We still got Backer kits going on from the FG kickstarter! (aka pre-orders) bit.ly/34Mn0NT ALSO Today is FELIX'S BIRTHDAY! (Feb.9th) and so what a nice way to celebrate then talk about our failures! (with some victories) So hopefully you guys liked it and next video will be a Fools Gold ep, this was just a nice break and something I've wanted to make for a long time now :D Love you all and stay safe out there

There's something about the mental image of a toddler sized minitaur instant killing a giant dragon that's just so, so wonderful.

"We gotta dress up this horse." "Oh, absoLUTEly." God i love you two

I was DMing for my friends and they kept trying to seduce people, and one of them just goes “cAn I SEduCe The NaRRaToR” and rolled a nat 20

the fact that the three nat 20s followed by a nat one was a one in 160,000 chance and it actually happened is just fan-fucking-tastic

"I'm just happy I'm alive." Matt Mercer: "Not for long." Rolls three Nat20s. "Goodbye"

Two of my friends have super bizarre luck. One of them managed to get 4 nat 20's in a row on consecutive attacks across his turns. The odds of this happening is 6.25e-4%, or 0.000625%. He was playing a moon druid, and was in spider form, so it resulted in us basically capturing an entire squadron of goblin ambushers, since spider venom KO's and doesn't kill. Meanwhile another friend of mine has horrid luck, where the average of all his dice rolls per session is usually around 5. On 3 separate occasions, when he's used inspiration or had advantage, he's managed to get double nat 1's. He'll shove a target prone just fine, and then go in for the attack and still manage to flub it. He'll try to kick in a door, using expertise in athletics, and just smash his face into it.

My son was the DM for a small group of his friends, all fairly new at the game. The party is attacked by goblins. One of his friends decides to attack with a chorizo (he somehow had chorizos in his kit). Well, one not 20 later and a goblin chokes to death on a chorizo that was shoved down his throat. I’m in the other room listening to this (their entire campaign was going this way) and just dying.

6:51 Ah, yes, the "one in eight thousand attacks kills you" rule.

Nothing instills more anxiety than: Player: “Nat20!” DM: “For all total of?”

I kind-of want to hear more from that campaign gothy ran - sounds like a good time!

I was hosting a campaign while almost everyone at the table was brand new to the game, I finish my opening description of the area and one of my players just says “I hit a fat whip” and, as a joke, I say “roll for it”. Immediate nat 1 and the character face plants from whipping so hard he takes one damage. Great way to start the campaign

So a nat 20 awakened a mushroom, thus making it a campestri… Awesome! 🍄

in all fairness, a tiny minatour performing a mortal combat fatality on a god-like being will never not be funny.

Rolls 3 nat 20s God: Bitch your time has come!! Felix rolls a nat 1 in protest. God: DID I STUTTER!!!!

One of my best moments was rolling a 1. We were trying to sneak up on some guards. I decided to use an attack that let me teleport behind them. I rolled a 1, and said I'm going to the bar and just walked off I heard the DM say "his character disappears, and you hear a crash in the Inn..."

Something I've noticed in DND through other stories (and my own experiences), is that big people picking up and throwing small people happens surprisingly often

I love the three nat 20 rule

The moments of Nat 1’s and Nat 20’s are always insane!

So my favorite story just happened in a campaign where me and my sister are both players in this group, ( bit of background, my sisters character just died the previous session and is introducing their new character who is this rabbit person bard.) she was talking about how she had nothing to do on this deserted island but play the drums for the past two years, so I was like “so you’re good then?” And she just took that as her cue to start playing, first roll for her character was a nat 20! So me and the entire group was moved to tears by this amazing performance and immediately Decided she HAD to join us to play music on the road. Later we arrived at a tavern and I was introducing her to the npcs at the bar, she decided to play a tune, second nat fucking 20! Hype was had considering those where her only two rolls lol.

Great stories. My best was when a party member tried to Intimidate a Gelatinous Cube, for some reason, and said "You look rather tasty", then roled a Nat 1, so the DM decided that the Player Character was instantly eaten by the Cube.

