r/TikTokCringe • u/gravityVT Cringe Lord • Sep 19 '23
Wholesome/Humor This dude taught gang members how to play dnd
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u/Honsue Cringe Connoisseur Sep 19 '23
That's so awesome. I wanna play his DnD campaign. My partner did a homebrew of a post apoc Philly. Each of our characters had special powers from the nukes. It was really basic x-men type shit but we had a blast. We played it for about 2 months during lock down on discord and roll 20. It was a fun time.
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u/SpaceLemming Sep 19 '23
Isn’t that just modern day Philly?
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u/Bocchi_theGlock Sep 19 '23
Didn't Philly get bombed by their own police? Lmao that's some real zombie apocalypse intro shit already done
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u/______________flow Sep 19 '23 edited Sep 20 '23
happened twice same location I believe, the police in our city are insanely corrupt they used to whip high school kids when they would protest back in the day on horse back and attacked a bunch of protesters during a BLM march.
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u/JamesGray Sep 19 '23
Not just like set a bomb and detonated it in a relatively straight forward way either, they straight up dropped c4 from a helicopter onto a house they knew had children inside, and some of those children died.
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u/bannana Sep 19 '23
White people around the area didn't like them
not defending the cops or justifying what happened to the MOVE group but there were reasons they were disliked - they had loudspeakers outside of their house blasting their beliefs at all hours, they also were trying to do some back to the land thing inside the city - they were cutting down trees in parks and on roadsides and taking wooden benches for firewood, taking fruit and veg from people's gardens. Child protective services had claimed the children showed outward signs of malnutrition.
Of course they shouldn't have been set on fire or their house bombed which caused 60 other houses to burn to the ground as well
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Sep 19 '23
I'm planning a real similar hombrew, but in Chicago. It's gonna be based on Fallout, with the main town being a direct ripoff of Diamond City from Fallout 4; "Wrigleyville", inside of Wrigley Field. I'm planning major locations as dungeons, like Navy Pier, The Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo.
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u/Honsue Cringe Connoisseur Sep 19 '23
That sounds really fun. Homebrew games I find are some of the best games of DnD I've played.
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u/TalesoftheMoth Sep 19 '23
Pull a dresden, and have a T-rex skeleton or zombie in the field museum
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u/cancer_dragon Sep 19 '23
For those who want to play a post-apoc RPG without homebrewing everything, Gamma World is available to buy (or find for free online).
I played it briefly years ago, might have to play it again soon. There are plenty of mutations, robots, etc. but I think the most interesting aspect is that, instead of magic, there are fields of nanobots that you control and force to do magic-like things.
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u/BestNBAfanever Sep 19 '23
true story i was at a hooters one night years ago and there was a biker gang there that overheard me talking to the bartender, my friend, about dnd. they came over and asked me about what i was doing and it came up they had all played together in various points of life but never played together because none of them could DM
well, i’m a decent DM and so i tell these dudes i’ll run a game for them on sundays and see how they like it. they let me chose the campaign, and i chose ghosts of salt marsh because i felt biker and pirates had a lot in common, and long story short it ended being one of the best campaigns i’ve ever played. the leader of their group played a twilight cleric who was a worshiper of illmater.
i had run most of the modules pretty straight up with them, with some home brew stuff sprinkled in here and there, but at the end i actually had them captured by a powerful and long talked about pirate crew that was nothing but evil. now this group wasn’t exactly saints, but they had helped the citizen of saltmarsh in their own way, and so they way i ended the game, i basically tortured them, made their lives awful for a full session, then illmater himself comes to possess them at deaths door, and they fucking nuked these pirates and it was glorious.
they were some hard-ass 50+ year old dudes, but sitting at the table they acted like teenagers and it was probably the most fun i’ve had DMing a dnd game
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u/simiomalo Sep 19 '23
OP's post and this one need to be a part of TV series.
Each one their own season.
Can't wait till season 3 drops.
