Thanks for watching! We had so much fun diving into DnD content to make this video. There's so much more we didn't get the chance to cover! What other DnD media would you recommend watching?
Dungeon Meshi is entirely unrelated to D&D, it is not D&D media. Claiming it is, is a stretch at best. The only thing they have in common is the fantasy genre.
@@sophiescott143 Ryoko Kui drew inspiration for her manga from D&D rulebooks and novels, as well as Japanese RPGs like Wizardry, which is heavily influenced by D&D. So, I disagree. They have much more in common than just the fantasy genre.
Fun facts about the author! 1) I'm pretty sure she's stated that she's actually a picky eater. 2) She rushed to finish the manga (not to say the ending is rushed-it ends very satisfactorily), so she could play Baldurs Gate 3 uninterrupted and has drawn some fan art for it. 3) She's aggressively elusive. There are little to no pictures of her; she has only a handful of interviews done and literally has no social media presence. 4) I mentioned before that she played Bladurs Gate 3, but that's only one of the many games she talked about playing. She's played others like Red Dead Redemption 2, The Witcher 3, and Cyberpunk 2077 (which is her all-time favorite). 5) The biggest inspiration for Dungeon Meshi is a slew of fantasy games and novels (shes noted to have read Lord of the Rings, etc.). But the biggest inspiration is by far Wizardry, and the second biggest would be The Legend of Grimrock.
She doesn't play DnD but she plays Wizardry, you can find an old post from her blog about the build of each Dungeon Meshi character would have in Wizardry. That interview is just shit and they asked a yes or no question about DnD, not about tabletop games in general.
but she said she plays wizardy a lot (a old school dungeon crawler) when she was a child, even the races are exactly the same as wizardry (and that's why kobolds are dogs)
Dungeon Meshi really reminds me of old Advance DnD in just the ways they navigate the dungeons and surviving in it. We didnt eat the monsters but there was so many times of clutch near death moments that this anime reminds me off and how we spent half of it half naked beating monsters to death with rusted swords and turning giant dead snakes into makeshift loot sacks.
Yeah, that's primarily because Japan hasn't really had any kind of relationship with D&D since the 80's. The woman who took over TSR (and ran it into the ground, resulting in the WotC buyout) scoffed at the idea of working with Japan because she hated nerds and nerd culture and decided one-sidedly that "nobody would be interested in anything out of Japan" when the Record of Lodoss War guys (who based their own game on the original D&D system) approached wanting to make Lodoss an official D&D setting. Prior to 'That Woman', under Gygax and co, TSR had welcomed the Japanese market, even going so far as to publish the content in Japanese and the Mystara content even got brand new artwork just for the Japanese release. That's also why you see a TON of D&D inspired artwork in Japanese media in the 70s and the 80s, from anime to videogames (Castlevania's boxart is straight up lifted from Ravenloft, at that). Honestly, I miss that era the most because of the more down-to-earth sword and sorcery aesthetics as opposed to everything about D&D now feeling like it's a Marvel movie. After 'That Woman' shunned the Japan market, though, Japan went off and did its own thing and made its own game systems -- and WotC has never pursued the Japanese market since taking over the brand either.
In Mutant you eat mutant monsters. There are no normal animals, everything including several PCs are mutants. An ordinary farm animal can be a fire-bfeathing goat thing. The challenge in Mutant is to learn how to prep these things. Some mutant beasts are poisonous or carry parasites unless cooked. Some just taste like mud. Local taboos can affect certain animals. Sometimes the thing is a delicacy, worth treasure. You can approximate how many rations it produces by using size or strength/con or something.
i finally realized why in the dnd movie the intellect devourers passed the group by. a bard, barbarian, sorcerer, and a paladin; they didnt even have two braincells between them.
Yep yep. ahahah once you releize it you cant unsee it. It was awsome. When they walked passed im like..ahaha respectable. non of them are int stat mains :p some people didnt get it they where like why is the sorcerer not being attacked. Im like becouse the Sorc is Charisma based of corse :p
It really feels like Dungeon Crawl Classics to me. There is a Fighter, Dwarf, Elf and Halfling. (Yes, those are all classes). The way they are forced to relly more on cunning and cenario interaction rather than pure uses of spells really sends home how it feels to play DCC.
Or the Wizard and the Elf both spellburn 15+ points each to summon an already massive demon toad then cast an enlarge spell so beefed up that the thing grows 50 feet tall...
Also, every player group has a quirk. For some it's collecting books, or visiting shrines, and for this one is cooking anything and everything. And the best part is that the worldbuilding of the "DM" helps the narrative that the players want to encounter. It feels like the best dnd you ever played.
My current group's quirk is collecting beloved DMPCs. We started with one Duergar Cleric because the campaign was supposed to be hard. We have now adopted three more, an Elf Druid, a Half-Orc Enchantress Wizard, and an Ilithid. We're probably gonna permanently adopt one of Asmodeus' sons as a fifth, if my character can get his head out of his ass.
Been working on my own DnD world to try to play with my family for the past year, never DM'ed or even played a TTRPG of this scale before but this video has given so much inspiration and guidance to how I want to try to DM. Many thanks for the fantastic video!
Nice video. Kudos to the producers behind the anime, for giving it a decent budget, and studio trigger for a good job. Anime is full of good stories getting poor adaptations, and therefore the story/source material doesn't get more recognition. Dungeon Meshi is have it's moment in the spotlight and deserves it!
I DO really like how D&D naturally builds in flaws for your characters, not just in backgrounds, but yes, in stats. Unless you 'roll your stats at home', you are very likely to roll some good and bad stats (or if you sensibly use point buy, you have to choose between being good at some things and bad at others, or very average at everything.) This character is also just that, a character, with a background and personality, which can have more flaws, which you can choose to relate to your stats or not!
One of my favorite D&D characters was a battle master fighter where I rolled stupid-amazing stats. I think they were 18, 17, 17, 16, 16, & 15. I ended up playing her like Sterling Archer; incredibly talented and capable, but also hedonistic, habitually drunk, and usually not taking things very seriously unless the situation was really dire.
@@trequor I actually don't roll alot of characters lol, it's because I use Point Buy, where you can choose your stats. That's what I was saying, that you can choose to be good at a couple things or ok at everything.
