@@ps5056 Actually weed is just another word for tobacco in the Hobbit. It is referred to as tobac in the story on at least one occasion if not more and Tolkien himself was apparently a big fan of tobacco. You want more evidence that it was tobacco and the characters weren't all worthless pieces of shit stoners, read this. www.leafly.com/news/lifestyle/is-hobbit-pipe-weed-cannabis-in-tolkiens-books
Realistically, they're level 10, that's enough likely clout for someone to approach them with the request to take on the task needed in the nine hells and access to a direct teleportation method to get there with. If they need to be lower level, just start a new campaign with new characters. Unless you're specifically running a campaign with the gimmick of rotating DMs, regular DM not being available should most often mean just run something else totally fresh/new/non-continuation of what was. If you want a change of pace with something that doesn't fit what the party is currently involved in, go all the way with it with a new party. Most players love an excuse to roll up a new character, especially in 5E where it's very simple to do so. ...This is of course painfully obvious, and anyone able to recognize this video as parody would be able to think of these solutions and factors.
you are surrounded by people who looks somewhat like divination wizards, but all your insight and search for divination check throws doesnt allow you to find any around. must be no divination wizards around, be calm my friend.
Traveller, I require an assistant for my spells! -Yes Perfect! Stand still for a moment, please... (casts power word kill, instantly killing the player character) -No How dare you... my spells... my spells! Raaaaagh! (becomes hostile to player character)
Theory: The reason that wizard keeps having those "Oh shit" moments during this is because he is so used to breaking the game that he is genuinely surprised that the other players do not, like "How could they not beat 30 devils at level 5 there's literally 2 of them"
I was fine when the infamous "nearby divination wizard" was dubiously rolling 1's in the morning. But the Minecraft piston is way too evil, this is not okay
He forgot to say “A nearby divination wizard casts dominate person/monster on each of you, and gives you both 1s. He commands you to accept resurrection and you both get revived.”
Christopher Marcantel Just the Wizard doing some dumb shit with his magic so all nations of the fantasy multiverse unite and send a serious anti-magic swat cleric, a goofy rogue with a coffee and kleptomania addiction, fighterman with a gritty backstory but is the most wholesome character of the show, some cute mimic companion that is mostly the wizards maid and tends to lie around like a cat and be in the most inconvenient spaces when needed.
Noooo he is a great DM because he managed to break the bane of every DM before him. HE OVERCAME THE FIREBALL! The fireball has no power over him. He is now on a completely new plane of existence, far above even the highest celestial planes, deeper then the basement of the ninth hell. A place unfathomable to anyone else.
I mean... the set up of: "You all die and are too wicked and so you end up in hell" Heck even the "You lose your memories" is a decent set up... But PROBABLY not to foist on an already established party.
I've run a campaign where session 1 ends with "The kobolds you were sent to kill were worshipping an elder blue dragon." The campaign was then set in an afterlife-ish dimension some crazy-powerful wizard had created to trap souls and play god with.
I'm actually running a campaign like this in a few days! They're an old party that discovered the villains plot, so they cast extended modify memory and erased their memories, therefore explains why theyre level 1, and why they don't know that villain
With a campaign starting like that it could lead to the party turning on their evil past and becoming glorious heroes after traveling through hell. Basically Dante's Inferno, but with more fireballs and skill checks.
The second guy didn't die IRL even after taking the 1 HP punch because Liches only have one Lv9 spell, and all of the 10000 of them used theirs on the first guy. Pardon for not using the names, I'm just a passerby.
@@defensivekobra3873 Spell Saves? Power Word Kill doesn't let you roll a save. Not even a death saving throw. If you are at 100 health or lower, and someone casts this on you, you just die. Full stop. Nothing you can do about it.
So not only did he drop them in the Hell that _didn't_ have the River Styx, but by the effect he said it had on his players, he didn't even want the River Styx. The memory wiping river is Lethe.
I was afraid to use this spell on my players last session. They challenged a lich at levels 11-13. I decided they would be very upset if it killed them since it was a bit of a side quest, so the lich killed the ghost of his greatest friend as a scare tactic. It didnt work. But hey, they dont know that the lich isnt truly dead so theyve angered a terrible force that will certainly try to thwart them.
@@jeremybosworth2275 I once played a one shot where my wizard got their spellbook stolen and I only had cantrips and I won a fight with prestidigitation and a good deception roll.
It actually is impossible. Maxed constitution, tough feat, hill dwarf barbarian gets a maximum of 20 hp per level (8 flat + 12 on the d12), so 100 would be the highest possible hp at level 5 (assuming there aren't temporary hp involved, wich the barbarian can't give itself, or homebrew magic items that raise max hp)
In Greek mythology it was the River Lethe that made people lose memories. It gets conflated with the Styx, but there were several rivers in the Underworld in Greek myths: Styx, Lethe (the river of forgetfulness), Acheron (the river of woe), Cocytus (the river of lament), and Phlegethon (the river of fire).
@@lordbuss I am not sure. While the others have a consistent effect on people, the Styx is generally just poisonous to the living. The word, styx, juent "shudder" ot the like merely denoting that people who see it are generally dead and shudder at the sight. But then there is Thetis dipping Achilles and it granting him invulerability rather than poisoning him...
My biggest d&d pet peeve is when DMs unreasonably punish you for rolling a Nat20 on something they themselves told you to roll for. Needless to say I had a small conniption watching this lol It's funny how they have such a hard time keeping a straight face while Wizard Jacob does his thing. Hilarious content all around
I love that at the end of the video, Colton is slumped onto the table, because that implies that after being literally killed IRL by BigDickWizard69's 10,000 Power Word Kills, BDW69 hauled his corpse back into the chair and did nothing else for him.
@@NoConsequenc3 I mean, it depends on what they want to do - jump to the moon without magic? no roll. try to get the king to give you their crown? roll to see if he takes it as a bad joke / treason.
Honestly, having a campaing that sets place in the afterlife, with the party meeting down there after their death, sounds like a pretty interesting idea. And the priest of all gods also sounds fun.
I’m 100% gonna make a home brew character that is literally just a divination wizard, no actual attacks or anything, just the power to give out shitty rolls and a knife
