Um, actually..... you don't add an apostrophe in "it's birthday" because an apostrophe of possession is not appropriate and neither is the abbreviation "it is". Please do more awesome BG3 streams!!! We were about to bonk Ketheric's head months ago.
I browsed through Displate with the intention of using the discount code to support this channel if I saw something I liked only to find an absolutely STAGGERING amount of stolen art.
"Crows understand the concept of zero. What am I meant to do with that information?" Well, obviously, nothing. NOTHING. Sigh. Nevermind, the crow would have gotten it.
Is she the person who ghosted a bunch of friends to start a streaming career because she didn't want past associations coming up, but then turned to quasi-sexual art to get attention
At the end that scream of utter dejection & failure, cut off so cleanly as if the failure of this challenge was the erasure of his existence, truly haunting.
Behold, Wall of Force, the 5th-level evocation spell : "Nothing can physically pass through the wall. It is immune to all damage and can't be dispelled by Dispel Magic." (A disintegrate spell destroys the wall instantly, however.)
@@manyplural4265 to reach inner peace is to divulge oneself from all forms of social media, achieving the state of "being normal", thus rendering yourself immune to the distractions posed by internet weirdos
The DBD joke is that the "plot" of the game is that an eldritch creature basically caught and enslaved all of the monsters and survivors to play death games for its entertainment. Redditor is salty that Vecna got yoinked by it
"Oh that almost got me" "Yeah nothing today was funny" "Oh god, that was good, so close" "Yeah nothings really come close, L for discord" "Oh that was..."
How often do you get sent fan mail and use them as Reddit posts? Been a while since I've seen any of your posts (due to not looking at the D&D subreddit for a while).
7:52 If you don't want players to break something, i.e. a bridge, the solution is just make it made out of a fantasy metal like Mithril, Adamantite, or whatever. As a DM say, it's "as strong as steel and resistant to the effects of magic." and boom, accident proof bridge. Just establish it's characteristics beforehand and it can literally do anything you want it to do. That's what they're there for. Worked pretty well for Marvel.
@@itwasidio1736 It is boring when everybody always assumes that is what they are and have to be. As the meme mentions, many DMs ban artificers because that is what they think artificers are.
It actually kiiiinda makes sense, assuming somehow you can fire it silently enough that the targets don't notice until it's too late. Maybe at night lol. And I'd say the trebuchet has to be hidden as well.
I primarily play PF1e, which by default, Sneak Attacks with ranged only work within 30ft. This makes the trebuchet meme quite funny to me because I just picture the trebuchet swing around and instead of releasing the projectile, it just smashes it into the ground in front of it because that's where the enemy is.
9:48 that meme was joking about the horse shoe theory of intelligence. Where dumb people have thoughts closer to geniuses than to people in the middle of the iq bell curve tl;dr: dumb people thoughts=smart thoughts
How I interpret it is kinda like.. lol why not go for it: “I don’t know the rules that much, and my players often get broken stuff past me” Middle: “I adhere strictly to the rules, which can cause my games to be unfun and grind to a halt” lol why not go for it: “I understand a trebuchet is not a sneak-attack weapon, however it’s cool as hell to let the use Sneak attack on the trebuchet and will lead to feeling really cool”
Funny thing about group checks - PHB advises that if half of the group succeeds (as might be indicated in the dumb meme), then the entire group succeeds.
Stealth doesn't really make sense as a group check in most situations though, I think. Also if a player rolls a -1 total, I would go for consequences, it's just a funny moment waiting to happen.
@@Darkprosper Sure it does, the group is communicating with hand signals and whatnot, pointing out where to go and how. I'd also be very cautious: you as the GM might think it is very funny to have the group beef it based on a single player's low roll, but individual players rarely do, especially with how fickle the d20 is. To be fair, though, I like to run group checks a little differently - the highest result determines the degree of success, the lowest result determines the degree of _complication_ ; in other words, sure, a group stealth check will get the whole party in unseen and undetected, but if someone really beefs it, your objective gets a lot harder or there are unforeseen difficulties with the greater scene - maybe the route in becomes unavailable as a way out, or the diamond you were looking to steal is now locked in a vault instead of on display.
@@Darkprosper for stealth specifically, there are different ways to see it. Either you want to go for the "every roll counts and actions have consequences" way, but then that incentivises heavily armored characters to either not participate in activities that require stealth, or let go of their armor temporarily to increase their chances (which is a way to go but has a risk of splitting the party so you have to agree to that first) - that's personally how I play, because I don't think sending the armored fighter or paladin on a stealth mission is very intelligent and my party is fine with that and splitting the party. Or you don't want them to do that and you're just punishing the entire party (most likely) for a roll that one character had little chance to succeed with if you choose to count every single roll separately. And there are ways to counter that and make it work (i like the idea of the commenter above me ; every roll counts but a single fail is not going to jettison the entire operation, although it can complicate it), but you have to think about that and, most importantly, be on the same page as your party.
