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Probably why a lot of DND official stories and film adaptations don’t work either. They’re just basic fantasy stories with the title slapped on. People think of D&D movies having a bunch of injokes related to tropes they’ve experienced, and unless the director plays the game religiously it’s not gonna work
isn't the problem way more general than that? social media "humor" in general is 95% people fishing for upboats by repeating the same jokes - in mild variations if they're feeling adventurous, over and over again.
This applies even more to stories that are at least somewhat funny to hear second-hand. For example, Tiefling character exploited fire-damage immunity to shoot herself out of a cannon, only to fail the "Acrobatics" check to land without bludgeon damage.
6:45 I think a lot of people forget that bards do more than just play instruments. Remember, performance includes more than just instruments (ex: gymnastics, comedy, acting)
@@enchanteddragonair7862 yeah, Jack of all Trades adds half proficiency bonus to all things you aren’t proficient in right? So that + Expertise + many proficiencies anyways= someone who does a lot very well. Not the best at them all, but still good
Storytelling! Remember in an age when literacy was rare, and written records didn't last very long or were prohibitively expensive to produce, information would be spread by word of mouth, and in narrative form. Bards could be historians, or preachers, or lawyers etc. All fields where spoken words and stories are key.
@@chriscanfly6386 .... Yes. That's the part I wanted to steal. I don't care about the human/human half offspring part. You catch on quick, my dude! Good job.
SUPRISE! I am the funniest YTer evah!!!! Just kidding, it was no surprise. Everybody knew already. HAHAHHAHA!!!! That was an amazing joke (it was real talk though). WAWAWAWAWA!!!! Good afternoon, dear ke
@@wolves600 Guys, we don't need to waste time in the comments also debating about what and what isn't tEcHnIcAlLy a laugh as well as the creator wasting more than enough time doing so in their video.
@@YourIQDoesntMeanShitToMe Dude they were just explaining the definition of a chuckle which the person they were responding to clearly didn’t know. Suddenly it’s wasting time to educate people on what something means. Like it’s not that serious.
@@donb7519 True but cats do weird things, at my MTG table because my buds fat ass cat sometimes decides he wants to be the center of attention he jumps onto the table then lays down. We ruled any cards he covers are out of play :) if he lays on your life counter you have to go get the cat a snack.
@@keaering5183 i believe the cat sitting at the table everything else just sounds like a joke someone wishes they told and the reaction they wanted to get
@@donb7519 It's the same joke every table makes about cats on the table though, either it's a druid or a giant monster the party has to fight. They didn't even claim a nat 20, lol
@@Harlizarrd The story isnt even meant to be a joke. It was stolen from tumblr. Probably just a funny observation. Jacobs right that the subreddit isnt funng but it was just a dumb story that is believeable in that "yeah. I know people who llay dnd"
Interesting fact; Most eyepatch wearing pirates used this to always have an eye ready that is already adjusted to the dark. For like when you need to fight below deck. Not because they were missing an eye :)
@@seigeenginethey’d close the eye, take the patch off while walking below deck, then open the eye once below deck. There’s no need to replace the patch on the other eye, you’d just adjust it to complete darkness while in a dim setting. You’d put it back on when you go above deck and you’d have to wait for you eye to adjust to the light. You literally would never need to switch it
Actually, the 'Final exam in bard college' has an additional layer to it a lot of people would miss. It has an iconic stunt from the musical 'Pippin' where he dives across the bouncing balls. That is to say, he's training to be a real life bard / Musical theatre actor.
To be fair, I have a cat who loves rolling a very specific d20 around on the floor. It's _his_ d20, he knows it, recognizes it, and knows to let me read it before he slaps it around again.
My cat loves playing with my dice too, but she then runs off with them and hides them in weird places that I don't find for six months. All of my dice are now in little baggies.
@@marcogenovesi8570 no that’s the one anime about the girls who run track, sing, and dance, also they just so happen to have horse ears on their heads and tails.
Variant humans are just...humans. But it'd be hilarious since players who like other races tend to lean heavy into the lore, and then, you hear this backstory and it's Jeff the human ranger :)
I believe the cat thing happened. Cats sit like humans sometimes. If u put a dice in front of a cat many will bat it. The last guys I played dnd with would definitely have cheered and added their cat to a campaign
People pick the weirdest stuff to just... not believe. Like, it's just a funny story about a cat doing cat stuff and becoming a meme because of it. It's not some dude claiming he made a grand speech at the supermarket or anything.
If I had had a dime for every time our DM's cats batted a die off the table, I'd have enough to buy a coffee at Dunkin'. Not a lot, but definitely enough times to be a trope (also more times than three players with Silvery Barbs have cast it in our 18 months of our campaign thus far...).
I would assume the 3 year campaign was the epic adventure she's been working on here and there, making sure she had entertaining and relevant options and solutions to every possible situation. It was her masterpiece, it was finally perfect, and she was so proud. Some of us just aren't good at improv. I can relate to her in so many ways. The one thing she forgot to plan for is that people suck
You don't have to be good at improv to avoid spending 3 years on a campaign. That's just bad time management. Prep per session, have a draft and idea of where the campaign can go. But if you spent 3 years writing a campaign then you likely should've just written a book.
@@techbeef I have a friend who's been writing and working on a campaign that's been on and off with like...5 parties because it simply never worked out until now, after about five years. It happens
@@Islacrusez I never stated they were bad at world building. Bad at time management though? Expected. After 3 years I am sure people more than lost their hype for it.
The issue with dnd memes is that nothing can top the memes you create accidentally with your players which unfortunately, are not funny to anyone else.
@@chi7818 So I don't have any details unfortunately but I kind of vaguely remember this being the premise of an old webcomic? like there's a support group for monsters and a 'human' joins because they're half minotaur and half mermaid or centaur. Not to discredit meme OP because they probably did come up with it on their own, but it might be worth looking into
Yeah in one of the campaigns I’m playing we had two moments where me as a Barbarian made my party bust out laughing. One player crapped himself due to a fear and a latter with the illusion of it being really high. My orc grabbed him off the latter only like 10 feet up and dragged him down, he screamed pooped himself and then used prestidigitation to clean himself, he then asked my character to kick down a door which he happily did. Well later that session we found a dead body in the water with a soaked note I asked him if he could use the same spell he used to clean himself when he browned his pants immediate laughter and then as we were leaving the location I told the guards hey someone broke your door immediate laughter. But you had to be there
DM: You keep making characters that just want to kill gods. This one needs to be unique. Player: Don’t worry, this one is just a warforged that wants to become the best cheese maker of all time. DM: That’s interesting, but why is he adventuring. Player: You see, warforged can’t taste, so he wants to go out and become powerful enough to overthrow and take the power of whatever is the most powerful being so he can use it to give himself a tongue. DM: Your character wants to kill a god so he can make cheese? Player: I want to kill a god so I can make cheese, yes.
7:30 He used multiple skills relying on physical abilities, such as performance, athletics and the like. He also played 3 different instruments as all Bards gain proficiency bonus in 3 different instruments and an array of skills, as he displayed. It was the multitude and array of things he did that made him a Bard
@@alexandrews6256"Your Charisma (Performance) check determines how well you can delight an audience with music, dance, acting, storytelling, or some other form of entertainment." Straight from D&D Beyond :) Along with Acrobatics and Athletics (so definitely a Swords Bard major).
The cat rolling probably happened though as we did the same thing at our friends house lol. Put a D20 in front of him and he freaked out and smacked it. He loved sitting at the table with everyone
The first one about introducing a new character played by the same actor after someone dies basically happens in The Gamers "You seem trustworthy" was a meme at my old table for this reason
Honestly, id love it for both the in joke factor and the confusion of people who dont play d&d but still were willing to watch a fantasy action film based on it. "Wait, thats roderick the fighter who died fighting against that last monster in the caverns!" "No it isnt, its clearly broderick the fighter who they bumped into by chance outside the cavern exit." "Its the same guy!" "No it isnt!"
"Just because a guy is carrying a guitar does not mean he is a bard" is literally the best sum up of a Tiefling character of my friends' i have ever encountered and I am so amused.
