Please do an episode on computers, hacking, and how much people misunderstand those things.

@philips315

Жыл бұрын

Can't wait for him to tear that trope to pieces.

@macoppy6571

Жыл бұрын

*types furiously* must prevent JP from revealing hacking secrets *typing intensifies*

@mariustan9275

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. I'd liek to see him show how actual hacking works and looked hothing like hollywood hacking. What, you think actual hackers invade your computer with popups? Or whatever "mainframe" even means?

@stevemc01

Жыл бұрын

pffffft You really need something like that? Useless. Just use the classic: *mashes active strobe light into face* *has total seizure on keyboard* "I've entered the US Department of Defense archives. Now time to end that War Thunder argument once and for all."

@michimatsch5862

Жыл бұрын

"Hacking is used like modern magic. A magic gesture is made and locks are opened, the world changes, and secrets are learned."

I love how his side characters have better continuity than most TV show characters

@catosbobu1239

Жыл бұрын

wdym?

@richardarriaga6271

Жыл бұрын

Rian Johnston definitely followed his advice.

@teddyhaines6613

Жыл бұрын

Rebel Freedom Force: Are we a joke to you?

@Gabrong

Жыл бұрын

for me the dark empire background stuff is the reason I rarely watch the episodes. is just too much, too long for my taste

@QueenAleenaFan

Жыл бұрын

He's actually a writer. Most tv creators have no writing experience judging by the crap they spew

I crawled through a dungeon once. Its hard on the knees.

@freetoplayking7362

Жыл бұрын

at least it wasn't one of those which are lined with arrows

@PrismTheLoser

Жыл бұрын

@@freetoplayking7362 You think arrows are the worst? I once crawled through a mimic dungeon. It was made of mimics. I don’t have a tongue or tentacle fetish.

@YEY0806

Жыл бұрын

​@@freetoplayking7362 or bars of soap

@J0hnHenrySNEEDen

Жыл бұрын

I wemt to a dungeon once and i couldnt sit normally for weeks

@iliadnetfear2586

Жыл бұрын

I go to the dungeon every week. What? You think those snakes in the snake trap have been alive for centuries or can go without food? And that skeleton you found riddled with arrows warning you of the pressure plate arrow trap? How do you think more arrows got in there? My family has been on retainer maintaining the dungeon for generations. It's a family bidness.

We lost the dragon model, so the boss of our last D&D dungeon ended up being a giant pineapple that needed defeating.

@KairoStark

Жыл бұрын

High AC, tons of acid damage... I've had worse

@mrlaz9011

Жыл бұрын

the king of all fruits

@Superkid33

Жыл бұрын

LOL! A giant pineapple ?! That’s amazing! XD

@YukaTakeuchiFan

Жыл бұрын

Did its challengers wind up with scarred faces as a result of the battle?

@ArachD206

Жыл бұрын

As someone who absolutely hates pineapple, doesn't sound too bad of a villain.

You know, oddly enough the Skyrim puzzles being super easy makes a lot of sense. You always find them in tombs with draughr and the like, so an easy explanation is that they are there to prevent them from moving around. They're deliberately dead easy for anyone with a functioning brain because they're only meant to stop things with non-functioning brains.

@YEY0806

Жыл бұрын

That is canon actually

@johnnybravo8664

Жыл бұрын

Games need multiple difficulty options. For example, having a separate selectable difficulty for combat and puzzles.

@maallos334mi8

Жыл бұрын

And what I think gets glossed over a lot, a lot of the Drauger traps can be used to kill enemies, so having them easily identified to the player is a great way for them to feel smart getting enemies to trigger it. Which is why I hate mods that cheat and make the pressure plates almost completely invisible, replacing the model with stock pebbles that look like normal floor, with no unique identifier (like… have a rock be a darker shade or something, any indicator for an observant player to see and recognize) and tripwire that’s just… invisible, unable to be broken by an arrow and cannot be triggered by enemies.

@michaelbuckers

Жыл бұрын

Oh boy. I still have PTSD from Oblivion when you make your way through a dungeon and pick the hardest lock just to find a singular shovel or something.

@msf2000

Жыл бұрын

​​@@michaelbuckersMaster level locked chest in Skyrim with only 3 coins and a minor healing potion

Here's an idea: A fantasy world with tons of inexplicable dungeons that always restock with monsters and loot turns out to be the long abandoned fantasy theme park of an intergalactic empire, and the residents are descendents of all the staff members and tourists who were trapped there when the empire collapsed.

@johnsayles8032

Жыл бұрын

What if there was a place with all the zip of Nuka cola? Wouldn't that be the cheer cheer cheeriest place in all the world?

@michimatsch5862

Жыл бұрын

Oh, that's neat. Have them ritualistically restock everything. Not knowing why it is done but that it was always done and thus must be done moving onward. Throw in a pseudo-religion about that as well (maybe they think that the people from the stars will visit them if they keep fulfillfing their duty. Missunderstanding old fliers talking about the tourists from across the galaxy).

@FirstLast-cg2nk

Жыл бұрын

@@michimatsch5862 Or just have it all be done by automated systems that no one understands, and even the descendants of the staff are only able to do very basic, surface level maintenance. You could have the plotline be that things have started breaking down and suddenly the dungeons are spawning monsters incorrectly, either placing monsters from the wrong random encounter charts, items from different loot tables, or having them spawn... incorrectly. Every wonder what Missingno would look like if it that corrupted code was converted into flesh and blood? Or if someone used the warp point at the end of the dungeon when the warp function wasn't working properly? Ever wonder what it would be like to experience a NoClip in real life with no Backrooms to catch you? You could have a legit horror story.

@carolinelabbott2451

Жыл бұрын

Colossal Cave. ❤😊

@blshouse

Жыл бұрын

See classic AD&D modules Dungeonland and Castle Greyhawk.

One of my favorite DND stories is about the 3.5E wizard player who bought a keep to store all his loot, hid it with illusion magic, filled it with traps and summoned monsters to protect his stuff, and than in real life woke up in a cold sweat 2 months later realizing what he had dun. So yes, dungeons simply existing is actually realistic. I mean think about real life dangerous locations like Chernobyl that high ranking scientists regularly visit to study, do that but magic. Or go a step further and look at real life abandoned military bases that have become tourist attractions. Look to real life for inspiration for fiction and realize just how strange real life is.

@macoppy6571

Жыл бұрын

A WWII era aircraft carrier is strangely built like a dungeon. The Final Countdown vs. Dragonheart.

@mariustan9275

Жыл бұрын

That's actually a cool idea, for qizards to go to a place where a magical nuke detonated and they are studying the magical radiation everywhere. That could be a cool landscape, a sort of apocalypse zone inside of a fantasy world populated with magically transformed animals.

@cara-seyun

Жыл бұрын

Do you remember what the story was called?

@filmandfirearms

Жыл бұрын

The fact that you wrote "lute", as in the instrument, instead of "loot" makes me imagine a greedy wizard/bard multiclass with a massive lute collection

@Calebgoblin

Жыл бұрын

Dang that's a lot of lutes

why does this series have such consistent characters, they're used everywhere 😭

@cara-seyun

Жыл бұрын

He’s flexing on other writers being unable to keep continuity

@maxwaspace5348

Жыл бұрын

Easier than making new sprites

@mochaleo3115

Жыл бұрын

A clever way to spice up asset reuse!

