Probably why a lot of DND official stories and film adaptations don’t work either. They’re just basic fantasy stories with the title slapped on. People think of D&D movies having a bunch of injokes related to tropes they’ve experienced, and unless the director plays the game religiously it’s not gonna work

isn't the problem way more general than that? social media "humor" in general is 95% people fishing for upboats by repeating the same jokes - in mild variations if they're feeling adventurous, over and over again.

This applies even more to stories that are at least somewhat funny to hear second-hand. For example, Tiefling character exploited fire-damage immunity to shoot herself out of a cannon, only to fail the "Acrobatics" check to land without bludgeon damage.

Lucky you, getting a whole 6 hours each session. I've only ever managed 4, usually 2 or 3 hours :(

@@Micras08 that’s not the session, that’s the campaign :)

And bards can do basically anything if they have jack of all trades

@@enchanteddragonair7862 yeah, Jack of all Trades adds half proficiency bonus to all things you aren’t proficient in right? So that + Expertise + many proficiencies anyways= someone who does a lot very well. Not the best at them all, but still good

Storytelling! Remember in an age when literacy was rare, and written records didn't last very long or were prohibitively expensive to produce, information would be spread by word of mouth, and in narrative form. Bards could be historians, or preachers, or lawyers etc. All fields where spoken words and stories are key.

I wanna play Elf John Mulaney

@@shrilleth What an interesting former title… I like you

This is hilarious and I'm stealing it. Better than anything in the video.

@@DozenMarks it was literally in the video tho

@@DozenMarks only additional part was the sister

@@chriscanfly6386 .... Yes. That's the part I wanted to steal. I don't care about the human/human half offspring part. You catch on quick, my dude! Good job.

I wonder what this Thales guy's orientation is set to: an everyday human, a chimera or even crazier shenanigan.

I loved play necro in diablo 2 as a kid.

You will enjoy this bear ghost necrmancin' dancin'

I laughed at it, fo sho

SUPRISE! I am the funniest YTer evah!!!! Just kidding, it was no surprise. Everybody knew already. HAHAHHAHA!!!! That was an amazing joke (it was real talk though). WAWAWAWAWA!!!! Good afternoon, dear ke

I call for a Remake where Spencer or Logan or someone else curates Jacob. Preferably with a water gun for when he laughs!

@@GreycatRademenes I like this

What beard?

@@LetsPlayCrazy Well, it's what 13-year old boys who are trying hard would call a beard. Sorry Jabob, you are just facio-follically challenged.

That is so true. I don't like it.

to be fair most arent laughs they are chuckles or snorths to me a laugh has to be an actual hahaha out loud

@@blackheavymetalman the defintion of chuckle is "laugh quietly or inwardly".

@@wolves600 Guys, we don't need to waste time in the comments also debating about what and what isn't tEcHnIcAlLy a laugh as well as the creator wasting more than enough time doing so in their video.

@@YourIQDoesntMeanShitToMe Dude they were just explaining the definition of a chuckle which the person they were responding to clearly didn’t know. Suddenly it’s wasting time to educate people on what something means. Like it’s not that serious.

They also have jack of all trades which makes it so they can have half Proficiency in every ability

@@enchanteddragonair7862 this also extends to tools.

Plus ballsurfing is a pretty common skill for bards

Bards get half of their proficiency modifier on every check they don't have proficiency for

Someone had to say something about these memes

He doesn't laugh constantly. He laughed about 3-4 times.

PoV: You're a level 20 nerd ranking level 1&2 memes

@@Warhammer_lover it was 8, if you count the "*laugh* I DIDNT LAUGH THERE"

Not to mention he's basically monetising other people's content.

it definitely is explained in a stilted and weird way to where it just sounds like bullshit

@@donb7519 True but cats do weird things, at my MTG table because my buds fat ass cat sometimes decides he wants to be the center of attention he jumps onto the table then lays down. We ruled any cards he covers are out of play :) if he lays on your life counter you have to go get the cat a snack.

