Ellen, never apologize for your Millennial/Gen X, references. There are more of us than you know, and we haven't turned to dust just because the younger generations don't know about things like Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Back to the Future, etc. Remember, Indiana Jones ran from a boulder, so Nathan Drake and Lara Croft could swing and climb!
What about Fable III? The quest "The Game" has three nerds... I mean wizards, who use the Orb of Interplanar Transference to transport you into their tabletop game to rescue Princess Phrexia from the Evil Baron.
In Mass Effect Andromeda, when you get to the Krogan colony on Elaaden, the Krogan have a small group that meets regularly to play Krantt: The Ragening, "a live-action roleplaying experience for krogan who want to combine collaborative storytelling with light, non-lethal combat". Anyone interested is advised to bring an Omni-tool, dummy ammunition for the player's weapon of choice and their own imagination.
@@KathrynBurke713 I think they just combine all of it. The source mentions a "dice-roller app" for the Omni tool. When Krogan homebrew someone is going to get hurt.
@@KathrynBurke713sounds like a white wolf parody to me v they named their games like that vampire: the masquerade, mage: the acention, werewolf: the apocalypse, etc. And that system was used for larping more than dnd was.
@@Skaitaniano it's a white wolf parody. White wolf named their games like that werewolf:the apocalypse, vampire: the masquerade, etc. and white wolf was used for larping more than dnd.,.
That's actually a PBM or play by mail. They've been around longer and some things from D&D were actually based on PBMs. Not nearly as popular any more, however.
Damn. Played hundreds of hours in FO4, and I usually read the computer terminals pretty thoroughly, and I totally missed that. One more reason why I love the game.
Wait a second, the title "Minotaurs and Myrmadons" has a deeper meaning. The Myrmadons were a group of people in Greek Mythology that were turned into ants by the gods
Yes, a PASSING mention here of Warhammer 40k, but no love for MY original and main game Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay? :) It was ONE book, never mind the Dungeon Master having his book, the players having THEIR book, and a library of companion books. I still have mine, close to 40 years later...
@@niceguy169 : I was thinking more about the whole indie RPG galaxy, where with the money you spend on the core rulebook of DnD you get half a dozen GREAT, award-winning games (or dozens of crappy ones but I don't count those).
@@MattiaBulgarelli I was a Kickstarter backer for Blades In The Dark, later gleefully finding out the OXBox gang had taken to playing it (I have nobody to play it with, so it's extra nice there's SOMEONE who's heard of it... Too bad all their Blades videos blow my personal length limit out of the water, any list video is already double, and I make that allowance due to enjoying them and their content). So, yes, I get that others could use love too. :) Just, Warhammer seems big enough to have a shot at being referenced, instead of the "Everybody has at least heard of D&D and will know what we mean". :)
She _sort of_ GM'd a game with Luke & Ellen when they were on-stage in Australia. It was more of a homebrew/improv thing than a formal RPG, but it did involve die rolls and Jane deciding what they meant, so I think it counts. ☺ It's part of one of the live Shows of the Weekend. (The one in Australia.)
There were also some robots you could talk to in Stray who were pissed off at one of their players for forgetting his character sheet so they couldn't play that session
Jane encouraging Tina to be a ruthless despot as bunker master is very on brand 😂 But still you all manage to keep things feeling fresh. This has long been, by a significant margin, my favorite gaming YT channel, & the fact I can laugh with so much context to your personas while not ever getting bored after over a decade is incredible
To be fair, the Prey "Fatal Fortress" Easter Egg also nets you goodies if you do the treasure hunt that Abigail set up, so while it hasn't reached the heights of "Bunkers & Badasses," it's at least more than just a "ha ha" funny moment!
Simon the Sorceror had a point. Imagine trying to explain online shopping, video conferencing, satellite TV, bar code scanners, quadcopter drones, thermal imagers, maglev trains, skydiving, safe tap water, thermostatic valves, Kevlar, liver transplants, MRI scanners, atomic clocks, Roombas, the eradication of smallpox, Mars rovers, injection-moulded glass-fibre-reinforced plastic components, dual-filament 3D printing, polyester, fibre optics, keyhole surgery, Gore-Tex jackets, ultrasound and the European Union to subjects of King Egbert of Wessex (crowned 802).
