I love how there's a trace of a smile in the DM's voice. "This is stupid. This ruins everything. This is ridiculous. I love these guys."
@frenchfriedbagel7035
3 ай бұрын
I think the gurgling to use the spell sold him on it.
@aca347
2 ай бұрын
It's more fun as a DM to let the players come up with ways to ruin your plans anyway. When I was DM'ing I always had an idea of what the different factions would do and how it might affect the players but I never plan anything long-term to avoid subconsciously railroading the players. DM's job is to come up with ways to create conflict, drama and humor in the story. It's up to the players how they deal with it.
@RorysHappyHouse
Ай бұрын
HOT DUNGEON MASTER SHREKS
@Tabby_CatMeow
11 ай бұрын
“Were you prepared for dinosaur?” Nobody. Nobody is prepared for dinosaur
@RigelRabbit
2 ай бұрын
Um, actually a plesiosaurus isn't a dinosaur, it's a marine reptile! MWAHAHAHAHAHA
@JacobL228
2 ай бұрын
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition Dinosaur!
@Pindeckoo1
2 ай бұрын
NOBODY EXPECTS THE PLESIOSAURUS
@siewpeisi9937
2 ай бұрын
@@Pindeckoo1nah its nessie
@MasterArchfiend
2 ай бұрын
Not even dinosaurs are prepared for dinosaurs.
@readyrex
11 ай бұрын
"Ok, fine." That's when you know you made the DM mad.
@aydingreen3536
11 ай бұрын
I like to smite my players to keep them in line
@spiwolf6998
11 ай бұрын
"We had a whole Naval battle planned out" * DM furiously scratching out notes *
@readyrex
11 ай бұрын
@@aydingreen3536 until they retaliate with a full cleric tortle team.
@Wortigon2000
11 ай бұрын
That's where you can start to expect a run in with a horde of random stray dragons that are in a bad mood and want to kill stuff.
@samuelfawell9159
11 ай бұрын
It’s the same as “I sure hope this NPC doesn’t betray as DM, since we don’t trust them”, and you just hear the crumpling or paper and the DMs forced smile “nope… they won’t be now” thought gritted teeth.
@doo_lissdu_lighost6133
11 ай бұрын
And thus, the Naval Battle goes in the archive to be whipped out at another, more unexpected time.
@xLTxFire
2 ай бұрын
Now all of those boats, which were supposed to be destroyed, are not...
@Griefer_Jesus
2 ай бұрын
It's been over 2 years, 2 campaigns, and 3 mini campaigns. still no sign of it yet
@BushWookie666
2 ай бұрын
@@Griefer_Jesusno one expects the Spanish Armada
@Logan601_Guy
11 ай бұрын
Rule Number One: Never get attached to anything, because the players WILL ruin it
@Arvyn992
11 ай бұрын
And they might break in ways you might not be able to think about
@eviljbrian
11 ай бұрын
This is VERY true. Was in a session where we were playing a small bit of World's Largest dungeon.... Found a room with a forest.... We sent a fireball into the forest and closed the door.
@johnynoway9127
11 ай бұрын
only thing thats a nono is pilling stuff out from nowhere. Had an rp theme was survival battle royale type stuff. Were all basically wearing nothing and have no magic either. All of a sudden a person pulled out a knife. I said: How can you have a knife when we agreed on no tools at all? The DM was like "Lets just have fun whatever" This pissed me off because the rp rules clearly state that you cant bring anything with you. Needless to say I left the group chat and shortly after the whole group disbanded due to people arguing over what DM said vs what was stated in the chat page notes.
@eviljbrian
11 ай бұрын
@@johnynoway9127 About two or three sessions ago, a group I'm in had something similar. I'm a druid, my magic was restricted, and our weapons were taken away. But the fight was in a make-shift arena in the middle of a tavern. Furniture broke so we had clubs and make-shift shields... Our strongest character actually PICKED UP a gnome (I think, it might've been another small race) by the heels and swung him around like a flail.
@johnynoway9127
11 ай бұрын
@@eviljbrian still better then pulling a knife out your ass. The gnome could have wandered in by accident or punted into the arena haha.
@NotNitehawk
11 ай бұрын
Never underestimate the players' ability to bypass everything you've planned and then burn down an entire village they were supposed to be helping.
@troybaxter
2 ай бұрын
And never underestimate a party getting stuck at a normal door for 50 minutes... I swear, D&D is the place that makes easy things hard and hard things easy.
@vernerviktor
Ай бұрын
Lol thats so my groupe 😂
@legoferrari14
4 күн бұрын
And most importantly, *_NEVER_* underestimate the ability of both Players AND the DM to take *_ANY,_* and I mean *_A N Y_* joke or suggestion at face value and run with it.
@leyrua
11 ай бұрын
If you are a DM and DON'T expect the druid to bypass your puzzles with Wildshape... I don't know what to tell you.
