And? Disadvantage doesn't mean shit if he also has advantage on stealth from something else they cancel out. Also like any roll you can get two high rolls on a disadvantaged roll (just like you can get two shit rolls on an advantaged roll)@@aalthaluss
@@aalthalussI was just about to write out an entire paragraph about just how impossible that was and all the rules being broken when, finally, the DM intervened^^
That final "Thank you for sticking around, I appreciate that." has extra weight to it because, on filming day, the rest of us had wrapped and left him and the extras to do all the solo stuff without us and we were teasing him about us getting to leave early! Thanks Alan, you're a champ.
I love that you're gradually becoming more of a regular, on this channel. I can just imagine Ben, Rowan, Alan, and Adam quietly chanting "one of us. One of us..." When you shoot a video with them lol
The idea that the DM walks around the game like a referee is the best idea ever! Looks super cool. This perfectly shows that the DM is not playing against the players.
I did a lot of LARPing (live action role-playing) in my life and actually once played a DM walking around (it was actually a boring role, because really not immersive :P). I kid you not. They called him Tarus for some reason. It was in Quebec City, Canada.
@@Baraz_Red I watched a LARP session once, and to cast spells they called out the name of the spell and used props to visualize it. A lightning bolt was a tape measure, fireballs were red bean bags you would toss with a measured length of string attached you could stretch out to determine the radius, etc. This one kid goes "Fireball...fireball....fireball..." and starts tossing bean bags. His brother who came right up behind him says "Balls" and plants his foot in his crotch, dropping him, then says something like "Guess you missed your save on that one huh." Funniest damn thing I saw in ages!
This is when the DM asks "Are you SURE you want to SNEAK in PLATE ARMOR in BROAD DAYLIGHT, in PLAIN SIGHT?" in a very obvious tone. Anyone who has even been given that nudge by a DM and didn't take it knows how that ends.
To be fair, it's hard for them to notice the sound of the guy in heavy armor when there's so much sound from all the guards walking around in heavy armor.
Natural 20's don't work if you are setting your skills against an NPC's skills. If you have a move silently of 20 + 6 and the guard has a listen of 28 your will fail.
You could always pay a tradesman to line it with leather or cloth to make it quiet and perhaps gain a +0 modifier on stealth checks if your DM is nice enough.
Holy moly the equipment, the acting, the set, the writing, the camera angels... I could go on and on but to make it short: the overall quality of your videos is amazing and just keeps getting better and better! Thank you 🤘
Beyond D&D, this reminds me of several things. From movies, for example, with silencers. In John Wick 2, there is an airport fight done between John using a silencer as the crowd is unaware. In reality, both characters firing would still be clear to hear from most people there. As silencers don't actually fully silence a firearm and instead reduce the immediate feedback produced when firing, you don't need ear protection, for example. So those movies with assassins going in and out with no detection while firing a firearm with a suppressor are all mostly bunk.
True. Although I like to think, with the John Wick universe, that since people are relatively aware of the kind of world they're in (like the gold coins, The Continental, etc), they don't want attention drawn to themselves and continue with their day, ignoring fights and other things in order to survive.
@@AriThecraftydragon That would be funny if that was the actual explanation. Or if the entire airport was just table employees who aren't killers🤣😅. Mind certain weapon tech is more advanced in John Wick universe, so if giving the benefit, they could have invented actual true silencers.
LOLO! Love the Raiders of the Lost Ark reference, wonderful. (And I can imagine the sound effects guys off camera having fun rattling a bunch of pots and pans and metal spoons... )
You got me! I thought this was a Video Game Logic episode (I didn't see the title) and in the final hour you revealed it was a D&D Logic episode! Love the audio work in the beginning to make Alan's armor extra loud. And Britt's disappointed but emphatic "Boo." was the icing on the cake. Thanks VLDL!
Alan is so breathtaking here! So inspired with success in first part) I think everybody at least once imagined him to be as stealth as Alan was here x)
I love how Rob just steps in. And I'm pretty sure you have said that exactly line to the guys at the table, "this is DND you don't just say something you got to roll for it"
Me: I should change it up this time. I won't make a halfling character. Game: Footwear affects your ability to sneak. Me, now a halfling: Dang it. Every time.
