Yeah, and Gazebo doesn't has kitchen or toilet installment you need, So that also make sense in the same context.

"I-is that a type of monster?" -The Players Probably

A-- Ga-...Zebo? Is that some sort of gazelle?

Great Door Monster reference.

@@gabrielrussell5531 Use the doors Gabriel! >:O

weeb points

@@marocat4749 teenage mutant ninja turtles is... a weeb thing? or is it because the way the reference was made that has it count--

NGL, I want to play that game now.

@@meh4315 nah Kappa is a Japanese folklore creature that resembles a turtle and got a little popular thanks to one piece a anime with a "Kappa" character

@@meh4315 I thought the kappa thing, who knows kappa?! Ok that was , mayb yomeone liking weird myth would know too.

He's been replaced

Pray for him boys

The love triangle is just biding its time, waiting to strike when it's needed the least...

It's fine, I'm sure we just missed it- - - (checking) AAAAHHHHHHHH NO NO NO NOOOO THE LOVE TRIANGLE!!!

It's okay. He has ascended beyond the need for Love Triangles. He has evolved to Love Squares.

Username checks out

No choose half orc and barb

Or play something other than 5e because there are better systems for basically everything

@@silvertrimhill9844 A little late for that

@@an8strengthkobold360 err which comment?

Let a man vent

Reddit did it.

Has this happened to you TWA. Blink twice if you need help

@@brandongouveia8198 JP sus

And-a then they all-a kissed-a Kevin and got-a SUPER PREGNANT!

_That Guy_ is a bane in many 'geeky' group activities, because there is always _That Guy_ . Once they get into a group, unfortunately, the only way to get rid of _That Guy_ is to dissolve it and (hopefully) form up again without them, which is what makes them so frustrating.

@@leadpaintchips9461 I CAST BAZINGA!!!

Its... not fun to deal with That Guys. They can be dealt with easily by punting them, they don't take any criticism or challenge to improve themselves or holding themselves to even reasonable standards. Most of them could really be good people if they have even a minor amount of self awareness, but many don't and general kill any goodwill most people have.

Fool! TWA is _that guy_

@Dr. Bright Believe me, there is always "That Guy" even as a geek myself, there is always a minority like That Guy

Or 3 Write things down

I physically wretched when TWA described the 'new DM'.

@@SporianSummit The Bad ending.

@@chaoticgoodcreations947 when you willingly enter the Darkest timeline

And now we’re breathing, and now we’re moving on

Well met, MURDER HOBO. ;)

@@mountainghoti1671 murder hobo is too strong of a word but how about "Super villian with no plan"

666 likes lol

​@@veneficia7868So a chaotic evil character is just the avarage American? Checks out.

I feel like JP is really good at distilling the really bad out of his and other's experiences... and then making it hilarious with irony and sarcasm.

@@laststand6420 I really liked the totally not based in reality jokes about publishing scams.

It's a stereotype. The trilby, the junk food, the unmanaged facial hair and equally unmanaged weight... The behavior is similar to symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder, with the implication that That Guy sought the company of fringe internet groups because it's easier than real people. EDIT: As an autistic man myself, I want to emphasize that it's not entirely these people's fault, and that perhaps someone should have reached them and directed them to treatment earlier.

If you play *any* RPG, especially during high school/college transition age, you'll realise how easy it is to find THAT GUY on either side of the GM screen.

"that guy" is a common meme in the rpg community, lol

praise love triangle

AGernic trope

Maintain the sacred timeline

It’s like an oddly amusing car crash, isn’t it?

So true for me as well, this episode's ad segment was particularly good (with the ironic dark lord reflection time)

The generic evil characters getting a bit of development.

@@PokefanGuquizUjixyz How dare you call someone named "the dark lord" generic. Why that is one of the most original names ever.

"Maybe the real escapist fantasy is a livable minimum wage" is one of my favorite quotes from a game.

@@an8strengthkobold360 that would wreck the economy. In addition, minimum wage isn’t supposed to be live-able, it’s supposed to be sufficiently meager so that the worker in question feels motivated to achieve better things and be promoted.