Using a ruler and no grid is a good idea if you are playing physically on a real table with real miniatures (a luxury I wish I had when playing with my friends), but it's kinda awkward to try and emulate with most online clients we have available. Also the curse of dnd being from the US and having all measurements in imperial makes it extra-difficult to move away from squares. I can translate "okay one five feet square is 1,5 meters, i can visualize that in my head" to get a feeling for what the actual sizes and dimensions of things are, but it gets a lot more awkward to visualize and imagine if you then add another layer of miniaturization on top of it.
@@josequiles7430 area pf effect habilities actually make sense for starters. It's more intuitive once you get the gist of it and allows for three dimensional combat to actually be viable.
I literally think the opposite It's easy to use a grid with actual minis, you can be imprecise on your table and not bother too much about it since you know you use the grid for measuring stuff But on a VTT you can afford to be specific, and I don't know a single VTT that doesn't have a ruler in its base functions. (Most of the time with shortcuts that allow you to measure as you're moving your token so it doesn't even take two separate motions) You can also use it to check the size of the map you're using to get a better idea, and even use templates to check the precise area of effect of a spell for example (including with circle, which you know, make no sense with a square grid) As for the reasons why using a ruler instead of a grid, I have one that's basically all I need : immersion. I've seen so may inventive use of terrain that just would not have been possible using a grid ; body-blocking enemies in battle also works in a very different way, and personally, when I'm trying to immerse myself, approximating everything to squares when I could just not do that and have a more immersive simulation ; as said I think it's useful with minis on a table (it very quickly becomes a wargame if you're using a ruler, and I like that too but it's not the same feeling), but not much when online.
9:56 "This is what Reddit does..." that rant is a good approximation of why I deleted my Reddit account and, for a while, blocked it on my desktop and phone.
Dispel Magic very specifically does not work against Wall of Force. You need Disintegrate to deal with constructions of magical force. The bridge at 8:09 is safe.
10:40 Quick lore bit from someone who plays DBD Yes, they're talking about DBD on the right. "The Entity" as it's called, slowly takes over and consumes worlds for long periods of time. It corrupts the minds of various individuals, causing them to commit various acts of violence. It also pulls victims and Killers alike into what is essentially a demi-plane, where it feeds off the fear and suffering the Killers inflict on their victims. While Vecna is an insanely powerful character, it's stated in Lore tidbits that when he was pulled into the Entity's realm, he had a "Mark of Negation" placed on him. It's essentially a brand right below the neck that nerfs his ability to resist, and forcing him to play the Entity's game. If you're wondering "How would Vecna let that happen?" There's an answer for that in his Lore page. Vecna found a strange tome written in a language he didn't understand. Intrigued, he studied it for many long days and nights, ignoring all else. For a long time, he thought the tome was a document of sorts, recounting people who had died in mysterious ways. He became frustrated, unable to find the commonality between these murders. But one night, he had a breakthrough. It became more and more clear that the people in this document hadn't died, they disappeared. This sent his curiosity over the edge. He had to know where it was they were being taken. He copied the tome's words and spoke them aloud. That's when the black fog began to overtake him. He initially tried to hold it back with powerful magic, but his thirst for knowledge got the better of him and he was taken voluntarily, hoping to one day use this ancient power for himself.
5:17 It was one of the most important sessions for my character, as we were fighting a group of villains in the middle of his family's mansion where there was of course his family but also a lot of innocent civilians. My dice had been rather unlucky for the past few sessions, but I refused to switch as those dice had been faithful so far. I tried to make one huge attack against the villain leader, trusting in my dice to be lucky for just this one hit, despite never rolling above a 10 earlier in the session. BAM I got a 6. Those dice deserve dice jail.
It makes a lot of sense to leave it out because it fills a very specific niche lore-wise that makes it feel like something you'd get from an expansion book like the advanced players guide. The thing that makes it really awkward and baffling is that it's the only class not in the book and they probably aren't going to print an advanced players guide. You should only hold back a class from the core rulebook if you're planning to print a book later with multiple new classes in it. They could squeeze one more in.
@@AlexM-is6ru I completely disagree that it "fills a very specific niche lore-wise." One of the few artificers we see travel through the multiverse uses metal chickens to fire magic as her "canons." They are just half-casters that channel magic through items. With artificers, you can say that any random pre-wizard made the step into being an artificer through hands-on study rather than book learning. It really is that easy. If a wizard and magic items exist in your world, then artificers NEED to exist to some degree. They were the first people to specialize in making potions and wands, after all. If anything, Monk is a very specific niche thing that doesn't belong in every world. If you are playing a monk, that either means there has to be a massive group of monks that exist all over the world to train him, or he just learned to fight well on your own in the woods. In this case, a monk might as well be a dex barbarian lore-wise. I get why Monk has to be in the game, because of tradition. It has been in the game long enough that taking it out would cause an uproar. But at least the artificer is a needed mid-range arcaine class. It serves the same role as paladins or rangers but for the arcane side of things. Which is an idea that has just been missing in DND.
