Much like my grandma who provided my group with cookies and a place to play. I overheard her friends asking her about whether she knows what we're doing and she basically said "Most of all I know where my kids are and what they do on a Saturday evening. DO YOU?" That ended the discussion.
When you said 13-15 is the age when a kid can really start believing in the tables and charts and rules, that sums it up exactly for me. I was 11 when I tried DnD the first time and it was super awkward. Fun in it's own way but awkward all the same. Years later I would be living in SUPER rural Arkansas at 14 with just my grandmother and we went into town, I had 15 minutes of free time so I ran into Hastings, and stumbled onto the Role playing Game stuff. I bought a bag of Werewolf dice and a copy of Masters of the Wild and I read that book cover to cover every day for 2 more years until I finally got invited to my first game as a teenager and I fell in love. I played 4-5 games a week, and it was the best. Now I'm lucky to find time for a game a week, and will be running one actually when I get back to America so I'm very excited I found your videos. The end of that anecdote kind of went in a lot of directions. Anyways, great content, thanks Matt.
Thanks for introducing me to cb19. I loved her X-men videos. That was my favorite time for comics and my favorite series, X-men. I met Claremont at a con and he was so nice. He shared his end of the universe story with Logan, Kitty, Jean and the tardis.
TBH, you really opened my eyes to some of what 4th edition has to offer. I hadn't ever tried it because I believed all the negative stuff and I'd seen some things that made me skttish. I don't think it's enough to make me want to run a 4th edition game, but that's mostly because I like 5th so much, not because I think 4th is bad anymore. I've already included some ideas from 4th in the game I'm currently running, and I introduced them by having an enemy npc use them in a fight. So, it was like a 2 for 1 bonus for last week's session. Thanks for that video, Matt! If you like new music, check out Wintergatan. They have a TH-cam channel, too. They build some rather interesting musical implements I think you'd get a real kick out of.
This video is going alongside the 'Welcome to Dungeons and Dragons' video as one I show new players. Matt's philosophy about art and life and one's craft and how it informs his D&D game is so close to mine it is inspiring to me beyond just the DM table. Thank you Matt!
Matt, I've watched every single minute of your videos. I've learned so much from you and thoroughly enjoy your enthusiasm and joy you bring to every minute. I am so happy to have been part of this journey from early on and beyond. You rock!
If there's one thing I really love about your channel, Matt Colville (it is not the only thing; I love MANY things about this channel), it is the respect and awareness you have for presentation in design. That's been a difficult lesson for me to learn, and you have helped to teach it.
Love the content and what you've been doing Matt. I'm 21 and have been playing D&D since I was 12/13 starting at the very tail end of 3.5. I really got into it and fell in love with the game with 4th edition (which I still love), then I played a lot of Pathfinder (which I also liked), and now starting a year or so ago with 5th edition (and it might just be my favorite edition yet). In all that time I've almost always been the DM and I absolutely love it. I have even inspired a couple of my friends & players to DM their own games. However, even with my experience I know there is ways I can improve and thats why I enjoy channels like yours. A given video may not teach me something new, but it may inspire me or to consider something I normally wouldn't. Hell, at the very least, I just find it interesting & enjoyable to listen to someone with a likeable personality talk about this hobby I adore. Anyways thanks for providing great content! I look forward to your all your future videos and wish you the best!
Matt, I wanted to thank you for investing all this time to post these great informational videos. I started playing D&D with my family when I was 8, and now that im 21, it's died down a lot, and really the only oppertunity for us to continue is if I take the mantel of DM, which is what brought me to your channel. Long story short I can't thank you enough for helping all of us understand DMing!
It's 1:30 in the morning here in the Netherlands, but you inspired me to become a new dm. I will run my first group in a few weeks, and I am really looking forward to it. I will continue watching your channel, hope you'll have a great day.
OverNightGaming I finally found a group, just by accident (some of them I already knew, some others I've never seen) . If there is a small change that you happen to live in Zeeuws Vlaanderen you're more than welcome to join us.
Just a quick thank you for all of this free content! After running my first intro game, my group are about to start my first written campaign and they are sure to (without realising it) benefit hugely from all of your advice about things like not railroading, having concurrent story arcs that continue even if the PCs don't act, skill challenges and just all the other tips and tricks. Can't wait to get them playing and see what they come up with each session. Cheers Matt :D
It is so weird to have been here long enough to think, "I hope one day Matt gets to make and release some content of his own, related to his hobby/passion." And to now be thinking, "OHMYGOSH!!! MATT IS MAKING SOMETHING AWESOME!!!" Also, whenever you, Matt, and Liam get together and you tell us about it, I feel like a kid reading a crossover comic book or crossover episode of my favorite Cartoon Characters.
"I guess the reason I like paladins is...it's the only class that comes with a built in narrative hook." Paladins certainly do, and it's what makes them one of the most interesting classes to me, but they're not the only one. Clerics have the same hook, but perhaps to a lesser extent in most cases, but *warlocks* have as much of a narrative hook, if not _more_ than the paladin, built in to the class, since a warlock's patron is a living, breathing entity that can come down and tell the character they have to do _this_ or _that_.
