@@rain3554There’s a D&D 3rd edition rulebook called the “Book of Vile Darkness”, in it there is a prestige class (a class that has special requirements before you can put levels into it, and preventing you from putting your first levels into that class) called a cancer mage, one of the cancer mage’s features is that they are immune to the negative effects of diseases. In the same book there’s a disease called festering anger which gives a cumulative +2 strength bonus every day, however it also does 1d3 constitution damage every day that can’t be removed until the disease is gone and will eventually kill the infected - but since cancer mages are immune to the negative effects of diseases they just get the +2 strength bonus, and will just keep getting stronger and stronger without limit.
@@rain3554 D&D 3.5 had a supplemental rules book called the Book of Vile Darkness, basically had some super evil feats, and prestige classes. Cancer Mage was a prestige class that let you get the benefits of diseases, but makes you immune to the negatives. The disease festering anger usually deals 1d3 Constitution damage, and gives you +2 strength every day…. Cancer Mage being immune to that specific constitution damage, every day you’re getting +2 strength for free.
@@masterboa6321 I think he is, but don't remember. This was a reference to the fact that Scout thinks he can beat an orc by doing push-ups at it. He can't. But Heavy could.
Flexing is based in Three things: Endurance, Strength and Charisma... ...So any class that uses those three values as their core components can pull Flexing moves on opponent.
@@Halberds8122 Ah yes, "CON". And yes, it means a Paladin _WOULD_ do that... And you now just made me imagine a Paladin who uses unarmed weapon skills flexing like Louis Armstrong from Fullmetal Alchemist. ...So yeah, Scout _CAN_ defeat an Orc by Flexing... If by "Defeat", means "have the Orc become a loyal friend simply by proving your sheer manliness".
@@benjamincontrerastorres4018 Rolled a 14, total 17. I rolled the fire balls 8d6 damage which was 30. Fortunately I have resistance to Fire Damage so that goes down to 15. My Arcane Ward totally negates the remaining damage.
Also, he is only a "Wuss" _When compared to many of the other mercs, Saxton Hale, and to Hale's Ex. Compared to _regular_ Humans, Scout would actually be twice as strong as a normal human, and has at least _Trice_ the endurance. Toss in the fact that Scout has to routinely dodge explosives and bullets by a hair, which regular people _Cannot_ do without some kind of upgrade or steroid, and you realize that Scout _only_ is the weakest _in the Team._
This is really cool because the VA for Pauling (Ashley Burch) has guest starred multiple times on Critical Role, an extremely popular stream where nerdy ass voice actors play D&D on Twitch and TH-cam. She plays her characters really well, and I think that this added voice line is a nod to her time spent playing D&D on Twitch.
I love that, amidst all the absurd characters and lore, Pauling is just a lesbian that loves tabletop games but never gets a chance to play them. Godspeed.
Maybe she gets breaks during the day to do this stuff, also in another voice the department of Labour made her take some days off so maybe they’re making sure she regularly gets days off now
She's on a long vacation. That's the lore of the update _The New Mexico Department of Labor has found the Administrator in violation of every safety law they have, including 106 violations of the Employee Electroshock (Face, Trunk and Genital) Protection Act and 496 unexplained workplace disappearances. This means Miss Pauling has been state-mandated to take her first vacation in... well, ever. It also means she'll still be working round the clock, since those kill-contracts won't assign themselves._
I don’t remember what the story was exactly, but I heard there was this one time all the players took off their shirts before yelling something. Whatever it was, it was glorious.
There is such a thing as a muscle wizard. Building a strong physique require is just as much a mental exercise as it physical. It requires discipline and mental fortitude. That can easily be translated into applying the Arcane arts. Think about it a wizard runs s half marathon to channel the runners high to help him complete a difficult ritual.
the contract system used to be different. whenever you got or finished a contract, Pauling would talk to you with these lines. sadly, when they redid the contract system into the contracker, Valve removed the Pauling voice lines
if i were dm i'd definitely allow that, just roll it as an intimidation. maybe they're playing 1st edition gargoyles and gravel, since this is the 60s. i'm not familiar.
"Scout, stop flexing! You're not Tavish." "Tavish? Who the frick is Tavish?!" "Oh! I almost forgot!...heh... you really nailed that contract in the last match..."
"You can't beat an Orc by doing Pushups" Uh, yes you can. It's called "Challenging them". Orcs are warriors, if you challenge their Honor and win according to the rules, they will consider you their leader.
