SCP-3469-J Boxcar Joe, the magic hobo-object class:thaumiel description:SCP-3469 is a memetic anomaly associated with certain games of dungeons and dragons, a table top game of fantasy and role-play elements. the humanoid character associated is described as a poor psychic man with a remarkably well kept couch and owning a bass guitar and, in some instances is described as wearing too big aviator-style sunglasses and is almost always in an alleyway or otherwise place associated with the homeless. Special containment procedures:this anomaly currently cannot be contained, but as it is fantasy, it has no need to be contained and can be viewed by the public openly.
I like to think he's still out there; A memetic hero traveling through living stories. Emerging from raw probability. Hoping every leap will be his leap home.
boxcar joe is a sentient entity which takes form in RPGs, likely an actual hobo with a remarkable couch, who made a deal with the devil to live in the greatest fantasies of all times, after getting the luckiest dice rolls in what ever game the devil forced him to play to earn this
SCP - - - - Boxcar Joe the magic hobo. is a sentient safe class entity. He heavily alters the probability of almost everything he is in. He appears in random character generators for almost all Dystopian or post apocalyptic RPG settings. He owns a couch in remarkably good shape and aviator shades, he has magic powers in all these cases. What he does is alter provability in RPGS. He is never in more than one session on the same day or the same time, the player of box car joe will inexplicably get sick or have something else to take care of, he does not die in any of his appearance he just has unknown fates in these games then comes back roughly a day later in a different game. A d class has been able to make contact with him and says he is jovial calm and incredibly power full.
Tbh it seems incredibly fitting that a character who hops around from game to game of his own accord, seemingly at random, is a hobo. You know, a person with no home and no ties to anything that rides the rails, searching for work and food. May you one day find that elusive thing which you seek, Boxcar Joe the Magic Hobo!
Homeless guy has luck to make the Gods *blush,* a magic, possibly-teleporting couch, and a really odd tendency to show *everywhere* there is trouble. Pffft.. The Doctor may not be real -- but Boxcar Joe is, and seems to have a very similar modus operandi.
You know, canonically, box car joe could very well be a timelord. Tardis’ can disguise themselves as anything, and it would make sense to become a couch. Explains where the remote goes.
I remember having a session of 5e D&D homebrew and our party had to go through some hellish shadow realm to recover the McGuffin to stop BBEG. DM describes how in the distance we can faintly hear a guitar playing. As we approach DM describes a man in strange clothes sitting on a sort of leather covered bench that is of rather remarkable condition. I look across the table to the DM and he knows that I know who this is. DM says that the man introduces himself as Boxcar Joe, a forgotten god of luck. I laugh my ass off and rest of the table except DM have no idea what is going on. Explain who we are looking at and rest of table starts laughing as well. Boxcar Joe gives me (bard) a magical guitar that gives advantage to performance roles, as well as the 'lucky' trait and shows us where we need to go. As we turn to leave I look at him one last time, and see him having disappeared, the remnants of a 'Gate' spell all that was left. I salute you, man of mad RNG, Boxcar Joe
@@johnnyjohnsonjohn2593 That is... Unless... The DM used a random generator for the character of a 'forgotten god to give a boon' and received Boxcar Joe.
Boxcar Joe getting sucked into the warp suddenly makes me think of that shooting star meme. Just some hobo dude sitting on his couch, playing tunes... and sailing across the stars.
Um, so I literally saw a couch in decent shape under a bridge where homeless people tend to sleep on my way home from work today. Boxcar Joe confirmed?
I'm so working him into my books somewhere. Typically in sections where my characters are somehow travelling through or are outside the SpaceTime Continuum.
“Boxcar joe was sucked into the warp, surfing his couch.” God I fucking hope he was doing the sickest bass solo in the universe while he was flung into hell.
Boxcar Joe, a god among gods. What I would trade to live his life... although, how the hell does he carry his couch around with him? Is it just like the Doctor's phone booth where it will stay where it is and he just returns for it later? Or is it one of those things where it just (thanks to his god-tier luck) never inconveniences him or the group, or just somehow follows him and is always right there when he really needs it.
A being that bends probability to be played multiple times with extreme consistency while living in games and never dying. Sounds like an SCP. I love it.
