Actually it can involve a lot of dungeons depends on the style of your campaign. As for dragons, what level are you starting at? ... I've encountered a baby dragon at 1st level. it was guarding a bridge and demanded a toll to cross it.
@@tonywilson5708 I respect your sarcasm. Enjoy the addition of +1 to the number next to the like-button bellow your comment! Can't you just feel your self-worth just soar with that number? That is how much strangers who don't know you and will probaly never meet you like you. I'm told by younger people than myself that such things are very important and makes one feel good. So I hope my button press brought you the same happiness and brief joy that your comment gave me. Have a nice day, funny stranger! :)
@@cipher0328 A d6. Every couple of levels rogues get an additional sneak attack die to scale their damage output with their level. In the end they have like 6 or 7 of them, and with good teamwork they can sneak attack almost every round.
Also wizards/sorcerers with Fireball, Lightning Bolt, etc.. Upcasting those suckers can lead to crazy rolls, but the biggest is 9th level Meteor Swarm: 20d6 bludgeoning & 20d6 fire. That’s 40d6 in ONE SPELL! Better have a rolling app handy or this will turn into Warhammer.
@@Pingviinimursu it's half / rouge lv rounded up..... So at lv 20 they have a 10d6 sneek attack.... That's why asain subclass..... Just one shot Hill giants.....
Clerics use it too with their Divine Intervention ability. Roll d% and if the result is equal or lower than your level, gods will help you in some major way. Can not think of any other use for d% tough.
"Now, how about the 6 other dice?" me: *counts dice*.... wait what? d4, d6, d8, d10, d12... that's only 5!?! later in the video: "... it's a percentile die." me: oh well....
Real life Bard, Sam Riegel will one day kill me with laughter from his jingles, I swear. Also I’ve been avoided the percentage die for a while now good to know what it actually does finally 😂
The only thing I wish would have been touched upon, and maybe they will in a future episode, was the term Nat or Natural 20 / 1 and what that signifies. When I first started watching Critical Role I didn't really grasp the concept of Nat 20s and Nats until a few episodes in and didn't really understand the significance and why they got so excited or so down.
She did say at the start that a 20 is the best and a 1 is the worst, but yeah I guess she didn't use the term natural which means only the number the dice rolled with no modifiers.
I more meant that rolling a Natural 20 on attacks will give you a Crit or if you roll it when investigating something you might get more knowledge than if you rolled let's say a 15. Also let's say you roll a Natural 1 on an attack roll, your weapon might get stuck on a door or you could lose it all together if your DM is extra nasty.
Hey Se7en, that is a great point. Natural 20s or Natural 1s (Criticals) can be a big deal and tough to understand why they are so great... or terrible. But you can cover that whole point in a short 3 minute video dedicated just to Criticals. Especially due to how they impact damage, overcoming difficult situations, etc. I am sure they can add a bunch of other explanations. But, it is great to mention the point as it might give them an idea for an episode that they didn't think about yet.
also a quick note: When reading a percentile die. Read the double digits first then the single digits. The result 70 and 3 = 73; a 00 and 1 = a 1; a 00 and 0 = a 100. I know weird, but it works. Think of it as a digital display that is only capable of showing you 2 digits at a time. since 100 is 3, you can only see the zeroes. :)
90 is the first digit and 10 is the second digit so reading it would be "90". 90+1 = 91, 90+2 = 92, 90+3 = 93, 90+4 = 94, 90+5 = 95, 90+6 = 96, 90+7 = 97, 90+8 = 98, 90+9 = 99. This way you can get all the digits in the 90s
@@koldrake2746 I'm a bit after the fact, but it's place value. The 00-90 die is the 10s digit and the 1-10 is the ones digit. Yeah it's a bit funky but it will give you correct percentages.
I am so looking forward to this series. I have a friend who has been wanting to dip their toe into the D&D waters but had been nervous. This is perfect for them. Also, another one of Sam's jingles that is going to be permanently stuck in my head forever. I'm only wondering what useful knowledge is being pushed out to make room for the jingles, lol 😂
On Talks they said it would premiere 10am pacific time, which is in 10 minutes as of this comment. They also had an interview on Syfy to promote it which was released before that and perhaps accidentally links to the unlisted version of the video. I type slowly so expect the video to go public in 5 minutes.
Neat video - I've got some friends playing for the first time this weekend and I shall be forwarding this onto them so that they know a bit more about the dice they're rolling :)
I remember the first time I rolled a percentage die in-game and not just for an "Okay you'll start the game with a wonderous item, roll to see what you get" kind of thing. We were in a town were weapons were banned so we turned them in at the gate and later the town was invaded by hobgoblins that stole the weapons from storage and started attacking people. We rolled a percentile die to see what kind of Loot they had, and if they had any of our weapons, and I rolled *00 0* I thought I was boned but it turns out the hobgoblin didn't just have one of my weapons like the other members of my party, BUT BOTH my quarterstaff and my dagger!
Have been doing random percentile rolls in my current campaign for special random events and had 6 yes 6 natural 100 show up so many powerful special events have happened! No one can believe so many have showed up! I made an expanded chart now. And I’m only rolling once for every 2 days in campaign. Lower rolls are just lesser random encounters. But hey it’s been fun and the players actually love the random events so fate has chosen well!
I feel bad that the percentile dice has apparently fallen out of favor. It adds a lot of fun randomness to a game. I use a lot of custom random tables that utilize a d100 roll.
This was a really cute start to the series! Maybe I'll show my Mom and Sis and see how well they understand after this. (My secret goal is to eventual whittle them down so they actually play with me.)
