Mostly a joke, as I don't have Twitter or Instagram on my phone! So I check them fairly irregularly. TH-cam though... yeah I use this app all the time.
Nowhere in DND does it state that it must be strictly medieval fantasy inspired by the 12th century. If we’re hoping for “historical accuracy” in a fantasy game we’ve gone some steps ahead already with mushroom people
Yeah! Newsflash: Faerun is not, nor has it ever been, medieval Europe. If you want to play a D&D game set in medieval Europe, you can play a D&D game set in medieval Europe. (Also, of course sushi exists in Faerun; Kara-Tur has been a thing for a while.)
D&D started as a LOTR fan-made wargame, ffs. It was never meant to be historically accurate. Some neckbeards have never actually played D&D and it shows.
It’s also funny when you consider the fact that is is technically historically accurate, as tacos and sushi are some of the oldest foods we know of. They definitely existed during the medieval era, and in a fantasy world where every kingdom can reasonably communicate with one another? Those foods would spread much further than they did in our world.
Makes me wonder if they don't know that there's literally an Asia on Toril (Forgotten Realms setting). Even if the lore hasn't been updated since the days of extremely stereotypical depictions, it's still there.
@@SoraPierce yeahhhhh that is one of 5E's biggest weaknesses, lack of exploring its setting, if it's not the Sword Coast it has been ignored into Oblivion
@@YuneChaos The hell are you talking about? They have been adding new planes like it was going out of style, we just got a whole fucking setting for Silly little Guys™️. ….oh do you mean the original other settings that WoTC (read Hasbro) doesn’t have a full 100% ownership of and thus would have to *gasp* split the profits of? Yeah those are fucking dead. They have spent the past near decade transferring as much of those worlds as they legally can into Forgotten Realms….. yeah if it isn’t a setting from MtG or something else Hasbro owns outright, it’s not getting printed. Makes me feel fortunate that I had no attatchement to any dnd stuff that wasn’t set in The Icewind Dale (or anywhere else Salvatore writes), Because they have really made no effort to cater to older LORE fans. Particularly if you liked anything that happens in 4e. Spellplauge? Never heard of it! Say what you will about 4th, but at least is made ANY attempt at advancing its main setting, and not simply hand waving it…. I don’t even think their is an OFFICIAL 5e map of the entirety of the Material Plane of Faerun. The biggest one I can find doesn’t much go past the Anauroch Desert.
Fun fact on the "accurate food" thing. If they want to stick to a totally accurate medieval Europe situation, they need to eliminate potatoes and tomatoes. Those are from the Americas.
And pasta was brought to Italy from Asia along the Silk road. And Ancient Rome had rice and silk imported from Asia too. Like, international trade is an actual thing and is more accurate than goddamn "leather armor".
I just don’t understand “historical accuracy” in dnd. Like there’s fucking magic, dragons, owlbears, actual elves. It seems to always be used as an excuse to be a jerk off.
@@Gabdube exactly! Trade is how I managed to convince my group that my artificer/builder of my Warforged character could have access to rubber. That stuff can be harvested from trees and real world Mesoamericans were using it for a long time.
@@williamzinedineh "Narezushi is fermented fish pickled with rice - a practice common in much of Southeast Asia around the 2nd century CE. It's thought to have migrated to Japan around the 8th century, but written documentation of “narezushi” didn't appear until the 10th century."
@@williamzinedineh That's modern sushi, which evolved from an older food which is what he described. You could try looking things up. That also isn't last century. You're trying really hard to be mad about a simple food.
@@williamzinedineh I was looking up the dates because I thought the 1600's were still considered medieval in Japan. They sort of are, it's usually considered to end in like 1603, because medieval is a relative term. But narezushi seems to be from the like 4th century so I'm not sure why you're talking about the 1600's anyway.
I don't understand the justifications given for treating LGBT like they are "tourists" and "threats to the hobby" of DnD when explicitly anti-gay orgs like "Focus on the Family" were putting out Satanic-panic anti-fantasy RPG-stuff well into the nineties (like the "Adventures in Oddysey" episode "Castles and Cauldrons"). Nobody is forcing you to paint pink hair on your firbolg mini.
Well, now that it's more socially acceptable to play DnD, even when you are a "good Christian," now they need their safe space in the game that features demons, monsters, and magic. That all is OK, but LGBTQ+ people is too much! 🙄
Its just the next obviously very logical argument of the anti woke movement. It goes something like this: First they came for the movies, and we screamed at the horror of female protagonists in star wars and superheroes. Then they came for the games, and we screamed in horror at the audacity of utilizing consulting companies and putting pride flags hanging in nyc of all places. Now, they are coming for our dnd sessions and I now, thanks to wotc, am forced to have this rainbow painted transgender alpaca that eats exclusively tacos and sushi in every campaign. All media is ruined because its no longer only about me.
That's a third or the way there -- and with Spelljammer we have "space," and by middle levels most parties seem to have hoarded enough gold to qualify for "luxury," so if we get a couple Artificers to team up on the "fully automated" part...
Dan: "Things like playing a trans or gay character wouldn't fly in Poland." Me, a trans Polish person who has a ton of trans friends, and we all play RPG's: "Bro, you do know we exist in Poland too, right???"
People who complain about time accurate food in a fantasy game would hate my party because we made a Chipotle in our campaign because a Chipotle ad played during my playlist when we were naming a robot raptor i found. So we named him Chipotle and made him the mascot for the restaurant. It has a accurate menu because our druid player called an actual Chipotle to get their menu and converted all the prices to dnd currency. The restaurant is an astounding success.
Honestly it sounds like the kind of whining my Drow Druid character would give when she first left the Under Dark and hadn't yet realized that the people on the surface don't take kindly to racism, at least against their own races.
I made an in-game joke about a Mexican restaurant during a downtime session. "This place is great! No matter what you order, you get meat, cheese, veggies, and a tortilla!" The players all laughed and the DM just had us roll a d20 for what we ordered. Go D&D tacos!
there's also continents in the Forgotten Realms that are analogues to Asia and the Americas. If you want specifically the Japan part, there's Kozakura, and specifically pre-colonial Mesoamerica is Maztica. Those places are canonical. Not out of the realm of possibility that people and foods from those regions could end up in Faerun.
