Crushing it as always, bud! Honored to bring some vibes to your channel 🧡🎶

"Hear that? It's a cow, cause it's going to age like milk!" Fucking got me.

The “are you comfortable with romance” question is one I actually ask prospective players as a dm! It really works when finding what players will and will not mesh well together alongside getting the idea of boundaries. Granted, he was creepy afterwards, but I gotta advocate for asking the question as a DM

Typical DnD Horror Story: "Yeah, I don't know if this is really a horror story but--*recounts blood orgy scene from Event Horizon*"

Story 1. The trash took itself out well after the point where the poster stopped being interested. So that's convenient. Story 3. I'm pretty sure the developers of 5e were thinking of less creepy ways of abusing retainers, like using them as trap detectors, human shields or monster bait.

That has to be bait In The beginning. Edit: OMG EVEN THE AI REJECTED THEMA AHHAHA

Knight has all the charm of Crassius Curio with that line: "Your duties are to polish my spear." Mans really tried to make his life into the Lusty Argonian Maid.

In the early days of D&D, it was common for players to use their hirelings as trap fodder or to test suspicious magic items. NPCs were treated as disposable resources, sadly. I'm pretty sure the rule came out of such callous behavior.

Last Story: Yeeeaaah, this guy reminds me to the Bard we had in the party… who claimed in life that he murdered “millions” of people in a rebellion. We had to tell him no because “there is no way anyone in the party would want to work with a mass murdering terrorist”. Oh, and his sisters and mother were raped-only he tried to force it while in game without the DM’s consent. That was the last straw and he got pulled away and booted

That guy had to be an incel for thinking that his sexual harassment approach was somehow equivalent to the other players treating other people decently and getting to know them as people lol

"It's a cow because that's gonna age like milk!" See I thought you were gonna say it's a load of bull

that very first story, when even an AI known for sometimes having unreasonable responses finds your response to be unreasonable, perhaps the problem isn't the women you're trying to romance

I feel for Crispy. Imagine being ace and trying to wrap your head around the behavior of these players and DMs who insist on inserting sexual content into their games. 😬

I have a friend playing BG3 who is perpetually unable to romance companions. I don't know HOW he manages to make it not work over and over...

I believe the retainers leaving thing was added because of how hirelings were treated in earlier editions.

Okay, I love that endgame of the final story was such a nice change of pace. That could have turned out so freaking awful and didn't.

Lol, that AI is on point! That's some next level insight into the human incel condition.

Story 4: "Looking at my OC's writing When suddenly it changes Violently it changes (oh no)"

That opener, all I could think was. "If anyone, insists on trying to force romance where no one is feeling it, want to be involved, and continue to pester to inflict us to be witness to such 'top-notch drama' that the campaign is missing, I would quickly send them a dozen links to apps of virtual boyfriend/girlfriend. And tell them to either take the hint or leave."

What the fighter did in that last story is a bit more than "tweaking" their character, the first one is basically altering their core concept. And the last straw is a step too far for the majority of people. I'm just glad to hear that they took the criticism to heart.

Nothing like starting the new year with some D&D horror while building a vampire house in the sims 4. I'm also enjoying Crispy's journey into becoming an e-girl.

I love how the first story could be summed up like: "Boyfriend accidentally saves girlfriend from a super akward and creepy social situation by sneezing loudly." and it would make perfect sense. Addon Edit as I kept watching: It's a pity that the DM in the second story valued shock value more than the player's fun and agency. I'm pretty sure if a dm asks the player if this could happen and discussed with them in advance it could have been a pretty cool plot twist and an intresting chance of development for the character. Of course in this case the shock value is mostly gone for that player, but it's still a twist for everyone else. It's not worth it to make a risky move like this as a DM as this can ruin the game for that player. This is the equivalent of telling a player how their character feels in a situation, it sounds cool in your head as the DM but it can really pull you out of the game as a player. The only thing the players have real control over is their own characters and actions, you cant just joink that away to try to surprise them.

