people who play joke characters for the whole campaign
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- čas přidán 20. 01. 2022
- yeah I'm like the 300th person to make this joke but we all know it's the truth.
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As someone who's main character is a skeleton named "Skeleton Archer #3" this fits me way too well.
You’d like “Skeleton Soldier Couldn’t Protect The Dungeon”
I mean, that's actually what a necromancer would probably name their undead, so I don't see an issue.
@@JagEterCoola yes but...
He can't talk, so he does charades for everything. He is *extremely* curious, so he always gets into trouble. And his backstory is great.
You are correct, that is what the necromancer named him... mere minutes before he was killed by a group of adventures. SA3 saw this, and went "Hm yes, this looks like fun". So he became an adventurer.
Also this comment kinda hurts now, because the video is even more accurate now. My boi just sacrificed himself for the party.
@@--Cat-- long live....errr, unlive? whatever, HAIL Skelleton Archer #3!
@@--Cat-- I barely read about Skeleton Archer N°3 yet I mourn his loss :'(
Here we see a perfect illustration of the large difference between the "shitty joke character by the player who tries to mimic deadpool by always doing random things" and the "awesome character who just happens to be named Cumwagon The Fartgotten."
Correction: Deadpool hopped up on Pixysticks.
hi i know its been a month but cumwagon the fartgotten has literally been seared into my brain since i read this and has haunted me like a specter since
Yep. As someone currently in a long-form custom campaign with the former type, that's what I was 100% expecting this video to be about. 20 sessions later, the character is exactly as shallow and unmotivated as she was on day 1. She just does random stupid crap for the sake of being random and to see what'll happen. I'm pretty sure her player is just playing Xbox during the sessions, too, so... not really paying attention. It was about when she decided to pickpocket an ancient, evil artifact off of my character and swallow it for no good reason-- resulting in PVP between my character and the other, clueless party members when my character's efforts to retrieve the artifact from her throat really solidly looked like I was murdering her-- that I became officially tired of the schtick. It's just great. Super great.
I feel you buddy. I'm sorry.
You know funnily enough Deadpool has had some serious moments and honestly I feel like they are a decent example of a good joke character depending on how you play them
Joke characters accidentally becoming deep and complex is honestly one of the best parts of dnd.
Farts
Scanlan
Did you mean: Sam Riegel
I’m playing a goblin barbarian named Bath Saltz in a friend’s campaign and he’s had quite the character arc
Literally about to be my character in the campaign I’m joining (it’s my first campaign)
When my players all have very serious characters in a dark campaign, but there's one character called Sherlock Gnomes who is an inquisitive rogue gnome. It's fun.
Ok but I actually made a character named Sherlock Gnomes for a oneshot once. He was a detective who got fired from the police force because he was always talking to a toy (for which I used an actual McDonald's toy of Gnome Watson from the movie Gnomeo and Juliet 2 Sherlock Gnomes) which may or may not have been his patron.
...the other characters in this Sherlock Holmes-based oneshot included Carlisle Cullen from Twilight, Shaggy from Scooby-Doo, a character that was a combination of Mycroft Holmes and Minecraft streamer Dream whose name was "Minecroft", and finally a character that was literally just the Robert Downey Jr. "I'm Stuff" meme image. So obviously this was not a dark story
I have a character I use for one-shots called Gnoman Bates who is a serial-killer rogue gnome - always gets a reaction when I introduce him. Not necessarily a positive one but still a reaction lol
My daughter loves that movie.
Your daughter loves Psycho?
"Sherlock Gnomes" killed me :D
Had a friend play a fighter with 6 int named Victory or Die. We all laughed as he yelled "Victory or die!" fighting goblins in our first session. Many sessions later, we all cried as he whispered "It's victory or die, my friends." cutting a rope that sent him and the BBEG tumbling off a floating island 2 miles in the sky.
Why did this make me cry???????
But if he had more than 6 int, then he would've cut the rope BELOW him and not ABOVE and live... So unfortunate, so sad... ;(
Yo...
bro is like Hodor
That's really dope.
You know shits wack when Boblin The Goblin has the table in tears when he scarifies himself to seal the portal to Avernus
A genuine laugh, I needed that.
Everanus*
Boblin was a true hero...
@@BigDickWizard6969 Just like you.
Sacrifices*
I once played a halfling named Dildo Baggins for a funny little one shot. 12 sessions later, Dildo sacrificed himself to save his lover, Kumdik the bard. Our cleric, Pussy, was unable to resurrect him, and his body was lost. But they still held a funeral that brought us all to genuine tears. Kumdik’s player wrote an actual song for Dildo. The campaign ran for a little over a year, and was honestly beautiful.
Dildo Baggins, oh how he was great
He gave his life, to save his lover's grave fate
Pussy, though he tried, could not save his life
a Dildo he was, but not without strife
He Loved His Lover's Music, he laughed and he sang
but when Pussy tried to save him, The Dildo would not bang
The day was won, as the body was lost
For Great Dildo had won, but just at what cost
The Funeral was held, and the tales told were merry
as Dildo's long love, sang him a song we all carry
in our hearts and in our minds, we know he'll never leave us
oh Dildo my Dildo, I ran out of rhymes. General Grievous
Thank you
@@ghost_craftinganimates813 you’re awesome.
@@furrybastard27 For Dildo.
Omg 😭
@@ghost_craftinganimates813 Pure poetry. You should become a writer.
Currently playing a barbarian who got into Strixhaven through a football scholarship and is convinced he is a wizard, I was gifted an ability that if anyone denys my wizardy claim I fly into a 1 round rage
I love this energy. My first character I ever made was a Goliath rogue. The character after that was an orc "ranger". And orc with incredibly low intelligence that couldn't even figure out how to use a bow so he just chucked the arrows as hard as he could like lawn darts.
