The DM Took a Disability in D&D WAY Too Personally

The DM Took a Disability in D&D WAY Too Personally - RPG Horror Stories

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Күн бұрын

This edit was not too bad but there was a lot of... life getting in my way. It's honestly getting pretty annoying to keep up with everything at once. But hey, life waits for no one. I did get some new art for my D&D game, so that was nice to see. Anyway, off to bed. It's been a long day.
RPG Horror Stories is a series where I read through stories from Reddit and my own email while giving advice on how to avoid the issues that lead to such stories in the first place.
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3:01 - The Horror. Of LFG. (e/StoriesForCrispy)
11:59 - You Need to be Blind (e/StoriesForCrispy)
16:46 - The DM Who Can't DM (e/StoriesForCrispy)
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@NinjaBoy641 2 ай бұрын

"You're blind, so your character has to be blind." My brother in Christ this is a FANTASY GAME

@RangeCMYK 2 ай бұрын

What do you mean, obviously the game with wizards and talking animal people and reality-shattering spells has to follow the player's physical condition to the letter or else it's "unrealistic".

@bossked1563 2 ай бұрын

"You're short, chonky, and an objective 4/10, so your character has to be short, chonky, and a 4/10!"

@ZedMazaus480 2 ай бұрын

I hear you. I lost my vision a few years ago, and thankfully never ran into a DM like this. But dealt with plenty of problem players that acted just as arrogantly stuborn and jerkish. Some people are just A-holes.

@davidtherwhanger6795 2 ай бұрын

I've heard this story recently. And I will say this as I said on that channel. This DM has obviously never heard of Zatoichi the Blind Samurai! Or for that matter Dare Devil and numerous other characters in fiction that were blind without any problems.

@RangeCMYK 2 ай бұрын

@@davidtherwhanger6795 TOPH. But to be fair, she could see, just not with her eyes.

@zixserro1 2 ай бұрын

Second Story: I don't think it's so much that the DM didn't think they could handle someone with disabilities in their game, and more that they wanted to bully a blind person under the guise of "It's just how it would be in the world I'm narrating." Gross behavior, glad OP got out of there.

@claressadubs 2 ай бұрын

I was about to comment the same thing, almost word for word! Totally agree. He really had the feel of someone who would've loved to trip a blind person and laugh irl, but doing it in a game was the next best option. 😑

@madmouse4465 2 ай бұрын

I’m still recoiling at how much blatant Ableism was in the primary horror story. Like that DM was not subtle at all about how much he hated OP for simply having a disability. Not like I would want the DM to be subtle, fuck that guy.

@ArcCaravan 2 ай бұрын

While the ableism aspect is new, it's hardly rare for problem players/DMs to be subtle.

@alphons1456o 2 ай бұрын

"Cool I hit the soft cap in Elden Ring and can now use all strength based weapons! Wait...why did the game remove my Giant Crusher?"

@RelativelySaneStudio 2 ай бұрын

That third story seems to just be straight-up ableist bullying, it's not just "you need to be blind in-character", it's then not allowing them to do anything and preventing other people helping them. What a horrible person.

@schachmaster 2 ай бұрын

I bet the blind player must have blind characters” guy is also the “wheelchairs in fantasy is wrong” guy.

@BlindZubat 2 ай бұрын

As someone who is also legally blind, that story is horrifying. I am so socially insecure due to my disability as is. The fear of something like that happening to me is one of the reasons I have not started playing TTRPG's. Don't even get me started on the struggle of finding dice that I can actually see the numbers on.

@alexinfinite7142 2 ай бұрын

People are scum. Be strong and pursue the things you love

@BlindZubat 2 ай бұрын

@@alexinfinite7142 I am have been attacking my anxiety issues. Still working on this one. I did order a set of dice that look like they have good contrast today. So, baby steps. Once I get that D20 though, I will have a very versitile weapon in my hands.