'Explorer' difficulty on Baldur's Gate 3 is the first time I've ever been able to prioritize charisma for my halfling paladin (who gets rolled up in some variation into every game I play - I like her even though she's impractical), because the game is kind enough that not maximizing strength and dexterity is feasible.
I think one of the few things my table really liked I did for when everyone was stealthing was collective fail/success. Might be something fun for others try out and really works with odd numbers to. Like 3 pass the check but 2 fail means a group pass. You can also throw in nat 20/1 count as two for their respective pass/fail. Overall just made it better feeling the party since it made them picture the ranger and rogue going "STEP HERE YOU WALKING CACOPHONE OF METAL!" to the Paladin.
As a DM, I love showing gamers the difference between video game logic and realism. Non gamers don't make that kind of mistake when they start playing D&D. The only gamers who don't fall for this trap are those smart enough to recognize that most video games are unrealistic and not expect D&D to be the same. I was in this category when I started playing D&D.
Wait, I thought all you had to do was throw a pebble in the bushes to distract the guards (and throw a dexterity check to be sure you don't hit a guard instead.)
I was expecting the DM to be like : "How...?! How the hell can you roll 5 time in a row above 15 with disadvantage, and I roll 5 time below 5 with +9 in perception!?!"
Hey, I've done it. Imagine a half-orc in heavy armor stomping around the rafters of a church with a group of cultists just hanging out below unsuspectingly. I dropped down on their leader like Batman. It was awesome.
Just want to express how impressed I am by your videos! Your D&D logic series is of massive help when I'm trying to understand how D&D works! Really appreciate this!
I was so mesmerized by the entire thing, that i at first did not realize what was happening when suddenly the DM came up, but then i did remember that this was D&D Logic. This entire bit was so hilarious man, they are so good at this stuff, its amazing how far they have come.
Kudos to the sound team. This was synced so well and the 'tin-can' rusting was the perfect sound for this. For a second I though this was SkyCraft and then the DM popped up. Very funny.
/begins nerd rants: Huh, last time I looked, leather was all a thief could use... and and.. 1:13 But then the DM stepped in. Thankgod for DM's. And you are a jewel sir. Keep it up. You guys are awesome.
Gotta love power gamers in DnD. GM: "The item is heavily protected by numerous, well armed guards." Player: *" Well....I run in and steal it when they aren't looking! "* GM: "WelL I rUn iN aNd StEaL iT.... Not in MY house ...
Reminds me of my dwarfen warrior and our elfish archer when they had to follow someone through a town. We both rolled pretty good on being silent, but totally failed at hiding. So we were following someone blazing obviously, without making any sound doing so.
Wait they have a DND channel? I was just about to click away. Good thing he said "whoa whoa whoa whoa" and caught my attention, or else I never would've known!
Sound guy had a fucking blast in the recording room with this one. Like a kid in a candy store. 😂 "you mean, you need me to make a lot of chaotic noise? Say less"
Rob absolutely SELLS this series! The fact that he doesn't really need to "act" so much as remember all the BS he's seen these guys do through the years just makes it *that* much better!
0:28 -- made me laugh out loud. Very smooth. Mind you, this makes me think of classic ol' Doctor Who where they could hide behind the stupidest things and the bad guys wouldn't see them :)
Been on a Fallout 4 kick again lately and one thing that I've become hyper aware of in recent days is how anyone can tell you're an intruder without ever once seeing you. The place can be full of raiders or gunners or whatever, but they can INSTANTLY tell without laying eyes on you that your footsteps are not raider footsteps.
Lmaooo…. Thank you for letting me know why I deserve disadvantage while wearing plate armor. “That man is making so much noise…wait…is this why you get disadvantage?” DM few minutes later confirmed my suspicions
These recent D&D videos have been amazing. Imagine if you made a film like this, where the dm is on location with the party while the npcs are paused when the dice rolls happen.
Ok, this was hilarious! But… I’ve seen demonstrations of wearing plate armor (late renaissance armor, so, they had figured out a lot of aspects of the human body and armor technology)… and the person was able to move amazingly well, doing side rolls and such, and the armor didn’t clank as loudly as in this video. Not like some ninja assassin, of course, but surprisingly quieter than I had expected.
Stealth is optional in any DND Game I been in. XD No one knows you where there if there no one to notice. Also that slide in plate armor was on point my guy.
