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Fun animal fact: Ever wondered why flamingos stand on one leg? To stay warm. Keeping one leg close to the body conserves heat.
Fun animal fact: Have you ever wondered why dogs eat? To not starve!!!
@@Localsoupeatermakes sense
I really like your profile picture! Pusheen is so cute
@@alicebthegachaweirdo8378thank you! It’s a… Cappusheeno 😀(ba-dum ching!)
They eat shrimp
DM: "You stand before an all-knowing god"
Bard: "I lie to him" Roll's a nat 20
DM: "... The god is amused by your attempted deception and goes along with the bit"
That's it. That's how handle it.
Do it for the bit!
I was going to say exactly this. There is several nat 20's I've had as a DM just be, it is literally impossible but the you still got the results you wanted (even if it wasn't the way you intended).
Yeah i think it's a delicate balance between "what will keep the world from breaking" and "what's the funniest/coolest possible outcome that could happen here?"
To be fair, sometimes fudging into the realm of silliness makes for great roleplay too!
Barbarian rolls to see how long he can breathe underwater and nat 20's? Well he now has super human lung capacity he didn't know about before. Now they have advantage on diving checks in the future and the barbarian can use that for saving party members in the future for cool points.
Or you can stick to The Official Rule, which is as follows: “A creature can hold its breath for a number of minutes equal to 1 + its Constitution modifier (minimum of 30 seconds)."
Easy choice imo
Id say that the god pretending stays in the dm's head, no need for the party to know. it also gives a great opportunity for later complications in the quest. A success can sometimes lead to a punishment :p
The first day my party played DnD, we were helping a couple farmers protect their flock of sheep from a pack of wolves. The bard decided to charm a wolf and turned him vegan. The DM described it roughly as "the wolf aggressively monched some grass before running back into the trees".
"Vegan Wolf" actually ended up being a super important character and high-ranking in the pack.
We later befriended him with some baked potatoes our halfing (second) bard, made and found out he was peskitarion (doesn't eat red meat), not pure vegan.
This was my first campaign too and I freaking loved it, so I'm sharing it with the internet now because it might make someone else laugh too
Sorry, but pescatarian means you eat fish and never any other meat. It has nothing to do with if meat is red or not. Not correcting to be mean or anything, just thought it was worth saying because it's a really common diet to have and you might meet people who follow it, who knows? Regardless if I can help avoid confusion, I'm glad.
@@beththedarkmage3359 right, I can never remember if it's just fish or not. Thanks!! /gen
well it certainly did!
I love hearing when one off jokes become story relevant lol
My first campaign I jfk’d a pope with 4 other players, to the horror of my DM and 1 other player. Multiple 20’s were rolled
The lore friendly bikini armor also works in the netherworld especially well because it covers the minimal amount of skin, letting you stay cool and protected.
Counterpoint: Convection
Oh wait, that doesn't exist in most fiction, let alone D&D
Yeah, but it would be worse in deserts, than something made out of thin cloth to protect from the sun.
@@OhCrapI_He youre welcome to imagine it does
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If anyone is wondering, survivorship bias is based on an actual study
plane designers wanted to reinforce fighter planes to make them safer but wanted to use as little material as possible to save on weight and materials. They looked at all planes that returned and made statistical graphs of areas commonly hit and were going to reinforce those areas.
Until someone pointed out that these are the areas the planes can be hit and survive, they need to reinforce the areas NOT marked in the graphs because the planes don't return if hit in those areas
Random intern: Why is there no armour on the fuel tank, engine, or crew compartment?
The man who came up with survivorship bias is Abraham ward a brilliant mathematician
There was a similar thing with metal helmets in Ww1. They noted that there were more people going through the field hospitals with head injuries and were thinking the soldiers were being more reckless with them on and getting hurt.
Not realising that they were being injured instead of *killed* because the helmets reduced the wound severity
@@DuplexWeevil337 Basicaly this.
Fun fact: the cockpit usually was the only part of a WW2 fighter aricraft that had some armour. Mostly a thin steel plate in the backrest of the pilot seat. Some times a second small plate in front above the engine and a bullet resistant windscreen.
I will never forget that time he told us about the alcoholic halfling he made that had a debuff when sober and a buff when drunk
Also Chad Wonderwall. Never forget Chad Wonderwall
Bender?
Rock lee?
That's what we call a functioning alcoholic.
Bassodiggle! Love that guy, I aspire to the level of system gaming he exudes lmao
The talking tree reminds me of Gaspode, a talking dog in the Discworld novels. Everyone knows that dogs can't talk, so when they hear him and no one else is there they assume they're hearing their own thoughts. Gaspode is aware of this, so he says things like, "What a nice doggie. I should give him a sausage."
Gaspode the Wonder Dog is best boy, even if he does smell like a dead gnoll in the hot sun
The druids being rescued by their companions is a great adventure, I did a Christmas one off and had my players do this, they not only had to save their druids as animals, but also save Santa and Christmas itself. What made it even better is that they had no idea they would be the companions so we had toads and squirrels and small birds so it was a hoot 😂
A HOOT?
For the D&D movie the part I was most pleasantly surprised by was that the single straight man lead and single straight woman lead raising a kid together as a found family had absolutely no romantic or sexual interest in each other. Perfectly normal friendship IRL but Hollywood acts like it's impossible.
Not to mention the man was a bard (even though he was once a cleric, shush) and they can hardly keep their stuff in their pants around their own sex
that detail also made me very happy
@@shadowlotus6189man had levels in npc performer at best 😂
My whole family loved that movie. I'm sure if you asked my kids the reasons the loved it are different than mine, and my wife was a fan of the fat Dragon as well.
Personally, as a long time gamer, I loved how they used the tools they had and how the party worked with each other.
It gave the feeling of happening in a real world instead of a world built around a story.
I was on a 12 hour long flight from Japan back to the US and I was sitting next to a pair of monks, (Super nice, didn't eat so they gave me their meals) and they watched the D&D movie. And I was thinking oh neat. and then maybe eight hours later they watched it again. Those were some cool monks.