I literally HATE the moment Dan started glorifying homophobia and transphobia in my country - I just wanted to scream the worst Polish profanities I know 😡😡😡 Btw, great job at narrating those RPG horror stories and making skits to ease up the cringe and frustration I experience while listening about those "individuals" :) These make my day ❤
Yep same. I do like the idea of aces invading Poland though, as I wrote in a separate comment my friend is looking for a partner (preferably ace) so that would help a lot xD
I find it really funny that weirdo is freaking out over food like that when you can buy pizza and poutine in BG3 and Elminster has canonically eaten ice cream.
As a quebecer. Poutine has always been in my dnd campaigbs typically a dwarven meal. But some human populations have it as well. Same thing with alcohol. Each race has their own type.of booze. Dwarves with their ale. Gnomes with their stouts. Elves have wine...
@@l0stndamned Bringing tacos back also caused problem. Mostly when the Emperor and Rogal Dorn got into a debate on which day was best to have tacos on (not helped by Magnus deliberately fanning the flames for shits and giggles).
@@shadenox8164 I didnt drop anything the tqi+ group have nothing to do with sexual preference. they are unrelated issues, and will be treated as such. what you are attracted to and what you identify as are unrelated.
@flaminyawn It's a dog whistle. Basically means the same as Cultural Bolshevism, although they can't call it that anymore because the term was coined by a certain failed artist with a square mustache.
@@flaminyawn It's the modern version of "communism made this" or "this is communism". Older generations in the 90s called anything they didn't like was casued by "communism" including no smoking zones in restaurants.
You can take my tacos out of my cold, dead hands. With home-made salsa and grated sharp cheese, oh, and I really like fine-chopped red onion and dammit now I'm hungry again.
Don't worry Crispy, I also enjoyed the lockdown a lot and felt really bummed about things going back to normal. I'm also a little weirded out by everyone else not feeling the same way.
Can confirm that my 90-year-old army vet grandfather, who has been happily married to my grandmother for 65 years and has been a beacon of non-toxic masculinity for even longer, REFUSES to eat any ice cream flavor other than vanilla.
Literally the concept of pasta was imported to Italy from Asia in the late-medieval period. Faerùn is roughly late-medieval early-renaissance, so noodles, rice and flatbread tacos are literally more historically-accurate than most of the armors in the game.
Anytime I hear the "horny bard" trope, it reminds me of the time I made a "anti" bard. They'd flirt/seduce to get info or items but leav before things get "spicy". A bunch of people online told me it was the most horrible thing a character could do as it was manipulating and hurtful. Pretty sure murder would be worse but what do I know?
I played a horny bard. But for me it was just 'my char chats up x' and it was just taken as read that they were doing 'horny bard' stuff off camera when we got to town.
The death by a thousand cuts story is the kind that both Crispy and Crit Crab talk about fairly often. It's also a very common outcome. Hells, my own horror story was a similar such scenario.
You're not the only one. Back in the lock down, I was happy in those times because I can work remotely, in my house, with my sandals... man, I miss those times.
I know that he's 56 now, but mentioning that "Vanilla ice cream can be manly" without allowing for the definitely male rapper Vanilla Ice seems a dramatic omission.
OMG CRISPYYYYY !! ;w; You ended on my story Oh My Gosh!! Thank you ;w; Sharing that took a lot from me and I'd never really mentioned it before now to anyone outside of the players of our game.
im currently roleplaying as a chef and all my party members said they wanted cheese dishes, we are at a restraunt that I know the owner and I'm helping in the back for fun. The place has an iconic bread bowl dish that was discussed before hand so i taught the Owner how to make a bread bowl filled with layered marinara and melted cheese dip withe bread sticks to dip into it. Everyone at the table said they needed a snack break and their mouth was watering. play chef characters, its very fun.
Playing a chef character sounds fun. I want to one day play an eldritch knight fighter with artificer initiate to turn all my spells into cooking enemies.
The Prager U intro killed me!! 🤣 I'm happy that the party eventually made it right with OP on "More Pronoun Whingeing". Imo the group should've stood up for OP from the get go, but I'm happy to hear they learned from it. The gross couple from that story are probably feeding off one another's misery.
Unfortunately, I did notice that for some reason when I, a femme-presenting individual, play a female character, people have zero problems with pronouns, but when it's a male character, lots of times people continue to refer to the character as "she", even though I made it very obvious in the introduction that it's a "he". I'm not trans, but it does kind of spoil immersion and roleplaying for me to have the character referred to by the wrong pronouns. And as I vastly prefer to play male characters, it happens more often than one might think.
You're not the only one, Crispy. Because my best friend is someone I talk to over Discord, my social life actually IMPROVED during lockdown! Good times... for me at least. Glad to see I wasn't the only one.
I'll bet money that guy supports the weird white-nationalist group that's been causing problems in Poland. Thankfully, most of the country is too smart to fall for that BS.
I’ve just come to terms with people not caring that much about food in-setting. Now we have people talking about how the West has fallen because of… tacos?
19:10 I've never heard of vanilla icecream having a gender leaning either way but I will say Vanilla Ice is a guy so the idea someone would assume feminine from the name seems extra weird.
Not gonna lie, when the PragerU stuff came up on screen, I switched tabs like something ultra violent had come come on and I didn't want anyone to see me watching it.
There's enough water-based monsters encountering adventurers with slashing weapons tat sushi is going to get invented sooner or later. I always treat charm and theft that targets other PCs as the same as PVP combat. They all have the same potential to ruin a game if the players aren't into it.
Just found your content and compared to other DnD horror story channels like CritCrab and Den of the Drake, I absolutely love your little inputs like the skits and the "how many strikes are we at yet?" bit like omg I laughed my ass off at that. Please keep up the good work!
Perhaps because you're prejudiced? I've a good few friends from Poland and while none are LGBT like myself we've never had any issues and we attended the pride parade this year together. Obviously there is a huge issue in Poland and many countries with LGBT acceptance, but I would never allow that to affect my perception of a person because they're from that country. Just like I wouldn't treat someone with disdain for being Muslim. If I met a Muslim homophobe, I wouldn't be like, typical Muslim 😒
@@internetuser969 it's more like "there is so many homophobes in Poland, that I'm not surprised this Polish person happens to be one" Never said "typical polish" or "all polish" or nothing of sorts. That is always given, same vain as "not all men" or "not all cops"
Meanwhile in my group we have ONLY casters. On a side note as someone who has battled anger issues for years, it's not about *letting* it consume you. It's hard to control and it pushes people away and you often can't help yourself and NO ONE is ever willing to help or teach you how to control that anger. People usually just punish you for it as if to "teach that that behavior is wrong" as if you don't already know that. As if you can just choose to stop it. Often it is a symptom of something else. Like untreated ADHD (my case for the longest time) That kid needs help, professional help. And to have people who will steer him away from that incel group or other groups that could prey on that weakness to turn him into a monster. Of course that is not to say the others should have just put up with it and I am glad the OP seems to understand that it's something the guy is struggling with instead of just choosing to villainize him.