Hey Matt, this is my first youtube comment ever, but I thought you'd be happy to know that between your advice, critical roll, Reddit DnD, and other youtube shows, I did make my own homebrew game around 6 months ago. It's been going great, characters and I have both been loving it. Now, 2 of my current 6 players are making their own games. One is an evil campaign, and one is a normal, starting with Storm King's Thunder. Thank you for the inspiration, and keep up the good work. I can't wait to watch each of your videos. I am very happy to have this hobby in my life.
I'd Like to say thanks for your influence on me from D&D. I started watching your videos 3 weeks ago. Following that a week ago I had purchased the D&D 5E starter set and ran my first session as Dungeon Master for a group of 7!
Hey Matt, I knew from your language that you were nerdfighter! And you mention a bit of emulating the editing style that that the Vlogbrothers have, and my one suggestion in that regard would be that some of your cuts could be tightened up like theirs have over the years. Theres a number of cuts in your video that you could shave off perhaps an eighth of a second and it would greatly improve your flow! Keep it up though, you're easily my favorite D&D/DM channels on youtube.
Thank you for making me feel like I can DM, and thank you for helping to give so many other people that confidence and knowledge too! Nothing makes me happier than seeing other people playing and loving D&D. I just recently started a new game with my friends, I've been building out my world, and I'll be DMing that soon. I'm hoping I'll be able to get my friends to start DMing too.
I love how you, Matt, were a physics guy before you became a creator. I started out thinking I was going to be a rocket scientist in elementary school and junior high, but then I realized math got me kinda depressed and so for a while I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. In high school though, I figured out that my calling was to create art, and I started writing and sketching. Currently I'm in film school and my life consists of writing, making films, freelance videography, and DMing for a couple game groups at my college. It's inspiring to know that one of the guys I see as a creative mentor has a similar story as me. I wish you the best of luck and thank you for being willing to put yourself out there on TH-cam.
My mother also tried to get my brother and I into D&D back in the early 2000's but I was way too young and my brother was at "That Age" where he didn't really want to listen to his mom tell stories for a few hours, even if he did get to kill goblins and orcs. Anyways, I've just started DMing in the last year and I can say your videos have helped tremendously and the first few Running The Game videos really got me on the path of running adventures for my friends and having an absolute blast. Thanks so much for your videos, you're one of the channels I have the little notification bell on for!
I firmly believe that Matt is the version of myself that never gave up playing D&D (sans beard). Got into AD&D when it first came out and our DM mixed in elements of The Empire of the Petal Throne, played 3.5, but then fell out of playing because life. Kudos to you Matt!
You are an amazing dude, Matt. I've watched you for hours learning how to DM (never even played before). Because of how awesome your vids are, I was able to jump right in and run a SEVEN HOUR session with my group for the first time. So thank you so much for your dedication to this channel. You deserve all the success in the world, brother!
Your theory about what kids think of art makes sense to me. When I listened to music, I always wondered about the crafting of music, particularly the piano/keyboard, which was something very visually telling to me. I remember sitting before the table to eat and wandering off "playing" on the edge of the table as if it was a piano while humming (even though I had no idea what I was doing). Today, I play keyboard at a band.
57:50 Man that physics part hit home. I'm planning on majoring in physics, and I wonder how much I'll really be able to contribute to the field. We'll see how it goes.
Similar situation, I would say though that it depends a lot on your field of interest. Cosmology and particle physics are mostly dotting i's and crossing t's, or looking at incredibly extreme edge cases, at this point, but things like nanophysics or fluid dynamics are still in their infancy/adolescence, and if you can engage with those you might well be the Newton or Feynman to that field.
Mama dukes called your bluff! Congrats on the subscribers, it's good to see you still putting out long length videos, even if they're not the most efficient method of getting yourself out there.
Matt, I've chatted with you on twitter and it's been a pleasure. Your videos have singlehandedly led to me DMing for 6 brand new players, then 7, then 8. Because everyone loves it! So thank you so much for leading us to having great times! Also, been here since 3k ish? Thank you for sharing your knowledge and taking time out for us!
Hi Matt, we appreciate all you do for us Dms and players, and give aways are not needed to keep us all watching. I use word of mouth to encourage people to check you out.
Oh my god, it makes me so happy to hear you talk about the Culture series. It's probably my favourite book series of all time but always seems to be criminally overlooked by most people I've talked to, especially in the US where far less people seem to have ever even heard of it. My favourite is also Excession, tied with Use of Weapons. I'm surprised you didn't recommend starting with Consider Phlebas, given that it's the first published and the Idiran War makes up such an important part of the backdrop for the other books and it's an easy in to the series. In any case, thanks for bringing the books to the attention of your viewers.
you know what i didnt realize when i started watching this video in doubletime, is how quickly i was breezing through it. half an hour later, i have all this content i was suposed to have in an hour. Matt, i love how quickly you dish out your content, thank you for your time
Omg go 50k subs! There are so many playing D&D as DMs thabks to you. You should go out and treat yourself, hangout with friends and enjoy this achievement.