As much as this is a pretty decent start to a very promising series, I do think as a Dice 101 episode you left out a few things that will confuse new players. As has already been mentioned, you didn't explain nat 1s and nat 20s, which are a major part of almost every d20 based RPG and play a huge part in 5e specifically. Also, when explaining the percentile dice, you didn't explain how to read them, or that rolling a 00 and a 0 = 100, not 0, which is a really confusing aspect of percentile dice. It also would have been nice to see at least one example of what percentile dice are used for, like just mentioning the wild magic table would have given people a clear example of a percentile roll. Actually rolling some dice would have been nice too, just to, again, give a clear picture of how they are used. Like, in the healing example, you could have said, "For example, let say I'm casting a healing spell that heals 3d8 damage. I roll 3 8-sided dice and got a 3, a 5, and a 1. 3+5+1=9, so I did 9 points of healing." That would have been a concrete example that's easy to follow, but shows instead of just tells new players how things work which helps people who are visual learners. I also think you didn't really need to go into ability scores just yet, since you mentioned them without explanation and then specifically said you can't get into them right now. From a training perspective, that's something you don't want to do because it causes your trainees to focus on the idea that things are going to get even more complicated and can discourage and distract them from learning what you're trying to teach them. In a live training session it makes sense if one of your trainees asks about a subject, like ability scores, that you aren't ready to cover yet to answer them with a simple, "Right now we're focusing on this, but we'll definitely get to that later. One thing at a time." This shows them you're listening and that their question will be answered, but lets you refocus the group on the task at hand. In a situation like this where you completely control the conversation, things that you'll be covering in later episodes shouldn't even be mentioned unless it's a preview of the next episode type situation like, "Next time, we'll talk about Ability scores and how all those dice you now know about work with them!" Overall, I like this as the start to the series. I just don't want to see you guys fall into the pitfalls a lot of new trainers (and experienced ones from time to time) fall into, like jumping between subjects or moving forward before your trainees have mastered the first step. Great Job overall though!
? 00 0 = 100 ? the percentile die goes 00, 10, 20, 30... 80, 90 A roll of 00 is zero + whatever the d10 rolls, so you might get a 1- 10. (10 being the zero for this die) The way to 'roll 100' would actually be 90+0 = 90+(10) = 100 00 IS zero... so that if you rolled a 00 + 1... you might get a strength bonus of 18 (01) -- the value in the parenthesis can be 01 to 100).. which can push your strength into superhuman / giant strength levels of flexing.
page 6 of the 5e PHB under the section entitled Game Dice, "Two 0s represent 100." and later on at the end of the paragraph, "Some ten-sided dice are numbered in tens (00, 10, 20, and so on), making it easier to distinguish the tens digit from the ones digit. In this case, a roll of 70 and 1 is 71, and 00 and 0 is 100."
My summary of dice and their uses: D20: The one used for everything that isn’t combat or healing. The other ones: The ones used for combat and healing. Percentile: Wild Magic, some encounter/treasure charts, and the Maze Engine encounter.
Can we have these with zero cussing? It seems like a great way to explain D&D to kids, and I'd love to show them, but I don't feel comfortable doing so with swearing in it. Even something as innocuous as "bad@$$" makes me uncomfortable sharing with my 7 year old.
hey I'd like to buy a crit role shirt that's had the famous Marisha Ray Haphazard Bullshit Sleeve Cut, how much will it cost ps do a vid on character creation basics!
Brent Bolton - thought the same: For percentile dice you roll both dice and read the double number as the tens and the single as normal, for example if we rolled a 70 and a 4 then you have 74 (pretty easy hey!); But what about 00? Well that means zero tens and you only read the single dice and have gotten a score between 1-10. I realise you probably know but I'm putting this here for those that don't :)
you didnt mention how to read the percentile. i racked my brain for quite a while before understanding that 00 0 is 100. it feels obvious now, but i use to think 10 0 made sense becausee it shows 100, or maybe 1 00.
I don’t actually think this video needed an explanation for nat 20s and 1s. Auto hitting and auto missing can be covered in a combat episode, but that’s all nat ones and nat twenty’s do RAW.
So I rolled my d20 once just for fun while watching. I got a natural 20. This is why I don't get them a lot in my campaign outside initiative rolls, because I waste them doing things like this.
Great start to the series. We didn't have fancy percentile dice back in the 1980s. We used two different colored d10. Purple was the tens and Orange was the ones. Rolling two Zeros was a 100.
This was an awesome first video and summary of dice! Only criticism: You don't actually explain how a percentile roll works; you just said that it does. Oops.
Nice start on the basics. though I would have included the info what the 0 on the D10 signified and that there is a difference between the natural and modified result of a roll.
1 minor thing I would have liked to see is the method for percentile rolls when a decader (the patent name for the 2 digit d10's) isn't available. The 1 where you take 2 d10's that are distinctly different (usually different colors) and declare 1 "high", as in X10, and roll them together. Or rolling 1d10 twice for the X10 and singles digits. I know it can sound confusing, but they might not have a percentile/decader die. Save the d100, d3, and d30 for the "other stuff you don't actually need" episode.
@@templar_1138 "standard" implies there is a common definition of what goes into a "set". Many games use different setups. Besides, many people start off with a la carte dice either given to them or pulled from bins. As I said, a minor point that I simply would have liked to see. These videos never cover 100% of the topic, and they should not be expected to do so.
Maybe something to touch on in a future video is how a percentile die is actually resolved. Some people think the 00 is 100, some people think it's a 0. It can be confusing
Both work! Which ever suits you the best is the one you should use. I've dmed for 10 years now and I can't tell you how many players have tried to do either method that is described but either confuse themselves or get something minor wrong so the variations of the numbers is not 1 to 100. I point it out because it can be confusing to new players.
Also as far as the d10s are concerned 0 dosen't actually mean zero that's a ten, and if you're rolling percentiles all zeros is 100, I've seen so many new players rolling a d10 for their weapon damage get really disappointed and confused when they see that they rolled a zero.
