D&D Story: So, My Players Fought God in the Forest... 

R.I.P. THOMAS 2019 - Spaghetti Plant “Eaten and killed by a literal plant god”

"You will never be forgotten, but easily replaced." My favorite quote of all time.

The sign saying "be back once god dies" is gold

*Party decides to all play a race that is good at spamming fire magic* *Fire magic bounces off enemy like nothing* Party: :o

DM: **creates shambling mound encounter** Vegan players: **confused pikachu face**

"They chose Tieflings for fire resistance" [Laughs in Draconic]

Yeah challenge rating is bs. Ive never met a single DM that actually designs encounters around CR.

This, my friends, is why you take blight. 'God' is going to have to make a con save against 64 points of necrotic damage in some alternate reality.

I dare you to make a shambling mass that's literally a level 14 druid and of the shepherd circle. Just make them the guardian of the forest with firborlgs of lower level. Pasifist until harm is done to nature or himself. Aka he's Smokey bear.

And then "God" returns as a acid elemental

"After three years i'm a D&D Veteran" *Glares* *Throws his cheese at you*

*When you're a level 14 spore druid and don't give a damn about crits from a walking plant* God: Am I a joke to you?

They should've picked elemental mastery feat, so they could bypass the fire resistance

It's that moment you remember there's an acid river that dissolves all plants but fight a giant plant and forget about it.

That seems smart. "Hmmmm, the students keep on disappearing. Better send MORE students into the dark and creepy basement to look for them. Yep, I see nothing wrong with this plan."

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sans. 1 ATK, 1 DEF *Cross the acid. He can't last forever.

This is why you diversify the elemental damage you do as a wizard , sorcerer , or even as a druid

I'm just imagining a bounty poster for an exceptionally dangerous shambling mound that the locals nicknamed "God"

I can understand the perception of the Shambling Mound from the eyes of the players, but here's the thing: It's not God, just an interesting uncommon monster. It is the player's fault for focusing their powers solely in one direction, heavy evocation. There are monsters in DnD that have high defenses in one area, but can be vulnerable or have no defenses in another, that is the idea of running DnD as a team, stretch your utilities and capabilities so that each player can cover their neighbor's weakness. This is the equivalent of having an entire party of greatsword wielding fighters fighting against a Black Pudding.

Post Thomas's death did he also make a tiefling?

You know what they say about Tieflings. One's a curiosity...

So what you're saying is it's basically Massive Moss Charger from Hollow Knight except if it was, y'know, intimidating.

When I fought the shambling mound in the death house, we were fighting it and I also casted witch bolt without knowing it would heal it.

Great video and hilarious story. However it's pronounced Tea Fling not Tie Fling.

I had a double crit to start an encounter recently too. An Owlbear did 47 damage to the lvl 9 monk in one round. Unfortunately, the Monk only had a +1 in con, so her HP happened to be exactly 47. Sometimes the dice just say die screaming. My players made it out of that somehow.

I think the best part of this video is when you stop calling the Shambling Mound it’s real name, and just refer to it as God.

You don't even know the half of it with shambling mounds... I may only know this from a helpful channel that has a whole series about what the Monster Manual [of 5th Edition] doesn't tell you.

I always use shambling mounds to soften up the parties and wreck the mages. But everytime I usually put something that will help them with a good perception roll.

Why did fire do nothing? Resistance only means the damage is halved, no?

Lol that was absolutely great. Keep animating, loved the video.

I love how you tell the story and also love animation.Keep on doing the D&D content.

