Dungeons and Dragons Story: Too many pets!
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- čas přidán 25. 12. 2018
- This Dungeons and Dragons story come from when I ran a Waterdeep Campaign where the players basically became Pokemon masters, trying to add to the group any of the monsters that they encountered. Hope you guys enjoy!
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A player, breaking into a lion's pen to try and tame it: "So, do I roll nature?"
The DM, getting dice ready: "No, that's a hungry lion, you roll initiative."
Wouldn't it be Animal Handling?
Bon TheBunnycat correct but it takes a minute to do it so initiative is correct
@@feritperliare2890 that is not the point the op is making i believe: a player cannot just try to get out of a situation by demanding a certain skill check. Somethings are just impossoble. There is not such a thing as a critical succes. Sure, after the initiative roll, you can use your action to try to animal handle, but the lion will just keep eating you.
Depending on the system, it would be either animal handling or survival
@@mrluchtverfrisser But that is what makes it fun. Accomplishing the impossible can be hilarious at times. I once robbed a ship in broad daylight and used a crane without any of the crew noticing to lift a shipping crate filled with loot onto my ship. I rolled two nat 20's on that one. One to turn on the crane and the other to use it without anyone noticing. My friend convinced the crew to head below deck.
Shadow Beast: "Oh yes, I am a Dark Shadow Beast and I am evil"
Player: "WE ARE STILL KEEPING HIM"
lol
Puffin: Here's a bunch of ridiculous pets!
Also Puffin: I'm gonna skip the most interesting ones.
We need a part 2 lol
The big blue thing is in "D&D Story: Terror Of The Deep! (module SPOILERS!)"
They’re all very spoiler heavy for Dragon Heist, so I’m assuming that’s why he left them out
Knowing how gold dragons typically roll, it's far more likely the players are ITS pets.
How could you not explain the dragon that does taxes... you monster. I don’t care if it was a joke it’s real in my heart.
Dragons like to hoard treasure therefore naturally they are great at allocating funds and reporting to pay taxes.
Max Heim-Salgado this is Waterdeep Dragon Heist and thats ironically the final boss. THE FINAL BOSS IS THEIR PET!
Max Heim-Salgado Aurinax is a Polymorph dwarf but is also an adult gold dragon.
*Cue Epic 80s rock guitar riff* TAX DRAGON!!!
@Kristina Payne ...and I can likely assume it helps to have a dragon about when collecting aforesaid funds.
First time I DM'd, I made the mistake of allowing my players to each have a free wish.
One player asked for the ability to tame anything with an intelligence of 3 or less. She tamed a Tarrasque.
That must've been interesting.
Ummmmmmm have fun with that?
😂😂😂😂 That is amazing
We ended the campaign after that, there was literally nothing that could be done to threaten the characters at that point - they were in control of the apocalypse, and the wish used by another player, basically allowed him to control the worlds economy.
Looks like at that point you would have to try and stop your pet from destroying things from just doing anything, being responsible for it. And every villain who has the ability to charm and mind control.
“ I said it was impossible, but... *crit success.* ” Big DM mood right there.
Yes, it's one of those things that I disagree with on these videos (though I love them so). It seems that there's always a 5% of the party getting its way no matter how absurd. The shadow mastiff should have, at best, not torn that character's throat out for one round, not joined the Scooby Gang for rousing adventures.
No, thats no fun, you let them keep it but everywhere they go children start go missing at night.
Every time another party member argues or annoys the owner a random item gets chewed up or food gets despoiled by urine.
Every night until they apologise.
@@danielgehring7437 But the point is to have fun. That's the be all and end all. The written rules and common sense alike serve only to give enough structure to allow the fun to grow, like a vine given wooden scaffolding to latch onto. The absurdity is not a bug, it's a feature (though there's also a place for much more grounded experiences in the medium to be sure).
@@blarg2429
Absurdity certainly has its place, but what happened wasn't absurd, it was one lucky roll. If that druid wanted to make it a central point of her character to own a shadow mastiff, or even that shadow mastiff, then by all means allow her to come with a plan to do so; simply allowing her to do it because of a 5% chance took the fun of coming up with that plan from her. We find games fun because of the challenge of overcoming obstacles, there was no obstacle here.
fanlore.org/wiki/Mary_Sue
Edit- I apologize, that link is awful. Hopefully you still get the point.
And that's why the rulebooks have this little tidbit that says: "When the outcome of an action is *uncertain* , roll a die."
I once posted a meme in my D&D group's groupchat that showed a picture of a terrifying creature saying it lived under your bed. The caption below that said "There are two types of D&D Players. The first will be creeped out by this. The second will want it as a pet."
Everyone in the group agreed with that caption.
Wouldn't it be more like: The first will want to fight it. The second will want it as a pet.
I played a lot of Metal Gear Solid 3... I want to eat it.
And then there are the ones who will want to fuck it.
Yup everyone wants to fuck a dragon or anything vaguely having a hole
@@Warpwaffel I wonder what oral from a Mindflayer would feel like. -_-
My players are always like: "If it breathes, we can tame it!"
Just use monsters that don't need to breathe. Behold, a loophole!
That would basically be me with a Beast-taming Ranger that would rather make allies than dead enemies.
Beast or similar creature? Animal handling
Other creature/humanoid? *uses the Command Spell*
@@Heavenlyhounds96 what command would you give?
“If it breathes we can ally with it. If it’s a humanoid or human-like, we can seduce it. If it’s a beast or beast-like, we can tame it.” -my first players 2019
“If it’s a dog or wolf I’ll take it and give it a sword!” -my second players 2019
@@jaspervandersluis9968 Surrender, obey, kneel, leave,
etc.
"I said it was impossible but... crit success."
Ah, the DM's dilemma.
Is it? I never have this problem. I'd have thought the situation was pretty straightforward. "The shadow mastiff is receptive but it's dual nature wars within its head. You get the sense that with time, care, and about a hundred gold pieces worth of treats a day, you can accomplish your goal."
bad dm's dilemma, as others have stated nat 20's dont mean automatic success on skill checks that only applies to hits and saving throws.
@@fallendeus5641 TIL extremely common house rules = bad DMing
It does actually. Your sarcasm is misplaced.
CrashSable
House rules = bad DMing? Damn.
