Davvy's DM Advice: Races
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To answer all of the “what about X race” questions, the point of this video is to serve as a jumping off point for you to think about the concept on your own. I never really cared too much about gith/changelings/Drow in my games because my players almost never play them, but with a bit of thinking, it’d probably become really obvious what the general population would think of it. (Drow are slavers and kidnappers, my dudes. Nobody likes them.) But it doesn’t *really* matter what I think, as long as the video gets you thinking about how to handle the concept yourself. My word isn’t law, you don’t need it. Enjoy the vid, but don’t rely on it.
Yeah, it seems plenty of other people do not seem to understand that point because they either have some silly notion or a disregard for what was said.
Anyways, thanks for the vid, it's a good show to the newbies I come across that are trying to start up their first character and seem oblivious to the concept of racial mingling in-game.
So what im getting is you hate when your players want to be a monster race
@Hunter Jaxon Script kiddies be like
I had such a cool idea but since my group doesn't do fantasy racism I can't play him:
a kobold rogue who did mass murder because whenever someone finds out he is a kobold he is like here we go again and has to kill them
@@womper7122 I don't hate it, cuz players don't get to be monsters in my world. Unless I say so.
Tavern staff: we don't allow animals in this establishment.
Minotaur: FINE I DIDN'T WANT YOUR SHITY BEER ANYWAY
Tavern staff: we were talking about the mastiff
Minotaur: My mistake.
Hooves and horns are for prey
Lance Clemings I’m sorry, but if you’re able to mount a mastiff, you should 100% be able to “mount” or get on top of a barstool. On another note, you’re not much taller than you are normally while riding a mastiff anyways, and why would you have it if all you do it stand directly on top of it? Just stop being lazy and climb the stool in that case.
Tyler P the Mastiff is trained to stand on its hind legs
Sam Guckian so assuming smallfolk climb the mastiff, they are able to get to the size of a barstool. Thanks. Another reason not to use your mastiff as a barstool. Barstool - 1 Mastiff - 0.
Tyler P the mastiff lowers itself to make mounting it easier.
"the gnomes are treated normally" kobolds "hisss"
Ain’t treated normally if I have anything to say about it
Tfw my current party os a half drow, a goblin, a kenku, and a tiefling.
We probably can't go into any city ever and are definitely banned from walmart.
Gate Guard: Guy's really? Like look I don't like profiling but you must know what you look like? Right?
"We'll keep the goblin on a leash we promise"
Goblin: continues to scream about killing god
Walmar't
Eh, I'm sure the Kenku can pass themselves off as a dwarf with a long nose...
We’ve got TWO goblins, a drow, and a Tiefling. Racism is the teams biggest antagonist
1000th NPC asks the Tabaxi where do they come from
"my father was a Bard & my mother was a cat"
Tabaxi leaves
They need to make a campaign that takes place where Tabaxi are from
Plot twist: It is not a Tabaxi. It is a Rakshasa Tiefling.
My Tabaxi bard would go on very detailed and long winded story about the wonders of Maztica.
_Psionic: exists_
Davvy: “I’m not trying to see that.”
3.5 gang
No one is trying to see that
“Sir do you have a permit for that warforged?”
Uh no the goblin behind me dose
In the name of the queen
"No, but I got a degree in mass destruction from the wizarding academy"
"Do you have a license for that permit?"
"That's just my construct Sir, he serves me well"
I love playing Kobolds, but all of the DM's I've had just say "Yeah, people are cool with Kobolds in the area", and, to be honest, I feel like there's missed potential. One of the reasons I love playing monstrous characters is for that social aspect of the game.
I always had it as, people are fine with 1 MAYBE 2 but anymore and people start to get very wary because kobold are weak alone but dangerous in numbers
Yeah not every DM feels comfortable racisme in their games. That is not a problem I had when I DM'ed I am heartless
You could talk to your GMs about this fact
Make it clear that you are interested in participating in events regarding Kobolds and _human_ societies
DMs don't like being racist to their players all that much
Koblit race there is a 5e Arduin Book it is in there
1/2 Hobbit 1/2 Kobold
Davvy's DM Advice: Racism
-Rascism- Speciest👌
"AINT NO ORC THING GETTIN ON MY TAVERN"
I'd really appreciate a vid on racism. It's hard to make a realistic narrative when you aren't familiar with the problem. So a vid on how to portray racism in the game as a serious issue for the characters would be great.
@@padalan2504 well like davvy said there needs to be a definite line people should not cross and also all players should understand and agree on what is and isn't acceptable.
It's kind of very easy to be fake racist in dnd, some races are literal monsters so just comment on appearance or monster stereotypes (they eat baby's, you look like a literal devil, damn green skin, etc.) to come up with things to say but usually the books have descriptions on how one race reacts to other races too if that helps.
Example, half elves are treated as impure mutts by elves and weird elves by humans, neither elf enough to be an elf and not human enough to be human.
tieflings are treated as evil demons regardless of their actual alignment and often have things thrown at them in fear.
half orcs get called ugly and stupid and worse and they're always treated like an orc rather than a half human.
