What Class is your Dungeon Master?
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- MONSTERS OF DRAKKENHEIM is 300+ pages of eldritch horror inspired monsters for 5e by the Dungeon Dudes! Coming to Kickstarter March 26th, 2024: www.kickstarter.com/projects/... We look at the core classes of D&D and discuss what type of DM style each class might represent.
TIME STAMPS
0:00 - Intro
1:28 - Artificer
2:57 - Barbarian
5:02 - Bard
6:31 - Cleric
8:07 - Druid
9:50 - Fighter
11:18 - Monk
12:41 - Paladin
14:06 - Ranger
15:24 - Rogue
16:37 - Sorcerer
17:45 - Warlock
18:43 - Wizard
20:49 - What DM Are You?
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The Warlock DM is the one who will lead their players on a seemingly-normal campaign for years before revealing they were working for an elder brain all along
neutral evil from the what alignment is your dm
Barbarian DM: “You all meet in front of a tavern. The bouncer looks you over and says, “Welcome to the Salty Spittoon. How tough are you?””
player: "How tough am I?! How tough am I!? I fought an anciet red dragon.... without fire resistance"
Okay, this is the perfect twist-tavern start for a campaign.
😂😂😂😂
dont mind me stealing that one for introducing a random inn in my campaign :D
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As a DM, Im definitely a Fighter/Bard. Story telling is fun, combat is fun, but when you get the chance to mix the two together for something incredible, it just feels awesome
Highfive colleague
*Monk/Sorcerer* I run my games with little to no prep and my combats in theater of the mind. I know the settting in detail, but I've no idea of how the story is going to unfold. I roll dice in the open, never fudge, know all the rules, ignore half of them and when players ask me if they can do something crazy 99% of the time my anwser is "I'll allow it" 😂
My people
I ran my first homebrew game like this. It made for a fun game, but it got pretty mad at times. Started out in lockdown as a solo game for my partner, she was cops trying to catch a bunch of rogues, 6 cops Vs 6 robbers, who had committed the heist when the game started. I'd watched a lot of cop shows, it just felt right. Eventually when it was allowed I brought in the other players. One created a mercenary company, the other was more freeform. but we had an epic crescendo of 3 groups of 3 characters they'd created as first responders in a full-scale invasion of rattlings, culminating in the tempest cleric flooding the battlefield and calling the lightning, The bard rampaging through the city as a wooly mammoth, The wizard riding a couatl with the ranger, The mercenary company's barbarian suplexing a huge rat-giant. The monk defending a tunnel into the basement of the castle the rats had dug with flurries of blows and headbutts. The whole thing was fucking glorious.
Normalize seeing all the different classes within you, like a creative mosaic ^_^
I don't like that word "normalize" as if what you're suggesting is somehow an alien concept. It's been a thing since we've told stories and thought about things. People forgetting to do good and important things doesn't suddenly make them abnormal.
As the DM, you will be at your best when you have a balanced and varied "party" of DM classes.
I am a Artificer/druid multiclass. I built my own VTT because none of the ones I tried were customizable enough. It is tightly integrated with my 300k+ word world wiki, and I know every hamlet and cave in my world.
What are you!? That's insane!
@@maximumdm9612 I was thinking the same thing lol
I'm literally programming my own VTT and i'm so glad i'm not alone in this lol
Holistic scientist.
Wtft
I picture the wizard DM is the person who tries to out smart the party without breaking the rules. Continually casting scrying on the party listening to their plans and then railroading would be the evil take but I like to attempt a prebuilt dungeon that his filled with traps or twists that I patiently wait for the party to face plant into. So I guess possibly a Rogue/Wizard
There’s some RAW vs. RAI issue around scrying, specifically “are PCs aware of making a WIS save? If so, how much are they aware of?” It’s entirely DM interpretation, but it’s typically poor form to punish a party with scrying and not give them an ability to react to it.