Nat 20: My dwarf fighter, picks up a goblin and uses him as a weapon to kill five other goblins Nat 1: My rogue was gonna assasinate their target while they slept only to slip, accidentaly stab himself and passes out in the middle of the enemy HQ

My favorite Nat 20 moment is when my 4 friends and I were playing all bards (all 5 different subclasses). We were on our way to "diplomatically" end a civil war. When we got there a big battle was already happening and we just said "let's do this". So we all role for performance... 4 of us rolled a Nat 20 and the 5th person high rolled. We ended a bloody civil war with the power of song and dance.

6:10 I like that Gerk just has one expression on their face the whole time.

3:28 It was a myconid shrieker. Yay, we’re all gonna die, because the hotel is actually built on top of a massive myconid colony.

I'm so glad another group has its own "Yeet the Baby" story with Gerk

I have a friend who was in my dnd club in highschool who played our first ever campaign as a monk with a cooking set that he was proficient in cause he had the cook background. Every time he went to cook though, he got a nat 1 and poisoned everyone. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

And of course, Erina's infamous nat 20 sleight of hand that turned into an immediate unanticipated bloodbath

I love finding videos like this. Reminded me of the campaign my warrior tried to kick and escaping assassin back down stairs as they came up, rolled a Nat 1 and sent himself down the stairs instead but was allowed a reactionary roll, got a nat 20 and caught the cloak of the guy as he fell and they both tumbled down to the basement lol.

I Love how the dice representing a Nat 20 is actually a 6

Our group in Rise of Tiamat ended up buying a mule, which we then doted on and later juiced up with a whole bunch of magic items, which was basically all of the mount related ones such as Zephyr Horseshoe, a magical saddle, and a freaking +2 Plate Mail Barding that cost so god damn much that we crashed the economy. Our DM then decided that the mule was actually a legendary dragon who got True Poly'd by Bahamut as punishment for some thing, and with our Not-Mule-Actual-Dragon we beat Tiamat, yay!

7:20 God came down and decided basically 4 Nats in a row.

1:08 rapidash

I love nat 20's and nat 1's myself, though pathfinder sometimes makes 18's and 19's just as scary. I play alot of pathfinder.

Nat 20's and Nat 1's are what I live for. Absolute favourite moment was that time our parties cleric failed to use divine intervention to stop a fleeing vampire. Cue my sorcerer grabbing the cleric and effectively using him as a phone line to call up his god(Heimdall, if anyone's curious) and yell at him until he gave us a second divine intervention roll. All thanks to a single nat 20. We loved the idea of my sorcerer screaming at gods so much we gave him a custom feat: Yell At God. Where he can give a cleric a second chance at divine intervention if he beats a DC 20 check. Yes this is always flavoured as him yelling at gods through their clerics, leaving the gods so baffled they just go along with my sorcerers demand. I love that story of our group so much.

Oh oh. I got a nat20 story. It was a short one-off campaign with my brother and a couple of his friends, we were locked in a dungeon and escaping. First door I see, I listen to hear any guards. There was one on the other side. I knock Guard: “Who’s there?” Me: “Boo” Guard: “Boo who?” Me: **Rolls nat 20 and bashes the door in his face** “Don’t cry, it’s only a mild concussion” And it turned into a one hit KO! XD

First campaign I ever played in, our party decides to make a business of taking odd jobs. The bard and I decide to make flyers as advertising. The DM tells us to roll arts and crafts (partially as a joke) and we both roll nat 20s. We made the best flyers the realm had ever seen.

I love how Gerk's blood-stained angery face is barely in frame at 8:01

ah yes, the chaining 20's rule, a group i had back in the day just said "keep doubling the dice on nat 20's there's no way it can end bad." and a normal ass goblin rolled like 6 nat 20's and one shot a level 17 barbarian...

“So i was playing this... monkey?” Hurts so much more after hearing about DND Ka-re-oke!

Me just looking at their shirt and thinking, “IS THAT ALL MIGHT?!?!”

I had a time when I attacked a Witch who was trying to escape. And I rolled with Advantage and rolled two Nat 20s to hit her, and killed her instantly. Poor Witch had her spine *Erased* by my Whip.