I'm glad to say I found your channel when you were just starting it. Everything D&D related kind of fell into place at once. Within month, I had my friend ask me to try d&d, I found this channel, and many of my cousins all said they had just started playing it. That was last year. Now, I have lots of knowledge and merchandise, and I am preparing to run a game for my friends. It's like a D&D Renaissance.
Thank you for your passion. I am a Youth Services Librarian, and I just ran my first game of D&D yesterday with some of the teens at my library. Those five kids had a blast. We played for two hours right there in the library and as we finished they all said they couldn't wait to play again. That I felt confident enough to run this game is in large part due to you telling me again and again,"You can do it." Keep up the great work.
90215 is great. "Cinema" into "Leave It" is a great 1-2! Thanks for the great literary suggestions. I just picked up your book Priest and am digging it. The Tomb of Horrors is a truly awful adventure. Also, thanks for your videos. I've been playing D&D since I was 14 (almost 30), and always feel reinvigorated or like I'm learning/thinking about something in a new way in my DMing when listening/watching you. My relatively new players also use your series as a guide and are already trying their hand at DM/GMing soon. I'd say you're definitely successful in making it approachable, but more importantly doing so while showing others that it can be a rich artistic experience.
Happy to say that when I was recommended my first Pratchett book it was also Guards, Guards. My bookshelf is now full and I encourage lots of people to start the same way. I particularly love Vetinari in Guards, Guards
Congrats it has been very good seen the evolution of the channel. The questions and your answers was really good. the giveaway idea is interesting. I enjoyed the part of the books and will check out a couple of these down the road.
Hey Matt. I wanted to say thanks for all the helpful tips you've given so far for us, they've certainly helped me a bunch in taking over as my groups DM for running a homebrew campaign. Thanks for the confidence boost!
Congratulations from Nottingham, England. Robin Hood would be proud. Love the content of your videos and the speed of your speech. Wish that I had more time to read your novels!
Shout out to that original copy of RoboRally in the background. I gave mine away to a friend when he graduated college. Man, we loved that game. Anyway, congrats, on 50K!
A note on the editing comment you made when talking about the vlogbrothers from someone at film school hoping to become an editor: I like your current editing style. It feels much more natural and makes your jump cuts less noticable. Jump cuts can be jarring and sometimes they work but they're easy to make them look bad. Keep doing what you're doing.
Dude, based on your knowledge and enthusiasm I DM'd for the first time today! I designed a little 'reverse' dungeon crawl and my 11 year old kids played D&D for the first time today. Lots of fun was had by all! Keep up the good work!
I was looking for a books for my son to read. Thank you for commenting on the Tiffany Atkins series. I'll check it and see if it fits the themes and narrative I want for him ^_^
great job on your channel. don't worry about your visual presentation, Matt. yours is fine and not what I watch your vids for. I often just listen to you while walking or driving anyway.
Hey Matt. I just started DMing. We had discussed playing since 2015. Your videos helped me get started and we had our first two session last week and my friends loved it. We ran the goblins in the temple from you early videos. One of my players has already offered to run the game next so I could play. Thanks for the inspiration.
Hey Matt I have tons of subscriptions on TH-cam. I recently found your videos about 2 months ago. You are the only person on TH-cam whose content I have watched 100% of and simply have trouble waiting for your you to publish new videos. There is a certain magic in your videos and I am sure eventually your channel will have many many times the subscribers it does now. Keep up the good work and please don't ever go away.
Congratulations on 50K man I love all your videos and all the content you make I wanna thank you because without you we wouldn't have this content we love
Matt, you are so eloquent and such a wonderful speaker. I find your videos to be totally fascinating and tend to focus my attention on your words to a degree I do not with other YT videos. Really terrific oration.
Congrats to Matt! Your passion for d&d, literature, storytelling and being a decent human cat lover is inspiring. Also: check out Pertubator! Synth excellence.
Thanks for making these videos. Because of finding you on reddit I started watching Critical Role and now I just finished my third session as DM for a group of coworkers! Running them through "Against Cult of the Reptile God". Biggest challenge has definitely been curbing their murder hobo tendencies.
Your advice to myself as a fledgling DM has honestly been invaluable. Thank you Matt, you have improved my DnD games for not only myself but my players!
Iain Banks' "Use of Weapons", and Murakami's "Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" are my 2 most recommended books to other people. Great authors with such vivid imaginations and such great storytelling styles that really bring their world's to life.
Great video Matt! Lots of fun stories to hear. However, I would like to point out that Narnia does actually have quite a few strong female characters, assuming by strong you mean well-written and powerful in their personality. While the first book has a timid little girl and a by the book girl for its main female characters, later books like the Magician's Nephew( my favorite, so many great characters and interesting concepts) and the Silver Chair are a little stronger in their personalities. Perhaps the best example would be Aravis from The Horse and His Boy, who takes a lot of action to get out of a marriage that her father had arranged in a grab for power. Then again, she isn't exactly a character that would be appealing to a young girl since she is rather rude to the main character for most of the book. Anyway, thanks for the great content and congrats on 50,000 subscribers.
G'day from Australia!! Your videos are unbelievably helpful and i'm sure all your subscribers are eternally grateful for your help. Keep up the great content and congratulations on the 50 k subscribers, You definitely deserve it.
