History WebAnimation / PuffinForest

** The main reason why the players at Ben's Table didn't want to play Traveler. Spaceships are so prohibitively expensive [[note]]they cost 150 million dollars[[/note]] that people can only afford shares of a ship. Moreover, instead of starting the game as the character they want the players have to roll for life events. Thus the noble became a half-deaf exile [[note]][[CharClone his family was wiped out, he joined the army under an assumed name]], he was made deaf in one ear by cannon fire, and he was imprisoned for a time by pirates[[/note]] and the scholar became a disgraced outcast [[note]]he got caught stealing someone else's work, got kicked out from the university, and when he tried to do independent research on an alien planet his ship broke down and he ended up stranded there for years[[/note]]. On a more meta level, springing that kind of character creation on them with no warning certainly didn't help their enthusiasm.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers:
** Ben likes to give quests like "Helping poor little Timmy find his red wagon", "matching a dress that goes with the noble lady's hair", or "'''STOPPING ZALTHADAR THE GOD EATER FROM CONSUMING OUR WORLD AND ENDING ALL OF EXISTENCE AS WE KNOW IT!'''"
** In the Cocaine video, he talks about a game he ran with Dingo from ''WebAnimation/DingoDoodles'', Jess from WebAnimation/JessJackdaw and Logan. "He's cool."

** Unintentionally on Ben's part, but one of the [=NPCs=] in the Malikar and Covenant campaigns was an elderly Tortle wizard. The party just called him [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda Oogway]] and refused to listen to him when he tried to tell them his real name.

* DumbMuscle: Ben's fighter character, Aligaros, who always tried to use his axe to solve problems and kept getting arrested because he thought getting blackout drunk nightly was a good idea. When Katya convinces a revenant to leave by talking to it, he comments it was like she used an axe, but with her mind. Creating the RunningGag that he should use his mind axe to solve the problem. [[spoiler: Which resulted in him taking a level of Psion in order to have an actual Mind Axe ability that he sat on for ''months'' JustForPun.]]

* JustForPun: One of Ben's players in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWqFS1YSVJ4 Crossover with Dingo Doodles]] played as a character named Justin Case, with a cousin named Justin Time.

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

** Pretty much OncePerEpisode, usually based on either his [[FailOSuckyName failure to name stuff ahead of time]], or other peoples' drawing compared to his. It's especially notable in regards to his role in most groups, where he makes it out to sound like the other players are always out to get his character (with him justifying it by showing that his characters are annoying in-universe) yet if you [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn9CY6Ob1uM&list=PLz3eRfQfVDYM-QrDH7vc94t-aCX2Yk29V&index=3&t=0s seen the videos of the sessions he's played in]], most of the other players usually are quite entertained by his characters antics.

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g7xICOq4zA D&D Story: Journey to "Magic-North-Korea]]" Ben really wanted his party to try out the war machines from Descent into Avernus (Film/MadMax [[RatedMForManly in Hell]]). However, they generally preferred to hoof it no matter the circumstances. Eventually he had to veto every other possible method of travel to get them to use a war machine.

* TalkingWeapon: In the Malikar campaign, the players collected way too many talking weapons. These include a defective sword of warning that keeps saying "IWarnedYou" whenever any bad happens no matter how small, a [[BladeOnAStick glaive]] named Barathorne that talks too much, a sword of ice and fire named Greg, and the evil Mournblade.

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: One of Azrael's complaints in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHKNbvCoDks "D&D Story: Too many betrayals!"]]. The Covenant Campaign had eight [=NPCs=] betray the party, back-to-back across two sessions. While Ben can justify each betrayal individually, all these occurring so quickly has eroded player trust.

** The party that fought Tar Hogar/Garathor. The DM himself considered them [[NeutralEvil Pure Evil]], but Ben was still very affable and friendly.

* CoolPet:
** The party that Ben GM's for in the Parnast story has a giant flying snake, a bear wizard, a psychic raven with a third eye, and a twin pair of mephits dressed in baby clothes.
** In the ''[[https://youtube.com/watch?v=RrYkSM4OG4U Too Many Pets]]'' video he talks about how he has a problem with players trying to keep every cute monster they meet as pets. He also explains how the party added a ghost dog detective and a demon dog to their collection of pets. The same group has several more strange pets that he doesn't explain how they got.
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUOyaevNQJY "D&D Stories: funny moments from my campaign"]], the party in the Malikar and Covenant storylines is shown to have a flying whale named Bernard and a giant spider named Bitey.
** A group of NPC adventurers in the Covenant storyline called the Dream Team that the players hired to do a minor quest for them had a pet hippo.

* BalefulPolymorph: The final villain of the Covenant campaign is defeated when [[spoiler: the players accidentally use an artifact to turn him into a potted plant, which also turns the warforged hero into a human. They then get rid of him by banishing him to [[PlaceWorseThanDeath California]]]].

*** Taken UpToEleven in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HjGNQGsBVM Part 2]], in which the party (except the one who'd just joined) wanted to frame Wallace for the crimes being committed in Parnast, even after the villain is revealed. [[spoiler: Made even funnier by TheReveal that ''all'' of the members of the party were ''LawfulGood''.]]

** Taken UpToEleven in "[[HeroicBSOD DM.exe has crashed]]!" [[https://youtu.be/WUA5aCOF3y0 which must be seen to be believed]]. The players break into a school because they were too impatient to get a warrant to enter legally and get into a fight, and an idiotic samurai player tries to defuse the situation by firing a gun, and it just gets worse from there, as he gets into a completely unnecessary standoff with the police, which all could have been avoided if they had just waited for the warrant.

** "Is the table made of ''mahogany''?"
** "[[EurekaMoment Tar Hogar!?! Garathor??! Tar Hogar??!]]" [[labelnote:explanation]]The party was hired by an ObviousJudas named Garathor, but kept being attacked by monsters sent by some guy named Tar Hogar. It wasn't until Garathor betrayed them that they realized Garathor is a anagram for Tar Hogar, causing the bard to yell the quote[[/labelnote]]
** Casting ''Darkness''[[labelnote:explanation]]A sorcerer Ben played with attempted to cast Darkness on a dragon to make it unable to see them. He realized too late that dragons have blindsight, so it can see through magical darkness, while the party can't[[/labelnote]]

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Mordenkainen of ''TabletopGame/{{Greyhawk}}'' game is a bit of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who generally is more focused on his schemes than the little people who are caught up in them. Mordenkainen in Ben's ''Curse of Strahd'' campaign is rather nice and friendly and also speaks in an Australian accent.

** 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]]''[[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 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 Langd]][[SpellMyNameWithAnS ''d'' ]][[SpellMyNameWithAnS rosa]], but that's much more excusable.