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I'm sorry. But I see that costume as "Uncle Iroh" From Avatar: The last airbender. I thought you were gonna talk about making an "Uncle Iroh" character that dies. And THAT"S what would torture a party.

Bout time you got the official Dungeon Master uniform. Now you can be legit.

You gotta have Dungeon Master Guy face off with BigDickWizard6969!

I mean, you could sell it, right?

And was more valuable that way earlier this year

@@akrinornoname2769 wait for the second wave

Apparently, Wizards can't even learn Cantrips from scrolls, so that sucks even worse than I was thinking it did.

Imagine going to wipe but you stop and accidently cast true strike. Now you have to wait til your next turn to wipe with advantage

nice meme

"It's less than worthless my boy"

Gravity Falls in D&D when?

"I would like to rage." *flips table*

Can I just cast it right now so I don't have .25# of extra weight on me?

Well done, you've created a new monster to be added to Monster Manual.

awesome! =]

Kyle Pessell the scary dm

I will pay you to add Jacob in the OFFICIAL Dm outfit to the monster section.

And we thank you, we got a new Mario NPC out of it.

Torture is ok when preformed between consenting adults

@@Flowtail bruh, this is some high tier masochism

yo t1j.

Jokes aside i find weapons having hitpoints interesting. Gives me a dark souls vibe

Yeah those are awesome touches

"Oh, thanks for reminding me! Wizards' spells burn from their books after you use them, so you better get to copying!"

"Spellcasting focuses have hit points too. Cantrips damage them as normal spells do."

"your mind is your weapon"

casting cantrips damages your limbs individually, and we'll roll to check for dismemberment after each firebolt.

@@evedoggo5830 Unless it has a M in it. you dont need a focus.

Why use dnd beyond tho? you have to re-buy every single book from THEIR store which is absolute bs, use Dungeon Master Vault or just keep them on roll20's vault, those ones at least support actual homebrew unlike the stupid system of dnd beyond

@@rompevuevitos222 I mean, I was just making a joke...

@@OriginalKasym ik, i just don't understand why it's the go-to site for online d&d

@@trapical Hey, uh, you, I uh, I appreciate what you're doing here, have a blessed day

@@rompevuevitos222 Well if you don't already have the books and don't want to use up the space for them, It's a good alternative. Not to mention, you don't have to buy the entire books, you can just buy certain things from the books that you need for just a few dollars.

I've played with an exceptionally low con before...on a 3.5ed wizard (which means a d4 hit die). I think I had 2 hp with only a 25% chance of gaining more than 1 on each level up. Went through multiple combats (at least 3, probably more like 5) and did not die. Only damage I took was accidentally from another party member and it was subdual (non lethal and goes away quickly).

i'm more bother by the fact the DM referred to "Ability Scores" as "Skills"

@@Femaiden It adds to the torture.

Nothing a Moon Druid cant fix

1 time a was a Sorecerer whith -2 un Con, all muy stats seré shot exept my Charm 20. With that shitthy i play a age 5 Tiefling Sorcerer of wild magic

ikr, that was funny as hell

thats just fair play on the DM,

Who dares disrespect the umber hulk?

“Wait no”

if i was proud enough to display a mini and some one dissed it, damn right they are gonna have to fight it right now.

And here we see one of the advantages of the virtual tabletop. Too bad it's got so many downsides too. T.T

@@Syenthros Honestly once you start hitting 20, even in virtual tabletop you might want to group them.

Until you "accidentally" skip someone's turn...

And then everytime a zombie falls u have to roll to see if they stay alive, which will probably happen a lot with a horde so... yeah, fun stuff.

@@Nionivek Aha! But I have a macro to automatically roll individual initiatives for all tokens I have selected! :D

We're ALL Rangers and we ALL have Goodberry!

@@VaSoapman My newest character is a Dragonborn Ranger and because my DM has underestimated just how stupid/convoluted my ideas are, I thought up the ultimate method of assassinating people...through GOODBERRY. I'm not even joking, the DM is gonna hate me when I manage to assassinate some poor cocky NPC or something through the power of BERRIES.

@@Bowserjr-wi4dn Goodberry alone?

