Yeah I've already done this story before. I didn't realize that until just now.

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I had one player announce that their character was leaving the party because he wasn't in the spotlight. He wasn't in the spotlight because another player had just joined, and I wanted to give them a solid introduction. I gave this player that exact same treatment, and he had only joined last session.

He was somehow surprised when I just kicked him from the campaign altogether after that stunt.

CritCrab is eventually going to end up having so many cross-overs that the artist who makes the Crab sprites is going to own his bank account.

Can you imagine having the audacity to ride your DM's back and make sure they don't do anything that could possibly hurt your little precious character, and then blow up at them for coddling you? I don't have faith that the Fighter will get better, because they have already expressed a profound lack of awareness and likely are flat out incapable of seeing themselves as the villain of this tale.

Here's the thing: if you are a veteran and you're with a bunch of new players, you are there to help them. Period.

The fighter was playing D&D like a video game, but less in the "put a pot over the shopkeep's head and crouch in the middle of an open field" way and more in the "skip cutscenes I'm not in" way. Also explains the rules-lawyering over anything bad happening to her thing.

Jocat: "If you are giving your criticism in a way that makes the subject not wanna listen to you, your criticism has failed."

Yes. This. Absolutely this. Let this echo throughout the entire internet.

The dream duo is back. Today is a good day indeed.

Honestly, I love these “Crabside Chats” mid-post, it’s nice hearing multiple opinions on the same topic.

"And thus, did the olive branch wither and die."

Chuckes 14 times.

10:20 I'm not sure I'd really class that as 'railroading'.  The impression I got was that the players (and therefore their characters) didn't have the local knowledge they would need to properly plan what they were attempting to do, so the DM provided an NPC to give them information and advice.  Now if the NPC was saying "you must do A,B, and C", then that would be bad, but it sounded more like the NPC was saying something like "your plan to do D,E, and F isn't going to work because of G,H, and I", and I don't really see that as railroading - or at least not bad railroading - just the DM making sure that whatever plan the players eventually came up with actually had a chance of working rather than being doomed to failure because of the players' ignorance of the world.

Call me a cynic, but I doubt the fighter was actually feeling railroaded, or at the very least was using it as a reason to be mad her idea wasn't accepted right away. This is based on the potrait painted by the story so far, her immediate sullenness on her plan being rejected, and on the fact that when asked she could not name where they had been railroaded, only just reiterate her point.

Main Characters are always a pain to deal with. They are narcissists by nature and they make for pretty miserable campaigns. You can't reason with or compromise with them. Fighter was just plain disrespectful and rude to everybody at the table. DM extended the olive branch but Fighter took it and beat DM with it.

D&D/ Pathfinder/ literally any tabletop RPG, is a group event. Each player should have their moment in the spotlight, no one player should be the focus for the majority of the game.  If a Main Character threatens to leave, hold the door open for them. They only thing you'll lose is a headache.

The dm in this story was wise enough to leave the table to cool off, secondly I'm glad the dm in this  story was responsible  & wise enough  to not  take out his wrath on his players with a  rage fueled tpk or  killing her character in an unfair way in game.

3:38 Something about these crabs angrily holding their claws up at each other is just… so incredibly funny to me-

Joe’s sprite is the best thing...if you get anymore cross overs on your channel I hope we get to see more crabified sprites of your guests

DM: "I need to cool off so I don't take it personally."
Fighter: "And I took THAT personally."

If your “friend” is threatening to leave you because their not allowed to harass you anymore with insults, I’m not sure they really are a friend, it feels like Mabye it’s just surgarcoated so they can bully you for free

"whenever there's a problem, it should be both of you versus that problem, not you versus the other person" truer words were never spoken

I think players have to be careful about distinguishing the DM from the NPCs, an NPC telling you they don't think that plan will work isn't neccessarily the DM telling you you can't do it.