The topic of tacos did actually come up in my Southlands D&D5e campaign, which is more of an egyptian style setting, vast deserts, jungles, and savannas. We did conclude that tacos were totally possible after looking through what sort of things can grow in the desert and looked through some of the types of foods they prepare in traditional Egypt, Morrocan, and Arabic cultures. So buckwheat tacos and gyros became a thing in my game and honestly wouldn't change a thing about it. Vegan friendly options too for all you druids out there.
Second to last story- Vanilla isn't really gendered to me? Like the -a and it being a 'sweet' ingredient COULD mark it as feminine. If you're boring. (/silly). Also, as a trans guy who's been with my group since before I started T, whose first PC for that group was a feminine trans guy, and who is currently playing a male character with a "feminine" name? I really feel bad for the people who are so narrow-minded that they don't think that characters can have names that don't match their genders. Or, you know, trans people. Some of the coolest people I know are either trans or allies, and the transphobes I've met just seem to wallow in misery. Glad OP had the support of their group!
I didn’t get to this part of the video but I feel like if there was a masculine character named Vanilla I’d just be like “ah food name! Food name setting!!”
Why yes. Medieval timeshad druids, dragons, monsters, flying ships, machines and all the other good stuff. Not tacos and sushi though. I DRAW THE LINE THERE OF REALISM IN FANTASY GAMES. 😂
Crispy you are not the only one. I felt like I was thriving during lockdown. I was finally just focused on creating and I only socialized with people I was very close to, over platforms like Zoom. Not going to my customer service job was a blessing. It was so much easier on my brain and body. When we came out of it all, nothing was the same and Ive had a nigh impossible time masking again.
OH MY GOD! I was watching Joon the King's video on him while writing the script. That totally influenced my speaking cadence and I didn't even realize.
To quote my all time favourite book The Last Unicorn, a fantasy novel set in a somewhat regular fantasy world that was written in the 70's : "Have a taco".
I'm with you on the lockdown being better than the recovery. Although I do have intermittent agoraphobia and am terrified of most people, so I guess it was mostly the removal of stressors for me.
3:27 also when you have that many players, is 2 bards in the group REALLY your biggest problem? I've played in groups of FOUR and going double bard wasn't an issue for us. He was swords bard and I was eloquence. He stuck to frontline while I was backline. He focused on damage while I went utility. We might as well have been two different classes.
It does beg the question if the two bards were different functions. Though it could lead to a cool act, or even a campaign of all bards with different careers and abilities.
I love your presentation, Crispy! Your videos are always a delight. I feel like I genuinely learn a lot from them, too. Had my second one-shot ever a little bit ago (I was the DM), and I was able to recognize a problem character and deal with the situation much quicker than I would have in the past. Thank you for all the tips and advice! ❤
17:01 Thank you, I feel like I'm the crazy one because aside from homeschooling lockdown was legit the best time of my life. I'm very sorry for how it came about and all the lives the virus upheaved and destroyed but I miss that time very much. I've never been a social person and every time I get out of my comfort zone I'm reminded of why I'm not. I know we're supposed to be social creatures and all but every time I hear that I snort with derision.
I'm a cis woman with a LOT of trans loved ones, including one of my kids. As such, I want to ask other cis folks, if you see your trans friends/family being misgendered, speak up. Sometimes they do get tired of having to constantly correct people, and I feel pretty strongly that it's important for anyone in a position of privilege to use that to SUPPORT members of marginalized groups. (But also remember that I'm speaking based on my personal experience, and if someone in a marginalized group tells you differently, listen to them, not me.) OP in this story said that everyone in the group knew his pronouns, so IMO the other people in the group should have been correcting the misgendering in support of OP from the beginning. Thankfully they realized this and did better!
14:47 it's good that the DM is taking responsibility, however responsibility also falls upon the monk. He had the opportunity to speak up, he was given a choice of addressing an in-game or above game, he said he was going to bring it up in game, but never did. So he had the opportunity to address the situation. While there is undeniable blame to be placed on the DM for how they run the game, the monk is also responsible for choosing not to speak up when giving the chance and the option to do so call Mom or coming back and asking the DM to address it for them if they felt they can't do it themselves. A failure of communication on both sides in this story.
This might be one of your best episodes, imo. The opening skit was _scathing_ and the comedic timing was on point, and I really appreciated how balanced your commentary on anger issues was. You acknowledged how much pain that anger causes the user, how much pain it often _comes from,_ without condoning the misbehavior. Just one thing: I don't know that babies' butts are known for being particularly clean...??
You're not alone, Crispy. I thrived during the lockdown as well. I was making more through unemployment than I was at my job, stayed home all day playing videogames and ttrpgs online.
Tacos and sushi in DnD. If it makes you feel any better, jelly donuts canonically exist in the setting of "The Witcher." Keep in mind I'm not talking about the Netflix series or even the games. They are in the original books (Ciri eats a bunch when she visits the market at Aretuza).
Discrimination is a vital part of elitism; to profit of other people. Elitism is a vital part of religion. That is why religions love to discriminate people.
@@sunzi42 I was mostly thinking about regional traditional beliefs without a formal canon or doctrines, and religions like Buddhism which don’t worship a deity(although there is a fair share of deification of the object of worship) or espouse the idea of a “chosen people”.
3:28 It's not *too* out of line to have that many "squishy back-line" characters. In our campaign that just ended, my Paladin was the only front-liner out of a party of 7. However, saying that they're not front line characters can be somewhat reductive. The cleric from our group could have stood on the front line, but she chose to stay back most of the time. The druid used wild shape to get into melee on occasion, but much more often he would place summons on the front line to give the enemy additional targets.
Because it's people with no concept of other cultures. Other cultures are things for their country to import. Tacos are what taco bell make and taco bell wasn't in medieval times. It's them seeing their culture as standard and everything else only in relation to it.
