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A Crap Guide to D&D [5th Edition] - Dungeon Master
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Look closely at what Mercer is holding in his arms. It's not rolls of paper, but pool noodles. Which he will use when he sneaks into your house and throw at you from the corner of your living room. The continuity is _stunning!_
how hard do you have to throw a pool noodle to stun someone with it?
@@cfMegabaston Nat20 Dex Check.
@@cfMegabaston doesn't matter as long as you're a level 5 monk.
@@GlassedGamer Better have a high modifier for that saving throw, and a nat20. Those pool noodles hit for 8 D8+5 blunt with 4 D4 Force damage.
I KNEW IT!!! XD
"If he [JoCat] did Magic: The Gathering..."
He... actually did one.
Shh... don't tell him. Let him dream.
Yes shh
Shhhhh save his poor wallet
It's too late for me. My wallet is already condemned...
😅
@@Airier You can afford a wallet! Luck son of a....
The fact that Jocat got MATT FRIGGIN MERCER to join in on this just goes to show how popular this series got. Still in disbelief about that.
I mean it's a pretty notorious series, I'm not completely surprised. Still, it was amazing
Two fun facts:
-The bard that started singing (youtuber Cami-Cat) actually has a full version of the song posted on her channel titled “Life of A Bard”
-Jo mentioned in an OSP podcast (hosted by the ones with Red and Blue eyes that were doing the whole situation/story trope analysis) that he didn’t tell Matt Mercer he was going to interrupt him yelling “No one cares!”.
And the pool noodles returned!
love that song
"Wow I feel personally attacked by the completely accurate assessment"
Translation
"Never have I been so offended by something I 100% agree with"
Someone thinks they're too good for a free banana...
"You just insulted my entire race. But yes."
7:20 that's the entire script of the Bee Movie 😂
And he tried so hard to figure it out!
Ohhh, i did not realize it either.
@@danielknapp159 I just read Berry and not to fly in the house and my head went: "1+1=do you like jazz?"
The top line should make it obvious
The All B's report card was what nailed it home for me.
Person “It’s like herding cats.”
DM “So you have it that easy, huh?”
more like herding star-knoss
@@mrroboshadow I'm going to assume those are similar to cats..
@@v_vmat oh no they eat cats....exclusively
Herding tressyms
Herding cat girls.
No...wait...that-that might actually be easier.
"Apparently he wasn't expecting us to go to the moon, or for it to succeed."
...PUFFIN!
... YOUR RIGHT!!!
I completely forgot he did that!
😯🤣
When you're too into Dr Stone
Some fun facts (Note these facts are with the ones I am most familiar with, feel free to add more if you want)
-Unexpectables: 1.The joke about the character having a novel for a backstory is true. They have said he did alot.
2. The Tiefling in the beginning was referenced in the sorcerer video. There was art of him doing a powerslide near the beginning.
3. The Kobold that had the homebrew the player does in fact have homebrew he has made and can purchase on Dms Guild (dont worry, he has dm before so he wants it to be balanced)
4. Person with 3 eyes is MontyGlu, Dm to the Unexpectables
5. Person with the surfer accent, Octopimp, was a guest character in the Unexpectables
-Dawn Right group: 6. Most of them are talented artists and a voice actor
7. The Dragonborn with a gun did happen, what's better, he's a blind Dragonborn
8. That was a possum who was played by the same person who played the kobold.
--Osp:9. They are actually called Red and Blue
10. Blue focuses on talking about history while Red has a series called Troupe Talks talking about different troupes and she talks about several myths (might be worth checking out)
--Tulock the Barbarian: 11. His whole channel is about making characters from fiction and making Dnd characters (hence the multiclass)
--Jess Jackdaw: 12.He does art such as Dnd mash ups from pokemon to Scps (also something worth checking out)
--Cami-cat: 13. That small part of the song was never intended to have a full version but eventually, one did come out.
