D&D Story: How My Campaign Ended 

I'd say it's an ignoble end, but it just keeps going. Functionally immortal but the results of all his skill checks are essentially halved. Rounding down. Forever.

Well maybe that's what meechel is up to?

It’s because he got SEALed away? 😛🙂😶... ok I’ll let myself out now...

I just finished watching the video but I still managed to misread the name as Markiplier.

Probably had a LOT of good stealth rolls.

Plot armor

Munchkin rules. They ran and weren't pursued.

@@coranbaker6401 It wouldn't even matter, those enemies passive perceptions are high as fuck lmao

To this day surviving anything as level 0 is good although me and my friend, at lv0 as basically commoners managed to beat a young red dragon

Even funnier this year.

It's all coming together now :(

I live in california so I can say with confidence that the whole bit is actually just facts.

I also live in California and can confirm Tdog Johnson's statement that its facts...

@@solar7775 same

WantaplayEN he probs has justification as he was abandpned for 500 years

That is a great idea!

He could team up with gundam robot guy be he was left behind while everyone was sent back to their world

Oh my gosh HE'S STILL THERE?!

That's half the plot of *a game I know* which I won't name for spoilery reasons (Even though it was ps1), only the guy was *petrified* for 10,000 years and his son is the hero who has to beat him up.

No

"Laughs in Witcher"

That's literally me. I ignored the main story in favor of the much more interesting DLC island.

@@Mechagodzilla128 noted story beeliner here. Like, how do you play that game WITHOUT dragonrend?

@@awsomesaucekirby The DLC gives you a shout that let's you ride dragons. I either hit them with that, or summon two minions to help me shoot the dragon out of the sky.

I was thinking the same thing

Also the blacksmith's apprentice for some reason

​@@TheRainbowZip They wanted cheap labor. What is cheaper than children?

Ben? BEN! Turtle Fuckers backstory, Ben? Please?

??? It's always been turtle FRIENDS

He already said "NO!"

Yes. We NEED to know.

you are the "King" of problems and questions not answers...

Ah, I see you are also a man of culture lol.

Great reference.

NO! He's a MONSTER! But I'm sure that if we show him the way, he'll learn that goodness really is good.

Mr. Outlaw seal: but we have sandwiches.

Flash masquerading as Lex Luthor?

"Hey Ben, that's a nice flower, where'd you get it?" "Sit down, let me tell you a tale..."

I thought it was an undertale reference to flowey

@@Gormathius lol

I AGREE

Gotta tell us ben

Tell us

We have to know.

prob saving for 1mil

HA! *seal* of approval

Lawful stupid is the best lawful

*You hear the sound of angry screaming in the distance, it fills you with DETERMINATION

lawful stupid :D Made my day

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

“They force you to stay?!” “No, it’s just really bad traffic.” --- “And the beaches are really cold” way too close to reality

I remember seeing commercials for California... then I talked to people that moved away from California... Those commercials are apparently f***ing lies...

California. I live yhere and its a ok place as long as you have money and arnt 2 feet from a drug deel EVERY F#!&ING DAY!!!!

Beware California, and the dread capital Ell'aye

*places a reassuring hand on your shoulder* I'm so sorry.

factually accurate. I'm way under level for the encounters I've been facing lately.

If my players would say that I'd just smile and let them know how seriously they effed up with that sentence... Welcome to begging for quests like fetching apples. It's not level appropriate? Well, as SOMEONE said "life doesn't care about your level", huh? I'd probably ease up on them after one session, but I think that would be more than enough to teach them not to do meta-meta-gaming :)

@@Sparrow_Bloodhunter You have to grind your waybup. Go killing rats in the forest or pick mushrooms

@@mabus4910 but rats are so cute, also I don't have to go to the forest to find them, they show up in my kitchen late at night.

I want to quit the campaign.

Nah, he talked about one of his players being able to call all his twists because he's played too many games and watched too much stuff in a previous vid. Plus, it's basically the lore from the Darksiders game series, except it was Abaddon instead of Gabriel and he turned into a dragon instead of a flower.

