That last story reminds me of a German saying that I recently heard. "If there are 9 people and 1 Nazi at a table and no one gets up to leave, then there are actually 10 Nazis". Its a heavy handed way of saying to watch the company you keep. If your best friend is a raging misogynist and you just put up with it and even claim to not be a misogynist, I'm going to have a hard time believing you.

"Women should not get any shares of the reward, they should be PART OF THE REWARD...." Now this is how you can tell when someone should be on an FBI watchlist.

The last story is an example of “if you got ten friends at a table and one of them is racist, you got ten racists.” (Don’t get wound up; it’s a hyperbole about enabling and neutrality.) Being hands-off over stuff like this in a friend group usually, if not always, does not end well.

The Nazis get associated with the Norse stuff because some of their higher ups liked appropriating Norse imagery, even if it’s not as prominent as pop culture believes. Similar to their supposed obsession with the occult, which was again, mostly just a hobbyhorse of a few relatively important members of the party. However, since that story explicitly mentioned the BPRD and Hellboy, in that universe, the Nazis were full on occultist super scientists that hired Rasputin to summon a demon from hell. So then trying to call a Norse god at least fits their deal

Last Story After the 2nd story, I would put him on a watch list. The instant he complained about “No Loli’s”, he would have been GONE. Also why the fuck would you have a misogynist play with a TEENAGE GIRL. This is a story where the OP is a horror story.

As a womanI am going to disagree that the last dm isn’t a bad person. If you’re cool being friends with a known misogynist and just overlooking that “character flaw,” you do, in fact, suck.

Seems like the last OP is the character in another person's horror story where as a youngster you wanted to play DnD and instead had to endure two adult man roleplaying looking for a sexworker, with DM not bothering to stop a bad behaviour at their table and welcoming a person with harmful views into their games.

Heya, OP for the AITA here. Thank you for the input, I always find your takes enlightening in some capacity. I do wanna say it has been a bit since I submitted my story and a bit's happened since then. I did voice my grievances to the DM about feeling left out of roleplay and having my character arcs rushed and he did sort of apologize in his own way. It turned out since the Sorcadin's PC had amnesia, it opened up a bit more narrative potential than he was expecting and got a bit carried away, but he did promise to try to be better about giving everyone their moment, so small victories, I guess 😅He still kinda plays favorites with Sorcadin and Ranger, but I've just about accepted that's gonna be a thing until it's over. I enjoy getting to pop off in combat, as is expected from a Barbarian, but I'm not just playing D&D for the combat, y'know? Extra edit: these skits 🤣🤣🤣 Another edit for clarification: I LOVE KETHERIC, I WAS TALKING ABOUT THE BRAIN 😭

I guess the BG3 villain twist can feel quick to you, if you skip through the dialogue, do zero exploring and forget everything about the game every 45 minutes.

Second story, the *second* the DM twisted the use of Wish, the smell of bs was already in the air. OP definitely needs to talk with the DM about how they're feeling because yeah. It's hard not to think this was targeted at them with the rest of the party as collateral

Two little """fun""" facts about the book Lolita (which is essentially the story of the abuse of a young girl from the perspective of her abuser), not only did the book got censored for a few years because everyone thought that because Vladimir Nobokov was writing about that kind of abuse it meant that he was an abuser (even if he often said the book was a tragedy, and that the narrator could not be trusted since he gaslit the reader by saying that she was 'asking for it'), but when Stanley Kubrick bought the rights of the book just to adapt it in a movie, not only did he rearranged the script that the author had wrote for the movie but he also thought it was a good idea to sexualize the little girl in the movie.

OP of the 4th story be like, yes my years long friend is a misoginist and the biggest problem with that is how he embarassed me in public that one time. still friends tho

These comedic re-enactments are SENDING MEE 😂 my two faves: DM: Turn around Player: oh sure **turns** DM: **loads gun** and, DM: and finally that's dylan, he's a misogynist Player: **blinking gif moment** he's a what

I wanna say: You're not the asshole if you don't find a way of running a campaign fun. If the other players are cool with the no-win scenario and you're not, then it's just that you don't like that. Of course, the DM passing by your backstory in favor for another person's is dickish too. It's not like you made your characters as just "mercs for hire" and are there to play the combat.

