Oh look at that, you found the play test material for the Oath of Throwing it Back Paladin: docs.google.com/document/d/1KUcDyBD-a8FyhXNg_OhnxoCAw1w15wHwIYQKPsZlyZg/edit?usp=sharing
My only comment (and this may be as intended) is that the first feature, Thunderous Backblast, as written would affect all nearby allies within range as well.
And then your table never explores the heart-wrenching arcs you baked into your seemingly-goofy meme character premise because they’re not the kinds of players that care about character narratives and deeper meaning to surface level quirks, they just want to roll big numbers. …Or is that just me?
Plus even if they were a Wizard or Sorcerer, if their player level isn’t high enough they can’t learn Fireball to begin with. As it’s a third tier spell, which Wizards unlock around level 5? Or 6?
@@maximumdon7637 thanks I though some races could use a second level at a lower level with a feat and DM permission. I also though fireball was a level 2 spell
"You wake up in a room with your hands hands behind your back." "My character doesn't have hands." "You wake up in a room with a ring of salt poured around you."
Once my party had entered a dungeon and there was a room full of spiders, big ones, small ones, lead by a huge brute spider. I casted fireball. One of the other members said "wait, how big is the room?" And I, having waited my entire life for this moment said, "I didn't ask how big the room is, I said I cast fireball!"
@@trololoev So instead of eating you the mother spider decides to give you the glory of being the host of her next clutch of eggs. Feel the honor and the love as they hatch inside your torso and eat their way out!
I can assure you, truly enlightened people that know 5e know it's vague enough with enough holes in its descriptions that there is often no particular way TO rule something in particular, one way or the other.
If you don't play d&d you really wouldn't watch a video about rule lawyers, but you would one about character memes or stuff like that At least that's how I see it lol, it seems easier to follow
ah yes, the 3 social medias beautifully portraied. the horny bard: tiktok the throwing it back paladin: reddit the players after being hit with the truth: twitter
"The guard approaches you." "I deal 8263 force damage because of this bizarre, one in a million, rules as written scenario." "I'm sorry, what's your character?" "Oh, I don't have one. I've just been watching a bunch of videos by this guy with a big beard!"
Ah, I see you’re a player of culture as well. I love watching his content weekly, and I shared some of his videos with a player who wanted to DM once. We had a lot of fun laughing at the many hilarious scenarios we came up with together for just those crazy class combinations!
@@roguebarbarian9133 You feel an incredible magical force gather and erupt around you, all in less than a second after those words and… **that name** left your lips, please do me a favor and make a constitution saving throw
In my first one-shot, I played a bard and was psyched when the DM said we were facing off against a dragon Turns out it was a child dragon and I was labeled a creep
and now you are an Npc for my next campaign "A bard who in search of a dragon during his youth found a small chromatic dragon, who he now cares for by teaching him the secrets of true chaotic neutrality."
Reminds me of a group of WoW players I DM'd for 11 years ago. These guys expected D&D to be *exactly* like WoW. They ended up killing each other in their first dungeon and that's where we parted ways.
@@MadGameBoy Well, I was 17 at the time and they were 15 so they had teen stupidity working against them to be fair. We started a small adventure because they were interested in playing D&D after I told them that it is essentially the grand-dadddy to WoW. We begun our adventure in a classic small town. We had a rogue, a barbarian and a ranger. Minutes after entering the town they went amok trying to screw every woman they encountered (did I mention that they were teens?) and kill every guard in town. Eventually they get arrested after they tried to kill each other in a brothel mid coitus. The town mayor decides to let them free if they venture to the cursed ruins that are nearby and eliminate the source of the curse. The players agree and they enter the dungeon. The first obstacle they encountered was a room with a large hole in the middle which they had to find a way to cross. At that point the barbarian came to the conclusion that this dungeon run was doomed and the only way for him to rack up XP points to level up was by killing all of his allies. So he activated his rage, one-hit-critted the guy playing rogue who had his back turned to him and then killed the ranger in the next round. He then asked me if he leveled up to which I replied "No" and upon hearing that he committed suicide by falling in the hole in the middle of the room. All in all, it was an eye opening experience as to why you need an adult with authority DMing for a group of teens.
