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@Grim Reaper gaming1 Look up “TF2 this is a bucket”

"It's full of jarate."

Soldier: Wait, you did not read mine

@@BanditOfBandwidth XD

All good stories do. :)

They kicked the bucket

*cheesy laugh track*

Shakespearean even

Those dam vines

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Ok Bear Grylls

meanwhile, create water in both 3rd & 5th ed both create far more water, making purify food & drink only useful if you also have spoiled food

That's an easy +1 to your intimidation check.

Oh my god that's genius

Crybaton Gaming yeah it's a free source of water... but the fact that the water was once urine... 😛

A bucket of pee is like 5 spoons of water... it's a bad idea...

Go full bear grills.

Actually pee is mostly water. Long story short your body use however much water you need and then use the rest to wash out all the waste we don't want in our bodies but unless you are seriously dehydrated it is still mostly water. That is why you can easily use one of those amazing osmose straws or whatever they are called that have a membrane that filters on the water from everything else on a bucket of piss and drink most of it easily. Yes I actually went and researched this I would love to hear where you got your numbers from because they seem really flawed.

if a 1 liter bucket would have 5 spoons of water in it, and rest was other elements like salt, it would be fucking crystal. 5x15ml(1 spoon)=75 ml of water/75 g and 1l=1000g it's 7,5% of water... Standard NaCl has solubility of 40g per 100g of water,so in case of 75g of water it would be 30g of salt in 75g of water =105 g, Where the fuck is 895g?

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sums up my birthday

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@@dustinsangrey6091 ....ok Bai now!

Death curse?

Actually the yellownes from piss is actually a sign of how unhealthy you are so I imagine it would be clear

Barry Bend but none of the party members died, just their escort mission NPCs... Unless those are considered party members? Seems odd, but I suppose could be possible... Never actually played :D

No at the end he said he was the only person left by the end.

Barry Bend oh. Missed that. Only remembered the image of the 4 party and 2 NPCs on an 18 day walk back.

Ryan Gunn and it went great.... for him... because everyone died

Tomb of Annihilation was my first D&D campaign, and we didn't quite finish it. But we got past the boat in the trees, and climbed up with no problem.

I've DMed for quite a few groups, and I gotta say: Dwarf players come up with the best ideas

I'm curious, you had enough fire spells to head rock to the point of it going red hot but didn't have a single cold damaging spell? I like to imagine a lonely wizard humbly going "guys Ray of Frost is one of my cantrips" and the group shouting over "CAN'T HEAR YOU, PISSING TOO LOUD!", it just cements the image for me =p

I've played as a magic user with a dwarf player. My group was battling a rather large something with a gaping maw (DM never specified the monster so I assumed it's homebrewed) that had skin that was invulnerable to sharpened weapons. As a magic user, I didn't have any weapons and the beast was resistant to my mage's offensive spells and the rest of the party sported swords and axes. So naturally we were pretty screwed. BUT the dwarf knew I could cast a grow/shrink spell, the elf player had two strength potions, and the Goliath player had a high strength value. The dwarf wanted my mage to cast grow/shrink on him, have the elf forcefeed the potions into both the dwarf AND the Goliath, and have the Goliath *THROW* him into the maw and the dwarf will just swing his weapon around, full force, from INSIDE the beast. The Goliath passed the strength save roll, failed another one that wound up hurting the dwarf, but the dwarf made his rolls. Natural 20 on the attack. DM says the beast was eviscerated from within and, apparently, swallowed a very important looking object with this miffed tone as they described the object. Our DM was about to bring in an NPC that would have made it easier to kill, but our witty dwarf figured "well if we can't cut it from the outside..." Long story short, always have a witty dwarf player in your party.

Ah, the "kill it on the inside" plans... Once I had a sorcerer just tell the barbarian "don't attack that bullete anymore, just stick on of your torches in it's lower teeth. Well the barbarian got pretty hurt doing that, but nobody cared because the sorcerer had this crazy look about her and we were all excited to see her plan. Then she tells the wizard "just use Enlarge on the torch". When the torch grew, forcing the poor creature's mouth open, the DM had about 30 seconds of horrible realization of what was to come when the sorcerer used Quickened Spell to throw 2 fireballs inside of the Bulette's gaping mouth. Legends say bulette meat rains in that dungeon to this very day.

Mordirit it's always good having "creative" players in a group. Because regardless of failure or success there will always be something to talk about in the aftermath 😂

Well, the reason why you can't drink piss over prolonged periods is because piss = water + contaminants/waste purposefully disposed off by your body. If you remove the waste(which is the cause of the color), you'll end up with a clear liquid = aka water.