Whoever edited this video deserves some praise! The close-ups had me cackling good!
Yes! I was dying during the Monk puns
Agreed!
Definitely Ranger. I usually have a map for every area and I love using the environment to make combat and exploration more interesting.
Never have I felt so immediately identified. Artificer DM here. Crafting is a hobby in itself!
Also a little dip into druid. I've stolen a ton from modules and run a very sandbox campaign. I crafted the factions and their goals/motivations but mostly let my players go wild. Letting your players craft the story is great.
Also, super cool meeting you guys at Gencon!
Omg the second you guys described the Bard and Cleric DMs I knew I was a Bard-Cleric multiclass. I love the drama and the story and the NPCs but I also have my players at heart and want them to feel safe and have fun. If they push the line with a NPC or a situation too far though, they invoke my "wrath" in the form of having consequences for their actions. I might have a dash of Rogue in me because I'm pretty devious when planning sessions and I like to sit there smiling ominously as they discuss together as a party. Traps and puzzles and mind games are fun, but the best fun is pulling the rug out from under them and flipping things on their head (plays into the drama that I crave as a partial Bard)
Just started DMing recently and running Drakkenheim as my first campaign and just wanted to say thank you for all the love and effort y'all put into the campaign. My players are loving it and I am too 🤟
As a (still learning) DM, I think I'm a split between Sorcerer (modding and shaping pieces to fit my players and campaign), Paladin (reveling in putting them in tough scenarios with tougher choices), and Cleric (want to make sure everyone is having a good time and that players feel successful in what they are aiming to do).
Thanks y'all!
Not even 2 minutes in and I already feel incredibly called out
Artificer/fighter
Best episode ever. After DMing a 2.5-3 year homebrew campaign; I can say that DMing is a combination of everyone of these styles depending on the session. The true art of DMing is knowing what "class" the players need each session and what the campaign requires. I think that's the magic of RPGs.
I was never able to stay motivated for long-term campaigns until I embraced the ranger style of hex crawl campaign. Very front-heavy prep, but after that the structure makes it so easy for me to sit back and see what the players are interested in and then react to that.
The editing on this video is TOP TIER😂 The slow pushes, the pun highlights, absolutely hilarious!
Great video as always, Dudes! Such a fun premise!
I’m definitely a druid/fighter multiclass. I’ve got a whole history of the world in the form of mythology from the creation myth to the present. I love tightly tuned combat encounters with tactical terrain effects and custom built lair actions. I show up with point form notes, graph paper, a pencil, dice, and instead of minis I use multicolored plastic aquarium gravel cause they’re super cheap to buy in bulk, they sit flat on the board, and can be color coded for different enemy types.
Sounds pretty similar to me!
Do you also really want to swap your party to Pf2e?
@@chromaticblue3976 I’ve been trying to learn myself, but I’m kind of resigned to the fact that they probably won’t be into it.
I think a big thing is, depending on the group, your DM class may change as well! In my one group they have the most fun when I play the Wizard/Barb/artificer style. Modules and staying on the rails with big fights and even bigger minis. My other group loves when I play the fighter/ranger style. Tactical fights, tracking each piece of ammo, and having a map for everything and anything.
What a lovely video :). Love that it's highlighting how different tables can be, & how many ways to have fun in TTRPGS
Man this is my favorite video from you guys in a while.
Loved the pathfinder joke.
I’m a cross between druid “seamless world” and Cleric/bard tending to the stories each player discovers.
Man, I love these DM classification videos. The one on alignment was awesome. Brilliant stuff, Dudes
Glad you like them!
I think I'm mostly Sorcerer, I constantly roll up to my sessions with no plan beyond "this is where we left off". I do know my improv tends to go in really surprising directions, so I think there's some Rogue in there, I do a bit of sound design and a lot of back-and-forth roleplay that indicates some Bard, and i always want my players to feel excited and cared for, so I think a little bit of Cleric
GREAT episode! Enjoyed the enthusiasm and the editing.