Intro story: My advice? Split the group. Find a second person to DM, and split into two tables. Two smaller tables will be easier to manage than one big one. First story: NTA. Sometimes unwinnable encounters are part of the plot, yes, but this one sounded more like the DM was just on a power trip. The way your characters have been ignored and pushed to the sidelines is also, shall we say, not great. I think you need to have a serious talk with the DM about these problems, and if things don’t get better, it may be time to leave this game. Second story: I feel for the GM here. Anxiety is the WORST. I’m glad the players were so nice and reassuring! Third story: I feel like this could have been solved by a session zero. Everyone could have shared what they wanted from the game and come to a compromise. The DM could have agreed to tone down or remove the fetish elements, or if they were meant to be an important part of the game, the players who weren’t into it could have backed out. Session zero is important, people! Fourth story: OP, what the actual fuck? Why did you let this guy stay in your games? Or the misogynist? These guys suck, and I get wanting to give your friends second chances, but at this point, you’re just enabling their behavior.

The boss at the end of BG3 Act 2 is only a surprise if you don't listen to a single plot conversation, or read any of the codexes, or pay attention at all to anything you're doing throughout all of Act 2 and half of Act 1. >.> I don't understand this at all.

That genie skit was gold. Love the use of the music, especially how it begins with “ooooo”, right as he pulls out the pewpew,. Absolute masterpiece.

I like lolita fashion, its a shame it shares a name with * that * :(

That last DM was way too tolerant, honestly

General rule is if some one is telling you something crappy about themselves, believe them. It might be the only time they are being absolutely honest.

"NOT LOLITA...?!" I ... can't even. I've definitely had plenty of my own That Guy moments (I've done criminal amounts of sulking but I've been and still am working on it and it's much rarer) but NEVER gross ones. YIKES. And there was a KID AT THE TABLE AND KIDS ONE TABLE OVER!!! ::has six glitches and an asthma attack:: I can remember being a kid and having gross moments happen to and/or around me, and being just old enough to understand that it was gross and shouldn't be happening ... yet not old enough to understand WHY it was happening. I STILL sometimes have those moments where someone says or does something GROSS to me, and I either go mini-shutdown or full-barbarian rage (thank you, AuDHD brain), and I still don't understand and that makes it WORSE. I do believe I'd catch a case if I saw an adult doing something like this to or around ... well, anyone, but especially a kid. Misogynist Lawyer has ISSUES, and probably shouldn't be around anyone of any age who isn't a licensed psychiatrist. Creepiest of all, he's a freaking lawyer and he likely knows how to game the system so that if and when he steps out of line, it's never far enough for legal action to be taken. He'll never be held to any kind of accountability by the law nor, apparently, his friends. ICK.

Petition to rename the "Deck of Many Things" to the "Deck of Campaign F**ing".

First story: split your group in half and play two campaigns with 5 players in each. Seems like two campaigns will be a lot more work, but you will absolutely save yourself time and energy by not having to corral 10 players every session.

"Rushed Reveal of act 2" ..... we spent 20-30 hours learning about illithids. What else could it be than an Elder Brain? Plus, Karlach sets up Gortash and Grymforge, Thorm. Didn't feel rushed.

i have a player who plays two characters, initially it came from the party SORELY needing a healer at the time but nobody wanted to step up, and everyone was struggling to find a way to cross class or get potions. and i had a lot on my plate and couldn't run an npc to heal for them while also doing enemies and other npcs. so, one of the players made a bare bones background for a 'hired help' kind of npc that the party agreed to pay in order to have helping them, and the player would only occasionally say how this character would react or talk in certain situations if needed, but overall was originally just meant to be the paid healbot. eventually, the party ended up actually getting invested in the little healbot, and the player asked if they could actually develop them more and maybe play them. i agreed as long as we found a way to make it natural and balance the attention tha this player got with having two characters, and asked the party if they were cool with it. now, said healbot has crossclassed into a warlock after getting themself possessed in a haunted house by a demon lord, and then being manipualted by said demon into unleashing it in the world and causing the demonic apocalypse, all because the party had treated them as nothing more than a heal dispensary (something the players all agreed would be a very fascinating and fun angle to take with it and could lead to development and conflict) and not a person. only the demon had seemed to treat them as if they actually mattered, and in the end they were still used. now the party is trying to make up for that, and to help hunt down the demon lord and end the demonic invasion before it's too late. the players OTHER character also doesnt even get along with the new healer character, which is fun to have the player actually figure out how to roleplay without having to just talk to themself. it also gives for a good reason to NOT have their characters interact to avoid that same issue. imo in some ways i can see it being hard to do, and also hard to manage, but if the players and dm think they can make it work, it's worth giving a go. it especially helps if a certain character's arc is in a lull for the time being, but nobody wants to be bored and not have a lot of involvement.

