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Speaking of dual class and multi-class. We felt dual class was dumb and rarely used it. A 5th lvl fighter forgetting how to fight until suddenly remembering upon reaching 6th lvl as a magic user? Nahh dude. We multi- classed, including the prerequisite levels of ftr/thf when building towards a 1st ed bard.

Great video! Savage Worlds question for you. I love the Transformers but dislike the recent RPG for it. It has some great ideas but the mechanics seem clunky. Would you see SWADE as a viable option for a Transformers campaign (either in the classic Earth-setting or heavy sci-fi)? Interested in any general thoughts... maybe Savage Worlds Rifts would help?

I'd love to see a video on your take on Deities & Demigods since it has multiple versions due to the issue of rights over the chuthulu mythos and the agreement with Chaosium. Along with later changes to appease BADD such changing the name of the book to Legends & Lore. If anything the book seems to have some rich history and controversy behind it that should make an entertaining tale.

I had a ton of these books u til my Mom saw a 20/20 show that was saying D&D was Devil workshop and my Mom threw out all my books.!! So pissed. So now I’m buying them back.

You look pretty much exactly what I expected you to look like :) Over on the Shadversity channel, he recently did a video discussing the problems besetting his and other related channels, and he talked about some of the D&D channels that have been told straight up to their faces by youtube that their videos will no longer be recommended by the algorithm. Their channels can still exist, people can still find videos by searching for the appropriate key words, but youtube is not going to help them out any more. That's a de facto death sentence on a channel. And the channel owners said they were stopping work on those channels as a result. It's impossible to know what youtube is trying to accomplish, it's not even obvious that they know, but one thing is for sure: it is not longer a place for you to broadcast yourself. Hasn't been for some years, actually, but they still keep making it harder and harder for everyone who isn't already a giant media corporation.

I don't mind vlog-style videos at all, but I do think your format where you showcase a book and actually flip through it is a tremendous resource. I am quite interested in old-school games, but I'm too young to have actually been around playing them back then (I started at the tail end of D&D 4e in college, but the vast majority of my time as a dm and player has been in the 5e era, and most of my friends are only interested in 5e). The D&D version history video you made was really enlightening to me because you actually demonstrated the books and sets physically, and even in this video the part where you showed OSE and the "sequences" sections was awesome and helps me understand the appeal of that system more, though I have no experience with it personally. I would certainly watch stuff from you that is more like other dungeontubers' work, but I think of your channel as the one that treats the books and sets as material artifacts, and I think that is a unique and valuable thing!

Maybe this can help you regarding what to do with the channel in the future. But what I appreaciate more about your videos is not the history for history's sake, but rather some game mechanics concepts that may have been forgotten but could be used for the present. One video of yours for example (I think something Ravenloft) had a list of methods for Stat generation which included one I liked a lot (7+1d6) and went ahead with it for a ttrpg I am designing (I later dropped it tho but thats besides the point lol).

Thank you for doing this. Very insightful. I’ve read most of these but I still learned some things!

Veiwers should be aware this is a pro dave channel.

The last five minutes of this video are something else. Really brings back memories of people I've lost.

You have good taste in vinyl records.

RIP to your Dad, as always. Take care!

Nice face reveal. I think you're good here. Don't worry about being "expressive." Just be yourself, I suppose.

I like resource management, but I don't mind abstracting it a bit. Slot inventory, like in LotFP or Lion & Dragon, and usage dice, from Black Hack, for consumables.

I love the history videos, but your other videos are great too. I think the joy you have for the topics your covering comes through in all of them and makes them compelling. Re resources: The only non spell slot resource I ever remember tracking in Ad&d days way back when were daggers on my thief. I had 4 and if I threw them all, well, time to take out the scimitar and/or run away and hide.

Wow , I forgot all about the Hidden Shrine is Tamoachan! This is a trip down memory lane. I spent many hours looking at all this stuff and DMing for my friends.

Tomb of Horrors for me.. I’ve got a soft spot for undead , especially Lichs

Turn that frown upside down!

Just watching this one now… great stuff Martin! Here’s my recent bonehead DM move… my PCs infiltrated a remote Orc village that was holding 3 prisoners: an Elven Fighter/ Thief, who was going to join the group (new player) and two female prisoners. All three were kidnapped from the same city as the PCs… my big mistake?? Since this remote Orc outpost was at least a day + from home, through dangerous territory, the PCs naturally insisted on escorting them back… but even a bigger screw up was not having anything prepared in their home city, as they wanted to check in with various officials and get guidance/ investigate plot leads….😂 I had nothing… I spent two hours making up stuff to fit with their logical reasoning to bring the females back and check in with a bunch of NPCs😂

Stick with the "everything D&D before 3rd edition". 🎉

Well done. Takes a lot of courage to do this and so glad to hear about your daughter, hopefully, thriving now! Hope to see you at DaveCon again!

