Not Another D&D Podcast - D&D Court: Sibling Rivalry Edition (w/ Ify Nwadiwe)

Episode Date: June 9, 2023

Dungeon Court is back in session! Join Justices Murphy, Tanner and Guest Justice Nwadiwe (as well as the Filthy, Wriggling Bailiff Axford) as they convene to pass judgement on your trials at the table!WARNING: Spoilers for Animorphs (again lol)Check out Ify's Post-Apocalyptic Western TTRPG Kickstarter, Get On the Horse! Get Tickets to upcoming live shows here! - Naddpod.com/LiveCREDITS:Sound Mixing and Editing by Trevor LyonDungeon Court Theme Song by Sam WeillerSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Yes, that's right. We are your Supreme Crit Justices, Murphy, Axford, Tanner, and new guest judge if you are anyway. Have a good one, yes, it's a no. Welcome, welcome. If you are, you're ready to get into some messy drama. Oh, I love mess. I was gonna, there's a thing, a Twitter called Six Brown Chicks Chat.

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I want you to just picture all of us wearing black robes, just in a big pile of mud. Oh All right with that let's kick it up here. Yeah, here. Yeah, Chris is now in session the honorable supreme grit Justices Murphy and Tanner presiding joined by nude Justice waterway we have provided you with the oath to read. Are you ready, willing, able? Yes, I, if you should coup d'etge, I'm a money way. Do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the players, as well as the DMs, I guess, all enemies, foreign and domestic,

that I will bear truth, faith, and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation of my own volition and that I well and faithfully embark upon this noble pursuit of the justice so help me gods. Specifically Bahamut. You're here! That was a really good one. Everyone always brings their own twist to it. And then without Jay Kerwitz here, we've got a new lowly lowly bailiff.

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Everyone shows up with little piles of dirt for her to eat. Please, because I'm even rich and squarely round and poor. I am a worthy... I am an unwirly wife, where... I'm a new wife. Right before we got on, I I was like we always make fun of An M would want to be treated the same way Like sounds worse

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I'm applying my wife's trying to talk Happy wife worm happy life Happy wifeworm, happy lifeworm. We almost honor the lifeworm. That's one of the gods that you swore to. That is the from which all the wifeworms are spying. This is what happens in bloodworms, right? This is bloodborne stuff. This is bloodborne stuff.

Straight out of the book. I guess there's a comic book? Yes, probably a lore bible. Yeah. Alright, with that, let's kick it off with Heather Holrich, to the night, holy justices, and their animal companion, Emily, from the point of even you and the wife were, you are truly a pressure. I present the case of the PCs turned NPCs.

Our party was running a high level one shot, turned mini campaign set in our DMs, old campaign world. We were on a quest in search of a gem within a dungeon. And after we beat the whole dungeon and retrieved the gem, we encountered a near omnipotent genie. We ended the session there on a cliffhanger with the DM saying next week, we had a guest coming to help us with the fight. The next week, the guest comes in, but he and the DM spend half an hour outside discussing

something. Turns out, the guest is playing a homebrewed level 25 plus character who came in looking to acquire the gem no matter what. You see our DM and this character were in another campaign together and this was a side quest for the player. We were basically turning to NPCs in their campaign as the DM and he were discussing their campaign during all the role play. When our party turned on the player, he and the Genie teamed up to kill us all. We have not played with the DM since. Just as is, do we have the right to be angry and hold a graduate? Do we simply need to get over it? No, of course, yes, of course you can be mad.

Let's just get that out of the way right now. Being a party that your DM clearly doesn't like as much. It's friendship ruining, right? But it's funny because I've always been a fan of the DM creating a Tarantino-esque universe, less feed, but Tarantino-esque universe, somewhere where like, I like being in my art piece. Yeah, yeah. I'm also a worm.

Yeah, but you got the one. You know, weave in the worlds and I've had a worm. Yeah. But you got the one. You know, we even the world and I have had like a dream of like having this like multiple campaigns running that converge into one. But in that idea, they are equal to everyone. Everyone. Everyone to come together. But to have like to me it's almost, like, was it a PVP thing? Was it because of his PVP?

He's like, come on. What if I think this was just like an XP grind for this other character? Something like that. And also coming in aggressive, just wanted the end goal by any means necessary. Yeah. This level 20 is coming in here,

and he's gonna fuck you up. Yeah. It's also such a funny beginning to the session of you guys being like, oh, there's gonna be a guest here to help us in the fight in looking out the window and just the DM fuck you up. It's also such a funny beginning to the session of you guys being like, oh, there's gonna be a guest here to help us in the fight in looking out the window and just the DM and the guests to get your hair straight together. Just high fiving, is that his friend Bill?

Yeah, what a deal here. Bill is so tall. He left his car running. I guess he thinks it's gonna be a short session. He's looking too sick at all. That is so wild because it is the idea of, you know, that meme of like realizing you're not the main character. But you're not that too a whole part.

I'm realizing you're not the real friend crew. Yeah. Yeah. I love the idea that they're just like, okay, you know what, us and our little PCs, we're gonna band together and kick out this big 25 plus bad guy and then the DM was just like Oh, no the junior tax you know the genius here to win You know the junior is an NPC from the other game. Yeah, the genius was actually at his wedding

So the genius gonna walk you up That's another buddy part that they're referencing their other campaign in wall role playing in this. It's just who people having fun while like four other people sit there being like, what the fuck is happening? There's no idea what's going on. I can't imagine being like, that's right.

It would suck so bad. I would say the person who submitted this, not only do you have a right to be mad, D&D-wise, you should stop being friends with the person who you're laughing at. this is a bad friend. Yeah, as a matter of fact send me the genie's name and eventually guests on a campaign on this pod I will die as that GD. I will put my life on the line.

It's like the opposite of a shout out. Yeah, I knew those four players were better than me. I should have never attacked them. I know. Why did I exist? No. It's, oh man. There's, this has like so many problems with this,

but another one that we've maybe overlooked a little bit is the like the DM, when they think that bringing a badass to help the party is going to get the party psyched. Yeah, that's a common DM mistake. It's never cool. Everyone wants to do it themselves. They don't want an NPC or a guest player to come in and be 10 levels higher than them.

My rule for badass NPCs are anime rules. They are only there to die. Yeah, yeah. In my case, you're in my current home campaign listening. Don't worry about it. No, he's gonna live. He's gonna die. You're there to die.

