Notably, Gus didn’t make her roll a check for the shell, which tells me they cost less than 500. She didn’t need to persuade the shopkeeper to accept less for it. She was paying over the asking price.
Shopkeep just enchanted suspenders to deal bludgeoning damage on the wearer and promises to give them whatever useless junk they want, so long as they keep bludgeoning themselves to death
See, that's what I thought the twist could be. The party gets too excited fishing for discounts and that all use the suspenders until they're all unconscious, then they wake up with the shopkeep, all the gold they spent, and all the other items they bought now gone. He does let them keep the suspenders, though.
@@Shalakor they only get to keep the suspenders because they are bloody from the party snapping them so much. Total Party Kill with the main damage dealer being the suspenders and an assist from a random animal that sneezed on them.
A friend of a friend used touch of idiocy, a spell from 3.5 that temporarily reduced the intellect of the target by 1d6. He then convinced the merchant, who had an int of 4 or something at this point, that his entire stock was worth about 10 silver.
@@Bllue She did, I believe it *might* have been in one of the later episodes where this item was used but on at least a handful of occasions she did actually snap her bra straps.
I remember a scene from a webcomic where the protagonist is offered a choice between a slightly-cursed invisibility cloak or some gold as payment for helping a shopkeeper. She asks if she can try it on, and the merchant starts to reply that letting the customer try on the invisibility cloak is the first thing they learn NOT to do in Merchant School... but then realizes that the work is already done, sighs, and says that in this SPECIFIC scenario if the protagonist doesn't reappear she can just assume that she silently accepted the cloak as payment. 😂
@@thewholesomecultist6702 it's a great story about somebody who is trying to turn her life around, relapsing, then picking herself up and trying again.
My favorite part was that the suspenders give the user a southern drawl. When she tried convincing her team members to give bart the things they just haggled for, i had to stop working for a minute 😂
Shop keep just straight lying to sell the (non-magical) suspenders that are too small to sell to anyone, hence why they hurt when they snap! and other items he couldn't sell!
This except the shopkeeper doesn’t really sell magical items and is just scamming adventurers, having elaborate schemes to make the items FEEL magical, such as being easily “convinced” after the adventurer tries the magic suspenders
Similar energy to Taako buying that thing that you can trade for someone's most valuable item on successful persuasion and then immediately turning around and trading it back to Garfield for the Raging Flaming Poisoning Sword of Doom
Plot twist: the sword is cursed, and it does all of the above to anyone who actually tries to use it as a weapon. Nah, no refunds. It was already a big discount.
Micah should get Barbara a customized bra for Christmas so she can keep freaking out the guys. Like, get a bra with padding underneath the straps and super elastic brastraps so she can make it look super painful. I can just picture their horrified faces.
I have a great mental image of Bart snapping the suspenders once too often and just fainting mid sentence due to incapacitation. *snap!* "How's about you part with this wand here for...hey, why is the floor getting closer?" (Falls face first onto the floor)
The real plot twist would be the revelation that everyone before had tried the very same thing until they got KO'd by the damage from the suspenders and ended up getting looted by the shop keep.
In my last session we did something similar. I, an orc, and my friend, a short tiefling, were trying to buy some magic rings, including one of Feather Falling. Except, the line was insane. Like hundreds of people. Soooooo, I gave the Feather Falling ring to my friend and chucked her to the start of the line. I made the strength check, she made the stealth check, and she slipped into the 5th spot like nothing.
I have a story about a magic item: When I started in D&D, one of the players in the campaign I was invited into was a massive misogynist. Me and my (female) roommate were invited to play by the DM. And this player had no warning signs prior to us joining, or the DM would have kicked him out already. Anyways, my roommate makes her PC, so do I, and off we go. It quickly becomes obvious that Problem Player is targeting my roommate and her PC: Any plan she makes is shot down almost before she finishes talking. He always trying to do things like steal her share of the gold or items. In two separate towns, he makes false reports about her being a murderer or bandit to the authorities. He was always talking down to her ICly and OOCly. His PC would hit on her, keep making lewd comments about her character's body, and making comments about how she should be back at camp while 'the men' are fighting. His excuse was 'This is how women would be treated in this time period'. Ignoring the DM saying 'That's not how they're treated IN MY CAMPIGN WORLD!' DM and the other players are floored; They've known Problem Player for about 4 years, and he's NEVER acted like this before! It finally comes to a head when the DM tries to ferret out what's wrong, and Problem Player gets angrier and angrier over the questions before screaming that 'Girls don't play D&D' and making fun of my roommate's weight (She was the daughter of two hefty parents, who each also had hefty parents, so she was never going to be skinny. She was fit and active.). He gets kicked from the group, but keeps showing up. It's my apartment that we play in, so I'm prepared to call the cops when DM gets an idea for a magic item to make him leave and never come back. Roommate needed to work the next months of sessions, so we invited Problem Player back, told him we kicked Roommate, and were inviting him back, etc. Really stroked his ego. DM gave him the Belt of Giant Strength +3 he always wanted...With an unlisted curse; Anyone wearing it changes gender, but seems seems to be their own gender to themselves. Suddenly, guys were hitting on Problem Player's PC, making sleezy comments, making decisions for Problem Player's PC, but never outright saying the PC was now a woman. Just treating his PC the same way he treated Roommate's PC. He figured out what was up when he stole the DM's notes at work (They were co-workers, and DM would bring his notes to take to my place after work). He showed up again, screamed that we were all stupid for not sharing his views, and that the group would fall apart without him. It did not. But yeah; the Cursed Belt Of Secret Gender Change was a fun item. The DM used it a few more times for the few years before I moved away, but to more humorous effect instead of malicious.
