The NPC's perspective in D&D

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Komentáře • 69

  • @reaganmonkey8
    @reaganmonkey8 Před měsícem +102

    4:05 That gave me an idea for a one shot. What if you have to parties of adventurers separately playing. Both are led to a BBEG. However, the BBEG is the other party. So they both meet on the last session and fight each other.

    • @Arlentric
      @Arlentric  Před měsícem +21

      THIS IS AN AMAZING IDEA

    • @iambicpentakill971
      @iambicpentakill971 Před měsícem +9

      There was a based on a true story like that in an old Knights of the Dinner Table comic. One party successfully spread a rumor about the mythical Head of Vecna. It didn't go well for the group that bought into it

    • @NoxLumen7
      @NoxLumen7 Před měsícem +2

      Zacspeaksgiant made a video about that!

    • @reddragon9064
      @reddragon9064 Před měsícem

      Reminds me of an idea a friend of mine had of having. 2 parties interact in a world one evil one good and only ever hearing about the actions of the other until they inevitably clash

  • @HighCharityYT
    @HighCharityYT Před měsícem +138

    town guards when the squad rolls up: Look either they're going to be dead in a week or literally slaying gods, and either way that's not our problem

  • @gibbbon
    @gibbbon Před měsícem +44

    "let's have a friendly spar"
    "sure"
    "i cast magic murder"

  • @Bruno-dv3ym
    @Bruno-dv3ym Před měsícem +20

    that one NPC the party tries to kill and the DM just says " it uses one of their legendary resistances "

  • @dr0g_Oakblood
    @dr0g_Oakblood Před měsícem +10

    1:57 - ah the Dragon card, if this is the Deck of Many More Things, that guy just became a parent to a new baby dragon.

  • @RachDarastric2
    @RachDarastric2 Před měsícem +10

    "I haven't eaten in 2 days." Says the guy next to 2 boxes of fruit.

  • @ShogunIsHeree
    @ShogunIsHeree Před měsícem +21

    Ah yes
    In Skyrim you take an arrow to the knee
    In Faerun you watch all of your friends get murdered around thee

  • @nightknight5357
    @nightknight5357 Před měsícem +24

    5:36. I feel bad for that man. He was promised no combat

    • @Stirdix
      @Stirdix Před měsícem +6

      To be fair, I'm not sure I'd qualify what happens as a combat, really

  • @tommykay7427
    @tommykay7427 Před měsícem +29

    Grand theft horse. What kind of horse?
    Mustang, 1 horse power!

    • @picklejho69
      @picklejho69 Před měsícem +4

      Actually, a horse has 4 horse power minimum. maybe more if they're bigger

    • @lizardlord6560
      @lizardlord6560 Před měsícem

      ​@@picklejho69 bru

    • @Human-Man-Man
      @Human-Man-Man Před měsícem

      I watched a guy use a horse to measure its horsepower he got about 19.

    • @eMercody
      @eMercody Před měsícem +1

      Horsepower is a measurement of the average expected work a horse can do in a day, needless to say that the horsepower at a specific moment is quite a bit higher.

  • @alexplayer8367
    @alexplayer8367 Před měsícem +65

    Seems like the last NPC had more than 100hp

    • @Arlentric
      @Arlentric  Před měsícem +16

      Plot twist: BBEG is just a town guard

    • @RachDarastric2
      @RachDarastric2 Před měsícem +2

      @@Arlentric That is quite a title to give someone who is standing up to a force that has depopulated 99.22% of the entire world.

  • @MemoristCed
    @MemoristCed Před měsícem +17

    Why WOULDN'T anyone want 62 pounds of harpy feathers, though? I mean, if you go by the shopkeepers in any MMO...
    (Also, "grand theft horse" used to be a hangin' offense in England. In Texas, though, it's only a third-degree felony.)

    • @tyrongkojy
      @tyrongkojy Před měsícem +5

      Yeah, stealing a horse back then was a BIG deal. Your ride, ability to carry more, pull your plow, etc. That could be a person's entire livelihood right there. That's a high crime.

    • @frantisekvrana3902
      @frantisekvrana3902 Před měsícem +2

      In my world, Harpy Feathers are a rare potion ingredient. Pretty expensive, but you would sell them to an alchemy shop, not a regular merchant. Also, no alchemy shop in town would have enough money to buy 62 pounds.
      Just one feather is worth 30gp and weights 0.01 pound. So 62 pounds would be 186 000 gold.
      Though it is specifically tail feathers that are used, so you don't get many from a single harpy. Especially if you down it with a fireball.