The satanic panic was pretty nuts. Fortunately, we played in my dining room and when my parents flipped out I was like: You can hear us playing, we are Fighting the bad things, fighting the demons, ... etc. Sanity prevailed in my neighborhood, gaming lived on.
Read the Chick Tract "Dark Dungeons", it's insane.
Our parents were happy we were not outside doing drugs. But I can remember some parents saying "oh, you are playing again "The retarded Dwarf " ?(as if it was the name of the game)
@@robertabarnhart6240
Jack Chick
The Click
...hey.
When I built my current bard, I intentionally made her asexual to try something different. But because she doesn't want love for herself, she ships literally every adult around her. And sometimes it works out!
Is she also aromantic?
@MangoTamtam I would say yes, at least at this point in her story. Not much of her backstory has been revealed, so there's a lot I'm still figuring out. But yeah, she's pretty much aro/ace
@@BlueMerStudios hello, as an aro/ace person, i'd like to say:
think: what would a straight person do in this situation
remove all romance/sexual implications
think: what would a gay person do in this situation
remove all romance/sexual implications
think: what would a pan person do in this situation
remove all romance/sexual implications
that's how you write an aro/ace person (at least, similar to my flavour) - a normal person with the romance/sex surgically removed to have more space for spite and procastination
I know an ace like this tbh
but also I know one who finds the whole shebang icky and refuses to interact with it, and also another one who is just bewildered and confused. and then there's me; finds it entertaining in theory, could never apply any of it to an actual person, especially myself.
pretty sure all my dnd characters are gonna end up being ace too, just cause. so, my first character, he was a bard, who really liked the spell Sleep. get it? cause he 'Sleeps' (with) everyone? but also it's a real useful spell in some contexts. he also just in general might've had some undiagnosed sleep disorder because he'd just conk out all the time, and if you woke him up out of one of his naps he'd snap completely. one session that happened and he ended up melting a fellow PC's face off (he was fine, he was a warforged) because, not only did he wake him up, but then he refused to use an ounce of sense when dealing with a life-or-death situation.
he did have a bit of a bromance going with the murderhimbo tho, it mostly consisted of him sleeping on said murderhimbo's very broad shoulders.
I was thinking about an ace bard who just plays couple maker
*DnD Creature Idea: Wise Weapon Mimics*
Unlike most other specimens of their kind, this particular subset of Mimics has cottoned in on the fact the number of potential meals inside a dungeon at any given moment is a pittance compared to how many could be found outside it. So enlightened, these creatures never attack who picks them up unless the person in question tries to leave the dungeon without them, but whoever they'll be swung at as the weapons they make themselves to be won't be so lucky.
I'm gonna ask my DM if my next character can have a mimic sword.
I feel like the "chase down the previous campaign's party" idea could be made even better by having two active campaigns you're DMing, where the first one is the party being hunted and the second is the party chasing them. You meet each party on alternating weeks and whatever the hunted party does in their campaign is how you tell the story to the hunter party, until you get to a point where you want the two to clash, and you invite both parties to the same session to sort out the epic final battle between them.
That sounds like so much hard work but very worth it 🤩
I'm currently DMing something like this! Though instead of having a hunter party vs. hunted party, both parties are initially set in opposite parts of a country, both from opposing factions. I DM them twice a week, one session for each party. As of now, both parties are far from meeting yet--when they do though, I'm giving both parties the option to either make peace and work together on missions, or fight it the fuck out and get each others' asses xd
Genius...
My group kind of did this. It was 1 normal party and the evils were all controlled by one person.
It fell apart though when the good group got distracted and never even looked for the evils
My current campaign had the party (thru time shenanigans) instigate the plot hook that led to the events of a previous campaign, so that was cool
For those who don’t know the Fat Dragon™ lore, he is a red dragon called Themberchaud, also known as the Wyrmsmith of Gracklstugh. Essentially he works as a smith for a city in the underdark. And because his main job is essentially to be a furnace, he just kinda sits there, not needing to move. He’s literally so lazy that he defies dragon biology, as dragons aren’t ever able to look overweight.
I accept the name Themberchaud
But I think an acceptable name for him defying basic dragon physiology and being chubby deserves him a fan name: Fat Bastard XD
I love him so much 🥺
@@shadowlotus6189I always say “Thunderchad”
Themberchonk.
thanks for this
The moments in the D&D movie where I thought "they just rolled for that" were what really made it feel special to me. It's not like they showed anything on the nose, but just the way it was written and acted had all these tabletop moments that still never broke the fourth wall.
The illusion spell breaking down and the fat dragon were great, but personally, my favorite bit was the Paladin just walking in a straight line over the rock. I'm not entirely sure why I found that so funny, but I did.
I love how the fat dragon is an actual thing in dnd lore
Don’t forget the brain dogs ignoring the party
@@bruticus1496 she be dungeons on my dragons till i beyond (?)
I love how every time Click talks about playing dnd with his friends, there's always a part that is "and then everyone gets drunk"
Or "and I'm in the background playing tunes while everyone has an orgy"
Isn't that kinda like every D&D campaign works?
@@Komi83 three out of the four people I'm playing with just straight up dislike alcohol, so not quite, lmao
If you're in Scandinavia and not getting drunk there's something wrong with you.
@@LGBTQLegend we are actually swedish, and i can confirm there's something wrong with most of us
Alpacas are really good guard animals for other livestock. Imagine thinking you’ve outwitted someone only to be stomped to oblivion by epic floof.
Damn, how come Story of Seasons/Harvest Moon didn't use this info?
I’ve been told, donkey is best for guarding livestock… crazy but true
*paprika* flashbacks
@Super_Panda_BS donkeys also keep horses calm in a barn. No clue why, since they're usually kind of energetic.
@@Super_Panda_BS Donkeys hate predators on a level that our pitiful human capacity for hatred could never even approach, and they take that hate out of any predator's lifespan who makes the mistake of existing in their field of vision.
