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“A character without a backstory is like a house without walls!”
“You’re describing a gazebo.”
Yeah, and Gazebo doesn't has kitchen or toilet installment you need, So that also make sense in the same context.
"I-is that a type of monster?" -The Players Probably
A-- Ga-...Zebo? Is that some sort of gazelle?
Great Door Monster reference.
@@gabrielrussell5531 Use the doors Gabriel! >:O
I've been noticing something lately
Twa hasn't made a love triangle joke in a long time
Guys I'm scared
He's been replaced
Pray for him boys
The love triangle is just biding its time, waiting to strike when it's needed the least...
It's fine, I'm sure we just missed it- - -
(checking)
AAAAHHHHHHHH NO NO NO NOOOO THE LOVE TRIANGLE!!!
It's okay. He has ascended beyond the need for Love Triangles. He has evolved to Love Squares.
"adolescent mutated shinobi kappa" is the best way to describe tmnt ever
weeb points
@@marocat4749 teenage mutant ninja turtles is... a weeb thing? or is it because the way the reference was made that has it count--
NGL, I want to play that game now.
@@meh4315 nah Kappa is a Japanese folklore creature that resembles a turtle and got a little popular thanks to one piece a anime with a "Kappa" character
@@meh4315 I thought the kappa thing, who knows kappa?! Ok that was , mayb yomeone liking weird myth would know too.
Your sarcastic rant about _that guy_ had so much underlying bitter contempt. Can’t help but feel like TWA dealt with _that guy_ on many an occasion.
_That Guy_ is a bane in many 'geeky' group activities, because there is always _That Guy_ . Once they get into a group, unfortunately, the only way to get rid of _That Guy_ is to dissolve it and (hopefully) form up again without them, which is what makes them so frustrating.
@@leadpaintchips9461 I CAST
BAZINGA!!!
Its... not fun to deal with That Guys. They can be dealt with easily by punting them, they don't take any criticism or challenge to improve themselves or holding themselves to even reasonable standards.
Most of them could really be good people if they have even a minor amount of self awareness, but many don't and general kill any goodwill most people have.
Fool! TWA is _that guy_
@Dr. Bright Believe me, there is always "That Guy" even as a geek myself, there is always a minority like That Guy
There are two and only two types of behavior when watching TWA:
1. Laughing and/or cringing at the writers he allusively mocks
2. Shifting uncomfortably when something he says sounds all too familiar
Or 3
Write things down
I physically wretched when TWA described the 'new DM'.
@@SporianSummit The Bad ending.
@@chaoticgoodcreations947 when you willingly enter the Darkest timeline
And now we’re breathing, and now we’re moving on
"Lactating and pregnant with octuplets, even the male characters"
That is oddly specific
Let a man vent
Reddit did it.
Has this happened to you TWA. Blink twice if you need help
@@brandongouveia8198 JP sus
And-a then they all-a kissed-a Kevin and got-a SUPER PREGNANT!
Remember, choose kobold, choose ranger, choose beast master, ride a giant weasel.
Username checks out
No choose half orc and barb
Or play something other than 5e because there are better systems for basically everything
@@silvertrimhill9844 A little late for that
@@an8strengthkobold360 err which comment?
Finally! A CZcamsr who understands that my Edgy Brooding Murderous Chaotic Evil Character is completely justified!
Well met, MURDER HOBO.
;)
@@mountainghoti1671 murder hobo is too strong of a word but how about "Super villian with no plan"
666 likes lol
@@veneficia7868So a chaotic evil character is just the avarage American? Checks out.
Based on all the mentions of “that guy” JP once had a REALLY bad experience playing D&D and this is how he’s venting
I feel like JP is really good at distilling the really bad out of his and other's experiences... and then making it hilarious with irony and sarcasm.
@@laststand6420 I really liked the totally not based in reality jokes about publishing scams.
It's a stereotype.
The trilby, the junk food, the unmanaged facial hair and equally unmanaged weight...
The behavior is similar to symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder, with the implication that That Guy sought the company of fringe internet groups because it's easier than real people.
EDIT: As an autistic man myself, I want to emphasize that it's not entirely these people's fault, and that perhaps someone should have reached them and directed them to treatment earlier.