Bet. online shopping: You know how a lot of shop keeps have a ledger. Well imagine a huge market with literally everything being sold, but no one will talk to you, you can only read their ledgers for the price of things and what they have. Now, this is being done via complicated magic instead of in person, and some poor sap has to bring the order to you. video conferencing: You know how we are all set round the table? Well imagine a set of moving tapestry's with sound included, one for each of us who isn't you. It's fancy magic but it works. satellite TV: Remember how I said cables were frustrating and 'wireless' unreliable because of stuff in the way? Now put the 'light source' signaling your moving sound tapestry up among the stars, nothings in the way now innit? bar code scanners: Makers marks tell you who made a thing, these marks tell you what the thing is and what it's selling for. The scanner itself is a little magic that reads only that one language, and the language cares about spacing, thickness and length of lines. Like, a lot. quadcopter drones: You seen a bee flyin' about? Turns out with some really quick fans you can make a little box fly like that. thermal imagers: So get this, heat is actually light we can't see. Now imagine a little tool that can see that light, and makes a picture that you can see out of it. maglev trains: Yeah, you could actually do the whole 'cart on magnets' thing, people made trains out of that. Because no wheels means you can get going really fast and have a smooth ride. Stopping is a bit harder though. skydiving: You've jumped into water before, now imagine jumping out of a plane for the same rush, trusting a glorified blanket to save you. safe tap water: No really, you just need to know how to treat it and what to make your pipes out of, then do that bigly. thermostatic valves: You know how things expand when you heat em? Well make a pipe's internals right and you can have it choke the flow off when it gets too hot. Kevlar: Super tough fibers, packed in so tight that a blade doesn't cut it or go through. liver transplants: So all those bits inside you (and animals) do things, important things (or they'd not be there.) if one fails, with the right knowledge, tools and someone compatible, you can move a working on from someone to someone else, long term even. It's not easy mind. MRI scanners: magnets attract iron, but they pull on everything, it's just iron gets pulled harder. Now if you measured that pull, you could know what's inside something. Now turn that into something you can see. atomic clocks: It's pretty much just a tiny, fancy hour candle made by nature the tool watches. Roombas: broom that sweeps by itself, so why have a handle? (after vacuum explanation.) the eradication of smallpox: Well, if a disease is alive, you can kill it. When you kill all of it, it's never coming back. Poison all the game, and the wolves die out. Mars rovers: Little remote cart with all the fancy magical tapestry bits you can't imagine, sent far away so we don't have to try and get someone out there and back. injection-moulded glass-fibre-reinforced plastic components: Heated metal's a liquid, so you can cast a mold with it. Just with a different material, and throw in some tiny fibers spun of fine glass for a little more durability. (Glass not caring about the heat and all.) dual-filament 3D printing: Yeah, the whole 'just make it by piling up materials like a pearl' thing, with twice the amount going at once. polyester: fancy material a bit like the waxy coating on plant leaves (same stuff in a way) that people used for cheap cloth back home. fibre optics: I mean, it's a pipe that light goes down, you can do a lot of stuff with that. keyhole surgery: Yeah the hard part isn't even makin' the tool to see in, it's tools for the tiny movements. Smaller hole, smaller problem eh? Gore-Tex jackets: I told you, water is just like sand when you look close enough. Tiny enough holes mean it won't go through, but air will. ultrasound: It's not that far off from tapping a box to see if it's got a false bottom. Much more detailed of course, but what isn't? the European Union: A bunch of merchant agreements that eventually became a legal kingdom onto themselves, because of course it did.
Back circa 1980, in the AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide, there was a cartoon about the fantasy characters playing "Papers and Paychecks", playing students and office workers in a technological society There was also a Mickey Mouse based cartoon
@@whiskeyvictor5703 “Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence; the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature.”
The best part of the "Assault on Dragon Keep" DLC was getting to hear Tina as the DM, not being entirely sure of what she's doing, because it felt just perfect as even the best DMs have to wing it now and again, typically when their players point something out that is either inconsistent with the worldbuilding or with some aspect of combat.
Genshin Impact only recently added a character story questline for newly-playable Clorinde which focuses around playing a "Tabletop Troupe" script with her and some other friends, a combination of tabletop gaming and LARPing with pretty clear roots.
Summoner for PS2 had an Easter egg of characters from Summoner & Red Faction animated to a D&D sketch by Milwaukee comedy troupe, Dead Alewives. That’s the sketch with the line “I attack the darkness”.
It's a funny joke, but I could totally see WotC pulling that kind of BS, especially after the price hike of the 5e sourcebooks and the fact that the 2024 Player's Handbook still hasn't been released yet. I wonder what CR rating Mike Channel was back in 3e. I'm thinking a CR20 Dracolich that comes flanked with 2 ancient chromatic dragons. Thoughts?
The entirety of Knights of Pen and Paper is a game based around a (legally distinct) tabletop fantasy RPG. The upgrades to the decor around the game room act as meta upgrades for the party's adventures.
OMFG!!! Simon the Sorcerer is pure gold!!! I used to play it on my dad’s old Windows 95 PC in the mid 90s. And those first two games NEED to be released in a remastered package for current consoles.
No mention of Southpark the Stick of Truth? It`s literally them playing pretend DnD after playing GoT and getting a console which left them disheartened in an episode.
I was looking for this comment. The great thing about it is Matt Mercer wrote all of the LARP/D&D stuff, so it would be accurate... And it is! This is a double Easter Egg considering Critical Role exists in the True Colors world as evidenced by the Merch in Wavelengths.
Spiritfarer is a great, often heartrending game which has a major subplot where you have to get a group of TTRPG players in the same place at the same time so they can play a game together: quite a challenge, if not quite as difficult as it is in real life.
Dead Rising 2. Sidequest: Brains over Brawn. Chuck investigates a toy store to find four people playing a certain roleplaying game...in the middle of a zombie apocalypse
Not sure what system she's using there but to each their own. We roll a percentile dice and a D10 at my table. To the uninitiated: The skill checks on the character sheets are in percentages, and one must roll beneath that number to succeed. The lower the role, the better you do. Only in a game like Call of Cthulhu would a Nat 1 be a good lthing, lmao.
@@RailfoxStudios, that's the whole issue with the d20-based games...nobody really remembers when percentages were part of the D&D world (of course, even fewer remember THAC0...*that* would wreck a fair few minds these days).
Got another one where D&D is important! Goodbye Volcano High. A fair amount of the game takes place in a D&D-like game that actually has randomized rolls for attacks/checks, and allows you to select different areas to go to at pivotal points. It's a pretty nice distraction from the actual plot of the story which is... a lot sometimes.