He's gonna say no. Yeah. It's all anime rules. It's either that or they're gonna like, when the charged beam goes off at the beginning of the battle, they're gonna like be holding it off. Yeah. You fight the bags.

Oh. I'll maintain the shield. Yeah, that shit. Because that happens occasionally when you're like DMing a game where you'll be like, oh, there's a harass coming. It's gonna be summoned or something like that. And you're trying to as a DM seed that

is something that's gonna come later. And then your level eight players are like, well, no, we gotta go deal with this now. We gotta go fight it. And that's when you bring in the badass NPC to be like, he blocks the horn So the terrasks gets two less attacks That's the way you do it. You don't have it just be like he comes in 100 damage with one attack

Damage with the third attack and then he looks at you and he says follow that This is Brian Murphy, Dave. We're level four, by the air. Well, that's the lower, by the air. Then the wizard's about to go, oh, actually he's going to take his layer action real quick. But, yeah. Yeah, oh man. How was this layer?

This is actually, uh, Oh, actually, everywhere he goes, this is layer, because he's just that cool. Yeah. In our home game with Bren in the first game we ever played, Bren and does have like a world that he had a bunch of different groups in. And we definitely never did this. We like popped into each other's games like, we're five levels higher than you guys.

So we think we'll just steal whatever your objective is. Yeah. No. It almost feels like a magic item farming too. Just like you're heading up these side things. Yeah, my head cannon was at the other table. That player was like, yo, I want this crystal. I was like, ah, it is in this world,

but it's being currently occupied. Yeah. I got an idea. Yeah. And it hits up all their third to fourth level tier, tier friends. Yeah, this seems like maybe they work together. And like the DM's trying to butter this guy up

or something like that. Is he trying to get this guy to buy him a boat or something? I have some best read I could have on this situation is that the DM thought that having a bad ass coming in help was going to be a thing that made the party sucked. I think one criminal offense we haven't talked about yet

is the fact that this was like a one shot that got spun off into a mini campaign, which is so cute and the absolute ideal that you want for any one shot. You're like, I'm really doing it, I'm DMing. My little one shot, it's growing in leaps and bounds. And then your DM just came in and shot it with a gun and an alleyway.

Yeah, oh yeah, it's definitely the equivalent of like, you know, you have this like side relationship, you're dating two people. Right. And it's like, oh, she want to go on some more dates, huh? Okay, guys. But, uh, and then like the, the, the, the, the, the, the one you're excited about is like, well, I want to go out and then you do the double date thing where something maybe y'all can hang out and be friends. It could be a polycule? Yeah, you either polycule or you doubt fire. There's no in between. Yeah. Well, there's a mega polycule where you make it quite obvious to everyone involved.

You have a strong preference for one person. Yeah, oh yeah. That's good. That's a good foundation. That's really cool. So, yeah. I think we're all on the player side here. Yeah, this is pretty open in for us. Yeah, yeah.

Okay, so we need to punish both the DM and fuck, I'm throwing that, I throw in that random 25 plus home brew PC as well. Yeah, yeah. Maybe punish that Jeannie too. Yeah, and then you know, I get a nice sentence them to sitting at a table with that one guy who, uh, the wizard who takes 20 minutes to pick a spell. Yeah. Yes. We should also shove him in a lamp.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The genie goes in the lamp. Yeah, we'll build like a decent sized lamp. So it's only a little bit cramped. It's uncomfortable. You're in the freezer. You're not laying for a while, yeah. Yeah, you start to do it.

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If it feels like Delta one, you got to lose one foot. Yeah, yeah. Three foot lamps. Three foot lamps. Three foot lamps. You know, we got to take this person to our lamp tailor. Yeah. You have to measure it.

So we can like make sure that the lamp is just uncomfortable. Yeah, that's right. Just squeeze it just a little too tight. Right, right. Just a tight lamp it just a little too tight. Right, right. Just a tight lamp. And a slightly too tight lamp. It's a tight little lamp. It's a tight lamp.

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all kind of enjoying the lamp. Yeah, yeah. And then the lamp is slowly getting tingling. Oh's like we're all kind of enjoying the way. Yeah, yeah. And the ledons slowly getting tingling. Okay. I sense it's all to go in the way. I think kinky-dly. So ordered. You're sentenced to subspace through use.

Filled with wife words. Okay. If he took a sip, that exact one. Which, just a tip for any of your listeners. Yeah. If you do, do Delta One, do it with a friend, because it is awkward sitting next to a stranger and being like, I'm gonna lay down. Okay.

You know, this woman got real intimate. She had to see me when I came in right next to her. I think they would speak of that. Is it divine? But they know? Because there's kind of a wall, but like, when you're laying down in a twin band together, you raise from your slumber, you're staying right at it.

And you're just like, oh, here you are. Did you like at least say, like, good night? Yeah, I was like, I'm gonna take a nap. I'm gonna take a nap. I'm gonna take a nap. I'm gonna take a nap. I will be snoring in fart. I'm gonna take a nap.

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okay yeah this isn't family court home. Okay. I've been DMing a campaign for my friend since 2021. There are seven of us all together and we have always played at the house that four of them live in because it has always made sense that three of us would travel to the place that four of the party live. However, their household has become what some may call tense. Recently, two of them started dating each other, which is obviously no big deal, but they moved into a room together almost immediately and subletted their extra room to a friend. Their new housemate does not vibe with the other two original housemates and it's made their household much more tense. And now all five seem to be on tense bad terms.

Okay, I don't know why I'm too... You're doing the title one for this. I know, I blame the title lips. The tension is... Explaining in decisions and absolutely harping the vibe of what has been a pretty silly and goofy campaign. To make matters worse, their new housemate is also an avid D&D player,

and sometimes stands in on our games as we play in the living room. And I say stand, because they literally stand in the corner by the door of the living room and watch us play. No. I've talked about this with one of the other players who doesn't live there and we've agreed,

we both find it pretty off-putting, but don't know how to mention it since he lives there so it would feel rude to ask him to leave his own living room. My question is am I wrong for considering changing the location of our game to my flat? I live alone so there will be no roommate issues and my hope is the change of location would reduce some of the tension but it feels rude to change a situation where less than half of our group needs to travel to the game ever but me Oh, let me myself humbly before the court Yeah, this seems normal to do

Yeah, it's like a clear cut. It's so it's so funny though to imagine playing and getting in because dnd It would be if someone was watching you that didn't know your game specifically It would be embarrassing to go all out in front of somebody. And this is the person who's DMing to. Right, to be like, I'm a paladin and I'm losing my faith. And I'm just like, I don't know. There's just a dude 10 feet behind you with his armor on. I was just watching you.