If you play *any* RPG, especially during high school/college transition age, you'll realise how easy it is to find THAT GUY on either side of the GM screen.
"that guy" is a common meme in the rpg community, lol
"You won't get away with this... Ugh, I feel like I need to wash out my mouth after saying that." - Dark lord
I love his utter contempt for speaking typically heroic lines.
Next episode he should free a hostage from a tank of laser sharks and then vomit on the spot due to the extreme existential crisis he is going through.
@@frankwest5388 "Redeeming characters" incoming?
I have a feeling these 3 are about to undergo a redemption arc.
@@frankwest5388 Noice
5:03 "Adolescent shinobi kappa that was exposed to mutagens" "JP, nobody will get that joke."
I did. It was a TMNT ref.
Cap:
"I got that. I understood that reference."
thanks for the translation
Have a cookie
I just got it
Teenaged, mutant, ninja Kappa. Funny something robot, ninja copout. Kappa's gonna kill you, DOG GONNA!
Honestly I'm more invested in the ad sponsorship plot then I am in several of the TV shows I've watched recently.
It’s like an oddly amusing car crash, isn’t it?
So true for me as well, this episode's ad segment was particularly good (with the ironic dark lord reflection time)
The generic evil characters getting a bit of development.
@ How dare you call someone named "the dark lord" generic. Why that is one of the most original names ever.
Blessed be the generic gods of TWA
praise love triangle
AGernic trope
Maintain the sacred timeline
when you're so early the love triangle conspiracy hasnt already taken over the world
"Maybe I won't feel the need to escape reality today!"
Famous last words
"Maybe the real escapist fantasy is a livable minimum wage" is one of my favorite quotes from a game.
@@an8strengthkobold360 that would wreck the economy. In addition, minimum wage isn’t supposed to be live-able, it’s supposed to be sufficiently meager so that the worker in question feels motivated to achieve better things and be promoted.
@@billysinge8977 but minimum wage was a livable wage when it was created.
And as in the example all I mean by livable is enough to afford basic food and housing not live some luxurious life.
@@billysinge8977 keep in mind my research is Canada focused (since that is were I live, on a related note the history of the minimum wage in my province is really weird).
@@billysinge8977 minimum wage should increase with inflation, otherwise, what’s the point of a minimum wage made to help people? The problem come when it’s increased at once, not just because it increase
I remember being the DM with a group that was overall great, but that would JUST NEVER STOP. It was a lot of fun, but they would go through my entire plot for the session and ask for more. Like six hours on and they would be asking what happens next.
I must have ripped off every single book, movie and musical to pad up those extra hours. One of those times I was so tired I thoughtlessly created a city where everyone was cursed to only speak in song and move through dancing, and where the cook in their favourite tavern was a drooling mutant rat (for the record, that was, like, a decade before Ratatouille, lol). Fool me. The players loved that one so much they made Longroad into their base of operations and the Giant Rat Inn got an entire arc, ending up the poshest tavern in the world. While still being tended by a poisonous drooling giant rat.
Have to say I made my bed, so I had to roll on it.
In retrospect, it was exhausting but all in good fun.
I miss DMing!
I once created a furry kingdom just to pad my campaign and the heroes decided to retire there lol. All hail King Fuzzy-Wuzzy!
I ran a Sci-fi game for my players, and the improv sections always seemed to resonate with them more. Its interesting how that turns out
I like the idea of an inn with a giant rat running it.
That'd be a great twist on the old "clean the rats out of the basement" trope. Instead, the rat proprietor wants the PCs to shoo a bunch of drunken revelers out of the basement!
The Marvels would then shamelessly steal Longroad many years later
The sheer salt and pain behind every word here makes me so glad I play Keeper for chill people who actually like each other enough to be an ensemble instead of a cast of alpha protagonists.
I personally think a group of alpha protagonists could work. Just look at the avengers (though I'm not sure if this counts).
@@shaunjimbangan1166 I guess I mean 'alpha protagonist' as in somebody who views themself, and only themself, as the main character in a party. No spotlight sharing.
@@Mordrevious oh, I see
@@Mordrevious the worst I see is pair or small group of players actively work together to shape the campaign in their image, leaving the remaining players feel left out.