  • @ZombeyDragon
    @ZombeyDragon Před měsícem +5

    "I haven't eaten in 2 days" while standing next to a whole bunch of fruit he's selling is a subtle nod to how none of the maps the DM uses are accurate at all

  • @SimonClarkstone
    @SimonClarkstone Před měsícem +6

    0:12 If they just murdered 6 people in front of me I'd not want to refuse them a room.

  • @AmaroqStarwind
    @AmaroqStarwind Před měsícem +4

    1:32 "And then I settled down, got married."
    The phrase "arrow to the knee" is basically just slang for anything happening that puts an end to your adventuring days. *Like getting married.*

  • @Dragon_Muenster
    @Dragon_Muenster Před měsícem +16

    4:18 I feel bad for all of the freelance artists that have to constantly explain this

  • @EveloGrave
    @EveloGrave Před měsícem +10

    I did this third person situation by accident once. The players found an infected individual in a tavern. Got the guards to evacuate the customers and seal the perimeter. Then halfway through combat the website we were using to host froze and reloading wouldnt do anything, restarting would have taken an hour but we had 30 minutes left. I described what was going on from the guards perspective to fill out the remaining time and made note of their rewards for the next session. one of the players was really enjoying a third person perspective of the game considering it is always 1st or 2nd person.

  • @Nerdnumberone
    @Nerdnumberone Před měsícem +5

    I have been a bit interested in adding one or more NPC adventuring parties that the PCs can interact with. They might be allies, friendly rivals, or bitter enemies. They can be of similar power to the PCs, having access to the same BS players use. They can serve as good foils, possibly embodying the essense of murder-hobos (who occasionally do good by killing bad guys for profit). They may also hunt down the party for their (real or fabricated) crimes.
    And if the players are looking for sime rare spell or magic item, the bartender might point them to another adventuring party.

  • @WastelandChef
    @WastelandChef Před měsícem +14

    "Noo for the 5th time I don’t sell Skooma…"

  • @retromac2992
    @retromac2992 Před měsícem +1

    2:42 is probably my favourite.
    It had me in absolute stitches!

  • @daviddent5662
    @daviddent5662 Před měsícem +1

    "What the hell do want bat excrement for??"
    This little nod to Deerstalker's Awful Ones? Unexpected and just awesome to see. Love with D&D vid makers do this.

  • @denverarnold6210
    @denverarnold6210 Před měsícem +3

    62 lbs of harpy feathers sounds great for bedding and pillows, actually.

  • @tyrongkojy
    @tyrongkojy Před měsícem +3

    Yeah, I never let my players just guy bags of holding. Not from some random store, at least. Maybe from the local wizard, who makes some coin on the side selling it.
    Also the six severed heads are to collect the bounties. I didn't think the ears were enough to identify them.
    Ignore heads seven through twenty. That's for something else......

  • @novasolarius8763
    @novasolarius8763 Před měsícem +4

    Only one person killed in almost seven minutes. Frankly, you should be glad that's all.

  • @paulblake1563
    @paulblake1563 Před měsícem +22

    Being an npc in the world of dnd sounds terrifying edit: autocorrect changed npc

    • @TrenchCoatDingo
      @TrenchCoatDingo Před měsícem +4

      but never dull

    • @Arlentric
      @Arlentric  Před měsícem +1

      Just watching these group of 4 gnomes dragging bodies of all kinds of creatures you've never heard of over the series of a few weeks

  • @rpghorrorstories
    @rpghorrorstories Před měsícem +1

    I'm reminded of this time where a PC received a Death Curse after they bribed a guard so the BBEG of the arc would die a choking, painful death when they were hung. The next session, they were confronted with the city guard who brought forward a litany of crimes that they were accused of, which included breakung and entering, assault on a guard, kidnapping, arson, murder, cattle rustling and a slew of others.
    They only realized something weird was going on when they reached cattle rustling.
    "I am innocent... of a majority of those crimes..."

  • @Primearch-GG
    @Primearch-GG Před měsícem +1

    Hey, Arlentric, I got a video idea:
    Have an adventuring party go around doing "good deeds" while being led by the nose by their secretly evil cleric who is actually an evil necromancer that was collecting ingrediants for making an army of bone and zombie dragons, make the reveal the BBEG fight they'll barely win, stopping their former cleric's plans only for them to immediately get surrounded by the local lord/king's army and when they try to surrender after learning that they're wanted because of the cleric framing them, tell them the army's leader takes out their wanted poster which reads: Wanted Dead; without the "alive part".
    Actually, now that I think about it, this should be an actual scenario for D&D and not just a video...