I laughed hard pretty early, not from any of the memes but from Jacob knocking the lense out of his glasses. Damn, I've done that way too much and I still lose my composure every time
The composure of a face palm, loosing an eye piece, calmly putting your glasses back together, and then continuing with the facepalm bit... Best thing I've seen today! Hahahahaha
I snickered when Jacob's lens fell out of his glasses, but I laughed out loud when he very calmly and silently took the time to put it back in, then IMMEDIATELY went back into the silly voice and head-smack bit.
My group for a ruler uses one of our old characters Duster. If you needed a 30ft line, grab the ruler of Dusters. We've gone on to use many forms of VTT's and still prioritize Duster ruler because it's just funnier to us.
9:09 No Jacob, it is explicitly stated in the Artificer class that if they discovered gunpowder in the world, Artificers would have been the ones to start making use out of it. That is in both the Ebberon and Tasha's description of the class that they gain Firearm proficiency if the world has gunpowder
Even with that I can't understand how people are so uppity about making their game world more Renaissance-like than Dark Middle Ages 💀 it's a fantasy game, it doesnt matter
@@Guille2033 I can get it. They're going for high fantasy and more modern tech for them tends to not appeal. I personally will give my players in a Curse of Strahd game a laser rifle, depending on if they killed something strong enough for it, and if they rolled high enough to find something like that (Also it's end game stuff and my party has already beaten Strahd twice, I'm not hopeful of his chances)
"if they discovered gunpowder in the world" "if the world had gunpowder" Well yeah, that's the point, isn't it. There are many fantasy worlds without gunpowder, including official DnD settings, and you can play an artificer in them. The point is that they don't HAVE to use gunpowder. But they can. Just because you have proficiency with (and perhaps even access to) them doesn't mean you have to use them. Pew-pew wands are so much cooler than guns anyway, if you ask me.
@@Darkprosper the point Jackob was making was that it was other classes that use gunpowder, that artificers just use magic. That was wrong by the books
@@phillipanderson7899 Nope, the point jacob was making is that artificers are engineers that basically use magic as another branch of physics, they aren't specifically made for steampunk era technology. They would fit into a world with and without gunpowder, in a world with late 800s AD tech and a world with 1800s AD tech, that is the point he was making. 'it is explicitly stated in the Artificer class that if they discovered gunpowder in the world, Artificers would have been the ones to start making use out of it' literally proves his point too, since if they discovered it, they would start using gunpowder with magic.
"I don't take stock and anything that would change the randomness in the roll." *Talks about how he has superstitions about treating his dice with respect.*
Spread positivity, not negativity. I’m sorry your taste has changed. Maybe just move on. At most place a farewell comment. Either that or you are just a troll. In which case “DONT FEED THE TROLLS EVERYONE!!!”
as someone who still plays DBD, I can tell you the meme at 10:40 did not age well at all. in the lore, The "generic eldritch horror" pulls both people and killers into its realm to feed on the fear and anger. When Vecna was first announced, people assumed the DBD devs were claiming their god-like creature was more powerful than Vecna since "most of the killers are usually pulled in and kept there by force." this, shockingly enough, ended up not being true as (hold for dramatic pause) Vecna ended up being one of a handful of killers that sick around just because he wants to. It's not like he'd be the first, three other ones appeared without the entity's (what the horror is called in game) knowledge and just sticks around and can leave whenever the hell they choose.
Jacob. You mentioning that artificers are from Eberron and are not just gunpowder or engineering people gives me such unmatched joy. I bless you for this sweet crumb of righteousness in a world misbegotten of it.
YAYYY my meme was on here !!!! The reason I didn’t want them featuring my bridges is that the enemy army kind of has to get across for the plot to happen and they just kept collapsing every bridge once the enemies try to cross it
!0:40 Is such a Reddit moment lmao. Vecna canonically entered the Entity's realm voluntarily because he was smart enough to figure out how to summon it, and submits to the Entity so he can bide his time and learn more about it to one day control it. Also, side note, I love that there's a subtle reference to the fact that Common is not the same as English in his DbD lore. The whole chapter is filled with nice lil touches like that and I love it so much. Aw shit, now I'm the "um, actually" Reddit comment.
When you f***** up your glasses on the newbie using a D12 instead of d20 joke, slowly and calmly fixing it, and then going right back into the bit, I literally choked on my own spit so bad, I had to pause the video, and hack on my own saliva for 30 minutes before I could breathe successfully again. You literally almost killed me, with a skit. You are literally f****** dangerous! LMFAO!!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂
![[#2024MAMA] G-DRAGON - 무제(Untitled, 2014)+POWER+HOME SWEET HOME+뱅뱅뱅+FANTASTIC BABY | Mnet 241123 방송](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ox29z5Nf1Uk/mqdefault.jpg)
Displate is celebrating it's birthday and has a huge discount right now! Use code XP with Displate to get up to 42% off! displate.com/xptolvl3
Um, actually..... you don't add an apostrophe in "it's birthday" because an apostrophe of possession is not appropriate and neither is the abbreviation "it is".