Dwarves get annoyed by elves, elves are dicks who think they're better than everyone, dragon born are weird lizard weirdos, half orcs get called names a lot, tieflings are basically demons and should be feared by all, humans do whatever they want but are super squishy and they know it, gnomes do what they want on their own, halflings do whatever wherever and couldn't care less, etc.
@@padalan2504 I don't think Davvy would be able to help you with that but generally serous reasons for racism I've are comically at least to me and the people I know but they at least seem to be the actually reasons some racists have
One of my first 5e characters was a good-aligned white dragonborn fighter.
In my DM's world, immediately everyone thought she was evil or mischievous. The only thing she really shared in common with white dragons was a lower intelligence. It made for some interesting moments when people who originally treated her negatively changed their tune after she insisted on still helping them.
THIS. Class and race matter heavily in my campaigns. That's why sorcerers and such often carry weapons to disguise themselves, in case this is a town that wants to burn witches, for instance. It leads to some annoyances, but some fun rp. And in my campaign, Greenest has a statue of a goblin named Zignot. when under attack it was him and his party who faced the dragon, but when the commander came and demanded a duel for prisoners, it was the little goblin didn't hesitate to fight. To barely survive. To run streaking through the enemy camp with fire and might. And to die in one more duel, bait in a plan to save the town. Years later, cities are still learning of that little goblin, who proved that you can't judge a book by its cover.
Would they still have celebrated without that fact? Of course. But the sacrifice gave that much more pause due to his nature.
EDIT the campaign is over now. on the eve of the last session, one of the only 2 remaining characters in that group raised a glass and gave a little speech. To Zignot. At the beginning he'd refused to work with the little guy, and when forced onto the same job refused to acknowledge he existed. And 2 years later, they player still remembered him, and the character did as well. because yes, he was an ally who sacrificed himself. but he was also a goblin, who completely rocked his world on how he thought 'those greenskins' worked.
Meanwhile there's Gith. My Githyanki pretend that they're just a half elf who's been in a mining accident (which explains the no nose)
I would expect some clerics would attempt to turn/rebuke them as undead... LOL
everyone just treats my githzerai as an ugly elf
For what it's worth, I think you dealt with this subject extremely well, especially emphasizing talking to your players about it.
Less so on the beard shaving. It stays.
you have to obviously play fighter human every single game
Certainly. And wear blue clothes
That or Elf Ranger
nah tiefling wild magic sorcerer. MAKE ALL THE FRIENDS!
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I’ve specifically like monster characters because i like to play against the stereotypes. I play a gnoll rogue in one of my campaigns who specifically
wears fancy clothes, a top hat, and a monocle specifically so he won’t get murdered when ever he’s in a town. He is also the most fun to role play because he speaks in a light British accent but with fits of cackling sprinkled in. It’s amazing
Same here, I like breaking the mold and that upward battle of overcoming the stereotype associated with them.
I can be a Kobold paladin, an Orc monk, a Yuan-Ti cleric (non-combat Domain), whatever. I don't make a dramatic moral alignment jump, though I do shift it enough where if someone had no formal knowledge of what is associated with that character ancestors are like, that character could be passed as someone decent just from acts alone.
From a homebrew perspective anything works, but I'm pretty sure Gnolls are naturally evil (possessed by an insatiable hunger). With murder, kill, slaughter, eat is the main thing on their mind.... That and serve their creator who's a demon lord.
Myles W in this game, my character broke away from the gnoll gods control and with the help of a few clerics, is actively converting gnolls away from the gods control. With a little story and character development, anything’s possible really.
I found this interesting could we get a part 2 with Eberron? As the races are treated way more differently then they are in Faerun.
They'd overall be much more accepting of all races, especially goblinoids and orcs, seeing as they have their own contries in ebberon.
Agreed especially since Warforged are the only race that deals with prejudice due to most every "organic race" on Khorvaire still having a less then pleasant view of The Last War.
So I play in a group with 1 human, 1 Drow, 2 Tieflings and me a Kenku.
Now I don't mind some in world racism, I think it ads to the RP, and with that party composition I was expecting a lot of it. What actualy happened was every npc treating the others like humans to the point where we straight up forgot the drow was a drow until he cast Fairy Fire and we were all like "oh yeeeeah!" And every npc assuming I was some sort of huge mutant bird they trained to do tricks.
I have no problem with gaining begrudging acceptance, or perhaps the world is more open than most, but... it feels weird for it not to be at least addressed lol.
Kenku are not unknown in a lot of major cities though. In an urban environment they wouldn't be that novel a sight. Perhaps in more rural areas where nobody's seen a kenku they'd get a lot more curious glances.
Real world analogs for D&D races? Oooooo boy this video is going to get spicy.
Edit: Zero out of Ten on the Davy spicy meter. My taste buds are properly informed, but un-spiced.
Is your disappointment immeasurable and your day ruined?