The "solve with violence" literally made me build an entire campaign structure that empowers the main enemies based on the level of aggression they received. You have no idea how many players this obliterates, even when they're told like, no these things feed on anger that is their power. No like every time you hit them they hit twice as hard. "OK so I get Berserker Rage Gene?" Uh-okay. "I attack with chain combo [starts rolling]" "Bro you realize enemies can dodge to break chains" [player keeps ignoring me while i'm like bro. stop rolling. Bro] dude dumps out 5 x 5 attacks and I'm just like. Ok. Well. He doesn't dodge at all. You did 27 in chip damage vs his def and AC. His counterattack activates and [rolls some dice] you take roughly 4,512 damage since you refused to listen to me or the plot. "WHAT" I mean. Bruh "Can I dodge?" A counterattack between your 25 declared attacks you wouldn't stop while he let you maul him in a death roll? No.
So, JoJo meets Undertale?
With a splash of Wobbuffet for flavor.
Never thought I'd hear the Emissary of Pain be called Wobbuffet but you're not wrong.@@DraconicDuelist
30:00 I had a DM that did this but for a whole nation. He basically had events happen in the world, but no direct quest that reached out to us. So we were left in this really in depth world carving out our own path. Ended up with my first character being whisked away to another dimension and became a demi-god dragon in service to the BBEG.
Our rogue once rolled a perception check, got a nat 1. She was told “you’re most likely standing somewhere in a town”
I would give them some dissociating existential crisis like "Suddenly you realize you're just one person among countles other living their own lives all around you, in this city similar to many others on this giant rock spinning around a huge fireball suspended in nothingness. You need a moment to recompose yoursellf."
@@vermilionrubin Roll for existential crisis debuff
@@vermilionrubin D...DM? did you play Disco Elysium before the session?
@@skidaddleskidoodle ?
was just speaking hypothetically
@@vermilionrubin was just making a joke
A friend was telling me about her group's D&D campaign this past July where she plays as a Bard. During one adventure, the party found a bunch of books; just for a laugh, the DM said that amongst the magic books were 2 volumes of Orc romance novels and that the third volume was missing. From that point on whenever the party found more books, Mary would chime in with "Are there any Orc bodice rippers?" In the end they did find volume 3 and Mary's character ended up making a bit extra gold because she had acquired reprinting rights.
Sounds like " TUSK LOVE "
Gosh this reminds me of my character and her vampire erotica. Though in that case the book was overstocked and pretty unpopular... she grabbed the entire series. It's not why she was in the bookstore but it was great for downtime.
So.. they literally went all across the kingdom to find everything single Argonian Maid book XD
@@shadowlotus6189"you can polish my spear"
My DM made us find SO MANY erotica books with the weirdest stuff while we played Wrath of the Righteous - a campaign that has you fight demons and you literally visit the succubus overlord's domain >_
Ive been blaming bikini armor on survival bias for years now.
I love that Click us still so happy about the duck dice that Potat got for him. It's super cute. 💜
The Click and dnd are a very chaotic combination
A chaotic good combination
True
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DnD makes dices roll.
Clicks humor makes us roll
as in chaotic good, neutral, or evil?
I very much enjoy how many of Clicks D&D stories end with “…but then we got too drunk to continue”
I DMed a campaign that consisted of me and my cousin as the players. Since it's no fun to have a party of 2 in DnD, I asked him if he wanted me to play as more than 1 character and he agreed it would be fun. He told me about his skeleton bard named Teddy Bones and I had just finished catching up on One Piece so I kinda turned Brook into a character for DnD. The entire first half of our campaign was them performing in a tavern together and by the end of it, I had the entire Straw Hat Crew in DnD form and we had ship combat too.
Click, please do more dnd memes, they work so well with your voice acting!! Plus I love hearing your crazy campaign schemes
Honestly, this is the closest to Click figuring out that he could put itty bitty, teeny tiny emotional support demons and Mangos in dice. I’ve been waiting for this😂
This. Click do this please
@Theclick
this needs to be done
Oh heck I'd buy those even though I have enough plushies. It takes an oil drum and you could still argue you don't have enough dice.
Omgs I want support demon dice
All jokes aside, that bikini armor is a great example of misinterpreted data
(The battle wounds are prevented by the robust midsection of their armor)
This happend IRL.
IN WW1, after the british army introduced their "fried egg" helmet, the numbers of recorded head injuries went through the roof and some guys wanted the helmet withdrawn from service again until some saner head explaied to them that all those head injuries would have been fatalities without the helmet and killed soldiers just didn't have the exact injuries documented, they were just listed as "killed".
In WW2, some bright spark looked at the damage sustained by aircraft returning from combat and advocated that those parts of the aircraft with many holes in it should be armoured or reinforced. Again, someone else had to explain to them the obvious: Those aircraft made it home with that damage, so those parts of the craft were fine. They had to armour those parts of the aricraft where returning planes didn't show any damage.
@@Bird_Dog00 "Survivorship bias"
The only way I can logic bikini armour is that it is heavily enchanted... or the warrior is a Barbarian and doesn't really wear much in the way of armour anyway, and she is wearing it for show anyway.
Exactly, the reason arms and legs were targeted is because the only way to get through plate armor is by targeting the joints between the plates.
The vital organs would have been the most well-protected areas of the body, for obvious reasons. If you leave your belly open and protect your arms, you're gonna die lmao.
@@TheMimiSard So. . .
The Picts were a tribe that, reportedly, fought naked. I mean, absolutely zero clothes on. They were however, covered in tattoos. They likely fought naked in order to specifically display those tattoos as a point of pride. Mechanically, this isn't really all that effective of a means of fighting. But it at least explains why someone might do something like that.