If she forgot Wil Wheaton's curse, she also forgot the Twin Blessings of Taliesin Jaffe and Ashly Burch. I predict things seemingly omitted from this video are planned for future ones, just not in here so we don't have a full-length Critical Role episode on the handbook as Episode 1 (of... 1... the whole book was covered in those six hours... yeah...).
It didnt answer the biggest dice drama though... How do you actually calculate percentages is it 00 + 0 that’s 100 or 90 + 0(often used as 10 in hp/damage)
It has a range of 100 different possibilities. Instead of it being 0-99 they made it 1-100 to make sense as a percentage. And they just put what would normally just be 0 and put it at the end as 100.
S Clair but for consistency it’s stronger to say 00 means start at 0 then add d10. That way 00 on first die means the total result is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 In the traditional way rolling 00 on the first die means 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 💯! Are the options. This is crazy... especially in roll under target number systems(like Warhammer RPG 2nd)
How do you read a d4? Most d4s now, you read the top (or point) number but there are some d4s (especially much older ones) you read the bottom (or base) number.
So I keep rolling 20's like 90% of the time and ppl in my group* said they think I have "weighted die". I assume they think I'm cheating? I get you said 20's are good but are they so good ppl would cheat for them? Lol seems silly. They told me to roll a diff dice and it was a 20 so that quieted them a bit but they still seem hostile. I feel like finding a 19 sided dice so I can't roll a 20 and end all the* BS. Anyway sorry for the rant. Just excited for this series since i started my first campaign recently. Edit: misspelled/ incorrect words (*)
Fantastic. Although, a bit short compared to the 4 hours of D&D on Thursday nights, lol. Use that fancy studio to make more content! P.S. Aren't you supposed to be in the desert with Matt and Tali? Go get your DPB.
Wow, I love the graphics you guys got. Good job, Person Who Does Those (who I have been informed is WendyDoodles, which makes total sense because she is awesome)
The background music being so loud and mixed makes it a bit hard to process info if you’re new to this (aka the target audience), or maybe that’s my hearing? but the vid was good! Love Marisha as a host.
I need to recommend later eps of this series to my gaming group, as they've just started out. They know the basics of dice, but I think they'll benefit from understanding more about some other stuff. This is a great series idea!
@@tonywilson5708 well they already understand how to play more or less, but I know they only half understand some of the stuff about playing. Like they know things to play the character they have but sometimes don't get why a rule/mechanic is like it is. Does that make sense? They're still learning so I think these will help give context to some things they've been told are rules.
@Tarmachan I have a pretty fresh group of players too, a couple of them never having played at all before. I was just hoping that there would be a bit more content to the episodes than 3 minutes a week. It's not like there is lack of material in the 5E PHB for several 10 minute episodes.
I figure they're trying to make it less intimidating by doing small topics one at a time. And also if they do super short vids on one topic each time people don't have to trawl through ten minutes to find the one things they want to know about. I think it's a bit early to judge off of one ep, but I like it so far :)
Nick Williams I cut my teeth as a Thief in first edition. So rolling percentile was integral to the class and didn’t involve the extraness of later editions. It is largely obsolete now. (Though in my 5e DMing, I have incorporated in a bit in overland travel homebrew elements where a more general check would be just that, too general.)
Hah. I still sometimes slip up and call a Rogue a "Thief" myself. Or catch myself telling the kids these days that I remember when Elves were a _class._ So yeah, I remember the weird, arbitrary percentile charts for Thief abilities. One thing that always bugged me was that giving the Thief a percentile chance of moving silently, hiding or - worst of all - _listening,_ implied that characters of other classes couldn't do those things. I mean, my Magic-User can't _tiptoe?_ Why not? My Cleric has no chance at all of hearing a noise? With his ears? The fuck? You'd always end up with a custom houserule for every table for those things. Say, -5% of the 1st level Thief abilities - modified for race - for those Thief abilities that just seemed like things everyone should at least be able to _try._ When the d20 system came in with 3e, things just made much more sense. There was a defined way for _anyone_ to try and do "thiefy" things, it was just that Rogues tended to be better at it. As I said, a single mechanic. Need to roll? You're rolling a d20. When you get right down to it, a d20 is just a d100 in 5% increments with one roll anyway. These days, there's no reason to use a percentile roll unless you need someone to randomly pick an option from a very long list. I think it's only the Wild Magic Sorcerer that uses it on a regular basis in-game. If people love percentile rolls so much, they can always have a burl at Call of Cthulhu.
Nice start to the series. I used to just roll the d10 twice for percentage rolls, rather than have a special extra dice. Only thing I might have touched on in the video, is just letting some know that one dice is a die, multiple are dice. I know various people who refer to 1 die as dice
Keeping them short makes them more appealing to masses trying to learn. There are already longer videos with more info added that can bog you down. 3 min is probably statistically the optimal length for youtube content based on algorithms and Google analytics.
I also recommend you test how well made your dice are. Get a glass of water with salt in it. The drop your dice in it and start rolling them around. If they’re poorly made then they will always prefer a certain number and the glass of water will make it easier to tell if they are are well made and truly random or if they are badly made and are a bit weighted.
Thanks this really helps a lot. Also saying sides of the dice is slightly vague. it should be faces when you talk about how many flat surfaces are on a dice.
I wish for this at least there wasn't any cursing. I'm fine with it in game, but I'm trying to teach my granma and mom to play, and this was great, but...they tend to not like profanity. I've had some slip out once or twice. 😅
An episode about dice without a cameo from Laura Bailey just feels wrong.
She's busy teaching Ronan about them.. from afar.. because choking hazard.
Ye, they missed the whole "dice jail" part of the gameplay!