You *wanted* the racism?
violet shadowstone I do
when your party is entirely composed of half-orcs, drow, and tieflings...
I know this is a bit of a late comment but, I'm so glad i found this video since i like making worlds feel real which i tell my players, so I'll probably show them this when they make there characters with slight changes to fit my worlds, with that being said.
Davvy thank you for making such amazing videos you have been some of the few d&d channels that's been helping me dm better. And i can't wait to see your next set of tips.
Question about the aasimar thing does it apply to fallen aasimar considering you know the huge shady skeleton wing don’t exactly scream holy peace
Fallen aasmiar traded jerseys.
Well I have an idea for a warlock fallen Aasimar who made a pact with Nehkbet to gain the power of eternal flight he craves so dearly since his falling.
I'd imagine then you'd become a target by Paladins and Clerics for cleansing, not to mention other Aasimar.
Darkpaw1 I’m sure it applies that or they’ll try to “convince” you to help. My work around is that my character plays himself off as a human follower of the Raven Queen who while not well liked is seen as a necessary existence that would help explain 1.) his divine energy 2.) why he reeks of death when channeling his divine energy 3.) fallen Aasimar wings are skeletal but his are black feathers due to his pact much like those of the Raven Queen
At worst they'd either think you are a lawyer, taxation agent of the crown or serve you with a summons at the nearest court house for any collateral damages. Damn townsfolk always try to sue for damages if you killed a loved one turn brigand for a quick coin.
And then there´s warforged. People always forget about the warforged
One of my old characters came to the conclusion that the warforged in the party wasn't really a person, just a souless machine. Why else would he collect souls? He said it was for his god but my character was convinced that the warforged was capturing souls to make one for himself.
Eberron only so yeah
GiantBUThead eberron races imo are some of the most interesting
Julie Rose I’m currently playing a oath of conquest warforged paladin and its fun as hell albeit he’s much more emotive than your average robot.
I usually find a way to implement eberron races into other games of mine. For example, i let the rogue play a Kalashtar using the explanation that she is technically a normal human just infused with a mysterious spirit. The roleplay is fun, she named him dimitri and he has a dracula / russian style voice. Roleplaying as him makes things very interesting
I actually loved playing in a game for once where my Drow character was treated like a Drow. I picked the race because of the opportunities for roleplay it presents.
I played a goliath and people thought a giant lost it's sun. Eventually he became in high demand as a body guard because how imposing he is.
In an up and coming campaign we were told it's to take place underground. So I beelined for the races that normally have to worry about that pesky sunlight sensitivity and thus was born Shor Shoot the kobold crossbow using fighter. Why am I saying all of this?
It's set in what is basically a very, very deep mine that's so deep towns have popped up every so often as it been made.
A mine made by a LOT of dwarfs, over many generations, of dwarfs.
So, this should be fun.
It could be worse, it could be filled with filthy Gnomes.
Not as bad as a mine full of Gnomes!
How did it go?
@@mattontop The campaign?
Tripped, failed and broke it's leg before it could even cross the starting line.
Never did find out why.
In other words, not all campaigns are created equal and some never even get the chance to get off the ground (or under it, in this case).
@@Amanoob105 F
I have a high elf that calls my tabaxi wizard “Monkey”.
Well, cat-monkey would be somewhat appropriate. Catfolks are derived of two creatures: Feline and Humans. And Humans.., well, do you get me?
It's a bit of a stretch, but I think it's due more of the sinuous form of the leaner Tabaxi shares more in common with a Human-sized Monkey with Cat-like features then something like... well, TES's Khajiit which are fully Cat-Humans.
"Ays-murr"
w-why
Innocent naïvety.
@OrangeManBad english is so weird
@@colocado6685 to be fair, a large number of the words in English that are spelled oddly compared to how they are said are as a result of that time quite a while ago where English just decided to stop changing it's spelling even though the pronunciations continued to change
@@Scourge728 tell me the exact date because thats fucking juicy data
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Do a video on classes next. I'd love to hear some thoughts on what people think of different types of cleric or wizard.
That could vary wildly between towns, cities and individual people.
@Lance Clemings Think about a mid level fighter or barbarian, able to be chucked off a cliff and easily walk it off. How does something as mechanically grounded as that translate into people's perceptions of PCs? Are they more scared of the wizard who can finally turn them into a toad or the melee class that could kill them with a single punch? Do they all beg the Cleric for blessings and healing?
Halifax Steppenwulf ESPECIALLY THE WIZARD
This is one of the reasons why I love playing Warforged
A little thing about gnomes:
Why are they seen just like common folk?
Gnomes are also known as “the forgotten folk”, they live in hidden underground cities, they should be seen as something odd or curious, like “that’s a weird looking Halfling” (add that rock gnomes are bloody geniuses, having an Atlantis-like city that also suffered the same fate, a place so advanced they had gunpowder and non-magical portals, a place left out of the history books).
FORGOTTEN. Most see only a weird halfling. They dont know any of this.
