every other tutorial ive watched explains stuff using words they haven't and wont explain, and also do it in one or two videos so its rushed and doesn't tell you everything. These tutorials are giving me proper insight into the game as it breaks down every game mechanic step by step and explains them thoroughly
@@imbored3795Well I have a different opinion on the animation than you, but I didn't mean any harm. The animation doesn't matter much anyways as it's the explanations (I complemented) that count. If I came off as rude before, I apologize.
I'm happy I found you! I love your teaching style. I like how you add a menu system to help visually organize a player's possible actions. Very solid teaching tool. Thank you
This video is a life saver for a new DM like me. Literally played D and D for the very first time with my first timer friends a few hours ago and I was the DM. All of us were so incredibly overwhelmed during the combat phase because it was so difficult to keep track of all the rules. I wish I had seen this video before the session. The animation and your explanation helped memorize a lot of the things. I shared this video with my group because they are equally clueless.
This man made my life as a dm so much easier and better. I was confused on a couple smaller aspects (even after reading the books) but this is an amazing series to teach people all they need to know. THANK YOU!!
I have been playing 5th edition for about a year and a half now. I just watched this video for like the 8th time just to brush up on the rules. Seriously, thank you for making this.
Going to host my first session ever on Friday. played once 6 years ago. I have read through the basic rule set, now watching these videos, togheter they are totally awesome and you get a good grip of the game. Your videos are pure gold for anyone want to learn, simple and contains good information!
This series has been a blessing. I have just started playing DnD with my wife and daughter - all of us noobs. I don't think we would have started as easily if we hadn't found your videos. Brilliant work, sir!
I'm a first time DM (my first game is this Saturday!) and these videos have been incredibly helpful. Great animations and instructions for practical use. Thank you!
I can't tell you how helpful this entire series is even for the GM to keep referring to when fatigue or nervousness (I'm still new) makes us uncertain. I share this series with my players to help, because it's sooooooo clear. Great work!
This is ultimately the best series for players. Clear, straightforward actual lessons, with professional, educating but simple animations, and what's best: No youtuber bullshit and stupid jokes.
This helped me out so much. I got D and D for Christmas but it didn't have the players handbook so me and my brother were trying to figure out everything.
I am loving these videos! I played a one shot and wish I had watched this first. We will be starting a full campaign soon; I feel so much better prepared now.
Amazing series. I usually watch one of these videos, read the relevant Player's Handbook section and then watch the video again. This process really helps me to understand the context well.
Thank you CJ, reading the rules can be a bit much, but seeing real examples helps understand those rules, now when I re read the book, I imagine your videos. And the animation quality is perfect for learning purposes.
This has been so helpful. My friends are starting a dnd campaign soon and have been talking about it for a while, I was confused so I watched this and it explained so much. Thanks.
Best D&D tutorial by far. It's simple and isn't to complicated. With just a few notes, I am ready to play some D&d. earned yourself a like, and a new subscriber!!
Thank you for going through this in an easy to understand manner. I have some young players that reading the rule book is difficult. This video will really help them.
14:55 Oh, so a party member can use a help action to do a medicine check to stabilize their knocked out friend. That's really good to know. And if they roll a single 10 or higher, that has basically the same effect as the unconscious member rolling 3 saves?
I’m playing for the first ever time soon with two other guys who’ve never played before. Since I’m the one who brought the whole thing up and got the starter set im gonna be the DM by default. This is so helpful
you make everything so much easier!I read the rule book and I had still had no idea how to play.this really helped.Im trying to get into d and d but most of my friends don't even know what it is so I will have to dm
Great video! I really enjoy the creative aspect of DM'ing, but I have trouble remembering all the rules. This is a concise and clear presentation. Thank you so much!
Thank you for these videos! I've read the starter set books, watched multiple videos etc and had no clue how to calculate damage with a weapon for an attack. It makes so much more sense now. Long way to go before being even proficient but at least we can start the starter set!
It must’ve taken a lot of planning and work to make these videos, and it really paid off. I’m so glad I found your channel. I’m going to be DMing (and being involved in a D&D game in general) for the first time soon, and your videos have been extremely helpful. Thank you!