I honestly love any and all content. I love the history and thing it’s very interesting and will them as they continue to be made. I enjoy the DM advice as well. Hearing about any aspects of other’s games I think can help inspire and make us (or myself) a better DM. Personally, I think being content with a knowledge base on DMing is perfectly fine but striving to sharpen your game or your ability to DM even just a bit is half the fun and always worth it. So I would love to see more DM advice videos. I also just enjoy hearing about game design. Comparing core mechanic of different TTRPGs to others is very interesting to me. Especially, love the videos! Keep up the great work!!

if you keep it interesting then I'll keep listening, don't even have to be D&D

Hey man, love your videos. Thank you for sharing your awesome historical knowledge about this hobby we all love. My condolences about your father. Your content never fails to not only give me inspiration for my games but reminds me of the things that are valuable in our everyday lives too. Thanks for that.

I enjoy the historical details of your videos and more importantly I see you weave in details in how you would use the subject of what you are discussing into game play. Sometimes I get a whole new view on how to include what it is you are discussing into my DM'ing experience. Thank you for sharing your wisdom.

Great video, format is just fine, I appreciate seeing the documents. I like all your q & a videos. Keep it up.

Just my personal humble perspective; I actually think channels that choose to put things on the screen other than their face feel more authentic to me, maybe because it feels less self aggrandizing? Not sure. That said I don't find it offensive or anything, but just to say if you choose to stay with your established style of presentation, I think it's only a bonus as far as I'm concerned. You do you!

I liked your old videos better. Just be honest and say you met UA-camrs at the Con and now you want to monetize your channel. You said everything but that but the intention is obvious. I liked you videos bc they were different than the other cookie cutter, sell shit to everyone style. Stick with what made your channel grow. IMO

Hey Martin! You can't please everyone all the time, so do the videos you think are important and enjoyable for you. If you film it, the audience will come! Though maybe I'm an old fool and the Algorithm is too powerful!As a longtime reader of your blog, you got a fan in me! For myself, I'm creating a YT channel and I'm not really concerned about getting followers as much as I want to use it to network with other gamers.

Make videos you are are passionate about and I guarantee we all keep watching. I love your history videos but I am also eager ro hear about your home brews, DM tips, opinions, etc.

I have personally loved your magazine reviews. I hope you can come up with the click-bait titles for them so they get more popular for you.

An excellent video! On the on-camera segments try to keep your eyes along the upper third line so you don’t look like you’re trying to run out of the video!

Your most recent video brought me here!

I got into Savage Worlds last year. More dungeon tubers should cover it. It is a great system.

39:51 oh the magic is ruined. Here I thought this channel was a pair of hands and a Voice in The Ether 🙂.

First time - that I remember, anyway - UA-cam has recommended your content to me. Clearly you must've done something right (or very wrong!! LOL). Enjoyed hearing your thoughts.

2E forever 😎.

20:33 Why does anyone need so many of these "rules"? 🤔 We're playing pretend. This is the opposite of the way we played in the early 80s with BX.

I LOVE games where the game only cares about the mechanical aspect of powers, the trappings get left to the player. I’m gravitating more and more to systems which encourage it!

Savage Worlds is cool. There are a LOT of rolls.

Oh Martin, the historical essays in the OAR series are right up your alley. If you see them, since they’re out of print now, check them out!

Bob’s a kind person.

The commercial was made in Brazil. Despite the fact D&D came very late here with some people bringing books from America. And it took several more years for the first translated version of the game. We love D&D. One of the most successful Brazilian RPGs is an OSR game called old dragon.

Man, I would love to watch a video, where you go through and compare and contrast every version of D&D rules in a structured manner, but bet that is not your cocktail. 😅

I lost all my old modules. A "friend" stole them. 😢

Loading this up as I go to sleep but wanting to give a comment and like. I'll watch it 100x in the future. Keep it up man.

I would like to see you cover specific modules in the long form that you do. Captcorajus's videos are too short for someone that wants to run the module. His stuff is like the 1000' level.

Have you looked at Shadowdark? Listening to you talk about resource management and light sources, I think you’d really like it. Edit: Haha as soon as I hit post, you talked about it. I highly recommend it. Lots of great tables; very fast and gritty system. The free quick start rules are very robust and give a great feel of what you’d be getting into. Cheers

I played Savage Worlds for the first time last night. We too did a Weird War II type scenario, but our team was a bit more like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I played a young, warrior nun from Ireland. It was a very diverse group including a Nazi killing robot. Lots of fun. I could see how it could easily fit any genre. Most of us had tons of RPG experience but it was the first time for every player using the system. I could see introducing new players with this system. If they know the dice type and generally what an RPG is, I think they could play.

Love your content, you’re one of the best on the platform! Whatever you upload, I’ll watch!