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I would personally prefer playing as a dungeon.

I know its not that funny, but the finality with which he said "I'm gonna play a dragon. RED. ADULT."

DND gigachad just sounds like spending an unhealthy amount of time on DND homebrew to give your friends what they want and ohhhhh, I already do that.

I will say…I did a Strahd gothic horror campaign where the DM was VERY strict with classes and races, and we all had to play as humans. It ended up being one of the most immersive and coolest campaigns I’ve ever been a part of. Then again I also played another strahd campaign where we were complete wacky weirdos, attended a wedding for rats, had a fashion show in Vallaki, got absolutely blazed on an in game drug and pulled about a dozen cards from the deck of many things, hilarity ensued. so through that I became a fan of both approaches, not just the “anything goes” direction

DM: "How does everyone feel about Jacob playing an adult red dragon?" Bard: "..."

I had a player want to play as a snail... After some homebrewing a Escargonian was born

Jacob (sneak attack) hitting the griddy in excitement for Jacob (Bugbear) big story moment rules, and then hitting that gwiddy even harder at the end rocks.

I love seeing the Wizard's antithesis. This time, we get to see some real DM action from a guy who can make anything work!

There is no way that "Batonk the Bugbear bonk" was a one take line.... I needz the bloopers for this!

i think the dragon example is a great showcasing of a gigachad dm that shows care for the players concern and tries to accommodate. HOWEVER it's perfectly valid as a DM to say no to something that requires that much prep work and reworking, as the DM you're also a player, your concerns around the narrative matter and if you don't want to run the game with someone playing a character that disrupts that story you're perfectly within your rights to say no to that.

I think the best part is that the player sneaking at the end is the one playing the red dragon

Imagine Gigachad DM being your first DM ever. You'd become a player for life

Loved that moment when the Gigachad had them roll initiative. One player's roleplaying victory does not have to cancel out the big combat for the rest of the party - you can have both!

He would give Wizard an an entire arc focusing on their relationship with the Shadow Wizard Money Gang shadow government

It’s not about giving the players anything they want it’s about making a great story, for them and for you, together, the books and rules are just the tools to help that happen.

I'm a therapist and DM for teen clients, and we're doing homebrew campaigns with therapeutic aspects to them so my focus is on making sure the therapy part of the narrative and world remain intact; anything else is up for grabs. Which means I absolutely feel the first part of this video; A wants to play this D&D meme character, B just wants to be a wizard and doesn't know or care what races are, C wants to play a changeling who randomly cycles through races with each one having their own stats based on what's appropriate for that race, and D wants to play a mech with a dark unicorn animal companion. We'll make it work, you just gotta give me a sec to think real fast.

I will pattern every future campaign I have in reverence to Gigachad DM. Anything is possible, mutual respect, fun, and one hell of a chin line.

In 2e there was a setting called Council of Wyrms that came with rules for playing as a real ass dragon. If I remember correctly, the book said “everyone should have a regular character and a dragon character”. Your dragon took forever to level up but I still think it’s cool.

I have a friend who loves your channel. I introduced him a while back and his fondness for your videos outgrew even mine, which was awesome. I was happy to see him find something he liked so much. He's the DM for our group and lately he's been doing stuff like this. I asked him where he's getting his ideas and he said, "Gigachad Jacob" and I literally laughed so hard. You made him a better GM by literally creating a character. That's pretty sick man.

God I had a guy play a plasmoid in strahd once. I didn't let him do it because I didn't have spelljammer. But once we were going to do it again I did have the book and he changed his mind and picked a DIFFERENT race from a DIFFERENT random book I didn't have.