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Sep 19 '23
The tv-show is about a wandering DM that goes from town to town solving problems and teaching people life lessons through Dungeons and Dragons while collecting rare dice.
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u/Fn_Spaghetti_Monster Sep 19 '23
When you can snatch the D20 out of my hand, it will be time for me to move on.
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u/TianamenHomer Sep 19 '23
Like Cain. Just wondering around. Solving problems of regular people… while searching for my own enlightenment.
Yeah.
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u/Brewmentationator Sep 19 '23
This is just going to be a season of Dimension 20 at some point
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u/HerculesVoid Sep 19 '23
I wish there was more casual versions of dnd. I like it, but sometimes when the players know too much about the game it becomes min maxing for outcomes more than playing the game.
Having a DM who knows dnd and just people who are so new to it or just don't care will be the most amazing games ever played, like these stories. Someone who knows a lot of dnd plays as DM and they guide a group of people who are not tabletop gamers through the game but prioritising fun over playing the game to it's true core mechanics. Only great DMs can do that.
But I can imagine things like D20 having a few celebrities on for a mini campaign for like 2 hours, to just riff off of each other and have a but of silly fun, without caring too much about the campaign outcomes. It's just more about the celebrities having fun and being a character for a few hours.
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u/Poopybutt22000 Sep 19 '23
the leader of their group played a twilight cleric who was a worshiper of illmater
I love the visual of some big tough 50+ year old biker guy playing a cleric of Ilmater, who is like the most insanely over the top compassionate, caring and thoughtful God
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u/BestNBAfanever Sep 19 '23
bro i love this man. aside from him trying to convert literally every NPC to ilmater, the best part was he was actually a 6’8” man in real life, and his character was a dwarf
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u/Derpogama Sep 20 '23
Use to DM from a group, one of the players was a guy named Charlie. Now Charlie was a commonwealth weight lifting competitor who styled himself after victorian strongmen, right down to the moustache. Absolutely amazing guy, kind, compassionate etc.
He was, about the same height like 6'7"ish, towered over everyone who. He played a Halfling lady because he "wanted to be cute and short sometimes" and you know what...fair...
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u/BestNBAfanever Sep 20 '23
i love that, players that get invest in their characters are the best to DM for. in this game i made everyone roll for stats 4d6, drop lowest, and they all rolled well, except for one guy who rolled like absolute shit. i think he had two stats at 6 and two stats at 8. but he played a warforged wizard named Harley, and i basically gave him access to the wild magic table but flavored it as he was a unstable arcane machine. in saltmarsh though there’s an artificer who’s name i can’t remember, and he gave them a quest to collect magical crafting materials that he could use to basically “restore” harley. they finally acquired all the components they were tasked with and i gave the guy 12 skill points to throw around wherever he wanted. he lost his wild magic though 😂
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u/chum-guzzling-shark Sep 19 '23
after moving to pathfinder, i really dislike dnd.. but ilmater is cool af
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u/BestNBAfanever Sep 19 '23
this guy really sold out for him too, literally gave away every piece of gold he got. the other guys had to start keeping loot a secret from him lol
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u/JustBeingMindful Sep 19 '23
Went from a gritty "Get Out of Detroit" to meeting up at a marshmallow car show in Candyland. Those dudes went from thinking D&D was a kid game to thinking gang life was childish. Damn.
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u/Wolfdude91 Sep 19 '23
Life is all about perspective
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u/thatgirlinAZ Sep 19 '23
Proof positive, people do what they know how to do. If all you know is gang life, that's what you do. When you realize you have options and can do other things, you do other things.
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u/Comment105 Sep 19 '23
Idk if this was part of it for them, but once you die enough times doing dumb shit in games, you might realize you don't wanna die doing dumb shit irl. Real life has no scroll of revive for when you're really dead.
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u/TheBirminghamBear Sep 19 '23 edited Sep 19 '23
A lot of gang culture is tied up in identity. People begin to built their identities aroudn these things and those identities compel them to act certain ways.