Why try to figure the math (despite that being fairly simple to figure out)? Roll two d10s, denoting the tens digit with one die and the ones digit with the other (usually with different coloured dice)...or just pick up a percentile die (which is a d10 that goes from 10 to 00) and pair it with a regular d10.
@@Sableagle, on the percentile die itself, yes...but pairing it with a regular d10 yields every roll from 01 (00 on percentile, 1 on d10) to 100 (00 on percentile, 0 on d10). Now I also see what you meant...and how I can easily be misconstrued; I was viewing '00' as '100', kind of in the same vein as a d10 being from 1-10 (with 10 being denoted as '0').
@@Gehenna42 That's true, I hadn't thought of that. Those generally land on edge. What do you do if your D20 lands on an edge and won't set down to deliver a result?
The Robots & Rangers system seems to be based on the old Basic Roleplaying system, which did indeed use a d100 for skill rolls, skills being in percentiles (the higher the better, IIRC). And was also the system used in the original Wastelands ttrpg.
i'd like to mention that Everhood also has a DND reference in it! there's a little portion of the game where a couple of the game's main characters (and few side characters too, I believe) sit around a table and leave a chair open so you can join them! the table has a big map on it, stretching from one end of the table nearly to the other end. I'll try not to spoil too much but you end up playing thru the DND-like minigame battling the other characters until you reach the boss battle. the characters are also dressed up all medieval-like, which I thought was cute. I don't think it's exactly like DND but upon playing thru the game for the first time, this part of it that I'm talking about definitely gave me some DND vibes. (sorry if I didn't describe it very well, I haven't played Everhood in a while, haha)
for me "honey, i shrunk the kids" will always be culturel relevant ... it reminds me sitting on the couchw with my grandparents and just having a great time ^^
That "Last of Us part 2" segment is made even better when you realize that both Ashley Johnson and Laura Bailey are involved with the game. I will never apologize for my nerdiness.
I think there’s a bit early in Abbis part where the whole critical role cast plays WLF clustered together in a group. I think they were even talking about ttrpgs? But I could be wrong, its been a long time lol
There's also a bit in Tales from the Borderlands where the group's playing a game of Bunkers & Badasses, in part because the game's already baked into the lore anyway and in bigger part because Laura plays Fiona, and they knew she's a total D&D nerd.
I was so expecting to see the one from Fable III. The Game is a brilliant quest where you even get to experience the game first hand, literally waltzing around between character tokens and looking up at the nerds who shrunk you. Good times.
In the 1st Edition AD&D player’s handbook there’s a 1 panel comic referencing a game played the group of adventures on screen. To quote: “It’s called ‘Papers & Paychecks’, where we play as students and workers in an advanced technological society.”
Temtem has a lategame sidequest where you play a session of Tunnels & Temtem with a group of NPCs. The rewards you get for the quest depend on the choices you make during the play session.
Well, now I know where _Third Crisis_ got the inspiration for one of its characters. Don't bother looking up _Third Crisis_ by the way. It lost its way a long time ago. Once upon a time, it had a story and a plot, and your main character was the one person who got to take three actions per round instead of two and had a couple of unique powers, one being, in D&D terms, "shift 9, AoE pushback," and the other being to restore one action to another character and reset the cooldown on the power they most recently used. Got a healer who can only use their big heal once ever four turns? Move healer to one person, heal, switch to MC, move to healer, recharge, switch back to healer, heal MC. Then? Promising new indie game. Now? Sleazy crap.
The Tolkien Estate's lawyers are even more like the minions of Morgoth. Everyone was sued for using Hobbit, Nazgul, Ent and Balrog -- even a fledgling TSR (the original publisher of D&D).
Commenter's Edition could include Stardew Valley. One of Sebastians' friend events is playing it. You and 2 other NPCs choose classes, and he DMs you though a dungeon crawl like a choose your own adventure.
3:03 - Flashback to Dob shattering Vocatus' groin. And that level-up stream where Prudence gains the ability to Eldritch snipe someone's balls from up a mountain.
Havnt watched the vid yet but I hope they included the mission in PREY! It was so much fun finding out that these guys were setting up a dnd type game and using it to find a missing survivor was even more exciting Edit:WOOOOOOOOOO
14:20 reminds me of The Book Of Unwritten Tales, where you have two guys playing an online RPG set in a "fantasy" world, which means "totally without dragons, orcs and magic!".
I came up with the name Gaols and Giants for a DnD one shot I played, where the party were essentially real people isekai’d in to the fantasy world. My character turned in to his character from the fictional game
Assault on Dragonskeep was probably the best thing to come out of Borderlands 2. I really liked the different spell grenades. In all of the other games, I treat grenades as an almost forgotten last resort, never as useful as a good gun or your character skills, but those spell grenades became the focus for my B2 playthroughs.
13:27 ... yes that is in fact how Call of Cthulhu has you roll percentage skill checks. You add points to increase your rating in a skill then try to roll under your number. Although you probably knew that
Robots and Rangers would be shortened to R&R, which is US Mil speak for rest and reorganisation, or ruckus and recreation, or something like that. Downtime and fun, anyway.
@@hrothgardevaitos8330 True, but it beats Rotten Tomatoes. Meantime, I possibly blame the low scores on its obscurity... though there's Nacho Libre at an outrageous 5.9!!!
I take it as she's making fun of us (and herself) for being "old". Our references don't click with advertisers as we slowly slide out of the highly sought after 18-34 demographic. If it's even 18-34 anymore, I swear they shrink it down more every year.