Please do more awesome BG3 streams!!! We were about to bonk Ketheric's head months ago.
I feel like you should do a "try not to Reddit" challenge with this next time. Lol
Mornin nice day for fishing ain’t it
I browsed through Displate with the intention of using the discount code to support this channel if I saw something I liked only to find an absolutely STAGGERING amount of stolen art.
Not to be that guy but Displate also steals or ai generate some of the images they use on their plates
Jacob: I don't give my dice emotions!
Jacob the next sentence: I don't pick on my dice cause it'll piss them off!
piss them off would give the dice negative emotion, he doesn't want to give them any emotions
When I said to blame the dice, I did not literally mean to ascribe agency to the polyhedra.
Even without sentient dice, if you didn't get a 20 in the last 50 rolls, then statistically you should get two in a row next.
"Crows understand the concept of zero. What am I meant to do with that information?" Well, obviously, nothing. NOTHING. Sigh. Nevermind, the crow would have gotten it.
Crows understanding the concept of 0 and Octopi understanding the concept of spite are the two things about anmals that deeply terrifies me.
@@amelialonelyfart8848 Put them together and they have zero F%&^s to give.
Nevermore!
@@amelialonelyfart8848octopedes
@@amelialonelyfart8848 Wait, but what concept do racoons understand?
The sheer willpower it took to not laugh at that Mr House Sphere followed immediately by cracking up at "I miss vine" is amazing
The glasses lens falling out from smacking your head too hard was the funniest shit
I thought that shit was After Effects at first
I have never related to someone more than in that moment
cant believe he made his own dont laugh challenge for us
That's where I broke. I held it pretty good with everything else
that's the only time i laughed
Jacob: Everywhere I go, I see her face.
Melissa:
Is she the person who ghosted a bunch of friends to start a streaming career because she didn't want past associations coming up, but then turned to quasi-sexual art to get attention
She joined the AA discord, by the way.
Given the circumstances of the video, this sounds exactly like a Reddit post
Okay I'll ask something else
Is she the one with the tiefling character who has comics about having a family with a dragon husband?
@@ZenFr0gyes
"I'm about to Reddit" Is hilarious both in and out of context
My favorite part of the video is when he said "it's Redditn' time" and Reddited all over the place
Cleric: "I use divine intervention to make the elemental holy"
Fire elemental: *becomes purgatory elemental*
Does that imply that before it was a Hellemental?
@@maromania7 Ohhh shame on you. Take my like and repent.
I cast Sacred Flame
Purge with holy fire !
Limbo elemental
At the end that scream of utter dejection & failure, cut off so cleanly as if the failure of this challenge was the erasure of his existence, truly haunting.
Behold, Wall of Force, the 5th-level evocation spell :
"Nothing can physically pass through the wall. It is immune to all damage and can't be dispelled by Dispel Magic." (A disintegrate spell destroys the wall instantly, however.)
Please stop redditing all over the place
reddit moment
@@sylvansmithy5262 Disliking Reddit, I wanted to point out that the meme is wrong. But you're right, in my folly I have Reddited myself.
@@vforvenom9337 the only way to defeat reddit is not to fight reddit smh my head
@@manyplural4265 to reach inner peace is to divulge oneself from all forms of social media, achieving the state of "being normal", thus rendering yourself immune to the distractions posed by internet weirdos
Part 385 of Jacob convincing himself that he didnt laugh.
Edit: tysm for 2k likes
hehe i miss vine
Jacob is a rogue who uses his hands to hide his laugh
I mean, I'm 15 minutes in and so far there is nothing he needs to convince himself of
This mans dedication to denying himself joy in life is perplexing.
Part 385 of Jacob trying to grow a moustache?
The DBD joke is that the "plot" of the game is that an eldritch creature basically caught and enslaved all of the monsters and survivors to play death games for its entertainment. Redditor is salty that Vecna got yoinked by it
The redditor clearly takes DBD too seriously.
Salty is probably an exaggeration honestly
Vecna didn't even get yoinked, he's there willingly
"Oh that almost got me"
"Yeah nothing today was funny"
"Oh god, that was good, so close"
"Yeah nothings really come close, L for discord"
"Oh that was..."
0:00 Alright, I've locked in. Now what?
chortle. chuckle. maybe even, guffaw. 🗿
@@koldblazer12 No can do, chief. Im more of a silent laugher/giggle goose. Ain't got the pipes for guffaw
@@runemanqwe seems like you're not fully locked in then
Now that you are locked in... You can no longer escape because I stole the key
watch ad
"I never laughed, I'm the best at this" Jacob says as he couldn't even finish the video at 16:28
I was not ready for him to say “what the sigma?”
18:26 I literally thought “wow, Jacob does a good impression of the Wizard.” Shows how good his acting is that I see them as two different people
12:34 LISTEN IT WAS SENT TO ME AS FAN MAIL dasjkdaslkjadslkj
How often do you get sent fan mail and use them as Reddit posts? Been a while since I've seen any of your posts (due to not looking at the D&D subreddit for a while).
