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The Philosophy of Game Mastering
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Welcome to The Philosophy of Game Mastering! A channel devoted to Dungeons & Dragons and other tabletop games. This channel aims to celebrate all aspects of D&D including the different editions of the game, TSR history, famous writers and artists of D&D, tips for Dungeon Masters, and tons more content.
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Why I Play Dungeons & Dragons — An Introvert's Perspective
My name is Joe. I play Dungeons & Dragons. And I'm an introvert.
This is a short video as to why I play D&D.
Introverts and Extroverts in Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) has often been seen as a game for introverts, due to its nature as a social activity that often takes place in private settings. However, this perception is not entirely accurate.
Introverts in D&D
Comfort in Smaller Groups: Introverts often feel more comfortable in smaller groups, which is common in D&D campaigns.
Enjoyment of Imagination: The imaginative world of D&D can provide a safe and stimulating environment for introverts.
Reduced Social Anxiety: For some introverts, the structure and rules of D&D can help re...
This is a short video as to why I play D&D.
Introverts and Extroverts in Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) has often been seen as a game for introverts, due to its nature as a social activity that often takes place in private settings. However, this perception is not entirely accurate.
Introverts in D&D
Comfort in Smaller Groups: Introverts often feel more comfortable in smaller groups, which is common in D&D campaigns.
Enjoyment of Imagination: The imaginative world of D&D can provide a safe and stimulating environment for introverts.
Reduced Social Anxiety: For some introverts, the structure and rules of D&D can help re...
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The Vale of Shadows - Stranger Things and D&D
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The Vale of Shadows - Worlds Collide! I’ve been rewatching season one of Stranger Things, and one of the episodes caught my attention. In Season One, Chapter Five, “The Flea and the Acrobat,” the boys make a connection to the upside down and the Vale of Shadows from their D&D campaign. I paused the video while watching this episode and was able to transcribe the entire text that was shown in th...
Player's Handbook Early Release, Why I Hate Spell Slots, and 1000 Subscriber Giveaway
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Hello fellow gamer and dungeon master, Today's September 3, 2024, and do you know what that means? Let me tell you... I'm super excited because today is the early release date of the new 2024 Player's Handbook!!! I'll be heading down to my local game store momentarily to pick up a copy. I wanted to get this video out to you first (just like Mr. Beast would), because I like you more than the new...
Fast Follow or Fast Fail?-The Future of D&D as Foreseen By the Executives at WotC and Hasbro
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(Note: My previous upload of this had several minutes of dead air at the end. This is a fixed version.) Hello fellow gamer and Dungeon Master! In this video, I speculate on what the "digitization" of D&D could mean for fans of the game and for Wizards of the Coast. I started this video as a simple TTRPG "news" update to talk about 2 recent Kickstarters: Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere® RPG and the ...
Fast Follow or Fast Fail?-The Future of D&D as Foreseen By the Executives at WotC and Hasbro
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Please note: There's a newer upload of this video here: ruclips.net/video/-vhlhaHaVik/видео.html This original upload had several minutes of dead air at the end, which has been corrected. Thanks. Hello fellow gamer and Dungeon Master! In this video, I speculate on what the "digitization" of D&D could mean for fans of the game and for Wizards of the Coast. I started this video as a simple TTRPG ...
How I Track Hit Points - My Monster Damage Tracker (Free Download!)
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Welcome fellow gamer and dungeon master! In this short video I demonstrate my monster damage tracker for a fast and convenient way to keep your combat moving. Instead of having a long, running column of hit points for each monster, you can use this handy damage tracker. It works for any TTRPG that uses hit points! Use it for OSR, Basic/Expert, AD&D 1st or 2nd edition, D&D 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 5e, Pat...
Battleships & Barbarians - Ship Endurance and Hit Points, Bloodied, and SECRET Hit Points?! 🚀
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Welcome to another episode of The Philosophy of Game Mastering. In this controversial episode, Joe discusses the idea that hit points aren't what you think they are. But, he doesn't know what you think, so he's just making stuff up again. Join us on a journey where Joe talks about how D&D stole the idea of hit points from older wargames and how nothing is original (except this video). If you're...
D&D 1979 VS 2024 - This One Word Found in These Two Books Reveals a Hidden Secret About D&D's Future
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This video contains secrets from the future. How do I know this? Well, I made them up, but I used data, lots of data! And, some speculation of course. Welcome fellow gamer, game master, and all-around awesome person! My name is Joe and I'm the proud overseer of this channel, The Philosophy of Game Mastering. I talk about all the versions of Dungeons & Dragons, old games from TSR, and many new g...
