Same. How do hook up, and what medium do you use? I've never gotten to DnD with any but my Bro, and he's not big on trying that much failure unsafe sibling bonding; but maybe someday.... Seriously, how do these people hook up? I have Discord, a dice roller, and no clue. I want to be DnD adopted. Edit: 2:55 we have a chance!
My party's name is Adaqut. Initially the name was formed from the first letter of everyone's name, and now it's a running joke. "Sir we may not be the best adventurers, but we are Adequate."
the diversity video made me laugh cause he was so aggressive with "WATCH US" and i was thinking "BUT I CANT FIND ANY!" and then i realised i watch a dnd stream where 3 of them are black and i just forgot that they were not their characters
17:54 For anyone with this question, so Modules are the books that D&D companies have made to make it easier for the Dm to run the games because it has everything preset for them. Homebrew is for people like me who either like coming up with orginal worlds now the story on the other hand is completely up to what the players do as the their characters when interacting with the world, npcs and enemies the Dm created. That is what is called a Homebrew Campaign or game.
I love that white guy who said that he had the privilege to never feel racism complaing on how Wizards deal with racism in d&d, nevermind the "inherit evil" races are like by worshiping an evil god or have its culture like that, etc. And they never say you should or have to play as evil character being from that race. Considering the fact that you can play as orc, half orcs and drow for a start
It's like those people didn't actually read the history of those races. And to me, having a dark history in a character's ancestry is a perfect setup for a PC to be different, to not be that. And there are so many ways they can handle explaining that without erasing that history. And hell, maybe to the PC, they have no relation to that history and take offense when a person immediately relates them to it, rather than judging them based on their character. In these kind of settings, where many people are ignorant and don't have much in regards to education, of course there's going to be tension with that kind of thing. If I were to choose one of those races, I would go into it knowing that I stand out, there's no way around it without diminishing that character! It takes away from when NPCs, hardened by their beliefs, soften a bit when someone of a race they have prejudices against helps them out despite that. And maybe some don't, but that's a journey for the PC and the player themselves to discover.
@@ZombieOverseer It is almost like one of the most famous DnD characters that has spawned a million or more copy cat characters and got hundreds if not thousands of people into playing the game in the first place is literally an example of a person from an 'evil' race rebelling against it.
"Write a campaign, then." Me, smirking: Already on it. "What are you doing, just watching TikToks?" Me, who is procrastinating by watching D&D TikToks: UH--
@@Gymboy04827 She is loud, and a bard, and only 7 years old, and got ahold of gauntlets of Oger strength and picked up a tablet with on of the other characters on it and yeeted it at a wall
12:53 I'm a player but I have a halfling campaign with the party name being "safe haven" because two members of the party were originally from a tiny island that was a pirate safe haven!
18:55 this sounds awesome 🤩 I'd probably change it to a D4 personally since it's only the force of the hit pushing you against the wall as opposed to gravity pulling you but I love it
I started a group on a party ship enjoying themselves. One of them went to the railing to look out into the water and saw something moving underneath. Next thing they know a giant sphere of water comes out to the ocean, destroys the futuristic city they live in and suck them all into some kind of bright light at the bottom of the sphere. They wake up on a beach nearly dead and learn that their city has been destroyed for a thousand years. The city was named Kandazar. And that's how I turned the opening of Final Fantasy X into the start of my latest campaign.
first time DMing, My party sounds like a bad joke... 2 Goliaths and a dragonborn walk into tavern, Finish the joke someone please- Edit: 2 goliaths walk into a tavern, the barkeep says "What's next a dragon?" the dragonborn steps out from behind them-
31:35 Honestly dnd is easy to describe. You make a character, then write a story with said character(s). To complete some actions, you roll a dice to see if you succeed.
My party's called the Walking Jinxes. We got that name from a king due to my character and someone's bard always causing bad luck if we're in close proximity to one another.
31:13 For me, I describe it as a group of players make a story. One is the storyteller along with being non-player characters and the others are the main characters. I normally use other mediums as examples IE Harry Potter would be Rowling as DM and the main trio as PCs
DM creates a werewolf OC that they want to have an excuse to run with the party and be a DMPC. Tells the party that the werewolf has a bounty on its head so that they'll be interested in tracking it down because DM couldn't think of any other interesting way to get the party to be interested in this character. Party finds a werewolf baking pies, which is strange in itself. Party decides to kill the werewolf and collect on the bounty since they have no attachment to the werewolf and they're getting paid to kill it. DM gets mad that party did exactly what the DM set the party up to do. This is a bad DM, this is what bad DMs do. If you want your OC to be injected into the story at least do it well and make it organic. This DMPC could have been set upon by a group of hunters that were hunting it for its fur, and the werewolf could have had some kind of amulet that was significant to one of the players or something else that one of the players characters could have identified with. The party could persuade the hunters to leave, or engage them. Then start the RP from there. Don't blame the players for your poor story telling. The only reason "Gay" was added here was to make it sound like the party killed the werewolf OC because it was gay. More than likely they killed it to 1. Get the bounty, and 2. It couldn't scream "I'm an edgy OC character that the DM wants to be their PC for this campaign" any louder and the party didn't want to deal with a DM PC, nobody wants to deal with a DM PC that's poorly written.
I feel like a Puffin Forrest qoute fits here - from his vid about open dnd campaigns "I know exactly which quest the player's will do, the one that pays the most"
18:34 I'm "Gave Kobolds I ran across gold and food so many times that after I killed their leader when we found their cave that they apparently (To the one character among us who could understand the speech of these Kobolds) was being called Mama by them, and kinda led them as my own personal army."
Dms: Hey this is pretty racist.. Wotc: Oh sorry, you can change it if you want. Dms: But it's still racist... Wotc: Look it's been this way for decades and you're just now bringing it up. You can make any changes you want. You're a dm run the game your way. Dm: Yeah but the setting- Wotc: Dude, it's *your* game, change it. Dm: Yeah that's not my job...
I absolutely think racism and bigotry belong in D&D settings because that gives the players something really tangible and satisfying to change in the world. Teifling's are minorities that are despised by superstitious groups, or one Kingdom/Empire is looking to invade and have a bleak and intolerant perspective on certain things. Star Wars pulled that off successfully by establishing the Empire as a bunch of evil people who would think nothing of putting an entire planet's population to the sword if it kept everyone else in check. Otherwise, if the setting was a glorious utopia where everything is acceptable, there wouldn't be a conflict or anything for players to change for the better. Keep in mind that I mean in setting; that doesn't mean I believe I believe it's acceptable at the table itself between players, nor is it suitable for all groups. I just believe that something potentially magical is lost if a species in DnD is just another trope of magical hats.
23:01 yeah actually this was a concept in d&d second edition ( officially named advanced d&d). It was called the Magocracy, where it's a system of government where mages rule supreme over people who can't use magic (remember back then it was sort of explained as some races were better at magic than others, and members of that races had varying levels if magic compared to the average too). So my dad actually wrote a book series on this. It's called the spellmonger series for those who are curious, and it basically explores the concept of a world after they overthrew the Magocracy, and how magical talent influences people's track for life.
