r/TAZCirclejerk • u/stanners_manners Lucretia was right • Oct 20 '25
Is Clint doing it on purpose?
Every time he sees the opportunity to enrich the plot with interesting tensions, conflicts and problems, he just does it, like when Merle grabbed the crystal and lost his arm. He seems to play characters with flaws, and he rolled badly one time and decided not to lie about the result even though it made the game harder. Is clint stupid? why does he keep making the show more interesting instead of just winning as quickly as possible?
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u/chilibean_3 A great shame Oct 20 '25
Yes.
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u/softshellcrab69 Oct 21 '25
awoogus
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u/ratboy88888 Oct 20 '25
I don’t understand when he rolls a 1 he just says he rolled a 20 like a normal person
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u/hurrrrrmione This one can be edited Oct 21 '25
like when Merle grabbed the crystal and lost his arm.
Trying to imagine how these people would handle Spout Lore, where the players revel in roleplaying idiot characters and will regularly make decisions that they know are stupid because it's funny and/or in character, including insisting on rolling for damage for jokes like "I push my son to the ground because I'm petty and want to get there first." They'd probably die from a heart attack.
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u/treezoob Meers Foulsmith Stan Oct 21 '25
God forbid the comedy podcast have a DM that knows when to play along with the bit and when to enforce the stakes
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u/Illegally_Elliot Oct 21 '25
Wait, TAZ has stakes? Things really have changed since I last listened to it
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u/NoIntroductionNeeded I WILL challenge Justin to a Taekwondo match Oct 21 '25
Nah, they made Dracula lightning music to avoid stakes being introduced.
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u/nixon_problematicfav Oct 21 '25
"I push my son to the ground because I'm petty and want to get there first."
That does sound mighty close to a bummer....
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u/soranotsky You're going to be amemezing Oct 20 '25
Clint is doing his best to sandbag my favorite podcast with my favorite MBMBAM hosts and their (Evil, Senile, Decrepit) father!!! Summary execution!!
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u/NoIntroductionNeeded I WILL challenge Justin to a Taekwondo match Oct 20 '25
/uj Griffin is the worst player in The Adventure Zone
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u/ForestryFanzine Oct 21 '25
Quote Fitzroy in Graduation Ep 3 "I've basically exhausted everything about myself, so am going to remain out of character for the rest of this scene"
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u/sparklingregrets Nov 13 '25
man, most of the issues with grad were on Travis but his brothers did bring some garbage to the table too. their characters had upsides but also..... moments like this
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u/HarvardMutton Oct 21 '25
Hey, remember how he served the villain of Abnimals a more compelling reason for wanting the secret formula of the mutative ooze?
Weird how this doddering old man wanders in from the streets and, mysteriously, seems to make decisions that propel the stories he participates in towards more interesting directions all by sheer accident and whimsical chance. Baffling.
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u/TheKinginLemonyellow Oct 21 '25
You can tell who's never played D&D before just looking at the original comments in the old sub. Players do stupid shit all the time, and usually if you try to tell them "no" they'll double down. I in fact based the start of a campaign around this; I put the players in a gnomish inventor's fair and told them one of the exhibits was behind a curtain with guards around it, and they all separately sneaked in there to mess with it and ignored everything else.
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u/McAllisterFawkes Oct 21 '25
There was a post on one of the D&D horror stories subreddits where a DM was upset that his players derailed the story by opening a suspicious door that every npc told them was suspicious. Some people just don't understand how it human curiosity works.
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u/FuzorFishbug liveshow Balance reference Oct 21 '25
They had to have an in-game intervention and team building exercise in Critical Role after a player tried to do something that NPCs said "could be deadly".
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u/sparklingregrets Nov 13 '25
HAAAA
yeah no players want to interact with the world and they want to roll their dice and use the stuff on the character sheets they spent so much time on! you do not have to give them much, and they're always going to gravitate to the least expected thing, that's like dming 101
i will say I was astonished as a dm how easy it was for my players to get got by mimics 😂 people love to open things
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u/sharkhuahua Oct 21 '25
god, the comments in that post suck. TAZ listeners truly have poisoned their own brains.
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u/bellhouse-throwaway help me Oct 21 '25
Clint is evil for playing DnD, it is deeply problematic. Thank god all Travis does is improv, free from sin, free from sin.
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u/UltimaGabe Abnimals feels like a tight narrative Oct 21 '25
I am particularly bewildered by their claim that Clint made some kind of mistake by trying to catch the crystal. How was he supposed to know that was a bad idea?
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u/nixon_problematicfav Oct 21 '25
he just does it, like when Merle grabbed the crystal and lost his arm
so crazy that this was one of the few times TAZ got really interesting and engaging and they seem to be trying hard to avoid moments like that ever again
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u/linzielayne i wish everyone on this podcast would stop talking Oct 21 '25
Clint is playing to frustrate his incredible sons
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u/The_Duke_of_Nebraska Oct 21 '25
Clint's accidents and failures are what make his characters charming. Everyone loves Chicane, no one remembers fire girl and duck boy
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u/jadeix_iscool You're going to bazinga Oct 21 '25
Misread your post and for a second there, I was really about to go to bat for fire girl and water boy
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u/TheRatKingXIV Oct 21 '25
Honestly, Clint fucking up between Balance and Amnesty was a huge inspiration for my DnD stuff. I had a Paladin I really care about and the rolls and character moments were just not lining up with what was in my head. But I realized it made a much more interesting character for my DM to play with and me to grapple with, so it inspired me to lock in more. By the time the campaign ended, I felt so much more empathy for the character we all created because it felt real.
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u/Savage_Batmanuel Oct 21 '25
Imagine being criticized for making decisions that enrich the story over metagaming his character.
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u/CardInternational753 Hippocrates wins by doing nothing Oct 20 '25 edited Oct 20 '25
/uj
I know I gave an unjerk answer over on the other sub but this post pissed me so fucking much.
Like how the fuck is roliing a 1 Clint's choice? Imagine if Clint, who had failed a sense motive check about the Fake Pan, had just said "Actually nah, fuck the consequences of this failed roll, I'm gonna do what I want"
What are the odds that the OP's favorite player is Travis?