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What is your favorite race in DnD?
Firbolg! The race that vibes~
Yuan-Ti and Humans... I'd add Hobgoblins if I didn't hate the way the player-race was made.
I would have to say Dragonborn and Kobold. As well as Loxodon.
Tieflings. So much opportunity for roleplay, and tons of ways to build them for nearly any role.
Second would have to be Dawarves. (pathfinder Fighter/Gunslinger) Nothing sends a message quite like a dwarf in plate armor holding a double-barrel shotgun with an axe bayonet.
It's dwarf. Elves stink.
Dishonorably fleeing a battle and leaving your cleric alone to defend the children?
That’s a grudgin’.
Get the book
Get the Hammer
Get the Friendly Umgak.
Get the slayers....or the White Dwarf!
Get the axe
Dwarven King "This one is goin in the Book!"
Dwarven Scout "Um.. he died to some knolls"
Dwarven King "Did I stutter?!"
@Venus Luminaries Diina Not if the knolls were grassy!
Actually, I think he did die to Gnolls
@@levikarkiainen331 He couldn't live with the gnoll-ledge!
You laugh, but in Warhammer Fantasy when an Ork shaman caused a rockslide that killed a bunch of dwarfs (and the afformentioned shaman) the dwarfs fulfilled the grudge by chiseling down the mountain that caused the rockslide until the mountain was no more.
@@legomaniac213 and that's not funny to you?
Ok, hearing a young dwarf be called a "Beardling" literally made me laugh out loud.
It's proper terminology in Dwarf culture
@@levikarkiainen331 It's not even just 40K fantasy terminology, it's basic dwarven terminology in general. Shows that there's always more to learn about racial cultures.
Just wait till you hear about longbeards
@Andrew Howard they gonna scream……. Or shout I guess, a lot
Hey everyone I’m the dm who ran this adventure. I was just as baffled by John’s behavior as everyone else. But I’m also proud of what happened because it was the very first time I ever made the players cry when I made an npc die. The child’s name was Micah. And I had only introduced him to the party about an hour or so prior to the start of this fight before killing him. But in that hour somehow they got attached. I still don’t know how I did it.
Sometimes, just a little relatable humanity is all it takes...
And sometimes, the party is absolutely batty. But wholesome either way.
LOL I really did want to kill John XD
“That was some great story telling DM!”
“Yep, all according to plan.” Spilling drink because hand is shaking.
It's kids man. Any party with even a bit of a heart would care about kids.
>o< I was teaching him to be a proper dwarf!
The fact that the other player was cool with the grudge says alot about the trust at that table!!! Awesome story!
I think tolkien would be proud of this dwarf
Venus Luminaries Diina Wealth is meant to serve a need.
I choose to believe that the collective will of the dwarves is what caused John's timely death. Torag heard his children, looked at John fighting for his life, and gave him a slight nudge.
Troph discovered an ancient dwarven mural that inspired him...... dig dig a hole.
The still come to mind everytime I think of him XD
Now this story makes me want to rebuild and play my Dwarven Celestial Warlock, Oloric, Captain of the Thundarmuun, last of the Moltordur.
I'd add the Winterbane Dwarves to my D&D campaign, were I currently running one
They are fun group, just read up on high Kazalid The Secret Language of the Dwarfs. Maybe play a little bit of vermintide, listen to Bardin talk lol
Very heavily inspired by Warhammer Dwarfs
-IF I HAD ONE!
@@levikarkiainen331 better yet, go have a chat with Cousin Okri!
Cousin Okri is like the Dwarven Chuck Norris.
Once he threw a bomb at a group of Grobi... it killed 22 Urks.... then it exploded.
@@levikarkiainen331 wait what???!
Dwarves are like compressed, drunker, angrier Russians/ Germans/ Scotts. And I love it.
And then he fucking dies on something completely unrelated. That's peak DnD.
Karma won in the end I guess. Love this backstory, it's world building, and character development all in one
I prefer the "Dungeon Master" race. Not that I am allowed to choose any other, unfortunately...
im sorry pal.
