I am the too many chracyer guy my friend literally was cursing me out for how many chracters I went through within 3 sessions everytime I got downed I swapped characters
I legit had a group of new players I was introducing to the game; I asked what they wanted to do, one of them asked what the options were, I told him "just tell me what you want to do, and we'll figure out the appropirate roll"... Which blew their minds I kinda loved that little moment
@@skell6134 Yeah they were used to computer RPG's of course, so they were kinda like "What types of interactions does my character possess" or something like that
"It's what my character would do." My previous character, an aarakokran monk with an obsession for shiny things went to scope out a possible dragon lair. And instead of informing the group it was the lair, he saw glowing crystals on the wall. Decided to go after that instead, prematurely starting the fight with a shadow dragon. He is now a bone flute in the possession of the barbarian.
I don't understand. Are you saying a player made a terrible decision based on "That's what my character would do" and actually accepted the consequences?
Well I've created a character (it's still in processing fase, I've almost finished it) that literally can cheat death. It can "die", but it's strange... Hypothetically it can come back to life countless times. And it's a Lich...
The fact that he’s on his way out the door in formalwear for each of the funerals implies that the Canceller does indeed have four grandmas and I love it
as someone who has 3 grandmas and 3 grandpas i can confirm its true my bio grandma on my moms side was divorced from my grandpa he remarried she did not so there is the extra grandma and on my dads side my grandpa died and my grandma on that side remarried years later so extra grandpa.... and she out lived her 2nd husband two currently only my grandpa on my moms side is alive and my grandma on my dads side....ive already been to 4 grandparents funerals lol
Gonna be honest, being a noob is great. Just the sheer moment of “I can do that!” Is something I would love to experience again. Unless it’s the tired and frustrated kind of “I CAN DO THAT!?”
When it’s a problem that you haven’t had and you are the only person who can do it it’s the “I can do that!”. When it’s a problem you’ve had and you discover it it’s “I CAN DO THAT? REALLY?”
I like to give players leniency on doing really cool shit, so if they have an idea, they just need to ask me and I’ll think about it, ask them to explain how everything would go down, and if it’s even slightly possible and really goddamn cool, I’ll allow it
Someone please tell this to my buddy. He always plays either a paladin or barbarian and this is his go-to line. Love him like a brother but he is the main reason I've stopped GMing. -_-
my friend is a paladin and I'm a bard of whispers, totally used this when he tried to get us to save some farmers from some wizard cult. hilarity ensued as I'm not going to actually avoid the fun.
A sweet, geeky boy in my year who is just in general a really nice guy played a barbarian once The moment the game started all his usual innocence just disappeared and he started talking like a barbarian, and role playing like one, much to the shock of everyone around him
Dude, my cousin once wrote, not only in pen, but on the character she IN THE BACK OF THE BOOK!!! dude said it came with one and used it. I think he cried that night.
I mean I type up my character sheets in PDFs but I leave lots of blank space for write ins and stuff like coins I’ll leave blank and write in with a pencil. I reprint it every level or so if there’s been major changes.
You forgot a few: the player who doesnt pay attention, the player that seduces everything, the player optimizer, the player who was tricked into playing 😂
I'm sorry, what were you saying. I was just over here seducing the bar wench since that's the only thing I'm really good at doing in this game I found myself playing after I was promised we were going to an actual bar!
I used to game with a group that at least let a couple of the players take turns at being the "seduce everything" character. I don't see how it is fun, and have wondered if perhaps they are trying to compensate or something. Fortunately, the players that never pay attention usually quit after a while. My sister in law used was one of those, and an (in)famous example was that she would read a novel while we gamed. At some point in the session we get on a boat. A couple of hours later, someone asked her what she wanted to do. She said "I get on the boat". That is what we now say if someone was not paying attention. "Do you get on the boat?"
@@grr-OUCH Wow...yeah it can be hard to find a group that you jive with. I came close but unfortunately, too many people were in a transitional part of their life so it all died out. It was fun while it lasted though...
@@claudioclaudio7953 I'm not an expert, but this is what I gather: If you buy something as a supply for your job, you get to write down the cost you paid, and when everyone gets their tax returns, you get that money back. Example: say I were a vlogger. Because of my work, I buy a fancy camera. Since I bought it for work, I write down the money I paid as a work expense. Later, when I do my taxes, and everyone gets money back (called tax returns), that money gets reimbursed. This has created a kind of running joke, you'll see it if you watch American youtubers long enough (macdoesit comes to mind). Whoever you're watching will take the object they bought, hold it up on camera, and say something to the effect of "gotta make sure it's in frame long enough, get that tax writeoff--aight, we're good". Because if it's in the video, its related to their work (even if that relation is... questionable). Its either: they get reimbursed, or they dont have to pay taxes on it. Again, not sure. But it's something to that effect.
The funniest part about rules lawyers is that they're always wrong because changing the rules to make the game more fun is literally a written rule in the base game
Yes if the rules lawyer is talking about people who only bring the rules out in cases of doing cool stuff. They can be valuable though for combats or just guiding new players through things in general, especially for a DM that already has a lot to handle
@@generalzeta7000 I actually ran my first campaign cause I suck at writing and wanted to adapt it into a campaign just to test it out. Now I've fallen into the forever DM trap :')
My first dice, a very expensive set of metal dice, betrayed me in my first campaign when it rolled me a 5 and ended our first campaign. Had I rolled higher than the DM, we would’ve restarted and had a chance to do the entire campaign over again, bringing everyone back to life and everything. This was a year ago. I have not used those dice since.
I was laughing because I had a new player that said exactly that about 3 years ago now... I wanted to hurt him because I didn't want to admit that I was chuckling at such a horrible pun.
One of my favorite dnd moments was when I kept rolling awfully for a whole session and one of the times I rolled a nat 1, my dm told me just out of curiosity to try one of his d20s and I rolled another nat 1. He promptly said “Yeah, never touch any of my dice again.”
D&d character idea: a Kenku bard that doesn’t have an instrument, but instead, uses its sound voice mimic thing, and mimics ORCHESTRA To all y’all who wanna use this idea: it’s just that, an idea. It’s not copyrighted or anything, so go nuts, use it if you want, I really don’t care or mind.
This is the video where I did my "One Good Take" challenge...it was rough at first 😂 but let me tell you that it helped the confidence in myself go WAY up, and now I am looking forward to acting again knowing that it won't take all day! Let me know what you all thought! Hope you all had a good holiday! :)
Yeah I had a similar issue with my 1st character so I just use the point buy system now. I prefer it anyway since it's the exact system used in KotOR and Dragon Age
A few months ago I had applied to join a campaign that had been going on for over a year, they had lost a player and wanted to round it back out. I joined their discord and we were creating my character and when it came time to roll my stats, they had a macro to do it and my rolls were 18, 17, 14, 18, 18, 16. I immediately thought, "holy shit, I'm so glad that this is recorded because no one would believe this." and two of the other players who were in the channel were laughing and congratulating me and...the DM simply says, "Yea, that's a bit much, I'm gonna need you to either re-roll or subtract 5 from any four of those." I thought he was joking and didn't say anything, and the other players spoke up and questioned him and he was serious. This caused them to get upset on my behalf and were arguing that I rolled the stats, there was nothing unfair about it and there's no reason that I should be punished just because I rolled well. In the end, the DM refused to relent and the players ended up leaving. I'm currently playing a campaign with one of them DMing, even got to keep those stats, and the other players from that campaign also left the other and joined this one. They've since said that this was the first time they'd ever had a problem with him, and normally he was great. I felt a little bad that this DM lost his players over one incident, but I got over it pretty quickly. Don't have rolled stats if you can't handle players getting high stats.