I played a warlock who had proficiency in Performance because she was a flute virtuoso, but it wasn't enough to get into bard college, so she made her pact to have all the other skills to get her into bard college (aka: magic ability). She then immediately dropped out because "I have warlock magic and can shred on a flute. I don't need to go to bard college!" How good at flute was she? She was a sea elf and from an underwater city...and could still play the flute :) (goofy character for a one-shot that went over incredibly well)
The disintegration gun idea was kinda cool. Give it to them with a warning to use sparingly but not say why. They use it too much or on too strong of enemies the last fight going to be tough
Or give it to the wrong person just to see what happens. No limits. Final fight you're up against a huge demon, a few helpers, and like 823 random villagers from various towns. Good luck.
@@admiraltonydawning3847 DM reaches under the table and pulls out the FATAL rulebook, their gaze never leaving the Bard's eyes. "Now, you need to remember, you asked for this."
Funnily enough that sea-dwelling vampires idea is used canonically in Vampire: the Masquerade. There are offshoots of Gangrel and Nosferatu Kindred that live in the ocean since a) they don't breathe, b) they can sustain themselves on schools of fish easily, and c) they can rest in caves or deep enough in the ocean that sunlight doesn't reach. Means easy living too since they rarely if ever come into contact with humans and thus don't need to worry about the Masquerade and keeping themselves hidden :D Theoretically any Kindred in VtM could do this, the only ones that can't are the ones with certain bane restrictions. There are Folklore Banes (if I'm remembering the name correctly anyway) where things like religious symbols and running water/currents hurt them and put them into a beastial frenzy, the usual stuff from traditional vampire lore. It's cool.
9:25 I think the implication is that those three years also involved buying, gathering, and setting up all the ambience things too like the coffee table and smart lights, and gathering players. Where I lived it took me almost three years to even find a group
I'm sure you're right and most of these aren't funny but my sense of humor has decayed into oblivion and i was cracking up at most these despite the fact that i've already seen all of them
The "not a meme, just pain" reminded me of the Brennan Mulligan story about Axe of the Dwarf Lords. A long campaign module that he had worked on for weeks, only to have his players derail the whole thing half-way through the opening scene.
@@reptiliannoizezz.413 maybe temporarily, but not forever. Brennan Lee Mulligan (the DM in question) is the DM for Dimension20 (The CollegeHumor D&D Show) as well as many other side projects, and was a guest DM for the latest installment in Exandria Unlimited. BLM (i just realized those are his initials) is a fantastic DM and has been for years
Stories like this are exactly why I only do "improv DM" and nothing else. I figure out a couple key moments I want to happen, and whenever I feel like they should happen amid the party doing what they feel like doing and having to react to all of it, it happens to move the story along. I got so tired of spending so much time trying to make big elaborate stories on purpose that never made it past the first session or two before they invariably became something else anyway that I just can't do it anymore.
In the group I play 5E with, whenever the DM gets out of his chair, his cat jumps into it and pops up to survey everything behind the screen, then stretches further to look over the screen at everyone. The standard thing is to tell the guy when he comes back that his co-DM told us we'd all advanced a level, and each discovered an uncommon magic Item, our choice. The first time I'd loudly announced having stuffed several items into my /bag of holding/ and one of the others had been using magic armor in combat before someone started using his /jug of alchemy/ to produce olive oil (?) before he caught on.
“Writing a campaign for 3 years.” Yeah…. I feel that. Mine’s been burbling inside my head since high school (over a decade ago), and only in recent years have I been able to turn it into a D&D setting. I don’t always get to play, so when that happens, I either work on D&D homework, or build another SMM2 level.
as a writer who lets ideas stew for a really long time and then writes them all down in short bursts, i think there's an important distinction between actively writing and idea stewing. even then, the most my ideas ever really stew is like 2-3 months.
I planned a super wild campaign over the course of a few months - it was a full 1-20 milestone campaign. Never got to play it. Idk how someone could take 3 years, that was my first campaign I planned, and it's not like I spent every day on it, it was just a few hours here and there some days out of the week.
All of the perfectionists get the 3 years thing I'm sure. Nothing ever feels "ready" or "finished" and you can't stand the thought of ruining the work you've already done.
@@Dragowolf_Rising THIS. THIS EXACTLY. I started writing a novel 4 years ago and "finished it" about 2 years ago, and yet it's still not "done". Not even exaggerating, I've proof-read and edited it about 15 or so times. Like I'll think I've done the final proof read, only for a couple months to pass and for me to be like, "But what if color symbolism though?" Few things are ever truly complete with perfectionism.
I know that must have been a sad moment for her, but hopefully she lost those shitty friends in the process. I can’t imagine not at least trying something my friend was super into.
Honestly if someone went to all that trouble to set up a DnD game even if I didn't feel like it anymore I would show up on PRINCIPAL. I would feel god awful if I didn't.
I'm way late but from what I remember she had her dms filled with potential players withing a few hours and they might have ended up playing but I'm not too sure of my memory
Funny thing about the minotaur-Mermaid hybrid: someone made a comic where a daughter of that couple was not allowed to join a monster hybrid support group because she was "too human" to enter, and she scolded them and said she was just dropping off her brother, who is a wheelchair-bound actual Minotaur-mermaid hybrid(top minotaur, bottom mermaid tail) What's funny is that when she leaves, she is actually revealed to have a minotaur tail and gills on her back/fins on her ears hiddem by her hair, shocking the group even more Also, Idk if someone already did this, but to get around the detect magic I would just put them through a puzzle dungeon, and the last one actually puts the user in a coma due to a special alloy that blocks detect magic for the rest of the puzzle
That necromancer one broke my streak. I've played along to TONS of no laugh challenges on RUclips and now, I'm back to square one. I have to applaud that one 👏
I agree they should not count as spells learned, but giving them concentration free would be too much. Maybe upcasting them to 3rd lvl or higher to take away the concentration
@@BODELTOTE concentration free wouldn’t be broken tho, they still need to use a bonus action to retarget new enemies after old targets go down which reduces damage output for Beast Master/Drakwarden and makes Crossbow expert more difficult to use. As for warlocks, would you really waste a level 3 to 5 spellslot to concentrate on Hex when there’s way better concentration spells? Upcasting them would probably be more broken For rangers have them still use a lv 1 spellslot and bonus action (literally just remove concentration and you use this to replace Favorite Enemy or Favorite Foe) For Warlocks have them be able to use it a number of time equal to their proficiency bonus per short rest (or long rest if that’s too strong)
2nd edition, didn't know they're were any ancient Egyptians still kicking around..Shouldn't you lot be eating applesauce in a care home ? Seriously though did not know that..probably because I am very much a 5th edition dude...4th can preform rude oral acts on its mother.
@@clothar23 I've known people to fill up tables at conventions showcasing the older editions. After awhile, you'll get sick of the same system and want to try something new (or older). It's natural.
In his defense, have you ever seen a cat bat something gently enough to keep it on the elevated space it was before the smack? That die would’ve been tossed into the second realm.
@@janelantestaverde2018 i don't know why that's unbelievable either. it's not like 30 strangers cheering at a random thing that happened. it's like 5 friends cheering (probably a brief "yeah! haha!") at a cat doing something silly that is relevant to what they're doing. and making it the druid is really cute and also relevant and believable to certain D&D circles. i've had tables where a non-player's small helicopter drone interrupting play was made part of the action. Jacob is just being a grumpy killjoy on purpose.
10:58 that... Actually sounds like an interesting character trait to give to a vampire or other immortal being. Just mix-and-matching slang terms from different time periods, perhaps even merging slang terms from 2 different centuries into one.
