reminds me of an online comic where the Queen's private guard appeared to be calling her "MUM", but the author posted an explanation that it's pronounced "MA'M"
How one sentence from the cleric completely ruined the campaign "DM your trying to make me feel bad for a guy who's making a construct version of a body pillow"
Do you got any working neuron on your brain? The beholder asked "Who are you?" and the bard answered "your fish's DAD!", but the beholder understood "your fish is DEAD". That last word that destroyed everything.
No no no, see, it's the word "dad" that he's talking about! If he had properly heard "dad" instead of "dead", he'd have more likely gone "Come again?" rather than trying to murder everything. It was the one word in the sentence that was misconstrued, so it was the one word that nearly killed everyone!
To be fair, it would be in character for Xanathar to get "dad" and "dead" mixed up easily in a crowd of people. Made for a humorous story though, so you have my sub.
"I'm your fish's dad!" "Oh ok." The bard became a supportful father of his new fish son and is owned by a very evil beholder. They all lived happily ever after. The end.
We’re actually about to finish Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, and we survived Xanathar last session. I was the only one to get touched by a damaging (death) ray, and survived by one HP. The other ones succeeded in all their saves.
ironically I recently started running Waterdeep: Dragon Heist for my friends and I'm doing gestalt rules, I hope it's not as insane as your party, of course I don't have the same set up with the magic staff and stone
May i suggest a crystal clear gelatinous cube maze with a salt path with a skeleton minotaur chasing them through and a rotting beholder eye damping magic
"oh so someone got creative with Command, or one of them Power Words snowballed?" Goes to show even as a DM it's so easy to underestimate just how wild things can go
Quite frankly Waterdeep Dragon Heist sold me on 5E. I think it's the best prepared and developed module I've seen in the last 45 or more years I've been playing. My opinion only of course. Good video, thanks.
During a mini heist/assassination, my players teamed up with some NPC's to kill a mad merchant mayor. Before the mission began, they made a plan: half the party would distract the mayor, half the party would sneak inside to block off any escape routes, and the NPC's would wait outside until the players were in position. After a long discussion, they decided that the code word to summon their backup would be YEET. Of course, about 2 minutes into the mission, the rogue yelled YEET, having completely forgotten that it was the secret signal... I will always cherish their look of confusion turn to horror as I described their plan falling to pieces. Didn't kill everyone, but it certainly came close!
damnit, I want to watch this, but /my/ group just started waterdeep dragon heist and I don't want to be spoiled XP Our group has grown a lot, and we have quite the eclectic party this time. I'm playing your AID slime race as....basically a pinky slime from terraria who worships the empress of light and was sent to faerun as a test to become queen slime (paladin multiclassing into a homebrew white mage class). My wife is playing an elderly aarakocra artificer with a plague doctor motif, and we also got an lung dragon style dragonborn who's a sorcerer with a katana, a firbolg wizard who's an ex pirate, and a deaf mindflayer rogue who can only communicate telepathically. We only just got to the part where we're restoring the pub, which we've dubbed "ghost fish tavern," with our artificer setting up a clinic upstairs. We've already had several great shenanigans, I could go on for a while but i'm gonna myself before I rant too much XP
I really don't want to be 'that guy', but you said he was paralysed while evading the disintegration rays. When you are paralysed you automatically fail dex saving throws and the disintegration ray requires a dex save to evade it. If there was another way your player was able to dodge the rays while paralyzed i think it would have been nice to explain it, so we might use the trick in our campaigns too. :D
@@kairuw6477 they very specifically said disintegration many times. Idk how you missed it but he even said if one of them hit him he would’ve died. It was disintegration and that means DEX. That said it’s supposed to be randomly determined which beam you use so there’s that too.
That was a fun story.. I wasn't expecting that to be the "word" that almost killed everyone. I just have one question, did the party ever get to smack Kalos silly for stealing the stones?
I remember when I purified the drinks in a tavern in my last session because I thought they were poison but when I purified the the drinks well ... the ale turned into water.
I've decided you're in my top five favorite RU-vidrs.... JP Sears... Rslash, motomadnass....not sure who I'd put in that last spot, but those are the top five in no particular order
Something I quite like about the Pathfinder system in particular is that it gives you tools to create very high level encounters that'll be tough even for the most experienced characters - assuming you don't allow some of the more munchkin insanity, anyway.
This reminds me of when I told my DM that I jumped out the window so I could get stab less by my party member but sadly he didn't hear so DM had him, a rogue to stab me multiple times when I saw him entered the room, attacked me and didn't he do anything even though I told him I jumped out the window three times; he only understood what I said after my second character of the campaign in his first session dies and the campaign at the time had a few sessions before I needed to make a third character that shows in one session then the campaign ends. Almost as bad as the day I lost two characters in one session.
If Blaine only rolled rays such as slow, fear, sleep and charm over and over again, never rolling for death/disintegration/enervation (which actually does damage), then it is plausible to never get killed. although with him being paralyzed, depending on the distance, the beholder could just have hovered over to him and bit him a couple of times (as soon as it hit it would have auto crit, and the rest of the party was obviously fleeing, so they wouldn't be a concern to xanathar)
reminds me of a scene in "order of the stick": one of the main characters, Hayley the Rouge, was fighting a crazy necromancer. the villain says "you're right, you can dodge ANY spell that permits a DEX save. so i researched some spells that use an Attack roll instead. *electric orb.* Hayley: "hey, that's not a Core sp-" BLAM! Hayley gets blasted CLEAR OFF THE PANEL OF THE COMIC!
I tend to make a set of super op twins and try to keep my party under them in terms of power at all times the twins are evil and good respectfully so no matter who they run into there is always someone somewhere to keep them in check (for example preventing mass exctinction from a wish spell by having the twins come stop them)
also i would like to compliment the party players that thought after 3 different traps to actually lit a very conviently positioned canlde in a not suspicios at all basement
I’m in the midst of a Waterdeep playthrough on the second part, it’s pretty fun so far despite the fact I’ve been unconned by teammates 2-3 times so far.
Eeeeeyyyyy your back also my friends haven’t been able to play our dnd campaign in a while cause of lockdown but you said you do it online what platform do you use/recommend
1:06: "get comfortable on that chair toilet or bed your relaxing in" me sitting on a stool: "w-wait, b-but... DOES MY SEAT NOT EXIST?" Falls through the stool because logic
same on the high level struggle. my last session i only "fought" one player. used 5 vampire spawn all boosted by the necromancer wizard boost. 10 animated halberds...the single player won. technically i did kill them but they had a reincarnation boon. and i couldn't stop it because subtle spell teleport.
wanna hear a story of something that happened to me today in a campaign? After figuring out sending the killer to his punishment since we were doing a danganronpa campaign, i immediately asked the dm if i could kill someone since i had an idea on how to hide the murder
I am equal parts excited and terrified when my players get through CoS. I have a world wandering homebrew for levels 10 through ~20 and know the absolute mayhem that the Barbarian Gnoll is capable of with makeshift weapons, she made an "axeshot" out of an old shovel, and fear what she'll do when she gets other feats and high level items. Okay, SHE didn't build the "axeshot". She had the artificer create it. But let's just say she was as much danger to her allies as she was to the werewolves.
