"it'll be covered in gibberish that kinda looks like runes" So, 99% of Norse based comic-con merch?

FOR THOOOOOOORRRRR (breaks a mechanical pencil)

I have just used this for part of my barbarian's backstory. She witnessed the "miracle" that was the blacksmith shop being destroyed by lightning and a mighty figure rising from it holding a hammer high yelling "FOR THOR" and she instantly converted to worshipping Thor. And wielding a giant hammer

"Nah brother I am good this is entertaining as hell" Had me dying laughing cause that would be me if I was witnessing this

GM: How much are you going to pay him? Korgath: Everything. Best. Line. Ever.

I like to think the new priesthood for Thor dedicated itself to learning the holy language of Norse from Korgoth’s language-adjacent doodles, even bringing in a mage who doesn’t speak Norse but knows something about linguistics to try to reconstruct what they think is a language based on the way Korgoth talked and the way the runes are arranged. Eventually it gets to the point after a few generations where everyone in this town speaks this invented language instead of Common and they are so damn proud of themselves until someone who actually speaks Norse shows up.

This is the only way to destroy the Bonesaw

Thor having the shield brought a tear to my eye.

You'd think the blacksmith would be pissed that his shop was obliterated but he ends up becoming the head priest. That's hilarious

FOR THOR, FOR THOR, FOR THOR... R.I.P. Korgoth...

That was the most metal thing I've ever seen :D

TFW you realize that Korgoth's shieldbreaker axe at 8:24 is engraved with the runes ᚠᛟᚱ᛫ᚦᛟ[ᚱ] (i.e., “for Thor").

Proof that the greatest D&D stories are born from failure :)

The Shield maybe on Thor's Back but… ...only the peanut head can wield the Bonesaw that cuts trough the bone !!!

FOR THOR!!! FOR THOR!!! FOR THOR!!! FOR THOR!!! Good thing the last die was not a fumble, tho.

These events are what make RPGs so worth it!

This just goes to show you: Insane players will motivate themselves to do Really Insane things. Starting a Cult is one of those.

Oh, the lengths players can go for the sake of playing to character. Its a beautiful thing to behold.

MEANWHILE... at the other end of Asgard... Thor comes trundling along as is relatively normal, when he happens to notice Freya perched at the edge of clouds, with a pair of mystic binoculars in hand. She's giggling between peaks through the peculiar things, and this arouses his suspicions. Of course, she notices his footsteps and a twig crunching under him as he approaches, but pretends not to notice as she's watching the action so far distant. "What the hell(s) are you going on about, Freya?" Thor demands. "What are those things?" "Loki found them a while ago," She giggles. "They let you see stuff far away as if it's right here. Anyway, you should know one of your followers is making a full blown fool of himself." "Oh..." Thor groans, "Why do I get the fucked up ones?" "Have a look," She offers the binoculars, still giggling in spite of her best efforts. "Huh..." Thor peers through the pair of looking scopes, only to notice a barbaric follower with an obviously mystically glowing shield, narrowly escaping the fallout of breaking a cliff while trying to bend the piece of armor. "What IS he doing?" "He's been trying to break it or burn it most of the day," Freya replies. "He's built a huge great fire, bashed it with his weapons, even tried rocks before he wedged it into the mountain." Thor starts giggling in spite of himself, "You know. That is kinda cute." ;o)

This reminds me of the stories of thor tbh, they are full of all sorts of funny forms of failure while he's still badass.

This is why failing forward is so great. Too many DMs would just have have the player reroll until they succeeded. This whole thing would be a great side episode of a show.

This video will please Thor

The blacksmith-priest later married and named his first son “For-Thor”. As a young man, For-Thor joined a barbarian warband, becoming a barbarian: For-Thor the Barbarian.

FOR THOR! FOR THOR! FOR THOR! I think I'm now a Thor worshiper.

Seth I really appreciate your videos. They always put a smile on my face.

That was epic the fact that one PC make a hole town worship Thor from one night is amazing

Thor will remember this.

BAHAHA that is great!!! the first thought: "just don't fumble".... yeah my players would have fumbled.

2:27 King of special effects!!!!!

Very cool. I love when this kind of thing happens in a game. Some of our best games were sessions where we just had a party. One of the best was when the entire party planned a surprise birthday party for the gray elf wizard of the group while they were in a halfling village and they ended up inviting the entire village to attend. I actually went to a few forums online for ideas for presents. So many handkerchiefs!

You know it’s gonna be a great day when it starts off with a new video from Seth!! Great content as always!

Not gonna lie I had tears in my eyes at the though of the barbarian recognizing the shield on his Gods back... well done, well done indeed :D

Excellent video as always. What made this such a great story, as with most great RPG stories, is the way it developed in such a random but imaginative way. You are a master GM, imagine what would have happened if you just said "The shield burns up in the campfire and you go to town and buy 10 iron rations...." Nothing, nothing would have happened.

Four Thor and theven yearth ago...