I personally identified with Druid with a bit of Monk. I’ll spend so much time thinking about why my world works, and when I think I’ve got it I just scribble some stuff down and get to preparing what’s coming up in the session (which should be my focus cause it’s usually 3 days away)
Yep. That sounds like me too! 😈☠
From this video I figured I would be a Druid/Warlock mix for a GM. But a 3rd GM mutliclass with Monk could fit too.... and even a little bit of Sorcerer. And when I did in-person games, Cleric would also work a little bit.
This is my game exactly. I wold love to be a ranger/bard, but Druid/monk is my reality.
I think my main DM is a high level wizard/bard. She hand writes all her notes and she weaves all our backstories together effortlessly. Probably 1 sorc level because we're a bit chaotic so she'll throw her notes to the side and say okay we're winging it.
My current DM is definitely a Wizard. As for me, I used to be a full fledged Warlock, only focusing on building a horror experience, but that didn’t work out. I think I am now a Warlock 9, Rogue 6, Bard 3, Fighter 2. I am a huge fan of horror in D&D and I am always on the hunt for a new monster or plot that has the capability of unsettling my players. Mind games are my bread and butter and I thrive on keeping secrets close to my chest, I also love interesting puzzles. I also feel that music contributes a lot to sessions and I’ll spend hours curating playlists that evoke different feelings. And I want my players to be challenged and I often look up combat tips to make fighting monsters more than a hack and slash.
I feel like a Monk DM can also elevate the table to their level, all functioning on the same wavelength, creating a connected experience and definitely very theater of the mind.
What a fun thought experiment! Thanks dudes. And I think your general assessment for each "DM class" is spot-on.
After thinking it over I think I am a few levels of Druid and Bard with a lot of Sorcerer levels. Mostly improving but I plan story beats and build the world for my players to interact in. I try to do voices even though they usually all sound the same to me XD Love the video guys keep up the awesome work!~
My thought for the Warlock DM is that they're all about ancient powers and ancient knowledge. They're the ones that come in not just with the core 5.0 books, but with the AD&D monster manual and 3.5 supplements. They give out quest rewards not just in magic items or gold, but in 4.0 powers. They're also the most supportive of characters coming up with their own homebrew races or classes, so long as they review and approve everything first.
Hhhmm... that's what I understood of the rogue. A DM who *steals* from other sources (games, stories, class features) and uses *deception* in order to *surprise* even the most knowledgeable of players. Meaning, someone who surprises because of homebrew creatures and usage of other source books into the game.
I love how positive you painted the picture for each type of dm!
I absolutely love this video I got to the point in the video where you were mentioning the Cleric DM I paused. It sat and thought about it and came to the realization. Oh my that is me to a T and I enjoy every minute of it.
What a fun and original idea for a video!
Hope you enjoyed it!
My style right now is Barbarian/Wizard. But I'm slowly gaining levels in sorcerer and trying to lean more Into the improv of it all. I'll always be a wizard at heart though lol
I’m digging the editing and on-screen text in this video. That feels fresh for the DD videos 👏
Really enjoyed this video, watching and then guessing what kind of DM's my Players would be. Excellent thought experiment
Honestly, this is a really fun video and damn I think I've played with every kind of DM. I personally am *definitely* the Sorcerer type through and through. I've run some world of Darkness and Call of Cthulhu, but I've run it a lot more slanted towards adventure rather than horror.
Before I watched this, I always thought of myself as a Bard/Wizard DM. As I was listening, I thought "WOW, the only classes I don't identify with are Monk and Paladin".
Then you got to Wizard...
Now I feel personally attacked! I probably have a level or two in all the others but, I take maps from other adventures and retrofit them into my current campaign.
