@@Sgt-Wolf In this equation, you are the goblin your character stabbed. Thankfully, the origami knife you turned your character sheet into only does 1 hit point of damage if that.
@@Nienna_Asyare There's no "right" and "wrong" here. But let's just say that most tabletop characters contain some aspects of the players themselves, and as such, oftentimes also deal with similar issues the players themselves face in their daily life, simply altered to fit the setting. That's not a cop-out, it's totally valid. And the best characters are often those that are the closest to our hearts. It can be incredibly empowering to overcome your real life struggles in the safety of a game world, because it may give you the courage to face those issues in real live. That's why good dnd is the best therapy.
RP'ing a gay gnome pirate has helped me be more open about being gay and also I've started to feel a lot more comfortable stealing ships on the high seas :D
Okay, this is all fine, but... How _CAN_ I improve my French accent? For the sake of my character, Jean-Jacques Bissette-Benoit-Bouton-Bouvier, I _NEED_ to know!
It's simple Step one: "H" have no sound, don't say them Step two: the English "E" have the same sounds as the French "I", replace all the "I" in a phrase with "E", nowthre tricky one, the French "E" sounds like the "ge" of "Los Angels" To practice try to say "intelligence" Step three: try to not put your thong between your teeth, in french no word i know (and i am french so i know many french word) need you to put your thong between your teeth, so the principal reason french have an accent is because they don't think of putting they're thong between they're teeth, so you need to think about not putting your thong between your teeth I think that's all, i don't really know anything else that could make you sound french
This is off-topic, but Samuel Lillge, your TH-cam profile pic of a little creature with headphones floating in a rainbow is THE most eye-catching interesting tiny little profile pic I’ve ever seen. Seriously, I STOPPED watching the video just to type this comment first. 😄 Well done, Sam. Well done, indeed! 👍
@@moogamooga2100 Thank you, I'm glad you like it! I got bored one day and made it in google drawings, and I ended up liking it so much that it's been my profile picture ever since!
I have a secret rule in my campaigns if you take care of your weapons and rp with them they can level up as well. Like 1st lv would be the weapon becomes a +1
@@WatchTower10 Our DM does this heirloom weapon in his story where they level up based on significant events in the story and can gain some wacky abilities. For example; the preformentioned Greataxe, that I have lovingly named Martha, can be thrown up to 20ft (40 if I give up my moving action) as an action and can be recalled into my hand as a bonus action. It's not always practical, and I can't use extra attack, but man is it fucking cool.
I was looking for my daily several castings of Fireball, but I got a beautiful orphanage and animal rescue centers instead. I'll only use *1* fireball instead today.
Separating yourself from your character is deceivingly hard - it takes some practice. Once you do this you unlock the potential to have fun in GREAT moments and HORRIBLE moments for your character during the game 💪
Learning to enjoy tragedy happening to your fictional character is very rewarding, at least to me. Does it humble them? Do they hold a grude? Do they grow more trusting of their allies? etc etc
Step one: Build cabin on top of a bunker in the mountains. Step two: Bring friends and family to cabin Step three: send code to start global nuclear war Step four: hurry into bunker with people from step two Step five: Play D&D every day (until the food, water or clean air run out).
Sometimes gloriously failing at an accent or certain vernacular can make it more fun cuz everyone is having a laugh. Play as your character, but don't sweat the small stuff.
I had plenty of "hold on I'm sounding way too british" moments like that lol. Like the accent would be light then suddenly shift to full on cockney like that dude from Mary Poppins
There's one guy in my group who, every time he tries to do a voice other than his own, ends up with a southern (us) drawl. As a result, both of his characters are country girls, despite not intending them to be.
Oh yeah, speaking of gloriously failing at an accent, Welsh is a tricky mistress. It's just close enough to Scottish, I go from Nia from Xenoblade to Donald&Douglas really f***ing quick. It's frustrating.
I've been playing for 8 years and I still have anxiety attacks every time I play. The biggest benefit for shy people and people with anxiety-in my opinion-is a group of really close friends.
Björck Björck that’s hard for me I wouldn’t consider the people I play with close friends I really with my close friends would but they don’t want to so my groups aren’t the greatest so hopefully I can get a good group one day
Play a non binary/genderfluid character. None of the normal limitation of gender. All of the fun of both. Play a Tiefling for max customization on the gender performativity. Also look up trans voice acting lessons, those also help, they're super useful for newer voice changers
You could try to Dispel Magic your RP anxiety, or use illusion magic to make people think you actually know what you're doing. But it doesn't really matter, just do whatever feels right. If someone gives you grief for not living up to their standards, then EXTINGUISH THEIR LIFE WITH POWER WORD KILL- errr, I mean, let the rest of the group know you're not OK with that. Most decent DMs and players will be understanding.
You're not alone Me: *Curled in ball on ground holding book* So alone... So very alone...*Darkness* Also me: Instructions Unclear, What are these "Friends" you speak of?
great video, keeping a consistent level of 'good rp' is easily the most difficult part of DnD for myself and I think probably most people like you've said. All about having fun but it's hard sometimes to keep that in mind as much as we should
4:11 "opportunity to have a mask" I agree with this wholeheartedly. A lot of my characters end up being similar to me in attitude but with one flaw blown up out of proportion, like being too angry or annoying or impulsive. This ends up making the character easier to slip into, as well as being a way for me to feel comfortable with my own flaws. It helps me get into the characters head easier and also to see how the things im embarrassed about can still be part of a rich character.
the Star Wars campaign I'm playing with my friends is my favorite for role playing because I'm a droid, so I don't have to strain for a voice, I just phrase things really literally and use weird tones to get across my low charisma stat.
Right as you leaned in and said "your not alone" I heard a noise outside, I'm home alone and to be quite honest it scared the shit outta me. Turns out a possum got into my trash can. Kinda funny now that I think about it. Thanks for the creepy foresight jacob
I'm incredibly new to D&D, so new that my first game is in a couple of weeks and this video helped me immensely with my anxiety at going into an already established campaign with my limited amount of knowledge. My friend's party are going online due to lockdowns and quarantine, which made it accessible for me to join them, and having someone else there that I know (even in an online setting) has already helped but I'm still so worried that I won't know what to say, or how to act. This video has helped me so much, so from a rookie player anxiously looking forward to her first game, I thank you for being so open.