@@keaering5183 i believe the cat sitting at the table everything else just sounds like a joke someone wishes they told and the reaction they wanted to get

@@donb7519 It's the same joke every table makes about cats on the table though, either it's a druid or a giant monster the party has to fight. They didn't even claim a nat 20, lol

@@Harlizarrd The story isnt even meant to be a joke. It was stolen from tumblr. Probably just a funny observation. Jacobs right that the subreddit isnt funng but it was just a dumb story that is believeable in that "yeah. I know people who llay dnd"

That’s actually pretty smart.

They wouldn't be suddenly fighting below the deck 99% of the time it was so tgat you don't bump into John, the wall and another wall while blind.

@@lemons1559 ofc. Most of the time it would be for doing other stuff below deck

They'd still be blinded temporarily by switching it around though.

@@seigeenginethey’d close the eye, take the patch off while walking below deck, then open the eye once below deck. There’s no need to replace the patch on the other eye, you’d just adjust it to complete darkness while in a dim setting. You’d put it back on when you go above deck and you’d have to wait for you eye to adjust to the light. You literally would never need to switch it

My cat loves playing with my dice too, but she then runs off with them and hides them in weird places that I don't find for six months. All of my dice are now in little baggies.

smart kitty

And then everyone clapped (because nothing ever happens)

One of my two cats steals dice from the table and bats them around the floor. Any unsecured dice are a potential target.

@@mistermiles3271 Okay child who likes Tails from Sonic the Hedgehog.

I am a fantasy horse girl....and that kinda makes sense. I was not ready for that kind of revelation today.

What is a "fantasy horse girl"? Is that how we call furries now?

This isn’t a joke , it’s a fact

@@marcogenovesi8570 no that’s the one anime about the girls who run track, sing, and dance, also they just so happen to have horse ears on their heads and tails.

What about those who like Mind Flayers and their ilk?

Variant humans are just...humans. But it'd be hilarious since players who like other races tend to lean heavy into the lore, and then, you hear this backstory and it's Jeff the human ranger :)

People pick the weirdest stuff to just... not believe. Like, it's just a funny story about a cat doing cat stuff and becoming a meme because of it. It's not some dude claiming he made a grand speech at the supermarket or anything.

If I had had a dime for every time our DM's cats batted a die off the table, I'd have enough to buy a coffee at Dunkin'. Not a lot, but definitely enough times to be a trope (also more times than three players with Silvery Barbs have cast it in our 18 months of our campaign thus far...).

🎶he lived, he died, he's back, alive, im the necROMANCER!!🎶

Necromancer jokes always raise a chuckle out of me, something about how their shambled together.

@@Ruleradminius I generally have a undying hatred for necromancer jokes, but that one tickled my funny bone

If the necromancer joke didn't land, then nothing will.

@@austinvanderveer213 if they didn't laugh you could probably say they were..... dead inside

Nice sona

You don't have to be good at improv to avoid spending 3 years on a campaign. That's just bad time management. Prep per session, have a draft and idea of where the campaign can go. But if you spent 3 years writing a campaign then you likely should've just written a book.

@@techbeef “you put a lot of effort into this, so clearly you’re bad at it.” Seems entirely legit.

@@techbeef the fact that you actually look like 🤓

​@@techbeef I have a friend who's been writing and working on a campaign that's been on and off with like...5 parties because it simply never worked out until now, after about five years. It happens

@@Islacrusez I never stated they were bad at world building. Bad at time management though? Expected. After 3 years I am sure people more than lost their hype for it.

And a lot of people who make D&D memes have, double unfortunately, not learned that lesson yet

The Minotaur mermaid one was pretty damn funny

@@chi7818 So I don't have any details unfortunately but I kind of vaguely remember this being the premise of an old webcomic? like there's a support group for monsters and a 'human' joins because they're half minotaur and half mermaid or centaur. Not to discredit meme OP because they probably did come up with it on their own, but it might be worth looking into

@@softreyna that's amazing.

Yeah in one of the campaigns I’m playing we had two moments where me as a Barbarian made my party bust out laughing. One player crapped himself due to a fear and a latter with the illusion of it being really high. My orc grabbed him off the latter only like 10 feet up and dragged him down, he screamed pooped himself and then used prestidigitation to clean himself, he then asked my character to kick down a door which he happily did. Well later that session we found a dead body in the water with a soaked note I asked him if he could use the same spell he used to clean himself when he browned his pants immediate laughter and then as we were leaving the location I told the guards hey someone broke your door immediate laughter. But you had to be there

Yes, this would definitely be valid for the next video about unfunny memes 👍

@@janelantestaverde2018 not like humor is subjective or anything.