"The task was impossible, so I gave it a 1 in 20 chance of success."
After all why roll at all if it's impossible
I totally agree with your players about the killers journal. If somebody made it THAT obvious they were the killer, I would suspect they were framed, or coerced somehow.
Had a party of mine get into combat with a hydra, knock it out with spells, and try to use the awaken spell to give it intelligence. I didn't think it would matter too much so I let it fly, figuring its a magical beast anyway, it's an animal at its core, and it might be neat to talk to it. Some good rolls, it winds up being actually fairly smart and a rather social creature. I describe it as its waking up and wondering where it is. The group starts shoving food and money at it and offering it to stay in their base of operations, telling it that everything is alright. It remembered the fight and things got hot, but the group's face managed to convince it to end the fight. They wound up naming each of the heads and giving them stuff to wear to tell them apart. The two girls at the table made it a point to try to acquire ornate jewelry and earrings for it and blew a ton of gold giving this hydra a makeover.
Then the paladin asks me later on, "Can I buy it a saddle?"
Thus began the most awkward conversation of this paladin trying to convince the five heads to let him ride it, filled with double-entendre and innuendo jokes, and ending with a solid "Maybe" if he can get his handle animal skills up, jokingly offering to buy a diamond ring if it would help with "all these animal husbandry checks."
absolute insanity, set a horrible precedent, but it sounds like rp gold.
Love it
reminds me of a story where a player got hold of a magical hat that would boost intelligence, and said the if he ever met a Tarrasque, he would put the hat on IT, then try to reason with it.
certainly an interesting idea.
@@ericb3157 In the Dominions series of strategy games you can literally cast Awaken on that series equivalent of a Tarrasque, and then have it be the general for your army.
But the accountant dragon was the one I wanted to know the most
I was thinking a dragon would make a half decent Treasurer for some kingdom, guarding a mound of gold, and only the current Head of State can take from it.
She is the only character in the kingdom who's had their position since the Founding.
There's no way you're gonna persuade the gold dragon to be your pet
*rolls 20
Can we make the gold dragon our accountant?
Well I mean you can roll for it but there's no way that's gonna happen...
@@EddyhartzWe need to check those dice...
Christopher Hosea It makes more sense if you’ve read waterdeep dragon heist
I mean, an Abboleth though?
"Skip those ones"? That's a weird way to say that you'll make a follow up video...
I know, right
Yes there should be a part two and maybe three.
Whimsy! No!!!
Well to be frank, which is kinda needed, most of those one's he skipped are game important NPCs that sorta ruin the story if you find out the truth about them, or just who they are in general.
Yeah, no kidding, because I want to know EXACTLY how he managed to get talked into letting an ancient mind-inheriting and ultimate tyrant ABOLETH become a pet to 'lesser beings'. That's gotta be a story.
*Gold Dragon doing taxes and accounting confuses you?*
They are *Lawful Good, of course* they appreciate *the importance* of taxes and accounting.
What exactly confuses you? They might be dragons but they are Lawful, they aren't above accountancy.
He might be a gold dragon but even he is too afraid to mess with the Internal Revenue Service
@@votecthulhu9378 I am quoting the Joker here
I am crazy enought to take on Batman but the IRS? NOnononono
Smough?
@@votecthulhu9378 al-fucking-capone got caught by the IRS. Do not mess with them
I mean, they DO notice if even ONE coin is missing from their lair, so in actuality, dragons would make great accountants.
“You’ve dome a lot of voices for us but this is a new low” abserd “saying that could bring GREAT daaaaangeer behind you”
If the Gold Dragon is your bookkeeper, does that make it a:
*Book Wyrm?*
eyyyyyy
you kinda WINGED it on that pun
I love it!
puns bout dragons are pretty GOLDEN
Actually, a wyrm is *not* a dragon, as its wings are in the place of the forelimbs, thus a different species.
Growls barkley would make a great name for a band.
Ever heard of Gnarls Barkley?...
that would be Crazy
@@munitiondragon69 best song ever
T0NGPU whoosh
Eternall Newbie Almost didn’t see that you were here, on account of your channel not having that verified thing that other major channels have
Wait.... Volo... THE guide to monsters man... tried to pull a ghosts aren’t real?
You've never had a realtor try to convince you that black mold isn't real so they can lose a sale?
Ben's version of Volo is apparently based on Rarity from My Little Pony.
Rarity could talk a Beholder into believing Beholders are not real, which would probably made it disappear.
This literally happened to me when I bought my first house in Oblivion.
Then I woke up to see 3 aggressive ghosts in my bedroom.
He was REALLY trying to get rid of that house
@@schwarzerritter5724 I really don't think there is any pony stuff on these vids. Seriously, it's a show for very young girls. Why are you watching it, unless you are an 8 year old girl?
D&D story related to this video:
When I was running my first game, the players had to clear out a goblin camp, and they technically did, and by that i mean they convinced each and every goblin to join them. So now each player has their own personal goblin.
Honestly, I think I would reward that long term if I were DM’ing that. Like, once the armies of Mordor show up, well, now the party has an army of their own. Okay, a single goblin camp might not be an army, but a party that befriended that camp is definitely a party that’ll pick up new friends along the way.
i know the feeling....one party member once tamed a mimic.......it was a DM´s nightmare!
I ditto that
I ditto that
I did that xD
Its a hook and an inside npc in one tasty package, gets mind taken over or runs off chasing stuff at any moment. Its a pet, not a helpful npc, you have to do a couple of false starts before it tells them Timmy is down the well though.
Did the player name it "Boxxy T. Morningwood"?
My current part has a default door mimic named plank. Our barbarian periodically uses it like a javelin.
i once had a player that kept his goldfish in his warhammer.
the tank was what he hit people with
epic
Pimpin' ain't easy (but its necessary). :D
czcams.com/video/OQKKgNC5EpM/video.html
That sounds... oddly cool.
But how did he keep the fish from dying whenever he swung it?
@@bionicdragon5 the tank was reinforced and the fish had plenty of room to move around
@@josephcrowley5752 Ah, ok. That makes sense.
My PCs are currently on a side-quest to figure out how to breed a critically endangered species of pseudodragon.