Elf-lord's Friar of the Meadowlands the reason it's yellow is your bodies wastes if you have little waste but have drank a lot of water your iron turns clear

Urine is sterile, so the spell did not even do anything.

kindoflame not all urine is but if you are healthy it should be relatively harmless

"The NPC's were drinking yellow, yet harmless piss." Our gaming group had a name for that. We called it Mountain Dew :)

Yes, that's only one of the plot holes. Ships have cargo space for a lot of food. Any ship would have at least enough food for the voyage, and then probably extra. So, that means that airship must have crashed in the trees some time ago. Enough time for the crew to eat all the food and drink all the water and then be starving to death. So, why didn't undead gorillas climb over the side and kill the crew members a long time ago? They just happen to wait until the heroes arrive? Seems convenient, but maybe the module has a logical explanation besides "because plot device".

By his description it wouldn't surprise me if the NPCs ate the rope ladder and proceeded to throw the food overboard in hopes of creating a jumping zone.

The food fell off during the crash, and they've only been there several days. The ship is broken into 3 pieces, book doesn't mention a latter, it's probably messed up anyways. They have level 4 exhaustion anyways

They had one, but it was made of vines…

I just realized you can just tie a rope to them and lower them down one by one. Should be pretty easy and safe.

soooo...kinda darksouls?

Congratulations, you're alive again! Now let's look at your fabulous bonuses: Second Chance at Life, all your gold and loot, full health and spells, and THE DEATH CURSE. Enjoy your revival 👼

The Death Curse caused anyone who had been revived to get sick and slowly die. It also meant no one could be revived.

@@eric_moore-6126 so that’s the way to punish player for getting higher than tier 1 then?

@@justnoob8141 No, it's just a part of Tomb of Annihilation.

My PCs just failed one miserably today. Group of Orcs riding Hippogrifs start attacking the caravan they'd been hired to protect from too far for them to reach, what do the PCs do? Hide under the carts! Because that'll solve everything! I gave them a *six turn workup* of the orcs splitting up, an older orc with mystic tattoos and a staff arriving, raising his hands to the sky, slowly starting a storm above, starting to channel the lightning around them before the druid thought "Hey, maybe it isn't a good idea for us to be hiding under these carts and doing nothing about them orcs!" By then the Orc Shaaman had already Called Lightning the first cart into oblivion, 3 NPCs were dead, the caravan leader was slowly dying and it dawns on the PCs that they couldn't just wait it out until the orcs got bored of killing their horses and exploding their carts.

Mordirit did they manage to survive?

DanPlan so says one, so says us all!

whats is this? A crossover episode?? jk Cheers for the DanPlan Crew, you guys are awesome

Didn’t expect to see you guys here. I’m loving it tho.

didnt expect u

DanPlan you guys should totally do a dnd game, that would be amazing

Give your players leveled loot if they do a gud. They always like that.

Reward creativity in their problem solving. The best way to make their actions feel valuable is to reward them for outthinking your scenario. And try to find out what type of players your players are. Do they enjoy socializing with the world, problem solving, dungeon crawling, combat, exploration or all of the above? Also, remember the following 2 sentences: The rules serve you, no the other way around. Ditch or alter the rules when you feel like it will make the campaign better. As the GM it is your task to entertain everyone. When debating whether or not to allow something, ask yourself if it will make things more fun. If the answer is yes and the action does not derail the plot, let them go for it.

Mees Zijlstra, basically what I said, but with detail, kek.