@@---TylerDurden--- I mean, yes that does sound like exactly what happens with teen dnd but as an example my group of friends started playing when we were like, 14? Maybe 15. And though we didn’t quite understand the rules at first (for example my druid didn’t have spells until lvl3 when I realized that I was playing a spellcaster and thus should have spells) we did finish our first campaign with the whole party still alive and though some of us had tried to kill each other we had settled it with us having similar goals. And sharing treasure, yes sharing treasure was a big thing. Except at the end, where nobody except me really cared about the epilogue, so I just kind of took all the money for my own character. Main point being, even without adult supervision, dnd can definitely work. And I’m also not sure I or my group will ever have that same sort of wonder as when we played that first campaign. The campaign was “Waterdeep: Dragonheist” btw.
TPK! TPK! TPK! TPK! I actually had a few players who were excited about dying on their first interaction, it's weird that they're like that after going through the work of making a character.
tbh with me, i wouldn't necessarily be excited about one of my characters dying, but i wouldn't exactly be too disheartened either given that i have so many characters i want to try out on dndbeyond
@@AmberMetallicScorpionwith me I made a good handful of characters with personal and connected lore with one being the “Central protagonist”. I have him be the guy who has to die the most
Wait until they get to the rule in the DMG that states that the DM is the final arbiter of the rules and can choose which ones to follow and which ones to throw out. That's always fun for newbies to try to wrap their heads around.
Truly enlightened people that know 5e know it's vague enough with enough holes in its descriptions that there is often no particular way TO rule something in particular, one way or the other. - A law student
i once watched too many tiktok videos featuring the "bard seduces their way out of a problem" trope. Bad news: I attempted it with a female bard. Good news: I now have a cool new character to play in my next campaign who is the child of said bard.
A little bit disappointed that the reaction to 'You don't cast fireball that close!' wasn't 'I didn't ask how big the room is, I said I cast fireball' lol
I'm still glad that even when the new people learned dnd from memes. They can still adjust and adapt, once the table is settled and the party is in the groove. As a dm I still have to pay for food though but that's fine. As long as we're having fun. The problem for me is when a player expect a critical role type of storytelling. It puts pressure on dms to have a better plot then gets disappointed when they didn't get what they were hoping.
Just for this video, a list of meme characters for people to have fun with (most of which I thought up all on my own and a few that I heard about): 1) An Order of Scribes Wizard Circle of the Land (Coast) Druid - the wizard of the coast who holds a grudge against Volo, Mordenkainen, and Fizban for stealing and publishing his research. 2) A Centaur Cleric with the _detect poison and disease_ and _purify food and drink_ spells - the centaur of disease control. 3) A Gnome Circle of the the Land Druid with the City Watch background - gnome-land security. 4) A Giff Paladin with the Oath of the Crown and/or the Noble background - the hippocratic oath. 5) A female Human Fighter - Genevieve Ericson (GenEric). 6) An Earth Genasi Bard with a slate skin tone who uses cold damaging spells - AC Slater. 7) An Earth Genasi Storm Sorcery Sorcerer - Jules. 8) A Plasmoid Path of the Beast Barbarian who uses the Bite option for Form of the Beast - Pacman. 9) A Fairy who specializes in piercing damage - Prixie. 10) A Fairy Monk with the Entertainer background - the funk. 11) A Fairy Bard who only seduces married couples - the love affairy. 12) A Bard Oath of Conquest Paladin - the one who leaves everything he meets smitten. 13) A Small Kenku the Fathomless Warlock - penguin!
Plot twist: The dragon is waiting for the Bard so she can serve him child support papers for their 52 children and hired the Paladin to make sure he comes xD
I laughed my butt off at the name "Richard" for the bard! Most unrealistic thing: That DM is not genre-savvy enough compared to most DMs ive played with to not at least let out a snort at the bard's name Also the rules lawyer bit is funny
Yep, that's pretty much how our first session is going. we got a paladin with too much charisma and not enough intelligence, we got a horny bard who collects hair and daggers, we got a druid gnome with shitty spells and I'm a dwarven ranger who hunts any and all animals he sees plus apparently, I'm an alcoholic.😁😁
There are many ways to play dnd as the game is so versatile. Some play for challenge, others play for role play, some play to be as overpowered as possible. However there are some limits and items you cant necessarily get or things you can be, and thats where homebrew comes in. it makes anything in the ttrpg become possible to discretion of the dm.