It's nice when a GM can put all the pieces on the table so that things make sense to the players in hindsight. It also allows clever players to carve their own path through the world if they can see and act on it ahead of schedule. More work for the GM but also way more rewarding in a lot of ways, so long as everyone's up for it.

@@jakeroth675 Yeah... I'd even say "too obvious" is a lot better than "poorly foreshadowed and makes little sense" or "complete asspull", because in the first case you can plan for the twists and prepare accordingly, and at least be somewhat satisfied you predicted correctly, while the two other faulty types of set-ups just result in you being baffled and indifferent (or even somewhat insulted) at the plot twist it just created. Heck, you can even make a "complete mystery" kind of villain, just make sure it makes sense and let your players have their glory if they find a way to discover him before his actual reveal. Basically, there is such a thing as a D&D story looking like an improv skit, and that kind of story accumulates such shitty inconsistencies that I prefer the steady and predictable ones - after all, that kind of plot just means it's up to you to be creative with how you twist the cliché plot.

I think the key is in having an actual world hung around the events so that if players go off-script or just ignore an entire chapter of the story you know where to take it. I was playing in a game once where I managed to piece together what was happening from a bunch of really obscure clues and skip about six months worth of actual at-table sessions in a long campaign. The GM laughed, then screamed, then laughed, then topped off my action points and we got on with it - weaker than expected but ahead of schedule by enough that the next two sessions we kept catching the antagonist organization with their pants down.

@@jakeroth675 Fair enough. Part of the potential fun of roleplaying IS that kind of moment where you catch your antagonists (and possibly your GM) with their pants down. Having a lot of rebound plans and a good idea of the inner working of your world is exactly what you need to do to pretty much have the right setup for all your plot's turns and twists to unfold in a sensical way. The "asspull" and "poor foreshadowing" problems generally come from someone not planning ahead for the first, and someone unwilling to let the players outsmart them (or just being a pretty clumsy story-teller). The "obvious" kind is probably just the GM not being that creative and doesn't hurt the game that much imho.

How do I give multiple likes to a comment?

@@paxgallery6646 Bring in multiple accounts

@@InfernosReaper I don't know how to do that

@@paxgallery6646 Sell your soul to El Diabro. or just create other accounts using different email addresses.

I feel like/thought it was Mali *k* ar

Agreed.

(pulls out revolver) TELL US THE BACK STORY DO IT NOW

Show no mercy!

What happened to the turtle

See it went a little something like this they F$%&ed a turtle. Fin

lol I would love to see that

He Shore do that

Elijah Bolton I mean he was planing to give it to his kids

no, the fighter got out of paralysis and found the mourneblade.

From the distance: "I WARNED YOU!"

I was kinda expecting something along the lines of 'so we got caught and spilled the beans and currently are distracting you from the army forming up around the building. Next time on TPK.

Plot armor.

They're NPCs, they don't know about "levels". :P

About six

"Sorry, Kid, we use milestones around here."

Oh wait. It mean Los Angeles? Damn I feel stupid.

Yes... yes it is

And was high out of his mind

And hit schoolteachers with a boat while attacking a completely normal school 500 years later

**windows xp message noise** Puffin_forest.exe has crashed, What would you like to do? A: Restart Puffin_forrets.exe B: Leave Puffin_forest.exe alone C: Drink orange soda pop I would pick C, most likely

Hence the fade out in this video

I read the Permenatly invisible part in puffins voice

It's flowey

@@jwmmitch I though the same thing

He lives in San Deiego . He has a PO box in his about section on the chanel page. so odds are yes he was

I kind of expected Gabriel to say "IM FLOWEY!"

Classy Reference my friend.... I see you are a man of culture aswell

Some might even call it a hotel.

Apparently you can't kill the beasts there, even if you stab them with your steely knives.

THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU

@@RomeDawg24699 HISSSSSSSSSS!

Same! XD

@@SadBoy-pe5oq BEGONE DEMON

@@RomeDawg24699 We'd all leave if we could.

Be thankful that it isn't the Dakotas.