Naw fam, she is too busy excorcising the demons out her cursed dice
At least they kept Wheaton away.
It's about dice mechanics not dice hoarding 😁
Sam’s intro song though
Right? i spit soda when it kicked in. LOL
I laugh every time.
You can't keep a good bard down for long.
DING
I love the DING at the end. It feels so SCANLAN!!!
The irony is that Dungeons and Dragons doesn't actually involve that many dungeons or dragons.
Actually it can involve a lot of dungeons depends on the style of your campaign. As for dragons, what level are you starting at? ... I've encountered a baby dragon at 1st level. it was guarding a bridge and demanded a toll to cross it.
Someone forgot about the Chroma Conclave
Are you sure you're doing it right?
Correction most GOOD Dungeons and Dragons don't involve dungeons. Sometimes they involve dragons, but only for two dozen or so sessions.
The Yawning Portal; nuff said.
What a great start! I'd love to know who does all the cute doodles :)
Those are drawn by our friend WendyDoodles (link in the description above to her Twitter)!
here was I thinking it was Jester... should have known from the lack of penises.
@@criticalrole Thank You!!! Keep up the great work, I'll be sharing this series with my family so we can play :)
ever need motion graphics? i'm available!
hey duuude when is your next crack vid? been waiting for it for a while!
Marisha is such a good host, I know how the dice work but I still watched the whole video
All 3 minutes? Wow, invested...
@@tonywilson5708 I respect your sarcasm. Enjoy the addition of +1 to the number next to the like-button bellow your comment!
Can't you just feel your self-worth just soar with that number? That is how much strangers who don't know you and will probaly never meet you like you. I'm told by younger people than myself that such things are very important and makes one feel good. So I hope my button press brought you the same happiness and brief joy that your comment gave me.
Have a nice day, funny stranger! :)
Alright then buddy...
I'm just saying i wish that there was a bit more content to the episodes. I love Critical Role, i just had higher hopes.
@@tonywilson5708 tbh though theyve aleays said these videos will be bitesize
How did you not use a picture of Sam Riegel for the charisma picture
Maybe because one of Sam's current characters has 5 Charisma - nearly the polar opposite of both Scanlan and Sam.
D20: "The die you'll be rolling the most"
Rogues with sneak attack: X to doubt
lol
What dice do they use
@@cipher0328 A d6. Every couple of levels rogues get an additional sneak attack die to scale their damage output with their level. In the end they have like 6 or 7 of them, and with good teamwork they can sneak attack almost every round.
Also wizards/sorcerers with Fireball, Lightning Bolt, etc.. Upcasting those suckers can lead to crazy rolls, but the biggest is 9th level Meteor Swarm: 20d6 bludgeoning & 20d6 fire. That’s 40d6 in ONE SPELL! Better have a rolling app handy or this will turn into Warhammer.
@@Pingviinimursu it's half / rouge lv rounded up..... So at lv 20 they have a 10d6 sneek attack.... That's why asain subclass..... Just one shot Hill giants.....
“Stay Natural my friends.” Is going to be my new catch phrase haha.
"I don't always roll dice. But when I do, it's usually a d20."
Oh, yeah, same here. Hilarious. 😂
Is that Bigby's Hand on the title graphic? ;-)
Every1Talks The one and only
That's kind of a reach... around.
That's what I'm thinking. Either Bigby's Hand or Scanlan's Hand.
Or Mage Hand.
When you've played D&D since second grade but you still want to watch every episode of this.
"Some classes have some abillities that requires a percentage dice roll" Hellyeah! That's definetedly the sorcerer with the Wild magic suge!
Clerics use it too with their Divine Intervention ability. Roll d% and if the result is equal or lower than your level, gods will help you in some major way.
Can not think of any other use for d% tough.
Loot !!
"Now, how about the 6 other dice?"
me: *counts dice*.... wait what? d4, d6, d8, d10, d12... that's only 5!?!
later in the video: "... it's a percentile die."
me: oh well....
Hah, I was doing the same thing. (counts) that's 5... .>. Oooooh, right. Percentile die.
You have to use those occasionally in my campaigns. You have a 1% of spontaneous combustion every now and then.
Can someone explain to me, who has never touched D&D, why a percentile die is necessary? Why don't you just roll two d10s?
You can, and many do. But with the percentile die it's a lot easier to remember which one is the tens place...and harder to lie about which is which.
Otherwise you have to declare beforehand one of the D10's as the tens die... A bit of a pain.😅
Real life Bard, Sam Riegel will one day kill me with laughter from his jingles, I swear.
Also I’ve been avoided the percentage die for a while now good to know what it actually does finally 😂
The only thing I wish would have been touched upon, and maybe they will in a future episode, was the term Nat or Natural 20 / 1 and what that signifies. When I first started watching Critical Role I didn't really grasp the concept of Nat 20s and Nats until a few episodes in and didn't really understand the significance and why they got so excited or so down.
She did say at the start that a 20 is the best and a 1 is the worst, but yeah I guess she didn't use the term natural which means only the number the dice rolled with no modifiers.
I more meant that rolling a Natural 20 on attacks will give you a Crit or if you roll it when investigating something you might get more knowledge than if you rolled let's say a 15. Also let's say you roll a Natural 1 on an attack roll, your weapon might get stuck on a door or you could lose it all together if your DM is extra nasty.
Hey Se7en, that is a great point. Natural 20s or Natural 1s (Criticals) can be a big deal and tough to understand why they are so great... or terrible. But you can cover that whole point in a short 3 minute video dedicated just to Criticals. Especially due to how they impact damage, overcoming difficult situations, etc. I am sure they can add a bunch of other explanations. But, it is great to mention the point as it might give them an idea for an episode that they didn't think about yet.
you wouldnt bring that up since some dms dont even utilize them at all. This episode was just understanding dice.