You know, this reminds me of a similar incident with a monk named Jadir the Nomad. It was a second ed game, and I had basically back moded the 3rd ed monk into 2nd. Jadir was a simple character with some decent stats and he was played by one of those crafty players who knew the rules and liked to think outside the box. He was the type of rules lawyer type that you Wanted to have around; he played fair, he accepted DM decisions, and he helped other players when the GM was busy. It was the 1st adventure of a new campaign. The PCs were looking for anything that would help a king learn the history of his land. They had gone to the ruins of an ancient library that was just the basement section. Part of the encounters was a room of goblins that had been living their for a bit. I expected it to be a simple combat, but I always give a chance to interact in a neutral situation. Jadir walked forward and asked them what they were doing. They said it was their home and asked what he was. He told them he was a monk, which they took to mean priest. They asked if they worshipped their god and he said HE WAS their god. I had him roll Charisma and let him know that he would have to roll below half his stat, which was 12, or they would be enraged and attacked. He rolled a nat 1. If you know how 2nd ed works, that was a crit success. They believed him and later had him prove his divine nature by dealing with unbelievers in a later adventure. He managed to convert a few of them too.

What I learned today Sometimes it's okay to let your players improvise and waste time

... I love the concept of 1e AD&D Barbarians and Cavaliers so much. XD I started out with the edition, after all. My personal fail was when the GM, my friend's dad, gave my magic-user a wand of wonder with an expanded chart. I made the mistake of relying too much on it... until it conjured up a full-powered point blank fireball. And that's how I accidentally destroyed a mansion, lived only through DM discretion, and I avoided the Wand of Wonder since. No, it was not the DM's fault. It was mine. lol

I had a player once in our L5R campaign that through "circumstances" totally not what I had planned in advance eventually ended up being known as "The butcher of Hida Kyunden". I make it a habit of detailing memorable moments in song or story and made that one a favorite of the Ikoma bards for a while. The story of the Butch of Hida Kyunden, the barve Usagi coutier who had slaughtered his way trough his gempuku tournament and stood his ground against all retaliation eventually earning the aproval of Hida clan. To this day If I mention "the butcher" everyone in my players group knows who I am talking about.... He walked from player action into legend ...

Why does this sound like one of my players..... Like it’s painfuly accurate...

The 3 dislikes speak for them self. We love you Seth!

Now that's a helluva way to honor a god! Badass story!

I totally agree, some of the best moments in my games were the little unscripted gems that evolve into legends. Awesome story, as always.

For Thor!

Awesome story! I hope something similar will happen to my group and if one of the players will come with some (at the first glance) silly idea - I will be prepared. :-)

Wonderful story! =) I love when things like that happens. Our group had a similiar event with the groups mage and some spectacular misscasting with some chaosmagic that ended up with a new landmark in the campaign world, a great eternal blue flame of arcane magic, spewing up from a small village well that scared away the monsters that had terrorised the village. Something that made the mage and village famous. =)

May all battles lead you to Valhalla. For Thor!!!

"and the player characters all fought very bravely... I assume" best line in the video, this killed me.

Korgoth: "I need you to cover this in runes that detail the legend and legacy of Thor!" Blacksmith: "You know how to read?" Korgoth: "Not a lick" Blacksmith: "Then yeah, won't be a problem at all."

Amazing video! That story is equal parts awesome and hilarious! It's always those moments that really define the campaign you are playing. the adventure itself is one thing, but this is where memories are made. Our group still laughs at the time in a D&D 3.5 campaign we stumbled, already battered and exhausted from a previous adventure into a gathering of Orc/Goblin tribes preparing for war, my Half-Orc (being the only party member that spoke Orc) accidentally insulting/challenging the chieftain in charge of all the subjugated tribes through bad social rolls, ended up in a ritual challenge with him and through an impressive run of luck on my part and bad luck on the DM's ended up killing him in front of the gathered tribes and taking his position of leadership. We all loved it so much, DM included. It was a defining moment for my character and the way the rest of the campaign went, the DM even said right at the point I killed the chieftain "You don't have much xp left until you level up right? Screw it, you level up NOW and you ARE taking the Leadership Feat!" Good times :D

Grand tale! For Thor!!

Let’s make FOR THOR a meme! This needs to be shared!

I think after the first few attempts I would assume it was blessed by Thor.

Epic fail is EPIC! Que Ride of the Valkyries!

"FOR THOR! FOR THOR! FOR THOR!"

This might be the greatest dnd story ive ever heard.

Fifth or sixth time I watch this, and it still has me rolling on the floor laughing. This is everything I love about TTRPG. For Seth!! For Seth!! For Seth!!

"I very quietly draw my sword..." Oh, I hurt myself, trying to hold in my laughter, because my sisters are asleep, and then I started hyperventilating, and got all dizzy, and good thing I was sitting down, because the Bonesaw is EPIC!

FOR THOR!!