This Video is probably helpful to pretty much everyone because even the best of roleplayers sometimes fumble their words or get nervous when they are put on the spot but especially so for newer player. I mean it's acting who wasn't nervous the first time they stood on some form of stage right ? So chill and listen to Jacob :D
Really good video, but the best advice comes at the start: "Don't overthink it." Don't get too hung up on, "What would my character do?" Most of the time, they're going to be trying to succeed at the thing they are trying to do. Because that's what people _do_ when they're trying to do a thing. Roleplaying is just taking on the role of a fictional character in a fictional world and making the decisions you think that character would make if they and their world were real. And 99% of the time, real people _aren't_ trying to "express their inner self" to those around them. They aren't trying to tell everyone they meet the exact strictures of their religion or the precise implications of their moral code. They don't wander up to people and tell them their entire life story. They're trying to _hide_ their personality flaws, not flaunt them. They're just trying to succeed at the thing that they're currently doing. So just relax, be normal and pay attention to the unfolding story and your character's place in it.
You know it's going to be a warm heart-to-heart talk when he is sitting at the end of table, like we're there with him on the other seats and he's telling us "it's okay"
Roleplaying is one of my favorite aspects about D&D but so many people are nervous about it. I hope this video helps all those that are nervous and gets them to roleplay more. D&D isnt a wargame it's an RPG.
Thanks for this video. Despite playing dnd for a while, I still break character during serious scenes because I panic and get nervous. I wanted to make my character emotionally vulnerable in a scene but I ended up awkwardly laughing and cutting it short. The party knew I’m nervous with acting and bad been so supportive. They’ve taken that moment and treated with the weight I wanted it to have and I’ll keep trying to work at it for their sake as well :)
This…really helped me I’ve been feeling like I’m not good enough for my friends even thought it’s my 2nd campaign ever-I didn’t know I wasn’t separating myself from my character until someone put it into words so thank you for the boost!
I’ve never felt scared of role playing or felt like I couldn’t do it, and this is for 3 reasons 1. I’m one of the few extroverted D&D players 2. I’ve only made characters I know in and out, and I make sure I know my friends characters 3. I have amazing friends
I get really into role playing when I play. Every one of my characters has a new voice and completely different personality and my friends are always nervously looking around anticipating how my first turn in each game is going to be. But I always cause the most laughs and instigate in game hilarious things
I mean I've never really role-played in all the years I played as a kid and now I'm in a group with some veterans who also are semi-professional actors. It's rough.
Occasionally messing up while doing improv and roleplaying is not the same thing as "you feel like everybody around you is way better at it, you feel like you made a terrible character, you can't focus on your character's voice or traits, you get super anxious and overthink it until you stop enjoying the game and then you stop playing" Of course I have felt the first thing, but the second things? No way. That set of feelings you described at the beginning is pretty extreme. I'm not lying or trying to pretend I'm so good at roleplaying by saying, "No, I have never had that second experience you described". I just fucking love acting. I fucking love Dungeon's and Dragons. I have since the first musical I was in and the first session I ever played. It's just so natural to me. I have never been super anxious at the table or felt that I had a terrible character or any of those things. I don't know why you're asserting that everyone who has every played D&D has had a negative experience with it at some point. Think about if you said that about, like, any other game? "EVERY PERSON WHO HAS EVER PLAYED THIS GAME HAS GOTTEN REALLY ANXIOUS WHILE PLAYING IT AT ONE POINT AND IF THEY SAY THEY HAVEN'T THEY'RE FUCKING LYING." Jesus, dude. Not a good look for the hobby.
See I really like my friends and all but there not the greatest when it comes to D&D. So I’m playing a Dwarf Cleric and I’m playing trickster for the rp and there was this person I never met before he was a friend of the dm he was playing rogue,my character wasn’t much of a healer he more liked lots of gold , playing tricks and finding creative ways to kill people. He was hard to roleplay cause I’m 15 and my voice isn’t to deep also this was like my third real game of dnd, so me and the rogue came up with cool ways to kill players I would cast my spell and then he would sneak up and go stabby stabby we role played this whole long and complicated process of us breaking into a house and him slicing peoples throats while I was making sure we didn’t get caught. We really bonded did out character voices and described what we were doing then we went dungeon crawling I had cure wounds that’s my only healing spell, the barbarian and fight were being super reckless and trying to run through it and kill everything they were at 1 and had to kill ogre lurking in the dungeon I cured their wounds then they got knocked out (they don’t rp) me and rogue were heavily roleplaying I said my epic battle cry as I charged in with my axe and the rogue covered me we did the voices and explained how together we chopped off the ogres head. The other players looked at us kinda strangely and were saying things like “that was weird”, “why didn’t you heal me your playin cleric”. Me and the rogue bonded cause of our roleplay the dm kicked those guys out invited so new guys who were socially awkward and didn’t know what to say we were excepting now they love dnd and they always want me to be a dwarf so I have epic role playing I’ll surprise them with one next campaign now we’re best friends. So everyone out there don’t be afraid to rp if people wanna be rude then their dicks and shouldn’t be playing this game; this game is about fun, creativity and making friends while dungeon crawling and casting epic spells. Thanks for making this video Jacob this will always be my fav dnd channel ( also sorry for my crappy grammar I’m not very good at grammar)
I just played my first D&D game last week and this video said a lot of what I was feeling afterwards... Thank you so much for this, it's nice to be reminded that I probably wasn't the only one feeling that way ❤
No offense but I think this a bad video and here's why: Basically what you tell people is that they can say “sorry guys, Im not good at roleplaying, accept it or fuck you.“ That's the wrong way to go about things in this case, because nobody gets anywhere like that. It's not a sin to be a bad roleplayer, but this IS your hobby and you enjoy it, right? Why not pour a little of your heart and soul into it and try to be a little bit better. Get some advice, ask experienced players, look on forums, noone expects you to take an acting class. Even the little things might make a big difference for you. After all you are the one who gains the most from getting better, it's your fun. And if you do sth awsome, who knows? Maybe you'll inspire your friends to be a little bit better themselves and everyone wins. And at the end of the day, even if it doesn't quite work out the way you wanted it to, you did the best you could and noone can blame you, not even yourself.