I wish my last DND one shot went this Everybody decided to be the horny character while fighting invading goblins They named themselves the goblin f**kers It was funny for a time but eventually I would've rather they just not know what they were doing
4:40 ok, i see your book and raise you mine *pulls out the DMG* "As a referee, the DM interprets the rules, decides when to abide by them, and when to change them." (Page 4, 5e DMG)
My DeeDee arrived today!! After one of the worst days I've had at work in many years, I came home to a box from OSQ with a cute little thing that gives the best hugs! Thank you Duke, you really made my day!! And the timing was perfect. 😃🤗
Gives me life to know that Dimension 20 is getting more attention, my aspirations are to do shenanigans on the level of Emily Axford, Ally Bearsley, and Rekha Shankar.
My friend is a first time DM planning a session soon so I thought the best way to introduce him to DMing is by a half min-max, half-joke character. I'm a Leprechaun. A halfling divination wizard to be specific. So I'm making him act like a stereotype Irish Leprechaun but in gameplay he practically can't get bad rolls.
if you can watch leprechaun 2 then a special spell homebrew I make a person wish for my pot of gold leprechaun 4 resurrection spell on the guy who kills your character
In my book, there is only one true indicator of correct play: everyone is having fun. If everyone around the table can agree on the same ruleset, then this ruleset is valid at this table.
One of my friends mentioned that he and someone else played in a oneshot once. I got excited to hear what he did.... they murderhoboed everything..... He then asked if he could play in the dragon heist I'm planning on running... and my blood ran cold....
I learned D&D through a combination of memes and gameplay stories. I still haven’t played any meme characters lol. (Side note: My first character was a dragonborn beastmaster ranger. No, she wasn’t very optimized; I had no idea what I was doing. Yes, I had a blast anyway.)
5:04 Sad thing is, there are people who don’t think the rules can be changed. They got to read the part where the book literally says they can be changed
this just brings back memories of my first and only (so far, hopefully) campaign that i ran. let me tell you about my campaign and the 3 players i played with. first a bit about me: I was pretty excited i wanted to play D&D since i was pretty young and first heard of it and with it suddently gaining so much popularity online i was able to convince 3 "friends" (im not friends with 1 of them no-more (doesn't have to do with this though)) so i poured hours and hours into my campaign into what i thought was a good story (very basic but i still stand that it was good for a first time (although i did learn throughout the campaign how to design it better as at the beginning i was pretty much railroading it) anyways this just to say that i was so excited and wanted to play it so much that i let my players get away with stuff i shouldn't have (and i did warn them that although i didn't mind some dumbness i still wanted to have a semi-serious campaign as i had put work into it and wanted to be taken seriously) with that said let me introduce you to my 3 players and their names: first it was ralk the verdan (the only guy who somewhat took my game serious and the only one i wouldn't mind to play again someday) and the other 2 obama the dwarf and the bane of my existence "Bimbo Baggins" the halfling (and yes you didn't read that wrong), the guy made my campaign into a living joke never taking a single thing seriously as the very first action he did was to (in character) start reciting the bee movie script they made my campaign a complete joke and after like 6 sessions (all of them quite big) and out of luck killing a super important npc which completely killed the story i had planned for them i decided that it maybe it was my fault as i was trying to take something serious and they didn't like it so i tried to introduce 2 joke characters (a tsundere villain duo, as were a bunch of weebs, so i thought they would like it) and light up a bit, to which they said they didn't like the campaign anymore because of it and i fully gave up on it.
He couldn't cast fireball because his hands were tied behind his back and Fireball has Somatic components lol. Didn't need to create an anti-magic field.
the oath of throwing it back seems pretty nice. I would just change that in the level 20 ability the enemies make their saving throw at the end of their turn
Oh look at that, you found the play test material for the Oath of Throwing it Back Paladin: docs.google.com/document/d/1KUcDyBD-a8FyhXNg_OhnxoCAw1w15wHwIYQKPsZlyZg/edit?usp=sharing
Can't wait to run this as my BBEG
I'm making this my next character
i cant wait to use Thunderous Backblast against 25 goblins making them all more weak
@@somesadkid4503 you need the Oathbreaker of Dropping it Low.
