@@bretsheeley4034 8-sided d4s sound even more annoying to use tbh, anytime you need to grab a d4 or a d8 you'd have to double check it to make sure you grabbed the right one?
@@platniumdragon115 I find that having everyone remove their shoes on arrival relaxes them a bit, and encourages them to stay longer. They feel a bit more “at home” in my home. Every session is goes long, and we get more done. Of course, with such a relaxed atmosphere, occasional pranks do occur. My own pranks are often themed as warnings about things they will encounter next session, though my players haven’t figured that out yet. The D4s were related to a trap involving caltrops, a pit, and a nasty breed of fungus, in a goblin lair. That one nearly took out the Pali, who insisted on taking the front to protect from ambush. Of course, once the rogue was on front for trap detection, he led them into an ambush. 😈
Not read your backstory. Worst things that can happen is you surprise your DM with your characters motives, have the DM decide what your character is like and they make up your story, and playing a character that isn't exactly what you wanted upon creation. But with the right mindset you could probably just roll with it and just roleplay what you got or show your characters ideals through gameplay. Have every NPC hate you basically shuts down everything all together. Backstory, your alignment, God affiliation or lack of, your ideals, your charisma and basically your characters "human" rights are stripped if EVERY single God dawned NPC hates and mistrust you. This one is far more frustrating and unavoidable to make any fun out of.
I never care about the players backstory because I always planning on them getting killed and if they survive, bitten by a slaad or brain tadpoled. It lets the players know how much you care about their plans and aspirations while enforcing the chaotic random unfairness of life but I also believe it's perfectly okay for players playing older characters like Wizards and I always say if you're playing a wizard in one of my games he had to have gone to school for at least twenty years he's a man in his 40s 50s or 60s he has heart problems show in stressful situations like combat fleeing from danger climbing too much sun or a stressful discussion should trigger heart attack resistance rolls. Also just randomly for those seriously old mages
@@YB-dh1fu I've actually got a D3...the one I've got is a six sider with each number being on 2 opposing sides. I kind of grabbed it out of a bucket of old board game pieces at a garage sale.
@@henryfleischer404 Watch the show, you will understand why I said that. And, it's a very good anime with at most 4 episode where the protagonist is dumb. So yeah, I can only highly recommend it.
Poll suggestions: -How often do you play as the same gender as your character? -What is your favorite magic item (immovable rod, deck of many things, just give me +3 weapons and armor)? -What kind of DM are you (forever, I have never DM'd, occasional DM, I can't even get players)?
1. Most commonly play as characters of the other gender, with some characteristics from my gender (what can i say, i like tomboys) 2. All the different woods you can use for staffs, which give you a +1 to spells of a certain damage type, its just a super cool concept i wish would be more potent/scaling in level 3. Alternating DM, one of my players in the campaign which im the DM for is the DM for another campaign that consists of mostly the same people like my campaign. Gonna mention something i do here, if its a characters specific arc, the player of that character becomes my Co dm for that arc so that we can organise the Arc together.
1. When I play, it's 100% same gender or identifying as the same gender (Changeling makes the line blurry). When I DM it's 1/3rd same, 2/3 other (including constructs and animals) 2. I like being low on magic stuff, so I'm not voting 3. Between forever and occasional. I play in 1 out of 10 weeks as a player and in 10/10 as a DM. (or 0/10 when exams are approaching)
- As a player, I have played only one character of the other gender, and that campaign died due to a relationship explosion between a player and the DM. - Favorite magic item? Anything that gives 1-3 daily uses of a utility cantrip. - I am a 1/3 DM who used to be a forever DM. Now I and two in my group swap around running different campaigns (and game systems).
1: roll d100. Do it after establishing backstory to see if there's a twist as a result of gender. Funfacts: Did you know that 51% of newborns are female? For realistic spread, don't just flip a coin 2: the Truly Immovable Rod. Careful which side of the planet you're on when you activate it, it locks according to universal coordinate 3: usually DM, good at it. Other players actually want to DM on occasion but mostly don't do their prep or research when do (is it that hard to read through a 30 page module with a week of preptime?)
1. About 50% of the time with the remaining spread being about 40% guys and 10% agender/gender fluid/other. 2. I really love Giant's Belts and Mithral Plate armor - I tend to dump str but I adore heavy armor and being able to actually push things so both are a natural fit for a lot of my characters (also mithral heavy armors remove the dis on Stealth so yet more reason to like it)~
3:55 "Why would you use a shortbow?" Longbows are heavy, meaning small races like halflings, gnomes, goblins, and kobolds use them with disadvantage. Some people are probably overlooking this rule.