I only make joke and contradiction characters lol.
did he carry a frying pan around and yell "cast iron!!" heheheheheh
@@darwinsapin3407 No but he mostly seemed to be casting fist (credit to the Small Medium and Threadbare book series by Andrew Seiple)
@@leviwood3363 i regret talking now
As someone who's always hated athletic scholarships the idea of them being used in Strix makes me irrationally angry. Thank you.
Morale of the story:
Joke characters are fine, as long as you don’t ruin the campaign with stupid antics.
I'm playing a night called .ian mckellen,
Play a Bard named Ser Pent. His tongue is almost as sharp as his wit, which is why he became a sword bard and not an eloquence bard.
I'm playing a half-orc life domain cleric who moonlights as a pizzeria owner, named Father Jawn. DM's so into it he's let me invest my gold into expanding my business into neighboring towns, and I also enslaved the remnants of a tribe of kobolds whose leader I killed. They worship me because they think I can breathe fire.
Joke characters played straight are so goddamn fun.
My current character is a warlock with a charlatan background named Michael Roch. Or Mike Roch.
After being a forever DM in the past 12 years.
People usually regret making joke characters as the story progress.
Also, often the person who do this is actively try to brake immersion, because they feel awkward about playing a character.
So you should let them play it out, dont say no, dont pressure them on it.
5:07 ...."Death Ward"
"I COMPLETELY FORGOT"
That's such a legitimate DM moment and the epicness is tangible.
When the DM regrets not having their player’s character sheets memorized even though it’s not their job to do so
@@Phuskooz well isn't deathward a spell you have to cast. So isn't it something the dm shouldve remembered
Everyone forgetting that someone was protected by Death Ward when they just got incinerated would be EPIC
@@danieltaom Since it's duration is 8 hours in game, in a combat heavy session Death Ward genuinely might've been cast 5-6 hours ago irl time. So it's reasonably likely you could forget about Death Ward.
@@CharlesFreck Yeah especially when it may have been an afterthought to everyone at the time.
In one recent campaign, a player made a cleric that was all one huge "PRAISE THE SUN!" joke.
He ended up becoming the most dramatic and tragic character of the group. The whole party would be willing to lay down our lives for this man.
czcams.com/video/WxYH5CXbpYA/video.html
Typical SunBro storyline
praise the sun 🙌
@@justinh514 May The Sun burn the eyes of the ubeleivers and tan the skin of the beautiful!
I NEED TO KNOW
In my first campaign, I told all my players to not make joke characters. You could have stupid things about your character, but nothing entirely encompassing. When I was explaining it to one of my friends during session 0, he said "So, your backstory couldn't be 'I was a professional table licker?'" and now we call all joke characters table lickers.
I can't think of way to *_professionally_* lick a table
@@jzh4805That’s probably why you aren’t a professional table licker
@@jzh4805cleaning tables at a bar with your tongue would be my guess
@@jzh4805 If you have an audience, you're a professional!
@@jzh4805 If you get paid for it, you're a professional, regardless of skill.
When everyone tries to be serious, it always gets goofy af, but when everyone makes joke characters, its the most serious campaign you play in your life
It's because once people get over the awkward fear of being serious, and instead act melodramatic for fun, they discover the trick they had been missing all along.
They get their funny outlet and can stay serius
It's always funny to see the serious genius goofily fall from a windows. But you get used to the fart jokes
No
They stay as jokes and provide nothing to the story but unwanted comedy relief
@@elgatochurro bruh I skipped a BBEG fight by doing the Gangam Style dance and I managed to recruit the BBEG to destroy a dragon that the party "accidentally" created.
The Ballad of Cum Wagon. Cried the whole time.
So emotional right? Q_Q
oh shit I didnt know u were in to dnd. Cool.
Razbuten chilling under every recent dnd video I see. Cant wait for the introducing the lady you life with to tabletop rpgs video u teased some time ago iirc :3 tho ofc i know it might still take time to actually play enough to give her a decent insight so no rush
Get the tissues . . . wink wink wank whine wink
Want to like but can't ruin the 699 likes on a comment about Cum Wagon
My longest running character, and most nuance, started with a joke. "I want to do a Kermit impression for my RP."
And thus Kermie Frogman, the folk legend, the halfling cursed with a froggy visage was born.
Kermie is an unending well of positivity and heroism. He doesn't stop. His bravery knows few bounds. He always gives 110% of himself. But also he's pleased to make your akermtance and he hopes you have a frogtastic day. He'll kerm to your rescue without question.
Didn't I do it for you?
Not the froggy visage ☠
"His bravery knows few bounds."
Love the idea that in the vast majority of situations he's fearless, but then it's like "the building is old and rotted, you see a bug-"
"Nope, nope, I run, fuck them bugs, nope nope nope nope-"
Be the person Kermie knows you can be
so, basically frog from Chrono trigger?
Not in D&D, but in Cyberpunk, I once had a friend who played as Ian D.B., a netrunner who encountered a glitch while jacked into a filming company's servers, erasing his memory and downloading the entirety of the company's script database, leaving him only able to communicate through movie quotes. In the fifth session, Ian shut a door closed behind his party, and broke the digital lock to prevent it from being opened in order to save them from a bunch of heavily mutated sewer rats chasing behind them. He yelled at the top of his lungs "You don't seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you, YOU'RE LOCKED IN HERE WITH ME!" as he pulled the pin on a white phosphorous grenade.
Did he die? Because if yes that would be the single most badass death I’ve ever heard of
Wow, quoting Rorschach in a way that makes sense and is still badass? Awesome!
When Jacob plays everyone in a skit, I just sort of accept it. When he plays everyone _but one,_ it really stands out to me.
Cool of this one guy not to be weirded out by being these triplets' only friend.
This.
I want to believe his fiance didn't want to be a skit were the name cum wagon is nicknamed "cummie". also does runesmith ever show up in his videos these days?
@@ReeperRiopel Runesmith can't be in these videos any more because he moved away.