There's a small appearance of D&D in Bully Scholarship Edition. You can find some of the nerds playing it behind the game shop, inside the safehouse you get access to by completing the arcade game.
Ellen, never apologize for your Millennial/Gen X, references. There are more of us than you know, and we haven't turned to dust just because the younger generations don't know about things like Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Back to the Future, etc. Remember, Indiana Jones ran from a boulder, so Nathan Drake and Lara Croft could swing and climb!
Dungeons AND Dragons?!?
In this economy?!?
Best i can do is i junkyard and an angry dog
Just because My Pillow isn't doing so well at the moment doesn't mean everything sucks, Mr. Lindell
Mutt and junkyard so a gijoe roleplay?
Oh yes, it IS possible. You may have to give up some meals and such but it is doable
@@travisrolison9646 Junkyards and Jackals; the Dungeons and Dragons we have at home.
In Stray you can find two robots who want to play some unnamed game but one of them can't find their character sheet.
Stardew Valley! In one of Sebastian's heart scenes he runs a DND game for you and Sam in his basement
Came down to see if anyone else remembered this. I thought it was so cute.
Ohhh I forgot about this one!!
What about Fable III? The quest "The Game" has three nerds... I mean wizards, who use the Orb of Interplanar Transference to transport you into their tabletop game to rescue Princess Phrexia from the Evil Baron.
Why would you want to get away from dnd?
"What kind of game lets you kill the boss with one hit???" Was one of my favorite lines
The fire breathing demon chickens where always my favourite bit
Yeah I was amazed that it was not on the list
You beat me to it lol
In Mass Effect Andromeda, when you get to the Krogan colony on Elaaden, the Krogan have a small group that meets regularly to play Krantt: The Ragening, "a live-action roleplaying experience for krogan who want to combine collaborative storytelling with light, non-lethal combat". Anyone interested is advised to bring an Omni-tool, dummy ammunition for the player's weapon of choice and their own imagination.
Wouldn't that be Larping then?
@@KathrynBurke713 I think they just combine all of it. The source mentions a "dice-roller app" for the Omni tool. When Krogan homebrew someone is going to get hurt.
Sounds like a white wolf parody not dnd
@@KathrynBurke713sounds like a white wolf parody to me v they named their games like that vampire: the masquerade, mage: the acention, werewolf: the apocalypse, etc. And that system was used for larping more than dnd was.
@@Skaitaniano it's a white wolf parody. White wolf named their games like that werewolf:the apocalypse, vampire: the masquerade, etc. and white wolf was used for larping more than dnd.,.
You guys missed fallout 4. There is a mission where if you go through the computer messages, the scientists played a DnD style game through e-mail.
That's actually a PBM or play by mail. They've been around longer and some things from D&D were actually based on PBMs. Not nearly as popular any more, however.
Ah yes, the guys in the Mass Fusion building. Glad someone recognized this.
Damn. Played hundreds of hours in FO4, and I usually read the computer terminals pretty thoroughly, and I totally missed that. One more reason why I love the game.
There will be part2 and part3
@@graywolfdracon you think email has been around longer than DnD? ... wow you're young.
"Have her character crushed by rocks, I would" A glimpse into what it'll be like when Jane finally GM's a game... Watch out for falling rocks guys.
I would LOVE for Jane to DM a game! Even if its just a one-shot :)
Wait a second, the title "Minotaurs and Myrmadons" has a deeper meaning. The Myrmadons were a group of people in Greek Mythology that were turned into ants by the gods
0:45 Oh no! They're sending in the Pinkertons!
Meanwhile, anyone playing any other Tabletop RPG: "Am I a joke to you, game developers?" ;__;
Yep. Also licensing might be an issue in some cases *side-eyes Steve Jackson Games and their ridiculous policies straight from the nineties*
Yes, a PASSING mention here of Warhammer 40k, but no love for MY original and main game Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay? :) It was ONE book, never mind the Dungeon Master having his book, the players having THEIR book, and a library of companion books. I still have mine, close to 40 years later...
@@niceguy169 : I was thinking more about the whole indie RPG galaxy, where with the money you spend on the core rulebook of DnD you get half a dozen GREAT, award-winning games (or dozens of crappy ones but I don't count those).
@@MattiaBulgarelli I was a Kickstarter backer for Blades In The Dark, later gleefully finding out the OXBox gang had taken to playing it (I have nobody to play it with, so it's extra nice there's SOMEONE who's heard of it... Too bad all their Blades videos blow my personal length limit out of the water, any list video is already double, and I make that allowance due to enjoying them and their content). So, yes, I get that others could use love too. :) Just, Warhammer seems big enough to have a shot at being referenced, instead of the "Everybody has at least heard of D&D and will know what we mean". :)
I was wondering why Jane hasn’t GMed a game yet. I guess it didn’t get past session zero. Something about falling rocks.
She _sort of_ GM'd a game with Luke & Ellen when they were on-stage in Australia. It was more of a homebrew/improv thing than a formal RPG, but it did involve die rolls and Jane deciding what they meant, so I think it counts. ☺ It's part of one of the live Shows of the Weekend. (The one in Australia.)
She also doesn't seem to know that percentile dice are a thing (or d10 in general?).
@@xtifr I know the one.
@@RLplusabunchofdumbnumbers She might not have written that joke. My money’s on Mike.
@@RLplusabunchofdumbnumbers percentile dice are in 10ths of a percent. It is possible they rolled a D100 though.