Man, my character luck is either really good or really ass. I had a +5 and -4 on the same character at level 3. Bro had the wisdom of a child but the intelligence of a god.
DinD is a fantastic show. i was so blown away, as i am not a "normal anime guy", and don't really watch much or often. but DinD was binged over 2 days and i can't wait for the second season!
The concept of a dungeon as alien ecology, but with internal rationalities you can learn, is pretty fun. I don't know if everything has to be a direct D&D equivalent. The general principles of dungeoneering can be used in different games. One event I liked was that Namari and Shuro straight up resigned. Your goons are not fanatically loyal, they got stuff to do. And they don't disappear from the world, they can still be encountered.
I just wanted to say this is an amazingly well put together video. This is the first time ive seen your channel but your own narritive throught the entire video and just how well layed out it is is truely impressive.
I usually play animals as relying on instinctive behaviour. They are not always smart, but they might have an instinct to chase people who run or to hide and ambush.
@@SusCalvin It's the inconsistency that bothers me. Disarming the party is smart, closing to melee range is dumb and is clearly the result of the DM panicking and trying to give the party a chance to fight back. Maybe I'm a little too observant for my own good but when the hand of the DM is that obvious it breaks immersion for me.
@studentofsmith When the players learn animal instincts, they can start to trick them. An animal might not recognize a trap or a gun or magic. I guessed the froggos wanted to munch them. They can't pull a whole person into their mouth with the tongue. They felt like ambush predators who want to jump down hard on people as a group.
@@SusCalvin I was thinking the same thing. Can't eat someone from range, and it's entirely possible that either they aren't strong enough to lift a person with their tongue, or the ceiling/vines wouldn't support that much weight. So, the frog closed the distance.
@@c.e.pa.9222 I think the main problem there is with D&D's ruleset. Most classes have access to magic, so it might feel limiting to "not be able to play those classes." The world of Delicious in Dungeon might be served by a different system.
@@irregularassassin6380 Nunca he jugado DnD, pero creo que con menos clases esa sensación se limitarían porque, ya sea que hagas multiclase o no, vas a tener que sacrificar algo. Puedes ser un mago enfocado al daño (Marcille) o un mago enfocado a apoyo (Falin); puedes ser un pícaro enfocado al apoyo (Chilchuck) o uno enfocado al daño (Izutzumi); puedes tener un luchador muy resistente (Senshi) o uno muy ágil (Laios). Los jugadores no pueden tenerlo todo, sí o sí tienen que complementarse. Creo que las multiclases canon son Kabru (luchador-pícaro) y Laios (luchador-mago)
NGL when I saw the trailer my first thought was “pass” I didn’t need some food anime. But a mixture of people saying it was good and me being bored one day I tried it… damn I enjoyed it so much as a DnD player. Especially as a DM I wanted to steal some stuff from the show to implement in my own game. They could make a setting book for this and it would be fantastic.
I think this video convinced me to be a DM. I've always had the stories in my head, and the love for the game but no DM to guide me. What keeps me back is the fear of not providing a good story and feeling to my friends. However, the breakdown of something I loved and enjoyed in a way I want to provide in a way that I feel I can break down and think of... I can't explain. I may "steal" ideas from media, or follow a guide, but I want to have a great time and guide some friends who've never experienced DnD and would love it. TLDR; Thanks for the video, I really think it helped me with something I needed.
Never feel bad for "stealing" from media. All media is "stolen" from other media! Not in a malicious way, mind you, that's just how creativity and inspiration work. It's all endless remixes of things creators have seen before, but with fresh twists. That doesn't make any creative work any lesser, instead it just shows that everything has heritage. So steal away, and have a great time!
One of the coolest moments is when shenshi jerry rigs holy water to defeat spectres but instead of spraying it on them pours it into a glass vial closing it and attaching it to rope to use as flail.
That was so cool, and the most D&D aspect of the show in my opinion. When the chips are down, players *will* MacGyver a solution! I once found myself in a similar situation as a Cleric in 3.5e. Out of spells, and turning attempts, and with one magic weapon in the party ... I made do by swinging my bag of holding like a maniac! It was a magical item, and therefore, when used as an improvised weapon, had a 50% chance to connect with an incorporeal enemy on a successful hit (unlike mundane objects which never can).
I know this is more DND focused but hearing you kinda bring up all the uniqueness of DND in how players build not only the story together but the memories through their characters strengths and weaknesses reminds me of how I get more enjoyment from starting lvl 1 campaigns over the mid maxing lvl 10 campaigns that drag on for 2 years plus with unremarkable events with absurd checks (people I played with would often do builds that give plus 10 min to all their stat checks). I think thats why I got hooked by Dungeon Meshi as it kinda reminds of one of my more favorite campaigns. Also thank you for not clumping intelligence and wisdom as the same thing lol. So many people assume both mean the same thing!
There is this one session in my campaign where we were getting a moon elf from captivity to prevent them from being killed so we were gonna have a we went there. We went to the village. We were deciding who goes in so we had our sorcerer, mechanist and Rogue. Simple go in and go out right no our sorcerer kept bumping into tables and dropping mugs and then when we finally got to the door, the rogue forgot to trap check and activated the alarm so we had to run and the entire city went on lockdown. Don’t worry we escaped
We've all had that one session. In my group, we called it "boys' trip." We decided to split the party, and for the first time the divide fell largely along the gender lines. The guys jokingly said they were going on a boys' trip, not expecting everything to go sideways. No one died, no one even got hurt, but we all fell down a slope comprising of mud mixed with blood, and then had to dig around in the concoction for over an hour and our druid's staff was ruined. When we got back, the girls just laughed at us. We've had two more "boys' trips" since, and they've all been varying degrees of chaotic and awful. It's fantastic.
No idea how using goodberry is bad rp. I think the druid ignoring the fact that they could trivially solve the party's food problem is way worse. Also, in a campaign where half the PCs will end up as literal gods means struggling to find food becomes increasingly silly. survival =/= roleplaying
@@justoneman13 I think the problems arise because it completely removes a major component of survival narratives from the board. Survival =/= roleplaying ... until it does, but that's harder with Goodberry in the picture. The solution is to work with the Druid player, and/or limit Goodberry in a number of ways.
