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He's unironically right when he says the sociopaths would destroy these platforms. Of course he doesn't realize he's the sociopath trying to destroy the hobby.
I can't believe he thinks they are they are the traditional players... I am sorry they just aren't. I mean nerd stuff used to be outcast. Look at all the nerd movies before 2000. The jocks are all coded right-wing... you know to reflect reality. Science in general is still coded very heavily left-wing... like more left than dems, again because of reality. The weird MAGA influx has only been a thing since about 2015 when you could be a nerd and popular in High School.
I don't think these people actually play the games. From my limited experience with Magic, which I played as a kid, and then as an adolescent, the community has always been fairly woke, but Jeremy from The Quartering talks as though that's a recent phenomenon. I know the overton window has shifted a bunch, but these are nerds, not football jocks. I dropped Magic because it has rotation btw. That shit's cringe.
When I play RPGs, tabletop or otherwise, I never pick human if I can help it, and usually pick like a rogue or assassin, sometimes a mage. I think playing human characters is boring. I don't have to rp being a human, because I'm human every other day of the week. Not knocking fighters, because they have their place in these games, but, to me, they're just not fun.
@@Kawamura2 What I don’t get is only wanting to play a human fighter. There are so many cool races and classes with different mechanics and advantages why choose the most barebones option every single campaign? But it also doesn’t surprise me that this man specifically wants an entire party of straight white male human fighters, he’s fundamentally uncurious and doesn’t want anyone or anything different than him.
In my experience funnily enough those types of DMs also love to restrict fantasy races for players to choose to absurd degree. You want to play as a drow or tiefling or dragonborn of half-elf? Go fuсk yourself, no fun allowed on my campaign!
He brought up the acid attacks because he's one of those types who believes anyone who thinks brown skinned people living in the west deserve to be treated like people must also be in support of oppressive and abusive religions and theocracies.
@@Youcancallmeishmaell - How? Things change. The people who create the games change, so do the people buying them. The default of D&D - in my lifetime - has gone from survival horror and wilderness exploration to something more story-based with an emphasis on characterisation, and that didn't start with Le Woke TM in 2019, it started with Weis and Hickman doing Dragonlance in 1st edition AD&D in what, '87? Just like the 8 track, things have moved on. (Unlike the 8 track, you can still buy all the materials you need to run hexcrawls and wilderness exploration from DriveThruRPG) Anyway, I don't see any Pinkerton agents bashing down doors and demanding I include "combat wheelchairs" in my fortnightly game of 2nd edition, so why the fuck should I care if young people want to play the game a different way to me?
I don't get how people like this think that "wokeness" is killing role-playing when BG3 lets you mix and match anything you want while simultaneously having every character be their own flavor of the ultimate bi nightmare, and it's pretty unanimously considered to be the best game of the decade
It’s because it’s a popular game that’s made a ton of money. And they know it will be a losing battle trying to complain about the “wokeness” in that game.
@@PlusUltraAdrian exactly. This is why the definition of woke is intentionally vague. Makes it harder to call out hypocrisy. It's about racking up "wins" not and coherent philosophy. That's why the Mario movie magically became "anti-woke" when it was very successful even though Peach was a girl boss instead of a damsel which they would normally gripe about. Hell, some even tried to claim the Barbie movie as anti woke once it became clear it was a success. They want to feel like the victor and the victim at all times.
Oh there is a small but vocal group of people that dispise that game, look at the stellar blade discourse. "Oh so sexy women aren't OK but you can have bestiality on your game? This is the rise of degeneracy..." Blah blah blah. It does make them look like a fucking joke though so that's nice.
Brother we’re four years into the 2020s, we might be jumping the gun by calling it the best game of the decade. That’s like declaring someone the best artist of the year, two weeks into March.
My bet's on them getting more than a bit too into the lore-justified bigotries inherent in D&D and taking that as a greenlight to just make a full on ultra-racist against orcs or something.
He probably got kicked out of a few comic store tables for harassing other players that didn’t choose to be straight white male human fighters. Apparently that’s the only the only acceptable race and class to play
There's room there for a decent comedy sketch about a lefty who somehow inherited a character sheet from his alt-right uncle and isn't cool with the way his character is acting either
100 percent, it's a him issue. I shop/play at like 3 different game shops and they're all bigger, cleaner, brighter, better lit, and FULLER than any game shop I shopped at 20 years ago. when you're complaining about people making your hobby look good and attracting new people to it, you don't want a hobby for its own sake, you want a space to be bitter in and not get told off about your unwashed ass.