Congratulations Melissa, you set up the funniest part of the video 😂
Not the bottom keysmash
>Jacob turning red-faced holding in laugher
"I did not laugh. I did nawt. Oh hi, Melissa."
😏
18:20 That was SPOT ON goddamn
YES, his impression of Jesus is unholily great
7:52 If you don't want players to break something, i.e. a bridge, the solution is just make it made out of a fantasy metal like Mithril, Adamantite, or whatever. As a DM say, it's "as strong as steel and resistant to the effects of magic." and boom, accident proof bridge. Just establish it's characteristics beforehand and it can literally do anything you want it to do. That's what they're there for. Worked pretty well for Marvel.
Except that in D&D Mithril and Adamantine are materials that can be broken.
Last time I made something be made out of mithril my players spent literally hours figuring out how to strip it like meth-heads on a copper-lick.
Wizards are theoretical physicists, artificers are engineers.
unless you WANT Artificers to be the fun gunpowder toting maniacs, flavor is everything, but I enjoy the theory/practice comparison as well
@@itwasidio1736 I don't know a single engineer with both of their eyebrows, I suspect that they also have a love of explosives like gunpowder.
@@itwasidio1736 It is boring when everybody always assumes that is what they are and have to be.
As the meme mentions, many DMs ban artificers because that is what they think artificers are.
Honestly Jacob fixing his lens was the funniest thing in here.
"I don't put personality into my dice" yet proceeds to then say how if he puts his trust in them, they'll do the same for him.
It's clearly a stealth trebuchet, hurling massive stones hundreds of feet silently at your enemies.
It actually kiiiinda makes sense, assuming somehow you can fire it silently enough that the targets don't notice until it's too late. Maybe at night lol. And I'd say the trebuchet has to be hidden as well.
@@dirtywhitellama Or you can have an ally within 5 ft of the target.
I primarily play PF1e, which by default, Sneak Attacks with ranged only work within 30ft. This makes the trebuchet meme quite funny to me because I just picture the trebuchet swing around and instead of releasing the projectile, it just smashes it into the ground in front of it because that's where the enemy is.
Artificers are just people who looked at magic and said "what if I put this into my toys?"
Fr they ask the real questions like “What if my pencil could shoot fire balls” and “My armor could use a little thunder and lightning power”
"I cast magic via my cooking utensils" will always be one of the best ones for me.
Jacob loving Delicious in Dungeon is something that seems obvious, but I'm glad to have confirmation
3:07 Morning! Nice day for fishin', ain't it? Hua hah!
I love VLDL
Mornin! Mornin! Nice day for - nice day for fishing, hua hah!
Morning! Nice day for fishin', ain't it? Hua hah!
Morning! Nice day for fishin', ain't it? His hah!
9:48 that meme was joking about the horse shoe theory of intelligence. Where dumb people have thoughts closer to geniuses than to people in the middle of the iq bell curve
tl;dr:
dumb people thoughts=smart thoughts
I don't know how Jacob didn't figure out what the midwit meme is.
The Patrick Star paradox
IQ doesn't actually exist. It's a pseudoscientific masturbatory label that our academic system enabled.
How I interpret it is kinda like..
lol why not go for it: “I don’t know the rules that much, and my players often get broken stuff past me”
Middle: “I adhere strictly to the rules, which can cause my games to be unfun and grind to a halt”
lol why not go for it: “I understand a trebuchet is not a sneak-attack weapon, however it’s cool as hell to let the use Sneak attack on the trebuchet and will lead to feeling really cool”
I'm gonna add "I think a ghoul wrote this" to my everyday vernacular.
"I'm about to Reddit" is one of the most threatening sentences ever uttered
I loved the part when Jacob A.K.A. "XP to Level 3", tried not to laugh at these horrible memes
15:28 I rarely play Fallout, and I think I've *still* seen the NCR flag more times than an *actual* California state flag.
Funny thing about group checks - PHB advises that if half of the group succeeds (as might be indicated in the dumb meme), then the entire group succeeds.
Stealth doesn't really make sense as a group check in most situations though, I think. Also if a player rolls a -1 total, I would go for consequences, it's just a funny moment waiting to happen.
@@Darkprosper Sure it does, the group is communicating with hand signals and whatnot, pointing out where to go and how. I'd also be very cautious: you as the GM might think it is very funny to have the group beef it based on a single player's low roll, but individual players rarely do, especially with how fickle the d20 is.
To be fair, though, I like to run group checks a little differently - the highest result determines the degree of success, the lowest result determines the degree of _complication_ ; in other words, sure, a group stealth check will get the whole party in unseen and undetected, but if someone really beefs it, your objective gets a lot harder or there are unforeseen difficulties with the greater scene - maybe the route in becomes unavailable as a way out, or the diamond you were looking to steal is now locked in a vault instead of on display.
@@Darkprosper for stealth specifically, there are different ways to see it.