10:08 my cat rolls dice at first sight. Not only humans see the shiny math rocks and think "must touch". Knowing that the story doesn't sound made up. Also I used to have a cat that would often join tables for attention, so the sitting part isn't that far fetched either.
yeah i thought that was a bad take. that story is completely believable, Jacob is just intentionally being an ass imo. since the meme was from reddit, i find it appropriate to say: r/nothingeverhappens
i find it iffy not because of what happens but the ways in which its explained with it being an outsider observing it, the saying last human player instead of their name or last player and just how stilted it sounds also im pretty sure i've seen it posted under a few different usernames so even if it did most of the people claiming the story didnt have it happen to them
Yeah, Cats like to roll things, which sometimes happen to be funny math rocks. But are you telling me you think it's believable for a cat to be presented with a d20, stare at it long enough for the husband to say that, and then the cat immediately batting the d20? So the cat had the d20 next to it, didn't interact with it until specifically after the husband said his little 'roll for X reason' and then hit it 'immediately' after? Is that believable?
@@ChromedDomes he probably started the sentence at the moment he was handing out the die, and cats can sometimes just sit there for an odd second before doing those things. The timing could have just been coincidentally on point.
@@Olav_Hansen I don't think that makes sense in any way. So the husband says "Sir, you have to roll the dice check to convince the other party members you are a human" in it's entirety in the time it took to put a dice in front of a cat. That aside, it says verbatim, 'My husband handed him a D20 and said', so he gave the cat the d20, and then began speaking. Also, if it was just really good timing, the person making the post would've said that, pretty clearly made up and the OP just hoped people wouldn't question it.
You're married, your wife is pregnant, you're prepping and running five games of D&D a week, and still making videos for the channel? You don't have to be Superman Jacob, we will be fine if you need a break. Especially when y'all's baby is born.
In regards to the eyepatch vs mage hand. I love the creativity of it, always great when the players use cantrips super creatively. However I could not, in all fairness, make the pirate waste his action just to readjust his eyepatch. It would probably be a free action, or a bonus action maximum. But hey, cantrip blindness on an enemy for a round is still pretty sick.
Yea. I would also rule that he is blinded until the start of his next turn. Giving everyone advantage until he just tears is off as a bonus action. I generally don't like making my human enemies dumb just because of players wanting them to be.
Pirates used eye patches to see in the dark when they went below deck. They would switch the patch and their sight would easily adjust to the lower light. Homie just has darkvision for a round.
@@doingitwelldotbiz That is one of the theories yes. Mythbusters tested it. But many also used it because they lost their eye and now it's ugly as sin.
In terms of having cake and eating it / being petty: Barbarian blasted down the door to the Cultists in Thundertree and was suprised when two attacked him and others hid behind another door yelling after those two were mulched. I consider myself truly blessed that one of my players understood why this could have been seen as hostile.
I had a party stand right outside someone's door and plan out how they wanted to go in and kill everyone, then was surprised that the people inside were hostile and prepared for them to break through.
Our DM uses starbursts and peppermint patties for our villains, and then asks why we never let the villains run away. He then explained that showing mercy wouldn’t cost us a candy. I also totally believe the cat one, our cats love playing with dice, and they usually roll pretty well.
10:06 "that definitely didn't happen". Sir, I'm pretty sure you don't have a cat. My cat sits in the chair like a person all the time. And may cats will tap/hit any object that you put in front of them.
10:11 Can confirm this part is a true phenomenon. In my campaign, two of the three guys that are playing are married, and we play at the house of one of them. The wife knows of the campaign, and once when super bored just sat at the stairs and played switch while listening to us play. But she definitely fits the 'ugh lol those boys' kind of thing.
I just want the horny bard memes to stop. I wished I didn't feel like I have to prerequisite that I wasn't a super seducer everytime I bring up I played one.
Not happening , it's what you get for playing a charisma based class. Least you avoid the implications of being immune to diseases while being charisma based like a Paladin.
@@jackofblades4374 Ah yes multi class into something with immunity to toxins so you can have a Paladin who can whore and drink to their hearts content...You could start a church around that.
I actually had an entire dungeon designed specifically around the druid having detect magic and their sword also having it. Everything was magic, everywhere. The monsters were made of magic and often had magic, the items were all magic, the walls, the doors, the traps, literally the air they breathed. The spell could decipher everything, but they also had to listen to me explain the nature of the air every single time they used it. They got the message.
Really? You liked the "person talking over the square hole joke"-joke, the bard final exam joke, the cat rolling dice, the tenthousandth necromancer joke, the TF2 Armor Class joke, the freaking infinitely overdone bardXdragon meme? The eye patch and the mermaid and minotaur ones were good though.
@@dylanboczar999 Trust me I have strong opinions about that, but if we're being honest is it really that strange to imagine some unofficial Bard College that lets you choose some skills to take 10s on? Jack of All Trades already doesn't work for the meme anyway because that dude is *clearly* proficient in all the stuff he's doing... or his Charisma score is 30.
@@Groovebot3k I mean, the main issue with the whole "meme" is that it's just a random video from the internet (of a legitimately skilled person) with "haha funny bard meme" captioned on. It's not really a dndmeme, it's just borrowed content.
I would imagine the three year campaign was planned primarily during the pandemic. Something to focus on and lavish attention on when you can’t be playing in person.
When I watched the 2000 D&D movie I legitimately thought they were about to replace a killed-off character with a new character played by the same actor. That movie is great if you just look at it as an actual campaign lol. Wouldn't have surprised me one bit to see that, with how many tropes they ended up hitting.
@@jashloseher578 Magic-user was renamed "mage" in 2nd edition. The name was brought back as an alternate version of the wizard subclass in 4th edition. The term "mage" was also used in reference to arcane casters in general after the introduction of the sorcerer class, and is also applied to users of certain types of magic within the wizard class in 5e (see War Magic subclass - "Followers of this tradition are known as war mages"). Thief is a subclass of rogue in 5th edition, and was the name used for that class before 2nd edition. So both have been actual D&D classes and are still remain relevant terms in 5e. Jacob is incorrect with his assessment on this one. What really got me though is that he didn't include "warrior" in his comment about the thief and mage not being D&D classes. Both of those are actually D&D classes but there has never been a "warrior" class. Warrior was the name for a group of classes in 2e which included the fighter, ranger and paladin. The class groups are not actual classes, just a label for a grouping, similar to saying "arcane casters". There was also a "Noble Warrior" kit for the fighter in 2e. Kits were sort of like 5e backgrounds. And there was a "warrior" class in 3e that was like a dumbed down version of the fighter class intended for NPC use only, similar to the warrior sidekick option in 5e. But never any actual classes called "warrior", yet he called out the other two for not being D&D classes, even though they are/were.
The Jack of All Trades Bard College exam thing was, believe it or not, a joke about famous bard feature, Jack of All Trades. That said, not funny, but impressive.
well, it wasn't a dndmeme was the issue. Someone just took that legitimately cool and skillful video and slapped a "haha dnd funny bard meme" caption on it.
@@brookejon3695 Guess which skill-based class is one of the only two to get that feature. Sure, it's not a requirement that it works this way, but rogue acrobatics is generally for tip-toeing across a floor covered with pressure plates, while bard acrobatics is generally the gymnastics on display. If you want to make a rogue who's a circus performer, there will be the question why they aren't just a bard instead
12:58 Funny story, final session of a campaign had us literally doing this. It wasn’t just any god either, it was literal God. We straight up merked him.
The bard final exam makes sense because the big thing for bards other than instruments is being a jack of all trades, ie having a lot of different skills.
Funny thing about pirates and eye-patches. They were not used to cover "missing" eyes, but rather to retain vision while transitioning from the dark of the ship's hold to the glaring sun light on the deck and vice-versa.
6:44 you- ... you realize performance is a bard thing, right? Even if he didn't play an instrument, he's performing a bunch of acts and the fact that there are so many with so many different skills required lines up with the Jack-of-all-trades caption.
9:16 This is like a young hopeful person goes on a first date, only to be stood up, and they end up sadly waiting for the date that never arrives. D: I feel so bad for them. At least they have a sick coffee table though!
I love playing my characters with more "normal" backstories. The current character I'm getting ready to introduce is a wizard who has left fancy magic school because she wants to actually shoot the fire balls at people, and adventuring is the most legal way to do so.