@ZedMazaus480 2 ай бұрын

I've lost my vission a few years ago, and would have ripped him a new one over that garbage. I totally get you. It's stressful as heck when you need so much help to play a game you love as is. Then to have a total jerk like pull this bullying nonsense just because you have a disability. I can tell you cowards like him will cry like a girl if you get hold of them. I've put my fair share of bullies to the ground, because their ego is so inflated that they believe that just because you cant see you couldn't possibly do anything to them. They're always dead wrong. wether its with words or a swift knee to the groin. they all have fragile *cough* egos that easily break with enough hits. Not that violence or being mean should be the go to firstly, but you need to take some kind of stand against them. Wether its telling them its not okay, or just walking away from the situation under the statement you're not going to take their crap. Some kind of push back is always better than just taking it. Hold your head high, because you do matter. Also as a heads up if you ever need it. All phones have a voice assistant program pre-installed in them. Its in the settings. They all tend to have different names. For the samsung galaxy s24 ultra it's called Talk Back. Which that name always makes me think that program is going to give the user a jerk teen attitude. LOL😂

@papersamurai00 2 ай бұрын

My wife is visually impared and is using RPG Simple Dice on her phone. It's white on black, mostly just text, and very readable. Also, the Samsung Flow program to mirror her phone on her computer monitor helps too. Pardon if this isn't needed, I just like sharing tools.

@VexVerity 2 ай бұрын

I don’t know if I’d ever feel normal talking to someone again if I witnessed them treating someone else like that story, let alone if I were the target. I’m not visually impaired, but that’s actual nightmare behavior. I hope you’re able to overcome your fears and find an amazing game, but I think it’s pretty reasonable to be horrified by the story. They’re horrifying people. They’ve earned it.

@larrystoll5368 2 ай бұрын

I have been accused multiple times of not being blind simply because I had the nerve to confidently and competently walk into a bar and order a drink. I have come to terms with losing my vision, but one thing that still pisses me off is ableist bullshit. I'm sorry that happened, but at the very least the good people outnumber the jerks.

@joshuamurphy1533 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for reading my story Crispy, thought I’d give a little bit of an update. Sorry, 10 years later, I’m a couple of weeks away from my second ever campaign, DMing for my younger brother and a couple of his friends. I even plan on bringing back my blind dwarf, Who my friend reminded me a day or two ago was a barbarian not a paladin but again a decade it’s a long time. Anyway said dwarf is going to be the main quest giver and may or may not have the skull of an ancient red dragon complete with very obvious roughly acts shaped gouges on the side decorating his front garden because not only can blind people play Dungeons & Dragons but they can run the game too

@Koseishi 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for the update. Glad to hear you are not only enjoying the game, but incorporating well-deserved poetic justice and catharsis for your old character.

@claressadubs 2 ай бұрын

Hell yeah dude, that's awesome!

@pipertheos2660 Ай бұрын

Hi! Low sight/legally blind person here. I got so mad for you! If that was your character's favorite tavern, he'd know where to go to not trip. I use my hands to make sure I'm not running into things or bumping things all the time! When sight declines we lear other adaptations to continue to survive. Anyway, don't mind me, Congrats on your second campaign and I know your dwarf is gonna be an amazing quest giver!

@joshuamurphy1533 Ай бұрын

Having, as of November last year, completed my chefs qualifications yeah low vision not as much as an obstacle as a lot as people tend to think it is. I had the layout of the kitchen memorised within a week

@pipertheos2660 Ай бұрын

@@joshuamurphy1533 Yep we low vision folks are clever. Congrats on that too!

@chaosfellow7407 2 ай бұрын

My DM has successfully used player characters as NPCs in very specific situations where the enemies are meant to feel like their own individuals, but they were always used carefully and we knew that they were built like player characters.

@shadiafifi54 2 ай бұрын

Depends on how you use them, whether for roleplay or for creating a challenge.

@chaosfellow7407 2 ай бұрын

@@shadiafifi54 They were used to create a challenge.