That intro story: Well, I guess that's about as good as giving someone a centipede in a box could possibly go.

Jesus Christ, that Knight player fuckin quoted the Lusty Argonian Maid, absolute opposite of charisma

“This guy wants to be season one Jamie Lannister!!!!” Literally got me on the floor dying 😂

Damn. That lipstick suits Crispy.

Damn the new intro hits hard

Love the new intro and all the skits. I also love the different ways you say (or skip) words. I play this in the background and snap back for the skit or times like “cuddle puddle” and “I’m not reading that”.

In your "Jealous of the Sapphic" segment, I dont think your using that "push the right buttons to find love" metaphor right. Because he wasn't pushing any of the right buttons, in fact he was pushing all the wrong ones. If he did try to push the right buttons he might of had success but instead he was impatient and was hoping sexual harassment would get him to his goal faster.

I fully understand having too much time to think about a character. Usually after I play a character in session I enter full brain rot mode and start thinking about them non stop. About how they feel about what happened and how they feel about other characters and what they might do next. So I get where the fighter was coming from honestly. I have a few characters from Games that I've have to put in a "what if" box. Where I have the game version of them that doesn't change states and then the other version of them who I do whatever I want with in my own head it other projects.

TaleSpire is pretty good, albeit with a couple of drawbacks - currently every player will need a copy to use it (otherwise the host will have to move pieces for everyone, though there is a player/DM version being released in the future), and the learning curve gets a mite steep and mapmaking is a bit time consuming compared to other tools. With a few more months of game development completed and practice with mapmaking it might just be a killer piece of software for ttrpgs.

Newest intro feels like an awesome blend of your old intros where you had Skyrim backgrounds and your more recent ones. My favorite one so far!

"Your duties include to polish my spear" Someones been reading The Lusty Argonian Maid.

“This guy wants to be season one Jaime Lannister” 🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀

Congratulations on getting the music from Autumn, it's very fitting. Also love a wholesome ending.

I'm a nearly 40 year gamer and brand new to your channel. I really enjoy your channel and it's rapidly become my favorite rpg horror stories channel. Thanks for putting it together. Also, dropping the live action bits in is terrific. Keep up the good work.

Never go full Jamie Lannister.

Happy 2024!! It could be the leftover party vibes from last night, but I'm tearing up a bit at how far your channel has come. I've been watching since you first started to take off, and seeing you incorporate skits and things you're passionate about into your videos, and trying new things so you can continually grow as a creator... it's really cool! Your stuff has so much personality, and it's helped me through some hard times, from psychotic episodes to DM creative block. I hope you have a great new year, and that you don't get any new horror stories of your own.

I really like the new intro. I’ve been listening to your stories for the last several months (luckily no horror stories to share) and I am looking forward to seeing/hearing more stories this year.

I do laundry for my job so that first one made me worried I'd somehow sent a horror story I didn't even know about lmao

I just joined my first online game via found via and lfg Reddit. Was very nervous in the beginning because I have been watching tons of your videos, but I gave them the benefit of the doubt. Well... I'm so glad I did that and put myself out there. So far we're all having an absolut blast as far as I can tell, and the only issues we've had were related to scheduling, but we still manage to meet regularly. In a weird way, I don't think I would have even thought about joining an online group if it wasn't for your videos, because I thought to myself: and can't all be terrible - and I was right! So thank you Crispy, and to the people discouraged by negative experiences - don't let it get you down. Try again, if you're mentally up for it. Have a lovely day everyone

1:36 People who fell victim to Karlach’s romance bug: Too real man, too real.