@@QuartzIsAnOxide Main reason I've ever found to play humans are just a few race-specific feats that make them a bit more conducive to a given class, but even then I usually don't bother unless I'm min-maxing for something in particular. Who plays D&D to unironically be the same thing they are IRL?
He's not got just the option for a "straight human fighter", but like 5-7 different flavors of it with how long fantasy has been stale on some of the same human-like tropes for so agonizingly long. You can play as the short grizzly miner humans with different stats called dwarves, the arrogant but graceful elf who are hippie humans with pointy ears, the other short humans we just loosely named halflings, or oh get this one... we took another short human and called them gnomes with different stats. Its totally a different kinda fae not-human basis, I swear. Wait, we're missing something here... oh right, dark elves! Oh right, we need something a bit more like monsters. But what if they were sapient, had more savage teeth, and.... ouch, I almost had an original thought, but don't worry guys we'll just make green buff barbarians and call it a day with orcs. You can try forcefully calling it "furry", but last I check going the extra mile to come up with something badass and interesting like living gargoyle's, or a cool lore and story for a character that had a different upbringing starting from an egg, is all pretty different from googly eyed con costumes. ... and if you do just want straight up fox people, or Captain Klaw of the tiger pirates, fine I'm still more interested and hooked on your story already than generic elf dude acting like a one-dimensional prude or somehow just being born magically gifted with archery
I googled that Thirsty Sword Lesbians game, saw the cover and realised I wasn't the target demographic. So I harnessed the power of being a normal fucking person and moved on with my life. Imagine if this dude did that instead of whining nobody will cater to the poor straight white man. (Even though plenty of media still does)
Why do these anti-woke weirdos always get mad at mere accessibility OPTIONS (keyword there) like fans n devs aren't forcing u to use these things, they just want to give players more OPTIONS in a game already chocfull of em
"Who runs games where you can't die?" It's actually something that's growing in popularity, though this is a very simplistic way to look at it. The idea is that there are so many ways losing a fight could lead to negative consequences that *depending on the style of game* death doesn't have to be one of them. A lot of newer games are allowing more player choice over if their characters actually die when a fight is lost, or if something else happens. Sometimes it's because it fits the style of game better, but also sometimes it's just because this is a fun game about telling stories and sometimes you're not ready for your character's story to end yet, and that's okay. In Fabula Ultima, just as an example, if you're defeated in combat you decide if your character dies or if you instead suffer some other significant loss (a favorite item, the loss of a companion, or something like that). This works specifically because Fabula Ultima is trying to evoke traditional console RPGs, and the main characters of those games don't generally die unless it's a big part of the storyline... so instead of death, other consequences are used for failure.
In our games, you really have to screw up and make bad decisions to die, and usually that's after you've been asked several times, "Do you really want to do this?"
Fantasy Flight Games' Star Wars RPGs have death be the result of rolling a 150+ on a d100 critical injury table, or literally falling through a planet's atmosphere or into a star at the GM's discretion. Unless you're making extremely bad decisions like throwing yourself into combat while heavily wounded or fighting phenomenally lethal critmonsters (which the GM probably shouldn't be throwing at you) the chances of actually dying are quite low. Even Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay seems lethal but looks a lot more dangerous than it is: you can sacrifice body armour to stop hits that'd inflict crippling injuries, or burn Fate points (basically a pool of reroll points) to survive something that'd fell someone who isn't one of the protagonists of this particular story. "Easy to get taken out, hard to die" is a game dynamic I definitely vibe with.
@@Youcancallmeishmaell The Blade Runner RPG is, to my mind, the most lethal RPG I have ever ran. I only ran a single combat scene in it and a PC caught a rifle round in the head and died instantly, meanwhile I ran a whole campaign of the same publisher's Alien RPG with only a lost ear, a drink problem and an android needing his head reattached by the end among the party members. You want do or die, you can't get harder than that. But then, that's a setting where combat is discouraged and firearms being drawn is seriously ramping up the danger.
Say you haven't played a tomb raider game without saying you haven't played a tomb raider game. Lara has always gone looking for artifacts for academic reasons, usually to prove her father's was right in his archaeological and historical theories, except for the originals which her motivations and character were extremely underdeveloped..
Also being so bad at the sneaking around aspect of her job that she paradoxically had to become more dangerous than an entire squad of Rambos just to compensate for her clockwork failure of stealth rolls.
I hate it when dudes wear sunglasses inside all the time. Why are you trying to hide your eyes bro? Are they bloodshot or what? I know the reason why you're probably wearing a hat all the time.
Nothing is more pathetic than old/er people who cannot cope with the present. Things are changing, because society develops. Deal with it or live in the basement in the past, this whining is embarrassing.