@myboatforacar

Жыл бұрын

Also comedy

@Ultrox007

Жыл бұрын

re-using assets saves on art time.

Quick historical correction : A dungeon originally meant the tallest, largest tower of the castle, sometimes also known as the keep. It became associated with prison because if you want to keep a prisoner in a castle, atop the highest tower is the best place because if he breaks free from his cell, he has to go through more of the castle than anywhere else to fully escape !

@willmako5009

Жыл бұрын

If I remember my middle school classes on the topic the dungeon would have the center of command of the castle in it, specifically because of its "master tower" role but I may be misremembering

@kerwinbrown4180

Жыл бұрын

There is that story of some prisoner letting down her hair.

@gdragonlord749

Жыл бұрын

Technically that was the donjon which is a french word but the name kind of stuck once moved underground

@schwarzerritter5724

Жыл бұрын

I thought that is called a "donjon". EDIT: Oh, I get it.

@antoinelachapelle3405

Жыл бұрын

@@gdragonlord749 When William the conqueror and the Normans took over England, they brought alot of French words with them that then became English through local interactions between the English people and the now French nobility, as opposed to the traditionally more Germanic root names the English used Donjon - Dungeon instead of Keep Boeuf - Beef instead of cow/ox Porc - Pork instead of Pig, etc Funnily enough, those last 2, you can see the French influence on the **food** made of those animals, versus the germanic influence on the actual animal -because the English peasants worked with the animals where as the nobility only ever bothered with the prepared food

The darkest dungeon monologue at the opening made me crack a wide grin. The more TWA in my feed, the better

@shouryuuken4147

Жыл бұрын

Also "Overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer" at the end!

@adriftinglink

Жыл бұрын

Yeah man. I caught it too. I should really just jump in and finish that game. It’s so good.

@Thatguy-fp7rh

Жыл бұрын

If you haven't already a darkest dungeon revamp came out called black reliquary, it's very good

@ConnanTheCivilized

Жыл бұрын

I didn’t even know what it was from, but now I’m interested, thanks.

@hunterkirkland736

Жыл бұрын

As a big Darkest Dungeon fan, that intro bit put a smile on my face. :)

You could make a dungeon with incredibly counterintuitive solutions needed to get anywhere, unavoidable death traps that you can stumble upon with no warning, treasures with horrible secrets, and other random crap everywhere. Oh wait, that's tomb of horrors.

@offandsphere6788

Жыл бұрын

wasn't tomb of horrors made by a guy that said something along the lines of "if a player is being a problem, drop a 10d10 lightning bolt on them as a DM"

@ScorbunGame

Жыл бұрын

That could actually work if in universe the dungeon is made by huge dick trickster who wants to make the most frustrating, dangerous dungeon possible just because he gets a kick out of making adventurers rage quit.

@michimatsch5862

Жыл бұрын

I mean. That thing was specifically created to murder pcs. If everyone at the table wants that...

@tomkerruish2982

Жыл бұрын

​@@offandsphere6788Sounds like Gary.

@RayPoreon

Жыл бұрын

@@offandsphere6788 Pretty sure it was made by Gygax himself. So yeah, probably.

The troll cave story makes me want to make a recurring dungeon that's nonsensically following the party wherever they go...

@Fluffkitscripts

8 ай бұрын

Curse: door to doom. Whenever the afflicted person or persons pass through a doorway, that doorway instead leads to a dungeon of the caster’s construction, set apart from space in a manner similar to a bag of holding.

@ViirinSoftworks

6 күн бұрын

There are a lot of Dungeon Core stories out there, but not one like that as far as I know.

Nice Darkest Dungeon callout: for when a game about dungeon crawling requires as much patients and stress as an actual job.

@adriftinglink

Жыл бұрын

For real

@MiguelMorales-cs1mn

Жыл бұрын

That's supposed to be the point though, lmao

@stevenmarshall653

Жыл бұрын

Yay! We getting stressed up in here! 🎉🎉🎉

@RayPoreon

Жыл бұрын

And considering how often your characters catch mental illnesses or diseases, 'patient's seems like the right word.

“I’m being cancelled!” is a nice addition to that “Apology” video trend 😂

With how cynical Jp is in these episodes, you call this The Darkest Dungeon Video

@thisgoddamusernamestoodamnlong

11 ай бұрын

sometimes I actually wonder if he's ok. he seems to hate anything and everything

@ponponpatapon9670

8 ай бұрын

@@thisgoddamusernamestoodamnlong from the bottom of my heart, i sincerely apologize that some of us are critical of the media we consume 😢

Speaking of mimics, one of the most evil things I've ever encountered in a Final Fantasy game was the save point mimic for FF12; they introduce the concept early with something obvious, but then there are two more elsewhere to mess with you when you're least ready for it.

@rocketslime5772

Жыл бұрын

I was so glad those things turned into actual save points after they died, pure evil creatures

@MusicoftheDamned

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, the Crystalbugs suck, especially since unlike most regular mimics, they look like the things you prioritize going to when you're already badly injured instead of your greed doing you in. In that sense, their form makes far more sense than usual mimics' forms usually do as well.

@alixmalone19

6 ай бұрын

That IS evil

Can you do one on sympathetic villains? Cuz I don’t wanna make something that challenges the audience when I can do it wrong

@unicorntomboy9736

Жыл бұрын

Not a villain per say, but the character Takuto Maruki from Persona 5 Royal comes to mind

@mariustan9275

Жыл бұрын

@@unicorntomboy9736 He is technically an antagonist, but not a villain. He just wants to eliminate sadness permanently, but that's impossible without vastly changing some people. In one instance he changed a person's hobby because he thought it would suit him better. At that point he may as well make people stuck in an endless haze of happiness. It's technically happiness, but is it truely?

@cara-seyun

Жыл бұрын

Barbarossa from Pirates of the Caribbean

@EternityKingdomsHeadHoncho

Жыл бұрын

Goldi from The Last Wish!!!

@33pandagamer

Жыл бұрын

Here's some terrible advice! Have the villain do absolutely despicable and horrific things, but whenever they are called out for their actions claim that it's ok because the villain has a tragic backstory or is grieving.

Funny thing - my party did the British Empire thing on a dungeon with cursed mirrors. We sold the mirrors to a merchant that screwed the party. We departed the merchant's manner leaving him under the curse of "vanity" - anyone who looks into the mirror is cursed to look into the mirror seeing the best of themselves, (it is a will save to look away from the mirror), they only think of looking at the mirror, not eating or sleeping... so the merchant died starving to death, but he thought he looked like the most handsome man in the world while doing it.

@markbo3251

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like the Greek myth of narcissus.

@zinkheroofyoutube8004

11 ай бұрын

@@markbo3251Probably what the spell was based on

I've noticed TWA has been posting much more recently. I feel good!

@blshouse

Жыл бұрын

Greed is an excellent motivator. ;-)

@Cloven_Leaf

Жыл бұрын

​@@blshouse This is true, and will always be true. Destroying the world is so easy to motivate for.

