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** Note that this is something Ben (possibly unintentionally, as he has a history of skimming modules and forgetting details) changed. Langderosa is ''male'' in the module as-written. And also called [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Langd]][[SpellMyNameWithAnS ''d'']][[SpellMyNameWithAnS rosa]], but that's much more excusable.

** Note that this is something Ben (possibly unintentionally, as he has a history of skimming modules and forgetting details) changed. Langderosa is ''male'' in the module as-written. And also called [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Langde"[[SpellMyNameWithAnS ''d'']] [[rosa]], but that's much more excusable.

** Note that this is something Ben (possibly unintentionally, as he has a history of skimming modules and forgetting details) changed. Langderosa is ''male'' in the module as-written. And also called [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Langde"[[SpellMyNameWithAnS ''d'']][[rosa]], but that's much more excusable.

** Note that this is something Ben (possibly unintentionally, as he has a history of skimming modules and forgetting details) changed. Langderosa is ''male'' in the module as-written. And also called [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Langde''d''rosa]], but that's much more excusable.

* {{Corpsing}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsK6KFojRDo A Star Wars campaign podcast fell to pieces]] because of the GM's in-depth description of [[SomethingElseAlsoRises everyone's lightsabers extending]] [[AccidentalInnuendo before emitting beams of white light.]] The GM was also the only one able to keep a straight face, as he was the only one who ''didn't'' get the innuendo.

->''If I'd had a character killed off every time I laughed in a campaign, I don't think I would've gotten out of the tavern alive.''

** One of Ben's critiques of 4th edition is that, despite their LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, they really only had four classes who were reskinned into new ones. The particularily outrageous example he found was that almost every leader class had an ability that healed 1d6 twice per encounter, and all of them were named some variation of "[Adjective or Verb] Word": ''Healing Word'' for clerics, ''Inspiring Word'' for warlords and ''Majestic Word'' for bards.

* AccidentallyAccurate:

* TheDreaded: The Chadwick Strongpants somehow has a reputation as a ridiculously powerful hero, such that when he approaches bad guys panic and end up [[FriendlyFire accidently killing each other]], thus defeating themselves without Chadwick having to do anything. [[spoiler:Chadwick [[JokeCharacter doesn't actually have any powers at all.]]]]

** The aboleth with the SplitPersonality from ''Terror of the Deep''. Ben draws it more like a cute whale thing than what aboleths actually look like, and its cutesy, friendly personality ends up talking to the players a lot more than its evil side. A similar adorable aboleth also appears in ''Too Many Pets'', although considering the latter campaign takes place in Waterdeep which the ''Tomb of Annihilation'' module merely references, it's unlikely that it's the same Aboleth. Another story ends with the party finding a trinket with ''another'' adorable Aboleth inside it (which may explain how the party got the Aboleth pet in ''Too Many Pets'').

*** His [[TabletopGame/TombOfHorrors Tomb of Annihilation]] videos are about ''Tomb of Annihilation''.

* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Baby harp seals are so cute and innocent that they are immune to evil and so are used as guards on Mount Celestia. Too bad they also [[GoodCannotComprehendEvil cannot comprehend evil]].

* IAteWhat:
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xs1WLIer1I&t=80s "D&D Story: PEE IN MY BUCKET! The Adventurer's League Game"]], Ben's Party tries rescuing the crew of an airship that crashed in the trees. This crew was exhausted, hungry, and dehydrated. To alleviate the last problem the party peed in a bucket, cast a purification spell on it, and gave it to the crew to drink. Hilariously, clerics like Ben and the one who had the pee-idea have the spells "Create or Destroy Water" and "Create Food and Water", meaning that if they took a long rest, they could prepare those spells.
** This also happens when the Shenani-Guys find out that the dream pastries are made out of children.

* HillariousInHindsight: InUniverse. In a ''Star Wars'' game he ran, one of Ben's players was a Lepi, a rabbitfolk. Some time later, ''Anime/StarWarsVisions'' came out, featuring Lop, a Lepi main character.

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The nation of Gautor in Ben's setting. The players called it Fantasy North-Korea.

