Varies significantly by which edition of D&D you’re talking about. Also some other non-D&D tabletop systems are significantly more complex or streamlined than others. I can easily create a D&D 5e character in under an hour, but first edition Pathfinder would take me several hours.
Ok, but it was pretty adorable at 3:15 when the whole cast started laughing, like it isn't in Sheldon's character to laugh there, this is all genuine laughter from the actors/actresses. xD
"Fun?! Okay, three weeks ago you bought crunchy peanut butter. Now you want the girls to play D&D...do you have a drug problem???" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHA
Mark Packer DnD 4e is the Windows Vista of DnD. Sheldon liked Vista, so probably this is the reason. Even if the others wanted to play 3.5, he would have protested and they don't like that. That said, and bearing in mind that I learned the game on 3.5, I think it's very chaotic and mathimatical, practically begging to be played by powergamers. 5e is much better.
4th Edition has been proven to not be nearly as bad as many people tend to claim it to be, Alot of older D&D Gamers / Smarter ppl with MAsters Degrees I know hate 3.5/5E and love Pathfinder/4E/AD&D For whatever reason personaly 4E/3.5E Are my 2 Favs in terms of playing I have a decent number of people i know older / younger then me and its useoly the 30 year old's or younger that hate 4E
>4th edition >playing around a tiny coffe table >people other than the DM showing off minatures >DM actually telling people the DC for stuff >Only DM rolls 0/10 would not watch
Da_maul Couldn't agree more. It's like the first season catered to real nerds/geeks which I enjoyed and my parents/others did not. Strangest thing happened when my mom got into it and the others when slowly I realized Big Bang was no longer a nerd/geek show, but a show to make fun of nerds and geeks at our expense for other's enjoyment. Fuck I hate this show so much now.....
The show is completely based on stereotypes, and not just of women. Did you hear the part about how "boys that play DnD will never get laid"? Just not a great show. It's built for the mainstream.
Listen. This is the best description of Big Bang. No actual idea of nerd cutler, bizarre and inaccurate sexism, no real jokes, an awful- AWFUL laugh track. (And I know it’s not a massive point, but they don’t actually roll damage...)
To be fair, while this show is hot fucking garbage, actual D&D is virtually impossible to make cinematic to a mainstream audience. Stranger Things did the same thing: they encounter a Thessalhydra, don't roll initiative, Will rolls a d20 to hit with fireball (which you don't have to do, the Hydra would have to make a dex. save), and they one shot it despite the fact that no, they absolutely did not, and they didn't roll for damage. Community did it pretty well, but even theirs was way off the actual game.
I don't think the writers on this show did enough research into how D&D works. The literal ONE minute of game play this clip shows has so many things wrong with it, I'm too embarrassed to list them - for the show and for myself.
@@chrlpolk The first few seasons were sometimes painfully close to the bone, with a number of jokes only physicists would get thrown in. It was actually pretty good. So whilst not a literal representation of the life of the physicist, it was a fair, slightly exaggerated caricature. I'd say that there must have been advisors or writers with a physics background. D&D is typically not played by physicists though, it's not something that appeals to them.
I love how shows like Community and Stranger Things actually took the time to do research on a favorite hobby of many, and understand and show it in a respectful light. Whereas this show is just like "dur only dumbass nerds play that shit!!"
The best episode of TBBT for D&D is, The D & D Vortex, played at Wil Wheaton's house, but I love the impersonations that Howard does in this episode eh
Penny is wrong that no one has played with a girl. I remember years ago I read a girl’s article on the Internet about the *all-girl gaming group* that she started. She herself called it “the holy grail of gaming.”