It warms my heart just a little seeing Granny there in the opening.
The artwork looks like a dwarf holding a shaving razor helping the bug trim his beard.
"Hey man can you help me I have a bug date tonight"
"Aye I gotcha lad!"
I used to be an elf fanboy, but as I've grown older, I've gravitated more toward dwarves.
This is why.
Pompous pointy eared beardless bastards!
I don't comment often but would love an indepth vid about the first dwarven King in the north and his whole backstory
I have loved dwarves ever since I saw the Rankin Bass production of The Hobbit. Haven't watched the video yet.
But I am willing to bet it will be epic.
(Sad elf girl noises)
(Absentmindedly humming the song of Hammerdeep noises)
*curious demon noises*
@@siegdarklyon1900 *angry paladin noises*
@@strangent404a7 *mildly entertained demon noises*
I have a Dwarf Druid that lives in the forest outside of the Dwarven city where he can quietly study and learn. One day he saved a druids life who stays with him to keep him company. She calls him Sparrow for the sparrow pattern and coloring of his hair. He never bothered to correct her, over time she taught him Druidic skills. That's how he became a druid. Looking forward to getting to play him some day
Dwarv Forge Clerics are great. DM lured me into a trap when a Dragonborn caravan in the desert asked for me to heal a sick one (who was in fact possessed) and several of them tried to nuke me while I was in the tent. Between passing saves and resistance to fire and poison, only took 9 damaged.
This was amazing. I'd love to learn so much more about Winterbanes.
Who makes a barbarian that run away from a fight ? Could the barbarian make a tactical decision in his rage ?
They're so pissed off that they don't even want to fight anymore
I'm afraid that My first ever character will disappoint you, provided I ever get to start playing him. I am playing a Tiefling barbarian with a Nordic theme. Yet despite his quick temper, Abyss will hardly rage when presented with a foe. Using his many years working as a hand for hire, he will use shrewd cunning to attempt to trick enemies into lowering their guard. If that fails them he can always just scare the hell out of them with his high intimidation.
@@lordraven1991 Would he run away from a fight protecting children and a cleric?
Maybe if you have a character who is scared in combat until he is hit and then rages. That I would understand.
I guess a evil character who only thinks of himself would run.
@@ErikWidlund He would never run from a fight so long as he has a reason to be in it. But he would try to avoid direct confrontation if he can help it.
More along the lines of spilling some booze down the front of him and acting drunk to try and get close to some badies. Then try to knock them out or throw them off a cliff if he can before actually drawing his great axe.
@@lordraven1991 So a barbarian with thief tactics? Very interesting concept. You got his stats on hand by any chance?
I couldn't help but hear the sound of durin from the hobbit and imaging a dwarf king marching a army out of the mist and into battle
I was shocked and excited to hear someone else created a character based in one RPG system and adpated said character for another!
Rewinded a almost a month ago, I created my OC Teto Luin, an HB Psionics Ranger Eladrin who grew up on the streets of Calemport, was flung into the Savage Worlds Rifts RPG and translated into a MARS Wilderness Scout (the settings equivalent to Ranger). Having her be from originally D&D then being yeeted into Savage Worlds is helping me adjust to the new system. I hope someday I get t play her in D&D on Toril in a time where Artemis Entreri milling about with Jarlaxle and Bregan D'aerthe b/c of somewhat wholsome things in her backstory.
This is probably one of my favorite stories I’ve heard.
my favorite race has always been the warforged. Even back in 3.5. I like cutting out all the survival mechanics and love the splash of sci-fi they add to my fantasy.
I honestly play more Pathfinder than D&D, but my favorite race is the Ratfolk, just Love the inventive lil packrats
@@durk5331 they're not a very unique race though. they're basically just mammalian kobolds.