@eviljbrian
11 ай бұрын
I played a Wizard with a few levels in Druid to prestiege class of Master of Many Forms.... When you can turn into virtually anything, some things can become trivial.
@Aeivious
11 ай бұрын
Not exactly a puzzle, but i had a prisoner they werent supposed to get to until after they beat the boss of the area, but my moon druid as a bear nat 20ed the iron bars and I just said fuck it, have fun bringing a little girl in the middle of combat.
@lmdirkdiggler7170
11 ай бұрын
@@Aeivious😂😂😂
@leyrua
11 ай бұрын
@@Aeivious DM: "Congratulations, you have earned the achievement: _Escort Mission"_
@ManyArmedMooseDei
11 ай бұрын
Druid can become elementals. Need I say more. As in, like that villain from “The Flash” can turn into a sentient cloud of toxic gas, among other things.
@cheesybardn9773
10 ай бұрын
"Ok FINE you pass the stealth check." hes to fed up at this point. XD
@macklinillustration
11 ай бұрын
I laughed so hard at the party bypassing the ENTIRE battle by John going "but what if, plesiosaurus"
@daviviana862
10 ай бұрын
*Dm making the most epic battle in existence* Bard: what if... *Nat 20 in flirting*
@jonathanwells223
5 ай бұрын
Not a fucking stupid DM: “but what if, sharks”
@GhaniPulangDariSawah
5 ай бұрын
@@jonathanwells223 With a high enough roll? fuck em
@skycaptain95
3 ай бұрын
DO NOT fuck the sharks @@GhaniPulangDariSawah
@brianhull2407
11 ай бұрын
“Um, akchewally, plesiosaurs aren’t dinosaurs!”
@azuredragonofnether5433
4 ай бұрын
"Shut up, nerd" _Also shuts his own mouth, because he's a nerd, too. Now thinks_ "I should not have said that..." /S
@jameskincaid1770
2 ай бұрын
🤓
@urlocalfriendlymr.sandals
2 ай бұрын
I was looking for a comment like that
@ZenFr0g
11 ай бұрын
As a DM, I feel this to my core. But as a viewer, lol.
@angelnavarro553
11 ай бұрын
"Ok fine. You pass the stealth check." Hilarious from outside view, but painful as him
@Schilani
11 ай бұрын
@@angelnavarro553 Always expect the encounter to come running after you in some way. I didn't prepare that stuff for nothing!
@russellmz
11 ай бұрын
this almost same scenario happened in critical role where Matt had a naval ship battle set up but talisen did a single spell that avoided it in one fell swoop.
@ZaChemas
11 ай бұрын
@@Schilani"Ok fine..." *Next time in the shore* *ROLL FOR INITIATIVE FUCKERS*
@lilysiandaza4296
7 ай бұрын
Froppy!!
@happyvibez1265
11 ай бұрын
“Let’s see where this goes” is the core of what makes DND what it is 😂😂😂
@piratekit3941
11 ай бұрын
Poor DM. Our DM had a huge plan where we went to find a poison cure after a party member foolishly fell for the poison trap... he set the DC at 40 to do a heal check. The cleric, with someone aiding her and the bard buffing her, managed to beat it. He had no words for just how unexpected that was. On the plus side, my cleric gained the title Surgeon General on that day.
@IsaSaien
11 ай бұрын
That is so crazy!!! A 40 check is massive it must have actually been super impressive to see happen!!!
@internetdragon7624
11 ай бұрын
Damn usually a 30 is the Impossible DC, your DM must've /really/ wanted you to not be able to do that! And yet! The power of player nonsense lives on!
@piratekit3941
11 ай бұрын
@@internetdragon7624 At our level, I could roll a DC 30 if I rolled above a 15. House rule was aiding someone gives a +2 to skill rolls per person helping, and I believe the bardic inspiration gave a 1d6. I rolled a 19, bard rolled a 6. The total of the skill roll ended up being a 42. DM only set a skill check because the players were insisting that since I reacted immediately after the poisoning I should be able to get 1 chance to administer a cure before we had to do the DM's mission for the cure. That DM put up with a lot of player nonsense. It was probably cute when we were low level, but I'm sure we caused a heavy sanity loss for him.
@ivenstorm
11 ай бұрын
I don't play D&D, but I remember my friend telling me about this one time that another party member pissed off the DM so the DM wrote a massive dragon to attack and wipe the party to teach this player a lesson. What he didn't count on was my friend rolling a bunch of nat 20s in a row. In the DMs words "Ok... so initially I wanted to teach Murphy a lesson because he pissed me off last session, but you somehow picked up your wooden sword and omnislashed the crap out of that dragon, lopping off its head. Your character goes up 2 levels, your now the only surviving party member. Everyone else reroll characters."
@ZaChemas
11 ай бұрын
As a DM myself... holy shit, i wouldn't be mad, just... impressed holy shit
@Vaillle
7 ай бұрын
It’s hilarious how leniency with the rules leads to so many great moments.