As a Californian I must advice you to no upset the sun or we will forced to banish you to Bakersfield and you may never leave that place

And thus flowey was born

@@jorgeguijosatellez509 As a fellow Californian...F*** you, banish them to Oxnard.

I was born banished then

Are there any harp seals or do they stay as far away as possible?

F

obviously youre lying because California has never been that nice

You forgot the pocket dimensions within California. Bakersfield?

@@skyblade7438 They congregate in popular tourist locations by large bodies of water like at a fabled place called Fisherman's Wharf in Sanf-Ran-Sisko. Then the seals use their hypnotic powers on unsuspecting passerbys where they charm them into servitude. For the time being the seals are perfectly content on gorging themselves on food but for those strong enough to resist their charm the unmistakable air of malice becomes ever so stronger in their presence as the seals grow more emboldened by their new found power. People call me crazy when they see me clutching my seal bashing club, but the day will come when THEY will be coming to me to save them from the inevitable, oh yes, the day will come.

I got a better idea AUSTRALIA!!!!

K Mac better Saudi Arabia and write gay on his face

Well, the Angel's dead.

Even worse place. Banish him to NEW JERSEY

@@kmac291 I live there and can conform - it would be a fate worse than death for an inter dimensional traveler. Lot of xenophobia here, which sucks ass

*They are Legion*

OMG! That must have been so cathartic for them to finally defeat little Wallace the hero of parnast!

Turtle *_F R I E N D S_*

Forget it unless you want to turn it to a revolution. And I not a fan of rebellion and revolution.

I love how the two names fit in the asteriscs

Isn’t it obvious? They f***** turtles. What else is there to say other than what fetishes did your characters have?

@@themanofsex3173 I thought the verb for "turtle friends" is "they befriend turtles". Why do your verb start with an f?

But it has a magical place

Angels aren't magic

"Magic doesn't work" might just mean that no magic can be cast, preexisting magic (or magical items) may well work. After all, that spirit got back out somehow!

Ya “maybe”

Whether or not he reverts depends on whether his transformation is a continuous spell or not. If it's not, then he would just stay as a plant.

but its 500 years later

Gopnik Dragonborn They said they all became Demigods, that’s the lowest tier of god, they are immortal

@@erickchristensen746 *seems legit*

...& passed out

As a potted plant

@@gunjfur8633 this whole campaign was actually just a huge fever dream from him.

@@TamTroll Mind = 💥

Чам Чам Ништяк generations of guilt and now immortality never have I felt this bad for a drug abuser yucking it up in a park

AHNOLD

From the DMG page 211, "Make a ranged attack roll against [a] creature using your spell attack bonus. On a hit, the target is paralyzed for 1 minute." "At the end of each of the target's turns, it can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success." - I honestly don't even see how the fighter was paralyzed for even the entirety of Malikar's encounter (boss fight)....

@@ATFPredator they probably just forgot

ATFPredator if I remember correctly he said one of the players couldn't be at the session. That was his character, he was paralysed as a way to explain why one member couldn't join for the end of the adventure.

@@group555_ That would make way more sense, and if the player never played with them again he would remain paralyzed until he starved to death? What a terrible way to go.

@@ATFPredator also each round of an encounter (everyone taking a turn) is 5 seconds. it's unlikely the encounter lasted for 12 rounds (the average is 3-4, so maybe 9-10 since it was bigger) so that part makes sense

Pretty sure R'lyeh is the City of Angles...

Is there any difference? Both are eldritch horrors incomprehensible to a sane mind. @@Endoptic

Nellie Bachesneg Wow geometry!

How has no one mentioned "angels" yet??

@@shadowofroserade I have no regrets.

Socialism?

@@jamesmerkel1932 Yes

Namless's Media Dump Hence why I a Warior of chaotic good have infiltrated this fortress of evil to steal their secrets of world forging(game design) and then leave for more sane lands.

Isn't Ell'Aye the source from which all evil spreads? Or is it just one of the nodes of Evil like the terrible Knu Yorcc?

**falcon punches the bad guys**

Watch out for the epic level bums.