Absolutely reasonable answer to the problem.

@@cobaltblu4196 More than we sometimes admit, less than we'd like to think.

@@janelantestaverde2018 I mean I found it funny. but that's just like my opinion bro

Something tells me Jacob doesn’t actually know bards 😐

@@mistressofdreams6031 "Bards are one of my favorite classes" *Sees multiple skills instead of just playing a guitar* "That's not a bard!"

@@alexandrews6256"Your Charisma (Performance) check determines how well you can delight an audience with music, dance, acting, storytelling, or some other form of entertainment." Straight from D&D Beyond :) Along with Acrobatics and Athletics (so definitely a Swords Bard major).

acrobatics = everything? Bad joke

@@pewpewpandas9203 ok my turn to be pedantic. That was acrobatics, athletics, performance, and sleight of hand.

@@pewpewpandas9203 so we’re not gonna include the juggling, basketball, instruments?

@@dualitydisorder that list kinda makes me think more of a rogue than a bard 🤔

@@Pingviinimursu Jack of all trades.

Honestly, id love it for both the in joke factor and the confusion of people who dont play d&d but still were willing to watch a fantasy action film based on it. "Wait, thats roderick the fighter who died fighting against that last monster in the caverns!" "No it isnt, its clearly broderick the fighter who they bumped into by chance outside the cavern exit." "Its the same guy!" "No it isnt!"

The Gamers: Dorkness Rising was phenomenal.

Do not share this knowledge publicly, we may be under observation by agents of... THE SHADOW.

Now I have to watch all of it again Thanks

@@martinmallet8638 THE SHADOW!? *runs and hides*

I played a warlock who had proficiency in Performance because she was a flute virtuoso, but it wasn't enough to get into bard college, so she made her pact to have all the other skills to get her into bard college (aka: magic ability). She then immediately dropped out because "I have warlock magic and can shred on a flute. I don't need to go to bard college!" How good at flute was she? She was a sea elf and from an underwater city...and could still play the flute :) (goofy character for a one-shot that went over incredibly well)

Or give it to the wrong person just to see what happens. No limits. Final fight you're up against a huge demon, a few helpers, and like 823 random villagers from various towns. Good luck.

Also it fuses them all into one giant monstrosity. Have fun.

That's pretty fucking sick ngl

There’s a variation that includes a constitution save.

Brutal

this doesn't even make sense, how could it be funny?

@@aterriblefuze9540 And rolling for a certain circumference...

@@admiraltonydawning3847 DM reaches under the table and pulls out the FATAL rulebook, their gaze never leaving the Bard's eyes. "Now, you need to remember, you asked for this."

I just make random stuff up for the first 5 months and then try to figure out how to tie it all together into a campaign plot.

also people work lol

I might've quit D&D, at least temporarily. Did the DM?

@@reptiliannoizezz.413 maybe temporarily, but not forever. Brennan Lee Mulligan (the DM in question) is the DM for Dimension20 (The CollegeHumor D&D Show) as well as many other side projects, and was a guest DM for the latest installment in Exandria Unlimited. BLM (i just realized those are his initials) is a fantastic DM and has been for years

@@ArcherWillows Shout-out to his character on NADDPOD though, seeing Brennan play instead of DM is a treat.

The feels i have at least 3 Dnd big worlds and 1 cthulhu. Men its hard to lose them

Stories like this are exactly why I only do "improv DM" and nothing else. I figure out a couple key moments I want to happen, and whenever I feel like they should happen amid the party doing what they feel like doing and having to react to all of it, it happens to move the story along. I got so tired of spending so much time trying to make big elaborate stories on purpose that never made it past the first session or two before they invariably became something else anyway that I just can't do it anymore.

as a writer who lets ideas stew for a really long time and then writes them all down in short bursts, i think there's an important distinction between actively writing and idea stewing. even then, the most my ideas ever really stew is like 2-3 months.