I absolutely love the new music!! :D

Just commenting to let you know the lipstick looks good :) happy New year crispy! Looking forward to your content this year

love the new intro theme :) especially the crunchy bits near the end

The note on the last story, about changing backstories is okay with caution, is a really good one. In one game im in, i play a noble paladin who was raised as a knight. Both his parents are dead, but notably his mother died in childbirth. Now, three important things to know or remember. 1, nobles have a scroll of pedigree. 2, due to having relatively low contact with my extended family (bc of distance) and being ND, i tend to forget that extended family exists. Parents, siblings, MAYBE grandparents. 3, i... really love to think and help the DM (my bf of 8 years) by giving him ideas of what could be neat to implement, such as suggesting that drake warden's of an elevated status should have armour made of their drake's scales. So im sat there one day, daydreaming on my way to work, when i realise that not only does my PC's mother not have a maiden name, but i dont have any concept for any grandparents besides the aasimar line, nor any idea of like. Aunts or cousins. I use a surname generator but his last name is Blackwood so i dont want to use another NounNoun name. So i use the french one just to have something different. Im also canadian, so theres that. Well one thing leads to another and i bring up the idea of his family on his mother's side being from some french region, since its been established in game previously that his maternal great grandmother was a traveller. And now theres a region or island in this world with a name, based upon a made up river with a similar name, a language that comes from it, denonyms, rough explanation for what formed the language, what each name actually means, and a monastery to train peace clerics and mercy monks. In other words, i realised my characters mother didnt have a maiden name and accidentally created france, helping to flesh out the world a bit

Happy New Year Crispy and fellow taverngoers!

So much improvement in your videos over the past year, proud of how far you've come dude

I love autumn orange and am excited you commissioned them for the new tunes! Love this channel!!! 💙

First video of the new year and the skits are on point!

I really like the new format, acting the text directly is really immersive 👍

Good video, I'm glad the Fighter in the last story realized what he was doing was making people uncomfortable and fixed it! The music is also cool!

thank you so much for linking the thumbnail art. its so pretty omigod

Crispy's new years resolution was obviously to slay. I love your lipstick and hope one day I can be confident enough it wear it as well as you do!

Happy new year Crispy and fellow listeners! I like the new intro :)

Crispy hitting the new year with crispy new music for the intro

Save the cat ear! Use hot glue! 😂 (And I DID like the new music! And thank you for finally capitalizing "Horror" in your intro!)

The intro killed me XD Happy new Year

Love the new parts of the intro, and happy new years! I finally got into a campaign (Saltmarsh) so off to a good start.

I have been binge watching your DnD stroies sense I've found your channel. You are making great content! I will be continuing my binge!

I am thankful for my DM. When i was uncomfortable with a characters romancing another player for ingame reasons he was willing to ask them to stop but instead he worked with me so my character and I could be comfortable playing and they could still do their love thing ❤

Happy new year 🎉 Great video and loving the music.

Crispy is great he's such a modern lesbian icon

Ooh, love the new intro!

Loving the opening now!

“Having too much downtime to think. A classic. Start off simple but evolves.” My new Starfinder character started as a basic Ysoki (Rat-Folk) and very quickly morphed into a Frankenstein’s monster-esque creature with different rodent parts patched together. She has no idea *what* she is or *where*she’s from because of the experiments done on her.

Got no game... The new intro and music are pretty smooth, I like them. Hope you have a good and safe 2024, and that you look after yourself.

I will say I am a fan of the new music. Will have to check them out. ❤❤❤ thank you for the video, hope you are having a great new year.

The new music took me a bit by surprise, but new year, new music. Sounds good. ❤🎶

HAPPY NEW YEAR

another great video woohoo! happy new year!

Love the new jazzy flute theme!!

Lipstick looking on point crispy!

So, you asked about Talespire, and I can confirm that it is indeed amazing. If you want to see it in action, there is a smaller D&D Actual Play show called Forge of Lore which uses it extensively and the DM Steve, has made some amazing maps with it. If you want more than that, Dimension 20 used it during A Starstruck Odyssey and made amazing maps with it.