Is it a big out of a Garfield mug? Yeah. And she's shaking his head. Yeah, yeah, how I would have played it. So that's you that they describe the roommate as standing in the corner by the door. Which is how my dad watches TV show. He doesn't want to act like he's watching.

That's how your dad watches. What was that movie with Cana Reeves? There are placements. I love the replacement. Oh my god. What's worse, the dude out in the open just watching it like a dad watching TV from the corner or just like spying on them,

like only being able to see like one out of eight. Look over in the corner and catch a glimpse of them. And they just, kidders of that. So no, this is definitely just a step one. You have to switch it because I'm going to tell you the game plan, that the the voyier player is going through. He's he's

going to stand in that corner watching you. The moment one of y'all calls in sick one of y'all. He's already he knows what level you're. I was like he's got a character loaded up on D and D. He is an insider member. He has all the all the extra is in the fixing. He's going to sit in. He has all the exfras in the fixin. He's gonna sit in and he's gonna go in and he's gonna try and take one of your spots. And the worst part, he might be good. You're like, damn, we didn't need a healer. He might bring everybody together. He does make me be like, it makes me so curious to be like, just do one more session and be like, oh hey, did you want to play?

Just see how completely you're bound to. Oh, sorry, do you have it over my iPad? Oh, that's so good. I just tripped and fell and my iPad opened to a perfect character of the exact level that harmonizes with your party synchronicity. It's also a cleric, but it's a different subclass and I think might mesh a little better.

It just does some playtesting. Undercuts one of the other players, does it more optimize subclass? Yeah. I think like mesh a little better. Just did some playtests. Undercuts one of the other players. Does it more optimize? Some class. It's like, I'm actually also a ranger, but I'm good stalker. Yeah, so you're the DM.

You're the Smashter, right? You're the DM, but they've been watching to figure out which of the players they can. Yeah. Mm-hmm. That's smart. Yeah, you got extract. Yeah.

It's kind of, it's serendipitous that M's dad always watches the replacements from the corner, and this dude would be a extract. Yeah, it is kind of it's serendipitous that M's dad always watches the replacements from the corner and this dude would be a replacement Because the only reason I can imagine that any person would sit and watch another campaign is if they're Fitting when I was like when I was younger and I be on the PlayStation my little brother would just be watching You'd be like so how do you play this game? And then after you've given the full tutorial he's like, so when do I get a turn? And I'm actually an hour into the twisted metal campaign that we need to go back and start co-op. And honestly, I don't think you can handle it.

Just give him a we-mo in telling me he's helping. I've been in this situation. Have you? I have been in a campaign where somebody else who I've played D&D with is chilling there. My friend, Kiana, is the roommate of my friend, Bree, who is a DM for a home game I play in. She's doing the right version of this where she just chills, hangs out on the couch,

will be on her phone, just laughing occasionally when somebody says something funny. Totally doing this the right way. She's hanging. You're right because having her on the phone makes it less like I'm spectating your couch. She's actually too cool to be playing with us, but she's like tolerating it. Yeah, that's cool, I think. Yeah, she's loudly playing fruit and so loud. Yeah, you know what, I would say just on a technicality, I might have ruled against this person, but they asked the right question, because there was specifically, should I invite everyone to my house?

And the answer is yes. Yes. But if they'd said, should we ask this dude, to leave or something, you can't. Like, yeah, yeah. Exactly. Right, to be like, I'm in a tough spot. Yeah.

I have a question. How do they float the idea of the location chain? I think you pretend, I guess lie to your friends. And you're always like, I just happen to get like 10 pizzas at my spot. I think, you just make it super. Yeah, you know what I mean? That's a really good deceitful way.

You're like, hey, I've got dinner tonight. And then like half an hour before, pervade amount of time, shit, I got it delivered all of my food. Yeah, I just started to compound. Shit, I got it delivered all of my life. The lives are starting to compound. Yeah, the lives are compounding. Laura, you send out like a really fancy e-vite and make it like a big event, like a treasure hunt

to get to the next session. I like that. To get to the next session and it just happens to end in your house. Okay. I think what you gotta do, that's great. That's a lot of work. I'm gonna put you an alternative, which is great. That's a lot of work. I'm going to pitch an alternative,

which is that you buy like a $4,000 table. And then you make a product. And you're like, damn, I just got this great new table that you love to break it in. I think you need to invest in this line to make it not a lot. Oh yeah. Because once you have a cool table, they will come.

Wait, but what if you, if you don't want to buy the expensive table, you just take a picture of it. Right. I just ordered this. Yeah. And then when the day comes, like, fuck it hasn't arrived yet. Yeah. I guess we just got to play it on my regular app. Let's do it. There's also a world in which I imagine where like the time it might take you to hear this episode might be and listen to it. I'm imagining this might be another NAD pot fan and all of a sudden So did you listen to the recent We're gonna be in a live show Wait, I gotta check the corners of this room. Oh shit. Oh

Yeah, that's our neighbor Really wants in on the podcast It's got five character sheets in his hands But really the true the true villains here, right are the the couple that got together I'm sorry I cannot find love yeah you did not find love it the day your love is really inconvenience everyone else yeah it never took a pivot though so it's like oh they like got together yeah but it was the fact

that they brought in a friend then then didn't vibe that I'm gonna buy with the house it's a fresh take on fucking up a living situation by dating a roommate. Kudos. I love it. We applaud your fresh take. Yeah.

However we do have to punish someone here. Yeah. So yeah, are we punishing purely? I don't know, like, because the roommate, they just wanted on the game. They're being awkward, but are they like, they're also ruining their house apparently. Yeah.

They're throwing the vibes off completely. Uh-huh. Yeah, I don't know who to punish in that situation. I think we should just punish the lovers. Yeah. The lovers? Yeah. They have to break up.

