There is a wrong way of playing D&D: Being rude and disrespectful to everyone at the table

@railguy2518

4 жыл бұрын

Every "wrong way" I can think of to play d&d involves differing expectations between people at the table. If everyone is on board with something, it's hard to say it's "wrong".

@XPtoLevel3

4 жыл бұрын

okay that’s maybe the only one unless the group really enjoys being dicks to each other

@aformofmatter8913

4 жыл бұрын

@@XPtoLevel3 If everyone enjoys being dicks, & everyone's being dicks, nobody is really being a dick, because a dick wouldn't go along with what everyone enjoys.

@BigPNG9

4 жыл бұрын

I guess this is less a wrong way to play d&d and more a wrong way to live life in general

@MrAndersonMusic056

4 жыл бұрын

Try talking to that individual about keeping their comments to themselves and if it doesn’t have to do with the game then it can hold off till afterwards. I spoke to a buddy of mine who would often interject as an “unofficial/uninvited” DM that would “help me” describe areas and things while I DM’d and I got annoyed and said “dude you don’t even go that descripted in your games 🙄” I mean as a DM you get asked to describe what your players see in an area you didn’t actually expect to describe and obviously have to come up with something off the top of the head lol idk. There’s definitely a time for a group or open effort in describing but i think it has to be invited by the DM. What do y’all think?

POV: you’re fishing and it seems you’ve caught Merman Jacob in your net. You don’t know what these Heated Retrievals he reads off his wooden scroll are, but you listen anyways.

@gizgunnar5167

4 жыл бұрын

Heated Retrievals is such a good phrase

@wert1234576

4 жыл бұрын

Explanation squid

@Ginger_bit

4 жыл бұрын

That is SO well written, thank you! :)

@Mr.Ford3350

4 жыл бұрын

That is hilarious, thank you so much

@Eric_The_Cleric

4 жыл бұрын

As you listen, you look in bewilderment at his garb that reads "What doesn't kill you gives you XP." It seems to be a phrase from a foreign land, the likes of which you believe you have heard somewhere but cannot pinpoint. As you stare, entranced by his strange tunic and the wisdom this merman Jacob is imparting upon you, you don't notice the passage of time. Soon, Jacob is finishing his reading of these Heated Retrievals and bids you adieu, so you go to the Discussion Department to investigate what others have thought of this odd occurence. You hope, desperately, that once again you may catch this elusive merman in your net to hear more fascinating Retrievals in the future as he promised.

Conspiracy theory: He's not actually laying on the floor, he's just smushing himself against a wall.

@user-vm9xz4kv9z

3 жыл бұрын

I though he was just standing the whole time...

@Arkansan_Rebel

3 жыл бұрын

NO, He'S gLuEd To ThE cEiLiNg!!

@Ajehy

3 жыл бұрын

This gives me strange vertigo.

@dj_1831

3 жыл бұрын

5:24 Guys he glued his Phone to the wall

@skarlock5257

3 жыл бұрын

@@Arkansan_Rebel No, he is falling up into the floor after casting reverse gravity and using a levitation spell.

"There are wrong ways to play D&D" Agreed. If at any point you begin eating the table IRL, you are playing it wrong. Otherwise, you should be fine.

@echofoxtrotwhiskey1595

2 жыл бұрын

LOL

@PeteExplainsStuff

2 жыл бұрын

@@echofoxtrotwhiskey1595 If your character is a evil rapist murder-hobo that is making the other players not want to play anymore, then you are playing D&D wrong. If you are ruining D&D for everyone else, then you are playing D&D wrong.

@willmcgonigle3107

2 жыл бұрын

but eating the table is what my character would do!

@echofoxtrotwhiskey1595

2 жыл бұрын

@@PeteExplainsStuff Uh, are you sure that’s for me and not the OP?

@stumbling_

2 жыл бұрын

@@willmcgonigle3107 My termite druid would totally eat the table

Hot Take: evil characters can be great, and there are too many chaotic evil characters that are branded chaotic neutral that are way worse

@muffinman2143

4 жыл бұрын

Hot take: those characters aren't even playing chaotic evil, they're just dicks. Chaotic evil does not force you in any way to perform dickish acts, people just use it as a safety net for such

@davidpotts7116

4 жыл бұрын

This. This is true. I once worked with my DM to play a chaotic evil Rakshasa wizard who used to be a wealthy lord and slaver of humans back in his home country. He was socially powerful and never had to work for anything, holding many underground businessmen under his thumb and reveling in his wealth earned from the slave trade, but eventually his hubris caught up to him and at the beginning of the campaign he had practically nothing. Forced to flee from his country, he had to hide away his true self in the form of the humans which he so despised. Chaotic evil's can be great. It's just a shame most people play them as either chaotic stupid or chaotic mega-stupid.

@datalysjr3339

4 жыл бұрын

I’m new to dnd and I must ask, how do you play chaotic anything? I tried looking at some characters in fiction but doesn’t give me a full grasp so why not ask but a player their definition of one

@muffinman2143

4 жыл бұрын

@@datalysjr3339 Chaotic as an alignment shows that you simply hold rules and laws to have very little value. If you need something done, you will do it by any means necessary, even if that means breaking the law

@crotchwhistlepurple4046

4 жыл бұрын

Well, the big thing I think to realize is that your evil character is EVIL. Evil people still have things they won't do, and they definitely don't care about other evil things. Generally, in my campaigns, I think of the good/evil system as a rough measure of selfishness. A rogue who steals from the party, others, tends more toward evil than neutrality to me.

Hot Take: Stealing a freshly baked bread out of the oven

@RoninCatholic

4 жыл бұрын

I see your rogue is packing Mittens of Fire Resistance!

@OTKok

4 жыл бұрын

Kugo the Mighty funny critical role moment

@anthonytorres-cruz1598

4 жыл бұрын

"Somebody steal your sweetroll?"

@OTKok

4 жыл бұрын

Anthony Torres-Cruz no, at one point in critical role, the wizard Caleb used a warm loaf of baguette as a hand warmer by placing his hands within the bread

@viggo8213

4 жыл бұрын

Very hot

Our bard is an nice old man who sings songs to people and trys to make people happy

@gabirivero1304

2 жыл бұрын

Tries

@professeurgideere5856

2 жыл бұрын

Grandpa bard ?

@SoySolSolecito

2 жыл бұрын

Wholesome dad bard

@thebutterscotchkid2481

2 жыл бұрын

A character concept I have for a Bard is this kid that goes around playing music and is really god damn gullible. Just an overall kid stereotype, lol.

@primetime429

2 жыл бұрын

I'm an 80s hair metal bard. He has a wizard father that had glimpses into the future and told him about it and he based it off the stories

I was genuinely annoyed at the ‘It’s the player’s story not the DM’s story’. Like seriously, it’s everyone’s story, not specifically the Players’ or the DM’s

@reaperleviathan4726

3 жыл бұрын

Especially since the dm takes their Time to organise and play the game, which takes a lot of time

@epileum67

3 жыл бұрын

Reaper Leviathan exactly! I’m a forever DM, and it usually takes me about 2 weeks to prepare for session 1 because of all the stuff I have to write

@reaperleviathan4726

3 жыл бұрын

@@epileum67 Im a forever Dm too and altough I only Played pre written adventures so far (im relativly NEW to DnD), it still takes time to learn how they function and what happens when, encounters and so on

@DustySquitoNM

3 жыл бұрын

Also, if it's their story, maybe they can write some of it for me. I'm almost always the DM, and it is certainly the DM doing the heavy lifting of the story writing homework. I should be allowed to have some fun with it

@dedotrongames6402

2 жыл бұрын

The whole point of DnD is to put the characters into the world, and act out the story of the characters.

Hot Take: Appreciate DM burnout, missing a session or replacing it with a one-shot where the usual DM can play can allowing them to refresh and recharge and is better than burning out and not finishing the campaign.

@shadosnake

4 жыл бұрын

until the dm starts a new campaign, stops that one, then holds the old one hostage until someone else runs a game

@marjoriecruz8977

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks man, ive been burnin out a lot on my campaigns

@johail3510

4 жыл бұрын

Im no DM but even i know this is a good idea; good take.

@sirornstein

4 жыл бұрын

I'm a little glad that this while Coronacation thing because I'm getting burntout but when we come back shits gonna hit the fan, I recently finished the last touches on the campaign.

@plooply

4 жыл бұрын

Fugg I wish my players would understand that it's a thing. The burnout is so real I'm staring to hate the game...

My mildly hot take: While DM's should obviously not railroad their players, DMs come to the table with something prepared, if the players choose to not follow it, then they can't complain about the DM seeming like they are making it up as they go. That's like agreeing to play Chess, and just after someone sets up the pieces, everyone says, "Nah, let's play Monopoly."

@hasix404

4 жыл бұрын

Dawe YES THANK YOU

@MrAndersonMusic056

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed 🙌 some players I’ve had just love to stir the pot and “see what happens “ then get upset when their character takes damage lol there is usually a goal in mind and the DM needs to make that goal known to the Players.

@RunningWithRoses

4 жыл бұрын

Good DMs railroad the party without them even realizing it. the trick is to make them think it's THEIR choice. while stories without direction can be fun, they get boring after a while.

@Matthew-ye1qm

4 жыл бұрын

I feel like sometimes this can get really muddy though with players finding interesting ways to solve problems that the dm didn't think of. Obviously players just ignoring plot hooks to be quirky is stupid and annoying. But if they find their own way solve a problem that happens to ruin the dms plot I don't think the players can really be blamed.

@RunningWithRoses

4 жыл бұрын

@@Matthew-ye1qm no absolutely and if you railroad in that instance you are literally tripping your players over with the tracks.

"Gatekeeping can be good" Of course it is! You can't just let EVERYONE in the city, you need someone manning the gates!

@jacobb5484

2 жыл бұрын

Similarly, a player who actively tries to screw over other players for no good reason, purposely derails the campaign, refuses to put any effort into learning the most BASIC rules after several reminders, or behaves inappropriately when clear rules and expectations are established should be given a warning then be excluded if they intentionally misbehave again.