Looking forward to those two videos you mentioned (particularly your take on kuo toa, if it's gotten that far). I will certainly buy your stronghold rules when they go on kickstarter; your channel deserves it!
I think this video made me realise that now is the right time for me to hit the bell for your videos. I value your opinion on most everything you talk about and I'm more tuning into your videos for you rather than just the topic. I hadn't heard it out into words before. Thank you for what you do, it gets me excited to build my worlds
I have been playing dnd for 4-5 years now and I just started playing with my online friends and we are one of those groups where everyone takes their hand at dming and it's great thank you for your tips the last few months have been great playing dnd with my friends.
Its funny how matt 4 years ago is talking about his favourite youtubers and rewatching old videos couple of times and here i am doing the same thing with matts videos. Cheers boss
Hey Matt, congrates on reaching 50,000. I discovered you in December and I have just made it throigh the 4 live play stream videos. I enjoyed them but I can appreciate why you stopped. Btw one of the first cassettes (remeber those) I ever listened to to the point it started wearing out was the selftittled Genesis albumn with Home by the Sea.
Hey Matt, Thought I'd recommend one of my favorite authors. L.E. Modesitt Jr. is a fantasy/sci-fi writer who has a very deep interest in his books having realism and exploring shades of gray. Ethics and morality come up in his books very often, and all of his magical systems are rooted in what could be realistically feasible. I think you would enjoy his writing. I would recommend "Haze" or "The Ethos Effect" for a sci-fi book, and "Imager" or "The Magic of Recluce" for his fantasy books (my preferences are in the stated order for each genre). Loved the video! Hope we can see more Q&A soon!
Another fantastic video, Matt. And speaking as a fellow aging professional writer/D&D player/prog nerd (who had a similar epiphany upon first hearing Wind and Wuthering), you should *definitely* get into Gentle Giant.
Hello Matt, Brazilian here. Just to let you know I became a 5th edition GM for my friends and I always use your hints. You make me a lot better GM even though you don't know. Thanks a LOT and keep your amazing job. Peace, out.
Just about to DM a group for the first time, Matt! I've been playing for 2 years but even though I really enjoy worldbuilding, acting and the idea of GMing, it's always seemed quite daunting to me and I've never gotten the chance. It still does a little, but your videos have helped quite a bit in helping me see what needs to be done in DMing and planning accordingly, as well as giving me the confidence to just go out and start something. Admittedly I'm a little anxious, as not only am I starting this with no DMing experience, but only one of the players has played before too, but hopefully it'll all work out! My players have wanted to try characters more complex than just those out of the standard PHB, including a Goblin and a human in dog form. Generally my response so far has been to allow them to do it, so long as it's balanced with the other players and I know exactly what's going on. Anyways, thanks so much for making this channel and helping new DMs like me try to start out. It would be enough if your videos were just entertaining, but they're quite useful as well.
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you have become so much better than I. Good job
Jim Murphy Something so simple yet elegant about your comment sir. Thanks for taking time with Matt to lend your knowledge to the channel!
Matt is "The Man" or "The Dude" if your prefer
Jim Murphy thank you for the video you did. hearing you talk about your old games reminded me why i been running games for 20 years.
5:55 "It's mostly me saying thank you"
Since there's still an hour of video left I'm going to assume you'll be thanking us in Ent.
Part I. Greetings. Stay tuned for Part II. :D
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We've only just finished saying
Good Morning.
Matt's mom bought him ad&d after hearing about the satanic panic in the news?... she must be awesome! lol
Much like my grandma who provided my group with cookies and a place to play. I overheard her friends asking her about whether she knows what we're doing and she basically said "Most of all I know where my kids are and what they do on a Saturday evening. DO YOU?"
That ended the discussion.
Thank us for watching? thank you for making stuff that is so amazing to watch!
I'm in two games now
13:50 Matt admits to making mix tapes and girls from his past admit that they were, indeed, straight fire.
Can't wait for the next 50k! You've done so much good for us and we love you!
When you said 13-15 is the age when a kid can really start believing in the tables and charts and rules, that sums it up exactly for me. I was 11 when I tried DnD the first time and it was super awkward. Fun in it's own way but awkward all the same. Years later I would be living in SUPER rural Arkansas at 14 with just my grandmother and we went into town, I had 15 minutes of free time so I ran into Hastings, and stumbled onto the Role playing Game stuff. I bought a bag of Werewolf dice and a copy of Masters of the Wild and I read that book cover to cover every day for 2 more years until I finally got invited to my first game as a teenager and I fell in love. I played 4-5 games a week, and it was the best. Now I'm lucky to find time for a game a week, and will be running one actually when I get back to America so I'm very excited I found your videos.
The end of that anecdote kind of went in a lot of directions. Anyways, great content, thanks Matt.
Literally JUST finished a DnD sesh that happened because of your vids, then I see this is uploaded. What a great treat, THANKS MATT!
I absolutely loved the story about your mom introducing you to D&D. That's a beautiful memory! And such a fun story!