I currently play a character who is cursed to randomly change genders (I roll a D100 after every long rest). I would love this item to mess even more with my party members 😂 especially the fact it's giant strength
Loved this episode Ah hell I actually just love this podcast. The whole cast and crew have been doing a great job with editing, voice acting. And community stuff.
Bart was basically a god of haggling, using those suspenders he would always find a cheaper price for magic items. And it was part of a running gag that started with barts truth ring that they would use the items on besler
I lived in China for nearly 10 years and how much they haggle depends on the area. In the south west, they take it VERY seriously. The posted price is a starting point and if you haggle well, they'll sell to you at a loss if you play the game well enough. I once bought a cheap knockoff katana for 15 yen (around a buck fifty at the time) The lady had asked 150 yen (like 20 dollars US at the time) which frankly was already a good deal. I didn't have that much so I tried the haggling game. I said 15 expecting her to say something about me trying to ruin her and countering with something like 140. Instead she laughed and said, 'That things been on that shelf for years. Give me the 15.' A little bewildered I forked over the 15 yen and walked out with a decorative sword. I was 13 year old boy with my own sword, I wasn't going to argue. That's how it is sometimes though, it doesn't happen often, but occasionally someone would reward you for taking part in their culture.
Wait so you can actually get free discounts in China? So thats why everything is so cheap in those stores, they bargain with everyone and sell at a fixed price here.
@@rodrigoandorinha9259 Again, this does depend on the area and they do have supermarkets and such where prices are fixed. My info is also 15 years old. You can always ask to bargain, the worst they can do generally is say no.
@@Dud3itsj3ff Yes, they pronounce it yuan, but they call it 'yen' in English. Even on their coins (back when they used those anyway) the English would say 'yen'.
This video right here was probably my very first ever interaction with the stinky dragon podcast and now I am very far in the actual podcast itself and I love it so much
Just make them roll a persuasion check to persuade the merchant that you are not mentally or physically ill, because you keep intentionally hurting yourself. They will get a bonus to that roll instead !
And here I was hoping that either they were offering too much for the items so the shopkeeper was just going along with it, or that he'd bust out his own pair of suspenders :V
This was very entertaining, though i will say i didn’t think taking two shots of warm up was a pet peeve, figured it was normal since my league has always done it, only learned about the 1 shot warm up when I started going to tournaments 2 years ago. Entertaining video keep up the good content Nick!!
Same energy as Juston McElroy from The Adventure Zone (Balance) buying the *The Slicer of T'pire Weir Isles* and immediately swapping it for the *Flaming Poisoning Raging Sword Of Doom*. Excellent content.
It would be really cool if you guys upload all these dnd campaigns to sound cloud so I’d have something to listen while at work you can only listen to your playlist so much
The podcast is awesome. Highly produced, very funny. These animations started getting made because the puppet videos got so popular they greenlit a full series and needed the puppets to make it. Stinky Dragon Adventures comes out next month. These animations are getting equally popular, might get their own series too.
Speciale di halloween apprezzatissimo, saró sempre favorevole allo scouting e vedere le differenze stilistiche tra storia e storia è come miele per le orecchie haha
This reminds me of learning how broken the artificer used to be using the old item creation rules and a bit of off time. You could literally slap on a bunch of negative effects on an item to cut the gold price down, and then have its only positive effect be a buff to whatever skill you needed to make a better magical item on the next loop. My personal favorite was the cursed gloves of magical item use, except my DM didn't allow me to actually make them cursed on purpose so they were just gloves that very specifically would never fit anyone but my dude.