This compounded by the fact that when in game issues do arise, the DM finds himself incapable of mediation. Causing players to ditch a game that is already short on players.
"I mean yeah I don't have a special effects budget that could feed the entire third world"
holy shit I nearly spit out my coffee
"stop your character from doing stupid, blatantly suicidal things."
Let do this!
*Leeeeerrrrrooooy Jenkins!!!!!!!*
"They also have this annoying habit of letting the player characters hang themselves by essentially allowing the natural consequences of their actions play out." Sounds like what I do all the time.
Basically true freedom doesn't mean free from consequences, but apparently alot of players think freedom of choice means absolutely everything they do will always work out.
*"A character is free to succeed but also free to fail, and that's liberating!"*
@@navilluscire2567 Yep. And inaction is in and of itself an action. I remember in one game I ran the party ignored this one plot hook that I had planned that'd lead to a main sort of adventure for ages. The world around them changed partially due to it, and by the time they actually wanted to do anything with it they were shocked to learn that they weren't the only group of adventurers and someone else did it.
I have fond memories of that game, and I consider it the time the party were more akin to Merchants and their guards plus one priest rather than proper adventurers. They even had a proper fancy wagon.
Suppose I kinda rambled a bit, but I felt like throwing it out there.
@@Piratejoe44 XD Good move XD
@@Piratejoe44 I read a story where a party ignored a plot hook about lich with undead army and instead decide to overthow local goverment.
They succeeded. The party overhrown goverment and lich created an unstoppable army of undead.
Honestly, whenever I get tired of murder hobos, just create a level 1 paladin npc of a god powerful enough to keep resurrecting them until the murder hobo flees or tries to negotiate.
That’s basically how you win in dark souls
This is too peaceful. Have players roll every time they murder an innocent NPC with an ever decreasing DC, and spawn a Revenant after them. Have them spawn far away so, by the time the consequences of their actions catch up with them, they'll have to face hordes upon hordes of immortal monsters after them that each require a Wish to be eliminated.
that sounds pretty amusing
>after killing paladin for the 5th or so time they yell at the same time
P: "Stop killing me!"
MH: "Stop coming back!"
I tend to include high level npcs among quest givers for setting and story reasons. Makes it really funny when someone tries to murder them in their sleep.
Oh no! That friendly half orc tavern keeper the murderhobo just stabbed was a level 20 paladin who retired to set up an inn! Good luck with his massive pool of health and the plus two longsword he keeps under his bar in case of "trouble". Oh, and he's a good kind man who donates large sums to the local orphanage, so his god let him keep all his smites after he retired...
Your mary Sue character sure has room for a lot of halves ... another piece of evidence for how perfectly perfect she is!
if your character isn't perfect enough to break all of math and physics simply through specialness, they aren't perfect enough for this campaign
5 halfes is 2.5 more character
so she is a better character
So I'm playing a half-celestial, half-dragon, half-demon, half-vampire, half elf named Totality. (oddly enough, when 3rd edition first came out, there was no rule to prevent this. It was just assumed you wouldn't apply more than one Template to a character.)
I know how to defeat that guy:
Actively avoid the self-insert and get to the BBEG first, saying that you've "seen this before" and "know what they're doing", chuckling at plot twists like you saw it from a mile away. Watch a lot of anime before session 1, and use all the worst tropes. THAT, is how you take that guy down a peg for once in their god-forsaken life
Adolescent Mutated Shinobi Kappa
The AMSK
Who live in the caves eating Tacos
With their teacher Sensei Fragment and friend August Mc Neil
They battle their arch enemy "A Grinder"
I can hear a catchy cartoon song coming from this...
Grinder XD
This sounds better than what actually exists.
@@drakebloodknight7981 Tha adolescent mutated shinobi kappa were actually created a parody of the genre. So it would be ust another version , i liked the street sharks as knock off.
Also one is the secret love child of Sensei a Fragment, August McNiel and the Grinder.
But don’t tell anyone. That’s a spoilter
"...just leave to find someone will run a game where everyone isn't lactating and pregnant with octouplets"
How oddly specific
Have my sacrifice to the algorithm, sir. I hope your content survives the content drought.