In an actual stealth plate moment, you could probably get over the disadvantage by wearing the guards plate armor, mimicking their movements with a perform check/disguise check, and an acrobatics check to only move when they do, muffling your identical sounds within theirs. Would still be difficult, but stealth is just a bit more complicated than "crouch button"
I have absolutely no idea why, but I read the thumbnail as "Stealth in Bed". I may need help... Great video again as always. At least the DnD system makes way more sense than some RPG videogames here :P
What usually happens is that the first 3 players in the party roll a decent stealth to get past the guards but the last 2 both roll natural ones so they're walking through the forest talking, laughing and carrying a small brass band. Vividly remember the dnd campaign where it was essential for the party to sneak but me and one of the other players critically failed. This was back in 3.5.
I was wondering why this was more like a stealth section of a video game at first... yeah the whole... "you still need to roll for it" bit makes more sense! Also stealth doesn't work in plain sight while in daylight and also in vision range, creatures have "360 degree vision", so going behind them just doesn't work in 5E.
On one hand I love that someone came in to challenge the absurdity, on the other hand sometimes DnD stealth works exactly like that, if you roll high enough and/or have a high enough stealth number compared to their perception number.
I've never played dnd because I've never been invited cuz of my illness sadly, but in my experiance in baldurs gate 3 a singleplayer one you could throw something to distract them kinda like farcry and get their line of sight moved it funny but if you have enough strenght or just use a potion to throw further cuz that exists You could litterly wear heavy armor as I did but as long as the line of view cant see you baldurs gate can be weird haha
i love the -1 modifier, because characters with heavy armour usually use dex as their damp stat (which is smart because heavy armour is meant to compensate for lack of dexterity and obviously the cleric/paladin/fighter/whatever in heavy armour not gonna sneak around xD)
Welcome to the joke I have been making for almost 2 decades with WoW. Almost feel like I am owed some money for this. lol But yea. In WoW, Rogues are a stealth class, but the armor often looks like the bulkiest plate imaginable (despite being "leather"). May as well adapt my adjacent joke at this point too. One where a Rogue is so overburdened by his shoulders+helm+weapons, that he can barely even move at all, let alone Stealth or fight like hes dexterous and agile.
You guys have the best short videos on RUclips! However it gets me thinking about how much work you put into a video that lasts 2 or 3 minutes. I hope you guys record multiple videos and release them within a week or 2 just to offset the budget some 😁😁
As DM, I would have said: "Congratulations, you got to the orb, now roll initiative! from all your clanking about they were ignoring you until you were most vulnerable, that orb gives you a -2 to your AC because it was cursed!"
With each new episode your garb is becoming more brilliant than the SUN! Who does your costumes because, oh my giddy aunt.... They are sooooooo AWESOOOOOOOOOOME!
I prefer the 3.75 system (Pathfinder) your Dex adds to your stealth, and your armor limits your Dex on top of giving negatives to your one roll (rather than two and take the lowest), that way if you are smart enough to shove padding into the gaps of your armor (abstracted) you can still stealth.
I was going "Wait, this isnt D&D stealth, this is closer to call of duty stealth missions" Then boom, he gets called out on it and yeah, that makes more sense. :p
I once stealthed into a cultists' lair to distract them while my teammates schmoozed at a nearby party. I had no problem sneaking into place. I'm tiny and quite stealthy and rolled well. Then I decided that the *best* distraction would be to light one of the cultists' robes on fire. (I honestly did not perceive this as being antithetical to being stealthy.) ...so that's how my first rogue got sacrificed to an eldritch god, destroying the city and leaving the team to flee for their lives, which prompted the creation of and subsequent destruction of my most short-lived character, an intricately designed Celtic Bard with faerie blood who lasted two half-sessions then got eaten by a tree (twice; he survived the first round and managed to scramble out heavily wounded, but sadly was the only party member in reach when the tree's turn rolled around). Years later, when I created another short-person rogue (I think the first gal was a Gnome and this guy was a Halfling), I debuted by being so unreasonably irritated by the you-all-meet-in-a-tavern basics that when the guards busted down the door, instead of fleeing with the team I hid in a barrel or cupboard or something and... immediately got found and captured, leading to my team needing to switch from whatever the story *had* been to Day 1 Quest: Rescue Teammate from the Guards. Same character later attended a kings' banquet (what is it with my short rogues getting invited to weird parties??), where we were informed that there would be several weird courses and we'd have to roll a lot of saves. Realizing that my saves were still crap at that level, I took one look at the hallucinogenic snakes we were meant to eat, decided I needed to do something other than just chow down and chance my luck, and...... sneakily stuck one in my pocket. That day I learned that snakes, for SOME reason, do not take well to being stuffed into pockets. I got bit, pumped fll of a higher dose of the same hallucinogen I had been trying to avoid, and spent the rest of the adventure having the GM tell me things that only I could see, leaving me wondering which ones were actual hallucinations and which ones were things I should've been telling the party. (I've got a reputation for not telling the party things I should mention, heh.)