@zakpodo

2 жыл бұрын

Of course gatekeeping can be good. It can also be bad. It's really such an air-headed take based more on a virtue-signal rather than any critical thought.

@CMTechnica

2 жыл бұрын

@@zakpodo it's 2022, critical thinking went out the window years ago

@HaydenX

2 жыл бұрын

@@zakpodo Name a single good example of gatekeeping. I feel that your comment was based more on being hateful and exclusionary rather than any rational thought...prove me wrong.

@zakpodo

2 жыл бұрын

@@HaydenX Sure can. I will speak in general terms because it's a very general concept that has become a buzzword with political and insulting connotations that it really shouldn't have.. then I will give a couple examples. Beyond the basic fact that for any thing to have a definition, meaning or existence it must have defined boundaries. That is, a place where x ends and not-x begins. People willingly associate themselves into groups based on common interest (among other things like shared belief). Of course they have the right to define that group based around that shared interest. If my DnD table likes to play DnD in a particular way, and has a particular view on culture and etiquette on the tabletop, it would not only be OK, but would be appropriate to exclude somebody who doesn't fit into our paradigm (even if they also enjoy fantasy roleplaying). Likewise a group of motorcycle enthusiasts wouldn't be remiss in turning away a guy with a scooter, and a group promoting advancement of LGBTQ issues could be well advised to exclude objectophiles or polygamists. Despite the degree of overlap, these groups are well defined by their members and their members interests: they have the obligation to protect that and exclude things that are counter to those interests and those things that are irrelevant to those interests (lest their well defined group become so bloated as to not really stand for anything anymore.) This is all doubly so today (with social media and the politicization of everything) where people external to a given community seek to influence the identity and otherwise pressure some of those voluntary associations of interest. Edit: I've given this due consideration and it's not something motivated by hate despite your assumption. Gatekeeping can be motivated by hate but just about anything can be. Let's not throw out basic things like voluntary associations and basic definitions because some idiots at some time behaved poorly.

Hot take: The kobold race should of had an ability that allowed them to build traps rather than grovel and beg.

@drakegrandx5914

2 жыл бұрын

That's not an hot take. "Crowler and begging" is just such a stupid ability, especially when you think that it doesn't make any sense for it to only work once per rest.

@PotofGlue

2 жыл бұрын

@@drakegrandx5914 greetings. How odd, finding a comment from the current month on a nearly 2 year old video

@yee7218

2 жыл бұрын

@@PotofGlue right?!

@Dragonmoon98

2 жыл бұрын

Call Wizards! Tell them we don't want to play pansy-ass Kobolds!

@PotofGlue

2 жыл бұрын

@@yee7218 funnily enough it was actually about 7 minutes

The wrong way to play D&D: Being abusive with other people. A lot of people leave the hobby because of abusive DMs or Players.

@mrROAR104

4 жыл бұрын

Playing something so far removed from any edition of dnd and still calling it dnd is another wrong way

@davveds145

4 жыл бұрын

The wrong way to play D&D: Doing a handstand (in real life) while beatboxing in a dungeon mid BBEG summoning. While pissin on the dm and rolling the dice with ur feet.

@Nackeroo

4 жыл бұрын

My first dm was an asshole. My first 30 minutes of playing dnd I rolled a Nat 1 shooting a Crossbow, and he said I lost my eye. I can understand if it's a really hardcore game, but still he was a complete asshat

@That80sGuy1972

4 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, that is sad but true. I DM'd many games where my players had friends that left the game and mocked by players. They eventually became players and distracted the sessions with horror stories that made them leave the hobby for a bit while showering me with praise as if, by being a normal (I repeat a *NORMAL*) DM, was the Jesus Christ of AD&D. WTF role-play a$$holes? Edit: spelling corrections

@isamuddin1

4 жыл бұрын

Nah You only need one abbreviate. TPK

Hot Take: Chaotic alignments have been boiled down to "LOL RANDOMNESS!" It's supposed to mean your character is willing to do anything to achieve their goals, not insanity.

@DHTheAlaskan

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah chaotic neutral more about what benefits you the most and acting upon it or just a pure expression of freedom. While it isn't a GOOD thing to beat down the priest who got handsy with the altar boy, he was getting handsy with the altar boy and and should be dealt with.

@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself

4 жыл бұрын

Original D&D alignments were about actually being aligned to cosmic forces in the game universe. If you were chaotic it was because you were driven to advance the aims of chaos philosophy - knowingly or not. There were even aligned languages. Now it's so watered down that it might as well not even be part of the game anymore.

@commandercaptain4664

4 жыл бұрын

@@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself True, there were initially meant to be personalities/flaws when the concept was young, now they're antiquated. Chaotic should've been named "Individual" and Lawful as "Societal".

@troodon1096

4 жыл бұрын

It CAN mean insanity, but does not necessarily mean that, yes.

@oblivious2052

4 жыл бұрын

I like chaotic good characters, willing to do bad things for the sake of your personal good. Would Thanos be chaotic good?

"Cleric who can fight" So... like, a cleric?

@tylerp5259

2 жыл бұрын

A year late, but I think it’s the difference in time / quality and type of training. Paladins are clerics specifically trained in physical combat (hence the Fighting Style) while Clerics are trained more in the aspect of spells and stuff (hence the ability to cast cantrips that you’d be able to use in your everyday life AND higher level spell slots)

Hot Take: it’s ok for the DM to ask the players to reconsider a course of action. It should be done rarely, and politely, but sometimes there’s just no way the DM can figure out how to make something fun for everyone.

@quinloomis2729

2 жыл бұрын

Hot take: the players still have to listen to the DM… speaking from experience…

@beardiemom

2 жыл бұрын

Not a hot take. Players have ideas that can quickly end in disaster for them and the rest of the group. I will never force a player to not do something, but when they are about to make a dangerous move, I will politely point out that they might want to reconsider.

@henrymalinowski5125

2 жыл бұрын

This is important when it seems like a disconnect has formed between the character and the player. For example, it's generally safe to assume that the character has better immediate knowledge of their surrounding than the player. This is because scene knowledge is fed from the character, as it were, through the DM to the player. If the player asks to do something nonsensical, it could be because he doesn't understand the consequences of the action, but his player would. In this case the DM intervening before allowing the action is helping the player to roleplay better by bringing the player back to his character’s level.

@NotEpimethean

2 жыл бұрын

also sometimes players are stupid and might need someone to say out loud that jumping into a well while wearing plate armor is a bad idea... I only did it the one time though!

@jayspeidell

Жыл бұрын

In my current campaign my players set themselves up for a brutal session 1 TPK. This happened in a cathedral immediately after a very ominous event. "Okay, we three will go upstairs and you two investigate downstairs." "Sounds good, let's do it!" Me: "Just a heads up, this is a deadly area. Encounters here and many others throughout the campaign will not likely be survivable with a partial party. Are you sure you want to continue this course of action?" Their characters would not have split the party just to explore ground in half the time because the setting as described was terrifying.

Paladins already have cantrips: it is called "greatsword"

@numen7778

4 жыл бұрын

Lorenzo Lazzaris greatswords and Smite slots

@mistermegalo

4 жыл бұрын

"I cast Sword!"

@deathcompanybattlebrother

4 жыл бұрын

"I cast eldritch blast" *proceeds to decapitate enemy with a 1.5 m sword*

@anthonynorman7545

4 жыл бұрын

I spit out my toothpaste laughing!

@UmekCrafter

4 жыл бұрын

@@deathcompanybattlebrother No one said Eldritch Blast can't be shaped like a spectral sword

The main way to play DnD wrong is to shout “Yahtzee!” Whenever you roll your dice That’s a different game

@foxblaze2965

4 жыл бұрын

Jess Little Please don’t Think about your dm, your party members -Or if you’re a dm- Think about your players

@5-Volt

4 жыл бұрын

What if you're proficient in Yahtzee dice tho?

@CaptainOrlax

4 жыл бұрын

But that’s my verbal component to cast the spell “Make the Dice Behave” They usually pass the save anyways.

@foxblaze2965

4 жыл бұрын

5 Volt You play Yahtzee!

@absolutepineapple4115

4 жыл бұрын

What if you play yahtzee in the game.

Can we just address that Jacob’s edgelord character name was “Bone D’Arkness Ravenway Dimentia”

@salvadorelastname9095

3 жыл бұрын

I think he said Ebony but pronounced it wrong.

@avocado4620

3 жыл бұрын

Do you get the reference?

@kholtonthebarbarian2590

2 жыл бұрын

*Bone’E

@nyarlat8455

2 жыл бұрын

It got me to irrational levels of anger that he swapped the Ravenway and Dementia on accident

@Technotoadnotafrog

2 жыл бұрын

"Yes, DeMentia. I'm from the town of Mentia."

Tasha: "What's that, you wanted Paladin Cantrips?" Jacob: "NO!" Tasha: "I didn't hear that."

@arian512

2 жыл бұрын

I mean, people could take magic initiate right???? Right????!!!!! I have a warlock with 9 cantrips, a monk way of shadows with 6 cantrips. And a paladin can have guidance and other cantrips with a simple feat

@hipopotamodata9932

Жыл бұрын

To be fair we have some cantrips to hand to hand fights and the paladin knowing that makes sense

@morrigankasa570

6 ай бұрын

Also, High Elves starts with 1 Wizard Cantrip of choice. Additionally, certain Backgrounds also grant a Cantrip.

Hot Take: Warlocks are a super creative class but a vast majority of players feel like they have to play an evil demon worshipping cultist. Have some fun with it y’all

@riptide3340

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly! Warlocks can be evil alien worshipping cultists too :) I know what you’re saying though. My first character is a warlock who has no cult ties. He’s just a regular smuggler who wanted money lol

@The_Scryer

4 жыл бұрын

My first warlock was a Triton that had a patron that was obsessed with fish hooks, and would grant him boons depending on how many fish hooks he collected. Who ever said they had to be malicious

@thepbrit

4 жыл бұрын

My warlock was a dude who got drunk in the presence of an archfey and accidently made a deal which took his eyes, so now my poor boi just wants out of this deal with the obnoxious archfey...