His Tardis is a couch, he has a sonic guitar. BOXCAR JOE THE TIMELORD! I want this to be a thing! I want multiple D&D podcasts and random games all creating the story of Boxcar Joe, jumping from game to game helping out and connecting their games, and all the while telling an underlying story of the man with the fine couch and epic guitar!
Actually sounds pretty similar to a character in a Fate/Dresden Files game I ran last year. Was called Jo Jo rather than Boxcar Joe but the rest matches.
So the rule is that if you get something close to a Magic Hobo with a couch and bass guitar from a random generator, and name them Box Car Joe, our physical universe bends around the character, forcing the amazing or horrible rolls.
Possible. But that still wouldn't explain why it happens so often, it could be that the original code relies on a user supplied seed that always goes to the same default selection of seeds if left empty.
The thing is, _apparently_ they were using different random generators (listen to the wording), which gave the same result.. That's not someone drawing the same card several times from a shuffled deck -- that's drawing the same card at the first try from several different shuffled decks.. If.. the analogy makes any sense at all.
Tarson Talon Now I picture boxcar joe going through the tunnel in space time like the tardis is but the tunnel changes colors in ways resembling the shooting stars video and he’s just on a couch playing his guitar as shooting stars plays.
... I have more to add. 2 years ago I played a one shot as a Boxcar Joe in a D&D setting with high dwarf teck (steam trains and stuff) He was a sorcerer and at the end when everything was going to shit I had him flee through a magic portal to another realm...
I feel like someone made an open source random character generator a long time ago, and included the chance to get "Boxcar Joe" are a reference to their own games. Then people just grabbed the code, adjusted what they needed to for a new RPG System, then uploaded the generator without ever realizing the Easter egg was there.
SCP - - - - Boxcar Joe the magic hobo. is a sentient safe class entity. He heavily alters the probability of almost everything he is in. He appears in random character generators for almost all Dystopian or post apocalyptic RPG settings. He owns a couch in remarkably good shape and aviator shades, he has magic powers in all these cases. What he does is alter provability in RPGS. He is never in more than one session on the same day or the same time, the player of box car joe will inexplicably get sick or have something else to take care of, he does not die in any of his appearance he just has unknown fates in these games then comes back roughly a day later in a different game. A d class has been able to make contact with him and says he is jovial calm and incredibly power full.
I'm not making it up when I say a party member had a somewhat similar character in a GURPS game I played a while back. I'm just a comment on the net but believe me
I've honestly never played any of these games despite being interested in them since childhood. I'd never have thought of using a random character generator before, being the type who would prefer to hand-craft my own character, but it would be quite amusing to be able give Boxcar Joe another story under his belt if I ever had the chance lol.
the crazy coincidences of the "random" character generator and the dice going crazy just makes this story/character I wanted to play a luck based dice effecing character so now I'm totally going to play boxcar joe now
Ever heard of Chaos Magic? Its a silly little pseudo-spiritual form of occultism wherein people believe that Magical effects can arise from chaos. Chaos Theory. Like how if you were to stack dice one on top of the other, the same sides facing the same direction, eventually it would topple over even though the dice are designed to be as smooth and balanced as possible to provide random rolls. Or how grooves in the earth collect water which deepen the groove which collects more water and so on in a self-feeding loop. Maybe not as silly as I thought. In Chaos Theory terms, perhaps Boxcar Joe is a Strange Attractor....
*_ALL HAIL BOXCAR JOE, SLAYER OF XENOS, MUTANT, HERETIC, AND DAEMON, WALKER OF A 1,000 PLANES, SAVIOR OF THE PLOT, KICKER OF ASSES! ALL HAIL SAINT JOE_*
The Practical part of me thinks it's just a Generator using a simple Concept to fit into many settings. (Most settings can make room for a Magic/Special/Psychic Homeless person, If he's not magic, just Lucky, etc) and most of the Gear he has can be altered to fit the Settings. The Less practical side of me (the bit that just loves Theories) thinks he IS a Timelord. And just travels between games fixing things with his Guitar... Sending Good Vibrations out to people.. and Using Temporal Trickery to let him pass though things with little issues. (And something of a Crowd that gathers when he does something too Awesome)
Clearly Boxcar Joe isn't The Doctor. He's still probably Gallifreyan. It's just that his TARDIS is a couch (in remarkably good condition) and he goes by a longer moniker.