All those years playing Dungeons & Dragons with my nerdy bros. during my formative years I can honestly say we never once BBQ’ed the Giant Dungeon Rats that we coup de grâce’d in a First Level Dungeon Crawl…. After watching this show maybe we should have?!? To quote the little Hobbit guy in this series: “All This Time and I Never Knew This DUNGEON had so much YUMMY STUFF in it !!!”
@@wackyruss You ate mutant monsters in Mutant. There are no normal animals. Typical countryside food is a soup on predatory grass. The big challenge was to prepare things safely. You need to know which monsters are poisonous and which ones need to be cooked eight hours. Some are weird, like an explosive rodent you should absolutely not cook.
Haha, actually we have one player in our campaign currently, Nutt the dwarf who at the beginning told me he was "neutral good" (I don't believe it anymore), who always roasts or tries eating things after they are killed. He's of course tried some roasted rat, patiently collecting, skinning, and then roasting it after a battle; he wanted to roast a gorilla demon monkey too... Most famously, he always also concocts psychodelic coackroach brain pills in an attempt to increase his intelligence, which he overdosed on whenever he misses the session irl. Hmm, the rest of the party was also influenced, and also began burning a lot of things... But to this day, none of them have accepted one of his cockroach pills.
@TheWorldPillow This is what everyone does in Mutant. There are no normal animals left. Peasants harvest some kind of monster grass the drinks blood for something like nettle soup. A normal farm animal can be an armoured, overgrown and highly aggressive horse with fangs.
@TheWorldPillow There are some taboos in Mutant against eating some animals. Like how you might not serve up an eagle or a caterpillar. Some are so poisonous they have no idea how to eat any part, some are edible but considered low grade.
My headcannon is if Delicious in Dungeon just a game of DND then Senshi and Falin are the same player. Senshi and Laios get a long well and even share the same interests, and its really funny by the mininal interactions Senshi and Falin have with each other because that player would have to talk to themselves.
Not one minute into the video, and YOU, sir, have proven to me that you understand the game by correctly identifying Senshi as the ranger. You've earned yourself a sub.
I’m gonna need an explanation. Beyond knowing the intricacies of the Dungeon’s ecosystem and having great survival skills, how is Senshi a ranger? I don’t see the play style, and yes, I know that rangers don’t have to use ranged weapons.
Me and my friend almost died to 5 rats in a dungeon when we were level 3 and I had a pet baby sandworm luckily we didn't die but both me and my friend got downed and the baby sandworm some how killed 4 out of the 5 rats
Oh yes, goblins should never be underestimated. It only takes a few bad rolls for three of them to bring down a PC in one round. My party had this really close call with a water elemental. It was a random encounter; something that came up upon them from a river while they were traveling. It was so close that I started brainstorming ways to roll their likely failure into a branching storyline. It wasn't supposed to be a big deal, but because of the die and the nature of TTRPG, it almost became a big deal.
There's actually a TTRPG that runs with this, it was a Kickstarter project called Wilderfeast. The players are all monster hunters/cooks who use giant kitchen utensils as weapons and gain mutations from the monsters they eat. It's put out by Horrible Guild...if I could get the rest of my friends into TTRPGs I'd try it, except it's REALLY hard to get us all together for a game and only one of us out of all 5 is a regular TTRPG player and he GMs games using the internet so he's got the know how to do it...but I'm not sure about the other 3 on if they would be down for that.
there really are several moments in the show that remind me of DnD like marccille with the kraken and waterwalking spell that feels like it should not of worked but she rolled a 20 and the DM went fine and let it
Abusing spells is a tradition in OSR. There is often no roll to spells, you force an effect on reality. Spells often outline effects but not the full details. You would need to convince me. This is not a roll.
I see Laios as a terribly unoptimized fighter, like 15 str and 14 int, with a DM that rewards his background/feat/whatever that gives him so much monster knowledge.
"Everything goes to hell" Is the best storybeat , right next to "failed but succided" First one aceptionally pulled of by dungeon meshi , second one , by lupin the third: castle of caliostro.
@@TrixyTrixter this is not a case of "i'm not a "painter", but i can see you did a shit job painting this wall" how can she understand something she didn't interact with before? especially when it's about a subject that has a lot of things specific only to it? The truth is that she played other games that had similar things to dnd in them. that's it.
The headcannon of this anime's fanbase is on a different level, lol.If they say every character is gey, every characyter is gey. If they say the author plays dnd, the author palys dnd, period.
@@belldrop7365 yup. like with marcille and falin. the author herself said that they aren't gay and yet, the "special" fans still say they are gay and act like it's the absolute truth and if you don't agree with them or try to correct them, you are a monster
I never played d&d, so I can't comment on it's relation to that, but this anime is wonderful. I am picky and just loved this show right away and loved every bit of the 24 episodes. It's a perfect adventure foraging cooking anime show. I want to live that way, sharing food with friends around a campfire is life.
Contrats on being the first ever video of a subscribed channel that did not appear in my subscriptions feed. :( Luckily the home tab recommended it to me, but that's only after I way done watching all the videos of channels I'm subscribed to.
20:27 yes, but also wizardry EXTREMELY wizardry, with wiz 6 being cited as one of the biggest inspirations for it, as that game, unlike most previous entries, focused on a party trapped inside a dungeon, without a town to go back to
It's noteworthy that in Japan, most D&D content is firmly rooted in the 1st and 2nd Edition Era, which is why things like Dungeon Meshi and Goblin Slayer have a Gygaxian 'Delve' feel to them as opposed to modern D&D's "Guardians of the Galaxy" approach. Magic isn't over the top and spammable, most of the armor is pretty functional, nobody is pulling out ludicrous multi-phase super-powered moves at level 5, etc. Instead you're just a bunch of normal adventurers in a world where the fatality rate of your chosen employment is astonishingly high, to the point where nobody is just casually doing it "for the thrills." Mind you, that's primarily because Japan hasn't really had any kind of relationship with D&D since the 80's. The woman who took over TSR (and ran it into the ground, resulting in the WotC buyout) scoffed at the idea of working with Japan because she hated nerds and nerd culture and decided one-sidedly that "nobody would be interested in anything out of Japan" when the Record of Lodoss War guys (who based their own game on the original D&D system) approached wanting to make Lodoss an official D&D setting. Prior to 'That Woman', under Gygax and co, TSR had welcomed the Japanese market, even going so far as to publish the content in Japanese and the Mystara content even got brand new artwork just for the Japanese release. That's also why you see a TON of D&D inspired artwork in Japanese media in the 70s and the 80s, from anime to videogames (Castlevania's boxart is straight up lifted from Ravenloft, at that). Honestly, I miss that era the most because of the more down-to-earth sword and sorcery aesthetics as opposed to everything about D&D now feeling like it's a Marvel movie. After 'That Woman' shunned the Japan market, though, Japan went off and did its own thing and made its own game systems -- and WotC has never pursued the Japanese market since taking over the brand either.