But let's look at it another way; is there, conceivably, a situation where someone might not necessarily want to wear 'bikini armor' in particular, but where wearing minimal armor might be preferable, and not just because you're walking around in a city not trying to draw attention to yourself? I can think of two potential circumstances in which one might want to wear minimal armor, and they're both related to the environment. First, if you're in a place that is extremely hot, there's a very real risk of suffering heat stroke due to the extra exertion and layering of something like full plate harness, because you're talking about a quilted arming layer, a layer of mail, and then plates over that. Imagine fighting in, say, a tropical jungle with 90+ degree Fahrenheit weather. At that point, I'm leaving the armored opponent behind, making him chase me, and within just a few minutes he's going to be gassed out and I will be doing fine, especially if he has been fighting all day. Better to wear fewer clothing items, and only armor certain parts of your body that won't trap so much heat, or cause as much exertion. At that point, I could see someone putting on thin vambraces and greaves, designed mainly to protect from slices and oblique-angle thrusts, but otherwise leaving their core unarmored. Throw in a point of cultural pride, or a cultural norm, to have some kind of visual display when you fight, like a tribal tattoo or something, and it's totally conceivable to see, in a fantastic setting, half-naked chicks on a battlefield. So long as you ignore the fact that putting women on the battlefield in the first place is a bad idea, and should only be done if you're basically out of options.
The other example, is on the open waters, or a river, or something like that. If you fall in wearing 50 lbs. of extra layers, you're not resurfacing. Sure, you _might_ be able to tear that shit off of yourself, if you're quick, focused, and lucky. But then you've abandoned an incredibly expensive suit of armor to the bottom of the lake, when you could have just worn other, lighter protection in the first place. If you think there are more-or-less even odds of you winding up in the water, you want to wear clothes that aren't going to make it too much harder for you to swim in if you suddenly found yourself in the drink. Huh. . . I wonder what a good outfit for women would be for that. . . maybe some kind of suit designed for swimming. What would we call this? Water-clothes? Lake-wraps? River-rags? Kidding aside, I could, as with the previous example, see a female combatant deliberately choosing to wear less clothes in that kind of situation, again something like thinner, lighter vambraces and greaves, while keeping the core mostly exposed, as well as eliminating anything that might be billowy or dense. Again, throw in some kind of Pict-like cultural practice, and such a thing would be entirely reasonable, or at least as reasonable as women on the battlefield gets.
Once we're in fantasy land though, there's quite a few things we can do; maybe there are spells woven into tattoos, or particular scarification patterns that, for whatever reason, only work on women (off the top of my head, I don't know, because the first woman made some kind of deal with ancient powers that was passed down matrilineally as part of the agreement, 'to my daughters, and my daughters' daughters, forever more,' or something like that), and those spells do things like stoke great terror in the eyes of any enemy that sees them while their bearer is engaged in an act of violence, or the tattoos themselves confer material protection against blows, great strength, etc. There's actually a lot of cool ideas to insert into that variable slot. Maybe instead of a tattoo or scar, it could be an auspicious birthmark, or even something as simple as unblemished skin in a group where natural genetic skin markings are common. Or maybe somebody was born with Nemean Lion-style skin, which literally can't be pierced or cut, in which case it makes the most sense to wear tight-fitting, breathable clothing.
The defective Magical items bit reminded me of a thing that my friends came up with long ago for Old World of Darkness Changeling: Chimerical Pockets, and Chimerical Soda.
How they worked is that, in the case of the pockets, you’d reach in, and then the Storyteller (DM) would flip a coin. Guess right, and you get what you were after. Guess wrong, and you get something completely random, from parts unknown. Everything from pens, to rubber ducks, to a local lord’s currently-being-worn-underwear were pulled out. It was great. xD;
Chimerical Soda was similar: open a can, and it immediately reseals itself (this is how you know you’ve got a Chimerical can, since there’s no visual difference). When it’s cracked open again, the liquid inside is completely random-the coin flip determines if it’s good or bad. Good example: maple syrup. Bad example: moose piss.
The moose piss has me rolling 😂
Excuse me, 4:10 I was brought up on the original goldilocks where she was impaled on top of a building spike at the end. Don't break into people's houses kids.
I read once about a guy who got a magic ring that deactivates magic, but only inside the ring (I think it was meant as a burglary item for deactivating magical locks or something) but decided to put it on the end of a flintlock pistol. He then bought 200 cannonballs and had them shrunken down to the size of musket balls. Then when he would shoot them out of the pistol, the ring would remove the shrinking spell, so it would then be firing a full sized cannonball. Handheld artillery.
That's clever - and kinda reminds me of how guns in Masseffect are suposed to work.
As a DM I would troll that guy hard - ofc.
"So, your shrunken cannonballs revert to normal size upon passing through the ring. They also get their mass back, but they still have the same kinetic energy as before when they were accellerated by your flintlock. Thus, they imediately lose all their velocity and drop to the ground at your feet. Harhar."
@@Bird_Dog00
Artificer: alright, so I jacked up the flintlock so that it it fires them at Mach 2, and the barrel uses time shenanigans so that it speeds up the bullet by-
DM: oh no
@@Aaa-vp6ug DM: "The recoil breaks your wrist the first time you fire it."
DM: "Oh I forgot: You can't take off your armour with just one hand and you realy need to go..."
I think I would be a horrible/wonderful DM...
@@Bird_Dog00 give it to the barbarian with jacked constitution, he could handle it
Trust me
Oh my, YES! Can you imagine a retirement home filled with people rolling dice, arguing over spell slots, and trying to one-up each other with their legendary gear? I absolutely love it! That'd be the retirement dream. No more boring bingo, just weekly raids against the Lich King or journeys to find mythical artifacts! The whole retirement home plays all cycling in and out as they want. Plus, think of the gossip, the drama! 'Did you hear? Ethel's bard tried to seduce Gerald's paladin last session. Scandalous!
Playing D&D would certainly keep their wits sharper in their old age than fucking *Bingo* ever could. Guh, what a stultifying boring "game".
Imagine it's game night at the retirement home. You and the OGs (or the Old Gang) are sitting around, the entire party about to throw down on the BBEG. Suddenly, a new voice can be heard ringing near battle. "I cast Illuminate". The room is now brightened and blinding everyone. And it turns out it's the nurses wanting in on your campaign.
This is what I want to do when I'm too old.