Nearly forgot to mention: This is a Waffle House Millionaire story, the same man who played Henderson himself.
Cloak and Dagger boxcar joe is rngesus
Of course the legend who is known as old man henderson is also box car joe.
If it is boxcar joe, the adjusted rules to boost crits won't be necessary
I can't find any other mention of Boxcar Joe of google or youtube other than your story. Can you link any other reference to him?
Boxcar Joe, the Mmagiv Hobo is clearly the best creepypasta
Boxcar Joe is the best Scp ever!
Aidan Durrence My gaming group is currently running a Genius the Transgression game based around SCP
cool
SCP-3469-J Boxcar Joe, the magic hobo-object class:thaumiel
description:SCP-3469 is a memetic anomaly associated with certain games of dungeons and dragons, a table top game of fantasy and role-play elements.
the humanoid character associated is described as a poor psychic man with a remarkably well kept couch and owning a bass guitar and, in some instances is described as wearing too big aviator-style sunglasses and is almost always in an alleyway or otherwise place associated with the homeless.
Special containment procedures:this anomaly currently cannot be contained, but as it is fantasy, it has no need to be contained and can be viewed by the public openly.
We need to bring this to the scp fourms
SCPs are real, Ya know?
I like to think he's still out there; A memetic hero traveling through living stories. Emerging from raw probability. Hoping every leap will be his leap home.
I'm wondering if this warrants the writing of a SCP fire about him.
Taggerung Zeouth'Gula
There's already Fred for a character that inserts himself into stories. It wouldn't be as special on SCP as it is in isolation.
I agree with you, this guy is a memetic anomaly within DnD that happens randomly
+Morgan Robinson It would be special because he is actually real.
So the tabletop rpg universe is one big sliders/quantum leap style meta story
boxcar joe is a sentient entity which takes form in RPGs, likely an actual hobo with a remarkable couch, who made a deal with the devil to live in the greatest fantasies of all times, after getting the luckiest dice rolls in what ever game the devil forced him to play to earn this
I'll call the SCP Foundation.
Would Boxcar Joe and Old Man Henderson be separate SCP qualifications or be qualified as the same SCP?
They probably be considered items A and B under the same scp number
I want a Boxcar Joe/Old Man Henderson buddy cop movie now.
Is this SCP-material? Yes, yes it is.
Awesomotron2k exactly what I was gonna say...
to me it sounds like warhammer 40K/necrumunda
SCP-7142: Boxcar Joe, the magic hobo
SCP - - - - Boxcar Joe the magic hobo. is a sentient safe class entity. He heavily alters the probability of almost everything he is in. He appears in random character generators for almost all Dystopian or post apocalyptic RPG settings. He owns a couch in remarkably good shape and aviator shades, he has magic powers in all these cases. What he does is alter provability in RPGS. He is never in more than one session on the same day or the same time, the player of box car joe will inexplicably get sick or have something else to take care of, he does not die in any of his appearance he just has unknown fates in these games then comes back roughly a day later in a different game. A d class has been able to make contact with him and says he is jovial calm and incredibly power full.
I had that very same thought
Tbh it seems incredibly fitting that a character who hops around from game to game of his own accord, seemingly at random, is a hobo. You know, a person with no home and no ties to anything that rides the rails, searching for work and food. May you one day find that elusive thing which you seek, Boxcar Joe the Magic Hobo!
I think I met this guy in real life, minus the couch outside of a gas station a few years ago. Friendly guy. Never saw him again after that, though.
@@WorldWalker128 This is worrying
Bro is even in Half Life 2 lmao
@@robsu7377why?
Its not the first eldritch horror deciding to use dnd to have fun
@@koathekid8255 Cause
Homeless guy has luck to make the Gods *blush,* a magic, possibly-teleporting couch, and a really odd tendency to show *everywhere* there is trouble. Pffft.. The Doctor may not be real -- but Boxcar Joe is, and seems to have a very similar modus operandi.
I did not catch that till I saw this comment XD
With sonic technology
Boxcar Joe's character sheets are the physical manifestation of RNJesus.
You know, canonically, box car joe could very well be a timelord. Tardis’ can disguise themselves as anything, and it would make sense to become a couch. Explains where the remote goes.
I remember having a session of 5e D&D homebrew and our party had to go through some hellish shadow realm to recover the McGuffin to stop BBEG.