@GeneralJerrard101
11 ай бұрын
I like how the DM says, "this spell requires a verbal component," and they let the player do it as a dinosaur underwater with the explanation of "he can go BLBBLLBLBLLRBL!"
@TheNeilBlack
11 ай бұрын
That's the sign of a good DM. The players thought of something fun and he fudged the rules a little to let it happen.
@quinnsinclair7028
11 ай бұрын
In the rules you can use a verbal component underwater but it takes your last breath of air and hastens Drowning. So if you can breathe underwater there's no reason you can't do verbal components underwater.
@gmork1090
11 ай бұрын
@@quinnsinclair7028 I was thinking the same. Gills for the win baybeeee.
@exosuite
11 ай бұрын
@quinnsinclair7028 Unless level 20, druids can't cast soells while Wildshaped, only before. As long as there's no concentration check the spell may persist.
@tubebubereboot6873
11 ай бұрын
Indeed. Plus druids can't talk in their wild shape form. A level 20 druid can only cast spells that way because they ignore verbal components. Also, as you alluded to, pass without trace is a concentration spell. So this straight up isn't possible according to the rules, but I get not everyone can remember all this stuff at the table. @@exosuite
@graceroth3045
5 ай бұрын
Best part is if the Dinos Mouth is big enough the rest of the party can just be chillin in there the whole time he’s underwater
@alessandrodecarlo4913
11 ай бұрын
As someone who had an entire section of a campaign skipped because of a druid, I feel your pain. But still cool solution I 've got to say
@foxwolf2346
11 ай бұрын
I singlehandedly killed the final boss because of a perk for fighter where I get a critical on an 18 or more and the sword I was using decapitate's on a crit
@alessandrodecarlo4913
11 ай бұрын
@@foxwolf2346 in my case the druid completely skipped over a combat where I had planned to introduce the main antagonist. He never used wildform outside fights, since they were only level 6, but suddenly during that section he said: "Can I distract some enemies?" I asked what he wanted to do and there I realized how I missed it. "Wildshape into a bird, like a falcon or a predatory bird, and distract a sentinel" I asked him to roll on impersonation and Knowledge Nature and he rolled a 20 for both, add the modifiers and my entire battle was avoided by a fucking bird.
@sheenamims379
11 ай бұрын
That's so funny but cool solution. And such luck
@jolkert_
11 ай бұрын
@@alessandrodecarlo4913 technically, if this was 5e, you cant wildshape into anything with a flying speed until 8th level
@alessandrodecarlo4913
11 ай бұрын
@@jolkert_ it was 3.5 and I let him do it because the idea had value so I was like "Just roll those 2 checks" To tell you the truth I was kinda happy he started reasoning like this because it meant he was engaging in the game
@CanadianOmelette
11 ай бұрын
The plight of every DM but honesty, you just have to love it!
@Falschera
11 ай бұрын
"In front of you is a warship blockade." "Fine! I'll take the submarine!"
@St4rbreaker
9 ай бұрын
"There seems to be spiked metal balls in front of you."
I love the animation of Gus breaking the deck, it’s hilarious
@simonlego01
11 ай бұрын
one time, the dm made us fight a big kraken on a ship, we didnt know at first what to do but then the cannons were mentioned so we used them, and got d20 twice and did 400 dmg with the cannons, it was then killed by the bard using vicious mockery
@alexotlthegreat4450
11 ай бұрын
Kraken: *kraken screeching and noises* Bard: ugly
@LokiToxtrocity
11 ай бұрын
@@alexotlthegreat4450Kraken: *eyes tear up, and it dies from mockery*
@Pantherpick
11 ай бұрын
Is vicious mockery like some special well known DnD move or just legit a person going "yes I shall heavly mock the enemy to death as my attack" Cause I have been listening to Tom cardys "perception check" song so much today and there's no way the vicious mockery thing there and here Is a coincidence xD (would check out the song, it's great lol)
@LokiToxtrocity
11 ай бұрын
@@Pantherpick You basically insult someone so bad they die.
@bthsr7113
11 ай бұрын
@@Pantherpick A psychic attack and the verbal spell component is an insult.
@Lifealope
10 ай бұрын
At a D&D session I was in, we "accidently" killed the big bad (we were definitely trying to, and the DM was trying very hard to keep her alive) all because my plan of running up and grabbing a mystical object from them not only did not get me killed but lead to them chasing me out into an arena where the rest of the players had just finished fighting in a tournament and were more than ready to continue. The DM had to develop a plan for the last session. They did great! It was a really good story.
@sadness2620
11 ай бұрын
How frustrating. I mean, it's nice to see the players thinking outside the box and using their skills at their fullest, but damn all the time spent to plan the fight flushed into the ocean
@Juhno
11 ай бұрын
Nah. No problem. You just archive the plans and use them in some other campaign or much later in current one.