Excuse me did you spy on my last session because this was half of the players The other half never played D&D before and didn't know that wasn't what the game was about until I forced them to have at least one session without a fight
I've actually played with one. He would talk about d&d constantly but when I invited him he became the player who constantly cancels games... still talks about d&d tho.
I love the inclusion of Offbeat Outlaw's Forever DM character. It actually made me giddy seeing him. This has become one of my favorite D&D themed channels & I love it. And all I could think of is: "FOR FIREBALL!" when I saw Forever DM
As a forever dm, in a pokemon 5e campaign (which is the most fun I've had in dnd so far in 3 years), this is so true. Also, love your content on youtube! :D always makes me smile!
@@RecordsoftheDeepFolk That sounds like a blast. Any chance your DM will put some stats up on reddit, because i've been tempted to do up the elemental dogs i had in a prev campaign and that sounds like something better.
I had an "the overpowered" character in one game. We were all rolling stats in front of each other (so no cheating, even), and I ended up rolling 18 17 17 16 16 13. Ended up making her a paladin, with her 13 in dexterity. Her crippling weakness was that she was only slightly above average in nimbleness. :) She ended up dying at level 6 saving the rest of the party.
I usually put my lowest score in intelligence unless im the partys genius. Its not really as useful as the other scores, as the only things that really require it are saving throws against mind flayers shit and stuff like history. Literally every other saving throw and ability check is a lot more common Because of this i often end up playing characters that are about as smart as dolphins, but at least they stay alive
i once had a half orc fighter with 20 str 18 dex and con 16 cha and wis and 7 int, we also rolled infront of eachother so no cheating there. it's also how i discovered my curse, anytime i roll good stats for a character, the campaign falls through
How are people normally supposed to play DnD? Whenever I play dnd I always seem to die at least once a session, usually much more and the DM just made up a rule that whenever we die we resplendent later that day and get a random death effect as punishment
I started mine about a couple months ago so i still fall under it too. I got thrown right into it. Been enjoying playing a barbarian. And I have another character from a new which is the complete opposite of the first one. Whiplash for roleplay is very strong for me.
thats why I love older editions. Player: "I kill the goblin party member because that's what my character would do". DM: "Oh well thats super out of alignment, so let me shift your alignment. Your xp required for the next level also doubles." Player: "WAAAAAH thats unfair!!!" DM: "But it's just what my rules would do!"
It would be great to get some more interactions between the stereotypes like that. Rules Lawyer meets "It's what my character would do". Rager meets latecomer. Newbie meets overly prepared.
@@Aquilenne I was more referencing that older editions actually had consequences for players acting in bad faith, but yeah that would be an amusing set of skits
@@Aquilenne As a complete dumbass when it comes to dnd, the overly prepared one despite being the opposite of me tends to also be the nicest and most understanding tbh
I love all additions, "congratulations, you killed your party member, and the rules you agreed on, makes you, a paladin of to change classes," I wouldn't double the XP they need because then they'd level slower then the party, and that makes for resentment
The delivery on that "This one killed one of my players!" punchline was pure gold. Definitely in the top 5 of moments I loudly laughed the hardest at on YT, ever.
Fun fact: My grandma divorced twice before meeting her permant husband. All of the men she divorced remarried. I have 4 grandmas and 4 grandpas to match. My great grandma is also still alive. Also, one of my unlces is only 6 years older than me.
How to have the ultimate group: forever dm: knows how to get you all to have fun and improves well Dice goblin: has dice for the dm because they forgot stuff To many characters: has characters for everyone in the one shot do to having no notes Overly prepared: has the books and battle maps
Me (sees Dice Goblin, Too Many Characters, Overly Prepared) "So I'm the main player needed to play D&D? Nice." Also, only reasons Forever DM dont count is because my friends have run their own homebrew mini campaigns while mine is a 'proper' campaign. Still homebrew though. 😆
Ye best start believin in dice goblins ... You are one! It's me. I'm the dice goblin. I have more dice than I can typically carry on me and I just backed a Kickstarter for MORE DICE! Omg... I'm the Laura Bailey.
I just have to tell. My favorite things are going full runaways of "hear me out, this session is a big one. If it all happens good you will get closest than never" and then 6 hours of intense roleplaying for 2 hours of combat and a break in the middle when they have to search again to this BBEG. And the late/food one is my blessing.
@@andreassmed2255 LOL, luckily I'm chaotic good, pretty chill unless provoked. 99% chance I won't poison you with those baked goods.....but never 100%. 😜
The roleplayers are my favourite. Always bring out a smile or laugh from me! It encourages me to play along too especially when your characters bounce off each other and have fun interactions ❤ I also love to add small unnecessary actions because ‘that’s what my character would do’. I played as a former embalmer who loved to collect eyeballs, so I used to steal one from each fight like a trophy lmao
We had a session with a few newbies, and when one of the characters died we went outside and burned the sheet ... Much to the confusion and disbelief of the newbies, who have never heard of this tradition, and didn't think we were being literal, let alone serious, when we said "well, into the fire it goes"
Would it not be typical for an adventurer to carry a book that details the general details of the monsters they may encounter? For example, in real life, we have books about identifying various animals. Edit: For correct balancing, my DM made this book weigh 20kg and only make complete sense to players with 18 intelligence. Edit 2: An example in popular media is the _Monster Book of Monsters_ from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
@@user2C47 If someone would have a book on monsters? yes. But things like AC, ability scores, etc. are meta concepts that would not be written down like that. Also, in combat you wouldn't have time to search through a book about what you found. There is also the concept of them using that to try and "one up" the DM and try to speak over their ruling.
Shout out to this dudes lesbian grandmas who all tragically died, RIP Edit: I hate to be having to edit my fucking comment, but like guys I don’t care if you have four grandmas because of divorced parents or other shit like that. It was a fun gay joke I made, but I am getting very sick of all the comment telling me ‘Umm, it doesn’t have to be gay, In fact it’s not gay for me’ because like no one gives a shit, look at the other replies and see 50+ people saying the same thing, and like no one asked
I feel called out with the overly prepared guy. I always carry the books and extra papers for the guys who forget their sheets. I legit have extras of their characters, yep.
I’ve played a cyber punk campaign where me and another person’s characters were put in jail for something I can’t remember and I went on a rampage killing 1 guard easily, killing a 2nd guard by the skin of my teeth and ending up in solitary confinement after the fact
My standard line as a newbie to any roleplaying game: "What do I have to roll?" I started taking notes on that a while ago, so I don't annoy the heck out of the DM. I will drive them mad with stealing everything and following every tangent though. Started playing a campaign about some missing merchants and I'm currently betting on an iguana race.
As a DM. The only things that actually annoy me are not showing up, being on your phone (unless it's DND beyond, or looking up stuff for the game), and being a dick to other players. Anyone that's played more than 3 sessions will be more than happy to explain EVERYTHING to you.
1:07 what’s even worse is when the DM forces everyone to use Pencil and paper so everyone has to inconveniently suffer with all of the inefficiencies of paper.
Since lockdown started, I started getting the idea of trying out dnd. I've even been watching a bunch of instructions and lore videos in preparation for a while. Suffice it to say, the whole world of possibilities dnd offers has gotten me interested.