- Don't overprepare. You'll hate yourself for doing it after the fact. If you feel like you *need* to prepare. - At the beginning, generating Loot and Encounters by the book with the CR tables is wonderful; you'll eventually grow out of it, but it's a very good way to make some certified balanced characters. - *Start at low levels* . 1 might be too much but 2 or 3 are great starting points, the PCs and enemies won't have too many crazy powers making your job of mediating the rules easier; if you start at that point, by the time things are going crazy and people are asking to use spells as propellants to throw the Paladin with a halberd against the flying dragon's chest (yes, it's happened) you'll be experienced enough to know how to handle it. - If you are too nervous, look for a pre-made adventure on the internet and make that your first session. The annotations will help you know what you need to prepare when you are making your own plots in the future and having a nice guideline to follow on the start can be a nice morale boost for you. - Don't say no. Player wants to try to steal the sleeping guard's necklace because he likes it? Sure, go ahead; player wants to break into the mob's house at night and smoke their weed stash? Why not! Player wants to use his fishing rod as a precision weapon to gouge out the sharpshooting goblin's eye? Hey, if you roll a 20 and oooh fuck, you rolled a 20... - If it's your group's first time as well, read all their classes features they've got at your starting level. Players tend to missread the fine print in the most favorable way for them (I once had a monk who believed that the Unarmored Movement bonus stacked *every level*, so +10 feet at 2, then +20 at 3, +30 at 4 and by level 5 that mofo could outrun Wally West), and it's your job to mediate that. - You can never have enough d6 - Get a DM screen. It's importance is not stated enough, having a barrier to keep the players from knowing when you're confidently reading from previously well thought out annotations and when you're just looking at the shambles of your work and desperately trying to mend the shattered pieces of a plot line on the fly can make a huge difference in how they perceive your style and how the table's atmosphere will be. - Have a name generator website always open on a tab, or have a decently long random names list. You may *think* you have given everyone important a name, but that'll go up in flames the second they decide they need to ask the little runt who puts back the tavern's stools on top of the tables at the end of the night, because how dare you not have his life story ready? - In addition to that, have a list of random character traits. Just write down shit like "has a flemmy voice", "looks around nervously all the time", "constantly rubs his eyes", "likes the word 'moist' too much for a normal person", "tiptoes", "hums while he pees", and then just tack one of those to the random NPCs you never expected them to talk with, it'll make your players really feel like the whole world around them is alive. - Have music. KZfaq can be a god in that situation, whatever the hell you need is here, just type "eerie RPG music", "rpg forest sounds", "rpg battle music", "rpg tavern band", "rpg epic music" or literally whatever you may think, I guarantee you there'll be at least an hour long version of what you're looking for.

When I GMed I would always overprepare, thinking I knew how the sessions would turn out. They rarely did. I'd still recommend a decent amount of prep, but rather than planning out the villain's speech (when your PCs are actually going to sneak past him), or a complex genealogy of your nation's nobility, complete with heraldry (your PC's probably don't actually care), just have a solid idea of what should be happening, prepare enough generic stuff to add flavour (a few generic peasants, shopkeepers, aristocrats and monsters) that you can throw in when needed, and improvise when they inevitably go off the rails. All that being said, don't be afraid of a bit of railroading either, especially for your first time. If you have a great dungeon prepared you'll obviously want your PCs to visit it. -You can try to make it seem like a free choice for them by "the illusion of choice" ("Do you go left or right?" [actually they both lead to the dungeon ]) but it relies on obfuscation so don't overuse it or they'll start to feel they can't make informed choices (because they can't). -You can prepare a bunch of plot hooks to motivate them, but I've seen a whole party ignore the most juicily crafted plot hooks for random things I didn't realise would look important to them. -Or, perhaps, just tell them honestly, and out of character, that the quest you have prepared will likely be the most fun option, and could they please arrive to the session with their own motivation for taking that path. It might not sound ideal, but I've seen that last one work to great effect (at least for the start of a campaign). The last campaign I attended had a great improviser GM, with very little actual combat or even skill checks, and we went 100% off the rails and we all (GM included) had an absolute blast. So it's possible to make anything work. Work with your players, get a feel for the game, and try to go with the flow.

the guyman hi

The Kosen one by the way (you have the death curse now)

the guyman oh well, guess im gonna die :)

Hello adventurer!

Well... time to find a new group. ......yeeeeeeah. *slowly turns and walks away*

It just so happens that if you tell a person on the street that they can drink your pee, they're going to get uncomfortable.

Thinking like that is what gets astronauts to live in space... And stupid NPCs to survive being stuck on trees, apparently.

Mordirit But only two of them survived, the other ten fell to their deaths.

They wouldn't have survivved long enough to fall to their deaths if they hadn't drunk the pee.

True, science is neat. I think the main problem I notice is that alternatively they could of cast the spell create water or goodberry which are easier solutions in my opinion

Amazing. As a DM in this kind of a session do you ever say to the warlock's player something like, "Your character knows that Flaming Sphere will set flammables, such as the material this ship is made from, to catch fire. Your character also knows that the sphere cannot be rolled through a wall or closed door. Are you sure that your character wants to cast this spell now, in this ship, in this room with doors barricaded against the enemy?" Or perhaps when they start to climb the vines, "Your characters quickly realize they do not have the skill to safely climb these vines. They can still try, but there's a good chance they'll fall and be badly hurt?"

Something along those lines, yes. I'd probably say something like "I mean, you're on a wooden boat in an enclosed room, and you barricaded the only way out, but if you really want a big ball of fire to start rolling around, go right ahead." Basically, the three words I as a DM find myself saying most frequently are "Are you sure?" Sometimes it works. More often than not it goes hilariously wrong, but the players somehow manage to survive. (NPCs, not so much.)

wait, are you speaking about the flaming boat or the purified Pee water? ._.