I'm Back from Vacation! And, What Are Secret Hit Points?
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I'm back from my summer vacation and it feels great to be able to make new videos! This is just a quick preview of what I'll be working on over the next week: 1. What are secret hit points and why would you want to use them? 2. The new 2024 Player's Handbook was sold at GenCon! WHAT?! 3. What happened with the recent copyright strike against Jorphdan with a PH? You can check out Jorphdan's chan...
Post-Vacation Update.
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Welcome back to my channel! I wanted to let you know what my next few videos will be about. Thanks for your patience while I was on vacation!
Can you Guess Which Famous D&D Artist Frequented This Place in Berkeley?
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A famous D&D artist from the 1980s frequented Triple Rock Brewery in downtown Berkeley California in the early 90s. Who was it?
How I Prepare For My D&D Game Sessions (40+ Years of Experimentation)
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How I Prepare For My D&D Game Sessions (40 Years of Experimentation)
A Dungeon Master's First Combat Encounter (A Fun Spontaneous Disaster)
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A Dungeon Master's First Combat Encounter (A Fun Spontaneous Disaster)
Free Book Chapter: Chapter 0 For the Novice Dungeon Master
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Free Book Chapter: Chapter 0 For the Novice Dungeon Master
100 Subscriber Prize Giveaway Revealed! Thanks for Subscribing!
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100 Subscriber Prize Giveaway Revealed! Thanks for Subscribing!
What's that smell? DM Doppelgänger Tips.
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What's that smell? DM Doppelgänger Tips.
What I learned Being a Dungeon Master for 40+ years...
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What I learned Being a Dungeon Master for 40 years...
Quests from the Infinite Staircase, Pre-Review (Part 2)
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Quests from the Infinite Staircase, Pre-Review (Part 2)
D&D -Quest from the Infinite Staircase DnD Anthology Pre-Review (Part 1 of 6)
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D&D -Quest from the Infinite Staircase DnD Anthology Pre-Review (Part 1 of 6)
Don't you love when you make a D&D video, and it gets a lot of views and comments, and you get a lot of subscribers? Congratulations.
@@Lightmane haha. Yes, it’s great. I wish I could figure out how to make it consistent!
@@dnd-and-philosophy so do I. I thought my narration of my D&D story was going to do it, but it didn't. Still glad I wrote and narrated it though. Just wish I could generate more interest in it. Oh well.
I've been into this hobby for 45 yrs. It's going to fail. Epically.
@@scottishguard yeah. A VTT-only version seems wrong.
When I saw this episode of ST, the first thing I thought of was the Shadowfell, but that wasn't introduced until 4e right. Cool little vid though look forward to more parallels.
Saw that in the store yesterday. Like that alt cover much more. Of course i'd already ordered the digital+physical combo to save $. Oh well. From what I've read so far the layout and examples are very beginner friendly. I was gonna say wish it was like that when i started, but didn't red box have a decent intro adventure. Its been so long... anyway, yeah seems better than 2014 in those terms.
Just came across this video today (9/10/24) and I have been playing since October '79 (1e AD&D) and DM'd for the first time that November as I brought it home from college over the Thanksgiving holiday introducing my brother and friends. My brother DM's as does my daughter. I've played/DM'd 1e, 3/3.5e, and 5e. I have found flexibility on the fly to be a good skill to have.
I just started watching this channel and I really like it. Just good, honest talk about yhe hobby. That's unique. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for watching. I appreciate your comment and it's great to have you here.
I consider myself more introverted than extroverted, I would say my wife is definitely the one that enjoys having company or going places to be around a lot of people who are close friends, etc. When I think back to when I was in High School, the amount of time that I spent, especially my 8th Grade year of Junior High and my Freshman year of High School making characters for AD&D and using my modules to play a game of D&D by myself, because I didn't have a any neighborhood friends who were interested in D&D. It wasn't until I was a Junior in High School that I met 2 or 3 other guys that actually played tabletop RPGs, and even introduced me to the Palladium System (RIFTS, etc.) and Hero RPGs. Looking back now, I played those games by myself because I didn't know anyone else interested. However, even today, because I live in a fairly rural area, I don't have good gaming stores nearby, and I don't live close enough to walk to one if I did. I occasionally run my wife through D&D with Henchman or Hirelings to accompany her character, because I don't use the Forbidden DM-PC. Thank you for sharing these thoughts!