@@robertaperoglio Unfortunately, no. I hadn't gotten around to it due to stuff happening in my life, mostly school. Maybe I'll try looking for some stuff this week.
I fell into the dnd sinkhole, I'm stuck in a loop of watching dnd videos, reading about everything and making characters. Now I just need to find someone to play with because the people I know who play don't have a group
My character is a mad scientist, so I very often enlist science to succeed at things. “the metal gate is frozen shut? No worries. If I punch it it shall fracture into many shards.” “Ice beam? Ha. I have gauntlets of flaming fury, whose perpetual flames cannot be extinguished by anything.” Etc. etc.
the "role players" are the mot fun players to dm for me in my opinion its nice to actually see them get into the game makes the hard work feel worth it
Lmao im not a rules lawyer im a "when was this invented" lawyer. Whenever someone introduces an invention or something i look it up to see if it fits the "time period" that d&d campaign would take place.
I'll save you the trouble The Forgotten Realms are NOT an accurate depiction of medieval earth's technology level or the way feudal society was organized, surprise surprise
Honestly for the rules lawyer the thing about ranged attacks and dual wielding is just helpful, meanwhile the nat 20 thing is annoying and the looking up monsters is just straight up cheating.
I agree with you on all that except for the nat 20 part. A natural 20 on an ability check does not mean whatever you're trying to do is guaranteed to succeed. The king does not abdicate his throne to you simply because you got a lucky roll. You can't have every party member attempt to persuade the BBEG to lay down his weapons and surrender each round of combat, in the hopes that sooner or later you'll get a natural 20 and they'll have to obey. The DM still gets to decide the outcome of the roll, and I don't think it's "annoying" for a player to acknowledge that. If anything, it's WAY more annoying if a player is trying to bully the DM into giving them what they want because "I rolled a nat 20, you HAVE TO do what I say!"
@@0Fyrebrand0 I know, and I never said a nat 20 was an auto-success. I agree wholeheartedly and have heard that exact example a million times over but if the DC is clearly not above 20 or the DM says that it’s a pass then why are you bringing it up? I’m similarly annoyed when a DM says “A 20 isn’t an auto-success on skills/saves, what’s your modifier?” When there’s no shot the DC is so high that a 20 failed unless your mod is in the deep negative. It kills the excitement of a moment that would otherwise feel sick because apparently a barbarian rolling a nat 20 to grapple an enemy wizard isn’t guaranteed to succeed.
@@0Fyrebrand0 I play with the nat 20 = success rule as a DM but my players are also aware that a lot of the time NPCs just arent going to comply with a demand or agree to a course of action. I only call for the dice roll if there is a chance that the NPC just might do the thing if the party approached them right. Oddly enough, there are very few (comparatively) dice rolls in my games. The RP just flows with minimal need for Persuasion rolls and the like.
@@0Fyrebrand0 If a nat 20 doesn't succeed, the dice shouldn't have been rolled in the first place. Also. Success is a totally subjective term. You can have your players technically succeed on something, but have something from that come back to bite them in the ass. Like, they get a nat 20 haggling a merchant, you can just have the merchant give them a fake version of what they wanted. There are creative ways to work with a nat 20 that technically doesn't meet the DC you set.
@@0Fyrebrand0 The true rule of the nat 20 is it is a hit if its an attack roll and for any other rolls it has to awesome (because it does). Could still be a fail but its gotta be a cool fail. If you a roll a nat 20 and get a "no you fail" and nothing more, then thats just bad DM. Gotta give the players a little reward for the nat 20 even if its just a better outcome from the normal fail they were gonna have. Read one thing where someone got a nat 20 on an attack when they were trying to subdue a guy, DM decided it killed the guy instead. Thats just DM being a dick.
I mean, I did make my character poke a dead horse while everyone else searched for the tracks of the goblins that nearly killed us and stole all our stuff.
I'm VERY guilty of being the "too many characters" guy. That said, I don't wanna kill any of them. They're like my children.......and seeing them die hurts me so much. Edit: I'm also immensely guilty of being the over-prepared and the role player.
I have a player that won't stop making characters every FUCKING SESSION. Like he wants to choose just one but we have like a new one every fukin session that replaces the old one. Liek they're all great character ideas and he won't choose , fuck. Sorry had to vent somewhere
I'm also "too many characters", but that's just because I used to join a lot of West Marches servers so I needed to have characters ready for them, and I also just tend to get a lot of ideas for chars I wanna play jsgdjshs I don't kill them off though, would rather bring their stories to completion XD well, aside from last week, but it was just so in-character and so hilarious that he had to go
@One Shot Quips I dm a group in a pretty decent campaign. This sums us all up. One who is "The Old Fashioned" thinks that everyone should use paper and not D&D beyond. He also is "The Role Player" always worrying about acting the same as he should in places such as doing the same cultural things. One who is "The One Who Always Cancels". I have hosted 4 sessions so far and he says he will come, but never shows up saying "I slept in." or "Oh I went on a vacation to another city." (actually happened, but for obvious reasons, the last one was changed up slightly [city names/me being too cautious]). I might boot him if he doesn't show up for the next one which he also agreed to. One who is "The Rules Lawyer" that always calls me out on things I changed for somewhat obvious reasons. He is also the "Too Many Characters" that always wants to somehow play two at once and has at least three backup characters. (He also wants me to commit TPK, that will only happen if the players do dumb things such as not running from a beholder when they are at low level.) Lastly, he also is "The Too Literal One". Also he is the "Thats What My Character Would Do" and finally lastly "The Role Player" he has came dressed in costumes before. One who is "The Over Powered" somehow manages to stay 1 level above everyone else at all times. (I don't give him extra xp) One who is "The Newbie" that never talks. Then there is me who is and will forever will be "The Forever Dm", "The Overly Prepared", and "The Dice Goblin" (I am just trying to be nice. Also me hoarding 1...2...3 [a few hours later] 204 dice. That is actually how many dice I have.)
I'm the newbie that's always asking, "Which dice do I roll?" My fiance is the forever DM, since that was the only way he could convince people to play. What a pair we make.
The last few times I rolled stats, I ended up with some great stats (16-18), some good stats (12-15), average stats (10-11) and very bad stats ( 6-9). Once, I got a 3. My last Barbarian wasn't technically sentient.
Aaand that's why i roll for average total. (70-100 result to avoid mid-low, underpowered and overpowered characters) while my dm rerolls lower than 10s as he likes to go ham on both sides of PCs and enemies once you get enough levels.
HELP ME GET BACK IM LOST (also, hilarious video, truly top tier)
*sees you struggling, looks at your channel*
She’s mine now John
this is hilarious
XD
I am the too many chracyer guy my friend literally was cursing me out for how many chracters I went through within 3 sessions everytime I got downed I swapped characters
Offbeat!
the newbie's "WAIT, I CAN DO THAT??" is my favorite part of having new players.
I legit had a group of new players I was introducing to the game; I asked what they wanted to do, one of them asked what the options were, I told him "just tell me what you want to do, and we'll figure out the appropirate roll"... Which blew their minds
I kinda loved that little moment
@@theramendutchman Kinda someone who not been playing TRUE roleplay games i guess XD
@@skell6134 Yeah they were used to computer RPG's of course, so they were kinda like "What types of interactions does my character possess" or something like that
That's super wholesome
@@skell6134 me everytime we play dnd again because we have one or two games every 3 months wait ...... which dice do I use for this again.....
