12 reasons for your D&D character to stick with their party 

An "eugh, mooom, stop embarrassing me!" cleric-god relationship could be so good

Princess Celestia and Twilight Sparkle: go make some friends. TS: but mom!

@@HHSDaily In some alternate time-line she does just that with her skill in alchemy 😛

theres actually a homebrew patron thats pretty popular thats literally just your mom.

OMG I LOVE THIS LOL

Thanks to Matt Mercer, I now imagine all firbolgs have backwoods Canadian accents ❤️

My tiger-folk barbarian was basically this 😄 he liked his new friends and didn't want to see them get hurt. He also understood that the soul muncher was hurting people and someone had asked him to help find it in the jungle.

Pixie and Brutus

@@thomass2505 Yes

Softboi + baby = cute and good

Omg I practically spawned a second personality that way!

Help.

"I have a 20 in charisma - but only when no one is directly looking at me."

@@Keyce0013 My curse.

Yessssssss *PURR*

Obviously the cat IS the host. The human is just working at the cat's place.

@@inventivitygames4229 Glad you hoomans know your place.

The cat usually wants just as little to do with me as everyone else at social events.

@@zac9933 have you tried sitting on the floor and smearing catnip and fish oil on your hands?

Is it CR reference? :D

"That rage..."

I agree, why be a bat when you could have the owl-sight of a bear?

Hoot Growl!

But if you cannot be an Owlbear, be Batman

It could be a great way to get other players to open up about their characters, by asking them open questions about their actions and motivations. Anne the Ropologist [running down the road], "So, Grakk... [puff puff]... why, exactly, did you... [phew]... feel it necessary... [gasp]... to kill that... [pant]... town guard?"

I have a party member who joined trying to record The Last Shield's adventures after we saved a city and became influential figures. The rest of the party collectively stood up and decided we needed to protect our deaf nerd child lest he join an evil cult for knowledge.

In some cases, participant observation includes banishing demon lords back to the abyss.

There’s a D&D web series based on this concept now called, “the party.”

That's always a fun one! One of the party members in the campaign I'm in right now is a Tabaxi bard who loves stories and is trying to become an author, so she's tagging along with the party to write down all the crazy stuff they encounter in order to retell it later.

Also, it's a great way to remember what happened in previous sessions, so the DM and the other players can pick it where they left it.

Especially if there a paladin or barbarian as they tend to be seen Stealing hose to star with

In the game Pathfinder: Kingmaker you get your first party member incredibly soon because she's a gnome bard that singled you out as someone to write a great story about haha

My favourite bard was a newspaper reporter. Was actually my second character after the first died, the party was already established so that was a bonus.

I find the easiest way for me is to imagine your D&D game is actually a TV show/movie. Players are actually actors, the DM is really the director, and everyone involved is a producer. What you're trying to accomplish is creating a show that everyone at the table wants to watch. That's your role/motivation for being in the party/cast. Once you're completely outside of the problem in your headspace, coming up with reasons to stick together is pretty easy. Just pick something amusing that gets you to the next scene, and let the characters more or less build themselves. I also encourage lots of out of character conversation with the whole table as equals about the direction of the game. Since well I'm the director, seems to make things a heck of a lot easier. I find this relationship works for the same reason it works trying to make a TV show or a movie. What the actor knows about the character and what the director knows about the character are two different things. I love it when my players ask me what their motivation should be. Players getting lost in the forest is normal, all they can see are the trees. The DM is there to provide a bigger perspective just like a director, so the player/actors can perform better. I've recently been watching Lego Masters, and Will Arnett's direction is absolutely masterful. That's what I try to emulate at my table. Not railroading but motivating. It's my job to use my perspective to help my players create memorable characters and memorable moments. Because I know, what my players don't know, that their characters know. For example I very often use the line "As a professional you recognize X for Y" when I think their character would make a deduction that the player didn't. Okay this post went on for a lot longer than I intended it to.

Can relate. The most important part is what Ginny said at the end: It's just a character after all. If you are suspending disbelieve at pretty much every roll of the dice why would you insist on realism on character development when it's bound to screw the party?

The question, "why would your character go adventuring with your party" should be the very first thing you base them on. There should be no such thing as a character designed who can't answer that, because the entire character should start with the answer to that question. If you answer that question about them first thing and then build from there, you should never have that problem. That said, a campaign can change over time and things can come up that change that question. To use Sam Riegel again, his character Scanlan had an easy answer to that question ("it's fun!"), right up until Matt confronted him with a previously unknown daughter. So it's a question you may need to revisit down the road.

How much dose your dm know about your goals? And what are they?

my character recently burned the bridge with his assassin guild contact (middle fingers to him and the guild) via a little monologue. Pretty much announcing via unseen(to the party) cinematic of why he's staying, even when they call him out for hoarding money general gist was "the world is insanely dangerous, but ive survived with my party and I enjoy the shenanigans we share"

That's so cute!! Mom friend: the D&D class!!