I actually thought that he was playing everyone in the skit, his acting is just that good
Imagine a human rogue called "generic smith" and his stealth is so high because he's so average he blends in with everything and everyone
LMAO. Take my Like, good citizen 🤣
Jean-rick Roke
Jericho Generico
xD i had the exact same thought,
one spin off could be that he was actually a clone that got left behind when an ancient wizard decided to move out of town for tax reasons, discovered in the basement of the tower being sold by the local authorities, broken free from his jar before the wizards personality and intellect was put inside,
he was literally the most generic human possible
one of my DM's has a DMNPC that he sometimes uses during oneshots when there are only two players an there really needs to be a third. Jen Eric the Dwarf Cleric. Love that dude.
A guy played General Grievus with a welding torch once. He called himself General G, he was often referred to irl as big G. He was also an electrician.
I have a tiefling character named Tuulie.
Her whole deal is that some random ghost told her she'd grow up to be an evil overlord that destroys the world.
It was literally a random ghost, but she believed it was God and now all of her choices revolve around "Will this make me accidentally overthrow the world?"
"The dragon turns to dust."
Also
"The dragon's corpse..."
Love it.
Smh they forgot finger of death only works on humanoids
@@zankaa8031 humanoid dragon, lets go
Schrodinger's Dragon
The dragons corpse is dust now so I guess it's dust in the shape of a dragon
Obviously they were fighting two dragons
My dad just made a Pokémon trainer build. And it has a shield guardian, wildfire spirit, drake companion, conjure animals, and magic items that let him summon more things
Thats just fun. What animal was each thing. Did he try to line up the creatures to actual pokemon (shield guardian=steel type, wildfire spirit=fire type, and such)
I'm totally stealing this. One question though, were does the shield guardian come from?
My first character was basically the same thing. His name was soot (kinda like ash)
@@marcosachaval3534 I think thry meant steel guardian from the battlesmith artificer...
Omg that's perfect! I'm stealing this!
I always like the guy (me) that just makes a really casual character that is just like: “Sam, a Normal human guy that just scooted into a table full of adventurers, he wears glasses and has a store bought mace, he’s really just here cuz he hates being a chef.”
And then when the deep backstory happens,”yeah bro that sucks, I’m literally just a guy.”
That is literallt the character im currently playing, his name is Jeoff(pronounced Jeff)
I like doing characters with normal backgrounds too, like they still have good relations with their family most of which are still alive including their parents. The only reason they are joining the group is because their parents are pressuring them to takeover the family peach orchard business and they just want to have a little bit of fun and see the world first.
Or the old guy who was a city guard and thought he was going to die right before his retirement, but didn't, so now he doesn't know what to do with himself and just hops into the first party he comes across till he dies or gets dementia.
I love how supportive Colton is, just going with the flow when Jacob goes on these crazy schizophrenic trips. A true friend.
"Don't you think he's a little... _weird?"_
"weird? nah, Jacob is my best friends!"
The lesson here: Joke characters raise themselves to new heights when they stop relying on the joke aspect entirely.
Indeed. Albeit then you have players who have stealth pun names for their character but make a serious character.
Yup. Scanlan Shorthalt is a great example of this.
@@magenstaffarts One of my friends had an idea in mind for his Rogue that he came up with later. "Shady Stove" He would've had a scabbard that resembles a cooking stove which heats his sword. This character was also pretty serious in nature, apart from the pun.
@@forfaerghus8092 Very! Also, nice Blue Lions profile picture! Blue Lions was my first run in Fire Emblem: Three Houses.
Playing as an apothecary called "Neidhardt Drags"
My campaign i’m running currently has a player playing Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, a Goliath sorcerer who is canonically just a jpeg of the rock from the waist up with a wizard hat. He only uses fire spells, so every combat encounter he says “can you smell what the rock is cooking?”
Sounds like you need an earth genasi Stone Cold Steve Austin
Earth Genasi monk so he can stun people.
that is a good campaign
@@josephbracero4652 tavern brawler so he can chug a beer and break the bottle over their head. And stunner is a grapple so bonus there
I had a character named John Cena who was a barbarian wrestler preferred weapon was the chair.
XP to Level 3... I gotta say, Colton is far and away the most convincing character you've ever played.
Had a cleric named "fleep bur'ger" who's backstory was that of a simple denny's worker.
Session 1: fleep bur'ger figured out how to cook meth and blew up his denny's
Session 14: fleep bur'ger fell against brielle, a ten-foot firebreathing snake woman, in an old-western style duel, taking the beast with him. Managing to cast one last Cure Wounds he stabilized the one teammate who had refused healing up until that point, the barbarian fighter, who saw fleep as his son.
I fucking love joke characters.
I just wanna say, I like hearing Jacob use "parentage" after learning it was a real word during the homebrew videos.
Truly the best character arc.
im learning
@@XPtoLevel3 I'm so proud of you
@@XPtoLevel3 truly an inspiration
That was when I learned that word too, and I wasn't even homeschooled.
@@localcottagecoregirl3724 He clearly spent a point on inspiration on this roll, so this probably gets him back up to stock.
I got to the end and said “where are the other two” before realising a second later that I am a dumbass. I got so invested I forgot you were playing 3/4 of the characters in this skit, Jacob, bravo
i did the same exact thing haha
I was thinking the same thing
I didn't, but I liked your post because your sillyness is funny
jep, it tends to happen to me, too
One of these days he just needs to edit a second Jacobin the background that walks past to funnel the conspiracy that he has clones for his videos
One of my favorite short D&D campaigns was a three player group of my (normal) Aarakocra, a barbarian named Chad Thundercock, and his gay lover/wingman, a bard named Virgil Smalljohnson. The relationship between Chad and Virgil was regularly the funniest and most emotional part of the campaign.
I think that joke characters are really good in long form campaigns because you don’t have a set backstory and can organically weave it together as you learn more about the world and story
Everybody knows it's tradition to wear the same clothes to the 1st and the 20th sessions of your campaign
They are actually so hardcore they come in costume every week. That is how their characters dress.