Thanks for introducing me to cb19. I loved her X-men videos. That was my favorite time for comics and my favorite series, X-men. I met Claremont at a con and he was so nice. He shared his end of the universe story with Logan, Kitty, Jean and the tardis.
TBH, you really opened my eyes to some of what 4th edition has to offer. I hadn't ever tried it because I believed all the negative stuff and I'd seen some things that made me skttish. I don't think it's enough to make me want to run a 4th edition game, but that's mostly because I like 5th so much, not because I think 4th is bad anymore. I've already included some ideas from 4th in the game I'm currently running, and I introduced them by having an enemy npc use them in a fight. So, it was like a 2 for 1 bonus for last week's session. Thanks for that video, Matt!
If you like new music, check out Wintergatan. They have a TH-cam channel, too. They build some rather interesting musical implements I think you'd get a real kick out of.
This video is going alongside the 'Welcome to Dungeons and Dragons' video as one I show new players. Matt's philosophy about art and life and one's craft and how it informs his D&D game is so close to mine it is inspiring to me beyond just the DM table. Thank you Matt!
I have been with you since 10,000 subscribers, and that really wasn't long ago. Good job! You're growing fast.
Lost Mines of Flapdoodle?
Welp, gotta put a settlement called Flapdoodle somewhere in my campaign now...
Matt, I've watched every single minute of your videos. I've learned so much from you and thoroughly enjoy your enthusiasm and joy you bring to every minute. I am so happy to have been part of this journey from early on and beyond. You rock!
If there's one thing I really love about your channel, Matt Colville (it is not the only thing; I love MANY things about this channel), it is the respect and awareness you have for presentation in design. That's been a difficult lesson for me to learn, and you have helped to teach it.
Love the content and what you've been doing Matt. I'm 21 and have been playing D&D since I was 12/13 starting at the very tail end of 3.5. I really got into it and fell in love with the game with 4th edition (which I still love), then I played a lot of Pathfinder (which I also liked), and now starting a year or so ago with 5th edition (and it might just be my favorite edition yet). In all that time I've almost always been the DM and I absolutely love it. I have even inspired a couple of my friends & players to DM their own games. However, even with my experience I know there is ways I can improve and thats why I enjoy channels like yours. A given video may not teach me something new, but it may inspire me or to consider something I normally wouldn't. Hell, at the very least, I just find it interesting & enjoyable to listen to someone with a likeable personality talk about this hobby I adore. Anyways thanks for providing great content! I look forward to your all your future videos and wish you the best!
Matt, I wanted to thank you for investing all this time to post these great informational videos. I started playing D&D with my family when I was 8, and now that im 21, it's died down a lot, and really the only oppertunity for us to continue is if I take the mantel of DM, which is what brought me to your channel. Long story short I can't thank you enough for helping all of us understand DMing!
It's 1:30 in the morning here in the Netherlands, but you inspired me to become a new dm. I will run my first group in a few weeks, and I am really looking forward to it.
I will continue watching your channel, hope you'll have a great day.
I have only played D&D one time though but I hope that that won't be a problem
Nice, I'm in the Netherlands too have been trying to find a group to play with for a while most of my friends aren't really interested :P
OverNightGaming I finally found a group, just by accident (some of them I already knew, some others I've never seen) . If there is a small change that you happen to live in Zeeuws Vlaanderen you're more than welcome to join us.
Just a quick thank you for all of this free content! After running my first intro game, my group are about to start my first written campaign and they are sure to (without realising it) benefit hugely from all of your advice about things like not railroading, having concurrent story arcs that continue even if the PCs don't act, skill challenges and just all the other tips and tricks. Can't wait to get them playing and see what they come up with each session. Cheers Matt :D
Your videos are always a joy to watch. Really appreciate all the effort you put in 'em. A well-deserved 50k, here's to 50k more.
It is so weird to have been here long enough to think, "I hope one day Matt gets to make and release some content of his own, related to his hobby/passion." And to now be thinking, "OHMYGOSH!!! MATT IS MAKING SOMETHING AWESOME!!!"
Also, whenever you, Matt, and Liam get together and you tell us about it, I feel like a kid reading a crossover comic book or crossover episode of my favorite Cartoon Characters.
Playing DnD right now! Thanks for all all the hard work Matt!
Jesus christ Matt I would happily take a video every week man. Your killing me!
Congrats on 50k! Thanks for all your sage advice and wisdom.
"I guess the reason I like paladins is...it's the only class that comes with a built in narrative hook." Paladins certainly do, and it's what makes them one of the most interesting classes to me, but they're not the only one. Clerics have the same hook, but perhaps to a lesser extent in most cases, but *warlocks* have as much of a narrative hook, if not _more_ than the paladin, built in to the class, since a warlock's patron is a living, breathing entity that can come down and tell the character they have to do _this_ or _that_.
Hey Matt, this is my first youtube comment ever, but I thought you'd be happy to know that between your advice, critical roll, Reddit DnD, and other youtube shows, I did make my own homebrew game around 6 months ago. It's been going great, characters and I have both been loving it. Now, 2 of my current 6 players are making their own games. One is an evil campaign, and one is a normal, starting with Storm King's Thunder. Thank you for the inspiration, and keep up the good work. I can't wait to watch each of your videos. I am very happy to have this hobby in my life.