Tonight I'm Dming for the first time.. also happens to be my first time playing DnD, but after a binge on all your videos I'm hoping for the best. Great video series (plural)
This series is super helpful! I'm going to be playing with my siblings in a while, and I'll be the one dming. Are you going to make instructional videos on dming? Like how to determine what monsters have what stats, what to do when somebody does something you didn't plan for, ect?
Thank god. Trying to go from 2nd edition D&D to 5th edition has been a disaster, but this is helping immensely. Maybe I can actually DM and seem like I know what I'm doing now!
I wish I watched your videos earlier! I went through the whole player and dm guide, but the combat was still pretty complicated to me. You explain it all so great! Thanks.
I'm trying to make a character(By myself for the first time) and I got confused as to what I should mark on the saving throws box. Thanks for the assist, bro.
Excellent work. Thanks. Seemed like at the beginning of the second round the bad guys who didn't roll for initiative would be able to get up and attack. They are some heavy sleepers.
Do you have a transcript of this video to use as reference in game? The way you break it down is easier for me to understand than any other way I've seen. And thanks for the great videos - they are great quality and SUPER helpful!
Hey I'm not sure if you can do this on the mobile app but on desk top you can open up a transcript menu for most vids on TH-cam. Underneath the video, right next to the "Save Playlist" button, click on the "More (three dots)" button and the Transcripts option should show up. Its got time stamps and everything.
An amazing video, useful, straight and informative. I would only have a doubt about that hiding at 10:45. Unless there is a way out to another place from that spot she can move to, she may have rolled a successful stealth check, but the enemies KNOW she is there, and if they go there and look they will automatically find her, no need to roll dice.
Combat seems to be the one thing that my fellow players have trouble grasping at times. This will help them understand it a lot better. I even gotten a better grasp at a few things that I don't take advantage of.
These videos are fantastic! I've been trying to learn what saving throws are all about, and Google has been very confusing (I don't have a DnD group nearby, so I've been learning via the internet). Thanks for making these, I look forward to the next video!
Thanks a lot for the videos!!! You explain really well and the animations are extremely helpfull. I actually get lost myself when you explain the 5 categories of accions, it was way to fast, but maybe by reading the basic rules i can understand better.
Being prone doesn't affect your saving throws... it imposes disadvantage on your attack rolls. Attacks against you have advantage when the attacker is within 5 ft., but otherwise they have disadvantage. Burning Hands isn't an attack roll, so it's unaffected by the orcs being prone. It has no effect on your saving throws. You might be confusing it with the restrained condition, which negatively affects your Dexterity saving throws.
The way you explain the game should be an app. As a new D&D player this would be super helpful and help to make the right decisions quicker. Anyone know if this already exists?
Excellent work. The only point I think you missed was relating combat rounds to real time. A combat round equals 6 seconds, and 10 combat rounds equals one turn, which also equals one minute. Understanding this will help when you deal with spells, or why your DM rules that you can not do somethings for your action as they simply take longer than 6 seconds.
This is the best tutorial I have found, really well done!
dude you play dnd?
Epic
Yes! The best one!
lol , you , d and d ??? make a robot d and d control whit phone . good idea
every other tutorial ive watched explains stuff using words they haven't and wont explain, and also do it in one or two videos so its rushed and doesn't tell you everything. These tutorials are giving me proper insight into the game as it breaks down every game mechanic step by step and explains them thoroughly
The animation is top-notch, with understandable explanations to boot. I'll be watching this series.
I second that. Subbed.
Same...
I don't know if the animation is, but the explanations certainly are.
@@jimmykit-kat3424 I mean, it's simplistic and fun to look at. Idk what you were expecting.
@@imbored3795Well I have a different opinion on the animation than you, but I didn't mean any harm.
The animation doesn't matter much anyways as it's the explanations (I complemented) that count.
If I came off as rude before, I apologize.
7 years later and I'm watching this as a 31 F going to my first dnd session in a week 😊, this has been the most helpful vid still out on TH-cam x
Same here 32M, great learning videos!
Me too, 30 M, after years of listening different tabletop RPG podcasts, I'm finally going to play myself
Going to my first D&D session ever tomorrow night. This series has been a lifesaver. Thanks!
How are you now?
That was what I was going to say!
How about now after 4 years
We need answers!
he may or may not have survived his first session
Leraline, the perpetually sad wizard...What happened to you, leraline??