Honestl, I expected him to nail the stealth with two high rolls on the check with disadvantage, and then when a rogue teammate in full leather armor gets irritated and goes in to try his or her luck as well, get caught immediately due to a nat 1. We all now that's how these things usually go down on a D&D session :D
“Someone’s prowling around here…. must have been the very metallic sounding wind”
"WOTS THAT THEN?!"
"For the peace of the kingdom!"
"For King and Country!"
"For the Alliance!"
For the King!
The whole time I was wondering "wait, wouldn't he have disadvantage in heavy armor?" until the DM intervened.
I instantly said "that's a -1 to stealth, wth?"
Yeah, the beginning of this really got my inner rules lawyer twitching.
And? Disadvantage doesn't mean shit if he also has advantage on stealth from something else they cancel out. Also like any roll you can get two high rolls on a disadvantaged roll (just like you can get two shit rolls on an advantaged roll)@@aalthaluss
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@@aalthalussI was just about to write out an entire paragraph about just how impossible that was and all the rules being broken when, finally, the DM intervened^^
That final "Thank you for sticking around, I appreciate that." has extra weight to it because, on filming day, the rest of us had wrapped and left him and the extras to do all the solo stuff without us and we were teasing him about us getting to leave early!
Thanks Alan, you're a champ.
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I love that you're gradually becoming more of a regular, on this channel. I can just imagine Ben, Rowan, Alan, and Adam quietly chanting "one of us. One of us..." When you shoot a video with them lol
@@iambatsmurfette He'll be branded with a VLDL tattoo soon enough. And Byron too.
@@Frazzledragon the fact that Byron isn't already, is just unacceptable
@@Frazzledragon is ben branded yet? I didnt see
The idea that the DM walks around the game like a referee is the best idea ever! Looks super cool. This perfectly shows that the DM is not playing against the players.
I did a lot of LARPing (live action role-playing) in my life and actually once played a DM walking around (it was actually a boring role, because really not immersive :P). I kid you not. They called him Tarus for some reason. It was in Quebec City, Canada.
@@Baraz_Red I watched a LARP session once, and to cast spells they called out the name of the spell and used props to visualize it. A lightning bolt was a tape measure, fireballs were red bean bags you would toss with a measured length of string attached you could stretch out to determine the radius, etc. This one kid goes "Fireball...fireball....fireball..." and starts tossing bean bags. His brother who came right up behind him says "Balls" and plants his foot in his crotch, dropping him, then says something like "Guess you missed your save on that one huh." Funniest damn thing I saw in ages!
@@Baraz_Redyou could have role played as a guard, keeping everyone in check, or a magistrate, telling people about all kinds of weird fluff rules
dm ominously stepping into frame was just [chef's kiss]
Soon as he stepped in, I knew he would call for a stealth check 🤣
Plus wearing his street clothes. Brilliant.
"You really think it was gonna be that easy?"
Rob should just wear that on every session he DM's, 'cuz it should be his catchphrase.
Yeah, I want that on a t-shirt with a d20 😅
That and “This is D&D you gotta roll some shit”
0:43 that run was awesome. He's so stealthy you can't even see the horse he's riding
Lol that was indeed a horse
That was a Monty Python horse
@@jotheunissen9274Where are the coconuts lel
@@ArmedHeavyDragon The horse was in stealth mode so no coconut noise
To be honest, he probably had stowed it in his horse pocket.
1:20 remember guys: if your DM looks at you like that everything will go horribly wrong
DnD-Logic-Rob is grumpy cat, with a bunch of notes 😾📑
^^
Our DM always kindly asked us before such lunacy: Are you sure, you want to do that? If a steady and firm YES was the answer, he just sighed.