My only comment (and this may be as intended) is that the first feature, Thunderous Backblast, as written would affect all nearby allies within range as well.
Wait until they start to learn to play meme characters that have deep heart-wrenching character arcs, the ultimate form of a D&D player.
and then the whole party makes it their mission to protect them
Someone unlike this comment we got to get it to 69!
Isn’t that just critical role
Did some say Scanlan Shorthalt. The bard's Lament.
And then your table never explores the heart-wrenching arcs you baked into your seemingly-goofy meme character premise because they’re not the kinds of players that care about character narratives and deeper meaning to surface level quirks, they just want to roll big numbers.
…Or is that just me?
I like how Duke made up an anti Fireball spell instead of just pointing out that Paladins can't learn Fireball.
Plus having hands tied up interrupts the somatic component without a roll for it
maybe he multiclass warlock celestial charisma I command the guard to open the door and give me all his stuff before killing him with a shiv
Plus even if they were a Wizard or Sorcerer, if their player level isn’t high enough they can’t learn Fireball to begin with. As it’s a third tier spell, which Wizards unlock around level 5? Or 6?
Or that they're probably playing level 1 characters
@@maximumdon7637 thanks I though some races could use a second level at a lower level with a feat and DM permission. I also though fireball was a level 2 spell
Ah, Duke facing the natural consequences of his actions by having his most diabolical creations torture him for an entire one-shot
The DM lost control so fast, he forgot Snarf was a Paladin assumably at level one trying to cast fireball with his hands tied.
If the Oath of Throwing it Back includes Fireball on its added spells, I may wanna try this subclass.
Yeah lol there’s no way he has that spell even if it’s on his list and I’m 90% sure the fireball blasts out of your hand
"You wake up in a room with your hands hands behind your back."
"My character doesn't have hands."
"You wake up in a room with a ring of salt poured around you."
Remember how the sketch ended with roasting rules lawyers? That said, the PC was also missing a focus, guano or sulfur.
@@ShotgunspixieI’m not a slug or Eldridge entity
Once my party had entered a dungeon and there was a room full of spiders, big ones, small ones, lead by a huge brute spider. I casted fireball. One of the other members said "wait, how big is the room?" And I, having waited my entire life for this moment said, "I didn't ask how big the room is, I said I cast fireball!"
With or without the backfire. Room full of spider does justify fireball
Honestly?
Valid
i seduce room full of spiders :)
@@trololoev So instead of eating you the mother spider decides to give you the glory of being the host of her next clutch of eggs. Feel the honor and the love as they hatch inside your torso and eat their way out!
@@trololoev your goals are beyond my understanding
I am impressed that they saw several dnd memes but apparently havent seen a single one about rule lawyers lol
No no, they saw it. That's the bit at the end of the video when they start talking about following ALL THE RULES in the book.
@@Chessrook44 LOL
@@Chessrook44 It's also why they don't switch back when he tells them to go back to playing memes, they already were
I can assure you, truly enlightened people that know 5e know it's vague enough with enough holes in its descriptions that there is often no particular way TO rule something in particular, one way or the other.
If you don't play d&d you really wouldn't watch a video about rule lawyers, but you would one about character memes or stuff like that
At least that's how I see it lol, it seems easier to follow
ah yes, the 3 social medias beautifully portraied.
the horny bard: tiktok
the throwing it back paladin: reddit
the players after being hit with the truth: twitter
I dunno. They all look like Twitter to me.
Given this channel shouldn't Throwing It Back Paladin be TH-cam?
@@davidparkes7741 OSQ also posts on TikTok, there are lots of compilation from him you can find on this channel.
But where's the spoony bard from Final Fantasy?
i swear those are in jocat's crap guide to D&D
"You are being attacked by an Owlbear. What do you do?"
"Wait! I've got a meme for this!"
I ask it if it's a druid!
@@Maninawig I see what you did there
I summon crow Rick with homebrew deck of many things
Wait honey, who?
*ba dum tssss*
Umm... scritches?
"The guard approaches you."
"I deal 8263 force damage because of this bizarre, one in a million, rules as written scenario."
"I'm sorry, what's your character?"
"Oh, I don't have one. I've just been watching a bunch of videos by this guy with a big beard!"
Ah, I see you’re a player of culture as well.