@conspiracypanda1200 2 ай бұрын

I've seen a DM reuse their party's previous characters as NPCs... but, like, as Alternate Universe versions of themselves because they basically became demigods in the first campaign. So in this alternate universe one player's old PC was randomly encountered working at a bar, another was a mysterious nomad selling wares, etc. etc. Using regular character sheets was a way of both depowering them from godhood and keeping them strong enough to feel appropriate and respectful to the players who once played them. And it was cool to see each cameo and wonder where each party member's old character could be and what they worked as in this new universe.

@shadiafifi54 2 ай бұрын

The "Death by Hard Stuff" skit actually reminds me of the Quest for Glory games and the Dragon's Breath brew. Drinking a shot in the first game instantly kills you because you don't have the constitution score to handle it. You need to level up your character (over several games, in fact) to be able to drink it safely with no side effects.

@schwarzerritter5724 2 ай бұрын

The first story reminds of one I had. The party started at level 3, the tavernkeeper offered each of of a glass of his strongest wine. We rolled constitution saves, everyone failed, Barbarian with a 23. Rogue becomes paralysed for 10 minutes, Barbarian and Monk take 34 damage each. Barbarian drops to 1 hitpoint, Monk almost gets instantly killed, goes unconscious and automatically fails 2 death saving throws. Barbarian then uses her starting magic item, a potion of healing, to save Monk. Had Barbarian chosen less than 16 constitution, we would have had to pass 6 death saving throws in a row or lost at least 1 character in the first 5 minutes.

@ZedMazaus480 2 ай бұрын

Yikes! Yeah I'd say that is a horror story if I ever heard one. My condolences.

@thekenyonsquad5672 2 ай бұрын

"welcome to the DnD world. your first adventure is reporting the local tavern for health violations."

@schwarzerritter5724 2 ай бұрын

@@thekenyonsquad5672 If you think the wine was bad, the tavern also sold elf burgers, orc sausages and tiefling stakes.

@schwarzerritter5724 2 ай бұрын

Despite its flaws, the game was not bad... but the flaws just kept piling up.

@thekenyonsquad5672 2 ай бұрын

@@schwarzerritter5724 well, I can guess how he got the meat.

@Cthululululu 2 ай бұрын

DM for that Intro one here providing context- Dude min maxed pretty hard on his character build wise, but initially not unmanageably. I was basically convinced by him and someone else to allow a 3p thing they found printed that allowed a ritual to, yeah, put templates on peopple via a certain GP value, some skill checks, and ritual sacrifice. They were pirates, mixed alignment party, so on. Wasn't too happy with the results, and he as mentioned got weird about pressuring another PC into using the ritual which prompted me to yeah, come up with a way to level things out without needing that. Then he kept turning people into sentient statues and torturing them and nature took its proper paladin based smiting course. God we all do dumb things fresh outta highschool. Homebrews all well and good, but man was I bad at vetting stuff people wanted to use for balance back then.

@OrangeyChocolate 2 ай бұрын

My wife plays D&D with me, and she's visually impaired. I would never even consider making her play her characters as visually impaired as well. I'm glad that that ableist POS DM's game lasted all of five minutes before it imploded.

@Tytoalba777 2 ай бұрын

13:40 uhg, that reminds of stories I hear about tables that make bard players actually sing the song the character is singing. Nah, no, I ain't doing that unless I also see the barbarian player actually swing an ax, the ranger player shoot a bow, or the wizard player cast a spell (with all the proper spell components, too!). I heard that the table is good, but I'll *never* do that

@thekenyonsquad5672 2 ай бұрын

bonus points if the bard does that, but it's ridiculous to force.

@phobiawitch835 2 ай бұрын

The reaction to Wyvern is pretty funny, lol. I remember reading about that race when I still played PF1e. I wanted to play a LG Cleric of a god of hunting and family, as one of those wyverns. Basically, I wanted to be Paarthurnax, lmao.