Runesmith, Davvy Chappy, Xp to level 3: All separate channels but all have Dnd content. If you want more you can check them out.
In addition, the guy that asked if he could stab that girl was Blaine Simple, who makes animatics most often to either tell an unusual DnD story or try to recreate anime characters in a DnD character down to the correct spells.
But what about the guy with the TV head? What's _his_ deal?
@@MasterZebulin Yaroshien, the Dm to the Dawn Right group
@@vdsora32 Oh, I see.
But, really. What's with the TV?
@@MasterZebulin dont know, he just uses that for himself
7:30 while you were reading it, the realization it was the bee movie script hit me like a truck.
Don't you mean a tennis ball?
Definitely think you'd enjoy "Overly Sarcastic Summeries" it's entertaining and informative
Red and Blue always get me on this video
Do you mean Overly sarcastic Productions, because If so, I’d agree. It’s so much fun, and the myths videos are way too much fun
ESPECIALLY, miscellaneous myths.
@@mudkipalpharius Pins? Did you mean myth
Takahata101 plays on the D&D Series "The Unexpectables". Which is probably my personal favorite large D&D series out of all of them. JoCat was actually a guest star in The Unexpectables (which is something they occassionally do), and he pretty much brought almost the entire crew on for this episode (including Octopimp, who was the previous guest star before JoCat).
Additionally, Edward Bosco, the Voice Actor of Alistor in Hazbin Hotel is currently a member of the main cast of The Unexpectables as well.
I totally recommend The Unexpectables, it is a fantastic D&D campaign, and MontyGlu (Takahata101's sister) is probably one of my personal favorite DM's.
I second this recommendation! There are a LOT of episodes and it'll take a long time to catch up, but it's worth it. I have personally listened to most of the episodes twice.
Literally just caught up to where Jocat's character left the party. The Greckles line about the back story is comedy gold.
Wait, Ed is a part of the cast? Wow, I actually didn't know that! I knew they get a fifth member eventually, but I didn't know who it was.
I really need to get around to watching them eventually, specially since Gaijin is playing a freaking historically-accurate ninja kenku! (As you'd expect from the guy)
But I'm already trying to catch up to Mighty Nein and Explorers of the Heart, as well as playing in my own group, so it's going to take a while...
Agreed! I'm currently in their 'sky pirates' bit for the unexpectables, and these guys make me laugh in ways I never expect lol. And I'm absolutely hype to see jocat on there.
@@AguionStryke Most people consider him a member of the primary cast (since he’s been with them for the past several arcs) but Ed still insists that he’s not
Side note: if you're really looking into trying out your first experience as a DM, I recommend throwing some creative situations at your players by creating weird and usual characters. Here's an example that's free to use: the party has been tasked to investigate a small village has recently become tortured by locals hearing voices in their heads with the grand reveal being that it's a Ghostwise Halfling with a few levels in Sorcerer using _invisibility_ to remain unseen. It's great because _see invisibility_ is an instant solution that more often than not goes unused.
A simple go-to if you're stuck for an "event" is a slave caravan coming through the area, selling off highly unusual "creatures" which are blatantly sapient but don't know the local language. A good or neutral party may try to free the slaves or ruin the caravan. A neutral or evil party may want to buy one, or even help the caravan owner. Either way, with a large amount (or just one bought one) of NPCs with communication difficulties and an unknown origin point, returning them to their home (for good, or to aid the slavers in getting more wares) sets out a simple adventure path, made as complicated as required by the DM. If they, for some Player reason, IGNORE the slavers, have the slaves be secret cultists or spies being smuggled in to cause a disaster, on the PRETENSE of slave trade.
The animated spellbook is really great...
You can't even cast ANIMATE DEAD!!! warlock trash.
7:04 circa: that's The Bee Movie script
I was about to say it but thank you for saying for me, it’s actually been a long time since I’ve watched it
I love the part where the character pulled out a gun
Yup. 😁
The *BLIND* character you mean...
@@Airier can we talk about your group was also able to go to the moon and it worked?