I’m a DM and a player of mine is very anxious to roleplay and i am happy this vid Just came out and i think this Will help him out a lot. Thanks a lot Jacob. You helpen me into dnd and you’ve helpen me with a lot of stuff. Thank you, keep it going. You’re a truly great person
I need help. I'm playing with this nice group of people. Most of them know each other, but me and another one are outsiders. The other guy LOVES dnd and he's having fun no matter what. I don't. I have a character that I like, however I'm not comfortable/confident enough to play him as intended. And I really wish I did, and it pisses me off that I don't. I have vocalized my frustration, and like Jacob said, I say outloud "I don't know what to do" all the time, which they answer "that's allright" like Jacob said. The problem with that is this happens all the time. I've been reduced to a side character who doesn't do or say anything. I have vocalized that as well, which no one of them as an aswer for me other than "mybe swith your character" which I really don't want to do. I'm not having fun at all. What to do?
One way I disconnect from my character is by describing their actions in the third person, unless I'm doing the voice, in which case I almost always say it was my character saying that. Example: "Worbus takes the decorative sword from the wall and begins swinging like a madman. 'Try and face me ye demons!' he screams"
>what if people don't like my character build one that is meant to get a groan once in a while. I play an emo ranger that ironically is adventuring because his girlfriend Evanescence ran away in the night, and he's looking for her. I also have the Kobold that speaks exclusively in ice/weather puns and sticks to ice spells. Skizzard the lizard blizzard wizard is beloved for being so ridiculous/low brow.
Story time One of my best friends plays a Warlock Sea Captain (high charisma and all that stuff) and she really struggled with rp the first few sessions cuz she was so affraid of making a "wrong" decision so once we got together plus her boyfriend (who's also a member of the party) and casually rped for a while, without the pressure of the game and nothing serious. Weplayed a lot with the members of the crew and my own pc (cuz they've been traveling together for a few years). So yeah, rping outside the game with people you feel comfortable with is a great way to improve your comfortability level while rping.
If cool characters were being cool 100% of the time (or even like 70% of the time), they wouldn’t be cool. They’d be a douchbag. It’s that contrast from the norm that makes them cool
I’m trying to play a blind woman and my entire party hates me because of me getting too into my role because I don’t do too much and am mostly support and they think I’m retarded because of my character disability
While I read this I wondered if I would be allowed to have a character in a wheel chair. Let's make it an orc. (Rolls a 20 and epicly ramps into the air and rolls over a dragon with my s i c c air.)
I feel like its kind of hard to find a group in my area (on and offline kind of) and I thought about joining an english speaking group, but you know not my first language and stuff and I feel like I can't be as eloquent as in my native tongue and feel anxious about thinking trying it ... sooo...just gonna enjoy watching those groups, I guess. :D
ive been playing a character recently Called Bucket, he's not great at remembering things, and so when im thinking of questions I just say bucket is stuck in thought, or say he's doing something else
I'm pretty comfy with ALL the characters I create, but I have to create them, if I had to be some other character it would be rough, but that might just be my autism.
You're saying that you are only comfortable playign characters that you made, yes? If that's the case, i feel the same way. I spend wat longer than neccessary stressing on what i want my character to be when i have to make one.
I don't think I could play a character made by someone else very well at all. I wasn't inspired to make this person, I don't know their thoughts or how they'd react. Getting into the mind of a character takes time. Even more so when you don't know them. That's why actors take days, even weeks reading scripts before they go on camera. Even then they have constant direction on how to be this character.
I face I very weird problem so I play dnd with my friends but my problem may be that I take it to serious but at the same time it could also be because my friends are goofing around and not playing the game that I and others at the table want to get to. I'm not sure if I should try to relax more or help my friend get back on track
Me Roleplaying at the table and also having a stress problem "I should probably get a therapist but this helps with D&D and it's free so only this for now"
Thanks for this. I have never roleplayed before and only recently got into dnd and felt I was really bad at it so I would end up only really rping when called upon.
This has been a huge problem for me lately, even though I love the idea of RPing more than combat, I get really bad anxiety attacks and one big piece of advise I got and plan to use next session is just asking for a moment to think about what to say next, which in hindsight in a game like D&D makes a ton of sense, if combat can take many minutes for six seconds to pass why can’t dialogue take a few breaks between lines too
This is exactly what I was looking for. I’ve been playing characters that don’t really ever talk, even if I don’t really want to. Even though I’ve known them for a long time, I struggle with roleplaying because I always panic over what I should say in that situation. This helped me a lot, thank you.
Hey, Jacob, a friend in my dnd group doesnt want to DM a oneshot because she's not feeling 'ready' . Any tips on how to start DMing and what 'do you need to know' to prepare a oneshot?
What do you need for a one shot you mean? You need your buddy's to be okay with you running the game first off then you need a monster and a location for said monster to inhabit sewers or a mine are good places you need a reason for your players to go to said location. The rest as they say is all in your court as the G.M. maps are nice but not necessary. Good luck and remember to have fun. Cuz that's what you are there for. You can sometimes get in 3 combats depending on how long you intend to play for 4 hours think about. 1 combat every 1.5 hours. So you might need more than one monster.
Aw man, this really helped me. I made a paladin and I'm in a party full of 10 players. Everyone was doing these awesome accents and really made an impression, but me, I was just being awkward and kinda quiet. So comforting to know that this guy right here gets it.
I know this is years late but sometimes playing into that can be a huge help! Like you can make an awkward character, or a quiet character, or a dumb character so when they say dumb things it’s just the character and great role playing. Or you can tailor your character to how you feel you would be most comfortable role playing in the given situation. For example Marisa Ray from Critical Role said she made Keyleth awkward socially because she was nervous to join the campaign with all these experienced voice actors, so her chosen character allowed her something to fall back on. For me personally, my first dnd character is very closed off and a little rude, because I find it hard to talk about emotions with people I don’t know very well and when I’m nervous I’ll (jokingly) insult people to deflect and hide my anxiety. While some people may say this is just playing myself, I think it’s a good place to start for a new player to create a character perhaps similar to yourself but certain traits blown up. So my character will just straight up insult people rather than do so jokingly, and she never laughs. Gives me something unique about her to separate her from myself whilst still making her fairly simple for me to roleplay. Sorry this was so long but maybe it will help someone!
Thank you for this video! Every time I search for this topic I just find 30 minutes long videos, so watching this, quick and cool video is amazing Best dnd channel
DM: So what does your character say? Player: Uh, I don't know what to say! Other Player: Quick! Say something like, you're in love with them! Player: "I'm in love with you"-WAIT, WHAT?!