If the opponent with an eye patch was a pirate, I don’t think that would succeed in temporarily blinding him. Most pirates wore eye patches not because they had a missing eye, but so that when they go below deck they can have an eye already adjusted to the darkness
True. But also the pirate's patched eye would be used to darkness and not light so when it is suddenly exposed to light he wouldn't be able to see out of it properly while it adjusts. It may even cause him great distress or pain if it is very bright.
Most D&D memes I tend to come across are either "lol Bard is horny" or take horrible vicious monster and imagine as a cuddly teddy bear. Both make my roll my eyes super hard.
To be fair that's just athlete, acrobatic and performance. Which is far from jack of all trades. Also, jack of all trades isn't really noticeable until you have +4 skilled which gives +2 on all because let's be honest, does your DM ever count that +1 as important difference?
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I mean DnD is basically 6 hours of "you had to be there," which doesn't often translate well into funny.
Probably why a lot of DND official stories and film adaptations don’t work either. They’re just basic fantasy stories with the title slapped on. People think of D&D movies having a bunch of injokes related to tropes they’ve experienced, and unless the director plays the game religiously it’s not gonna work
isn't the problem way more general than that? social media "humor" in general is 95% people fishing for upboats by repeating the same jokes - in mild variations if they're feeling adventurous, over and over again.
This applies even more to stories that are at least somewhat funny to hear second-hand. For example, Tiefling character exploited fire-damage immunity to shoot herself out of a cannon, only to fail the "Acrobatics" check to land without bludgeon damage.
Lucky you, getting a whole 6 hours each session. I've only ever managed 4, usually 2 or 3 hours :(
@@Micras08 that’s not the session, that’s the campaign :)
6:45 I think a lot of people forget that bards do more than just play instruments. Remember, performance includes more than just instruments (ex: gymnastics, comedy, acting)
And bards can do basically anything if they have jack of all trades
@@enchanteddragonair7862 yeah, Jack of all Trades adds half proficiency bonus to all things you aren’t proficient in right? So that + Expertise + many proficiencies anyways= someone who does a lot very well. Not the best at them all, but still good
Storytelling! Remember in an age when literacy was rare, and written records didn't last very long or were prohibitively expensive to produce, information would be spread by word of mouth, and in narrative form.
Bards could be historians, or preachers, or lawyers etc. All fields where spoken words and stories are key.
I wanna play Elf John Mulaney
@@shrilleth What an interesting former title… I like you
5:48 that's actually one of my players, Thales, a child of The Minotaur and a Centaur. His sister is a bull-headed horse.
This is hilarious and I'm stealing it. Better than anything in the video.
@@DozenMarks it was literally in the video tho
@@DozenMarks only additional part was the sister
@@chriscanfly6386 .... Yes. That's the part I wanted to steal. I don't care about the human/human half offspring part.
You catch on quick, my dude! Good job.
I wonder what this Thales guy's orientation is set to: an everyday human, a chimera or even crazier shenanigan.
I love the necromancer/brother joke, one of my favorites.
I loved play necro in diablo 2 as a kid.
You will enjoy this bear ghost necrmancin' dancin'
I laughed at it, fo sho
In this video. Jacob laughs and denies he ever did for 17 minutes. Also, DAYMN bard man!
SUPRISE! I am the funniest YTer evah!!!! Just kidding, it was no surprise. Everybody knew already. HAHAHHAHA!!!! That was an amazing joke (it was real talk though). WAWAWAWAWA!!!! Good afternoon, dear ke
I call for a Remake where Spencer or Logan or someone else curates Jacob. Preferably with a water gun for when he laughs!
@@GreycatRademenes I like this
What beard?
@@LetsPlayCrazy Well, it's what 13-year old boys who are trying hard would call a beard.
Sorry Jabob, you are just facio-follically challenged.
I love how the majority of any try not to laugh challenge is just 10 minutes of people frantically explain how they didn’t *technically* laugh
That is so true. I don't like it.
to be fair most arent laughs they are chuckles or snorths to me a laugh has to be an actual hahaha out loud
@@blackheavymetalman the defintion of chuckle is "laugh quietly or inwardly".
@@wolves600 Guys, we don't need to waste time in the comments also debating about what and what isn't tEcHnIcAlLy a laugh as well as the creator wasting more than enough time doing so in their video.
@@YourIQDoesntMeanShitToMe Dude they were just explaining the definition of a chuckle which the person they were responding to clearly didn’t know. Suddenly it’s wasting time to educate people on what something means. Like it’s not that serious.
Player: "Shouldn't necromancers be super buff?"
DM: "Why would they be?"
Player: "Because of all the dead lifting" :D
Also, it's drugs and bullets.
7:10 I think the joke is Bards just have expertise and can be good at like everything even if it’s not charisma related.
They also have jack of all trades which makes it so they can have half Proficiency in every ability
@@enchanteddragonair7862 this also extends to tools.
Plus ballsurfing is a pretty common skill for bards
Bards get half of their proficiency modifier on every check they don't have proficiency for
This video is Jacob intentionally being a douche for 17 minutes so he doesn't laugh despite laughing constantly. I love it.
Someone had to say something about these memes
He doesn't laugh constantly. He laughed about 3-4 times.
PoV: You're a level 20 nerd ranking level 1&2 memes
@@Warhammer_lover it was 8, if you count the "*laugh* I DIDNT LAUGH THERE"
Not to mention he's basically monetising other people's content.
"A cat was sitting at a table and somebody made a joke"
Jacob: "Bullshit"
it definitely is explained in a stilted and weird way to where it just sounds like bullshit
@@donb7519 True but cats do weird things, at my MTG table because my buds fat ass cat sometimes decides he wants to be the center of attention he jumps onto the table then lays down. We ruled any cards he covers are out of play :) if he lays on your life counter you have to go get the cat a snack.
@@keaering5183 i believe the cat sitting at the table everything else just sounds like a joke someone wishes they told and the reaction they wanted to get
@@donb7519 It's the same joke every table makes about cats on the table though, either it's a druid or a giant monster the party has to fight. They didn't even claim a nat 20, lol
@@Harlizarrd The story isnt even meant to be a joke. It was stolen from tumblr. Probably just a funny observation. Jacobs right that the subreddit isnt funng but it was just a dumb story that is believeable in that "yeah. I know people who llay dnd"
Interesting fact; Most eyepatch wearing pirates used this to always have an eye ready that is already adjusted to the dark. For like when you need to fight below deck. Not because they were missing an eye :)
That’s actually pretty smart.
They wouldn't be suddenly fighting below the deck 99% of the time it was so tgat you don't bump into John, the wall and another wall while blind.
@@lemons1559 ofc. Most of the time it would be for doing other stuff below deck
They'd still be blinded temporarily by switching it around though.
@@seigeenginethey’d close the eye, take the patch off while walking below deck, then open the eye once below deck. There’s no need to replace the patch on the other eye, you’d just adjust it to complete darkness while in a dim setting. You’d put it back on when you go above deck and you’d have to wait for you eye to adjust to the light. You literally would never need to switch it
Actually, the 'Final exam in bard college' has an additional layer to it a lot of people would miss. It has an iconic stunt from the musical 'Pippin' where he dives across the bouncing balls. That is to say, he's training to be a real life bard / Musical theatre actor.
To be fair, I have a cat who loves rolling a very specific d20 around on the floor. It's _his_ d20, he knows it, recognizes it, and knows to let me read it before he slaps it around again.
My cat loves playing with my dice too, but she then runs off with them and hides them in weird places that I don't find for six months. All of my dice are now in little baggies.
smart kitty
And then everyone clapped (because nothing ever happens)
One of my two cats steals dice from the table and bats them around the floor. Any unsecured dice are a potential target.
@@mistermiles3271 Okay child who likes Tails from Sonic the Hedgehog.
One of my favourite D&D/Fantasy jokes ever “people who’s favourite monsters are dragons are just fantasy horse girls”
I am a fantasy horse girl....and that kinda makes sense.
I was not ready for that kind of revelation today.
What is a "fantasy horse girl"? Is that how we call furries now?
This isn’t a joke , it’s a fact
@@marcogenovesi8570 no that’s the one anime about the girls who run track, sing, and dance, also they just so happen to have horse ears on their heads and tails.