So, me and my party members fought Death twice in a tower full of angels... Sorry, this personal story of mine is the first thing I thought of when I read the title 😂

First time watching, and I've paused 45 seconds in because of your pronunciation of Tiefling. Edit after finishing: Pronunciation aside, that was a good video. Sounds like a hilarious time of noobs playing DnD. I've been in a party of 3 that fought a shambling mound at level 4. We killed it so fast. By all accounts, you were right. They should have had an easy time, but they stacked the odds against themselves by all doing the same thing. As far as I am aware, fire is one of the most resisted elements, due to it being so common. Really should have gone for the feat over the intelligence score. That 1 extra damage isn't worth not doing damage at all sometimes. Especially when you specialize in that element. Also by not thinking outside of the box. The very instant you said it was a shambling mound, I thought back to the acid and immediate thought that they were gonna push/lure it into the acid to kill it easily. They had so many advantages, but you punished their disadvantages hard, even by not meaning to. This reminds me of a story my one DM tells. One time, his group was around level 5 or so, and they started exploring some catacombs. They encountered a caved in area and decided to dig through it. They spent an entire in game week digging through the cave, constantly going back to town for supplies, whilst being repeatedly warned by said DM not to do this. After finally getting through to the other side, they encountered a level 18 or so Archlich that was a final boss of something they were supposed to encounter a while down the road. The original plan was for them to keep coming back to this dungeon throughout the campaign. They party wiped trying to run away. Moral of the story, when your DM tells you repeatedly to stop digging, listen.

If I was a player I would call "DM vs Party" because you probably knew that their main forms of damage were resisted, and made them fight it. Lol

Hmmm... Seems a little fishy that this little mound crit so much. I call cheats!! Kidding!! Kinda. Actually, that Meeshaw character seems like someone I could be friends with.

Uh-Oh || Let me guess... An over centralized party of wizard who only deal Fire Damage? Yes || And the RNG matches them against a Fire Immune Monster? Most Likely || Bring it on...

a plant with resistance to fire immunity to lightning and a plus 5 to hit

Everyone: Goes with tiefling for fire resistance Red/gold/brass dragonborn and Fire genasi: *Are we some kind of joke to you*

That's a florida man title if I've ever seen one

I like how the monsters are "Just Shapes and Beats" bosses xd

Tiefling is pronounced Tee-fling Just sayin ^-^

A magic school is actually a super cool setting for a campaign! :D There's so much fun bullshittery you could get up to there. Mind if I take a point of Inspiration for future use? ;)

Hey is it okay if I just say that your voice is really pretty?

You know, you could have just fudged some of the crits...

if you wanted your family to actually cry didn't like that they would be in limited by any minute you should have made the whatever that was you should have made it Fly that tree paints yeah it would make them rage if you made that tree thing fly instead of just like trying to type rope on a tree trunk you should have made it fly then they would have already been eaten alive and it would be impossible to escape HAHAHAHAHAH

Really appreciate "Premonition" in the background. Nice touch

blaine:he lost his footing *shows him losing his feet* me:i think you mean lost his feeting

You basically railroaded that man into death lol. Some veteran

Well, if you are a veteran (veterinarian?), then who am i? [hint: I played d&d since i was 6 and now I am 20]

I read it as my parents fought god in the forest

Blaine: Is talking Me: ThIs iS tHe MuSiC tHaT oVeRlY sArCaStIc PrOdUcTiOnS uSeS

1:47 all I need to say is Lycantropy, Barracuda, and Long Live The New Fresh XD

A party of 4 wizards, they all do fire damage.... Man, that's just so unblanced that it's no wonder standard CR doesn't work.

I remember one time during dnd, I don’t remember which creature, but I was the only party member doing damage.... i was doing 1 hp per round.

This is some anime-ish story right here !

0:43 what a unbalance party of only wizzards, know wonder they could not beat a god also that is not what teiflings look like. they look like mewtwo not like deviant art OCs

i am VERY surprised that lv 6 necromancer did not have any undead or necrotic damage spells...

This is why you have more than one type of class pc in a campaign.

That is the most S W O L E shambling mound I have ever seen.

Wait, i may have not played D&D before, But since they crossed the acid river that kills plants, and thomas fell in the acid river. By said logic, would thomas’s. clothes or something would still be soaked in the PLANT KILLING acid. Therefore, the shambling mound that was a plant, would be badly injured when it came in contact with thomas?? Please tell me if i’m wrong.