@arsenalxa4421 Ай бұрын

I've said it before, I'll say it again. I joined a DnD group through the VA and one of our party members was legally blind. We had extra large dice with easy to read numbers and his character sheet printed up in extra large font so he could go over his spell sheet as he was our dwarven sorcerer. He played, as he said, to be someone other than who he is. I loved playing alongside him, nevermind our characters(me a human fighter) had an intertwined backstory, but because I'd help him out with reading his rolls and spells. Unfortunately he had to leave because his vision has deteriorated to the point he's undergoing rehab to try and regain a degree of his vision. I miss seeing his smile at the table every time he wipes out an enemy with Magic Missile or shocking grasp.

@ShyyGaladriel 2 ай бұрын

That blind character horror story made me livid

@LooseDeuce 2 ай бұрын

oh no, another Crispy bites the dust #savethecrispys

@AvatAR42420 2 ай бұрын

The DM in the blind character story is too immature to be a DM and just didn't want a vision impaired guy at their table for some dumb reason.

@solosynapse Ай бұрын

He just wanted to bully a disabled kid.

@IronLordEXO 2 ай бұрын

"Every time you don't do a session 0, a Crispy dies" Bahamut save me, how many Crispies have we lost? Edit: God, that last story. The only thing I hate more than DMs who don't let their characters be good at what they're good at are DMs who hear the party's creative plan just to decide that oh no it won't work

@Sanodi21 2 ай бұрын

From the first story, is the crazy grapple monster they're talking about the same one that bailed the instant a monster that had cold damage appeared, complaining that were being targeted?

@feiradragon7915 2 ай бұрын

Yea, it's a pretty big red flag if someone tries to make you write a character that is confined to your personal experiences/disabilities/ect. It's called "role play" for a reason; not "isekai yourself".

@DungeonsandDancing 2 ай бұрын

Every time a new campaign has a session zero, a Crispy gets their wings.

@Thrythlind 2 ай бұрын

There was a point when I was going over a vampire character with my brother getting ready for a crossplat World of Darkness game... and he at one point after finishing his character (a former Marine MP) looking at his physical stats and skills, he looked up at me and said "I'm better than my character" (he was in the marines at the time).

@lahlybird895 2 ай бұрын

Ask somebody who's blind in real life I can safely say I have no idea how to role-play as a blind person

@ArcCaravan 2 ай бұрын

I just heard the blind character story on another channel. Same OP mentioned how the group apologized over the ableist DM (they abandoned that jerk and may have gotten other groups to do the same) and offered a new better game that was declined. I only mention it out of surprise at the same story being on two channels with different detail amounts, assuming they're indeed the same story and not just two incredibly similar stories.

@Akalim 2 ай бұрын

That story about the blind character made my eyes roll so far back i almost went blind myself That dungeon master was looking for an excuse to bully, a blind person who has been blind all their life can easily walk into a bar without snapping their neck. Also aren't dwarfs cave dwellers in a way? They can probably totally navigate in the darkness

@M_Alexander 2 ай бұрын

I could count on my fingers the number of sessions I'd played before I decided to DM but I spent a lot of time preparing on top of listening to videos and reading articles on advice. So you _can_ DM without much experience but you have to compensate for your lack of experience by learning from others. And don't skip session zero. While I didn't technically host one as such, my players are people I've known for years IRL and we discussed starting the game as a group over like two weeks in Discord. So you can do the session zero stuff even if it's not a proper session

@vulcanxd1415 2 ай бұрын

Thought I’d send a short and somewhat silly story. A while ago I ran a simple campaign for three friends that were new to dnd. One of the players was a bard, and a the group was challenged with a locked door. The bard jokingly decided to “rizz up” the door and went up to an irl door to lean on it for the bit. Unfortunately the door they decided to do it on didn’t have the mechanism that kept the door in the holder, aka the bit that the handle is supposed to move. Anyway, the bard ended up accidentally falling through the door. They were fine, but it was the funniest thing that happened all session and I said they succeeded due to it being so funny.

