Ninjas_ style chilli flour bombs that I was now hurling around like a deranged food fighter. We all had a pretty good laugh over it, but I'm pretty certain the next few encounters were tweaked to circumnavigate my new improvised weapon.
Moral of the story: If your players start asking seemingly benign questions about ordinary objects, never assume their intentions are benign OR ordinary
It could be worse. Or better. See, any fine carbohydrate powder, well mixed with air, is explosive…
OSHA was the true BBEG all along
Now I want a D&D campaign where the BBEG is the local HOA.
Speedrunners when the dev leaves 1 loose physics object in a room for decor.
A gag turned into a phenomenal plot device. I love DnD, man.
My players did this exact thing with a light pole. It was insane how they would kill monsters with a random light pole
that is awesome! thats a sign of a damn good dm creating such fun and great immersion. Wonderful job!!!!!
_Curse of Escalation - Marks the party for assassination_
"it's just a [blank] surely the players can't do anything absurd with it"
the greatest mistake of a DM at this point
Sounds like they're stepping up in the world
Suplexes the BBEG through a steel ladder
I said oh no out loud when I read the notification.
Me too!
Never underestimate the ability of a party to turn a seemingly useless item, into an adventure-breaking weapon of mass destruction.
What a thrill… With darkness and silence through the night…
The use of Jackie Chan footage in this clip is inspired.
Who needs a Stanley Parable™ Reassurance Bucket when you can have a tactical assault ladder
A ladder is my favorite disney movie
I love it when this sort of thing happens. What could happen it is just a boat? Boat is now a weapon of ultimate power and the fastest ship in the sea, and can still be placed in the pocket.
That Jackie thooo
Clearly someone hasn't seen enough Jackie Chan movies if they think a ladder is a harmless addition.
Speaking of Ladders, My Party and I broke the Economy.
In 3rd Edition official prices, a ladder (10 ft) can be bought for 5 copper. 10-ft poles sell for 2 Silver apiece. A cord of firewood (1 day's worth) is 1 copper.
Therefore one 5 copper ladder sells for 4 silver, 1 copper. We bought every ladder in the Land.
Source: Player's Handbook 1, pg 108.
Table 7-7: Goods and Services
Oops, I guess they forgot to make the ladders expensive enough
@@Nat_the_Chicken Yeah, it was essentially a license to print money.
DM was quick to house rule around it. 😅
That is one epic ladder
The OSHA part makes this even better
Sounds like they've...rung...a few bells with this one.
Imagine the chaos when an artificer joins the group…
That DM is a g. He just rolled with it.
Which ladder? *fails perception check while holding the ladder*
I think of the entire story, my favorite is that the OSHA equivalent is howling for their blood for the ladder breaking so many codes.
Ladder polearm
Chaos is a ladder
this is the one thing that has made me laugh today XD
Battle ladders were apparently created and used by gnomes.
“It’s just a ladder” bro have you never heard of a dnd party. We will min max the shit out of anything you give us.
I just love the extra touch of showing jackie chan weaponizing the ladder for that part
Holy heck, clicked in under a minute.
I would have but I was in the middle of my japanese but I absolutely adore his videos he is one of 2 of my absolutely favourite dnd content creators on here
never in my entire life have seen or heard a ladder become a weapon like that
I f****** love this! I should get back to DnD videos.
Can’t even complain honestly, if there’s one type of magic item that has been earned by a party it’s the ones that they crafted themselves as the adventure progressed, that’s how you get 40% of legendary hero weapons(the other 60% are bestowed by “superior beings”)
This is exactly why I love DND. Players will always find a way to make even the simplest of things get out of hand.
I love when a DM can adapt and build around the party’s ridiculousness
the best stories are built with the players not against them. This is fantastic
Here I was thinking tactically, like placing it down and climbing it for a height bonus in battle, but no, most players would rather just hit people with it.
That's beautiful.
This is perfect.
the ladder half of this story is quite the step up.
Imagine you join a random dnd game because your friend said the dungeon master lets anyone join at any time just to find out one of the strongest weapons are a ladder😂
Pathfinder actually has rules for how you can use a ladder in combat.
0:37 - That Jackie Chan fight scene is something that inspired a friend to craft an encounter in D&D 3e when we were in high school. He put us up against a Halfling monk and equipped it with a 10' ladder. Some rule or Sage Advice article from the time suggested that -- on top of granting reach (because of course it frickin' did) -- one could use the spaces between the rungs to grapple with after a fashion.
Said encounter resulted in at least two of the four PCs going down, and if I recall correctly, that included my low-level cleric (who foolishly stepped into reach to try to heal a teammate and provoked an attack of opportunity).
they're playing it like its loz totk lmao
Ready for the most cursed statement?
"HELP step-ladder! I'm stuck!"
This sort of "why not, let's try this" at lower levels was my favorite part of playing 2nd ed AD&D. Almost invariably created the things that I remember the best about our games.
Fighter became an artificer via ladder.
Ladder you say????
Reminds me of the one time my CoC was standing for 5 minutes around a well, trying to figure out what the strange metallic things inside of it were.
My DM had them pulling and pushing on them without even blinking, while my alcoholic priest just lost his last corn of belief
The only situation where falling onto a ladder is more dangerous than falling off of it
That's one way for a party to adopt an NPC.
The use of jackie chan as the b roll priceless
It's really funny seeing this video, because there's been a running joke in my DND group for years about me and ladders.
When I showed them this video, and told them I had nothing to do with it, they didn't believe me at first.
Nothing better than turning a random item into a legendary item
What are you doing, stepladder
Imagine one of the gods wanting to talk to the party so they say they’ll “create a portal only you and your friends can enter” and when they get to the portal it’s just a normal portal but 10 feet in the air
I can imagine the group trying to intimidate a mass of enemies just putting up the ladder and it giving a bonus to intimidate or emit an aura of terror scaring away enemies.
This reminds me of the time my party weaponized magic mushrooms that make anyone that touches them magically switch places with a random person nearby.
Technically, that's a double spear now
The one consitency across all DnD campaigns:
Take any random object and magically MacGyver it to become absolutely OP
Once I was playing D&D with friends and I found a glowing snail on the ground and I made it my familiar, that damn snail could teleport and spit acid, it didn't have that much damage, but when I went to kill an enemy, the snail always ended up hitting the last shot. He was very lucky. He leveled up more and more until he became so powerful that the dungeon master had to kill him to keep the balance... he was the D&D.
Never underestimate the creativity of people
Man, tbh, I think thats the kind of thing a DM should hope their players do, just some funny combat options created out of their imagination
"Oh gods boys! Its OSHA, run for it!"