Don't forget that longbows are a martial weapon while shortbows are a simple weapon. Some people only have access to simple weapons (and training in even one martial weapon takes time, and not everyone wants to waste an ASI on Weapon Master, unless their DM is just giving feats out like free candy lol)
Did you know fireball, the most iconic dnd spell, doesn’t actually throw a fireball? It shoots a small orange laser which explodes into a fireball, once it hits a target.
The "Worst thing a DM can say" pains me because just this week I had to do this to my players and just know, as much as the players hate it, the DM hate it even more.
Okay, so basically the best explanation I have for why the d12 is a favorite die on that poll is because the dodecahedron shape of the d12 is incredibly relaxing compared to the chaotic pyramid of the d4 and the octahedron of the d8.
The D4 is also the worst of all, irl. God forbid you drop and lose that thing, your feet are in MUCH more immediate danger then dropping any of the other dice
Blaine: “I don’t understand how Slimes got so high up.” Me: "Have you seen the anime 'That time I got reincarnated as a slime'? Also horndogs like hentai."
3:55 long bows are classified as a heavy weapon meaning if your size is small you get disadvantage so short bows are popular amongst halflings, gnomes, and the occasional goblin
Poll question suggestion: How exotic are the D&D races you like to play? -Player's Handbook races only -More races from other official books -Unearthed Arcana -Homebrew from UA-cam, DMsGuild, or Kickstarter -I like making my own stuff
Since you're consistently surprised that a large chunk of your audience has little to no experience with D&D I'll tell you my experience. Living in a country with a non-existant nerd culture, D&D and other TTRPGs were just things I'd hear about online, I can't tell you how envious I was. It just sounded so fun and... engaging I guess. I was most envious of the stories that came out of it. Most just don't have the opportunity to play irl and are too shy for online. Now, since then I did try online D&D a few times, as well as WFRP... But the result was the same all times. I'm a nervous wreck when it comes to roleplaying, I stutter a lot and I'm just a mess in general. On top of that I tend to get unbearable bored when I don't have anything to do (mostly happens when it's not my turn in combat) I have attention issues anyway so even though it makes me feel bad, I tend to browse reddit when I'm not doing anything. So yeah, wasn't what I was imagining every game I joined died someways in too...
D4 are basically Caltrops, that's why. Also my DM still uses EXP; he says it's because it gives us a better idea of when we're about to level up, which works for me because there are some interactions I want my Ranger to have that only make sense closer to leveling up. He did say that if we used milestones we'd be at about the same level we are now anyway.
"Slimes are a bit more exotic and succubi are a bit more fanservicy" We have NOT been on the same sites, I can tell you that much. Slimes are very popular for their fabric consuming acid properties.
"The alignments I wrote on this one were sort of off" and the sun is sort of hot. Top to bottom the alignments are neutral good, true neutral, neutral evil, either chaotic neutral or chaotic evil, and that last one is actually fine.
"Dragonborn, a descendent of dragons" And that, if I recall correctly, is the lore reason; Dragonborn aren't descended from dragons, they were made by dragons. Sort of in their image but with the idea of being good at manual labour, which obviously means being humanoid, in mind.
The Human Fighter poll is unfairly weighted. I would have liked to see a Teifling Warlock on there, Half-Elf Ranger/Rogue, and a Dwarf Cleric. This coming from a guy notoriously known in friends circles for being the Human-Fighter player. I just tend to see the others way more.
That wasn't a vote, it was a quiz. It wasn't asking for opinions, it actually had a correct answer (based on what people have made on D&D Beyond, which may mean it isn't *actually* the correct answer).
This is actually the first time a youtuber mentioned that most of the viewers weren’t subscribed and it made me realize that for some reason after a couple years of being a viewer I still hadn’t subbed. Rofl. All subbed now! Thanks!
I wouldn't even say that's good. I'd put that in the chaotic neutral at best. If you want it bumped up to good, save the child first, then demand a reward. At least that way you're doing a good deed first, and not potentially committing manslaughter via dickish negligence
@@notoriousgoblin83 lawful means you care more about rules than people Good means you care more about others than yourself Lawful good means you want justice to triumph and chaotic good means you want people to be well Lawful evil means you care about your own code while chaotic evil is not caring about people and the person you care to more is yourself So in my opinion it is more of chaotic neutral than evil or good
I was literally just debating with myself what my favourite die was. I agree with the D12. For me, the shape just looks the coolest for some reason. Looks really great with the steampunk themed dice I recently got as well.