I was lucky enough to have my D&D friends close by. In fact, my best friend when I was in elementary school lived half a block away. And, I had another part-time D&D friend who lived 2 doors away. It's great that you can game with your wife, and I've DMed many games controlling one of the PCs. You have to be flexible. 😀 BTW, have you tried the random dungeon generator in the back of the AD&D DMG? That's a great way to play a solo game. Thanks for watching and commenting!
@@dnd-and-philosophy Yes, I still have all of Reprints of the Core 3 AD&D 1E books and the Unearthed Arcana book. I still need copies of the Monster Manual 2 and Fiend Folio, which are available as Softcover reprints, which is how I will probably re-acquire them.
@@VMSelvaggio I didn't know you could get those as softcover reprints. Where do you get them? DriveThruRPG?
Being an introvert does not mean being shy, nor does it mean being socially awkward. There are shy extroverts and outgoing introverts. The difference is that introverts lose energy in social situations, while extroverts gain energy from it. An introvert can be someone who is the life of the party, but leaves early. The shy extrovert shows up early and is last to leave but is a wallflower all night hoping someone talks to them. Lets stop conflating introversion with some kind of social anxiety or other mental illness that needs to be overcome, please.
@@MagnificentDevil I wasn’t saying introversion was bad. I was describing a personal experience of mine and wanted to talk about what it meant to me.
Blessings and good luck 🙏 🍀 Great channel. Great advice & info. Keep at it. As an Old Timer (1980) still at it, it’s great to see the Magic of D&D, and role playing games continue.
Can definitely relate with the introverted thing. Hope you find success 😀
Yes D&D can help people in a lot of ways, a lot of different ways too
💯 truth
Let me recommend some channels for you. First is mine, though my channel is only partly about D&D, but I'd love for you to check out my story that I wrote, and then narrated on my channel. It's called 'Forestera's Fate' and it's all in a Playlist. I've since written and narrated Book Two, and a Short Story too. Here's 3 more channels that I think are great: The Dungeon Minister thedungeondelver The Old Warlock
Coming from the other side of the coin, it surprised me you mentioned taking risks. It never occured to me before that that is how many people perceive social interaction. Thanks for the openhearted insight.
@@winkbrace I’ve been reading about psychology and neuroscience. It’s opened my eyes. It’s crazy how our brains make so many decisions without thoughtful consideration. But, it’s part of our survival instincts. Thanks for commenting.
Sounds familiar. D&D helped me get out in front of people. I realized I needed to be able to handle people. I started playing / DMing D&D between my Sophomore and Junior years (summer of 1974). I did Model UN, Forensics my senior year. D&D eased me into the formal, but prepared, speaking in Forensics and Model UN. I just retired from teaching so it must have worked :)
@@brucehubbell9116 Teachers play an important role. Thanks for sharing. I hope you have a wonderful time in retirement!
The future of D&D? Find a trashcan.
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I appreciate the intellectual examination, but the shaky cam is making me sick. If WotC had any brains at all, they would fork D&D with the current as Classic D&D and in parallel create a whole new D&D system with modern game mechanics. Current D&D with its swingy d20, inflating hit points, nonsensical saving throws, abstract armor, only six abilities, are all outdated game mechanics.
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I think you need a stabilizer for your camera.
Congratulations on grabbing yourself a copy of the alternative cover! Looks a lot better to my eyes than the standard. Looking forward to your analysis and review. 🤟😍
Again, good luck on getting the 2024 PHB. I'm waiting, my FLGS is about an hour away and I'm sure they'll sell out.
@@brucehubbell9116 thanks!
Did you get one? I tried two stores today. One swore it wasn't available until the 17th. The other said it hadn't gotten them yet. Fortunately, their warehouse guy happened to be there and said he'd delivered 3 the day before. The clerk checked the back and found them waiting to be stocked!
@@trigician I’m glad you found one. I picked up the alternative cover but had a similar issue with the store. The staff thought it went on sale on September 4th. (Today).
please fix the camera setup and our mic set-up. it's hard to watch
Thanks for the calm, reasoned approach to your analysis. It makes very good sense. It happens to solidify my choice to leave D&D behind forever, but that's just the risks that companies take when making large changes like this.
Very interesting info. Thank you!
The most insidious part of this for me is the language of "our fans". Who does WOTC consider to be "their fans"? Throughout all my time playing D&D, I've never thought of myself as a "fan" of D&D, and especially not as a "fan" of WOTC. I've been a "player" of D&D, I've been a "DM" running D&D, now I consider myself a game designer using the framework of D&D. None of that is being a "fan" of D&D though, and that's what concerns me about the future of D&D. I've noticed over the last 4 or 5 years, ever since the lockdowns really, that there's been a change in the attitude of new D&D players, they're now much more like that "fan", the person who buys licensed merchandise irrelevant to the gameplay experience. WOTC seem to be trying to create more of those people, abandoning the traditional non-"fan" players in the process.