I love the idea of a "party mom!" That's a dynamic we don't often see.

@@elbruces I've always been the mom friend, so I figured why not play a litteral mom 😜 It also gave me a chance to test out the Community domain for clerics. The channel divinity basically lets me make baked goods that act as healing potions and cure the frightened or poisoned condition 😊.

@@Chelsey.A.L I love this character idea, and I hope you and your group have lots of fun with it! When I was playing my kid tabaxi, Wunsek, we also had a party mom and it was a wonderful experience. She was super sweet, even when my roguish little cat's shenanigans gave her a headache.

@@wunsekhobbies4765 funny you should say that, the other adventurer that my character is looking out for in particular also happens to be a rogue.

That’s so wholesome 🥺

Me two! My lizardfolk specifically wants to bring a dragon back to their home and heard the party is looking for the dragon too. They’re also learning about “meatfolk” society along the way.

this is me with my Dragonborn Fighter, my hometown got attacked by cultists so I’m out looking to learn about the world and why they attacked my dwarf village

So, this is a problem of the campaign expectation set by you and your dm. If you willingly decided to play a character that would be infamous and wanted and the complain about it even though you KNEW you would be hunted by A LOT of people it's your problem and decision. However even then there should be solutions. Your party should not be people that would all kill you if you were not sticking with them, you are supposed to make new friends and companions and protect each other. Also, there should have been a session 0 where you and the assassin would have agreed that he would not take a contract against you and by 95% execute you, like ok, a storyline where he deviates from that seems more interesting. Guys, COMMUNICATION BEFORE CAMPAIIIIGNS

@@evangelosalexiou3605 I don't think op was complaining

That sounds really fun. Makes me think of the Dread Pirate Roberts in the Princess Bride. "Goodnight Welsey, I'll most likely kill you in the morning." I think the opportunities for role-playing here are endless. Your characters can have a silly rivalry, that is mutually beneficial, and then if ever the day comes where they "have" to kill you now, playing out the scene where they realize they can't bring themselves to do it, because youve become friends, could be really moving. And then you could plot together, how to get the assassin out of their contract, how to get the bounty off your head, ect.

@@evangelosalexiou3605 I think you missed the point.

sry guys, you are right, I misread the whole situation, sry op

Contagious disease that compels you to promote a product?? Can't tell if that's the plot of a Black Mirror episode, or a great idea for my next sponsorship segment...

@@GinnyDi Your sponsorship segments are among the few I actually watch. They're just so creative, fun, and engaging! They make me want to learn more about the product because I'm laughing.

@@irregularassassin6380 Her and critical role are the ones I watch mainly

I am unfamiliar with the batman meme, can you fill me in?

@@MegaFireFoot There was a recent "controversy" when it was revealed that DC nixed part of a Harley Quinn comic that implied Batman going down on Catwoman with the initial reasoning that "Batman wouldn't do that" before later relenting that it's because it would make it awkward to sell toys.

Look for Missasinfonia... thats advertising xD

I love Ginny’s, but Ryan George’s Adstronaut gets me every time

I am also a fan of the ad segments in Mann Shorts - the channel where Ginny recently guest starred!

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Sam reigel

I love this!! Especially the idea of an old married couple going out adventuring, that's the BEST

In Curse of Strahd... so um... what are you going to do when they die? I mean there is a chance that you won't have to answer this. It is certainly conceivable that you will die first.

@@JeremyMacDonald1973 that's part of the fun I guess!

Maybe Francis teams up with Pink Ginny Dice?

Wazzat?? Francis is perfect where she is: Wanting to be developed by her creator, only to be used again and again as a marketing ploy. Change that and you no longer even have "Francis."

That's actually epic. Sounds sort of like Yusuke in Persona 5, kinda own tempo artist type who's always wanting his friends to model for him

Pact of the Tome can take care of that problem.

omg my lil goblin artificer is basically this but cowboys. they left home and stumbled across the party while they were on their way to a mission briefing, decided it looked interesting, and just tagged along XD they idolize spaghetti western films so now they would rather the party be their "posse" than just them being a lone wanderer.

JRWI is that you??

That’s it exactly! Do what your character would do, but don’t make a character who would do things that ruin the fun for others at the table.

Rival relationships between PCs, of course when the actual players are agreeable about it, is the most interesting and fun kind of relationships (saying this as a DM)

Minimum?

As long as you don't do what this Kender PC I played with did--roll to steal a carriage in front of everyone, roll animal handling, and then proceed on to the next town without any other party members or any inclination of waiting for the party... I did not like playing with that guy. Or Kender, at this point.

@@corinnebloom7005 Yes. minimum. Those twin crowns came with a lich's mind. Which was purged by Lady Phaulkon (waterdeep dragon heist), and is now my patron (rogue warlock is fun!). Additionally, I'm the one with the stone of galorr (which is a sentient artifact). And ... we killed xanathar, and I ended up with it's ring of mind shielding. Also, since I'm the rogue and therefore scout of the party, ... I tend to be the one that gets telepathied .... At this point, my character is not comfortable without several voices. It's too quiet otherwise.