2:34 if I had a nickel for every time a very much not seeing eye animal gets passed as a seeing eye animal, I’d have two nickels. which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that happened twice, right?

The probability of 3 20's in a row is 0,000125%... Inta kill is too small of a feat for such dice insanity I feel like at this point the skies should open up, a giant hand come out and crush the big bad, squeezing him, blood running between the giant fingers, then you all showered by that blood raining down on you instantly become demi-gods

That last story is why Felix hid the final boss in a portal to another dimension in the next campaign.

I love these types of stories. I remember one time back in high school, we had a fiction club that was basically a d&d group and our english teacher was the DM. Anywho, in our campaign, we had a paladin, sorceress, barbarian and I was playing my usual human rogue. We were tasked by an archmage to take back his tower which was overrun by demons. We fought all the way up to the top of the building and (for context) our barbarian player had to go to another club that day, so the dm was temporarily controlling their pc for that day. We were met head on by a powerful archdemon that was grueling for our group. A couple fireballs here and there and our sorceress was downed, the paladin was knocked back so hard, he flew out of the room, and my rogue was barely able to pull the sorceress out to safety while nimbly dodging these giant balls of doom (my rolls were just lucky that day I guess.) It was then down to just my guy and the barbarian dwarf, who was being controlled by the dm until the player suddenly came in, said that he had time for a couple rolls before he had to go to his next after school activity. DM: Okay, so half of your party is down and you're both looking up at a fearsome, powerful demon. What do you want to do? Barb: I'll grapple it. DM: O...okay. Proceeds to, on his FIRST AND ONLY ROLL THAT DAY to roll a nat 20, grips this archdemon that was giving us all hell, and proceeded to SPARTA KICK THIS DUDE STRAIGHT OFF OF THE BUILDING and to its death. Oh, the best part was that the player was like, "Well, I have to go now!" immediately after and leaves the rest of the group completely dumbfounded and speechless.

I love the Minotaur story, I love the creativity of throwing a tiny barbarian at the enemy, because it just so funny and hilarious to throw your allies.

In case anyone didn’t want to do the math, if he rolled nat 1s on every single 8d8 12 times, he would still take 96 hit points 😅4:54 I assume he was absolutely annihilated

1:52 I’m imagining this as a conversation between Gothy and Sips

Love how all the nat 1s in this video were rolled by felix

Craziest Nat 20's my group ever had: Our DM rolled 5 Nat 20s at the same time to see if my familiar raven would FINALLY get drunk and my raven proved that he is a god of alcohol that would make even Dionysus jealous of how well he can hold his liquor! We were all stunned and questioning what the heck is up with my raven and what made his so immune to getting drunk. It just started out as a funny running gag the DM started that my raven was a heavy drinker (he also rolled a Nat 20 the first time my raven decided he wanted a drink), but now it's more like a challenge to actually get my dumb bird drunk. I think my raven only failed a roll once in terms of drinking, but we've stopped at so many taverns by now that it's honestly ridiculous that my raven only ever got drunk once. Not even our dragonborn paladin could outdrink this tiny bird that likes to ride on my shoulder and talk smack with the party! I don't know how he does it, but I'm not even going to question it anymore because we are so past the point of logic by now with this bird! Funny side note: We find it absolutely hilarious that my raven familiar is the heaviest drinker in the party, but I, the actual player, don't drink at all. We've even made jokes about me being an Irish and Scottish lassie who does not drink yet my raven can drink 6 whole barrels of strong liquor that rendered even the biggest guys in our party to a hot mess.

My favorite Nat 20 I've ever had was actually playing as one of my first D&D characters. The party was going through a dungeon and me and one of the other party members failed an acrobatics check, falling into a pit. After finally finding some light, we found out that what we landed in was a blood pool, and we were both covered in it cause we had a CG vs CE scuffle with each other. My character comes out of a hole further down the pit's tunnel to find a bunch of lizardmen and their monarchs. At this point, I roll an intimidation check, Nat 20 and I let out a bloodcurdling roar that causes all of them to yield to me immediately as my new minions.

