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lately me and my friends who play online started using real dice over the vttrpg site ones cause sometimes those dice felt out to get us (one player rolled 3 nat ones in a row and as an example and we just said no reroll) and since we trust each other its worked well. no ones taken advantage of this at all

7:00 no, the fist feat says "fight WITH anything you get your hands on." Somehow you skipped over that word.

I read rules 18 and 19 consecutively, and that was the second point i stopped and just- hate this so much

Roleplaying persuasion checks and intimidation, I want people to describe what they're doing though instead of just acting it out. Like "Can I roll a persuasion check to get through?" I would say, sure, but what do you say? If they do a really good job describing what they want to do, I'll even give them advantage. "I'm going to indimidate him." Ok, well how do you do that? "What do you mean? I intimidate him?" "No, like I intimidate him."

Yeah, I don’t see any retribution here. The character got stabbed in the chest. That’s it the gig is up. Maybe saying it flat out was a bit premature but that just seems like basic bad DMing. It sounds more like he was just over excited for the big reveal.

What a cool outro

Re: Antimagic, I don't like antimagic but I do like things that prohibit teleportation magic, or maybe a forcefield that prevents magic from penetrating like the hogwarts thing that they make near the end.

I like your videos and also I like your use of funny minecraft sound effects :>

This video was way too meta in a good way

Id love for the description to say "Like beast master, except it doesn't suck."

Love this. My number one gripe though, gosh, I hate when people base a character off something that already exists, meaning it can't really change off of the story that has already been told and they just end up being a fan of their character and want to do "cool things" that the character did in other content instead of coming up with something of their own.

I don’t know why, but for some reason every group I’ve played in always thought that Call Lightning (and other spells like it) was a bonus action to activate on your turn. Once we found out it was an action, we decided to keep it as the BA just to let the players appreciate that spell and feel more powerful

I love that I can see the camera shaking as he's laughing, like at 6:36

I'm currently playing a human Paladin called Bacalarga (Misspelled long cow in Spanish) that lived in a cave so long he only knows stones. He only eats stones and he stones enemies to death. He prays to a stone called St. Petra and recently learnt guns are machines that throw stones really fast. Its honestly the most fun ive had with a character ever.

I'm currently playing a human Paladin called Bacalarga (Misspelled long cow in Spanish) that lived in a cave so long he only knows stones. He only eats stones and he stones enemies to death. He prays to a stone called St. Petra and recently learnt guns are machines that throw stones really fast. Its honestly the most fun ive had with a character ever.

The most powerful dnd "monster" you can make as a DM is an entire squad of rival player characters at same level of the party, working against them either directly as the combined BBEG, or being manipulated or working for said BBEG. Actually just roll up X amount of character sheets and play the normal rules rolling initiative etc. Properly equip them with magic items, spells, feats, and class abilities.

i wanna play this so gd bad

Xp’s sister knows his humor way too well

I find it funny that a reasonably intelligent creature can catch on to what you're trying to do with the rope trick. Then all they have to do is beat you to the extra dimensional space at the top, climb inside and pull the rope up.

The real power is forcing your dm to make a bunch of rulings on the stuff you make that isnt already an itemin one of the books so you can exploit his choice of words. You cant exploit rules that arent defined. In my experience powerbuilds arent that fun. Its like when a cat lunges for a laser dot on the floor, and you turn it off right as it does so, when it lifts its paw it looks around intently and excitedly but nothing is there it only finds disappointment.

"I get my Reddit stories the way God intended [...] with Shayne Topp" I too enjoy watching the Smosh Council judge AITA

Next time I get a streak of bad rolls, I will ask the DM to roll to fail to do a check. And since with my bad rolls I failed to fail, I succeed. :D

Intra-party conflict is a part of VtM for sure. Not even necessarily like, antagonistically. Easy surface level example: there's chances for your character to kinda just go berserk and it is typically in the best interest of everyone else to quickly reign that in and sometimes violence really is the best and most direct answer to that kind of problem. Even on top of that the game is structured so that typically there will be some crossed wires as to party motivation. Usually the idea isn't so much that these conflicts of interest lead to straight up murdering other PCs in the middle of the game, but it can be a very effective ending for a whole chronicle as long as it's not completely and totally out of left field. ( That's a campaign, for people who primarily speak wargamer ).

insofar as not picking race and class upon death, my DM gives us the option to make a new one or play as an NPC he has. Usually, we opt for the NPC because we want to dive into the game again as soon as possible.

Some of these stories are idiotic whiners complaining they dont know or like the rules. Seriously. LOL. If the GM is running the rules as written, I dont think that is a rational reason to leave a game unless he is going back on somethine else he said. And if he changed the rules ahead of time, and everyone knew and agreed to it, than that seems like a bitch move to whine about it later...sure you can reassess, but no wrong was committed...only if something is changed mid way without some form of discussion is a problem.

This DM is Billy Bob Thorton's character from "Tombstone."

"Spellcasting in melee provokes attacks of opportunity", this is controversial? Why?

IMHO, this DM's party sounds awful.

I would disagree with the statement that all creatures must be killable. Just because a creature is unkillable, doesn't mean it can't be subverted. Think about what Mojang did with the warden in Minecraft, it's not supposed to be killed, it's supposed to be subverted and dodged.