Sounds about as hard as breeding pandas
That sounds like a really good idea for a quest, that could easily result in an animal companion- Rio style. But some groups might not enjoy the discussion of reproductive needs of pseudodragons. However a cool twist might be that pseudo dragons transform into sprites or something the way dragon sometime turn into humanoids.
From the disclaimer in Volo's Guide to Monsters: "If Volo appears in your campaign, your DM is undoubtedly trying to kill your character in a manner that can be blamed on your own actions. The DM is probably trying to do that anyway, but with Volo's appearance, you know for sure."
Also, Volo tried the "ghosts arent real" thing. Really? I mean... *really?*
That's funny since he's the one who starts players off on their quest in Waterdeep Dragon Heist.
Which is exactly what this module is.😅
Currently one of my characters has a baby Beholder that has imprinted itself upon my character. It is protective of it's "mother" and currently resides inside a specially crafted shield with a notch in the middle. It displays it's protective nature by moving it's body weight to shift the shield to block incoming attacks. It's only been realized as giving the shield a +1 modifier, but I see quite a lot of potential possibilities for this little guy when he grows up.
If I remember correctly, at least one other party member received something similar at the end of the Beholder boss fight. The DM gave the reward in the form of an eye stalk that had been chopped off of the Beholder, and he told us that they had attached themselves to the equipment (in the other member's case, it became attached to a dagger with a similar effect - the eye moving the dagger to be more precise when used). Iirc, the justification here was that because they're the eye stalks instead of simply smaller main eyes, they didn't possess thought of their own. Rather, the magic that is keeping them alive is also perceptible to the thoughts of the wielder, and influences the eye.
I don't like anything much about it myself, but it's cool as fuck so it flies
Don't Beholder's normally reproduce by thought?
@@werecoth The mommy adventurer thought sexy thoughts
Kokonut Binks a damn beholder
What's a beholder again?
ASquared Reality warping creature that’s basically a giant floating eye with many eye stalks that each shoot out random spells in the form of lasers.
PSA: Pokemon Master Syndrome is a serious condition effecting roughly one in every 20 party members. If you or someone you know is suffering from an addiction to collect as many companions as they can, consult your local CR 20 monster as soon as possible.
And nine in ten druids
I Can quit anytime I want!
As a gm nothing is more annoying than a player with this disease.
I assume we’re talking about the difference between forming a solid powerbase with many companions to do multiple things to support your endeavours? Because I honestly have no clue why you wouldn’t, at a certain level, attempt to actively recruit compainions to help you back at your stronghold, security/ guards, logistics system, ect. Or are you refering to having someone have a whole encampment follow someone around permanently? Because I could see that getting to be bullshitty.
tried
CR 20 monster was tamed
Puffin: it's an impossible mystery
Players: *solves the riddle instantly*
Puffin: it's a really easy mystery
Players: toooooooooo easy
I'm in a pet-campaign right now. We all have some sort of pet as of now, or in my case, "pet..." Mine is a ghoul which is convinced it is a ferret and acts as such.
I'm a cleric.
This is going to turn out wonderfully.
I wan't updates on this....
updates
lol that sounds amazing.
We need updates this sounds amazing
Really? 2 years without an update? This is an outrage
one of your NPC's should have an old timey 1920's gangster voice..."for no apparent reason seeeee?"
It looks like you were roleplaying as the SCP foundation.
how are you here already?
DAMNIT JUSTIN
Thank you
I think he needs an infinite ikea in one of his campaigns XD
682 fight to tpk
Natural 20 does not mean they get the result they want. It means they get the best result possible.
Sometimes that means the dragon delays eating them while it finds the ketchup.
"We would like to tame this dragon"
"Sure roll"
>20
"The dragon cannot find its lamb sauce and decides to folloe you until you get some"
Its gold.... they tend not to eat people since its Good Aligned
great example..lol
F Huber I like to make it a success if it was a reasonable attempt. Otherwise, a good result but not an unreasonable one works. :)
Unless your rolling saving throws
I’m DMing Dragon Heist. So I Know How They Got The Gold Dragon, Confused How They Got The Aboleth But Have A Vague Idea, And Flabbergasted As To How They Got The Bird Butler
It could have been one of the kenku from the tutorial adventure
There is no such thing as too many pets. One time my friend calculated how many cats it would take to kill a tarrasque. It was a lot and required like 1000 bags of holding but we still dream of doing this.
Edit: No I dont the number of cats and no I don't know the specifics of how it would work.
HOW MANY. I NEEED TO KNOW THIS KNOWLEDGE
Can cats survive in the bag of holding? Isn't it a void without air?
@@Talserah didnt say the cats were alive...
@@Xumal I've got no clue this was forever ago
@@austinroush717 Were they Demon Ghost Cats?!? :D
*sees the abolith* HEWWO GOIS
The aboleth is proberly whimsey tbh.
I was lowkey hoping he was going to say it was whimsey.
@@NDOhioan It is probably whimsy
Maybe the Aboleth became aware of its other personality and so banished it into the orb.
Heh.
Schwarzer Ritter it works with the other Waterdeep video, I could say
“Half goat, half lion, half red dragon chimera”
That’s One and a Half out of One
It's a big animal.
They're pretty much half to 2/3 of four animals.
MAGIC!
Yeah, they are 150% animal
GMing has driven me crazy
So this one time, I tried to make my players fight a young white dragon. One of my players rolled to tame it.
He got a 20
"Roll again" I foolishly remarked
HE GOT ANOTHER DUCKING 20
You let a character attempt a taming roll against an incredibly proud, evil, powerful creature who I can only assume was hostile beforehand? And it seems like you didn't even ask them to say how they were going to word their response in the hopes of twisting their intent, like any intelligent evil creature would? Sounds like you were already crazy.
@@danielgehring7437 well in my defence it was the first campain I was DMing and it was a white dragon which is the most wild of the chromatic dragons
@@ihateallmikes1083
I was just poking fun. Everyone does something like that when they're first starting out, don't feel bad.
@@danielgehring7437 aight cool. Most of the time we forget it exists so it doesn't really affect combat.
@@ihateallmikes1083
Oh you're still playing that campaign? I will admit I'm a little surprised to hear they still have it, remember all white dragons have ADHD and will fly off the first time the party spends a week cleaning out a dungeon where it can't follow. If nothing else it's probably too warm wherever they are, unless your party is all frost dwarves.