I want this
And then the rules lawyer is found beaten to death with his walking frame... I can see it now
And all of them arguing over which edition to play! 🤣
31:59 brief summary of this dialogue:
Valekros (dunno If I spelt it right): "hey girl, you stole my mug, so you mugged me?"
Girl: "no, but thanks for the idea. Now.." *mugs Valekros*😂
This hasn't made me want to worm back into the party that I never really fit into who low-key kicked me out but it HAS made me _yearn_ to worldbuild another high fantasy universe for a book I'll never write
i watched the D&D movie with friends online, and we were typing our responses. when the fat dragon appeared the chat was like "He so chunky!" "he so hungy!!" "what a good boy!" "so cute! look at how wiggly he is!!" "my favourite!!!" and the second anyone harmed him the chat was like "NOOO!!" "NO!" "WORST OF ALL BOYS!!!!" "WORST BOY!" "GET HIM!!! GET HIM FOR HARMING OUR BOY!"
_*GET HIM FOR HARMING OUR BOI !!*_:that sounds like it was alot of fun~^^ ❤
I was pounding my cinema arm rest when the Red Wizard lady literally *dodged* magic missile from point blank range
But the entire chubby dragon scene had me laughing to the very end
When it comes to bikini armor, all of the private areas should be visibly covered on the person wearing it though with a couple of extra visible details and then the rest of it is a translucent force field so the character wearing the armor is protected, but can look sexy at the same time. This is how it should be done
I mean there was a study saying that you react micro seconds slower when horny
McNostril did a comic on this very subject, which feeds into another comment Click made.
The character had enchanted cuffs that deflected weapon damage targeted anywhere otherwise unarmoured, but she realised that it made the armoured areas comparatively vulnerable and unpleasant places to be stabbed. Realising this she decides to go into battle without armour, since it allowed full enchanted coverage that way. "Homicidal pervert", McNostril called it.
To be fair it's really easy to get tired in full armor bc there is basically little to no airflow and well a shield does the job better than armor
CZcamsrvDhadoversity has a number of videos 'analyzing' boob armor... I'm not into DnD or gaming in general, but still quite fun videos...
That's kinda how it is in Symphogear, for example.
The Nehushtan Armor, for example, is quite revealing, but even the uncovered areas are protected.
Something small i had fun with so i want to share. In my first (and only so far) campaign, the party kept consistently getting terrible rolls on like everything, so we decided that, if you could convince the dm well enough, you could reroll. That led to lots of funny things happening, lots of pleading to reroll only to get another terrible roll
I also had my character carry around a bunch of ball bearings all the time, and I almost singlehandedly defeated an enemy by throwing those and using heat metal. I also as that character viciously mocked an npc by saying they clearly didn't own an air fryer, leading to them coming up to me at the end of the campaign to ask about it, and everyone just freaking lost it. Fun times
I have a story like that tree one
my player changed into a sunflower but the guards realized there wasn't one in here. He tried to convinced them he's a flower god and they should leave all their "unnatural materials" by him (all metal, gate keys included), rolled nat 20.
Unfortunately that would skip a lot of planned campaign, but I decided that a simple folk encountering a talking flower claiming to be a god would tell everyone in a village about it. So just a moment later there were villagers making an altar with the keys and other metal thing on it, but because someone robbed a few graves at the city (party's doing) they decided to put two guards next to the altar.
Had a blast with my party trying really hard to distract the guards while their new "god" was escaping, the next day whole village was mourning.
funny thing is someone gave a reason for bikini armor as limbs are mostly the same but the body is different across the various species
that and healing magic hurts like hell when it comes to fixing said limbs
I know who you refer too and hate how non-chalantly you do so
The Click is a true Bard; admits to having loaded dice but then immediately distracts from that because the weight is a cute little duck.
In all honesty, I would be two thing
1: distracted by duck because is cute
2: becoming more and more like Smeagle because I wants the precious duck dice
In seriousness, not all dice like that are loaded. Often the little details inside are made from the same material as the clear one surrounding it so it doesn’t change the weight distribution
Never roll half cocked, always roll fully loaded
My favorite side venture in D&D was opening a café to display our magical scroll that showed illusory moving and talking pictures.
People could ask to see specific scenes for a small free. We called that Paper View.
I love when ESD rises at 10:35 and it seems to naturally turn towards Click, amazing :)
Imagine being a girl and wearing bikini armor gives you +speed and +armor, truly a tactical superpower
First
Thank you Heisenberg. Very cool
Now wear bikini armour as a man
But you have to deal with the constant chafing, so I don't know if those stats make up for it.
*Is the armor enchanted or something? What about woman on woman swordfights? Does the armor stop working?*
Fun fact: An ancestor of the horse called the Eohippus actually did have toes. It's believed that they used these toes for digging in the dirt. They also were really small, like just a little over a foot tall.
I always wanted one as pet as child and was sad that they died out. My family had no money to send me to a horse riding course, so I thought I would have been amazing to have a weird mini version.
WHAT
Fun fact: foals are born with toeish things in their hoves resembling fingers, that is to protect the womb, they dry up and fall shortly after
@@jdsilber772ah yes, “faerie fingers,” so named because they look like a curse from the fae wild, imho.
Horses do actually have fingers and toes though...
The front hooves are the horse's middle fingers so... if you think about it... horses are always flipping you off :P
The back hooves are the horse's middle toes.
I had an idea for the 'lore accurate bikini armor'. Imagine the party enters the forge and is introduced to the bikini armor, where they then point out the flaws of the statistics the dwarf showed. After the dwarf realized his mistake, he gives the party the side quest of going out and retrieving the 100 bikini armors that he had already sold prior to the parties arrival. New tedious side quest lol
Seeing the live action versions of the original "Dungeons and Dragons" cast in the maze fight... Tears of nerd joy swept through me :)
As a DM, I quite enjoy having the not 20s being automatic success, the joy of the party feels is so fun and it's gotten us into the most iconic situations, in situations like the all-knowing god the DM just has to get creative and find a way for it to logically work My loophole would be "He likes you enough to pretend to believe you" that way it still has the same joyful effect without ruining the structure and balance of the campaign
Also I would like to remind all dungeon Masters that you don't have to let your party roll, if you let them rule, you are letting them have a chance at success
Agreed, taking the "they don't actually believe you but are impressed with your chutzpah & willing to play along to see where it goes" approach is a good compromise.