@@omni-nerdno7191 ikr? Medieval times also didn't have magic or dragons, with a ripple effect from something like that, a sandwich using a tortilla like bread isn't that crazy...
My last dnd game my character who had to teach the other characters how to eat a pizza because he was the only one who knew what a pizza was. We were also in DND Italy, abient music was even a italian background track
Me: A white person who loves sushi, cup noodles and tacos. Can't relate to that tweet. Our group turned Pizza into an exotic delicacy in our world :p All based on an NPC who who was apparently eating this mysterious amazing food when we met them... because the DM had his mouth full of pizza and just decided to make it canon. (Constantly mispronouncing it as Pi-zah as is customary for foreign foods)
That intro is a perfect example of why I avoid Twitter like the fucking plague.... The boyfriend in the last story sounds like a male version of my ex: Basically anything I like or wanted to do that she wasn't also into was automatically "lame" "boring" or "stupid" and I was lame, boring & stupid for liking them, according to her.
If I can summon a half naked angel from the ethereal plane by saying old words and waving my hands around I think I can have a gaddamn taco
and if you can summon a giant spider for a companion, i think a taco is more likely to be fun
@@jolynecujoh3784a gigant acromantula with the costume of a taco sounds good too
Tacos are in Final Fantasy XIV now XD its Fantasy
> says they are having a good day
> decides to check twitter as their next action
Do you hate having good days?
Mostly a joke, as I don't have Twitter or Instagram on my phone! So I check them fairly irregularly. TH-cam though... yeah I use this app all the time.
that was the joke i think 😭 checking twitter ruins good days
Nowhere in DND does it state that it must be strictly medieval fantasy inspired by the 12th century. If we’re hoping for “historical accuracy” in a fantasy game we’ve gone some steps ahead already with mushroom people
And it certainly doesn't state that it must be strictly northern European medieval-inspired
Yeah! Newsflash: Faerun is not, nor has it ever been, medieval Europe. If you want to play a D&D game set in medieval Europe, you can play a D&D game set in medieval Europe.
(Also, of course sushi exists in Faerun; Kara-Tur has been a thing for a while.)
D&D started as a LOTR fan-made wargame, ffs. It was never meant to be historically accurate. Some neckbeards have never actually played D&D and it shows.
It’s also funny when you consider the fact that is is technically historically accurate, as tacos and sushi are some of the oldest foods we know of. They definitely existed during the medieval era, and in a fantasy world where every kingdom can reasonably communicate with one another? Those foods would spread much further than they did in our world.
Shit man DnD doesn't even keep to 12th century stuff. It's an anachronistic mess!
If Samurai is a subclass why can't sushi be a food in DnD?
Makes me wonder if they don't know that there's literally an Asia on Toril (Forgotten Realms setting).
Even if the lore hasn't been updated since the days of extremely stereotypical depictions, it's still there.
@@SoraPierce Heck, there's also a Meso-America/pseudo-Mexico in Maztica, so there's no viable argument against _tacos,_ either!
@@Mokiefraggle
Tbh there's gotta be something wrong with someone to hate tacos that much.
@@SoraPierce yeahhhhh that is one of 5E's biggest weaknesses, lack of exploring its setting, if it's not the Sword Coast it has been ignored into Oblivion
@@YuneChaos The hell are you talking about? They have been adding new planes like it was going out of style, we just got a whole fucking setting for Silly little Guys™️.
….oh do you mean the original other settings that WoTC (read Hasbro) doesn’t have a full 100% ownership of and thus would have to *gasp* split the profits of? Yeah those are fucking dead. They have spent the past near decade transferring as much of those worlds as they legally can into Forgotten Realms….. yeah if it isn’t a setting from MtG or something else Hasbro owns outright, it’s not getting printed.
Makes me feel fortunate that I had no attatchement to any dnd stuff that wasn’t set in The Icewind Dale (or anywhere else Salvatore writes), Because they have really made no effort to cater to older LORE fans. Particularly if you liked anything that happens in 4e. Spellplauge? Never heard of it! Say what you will about 4th, but at least is made ANY attempt at advancing its main setting, and not simply hand waving it…. I don’t even think their is an OFFICIAL 5e map of the entirety of the Material Plane of Faerun. The biggest one I can find doesn’t much go past the Anauroch Desert.
Fun fact on the "accurate food" thing. If they want to stick to a totally accurate medieval Europe situation, they need to eliminate potatoes and tomatoes. Those are from the Americas.
And corn! And peppers. Aaaand pumpkins, chocolate, sweet potatoes...
And pasta was brought to Italy from Asia along the Silk road. And Ancient Rome had rice and silk imported from Asia too. Like, international trade is an actual thing and is more accurate than goddamn "leather armor".
I just don’t understand “historical accuracy” in dnd. Like there’s fucking magic, dragons, owlbears, actual elves. It seems to always be used as an excuse to be a jerk off.
@@Gabdube exactly! Trade is how I managed to convince my group that my artificer/builder of my Warforged character could have access to rubber. That stuff can be harvested from trees and real world Mesoamericans were using it for a long time.
@@Gabdubethere wasn't international trade with the Americas until you are at the very late medieval or early Renaissance.
The Columbian exchange.
Funniest thing about the sushi in particular is that there was a version in medieval era Japan called "narezushi"
the 1600s are not the middle ages Xd
@@williamzinedineh "Narezushi is fermented fish pickled with rice - a practice common in much of Southeast Asia around the 2nd century CE. It's thought to have migrated to Japan around the 8th century, but written documentation of “narezushi” didn't appear until the 10th century."
@@williamzinedineh That's modern sushi, which evolved from an older food which is what he described. You could try looking things up. That also isn't last century. You're trying really hard to be mad about a simple food.
@@williamzinedineh I was looking up the dates because I thought the 1600's were still considered medieval in Japan. They sort of are, it's usually considered to end in like 1603, because medieval is a relative term. But narezushi seems to be from the like 4th century so I'm not sure why you're talking about the 1600's anyway.
I don't understand the justifications given for treating LGBT like they are "tourists" and "threats to the hobby" of DnD when explicitly anti-gay orgs like "Focus on the Family" were putting out Satanic-panic anti-fantasy RPG-stuff well into the nineties (like the "Adventures in Oddysey" episode "Castles and Cauldrons"). Nobody is forcing you to paint pink hair on your firbolg mini.
