3 Things Shakespeare Can Teach About Dungeons & Dragons (Ep. 104)
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- What can Shakespeare teach about D&D? Turns out plenty! Professor DungeonMaster elucidates on 3 Shakespearean strategies that will improve your RPG!
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Bonus points for referencing the numerous conspiracy theories surrounding Christopher Marlowe's death.
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Hello! Professor Dungeon Master here, wearing my +1 puffy shirt of Charisma...
We'll see how many views this video gets....
What doth dice roll so softly sweet; The glisten and sheen of yon paladin's armor or Arcane wizardry within the pages of a sorcerer's tome. Much ado about a rogue and his resin stained hands and The betwixt nature of a barbarous knave holding his foes in slight regard. Of carnal knowledge of trees among the taper eared folk or a dwarf lord's lust for blackened stout, sitting in a hall among all that glitters. Take heed all you merry gentlemen and noble ladies who explore a land of imagined lore; the Dice are a hateful friend, a loving enemy; followed with utmost piety from whence they fall and where they lie.
Well that was fun! Who wants Chinese!
General Tso's Chicken, please!
I draw on Shakespeare primarily for my villains: Iago, Don John, Shylock, Lady MacBeth, Caliban--all of these characters have had NPC analogs in my campaign at one point or another.
Cool!
Shakespeare= bard that multiclassed to fighter in order to shake that spear
Good one.
But bards already need levels in every class before they can become bards in the first place.
i still think Homer is the go-to for any DM to study. Drama and action told quickly and evocatively. 2500+ years and we still remember him!
It's refreshing to see someone encouraging character flaws.
All I get from Google on the subject of DnD are optimization guides, and forum posts giving advice on how to make the most perfect, immune, and invincible character.
I'd like to hear stories of how people gave crippling flaws to their character and how it allowed them to create an epic moment.
Professor Dungeon Master, I have a sneaking suspicion that you made this video so you would have a good enough reason to wear that shirt.
I always wear it when I'm raking leaves. I tell my children "I'm going to rake leaves in the puffy shirt!" and they all run out to help because they don't their friends to see me and think I'm insane.
@@DUNGEONCRAFT1 Great point. I'll have to try that.
@@DUNGEONCRAFT1 that gave me a good laugh
@@DUNGEONCRAFT1 That's a way of getting help for chores.
@@DUNGEONCRAFT1 what dad energy
Excellent video! To quote Bill the Bard, "Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them" (The thrust bypasses your AC and you take 2d12 piercing damage)
Excuse me, but as per the DMG that's supposed to do 1d12 piercing and 1d12 greatness damage.
@@PhyreI3ird "The first thing we do, let's kill all the (rules) lawyers" Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2 (edited)
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To roll or not to roll that’s the question
Good one. Did I say that? I should have.
This is my favorite DM channel. No doubt, your videos are very informative and inspiring.
This type of advice must come as essential info in any DM guide.
I wholeheartedly concur and I just love hearing about other DMs who use this style of play which is similar to my own.
Professor Dungeonmaster- you have done Magic for wizards, you have Combat descriptors- for Fighters, you have an episode for Clerics & their Gods. Can you please tell us how you run the THIEF and his skills? Then maybe go to the demihumans- dwarf, elf, halfling. Thank you!
Me too. Pro. DM I like hearing your ideas of how you change and run classes in your game. Thief would be fun to hear about.
... and while we're at it, let's get an explanation of how those bards are able to play their lutes in the midst of a desperate struggle by dropped torchlight in the rat warrens...
Shakespeare definitely got into the conflicts right off. There was no pussyfooting around. If you are going to run a story based campaign, his are excellent examples to follow.
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@@DUNGEONCRAFT1 It is my pleasure as always
This is great! Thanks for bringing up the classics! I have used "The Tempest" as a base for my game before, and the players loved it.
I am intrigued. Explain further!
This is one of the best TTRPG Videos ever created.
Thanks, Frederic! This got so few views it got me rather depressed. Glad you enjoyed it!
It was because of D&D that I loved Shakespeare in school. I would image that is how characters in a D&D Setting would talk. Shakespeare was the one class where I could pretend to be in a D&D game.
In class, I always found it funny when my fellow students would groan and complain about Shakespeare's writing and say "why can't he talk straight?"
I do also think study of the Bard will help with one's sense of speech and drama in their own player portrayals. Thank you for this excellent video!
I started incorporating Homeric similes into my narration.
Its a music themed adventure where an entire volcanic moon is one huge pipe organ and the PC's need to fix it before it explodes.
Some stuff:
A guitarist, master of his instrument, has his fingers move on their own to reach a melody, so to did [CHARACTER]'s feet step to reach [ENEMY].
AND
As fingers strum and pluck strings to create wonderful sounds so to did [CHARACTER]'s [WEAPON] slash and pierce [ENEMY] to create a cacophony of death.