This is when the DM asks "Are you SURE you want to SNEAK in PLATE ARMOR in BROAD DAYLIGHT, in PLAIN SIGHT?" in a very obvious tone. Anyone who has even been given that nudge by a DM and didn't take it knows how that ends.
@jaysonkmendoza "you can certainly try..."
The first one is what happens when you roll two nat 20s on your disadvantage stealth roll.
To be fair, it's hard for them to notice the sound of the guy in heavy armor when there's so much sound from all the guards walking around in heavy armor.
Lol I tought exactly that: "omg he must have rolled a nat 20" XD
Natural 20's don't work if you are setting your skills against an NPC's skills. If you have a move silently of 20 + 6 and the guard has a listen of 28 your will fail.
I mean that's only 1 in 400 odds. Easy.
to be fair with a 0.025% chance if you get it you deserve yo pull it off.
Those stealth checks are a real kicker in plate armor. Keep it up, appreciate the humor, and the merch looks really cool too.
You could always pay a tradesman to line it with leather or cloth to make it quiet and perhaps gain a +0 modifier on stealth checks if your DM is nice enough.
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My main character wears plate armor and some Boots of Elvenkind. No one hears him coming! 🤣
The stealthiest Alan! In a big white cape and everything, how could he ever be seen
Just like any Assassins creed character ever lol
Holy moly the equipment, the acting, the set, the writing, the camera angels... I could go on and on but to make it short: the overall quality of your videos is amazing and just keeps getting better and better! Thank you 🤘
Wow, thank you! What lovely high praise 😍
@@VivaLaDirtLeague praise that you more than deserved for all the hard work you put into all those years 💜
You're right; they are camera angels 😇 🪽
0:27 That movement was so smooth.
Pulling that off in plate armor deserves a reward!
Fully stabilised legs
It cracked me up so hard! Alan's time to shine
I love the really deep bass "THIS IS SCARY" note as the DM Rob steps into the frame. PERFECTION
I still say the best part of this season is Rob and the binder.😂
Rob's the best part of a lot of things
Beyond D&D, this reminds me of several things. From movies, for example, with silencers. In John Wick 2, there is an airport fight done between John using a silencer as the crowd is unaware. In reality, both characters firing would still be clear to hear from most people there. As silencers don't actually fully silence a firearm and instead reduce the immediate feedback produced when firing, you don't need ear protection, for example. So those movies with assassins going in and out with no detection while firing a firearm with a suppressor are all mostly bunk.
True.
Although I like to think, with the John Wick universe, that since people are relatively aware of the kind of world they're in (like the gold coins, The Continental, etc), they don't want attention drawn to themselves and continue with their day, ignoring fights and other things in order to survive.
@@AriThecraftydragon That would be funny if that was the actual explanation. Or if the entire airport was just table employees who aren't killers🤣😅. Mind certain weapon tech is more advanced in John Wick universe, so if giving the benefit, they could have invented actual true silencers.
Or even if we assume for a moment that silencers are perfect: bullets still make noise when they hit things!
@@jamesphillips2285 True🤣
0:36 The walk behind the guard was one of my favorite VLDL moments of all time!
LOLO! Love the Raiders of the Lost Ark reference, wonderful. (And I can imagine the sound effects guys off camera having fun rattling a bunch of pots and pans and metal spoons... )
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Stealthy? in Heavy armor? just roll a 20!
And the Dragon sees you In the camp, you try to Run but are made in to a Light snack..
Yeah... that's not gonna work.
With disadvantage because of the armor
Classic joke: Paladin in a stealth mission.
twice
You got me! I thought this was a Video Game Logic episode (I didn't see the title) and in the final hour you revealed it was a D&D Logic episode! Love the audio work in the beginning to make Alan's armor extra loud. And Britt's disappointed but emphatic "Boo." was the icing on the cake. Thanks VLDL!
Whereas I did see the title, but went into "Video Game Logic" brain because of how used I am to their Epic NPC Man locations and style lol
Wow Britt acting was amazing the delivery of the sentences was top level.
Mad respect to your foley artists who got you all the metal clanking sounds! Great job!
0:43 nice move~ alan. very smooth
Just as I was thinking my DM would never let that fly, in walks Rob with difference between D&D stealth & video game stealth.
Didn't read the title and assumed it must be showcasing how stealth works in games. Accurate.
Alan is so breathtaking here! So inspired with success in first part)
I think everybody at least once imagined him to be as stealth as Alan was here x)
Alan's acting was so over the top and perfect in this one!
