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This is such a well thought video. BG3 made me realize I might be too suggestible in video games. I was on the tutorial beach and found the portal where you meet Gale and my character said “that rune looks unstable” and I immediately walked past saying nope I’m not fucking with that. I do think I’m the minority of course but they utilize everything you said so frequently and it’s so obvious now that you’ve pointed it out. Great video

See this is why you choose monsters/enemies with summoning abilities that they selectively use if they get clowned too hard. Half health before their turn? Ooh hey look a giant demon shows up.

"Wait, what's the monsters THAC0 again?"

How about I just do the Underdark?

Exited to Run this with my freinds :3

"thog makes like a face and walks over and punches you in the arm" "yOu hAvE tO bEaT mY aC" Oh my god why is this so common. It's so annoying and cringey.

Run this using the lore from the "Old World Blues" mod for Hearts Of Iron IV

I’m actually playing a Kalashtar bard in our Fantasy High-style campaign. We did a scene where it was right after a battle, we got arrested and I was like “I know we’re going to go into a long rest after the plot rescues us from the consequences of our actions but I’m going to do Song of Rest because, narratively, it seems like the perfect time.” We didnt any any healing but it contributed nicely to the scene. :)

"I move forward" "You kicked the floor, the guards see you"

4chan would love this guy.

Definitely conflating diegetic obstacles a little too hard. If I actually took this as DMing advice my games would come to a standstill, my players need to fail forward.

Fatal rpg review when?

“I may not have the firepower, but I do have the mass. Your on your own, noble, Sir cumstance out.”

Hey man, I recently found your channel and love the content! I have never played DnD but you are making me want to try. I love your authenticity and the amount of effort you put into your skits and longer form videos. If you do happen across this comment, just know it's perfectly ok to vent and actually refreshing to see someone do it in a healthy way. Keep up the great work!

I like to use illusionary script except I take only the downsides to it in exchange for casting it passively and it doesn’t take up any spell slots My reasoning: my character simply has really shit handwriting

You can go straight to minthara and lead her to grove just to betray her and grove act like your friends all along.

Not strictly homebrew, because the conditions under which Inspiration is given out are explicitly left up to the GM, but: To reward simply _using_ Inspiration, using Inspiration and then not needing it is grounds for gaining another Inspiration. So, if you use Inspiration (gaining advantage) but then both d20s pass the check, you gain Inspiration, because we just saw that you would've passed even if you'd had _disadvantage._ If you have disadvantage and pop Inspiration to nullify it, roll a second d20 after the normal roll (like a confirmation roll in other games) -- if it also succeeds, you gain Inspiration, because the one you spent didn't affect the result. Also, every player starts with a spent Inspiration, and they can recharge it by giving it to someone who doesn't currently have a charged Inspiration. It adds a discrete, well-bounded system for letting players say "hey, that was cool, you should get Inspiration for that", which gets them involved in promoting the kinds of play they want to see. (It also creates a sort of Inspiration stock market, where spending Inspiration to do cool stuff prompts other players to give you more Inspiration, which means you build up spent Inspiration that you can give to others! Then you gotta encourage heroic acts in other players because you're now holding all the Inspiration and there's no more that can be given to you!) Also, OPENING A DOOR IS NOT AN ACTION! Every creature gets one free object interaction on their turn...

I have come to call this phenomenon "The Cookie Jar Effect". If you tell someone not to take the cookies out the cookie jar. You have told them there is a cookie jar, theres cookies in the jar, and not to take them, but you didnt tell them why. Human curiosity will kick in and ask why. And if you wont tell me, ill find out on my own

8 intelligence character's thought process (Me): Character tells you do go somewhere - Ok, I need to go there. Character tells me not to go somewhere - Ok, if they don't want me to go there, there must be danger. And if there's danger, there's loot. Let's go there!

Im going to need to know the name and adress of that “friend” that called my boy Scratch an asshole

Just... Troll the Wizard.

We don't use material components for spells but we also remove out-of-combat resurrects from the spell pool, and they only exist as rare/expensive scrolls placed at the DM's discretion (basically he prevents us from hoarding them). Resurrects are the only real instance where not using material components impacts game balance, 90% of the time it's just QoL (having to learn another arbitrary fact about every single spell, or rather having yet another reason to look up your spells every time you cast them is just annoying). Maybe if we ran campaigns set to run into the high teens we'd have issues with other powerful spells being too easy to cast, but as-is it works well for us. Helps the DM balance his campaign when he has full control over exactly how many rezzes we get, and we get the QoL from not having to possess and use material components. Our flanking rule is that it can enable a rogue's Sneak Attack, but it does not give Advantage on the attack roll itself nor count as Advantage for any other purpose. Basically we want a Rogue to use his sneak attack because not using it feels awful, but actual Advantage on attack rolls needs to be earned else feats like GWM and Sharpshooter get out of hand. We use group initiative (average roll) in our current campaign and so do enemies. It might be a problem if someone wanted to play an Assassin but it is working for us. It's a lot easier to coordinate and cooperate when you take your turn together, and it makes the game a lot easier to follow. If someone has a strat or combo they want to pull off at the start of a turn it doesn't matter which role they are or what their own initiative roll was if we won the average roll vs the enemy we all go before any enemies go so they just say what they want to do and we let them do it. Never had an argument yet over who should act first amongst us, and the one person who was playing a bursty character (myself, gloomstalker) underwent an undead transformation into a swarmkeeper now surrounded by a murder of crows that feeds off me ^__^. If we were all playing something like gloomstalker, assassin, paladin plus a caster then the DM probably wouldn't use this system as the chances of the enemy getting nova'd and never getting a turn would be too high, but fortunately none of us are about powergaming and are mostly just trying to embody a character fantasy. For health potions we do the "bonus action to roll the dice, action to automatically get max value" thing that I know a lot of other people do (it was my idea to start doing it and I probably got the idea from RUclips).