When Ellen mentions that Honey, I Shrunk the Kids as not culturally, I could feel my bones turning to powder
yeap... I'm just ordering a rocking chair, shotgun and keep off the grass signs.
dam it come around quicker than i thought lol
@CommanderJPS don't forget the dentures.
How do you do fellow kids?
My first thought is Honey I Shrunk the Kids.
Just don’t mention “The Incredible Shrinking Man”
Bold of you to assume that I *want* to escape Dungeons and Dragons.
There were also some robots you could talk to in Stray who were pissed off at one of their players for forgetting his character sheet so they couldn't play that session
Jane encouraging Tina to be a ruthless despot as bunker master is very on brand 😂 But still you all manage to keep things feeling fresh. This has long been, by a significant margin, my favorite gaming YT channel, & the fact I can laugh with so much context to your personas while not ever getting bored after over a decade is incredible
To be fair, the Prey "Fatal Fortress" Easter Egg also nets you goodies if you do the treasure hunt that Abigail set up, so while it hasn't reached the heights of "Bunkers & Badasses," it's at least more than just a "ha ha" funny moment!
Thank you for recognizing Honey I Shrunk the Kids.
The nerds in Bully play "Grottos and Gremlins," and the school has even banned them from playing the game in the classrooms
I just love how they get creative with those names to get around those copyrights lol
Ah, shades of 'The Satanic Panic' of the old days, from "Angry Mothers From Heck"
I used to be an interior decorator, until I took a carpet sample to the knee
shouldn't of spilt paint on the freshly laid carpet when the carpet fitters was still there 😂
Mike Channell third edition:
Son of Mike Channell second edition and grandson of Mike Channell first edition.
My name is Mike Channell: son of a copyrighted father, 3rd of my name
But what was Mike Channel in First Edition and Second Edition?
When i first saw outside xbox episode where they mentioned mikes name, i thought it was his own the name of his own show.
Mikes channel
@travisrolison9646 I have never heard them say it out loud so I just assumed it was like Chanel No. 5 🤣🤣
Is that how that works? I’ve always wondered…
Simon the Sorceror had a point. Imagine trying to explain online shopping, video conferencing, satellite TV, bar code scanners, quadcopter drones, thermal imagers, maglev trains, skydiving, safe tap water, thermostatic valves, Kevlar, liver transplants, MRI scanners, atomic clocks, Roombas, the eradication of smallpox, Mars rovers, injection-moulded glass-fibre-reinforced plastic components, dual-filament 3D printing, polyester, fibre optics, keyhole surgery, Gore-Tex jackets, ultrasound and the European Union to subjects of King Egbert of Wessex (crowned 802).
Bet.
online shopping: You know how a lot of shop keeps have a ledger. Well imagine a huge market with literally everything being sold, but no one will talk to you, you can only read their ledgers for the price of things and what they have. Now, this is being done via complicated magic instead of in person, and some poor sap has to bring the order to you.
video conferencing: You know how we are all set round the table? Well imagine a set of moving tapestry's with sound included, one for each of us who isn't you. It's fancy magic but it works.
satellite TV: Remember how I said cables were frustrating and 'wireless' unreliable because of stuff in the way? Now put the 'light source' signaling your moving sound tapestry up among the stars, nothings in the way now innit?
bar code scanners: Makers marks tell you who made a thing, these marks tell you what the thing is and what it's selling for. The scanner itself is a little magic that reads only that one language, and the language cares about spacing, thickness and length of lines. Like, a lot.
quadcopter drones: You seen a bee flyin' about? Turns out with some really quick fans you can make a little box fly like that.
thermal imagers: So get this, heat is actually light we can't see. Now imagine a little tool that can see that light, and makes a picture that you can see out of it.
maglev trains: Yeah, you could actually do the whole 'cart on magnets' thing, people made trains out of that. Because no wheels means you can get going really fast and have a smooth ride. Stopping is a bit harder though.
skydiving: You've jumped into water before, now imagine jumping out of a plane for the same rush, trusting a glorified blanket to save you.
safe tap water: No really, you just need to know how to treat it and what to make your pipes out of, then do that bigly.
thermostatic valves: You know how things expand when you heat em? Well make a pipe's internals right and you can have it choke the flow off when it gets too hot.
Kevlar: Super tough fibers, packed in so tight that a blade doesn't cut it or go through.
liver transplants: So all those bits inside you (and animals) do things, important things (or they'd not be there.) if one fails, with the right knowledge, tools and someone compatible, you can move a working on from someone to someone else, long term even. It's not easy mind.
MRI scanners: magnets attract iron, but they pull on everything, it's just iron gets pulled harder. Now if you measured that pull, you could know what's inside something. Now turn that into something you can see.
atomic clocks: It's pretty much just a tiny, fancy hour candle made by nature the tool watches.
Roombas: broom that sweeps by itself, so why have a handle? (after vacuum explanation.)
the eradication of smallpox: Well, if a disease is alive, you can kill it. When you kill all of it, it's never coming back. Poison all the game, and the wolves die out.
Mars rovers: Little remote cart with all the fancy magical tapestry bits you can't imagine, sent far away so we don't have to try and get someone out there and back.
injection-moulded glass-fibre-reinforced plastic components: Heated metal's a liquid, so you can cast a mold with it. Just with a different material, and throw in some tiny fibers spun of fine glass for a little more durability. (Glass not caring about the heat and all.)
dual-filament 3D printing: Yeah, the whole 'just make it by piling up materials like a pearl' thing, with twice the amount going at once.
polyester: fancy material a bit like the waxy coating on plant leaves (same stuff in a way) that people used for cheap cloth back home.
fibre optics: I mean, it's a pipe that light goes down, you can do a lot of stuff with that.
keyhole surgery: Yeah the hard part isn't even makin' the tool to see in, it's tools for the tiny movements. Smaller hole, smaller problem eh?
