The holidays were certainly happy this year! Hanging out with family and friends is always a pleasure but I am also glad to get back to work. It was supremely strange to work on a Tuesday like this but I’m quite happy with how this turned out. Thanks for watching, we’ll be back to normal next week.
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My first game was Mutants and Masterminds. Got to the table prepared to play a Punisher-like gunslinger character. The group I was joining already had one of those and he made it clear that I would be cramping his style. I was coerced into building a sniper instead, so I went in that direction.
I met up with the team and was introduced as their new team member. The following short RP section was that I wasn't welcome into their close-knit team dynamic. I played off of that pretty well, because I was secretly playing an ex-villain that they didn't recognize. We went on a mission to draw out a drug lord, and was more or less told to stay away from their group (under penalty of the super-strength guy ripping me in two), so I provided cover from afar, using gadgets to roof climb and maintain watch over them.
The team immediately arrived at a warehouse, convinced the guards that they were hired muscle, and went in to meet with the boss for a job opportunity. I was ordered to stay on the rooftops and provide cover (for a team I couldn't see) because it would be weird for me to drop in and join them. They spent the rest of the 6 hour session in that warehouse, talking with a drug kingpin and convincing him that our weird plant guy could grow the BEST KUSH he'd ever seen over the next 3 weeks, then we'd catch him in a major drug sting operation (even though the hero team would be actively producing and selling drugs to him, which is entrapment at best, but nobody wanted to hear that).
TL;DR, I joined a game, had my character changed to a different role last minute, got RP alienated immediately, got ditched by the party in-game, spent 5 hours watching them play their game, and had my inputs for the future ignored because I wasn't involved.
The setting was cool and the prospect of playing was enticing, but my first TTRPG experience was pretty sour overall.
Boundaries always have to be discussed and respected when joining a game or running one. When I dm, I always set a rule: no evil PC and no Pvp, because those are things I am not comfortable with in my games so I strictly rule them out. When I was dming for evil characters i honestly could not be their fan and instead only hope that they die in misery or/and disband the game completly.
That backstory for Warforge is great. I often like to play warforge, but DM often restrict by the lore "warforge are ancient, they can't be created, you have to be ancient too and part of the warforged lore"
Tbh i couldnt imagine playing dnd without romance as a possible sub plot.
Nothing sexual but to me a natural building romance can build great character arcs. Not all my characters ended up with someone and some even had complex relationships where they were broken up with. I oddly enjoy that sorta thing but if someone told me no romance id say okay and go my own way no need to force a dm to do what they dont want.
I always knew crispy was secretly matt mercer the entire,they couldn't fool me
Crispy reacting to weird Warhammer stuff is something i hope to see more off.
But hes so wrong about the Space Marine chapter names sounding silly and over masculine.
Now I'm off to watch the ULTRAMARINES! Fight the FLESH TEARERS! who are my favourite successor chaptor to the BLOOD ANGELS!!!
I never understand guys who are convinced women fake enjoyment of a hobby for male attention. They’ll say stuff like “you don’t actually care about DND, you just want one of us to date you!”
Okay. Imagine, hypothetically, I, a woman, was desperate enough for a boyfriend that I’m willing to fake an entire hobby just to get a guy’s attention. Why in the world would I be playing DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS of all things? I could fake interest in stuff like football or hockey. I’m sure everyone at the DND table are all real catches….
The DM said no
And also geez, that sexist MFer
Dark Angels, Space Wolves and Alpha Legionaires are all in fact names of canonical space marine chapters though The Alpha Legion is a traitor legion (out are they?!) but they do specialize in deception and inflation so …
The DM said no!
My war-foraged wizard/artificer is made of porcelain. She's based on her creator's daughter's favorite doll (I think a 7-foot, blank-faced doll walking around is hilarious. Her CHA modifier is -2). My DM loved it and informed me that her porcelain endured heat better than metal warforged and we decided that her clinking plates factored into her low dexterity score. It was a really cool experience, and I really love the character.