Basically, Sans dodges all attacks, can control your soul box gravity and only deals 1 damage but deals poison damage (called karma)

probably the worst dm xD my god, i was furious just as reading thoses rules

7:30 It does say on the spell casting page on the PHB that you can't cast two leveled spells on the same turn, action surge gives you an extra action not a turn. You can't cast a second spell, make a full attack with one of your actions or cast a cantrip though, which is the main way to play fighter-wizard multiclass anyway, or just play wizard Bladesinger with haste same thing with action surge really except you get 10 rounds of extra actions, if concertation holds.

You can always use true strike before the start of combat

"There are two inns you can stay at. One looks cheap, the other looks expensive." "Can we- "No, pick one." "Which is- "No, pick one." "Okay, we'll go to the cheap one." "It's a mimic."

tbh we've always played with wizards only having spells from their class. Back when we first started that was just how we thought the game worked. But it's something everyone is aware of from the start. It's fun when done right

Its funny that if this DM wasn't such an uptight asshole a few of these rules could have been cool mechanics if you were just more chill about them. I like the idea of items breaking, getting stolen, or disenchanted, etc just not after EVERY dungeon. If you have a table that wants difficult fights asking them to bring an extra character sheet and expect that their character MIGHT die is perfectly valid. If your players miss hints at a side quest (Don't force them to go down that route just save it for a later encounter or if they need a bit of help then help them,) if you verbally attack an NPC there should at least be the CHANCE of consequence down the line, long travel should have some consequences or encounters, being somewhat upset about people being late or missing the session especially when session times are really hard to nail down for your group(This could include some punishment as long as its talked about and agreed upon beforehand), "under the influence" rules for specific types of parties, some meta game rules(not instant character damage), some instant death traps okay as long as they are previously discussed and the appropriate dice rolls are made. After this comment glazing some of these rules let me clarify, things like leaving if players disagree, forcing the acting out of social checks, no take backs, "don't roll dice and not explain beforehand" (I think if a DM can surprise you you can surprise them tbh), forcing exhaustion and its frequency, not letting characters find their next objective, punishing lateness or absentness without prior conversation or a bit of understanding, banning by the book spells you simply don't like(??!?!?!?), always rolling the dice in plain view, and just the general assholery and unwillingness to listen to you players is no good and probably unacceptable(Especially the last point). Some of these rules aren't bad necessarily, but all of them together makes this a ridiculously un-fun experience. This is a game its meant to be fun. Basically, talk and listen to your players and figure out what type of game they want to play. Be understanding during sessions and try to make a good experience for your players. Just take care of your players OOC. This is a make believe game after all :)

"we can be funny and call it therapy" that one was actually really funny

4:00-4:15 ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS

if a door has abjuration magic, it is locked. If it has evocation magic, it will explode. simple

I had the same experience running this adventure. In the dungeon underneath the bathhouse that necromancer in D13 with misty step and fireball just destroyed the party. I mean balance IS a thing. (Obvious sarcasm is obvious) I felt soo bad.

Why did guidance hurt you? 😂

i have only ever used an instant death trap once in a game, The Party Started at level 12 going through the Final Dungeon of the Campaign, upon slaying the monsters, exploring the building and collecting the treasure, the whole party was hit by a magical blast, Killing them all instantly, then telling them to Level their characters Down to 4 between sessions. Next session starts and the party awakens a month later now with Revenant added to their Races with the BBEG as their Adversary

Can I just say that that lack of role-play rule especially bothers me? Especially having played and semi public spaces it can be hard for people to sort of overcome their shyness or anxiety or honestly internalized cringe. You need to be very supportive in trying to get people out of that shell because if they're criticized they'll go right back in you know. Or if they don't know what to say and give them prompts and let that further help your own improv. Or change up the tasks slightly. If guy rolls in that 20 charisma tell him to give you his fucking worst pickup line.

Once again, i expected to watch 5 minutes of a guy making a fake exaggerated character of someone who made a joke character so they can complain abiut this tyoe of person, but instead i was pleasantly surprised to see that it was actually a well made, interesting and fun skit, very cool👍

Most DMs are dying to give them the content they made. This guy doesn't even help if they are trying to eat out of his hand. WTF?!?!

I played a dm for a year or so. Never have I said to my players what to do, or what I wanted them to do. 208 hour and I had like 2 time where player's got grumpy, one of my player didn't like to be silence on his cleric and other time was the group had dividend opinion on a battles. One side wanted to fight the bbeg and a other side felt like there was some metagaming as I didn't took a side a player who find himself in the presence of the bbeg and had the memory wipe as he let him go. While the player dsaid they enjoyed the game, I will improve it by talking more to the player before session instead of just leaving clue.

9:46 i get that Jacob likes material components and i respect his opinion on it. As far as me? *FUCK* material components. The *only* spell I rule my players to use a component for is reviving simply bc resurrecting someone *should* be a difficult task. Other than that, im not gonna burden my players with needing to keep up with every little feather, twig, or gem so they can cast cloud of daggers 😂

I don't understand why but I keep watching this video

Sounds like a DM tired of players who just want to hang out and chill, whilst the DM has a very specific epic story to tell... neither side enjoying and need to find better match to their expectations. Not sure if that DM ever will thought ... maturity seems a little low for being able to drive folk home.

This is like an extension of 2010s DeviantArt. So very many children w/ too much internet access and too many hours of pop culture consumed...