I didn't leave that toxic group, I fired that toxic player. (Which makes more sense if I mention I'm the DM) At any rate, I did so because he treated my character like a joke, tried to flex on who he thought was the strongest, did you-know-what to both female characters in pretty much the most appalling cringey way possible, and was only nice to his friend's character, who was literally a walking "lol, so ran-dumb" meme. This was the one time I let him DM. The rest of the time, he challenged my authority at pretty much every presented opportunity.
also when i run games for kids i always give them a cool pet that goes with their characters, ie; in the last on I ran I gave them a displacer cub and a Cheshire cub. one was a grave cleric and the other was a echo knight. At first I make it so their new pet shine sand as the party grows i make it more about their characters and in turn more invested
7:56 I ran a game for my teenage sister and 10 year old brother once. It was weird trying to keep the game not very graphic (I’m a writer, so I usually describe gore). My little brother didn’t really like the role play aspect at first, but once he started making more fun characters, he started to get more into it. It’s definitely different then running a game for adults. For starters the adult party usually has more original characters with long backstories, whereas my siblings usually just copied something from a tv show. Also, kids usually come up with more... creative solutions to problems. Instead of killing a rabid wolf, my siblings just shoved it into their bag of holding, and left it’s nose out so that it could breathe(I mean, they are kids, I’m not gonna stop them from trying their crazy ideas lol). I have a lot of fun DMing for both kids and adults tho!
11:15 i use a system where it makes people appear, and show where they are in the room, works well in taverns, or in combat, or... idk i havent done it that much.
31:09 like a supposed genious once said: "if you can't explain a subject as simply as possible, you don't know it at all" how to quickly explain dnd: read some rules write up a charecter and the rest is a combination of imagination and gambling to either ruin/make another friend's day
As a coffee drinker, I had the idea to make a short rest/long rest potion that would have negative effects if abused. Described it to my BF and his immediate response was, so you made crack
Hmmm. I feel you'd love to play a Warlock/Sorcerer. With Flexible casting, you can transform Spell slots into sorcery points, and you can transform Sorcery points into spell slots. And, as a Warlock, you get your warlock soell slots back on a short rest... so that means... you never need a short rest again. Take a short rest and turn those spells you get back into sorcery points and then vice versa! Thus, the Coffee-lock
I just loved that little down to earth from that guy at 49:29, so I came up with this for the guy. Not only did you take some time, to show us where you live and stay. But you did it so it would rhyme, and with a kind heart I must say. Thank you bard like friend of mine, and always humble you will stay.
"How To Make DnD More Like Anime?" I have the perfect idea. Picture the final battle. Your party is losing. Each has between 1 and 5 hp left. Bard starts playing the party's favorite marching song. Party rises. Gains the strength to win. Oh, wait. That's already a thing. DnD is Anime.
My party goes by "Demonsbane" since the campaign was a hell uprising game, and the Cleric (me) ended up being the party's head, thus we kinda doubled down on the demon killing for our group name
13:06 Who Knows? Originally it started out as a placeholder while we came up with a party name, but after like three months into the campaign our dm finally asked us what we want to name our party. We all thought that Who Knows? was absolutely amazing and so we kept it. Whenever someone asked what our name was we would say Who Knows? and then walk away. When we started the session our dm would say, "Last time, on Who Knows?" and all of us would shout "cuz thats the name of the campaign!!!" It was absolutely amazing. We just ended the campaign a week ago and I'm going to miss that name lol. Anywho, yeah. We literally named our party Who Knows?
Homebrew is equivalent to bathtub gin of the various prohibitive periods in various countries. Take all the things you like and make a really fun cocktail. Borrow pieces from all over and find some gold silk thread to make a quilt. Some patches wont look like they fit but as long as by the end you tie the last knot, then it wont unravel and eventually that patch itself can become a completely new drunken campaign! The above is a perfect example. Keep making patches until the cocktail tastes good.
Not a tik tok creator. Just a DM that lost their party to scheduling. Which is why I started answering your challenges via the pictures. It's helping me stay sane while I wait for the schedules to align. Keep them coming and I'll keep feeding you characters and such for you to use as you see fit.
I really like when in the northern fleets books the author uses such fun words like auspicious and frivolous! the show trys to use all the sparkle and dazzle the books describes
that's just called assembling an army,and means you're a charismatic leader sort, what, you didn't think you'd defeat the big bad/conquer the known world all by yourselves through the power of friendship,did you?
My favourite 'dumb thing" was when I suggested that we use a rope to tie the party one to the other so that as we climbed a risky ledge up a snowy mountain, we could potentially catch someone that fell. We got attacked by a pair of yetis, one fell off the cliff and managed to catch the rope on the way down, the whole party fell, half the party died, the other half was wrecked, the second yeti slid down the cliffside and finished them off. It was only a handful of sessions in, tpk.
13:05 i have put forward the name "Too Many Dragons" because we have 2 half dragon PCs, a dragonborn PC, and a dragonborn npc. As well as an Aarakocra (me), and a tiefling
16:25 I can speak a little dwarvish. Just look up "Dwarven trinity suffixes"and it will send you to a forum I found called Dwarven name guide that has suffixes and prefixes in Dwarven for english words it's awesome. I even made a name for a Dwarven God based on the Holy Trinity named Onaaltenral which mean Holy Forge(Creator), Holy Son, and Holy Spirit.
My party doesn't necessarily have a name, but we do have an emblem that my character, the sorcerer, wove into our clothing, and since the party gave no feedback on the design, my character made it so the emblem had his pet in the front and center of the emblem, with the adventurer's guild logo in the backdrop (imagine a small wookie for the pet, and a grey falcon for the guild logo)
figured I'd tell you right here since I don't have tiktok. This is a horror story, and the darkest day of my D&D life. a while ago I started a club at my highschool and we were paying a game of Pathfinder, which is pretty much D&D 3.5. I was a LG rougarou monk on a ship full of N,CN,CE characters. We had just gotten to town and were asked to help with some murder investigations. we were led to an old school by the mayor. The mayor was acting sus, so everyone started postering and questioning him while I saw all this and got in his way so he wouldn't run. the mayor ran and everyone started firing everything at him and killed him. crap. The guards come over to see what all the commotion was, and EVERYONE IN THE PARTY succeeds seperate bluff checks saying "I'm the mayor." meanwhile, me being lawful good, I try to do the right thing and say "they killed the mayor" they had me make a check that I failed. they had me tackled, I tried not to resist but they had me knocked out anyhow. That's already 2 strikes in my book. Though not on a 3 strike basis. But it gets worse. I'm put in a cell where one of the players who is a homebrewed card master that is overprotective of his daughter casts hold person on me, unlocks my cell, and starts to threaten me and telling me to stay away from his daughter. Reminding you I'm the only lawful good character in this whole party, this is sounding even more messed up in hindsight as he should have been worried about everyone else. he leaves my cell door open with me still under hold person. After this the vampire in the party takes the opportunity to SUCK MY BLOOD! I was still in highschool, and the only lawful good character in a whole party of what seemed to be chaotic evil jerks. With everything that just happened, I felt really ganged up on. Truth be told, I'm not the strongest guy and I get very emotional, I freaking cried. Darkest day in my life. Another short one. 5e game. I was a half-drow warlock/rogue assassin. I was trying to get close to a party that I had joined. They were keeping a close eye on me since I had just been captured. Also drow are very evil. I was trying to be helpful when we came across this wizard who was messing with us and offered us to draw from his deck of many things. One guy drew a wish spell and managed to fix a few things and mess with the timeline. This included meeting my character and my character joining the party. After we had been magiced back to town, the DM and I were talking about either capping my level, since I had drawn a card and had gained many levels from it, or doing one on ones till the party caught up. I didn't want to cap my level, but still wanted to be with the party and we had agreed I'd make a second character. before the next session started, I had been blocked by the DM and banned from the server without any explanation or talking to. Most frustrating day in D&D.
I still find it dumb people think it is the race that is evil, it is referring to the culture not race. An example is drow elite soldier, they are evil why? Because they are generally trained in menzobranzen which main religion is a literal demon lord and is a evil culture based around slavery and murder. This is why in module's they will say use this statblock but with these changes for this individual. The reason they put alignment on are because the game needs an alignment by design. Also I disagree forgotten realms is really not euro centric. It has a portion which specifically is euro centric but literally 90 miles to the east is a very Asian centric as well as Middle Eastern culture. It is just that module's rarely go over there.