Gore-Tex jackets: I told you, water is just like sand when you look close enough. Tiny enough holes mean it won't go through, but air will.
ultrasound: It's not that far off from tapping a box to see if it's got a false bottom. Much more detailed of course, but what isn't?
the European Union: A bunch of merchant agreements that eventually became a legal kingdom onto themselves, because of course it did.
Back circa 1980, in the AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide, there was a cartoon about the fantasy characters playing "Papers and Paychecks", playing students and office workers in a technological society
There was also a Mickey Mouse based cartoon
I remember this every time some noob mentions the idea like it's new.
@@MemphiStigwell, it is easier as we are very old, we remember irrelevant stuff from 1979, but can't remember what we had for lunch yesterday
"Papers and Paychecks" has been superceeded by the second edition, "Accountants & Virtue-Signallers".
@@whiskeyvictor5703 “Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat,
Of habits devil, is angel yet in this,
That to the use of actions fair and good
He likewise gives a frock or livery
That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight,
And that shall lend a kind of easiness
To the next abstinence; the next more easy;
For use almost can change the stamp of nature.”
The best part of the "Assault on Dragon Keep" DLC was getting to hear Tina as the DM, not being entirely sure of what she's doing, because it felt just perfect as even the best DMs have to wing it now and again, typically when their players point something out that is either inconsistent with the worldbuilding or with some aspect of combat.
Genshin Impact only recently added a character story questline for newly-playable Clorinde which focuses around playing a "Tabletop Troupe" script with her and some other friends, a combination of tabletop gaming and LARPing with pretty clear roots.
I'd bet that 3rd Edition Mike Channel had a "Random Fireball" wild magic effect.
And, a whole list of spells and abilities that are never used.
His killing move is called “the Full Mike”.
@@riveramnell143 And it involves an exploding duck. But no one knows where the duck comes from.
And disadvantage on stealth?
IIRC the DND game from before the Storm was very nearly cut but they fought to include it and it became a fan favourite moment in the game
Summoner for PS2 had an Easter egg of characters from Summoner & Red Faction animated to a D&D sketch by Milwaukee comedy troupe, Dead Alewives. That’s the sketch with the line “I attack the darkness”.
We'll miss you Mike🥲
Saw this comment before the joke, got a bit worried for a second
It's a funny joke, but I could totally see WotC pulling that kind of BS, especially after the price hike of the 5e sourcebooks and the fact that the 2024 Player's Handbook still hasn't been released yet. I wonder what CR rating Mike Channel was back in 3e. I'm thinking a CR20 Dracolich that comes flanked with 2 ancient chromatic dragons. Thoughts?
Rip Mike
You will be missed
Imagine if they'd gotten Luke to do this video on his way out 😂😂😂😂
@@PatrickLongblkwhtrbbt Too soon, mate, too soon
Fable 3 had a good parody of DND
Yup, and the Cardboard characters are a nice reference to the old board games.
I came here to say that with the fire breathing chickens.
Intelligent thoughtful cooperation? Have you SEEN oxventure? 😂
The Oxventurers cooperate all the time. On how best to make Johnny pull all their hair out.
The entirety of Knights of Pen and Paper is a game based around a (legally distinct) tabletop fantasy RPG. The upgrades to the decor around the game room act as meta upgrades for the party's adventures.
OMFG!!!
Simon the Sorcerer is pure gold!!!
I used to play it on my dad’s old Windows 95 PC in the mid 90s.
And those first two games NEED to be released in a remastered package for current consoles.
Shame they don't have a satisfying conclusion though.
No mention of Southpark the Stick of Truth?
It`s literally them playing pretend DnD after playing GoT and getting a console which left them disheartened in an episode.
Life is strange True Colours had an entire chapter dedicated to a LARP of D&D that took in the entire town.
And the Wavelengths DLC has Critical Role merch everywhere in sight.
I was looking for this comment. The great thing about it is Matt Mercer wrote all of the LARP/D&D stuff, so it would be accurate... And it is! This is a double Easter Egg considering Critical Role exists in the True Colors world as evidenced by the Merch in Wavelengths.
@@PLAYER_42069 that's cool I was not aware of that.
that section is the best chapter imo
Spiritfarer is a great, often heartrending game which has a major subplot where you have to get a group of TTRPG players in the same place at the same time so they can play a game together: quite a challenge, if not quite as difficult as it is in real life.
Dead Rising 2. Sidequest: Brains over Brawn. Chuck investigates a toy store to find four people playing a certain roleplaying game...in the middle of a zombie apocalypse
"How do you roll 65%?"
Me, a Call of Cthulhu DM: "With percentile dice, of course."
It is worse than that... it is a 13 on the D20 she normally uses for D&D.
Not sure what system she's using there but to each their own. We roll a percentile dice and a D10 at my table.
To the uninitiated: The skill checks on the character sheets are in percentages, and one must roll beneath that number to succeed. The lower the role, the better you do. Only in a game like Call of Cthulhu would a Nat 1 be a good lthing, lmao.
@@RailfoxStudios, that's the whole issue with the d20-based games...nobody really remembers when percentages were part of the D&D world (of course, even fewer remember THAC0...*that* would wreck a fair few minds these days).