@@elfdragon1227 I never. I don't steal from other players or from loot, PERIOD. Even if they have stuff I really want. I've been on the receiving end of this often enough and never want to do that to others. And while I may split the party, I'm never far from them, nor without a way to covertly communicate with them, and I EXPLICITLY always keep them in the loop, in game. Solo-ing is fine, but it's a group game. (and in game, strength in numbers, or they can bust in to save my ass).

@@drashna Ah, I didn't mean the Kender stole from the party. He just stole a carriage in front of a ton of witnesses. But yeah, it was incredibly frustrating because I was playing remotely from a different state from everyone else and that kind of thing made me feel like I was wasting my time.

Thats a really good idea

I'd say the most associated is Superman with Lois. Batman's relationships have always been too unstable.

@@fjkly I think he's referring to a crimefighting partner rather than a romantic interest - ie all the Robins Batman has adopted. He's probably the archetypal superhero-with-sidekick.

@@StarkSkies That makes sense. I was for some reason convinced they meant romantic partner.

@@fjkly You don't associate Batman with Robin?

@@andrewrawlings5220 I do, but I thought you meant a romantic partner, rather than a crime fighting partner. I definitely agree with Robin though.

Where do I sign!? #TeamFrancis Although... I like the idea of Francis being a recurring character, getting more and more belligerent, demanding a POV video, and eventually becoming the Ginny-verse Big Bad.

#TeamFrancis

As a Cartographer by college training and irl when I worked I feel Francis’ pain. Besides, that is avpetition I could/would sign!

I feel like a 300gp diamond just isn't a huge deal. For a commoner, that's like 5-10 years or so of paycheck but for an adventurer? That seems like level 3 expected gold. Idk, whatever works but still.

Hahahaha.....I know lot's of IRL peeps like that!!🤣

@@Karina-Loves-Andreas don't call me out like this!

A game I am in we had a wizard who unless actively engaged by a monster would not lift a finger to help then in a big fight they abandon us at the start of a fight and ran to save themselves and escape with the loot. the group had to jump thou some real hoops to justified letting the character stay with the group. the Dm sent them a message that if they kept playing this way their was no reason the party would let the character stay with them.

I played in a superhero campaign once, very briefly, where the first session was basically each character getting recruited by this government agency for a team. The last player we recruited actively refused to go with us, and started fighting us when we tried to convince her. So, we knocked her out and brought her back to the base to try to reason with her in a more controlled/less public environment. Upon awakening, the character again fought us, refused to work with us, and ran away because her character "would never be able to trust you." Finally, in exasperation, we asked her to make a new character. The player was the GM's wife, which is why this problem was squarely on the shoulders of the other players to deal with

Actually, I once played a pre-created character in a Monster of the Week adventure. It was a sentient apocalypse engine. We'd talked the final big bad out of the fight, but some of our characters got wounded in the process. As the party muscle, I begged the party to give me any reason not to let me pick up a heavily injured character on the verge of death with multiple back trauma to "help" him as that is what my character would do (and what would a sentient apocalypse engine know about human physiology?). But no... We had a fey creature, a pirate from the 18th C, both as clueless as me. I killed* the character. Yes, it was my interpretation, of the character, but I still tried dammit... * character was resurrected as a playable cyborg, everyone thought it was hilarious and it ended well, but honestly!

"My character wouldn't be able to articulate this either"

Nah this is a fine size. I wrote too much a couple videos back. About my Kobolds backstory, I realized about halfway through and stopped adding details.

google "heroes don't do that", it's the dumbest thing I've heard in a while.

That's what I was wondering! What's going on?

Its dc cannon that batman doesn't do oral

Comic Drake made a video about it

@@arandomqueerfanpeep7655 it really isn't. There's a literal scene in one of his canon comics where he goes down on Catwoman,,

Maybe as her own company!

That's cute

My character was a beast master ranger who had been adopted by a wolf pack...only for a fire to burn his hunting grounds to ash. He and his dire wolf were the only survivors. And the two ran into the party and became part of their "pack"...too bad a beholder dusted the dire wolf later on.

Not sure about that, it is acceptable in a lot of times, but not when it hurts the enjoyment of the other players (too much if you have players at the table that only want to play the 'best' way and try to control other players' actions, then you can sometimes piss that their enjoyment when it hurts yours too much, but the rule should always be, talk with each other of course)

he keeps trying to tell people he's an antisocial loner, that's where

@@Neutral_Tired Depends on the writer.

You missed the point. It's more of a Justice League reference, to the fact that Batman prefers to work alone instead of with other heroes (Superman, Flash, etc.). He's even refused Nightwing's team-up offers on multiple occasions,,

please, explain batman to me more, it's definitely the most important part of this video about Dungeons & Dragons