Briansgate she is not sad she just doesn't care that much
Our quest is vain!
everything in the story is just not her day
*who hurt you*
So she's being played by Daria?
This is the most helpful series I have ever watched on youtube.
I'm happy I found you! I love your teaching style. I like how you add a menu system to help visually organize a player's possible actions. Very solid teaching tool. Thank you
thx for making these amazing videos you are the only guy on youtube that makes good d and d explanations you really helped me learn
This video is a life saver for a new DM like me. Literally played D and D for the very first time with my first timer friends a few hours ago and I was the DM. All of us were so incredibly overwhelmed during the combat phase because it was so difficult to keep track of all the rules. I wish I had seen this video before the session. The animation and your explanation helped memorize a lot of the things. I shared this video with my group because they are equally clueless.
This channel probably has the highest quality DnD related videos on all of TH-cam. It's extremely helpful. Thank you.
I love your animations. Easy to understand and I want to play D&D now!
You definitely should, Yanwy.
This man made my life as a dm so much easier and better. I was confused on a couple smaller aspects (even after reading the books) but this is an amazing series to teach people all they need to know. THANK YOU!!
Always super handy to look at videos for a simpler explanation of stuff!
As a noob to D&D 5E, this was really helpful.
This video has cleared up a ton for me. Not only as a player, but as a budding DM. Thank you so much for all of your videos.
I have been playing 5th edition for about a year and a half now. I just watched this video for like the 8th time just to brush up on the rules.
Seriously, thank you for making this.
Going to host my first session ever on Friday. played once 6 years ago. I have read through the basic rule set, now watching these videos, togheter they are totally awesome and you get a good grip of the game. Your videos are pure gold for anyone want to learn, simple and contains good information!
I've been playing for 8 years now and I still come back to your videos. Great job
Beautifully done, thank you!
How tf does this million sub account have 2 likes on here?
BEST MOST IN-DEPTH VIDEO I HAVE SEEN ON THIS YET, thank you. As someone making a DnD game i needed this... :)
Thank you thank you thank you so.much for the explanation! clear as crystal!
THIS IS AMAZING!!!! My group and I are all newbs, and we've been having trouble figuring out exactly how certain things work... THANK YOU!!!!
My family really appreciates the effort you put into your instructional D&D videos.
This series has been a blessing. I have just started playing DnD with my wife and daughter - all of us noobs. I don't think we would have started as easily if we hadn't found your videos. Brilliant work, sir!
I'm a first time DM (my first game is this Saturday!) and these videos have been incredibly helpful. Great animations and instructions for practical use. Thank you!
I can't tell you how helpful this entire series is even for the GM to keep referring to when fatigue or nervousness (I'm still new) makes us uncertain.
I share this series with my players to help, because it's sooooooo clear. Great work!
Thank you for explaining how combat works. I've tried a few different videos and I've been confused for a while. Glad this video exists.
This is ultimately the best series for players. Clear, straightforward actual lessons, with professional, educating but simple animations, and what's best: No youtuber bullshit and stupid jokes.
This helped me out so much. I got D and D for Christmas but it didn't have the players handbook so me and my brother were trying to figure out everything.
wdym by you got D&D?
these are the best videos a newbie could watch. bless you
I am loving these videos! I played a one shot and wish I had watched this first. We will be starting a full campaign soon; I feel so much better prepared now.
playing my first D&D game this weekend. Your videos have been a life saver!
Amazing series. I usually watch one of these videos, read the relevant Player's Handbook section and then watch the video again. This process really helps me to understand the context well.
Thank you CJ, reading the rules can be a bit much, but seeing real examples helps understand those rules, now when I re read the book, I imagine your videos. And the animation quality is perfect for learning purposes.
This has been so helpful. My friends are starting a dnd campaign soon and have been talking about it for a while, I was confused so I watched this and it explained so much. Thanks.
Best D&D tutorial by far. It's simple and isn't to complicated. With just a few notes, I am ready to play some D&d. earned yourself a like, and a new subscriber!!
Me: Alright everyone, we’re gonna practice an easy encounter.
Other DM: (looks at my book) Wait.. that’s a Tarasque.
Me: I know.
Captain Annetta its an easy encounter to run simple players die
*reveals a party of ten level 20 wizards*
You know, if you had enough wizards, the Tarrasque has a low enough intelligence that you could use awaken on it.