I don't have anything interesting to say, so here's another sacrifice to the algorithm
I am feeding the almighty algorithm so that our Lord may live
May our lord the messia of the mighty love triangle survive the algorithm
Same
Praise be to the CZcams algorithm for it's power is absolute
Adolescent Mutated Shinobi Kappa
Adolescent Mutated Shinobi Kappa
Adolescent Mutated Shinobi Kappa!
Brooding over Nothing
J.P Power
Yep. There's the song!
Look at Vaderoth's comment for more fun.
I love you
The "too deep to understand" like reminds me of a character I read about in a fanfic who had a ridiculously angsty backstory and had a super inconsistent personality. When someone called the author out on how they were an annoying anti hero mary sue they said that their personality was so complicated even they didn't understand it. Pretty sure as the author you should know your character's personality?
it depends. I think tolkien once said that he doesn't know what happens in certain place of his fictional universe he was asked about. It may seem dumb, it may be dumb, but instead of saying that you didn't write something, one may state one doesn't know what's there, making the fiction less in one's control
@@zawsrdtygbhjimokpl6998 I kinda wanna read the fanfic know just to see what that’s about.
Authors sometimes don't realize what the characters personality is because they needed to "play as" that character without really thinking
What I was trying to say is they were trying to use that to deflect the fact that their character was a psychopathic mass murderer who we were supposed to sympathize with. I'm sure there are plenty of places where it's a good thing but this was in an angry rant directed at some pretty valid criticism they had gotten.
“My goals are beyond your understanding.”
Also everyone remember, revenants are a thing and players offing murder hobos is in character for good aligned players.
Thanks, 8 strength kobold!
Bait the murderhobo into killing an NPC cleric and have them cursed by the gods! See if their character lives long enough to collect the whole pantheon! xD
@@Rakaziel God of War: D&D Edition
Your name really bugs me. Kobolds have a minus 2 to strength, so points were actively put into strength to make an 8 strength kobold...
@@willowbillow2078 the stat negatives for orcs and kobolds have officially been removed by WotC
A video on super powers has SO much potential
The super power of friendship
@@batfang25animations39 I mean, as shown in Nathan for you, the power of friendship can make people not want to get a rebate on gas, so its pretty powerful.
Just make your hero like Superman
He has kinda already done a video on superpowers, it's just in chunks spread across the last few years of videos like a literary easter egg hunt. If you want it NOW you could always just watch the rest of his library. I'm sure he'll make a dedicated episode on how to expertly -literally- execute superpowers in a literary setting eventually.
@@felipecosta-kv2fx And if you need more than one hero, just copy the rest of the Justice League.
TWA, in your honor, in one of the DnD games, I convinced our DM to let us have a love triangle like no other. See, two of our party are birds. Another party member is a paladin fully encased in very shiny, very pretty armor, who is completely oblivious to the two bird people who are fighting over said shiny paladin.
Remind me to update this in a while, i might have some more info
Edit: Nope, shut it down, closed for buisness. Sorry party people, the group dissolved before we even started the first session. Nobody could make enough time together sadly, timezones and all that. Just as disapointed as you guys might be. Don't expect any future updates. maybe we'll see our majestic bird bards again. Not for a long time though, if ever. Peace!
Edit 2: hey, it's back!
This sounds amazing
Interesting!
So to be clear, are the fighting over the paladin themself or their armor, where the person inside is just incidental?
@@renkalan8587 The shiny armor. Paladin is undead, so rarely ever takes off armor. They might not know something's under there, to them it's just walking talking shiny
@@Winglessdargon That's genuinely the funniest thing I've heard in weeks lmao thanks for making today better
Honestly, I would pay to watch a DnD podcast where both the DM and every single player is some form of bad player and nobody wants to do what the others want to do, but they cant just stop playing together for whatever reason.
That seems like it could be funny story.