Dammit, not Lolita :P I do appreciate that you also share some of the more wholesome stories, too, like the DM who got in her own head and was reassured by the players. It's nice to know that not all D&D horror makes a game irredeemable or even mars the experience.

Crispy....not rounds. TURNS. Thats a big difference

"The Wizards Upon the Coast" lmao!! 😂

I have been watching Crispy's videos for a while now, and they are often very enlightening and entertaining. A few weeks ago he read a story about a DM who was apparently extremely horny and kept trying to work sexual scenarios into his adventures, despite the player's (the OP of the story) objections. I've tried to find that video again to write a comment directly in its comment section, but I forgot what the video title and thumbnail were. So I'm going to mention my thoughts here. At one point in the story, the DM had the PCs fighting a minotaur. During the fight OP cut the minotaur's horn off, and accidentally inhaled some powdered minotaur horn, which the DM declared was a powerful aphrodisiac (a term Crispy was unfamiliar with and had to Google the definition of, which I found hilarious). I just wanted to point out that, in real life, powdered animal horns of certain animals (such as the white rhino) are considered in some cultures to be powerful aphrodisiacs, prompting poachers to hunt said animals just for their horns (the aforementioned white rhino has been hunted nearly into extinction for this very reason. Of course, science has proven that the claims of powdered white rhino horn is a powerful aphrodisiac is only a myth. This doesn't stop people from paying $1000 to $5000 an ounce to purchase it for this very purpose. My point being that if in the real world people believe that consuming the powdered horn of a white rhino is going to make them an exceptional lover, enough to pay thousands of dollars to purchase this "aphrodisiac", then it makes sense that in a fantasy world, the powdered horn of a fantasy creature (like a minotaur) would ACTUALLY be an aphrodisiac. Personally, I would have made powdered minotaur horn be a complete hoax, like the powdered white rhino horn is in real life. A better idea for an ACTUAL aphrodisiac would be the powdered horn of a succubus or incubus, since the demon's whole thing is seducing mortals. Just to be clear, I'm firmly against forcing your players into sexual storylines when you're the DM. I personally don't mind playing in NSFW games, but I'm also very aware that such games aren't everyone's cup of tea and the DM needs to read the room and make sure that his adventures are appropriate for the players at his table. This DM didn't do that.

The Nazis were Christian on the whole, or at least used it for their propaganda. Individual officers however were often into *weird* shit so it fits.

15:18 I have never seen anything encapsulate my ace as hell ass so well.

Weirdest, yet funniest "playing two characters as player" case I had, was me playing spooky dead little girl (NOT Lolita! If anything she rather was Pippi Longstoking) haunting the guy who (believed he) killed her. So I played both of them, including scenes with mainly two of them in play

A note on multiple characters... Back in the antediluvian days of 2e, D&D had a concept, developed in the Dark Sun setting, where Players could have up to 4 characters. Only 1 would be active at a time, and the others would earn 25% of the XP that the active character earned each session.

I don’t think the BG3 Act 2 person was paying as much attention as they could have

I've been in games where everyone has 2-3 PCs (3 ppl including DM, so this let us run more difficult encounters). We loved having multiple characters in fights, but in contrast to OP's scenario, we struggled in RP. It's hard to have a touching scene or dramatic moment that doesn't involve your other PC(s) getting into the conversation, and consequently RPing with yourself for possibly minutes at a time. So it constantly was a struggle for ppl to excuse their other PCs from the conversation, or very briefly summarize the exchange. So yeah, it *can* work. You just need to make sure everyone knows what the game is (combat or RP), and find a way to make the awkward situation(s) take as little time as possible.