Could the purposelessness of dungeon architecture be used as part of a deconstruction of RPG/fantasy worldbuilding and tropes? Nah, too much work! I designed it randomly because that’s easier!

@andrewmcguinness1845

Жыл бұрын

A few days ago, I was bored, and so I designed a mega dungeon made almost entirely out of liminal spaces. The purpose is for people to become lost and go mad, slowly filling it with angry, confused ghosts who can't even conceive of an exit.

@Petrico94

Жыл бұрын

1. The dungeon is just a carnival attraction with minions that set up each challenge room after each team wanders through. It has no purpose other than to be stomped through (until a part malfunctions and they backtrack into a room they just cleared?) 2. The dungeon is just filler, actually just a place with the thing and the villain wants the party to get in place for what they want. It's purpose is set dressing and feeling like they accomplished something. 3. It could be a forest/cave or natural structure. It's not made by people for a purpose it's just how nature grew around it. Maybe that's cheating since it's purpose would be to foster life, a coincidental arrangement of minerals or act as it's own organism but whatever. 4. It's less a fortress or dungeon and more a tunnel network to key underground items. It wasn't built for anything in between these locations besides connecting them or getting from the entrance to each. Sort of like a mine but instead of tunneling through veins of resources it's all just dirt between a dimension portal and endless fountains of energy that could sustain it.

@majorblitz3846

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewmcguinness1845 Certified backroom classic

@marocat4749

Жыл бұрын

Make it as a weird hobby of a weird noble that also was extremely paranoid. So he turned the cave into a livin deathtrap with mad riddles youneed to get into it. Also why its, really odd hhe wanted everything,and ended up extreme disjointed with bad architecture. Maybe dead workers skeletons can lay around as itwa that trange and chaoticto built it,leaving it unfinished. And that noble used forbbidden magic to havve the infflux o monsters whose corpses lay around too.

@dumb214

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewmcguinness1845 uses a thread

The subtly of RNG gods is killing me in laughter lol.

I saw you had "Fantasy Maps" on your to-do list. Remember, your fantasy map MUST include every known biome within it: grassland, forest, mountains, winter, desert, and maybe a swamp. It doesn't matter if geographical formations would hinder such a diverse arrangement, your map must include them (or at least include enough room for them to be included in the future). Furthermore, and even more importantly, the hero's party MUST visit every corner of the map by their journey's end. Even if our hero's goals are noticeably small scale, such as an exiled prince who simply wants to reclaim his throne, he must visit every city, every biome, and every continent before he can at last confront his evil usurper uncle. What's that? He could have just asked his childhood-friend, the princess of the neighboring kingdom, to have her country lend their armies to fight the Uncle's weakened rebel forces and put the Prince back on the throne? But then how would we have the love-triangle with the elven princess?!

dungeons in pop culture: booby traps, spikes, arrows that still function after hundreds of years of being abandoned, bursts of fire, etc. Dungeon in reality: the best I could come up with was a fake door and some curses (except at that time there was a tomb curses that threatened the whole country)

Жыл бұрын

How does a tomb threaten a country?

@muhammadashshiddiq8752

Жыл бұрын

​@ there is a story where Soviet archaeologists excavated the tomb of tamerlane or also known as timur lenk. when it was excavated, there was an inscription on the tomb which meant "whoever digs Timur Lenk's grave, will release invaders who are more cruel than himself". Timur Lenk was once a Central Asian Muslim ruler who was known to be cruel and even many Muslims themselves hated him because of his cruelty. This person once piled up the skulls of victims and then stacked them to resemble a pyramid. Not only that, he had also promised that there would be no bloodshed on the townspeople he besieged if they surrendered, the townspeople believed, But then they were buried alive by Timur Lenk because Timur Lenk only said there would be no bloodshed, not pardoned and allowed to live. Back to Soviet part, after Soviet archaeologists excavated the tomb of Timur Lenk, three days later, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union and caused the Great Patriotic War or what we call it Eastern front Which is the bloodiest front in the second world war. The oddity was not finished, Timur Lenk's body was then reburied in his grave with an Islamic funeral ceremony. One month later, the Soviet Union won the battle of Stalingrad which was a decisive victory and a turning point in the eastern front.

@eeg-rh7jv

11 ай бұрын

​@@muhammadashshiddiq8752Timur is op

Love the Darkest Dungeon opening. Overconfidence is our worst enemy.

@AmericanBrit9834

Жыл бұрын

@@martinthewarrior6887 Another soul battered and broken, cast aside like a spent torch.

Environmental storytelling if done well is a fantastic way to make what would be a bland dungeon into a remembered and beloved one. Describing details of how theirs's strange crystals on the walls, having seemingly random objects that if your paying attention are connected to a much larger story of the dungeon's past and how it became like it is now, monsters and vengeful spirits infecting the dungeon because of a horrible accident or experiment that took place here long ago. Dungeons don't have to be just generic labyrinths full of monsters, they can be locations that tell a story of the past.

@YEY0806

Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of Dragons Dogma Dark Arisen's BitterBlack Island.

@cae2212

Жыл бұрын

That's what I love darksouls for

@balsamon69

Жыл бұрын

The Souls series took that to heart

@Chinothebad

Жыл бұрын

​@@YEY0806 that on to of the dungeons from Salt & Sanctuary. Both being a place that shouldn't exist built. Latter differed though in being built from the memories of people lost at sea rather than the memories of a man that warped into something vile.

@unicorntomboy9736

Жыл бұрын

Komoshida's Castle in Persona 5 Royal comes to mind

All you need is an incredible amount of goblins, questionable architectural designs, and a little bit of sadism on the DM's part. And you have a dungeon.

Interesting thing about the cliche fantasy dungeon is it was originally supposed to be this weird wondrous DnD dimension that was just a ridiculously large dungeon. Somehow it became the standard idea of fantasy dungeon.

@prasetyodwikuncorojati2434

Жыл бұрын

And dungeon which full of traps too already become a very cliched fantasy setting

@velkonemriam1935

Жыл бұрын

That and also Gary Gygax likes the idea, partly because you could control where your party goes. I don’t know if he had trouble handling where the party wondered off to, but “open world” DnD was a very new, not well-grasped concept yet. Ttrpg has evolved a LOT since then haha

that darkest dungeon reference was on point oml

i like how this series has increasingly become about giving a sequence of actual tips by suggesting the oppsoite

@jeremymott

Жыл бұрын

And thus the reason why I love this channel

@Zulk_RS

Жыл бұрын

"Become"? I thought this series was always about giving actual tips by suggesting the opposite.

@stevemanart

Жыл бұрын

@@Zulk_RS Correct, that has always been the mission statement. JP's just been getting better and better at it as time as moved forward.

@rumblebird9888

Жыл бұрын

That’s the entire point of this series

@magicball3201

Жыл бұрын

It's always been satirical. Every time he has 3 green question marks appear around him, before giving a thumbs down with a red X, that's been just that

Please make an episode about redemption arc. How the villains (mainly villain protagonists) committing atrocities for 20 years straight, abusing, torturing, genociding people and stuffs but once it reached the third act of the final episode, he suddenly did one act of kindness and this act somehow cancelled out every evil deeds he had done his whole life and he became a good guy in an instant.