@@Nparalelo Day 72, they still don't know I'm not a Halfling
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I love how you described Aasimar so perfectly.. and as for the monstrous races.. I like playing a sensitive Yaun Ti abomination that has devolved into having a heart and feelings.. who has to hide from the more common races who socially don't accept him.. His snakey heart is the biggest and kindest snakey heart. Lawful good yuan Ti ftw X3
Seems a fun character to play. My Yuan-Ti pc took up illusion magic to travel the world without being attacked at whatever inn they stopped in.
Typically when I have elves I like to play them as “high and mighty” so villagers usually feel like they are being looked down on so they may be quick to anger or resentful around an elven pc depending on location, village in the sticks with little to occasional foot traffic, vs sprawling city
4:19 That's what my own character does. He's a human carpenter from a small village. He just learned what changelings look like, so when he saw an Aasimar, he was incredibly frightened for the man because he thought that he was the changeling that the adventurer's guild put a bounty on.
So far, in the 2 campaigns I'm playing, I've played 2 Gnolls, a Tiefling who's father was an Arch-Fey (so she's green and has antlers), a Kobold, and Half-Drow for one campaign and a Minotaur and a Sahuagin for the other. Everyone either respects the Gnolls and Minotaur, looking upon them in awe as this 7+ foot tall creatures walks past them, or in outright fear. The Sahuagin was interesting: coastal peoples would attack him on site while inland peoples would just be a little wary of him. An alcoholic, joke-making Kobold was well liked, except that he absolutely HATED dwarves for the fact that they set him up for a murder he didn't commit. The Tiefling was looked upon with confusion: as a rule in that campaign, everyone hates Tieflings as Devils tried to take over the world several times in the past. The fact that she was Fey-born cleared most of that up as most people barely know what Fey are and just treated her with suspicion. Not to mention she was likely one-of-a-kind. The Half-Drow was treated with suspicion as Drow are naturally the big baddies and that Half-Drow themselves are pretty much unheard of.
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It's definitely based on your world and DMs definitely have the lion's share of explaining "Hey, where you're from, it's no big deal you're a Minotaur. The beast lands are flush with all manner of folk, but you travel into a human town... They're either gonna throw rocks or run."
Played a Grung, spent most of my time in towns pretending to be the Warlock's giant frog pet/familiar. Was surprisingly helpful to my Roguing to have the common folk think I was just an animal.
I’m so glad that he gave that big disclaimer on racism and how that might make your fellow players at the table feel right up front. I always felt that there was a bit too much subtext of racism in DnD and it’s always bugged me in the back of my mind a bit. Like the flat out labeling of some races as inherently evil and others as good. And while I guess it’s a bit more acceptable as you’re playing with several different species as opposed to different shades of one (even though it does have some of that) and some are literally tied up with the magical forces and formations of this world so there’s kind of some distance from actual racism in that. But still I never felt like there was anything much akin to what would be the diversity side of this to balance it out. There’s a lot on how certain races will interact with each other but not much on how a race interacts with others of its kind. And I know this is kinda meant for the DM to fill in based on what inspirations they wanna pull from but I don’t feel like there’s ever as much prompting for them to fill out this part of the world as there is for the divisions between peoples. I also liked how he mentioned talking to your players about this before hand because, while this can be a powerful storytelling tool in the hands of the right DM, I feel like a lot of videos forget that there’s players at their table who come there specifically to forget about this kind of stuff in their daily lives. Or even play in a space where this kinda stuff doesn’t exist depending on how the DM plays.
Races in DnD actually makes more sense as species.
Huh, I like this video and get me some new perspective on race has that I never thought would have much of an impact if chosen to play as them, thank you for shedding a new line on an awesome way that I can make DND more realistic and give a great sense of immersion.
I usually homebrew my own settings so that my players don’t have to 100% worry about their race. Instead, in the case of my setting Mortar, I ask them North, South, or Middle? Depending on the answer will change the way they are perceived by those people of of those regions. Northerners think Southerners are too focused on art and money, while Southerners think Northerners are too violent and single minded. Of course there are outliers, but this way my players get to play the race they want without feeling targeted by default. Instead depending on how brazen they are with their regional origin and how the people around them take it.
Let the way people treat your character’s race factor into your backstory, or even let it inform what class they play. Sure, you can make a half-orc barbarian who likes to drink mead and kill things, but you could also make a half-orc cleric who joined the church to stop the mistreatment by others. If you want to be a rogue who infiltrates the court and murders a noble, maybe don’t play as a tiefling, who everybody is already suspicious of
I know what you mean, in one of my games, a friend played an teifling thief but she was polymorhed as a human so she didn't stain her people's reputation further, it was a surprise to everyone but me (a lizardfolk hunter) and the DM, when the truth was revealed in the middle of the story, some characters were upset about her been a teifling but others understood why she hide the truth and still saw her as their friend, and the ones that doubted her soon came around, how did my lizardfolk know she was a teifling before everyone else, to quote my character "She smell like blacksmith fire all the time." And when asked why he never said anything he answered "Was not my place to say, it matters not what she is, she is friend, friends respect other friends privately, yes."