Your weird insistence of "that woman" like a bad Stewie Griffin impersonation coupled with "X didnt do Y cause they personally hate [me] and not just cold business metrics' gives off such weird incel vibes on an otherwise informative post. Businesses aren't piloted by single people and trying to pin the blame on some imaginary beef with them (Ironically, the fact so many people are involved in decisions is often the REASON things end up as poop as they do) is kinda childish.
@@oshkeet Yeah, no. If you don't actually KNOW anything about the TSR takeover situation, then please, kindly shut up and spare everyone your Tumblr feminist "incel" quips. The term "That Woman" is literally an in-joke, which just really outs you for the ignorant cultural tourist that you are, coming into the fandom only after it's been popularized by shiny famous people and wanting to take your selfie in front of it and pretending you know anything because you read a brochure. That, quite frankly, is far more childish. Heck, you wanna refer to my remarks as 'Stewie Griffin' like? You're basically Brian. Pretentious and arrogant despite only having a basic level knowledge about anything, but thinking it makes you smarter than everyone else.
@@oshkeet And your weird Brian Griffin-like insistance on pretending like you have the slightest idea about anything is giving off immense tourist vibes on what is ultimately a post that serves no purpose other than for you to try and pretend like you're superior to a stranger on the internet. Next time spare the rest of us your pretention.
Very weird that you refer to the one that took head of the company as 'That Woman', like atleast cite her saying she hates nerdy stuff and that's why they don't work with Japan, you could also just get her actual name if she really was that important
I put my players in a living dungeon with meaty walls. The monk decided to make the best out of the situation and get some meaty balls. They did one poison damage with each bite but they healed them for 1d4
Thanks for watching! We had so much fun diving into DnD content to make this video. There's so much more we didn't get the chance to cover! What other DnD media would you recommend watching?
@@Beghast-tv goblin slayer is a beautiful manga(anime is not recommended) and Frieren: Beyond Journey's End is Both an amazing manga and anime.
Record of Lodoss War was a DnD campaign.
Legend of Vox Machina!
Dungeon Meshi is entirely unrelated to D&D, it is not D&D media. Claiming it is, is a stretch at best. The only thing they have in common is the fantasy genre.
@@sophiescott143 Ryoko Kui drew inspiration for her manga from D&D rulebooks and novels, as well as Japanese RPGs like Wizardry, which is heavily influenced by D&D. So, I disagree. They have much more in common than just the fantasy genre.
Fun facts about the author!
1) I'm pretty sure she's stated that she's actually a picky eater.
2) She rushed to finish the manga (not to say the ending is rushed-it ends very satisfactorily), so she could play Baldurs Gate 3 uninterrupted and has drawn some fan art for it.
3) She's aggressively elusive. There are little to no pictures of her; she has only a handful of interviews done and literally has no social media presence.
4) I mentioned before that she played Bladurs Gate 3, but that's only one of the many games she talked about playing. She's played others like Red Dead Redemption 2, The Witcher 3, and Cyberpunk 2077 (which is her all-time favorite).
5) The biggest inspiration for Dungeon Meshi is a slew of fantasy games and novels (shes noted to have read Lord of the Rings, etc.). But the biggest inspiration is by far Wizardry, and the second biggest would be The Legend of Grimrock.
Wonderful! I can totally see inspiration for Legend of Grim Rock.
Do your remember where you got point 4? Was it that famitsu interview or something else?
>facts
>1) I'm pretty sure
clown much? 🤡 😂
Rushing to finish your manga to play Baldur's Gate is exactly what a Baldur's Gate player would do
@@matheuskerr9222 most common rage bait detected
Funnily enough, the creator said in an interview, that she never played DnD or is a good cook.
She plays baldur's gate thought.
She doesn't play DnD but she plays Wizardry, you can find an old post from her blog about the build of each Dungeon Meshi character would have in Wizardry.
That interview is just shit and they asked a yes or no question about DnD, not about tabletop games in general.
but she said she plays wizardy a lot (a old school dungeon crawler) when she was a child, even the races are exactly the same as wizardry (and that's why kobolds are dogs)
Ah yes, my favorite trope in reality: Doesn't have experience, weirdly good at it
She was inspired by wizardry
Dungeon Meshi really reminds me of old Advance DnD in just the ways they navigate the dungeons and surviving in it. We didnt eat the monsters but there was so many times of clutch near death moments that this anime reminds me off and how we spent half of it half naked beating monsters to death with rusted swords and turning giant dead snakes into makeshift loot sacks.
It definitely has an AD&D feel where the classes are a lot more defined and dungeon ecology is heavily emphasized
Yeah, that's primarily because Japan hasn't really had any kind of relationship with D&D since the 80's. The woman who took over TSR (and ran it into the ground, resulting in the WotC buyout) scoffed at the idea of working with Japan because she hated nerds and nerd culture and decided one-sidedly that "nobody would be interested in anything out of Japan" when the Record of Lodoss War guys (who based their own game on the original D&D system) approached wanting to make Lodoss an official D&D setting.
Prior to 'That Woman', under Gygax and co, TSR had welcomed the Japanese market, even going so far as to publish the content in Japanese and the Mystara content even got brand new artwork just for the Japanese release. That's also why you see a TON of D&D inspired artwork in Japanese media in the 70s and the 80s, from anime to videogames (Castlevania's boxart is straight up lifted from Ravenloft, at that). Honestly, I miss that era the most because of the more down-to-earth sword and sorcery aesthetics as opposed to everything about D&D now feeling like it's a Marvel movie.
After 'That Woman' shunned the Japan market, though, Japan went off and did its own thing and made its own game systems -- and WotC has never pursued the Japanese market since taking over the brand either.