I’m a bit of a fighter, barbarian, ranger, paladin dm. I always have everything set with ammo, maps, hunger, exhaustion, broken bones, a bleeding system, they end up fighting a literal god but along the way their fights are usually borderline enough to tpk while never actually tpking (partly because I may fudge a few roles)
Oh my lord - I knew I was a Bard DM from the drop, but when you nailed the fact I curate a playlist for each session I felt truly seen. Thanks for this!
What a fun video idea.
I'm definitely mostly Bard with my guiding the players through romantic entanglements and giving so many NPCs accents. I just think it attaches the player to the NPCs emotionally so that
1. They are invested in stopping bad things from happening to their favorite NPCs. (in other words they care about the plot)
2. It is a preventative measure against murderhobo urges.
Also got to have that music playlist on point. Never heard of Syrinscape though, so thanks, I'll be looking in that!
Cleric/Fighter/Rogue
Quite the combo
0:36 small thing but I really appreciate how well timed the popup bar was to the point into the corner. It feels like the editor thought about it
Nice change of pace vid! 🎉
I' will send this video to my players... They'll decide!!
Druid!
You dudes can't keep calling me out like this..
I am a Monk/Druid/Barbarian type I think. But I'll send this to my group and see what they think. Also, you guys were obviously having a blast doing this and it really comes across. Great video
Love the Dungeons Of Drakkenheim placement in the back ground. This is one of my favorite videos ever. It's such a great thought experiment.
I feel like a coffeelock with a level or two in druid. I have my caffeine, some notes about a combat encounter, a vivid description that'll make the players shiver, and a history to it all. But hey, sometimes things would be better with a dinosaur racing mafia
im mad this is a great concept to define your DM. Good job guys.
This was such a great video! Keep up the awesome work dungeon dudes!
Thank you!
Thank you for sharing this fun video, especially nice in combination with your DM alignments video! You called me out as neutral good ranger, sometimes mistaken as a druid because of how a ranger's world makes sense according to the laws of nature.
As always guys love the work and insight you continue to out,definate bard/paladin type we use level caps and modafied rest options, akso a bit of ranger tgrown in i love accountability of encumberance where the party looks like a convoy headed out. The aviance is overflowing.
What a fun video!
I definitely got a couple of levels in Bard, because I like drama and am talking in character a lot and I literally have multiple playlists and ambiences for every occasion. I also took a dip in Ranger, because half of my preptime is usually spent in Dungeondraft. And I‘ve tried sorcerer which didn’t work out for me, so I respecced into a few Wizard levels, still working on that one though.
I am absolutely a monk. I'm always well prepared but usually bring very few notes, never have a rule book, and always roll in the open.
Y'all had so much fun with this and I am HERE for it. Also, the obligatory when feats (maybe quirky traits of dms?) and when races and when backgrounds and when subclasses and when spells (DM tricks?). All real requests. I need more.
I loved the creativity you brought to bear here
LOVE this style of video. Make more! Lots of laughs and giggles this time 😂
when my group had the "what class do you think I am" convo most of them saw me as a wizard/cleric... Watching this i think I'm a Wizard/Cleric DM, with some levels of rouge and fighter
That was a fun one! I am very much into crafting so I suppose I'd be mostly an Artificer if I ever DM again. Back in the day, I think I was multi-classed with mostly bits of ranger and wizard.
When my brother was DMing he definitely was a warlock with a touch of bard
I'm digging the editing on this video.
Fun experiment fellas as always y’all are awesome!
What a cool video! I'm Sorcerer/Warlock - even running that Vampire: the Masquerade game, too. Complete with mood lighting and red wine. Demon summoning optional
This is fun, thanks!
I'm primarily a Sorcerer (I do perhaps 5 mins prep before most sessions), but sometimes I like to craft a challenging tactical encounter (which takes much longer when I do do it!). I have a dip in Bard (I always try to tie character motivations and backstories in, and do my best with voices), and in Artificer (I like to make play aids to help myself and my players, but I'm less focused on terrain etc.)