The part that's more or less how all AL games tend to go? Mostly the flaming boat, but definitely some ideas along the lines of purifying pee as well.

Both are ridiculous. This party has an 18-day journey home, right? How can they be resorting to pee water at this stage and still survive the return trip? They had to have had rations, forage, and so on to support themselves. I find it upsetting that new players get an introduction to the game such as this. The DM here has failed to help them immerse themselves in the situation from their characters' points of view.

Imperial Fists no one cares

Harris Choudhary no one cares about your comment. Now play nice

But, Y O U H A V E T H E D E A T H C U R S E N O W

Guess you could say you Pissed yourself laughing. #69...

I laughed even more at the fact that the vines were the deadliest thing in the campaign.

Travis Harris I've seen this comment before. It still makes me laugh

In 5th edition that's a totally legit strategy. I know, I know, joke from another story but with Devil Sight it's actually considered cheese.

Not so convenient for the PCs without Devil's Sight, though. For them, you've just made their job way harder. There's a reason why gaming groups don't always appreciate the Darkness + Devil's Sight combo.

That would unironically be a better solution

Ha!

the reason it was set on fire was because the Gorillas were attacked by a gay sphere, in other words a flaming one, so the ship became flaming, and therfore was set on fire...your welcome ^_^

George Sears who knows it could be like chill touch. My group and i were confused when we discovered that it was a spell called chill touch that was neither a touch spell or did cold damage. Instead it has 30ft or range and does necrotic.

It is a spectral hand that chills you to the bone and prevents all healing though. I find the name apt enough.

Chill touch used to be a touch spell in ADND that caused targets to lose strength on hit

:D Frost Orb

So what happens now? :D Is Valkran gonna make a new character, will you revive him or he got mad and doesnt wonna play anymore? :P

Vinn Regi he just ended up playing a tiefling who's name was literally tiefling junior

Guus van Voorst me and my brother played star wars session where we were escaping from 7 tie fighters, my brother escaped through hyper space to alderan. I tried that too but failed so I had to fight them, I died (this repeated until I managed to hit the hyper drive, I used credits to come back to life)

First session with this group... The party starts a tavern brawl no big deal... Until the Sorcerer decides along with the bard to cast burning hands at the kegs of beer. Alcohol plus fire equals explosions. (At least according to this dm.)

I'm sure every group has set a tavern on fire during a fight at least once.

A flaming rope ladder.

A rope ladder which is also on fire.

I doubt they'd have the time to even make it before the flames overtook them & made the material useless.

Sure, lousy climb skill so, of course, crafting skill is good enough to trust the results😎

Let me clarify: These guys had been stuck in the airship on top of the trees for *days.* Hence the dehydration. Even after the heroes arrived and slayed the undead that might have convinced them not to move, they still sat around for a good 6-12 hours before they were attacked by undead. The Crew had literally nothing better to do than tie knots and wait for rescue. *So why didn't you ever think to make something that could facilitate a rescue?*

Don't run from goblins. Be the goblins.

"Be the goblins" is the best thing I've heard all day! XD

1. Play goblin. 2. Recruit own tribe. 3. ??? 4. PROFIT!!! Seriously, it's incredibly fun.

That may have to be something I try out once my high elven oracle (based off of cleric and sorcerer) dies.

I had a mage in a party who was terrified of spiders. Found giant spiders in a forest middle of a draught. (I am dm.) The mage is like I cast fireball. I look at them. "You are in the middle of a dry forest." Ya I cast fireball. "Ok. Yall are going to die."

I had a situation like that in a game this past Saturday. A shadow creature hid in a hollow fallen tree trunk in the forest. Despite the fact that the DM described it as a California type forest, I confirmed my rogue set the trunk on fire. With the explanation "I know I can out run it."

Probably because in games, wooden structures tend to be remarkably fire-resilient unless specifically marked as flammable :P

Admittedly, if a player is willing to argue the fact that Fireball functions as an explosion and is inherently designed not to leave residual flames by its arcane nature, I'd rule that doesn't cause trouble with all the burnables not vaporized by the blast beyond fallen branches and upper trunks of the trees crashing down in the area. Still, Flaming Sphere is literally a persistent ball of spreadable fire, so that does light things up in a jiffy, no avoiding it. (Of course, if that ruling comes about, they can't turn around later on and lay down an oil slick and expect a Fireball to light it either.)

Frankly I'd ask, What it is with Dms and thinking wood is the same thing as carldboard ? I've been in wooden houses, here's the thing, they don't automaticaly catch on fire unconrolably at the nearest flamme. I mean i takes either a very very hot flamme, some combustible or the wood being very dried (which if the ship spent time on the top of jungle trees, it's likely not) to catch fire instanty, I feel as long as he kept his fire sphere away from the walls and moving, there should have been a little while beore fires started.