I'd Like to say thanks for your influence on me from D&D. I started watching your videos 3 weeks ago. Following that a week ago I had purchased the D&D 5E starter set and ran my first session as Dungeon Master for a group of 7!
Thank you so much, you are one of the reasons me and my friends have begun playing dnd.
Hey Matt, I knew from your language that you were nerdfighter! And you mention a bit of emulating the editing style that that the Vlogbrothers have, and my one suggestion in that regard would be that some of your cuts could be tightened up like theirs have over the years. Theres a number of cuts in your video that you could shave off perhaps an eighth of a second and it would greatly improve your flow! Keep it up though, you're easily my favorite D&D/DM channels on youtube.
Thank you for making me feel like I can DM, and thank you for helping to give so many other people that confidence and knowledge too! Nothing makes me happier than seeing other people playing and loving D&D.
I just recently started a new game with my friends, I've been building out my world, and I'll be DMing that soon. I'm hoping I'll be able to get my friends to start DMing too.
OMG MATT! CONGRATS! I'm so happy for you, the channel and community!
I love how you, Matt, were a physics guy before you became a creator. I started out thinking I was going to be a rocket scientist in elementary school and junior high, but then I realized math got me kinda depressed and so for a while I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. In high school though, I figured out that my calling was to create art, and I started writing and sketching. Currently I'm in film school and my life consists of writing, making films, freelance videography, and DMing for a couple game groups at my college. It's inspiring to know that one of the guys I see as a creative mentor has a similar story as me. I wish you the best of luck and thank you for being willing to put yourself out there on TH-cam.
My mother also tried to get my brother and I into D&D back in the early 2000's but I was way too young and my brother was at "That Age" where he didn't really want to listen to his mom tell stories for a few hours, even if he did get to kill goblins and orcs.
Anyways, I've just started DMing in the last year and I can say your videos have helped tremendously and the first few Running The Game videos really got me on the path of running adventures for my friends and having an absolute blast.
Thanks so much for your videos, you're one of the channels I have the little notification bell on for!
I firmly believe that Matt is the version of myself that never gave up playing D&D (sans beard). Got into AD&D when it first came out and our DM mixed in elements of The Empire of the Petal Throne, played 3.5, but then fell out of playing because life. Kudos to you Matt!
You are an amazing dude, Matt. I've watched you for hours learning how to DM (never even played before). Because of how awesome your vids are, I was able to jump right in and run a SEVEN HOUR session with my group for the first time. So thank you so much for your dedication to this channel. You deserve all the success in the world, brother!
Your theory about what kids think of art makes sense to me. When I listened to music, I always wondered about the crafting of music, particularly the piano/keyboard, which was something very visually telling to me. I remember sitting before the table to eat and wandering off "playing" on the edge of the table as if it was a piano while humming (even though I had no idea what I was doing). Today, I play keyboard at a band.
I just DM'ed for my brother and a friend. It was so much fun! Thank you Matt!
57:50 Man that physics part hit home. I'm planning on majoring in physics, and I wonder how much I'll really be able to contribute to the field. We'll see how it goes.
Similar situation, I would say though that it depends a lot on your field of interest. Cosmology and particle physics are mostly dotting i's and crossing t's, or looking at incredibly extreme edge cases, at this point, but things like nanophysics or fluid dynamics are still in their infancy/adolescence, and if you can engage with those you might well be the Newton or Feynman to that field.
Noah Topper as a physicist, I contribute through research AND by sharing my passion via teaching.
Noah Topper create a unified field theory.
Gotrek Gurnisson Holy crap that's literally exactly what I'm interested in.
***** It is the area most of us are/were interested in, it's beauty unto itself.
Mama dukes called your bluff! Congrats on the subscribers, it's good to see you still putting out long length videos, even if they're not the most efficient method of getting yourself out there.
50k is way too little for this channel. It's been a HUGE help as a new DM to watch your videos. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for making awesome content man!
Matt, I've chatted with you on twitter and it's been a pleasure. Your videos have singlehandedly led to me DMing for 6 brand new players, then 7, then 8. Because everyone loves it! So thank you so much for leading us to having great times!
Also, been here since 3k ish? Thank you for sharing your knowledge and taking time out for us!
Congratulations Matt. I enjoy watching your stuff. You have a gift!! Look forward to more fun videos.
Hi Matt, we appreciate all you do for us Dms and players, and give aways are not needed to keep us all watching. I use word of mouth to encourage people to check you out.
Oh my god, it makes me so happy to hear you talk about the Culture series. It's probably my favourite book series of all time but always seems to be criminally overlooked by most people I've talked to, especially in the US where far less people seem to have ever even heard of it. My favourite is also Excession, tied with Use of Weapons. I'm surprised you didn't recommend starting with Consider Phlebas, given that it's the first published and the Idiran War makes up such an important part of the backdrop for the other books and it's an easy in to the series. In any case, thanks for bringing the books to the attention of your viewers.
you know what i didnt realize when i started watching this video in doubletime, is how quickly i was breezing through it. half an hour later, i have all this content i was suposed to have in an hour. Matt, i love how quickly you dish out your content, thank you for your time
Omg go 50k subs! There are so many playing D&D as DMs thabks to you. You should go out and treat yourself, hangout with friends and enjoy this achievement.