@cara-seyun

Жыл бұрын

Is this a reference to a specific character?

@nont18411

Жыл бұрын

@@cara-seyun THREE specific characters. One is a guy who got all of his limbs chopped off and then got grilled super crispy and had a breathing problem. Another is a prominent lawyer in Albuquerque who helped a chemistry teacher with lung cancer become a drug kingpin. The last one is an incel wizard who had a hot for the mother of the protagonist of his franchise.

@cara-seyun

Жыл бұрын

@@nont18411 not sure who the last one is, and I haven’t seen the second, but I doubt there is anyone claiming that Anakin’s one act of goodness fully erased all his evil deeds. Even in the next trilogy, he’s still a symbol of evil.

@nont18411

Жыл бұрын

@@cara-seyun The fact that he became a force ghost said it all. He didn’t deserve that victory.

@YEY0806

Жыл бұрын

​@Carson Lawler, the last one is about Snape from Harry Potter

We like a good Darkest Dungeon reference.

Traps are my biggest pet peeve in dungeon crawls. I know they're a genre staple by this point and shouldn't be questioned, but my brain keeps getting tripped up over the fact these places are usually both trapped AND STAFFED. Are all the dungeon guards dodging all of these traps on a daily basis to get their job done? There's ways to get around it: "dungeon staff" consisting of zombies that don't mind standing in one room for decades at a time, traps that can read some kind of RFID chip that dungeon staff have and therefore don't go off (could be a puzzle opportunity for the party to try to get one), having the traps only in unstaffed areas so the players have to choose whether they want to pick between staff or traps while fantasy OSHA is kept happy, etc.

My favorite part of Final Fantasy VI was when Terra recovered from Esperitis and followed the party all the way to the Magitek Factory just to debate Cid on the semantics of what counts as a dungeon Oh, and the "Forgotten Temple" Template not having an associated image is a very nice mildly amusing detail

Here's a dungeon idea for free: a native people want their holy artifact back, but the empire won't return it, so that night, the party has to break into the empire's national museum (which may or may not contain things a bit more dangerous than all of the traps) to steal the artifact and return it.

@multilad816

Жыл бұрын

So it is like a heist

@marocat4749

Жыл бұрын

Thats a heist. Through it can twork as dungeon crawl too.

@anarchistscum6090

Жыл бұрын

Great idea! Thanks random guy!

@platinumchromee3191

Жыл бұрын

Imagine DM'ing that and your party decides to buy a bunch of clown masks

@ChaffyExpert

Жыл бұрын

Isn't that just National Treasure but medieval.

Dungeon Crawler Carl series is my favorite Lit-RPG. Great characters, great humor, and all that.

@robinthrush9672

Жыл бұрын

Add on Everybody Loves Large Chests. The Rogue Dungeon for an interesting take on dungeon crawls built to grief.

@junconglin

Жыл бұрын

Does twi count?

@cmjd8265

Жыл бұрын

The Awaken Online series is pretty good, though book one had some grammar issues.

@bloodywilliam3083

Жыл бұрын

I could ask about some LitRPGs I've heard of but haven't read, although they are pretty much smut so I don't know if that is something you might want.

@MDchainsaw

Жыл бұрын

DCC is the GOAT. Matt's other books are solid as well.

I don't know if it's lit RPG, but Delicious in Dungeon has a really well designed Lore. The biology of the dungeon ecosystem is so well thought out that it feels like it could be real. And still, the author manages to weave in a plot that makes it not feel like Lore dumping, despite it being broke adventurers who brave a dungeon while living off the land to save a companion that's already been eaten. One example is the treasure insects. They crawl into mimics and eat them, hide as treasure, get picked up by adventures, get carried to another part of the dungeon, sting the adventurers to knock them out, and find a new mimic to eat. If you don't want to read the manga, there is an Anime by Trigger coming in the future. Probably next year I guess.

@Bicornis

Жыл бұрын

Like most Japanese fantasy I think Delicious in Dungeon could be called litRPG-adjacent - it is definitely heavily influenced by RPGs but stops short of actually putting game mechanics into the story. It's also very good; the first thing that came to mind when JP mentioned studying dungeon ecology.

@DonVigaDeFierro

Жыл бұрын

@@Bicornis Getting rid of references to game mechanics is honestly a very good decision. When there's a mention of "levels" or, god have mercy, "Hit points" in medieval-land, I lose an IQ point.

I like the in-universe explanation the Skyrim dragon claw "puzzles" have that you can find in a couple of the in-game books: they aren't to keep adventurers _out,_ they're to keep the Draugr _in._

16:35 "I got my humble start working at a bootstrap factory." i don't know why greed working at such factory made me laugh so hard

I feel like I should bring up one of the "dungeons" in my RPG Maker project. In the setting, the Mimics mostly live in a pirate cove. As expected from place called "Mimic Moorage", it's chock full of Mimics. Yes, there's even Door Mimics there! Running into them willy-nilly will result in the Door Mimic starting the battle with a bonus to its action meter; Brill can examine them instead to avoid this. Besides them and the classic Treasure Mimics, there's dagger-spitting Cloak Mimics, volatile Powderkeg Mimics, magic-wielding Spellbook Mimics, and oil-spitting Jar Mimics- and they leave harmless items lying around that, for all you know, COULD BE a Mimic, so you have to plan a route around walking next to as few of these as possible. Now, a lot of gotcha monsters are pretty silly when you think about it, and I leaned into that; Mimic Moorage is the furthest thing from Grimdark you can imagine. There's plenty of silly moments (the "are ye pirate enough to enter" quiz stands out), and Brill actually ends up on good terms with some of the residents, even as she retrieves all the stolen goods in the cove. (Including some guy's lunch. Yes, it never got eaten and now it's rancid, but the bag is a collectible!)

The efforts of the civilization that used dungeons full of high maintenance monsters to guard their riches instead of using the riches to maintain their economy have clearly paid off

Defiance of The Fall is like the Platonic Ideal of litrpg tbh, whether you like it or hate it, it's one of the seminal works in the genre

@whocares5946

Жыл бұрын

Never got past book 3. I like the world, hate the prose and characters.

Dregs for litrpgs are definitely just giant blocks of text with numbers and no input from characters. But I do like that it gives a very easy way to point at character growth.

@junconglin

Жыл бұрын

When it's in the background it's good for cool list of abilities but start spamming exp numbers and I'm bailing

@anasexualmeatbag2979

Жыл бұрын

@@junconglin fr, I’m not doing math to see how many rats or whatever the mc had to kill to level up.

@junconglin

Жыл бұрын

​@@anasexualmeatbag2979this is why twi and vainqueur were the only 2 to not tire me. They didn't shove so much numbers in my face but instead behaved more like dnd milestone

@ZachCl00n3y

Жыл бұрын

Litrpg top 3 tips: 1: the number of skills per person increases the risk and reward 1a: skill grinding affects pacing 2: murder = exp needs to be explored or subverted. 3: if you have evolving classes/races, make getting to the next one a complicated affair. Also find a way to take the rng out of it if you can.

@Daemonworks

Жыл бұрын

The catch is that many folks use it as a crutch... it often becomes the laziest way to tell rather than show.