* FiveManBand: The Shenani-Guys end up filling these roles over the course of ''Curse of Strahd'':
** TheLeader: Garo ends up being this, partially because Ben is the narrator. InUniverse, he seems to share this role with Boshack.
** TheLancer: Boshack. After his switch to NeutralEvil, he says he wants to take more charge instead of just following around.
** TheBigGuy: Krusk. While Garo can also serve as a tank, Krusk is far more focused on being at the forefront of combat.
** TheHeart: Gouda, although it's downplayed. She is far more upbeat and cheery than the rest of the party, but this ends up causing them a good deal of annoyance in [[WorldOfJerkass Barovia]].
** TheSmartGuy: ''Technically'' Boshack should be this, since he has a highter intelligence score than the rest, but the role tends to be taken by an NPC, like Ezmerelda or van Richten.

** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWLjP14hTlw Ben's final fantasy game]], he tried to use an exploit that would increase his attack, defense and health stats at once by attacking himself. Unfortunately for him, he used a sword that would inflict a powerful StatusAilment that rendered his character next to useless. Since that particular StatusAilment was only meant for enemies at that level, there was nothing that could cure him yet.

** In another "Worst Games I've Run", Ben played with a DM who wanted a more cinematic experience, trying to have experienced players who knew what they were doing so they could avoid the annoying out-of-character confusion about what the characters could do. Thing is, he not only invited a new player, who'd obviously have questions, but he also wanted the game to be a surprise, so he didn't even tell the new player ''what D&D was!'' Then he made everyone roll up new characters with no pregens or help with software...''for forth edition'' which is infamous for it's character creation bloat and again, ''with a new player who knows nothing about D&D.'' The result is ''hours'' spent alone in character creation...and only enough time to actually play the game for ''20 minutes''.

** In another "Worst Games I've Run", Ben played with a DM who wanted a more cinematic experience, trying to have experienced players who knew what they were doing so they could avoid the annoying out-of-character confusion about what the characters could do. Thing is, he not only invited a new player, who'd obviously have questions, but he also wanted the game to be a surprise, so he didn't even tell the new player ''what D&D was!''

* BreakTheCutie: The Curse of Strahd campaign is pretty much one big one for Ben's character, the Cleric/Monk Garo. He starts out kind as pious, but over the course of the series, Barovia starts to get to him. They agree to help some kind, old ladies, but they turn out to be hags. They rescue a town from an insane leader, but only by delivering it straight into the hands of Strahd. Said leader is then executed, despite Garo's pleas that he be put on trial, along with his innocent wife, and his son dies in a malfunctioning Teleportation circle. Finally they manage to kill the hags, Garo showing how Barovia got to him by brutally murdering the one who plead for mercy, but they are too late to save two of the children and the third one they have to kill themselves, or else she'll turn into another hag. By the end of the fifth episode, he can do nothing but solemnly hope that maybe they'll finally get to save someone for once.

* CursedWithAwesome: The players in the Malikar-campaign, except for the monk and the fighter, are sent to a random plane of existence. Miraculously, they all ended up on the good side of the great wheel (the other fighter and his drow companion went to the unsoiled wilderness of the Beastlands, the sorcerer went to the utopia of Arcadia, and the Mobile Suit Gundam Wing went to the eternal battleground of Ysgard), which contains places like the Nine Hells, the Abyss, Hades and Limbo. They can never return, but they were pretty lucky all things considered.

* PoliceAreUseless: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mr1fXAR4Sc That time our characters went to New York City]] the characters killed several people with bows and arrows and somehow the police never caught them.

%%* BatmanGambit: [[FunWithAcronyms W.O.R.S.T.]] thinks Otterton is pulling this on them.

** In the dystopian ICONS campaign, the players based their characters on Franchise/SpiderMan, [[ComicBook/LukeCageHeroForHire Luke Cage]], and [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Edward Elric]].

*** In "Chadwick Strongpants", he complains about how his brother doesn't like tabletop [=RPGs=]. However in one session, the brother was stuck doing nothing while everyone was having fun. In the other session mentioned, Ben intentionally made a terrible character for his brother. With this in mind, the brother's dislike for [=RPGs=] seems more justified.