BOWLING!?

Cue three weeks of every encounter being the locals either running away or instantly attacking the party

This is especially funny to me because a friend of mine doesn't play any TTRPG and he wanted to know when a roll is or isn't necessary and to explain it to him, I used opening a door as an example of a mundane task that *shouldn't* require a roll.

I want to subscribe but the DM made me roll for dexterity so I accidentlaly punched a hole in my monitor and now I have glass in my arm.

Monk attacks are are called "Unarmed Strikes" and not "Punch" for a reason. An unarmed strike can be anything, your imagination is the limit. If you have ever seen those old martial arts movies where an unarmed super fast kung fu guy dominates a group of enemies with swords that's the idea of Monk, at least that's what i think. Any random guy can go around punching things, but that's not what Monk is, they have super human abilities just like every other class.

On a side note: This is only one side of the story. From a players perspective who has already decided these rules are incredibly unfair and they are biased, even if it MAY be justified. This could also be the result of a regular/designated DM just hitting their breaking point. This is especially hard for never-DMs to understand, who only like to play but don't enjoy the creative side of running a game. Respect your DM - That doesn't mean you aren't allow to protest respectfully or disagree with them - but if your DM is actually your friend then some level of trust should be invested in them to do what is right to make your game fun. For some DMs, running games is a creative passion, and I spend hours of my own time on a weekly basis preparing for these games. It is incredibly disrespectful to not only me, but everyone else playing to purposefully try to ruin what I created. Simply because you think it would be funny, or because you didn't like something that happened - it is almost a literal slap in the face to try and invalidate hours of my time that I freely invested to make sure you have a good time. That doesn't mean I won't allow a little detouring or silliness but most of us know someone who just decided to be an absolute ass because they could. Example: Had a player just plain refuse to get onto a boat that was going to take the party to an important location across the sea. No reason, no phobia of water or boats, they just said they didn't want to get on the boat and they weren't going to. So the party left him behind, he spent the rest of the session in the port tavern doing nothing. When I didn't make anything interesting happen in the tavern for him to do, he got angry and left early. Respect the DMs time and your fellow players time - It's okay to have fun, goof around, and be silly sometimes but everyone should be in agreement when the party 'takes a break' from adventuring/questing to just have fun.

Baldurs gate is one of the least motivating game I’ve ever played. Did not even finish it. Actually kinda boring

when he said, '' you know there are more books right? new spells? '' my response would be, '' well too bad i havent came across any of those spell scrolls or spellbooks with those spells, its almost like i have zero control over what spells i learn besides the two each level''

As a relatively experienced DM - over time, I became less concerned about the rules and translated them more into guidelines. My players experience is more important to me, and I want to tell a story that I took time, care, and love to create. I want them to enjoy being parts of that story, and feel like their characters actions/growth matters. I will fudge a roll if I think it will make the experience more enjoyable/intense at a critical moment. I will allow players to do something that isn't quite possible by conventional rules as long as they role play out and describe the actions they are taking that could make it work. If I do not allow something to be done, rolled on, or otherwise refuse - my players usually trust me enough to know there is a good reason. As such, I don't care if you roll twenty nat 20s in a row, if the action you are attempting to automatic success would fuck up the story/narrative - it fails. It's not because I am trying to be a bitch, or be mean; it's because it would most likely hurt the experience for everyone, you included. Respect goes both ways though - as your DM, I expect you to respect the time that I spend preparing these stories, adventures, and all the prep work I put into it - and not purposefully try to ruin or derail the experience because 'LUL MY CHAR IS SO RANDOM' - you can have a zaney/crazy/eccentric character that doesn't actively try to destroy everything I made for the group as if you're trying to break down the fourth wall. I always establish the concept that I will not *try* to kill their characters, and the events that end in character death are almost always a result of players ignoring warnings or making extremely awful tactical errors. I won't try to kill you, but I won't prevent you from dying if you do something very stupid. I also run optional 'hardcore' sessions where I am more strict with die rolls, and if you get critically hit three times in a row - that's just bad luck, but players who enjoy that high intensity game type are aware of what they are getting into.