Once, long ago, a group of people sat down together to play a friendly game. But greed, selfishness, outright malice, and simple incompatible preferences led to disputes, which led to rivalry, which led to enmity. Unwilling to entrust any single member of their group with special authority, they eventually decided that the role of Dungeon Master must be a rotating position, thereby greatly magnifying drama and retribution in all of their various forms. Refusing to grant a hated nemesis the satisfaction of driving them away, aggravating their loathed compatriots is now the only part of the game that these maladjusted malcontents still enjoy. And none of them is willing to settle for any less than getting everyone else to finally quit in frustration.
In the end, there can be only one.
If you're into Warhammer 40000, there is a CZcams series called "If the Emperor Had a Text to Speech Device". There is one special where the cast is playing Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, and it is exactly this. Every bad player and DM trope is in there, with one or two good players. It is wonderful.
Now I want to see this
“Adolescent mutated shinobi kappa”
I had to pause, then I got it
Better
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
I had to pause to look up the word "shinobi", and THEN I got it.
The one thing I've learned from these videos on DnD so far is that Eldritch horrors have nothing on the forbidden evil race of Those Guys.
I am still waiting for that Symbolism Video.
I WILL NEVER GIVE UP. NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS.
I WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN
I WILL NEVER RUN AROUND AND DESERT YOU
NEVER GONNA MAKE YOU CRY, NEVER GONNA SAY GOODBYE
NEVER GONNA TELL A LIE, AND HURT YOU
Boy do I have a treat for you.
@@yeetmahhotpockett1723 I have seen it. It's beautiful
When he said “no adorable children to keep hostage” I remembered the kids my players kidnapped lol
Honestly, I'm surprised "The Cheater" wasn't among the DM archetypes.
It's really hard to label a DM as a cheater when they are the one running the game.
A DM should have the ability to create house rules. (Then again, know the rules before you break them. ) and I'm not opposed to a DM fudging dice rolls or stat blocks if an encounter proved to be too easy or too difficult. (But don't play favorites.)
@@erikschaal4124 You didn't hear enough horror stories then...
Isnt rule 0 "whatever the dm says, goes". So they cant cheat per definition
You mean that guy?
Well, when the DMt does it, that means that it is not cheating
Oh, I was expecting a designer's guide to writing the player's handbook.
New here?
@@an8strengthkobold360 No, I meant there's the GM, the Player, and Wizards of the Coast. Wizards needs more help then players do when it comes to writing.
Similarly, I expected his Propaganda episode from last November (interesting timing) to be about, well, actual propaganda, instead of "How NOT to argue on the Internet".
What exactly do you mean by designer's guide?
Yeah same would be pretty cool if he did one.
I remember I was once in a game where one PC would randomly turn into a demon whenever it was convenient and they needed attention and at one point they almost attacked the rest of us. They rage quit when people disagreed with an idea they had.
I've never heard of a Kitsune being in a game and them not being the center of a RPG Horror Story
I had 2 Kitusnes in my games over the years, both times it went fine (it is one of the official races in Pathfinder though)
One of my players is a Kitsune.
I'd imagine that's a combination of a couple factors:
1. you're less likely to hear about the time a game went fairly well, since it isn't massively worth sharing
2. they're an uncommon race, and usually require supplements or homebrew to actually be playable, which makes stories with them less common
3. as a race largely inspired by Japanese mythology and a central creature in Naruto lore they attract a lot of weebs
4. as a race with animal traits who usually come with bonuses to charisma, and thus attractiveness, they attract a lot of furries
5. since they normally gain bonuses to charisma and illusion or mind control abilities, they're well built for numerous edgy or annoying classes (paladins, warlocks, bards, rogues, etc)
I should clarify, I don't believe that liking anime or being part of the furry community inherently makes you a bad person or something. It's more that there are people who base major parts of their identity on liking anime or being a furry, and those types of people are very rarely fun to be around, and this race attracts both of them.
Thank you for coming to my TED (Tabletop's Extreme Douchebags) Talk.
One of my fellow players is a kitsune. She can’t read, is dumb as a brick, and has somehow not caused more damage than a warhead.
She’s my favorite character of the party.
If it’s part of the setting the DM allows, it can go well/it’s actually a developed character instead of “look at me go”
otherwise, CHECKS OUT, THOSE ARE RPG HORROR STORY RECIPES IF IT IS ANYTHING BUT THSOE 2 THINGS
Your unwavering mastery over the English language really helps land your deeply unapologetic sarcastic quips. Love you man.