I do not remember that going well for puffin forest when that happened to him.
Thanks for this reaction :) .
You probably realised by now, but every character was a prominent youtuber cameoing.
If you want another Jocat video, his 'Girls' video is short and sweet.
Overwise, DoorMonster.
I absolutely love door monster! That would be great.
Yes! DoorMonster! As long as he starts or ends with "The Guards Themselves" which is the most Shadowrun film I've ever seen.
37:46 Yes.
Conjure Animals (PHB pg. 225) is a 3rd level Conjuration spell. It allows you to summon eight beasts of challenge rating 1/4 or lower (or less beasts of higher CR). A Giant Poisonous Snake (MM pg. 327) is CR 1/4.
If you cast the spell with a 9th level spell slot, you can summon x4 as many. Allowing you to summon 8x4 = 32 Giant Poisonous Snakes.
If you're going to do the Monster Hunter vids from JoCat, you need to go off of the "official" playlist he made himself, because they need to be seen in the correct order.
XP to Level 3 has a pretty entertaining series on the possible D&D classes (the Cleric is my favorite) which are pretty fun.
Spongebob didn't do a fantasy episode. That image is from the episode Mid-Life Crustacean. Specifically, the montage in which Spongebob repeatedly asks "Are you feeling it now, Mr. Krabs?" For that particular moment, he asks, "Art thou feeling now, Mr. Krabs?"
Also Blaine Simple is a vampire, so he'll quickly regen any damage he takes from eating his knife.
Well, there actually WAS a fantasy-themed episode, the title was even a homage to RPGs (It was titled 'Dunces and Dragons'), in the episode Spongebob and Patrick go to a jousting tournament where they get knocked so far into the air they somehow end up in a fantasy AU.
Can't wait for him to react to all the crossovers that Airier has no idea who they are :D
There's crossovers?
@@Airier In this episode, all the people who you did not recognize.
like red and blue from osp, I suggest you react to their skits first
@@jonathanguajardo8430 I think their channel has a few too many videos to say that. A reaction channel could probably keep itself going with daily uploads for a year just with their animations.
@@jonathanguajardo8430 honestly i feel like the skits,if you mean the Di Vine type stuff, is better with the context of having watched the vids on those gods and figures. IMO
If you saw the credits it’ll show each and every voice actor that took part of the scene with their characters they use for D&D or themselves
ok you asked about summoning 32 snakes. Here is what I found. (note this doesn't involve dice rolling, but it is what i found.)
On page 225 of the players handbook is the druid, and maybe other class i didn't look, spell conjure animals. It allows you to summon 8 feys in the form of animals as long as the animal is 1/4 challenge rating. The challenge rating of a contrictor snake on page 305 of the same book is 1/4 challenge rating. (you can get 1 challenge rating 2, 2 challenge rating 1 or four challege rating 1/2 if you prefer but this is purely for numbers)
As this is a level 3 spell it has the common trait of being able to get stronger if you use stronger spells, or as you might call them mage bullets.
If you use a level 5 spell slot you get twice as many creatures. three times as many if it's level 7 or four times if it is level 9.
Because of this if you use conjure animals with a level 9 spell slot it is entirely possible to summon 32 snakes in a single turn.
There is also conjure minor elements that lets you do the same thing except with elementals, but it caps out at triple the amount for higher levels due it it being level 4 and the stronger ones using level 6 and 8 respectively.
In addition to that there is conjure woodland beings which works the same as the minor elementals one except with feys instead of elements. All of them at their base spell use has the same amount of summons vs challenge rating.
While not exactly what was shown in the video, as there is no dice rolling involved, it likely is what was used as it was 32 exactly which is the most amount of the weakest type you can summon.
As a first time dm, I don’t do nearly as much planning as others do. I just joy bullet points of what they’ll expect and maybe a few contingencies. Kinda helps that I’ve constructed the campaign in a way where they’re always on the move and time is of the essence
I know this video has been out for a long time now, but I hope you see this. JoCat has an ongoing campaign called "Heart of Elynthi" and it is fantastic! Watch it in your own time, it is my personal favourite D&D series. I highly recommend it.