Well, now that it's more socially acceptable to play DnD, even when you are a "good Christian," now they need their safe space in the game that features demons, monsters, and magic. That all is OK, but LGBTQ+ people is too much! 🙄
Its just the next obviously very logical argument of the anti woke movement. It goes something like this:
First they came for the movies, and we screamed at the horror of female protagonists in star wars and superheroes. Then they came for the games, and we screamed in horror at the audacity of utilizing consulting companies and putting pride flags hanging in nyc of all places. Now, they are coming for our dnd sessions and I now, thanks to wotc, am forced to have this rainbow painted transgender alpaca that eats exclusively tacos and sushi in every campaign. All media is ruined because its no longer only about me.
Fun dyslexia moment in honor of Crispy, try reading anti-gay orgs as anti-gay orgy...
The funny thing is, the only pink haired firbolg I know of, is asexual xD
Doesn't all of Caduceus's family have pink hair though?
Not gonna lie, you had me for a second with that PragurU 'sponsorship' xD
Same, my finger came up to get ready to press the Skip Ad button 😂
"Dungeons and Dragons has become communist and gay."
"Harry, I was already going to play, you didn't have to sell me on it."
That's a third or the way there -- and with Spelljammer we have "space," and by middle levels most parties seem to have hoarded enough gold to qualify for "luxury," so if we get a couple Artificers to team up on the "fully automated" part...
@@M_M_ODonnell Are you suggesting that we bring DnD Communism to the ONE place uncorrupted by capitalism?!
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SP-AYCE!!!!!?
@@Cuiasodo The revolution isn't complete until we have fully-automated luxury gay space communism
"Communist? Well there goes the plans for my fighter based off Nestor Makhno, the Ukranian Anarchist."
@@DHTheAlaskan Well yeah.
Dude was a warlord, complete with concubines and forced labour camps.
Dan: "Things like playing a trans or gay character wouldn't fly in Poland."
Me, a trans Polish person who has a ton of trans friends, and we all play RPG's: "Bro, you do know we exist in Poland too, right???"
Can I give you a Nuclear Bronosaurus in these trying times?
@@jordanhunter3375I would like one
Quoting one meme:
I'm Polish, I'm gay, yes we do exist
Poland: not for long
@@piotrwisniewski70 polish gay? fork found in kitchen?
@@lyl_es9421 i feel like this might a joke that Poles are gay, but it's impossible, it's french who invented gays
Lore accurate PragerU moment.
People who complain about time accurate food in a fantasy game would hate my party because we made a Chipotle in our campaign because a Chipotle ad played during my playlist when we were naming a robot raptor i found. So we named him Chipotle and made him the mascot for the restaurant. It has a accurate menu because our druid player called an actual Chipotle to get their menu and converted all the prices to dnd currency. The restaurant is an astounding success.
Made up story, why would you call chipotle for their menu when you can just look it up?
So… people are now triggered over _tacos and sushi existing in Faerun?_
We are reaching levels of grass non-touching I never thought possible.
Honestly it sounds like the kind of whining my Drow Druid character would give when she first left the Under Dark and hadn't yet realized that the people on the surface don't take kindly to racism, at least against their own races.
For real, "people who use the term 'snowflakes' as an insult try not to out yourself as projecting the whole time challenge (impossible)"
I made an in-game joke about a Mexican restaurant during a downtime session. "This place is great! No matter what you order, you get meat, cheese, veggies, and a tortilla!" The players all laughed and the DM just had us roll a d20 for what we ordered. Go D&D tacos!
You never see this shit in FF14, I don't think.
there's also continents in the Forgotten Realms that are analogues to Asia and the Americas. If you want specifically the Japan part, there's Kozakura, and specifically pre-colonial Mesoamerica is Maztica. Those places are canonical. Not out of the realm of possibility that people and foods from those regions could end up in Faerun.
I literally HATE the moment Dan started glorifying homophobia and transphobia in my country - I just wanted to scream the worst Polish profanities I know 😡😡😡
Btw, great job at narrating those RPG horror stories and making skits to ease up the cringe and frustration I experience while listening about those "individuals" :) These make my day ❤
Yep same. I do like the idea of aces invading Poland though, as I wrote in a separate comment my friend is looking for a partner (preferably ace) so that would help a lot xD
I find it really funny that weirdo is freaking out over food like that when you can buy pizza and poutine in BG3 and Elminster has canonically eaten ice cream.
As a quebecer. Poutine has always been in my dnd campaigbs typically a dwarven meal. But some human populations have it as well.
Same thing with alcohol. Each race has their own type.of booze. Dwarves with their ale. Gnomes with their stouts. Elves have wine...
To be fair, Elminster canonically comes to Earth to hang out with Ed Greenwood, so might have been introduced to ice cream here.
What kind of dystopian hellscape would a world without tacos be? That's pure nightmare fuel.
It wouldn't surprise me if that is a contributing factor to how 40K ended up so nightmarish.
@@l0stndamned Bringing tacos back also caused problem. Mostly when the Emperor and Rogal Dorn got into a debate on which day was best to have tacos on (not helped by Magnus deliberately fanning the flames for shits and giggles).
One more reason why the Finderverse games are objectively better: the world is explicitly multicultural and there's no way they _don't_ have tacos.
It occurs to me tacos are bread? So edible holder plus delicious contents. I gotta wonder why that bothers them. Does a sandwich in for bother them?
@@legomaniac213 I know nothing about 40k and so I choose to believe this is an entirely canon event.
Had to watch because of the Chappelle Roan thumbnail. My gay ass still hasn't gotten over her vma performance
It was a great performance!
Real actually
as a Polish person, I am ashamed that we are being brought up in situations like that, when the LGBTQ+ rights are being stomped...
what LGB rights are being stomped?
@@DellikkilleD I notice you dropped a letter to try and make your argument. Not subtle at all.
@@shadenox8164 I didnt drop anything the tqi+ group have nothing to do with sexual preference. they are unrelated issues, and will be treated as such. what you are attracted to and what you identify as are unrelated.
@@DellikkilleDIf you ever wonder why everyone hates you and you have no friends... this is why lol.
"Beware making fun of your girlfriend's 'dumb ideas' you're one of them"
Don't remember who said that but it feels very relevant
If cosplaying as a lesbian witch isn't manly, I don't know what is.
Agreed!