As a non native English speaker, I have to constantly use a dictionary, but it's worth it and very educative.
@@Jose04537 English sucks
Being a sandbox DM it is hilarious to watch problem players trying to do something stupid realize that I’m not going to intervene as they get slaughtered by the living consequences of their actions.
You can't defeat a old school, bc he will use your actions and just turn you into a villain for the party to destroy
Yes, he is the most dastardly of all DMs because he will force you to cooperate and manipulate you into playing along with the group *gasp of horror*
"And her eyes change colour
and her hair changes colour too"
*T H I S*
I mean that is a legit feature in cyberpunk 2020, you can get implants that allow you change your hair, eye, and skin colour (kind of like a weak alter self spell really but kind of useless overall unless you have time to change your clothes). You can also get tattoos that change colour and can glow in the dark, which is even more useless and pointless. sure it might light up a crawl space a bit, but you can get low light vision, night vision, infra red vision, x-ray vision, echo location implants so why the fuck would need glow in the dark tattoos? Most useless feature ever.
RGB hair
@@voidstrider801 For aesthetics. I mean taking the game as a real life sort of thing, glow in the dark, color changing tats would be a hot commodity.
In 5e, there is literally a cleric cantrip that allows this. That can be cast an infinite number of times per day.
@@voidstrider801 Don't you mean Best feature ever?! I think you buy guns that change color as well. For a great night out clubbing....
How to play a bard:
[blank page with only one sentence in it]
*F*ck everything*
Dear everyone, this is the easiest sh*t to monkey's paw, do it occasionally to mix things up.
In my experience playing D&D it's actually the sorcerers you have to look out for when it comes to that
Laughs in Druid
@@hydromancer4916it's how sorcerers reproduce, some bard f*cks a magic creature which creates a sorcerer who continues the cycle.
As the founding father of the Bard class in my session I will totally not take this to wonderful piece of advice _wink_
I made an edgy brooding murderer chaotic evil character for a campaign once. But he actually cared about the main objective and it turned into a redemption arc. It was awesome!
Sopranos is a DnD campaign......I'd bet money on this 🤣
*tfw storyteller first timer dm*
They're literally rubbing their hands and smirking at each other already, this is going to be fun.
I salute your brave and inevitable sacrifice!
This is also my situation. Only three sessions in and two of them have already involved PvP situations that were near deadly because some of my players kept trying to kill innocent/harmless NPCs.
@@zakur9622 have a talk with all of your table, do not be afraid to offer a choice of “last chance or get banned now” players are replaceable as hell, go to dnd youtubers’ discords, most will have “player looking for group” channels. If this doesn’t work, send a party of adventurers their way, with PC levels and stronger than the party, because it was hired by the local ruler to eliminate this dangerous group of highly competent criminals. Continue to respond to murderhoboing with this.
All of my potential players are the definition of lolsorandumb murder hobos. 😑
Dnd youtubers’ discords, guys. A good deal of them have “players looking for group” channels, go there, don’t tolerate bad players, replace them.
PC: do interviews. I didn’t as a new guy, don’t repeat my mistake.
Dyed in the wool sandbox gamer here. Yeah, I've had "just do nothing" people. Usually it's not their fault though, it's rather common for people to rely on their GM to outright TELL people what they are doing. Sometimes it's good to have a specific plot hook to get them in the region and have it resolved or become irrelevant after a lot of other interesting things come about. Then they are wondering at one point "weren't we supposed to be tracking a white dragon?". Have a little "intro plot" to the big open sandbox.
*sees a new video in my feed* Roll for excitement!
*rolls, lands on 1*
*looks around room, flicks D20 so it lands on 20*
_YES!_
You're alive?
Damn you really are everywhere
You're everywhere.
If I played d&d, my character would probably be an alcoholic homeless nihlistic depressed dwarf who does nothing except get drunk and be useless. Just like me!
At least grab a grenade launcher and a long sword
Well at least he’s good at mining!
With the right build, getting drunk can be quite useful perhaps, so that's a thing.
Wow, that must suck, I'm really sorry :(
Don't know what else to say except that if you want to vent more I'll listen. (I've definitely done my fair share of venting in YT comments...)