@sadness2620
11 ай бұрын
@Juhno the thought didn't pass my mind. Thanks for enlightening me
@braedenmclean5304
11 ай бұрын
My party once bypassed a massive fight our dm had planned with a whole army and massive drill tank. All we did was parlay with them lol
@aronsvanlaugsson5338
11 ай бұрын
@@sadness2620Remember. Everything the players haven't seen. Can be moved to somewhere else!
@ElGreco15
11 ай бұрын
@@braedenmclean5304my players had a potential TPK event with a final boss (munchkins vs campaign, they knew the risks) but then for the FIRST TIME IN THE CAMPAIGN they used diplomacy and rolled 19-20 for the next three dip rolls. In Pathfinder, so at like a +16
@Kyzoren
7 ай бұрын
"Nice argument, however..." **Turns into a Plesiosaur**
@byla6904
11 ай бұрын
Man, i swear that having a druid in your party is a guarantee that they will skip some part of the campaign like nothing
@sirBrouwer
11 ай бұрын
This was even the second time in this campaign. He once skipped a entire tower battle by turning in to a giant spider and just climb the outside wall.
@mandolorian1176
11 ай бұрын
Running tomb of Annihilation currently. Have a wildfire druid in the party. Can confirm. So many challenges skipped thanks to fiery teleportation and animal shenanigans. It's fun for sure, but after DMing this module 5 times with different tables, this one has challenged me more than my others. Even my homebrew. Lol
@bthsr7113
11 ай бұрын
@@mandolorian1176 I mean, it's the Tomb of Annihilation. If you don't cheese it as hard as you can, it will leave players grumpy... Or was that Tomb of Horrors?
@mandolorian1176
11 ай бұрын
@@bthsr7113 I think that's tomb of horrors. Though ToA will certainly do the same lol. I run it with the meat grinder rules so gotta have players who're ok with losing characters on the reg.
@_shadow_1
11 ай бұрын
It's almost like people who play Druids do so just to break the campaign with the wildest moon logic that no sane DM would have ever considered.
@AHDBification
11 ай бұрын
That's a Matt Mercer moment! Glad you two experienced the same pain.
@qualitymcbro8452
11 ай бұрын
There's a moon Druid in the party. All of your plans were doomed to fail.
@walkerx1813
11 ай бұрын
Not including an underwater net as part of the blockade was a massive oversight
@KnightOMoon
11 ай бұрын
My party managed to bypass an entire armed fortress escape by peacefully negotiating with the captain of the guard.
@GoofballPaul
11 ай бұрын
Debatehobos
@gmork1090
11 ай бұрын
Now THAT is good roleplay. Not just walking around throwing dice at stuff and being murder hobos.
@Firesgone
7 ай бұрын
Did that once to a DM in high school and I came out with money and an allies 😂
@rmt3589
11 ай бұрын
300ft? That's within my range!
@Superd00dz
11 ай бұрын
Our DM decided to challenge us with a big, epic ship battle at relatively low levels. A squad of fish people, led by a fish person cleric riding on a hydra, rose out of the water behind us. My bard won the initiative, cast Enemies Abound on the hydra, and went to go hide in the cabin to maintain concentration. The rest of the party watched the water turn red and foamy as we sailed onward.
@dubuyajay9964
2 ай бұрын
Kuo-Toa?
@Superd00dz
2 ай бұрын
@dubuyajay9964 I believe so, yes. Though he cribbed some material from other sources so they were tougher due to magical flesh crafting shenanigans
@khirnera
11 ай бұрын
The animator made the pleaiosaur so cute oml
@whiterabbit75
11 ай бұрын
To paraphrase Helmuth von Moltke, "No campaign survives contact with the players."
@atticussanders7394
3 ай бұрын
And that's why DM Napoleon III got fired after the players by-passed his fort puzzle
@whiterabbit75
2 ай бұрын
@@atticussanders7394 At least he wasn't exiled to a small island in the middle of nowhere like his uncle.
@Kankan_Mahadi
11 ай бұрын
I ❤ the super adorable plesiosaurus design!
@Rookie2000
11 ай бұрын
That was my favourite moment! It was the only time I audibly giggled at my workplace and my colleagues were concerned
@alexotlthegreat4450
11 ай бұрын
The *only* time?
@Switch2Game
11 ай бұрын
All I'm going to say is cow damage. If you know, you know.
@amaas211
3 ай бұрын
Now there's a mad fisherman who claims he saw a water monster and the party has to chase their own tail until they realize it's them.