@@Chrokosaur Yep! Well, that's the only spell in use. There is another thing at play, but it doesn't require magic or anything special, just something my party has already collected...

@@Bowserjr-wi4dn It's poison. Everyone knows what poison is.

You truly are a monster!

Ok, I've got a higher tier piece. "The shopkeep does not have change." Ugh, ok, FINE, I've got a pretty good amount of money, just keep it. "The shopkeep has a high amount of integrity and refuses to accept overpayment." .......I stab the shopkeep.

@@haku8135 that’s fair

Electrum piece cost 5 silver pieces and 5 copper pieces. Half-gold and half-silver.

@@epigone1796 Electrum is not worth 5.5 silver It’s 5 silver or 0.5 gold

I was gonna say mage hand, but casting it has somatic components...

My DM legitimately said something almost exactly like this. I was holding my holy symbol in one hand and placing the other hand flat on a wall where a disappearing magic door used to be, and she asks, "Which hand are you placing on the wall?" I was like..."Shit, why should that matter??" I never did find out why that mattered. 😞

I’m going to steal this

@@Rosawyn I've had a door that I trapped with a sticking spell, while triggering a fight. Lead to some interesting things while the party maneuvered around the fighter, unable to move and without their dominant hand.

@@RosawynI’m gonna be honest as a dm I do that every like 4 seconds

DM “The spell fireball is banned”

@@benjammin5328 no that's not true that's impossible

@@CygnusTheSilly Search my rule book. You know it to be true.

@@benjammin5328 NNNOOOOO!!! NOOOO...

Imagine balancing your encounters at all lmao

Yeah, at least d&d versions have gotten better about preventing pc death at the hands of a random bar brawl or a tiger jumps out of the bush and gets 4 surprise attacks AND their regular turn before the players can react...

Literally me

"That wouldn't be realistic". The only time I ever have a situation like this is if I have warned the party in advance that there is no possibility of getting through 3 players down. Thankfully, the group I have is rather intelligent and can find work when players are missing. Or we just do a 1 shot to sub for the missing peeps. We only had one situation when a player engaged a fight they could not win while the rest of the party was not there. And the funny part is it was not because the players were missing, they were just three doors down checking out another abandoned house. So what does the Monk do? Punch the spirit that is guarding the book and otherwise not attacking them. I had not even asked them to roll Ini. -smh-

I did that when the problem player of the group decided to go solo. At that moment the evil wizard they let go had recruited an army of gobbos and laid an ambush on the road. The party stayed in the hills trying to finish their quest while the problem player walked right into the ambush. The gobbos caught him and the wizard made a deal, for his service and help against the players his life would be spared. So the player led the gobbos and the wizard to the player who at that moment were dealing with a necromancer and his zombies. Now of course the player decided to betray the wizard. But the wizard being a wizard accounted for this and used charm person on the player to pacify him while the gobbos and the zombies duked it out. The ranger died to the warlock, the rogue disengaged from the fight and the sorcerer fought an epic duel against the wizard and won. So did the zombies.

And thats why you buy waterproof spellbooks

.thissiht doneenos I'veeveI .YeppwY

That’s why spellbook pages are vellum rather than paper.

That's why I keep my spellbooks in plastic zipbags while also having them waterproofed. Rule number one of playing tabletop - never underestimate the water.

that's why you get an induring spell book

DM: Oh thanks for reminding me spell Casters, your spells burn out of your spell book as soon as they are casted, you better get to copying! You too Clerics! You just call it a "Prayer Book!" Oh you're a Sorcerer? You know take damage of 1d6 × Spell Level to cast (minimal 1d6).

"Cantrips have spell slots"

@@Raptorman0205 Monk: "...*silent whisteling*"

@@alnu8355 This sounds less like annoyance and more like a DM versus Player Thing, the DM trying his hardest to be the biggest douchebag in the group that even 2 “That Guy” players wouldn’t handle it.

@@Predator20357 I found most terrible annoyances in D&D are Player vs. DM kind of things and it's usually the DM being a dick head flexing his "power" because said DM has no controll in life.

that is the OG way.

I HATE THAT SO MUCH. My first IRL friends group's DM was that way. He even made us roll actual d20's for stats.

@@caleb688 D20s? He was going easy on you. Back in the day it was 3d6 and that's the way we liked it!