I wouldn't say that, but basically everyone in the army would be equivalent to a BBEG in strength and the regular police force would be a pretty high level boss. For the army, there is body armor, machine guns capable of killing dozens of people in seconds if they aren't prepared (which given the more fantasy-centered world most D&D characters are in, would be basically everyone), gas weaponry, fully automatic assault rifles, sniper rifles, fighter jets, tanks, attack helicopters, nuclear weaponry, etc. Seriously if one person with access to modern weaponry got into a D&D world and figured out a reliable defense against magic, they could probably be more powerful and a bigger threat than the vast majority of BBEGs or anything else, except for giant monsters, gods and possibly demons.

I live in Visalia California and that's so true lol

California resident here: I absorb fire damage, am a natural level 7 fire elemental sorcerer, and can multiattack if hit with a fire spell. We're not all high-level bosses, most of us are just high-end adventurer types.

As a Californian I can say yeah watch your back in some places and not all of cali is hot , cooler weather would most likely be near the beach and don’t go to the valley during summer (I live in the valley and it can get hot, but at least it’s not Death Valley :) )

Wait.. So Michel is Chadwick Strongpants?!

He's going to retrieve the mournblade?

He's probably high on mushrooms at the same park.

He actually did come back and you get to hear more of his stories.... he's ageless so 500 years from now when the next major campaign started he's still there.

He turned permanently invisible du

so um, its aged even better

@@MaskedRokho Yep, 106 where I'm at baby!

I thought he did in a previous episode

Seems like it explains itself.

Tortoise rape

that would be awesome. i’m in!

Well, I mean, the 1700's-1900's didn't have airships, so who knows?

Im thinking starfinder

1900s had Zeppelins

Pretty sure it's just Eberron :P I could be wrong of course.

I don't remember the blacksmiths apprentice!? 😭😭

Daniel McDade Daniel McDade The video "funny moments from my campaign", about 4 minutes in.

that's what i was thinking. I mean when does he realize his mistake?

maybe he rejected the immortality? (I hope he did)

Well... SHE'S not immortal...

@Ellobats NANIII?

@Ellobats Maybehapssibly

One would think deliberately not using the bathroom would be the path of evil.

Evil happens every time I go to the bathroom. The Bowels of Hell are my bowels.

"you have fallen for my deception"

Leave Bakersfield bahind it will only slow us down

I approve of this name.

KILL IT WITH F I R E

Omg youre right!

It was an intentionally bad character too, yet was the only one that managed to make it out of that tower.

My sister plays a gnome monk when I saw that video I laphed hard

BY ONE!

They also have the young apprentince blacksmith.

Yes I hoping someone noticed the hero of parnast

I think everyone who watched hero of parnast and funny moments in my campaign saw Wallace and the apprentice

I think that's how the manage to survive.

To be fair they are stealing stuff from the military for forgery.

maybe they pissed it off

Only in California tho, or he will escape

You and I both know it's not just accurate if we were in a fantasy world. This place is hellish.

The Truest thing

Californian citizenship might as well just be called slavery.

Personally I'd amend it to just be LA. Every time I enter or leave LA I feel like I passed through a hell portal

Bro you need to put governor brown in prison. He turned knowingly spreading HIV in your state into a fucking misdemeanor.

More like the Plane of Stupidity, they outlawed plastic straws.

@@GunManGunHand the plane of the seventh largest economy in the world

@@FrancisR420 yet are bankrupt and need federal funding

Kill it. KILL IT WITH CLEANSING FIRE.

Bard force go

Grab the .... Friendhip! Pellets!

Hi undertale.

dork yface I love you for this oh god thanks

Azure Balmung this is undertale

D&D = Undertale Amirite lads or amirite lads?

@@justagremlin0 you are right lad

@@theguyman256 Cheers lad.

Or is he... left :P

You are pure evil i will not succumb to your plots and trickery or your bad traffic

I agree with you john i too hail from the dreaded California

And the Dark Lord Mu'Scum.

loved that bit.

If California is a hellscape what is Australia?