The way I see it, I'm a man. So everything I do must be manly. Because what is manly if not things men do?
literally what I'm doing in my Ark Survival Ascended server
Okay, that bit at the start... that PragerU parody is funny because it's true. They really are that awful.
Only thing missing was blaming everything on "cultural Marxism", whatever the heck that's even supposed to mean. 😅
@@flaminyawn Oh, I'm sure it was there. Crispy just skipped it, like everyone does.
@flaminyawn
It's a dog whistle. Basically means the same as Cultural Bolshevism, although they can't call it that anymore because the term was coined by a certain failed artist with a square mustache.
@@flaminyawn It's the modern version of "communism made this" or "this is communism". Older generations in the 90s called anything they didn't like was casued by "communism" including no smoking zones in restaurants.
@@flaminyawn probably Jews. Marx was a Jew and Jews are the go-to to blame anything on.
You can take my tacos out of my cold, dead hands. With home-made salsa and grated sharp cheese, oh, and I really like fine-chopped red onion and dammit now I'm hungry again.
Don't worry Crispy, I also enjoyed the lockdown a lot and felt really bummed about things going back to normal. I'm also a little weirded out by everyone else not feeling the same way.
In my case it was because my family are not the best people to be locked in with
Can confirm that my 90-year-old army vet grandfather, who has been happily married to my grandmother for 65 years and has been a beacon of non-toxic masculinity for even longer, REFUSES to eat any ice cream flavor other than vanilla.
Vanilla is great and your grandfather is a wholesome badass! 😊
@@gregoryvn3 Thank you for your kind words! He will be so honored to hear this!
Your grandfather sounds great :]
Literally the concept of pasta was imported to Italy from Asia in the late-medieval period. Faerùn is roughly late-medieval early-renaissance, so noodles, rice and flatbread tacos are literally more historically-accurate than most of the armors in the game.
That second story was mine! I’ve been watching for a long time and I’m so happy one of my stories got in to a video.
Wait... are you the guy I shot?
*Takes out rifle ominously*
Congrats on somehow surviving the bullet! Or did you have a Totem of Undying on you?
@@CrispysTavernno I was the guy who didn’t kick Josh (I was already planning to kick him after the session even before the session happened)
I really like how the bits you write have slowly become more and more unhinged over time
You're not alone in thriving durring the lockdown hell even my therapist told me I was doing better when we were all locked away inside
My therapist said that ALL of her patients with anxiety got better during COVID.
It's a real thing.
So it was just a second in, 9 minutes ago but mad over Tacos? And sushi just...existing? Wow XD
People obsessed with keeping DnD stuck in medieval Europe.
@@ArcCaravan But not even medieval europe. They have plate armour which is from a far later period.
Anytime I hear the "horny bard" trope, it reminds me of the time I made a "anti" bard. They'd flirt/seduce to get info or items but leav before things get "spicy". A bunch of people online told me it was the most horrible thing a character could do as it was manipulating and hurtful. Pretty sure murder would be worse but what do I know?
I played a horny bard.
But for me it was just 'my char chats up x' and it was just taken as read that they were doing 'horny bard' stuff off camera when we got to town.
@@antediluvianatheist5262This is the Way!
A true conjob or sinoky a great performer! "Always leave them hungry for more" can be the quote from School of the BluestBalls
I run my bard as a kind of side show/freak show performer
If God did not want us to flirt with the bartender to get free drinks and then go home to our lovely cats, then spite Him
The death by a thousand cuts story is the kind that both Crispy and Crit Crab talk about fairly often. It's also a very common outcome.
Hells, my own horror story was a similar such scenario.
You're not the only one. Back in the lock down, I was happy in those times because I can work remotely, in my house, with my sandals... man, I miss those times.
If your setting doesn’t have tacos, you need to rethink your setting because you’re doing it wrong.
I know that he's 56 now, but mentioning that "Vanilla ice cream can be manly" without allowing for the definitely male rapper Vanilla Ice seems a dramatic omission.
OMG CRISPYYYYY !! ;w; You ended on my story Oh My Gosh!! Thank you ;w; Sharing that took a lot from me and I'd never really mentioned it before now to anyone outside of the players of our game.
im currently roleplaying as a chef and all my party members said they wanted cheese dishes, we are at a restraunt that I know the owner and I'm helping in the back for fun. The place has an iconic bread bowl dish that was discussed before hand so i taught the Owner how to make a bread bowl filled with layered marinara and melted cheese dip withe bread sticks to dip into it. Everyone at the table said they needed a snack break and their mouth was watering. play chef characters, its very fun.
Playing a chef character sounds fun. I want to one day play an eldritch knight fighter with artificer initiate to turn all my spells into cooking enemies.
The Prager U intro killed me!! 🤣
I'm happy that the party eventually made it right with OP on "More Pronoun Whingeing". Imo the group should've stood up for OP from the get go, but I'm happy to hear they learned from it. The gross couple from that story are probably feeding off one another's misery.
Unfortunately, I did notice that for some reason when I, a femme-presenting individual, play a female character, people have zero problems with pronouns, but when it's a male character, lots of times people continue to refer to the character as "she", even though I made it very obvious in the introduction that it's a "he". I'm not trans, but it does kind of spoil immersion and roleplaying for me to have the character referred to by the wrong pronouns. And as I vastly prefer to play male characters, it happens more often than one might think.
You're not the only one, Crispy. Because my best friend is someone I talk to over Discord, my social life actually IMPROVED during lockdown! Good times... for me at least. Glad to see I wasn't the only one.
22:47
As a Polish person, I do not claim him or his partner, they can stay where they are lmao- xD
I'll bet money that guy supports the weird white-nationalist group that's been causing problems in Poland.
Thankfully, most of the country is too smart to fall for that BS.
Had to edit comment because of grammar lol
@CrispysTavern Damn, I edited my comment and the heart is gone, oops lol-
LOL 😂
@@kreatureinabox LOL- Hi! xD
I’ve just come to terms with people not caring that much about food in-setting. Now we have people talking about how the West has fallen because of… tacos?
19:10 I've never heard of vanilla icecream having a gender leaning either way but I will say Vanilla Ice is a guy so the idea someone would assume feminine from the name seems extra weird.
You should check out "pointlessly gendered" its wild the shit people come up with.
Didn't ever think I needed Crispy parodying Prager U but apparently I needed it.
Not gonna lie, when the PragerU stuff came up on screen, I switched tabs like something ultra violent had come come on and I didn't want anyone to see me watching it.
