Party member: *hands an object to the NPC traveling with our party*
DM: "His arm immediately tries to eat it."
Me: "His arm has a mouth!?"
DM: "It does now."
When the DM makes a verbal screw-up and ends up turning it around to make the NPC somehow more interesting and more terrifying at the same time in a creative way.
We'd met this NPC before, he was a victim of human experimentation and one of his arms had been replaced with a slug creature. When we ran into him again he had two normal looking arms, and we thought oh good, he fixed it! And then one of the arms grew a mouth and tried to eat something and it turns out the slug can just shapeshift now
Demogorgon appeared, the lizard folk druid in the water
Druid: how close am I to the Demogorgon' balls?
The entire party: NO! DON'T YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!!
Well, that's one way to get the lizardfolk healing effect . . .
Yeah but we didnt want the friggin Demogorgon after us And he'd think the rest of us assaulted his nuts
That's fair.
By the way I actually nat20ed on not going insane from the Demogorgon's stare. Which is awesome. Not so awesome for the ranger though. She now has long term madness
This week's Silver and Steel was full of self reflection and friend promotion:
“I kinda appreciate the fact that they made a war boat look really pretty.” “Some of us can be both beautiful and lethal.” - Freely and Orkira
“You know I’ve been traveling around so much, and I’m just kinda used to it, so I’m used to being weird everywhere.” - Orkira
“Let me introduce my friends! We’ve got Penelope, the sweetest, fiercest halfling around! Even more than me! Orkira, the strongest and wisest of all dragonborn! And Alyndra, the smartest and most powerful of all elven sorcerers!” - Freely
From a "behind the scenes" with the DM of a stream:
Robert Hartley (DM) taking a moment to pause the stream: "I love that they go about everything in videogame logic. These guys are all [Desktop PC] gamers, obviously, but not so much familiar with the way I run my D&D games which is not a videogame. If you choose to do a quest and you don't go back to check on that quest, the world keeps moving without you unlike in a videogame where you ACCEPT THE QUEST! - like in that video, 'Accept!'. In videogame logic, that makes sense where you accept a quest and, by the time you get back to it whenever that is no matter how pressing the quest was, it's still there waiting for you.
"But in my D&D world, no... It does not work like that. So when the [NPC], Gareth Thigbury, says, 'Give me my helmet by tomorrow or there's consequences,' and the players don't come back for the next four days, they're about to find out those consequences."
(unpausing the stream) Player 2: "Well. F*********************k!"
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
From a "behind the scenes" with the DM of a stream:
Robert Hartley (DM) taking a moment to pause the stream: "I love that they go about everything in videogame logic. These guys are all [Desktop PC] gamers, obviously, but not so much familiar with the way I run my D&D games which is not a videogame. If you choose to do a quest and you don't go back to check on that quest, the world keeps moving without you unlike in a videogame where you ACCEPT THE QUEST! - like in that video, 'Accept!'. In videogame logic, that makes sense where you accept a quest and, by the time you get back to it whenever that is no matter how pressing the quest was, it's still there waiting for you.
"But in my D&D world, no... It does not work like that. So when the [NPC], Gareth Thigbury, says, 'Give me my helmet by tomorrow or there's consequences,' and the players don't come back for the next four days, they're about to find out those consequences."
(unpausing the stream) Player 2: "Well. F*********************k!"
Have a fun time - IN JAIL! - Town Guard to Clockwork, a PC and a thief.
The bugs burrow underneath your flesh... and kill you. - The DM, describing how my 10 year old (in human years) drow wizard dies after they were abandoned by the other PCs (who, by the way, headed back into town while my drow died) in the Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh.
Have a fun time - IN JAIL! - Town Guard to Clockwork, a PC and a thief.
The bugs burrow underneath your flesh... and kill you. - The DM, describing how my 10 year old (in human years) drow wizard dies after they were abandoned by the other PCs (who, by the way, headed back into town while my drow died) in the Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh.
Have a fun time - IN JAIL! - Town Guard to Clockwork, a PC and a thief.
The bugs burrow underneath your flesh... and kill you. - The DM, describing how my 10 year old (in human years) drow wizard dies after they were abandoned by the other PCs (who, by the way, headed back into town while my drow died) in the Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh.
Aww, that poor kid! Your party is a jerk.
The DM was nice though... But yeah, terrible party.
Clerics are either: I shall use the divine light of my holy patron to heal! or the other kind of Cleric: I ROLL A CRIT WITH MY WARHAMMER AND SMASH IT INTO THE OGRE'S FACE! THEN I DO AN EPIC BACKFLIP WHILE THROWING A HEALING SPELL AT MY TEAMMATES, SMACKING FOURTEEN GOBLINS ONT HE WAY DOWN.
Clerics are either: I shall use the divine light of my holy patron to heal! or the other kind of Cleric: I ROLL A CRIT WITH MY WARHAMMER AND SMASH IT INTO THE OGRE'S FACE! THEN I DO AN EPIC BACKFLIP WHILE THROWING A HEALING SPELL AT MY TEAMMATES, SMACKING FOURTEEN GOBLINS ONT HE WAY DOWN.
TBH, I would rather have the latter than the former.
Mage picked up a talking cursed sword as is trying to throw it away while fleeing. The sword keeps reappearing in the Mage's hands.
*Mage throws the Sword of Fighting (SoF) again* SoF: "Wheeeeeee......!" *SoF reappears in Mage's hands again* SoF: "I'M YOUR EVERYWHERE!!"
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Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
Mage picked up a talking cursed sword as is trying to throw it away while fleeing. The sword keeps reappearing in the Mage's hands.