Yup and now because of a handful of twitter idiots, one of the most influential and well-known DnD characters that has ever existed is rendered completely fucking pointless.
My party’s name is BOOM HANDS from when I challenged the dm to a challenge were I could get a weapon to my choice on a nat 20 rolled a nat 20 and created boom hands which did infinite damage and the person hit would be trapped in a pocket dimension and would listen to Rick Ashley for eterjity
"Introduce yourself as the dumbest thing toy dnd character has ever done" Hi, I'm currently trying to look for specters that steal the eyes of the living when they are seen. (To be fair to the character... he survived every dumb stupid plan he has ever made) (Legit. The thought that by putting a uranium rod (was a fallout like world) into a crocket ball would become a battery. And yes it does.) (What else. Oh... making a windmill with natural time distortion properties into a GOD DAM TARDIS) (but I think the most stupid. And I mean stupid thing he had ever done is leave the power source replacement for said TARDIS. Outside a building and left it there while going to the bar)
Why did that guy use toliken as being part of the problem? you know in the actual Lord of the Rings books, Legolas and gimli both start out pretty racist to each other and end as friends
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was literally born in the 19th century and lived as a well-to-do white male in Britain during the early 1900s. There were just a lot of things and ideas that went around that weren't overtly racist but had undercurrents of it that were recognized later, and Tolkien having "evil" races like orcs that were on the whole dispensable and irredeemable tended to paint a view of "genetic" evil. I don't think Tolkien was intentionally making an allegory of any real life race, and in fact I think he worked to specifically keep the races as far away from a real world equivalent where he could, but he still introduced the idea of "born evil", which is a problematic idea. And to be very fair, he would have hardly been the first, in fact this idea would have been much more the norm than not. Tolkien was by all accounts very anti-racist himself, but internalized racist ideas ingrained in a culture are hard to peel out of one's consciousness.
@@StealthMarmot_ some people are just evil. The orcs aren't born, their 'reborn' through the corruption of humans and elves. Tolkien even defended the jews in a letter he wrote to a nazi general, after said General wrote to him trying to subtly make sure he wasn't Jewish. Tolkien wasn't any of your stupid buzzwords and your pathetic for trying to tarnish the name of a dead man.
1:00 okay yes, but I disagree that the dm can't tell you to change your character. BEFORE you go cancelling me I don't mean for things like them being lgbtq+, I mean if they're clearly like just an anime protagonist rip off and are cringe and shitty op homebrew makes them no fun for everyone else, the dm has EVERY RIGHT to tell you to fuck off, because you're ruining the game for other people. That being said, kicking someone out for bigoted reasons isn't okay, and if they do do that, then bye all means they don't deserve you.
the closest 3 objects to the right on me is my computer mouse, a drawing table/screen thingy, and my whole ass computer, in that order I sincerely doubt that any of them will be very interesting, as they are all pretty mediocre
I was kinda raised to think that the US was one of the best and most democratic places on earth to live. I’m sure that fact could be a reality shift for some people.
It is when you live in it. I only learned that roughly 91% of those elected into office had the most funding in their campaigns a few years ago. Raised to believe that my vote counted, but I may not even be seeing what the range of options truly is. We live under a false sense of reality, at least in my conservative republican state as a form of a leftist.
I will say that I'm coming to accept that some people can't choose how they feel. But that doesn't change the fact that they can still choose how to act on those feelings. I may not agree with homosexuality, but I can be friends with those who do. You can be friends with people you don't agree with. it can be done. so if you're homosexual (gay, lesbian, bi, ect), you can join my table. But be ready to be tared and feathered if you decide to make a gay butterfly that shows it for the world. Just saying. Was it a thing? yes. Did this happen? yes. You want a gay character? sure. Have fun having rotten tomatoes thrown at you while you're in a yoke in the middle of town.
A lot is wrong with the tiktoks on this one. First off there is already rules in place for enemies being slammed into walls during forced movement. Second, a reaction where you throw yourself in front of an attack is already possible. You just gotta ready the action to do it. And if you drop to zero hp heal the ally your defending is broken. If the ally is enough to beat the enemy but a single attack is what it takes to bring them down, they should pay more attention to where they place themselves.
The links to the individual tiktoks are in the description in the bottom right hand corner you'll find a button that will take you to the music. Or you can put the tick tock on the loop on TH-cam and use Shazam or Google to detect the song.
The guy with the centaur character Story How was the DM the bad guy in that situation the magic item had clearly defined rules and the party themselves early themselves failed to tell the character about that And when they broke the hourglass which is never a good idea good idea in a situation like thit's just like that the Dungeon Master played by the rules of the magic item check item so how was he the bad guy if you present an item with specific rules and then don't don't abide by the rules in order to playkate players that just means your game has no consequences
42:37 just stop being racist your self mate, keep your racist politics out of my hobbie and if you don't like that we don't need you I use to think gate keeping was bad but now that the cancer has spread I agree with gate keeping we will not change 50+ years of lore to make you feel better
Yeah. Like Holy shit was is he talking about. Everyone nowadays gets bullied based on Color - Yeah even white folk. Shocker I know. Can we just stop putting RL shit in our DnD?
@@Kairos_AkumaWhite people do not & have never faced systemic oppression, though. It's not the same. Being mildly mocked on social media isn't comparable to being denied jobs for having a name that's "too ethnic," being profiled & targeted by police, or being told "go back to your country" & threatened with violence or deportation while being a natural born citizen. Saying "these tropes are based on racist ideas, let's change that" isn't racist. (Saying so is just the "antiracist is code for anti-white" dogwhistle) Oh, btw, the lore of D&D has changed multiple times. Every major edition change, in fact. Orcs being playable & able to be non-evil, paladins not needing to be lawful good, who the god of magic is, bard becoming a core class, Drow not being universally evil (Drizzt), the introduction of half-drow/avendrow/lorendrow, etc.
I have being playing for 20 years. While I have no problem with you being what ever you want to be there is a limit on behavour and when you come in and expect other players characters to be into yours, I am sorry but at that point you are no longer welcome at my table this game is not for you to live out your sexuality on other people who are not the same also if you come to my table and expect me to use your pronouns you can also walk away from my table not because I don't want you at my table I wont be told or forced into compelled speech patterns from you I address people by their names or hey you and only refer to biological genders go play politics else where. But on that last bit if you just wanna have fun and drop all that crap you're more then welcome at my table, I don't tolerate bigotry at my table but at the same time I don't compell people at my table to sit their and eat shit period. Also it's almost like every race has their strengths and weakness's like its a game my god D&D isnt real and it's fanatsy game where the races are not human and might be built differently, please grow up there is nothing racist about any of the races sorry you might have to use more then three brain cells.