@Kokoroku_

4 жыл бұрын

Good point! The character I'm playing the most right now and my most favourite is going to multiclass into Warlock soon, but I plan on making him very confused with his pact and unwilling to follow up with it. He doesn't blindly follow orders and sacrifice the blood of puppies, but he instead struggles to understand his pact and what that would mean for his future and his goals.

@itzplant3196

4 жыл бұрын

My Tiefling Feylock, Alastaire only made his pact to save hia sister from dying because of an illness he couldn't cure even with his knowledge of herbology so his pactron is preserving her for my charcater until he finds the herb. This is a great example as he doesnt make the pact because he's evil. It give him a nice grey area as a person. Which would explain why he's very defensive of people but also if I wanted to play him w/ low-self esteem because he couldn't save his sister even with his knowledge of many herbs he'd feel like "Can i truly save anyone?"

Hote taki: Having a min-maxed character doesn't mean you can't have weaknesses or roleplay. Not everything about your character is related to stats or abilities.

@emc246

4 жыл бұрын

Min-maxing can actually help to encourage group play. One character is really bad at a skill, so they have to rely on another party member to do certain things instead of just doing everything themselves.

@ismaashawsome4685

4 жыл бұрын

The thing that most people don't like is Maxed-Maxed characters. Not Min-Maxed. Min-max by definition is a very volatile as the minimums are as low as they can be while the maximums are as high as they can be.

@emc246

4 жыл бұрын

I usually go somewhere in the middle, so nothing is below 8, but nothing is above 14 before racial bonuses.

@hatefulvengeance

4 жыл бұрын

Hot take on a hot take, a min-maxed character is still good with role-play if you put the effort into it. But if you character is just an online meta-build with a lazy, cliche background, then yeah he's going to be boring.

@AstridCeleste96

4 жыл бұрын

We have a bard whose whole thing is being God awful at their instrument, but having a whimsical charm that has people like them anyways.

The wrong way to play D&D: Step 1: Set up a game of Monopoly instead

@genericname2747

2 жыл бұрын

Imagine a dnd game themed after monopoly

@funnyvideoguy3216

2 жыл бұрын

You are right and I don't like it

@MaindexOmega

2 жыл бұрын

dammit, not again

@erikhermansen3431

Жыл бұрын

Rolling dice from your nether regions..... in most games...... in my experience.

@apollyon1

4 ай бұрын

It is role-play. You pretend to be wealthy.

"Paladins are fighters, they don't need cantrips." *Laughs in Eldritch Knight

@thatlonewolfguy2878

2 жыл бұрын

Eldritch Knight is the best, most fun and can also be the most OP fighter, that's my hot take

@Aj-crazy1906

2 жыл бұрын

@@thatlonewolfguy2878 I like echo knight

@CypherDND

2 жыл бұрын

@@thatlonewolfguy2878 it doesn't come online till level 7 / 9 though :/

Wrong way to play D&D ---> Not having fun

@megashark1013

4 жыл бұрын

Nah, DnD isn't about having fun. It's about beating the DM, which is why I always play human fighter.

@sharkoj

4 жыл бұрын

Megashark 101 who hurt you poor thing

@BayBerry1337

4 жыл бұрын

Megashark 101 I play pathfinder, and I theory crafted a character who can crit on a 13. Another character, by lvl 15, can do 175 damage with one attack. The difference is: I’m the GM

@JagEterCoola

4 жыл бұрын

@@BayBerry1337 I do this often. Not to fuck with my players later, but because I want to see the limitations of the system. How were you able to make a character crit on a 13 though? Critical feats and Keen specifically does not stack with any effect that increases your crit range. (I've theorycrafted a level 10 inquisitor/paladin multiclass that, using a bow and arrow, can 1shot any mob on the Monster Manual.)

@Eric_The_Cleric

4 жыл бұрын

@@JagEterCoola I know it's possible since an old friend who dives deep into the rules did it once. Sadly, I don't remember the exact way. It had something to do with stackable abilities and Keen, though. I also believe he did it with a class that you can't find in the main books. It was still Paizo official though. He has a LOT of the official 1e books. He also made a Kitsune rogue that was so good at disguising himself he convinced literally everyone in a large city he was human at level 1. That's just how deep he delved into the crazy, supposedly non-intractable, official Paizo rules he went.

7:41 there are already Clerics that can fight. They're called Clerics.

@Dracomandriuthus

3 жыл бұрын

This.

@deathwrow9652

3 жыл бұрын

Paladins should get limited cantrip availability. No ranged damage cantrips, but also maybe cantrips that don't allow smite on them in some way.

@Yawyna124

3 жыл бұрын

@@deathwrow9652 Paladin having guidance/resistance really does make sense, doesn't it?

@camedialdamage8180

3 жыл бұрын

We do a little trolling, it’s called we do a little trolling

@Technotoadnotafrog

3 жыл бұрын

clerics that can multiattack, then

4:30 Once had an AMAZING session of Iron Kingdoms RPG where the player who kept all the notes looked at the game calendar (yes, really) and noticed it was another PC's birthday. Since we were between mercenary jobs we dropped EVERYTHING to have a four-hour session devoted purely to shopping for the supplies and gifts to throw that one PC an absolutely amazing birthday party. Like, we had observed a while back that the PC's boots were a bit worn out. We checked the loot table for how much a pair of finely made long-lasting boots would cost, then pooled money for ones that cost ten times that. These boots had zero mechanical impact on any characters. Like, they're just really nice. On top of that, we had a bunch of our subordinates arranging all sorts of crazy party games and procuring drinks. One of the most fun and memorable sessions I've done of any RPG, for all the right reasons, and mechanically all we did was waste some money on a super fancy pair of boots.

@Awesomeasumpta13

2 жыл бұрын

That's the cutest thing ever! I hope i get to have an experience like that someday.

Paladin’s cantrip is “weapon attack”. It synergizes really well with their class abilities, and they don’t even need to use an Invocation to make it add their main stat to its damage, unlike Warlocks.

@emilysmith2965

Жыл бұрын

Goddammit 🤣 truly the spiciest take

@DellikkilleD

5 ай бұрын

I cast 'strike' It's super effective.

Hot take: "Find a different group" doesn't work for everyone. A lot of people have a tough time finding any group in the first place, much less one that works with their schedule and location, even if you factor in online play.

@ismaashawsome4685

4 жыл бұрын

I spent a solid 7 months responding to LFG and only ever got 2 responses. 1 of them never turned out because we had a 9 hour time difference b3cause they never said their timezone in their lfg and the other ended up falling through because daylight savings time made it so that I was out of schedule for the rest of the group.

@Business_Skeleton

4 жыл бұрын

No dnd is better than bad dnd

@ismaashawsome4685

4 жыл бұрын

@@Business_Skeleton But that's the thing. Some people just can't find any kind of D&D to play.

@Business_Skeleton

4 жыл бұрын

@@ismaashawsome4685 well yes and that's a shame but isn't it better to mot play at all than to be stuck with a group in which you have no fun.

@leftistadvocate9718

4 жыл бұрын

then don't play dnd. bad dnd is worse than no dnd

"Wizards only cast fireball is an overdone meme" BigdickWizard6969: Bold talk for someone in fireball distance

@user2C47

3 жыл бұрын

Meet the wizard that casts fire _bolt._ It's basically fireball, but you can cast it as many times as you want.

After watching this, I'm getting the impression that too many people see horny bard memes and automatically assume that's how all bard players are.

@terrabite87

2 жыл бұрын

I've been playing D&D for years and never actually encountered a "horny bard", as a matter of fact the bard in my current campaign is asexual

@seigeengine

2 жыл бұрын

In my experience, only twats play bards, regardless of how they play bards.

@thatlonewolfguy2878

2 жыл бұрын

Its a stereotype for a reason...

@SpookGod

2 жыл бұрын

@@thatlonewolfguy2878 Stereotype =/= all players.

@CypherDND

2 жыл бұрын

If they aren't playing the horny bard stereotype, they aren't playing their bard right lol.

"bad characters aren't a thing" what about my first character, "himbo stabsmuch" a goblin outlander cleric, who had taken all their points from strenth charisma and intelligence to have high dexterity, too bad I was using heavy armor, and brought a spear instead of a light crossbow, also he has like 6 max health, and died from 2 goblins armed with shanks because he hit himself in the foot with his mace.

@dotmp4353

3 жыл бұрын

You're character was named Himbo Stabsmuch Himbo Stabs Much I can't decide whether I love or hate this

@connorpratt8364

3 жыл бұрын

no this is the best character

@genericname2747

2 жыл бұрын

He's perfect

@Ailieorz

2 жыл бұрын

This is amazing. The better example of a bad character is one that has been min/maxed to the nth degree so they're good at everything and basically make the other people in the group feel useless.

@toe_sucker_4165

2 жыл бұрын

That's the best character.

Hot Take: There's a really easy way to deal with meme seduction bards - play seduction realistically. You're not going to be able to make best friends with, well, anyone sane if you've just showed up at their front door. If you're the DM, you have the power to deal with these problems.

@johnstarinieri7360

4 жыл бұрын

I had a friend with a seduction meme bard and I offered an easy solution: the oblex. Go to do the dirty and suddenly you’re being melted and memory drained by a mind flayer ooze

@CappuccinoSquid

4 жыл бұрын

Big Bad Evil Guy: _after successfully seduced_ "...heh. Charming. Throw them in the brig, but be _polite_ about it. We're civilized here, after all." Like, just 'cause the antagonist _likes_ you doesn't mean you're gonna undo all their convictions, their seven year plan etc. just by making googly eyes at them. Hell, could make it a thing later on: Big Bad Evil Guy: _during insurrection_ "Aha!" _dramatic weapon clash/lock_ "My _favorite_ rebel scum! Shall we banter wittily at each other now, while fighting to the death?"