@@toshomni9478 3d6 is faar more likely to roll an average stat

3d6 means you have a 1/216 chance of rolling a 3, and a 1/72 chance of rolling a 4. Your average stat is 10.5, and almost half of all stats are between 9 and 12. It's decently balanced for pure randomness.

I actually saw that and I was very happy that the old cartoon is finally getting recognised

And not the castle at the end of the carvan torture

Having "played" dragon queen, I assumed he meant doing so was torture on its own.

@@MinnehahaSybyl whats funny is i was disappointed when a school club campaign feel through when we were supposed to play hoard and now from everything i heard im glad

@@MinnehahaSybyl How bad is it? My only experience with 5e modules is Curse of Strahd.

​@@jayhill8892 I played it for almost two years before we quit because it was making us miserable. We felt railroaded from the beginning but spent six months trying to figure out WHY we were doing what the story told us to do. Then it's written so that nothing you do really makes a big difference to the bad guys, you're just supposed to scrape by, getting there too late and missing things until you snatch victory from the hands of Tiamat by the skin of your teeth at the last possible second.

BRO I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING

I was picturing more Dark Souls *tosses Goblin with that troll spear from Demon Souls (a spear made to breaks weapons) (or Breath of the Wild, in hindsight)

Nah mate, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

I can’t believe I didn’t think of that.

Who hurt you?

"You leave the brothel. Run a Constitution check".

DM : Well, your entire party dies of dysentery. No saving throw ... just painful death. *Welcome to The Tavern of Horrors* 😄🤣😄🤣

@@warpath6666 LOL

First D&D game even, we leave the tavern, roll, the others got 2 and I got 1 “You are all drunk expect for the elf, who is passed put from the fumes, also, have fun fighting those wolves”

Aside from the last point (and possibly the second), that sounds neat honestly, as long as some unsaid details are good (i.e. in-world explanations, a bit of forgivingness about it, etc). Brutal mode campaign.

@@celestialtree8602 Everything goes as long as everybody is happy with it.

That's terrible all around jeez

Sanity doesn't sound too bad I can understand the no paladins rule This is a problem. Aside from anything else, Strahd is an intelligence caster I have no words to express my hatred of the last point. I hate that DM

I would argue Neutral Evil DM. Some of the things he insisted on (resource management) are deeply lawful DMing, while others (random encounters) are deeply chaotic.

need to have him fight the wizard

@@Lorddacenshadowind There eventually going to have the team up to defeat the rogue, He spent preparing a sneak attack since Jacob stopped making videos about him

@@AuntieHauntieGames is call it ‘split alignment’. One or the other, never between.

Now I'm inspired to play a wizard bard in a glam metal band

​@@sarahross975I have a Cleric who's just George Harrison.

I think you missed the point there

@@spudsbuchlaw You think?

@@hadarc01 yeah, but people apparently also missed your sass

I mean, would it be better if the dm said "Thanks to your keen mind player, you navigate your way out with ease."? Still not fun at all.

@@morantNO1 they would have gotten out just fine without it.

Why would I need to defeat someone who's read the first chapter in my guide on how to DM?

@@BigDickWizard6969 because fireball?

Oh no that was the Wizard--the campaign ended and his player is DMing now.

The Wizard got reincarnated into this monster

if this crossover doesnt happen ill unsubscrible

Funny enough, my experience has been the opposite. Having ini's rolled individually for a large group of say, 20, has made a huge difference on how my party approaches their encounters and fights. And the real kicker is they even asked me not to use hoards because of how much more difficult the encounter can be. It has become a bit of a norm that the party I have will always have 2 wizards or some other class that has at least 1 reliable crowd control attack. We have a dedicated healer, a character than can fight at range (typically a role passed to our wizard who can snipe with eldritch blast), and a tank to cover the front line. The first two roles tend to fall on people who play a character who can also run in the front line.

Nah I prefer that a lot. Gives way more depth to players turns rather than having a huge wave of enemies do every single thing at the same time

@@Marpfie i only use group initiative when i am using a stupid amount of the same statblock.