The only joke character I ever played was named Dildo Swaggins and he sacrificed himself to save the rest of the party in a super dramatic finish that had the whole table in tears. RIP Dildo
He also may have accidentally triggered a zombie apocalypse but it's fine
@@MattyMakez
Lol- my favorite joke character that I've played was named Mr. Werther. He was a comedically edgy dude made for a one-shot that ended up becoming a campaign. He wound up becoming king and (accidentally) ate a cake made of human flesh one time
Can I ask how Dildo triggered the apocalypse?
@@scorfadontis8110 we were playing Death Frost Doom and he thought he was dreaming while exploring am abandoned crypt. There was some weird time travel stuff going on, which is why he thought he was dreaming. He killed a big blob thing that the adventure tricks you into thinking is a boss. When you kill that it awakens a massive hoard of undead that is virtually impossible to deal with. He had the horrific realization that he wasn't dreaming when he took damage
@@MattyMakez Whoa, sounds like that'd be an interesting session haha
@@scorfadontis8110 that's how the session started actually haha
I know in my heart you guys recorded at least 20 takes from that scene at 3:00 and just settled with this one where Colton almost managed to hold up his laughter, cutting it right after he finished his sentence and called it a wrap! LMAO
My Husband played a Felis paladin named Sir Mittens in my last campaign, he ended up being the moral compass for the entire party, and acted as a mentor to one of the party members. To this day I still name some of the churches in my settings after him. It’s really fun seeing a character made to be a gag become something great and memorable!
"Wait did you name your god damn wizard Taako?" -Griffin McElroy
The best example of this entire video!
FUCK that's so true 😭
By the end of Balance you just forget that taco is a real word
OH MY WORD IT FITS SO WELL!
I was waiting for this comment lmao
My favorite dnd game was when i was the joke character and i just got to forget all my stress and play a dumbass skeleton who knows nothing about the world, and is trying to figure out his place. It was only one session cause of covid but it was very fun.
Same. I did a one shot at an organised event a few months back. I didn't necessarily play a joke character, but that one session game me an addiction to it already and I wanna play more... Due to covid it's pretty dang difficult to find people to play with.
One thing! Just one thing! Please tell IT to me: WHY tf do I have so many fans even though no CZcamsr is unprettier than I am? WORLDWIDE!!!! WHY??? Tell me, dear dex
Curiously I also play a dumbass skeleton, more specific a gunslinger, before COVID, and he was one hell of cowboy.
@@A_mysteriousW ya mine was an oathbreaker paladin so skeleton necromancer and if it continued i had an idea that i could like raise dead skeletons with sentience or like clones of me but they would have the same stats as regular skeletons so it wouldn’t affect anything just be cool flavor. Cause the idea was he was raised by a necromancer and one day broke away from the control of that necromancer and had to figure out what life was
Yeah, playing lighthearted characters can be a lot of fun to play, and sometimes more fun than an entirely serious character. I think the problem arises when you play a character with a comedic gimmick in a long-term campaign and end up with a character that constantly fools around when the rest of the table is playing the game a different way, or you're just lost on what to do with your character since you only thought of said gimmick.
By the sound of it, your skeleton could've gone a lot of places depending on what happened in that campaign, so what I said doesn't apply so much. Cool character idea.
Takes me back to the time I made a catboy space marine named Fluffikins the Mighty using the DM's homebrew winged cat race
She still hasn't forgiven me despite the fact that I did end up giving him an actual backstory later on in the campaign
I'm just about to finish my first campaign-the party consisted of:
The Chameleon: A bard with a knack for collecting the blood of the fallen
Ea Mordai: A ranger who posseses mysterious telekinetic abilities
Arthur Thundercoch: A rogue who's an infamous thief with a potential connection to royalty
Coral "RAMAGE" Grimes: A barbarian who steals and wears the faces of everyone he kills and tries to marry everyone. At one point he held onto the same face for weeks and it just kept rotting and smelling worse and worse. Unfortunately died and was succeeded by:
Vinegarr "Vin" Diesel: A monk who takes shrooms to commune with the universe and collects body parts in the attempt to create life. Also tries to eat literally anything weird and is convinced that he has telekinetic powers(he does not)
They are all pretty fun to be with and the player who made the last two plays them as joke characters and has absolutely enhanced the campaign because of it. He is the perfect mix of zany and unpredictable while still respecting the plot hooks and story that has been set up-and he meshes really well with everyone else and has helped the group get out of their shells. I'm incredibly grateful to have such a good group and he has definitely helped me learn a lot for my first campaign.
Wow, Jacob really upped his costume design on that one character, he almost looks like a completely different person!
It's amazing what a difference a slightly different fake beard can make. Also sitting on a few phone books for the height sells it.
Jokes aside, his friend’s backward hat looks really cool
He rolled a 20 on his disguise check hahaha.
I think he looks the same as usual. The two new guys are cool though.
The first character I ever made was a joke character: A 10 year old kid who stole shit
Over the course of years he's become a full-fledged member of the party and even got a whole arc about his past in a crime organization and his complicated family situation.
Still my favorite character so far and I love seeing the journey unfold.
10 year old who steals shit is the best kind of character
that actually sounds like a sick character arc, hoping that I get to experience the same
i thought you meant he stole feces
@@bobono Or cuno from disco elysium
Damn that sounds awesome
5:20 I thought this was going to be a "Pull my finger." Joke. Especially with the way he's pointing.
To be honest, every single one of the sessions I played with my crew, were quite heavily laiden with running jokes, callbacks, references, and potty humor. But to be fair, our DM also really wanted to see us die, and spent a huge amount of his time imagining terrifying places and encounters. This video is pretty much the encapsulation of my entire time playing DND and it was fkin amazing. I wouldn't have changed a single thing about it if I had to redo all 4 campaigns.