I like to allow my players to choose either to start at level 2, or to roll (d4-1) to choose their level, for a potential of starting at levels 1, 2, or 3. As for me, the highest level character I ever had was an 17 wizard/cleric/true necromancer, back in high school. Never made it to 20.... Maybe I would have but I've been the forever DM for 16 years now. Ended up boosting my old lev 17 necromancer to 19 and using them as a villain in a campaign to kill them off ad they hadn't been touched in years. It was bittersweet but a very memorable portion of the overall campaign.
I have never played DND before. I will now play a one shot where my character is lvl 20. Also at the same time I will play a montage where my character spends decades grinding XP and going from lvl one to lvl 20. That was fun. I'm going to imagine more now. Cut to the scene of me alone with no vr headset and instead my eyes are just closed.
We all have a reason to pick slime. Dragon Quest for the old school gamers, Slime Rancher for the new school gamers, slimesekai for the anime watchers, etc. There's a slime for everybody! That being said I think that dryads are pretty cool because literally being the manifestation of a tree's soul is freaking sick.
Everyone I know loves d12’s, I think it’s something about the look of them. They look nice. Good hand feel too, d4’s are kind of awkward, your not really rolling them cause they don’t really roll, it’s more of a shake-and-drop and it’s just less satisfying.
The best starting level is level 3 as it's the best to give you room in your back story on how you got your basic training of your subclass and it makes combat more interesting and rp
It always seemed dumb to me that some classes don't get their sub class until later levels. Want to be an artillerist artificer? No gun until level 3. Wizard who studied X in school? No, you learned your school of magic by killing a slime. Trained to be any of the interesting fighter subclasses? Too bad, your cavalier doesn't have a mount, your psi warrior forgot his Jedi training, your arcane archer only gets his years of training on the walk back from a cave. Many classes are written like they expect a time skip between level 2 and 3.
@@amirabudubai2279 absolutely how I feel about it. I wanted to make an eldritch knight for a campaign but we start level 1 and idk how my knight all of a sudden decides to be big brain and do magic over a long rest
Here in my city they play every other thursday in a game store and everyone is welcome. It's only during summers and the last 18 months they have been canceled, but they just re-started last week.
A regularly meeting dnd group would be nice. The group I play with is supposed to play once a week, last time we played was August, fingers crossed that today's session won't be cancelled 2 hours beforehand.
You could do a video about all the characterts you created in D&D, such as the immortal one, the one punch man one, etc, fighting each other to see who would win.
I had a character who used your isekaid background as a dnd loving shut in who became a rouge. He used d4s as caltrops, d12s for catapult, ect. He also had a paper sword which somehow magically turned into steel whenever he yelled the words I have the power of god and anime on my side. Super fun
I make all of my characters chaotic neutral because they are unpredictable, in my current campaign the character I am playing is a motherly murder hobo
ive actually played a level 20 character before. it was during a max level battle royale one shot. it was fun as heck and even though i didnt win i got to cast 9th levels spells. would highly recommend.
2:08 You didn't really give a definitive statement as to how much is "often", so I chose either one. I actually just recently got into DnD because of you (mainly because of all your anime videos as well as stories), and it's been a blast! Been both player and DM so far.
As for video ideas.. I'd love to see another video covering more stories from your homebrew campaign: The Hollow. If you have any that you deem worthwhile to share!
Video Idea: What your favorite D&D Weapon says about you part 2, featuring weapons people said in the comments of part 1! Another Video Idea: What your favorite D&D feat says about you
here's an idea for a poll: you are a level 0 mosquito, your facing off against the bbeg dark lord of darkness and evil, all of your party members are dead...but there is a shimmer of hope because you rolled...A NAT 20 AND YOU HAVE WON, how would you like to end this amazing campaign 1. go home and be all sad and gloomy that your friends died 2. take the dark lords cloak but before you go to try and heal your friends you stop and think 'do i really need to heal them...i mean its not like i need them anymore because im a bloody spellcaster now (yes the mosquito British) i can do whatever i want...' and with that single thought your character has became the next bbeg
my party tried using fire against some angry zombie ants. we ended up causing a massive forest fire and only saved it cause one of the druids contacted a water spirit
Dude. Using a hawk and snek would be awesome. You can have a horde of both, using the hawks to drop the sneks (like deploying them) into enemy ranks. That would be hilarious!
1:45 - alternate reading of the stats: 54% of voters would either not help or help with strings attached, but 46% could agree on a single course of action
lol I mentally injured so many people by saying Dragonborn were descendants of dragons. RIP
Aren't they manufactured from dragon magic? Couldn't we say that counts?