In my world, the following holds true of the races I allow:
Humans are generally considered petty and competitive, squabbling and fighting for power. Elves think humans are beneath them, dwarves believe humans are inefficient and unreliable.
Elves are considered haughty and frankly arrogant by most. In truth, this only applies to high elves, who make up the inbred aristocracy of elven society. The common folk, some high elves and some wood elves, just do their best to get by in a rustic setting. In my campaign, the collapse of an elven palace (which had one too many secrets in its basement) led to the fall of the aristocracy. The dark elf society is something else entirely, and are generally feared, for good reason.
Dwarves are practical warrior, but are known to be greedy and often times become sorcerers. Elves find them crude, humans find them obsessive, but they get the job done.
Halflings are peaceful farmers and herders who blend in with humans. They are friendly and humble, traits only high elves dislike.
Gnomes inhabit peaceful communities throughout the lands. Rock gnomes tend to live near dwarves and humans, and forest gnomes live near elves and firbolgs, but they maintain a small and mystical presence in my world.
Troglodytes are a playable, sewer-dwelling race that cleans up after humans. They are the source of many urban legends, but few humans understand the active role they play within the city. A troglodyte is generally met with a combination of disgust and horror from most humans.
Firbolgs dwell in small keeps in the woods. They are often called tree or wood giants and are the source of mysterious folklore, but few races ever interact with the reclusive creatures, who more resemble the firbolgs of editions past.
Orcs and hobgoblins are treated the way you'd expect. Goblins tend to escape notice but aren't well-liked. Bugbears have terrible legends associated with them, though a few wise firbolgs and wood elves recall legends of helpful bugbear druids. Norkers are playable races in my campaign. They're thought of only as goblinoid thugs by the dwarves, but most people would look at a norker and ask what the heck they were looking at.
I don't like to have elves, dwarves, and gnomes treated normally in my world because it removes the mystery around them.
Well good thing I am a half giant and half dwarf so people just think in Just a 9 foot dwarf
@OrangeManBad good question my father was a duragar and my mother was a fire giant
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Personally, wish that there was a book with *all* of the races - especially the ones that only exist in PDF supplements and not physical books. Also, some playable Undead races, like skeletons and such, would be fun.
I'm playing a Half-Elf in a new game, the first NPC ( a Human) & the second NPC ( an Elf) both called him a Mutt in conversation.
Definitely going to annoy the Half-Elf that just joined my campaign by having many NPCs assume he's just an elf.
I love playing as a oversized tortle, barely fitting through inn's doors and knocking people over by mistake due to its size, being not comfortable with my pressence until they realised all i eat is lettuce and i speak in a slow and calm voice like "hi.... my name is... YOG.... Nice to... meet you"
XD
I recently DM'd a 6-month campaign set in Theros, and all of my party members (wanting to enjoy the setting) chose non-human races. The source book all but says that some parts of Theros are accepting, some are tolerant, and some might be downright hostile to non-humans. The minotaur barbarian certainly got a lot of looks, especially outside Meletis--and when they entered Akros' territory, those looks became much more hostile. I didn't focus on it too much, but it came up enough that the players *thought* about their place in this world, and not simply about their stat blocks.
I love that you mentioned Tabaxi and Tortle together. I'm about to start a game where I'm a Tortle Rogue and someone else is a Tabaxi Monk.
Loved this . I appreciated that warning but that’s not at all where I thought you’d go with it. Great video as always
This makes me want you as my dm so much more
I treat race as more of a "society" and what this society respects.
Elves respect grace and elegance.
Dwarves respect hard work and dedication.
Orcs respect honor
Humans are just complex and varied.
Hobbits respect a good laid back attitude.
Gnomes respect a good joke/intelligence depending on the subrace.
Dragonborn respect honor and hard work.
So thus, dwarves and elves have opposing respect and don't get along, but dragonborn get along with orcs and dwarves because they have so much in common. Elves and hobbits are chill with each other, and etc.
But you can totally be an elf raised in a dwarvish society with dwarvish views on the respect of dedication. Compare it to countries IRL past/present, we have differing views on what's important and respectable, thus either get along or totally don't.
In our curse of strahd campaign the tabaxi has to stay In disguise as the town folk take him for a werewolf some similar creature.
As a kenku I got a lot of weird looks in Barovia but as I didn't appear threatening eventually people just shrugged it off. Maybe I'm some sort of were-creature as far as they knew, but what was I going to do, play my lute at them to death? At some point they figure if you were a threat you would have done something threatening by now. So I got a lot of weird stares, but not outright hostility.
@@troodon1096 I imagine the wereravens were especially confused.