I think the best way to balance it is: if it's allowed for the players, it's allowed for the DM too, and also means player Nat 1s can be more dreadful than normal.
If you allow for higher highs, gotta allow for lower lows!
@@Linwhiteheart came here to say this. If a nat20 is not enough to succeed, then rolling is just a slider of failure. Just let them do the thing, and narrate the failure with no roll xD
Honestly the thing that keeps bringing me back to this channel (over the billion other meme-reading ones) is the occasional enthusiastic detours into real science/maths. That delighted "omg, that's real statistics, that's survival bias" made my scientist heart happy.
i love getting actual insight and learning something i would never otherwise know, plus i like his voice lol
6:03 I feel like 6.y.o DM was speaking from a lifetime of deep life experience, and the sage wisdom gained by life's betrayals back when they were younger and more idealistic. The adult has no idea.
Also having a 6 y.o DM sounds like a great idea particularly when your dice are broken and you need the randomness factor.
That goldilocks one reminded me of "The Demon Lord of Realestate" and that show made me think of monsters differently ever since. What if those traps that somehow still work after 600 years aren't actually originally set by the builders, but instead are the security system of the monsters living there who maybe spent a little extra to get the stronger ones because they are planning on having kids sometime soon.
"It isn't a Ring of Landing," reminds me of that gag very early in Morrowind, where a mage who created a "flying" spell falls to his demise in front of you. It was basically a spell that let him jump very high, but it wore off too fast to protect from fall damage. You still need to cast Slowfall if you want to land safely.
Ah, the scrolls of icarian flight. Never used them, always sold them, so some other poor sod could permanently learn a hard lesson while I made a profit, lol
Technically, jumping buffs also protected you from landing, the icarian flight was just a really short buff so to use one you needed to use another to land safely (if it was higher than where you jumped) 😋
I'm reminded of The Boots of Blinding Speed, boots that make you move very fast but also make you blind. There are of course, still ways to deal with the blindness.
@@acuddle I remember that now. The problem was that the scrolls were finite, and the jump lasted longer than the duration. Slowfall however was very cheap to cast and lasted much longer. In vanilla Morrowind, which lacked fast travel, I would often travel the continent by creating an insane jumping spell similar to Icarian Flight and just leap where I needed to go.
I was in a campaign as the familiar of a bat shaman. The shaman died, but I remained and gained sapience. Can’t remember the names of the skills but I could use magic without needing gestures and could communicate. Had bat shaman abilities I learned from my master. I was as small as a bat could be and one of our group had a harness I could hang from when I wasn’t flying or peeking over peoples shoulders. Was fun.
Aw, I bet you were a cute little bat❣🦇
4:55 on one hand, I am very happy that Sodor is on this map cause it’s got some interesting lore stuff, but on the other hand, a tiny bit of me died when I saw it because it looks absolutely nothing like the “real thing”.
Fun fact: if you play an Emerald Gem Dragonborn, you deal psychic damage with your breath weapon and have resistance to psychic damage.
If you play a Bear Totem Barbarian, you have resistance to all damage except for psychic.
If you play an Emerald Dragonborn, Bear Totem Barbarian, you have resistance to all damage at level 3.
Here's an idea: Click should take all these epic D&D ideas he discovers, make them into mini campaigns, DM them in an online game with a few lucky fans in his Discord server, and -with all the player's permission- stream the sessions.
4:18
In regards to holding a inherintly evil campain:
We tried, it's just that all the players we're to nice. We ended up adopting an orphan, buying a house and getting her into private school on a chess scolarship because she was so smart.
One of my D&D principles is Arthur C. Clarkes corollary on Robert Forwards Law (Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic). I use "Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology. I once used rock to mud to build walls of a castle (back to solid stone once the spell wore off) and used flasks of endless water to keep a cistern filled. People would find cantrips and spells that would have commercial appeal for labor saving.
What makes the "Person A Person B" post even funnier is that it comes from Monte Cook.
The dude who literally invented the D20 System. He wrote DnD 3rd edition, and is now a successful independent TTRPG author.
15:18 the "huge dnd party" thing you describe here is exactly how we made the world record happen in Provo back in April. there were 200 tables (thus 200 dms) and then the main dm on a stage in the middle of the mall, with runners going between tables and relaying info back to the head dm. 1227 people showed up and they had a character actor for the peace goddess (eldath) that we were fighting for. i was defending a gate xD
As someone who was there, it was incredible
@@tacticstonk4740 they're repeating it (though not trying to break the record this time) at the fanx con in salt lake 😃
That illusion spell scene from that D&D movie was absolutely priceless, Had to watch it a few times over before I could even think properly to focus on the rest of the film
It was just such a beautiful way to show what might be happening when a caster is rolling to maintain concentration XD
Brate -brate- brate- brate- BRAAAAYYYT
Useless fact : the bikini armor at 7:39 based on "the injuries of the warriors who came back after battle" was a real thing ! Except with planes. During WW2, british engineers examined the bombers who came back to base after a battle, and made a pattern of the "average damages" in order to reinforce with armor plates the parts that were the most damaged. This sounded great until someone pointed out the fact that these planes DID came back, meaning the ones who were hit anywhere else just crashed. So they reinforced the "untouched" parts of their aircrafts, and it was a great upgrade.
In conclusion : drop your bikini armor and buy a cuirass. Or just wear both, it's called a plate armor. Or just wear none, it's called being naked (+1 charisma).
19:00 There is an RPG like that: "The witch is Dead", where you play as a group of witch familiars; the goal is to retrieve the eyes of the witch's killer (iirc within a week?) in order to resurrect her.