DM describes how in the distance we can faintly hear a guitar playing.
As we approach DM describes a man in strange clothes sitting on a sort of leather covered bench that is of rather remarkable condition.
I look across the table to the DM and he knows that I know who this is.
DM says that the man introduces himself as Boxcar Joe, a forgotten god of luck.
I laugh my ass off and rest of the table except DM have no idea what is going on.
Explain who we are looking at and rest of table starts laughing as well.
Boxcar Joe gives me (bard) a magical guitar that gives advantage to performance roles, as well as the 'lucky' trait and shows us where we need to go.
As we turn to leave I look at him one last time, and see him having disappeared, the remnants of a 'Gate' spell all that was left.
I salute you, man of mad RNG, Boxcar Joe
This isn’t really in the boxcar joe spirit it was scripted.
@@johnnyjohnsonjohn2593 but it's still good fun...
@@johnnyjohnsonjohn2593 That is... Unless... The DM used a random generator for the character of a 'forgotten god to give a boon' and received Boxcar Joe.
Boxcar Joe getting sucked into the warp suddenly makes me think of that shooting star meme. Just some hobo dude sitting on his couch, playing tunes... and sailing across the stars.
Half creepy pasta, half epic D&D tale. It's the story of boxcar Joe.
AncapFTW *half SCP
Um, so I literally saw a couch in decent shape under a bridge where homeless people tend to sleep on my way home from work today. Boxcar Joe confirmed?
He's entering our world, when he senses he is needed.
@@redstonecasey4713 sorry to Necro, but what if he stays here between games. He's warped back here, and then finds a way back
Hadn't been for Boxcar Joe, I'd've been married a long time ago, where did ya come from, where did you go, where did you come from, Boxcar Joe!
its too fitting
I woke up my neighbors because of this comment XD
This is beautiful!
Open up the couch, its really a TARDIS. Massive crossover begins, and the dice gods look in in utter horror.
Boxcar Joe, playing bangin’ tunes surfing his couch while warping through space and time.
I'm so working him into my books somewhere. Typically in sections where my characters are somehow travelling through or are outside the SpaceTime Continuum.
Joel Gawne boxcar joe could be used more metaphorically as a representation of the Universe or of some powerful entity like God.
I would watch that movie.
Where did you come from? where did you go? Where did you come from, boxcar joe
“Boxcar joe was sucked into the warp, surfing his couch.”
God I fucking hope he was doing the sickest bass solo in the universe while he was flung into hell.
Boxcar Joe...new D&D meta.
Boxcar Joe,
Avatar of the Dice Gods
Boxcar Joe, a god among gods. What I would trade to live his life...
although, how the hell does he carry his couch around with him? Is it just like the Doctor's phone booth where it will stay where it is and he just returns for it later? Or is it one of those things where it just (thanks to his god-tier luck) never inconveniences him or the group, or just somehow follows him and is always right there when he really needs it.
A new spell: Summon Couch
It's made of sapient pear wood, powered by reflected sounds of underground spirits...
He is an SCP, like Henderson himself.
(Makes sense, it IS the same guy.)
Boxcar Joe: The hero we need
A being that bends probability to be played multiple times with extreme consistency while living in games and never dying. Sounds like an SCP.
I love it.
If it hadnt been for Boxcar Joe, I'd have been dead a long time ago, where did you come from, where did you go? where did you come from Boxcar Joe?
geoffreystorckman8 This is underrated.
I want to one day discover him myself and play according to Joe's needs and send him off on his next voyage
His Tardis is a couch, he has a sonic guitar. BOXCAR JOE THE TIMELORD! I want this to be a thing! I want multiple D&D podcasts and random games all creating the story of Boxcar Joe, jumping from game to game helping out and connecting their games, and all the while telling an underlying story of the man with the fine couch and epic guitar!
Actually sounds pretty similar to a character in a Fate/Dresden Files game I ran last year. Was called Jo Jo rather than Boxcar Joe but the rest matches.
Was that his full name, or just the first letters of his first and last name?
So the rule is that if you get something close to a Magic Hobo with a couch and bass guitar from a random generator, and name them Box Car Joe, our physical universe bends around the character, forcing the amazing or horrible rolls.
The underappreciated part of UA-cam
To me this sounds suspiciously like a shoddily programmed random number generator.