Ugh ur telling me. I hate using horde mechanics because it makes the horde less challenging when the creatures don’t have as much agency do I do individual initiative a lot of the time. Even 10 monsters can be over whelming I can’t imagine doing 20

Technically if you have new people to d&d it's not a bad thing to start at level 1 for session 0 or something like that. You can easily let them skip a level after this session and continue at level 3...

@@blacksarlacc91 I kinda agree, have them level up after one session feels like a great reward

Wait we were not supposed to do that

@@BreakerX42 More experienced players like to use at Level 2 or 3 to skip the "literally anything could 1-hit you" section of the game and start with being able to do stuff.

Did the same with a new group. They did not know 5e, so I wanted them to learn stuff.

what’s pnp?

@@andres6115 Pen and paper.

I unironically love the HotDQ campaign and frequently refer to it as hot dairy queen

Only one player in my group wants to start at anything other than lvl 1, so when he DMs we'll start at lvl 3 but for now the rest of us are extremely content starting at lvl 1 and roll our eyes when he starts spouting off about why that's bad and wrong.

oh, a man of culture. May I assume you are talking about Darker Dungeons?

@@HitomiXKaori Yes indeed I am

stress rules u dont even need to homebrew. is in the dmg

level zero charakters are the survivors out of vrgtr

Ah so Darkest Dungeon

Honestly I also like variant encumbrance. I also won't say I hate D&D beyond in and of itself, but I do hate a certain subset of players who use D&D beyond as an alternative to actually knowing the rules at all. This inevitably results in having to explain to them how their character works three times per session.

just tell him that he boosts too much, or yeah, just quit

Yeah thats a red flag for a dm who just wants to read you his fanfic, not play a campaign.

It could be fun if it was abstracted away as int/wis checks that get harder the further from home you are.

Actually, I like the idea of not having common, but having more languages like in real life. Done properly it can help a lot in world building and gives more merit to certain spells, items, and feats. Just needs to be done correctly. If in your campaign you are traveling the world, maybe dont stick your PC's in a situation where they cant speak the language.

@@notbob555 unless it’s abstracted to a degree, or is gradual based on location. Unless you go to another continent most issues will just be slang or things with obvious root words that can Still be understood (the northerners call their leader Jarl and graybeards are basically monks.)

Oooooh! That infuriated me for the first few campaigns I played. Thank god for the milestone progression rule.

@@garuelx8627 why do guys bother with milestone progression? Just have 1 party level and all PCs level = party level. This way players don't even need to track the exp, you can just add it to your summary.

@@TrickyTrickyFox that just sounds like milestone progression with extra steps. we use the rule that if you give the DM less than 24 hours notice, your character gets half XP. otherwise we just won't play that week.

Oooh-la-la... sounds like someone is going to get a whole lot of secret ending after sealing away Ganon.

... but Puffin Forest said it was a good system!

Bring it on, I'm rolling a Warlord.

@@OniNoSweeney That is not what I got from that video at all or his more recent 4e video.

@@OniNoSweeney ironically in puffin's old 4e video, didnt it start as "hey I think 4th gets a bad rap" and ended with "holy shit I am FINDING MORE AND MORE things wrong with this game system!"

Ya know. This was actually supposed to be in the video and I completely missed it while editing. And only remembered that is was supposed to be here cause of this comment. I’m mad. Why is it not here? No idea.

I thought it was the cartoon uniform of the DM

Hey are you me?

if you buy just the stuff in the sourcebook it's cheaper :) not that it helps you now, but maybe it'll help someone else. i always end up spending like $20~ instead of $30 because of that and if I REALLY need to see other stuff in the sourcebook I can look it up online super quick.

That fighter had it coming

Unironically one of the dms I played with put a party of 4 level 5s against two Umber-hulks.

Khaeldranis they’d have to pretty lucky to have little trouble. Umber hulks aren’t pushovers, and their gaze is likely going to be quite the surprise for any character that doesn’t know much about the underdark. It’s not impossible, but it’s unlikely even with good tactics and smart playing.

@Khaeldranis my dude, it was an ambush, in the middle of a forest.