@@clericofchaos1 Actually while Kobolds tend to keep to themselves more often than not, the Ratfolk live mostly among other races if not in caravans moving from city to city to hawk their hoarded merchandise. They're a civilized mercantile lot, who like to get their paws on, tinker with, and even create new things. While yes on the surface the two races can seem like they're cut from the same cloth, they're really not, in fact, I'd even say that Ratfolk are closer in comparison to Halflings than Kobolds. Plus they're not nearly as cowardly toward or jealous of other races >.>
Besides, these qualities actually got them propelled to a Core Race in Starfinder as the Ysoki (which is Literally set in the same universe as Pathfinder just in the distant future) >.>
Now I really want to know why the barbarian fled, as I have next to no idea why he'd do that.
Closest thing I've ever come to this, in-game, was a guest player's barbarian (2 levels under the adventure's recommended level) who always hesitated on when he "should" rage. As group cleric, I finally told him either to find a way to reduce incoming damage (raging), or I was done healing him. I wasn't wasting all my spells on him when I had 3 other party members to take care of. But what did I expect when he talked more about his prized "cheh-wee-it", as he called it, rather than his prowess in battle?
I think it was a competition between him and the guy who got critted.
He wanted to "save him". The DM even told him that he would be literally taking the dash option for four turns to get there. And he was still OK with it.
Fight ended before that.
Fulgar Slaghand, Dwarf Fighter of the Coalback Mountains, is one who does not believe in the traditional sense of fighting. Whereas others would first go for the axe or sword, he prefers to use shields and only shields. This is his mentality for when he becomes a member of the Stone Shield Guard under King Hulbrek the Stubborn.
Dwarves are definitely my favorite DnD race.
I feel this in my soul, Angraz Ironfist was my warhammer dwarf lord/thane..but now is my favourite D&D character.
Rage Fairy, nothing to be afraid of until it rages :D
i....I’m not in the mood rn YiRbeL liVEs you know the drill aaaaghhlll.
My favourite backstory for any character I ever had just so happens to be a dwarf that I originally named Spike (yes, after the hot guy from Buffy), but we ended up calling her Spoik 'cuz it's funny. She was a "proper dwarven lady" and loved to read books in her spare time. Her favourite ones were books about Vikings & when a bookshelf one day collapsed on her, her memories became a weeeee bit scrambled and she believed she's a mighty Viking warrior. It also resulted in her not being the sharpest knife in Caesar & the party had a lot of funny moments when she would come to some hilarious conclusion. My tendency to roll a dice to determine if she would correctly understand some unimportant details didn't help... or it was helpful form the perspective of more hilarious moments? Anyways, during the story, she got a part time job cutting wood in exchange for getting some throwing axes & she liked it so much she ended up retiring from adventuring to pursue a career as a master wood chopper.
In a game sessions hella long later our party decided to hold an event for all adventurers & would have multiple competitions & DM told us Spoik also competed. One of the competitions was answering a bunch of trivia questions and of course we had to know what her answers were. I don't remember them very well but I know they were hilarious & 100% in character.
Yes the truth has been revealed, we dwarfs are the best
I have a lot of love for dwarves (elves are boring and overrated, imo), but I’ve yet to play a dwarf character in a D&D game.
In terms of lore and culture, however, I think halflings are my favourite.
(Spoiler)
"Hey. I have an unfavorable man without honor with me who fled and let a brave soul die. Call me back with what should be done."
*several days later*
"Uh... Kill him?"
"Nevermind. He died already."
I played a Dwarven cleric once. I sorta became the nanny of the group, but in the best way.
