Bard: “I said I was your fish’s _dad!”_ Reminds me of “I said you were a _bold_ woman!”

The Bard is clearly 'blessed' by some god of Mischief, and that sounds like an amazing story arc.

Xanathar: HOW ARE YOU NOT DEAD?!! Bard: Silly Xanathar, you cant kill stupid!

The exploding candle trap is fucking gold. I'll need to remember that one.

"your dad was pronounced dead" "i can't believe i've been pronouncing it wrong this whole time"

How one sentence from the cleric completely ruined the campaign "DM your trying to make me feel bad for a guy who's making a construct version of a body pillow"

I think this is a brand new take on the Bard... well.... fluffing everything.

I mean that Kalas guys seems 100% trustworthy.

I was expecting him to eat the stone not just teleport away

"Your fish is dead" to "I'm your fish's dad." That's more than one word... Regardless, that was a humorous story. I love your work.

Just saying, Xanathar being a crazy paranoid beholder would also mistake the two words.

One thing i love about dnd is that you can legit just grab dice, and then think up the story as you go and still have an amazing time

Bro chill i said i am your fish's dad. *That killed me 💀💀*

We’re actually about to finish Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, and we survived Xanathar last session. I was the only one to get touched by a damaging (death) ray, and survived by one HP. The other ones succeeded in all their saves.

To be fair, it would be in character for Xanathar to get "dad" and "dead" mixed up easily in a crowd of people. Made for a humorous story though, so you have my sub.

"-Get comfy on that office chair, toilet or BED-." Me: HUZZAH! A man of quality! *sips soda while laying in bed.*

ironically I recently started running Waterdeep: Dragon Heist for my friends and I'm doing gestalt rules, I hope it's not as insane as your party, of course I don't have the same set up with the magic staff and stone

4:54 This is what happened in my last campaine, only replace the stone with The Eye of Vecna Edit: also I am taking notes of ALL these traps!

Honestly, that was the most realistic way that xanathar could have reacted and it made for such an incredible scene

"I'm your fish's dad!" "Oh ok." The bard became a supportful father of his new fish son and is owned by a very evil beholder. They all lived happily ever after. The end.

I like to think that bard is actually a powerful spellcaster who invented the 10th level spell Power Word: *kill all*

6:15 omg, this is the best trap i ve ever seen in my life

Quite frankly Waterdeep Dragon Heist sold me on 5E. I think it's the best prepared and developed module I've seen in the last 45 or more years I've been playing. My opinion only of course. Good video, thanks.

"tell him his fish is dead" "your fish's dad" " *ohno* " "Alright So It can now ride a bike... if it had legs"

"oh so someone got creative with Command, or one of them Power Words snowballed?" Goes to show even as a DM it's so easy to underestimate just how wild things can go

During a mini heist/assassination, my players teamed up with some NPC's to kill a mad merchant mayor. Before the mission began, they made a plan: half the party would distract the mayor, half the party would sneak inside to block off any escape routes, and the NPC's would wait outside until the players were in position. After a long discussion, they decided that the code word to summon their backup would be YEET. Of course, about 2 minutes into the mission, the rogue yelled YEET, having completely forgotten that it was the secret signal... I will always cherish their look of confusion turn to horror as I described their plan falling to pieces. Didn't kill everyone, but it certainly came close!

So... Xanathar got angry at the idea of being taunted, as opposed to going into maddened fury at the undeniable evidence of Sylgar's death?

damnit, I want to watch this, but /my/ group just started waterdeep dragon heist and I don't want to be spoiled XP Our group has grown a lot, and we have quite the eclectic party this time. I'm playing your AID slime race as....basically a pinky slime from terraria who worships the empress of light and was sent to faerun as a test to become queen slime (paladin multiclassing into a homebrew white mage class). My wife is playing an elderly aarakocra artificer with a plague doctor motif, and we also got an lung dragon style dragonborn who's a sorcerer with a katana, a firbolg wizard who's an ex pirate, and a deaf mindflayer rogue who can only communicate telepathically. We only just got to the part where we're restoring the pub, which we've dubbed "ghost fish tavern," with our artificer setting up a clinic upstairs. We've already had several great shenanigans, I could go on for a while but i'm gonna myself before I rant too much XP

The fish boy bard is going on my wall of fame.