Khaeldranis preparation can only do so much. There’s hundreds upon hundreds of entirely unique creatures in the underdark. Learning about all of them to the extent that you would know the exact capabilities of each and and every one would take a lifetime, not a quick trip to the library. And even if you could somehow learn most of it, carrying useful equipment to deal with every possible situation wouldn’t be feasible. And in the end, all of your preparation can be for nothing if the dice decide that this is the day you die.

Is it really that bad to start at level one. Cause I was going to start a new campaign pretty soon. My players are pretty new they have only played like half a campaign that I started like a year ago. Should I bump up the level.

Thicclander Yes, I prefer to start at level 3 or 5 that way I have at least some more basic customization for my builds. Starting at level 1 isn’t that bad though.

@@thicclander6785 level 1 is the best level

@@thicclander6785 My first ever campaign (it went all the way to level 19, was amazing) started at level 1. Now that I know the mechanics, I'd pretty much rather start a big campaign at 2 or 3 for subclass stuff. But as a brand new player level 1 was nice because I had so little options it made learning the basic mechanics really easy.

I don't like levels above the ONE

I use it for my necromancer so he knows how long until he has to re-cast animate dead to maintain control of his skeletons.

Could you explain this joke to me? I don't get it, but i have a feeling i would like it a lot if i did XP

@@drago3036 Normally you roll 1d20, but the dragon is a top, so you only get to count numbers 1-10 anyway as the dragon is 11-20.

@@D3athstreak oh, i see the problem. I don't know what a "Top" l means in this context.

@@drago3036 I think you should be asking your parents about the birds and the bees not strangers on the internet

@@tomtom7955 Maybe it is the fact english is not my native language, but if you are saying "top" in *that* way, then i still don't get what is the relation between that and the numbers

Roll for initiative.

Man, my GF gifted me 'Tyranny of Dragons', which contains Both Hoard of the Dragon Queen and Rise of Tiamat, and I am just now starting to see people talk sh*t about it

@@ShoutingDerek yeah! Like there's definitely some flaws but I enjoy it with my players

It's ok to have HotDQ it's not ok to run it. run rise of Tiamat instead like every other sane person

@@bezretmet Isn't Rise of Tiamat the sequel of Hoard of the Dragon Queen?

its really more a problem with 5e. theyre built to be dumbed dow. for newer players because wotc didnt think veteran players would like actually earning things at lower levels

You ever try something like call of Cthulhu or cyberpunk? I also prefer lower level play, but my 5e players hate it because DND is so much power fantasy

@@rikusauske No I didn't. I am the willingly forever GM and have Pathfinder2e as my main game which fixed my complains with 5e. Now I also really like higher Levels haha. I don't like sci-fi much, but always wanted to try CoC, but never had a situation, or an idea for a one-shot where I would use CoC. Also how adaptive is CoC? Could I use it in a medieval or medieval fantasy setting?

He himself has said he uses Variant Encumberance.

@@U.Inferno Oh I know. I'm just giving him guff.

You dont poop on other peoples ice cream!?

Not to be that guy, but I'm pretty sure it was more about that specific dungeon being annoying in theater of the mind due to it's complexity.

it works, except for combat more than about 3 enemies.

Thats what you call *Blur*_ssed_

What is a True Strike! A miserable pile of Divination!

@@Kebutor But enough cantrips, HAVE AT YOU!

Its the eternal question really.

That is not an outfit, is Jacob's crippling body

seven likes already and not a reply, so here's this useless one because I have time.

Doesn't the base game have War picks and warhammers? Falchions and scimitars are just short swords, in the same way short swords can also be re-skinned as Katanas

This sounds like it's probably from the 3.5e weapon pages in the PHB. www.beerandbattle.com/wp2/pics-of-dnd-weapons/

You may be thinking, unless I’m mistaken, of the 3rd or 3.5 edition players handbook, around the section discussing weapons. They have item descriptions along with pictures. I may be wrong tho.

Andrew Hughson I appreciate your diligence.

Oooo that's a great idea

No, you're just an unrelenting masochist.

It's not terribly difficult to keep track of but it still slows the game down to have to search up the weights for things. I use a slot system in my games that has been working out pretty well which doesn't require much big brain energy.

@@dylanenriguehuntington2908 Oooh thats a good idea! having inventory slots might be something i pose to my groups

Agreed, who wants six full hours of combat.

Same, He Was So Sad