@LordSvzklx 2 ай бұрын

Ugh, we’ve had longer and probably grosser stories but that You Have To Be Blind one is probably the most infuriated at a story I’ve been in a while. You have people playing elves and wizards which they are not in real life but heaven forfend someone not include their disability in their character. And that bullshit with the tripping which the DM clearly wanted to happen regardless, I suspect even if the OP had rolled a Nat 20 something would have happened. Glad that got at least the friend outraged at last, I’m hoping the rest of the table also saw that as the bullshit it was

@LontEnCaras 9 күн бұрын

ah, what OP in the first story meant probably wasn't a wyvern but a wyvaran. They are a playable race in pathfinder first edition that are basically bigger kobolds with wings and wyvern blood. I've played one of those myself in the past.

@Cricket-byte 2 ай бұрын

Kind of unrelated but the dark lipstick looks fantastic on you!!

@iank472 2 ай бұрын

If you, or anyone you know, has been affected by LFG please contact the helplines below. Noone should go through that alone.

@CrispysTavern 2 ай бұрын

That was the original skit before I changed it to it's current form!

@Ferretic Ай бұрын

I literally JUST watched another DnD horror story video covering the ableist AF DM

@SelfProclaimedGorl Ай бұрын

Imagine getting sneak 100 in skyrim and then the game says “you can no longer crouch”

@zippah 16 күн бұрын

HOLY I WAS LISTENING TO THIS IN THE BACKGROUND AND AS SOON AS I TABBED OUT I GOT JUMPSCARED IN THE FIRST 12 SECONDS AH

@wilhelmschmidt7240 Ай бұрын

6:59 To be fair, alcohol is literal poison.

@unhackerthelaziestbastardo6083 2 ай бұрын

When it comes to the DM who can't DM, I'm reminded of how my DM in a game I was in just yesterday managed to do an interrogation. We were interrogating an NPC for connections or at the very least, if he was the villain we were searching for. The thing was that this NPC was written in a way that was designed to be cold. Pain didn't work (We tried to break a singular finger and he didn't even wince), and we had to come up with some way to get him to talk. Thankfully, the DM we had was a good DM, so we just said that we know his old squadmates (we knew of them, but not much) and that we would pay them a visit instead, as he's so unwilling to talk. And you know what? It got the NPC to start talking, he didn't spill everything, because he had loyalty to his old squad but he did give up one name, and a location, gaving us a lead. I feel like if the DM from the story was in charge, it would've had zero effect to threaten (or even imply a threat) to just completely blank all of that and railroaded us to doing one (1) specific thing that he had planned out.

@TheDahaka1 2 ай бұрын

17:30 Sounds like the parents of a friend of mine. "No, we don't want to hear your reasons because it always ends up that you're right, so just do what we say" Parents that I might add were extremely controlling with him, expected him to become a medic or a lawyer (while he just wanted to study and make literature) and forced him to tutor his slower younger brother from whom the parents never expected anything at all. This while completey ignoring his stress, depression and, as he later found out, autism. So yeah, top class XD

@0freeicecream956 2 ай бұрын

24:36 Fun fact: PF1e/D&D 3.5 by default has monsters using similar rules to building PCs. Supposedly this is because PCs and monsters are supposed to be "equal," but in practice the games math-boosting number bloat makes it ridiculously hard to nail the numbers on, to the point that PF1e got alternate rules for building monsters that don't use player rules at all, and PF2e was built from the ground up as monsters being an entirely different beast. But yeah, throwing monsters with PC levels was a fairly regular way to bump up monsters in PF1e, especially if you wanted to, say, yank an orc up 1-3 levels.

@FinnalyNozuka 2 ай бұрын

my current group I didn't do a session 0, BUT I did do a consent sheet on google forms and I've been friends with these people for 2 years and we did other roleplay related games (not Tabletop) so we know we meshed well and had a good idea of each other's limits and play styles so it wasn't really necessary

@black69071 2 ай бұрын

Crispy doesn't see the rest but Doge does. Basically the DM flat out states he doesn't like that the op was blind. Made some ableist comments. Everyone in the group walks out, OP hasn't touched a TTRP ever since. Even after the friend invited him to join new group.

@thekenyonsquad5672 2 ай бұрын

26:10 not only did this DM tell his players to not hand over the money, then expect them to hand over the money, but presumably the "right" solution would have skipped a combat he must have spent hours putting together if the bandits were all made like player characters.