any game where you have to use your imagination is more fun than any video game. We are all so desensitized that we forgot how entertaining it was to use ones imagination, instead now we waiting for 4080p tv's to come out lol
ryan cora The division in our lives is the structure of thought, which is the action of the observer who thinks himself separate. He further thinks of himself as the thinker, as something different from his thought. But there can be no thought without the thinker and no thinker without the thought. So the two are really one. He is also the experiencer and, again, he separates himself from the thing he experiences. The observer, the thinker, the experiencer, are not different from the observed, the observer is the observed, the thought, the experienced. This is not a verbal conclusion. If it is a conclusion then it is another thought which again makes the division between the conclusion and the action which is supposed to follow that conclusion. When the mind sees the reality of this, the division can no longer exist. All conflict is this battle between the observer and the observed. This is the greatest thing to understand.
sinkiy We only think we think :) and separation is but seeming. Reality is a singularity of non-time through which the seemingness of time and being is projected within its ultimate sphere. There is only one of us here and btw paper and pencil role playing games are one of the strongest methods for exercising the imagination. I recommend Ars Magica!
This was one of the many episodes that just made you dislike Penny and her unique blend of superiority and failure (pre-pharmaceutical sales rep career).
I actually really liked this episode for how wholesome it was... For a group of people with relatively few shared interest, it was nice seeing them bond over a game of DnD and seeing them genuinely enjoy some parts of it together like that.
This idea that women don't play DnD because ... reasons? I've been GMing for 25 years and I have almost always had one or more women in my games. Also, the women in this show are vapid morons.
2:50 It's all right Sheldon. I've played dungeons & dragons with girls before. My school had a whole DND club even, and I was the first guy member. There were more d&d girl players at my school. And I was really good.
Im thinking of starting a world and getting into dnd but this may sound a little sad, but my work mates aren't exactly the dnd type anybody got any tips for a complete newbie? Any books? Any way to find people to play with?
*Facepalm* OK, it may make me seem like a total jackass, but I just have to point out a couple errors there. 1: DDO stands for Dungeons and Dragons Online, so calling it DDO online is a little redundant, as you're saying Dungeons and Dragons Online Online. 2: It's a tabletop RPG, not a board game. Big difference. Also, please do not judge me on this comment. And yes, D and D is fun.
Despite me being fine with your comment I would just like to add 1) I know DDO stands for Dungeons and Dragons Online, I might have accidentally added Online after typing DDO because I don't tend to think too much about what I've typed as a comment, sounds dull I know but that's just me and 2) the only reason why I called it a board game is because it looks a bit like a board and I didn't really know what else to call it so I thank you for informing me about that and I am not trying to judge you I just wanted to make a valid point, if you can even call this a valid point. Anyway, I hope you have a nice day :)
I've been searching around you tube and the general internet recently, I am trying to find the scene where one of the characters begins setting up a "recursive" game of D & D. It was along the lines of this: "I tell the elves to begin whittling dice and small figurines, I place a board on the table, and pull out some parchment for character sheets." "No recursive gaming!" Anyone know where I can find that clip?
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It's so rare to see Sheldon so 'recklessly' smiling wide and laughing. What a show.
You'd be surprised to see what people are like when they're doing what they like best.
Howard's Al Pacino impersonation was spot on 😂
"Are we playing for money?"
"No, it is even better, we are playing for xp."
It is Sheldon, it is... XD
Jennifer Boshuizen this show sucks
@@griffingrove821 you swallow
@@griffingrove821 you blow
@@griffingrove821 so why were you watching a clip of the show
Caran Cole i do
I love Howard as the dungeon master.
They cut out the 1+ hours making characters.
I want to actually see the entire game 🥲
1 hour for name generation alone 😂
That's show biz for ya
Varies significantly by which edition of D&D you’re talking about. Also some other non-D&D tabletop systems are significantly more complex or streamlined than others. I can easily create a D&D 5e character in under an hour, but first edition Pathfinder would take me several hours.
