sadly our next session is cancelled because it overlaps with the final shape release and quoting our DM "I will play the shit out of it"

Hi Crispy! I submitted "The DM Stalked Me" We actually only found out that it was a module *AFTER* he killed Ninja if I recall, and went hunting for the materials ourselves. I'd be happy to clear up any questions if anyone has any for me.

Crispy's narration: the DM's PC exploded. My brain: The DMPC exploded.

"It's hard to have fun when you feel like you're dying." Wisdom for the ages.

So I also have POTS, and when I was diagnosed, I got a Fitbit to help me keep track of my heart rate. The number of times I’ve been playing D&D and that thing has been like “great job you’re exercising” and I just have to sit there and live with the fact that I get so invested in a game of pretend that my Fitbit thinks I’m doing exercise. Luckily I’ve never passed out, but I live in fear of the day it happens 😂

That opening skit is pretty much how I imagine any of these live service games milk their players now.

I'm the ninja and that DM still won't leave me alone 😂

Hey Crispy, I have POTS! If you're concerned, definitely see a cardiologist. Some of them won't diagnose POTS, but can at least rule out other things, like arrhythmias. POTS isn't curable, but can definitely be managed, and depending on severity, you can live a pretty regular lifestyle. Most folks can manage it well with beta blockers or even just increasing fluids and electrolytes.

Don't worry crispy, you may just be anemic. The dizziness happens to me too, but it's usually happens when you don't eat enough. Or when you don't eat enough food with iron in it.

omg the flashbacks to when every enemy had someone in their group with 30 passive perception ... _against a party of basically two stealth-based rogues_ (why we stayed for 2 years I will never know)

If there is a “war on X-Mas,” X-Mas is winning. From November 1 to January 2 the following year *every* playlist and radio station will play *ALL* the X-Mas songs.

Holding on for a Healer - World of Warcraft Parody by Kruithne 😉

Waiting for every player to be available to play is the reason why the Halloween one shot I ran in October that needed an additional session has yet to be finished 😂😂

For POTS, it’s more than just orthostatic hypotension (drop in blood pressure from moving, particularly standing up), and orthostatic hypotension is something that you can have from a variety of sources (mine was gluten problems, weirdly)…but you should get that checked. It can be fairly dangerous to just fall over, and even a fall from just standing can cause critical injuries. I would recommend getting it checked out…I got a pretty bad concussion one time, and I was lucky it wasn’t worse.

As I saw someone else say, definitely talk to your doctor about it! There’s a simple test they can do to check for it as well, and you can even see a specialist etc if anything does come up. I have a similar condition and I only found out about POTS and other autonomic disorders by hearing about others’ experience with it online. Basically, if something makes you go “wait, that isn’t normal?”, you can always talk to your doctor about it!

5:26 My mom enjoys the Christmas season. Sometimes she doesn't ask me to take down her decorations and tree until mid January 😁

Barbarian DMV story: Some DMs simply don't know that they can actively create murder hobos by boring their players death. And they shouldn't do that.

20:32 we do have a Healer song like that. Its a WoW Song.

I love how Crispy kills his alters and blames us. Classic toxic narcissist. So beautiful.

Love the skits in this, Crispy! (Under 100 views, 42 mins, 15 comments...am early and excited for no reason)

Saddest part of Story 2 is that I could see Session 0 being used in a not-so-serious campaign as a magical DMV for character creation and laying rules, and at the end of it, the team is assigned to each other and a basic task to start the adventure, with various personnel from the DMV showing up as NPCs to help out the party, applying multi-classing, etc., each with varying levels of helpfulness.

On that last story i was expecting a violent that guy due to the title

The second DM sounds like the absolute worst kind of sadist

Oh man, that pots story. I have multiple overlapping conditions that can cause seizures and epileptic fits, and I cannot COUNT the number of times I as a DM have been right in the middle of a big combat or scene and woken up on the floor. Thankfully everyone in my group is some flavor of disabled and we had a long talk during session zero about the possible realities of having a DM with catastrophic brain+nervous system damage, but man. MAN. I sympathize completely.