We're going to require video evidence of this, mate.... ;)

Tony Stank ditto

Amanda Lee Dube I'll get there consent for videoing then... lol

plz do

Tony Stank we’re waiting.... :)

Being *slightly* drunk helps with coming up with the cool ideas. Too drunk... Not so much.

vaspeter2600 literally they had no idea what the hell was happening lol

I hope your character robbed them blind at least

By getting you drunk aswell?

Yeah that sounds awful. I can imagine people thinking they're hilarious at first and then just getting slow and distracted as they got drunker. hey I'm new too... did my third session on Thursday. I started my KZfaq channel in part to document the new D&D players experience. Glad to meet another new person.

pinhak me too

This is the only song appropriate for the end of the video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/opuRja1zsafZYXk.html

It's raining men, hallelujah, it's raining men! Amen!

My rogues always carried it. Mostly, it was used to tie people up for interrogation (why waste time with CHA rolls to get information since most people in the party use that for a dump roll when instead you can just have the half-orc beat it out of them) and to help get Dwarves down from high ledges because they generally tend to tumble like boulders if you don't. :)

Mailman arrives with the package and hands it to you, "Okay, you're cursed now."

Yeah good stuff. And of all the things in the world to be addicted to, D&D is not a bad choice. :)

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The Kosen one ghosts of the dead crew wondering why idk none of them tried to catch them after the first one straight fell to his death

Even the best videos always get dislikes. Sometimes I think it's just jealousy. Other times it's because they disagree with you (but this is a story, so I don't quite get that for this one). I once had a guy go through every single one of my videos and dislike them because he disagreed with a point I was trying to make in just one of my videos. (I though it was pretty funny, to be honest.)

It's not the cleanliness that has Puffin concerned. You're right, the water is clean and was a highly creative way to obtain that resource, but knowing the water's source and watching people drink it keeps a psychological taint with the water. He is freaked out because they're drinking the pee of ~5 party members he doesn't know, sloshed into a bucket and shipped off to them. There is a certain terror when watching someone drink your urine, even if it is clean.

Adventurer's League is often people who haven't played at all or just played very little, so it might just be that he didn't know that it'd set stuff on fire. I mean, sure, we all understand that it will, but to him it's just "magic".

He didn't have Darkness.

The player might not know, but the character would. Shouldn't the DM clue the player in to what the character knows?

"Shouldn't the DM clue the player in to what the character knows?" Rool: "Nah, this is more fun!!" :) - Kevin Pollak, "Willow" (1988)

i mean if it's a veteran player then yes, for new players you'd rather have them have flashy experience so that they get to tell the interesting tabletop campfire story as soon as possible, so that they are engaged and keep coming back maybe even bringing more people, also it's a good way to exemplify that trpgs aren't videogames

Well... there was a possible second plan we never heard...

What is this logic you speak of? :)

Well... He did say he wanted to go crazy. So just making water would be the mundane method. :P

It depends on what spells the cleric had prepared. Would the NPCs be able to survive the minimum of 8 hours needed for the cleric to prepare the create water spell?

He might not have had that spell prepared. Alternatively, Purify Food and Drink can be cast as a ritual, unlike Create Water, so maybe he just didn't want to waste a spell slot on NPCs.

Oathblivion Frequently. Who doesn't want a 3x3 square AOE for somewhat reliable damage and the option to ram it into enemies for same. For a minute. Combine this with grease and a choke point and most low level enemies are hosed.

Sometimes flaming sphere is useful for blocking a door or hallway. But it's definitely best used in non-flammable places.

Anytime I have a mage of any kind, I get a LOT of mileage out of Flaming Sphere. It's second in the "power-cost to net results" ratio only to the ember-cantrip for lighting cigars and pipes (or dropping in other folks' boots)... It's an absolutely wonderful spell, as long as one remembers that it "puts you on a timer" whenever employed around flammables. :o)

Urine is only as sterile as the tube it goes through, meaning if your urethra is infected with disease, so is the pee that comes out.

Mandrakos recent research has shown that urine is not as sterile as we once believed. Even in healthy, uninfected people there are non harmful bacteria in the urine and urinary tract.

Even if sterile you obviously can't survive drinking it as an only source of water because of the amount of waste in it (though it can keep you going for a while). I feel like any contaminants that can build up in your body and make you sick from drinking should be counted as "poison". That being said, "dose maketh the poison", so would casting purify food and water on a glass of coke (or beer) turn it into clear water?