"this die killed one of my players. I just threw it really hard and..." 😂
He died 😂
As someone who’s sat next to a rage monster with metal dice, I can confirm: Those things HURT
@@afajardo9938 nerd abuse
@@gamingmaster6377 thanks for helping to spread awareness about it
@@afajardo9938 ur welcome
"It's what my character would do." My previous character, an aarakokran monk with an obsession for shiny things went to scope out a possible dragon lair. And instead of informing the group it was the lair, he saw glowing crystals on the wall. Decided to go after that instead, prematurely starting the fight with a shadow dragon.
He is now a bone flute in the possession of the barbarian.
Bone flute 😂
@Elijah Feuerstein lmao
I don't understand. Are you saying a player made a terrible decision based on "That's what my character would do" and actually accepted the consequences?
@@MrGBH that’s what HIS character did. And now they’re a bone flute
Well I've created a character (it's still in processing fase, I've almost finished it) that literally can cheat death. It can "die", but it's strange... Hypothetically it can come back to life countless times. And it's a Lich...
The fact that he’s on his way out the door in formalwear for each of the funerals implies that the Canceller does indeed have four grandmas and I love it
The power of lesbians
@@flyingfish5448 or, grandmothers + great grandmothers.
Gives a total of six
@@DH-xw6jp or if both parents who had divorced parents, then both dad’s remarried. That’s how I have 4 grandmas lol
as someone who has 3 grandmas and 3 grandpas i can confirm its true my bio grandma on my moms side was divorced from my grandpa he remarried she did not so there is the extra grandma and on my dads side my grandpa died and my grandma on that side remarried years later so extra grandpa.... and she out lived her 2nd husband two currently only my grandpa on my moms side is alive and my grandma on my dads side....ive already been to 4 grandparents funerals lol
i mean that might imply his parents sit up and either rhey both remarried or one remarried twice
“The *not so* rage monster” that was the funniest thing, I was not expecting that.
Glad you enjoyed 😂
It reminded me of Hulk in endgame XD
Wait... Tyler's not here? NOOOOOOO XD
Which popular channel was Duke referring to??? Because almost all the ones I know do the rage monster joke
@@DaBlueIghuana Dude Perfect
Gonna be honest, being a noob is great. Just the sheer moment of
“I can do that!” Is something I would love to experience again. Unless it’s the tired and frustrated kind of “I CAN DO THAT!?”
Yes, and yes 😂😂
When it’s a problem that you haven’t had and you are the only person who can do it it’s the “I can do that!”. When it’s a problem you’ve had and you discover it it’s “I CAN DO THAT? REALLY?”
I like to give players leniency on doing really cool shit, so if they have an idea, they just need to ask me and I’ll think about it, ask them to explain how everything would go down, and if it’s even slightly possible and really goddamn cool, I’ll allow it
I am sadly the forever dm
I'm the noob. It's so funny cause I said the same things the newbie said here. XD
“I’m just gonna leave. I don’t wanna die”
That is the most un-paladin-like statement I’ve ever heard
and with the lawful good alignment too lol
The only line I speak all game long
ONWARDS!!
Then they hit you with a, “it’s part of my backstory”
Someone please tell this to my buddy. He always plays either a paladin or barbarian and this is his go-to line. Love him like a brother but he is the main reason I've stopped GMing. -_-
my friend is a paladin and I'm a bard of whispers, totally used this when he tried to get us to save some farmers from some wizard cult. hilarity ensued as I'm not going to actually avoid the fun.
A sweet, geeky boy in my year who is just in general a really nice guy played a barbarian once
The moment the game started all his usual innocence just disappeared and he started talking like a barbarian, and role playing like one, much to the shock of everyone around him
He knows how to get into character. Good on him!
Me. I'm that player
"WHY DID I WRITE EVERYTHING IN PEN!" I many or may not have said this at a table back in the day.
Bahahaha 😂
Dude, my cousin once wrote, not only in pen, but on the character she IN THE BACK OF THE BOOK!!! dude said it came with one and used it. I think he cried that night.
I mean I type up my character sheets in PDFs but I leave lots of blank space for write ins and stuff like coins I’ll leave blank and write in with a pencil. I reprint it every level or so if there’s been major changes.
I have a few sheets printed off, but now I either use beyond or roll20 to store my characters
I use MS Excel.
"Oh, and this one killed one of my players."
"I just threw it really hard"
That went from 10 to 100 real quick.
so as the dice did...
Went from a d4 to a 12d8
@@bagseys 12d12*
@@501Magnum 3d20* cause that players (fail) IRL death saves
@@foxstorm2920 No wait. 100d100.
The *Not So* Rage Monster: *Tips over the dragon statue.*
Me: Look out. We got a bad ass over here.
Careful, you might anger him!
Beware his not-so-anger!
I fear for my life rn O_o
2012 called, he wants his rage sticks meme back
It's awesome when you can grapple a dragon and shove it to the ground in game.
You forgot a few: the player who doesnt pay attention, the player that seduces everything, the player optimizer, the player who was tricked into playing 😂
I'm sorry, what were you saying. I was just over here seducing the bar wench since that's the only thing I'm really good at doing in this game I found myself playing after I was promised we were going to an actual bar!
I used to game with a group that at least let a couple of the players take turns at being the "seduce everything" character. I don't see how it is fun, and have wondered if perhaps they are trying to compensate or something. Fortunately, the players that never pay attention usually quit after a while. My sister in law used was one of those, and an (in)famous example was that she would read a novel while we gamed. At some point in the session we get on a boat. A couple of hours later, someone asked her what she wanted to do. She said "I get on the boat". That is what we now say if someone was not paying attention. "Do you get on the boat?"
@@grr-OUCH Wow...yeah it can be hard to find a group that you jive with. I came close but unfortunately, too many people were in a transitional part of their life so it all died out. It was fun while it lasted though...
Could also do the note taker.
that last one is me but I do enjoy the game.
“Wait, I can ACTUALLY do that? Really?!” Explains the entire game
Me trying to explain to my friend that you can infact seduce the gaint dragon turtle for no reason
My friend: impossible
One of the greatest moments as newbie...
My wife did that exact thing to our DM last; "Wait, Cloud of Knives?! Is that a REAL spell?"
@@BeckyNosferatu Cloud of Daggers*
We all are eternal newbies
"Too Many Characters" didn't just hit close to home, it broke a window and landed in a sink.
Which sink?
@@MercuryA2000 kitchen sink
@@thelordscrusaders387 Oh now that's bad. If it was just the bathroom sink it would be one thing, but the kitchen one? Dang...
I have way to many characters
yeah that one hurt i just have so many interesting ideas i want to try
My man literally showed his groceries in a video so it’s a tax write off. Respect. Eat for free king next time show us a ribeye and some sushi
Wait, you're fucking right. That's genius.
I’m not that smart, what exactly is a tax write off
European here. Could you explain please?
@@claudioclaudio7953 I'm not an expert, but this is what I gather:
If you buy something as a supply for your job, you get to write down the cost you paid, and when everyone gets their tax returns, you get that money back.
Example: say I were a vlogger. Because of my work, I buy a fancy camera. Since I bought it for work, I write down the money I paid as a work expense. Later, when I do my taxes, and everyone gets money back (called tax returns), that money gets reimbursed.
This has created a kind of running joke, you'll see it if you watch American youtubers long enough (macdoesit comes to mind). Whoever you're watching will take the object they bought, hold it up on camera, and say something to the effect of "gotta make sure it's in frame long enough, get that tax writeoff--aight, we're good". Because if it's in the video, its related to their work (even if that relation is... questionable).