Rest of the party: "Good luck we believe in you!" We all leave the room. DM: Okay, it's just you and them alone in the room. You notice their face is beginning to blush and their eyes start to dilate. Player: ... DM: Alright, it's a moment of awkward silence, we'll cut to the rest of the party for now...
When I played with an old D&D crew, Roleplaying was the main reason we played. To my surprise, most of the time they'd say nothing when something happened. I always thought I was breaking the ice by reacting after like 2 seconds, but now I'm kinda worried it may be because they felt like they couldn't get a word in edgewise.
Hey just a quick question... I am currently getting into the nitty gritty of D&D (because of you!) and have stumbled across gold. I have no idea the scope of value these gold pieces have. Without knowing that I don’t know how much gold I need to offer my party as the DM. Help?
The muisic choise and he is doing a deeply emotional voice with a deeply emotianal choise of words, seriously you can make someone cry with enough emotion
I left my old dnd group because I liked the charisma casters most but was horrible at role-playing and the dm had a rule that if you play a high charisma character then you have to roleplay as the party's face. On several occasions I kinda got choked up until I was just booted
The DM (for my first game) introduced my character into the game on a real life arm wrestling match that I “won” 200gp for. It immediately brought the excitement and life out of my character and set his attitude for the rest of the game. The other players also gave me so much help and advice on making my character in general and it’s been awesome. Now I know that role playing a character can feel like an extension of your own personality traits. Way easier that way for me. Next dude is gonna be quiet and angry so that’ll be easy to do 😂
One of the worst things I have ever done was stack an accent that I'm not good at onto my character. Fuck it is hard to RP and fix your voice at the same time. I should've gone with New York Italian rather than light British
I actually would have liked some good advice on how to roleplay better. I don't know how other people see this, but roleplaying good is a big part of the fun in p&p rpgs for me. I don't really care if someone else likes my roleplay (its great if they do tho), I want it to be good myself. A problem I have run into is that sometimes my characters are just very hard to roleplay, because I can't really say anything that gives the pc a personality. Does someone have a good method for creating characters that are easy to roleplay in a cool way? I've made a few good characters myself but lately I couldn't reproduce that.
I first started thinking roleplaying was tough and I was always doing something wrong, now that I'm dming I feel like I'm doing everything wrong, all the time😂
I was trying to pay attention to this video but I kept getting distracted by how beautiful you are. I hope that doesn't sound wierd...it was my ugh... character.
This was a shockingly wholesome, serious, helpful, and very professional looking! All without losing any personality and comedy typically on your channel. Good job!
"and if somebody has never ever felt this before while playing Dungeons and Dragons then they're completely lying" Or they have only ever played a single session or two?
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"...you are not _actually_ killing a goblin."
Then whose blood is this Jacob?
Whose blood is this?
Yours.
You stabbed yourself in the leg.
@@Sgt-Wolf In this equation, you are the goblin your character stabbed. Thankfully, the origami knife you turned your character sheet into only does 1 hit point of damage if that.
Wait what’s his hit points?
@@yupyip4023 He had 4 HP...
What's your class? Wait what's your teammates class? Do they have healing spells?
1:42 "And I'm not telling you how to be better at it"
Title: How to be better at Roleplaying in D&D
How can you clickbait us and lie to us Jacob?
We've been tricked, we've been backstabbed, and we've been, quite possibly, bamboozled
it's for your own good
XP to Level 3 Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
Thanks for typing this so that I don't have to
@@brunop.8745 We've been smeckledorfed!
“I play consistently almost every day”
How does one learn this power?
Not from a jedi
XP to Level 3 what about from the Senate?
live with your players & make a living outta playing TTRPGs
@@XPtoLevel3 bullshoes, we all know you're a Jedi, YOU CAN'T HIDE THE TRUTH FROM US
Maybe from darth plagueis the wise
Jacob talking about roleplaying like he's talking about getting help with depression.
D&D is group therapy with dice
@@GaryDunion can confirm tho
What do you mean, AU?
Magi V maybe I’ve not been doing it right
@@Nienna_Asyare There's no "right" and "wrong" here. But let's just say that most tabletop characters contain some aspects of the players themselves, and as such, oftentimes also deal with similar issues the players themselves face in their daily life, simply altered to fit the setting. That's not a cop-out, it's totally valid. And the best characters are often those that are the closest to our hearts. It can be incredibly empowering to overcome your real life struggles in the safety of a game world, because it may give you the courage to face those issues in real live. That's why good dnd is the best therapy.
RP'ing a gay gnome pirate has helped me be more open about being gay and also I've started to feel a lot more comfortable stealing ships on the high seas :D
"Hand over yer booty... and yer treasure, too!"
@@TimeLair Yah harr! xD
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That started so wholesome and ended perfectly.
"All hands on the poopdeck! Full mast!"
Okay, this is all fine, but...
How _CAN_ I improve my French accent?
For the sake of my character, Jean-Jacques Bissette-Benoit-Bouton-Bouvier, I _NEED_ to know!
I do know that french don't tend to make H sounds. "here" would be "ere" for example. It's if the word starts with H that this tends to happen
English H doesn't exist, H is silent in French, the 'r' sound is throaty. There you have it, basic but very effective French accent.
Have him have an speech impediment in which all he can say is croissant, and really, really make an effort on learning how to say that one word.
So I know there is a good chance this is a joke, but there ARE accent coaching videos on TH-cam if you want to pursue them.
It's simple
Step one: "H" have no sound, don't say them
Step two: the English "E" have the same sounds as the French "I", replace all the "I" in a phrase with "E", nowthre tricky one, the French "E" sounds like the "ge" of "Los Angels"
To practice try to say "intelligence"
Step three: try to not put your thong between your teeth, in french no word i know (and i am french so i know many french word) need you to put your thong between your teeth, so the principal reason french have an accent is because they don't think of putting they're thong between they're teeth, so you need to think about not putting your thong between your teeth
I think that's all, i don't really know anything else that could make you sound french
This is less "How to be better at roleplaying" and more "How to be more comfortable with roleplaying."
That’s honestly the first step, though.
@@commanderodinstark3416 Oh, absolutely, but it doesn't help people who are already comfortable roleplaying like the title implies a little bit.