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My favorite character: Purple Tiefling named Ken’rik Slant, a cleric of Selune, unbeknownst to his allies, a wererat. A very nervous kid, started at 16 in the campaign, and was sent by his church to participate in questing and adventure, as all clerics of Selune are encouraged to do. He slowly grew out and was never charismatic, nor intelligent, but he had a wisdom of 24 (Started with 18 and got those books that increase wisdom and got ability score increases) and by the end he and his friend, a forge cleric who worshipped Moradin, became avatars of our gods after the rest of the party was knocked (Purposely hard encounter and the DM wanted to reward us since we came up with ideas on how to defeat encounters and actually role played) and enddd up becoming level 40, 20 levels cleric, 20 levels fighter, and beat Vecna and some other demon lords, while their Gods defended Mount Celestia, while the forge cleric became Forgemaster, and Ken’rik became the Master of the Moon
This video solidified the reasoning for my tiefling EKs love of cloaks
She hangs out with a lot of elves so that’s probably why she doesn’t get much shit. That and she almost singlehandedly assisted in the economy of the town nearby her mansion (via Throne) by just making more jewelry, pottery, and hand woven tapestries.
I can hardly wait to write about her daughter’s adventures. The legacy her parents leave behind will drastically change the opinions of the town and the nearby port for when new players go there. (I have campaign ideas.)
On my first time DMing I let one of my players play as a possessed set of armour using homebrewed rules based on warforged. I made sure to tell him several times that his character would not be normal and would be feared if not outright attacked for what he was. Despite this he was still surprised that the NPCs they were with freaked the fuck out when he removed his cloth disguise that covered the holes in his armour that obviously revealed his nature. What I found more confusing was that he did this at least 3 times in the about 5-6 sessions we did and was surprised every time that it happened.
That’s why I love being a changeling
Great video with some good insights. I'd love to see this kind of video done for races in a specific setting like Eberron (same for classes and how they feel in a particular setting).
I like this and is something I do when I DM, one of my comming campaigns may have a Tiefling and as I had never had any encounter with a Tiefling (neither as a player of DM) before that point i had to google some info, I found this whole people see them as having a connection with the devil etc.
So ofc I warned her about if she choose that race it may have downsides.
i wanted to play an outcast type character so i played a hobgoblin Necromancer and i mean i raised zombies and shit carried them around in a bag of holding. and my dm is just like yearp cool okay
I play a Tabaxi swashbuckler that likes to be on walls or the ceiling. But when i play a caster like a bard or sorcerer. The bard is more for diplomacy and role playing but i still like to play the bard to have fun. While my sorcerer is more for the wild magic to make the game exciting.
Imagine what will happened if you create your PC as 1/5 human, 1/5 elf, 1/5 dwarves, 1/5 tiefling and 1/5 dragonborne
Every DM in the World:....... *WHY DOES THIS EXIST!!!*
Honestly it's worse if you try to play a mind flayer I tried and every do just basically said *nooooooooooooooooope*
How would you even get a person of 5 different species?
Yeah I’m not gonna allow that kind of shenanigans.
Tieflings always breed true, so that would just come out to a weird-looking tiefling.
I know that Dragonborn and Tieflings are fertile despite being hybrids, but that's because of magic in their origins. Any hybrid between humans, elves, dwarves, gnomes, halflings, etc. would have no biological sex, and therefore no further mixing of species could occur.
That just reminds me of when we started the campaign I'm currently in. Five players, had this idea to roll up monstrous/traditionally "evil" races (we have a drow sorceress, a bugbear fighter, a kobold monk, and me, the half-orc cleric), and the DM said that this was going to change how our party was viewed considerably. We decided to embrace it, and then our rogue's player rolled up a goddamned wood elf. The whole party is now known as "that brood of monsters and also the elf."
Me: I want to play a tiefling!
My party: Cool!
My DM in the first session: Excellent--you can't go anywhere or do anything because even with your 17 charisma, everyone hates you and will scream if you try to talk to them.
I kind of wish she'd told me this before...
And if the DM said "no"?
If i ever get the chance to play dnd *which is probably never* i will absolutely play as a lawful good tiefling paladin/cleric. The rp potential just seems so juicy to me.
I find that many fantasy settings and DMs ignore the obvious frictions and economic disparities that arise from things as simple as that the species have such different lifespans. Think of the compound interest an elf could build up!
Or that if elves form a monarchy, their term of being the ruler would last centuries. A neighbouring human kingdom could go through a dozen rulers over the course of one elven reign. That's going to affect international politics when your family has been dealing with the same guy for generations.
I play as a female orc fighter, and I've been begging my girlfriend (who decided to try her hand at DM'ing for a change) to be harsher to my character.
When I DM, I stay as realistic as possible (well... as realistic as a fantasy game allows).
I made a bank run by kobolds under the supervision of a gold dragon.
The village they're in is constantly under threat of an orc chieftain.
The party has a kobold paladin who, in the city he came from, is loved as their top treasurer, but anywhere else, he's chased out of town.
I feel like the core races don't have to be omitted from this either. While they can work together during a crisis, most of the lore says Humans, Elves, and Dwarves especially aren't specifically trusting of eachother.