@INDAREVISH
11 ай бұрын
Imagine Matt’s plan getting capsized by Caduce’s waterbending xD
@kjj26k
11 ай бұрын
Could never occur, no way, that ship combat was airtight! Unfortunately, the enemy ship was not water tight! 😂
@WhittyYT
4 ай бұрын
There was a whole gorgon battle planned today, the DM had planned for us every possible thing we could have done except for the entire party just killing themself
@lawrencevaughn9149
11 ай бұрын
This is my favorite part of the show😂😂 he was so surprised at them being able to fix this without any violence that he couldn't actually get mad at them. He was laughing the whole time in surprise. I honestly wish that they just made a separate episode where they went ahead and reenact it the Navy ship battle just to see how it would have gone or if he had railroaded them a little bit so that they would have to be forced to do it. But I think it's cool that they were able to subvert that so easily
@kirbyrobby7948
11 ай бұрын
This is the curse of being a DM, where you plan for something HUGE just for the players to cheese pass it
@elisewhite77
11 ай бұрын
I relate to this so hard. When I was dm'ing, I had my players go to this ruined, undead city for a magic item. In the center of the city was a magic tower. I had planned different levels, hidden lore, and puzzles that increased in difficulty as you climb the tower before reaching the boss. Well, players skipped over half the dungeon, because they figured out an exploit to the spell levitate and flew up the tower. I had to quickly create a monster to force them inside the tower, just so all that work wouldn't be completely for nothing. I'm still salty about it.
@delqyrus2619
11 ай бұрын
That's pretty bad DM'ing. You should be proud on your players if they find a creative way around your puzzles, not forcing your ideas onto them or even punishing them for being creative. Such stuff discourages players even trying to solve a puzzle. After such a dick move i would annoy the DM with searching for some hidden made-up monsters for hours at every puzzle before i quit and never look back to such a session. If i want to be railroaded that hard, i watch a movie or read a book.
@travisbishop782
11 ай бұрын
@@delqyrus2619the OP just said they got frustrated because their players found a solution to all the prep work they did. Their players got to a place were they weren't expecting them to get to yet, so they had to scamble for something the players can encounter. They never said they never let the players not do it. You can be both proud of your players and frustrated that you wasted all that time, at the same time. You, however, seems to be the type of player the ends up as a story in r/rpghorrorstories.
@coooldude245
11 ай бұрын
I wouldn't say this is bad gming, that's kind of unfair. Not only should the game be fun for both parties, the gm puts in a lot of effort and work and most of the time their planned material is what they are looking forward to. They also still gave them the ability to bypass a good deal of the tower, which is a just reward for being unique and thinking outside the box, or using spells in fun ways. They could have been a jerk gm and say "oh well the tower has anti magic but only on the outside and grease on the walls and it's perfectly solid and as strong as steel so if you try to use anything to climb it, it can't pierce it." But no, they gave the players a reward, even at the cost of losing out on what they wanted. Hell they didn't even need a monster and could say a storm that's blowing wind hard enough to force the levitate forces them into a window. OR could have said it pushes them away from the tower, could even make it a luck based roll, and now they might risk fall damage. Which are things i have done at my table before and my players enjoyed.
@delqyrus2619
11 ай бұрын
@@coooldude245 It is basically the job of the DM to think about ways the players can interact with the game. If the players find a way to skip some parts of the story, the DM didn't do his job right. I am DMing for a group which prides itself for trying to derail my campaigns. If they are successful i sometimes had to end a session early, what is sad, but completely my fault. If they try some action i am not prepared for, which destroys my campaign i have to think about the stuff i did wrong and find a way to reorder my campaign so it still makes sense and doesn't force the player to do whatever i want. That's the point on DMing. Everything else is just storytelling. So the problem isn't that there is a monster. The problem is, if the monster appears out of nowhere. The players put a lot of effort into thinking about ways to play your game too. If you tell them "there is the tower and no monster/wall/storm/whatever in sight" and they work hard on a way to fly up there, maybe waste some spellslots and... "Oh, suddenly there is a monster which btw. will kill you if you try that.". So you wasted the time of your players - which also put a lot of effort into it and didn't made any mistake. You punish them for your mistake. Also: Where is the line? Are you allowed to snap some monsters/walls/storms/whatever into existence if they skip your whole story? Half of the story? A single puzzle? Maybe if they attack a monster not in exactly the way you intended them to do so? Maybe if they don't ask the right question to some NPC? Or they simply use a single word that you haven't scripted? DnD is about players taking their own descisions. But they can't take qualified descisions if you simply change the rules to your liking just because you haven't thought about how this might impact your campaign. So yes, there actually is no problem with a monster hindering the player to do something. I mean: That's basically the whole point of monsters in these games. But it has to be there in the first place. Otherwise the players have to consider a monster snapping into existence at every action. I don't see how this can be fun. And yes, it is about both sides having fun. But if you want to tell a story where players do exactly what you have planned, DMing isn't what you want to do - you might want to write a book or sit down at a campfire and tell a story. But - at least in my opinion - this is not what DnD is about.