@@nulllex0099 creation =/= descendant
In the lore they were slaves to dragons. Kind of like how some people treat their children...
@@akayukilucifel does your arm hurt from that reach?
@@anthonynorman7545 Or perhaps they cut themselves on that edge?
"Why do you all hate the d4?"
Dropping one immediatly sets everyone at the table into their fight-or-flight responses
Doubly so if it is made of metal
I don't mind d4s... so long as it is an 8-sided d4.
Okay but it's also the magic missile damage die so...
there are only two reasons to roll a d4 and that's a thrown knife and dragons breath
@@bretsheeley4034 8-sided d4s sound even more annoying to use tbh, anytime you need to grab a d4 or a d8 you'd have to double check it to make sure you grabbed the right one?
Blaine: “I don’t understand how Slimes got so high up.”
Me: “Creature be squishy, me go yes.”
Same, specially since I like the idea of using someone who can shapeshift.
@@NikiGothBunneh **Nhentai wants to know your location**
Anyone who plays dragon quest/dragon warrior games know how adorable slimes can be.
*Rimuru Tempest has entered the chat*
Slime rancher.
“Why do you all hate the D4 so much?”, says the man who’s obviously never boobytrapped his players’ shoes with them. 😈
Chaotic Evil moment
You sick evil twisted man! I like your style. MWHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAA!!!
@@platniumdragon115 I find that having everyone remove their shoes on arrival relaxes them a bit, and encourages them to stay longer. They feel a bit more “at home” in my home. Every session is goes long, and we get more done. Of course, with such a relaxed atmosphere, occasional pranks do occur. My own pranks are often themed as warnings about things they will encounter next session, though my players haven’t figured that out yet. The D4s were related to a trap involving caltrops, a pit, and a nasty breed of fungus, in a goblin lair. That one nearly took out the Pali, who insisted on taking the front to protect from ambush. Of course, once the rogue was on front for trap detection, he led them into an ambush. 😈
They are basically caltrops hiding in shape of a dice :)
Calm down satan.
Would you rather have your DM...
--Not read your backstory
--Randomly make all the NPCs hate your character
Not read your backstory.
Worst things that can happen is you surprise your DM with your characters motives, have the DM decide what your character is like and they make up your story, and playing a character that isn't exactly what you wanted upon creation. But with the right mindset you could probably just roll with it and just roleplay what you got or show your characters ideals through gameplay.
Have every NPC hate you basically shuts down everything all together. Backstory, your alignment, God affiliation or lack of, your ideals, your charisma and basically your characters "human" rights are stripped if EVERY single God dawned NPC hates and mistrust you. This one is far more frustrating and unavoidable to make any fun out of.
Jokes on you, I don't even _have_ a backstory!
I never care about the players backstory because I always planning on them getting killed and if they survive, bitten by a slaad or brain tadpoled. It lets the players know how much you care about their plans and aspirations while enforcing the chaotic random unfairness of life but I also believe it's perfectly okay for players playing older characters like Wizards and I always say if you're playing a wizard in one of my games he had to have gone to school for at least twenty years he's a man in his 40s 50s or 60s he has heart problems show in stressful situations like combat fleeing from danger climbing too much sun or a stressful discussion should trigger heart attack resistance rolls. Also just randomly for those seriously old mages
Jokes on you my backstory includes a chaotic aura that makes people fear me as a bad omen
@@SingingToast652 you will make a wonderous slaad!
The d1 winning makes sense because most people probably couldn't picture the others working
Edit: wow this was a popular comment for me.
I own a d3, and its the most bizare thing ever, look it up
@@YB-dh1fu I've actually got a D3...the one I've got is a six sider with each number being on 2 opposing sides. I kind of grabbed it out of a bucket of old board game pieces at a garage sale.
You can't have a d1. I can prove this mathematically
@@the88thdarcstarmake sphere with a little cut, put the most weight on that side.
@@the88thdarcstar take a coin, cut of 1 side, bam D1 😀
This is clever, use polls to juice the algorithm, then use the results for content
Who all is excited for Fizban's treasury of dragons
Very
Drakewarden! Can't wait!
Wooo!
Emerald Dragonborns are cool.
Blaine: "They're a disgrace to all normal anime fans everywhere"
Also Blaine: *loves his rem body pillow more than his family*
Who's Rem?
I can’t tell if this is a question or reference
@@rvsen5351 I think she's a maid from RE:Zero, but I haven't watched the show.
i wonder if he actually has one or if he just jokes about it
@@henryfleischer404 Watch the show, you will understand why I said that.