I really don't want to be 'that guy', but you said he was paralysed while evading the disintegration rays. When you are paralysed you automatically fail dex saving throws and the disintegration ray requires a dex save to evade it. If there was another way your player was able to dodge the rays while paralyzed i think it would have been nice to explain it, so we might use the trick in our campaigns too. :D

This reminds me of when I told my DM that I jumped out the window so I could get stab less by my party member but sadly he didn't hear so DM had him, a rogue to stab me multiple times when I saw him entered the room, attacked me and didn't he do anything even though I told him I jumped out the window three times; he only understood what I said after my second character of the campaign in his first session dies and the campaign at the time had a few sessions before I needed to make a third character that shows in one session then the campaign ends. Almost as bad as the day I lost two characters in one session.

I've decided you're in my top five favorite KZfaqrs.... JP Sears... Rslash, motomadnass....not sure who I'd put in that last spot, but those are the top five in no particular order

Something I quite like about the Pathfinder system in particular is that it gives you tools to create very high level encounters that'll be tough even for the most experienced characters - assuming you don't allow some of the more munchkin insanity, anyway.

The return of the king…

I tend to make a set of super op twins and try to keep my party under them in terms of power at all times the twins are evil and good respectfully so no matter who they run into there is always someone somewhere to keep them in check (for example preventing mass exctinction from a wish spell by having the twins come stop them)

I remember when I purified the drinks in a tavern in my last session because I thought they were poison but when I purified the the drinks well ... the ale turned into water.

That was a fun story.. I wasn't expecting that to be the "word" that almost killed everyone. I just have one question, did the party ever get to smack Kalos silly for stealing the stones?

I caused a TPK because I didn’t realize I only needed to say “HELP!”

...Is no one going to mention that the bard transformed while in Xanathar's cone of anti-magic coming from the main eye?

But, if he was paralyzed... "The creature automatically fails Strength and Dexterity saving throws." And the 2 Beholder main attacks are DEX saves.

I used to watch your videos before watching re:zero and was so confused about the backdrop now I’m just like … R E M

"the new plan was finding kalas and snapping him in 2" yeah seems like a reasonable thing to do

...that was 4 words. 1 word wiping the party would be power word kill or meteor swarm if the guy only had to say meteor.

also i would like to compliment the party players that thought after 3 different traps to actually lit a very conviently positioned canlde in a not suspicios at all basement

Video idea : what your favourite d&d supplement book says about you

Is it not just raid shadow legends to kill everyone

"Nah; I'd prefer a Cabbage Vendor getting attacked by Giant Rats." relatable, huh?

Ive been waiting for so Long i even forgot you existed

I love how a single fish survived all that destruction.

You earned a sub, the only reason isn't DnD but the 2 Rem posters in the background... Oh and the body pillow

imagine being an MPC in that situation watching all your comrades being vaporized all because your boss misheard the bard that turned into a fish

I’m in the midst of a Waterdeep playthrough on the second part, it’s pretty fun so far despite the fact I’ve been unconned by teammates 2-3 times so far.

One of the best plot twists ever. I love it!

Kind of reminded me of when my friends bard avoided several turns of attacks from 6 skeletons while he was paralyzed

"Yes" Probably is the word that kill more player, usually by themselves against themselves

1:06: "get comfortable on that chair toilet or bed your relaxing in" me sitting on a stool: "w-wait, b-but... DOES MY SEAT NOT EXIST?" Falls through the stool because logic

That was so funny, it knocked me dad.

Omfg, Blaine simple is back!!!! The story's are going to be great :3

... you actively encouraged your PCs to try to fish-nap Sylgar!? _You monster!_

If I was in the beholder’s place I would believe the bard too. After all, he’s a bard.

The dynamite candle trick is so evil I love it

I was on the couch and just moved to my bed when you said get comfy on toilet, office chair or bed

Vendor being attacked by rats perfectly describes a one shot a friend made completely on the spot

A beholder who's prized possession is a pet goldfish... I think PuffinForest also played this.

wanna hear a story of something that happened to me today in a campaign? After figuring out sending the killer to his punishment since we were doing a danganronpa campaign, i immediately asked the dm if i could kill someone since i had an idea on how to hide the murder

I thought this was going to be a "WE didn't kill him" sort of thing. I am amused.