What about those who like Mind Flayers and their ilk?
Now THAT is a great Variant Human backstory. (Minotaur/Mermaid parents)
"What's your family like?"
"I don't want to talk about it."
Variant humans are just...humans. But it'd be hilarious since players who like other races tend to lean heavy into the lore, and then, you hear this backstory and it's Jeff the human ranger :)
I believe the cat thing happened. Cats sit like humans sometimes. If u put a dice in front of a cat many will bat it. The last guys I played dnd with would definitely have cheered and added their cat to a campaign
People pick the weirdest stuff to just... not believe. Like, it's just a funny story about a cat doing cat stuff and becoming a meme because of it. It's not some dude claiming he made a grand speech at the supermarket or anything.
If I had had a dime for every time our DM's cats batted a die off the table, I'd have enough to buy a coffee at Dunkin'. Not a lot, but definitely enough times to be a trope (also more times than three players with Silvery Barbs have cast it in our 18 months of our campaign thus far...).
The necromancer "I have your brother" is the funniest thing out there, you did well there not to laugh. :D
🎶he lived, he died, he's back, alive, im the necROMANCER!!🎶
Necromancer jokes always raise a chuckle out of me, something about how their shambled together.
@@Ruleradminius I generally have a undying hatred for necromancer jokes, but that one tickled my funny bone
If the necromancer joke didn't land, then nothing will.
@@austinvanderveer213 if they didn't laugh you could probably say they were..... dead inside
"What does this have to do with bard college? He's just rolling across balls."
Exactly.
Nice sona
I don't get how he missed the joke of the bard, he gets to add proficiency to everything, so he must've trained in everything.
I would assume the 3 year campaign was the epic adventure she's been working on here and there, making sure she had entertaining and relevant options and solutions to every possible situation. It was her masterpiece, it was finally perfect, and she was so proud. Some of us just aren't good at improv. I can relate to her in so many ways. The one thing she forgot to plan for is that people suck
You don't have to be good at improv to avoid spending 3 years on a campaign. That's just bad time management. Prep per session, have a draft and idea of where the campaign can go. But if you spent 3 years writing a campaign then you likely should've just written a book.
@@techbeef “you put a lot of effort into this, so clearly you’re bad at it.”
Seems entirely legit.
@@techbeef the fact that you actually look like 🤓
@@techbeef I have a friend who's been writing and working on a campaign that's been on and off with like...5 parties because it simply never worked out until now, after about five years. It happens
@@Islacrusez I never stated they were bad at world building. Bad at time management though? Expected. After 3 years I am sure people more than lost their hype for it.
The issue with dnd memes is that nothing can top the memes you create accidentally with your players which unfortunately, are not funny to anyone else.
And a lot of people who make D&D memes have, double unfortunately, not learned that lesson yet
The Minotaur mermaid one was pretty damn funny
@@chi7818 So I don't have any details unfortunately but I kind of vaguely remember this being the premise of an old webcomic? like there's a support group for monsters and a 'human' joins because they're half minotaur and half mermaid or centaur. Not to discredit meme OP because they probably did come up with it on their own, but it might be worth looking into
@@softreyna that's amazing.
Yeah in one of the campaigns I’m playing we had two moments where me as a Barbarian made my party bust out laughing. One player crapped himself due to a fear and a latter with the illusion of it being really high. My orc grabbed him off the latter only like 10 feet up and dragged him down, he screamed pooped himself and then used prestidigitation to clean himself, he then asked my character to kick down a door which he happily did. Well later that session we found a dead body in the water with a soaked note I asked him if he could use the same spell he used to clean himself when he browned his pants immediate laughter and then as we were leaving the location I told the guards hey someone broke your door immediate laughter. But you had to be there
DM: You keep making characters that just want to kill gods. This one needs to be unique.
Player: Don’t worry, this one is just a warforged that wants to become the best cheese maker of all time.
DM: That’s interesting, but why is he adventuring.
Player: You see, warforged can’t taste, so he wants to go out and become powerful enough to overthrow and take the power of whatever is the most powerful being so he can use it to give himself a tongue.
DM: Your character wants to kill a god so he can make cheese?
Player: I want to kill a god so I can make cheese, yes.
Yes, this would definitely be valid for the next video about unfunny memes 👍
@@janelantestaverde2018 not like humor is subjective or anything.
Absolutely reasonable answer to the problem.
@@cobaltblu4196 More than we sometimes admit, less than we'd like to think.
@@janelantestaverde2018 I mean I found it funny. but that's just like my opinion bro
7:30
He used multiple skills relying on physical abilities, such as performance, athletics and the like. He also played 3 different instruments as all Bards gain proficiency bonus in 3 different instruments and an array of skills, as he displayed.
It was the multitude and array of things he did that made him a Bard
Something tells me Jacob doesn’t actually know bards 😐
@@mistressofdreams6031
"Bards are one of my favorite classes"
*Sees multiple skills instead of just playing a guitar*
"That's not a bard!"
@@alexandrews6256"Your Charisma (Performance) check determines how well you can delight an audience with music, dance, acting, storytelling, or some other form of entertainment." Straight from D&D Beyond :) Along with Acrobatics and Athletics (so definitely a Swords Bard major).
The cat rolling probably happened though as we did the same thing at our friends house lol. Put a D20 in front of him and he freaked out and smacked it. He loved sitting at the table with everyone
Its not Bard due to instruments,but due to the fact that they are good at everything with the jack of all trades ability
acrobatics = everything? Bad joke
@@pewpewpandas9203 ok my turn to be pedantic.
That was acrobatics, athletics, performance, and sleight of hand.
@@pewpewpandas9203 so we’re not gonna include the juggling, basketball, instruments?
@@dualitydisorder that list kinda makes me think more of a rogue than a bard 🤔
@@Pingviinimursu Jack of all trades.
The first one about introducing a new character played by the same actor after someone dies basically happens in The Gamers
"You seem trustworthy" was a meme at my old table for this reason
Honestly, id love it for both the in joke factor and the confusion of people who dont play d&d but still were willing to watch a fantasy action film based on it. "Wait, thats roderick the fighter who died fighting against that last monster in the caverns!" "No it isnt, its clearly broderick the fighter who they bumped into by chance outside the cavern exit." "Its the same guy!" "No it isnt!"
The Gamers: Dorkness Rising was phenomenal.
Do not share this knowledge publicly, we may be under observation by agents of... THE SHADOW.
Now I have to watch all of it again
Thanks
@@martinmallet8638 THE SHADOW!?
*runs and hides*
"Just because a guy is carrying a guitar does not mean he is a bard" is literally the best sum up of a Tiefling character of my friends' i have ever encountered and I am so amused.
I played a warlock who had proficiency in Performance because she was a flute virtuoso, but it wasn't enough to get into bard college, so she made her pact to have all the other skills to get her into bard college (aka: magic ability). She then immediately dropped out because "I have warlock magic and can shred on a flute. I don't need to go to bard college!" How good at flute was she? She was a sea elf and from an underwater city...and could still play the flute :) (goofy character for a one-shot that went over incredibly well)
The disintegration gun idea was kinda cool. Give it to them with a warning to use sparingly but not say why. They use it too much or on too strong of enemies the last fight going to be tough
Or give it to the wrong person just to see what happens. No limits.
Final fight you're up against a huge demon, a few helpers, and like 823 random villagers from various towns. Good luck.
Also it fuses them all into one giant monstrosity. Have fun.
I think one of my favourite text only "memes" for D&D is [Bard]: "Natural 20 to seduce the dragon!." [Dragon]: "I said I'm lonely, not desperate."
There’s a variation that includes a constitution save.
Brutal
this doesn't even make sense, how could it be funny?
@@aterriblefuze9540 And rolling for a certain circumference...
@@admiraltonydawning3847 DM reaches under the table and pulls out the FATAL rulebook, their gaze never leaving the Bard's eyes. "Now, you need to remember, you asked for this."