@elisewhite77
11 ай бұрын
@@delqyrus2619 I get what you're saying. Players thinking outside of the boss is my favorite part of DM'ing. I once had to make a whole new dungeon on the fly, because my players jumped into someone's mind. I had not seen that coming. LOL To be fair, I phrased my original comment pretty badly, because I was trying to give a small snippet of my experience without drowning in unnecessary detail and I didn't put that much thought into my first comment. I also missed a word in this sentence: "I had to quickly create a monster to force them inside the tower." I didn't create a monster. I created a monster encounter. Also, "force" was probably the wrong word to use. Technically, the players had the option to fight the monster instead of going into the tower. However, they chose not to, because I had previously foreshadowed how the boss of the tower would fly around on the outside of the tower. Thus, the monster was the boss. When they first entered the city, I wanted to give them a sneak peek at the boss. It was a giant sentient swarm flying around the top of the tower, like a cloud of death. (Trust me, it was cool.) So it wasn't completely unexpected that they would run into the boss like that. I just was not expecting them to do that and did not have a random encounter with the boss prepared. I did have a short monologue the boss was going to say and some banter, but that didn't really fit with a random encounter and I threw it out the window since it was not necessary after they had already met the boss. Anyway, with all the side quests they did, they could have beaten the boss and skipped the whole dungeon, if they wanted, but the boss had field advantage and the team was limited in movement since someone had to spent their turn maintaining the levitate spell. I did reward them for this and me being salty about it was supposed to be a joke. My players tease me with this every time they approach a dungeon. So, I hope that does clear up the misunderstanding.
@rantdomYT
10 ай бұрын
"You will loose control over the situation as soon as you stop speaking" -(My DM)
@strikermodel
11 ай бұрын
I feel for him lol. "oh yeah, I got the whole session planned out" *player avoids the problem entirely* "I didn't have anything planned after that, see you guys next week"
@eddiemurphy5566
11 ай бұрын
"It say Pass without a trace" has a verbal component. (wonders if it has somatic or material components) "Bllrrrbbble" 🤣🤣🤣
@Javin12345
11 ай бұрын
I once played in a campaign where a weeks worth of planning got thrown out because we found the bbeg during an elevator ride with a casting of detect magic. It was truly a time.
@MrJustonemorevoice
Ай бұрын
"It has a verbal component" *BLARGLEBLARGLEBLAARRRGGG!*
@Bucket0fLynx
11 ай бұрын
I did that to my dm once… I ended up skipping everything they had planned for the session by accident. They were not impressed
@Taolan8472
11 ай бұрын
I did it to myself as a DM. Party was going into a vampire den, accompanying a vampire hunter NPC who had hired them. The NPC, who I was controlling, managed to crit the master of the den. Twice. With a special anti-vampire weapon of my own design. Severely wounding the master vampire so that they could be finished off with relative ease two turns into combat. The plan was for the physically frail 'hunter' to go down early in the fight, but the dice said NO.
@Bucket0fLynx
11 ай бұрын
@@Taolan8472 we really live to the whim of the dice huh. Also that’s really funny lol
@jordanhunter3375
11 ай бұрын
@@Taolan8472Who did you hire, Jamie Lee Curtis?
@Schilani
11 ай бұрын
Because of stuff like that I have so much random shit in my back pocket. And because my mouth has a mind of its own I somehow said "You can ignore the dungeon, but be prepared for it to follow you." And now I just HAVE to put a moving dungeon somewhere. I mean, just imagine the party seeing the dungeon, going nope, and two days later and 30 miles further they find that dungeon again. And it keeps happening!
@scullstationstudio8511
11 ай бұрын
I did that to my dm because he was planning a ambush but I decided to pet the the creature which deactivated The ambush entirely and I got a new pet out of it
@conspiracypanda1200
11 ай бұрын
I once had two groups fighting each other at a pulley-trolley system to enter a city. I wanted the players to side with one group or the other and use those new allies as a way to enter the city or retreat safely, but siding with one group would cause the other group's leader to spawn as a miniboss. Instead, the players threw a baby as a distraction, and proceeded to fight absolutely no one as they booked it for the trolley.
@malfusgaming1497
11 ай бұрын
The rules of creating a campaign 1) create a basic story 2) create some fight scenes 3) create some epic plot twist your players will never see coming 4) prep your players with some backstory and lore 5) burn all of your dm sheets in a garbage can cause none of it matters to your players and they will do everything they can get away with I once had my BBEG animate a tavern “Monster House” style...AND MY BARD F***ING MARRIED IT AND HAD LITTLE COTTAGES
@courier6640
7 ай бұрын
H... I know it's a Bard, but, HOW DO YOU *F*CK* A *HOUSE?!*
@bankruptcy3890
7 ай бұрын
If theres a hole theres a goal@@courier6640
@pinkbiohazardmercurialcoll7133
7 ай бұрын
Someone hasn't read Love and Hex two houses had a baby there, it was raised by the monk to be a dojo...
@foxthefox1594
5 ай бұрын
@@courier6640ok so theres this gta 5 rp character called James Randal..
@courier6640
5 ай бұрын
@@foxthefox1594 STOP. I have heard enough.
@PostedPaladin
5 ай бұрын
NEVER expect your players to do something, always have the brute force plan, the stealth plan, and the strategic plan ready for all situations.
@fishbo_uses_soap
11 ай бұрын
Mudd as dinosaur is so cute. I want a plushie now.