I remember playing a crow in a campaign, we went to a town to recruit people who were very religious so our chaotic neutral cleric (he was forced to be a cleric in lore) lies about being a part of their religion, and since they worship crows I flew down and barely kept him from killing the whole party with how bad he was at charisma rolls
My parents have played DND for a collective 40 years. They've DMed at conventions. I asked my parents and they both said a nat 20 can be either "get away with the bs" or "within logical confines" depending on the context, but they play mostly serious DND, and so it's usually within logical confines. For example, the resurrection on the Wyrm scales wouldn't resurrect the Wyrm, because it's not a full body, but would restore to scales to the state they would be in if attached to a live creature.
So that Cleric would've done a *MASSIVE* favour for the fighter wearing the armour... if he didn't mind looking like a weird sort of Dragonborn/other race halfbreed. LOL
except he used wish to cast resurrection which makes it true resurrection which doesn't need the whole body (heck using wish can restore someone that was burned into ash and soul drained)
@@archonfett which would then resurrect the Wyrm fully, and... Wouldn't that just turn the BBEG into Godrick from Elden Ring, then??
@@shadowlotus6189 i dunno you wake up, looking at the jerk who killed you and made your hide into armor and now he's basically naked what would you do?
Sandbox campaign, within a limited region, with rough quests and story adapted to players' actions? It's exactly how I'm DMing. In my last campaign, after two years, I ended up often with an hundred unique NPCs, a bunch of little story lines about them in which players involve themselves, and 50-60 scenarios made. The team even managed a guild by recruting these NPCs, and a brothel to pay everyone. Adapting led to huge dramas, epic consequences impacting players' choices (sometimes funny, sometimes emotional). When the campaign ended, the final boss battle last a few hours with "cinemlatic" and used all the players made with the NPCs as allies, some of them growing with them (a few from childhood to adulthood). My players were very happy of this way of playing (As DM it's hellish to manage everything, but was so fun.)
19:45 So your character was bassically the Scotsman in that one siren episode of Samurau Jack
SPOILERS AHEAD: My favourite part of the D&D movie was when they all got caught in the city. When the Sofina has Edgin wrapped up in those tentacles and Forge is gloating about winning and killing them all, then Sofina interrupts and says that they should put the party into the games. That whole thing felt like the players messed up so hard that the DM had to bs a way to give them another chance!
Also makes sense from another point; The Thayans have a certain twisted sense of honour & keep their word, eg. letting Forge get his loot & go because hey, he kept his part of the arrangement so "honouring" the party by (at least pretending) to give them a sporting chance in the (rigged) games would be at least feasible for a bard to swing it on a persuasion roll. Add into that that Sofina was perfectly confident in everything going according to plan so having the party become victims of the curse would end up with some far more powerful undead servants for a couple of high level necromancer liches to control than just the cannon-fodder commoners turning into cannon-fodder zombies, much better than just killing them which would be outright wasteful. It'd also be far less merciful, which Forge was presumably well aware of which is why he was advocating killing them outright.
I loved that part! On my first watch, I thought it meant that she respected their skills and wanted to give them a chance to go down fighting (I didn't think they'd actually be m allowed to win). On my second watching, I figured she wanted more capable undead servants and Forge wanted to spare them that nasty fate.
I personally liked the end credit scene where the dead guy is still sitting there waiting for some to ask him a question so he can go back to being dead.
My D&D party killed a hydra in 3 rounds last night, using a combination of Wall of Force to keep it trapped in its room, Sickening Radiance, and a Wall of Fire as an inside out ring. Our GM started referring to it as our "de-hydra-tor combo".
1: uhm.. remind me to never fight your party
2: I wanna slap your dm XD
Wall of Fire was shaped like a ring, you say?
Wouldn't that make the combo the de-hydra-torus?
i'm sorry
@@blunderbus2695 I will javelin of lightning you, you pun-tacular bastard
Did...
Did you just *microwave oven* a Hydra?
@@JoshSweetvale Pretty much. Originally I was gunning for a horizontal wall, if it was allowed, because it can be placed on any solid surface, but it was ruled that because the dimensions listed "height", it had to be vertical. So we got microwave rather than a grill, but yeah.
You've inspired me to do a David Xanatos character. To attack a boss, I have to do an accuracy check, if I get a 20 it's a perfect hit and I win, but if I get a 1 I miss and just hit the floor... but I carefully arranged things ahead of time so that I get a boost whenever I hit the floor.
21:23 Wow, Click really rockin up in this house telling us his Bard had a Rock'n'Rollian Party Boat. lol
7:49 I recently heard about how a bunch of engineers were told to design an armored battle plane. Some engineers saw that most of the existing planes had bulletholes on their wings, but very few in the center, so they proposed armoring the wings the most. However, one engineer told them to armor the center instead - because those that were shot there were the ones that didn't return.
I love to see dnd content with Click, it’s mixing awesome with _deliciously chaotic_
My favorite alignment: Chaotic Delicious
DM = Dungeon master
“You have one guy on stage who’s like the master DM…” lol I love it
2:35 That couldn't have been more perfect.
Clearly, the proper Centaur slur for a two-legged person is "wobbly."
Also, on the 3 hour walk and 5 minute battle: The ability to zoom time in and out is one of the best tools in my kit as a DM.
Hoofless
I'd almost use "Wobbly" as term of endearment for anything bipedal. But it still works as an insult if given in the right tone of spit & bile. LOL Ooh, how about "Softfoot" or "Pussyfoot" for humans?
The illusion spell wearing off was absolutely PERFECT, but my absolute favor part (Spoiler warning) when Dorik pretty much did the whole Hulk smash thing with Sofina, it was beautiful, definitely a "How do you wanna do this?" moment in a game
4:49 I love the visual of the Haradrim actually being Moomins.
6:51 I loved the part with the uh mind devourers? The little brains. The paladin said that you’d have to be smart for them to notice you, and uh… yeah 😂
Finally, a good reason for bikini armor
Besides it just being fun for some of us to enjoy dressing up or feeling wearing less can show someone's confidence in fighting. Walking into a place and just going " I'm not covering any of my vitals, come at me," feels pretty awesome. Or one is just appreciating the artstyle of pulp fantasy/adventure like Conan, John Carter or Red Sonya. It makes me happy to have a logical reason though to throw at haters, though!