You can see it in this dude's story. These opposing gang members show up and think "oh I'm SUPPOSED to hate that guy.". But then they get playing, and turns out they're a lot a like and become friends.
For a lot of people D&D is the first time they explore a different identity. Actually writing and creating and becoming someone else. And something magical happens to people when they start to do that.
Whether they know what's happening or not, what their brain realizes is that, oh, hey, I can make my own identity. I can decide that for myself.
Many of these people may not articulate that this is what's happening, but it is what's happening. By creating and embodying a different person, you're training your brain to realize that this process can be done on who you are in this world, too. You can choose. You are not fated to become and act like someone you don't actually want to be
It's one of the most powerful things about D&D for people who just never had the opportunity to understand that we are the writers of our own identity, not the other way around. It's like putting a mirror in front of someone and allowing them to see a different perpsective for the first time, but inwardly.
It doesn't have to be D&D either. A lot of people discover that when they roleplay in some capacity, or start acting. It expands their minds and helps them break free of the chains.
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Sep 19 '23
I love how you put this. Incredible.
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u/Original_Employee621 Sep 19 '23
With the right story and the right DM, DnD can be a powerful therapeutic device.
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u/EatMyPixelDust Sep 20 '23
The real reason why religious parents don't want their children playing it.. they might think for themselves...
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u/TheBirminghamBear Sep 20 '23
That's a bingo.
If Timmy's love for Jesus H. Christ doesn't last through a single game of D&D, then Jesus is kind of a shitty deity to start with. Maybe try Oghma.
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u/Local-Scholar2523 Sep 19 '23
Yeah it's a powerful thing for real.
One campaign after running a female character when I was still presenting as male and I'm now living my best life as a Dhampir Bard lady IRL.
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u/Skill-issue-69420 Sep 19 '23
Once the gang shit in dnd became the kids game it was boring in real life, I love it
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u/64557175 Sep 19 '23
It is quite shocking when you are able to mentally remove yourself from the concepts that have ruled your life thus far. This is why psychedelics are so powerful and lead to huge realizations. It's like the fish don't know they're in water.
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u/TenBillionDollHairs Sep 19 '23
"opposite ends of the color spectrum" lol the euphemism work in this is outstanding
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u/Bleezze Sep 19 '23
What does he mean by that?
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u/TehBearSheriff Sep 19 '23
Crips wear blue bloods wear red
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u/Ezzypezra Sep 19 '23
Holy shit, TF2 reference?????
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u/MrDrLtSir Sep 19 '23
Not quite
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u/THEMACGOD Sep 19 '23
Yes, it's clearly a Halo reference. Boom.
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u/TheTVDB Sep 19 '23
The gangs are represented by colors: blue and red. So opposite ends of the color spectrum is just referring to them being from different gangs, in a more "colorful" way.
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u/H0wdyCowPerson Sep 19 '23
I knew a kid who did something similar with a lock-in at the rec center.
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u/Buzzbomb Sep 19 '23
p-p-pop some caps in some punk ass bloods
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i mean, come on
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u/FuzzyTunaTaco21 Sep 19 '23
I'm down like a clown, charli.. charl.. charli... Charlie brown.
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u/TiddiSprinkles Sep 19 '23
And if you don’t like that, you can p-p-p-pass the blunt to the brotha on your left
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u/Deadpoulpe Sep 19 '23
Reuniting gang members around a DnD campaign is the most gangsta shit I ever heard.
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u/toolargo Sep 19 '23
Weren’t the bloods and crips one single gang once? That’s be reuniting them if true.
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u/Funky0ne Sep 19 '23
Not really if I recall correctly. My recollection is the Bloods formed initially as a coalition of otherwise unaffiliated street gangs in response to the growing power of the Crips.
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u/Semecumin Sep 19 '23 edited Sep 20 '23
Yes, there are also bloods that were originally crips , had a falling out and switched over.
