D&D Story: Too many betrayals! 

100% just said that out loud.

I love the sword

I'm confused. The players decided to trust an NPC because they had been betrayed by 8 NPCs in the last 2 sessions? Am I understanding that correctly?

@@dynamicworlds1 In this case that's actually just basic espionage. Once you've IDed a spy it's actually pretty profitable to let them keep spying so you can use them to send false info back to whomever they're spying for. Just knowing what info they're after can be a huge advantage because then you can make sure they only get the info you want them to have. Like false plans and the like.

@@aguyhere7945 sure, if what they are after is simply info. I distinctly remember a game I played in where my party let someone out of a cell and they charmed 2 of the party and pitted us against each other (almost resulting in a 3rd party member's death).

The round ones are not exactly build for thinking.

I want to use that at some point

Reasons something is not stolen: 1. Document is being borrowed. 2. Damaged and taken for repair. 3. Dirty and in need of cleaning. 4. In need of document verification. 5. Moved to new pedestal. 6. Undergoing Duplication. 7. Owner came by to collect it. 8. Writer is adding addendums. 9. Taken to document shredder. 10. Roll again twice ignoring results of 10.

I could see the lower ones being fooled in those humorous ways, because they are pretty simple, which is why they need to take things up the chain of command. My understanding is that Modrons are like machines (computers) in working on a very yes or no basis, with the higher they are being the more complex amounts of logic they can process. The lowest I guess thinking there is no problem, because there being a problem should be impossible.

@@SMunro Rolls 10 Proceeds to roll 2 and 9 "Yes, of course. The document is missing because it is currently undergoing repairs. After which it will promptly be shredded." It's due for shredding, but one cannot simply ignore a damaged item. One must always follow proper procedure.

Did we ever learn where he came from? Because i'm pretty sure we didn't

IIRC it's their pet aboleth

I believe that Ben said on one of the animator collab videos that it had a very boring backstory. His brother had a magic sack he could pull animals out of, and wanted a whale. Not sure which of them decided the whale could fly but it had something to do with his brother always saying the whale had been with them on an adventure the whole time, and he just never mentioned it.

It's soo cute

Same

Tortalf the Green. Emperor Darth Tortal. Dark lord Tortamort.

What was oogway real name

Or the whole turtle “friend” thing

@@jellynamedsamiiripi2928 they did that to themselves

You do know that oogway is from kung fu panda right?

Why it wouldn't?

@@TheRezro Because Tieflings are generally seen as demonic and untrustworthy, especially by powerful creatures like angels. So an angel sending a demon child to help the party is suspicious.

@@emc246 And why literally everything in the medieval fantasy wouldn't be that?

Well they are human with a smidge of fiend in them. That said he could just not be an asshole to someone because they were born different. Or maybe her great-grandma was tricked by incubus or something

SpectralKnight but he hates hell

Turtle FRIENDS!

The turtle molesters actually. He clarified it in one of those PAX videos a while back.

Ah yes the Turtle fu- FRIENDS who dosnt know about Friends of turtles

Are they turtle friends or turtle f***ers? Ben: Yes.

@@princeofddr Ah yes. Who hasnt heard of the Turtle F-*coff* *coff* sorry my throat. Anyways- oh look at that! The video is over, good bye!

Every DM who heard those words, nodded in understanding.

@@xdevantx5870 can confirm i did nod

^

I mean he isn't wrong

I hate them so much I'm running Curse of Strahd!

and i oop.

Lol

Strawberri Windyfoot? You didn't have to pretend with me? I'm not species-ist.

oof

It's only a bad thing if you're a coward or not a bard

XD That would also explain why they now take him everywhere its the only npc the party knows is legit not evil XD At the rate they save the world and Ottie does his things he will rule the rule from his boat he already owns all the trade routes at the end of one o his campains

Or Battletech when playing all Clanner parties or have a Kuritan, or Comstar, or Steiner.

Or Shadowrun just Shadowrun.

​@@seantaylor6339 this deserves more attention.

I'm familiar with that, ever campaign I played in of that ended with a player killing everyone else.

