Yfw the arcane caster spends all of their resources on the first minor encounter...

Who are we talking about? Someone help.

I'm guessing Tiberius Stormwind of Draconia.

indeed and a smart DM punishes players who do it

Well first I start a fire using a cantrip. If we're actually stopping for a full hour there's plenty of time to cook a full meal rather than just munch on trail mix and jerky. Fish out the meat from the box of gentle repose while the pan is heating and let the fighter tenderize it a bit. Don't let the barbarian near it or he'll eat it raw. While that's happening the rogue should be looking for the seasonings in his bag o holding since he thinks they'll come in useful for making a sneeze flavored getaway. The cleric and monk have inevitably found a tree to pray/meditate under and the evoker and paladin join them to discuss planar metaphysics. The sorcerer and ranger go off to find some extra game or berries to supplement our rations. By this point the pan is fully hot and a small bit of butter should keep the bacon from sticking. Give it a quick sear because even in the wild we must maintain standards, i didn't take the easy warlock route to not remain good at other professions. Somebody starts setting plates, making small salads for the group and we dine together, making small talk and eventually trailing into strategy of the coming struggles. I make a quick call to my extraplanar contacts to make sure I got all my stuff ready to go, do a quick stretch, then set the donkeys back onto the path from their grazing.

Right, so players have every right to be mad at a fellow partymember who keeps trying to force it and make themselves look like a god by comparison by unloading all their daily stuff in the first encounter.

"Yeah that was dumb but you still have all your encounter powers and the rest of us are fine, we're pressing on."

Behold, the game continues.

Well done. I made you a special dessert.

>NOO GRAZZ'T SEMPAI I DON'T WANT YOUR SNACKS

My usual feel is more

>tfw the players whine about any time limit given to them, no matter how loose, because it prevents them from doing this.

I read through an entire archive to find this for you because I have autism, bitch.

The only people you'll be punishing are the martals.

>unloading even a single actual spell slot for any reason except certain death
>not carrying every encounter with Minor Illusion and shit like Mold Earth, Shape Water, and Bonfire for battleground control
>MAYBE a sparing Hold Person so your meaty manservants called the Fighter and the Rogue to skewer the big boss nigger while one of your pals jacks off to gay furry porn instaed of splashing the trash with Color Spray like he should be
>not leaving half your spell slots open so you can use them as needed
>not just doublecasting Haste on the Grunts and then jacking off to gay bara furry porn while they push the Hydra's shit in for you

Shit casters imo, and if they're a Bard they better start shucking and jiving fo massa's pleasure.

>Using daily limits
>Not just letting Wizards prepare their spells whenever spent
>Not just simply making the above take time- equalling to a wandering monster check
>Not having players who can do other things as a spent MU and won't complain like a little bitch

>tasteful
his frozen corpse was found impaled by an icicle in the ruins of his obliterated homeland

Dark and graceless can still be tasteful.
That sounds badass. Musta been terrifying when the party found him, considering how chummy they were in character.

Yeah that was my thought too.

Maybe it's because I think of ass to mouth impaling Cannibal Holocaust style.

It was pretty brutal, yeah.
My favorite "what the fuck" moment is still them walking into Whitestone and finding their mockups hanging from the Sun Tree.
Liam's unreadable. Travis and Sam are just like "wait what I don't understand", Laura and Marisha have already figured it out and are full on "jesus christ how horrifying"

That's how I know you're not a real DM.

Not in 5e.

inb4 everyone starts shitting on marisha and laura cause girls playing game bad amirite

I never had an issue with Marisha because she seems to be nailing "annoying rich girl with less problems than her friends whining that she has the biggest problems" and it seems like a character choice even if derived from real life.

yeah, pretty much
imagine living with matt's autism and being the least liked character on a webshow for D&D nerds.

marisha an saint

He was also taking his character in a really dark direction. Chainsawing old ladies kinda crossed a line even if this were a regular group that's the kinda thing you'd at least get a talking to about.
And bare in mind all of those flaws are amplified tenfold when your broadcasting the game to thousands of people weekly. It's less of a game and more a collaborative story telling session.

Only thing I dislike about Marisha is that her story is too last airbender for me. Other than that her roleplay as the awkward member of the group is kinda great.

Laura is amazing I love her character and how she plays of Liam and Taliesan is pretty great

(But Grog is best character. Its rare I see a meat head barbarian played so convincingly)

Do you even spice?

When did he chainsaw an old lady? I don't remember him being even remotely dark

What I find amusing is that Marisha in real life is more like Grog then anything.

Way back at the very beginning of the Briarwood shit.

Didn't he apologize publicly for that?
I mean, it's still shitty, but the apology helps a bit.

I mostly just wish Marisha would stop screaming and blowing out the microphone when something exciting happens. They all do it, but she's by far the worst about it.

>How do you want to do this
>*Animal noises for the next 30 seconds*

tfw qt excited about dicegame

It was the very last episode he was a part of. They captured this old women who was helpless and he basically killed her just for the heck of it.

this should be both how and why one plays wizards.

>gay bara furry porn
Get better taste you absolute fucking pleb

I am clearly the Wizard in that situation.

>implying any wizard ever spent a third of his life to master universe bending power to waste it sacrificing himself to save Biffo the Human Punchingbag and Gruntilda the Ugly Fairy from deaths that they inflicted on themselves with their own stupidity
>implying you don't know damn well that every Dragon Sorc is a secret cocklusting jizztrollop lusting for scaly dragonman dongs or settling for dungeons filled with hotcocked monstermen's meaty moobs

Listen, the very existence of tits on many reptilian/draconic species shows that wizards are primarily straight, at the very least.
That being said, you're a massive faggot and should use Bigby's fisting hand on your ass.

This.
But still let them run out of spells becuase that's only situation when other PCs may be useful.

I don't think the chainsawing was him taking his character in a dark direction so much as him fucking up. He thought OOC "Hey, I've got this neat new chainsaw thing! Imma try it out!" not stopping to think it was probably not the time.
But he took the IC consequences completely in stride, which is something I always liked about him. Same thing with the whole Johnny Kraghammer thing. He gets excited and acts before he thinks, so he fucks up a decent bit, but he seems to understand that he'll have to deal with the consequences.

Why are you giving Wizards spells like that? Wizards should have some minor utility spells and some combat powers, they shouldn't be able to unlock doors, can't freely speak foreign languages, sneak around or make anyone else is the party redundant.

Also
>fudging rolls
>cheating on metamagic
>spending ages changing around what you're going to do on your turn so that everyone gets confused and you can cheat

>Matt's autism
Wut? He's one of the less aut DMs I've seen

>Goblins ambush your party lured by the smell of bacon, no short rest for you.