The ideal D&D movie should take place partly inside the game world, and partly at the table with the players rules lawyering and arguing about ordering pizza, sort of how Princess Bride was partly inside the book and partly outside the book which was being read by the old man to his grandson, with interruptions.
And all the NPCs have the same voice. From the dainty ladies and the griff sailors. Maybe if you want they can have a bad accent, for flavor.
Ah, so The Gamers: Dorkness Rising?
29:55 I always dm like that now. I used to prepare a story and quests and all that, but my players are not serious at all and I got really frustrated. Now I just make a setting and some rough ideas and I improvise, the players come up with weird shit and we all have fun.
I love the “Smite the bag of holding with the BG’s head in it” tactics I had a Paladin silver half dragon character and in one encounter we were rolling poorly and just getting our asses handed to us. Barely survived, but the BBEG, who was spying on the battle with scrying, teleported in and proceeded to monologue, absolutely sure of his coming victory. Our Druid, down to a few low level spells and our sorcerer even less were gonna throw in the towel (we had been offered servitude for a hundred years instead of death) but I asked the Druid if she still had create water memorized. We were in a desert and had several horses to feed and water so she kept it memorized. I told her, “let’s make an arctic fishbowl out of this guys head” she delayed to my initiative and used create water to make a globe of water around his head while I hit it with my frost breath. Almost instant death as per the rules of suffocation. Turns out he was NOT the BBEG but his right hand man, but after witnessing the fate of his number two through the afore mentioned scrying, he noped the F out and we never saw him again. Job done, village saved, and legends were born😅
The idea you had with the Mimics is just another perfect addition to realistic modern fantasy
The people who did the D&D movie were in a short lived TV show called Freaks & Geeks, which had high school students playing D&D together. The actors were taught D&D & fell in love with it. There's so much attention to detail, with some "rule of cool" thrown in because they have played D&D & were fans for such a long time.
17:15 Bag of holding hands
27:14 If your ancient artifact:
• Is painful to the touch
• Seems to emit an infinite amount of heat
• Contains immense power beyond mortal compression
That’s not your artifact, that’s *an orphaned source*
One time ran an evil campaign at the same time as a good campaign with two different DMs, with the same players in both The finally was good vs evil. It was great, same players in both campaigns, and it wasn't until two sessions before the final battle that the party realized that they would be fighting their own characters.
I made a parody game setting once where coconut oil gave bonus armor - gender neutral, so it worked equally well for everyone regardless of private parts. Of course, in that setting Atlantis sank because someone forgot to turn off the tap on their bathtub... Edit to clarify: The setting had coconut oil work _instead_ of heavy armor. Not along with. The inspiration for that bit was those silly classic fantasy art posters by Julie Bell and Boris Vallejo.
This is an actual rule in GURPS called Bulletproof Nudity: "PCs with Attractive [+1] or better appearance can get a bonus to active defenses simply by undressing! Any outfit that bares legs, chest, or midriff is +1. Just a loincloth or skimpy swimwear is +2. Topless females get an extra +1. Total nudity gives no further bonus to defense, but adds +1 to Move and +2 water Move."
25:50 sooo RAW: crits *only* apply to attacks and death saves. an *optional* rule is for them to also apply to skillchecks and normal saves. what everyone seems to forget though, is that the players roll what and when the DM tells them, not what/when they want to. so the omniscient god being lied to just wouldn't involve any dice at all. dice are literally the tiebreaker for when the DM isn't sure whether the player should succeed.
12:50 The guy Monte Cook is a former game designer for Wizards of the Coast (Back in the 3.5 days) and then went off on his own to help make Numberera and has since done other independant game designing work. He was asking this question around the time of the OGL fiasco where Wizards tried to monetize on the d20 system by making it require licensing if you made a certain amount from a game based on the OGL system.
Basically, he's saying WotC does not ever deserve your trust that it will not try it again if it gets the chance.
My favorite part was when the group watched the paladin walk away in a perfectly straight line for two minutes straight
I enjoyed the moments when the GM was clearly present in the scene, this moment chief among them.
with the creation of the tiny emotional support demon and mango, I think we can properly assume that the demon and mango reproduce via a bulb growing on them and then falling off, unlike them splitting in half like we originally thought.
18:45 That would be a great idea for a campaign indeed: one of my Druids actually has a Monty Python-type rabbit for a pet, so that should definitely be good for a laugh.
23:22 And during the fight scenes (most notably the final one) they even did the 6 seconds per turn thing. I was literally counting to 6 in my head to measure turns during the fights
In a similar vein to the shared bag of holding: something created by Knights of the Dinner Table. Every bag of holding led to the same dimension. The items placed in the bags sat in an area of a featureless plane, and someone could walk to other bag areas to pick up stuff. This led to building fortresses in the bags.
My favourite part was also when the illusion failed. It seemed like he was saying fuck over and again by how it was cut. Loved it.
25:00 I always will subscribe to the belief that a nat 20 does not mean that you succeed automatically. But it does mean that your character does the thing really well, but that doesn't mean that it can get past natural barriers. So if you roll a nat 20 while lying to an all-knowing god, the god doesn't believe them but might compliment the character on their ability to lie. Maybe even having the god go easier on them or respect the party a bit (or enrage them depending on how the god feels about being lied to lol).
I remember once we played D&D with a 20 person group how we did it is we broke into groups of 5 and essentially played a small military campaign under the head GM whos player character was a general. The GM had a helper for each group of 5 who also played as a "squad leader" player character. The general and squad leaders essentially acted as support while the groups of 5 did the heavy lifting.
My character died by getting hit with a volley of 5 people casting fireball because the squad leader of that group failed a perception check and called in the wrong artillery coordinates basically.
It was a homebrew campaign about 10 WW1 soldiers who basically got isekai'd and teaming up with 10 fantasy adventurers. Had a bunch of time travel fuckery as well.