Being more comfortable allows you to ignore all of your weird human feelings and focus on the situation at hand
This is off-topic, but Samuel Lillge, your TH-cam profile pic of a little creature with headphones floating in a rainbow is THE most eye-catching interesting tiny little profile pic I’ve ever seen. Seriously, I STOPPED watching the video just to type this comment first. 😄 Well done, Sam. Well done, indeed! 👍
@@moogamooga2100 Thank you, I'm glad you like it! I got bored one day and made it in google drawings, and I ended up liking it so much that it's been my profile picture ever since!
"You are not your character."
Ok, but, I wanna be a 60 year old Barbarian with dementia who's in a marital relationship with his Greataxe.
Don't we all?
She's a real battle axe eh?
I have a secret rule in my campaigns if you take care of your weapons and rp with them they can level up as well. Like 1st lv would be the weapon becomes a +1
@@WatchTower10 Our DM does this heirloom weapon in his story where they level up based on significant events in the story and can gain some wacky abilities.
For example; the preformentioned Greataxe, that I have lovingly named Martha, can be thrown up to 20ft (40 if I give up my moving action) as an action and can be recalled into my hand as a bonus action. It's not always practical, and I can't use extra attack, but man is it fucking cool.
Marital AND martial relationship.
I was looking for my daily several castings of Fireball, but I got a beautiful orphanage and animal rescue centers instead. I'll only use *1* fireball instead today.
*cries in Light Cleric*
And several stores of natural gas which just so ever-coincidentally have been placed in the center of town😂
Separating yourself from your character is deceivingly hard - it takes some practice. Once you do this you unlock the potential to have fun in GREAT moments and HORRIBLE moments for your character during the game 💪
Learning to enjoy tragedy happening to your fictional character is very rewarding, at least to me. Does it humble them? Do they hold a grude? Do they grow more trusting of their allies? etc etc
"Actors aren't actually their roles"
*Laughs in Daniel Day Lewis*
RIP Sean Bean.
Jim Carey
The Rock.
*Laughs in hector*
robert downey jr (tony stark)
0:50 How does one obtain a group to play d&d nearly every day?
Make it a job.
force
Probably multiple groups. I play 3 times a week but only once with each group
Step one: Build cabin on top of a bunker in the mountains.
Step two: Bring friends and family to cabin
Step three: send code to start global nuclear war
Step four: hurry into bunker with people from step two
Step five: Play D&D every day (until the food, water or clean air run out).
He keeps his players locked in the basement
Much love for all the new players
"Actors aren't actually their role"
...
John Malkovich
Robert Downey Jr
Sometimes gloriously failing at an accent or certain vernacular can make it more fun cuz everyone is having a laugh. Play as your character, but don't sweat the small stuff.
I had plenty of "hold on I'm sounding way too british" moments like that lol. Like the accent would be light then suddenly shift to full on cockney like that dude from Mary Poppins
There's one guy in my group who, every time he tries to do a voice other than his own, ends up with a southern (us) drawl. As a result, both of his characters are country girls, despite not intending them to be.
@@Ellebeeby Lol exactly why I would go "hold on I need to dial it back I dunno wtf my voice is doing"
I made Bag of Nails (a senile tabaxi assassin from ToA) sound like Cicero from Skyrim and my party absolutely loved it
Oh yeah, speaking of gloriously failing at an accent, Welsh is a tricky mistress. It's just close enough to Scottish, I go from Nia from Xenoblade to Donald&Douglas really f***ing quick. It's frustrating.
I've been playing for 8 years and I still have anxiety attacks every time I play.
The biggest benefit for shy people and people with anxiety-in my opinion-is a group of really close friends.
Yeah. I've never had a problem because me and my party are such close friends we are almost brothers. Close friends help.
Björck Björck that’s hard for me I wouldn’t consider the people I play with close friends I really with my close friends would but they don’t want to so my groups aren’t the greatest so hopefully I can get a good group one day
I have a stutter so I've only played 2 half hour games by myself with my brother as the dm and I can't even ask for spell components at a fake shop...
>Good voice acting
>Me, only playing characters of the opposite sex
Just play an elf.
Play a non binary/genderfluid character. None of the normal limitation of gender. All of the fun of both. Play a Tiefling for max customization on the gender performativity. Also look up trans voice acting lessons, those also help, they're super useful for newer voice changers
You could try to Dispel Magic your RP anxiety, or use illusion magic to make people think you actually know what you're doing. But it doesn't really matter, just do whatever feels right. If someone gives you grief for not living up to their standards, then EXTINGUISH THEIR LIFE WITH POWER WORD KILL- errr, I mean, let the rest of the group know you're not OK with that. Most decent DMs and players will be understanding.
But BigDickWizard6969, I don’t know any of those spells, I only have FIREBALL!!!
Just get some scrolls if you don't know the appropriate spells :^)
But@@BigDickWizard6969 , can't these spells all just be replaced with fireball? I only have scrolls of fireball too!
@@Oznerock If the answer isn't fireball, then it is a trick question!
@@BigDickWizard6969 Indeed! *I cast fireball!*
is this Player advice or depression advice?
instructions unclear; played my depression
You posted this 20 minutes before my session. Thanks! It'll help
10 minutes now! Plz tell me how it went down when you're finish! :D
@@christofferhougaard Sure will!
Hope your session went well! c:
Hey everybody! Just finished session. It went well. Players are exhausted. 3 hour dungeon.
Did a lot more voices though!
Bro, this is like EXACTLY what I need rn
You're not alone
Me: *Curled in ball on ground holding book* So alone... So very alone...*Darkness*
Also me: Instructions Unclear, What are these "Friends" you speak of?
Remember the golden rule: Fireball solves everything.
when in doubt, cast friends *gets beat down by wizards* I...I mean fireball...fireball!!
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Mood
“I’m telling you how not to be better at it.”- Jacob 2020 in a video titled how to be better
Swing and a miss.
great video, keeping a consistent level of 'good rp' is easily the most difficult part of DnD for myself and I think probably most people like you've said. All about having fun but it's hard sometimes to keep that in mind as much as we should
New player here and still getting used to it, thanks man 👍
I am a new player. How much have you played by now
I’ll admit it, I’m a DM that makes all my NPCS talk the same and I needed this so thanks chief.
I've got a total of three voices. They include: loud, slightly higher pitched th an my own, and my default voice.