I love watching his content weekly, and I shared some of his videos with a player who wanted to DM once. We had a lot of fun laughing at the many hilarious scenarios we came up with together for just those crazy class combinations!
He's my go to for ways to torture my DM
Is this a Voldemort situation? Are we not supposed to say his name?
*Whispers* DnD Shorts.
@@roguebarbarian9133 thank you
@@roguebarbarian9133 You feel an incredible magical force gather and erupt around you, all in less than a second after those words and… **that name** left your lips, please do me a favor and make a constitution saving throw
In my first one-shot, I played a bard and was psyched when the DM said we were facing off against a dragon
Turns out it was a child dragon and I was labeled a creep
L bozo
and now you are an Npc for my next campaign "A bard who in search of a dragon during his youth found a small chromatic dragon, who he now cares for by teaching him the secrets of true chaotic neutrality."
Reminds me of a group of WoW players I DM'd for 11 years ago. These guys expected D&D to be *exactly* like WoW. They ended up killing each other in their first dungeon and that's where we parted ways.
oops my tiefling is not fireproof
Details?
I mean... if they were all playing cut-throat bandits, it works but geez
@@MadGameBoy Well, I was 17 at the time and they were 15 so they had teen stupidity working against them to be fair. We started a small adventure because they were interested in playing D&D after I told them that it is essentially the grand-dadddy to WoW. We begun our adventure in a classic small town. We had a rogue, a barbarian and a ranger. Minutes after entering the town they went amok trying to screw every woman they encountered (did I mention that they were teens?) and kill every guard in town. Eventually they get arrested after they tried to kill each other in a brothel mid coitus. The town mayor decides to let them free if they venture to the cursed ruins that are nearby and eliminate the source of the curse. The players agree and they enter the dungeon. The first obstacle they encountered was a room with a large hole in the middle which they had to find a way to cross. At that point the barbarian came to the conclusion that this dungeon run was doomed and the only way for him to rack up XP points to level up was by killing all of his allies. So he activated his rage, one-hit-critted the guy playing rogue who had his back turned to him and then killed the ranger in the next round. He then asked me if he leveled up to which I replied "No" and upon hearing that he committed suicide by falling in the hole in the middle of the room. All in all, it was an eye opening experience as to why you need an adult with authority DMing for a group of teens.
@@---TylerDurden--- I mean, yes that does sound like exactly what happens with teen dnd but as an example my group of friends started playing when we were like, 14? Maybe 15. And though we didn’t quite understand the rules at first (for example my druid didn’t have spells until lvl3 when I realized that I was playing a spellcaster and thus should have spells) we did finish our first campaign with the whole party still alive and though some of us had tried to kill each other we had settled it with us having similar goals. And sharing treasure, yes sharing treasure was a big thing. Except at the end, where nobody except me really cared about the epilogue, so I just kind of took all the money for my own character.
Main point being, even without adult supervision, dnd can definitely work. And I’m also not sure I or my group will ever have that same sort of wonder as when we played that first campaign. The campaign was “Waterdeep: Dragonheist” btw.
This was genuinely horrifying, especially by the end.
they are still roaming reddid, tiktok, facebook and twitter to this day
Gotta appreciate how enthusiastic these new players are
It's cute. And scary.
Just started my first campaign. I'm dm... Question... Will I ever get to be a player character?
They went from meme lords to rules lawyers pretty damn quick.
Rules lawyers are also a meme, however.
TPK! TPK! TPK! TPK!
I actually had a few players who were excited about dying on their first interaction, it's weird that they're like that after going through the work of making a character.
tbh with me, i wouldn't necessarily be excited about one of my characters dying, but i wouldn't exactly be too disheartened either given that i have so many characters i want to try out on dndbeyond
@@AmberMetallicScorpion yeah ditto. I’m going after a deck of many things currently. Does that qualify as a death wish?
@@AmberMetallicScorpionwith me I made a good handful of characters with personal and connected lore with one being the “Central protagonist”. I have him be the guy who has to die the most
This is either people who only know the game from memes, or people who have played the game for years. No in-between.
Out of the meme frying pan and into the flames of DnD Purists.
I don't know which is worse.
Purists. Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
@@lambentlamprey which makes you a Sith, y'know :)
@@ДмитрийЗеленский-ж7х Throws hands to the sky: NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Wait until they get to the rule in the DMG that states that the DM is the final arbiter of the rules and can choose which ones to follow and which ones to throw out.