First, I'd love to see some of your game designs. I used to buy new RPGs, not to play, but to read. RPGs are a genre to me, like a new fantasy novel. Second, the lockdown messed up many of us in ways that will take more time to correct. It's like we finally saw through the illusion of the fire on the wall within Plato's cave, found the exit and walked towards it, but someone blocked the exit with a boulder. We're social creatures, often giving more merit to other peoples' opinions and not our own. The "fan" mentality is a natural consequence of wanting to belong to a larger whole. We don't have all the answers, want things to be simple, and we don't want to be wrong. This is how our biases form, why FOMO is so powerful to some, and removed our focus from our own goals, desires, and ambitions. When I experience something that shocks me or enrages me, that's when I know I need to take a minute to stop and think. I need to take the time to assess whether it's a true belief for me, or if I'm emulating someone else's belief that was built from fear. Gaming allows my imagination to run wild, has made me more aware of my own biases, and has led to some amazing growth. Thanks for the comment.
screw hasbro and WotC, i already sold all my mtg cards and dnd books and jumped over to Pathfinder and Blades in the Dark. Peeps stop giving them money there are way better alternatives out there, I mean hell you can play Pathfinder completely free with Pathbuilder and Archives of Neithys.
You might want to reassess how much the mcu has made. A huge amount was lost to the woke agenda. Guess what's happening to hasbro atm. The same thing
As of 2023, the MCU has grossed $30 billion. That's what Hasbro wants to do with D&D.
Imagine having to pay a monthly subscription to use you imagination
Wow. When you phrase it like that, it sounds worse than I thought!
D&D's future... Castles and Crusades, Shadowdark, Daggerheart, Basic Fantasy, White Box Fantastic Midevil Adventure Game, Old Swords Rule, Five Torches Deep, Knave. Cairn, Black Hack. You go play your computer game, those of us who play real D&D have lots of choices.
Yes, there are so many choices for real D&D it's a no brainer.
Go woke go broke. Pathfinder all the way now
The greatest thing D&D has done for me over the last 10 years: It's the reason that I've gone out and played other games. I've found no shortage of other options out there, the only challenge is finding people that are willing to come of the WotC tiddy, because they're completely unaware that D&D isn't the only fantasy role-playing game. As it stands now, D&D is going to be a lifestyle brand. It'll be like Betty Boop- it'll just be some logo slapped on products at Wal-Mart. Hopefully this Stranger Things and Critical Role trend will die off soon, and Hasbro can do whatever they please with D&D while actual players will adapt and overcome- and innovate. As for the 'digitization'? Yeah, kiss the inside of my ass, WotC. Half the reason I stayed sane through my various deployments in the military was because we had pencils, paper, and some physical D&D books.
Thanks for your service and your comment. My best friend Brannan (who I mention in one of my videos) was deployed twice. He enlisted right out of high school and never loked back. He had a strong will, body, and heart. He survived his deployments and returned home safely. But several years ago at Chirstmas time, he had a stroke. We played D&D as kids whenever we could. D&D has changed my life in many ways as a social game of imagination. It's changed many lives for the better. Keep playing your way and it'll never go away.
@@dnd-and-philosophy "The military is full of nerds." - Me, but I doubt I'm the first one to say it. Call me a grognard if you like, but in fairness- I like having digital resources to a degree, but I don't like the idea of having to put down money just to access content to a game over the internet. My brother in Christ, if you've never done a 'Camping Campaign' you are missing out. As in, "You and the crew go camping over the course of like a week and play a tabletop RPG innawoods".
They lost me for life.
The digitization would be fine as an alternative way to play, but unfortunately we all know that sometime down the road WotC will make up some excuse to stop printing books. You can't get a monthly subscription out of people who own printed books.
Digitization would be fine as long as you can store the rules locally in a widely supported drm-free format. I'd prefer to have the core books in both physical and pdf format.
@@SuprousOxide In with you there, but WotC's goal of a closed ecosystem, will never allow it.
D&d as a subscription service is what they want
I'll always buy the physical D&D books as long as they print them and they're of high quality content. I really don't like having to subscribe to Adobe monthly to use Premiere, but that's how I edit my YT videos for now. At some point I'll switch to an alternate.
Boot Hill was an awesome game! So was Gamma World. I had WAY TOO MANY plant characters in that game.
@@TheBubbaclaw haha! Plant characters are awesome!