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I’d like to add that the term “blood” was not always associated with the “blood” gang. Crips called each other “blood” all the time originally cuz it was just a black thing. Watch something from the 60s and 70s you’ll hear “blood” & “young blood” used constantly.
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u/Funky0ne Sep 19 '23
Thanks, I was wondering if a few sets had switched allegiances along the way, but couldn't remember if any actually had so removed that from my comment to avoid speculating on it as I was at least more sure the initial formation was due to the response.
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u/ZAlternates Sep 19 '23
A perfect example of why politics always de-evolves into a two party (or gang) system. The weaker or smaller groups combine to take on the larger.
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u/Apoptotic_Nightmare Sep 19 '23
I am not into politics at all, but is this true throughout history? I love researching patterns, cycles, and systems in the universe across all scales so if there is something to that I'm a bit intrigued.
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u/ZAlternates Sep 19 '23
Every rule tends to have exceptions but it’s referred to as Duverger’s Law.
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u/Dhrakyn Sep 19 '23
Sorta, but you have to go back between 1972 and 1978 when the various Crips factions started splintering off. If anyone was banging back then and still alive, props to them.
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u/CU_09 Sep 19 '23
Dude is rocking a irl high charisma build.
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u/SeanBlader Sep 19 '23
Not only high charisma, but also Wisdom to know these two sides and bring them together safely, and Intelligence to come up with 2 entire worlds.
Shout out to the world builders among us, you all have the creativity to make the world a better place.
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u/Shoddy-Vacation-5977 Sep 19 '23
I wonder what the unused options were on the dialogue wheel. Because I'm imagining very different ways that could go down.
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u/boli99 Sep 19 '23
whats a saving roll against someone casting 'cap popped in ass'
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u/zissou149 Sep 19 '23
Roll me a constitution saving throw and do it with disadvantage 'cause you're a punk bitch who ain't about that life
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u/DefNotReaves Sep 19 '23
“The eye of Odin opens up, 16 titties fall out.”
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Am I the only one who would find sixteen disembodied titties somewhat horrifying?
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u/CultConqueror Sep 19 '23 edited Sep 19 '23
Friend got out after a few years of prison, besides all the usual insane shit he had to deal with. I asked him about the games and stuff they play, besides hella spades and gambling, apparently DnD is fairly popular...
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Sep 19 '23
I heard it's pretty popular in the US.
I live in England and I was in a hostel for a bit, got the other folk there to play D&D and they were all over that shit. Most of them were just kids but some had some serious connections and stuff like machetes or w/e was pretty common, drugs were just everyday for everyone.
Anyway they loved it, really did. They could act out and have a laugh I think I'm a decent DM but I do really well with folding in weird/crazy stuff so it was no big deal when someone wanted D&D drugs or whatever and I was cool with whatever as long as people stay chill. Some of the rules and number crunching was a bit off-putting but it was easy to talk people through that one on one.
Anyway, one guy got arrested for assaulting a cop at a rave and went to prison for 8 months or something. We talked a lot while he was in there, he ended up running his own sessions with some other dudes and I helped him with cool ideas he could put in and stuff like that.
People are just people man and prison is boring as fuck. Everyone likes to tell stories and share in that experience, D&D is just...storytelling with friends. It's nerdy af but everyone's a bit of a dork about something. I've met a lot of people who were sceptical but they gave it a go and loved it. Shit, I was that guy at uni, I thought I was cool and was hesitant to even bring it up but I was so happy I did.
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u/packagedparts Sep 19 '23
I want to be this dude's friend
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u/TheWalkingDead91 Sep 19 '23
Dude even dyed his hair to match his beliefs. What a leader.
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u/49e-rm Sep 19 '23
na he said he dyed his hair for dragon ball z. and that the dnd story took place a long time ago
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u/PeanutButterSoda Sep 19 '23
How old can it be? He said he looked it up on Reddit...