Its either: they get reimbursed, or they dont have to pay taxes on it. Again, not sure. But it's something to that effect.
Thank you very much, it's clearer now
The funniest part about rules lawyers is that they're always wrong because changing the rules to make the game more fun is literally a written rule in the base game
Thank you i was looking for that comment!
Yes if the rules lawyer is talking about people who only bring the rules out in cases of doing cool stuff. They can be valuable though for combats or just guiding new players through things in general, especially for a DM that already has a lot to handle
“I just threw it really har-“
I mean, am I wrong? 😂
That one had me cracking up
@@OneShotQuips no, you aren't 😂
Not gonna lie, I genuinely thought he was talking about a player’s character, until that sentence popped up.
@@OneShotQuips was that one of those heavy asf solid metal ones? From MTG? Used to have a set for my 5 colour Hivestone Sliver deck
The “I have a million characters and a million campaigns but no time reliable friends to play with” player
F
Me ;-;
Time to write a book.
@@generalzeta7000 I actually ran my first campaign cause I suck at writing and wanted to adapt it into a campaign just to test it out. Now I've fallen into the forever DM trap :')
Pretty much me in my group. Certain things I want to run, but no time reliable friends.
I am the “Too Many Characters” and “The Forever DM” at the same time...which is sad...
Welp at least I can make those characters NPCs
Hahaha welcome to the club!
I just switched from being the guy with too many characters to being the DM. Finally i can play ALL my characters!
Lol our dm is learning why we trust him being dm. And our too many character player is being forced to limit his crazy stuff.
Glad I'm not the only one who's just using my to many characters as NPCs
Use the extra characters to kill your party
Except Barry the Chopper
He's a failure
I love how the rule follower is telling the dm he was wrong about several things even though he was reading out of the Monster Manual.
“This one’s in permanent dice jail”
That die looks exactly like my first d20. And yes it’s a traitor die.
What did it do
It’s funny because the first dice set you get is always the traitor but mine is my best set
In my game I had the rule to put every dice in jail, that rolled below a five three times in a row. After an hour I had no more dice.
My first dice, a very expensive set of metal dice, betrayed me in my first campaign when it rolled me a 5 and ended our first campaign. Had I rolled higher than the DM, we would’ve restarted and had a chance to do the entire campaign over again, bringing everyone back to life and everything.
This was a year ago. I have not used those dice since.
@@ShadeYTR first d20, first roll, nat 20.
Love this one
Real talk, hearing a new playing get all excited and say "wait i can ACTUALLY do that??" Is one of the best feelings
truth
I remember when I had this moment myself, its great.
"let's go into a dungeon and slay some dragons, ha ha"
*THE NEWBIE*
I'm laughing so hard at that, it's so accurate
I was laughing because I had a new player that said exactly that about 3 years ago now... I wanted to hurt him because I didn't want to admit that I was chuckling at such a horrible pun.
That feeling when Skyrim has more dungeons and dragons than Dungeons and Dragons...
@@KadRSP technically, there's more types of dragons in DnD.
My first DND adventure was a dungeon with an undead dragon...
@@lisagaughan7154 but to tell the truth all skyrim dragons have personality (they sentient) so every dragon is not like the other in lore sense
One of my favorite dnd moments was when I kept rolling awfully for a whole session and one of the times I rolled a nat 1, my dm told me just out of curiosity to try one of his d20s and I rolled another nat 1. He promptly said “Yeah, never touch any of my dice again.”
"my spell sheet is around here somewhere"
"WHY DID I WRITE EVERYTHING IN PEN?!"
story of my life
D&d character idea: a Kenku bard that doesn’t have an instrument, but instead, uses its sound voice mimic thing, and mimics ORCHESTRA
To all y’all who wanna use this idea: it’s just that, an idea. It’s not copyrighted or anything, so go nuts, use it if you want, I really don’t care or mind.
Oh I love that!!
ohhh i just imagined them singing and it just sounding like a violin oh my gosh
...so LITERALLY Kenku Bobby McFarrin (he's actually an orchestra conductor now)
You cant have an Orchestra without an Orc
And it only knows La Fortuna
This is the video where I did my "One Good Take" challenge...it was rough at first 😂 but let me tell you that it helped the confidence in myself go WAY up, and now I am looking forward to acting again knowing that it won't take all day! Let me know what you all thought! Hope you all had a good holiday! :)
So proud
Hey can you do a video about playing D&D alone because i dont have anyone to play anymore...
One good take? Wow you aced it! I didn't even realize!
Well confidence well earned, good work on this one.
4:25 i have that same set and it is also in permanent dice jail. Weird.
Laugh all you want at the Dice Goblin, but you never know when you'll need a bucket of dice when a player decides to go full auto and maximum spread
Throw it at someone
"You rolled 18 for every stat"
I kept rolling an 16 for every stat so I just ended up using standard array so no one thought I was cheating.
Yeah I had a similar issue with my 1st character so I just use the point buy system now. I prefer it anyway since it's the exact system used in KotOR and Dragon Age
My brother somehow got 17 on every stat
A few months ago I had applied to join a campaign that had been going on for over a year, they had lost a player and wanted to round it back out. I joined their discord and we were creating my character and when it came time to roll my stats, they had a macro to do it and my rolls were 18, 17, 14, 18, 18, 16. I immediately thought, "holy shit, I'm so glad that this is recorded because no one would believe this." and two of the other players who were in the channel were laughing and congratulating me and...the DM simply says, "Yea, that's a bit much, I'm gonna need you to either re-roll or subtract 5 from any four of those." I thought he was joking and didn't say anything, and the other players spoke up and questioned him and he was serious. This caused them to get upset on my behalf and were arguing that I rolled the stats, there was nothing unfair about it and there's no reason that I should be punished just because I rolled well. In the end, the DM refused to relent and the players ended up leaving.
I'm currently playing a campaign with one of them DMing, even got to keep those stats, and the other players from that campaign also left the other and joined this one. They've since said that this was the first time they'd ever had a problem with him, and normally he was great. I felt a little bad that this DM lost his players over one incident, but I got over it pretty quickly. Don't have rolled stats if you can't handle players getting high stats.
@@EdenOfChaos I love reading those stories
You somehow have crazy good luck
Dont forget "The one who does not want role play and just wants to fight"
Excuse me did you spy on my last session because this was half of the players
The other half never played D&D before and didn't know that wasn't what the game was about until I forced them to have at least one session without a fight
The murder hobo
That’s kinda me
The roll player
aka the fun sponge
I am so glad One Shot Questers is posting on youtube too cause I am not on tiktok but I need more dnd content damn it!!
Don’t worry, more will be coming in the new year ;) a lot more!
Absolutely needed this laugh. Love that Offbeat Outlaw did a cameo. Seeing collabs like this show there's still hope left in humanity.
You’ve forgotten the most common stereo type: the “never played Dnd” fan
Ja
Sir or Madam or Captain, this is personal assault
I've actually played with one. He would talk about d&d constantly but when I invited him he became the player who constantly cancels games... still talks about d&d tho.
I feel seen
Im the "never played dnd and really wants to…but just doesn't have any friends who will play with them" fan
"Wait, this isn't my series." Love it!
So glad! 😂
I laughed so hard at that
Brilliant! When i saw the forever dm tag i thought of him.
What Is the name of that guy?