Funnily enough that sea-dwelling vampires idea is used canonically in Vampire: the Masquerade. There are offshoots of Gangrel and Nosferatu Kindred that live in the ocean since a) they don't breathe, b) they can sustain themselves on schools of fish easily, and c) they can rest in caves or deep enough in the ocean that sunlight doesn't reach. Means easy living too since they rarely if ever come into contact with humans and thus don't need to worry about the Masquerade and keeping themselves hidden :D
Theoretically any Kindred in VtM could do this, the only ones that can't are the ones with certain bane restrictions. There are Folklore Banes (if I'm remembering the name correctly anyway) where things like religious symbols and running water/currents hurt them and put them into a beastial frenzy, the usual stuff from traditional vampire lore. It's cool.
That's pretty fucking sick ngl
"It's not funny, I just didn't see it coming."
That's a pretty important part of comedy.
9:25 I think the implication is that those three years also involved buying, gathering, and setting up all the ambience things too like the coffee table and smart lights, and gathering players. Where I lived it took me almost three years to even find a group
I just make random stuff up for the first 5 months and then try to figure out how to tie it all together into a campaign plot.
also people work lol
I'm sure you're right and most of these aren't funny but my sense of humor has decayed into oblivion and i was cracking up at most these despite the fact that i've already seen all of them
The "not a meme, just pain" reminded me of the Brennan Mulligan story about Axe of the Dwarf Lords. A long campaign module that he had worked on for weeks, only to have his players derail the whole thing half-way through the opening scene.
I might've quit D&D, at least temporarily. Did the DM?
@@reptiliannoizezz.413 maybe temporarily, but not forever. Brennan Lee Mulligan (the DM in question) is the DM for Dimension20 (The CollegeHumor D&D Show) as well as many other side projects, and was a guest DM for the latest installment in Exandria Unlimited. BLM (i just realized those are his initials) is a fantastic DM and has been for years
@@ArcherWillows Shout-out to his character on NADDPOD though, seeing Brennan play instead of DM is a treat.
The feels i have at least 3 Dnd big worlds and 1 cthulhu. Men its hard to lose them
Stories like this are exactly why I only do "improv DM" and nothing else. I figure out a couple key moments I want to happen, and whenever I feel like they should happen amid the party doing what they feel like doing and having to react to all of it, it happens to move the story along.
I got so tired of spending so much time trying to make big elaborate stories on purpose that never made it past the first session or two before they invariably became something else anyway that I just can't do it anymore.
I actually find the "having a loving family makes you unique" joke kinda funny.
Because trauma lol
In the group I play 5E with, whenever the DM gets out of his chair, his cat jumps into it and pops up to survey everything behind the screen, then stretches further to look over the screen at everyone. The standard thing is to tell the guy when he comes back that his co-DM told us we'd all advanced a level, and each discovered an uncommon magic Item, our choice. The first time I'd loudly announced having stuffed several items into my /bag of holding/ and one of the others had been using magic armor in combat before someone started using his /jug of alchemy/ to produce olive oil (?) before he caught on.
“Writing a campaign for 3 years.”
Yeah…. I feel that. Mine’s been burbling inside my head since high school (over a decade ago), and only in recent years have I been able to turn it into a D&D setting. I don’t always get to play, so when that happens, I either work on D&D homework, or build another SMM2 level.
as a writer who lets ideas stew for a really long time and then writes them all down in short bursts, i think there's an important distinction between actively writing and idea stewing. even then, the most my ideas ever really stew is like 2-3 months.
I planned a super wild campaign over the course of a few months - it was a full 1-20 milestone campaign. Never got to play it. Idk how someone could take 3 years, that was my first campaign I planned, and it's not like I spent every day on it, it was just a few hours here and there some days out of the week.
All of the perfectionists get the 3 years thing I'm sure. Nothing ever feels "ready" or "finished" and you can't stand the thought of ruining the work you've already done.
@@Dragowolf_Rising THIS. THIS EXACTLY. I started writing a novel 4 years ago and "finished it" about 2 years ago, and yet it's still not "done". Not even exaggerating, I've proof-read and edited it about 15 or so times. Like I'll think I've done the final proof read, only for a couple months to pass and for me to be like, "But what if color symbolism though?" Few things are ever truly complete with perfectionism.
@@alexvraa1452 Is that ideas like individual parts of something or ideas like settings/stories?
I still feel sad for that woman. Someone go play with her right now! And pet the kitty!
I know that must have been a sad moment for her, but hopefully she lost those shitty friends in the process. I can’t imagine not at least trying something my friend was super into.
Honestly if someone went to all that trouble to set up a DnD game even if I didn't feel like it anymore I would show up on PRINCIPAL. I would feel god awful if I didn't.
I'm way late but from what I remember she had her dms filled with potential players withing a few hours and they might have ended up playing but I'm not too sure of my memory
@@VitaeLibra Well let's hope she did, any player would be lucky to have a DM to go through that much trouble for them.
I would if I could never goten the chance to play D&D and all my friends dont wanna try it
Funny thing about the minotaur-Mermaid hybrid: someone made a comic where a daughter of that couple was not allowed to join a monster hybrid support group because she was "too human" to enter, and she scolded them and said she was just dropping off her brother, who is a wheelchair-bound actual Minotaur-mermaid hybrid(top minotaur, bottom mermaid tail)
What's funny is that when she leaves, she is actually revealed to have a minotaur tail and gills on her back/fins on her ears hiddem by her hair, shocking the group even more
Also, Idk if someone already did this, but to get around the detect magic I would just put them through a puzzle dungeon, and the last one actually puts the user in a coma due to a special alloy that blocks detect magic for the rest of the puzzle
That necromancer one broke my streak. I've played along to TONS of no laugh challenges on RUclips and now, I'm back to square one. I have to applaud that one 👏
Here’s a hot take: Hunter’s Mark and Hex should be class feature not spells for the Ranger and Warlock with no concentration requirements
Well at least Hunter's Mark is a class feature without concentration for the Ranger in the UA about Ranger ! ;)
4e did it right
I agree they should not count as spells learned, but giving them concentration free would be too much. Maybe upcasting them to 3rd lvl or higher to take away the concentration
@@m0her_2 you mean favoured foe?
@@BODELTOTE concentration free wouldn’t be broken tho, they still need to use a bonus action to retarget new enemies after old targets go down which reduces damage output for Beast Master/Drakwarden and makes Crossbow expert more difficult to use. As for warlocks, would you really waste a level 3 to 5 spellslot to concentrate on Hex when there’s way better concentration spells? Upcasting them would probably be more broken
For rangers have them still use a lv 1 spellslot and bonus action (literally just remove concentration and you use this to replace Favorite Enemy or Favorite Foe)
For Warlocks have them be able to use it a number of time equal to their proficiency bonus per short rest (or long rest if that’s too strong)
"Mage" and "Thief" are the 2nd edition names for the classes that became "Wizard" and "Rogue" in 3rd edition and beyond.
2nd edition, didn't know they're were any ancient Egyptians still kicking around..Shouldn't you lot be eating applesauce in a care home ?
Seriously though did not know that..probably because I am very much a 5th edition dude...4th can preform rude oral acts on its mother.
Technically Thief is a subclass of Rogue now.
@@clothar23 I've known people to fill up tables at conventions showcasing the older editions. After awhile, you'll get sick of the same system and want to try something new (or older). It's natural.
Yeah that guy was totaly refering to old dnd shit
@@reelement8032 Yep yep. I still go back and play 3.5 or 4 every so often.
Especially 4E. I fucking adore 4E.
15:19 that can only mean one thing: Space vampires
This dude is out here rolling his eyes at the same jokes I’d expect to see in his videos
I wonder how many people noticed "blumineck" is a play on the British phrase "bloomin' heck"/"bloody hell"
I’ve not seen the part yet but might just be it’s how some of us say both of them
I don’t know why he so wholeheartedly doubts that a cat batted away something in its face.
In his defense, have you ever seen a cat bat something gently enough to keep it on the elevated space it was before the smack? That die would’ve been tossed into the second realm.
@@entr3_nou5 Can confirm just tried it with my cat. That adorable bastard yeeted that thing straight across the room.