And, it's a very good anime with at most 4 episode where the protagonist is dumb. So yeah, I can only highly recommend it.
6:30
fun fact: the DM's guide says to roll a d3 for how many wish spells they can cast when they draw moon from the deck of many things
Poll suggestions:
-How often do you play as the same gender as your character?
-What is your favorite magic item (immovable rod, deck of many things, just give me +3 weapons and armor)?
-What kind of DM are you (forever, I have never DM'd, occasional DM, I can't even get players)?
1. Most commonly play as characters of the other gender, with some characteristics from my gender (what can i say, i like tomboys)
2. All the different woods you can use for staffs, which give you a +1 to spells of a certain damage type, its just a super cool concept i wish would be more potent/scaling in level
3. Alternating DM, one of my players in the campaign which im the DM for is the DM for another campaign that consists of mostly the same people like my campaign. Gonna mention something i do here, if its a characters specific arc, the player of that character becomes my Co dm for that arc so that we can organise the Arc together.
1. When I play, it's 100% same gender or identifying as the same gender (Changeling makes the line blurry). When I DM it's 1/3rd same, 2/3 other (including constructs and animals)
2. I like being low on magic stuff, so I'm not voting
3. Between forever and occasional. I play in 1 out of 10 weeks as a player and in 10/10 as a DM. (or 0/10 when exams are approaching)
- As a player, I have played only one character of the other gender, and that campaign died due to a relationship explosion between a player and the DM.
- Favorite magic item? Anything that gives 1-3 daily uses of a utility cantrip.
- I am a 1/3 DM who used to be a forever DM. Now I and two in my group swap around running different campaigns (and game systems).
1: roll d100. Do it after establishing backstory to see if there's a twist as a result of gender. Funfacts: Did you know that 51% of newborns are female? For realistic spread, don't just flip a coin
2: the Truly Immovable Rod. Careful which side of the planet you're on when you activate it, it locks according to universal coordinate
3: usually DM, good at it. Other players actually want to DM on occasion but mostly don't do their prep or research when do (is it that hard to read through a 30 page module with a week of preptime?)
1. About 50% of the time with the remaining spread being about 40% guys and 10% agender/gender fluid/other.
2. I really love Giant's Belts and Mithral Plate armor - I tend to dump str but I adore heavy armor and being able to actually push things so both are a natural fit for a lot of my characters (also mithral heavy armors remove the dis on Stealth so yet more reason to like it)~
1. Bag of Holding
2. Immovable Rod
3. Decanter of Endless Water
3: endless bag of holding, just more wet
gimme that endless water supply
All 3 of which are surprisingly deadly in combat.
Depends. Are we playing Dark Sun or any other world?
Bag of holding.
If I need water i just go to the nearby lake or ocean and submerge the bag.
"why do you all hate the D4 so much?"
because it's a weapon.
It is the Lego brick of dice!
It is frowned upon in the Geneva Convention.
It is the most likely to land on a 1.
@@MonkeyJedi99 what about the d1, d2, and d3.
@@J0hnB09 I had a d1. The cat hid it under a piece of furniture.
d2? heads or tails!
d3? ROUND[d6/2]
@@MonkeyJedi99 the d1 is the most likely to land on a 1, try to prove me wrong.
@@J0hnB09 Why would I even TRY to prove you wrong on that one?
3:55 "Why would you use a shortbow?"
Longbows are heavy, meaning small races like halflings, gnomes, goblins, and kobolds use them with disadvantage. Some people are probably overlooking this rule.
This wouldn't be the only time that Blaine has shown he only thinks in terms of human fighters. Have you seen his armor video?
Also. Longbow is a martial weapon. Not everyone has proficiency
Don't forget that longbows are a martial weapon while shortbows are a simple weapon. Some people only have access to simple weapons (and training in even one martial weapon takes time, and not everyone wants to waste an ASI on Weapon Master, unless their DM is just giving feats out like free candy lol)
Blaine's Next Poll: Would you give me $200 to satisfy my Genshin addiction? Yes, or yes?
Dislike the poll without answering, and then comment no.
@@eric_moore-6126 the correct answer.
Did you know fireball, the most iconic dnd spell, doesn’t actually throw a fireball? It shoots a small orange laser which explodes into a fireball, once it hits a target.
I'm pretty sure the intended meaning of the "bright streak" is that it's the trail of a small thingie flying towards your enemy, not a laser.
@@BenersantheBread Yep, a fast-moving fire marble that emulates the 'Big Bang' to lovingly warm your enemies to death.