I've been a forever DM for about 6-7 years now, and I agree with you on everything except for one point. I do hate it when someone tries to use any sort of tabletop RPG in order to push their own agenda/makes other people feel uncomfortable with the actions they are taking. Hell, I DM'D a group once with a dude who attempted to rape another male member of the party, who was being played by a woman. Shit's fucked. Also racism in DND can be really well implemented, but it's not what I would call a core feature. If your DM includes it as a part of his/her world and it makes sense in the context of the plot, then knock yourself out. Now. When it comes to people's pronouns. I am NOT going to try and lecture you, or say "wHaAH yOu'Re a NaZi", but I will say this. In my personal opinion, which you don't have to respect if you don't want to, I believe it's less a matter of politics referring to people by their preferred pronouns, and more a matter of personal respect. If someone asks me to refer to them a certain way (within reason), I feel like I am not being a good friend to that person by refusing to do so. For some people, being referred to with their biological pronouns is enough to cause them severe distress. Whether or not I think it's warranted, I tend to try and play the middle ground by calling people what they want to be called, and reeling them in when they go too far. Also in my personal opinion gender is a social construct, it is sex that is biological. Calling someone by their sex is calling them a man or a woman, calling someone by their gender (as an example) is calling them non-binary. YOU ARE ENTITLED TO YOUR OWN OPINION, PLEASE DO NOT THINK I AM TRYING TO HARASS YOU, HATE ON YOU, OR FORCE YOU TO THINK DIFFERENTLY. Keep playing and enjoying DND, mate! Have a good one. =)
@@myco9867 Which is fine it's why I tell people just to walk away from my table if they want pronoun PC culture used at my table and if it causes you distress for me to call you what you are, you need to get some help from professional. You can believe gender is a social construct but its not but I won't lecture you, these days I am too old to be bothered fighting (No offence) stupid opinions. Any way I try not to talk to anyone about their political views, DnD is for everyone the only requirement for sitting at my table is you leave all that baggage at the door. I've had people living out their furry fanatsys in game try to hit on my character when I said he was straight they tried to rape him, so I left right away I didn't mind playing with them till that point but had been made uncomfortable. I wasn't talking about how races are racist to each other in dnd I was talking about taking the negatives that go with the race like -1 or not having Dark vision you just have to accept that the races have strengths and weakness's and figuring out how to play and roleplay with them is part of dnd, if you're one of those people who think every race should be the same you should just play generic human or think adding salt to chicken makes it spicy you're white bread plain. YOU ARE ENTITLED TO YOUR OWN OPINION, PLEASE DO NOT THINK I AM TRYING TO HARASS YOU, HATE ON YOU, OR FORCE YOU TO THINK DIFFERENTLY. I burrowed this
@@PlagueRunner Thanks for the response man, I really appreciate the few interactions I have with people who hold differing opinions that DONT turn into massive shouting matches. People living out their personal kinks in a public game is not alright by a long shot, and people who think that certain race traits are racist are foolish, it's a game. Have fun. Take care mate, enjoy the games to come!
@@myco9867 Thanks most people don't see my point of view and call me a nazi or that I am phob or alt right. Yeah you enjoy your games mate I have being in a campaign with a great group for 2 years nearly. Cya
I kind of understand where the Racism in DnD argument comes from, even if i don't personally agree with it. DnD is based in the European mythological and fantasy tradition, & whilst there are cultures inspired by asian & middle eastern traditions on worlds like Faerun, for various reasons they aren't as well-written about, which means that, for the most part, when you think of DnD, you're picturing a fantasy Europe. Which isn't by any means a bad thing- it's what the game is designed to do, and it does it very well, or else none of us would be here. But i can't help but feel that, if there *were* other cultures represented to a similar degree, then people would understand that Orcs aren't supposed to be a stand-in for Asians or Africans. Because Asians, Africans & Europeans all exist on Faerun, and they're all humans. Whereas Orcs are their own separate thing- not even a "race", really (i think using that term is also unhelpful)- but a different species. And yes, that species is less intelligent and more aggressive then humans, because *they aren't humans and we shouldn't hold them to that standard.* For christ's sake, they have TUSKS! They've adapted to be aggressive, or at the very least territorial. And whilst civilisation is all about overcoming instinct, and they shouldn't be forced to wear a single hat just because that's their niche, instinct still likes to give us a guiding nudge in the broad strokes. And i do think that's an interesting conversation to have; i'm a fan of fantasy, i'd hate to see it stagnate just because we can't do what Tolkien himself did and adapt older traditions to fit a modern sensibility. Examining the traditions of fantasy in order to subvert them for a younger audience is a good thing. But just because Tolkien grew up in a time with different sensibilities doesn't mean he's EVIL for creating an enemy that subconsciously played ont he fears of his audience. Older editions of DnD are not EVIL for writing in that tradition, one that inspired them & inspired everyone who turned it into an industry to begin with. And more importantly, you're not GOOD for having a different outlook. And you're not BETTER then these people. You're not better than Gygax because you don't like the way he translated morality into a game mechanic, and you're CERTAINLY not better than Tolkien just because he didn't think about the coding of his Orcs as hard as you were raised to. I also don't agree that people noticing the coding of certain characters are inherently racist for being uncomfortable with the similarities to real-world racist stereotypes. Humans are designed to recognise patterns, and once they're pointed out it's incredibly hard to unsee; a world presented as being full of European analogues and "monstrous" races with evil religions and grotesque appearances isn't exactly a hard pattern to read. It's *Wrong-* I've already given my opinion on the subject, so long story short I don't think we should treat non-human races as being identical to humans from their skin colour to their value systems- but you're not a bad person for noticing how bad that sounds on paper, and you're not a bad person for trying to do something that, if their conclusion was right, would be a good thing. Please don't muddy the waters by slinging around ad hominems; you might not be able to see how somebody came to a different conclusion then you, but that doesn't mean they have secret, evil intentions. I know you know how frustrating false slander can be, you opened your argument with a referrence to it.
"Write a campaign then!"
I HAVE AND I HAVE NO ONE WHO WANTS TO PLAY IT WITH ME AAAAAAAAAAAA
Same. How do hook up, and what medium do you use? I've never gotten to DnD with any but my Bro, and he's not big on trying that much failure unsafe sibling bonding; but maybe someday....
Seriously, how do these people hook up? I have Discord, a dice roller, and no clue. I want to be DnD adopted.
Edit: 2:55 we have a chance!
My party's name is Adaqut. Initially the name was formed from the first letter of everyone's name, and now it's a running joke.
"Sir we may not be the best adventurers, but we are Adequate."
This is amazing and I love it
the diversity video made me laugh cause he was so aggressive with "WATCH US" and i was thinking "BUT I CANT FIND ANY!" and then i realised i watch a dnd stream where 3 of them are black and i just forgot that they were not their characters
17:54 For anyone with this question, so Modules are the books that D&D companies have made to make it easier for the Dm to run the games because it has everything preset for them. Homebrew is for people like me who either like coming up with orginal worlds now the story on the other hand is completely up to what the players do as the their characters when interacting with the world, npcs and enemies the Dm created. That is what is called a Homebrew Campaign or game.
I love that white guy who said that he had the privilege to never feel racism complaing on how Wizards deal with racism in d&d, nevermind the "inherit evil" races are like by worshiping an evil god or have its culture like that, etc. And they never say you should or have to play as evil character being from that race. Considering the fact that you can play as orc, half orcs and drow for a start
It's like those people didn't actually read the history of those races. And to me, having a dark history in a character's ancestry is a perfect setup for a PC to be different, to not be that. And there are so many ways they can handle explaining that without erasing that history. And hell, maybe to the PC, they have no relation to that history and take offense when a person immediately relates them to it, rather than judging them based on their character.
In these kind of settings, where many people are ignorant and don't have much in regards to education, of course there's going to be tension with that kind of thing. If I were to choose one of those races, I would go into it knowing that I stand out, there's no way around it without diminishing that character! It takes away from when NPCs, hardened by their beliefs, soften a bit when someone of a race they have prejudices against helps them out despite that. And maybe some don't, but that's a journey for the PC and the player themselves to discover.
@@ZombieOverseer It is almost like one of the most famous DnD characters that has spawned a million or more copy cat characters and got hundreds if not thousands of people into playing the game in the first place is literally an example of a person from an 'evil' race rebelling against it.
"Write a campaign, then."