Omg, I just listened to "I need a healer" a few days ago since I got some of my friends into wow XD In love with those old parodies!

My group has faced our first significant scheduling hurdle. Happy to say we finally are playing in 1 and a half weeks time, *HUGE knock on wood* Our group is I (DM) with my players: my wife and 3 others. We've been on a 3 month break. And the coincidences kept stacking on when we could finally finalize the next sessions date. First it was because a player got a new job so his weekends became more booked up. So we rescheduled around his new hours as well as working around one of our player's planned vacation. Setting us over a month out. Then I had a grandmother pass away with the funeral overlapping with our next planned session post players vacation so we re-rescheduled. Then my wife had a grandfather pass away, same thing and we re-re-rescheduled; along with the caveat that we had pride festivals to plan around. So another month out beyond the last month. Then I had *another* grandmother pass away, with the funeral coinciding with the planned date. Then I had a family event that I couldn't miss be rescheduled a week forward, overlapping with DND. We postponed by another 3 weeks. So now we're like 3 months since last session, on our re-re-re-re-rescheduled date.

I can see the arguments for not canceling a session because one player is missing, but I'll always prefer doing it. I've had this group I've been playing with for over four years now that's had that policy and while we'll occasionally miss a few sessions in a row due to holidays or engagements or whatever, the policy has never been a burden on us. Hell, longest break we've ever had was only a month and a half. We almost never miss a session and it helps people keep up with the plot. Maybe our group is just insanely lucky with scheduling though?

Ghost of Saltmarsh mentioned RAHHHHH, love that module.

Bro I just noticed on the 19:16 mark you have the plague dr plush. I’m just fanning over those bc I own the 2’5 ft tall plague dr

I loved EVERYTHING about this video - vibes, art, your skits. Perfection👌

Crispy needs to host a self-help group for him. that suffered from Scheduling (for laughs or not lol)

Sitting Around Story. NEVER EXPLAIN THINGS SIMPLY AND IN FEW DETAILS TO A BARBARIAN! Because as a player of Barbarians since they have had Barbarians in D&D I can tell you THAT IS EXACTLY THE KIND OF PLAN I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF AFTER THAT EXPLANATION! (Although mine would probably had more dead bodies and less Persuasion checks, but I was always blunt. Or perhaps SHARP would be more accurate as I preferred swords to hammers.)

18:35 it reminds me of that Simpsons quote: "Remember when I paid you back that money I owed you? Now it's time for you to do something for me!"

I'm with Crispy on the accursed Mariah Carey song.

i literally started playing destiny because of you this is awesome

I have a Godzilla inspired dragonborn Rune Knight, with Mage Slayer as one of his feats. Genuinely one of my favourite characters to play!

As someone whose 1st bf cyberstalked them on and off for aboutb12 yrs (which is when he went to jail and when he gets out will likely not allowed internet access,) yeah cyberstalking isnt fun to deal with and he wasnt even the most persistent or all that bad when it comes to cases of cyberatalkers people i know i have had and stories of others ive heard of.

I never, ever, ever buy “martial classes are useless” anymore after listening to Not Another DnD Podcast. Between Deadeye, Apple, and Hardwon in Campaign 1, Hank, the Hexbuds, and the Endo-Friendos in Eldermourne, and (so far, not caught up) Calder and Sol in Campaign 3, my mind has been changed. Sure they’re all being played by players who really know what they’re doing (Brennan Lee Mulligan making Deadeye ridiculously busted comes to mind), but also, it’s not like they’re super weird builds for the most part. Just smart, well thought out characters who fully utilize their abilities. It’s really made me like martial classes more as a player tbh.

The intro almost made me forget Crispy is ace. Almost. 🤣

Destiny 2 is just a fashion show with space magic and guns.......and that's why we love it.

i feel like in a lot of times when something happens to the DM's partner, the DM tends to make desicions in favor of said partner but may complicate things for the rest of the players :/ which, i get it, you want to help them and please them, but the rest of the party are your players too. You are *their* DM as well

What's up with everyone and having wild curse of stradh games? That was three first module I ran for my party and we had a fantastic time. Also we have the don't play without a player but we just do one shots for the off week

With that first story, that would have meant that my group would have had to wait over five months for me to return after my wife and I had our first child. Thankfully, the group continued on, while the DM and I did some behind the scenes stuff until I returned.