Jake, I just want to say, that shaving your head like this guy did is not part of why I dislike him. So lets just say if someone who liked corn and was a great streamer had to say, shave their head soon or within the next few years etc, I hope they know its not a bad look and Bruce Willis made it cool!
Anyone wanna launch a Dungeons & Diversity tabletop game where all the elves and dwarves are obscure ethnic minorities? **accidentally goes on to build the largest entertainment franchise in history and win the admiration of overlooked peoples all over the world**
"Lara croft fighting colonialism is bad" Don't know to break it to him, but lara did that in the last 2 entries of the survivor trilogy. I don't want to baselessly accuse him, but I think he might be a fake fan of tomb raider.
I think he's constantly wearing the sunglasses not because he's particularly shy, but it makes it easier to just be a public corkboard for every nonsense boomer propaganda helicopter joke. There's no room for an actual personality when he's aiming for peak patheticness. Dude's an American whining about anti-colonial rhetoric in a video game. Americans are supposed to be anti-colonial, that was the whole point OF AMERICA. Dude is actually British sympathizer Dennis in that one episode of It's Always Sunny.
@@ExtremeMadnessX I think they're referring to the initial conceit and stated ideals of the nation, not what we actually ended up doing as raging hypocrites.
I'm sure the "jushay" propaganda is a real and serious issue from a dude who in no way wants to capitalise on outrage without knowing what the heck that word even means.
Wait till this guy knows that DnD and Forgotten Realms poster child for the last 30+years isn't human fighter... But a ranger dark elf guy who was outcasted for not fitting into his society. And who also deals with rаcism and xеnophobia despite being a hero.
variety and accessibility makes shit fun. fuckin hate boring campaigns where everyone and everything is the same. i want the motivations to be shit i care about.
What a weirdo though I would like to correct that OG Lara Croft was 100% about the profit. She was the opposite of Indie. She sold artifacts for profit and murdered her way to get them.
XD, frankly the least believable thing about Tomb Raider games is the game's ongoing conceit that Lara is some kinda "thief-type" of protag. Jason Voorhees on meth isn't a much of a walking natural disaster as Lara Croft is, her KD:R is on par with the Black Plague. Worst thief ever, but someone get her on the Avengers.
The guy in this video (Jake, I assume) looks almost as old as the guy he’s making fun of. A guy in his forties making fun of a guy in his fifties. In ten years, he’s going to be that guy.
Yes, Jake, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, FATE, PBTA, and Tomb Raider: Shadows of Truth are all mobile games. They're all mind-numbing, interchangeable, idle clicker slop that you can safely play without any fear of feeling something or having to think. Dungeons and Dragons is the one only game that requires your full attention, as it's the only game that the players at the table can modify in real time.
The hair thing always reminds me of the time a guy told a woman derisively that he didn't find her hair color attractive and she replied _"Good, that means it's working"_
I don't even understand why men feel the need to go out and tell someone's they're not attractive to them??? Like?? Okay?? What is that supposed to achieve for you??
I'm in my 40s. I've been playing D&D since the 90s. This guy expects me to be on his side. My games ALWAYS had diversity. I'm also a furry, they always had furries. Right now my active characters are a half-hound-archon bard who adventures to support his wife and kids, and a half-arcanaloth sorceror who wants to study ancient tomes to figure out how to build the perfect city.
As a musician, I appreciate the attention to detail and realism of your bard character having to also have another job because he's probably not getting paid on time, if at all.
as someone who's been playing in a game of Girl by Moonlight, one of Evil Hat's newer games, their ttrpgs are a lot of fun at the right table. And these guys are so busy gatekeeping they don't realize they're stuck outside when they could just come in and party with us
So as I understand, fuckin’ Dracula Flow in a hat over here is mad that people are playing a game where you can pretty much play any kind of character you want and doing just that? (IE: making any kind of character they want)
yeah, the definition of the word 'fascist' definitely contains the words 'bill' and 'clinton' we are dealing with an intellectual colossus here, fellas.
DnD players would rather make an entire youtube channel based around shitting on DnD, it's players, it's creators, Matt Mercer and defend Israel than try a different system.
I love how this guy’s moaning about how different games are now, yet he’s not giving us an idea of what games supposedly were like back then. Probably because he doesn’t have a good defense on what they were like.
does he think the Pre-made cover art characters are the only type of characters you can play in a ROLEPLAYING GAME? buddy you can make a character ( note im talking about angry cop man not papa jake whose looking very thicc today
I just woke up the day after watching Furiosa, a movie in a series of some of the greatest and most long-beloved action movies of all time, and which is a series of PURE IDEOLOGY. Entertainment and ideology are not at odds. Has this fella ever played a D&D game where the characters assassinate an evil king to restore peace to the land? How is that not politics?