I think there is something very important here that could easily be overlooked. Not only is the DM trying to make it possible for one player to play a dragon, BUT the DM is asking the other players what they think about one of the group having such an unusual concept. And that's very important and something I've never seen on a role-playing table before. Often characters are even made secretly (with the DM) and other players don't know who is playing what until you sit at the table for the first session and you realize what a colorful and absurd group this is. And every time I think to myself, "Can't we talk a little bit and roughly agree on a topic?", and when I express these thoughts, I always hear the same answer: "Don't worry, it'll be okay." When I DM a game and we do a session 0, I also make sure that the players know each other who wants to play what and whether everyone is cool with the different concepts

Gigachad DM with the rules: "They're more like... Guidelines than actual ruuules"

I would like at least one video where giga shows the proper way to have boundaries because like, it's legitimately not fair to DMs to act like the only way to be amazing is to deprioritize your enjoyment.

bro dropped the hardest jacob edit

Gigachad is my favorite character you do. It's so natural for you!

Gigachad DnD content gives me life.

That brings up a very good point that I will be taking with me. When a player wants to do something, I as the dm think is too wacky, ask the players how they feel and find a way to make everyone happy

Oath of the Nord: Channel Divinity: Private Connection: as an action you can use your channel divinity to create 5 ephemeral clones within 120 feet of you for the next minute, afterwards you can use a bonus action to teleport to one of your clones, leaving a clone in your place. If you are within 5 feet of a clone, you have advantage on Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saving throws Channel Divinity: Virtual Protection: as an action, choose any amount of creatures equal to your proficiency bonus within 15 feet of you or a clone of yours, split any amount of temp hp between the targets equal to twice your paladin level , additionally, each target that gained temp hp from this effect gets the effect of sanctuary. Aura of Encryption: At 7th level friendly creatures within 10 feet of you are immune to effects that would read their mind, as well as being immune to telepathic communication unless the target allows it. Faster Connections: At 15th level you can swap places with an ephemeral clone once per turn instead of a bonus action. Master of Networks: At 20th level you can use a bonus action to allow your clones to each gain the auras you currently have with a 10 foot radius for 1 minute, this aura does not stack with you nor other clones summoned by you. you can use this feature twice per long rest. Oath spells: 3rd level: Shield, Disguise self 5th level: Protection from poison, Mirror Image 9th level: Protection from energy, Glyph of warding 13th level: Mordenkainens private sanctum, Aura of life 17th level: Antilife Shell, Passwall (this is probably unbalanced as hell and half baked but enjoy)

0:03 This clearly takes place after BG3 came out. Before BG3, no one would've actively wanted to play as a Githyanki.

My favorite character that I’ve ever DM’d is that I’m running a pirate campaign right now, while we’re all thinking up characters one of my buddies comes up to me and says “I’ve got an idea, and you can tell me if it’s stupid.” I say, “what’ve you got for me?” He says “Can I be… the ship?” I say fuck yes dude. He is the Bloody Bastard, the ghost ship, the scourge of the seas and it is fucking awesome.

Giga Chad DM strikes again. He is not afraid of your characters convoluted back story.

The song played at 1:23 "The Manual by Ballpoint"

I must say that I would hate if a DM robbed me of a good fight and potential victory in order to spin a story. But to each their own.

That last one reminds me of something my DM does. One of my characters (our DM lets us switch them out if it's story appropriate and we want to) was raised to inherit her mothers position in the fey court, so she is naturally trained in politics and a particular way of saying things in a deceptive manner such that they're technically true, but imply something else. My DM often gives her the opportunity to make use of this skill, but they never make me roll for it, preferring to let me hard-skill it and just roleplay out those scenes outright. I much prefer it that way because that kind of wordplay is extremely fun for me, and it makes for some really tense scenes. Even though they would be justified in making me roll deception checks, they choose not to because it's more fun for everyone at the table if we just don't roll. A great DM knows when not to roll dice, and it really elevates the game. Most recently, by the way, my character convinced the queen of a nation to effectively put her in charge of their military munitions production, which she fully intends to completely sabotage. She did not lie once during the conversation, but managed to convince the queen that she was going to improve their production when in fact her plan is to ruin it utterly. Not a single roll was made in that conversation, but the entire table was so tense. Amazing moment.

First sponsor ad in a while I was genuinely entertained by. Beautiful segue!

As a DM I learn a lot by watching these. Thank you.

