D&D Story: Tragedy + Time = More Tragedy

This video is broken up into two sections. First story is about metagaming when we fought a shadow monster and the second part involves Bohdi Treeshadow. (Corrections: A few issues in this video. First, I think I mispelled his name on the gravestone. Might be Bohdi not Bhodi. Second, I actually messed up a few things in the Crown of Madness description. The spell uses someone's action. However, a valid target has to be within melee range. If there's no valid target, the target then gets to take their turn as normal. Since there's no one near the Bard at the time, he gets his action.)

Weird Wastelands:

[lunatpr]

Ben during the first half: We were pretty stupid back when began 5e haha
Ben during the second half: *The dad of two of our characters has it rough*

[deptusmechanikus]

NPC: gets stabbed in the jugular and proceeds to bleed out
Player: don't worry, he only received 2 points of damage

[joehall]

Perfect, you now have an excellent villain back story. Father Treeshadow: the Withered.

[ShasOSwoll]

We also had a moment of "Don't daggers only do 2 damage?" but we also argue that when someone is obviously held in a helpless position any attack can be treated as a Coup de Grace. Home rulings like these are a GODSEND in games like GURPS or Shadowrun where any enemy you find yourself against is probably wearing so much armor a pistol won't even tickle him, but if you sneak up and put the gun up under his helmet, it's GOING to kill him regardless of damage.

[mrroboshadow]

not gonna lie, if i was a bad guy in D&D and a wizard just lifted a hefty table over their head and snapped it like a twig
id be like "im out!! im not getting paid enough for this shit"

[kelseyjmccabe]

"The bush they played hide and seek behind."
Must have been some quick games of hide and seek.

[thomas]

Damn... Reminds me of the first character death I ever ran. While it was a NPC member of the party. It shocked everyone as much as a players death. The real kicker of it all was, that the NPC was gonna be a father and now, wouldn't see his daughter be born. With the rogue now taking the mantle to protect the mother and child

[bubbasbigblast]

One of my favorite things is to make player deaths retroactively important: in one case, the dead guy was a prince who ran away in secret, and the rogue (his best friend, ) used disguise to pretend to be him long enough to resolve a civil war, and create a republic.

It was pretty amazing.

[gibus]

Holy shit, didn't think we'd get to hear more from the Mind Axe character Ben played.

[esoopthederp]

A puffin speak translation: “ this isint that bad” equals “this is the worst and troubles me deeply”

[nodegreehistory]

I actually like all the ways to make stats. Standard array and point buy for balanced characters, one with a bit more variability. And rolling for stats leads to some hilarious characters, a friend of mine had a six year old character with the strength of 18, not even a half orc

[ayotzella]

Nice to see Alagaros back again and very shocked to hear he had an INT of 12

[sananaryon]

It's been so long since we last saw Aligaros and Katia in a video, and I am _so_ impressed with how much Ben has improved.

[vampiricnght]

I almost didn't recognize Aligaros and Katya... your art has clearly improved

[tsunamiscientist]

Huh, funny. GLaDOS told me something completely different.

[kurtisbrown]

I love puffins videos. So glad he posted another one

[emberfist]

The daggers are an example of a thing called gameplay and story segregation.

[skyblade]

Now I imagine Slenderman speaks entirely in internet abbreviations.

[MudDragon]

I roll Coup De Gras rules with daggers when necessary.
"Oh yea, you can totally wait and see if it only does 1d4 damage."

[benjamintin]

Wow... This went from being pretty lighthearted to a dark and depressing ending. It just felt so surprising that it ended on that note. Great video!