If you are joking then haha, but if you are serious I recommend talking to a therapist (assuming you can afford it). It might benefit your psychological and emotional health.
I play as an intergalactic space dragon who hangs in orbit for no particular reason in this medieval political intrigue campaign.
So, you're a Rayquaza? (Gets master ball on standby)
You know the funny thing is that my brain instantly started figuring out how that could work. Basically it amounts to every kingdom in the world is trying to figure out what the space dragon wants so they can have it's overwhelming power on their side, like a loose WMD. None of them assume anything the dragon says should be taken at face value, ascribing deeply subtle messaging to it all. Naturally the dragon is likely being upfront, but it's so alien it keeps doing odd things that feed the conspiracy theories about it's true motives. Picture Sauron, Gandalf and Mumm-Ra all trying to puzzle out what the dragon actually wants, while it's just up there eating popcorn as they entertain it.
@@Sorain1
That
Sounds
AMAZING
You forgot the guy playing the character that is absolutely worthless and all aspects just to see how long they can keep it going. Like the Bard that can't play a musical instrument and instead just plays by ear
Why do I feel like, watching a game filled with That Guys would be amazing
Just make sure you aren’t playing or DMing yourself.
Another idea: Create a character that you're willing to let into That Guy's harem, and then have them realistically compete with the other members of the harem for political clout.
Probably for the same reason humans like watching wrestling, boxing, etc.: "FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!"
A very amusing car crash.
Something about "FighterMonkWizardRogueBarbarianBard" has a great flow, had to replay that part several times
These post credit scenes could be a whole story on their own
They... are
I want a supercut of them, I honestly do.
They've grown into my favorite part of these videos. The villains acting like heroes and being disgusted by it is hilarious!
I'll skip every advert time on videos on every channel, except this one. I swear it's so entertaining that I can't bring myslef to skip it.
So the villains in jail either die evil, or live long enough to see themselves become heroes?
My old DM was the very definition of "Old School" with a bit of sandbox mixed in, but the best possible version of those. Amazing table, and the dungeon crawl / puzzles was a ton of fun.
And those who live recklessly, do not live for long
Nice reference to the Munchkin Card Game. Can you do an episode on furry/anthro stories? Because the definitely have their own tropes.
(Also, I’m talking about stuff like Zootopia or Beastars, not something you’d find on certain imageboards and art websites.)
Thanks for clarifying or I would've thought that he was gonna lost his channel
The word Racism comes to mind. God forbid it be about anything else.
Though, I wonder how he can without getting the Yellow dollar sign of doom slapped on the episode, or getting cancelled for it.
I mean, it is not like you wouldn't also find Zootopia on certain imageboards and art websites
I don't know of many tropes outside of "racism metaphor"
It feels like aeons since last TWA has made a love triangle joke.
The bit with "that guy" had me in tears by the end holy shit
The good way, I mean. I was laughing not crying.
I used my characters edgy backstory to justify the kill plans for killing the other player, just in case they betray me
Interesting. So far all I have done with that is size up the party then go back to whatever character bit I have to play with
I tend not to rely on kill plans, as not only the players will be suspicious, but their characters will be just as min/maxed as my own.
And instead rely on a level of backstabbing, party politics, and non party politics that only a veteran paranoia player can truly appreciate.
@@erikschaal4124 not a bad idea
Imagine a D&D campaign with ALL OF THESE CHARACTER ARCHETYPES... but with a DM that knows every single trope and can twist it against them for endless laughs.
7:13
So how much you wanna bet JP ran into a Fetishist DM in real life, due to how specific that line is
5:07 "JP, no one is going to get that joke."
Come on man, knowing about Sasuke is like mid-tier dorkery at best
Naruto? Really?
Crap! You tricked me into responding.
Okay, who gave Mary Sue a Scroll of Tarrasque Summoning?!?!
Everyone knows Mary Sue is an evil goddess bent on making the world bow down to her. If she can't have her way she'll destroy the world and remake it in her image.
You know the "dark souls of D&D" sounds fun, and if the entire party agreed beforehand, I see no problem with a campaign where the main draw is difficult and intricate combat encounters where you're going to be challenged to use everything at your disposal or perish.