Me, smirking: Already on it.
"What are you doing, just watching TikToks?"
Me, who is procrastinating by watching D&D TikToks: UH--
"What is your party's party name?"
Me starting to laugh: The Yeetus Guild
Did you throw a gnome at someone
@@Gymboy04827 nah we threw a kobold
my kobold
That the rest of the party hates
@@Pokemonluv why do they hate the your kobold
@@Gymboy04827 She is loud, and a bard, and only 7 years old, and got ahold of gauntlets of Oger strength and picked up a tablet with on of the other characters on it and yeeted it at a wall
@@Pokemonluv sounds like me and her would be good friends
12:53 I'm a player but I have a halfling campaign with the party name being "safe haven" because two members of the party were originally from a tiny island that was a pirate safe haven!
18:55 this sounds awesome 🤩 I'd probably change it to a D4 personally since it's only the force of the hit pushing you against the wall as opposed to gravity pulling you but I love it
I started a group on a party ship enjoying themselves. One of them went to the railing to look out into the water and saw something moving underneath. Next thing they know a giant sphere of water comes out to the ocean, destroys the futuristic city they live in and suck them all into some kind of bright light at the bottom of the sphere. They wake up on a beach nearly dead and learn that their city has been destroyed for a thousand years. The city was named Kandazar. And that's how I turned the opening of Final Fantasy X into the start of my latest campaign.
first time DMing, My party sounds like a bad joke... 2 Goliaths and a dragonborn walk into tavern, Finish the joke someone please-
Edit: 2 goliaths walk into a tavern, the barkeep says "What's next a dragon?" the dragonborn steps out from behind them-
31:35
Honestly dnd is easy to describe. You make a character, then write a story with said character(s). To complete some actions, you roll a dice to see if you succeed.
57:25 THAT LIL BLINK MEANS HE LOVES YOU OH MY GOD CATS ARE CUTE
My party's called the Walking Jinxes. We got that name from a king due to my character and someone's bard always causing bad luck if we're in close proximity to one another.
You know, it wasn't until these compilations that I realized Quincy from Quincy's tavern was actually so dexterouse!
Pov: You're lifting the port cullis to a castle and nobody knows what you're doing or why because it was already up.
31:13 For me, I describe it as a group of players make a story. One is the storyteller along with being non-player characters and the others are the main characters. I normally use other mediums as examples IE Harry Potter would be Rowling as DM and the main trio as PCs
DM creates a werewolf OC that they want to have an excuse to run with the party and be a DMPC. Tells the party that the werewolf has a bounty on its head so that they'll be interested in tracking it down because DM couldn't think of any other interesting way to get the party to be interested in this character. Party finds a werewolf baking pies, which is strange in itself. Party decides to kill the werewolf and collect on the bounty since they have no attachment to the werewolf and they're getting paid to kill it. DM gets mad that party did exactly what the DM set the party up to do.
This is a bad DM, this is what bad DMs do. If you want your OC to be injected into the story at least do it well and make it organic.
This DMPC could have been set upon by a group of hunters that were hunting it for its fur, and the werewolf could have had some kind of amulet that was significant to one of the players or something else that one of the players characters could have identified with. The party could persuade the hunters to leave, or engage them. Then start the RP from there. Don't blame the players for your poor story telling.
The only reason "Gay" was added here was to make it sound like the party killed the werewolf OC because it was gay. More than likely they killed it to 1. Get the bounty, and 2. It couldn't scream "I'm an edgy OC character that the DM wants to be their PC for this campaign" any louder and the party didn't want to deal with a DM PC, nobody wants to deal with a DM PC that's poorly written.
I feel like a Puffin Forrest qoute fits here - from his vid about open dnd campaigns
"I know exactly which quest the player's will do, the one that pays the most"
7:46-7:55 That...is a tall horn of mead....
16:14 She: Pats her lap
Me: ded from nosebleed
18:34 I'm "Gave Kobolds I ran across gold and food so many times that after I killed their leader when we found their cave that they apparently (To the one character among us who could understand the speech of these Kobolds) was being called Mama by them, and kinda led them as my own personal army."
Dms: Hey this is pretty racist..
Wotc: Oh sorry, you can change it if you want.
Dms: But it's still racist...
Wotc: Look it's been this way for decades and you're just now bringing it up. You can make any changes you want. You're a dm run the game your way.
Dm: Yeah but the setting-
Wotc: Dude, it's *your* game, change it.
Dm: Yeah that's not my job...
My thoughts exactly.
I absolutely think racism and bigotry belong in D&D settings because that gives the players something really tangible and satisfying to change in the world. Teifling's are minorities that are despised by superstitious groups, or one Kingdom/Empire is looking to invade and have a bleak and intolerant perspective on certain things. Star Wars pulled that off successfully by establishing the Empire as a bunch of evil people who would think nothing of putting an entire planet's population to the sword if it kept everyone else in check.
Otherwise, if the setting was a glorious utopia where everything is acceptable, there wouldn't be a conflict or anything for players to change for the better.
Keep in mind that I mean in setting; that doesn't mean I believe I believe it's acceptable at the table itself between players, nor is it suitable for all groups. I just believe that something potentially magical is lost if a species in DnD is just another trope of magical hats.
23:01 yeah actually this was a concept in d&d second edition ( officially named advanced d&d). It was called the Magocracy, where it's a system of government where mages rule supreme over people who can't use magic (remember back then it was sort of explained as some races were better at magic than others, and members of that races had varying levels if magic compared to the average too). So my dad actually wrote a book series on this. It's called the spellmonger series for those who are curious, and it basically explores the concept of a world after they overthrew the Magocracy, and how magical talent influences people's track for life.
The Dungeons and Dragons movie had a Magocracy. As did the Mystara setting.
Also…I’ll have to find that series.
Thank you my good man at 16 minutes.
I didn't leave that toxic group, I fired that toxic player. (Which makes more sense if I mention I'm the DM)
At any rate, I did so because he treated my character like a joke, tried to flex on who he thought was the strongest, did you-know-what to both female characters in pretty much the most appalling cringey way possible, and was only nice to his friend's character, who was literally a walking "lol, so ran-dumb" meme. This was the one time I let him DM. The rest of the time, he challenged my authority at pretty much every presented opportunity.
also when i run games for kids i always give them a cool pet that goes with their characters, ie; in the last on I ran I gave them a displacer cub and a Cheshire cub. one was a grave cleric and the other was a echo knight. At first I make it so their new pet shine sand as the party grows i make it more about their characters and in turn more invested
7:56 I ran a game for my teenage sister and 10 year old brother once. It was weird trying to keep the game not very graphic (I’m a writer, so I usually describe gore). My little brother didn’t really like the role play aspect at first, but once he started making more fun characters, he started to get more into it.
It’s definitely different then running a game for adults. For starters the adult party usually has more original characters with long backstories, whereas my siblings usually just copied something from a tv show.
Also, kids usually come up with more... creative solutions to problems. Instead of killing a rabid wolf, my siblings just shoved it into their bag of holding, and left it’s nose out so that it could breathe(I mean, they are kids, I’m not gonna stop them from trying their crazy ideas lol). I have a lot of fun DMing for both kids and adults tho!
18:32 Hi, I'm diving into a ditch instead of running back to the party, then trying to convince the *telepathic* Spectator chasing me that I'm dead.
11:15 i use a system where it makes people appear, and show where they are in the room, works well in taverns, or in combat, or... idk i havent done it that much.
31:09
like a supposed genious once said:
"if you can't explain a subject as simply as possible, you don't know it at all"
how to quickly explain dnd:
read some rules
write up a charecter
and the rest is a combination of imagination and gambling to either ruin/make another friend's day
Cooperative storytelling with occasional dice rolls to determine outcomes.