I love the prager parody at the start but hate that I know exactly what video it's referencing
Which one?
@@cosmicspacething3474 you should be able to find it by looking up Dragon Ninja Academy
There's enough water-based monsters encountering adventurers with slashing weapons tat sushi is going to get invented sooner or later.
I always treat charm and theft that targets other PCs as the same as PVP combat. They all have the same potential to ruin a game if the players aren't into it.
Just found your content and compared to other DnD horror story channels like CritCrab and Den of the Drake, I absolutely love your little inputs like the skits and the "how many strikes are we at yet?" bit like omg I laughed my ass off at that. Please keep up the good work!
Wait until they find out that there are more cultures in Faerun itself than just the human dominated cities on the Sword Coast
Why am I not surprised the homophobe was from Poland 😒
Perhaps because you're prejudiced? I've a good few friends from Poland and while none are LGBT like myself we've never had any issues and we attended the pride parade this year together.
Obviously there is a huge issue in Poland and many countries with LGBT acceptance, but I would never allow that to affect my perception of a person because they're from that country. Just like I wouldn't treat someone with disdain for being Muslim. If I met a Muslim homophobe, I wouldn't be like, typical Muslim 😒
@@internetuser969 it's more like "there is so many homophobes in Poland, that I'm not surprised this Polish person happens to be one"
Never said "typical polish" or "all polish" or nothing of sorts. That is always given, same vain as "not all men" or "not all cops"
Meanwhile in my group we have ONLY casters.
On a side note as someone who has battled anger issues for years, it's not about *letting* it consume you. It's hard to control and it pushes people away and you often can't help yourself and NO ONE is ever willing to help or teach you how to control that anger. People usually just punish you for it as if to "teach that that behavior is wrong" as if you don't already know that. As if you can just choose to stop it. Often it is a symptom of something else. Like untreated ADHD (my case for the longest time)
That kid needs help, professional help. And to have people who will steer him away from that incel group or other groups that could prey on that weakness to turn him into a monster.
Of course that is not to say the others should have just put up with it and I am glad the OP seems to understand that it's something the guy is struggling with instead of just choosing to villainize him.
The topic of tacos did actually come up in my Southlands D&D5e campaign, which is more of an egyptian style setting, vast deserts, jungles, and savannas. We did conclude that tacos were totally possible after looking through what sort of things can grow in the desert and looked through some of the types of foods they prepare in traditional Egypt, Morrocan, and Arabic cultures. So buckwheat tacos and gyros became a thing in my game and honestly wouldn't change a thing about it. Vegan friendly options too for all you druids out there.
Second to last story- Vanilla isn't really gendered to me? Like the -a and it being a 'sweet' ingredient COULD mark it as feminine. If you're boring. (/silly).
Also, as a trans guy who's been with my group since before I started T, whose first PC for that group was a feminine trans guy, and who is currently playing a male character with a "feminine" name? I really feel bad for the people who are so narrow-minded that they don't think that characters can have names that don't match their genders. Or, you know, trans people. Some of the coolest people I know are either trans or allies, and the transphobes I've met just seem to wallow in misery. Glad OP had the support of their group!
Yeah check out "pointlessly gendered" stuff and you'll see all kinds of nonsense like dessert and entrees are not for men apparently.
I didn’t get to this part of the video but I feel like if there was a masculine character named Vanilla I’d just be like “ah food name! Food name setting!!”
Why yes. Medieval timeshad druids, dragons, monsters, flying ships, machines and all the other good stuff. Not tacos and sushi though. I DRAW THE LINE THERE OF REALISM IN FANTASY GAMES. 😂
But we can have samurais.
Crispy you are not the only one. I felt like I was thriving during lockdown. I was finally just focused on creating and I only socialized with people I was very close to, over platforms like Zoom. Not going to my customer service job was a blessing. It was so much easier on my brain and body. When we came out of it all, nothing was the same and Ive had a nigh impossible time masking again.
I started giggling at the beginning from the yandev speaking cadence... beautiful.
OH MY GOD! I was watching Joon the King's video on him while writing the script. That totally influenced my speaking cadence and I didn't even realize.
@@CrispysTavern IT WAS AN ACCIDENT!? EVEN BETTER!
The prageru parody is just- _wheeeze_
the tacos and sushi thing is really funny because like
This is a franchise with kaiju dragons and owlbears and you're mad at SUSHI??? 😭😭😭😭
I once played a Bear who was a druid who could transform into a human as his wildshape
To quote my all time favourite book The Last Unicorn, a fantasy novel set in a somewhat regular fantasy world that was written in the 70's : "Have a taco".
22:55 invading Denmark? What did we do now?
Honestly I don't know. Denmark seems like a nice place!
Greenland probably.
If you gonna invade Danmark. Wait until my family moved out of the country. Then invade that shithell.
@@CrispysTavern That might be why. Trying to steal our "hygge"
They know what they did
- Penguins of Madagascar
It's good to be a nerd and do nerdy things. However whatever that guy was in the intro, that's the nerd noone wants to be
I'm with you on the lockdown being better than the recovery. Although I do have intermittent agoraphobia and am terrified of most people, so I guess it was mostly the removal of stressors for me.
I did enjoy! I usually stick to a small handful of DND horror stories channels because quality varies greatly, but your vids are good quality and fun!
Can confirm I just got and am reading the 2024 PHB now and my Rogue in red leather wielding a hammer and sickle will now liberate the working class. 🤣
3:27 also when you have that many players, is 2 bards in the group REALLY your biggest problem? I've played in groups of FOUR and going double bard wasn't an issue for us. He was swords bard and I was eloquence. He stuck to frontline while I was backline. He focused on damage while I went utility. We might as well have been two different classes.
It does beg the question if the two bards were different functions. Though it could lead to a cool act, or even a campaign of all bards with different careers and abilities.
Bards are such an easy class to dupe, bards can be built to fill literally any role in the party
Bards are pretty versatile yeah.