Definitely a combination of Artificer and Wizard, which is a nice combo. Last week I spent 3h in foundry, making macros for a magic item I plan to give the party. Also so many sooo many modules and customizations. My current campaign is mainly constructed out of 4 WotC sourcebooks combined with some Kobold press ones. And I definitely had to ask the party to let me take a break to replan multiple times when they did something that went off my plan, and yes, one of them involved a spooky house I just wanted to tease. Also I do have all the books and like 20+ tabs open for all my notes and spreadsheets.
If you can find yourself a Bardbarian DM you will have one of the most memorable sessions/campaign I can attest to that!
Druid/Monk,
I have over 13 years of world building for my setting and was basically everything you said for the druid. (I have pets but I try to keep them off the table though). But on the flip side I have those monk elements boarding closer to the bard. (I do love combat and doing very good and tense combats like the fighter but in the monkish style that you mentioned).
Pala, Warlock and Sorcerer here :D
just like a character i got prepared as my backup in one of my friends games.
You're right about Paladin DMs being about rules, but I also think that whereas the Barbarian DM is all about the power fantasy of their party taking on the biggest baddest guys, I think the Paladin is the one that tries to evoke the power fantasy of the party being capital H Heroic.
This. I also like to introduce a lot of horror elements to make the heroic ones stand out. It's like a challenge to myself to create the highest highs and lowest lows the rule set will allow.
I became GM of an ongoing campaign (and previous GM turned player) and I'm amazed at how well this way of categorizing GMs works. I am fully a paladin barbarian. The previous master was fully bard and rogue. The atmosphere at the table has changed a lot. Thanks Dudes, great video!
That's a really neat concept guys so thanks for putting this up! For me as a DM I'm a multiclass Paladin/Wizard. I have all the books (well plenty of them) and run modules rather than homebrew so I like to run my games as written with only a few amendments/overwrites. My partner as a DM though is very much a Bard/Druid cross. He's a wordlbuilder with rich & deep lore but he also creates such engaging NPCs that you either love them or hate them (as he intended of course). None of those NPCs are superficial or insignificant. Our games run very differently but that makes it fun for our table.
I definitely have some artificer, got the TV on the table for maps, have some druid in there with all the world building, and maybe a messy wizard with notes scattered
This was fun! I like your new video editing for this too.
I think I'm a monk/sorcerer with a level of bard. I don't think I'm "good" at it per se but that's where I dwell.
You guys should consider doing a video breaking down various weapon enchantments. I’m interested in learning how to enchant my warhammer
I'm mostly a sorcerer with elements of druids and rogues
Recently I wanted to prepare a session a bit more thoroughly because I had a new player and I really couldn't think of anything to put as the climax of the session
I improvised it all in the end and it turned out great I was quite proud
I’ve pick pocketed several items from the other classes on my way to the barbarian pool, where I mounted my turtle dragon throwing beer to my party along the way.
Monty has some Warlock too! Loves describing the eldridge monsters!
I think I’m a chaotic good sor-lock. Maybe a few bard levels mixed in.I love atmosphere and horror and I love taking prewritten modules and making them my own by adding npcs and storylines that work for my characters. I mostly feed off the crazy ideas of my players and role with the punches. Great video as usual dudes. This was a fun thought exercise.
I love this series! Please make a what race your DM is next 😂
I definitely am a monk dm (confirmed by my players) and the funny thing is the only long campaign I ever played in i was a monk 😅 you guys are really onto something here! Always loving your content.
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I am an artificer sorcerer. :) I have a big screen in my living room I connect to so I can show the map and I have a few ideas I go into sessions with, but improve my way through social encounters.
love this one Dudes! I think I am a Artificer/Sorcerer/Cleric. And I also fell that I switch between all of them depending on the type of campaign.
It's excellent and I love it. I'm probably a good mix of several classes. Future videos might focus on your Dungeon Master's race/lineage, and what world he's from, etc. Why not the type of monster for your DM is ? Like demon, undead, elemental, beast...