@@plagueisthewise2580 "Casting time: 8 hours"
"Range: Touch"
yeah.... *enough* wizards....
@@snakeorbreak6258 FIREBALL NOTHING BUT FIREBALL
Thank you for going through this in an easy to understand manner. I have some young players that reading the rule book is difficult. This video will really help them.
Our group is switching from 3.5 to 5e, and this video was extremely helpful and easy to understand. Thank you!
This is an excellent explanation!
Really wanted to get into D&D, so a friend of mine sent me the first video. Now I've got notes and a playlist so I can learn as much as I can
I think you should do a series on beginner DMing as well. You do such a fantastic job of explaining things!
Great video. It always baffles me that WoftC books never have step by step as clear as this.
14:55 Oh, so a party member can use a help action to do a medicine check to stabilize their knocked out friend. That's really good to know. And if they roll a single 10 or higher, that has basically the same effect as the unconscious member rolling 3 saves?
Pretty much the best D&D guide out there.
I’m playing for the first ever time soon with two other guys who’ve never played before. Since I’m the one who brought the whole thing up and got the starter set im gonna be the DM by default. This is so helpful
you make everything so much easier!I read the rule book and I had still had no idea how to play.this really helped.Im trying to get into d and d but most of my friends don't even know what it is so I will have to dm
Finally an easy to understand explanation of saving throws. Thank you for these guides they are great.
Great video! I really enjoy the creative aspect of DM'ing, but I have trouble remembering all the rules. This is a concise and clear presentation. Thank you so much!
Thank you for these videos! I've read the starter set books, watched multiple videos etc and had no clue how to calculate damage with a weapon for an attack. It makes so much more sense now. Long way to go before being even proficient but at least we can start the starter set!
It must’ve taken a lot of planning and work to make these videos, and it really paid off. I’m so glad I found your channel. I’m going to be DMing (and being involved in a D&D game in general) for the first time soon, and your videos have been extremely helpful. Thank you!
Tonight I'm Dming for the first time.. also happens to be my first time playing DnD, but after a binge on all your videos I'm hoping for the best. Great video series (plural)
Carl Helberg how did it go?
It went amazing! Thanks :)
I DM’ed the short story in the DM guide series and it kept us busy the whole evening, it was tremendous fun!
This series is super helpful! I'm going to be playing with my siblings in a while, and I'll be the one dming. Are you going to make instructional videos on dming? Like how to determine what monsters have what stats, what to do when somebody does something you didn't plan for, ect?
Eventually. I have things planned for the future.
awesome! thanks for making these videos btw, they're super helpful!
you could also buy the dm guide book
So how did the DMing go? :)
Liked and subscribed. The episodes order and content are very well organized, scripted, narrated and animated. Thank you!
Thank god. Trying to go from 2nd edition D&D to 5th edition has been a disaster, but this is helping immensely. Maybe I can actually DM and seem like I know what I'm doing now!
Me too!
Dude, this was so helpfull, deffinately best D&D tutorial ever. Keep up the good work!
I wish I watched your videos earlier! I went through the whole player and dm guide, but the combat was still pretty complicated to me. You explain it all so great! Thanks.
Great Job! This makes all the worrying of my first DM go away! Thanks.
The best D&D tutorial out there! I am a complete beginner and this helped me a lot to understand the game. Thank you!
I HAVE LIVED FOR TOO LONG WITHOUT THIS VIDEO!!!
GOODBYE CRUEL WORLD!!!
I'm trying to make a character(By myself for the first time) and I got confused as to what I should mark on the saving throws box. Thanks for the assist, bro.
Excellent work.
Thanks.
Seemed like at the beginning of the second round the bad guys who didn't roll for initiative would be able to get up and attack.
They are some heavy sleepers.
Do you have a transcript of this video to use as reference in game? The way you break it down is easier for me to understand than any other way I've seen.
And thanks for the great videos - they are great quality and SUPER helpful!
Hi Jess. Unfortunately, I don't have any transcript. But if I have the time, I will make an infographics for it one day.