I love the intense frown that Gerk has the entire time it’s so cute😂

When you got to "seeing eye mushroom" my ability to breathe vanished I was laughing so hard.

I laughed out loud at “seeing eye mushroom.” Love it.

3:22 It's a Goomba! Angry, angry goomba.

The mushroom one made me full on belly-laugh

We have a rule, more of a running joke, in one of my campaigns that if we roll a nat 1 to attack, our attack will somehow hit this octopus balloon creature that follows the party named Nueve, no matter how far away they are (don't worry they're not hurt by our horribly wayward attacks). Also one time we rolled 2 0's in the same session (not the same person though)

I love how dark paladin style characters always name their mount something cute. Current campaign has a tiefling conquest paladin (Who when I was shown the mini in Heroforge, she just looked adorable) whose mount is a massive infernal horse, coal black with red eyes and curling horns, hes bored all the time unless there is violence to enjoy and once asked if they were to help a group getting robbed on the road or walking around. His name is Muffin.

My favorite nat 1(three pete in the same session) Running a custom race, which was set up as a hunting tribe, tactician ranger from 1e pathfinder(we had 6 people so I couldn't do a pet as it would take too long) Well we tracked some golem into a mine, me and the rogue took 2 paths in stealth while the party rested from the last encounter as we took no damage, I roll a 28 and 26 on survival and stealth and find the golems trail, go back to get the others, we get told to roll a perception, and i roll a 1... and disappear from everyone's sight and end up in a gargoyle den, got out with our (large) barbarian flying rage into it while I was starting to get flown off in its claws Few hours later doing tracking again out doors in a forest, nat 1, and I disappear into the undergrowth, and land in front of 3 golems, I realize I'm alone with a decent perception so I try to stealth out of there(btw a +13 on stealth) and roll a nat 1 waking up the three golems with a twig snap that was heard half a mile away... the characters name was trailrunner, and ever since our group says we trailran when we get nat 1s or botches in WoD games

Here is a triple Nat 20 Moment, A Dragon ate my smol adorable Archer girl, she rolled to use the bow and fire it inside its belly, mind you this is a Arcane arrow designed to pierce armor, since it has a higher chance to hit, I rolled a 20, my DM was like: DM:Wow....your small ranger girl, fired an arrow, in a really tight place, in a belly with fire....As she has basically 10 hp out of 100 left, and might die soon, so re-roll that D20, So I rolled another D20, the arrow pierces the Dragon's stomach, and goes through its heavily armored flesh....then he was like...Okay we roll the damage....what happens?....Then I rolled a D20, the Arcane Arrow went through its flesh, then it landed directly at the heart, from inside the dragon, and since its a volatile Arcane arrow, and it came in contact with the dragons fire, and the DM rolled, Dragon's trick, which the dragon has its own move designed to keep it from dying, and it used its ability to reflect damage or regenerate and the Ancient black dragon survived a 1000 battles and has lived for a 1000 years, but it became a Nat 1, which suddenly, the Arcane arrow, and the dragon's heart, and breath, all came in contact with each other, seven other players, were outside, hiding as they were nearly dead, and one saying, lets abandon the Pure Virgin "Japanese" Archer Maiden, she will be Dragon's lunch....but then, they saw the Black dragon flare up, and then suddenly it detonated, and then it was a bloody explosion with lots of dragon organs and guts, and bones splattering everyone, and then my Little Maiden came out, and said... I LIVE!...I was about to suffocate to death...but I can't believe that I shot upwards, and killed it...Well you can say...I am...Eaten Dragonsbane?....Heheh?.... Other players:.........What the fuck.... DM:Oh wow, well that was....Something....I guess the Dragon choked on the girl.

Dwarf: *falls off mountain* DM: what do you do? Player: I flap my arms DM: what? Player: I have nothing better *roll* Oh hey Nat 20 DM: you look and see- somehow- a dwarf flaping like a bird so hard he's flying back onto the mountain ... Because as a Dwarf he is not bound to your human physics

I’ve decided that i love gerk, and he must be protected at all costs

That dragon story reminds me of my group and the time we drowned a dragon. I wonder how many other groups have managed that - I bet we're not alone...