@avouleance
7 ай бұрын
Yes cute but not dinosaur
@azuredragonofnether5433
3 ай бұрын
@@avouleance Look... It's called Plesiosaurus, so misnomers are inevitable.
@mikkelnpetersen
11 ай бұрын
*NEVER* underestimate the players ability to f*ck up your plan.
@manofdarkness5483
11 ай бұрын
Leave it to a party to find a very funny way to avoid a encounter
@sirBrouwer
11 ай бұрын
As long as it's not a door.
@troybaxter
9 ай бұрын
@@sirBrouwerand if they find a door, they will do everything in their power to go around it
@derpnip
11 ай бұрын
"All right i'm going to swim under the blockade with everyone on my back" Dm: "are you sure?" "yes" "well everyone drowns"
@Taolan8472
11 ай бұрын
The more effort you put into planning out a big setpiece encounter, the more likely the players are to completely DINOSAURING bypass it.
@nyaboron9239
3 ай бұрын
Calls him out on the verbal component but not on the -hes probably never seen that dinosaur- component
@TheRealNormanBates
11 ай бұрын
Oh my God… this is so true. I was playing D&D in the 80’s with my older brother and his friends, and I had a ninja character. While our camp was sleeping, the DM had my character awaken and notice someone was stealing food from the camp. I followed him into a large town, where down the alley was a halfling sized tunnel. I started down the tunnel… then thought, “I didn’t leave a note to let the party know where I was.. besides, what if something bad happened to me? They’d never know.” So I turned around and went back to camp. When it was time to go home, Russell (the DM) pulled me aside and said “I developed an _entire mission_ for your character.. and you just walked away.” I didn’t say anything because I didn’t know how to react, but later I thought “then why didn’t you just have my character kidnapped?” Sometimes you have to force the issue or create a clever way to get your characters to do what you want.
@Chaos706
5 ай бұрын
They could have said “how will the others breathe?” It’s not unreasonable given the 300 foot distance, and could still let you use your fight
@charltonsticher3461
11 ай бұрын
Welcome to D&D, where the DM plans something awesome and difficult for the players and the players go, "I'M A DO A THING!!" and you sit there and weep. 😅
@vasudeanguy8523
8 ай бұрын
I still remember "The Trebuchet Incident" from a campaign I was in. The DM needed a few minutes and a drink. Well that and killing the undead bride in Curse of Strahd because my character was a Grave Cleric of Kelemvor. DM should have seen that coming.
@Never_heart
11 ай бұрын
When you give the players options A B and C, they will always choose option triangle
@alyson2103
11 ай бұрын
After our final boss battle, I was looting these tombs. Inside a sarcophagus was a mummy. My DM asked if I wanted to do anything before touching it, so I cast Gentle Repose, which prevents things from becoming undead. He slammed the monster manual closed, and I got to loot a mummy lord and get awesome stuff, lmao.
@Weretyu7777
3 ай бұрын
My friends have done things like this more than once in my brother's campaigns. He doesn't get mad that we foiled his plans, just a little sad that he didn't get to show off the well crafted monsters he made.
@Krensharpaw
11 ай бұрын
This is when the DM throws papers up in the air and is like... "NO THAT’S FINE, I DIDN'T SPEND WEEKS PLANNING THIS. BUT I DIDN'T EXPECT DINOSAUR!!!!11!!1!" LOL
@sonicmaster047
5 ай бұрын
The mark of a true dm is seeing how the players change the story and adapting to it well.
@JF-um3wz
11 ай бұрын
This is the second time I’ve seen a naval battle get ruined and bypassed on a TTRPG show.
@kjj26k
11 ай бұрын
If I had a nickel...
@sethb3090
3 ай бұрын
I ended up in a naval battle once, playing an artillerist lizardfolk. Jumped in the water and crippled two ships from below before we closed with one of them and started a boarding action.
@Alex-tx7ih
9 ай бұрын
That reaction when it turns out he didn't even roll well; he's just a sneaky bastard.
@Bllue
11 ай бұрын
Honestly as a DM i would secretly be glad not to have to roll combat 😂
@shadowwalker8296
5 ай бұрын
You know, he's been wanting to do that dinosaur thing the whole time? And you. Absolutely absolutely fell for it.
@The_errror
11 ай бұрын
RIP 5 hours of this mans life planning that battle just for someone to go RAR underneath
@malrulk3736
7 ай бұрын
Without even seeing his face you can tell how much of his power he's using not to flip that table over
@GuitarRocker2008
11 ай бұрын
My group wasted a whole encounter with a Beastmaster and it’s pet tonight by have one party member hold down the Beastmaster whilst the rest of the party tried to tempt the pet into joining the party.
@enderdragoncrafter2412
3 ай бұрын
our DM had a plan for us to save an entire city from demons. but then one of us who owned the bar was a little evil plant and the next then you know, all our characters were evil and we just started working for the demons. our DM was so mad that he had to throw out the entire plan and just make stuff on the go.