I think you skipped the explanation of why people were turning into monsters

Thomas gets "badly injured" from falling onto the acid but god instantly melts? Yeeeeeah

You need more subscribers I love dnd story's that are animations!

Magic Castle School.... Owned by someone named Mr. Merlin... Missing students that are being looked for in an underground forgotten chamber.... This sounds an awful lot like Hogwarts.... huh.... (Btw this is a joke)

Excited to see more stuff from this channel! Keep up the good work

Why was the Shambling mound immune to fire? It is only resistant normally.

My character: **gets kidnapped** The kidnapper: *who do you think you are?* My character: *I am a god, sir.*

You have to be playing since two prior editions to be a vet player. Or play for two years of the same campaign and/or complete that campain.

And a new pufin forest is born! HAIL TIAMAT!

a plant monster that's resistant against fire... "excuse me what?". nah but I can't really blame the party for struggling. shambling mounds are out and out wizard killers. resistance to fire and cold. immunity to lightning. (the three big typically heavy hitting damage types) a very strong couple of attacks and a ability that asks for a large strength / dex and con save if it goes off. everything low level casters struggle with really. if they were any faster that would have been a TPK

This is why a DM should roll in private. If you double crit a PC just count it as 19s especially if it is a squishy wizard. Players have no agency if they are instantly dead.

This is why you need more than just wizards. Aka different damage types. You need physical damage, other types of magical damage and above all else a healer.

At leat your party didn't almost tpk at two goblins and a sword

So its just.... Harry Potter.... but D&D Scratch that, Harry Potter if he ignored the academy and encountered a plane god

Tiefling- pronounced "TEEF-leeng". It means "of the deep", or, kind of, "dark one".

"okay. I lessedt up. This shambling mound just dies. Go on. Nothing happened." See? That easy

If I was in a forest of killer trees and I found an ooze that killed plants, I would bottle that stuff for the ammo to fight the trees.

I see the shambling mound has resistance to fire, *laughs in elemental adept fire*

I found this d&d channel today.... This is my favorite channel now

Heh, Shambling Mound is a bit of a dick as far as monsters go. But it's like nothing if you have some good martials.

How can I get into such D&D sessions?

When the elf player gets kudos for being different... What's the world come to?

Your transcripts are all messed up at last on my end. Every time it is supposed to transition to the next transcript it loops back to the start of the current transcript. I only have this issue with your video's since transcripts came out.

Why would they use fire BOLT, a cantrip, against a crit god? F

I can't really call anything since I don't know of your party-DM relationship, but I think what was upsetting to the players more than 2 random crits in a row was just dying to a random encounter. No one really wants to lose their character to a throwaway fight after their teammates ditch him.

Damn RU-vid. What's the point in subscriptions if I don't see them pop up. It's-a me, your 125th fan here to say hi, and good work :)

At 4:23 my game announced blackout at the best time

Your game sounds extremely railroady.

Great video! A shambling mound nearly destroyed my first party, so I completely understand your group’s frustration 😂 love referring to him as “God” and may have to steal that in the future. #RIPThomas

well the shambling mound is made to kill mages. So it's not surprising that it kicked their butt

Ooh look another DnD animation channel!! * Puffin Forrest shrieks in the distance, skittering over to ask to collab*

Hey my entire party was just killed by a shambling mound recently, those things are deadly.

A great example about the dangers of overspecialization.

(Is introduced to a new party but then immediately stops video after finding that THREE out of four of them are Tieflings...)

1:49 I was not expecting a JSAB reference and it got me really excited.

That Shambling Mound will teach them not to parade a meat shield around in front of the entire party of squishies lol.

When you said acid that instantly dissolves plant life. In a forest of tree monsters! How the hell was that so hard to figure out? As a dragonborn in one of my campaigns I actually bottled my acid breath when I knew I was gonna have a long rest. Came in handy and my DM allowed it.

Legit wouldn't have been able to do that my anger would've made me quit xD this is why I don't play DnD (edit)other then the fact that I have no friends

So did the Elf come back as a cute ghost? They do have a necromancer there.