That's always fun for newbies to try to wrap their heads around.
They went from memers to Rules Lawyers
Rules Lawyers are also a meme, there was no reverting back
Truly enlightened people that know 5e know it's vague enough with enough holes in its descriptions that there is often no particular way TO rule something in particular, one way or the other. - A law student
@@empoleonmaster6709 Can I somehow legally commit murder using DnD 5th edition!
The fact that you *ACTUALLY* made the oath of throwing it back into a subclass…just…honestly props to you on that XD
Next he should make the other oaths he mentioned in one of his dnd shorts, a oath of the karen paladin would be hilarious
He will soon be sued by WotC thanks to the new OGL.
@@aisnota5192 nah they revoked it
Not gonna lie, the high point of this video is the fact that we were told that there is actually a playtest for the Oath of Throwing it Back.
i once watched too many tiktok videos featuring the "bard seduces their way out of a problem" trope.
Bad news: I attempted it with a female bard.
Good news: I now have a cool new character to play in my next campaign who is the child of said bard.
The good ending.
Emmmm is this child doing the same thing
@@tobyfogg5861 no idea, haven't played him yet. Probably not.
Cool i was Gona say sus
@@TamTroll what is the child the product of
A little bit disappointed that the reaction to 'You don't cast fireball that close!' wasn't 'I didn't ask how big the room is, I said I cast fireball' lol
I'm still glad that even when the new people learned dnd from memes. They can still adjust and adapt, once the table is settled and the party is in the groove. As a dm I still have to pay for food though but that's fine. As long as we're having fun. The problem for me is when a player expect a critical role type of storytelling. It puts pressure on dms to have a better plot then gets disappointed when they didn't get what they were hoping.
And critical role level of voice-acting and improv too.
Just for this video, a list of meme characters for people to have fun with (most of which I thought up all on my own and a few that I heard about):
1) An Order of Scribes Wizard Circle of the Land (Coast) Druid - the wizard of the coast who holds a grudge against Volo, Mordenkainen, and Fizban for stealing and publishing his research.
2) A Centaur Cleric with the _detect poison and disease_ and _purify food and drink_ spells - the centaur of disease control.
3) A Gnome Circle of the the Land Druid with the City Watch background - gnome-land security.
4) A Giff Paladin with the Oath of the Crown and/or the Noble background - the hippocratic oath.
5) A female Human Fighter - Genevieve Ericson (GenEric).
6) An Earth Genasi Bard with a slate skin tone who uses cold damaging spells - AC Slater.
7) An Earth Genasi Storm Sorcery Sorcerer - Jules.
8) A Plasmoid Path of the Beast Barbarian who uses the Bite option for Form of the Beast - Pacman.
9) A Fairy who specializes in piercing damage - Prixie.
10) A Fairy Monk with the Entertainer background - the funk.
11) A Fairy Bard who only seduces married couples - the love affairy.
12) A Bard Oath of Conquest Paladin - the one who leaves everything he meets smitten.
13) A Small Kenku the Fathomless Warlock - penguin!
#2 is the best one on this list, but they're all great!
those are not meme characters, those are just dad jokes lol
These are the best 🤣🤣🤣
Is that last one just Gunter?
Bards just waiting for the right moment to seduce everyone and everything in the room
Guilty. But it fucking works, okay?
You forgot to add the room itself
2:55
As someone who is very proud of the halfcaster necromancer class he made, this hurt.
Plot twist: The dragon is waiting for the Bard so she can serve him child support papers for their 52 children and hired the Paladin to make sure he comes xD
i know a person like that but he is beginning to understand what its actually about to play dnd
Between the horny bard and the throwing it back paladin we got a healthy dose of fan service this episode
That awkward moment when he has to DM people who learned D&D through his joke content. 😅
When they all started chanting "TPK!" I felt that.
See, my bard got all of his horniness out in college (I mean its a place full of bards, glamour bards, learning how to be sexy) so now he's chill.
My Rouge/bards Asexual yet has charisma for days. Unless it’s becoming the only option HE. WILL. NOT. SEDUCE.
You know what, I'll take newbies who play meme characters their first game over anyone trying to be the next Crit Role.