You keep that evil DM cliffhanger nonsense at the table! Now march yourself *right* back to that computer and make part two, young man! Right this instant! >:O
PS: I would've totally been one of the players that thought the journal was suspiciously perfect evidence. What? That's *exactly* what someone would write if they wanted to frame someone. It's elementary.
@@yoimokacc SUSPICIOU-CEPTION!
I'm curious how an Aboleth isn't killing them.
@@Xeconis This... this is how... czcams.com/video/lSqYeQHJbn0/video.html
WHAT'S IN THE BOX??????
my dear watson. sorry had to complete the phrase
When my players got Trollskull from Volo, they got suspicious quickly, and asked "Is it haunted?", to which Volo responded "Nnnnooooooo...". Of course, the players all wanted to roll insight, so I rolled Deception for Volo... 22 (19+modifier). None of the players rolled higher
Never trust Volo. Never be seen with Volo for risk of being guilty by association. If Volo is in your campaign, your DM is most likely trying to kill your character. He is probably trying to do that anyway, but now you know for sure.
We have a similar problem with children.
Edit: To elaborate, my character was impregnated and gave birth to an eldritch Demi-god, one character brought their backstory step-daughter with them, one managed to create a vampire from a potion mixing accident, a pair got sent to an alternate dimension together for 20 years and came back with their daughter and one of the bosses was de-aged and we are now left raising both her and her children...
O-O
So. Start a campaign. "You're all evil. We agreed to do an evil campaign. This is your apocalypse maiden. She sucks. She can barely walk. Feed her somehow and you can get stronger to conquer more land"
2 months of sessions later:
The party is filled with neutral-good players, the apocalypse maiden has been denied slaves, denied access to mindjacking the local lord and the paladin-of-balance valkyrie has adopted another apocalypse maiden and a small water elemental that tried to drown the party for food. That's not even mentioning the children that the party are now helping raise after killing their dad. I don't know how this happened
(sees the word demi-god)
i see whats happening here
plz dont have real children till you are ready for it.
wat
Ok so I have this running gag with my playgroup that I have never gotten a pet. I have never won an animal handling check or succeeded a animal friendship spell. Even with +7 modifiers, I have never gotten a pet.
That was my wood elf ranger's issue. Every time we ran into animals they wanted me to tame the beasts. I would fail everytime. The joke was that since he was a hunter conclave ranger, his hunting aura instantly put animals in a defensive mood that made it impossible to calm.
all my party's pets always get killed .. rip flying snake .. and troll .. yes we actually lost a damn troll it was just so many goblins
The only problem is animal handling only deals with domesticated...animals... so no matter how high you roll u cant tame one
@@monkeysue61 My dnd group we have a tradition of killing the party's horses at the most in opportune times. Look at all the look you got from that dragon, good thing you have those horses along to carry that stuff (horses are killed by blink wolves in the middle of the night). Darn, guess its gonna be hard to carry all that stuff by hand for 100 miles to civilization huh?
Interesting
I'd be like "Wait-- I know this voice. We're not getting paid"
I love that volo didn't believe in ghosts, even tho in the canpaign he brings up his new book "volos guide to spirits and specters"
I am now reminded of one scenario I wrote for a group of low level adventurers. DMing for the party of a Paladin, an evil cleric, a monk, and a ranger, just as they were approaching a dwarven city they see a massive red dragon spewing flames all over the place and getting shot at by the dwarven guards. Dragon flies away from the town and along the roads, but from it's injuries to it's wings the huge thing THUMPS close by to the party. Most everyone was thinking boss fight, or that they were in over their head, or that they should run away from it.
Paladin calmly walks up to the dragon and tries talking to it. Random growling noises, incomprehensible roars, and a gout of flame bursts toward him, but this guy was a paladin of Saranrea and usually had fire resistance up. Combined with high saves he just casually walks through the fire barely feeling a thing. Rest of the party decides that maybe it's just weak enough to attack, and with the thing focused on our near invulnerable, full plate, tower shield using paladin they spend nearly an hour just talking over their turns about how best to safely flank the thing or hit it from range, expecting it to have an impossible AC and a lot of health to chew through, but fighting might give them a better shot than trying to run. After all they might end up scaring the dragon off if they seem dangerous enough.
They only get through one round of combat with it. 16 AC. 20 health.
Players: "Wait, so you mean the crossbow bolts really did that much damage to it?"
DM: "Well no, it's 20 health out of his max of 24"
And to their shock, when the "Dragon" is brought to 0 HP and knocked unconscious, the "Dragon Transformation" spell wore off, the thing turned back into a regular dwarven guard. Just in time for the rest of the dwarven guards to show up, looking for a dragon and expecting a dragon, and seeing our party with bloody weapons surrounding a beat up dwarf. Fun times~
The adventure went well as a whole, evading the dwarves and trying not to kill anyone, getting caught and having to argue their way through court battles, ending up conscripted to try and help hunt down some dangerous criminal, and they only needed to have a chat with the one "dragon" they fought to figure out the real villain was a high level wizard with a vendetta against the dwarves who just transformed low level gaurds into dangerous looking monsters to serve as a distraction whenever he needed to do sneaky stuff. It works just fine when fighting low level NPCs thanks to the fact a level 1 monster still has single digit HP half the time.
Didn't work so well when he tried transforming a player into a monster ...
whoa whoa whoa! slow ur roll there, chief. we need the deets on those other pets. hook us up in a follow up!
Lucas English yes, I DEMAND the story of the gold dragon!
YES
tune in next week: same bat time same bat channel?
Ben: “Surely Wizards of the Coast won’t make DM’s jobs harder by making it easier to tame monsters.”
The Mark of Handling: *”Allow me to introduce myself”*
No, corgis are always dark shadow beasts. I have one. Trust me, you do not want one.
They are tiny fluffy cute shadow beasts
But they are dogs, making them Good Boys by default.
I tamed a rock monster and called it Rocky Road. He died at the end of the campaign sadly...
I guess it was the end of the road
Help me
I would've named him Dwayne
Spaceman 1256 it took me a few seconds to get that. It was my first campaign... and half of us were distracted by the DM’s dog and the funny events.
