D&D Story: The Obelisk Encounter

I tell the story from my Dungeons and Dragons game when the group decided to pick a fight with an enemy that was WAAAY out of their weight category.

Music Credits:

Lightning SFX and "Sunshine Samba" from the Youtube Audio Library

[janNowa]

When the guy yelled "TAKE THE OBELISK DOWN" I expected you to say that the other groups of players got the same idea and every group started breaking the obelisk and dying horribly. Now THAT would have been hilarious.

[Eleven]

Main GM: nah, it's too complicated, IT WON'T happen.
Me: I find your lack of faith in human

[MegaChickenfish]

“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”

― Terry Pratchett

[Josephine_de_Beauharnais]

To be honest, when that one guy yelled "Let's take this obelisk down!" I half expected for other tables' players to hear this and be like: "Oh, you can attack the obelisk?" *Every table starts attacking the obelisk*

[FlameDarkfire]

"Let's boogie, " is my favorite way to call for initiative

[Cabooseisdabest]

Immune to physical and magical damage? Should've started throwing insults take him down with the ol' emotional damage.

[namename]

"You feel evil eminating from the obelisk" that is not scaring the players off that is giving a plot hook

[azurebalmung]

"What's your name?"
good does it do for a cow to know the name of its butcher? It's still going to end up as steak."

[SpaceKingofSpace]

> Spend half the video talking about how this obelisk will absolutely kill the party.
> Doesn't kill anyone.
Amazing.

[jillmo]

DEMON: MY WORK HERE IS DONE.
PARTY: BUT YOU DIDN'T DO ANYTHING.
DEMON: *LEAVES*

[diamondaries]

There’s a military saying that goes “never expect a plan to survive contact with the enemy”

I have found out this is also true for players of ttrpgs

[natekite]

When the party said "Let's knock this obelisk over!!!" I was hoping/expecting that the other parties would agree and go back to start knocking over the obelisk

[thexsoar]

No good plot line survives first contact with the PC's.

[tmoore]

Do we get any XP

No

Any magical items

NO

What just happened?

NO

[noahhastings]

"What loot do we get?"

"Your lives!

[ADarkType]

you know, I can just imagine how this went down.
Bard: hey, that obelisk looked sketchy, I think it's a trap so imma cast identify
Cleric: oh, there's something evil in there? I'll smash it, that way it can't sneak up on us later
someone else: well that didn't work, let's try tipping it over
chaos ensues

[FogelTheVogel]

"What is our reward?"

"Your reward is that you are still alive"

[UltraWeebMaster]

You don’t even need to name the demon. I just avoid the awkwardness of finding a name by using the phrase “I don’t converse with my next meal.”

[KalibreSteelblast]

_"Let's be real- that's probably not gonna happen."_

I'm curious as to how long this DM has been at it, to say something so foolish. Because it's either that, or he hasn't DM'd a good group.

[DrkValCain]

For how anticlimactic the end of this video is, I still find myself coming back time and time me again