@MizuDev that’s accurate
Amy: I’m gonna leave before I ruin anyone else’s night *sad and embarrassed *
Sheldon:”as a supporting bf” that’s my girl 😂
The fact that we didnt get more dungeon master howard scenes is a crime
he does ONE impression of nicolas cage... and he nails it
Ok, but it was pretty adorable at 3:15 when the whole cast started laughing, like it isn't in Sheldon's character to laugh there, this is all genuine laughter from the actors/actresses. xD
LumiNeonz "sheldon" is amazed by how howard is nailing the dungeon master role
What makes you think Sheldon doesn't laugh. He is loving Howard's impressions from the start.
That was totally in character and scripted, but whatever makes you feel happy I suppose.
@@darkaquatus it seems like everyone these days want to believe that things are unscripted when they clearly aren’t
@@Bownzinho Because not everyone is a party pooper like you. Let people have imagination.
BBT: We're playing D&D!
Me: .....roll for deception.
"Fun?! Okay, three weeks ago you bought crunchy peanut butter. Now you want the girls to play D&D...do you have a drug problem???"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHA
Howard's impressions... the one I like is the "You're playing D&D".
I LOVE THAT ONE TOO!!!!! I'm going to start playin' D&D with my wife and young son..... I'm going to do that.
Sheldon's happy face in this episode was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen!!!
You must be blind the rest of the time. There are quite literally millions of other beautiful things out there.
Hellberg owned this one . The stares of joyful admiration
from his formidable co stars didnt even need feigning when he did that epic Pacino mimic .
Damn, all Howard needs to be friends with Sheldon was too do impressions. It was an instant hit😂
This just makes me wanna go watch Community's D&D episode. Where they actually...you know...play the game.
Or the episode where they do play it and not that crappy show Community.
@@NostalgiNorden Community is crappy? How?
You should take a listen to the adventure zone podcast, if u like DND 😊 it's amazing!
I just came here
looking for this comment. Community>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Big Bang
@@NostalgiNorden You must hate all good things then.
Why are they playing 4th? I thought they were all supposed to be smart.
=))))))
Mark Packer DnD 4e is the Windows Vista of DnD. Sheldon liked Vista, so probably this is the reason. Even if the others wanted to play 3.5, he would have protested and they don't like that. That said, and bearing in mind that I learned the game on 3.5, I think it's very chaotic and mathimatical, practically begging to be played by powergamers. 5e is much better.
Before 5th edition, 4th was much much better than 3.5
You DO realise this was shot at 2013 and before 5th Edition
4th Edition has been proven to not be nearly as bad as many people tend to claim it to be, Alot of older D&D Gamers / Smarter ppl with MAsters Degrees I know hate 3.5/5E and love Pathfinder/4E/AD&D For whatever reason
personaly 4E/3.5E Are my 2 Favs in terms of playing I have a decent number of people i know older / younger then me and its useoly the 30 year old's or younger that hate 4E
"The dungeon master is supposed to roll."
...in what universe?
I know, that doesn't make sense
i think its called a counter roll but they do it before the player rolls
When only me as the DM had the dices, I used to roll a lot for the players...
Nah, I say have each player have a set, it makes everything much more convenient (i.e. saving throws, ability checks, initiative, etc, etc.)
nom carver "I have a vagina so I can do what I want"
I like how they made Raj sit on floor and then a chair magically appeared for Lenard.
By magic, do you mean he decided to roll an office chair from the desk he has a few feet from the couch while Penny made that drink?
Howards Al Pacino performance (film: "...and justice for all") is brilliant. Even the actors couldn´t stop laughin.
"New Dice Smell"
I felt that.
i fucking lost it so hard when Sheldon yells Dungeons and Dragons
>4th edition
>playing around a tiny coffe table
>people other than the DM showing off minatures
>DM actually telling people the DC for stuff
>Only DM rolls
0/10 would not watch
Da_maul Couldn't agree more. It's like the first season catered to real nerds/geeks which I enjoyed and my parents/others did not. Strangest thing happened when my mom got into it and the others when slowly I realized Big Bang was no longer a nerd/geek show, but a show to make fun of nerds and geeks at our expense for other's enjoyment. Fuck I hate this show so much now.....
absolutely disgusting
+Da_maul The DM appears to be making things up as he goes along too.