One of our PCs burst through five feet of stone, lost half his hitpoints, and earned the legendary title of “Koolaid Man”. Oddest campaign we’ve ever played which went from black hole nightmare demons to charming an entire room of over a hundred-and-twenty monsters on a natural crit (with 20 charisma) and gayness!
ROCKY! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
At least he didn't die in the middle.
Skip those animals? Does this mean there is a PART TWO on the horizon? YAY! We're getting a PART TWO! You said it so no "takey backs" now!
Yeah I think you've kinda boned yourself there Puffin.
@@WeirdWonderful the content generates itself!
People would definitely watch a continuation of this video to explain all of the other critters.
"Yeah heres the shadow dogs and ghost dogs stories, gonna skip the others." What about the GOLD. FREAG'IN. DRAGON!
My party doesn’t trust my drow paladin around animals because of a point where we were sent out to rescue a city from a magically controlled army of goblins and gnolls besieging it. We were given a group of horses to get there, and my character noticed that the city gates were battered and weak. I spurred my horse on, telling it to charge the gates at full speed, and got a natural 20 on my animal handling check. However, when it came time for the dm to roll the horses strength check, he got a critical fail, and told me how the horse believed and accepted my commands completely and charged the gates so hard that it’s neck was twisted 180 degrees, killing it instantly, and I was thrown from the saddle, taking a considerable amount of falling damage...
Ah yes, DnD fall damage...
Reminds of a time when my party blew up a sewer after an encounter with a necromancer. Everyone was injured, and the DM says "the explosion caused a small tremor. Roll dexterity, please, to dsee if the tremor cause you to fall." I almost laughed when the fall damage brought my friend down to 2 HP.
Poor horsie ;-;
You think that's bad? My group has a Drow Cleric who's backstory is that his parents were murdered by other drows and so he became a Cleric and swore to stop all evil...... Except the way he does it is down right BRUTAL and SUICIDAL!!! Like whenever we take prisoners of the enemy group and we try to figure out what to do with them. Our cleric will just walk up behind them and SNAP THEIR NECK so that we wouldn't have to worry about it! And plus there was one time where our group ran into a group of hypnotized adventurers that were walking around in a large room. One of those people happened to be a Drow cleric of an evil god, so just as we were about to decide to leave the room, the Cleric decides it would be a good idea to BUM RUSH A LEVEL 17 ADVENTURERS PARTY. Suffice to say he got blasted until he was knocked out so we had to drag his body away and get out of there. So yeah, he kind of has this bad habit of getting himself and us in WAY OVER OUR HEADS!
@@ianhunter363 'tis true, drow make for the strangest of holy warriors...
On a loosely related note; fall damage is the deadliest thing to a Space Maine. So much so we spent an hour in game trying to figure out how to get down the side of a ship compared to 2 seconds deciding whether or not to jump into the horde of Orks.
do the dragon at least like wtf a dragon accountant???
its a good idea, dragons love gold and shiny things so having one keep track of the gold is both good for defending it and good for keeping people from using it. Plus having it keep count of how much gold their is likely makes it happy anyway. (though for all I know it hates this as I am basing this off of the only dragon I met in my campaign, which was a silver one)
@@speedy01247 just imagine if you didn't get you expense report in on time.... and how hard would it be to get your budget of increased for your next job... lol
@@fuzzywigschickenemporium And how do you employ a dragon? What do you pay it? And what if you have a disagreement? It's a dragon!
@@Jocuro2 You pay the dragon with gold. If you have a disagreement, you take away some of it's gold until it behaves/does it's job (depending on how sentient you're willing to have the dragon be).
Gold Dragons are basically Paladins in terms of alignment and how they tend to act; making it the accountant is a wise move, but the only real concern is if you have to use the money for shady dealings and the like.
I just realized that the pikachu-mimic is a play in the fact that mimics usually take the form of... chests. Nice one ben
I don't get it, Mimikyu makes more sense, as it's a dark shadow being with a sack on that looks somewhat like pikachu...
But if you are correct, mind explaining the joke?
Kaelan Ward people’s torso can be called a chest. (Usually women, but sometimes men) Like a chest plate, or breastplate
@@goldenflame4884 *always both sexes
Also, you took the crit success on a seemingly impossible check
And turned one of the Shadow Beasts into Dug from Up. I love it XD
My table took advantage of the ghost and used it to make the place a haunted tap house I use my mage hand, unseen servant, and a Ghost sheet (its a sheet that I put on and makes me look spectral) to make the bar a spooky bar weve also been buying our way into places with advertisement space in our bar... it’s working almost too well
Make sure no priests or paladins are allowed to enter, or they'll try to "help" you with your ghost problem... D:
"Spectres: Topless Ghosts! Do not attempt to touch the Ghosts! Touching Ghosts will get you thrown out. Attempting to exorcise Ghosts will result in a painful encounter in the backyard... yes, that's a euphemism. You have been warned. Signed, the Management."
I once attempted to befriend a dragon in the middle of a cave. I only attempted it because the entire team was about to die.
I told the dm that my character attempted to “befriend” the dragon with a charm spell. I rolled an 18 and killed another dragon with that dragon afterwards. It was fun.
Was the aboleth Whimsy?
We can only hope...
Imagine re-rolling for the aboleth every time combat breaks out...
Unfortunately, no. Unless he homebrewed it, the Aboleth in this story is an important part of the Waterdeep Dragon Heist campaign. It would have been fun to see a return of the bipolar Aboleth though :)
Which whimsy tho evil or child
@@Siiarc So is the Golden Dragon!
"Do you actually believe that ghosts exist?"-says the guy who wrote a FRIGGIN' GUIDE TO EVERY MONSTER
I love how you draw the dog's mouth. It's totally in the wrong place, but somehow it just works fine.
Sherlock Bones? What is this Wizard101?
You just gave me way too many flashbacks...
Wouldn't it be sherlock no bones?
Jeremy Jams I can’t believe they missed out on calling it Dex Dogtective
Oh my, yeeesss
My childhood!
Why has no one made a DND campaign taking place in the world of wizard and pirate 101???