A friend of mine made the Donkey from Shrek and proceeded to become THE most inportant character in that universe, underpinning all other campaigns after him. As long as everyone takes it seriously, any character works.
You can't just put that out there and not give some damn context
@@ravensflockmate So in the first campaign, the players were sent to the city across the mountain, because the yearly caravan which was sent to bring goods had disappeared, turns out it was a gate to hell itself that had opened up, and eventually the players found out and fought a demon lord, some members of the party sacrificed themselves to sent it back to hell. In the way there, the Donkey bartered with Death herself to get a magic chain that could lock/trap anything, at a cost. The Donkey gave up his soul to close the gates to hell, but his body remained behind, together with the chains. Next campaign, a temple was built around him, and one of the players even venerated him, pushing the mythos forward, saying the Donkey protected them from the darkness. In the third campaign we got to find out the Donkey backstory wherein he had his soul swapped with a druid, and one of the characters was the original Donkey's soul in the druid body. Next campaign, and keep in mind at that point that is hundreds if not thousands of years later, the players are sent on a quest to forge a scissor-sword, because they found out that the Donkey and the chains were creating issues with the cycle of death and rebirth of the world. At that point there were Donkey religious followers even across the sea. The last campaign was played much much in the future, because in real life we stopped playing, and the scissor-swords were never delivered, and the world had been shrouded into a chilling ice and flood[hell, the chains and sealing magic had been associated with cold]. They found the sword, but never got around to releasing the Donkey, so the world just ended in a great ice age. Now let me tell you, the second most important character was an avian wizard 100% inspired by Daffy Duck the Wizard. People also threated him with full seriousness.
So... You pinned your tales to the donkey?
@@FlatlandsSurvivor 😐
The fact the subtitles actually understood it was "fart gotten" rather than "forgotten" is actually impressive.
The 4 of you acted this out so well
As someone who has played a bard for years, hearing anyone else in any context cast shatter makes me feel like a parent watching my kid in a talent show
One of my favorites. First one shot I played I didn’t get to do much and one of our friends was being a dick. So we get to the end and he rushes in and there are two end monsters that jump out and grab him. I cast shatter killing both of the bosses and reducing him to 1 hit point. lmao
I was a milkman bard/cleric, their name was Milk Carlton, and my character always had the catchphase "He needs some milk.". A milk carton with human arms and legs, with healing milk. I had the uncanny ability to make infinite milk, until the carton was full. We would get info by putting prisoners in a tank while I filled it with healing milk, where they would drown but never die, because of the healing properties. That was a wierd campaign
Started of so innocent and went steep downhill afterwards 😂 love it
HAHAHAHHAHAHA
Dani?
@@bloodink7230 Heh
@@lightblood4346 Hah.
*Rules lawyer running into court*
"Your honor, the zombie part of the finger of death spell only works with humanoids!"
*Angry mobs storms in and carries him out*
I was thinking the same thing
@@coranbaker6401 nah it clearly counts because the priest was humanoid before dragon
Overruled! 🔨
Well, dragons have limbs and a head don't they? Close enough in my book.
Me as DM, considering the cost of a retcon: "dragons have thumbs"
This hits way too close to home. My party consists of a teafling bard, who is the hero of his town and needs to live up to his expectations, a Lizardfolk Fighter who wants to be a regular person and live in society, and a ranger named Craven Balls. He started the character as a joke but eventually made a very serious personality and backstory, they still giggle every time the BBEG says his name
I ran a campaign about trying to stop the god of entropy from unmaking the universe and my players decided half way through that they were going to call themselves the Luminous Tatas based off of some one in party responding to a text with the words “litty titty”
I just had to learn to be okay with that.
I remember once creating a character for a test one shot - a warlock serving a mushroom ancient god. It was a tiefling and had an addiction to "forbidden alchemy" potions. His service to the patron was that he needed to puke anywhere in order to plant myceliums, which were portals, so that the great fungus could get into the world from his mushroom kingdom. At first it was really just fun, but then this character opened up with new cool opportunities for roleplaying. One of the craziest and most interesting characters I've ever created.
Did you multiclass in Spore Druid?
@@Sir-Pleiades , no. It was 3rd level one shot. And I did think about spore druid option actually, but I was bad at this “multiclass thing”))
@@NicholasClane
Wait does your warlock's fungus god provide you hallucinogenic mushrooms?
@@Dualbladedscorpion7737 well, it happened, yes. in hard times of despair, I called out to my patron for a portion of some cheerful mushrooms)))
It was some kind of ritual. I must say that we played in a rather religious setting, and I had to do all this very secretly. I basically pretended to be a druid for a long time.
I wish you could just "plant" mylecium and expect it to fruit bodies 😂 would make my life easier
But that's why we play DND
So we don't have to worry about the nitty gritty difficulties of real life
Had a player who named his cleric, Youneedme Imahealer. I was never more disappointed and proud.
LMAO
Got to elf it up a bit and that's perfect name
@@Alyssaromantic It was a while ago but I remember it somehow, by accident, got reversed on him with the name. The entire table erupted laughing. I wish I could remember the circumstance, and dialogue cause it was great.
@@kidflash2fan that's amazin!
im playing a bard named jasmine viridis, but of course she goes by jazz 😎
My favorite character was a half orc named Greg, he was mostly serious I just really always found the idea of half orc with a really normal human name because well he was raised by and around humans
named my half-orc Jace for the same reason!
"I'll counterspell."
"Okay. What level?"
"Nine."
In my previous campaign, we had:
A drow rogue who escaped the Underdark and a particularly religious sect of Lolth worshippers, now trying to find his sister who was turned into a Drider
A tiefling druid who had to hide his powers from an anti-magic society now searching for his mother and the mysterious god who gave him his abilities
and then we had a half-elf Paladin who liked using the phrase "poggers" and a feral gnome barbarian named FooFoo who bit people.