@VestedUTuber

3 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of that story about a Kobold bard that seduced a dragon and subsequently became the most prized part of that dragon's hoard. This is what's called "gone horribly right".

@kriegscommissarmccraw4205

3 жыл бұрын

"I seduce the dragon" "I roll a nat 20, 28" The dragon gets a 12 "You seduce the dragon, you take 4d8 bludgeoning damage"

@lithreeum

3 жыл бұрын

@@kriegscommissarmccraw4205 "I seduce the dragon" "Nat 20, you succeed" "Great, then I-" *"ROLL FOR C I R C U M F E R E C E"*

Stunning strike fails like 50% of the time, and it costs a ki point every time. Your monk is going to have zero ki points by round three if they're spamming that much

@johnteixeira6405

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah but Ki comes back on a short rest unlike Sorcery Points, so that is less of an issue imo.

@koolgool

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnteixeira6405 Assuming that encounter is their only fight before the next short rest, even at a high level they're going to be pretty drained before the fight's over. Like... if a level 8 monk does a flurry of blows and tries stunning with every attack, that's already 5 ki spent, leaving them with 3 for the rest of the encounter. Hopefully they don't need to use step of the wind, patient defense, or flurry of blows again after that single turn that the monster is stunned is over. Knowing my DM, there would probably be a second monster in the other room that's now been stirred by the commotion, and the monk is already half-empty.

@johnteixeira6405

3 жыл бұрын

@@koolgool It's extremely unlikely you would stunning strike all 4 attacks in a real scenario at those levels, additionally there would be no point to keep stunning a target already stunned, so you're describing a scenario in which they are stunning multiple targets in a round, effectively winning the fight for the team... Yeah, that's going to take a lot of resources, and considering they come back on just a short rest? Not a problem, whatsoever. Also the whole "it fails 50% of the time" thing is bull anyways, you're going to have a 16 wis in a point buy so you're only going to have, at max, a -2 difference to your DC than someone with a max score, just 10% less chance to land.

@koolgool

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnteixeira6405 Yeah, most monks I've seen played don't stunning strike all of their attacks. If they fail the first one or two, unless they're really desperate, they're not spending any more ki on that move. Successful stuns are not common, and meaningful ones are rare, and I've been a part of multiple full campaigns with players playing monks. Usually, they save their ki for patient defense, flurry of blows, and step of the wind. Unless you made wisdom your main stat and not dex, like most monks I've seen, you're not going to waste your ki on stunning strike as much as you may think. I'm sure we've both played a lot of DnD. You should know as well as I do that a 2 point difference in AC, an attack, a skill check, a saving throw, or whatever, is a HUGE deal. That's why shields are a thing. That's why +2 magic weapons are rare magic items. That's why the archery fighting style gives you +2 to attacks. If a player dumps all of their ASI's into pumping up their dex AND their wisdom to their maximum, then they've earned that stunning strike that actually sometimes works. As a final side note, most of the HP-heavy monsters (as well as powerful spell casters) generally have pretty decent con saves. Even if they fail... it's one fuckin' turn man, it's no "Hold Monster". If a boss is stunned for one turn and they have no minions to back them up, then they were a bad boss anyway and need to find a new job.

@johnteixeira6405

3 жыл бұрын

@@koolgool Statistically it isn't a big deal though. It's 10%. The only reason people consider it a "big deal" in 5e is because of the relative lack of bonuses to rolls available, not because it's super powerful statistically. At the end of the day, you're only 10% less likely to get the stun off if you have a -2. About the con saves, the monsters that have good con saves are mostly "boss like" or are undead. It's just a matter of balance, you aren't really meant to stunning strike the adult red dragon. The extreme majority of monsters you commonly fight have middling con saves. Con being a bad save to target is more of a meme than reality, so long as you aren't trying to cast blindness on a vampire for instance, you're likely fine. You just gotta know when NOT to stunning strike, at the end of the day. I've played many monks and played with many, I feel like they're fine outside of the Four Elements. Not the best class, sure, but quite strong. I never really had a problem with Ki, yeah of course it runs out, but that's what a resource is supposed to do, be used for power. Maybe it's just because I really like the flavor of Sorcerers and so force myself to play them and work with the much more frustratingly limited pool of sorcery points, so I just don't mind the Ki costs? To each their own, I suppose.

DM: So what are you playing? Player: I wanted to make the most interesting character possible so I have a half-tiefling, half-dragonborn warlock Paladin. DM: What is their personality and backstory? Player: What personality or backstory?

@apollyon1

4 ай бұрын

This is why I play human whenever possible. :)

11:24 "Homebrew can be very annoying. There is so much in the books already why can't you *flavour stuff to make it your own.*" That just sounds like homebrew with extra steps.

@asrieldreemurr1988

2 жыл бұрын

They mean like keep the abilteys but say this is something else

@seigeengine

2 жыл бұрын

I miss 3.5e where there was so much zany offshoot BS produced at an at-least semi-professional level, since they actually needed to print physical copies.

@emilysmith2965

Жыл бұрын

Eek barba durkel, SOMEone got laid in college

@JD-xz1mx

10 ай бұрын

That's not homebrew at all. In the old days, the entire game worked this way. The rules for a class were not your characterization, but the mechanics that sat underneath your characterization. That's why "Fighter" is so generic by today's class design standards. It wasn't supposed to be the fantasy element, it was supposed to be the meat and bones of any weapons oriented character, who's true flavor you would invent for yourself.

"It's the player's story, not the DM's." "Well yes but actually no."

@Einherjar212

4 жыл бұрын

I'd say it's slightly more the DM's story, because they have the final word, but it's obviously an excercise in collective storytelling.

@chazzle3459

4 жыл бұрын

It should be everyones story. Nobody participating should get to ruin another participants fun.

@janelantestaverde2018

4 жыл бұрын

I'd say the DM sets the scene, the players are the protagonists.

@GhoulSlayer_

4 жыл бұрын

It’s the DM’s story, they make the setting and plot points, but the players decide how it occurs and how it ends.

@UmekCrafter

4 жыл бұрын

Problem is not everyone recognize its asymerltric storytelling, but still co-operative storytelling. GM is more than provider od adventures for players AND players are not actors, that have to follow a script.

"Theres no such thing as a bad character" I once saw a guy who walked up to adventure league saying he only plays "evil" characters, and he said "I'll be fine in a group of good characters" He used "evil" as more an excuse for "I'm an asshole and no one can do anything" until the gm yelled at him for asking the question of "can I sneak into the druid's tent and 'soil her holy grove'?" And the store owner agreed to never let him back at that AL game Idk whether that falls under bad character or bad player, but that is stuff you just dont do either way

@megamudkip5913

4 жыл бұрын

Think that factors into a bad player, and bad character, since their only motivation was to be "evil"

@CitanulsPumpkin

4 жыл бұрын

It seems like once any player brings the prospect of a PC raping any other character into the game you've entered entirely into "bad player" territory. It doesn't matter what character that player brought to the table. Eventually they were going to use some mental gymnastics to justify derailing and traumatizing everyone else at the table.

@Sxionix

4 жыл бұрын

Yo what the hell that's insane.

@patdav56

4 жыл бұрын

@@Sxionix it's an rpghorrorstory. I didnt see this in person, it was from a loading crew reddit video I believe

@futzlol

4 жыл бұрын

That’s the player

Man, some of the best character backstories I've ever seen have come from minmaxing. First you build a character really good at one thing, but then you've got to explain why he has 4 multiclasses or whatever in his backstory. And just about every one of those I've seen has taken on a life of their own.

@Demicaster11

10 ай бұрын

jjjo 12:04 huh😊

@Demicaster11

10 ай бұрын

uu😊uu

“All wizards do is cast fireball” KZread: *proceeds to give me a water filter ad*

@MayHugger

3 жыл бұрын

Counter argument: All fighters do is swing their weapon. All Paladins do is use their Smites. All Rogues do is Sneak Attack. Gee, it's almost like players are inclined to do what's most efficient and their character would do.

@funnyvideoguy3216

2 жыл бұрын

I mean, you're gonna need water to defend yourself

@thepotatotaxi2430

2 жыл бұрын

@@MayHugger mayhugger likes DnD too? Based, I see you everywhere

@MayHugger

2 жыл бұрын

@@thepotatotaxi2430 I see you are a person of culture as well.

@thepotatotaxi2430

2 жыл бұрын

@@MayHugger I'm trying to get into DnD, but the curse of the schedule is abusing me I have a CN Halfling Bard planned out

Hot take: the gravity on your hair makes you look like the Adoring Fan from oblivion :3

@beyblademoses5379

4 жыл бұрын

My brain exploded after reading this

@All4Tanuki

4 жыл бұрын

@@beyblademoses5379 My condolences

@KillerBot5100

4 жыл бұрын

Go search on YT Straight Outta Cyrodiil, and listen to the whole thing

Just woke up, and I misread the title as "How to D&D taxes." Time to overthrown the government

@Pyreleaf

4 жыл бұрын

The Wanderer do you hear the people sing?

@happyhaunt6659

4 жыл бұрын

Singing the song of angry men

@sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149

4 жыл бұрын

Rouges get superior tax evasion.

@onesaltydoge3105

4 жыл бұрын

I did as well! Hilarious coincidence!

@Pyreleaf

4 жыл бұрын

Happy Haunt IT IS THE MUSIC OF A PEOPLE WHO WILL NOT BE SLAVES AGAIN!

I believe that playing a "rare" race makes the character just a little more interesting, but is not in any way a substitute for a well-rounded backstory.

@thatlonewolfguy2878

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed tbh

@nessa-parmentier

2 жыл бұрын

I'd personally say it gives a good hook to actually make a character interesting, but doesn't by itself. Like, it's a good (potentially very good) tool to create an interesting character. But that tool can be ignored or used badly by the player and still make a character uninteresting.