Cleric/Fighter- welcoming and love to push things when victory is on a timer.
Surprising to me, I think I'm mostly Druid. I started Sorcerer, and then mostly focused Druid. My worldbuilding and improv skills are A+. Yesterday I improvised a 10+ min vision for a pc but I managed it because of my extensive worldbuilding. I had no notes for the vision, but I knew the answer to the question the player had asked, all I had to do was figure out how to present it in an interesting way.
Sorcerer dm reporting in. I've got a session at 6pm today (currently 4:32) and I'm watching youtube. Can't wait to see where the session goes
im definitely a fighter warlock with s single level of bard
i love the homebrew modules, i love tactical fights and i love having theme and ambiance music on stand by
I'm as described by The Dungeon Dudes an old school (AD&D, Second Edition D&D) Fighter / Magi DM (AKA Wizard), with a level of Artificer (Minus the 3-D Printer) I've been only crafting for a little while now.
Back in high school, my mom was our gaming group's cleric. She didn't play or anything, but man she fed us well.
I'm digging the dramatic camera closeups.
Thanks!
Druid/Wizard/Sorcerer/Monk. I love world-building, I have multiple notebooks, adapt really well on the fly, and carry most of the knowledge in my head. (One of my players told another new player that I was absorbing the information from my books via osmosis, in response to his question why i never opened my notes).
This was a fun conversation to listen to.
Great and fun video, thanks! I do not expect to see a "What Alignment/Class DM are you?", since it would take ages! Maybe, what race, next?
I think I would be Monk/Druid/Bard. I've always played Theatre of the Mind, with just a few props. I also like world building, social encounters and the precise music for my games. Being honest, though, I mostly used to narrate Call of Cthulhu, so I guess that would explain this multiclass.
What a cool episode. I'm pretty sure I've been every single one recently. I think that's a good thing.
My DM is a Wizard with a little bit of Warlock and Druid or Sorcerer - he's got a lot of books and he's weaved in classic 1e modules, and he's written a few of the books. But when we went up to the Abbey in Barovia when he hadn't prepped it, he pulled things together and got us into the whole thing, because he's got those levels in Druid to know the world intimately.
And the warlock levels had him just put us into the creepy mansion that turned out to be an ancient mimic.
May have a couple levels in Bard too.
through this video, starting wizard a bit. still refining the sessions for shorter time frame of 2 hours compared to other group where we use 4-6 hours. with multiclass hopefully artificer and monk in future added in.
I'm mostly monk and druid. I can improvise calmly because I know everything about the world I'm going into and maybe have flashcards for the main recent events and mobs for those different areas, and a bunch of notes in my notebook from the past five campaigns.
Wizard/druid/paladin/warlock
I prepare a lot, including worldbuilding, and am a stickler for the rules. Add a pinch of warlock for running modules and grabbing some 3rd party supplemental rules.
I was in a DnD thread, it was discussing DM styles and decisions.
One player yelled with exclamations, "DMs need to understand the players run the game! Not them, and if you don't like it you need to pack your stuff and go home!"
Which I found not only incredibly hostile, but interesting since all most every table I've sat with was at the DMs home. So I guess they should just sit in the corner??? I have seen a general rise in aggression towards DMs in groups and threads and am wondering if the Dungeon Dudes would be willing to comment about how to bridge this chasm. I see things for players working together, for DMs to engage players, but not much for players to be respectful for the DMs play enjoyment. I've felt it as a player and as a recent switch to DM, that there are players that see a DM as a mere service provider and not someone who is also there to enjoy the story and who also wants to help shape it as well. If I'm alone in these observations, I apologize, but I feel that I may not be.
First thought for myself would probably be Rogue/Sorcerer with a splash of Warlock because I love the intrigue campaigns with splashes of player chaos and secret society shenanigans