This is why I love love love Delicious in Dungeon! It's literally a manga about the most classic dungeon crawl setting, made by a wizard- but EVERYTHING has worldbuilding it's amazing. The mimics really are gotchu monsters, but the reason they're shaped like treasure chests is because they coexist with treasure coin monsters- which are bugs that look like gold coins for camouflage. The coin bugs prey on the treasure chest and eat it out from within, but for as long as the mimic is alive, it gets more adventurers-sorry, prey- to approach because they saw the peek of gold coins through the holes in it. Thanks to this symbiosis, the coin bugs don't make a meal of the mimics too fast and help the mimic lay bait. this is just ONE example of Ryoko Kui's incredible creativity with typical dungeon monsters! the story's hook is actually about the cooking technique and tasty monster food recipes, but there's also eldritch demons and a grimdark curse in the lore background along with messed up human characters so yay!

A Factorio dungeon where the adventurers come in and steal all the green circuits? That's good enough reason for the dungeon to use lethal force.

The Final Fantasy VI reference was beautiful. I'm so happy to see the game get a shout.

@adolphaselrah9506

Жыл бұрын

There’s a final fantasy 6?

@michiganscythian2445

Жыл бұрын

@@adolphaselrah9506yes and it’s considered one of the best games

Greed is now my favorite villain of the TWA universe.

One thing for LitRPGs is to always keep in mind that the RPG aspects should always take over the entire "Lit" part. So make sure to have giant charactersheets on every single page that shows every single stat every single time. Trust me, it's very crucial information to know every single one of the thousands of skills your MC has. Alternatively, remember to introduce a RPG-like system that never matters at all. Your character had a strength stat of 200 last chapter? Well, he got 2 more now, so clearly he has 1023 now, just the amount needed for whatever challenge you just made up to show just how powerful your character has become. Inconsistency is perfectly fine and there's no chance any reader might actually like the numbers that basically make up the entire genre

Dungeon Meshi is definitely my favorite dungeon crawler. It treats its dungeon not as something to conquer but as an eco system

The amount of Darkest Dungeon refs is making me happy.

This is truly the Darkest Dungeon crawl video.

Try Level Up or Die! for a poor dungeon crawl example. Guy gets isekai protag powers because he is stuck as a healer. Why is he broken? Because his heal spell gives him stamina, so he can solo stuff for days without getting tired because he's constantly recharging.

@incognito200

Жыл бұрын

Doesn't it sound a bit similar to *sigh* ReDo of Healer?

@robinthrush9672

Жыл бұрын

@@incognito200 Never saw it. Heard "weird things" about it. There's no "weird things" in the first book og Level Up or Die!

Ooh, what if there was a dungeon full of mimics, but the whole dungeon was designed around that and the treasure hoard WAS the dungeon boss? Like "the mother of all mimics" or something. Then the real reward is something that lets you tell what's a mimic on sight alone.

Positive recommendation for Literature RPG: The manga called "Dungeon Meshi" or "Delicious in Dungeon" Good world-building, strong team dynamics, and a well-focused theme and storyline. it's basically an entire manga centered around a single long dungeon crawl.

The Darkest Dungeon intro is great. “Ruin has come to our family”

“Dungeon Crawler Carl” by Matt Dinniman and NPC by drew Hayes are great LitRPG books.

For a recommendation probably the best version of lit RPG is going to be "everybody loves large chests" For the best recommendation of the worst version of lit RPG in its raunchiness and it's harem and just everything that is wrong with this genre in general I recommend "everybody loves large chests"

@MDchainsaw

Жыл бұрын

Lol facts.

Solo Levelling and The Gamer are very influential manhwas that you should definitely check out, they aren't particularly good but they have so many clones that it's like you've read hundred LitRPGs once you've read them. Bofuri has a lighthearted case of one of my favorite tropes in the genre: the protagonist breaks the game and the game's developers nerf them to keep them from being too strong. In stories where the game mechanics are part of reality, replace developers with deities.

@boobah5643

Жыл бұрын

Only really familiar with _Bofuri,_ but it has the problem where the author doesn't know/doesn't care about the game making sense as a game.

I like when there is the twist of dungeons being living beings themselves that attract monsters with pheromones or magic and binds them making it so that they do not need to eat as they are maintained by the dungeon but they are compelled to protect the deepest part of the dungeon where there is the weak point of the dungeon, its heart. This is interesting because the dungeon doesn't want intruders as they could kill it, specially if this heart is a huge gemstone or smth, but needs intruders for it needs to eat them, and the more monsters(protesters) the dungeon has, the more it needs to eat, as it basically eats for all its inhabitants. This makes for interesting settings, like a dungeon being enslaved by an empire to force it to convert the lives of their enemies in to treasure, or to serve as a prison, or as a training baracks. Or a dungeon making a deal with a great demon, where the great demon will protect the dungeon last chamber before its heart and in exchange the great demon will get the souls of those killed in the dungeon. You can even make a friendly dungeon that instead of creating a cave, creates a casino with the monsters acting as the staff, and feeding in more abstract concepts like the high emotions that occur in a casino. You can even make a friendly dungeon decide to create a big ass city and pay adventurers to go out to hunt monsters and offer them to the city in exange for rewards, with the dungeon eating the mosnter corpses for a reversal of the normal dungeon, in this case adventurers are the protectors and the ones that feed the dungeon and monsters are the prey. Maybe two dungeons were expanding their domain and they end up with their domains touching. Will they become good neighbors or even allies? or will they go to war with each other? Maybe the boss monster and the dungeon are in love with each other and are married. Maybe a dungeon has expanded its territory so wide in the surface that just the natural animal/monster deaths that occur on it and the magical energies of the huge ass land is enough to feed itself so it stands as a neutral entity that hides its core in a cave in that territory with 0 monsters, 0 treasure and a shit ton of traps since it doesn't want to lure anything. The dungeon can be the center of a religious organization with the dungeon feeding up from the intense emotions from prayer, making with the most ardent believers the same covenant that a dungeon makes with monsters, converting those ardent believers in to "heroes" or "paladins". Making a dungeon a living organism, mostly of magical nature that can exert its will over a territory make for a good story and makes too much sense, it explains the weird loot, the dungeon just creates it as a lure to attract prey, it also explains why weaker stuff is on top and stronger stuff is at the depths, the dungeon wants to kill prey but it still wants prety to actively enter inside, but the deeper it goes, the more dangerous it is for the dungeon so it needs stronger protectors to defend itself, the rooms also doesn't need to make much practical sense, those are just the creating of the dungeon, for the whole purpose of attracting and killing adventurers. It also solves the problem with the monster inside eating, the dungeon just feels them, they become symbiotic, they feed the dungeon by killing adventurers and the dungeon feeds them by sharing its energy with them. And all of this also leads to a lot of variety, once you have your average dungeon you can very easy use this setting to create variety. Maybe an evil wizard has used necromancy to ressurrect a dead dungeon heart to create an artificial dungeon for its tower and is using the quasi godly dungeon special magics that it has over its territory to enhance its magic powers trascending the limits of wizards. Maybe the dark lord that the heroes have to defeat and the goddess that blessed the heroes are both secretly massive dungeons the size of countries that have been on a battle for thousands of years and have been fooling humans and demons to fight this war for them and when the heroes find out they find themselves suddenly in a war against the whole world, having to kill their way trough hordes of those they want to liberate from the dungeons control to be able to reach both dungeons.