You know I have the same problem. I have this one player, named Dench Gorerunner a half-orc vengeance paladin. He had a pet mastiff. Now a bit of background. This guy, was probably the most badass guy we had. If a villain touched a single good thing in a bad way, Dench just pulled out his god damn Maul and swung and ALWAYS GETS CRITICAL HIT MAX DAMAGE. Now keep in mind that in order to keep calculations easier I just have critical hits do double (all) damage for that attack.(yes I know it’s just supposed to be the dice but I just think why? Why just the dice?) anyway this guy just mauls(pun intended) everything. Now this guy isn’t the smartest and brings his pet Mastiff to fight TIAMAT. You know the 5-headed dragon god? He sends the Mastiff alone. Rolls 20 on animal handling and the dog charges into battle... and gets smacked and the dog instantly dies. I think the guy is a dumb monster and as I think this he is GIVEN FLIGHT AND BUFFS TO HELL BY THE PARTY AND NOW I GOTTA DEAL WITH A FLYING DEATH ORC.
I'm sorry I can't help you with your main problem as I don't understand why a flying death orc should intimidate Tiamat, but the reason you only double the dice roll is specifically to keep the critical hits from unbalancing your combats (i.e. the exact problem you're having). It's just math, once you've learned it you'll be better for having done so.
...I know your trying to help and explain why criticals are like that but still I’m keeping it as double all numbers as it’s lead to more fun then not. Besides it’s not the fact Tiamat would be afraid. It’s the fact of other evil beings that may reside in the world being afraid. Imagine that, a flying orc paladin mauling everything evil! He could be anywhere! And you wouldn’t know until it’s too late...
@@Daoloth12
Very well, it's your game. It seems unfair of you to complain about how broken things are when you were the one who broke them, though.
I wasn’t complaining. I honestly was just telling a story. Sorry if it seemed like complaining. Besides the session has evolved into they beat Tiamat but wanted to continue the story so it’s now a war of godly artifacts and fighting a fallen god with a shit ton of artifacts so balance has gone out the damn window! But I like it. And so do my players.
Daoloth12 to be fair, he just reached high level on paladin. Also vengeance paladin gets the weakest transformation, and the fact that tiamat was summoned means the material plane will be destroyed. Tiamat is an intermediate diety who has an army of colored dragons awaiting her return. She herself is practically unkillable and even with a lvl 20 party, she is likely to whipe them out by her lonesome. Now include the army of colored ancient dragons as well. Yea. Your campaign shouldn’t still be around, and you shouldn’t be afraid of that paladin when there are so many ways to kill him. Also if he fails any of his tenements he loses all of his power from his class (at your discretion I guess), so legit the second he role plays vengeance pali wrong he’s fucked
"I said it was impossible, but, crit success." Truly one of the banes of DMs.
When I was playing Waterdeep, my party and I befriended the poltergeist, using him as a bartender and opening the manor as our own tavern
I wish my players were like that, catching creatures and making them their pets. All they want to do is break goblin legs and torture them to know goblinish.
Lol, no you don't. The action economy will fuck with your best laid plans and slow everything down.
DID YOU SAY GOBLINS?
Paul Turbo Being honest, I would make a goblin army, train them to make formations and stuff.
"Imagination is a weapon, those who lack it are the first to die." -Goblin Slayer
@@WhiteCaneV1 Well said👍👍👍
Puffin Forest I disagree with the party about your voicing of Volo. I always imagined him to be a pompous arrogant tw*t. So 100% you nailed it!
I agree. My group thinks of him as a Gilderoy Lockheart from Harry Potter.
But he has a semi-canon voice in NWN2 tho. czcams.com/video/ERkkti5rRGQ/video.html Here it is :)
@@SapFeaRon Lockheart seems a good match hearing that voice
Yeah, this is how he comes across in Neverwinter ^^
wow... that is great lore. ty
@Colin Deal
I saw people sharing stories so here's one of my own: the current 5e homebrew game of D&D I'm playing, we have a rather oddball party, there is myself as a kobold wizard, A Saurian barbarian (Basically a sentient t-rex who can speak draconic), A changing ranger, an undead but not classicly undead human warlock and a devil teifling rouge. We were all tasked with clearing out a chimera nest and found two of them inside and after dispatching them we figured out they were a mated pair and my character asked if there was anything...interesting in the cave...the DM then rolled a d20 and crit and sounding slightly exasperated and slightly amused stated I had found a chimera egg.
The rest of the party HATED the idea of me keeping this thing and the changeling (Who is my kobolds boyfriend, don't question the species difference) is totally against it however because we are in a romantic relationship (And had been for some time prior to the campaign) the DM said I had advantage in persuasion checks against him and he has advantage in insight against me, I didn't need it however as I rolled a nat 20 on the first roll which convinced him to let us keep the egg much to everyone else's chagrin.
Presently the Chimera egg hatched and my kobold was (Luckily) the first thing it saw and imprinted on her thinking she was its mother, and through some very recent plot elements has now become her familiar and she's currently training to tame it and make it a viable pet/companion on her adventures.
It has become something of an inside joke to state this cute ass baby Chimera is going to kill the entire party one day XD
"But Timon, what if he's on *our* side?"
"That is a freaking half-goat, half-lion, half-Red dragon chimera"
Wait... That's 150%...
But that's illegal
"And your half-Dark shadow monster, half-corgi, half-demon growls barkly"
He did it again... He really went and did it again
Right now I have 2 pseudo dragons, 2 mastiffs, 3 spiders, a white owl, a red sparrow, a large snake, and 3 horses.
My gold pseudo dragon is named Fantasia, my blue one is named Ares.
My 2 mastiffs are Theadore and Thedosia. My spiders are Spooker, Scarer, and Boo, my white owl is Silavee, my sparrow is Wanaphoe (short for wanna be Phoenix). My snake is Bitey, and my horses are Marinara, Dough, and Parmesan.
I have 24 pigeons, 20 ducks, and an elephant named Colonel Stampy.
I like the idea of having spiders though.
Shrek The Ogre yeah they are big spiders. Like dog sized. Though the name Colonel stampy is brilliant and I hope he is the one to kill the final campaign boss
Hey! I also had a snake named Bitey! Maybe they were related!
Algolei I maybe
PART 2 HOW THE HECK DID THEY GET A HECKING ABOLETH
It was probably in tomb of annihilation
It was whimsy all along >:)
Pawnshop maybe?
YES! HIW?!?!?
W H I M S Y
"Animals have always been a sore spot for players."