@@Nightmare_vZ Same but add in slightly lower pitch than my normal
even if you can’t do voices you can do a lot with pace / choice of language / inflection and even describing body language
4:11 "opportunity to have a mask" I agree with this wholeheartedly. A lot of my characters end up being similar to me in attitude but with one flaw blown up out of proportion, like being too angry or annoying or impulsive. This ends up making the character easier to slip into, as well as being a way for me to feel comfortable with my own flaws. It helps me get into the characters head easier and also to see how the things im embarrassed about can still be part of a rich character.
the Star Wars campaign I'm playing with my friends is my favorite for role playing because I'm a droid, so I don't have to strain for a voice, I just phrase things really literally and use weird tones to get across my low charisma stat.
Right as you leaned in and said "your not alone" I heard a noise outside, I'm home alone and to be quite honest it scared the shit outta me. Turns out a possum got into my trash can. Kinda funny now that I think about it. Thanks for the creepy foresight jacob
I legit learned how to socialize through D&D (well actually Pathfinder)
I'm incredibly new to D&D, so new that my first game is in a couple of weeks and this video helped me immensely with my anxiety at going into an already established campaign with my limited amount of knowledge. My friend's party are going online due to lockdowns and quarantine, which made it accessible for me to join them, and having someone else there that I know (even in an online setting) has already helped but I'm still so worried that I won't know what to say, or how to act.
This video has helped me so much, so from a rookie player anxiously looking forward to her first game, I thank you for being so open.
This Video is probably helpful to pretty much everyone because even the best of roleplayers sometimes fumble their words or get nervous when they are put on the spot but especially so for newer player. I mean it's acting who wasn't nervous the first time they stood on some form of stage right ? So chill and listen to Jacob :D
Really good video, but the best advice comes at the start: "Don't overthink it."
Don't get too hung up on, "What would my character do?" Most of the time, they're going to be trying to succeed at the thing they are trying to do. Because that's what people _do_ when they're trying to do a thing. Roleplaying is just taking on the role of a fictional character in a fictional world and making the decisions you think that character would make if they and their world were real.
And 99% of the time, real people _aren't_ trying to "express their inner self" to those around them. They aren't trying to tell everyone they meet the exact strictures of their religion or the precise implications of their moral code. They don't wander up to people and tell them their entire life story. They're trying to _hide_ their personality flaws, not flaunt them. They're just trying to succeed at the thing that they're currently doing.
So just relax, be normal and pay attention to the unfolding story and your character's place in it.
You know it's going to be a warm heart-to-heart talk when he is sitting at the end of table, like we're there with him on the other seats and he's telling us "it's okay"
Roleplaying is one of my favorite aspects about D&D but so many people are nervous about it. I hope this video helps all those that are nervous and gets them to roleplay more. D&D isnt a wargame it's an RPG.
Thanks for this video. Despite playing dnd for a while, I still break character during serious scenes because I panic and get nervous. I wanted to make my character emotionally vulnerable in a scene but I ended up awkwardly laughing and cutting it short.
The party knew I’m nervous with acting and bad been so supportive. They’ve taken that moment and treated with the weight I wanted it to have and I’ll keep trying to work at it for their sake as well :)
Honestly this was perfectly made. I am never socially inept, yet when I'm playing d&d I always feel like I'm not doing it right.... Thanks brotha
Is that a Nut Button on the table? Ps, love the video!
it appears so
This…really helped me
I’ve been feeling like I’m not good enough for my friends even thought it’s my 2nd campaign ever-I didn’t know I wasn’t separating myself from my character until someone put it into words so thank you for the boost!
I’ve never felt scared of role playing or felt like I couldn’t do it, and this is for 3 reasons
1. I’m one of the few extroverted D&D players
2. I’ve only made characters I know in and out, and I make sure I know my friends characters
3. I have amazing friends
Setting roleplaying guidelines in Session 0 also helps promote a roleplay-friendly atmosphere. One of my early rules was "no RP shaming"
I get really into role playing when I play. Every one of my characters has a new voice and completely different personality and my friends are always nervously looking around anticipating how my first turn in each game is going to be. But I always cause the most laughs and instigate in game hilarious things
I mean I've never really role-played in all the years I played as a kid and now I'm in a group with some veterans who also are semi-professional actors. It's rough.
New genres of videos "behind the screen" it's going to be a hit just like the "From the floor" videos.
Occasionally messing up while doing improv and roleplaying is not the same thing as "you feel like everybody around you is way better at it, you feel like you made a terrible character, you can't focus on your character's voice or traits, you get super anxious and overthink it until you stop enjoying the game and then you stop playing" Of course I have felt the first thing, but the second things? No way. That set of feelings you described at the beginning is pretty extreme. I'm not lying or trying to pretend I'm so good at roleplaying by saying, "No, I have never had that second experience you described". I just fucking love acting. I fucking love Dungeon's and Dragons. I have since the first musical I was in and the first session I ever played. It's just so natural to me. I have never been super anxious at the table or felt that I had a terrible character or any of those things. I don't know why you're asserting that everyone who has every played D&D has had a negative experience with it at some point. Think about if you said that about, like, any other game? "EVERY PERSON WHO HAS EVER PLAYED THIS GAME HAS GOTTEN REALLY ANXIOUS WHILE PLAYING IT AT ONE POINT AND IF THEY SAY THEY HAVEN'T THEY'RE FUCKING LYING." Jesus, dude. Not a good look for the hobby.
See I really like my friends and all but there not the greatest when it comes to D&D. So I’m playing a Dwarf Cleric and I’m playing trickster for the rp and there was this person I never met before he was a friend of the dm he was playing rogue,my character wasn’t much of a healer he more liked lots of gold , playing tricks and finding creative ways to kill people. He was hard to roleplay cause I’m 15 and my voice isn’t to deep also this was like my third real game of dnd, so me and the rogue came up with cool ways to kill players I would cast my spell and then he would sneak up and go stabby stabby we role played this whole long and complicated process of us breaking into a house and him slicing peoples throats while I was making sure we didn’t get caught. We really bonded did out character voices and described what we were doing then we went dungeon crawling I had cure wounds that’s my only healing spell, the barbarian and fight were being super reckless and trying to run through it and kill everything they were at 1 and had to kill ogre lurking in the dungeon I cured their wounds then they got knocked out (they don’t rp) me and rogue were heavily roleplaying I said my epic battle cry as I charged in with my axe and the rogue covered me we did the voices and explained how together we chopped off the ogres head. The other players looked at us kinda strangely and were saying things like “that was weird”, “why didn’t you heal me your playin cleric”. Me and the rogue bonded cause of our roleplay the dm kicked those guys out invited so new guys who were socially awkward and didn’t know what to say we were excepting now they love dnd and they always want me to be a dwarf so I have epic role playing I’ll surprise them with one next campaign now we’re best friends. So everyone out there don’t be afraid to rp if people wanna be rude then their dicks and shouldn’t be playing this game; this game is about fun, creativity and making friends while dungeon crawling and casting epic spells. Thanks for making this video Jacob this will always be my fav dnd channel ( also sorry for my crappy grammar I’m not very good at grammar)
I just played my first D&D game last week and this video said a lot of what I was feeling afterwards... Thank you so much for this, it's nice to be reminded that I probably wasn't the only one feeling that way ❤
No offense but I think this a bad video and here's why:
Basically what you tell people is that they can say “sorry guys, Im not good at roleplaying, accept it or fuck you.“ That's the wrong way to go about things in this case, because nobody gets anywhere like that.