@@billysinge8977 but minimum wage was a livable wage when it was created. And as in the example all I mean by livable is enough to afford basic food and housing not live some luxurious life.

@@billysinge8977 keep in mind my research is Canada focused (since that is were I live, on a related note the history of the minimum wage in my province is really weird).

@@billysinge8977 minimum wage should increase with inflation, otherwise, what’s the point of a minimum wage made to help people? The problem come when it’s increased at once, not just because it increase

Next episode he should free a hostage from a tank of laser sharks and then vomit on the spot due to the extreme existential crisis he is going through.

@@frankwest5388 "Redeeming characters" incoming?

I have a feeling these 3 are about to undergo a redemption arc.

@@frankwest5388 Noice

Cap: "I got that. I understood that reference."

thanks for the translation

Have a cookie

I just got it

Teenaged, mutant, ninja Kappa. Funny something robot, ninja copout. Kappa's gonna kill you, DOG GONNA!

I don't have anything interesting to say, so here's another sacrifice to the algorithm

I am feeding the almighty algorithm so that our Lord may live

May our lord the messia of the mighty love triangle survive the algorithm

Same

Praise be to the KZfaq algorithm for it's power is absolute

I personally think a group of alpha protagonists could work. Just look at the avengers (though I'm not sure if this counts).

@@shaunjimbangan1166 I guess I mean 'alpha protagonist' as in somebody who views themself, and only themself, as the main character in a party. No spotlight sharing.

@@Mordrevious oh, I see

@@Mordrevious the worst I see is pair or small group of players actively work together to shape the campaign in their image, leaving the remaining players feel left out. This compounded by the fact that when in game issues do arise, the DM finds himself incapable of mediation. Causing players to ditch a game that is already short on players.

That’s basically how you win in dark souls

This is too peaceful. Have players roll every time they murder an innocent NPC with an ever decreasing DC, and spawn a Revenant after them. Have them spawn far away so, by the time the consequences of their actions catch up with them, they'll have to face hordes upon hordes of immortal monsters after them that each require a Wish to be eliminated.

that sounds pretty amusing >after killing paladin for the 5th or so time they yell at the same time P: "Stop killing me!" MH: "Stop coming back!"

I tend to include high level npcs among quest givers for setting and story reasons. Makes it really funny when someone tries to murder them in their sleep.

Oh no! That friendly half orc tavern keeper the murderhobo just stabbed was a level 20 paladin who retired to set up an inn! Good luck with his massive pool of health and the plus two longsword he keeps under his bar in case of "trouble". Oh, and he's a good kind man who donates large sums to the local orphanage, so his god let him keep all his smites after he retired...

I once created a furry kingdom just to pad my campaign and the heroes decided to retire there lol. All hail King Fuzzy-Wuzzy!

I ran a Sci-fi game for my players, and the improv sections always seemed to resonate with them more. Its interesting how that turns out

I like the idea of an inn with a giant rat running it. That'd be a great twist on the old "clean the rats out of the basement" trope. Instead, the rat proprietor wants the PCs to shoo a bunch of drunken revelers out of the basement!

The Marvels would then shamelessly steal Longroad many years later

The super power of friendship

@@batfang25animations39 I mean, as shown in Nathan for you, the power of friendship can make people not want to get a rebate on gas, so its pretty powerful.

Just make your hero like Superman

He has kinda already done a video on superpowers, it's just in chunks spread across the last few years of videos like a literary easter egg hunt. If you want it NOW you could always just watch the rest of his library. I'm sure he'll make a dedicated episode on how to expertly -literally- execute superpowers in a literary setting eventually.

@@felipecosta-kv2fx And if you need more than one hero, just copy the rest of the Justice League.

if your character isn't perfect enough to break all of math and physics simply through specialness, they aren't perfect enough for this campaign

5 halfes is 2.5 more character so she is a better character

So I'm playing a half-celestial, half-dragon, half-demon, half-vampire, half elf named Totality. (oddly enough, when 3rd edition first came out, there was no rule to prevent this. It was just assumed you wouldn't apply more than one Template to a character.)