Bro, absolutely loving the chaos gods! Really has me feeling the call of the void and tempting me to abandon sanity in search of randomly generated treasure.

A friend of mine was smiling widely when we last read each other's works. Apparently, he was feeling triumphant because his dragon didn't hoard your stereotypical gold and gems but rare crystals. He was sure he broke the stereotype. :D

Not related to this video specifically, but your Deconstruction video got me thinking of the late 2000s anime School Days, which I found was meant to be a deconstruction of the haram anime genre, and tried to be a darker take on the sub-genre that portrayed how a haram and love triangle would realistically play out. It's most well known for its infamous and controversial ending. On a side note, please do a video on Historical Fiction next. The Assassin's Creed series is the best example of the genre/trope, as well as the TV series Bridgerton and the recent movie The Women King

@cdru515

Жыл бұрын

Ah, yes, the Nice Boat ending

@denseaf1582

Жыл бұрын

The expanded lore is something wild for School Days and the rest of 0verflow’s visual novels. Put very bluntly, the main character of School Days (Makoto) is actually the half-uncle of one of his main love interests (Sekai).

The bit about dungeon ecosystems reminded me sharply of Dungeon Meshi, which is an incredible take on a literary dungeon crawl that I highly recommend for being one of the best stories that has ever graced my eyeballs.

When it comes to LIT Rpg Stories, my highest recommendation goes to NPCs, an audiobook series where normal human players in the real world get caught up in a set of modules for their favorite tabletop. little do they realise that these modules are connected to a real, alternative world out there, and are actively influencing the dice rolls and and contents of the books. the story mostly follows a set of NPCs that happen to be there when the party wipes, and because of shenanagins have to take up their mantles. the story does the classic role reversal "ooo the pretty noblewoman is the barbarian and the handicapped gnome is the paladin, bet you weren't expecting that!" song and dance, but the characters are themselves so much MORE than the tropes they slot into.

@ctorres9552

Жыл бұрын

Really good series

@fluffbot3000

Жыл бұрын

@@ctorres9552 anything by Drew Hayes is amazing

@boobah5643

Жыл бұрын

While _Spell, Swords, Stealth (NPCs_ is the first book of the series) has audiobook releases, it's a normal book; it's even got a dead tree release. It's also pretty much the least crunchy story you could imagine that _might_ fit the definition of LitRPG. It's also worth noting that the story _also_ follows the players (and GM) of the TPK'd party that set the premise in motion, as their successive characters interact (often unknowingly) with the main cast.

For anyone who wants the whole "the dungeon is the monster" thing in a ttrpg, 13th age has a great mega dungeon about that.

@ajardoor

11 ай бұрын

Eyes of the Stone Thief, yeah?

Your commentary on writing tropes gives me so many ideas to use in stories to make them better

Me dungeons and dungeon ideas: 1. Giant hive of equally giant carnivore bees that also hoard gold and silver. The honey is acidic and very sticky. They took something -or someone from the party. 2. Wealthy city permanently frozen and buried on ice by a wizard to stop a zombie infestation/demonic incursion. The frozen tunnels and alleys are slowly melting, allowing access to the buildings and their hoard, but the outbreak is resuming. 3. Ancient labyrinth prison built on an island: The traps are not meant to keep people out, but to keep whatever's trapped in. It's as big as a city. Nobody in the present knows the purpose of the structure, and some noble researchers want to explore it for the sake of science, and treasure. 4. Intricate magical maze built by a mad king with the opposite problem of Henry VIII. There is no treasure, but whoever reaches the center becomes the legitimate king, and/or gets magic powers or something. 5. A shipwreck. A very big one. It's on the shallow sea, and rumored to have carried rare metals and exotic artifacts from far away lands. It's also haunted, with strange creatures and ghosts still aboard. It's made of iron instead of wood, and it appeared the same day a shooting star fell from the sky (it's an alien spaceship if that's not clear enough.)

*DM:* "Yes, this dungeon has lots of treasure, but also...A CURSE! Roll to see what happens!" *Player 1:* "Oh, well...18. Does that save me?" *Player 2:* "-and I got a 6." *DM:* "Okay, with an 18, the curse make YOU become a busty female elf! And YOU become a busty fox girl!" *Player 1:* "Wait-" *DM:* "NO. ROLL, PLAYER 3!" *Player 3:* "I hung back, just in case, remember?" *DM:* "Oh, right. _Rolls_ And YOU become a busty lizard maid anyway! Roll to polish my self-inserts spear!" *Player 2:* "Uh....10. Do I do a good job with the spear?" *DM:* "NOT YOU IT HAS TO BE THE LIZARD GIRL." *Player 1:* "OKAY gang, we need to talk..."

@cara-seyun

Жыл бұрын

Was this something that actually happened? If so, I’d pick up my things and leave immediately

@bubbasbigblast8563

Жыл бұрын

@carsonlawler9640 This exactly? Not quite. Do people occasionally try to turn sessions into their personal Freaky Dink Hour? Yeah, that...that happens. Got to be aggressive shutting that down if people start testing the limits of what's sensible.

The ending of this one (before the post-credit scene) was a delightful turn! The inclusion of Darkest Dungeon at the very end of that monologue was great too! Feelsgood when we can see JP’s writing prowess flex from time to time

The Wandering Inn (trying to be objective, but this is my opinion) is not only excellent writing, character voice, and world building, but it also is one of the best examples of taking the usual "rules" of LitRPGs and telling a story that is enhanced by superb writing. Also, its a FREE serial online so accessible to just about everyone on the internet.

@d4arken3ds0ul

11 ай бұрын

How does it work? Is it like a story with rpg stuff mixed in? Or does the reader “play” it like a choose your own adventure novel?

"Remind yourself that variety is a slow and insidious killer" - The ancestor, probably

Chrysalis is one of the best litrpgs I’ve read. Its one of those “isekied as a monster in the dungeon” but actually good. The world has so much personality, history, and mystery. Each level of the dungeon has so much character, as do the monsters that live there.

@intergalactic92

Жыл бұрын

Assuming you are referring to 'the antventure begins' by RinoZ, because there are a few books called Chrysalis out there.

The Darkest Dungeon reference from the start kept me hooked up till the end. Wonderful job!

I recognized that soundtrack at the end! Military police by max anson, what a nostalgia trip. The animations you've been doing are quite awesome as well. Back when I first started watching there's no way I would've guessed that you'd reach this level of production quality.

For literary RPGs, I would recommend some commentary on trips such as Using a system that’s over complicated, using a system that’s too simple, lines and veils, scheduling, finding a group, every new game beginning with the same variety of summons from the king

As a LitRPG connoisseur, I can wholeheartedly recommend Vainqueur the Dragon by Maxime Durand, Dragon Hack by Andrew Seiple, Queen In The Mud by Maari, and Rouge Dungeon by James Hunter. Don't know if they're the height of the genre, but they're among my personal favorites. As for the bottom of the barrel, try The Dwarf, the Mine, and the RPG Apocalypse by Constantin Step, Into the Light by Christopher Johns, and A Snake's Life by Kenneth Arant... there are much worse out there, but I don't know them by name as if I see the word "harem" anywhere in the description I immediately pass on it.