Da_maul Favorite edition?
Why would he gain experience point just for rolling a dice?
1:33 That guy's expression 😂😂😂
This show is awesome.....I need more nerd friends.
My guess is you need more friends, period.
@@CheerfullyCynical829 says the loser commenting on a 9 year old video 😂
DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS!! That killed me 😂
This was Howard’s greatest attribute to the show
Man i miss this show this one of my favorites scenes
Sheldon: That's my girl XD
Here there were really trying to showcase Simon Helberg's talent for vocal mimicry.
1:34 looking at the taxi driver's eyes xD
I find it more offensive that they play dnd without alcohol.
2:38
Me arguing with my friends lol
Penny would make a hilarious bard tho
Kaley Cuoco, Mayim Bialik, and Melissa Rauch are cool when they speak all at once.
Future of gaming= pencils and paper
The pinnacle of multiplayer
sadly its screens i suppose
Sad?
I'm a girl who loves D&D... and physics... but I guess this is a show about stereotypes.
True, but if they defied too many stereotypes it'd be less popular with people who aren't aware of the epic underbelly of nerd culture.
I love D&D, too.
Where have you been my whole life?
The show is completely based on stereotypes, and not just of women. Did you hear the part about how "boys that play DnD will never get laid"? Just not a great show. It's built for the mainstream.
Both of my parents played D&D so so much for that.
"Are we gonna play DnD like a bunch of teenaged boys who are NEVER GONNA HAVE SEX WITH THOSE TEENAGED GIRLS?!"
Wow...that line hit close to home.
Listen. This is the best description of Big Bang. No actual idea of nerd cutler, bizarre and inaccurate sexism, no real jokes, an awful- AWFUL laugh track.
(And I know it’s not a massive point, but they don’t actually roll damage...)
Fuck me Ray Bradbury it's not a track, there's an audience, I've been there.
HighDefinitionApollo 2.0 wow!! Was it as lifeless as it looks on screen?
Fuck me Ray Bradbury it was a long time ago but I'm pretty sure there were laugh prompts.
They didn’t roll for initiative either, or the girls stats, and Howard didn’t roll the enemies stats.
To be fair, while this show is hot fucking garbage, actual D&D is virtually impossible to make cinematic to a mainstream audience. Stranger Things did the same thing: they encounter a Thessalhydra, don't roll initiative, Will rolls a d20 to hit with fireball (which you don't have to do, the Hydra would have to make a dex. save), and they one shot it despite the fact that no, they absolutely did not, and they didn't roll for damage. Community did it pretty well, but even theirs was way off the actual game.
I love this. Lol so many D&D inaccuracys but still funny. Ps girl who plays D&D, plus drinking always makes it funnier
I was memorized by the AL impression 😁
New dice is literally an addiction
"That's my girl!"
If their game is ever DM'd by Matt Mercer, Sheldon would lose his mind
Hold o... What happened to Raj, he just disappeared in the middle of the video...
He ran off to be with his girlfriend of the week. Not that it matters, because he's so useless.
Late, but he went to be with Lucy cuz she was free and he stabbed his character in the face with his own sword to leave
At the end, Penny's hand frantically pointing for emphasis, "more potion please." 🤣
They don't even know what they are doing. Helm of Lordly Might, it's a Rod of Lordly Might. Also the girl gets to make her attack roll not the DM.
Damnationization u must get layed a lot
@@Wyatt-yv8yq It's 'laid' you stupid fuck. Want to make some douchebag remarks? Better make sure you spell it right
RPGeek RP since apparently everyone’s a grammar nazi, why didn’t you end your sentence with a comma?
StopJerkingOff „end your sentence with a comma“?!?!
kinda depends on the edition of dnd actually
Fourth edition?