@Beto_Serrano 2 ай бұрын

Whenever I wanna make powerful monsters, I give them class ablities that make sense, such as an Evil Paladin with Smite, An agile villian with evasion. Even made an Archdevil with Bladesong. It's all about how you wanna balance your creatures!

@thekenyonsquad5672 2 ай бұрын

adding one or two class abilities to monsters is actually really cool. the issue touched on is making a PC with the player's handbook from scratch in order to make custom enemies. the result tends to be a ton of work put into a single creature who is difficult to run combat with and isn't likely to use all the abilities he was given.

@flexiblenerd 2 ай бұрын

11:15 See, I'm just self-aware enough to know that I'm one of those. But people will bring it up and go "oh no, you'll just be bad starting out, you'll get better". Yeah, not everyone's cut out to DM. Hell, I'm horribly awkward enough as it is just as a player. Hooray for validation; SOMEONE realizes not everyone just needs to "git gud".

@VonSnootingham 2 ай бұрын

On the subject of being too good at something: The character I'm playing right now has 26 AC baseline (plus I can use Shield once per day and Gift of the Metallic Dragon 5 times to boost to 31) and attacks against me are at disadvantage (Cloak of Displacement). So a lot of enemies can only hit me by rolling 2 nat 20s. So I don't bother using disengage if I want to move away from an enemy as I'm confident they won't hit me. My DM recently gave up on having enemies try to take opportunity attacks on me. We were swimming across a channel infested with zombie sharks and I swam past like three and said "they can take opportunity attacks if they want. I'd love to see them try." The DM just sighed and said, "...No. No, that's alright." And I knew I had broken him.

@solosynapse Ай бұрын

That's what attacks that require Wisdom or Intelligence saving throws are for.

@SaphDegatzlXl 2 ай бұрын

13:39 Thought it was going to be due to a missing arm, honestly!

@mintcoral 2 ай бұрын

People with 20/20 vision: How do you lose your glasses? Me: I don't lose my glasses. The void is just making me pay time and energy to continue to rent my glasses. So after an arbitrary amount of time has passed. The void than returns them to me in some weird obscure place. And it's never the same place twice.

@myheartismadeofstars 2 ай бұрын

I hate that blind character story so much. I do think it could be really fun to play a disabled pc! But i wouldn't want one to be just like me, and I wouldn't want to be PUNISHED for it!

@MrWD-tp7oc 2 ай бұрын

Got to know what the song is for visible asexual confusion. It goes in my playlist ASAP

@leviv168 2 ай бұрын

I just made a commander deck with the card you used for the thumbnail crispy. A+

@DespiteEverything42 2 ай бұрын

3:42 TOOK ME INTO THE CITTY Sorry sorry

@DirkLoechel 2 ай бұрын

BETTER THAN BAD D&D!

@vmacdatruth 2 ай бұрын

I just wanna hear Crispy say the full fword before I die

@CrispysTavern 2 ай бұрын

Watch my podcasts. If I'm really comfortable with the guest, I'll forget I'm supposed to be in "camera mode" so I curse a lot. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pJedY8-BmJ_QgoE.html

@averyg1814 2 ай бұрын

First comment! Love your videos Crispy! Ty for giving me something I can always put on while I do my crochet/artsy things!

@turquoisepebbles8572 2 ай бұрын

Me too! I love listening while doing art/crochet/housework

@averyg1814 2 ай бұрын

@@turquoisepebbles8572 I love that!!!

@TheRuneTail 2 ай бұрын

Just shows that too many DMs have 0 right to DM

@turquoisepebbles8572 2 ай бұрын

Better than bad d&d! Wow that first one, like we don’t use fantasy games to ESCAPE reality . And then to pour salt in the wound by basically making fun of their disability! Just…wow

@JoeyDieselComedy 2 ай бұрын

Do you want a good First Time D&D story to balance the Horror Stories? Because a few days ago I got to play my first ever session, and it was epic. Do I just post it in the Comment Section or Email it to you? (If any of the other players and DM read this, know you guys are awesome. Can't wait to play more sessions, and become Friends.)