Yeah Dungeon Meshi feels a lot more like old-school D&D (OD&D, AD&D, and B/X). It's based off of Wizardry, which was based off of D&D.
Because Japan RPG are built on wizardry based on adnd
In Mutant you eat mutant monsters. There are no normal animals, everything including several PCs are mutants. An ordinary farm animal can be a fire-bfeathing goat thing.
The challenge in Mutant is to learn how to prep these things. Some mutant beasts are poisonous or carry parasites unless cooked. Some just taste like mud. Local taboos can affect certain animals. Sometimes the thing is a delicacy, worth treasure.
You can approximate how many rations it produces by using size or strength/con or something.
i finally realized why in the dnd movie the intellect devourers passed the group by. a bard, barbarian, sorcerer, and a paladin; they didnt even have two braincells between them.
Yep yep. ahahah once you releize it you cant unsee it. It was awsome. When they walked passed im like..ahaha respectable. non of them are int stat mains :p some people didnt get it they where like why is the sorcerer not being attacked. Im like becouse the Sorc is Charisma based of corse :p
Isn't Marcille a wizard though? She even went to a wizarding school. Even got the books and all. Definitely NOT a sorcerer
@@straypaperthat was about D&D movie, Honor Among Thieves.
Yea, tho very honestly, the way the Bard is portrayed there is more like a Mastermind Rogue with Magic Initiate: Bard, or 1 Bard Level
Isn't that, like, even brought up in the movie?
It really feels like Dungeon Crawl Classics to me.
There is a Fighter, Dwarf, Elf and Halfling. (Yes, those are all classes).
The way they are forced to relly more on cunning and cenario interaction rather than pure uses of spells really sends home how it feels to play DCC.
I would like to play it some day
Or the Wizard and the Elf both spellburn 15+ points each to summon an already massive demon toad then cast an enlarge spell so beefed up that the thing grows 50 feet tall...
Only played Level 0 funnel part of game, but it was fun. Too bad that GM wasn't interested in running actual adventure tho.
Generally OSR (which I guess odnd clones are too so still correct!)
That intro sequence was awesome!
Also, every player group has a quirk. For some it's collecting books, or visiting shrines, and for this one is cooking anything and everything. And the best part is that the worldbuilding of the "DM" helps the narrative that the players want to encounter. It feels like the best dnd you ever played.
My current group's quirk is collecting beloved DMPCs. We started with one Duergar Cleric because the campaign was supposed to be hard. We have now adopted three more, an Elf Druid, a Half-Orc Enchantress Wizard, and an Ilithid. We're probably gonna permanently adopt one of Asmodeus' sons as a fifth, if my character can get his head out of his ass.
Been working on my own DnD world to try to play with my family for the past year, never DM'ed or even played a TTRPG of this scale before but this video has given so much inspiration and guidance to how I want to try to DM. Many thanks for the fantastic video!
You're ready! Have fun!
@@2smexy4juu Good luck!! If you are ever in need, consult the almighty google!!
Great explanation of D&D! Together with Dungeon Meshi makes it extremely inviting.
Its truly fascinating how well this story is written
Nice video. Kudos to the producers behind the anime, for giving it a decent budget, and studio trigger for a good job. Anime is full of good stories getting poor adaptations, and therefore the story/source material doesn't get more recognition. Dungeon Meshi is have it's moment in the spotlight and deserves it!
I DO really like how D&D naturally builds in flaws for your characters, not just in backgrounds, but yes, in stats. Unless you 'roll your stats at home', you are very likely to roll some good and bad stats (or if you sensibly use point buy, you have to choose between being good at some things and bad at others, or very average at everything.)
This character is also just that, a character, with a background and personality, which can have more flaws, which you can choose to relate to your stats or not!
Lol clearly you havent rolled too many characters. Randomness produces lots of streaks. Most rolls are not "average" rolls.
One of my favorite D&D characters was a battle master fighter where I rolled stupid-amazing stats. I think they were 18, 17, 17, 16, 16, & 15. I ended up playing her like Sterling Archer; incredibly talented and capable, but also hedonistic, habitually drunk, and usually not taking things very seriously unless the situation was really dire.
@@trequor I actually don't roll alot of characters lol, it's because I use Point Buy, where you can choose your stats. That's what I was saying, that you can choose to be good at a couple things or ok at everything.
Man, my character luck is either really good or really ass. I had a +5 and -4 on the same character at level 3. Bro had the wisdom of a child but the intelligence of a god.
@@draconiusxvii7983
So you rolled sheldon Cooper?
DinD is a fantastic show. i was so blown away, as i am not a "normal anime guy", and don't really watch much or often. but DinD was binged over 2 days and i can't wait for the second season!
Beghast: In this next part no one is really supposed to die
Meanwhile in ShadowDark: Yep! That's the third PC that died in a session...
The concept of a dungeon as alien ecology, but with internal rationalities you can learn, is pretty fun.
I don't know if everything has to be a direct D&D equivalent. The general principles of dungeoneering can be used in different games.
One event I liked was that Namari and Shuro straight up resigned. Your goons are not fanatically loyal, they got stuff to do. And they don't disappear from the world, they can still be encountered.
this just made me think what if fallens player wanted to play something else and so made senshi so still be able to make sure the party stayed alive
Falin's player also being Senshi is such a hilarious take but i love it
I just wanted to say this is an amazingly well put together video. This is the first time ive seen your channel but your own narritive throught the entire video and just how well layed out it is is truely impressive.
So, the frogs are smart enough to disarm the party but not smart enough to stay at range. Yeah, that sounds like how a lot of DMs run monsters.
The frogs were probably trained by the orcs as guards for their passage. They were probably waiting for backup that would never arrive
I usually play animals as relying on instinctive behaviour. They are not always smart, but they might have an instinct to chase people who run or to hide and ambush.
@@SusCalvin It's the inconsistency that bothers me. Disarming the party is smart, closing to melee range is dumb and is clearly the result of the DM panicking and trying to give the party a chance to fight back. Maybe I'm a little too observant for my own good but when the hand of the DM is that obvious it breaks immersion for me.
@studentofsmith When the players learn animal instincts, they can start to trick them. An animal might not recognize a trap or a gun or magic.