Brb going window shopping.
I think he just doubts the "and everybody cheered, and then we sat our cat at the table and made it our newest party mamber"-part
@@entr3_nou5 yes, as a cat owner, i have seen plenty of times where she just gently bats at something instead of playing lacrosse with it.
@@janelantestaverde2018 i don't know why that's unbelievable either. it's not like 30 strangers cheering at a random thing that happened. it's like 5 friends cheering (probably a brief "yeah! haha!") at a cat doing something silly that is relevant to what they're doing. and making it the druid is really cute and also relevant and believable to certain D&D circles. i've had tables where a non-player's small helicopter drone interrupting play was made part of the action. Jacob is just being a grumpy killjoy on purpose.
10:58 that... Actually sounds like an interesting character trait to give to a vampire or other immortal being. Just mix-and-matching slang terms from different time periods, perhaps even merging slang terms from 2 different centuries into one.
12:27 Yes, donuts are often quite holesome
10:08 my cat rolls dice at first sight. Not only humans see the shiny math rocks and think "must touch". Knowing that the story doesn't sound made up. Also I used to have a cat that would often join tables for attention, so the sitting part isn't that far fetched either.
yeah i thought that was a bad take. that story is completely believable, Jacob is just intentionally being an ass imo.
since the meme was from reddit, i find it appropriate to say: r/nothingeverhappens
i find it iffy not because of what happens but the ways in which its explained with it being an outsider observing it, the saying last human player instead of their name or last player and just how stilted it sounds also im pretty sure i've seen it posted under a few different usernames so even if it did most of the people claiming the story didnt have it happen to them
Yeah, Cats like to roll things, which sometimes happen to be funny math rocks. But are you telling me you think it's believable for a cat to be presented with a d20, stare at it long enough for the husband to say that, and then the cat immediately batting the d20?
So the cat had the d20 next to it, didn't interact with it until specifically after the husband said his little 'roll for X reason' and then hit it 'immediately' after? Is that believable?
@@ChromedDomes he probably started the sentence at the moment he was handing out the die, and cats can sometimes just sit there for an odd second before doing those things. The timing could have just been coincidentally on point.
@@Olav_Hansen I don't think that makes sense in any way.
So the husband says "Sir, you have to roll the dice check to convince the other party members you are a human" in it's entirety in the time it took to put a dice in front of a cat. That aside, it says verbatim, 'My husband handed him a D20 and said', so he gave the cat the d20, and then began speaking. Also, if it was just really good timing, the person making the post would've said that, pretty clearly made up and the OP just hoped people wouldn't question it.
For the bard college one I think the creator tried to show just how many proficiencies/expertise bards get Jacob :)
Honestly, I really liked that one XD Bards just get a bunch of random stuff they are proficient in XD
yeah, but it only showed proficiency with 3 musical instruments and acrobatics, so not exactly "college of lore graduate" material
I mean. Sure. But it’s only acrobatics, performance, and MAYBE athletics.
But it was ALL acrobatics
@@XPtoLevel3 they're referring to jack of all trades in p. sure.
5:43 And your brother is just a bull-upper-bodied, fish-tailed, 8-foot-tall gigachad.
4:48 fun fact. That guys actually a pole dancer.
The archery is just his hobby.
You're married, your wife is pregnant, you're prepping and running five games of D&D a week, and still making videos for the channel?
You don't have to be Superman Jacob, we will be fine if you need a break. Especially when y'all's baby is born.
I will never stop I am eternal
jk I appreciate it :)
@@XPtoLevel3 Well, Eternal. Soon you’re going to be dad.
…
That was a prep pun for your impending ascent to dadhood. Good luck.
@@XPtoLevel3 Take a break if needed, but I expect puns once you're a dad. You must pick up the puns.
@@savvypanda4974 We must demand dad jokes :p
“I only laughed like 4 or 5 times but I still win” big brain moment
16:11
"you fool, that was a disguise! my other eye is perfectly fine!!!!"
Honest Thumbnail: “17 minutes of Jacob carefully explaining why that laugh didn’t count”
In regards to the eyepatch vs mage hand. I love the creativity of it, always great when the players use cantrips super creatively. However I could not, in all fairness, make the pirate waste his action just to readjust his eyepatch. It would probably be a free action, or a bonus action maximum. But hey, cantrip blindness on an enemy for a round is still pretty sick.
I would rule that he gets blinded for his attacks, and than just rips off the eyepatch at the end of his turn.
@@gabrielhaydar2373 Yeah it's definitely creative enough that it should be rewarded
Yea. I would also rule that he is blinded until the start of his next turn. Giving everyone advantage until he just tears is off as a bonus action. I generally don't like making my human enemies dumb just because of players wanting them to be.
Pirates used eye patches to see in the dark when they went below deck. They would switch the patch and their sight would easily adjust to the lower light. Homie just has darkvision for a round.
@@doingitwelldotbiz That is one of the theories yes. Mythbusters tested it. But many also used it because they lost their eye and now it's ugly as sin.
In terms of having cake and eating it / being petty:
Barbarian blasted down the door to the Cultists in Thundertree and was suprised when two attacked him and others hid behind another door yelling after those two were mulched.
I consider myself truly blessed that one of my players understood why this could have been seen as hostile.
I had a party stand right outside someone's door and plan out how they wanted to go in and kill everyone, then was surprised that the people inside were hostile and prepared for them to break through.
Our DM uses starbursts and peppermint patties for our villains, and then asks why we never let the villains run away. He then explained that showing mercy wouldn’t cost us a candy. I also totally believe the cat one, our cats love playing with dice, and they usually roll pretty well.
That mage hand on the eye patch joke got me pretty good.
10:06 "that definitely didn't happen". Sir, I'm pretty sure you don't have a cat. My cat sits in the chair like a person all the time. And may cats will tap/hit any object that you put in front of them.
My cat has his own chair that he likes to sit in that is the same color as his fur
Oh no last human player don't speak with the cat cuz he can't speak commom while in wild shape
10:11 Can confirm this part is a true phenomenon. In my campaign, two of the three guys that are playing are married, and we play at the house of one of them.
The wife knows of the campaign, and once when super bored just sat at the stairs and played switch while listening to us play. But she definitely fits the 'ugh lol those boys' kind of thing.
5:22 mans rolled a nat 20 on his Athletics check
The video with the archer during the barbarian bit *almost* made me laugh. Charging the target and smacking it with the bow was good.
I just want the horny bard memes to stop. I wished I didn't feel like I have to prerequisite that I wasn't a super seducer everytime I bring up I played one.
Not happening , it's what you get for playing a charisma based class. Least you avoid the implications of being immune to diseases while being charisma based like a Paladin.
@@clothar23 that's what multiclassing is for ;)
@@jackofblades4374 Ah yes multi class into something with immunity to toxins so you can have a Paladin who can whore and drink to their hearts content...You could start a church around that.
My bard is specifically NOT horny for this reason.
aren't you the living embodiment of a dnd meme?
I actually had an entire dungeon designed specifically around the druid having detect magic and their sword also having it. Everything was magic, everywhere. The monsters were made of magic and often had magic, the items were all magic, the walls, the doors, the traps, literally the air they breathed.
The spell could decipher everything, but they also had to listen to me explain the nature of the air every single time they used it. They got the message.
Correction warrior, thief, and mage are 3 of the 4 classes in 1st edition d&d (cleric is the 4th)
I liked all of em. The one with the fighter's brother and the last one with the eyepatch were awesome.
Really? You liked the "person talking over the square hole joke"-joke, the bard final exam joke, the cat rolling dice, the tenthousandth necromancer joke, the TF2 Armor Class joke, the freaking infinitely overdone bardXdragon meme?
The eye patch and the mermaid and minotaur ones were good though.
@@janelantestaverde2018 yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes. Btw, you can never have too many necromancy joke.
Good for you I guess
7:25 That's Bard College because he's skilled enough to take 10 on all his Perform Checks in both Performance and Acrobatics.
So, when you say bard, I guess you mean rogue? Since "skilled enough to take a 10" hasn't been a thing for the past few editions except for 5e rogues?