@@nvfury13 you are a smarter person than I
@@frakspikes2619 I also once managed to get a Drill Sergeant to leave us to it by calling it “Small unit tactical simulations with random elements”.
As a coffee drinker, I had the idea to make a short rest/long rest potion that would have negative effects if abused. Described it to my BF and his immediate response was, so you made crack
The rumour come out: "Does coffee is crack?"
Hmmm. I feel you'd love to play a Warlock/Sorcerer. With Flexible casting, you can transform Spell slots into sorcery points, and you can transform Sorcery points into spell slots. And, as a Warlock, you get your warlock soell slots back on a short rest... so that means... you never need a short rest again. Take a short rest and turn those spells you get back into sorcery points and then vice versa!
Thus, the Coffee-lock
Who else is looking forward to the next season of Ships of the Northern Fleet? I hope Cassian survives...
Ikr. one of my favorite moments from both the books and the show was the Battle of Republic Island.
I just loved that little down to earth from that guy at 49:29, so I came up with this for the guy.
Not only did you take some time, to show us where you live and stay. But you did it so it would rhyme, and with a kind heart I must say. Thank you bard like friend of mine, and always humble you will stay.
"How To Make DnD More Like Anime?" I have the perfect idea. Picture the final battle. Your party is losing. Each has between 1 and 5 hp left. Bard starts playing the party's favorite marching song. Party rises. Gains the strength to win. Oh, wait. That's already a thing. DnD is Anime.
Found family beating the bad guys with pure grit and the power of friendship…along with violence and magic. Yep, pretty anime.
My party goes by "Demonsbane" since the campaign was a hell uprising game, and the Cleric (me) ended up being the party's head, thus we kinda doubled down on the demon killing for our group name
13:06 Who Knows? Originally it started out as a placeholder while we came up with a party name, but after like three months into the campaign our dm finally asked us what we want to name our party. We all thought that Who Knows? was absolutely amazing and so we kept it. Whenever someone asked what our name was we would say Who Knows? and then walk away. When we started the session our dm would say, "Last time, on Who Knows?" and all of us would shout "cuz thats the name of the campaign!!!" It was absolutely amazing. We just ended the campaign a week ago and I'm going to miss that name lol. Anywho, yeah. We literally named our party Who Knows?
Homebrew is equivalent to bathtub gin of the various prohibitive periods in various countries.
Take all the things you like and make a really fun cocktail.
Borrow pieces from all over and find some gold silk thread to make a quilt. Some patches wont look like they fit but as long as by the end you tie the last knot, then it wont unravel and eventually that patch itself can become a completely new drunken campaign!
The above is a perfect example. Keep making patches until the cocktail tastes good.
Not a tik tok creator. Just a DM that lost their party to scheduling. Which is why I started answering your challenges via the pictures. It's helping me stay sane while I wait for the schedules to align. Keep them coming and I'll keep feeding you characters and such for you to use as you see fit.
Awaiting schedules is like waiting for the stars to align sometimes they just need an explosion in the right direction
I really like when in the northern fleets books the author uses such fun words like auspicious and frivolous! the show trys to use all the sparkle and dazzle the books describes
18:40 hi I’m the one who won’t stop befriending crows to the point of having too many
that's just called assembling an army,and means you're a charismatic leader sort, what, you didn't think you'd defeat the big bad/conquer the known world all by yourselves through the power of friendship,did you?
thumbs up for trans supporting viking daddy
Yes
yes
31:10 its like adding a story mode to your imagination
My favourite 'dumb thing" was when I suggested that we use a rope to tie the party one to the other so that as we climbed a risky ledge up a snowy mountain, we could potentially catch someone that fell. We got attacked by a pair of yetis, one fell off the cliff and managed to catch the rope on the way down, the whole party fell, half the party died, the other half was wrecked, the second yeti slid down the cliffside and finished them off. It was only a handful of sessions in, tpk.
not all adventurers make it. still a good story.
13:05 i have put forward the name "Too Many Dragons" because we have 2 half dragon PCs, a dragonborn PC, and a dragonborn npc. As well as an Aarakocra (me), and a tiefling
I needed that ending. ~Goes to bed~
16:25 I can speak a little dwarvish. Just look up "Dwarven trinity suffixes"and it will send you to a forum I found called Dwarven name guide that has suffixes and prefixes in Dwarven for english words it's awesome. I even made a name for a Dwarven God based on the Holy Trinity named Onaaltenral which mean Holy Forge(Creator), Holy Son, and Holy Spirit.
Was that GIBI?!?! Yay represent. Whisper!
My party doesn't necessarily have a name, but we do have an emblem that my character, the sorcerer, wove into our clothing, and since the party gave no feedback on the design, my character made it so the emblem had his pet in the front and center of the emblem, with the adventurer's guild logo in the backdrop (imagine a small wookie for the pet, and a grey falcon for the guild logo)
My D&D Party's name is "Donaar's Reckless Honor of the Random Six" or "DR HotRS" as our Captain, Donaar, likes to call it.
My party’s name is Pluteus Maximus. I love my chaos crew
figured I'd tell you right here since I don't have tiktok. This is a horror story, and the darkest day of my D&D life.
a while ago I started a club at my highschool and we were paying a game of Pathfinder, which is pretty much D&D 3.5.
I was a LG rougarou monk on a ship full of N,CN,CE characters. We had just gotten to town and were asked to help with some murder investigations.
we were led to an old school by the mayor. The mayor was acting sus, so everyone started postering and questioning him while I saw all this and got in his way so he wouldn't run.
the mayor ran and everyone started firing everything at him and killed him. crap.
The guards come over to see what all the commotion was, and EVERYONE IN THE PARTY succeeds seperate bluff checks saying "I'm the mayor."
meanwhile, me being lawful good, I try to do the right thing and say "they killed the mayor"
they had me make a check that I failed. they had me tackled, I tried not to resist but they had me knocked out anyhow. That's already 2 strikes in my book. Though not on a 3 strike basis. But it gets worse.
I'm put in a cell where one of the players who is a homebrewed card master that is overprotective of his daughter casts hold person on me, unlocks my cell, and starts to threaten me and telling me to stay away from his daughter. Reminding you I'm the only lawful good character in this whole party, this is sounding even more messed up in hindsight as he should have been worried about everyone else. he leaves my cell door open with me still under hold person. After this the vampire in the party takes the opportunity to SUCK MY BLOOD!
I was still in highschool, and the only lawful good character in a whole party of what seemed to be chaotic evil jerks. With everything that just happened, I felt really ganged up on.
Truth be told, I'm not the strongest guy and I get very emotional, I freaking cried. Darkest day in my life.
Another short one. 5e game. I was a half-drow warlock/rogue assassin. I was trying to get close to a party that I had joined. They were keeping a close eye on me since I had just been captured. Also drow are very evil.
I was trying to be helpful when we came across this wizard who was messing with us and offered us to draw from his deck of many things. One guy drew a wish spell and managed to fix a few things and mess with the timeline. This included meeting my character and my character joining the party. After we had been magiced back to town, the DM and I were talking about either capping my level, since I had drawn a card and had gained many levels from it, or doing one on ones till the party caught up. I didn't want to cap my level, but still wanted to be with the party and we had agreed I'd make a second character.
before the next session started, I had been blocked by the DM and banned from the server without any explanation or talking to. Most frustrating day in D&D.