I guessed the froggos wanted to munch them. They can't pull a whole person into their mouth with the tongue. They felt like ambush predators who want to jump down hard on people as a group.
@@SusCalvin I was thinking the same thing. Can't eat someone from range, and it's entirely possible that either they aren't strong enough to lift a person with their tongue, or the ceiling/vines wouldn't support that much weight. So, the frog closed the distance.
she literally stopped the manga faster cause she wanted to play Baldur's Gate 😭
@@P1guTV I don't know if you read it, but it has a pretty slow, cozy ending. An entire epilogue volume.
Haruko Ichikawa and Ryuko Kui.
Both awesome mangakas putting their god tier fantasy mangas aside to play video games.
I kinda hope Ryoko Kui will make a DND or Pathfinder playbook based on her world.
I hope it is Pathfinder though, because I have vowed never to give gold to WOTC again. :)
She (somewhat) did!
Sería muy interesante. Me pregunto cómo se adaptarían los jugadores a que las únicas clases sean mago, guerrero y pícaro.
@@c.e.pa.9222 I think the main problem there is with D&D's ruleset. Most classes have access to magic, so it might feel limiting to "not be able to play those classes." The world of Delicious in Dungeon might be served by a different system.
@@irregularassassin6380 Nunca he jugado DnD, pero creo que con menos clases esa sensación se limitarían porque, ya sea que hagas multiclase o no, vas a tener que sacrificar algo. Puedes ser un mago enfocado al daño (Marcille) o un mago enfocado a apoyo (Falin); puedes ser un pícaro enfocado al apoyo (Chilchuck) o uno enfocado al daño (Izutzumi); puedes tener un luchador muy resistente (Senshi) o uno muy ágil (Laios). Los jugadores no pueden tenerlo todo, sí o sí tienen que complementarse.
Creo que las multiclases canon son Kabru (luchador-pícaro) y Laios (luchador-mago)
NGL when I saw the trailer my first thought was “pass” I didn’t need some food anime. But a mixture of people saying it was good and me being bored one day I tried it… damn I enjoyed it so much as a DnD player. Especially as a DM I wanted to steal some stuff from the show to implement in my own game. They could make a setting book for this and it would be fantastic.
Good news! The Manga and extra content besides it explain, A LOT of stuff that gets cut short in the anime :D
Great video! Never thought I would watch the show but now i want to check it out. Love dnd and it seems like this show is a great representation
I think this video convinced me to be a DM. I've always had the stories in my head, and the love for the game but no DM to guide me. What keeps me back is the fear of not providing a good story and feeling to my friends. However, the breakdown of something I loved and enjoyed in a way I want to provide in a way that I feel I can break down and think of... I can't explain. I may "steal" ideas from media, or follow a guide, but I want to have a great time and guide some friends who've never experienced DnD and would love it.
TLDR; Thanks for the video, I really think it helped me with something I needed.
Never feel bad for "stealing" from media. All media is "stolen" from other media! Not in a malicious way, mind you, that's just how creativity and inspiration work. It's all endless remixes of things creators have seen before, but with fresh twists. That doesn't make any creative work any lesser, instead it just shows that everything has heritage.
So steal away, and have a great time!
One of the coolest moments is when shenshi jerry rigs holy water to defeat spectres but instead of spraying it on them pours it into a glass vial closing it and attaching it to rope to use as flail.
That was so cool, and the most D&D aspect of the show in my opinion. When the chips are down, players *will* MacGyver a solution! I once found myself in a similar situation as a Cleric in 3.5e. Out of spells, and turning attempts, and with one magic weapon in the party ... I made do by swinging my bag of holding like a maniac! It was a magical item, and therefore, when used as an improvised weapon, had a 50% chance to connect with an incorporeal enemy on a successful hit (unlike mundane objects which never can).
I know this is more DND focused but hearing you kinda bring up all the uniqueness of DND in how players build not only the story together but the memories through their characters strengths and weaknesses reminds me of how I get more enjoyment from starting lvl 1 campaigns over the mid maxing lvl 10 campaigns that drag on for 2 years plus with unremarkable events with absurd checks (people I played with would often do builds that give plus 10 min to all their stat checks). I think thats why I got hooked by Dungeon Meshi as it kinda reminds of one of my more favorite campaigns.
Also thank you for not clumping intelligence and wisdom as the same thing lol. So many people assume both mean the same thing!
Great video, I hope this channel grows more everyday
Love your editing and scripts, keep it up sir 👍🏻🙂
Thank you! Glad you liked it!
This video has honestly enlightened and encouraged me as a first-time DM who's terrified of the job ahead of me.
There is this one session in my campaign where we were getting a moon elf from captivity to prevent them from being killed so we were gonna have a we went there. We went to the village. We were deciding who goes in so we had our sorcerer, mechanist and Rogue. Simple go in and go out right no our sorcerer kept bumping into tables and dropping mugs and then when we finally got to the door, the rogue forgot to trap check and activated the alarm so we had to run and the entire city went on lockdown. Don’t worry we escaped
We've all had that one session. In my group, we called it "boys' trip." We decided to split the party, and for the first time the divide fell largely along the gender lines. The guys jokingly said they were going on a boys' trip, not expecting everything to go sideways. No one died, no one even got hurt, but we all fell down a slope comprising of mud mixed with blood, and then had to dig around in the concoction for over an hour and our druid's staff was ruined. When we got back, the girls just laughed at us.
We've had two more "boys' trips" since, and they've all been varying degrees of chaotic and awful. It's fantastic.
Immediately, when you said Sengi is a Ranger (Likely closer to Pathfinder than DnD's haft caster), I knew you cooking (heh)
Great video! Shared it with my brother who is interested in picking up the game.
I also now have an anime to watch.
Another great video !
Goodberry catching strays out here.
Good!
@@Taliesin_Berry
Sorry hehe
No idea how using goodberry is bad rp. I think the druid ignoring the fact that they could trivially solve the party's food problem is way worse. Also, in a campaign where half the PCs will end up as literal gods means struggling to find food becomes increasingly silly.
survival =/= roleplaying
@@justoneman13 I think the problems arise because it completely removes a major component of survival narratives from the board. Survival =/= roleplaying ... until it does, but that's harder with Goodberry in the picture.