I planned a super wild campaign over the course of a few months - it was a full 1-20 milestone campaign. Never got to play it. Idk how someone could take 3 years, that was my first campaign I planned, and it's not like I spent every day on it, it was just a few hours here and there some days out of the week.

All of the perfectionists get the 3 years thing I'm sure. Nothing ever feels "ready" or "finished" and you can't stand the thought of ruining the work you've already done.

@@Dragowolf_Rising THIS. THIS EXACTLY. I started writing a novel 4 years ago and "finished it" about 2 years ago, and yet it's still not "done". Not even exaggerating, I've proof-read and edited it about 15 or so times. Like I'll think I've done the final proof read, only for a couple months to pass and for me to be like, "But what if color symbolism though?" Few things are ever truly complete with perfectionism.

@@alexvraa1452 Is that ideas like individual parts of something or ideas like settings/stories?

I know that must have been a sad moment for her, but hopefully she lost those shitty friends in the process. I can’t imagine not at least trying something my friend was super into.

Honestly if someone went to all that trouble to set up a DnD game even if I didn't feel like it anymore I would show up on PRINCIPAL. I would feel god awful if I didn't.

I'm way late but from what I remember she had her dms filled with potential players withing a few hours and they might have ended up playing but I'm not too sure of my memory

@@VitaeLibra Well let's hope she did, any player would be lucky to have a DM to go through that much trouble for them.

I would if I could never goten the chance to play D&D and all my friends dont wanna try it

Well at least Hunter's Mark is a class feature without concentration for the Ranger in the UA about Ranger ! ;)

4e did it right

I agree they should not count as spells learned, but giving them concentration free would be too much. Maybe upcasting them to 3rd lvl or higher to take away the concentration

@@m0her_2 you mean favoured foe?

@@BODELTOTE concentration free wouldn’t be broken tho, they still need to use a bonus action to retarget new enemies after old targets go down which reduces damage output for Beast Master/Drakwarden and makes Crossbow expert more difficult to use. As for warlocks, would you really waste a level 3 to 5 spellslot to concentrate on Hex when there’s way better concentration spells? Upcasting them would probably be more broken For rangers have them still use a lv 1 spellslot and bonus action (literally just remove concentration and you use this to replace Favorite Enemy or Favorite Foe) For Warlocks have them be able to use it a number of time equal to their proficiency bonus per short rest (or long rest if that’s too strong)

2nd edition, didn't know they're were any ancient Egyptians still kicking around..Shouldn't you lot be eating applesauce in a care home ? Seriously though did not know that..probably because I am very much a 5th edition dude...4th can preform rude oral acts on its mother.

Technically Thief is a subclass of Rogue now.

@@clothar23 I've known people to fill up tables at conventions showcasing the older editions. After awhile, you'll get sick of the same system and want to try something new (or older). It's natural.

Yeah that guy was totaly refering to old dnd shit

@@reelement8032 Yep yep. I still go back and play 3.5 or 4 every so often. Especially 4E. I fucking adore 4E.

I’ve not seen the part yet but might just be it’s how some of us say both of them

In his defense, have you ever seen a cat bat something gently enough to keep it on the elevated space it was before the smack? That die would’ve been tossed into the second realm.

@@entr3_nou5 Can confirm just tried it with my cat. That adorable bastard yeeted that thing straight across the room. Brb going window shopping.

I think he just doubts the "and everybody cheered, and then we sat our cat at the table and made it our newest party mamber"-part

@@entr3_nou5 yes, as a cat owner, i have seen plenty of times where she just gently bats at something instead of playing lacrosse with it.

@@janelantestaverde2018 i don't know why that's unbelievable either. it's not like 30 strangers cheering at a random thing that happened. it's like 5 friends cheering (probably a brief "yeah! haha!") at a cat doing something silly that is relevant to what they're doing. and making it the druid is really cute and also relevant and believable to certain D&D circles. i've had tables where a non-player's small helicopter drone interrupting play was made part of the action. Jacob is just being a grumpy killjoy on purpose.

yeah i thought that was a bad take. that story is completely believable, Jacob is just intentionally being an ass imo. since the meme was from reddit, i find it appropriate to say: r/nothingeverhappens

i find it iffy not because of what happens but the ways in which its explained with it being an outsider observing it, the saying last human player instead of their name or last player and just how stilted it sounds also im pretty sure i've seen it posted under a few different usernames so even if it did most of the people claiming the story didnt have it happen to them

Yeah, Cats like to roll things, which sometimes happen to be funny math rocks. But are you telling me you think it's believable for a cat to be presented with a d20, stare at it long enough for the husband to say that, and then the cat immediately batting the d20? So the cat had the d20 next to it, didn't interact with it until specifically after the husband said his little 'roll for X reason' and then hit it 'immediately' after? Is that believable?