Got another one where D&D is important! Goodbye Volcano High. A fair amount of the game takes place in a D&D-like game that actually has randomized rolls for attacks/checks, and allows you to select different areas to go to at pivotal points. It's a pretty nice distraction from the actual plot of the story which is... a lot sometimes.
Oh Jane, 65% is a simple roll of 13 on a D20 !
Why try to figure the math (despite that being fairly simple to figure out)? Roll two d10s, denoting the tens digit with one die and the ones digit with the other (usually with different coloured dice)...or just pick up a percentile die (which is a d10 that goes from 10 to 00) and pair it with a regular d10.
@@Alsebra Wouldn't the percentile go from 00 to 90?
@@Sableagle, on the percentile die itself, yes...but pairing it with a regular d10 yields every roll from 01 (00 on percentile, 1 on d10) to 100 (00 on percentile, 0 on d10).
Now I also see what you meant...and how I can easily be misconstrued; I was viewing '00' as '100', kind of in the same vein as a d10 being from 1-10 (with 10 being denoted as '0').
@@Sableagle 00 signifies 100, conventionally. It would be 00+1 (=1 percent) up to 00+0 (=100 percent).
Maths! 😊
100 D1's ... Jane over here rolling in just 1 dimension. XD
If a D1 lands face down, it winks out of existence.
People have made such a thing as a d1 in the form of a mobius strip
@@Gehenna42 That's true, I hadn't thought of that. Those generally land on edge. What do you do if your D20 lands on an edge and won't set down to deliver a result?
@@o.o-vt1rc Put it in a bag of devouring.
The Robots & Rangers system seems to be based on the old Basic Roleplaying system, which did indeed use a d100 for skill rolls, skills being in percentiles (the higher the better, IIRC). And was also the system used in the original Wastelands ttrpg.
Bully? They call it Grottos and Gremlins but well it's D&D
I love when Jane finds her way onto Outside Xtra
Simon the Sorcerer II ? That's a deep cut, and I LOVE IT
What, no Hollows and Hobbes from Fable 3? I know we were in the game rather than around the table, but it still fits the whole vibe!
I liked how Unpacking used DnD as a part of the storytelling.
Fun fact about Wizard of the Coast, they sent the Pinkerton Detective Agency after someone got their hands on a card pack too early.
i'd like to mention that Everhood also has a DND reference in it! there's a little portion of the game where a couple of the game's main characters (and few side characters too, I believe) sit around a table and leave a chair open so you can join them! the table has a big map on it, stretching from one end of the table nearly to the other end. I'll try not to spoil too much but you end up playing thru the DND-like minigame battling the other characters until you reach the boss battle. the characters are also dressed up all medieval-like, which I thought was cute. I don't think it's exactly like DND but upon playing thru the game for the first time, this part of it that I'm talking about definitely gave me some DND vibes. (sorry if I didn't describe it very well, I haven't played Everhood in a while, haha)
Shoutout to Grottoes and Gremlins from Bully.
What about in Fable 3!! Three wizards shrink you to a miniature size and force you to fight their cardboard cutouts
for me "honey, i shrunk the kids" will always be culturel relevant ... it reminds me sitting on the couchw with my grandparents and just having a great time ^^
I bawled when the ant died. Good times.
That "Last of Us part 2" segment is made even better when you realize that both Ashley Johnson and Laura Bailey are involved with the game.
I will never apologize for my nerdiness.
I think there’s a bit early in Abbis part where the whole critical role cast plays WLF clustered together in a group. I think they were even talking about ttrpgs? But I could be wrong, its been a long time lol
There's also a bit in Tales from the Borderlands where the group's playing a game of Bunkers & Badasses, in part because the game's already baked into the lore anyway and in bigger part because Laura plays Fiona, and they knew she's a total D&D nerd.
I was so expecting to see the one from Fable III. The Game is a brilliant quest where you even get to experience the game first hand, literally waltzing around between character tokens and looking up at the nerds who shrunk you. Good times.
In the 1st Edition AD&D player’s handbook there’s a 1 panel comic referencing a game played the group of adventures on screen.
To quote:
“It’s called ‘Papers & Paychecks’, where we play as students and workers in an advanced technological society.”
Temtem has a lategame sidequest where you play a session of Tunnels & Temtem with a group of NPCs. The rewards you get for the quest depend on the choices you make during the play session.
A reference to Tunnels & Trolls, one of the earliest non D&D tabletop RPGs.
The 6 heart event for Sebastian in Stardew Valley is a D&D game with him and Sam! The only good reason to romance Sebastian.
Don’t you talk about my forever husband like that. I won’t have it. 😂
You uploaded this video The same day I'm going to be running a D&D session
Good ol' dndnd (definitely not dungeons and dragons)
I knew we were gonna get Bunkers and Badasses and I love it. Tiny Tina is so freakin cute
ROLL FOR INITIATIVE
I don’t know what the makers of the BL film thought they were doing casting Ariana Greensplat as Tina.
Well, now I know where _Third Crisis_ got the inspiration for one of its characters. Don't bother looking up _Third Crisis_ by the way. It lost its way a long time ago. Once upon a time, it had a story and a plot, and your main character was the one person who got to take three actions per round instead of two and had a couple of unique powers, one being, in D&D terms, "shift 9, AoE pushback," and the other being to restore one action to another character and reset the cooldown on the power they most recently used. Got a healer who can only use their big heal once ever four turns? Move healer to one person, heal, switch to MC, move to healer, recharge, switch back to healer, heal MC.
Then? Promising new indie game. Now? Sleazy crap.