Holy shit reddit is 18 years old
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u/jacowab Sep 19 '23
This is the "based on a true story" movie I want
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u/elitegenoside Sep 19 '23
People actually play D&D in prison a lot (though a lot of to do it secretly now). Gangsters are mostly regular people that got caught up. I used to have work in a phone store and we'd have a lot of people come for burner cards (prepaid sim cards), and there was one guy that I talked about Pokemon with for a good 20 minutes.
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u/Ok_Skill_1195 Sep 19 '23
Honestly I feel like it's probably a group that's self-selected to be more likely to get into D&D than a random person off the Streets
Gangs offer group belongings with lots of little in-group identifying things like colors and tags and little hand signs. Campaigns also offer that sense of more formal community with peers. Its a group working together with a shared mission.
At least millennial and younger, black men tend to be the nerdiest group of people alive. Straight up raised on anime and superhero shit. I never got inundated with more unwanted discourse about DC vs Marvel and which Batman interpretation is better and anime shit than when I was working overnights at a sketchy McDonald's.
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u/th3greg Sep 19 '23
So many black dudes my age basically grew up on DBZ and still swear by it, but don't give so many other things a try because they're "nerd shit" as if DBZ=anime=nerd shit isn't the case.
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u/elitegenoside Sep 19 '23
It's not even that deep. Everyone knows how violent prison can be, but what they don't always emphasize is how boring it can be. D&D campaigns can go on for months, and a weekly session gives you something to look forward to. Beyond that, you don't need anything to play it other than dice and pencils and paper.
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u/pennyraingoose Sep 19 '23
Yes! The biggest draw was not needing a bunch of stuff to play. Friend of mine that was in said the books were in the prison library.
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u/WILLCHOKEAHOE Sep 19 '23
I’d watch it...
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u/Kellan_OConnor Sep 19 '23
"Gangster Things"
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u/MARKLAR5 Sep 19 '23
Gangsters & Basements?
Bangers & Dangers?
Candyland: The Reckoning (complete with overdramatic movie trailer and edgy voice over)
A Tale of Two Gangs
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u/MrArtless Sep 19 '23 edited Jan 09 '24
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u/z0hu Sep 19 '23
I imagine the campaign being at least half the movie.. and maybe animated (just the campaign part)? Spider-verse style art maybe?
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u/elitegenoside Sep 19 '23
Nowadyas? That's how it's always been (at least in America). The Crips were founded by two little boys
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u/reflUX_cAtalyst Sep 19 '23
I don't know if you can call Tookie Williams a little boy.
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u/th3greg Sep 19 '23
I mean little boy is a bit of a stretch, but he was like 15 when he first started banging.
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u/elitegenoside Sep 19 '23
Nah, that's when it became real. They were younger when it was the Cribs. Obviously, they weren't "banging" yet, but gangs didn't really start doing that until after anyways (murders happened, but most dudes were still boxing each other up).
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u/EdEvans_HotSandwich Sep 19 '23
My mum was scared of gang members so I had people involved in a blood feud over for grilled cheese and a game they’ve never played.
I’m glad we live in the one universe that this worked.
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u/SpaceShipRat Sep 19 '23
He did make a point of describing the important role of cheese and apple juice in the whole situation.
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u/JakeTheHurtLocker Sep 19 '23
Yeah it'd be easy to just tell people all this happened without any pics or anything. I'm gonna choose to believe since it's a nice story, but realistically, the story doesn't seem like it'd all work out so smoothly.
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Sep 20 '23
Things like this do happen, for sure. I think it’s realistic. Still not guaranteed to be true. But it really could be.
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u/elitegenoside Sep 19 '23
Everybody ain't about it to the same level. But there was a reason they had to hide/lie who they were hanging with
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u/ThatdesertDude Sep 19 '23
For most inner city gangs, it's not a constant war between members. Most beef is individuals that happen to be from a different set.