Scout can actually do pretty well as some lady's Boyfriend... ...The problem is that when he's _not_ trying too hard at flirting, someone (The Soldier) usually does something that ruins the date. Remember the Comic where Soldier ended up stripping and covering himself in Honey? The Popup reveals that Soldier did it _the Last time_ Scout ended up going on a date with a girl heavily implied to be Ms Pauling, and Soldier Tagged along for some ungodly reason. In fact, whenever Scout isn't Trying Too Hard to flirt (Or runs his mouth and does something like Blurt out his "Loyalty" to Miss Pauling), observe the women under (and Over) a certain age bracket around him. They look _interested._ Yes, that _Includes_ Miss Pauling. Scout could actually Act Like Luigi and Do absolutely _nothing..._ And he'd get swarmed by girls wanting to get in his pants.
She probably couldn't handle the sheer beauty of his physique and that's why she asked for Scout to put his shirt back on.
HE HAD SE#
*insert Tick Tock song as soon as he took off his shirt*
tf2 God: too bright too glorius
mY eYeS!?!?
Or maybe it was the baldness of his chest that it was too bright
Miss Pauling has apparently never been a DM long enough, anything is possible in this game.
never been a DM long enough? huh?
@@andruspolanco6935Dungeon Master. Basically, the narrator/god/decider/banker of Dungeon and Dragons.
@@andruspolanco6935dungeon master/narrator. they run the session of dungeons and dragons. In short they are also the one and only god.
Die of laughter has proved that to me, like half of their first solutions for a fight where to as a team hold down a guy and beat them up.
To be fair, Pauling is very "by the books" kind of person, so she'd try to keep to the rules way too hard.
"You can't beat an orc by doing pushups"
Wrong, this is called a display of dominance, and lizards do it quite often.
Lizard = lifting wizard, or the animal, or just a typo?
@@peperoni_pepino yes
A Strength (Intimidation) skill contest, works every time
Might makes right apparently
Instructions unclear, now I'm married to the orc warboss
God: Scout, keep flexing.
more like
tf2 God: if she does not start making out with you i will destroy humanity right now!
This is canon.
Ew
God’s gift to humanity but god says he isn’t his son; is scout the second reincarnation of Jesus Christ in lore?
@@melancall5960 nooo more like a... perfect mann of sorts
God's gift to women, everyone!
Like all parents, I think maybe God doesn't understand his own creations very well...
Yeah, I’m pretty sure if God sent Scout as a gift to women, it was a gag gift.
@@theslayer9441nah
@@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworthTrust me, the ladies love Scout he just has to know where to look for them
@@theslayer9441as a woman, we absolutely love scout, he just doesn’t go for the right kind of girls that can appreciate this
Someone has never heard of the infinite-strength Cancer Mage.
Is this a reference to something
@@rain3554There’s a D&D 3rd edition rulebook called the “Book of Vile Darkness”, in it there is a prestige class (a class that has special requirements before you can put levels into it, and preventing you from putting your first levels into that class) called a cancer mage, one of the cancer mage’s features is that they are immune to the negative effects of diseases. In the same book there’s a disease called festering anger which gives a cumulative +2 strength bonus every day, however it also does 1d3 constitution damage every day that can’t be removed until the disease is gone and will eventually kill the infected - but since cancer mages are immune to the negative effects of diseases they just get the +2 strength bonus, and will just keep getting stronger and stronger without limit.
@@rain3554yes
@@gunmancarl9618 what reference?
@@rain3554 D&D 3.5 had a supplemental rules book called the Book of Vile Darkness, basically had some super evil feats, and prestige classes.
Cancer Mage was a prestige class that let you get the benefits of diseases, but makes you immune to the negatives.
The disease festering anger usually deals 1d3 Constitution damage, and gives you +2 strength every day….
Cancer Mage being immune to that specific constitution damage, every day you’re getting +2 strength for free.
0:18 Ms. Pauling sounds like a teacher.
Well she is like a mother figure to mercs in the comics.
@@hayro252 mommy? 🤤
@@hayro252 that's disgusting I'm horrified
@@Thiscatinmypfohorrified I'm disgusting that's
@@Swagenstein what the fuck dude?
Deep down, Scout is a Heavy main...
is this a reference to scout's actual va being a heavy main
@@masterboa6321 I think he is, but don't remember. This was a reference to the fact that Scout thinks he can beat an orc by doing push-ups at it. He can't. But Heavy could.
SCOUT IS HEAVY!!
Scout out here trying to turn the session into Ring Fit Adventure
Oh, Scout’s on an adventure to see if that ring will fit alright.
Unfortunate for him, the person who only has 7 days out a years has already something better to do
@@FunkBastiddown horrible
Pauling's clearly never heard of the Illumian cancer mage build if she thinks muscle wizards don't exist.