I love how Rob just steps in. And I'm pretty sure you have said that exactly line to the guys at the table, "this is DND you don't just say something you got to roll for it"
Me: I should change it up this time. I won't make a halfling character.
Game: Footwear affects your ability to sneak.
Me, now a halfling: Dang it. Every time.
Play a nudist human!
'Explorer' difficulty on Baldur's Gate 3 is the first time I've ever been able to prioritize charisma for my halfling paladin (who gets rolled up in some variation into every game I play - I like her even though she's impractical), because the game is kind enough that not maximizing strength and dexterity is feasible.
Alan did that so well! I loved the sound effects xD
Also I love the "wow, wow, wow! Don't click away!"
It worked Alan, you caught me in your spell.
The way Alan walked at 0:35 is hilarious. xD
I think one of the few things my table really liked I did for when everyone was stealthing was collective fail/success. Might be something fun for others try out and really works with odd numbers to. Like 3 pass the check but 2 fail means a group pass. You can also throw in nat 20/1 count as two for their respective pass/fail. Overall just made it better feeling the party since it made them picture the ranger and rogue going "STEP HERE YOU WALKING CACOPHONE OF METAL!" to the Paladin.
2:03 ROLL PERSUASION
Alan's posh knight voice is the best! I adore it so much!
When Rob steps in frame that’s when you know you goofed.
As a DM, I love showing gamers the difference between video game logic and realism. Non gamers don't make that kind of mistake when they start playing D&D. The only gamers who don't fall for this trap are those smart enough to recognize that most video games are unrealistic and not expect D&D to be the same. I was in this category when I started playing D&D.
1:57
Britt the Ghost: Boo.
I just love everything they do. From pubg, to NPC now to freakin DnD. I LOVE IT!! keep it going!
Wait, I thought all you had to do was throw a pebble in the bushes to distract the guards (and throw a dexterity check to be sure you don't hit a guard instead.)
I was expecting the DM to be like : "How...?! How the hell can you roll 5 time in a row above 15 with disadvantage, and I roll 5 time below 5 with +9 in perception!?!"
The movement on this one is amazing, really dynamic
Hey, I've done it. Imagine a half-orc in heavy armor stomping around the rafters of a church with a group of cultists just hanging out below unsuspectingly. I dropped down on their leader like Batman. It was awesome.
Love that "boo" at the end. I've felt like that many times while someone in my group did something stupid despite the look in the DM's face.
Just want to express how impressed I am by your videos! Your D&D logic series is of massive help when I'm trying to understand how D&D works! Really appreciate this!
Sun’s up, and I can hear Alan taking out the recycling bins.
I was so mesmerized by the entire thing, that i at first did not realize what was happening when suddenly the DM came up, but then i did remember that this was D&D Logic. This entire bit was so hilarious man, they are so good at this stuff, its amazing how far they have come.
The casual walk behind the guard was perfection 😂😂😂
Kudos to the sound team. This was synced so well and the 'tin-can' rusting was the perfect sound for this. For a second I though this was SkyCraft and then the DM popped up. Very funny.
0:36 I didn't even see him. Absolutely brilliant.
/begins nerd rants: Huh, last time I looked, leather was all a thief could use... and and..
1:13 But then the DM stepped in. Thankgod for DM's. And you are a jewel sir. Keep it up.
You guys are awesome.
Gotta love power gamers in DnD.
GM: "The item is heavily protected by numerous, well armed guards."
Player: *" Well....I run in and steal it when they aren't looking! "*
GM: "WelL I rUn iN aNd StEaL iT.... Not in MY house
...
Reminds me of my dwarfen warrior and our elfish archer when they had to follow someone through a town. We both rolled pretty good on being silent, but totally failed at hiding. So we were following someone blazing obviously, without making any sound doing so.
Wait they have a DND channel? I was just about to click away. Good thing he said "whoa whoa whoa whoa" and caught my attention, or else I never would've known!
Britt's Boo... that cut deeper than any critical.
Sound guy had a fucking blast in the recording room with this one. Like a kid in a candy store. 😂 "you mean, you need me to make a lot of chaotic noise? Say less"
Yall had me cracking up the entire video! 😂 Loved this one
:40 to :42 is incredible. sticks his tongue out like he's doing an incredible job and the task is sooo difficult lmao
Rob absolutely SELLS this series! The fact that he doesn't really need to "act" so much as remember all the BS he's seen these guys do through the years just makes it *that* much better!