Most players, yes. For me, it's always the orphaned child that gets thrown in the story somewhere that gets me.
Puffin: Mentions Volo
Me who's read Volo's Guide to Monsters: Instantly has a bad feeling
Woah, woah, woah! You can't just gloss over an aboleth!!!
It's probably the one from another video he did.
@@wordforger Spoilers
Nah it's actually in the heist in waterdeep story adventure
@TrollKing1001 yerp whimseys in the rock
"oh yes, I am a dark shadow beast and I am EVIL!" , Yeah, see, if either a cat or a dog said that I would find it even more endearing. "See? It's honest!" and, really, as a Dog it's probably lawful evil and will obey, while a cat would no doubt be chaotic evil.
Elliander Eldridge What you talking about cats are already chaotic evil😁
Aren't all cats Chaotic Evil? oO
Yeah, I don't get it... my cat is kind of more like chaotic neutral... ;P
Have you seen your cat at night outside it may turn into a shadow beast
@ Elliander Eldridge
You see, _in a comedy campaign,_ this kind of "logic" can actually work.
What I have a problem with is a DM who allows this into their game, then has the chutzpah to make a video complaining that his _players_ are turning the campaign into a joke. Dude, you're the one who let them have a pet Aboleth. And a pet Gold Dragon. And a pet Ghost Dog.
"I said it was impossible, but, crit success."
-Every DM Ever
"...and your bird butler,..."
...I think you mean... *Birdtler.*
...not to be confused with an Arrakoan Rogue. A Birdgler.
also not to be confused with a genocidal Austrian aarakocra...
Also also not to be confused with Araconda the snek that don't want none unless you got buns hun
In my play through we turned the place into a bar and I managed to befriend the ghost so he became the bartender and we named him Bartholomew
My group paid Liff back salary. 20 years worth. he became an attraction in the main hall.
I'm doing Dragon Heist now (my first time playing D&D), stopped the video as soon as I realized it might spoil things. We spent our entire first session befriending the ghost and talking to guilds and craftsmen getting the tavern renovated and functional. Our cleric was somehow flush with gold and managed to bankroll the whole thing, plus enough for full-time staff. It was super fun, but uh, not what I was expecting to do that night? lol
You named him Bartholomew? Bar-for-all-a-you? XD
in my first campaign, we were tasked with going through this labyrinth to found the fountain of youth/life/whatever(of course the guy trying to find it was evil, and eventually he ascended into a demon(descended?). We stumbled across owlbears, and loving owls, I had to tame it. now, wisdom was my lowest stat, with a -1 modifier, but through using lots of rations, and stuff, I managed to tame an owlbear momma, and a few owlbear cubs(also, my character's brother, tamed a "bearowl", which was a homebrew creature which was basically the opposite of an owlbear, owl body, bear face). after we were betrayed by the evil guy, we were launched out of the labyrinth, and our GM fused all of them together to form a mutagenic horror that was killed. that was my first experience with pets.
That sounds... traumatic.
Shane Rooney it was! Very!
Well, at least your DM has imaginative concepts. That's harder and harder to find nowadays.
@@TaIathar I guess so
Recently, one of my players decided he wanted his character to spend days capturing seagules... He ended up with 14...
He has gaven each one a name, a quirk, a specialty and is now preparing several flight patterns for them...
There's only so many sessions I can wait until he tames them all, I'm scared guys...
I gotta be honest, my group did a very simular thing, though with less exotic pets. We had a priest or two with animal friendship.. some mounts and animal famlilures when they hit high enough level. Our group went by the Circus cause we had so many animals. Mostly random animals found in the forest like bears or wolves. Though the biggest thing was the elphant and Grizzly bear.
Then the cleric got followers and the DM gave them a Kirin.... yeah it's as broken as you think it is. Magical flying horse thing with Psionic powers and spells equal to a 18th level wizard...
0:29 50% goat, 50% lion, 50% red dragon... 150% monster.
Puffins is the real smarts math boy : P
Not as dangerous as a Half Bear, Half-Man-Half-Pig Demon!.
MAN-BEAR-PIG IS REAL!
I'm Super Cereal!
I suggest you go to the Super Market, cause its time for you to get cereal too!
50% Scottish, 50% Black, 50% Cyclops, 50% Explosions, 50% Pirate, 250% Best class in Tf2
That's a whole 50% more "Fuck You" than your average monster.
50% goat
50% lion
50% red dragon
And 150% reason to remember the monster
Was the aboleth Whimsy? I think it is!
If you're a Warlock you should be able to make a pact with Whimsy.
lmao whimsy ftw :D
Welp, I have my next Warlock character idea, thank you much.
@@michaelhughes1807 AGREED
"Half-goat, half-lion, half-dragon Chimera" tilted me into oblivion.
I was in a Pathfinder group with a lot of pets a few years back. The first two kind of came with the package, being our Cavalier's mount and our Ranger's animal companion. The rest... just kind of happened.
On one occasion, we were clearing out an oni's lair and found a half-starved Winter Wolf stuck in a cage. The characters with Knowledge (Nature) who knew that Winter Wolves were evil immediately tensed. Meanwhile, my impulsive but well-meaning seventeen-year-old Kineticist who couldn't open her mouth without inserting her foot because Cha was her dump stat pulled out a piece of jerky and stuck her hand through the bars to offer it to the doggo. DM had me roll a Diplomacy check, which I fully expected to fail despite the circumstance bonus... and I rolled a natural 19. Somehow, the party's annoying loudmouth managed to charm the evil wolf.
Later, we ended up fighting a dragon that had been annoying some locals, and discovered after it was dead that it had left an egg behind. Our Fighter promptly adopted the egg, and so for the rest of the campaign we had a baby white dragon. His name was some unpronounceable portmanteau of Draconic words, but we just called him "sweet baby noodle" and represented him with a picture of a baby Spiral dragon from Flight Rising.
no, really, you're gonna have to tell us how the HELL they managed to TAME A GOLD DRAGON
Aren't metallic dragons Good by default?
Sometimes you just gotta give up, our group is so pet happy since in my friend’s campaign they gave everyone a pet. Now one of the players has a balloon seal that can grow spikes, 2 bulettes (whom he plans to breed), a ferret that is far too long and has too many legs, an alligator, and like one other thing I can’t remember. I’m honestly surprised that he doesn’t have a dragon yet.