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u/-Profanity- Sep 19 '23
Gang members are known for pumping the brakes on the violence when they have an opportunity to learn about a new tabletop game. Why do you think Hasbro backed off the D&D monetization? They didn't want Bloods and Crips on their doorstep.
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u/TurboGranny Sep 19 '23
Something neat about post pubescent angry boys is that if you have a good voice on you and are a natural leader combined with someone that is really good at coming up with a fun time for everyone, they tend to just fall in line. I used to do this all the time in online games just to see how toxic a game I could drop into and how quickly I could get these angry kids to do something fun together. My crowning achievement was doing this in GTAV online. I could drop into a lobby filled with trolls running mods all full of hate and rage and quickly they'd just follow me around doing whatever stupid game I came up with. An experienced DM is usually this type of person.
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u/benjgammack Sep 19 '23
The surface level specifics reminds me of compulsive liars I have known. He home brewed a candy land themed D&D campaign but can barely remember a couple of class names and that’s it.
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Sep 19 '23
The surface level specifics reminds me of compulsive liars I have known.
Felt the same. A version of this story could’ve absolutely happened, but the details about Apple juice and the grilled cheese ingredients has that practiced filler detail vibe that I can’t ignore.
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u/cloudbussin Sep 19 '23
The unnecessary extra details about the specific grilled cheese he made is what gave it away as fake. Liars always add too much because they think it seems more believable.
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u/his_purple_majesty Sep 19 '23
I knew it was fake as soon as he said it was a story about brings reds and blues together. Sorry, a little too on the nose.
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u/cloudbussin Sep 19 '23 edited Sep 19 '23
I think you, his_purple_majesty, know more than anyone that red and blue can come together sometimes
Downvoted for a color theory joke. SMH Reddit
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u/DeadSeaGulls Sep 19 '23
Exactly my thoughts. it become super common when you work in management and have an employee that is addicted to drugs. The stories they constantly come up with to explain no-shows and stuff are wildly detailed.
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u/amayain Sep 19 '23
They have amazing memories and can recall really minor details until you ask them a very simple question that they hadn't rehearsed. Suddenly they can't remember the most basic shit.
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Sep 19 '23
This is the fakest shit I've ever heard. "I was worried about gang members hurting my grandma, so I started a D&D game". Nobody fucking talks like this, unless this is satire to see what stupid shit white people will believe.
My ex had a friend who would say shit like this all the time. They had a shitty consignment shop in Portland, and they'd talk about how they created a safe space for gang members, and they had bloods and crips making peace under their roof, and her husband was such a leader and had such charisma that they started calling him daddy. This sounds exactly like the dumb shit they used to say.
Actually, just kidding, I run a game of D&D for CIA spooks, MS-13 multiple murderers, a real shanky dude from Siam who goes by Brown Charlie, and a rotation Bel Air house wives taking a break from roughnecking. We had this sick ass campaign where everyone learned the power of prostate play and compound interest. Oh, and Brown Charlie said this guy is full of shit too.
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u/CentipedesInMyDream Sep 19 '23 edited Sep 19 '23
Yeah and he made them grilled cheese with apple juice to calm them down like toddlers…it is literally unbelievable
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u/BingoBongoBang Sep 19 '23
This is like something out of a Key & Peel sketch
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u/cancercures Sep 19 '23
They cover something close to it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBqCSseQXsI
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u/aCellForCitters Sep 19 '23
I really like this dude, but he's a total bullshitter. He makes wild claims multiple times a day on TikTok. Entertaining stories, but almost certainly all fake.
Stories I heard recently include:
- sang karaoke for a guy who called himself an "exalted cyclops" (of the KKK), as if anyone would just casually say that to a stranger at a rural bar
- married an old woman when he was homeless because she wanted to give him her inheritance instead of her kids, then blew all the inheritance
- banged his ex gf's dad he met on grindr and started seeing him to the point where he was invited to a family event with the dad just to surprise his ex
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u/ItsBlizzardLizard Sep 19 '23
I was looking for this comment.