You gotta break up. I gotta break up. They gotta break up. They gotta go back to your old room. Yeah. Or you can all join if he and his Delta one for. Yeah, the car box is getting full, but there is room. There is room. Just takes the picture. Yeah, it takes the picture of your table that you just bought. And when everyone

shows up, somehow they're at the airport. In the Delta one box. Yeah, we all have to go in the Delta 1 box. Gary, we love it. So ordered. Next up we got Gregory Nelson. This episode of NADPOT has brought to you by Bird Dogs. They're a company that makes pants and shorts so no matter where you fall and the age old battle between the two, you can rest assured that Bird Dogs has you covered. Now we all know when the legwear war begins and we're forced to choose a side, it's

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I also started DMing a group using Curse of Stroud where she's a player a few months ago. We had a pretty epic battle in her campaign where she started saying, with Gusto, yeah, Motherfucker's that hits and laughing wholeheartedly when her baddies would do damage. This has been in her voice not the baddie characters. I felt weird and kind of sad after the first session of this, but didn't say anything. Come to my session next week, Combat Starts, and any hit on a baddie, she's screaming, ha ha, fuck you DM or yeah, motherfucker. These are things her character clearly wouldn't say, so it's hard not to take it as a personal

attack. I brought it up and she said she'd try to tone it back in my campaign, but could you anything she pleased during her career? She has since slipped multiple times in my campaign, literally saying, fuck you DMs. Just say, sorry, sorry. Yeah. It's just a crescent favor acceptable or is my sister a motherfucking psycho?

I wait for judgment and apparent motherfucker. This is, see, I kind of love it when my players tell, tell me to fuck myself. Yeah. I do kind of love that, but I do respect the fact that this DM was like, hey, can you chill out? Yeah. It's maybe not cool that the sister was like, I'm sorry,

I have to come at you. Yeah. Well, but she's also saying sorry, sorry, after what I said. So she's trying. I want to know what happened between the last session and the session where she started doing that because it seems like this is new. Like this is a good thing. I guess a new vibe.

She's trying to grow, I appreciate that. It seems like she just had a really good time beating this shit out of people as a DM and then has been riding that high even as a player. Which is interesting because I think if the DM is doing that, maybe it's easier to deal with. Verse, if you're the DM and a player is doing that to you because you already feel like you're on your own team

so someone who's more sensitive or something, it might be easier if on the DM and a player is doing that to you because you already feel like you're on your own team so someone who's more sensitive or something. It might be easier if on the DM just being like, hey, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you. I think that it would be weirder maybe if the DM is saying, ha ha, like I feel like when I have DM'd, I don't like hurting my player. So the DM being like, yes, they fucking killed you. Fucking bend over, I'm gonna spank you to death.

That feels wild to me. True, although Murph is a heel-style DM. And like, you like you knit up, you like slurping up those tears. So yeah, that's why I understand that being a PC and then saying that to you would only encourage you. Right, yeah. Yeah, I know it definitely seems like a taste maker situation.

I think, honestly, what has been said is fair. I think you have everybody to be like, at my table, cutting out sits. Yeah, got that. And then at her table, do it. I mean, y'all are siblings. Do that shit right back. Do that shit right back table do it and look I mean y'all are siblings do that shit right back That shit right back and do it better do it for all the brothers out here

Like you know Like like it's like it's like you come on He's like if she's gonna try and get under your skin go to her game take it there Also ruin her I love this I love this. I love this, it's fun. I love the sibling rivalry at the table. Yeah. Let's know.

Drag everyone else into your sibling rivalry. Yeah. I think I wouldn't mind if I was one of the other. I was watching you just all at it. I would be like, there's a whole metal level of game going on. We're going to get a new, we're encouraging this. We're going to get a D&D core submission that's like, hey, I'm at this game and these two siblings are just fighting a whole time

We didn't get they're just calling each other mother fuckers and fuck you every time they were all what do we think about getting Emily's dad to stand over a At this match loudly watching the replacements in the background You're like hey, hey girls Clearly watching the game while the replacements plays in the background. You're like, hey, hey girls. Clearly watching the game while the replacement's plays in the back. Yeah. What is our decision here?

I like, I like if he's a judge. Distance. I think you just, no, you just, you, you mess around with a little bit, right? Because you're like, give her a little taste to her medicine. And if you give it, and she can take it, then maybe you do a little soul-sacred. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the death. The maybe you do a little soul-sac today. Yeah, that's the death to taste.

Just kind of like Godzilla style, let them fight. You know, I'm kind of ready between the lights here. And I wonder if this is kind of board game competitiveness leaking into the building. I mean, so for sure. And I think it's okay for people. I think the fact that she's saying, fuck you DM, just to say sorry, sorry, does mean that she's trying to respect you.

You articulated, hey, can you not do that at my game? She said, okay, cool, and is trying. Yeah, there's more evidence needed. I'm curious if she's at other tables in that kind of pond. She's like, this is fun. This is fun being fun for me. Yeah, but you know, you could do some fun stuff, you know, I feel like I wouldn't recommend this for all to you

You're like okay every time you say that roll with disadvantage That if you gamify it she's she's clearly just getting swept up in the game. Yeah, so get swept up in these disadvantage rules Instead of a swear jar, it's the anti-intention. That's true too. Honestly, those are both really good recommendations. So I feel like either of those works. Yeah. Who's side are we on here though, because we do need to come down. Well, I think we have to defend the life form given right of this DM to Hoot and Holler

when they are DMing. Yes, I think you're allowed to hoot and holler when you're DMing and then everyone can decide whether or not they wanna be at your table. Yeah, yeah, I think this submitter, I think I'm more on the side of the submitter, I do have to step outside myself because my preference is for people to be mad at each other in a jiu-jitsu, I think that's fun.

But if you don't like it, then you shouldn't have to put up with it, so it's okay for you to ask to, not have to deal with that, if you don't like it, then you shouldn't have to put up with it. So it's okay for you to ask too. I mean, not have to deal with that. You don't like it. Yeah. And I think also not to drag everyone into it, but there's more people at that table. What is the general consensus? Yeah.

Because if you cut the table and you like, I don't like this and all the other players like we kind of think it really is. I think to decide, I guess, even though you're siblings, you don't have to play D&D together. You always decide you're not right for each other D&D was. I think when I read this, it feels a little playful. So I think they just have a playful sibling thing going on. So yeah, I feel like I'm on the side of the cursing sister. Only because when you brought it up to her,

she said, she's trying to respect your needs for your campaign. But I mean, there's not really, like, I think it just sounds kind of fun. I enjoy our sibling. All right, so I think you'll be honest. It's gonna come down to a vote, because I, okay.

Reluctantly on the side of the submitter. I'm a submitter side too. Called well? All right, yeah. I feel like I have to be on the side of the submitter as well. I have it. That's fair. That's fair. Okay. So not about stirring the pot. We have to be in a little shit. Gremlin, but like no. So we have to punish the sister.