Basically true freedom doesn't mean free from consequences, but apparently alot of players think freedom of choice means absolutely everything they do will always work out. *"A character is free to succeed but also free to fail, and that's liberating!"*

@@navilluscire2567 Yep. And inaction is in and of itself an action. I remember in one game I ran the party ignored this one plot hook that I had planned that'd lead to a main sort of adventure for ages. The world around them changed partially due to it, and by the time they actually wanted to do anything with it they were shocked to learn that they weren't the only group of adventurers and someone else did it. I have fond memories of that game, and I consider it the time the party were more akin to Merchants and their guards plus one priest rather than proper adventurers. They even had a proper fancy wagon. Suppose I kinda rambled a bit, but I felt like throwing it out there.

@@Piratejoe44 XD Good move XD

@@Piratejoe44 I read a story where a party ignored a plot hook about lich with undead army and instead decide to overthow local goverment. They succeeded. The party overhrown goverment and lich created an unstoppable army of undead.

I can hear a catchy cartoon song coming from this...

Grinder XD

This sounds better than what actually exists.

@@drakebloodknight7981 Tha adolescent mutated shinobi kappa were actually created a parody of the genre. So it would be ust another version , i liked the street sharks as knock off.

Also one is the secret love child of Sensei a Fragment, August McNiel and the Grinder. But don’t tell anyone. That’s a spoilter

Thanks, 8 strength kobold!

Bait the murderhobo into killing an NPC cleric and have them cursed by the gods! See if their character lives long enough to collect the whole pantheon! xD

@@Rakaziel God of War: D&D Edition

Your name really bugs me. Kobolds have a minus 2 to strength, so points were actively put into strength to make an 8 strength kobold...

@@willowbillow2078 the stat negatives for orcs and kobolds have officially been removed by WotC

it depends. I think tolkien once said that he doesn't know what happens in certain place of his fictional universe he was asked about. It may seem dumb, it may be dumb, but instead of saying that you didn't write something, one may state one doesn't know what's there, making the fiction less in one's control

@@zawsrdtygbhjimokpl6998 I kinda wanna read the fanfic know just to see what that’s about.

Authors sometimes don't realize what the characters personality is because they needed to "play as" that character without really thinking

What I was trying to say is they were trying to use that to deflect the fact that their character was a psychopathic mass murderer who we were supposed to sympathize with. I'm sure there are plenty of places where it's a good thing but this was in an angry rant directed at some pretty valid criticism they had gotten.

“My goals are beyond your understanding.”

This sounds amazing

Interesting!

So to be clear, are the fighting over the paladin themself or their armor, where the person inside is just incidental?

@@renkalan8587 The shiny armor. Paladin is undead, so rarely ever takes off armor. They might not know something's under there, to them it's just walking talking shiny

@@Winglessdargon That's genuinely the funniest thing I've heard in weeks lmao thanks for making today better

Yep. There's the song! Look at Vaderoth's comment for more fun.

I love you

Better Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

I had to pause to look up the word "shinobi", and THEN I got it.

It's really hard to label a DM as a cheater when they are the one running the game. A DM should have the ability to create house rules. (Then again, know the rules before you break them. ) and I'm not opposed to a DM fudging dice rolls or stat blocks if an encounter proved to be too easy or too difficult. (But don't play favorites.)

@@erikschaal4124 You didn't hear enough horror stories then...

Isnt rule 0 "whatever the dm says, goes". So they cant cheat per definition

You mean that guy?

Well, when the DMt does it, that means that it is not cheating

That seems like it could be funny story. Once, long ago, a group of people sat down together to play a friendly game. But greed, selfishness, outright malice, and simple incompatible preferences led to disputes, which led to rivalry, which led to enmity. Unwilling to entrust any single member of their group with special authority, they eventually decided that the role of Dungeon Master must be a rotating position, thereby greatly magnifying drama and retribution in all of their various forms. Refusing to grant a hated nemesis the satisfaction of driving them away, aggravating their loathed compatriots is now the only part of the game that these maladjusted malcontents still enjoy. And none of them is willing to settle for any less than getting everyone else to finally quit in frustration. In the end, there can be only one.

