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You guys definitely captured the DM frustration. That said, letting the new players burn down the tavern is actually a necessary ritual and shows them that DnD isn't limited like a normal video game RPG and you can in fact go on a murderous rampage if you want, just don't expect to get away with it.
Haha this is so true. Although this is exactly how we ended up with one player being branded as a thief in the first 5 minutes and another made our first mission to make enough money to get her out of jail. We ended up leaving her there because she really didnt grasp the concept that you cant just kill everyone you dont like. Love D&D.
Thought the same thing. Just let it have severe consequences. Some questgivers could have escaped the fire and forced the „heroes“ to take quests in order to not be delivered to the authorities.
@@ChromeKong Or being delivered to the authorities, locked in jail and receive the quest from an inmate, beginning the campaign in a prison break session. Sky is the limit.
@@maciejhammer2266Yeah, there's lots of ways to make things work from prison. I like having a mysterious stranger working for a higher authority who promises freedom in exchange for service :]
More like it shows them that they do stupid things and the game is over before they've even played it, so they have to take it with a certain degree of seriousness.
I agree. Long suffering the DMs have been, so called heroes enjoying their freedoms, and trashing anything they can when a choice is presented. Why did i ever let the guy play a half-troll ...
Hadn't watched any D&D until you started with VLDL. This reminded me of the early days of that! 'Destroy the tavern' 'It's in my nature' It felt very Bodger.
Have you tried that trick where you have them establish backstory with each other at game start? Just some questions like Who here saved your skin and when? Who here do you admire and why? What do you love about their cooking? That sort of thing.
This must’ve been therapy for Hog after the Patreon stream a few years back. Speaking of; DnD Christmas stream? Burn everything to the ground, but make it festive? We’ll bring the marshmallows!
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire From the tavern burning down Yuletide carols being sung by three guys Who can't remember how they go (Look I forgot I changed the rhyme, ok? Sue me, I'm not a professional musical comedian.)
Also, this is probably the most accurate depiction of a role-playing game that I've ever seen online. I mean - maybe they could have dissected the beggar's corpse to see if he had the Golden Arc Of Life hidden in his entrails... but other than that, spot-on.
I didn't think Arms and Foil were anything like Chris and Aodghán until 'destroy the tavern'. This is exactly like their real d&d game! I rewatched it the other day and had forgotten that Foil is an actual chaosmeister. 😂 Fire, so much fire... 'And everyone inside it burns along with their well-thought out stories' Poor Hog 😂😂
I’ve been reading “The History of Sketch Comedy" by Keegan-Michael Key and…AHA!....he talks about how much he likes Foil, Arms and Hog. Great book. And today’s sketch? Terrific!
I did not know Key and Peele wrote a book and they love my favourite Irish comedy group . I had downloaded a book by Jordan Peele a few weeks ago - an anthology of black horror writers .
@mayannaburmeister9741 the book was written by Key and his wife Eve. Jordan Peele contributed to the book (his thoughts on sketch comedy), but didn’t write the book. I'll look for Peele's book too.
Thank you so much for the wonderful show in Hamburg last week. I think my friend 'Barbara' (Bärbel actually) will be stuck with that name now. Both of my friends were so afraid that you'd talk to them because they only have little English and the sound made it a bit difficult for them to understand you at first, all of us ended up having a really great time. You created such an incredible atmosphere and it's honestly so impressive how you managed to work all of the audience information into your sketches even if our answers weren't really helpful. It's lovely to see how Hogwash has evolved since the Fringe. From the sketches, to the bread throwing, to your singing, it's simply brilliant. You truly deserved the standing ovation and the roaring applause. Have a wonderful day!
There is something marvelous in the combo noob energy meets experienced play calling and murderous rampage. Very accurate. Is it just me, or is Hog wearing a blanket tied with some random string to look cape-adjacent? Genius. 10/10
This perfectly encapsulates why I write novels but I’m not a fan of D&D. I’ll sit down for a game where I want everything to be in-universe and for the world building to be consistent and someone will enter in with space jets inside a medieval tavern. 😂
I only witnessed D&D from the sideline….But I was in Rotterdam last Sunday! My second Hogwash experience, I was in London as well. It was amazing both times. London had the extra thrill of seeing you perform live for the first time, and in Rotterdam it was the anticipation of knowing what was coming, which made that extra special. I was so happy to see the Drunk Monks live! 😃. And to be in a Doomdah! Twice! Woohoo!