@RevanReborn3950BBY

Жыл бұрын

I play a wildfire Druid Firbolg who has a whole backstory with a human artificer destroying his village when he was realy young causing him to be taken in by a nearby wolf pack that the tribe had good relations with

@offspringfan100

Жыл бұрын

I feel like it is just a larger challenge for the DM to take most games and find creative ways to tie their weird character into it and make those special character moments. If you know your DM is running a campaign/adventure in a specific area, go easy on your DM and try to tie them to the setting and theme the best you can do they can riff off of your backstory better. I told my player they couldn't run a Blood Hunter because it didn't really fit the campaign premise and told him we could run a character in a one-shot or after this adventure and he was cool with it. It takes two to tango

@JD-xz1mx

10 ай бұрын

Its a crutch. Being a rare, one in a billion identity is the fast track to an interesting character without requiring any effort.

In regards to stunning strike, the fact that you have to use ki points every time you use it already balances out the ability. I've never been in a fight where I had no use for patient defense or step of the wind or flurry of blows. They're all useful abilities that are limited by the number of ki points you have in a combat, you don't need to neuter Stunning Strike when its resource cost already balances it out for pretty much whatever level your monk is at.

Hot take: every damage type should have at least a few GOOD damaging spells. They don't all have to be on the same level as fireball but black dragon sorcerers should still have decent options.

@MN-ce7ec

4 жыл бұрын

I saw this dnd tiktok where it proposed an acidball, and I think that it was a pretty good idea

@elgatochurro

4 жыл бұрын

Avoid blast

@demi-femme4821

4 жыл бұрын

@@MN-ce7ec That's called Vitriolic Sphere. It basically trades the immediate power and consistency of a Fireball for MUCH higher overall damage. Though, it is a 4th level spell, which makes it less of an immediate, dependable burst of damage that you can keep using for a good bit and more of an emergency option that you whip out when you need as much damage as you can muster.

@elf-lordsfriarofthemeadowl2039

3 жыл бұрын

yeah, 3.5 had evocation spells of every type for every level

@BramLastname

3 жыл бұрын

If you want to make a good acid spell, You could take fire ball, And make it into Acid pit, Which requires a Con save instead of Dex, Deals less damage, but leaves a terrain that deals Acid damage at the start of a turn.

Hot take: 'playing DnD' is a purely conceptual exercise, because who actually has time to put a group together with people whose schedules all align at the same time

@emberhermin52

2 жыл бұрын

It's true but you shouldn't say it

Basically the difference between an edgelord and a dark character is the dark character had a fully fleshed out personality before their tragic backstory happened to them rather than being entirely defined by it.

@seigeengine

2 жыл бұрын

The difference between dark and edgy, is whether the point of the darkness is just to be dark.

I think the fun of playing a weird race class combo is making it not feel weird. Turning a strange concept into a coherent character which feels natural is an intresting challenge.

@wren_.

7 ай бұрын

I love making race/class combos that don’t seem to make any sense. I’ve played both a rogue/fairy and a druid/half-orc before, it’s fun

@TheReZisTLust

6 ай бұрын

I reccomend Megaraptor and Ninja​@@wren_.

@blazaybla22

2 ай бұрын

@@wren_.Those both make total sense to me idk

9:17 "It's their game of make believe, who cares." This is both the hottest take and most accurate!

@PrestonWillis

4 жыл бұрын

Justin Hopkins I honestly felt offended by that hot take and I’m not sure why because it’s true

@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself

4 жыл бұрын

I think the reason some people (like me) care about that is we might otherwise want to join that group to play, but the way they play sucks, so now I can't play my favorite game anymore.

Hot Take: Charisma isn't just displayed in how friendly and attractive you are to others, nor does it have to mean that characters with high Charisma are all sociable. Charisma can also be displayed through being intimidating, or just downright irritating if they choose to be, because they know how to get under your skin. It's force of personality.

@MayHugger

3 жыл бұрын

I define Charisma as your character's ability to make others do/react the way they want, plus spellcasting.

@jossebrodeur6033

3 жыл бұрын

This is why I homebrew a Taunt skill, because there are really three ways of getting information. Persuasion (good cop), Intimidation (bad cop), and Taunt (asshole cop). Series irritating the shit out of someone is far more effective for getting them to do what you want than intimidating or persuading them.

@zagzig3734

3 жыл бұрын

Charisma is just how strong of a personality [they] are. Be that through intimidation and fear, or sleight and persuasion

@MayHugger

3 жыл бұрын

@@zagzig3734 But like, shy nervous people can be very good at persuading others or deceiving them.

@zagzig3734

3 жыл бұрын

@@MayHugger then that's still a strong personality

The dynamic of story creation between the DM and players is like paint is to an artist. I supply the materials, but you paint the picture.

"This thread is a nightmare" *sees first take* Oh... Oh no....

Hot Take: Lawful Evil characters can be a great addition to a party, as they tend to be loyal to their allies and/or cause, while merely willing to use dubious methods to achieve their goals.

@5-Volt

4 жыл бұрын

IMO Lawful Evil is the hardest alignment to play properly.

@MrNozza123

4 жыл бұрын

@@5-Volt I'd say it's not so much hard to play properly as easy to play badly. I've played lawful evil characters plenty of times, only I never openly told the party or DM that they were LE and everyone was cool with it. Bit scared by some of the actions, but it was never directed at the party, so it was fine. I think CN, True Neutral and LN are the real hard ones to play, since most people can't get CN, LN tend towards LE or LG over a longer time-frame and I'm not even sure how you'd play True Neutral.

@ferociousmaliciousghost

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrNozza123 I feel like you'd play True Neutral as the golden rule. If someone is good to you, then you would be good to them as well and vice versa.

@shrexican4413

4 жыл бұрын

I players a LE character, he was good to the party (he was playing a long con, to gain information for the BBEG) and I didn’t play him like an asshole, but the party slaughtered him for being “suspicious”, he wasnt caught doing anything, just didn’t have an excuse for leaving the party for a bit. Protip: Theres a right time and place for every character, but not every time and place is right for every character

@tyrusdalet

4 жыл бұрын

MrNozza123 for True Neutral; set yourself a goal, and have your character set a goal, and work towards it. They work towards it in the best way possible, whether it be following or breaking rules. Monks, Rangers, Fighters, and Druids can pull it off fairly easily, other classes might struggle with how it interacts with their class

3:50 It is the Player's story in that it is about the players and their influence in it. It is the DM's story in that they should respond to this influence with how the world they created would respond. So really it is a 50/50

12:48, I agree that giving yourself bad stats doesn’t make your character inherently better, but I do think that it adds a lot of potential to your character’s backstory and role play as well as keeping them from becoming too all mighty. A rule that my friends use is that every character must have at least one negative modifier before racial bonuses and we all really enjoy that rule.

@MayHugger

Жыл бұрын

Just roleplay your character as being terrible at those aspects, for example you can roleplay a Wizard that’s an idiot but still have give them high int so they aren’t dead weight.

Hot Take: Stunning Strike is already limited by the fact that you have to spend a ki point to use it. As a level 5 monk, you can use it max 5 times in an encounter, and that's assuming you don't use your ki points for anything else.

@unwithering5313

4 жыл бұрын

I know right

@koolgool

3 жыл бұрын

Monks already suffer for how quickly they go through ki, since they use it for nearly everything. Stunning Strike and flurry of blows are the two things that keep them from feeling underpowered to me. Nerf either of them and something else will need to get buffed. I think it's fine as-is.

@brainnotdetectedhurdedur

3 жыл бұрын

As A Monk User I agree heavily with you here, monks have to manage their Ki Carefully or they’ll run out, and if they do they’re gonna get fucked. Saving Ki points for things like Step of the wind or patient defense is just as important as putting someone down asap.

@if7723

3 жыл бұрын

@@brainnotdetectedhurdedur It's almost like the other classes are mad that others can do things.

@BramLastname

3 жыл бұрын

@@koolgool yeah, I'm DMing for a party who has a Monk as frontliner, Our Paladin is surprisingly frail, But the Cleric is usually the one to spend their resources first, Because Ki points are much more valuable. At least in the party dynamic we have.

How dare you! BigDickWizard69 is a meme that never gets old! Mostly because he has extended his own life with magic.

@SodaPopBarbecue

4 жыл бұрын

That's not the only thing he's extended...

@matthewcoyle4131

4 жыл бұрын

@@SodaPopBarbecue 🙄🙄🙄

@matthewcoyle4131

4 жыл бұрын

@SoupMan Jones The human condition is a curse upon those who are mortal. *And curses are a type of MAGIC! I CAST COUNTER SPELL!*

Might be a good story arc for the ice magus to go on a quest to try and find a way for their fireball to deal cold damage

I tend to DM for groups that enjoy combat and RP equally, so “shopping episodes” are great to have occasionally. One of the most fun sessions I had with my last group involved our Ranger suddenly deciding to ask this random clerk chick out on a date. I had the idea of having this girl actually be an identity shared by two very different Changelings, the date was hilarious, and we had an NPC Changeling join and become a beloved part of the party. None of that had been planned by me.

"its the players story, not the DMs", this can be perfectly answered with my own hot take: the DM is a player too!

@avian972

4 жыл бұрын

Yo I was the one that submitted that so I thought I should elaborate. What I meant is that the DM should base their world around the players and the players should be the ones shaping everything that happens. As a DM i feel like when showing up to a session you shouldn’t be thinking about having fun with your friends, you should be thinking about how to make the game as enjoyable as possible for all the players.

@kingcrimson4133

3 жыл бұрын

@@avian972 But if it's not enjoyable for the DM as well, then you're just selling your own happiness for other peoples', and that's not a tradeoff that should be made if there is a way for everyone to be happy instead.

If you're boss fight got cheesed by STUNNING STRIKE, a CONSTITUTION saving throw, either their Con just wasn't their strong point and they found a weakness, you didn't plan around the party, or luck was just not on your side. Stunning Strike at higher levels especially RARELY works, in my experience. Plus, it's like one of the Monks few abilities that help the whole party, and it helps the out BIG time. If they wanna burn 5 key points in one turn to multi attack, flurry of blows, and make them all stunning? That's on them to burn that resource in one turn

@cleanseroftheworld

4 жыл бұрын

More minions as well! And don't let the boss get into melee of the melee fighters until after the backliners are KO'd

@Dinawartotem

4 жыл бұрын

Or in other words, if your big bad evil guy doesn't have freedom of movement precast on him when the party shows up or immunity to stuns to negate stunning strike that's your own damn fault.