If you're into Warhammer 40000, there is a KZfaq series called "If the Emperor Had a Text to Speech Device". There is one special where the cast is playing Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, and it is exactly this. Every bad player and DM trope is in there, with one or two good players. It is wonderful.

Now I want to see this

I had 2 Kitusnes in my games over the years, both times it went fine (it is one of the official races in Pathfinder though)

One of my players is a Kitsune.

I'd imagine that's a combination of a couple factors: 1. you're less likely to hear about the time a game went fairly well, since it isn't massively worth sharing 2. they're an uncommon race, and usually require supplements or homebrew to actually be playable, which makes stories with them less common 3. as a race largely inspired by Japanese mythology and a central creature in Naruto lore they attract a lot of weebs 4. as a race with animal traits who usually come with bonuses to charisma, and thus attractiveness, they attract a lot of furries 5. since they normally gain bonuses to charisma and illusion or mind control abilities, they're well built for numerous edgy or annoying classes (paladins, warlocks, bards, rogues, etc) I should clarify, I don't believe that liking anime or being part of the furry community inherently makes you a bad person or something. It's more that there are people who base major parts of their identity on liking anime or being a furry, and those types of people are very rarely fun to be around, and this race attracts both of them. Thank you for coming to my TED (Tabletop's Extreme Douchebags) Talk.

One of my fellow players is a kitsune. She can’t read, is dumb as a brick, and has somehow not caused more damage than a warhead. She’s my favorite character of the party.

If it’s part of the setting the DM allows, it can go well/it’s actually a developed character instead of “look at me go” otherwise, CHECKS OUT, THOSE ARE RPG HORROR STORY RECIPES IF IT IS ANYTHING BUT THSOE 2 THINGS

New here?

@@an8strengthkobold360 No, I meant there's the GM, the Player, and Wizards of the Coast. Wizards needs more help then players do when it comes to writing.

Similarly, I expected his Propaganda episode from last November (interesting timing) to be about, well, actual propaganda, instead of "How NOT to argue on the Internet".

What exactly do you mean by designer's guide?

Yeah same would be pretty cool if he did one.

I WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN I WILL NEVER RUN AROUND AND DESERT YOU NEVER GONNA MAKE YOU CRY, NEVER GONNA SAY GOODBYE NEVER GONNA TELL A LIE, AND HURT YOU

Boy do I have a treat for you.

@@yeetmahhotpockett1723 I have seen it. It's beautiful

As a non native English speaker, I have to constantly use a dictionary, but it's worth it and very educative.

@@Jose04537 English sucks

I mean that is a legit feature in cyberpunk 2020, you can get implants that allow you change your hair, eye, and skin colour (kind of like a weak alter self spell really but kind of useless overall unless you have time to change your clothes). You can also get tattoos that change colour and can glow in the dark, which is even more useless and pointless. sure it might light up a crawl space a bit, but you can get low light vision, night vision, infra red vision, x-ray vision, echo location implants so why the fuck would need glow in the dark tattoos? Most useless feature ever.

RGB hair

@@voidstrider801 For aesthetics. I mean taking the game as a real life sort of thing, glow in the dark, color changing tats would be a hot commodity.

In 5e, there is literally a cleric cantrip that allows this. That can be cast an infinite number of times per day.

Dear everyone, this is the easiest sh*t to monkey's paw, do it occasionally to mix things up.

In my experience playing D&D it's actually the sorcerers you have to look out for when it comes to that

Laughs in Druid

@@hydromancer4916it's how sorcerers reproduce, some bard f*cks a magic creature which creates a sorcerer who continues the cycle.

As the founding father of the Bard class in my session I will totally not take this to wonderful piece of advice _wink_

Sopranos is a DnD campaign......I'd bet money on this 🤣

I salute your brave and inevitable sacrifice!

This is also my situation. Only three sessions in and two of them have already involved PvP situations that were near deadly because some of my players kept trying to kill innocent/harmless NPCs.