That scheduling story was kinda wild. I play a lot of games and few folks can show up week to week life happens but OP was too patient and the rest was too lax in playing and their reaction to OP leaving is insane. I run 3 games and play in 2 and only if half the players can't make it do we actually cancel. If your friends get together and play uno or apples to apples or risk or anything jeez. If you are not and it is DND that brought you together play a one-shot, do an episodic kinda of campaign in between the the first one exploring backstories as a DM you need to put some effort into this.

... Im buying the armor, the ships, the emotes, all of it tomorrow... even for the classes I dont run... I am ashamed of myself, truly...

Yo im gonna need the fashion on ur warlock, that outfit looks peak

i still have not been able to nail down what the hunter armor is modeled after anyone know?

DnD is pulling people in from two franchises now Destiny and DBD let's see how many players gets pulled into playing dnd and potentially means more horror stories. Can't wait to get a horror story of some dude fascinatination making huntress from dbd and vecna lmao

The Traumatizing Schedule reminds me of a game friends and I lost, because of a DM post-ponning it for 9 whole months after one of the players left on shaky terms with us. (The Player and the DM were dating, we had an awkward in-game dynamic, bleh).

Man how can I get a DM like Crispy, I've wanted to play a game for so long and the few times I was able to play years ago always ended with me leaving for one reason or another.

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I was so annoyed when my HDD crashed and I lost all my Foundry stuff. About 2 years worth of stuff for the campaign, just gone. Was a huge pain rebuilding things enough to run again.

Finally someone else likes Rune Knight

"Oh hey Twitter notification" he he dat wuz me

Dead Gods! Tell me about it! Management of EVERY PUBLIC SPACE from mid October through mid January: "I cast endless Mariah Scary playlist!" Meanwhile, everyone cursed with the grave misfortune of HAVING EARS at this time: "Beech, WTF?!? That's a f*cking War Crime!!!😱🤮😭"

Guys, you WILL enjoy the Tenth Tomb! Please give it a watch, I will watch Crispy do anything but in my opinion the actual play is really exceptional content. Such a good DM.

You might have pops, but you also might have this dysautonomia (probably Spelled that wrong…) Meaning your nerves don’t like the function most people’s nerves do. I have and it is truly challenging. I really hope you don’t have either need to drink more water have more sodium in your diet. I suggest this company called Skratch They have hydration powder that’s a lot like liquid IV excepted taste way better. My favorite is the strawberry lemonade.

Some people can seem to help manipulating everyone around them, and then they wonder why no one wants to be in their life. Just cut the insecure, manipulative BS and try interacting like a genuine person. If people are always upset because you are lying and trying to manipulate them, that's on you.

To the guy in the first story who says that Christmas ends in January. Is that dude from the Philippines? Because that is how we celebrate Christmas here in the Philippines.

I’m starting to think that the House of Strahd is cursed, that was my first campaign and we never finished due to the whole party not being able to keep it up any more and it to this day never finished it’s been 4 years.

Not me saying I don’t do session zeros because I just want more the “Wasted” effects in Crispy videos lol

The pathfinder ninja failing to stealth is weird to me as a Pathfinder player. Assume its lv1, 1 rank+ 4 favored class bonus + 4 ability score (assuming base 18 dex) is +9, you will on average hit a DC19 check, this is not bad at all, should be able to handle most checks at lv1 to lv4 or so, and that dim lighting helps. When i DM, at this level i assume the specialized character makes a DC15 check, while the guy that has a favorable ability score can make a DC12, i put up DC20 checks for things i dont want them to do, but will let them do anyways, but sneaking up on someone isnt this, its one of the core mechanics of the stealth characters in Pathfinder.

My gm buddy just announced a new game and pitched us having not only a session 0 but a session -1 Does that bring a crispy back to life?

GOLD DRAGON TITAN LETS GOOOOOOOOOO CRAYON EATERS UNITE!!!!