We love ya, man. And I for one appreciate everything you do and the information you impart. Thank you!
I'm glad to say I found your channel when you were just starting it. Everything D&D related kind of fell into place at once. Within month, I had my friend ask me to try d&d, I found this channel, and many of my cousins all said they had just started playing it.
That was last year. Now, I have lots of knowledge and merchandise, and I am preparing to run a game for my friends.
It's like a D&D Renaissance.
Thank you for your passion. I am a Youth Services Librarian, and I just ran my first game of D&D yesterday with some of the teens at my library. Those five kids had a blast. We played for two hours right there in the library and as we finished they all said they couldn't wait to play again. That I felt confident enough to run this game is in large part due to you telling me again and again,"You can do it." Keep up the great work.
90215 is great. "Cinema" into "Leave It" is a great 1-2!
Thanks for the great literary suggestions. I just picked up your book Priest and am digging it.
The Tomb of Horrors is a truly awful adventure.
Also, thanks for your videos. I've been playing D&D since I was 14 (almost 30), and always feel reinvigorated or like I'm learning/thinking about something in a new way in my DMing when listening/watching you. My relatively new players also use your series as a guide and are already trying their hand at DM/GMing soon. I'd say you're definitely successful in making it approachable, but more importantly doing so while showing others that it can be a rich artistic experience.
Gad I keep getting interrupted!
I remember 5000! Congrats. And thanks for the recommendation on the TH-camrs. I agree with you on the Yes album too.
You deserve no less sir, you have quality content for us noob DMs and deserve even more praise. Massive respect from Argentina!
Happy to say that when I was recommended my first Pratchett book it was also Guards, Guards. My bookshelf is now full and I encourage lots of people to start the same way. I particularly love Vetinari in Guards, Guards
You always bookend your videos so excellently.
CONGRATULATIONS ON MAKING ALL THESE VIDEOS AND CREATING THIS AMAZING COMMUNITY MATT!
Thanks for the content, Matt! Wouldn't be running my first game if I didn't have your content. Here's to another 50k congrats!
Congrats it has been very good seen the evolution of the channel. The questions and your answers was really good.
the giveaway idea is interesting. I enjoyed the part of the books and will check out a couple of these down the road.
Hey Matt. I wanted to say thanks for all the helpful tips you've given so far for us, they've certainly helped me a bunch in taking over as my groups DM for running a homebrew campaign. Thanks for the confidence boost!
I just hosted D&D last night and I'm playing tonight. Love your vids, Matt.
Congratulations from Nottingham, England. Robin Hood would be proud. Love the content of your videos and the speed of your speech. Wish that I had more time to read your novels!
Shout out to that original copy of RoboRally in the background. I gave mine away to a friend when he graduated college. Man, we loved that game. Anyway, congrats, on 50K!
A note on the editing comment you made when talking about the vlogbrothers from someone at film school hoping to become an editor: I like your current editing style. It feels much more natural and makes your jump cuts less noticable. Jump cuts can be jarring and sometimes they work but they're easy to make them look bad. Keep doing what you're doing.
Dude, based on your knowledge and enthusiasm I DM'd for the first time today! I designed a little 'reverse' dungeon crawl and my 11 year old kids played D&D for the first time today. Lots of fun was had by all!
Keep up the good work!
Yes absolutely on the need for short modules! Part of the reason I am stoked for Tales from the Yawning Portal
I was looking for a books for my son to read. Thank you for commenting on the Tiffany Atkins series. I'll check it and see if it fits the themes and narrative I want for him ^_^
Congrats on the subs! Love your channel and have been following it since you begun the "running the game" sessions. Peace, out!
So cool that you watch Techmoan!! I love that channel.
great job on your channel. don't worry about your visual presentation, Matt. yours is fine and not what I watch your vids for. I often just listen to you while walking or driving anyway.
Hey Matt. I just started DMing. We had discussed playing since 2015. Your videos helped me get started and we had our first two session last week and my friends loved it. We ran the goblins in the temple from you early videos. One of my players has already offered to run the game next so I could play. Thanks for the inspiration.
Hey Matt I have tons of subscriptions on TH-cam. I recently found your videos about 2 months ago. You are the only person on TH-cam whose content I have watched 100% of and simply have trouble waiting for your you to publish new videos. There is a certain magic in your videos and I am sure eventually your channel will have many many times the subscribers it does now. Keep up the good work and please don't ever go away.
Congratulations on 50K man I love all your videos and all the content you make I wanna thank you because without you we wouldn't have this content we love
Matt, you are so eloquent and such a wonderful speaker. I find your videos to be totally fascinating and tend to focus my attention on your words to a degree I do not with other YT videos. Really terrific oration.
You are great, eloquent, articulate, and entertaining! Yet to read your books, but I have them!
congrats Matt on 50k. your videos helped reignited my desire to play. first game in four years was yesterday.
went from 53k to 94k in 5 months. Congrats on the success thus far. You've changed a lot of people lives.