I remember seeing your first video when it came out. It’s amazing of how much this channel has grown with the animation and campaign

One of my favourite D20s was when in a campaign I'm currently in we were supposed to fight a dragon. Then my friend attempted to tame it, got a Nat 20 and got us a dragon. The Dm ended up having to rewrite a lot of the campaign because we essentially unlocked fast travel.

I had a player who I forgot if it was a nat 20 but it was definitely a high roll succeeded to convince the entire city guard that he is the god of bloodshed and managed to later become an unplayable character via ascending to a god. Morale of the story I'm a chaotic DM with chaotic players

We decided to dial back the crazyness of nat 20 and 1. Because, while nat 20s at the right time are awesome, rolling a nat 1 and killing your comrade or shattering your magic axe is more depressing than 5 nat 20s can alleviate. Though our DM decided to instead reward creativity: if things are going bad but we can think of something creative that would make sense both in world and for our character to do, he will usually make sure that it happens, which can lead to some badass, climactic moments.

3:09 to be fair, she is wearing two sets of glasses, meaning her eyesight was probably *VERY* fucked already.

And I say unto you: "This is gonna be good."

Your editing is top notch

My favourite time is onetime me and my friends were doing this star-wars one shot for may the 4th, at the start we were in this cave and obtained our lightsabers. The dm was very good at making things interesting and different from the average campaign so he had us roll for our weapons stats during the campaign as we found or sabers. One of my friends his name is Caleb got really unlucky, he had a broken lightsaber that was radio active and very dangerous to everyone around it, but then after he we were done the dm looked over to Caleb and asks him to do one more roll… Nat 1 he looks Caleb dead in the eyes and just says, you have cancer. And then just moved on with the campaign

One thing that my party has agreed upon is that when our Air Genasi Cleric gets a Nat 1 on anything, he just gets some snow in his eyes and goes blind for a second. It happened once because they were rolling perception on a high up mountain and it stuck.

How serendipitous! Last night, we wrapped up a campaign where my character (a half-orc druid) _also_ had a Nightmare as a mount. Her name was Strawberry.

Dingo: I will not explain my mini minotaur Me: you don’t need to, they are perfect

One of the most amusing Nat 20s I’ve seen is when the party got trapped in an area where reality was warped because there was this sword buried there. The skeleton player character, called Sheriff, was lowered down into a hole that was discovered after moving a bush. The sword was there, talking, it announced itself as an undead killing machine who was basically going to scorch the unfortunate skeleton since he was an undead. The player rolled a Nat 20, so Sheriff, an undead, successfully obtained a sword of holy power that killed undead that was otherwise going to at least injure him if it were not for the Nat 20. 😅

the first two got me wheezing and sh!t, ur dungeon master is just DONE with ur antics of seeing eyes 🤣🤣

A long time ago my friends and were being stealthy sneaking through a cave when we came across a busy tunnel intersection, my Fey corgi fighter loved to jump so I decided that instead of just sneaking across the tunnel intersection to continue the way we were going, I’d use my superior athleticism to just leap across, I was asked to roll for the jump and to stay quiet… nat 20 on the jump… but nat 1 on the stealth… so I let out a loud “Yahooooooooo!” As I Leaped across… and the hobgoblins were confused because they heard it and turned to see nothing because I was a blur across their view xD we won the combat and continued the dungeon delving. Also yeah thri-kreen get the mad mad hops

Dingo: "If I had a nickel for every time I had to lie to smuggle something weird into someplace as a seeing-eye something, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice."

Main antagonist: "I will destroy your world and everything on it" *Against all the evil that hell can conjure, all the wickedness that mankind* *can produce... We will send onto them... only you. Rip and tear, until it is done!!!* Gurk:

As someone who never played a single game of D&D but know the bare minimum of the surface knowledge of the D&D lore (thanks matpat) find this vid pretty funny

The campaign I'm in now is a Percy Jackson setting so we're at camp half-blood, and I was looking for someone from the Hephaestus cabin. I rolled a nat 20 on investigation so the DM told a funny, non-canonical, plotline where I found Hephaestus himself in the shower

One of my friend back in the day of 3.5, 90% of the time when a party member was downed, he would run up with his barbarian shout ''You killed my friend!'' and then crit, all the time!