"Im gonna play a plasmoid artificer!" "In curse or sthrad?"not even 4 seconds in and I had to pause the video to lose my shit. I was dying laughing💀💀💀💀

I love this so much, I just made a Plasmoid Artificer and feel called out now.

Jacob's chad-face is the best monetization strat he has found in years and I'm all here for it

THE LEGEND RETURNS

These videos are the best. It's so good to see someone focusing what makes the experience at the table wholesome and fun and supportive. Inspired.

As someone who is literally playing a young red dragon in disguise, with a githyanki in the party, this video is amazing!

I love the GigaChad centered videos. Theyre always a mix of wholesome and hilarity.

4:40 when a dm does this its the closest thing to an irl cutscene

Love these giga chad DM videos, wholesome and funny and educational.

0:26 the "adUlt" got me good

the transition to the ad is flawless

"Protect those who cannot protect themselves" THESE WORDS ARE ACCEPTED Jacob suddenly begins to glow and leech a blueish fog.

My dm in my first game of dnd allowed a player to be a cursed hammer that is actually a demon trapped in a hammer. It had a bunch of homebrew abilities like turning the wielder (which was an elder dwarf blacksmith) into a super powerful anime girl and some other shit. Its a shame that we have sessions every like 4 months or so

You are legit my favorite KZfaqr, everything you make is such an amazing balance of humor and wit.❤

Props to my DM - He literally just did the first thing for me. My DM let me play a two foot tall, sentient log figurine that was originally an idol the Kuo Toa worshipped until they brought him to life. When they realized he’s basically just a bad divination wizard, they moved on to a new god and cast him aside. He fully believes he’s a god, and he just tagging along with the otherwise disinterested party, he calls them his followers. He too flavors all of his spells as just his natural “powers”, blesses his flock with portent from time to time. Some of the party have started giving him offerings, which he heartily accepts.

I do have a couple older players at my table, one seems okay with some RP but the other one almost pouts when we have cinematic story moments. And not because he isn't in them, but cause they're happening at all. I was playing a character in a Gothic horror setting whose family had been killed by a local count. So, because he wasn't strong enough to stop his family from being killed, he fused his vital organs to a robot he had made (becoming a warforged vengeance paladin). And we eventually get to the boss fight, and I start to converse with this Count about how I'm getting revenge, and this other player just goes, "I shoot him, does a 22 hit?" And it's always like that. We try so hard to get him to roleplay, but he's still stuck on ADnD or something.

I really enjoyed this video. Overall every Gigachad video is awesome. I like the positivity. And if I'll ever be able to play DnD with someone, I will try to do everything to replicate the atmosphere.

The DM was already a GIGACHAD before he spoke a word with that Berserk shirt.

Masterclass in acting, editing, and music. Love it.

Player: I roll to hit my backstory antagonist. DM: Nah you just hit him and kill him. Player: oh...

Jacob is true CHAD for making great content. Cheers mate.

Fr, our DM did this when one PC died midway through Waterdeep, his secondary character ended up being revealed to be a secret dragon that he and the GM had coordinated on. My barbarian bard got him a license to fly over Waterdeep conditional on him towing a banner advertising the bar that I owned. No, it wasn't the same bar that everyone else owned. Yes, our characters did not get along.

These videos motivate me to prep harder and try to up my game voice acting and story telling

I don't know how much I could like Gigachad if they were an actual DM of mine. I feel like having all the players be catered too so much and in such a dedicated way would...isolate the group. and the power fantasy is just...not what I go to ttrpgs for. Although ive been dumped by about 4 or 5 dms in a row so far before games started so he would win by default as someone who could dedicate large amounts of time to the game

ahhh same as when my friend wanted to be a warewolf, like not having the curse, just being a warewolf good times

4:20 “That’s cool/metal af I’ll let you have it” is I type of thing I try to do very sparingly happy that he did one aswell

Props to my DM - He literally just did the first thing for me. My DM let me play a two foot tall, sentient log figurine that was originally an idol the Kuo Toa worshipped as their god until they brought him to life. When they realized he’s basically just a bad divination wizard, they moved on to a new god and cast him aside. He fully believes he’s a god though, and while he’s just tagging along with the otherwise disinterested party he still believes they are his followers. He too flavors all of his spells as just his natural “powers”, blesses his flock with portent from time to time. Some of the party have started giving him offerings, which he heartily accepts.