They usually are
I made a dwarf barbarian based off a Trollslayer, Thakhit Barrelsunder. He served as general under a tyrannical mad young king who took his xenophobia of the other races too far. After years of blood shed when Thakhit realized all he had done in the name of blind tradition and he and some of his more loyal warriors turned on the king and the nobles who had spurred on the wars. After a short but bloody battle it was Thakhits axe stroke that killed the tyrant king as his men drove the corrupt nobles from the halls. When the dust settled and a new King had been crowned and the hold had returned to some sense of normality Thakhit, unable to bare both the shame of his slaughter of innocents before and his act of kin slaying shaved his head into a crest and spiked it high with troll fats as the ork warriors he use to do battle with did. He took a shame mark as a tattoo that covered his chest, back, face and exposed scalp. He swore a solemn oath at the shrine of Muradin that he would seek to help people with his axe, and that he would fight tyranny and evil anywhere he found it or die gloriously doing so to atone for his many sins. He then bid his wife and beardling daughter good bye, and as he walked from the hold his warriors trappings were stripped from his body and the soldiers that had served under him all slowly turned their backs as each piece of armor and clothing were cut off him. At the end he stood clad in nothing but boots, a pair of simple pants and gripping a serviceable if old axe at the gates of the hold his back turned to them as they shut to him forever. In the eyes of his people he was already dead. Since then Thakhit has wandered far from his hold, through woods and cities seeking to find absolution for his past transgressions. He is currently in a group of mostly half elves and "humans", much to his chagrin, which he has become rather protective of. In particular he has taken a liking to a young "human" (shes a dampire), noble who has a rather a child like character that reminds him of the daughter he left behind.
10/10 excellent story!
I enjoy variant human, Half orc, or goliath, since i enjoy making a race that is useful, fun to play, etc. My most recent character backstory, is a doctor who is searching for a cure to a disease plauging his town.
As I can not give anything other than a thumbs up, have a heart ♥️
One of my favorite ones, yet.
Thank you, he's still one of my favorite characters. I just wish that campaign went on longer and I could give more of his adventures, but sadly it was kinda bland and the adventure whole campaign kinda fell apart after that.
Fellow Dawi fans UNITE!
KAZUKAN KAZAKIT HA!
I want to hear more of the adventures of this badass
Not many of his stories are written down, but I can tell you his great great uncle gave him that hammer of his, it's named "The Donkey Disrespecter."
I'm playing a drow whose family took control of a powerful drow kingdom from the lolth drow and partly returned to being a very wealthy society with some focus on trade which the drow were most known for before being betrayed by the high elves and tricked by lolth etc
Dwarf and Halforc are my typical go to races. And I love playing against type. Wizards , Warlocks , rogues etc.
I want to know more about the story of these dwarfs too. It seems awesome
Warhammer esque dwarfs are pretty damned awesome. Lots of cool cultural rules and traditions.
For instance, the grudges are so vital and important to the culture, it's literally written in the blood of the current high king.
Think of how heavy that is. Your friend gets hurt, and you write a declaration of vengeance in your blood.
Pretty hard core.
Does anyone else like the idea now of playing one of the posh dwarves of that society? Say a bard or an artificer?
Hell, what if we took this a step further and gnomes came out the other end of this genealogy?
Artificers are very common, they're called engineers in dwarf society though. And bard are there, it's just that being a bard is usually a very secondary thing. They are warriors FIRST then bards. And they mainly sing of history and victory.
Look up "Bardin sings"
Bardin is a ranger, but he loves to sing, and his whole party finds it annoying.
Hey, I know you probably won’t see this, but, is your voice the one I heard in a Warpath ad? Your voice is VERY distinctive
Traph Winterbane is such a cool name
Wrong. I am an advocate for gnome supremacy
You talk a lot of shit for someone Within dropkicking distance
@@levikarkiainen331 That a long drop for a kick
(I see a dwarf video we must sing diggy diggy hole.)
BROTHERS OF THE MINE REJOICE!
The Dwarves in my game wear jewlery in their braids. (perspective of every other race)
The Dwarves in my game wear their names on their right side, as well as their occupation (Warrior, Smith, Jewler, Tailor, etc etc) the material and gems in these represent their ranks, copper or tin without gems to denote a fresh apprentice, up to platinum with gems encrusted to denote masters of their crafts.
On their left braids, they wear their clan names, and below the clan names, their family names.