@@godortega Offbeat outlaw, the champaign he's running on his yt channel rn is great! Highly recommend
"Wait, I can actually do that? Really!? :D"
I didn't expect *wholesome* stereotypes lol
I love the inclusion of Offbeat Outlaw's Forever DM character. It actually made me giddy seeing him. This has become one of my favorite D&D themed channels & I love it. And all I could think of is: "FOR FIREBALL!" when I saw Forever DM
FOR FIREBALL!!! Da!
when i saw the ''forever dm'' prompt i had a feeling someone would show up
I messaged him INSTANTLY!!
Forever Dm when he shows up: "Clever Questers..."
(And then dies to velociraptors... or course)
As a forever dm, in a pokemon 5e campaign (which is the most fun I've had in dnd so far in 3 years), this is so true. Also, love your content on youtube! :D always makes me smile!
@@RecordsoftheDeepFolk That sounds like a blast. Any chance your DM will put some stats up on reddit, because i've been tempted to do up the elemental dogs i had in a prev campaign and that sounds like something better.
@@RecordsoftheDeepFolk as someone who is creating a pokemon campaign for my friends to play in
Can i ask some questions?
I had an "the overpowered" character in one game. We were all rolling stats in front of each other (so no cheating, even), and I ended up rolling 18 17 17 16 16 13. Ended up making her a paladin, with her 13 in dexterity. Her crippling weakness was that she was only slightly above average in nimbleness. :) She ended up dying at level 6 saving the rest of the party.
First, rip, second, f.
I usually put my lowest score in intelligence unless im the partys genius. Its not really as useful as the other scores, as the only things that really require it are saving throws against mind flayers shit and stuff like history. Literally every other saving throw and ability check is a lot more common
Because of this i often end up playing characters that are about as smart as dolphins, but at least they stay alive
That was a death flag already. Dont ya know that in a story, the strongest character has to die to save their friends at least once?
i once had a half orc fighter with 20 str 18 dex and con 16 cha and wis and 7 int, we also rolled infront of eachother so no cheating there. it's also how i discovered my curse, anytime i roll good stats for a character, the campaign falls through
How are people normally supposed to play DnD? Whenever I play dnd I always seem to die at least once a session, usually much more and the DM just made up a rule that whenever we die we resplendent later that day and get a random death effect as punishment
As someone who is starting their first campaign, I can definitely relate to ‘the newbie’ part
I started mine about a couple months ago so i still fall under it too. I got thrown right into it. Been enjoying playing a barbarian. And I have another character from a new which is the complete opposite of the first one. Whiplash for roleplay is very strong for me.
I have yet to start my first campaign.
3:13 Impressive that he managed to get a Yahtzee with only one die
thats why I love older editions.
Player: "I kill the goblin party member because that's what my character would do".
DM: "Oh well thats super out of alignment, so let me shift your alignment. Your xp required for the next level also doubles."
Player: "WAAAAAH thats unfair!!!"
DM: "But it's just what my rules would do!"
Yeah, it would be great
It would be great to get some more interactions between the stereotypes like that. Rules Lawyer meets "It's what my character would do". Rager meets latecomer. Newbie meets overly prepared.
@@Aquilenne I was more referencing that older editions actually had consequences for players acting in bad faith, but yeah that would be an amusing set of skits
@@Aquilenne As a complete dumbass when it comes to dnd, the overly prepared one despite being the opposite of me tends to also be the nicest and most understanding tbh
I love all additions, "congratulations, you killed your party member, and the rules you agreed on, makes you, a paladin of to change classes," I wouldn't double the XP they need because then they'd level slower then the party, and that makes for resentment
The delivery on that "This one killed one of my players!" punchline was pure gold. Definitely in the top 5 of moments I loudly laughed the hardest at on YT, ever.
The punchline was pure gold, just like the die
You forgot these ones
-the one who always relies on the dm
-WAIT, what does preparing spells mean
-the chaotic evil/lawful good
-that guy
@@professionalcommentstealer5271 oh god that guy
You forgot chaotic stupid
0:55 yeah can't forget the milk, it's absolutely essential for a meeting of any sorts. That and seven dollars
"And this one killed one of my players.
I just threw it really hard."
Fun fact: My grandma divorced twice before meeting her permant husband. All of the men she divorced remarried. I have 4 grandmas and 4 grandpas to match. My great grandma is also still alive. Also, one of my unlces is only 6 years older than me.
Ok
Lol
I also have 4 grandparents due to similar issues but each normal one divorced and their husbands remarried.
Your familly tree is a recyclings symbol
My niece is 4 years older than me.
How to have the ultimate group:
forever dm: knows how to get you all to have fun and improves well
Dice goblin: has dice for the dm because they forgot stuff
To many characters: has characters for everyone in the one shot do to having no notes
Overly prepared: has the books and battle maps
Tardy Food Bringer: Feeds everyone in case of a 9 hour session
Me (sees Dice Goblin, Too Many Characters, Overly Prepared) "So I'm the main player needed to play D&D? Nice."
Also, only reasons Forever DM dont count is because my friends have run their own homebrew mini campaigns while mine is a 'proper' campaign. Still homebrew though. 😆
@@VanNessy97 very true
@@r.s.2890 eh i would count it so we just need you to play that means you are in fact the: forever alone
@@wierdpeopleotherdude1422 considering I said I've played and _am playing_ with friends, "Forever Alone" doesn't fit. :)
2:50 I plan on DnD sometime, and this is absolutely going to be me
"IS THAT REALLY POSSIBLE?"
I have a feeling I will become the dice goblin. I haven't even played the game yet, and I have 70 dice..
I haven't played it ,but have everything needed dice ,books ,all I need is a bit more knowledge and a place to play
Have you played yet?
That's only 10 sets, those are rookie numbers
Just had to get rid of 24 sets because my dice draw got too full...... that's 168 dice...... I'm keeping a lot more than I'm getting rid of.....
Ye best start believin in dice goblins ... You are one!
It's me. I'm the dice goblin. I have more dice than I can typically carry on me and I just backed a Kickstarter for MORE DICE!
Omg... I'm the Laura Bailey.
“Wait, I can do that?”
-Me, trying something stupid to fix a problem nearly every session
I literally laughed out loud when he said "I just threw it really hard."
Same. Somehow, should have but wasn't expecting it...
I just have to tell.
My favorite things are going full runaways of "hear me out, this session is a big one. If it all happens good you will get closest than never" and then 6 hours of intense roleplaying for 2 hours of combat and a break in the middle when they have to search again to this BBEG.
And the late/food one is my blessing.
The "too many characters" stereotype is legit my neighbor we're at session 24 and he has had 4 characters
I know someone who has 32 😂
@@OneShotQuips holy heck, in my total of 3 years of roleplaying I haven't even changed characters once
@@OneShotQuips I have 100
@@C_orvid have you been playing the same campaign?
@@runawaygemm5397 not same campaign but in all the campaigns I've played I haven't changed the character I started with
"Mr. DM, I don't feel so good"
I understood that reference
"Hey, you--you're finally awake. You were trying to cross the border, right? Ran into that Imperial ambush; same as us, and that thief over there."
I understood THOSE references
My husband is the "too many characters", I'm the "always brings baked goods". 😝
Never trust a changeling… 😨
@@andreassmed2255 LOL, luckily I'm chaotic good, pretty chill unless provoked. 99% chance I won't poison you with those baked goods.....but never 100%. 😜
Oh… Okay! 😄 *eats baked goods
*dies 😵
@@andreassmed2255 Uses the Revivify spell on you to get you back up.