Funni
Poggers xD
bad foofoo, bad. *sprays foofoo with water bottle*
This reminds me of the podcast Just Roll With It, where there's:
A character named Chip, who, while a comedian who loves pranks and child-like humor, was an orphan who was picked up by a legendary pirate crew and, after that crew was literally sucked into the sea, leaving him as a lone child, then lead to some abandonment issues, and he turned out to be a rogue
A Triton paladin named Gillion who was banished from the Undersea because they screwed things up with land-dwellers, specifically the Navy, from what I've gathered, who thinks of the world as black and white, and on a normal day, constantly comes up with heroic titles after titles, in order to compensate for their doubt and general looming negative thoughts.
And then just a regular human person named Jay who abandoned their father and, irl and in character, cried actual tears because of revealing that they were a double agent and trying to get as close to whoever was responsible for their sister's death.
Now, this all sounds depressing and meaningful, but they do the dumbest shit at all times. I mean, Gillion is literally referred to as "eater of grass, beater of ass" and "moisture master," Chip refers to his ship (it's a pirate campaign, so obviously they have a ship) as the Millennium Chipper, after the Millennium Falcon. Then the other one just vibes a lot of the time, trying to keep this group of no doubt chaotic-aligned people from literally burning down their own ship, which nearly happened multiple times, and not getting killed while alone in places very obviously designed for the whole party, or running off to do that in the first place.
I mean, the shit they get up to on a day-to-day basis is truly hilarious. Literally at the start of the campaign, Chip had Gillion sniff the ground on all fours looking for bugs, so as to kill them, and they blew up their tiny ship with gunpowder after the DM decided that certain sea life, which they naturally tried to feed gunpowder to, could shoot flames out of their mouths as a defense mechanism. Oh, and they also tried to feed gunpowder to the bird they're carrying around, and by the way, they stole said ignitable powder from a small village that they "liberated" the citizens of, gaining an npc known only as marshall John, who was a member of the Navy, which is basically the World Government btw, and this caused a ripple effect where the Navy retaliated by declaring war on neutral zones between the pirates and them, and literally the first like two sessions completely changed and dictated where the campaign went because it's so off the walls insane that the DM doesn't know what to do. A heist session could turn into "who can steal the most gold and boop the snoot of that one massive like 8 foot tall tabaxi Navy dude well equipped and trained enough to kill all of us very easily," and "who can have the most traumatizing nightmares this session," and "ah, it seems as if a ghost is trying to possess me at this moment, and has latched itself onto my internal organs, sucking the life-force from them. Would you mind shooting me in the midsection with bullets that do radiant damage to get it out?"
Watching that show is like having a fever dream be documented and then watched. It's completely insane, but I've nearly passed out and pissed myself from laughing multiple times. Highly recommend watching all like 60 episodes, it's a fucking trip to say the least.
In different campaigns we had a dwarf barb named Buckfitches, a gnome named Fizzypop Larryhegs, a tabaxi sailor called Dry Plank, and a feminine male half orc monk named Britno Spears.
In our group there’s no way the joke character would ever be able to transition to taking the narrative seriously. It would just devolve farther and farther into ridiculous bullshit
I do it all the time. Run the character that's obviously a joke, then put in so much drama and gravitas the players don't understand when they stopped laughing and when they started crying.
Meh, it's up to you how you react. I hate 'you're breaking my immersion' types. Worry about your own character, I'll worry about mine.
@@fearsomestm00c0w Ok, but if you're ruining a group's experience then it's probably time to either move on or take things a bit more seriously.
@@fearsomestm00c0w It's much harder to worry about your own character and ignore others when D&D is a group game that relies on constantly interacting with the other players in some way.
@@ferrin6326 it's much easier to let someone play what they want to play than to nitpick at their design.
As a moon elf named Del Tako that uses Del Tako's bell to Toll the Dead, this is too close to home.
I even tried to sacrifice myself to a hag in the woods. 😂
What's wrong with us?!
I think it's physically impossible for me to make a joke character cuz I made a wolf born paladin who just wanted to be the goodest boi and now he's the spark of the final act of my first campaign idea
Wait, you made a character in your campaign?
How?
I love when joke characters become a vital part of the party by living far longer than anyone expected
For my last campaign it was Lard the 6'7 human barbarian woman, made for the sole purpose of walking through walls like the Kool aid man.
My first D&D campaign I played as a Tabaxi Wild Magic Sorcerer, because cats are chaotic, right?
I've been equally the most DMG giver as the DMG taker, if he doesn't die each session, something's wrong.
It was fun having the tree fireballs being cast on a magic surge, at level 3 with 11 hp, which would have dealt 36 damage, thank the paladin's god and his abusive crit religion roll
@@satoruriolu6132 yo I'm running a Tabaxi Wild Magic Sorcerer for my groups current Icewind Dale campaign. he is just some old dude on the brink of death trying to do some good before he passes and so far he has helped one group of people and gotten another brutally murdered because he isn't good at reading between the lines when people talk to him. I haven't gotten to use my wild magic yet but I'm really hoping it makes for some good moments later down the line.
joke characters become the best they can be when they become serious in spite of the joke. having to take a joke character seriously is part of what makes them so freaking funny.
That's actually kind of what happened to Jesse Pinkman in Breaking Bad.
Just gotta play John Smith the human fighter, he will ironically stand out the most by being the most basic character cause all the other party members are very exotic races with deep dark backstories.
Everyone eventually meets both your parents who are alive and well. You earned your place in a low house of nobility. The additional revenue eventually securing a farm for your parents to retire on.
Honestly just not killing your parents is BETTER. They can be villains, but your flaw is that you will still follow them despite their flaws.. or simply just getting to dance with your mom/sister at the festival of lights is a memorable experience.
John Smith, Jack Brown, Bob Taylor and Susan Jones. Oh, and almost forgot George Wilson.