@gavinphillips9367

4 жыл бұрын

post level 8 i've pretty much stopped using it, as its far too easy to resist as most monsters have high CON saves. Why waste the Ki, when you could spend 1 ki point on flurry? Two extra attacks and the option to remove reactions, knockdown or push on each hit? Also, stunning strike is NOT a magical effect....none of the open hand monk abilities are classed as magical.

@VestedUTuber

3 жыл бұрын

*Ki But yeah. It's a powerful effect but it's balanced by how expensive it is to use. If your BBEG is getting cheesed then the issue is with the BBEG.

@BramLastname

3 жыл бұрын

A boss fight with low Con, Always consists of multiple monsters for me.

14:48 this is true, I have a character that my friends keep getting frustrated with because he's too powerful, now despite the fact I built him to not die because all my other characters die comically early his character and background had genuinely good reasons for him to be as strong as he was

In reference to the dark backstory ≠ edgy backstory, I completely agree. My current character is a half-elf, but due to how he was belittled and abused relentlessly (not purely because of elven heritage, mostly because he was a bastard) by his family, he is shamed by his true nature and tries to conceal it at all costs. It's made for some interesting scenarios so far and has definitely added a layer to my character everyone enjoys

Q: "There are wrong ways to play DnD." A: No there aren't. r/rpghorrostories: Are we a joke to you!

@Ento2012

4 жыл бұрын

Some people love the feelings you get from horror. That does not mean that they are wrong.

@KiskeFriedChicken

4 жыл бұрын

Elias Olofsson That Reddit isn’t for the “horror genre”. It’s for people to talk about there worst table top experiences. Like “My DM Ruined the Campaign with Shitty Self Inserts.” Stuff like that.

@michaelshuey7020

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ento2012 No, not "Horror RP", horror stories of players/DMs that are just plain awful. Like the things that CritCrab narrates

@Ento2012

4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelshuey7020 I know but a lot of it is just horror or kink related stories that some say are to dark or that they did not tell a player how they play.

@TheBayzent

4 жыл бұрын

"Your Paladin goes to pee and a troll dressed as raisins, comes and rapes him in the mouth. He says he is the grapist" does have kinks and does have horror, but this is not why this would be called a horror story...the fact that the DM is screwing with a character for his personal gratification at the expense of the player is why it would be there. The subreddit is filled with stories about DM's and players being total cunts to the point entire games are ruined, this is the commonality between all stories, not kinks and Ravenloft.

I read this as “Hot DnD Taxes”

@packrat6196

4 жыл бұрын

There's nothing better to do during your game session then burning taxes as environmental props

@NxAllie

4 жыл бұрын

I think that says something about you but i'm afraid to think of what

@matthewcoyle4131

4 жыл бұрын

It's perfectly normal for people to have to pay a table taxes and I won't have you telling my marks- uh.... I mean *players* otherwise.

@SoulSlugArts

4 жыл бұрын

What an exciting video

@iridium6714

4 жыл бұрын

And I read your comment as "Hot DnD Texas"

"There are no bad characters" Say that to Skwiggle the Alcoholic Gnome Comunist

@nekroz_of_super_dora3477

4 жыл бұрын

Why did you say the same thing twice

@baguettegott3409

2 жыл бұрын

Who can't even spell "communist", poor lad

I love min maxing just because I love making intricate backstories as to why they are so strong and stuff. I love it when my friends also do this and we make the most intricate stories to tell it’s the best.

"Weird race/class doesn't make your character interesting" *sweating because I am most definitely guilty of this*

@an8strengthkobold360

4 жыл бұрын

Also doesn't make your character bad though. As long as the characterization doesn't end at ork wizard.

@VestedUTuber

3 жыл бұрын

Weird class/race combination doesn't make your character bad either. If anything, it gives you a bit of a head start, at the expense of being more of a letdown if you end up making a bad character anyway.

@Eliezar18

3 жыл бұрын

Weird race/class gives you tools to paint your canvas of a character that are different. It is always up to the player to fill that canvas with interesting art. Great art can be made with a traditional color palate (human fighter) as easily as with an exotic palate, but the same can be said for bad art, if in hands that aren't skilled. A character that begins and ends with human fighter, and never grows from there is like a stick figure, and a character that begins and ends with drow paladin is no better. But a tiefling storm harald barbarian who loves to make new friends, give out hugs, and is the group's mama bear figure, despite rarely actually knowing what is going on, could be interesting in the right hands. ^_^

@skycastrum5803

3 жыл бұрын

@@Eliezar18 One slight issue. A “human fighter that remains a human fighter” may not be the best way to phrase it. If a human fighter is played well, embodying how a human fighter would act, even if it seems like the most stereotypical character ever, it is a good character (especially given that there are enough wild combinations thrown around that “generic” can almost be unique). The issue is if the human fighter never leaves the paper, if it’s only a stand in for a clump of numbers. Not that you’re wrong. It’s totally an issue of the characteristics being tools to paint a character with. But a simple fighter can also be a work of art, even if it remains so to the very end.

@skycastrum5803

3 жыл бұрын

@Mr. Fake How is that working RP-wise? Who is the deity, and what’s the character’s personality and values?

His shirt says "What doesn't kill you gives you xp". How much xp is surviving a virus?

@wayfaringmoth3899

4 жыл бұрын

About 900.

@APerson-ws4cw

4 жыл бұрын

depends on the virus

@itzplant3196

4 жыл бұрын

Black Plague during the Dark Ages? All the way level 20

@UmekCrafter

4 жыл бұрын

Enouth to advance from level 0 npc to level 1 pc.

@isamuddin1

4 жыл бұрын

Idk Free pass to all around the world?

The way we do stunning strike at our table went through a couple variations based on player feedback. We used to do 1/turn but a player suggested that it should be 1/turn _per monster._ We wrote the following sentence which would be slapped onto the end of stunning strike’s description: “If a creature succeeds its saving throw against stunning strike, it is immune to this ability until the start of your next turn.” So if you were up against one big creature, it would essentially be 1/turn and prevent stunlocks. However, you have to option to use it to control multiple creatures as well, so it’s not quite as limited as 1/turn. The players seem to like this rule and it seems fair, though admittedly we haven’t extensively tested it (tbh most things I write haven’t been tested)

9:04 in my opinion, theres only one ‘wrong’ way to play dnd; when you ruin the enjoyment of the game for your table

Regarding the rogue bit: I played a Lawful Good Rogue with the Knight of the Order background recently. He was a knight who firmly believed in the people and had an attitude to match, but OOC people were always like, "Okay but yeah, he's a rogue though. What kind of knight knows how to pick locks?" A skit about someone like that, a Rogue whose genuinely a nice guy while everyone keeps trying to paint him as this terrible person (because stereotypes) could be pretty funny.

@RoninCatholic

4 жыл бұрын

"What kind of knight knows how to pick locks?" Not knowing locksmithing was a popular hobby with French noblemen, including at least one of their (last) kings.

@troodon1096

4 жыл бұрын

An inquisitive rogue could quite easily be a lawful good detective. And maybe he was a locksmith before he began adventuring.

@QT-JME

4 жыл бұрын

True enough! Mine was an Arcane Trickster, owing to his order having ties to arcane teachings unlike others in the kingdom.

@n.m.dimmick194

4 жыл бұрын

I had a similar thing where I made an intelligent barbarian but she consistently got painted as a dumb meathead barbarian because barbarian. And granted, part of that is probably on me, as I haven't really played up her intelligence as much as I could have, and despite being intelligent her methods of dealing with most problems are quite simple (mostly because simple works quite well and we have enough party members who lean towards over-complicating things). Hopefully though, in the upcoming story arc she'll be able to show off more of her intelligence since canonically she'd been doing research and tactical prep for weeks because ancient dragons are powerful but forethought is stronger.

@blazaybla22

2 ай бұрын

I mean make him a spy in an evil kingdom or something… boom, lawful good knight of the order rogue. Like, take the characters from the show The Americans and remove all the moral shades of grey and nuance so it fits into the reductive paradigm of D&D alignments, and voila.

"Clerics are always goody two shoes" I have a cleric who literally has a crippling drug addiction

@dysfunctionalcaterpillar790

4 жыл бұрын

More information please

@dasmause5682

4 жыл бұрын

Being a drug addict and goody two shoes is not necessarily related tho, especially if said drug addiction is “crippling”

@joshuaford6700

4 жыл бұрын

My cleric has emotional issues and deals with many problems with explosive anger and by pushing people away. He is lawful good and wants to just help everyone but grew up in an abusive household and was originally groomed to be an evil cult leader. So he cant articulate his emotions properly and has a tendency to be prideful and arrogant. He is a good person. He is just not good at being a person.

@TenBigHotMen

4 жыл бұрын

@@dysfunctionalcaterpillar790 they're a trickery cleric and they can barely go a few days without taking something. They once blatantly asked a lawful figure what the town's situation on drugs was, to which the figure said "no drugs, you can be prosecuted" to which my character responded by trying to by drugs as soon as they left and then got in trouble with a guard and then started a mini revolution.

@TenBigHotMen

4 жыл бұрын

@@joshuaford6700 that's a really interesting character

Hot take: your character doesn't have to be their class in universe. A soldier can be a barbarian or Monk, and a wizard can be a druid or even a warlock with class and subclass abilities but no patron.

@MalloonTarka

2 жыл бұрын

Damn right. One of the reasons why I think the Fighter is the best named class: For every other class, a lot of people expect the world to know and acknowledge that class as a "thing" in the world, be it a social category acedemic or religious organisation membership, etc., while they should be treated more like story archetypes.