The solution is to work with the Druid player, and/or limit Goodberry in a number of ways.
All those years playing Dungeons & Dragons with my nerdy bros. during my formative years I can honestly say we never once BBQ’ed the Giant Dungeon Rats that we coup de grâce’d in a First Level Dungeon Crawl…. After watching this show maybe we should have?!?
To quote the little Hobbit guy in this series: “All This Time and I Never Knew This DUNGEON had so much YUMMY STUFF in it !!!”
@@wackyruss You ate mutant monsters in Mutant. There are no normal animals. Typical countryside food is a soup on predatory grass.
The big challenge was to prepare things safely. You need to know which monsters are poisonous and which ones need to be cooked eight hours.
Some are weird, like an explosive rodent you should absolutely not cook.
Haha, actually we have one player in our campaign currently, Nutt the dwarf who at the beginning told me he was "neutral good" (I don't believe it anymore), who always roasts or tries eating things after they are killed. He's of course tried some roasted rat, patiently collecting, skinning, and then roasting it after a battle; he wanted to roast a gorilla demon monkey too... Most famously, he always also concocts psychodelic coackroach brain pills in an attempt to increase his intelligence, which he overdosed on whenever he misses the session irl.
Hmm, the rest of the party was also influenced, and also began burning a lot of things... But to this day, none of them have accepted one of his cockroach pills.
@TheWorldPillow This is what everyone does in Mutant. There are no normal animals left. Peasants harvest some kind of monster grass the drinks blood for something like nettle soup. A normal farm animal can be an armoured, overgrown and highly aggressive horse with fangs.
@TheWorldPillow There are some taboos in Mutant against eating some animals. Like how you might not serve up an eagle or a caterpillar. Some are so poisonous they have no idea how to eat any part, some are edible but considered low grade.
Delicious in Dungeon needs an official TTRPG.
Loved this video, i had to share it with a couple of my DnD groups
Fantastic video mate, that script was fire
Dungeon Meshi is much more similar to old first person RPGs like the Wizardy series than DnD.
Wizardy was very popular in Japan
17:49 Zee Bashew in the house! Animated Spell Book!
bro is cooking only FIRE videos!! Keep the hard work
My headcannon is if Delicious in Dungeon just a game of DND then Senshi and Falin are the same player.
Senshi and Laios get a long well and even share the same interests, and its really funny by the mininal interactions Senshi and Falin have with each other because that player would have to talk to themselves.
thats really funny considering how marcille treats the two of them on a polar opposite scale
Hell yea, this is the crossover I was waiting for! Dungeon Meshi is the perfect DnD - The Anime around. Or any ttrpg for that matter!
19:19 i half-expected this fade-transition to have a dramatic steak
Not one minute into the video, and YOU, sir, have proven to me that you understand the game by correctly identifying Senshi as the ranger. You've earned yourself a sub.
I’m gonna need an explanation. Beyond knowing the intricacies of the Dungeon’s ecosystem and having great survival skills, how is Senshi a ranger? I don’t see the play style, and yes, I know that rangers don’t have to use ranged weapons.
as a DM im working on a dungeon meshi adventure rn this video helped me a lot thank you
I will watch tomorrow, see ya in 10 hours
It's been 10 hours
daaamn 45 seconds into the video and already found out something I hadn't realized yet: Senshi is a Ranger! of course!
I'm glad the author made orcs not as pigmen, but the kobolds are Asian versions who are anthropomorphic dogs.
Not the asian version, kobolds used to be dogs in folklore but that perception has gradually changed
In German folklore they are cats and French dogs
what are you taking about? the orcs here are pig man, their younglins have the baby pig stripes.
Your sentence makes no sense 😊
What are you talking about, they literally still are.
Very beautiful Video! Thanks for that piece of art! :)
Me and my friend almost died to 5 rats in a dungeon when we were level 3 and I had a pet baby sandworm luckily we didn't die but both me and my friend got downed and the baby sandworm some how killed 4 out of the 5 rats
this was a freaking great video
A druid with goodberry goes a long way
The ending to this was the best and craziest ending to a series i have ever seen. one of the most satisfying and freash story in anime.
This and Frieren were great releases and did the DnD trope very well.
I'm waiting on that second season like my life depends on it
I got goosebumps at the end there
Oh yes, goblins should never be underestimated. It only takes a few bad rolls for three of them to bring down a PC in one round.
My party had this really close call with a water elemental. It was a random encounter; something that came up upon them from a river while they were traveling. It was so close that I started brainstorming ways to roll their likely failure into a branching storyline. It wasn't supposed to be a big deal, but because of the die and the nature of TTRPG, it almost became a big deal.
There's actually a TTRPG that runs with this, it was a Kickstarter project called Wilderfeast. The players are all monster hunters/cooks who use giant kitchen utensils as weapons and gain mutations from the monsters they eat. It's put out by Horrible Guild...if I could get the rest of my friends into TTRPGs I'd try it, except it's REALLY hard to get us all together for a game and only one of us out of all 5 is a regular TTRPG player and he GMs games using the internet so he's got the know how to do it...but I'm not sure about the other 3 on if they would be down for that.
I'd love his cook book. I cook for my games so it would be fitting
Damn dude, your videos looks great
great video!
thx!
WHOEVER HAD THAT IDEA FOR THAT FINISHING LINE COOKED
I once had a player get killed by the very first enemy of the campaign.
It was an owl.
great video!!
Tnx, that Was Beautiful
I really want a video game based on this
there really are several moments in the show that remind me of DnD like marccille with the kraken and waterwalking spell that feels like it should not of worked but she rolled a 20 and the DM went fine and let it
Abusing spells is a tradition in OSR. There is often no roll to spells, you force an effect on reality. Spells often outline effects but not the full details.
You would need to convince me. This is not a roll.
Ah, I too really loved that show.
This is an amazing video, :)
You had me from the beginning
good analysis
I see Laios as a terribly unoptimized fighter, like 15 str and 14 int, with a DM that rewards his background/feat/whatever that gives him so much monster knowledge.
"Everything goes to hell"
Is the best storybeat , right next to "failed but succided"
First one aceptionally pulled of by dungeon meshi , second one , by lupin the third: castle of caliostro.
this is a very sweet love letter to a great anime about a great game :)
And then there’s Frieren, a L20 min-maxxed to hell and back traveling with a party of L1-L5s
Poor Pilar 😂
my guy really made a video about how the anime understands D&D after the author confirmed that she never played D&D. lmao
One can understand something without doing it.