Guess she couldn't handle the neutron styyyyle
Later ni-
Gotta blast!
Shooters gonna shoot, and my man scout got tha blicky.
They're oddly perfect for each other.
I wish these were put into the actual contracker
You can't beat an orc by flexing??? Isnt that just what bards do
Flexing is based in Three things: Endurance, Strength and Charisma...
...So any class that uses those three values as their core components can pull Flexing moves on opponent.
@@Victor-056The bard simply flexes a little bit too hard and the orc implodes
@@Victor-056 endurance isn't a stat so I assume you are talking about a CON saving throw. A Paladin uses all three of these stats.
@@Halberds8122 Ah yes, "CON". And yes, it means a Paladin _WOULD_ do that... And you now just made me imagine a Paladin who uses unarmed weapon skills flexing like Louis Armstrong from Fullmetal Alchemist.
...So yeah, Scout _CAN_ defeat an Orc by Flexing... If by "Defeat", means "have the Orc become a loyal friend simply by proving your sheer manliness".
That "yeah whatever" is so subtle for some reason
love that you can hear *Multiple* dice rolling, implying he threw at least more than 3 dice
scout's class and race. tell me now.
Human and muscle wizard!
half elf fighter?
Class: Bard, Race: Bard.
Performer background monk
Half-elf
Class: hooligan
Race: gremlin
A bad GM (gravel master): You can't beat an orc by doing pushups at it
A good GM: roll for intimidation
“…there’s no such thing as a muscle wizard…”
My 26 AC, Melee Centric, Tank Abjuration Wizard:
Someone sounds overoptimized... Make a dex save, bigshot.
@@joda7697 I’ll take that action, I got a +3 bonus to Dex saving throws. Gimme a DC and I’ll roll.
Fireball DC 21 🗿
@@benjamincontrerastorres4018 Rolled a 14, total 17. I rolled the fire balls 8d6 damage which was 30.
Fortunately I have resistance to Fire Damage so that goes down to 15. My Arcane Ward totally negates the remaining damage.
To be clear, Scout isn’t out of shape. Dude is a runner and routinely keeps up with the rest of the mercs.
Also, he is only a "Wuss" _When compared to many of the other mercs, Saxton Hale, and to Hale's Ex.
Compared to _regular_ Humans, Scout would actually be twice as strong as a normal human, and has at least _Trice_ the endurance.
Toss in the fact that Scout has to routinely dodge explosives and bullets by a hair, which regular people _Cannot_ do without some kind of upgrade or steroid, and you realize that Scout _only_ is the weakest _in the Team._
Miss Pauling being a nerd, but being surrounded by the dumbest people around is my favourite type of TF2 content
I love several people have pointed out that Scout is in the right and could, in fact, beat the orc by doing push ups.
Scout is my spirit animal
SCOUT, STOP FLEXING.
scout and pauling is me and him fr
This is really cool because the VA for Pauling (Ashley Burch) has guest starred multiple times on Critical Role, an extremely popular stream where nerdy ass voice actors play D&D on Twitch and TH-cam. She plays her characters really well, and I think that this added voice line is a nod to her time spent playing D&D on Twitch.
"scout, you cant threaten a tree"
As a D&D player, you actually can threaten a tree.
Yes you can. They are called "Treants".
Of course there's a muscle wizard those are called monks
I hate how this is factual
Miss Pauling is wrong. Scout can multi class Wizard + Barbarian or Fighter. Keep flexing Scout.
I love that she says that, muscle wizards are freaking awesome
"Roll for flex."
"20!"
EDIT: DO NOT LIKE THIS COMMENT ANY FURTHER. 20 HAS BEEN REACHED. THIS IS THE ABSOLUTE.
I love that, amidst all the absurd characters and lore, Pauling is just a lesbian that loves tabletop games but never gets a chance to play them.
Godspeed.
I am entirely convinced he likes himself more than miss pauling
He’s too good at rp
How does a person who gets one day off a year have time to know how to play DnD?
She used to have a past before the job?
@@redclover7105she came out of the womb with a suppressed pistol and penchant for wetwork.