Truly thou art a Master of thine craft. Thank you for this insight. Helen and Katarin Juska-Law et al.
Prof, I will often use terrain or map out the places where social encounters happen in order to present the possibility of combat or danger, even if none is forthcoming or present. This has made a lot of my social encounters more tense and engaging.
Great vid! I had a roommate in college that was a Shakespearean actor (he's now doing fight choreography on, and off, Broadway). Anyway, we watched a lot of Kenneth Branaugh Shakespeare adaptations. I have to say I learned a lot from him in general. But, when making NPCs I've taken a lot from what I learned to try to generate three-dimensional characters that the PCs will interact with. I am discovering that my players seem to enjoy finding out things about the NPCs that have no real impact on the current story but inform the PC's attitudes, beliefs, and personality.
More broadly speaking, if I were to give any DM some advice, I would tell them to become a movie buff. You can learn a lot about how to be cinematic in your story-telling and provide interesting characters to interact with.
When i went back in time recently i was at the Globe Theatre.After watching the play i approached Will and said "your play was good,but your minimal scenery was excellent" The Bard thanked me and said 'A mysterious constructor of sets titled UDT by the title of Professor DM helped me' i sighed and went back through the portal and thought thats where he got that shirt!
I like what you had to say about over-crafting; it can be a factor. I once thought there'd be a terrain solution to just about everything...and...there isn't! But it's okay. Terrain jazzes up the game but it need not always be a diorama. I think we all associate terrain and minis as the best overall way to visualize and resolve combat/encounters. It's also fun to use at other times so the players may think there'll be a combat encounter. One example of this is when the party is trundling down the road in their trusty wagon. I lay out simple terrain and it sort of 'scrolls' by without actually moving along with a mini of their wagon and all of the character's minis. The idea is to mostly get a wagon out on a road and make it visual. The players will do the rest. It can make players think a bit more. At other times, it's just cool to use...the tavern, the city gate, or other scene that is either more functional with terrain or has an iconic look. Outside of that and a few other instances, game-on with theater of the mind! Using terrain for everything is just another thing that can slow the game down.
"But I don't wanna be a pirate!"
This pirate look could be the new look for the 2020s!
“You look like you’re gonna swing in on a chandelier!”
If the characters are only fighting a single monster I find theater of the mind is fine. It's when they're fighting several enemies that I use miniatures and terrain. If you have any pro tips for using UDT for those encounters I think that would be a great focus for a future video. Thanks for all of your great work!
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I really enjoy it when you regale us with tales of your campaigns. I would like to hear more about the characters from your high level game.
I love your videos. Please do the Decameron, it fights right into this series and I would love to hear your insights!
Also you can learn that "thou" is the informal version of "you." Oh, and stealing characters from Shakespeare is advised. One of the best flawed hero NPCs was basically Hotspur from Henry IV.
Kudos for wearing a Shakespearian style shirt!
Professor DM, your professional life is showing. ;)
Kicking ass Professor. I will attempt.
Another useful and thought provoking video Professor. I don’t know if you are looking for ideas for new content, but I thought I’d second the one about How You Run Thieves as a Class in Your Games. Also, here is to hoping your puffy shirt is actually a +2 Puffy Shirt of Charisma. Thanks again
I see when you create conflict you really set the bar high. That countess is a recurrent character in this channel and she was created based on Elizabeth Báthory, was she not? Well, nothing better for a conflict than hunting a serial killer. I thought about creating one based on John Wayne Gacy (The Killer Clown) but never implemented it.
We're in agreement with Shawn about the shirt. Great video!
Thanks for watching!
Spot on, I have never understood groups playing role-playing games like war games. Theatre of the mind is far more versatile for fantastical storytelling.
Great video Dan.
Macde(a)th sounds like a dope adventure. Maybe I should do it myself...
I ran it at GenCon. During the before years....
3:00 Heck, I WAS in that toxic relationship!
Me too!
One of your best videos. Ful wys thou art!
If you know the past time of a character/npc you have his conflicts, fears and motivations. With that you know how he will act in future... spending a little bit more time in this past things will increase the game flow.
For me it works very well.
And yes a colourful background makes a character to cool character
In my current campaign that I am a player in I was given a choice to take a mediocre 15-13 stats or 16-7 stats. I took the latter and put the low stats into my int and Wis. In our last session our ranger went down, two death fails in, and I had a healing potion in my hand. When combat ended my dm counted down from 10. My character didn't understand, the ranger rolled and failed his third death save. He was a good friend. He tried to teach my half orc rogue how to write (don't understand vowels). I will miss him.
RIP
He was okay with the death of his character though. Now we can have a cleric! :D
Grimdark Bill Shakespeare is the best
Grimdark Bill Shakespeare is the only one that ever existed.