Where most races in my games consider Dwarves to be 'rude' and 'direct,' it's because in dwarven society you know someone's name, clan, station and occupation at a glance from across the room. As such, dwarves in gatherings approach others without introducing themselves, but immediately go into discussing business or politics; time is money. Raised in a dwarven society, it primarily slips their mind to open conversations with pleasantries and introductions as humans or elves typically do.
Dwarves who are not identified by these sorts of finery are simply referred to as 'Outcast' or 'Casteless,' and usually treated like any other outsider.
I've had a couple players really dislike dwarves in my games because of this kind of personality; but I've had a few players become genuinely curious about the dwarven cultures; and a couple have even made dwarves specifically to explore it from the inside. That feels nice!
Dwarves being absolute G's? +1 homie, +1.
All my years playing dnd I never played a dwarf
wazzok
A culture of people who once sought to tame the untameable, overcome unsurmountable odds, and never be cowards. Then they became soft and soft-hearted, unwilling to face hardship
Sounds like America.
plenty of cowards in the ranks of the pioneers, they came from Europe afterall
Was kinda the inspiration.
The original Troph was the return to proper tradition to rescue a people from their own laziness and cowardice. To give his people back what they had.
Yes
Before watching;
I personally see dwarves as master craftsman and architects before anything else, and often find it difficult to take a Dwarven warrior seriously. Yeah, they're pretty tough and the voices are always fun, but the image of this tiny person running around in full plate is just too silly.
Yes. I have seen all of LotR and the hobbit. It doesn't help.
I can easily see it working out though. Lower center of gravity so they dont get knocked over as easily. Smaller targets so miss more. And one last thing, they aren't tiny you''re just abnormally tall
@@devinwhite5064 to us giants, you are all tiny. Dwarves especially so.
All trees are felled at equal height , longshanks.
Never played D&D so i dont technically have a favored race, however i do like Elves, High, Wood or Dark, doesnt matter and Teiflings
My pick for favourite race is Firbolg. Have enough flavour to keep them interesting, and aren't needlessly edgy or grim like a lot of the other races. I like to treat them as semi beast folk.
In my world, the more time a Firbolg spends with nature, the more "beast like" they become (Cow person interpretation). The longer they stay in cities and civilisation, the more human like they become (Traditional interpretation.)
Oof. The target died an unrelated death. The matter of honor is not resolved. Status in the Book of Grudges: "Unfinished."
Seriously, what sort of barbarian takes off running for four turns, instead of backing up the cleric and fighting the enemy right there? ... What sort of barbarian is named "John"?!
Moving back into player from dm. So im going nuts, a Goliath death cleric under the raven queen. I dont have the honor of a 3rd name yet from my tribe of black raven.
The old crone of the tribe marked me as blessed/cursed and until I appease the raven queen I will not be welcome back into the tribe or given/earned my 3rd name.
So off he his sent to ice wind Dale. And we will see what happens.
Excellent, I am early once again! Less than 50 likes even!
This is more of a good example of being a good leader for your people and trying your best to better your society. However it's worth mentioning that dwarves are rather relatable creatures. They are clearly flawed but they have strong good standards for when things are serious. I just think you could approximate such a behavior to humans, elves, just that it's going to beautiful in its own way
Faaaaaaaar overrrrrrer the misty mountians coooooooold
Just some creative criticism, I think you may need to remaster your into music it's been sounding a bit garbled in Spots
Does anyone know of any good (sword and sorcerer) anime shows/movies on Netflix or HBO max?
Did….did you do a hair thinning commercial?
Dwarves: SHORT
KHAZUKE
Beards in belts!
And of course ... alcoholics
Dwarves are best fantasy race since Tolkien and in the whole fantasy. STRIKE THE EARTH!
More tales of dwarven valor
There is a warhammer fantasy RPG...
Yes there is.... and there is also DnD 5th edition
Dwarves are the best race in fantasy. Any game with fantasy elements and worldbuilding I think to myself "This game would be 10x better if it had generic fantasy dwarves." but too many franchises are trying to fix what isn't broken with their own proprietary hardy/stout races which inevitably fall inferior to dwarves by far.🤷♂
Warhammer Dwarves are awesome
If there are any words that make me immediately tune out it's "warhammer lore." Love the game itself but just can't care at all about the nonsense that GW considers lore.