Not that it takes away from the story of course.
My guess is that he's a sort of watermark of the creator's code, slipped into various character generators to check if someone has stolen their work.
Possible. But that still wouldn't explain why it happens so often, it could be that the original code relies on a user supplied seed that always goes to the same default selection of seeds if left empty.
The thing is, _apparently_ they were using different random generators (listen to the wording), which gave the same result.. That's not someone drawing the same card several times from a shuffled deck -- that's drawing the same card at the first try from several different shuffled decks.. If.. the analogy makes any sense at all.
Also, the name 'Boxcar Joe' wasn't RNG'd
Cekseiro That’s not just drawing a card, that shuffling 10 different decks and drawing the same poker hand from each.
Some characters just refuse to fade away.
Is like 'The Doctor', but is not called 'The Doctor', so he's just 'Who', and is a 'Shooting Stars' lord.
Tarson Talon Now I picture boxcar joe going through the tunnel in space time like the tardis is but the tunnel changes colors in ways resembling the shooting stars video and he’s just on a couch playing his guitar as shooting stars plays.
... I have more to add. 2 years ago I played a one shot as a Boxcar Joe in a D&D setting with high dwarf teck (steam trains and stuff) He was a sorcerer and at the end when everything was going to shit I had him flee through a magic portal to another realm...
why do i see someone writing a story about the scp foundation tracking down waffle house millionaire because he created two scps?
I feel like someone made an open source random character generator a long time ago, and included the chance to get "Boxcar Joe" are a reference to their own games. Then people just grabbed the code, adjusted what they needed to for a new RPG System, then uploaded the generator without ever realizing the Easter egg was there.
Damn that tulpa gets around
Hobo joe prepare to be Shanghied into dnd 5e
I will make that shit happen
SCP - - - - Boxcar Joe the magic hobo. is a sentient safe class entity. He heavily alters the probability of almost everything he is in. He appears in random character generators for almost all Dystopian or post apocalyptic RPG settings. He owns a couch in remarkably good shape and aviator shades, he has magic powers in all these cases. What he does is alter provability in RPGS. He is never in more than one session on the same day or the same time, the player of box car joe will inexplicably get sick or have something else to take care of, he does not die in any of his appearance he just has unknown fates in these games then comes back roughly a day later in a different game. A d class has been able to make contact with him and says he is jovial calm and incredibly power full.
He's a sentient meme from the SCP-Universe!
I'm not making it up when I say a party member had a somewhat similar character in a GURPS game I played a while back. I'm just a comment on the net but believe me
Buffaloguy1991 You can't say that and not tell the story. Come on, Let's hear it!
This is a late comment but I agree give us the story man
You have to tell it
Tell us
+Buffaloguy1991 come on mate, give us the story.
Like a year late- anyone get ‘If the emperor had a text to speech device’ vibes
A year has passed and I'm still waiting for the Boxcar Joe Cinematic Universe
Time to catalog a new SCP
SCP-284 Boxcar joe, the Magic Hobo
I've honestly never played any of these games despite being interested in them since childhood. I'd never have thought of using a random character generator before, being the type who would prefer to hand-craft my own character, but it would be quite amusing to be able give Boxcar Joe another story under his belt if I ever had the chance lol.
I need a boxcar Joe of my own
He's the shared machine spirit of all rpg random character generators.
And lo, the almighty RNJesus did send forth his only son to right the wrongs of mankind,
and his name was Boxcar Joe.
I want this to be adapted in to a full novel run and am tempted to do so myself
It is literally Doctor who as a magic hobo, YES!
He's the Timelord equivalent of Radaghast the Brown. His Chameleon circuit got stuck on "Couch" instead of "Police Box"
One wonders who was playing who.
3:11 *_'OLY ZOG!_*_ That scene _*_alone_*_ gets this an immediate like/fav_
ANOTHER containment breach?! Confound it all!
I am using this character as an NPC in my next game.
Scp. Box car joe. Traveler of rpg's
this... this story is too perfect.
what generator was used to create him? please I must know
Only Waffle House Millionaire knows.
Cloak and Dagger does he have a yt? I want to use that generator
Who knows? All the things he wrote exist only in 4chan archives.