Pretty sure their "(God I love Thief)" was referring to the videogame thief.

My party has a habit of adopting and recruiting npcs, so I gave those to different players to run as secondary characters. The idea is then if a player can't make a session I can run a side quest for the secondary characters without interrupting the main storyline. In between adventures they roleplay both characters, but usually only one at a time is present in any one scene. The secondary PCs level more slowly as they're not played as often, but (it hasn't happened yet) if a main PC dies the secondary character gets leveled up to the main party level and becomes the main PC, already an established part of the story. I love seeing how the players take former mpcs and develop the character and personality further in ways I'd not originally have thought of.

Homebrew Game Another thing to add is for DM’s to ask their players “How you feeling”, especially with people in different time zones.

BG3 act 2 BBEG felt a bit rushed the first time we played it. But it was because we went one way, dodging the main path for super long. Only realised on a second playthrough that going there earlier builds it up way better. Tho I also liked getting all the info through 2nd-3rd hand, building that image of him, until we finally got to see him for ourselves.

Note regarding story 2: 3 TURNS not 3 ROUNDS. going down in 3 rounds, oh well. But 3 TURNS? Depending on initiative, that barb might not even have gotten an attack off.

Kinda love how innocent that last OP was that they thought it was spelled "lolly".

As far as campaigns where everyone plays two characters, I played one campaign where our DM could only get me and one other player for it, so he had us both make two characters. Still one of the most fun campaigns I've ever been a part of and I loved the dynamics that formed around them

GURPS stands for Generic Universal Role Playing System, an RPG designed to play anything and make any character. BPRD stands for Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense, fictional organization Hellboy is working for. I'm sure someone already explained it, but I thought it won't hurt to be sure.

To be fair, lolita by itself is an innocuous word outside of the context of the book (and certain groups of people, naturally). And lolita as a fashion isn't even a fetish, at least not for most people. iirc, some of the appeal for the people (largely women and girls) who dress that way is that it's a heavily non-sexual aesthetic. Delicate and cute and pretty, without being overexposed or made to accentuate the figure. There's a lot of permutations, too, and all of them are interesting in their own right. That being said, if some 60+ year old dude is complaining about a lack of lolis (and indeed is using the term "loli" at all, and particularly in reference to underage girls), then that's a fucking "lolicon" (the proper term for the little girl fetish specifically; hebephilia is technically more broad but still Pretty Fucking Nasty- and also RAMPANT in anime/manga fan circles, unfortunately, even canonically what with all the fanservice and whatever have you), and they should've been kicked so hard they launched all the way into the fucking Kuiper Belt. That's not somebody you want within the same zipcode as you, let alone being around actual teenage girls.

“Group has ten players…” Oh, sweetie…

Is it ever going to be possible to watch these videos without BG3 spoilers? My wife and I are trying to play through that game but with our newborn son we only get like half an hour a day, so it's going to take us a few months...

My most recent trash mob scenario was in my Strixhaven game where the party had to go fight the "garbage disposal" -- an otyugh. To spice it up, I had it cough up a host of stirges. They deal some nasty damage but have a pittance of health. Added some variety to a potentially bland encounter. Of course, then one of my players said "Oh, bet they HEAL the otyugh if they fly back to it." WELL, THEY DO NOW.

We learned 5th ed D&D specifically because my friend's 12yo stepson wanted to try it. He played 2 characters in all 3 campaigns. But we only had 3 other PCs in the party. So it was just lessening the adjustments to the campaigns, maybe? We started before the pandemic. Now he's not so interested, but I think his young brain had plenty of power to make this system work for 2 characters. It's not that complex of a system. I think even I could manage 2. It might help my skills even. I've been role playing since I was around 15, because that was the only thing my friends from school would ever do. Almost literally. But I think it will follow me throughout my life. I mean, it's just life as I've always lived it, pretending to be a normal human when I'm pretty sure I'm actually an undiagnosed high functioning person with autism. I have been faking being human my entire life. Pretending to be a different human is not my idea of a great time. I just show up and protect the other characters. But all of my other friends love it, and this way I get to see them. It's not the worst thing. :)

The Skit at 17:56 Was amazing!