@@ChromedDomes he probably started the sentence at the moment he was handing out the die, and cats can sometimes just sit there for an odd second before doing those things. The timing could have just been coincidentally on point.

@@Olav_Hansen I don't think that makes sense in any way. So the husband says "Sir, you have to roll the dice check to convince the other party members you are a human" in it's entirety in the time it took to put a dice in front of a cat. That aside, it says verbatim, 'My husband handed him a D20 and said', so he gave the cat the d20, and then began speaking. Also, if it was just really good timing, the person making the post would've said that, pretty clearly made up and the OP just hoped people wouldn't question it.

Honestly, I really liked that one XD Bards just get a bunch of random stuff they are proficient in XD

yeah, but it only showed proficiency with 3 musical instruments and acrobatics, so not exactly "college of lore graduate" material

I mean. Sure. But it’s only acrobatics, performance, and MAYBE athletics.

But it was ALL acrobatics

@@XPtoLevel3 they're referring to jack of all trades in p. sure.

I will never stop I am eternal

jk I appreciate it :)

@@XPtoLevel3 Well, Eternal. Soon you’re going to be dad. … That was a prep pun for your impending ascent to dadhood. Good luck.

@@XPtoLevel3 Take a break if needed, but I expect puns once you're a dad. You must pick up the puns.

@@savvypanda4974 We must demand dad jokes :p

I would rule that he gets blinded for his attacks, and than just rips off the eyepatch at the end of his turn.

@@gabrielhaydar2373 Yeah it's definitely creative enough that it should be rewarded

Yea. I would also rule that he is blinded until the start of his next turn. Giving everyone advantage until he just tears is off as a bonus action. I generally don't like making my human enemies dumb just because of players wanting them to be.

Pirates used eye patches to see in the dark when they went below deck. They would switch the patch and their sight would easily adjust to the lower light. Homie just has darkvision for a round.

@@doingitwelldotbiz That is one of the theories yes. Mythbusters tested it. But many also used it because they lost their eye and now it's ugly as sin.

I had a party stand right outside someone's door and plan out how they wanted to go in and kill everyone, then was surprised that the people inside were hostile and prepared for them to break through.

My cat has his own chair that he likes to sit in that is the same color as his fur

Oh no last human player don't speak with the cat cuz he can't speak commom while in wild shape

Not happening , it's what you get for playing a charisma based class. Least you avoid the implications of being immune to diseases while being charisma based like a Paladin.

@@clothar23 that's what multiclassing is for ;)

@@jackofblades4374 Ah yes multi class into something with immunity to toxins so you can have a Paladin who can whore and drink to their hearts content...You could start a church around that.

My bard is specifically NOT horny for this reason.

Really? You liked the "person talking over the square hole joke"-joke, the bard final exam joke, the cat rolling dice, the tenthousandth necromancer joke, the TF2 Armor Class joke, the freaking infinitely overdone bardXdragon meme? The eye patch and the mermaid and minotaur ones were good though.

@@janelantestaverde2018 yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes. Btw, you can never have too many necromancy joke.

Good for you I guess

So, when you say bard, I guess you mean rogue? Since "skilled enough to take a 10" hasn't been a thing for the past few editions except for 5e rogues?

@@dylanboczar999 yeah he probably mixed up taking a 10 and what jack of all trades do.

@@dylanboczar999 Trust me I have strong opinions about that, but if we're being honest is it really that strange to imagine some unofficial Bard College that lets you choose some skills to take 10s on? Jack of All Trades already doesn't work for the meme anyway because that dude is *clearly* proficient in all the stuff he's doing... or his Charisma score is 30.