You joined the local militia when you was of age, this is where you learned to wield sword, shield and spear.
But you now wish to see the world, make friends and return to share your stories with your loved ones.
I have too thought on this character idea, going so plain and vanilla that it is unique in its own way.
Everyone always goes "oh wow a human fighter how basic" and then the whole party rolls up exclusively as weirdly horny orphan tieflings with dark backstories. 75% of the time rouges or sorcerers.
This is completely irrelevant to the current conversation, but you have excellent taste in anime
I had a human monk who was cursed and who's body could be destroyed but he couldn't be killed (didn't affect gameplay, was just an excuse for what comes next). At the start of the campaign he was just a pair of legs who used kicks, couldn't talk and had a member of the party who was the only one who somehow translated what he said, often poorly.
my dad had a character named "What" so when people asked his name he said "What" LMAO. apparently it was a fun filled campaign and one of his most memorable characters
Squirrel Rogue: *_" You might have stopped me from stealing these gemstones. But you couldn't stop me from stealing DEEZ NUTS!! "_*
And then the dragon dies.
@@theuncalledfor The Squirrel now has 15 levels in the Bard class.
Ha! Got eeeem!
I can't help but laugh every time I watch this video, such incredible music, and incredible storytelling, so captivating!!!!! and the joke character whose name I dare not say xDDD beautiful, man!! keep it up :D
That was a really good watch unironically. I want to see more dramatic tales.
I'm playing a 6'8" overweight Ranger that talks to squirrels and sounds like Kronk from Emperor's New Groove (I can do a good Kronk voice if I do say so myself)
Well just so happens I am going to play a Tiefling Warlock who is Twin brothers with an Aasimar Paladin, they both sound like Kronk too and were cursed by a permanent reduce person spell, they are very opinionated about what path your character should take in life.
Oh yeah. It's all coming together
bro is minsc
Ah yes Squeak Squeakety Squeaken
All of my players run joke characters. I love it. We got;
a Succubus Chest-Mimic,
a Shifter scaredy-cat Detective,
a Wizard with alzeheimers,
Warrior Britney Spears but her accent changes every 5 minutes,
A Changling who sold their sanity to a chaos-god and rolls the dice every half an hour to determine their personality and form,
a Goblin Pimp who is actually a really good Peace-keeper and Counsellor to the group.
That sounds awful to me but as long as everybody is having fun, go wild
Holy shit I love the idea of a succubus chest-mimic
What is a Succubus chest mimic
I was reading this thinking “this sounds really familiar” then realised I’m in your party.
I’m Britney Lances
@@georgeashley6643 LOL. Awesome pun name, dude.
the saying "name doesn't make the man worse, if the man doesn't make the name worse" fits this perfectly i think
I love giving my characters pun/joke names.
Ive had a dragonborn barbarian named Vatra Babick, its 2 european languages and translates to Dragon Dragon.
Barry Lyons, a human paladin, he got amnesia and the first thing he saw was 2 brands of tea called Barry's and Lyon's(they exist irl).
A Centaur rogue named Elogo Qwine, elogo comes from Alogo which means horse and his name is E.Qwine as in Equine meaning horse stuff
I was really concerned when one of the players in my Witcher campaign presented his character, Skwatislav Treksutsky. I let him convince me that the character will be more than a joke and even today, years after the campaign ended, I still don't regret my decision to allow it. He ended up as an integral part of the team, with a complete personality and character arc.
Took me a bit, but thats a damn good joke
Haha, that's a really clever name. May he honor the Treksutsky's deity Adedas.
The moment the Artificer came out I asked my DM if I could use the old Orc race. 3 Int and a Steel Defender that's holding together only because he thinks that it works. Anyway, that's how we end up playing in Warhammer 40k for a few sessions.
gud ztori
Needz mor DakkaDakkaDakka
DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA
OI, WHY YA WHISPERIN' YA GIT?
Aw yeah, make sure to take healing word to actively damage your teammates with a negative spellcasting modifier.
Nuffin' loik good ol' Big Mek kuality assurance.
My friend is hosting a campaign where all of us play characters based off fairy tale villians and also takes place in a high school. One of the character is Jack Johnson, cleric of the Holy Cow and he’s been trying to perform a ritual according to the “hey diddle diddle” nursery rhyme, another one is Piper, a fairy bard who rides a rat and carries a kazoo like a guitar. I can’t wait to see how things go down
As someone whose most serious and dramatic character ended up being a wizard that could not cast spells sober, I can appreciate this.
This, while hilarious, is also a beautiful example of the emotional weight and expression that D&D can provide. Bravo.
You really caught me off guard. I expected a compilation of the joke character disrupting serious moments constantly and the party not being able to take anything serious when his name is mentiond. But nope, complete curveball.
As someone who DMs two players called "Kratos Barguingo" and "Garingo Oliveira" this is way too accurate
Great channel. I literally came across it by chance. Such great writing and acting.
I once played a sentient watch in an rpg. I had no capacity for movement or ability to affect anything and basicly just critiqued the other characters choices... And told them the time. Sooo fun.
I....I kinda want to read this story....
Definitely want to read this story.
Imagine, at the start of the campaign you’re a small sentient magic item, or even a subconscious parasite, only able to critique the choices and speak to your host. You get more powerful as you gain more control and bodies. So basically Pickle Rick as a concept plus body snatching.
We had a wizard in a campaign who was a true polymorphed broom... he died when our cleric cast anti magic field to close to him.
@@inkfae9916 Ha! Now I want to play your campaign!
At the time I had some heavy life shit happening and playing a character that had no effect or responsibility for my parties outcome was my way of being part of my friends lives without to deal with any of their issues, because my character was physically incapable of helping. RPGs are great for keeping you sane🙂
My favorite part of this video is that you can tell they only did as many takes as they needed to not laugh. Every clip, you can tell they're on the knife's edge of absolutely losing it, and I'm here for it.