Aww, amidst all the trash there's the second story. So sweet, I hope the OP's wife keeps up the good work dming more bad guy stomping!

So, what if I _didn't_ make it to the end of the video? Does that mean I have to comment "Yes Lolita"? 😂

I've seen DMs give players a researcher character and an investigator character for mystery games, particularly those set in the past. This was so players could have characters do things like library research and social networking without slowing down the plot too much.

I can see the use of norse myths and magic in 1930's germany, given that certain high officials were known to be obsessed with aryan occultism and were known to favor wagnarian operas (which drew from those myths as inspiration). the "SS" symbols on the collars are meant to be RUNES for crying out loud!!!

Now i highkey want to play a halfling girl with a name derived from Dolores who dreams of dressing in frills and bows (expensive clothing) but she's a thief. Lolita fashion is a love of mine and I'm so tired of people assuming it's connected to the book. (And the book isn't what people think it is either. Nobokov was very open about the fact that it's an examination of the mind of a child predator. He is convinced that his behaviour is good and normal, but if you pay attention to how the other characters, ESPECIALLY Dolores herself, behave you can tell how horrible he is to them)

honestly your jokes are so funny love the skits

First story: Split the party into two groups. Alternate weeks. You'll make more progress with both groups than you are right now with one mass team. Once you get the two groups split, also put some rules to each group--no phones out at the table, no non-game discussion once the game is on, etc. Second story Part One: There are some games set up with the idea of playing multiple characters. The old Ars Magica, for instance, you played both a Wizard and a mook. The idea was that players took turns bringing out their big, bad-ass Wizard, who was the de facto party lead for that session, and everyone else brought the team to bear. I've also played in a heist-themed PbP Savage Worlds game where everyone had two characters (all of whom could interact at will in the roleplay thread), but you only could pick one of them for each 'job'. Second Story, Part Two: Not the Asshole. I don't hate 'there is no win here' encounters, but by god, that's why video games invented cut-scenes. If you really are just going to trump every effort of the Players, no matter what they do, to get them to the dungeon, then as the DM, make it clear from the start that this is the case. I like to use the Interlude mechanic from Savage Worlds for this sort of situation. You describe the set-up (everyone is transported to the arena). You then tell the players, "Yeah, so, this is not a fight you win. Maybe you go down like Rocky I against Apollo Creed. Maybe you spend time running around and trying to evade. Maybe you make a failed escape attempt. Maybe you even just took one shot to the chin and went down like a chump. Point is, YOU get to describe it. Feel free to incorporate some aspect of your character that hasn't gotten proper time to shine, if you want. You'll go in initiative order; the only rule is that you can't undermine what someone else has already put forward." (Savage Worlds also has a system for giving players prompts by flipping cards from a deck.) If you really have to railroad the result, let the players determine the journey. Third Story: GM Anxiety--the Struggle is Real. Never be afraid to check in with your players, and take any compliments they give you at face value. Fourth Story: Yeah, just get out of that table as fast as you can. Final Story: Oh, Hell No. Tolerating intolerable people just because they are in the hobby is how RPGs became almost as bad as comic book stores on the issue of Cat-Piss Man. Good stuff as always, sir.

My first time playing a TTRPG I played multiple characters. My friend had some character sheets of his old highschool friends' characters. He let me erase one so I could make MY character, but then let me then have the other sheets so I could control an entire party instead of just a single character.

When I finally have my system ready to test, I WANT people to be honest about it. Because that's how you debug a system

I hear "Big Strong guy taking care of small innocent thing" and i think of Berserker and Illya. ..., F, please tell me the character the GM was using in the game wasn't based on Illya