I just wanna say I think that your little rat persona is adorable his little hat is SO CUTE 👍
I love your presentation, Crispy! Your videos are always a delight. I feel like I genuinely learn a lot from them, too. Had my second one-shot ever a little bit ago (I was the DM), and I was able to recognize a problem character and deal with the situation much quicker than I would have in the past. Thank you for all the tips and advice! ❤
as someone whos 50% asian, i have kissed a few boys, so they might be onto something with the all asians r gay
17:01 Thank you, I feel like I'm the crazy one because aside from homeschooling lockdown was legit the best time of my life. I'm very sorry for how it came about and all the lives the virus upheaved and destroyed but I miss that time very much. I've never been a social person and every time I get out of my comfort zone I'm reminded of why I'm not. I know we're supposed to be social creatures and all but every time I hear that I snort with derision.
Freaking monsters Inc had a tentacle monster serving sushi. 😅 in 2001
Aces invading Poland is a great idea - my friend is looking for a partner and that would expand the pool of potential partners a lot 😅
I'm a cis woman with a LOT of trans loved ones, including one of my kids. As such, I want to ask other cis folks, if you see your trans friends/family being misgendered, speak up. Sometimes they do get tired of having to constantly correct people, and I feel pretty strongly that it's important for anyone in a position of privilege to use that to SUPPORT members of marginalized groups. (But also remember that I'm speaking based on my personal experience, and if someone in a marginalized group tells you differently, listen to them, not me.)
OP in this story said that everyone in the group knew his pronouns, so IMO the other people in the group should have been correcting the misgendering in support of OP from the beginning. Thankfully they realized this and did better!
14:47 it's good that the DM is taking responsibility, however responsibility also falls upon the monk. He had the opportunity to speak up, he was given a choice of addressing an in-game or above game, he said he was going to bring it up in game, but never did. So he had the opportunity to address the situation. While there is undeniable blame to be placed on the DM for how they run the game, the monk is also responsible for choosing not to speak up when giving the chance and the option to do so call Mom or coming back and asking the DM to address it for them if they felt they can't do it themselves. A failure of communication on both sides in this story.
This might be one of your best episodes, imo. The opening skit was _scathing_ and the comedic timing was on point, and I really appreciated how balanced your commentary on anger issues was. You acknowledged how much pain that anger causes the user, how much pain it often _comes from,_ without condoning the misbehavior.
Just one thing: I don't know that babies' butts are known for being particularly clean...??
You're not the only one, man 😭
Covid sucked for me, but the bigger issue was retransitioning back into socializing with people 😭
The gays?! In my demonic roleplay game?!
You're not alone, Crispy. I thrived during the lockdown as well. I was making more through unemployment than I was at my job, stayed home all day playing videogames and ttrpgs online.
Tacos and sushi in DnD. If it makes you feel any better, jelly donuts canonically exist in the setting of "The Witcher." Keep in mind I'm not talking about the Netflix series or even the games. They are in the original books (Ciri eats a bunch when she visits the market at Aretuza).
Discrimination is a vital part of elitism; to profit of other people. Elitism is a vital part of religion. That is why religions love to discriminate people.
Ryokugyu? Aramaki?
@@ArcCaravan Shosa?
I mean, there are plenty of religions that don’t fit that description. I’d argue it’s an issue of organized religion specifically.
@@idle_speculation So, how many religions preach does NOT claim their deity (and its followers) are special and the only original in the known world?
@@sunzi42 I was mostly thinking about regional traditional beliefs without a formal canon or doctrines, and religions like Buddhism which don’t worship a deity(although there is a fair share of deification of the object of worship) or espouse the idea of a “chosen people”.
3:28 It's not *too* out of line to have that many "squishy back-line" characters. In our campaign that just ended, my Paladin was the only front-liner out of a party of 7. However, saying that they're not front line characters can be somewhat reductive. The cleric from our group could have stood on the front line, but she chose to stay back most of the time. The druid used wild shape to get into melee on occasion, but much more often he would place summons on the front line to give the enemy additional targets.
I'm watching this at work and as soon as I saw the Prager U logo, redbull almost came out my nose. 10/10 no notes
Sushi and tacos are super simple recipes, why would they NOT have them?!
Because it's people with no concept of other cultures. Other cultures are things for their country to import. Tacos are what taco bell make and taco bell wasn't in medieval times. It's them seeing their culture as standard and everything else only in relation to it.
@@omni-nerdno7191 ikr? Medieval times also didn't have magic or dragons, with a ripple effect from something like that, a sandwich using a tortilla like bread isn't that crazy...
There's something else that didn't exist in 12th century Europe... Orcs
Not even the word "Orc" existed then.
I wonder how these people would feel about the green plasmoid slime man character I made for a one shot who talks like Tony Montana from Scarface
29:01 “good luck babe”
Crispy's PragerU bit went on for significantly longer than i was expecting it to go for keep up the good work
OMG I LOVE your Amity cosplay! :D
I love how folks keep forgetting that Spelljammers is essentially scifi
11:49 there are rules for this sort of thing, part of which includes bumping scores up to acceptable levels for a PC.
"I''m about to take a whole bottle of drugs" 😂😂😂 This got me for some reason.
My last dnd game my character who had to teach the other characters how to eat a pizza because he was the only one who knew what a pizza was. We were also in DND Italy, abient music was even a italian background track
Me: A white person who loves sushi, cup noodles and tacos.
Can't relate to that tweet.
Our group turned Pizza into an exotic delicacy in our world :p All based on an NPC who who was apparently eating this mysterious amazing food when we met them... because the DM had his mouth full of pizza and just decided to make it canon. (Constantly mispronouncing it as Pi-zah as is customary for foreign foods)
I mean it was at one point considered exotic.
@@shadenox8164 Kinda still is if you're not Italian/Japanese. Its just...a lot more common now.
The lockdown was also the best part of my life, youre not alone Crispy ^ ^
"Dungeon and Dragons has become communist and gay" sign me up
Poland being anti-LGBT feels like the beginning of many insulting "jokes" towards that country.
All of Eastern Europe sucks for that stuff.
gotta say, love the lipstick, looks really good < 3
also, been binge watching these vids and they're all great :3
I would not be surprised if the artist just added some of their favorite dishes to their art. So less 'agenda' and more personal Easter egg
Poland apologizes for that guy. We're not all bad here.
Does this guy know Spelljammers exist? I'm just saying, if canonically there are magical spaceships, gay asian people shouldnt be some absurd idea.
That intro is a perfect example of why I avoid Twitter like the fucking plague.... The boyfriend in the last story sounds like a male version of my ex: Basically anything I like or wanted to do that she wasn't also into was automatically "lame" "boring" or "stupid" and I was lame, boring & stupid for liking them, according to her.