1:40 you do realize you just explained "Oath of the Watchers" for an Ad lol.

Our Chadlord Jacobfrey returns at last

Lmao you’re having too much fun with the gigachad music. Love it

4:45 that griddy was unexpected but hilarious and someone needs to make a loop of that

Love Gigachad Jacob and love the Nord VPN tie in 😂

Griddy - 4:44

Easily the best ad I've seen in years. I usually always skip them, but that was perfect.

Stumbled onto your channel by accident but this was honestly hilarious, I even watched the full Nord VPN ad you brilliantly threw in there. well done well done.

Forgoing rolls for the sake of the plot is the absolute chaddest

LET"S GOOO CHADS IN DND

Yoooooo! I've been binging all the Gigachad videos like just yesterday, this is like a personally hand crafted gift from Jacob to me

Love your videos dude, everytime I feel like I have some new takeaway that I want to implement into my games.

Ok I loved the Vee P. Enn paladin from the Nord oath, that's the type of character I love to see.

Player: "I want to play as an adult red dragon" Me: "Sounds cool! Who's your new DM?"

That’s so funny, I’m getting back into DnD and so rewatched the Gigachad videos today and now you posted a new one! Cheers

THE ADD WAS PERFECTION! That was just sweet.

Yeah, a DM's gotta be a Gigachad to just hijack your character and act out their thoughts, actions and feelings, and still have you thank them in the end, instead of just, you know, saying 'You can forgo the roll, this is your moment.' and let you play out your character moment instead of taking it from you. :D

tbh the whole "story above gameplay" thing is what turns actual games into a movie-like experience, which is not for everyone

This video made me feel great. Good job

Dude you are friggin hilarious!!!! I found you probably cause of BG3 so glad I did. Subbed, keep up the awesome work bro bro

What did he mean by if the dragon can still talk to people? It's an Adult red dragon. It can cast 9th level spells. Of course it can talk.

Wait Dragon was a race option? Well now I got to go create a new (homebrew) character!

0:36 the "I don't care" was delivered so hilariously

I started out a decade ago with a decentky punishing gm, its was real hard for me at first to play in the way you hyperbolize in these videos but its really nice seeing it in a positive light

The whole "You don't even need to roll because what you just described is was very cool" is such an underrated GM move. I GM for vampire: the masquerade very often, and I have a lot of fun with the "devil's bargain" rule, which for those who dont know, its a rule from the VTM that says that a player who didn't get a success on a role, can still be offered the oportunity to "succeed at a cost", where the GM will let they succeed on what they tried to do even though the roll failed, but it will come with a narrative consequence. And it makes the whole rolling and failing SO MUCH more interesting.

This is probably one of your best!

Honestly one of the smoothest segways into an advert

That's not gigachad dm. That's pushover dm. Now, if a gigachad player pitches me a detailed character concept around being an adult red dragon scaled down and backstoried up to fit the campaign... sure. But if you just walk up like "imma be an adult red dragon" I'mma be like "Red dragons are for gigachad players. Do your homework, get good grades and play nice with your friends. Then we'll talk."

Wow, these rules are really bad yet you shade as good ones -_-

That segue into the ad was wonderfully done.

YES. Honestly love the gigachad vids man

I.....would never want to play with the "gigachad" DM. Do not accommodate players that have stupid ideas.

Damn, that moment when you tell about ignition of the dagger...I had shivers.

Thank you, this has been very informative

I love the action dance shots that are super campy. They are great.

When he said “I’m going to play a human fighter” I thought he was going to say… “No” (Flexes chad face, Phonk music beat drop)