@@Groovebot3k I mean, the main issue with the whole "meme" is that it's just a random video from the internet (of a legitimately skilled person) with "haha funny bard meme" captioned on. It's not really a dndmeme, it's just borrowed content.

Only Rogues can do that now.

The Gamers: Dorkness Rising is a great D&D movie. It does hit that new-character-played-by-same-actor note.

"Let their blood rAiN fRoM tHe Sky!" -A mage, probably

​@@undeadknight01 "I turned into a human vibrator"

@@canaryinacoalmine1759 No.

It's the lame idea that all RPGs and Class-based games must be a D&D reference somehow

@@canaryinacoalmine1759 Mage ≠ Magic-User. Also Advanced Dungeons & Dragons came out five years after actual D&D, nerd.

@@elf-lordsfriarofthemeadowl2039 Tbf it was in a d&d memes subreddit.

@@jashloseher578 Magic-user was renamed "mage" in 2nd edition. The name was brought back as an alternate version of the wizard subclass in 4th edition. The term "mage" was also used in reference to arcane casters in general after the introduction of the sorcerer class, and is also applied to users of certain types of magic within the wizard class in 5e (see War Magic subclass - "Followers of this tradition are known as war mages"). Thief is a subclass of rogue in 5th edition, and was the name used for that class before 2nd edition. So both have been actual D&D classes and are still remain relevant terms in 5e. Jacob is incorrect with his assessment on this one. What really got me though is that he didn't include "warrior" in his comment about the thief and mage not being D&D classes. Both of those are actually D&D classes but there has never been a "warrior" class. Warrior was the name for a group of classes in 2e which included the fighter, ranger and paladin. The class groups are not actual classes, just a label for a grouping, similar to saying "arcane casters". There was also a "Noble Warrior" kit for the fighter in 2e. Kits were sort of like 5e backgrounds. And there was a "warrior" class in 3e that was like a dumbed down version of the fighter class intended for NPC use only, similar to the warrior sidekick option in 5e. But never any actual classes called "warrior", yet he called out the other two for not being D&D classes, even though they are/were.

well, it wasn't a dndmeme was the issue. Someone just took that legitimately cool and skillful video and slapped a "haha dnd funny bard meme" caption on it.

*Jack of Some Trades

@@dylanboczar999 yeah the original vid deserved more attention

He only showed off gymnastics and musical ability. That's not Jack Of All Trades, that's Expertise.

​@@brookejon3695 Guess which skill-based class is one of the only two to get that feature. Sure, it's not a requirement that it works this way, but rogue acrobatics is generally for tip-toeing across a floor covered with pressure plates, while bard acrobatics is generally the gymnastics on display. If you want to make a rogue who's a circus performer, there will be the question why they aren't just a bard instead

Question........ If you kill a god....... doesn't that make you a god???

It's called LARPing my friend

-Isn't that just LARP? :D- What Zorae42 said ☝️

To us, it is known as LARPing.

Agreed

also acrobatics, which bards are usually proficient in especially if they were in the circus or something.

You mean magic-user.

The 1st greyhawk supplement featured a thief class and mage class first appears in 2e. yes they are old school DND classes.

@@SergioLeRoux mage first appears as a class in 2e.

My first character is going to be a blacksmith dwarf that got bored and decided to make some weapons and go to town

That’s why???? Damn. Can’t believe all those pirate cartoons lied to me

@@entr3_nou5 They didn't! Because the most cartoons make a joke of the switching eyepatch to laugh at. But that was really what some did. xD

True. But also the pirate's patched eye would be used to darkness and not light so when it is suddenly exposed to light he wouldn't be able to see out of it properly while it adjusts. It may even cause him great distress or pain if it is very bright.

@@brookejon3695 that’s a very good point

To be fair that's just athlete, acrobatic and performance. Which is far from jack of all trades. Also, jack of all trades isn't really noticeable until you have +4 skilled which gives +2 on all because let's be honest, does your DM ever count that +1 as important difference?

okay and how is that a joke?

@@soulcleave2386 Humor is subjective, The point is that that was the joke being made.

explaining the joke doesn't make it funny

@@ArmoredChocoboLPs I never said it was. I'm literally just pointing out what the joke was for people who didn't get it. That's all.