Well, we customise spells by default now, so, it can be whatever as long as it is mechanically the same.
The "Worst thing a DM can say" pains me because just this week I had to do this to my players and just know, as much as the players hate it, the DM hate it even more.
Ah, the d1; also known as "I'm the DM and I say so"
Also d4s are hated because of the piercing damage when stepped on
Okay, so basically the best explanation I have for why the d12 is a favorite die on that poll is because the dodecahedron shape of the d12 is incredibly relaxing compared to the chaotic pyramid of the d4 and the octahedron of the d8.
The D4 is also the worst of all, irl. God forbid you drop and lose that thing, your feet are in MUCH more immediate danger then dropping any of the other dice
Blaine: “I don’t understand how Slimes got so high up.”
Me: "Have you seen the anime 'That time I got reincarnated as a slime'? Also horndogs like hentai."
3:55 long bows are classified as a heavy weapon meaning if your size is small you get disadvantage so short bows are popular amongst halflings, gnomes, and the occasional goblin
Poll question suggestion: How exotic are the D&D races you like to play?
-Player's Handbook races only
-More races from other official books
-Unearthed Arcana
-Homebrew from UA-cam, DMsGuild, or Kickstarter
-I like making my own stuff
Blaine: *Wonders why slimes got so high*
Me: *Looks at Rimuru*
Since you're consistently surprised that a large chunk of your audience has little to no experience with D&D I'll tell you my experience.
Living in a country with a non-existant nerd culture, D&D and other TTRPGs were just things I'd hear about online, I can't tell you how envious I was. It just sounded so fun and... engaging I guess. I was most envious of the stories that came out of it. Most just don't have the opportunity to play irl and are too shy for online.
Now, since then I did try online D&D a few times, as well as WFRP... But the result was the same all times. I'm a nervous wreck when it comes to roleplaying, I stutter a lot and I'm just a mess in general. On top of that I tend to get unbearable bored when I don't have anything to do (mostly happens when it's not my turn in combat) I have attention issues anyway so even though it makes me feel bad, I tend to browse reddit when I'm not doing anything.
So yeah, wasn't what I was imagining every game I joined died someways in too...
D4 are basically Caltrops, that's why.
Also my DM still uses EXP; he says it's because it gives us a better idea of when we're about to level up, which works for me because there are some interactions I want my Ranger to have that only make sense closer to leveling up. He did say that if we used milestones we'd be at about the same level we are now anyway.
"Slimes are a bit more exotic and succubi are a bit more fanservicy"
We have NOT been on the same sites, I can tell you that much.
Slimes are very popular for their fabric consuming acid properties.
And the fact that they’re amorphous technically means they can take on any shape
"The alignments I wrote on this one were sort of off" and the sun is sort of hot. Top to bottom the alignments are neutral good, true neutral, neutral evil, either chaotic neutral or chaotic evil, and that last one is actually fine.
"Dragonborn, a descendent of dragons"
And that, if I recall correctly, is the lore reason; Dragonborn aren't descended from dragons, they were made by dragons. Sort of in their image but with the idea of being good at manual labour, which obviously means being humanoid, in mind.
The Human Fighter poll is unfairly weighted. I would have liked to see a Teifling Warlock on there, Half-Elf Ranger/Rogue, and a Dwarf Cleric. This coming from a guy notoriously known in friends circles for being the Human-Fighter player. I just tend to see the others way more.
That wasn't a vote, it was a quiz. It wasn't asking for opinions, it actually had a correct answer (based on what people have made on D&D Beyond, which may mean it isn't *actually* the correct answer).
Favorite type of homebrew:
- Race
- Class/Subclass
- Items
- Feats
- RAW only
feats
Tie between race and subclass
I'm not sure what you mean with RAW only, but I imagined that you eat raw potatoes during gameplay.
@@Felix-wq2ec raw jeans rules as written often when compared to rules as intended
Items
Why does everyone hate the d4.
I DON’T KNOW JUST ASK ME IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AFTER STEPPING ON ONE!
This was a super cute video, I hope it becomes a series!
You convinced me to subscribe! Well done!
6:47 Imagine having a snake up your sleeve, trained to strike every time you punch.
You can only do this if you’re a warlock
always worth subscribing and supporting
Keep up with the great work!