@@zakur9622 have a talk with all of your table, do not be afraid to offer a choice of “last chance or get banned now” players are replaceable as hell, go to dnd youtubers’ discords, most will have “player looking for group” channels. If this doesn’t work, send a party of adventurers their way, with PC levels and stronger than the party, because it was hired by the local ruler to eliminate this dangerous group of highly competent criminals. Continue to respond to murderhoboing with this.

All of my potential players are the definition of lolsorandumb murder hobos. 😑

Dnd youtubers’ discords, guys. A good deal of them have “players looking for group” channels, go there, don’t tolerate bad players, replace them. PC: do interviews. I didn’t as a new guy, don’t repeat my mistake.

At least grab a grenade launcher and a long sword

Well at least he’s good at mining!

With the right build, getting drunk can be quite useful perhaps, so that's a thing.

Wow, that must suck, I'm really sorry :( Don't know what else to say except that if you want to vent more I'll listen. (I've definitely done my fair share of venting in YT comments...)

If you are joking then haha, but if you are serious I recommend talking to a therapist (assuming you can afford it). It might benefit your psychological and emotional health.

You're alive?

Damn you really are everywhere

You're everywhere.

Just make sure you aren’t playing or DMing yourself.

Another idea: Create a character that you're willing to let into That Guy's harem, and then have them realistically compete with the other members of the harem for political clout.

Probably for the same reason humans like watching wrestling, boxing, etc.: "FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!"

Yes, he is the most dastardly of all DMs because he will force you to cooperate and manipulate you into playing along with the group *gasp of horror*

They... are

I want a supercut of them, I honestly do.

They've grown into my favorite part of these videos. The villains acting like heroes and being disgusted by it is hilarious!

So, you're a Rayquaza? (Gets master ball on standby)

You know the funny thing is that my brain instantly started figuring out how that could work. Basically it amounts to every kingdom in the world is trying to figure out what the space dragon wants so they can have it's overwhelming power on their side, like a loose WMD. None of them assume anything the dragon says should be taken at face value, ascribing deeply subtle messaging to it all. Naturally the dragon is likely being upfront, but it's so alien it keeps doing odd things that feed the conspiracy theories about it's true motives. Picture Sauron, Gandalf and Mumm-Ra all trying to puzzle out what the dragon actually wants, while it's just up there eating popcorn as they entertain it.

@@Sorain1 That Sounds AMAZING

Thanks for clarifying or I would've thought that he was gonna lost his channel

The word Racism comes to mind. God forbid it be about anything else.

Though, I wonder how he can without getting the Yellow dollar sign of doom slapped on the episode, or getting cancelled for it.

I mean, it is not like you wouldn't also find Zootopia on certain imageboards and art websites

I don't know of many tropes outside of "racism metaphor"

Naruto? Really? Crap! You tricked me into responding.

The good way, I mean. I was laughing not crying.

Interesting. So far all I have done with that is size up the party then go back to whatever character bit I have to play with

I tend not to rely on kill plans, as not only the players will be suspicious, but their characters will be just as min/maxed as my own. And instead rely on a level of backstabbing, party politics, and non party politics that only a veteran paranoia player can truly appreciate.

@@erikschaal4124 not a bad idea

Everyone knows Mary Sue is an evil goddess bent on making the world bow down to her. If she can't have her way she'll destroy the world and remake it in her image.

Another soul soon to be corrupted by the ttrpg curse...

I'd listen to that band.

An evil Mary Sue who praises herself for being perfect and able to bend reality would a great villain to add.

The best derailing is the one that's mostly unintentional. Even the most old school of DMs can't do nothing about that

I got it as I was writing my first one shot campaign

@@ethanchristopher6709 Good luck! I love writing one shots.

YESSS I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT STARTING MY OWN TOO! It’s amazing how he brings us all together

@@floskywalker6220 I say go for it. It's really given me an appreciation for how much work just goes into designing an tabletop system, and it's actually really fun to have so many possibilities for how you want to roll with things, pun intended.

Welcome aboard, comrade

Yes, you did 👍

Welcome to the club.

This is facts

I can't find a group to play with neither....

maybe get a discord channel and help ppl making chars. ^^