Watching this making morning coffee. Thank you Matt for reinvigorating my DMing.
Congrats to Matt! Your passion for d&d, literature, storytelling and being a decent human cat lover is inspiring. Also: check out Pertubator! Synth excellence.
Your DM tips have been completely invaluable dude! Congrats on 50k!
Geez, more writers to check out, more stuff to fit into my backlog. It's a never ending cycle, it is.
Thanks for making these videos. Because of finding you on reddit I started watching Critical Role and now I just finished my third session as DM for a group of coworkers! Running them through "Against Cult of the Reptile God". Biggest challenge has definitely been curbing their murder hobo tendencies.
Love the Culture series - glad to see another fan! I started with Matter, but having read all of them Excession is definitely my favourite.
Your advice to myself as a fledgling DM has honestly been invaluable. Thank you Matt, you have improved my DnD games for not only myself but my players!
Matt! Thank you very much for answering my question, much appreciated!
Iain Banks' "Use of Weapons", and Murakami's "Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" are my 2 most recommended books to other people. Great authors with such vivid imaginations and such great storytelling styles that really bring their world's to life.
I have watched just about all of your DM tips videos. They helped a lot and my group seems to really enjoy the game I run.
Great video Matt! Lots of fun stories to hear.
However, I would like to point out that Narnia does actually have quite a few strong female characters, assuming by strong you mean well-written and powerful in their personality. While the first book has a timid little girl and a by the book girl for its main female characters, later books like the Magician's Nephew( my favorite, so many great characters and interesting concepts) and the Silver Chair are a little stronger in their personalities. Perhaps the best example would be Aravis from The Horse and His Boy, who takes a lot of action to get out of a marriage that her father had arranged in a grab for power. Then again, she isn't exactly a character that would be appealing to a young girl since she is rather rude to the main character for most of the book.
Anyway, thanks for the great content and congrats on 50,000 subscribers.
G'day from Australia!!
Your videos are unbelievably helpful and i'm sure all your subscribers are eternally grateful for your help. Keep up the great content and congratulations on the 50 k subscribers, You definitely deserve it.
Looking forward to those two videos you mentioned (particularly your take on kuo toa, if it's gotten that far). I will certainly buy your stronghold rules when they go on kickstarter; your channel deserves it!
I think this video made me realise that now is the right time for me to hit the bell for your videos. I value your opinion on most everything you talk about and I'm more tuning into your videos for you rather than just the topic. I hadn't heard it out into words before. Thank you for what you do, it gets me excited to build my worlds
I have been playing dnd for 4-5 years now and I just started playing with my online friends and we are one of those groups where everyone takes their hand at dming and it's great thank you for your tips the last few months have been great playing dnd with my friends.
Its funny how matt 4 years ago is talking about his favourite youtubers and rewatching old videos couple of times and here i am doing the same thing with matts videos. Cheers boss
That story about your mother was really sweet, sounds like she was a pretty amazing person :)
Hey Matt, congrates on reaching 50,000. I discovered you in December and I have just made it throigh the 4 live play stream videos. I enjoyed them but I can appreciate why you stopped.
Btw one of the first cassettes (remeber those) I ever listened to to the point it started wearing out was the selftittled Genesis albumn with Home by the Sea.
I remember when you hit 5000. Wasn't that long ago. Congrats!
Hey Matt,
Thought I'd recommend one of my favorite authors. L.E. Modesitt Jr. is a fantasy/sci-fi writer who has a very deep interest in his books having realism and exploring shades of gray. Ethics and morality come up in his books very often, and all of his magical systems are rooted in what could be realistically feasible. I think you would enjoy his writing. I would recommend "Haze" or "The Ethos Effect" for a sci-fi book, and "Imager" or "The Magic of Recluce" for his fantasy books (my preferences are in the stated order for each genre).
Loved the video! Hope we can see more Q&A soon!
Another fantastic video, Matt. And speaking as a fellow aging professional writer/D&D player/prog nerd (who had a similar epiphany upon first hearing Wind and Wuthering), you should *definitely* get into Gentle Giant.
Hello Matt, Brazilian here. Just to let you know I became a 5th edition GM for my friends and I always use your hints. You make me a lot better GM even though you don't know. Thanks a LOT and keep your amazing job. Peace, out.
Just about to DM a group for the first time, Matt! I've been playing for 2 years but even though I really enjoy worldbuilding, acting and the idea of GMing, it's always seemed quite daunting to me and I've never gotten the chance. It still does a little, but your videos have helped quite a bit in helping me see what needs to be done in DMing and planning accordingly, as well as giving me the confidence to just go out and start something.
Admittedly I'm a little anxious, as not only am I starting this with no DMing experience, but only one of the players has played before too, but hopefully it'll all work out! My players have wanted to try characters more complex than just those out of the standard PHB, including a Goblin and a human in dog form. Generally my response so far has been to allow them to do it, so long as it's balanced with the other players and I know exactly what's going on.
Anyways, thanks so much for making this channel and helping new DMs like me try to start out. It would be enough if your videos were just entertaining, but they're quite useful as well.