*Mage throws the Sword of Fighting (SoF) again* SoF: "Wheeeeeee......!" *SoF reappears in Mage's hands again* SoF: "I'M YOUR EVERYWHERE!!"
At our table, we were investigating an orcish temple that had a hall filled with statues of orcish kings.
All the statues had annoyed looks on their faces, and our party didn't really understand why.
Then our party orc found a greatsword supposedly wielded by all the past orcish kings...
It was called The Bone-Hewer, and it was a sentient weapon that talked like Randy Savage, and kept talking about how great it was, and how it wanted to hew bones.
It also referred to any orc that wielded it as "peanut-head".
So suddenly...we realized why all the statues of orcish kings looked so annoyed.
If we tried to throw The Bone-Hewer away...it would re-appear 1d4 days later.
Well, that's one way to get the lizardfolk healing effect . . .
Yeah but we didnt want the friggin Demogorgon after us And he'd think the rest of us assaulted his nuts
That's fair.
We'd met this NPC before, he was a victim of human experimentation and one of his arms had been replaced with a slug creature. When we ran into him again he had two normal looking arms, and we thought oh good, he fixed it! And then one of the arms grew a mouth and tried to eat something and it turns out the slug can just shapeshift now
Nikolai Buckman | vampire | bard
Solace Redgrove | tiefling | bard
On my shadar-kai ranger:
"She's like a drunk old boomer who yells yells at the kids in her yard, except at trees"
"Merle's character progression has gone from responsible mom cop to drunk who hates trees"
Hombrew: Way of Wresting, Circle of Sacrifice
By the way I actually nat20ed on not going insane from the Demogorgon's stare. Which is awesome. Not so awesome for the ranger though. She now has long term madness
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InsiderThis week's Silver and Steel was full of self reflection and friend promotion:
“I kinda appreciate the fact that they made a war boat look really pretty.”
“Some of us can be both beautiful and lethal.” - Freely and Orkira
“You know I’ve been traveling around so much, and I’m just kinda used to it, so I’m used to being weird everywhere.” - Orkira
“Let me introduce my friends! We’ve got Penelope, the sweetest, fiercest halfling around! Even more than me! Orkira, the strongest and wisest of all dragonborn! And Alyndra, the smartest and most powerful of all elven sorcerers!” - Freely
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From a "behind the scenes" with the DM of a stream:
Robert Hartley (DM) taking a moment to pause the stream:
"I love that they go about everything in videogame logic. These guys are all [Desktop PC] gamers, obviously, but not so much familiar with the way I run my D&D games which is not a videogame. If you choose to do a quest and you don't go back to check on that quest, the world keeps moving without you unlike in a videogame where you ACCEPT THE QUEST! - like in that video, 'Accept!'. In videogame logic, that makes sense where you accept a quest and, by the time you get back to it whenever that is no matter how pressing the quest was, it's still there waiting for you.
"But in my D&D world, no... It does not work like that. So when the [NPC], Gareth Thigbury, says, 'Give me my helmet by tomorrow or there's consequences,' and the players don't come back for the next four days, they're about to find out those consequences."
(unpausing the stream)
Player 2: "Well. F*********************k!"
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
That's actually pretty useful to know.
"Let me athletic check to jump through the cave wall and say "OH YEAH!""
Have a fun time - IN JAIL! - Town Guard to Clockwork, a PC and a thief.
The bugs burrow underneath your flesh... and kill you. - The DM, describing how my 10 year old (in human years) drow wizard dies after they were abandoned by the other PCs (who, by the way, headed back into town while my drow died) in the Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh.
Frequent Eladrin || They/Them, but accept all pronouns
Luz Noceda would like to remind you that you're worth loving!
Aww, that poor kid! Your party is a jerk.
The DM was nice though... But yeah, terrible party.
Frequent Eladrin || They/Them, but accept all pronouns
Luz Noceda would like to remind you that you're worth loving!
"Your midget gnome picks up the chosen warrior's warhammer."
During combat our light domain cleric using his channel divinity:
Cleric: PRAISE THE ******* SUN *****ES!!
Clerics are either: I shall use the divine light of my holy patron to heal! or the other kind of Cleric: I ROLL A CRIT WITH MY WARHAMMER AND SMASH IT INTO THE OGRE'S FACE! THEN I DO AN EPIC BACKFLIP WHILE THROWING A HEALING SPELL AT MY TEAMMATES, SMACKING FOURTEEN GOBLINS ONT HE WAY DOWN.
That sounds pretty cool.
TBH, I would rather have the latter than the former.
From a skit based on 3.5e D&D...
Mage picked up a talking cursed sword as is trying to throw it away while fleeing. The sword keeps reappearing in the Mage's hands.
*Mage throws the Sword of Fighting (SoF) again*
SoF: "Wheeeeeee......!"
*SoF reappears in Mage's hands again*
SoF: "I'M YOUR EVERYWHERE!!"
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
At our table, we were investigating an orcish temple that had a hall filled with statues of orcish kings.
All the statues had annoyed looks on their faces, and our party didn't really understand why.
Then our party orc found a greatsword supposedly wielded by all the past orcish kings...
It was called The Bone-Hewer, and it was a sentient weapon that talked like Randy Savage, and kept talking about how great it was, and how it wanted to hew bones.
It also referred to any orc that wielded it as "peanut-head".
So suddenly...we realized why all the statues of orcish kings looked so annoyed.
If we tried to throw The Bone-Hewer away...it would re-appear 1d4 days later.
Sentient weapons rule.