It's not a sin to be a bad roleplayer, but this IS your hobby and you enjoy it, right? Why not pour a little of your heart and soul into it and try to be a little bit better. Get some advice, ask experienced players, look on forums, noone expects you to take an acting class. Even the little things might make a big difference for you.
After all you are the one who gains the most from getting better, it's your fun. And if you do sth awsome, who knows? Maybe you'll inspire your friends to be a little bit better themselves and everyone wins.
And at the end of the day, even if it doesn't quite work out the way you wanted it to, you did the best you could and noone can blame you, not even yourself.
I’m a DM and a player of mine is very anxious to roleplay and i am happy this vid Just came out and i think this Will help him out a lot. Thanks a lot Jacob. You helpen me into dnd and you’ve helpen me with a lot of stuff.
Thank you, keep it going. You’re a truly great person
I need help.
I'm playing with this nice group of people. Most of them know each other, but me and another one are outsiders. The other guy LOVES dnd and he's having fun no matter what. I don't. I have a character that I like, however I'm not comfortable/confident enough to play him as intended. And I really wish I did, and it pisses me off that I don't.
I have vocalized my frustration, and like Jacob said, I say outloud "I don't know what to do" all the time, which they answer "that's allright" like Jacob said.
The problem with that is this happens all the time. I've been reduced to a side character who doesn't do or say anything. I have vocalized that as well, which no one of them as an aswer for me other than "mybe swith your character" which I really don't want to do. I'm not having fun at all. What to do?
I’ve told the two middle schoolers to not be afraid to pipe in, and talk.
Also 10/10 for tips, but 0/10 for no laying on the ground
One way I disconnect from my character is by describing their actions in the third person, unless I'm doing the voice, in which case I almost always say it was my character saying that.
Example: "Worbus takes the decorative sword from the wall and begins swinging like a madman. 'Try and face me ye demons!' he screams"
>what if people don't like my character
build one that is meant to get a groan once in a while. I play an emo ranger that ironically is adventuring because his girlfriend Evanescence ran away in the night, and he's looking for her.
I also have the Kobold that speaks exclusively in ice/weather puns and sticks to ice spells. Skizzard the lizard blizzard wizard is beloved for being so ridiculous/low brow.
Story time
One of my best friends plays a Warlock Sea Captain (high charisma and all that stuff) and she really struggled with rp the first few sessions cuz she was so affraid of making a "wrong" decision so once we got together plus her boyfriend (who's also a member of the party) and casually rped for a while, without the pressure of the game and nothing serious. Weplayed a lot with the members of the crew and my own pc (cuz they've been traveling together for a few years). So yeah, rping outside the game with people you feel comfortable with is a great way to improve your comfortability level while rping.
If cool characters were being cool 100% of the time (or even like 70% of the time), they wouldn’t be cool. They’d be a douchbag. It’s that contrast from the norm that makes them cool
I’m trying to play a blind woman and my entire party hates me because of me getting too into my role because I don’t do too much and am mostly support and they think I’m retarded because of my character disability
I also think they hate me because last time I played a mentally crazed alcoholic barbarian too
While I read this I wondered if I would be allowed to have a character in a wheel chair. Let's make it an orc. (Rolls a 20 and epicly ramps into the air and rolls over a dragon with my s i c c air.)
I feel like its kind of hard to find a group in my area (on and offline kind of) and I thought about joining an english speaking group, but you know not my first language and stuff and I feel like I can't be as eloquent as in my native tongue and feel anxious about thinking trying it ... sooo...just gonna enjoy watching those groups, I guess. :D
ive been playing a character recently Called Bucket, he's not great at remembering things, and so when im thinking of questions I just say bucket is stuck in thought, or say he's doing something else
I'm pretty comfy with ALL the characters I create, but I have to create them, if I had to be some other character it would be rough, but that might just be my autism.
You're saying that you are only comfortable playign characters that you made, yes? If that's the case, i feel the same way. I spend wat longer than neccessary stressing on what i want my character to be when i have to make one.
I don't think I could play a character made by someone else very well at all. I wasn't inspired to make this person, I don't know their thoughts or how they'd react. Getting into the mind of a character takes time. Even more so when you don't know them. That's why actors take days, even weeks reading scripts before they go on camera. Even then they have constant direction on how to be this character.
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what about the title "How to be better at Roleplaying in D&D
makes you think "ah yes World of Warcraft"
I face I very weird problem so I play dnd with my friends but my problem may be that I take it to serious but at the same time it could also be because my friends are goofing around and not playing the game that I and others at the table want to get to. I'm not sure if I should try to relax more or help my friend get back on track
Me Roleplaying at the table and also having a stress problem "I should probably get a therapist but this helps with D&D and it's free so only this for now"
Thanks for this. I have never roleplayed before and only recently got into dnd and felt I was really bad at it so I would end up only really rping when called upon.
This has been a huge problem for me lately, even though I love the idea of RPing more than combat, I get really bad anxiety attacks and one big piece of advise I got and plan to use next session is just asking for a moment to think about what to say next, which in hindsight in a game like D&D makes a ton of sense, if combat can take many minutes for six seconds to pass why can’t dialogue take a few breaks between lines too
Does Logan just walk up and hand Jacob here a couple of bones for advertising his book?
This is exactly what I was looking for. I’ve been playing characters that don’t really ever talk, even if I don’t really want to. Even though I’ve known them for a long time, I struggle with roleplaying because I always panic over what I should say in that situation. This helped me a lot, thank you.