I know this video is old, but come ON! Version 3.5, people!
I really miss this show
You've been playing D&D with Raj, Sheldon. No difference.
9 year old comment woooo
I don't think the writers on this show did enough research into how D&D works. The literal ONE minute of game play this clip shows has so many things wrong with it, I'm too embarrassed to list them - for the show and for myself.
NOW you know how actual physicists probably feel watching this show! 😂🤣
@@chrlpolk The first few seasons were sometimes painfully close to the bone, with a number of jokes only physicists would get thrown in. It was actually pretty good. So whilst not a literal representation of the life of the physicist, it was a fair, slightly exaggerated caricature. I'd say that there must have been advisors or writers with a physics background. D&D is typically not played by physicists though, it's not something that appeals to them.
The show got almost everything about nerds and their culture wrong, it’s a show about nerds written by jocks…
This is what hapoens when you have bachelor party?
I miss those days I wish I could go back then in time and relive all these years again having my present conciousness
I love how shows like Community and Stranger Things actually took the time to do research on a favorite hobby of many, and understand and show it in a respectful light. Whereas this show is just like "dur only dumbass nerds play that shit!!"
The guys that wrote Community and Stranger Things actually played. Here it's just fodder for weak jokes and decent impressions.
There's also Vox Machina.
The best episode of TBBT for D&D is, The D & D Vortex, played at Wil Wheaton's house, but I love the impersonations that Howard does in this episode eh
Penny is wrong that no one has played with a girl. I remember years ago I read a girl’s article on the Internet about the *all-girl gaming group* that she started. She herself called it “the holy grail of gaming.”
It's meant to be a stereotype.
@@AlexSeverinski you’re right :)
All time favorite episode!!
Whether it be D&D, watching sports, or playing video games together, Boys night is always the best
Sometimes Penny is such a major buzzkill.
I have seen a square pizza for the first time!
One of my top 5 fave eps!!
I enjoyed it when Howard marked Al Pacino 👏👏👏😁😁😁
Sheldon smelling dice Powder like it is cocaine 😂😂😂😂
any game where you have to use your imagination is more fun than any video game. We are all so desensitized that we forgot how entertaining it was to use ones imagination, instead now we waiting for 4080p tv's to come out lol
ryan cora The division in our lives is the structure of thought, which is the action of the observer who thinks himself separate. He further thinks of himself as the thinker, as something different from his thought. But there can be no thought without the thinker and no thinker without the thought. So the two are really one. He is also the experiencer and, again, he separates himself from the thing he experiences. The observer, the thinker, the experiencer, are not different from the observed, the observer is the observed, the thought, the experienced. This is not a verbal conclusion. If it is a conclusion then it is another thought which again makes the division between the conclusion and the action which is supposed to follow that conclusion. When the mind sees the reality of this, the division can no longer exist. All conflict is this battle between the observer and the observed. This is the greatest thing to understand.
sinkiy We only think we think :) and separation is but seeming. Reality is a singularity of non-time through which the seemingness of time and being is projected within its ultimate sphere. There is only one of us here and btw paper and pencil role playing games are one of the strongest methods for exercising the imagination. I recommend Ars Magica!
Chromatic Ghost Couldn't agree more with you. Now I'm going to get ars magica lol
4:23 penny you don’t know how to play
I wish they took the time to do this properly and like maybe not play 4e??
+Elijah J Or how you can act as an elitist douche by commenting on a show that everybody watches for fun... You just gave me asthma.
+RorikLucsson 4e is bad though
+RorikLucsson They made it look bad for a cheap laugh.
Elijah J Community was MUCH more accurate!!
But 5e wasnt out
xp points are the best.
“don’t worry sweetie no one has.”
Enters Critical Role
We gained experience points! Huzzah!
0:34 And that is exhibit A on why Penny is the most toxic character.
The dungeon master is supposed to roll... what?