I laughed my butt off at the name "Richard" for the bard!
Most unrealistic thing: That DM is not genre-savvy enough compared to most DMs ive played with to not at least let out a snort at the bard's name
Also the rules lawyer bit is funny
Apparently neither am I, since I don't get the reference there
@@faolan2174I think it's that Richard is often shortened to "Dick" for some unknown reason
Oh god fucking damn it.
@@DracoInduperator It's either that or because halflings are little, he's Little Richard.
@@magenstaffarts I don't get it
Yep, that's pretty much how our first session is going. we got a paladin with too much charisma and not enough intelligence, we got a horny bard who collects hair and daggers, we got a druid gnome with shitty spells and I'm a dwarven ranger who hunts any and all animals he sees plus apparently, I'm an alcoholic.😁😁
@The_Good _Soldier You or the character .....
@@syion0155 yes
@@The_Good_Soldier Both then. *nod nod*
@@karinelemaire6402 wink wink nudge nudge... say no more
Ah, my fellow players, you have forgotten the most important DnD tenant of all!
The DM’s word is FINAL!
*back laps out of the room*
4:56 when you get so angry that almost morph into a Brennan.
There are many ways to play dnd as the game is so versatile. Some play for challenge, others play for role play, some play to be as overpowered as possible. However there are some limits and items you cant necessarily get or things you can be, and thats where homebrew comes in. it makes anything in the ttrpg become possible to discretion of the dm.
Back to the memes! The memes! Can't wait to try out Paladin in next one shot
I wish my last DND one shot went this
Everybody decided to be the horny character while fighting invading goblins
They named themselves the goblin f**kers
It was funny for a time but eventually I would've rather they just not know what they were doing
maybe they though dnd was danmachi and goblin slayer, peter grill and the philosopher's time
Ah yes, the only thing scarier to a DM than a meme character: Rules Lawyers.
Your acting skills are really good, I forgot that it was all one person and not just three different people. Well done!
"The creators poured their blood, sweat, and tears into these rules"
*looks at phb ranger, zealot barb, etc*
I didn’t ask how big the room was
I cast fireball
I *said I* cast fireball.
Dude said they were tied up. If their hands are bound in a way that they can't point their fingers, fireball is impossible to cast.
The mistake he made at the end is that rules lawyers are a part of the memes, he was doomed as soon as the books came out
A video concept idea I had, if your interested, is having the class stereotypes vs their opposites. I thought that could be funny.
0:49 oh god damn it, I can already see where this is going
The entire dndmemes subreddit is flowing in those two players
4:40 ok, i see your book and raise you mine *pulls out the DMG*
"As a referee, the DM interprets the rules, decides when to abide by them, and when to change them." (Page 4, 5e DMG)
“What’s critical roll?”
I felt that.
Reminds me of the discussions between those who played base StarCraft and those of us who played UseMapSettings StarCraft...
While I learned D&D through memes, too, I picked how it properly worked with how the character sheet was on D&D Beyond. This video was hilarious
me who learned character building from memes and roleplay from CR
perfectly balanced.... as all things should be
My DeeDee arrived today!! After one of the worst days I've had at work in many years, I came home to a box from OSQ with a cute little thing that gives the best hugs! Thank you Duke, you really made my day!! And the timing was perfect. 😃🤗
Gives me life to know that Dimension 20 is getting more attention, my aspirations are to do shenanigans on the level of Emily Axford, Ally Bearsley, and Rekha Shankar.
I just realized DeeDee has a new animation in the outro. Lil tambourine boi!
0:16 the amount of admiration and respect I have for the players is unmeasurable.
My half-elf bard doesn't just refrain from seduction. He's privately insecure about his inability to do so!
D&D is the only game where breaking the rule book is not only acceptable but commonplace
My friend is a first time DM planning a session soon so I thought the best way to introduce him to DMing is by a half min-max, half-joke character. I'm a Leprechaun. A halfling divination wizard to be specific. So I'm making him act like a stereotype Irish Leprechaun but in gameplay he practically can't get bad rolls.
if you can watch leprechaun 2 then a special spell homebrew I make a person wish for my pot of gold
leprechaun 4 resurrection spell on the guy who kills your character
2:45 He seems to have forgotten that their arms were tied lol, no somatic components for you
Duke always plays a goblin named Snarf! ;)
*DEVIL APPROVED*
1:50
You're welcome.