Yup same, was JUST about to write that
also a quick note: When reading a percentile die. Read the double digits first then the single digits. The result 70 and 3 = 73; a 00 and 1 = a 1; a 00 and 0 = a 100. I know weird, but it works. Think of it as a digital display that is only capable of showing you 2 digits at a time. since 100 is 3, you can only see the zeroes. :)
Why isnt rolling a 90 + 10 not 100 rather than rolling 00 (= zero) + 0 ( = 10) suddenly becoming 100 instead of 10?
@@koldrake2746 because they are digits and not added
What would 90+10 be though?
90 is the first digit and 10 is the second digit so reading it would be "90". 90+1 = 91, 90+2 = 92, 90+3 = 93, 90+4 = 94, 90+5 = 95, 90+6 = 96, 90+7 = 97, 90+8 = 98, 90+9 = 99. This way you can get all the digits in the 90s
@@koldrake2746 I'm a bit after the fact, but it's place value. The 00-90 die is the 10s digit and the 1-10 is the ones digit. Yeah it's a bit funky but it will give you correct percentages.
This is a clear, concise, and interesting introduction to polyhedrals! Great first episode, I can't wait for more!
Intro: Which damage die hurts worse?
Rolling: d12
Stepping on it: d4
"Stay Natural, my friends." Hmmm, I like it. It has potential.
Without explaining what that means it falls flat. Nat 20/Nat 1s were not even mentioned.
I am so looking forward to this series. I have a friend who has been wanting to dip their toe into the D&D waters but had been nervous. This is perfect for them.
Also, another one of Sam's jingles that is going to be permanently stuck in my head forever. I'm only wondering what useful knowledge is being pushed out to make room for the jingles, lol 😂
@Jean-François Mongrain And here I was thinking I was the only one who did that! 😂 High five!!!!
"Why didn't this pop up in my feed" (Unlisted) "Oh.... why?"
It was 'pre-released' on SYFY, it'll probably be listed in a few hours.
On Talks they said it would premiere 10am pacific time, which is in 10 minutes as of this comment.
They also had an interview on Syfy to promote it which was released before that and perhaps accidentally links to the unlisted version of the video.
I type slowly so expect the video to go public in 5 minutes.
Ah, I haven't watched last night's Talks yet.
Neat video - I've got some friends playing for the first time this weekend and I shall be forwarding this onto them so that they know a bit more about the dice they're rolling :)
I remember the first time I rolled a percentage die in-game and not just for an "Okay you'll start the game with a wonderous item, roll to see what you get" kind of thing. We were in a town were weapons were banned so we turned them in at the gate and later the town was invaded by hobgoblins that stole the weapons from storage and started attacking people. We rolled a percentile die to see what kind of Loot they had, and if they had any of our weapons, and I rolled *00 0* I thought I was boned but it turns out the hobgoblin didn't just have one of my weapons like the other members of my party, BUT BOTH my quarterstaff and my dagger!
So you rolled a ten?
Dope! I didn't know that! I would have assumed 10 and 0 would be 100 but yeah, how you explained it makes sense! Thanks!
I thought that the single digit 0 stood for 10 like when rolling 1d10 damage 0 is 10. Is this different with percentile checks?
If 00+0 is 100 what is 01?
Have been doing random percentile rolls in my current campaign for special random events and had 6 yes 6 natural 100 show up so many powerful special events have happened! No one can believe so many have showed up! I made an expanded chart now. And I’m only rolling once for every 2 days in campaign. Lower rolls are just lesser random encounters. But hey it’s been fun and the players actually love the random events so fate has chosen well!
Oh my god Sam, that theme song
*DING*
"Stay natural my friends"
My heart!!!!! She's so precious!!!
Fantastically awesome explanation. This is going to be EPIC! =]
I am so excited for this series! I've never played D&D, only ever watched Critical Role, but I want to learn!
Holy crap Marisha! That reached epic levels of cheese and awesome all in under four minutes!
I feel bad that the percentile dice has apparently fallen out of favor. It adds a lot of fun randomness to a game. I use a lot of custom random tables that utilize a d100 roll.
OMG the “ding” at the end of the intro music - i died laughing. What brilliant intro music
Marisha Ray: "stay natural my friends!"
Me, with my cybernetic implants: "You can't stop me"
This was a really cute start to the series! Maybe I'll show my Mom and Sis and see how well they understand after this.
(My secret goal is to eventual whittle them down so they actually play with me.)
Did they ever play with you??
@davidparkes7741 Yes actually! It was just one small game. And my Mom wasnt a fan. But my sister might play again someday!
I want another episode, waiting sucks. Love the bitesize help.
As much as this is a pretty decent start to a very promising series, I do think as a Dice 101 episode you left out a few things that will confuse new players. As has already been mentioned, you didn't explain nat 1s and nat 20s, which are a major part of almost every d20 based RPG and play a huge part in 5e specifically. Also, when explaining the percentile dice, you didn't explain how to read them, or that rolling a 00 and a 0 = 100, not 0, which is a really confusing aspect of percentile dice. It also would have been nice to see at least one example of what percentile dice are used for, like just mentioning the wild magic table would have given people a clear example of a percentile roll. Actually rolling some dice would have been nice too, just to, again, give a clear picture of how they are used. Like, in the healing example, you could have said, "For example, let say I'm casting a healing spell that heals 3d8 damage. I roll 3 8-sided dice and got a 3, a 5, and a 1. 3+5+1=9, so I did 9 points of healing." That would have been a concrete example that's easy to follow, but shows instead of just tells new players how things work which helps people who are visual learners.
