History YMMV / PuffinForest

* BrokenBase: While nobody can deny that his videos are humorous, some people have questioned whenever or not Ben is a good or fair DM at times, as noted under NeverMyFault on the main page. Ben himself even lampshades this in a few of his videos.

** Technically, the Turtle Fuckers is this trope. Their actual name was the Turtle Molesters, but a poorly placed censor beep made it sound far worse than it actually was. Turtle Fuckers sounds far funnier, however, so Wiki/ThisVeryWiki keeps using it.

** In a similar vein, the party's treatment of Flynn the aarakocra bard. Treating other races differently is bad. Treating a BirdPerson like a pet and refusing to listen to him no matter how right he is is ''hillarious''.

** He fell down ''so hard'' he became X[[labelnote:Explanation]]From [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0_w8B-RXUw this video]], where the tiefling warlock wants to switch to a Sword Mage, and the DM used the in-universe explanation of the warlock hitting his head to hard that he forgot all his warlock powers and spontaneously learned a new skillset. Since then, any ContrivedCoincidence used by the DM results in a comment about the players hitting themselves ''so hard'' that the coincidence happened.

* UnintentionallySympathetic: Weirdly, Ben in "Why Won't My Character Just DIE Already?!" In the video, Ben wanted to change his character only for this to get vetoed by the Dungeon Master and rest of the party (because the party needed a healer), leading him to try to kill off his own character by being careless. Ben thinks he was acting immaturely, but the comments for the video were overwhelmingly on his side. General consensus is that the DM and other players were ruining Ben's fun for arbitrary reasons.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: The party's treatment of [[TagalongKid Wallace of Parnast]] is objectively reprehensible, but it's so over-the-top it lands here, especially in the first video where the Tiefling calmly asks for the copper penny he'd given Wallace earlier ''back'' after letting the boy get beaten up by a treant [[OverlyLongGag for an hour]].

* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: "Secrets of the Skeleton Town", as noted under SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome bellow, demonstrates that Ben is prefectly capable of putting aside his usual comedic tone to do Lovecraftian Horror instead.

* TearJerker: The Curse of Strahd story part 5. Barovia is really getting to Garo, with him becoming nitably more ruthless. And because the Hags have managed to turn the young girl Gertrude into a hag without her knowing, the party has to kill her. And Garo has to talk to her and keep her distracted while Ezmerelda casts her spell. Kind, pious Garo has to sit down in front of a young frightened child, and reassure her, knowing full well that he has to kill her in just a minute.

* UnintentionallySympathetic: Weirdly, Ben in this in "Why Won't My Character Just DIE Already?!" In the video, Ben wanted to change his character only for this to get vetoed by the Dungeon Master and rest of the party (because the party needed a healer) leading him to try to kill off his own character. Ben says he was acting immaturely. However, the comments for the video were overwhelmingly on his side since the commentators felt he shouldn't have to suffer for the sake of the other players' fun.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: As far as we're told, a lot of characters in from the Covenant and Malikar campaigns never reappear, despite being immortal and inhabiting the same world as the Otterton campaign. Of note is the Fighter who could easily become a KingInTheMountain-type, and Shiro, who would be an excellent BigBad due to his TakeOverTheWorld tendencies and immortality.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments:
** In "D&D Story: “Whoops! Guess EVERYONE has to die now”" Ben missed critical information on the module he was running, turning a stealth mission into an all-out battle between the players and an entire temple of incredibly dangerous enemies. Despite the chaos, the party splitting up, and this being the ''first'' gaming session for one player, the party not only survived but ''won''.
** In a meta moment for the channel, after posting "Pathfinder 2E Story: The Infamous TPK Module" the official Paizo, Inc. [=YouTube=] account commented on the video to thank him for being a play tester and offered to send over a new source book.
** Another meta moment in "Secrets of the Skeleton Town". Ben's channel is mostly meant for comedy, but that video shows that he is perfectly capable of doing horror. Not only that, but he shows that he understands Lovecraftian horror ''very'' well.
** The Shenani-Guys finally get strong enough to take down the coven of hags they originally couldn't defeat.
** The opening battle of the Curse of Strahd replay episode 9:
*** Strahd forcing Garo into a sadistic choice, which Garo decides to forego by battling Strahd's armies directly.
*** Garo making full use of the Amulet, Turning several vampires and casting several other spells from it to the point that Strahd identifies him as the greatest threat on the battlefield. And this is ''without'' Garo exploiting the Amulet's ability to release sunlight.
*** Krusk battling Rahadin mano y mano.
*** Mordenkainen demonstrating his mastery of the arcane by completely dispelling Strahd's fireball by ''turning it into butterflies''.
** At the end of the "Curse of Strahd" playthrough the Shenani-Guys are able to ''permanently kill'' Strahd von Zarovich while also saving Irena.

* FridgeHorror: Trixie Starbright wanted to use Mewtwo's powers to become the most popular girl in school. We're not told how this would work, but given that Mewtwo is a psychich pokemon, we can make some guesses...

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop:
** From the Vidcon vide, he ends the video being told that next year, he might be a fire hazard![[note]]The actual meaning is that he might get so popular that if he walked around the convention floor, the crowds might become a fire hazard[[/note]]
** At the end of "D&D Story: Captain Morgan || Cocaine solves all problems", after multiple problems are solved via liberal application of cocaine, Ben declares the lesson is "Do drugs. They make your problems go away!"

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: As far as we're told, a lot of characters in from the Covenant and Malikar campaigns never reappear, despite being immortal and inhabiting the same world as the Otterton campaign. Of note is the Fighter who could easily become a KingInTheMountain-type, and Shiro, who would be an excellent BigBad due to his TakeOverTheWorld tendencies and immortality.
** The story's final ending isn't much better: The seemingly benevolent ruler the party chose to replace Strahd turned out to be a BitchInSheepsClothing who accepted the same pact of blood as Strahd, killing her brother to seal it, and ruling Barovia with her dark magic. Garo, forced to remain due to his pact with the Fanes, eventually became the Abbot to her Strahd: a broken man placating the dark lord, lest she punish the people. Ultimately, Garo decides that the letter from Kolyan was right. Barovia should be left to its sorrow, until everyone therein is departed for a better life.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: As far as we're told, a lot of characters in from the Covenant and Malikar campaigns never reappear, despite being immortal and inhabiting the same world as the Otterton campaign. Of note is the Fighter who could easily become a KingInTheMountain-type, and Shiro, who would be an excellent BigBad due to his TakeOverTheWorld tendencies and immortality.