Pythons and Alligators rule over the swamps the further south you go, each side fighting for dominance ...But we locals can be much, much worse

Inhabited only by the mad and those haunted by the specter of death

@@TheItzal11 Australia is unimaginable. It is the true plane of chaotic evil, filled with scorching heat and populated by massive arachnids who's venom ensures an eternity of suffering, along with many other nightmarish beasts. It is the deepest part of the abyss.

@@arandomzoomer4837 Where there are plants and animals abounding that deliver instant death to those who lack poison immunity. On land a creature called the funnel web spider, in the woods the suiside plant, and in the sea the box jellyfish and the blue ringed octopus.

he is def still paralyzed

In which video did he say that the fighter was paralized? Anyway, he went off to live with his wife so he probably isn't? (At the very least he is moving in the video)

@@MrMarcusvalerius The paralysed fighter was from another video about the previous campaign, when the party was fighting Malacar. They just kinda left a paralysed fighter near the end of the final dungeon. That fighter's never been mentioned since.

KCHgamer OMG YOUR RIGHT

he's right … we need awnsers we NEED to know Ben.

Disney is kind of evil just saying

@@vonfaustien3957 this is true. Another good point

I think so

Why did you have to say that

@@guccicosmic3985 because anyone who's seen 2 specific videos of his will recognize and HATE Wallace

I know I’m it’s just now I can’t I’m see that

the adventurers told the town that he committed the crimes and framed an innocent man. They tried to send him to California but California was all booked out so they just kicked him out of the town

THRUTH!

although the beaches aren't too cold here in SoCal

@@ufospiral3199 All of the beaches ive been to down here can be pretty chilly.

why did you specify a flower pot, what were you expecting, a fish bowl?

@@nahinshadab202 'Cause it could have just been a fucken flower lol, besides, Flowey's in a pot.

Lunar Scorpio No he isn’t... if he was in a pot, he wouldn’t have been able to run around the entire game.

@@lunarscorpio3987 floweys not in a pot, how the hell do you think hes descending into the ground

Lunar Scorpio oh I thought it was azrael the biblical angel.

CaliFONia?

caliFONTia!!!

This world is imperfect

@@blackcitadel9 *IT'S A GOOD THING I ALWAYS CARRY TWO GUNS*

#game of thrones 😌?

@@Sam-pu7xc Nope, look up ProZD

@@MoonPatch Did you weep when you watched Archibald bleed to death?

Plenty of evil in the Far-plane California~

That was one of the previous episodes: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MZAA4nJnN0k.html

And that is the point of the joke

NOOOOO NOT CALIFORNIA!!!!!

Look at the bright side... At least it's not Florida...

At least it's not mississippi.

I live in California and I am laughing so hard right now!

It's still hot hear

*LAUGHS IN BEHOLDER*

When my characters finish Mines of Phandelver they are jumping into Tomb of Annihilation. Maybe they will be different characters, maybe not.

And I like to punish that..

Then tomatoes. Then bricks.

Yep

Yep. Amd the little blacksmithboy.

Now i wonder if there's a halo theme tabletop game

God you kids make me feel old. I heard covenant and the first thing I think of is Indiana Jones lol

@@jamesmerkel1932 well i have a slight excuse but its not a good one

@@ZyroShadowPony too young to remember those movies? Lol, it's all good, it's like expecting a kid these days to get a MASH or Black Sheep Squadron reference, a bit outdated to be reasonable.

@@jamesmerkel1932 well I do show an interest in MASH after watching an episode when visiting family. I didn't get to watch indiana jones until I was maybe 16 and even then my mind was too adjusted to video games rather than classic movies from the past

Remember to stay more than peeing distance away from the homeless...

Northern California isn't that bad. Chico at least is a pretty nice place.

@@petermenzies9193 I live in what Jeffersonians would consider Central California (San Fran, Sacramento, Tahoe). Chico's all right, but golly, those cities...

California isn't too bad.... as long as you don't live in a city.... actually... I live in lake county.... its always on fire.

I dont think ive had the poop streets problem living in SoCal. thats strange