When we research on places we want to go I always ask about races but my dm always just says doesn't matter
Racism can give a nice realistic flavor to the world, I personally tend to avoid it cause, I used to being in a place with lots of sexism, and even though is not the same I can relate to being talked down for who you are.
I don't really want to live with these kinds of problems in my escape from reality hobbys, so when I DM my worlds are racism free, even though thats unrealistic.
I can understand that. I felt a little weird uploading this video, but it's been a cool feature in my own campaigns, so I was interested in sharing it with the warning that it might upset some people if you just go plugging it into your own games willy nilly.
@@DavvyChappy I am glad you uploaded this! These kinds of topics have a place in roleplay games, so it is healthy to talk about them.
Just because i don't like it doesnt mean I disregard its value, if people involved in the game are okay with the topics of race I do encourage it to give it a try!
I do something like this in my game as every races has there own history and personality
Half the fun of playing a monstrous race is seeing the reactions of everyone. Sure my half orc has been kicked out of taverns, been glared and outright attacked on sight but that's just part of the adventure. It's fun watching the two cultures clash. No matter where you go, someone will take notice of you.
I once was part of a party involving myself and one other aasimar and three teiflings. The DM was not subtle about differences and it was much less black and white than portrayed in the video. The teiflings saw how the very obvious aasimars were treated in comparison to them. The person who gave them the quest even tried to turn down the teiflings and just accept the aasimars help and tried bribing them with extra gold to do the quest as a duo. To top it off the teiflings saws the aasimar refuse to leave them behind for extra gold because they knew it would make the world a darker place to treat others so rudely. Instead of the teiflings seeing assiamr and just being "grrr good people I'm evil fuck you" they sorta looked up to the aasimar and wanted to prove themselves worthy of that sort of treatment as well. There was even a really touching scene between my aasimar and one of the teiflings talking about living our genuine self and not the self defined by expectations and it worked because the expectations were so different between the two. It hit hard for both characters and was just an all around interesting dynamic of the aasimar trying t humble themselves while the teiflings observe and mimic them awkwardly.
Im loving that, hope it works out in the end.
I'm playing a goliath who is the muscle and bodyguard for a halfling drug dealer.
I would love to see this broken down by race. I have a player about to join us as a Kenku. From what I can tell based on rules as written locals should just assume they will pick their pocket.
that trigger warning was unneeded people who get upset over fantasy racism have too much politics in their mind to enjoy anything
6:47 HOW CAN YOU HATE THESE ADORABLE LITTLE THINGS?
..... did I miss when you even mentioned drow? .....?
I know cheap shot but well worth mentioning
Dont play drow. There you go haha
I really wish d&d had something like Earth Dawn Blood Elves.
I'm pretty sure Drow fall pretty squarely in the Monstrous Races category even if they're technically a PHB race. So everything he said about Orcs and Goblinoid also applies to a Drow.
@@MrRourk i mean, create one. Make your own homebrew campaign setting and it can have everything you want, nothing you don't. Ya know?
Generally unless they've spent years developing a known good reputation, most races would either attack them or run away from them on sight.
Oh? A gnome neat! Yes they are indeed neat.
Watching this makes me want to play in one of your campaigns.
Davvy are you going to do a video on 'Guildmasters Guide To Ravnica', as a MTG player this was the kick I needed to get into DnD and your bite-sized vids make the game easier to learn and digest. Great work and good fortune.
I can only wonder what people in Faerun thought when all these completely unknown races started showing up.
I had an idea for a Yuan-Ti Pureblood who's a Bard from the College of Satire.
Basically, she's a famous celebrity who portrays herself as a social diva with extremely high standards regarding how she is to be treated by society.
Gasp! Where's the minotaur and centaur!
Yeah monstrous races can be tough, so imo when a player of mine picks one I usually change from evil to another kingdom in the land. Maybe they're even more distrusted but that way the player can still interact in the society without it immediately trying to kill them.
I suppose, if we consider the original myths, that minotaurs are feared and arent even considered a sentient race, and centaurs are generally feared but less so than orcs, if someone doesn't know what a centaur is they might treat them as any other race.
BECMI had a great way of playing Monsters.
Sphinx had a 1,000,000 negative experience pts. Then you became a lvl 1 Sphinx from the monster manual.
My players get a list of three or four, 6 at the most races they can play. The rest are monsters, and I control them.
You should make a video from different perspectives, not only from human's. A human fighter in orc's village will look as odd as an orc in human's, but what about a tiefling or drow in orc's, etc?
I play an ancients lizardfolk paladin. NPCs treat me mostly normal but once my party got a merchant arrested for hate crimes. He didn't want to help the party to the other town with his carriage and our half orc monk who's not the brightest just knocked him out in the middle of the Tavern. The authorities were summoned but because I knew one of the guards I managed to convince them that he was blackout drunk and spurred racial slurs all over the place. He got arrested. I pissed in his cup earlier so there was the added effect of the urine smell around his table. The terrified and somewhat racist barmaid tried to deny us service but I said I'd call my guard friends again and we got a barrel of ale on the house.