Okay. I like the disadvantage. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm full of dice. Yeah. It's like two dice. Yeah. This weird jar with two dice in it. And you pour it out. Yeah. And that's the role. If she is aggressive in that way multiple times, then she could be rolling with more than one disadvantage. That's opening up such an insane can of worms because it would be like, okay, I get not being allowed

to scream yeah, motherfucker. I'm pointing at someone is one thing, but then it does get into the weeds of like, is no one allowed to curse at your time? No, no, no, no, it's not that. It's specifically a yeah, mother fucker and fuck you DM. Right, yeah, it's just those two things. I think I think met a cursing.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I guess calling someone a mother fucker who you're related to is especially weird. Yeah, that's the only thing. Whoa. Yeah, yeah, that's our mother. That's Janet. Oh, that's good. You got to to get you got a someone up one tier and the next time she's

Squeeze out that teeny tier No, no mother you're talking you know to claim this game up real quick invite your parents to the game Yep, I bring my family and yeah go the opposite way With her placements on, so your dad's comfortable. So ordered, I actually have two more sibling related ones. I kind of didn't do it on purpose. I guess I did a little bit, so we've got rogue siblings. We

call this sibling rivalry episode. Yeah, I love it. Okay, Tabasaurus says to the most honorable justices of the crit court, I come to you as a humble beginner DM who started a campaign with my siblings who are all new to playing D&D. The campaign I created is based off of my hero academia as adventure. Fuck yeah. They are all supposed to be heroes, vigilantes, but here lies the problem. My sister is a human-wunk monk who worships the monastery of Beyoncé. She uses a melee weapon called Queen's Lemonade, and to my dismay is a brutal vigilante who takes out justice on whom she sees fit.

The first session she went and brutally killed an intoxicated male NPC who simply greeted her. I mentioned that monks don't typically kill innocents. She commented that Agnes, I guess the character's name, was enacting Queen Bee's judgment. She has continuously enacted Queen Bee's punishment randomly throughout the campaign. The other siblings think her character is hysterical and are fine with the repercussions I have thrown their parties away. I don't want to scare my sister off by being too harsh with a punishment or take away their fun. It is nice to have the family playing every week. How do I stop her wild behavior without ruining their fun?

So this is gonna be surprising to y'all but I know a little more about my hero academia than I do Beyonce. Honestly, I saw that reference and I was like, I'm gonna throw this in here because of you. You let out a guttural fuck yeah. And you look serious. The new season was hype a shit. It was really good. You're a villain. This character is a villain.

It's just like, if you're following the rules of the show in this universe, this character is straight up being a villain. Oh, I see. Here's the problem though. Because as the DM, you do have to know your audience. You do have to know who you're bringing it to. So if you bring it to people who maybe aren't, who don't really want to play D&D

or are playing it for the first time, and they know that they can build their character out of anything or whatever. And you show up and you're like, I have a very specific plan. It's not gonna work 99 times out of a hundred, you know what I mean? It doesn't mention whether or not the siblings

watch this show or not, but I would assume they don't. It specifically references the other siblings think her character is hysterical under a fine with the repercussions I don't know, they're part of the way. I think the thing is, it's time for you to kind of let go and yes and the table And it's like the you are it is a game about villains

And now they are fighting your heroes And I think you can just have fun turning the game on its head and all the Ally NPCs are now their new enemies and all the enemies and their new allies and just go that way because it seems like You which I really was the heartwarming into this, you're just having fun doing it. You're just kind of have a story in your head that's being trampled on. And I think one of the most important parts of the DM is remembering that everyone at the table is telling a story. No, no, based on everything you loaded in with, you had a story. Yeah. You know, like the whole my hero academia theme

is the campaign without a story that you had in mind. So I think it's time to live and let go and modify that story and tell it. And I think that in a weird way as a fellow weeb with Demon Hunter painted nails right now is more interested than like, you interested than having them follow Madoria in your version, what would it look like of my hero academia that followed the villains?

Yeah. I had the same thought, reading this, I'm like, that whole family's having fun. You seem to be having fun as well. Just start making their quests be against good guys. Yeah. Yeah. Well, the villain campaign their quests be against good guys. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's the villain campaign.

That's like a silly game, I think. Yeah. Yeah, you can't force it. And here's the thing. Eventually, you'll start a new campaign with heroes and then you'll get one of your high-level heroes to come. Yeah, that's perfect. Oh, it's the rest of everyone.

The police, you police, the poor party of all their magic items and bring it back to your hero campaign who you like a bit more. I do also feel like I genuinely think that the fun thing is to lean into the villainy thing. And if they ever, if it ever goes too far, then they could have a reconciliation and decide to be better.

You always have the option of a Beyonce divine intervention or a communion with Beyonce, in which she sort of suggests, perhaps, it up from path, but I kind of think the villainy thing is really fun. Yeah, I don't know if Beyonce's on Camille. I don't think she is. I don't know how she's going to be.

She's at the end of the first year of the year. No, she's not. If she were, I would be devastated. If I were not to be honest with you, I would be like, there's no meaning for anything. Oh my God, I was bad at that thing. Literally anything that she's not on to. Nobody's buying her candy. I was just so sorry.

She's on, but it's just so dead. And here's the thing, if you're determining, you want to try one last time to beer them to the side of good. Here's a free layup for you. They find out that they haven't been communing with Beyoncé, but they have been communing with Becky, with the good hair.

Oh, no! Because they've been saying Queen Bee! Queen Bee! The Beast stands for Becky. Yeah. So now turn the road back. Turn the road back. Oh, the praise and blessings of Queen Bee Beyonce.

That's the twist of a century right there. They have to do what's good. That's also so good. Love that. God, that's so good. I do, you can't go wrong, honestly. I will say as a DM who does, I do have the same kind of instincts

where I'll like watch something and I'll be like, awesome, I'm gonna have this kind of storyline that feels like the flavor of, yeah, mature or something like that. And then I show up and everyone laughs at my ghost or something like that. Like, oh, okay. I guess I'll fucking pivot.

Wait, what'd you say as that was called? Please, like, my own. No, it's a flop hat. It's not funny, it's just a hat. It's just historical. It's not that floppy. Why is it so floppy? It's not that.