@@dylanboczar999 yeah he probably mixed up taking a 10 and what jack of all trades do.
@@dylanboczar999 Trust me I have strong opinions about that, but if we're being honest is it really that strange to imagine some unofficial Bard College that lets you choose some skills to take 10s on?
Jack of All Trades already doesn't work for the meme anyway because that dude is *clearly* proficient in all the stuff he's doing... or his Charisma score is 30.
@@Groovebot3k I mean, the main issue with the whole "meme" is that it's just a random video from the internet (of a legitimately skilled person) with "haha funny bard meme" captioned on. It's not really a dndmeme, it's just borrowed content.
Only Rogues can do that now.
I would imagine the three year campaign was planned primarily during the pandemic. Something to focus on and lavish attention on when you can’t be playing in person.
“And your brother.” - so good and unexpected
When I watched the 2000 D&D movie I legitimately thought they were about to replace a killed-off character with a new character played by the same actor. That movie is great if you just look at it as an actual campaign lol. Wouldn't have surprised me one bit to see that, with how many tropes they ended up hitting.
The Gamers: Dorkness Rising is a great D&D movie. It does hit that new-character-played-by-same-actor note.
"Let their blood rAiN fRoM tHe Sky!"
-A mage, probably
@@undeadknight01 "I turned into a human vibrator"
Unfortunately the most "no fun allowed" part of the video is XP unironically saying Mage & Thief aren't D&D classes.
@@canaryinacoalmine1759 No.
It's the lame idea that all RPGs and Class-based games must be a D&D reference somehow
@@canaryinacoalmine1759 Mage ≠ Magic-User. Also Advanced Dungeons & Dragons came out five years after actual D&D, nerd.
@@elf-lordsfriarofthemeadowl2039 Tbf it was in a d&d memes subreddit.
@@jashloseher578 Magic-user was renamed "mage" in 2nd edition. The name was brought back as an alternate version of the wizard subclass in 4th edition. The term "mage" was also used in reference to arcane casters in general after the introduction of the sorcerer class, and is also applied to users of certain types of magic within the wizard class in 5e (see War Magic subclass - "Followers of this tradition are known as war mages").
Thief is a subclass of rogue in 5th edition, and was the name used for that class before 2nd edition.
So both have been actual D&D classes and are still remain relevant terms in 5e. Jacob is incorrect with his assessment on this one.
What really got me though is that he didn't include "warrior" in his comment about the thief and mage not being D&D classes. Both of those are actually D&D classes but there has never been a "warrior" class. Warrior was the name for a group of classes in 2e which included the fighter, ranger and paladin. The class groups are not actual classes, just a label for a grouping, similar to saying "arcane casters". There was also a "Noble Warrior" kit for the fighter in 2e. Kits were sort of like 5e backgrounds. And there was a "warrior" class in 3e that was like a dumbed down version of the fighter class intended for NPC use only, similar to the warrior sidekick option in 5e. But never any actual classes called "warrior", yet he called out the other two for not being D&D classes, even though they are/were.
5:25 only lacks the artificer who instead of firing the bow takes out a laser rifle and blows up the whole backyard
Caption: "When the Jack of all Trade ability hits"
XP: "What is the joke here?"
The Jack of All Trades Bard College exam thing was, believe it or not, a joke about famous bard feature, Jack of All Trades. That said, not funny, but impressive.
well, it wasn't a dndmeme was the issue. Someone just took that legitimately cool and skillful video and slapped a "haha dnd funny bard meme" caption on it.
*Jack of Some Trades
@@dylanboczar999 yeah the original vid deserved more attention
He only showed off gymnastics and musical ability. That's not Jack Of All Trades, that's Expertise.
@@brookejon3695 Guess which skill-based class is one of the only two to get that feature. Sure, it's not a requirement that it works this way, but rogue acrobatics is generally for tip-toeing across a floor covered with pressure plates, while bard acrobatics is generally the gymnastics on display. If you want to make a rogue who's a circus performer, there will be the question why they aren't just a bard instead
Never has a man been so disappointed in being entertained.
12:58
Funny story, final session of a campaign had us literally doing this.
It wasn’t just any god either, it was literal God. We straight up merked him.
Question........
If you kill a god....... doesn't that make you a god???
The bard final exam makes sense because the big thing for bards other than instruments is being a jack of all trades, ie having a lot of different skills.
The eyepatch mage hand one got me deffinitly, just...imagining the utter confusion in the Pirate's face at the whole situation was hilarious.
The live action d&d actually sounds really fun.
It's called LARPing my friend
-Isn't that just LARP? :D-
What Zorae42 said ☝️
To us, it is known as LARPing.
“He’s just occasionally playing instruments, what is this?” I mean, what else did you expect from a bard?
Funny thing about pirates and eye-patches. They were not used to cover "missing" eyes, but rather to retain vision while transitioning from the dark of the ship's hold to the glaring sun light on the deck and vice-versa.
6:44 you- ... you realize performance is a bard thing, right? Even if he didn't play an instrument, he's performing a bunch of acts and the fact that there are so many with so many different skills required lines up with the Jack-of-all-trades caption.
Agreed
also acrobatics, which bards are usually proficient in especially if they were in the circus or something.
Jacob: "mage and thief aren't even D&D classes."
Yes, they are, just not in the version that you happen to be playing.
You mean magic-user.
The 1st greyhawk supplement featured a thief class and mage class first appears in 2e. yes they are old school DND classes.
@@SergioLeRoux mage first appears as a class in 2e.
"He's just occasionally playing instruments, what is this?" I feel like that's a perfect description of Bard honestly hahahaha
9:16 This is like a young hopeful person goes on a first date, only to be stood up, and they end up sadly waiting for the date that never arrives. D: I feel so bad for them. At least they have a sick coffee table though!
Jake, while laughing: "These aren't funny, they're just GOOD" 😂😂
Imagine if you will a goliath barbarian with two halfling wizards strapped to his forearms so that he too can use fireball.
So what I gleamed from this was "I'm too smart to find these funny"
like over thinking the Jack of All Trades joke lol
I love playing my characters with more "normal" backstories. The current character I'm getting ready to introduce is a wizard who has left fancy magic school because she wants to actually shoot the fire balls at people, and adventuring is the most legal way to do so.
My first character is going to be a blacksmith dwarf that got bored and decided to make some weapons and go to town
If the opponent with an eye patch was a pirate, I don’t think that would succeed in temporarily blinding him. Most pirates wore eye patches not because they had a missing eye, but so that when they go below deck they can have an eye already adjusted to the darkness
That’s why???? Damn. Can’t believe all those pirate cartoons lied to me
@@entr3_nou5 They didn't! Because the most cartoons make a joke of the switching eyepatch to laugh at. But that was really what some did. xD
True. But also the pirate's patched eye would be used to darkness and not light so when it is suddenly exposed to light he wouldn't be able to see out of it properly while it adjusts. It may even cause him great distress or pain if it is very bright.
@@brookejon3695 that’s a very good point
Most D&D memes I tend to come across are either "lol Bard is horny" or take horrible vicious monster and imagine as a cuddly teddy bear. Both make my roll my eyes super hard.
This is great
Him getting angry at the memes and denying having laughed are the best parts
I was dying of laughter for a couple of those though 😂😭
The joke was that bards with jack of all trades can pretty much do literally everything.
To be fair that's just athlete, acrobatic and performance. Which is far from jack of all trades.
Also, jack of all trades isn't really noticeable until you have +4 skilled which gives +2 on all because let's be honest, does your DM ever count that +1 as important difference?
okay and how is that a joke?
@@soulcleave2386 Humor is subjective, The point is that that was the joke being made.
explaining the joke doesn't make it funny
@@ArmoredChocoboLPs I never said it was. I'm literally just pointing out what the joke was for people who didn't get it. That's all.
the struggle is SOO real. you can see the amount of effort needed to not laugh, rofl
That social justice one was probably the best one lmaooo
Almost/Laughing when not supposed to laugh is funnier than never laughing. This is enjoyable content.