i'm currently RPing two player characters technically! i'm running a dragonrider ranger homebrew with a twist, that rather than the dragon being hatched and raised, the player character was actually raised with the dragon's family and they're the same age-they're sort of like non-blood twins, platonic soulmates type of deal as close knit brothers. the fact that they were raised together makes the collaboration together IC a lot easier, but it does come with a few challenges when they have disagreements. it's very interesting to play, though, and i find it very fun seeing them interact in different ways with the party around them and the NPCs given their personalities are quite a bit different (the elf is much more withdrawn and pessimistic, very cautious and gets overloaded easily, while the copper dragon is a lot friendlier and more curious being sheltered for most of his life, and much louder and outspoken.) they're only about a hundred and haven't left the wyrm's den until about a year ago when one went missing--i wouldn't advise taking it on with people you don't know, but my DM and party have been friends for quite a while and we're very good with communication OOC, and i was very glad the DM lets me be creative with it. There are limitations on what I can do technically, to keep me on par with others-but the boys rarely stray too far from each other-and when they do, there's often a member of the party who breaks away to accompany the other so we have really good collaboration together. i'd recommend giving it a try with a DM and party you know can let you be creative and have fun with it, while working together with them!

These skits are HILARIOUS😂

I love your use of "The Man They Called Cayde". It hits so well every time.

having two characters really cuts down on being bored with the same character. in both campaigns i've played where this was allowed, it was a roaring success, and once in pathfinder i played 5 characters at once (rules-legal). summon, twinned eidolon, waxwork human, black skeleton (lowest HD sentient undead, and not specifically evil. a well-hidden feat allows you to resummon the same one over and over again). and a wood golem. all styled to look exactly like my true character with important differences, like how the waxwork human was styled after a rogue, with an abrasive immature personality but is secret sweet on the inside. i gave the "sisters" slightly different voices to help the other players tell them apart. i was the only experienced player other than the DM, so between my 5 fast turns i still took less time than any one of the 4 beginner players. the DM asked me to join as a co-DM, rule expert, and support in case they players get in over their head. the backstory for my character is that with her twinned eidolon, she always treated it like a twin sister, but no one believed she was real because she was rarely around. once she figured out how to summon her, they really began to develop the sibling bond, then she made the waxwork human to be their triplet. her father was a lord (and a good man) and he was murdered for political reasons. they tried to murder my character, but ended up killing the eidolon instead, who was promptly re-summoned and revealed the murderers. where it goes from there changes depending on the tie-in to the DM's campaign.

the BBEG reveal being quick in BG3 is so stupid omfg, like the fct that it's the second half of Act 2 already means it comes more than halfway through the game... Coldest take I heard yet

With the first story yea I’m currently playing 2 players characters rn. Basically me and my party were On a mission to retrieve an ancient weapon from this underground goblin burial ground for one of our members. Inside of the tomb there was this ancient statue where once you touch it you instantly have a random effect happening to you along with a permanent buff. So when my character touched the statue a clone appeared and I ended up having to play 2 versions of myself. At first I made the both of them extremely suspicious and hostile towards one another giving them a Mauler Twins relationship with one another but once they found out from an extremely powerful devil said that neither of them is a fake and that they are both there own persons. they asked if they could have their soul split and al become individuals. After the devil did so their relationship immediately evolved into something similar like Fred and George from Harry Potter. So far I’m enjoying it and seeing how their relationship develops also did I mention this is my first time ever playing DnD

More coop mechanics and multi stage parts (Three max) and realistic intervention to bolster the party when they reduce a boss enemies health to a certain threshold works wonders for single entity bosses, keeps the immersion, makes it feel epic, players will be on the edge of their seats the whole fight. I once did a single entity boss where a npc entity could rewind time to a certain extent up to three times but it meant the part rewinds, the boss still uses his attack however the party member or members it is targeting have advantage on their action.

Whoah. Someone's playing with the Critical Drinker?!

1:39 “By the way, what were we doing? Nevermind, it’s not important.” 😂

My buddy Fran runs a very similar multiple characters rule, it's pretty interesting and makes for some unusual interactions

Addendum to the characters from the Home brew story: there's a cute series of videos called Doomkemon which is mostly about the female protagonist of Pokemon Sword/Shield rooming with the Doom Slayer.

Going out to explore something related to a character’s backstory only for that stuff to be completely sidelined in favor of stuff related to another character’s backstory seems to be a pretty common theme in these videos

For the first story split up the group make a persistent world where when the characters aren't off on adventures they do some day to day tasks to earn little bits of money. This way you can also have events happening in the world during the off sessions which makes the world feel more alive and there are actual consequences to the things your groups do. It's not as complicated as you think and travelling can be done during the week. Also in my current campaign we have a cleric who uses the chaotic rules from 0e to become basically a necromancer and it's hilarious to think that during the week he basically moonlights as a fortune teller speaking with the dead.