0:28 -- made me laugh out loud. Very smooth. Mind you, this makes me think of classic ol' Doctor Who where they could hide behind the stupidest things and the bad guys wouldn't see them :)
Been on a Fallout 4 kick again lately and one thing that I've become hyper aware of in recent days is how anyone can tell you're an intruder without ever once seeing you. The place can be full of raiders or gunners or whatever, but they can INSTANTLY tell without laying eyes on you that your footsteps are not raider footsteps.
Lmaooo…. Thank you for letting me know why I deserve disadvantage while wearing plate armor. “That man is making so much noise…wait…is this why you get disadvantage?” DM few minutes later confirmed my suspicions
The look on the DM's face at 1:20! lol
Great video gents!
These recent D&D videos have been amazing. Imagine if you made a film like this, where the dm is on location with the party while the npcs are paused when the dice rolls happen.
Ok, this was hilarious! But… I’ve seen demonstrations of wearing plate armor (late renaissance armor, so, they had figured out a lot of aspects of the human body and armor technology)… and the person was able to move amazingly well, doing side rolls and such, and the armor didn’t clank as loudly as in this video. Not like some ninja assassin, of course, but surprisingly quieter than I had expected.
Quasimodo lives! At least until they hear his armor clanging away..
This is beyond the concept of the word "stupid" and it is exactly what many game are, do and show. Amazing "clever" portray of stealth games!
With catlike tread! Upon our prey we steal!
Kudos for the G&S reference.
Not gonna lie man. You really did catch me not switching videos last second lol
The foley artists had a field day with this one! They nailed it and made this 1000x funnier. Truly the unsung heroes of this tale!
Stealth is optional in any DND Game I been in. XD No one knows you where there if there no one to notice. Also that slide in plate armor was on point my guy.
In an actual stealth plate moment, you could probably get over the disadvantage by wearing the guards plate armor, mimicking their movements with a perform check/disguise check, and an acrobatics check to only move when they do, muffling your identical sounds within theirs. Would still be difficult, but stealth is just a bit more complicated than "crouch button"
I like this immersive in-game format. Nice break from Honeywood and explains a lot in terms most people can understand.
I have absolutely no idea why, but I read the thumbnail as "Stealth in Bed". I may need help...
Great video again as always. At least the DnD system makes way more sense than some RPG videogames here :P
Lol, I was thinking all along" WTF, how high did he roll for his stealth check and were all the guards at triple Disadvantage"... Well played, VLDL!
What usually happens is that the first 3 players in the party roll a decent stealth to get past the guards but the last 2 both roll natural ones so they're walking through the forest talking, laughing and carrying a small brass band. Vividly remember the dnd campaign where it was essential for the party to sneak but me and one of the other players critically failed. This was back in 3.5.
I was like that is how stealth works in video games at first not DnD until the DM came out and I was so happy. This was perfect lol.
I was wondering why this was more like a stealth section of a video game at first... yeah the whole... "you still need to roll for it" bit makes more sense! Also stealth doesn't work in plain sight while in daylight and also in vision range, creatures have "360 degree vision", so going behind them just doesn't work in 5E.
On one hand I love that someone came in to challenge the absurdity, on the other hand sometimes DnD stealth works exactly like that, if you roll high enough and/or have a high enough stealth number compared to their perception number.
Loved the structure of this, getting to see the ridiculousness of it play out (like how it would in video games/Epic NPC Man) then having it retracted
I've never played dnd because I've never been invited cuz of my illness sadly, but in my experiance in baldurs gate 3 a singleplayer one you could throw something to distract them kinda like farcry and get their line of sight moved it funny but if you have enough strenght or just use a potion to throw further cuz that exists You could litterly wear heavy armor as I did but as long as the line of view cant see you baldurs gate can be weird haha
Love the twist. First I was like: "Wait a moment, shouldn't he throw dice? It's D&D after all!" Then I was "Of course, he has to role the dice!"
britt's "boo" killed me. perfect! :D
i love the -1 modifier, because characters with heavy armour usually use dex as their damp stat (which is smart because heavy armour is meant to compensate for lack of dexterity and obviously the cleric/paladin/fighter/whatever in heavy armour not gonna sneak around xD)
Haha licking the lips with the tongue when he found the gem reminded me so much of Gollum for a second "My precious!"