@@seantaylor6339 Fucking dragons.

that wasn't even his npc, that was from a module

@@Pablo360able I disagree...it was Ben's own version of Wallace, since not all DMs run the same kind of character the same in modules

I thought Wallace was just incompetent.

Walice isn't evil. Incompitent, and willing to steal credit, but not evil.

@@agsilverradio2225 That's Ben's version though

I mean puffin set him self up for that

“Friends”

@@williamvalorious4403 yes. Yes he did. But never you underestimate the turtle f- HOLY $H!T IS THAT THE YELLOW 'NO MONEY FOR YOU' DUCK?!

You mean the turtle fu-

I mean his name is Gavriel which is kinda like Gabriel who is Satan who was cast down from heaven to hell

Or make one that actually helps but they don't trust them which leads to them getting in even worse situations.

@@SairinEarthsea Now here's where I made a mistake, I tried doing that but because I screwed up, my players one time believed it was an enemy trying to ambush them and so they killed them right off the bat (which wasn't hard because they were a commoner so a stiff breeze could've KO'd them) That was with a short term npc with no actual plot relevance outside of a momentary incident. With npc's that have some plot relevance (they'll be in the game longer than one session if the party doesn't axe them), the party then plots their demise believing them to be scheming up the parties downfall.

Everyone having evil NPCs and all the NPCs I'm always dealing with in games I'm in are just assholes or trying to sell me something

@@TheDefectiveAI I though it is what is known as proper script and rational player behavior. So I'm not sure what you problem is?

@@Thetalkingblanket Yes, that is what we call realism.

Why does Physics Student have a psychology expert as his avatar picture?

@@garr_inc It's a long story.

By the way... Why is Athena the Phantom?

Because he probably gives what he thinks is a little "hint" but it's glaringly obvious. That or he only has traitors be nice to the party right off the bat.

The was at one point with my ld group for years. Any time an NPC said "Greetings Gentlemen" or was otherwise polite to they were convinced he was a bad. Ironically if an NPC was just mildly an asshole or trying to lowball them on reward they weren't too paranoid.

heheheeheheheehhh

It’s gonna take, like, three weeks to get it out

We have that problem sometimes.

It's Gavriel, not Gabriel.

Accrovideogames never noticed.

Our Druid got permanently whacked two weeks ago and has been replaced by a Cleric named Claire as we're about to enter the DemonWeb!...hmmm.

She's probably really gullible.

@@bobbobson110 I get that, it's just really funny

@@bobbobson110 Maybe, but she also probably idolizes them.

Weel, that part didn't happen yet.

@@danielf.7151 or has it been happening since the dawn of creation? What if every evil act committed by everyone in the multiverse, from the tiniest stubbing of someone's toe to the most heinous of mass murders, was all a part of Otty Otterton's secret machinations?

theres a reason they made a non dm npc a good ally, cause it was not an npc the dm made to be important.

Classic Derpface!

same. gets me every time. Then again, about 75% of all acting on these videos is eye game.

Wallace needs the sword of warning.

Players: *have an aneurysm *

Sarin Earthsea and to tram up with abserd. Together, they can rule the land as annoying PC and NPC !

Now, you see, they wait too long to outright murder him. They should have grown a pair and killed him and *then* blamed it on whatever random thing happened. Instead they left it to the whims of fate(the dm). That was their mistake.

OAh noOoO!!! cARful for wAALlace is in gREAt dAAAnger!!!!

That's racist add one sin CinemaSins counter sound

@@Nopenguin4875 The Devil, not a devil.

@@Nopenguin4875 i dont give a cinemashit

True. *Tosses Gun away*

Tosses the Holy Hand Grenade... yep not betraying here no, none, nope.

"Do not trust anyone, not even yourself" google it.

Two betrayals

Hmmm.... I will betray the DM then. Once i finally find one thats willing to let me play in theire games, ofcourse.

Why do you describe all the cultist as sexy?

@@albertschoise8091 it's a sex cult it comes with the territory

@@eveescastle5866 There can be nonsexy cultists.I mean wouldn't an ugly manchild or awful looking women want to join a sex cult as they couldn't get it somewhere else? I feel like you are limiting the possibilities greatly.