Egg
KHAZUKAN KAZAKIT HA!
GET IN THERE AND GET DRENGIN!
Praise the illithids, let our lords of madness rule over all
Someone POINTEDLY doesn't like elves...
It's a decent story and I feel bad for the boy, but the heavy bias towards dwarves and discredit to elves rubs me the wrong way.
It's great that his character overcame his own distaste for other races. The dwarves definitely have several enemies and are overly proud, fanatical even.
Having the whole clan declare an oath to slay the barbarian though? Little over the top and don't think it paints dwarves in a positive light.
Good story. I almost quit watching at the bit about Warhammer (I really dislike grimdark).
It's not all grimdark
@@levikarkiainen331 it is
@@asdergold1 really? So Gotrek losing his memory because he was conked on the head and Felix going on a wacky Quest to find a way to return his memory only the end up accidentally smacking him in the face with a cup I'm trying to beat up an old doctor for failing, suddenly returning Gotrek's memory and then having some wacky back and forth is grimdark?
Grayseer Thanquol dragging fot 30 chapters about how awesome he is and how Unstoppable his new plan is only to fail having his entire Army completely wiped out and then coincidentally being praised by the Council of Thirteen for some completely asinine other reason like that Army was in need of being culled from the greater skaven Society.
Or him accidentally summoning skarbrand, all that is super grimdark. Not funny at all funny doesn't exist in Warhammer fantasy.
@@levikarkiainen331 everything turns grimdark and is ruined and forgotten in setting. Same for those you just mentioned.
That's grimdark. Don't blame me for saying something you didn't like, blame GW if that bothers you.
@@asdergold1 it doesn't bother me because it's not grimdark, it's a wonderful fun adventure period And even though the end-times fucked up everything, Gotrek is still alive in age of Sigmar and I think he's still looking for Felix.
Oh no, so evil and grimdark without a single ounce of Hope, they literally survive the end of the world and basically ascended into godhood oh how are we ever going to recover? That's so sad... so dark oh noes....
Dwarves are the best race in every fantasy
That's goin in the feckin book!
Not gonna lie, the title fits horribly with the rest of the story. It sounds like an argumentative essay but the video is just a bunch of lore and then a grudge occurring. Kinda clickbaity. I'd suggest something like "The Honor of a Dwarf" because it sounds cooler, less supremacistic, and fits with the story more. Also more of a critique for you, you kind of sound a bit monotonous and I don't sense very much emotion being added.
The original title was
"The Winterbane"
Supremacistic, really?
BEARDED and dwarfpilled
Dwarves are definitely top 3 best races in DnD.
Don't ever say Moradins name like that ever again
Dwarves > everything else
AYY Warhammer
early hero's assemble
Eyeballs watch
mogus
And? how is the title of this video not fact to any who play D&D.
Personally, I think dwarves are overplayed in the Fantasy setting, I feel similarly about elves.
This is why I made my dwarf a necromancer 😅
Almost want to put money on it that you play exclusively human Fighters
@@levikarkiainen331 Oh Hells no, I actively avoid playing humans most of the time, I'm more interested in what seem to be lesser-played races, I'm more likely to make my Fighter a Gnome or Tabaxi
@@dracone4370 so either you like getting punted across the map or you really really like yarn
@@devinwhite5064 Back during the 3.5 era, I came up with a concept for a Gnome Knight (Cavalier in 5E) that went around in heavy armor and used weapons sized for bigger creatures who had stories and rumors about him being an amazing fighter but none of the stories mentioned his size. So what if I can potentially get punted across the map, it'll still make the combat entertaining for different reasons than usual.
Can't stand that title.
Don't like the idea that everyone in a society has to confirm to one way of thinking either. That kind of thinking can really isolate people...
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