YES THE DARKEST DUNGEON REFERENCE

Listening to him rattle off dungeon types made me think about the Forest Temple from Ocarina of Time. Man was that place cool. It has atmosphere, awesome music, and a fun boss at the end. Good stuff.

The best part about dungeons are they can serve as self contained little pieces of worldbuilding. My games usually start out as "Go in to get treasure" with layouts often random generated to some extent, but what makes the dungeon come alive are the interactables. The context, the factions! This random generated dungeon is no longer just a series of windy corridors with rooms and traps, but with the monsters also randomly generated i concocted a multidomain ancient dwarven settlement that has mostly collapsed exposing further caves mined out below, with break offs of the monsters worshipping a chaos beast that is having it's second coming, twisted followers driving the 4th group of inhabitants deeper into dungeon, and rivers that move periodically with time. Context, factions, interactables, those can make a dungeon into something players can latch onto. Perhaps venture further for more lore? To help other monsters? For the treasure? Dungeons can be great for your game. Certainly don't shy away from it.

I love the new episode and the animations at the end. This was well worth the wait!

One of the best LITRPG's I've ever read is called "He who fights with monsters" and I think it's one of the best representations of the genre by far. Please give it a try! The premise is an australian man gets issekai'd into a high-fantasy world and gets really evil powers (but isn't a bad guy)

@matthewbraymer1136

Жыл бұрын

I see that giving good recommendations is kind of your thing

@Nemenian

Жыл бұрын

@@matthewbraymer1136 I have a lot of things!

@boobah5643

Жыл бұрын

I enjoyed _He Who Fights Monsters_ until he got home and there was one of those stupid hidden magic societies going on. If you don't share that particular bugaboo, have at it... although it also falls into the standard LitRPG trope of 'We have a formalized ranking system to explain how strong everybody is. Unless you're the protagonist, in which case it doesn't apply to you, because _you_ need to show how special you are by winning fights the ranking system says should flatten you.' It's annoying because it's a constant tell and no show for threat levels, especially once the protagonist notices and they start jumping into fights where the discrepancy is bigger and bigger.

How are your videos always lining up with my life?

WE'VE BEEN BLESSED! ANOTHER VIDEO

The Sonic illustration at 4:03 could not be more perfect for how it feels.

Your timing is immaculate as always

Immediately liked and favourited because of the perfect Darkest Dungeon reference

I have a couple of video suggestions Time travel Redemption arcs Reverse Redemption arcs Magic systems and just magic in general Western stories Space opera Space adventure stories Utopia The trope where a hero loses their powers Amnesia plots Tournament sagas Alien language and culture Magical otherworlds Betrayal The villians realize their villians Cursed artifacts Ancient superweapons Edit: I really hope you do time travel, amnesia, Redemption arcs, reverse Redemption arcs, Space adventures, and tournaments sagas first

@CompletelyNewguy

Жыл бұрын

a couple of suggestions huh? XD But if you're interested you should watch Overlysarcasticproductions. They touch on alot of the things you mention while sprinkling in some cynicism.

@mariustan9275

Жыл бұрын

Didn't he already do dystopia? That was the first video he did.

@Xavier-the-voodoo-king

Жыл бұрын

@@mariustan9275 yeah my b I might have forgotten about that

@reubenoakley5887

Жыл бұрын

Trope Talk on the channel OverlySarcasticProductions has covered several of these. You should check them out if you haven't!

@balsamon69

Жыл бұрын

Amnesia is a good one. I hardly see that trope used in a good way, let alone realistic

One of my favorite dungeons I never used was basically an icy biosphere constructed by the shiekah (it was breath of the wild themed). In the center of the starting crater was an ancient furnace, as well as a number of cyborg ice lizalfos. Closer examination reveals that they're all dead from starvation. Once they reach the ancient furnace, they will have to fight a miniboss, an ancient tech darknut with an ancient flameblade. Once they defeat it, all light but the blue flame and the flameblade goes out, and they hear a distant inhuman scream. It quickly turns into a game of cat and mouse with an unknown adversary as they struggle to bring the power back on. As they go, they discover fractured logs which begin to tell the story of this place (I'll explain it at the end). At one point, their npc guide vanishes, and her body is later found in a cave on a pile of blackened bones, gaunt and shriveled. They are then pursued out of the cave, and are forced to fight a frost talus titan in the dark to gain access to the control room. They turn on the lights, revealing the monster pursuing them, a gaunt horned humanoid with sharpened teeth. It is an embodiment of starvation, and attacks them with a ravenous fury, its bites immediately causing withering damage. It also is entirely immune to mental effects and pain (although it does take damage) due to being insane with hunger. Upon defeating the creature, the adventuring party finds a cache of ancient weapons, parts, and the logs which complete the story of the dungeon: In the days before the Shiekah advanced so far that threats became obsolete, a monster stalked the lands of hebra, devouring any living thing it came across. It was known simply as "The Hunger", and as soon as shiekah tech was developed, this beast was their first target. They managed to trap it in a suit of armor temporarily, long enough to move it to the dungeon. They placed mind controlled ice lizalfos and the ancient tech darknut to guard the creature and prevent its escape. As an emergency override, they made sure that the dungeon would go into full lockdown if the darknut went down, and installed a frost talus titan over the manual override to the override. The final log ends abruptly. The blackened skeleton propped against the interface makes it clear what happened.

@YEY0806

Жыл бұрын

Dude, that sounds brilliant 👏

I still always look at the ceiling when I enter a room IRL because of an incident with a Lurker Above from about 35 years ago

Didn’t really know LitRPGs existed until recently when I discovered a sub genera: dungeon core. Basically, where the MC is the dungeon. Just found it recently, so don’t have a lot to recommend, but would definitely recommend There is no Epic loot here, only puns (still being written), and a lot of people have recommended the Elemental Dungeon series and Divine Dungeon series, as well as Dinosaur Dungeon.

@thewindofsuicune

Жыл бұрын

I’ve got some more recommendations for you! Unfortunately, all of these are on hiatus or cancelled but they’re still the peak of the genre! Dungeon Core? Nah, I Think I'll Just Get Super-Wealthy Instead - Maltenai: Similar to Epic Loot, this is a pacifist dungeon core story with the minions having personalities. Instead of spreading love and friendship, this core needs to get rich! The Obsidian Core - DustHurricane: This story is a return to form for the genre. There’s no kindness in this dungeon, only murder. There’s a really fun monster evolution system in this story and it’s not an isekai! A Dearth of Choice (Dungeon Core) - Grim Tide: This one has some beautiful writing with some stunning visuals. This is my personal favorite dungeon core stories. I also recommend Final Core and Demon Core, both by Razzmatazz. One focusing on a holy figure that will come to be worshipped by the world and the other being a foul creature that creates incomprehensible horrors and suffering. If you want even more recommendations, let me know. I’m sure I’ve got plenty of stories that I just haven’t thought to recommend.