“It’s not alcohol. It’s a magic potion that makes me like you.”
Not coincidentally did the show confirm the previous season that she's a raging alcoholic.
Double the potion please! (Looks like lemonade honestly)
Listen to that Al Pacino impression with your eyes closed. Incredible.
Shoutout to the people in the comments who cant laugh at themselves
only until Penny's there :)
“Community did it better.”
I gotta say...
Community actually did do it better. Abed even did better impressions
(in voice of sheldon screaming) DUNGEONS AND DRAGOOOONS!
This was one of the many episodes that just made you dislike Penny and her unique blend of superiority and failure (pre-pharmaceutical sales rep career).
They DEFINITELY went to go see D&D: Honor Among Theives😂😂
I always wanted to play D&D so so badly
Sheldon approves 4th edition :D
sheldon saying do you have drug problems??😂😂😂
I actually really liked this episode for how wholesome it was...
For a group of people with relatively few shared interest, it was nice seeing them bond over a game of DnD and seeing them genuinely enjoy some parts of it together like that.
You notice how after Howard does his Al Pacino imitation and everyone laughs Penny breaks character by looking off camera.. Love the scene.
what episode was this called
The sexism is strong in this one lol -.-
TajaS Please, tell us why, to allow us to solidarize ourselves with you.
This idea that women don't play DnD because ... reasons? I've been GMing for 25 years and I have almost always had one or more women in my games.
Also, the women in this show are vapid morons.
TajaS cause women are only interested in flaunting their tits in bikinis and guys at least do something interesting
Who cares...this is funny
Come on, nerdy guys get hot girls. The whole show is sexist
I want to play this game now!
2:50 It's all right Sheldon. I've played dungeons & dragons with girls before. My school had a whole DND club even, and I was the first guy member. There were more d&d girl players at my school. And I was really good.
This show jumped the shark three seasons ago.
Maybe they had some shark repellent.
The shark is named Sheldon
In honor of the movie 🍿 in theaters and our Judge tonight
Youre playin D&D... its awesome. anyone knows which original Ali Pachino movie had that scene? Is it on youtube?
Im thinking of starting a world and getting into dnd but this may sound a little sad, but my work mates aren't exactly the dnd type anybody got any tips for a complete newbie? Any books? Any way to find people to play with?
4:09 lol! Sheldon is funny🎉😂
I've only ever played DDO online but never as a board game, it looks fun :)
*Facepalm*
OK, it may make me seem like a total jackass, but I just have to point out a couple errors there. 1: DDO stands for Dungeons and Dragons Online, so calling it DDO online is a little redundant, as you're saying Dungeons and Dragons Online Online. 2: It's a tabletop RPG, not a board game. Big difference. Also, please do not judge me on this comment. And yes, D and D is fun.
Despite me being fine with your comment I would just like to add 1) I know DDO stands for Dungeons and Dragons Online, I might have accidentally added Online after typing DDO because I don't tend to think too much about what I've typed as a comment, sounds dull I know but that's just me and 2) the only reason why I called it a board game is because it looks a bit like a board and I didn't really know what else to call it so I thank you for informing me about that and I am not trying to judge you I just wanted to make a valid point, if you can even call this a valid point. Anyway, I hope you have a nice day :)
animeloverforevaxxx
k, sorry then. xD
No its fine :D
It's quite a bit of fun
Is it me or that pizza is actually square at everything? 1:15
I wanna play d & d with my friends but they would not want to
I've been searching around you tube and the general internet recently, I am trying to find the scene where one of the characters begins setting up a "recursive" game of D & D. It was along the lines of this:
"I tell the elves to begin whittling dice and small figurines, I place a board on the table, and pull out some parchment for character sheets."
"No recursive gaming!"
Anyone know where I can find that clip?
Gosh, Howard's, impression 🤦🏻♀️
Me. After 10 replays, just one more just one...
The way he said That's my girl
Low key they guys look like they were having more fun