@BlackDawnYaoiLover
11 ай бұрын
I think my design professor's words of advice ring true here "don't fall in love with your art" because clients will probably want changes or you'll have to erase something as you build up your drawing. Or because your players will completely circumvent your carefully planned out naval battle
@WolfWarriorLive
11 ай бұрын
I am so for water based wild shapes being able to fill the verbal components of spells while underwater, that’s incredible and so niche that I’m sure the druid would have a field day anytime they went even remotely close to water
@newyorkedit0r
5 ай бұрын
No one talking about how cute the dinosaur is
@matthewmcfarland3102
11 ай бұрын
To be fair, if my players have fun going around my idea, that's still fun.
@pokeplazagamer
5 ай бұрын
"i can turn into a water dinosaur. Let's see where this goes."
@ceilinh6004
11 ай бұрын
Gotta love out of the box play. Unless you're a DM. 😂
@ShortSkullDog
4 ай бұрын
My Dnd character's backstory was basically 'They decided to leave their home once they were old enough to explore, came across a group of bards, liked what they were doing enough to aso if they could be a bard. And also they're a huge history/myth nerd.'
@jdhilario
11 ай бұрын
I love how annoyed the dm was😂
@GGg-cl3zg
11 ай бұрын
One of the first things you learn as a dm is never to plan things out too much
@medical-cyanide1526
11 ай бұрын
I accidentally ruined two starting towns. First one I blame myself but was and wasn’t my fault. My Kobold cleric got paranoid and didn’t want to check out a basement by themselves (IE the DM was asking questions that wigged me out) so started to back out when our warforgged party member offered to come along. But the way to the basement was a old wooden ladder. The ladder broke. Then the wooden floor beneath it broke. Ending up with our party member landing in a giant ant nest, squishing several larva by accident. We somehow got him out. Don’t remember how. Blocked off the basement and eventually ran for the hills cause we weren’t gonna survive that. Second town was a town of shapeshifters I think. Or they stole faces. Don’t remember which. We were at a execution with the town sherif and the party wasn’t 100% sure the criminal deserved it so I decided “know what, I’m gonna pray for guidance”…. A little tidbit is due to a misunderstanding between me and the DM my kobold cleric actually isn’t a follower of any of the real gods of this realm. So my prayer got answered by a random god… and I rolled a nat 20. Actually summoning them… said god apparently didn’t like this town for some reason I’ve partially forgotten. Stalt is glorious and I feel so bad for our DM.
@Jebudu-cm9id
9 ай бұрын
As dm of many years i felt that on a emotional level
@voiceactorchimera3171
11 ай бұрын
DM: 23? How did you get 23? Druid: 9 + 4+10! Smart ass joke XD
@Its_me_Stolas
5 ай бұрын
Fairly rare instance of players working smarter not harder, using their brain and avoiding the conflict
@FireBulletrc
11 ай бұрын
Blurble gurble everyone!!
@desireespears5076
9 күн бұрын
As a DM I feel this so hard... Had a whole fight with surprise monsters, environmental issues and one player just charms the monster they were looking for and walked it back to town :
@user-biscut
11 ай бұрын
At least he can save the pirate battle for a one-shot campaign?
@geraldballinger6428
2 ай бұрын
that's why you always give them plot convenient submarines
@kjj26k
11 ай бұрын
Naval combat in DnD and getting canceled out by magical shenanigans. Name a more iconic duo.
@kinsan89
11 ай бұрын
As a DM, I'm honestly happy when players find cheeky bypasses. It means they're engrossed in the game enough to think outside the box rather than "just being here and playing along"
@tmoney1750
11 ай бұрын
This is the biggest "suck it" to Gustavo/Micha and it was glorious!
@skeleton_craftGaming
10 ай бұрын
The" How did you get a 23" Rochester [was just?] amazing!
@Assassin272
11 ай бұрын
The amount of times players have skipped a ship battle in DnD history is an anomaly to behold
@Ch1l1C0nCarnag3
2 ай бұрын
Surprised he didn't hit them with the good ol' "Okay, you can breath underwater, but your friends can't" move.
@WonkyClownRibs
11 ай бұрын
not a dinosaur, it’s a prehistoric aquatic reptile
@avouleance
7 ай бұрын
Thank you. I felt so alone reading these comments.
@m1sty033
7 ай бұрын
correct
@WonkyClownRibs
7 ай бұрын
prehistoric creature nerds unite!
@PhoenixPonyPhoenixOwl
11 ай бұрын
This happened to my dad once. He had this whole space adventure planned out and his party just shoved a nuke through the portal into the danger zone.
@Peace-bz5bu
11 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂 that was awesome we need more of Gus being defeated 😂😂😂😂😂
@blazerfox22
7 ай бұрын
I love that he’s like “you planned for dinosaurs right?”
@ProfLakitax
11 ай бұрын
When you plan out a very complicated and challenging boss fight but your players find a way to cheese / Skip it
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