@dragonturtle2703

Жыл бұрын

@@thewindofsuicune thank you. I will be sure to add them to the reading list. If you have any more recommendations, then I’d be happy to hear them. In case you haven’t read them already, I also liked these, all unfinished except the last: Forgotten dungeon: a dungeon core in a post apocalyptic setting full of undead and monsters. There is a good amount of human and elven intrigue as things go on, but nothing that takes away from the dungeon core aspect that I saw, and the monsters seem to get more of their own personality (especially the rats) as things go on. Dungeon life: videogame mechanics seemed a bit too overt for my taste, but really interesting world, dungeon mechanics, and characters. Dungeon hulk: dungeon core in Warhammer 40k over on the Space Battles forums. Pretty funny and entertaining. As soon as you think he is OP the difficulty escalates. Dungeon Core Chatroom: only to chapter 14 so far, but seems rather interesting so far. Has to actually invent their dungeons and monsters with mana rather than just select them in menus options, and slowly figuring out magical biology it seems (not a Iseki, or at least if it is, no prior memories).

@thewindofsuicune

Жыл бұрын

@@dragonturtle2703 Appreciate the recs. I’ll start digging into them shortly.

I love JPs hypothetical D&D group, I’d watch a whole show about them

Great video again! Lol i cant believe how invested i am in the ad segment story you got me there

Ive got an idea of how the troll cave thing can be salvaged and made into a campaign! Keep finding strange ways to railroad the characters into the cave - have branches on the trees physically try to push them. Have skulls chatter at them and roll into the cave. Have the weather drastically change in seconds so it’s too dangerous to stay outside. Then when they’re in the cave, add more weird things to railroad them into performing certain actions, like wind that physically pushes them forward, or hidden pitfalls leading to the next area of the dungeon. Have arrows drawn on the walls that point them in a specific direction, and written things alongside them like “open this chest” or “through this door”. If a character ignores it, have the writing appear in front of them repeatedly. Or if they look back at the writing, have the words change to “DO IT”. Make sure early on to give them ways to escape the cave that shouldn’t exist, like an exit that somehow leads to a town that’s miles away, or an angel statue that teleports whoever touches it out of the cave. After that, make things seem normal for a bit, but then have ALL the NPCs talking about the troll cave, have every flier on the town billboard be for the cave, and have every npc refuse to offer the players work unless they go to the troll cave. If they linger for long enough have the troll cave suddenly reappear in the middle of town. It’s at this point the characters will realize that the world they’re in is ALIVE and has trapped them inside of it so it can force them to act out its own adventure! It’ll be up to the adventurers to find a way to outsmart the demiplane, completely derail its adventure, and escape back to the real world before the demiplane railroads them all the way to its perfect ending: killing all of them in an impossible final boss battle!

Here’s a few litRPGs I have read: Dungeon Lord ( the Wraith's Haunt series) by Hugo Huesca [probably my favourite, although the author is doing a George RR Martin. Isekai into a Very D&D inspired world in which the characters have character sheets they can update to give themselves abilities. A nice touch is that literally everyone in the fantasy world can do this, even the lowly villagers, and there are often moments where the characters sit down to discuss what they should each get for their next power up] Djinn Tamer by Derek Alan Siddoway [basically pokemon. The djinn have types and stats, other than that the litRPG elements are very light compared to others I’ve read] The Shattered Sword (Eternal Online book 1) by TJ Reynolds [characters plug into a game world similar to WOW to escape reality] The Mayor of Noobtown by Ryan Rimmel [my least favourite on this list. One guy gets godlike powers and can see the world as if it’s a video game, he can even pause the world to look at a menu.] Towers of Heaven by Cameron Milan [towers appear across the globe. Entering them grants you powers akin to that of being a video game character. The towers are basically video game dungeons and everyone inside joins clans, like in mmorpgs, which occasionally have real world implications E.g. proxy wars between nations play out between clans in the towers]

@joelsasmad

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My recommendation is Vainqeuer the Dragon. Despite the more comedic tone, there is fantastic character growth for the protagonists, Vainqeuer the narcissist dragon who has newly discovered the existence of classes and levels, and his unwitting minion Victor.

On the topic of making the players completely miserable: THE CRIMSON COURT

@AmericanBrit9834

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Oh, your heroes are completely sane and healthy? THE THIRST!

As someone who wants to make a dungeon crawler comic, this video was very insightful. Thank you!

Oh my god, I love the reference too! Darkest dungeon at the beginning. That's perfect!

Dungeon crawler Carl and he who fights with monsters are very good lit rpg books. Defiance before the fall is also good but more ok than good.

Liked for the Magitek Lab reference. One of my favorites despite all those pesky conveyor belts. Final Fantasy really does have some good examples of breaking the 'abandoned stone tomb' mold, like the Shinra Building. Oooh, imagine an abandoned version of that- the lingering remnant of a long-bankrupt Megacorp... that went bankrupt because it dabbled in witchcraft.

Perfect timing! I'm running a Dungeon Crawl tomorrow!

Honestly, the mention of mimics, mixed with the description of a living breathing dungeon at 14:20 gave me an idea of a dungeon that has an unusually high population of mimics and the when you finally get to the boss it's revealed that the entire dungeon has been, itself, a giant mimic, and then thinking of all the ways you could build up to that reveal.

@blshouse

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I highly recommend Zee Bashew's "Befriending Mimics in 5e D&D" video for more, entertaining information and ideas.

@cwovictor3281

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I like the thought that the dungeon is alive, and its inhabitants, treasures, whatever, are all exotic biologic processes. Somehow, it turns oxygen and carbon dioxide into gold, which is stored away in lumps, like tumors. The monsters are actually its immune system. If you want to get real spooky, make it feel pain when a part of it is struck.

@sarahvunkannon7336

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@@cwovictor3281 Ooh, but how do you get the characters to attack what they think is just a wall? This is the sort of plot that's great for attentive players who like to notice details; the looks of horror dawning on their faces, one of them finally tries to attack the wall, has their worst hypotheses confirmed...

@KillerKelMega

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@@sarahvunkannon7336 I was thinking it would start with errant perception checks. "You have the uncanny feeling of being watched" and then nothing else is detectable in the room with them. Then perhaps a missed Sword swing or errant arrow slips through the cracks in the bricks, causing what seems to be a quake. Bricks shifting with no apparent cause in rhythmic pulses. The further they get the more puzzle solutions seem to become less well thought out gauntlets and more cause and effect biological reactions. At this point, should they try backtracking, they will find that the layout has changed. Pathways have shifted directions. Rooms they've been to are gone, and new ones appear where there wasn't before. Eventually they reach the penultimate room. An old abandoned wizards lab with his notes detailing his.experinents with mimics. Behavior, biology, breeding, and now the players know that the unusually high mimic count is no mistake, and they finally know what they've already suspected. They pass into the final room, the boss chamber. Filled wall to wall with writhing flesh, like a horror from a resident evil game, the party now sees television dungeon for what it is. A massive mimic! Here at its most exposed point they could hope to fight it, but that may risk a collapse of the structure it is now supporting. They could attempt to flee. The beast would try to stop them but at this point they have become adept at manipulating its biology to progress, though they forfeit the potential rewards it may still be guarding.