@matthewlaird5235 Ай бұрын

Wait someone’s character order a shot of the hard stuff and the bartender served them poison, and the party just said forget it and when on the adventure. I don’t think anyone in their right mind would walk into a bar order a shot, gets served poison, and just say oh well I guess I’ll just go on my way. If that happened to me IRL, I would immediately call 911 and report an attempted murder, I would probably scream for help. I’m pretty sure a bartender could do some serious time, or in some civilizations hanging or beheading.

@TheGolux 2 ай бұрын

"Wyvaran" is a little different than wyvern. Though I think they were made by adding wyvern parts to kobolds.

@davenrippe480 2 ай бұрын

So as a pathfinder 1E player in the first story they Wyvaran. they are the children wyverns and kobolds. just don't think to much on the math of who layed the egg

@hannahnohlgren989 2 ай бұрын

Better than bad DnD. 🎉

@3of6mylove Ай бұрын

You know how you deal with a person in your group who has a disability? By respecting them and treating them like you would anyone else. If they need some extra help, you give it to them, you don't disrespect them by trying to disable their character to "match" them. That DM was just a jerk.

@finnmchugh99 2 ай бұрын

Even if I was a DM like that...I'd simply give the player Blindsight of approx 30ft or even funnier truesight. Im not rolling a dice every time a blind character does something cuz that will get old very fasy

@K1k1Cupcake Ай бұрын

Dang I’m gonna have to rewrite all my characters… I can’t walk more than a block 😬🙄

@marybdrake1472 2 ай бұрын

I have a brief retort to that statement from the intro story Crispy. The problem player gets their head kicked by a paladin, unless they are a paladin. We see an awful lot of that too.

@EvilDeath66X 2 ай бұрын

That first story, they just mispelled Wyvaran. It's not a Wyvern.

@ElenaAideen 2 ай бұрын

Hey, LFGs aren't the worst thing. It does take some discretion to evaluate if the personalities will mesh though. The group I currently play with evolved out if a random advert for a Roll20 game I decided to run 8 years ago.

@liska_dae 2 ай бұрын

Better than bad D&D

@nycstreetpoet 2 ай бұрын

I actually think playing a blind character would be a lot of fun. A well-established heroic character is the wandering blind samurai and you could have a lot of fun with that. Furthermore, if a character who is blind is going to their usual bar and knows the layout, they’ll be fine. I think the DM didn’t understand anything about blind people.

@Kat5Gaming 2 ай бұрын

Wyvern = Wyvaran, lol...they're pretty cool, I used to play one in PF1

@brittz1359 2 ай бұрын

Legit question: Is it a bad idea if you use character lvls for boss enemies? I made a couple enemies for my PCs to face as a goal to reach up to them to defeat them. I'm a new DM so I might be in the wrong here. I just wanna do right by my players.

@hollowblaze2320 2 ай бұрын

It's better than bad DM that takes out of game context and uses it as a flaw to an in-game character. (Seriously F that DM)

@alexinfinite7142 2 ай бұрын

1:40 im dying 😂

@virusmochi Ай бұрын

The "Retire your character, NOW" sounds a little too much like LowTierGod

@asteranx 2 ай бұрын

18:00 - The idea of a game that punishes proficiency is somewhat interesting. Give the player a selection of skills, each of which levels up with use, and gets better as it levels up, but at max level it becomes unusable. You'd have to balance how you apply each of your skills to ensure that when you need them they're high enough, but that you don't overuse them to the point where they aren't available when they're needed. Call it 'Success is not an Option'.

@ArcCaravan 2 ай бұрын

Disco Elysium did something like that, making skills that were maxed out force themselves to be used while affecting the playable detective's personality (also the skills were characters themselves).

@timalice-2833 2 ай бұрын

I just saw dnd doge with the exact story about the blind character but this one was more descriptive and on doge the character was a dwarf barbarian

@ArcCaravan 2 ай бұрын

I saw that same story. Doge's version felt more descriptive with some post-game details with everyone ditching DM in all games and offering a new game to OP.