@@volcelraptor3983 who knows? The entire story of probabilities being fucked, I would not doubt this being a true story
Boxcar Joe travels the Warp to different sessions.
I doubt this actually happened, but it makes a hell of a story.
it was apparently written by Waffle House Millionaire. If he did, it's believable enough
so who wants to volunteer to write up the SCP entry?
when boxcar joes falls into the warped portals, he gets thrown across the multiverse or some shit, lol.
Plot twist: The Couch was a interdimensional space craft.
the crazy coincidences of the "random" character generator and the dice going crazy just makes this story/character
I wanted to play a luck based dice effecing character so now I'm totally going to play boxcar joe now
This is the coolest thing ever. May Boxcar Joe find his way home some day.
34 different games? that hobo has traveled.
Ever heard of Chaos Magic? Its a silly little pseudo-spiritual form of occultism wherein people believe that Magical effects can arise from chaos.
Chaos Theory.
Like how if you were to stack dice one on top of the other, the same sides facing the same direction, eventually it would topple over even though the dice are designed to be as smooth and balanced as possible to provide random rolls.
Or how grooves in the earth collect water which deepen the groove which collects more water and so on in a self-feeding loop.
Maybe not as silly as I thought.
In Chaos Theory terms, perhaps Boxcar Joe is a Strange Attractor....
the fact he made it into DRYH makes sense, that fucker is somebody's madness talent.
"to the doctor" * starts yelling the doctor who theme*
i forgot the time.
Box car Joe lives in all of our hearts with Henderson.
Proof that memes can take on a life of their own.
*_ALL HAIL BOXCAR JOE, SLAYER OF XENOS, MUTANT, HERETIC, AND DAEMON, WALKER OF A 1,000 PLANES, SAVIOR OF THE PLOT, KICKER OF ASSES! ALL HAIL SAINT JOE_*
I´m pretty sure Joe is a MEMETIC SCP... Can someone make a file for him?
In this world, some things are just inevitable.
I'd like to see boxcar joe one of these days. He seems like a great character. :)
Somehow I have a strong suspicion this would make an excellent comic book but he has like the appearance of Constantine
The Practical part of me thinks it's just a Generator using a simple Concept to fit into many settings. (Most settings can make room for a Magic/Special/Psychic Homeless person, If he's not magic, just Lucky, etc) and most of the Gear he has can be altered to fit the Settings.
The Less practical side of me (the bit that just loves Theories) thinks he IS a Timelord. And just travels between games fixing things with his Guitar... Sending Good Vibrations out to people.. and Using Temporal Trickery to let him pass though things with little issues. (And something of a Crowd that gathers when he does something too Awesome)
Boxcar Joe, the SCP.
Boxcar is the demigod of chance and banging tunes
I shall now say a prayer to St.Boxcar Joe, The magic Hobo when ever I game.
Sounds like Joe might be a Euclid scp. Only "real".
Boxcar joe and his magic time-couch
Box car joe the 'magic' hobo
He's the hobo variant of time lords
😏
Where did you come from where did you go where did you come from boxcar Joe
To this day they say Boxcar Joe is still jumping from world to world trying to find his way back home to his allyway and his pile of boxes.
Boxcar Joe is an SCP confirmed
DR BRIGHT FULL SCP REPORT NOW
As someone who once played a character that made a lucky necklace that seemed to defy probability I can see this happening.
Time traveling magic hobo for the win
Boxcar Joe, if Dr. Who listened to Rush and said "I wanna do that with a bass!"
Bratha a 40k story with humour i detect heresy purge it with bleak dark despair
To quote Jane Doe from tf2 " You were real good son real good, maybe even the best" Gone but never forgotten BoxCar Joe
Boxcar Joe the Meta Entity Hobo!
According to a friend 'That isn't a running joke. tha'ts the ghost of an actual magic hobo haunting random character generators.'
Boxcar joe still lives
That's funny, we had a human bard named joe wagon tamer rolled for our homebrew once XD
Boxcar Joe is an epic character. Anyone else think that he is a real entity who gains form when the events that he described near the end occur?
I just shared this video with my DM
Clearly Boxcar Joe isn't The Doctor. He's still probably Gallifreyan. It's just that his TARDIS is a couch (in remarkably good condition) and he goes by a longer moniker.
Boxcar Joe - the quantum entangled hobo...
The boxcar doctor is my favourite story lol