I've got notifications for it, and it's popped up in my feed, but I didn't know where to start since everything coming out now is far from the beginning.
@@Airier He has a playlist on his channel, which also includes the newest uploads which are unlisted. Just start right at the first video in that playlist and watch until you're caught up. I promise you you'll have a lot of good laughs with their shenanigans.
He turned into Obi-Wan at 14:43 for "Oh my" and I just about died.
"Well hello there."
😁👍
I can recommend the animated spellbook series by Zee Bradshaw
I would highly recommend watching Overly Sarcastic Productions Journey to the West series, it isn't done yet but I still rewatch it constantly.
34:25 That's CamiCat (no relatión to JoCat) and she made an entire song out of this, please react to it!!!
The Sorcerer T Posing is something I never notiiced XD
Also, he loves the Oxford Comma too XD
I'm uncomfortable with how accurate this D&D obsession journey is to mine
except i have never played (yet)
Oh yes! I want you to look at animated spellbook. Awesome animations with some nice sense of humor and you learn about some of the mechanics and spells in DnD!
We see dice and our rational brain goes 'We don't need more dice!'
Of course our goblin brain goes 'Ooh but the shiny rocks make wonderful clickity clack noises!' as we pocket MORE dice.
Jocat's numerous little elaborate bits + Airier's insatiable curiosity is what turns what would've been a roughly 25 minute reaction into an almost 50 minute reaction.
Side note, the fact Airier has this natural behavior of over-curiousness means they would make a great Tabaxi ;)
You should definitely react to the Gobboventures. There are only two short vids, so far, but still. You could include them with the redacted versions of some of the D&D classes (I believe that it's just the Cleric and Warlock - the redacted originals should be linked in the descriptions).
Also the Crap Guide to Monster Hunter videos since they were what really got JoCat popular in the first place.
Do a reaction to xp to level 3 videos. He's hilarious
he introduced me to the "i cast fireball" memes (though if he hadn't i would have invented them myself with how my players were behaving). now that i'm a player not a dm i basically cast nothing but thunderbolt.
and remind me to never give a player a "staff of +12 to anything fire related"
yes animated spellbooks I started that recently it's actually pretty funny
I hope he does a reaction to Cami Cat's Life of a Bard.
Oh right! Overly Sarcastic Productions is always a fun channel.
Red and blue from overly sarcastic productions being there just made my smile so much bigger
i kinda want him to react to Cami-Cats "Life of a bard" song now
The one who actually started singing is Cami-Cat and you will love her videos.
"if he did magic the gathering i'd get back into that so hard"
{everyone who is subbed to jocat} he does
Rip my wallet. 😅
Airier: I might get back into magic the Gathering.
Puffin forest: Hold my dice.
The first group in the demonstration were the unexpectables. A long going d&d series featuring Takahata101 from team four star.
Please tell me someone does the Perfect Cell voice! Please, please, please!
I'm proud to say that I have DMed a game. It's given me insight into just how much work goes into DMing, and I respect people all the more for doing it.
Anyone else only recognize one or 2 people at first and now know half of them on rewatch?
the giant text box is the bee movie script
"I wont forget it forever" him
"Its the bee movie script" me
If I were to DM, it'd be me and my big bad Google doc of homebrewed monsters and bosses
“If he did a Magic: the Gathering video...”
Too late! He did! You’re welcome! Lol
For who want to know, the large wall of text the DM was spewing was the Bee Movie script.
41:05 I love how the "You can Certainly try" comment goes completely over Airier's head because he's never seen Critical Role. Very much highly recommend ......campaign 2, since they kinda start campaign one after already playing it for a year and then getting the idea "Hey's let's play stream this madness!"