Now I just need to find a DM to run it because if I tried to run it, none of my normal group would survive.
For a moment there I thought we were getting a video about actually writing an RPG corebook and got unreasonably excited.
"Endless well of trollish intent" is one of the greatest phrases ever uttered.
Weirdly Enough, I now want to play TRPGs even more
Another soul soon to be corrupted by the ttrpg curse...
Hey J.P, you should cover alternate timelines and time travel in your next couple vids!
Edit; This is also a great time to make another villian to battle over the sponsorship.
An evil Mary Sue who praises herself for being perfect and able to bend reality would a great villain to add.
The Dark Lord has an existential crisis, and I love it!
I though that would be about how to write a player's handbook. Of course, this works too.
"That Guy uses terms and descriptions that are so unnecessary that even the most self-indulgent Isekai writer would find excessive."
Me:Daaaaaaaaaaaaamn!
Last time I was this early, your character was still a relevant meme.
Damn, I feel bad for the story telling DM...
Also, villains joining the good guys? That's gonna be interesting
I got this notification as I was writing the player's handbook for my own system.
I got it as I was writing my first one shot campaign
@@ethanchristopher6709 Good luck! I love writing one shots.
YESSS I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT STARTING MY OWN TOO! It’s amazing how he brings us all together
@@floskywalker6220 I say go for it. It's really given me an appreciation for how much work just goes into designing an tabletop system, and it's actually really fun to have so many possibilities for how you want to roll with things, pun intended.
Do a video on tragic backstories!!!
"You betrayed us for money!"
"I'm a rogue night elf! Don't you people read character descriptions??"
Years ago I tried DnD with a few friends of mine, and looking back I definitely was just trying to derail the whole thing with the way I played and I feel bad. Oh the perils of reflection.
The best derailing is the one that's mostly unintentional. Even the most old school of DMs can't do nothing about that
blessed be the sponsers for giving us such a gift
"I am the Whizzard. Dare you enter my magical realm?"
Today i've discovered a goddamn good channel :)
Welcome aboard, comrade
Yes, you did 👍
Welcome to the club.
Somehow I've gotten to the point where I really care about the plot of the after-video sponsorship skits...
"Treasure-Obsessed Murder Hobo" is now my favorite band name.
I'd listen to that band.
I came back to this video after researching Japanese mythology for a project, and finally understood the adolescent mutated shinobi kappa joke. That was good.
Liking before I even watch the video because I know if its TWA, it's good
This is facts
“Treasure obsessed murder hobo” is how I will describe all my Skyrim builds from now on.
Step 0: the DM that can’t find a group to play with....so me
I can't find a group to play with neither....
maybe get a discord channel and help ppl making chars. ^^
As a person who has never played DnD this was still genuinely enjoyable
never been this early before, and have never clicked on a new upload faster.
God damn it, i just happen to have the character with the longest backstory in my group, and his eyes can change color.
Tfw this comes up right when i was about to start the session with my group
My first DM sometimes looked like a pinata, but that was only a thin facade over his killer nature...which was itself just a thin disguise over his true nature as an oldschool DM.
10:54-12:10
That is a dead-on perfect description of Chris Chan and how he writes his Sonichu comic series.
This video was made right after I decided to be a DM for a summer one-shot and now I'm scared
Thank the sponsorship gods! Can't wait to see what today's episode is?
3:14 *not only does the Mary Sue™ have a carefully crafted novel length back story , but also luxurious and shimmering waist length tresses that quietly whispers "natural blond and better than you" to all that gaze
upon it*...*hair that simply radiates beauty and glitters like diamonds with even the slightest of movement
or head turn regardless of the lack of a visible light source or naturally occurring breeze*...*not to mention the sudden alteration in the space time continuum where any given moment is prolonged for what seems like minutes as an orchestral soundtrack reverberates across the campaign play field or present hazard or lull in the adventure*
the BEST character ever in d&d is lawful genius. you see INJUSTICE? you charge up that road faster than the DM can say roll initiative and fight those orcs until they are all dead or there's a TPK
5:06 I swear this is the first time if heard someone pronounce kappa like that