In a world of magic, teleportation, and shapeshifting druids, the part where a wealthy and powerful person was held accountable for breaking the law was the most unbelievable plot point.

American: the trees are speaking vietnamese Russians: the snow is speaking finnish Germans berlin is speaking Russian Ceo: the bonsais are speaking druid.

Sometimes I think D&D campaigns would make better stories for movies than anything Hollywood comes up with

"Hacking Photosynthesis" *Furious keyboard smashing* "I'm in." 😎

I had a Druid who was hell-bent on destroying society and reverting the planet back to its original state. I was so close, only a few steps away from starting the onslaught, but unfortunately the group went silent and no games went on for over a month, so I had to drop out.

Party: ... Druid: Laughs in Druidic

"He was equal parts defeated and proud." That point in your campaign when you realize your players have cut the Achilles heel and you're totally waiting to see them stride into their glorious victory.

When the druid died, his spirit probably reincarnated as Captain Planet.

I do not know about D&D but in Pathfinder a single well played Druid can destroy even the most advanced cities. Always fear a Druid with an evil alignment.

Druid and party teleport into CEO's office. CEO: Alright, who left the tree open?

*Druid:* Loves nature. *Also Druid:* Sings like Snow White and summons his animal army to destroy an entire city!

Druid: "Clackety clack get into my sack (of holding)!"

JoCat's "Crap Guide to D&D: Druid" would be proud of this player showing what will happen to those who disturb Mother Nature. But seriously, that was great thinking on that player's part. Of course all normal modes of teleportation would be blocked, but someone who didn't believe in nature definitely wouldn't have thought about or considered nature based spells from a druid.

I can't believe you even had tree stride prepared in an industrial setting.

I had a hard time after "I played with his monkey... and his monkey hadn't been that happy for 40 years."

You know, I'm kinda sad that this story isn't a #TeamTrees tie in.

I think the best thing I ever said when playing a druid was when one of the other characters said that because I was a druid I was a vegetarian, to which I replied "I'm a druid, not a hippy, I don't pretend to be one with nature."

When you say "don't mess with nature" I expect tornados or earthquakes or insane lightning storms or a pack of grizzlies. Not tree stride lol.

Bonsai trees are truly the most powerful trees

**Nature intensifies**

I was expecting the druid to turn every single bonzai trees into a giant sequoia XD

am I the only one that got the movie "Hackers" vibe from this story? HACK THE PLANET! HACK THE PLANET!

God, brilliant. I started grinning and laughing the moment his character did in this story. Take that, samey cubicle-based offices with mandatory bonsai tree decor. xD

So they wanted to remove the tree huggers to get their hands on precious metals? where have I heard that story before...

I didn’t expect to see Matt Mercer blow me a kiss in the video, but I won’t complain.

Damn they went full on Phantom Thieves on the CEO!

“Crotchety old fart.” Gotta be one of my favourite lines from this story.

Something tells me that warlock's patron has named itself AM and I don't like where it's going

I'm currently just imagining a druid shape-shifting into a bird all while maniacally laughing.

"components for a ritual to empower computer virus" WAT

I've never played D&D in a cyberpunk setting, but one of my favorite games was in a... I suppose you could call it an early example of dieselpunk. I played a tinker, a custom class the GM was working on, who had a set group of schematics and things I could create and certain schools I could progress in for different types of effects. I ended up going down the High Explosives line mostly because I thought it was funny. But the scenes from the game were great - trying to steer a donkey-powered cart away from a rampaging WW1 style tank, fighting our way down an old-school train one car at a time, and in my case having a romance-that-could-never-be with one of the enemy necromancers who were plotting wickedness. It was a lot of fun.

"I played with his monkey, and he allowed me to stay... He said his little friend never looked so happy"... Phrasing!?!

I wish my Boyscout troop was as awesome as your Druid.

I would love to know how exactly the DM wanted them to successfully continue after locking them in the room with all of those locks and guards.... Sounds a bit too hard

Gods I love druids, I don’t know what it is I just love the main trio of spellcasters wizard Druid n cleric they all just have so much flavour and story telling potential, I think my ideal class would be a Druid with a hexblade style subclass, probably focused around shaman esque spirits both of nature dreams and ancestors could be a lot of interesting stories there

and this is the kind of shit that makes me feel empowered in terms of telling people "nah m8 just wait" when i almost get discouraged from playing druid and playing druid "my way"

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First rule of fighting druids: burn/cut EVERY tree around in a 10 mile radius.