@Nogu3

2 жыл бұрын

My current favourite character is a shifter barbarian, but rather then being born as the child of a lycan or coming from a tribe they have a Kamakura Japanese theme where the PC is more or less the result of a onikuma (demon bear) and a hunters souls being combined together into a totally unique being with the memories of both but is neither, and their entire journey is dealing with the consequences of the past he has no agency over while creating himself as a being separate from the two souls that gave him life.

For my campaign, we found an old ruling we decided to use regarding diagonal movement: Every odd-numbered diagonal step is 5ft, and even-numbered is 10ft, so you just alternate back and forth. This encourages players to take some advantage of diagonals, without making it objectively the best way to move like we're playing Goldeneye 64. It also makes it so that figuring out the optimal way to move from a given position to another, while minimizing risk from opportunity attacks and obstacles, somewhat of a puzzle rather than just being either "Maximize diagonal movement because it's objectively better" or "You can't use any diagonal movement". It's a relatively simple rule that makes combat more interesting and challenging in a way that the players can overcome beyond just being lucky.

@nessa-parmentier

2 жыл бұрын

I think it's the rule that Pathfinder has, and I agree that it is a good compromise when using a grid. Though I never actually played anything using a grid, sooo... my approval is only theoretical xD

9:00 I'd say the wrong way to play DND is more "not really playing DND" Like how my first 3.5 session went, or as I like to call it: "we pretended to play 3.5" :v I had some homebrew alchemist class that had no progression / made no sense (at one point my DM gave me bannanas? and expected me to make potions? Like he would occasionally have me discover random items as reagents but I had no list on how to use them.) We were all level 5 and our second encounter was fighting an ancient white dragon (who was actually good aligned and intelligent?) And when we got frustrated the DM ruled that a 17 beat its AC (it didn't) and killed it and then the world was ending for some reason. It was goofy but I don't think anyone knew what we were actually playing, if anything.

@masterboa6321

3 жыл бұрын

white dragons are still intelligent, just not as much as the other chromatic dragons.

@Zedrinbot

3 жыл бұрын

@@masterboa6321 oh when I mean intelligent, I mean like, genius-level, analytical. Normal white dragons kinda have lizard-brain going on. They act before they think, usually.

@masterboa6321

3 жыл бұрын

@@Zedrinbot ah normally its just the green/gold ones that are geniuses

@LazyDev27

3 жыл бұрын

@@Zedrinbot In the basically dragons video I think I heard they said theyre basically feral smaller desert dragons. But I guess its in proper DnD fashion that nothing is limited to the rules.

@Yawyna124

3 жыл бұрын

@@LazyDev27 **Arctic. White dragons hate the desert. Unless you're referring to one of the secondary chromatic dragons, brown dragons, I think. The other desert dragons are pretty smart.

I wanna add to the paladin-cantrip thingy: Paladins have proficiency with ALL weapons. Why would you not carry javelins or handaxes?

@luigifan4585

4 жыл бұрын

because those means of ranged damage are pitiful compared to your melee once you reach higher levels. And you can only get off one ranged attack due to taking out one and throwing it using up your free interaction. And you also can't smite(whether divine or spell ones) with ranged attacks on a Paladin either. Bows that aren't loading based are better, but would still suffer from the latter drawback of not being able to use your main shtick on them. A ranged damage cantrip can at least scale with you as your character progress once melee becomes not an option for certain situations, and a support one to help out your fellow allies in a pinch.

@cinnabunz1532

3 жыл бұрын

@@luigifan4585 I wish you could do a paladin with a bow. I've always wanted a holy archer type character and I can't really make it happen, I don't think a cleric with a bow would be good either but I haven't experimented with it yet

@BramLastname

3 жыл бұрын

@@cinnabunz1532 you could try ranger, It's not really a symbol of holiness, But they do get abilities that for the idea

@KaitouKaiju

3 жыл бұрын

@@luigifan4585 paladins should buy a gun

@cinnabunz1532

3 жыл бұрын

@@BramLastname maybe like an acolyte ranger or something? Could probably flavor some of the elemental arrows as like holy or something and do radiant damage

Hot Take: Legendary resistance is literally for countering stunning strikes and certain others.

Gatekeeping is the one thing I have changed my mind on recently. Gatekeeping is good if used correctly. If people are actively harming the group, or is wanting to change it to what no one wants, then I don’t want them in my fan base/ game. People can be different, but that doesn’t mean you can damage everyone else’s fun.

There is no such thing as a bad character. My players’ characters: allow us to introduce our selves

@onatkalkan4907

4 жыл бұрын

elliott Towe how is your group?

@BillyBob-lt5zm

4 жыл бұрын

Onat KALKAN my groups is fine... it is the characters they choose to play, and how they choose to play them that is problematic. One of my players plays a human polymorphed into a mouse. This is a cool concept, I thought. He is an outcast so he gets a small beast. Since he is a tiny creature I let him ride it. He plays with a crippling cheese addiction so much that he would let the world burn if it meant he can have a bit more cheese. He plays lawful good mind you.

@jarnivanwaesberge3984

4 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/Zo53q8qYY8Wbe5s.html

@onatkalkan4907

4 жыл бұрын

I have a character in my game who has a crippling reviving addiction and has to revive everything including dead evil liches, an adult black dragon who just burned the town and the party managed to kill him by the skin of their teeth and last but not least the murderer who killed his whife and kids.

@BillyBob-lt5zm

4 жыл бұрын

Jarni Van Waesberge but you see he can role play well with that character my players well...

Hot Take: Playing an evil character is okay if your character doesn’t hate the party. By limiting your players to “no evil characters” you get rid of a lot of creative character options and needlessly remove 1/3 of the alignment chart.

@RoninCatholic

4 жыл бұрын

Hot take: Limiting a party to only Lawful Good, Lawful Neutral, and Chaotic Good will also work very well.

@schluebenschlaucher1130

4 жыл бұрын

I think this still depends on the type of story you are willing to tell. If you are going for something more grounded,it might even make sense for a pc to secretly be working against the party or even hate them,and it can be a great source of drama once the betrayal is revealed.

@-d_9894

4 жыл бұрын

@@RoninCatholic True Neutral too spicy for you?

@RoninCatholic

4 жыл бұрын

@@-d_9894 Yes. I hate True Neutral because when there's such things as objective good and evil in the setting one of the absolute worst things you can be is a fence-sitter. The four corners of the alignment chart, Lawful Neutral for those focused on order at all costs, and Unaligned for NPCs unimportant or unintelligent enough to pick a side are where it's at. I find True Neutral boring at its best possible and _infuriating_ the way it's presented in like, Greyhawk and Dragonlance flavor text. I find Neutral Good and Neutral Evil incomprehensible and poorly defined.

@Thunder-bw9xm

4 жыл бұрын

@@RoninCatholic I see true neutral as a "everything must be balanced" type of thing. I think a well-played true neutral is interesting

The moving diagonal on a grid was long ago resolved with every other 5ft being double. For anyone wonder why this is because on a grid you can actually move farther in a diagonal if you didn't do that. then you could on any non diagonal.

When I was a newer DM, my players kept trying to go shopping for magic items, but I didn't want them to have them yet. At first, I made every shopkeeper smile and say, "we DO have a couple things that are magic" and then open a locked chest and pull out a meme magic item, i.e. ring of blonde hair. Eventually, I made it that there was a magic item auction, but it would be on the next new moon. Finally, we had an entire auction episode, and I set a base price based on 1/2 of xanathars recommendation, rolled to determine what other auction goers were interested, how many times they would counter,bid and it was a blast. The party had just made like 40,000 gp, but still, by the end of the auction, they had spent all they were comfortable with.

I wanna say on “Ice character with Fireball”, that UA alter elemental damage metamagic works wonders

@ANDELE3025

4 жыл бұрын

I mean, for most damage types swapping around between them isnt a issue/not a problem even without resource cost. A weapon dealing bludgeoning might be slighty better than slashing on average just as lighting is compared to fire, but as long as its within group (physical, elementals and "other" of force, psych, radiant and necrotic) it makes very little net difference.

@WalkinStereotype

4 жыл бұрын

ANDELE3025 Mostly, but its fantastic for flavoring, and sometimes the elemental issue can be resolved. Chances are that, as long as its not all fiends, not all enemies will have most elemental resistances

@troodon1096

4 жыл бұрын

I CAST ICEBALL!!!

@WalkinStereotype

4 жыл бұрын

Troodon Precisely, my personal favorite elemental change is how storm sorcerers can cast Lightning Ball. How badass is that?

Hot take: Inverting stereotypes isn't inherently fun or interesting. If the orc is a well-read academic then he's just that: a well-read academic. If there aren't any layers to his personality other than "orc not do orc things" then it doesn't matter if he's an orc, elf, human, dwarf or whatever. You can add reasons for the inversions like "everyone assumed i was stupid just because i was an orc so i decided to study arcano-physics and become a respected researcher in my field to prove them wrong" or adding aspects that are typical of orcs that make the inversions more interesting like having the intellectual orc like giving him anger management issues that relate to his life as a student like being angry at people saying stupid things or assuming hes stupid just because he's an orc. Replacing one cliche with another cliche in a different package just means you've still got the exact same amount of cliches you had from the start.

@ChexMexLex4929

3 жыл бұрын

0:53 on kzread.info/dash/bejne/fYOC0ceBp9iYoMo.html

@skycastrum5803

3 жыл бұрын

The anger management stuff can work well, but it’s almost a cliche in itself. Another twist might be in mixing a natural aggressiveness with more academic pursuits. Perhaps it could display itself as a tendency to get a bit too competitive, or maybe a more thought out personal philosophy on why “fire ball is the best spell.”

@glowcloudwheatproducts495

3 жыл бұрын

This is a damn good literary hot take imo. I feel like inversion of stereotypes is a super well-worn trope in of itself

@sta._rina

3 жыл бұрын

Valid take. I love subverted characters but to each their own 💫

@benjaminjane93

3 жыл бұрын

This. So much this.