My homebrew setting is meant to be comedic, so the way commoners deal with different races is gonna depend entirely upon whatever I think is funniest. Like the village that isn't afraid of all the undead inhabiting the old tombs outside town and treat it more like an old folks home. Or how the southern plains are having a huge problem with the goblins because the little buggers keep attacking farms and attacking trading caravans to free the slaves the region depends on for cheap farm labor.
But I like the way you go about it too. I try to get a little of that when I can but honestly I just can't be bothered. Also I would never allow my party to have so many races in it, there's too damn many I refuse to account for each and every one of them. 5-6 playable races tops and that's me being generous, if I had my druthers I'd make everyone play human.
This is generally the first thing I consider when making a character. How will that character appear to the world at large and how will they interact with the populous, NOT JUST CRUCIAL NPC’s? My most recent character is a Way of Mercy High Elf Monk that presents himself as a traveling Doctor and uses that to get in the good graces of the townships he visits, for example. It’s just good role playing to consider and be aware of what ways your race and class can affect the looks you get and adapt to them.
this was a great video, I'm going to be running dragon heist soon, and wasn't sure how to run such a social campiagn.
I enjoy running Ravenloft games specifically because so many "normal" races suddenly become exotic. I was going to run CoS and one of my players wanted to play a Dragonborn and another to play a Gnome. It warmed the cockles of my twisted DM heart...
Thank you for the disclaimer. Great video!
this was an amazing video, my hats off Mr.Chappy
Played a dwarf paladin whop carried a giant book and his definition of justice was righting the grudges he would write down on the book. The grudges went from racist things like kill goblin/orcs to ancient like recover lost dwarf heirloom to super petty things like x insulted god/me/party or y merchant charged me/party more. Most grudges where either payed in blood but occasionally he would take gold in reparation he once took a drow kid as payment which he tried raise as a fellow paladin
Warhammer Fantasy much :p
@@maksn184 It was inspired by it but it dint go full Slayer and while racist for a human the paladin was quite liberal (for a dwarf)
@@frking100 not every dwarf in Warhammer Fantasy who is setteling grudges is a slayer, Slayers are The dwarfs who lost thier honour, while almost every normal dwarf especialy the longbeards use and respect the book of grudges
so awhile back I was playing as a tiefling and I had alot of fun with it because all the NPCs kept calling him a demon and trying to put him down and he would flip it by saying: FOR FUCK SAKE I AM NOT HALF DEMON! I AM HALF DEVIL! LOOK AT MY HORNS FOR GODS SAKE YOU SILLY RACIEST, also its not super smart to try pull that card on me because I can actually burn down your whole town in about 30 seconds (he was a level 10 sorcerer and I counted it out, about 30 seconds is all it would take for him to fireball most of the town and then use other fire spells he had on the rest XD) and then the towns people back down super hard and he bough everyone beer
My group is currently in our GM's custom setting, an ancient Greek styled world where the Humans are currently undergoing their Alexander the Great stage and carving out a great empire, uniting Human kingdoms and launching campaigns against the Beastmen and the Gith (Setting has a combined faction of Githyanki and Githezerai who ripped their way into the plane and settled it during the early period of the worlds history and established themselves as a dominant power). Our party is made up of a Firbolg War Cleric (Firbolgs are a type of beastmen in our setting, rather than giant), a Human Hexblade Warlock and my Half Drow Aberrant Mind Sorcerer (Was Shadow but switched over when the new UA subclass dropped because both me and the DM agreed that it fit the character far better). We're making our way through the hinterlands of the Human Empire and we've had a couple experiances with the Firbolg getting funny looks or having people being rude to them since he's this big lumbering beastman in a setting where most humans see beastmen as raiders. nothing too serious as of yet just a few snide remarks but we can tell that eventually someone in one of these small farming villages is going to try and make an issue out of it, the real fun thing is as a half drow no one has even noticed yet, I discussed with the DM and decided that my skin colour was fairly humanlike and from a distance I appear as just a regular half elf, but on closer inspection has several obvious secondary visual traits of a Drow, pure white hair, eyes are just pure black orbs and sharp pointed teeth, so one of these days a farmer is going to pick a fight with a cow person and then realise they're accompanied by a Witch from the Downbelow. (In this world Arcane Magic has fallen out of favour and regarded as occult witchcraft while Psionics is the current accepted form Magic) So that's going to be fun.
Solid video. I solve this problem at my table by not allowing anyone to play one of those really annoying races-which is to say “most of them,” but especially aarakocra, aasimar, firbolgs, genasi, kenku, tabaxi, or tielfings-as player characters. That exclusion list is alphabetical to avoid any favoritism, yet, strangely, it’s pretty close to being from most to least offensive to me... Oh yeah, and probably not a harengon either. Why does WotC keep doing this to me?! I need to see if they have published another book since I started typing this comment...