Yesss I’m here early!! Love Crispy videos!

Hey Grizzled Old Graybeard! Another Old says hello. I've been gaming since 1986.

It feels illegal to be this early

I've role played up to 3 different charecter in one campaign. My group (6 players 1 DM)played as a mercenary guild and we would each have 3 characters we would use for different missions. We would each pick one of our PCs for those missions. It wad a lot of fun. I'd recommend the guild idea. It helps of you get bord of characters easily or like to play more of your ideas.

About the multiple player characters at the same time. I am a part of a small group with 3 of us counting the DM. So to make things work we tend to use multiple player characters at the same time so we are not limited to 2 PCs. The DM of the given sessions (we take turns so none of us become a forever DM) usually plays a character too, but doesn't have their character take center stage. The other characters get to shine more then the character the DM is playing.

The Nazis actually did have a big occult obsession that extended to pagan gods, especially germanic ones, since that's the local ones.

...the intro story is totally my party. And our group is a manageable size! Four PCs and one DMPC that doesn't steal the spotlight. We're all just excitable nerds that can't shut up and focus. We love each other. Our pacing is crap, tho. 😂😂😂

According to Wish's description, using it for any wish other than duplicating another spell severely weakens you and has a 33% chance of never being able to cast Wish again. So those 3 free wishes would have been detrimental if they used them too carelessly.

As someone who also runs brutal ass combat, I think the difference is- we design our combat to be hard. We have players who UNDERSTAND combat will be hurt and play dark souls esque or even is meant to be short. Kinda sounds like the DM of the first story just didn't communicate properly what combat entailed in their campaign, and that it could fluctuate severely. My players were warned my combat hurts, I told them this and they have fun when shit gets risky- just kind of a precedence we set.

The “He’s a what?” Part of your skit killed me 😂😂😂

I do one-on-one campaigns with my partner and I play with multiple characters to make it work. Two is comfortable, four is my limit. For role-play between my characters I either sum up what they talked about or my partner, the GM, takes them over for convos. Some systems are easier than others to make this work, the Basic Role Playing Game system, for example, has rules for running a sidekick. There’s a lot to keep organized for my characters but it’s definitely doable.

That first dilemma isn't too bad, he'd just need to split the group. But with 10 people at least, he could get 2 groups out of it. That many players and only 2 hours is gonna be tough to get anything done, before even getting to any intra-personal issues or problem players, just through sheer numbers.

A couple of people at my table, including myself, are allowed by GM to run two characters, he also has a two character per player limit, but with the caveat that the player have some experience so that they don't trip over themselves.

I've had an issue with group size in one of my campaigns. We had about half a dozen players at one point (I don't remember exact numbers), with one player even running two characters. It was clearly more than the DM could reasonably handle (he wasn't very experienced, which didn't help either). As such, I convinced him to make a second plot thread and split the group in two. The idea was that smaller groups would be easier to handle, easier to organize and get everyone together, etc. So the second group was formed, with some characters staying on the old plotline, some jumping to the new one. And all was good right? Well... no. See, once the plotline split in two, everyone wanted to make a second character to go on whichever plotline their main wasn't on. One player even made a THIRD character to JOIN their main on the second plotline! That meant that the party hadn't gotten any smaller or easier to manage, the scheduling issues weren't in any way reduced, and the DM had to alternate between TWO campaigns that were BOTH too large to handle. I don't have a problem with splitting the party. But if you're going to do so, at least make sure the two branches end up SMALLER THAN THE ONE THEY BRANCHED OFF OF.

This made me realize the insane situations my dm puts us in combat wise 😂 we always get help with long/crazy combats, but 11 rounds is still a lot when fighting a god 😅.