That would be amazingly helpful
The video has closed captiones, you can go to one of those websites that extract cc and use that
Hey I'm not sure if you can do this on the mobile app but on desk top you can open up a transcript menu for most vids on TH-cam. Underneath the video, right next to the "Save Playlist" button, click on the "More (three dots)" button and the Transcripts option should show up. Its got time stamps and everything.
Don't Stop Thinking did u ever make a infographics for this? Your videos are very helpful
This must have taken forever to make. I'm super impressed. Subbed for that alone. I can see this channel going far.
An amazing video, useful, straight and informative. I would only have a doubt about that hiding at 10:45. Unless there is a way out to another place from that spot she can move to, she may have rolled a successful stealth check, but the enemies KNOW she is there, and if they go there and look they will automatically find her, no need to roll dice.
The best video series that I cna always link as example "why you don't need to buy books to start with DnD". All you need is here!
I think this is the best video I have watched on this topic.
This is honestly the best tutorial I’ve ever seen!
Best d&d combat video on TH-cam! Thank you
Great videos !! The way you use animations is awesome. Finnaly I've understood the rules haha.. I was sooo wrong!! Thank you
I'm very excited to get back to DnD and teach it to my little brother and this videos will help a lot! Thanks for the good work!
Best Dnd tutorial i've ever seen.
This is the first video I watched before I went on my journey as a dungeon master
Wizards of the Coast needs to hire you!!!
+Bucharest Boy Wouldn't that be a hoot?
Seconded. Chris Perkins, you reading this?
@@DontStopThinking Hey at 5:09 you also forgot too mention that you need to know the language of the creature you are talking to. lol
@@dragnet53 isn't that obvious?
This has been the best video explaining combat. Thanks so much for your hard work!
Very Clear and complete tuturial!
Had a hard time trying to understand from the book but this made understanding it quite easy
Thanks so much for making these videos! They're clear and very easy to understand
You're welcome, prideling.
Best D&D tutorial I have ever seen, thanks.
My first character I want to make is a Dwarf Monk. I think my second person should be an amnesiac trying to remember himself.
monks are awesome. make sure they are perpetually drunk.
Combat seems to be the one thing that my fellow players have trouble grasping at times. This will help them understand it a lot better. I even gotten a better grasp at a few things that I don't take advantage of.
Love the Palpatine reference! Genius!
INSANE GUIDE
best videos I've ever seen explaining D&D
This video helped a lot I’m new at dming so it is nice finally learning more thanks
Thank you so much been looking for a video like this for two days need help with examples
These videos are fantastic! I've been trying to learn what saving throws are all about, and Google has been very confusing (I don't have a DnD group nearby, so I've been learning via the internet). Thanks for making these, I look forward to the next video!
Thanks a lot for the videos!!! You explain really well and the animations are extremely helpfull. I actually get lost myself when you explain the 5 categories of accions, it was way to fast, but maybe by reading the basic rules i can understand better.
Thank you! This was very helpful, this was the most easy to understand video I have seen.
You forgot to mention that the prone orcs would have had disadvantage on their saving throws against the spell attack.
Being prone doesn't affect your saving throws... it imposes disadvantage on your attack rolls. Attacks against you have advantage when the attacker is within 5 ft., but otherwise they have disadvantage. Burning Hands isn't an attack roll, so it's unaffected by the orcs being prone.
It has no effect on your saving throws. You might be confusing it with the restrained condition, which negatively affects your Dexterity saving throws.
Just discovered your channel. Impressive production quality and great content.
The way you explain the game should be an app. As a new D&D player this would be super helpful and help to make the right decisions quicker. Anyone know if this already exists?
how can you only have 23 thousand subs ?? this intro is amazing !!!
this helped me out so much i needed a refresher and some new things have been since i played d m a long time ago thanks
Awesome videos, this has been so helpful! Animation is beautifully done.
Excellent content. Thank you for your thorough approach.
Excellent work. The only point I think you missed was relating combat rounds to real time. A combat round equals 6 seconds, and 10 combat rounds equals one turn, which also equals one minute. Understanding this will help when you deal with spells, or why your DM rules that you can not do somethings for your action as they simply take longer than 6 seconds.
Thanks CJ for helping me on my road to DM...
good video, clear explanation, knew half the stuff but if I were completely new I bet this would be great
Great videos, I just got the starter set and I think your explanations are the b est on youtube
Best tutorial I have come across!