I also think you didn't really need to go into ability scores just yet, since you mentioned them without explanation and then specifically said you can't get into them right now. From a training perspective, that's something you don't want to do because it causes your trainees to focus on the idea that things are going to get even more complicated and can discourage and distract them from learning what you're trying to teach them. In a live training session it makes sense if one of your trainees asks about a subject, like ability scores, that you aren't ready to cover yet to answer them with a simple, "Right now we're focusing on this, but we'll definitely get to that later. One thing at a time." This shows them you're listening and that their question will be answered, but lets you refocus the group on the task at hand. In a situation like this where you completely control the conversation, things that you'll be covering in later episodes shouldn't even be mentioned unless it's a preview of the next episode type situation like, "Next time, we'll talk about Ability scores and how all those dice you now know about work with them!"
Overall, I like this as the start to the series. I just don't want to see you guys fall into the pitfalls a lot of new trainers (and experienced ones from time to time) fall into, like jumping between subjects or moving forward before your trainees have mastered the first step. Great Job overall though!
? 00 0 = 100 ? the percentile die goes 00, 10, 20, 30... 80, 90 A roll of 00 is zero + whatever the d10 rolls, so you might get a 1- 10. (10 being the zero for this die) The way to 'roll 100' would actually be 90+0 = 90+(10) = 100
00 IS zero... so that if you rolled a 00 + 1... you might get a strength bonus of 18 (01) -- the value in the parenthesis can be 01 to 100).. which can push your strength into superhuman / giant strength levels of flexing.
page 6 of the 5e PHB under the section entitled Game Dice, "Two 0s represent 100." and later on at the end of the paragraph, "Some ten-sided dice are numbered in tens (00, 10, 20, and so on), making it easier to distinguish the tens digit from the ones digit. In this case, a roll of 70 and 1 is 71, and 00 and 0 is 100."
00 & 0 is 100. Percentile dice is ALWAYS between 1 and 100. It's why d100 dice were sometimes used.
So.. roll a 00 = 100 and then roll the 'ones' die... we are looking at 101-110. This is why the book must sometimes be questioned.
How do you roll the single digits if you eliminate the 'zero' tens? Using the example above.. you could only roll numbers from 11 to 110.
My summary of dice and their uses:
D20: The one used for everything that isn’t combat or healing.
The other ones: The ones used for combat and healing.
Percentile: Wild Magic, some encounter/treasure charts, and the Maze Engine encounter.
_Damage_ and/or healing. But I get what you meant.
Can we have these with zero cussing? It seems like a great way to explain D&D to kids, and I'd love to show them, but I don't feel comfortable doing so with swearing in it. Even something as innocuous as "bad@$$" makes me uncomfortable sharing with my 7 year old.
hey I'd like to buy a crit role shirt that's had the famous Marisha Ray Haphazard Bullshit Sleeve Cut, how much will it cost
ps do a vid on character creation basics!
But Marisha Ray, how do you read the results of an enigmatic d100 when you DO use it?
Brent Bolton - thought the same:
For percentile dice you roll both dice and read the double number as the tens and the single as normal, for example if we rolled a 70 and a 4 then you have 74 (pretty easy hey!); But what about 00?
Well that means zero tens and you only read the single dice and have gotten a score between 1-10.
I realise you probably know but I'm putting this here for those that don't :)
@@robbywings If you roll 00 + 0 is that zero or a hundred? And if it's zero how do you roll a 100?
And of it's a 100 how do you roll a zero?
In D&D, it pretty much always asks for 1-100 for the percentile. So 00+0 is considered 100. It's the special case.
And you roll a zero just like you roll a zero with any other die... you don't ;)
It depends on the game and DM's discretion whether the 0-00 equals 0 or 100 :)
Hey Handbooker Helper, but what happens when I roll all zeros on a percentile die?
That's 100.
Emanoel knew that. It was a critical roll that was not covered.
Percentage dice are "old dusty?"
I think your referring to the d12.
Dice 101 and it isn't done by Laura? If anyone should talk about dice it would probably be her!
Natural 20!
Instructions not clear, my DM has dice lodged in their forehead.
I already know how to play, I just want to support Critical Role because they’re the best
Critical Role Does Dice Video, Does Not Involve Laura Screaming About Dice. Travesty, Crime? Is It Illegal Or Just Immoral?
Laura and Taliesin's Dice Wisdom is clearly too advanced for Dice 101.
you didnt mention how to read the percentile. i racked my brain for quite a while before understanding that 00 0 is 100. it feels obvious now, but i use to think 10 0 made sense becausee it shows 100, or maybe 1 00.
you aren't the only one to have thought that.
Maybe we need to graduate 101 first, and then they talk about that in Dice 201?
Dice in D&D 5e Explained:
All dice except D20 for damage.
D20 for everything else.
I don’t actually think this video needed an explanation for nat 20s and 1s. Auto hitting and auto missing can be covered in a combat episode, but that’s all nat ones and nat twenty’s do RAW.
I agree with you. The extra effects on death saving throws (the only other place they apply) can be included if the series ever gets there.
Doc Nevyn exactly. It just doesn’t feel like the place to delve into the those topics.
We use a w10 (0-9) and a w10 (00-90) together as a 100. 1 is the best 100 the absolute worse
This was really good! I'll totally save these to help explain things to new players. I usually roll a nat 1 on my explanations it feels like.
Yea same here, it also helps it's only 3 minutes long and not 20 minutes like some other dnd explanations lol
Ok. Someone help me please. How does the DM decide hp or how much healing you get? What is the math behind it? Please help i am so confused.
I thought this show would have people knowledgable about d&d host, not someone who spent years only reading half of the spell descriptions
Ivan Van Norman and Amy Vorpahl had an amazing series teaching Pathfinder. Why not utilize their talents to help with this??
IVN is awesome and has an amazing voice!