I still find it dumb people think it is the race that is evil, it is referring to the culture not race. An example is drow elite soldier, they are evil why? Because they are generally trained in menzobranzen which main religion is a literal demon lord and is a evil culture based around slavery and murder. This is why in module's they will say use this statblock but with these changes for this individual. The reason they put alignment on are because the game needs an alignment by design. Also I disagree forgotten realms is really not euro centric. It has a portion which specifically is euro centric but literally 90 miles to the east is a very Asian centric as well as Middle Eastern culture. It is just that module's rarely go over there.
Ya know just saw the post after that my b.
Yup and now because of a handful of twitter idiots, one of the most influential and well-known DnD characters that has ever existed is rendered completely fucking pointless.
13:17 I have a campaign we’re we call our selves the eyebrowless
57:28 Anyone got the link to this tiktok specifically? I wanna participate in this. It sound like the ultimate inside joke!
All tick tocks are in order of appearance with links down in the description 😃
18:34 hi, I’m talk smack to a high ranking winter court archfey.
My party’s name is BOOM HANDS from when I challenged the dm to a challenge were I could get a weapon to my choice on a nat 20 rolled a nat 20 and created boom hands which did infinite damage and the person hit would be trapped in a pocket dimension and would listen to Rick Ashley for eterjity
Now the question is is that hell or heaven
46:57 Depends on the guy. Bring it up. Don't worry about being awkward.
0:19 I did, but that wasn’t my problem. My players won’t line up their schedules. How fix?
"Introduce yourself as the dumbest thing toy dnd character has ever done"
Hi, I'm currently trying to look for specters that steal the eyes of the living when they are seen.
(To be fair to the character... he survived every dumb stupid plan he has ever made)
(Legit. The thought that by putting a uranium rod (was a fallout like world) into a crocket ball would become a battery. And yes it does.)
(What else. Oh... making a windmill with natural time distortion properties into a GOD DAM TARDIS)
(but I think the most stupid. And I mean stupid thing he had ever done is leave the power source replacement for said TARDIS. Outside a building and left it there while going to the bar)
My party is called The Goat Squad
I've never even played and I'm trying to write a campaign, I really wanna play tho
Why did that guy use toliken as being part of the problem? you know in the actual Lord of the Rings books, Legolas and gimli both start out pretty racist to each other and end as friends
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was literally born in the 19th century and lived as a well-to-do white male in Britain during the early 1900s. There were just a lot of things and ideas that went around that weren't overtly racist but had undercurrents of it that were recognized later, and Tolkien having "evil" races like orcs that were on the whole dispensable and irredeemable tended to paint a view of "genetic" evil.
I don't think Tolkien was intentionally making an allegory of any real life race, and in fact I think he worked to specifically keep the races as far away from a real world equivalent where he could, but he still introduced the idea of "born evil", which is a problematic idea.
And to be very fair, he would have hardly been the first, in fact this idea would have been much more the norm than not. Tolkien was by all accounts very anti-racist himself, but internalized racist ideas ingrained in a culture are hard to peel out of one's consciousness.
@@StealthMarmot_ some people are just evil. The orcs aren't born, their 'reborn' through the corruption of humans and elves. Tolkien even defended the jews in a letter he wrote to a nazi general, after said General wrote to him trying to subtly make sure he wasn't Jewish. Tolkien wasn't any of your stupid buzzwords and your pathetic for trying to tarnish the name of a dead man.
23:01 .... so in a way Black Clover
Preach! 0:29
56:05 is it just me or does this dude sound like the Rock?
He kinda does, but then again, they worked in the same company for a while >_
Ive been waitin for a new post poggies
im sorry to bards out there, but i have to use this joke
Bards workout routine
-thrust
1:00 okay yes, but I disagree that the dm can't tell you to change your character. BEFORE you go cancelling me I don't mean for things like them being lgbtq+, I mean if they're clearly like just an anime protagonist rip off and are cringe and shitty op homebrew makes them no fun for everyone else, the dm has EVERY RIGHT to tell you to fuck off, because you're ruining the game for other people. That being said, kicking someone out for bigoted reasons isn't okay, and if they do do that, then bye all means they don't deserve you.
0:25 I've been playing since AD&D and am in total agreement. And yes, I'm a straight cis male.
49:29 that shit was awesome
Don’t mind me just being a book mark for future me 13:23
the closest 3 objects to the right on me is my computer mouse, a drawing table/screen thingy, and my whole ass computer, in that order
I sincerely doubt that any of them will be very interesting, as they are all pretty mediocre
and now i know im a bottom
There are a couple of non dnd related tiktoks at the end, skip it if you are here for dnd vids, it's about min 40ish I think.
42:34 to 46:00
46:44 and after... Non dnd
we need pathfinder 2e tiktoks
*chef's kiss*
3:03
Wow. You found some killer ticktocks!
00:15 I wouldn't mind playing with her d n d.
Signed the bard
45:15 Does anyone care that the USA isn't a Democratic nation?
I was kinda raised to think that the US was one of the best and most democratic places on earth to live. I’m sure that fact could be a reality shift for some people.
It is when you live in it. I only learned that roughly 91% of those elected into office had the most funding in their campaigns a few years ago. Raised to believe that my vote counted, but I may not even be seeing what the range of options truly is. We live under a false sense of reality, at least in my conservative republican state as a form of a leftist.
1:05
They don’t even deserve a table
Anyway anyone want to bail me out
I will say that I'm coming to accept that some people can't choose how they feel. But that doesn't change the fact that they can still choose how to act on those feelings.
I may not agree with homosexuality, but I can be friends with those who do. You can be friends with people you don't agree with. it can be done.
so if you're homosexual (gay, lesbian, bi, ect), you can join my table.
But be ready to be tared and feathered if you decide to make a gay butterfly that shows it for the world. Just saying. Was it a thing? yes. Did this happen? yes. You want a gay character? sure. Have fun having rotten tomatoes thrown at you while you're in a yoke in the middle of town.
@@wastelanderstark8555 dude i’m making a joke about taking a table like physically stealing it
@@theratking5393
surprise, that table you just stole
was a mimic
it was their plan all along
@@wastelanderstark8555 I knew that but I stole it anyways (his name is Kevin and he’s really nice)
@@theratking5393
nice...
what do you feed him?
A lot is wrong with the tiktoks on this one. First off there is already rules in place for enemies being slammed into walls during forced movement. Second, a reaction where you throw yourself in front of an attack is already possible. You just gotta ready the action to do it. And if you drop to zero hp heal the ally your defending is broken. If the ally is enough to beat the enemy but a single attack is what it takes to bring them down, they should pay more attention to where they place themselves.
... what version of Barbie girl was that ... Sounded good
The links to the individual tiktoks are in the description in the bottom right hand corner you'll find a button that will take you to the music. Or you can put the tick tock on the loop on TH-cam and use Shazam or Google to detect the song.
I just remembered I have Shazam ... It's
Not your Barbie girl - Ava Max
Im watching this video thats why Im not making this campaign
RPG Horror Stories
How’s JFK’s life dnd?
That's not how you use a mace
I low key want to use the pregnancy mechanics
rpg horror stories
NNNNEEEERRRRDDD
Thank you my friend ☺️
The guy with the centaur character Story How was the DM the bad guy in that situation the magic item had clearly defined rules and the party themselves early themselves failed to tell the character about that And when they broke the hourglass which is never a good idea good idea in a situation like thit's just like that the Dungeon Master played by the rules of the magic item check item so how was he the bad guy if you present an item with specific rules and then don't don't abide by the rules in order to playkate players that just means your game has no consequences
42:37 just stop being racist your self mate, keep your racist politics out of my hobbie and if you don't like that we don't need you I use to think gate keeping was bad but now that the cancer has spread I agree with gate keeping we will not change 50+ years of lore to make you feel better
Yeah. Like Holy shit was is he talking about.