Is it made of cheese? Can I slide a hand this hat? Oh, he's a ghost. Your hand. I got a neck 20. Okay, you still the ghost hat. That's a big cheesy pizza. Why?

It's just, yeah, you just, it's a green-bake packer's hat. It's a cheese hat now. Oh, fine. Okay, you made him dumb. You made him dumb and he sucks. You're doing a cool witcher ghost slowly morphing into a green-bake packer's hat.

Oh. Cool, which your ghost slowly morph into a green-bed backer spell. Oh, that happens. But you do need to like, yeah, you need to know your audience and if everyone, if this was, if it was like my sister insists on worshipping Beyonce and everyone else at the table just sitting their stone face, that sucks, that sucks. But it just like, it sounds like everyone's having fun except for you, which means that. the table is just sitting there stone-faced. That sucks. Yeah. That sucks. But it just like, it sounds like everyone's having fun,

except for you, which means that. It sounds like you're also having fun. You're probably just feeling external pressure to make this be a story about good guys doing the right thing. And this is the end. You can tell any fucking story. Yeah. Oh yeah.

Yeah, I think since it sounds like your family's is going around starting fights everywhere, you don't really have to prep sessions because they're just gonna go get a bar fight. You know what I mean? So I wanna say, turn this maybe into your improvised thing, test stuff out here. Just let it be fun and goofy. And then maybe use that to start a game with people that are maybe wanting to tell a more serious story if that's what you want to do.

But it is fun to think of coming up with like what would the quest be for a group of villains? You can essentially come up with such literally leading back to like a quorum of angels that they eventually someday in a whole day. Right, but I feel like I think just getting into barfights and just killing random people is it is more where they're going? They're not being like I would would like to get to the one ring so I can have all the power. It is true, yeah. Which you can build an epic story towards. You can be like lawful evil here's your thing, but they're just like, this guy's rude. I'm murder him.

And it's like, okay, that's. You get out a lot of fun with the repercussions of that kind of stuff. It's not like they're, that's what they're doing. They're just like, yeah, yeah. If you want to dunk all my 10 to toilet, just do it. I think based on especially what Caldwell said about how my hero academia is actually about villains, I'm gonna say that I'm gonna rule against the submitter.

Yeah, I was gonna say, I was gonna do a soft ruling against the submitter for forgetting that you're building a story at the table as a group, which is, I think it's natural for every DM, especially if you, and they said they're a beginner DM too. Yeah, you know, it's, you're very excited about the story of the town. Yeah. And sometimes you get so excited, because you know, once you start building a campaign,

if you're anything like me, you're building, I'm building like six months ahead. Yeah. And but the way I build is is it's all a playground, and I build on three different levels. I build on a local, a national, a global, and universal realm scale. And so no matter which route the player kind of goes, I have some sauce for them,

because I know essentially what's supposed to be happening, and then let them run into that. But I try to leave it as open-ended and as possible. Yeah, it really only come in in railroad if it feels like the players Like I don't know though. Yeah, my if the academia right there I was sitting here being like we need to have you on for like a DM advice That was just like so scholarly like bullet points beautiful. I have a punishment here by the way Yeah, I know that this is a family so this might be a little weird But I want to stand in the corner of the room and when they're sick of this player

I'm just gonna like jump in with my my hero I think that's that's kind of a gift though. I think you because you know my here I'm gonna I'm gonna ruin the game. Anytime, yeah, yeah. You need to just basically speak up and blow an air horn every time the DM tries to pivot away from Beyoncé and Mark to my hero academia. Oh, no, you have to blow an air horn.

Anytime they're my hero academia knowledge culture. They're more as well, yeah. Oh, okay. But actually, it's been four generations since Quirks developed. Yeah, but yeah, no, okay. Actually, it's been four generations since Quirks developed. Yeah, but yeah, no, definitely. I, that, that's a fun gift for you. It's like, do some Beyonce deep dives and hit them with a brand of Beyonce deep cut, you know?

Because she has so many lyrics that you could work into like, that you could use as mythological lore. Yeah. You could be trying to steal that crystal horse from one of our album covers. Yes. Oh, okay, great. I love it. So, order, next up we've got John Paul Vetter.

Greetings esteemed justices and their friend Jack. I, DM, I'm here. You're not here. Point against you. I, DM, I'm Maritime swashbuckling pirate campaign. And early in the campaign, my party had been shipwrecked on an island that was surrounded by an unmoving magical storm. They had come to the island to find a dangerous cursed

sword they were told to retrieve by mind-flair pirate captain. The party found the sword and set up a meeting with the pirate captain to make a deal. Nervous that the pirate might try to take the sword by force, the party decided to leave the sword with their druid who would hide a little way away and wait for the signal to bring the sword while the rest of the party negotiated. The captain agreed to get the party off the island and give them a brand new ship in exchange for the sword.

Finding the deal to be fair, the party gave the signal to which the Druid replied, oh, I'm not there. The Druid then narrated that. How, as soon as the party left for negotiations, he sprinted to the shoreline, while shaped into an octopus and attempted to escape the storm all on his own. Confused to ask him why he was doing this. He explained that his character believed that the sword would be powerful enough to slay the evil sea monster that had killed his family and his backstory, and he was ready to abandon the party with the sword.

I then explained that trying to travel through the magical start, this is a wild one, just so just so you know, stay to the room. I'll be back in the room. I then explain that trying to travel through the magical store, but an octopus would require him to beat a nearly impossible skill challenge, and it would almost certainly end in his death. He said he understood, and he was going to try anyways. Predictably, the skill challenge ended with the sword wielding octopus being smashed

against the rocks that he attempted to abandon his crew. Panicking, I then begin to describe the rest of the party, how they noticed their unconscious druid floating just offshore. They dove in after him and brought him back to consciousness. When the party questioned him about what happened, he said he had gone out into the water to flank the pirate captain from behind, when he was pulled out to see by the storm. Our cleric then asked to roll an insight check to see if he was lying. The druid then accused the cleric of metagaming.

I have no idea. He wouldn't have no reason to believe him. And the cleric was only asking for the role because he had known what really happened outside of the game. This was the character, Clarex III, a reception and he immediately backed down and said he didn't have to make the role. I disagreed and made the druid role a deception check, but grudgingly, the druid rolled a not one.

Ha, ha, ha! Was I wrong for making the druid role after the cleric said he didn't have to? Did I go too far to kill the vibe or was I in the right to stick up for my friend who is new to dnd I throw myself at the mercy of the car. No. Oh boy, what age is this is the juicide one?