Poor Nott being used as the art for this 😂

I was so sad because my server kept crashing. D'x wish me 🤞🍀 today

Have session Zero guys and gals, save the Crispy Copies for better skits than "no session zero? Okay *fires revolver*"

Ooof I feel you about calling it during games. Like an idiot, during a small break during DMing my most recent *ahem* fOUrth EDITIon!!!! campaign I made the mistake of trying my new CBD flower I had bought from the smoke shop. It hit me *way* harder than expected, and I just kind of floated through the rest of the session while really high. x) I DO NOT recommend this. PS: I also can't stand that Mariah Carey song. :P But generally love Christmas!

Has a Curse of Strahd campaign ever ended well?

"A bit of a stalker!" Just a little bit, though.... 👀

„Sir Guard, I Amin admiration of your physique, I can see from your enormous form that you must be an alpha capable of gathering large amounts of food and likely of giving me heavenly pleasure as soon as we are past this line…“

I am glad it was this and not the 44 rules crap. Been a day and I am already tired of it.

16:34 welcome everybody to every DND players most hated show the dmpc show

A bit of a stalker They were also quite a bit of a gaslighter.

If a game keeps getting canceled just because one player is missing then that's my signal to leave.

A bit of a stalker !

@Traumatizing scheduling Maaaaan fuck that noise. A YEAR!? If a group makes me wait 3 weeks with last-minute excuses of other plans or whatever I start eyeing the door. 6 weeks, I'm playing one shots with other groups and have a foot out the door. By 2 months max I'm out. I have free time alloted to dnd, I can't just not do dnd for a whole year while running on "maybe later" fumes. 😅 OP should value their time more.

Maybe I should come back to destiny 2 🤔

Dude i want to let you know, a Tinder ad interrupted your video

The destiny cross over armor is cool but I also probably won’t buy it. I was disappointed that the Hunter armor doesn’t feel equal to the other two. Like a displaced beast just isn’t on par with a mind layer or a fucking gold dragon. And I’m a hunter main.

A BIT OF A STALKER

Holy crap. Imagine criting so hard you nearly pass out IRL. Damn.

A bit of a stalker... Also, I emailed a story ❤

I’m going to have to disagree Crispy… Xmas finishes 12 days after Xmas day… that’s literally where ‘the twelve days of Christmas’ comes from

bro dnd schedules be like:

A bit of a stalker

WOTC out here partnering with *everyone* for their 50th. They just released Dead by Daylight DLC and I have several of the D&D X Converse collab shoes on my wishlist. They even partnered with Blizzard last year and did a D&D Overwatch Battle Pass that included Cassidy saying “How do you wanna do this?” and some real cute skins

...a bit of a stalker...

“Santa Baby” drives you up the wall? Clearly you’ve never had to listen to “Stay a Little Longer Santa” by Shemekia Copeland. “Santa Badly” is ducking subtle by comparison. 🍆🍩

A bit of a stalker.

Bit of a stalker

You wanna celebrate Christmas all December long, fine. Just don't do it in October or November. It's rude to Halloween and Thanksgiving.

Good news/bad news. Good news you do not have that disease. Bad news you have beri beri.

Do you talk about Destiny so often because it's a stand in for a cry for help?

The owner of my local game store told me Magic: The Gathering is coming out with a Final Fantasy set next year so I might have to go into hood foreclosure

Not the DnDMV...

Watching the intro after dropping 25 bucks on the DBDxDND crossover... uh... well this is embarrassing.

Who is Doku and why are you suing them over a christmas song?

A bit of a stalker. 😅

I'm sorry....scheduling isn't hard. You go "what day is everyone willing to dedicate to the game? Okay, 4/5 people can do this day. Can those 4 do any other day? No? Okay. Sorry #5, but it won't work out for this game. 4 player campaign. Remind everyone weekly. Done. Not hard 🤷‍♂️. Make occasional exceptions for real life scenarios. Offer video call involvement when needed. It's not hard to schedule, and if your intended players refuse to prioritize the game, that's on them, not the DM. I can't run a game based on 1 persons schedule, you're either up for it or no. Nothing personal.