I was the DM. Party is fighting a basilisk inside a dilapidated temple when my brother, who was playing a warlock, says: "I'm gonna try to hide from this thing". I say: "Ok, it's your stealth against the basilisk's perception". My brother rolls. Nat 1. Warlock puts himself against a wall, in the typical Egyptian hieroglyph pose, pretending to be part of a mural. "Oh, well, you tried", I say as I roll for the basilisk's perception. Also Nat 1. After 5 straight minutes of hysterical laughter at the table, the basilisk doesn't notice anything wrong and simply walks past by Warlock.

I've never played the game nor understand it and this was hilarious 🤣

In my campaign the evil necromancer fell down a building after trying to dramatically watch my players and barely survived only to fail to defend himself against a single wolf.

I think my favorite series of nat 20's I've ever witnessed was when the party (I was the DM) was fighting an ancient black dragon. The artificer shoots the giant stone throne with his portable ballista with a rope tied to it. The rogue, who had climbed to the top of the throne, jumps down and uses the rope to fly into the air, gets a nat 20 acrobatics and swan dives with a dagger straight into the dragon's eye getting _another_ nat 20. Then the warlock crits with eldritch blast for insult to injury.

Been watching your videos since you started. Glad to see you're still here.

OMG I LOVE ENDING THE FINAL BOSS OF THE CAMPAIGN THE MOMENT IT STARTS

I still remember when my character was trying to balance across a pit with a backpack full of alchemist fire. And fell in. And one of the vial’s exploded, which makes the rest of the vials explode. And just sees flames roar from the pit like in Austin powers

3 nat 20? I like that. In my campaigns I always allow a reroll if someone rolls a 7. If they get two 7, then they get to roll for a 3rd one. 7 7 7 = Nat 20+

These stories are great.

I loved these stories

I love that chaos just follows you guys everywhere in every iteration.

So, my fave nat1 will always be my introduction to the group I play with nowadays. I joined the campaign a few sessions in, invited by a friend (who has since left the group). We were playing Pathfinder, and what had happened when I joined is that the Tiefling of the party had been captured by an angry mob and was going to be publicly executed just for being a Tiefling. I decided to play a rogue, whose signature weapon was a wrist-mounted dart launcher with which he fired poisoned knock-out darts (he was a bit more of a pacifist-like character who hated the idea of killing anyone). So, I snuck into the crowd, and as the Tiefling was being lead onto the stage to the executioner’s block, my plan was to dart the executioner, rush in and grab the gal, and scamper off into the crowd. Things… didn’t go to plan. I rolled to hit the executioner… Natural 1. DM rolled the fumble, and I hit a nearby target. Who was the only nearby target? The Tiefling, who promptly collapsed onto the chopping block like they WANTED to die… Thankfully, once the laughter of the table died down, the DM said that in the confusion, I could still attempt my rescue plan, which otherwise went off without a hitch, the other PCs covering my escape by fighting off the guards without my guy even realising it. So yea, not the greatest way to introduce a new character to the party, but a damn memorable one lol

Man, I love finding out what kind of weird things D&D groups take as "pets". Most memorable one I can think of right now was when the DM joke-described the interior of an NPC's fridge as disgusting, with, and I quote, "a tupperware with something fuzzy and twitching inside". We instantly adopted the fridge-monster and began running impromptu and wildly unethical exposure experiments on what it could and could not eat (fruits? yes! bubble gum? no! coffee? EXTREME NO!), endure (fire? surprisingly yes! mind control? OH GOD NO!), and do (speak? no! die? no?! anymuch of anything at all? nnno).

Glad to hear cannery in the background, one of my favorite Kevin McLeod pieces

That must be the best representation of a sand storm ever to grace this earth.

The seeing eye mushroom. I've been laughing for the entire video over the seeing eye mushroom

I would love to hear small summaries of campaigns like these