@Serry6969 2 ай бұрын

Daddy rivaz

@jaredthehawk3870 2 ай бұрын

The race is actually called a Wyveran. And yeah, lore wise, it's a result of magically crossbreeding kobolds and wyvern. They're a pretty cool race if slightly OP due to flight. They have an optional racial trait that remedies this, though, if the GM desires.

@solosynapse Ай бұрын

Flight is only OP if ranged weapons & spells are banned.

@jaredthehawk3870 Ай бұрын

@solosynapse some GMs don't like dealing with it so it's basically GM choice. I'm not judging.

@l0stndamned 2 ай бұрын

Once again I'm going to have to disagree with you on the giving npcs/monsters class-levels thing. It isn't as overly complicated as you make it sound and it really helps "It is on!" reaction from the players when they see a class feature used. Plus it makes a lot of sense for enemies to be like this if the players are mostly fighting humanoid enemies.

@Marquise1 2 ай бұрын

Oh an amblyophobe!

@weswtf 2 ай бұрын

whats are dead crispy count

@CrispysTavern 2 ай бұрын

We don't keep an account of that number.

@brittanybecker170 2 ай бұрын

Hmm, Multiple Sclerosis in D&D? I mean, it might be great if I run into psionic enemies. Elder Brain, enjoy crippling migraines, vertigo and assort nerve damage at random because f0k u that's why. Of course this also means my character would never go adventuring because see above so probably not.

@AzriusN Ай бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/acphg9KE35zcias.html First thing that came to mind during that skit about parental issues

@hughie522 2 ай бұрын

Wait, your players are "normal"? :P

@theoneguyoverthere 2 ай бұрын

Wait, allowing sin templates for PCs in a Pathfinder campaign? Yeah, no, those are for GMs to create thematic villains, not for power gamers to make their character even more broken. Plus, since their powers literally hinge on them really leaning hard into a particular sin, it runs the risk of turning them into one-note characters. I guess it’s not inherently a bad thing for PCs to have access to, but I’d be REALLY careful about who I’d let have it.

@eldritch-rage 2 ай бұрын

The closest the pcs get is applying templates to their minions and sometimes their eidolon

@AlinNightwing 2 ай бұрын

I think the disability story is fucking stupid. If the player can't do something doesn't mean your FANTASY HERO cannot do it. I set up a fun birthday thing for one of my players, it was her birthday so I carried that in game and made a fun birthday party session that included some fey pranksters and some riddles as part of the big reveal of the party. The players could not answer some of the riddles, what did I do? I allowed them to roll a d20 and add their intelligence modifiers setting a DC to see if maybe their characters snap their fingers and come up with the answers. Like just cause the player can't think of it doesn't mean that 18-20 hyper intelligence score can't think of it. Don't be that DM who punishes the character, cause at that point why did he even let OP play if he was just gonna punish him for it... fuck that DM

@JThom529 Ай бұрын

Wow these are sad

@andrewg9433 2 ай бұрын

Using character creators to make monsters? Yeah no good. Too much information that is largely useless. Just take different *features* from the different classes and give them to your monsters if you want them to have "class levels." Like giving a bandit rage to make a Bandit Berserker. Or maybe giving them a Battle Master maneuver or two or even an Action Surge if you really want to scare the players. 5e just doesn't have as much support for giving NPCs class levels so you kinda have to jury rig it to do it.

@George_M_ 2 ай бұрын

The ablism story pisses me off -_-

@bjaxstriker5245 Ай бұрын

I’m 100% sure you weren’t trying to be rude, but saying it’s their table and they know their skill level for a blind person is about equally as legitimate as saying that for, say, a gay person. The only thing where skill level is really involved is describing the settings, otherwise it’s just asking the person what they need-which is likely to be very little that’s different from any other person. Also (not from any comment of yours but since I haven’t seen it mentioned), can we end the idea that blind people constantly trip over things? It’s really about the same as anyone with site.