To your question with the 32 snakes: yes. It is possible. There is a spell called Conjure Animals, 3rd level druid (and possibly ranger) spell,
That allows you to summon a certain amount of beasts based on their challenge rating and the level you cast it.
Example: with the basic spell you are able to summon 8 animals with CR1/4 // 4 animals CR 1/2 // 2 animals CR 1 // 1 animal CR 2.
When you use a 5th, 7th or 9th spellslot to cast this spell, the amount of animals are doubled/tripled/quadripled. And that can be extremely broken.
A little story: our party once investigated a cave full of spiders. After cleaning it out and destroying the spiders nest, the spider queen showed up.
After rolling initiative, my druid decided to cast Conjure Animals and summoned 8 wolves, surrounding the spider queen. Because, Pack tactics.
And when the wolves got their turn, they ripped the boss apart. The encounter was designed as a miniboss by our DM,
AC 19, 90 HP and lair actions. And the encounter was over after 2 rounds.
Back to the video, a giant constrictor snake has a CR of 2, according to DND beyond.
So it shouldn't have been possible for that guy to do it, unless he has some sort of item that allows him to do it.
If they would have been regular Constrictor Snakes, 32 of them would actually be legit because their CR is 1/4.
Funny how you mentioned you wanted to see him do magic the gathering, because he actually has a quick video on that that was sponsored by wizards of the coast. XD
I've been waiting for this to give one recommendation: Cami-Cat "Life of a Bard." It's an animated full song adaptation based off the fragment of her "firbolg bard hits on Evilus Maximus" scene. She's actually done several original songs inspired by D&D as well as numerous covers and other originals, but this is a good one to go with here because it ties directly to this.
as someone who just started DMing my first campaign....i feel this so hard
I was going to mention it anyways, and then you let slip the word "Magic". There is also a JoCrap Guide to Magic the Gathering. I will stand by for video.
Yes, Yakkity Sax (AKA "The Benny Hill Theme) is the perfect chase scene music. It makes any chase scene funny!
27:40 That’s Red from Overly Sarcastic Productions, and she’s a huge Reboot fan. I think you’d like her videos
Pretty sad you cut the credits though, they show everyone that was included.
I did think about leaving them in, but I wasn't sure if anyone wanted to see me geeking out over everyone I recognized.
@@Airier I kinda would have loved that xD
You saw that Gnome in the Crap Guide to D&D: Wizard. And they're a character of the Animated Spellbook series, which I'm also excited about that you're considering watching them. It honestly is a great series to watch especially if you play D&D as it clears up a lot of things and gives some good insight into how certain spells work. But yeah, you've seen him before, you may see more of him, guess we'll see ^-^
Jocat on the shelf really is adorable, isn't it?
Also makes one question how the CrapGuide universe works XD
the guy who dropped the novel on the table was Gaijin Goombah who plays Greckles the Kenku Rogue
XP to level 3 has a lot of skits and a series explaining classes, so you could react to those
Honestly, being a DM isn't that scary. The more you do it, the more you'll find a style you like and get better at adapting. The most important thing to remember is it's just a game and you're there to have fun with everyone. If everyone had fun, you did your job right.
animated spell book great stuff
The crowned crab that casts polymorph is CritCrab, who has a TH-cam channel...he relates stories of D&D sessions gone wrong from reddit.
Being a good DM is 35% prep and 65% willingness to throw it all out and bullshit the rest. A great DM has all that and more
I don't get why people don't wanna be dungeon masters. I'd shoot myself if I ever had to play in someone else's campaign (except if the DM is Mr. Welch), because I love being the storyteller and the ultimate force of nature in my games.
11:41
Ooooh I just got the joke. He is literally rolling dice
Some ideas:
Zee Bashew, Animated Spellbook as well as the cold road
deerstalker pictures , 1 for All D&D Comedy Web-Series
Adan, D&D Story Road to Godhood as well as a lot of shorts
Reba Derps, D&D Story
"Good thing he doesn't do more expensive videos"
Me sitting in my room after ordering multiple Gobbo plushies looking nervous...