  • @stock_movie1875
    @stock_movie1875 Před 21 dnem +1

    Fighter: ok the severed heads we can explain.
    Also fighter: pulls out wanted posters for the heads
    Paladin: they were wanted dead or alive. We tried taking em alive... It didn't go well.

  • @jatsantsa
    @jatsantsa Před měsícem +1

    That start was exactly from my adventure. To be honest local fanatic prist was spreading rumors about the cult. The cult were kids drinking stolen wine from that old jerk on cementery. It was nice murderhobo test for party.

  • @yamibakura8597
    @yamibakura8597 Před měsícem +1

    In my setting, being an adventurer is like being in a rock band. Yeah, you could become rich and famous and have every woman in the kingdom want to mount you like a stallion, but most likely you'll end up poor, unknown and generally viewed as a threat to decency.
    Though I don't know of many would-be rockstars that were eaten alive by giant rats.

  • @yoface2537
    @yoface2537 Před měsícem +1

    And then I took an arrow to the knee
    And oh god, that party is about to blow stuff up

  • @NenshoyajuRaizer
    @NenshoyajuRaizer Před 15 dny

    My friend once created a cannibal character that did their best to drag the rest of the party into their lifestyle, the one person that didn't join in the feasts was the party's cook that would roast the flesh for everyone else.

  • @Inventorcoyote
    @Inventorcoyote Před měsícem

    2:40 maybe because you have baskets of fruits right next to you

  • @PodIsGodAndOrangesArePurple
    @PodIsGodAndOrangesArePurple Před měsícem +12

    no arrows in knees? sad.

  • @hamzamotara4304
    @hamzamotara4304 Před měsícem

    I'm a DM. This is too accurate.

  • @BoomDowg
    @BoomDowg Před měsícem +1

    This video made my day

  • @Astrem-FNF
    @Astrem-FNF Před měsícem +1

    Hey, can you make a vid about Valda's Spire Of Secrets please??

  • @HowieDewitt535
    @HowieDewitt535 Před měsícem

    1:05 Suddenly I don't wanna play DnD anymore...

  • @barnbydouglas4549
    @barnbydouglas4549 Před 26 dny

    ooh a dragon 💀

  • @E3Zen
    @E3Zen Před měsícem +1

    Club of anonymous NPCs

  • @jerard1979
    @jerard1979 Před měsícem

    Yes, I am responsible for the gaping hole in room three. 😆

    • @matthewrowlett1564
      @matthewrowlett1564 Před měsícem

      "HEY! That's my Ho yer talkin bout! Sheila may be dirt cheap, but NOBODY Gonna Dis This Pimps Ho's"-Big Daddy Asmodeus, The Pimp of Hells Crossing.(yes. THAT Asmodeus.)
      "Roll Initiative."-DM.
      "I'm sorry for this. Couldn't resist"-ME

  • @Storm-ke3zx
    @Storm-ke3zx Před měsícem

    "I just murdered a goblin"

  • @FoodManTheGuy
    @FoodManTheGuy Před měsícem +3

    Why are all your players murder hobos

  • @benjaminoechsli1941
    @benjaminoechsli1941 Před 19 dny

    1:12 What paladin worth their oath can't sanctify their own water? 🙄
    2:02 Ah yes, love the occasional reminder that adventurers are filthy stinkin' rich. 😅

  • @vlrze
    @vlrze Před měsícem +1

    Grand theft horse xD

  • @DaJackCracker
    @DaJackCracker Před měsícem

    "62 pounds of harpy feathers"
    I dunno, sounds like a good deal to me. I get to make super soft pillows AND touch a woman every time I go to sleep.

  • @absolutleynotanalien8096
    @absolutleynotanalien8096 Před měsícem

    2:40 ...what's to your left?

  • @jacquest-pierre8565
    @jacquest-pierre8565 Před měsícem

    Another good one and not the card nooo😂.

  • @MarylandFarmer.
    @MarylandFarmer. Před 25 dny

    I built the place. LOL

  • @Natonenerdz
    @Natonenerdz Před 13 dny

    Haha 1,600th like

  • @Goddessllias
    @Goddessllias Před měsícem +1

    2:00 I can't think of who would give away a deck of many things, but I would love to know what the adventurers hear about him later.