That first skit with the "good ending" was fantastic and made my day 😂 Thank you, Crispy! ❤
Technically they aren't 40k classes, those are specific Space Marine Legions (the Space Marines are basically the army's top warriors that either fight for or against humanity, depending generally on if their legion either did or didn't ((or in the specific case of the Alpha Legion, questionably did or didn't)) turn traitor against the group trying to reunify all humanity in the lore), and they can each do certain things within the rules that run…..different from classes. Easier to think of it as faction warfare in a sci-fantasy setting. And so of course some would have problems, because the Space Wolves (official English name which supposedly in lore is a corrupted translation of the actual name) were designed with destroying other SM in mind, no one can truly trust Alpha Legion Marines (because they do things to confuse if they are or aren't loyalists), etc. We also think of those stinky people as worshippers of Nurgle
The back story one is insane. I cannot imagine running a players back story without them being there? Whats even the point if the person the story is for isn't even there for it when it happens. There can't be any satisfaction in that.
It reminds me of a game I was in where another player for some reason made it part of their character's interests to solve my character's back story secrets for him. And it is one of the few times I've been actively upset with another player. Thankfully the dm wasn't having it and would just give her other stuff to do instead of exposing all of my characters secrets before it was narratively appropriate.
As a lesbian myself, I can safely say that Sarah was wrong. I can understand wanting to "be yourself" in games and have your identity affirmed and all (hell, when I was still figuring out my gender, I played a girl character who had the name I currently use IRL), but she still shouldn't have tried to make something happen that the DM clearly said they were uncomfortable with. She could've easily just followed the DM's guidelines and given her character a wife, or talked with the DM to come to some other agreement that both of them are okay with. Not to mention that the rule obviously can't really be homophobic, since it affects all players identically.
Basically, she should've either bit her tongue and accepted the DM's rule or recognized that this particular game wasn't for her and found a new one.
As the OP for the 40k story – yes I did! Now part of a far more lovely 4+GM team, with a LOT more GM and player experience under the belt.
And as a long time 40k nerd, yes… The chapters really do… The community has *issues*.
Crispy, seeing the love you have for BG3 shining through every few minutes, I can only say… Gosh, I hope you'll give some other awesome adventures set in Forgotten Realms a chance! I remember you saying you disliked pre-written modules and only ran homebrew. Back then, you also showed unfamiliarity with iconic Forgotten Realms characters… which made me really sad. I adore Ed Greenwood's world, I've been dabbling in it since 1991 and it holds a special place in my heart. I'm glad you got to enjoy at least a tiny portion of it that was BG3, and hope you'll play with it some more 😊
Is your rat fur soft. Also do you get red marks do to your mask?
Story three is my friend!!! I was in that campaign, I’m Rogue! I was literally jumping up and down with excitement hearing all the feedback, she got played SO dirty and I ended up leaving the campaign not long after. Omg I’m so glad she wrote this, and even happier you covered it. It feels like validation. You got every nuance for why this was so upsetting, thank you. And LOVE the Owl House insert, because the plot of that episode was basically what happened to her. And yes, she’ll get to play her porcelain warforged again someday. She’s a bomb DM herself, as am I, so we’re going to make it happen.
ETA: I didn’t count the first blurb as a story at first and wrote story two. Oops.
Also my friend didn’t get the idea from Quibi, but that’s her story to tell. She had the best backstory ever, it is true.
Man id LOVE to see Crispy react to soace marine lore if the names alone got this reaction.
Heaven forbid he learns about the Space Sharks
I'm curious about the set piece garden Crispy was working on in his studio. Also, that story with the warforged really was a good one.
Not seeing enough credit for the Colleen Hoover joke lmao
The Imperium of Man is pretty much an Andrew Tate cult. The Emperor would kinda be like Andrew Tate, The Astartes would be kinda like those who pay for his school of hustle (or whatever it's called) and everyone else is either a woman or a beta… or xenos scum… or a heretic, which is worse than a beta.
On the third story i laughed when you read moi in a very english way instead of as the french word moi that means me. I'm not french, but as a dutch person we get french, german and english in school. Otherwise a good read, don't think anyone else noticed XD
Not gonna lie, i think the guy in the intro was joking
So apparently one of my long time friends is the porcelain construct. I just started playing dnd a little over a year ago and my bf dm'ed the game. Maybe I can talk him into running a game for us and her husband so she can try to play her character the way she wants better. All 4 of us are all good friends so it shouldn't be too hard to convince him
Все сложил в ролик это уметь надо. красаувчег
Wait, when we went to women who play D&D? We skipped over MARISHA AND LAURA?!
So of she wanted for force a straight npc to ramance with out concent.. thats seams a bit rap..e 😂
Crispy I love you and your videos, but please do not say W*ndigo out loud. It is a truly horrible being that is not meant to be spoken of. It is a native American folk creature so a lot of people disregard the rules around it but to many it is very real.