Everyone nowadays gets bullied based on Color - Yeah even white folk. Shocker I know.
Can we just stop putting RL shit in our DnD?
@@Kairos_AkumaWhite people do not & have never faced systemic oppression, though. It's not the same. Being mildly mocked on social media isn't comparable to being denied jobs for having a name that's "too ethnic," being profiled & targeted by police, or being told "go back to your country" & threatened with violence or deportation while being a natural born citizen.
Saying "these tropes are based on racist ideas, let's change that" isn't racist. (Saying so is just the "antiracist is code for anti-white" dogwhistle)
Oh, btw, the lore of D&D has changed multiple times. Every major edition change, in fact. Orcs being playable & able to be non-evil, paladins not needing to be lawful good, who the god of magic is, bard becoming a core class, Drow not being universally evil (Drizzt), the introduction of half-drow/avendrow/lorendrow, etc.
I have being playing for 20 years. While I have no problem with you being what ever you want to be there is a limit on behavour and when you come in and expect other players characters to be into yours, I am sorry but at that point you are no longer welcome at my table this game is not for you to live out your sexuality on other people who are not the same also if you come to my table and expect me to use your pronouns you can also walk away from my table not because I don't want you at my table I wont be told or forced into compelled speech patterns from you I address people by their names or hey you and only refer to biological genders go play politics else where.
But on that last bit if you just wanna have fun and drop all that crap you're more then welcome at my table, I don't tolerate bigotry at my table but at the same time I don't compell people at my table to sit their and eat shit period.
Also it's almost like every race has their strengths and weakness's like its a game my god D&D isnt real and it's fanatsy game where the races are not human and might be built differently, please grow up there is nothing racist about any of the races sorry you might have to use more then three brain cells.
I've been a forever DM for about 6-7 years now, and I agree with you on everything except for one point. I do hate it when someone tries to use any sort of tabletop RPG in order to push their own agenda/makes other people feel uncomfortable with the actions they are taking. Hell, I DM'D a group once with a dude who attempted to rape another male member of the party, who was being played by a woman. Shit's fucked. Also racism in DND can be really well implemented, but it's not what I would call a core feature. If your DM includes it as a part of his/her world and it makes sense in the context of the plot, then knock yourself out.
Now. When it comes to people's pronouns. I am NOT going to try and lecture you, or say "wHaAH yOu'Re a NaZi", but I will say this. In my personal opinion, which you don't have to respect if you don't want to, I believe it's less a matter of politics referring to people by their preferred pronouns, and more a matter of personal respect. If someone asks me to refer to them a certain way (within reason), I feel like I am not being a good friend to that person by refusing to do so. For some people, being referred to with their biological pronouns is enough to cause them severe distress. Whether or not I think it's warranted, I tend to try and play the middle ground by calling people what they want to be called, and reeling them in when they go too far. Also in my personal opinion gender is a social construct, it is sex that is biological. Calling someone by their sex is calling them a man or a woman, calling someone by their gender (as an example) is calling them non-binary.
YOU ARE ENTITLED TO YOUR OWN OPINION, PLEASE DO NOT THINK I AM TRYING TO HARASS YOU, HATE ON YOU, OR FORCE YOU TO THINK DIFFERENTLY.
Keep playing and enjoying DND, mate! Have a good one. =)
@@myco9867 Which is fine it's why I tell people just to walk away from my table if they want pronoun PC culture used at my table and if it causes you distress for me to call you what you are, you need to get some help from professional.
You can believe gender is a social construct but its not but I won't lecture you, these days I am too old to be bothered fighting (No offence) stupid opinions. Any way I try not to talk to anyone about their political views, DnD is for everyone the only requirement for sitting at my table is you leave all that baggage at the door.
I've had people living out their furry fanatsys in game try to hit on my character when I said he was straight they tried to rape him, so I left right away I didn't mind playing with them till that point but had been made uncomfortable.
I wasn't talking about how races are racist to each other in dnd I was talking about taking the negatives that go with the race like -1 or not having Dark vision you just have to accept that the races have strengths and weakness's and figuring out how to play and roleplay with them is part of dnd, if you're one of those people who think every race should be the same you should just play generic human or think adding salt to chicken makes it spicy you're white bread plain.
YOU ARE ENTITLED TO YOUR OWN OPINION, PLEASE DO NOT THINK I AM TRYING TO HARASS YOU, HATE ON YOU, OR FORCE YOU TO THINK DIFFERENTLY. I burrowed this
@@PlagueRunner Thanks for the response man, I really appreciate the few interactions I have with people who hold differing opinions that DONT turn into massive shouting matches. People living out their personal kinks in a public game is not alright by a long shot, and people who think that certain race traits are racist are foolish, it's a game. Have fun. Take care mate, enjoy the games to come!
@@myco9867 Thanks most people don't see my point of view and call me a nazi or that I am phob or alt right. Yeah you enjoy your games mate I have being in a campaign with a great group for 2 years nearly. Cya
I kind of understand where the Racism in DnD argument comes from, even if i don't personally agree with it. DnD is based in the European mythological and fantasy tradition, & whilst there are cultures inspired by asian & middle eastern traditions on worlds like Faerun, for various reasons they aren't as well-written about, which means that, for the most part, when you think of DnD, you're picturing a fantasy Europe. Which isn't by any means a bad thing- it's what the game is designed to do, and it does it very well, or else none of us would be here. But i can't help but feel that, if there *were* other cultures represented to a similar degree, then people would understand that Orcs aren't supposed to be a stand-in for Asians or Africans. Because Asians, Africans & Europeans all exist on Faerun, and they're all humans. Whereas Orcs are their own separate thing- not even a "race", really (i think using that term is also unhelpful)- but a different species. And yes, that species is less intelligent and more aggressive then humans, because *they aren't humans and we shouldn't hold them to that standard.* For christ's sake, they have TUSKS! They've adapted to be aggressive, or at the very least territorial. And whilst civilisation is all about overcoming instinct, and they shouldn't be forced to wear a single hat just because that's their niche, instinct still likes to give us a guiding nudge in the broad strokes.
And i do think that's an interesting conversation to have; i'm a fan of fantasy, i'd hate to see it stagnate just because we can't do what Tolkien himself did and adapt older traditions to fit a modern sensibility. Examining the traditions of fantasy in order to subvert them for a younger audience is a good thing. But just because Tolkien grew up in a time with different sensibilities doesn't mean he's EVIL for creating an enemy that subconsciously played ont he fears of his audience. Older editions of DnD are not EVIL for writing in that tradition, one that inspired them & inspired everyone who turned it into an industry to begin with. And more importantly, you're not GOOD for having a different outlook. And you're not BETTER then these people. You're not better than Gygax because you don't like the way he translated morality into a game mechanic, and you're CERTAINLY not better than Tolkien just because he didn't think about the coding of his Orcs as hard as you were raised to.
I also don't agree that people noticing the coding of certain characters are inherently racist for being uncomfortable with the similarities to real-world racist stereotypes. Humans are designed to recognise patterns, and once they're pointed out it's incredibly hard to unsee; a world presented as being full of European analogues and "monstrous" races with evil religions and grotesque appearances isn't exactly a hard pattern to read. It's *Wrong-* I've already given my opinion on the subject, so long story short I don't think we should treat non-human races as being identical to humans from their skin colour to their value systems- but you're not a bad person for noticing how bad that sounds on paper, and you're not a bad person for trying to do something that, if their conclusion was right, would be a good thing. Please don't muddy the waters by slinging around ad hominems; you might not be able to see how somebody came to a different conclusion then you, but that doesn't mean they have secret, evil intentions. I know you know how frustrating false slander can be, you opened your argument with a referrence to it.