I saw ur show last week and had an iconic experience. First I started shaking when it started. When meeting u afterwards, I was so full of adrenaline I have a partial blackout from what happened. I just blurted out something, took a photo and left. I am writing this to say I love u guys, I consume your content everyday. Thank you for helping me find out what hell of a fangirl I am 😅
I know exactly what you mean. Feel that so much myself. I always wait longingly for Thursdays and when I see this new video I start shaking with anticipation, always really excited to see what will make me laugh this time. Every week I feel like a little child at Christmas.
So many LEVELS of brilliance!! Your production quality is amazing, it looks absolutely professional! The lighting, music, Hog's costume, the shots of the dice rolling onto the map, the sound of fire crackling and are those little bits of ashes rising at one point? It's just...chef's kiss! Plus funny recalls of the destructive D&D stream on Patreon 😂 Excellent work guys, it's funny and looks class too!
@@SamFAHntha Haha I always say the mark of a DM is that the players CAN burn down the tavern and still have an awesome adventure and quest lol. Or die to the overpowered tavernkeeper... either way 🤣
Long ago I was on a quest with „the gang „ and we brought in two new guys who’d never played. We start the quest by going into a shop in the village we were dropped in. We talk to the shopkeeper and got the DM‘s explanation of our quest. On the way out a New member decided to test his skill as thief and pocketed something. Shopkeeper came running out after yelling we were thieves pointing at the new guy. We fought our way out getting no supplies but he was mortally wounded wounded. We had a cleric with healing skills but instead he pulls a reanimate the dead spell and turned him into a zombie for the rest of the quest. lol. Listening to those two bicker was like hearing Chewbacca & C3p0 argue.
"The Dungeon Master - so you can give it but you can't take it.?!" You gotta think that had resonance for quite a few _outside_ of the D&D community... OK, that was probably the subtext of the joke 😮💨😔 Sorry!
I have strong feeling that the weary beggar knew more than they let him to tell... you always, always listen to a weary beggar. Maybe he knew where the aqua suits are! Ahhh, rookie mistake 😂 Grand as always, lads 💙
It was such a pleasure attending your shows and meeting you last week in your European tour! I hope you get a little rest before you tackle Vicar Street in December. PS: I sent you a note; I hope you've seen it. 👍😀
As a DM the part where they said "We get you wanna be the Dungeon Master" but totally lacked awareness or appreciation of the amount of work that goes into building the world and the story really hit home.
Yes!! I haven't stopped smiling! I love this! I love the story arch of them getting into it but ultimately dont care/stay true to character. And the high octane d&d montage (dice rolling). So good 😂
Lads, these last two gigs were amazing. I can't believe how lucky I am to be able to see you 3 different times! It was very obvious in Hamburg how shattered you all were, please, don't make 4 headers anymore, esp if you are travelling to different countries! In Cologne you were more rested and it ended being to date one of my favorite meet and greets, it was just so perfect! Hope you had plenty of rest after you came back (I know I did, lol, I love trains but I def got train overload xD) and I am happy that your next two months are all near where you are situated anyway. Take care lads! Ok now, for the slagging :P
That’s so awesome that you were able to travel all over Germany (and Prague, I’m guessing?) seeing their shows. I traveled all over Bavaria on trains in 2022 while on vacation. I live in NYC, but traveling around the north eastern US to see several of their shows would have been a bit much, I’ll admit. 😂
I was in the audience in Rotterdam, thanks so much for a wonderful show! 💐🍞 (And I genuinely just joined a new D&D group, so you guys have perfect timing as always)
DM : alright boys, time for some innocent railroading. Chris The Destroyer : destroy the tavern. DM : shit. Time for some ultra-railroading.. let's get this show on the road! Aodghán : *has Intelligence equal to that of an average wild animal*
A sketch on D&D may attract a niche audience primarily.... But since Dungeonmaster Hog made Foil and Arms play this game in that Patreon livestream years ago, at least my interest in this item of cultural heritage has already been activated. Well played, Lads 🙂💯
Having played DnD and Pathfinder, this is hilarious. Our party did a few things our GM hadn’t planned for and we took him by surprise. Hard to do! 😂😂😂😂
The set and lighting is so good. I have never played this, I think I am too old for this. And this looks like a game to be played in cree0y basements. 😂 Hog's costume is so good. And he looks like a great storyteller. 😍
As a Role-player who saw them in Glasgow and therefore, unlike Rotterdam, didn't get the "audience photo", I feel doubly snubbed! I will retrieve my wand of trio blasting forthwith! A wonderful laugh for a cold Thursday, thank you!
