The Key To D&D Success: Flowcharts
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ย. 2024
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There is nothing more satisfying than finding that one ability flow chart that perfectly fits the combat you're in. DnD, the game for kids who liked homework.
Enjoying your hobbies of collaborative storytelling with peers has fully nothing to do with homework.
@@Lucifersfursona making flowcharts for your hobby is totally homework
@@agiddysea Most people don't need to make flowcharts for their character.
@@agiddysea Just wing it!
He's just straight up typing out binary on his notebook
If I heard correctly, someone yelling "wow, you're good!" To Zach as he mock tapped out a beat with his notebook strap, then him smiling at them in response, was wholesome
Her smile at the end is angelic, there's so much chaos hidden behind that smile
Perfect match for Brennen
I came here to say this. If that final expression was the only thing in this video, I'd be happy.
I came here to comment on the same thing. For me it was the realisation of: ok, I made clear that I'm a huge (and I mean huge) nerd and I'm a tiny bit uncomfortable with that. Made me happy.
Biblically accurate angelic. There are unknowable horrors behind that smile.
Just Zach having ADHD in the back
Has anyone translated the Morse code he’s typing out there?
I have ADHD and I didn’t notice, but now I’m dead laughing lol
Does he have adhd
@@michaelbootes4822 I think he did "sos" at first then just started jamming
This is two people with adhd both dealing in different ways xD
so glad this video has subtitles because i could not hear anything with all that noise
Classic d&d experience tbh.
This is very cute, I want Izzy to show me all her flowcharts
Very Nice. Let’s see Paul Allen’s flowchart.
That... sounds wrong on so many levels
I'm gonna let this go cuz it's a feminine name and thus girl on girl isn't a threat to my dear DM's masculinity. (but it's actually my masculinity that's being threatened because my projection knows no bounds. )
@@ralek592 tf
@@ralek592 lol, good one
I love remembering 'Ah!! They're friends!! :D' very wholesome. I tried listening in to what the convo in the back was but all I got was Zac making a sick beat and Erika catching Aabria's name then going off on her own tangent lol.
Now I'm gonna go check out flowcharts
Are you talking about Brennan and Izzy? If so, they’re more than friends, they’re engaged.
@@kylelee9019 I know, I'm talking about Izzy and Aabria lol! It always gets to me that the players of The Seven are so close after their campaign together
I think Erika’s conversation was about how Aabria says there are elf dms (people who just dm while playing) and hobbit dms (people who snack and have bodily functions etc while dming) and that aabria is an elf dm and Brennan is a hobbit dm which is talked more about by aabria and Brennan themselves in the critical role gm roundtable, if you haven’t seen that yet Brennan goes off about snacking.
Well now I'm sad I didn't get to see any flowcharts!
I need one for my characters.
Yeah this video hardly bears any information at all
I would love to see this concept explained in more detail! It sounds like a great way to manage character sheets, and I’m very intruiged
I agree! would anyone have a tutorial or explanation with more detail?
I don't know how they did it specificly, but I have a dedicated sheet for combat with relavant modifiers across the top. Then the rest of the sheet is broken into action, bonus actions, and reactions. That way I can just look down and pick an action and ba, then just look at reactions if something happens.
having just rewatched The Seven, I was almost surprised at the lack of Izzy's Ostentatia accent 😂
It makes my brain happy to be able to organise and order and structure like that, very visual and for practical purposes
I want to do one for a barbarian where every line leads down to the same bubble at the bottom that says "Reckless Melee Attack".
I would love to hear more about Abria's feelings about hobbit DM's and elf DM's
I don’t know if they line up, but Brennan had his own hobbit vs elf metaphor for DMs in the roundtable he did with Aabria and Matt Mercer. Basically they’re elves cause they don’t eat or take care of other physical needs while they’re running a game and he’s a hobbit cause he’s constantly snacking and sweating like crazy. If you haven’t seen the rant it’s great and you should check it out.
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Love how the people in the background are also talking about Aabria 😂
Brennan and izzy are couple goals
The more I learn about Izzy the more I love her.
I also do the dice thing.
Chill Izzy is a wonder to behold.
I can’t believe this person threw at least one water bottle at Sam Reich’s head.