Either you want to go for the "every roll counts and actions have consequences" way, but then that incentivises heavily armored characters to either not participate in activities that require stealth, or let go of their armor temporarily to increase their chances (which is a way to go but has a risk of splitting the party so you have to agree to that first) - that's personally how I play, because I don't think sending the armored fighter or paladin on a stealth mission is very intelligent and my party is fine with that and splitting the party.
Or you don't want them to do that and you're just punishing the entire party (most likely) for a roll that one character had little chance to succeed with if you choose to count every single roll separately.
And there are ways to counter that and make it work (i like the idea of the commenter above me ; every roll counts but a single fail is not going to jettison the entire operation, although it can complicate it), but you have to think about that and, most importantly, be on the same page as your party.
>He uses a watermelon-scented deodorant that is a lot stronger than he thinks it is
...As opposed to what? Would rather he didn't wear deodorant? 🤣
normal unscented deodorant
Using a ruler and no grid is a good idea if you are playing physically on a real table with real miniatures (a luxury I wish I had when playing with my friends), but it's kinda awkward to try and emulate with most online clients we have available.
Also the curse of dnd being from the US and having all measurements in imperial makes it extra-difficult to move away from squares. I can translate "okay one five feet square is 1,5 meters, i can visualize that in my head" to get a feeling for what the actual sizes and dimensions of things are, but it gets a lot more awkward to visualize and imagine if you then add another layer of miniaturization on top of it.
Most vtts literally have rulers added in 😭
It's easier in a VTT with a ruler tool, no knocking minis over.
I just don't see the benefit of not using a grid
@@josequiles7430 area pf effect habilities actually make sense for starters. It's more intuitive once you get the gist of it and allows for three dimensional combat to actually be viable.
I literally think the opposite
It's easy to use a grid with actual minis, you can be imprecise on your table and not bother too much about it since you know you use the grid for measuring stuff
But on a VTT you can afford to be specific, and I don't know a single VTT that doesn't have a ruler in its base functions. (Most of the time with shortcuts that allow you to measure as you're moving your token so it doesn't even take two separate motions)
You can also use it to check the size of the map you're using to get a better idea, and even use templates to check the precise area of effect of a spell for example (including with circle, which you know, make no sense with a square grid)
As for the reasons why using a ruler instead of a grid, I have one that's basically all I need : immersion.
I've seen so may inventive use of terrain that just would not have been possible using a grid ; body-blocking enemies in battle also works in a very different way, and personally, when I'm trying to immerse myself, approximating everything to squares when I could just not do that and have a more immersive simulation ; as said I think it's useful with minis on a table (it very quickly becomes a wargame if you're using a ruler, and I like that too but it's not the same feeling), but not much when online.
2:44 WARHAMMER ART SPOTTED, INITIATING DOPAMINE
Smells like Heresy
@@MorgorDre Yes, inquisitor, this one right here.
9:56 "This is what Reddit does..." that rant is a good approximation of why I deleted my Reddit account and, for a while, blocked it on my desktop and phone.
Dispel Magic very specifically does not work against Wall of Force. You need Disintegrate to deal with constructions of magical force. The bridge at 8:09 is safe.
10:40
Quick lore bit from someone who plays DBD
Yes, they're talking about DBD on the right. "The Entity" as it's called, slowly takes over and consumes worlds for long periods of time. It corrupts the minds of various individuals, causing them to commit various acts of violence. It also pulls victims and Killers alike into what is essentially a demi-plane, where it feeds off the fear and suffering the Killers inflict on their victims.
While Vecna is an insanely powerful character, it's stated in Lore tidbits that when he was pulled into the Entity's realm, he had a "Mark of Negation" placed on him. It's essentially a brand right below the neck that nerfs his ability to resist, and forcing him to play the Entity's game. If you're wondering "How would Vecna let that happen?" There's an answer for that in his Lore page.
Vecna found a strange tome written in a language he didn't understand. Intrigued, he studied it for many long days and nights, ignoring all else. For a long time, he thought the tome was a document of sorts, recounting people who had died in mysterious ways. He became frustrated, unable to find the commonality between these murders. But one night, he had a breakthrough. It became more and more clear that the people in this document hadn't died, they disappeared. This sent his curiosity over the edge. He had to know where it was they were being taken. He copied the tome's words and spoke them aloud. That's when the black fog began to overtake him. He initially tried to hold it back with powerful magic, but his thirst for knowledge got the better of him and he was taken voluntarily, hoping to one day use this ancient power for himself.
5:17 It was one of the most important sessions for my character, as we were fighting a group of villains in the middle of his family's mansion where there was of course his family but also a lot of innocent civilians. My dice had been rather unlucky for the past few sessions, but I refused to switch as those dice had been faithful so far. I tried to make one huge attack against the villain leader, trusting in my dice to be lucky for just this one hit, despite never rolling above a 10 earlier in the session.
BAM
I got a 6.
Those dice deserve dice jail.
I still can't believe they didn't find a way to get Artaficer in the new core rule book. It fills in the missing mid-range arcane magic class niche.