Song is way too awkward and a little obnoxious to listen to twice, but I'm glad to see you guys making the Handbooker Helper videos!
So I rolled my d20 once just for fun while watching. I got a natural 20. This is why I don't get them a lot in my campaign outside initiative rolls, because I waste them doing things like this.
Great start to the series.
We didn't have fancy percentile dice back in the 1980s. We used two different colored d10. Purple was the tens and Orange was the ones. Rolling two Zeros was a 100.
I was taught to use a d10 and a d20 for percentile. the d10 being the first number(s) and the d20 being the second number
Ha ha, I imagine there's eventually going to be links to other videos at the end, but seeing it empty like that is pretty funny. :D
This was an awesome first video and summary of dice! Only criticism: You don't actually explain how a percentile roll works; you just said that it does. Oops.
Couldn't have said it ao noce and succinctly. Thank you.
Nice start on the basics. though I would have included the info what the 0 on the D10 signified and that there is a difference between the natural and modified result of a roll.
I'm just here for the jingle.
Side note: 1 was good on ability checks in 2nd edition D&D. Should tag this with "5th edition D&D"
1 minor thing I would have liked to see is the method for percentile rolls when a decader (the patent name for the 2 digit d10's) isn't available. The 1 where you take 2 d10's that are distinctly different (usually different colors) and declare 1 "high", as in X10, and roll them together. Or rolling 1d10 twice for the X10 and singles digits. I know it can sound confusing, but they might not have a percentile/decader die.
Save the d100, d3, and d30 for the "other stuff you don't actually need" episode.
She was addressing the dice you will find in a standard set you can buy in a game shop.
@@templar_1138 "standard" implies there is a common definition of what goes into a "set". Many games use different setups. Besides, many people start off with a la carte dice either given to them or pulled from bins.
As I said, a minor point that I simply would have liked to see. These videos never cover 100% of the topic, and they should not be expected to do so.
When you explain the stats, you should explain them using tomatoes
XP3 Did it SO well. They should collaborate!
That was nice... but only 3 mins long? I was hoping for more
TH-cams. When trying to keep attention for explaining things better to keep it short and simple.
Are you sure you guys won't get sued...? Btw, this series is going to rock, I'm definitely bring my friends into DnD now.
Holy moly she’s got some serious voice acting talent
Maybe something to touch on in a future video is how a percentile die is actually resolved. Some people think the 00 is 100, some people think it's a 0. It can be confusing
It's actually really simple; when you roll a 90 and a 10 that total is 100.
Both work! Which ever suits you the best is the one you should use. I've dmed for 10 years now and I can't tell you how many players have tried to do either method that is described but either confuse themselves or get something minor wrong so the variations of the numbers is not 1 to 100. I point it out because it can be confusing to new players.
"percentage rolls don't come up too often" tell my DM who loves them 🙃
Also as far as the d10s are concerned 0 dosen't actually mean zero that's a ten, and if you're rolling percentiles all zeros is 100, I've seen so many new players rolling a d10 for their weapon damage get really disappointed and confused when they see that they rolled a zero.
Iv'e been playing dnd for over 20 years now... I will still watch this new show!
This is great, even though I've played D&D for years, I'll still watch all episodes of *Handbooker Helper*
You mssed the most important part about dice. You didn't tell us about Wil Wheaton's dice curse and how to avoid it.
If she forgot Wil Wheaton's curse, she also forgot the Twin Blessings of Taliesin Jaffe and Ashly Burch. I predict things seemingly omitted from this video are planned for future ones, just not in here so we don't have a full-length Critical Role episode on the handbook as Episode 1 (of... 1... the whole book was covered in those six hours... yeah...).
Dont know how to play, well show you the way
Me: Exactly what i neeed
It didnt answer the biggest dice drama though...
How do you actually calculate percentages is it 00 + 0 that’s 100 or 90 + 0(often used as 10 in hp/damage)
Its 00 + 0. Cause percentile charts go from 1 to 100. This means that they start 00 + 1 and so 00 + 0 has to be 100
It has a range of 100 different possibilities. Instead of it being 0-99 they made it 1-100 to make sense as a percentage. And they just put what would normally just be 0 and put it at the end as 100.
S Clair but for consistency it’s stronger to say 00 means start at 0 then add d10.
That way 00 on first die means the total result is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10
In the traditional way rolling 00 on the first die means 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 💯! Are the options. This is crazy... especially in roll under target number systems(like Warhammer RPG 2nd)
Note that percentile-based "roll-under" systems STILL treat 00 0 as a 100.
We used two different color d10 for percentile dice, declaring which color was the 10s column.
Most dice sets these days contain two d10s, one of which is clearly meant to be the "10s column".
I wish it went over how to read the numbers u rolled on the dice, some of them look odd to read
I might have included a few seconds to explain how to read a d4, other than that it's a top notch start to the series.
How do you read a d4? Most d4s now, you read the top (or point) number but there are some d4s (especially much older ones) you read the bottom (or base) number.
Exactly, it depends on what style you get and it can be a bit confusing your first time. Hence why it would have been a perfect topic to bring up.
So I keep rolling 20's like 90% of the time and ppl in my group* said they think I have "weighted die". I assume they think I'm cheating? I get you said 20's are good but are they so good ppl would cheat for them? Lol seems silly. They told me to roll a diff dice and it was a 20 so that quieted them a bit but they still seem hostile. I feel like finding a 19 sided dice so I can't roll a 20 and end all the* BS. Anyway sorry for the rant. Just excited for this series since i started my first campaign recently.
Edit: misspelled/ incorrect words (*)
Strangely enough, this title made me hungry for Hamburger Helper... mmmm... Cheeseburger Macaroni...