:O
What a great transition into telling us to subscribe
This is actually the first time a youtuber mentioned that most of the viewers weren’t subscribed and it made me realize that for some reason after a couple years of being a viewer I still hadn’t subbed. Rofl. All subbed now! Thanks!
you are very entertaining with a soothing voice so I can see why people might follow for just that.
in a river of comments that are usually really critical of my audio and voice, thanks for the positive comment :)
Player: asks to do something impossible
Me: "ok" tosses D1 "Roll this to see if you succeed"
Yes finally a video I can watch in 2160p, its probably gonna take a week to load the first third of it. I sure hope its worth it.
“Save the dying child after ensuring you will be rewarded” (Chaotic Good)
Very chaotic good indeed, srsly that’s neutral good at best
I wouldn't even say that's good. I'd put that in the chaotic neutral at best. If you want it bumped up to good, save the child first, then demand a reward. At least that way you're doing a good deed first, and not potentially committing manslaughter via dickish negligence
Watching a child burn because your wages weren't paid isn't neutral good. I would actually consider it rather evil
@@notoriousgoblin83 lawful means you care more about rules than people
Good means you care more about others than yourself
Lawful good means you want justice to triumph and chaotic good means you want people to be well
Lawful evil means you care about your own code while chaotic evil is not caring about people and the person you care to more is yourself
So in my opinion it is more of chaotic neutral than evil or good
@@notoriousgoblin83 true neutral without further context
My most recent lawful evil character would save the child. Having a good image is important.
Nice another video!
Worth noting that Shortbows are significantly cheaper to own and Longbows can't be used by Small races like Kobolds.
Incorrect. Small races can use longbows.
@@GrimHeaperThe it's just that they get Disadvantage on Attack Rolls due to Longbows having the Heavy feature, if I'm not mistaken.
@@aidanjackson5084 longbow don't have heavy
@@matan8074 They do, they have the Ammunition, Heavy, Range, Two-Handed traits
@@aidanjackson5084 Still better than a shortbow tactically tbh.
I was literally just debating with myself what my favourite die was. I agree with the D12. For me, the shape just looks the coolest for some reason. Looks really great with the steampunk themed dice I recently got as well.
I like to allow my players to choose either to start at level 2, or to roll (d4-1) to choose their level, for a potential of starting at levels 1, 2, or 3.
As for me, the highest level character I ever had was an 17 wizard/cleric/true necromancer, back in high school. Never made it to 20.... Maybe I would have but I've been the forever DM for 16 years now. Ended up boosting my old lev 17 necromancer to 19 and using them as a villain in a campaign to kill them off ad they hadn't been touched in years. It was bittersweet but a very memorable portion of the overall campaign.
2:01 Only the Great Old One knows how long to microwave Hot Pockets
ok Blaine, you got me with the last one :D
It's my birthday and Blaine post a video, I am happy !
"If you don't have any friends," *sobbing* s-shut up... i-i have fr-friends!
fine i will subscribe because you pointed it out how low your subs % is and i do like your overall content.
I have never played DND before. I will now play a one shot where my character is lvl 20. Also at the same time I will play a montage where my character spends decades grinding XP and going from lvl one to lvl 20. That was fun. I'm going to imagine more now. Cut to the scene of me alone with no vr headset and instead my eyes are just closed.
Subscribed Squuuuuad!
If you play savage world with the d1, you'll probably win all the winnable, considering the fact that you can literally only make the dice explode
We all have a reason to pick slime. Dragon Quest for the old school gamers, Slime Rancher for the new school gamers, slimesekai for the anime watchers, etc. There's a slime for everybody!
That being said I think that dryads are pretty cool because literally being the manifestation of a tree's soul is freaking sick.
Everyone I know loves d12’s, I think it’s something about the look of them. They look nice. Good hand feel too, d4’s are kind of awkward, your not really rolling them cause they don’t really roll, it’s more of a shake-and-drop and it’s just less satisfying.
Not gonna lie, I love the background music.
A poll about whether to play an Awakened Cat or something that has to Mage Hand to carry itself might be nice
I haven't played dnd yet but i would love to play it,i even have a character ready !
The best starting level is level 3 as it's the best to give you room in your back story on how you got your basic training of your subclass and it makes combat more interesting and rp
It always seemed dumb to me that some classes don't get their sub class until later levels. Want to be an artillerist artificer? No gun until level 3. Wizard who studied X in school? No, you learned your school of magic by killing a slime. Trained to be any of the interesting fighter subclasses? Too bad, your cavalier doesn't have a mount, your psi warrior forgot his Jedi training, your arcane archer only gets his years of training on the walk back from a cave.
Many classes are written like they expect a time skip between level 2 and 3.
@@amirabudubai2279 absolutely how I feel about it. I wanted to make an eldritch knight for a campaign but we start level 1 and idk how my knight all of a sudden decides to be big brain and do magic over a long rest
Poll idea: What are Dragonborn?