My favorite bit is Izzy happily talking about Aabria d then people in the background are also like “here is the cool shit Aabria told me” FRIEND SHIT
Also Brennan witnessing izzy’s chaotic bi science man and going over him with her makes me smile
I love seeing Izzy in anything D20, her humour and character is right up my alley XD
Also I wonder, if during a campaign she's unsure of something, if she just turns to the DM and says "I'm just gonna phone a friend"
A lot of love at that table. Helping a friend with their character when they express their need. Making sure they'll get their chance to shine. That's what it's about ♥️
I need someone to explain exactly what the Aabria Iyengar flowchart method is, bc I have tried making flowcharts for myself but they always confuse me
Someone get Aabria to drop a tutorial
I’m sure she has a much better method, but when I had to play a spell caster in a one-shot (way out of my comfort zone) I had ones mostly to help me not get tripped up only using one spell per round. So I’d have a list of my action spells, and then a flow chart showing what bonus actions I could do for different situations. And vice versa. I had them also organized by range and general outcome (deal damage, damage plus other effect, limit enemy’s abilities, boost other PCs abilities).
I have to guess but I assume its first pages of detailed but shortened ability descriptions and or list of them (like a glossary) and afterwards kind of a battle plan of the most common strategise. Could be smth like "Damagedealing Strat" where it goes through distance and spellslots. Like "Is the enemy in close combat?" No. "Can you use up a spell slot?" Yes. "Cast Spell X". Other method would be to just have a specified flow chart going through action and bonus action per specified situation.
I on the other hand did lattee and on top of that split my skills into different lists depending on the effect like "Buffing", "Damage", "Attackstrenthening", "Styling", "AoE" etc. So I can find faster what Im looking for. Hope that helps 😅
Playing Pathfinder now as an alchemist. I really had to do a flowchart for Discoveries. Took three days, but damn was it worth it
The care Brennan takes really makes me think he’s the best DM out there
Well they’re married so I’m assuming that’s just what they do while vegging out at home.
@@kelzbelz313 oop I didn’t know that
So, for Coffin Run I guess every flowchart starts with "and I take out my flamethrower"? 😂
Here's a flowchart;
If you can't push it, pull it. If you can't pull it, Fireball.
Okay but why was the smile at the end so wholesome and cute (*’(OO)’*)
Flowcharts and logic trees are awesome tools for life.
Have been telling players this for years.
Short flowcharts for 5 rounds of combat against combinations of enemies.
with Action, Bonus, Reaction, Concentration all worked out
This is incredibly useful, cuts down on time spent on turns immensely
Izzy is so damn cool.
I love on Fantasy Grounds you can open a “pop up” for all the abilities and I just do that at the start of the game, and sift through them during combat or if I’m stumped on what to do. So helpful with my rogue/ranger with a million feats & abilities.
Kinda excited to see how Izzy and Brennan broke the alchemist. Love the sub-class's flavour but it always leaves me feeling sub-optimal and sad.
Alchemists can get some pretty busted healing.
Turns out Alchemist is broken when you forget how many reactions they take a round and how many hands they have. Also, give them a flamethrower.
I love her so fucking much
And she did an amazing job the combat was GREATTTT
I can hear in the distance all the jellous DMs pissed off at player taking an eternity during their combat turns because they barely know their rolls!
I ended up having to rewatch this cuz i just got distracted by Zac Oyama bopping his head for like 20 seconds
As I have learned, in late game PathFinder, a cheat sheet is required to remember everything your character can do.
Huh, my Bloodhunter just slashes his wrists and becomes a MG42 of firey hand crossbow bolts
Holy shit I did not recognize Izzy with dark hair
Very helpful for remembering your character, but remember not to get tied down to the chart and to let your own creativity work out battles and events.
I just Stan Izzy AND Aabria
That smile tho
I do this!! It helps so much in high level combat, planning turns and arranging abilities by what they do
Izzy 🫶
Mastery of flowcharts is paramount to the mastery of what lies within... the flowchart.
I feel lucky that I'm one of those people that reads their sheet and abilities until I can just KNOW what my character can do, and can make important choices on the fly.
Just gonna say that even having general flowcharts is helpful. Having guides for when to AOE or who to attack first will pay dividends over multiple characters.
...if Aabria ever wants to make a post somewhere explaining in depth how she does her flow chart method that fixes the 'There are too many things I can do and I cannot remember them all to utilize them properly' problem, I for one would be VERY interested.
Same. Came here trying to find if there was an example flowchart I could see!
It’d have been nice to see an example. But I concur, the first time I logically thought through my fighter’s moves and discovered the most powerful combination for different combat scenarios was like struggling with a puzzle for ages only to see the pieces suddenly fall into place.
Meanwhile I play pathfinder, where just grappling has a whole page of a flowchart with a sidebar for penalties.