I watched this last night before I went to bed. When My alarm went off at 0530 this morning the first thing I said when I got up was "FOR THOR!"

Look, guys: if the Critical Role kickstarter can get $6 million, I'm sure Seth can get enough support to make a short film starring only Seth. I'll pledge $100 minimum. Who's with me?

*Yawn* I just woke up oh a Seth story. YEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS

Wow that's the best epic fail story I have heard. Now i just picture the town destroying all their gear FOR THOR!

This video should be one of your greatest hits, yet it only has 200 something comments. D&D KZfaq really is sleeping on these guys that remember first edition huh?

I thought it'd be hard to match the Bone Saw but damn!! Amazing video, Seth- this one must have taken a lot of thought and prep to shoot. Flawless victory of a video!

This was a great story! First thing I did after brushing teeth this morning is watch this. Gave me a smile, and a good start to the day.

It didn't involve item breaking, but I have a similarly themed memory of a weekend of game sessions with a barbarian constantly shouting "FOR KORD!!!"

Seth you are great actor, Korgoth stabbing the shield was so funny to me.

The moment when you described the clouds with thunder and lightning, I imagined the music was Ride of the Valkyries!

That was really cool. Love the storys alot. Reminds me of when I played seven days to die with my friend. That game has status effects that end when you die. And Dieing reaaaallly dosn't cost anything. So we had a spike in a closet that we called the "killin spike". You'd go in the closet and spike yourself to death if you got an annoying status effect.

You can do more of this and we will like it. Thanks.

This story is pure gold!

Awesome story, thanks for sharing Seth !

That would make a great tattoo. A ornate, broken shield with "For Thor" inscribed upon it in Nordic runes.

Personally i haven't heard about barbarians destroying magic items. i think it's a first edition D&D thing. But it sounds like a interesting concept, And the Story was very entertaining and fun.

Love this

God damn! The story, the production value of this video and it only has like 30k views, what a shame. It deserves so much more. FOR THOR!

I don't recall the ad&d barbarians needing to destroy magic items, just not using them. Just don't pick up the shield? IDK players used to give up gold and jewels for mine's magical loot share. It's funny as hell though.

I have a great conflict within me as to how this went down. When Todd insisted on staying with the blacksmith, from a GM's perspective, I rolled my eyes. I have had this kind of thing happen where players get fixated on things that seem to be derailing things. I thought to myself that as a player I would've felt self conscious of hogging the spotlight, and I'd have just come back in ten days. and as a GM I'd have followed that following adventure with this epic story as a kick ass return to town. Now, after watching it and seeing it all panned out perfectly and I'm in awe of its beauty, I'm conflicted with my instinct to push on and come back. Would this event been as memorable or awesome? Would it have been worth risking Korgoth's life on an adventure and never seeing this through? I am worried now my instinct is not just a little off, but entirely off. Should I leave this degree of derailing entirely up to the players, even if only one player seems to be doing anything with their downtime? With one player just drinking for ten days, and the other just meditating, and their questgiver's needs put on a backburner, I feel like it fell out of balance. So, should I in a situation like this, run with the madness, sideline everything else to satisfy this wild hair? Or should I take a few minutes to make sure this isn't the only thing happening at the table? Am I crazy for thinking that Todd probably shoulda let it wait to keep everyone engaged? Or is passive behavior just not an indicator of the scene going on too long?

The potential rewards of stubbornness.

You know it's actually pretty appripro that the blacksmith and his smithy became a priest and temple of Thor. As he is also a god of smithing!

I always come back to this video. It should have a million views by now.

*FOR THOR!*

Nice one! That definitely put a grin on my face. I wonder what the rest of the party thought when they came back to the village and saw the cult in action...

Back for my quarterly viewing because I can't get enough of that story 😄 #FORTHOR

That was a fun story. Thanks!

What a great idea for a series you had with these. The scene with the two guys working the bellows while shouting FOR THOR FOR THOR at each other killed me 🤣

Moltar... that was AWESOME.

FOR THOR! (repeat)

I thought that shirt was a joke but they really sell that at the museum. My buddy works there. Cool museum.

Next year is 2020, do you think you’ll try to do a several part review like with Call of Cthulhu?

Oh my, how I wish I had one of those adventures some day. Great video, laughing as crazy here!

That poor shield. ... FOR THOR! FOR THOR! FOR THOR!

Had to come back... For Thor! :D

By Thor what an AWESOME tale. I laughed so hard it brought me to tears!

Always giving us the best RP stories!

More war stories! More war stories! I love these stories. Im not involved with a group now, but I really missing gaming.

Great story, excellent retelling, well done, Seth!

Awesome story! FOR THOR’

I played a halfling barbarian and he would not want to destroy any magic items, except maybe that ring of the ork gods, I guess he could do that. I guess he could break it in the giant weapon breaker or just throw it into a volcano; i’m sure pele or another lava deity would appreciate the sacrifice.

This is my favorite War Story I've seen so far!