This is the juicide one because this is a lot going on. You have only supported that dumb action. Yeah. You did it. That druid's life. Yeah, you're truly a hero because I straight up would have clapped that dru action. You did it. You did it. That drew its life. Yeah, you truly hero. Because I straight up would have clapped that through. Yes, I would have.

As soon as you were like, the storm will probably kill you and they're like, I understand the risk. I'm like, sweet. They're dead. That was me telling you. Great, you keep, you have the waves keep tossing you back and forth and derogged. They're taking death saves, death saves, death saves,

perma-dead. You killing yourself on the sword. Your body floats back to the shore with a sword of gifts on top of it. You are skewered in perma dead. Even revivify would not save you. Here's the thing, you're not wrong for that. As a matter of fact, I think that was in a weird way. The drool was right.

I do think that the priest had no, he's right. The priest had no reason to doubt him, which is why I think the DM did the smart move of what should have happened, where it's like, you're right, do a deception check because it's, I feel like it played out like it should because for better or worse, that Druid is right. They were, that was the plan.

They had no reason to do it. But you did the right thing as a DM by being like, you're right, roll deception. Yeah. Yeah. Like, like, everything, you did everything right. Everything happened as it should as far as I'm concerned. And the guys were sitting there being like,

I don't wanna tell this story. I don't wanna tell this story of you just lying and everyone knows you're lying, but we all have to pretend like you're not lying. I'm just gonna to tell this story. I don't want to tell this story of you just lying and everyone knows you're lying, but we all have to pretend like you're not lying. I'm just gonna give you a nap. You have passive insight. So you would probably know, honestly, if a German is lying.

Like, they're not gonna be terrible. But I'm like, oh, charismatic. Also, he, like, here's the thing, because it's like, okay, cool, speaking of a meta game, why did you tell your party you were like? Like, if you're gonna, if you're doing that type of, if you're in the character, you send a note to your DM,

you let them know what's good, let them know what's happening. And then, if you, and then the DM will have been, said you'll know back this as you will probably die. And you will, for some reason go, I'm still gonna do it. It's so, it's so not fun to be at the table and you have to play dumb. If for no reason too.

It's one thing if it's like, I don't know, a character's doing a backstory thing or something and you should get to roll for it or they should have to roll a deception check or something like that. A challenge is that. Pretend that things don't happen. But let's find out if it works or not.

I feel like I'm not even opposed to the druid trying to escape with a sword. That feels motivated by their backstory. It's maybe a bad move, but I can get behind it a little bit. But doubling down on the lie afterwards after you got caught, essentially, after you made everybody watch your little trick, and then it failed. He just instantly grabbed the sword again and run away. Yeah, definitely.

You should always have to roll the deception check if you're lying to the parties. It's Tim Robinson behavior. It's hot again. It truly does feel like a... Oh my God, it's so intense. Because it's like, did you leave any breadclarbs for your party? That's this that you weren't even thinking about this, that your backstory, or were you like,

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The cursed sword, the way cursed sword stories work. We're always awesome because it's always like, you take the sword, it does give you the power to kill the bad guy, but then you yourself become the bad guy. But this is just, I have the curse sword. I probably can't use it because I'm a druid. I jump in the water. I get knocked out. My friends find me. I lie to them. You're like half octopus morph while you're saying this. Imagineing arthus for more crap three.

He's like, I have frostmourn and just like a single grunt kick his ass. Just like, oh, who's there taking that piece? Just not even to get a sword to cut. Just not even she think it just holding it, like you're holding a pot, Chris. I'm just imagining it. Oh, I gotta bring this to someone who knows how to use it. Yeah, yeah.

Just laying on the bridge, breathing heavily, bruised up. I was trying to flake the bar. And you got that tired from swimming? Yeah, you're not octopus. You just got knocked unconscious by C-rox, and you're just gonna pull off a perfect lie. Oh my god, how much ink do you think this dude was spilling? Oh, so beat up. Oh my gosh, yeah.

Yeah, that was perfect. Everything that should have happened happened now. Yeah, the person's source is like, I don't even want this guy. Yeah, it's like, what is, and what was the plan like, how far is this nemesis? So you're just gonna take like three sessions to swim?

Yeah. Okay, so you're like, demon two different papers. Yeah. That like, I'm the special player syndrome being like, I'm gonna have my own scene here, and no one else knows about it. Is it so, no one else at the table likes it? No one else at the table likes it. No one else at the table likes it.

I promise you. So we're all on the player side here. We're against the druid of the game. Yeah, so we have the punters, the druids. Although I do agree with iffy, it is kind of meta gaming to ask for the insight check because there is no reason. But again, it all worked out because

it has to roll deception check. So here's the one thing about the indeed you can just find literally anything. Yeah. You could have been like, something about the way you're saying this makes the priest not want to trust it. Totally. Can I roll inside?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, because it is very suspect. Like, why did you go out in the your drool? Why did you change the plan? You went out to the magic storm as like a character that can summon storms. Yeah, yeah, why did you do that?

You wanted to flink the this guy as an octopus? Nah. Yeah, that's true. That's really the technical question. Like were they still an octopus form when this was all happening? It's very funny to me. I think they were, but I would prefer to picture that way.

Yeah. Just like a cleric cradling, a nearly dead octopus. That was just so funny, just the bamboozlement of the whole table to like hand this off to the drood, not knowing that this was about to happen. Like, yeah, oh, this is gonna be a great plan. There's just like, I run away. I'm sorry, what's happening?

And it also like that it relates to something that no one else has prior knowledge to, that they're all learning in the moment. You what? Because why? Do I see mustard? Just like octopus with a sword going into the water. So dumb.

No, I said the DM a lot of emails about my backstory. They didn't respond, but I see him. This is okay. Because for what is worse, not the most like the best seafaring monster, like why aren't you a whale that you swallow the sword and just go. Ooh, yeah. Wow, that'd be a sick attack. Yeah.

Just vomiting swords. Woh, vomiting swords. Woh, that's a blowhole. Yeah. That's a good spell. yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, wet soaking wet being like guys I was trying to fly it really does feel like I was trying to fly you're so beat up and wet I was trying to fly I'm better captain

I wasn't a plan why is your dv8 from the plan we had it was going to play I'm always flanking people you made me in I'm a druid we Flanked You gotta believe me roll a deception check Yeah, why would you you're why would the derby mad you're lying to the party an insane story and the meeting roll a deception check That's what happens you're also bad at lying. You probably don't have good charisma. Yeah. Yeah. She we replaced this druid with an actual octopus

They're pretty smart Yeah, you teach an octopus to roll don't octopus is mechanically have to get wet a lot though So you need someone in your party. Yeah, you're gonna be a little tough That's okay like you know the octopus who decides the... If you can be the person who holds the bucket. That's great. They can be the spritzer. Yeah. Okay.