Great tips and they work well. This is what I usually do at my table. When time allows me, I put more props like barrels, crates, jugs etc. to enhance the visual atmosphere. Oh and yeah, for a moment I thought I saw you wearing a red earring at 6:48 :D
Shakespeare's backstory is now my official head canon.
Cool!
Good points and video
TPK at the end of every session... I like it.
I would love a deep dive into your "McDeath" campaign sometime.
Great video
Kinda Elizabeth Bathory background on the countess.
Don't take too much guff for the Seinfeldian Poofy Shirt, Professor. The Lady Bathory reference is awesome as well. I am always torn whether your doctorate is in the Social Sciences, Theater, or English. That is meant as a compliment. The egg timer is a fantastic tool for other things, but this seems to be dangerously close to using it as intended. Your scenery advice is the best advice by far in an episode with nothing but good advice. Sometimes less is more.
VERY late to the party but I just found this channel it's great! I am a huge fan and avid gamer and a bit of a theatre buff. They did have rotating stages in Shakespeare's time or something similar - called Periaktos (www.britannica.com/art/periaktos) they had them in Greece during the Hellenistic age. The point was not lost me though -- can't wait to watch more!
Dude! Awesome video!
Thanks Tim. Please share it!
Professor thank you for excellent content! May I draw your attention to your sound quality when you are in the room? You sound far away and get sound reflection. Perhaps a lavalier or a super cardioid mic would do the trick.
Thanks. I am working on it. Thanks to the patrons on Patreon, I'll be getting a new Mike and & Camera for Christmas. Recommendations?
Just re-watched part of this. Yeah--this episode was taped without a lapel pin. I lost it at GenCon and I had just gotten back and the new one was in transit. I have to tape an episode every week and I just had to move on without it. But new tech is coming.
“You probably know a bunch of people who are just in relationships with toxic, bad people but they just can’t see how bad they are. If you have put it in the comment section below”. The best
Glad you found it amusing and thanks for watching!
Dungeon Craft The Bard would be proud
The +1 puffy shirt of protection
Just remember the acronym KISS: Keep It Simple Stupid
Another great video. But that shirt though! :)
This pirate look could be the new look of the 2020s!
to be or no to be....a DM...? that's the question!
I am really curious as to how UDT works. You have multiple rings that determine range, but what if the monster moves into those rings? Also, what about fighting multiple enemies? Also do you even use the grid on the board? It seems like you just place the minis wherever. Also, since your board is round with concentric rings wouldn't it make better sense to use hexes?
The bulk of combatants that can reach each other will be in the center. There's a second ring around that too show the outskirts of the fight. You can fire from range but also the monsters can move into that circle. The outer circle is people aware of the combat but not able to interact. The squares are just to look nice. You can move from one zone to an adjacent zone each turn
Hell, I've warned someone of the toxi-bad person they were in a relationship with and they admitted to knowing it yet still wanting to ride it out to the inevitably tragic ending.
Good times! For drama!
I've seen some people's libidos make them similarly not care to stop/leave a bad relationship. Makes me wanna slap em wide across the face, since evidently they're not suffering enough.
LOL. Good one.
Last time I was this early I didn't know this meme existed yet.
P.S. I recognize that shirt... Seems everyone with some costume pieces has one.
Yep. It's the standard Ren-Faire puffy shirt.
Nice!
Thanks for saying so!
Nice.
You know too much Professor. Lord Walsingham's men would like a word with you.
Why are you wearing Seinfeld's shirt?
Because HE wants to be a pirate. Hahaha.
Because this new pirate shirt could be the new look of the 2020s!
“Shakespeare” is all you had to say! 😃
Is your Sorceress a water gun that squirts maple syrup? Does your Elf want to be a dentist? Real flaws.
Anyone who's watched Tombstone knows that the rouge is the one with tuberculosis
Pretty sure this is the same guy who did the unsoved mystery show
Like number 900 XD.
I played a gay wizard who turned to necromancy to communicate with his dead husband
I had a toxic relationship
What? No +2 shirt of charisma?
We'll see how many views this rack up. Then I'll know if the puffy shirt is +2 CHA or just a puffy shirt.
hmm, shakespeare was fairly conflict driven with his storytelling and drama, not too unlike the gustav freytag triangle. great for a conflict driven dnd plot. but what about a character driven plot? more like the eastern kishotenketsu methods?
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overcraft, overbuy are you insinuating i have a problem......, no i get it depends on the sistem and group, and never plan and create terrein for every non puzzle or combat encounter, or do it what do i know?, i'm just another asshole on the internet
Maybe.....but glad you're watching Dungeoncraft!
I like the channel but not the name Professor Dungeon Master.
Professor DM sounds better.
My ex wife.
Toxicity