I’d say all three of you have intelligence 10 and charisma 10. How else could you write such brilliant sketches every Thursday and charm every audience member at your shows? 😉
Hi, my brother and I were at your show in Rotterdam. We loved it!! We are half German and half Dublin, so we have problems like we don’t get our own jokes and stuff. But we got help for it and now we’re doing better...getting there...one step at the time...we got most of your jokes so I take that as a good sign. Also feeding the ducks got a whole new dimension for us now!
This sketch is so utterly brilliant - the plot, lighting, editing, soundtrack - I actually started leaning towards the screen. And the characters too! Suits is so well done. With this level of nerd it would be easy to say it's Hog - but the seriousness and the annoyance is pure Suits (and there's not enough laughing for it to be Hog!). And the tiny expressions make it look like Suits is getting these wee flickers of joy from his friends getting into it (even if it's Hog suppressing a laugh 00:58). Very convincing. I love Suits. Aodghán is also pretty great and convincing here. Not arsed and angry but also accidently letting himself get into it, but completely himself in the end. And Chris - here I actually think the bully from the 80s does work as a contrast to Suits, like the set up of them both not being into D&D works. As a character himself... I don't know. The glance at the camera when he thinks he's got high charisma is funny and makes him feel a bit real. And because he's playing a character you don't see so much actual character so it kind of hard to judge. Though the ending with Chris's 'whoa what a quest' feels kind of jarring and a bit caricaturey. Am I saying anything interesting? No. I just wanted to acknowledge it is difficult really. Like you are trying to set up three characters who in different scenarios are always two against one and the dynamics of who the two and one are has to be able to change. I rewatched all squatters and can't really think where it's like three individuals all different against each other. Maybe nearer the start (of episode 2)? Or in this one when C & A are arguing - a great moment. Like I've seen others say I think Chris being if not loveable then at least likeable is good. Like I get the other two are arses at times but they also have moments where they're not so awful or you can see why they're like that (low self esteem, low prospects, very narrow lives). And personally - I don't know why Chris has to be so stupid. I don't know why everyone has to be so mean either 😂 though I'm getting used to it. And with this sketch they actually didn't seem just mean. I've said this a few times now - but this is my favourite squatters to date! I really enjoyed it!
Good FAHnalysis there! I also thought this sketch was really good, but a bit more difficult to tease out the Squatters characters from their D&D characters (multiple levels of acting!). Like many FAHns (I think) I'm trying to figure out where they're going with Chris' character and what version of him "works best." (I did rather like it in Episodes 1 & 2 when Chris seemed to be the polite people-pleasing one with a properly-adjusted moral compass - but then he turns to the "dark side" a bit at the end of Ep. 2 and it feels a little bit as though they've let him "fall" from there.)
@@anonymous_selkie Ah, thank you for taking the time to read it 😅 I am certainly one of those fahns wondering about Chris! Picturing original Chris in this, it does still work. It's just different. They just seem to so easily completely capture their other characters (Anne, Oisín, Barry, McCormacks, Mrs Geraghty) but maybe it is the needing the characters to play different role in different scenarios that's the difference here (or thinking about it again now maybe I'm wrong about that and it's not necessary with the right characters). Anyway, I enjoy things by analysing and thinking about them. The squatters sketches are giving me lots to think about! Thanks, fellow fahnalyst!