Still, compared to the time Jacob got gamer fuel powder in his eyes and nearly died is a very high bar
I need to find a group to play with. I don't know anyone who plays d&d but you guys honestly make it look so much fun 😂. I need this energy lmfao.
Once had a player who made a wolfman who's name was undetermined. He liked to take walks, so the party named him Steppin
Bruh respect Grumpy, my dwarf with a tragic backstory, after taking care of snow white for so long together with his brothers she ditched them for a random douchebag, I mean, prince. After that the brothers disbanded, I became a cleric and haven't heard from them since. Well, actually I just found out Doc and his party accepted the same mission as our party, to end a curse in an island that's preventing people from resurrecting in the world. I don't know much about the others, but happy is dead and sleepy is in coma
Oh man! I love this idea! Hope your campaign goes well :D
Now that is dark but stupid....stupidily dark
Bashful is probably running a brothel somewhere
I will always remember my bard who started adventuring to pay for his child support so his halfling child can have a better life then he had and ended up dieing in his hometown to save the party from an assassin
Honestly, this went into a whole different (and better) direction than I expected.
I've had a couple joke characters for campaigns but one of my favorites was a doppelganger that looted a YA novel off an adventurer he killed and got so engrossed in the story he believed he was the main character and ended up going on adventures. In the end the book became a biography.
I played a Wild Magic Sorcerer in a recent campaign, and it was practically impossible to take anything seriously. At one point, while some assassins were being interrogated, I was just spewing out wild magic, and we just couldn't take it as seriously.
One of my players in a serious game of faction intrigue is a wild magic sorcerer and highlights include: turning into a sheep during an important fight, speaking pink bubbles during a noble's party, and doing insane damage out of nowhere to a deadly monster, making it trivial. I love it.
@@knavesquill9198 wild magic sorcerers are always a treat in serious games
Man you must have been really unlucky with those 1s
One of my favorite characters to this day is Ziggy 'Stardust' Celenstine. He's a Half-Orc 'bard', who dances on his immovable rod stripper pole to use magic.
He ended up surviving until the end of the campaign and turned out to be an amazing diplomat, spy, and blackmailer. He almost singlehandedly toppled a corrupt noble family.
No one suspects the thicc half-orc.
EDIT: holy shit how did I not get notifications for this? Yes you may all steal this idea, the spirit of Ziggy Stardust must be shared.
I would have liked this even if I was not the 69th person to do so.
This is too creative, I’m stealing this for a character
If I get permission ofc lol
How was he a spy tho? Didn't his dummy thicc glutes give him a disadvantage on stealth checks?
@@Grzesuav94
Real spies befriend the enemy into spilling their secrets.
The story of Krog, our gungan monk barbarian multiclass, and his rivalry and ongoing series of cage matches with returning unbelievably buff ex-imperial officer Dorian Lastname became the heart and soul of our saga edition campaign.
Hesa pretty bombad. Deysa in big doodoo dis time.
Made a joke character once, overly evil wizard guy, for a one shot. He’s one of the BBEG’s now and he’s given me real life nightmares. Biggest mistake of my life I’d absolutely do it again👍
I played a character in a GURPS campaign that had "meta-knowledge" So he knew he was just a piece of paper with numbers on it. No one would take his opinion seriously after he tried to tell them they were mere pieces of paper. He was batshit crazy and would charge at the enemy with a spear and no regard for his life. He could run at supernatural speeds through a combination of weird features and would impale enemies in a single blow. Unfortunately, he died horribly after charging alone at a boss and attempting to fight him solo. RIP forever in our hearts.
That sounds like the worst character... just ever. please don't subject other players too that.
@@curtisgoldthorpe6656 nah, the group rolled with it and we had fun. The character after that was rather normal.
so deadpool, but without the regeneration?
@@ghost_craftinganimates813 well, he couldn't read other people's thought bubbles or anything like that. He had incredible luck and was able to make small useful gadgets or items appear out of nowhere in apparently impossible situations (a box of dry matches right after swimming through a river, for example) thanks to Gizmo and Serendipity (character traits in GURPS). So, he could kind of break the logic of the game just like Deadpool.
It's also useful because in case the DM has to remind something to the group he could simply make my character hear a voice from his "god" (the DM) and he would remind the other characters in-game.
To be honest, I feel this completely. I’ve had joke characters go on to be the most beloved and touching characters of the whole group. Something about taking a gimmick and slowly humanizing them can bring a lot of life to both the party and the character themselves
Now that I think about it. Same, I think I just like making goofy characters and the way I play turns them into serious party members.
God this gave me actual chills and tears somehow
Why was this the most epic video Ive ever seen lmao. I didnt expect this at all
Man this is gonna hit too hard… as someone who’s seen too many people play some stupid characters at the table… including but not limited to a cat girl necromancer called Nekomancer and had a friend play Rango
I made an arcanist girl in Pathfinder and originally she was supposed to be a goof...she ended up being the heart of the party, helped redeemed the parties bloodrager and also ended up marrying him
I have a drow monk who's sensei was Master Oogway
Rango ftw!
Okay but you said..
"stupid character's" and then "Rango"
...you lost me.
@@Dingy-doodles I played Master Oogway. The DM getting genuinely mad because this stupid fucking ancient turtle just kept quoting Chinese proverbs and random inspirational quotes I was looking up on the fly while casually Matrix-dodging bandits with a 22 AC was absolute gold
I spent a week to create a meaningful character name for my first pathfinder campaign only to be in a group with Willy B. Hardington, Mike Oxlong, and Takit Bahlzdeep 😭
This is honestly so beautiful I love it
I love how this funny video is also entertaining and intriguing.
This just fucken happened, I wanted to make a stoic cleric and my friend made this chill ass super dude and I immediately forgot all the stoicism and immediately went into comparing muscles and had a flex off that eneded in a manly handshake
We pretty much both knew were the full metal alchemist reference was going
YOUR FACE A SPOLDE