Bro you’re funny af. Subbed.

lol perfect use for that house of usher clip

8:46 Oml please keep popping out these banger one-liners

Love the new intro!

That outro, omg breath Crispy! I was almost was out of breath with how fast you were speaking

AWESOME NEW INTRO!!

The first story was relatable; I used to listen to Crit Crab while folding laundry! And your new music sounded great. 😊 PS: I like Season 1 Jamie Lannister. 😶

Thumbs up on the new intro!

I’ll be honest, I’m guilty of sometimes wanting to build more up in my backstory as the game goes on and I get to know my character. However! I never change some main fundamentals of the character and always clear it through my dm, who is very experienced (I do not bring this thing to a table where the dm isn’t as experienced and is more a teaching table). Those are also my rp heavy campaigns though and the ones where I came in as a new player for an ongoing campaign. I am mostly filling in plot holes for the backstory at that point so the dm has stuff to work with. For instance, I realized recently that my character, with the relationship they have with their faction, means they need a handler and I had written the original mentor to be off on a secret mission. This means I had to come up with the faction’s substitute handler for my character in the mean time. So I discussed it with my dm and they approved me working on creating that character between games. Final say still goes with the dm on if this goes into the game and I make sure not to make any references one way or another until that approval process is completed. So yes, I spend time between games coming up with more backstory things but I keep my dm in the loop and try to keep it to a level where I’m not overstepping what my role is. Also I always keep the tone in mind too and also work on making sure that I’m not overlapping too much into another player’s character arc and stealing the spotlight of a moment that means a lot to them. Also not inventing too many “I know a guy” type of npcs. I’m making ones that make sense. For instance, the substitute handler? Is a former student of my character’s current mentor and they only weren’t concurrent students of said mentor because mentor is of a long lived race. My character doesn’t know everything. I like my character not knowing everything. Half the fun for me is exploring things and seeing how the party’s characters overlap, interact, and how their backstories relate and change. If I know too much, the discovery is ruined. Anyway, my point is, yeah I’m guilty of having too much time to think on my character and wanting to work more on their story, but I also temper it to keep it respectful and not stress my dm or overshadow any other party member. I don’t want to be a main character. I like being more of a support or side for the most part. I just also love getting to know my characters and filling that in. But this is also just because I play in roleplay and storytelling heavy campaigns and this type of thing can pay off as you try to convey more nuanced characteristics. Also I never try to change tone. I like building my characters around the tone and themes that are ongoing. And I always think of the implications of what I’m writing and if any of this might make the dm or other players uncomfortable. I like collaboration which was one of the biggest draws for me….oh and I just don’t really like to play edgy characters. I have some dark and difficult stuff in a backstory sometimes but those are in the table from day one so they can be discussed on how we are approaching that and how appropriate they are, not to mention comfort level. For instance, I have a character right now who is dealing with grief as a running theme to their arc. There arc isn’t about vengeance or forgiveness or being saved or whatever. It’s about learning to live with that grief and being ok with it. The other dimension of that character is also that we deal with parentification of the eldest child (for some, but yes, for this character’s household). Further, we have a dynamic within said family where my character loves their family member but also wants to walk away from them all for their toxic behavior towards them. That is what we address. Is the issue about abuse? Not really. It’s about taking on responsibilities that are not fair to a the eldest but they do so anyway because someone needs to. And then there is the caregiver burnout my character faces later in their life now that all the “children” are grown. The idea is that the character feels “unmoored” for most of their life but also weighted down by responsibilities to the point they have rarely allowed themselves to make decisions for themselves and figure out who they are beyond that context. So anyway, yeah I fill in pieces of this character’s backstory over time as dm and I outline what those family dynamics are, how the relationship with the faction factors in, and how the grief affects the progression and regression of my characters strengths and flaws. And yes, my character has flaws. They are a compulsive character. Yes, that is a bad thing when you are already on burnout from that and don’t limit yourself, but are doing it as a matter of habit than choice. So yes, a flaw. Basically taking responsibility for things well beyond their power and letting others pile those on them without establishing the boundary that it isn’t ok (yes, above table I talk this through with the party and dm so I myself don’t feel that way). It’s just the story I want to tell. But this means dm and I have to make sure we are in the same page with these relationships because they play such a key factor to the background character arc going on for my character. And yes, it’s background. I like character arcs that subtly happen in the background of the rest of the ones going on. I’m told that my style is a subtle style of roleplay that factors in a lot of foreshadowing and is conveyed in little actions and careful word choices that slowly paint a picture and the changes. But, again, this type of building more into the backstory? That part I only do with experienced dms at tables it’s appropriate for in terms of play style. I do not want to stress my dm or overstep and so I check in regularly with that part, make sure they actually are ok with what I’m doing and how I’m behaving and remind them it’s ok to call me out on things if I’m a bit much so I can and will change how I’m being. It’s supposed to be fun after all. Not more work.