Maybe she gets breaks during the day to do this stuff, also in another voice the department of Labour made her take some days off so maybe they’re making sure she regularly gets days off now
She's on a long vacation. That's the lore of the update
_The New Mexico Department of Labor has found the Administrator in violation of every safety law they have, including 106 violations of the Employee Electroshock (Face, Trunk and Genital) Protection Act and 496 unexplained workplace disappearances. This means Miss Pauling has been state-mandated to take her first vacation in... well, ever. It also means she'll still be working round the clock, since those kill-contracts won't assign themselves._
she plays it with the administrator
evil scout be like: i like keeping my shirt on
"You can't be a muscle wizard"
The Thousand Sons would like a word with you
I don’t remember what the story was exactly, but I heard there was this one time all the players took off their shirts before yelling something. Whatever it was, it was glorious.
that would be the story of the Legendary Beef Brigade.
I guess scout wants to be wild magic barbarian
Absolutely brutal
I love how she's scolding him like he's a dog 😭
Muscle Wizard casts fist!
Scout: "...I! CAST! FIST!" **Punches Cato Scarious straight in the faceplate!** "NOW, GET OUT OF HERE YOU SHITGRILL!!!!"
Good couple.
Muscle Wizard is a class and his one and only spell (FIST) is effective against *everything*
scout
Honestly if he roles high enough he probably can intimidate an orc by doing push ups
I would kill to see this in the recording booth LOL
We need a tf2 movie with this kind of humor
Third Edition DnD Wizards: *Flexes and hits with power attack*
No Jerma, you cant beat an ork by pushing it into a meat grinder
Forgot that the Mercs had their own D&D group. Though don't recall what their world's version of it was called.
Gargoyles and Gravel, it's literally in the clip
They said the name of it in this video, Gargoyles and Gravel
I ain't flexing it's..uhh.... my normal pointing stance!
There is such a thing as a muscle wizard. Building a strong physique require is just as much a mental exercise as it physical.
It requires discipline and mental fortitude. That can easily be translated into applying the Arcane arts.
Think about it a wizard runs s half marathon to channel the runners high to help him complete a difficult ritual.
No such thing as a muscle wizard? Have you met Mash Burnedead
gamblong
Thjs is so fucking funny lmao
Gotta love the DND fans nerding out here(I don't understand a word)
how do you even get these lines in game?
the contract system used to be different. whenever you got or finished a contract, Pauling would talk to you with these lines. sadly, when they redid the contract system into the contracker, Valve removed the Pauling voice lines
@@cheesefilledbee FUCK!
@@cheesefilledbee That is why she went silent for me few years ago.
A str based caster rather than int based. I wonder what balance implications there would be
if i were dm i'd definitely allow that, just roll it as an intimidation. maybe they're playing 1st edition gargoyles and gravel, since this is the 60s. i'm not familiar.
"Scout, stop flexing! You're not Tavish."
"Tavish? Who the frick is Tavish?!"
"Oh! I almost forgot!...heh... you really nailed that contract in the last match..."
#SaveTF2
"You can't beat an Orc by doing Pushups"
Uh, yes you can. It's called "Challenging them". Orcs are warriors, if you challenge their Honor and win according to the rules, they will consider you their leader.
Where did you get this voice clip from??
Scout would be the worst and best person to play d&d only because he is cocky
Why does scout at the beginning sound like Philza
what board game was this man playing for this to be the move
Gargoyles and Gravel
Tf2 equavilent of D&D
0:02 How many dice is he rolling? 💀
Women always say the opposite of what they want.
This is why Miss Pauling always avoided a date with Scout
He's too embarassing as a boyfriend
What you talkin bout
Nah she can't handle the scout she had to tell him to put his shirt back on she wouldn't be available to handle herself
Scout can actually do pretty well as some lady's Boyfriend...
...The problem is that when he's _not_ trying too hard at flirting, someone (The Soldier) usually does something that ruins the date.
Remember the Comic where Soldier ended up stripping and covering himself in Honey? The Popup reveals that Soldier did it _the Last time_ Scout ended up going on a date with a girl heavily implied to be Ms Pauling, and Soldier Tagged along for some ungodly reason.
In fact, whenever Scout isn't Trying Too Hard to flirt (Or runs his mouth and does something like Blurt out his "Loyalty" to Miss Pauling), observe the women under (and Over) a certain age bracket around him. They look _interested._
Yes, that _Includes_ Miss Pauling. Scout could actually Act Like Luigi and Do absolutely _nothing..._ And he'd get swarmed by girls wanting to get in his pants.
Canonically she's also gay which is pretty funny considering how much effort scout went to for a date.
scout trying to flex?
is this on her one day off, or at work hours???
when and where is this voiceline used
Where's this from???
scout must quit dat at once
scout stop flexing
Is this used in the game
Is this in the game?
0:21 / 0:21
I read “dice clatter” in the thumbnail as “dick clatter” is there smth wrong with me
Yea
frist da
Wow pauling is the worst dm ever…