As it should, as it should
*laughs in Rolemaster*
The key to good gaming, playing Pathfinder and leveling slowly.
I hate writing down things, so I just remember all of the things my characters can do.
But I'm considering making a flowchart anyway because that's really cool.
I need to know more about this system cause during my turn in combat I'm always overwhelmed by all the different things my character can do
I made a flow chart for my assassin so I could quickly decide what to do based on if I was hidden or not; sneak attack or not; or ranged or melee.
I need to do something like that! I'm not great at mechanics to begin with, so any visual aid would help me remember my options.
I do that with my dice too! Flow chats sound like a good idea tbh
I love how Erika is screaming in the back like the chaos goblin she is 💜
I like it flow charts and their close friends check lists, especially if kinder (spelling) near.
another way is to have specific dice for certain attacks and checks. Ones that stand out like black for sneak attack, red for that d6 of fire dmg and then keep them grouped in your most common combinations...
I don’t think I understand what she means by “flowcharts”, those just look like regular D&D notes to me
I love this so much!
I'm shit at maths, especially in stressful situations like taking my turn in an high stakes combat. I was laughed at by my group for making a matrix of my attack modifiers and D20 rolls... sped me the fuck up though.
I think I'm in love...
it looks like a fun work environment:0
she has a strong "mom from beetlejuice" look in that thumbnail. and i just wanted to say i love everything ive seen with Brennan Lee Mullen involved. no matter how many times ive accidentally called him brendan mulligan.
Just know your abilities
Flowchart for my Goliath battle master/barbarian...
Smash - Smash
Here’s the paladin follow chart
Attack-> smite -> enemy dies
She is a unicorn, 2 max per continent. Meanwhile my mage always needs to look up her spells before casting
Is this 5e? Nothing but respect for people who make characters who need flowcharts to play
It's hard to describe the amount of work it takes to make a character who has 3 pages of abilities perfectly optimized, but it might suffice to say that playing my druid required more tabs open on my laptop than the DM needed to run the combat
Glad to see someone else uses flowcharts in dnd lol
Holy shit this is brilliant, I'm absolutely going to do this for my own character and then I'll never forget a useful ability again
She also gms using flowcharts
if Combat, then Fireball.
nice. good use of flowcharts.
I'd love to see more about this method
Utterly unhelpful short.😵💫
That is such an amazing idea!
Used to have a rogue with a flow chart
I often have to make my players booklets for pathfinder
She's so cute
Mmhmm, get them flowcharts aflowin’
I use OneNote and it's beautiful.
Aabria is the reason I found out about D&D online
“Too many things I can do” you mean like 8
Omg this is me. I love making things easier to understand (and prettier :D) with visualizations.
Good idea! I do that on the back of my character Sheets with drawings
Yeah so I made my players do that and now my barbarian realized that he has a combo that could kill a bone devil in one turn. And he's level 1
This just reminds me how much powergaming really goes on in 5e, showing its inability to be sustained at higher levels. This isn’t unique to 5e; Pathfinder and 3.5 were mathematically game-breaking at high levels, with GMs having to set DCs in the 30s or higher just to overcome the sheer number of bonuses and buffs players would receive.
What I would hope is not that we receive newer and buffer class and race options, but that we have a flattening of the power curve in the next iteration of the game with a wider base of classes that all have unique mechanics but don’t substantially alter the DC system (5/10/15/20 as acceptable difficulty class numbers) and focus more on 1 action, 1 movement. Bonus actions, reactions, magic items, party buffs, etc. all get in the way of telling the story, because they create choice paralysis. “What is your action?” should not be followed up by “let me consult a flow chart of all these detailed class abilities to see what overpowered response I should have.”
This could use an in depth video. Can learn anything frim this.
Rip to fellow headphone users
Most excellent.
Should try playing some OSR/AD&D1e where you can attempt to do literally anything, no flow charts needed or even practical 😂
Who would have guessed this woman would play a broken character
so nice i'd like it twice 👍
is there any material about doing this in detail? curious as to what the idea is because I don't really get it from this video
Doctors also like flow charts. Must be a nerd thing.
Stop responding to the DM and make them respond to you. You should know your characters spells and abilities off hand. This helps you be way more impactful as you know exactly how to respond when it’s not your turn and when it’s your turn.
I just want to know what character this person could have made that is so broken and complex that they needed flow charts hahah
All I hear are human noises... Mainly from the background. All I get from this are the words "bathroom".
Why oh why does Zach have to be married. Like, dude that sees a little strap with a button and starts doing Morse code is peak romantic partner