"Cookies any good?"
The roleplayers are my favourite. Always bring out a smile or laugh from me! It encourages me to play along too especially when your characters bounce off each other and have fun interactions ❤ I also love to add small unnecessary actions because ‘that’s what my character would do’. I played as a former embalmer who loved to collect eyeballs, so I used to steal one from each fight like a trophy lmao
We had a session with a few newbies, and when one of the characters died we went outside and burned the sheet
... Much to the confusion and disbelief of the newbies, who have never heard of this tradition, and didn't think we were being literal, let alone serious, when we said "well, into the fire it goes"
I've been playing for over a decade, and I've never encountered that tradition. I kinda want to do that now
@@benjamincarlson6994 wow, really? It was like one of the first things I encountered haha
Weird fantastical world we live in
I use DnDBeyond... Crap... I have to set my computer on fire?
@@MrCarlosfera hmm.... you could print a screenshot? Or you could look for a gif of a burning character sheet lmao
Why would you burn it? We always hand it over to the DM. I think he's used about 5 previous/dead characters against us
"this one killed my player. i just threw it really ha-" AGSHHSJSCS 💀💀
What?? What did you expect??
I put one of my players in the ER once.
He had to take a shot each time his Bard tried to seduce an NPC...
The actually guy should just be the dm with the amount of cheating he does by looking at the monster manual during a fight!
That is my ONE pet peeve 😂
STG I see someone look up SHIT during a fight, I will throw my coffee cup at them.
@@D4n1-VA Or take the D20 and throw it REALLY hard...
Would it not be typical for an adventurer to carry a book that details the general details of the monsters they may encounter? For example, in real life, we have books about identifying various animals.
Edit: For correct balancing, my DM made this book weigh 20kg and only make complete sense to players with 18 intelligence.
Edit 2: An example in popular media is the _Monster Book of Monsters_ from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
@@user2C47 If someone would have a book on monsters? yes. But things like AC, ability scores, etc. are meta concepts that would not be written down like that. Also, in combat you wouldn't have time to search through a book about what you found. There is also the concept of them using that to try and "one up" the DM and try to speak over their ruling.
1:04
"You know there is this thing called PAPER!"
Shout out to this dudes lesbian grandmas who all tragically died, RIP
Edit: I hate to be having to edit my fucking comment, but like guys I don’t care if you have four grandmas because of divorced parents or other shit like that. It was a fun gay joke I made, but I am getting very sick of all the comment telling me ‘Umm, it doesn’t have to be gay, In fact it’s not gay for me’ because like no one gives a shit, look at the other replies and see 50+ people saying the same thing, and like no one asked
Hahhaha
Thats what i thought too. its also weirdly accurate that he apparently didnt know about them
All of them
I have 4 grandma's and none of them are lesbian. My Grandma on my Dad's side just got divorced multiple times and the grandpa's just remarried.
I have 3, my mom was adopted but is close with her birth family
My personal favorite one is the newbie, the look of joy on a newbie's face when they first have fun in dnd is amazing
Ngl, it reminded me of myself when I started playing D&D last year
I feel called out with the overly prepared guy. I always carry the books and extra papers for the guys who forget their sheets. I legit have extras of their characters, yep.
That is just sweet
Best way to shut the rules lawyer up is the #1 rule of D&D that has been published in every DM's guide: the DM can do whatever the hell they want.
I love that the one who always cancels was legitimately getting ready to go to a funeral every time
"I don't think that's how that spell works but I'm gonna allow it because that's dope as hell."
2:07 I actually had that happen, though not in every stat. My dad was rolling a halfling rogue wizard, and got 3 18's.
Oh snap!!
I’ve played a cyber punk campaign where me and another person’s characters were put in jail for something I can’t remember and I went on a rampage killing 1 guard easily, killing a 2nd guard by the skin of my teeth and ending up in solitary confinement after the fact
1:00 wow, I wasn't expecting to be covered so early in the video. P&P D&D FOR LIFE BAYBEE!
I straight thought P&P meant Pen and paper for a split second I am so sorry I know it’s pencil and paper (and eraser I guess)
My standard line as a newbie to any roleplaying game: "What do I have to roll?"
I started taking notes on that a while ago, so I don't annoy the heck out of the DM. I will drive them mad with stealing everything and following every tangent though.
Started playing a campaign about some missing merchants and I'm currently betting on an iguana race.
As a DM. The only things that actually annoy me are not showing up, being on your phone (unless it's DND beyond, or looking up stuff for the game), and being a dick to other players. Anyone that's played more than 3 sessions will be more than happy to explain EVERYTHING to you.
How’d the race go?
"Actually, ANimated Armor has an AC of 18..."
**Is using the Monster Manual**
Lol
Wait? Can someone explain me the joke? The Animated Armor IS in the MM, no?
@@theramendutchman normally the players wouldn’t have a monster manual out it’s like it’s kind of cheating
@@abominablesnowman646 Ah I see, okay that's a fair point
4:25
I have that exact same die. I put in into salt water and it was weighted towards a 1, so my purple die is also permanently in dicejail
1:07 what’s even worse is when the DM forces everyone to use Pencil and paper so everyone has to inconveniently suffer with all of the inefficiencies of paper.
The fact that the over prepared dude knows what’s going to happen makes me think his a either a psychic or a divination Wizard
He rolled a 20
Or hé just read the notes hé stole 😅
I... The newbie was me. It's almost scary, how accurate it is. Good job!
Thank you 😊
6:13 the portrait of the bbeg behind him is so funny to me
The fact you actually got The Forever DM himself Outbeat Outlaw is awesome
We are tight
Since lockdown started, I started getting the idea of trying out dnd. I've even been watching a bunch of instructions and lore videos in preparation for a while. Suffice it to say, the whole world of possibilities dnd offers has gotten me interested.
So, did you start playing? :)
@@robertaperoglio Unfortunately, no. I hadn't gotten around to it due to stuff happening in my life, mostly school. Maybe I'll try looking for some stuff this week.
Same here.
I fell into the dnd sinkhole, I'm stuck in a loop of watching dnd videos, reading about everything and making characters.
Now I just need to find someone to play with because the people I know who play don't have a group
@@just_a_butterfly I've been there. I understand.
"WAIT I CAN ACTUALLY DO THAT?!"
Nothing hit me harder than the realization that you can do anything you want as long as RNGesus blesses you
My character is a mad scientist, so I very often enlist science to succeed at things. “the metal gate is frozen shut? No worries. If I punch it it shall fracture into many shards.” “Ice beam? Ha. I have gauntlets of flaming fury, whose perpetual flames cannot be extinguished by anything.” Etc. etc.
the "role players" are the mot fun players to dm for me in my opinion its nice to actually see them get into the game makes the hard work feel worth it
Fr it makes it all feel like it's actually immersed instead of just fireball
@@earldeatheater As a role player who turns up to sessions in borderline larp gear, lemme also fireball haha
The 4th wall break with the Rage Monster was unexpected and greatly appreciated lmao
I'm the only one who comes on time so I give cookies to the person who comes next. Other than that, I'm the overly prepared one.