The joke at the start of the video with the milk rowboat is an unintentional JRWI reference and i cant [the ones with ranboo]

1:08 nah man im on a pillow on the floor

me being a bard:Oh thats gooooddd *writes notes down*

I'm actually sitting on a couch watching this on TV. It's that good.

*Chaos melodia* Also nice vid never expected chaos to- actually no thats exactly something he'd do

Our lord is back

Once i burp, meanwhile we were making a sneaky assault to a camp... As the master smiled, the other player look bad at me

1:08 I have never felt so called out before.

I once had a monk. We were in a village of dwarves. I told the DM that I started punching the dwarves. The DM described how I was hauled away to jail after leaving a trail of destruction in my wake. Many homes would need to have their doors replaced.

I think Dingo still has you beat, via releasing the Terrasque on the world with drunken karaoke. Speaking of... There is a thought among some that the "there is only one Terrasque" specifically applies to a world by world basis. So what would happen if a bunch of heroes across various worlds just Wished their world's Terrasque away to some other world or plane or something? Might there be some world somewhere (likely a bit pissed off) that has a few dozen Terrasques just rampaging around, fighting each other occasionally for dominance, etc, along with all the other high level nightmares that parties have wished away in the past (perhaps this world has the unlucky designation of just being a "default place" to wish something away to if no real target location is specified by wishes)? What if you sent your high level party to THAT world for a bit? Basically a mad max world with kaiju (Terrasques and other fun) everywhere.

And that one word was… Power word kill

Honestly if he'd just taunted that'd be huge powermove

Oh no... the Bard's biggest fear! Parenthood!

The lawn chair i am sitting on: “i took that personally”

Dang! Had to pause the video, and wait for someone to get out of the bathroom, because he didn’t say I could get comfortable in my recliner. 😡

you know.... if a beholder is that smart wouldnt he be like lawful evil? chill but does not give 2 carps about the dead bodies in his basement

Kalas Melodia sounds like a Baten Kaitos reference...

Yea, pretty sure that’s NOT what he said initially, but said it was later so that the psycho paranoid beholder would stop trying to kill him

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My first DM told me a funny story similar to this one. He was playing with some folks from the UK, and during one of their sessions, the DM said what sounded like "You open the door. There's a leak in the room." Player 1 decided to put a pan underneath it DM: You died. Player 2 tried plugging it up with some spare cloth. DM: You died. Player 3 stuck their finger in it. DM: You died. After everyone started dropping like flies, they asked the DM what just happened because none of it seemed to make sense. It turned out that the DM pronounced the word "lich" the same way as "leak." Once that had been cleared up, they started over from that spot but not before they took a minute to stop laughing.

I had an encounter to an important npc waiting by the side. Cleric almost shot him in the face with a blinding bolt. Thank God I made him blind beforehand or that would have derailed any chance at dilopancy

I am equal parts excited and terrified when my players get through CoS. I have a world wandering homebrew for levels 10 through ~20 and know the absolute mayhem that the Barbarian Gnoll is capable of with makeshift weapons, she made an "axeshot" out of an old shovel, and fear what she'll do when she gets other feats and high level items. Okay, SHE didn't build the "axeshot". She had the artificer create it. But let's just say she was as much danger to her allies as she was to the werewolves.

Blaines saying he made chad waterdeep. Me creating a campaign where there is a phyco chef called chef Antonio

There's no way that bard didn't know what he was doing.

Dawn of the first day, 72 hours remain.

same on the high level struggle. my last session i only "fought" one player. used 5 vampire spawn all boosted by the necromancer wizard boost. 10 animated halberds...the single player won. technically i did kill them but they had a reincarnation boon. and i couldn't stop it because subtle spell teleport.

Hey burnout can lead to worse things, it's important and okay to back away from things that we enjoy ever now and again.

7:36 This is when stuff gets REAL and funny.

Damn.. how did he know I'm on the toilet?

1 word? That sounds like..... Power word kill

Of all the characters I think Hibor is my favorite with the goldfish at a close second.

I based A nemsis for a cleric based on one word. Made him wed an opposing priestess in an ancient ritual. She misinterpreted wed as bound.

5:00 he fuckin ender pearl stasis chambered outta there my guy

Protein power powder? Just remember: Solyent Green is people.