1. Evolutionary offshoot of Dragons
2. Created by dragons, for dragons
3. Breeding between dragon and humanoids
My DM: *listens to the the pick a mimic poll* *sees all these small to medium sized mimics*
Her: *laughs in more than a 100 ft long ship mimic*
Here in my city they play every other thursday in a game store and everyone is welcome. It's only during summers and the last 18 months they have been canceled, but they just re-started last week.
Im sorry I wasn't here for the poll. ide be happy to rule the world with you!
I actually played my first session 3 weeks ago and it went well :)
If I can see the future I can find if a group will play often, and likely amass high levels of wealth
A regularly meeting dnd group would be nice. The group I play with is supposed to play once a week, last time we played was August, fingers crossed that today's session won't be cancelled 2 hours beforehand.
When he says that all 99% of the polls are an E but none of them are
“is your refrigerator running?”
“Yes”
“WATCH OUT ITS A MIMIC RUN AWAY”
Infinite wealth would buy you a D&D group that plays regularly
1:45 That second option DEFINITELY isn't good. At best, it's neutral.
He did mention that the alignments on that poll were skewed.
You could do a video about all the characterts you created in D&D, such as the immortal one, the one punch man one, etc, fighting each other to see who would win.
I had a character who used your isekaid background as a dnd loving shut in who became a rouge. He used d4s as caltrops, d12s for catapult, ect. He also had a paper sword which somehow magically turned into steel whenever he yelled the words I have the power of god and anime on my side. Super fun
I make all of my characters chaotic neutral because they are unpredictable, in my current campaign the character I am playing is a motherly murder hobo
ive actually played a level 20 character before. it was during a max level battle royale one shot. it was fun as heck and even though i didnt win i got to cast 9th levels spells. would highly recommend.
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The monotone tone this was said in us perfect
2:08 You didn't really give a definitive statement as to how much is "often", so I chose either one. I actually just recently got into DnD because of you (mainly because of all your anime videos as well as stories), and it's been a blast! Been both player and DM so far.
Dnd and polls are this worlds destiny
IT’S HERE
As for video ideas.. I'd love to see another video covering more stories from your homebrew campaign: The Hollow. If you have any that you deem worthwhile to share!
The d4 is a fucking caltrop! Who wouldn't hate the bloody thing?
Use it against your enemies
Do you even know that pain of stepping on a lego? The D4 is that times 100
5:27 im loking forward to tommorows session is terrifying for some reason
Video Idea: What your favorite D&D Weapon says about you part 2, featuring weapons people said in the comments of part 1!
Another Video Idea: What your favorite D&D feat says about you
the d4 hurts to rolls because its pointy especially if its metal
A new video from the moat handsome man on UA-cam.
here's an idea for a poll:
you are a level 0 mosquito, your facing off against the bbeg dark lord of darkness and evil, all of your party members are dead...but there is a shimmer of hope because you rolled...A NAT 20 AND YOU HAVE WON, how would you like to end this amazing campaign
1. go home and be all sad and gloomy that your friends died
2. take the dark lords cloak but before you go to try and heal your friends you stop and think 'do i really need to heal them...i mean its not like i need them anymore because im a bloody spellcaster now (yes the mosquito British) i can do whatever i want...' and with that single thought your character has became the next bbeg
my party tried using fire against some angry zombie ants. we ended up causing a massive forest fire and only saved it cause one of the druids contacted a water spirit
the scariest thing to hear the DM say is "oh" after looking in a book and rolling a few dice
a good poll would be to make a poll for every class and ask "what is the worst subclass?" and do that to for the best and see what are the answers ^^
Dude. Using a hawk and snek would be awesome. You can have a horde of both, using the hawks to drop the sneks (like deploying them) into enemy ranks. That would be hilarious!
3:20 I never knew your best huggbee's impression would be an among us joke
Long bows have the heavy property and I love Kobolds, Gnomes, and Goblins.
D4 is best dice as it is the only one that deals itself in damage when stepping on it. (also very good for improvised defense)
Longbow + Archer Proficiency = A Longbow that will almost never Miss
I mean, have you ever stepped on a d4. I understand the animosity! 😳🤣
1000 rats disguised as a human is now officially my next character. The DM approved.
1:45 - alternate reading of the stats: 54% of voters would either not help or help with strings attached, but 46% could agree on a single course of action
We’ve got a group that plays regularly but the unofficial group leader type dude is going off to the Navy in like 3 weeks
Happily, my first dnd campaign went to level 20