Bahaha noice 😂
@@OneShotQuips Does a DM have to stand up? I saw the VLDL Npc dnd... Kinda felt bad that Robert had to stand for what looks like hours
Was not prepared to be so explicitly called out at 2:33 lmao
I love the Offbeat Outlaw cameo!!!! That had me cracking up!!!!! 🤣
I messaged him instantly when I wrote down the name 😂
@@OneShotQuips I’m proud of you👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Lmao im not a rules lawyer im a "when was this invented" lawyer. Whenever someone introduces an invention or something i look it up to see if it fits the "time period" that d&d campaign would take place.
That’s ok in my book 😂
My man can't even take a break out of game. Lol
I'm a reverse "when was this invented" player. I look at things that were invented in the approximate time period the game is set in and bring it in
I'll save you the trouble
The Forgotten Realms are NOT an accurate depiction of medieval earth's technology level or the way feudal society was organized, surprise surprise
That's why all my games take place in the 15-1600s so i can have firearms
“If I don’t take my vacuum out for a walk, who will??”
Didn’t realize “the literal one” was a thing, and it made me laugh out loud. That is totally something I do.🤣
"This one killed killed one of my players"
"I just threw it really hard"
They had us in the first half, not gonna lie
Honestly for the rules lawyer the thing about ranged attacks and dual wielding is just helpful, meanwhile the nat 20 thing is annoying and the looking up monsters is just straight up cheating.
I agree with you on all that except for the nat 20 part. A natural 20 on an ability check does not mean whatever you're trying to do is guaranteed to succeed. The king does not abdicate his throne to you simply because you got a lucky roll. You can't have every party member attempt to persuade the BBEG to lay down his weapons and surrender each round of combat, in the hopes that sooner or later you'll get a natural 20 and they'll have to obey. The DM still gets to decide the outcome of the roll, and I don't think it's "annoying" for a player to acknowledge that. If anything, it's WAY more annoying if a player is trying to bully the DM into giving them what they want because "I rolled a nat 20, you HAVE TO do what I say!"
@@0Fyrebrand0 I know, and I never said a nat 20 was an auto-success. I agree wholeheartedly and have heard that exact example a million times over but if the DC is clearly not above 20 or the DM says that it’s a pass then why are you bringing it up?
I’m similarly annoyed when a DM says “A 20 isn’t an auto-success on skills/saves, what’s your modifier?” When there’s no shot the DC is so high that a 20 failed unless your mod is in the deep negative. It kills the excitement of a moment that would otherwise feel sick because apparently a barbarian rolling a nat 20 to grapple an enemy wizard isn’t guaranteed to succeed.
@@0Fyrebrand0 I play with the nat 20 = success rule as a DM but my players are also aware that a lot of the time NPCs just arent going to comply with a demand or agree to a course of action.
I only call for the dice roll if there is a chance that the NPC just might do the thing if the party approached them right.
Oddly enough, there are very few (comparatively) dice rolls in my games. The RP just flows with minimal need for Persuasion rolls and the like.
@@0Fyrebrand0 If a nat 20 doesn't succeed, the dice shouldn't have been rolled in the first place. Also. Success is a totally subjective term. You can have your players technically succeed on something, but have something from that come back to bite them in the ass. Like, they get a nat 20 haggling a merchant, you can just have the merchant give them a fake version of what they wanted. There are creative ways to work with a nat 20 that technically doesn't meet the DC you set.
@@0Fyrebrand0 The true rule of the nat 20 is it is a hit if its an attack roll and for any other rolls it has to awesome (because it does). Could still be a fail but its gotta be a cool fail. If you a roll a nat 20 and get a "no you fail" and nothing more, then thats just bad DM. Gotta give the players a little reward for the nat 20 even if its just a better outcome from the normal fail they were gonna have.
Read one thing where someone got a nat 20 on an attack when they were trying to subdue a guy, DM decided it killed the guy instead. Thats just DM being a dick.
"You're a lawful good paladin!"
Shout out to all oathbreakers out there 😎
Well, except the paladin of throwing it back
Why wouls you break that oath
im legit scared to break my oath, i swore it on my ancestors man i dont wanna get my butt royally kicked by some dragons
1:17 this isn’t a stereotype this is completely accurate
I love "director" Duke is stopping "rage monster" Duke.
Another hit on saturday
It’s just how show business works 😂
@@OneShotQuips yeah, but you were able to do it very well. Then when you factor in your "one take" philosophy it goes even beyond.
I mean, I did make my character poke a dead horse while everyone else searched for the tracks of the goblins that nearly killed us and stole all our stuff.
Mines of Phandelver?
@@SGAman123_ Lost Mines of Phandelver
Yeah I made my character stab a zombie that got up twice while the mayor was thanking us for saving the town or whatever
I'm VERY guilty of being the "too many characters" guy. That said, I don't wanna kill any of them. They're like my children.......and seeing them die hurts me so much.
Edit: I'm also immensely guilty of being the over-prepared and the role player.
I have a player that won't stop making characters every FUCKING SESSION. Like he wants to choose just one but we have like a new one every fukin session that replaces the old one. Liek they're all great character ideas and he won't choose , fuck. Sorry had to vent somewhere
I'm also "too many characters", but that's just because I used to join a lot of West Marches servers so I needed to have characters ready for them, and I also just tend to get a lot of ideas for chars I wanna play jsgdjshs
I don't kill them off though, would rather bring their stories to completion XD well, aside from last week, but it was just so in-character and so hilarious that he had to go
@One Shot Quips
I dm a group in a pretty decent campaign. This sums us all up.
One who is "The Old Fashioned" thinks that everyone should use paper and not D&D beyond. He also is "The Role Player" always worrying about acting the same as he should in places such as doing the same cultural things.
One who is "The One Who Always Cancels". I have hosted 4 sessions so far and he says he will come, but never shows up saying "I slept in." or "Oh I went on a vacation to another city." (actually happened, but for obvious reasons, the last one was changed up slightly [city names/me being too cautious]). I might boot him if he doesn't show up for the next one which he also agreed to.
One who is "The Rules Lawyer" that always calls me out on things I changed for somewhat obvious reasons. He is also the "Too Many Characters" that always wants to somehow play two at once and has at least three backup characters. (He also wants me to commit TPK, that will only happen if the players do dumb things such as not running from a beholder when they are at low level.) Lastly, he also is "The Too Literal One". Also he is the "Thats What My Character Would Do" and finally lastly "The Role Player" he has came dressed in costumes before.
One who is "The Over Powered" somehow manages to stay 1 level above everyone else at all times. (I don't give him extra xp)
One who is "The Newbie" that never talks.
Then there is me who is and will forever will be "The Forever Dm", "The Overly Prepared", and "The Dice Goblin" (I am just trying to be nice. Also me hoarding 1...2...3 [a few hours later] 204 dice. That is actually how many dice I have.)
I'm the newbie that's always asking, "Which dice do I roll?"
My fiance is the forever DM, since that was the only way he could convince people to play.
What a pair we make.
To be fair, my favorite reaction from new players as a dm is when they excitedly go "Wait I can actually do that? REALLY?"
The pure joy in their eyes is amazing
The last few times I rolled stats, I ended up with some great stats (16-18), some good stats (12-15), average stats (10-11) and very bad stats ( 6-9). Once, I got a 3. My last Barbarian wasn't technically sentient.
Aaand that's why i roll for average total.
(70-100 result to avoid mid-low, underpowered and overpowered characters) while my dm rerolls lower than 10s as he likes to go ham on both sides of PCs and enemies once you get enough levels.
What about the chaos Grimmlin?
DM: you find a secret tavern in the woods made of wood
Me: I cast fire ball
DM: Breh