@@TrixyTrixter this is not a case of "i'm not a "painter", but i can see you did a shit job painting this wall"
how can she understand something she didn't interact with before? especially when it's about a subject that has a lot of things specific only to it? The truth is that she played other games that had similar things to dnd in them. that's it.
The headcannon of this anime's fanbase is on a different level, lol.If they say every character is gey, every characyter is gey. If they say the author plays dnd, the author palys dnd, period.
@@belldrop7365 yup. like with marcille and falin. the author herself said that they aren't gay and yet, the "special" fans still say they are gay and act like it's the absolute truth and if you don't agree with them or try to correct them, you are a monster
@@belldrop7365if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, and looks like a duck, then it may as well be a duck, what more is there to say
That was Fantastic!!
If they decide to make a game like D&D from this series I'm definitely going to into it 😁
I know this anime because the author drew characters from my fav game (pathfinder series)
Nice video!
Definitely gives Ad&d /OSR vibes
great video
Great video, as a lover of both D&D and Delicious in Dungeon, I really enjoyed this!
(As a side note, what's the song that's used at the end?)
I never played d&d, so I can't comment on it's relation to that, but this anime is wonderful. I am picky and just loved this show right away and loved every bit of the 24 episodes. It's a perfect adventure foraging cooking anime show. I want to live that way, sharing food with friends around a campfire is life.
I desperately need to know what the music at 15:30 is-- I've been looking for so long 😭
Kikoru - The Storyteller, all of our music is from epidemicsound :)
@@Beghast-tv Thank you so much! Awesome video by the way, definitely will be checking out the anime now :D
Contrats on being the first ever video of a subscribed channel that did not appear in my subscriptions feed. :( Luckily the home tab recommended it to me, but that's only after I way done watching all the videos of channels I'm subscribed to.
20:27 yes, but also wizardry
EXTREMELY wizardry, with wiz 6 being cited as one of the biggest inspirations for it, as that game, unlike most previous entries, focused on a party trapped inside a dungeon, without a town to go back to
can i ask where the sprites in 4:14 are from? :O
It's noteworthy that in Japan, most D&D content is firmly rooted in the 1st and 2nd Edition Era, which is why things like Dungeon Meshi and Goblin Slayer have a Gygaxian 'Delve' feel to them as opposed to modern D&D's "Guardians of the Galaxy" approach. Magic isn't over the top and spammable, most of the armor is pretty functional, nobody is pulling out ludicrous multi-phase super-powered moves at level 5, etc. Instead you're just a bunch of normal adventurers in a world where the fatality rate of your chosen employment is astonishingly high, to the point where nobody is just casually doing it "for the thrills."
Mind you, that's primarily because Japan hasn't really had any kind of relationship with D&D since the 80's. The woman who took over TSR (and ran it into the ground, resulting in the WotC buyout) scoffed at the idea of working with Japan because she hated nerds and nerd culture and decided one-sidedly that "nobody would be interested in anything out of Japan" when the Record of Lodoss War guys (who based their own game on the original D&D system) approached wanting to make Lodoss an official D&D setting.
Prior to 'That Woman', under Gygax and co, TSR had welcomed the Japanese market, even going so far as to publish the content in Japanese and the Mystara content even got brand new artwork just for the Japanese release. That's also why you see a TON of D&D inspired artwork in Japanese media in the 70s and the 80s, from anime to videogames (Castlevania's boxart is straight up lifted from Ravenloft, at that). Honestly, I miss that era the most because of the more down-to-earth sword and sorcery aesthetics as opposed to everything about D&D now feeling like it's a Marvel movie.
After 'That Woman' shunned the Japan market, though, Japan went off and did its own thing and made its own game systems -- and WotC has never pursued the Japanese market since taking over the brand either.
Your weird insistence of "that woman" like a bad Stewie Griffin impersonation coupled with "X didnt do Y cause they personally hate [me] and not just cold business metrics' gives off such weird incel vibes on an otherwise informative post. Businesses aren't piloted by single people and trying to pin the blame on some imaginary beef with them (Ironically, the fact so many people are involved in decisions is often the REASON things end up as poop as they do) is kinda childish.
@@oshkeet Yeah, no. If you don't actually KNOW anything about the TSR takeover situation, then please, kindly shut up and spare everyone your Tumblr feminist "incel" quips. The term "That Woman" is literally an in-joke, which just really outs you for the ignorant cultural tourist that you are, coming into the fandom only after it's been popularized by shiny famous people and wanting to take your selfie in front of it and pretending you know anything because you read a brochure. That, quite frankly, is far more childish. Heck, you wanna refer to my remarks as 'Stewie Griffin' like? You're basically Brian. Pretentious and arrogant despite only having a basic level knowledge about anything, but thinking it makes you smarter than everyone else.
@@oshkeet And your weird Brian Griffin-like insistance on pretending like you have the slightest idea about anything is giving off immense tourist vibes on what is ultimately a post that serves no purpose other than for you to try and pretend like you're superior to a stranger on the internet. Next time spare the rest of us your pretention.
@@oshkeet yeah the whole comment could have been a neutral teachable moment and instead came off emotional and whiny.
Very weird that you refer to the one that took head of the company as 'That Woman', like atleast cite her saying she hates nerdy stuff and that's why they don't work with Japan, you could also just get her actual name if she really was that important
This show is a brilliant Master Piece.
He skinned a frog,, got twine from his pack, crafted gloves, pulled a vine, All in an action and bonus action...
Also he should have disadvantage to pull the vive because his hands are wrapped in bloody slimy viscera.
It is a whole process. The other three have to play tug of war a while.
I havent played DnD since college and dont watch anime at all, but still ended up enjoying this video quite a bit. Well done on the video @Beghast-tv
People forget its food anime
This show both makes me wanna go play an mmo with my bois and start cooking a meal for the fam
I put my players in a living dungeon with meaty walls. The monk decided to make the best out of the situation and get some meaty balls. They did one poison damage with each bite but they healed them for 1d4
Delicious in dungeon
Nicee, please update more often I your chan is absolute nutella
this is a great video