In my book, there is only one true indicator of correct play: everyone is having fun. If everyone around the table can agree on the same ruleset, then this ruleset is valid at this table.
"They a little confused but they got the spirit."
4:17 this is unheard of
One of my friends mentioned that he and someone else played in a oneshot once. I got excited to hear what he did.... they murderhoboed everything.....
He then asked if he could play in the dragon heist I'm planning on running... and my blood ran cold....
So what have we learned? Memes are better than rules lawyers. That’s right, see you next week.
2:25
Paladin? Fireball?
I learned D&D through a combination of memes and gameplay stories. I still haven’t played any meme characters lol.
(Side note: My first character was a dragonborn beastmaster ranger. No, she wasn’t very optimized; I had no idea what I was doing. Yes, I had a blast anyway.)
drinking during this was a mistake, water ended up on my screen when they started chanting "TPK"
PHB rule 1: rules are needed for a game to operate; however all rules are a suggestion
PHB rule 2: always round down.
They seam to be having fun!
5:04 Sad thing is, there are people who don’t think the rules can be changed. They got to read the part where the book literally says they can be changed
Another great video! Also, I think Duke has the same wedding band.
THE SACRED TEXT!
(love the skit)
The bard had a call from his inner "Donkey"
the words "What's Critical Roll?" are the most terrifying string of words to ever be sewn together
This is amazing.
I got an ad for a company that sends you dice every month xD
I was honestly expecting more gazebos and magic missiles
this just brings back memories of my first and only (so far, hopefully) campaign that i ran.
let me tell you about my campaign and the 3 players i played with.
first a bit about me: I was pretty excited i wanted to play D&D since i was pretty young and first heard of it and with it suddently gaining so much popularity online i was able to convince 3 "friends" (im not friends with 1 of them no-more (doesn't have to do with this though)) so i poured hours and hours into my campaign into what i thought was a good story (very basic but i still stand that it was good for a first time (although i did learn throughout the campaign how to design it better as at the beginning i was pretty much railroading it) anyways this just to say that i was so excited and wanted to play it so much that i let my players get away with stuff i shouldn't have (and i did warn them that although i didn't mind some dumbness i still wanted to have a semi-serious campaign as i had put work into it and wanted to be taken seriously)
with that said let me introduce you to my 3 players and their names:
first it was ralk the verdan (the only guy who somewhat took my game serious and the only one i wouldn't mind to play again someday)
and the other 2
obama the dwarf
and the bane of my existence "Bimbo Baggins" the halfling (and yes you didn't read that wrong), the guy made my campaign into a living joke never taking a single thing seriously as the very first action he did was to (in character) start reciting the bee movie script
they made my campaign a complete joke and after like 6 sessions (all of them quite big) and out of luck killing a super important npc which completely killed the story i had planned for them i decided that it maybe it was my fault as i was trying to take something serious and they didn't like it so i tried to introduce 2 joke characters (a tsundere villain duo, as were a bunch of weebs, so i thought they would like it) and light up a bit, to which they said they didn't like the campaign anymore because of it and i fully gave up on it.
thanks! i’ve been wanting this path for awhile
Wow they went form chaotic neutral to lawful evil so Quickly
Lmao "Cutscene skip", brilliant
What could be better and healthier than THE OATH OF THROWING IT BACK
4:20 for reference lol
A long time ago, in a kingdom called Memania, a group of friends awoke in a tavern...
I adore this throw it back Paladin, thank you
That moment of "oh my gosh you're playing memes..." made me shriek
Dudes went off of DnD memes yet have never heard of CR lol
I'm all for a paladin who has the oath to throw it all back and somehow also knows fireball
He couldn't cast fireball because his hands were tied behind his back and Fireball has Somatic components lol. Didn't need to create an anti-magic field.
i'm literally running a campaign with a PC bard named richard. this is painfully accurate.
the oath of throwing it back seems pretty nice. I would just change that in the level 20 ability the enemies make their saving throw at the end of their turn
How quickly they went from one extreme to the other ROFL.
my homebrew would have made that fire ball turn intona wild magic surge
God that audio editing must have been a nightmare at the end to get it to sound relatively good.