All of your spell slots are going to create water. They're the spritzer. The spritzer. The spritzer. The spritzer. That your party's going to love. Octopus is going to form little cities. Did you know that?

Yeah, it's great. Yeah, you truly let this person off easy, because I know so many DMs who's like, all right, you went into the magical water, you and Kirsta, you cannot get out of octopus form. Yeah. Oh! Stick them in a morphe.

Oh, that's fine. Oh, yeah, what was the dude from? Tobias. Tobias, that got stuck to the hawk. Yeah. You shoulda Tobias to the spirit. Oilers for animals three. Yeah.

How do you really? It's going to the description. It's really. All off-dies since... Okay. Okay. Then shall we over to church? Yes.

Shall we to church? Shall we to church? Shall we to church? If you, since you are a judge, you are also clergyman. Okay. Are you comfortable with that politically? Yes, okay, great. It's a full pack, I can't.

I'm the, the, the sandwiching of, of church instinct. Okay, yeah. I don't want to keep it separate. I want it up against each other. He and the church instinct. And the meat is justice. Yes. Separate, but eaten together and one delicious bite.

Yeah, yeah. Which is also the body and blood of bones. Okay, Jacobi says, Dude, this is, I think, a really, a really naughty one. I mean, it's just like a bad, okay. Okay, okay. Listen, if you're freaking nanny, if you're a nanny and you're listening to this, get out of the room. If you're freaking nanny, if you're a nanny and you're listening

to this, get out of the room. If you're a nanny, it's gonna rile you up. Yeah. Get a right. I don't need a riled up nanny on my head. Get those tut-tut fingers out of here. Yeah. Okay. Take a beer, rights, to the magnanimous, humble judges. I present the, with a confession of a flubbed spell slot. I've been playing with my group for years now, and as such, we have rotated through DMs quite a bit to keep things fresh because our styles vary greatly. One night our game was DM'd by one of my more ruthless friends. Our party had just stolen the deck of many things from a baron, but we got caught on our way out, with our party warlock held by the throat. Over a banisterister our party could only watch in horror

as we exhausted all of our abilities and spell slots entering the manner. I wanted to cast Mistystep to teleport behind the Baron and wrestle my friend from his grasp, but after realizing I didn't have the spell slot to make the maneuver I decided, ah fuck it, it'll look cool as hell if it works. And even though it did, look cool as hell because my little cold-bulb sorcerer somehow succeeded the strength check to wrestle my boyfriend and escape, I was left at the end of the session watching the barren's manor burn to rubble in the distance as we rode away, feeling like I had dragged a knife through the canvas of our world.

I await your judgment. So this person lied about having a spell snack. through the canvas of our world. I await your judgment. You know, so this person lied about having a spouse lie. You've already punished yourself because that rat is hell moment was stolen from you. You just feel guilty. Yeah. And let that be a lesson to all of us.

That if you mean, manufacture rat is hell moments, it will cease to be rat is hell. Yeah. I'm on the other side of that. No, every D&D show you've watched online has done that in some way. I'm gonna break the seal, I'm not gonna lie to you,

I'm gonna keep it funky. Because we're all telling a story at the table. And if it's best for the story and it's not cheesing in a way that is breaking the game just cause you want it too, but if you want to tell the best story sometimes, we do a little flub and I look at it as an anime moment. Okay. Can I twist that further?

Yeah, I feel like that anime moment works, but like I think you got a bargain for it. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, okay. I agree. That's what I feel. I feel, because I think just making up spell slots.

Just for that, that's not so good for me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe you could ask the moment you're sitting there, I don't know what you were, maybe a sorcerer. Yeah, maybe you are, you're in a desperate moment, the DMs probably in the mood to bargain. Yeah.

And they're probably like, all right, I'll, if you do this crazy thing, take this crazy bad thing. Right, yeah. Ultimately, at the end of the day, what happened was they grabbed the Baron or whatever the bad got. Yeah.

So it's like, did you have to misty step to do that? I wonder if there's some other athletics checker or something like that. You can throw a goblet. Because the big thing was your little cold ball succeeding on this athletics check. So I think this was all within, you could have had your anime moment.

It just had to have been agreed upon. And I think everybody would have been pumped. Yeah. And a DM loves nothing more than a bargain. Just like watch their lips lick. I just want to just point that, Caldwell was staring dead in the eyes of murder. Yeah, sure. Eamy just looks as watch. I love his lips. As serious as you might join each other. Tongue work with St. Louis middle lips. I might hear that again gonna go fuck you.

I'll buy her a lot. I can get you a bunch of. I'm sorry. These are my multitudes. So you are forgiven, big. Yeah, I'm sorry, but I think that's pretty naughty. And sometimes I think that not having enough spell slots means you need to get creative with your cantrip.

That's true. Was there a cantrip in there with which you could have created a cool anime moment? It's also, again, it's just a bonus action spell. I wouldn't have been surprised if you couldn't have done some run there, you'd have fun. Something like that.

Yeah, you could have walked out. And there are just kind of, like, add various from tables, they have DM-DM. And sometimes, you know, yeah, I think the bargaining and the trying works, that's what I did when I was doing blood, keeping I was a rogue, and I usually play fighters and barbarians,

and I learned very quickly, rogues don't take punches. And in front of this eagle, and just, remember that? So yeah, and just do a charisma check because I had no other options. You know, it came out good.

Yeah. So you got- That eagle became like your best friend. Yeah, because I had no other options, you know, it came out good. Yeah, so you got- That angle became like your best friend. Yeah, yeah, so yeah. So sometimes it helps to try and be creative other than the fluff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think, yeah, the definite takeaway here, find your anime moment. Yeah.

You don't need a misty step to have an anime moment. Yeah, I don't think so. That's true. Let it be known. All right, and with that, we're step to have an anime movie. I don't think so. That's true. Let it be known. All right, and with that, we're gonna wrap this one up. Thank you all so much for listening. We're gonna have iffy over on our Patreon with us do some bonus cases.

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