@@bestaround3323 They will WANT to, sure, but Graz'zt is picky af. Any ugly person that joins his cult gets sacrificed as soon as their soul is damned in a "hope you become a succubus or similarly-sexy demon" fashion. At least that's how I see it

My party hasn't learned that lesson yet. They're currently being "assisted" by a half-succubus that isn't making any attempt to hide the 26 cha

Litrally me. I am binging the first campaign

@@CommissarMitch Doing the same with the second!

@@SgRambo Dido, I'm about ten episodes behind.

@@frankficcle7081 You're in for really good time, it's gets really good in the last 4 or 5 episodes

@@frankficcle7081 I stopped watching at around episode 45 or so because school needed my time. So now I started over, I'm on episode 29 now! XD

It is turtle f- ANYWAYS! They soon found themselves....

its not "freinds"? :D

@@jesterssketchbook no. That is almost german. Really, 'ei' is used suprisingly often in the german lenguage. But anyways, it is turtle f- MY KNEES! WHY?! .... ....! ...... ... .... a-anyways, change the t-the 'i' i-into a 'u' and r-remove the s- 's' t-then you translated the t-team name partially into g-german.. yes.... t-thats all i wanted to s-say in the c-comment... (hospital! Now!)

When your party name lives on in infamy, even with people who don't know you

You mean questioning the obvious, or that you like hammy scripts?

Sour you’ve never met Periwinkle

One day I sent them to a dungeon that had 25000 mimics they ended up burning down the dungeon and blew up the ruble

With Mimic populations that high, i’m surprised you haven’t had the Mimics go legit-friendly just to really throw your players off.

Rj Ciralli they where supposed to be friendly and lead them to an adventure

Have you been teaching my DM tricks? Literally the first night in an inn of the very first session: bed is a mimic.

Charon85Onozuka YUUUP!

Nope, it’s “I’ve got a tremendous stick up ma ass and it’s going to take a while to get it out”

Holy cow you're right! These are the same players and they're used to being constantly betrayed by everyone. No wonder they think that the most innocent-looking character is the most devious.

If they used it right, they could pretend like they had a reason for it the whole time. Like there's something that's making everyone crazy and they can sense the PCs aren't affected.

@@joypomeroy1452 You mean crazy by not having survival instinct? After all who in health mind would trust bunch of swashbucklers (including at least one warlock), who are known from living piles of corpses behind. You should immediately question everyone attempting to make business with them. D'oh!

WonderFurret WHIMSY!

@@Audiotrocious INSIGHT CHECK!!!

Guess we'd better call Master Chief.

oOooOH nOoo! WAtch OOUt yoU aRe in gREAt dAAanger!!!

I saw a comment that was annoyed that you commented on every video. My first though: wait, he's got more comments?! So now I'm here again.

*Blam*

Not really.

.. except when it's not

It was 4 betrayals in 2 sessions. 8 in the campaign.

That's what happened in my game because two of my players were gone for a session and the other character had an exam.

So long as your plots are unpredictable enough, the players will let their guard down until the trap is sprung.

@Hamza Ali If they always know who is bad and who is good, it grows boring for them too. And htem always figuring them out is not exactly a motivator to spend more time writing Characters. It might even go into Metagaming, because you *only* spend such detail on the Villans wich is the real giveaway. In RPG's, it is easy to get into Feedback loops of boringness.

I am simpler i see a puffin video i click

Well then they'd need permission to borrow so I think it checks out. But if 'borrow' doesn't imply consent in a creature's language then yes we have a problem.

As my party's fighter says, "Just another Tuesday in Barovia."

**laughs in baguette**

Probably because she wasn't an escort mission and had some use besides "alternate target".

He is implying that she was actually useful

@@GamerTowerDX And innocent, while some parties might not care there are still some that do.

It's useful to keep a known spy alive because then you don't have to look for unknown spies.

"You Son of a B****, I'm In

Why the fucki*g hell is this my most liked comment

Or Shadowrun.

I don't hate my players. I just hate their characters. So much.

@@IAmAlgolei no judgment here. It's either them or Wallace...I like Wallace he doesn't wreck my carefully designed death traps or annoy the aboleth... he blunders into them like you're supposed to and uses them as intended.