Stardew Valley. When you get to know Sebastian, you play a sort of D&D game with him and Sam where you explore a dungeon and battle an evil wizard.
Wizards of the Coast’s IP lawyer is the job you get if you are even too evil for Disney.
The Tolkien Estate's lawyers are even more like the minions of Morgoth. Everyone was sued for using Hobbit, Nazgul, Ent and Balrog -- even a fledgling TSR (the original publisher of D&D).
Fable 3 has a scene where nerds shrink you down to play out their adventure.
Perfect way to start my day after work, delighted. 😁
You can find a game of Dungeons and Dragons in world of warcraft, in the hedge maze near proudmoore keep in a little underground room.
I was just thinking about this! I couldn’t remember where I’d found it though and I was beginning to think I’d imagined it 😂
Commenter's Edition could include Stardew Valley. One of Sebastians' friend events is playing it.
You and 2 other NPCs choose classes, and he DMs you though a dungeon crawl like a choose your own adventure.
This video is unfair because now I want new Oxventure. Don't tempt me!
3:03 - Flashback to Dob shattering Vocatus' groin.
And that level-up stream where Prudence gains the ability to Eldritch snipe someone's balls from up a mountain.
So nice to see Simon The Sorcerer getting some love on your channel!
A GUN! THAT SHOOTS SWORDS!
Honey I shrunk the Kids will always be relevant, lol.
I used to love D&D. Met Gygax, who knew my father. Now it's been ruined just like everything else that was once great.
Y'all forgot Firewatch and the little fort created by the missing kid that you find.
I don’t know if a reference is a parody
Havnt watched the vid yet but I hope they included the mission in PREY! It was so much fun finding out that these guys were setting up a dnd type game and using it to find a missing survivor was even more exciting
Edit:WOOOOOOOOOO
I still want to see Jane GM/DM a game, even though I know every character would end up dead.
Joke's on you, I knew of other TTRPGs way before I knew about D&D... mostly because I couldn't speak English. But that's beside the point!
i think i died inside at the words 100 robucks from a tic toc or how ever that was said
14:20 reminds me of The Book Of Unwritten Tales, where you have two guys playing an online RPG set in a "fantasy" world, which means "totally without dragons, orcs and magic!".
Chloe from life is strange is the most accurate to the players at my table
Apartments & Accountants, run by the Apartment Master
Seems like the Superintendent would be more appropriate. Or the landlord.
@@o.o-vt1rc It's gotta be the same letters
Skyscrapers and Superintendents
Or
Lairs and Landlords
Me ready to riot if there wasn’t a LiS reference, but happy to put the pitchfork down
I came up with the name Gaols and Giants for a DnD one shot I played, where the party were essentially real people isekai’d in to the fantasy world. My character turned in to his character from the fictional game
Ellen wearing her on theme Oxventurer's Guild T-Shirt ...
Mike don't worry the Mk Ch'nel is legally distinct
I think we know how Jane DMing a session would go now...
Assault on Dragonskeep was probably the best thing to come out of Borderlands 2. I really liked the different spell grenades. In all of the other games, I treat grenades as an almost forgotten last resort, never as useful as a good gun or your character skills, but those spell grenades became the focus for my B2 playthroughs.
You included Fatal Fortress from Prey, and you mentioned it was a double Easter-egg!! Well Done Outside Xtra! Well Done!
This was really nice video. I personally work as DM and D&D has been super fun. I recommend you to try it if you are interrested
"D&D But... Everyone's a Kobold"
the ideal D&D campaign imo
7:57 I think we've all had a conversation similar to this at least once.
Holy moly I just got crazy flashbacks to playing Arx Fatalis at my cousins place as a 10 year old! Thanks for unlocking some buried memories!
13:27 ... yes that is in fact how Call of Cthulhu has you roll percentage skill checks. You add points to increase your rating in a skill then try to roll under your number.
Although you probably knew that
in Fable 3 you get turned into a Mine and end up stuck in a DnD game full of cardboard cut outs and squabbling dialog between the Dm and his 2 friends
Robots and Rangers would be shortened to R&R, which is US Mil speak for rest and reorganisation, or ruckus and recreation, or something like that. Downtime and fun, anyway.
Also Rest & Relaxation, Rest & Recuperation, Remove & Reinstall
Grounded had Monsters and Minotaurs. Because youve been shrunk to bug size, you can wander among the minis and knock the d20 around
It's... in the video already?
I was going to start a GoFundMe for Mike's bail, but I see he already escaped.
I Love ALL Outside Xtra videos!
Nah, Honey, I shrunk the kids! fits way better. Plus, it's a timeless classic, so it's always relevant.
Criminal how its IMDb score seems low as of this writing.
@@michaelandreipalon359 I wouldn't take their opinion very seriously, all things considered.
@@hrothgardevaitos8330 True, but it beats Rotten Tomatoes.
Meantime, I possibly blame the low scores on its obscurity... though there's Nacho Libre at an outrageous 5.9!!!
I take it as she's making fun of us (and herself) for being "old". Our references don't click with advertisers as we slowly slide out of the highly sought after 18-34 demographic. If it's even 18-34 anymore, I swear they shrink it down more every year.
There's a small appearance of D&D in Bully Scholarship Edition. You can find some of the nerds playing it behind the game shop, inside the safehouse you get access to by completing the arcade game.
Apartments and Accountants should be a real game
It... is.
You've been playing it all along.
Point of order, swarm of bees can be an absolutely lethal threat in D&D, underestimate them at your peril