It makes a lot of sense to leave it out because it fills a very specific niche lore-wise that makes it feel like something you'd get from an expansion book like the advanced players guide. The thing that makes it really awkward and baffling is that it's the only class not in the book and they probably aren't going to print an advanced players guide. You should only hold back a class from the core rulebook if you're planning to print a book later with multiple new classes in it. They could squeeze one more in.
@@AlexM-is6ru
I completely disagree that it "fills a very specific niche lore-wise."
One of the few artificers we see travel through the multiverse uses metal chickens to fire magic as her "canons."
They are just half-casters that channel magic through items. With artificers, you can say that any random pre-wizard made the step into being an artificer through hands-on study rather than book learning. It really is that easy. If a wizard and magic items exist in your world, then artificers NEED to exist to some degree. They were the first people to specialize in making potions and wands, after all.
If anything, Monk is a very specific niche thing that doesn't belong in every world. If you are playing a monk, that either means there has to be a massive group of monks that exist all over the world to train him, or he just learned to fight well on your own in the woods. In this case, a monk might as well be a dex barbarian lore-wise.
I get why Monk has to be in the game, because of tradition. It has been in the game long enough that taking it out would cause an uproar. But at least the artificer is a needed mid-range arcaine class. It serves the same role as paladins or rangers but for the arcane side of things. Which is an idea that has just been missing in DND.
Therapist: "It's okay Jacob, Melissa doesn't exist. She can't make you laugh."
Melissa with a D20 Gag behind Jacob
Broke: Grid
Woke: Ruler
Bespoke: Whippy Stick
Truth
20:02 really just stopped breathing and turned red rather than laugh, respect
08:34 - "Ohh, I´m about to reddit!" Great. I chortled. Thanks, XP, you made me lose this round.
09:54 - AGAIN? Come on!
Bro facepalmed so hard he broke his glasses.
Wide deer. Now laugh
WjgbwahahabababHHAHAHAHAHAAA *wheeze* *wheeze*
I was not prepared for the 100% accurate Charlie impression.
Me:
"That's a pretty good Charlie impression.
Damn, he sounds just like that wizard!"
The brainrot is real.
I'm going to bed.
You gotta love how Jacob is like "that's an L from the discord." When he had 2 major breaks and a minor break.
I laughed hard pretty early, not from any of the memes but from Jacob knocking the lense out of his glasses. Damn, I've done that way too much and I still lose my composure every time
7:46 Dispel Magic doesn't work on Wall of Force
Bailen the fisherman? “Great day for fishin’ ain’t it, heyuk”
Mornin' nice day for fishing ain't it!
Checks Notes: "Mornin'. Nice day for fishing ain't it? Hu ha!"
#VLDL
@@IndigoIndustrial quoted wrong, but correct reference… at least I was able to get the point across lol… I love vldl
@@BlackOpMercyGaming It is very good. I backed their KS. I'd invest in them if they went public.
18:40 That is a surprisingly good Gollum impression.
That gollum impression is crazy
Silly Fireball Man, we win because we get to laugh at this whole ordeal, and it is delightful.
He gaslights himself so hard lol
6:05 THE BRAINROT
The brainrot is real💀‼️‼️
The composure of a face palm, loosing an eye piece, calmly putting your glasses back together, and then continuing with the facepalm bit... Best thing I've seen today! Hahahahaha
Jacob be like: "Reddit exists to make you mad"
Me who just sticks to pages I actually like:
I snickered when Jacob's lens fell out of his glasses, but I laughed out loud when he very calmly and silently took the time to put it back in, then IMMEDIATELY went back into the silly voice and head-smack bit.
I feel accomplished, I made him boogie at 15:58
My group for a ruler uses one of our old characters Duster. If you needed a 30ft line, grab the ruler of Dusters. We've gone on to use many forms of VTT's and still prioritize Duster ruler because it's just funnier to us.
13:06
Oh no... Oh no you didn't... Oh the curse, the curse of saying it too soon...
18:18 that impression was so spot on it caused my brain to lag
16:06 came for the house stayed for this guy
Your Charlie is ON POINT lmfao. 😂
9:09
No Jacob, it is explicitly stated in the Artificer class that if they discovered gunpowder in the world, Artificers would have been the ones to start making use out of it. That is in both the Ebberon and Tasha's description of the class that they gain Firearm proficiency if the world has gunpowder
Even with that I can't understand how people are so uppity about making their game world more Renaissance-like than Dark Middle Ages 💀 it's a fantasy game, it doesnt matter
@@Guille2033 I can get it. They're going for high fantasy and more modern tech for them tends to not appeal. I personally will give my players in a Curse of Strahd game a laser rifle, depending on if they killed something strong enough for it, and if they rolled high enough to find something like that (Also it's end game stuff and my party has already beaten Strahd twice, I'm not hopeful of his chances)
"if they discovered gunpowder in the world"
"if the world had gunpowder"
Well yeah, that's the point, isn't it. There are many fantasy worlds without gunpowder, including official DnD settings, and you can play an artificer in them. The point is that they don't HAVE to use gunpowder. But they can. Just because you have proficiency with (and perhaps even access to) them doesn't mean you have to use them. Pew-pew wands are so much cooler than guns anyway, if you ask me.