I get so excited to watch these, you guys put so much love and effort into your work ❤
I'll admit all the way through I was thinking... 'They got D+D mixed up with Assassans Creed and the like... and then that ending *chefs kiss*
Honestly Alan, some of your best acting ever. 10/10.
The details! Hiding behind that axe 😂
Alan's moves and body language in this one will be unmatched for quite a while. Hilarious ❤
Love these DnD shorts! Educational and fun way to teach people the rules of dnd.
So Alan, Rowan and Ben pay close attention! 😛
Welcome to the joke I have been making for almost 2 decades with WoW. Almost feel like I am owed some money for this. lol
But yea. In WoW, Rogues are a stealth class, but the armor often looks like the bulkiest plate imaginable (despite being "leather").
May as well adapt my adjacent joke at this point too. One where a Rogue is so overburdened by his shoulders+helm+weapons, that he can barely even move at all, let alone Stealth or fight like hes dexterous and agile.
You guys have the best short videos on RUclips! However it gets me thinking about how much work you put into a video that lasts 2 or 3 minutes. I hope you guys record multiple videos and release them within a week or 2 just to offset the budget some 😁😁
As DM, I would have said: "Congratulations, you got to the orb, now roll initiative! from all your clanking about they were ignoring you until you were most vulnerable, that orb gives you a -2 to your AC because it was cursed!"
Just need a pass without trace and you're golden! 😂
Indy Jones reference, classic!
With each new episode your garb is becoming more brilliant than the SUN!
Who does your costumes because, oh my giddy aunt....
They are sooooooo AWESOOOOOOOOOOME!
I prefer the 3.75 system (Pathfinder) your Dex adds to your stealth, and your armor limits your Dex on top of giving negatives to your one roll (rather than two and take the lowest), that way if you are smart enough to shove padding into the gaps of your armor (abstracted) you can still stealth.
For anyone still asking what the Musik at 00:50 is: "Trevor Kowalski - Giants"
I was going "Wait, this isnt D&D stealth, this is closer to call of duty stealth missions" Then boom, he gets called out on it and yeah, that makes more sense. :p
I once stealthed into a cultists' lair to distract them while my teammates schmoozed at a nearby party.
I had no problem sneaking into place. I'm tiny and quite stealthy and rolled well.
Then I decided that the *best* distraction would be to light one of the cultists' robes on fire.
(I honestly did not perceive this as being antithetical to being stealthy.)
...so that's how my first rogue got sacrificed to an eldritch god, destroying the city and leaving the team to flee for their lives, which prompted the creation of and subsequent destruction of my most short-lived character, an intricately designed Celtic Bard with faerie blood who lasted two half-sessions then got eaten by a tree (twice; he survived the first round and managed to scramble out heavily wounded, but sadly was the only party member in reach when the tree's turn rolled around).
Years later, when I created another short-person rogue (I think the first gal was a Gnome and this guy was a Halfling), I debuted by being so unreasonably irritated by the you-all-meet-in-a-tavern basics that when the guards busted down the door, instead of fleeing with the team I hid in a barrel or cupboard or something and... immediately got found and captured, leading to my team needing to switch from whatever the story *had* been to Day 1 Quest: Rescue Teammate from the Guards.
Same character later attended a kings' banquet (what is it with my short rogues getting invited to weird parties??), where we were informed that there would be several weird courses and we'd have to roll a lot of saves. Realizing that my saves were still crap at that level, I took one look at the hallucinogenic snakes we were meant to eat, decided I needed to do something other than just chow down and chance my luck, and...... sneakily stuck one in my pocket.
That day I learned that snakes, for SOME reason, do not take well to being stuffed into pockets. I got bit, pumped fll of a higher dose of the same hallucinogen I had been trying to avoid, and spent the rest of the adventure having the GM tell me things that only I could see, leaving me wondering which ones were actual hallucinations and which ones were things I should've been telling the party. (I've got a reputation for not telling the party things I should mention, heh.)
Honestl, I expected him to nail the stealth with two high rolls on the check with disadvantage, and then when a rogue teammate in full leather armor gets irritated and goes in to try his or her luck as well, get caught immediately due to a nat 1. We all now that's how these things usually go down on a D&D session :D