I have to admit, I am in love with your channel. Gives me the D&D fix that I cant get otherwise. I just wanna play!!!

I stayed until the video and even sat through the sponsor bits. you advertised for a convention that if I'm not mistaken is already over

"I'm the druid, I speak for the trees. Cut a tree and I'll break your f*cking knees."

?? Tree stride as a hummingbird? well...DM allowed it, and allowed everybody to get into the bag of holding. but all in all VERY clever use of spells and items

At level 20, I fully expected sabotage of the building's earthquake protections (because who would think to sabotage those?), along with a localized Earthquake. Can't post quarterly gains when your trillion dollar building is rubble.

Lol "No teleporting!!!" ... ... ... ... "You can tree teleport though lol."

This is exactly the kind of ingenuity where regardless of what the established lore or anything was I feel I have to reward via the Rule of Awesome. Like if my player notices a small thing and goes "Wait this is a thing right?" and its this level of genius then I am immediately like "Hell yeah it is dude"

The gif he is using is making the Druid shrink then pop back up and it’s unsettling

“New legendary creatures” *shows legendary Pokémon* :D

Thanks for the reminder about your sponsor at the end. I wanted to check it out and forgot about it halfway through the video.

Hahahah xD just in time to listen the master plan

Wait wait wait, your party thought that a full caster with the ability to shape shift was useless?

that would actually be a cleaver way to hide your method of movement tree stride and you have trees set up all over an area like those decorative medians and places in shopping malls and squares

All Things DnD, aka, Apollo Justice reading DnD stories

I read this story on a forum a few months ago...inspired me to create the Druid I have today. So cool!

i read this story about 2 months ago in a forum online!!!! i'm not even a member of that forum, i was looking up some dnd stuff and that result seemed interesting so i read the whole post......and forgot what i was even looking for....

"My maniacal laughter out of character". Such great memories, driving home as dawn breaks with aching ribs from laughing so much after a great night playing 2nd addition in the late 80's.

That is freaking awesome, as a 20th level druid I think he should of had polymorph, that would be great for battle, or infiltration. If not then he can use wildshape

The end made it feel like that 90s movie off awesomeness, Hackers..... But with a d&d flair.

Absolutely beautiful. Also, try Shadowrun!

I would've made a druid who was a cyborg, using tech to morph his body into animals and release robo animals as summons

Wild, I remember reading the Druid story when it first showed up on the subreddit

Level 20 Druids are basically demigods, assuming whoever is playing them has a decent brain. Even if they only have half a brain, they're still easily rivals to Superman.

HOLD UP!!! That warlock idea is absolutely METAL

So basically a happy alternate ending to the story of the Dakota Water Protectors/ Dakota Access Pipeline

Every one of these stories has natural 20 at exactly the right time. This is just amazing. The luck these people have, that's why they are KZfaq famous and I am just a random commenter.

I really like the idea of this setting so much

Also thought of an urban moon druid - focused on small nature in the city, turn into pigeons or rats for scouting, large dogs for fighting

Wow!! Incredible work with tree stride!! I love it!

My son played a druid in one of our campaigns ("regular" fantasy setting). We were trying to work our way out of some goblin caverns, and all the party was low on hit points, the cleric was just about out of healing spells and potions, and the goblins were hot on our heels. To buy us some time to escape, my son, the druid, cast a Stone Shape and created a thick lattice-work of stone, filling the tunnel behind us. It took the goblins several precious minutes to bash through the two-inch-thick spindels of stone blocking their way, but it didn't stop them. And while we kept running, we were getting exhausted. Once more, the goblins were catching up to us, and we realized we might have to make a desperate last stand and prepare for a TPK. The druid, however, had one more trick up his sleeve. Again he cast Stone Shape, and in a large, 3 foot by 10 foot area, six inches deep, he sank the floor, leaving it riddled with sharp, six-inch-long spikes, close enough together to impede progress. Goblins are generally barefoot...at least, the ones in this campaign were. While they might only have taken a point of damage per spike, in that 3x10 area there were hundreds of them. They couldn't get past it, and we managed to escape. The DM later came up to my son and told him, "That was absolutely brilliant!"