6:50
If a Wizard researched the Mind Flayer's singature "Mind Blast" ability, and turned it into a spell with a verbal component,
this would totally be how it looks like.
Yes there is a way to get them with summoning spells
Edit; but it differs with class for wizard I think it is a 3red tier spell but a 9th it is possible to get that meny snakes
He makes it look so difficult and complicated, but I still wish it was as easy as he makes it look
"oh, it says Pog"
no, the sheet's upside down to face the character and says God :')
B+ for effort though. Always enjoy your commentaries and the JoCat series has been a really fun revisit! Thanks for doing this!
Cami-Cat did make a full version of that song her Furbolg Bard was about to sing BTW. And it's semi-animated if ya wanna react to it. It's called "Life of a Bard"
So that's what her character was. I didn't pay attention to that before.
This is the most accurate depiction of a dnd session I've ever seen
The full song that Cami-cat did from de segment from this video, it is called "The life of the bard" and it is awesome, you should check it out, just for you to enjoy :3
By the way, at least the first two groups, The Unexpectables and D6: Dawn Rite, are campaigns Jocat has played in, and you can find all their sessions on at least TH-cam.
Also, the Unexpectables (which are archived on Takahata101's channel) do that annual Orctober 40K miniseries "Da Krew" that I've recommended to you several times already :)
Look Airier, so many new people to watch XD
DM: Screams Bee Movie Script
Everyone else: takes notes
If you think about watching Critical Role: they are making "Crit Recap Animated", which is basically an Abridged version of the season 2 of the show. It's only 3 of them for episodes 1-16 and they less than 12 minutes combined, so you can even make a reaction to them. Of course, it's nothing close enough to the show itself, but on the other hand: 133 episodes around 4 hours long each and still coming out weekly, so...
What the hell Airier!? Lord of the Rings was NOT an standard fetch quest! I was a delivery quest, with escort elements thrown in, thank you very much :D
No, you're right. I'll concede this one. 😁
@@Airier Also, I've offered to GM for you before, but it sounds like you managed to get into a group already?
Yeah. A couple long running games started up in my discord server. I'm in one and lurk the others. 😁
Jocat has actually done a short crap guide to mtg
Are you familiar with the DnD setting of Dark sun. If not check out a lore vid as the world of Athus is not like other DnD setting at all.
Honestly almost everything from “the barkeep ignores you” to “your target runs away” was totally justified outrage and I think he was right to be upset for that one
“NOI’MNOTGOINGTODESCRIBEITAGAINFORYOOOUUUUUUU!!!!!”
27:32 Red is a huge ReBoot fan.
I recommend Overly sarcastic productions video on loki and how many people interpret him.
I have to ask, have you bought the goblin plushy?
My favorite cameo in that video is still red and blue because I really didn't see it coming but there scene was hilarious
Same
The biggest problem of the game Jocat was running was mainly everyone kinda just ran over him and each other.
The final Crap guide... FOR NOW!
Lord of the Rings is NOT a fetch quest... he already starts with the ring, its a DELIVERY quest.
😯
Ah, my mistake.
@@Airier T'was a joke :D
For the JoCat addicts he plays a guest character on the Unexpectables (83-87)
😯👍
"What do you want to see next?"
...
Bro...
CRITICAL. ROLE.
Oh you want a pet tarrasqu? Wizard 17 buddy.
Simulacrum magic jar into a true Polymorphed tarrasqu. You now have a tarraqu
"How do cookies branch into BDSM?" well, have you ever watched Shimoneta?
"Summoning 32 snakes" well, with the circle of the shepherd druid, i think you can, probably.
... Yeah, Shimoneta fits. 😅👍
I just realised something:
-Jocat starts with jo
-Jocrap starts with jo too
=>Crap guide to dnd is a Jojo reference.
Edit: could Jocrap be Jocat's stand?
[Nani!!! Intensifies]