Hahahahaha I definitely have to send this video to my game master ! This first time I did a roleplaying game, my first action was to jump out from the tavern's window ! 😂
Ah this was excellent (& I hate quests of any description!). Any chance Hog did some method acting for this one..?! Can we put ‘Destroy the Tavern!’ on a T-shirt yet?
Nice use of the dice for transition there. Can't wait for more episodes. Squatters has such a bro vibe, I'm excited to see how a woman's voice can add even more hilarity to an already hilarious scenario.
"He's trained and accredited. Let her-I mean him, do his job" *Group* "oh yeah alright yeah" I don't know if you were quoting the Football Chants on purpose, but it definitely reminded me of it 😂
Literally when I tried introducing my father and friend to it, they killed each other in the first few minutes, I even brought in an owlbear to try make a common foe
The ending was epic lads.😂😂 But I need a longer version. What happened to the beggar 🤔? To Chris the destroyer, now that Aodhagon the elf has beheaded himself? What happened to the ark of life? I shall await part two......
Now that is so accurate. Great acting. I remember our family at Christmas playing a detective game. My Dad didn't understand the instructions, and refused to get into character. Hubby was cross with Dad for not entering into the spirit of the game. So me and Mum decided to play more characters and work it out ourselves. We both came to the wrong conclusion, and the game went into a charity shop.
“Destroy the tavern!” your D&D instincts don’t change, do they? 😅 Thank you for a fantastic show in Cologne, lads! The high pitched nursery rhymes still haunt me 😄 Did you get the Glühweingewürz I left for you?
OMG THE COMBO OF THR CENTURY!! DND AND FAH??!? as a Dm and a huge fan i gotta hand it over to ya lad for helping me learn accents to immerse my players into the game
“None of the good bits” 😂 Nice setting and atmosphere! Love seeing these characters pop up occasionally.:) Chris seems to have changed the most and Suits is so into this game that he even put his trademark suit aside! What a legend!;)
YES! As a D&D player, this is incredibly accurate. I had a very similar experience to 'Chris the Destroyer' where a player kept slowing down the story because 'it's what my character would do!' Incredible XD
Roll with the punches, save the lost plots and subplots for another game. "You want to try to destroy the tavern? Ok, how? Do you just start attacking a person in there, or do you just take a swing at a wall or a table?"
I wonder what could possibly have inspired this? 😂 Actually took a while but at least Hog finally got to vent his frustration. Ironically you actually got further in this one in the end. Have you enjoyed some more games since?
@@Ensign_Roque Hahaha, yes! He wields the all powerful sword in the air. When suddenly it disintegrates into little pieces raining down on his head foiling his plan. As due to an ancient curse no elf can touch the mighty Sword of Galabrian.
That made the dm in me wince, god. I tried to run something for a group, and 2/4 of the players basically behaved like that... I just remember having to quit and find a better group because, despite THEM asking me to run it.... they just kinda didn't care. Your sketch is spot on
I remember playing in high school. My girlfriend was the DM. She did a FANTASTIC job with varied attacks for a young dragon. However, I was in high school...and made her cry (knocked down to 0HP...but as a Caviler was able to walk back to the Cleric...went back and finished off the dragon). Good thing we're still friends 30+ years later!
Loved the three shows in Hamburg, Cologne, and Rotterdam the past weekend! ❤️🤩 I'm so glad my friend could watch two of the most happening Hogwash shows that I've watched so far! She may have told you that I dragged her to the shows but she absolutely liked the shows!!
This sketch was really good. Especially the part where the two hecklers went on a rampage at the beginning. With setting the tavern on fire 😅🤣 LOL Poor Hog at the end 🥲 his friends are not worth it. Maybe he should planned the game on a day no match ia on? That reminds me of a game that my big brother used to play on the SNES somewhere in that RPG was a npc guy hidden in a town and when you talked to him, he lit himself on fire, for no particular resaon at all. My brother had a savepoint in that city and let him lit himself up at least every day once when he played that game.😂😅