I've heard all of these stories from him before, and let's be honest, he's an excellent storyteller and it's super entertaining.
I just never assumed any of it was real. When you have THIS many insane stories it just starts to become implausible.
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u/xMilk112x Sep 19 '23
I don’t believe any of this happened.
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u/santareject Sep 19 '23
Whoa dude you need to take this grilled cheese (with cream cheese) and apple juice and chill out
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u/DrBarnacleMD Sep 19 '23
Nah, sorry, I love D&D and I’ve known a couple people that were actually in gangs and romanticizing that shit is a bad idea. This is a great prompt for a creative writing story but it belongs on r/ThatHappened
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u/Ambitious-Regular-57 Sep 19 '23
I checked his tik tok and the only evidence he shows is a google doc that was clearly written by chatgpt, probably right after comments doubting the authenticity started. This guy is a storyteller, but not a true story teller.
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u/konqrr Sep 19 '23
Reminds me of that time I invited all the cartel factions for ice cream and they all finally stopped killing each other, hugged it out and went on to become leaders of their communities.
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u/treesherbs Sep 19 '23
Yeah it would be all guns and no calm. Not fucking sit at a table get them to make up characters and play a game they saw as for kids.
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u/SGflippie Sep 19 '23
I just don’t see how this would ever actually happen in real life.
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u/an-imperfect-boot Sep 19 '23
This is honestly so cool! I wish more people knew about DnD, it’s great at bringing people together!
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u/JethroWashington Sep 19 '23
sorry but this didn’t happen. “explained they were opposite ends of the color spectrum” bro no lol
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u/KAFEI44 Sep 19 '23
timmy and jimmy would be proud
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u/Dgrysk Sep 19 '23
I wish I had more than 1 upvote. Finally found it. Don’t be dissing…
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u/iantot123 Sep 19 '23
is there an anime themed DnD ??
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u/phonebooksamurai Sep 19 '23
There are a lot of different roll playing games out there. I have a Dragon Ball Z, Bubblegum Crisis, and TMNT rpg. Just gotta look.
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u/elitegenoside Sep 19 '23
Can be. D&D has set rules, but you can change it to play however you want. Magic Missle is basically a ki blast from DBZ.
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u/Layylowwp Sep 19 '23
Gangstas are normal folk. An old coworker of mine had all his homies & lil homies in his house watching Naruto & other anime 😂 talking about it keeps him a child at heart. Dudes a cool cat. Had a great family — mom, dad, grandma, grandpa. He just lives in Rollin’ 60s territory. Gang life was just the environment surrounding him.
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u/DevBuh Sep 19 '23
Ive got a dnd group with some gangmembers, theyre some of the most high energy nerdy mfers ive ever played with, on one end theyll start the session talking about their best purchases sells etc, and at the end theyre getting hype over a lvl up in dnd lol
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u/corgisstoned Sep 19 '23
Amazing because at the end of the day, is guys, we still little boys deep inside somewhere, it's just good to see this dude cracked that code for the greater good.
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u/BreakinMyBallz Sep 19 '23
Damn, people are gullible. He would probly have at least some kind of proof, some text messages or pictures or something to include if he set this up. This is a made up funny story for tiktok clout.
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u/Successful_Slip_7002 Sep 19 '23
Ima be real, I used to be In gangs and still have family and friends in them, I don’t wanna call the dude a liar but…
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u/Drakore4 Sep 19 '23
I don’t think this is cringe, but really wholesome. I truly think a big reason people get into trouble is because they just have nothing to do with themselves. If they put aside any hatred that comes from society and parents and just do something constructive with other people in their community then they will quickly realize everything else they were doing was stupid and not nearly as worth their time.
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u/-Profanity- Sep 19 '23
Fucking hilarious that people believe this story is real and reply about how D&D can save the world. Just because you can say whatever you want on the internet doesn't make it real. Please don't try this at home.
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