You know, It's weird but the most liked character I've ever made was a wanted war criminal
Actually crying halfway through the video because this helps me so much
Hey, Jacob, a friend in my dnd group doesnt want to DM a oneshot because she's not feeling 'ready' . Any tips on how to start DMing and what 'do you need to know' to prepare a oneshot?
What do you need for a one shot you mean? You need your buddy's to be okay with you running the game first off then you need a monster and a location for said monster to inhabit sewers or a mine are good places you need a reason for your players to go to said location. The rest as they say is all in your court as the G.M. maps are nice but not necessary. Good luck and remember to have fun. Cuz that's what you are there for. You can sometimes get in 3 combats depending on how long you intend to play for 4 hours think about. 1 combat every 1.5 hours. So you might need more than one monster.
I have genuinely never had the problem detailed in the beginning of the video...
Title : how to be better
"It's not how to be 'better' "
Is this an MxR [NUT] button next to him? 👀
FUCK RUNESMITH I WANT YOUR BOOK BUT I NEED TO BUY FOOD!
This helps a lot! (even as a dm) Thank you Jacob~
If you struggle with roleplaying I'd recommend playing the kenku race
"you hear the sound of a baby crying in a distant alleyway..." ;)
Aw man, this really helped me. I made a paladin and I'm in a party full of 10 players. Everyone was doing these awesome accents and really made an impression, but me, I was just being awkward and kinda quiet. So comforting to know that this guy right here gets it.
I know this is years late but sometimes playing into that can be a huge help! Like you can make an awkward character, or a quiet character, or a dumb character so when they say dumb things it’s just the character and great role playing. Or you can tailor your character to how you feel you would be most comfortable role playing in the given situation. For example Marisa Ray from Critical Role said she made Keyleth awkward socially because she was nervous to join the campaign with all these experienced voice actors, so her chosen character allowed her something to fall back on. For me personally, my first dnd character is very closed off and a little rude, because I find it hard to talk about emotions with people I don’t know very well and when I’m nervous I’ll (jokingly) insult people to deflect and hide my anxiety. While some people may say this is just playing myself, I think it’s a good place to start for a new player to create a character perhaps similar to yourself but certain traits blown up. So my character will just straight up insult people rather than do so jokingly, and she never laughs. Gives me something unique about her to separate her from myself whilst still making her fairly simple for me to roleplay. Sorry this was so long but maybe it will help someone!
Wrong I'm awesome 😞✊👊👋✋👋
I don’t think this is how to roleplay, just how to be comfortable.
Thank you for this video!
Every time I search for this topic I just find 30 minutes long videos, so watching this, quick and cool video is amazing
Best dnd channel
When your dnd character canttalk😅😥😢
What if I’m hiding behind the mask of a character who is also hiding behind a mask??
Mask-ception
DM: So what does your character say?
Player: Uh, I don't know what to say!
Other Player: Quick! Say something like, you're in love with them!
Player: "I'm in love with you"-WAIT, WHAT?!
Rest of the party: "Good luck we believe in you!" We all leave the room.
DM: Okay, it's just you and them alone in the room. You notice their face is beginning to blush and their eyes start to dilate.
Player: ...
DM: Alright, it's a moment of awkward silence, we'll cut to the rest of the party for now...
Well I do have a great French accent indeed.
When I played with an old D&D crew, Roleplaying was the main reason we played. To my surprise, most of the time they'd say nothing when something happened. I always thought I was breaking the ice by reacting after like 2 seconds, but now I'm kinda worried it may be because they felt like they couldn't get a word in edgewise.
Hey just a quick question... I am currently getting into the nitty gritty of D&D (because of you!) and have stumbled across gold. I have no idea the scope of value these gold pieces have.
Without knowing that I don’t know how much gold I need to offer my party as the DM. Help?
Always a useful video to watch. Even if you don’t particularly agree it’s nice to find out all the different styles.
1:55 I feel so called out...
Also why does this make me want to cry?
The muisic choise and he is doing a deeply emotional voice with a deeply emotianal choise of words, seriously you can make someone cry with enough emotion
I left my old dnd group because I liked the charisma casters most but was horrible at role-playing and the dm had a rule that if you play a high charisma character then you have to roleplay as the party's face. On several occasions I kinda got choked up until I was just booted
"Most of you sit face to face" BWAHAHHAHA, yea in my dreams. I play online through voicechat, still the same problem.
I honestly never got anxious role playing when I started. It was the mechanical stuff I struggled with.
The DM (for my first game) introduced my character into the game on a real life arm wrestling match that I “won” 200gp for. It immediately brought the excitement and life out of my character and set his attitude for the rest of the game. The other players also gave me so much help and advice on making my character in general and it’s been awesome. Now I know that role playing a character can feel like an extension of your own personality traits. Way easier that way for me. Next dude is gonna be quiet and angry so that’ll be easy to do 😂
One of the worst things I have ever done was stack an accent that I'm not good at onto my character. Fuck it is hard to RP and fix your voice at the same time.
I should've gone with New York Italian rather than light British
I actually would have liked some good advice on how to roleplay better. I don't know how other people see this, but roleplaying good is a big part of the fun in p&p rpgs for me. I don't really care if someone else likes my roleplay (its great if they do tho), I want it to be good myself.
A problem I have run into is that sometimes my characters are just very hard to roleplay, because I can't really say anything that gives the pc a personality. Does someone have a good method for creating characters that are easy to roleplay in a cool way? I've made a few good characters myself but lately I couldn't reproduce that.
I first started thinking roleplaying was tough and I was always doing something wrong, now that I'm dming I feel like I'm doing everything wrong, all the time😂
I was trying to pay attention to this video but I kept getting distracted by how beautiful you are. I hope that doesn't sound wierd...it was my ugh... character.
I actually haven't though, I have basically only played with noobs. I have been the most experienced by default.
My biggest problem is I constantly make characters that *I* don't like, but all my friends think are freaking hilarious.
Friendship mechanic?!?! Everyone can now act out their anime inspired characters by defeating their enemies with the power of friendship!
This was a shockingly wholesome, serious, helpful, and very professional looking! All without losing any personality and comedy typically on your channel. Good job!
"and if somebody has never ever felt this before while playing Dungeons and Dragons then they're completely lying"
Or they have only ever played a single session or two?