Would have liked a bit more of a dive into the %dice, like how to read it when you get 0 00 lol
I love this. It is everything I needed in my life. Bless you, Handbooker Helper. Also, love the jingle.
Fantastic. Although, a bit short compared to the 4 hours of D&D on Thursday nights, lol. Use that fancy studio to make more content!
P.S. Aren't you supposed to be in the desert with Matt and Tali? Go get your DPB.
Wow, I love the graphics you guys got. Good job, Person Who Does Those (who I have been informed is WendyDoodles, which makes total sense because she is awesome)
Creditd would help! Graphics are WendyDoodles Graphic editing is probably Max.
As my group's resident wild magic sorcerer, the old percentile dice are both my friend and foe 😂
The background music being so loud and mixed makes it a bit hard to process info if you’re new to this (aka the target audience), or maybe that’s my hearing? but the vid was good! Love Marisha as a host.
Did not notice initially but now the generic fantasy soundtrack is truly distracting.
Not to mention the dreaded 1d4/2...... curse you DnD. Making people do math since forever!
Fortunately, not a thing in 5e. Default unarmed attacks only do 1 + STR mod.
I need to recommend later eps of this series to my gaming group, as they've just started out. They know the basics of dice, but I think they'll benefit from understanding more about some other stuff. This is a great series idea!
At one 3 minute episode a week, your players will be waiting a looooooooonng time for explanation...
@@tonywilson5708 well they already understand how to play more or less, but I know they only half understand some of the stuff about playing. Like they know things to play the character they have but sometimes don't get why a rule/mechanic is like it is. Does that make sense? They're still learning so I think these will help give context to some things they've been told are rules.
@Tarmachan I have a pretty fresh group of players too, a couple of them never having played at all before. I was just hoping that there would be a bit more content to the episodes than 3 minutes a week. It's not like there is lack of material in the 5E PHB for several 10 minute episodes.
I figure they're trying to make it less intimidating by doing small topics one at a time. And also if they do super short vids on one topic each time people don't have to trawl through ten minutes to find the one things they want to know about. I think it's a bit early to judge off of one ep, but I like it so far :)
I miss rolling percentile. It’s one of the very few things I wish had been integrated better into 5e.
Couldn't disagree more. Single mechanic is better.
Hell, I wish they'd kept passive Defenses from 4e.
Nick Williams I cut my teeth as a Thief in first edition. So rolling percentile was integral to the class and didn’t involve the extraness of later editions. It is largely obsolete now. (Though in my 5e DMing, I have incorporated in a bit in overland travel homebrew elements where a more general check would be just that, too general.)
Hah. I still sometimes slip up and call a Rogue a "Thief" myself. Or catch myself telling the kids these days that I remember when Elves were a _class._
So yeah, I remember the weird, arbitrary percentile charts for Thief abilities. One thing that always bugged me was that giving the Thief a percentile chance of moving silently, hiding or - worst of all - _listening,_ implied that characters of other classes couldn't do those things. I mean, my Magic-User can't _tiptoe?_ Why not? My Cleric has no chance at all of hearing a noise? With his ears? The fuck?
You'd always end up with a custom houserule for every table for those things. Say, -5% of the 1st level Thief abilities - modified for race - for those Thief abilities that just seemed like things everyone should at least be able to _try._
When the d20 system came in with 3e, things just made much more sense. There was a defined way for _anyone_ to try and do "thiefy" things, it was just that Rogues tended to be better at it. As I said, a single mechanic. Need to roll? You're rolling a d20. When you get right down to it, a d20 is just a d100 in 5% increments with one roll anyway.
These days, there's no reason to use a percentile roll unless you need someone to randomly pick an option from a very long list. I think it's only the Wild Magic Sorcerer that uses it on a regular basis in-game.
If people love percentile rolls so much, they can always have a burl at Call of Cthulhu.
I love seeing you guys doing more of your own thing and trying new stuff. Sadly, I didn't really like this video. But keep at, I'd love to see more!
Any reason why? Feedback may help them improve.
Nice start to the series. I used to just roll the d10 twice for percentage rolls, rather than have a special extra dice.
Only thing I might have touched on in the video, is just letting some know that one dice is a die, multiple are dice. I know various people who refer to 1 die as dice
YES!
Nice work! You might want to talk about how to read a percentile throw. I can't wait to see what you all come up with next!
They hyped a 3 minute long show? Is 3 minutes all these are going to be? Because 3 minutes doesn't really require hype.
Keeping them short makes them more appealing to masses trying to learn. There are already longer videos with more info added that can bog you down. 3 min is probably statistically the optimal length for youtube content based on algorithms and Google analytics.
Well done team! Will Marisha be the dedicated host or will everyone in the cast have it's time to shine? :)
The "music" intro...... Oh Crit Role, how I love your dorky, nerdy ways. Sam gets me every time.
I also recommend you test how well made your dice are. Get a glass of water with salt in it. The drop your dice in it and start rolling them around. If they’re poorly made then they will always prefer a certain number and the glass of water will make it easier to tell if they are are well made and truly random or if they are badly made and are a bit weighted.
Im not sure but did Sam sing the intro?
But Marisha, how could you not mention the fabled D3 and D100?
Looking forward to this series! I think this will be really great for new players!
Thanks this really helps a lot. Also saying sides of the dice is slightly vague. it should be faces when you talk about how many flat surfaces are on a dice.
Geometrically 'Faces' might be more correct than 'Sides'. However in D&D terms, it has always been Sides. It could change, things do.
Nice info for new players. I love it, keep them coming. Polyhedral punk is the best way to describe a D20
Love it! Great job Marisha! :D
I wish for this at least there wasn't any cursing. I'm fine with it in game, but I'm trying to teach my granma and mom to play, and this was great, but...they tend to not like profanity. I've had some slip out once or twice. 😅