I really enjoy flavoring warlock invocations for the different patrons; I flavored my archfey warlock's armor of shadows as flower bushes that grew over his clothes and acted as armor like that, and then opened up around his body depending on what he wants to reveal

@emilysmith2965

Жыл бұрын

Cute ☺️

Hot Take: if a character is too strong, just make everything harder.

@CMTechnica

2 жыл бұрын

I second that

@5eater551

2 жыл бұрын

What if other characters in the party aren’t too strong? Now they’re at risk of dying while the one player is way ahead.

@argaveus101

2 жыл бұрын

@@5eater551 "then perish" - Obama probably

@outbreak21093

Жыл бұрын

@@5eater551 Easy fix: they attack the minmaxer primarily, but also engage the rest of the party on some level, as the minmaxer's power has become a thing of bard's tales, so most know how strong they are. If someone plans to kill the party, they send the kitchen sink. Assassins? Proooobably all sent at the minmaxer, as without them, what threat is the rest of the party? Bandits? Well, the bandits will probably flee on sight of said badass, but later they can come back after joining hands with other bandits to try and deal with them if they are still local. If the minmaxer dies, have the enemies be exhausted from just how difficult the fight was so there isn't a party wipe. Easy fix one way or the other. Easy fix 2: instead, you starve the party of gear that'd fit the minmaxer's build, forcing the minmaxer to up skills to make their own gear or expend large amounts of wealth to track down fitting gear, thus weakening themselves. Say they use some rare and potent weapon for their build. Well, easy to explain, as it's rare. Nobody turns out to know how to make it, so they're stuck with the weapon they started with. For more common weapons, just gotta make sure none of the enemies use that weapon, and the ones that do don't have upgrades to their own.

@eldritch-rage

Жыл бұрын

​@@outbreak21093both of these are targeting with extra steps. Have **some** situations where the minmaxers 'min' is needed, sure, but these are not that.

The wrong way to play D&D is when Players aren’t having fun and the dm isn’t either

@dagbackerud7316

4 жыл бұрын

Aaron No. That is the intended outcome. Read the players hand book.🦄

@martingammill-beck5846

4 жыл бұрын

@@dagbackerud7316 Wtf are you talking about? The players handbook has almost 300 pages (i think), can you be more specific?

2 things you guys may enjoy from my game. 1) DM: "you walk into a dim lit room with a fountain in the middle. Across the room is a door, it is ajar." Player: "woah woah woah, wait sec. Is it a door or is it a jar?" DM: "I hate you." 2) DM: "On the corpse you find a ring of keys." Every player at the table: "that's sounds cool, what does it do." DM: "it's a ring of keys." Player: "I've been looking in the magic items and I can't find the ring of keys." DM: "No it is a literal key ring with keys hanging off of it."

@if7723

3 жыл бұрын

I would definitely make a magic item that is the Ring of Keys. Gets 1d6 charges a day to generate keys that will fit the first lock they are placed into.

@noahdukat1968

3 жыл бұрын

It is both a door and a jar. However, that means it is both a door and jar mimic now. Roll for initiative.

@oz_jones

3 жыл бұрын

I would totally be the player in the first one

"There's no wrong way to play D&D" try keeping that attitude when I roll 3d6 to attack and get 4 stunt points for rolling doubles and having a 4 on my drama dice

Weird/uncommon races can be cool if the player roleplays them in a cool way. For instance, a player in the campaign I'm currently in is playing as a plasmoid. But instead of going "hey look at me I'm a plasmoid I'm good against poison and can hold my breath I'm way cooler than the phb races", he just plays him like a normal character, but with cool little moments that really make his character stand out when appropriate. For example, I cast polymorph on him once, and when he changed back, he said "THAT'S WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO HAVE BONES???" Definitely had the whole table laughing.

I’m sure somebody has already typed this but this is my very mild hot take: There has to be a balance between DM railroading, and players doing what they want. Of course players should have a lot of free will to be able to work in the bounds of your campaign. But when the DM becomes reactionary to the players and doesn’t ever really take control of the story at any point, it gets really boring for the DM and the players as well. I’ve played in a few sessions of D&D that really had no DM direction and it was just us wandering around killing tiny monsters for gold. And it really just got boring. Then I was the DM for like an 8 man party, I took control of the reigns a bit more and everyone had fun. It’s honestly much more fun to be apart of an epic story than to just mill about “realistically.” Also brings me to another point, don’t be the DM who ignores the rule of cool. If I wanted to play D&D with real life physical limitations, I’d go larping 😂. But for real I could have been at my MMA gym or chilling at home and not at the campaign if I knew it was gonna be that boring. (I’m gonna stop here so I don’t rant forever 😂)

@elf-lordsfriarofthemeadowl2039

4 жыл бұрын

I think that 1st point depends on how the Players and DM run it. In my experience players who take the reigns of the game is rare (in my small town) as they usually shrug and ask the DM "what're we supposed to do next?". I think it's like an improv Jazz group where the PC do what they want so long as they obey the start, stop, and rhythm that the DM sets within the right parameters.

@strike_true

4 жыл бұрын

Elf-lord's Friar of the Meadowlands Yea, my point stems from a few games that I’ve played in the last year. So it’s more just a personal rant about a specific group 😂, and it really kind of divided that group. It was more on the DMs than the players, as in one game it was beyond railroaded where it felt like a cutscene in a video game. The other one where the DM let the players just go with no story direction, and that became boring very quickly. Mostly because the freedom we had wasn’t actually real as at many times we just couldn’t do something we wanted to do, and they weren’t unreasonable requests. Plus the whole campaign made our characters feel completely insignificant, which is honestly a big turn off when playing D&D. Cause in my mind it should be about epic adventure, granted some dull points, but overall have some sort of direction that takes the players seriously enough. I don’t really care to spend 3-4 sessions in a mining town, each time just doing the same kill quest just re-skinned with the most common monsters ever.

@YogiYarnham1709

3 жыл бұрын

As a forever DM I'll always stick up for DM rights. It's hard being a husband and father who works fulltime AND still has time to make a quest for the next session. I'm sacrificing my limited me time to make a fun game and I expect my players to just play along to a reasonable amount. I expect them to go off script, improve of new people and situations is what makes the game fun. That said if they go out of the way to be chaotic murderhobos and kleptomaniacs then I'll throw my hands up and be done. I want to have fun too and just as much as I try to make NPCs and Antagonists who relate to my characters and their backstories I expect them to help me move the story along. Respect is 50/50, its half the players and half the DMs. If both add their halfs then it's a fun session. If either try's to take away their half or steal the others then it's just a mess.

Hot take: Drow should have cold resistance. Caves are friggin cold man, I've seen snow in em in the middle of summer. Drow have been shown to wear rather open clothing so they're clearly not bothered by the temperatures.

@RoninCatholic

4 жыл бұрын

Go deep enough and caves are instead FRIGGIN HOT AND HUMID.

@robynthethird4776

4 жыл бұрын

More like-- M- M. MORE LIKE COLD TA---

@twichay1889

4 жыл бұрын

Goliaths should also! They live on mountains!

@Thunder-bw9xm

4 жыл бұрын

neither should have cold resistance imo, as living in a 50 degree cave doesn't mean you're take less damage from a dragon ice breath. also, goliaths already have protection against cold climates.

@butcanyoudothis3320

4 жыл бұрын

Agree kinda, but it should be fire resistance. Sure, some caves are cold bc no heat from the surface can touch them, but since Drow live deep in the earth, it would be hella hot more often than not.

My (kinda?) hot take: Making custom character sheets is way better. I wanna see my character in full detail! Also making a seperate page for companions.

I loved the Death House. It really brought my party together and we very quickly began to work with each other's characters, enhancing strengths and mitigating weakness's. It's definitely a fantastic team building experience in my opinion.

Hot take: Dms need to spam more weak, additional monsters. 1 big bad monster has too many issues in every edition of DnD. Also DMs need to punish players for spamming all their resources at once (at least sometimes). Because that rewards the short rest classes like Warlock and Rogues, and because that is the check to things like Paladins.

@elgatochurro

4 жыл бұрын

The cr systems for 6-8 combats before characters try a long rest. Many people do not play that out right... in fact they seem to only have 4 combats a dungeon it seems so short rest classes will not shine while everyone else gets to shine more because they dont have to really suffer having wasted their resources.

@ladaboy3507

3 жыл бұрын

Add fighters to the list of good characters for short rests! Action surge and second wind recharge on a short rest, and half of the subclasses regain their abilities on one too.

@1subwithnovidomgwediditguy702

2 жыл бұрын

In my 3 years of playing dnd i have used hit dice like twice. The dm's always like, "oh you're at 1/2 hp and 3 of your spell slots are used? take a long rest the villager hostages are ok with being tortured another 8 hours yea man."

I also give monsters with magic resistance advantage against monks' stunning strike. Literally the first page of the monk class has a section called "The Magic of Ki."

@chrismanuel9768

3 жыл бұрын

And monk fists count as magic weapons. It's magic.

The DM provide the scenario, the players provide the story. This is my take on it at least

I love the part about the story being the players not the DMs. I recently had an amazing moment in game I was running with undead being the main threat and it being cannon that some of these undead regain their memories of life. Players find one cowering in a dungeon and befriend him, taking him home and eventually after others realize he's friendly he becomes an archer companion for them that I didn't plan for at all but he came to be an ally so naturally it was so magical

12:52 This is a solid take that I feel is often overlooked. We’ve all heard complaints about power gamers, but at least they can also be good at RP. I’ve had more problems with what I’ll call anti-power gamers, people who’ve gotten into their head that all powerful characters are bad, and that flaws automatically make them more interesting. Making interesting, flawed characters is all well and good, but when you reach the point where you’re making flaws for the sake of flaws, and characters that just don’t function on a mechanical level, I think that’s a problem. Especially since they tend to complain that people playing functional characters are “OP”. I’ve legitimately had a player show me a character that I told them wouldn’t work well. Then after two sessions, they wanted me to nerf the other three PCs to be at their level (despite me offering them a free reroll). TLDR: Having flaws that make provide depth and insight into your character is good. Having flaws for their own sake is not.