I played a druid that was also into necromancy. He was quite chaotic as he favored the death cycle of life more than living part of it. I joined the campaign fairly late due to living out of state, and they laughed when I said I was a druid.....but then they saw the destructive side of nature.

I've got no words for how epic that turned out.

Capital B: "Hmmm... Dr. Quack! Burn all of the bonsai trees! Yeah, it'll ruin the feng shui, but the last thing I need is that naked lizard and his pet bat to find an ability that lets them teleport between plants!" Never assume a bonsai tree is innocent. XD Great story.

That is a ballsy move, jumping into a bag of holding. But hey, level 20. They probably had breathing apparatus! Also, AMAZING JOB! Oh man, that was amazing. Tree striding with a freaking bonsai tree. I don't think I could have thought of that.

Of all things, that well placed gif of Matt Mercer killed me.

Your deep British voice skids like Fenris from dragon age and I love it.

Good on you for sticking with your vision for your character

This was one of the top stories I heard so far

The Nerdarchy logo looks like the BORDERLANDS Vault symbol

I and a group of fellow heroes are setting up an interactive DnD stream. Viewers can make decisions and influence the story by making suggestions to the dm. If viewers poll for something to happen, the dm will make it happen, throwing constant monkey wrenches into the adventure. Would you be interested in viewing such a stream?

Dope. Ive always loved the "city druid"

Tree stride...”Both trees must be living and at least the same size as you.”...

My current campaign is a D&D 5e campaign set in medieval Japan. No, not a Japanese-flavored fantasy land, but an alternate history version of our own world, with gates to other worlds. The characters are ancestors of characters who will live centuries in the future in a time when magic has passed into vague memory, but when what was once magical may now be accomplished through technology and virtual reality. I haven’t decided what rule set I will use, but I like the idea of working as much as possible within the 5e framework, like the interoperability of Pathfinder and Starfinder.

I ran a modern Pathfinder game in Arkham from Lovecraft once. Worked pretty well. Also, dumpsters make great disguises for mimics in a modern game.

Wow thanks for picking it up! it was the top tale on reddit slash dnd the day I discovered it, and a cool read

Sometimes the most mild of methods, (cause this is not the "power of nature" method I was expecting), are the most dramatic

2:42 so the plot of James Cameron's Avitar then

I love this, but I gotta ask, how did the bag of holding trick work? like a bag of holding has a maximum and weight? I can only imagine the total party would exceed the weight dimensions as well as the restricted size. since an average humanoid cant fit into a bag of holding without enchantment.?

I want to say (as a longtime DM) that my suspicion is that the DM put the bonsai trees in each room totally on purpose. He KNEW what the druid could do with Tree Stride. He just acted surprised to let the belittled player have his big big moment. I think we are in the presence of a great DM letting a Great player and a really cool party have the time of their lives.

"Halloween weekend" 2020 I'm not sure but I imagine that was probably canceled by the kung flu, oof

Nice use of the spell tree stride. probably not a good idea for the DM to put tree's in every room on every floor, for a druid that means easy teleportation around the building via tree stride. Great job players and DM, this was a good video.

Tell me more of this modern DnD and why I haven't heard of modules for it before.

Never heard of a campaign like that, flippin’ sweet.

The DM is the real mvp, he perfectly pretended he didn't put the bonsais there on purpose so the rest of the team wouldn't cry favoritism xD just from hearing it i can tell he won an emmy that night.

The lorax two electric boogaloo

This world sounds like it would suck irl. "He got the necessary permits to drive them off their land by force."

Apparently the CEO was giving a presenatation to Palpatine, The Senate.

Perfect example of how you can beat the baddy without violence. That's what I'm trying to teach my kids when we play. There's usually more than one solution to a problem

Oh that was great. Hail the druid of industrial resistance!

How the heck is there no Artificer in this group? That would be awesome for that setting.

So... Druidic Sailor, anybody? Player raises his hand: "His name will be Bob." And what is his last name?

Evil Overlord Rules #132: Never leave anything one of those Heroes can use to teleport: trees, doorways, anything. If you are using anti-teleportation magic, ensure it affects every kind of magic, and not specific types. Or, be smart and just put a few layers of Anti-Magic instead, as well as jammers and anything to block a signal from escaping.