I predict 2024 will be a huge success but their overpriced VTT and obvious effort to devalue DDB will lead balloon whatever good will they generate and they’ll report “slower growth than desired” and cut jobs again.
Notice he calls them “science fantasy” and “heroic fantasy” and not “fantasy” and “sci-fi”. It was all fantasy in the early days. Now we have distinct genres.
@@WhimsicalArtisan yeah. I like those terms.
I know DnD can succeed ... go back to Advanced DnD.
@@bkdris yes!
I feel fortune that I have the ability to craft my own game material to game from. If had to just choose a popular brand, and the big ones were what were available to me today, I just wouldn't. AD&D is the game that made me decide I could do better, I hate that game so much, the ruleset is so backwards and oddly arbitrary. 3rd Edition was the first game that had a framework I felt I could really work within, and both 4th and 5th editions ( and now whatever they are calling the newest edition) felt like major steps backwards to me. Mind you, I think 3rd edition has a lot of issues, but I can patch it easily to fix the things I don't like without reinventing everything. I'm only sad that GURPS never got a d20 system overhaul, I am a lover of heavy customization that has mechanical effects, but the base systems in GURPS (roll under systems are abominations) kept me from really enjoying it.
Hasbro purchased WotC for Pokemon. At that time WotC had the license to make the Pokemon card game but shortly after Hasbro getting WotC the Pokemon Company took the rights back. Hasbro did NOT buy WotC for D&D. Hasbro never even mentioned D&D on any of its yearly financial reports until about 2018, 2019 when the toy division started hemorrhaging and 5e was financially secure. Right now the only part of Hasbro making any money is in the digital realm. Monopoly Go IS why Hasbro is still ticking. It's not D&D. It's not even really Magic Arena but that is doing a lot better than D&D. Digitizing D&D is trying to break a 50 year tradition that a lot of traditional players will just not buy into.
@@FMD-FullMetalDragon you’re 100% right on Pokémon. I didn’t mention it but there’s a quote from Peter Adkison that said something like, “Printing Pokémon was like printing money.” I agree that digitizing D&D will completely change the game. It might attract new players but the old school players can still play whatever version they want. Thanks for the comment!
Why no G.I.Joe RPG?
That's a great question? 🤔
Half of this video is just a black screen without any audio.
Yeah, there was a rogue clipping when i did the export. I uploaded a new one without it. Thanks.
@@dnd-and-philosophy Still there for me as of, well, right now, 8/31/24, 9:26pm EST
I’ll tell you…
I think the time for simpler pen and paper TTRPGs (and their VTT representations) is here. D&D is clearly taking the video game path, going whale hunting. It creates an awesome opportunity for games that aren't so complex that you need a top-end computer to participate in them.
@@BobMcDowell amen. I love realistic games without the fuss of excessive complexity.
@@dnd-and-philosophy I don't really think those two things can co-exist. Complexity typically arrives in order to try and make something more realistic and fleshed out rather than putting the onus on the game master to just make spot judgments. Considering I think Pathfinder 1.0 is still the best system created to date in general, I guess I'm more on the side of complexity. I remember not getting into 5E because it felt "dumbed down" to me. I was ecstatic to move away from the over simplicity of AD&D 2nd Edition to 3rd Edition, which made many rules changes I loved (Adding dice to numbers to overcome a target number is the most intuitive mechanic that exists, and the weird and very arbitrary table for Saving Thows being turned into a formula). I honestly though that Palladium would be the next big thing, but it didn't really catch on for some reason.
From what I can tell by looking elsewhere, the Dungeon Dudes have already made a video talking about the inclusion of the "bloodied" condition for the 2024 Edition of D&D. The following video is from 3 days ago: ruclips.net/video/NMgHngNIdOg/видео.html
@@VMSelvaggio awesome thank you!
I personally don't see a problem with moving D&D to the digital realm. They could even import OD&D, BD&D, AD&D 1 & 2, D&D 3 & 4 into the D&D Beyond atmosphere and dominate other VTT's with little comparable effort on their part. Digital gaming has allowed me to meet so many wonderful people and play a game I never thought I could have, with my son across the world! I certainly don't think the direction they are maneuvering D&D '24 into is healthy or profitable in the long term, but it does open a possibility of bring in older edition fans into the digital realm, extending the longevity of the digital tools and profit margin. I just don't have any hopes that they are smart enough to do so.
WOTC is entirely focused on creating a walled garden ecosystem here, there is absolutely zero chance they'll import old versions when they barely even acknowledge the existence of those versions, and they're unhappy about the fact a lot of people rejected their repackaging of 5e.