@@Darkprosper the point Jackob was making was that it was other classes that use gunpowder, that artificers just use magic. That was wrong by the books
@@phillipanderson7899 Nope, the point jacob was making is that artificers are engineers that basically use magic as another branch of physics, they aren't specifically made for steampunk era technology. They would fit into a world with and without gunpowder, in a world with late 800s AD tech and a world with 1800s AD tech, that is the point he was making. 'it is explicitly stated in the Artificer class that if they discovered gunpowder in the world, Artificers would have been the ones to start making use out of it' literally proves his point too, since if they discovered it, they would start using gunpowder with magic.
Jacob: I don't entertain the idea that my dice have personalities or agendas.
Also Jacob: But I am careful not to upset them.
17:58 "what is this"
Roasted
Rogue using Sneak Attack on their Trebuchet against a Giant: "Hey, you wanna see something cool!"
20:20 you are breaking apart at some of these and I’m like.. “um what?”
No laughing on my end. So I guess I'm the winner.
The lens falling off Jacob's glasses was the funniest part of the video, those memes were miserable
0:02
Sigmas when it’s time to be hateful:
I just wanted to point out for the wall meme at 8:11 that Dispel magic doesn't work on wall of force. You would need Disintegrate or Antimagic field.
"I don't take stock and anything that would change the randomness in the roll." *Talks about how he has superstitions about treating his dice with respect.*
Ngl him saying who let melis- IT IS MELISSA was the singular funniest thing in this entire video, completely lost my shit lmao
Guess:
You’re gonna laugh
good guess
the unadulterated silent humming of the mic while he fixed his glasses SENT me
34 secs, no views… You fell off fr… 😔💔
Jacob delete this I know you can
@@Donovarkhallumseconded
Dead meme at this point
Spread positivity, not negativity. I’m sorry your taste has changed. Maybe just move on. At most place a farewell comment.
Either that or you are just a troll. In which case “DONT FEED THE TROLLS EVERYONE!!!”
This meme was garbage even before it was stale.
That New Vegas rat slayed me. I laughed for a good 5 minutes straight.
I feel like most people play theater of the mind.
20:28 sure, that'll protect you from puncture damage and slashing damage, but you're still gonna take bludgeoning damage.
Wasn’t expecting the delicious in dungeon reference,one of the first times sombody had made an anime reference i understood.
The Gunslinger is not an artificer, but a fighter subclass
Trebuchet sneak attack?
I have a perfect quote for it: "you wanna backstab him with a ballista"
as someone who still plays DBD, I can tell you the meme at 10:40 did not age well at all. in the lore, The "generic eldritch horror" pulls both people and killers into its realm to feed on the fear and anger. When Vecna was first announced, people assumed the DBD devs were claiming their god-like creature was more powerful than Vecna since "most of the killers are usually pulled in and kept there by force." this, shockingly enough, ended up not being true as (hold for dramatic pause) Vecna ended up being one of a handful of killers that sick around just because he wants to. It's not like he'd be the first, three other ones appeared without the entity's (what the horror is called in game) knowledge and just sticks around and can leave whenever the hell they choose.
Jacob: I don't believe my dice have personality or feelings
Next Sentence Jacob: Don't piss off your dice!
13:09 "where I can't be invaded by Melissa" bold of you to assume she won't find a way in
Jacob. You mentioning that artificers are from Eberron and are not just gunpowder or engineering people gives me such unmatched joy. I bless you for this sweet crumb of righteousness in a world misbegotten of it.
YAYYY my meme was on here !!!!
The reason I didn’t want them featuring my bridges is that the enemy army kind of has to get across for the plot to happen and they just kept collapsing every bridge once the enemies try to cross it
My favorite part was when his glasses fell out, he stopped, calmly put them back in and then continued with the joke.
The fucking RAT got me, little bastard thing, haha.
!0:40 Is such a Reddit moment lmao. Vecna canonically entered the Entity's realm voluntarily because he was smart enough to figure out how to summon it, and submits to the Entity so he can bide his time and learn more about it to one day control it. Also, side note, I love that there's a subtle reference to the fact that Common is not the same as English in his DbD lore. The whole chapter is filled with nice lil touches like that and I love it so much.
Aw shit, now I'm the "um, actually" Reddit comment.
16:53 where did you get those, Timmy? What did you do with the bodies, Timmy?!
When you f***** up your glasses on the newbie using a D12 instead of d20 joke, slowly and calmly fixing it, and then going right back into the bit, I literally choked on my own spit so bad, I had to pause the video, and hack on my own saliva for 30 minutes before I could breathe successfully again. You literally almost killed me, with a skit. You are literally f****** dangerous! LMFAO!!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂
Before watching, I predict about a third of the memes will be about "I tried to do a thing and rolled a nat 1 or 20"