For that first story, there are absolutely times when I flat out have to tell my players, after several rounds of pulling things out of my ass, that I simply don't have anything prepared for the direction they're trying to go and I can't think of anything else to pad it out. I mean, I'm not tryna railroad here but each _session_ is gonna be kinda linear. The greater consequences of your actions may not be for another week or two

I'm actually making my own homebrew game system. It's a d100 roll low system based around skill checks being the main interaction, taking place in a flat disc shaped world a bit smaller than Europe that is mainly inhabited by peoples based on late bronze age and early iron age Celts. Everything about it is homebrew and I'm building it from the ground up. However, I have no delusions of grandeur about it becoming really popular or something lol

Re: two characters.... a couple of situations. First when my brother ran Shadowrun, we only had 2 players and we wanted to make sure we could cover all roles, so we each got two characters....and somehow made an all magic party: I had a human burned spy was an adept whose powers enhanced her pistol and social skills and an oni (orc metavariant) mage who wanted to be idol singer but found herself sucked into shadowrunning. The other player had a troll adept focused on melee combat and berzerking and a dryad technomancer who communed with machine sprites. Second, also my brother, when we started a D&D campaign with the same two players we decided we'd have a system of hiring NPCs on a per adventure basis and each of us play 3 characters (ours and 2 NPCs) this changed to each playing three when our nephew joined the game. Gave us a chance to try out a lot of different builds. Third - A lot of Powered by the Apocalypse games have the level up option of "create a second character to play" including Monster of the Week. I'm sort of a forever GM on this game, but so far two of my campaigns have had this happen, my first game (my brother and the same other player from my brother's campaigns) we had The Chosen (later changed to The Initiate) and The Flake (conspiracy theorist) on one player... and The Professional (later changed to The Expert) and the Exile on the other player. On my current playtest campaign we have three players and two of them took second characters: The Celebrity (now Pararomantic) is also playing The Spooky (now Hex), The Changeling (now Spellslinger) is also playing The Mundane (hasn't changed playbook yet), and the third character was playing The Monstrous but has now become The Host. (not if you go looking for three of those playbooks... I did say playtest) Also, look at the podcast The Monster's Playbook, they only started recording at what they call "Season 2" so one of them starts with two characters The Professional and The Spellslinger. The other two players start with The Chosen and The Monstrous (and each had changed their playbook before the podcast started). One of the other two characters also ends up taking a second character.

If someone demands details on what he gets for "the gold he laid down for her," what he's getting is ganked, looted, and desecrated

Ughh that first story reminds me of the campaign I just left. Love my friends to death but it took MONTHS to get between story beats sometimes.

“I might tell you part two if I’m so inclined” = immediately checked out lol

3:24 i’m in the middle of my first campaign and i have 4 playable characters that i use i know it sounds INSANE but its actually working out super well! i use them all in combat and roleplaying, our dm can also roleplay as some of my characters when she wants to since she knows them really well i wasn’t planning on playing four characters at the same time, but my four characters just worked so well into the story that we decided to use all of them definitely not for everyone since it’s a lot to keep track of and you need to be fast in roleplaying and combat so you don’t hog all the time but it’s a super fun challenge!!

To answer Crispy's question about playing more than one character, I have done that before. Whether it's controlling an absent player's character in combat or playing a second PC when we were short on players, it's something I can do quite comfortably. Right now one of my groups is playing a Marvel Multiverse game, and I've started playing a second character to fill out the numbers (we're currently on 3 active players, including the GM), but we're doing it the other way round to the OP in the first story: I control both my characters in combat, but for roleplay I'll pick one character and stick with them for the rest of the scene (though I have roleplayed two characters at once before).

Was checking its name, cause I remember there being a store near me but it’s instead called “The Game Shoppe”

Someone bringing such a Loli concept to my table would get just get banned from my table

So the only campaign I completed start to finish had a rule where each player could have 2 characters but only bring one to a session (downtime was handled via play by post on discord) and both had to be maintained (an occasional hunt roll to top up on blood at a minimum. We were plsying VtM) so when a character wasn't being played it basically became a glorified tamagotchi. It worked out pretty well. The only horror story was a problem player who ended up staking himself out of spite.

Once had TWELVE people show up for a ttrpg, several of whom I didn't know. I suggested we split into two groups randomly, as it was a big house with room, and they actually got mad at me and insisted on having a 13-person game.

I don't know much about D&D but I have an idea about what to do when you have ten or more players have at least half of the players be the Adventuring Party and the other players be NPCS or something it could be tons fun everyone gets to play and it takes a ton of acting work off of the DM or GM's shoulders