Edit: I neglected to mention the chimaera one of the other players got that had a dog head instead of a lion head, another got a bat blessed by Nyx that (I think) ate relics, at one point one character had a Plesiosaur tamed and kept because of 2 consecutive nat 20s, and in my own campaign the shop can allow them to attain a baby winged owlbear, a baby scalamagdrion, a messenger snake, a bunyip, a dreamweaver, and a firetail. Sometimes you give up, and sometimes you do it because it’s funny.
In a game I'm in, we tried to "tame" a black dragon wyrmling. And it seems to have kind of worked.
The thing is, we didn't just say "I want that as a pet" and then roll to tame her. That would never have worked in a million years. Dragons are intelligent and our party is mainly good aligned, so we wouldn't have made her a pet in the first place, animal handling would be completely inapplicable to her, and really, no persuasion or intimidation would have made her suddenly our friend. She's a creature with an evil nature, and that was part of what led us to attempt it at all, because if a black dragon can be turned to good, that would have huge implications for several members of the party, as we have a lot of themes that involve redemption (one member is an outcast from an evil warrior race seeking to reform them, I suspect another is a former member of the cult that functions as the overarching antagonists for the campaign, and my own character's internal conflict arises from having failed to right an important wrong in the past).
So we fought her, knocked her out, and brought her with us. We fashioned bindings for her legs and wings and kept her as a prisoner until she could be somewhat trusted. With patience and constant reinforcement, we taught her important lessons about the world and about not eating people. Ultimately she seemed to develop some attachment to the party's bard. But we didn't keep her, because she's a baby dragon and to be raised properly, we needed an adult dragon willing to take on the task. The good news for us is that a party member knew where to find a bronze dragon. But we almost failed to convince him; it was a very difficult task and we were rolling very poorly. I think ultimately the DM decided to allow it because we all expressed that dragging a baby across a continent against its will only to be slaughtered would leave us all extremely unsatisfied, but it came with heavy caveats that I think we're going to see come up very soon-specifically that if she caused any trouble at all for the nearby city, she would be sent somewhere else (to the bronze dragon's mate, who apparently lives on another continent) and we would almost certainly never see her again. We then had to take on a two-month quest, so I expect by the time we get back, we're probably going to find things have gone poorly.
I played this in Adventurers League and we befriended the ghost, named Lif, so we called the place Lifs Lurk and he is now our ghost Butler. Hell yeah
One might call Sherlock Bones a... dogtective
My current D&D team always over thinks things as well. We once got a clue from a crossroad that ended up being just the word *Right* cut in half. Our team however started doing research into human psychology to see which would be more likely. Even when the DM said is was 'A HALF CHANCE' we still didn't get the clue, and we ended up going left. We all died that game.
Player tip: when trying to figure out any puzzle, always try to figure out first whether your DM has enough free time to come up with something that difficult. Do they have a job? An SO? Hell, do they have a Facebook or CZcams account that they could be doing instead of making that puzzle harder?
In my campaign, we HIRED the ghost to work at the tavern attached to the manor
About time the lazy git got a job.
Has your group ever considered opening up a zoo? They can make money in the campaigns that they have zoos in.
A couple of weeks ago in a campaign a friend of mine was running we found a mind flayer tadpole in a stasis jar... that we adopted and named Bobby Flayer. I'm running Waterdeep Dragon Heist as a home game starting tomorrow after having previously played it in AL, so I'm afraid. Very afraid.
Does it make a mean chicken parm?
@@patrickharris6388 we haven't let Bobby out of the jar yet, but we found him after a fight where the villain got away. Looks like we have an idea of what to do if we ever find him again...
That's going to become quite a thing if you don't put it in someone's brain
@@MDMDMDMDMDMDMDMDMD Oh believe me, I know. It's currently in some sort of fluid preventing it from dying or maturing into a neolithid, but if we were to ever let the jar break...
This is the pain Matt Mercer must now deal with because he made all the animal lovers in his group encounter a pet salesman. Oh yes, lets show the former ranger a blink dog when she's still rebounding from her former pet bear, that won't backfire at all!
Which she then leaves with her character's mother and almost drowns her weasal/otter... I forget.
Oh and the Monk loses her owl.
@@Helthegrim Yup, sounds about right.
@@HelthegrimYeah I think he did that to thin the herd tbh.
In one dnd session, I wasn't really playing properly so when we encountered a pet shop, I spent all 1100 gold I had on cats. Before this, I had just asked the DM how many pets there were and he replied 'Idk, however many you want'. The cats were 5 gold each. Unfortunately, he went back on his arrangement and said there were no cats, forcing me to keep the 11 I already had been using to fight by my side.
@@ancientpiguardian7462 Ouch. How does one fight with house cats? Were you polymorphing them into lions or something?
This sounds like dragon heist! I love the animations, and Volo's voice is perfect. I've been thinking of him as a John Gleese
John Gleese? Ben's interpretation of Volo is more like Rarity from My Little Pony.
When we did the water Deep campaign we turned the mansion in to a working tavern. The gohst worked for us willingly for free.
No that's not fair!!! You don't just say they have an Aboleth and not explain it!!! HOW DID THEY GET AN ABOLETH!!?
D- Man it’s washy the aboleth from a previous episode.
This is clearly Dragon Heist, so I don't want to spoil it too much, but the Aboleth and Gold Dragon are in the module.
They wanted an Aboleth as a pet, so Ben gave them one.
I mean, sure, he had to rewrite all the lore regarding Aboleths to do it, but he's the DM: he can do that.
The only mystery is why he actively assisted his players in making the campaign jump the shark into a weird Pokemon-esque comedy then made a video blaming _them_ for the campaign jumping the shark into a weird Pokemon-esque comedy.
As is usual, this is all on Ben, not his players.
@@nickwilliams8302 because making the video from the perspective of bitching about it makes it more humerous in his opinion...lifes easier when you don't take comedy so seriously
i seduce the dra- er um aboleth
Too many cooks! Too many cooks may spoil the broth, but they’ll never fail warm our hearts!
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Another thoroughly entertaining video. Thank you for the stories and awesome voice acting.
There’s no such thing as *too* many pets, only not enough