I feel like a lot of the dms in these stories have forgotten that dnd is a collaborative effort in the story department; dm determines the past and the lore and the rules of the world, but the players write the future of the world by their actions

Warthog run had you leaning forward, gritting your teeth at every turn, leaning with every move. The intensity of that run for the very first time? Nothing like it! I'd give just about anything to play Halo:CE for the first time again!

The new opening slapps :-)

One thing a DM could do with the SA knight (although it probably wouldn’t work as Knight probably isn’t the sort to recognise the parallel) would be, as he’s a noble, to have his family recall him home and tell him they’ve arranged a marriage for him, then make his bride be utterly repulsive to him with a horrible, repellant personality, and have her constantly trying to SA him the same way he’s been trying to to female NPCs. Someone with an iota of self awareness would connect the dots and realise the error of their ways. Of course, if they were capable of such self introspection they probably wouldn’t have reached that point in the first place. Plus, a good DM probably shouldn’t be comfortable subjecting a player to SA let alone subjecting the rest of the group to it by proximity, so this probably isn’t a viable option in the first place.

The new intro music is fire

Happy New Year Y'all.

“I’m not an E-girl anymore I’m just a boy!” Peak comedy bit

Talespire is really fun imo! It's more immersive for me personally, because when we play irl (which is most of the time), i forget elements easily and am way worse at combat. You can also very easily bring tour Heroforge characters into it so you can have customized minis! .....sadly my group only uses it when we're sick, so we almost never use it. Ive never tried to make maps on it though, so i cant tell you how it is as a DM

Y'know, the squire leaving aspect seems appropriate in the circumstance to be absolutely certain, however, I feel as though the original aspect that they can leave was intended to be that they refuse suicidal orders or to be trap disarming tools. But... Gods above, quit while you are only severely behind, don't commit to making it worse.

As an introvert myself, when I really had the hunger to play some DnD, a friend got me in one of her other friend's games. And then when I wanted _more_ I started DMing for a few of my other friends

Commenting hoping yt will finally put ur videos in my feed and subscription.

I have to agree with you on not setting a backstory in stone. I know from my experience that I tend to take a few sessions before I finally figure out what my character to be often based on how it would best work with the group. I don't want to the player who comes in with a character that doesn't fit the group's theme at all.

the now oppening is so good

It feels pretty awful to post about that last guy. Especially when he was so willing to accept a simple no and hadnt considered the deeper ramifications.

"I'm just a boy! Awful!" is how I felt growing up

I liked the new music.

About Talespire, it's actually pretty good. You don't have to build every map yourself as there is an online library of lot of location/map/slab other players built. I run Starfinder campaign on Talespire and am in Cyberpunk campaign on Talespire. The sudden shift of where party will be depending on decision CAN throw GM off but you can do a reasonable search and drop to find good enough map within five min. (In which case you'd just ask players to take 5 while setting that up)