I run a table that's incredibly salty (language wise), un-woke, unafraid of really edgy jokes in small doses, and we'd kick Diversity and Dragons insufferable ass out in an hour tops. I'm one of those OG geeks and I'm still here.
Did this guy really quote Paula Cole? Man, I was like 8 when that song came out. I had actually never seen a woman on TV with unshaved armpits. I didn't realize women grew hair on their pits before Paula Cole. Doesn't seem to mesh with the rest of what hes saying does it?
"Gatekeep your hobbies." And watch them atrophy and die as you and other hobbyists "age out" of those hobbies. Never growing a healthy community or keeping newbies that may have an interest. These grumpy dudes are so self defeating, no wonder they're always mad.
I mean look at what happened with G.I joe. Like does anybody even CARE about G.I joe anymore? This is probably not a good example, but that's what immediately came to mind when you mentioned decaying hobbies.
My man literally thinks it's more likely that the TTRPG community is dominated by hyper evil mentally ill super villains rather than come to grips with the fact he's just weird.
Ive been playing D&D for 35 yests. I started with a red cardboard box as a thief with 1d4 hp. And you know what i like where my hobby is going Im not a huge fan of wizards these days but thats the business bs they pulled a year ago that ticked everyone off not this whiny douche bro "your having fun wrong" bs.
I have played D&D since the late 70s and have never played a Human. I played elves, dwarves, hobbits, and others, but never a human. They were just too boring to me.
The tragedy of this situation is that Diversity and Dragons has been running a 2nd edition Birthright campaign *continuously* since it's release in about '98 or so. He has tried to gush enthusiastically about it in it's own videos, but being one of the most obscure settings in D&D history barely anyone watched it. Instead, he leaned into reactionary culture war bullshit because it attracts clicks and views from assholes that unironically watch theQuartering. That became a loop, farming outrage and angertainment for viewership. To be clear, this man DOES NOT play 5th edition, HAS NEVER played 5th edition, and as a result has no idea what he's talking about when he rages against "combat wheelchairs" or "players wanting to be furries" - he just knows there's an audience of morons who lap it up and clap like circus seals. 🦭
He's unironically right when he says the sociopaths would destroy these platforms. Of course he doesn't realize he's the sociopath trying to destroy the hobby.
I can't believe he thinks they are they are the traditional players... I am sorry they just aren't. I mean nerd stuff used to be outcast. Look at all the nerd movies before 2000. The jocks are all coded right-wing... you know to reflect reality. Science in general is still coded very heavily left-wing... like more left than dems, again because of reality.
The weird MAGA influx has only been a thing since about 2015 when you could be a nerd and popular in High School.
"the gaming space has been infested with sociopathic narcissists"
yeah, he should look in a mirror
"how do I make accusations without them being confessions?? Ahh fuck it"
He could just see himself in his reflective sunglasses if he were brave enough to risk being seen without them on.
I love when people play games like dungeons and dragons and are scared of diversity like you just exclusively play human fighters
To these guys, darker-skinned humans and LGBT+ are scarier than orcs or dragon-people.
I don't think these people actually play the games. From my limited experience with Magic, which I played as a kid, and then as an adolescent, the community has always been fairly woke, but Jeremy from The Quartering talks as though that's a recent phenomenon. I know the overton window has shifted a bunch, but these are nerds, not football jocks.
I dropped Magic because it has rotation btw. That shit's cringe.
When I play RPGs, tabletop or otherwise, I never pick human if I can help it, and usually pick like a rogue or assassin, sometimes a mage. I think playing human characters is boring. I don't have to rp being a human, because I'm human every other day of the week. Not knocking fighters, because they have their place in these games, but, to me, they're just not fun.
@@Kawamura2 What I don’t get is only wanting to play a human fighter. There are so many cool races and classes with different mechanics and advantages why choose the most barebones option every single campaign? But it also doesn’t surprise me that this man specifically wants an entire party of straight white male human fighters, he’s fundamentally uncurious and doesn’t want anyone or anything different than him.
In my experience funnily enough those types of DMs also love to restrict fantasy races for players to choose to absurd degree. You want to play as a drow or tiefling or dragonborn of half-elf? Go fuсk yourself, no fun allowed on my campaign!
This guy also has the energy that comes with a guy who lost a job for sexual harassment and it got real aggro in the meeting where he was shitcanned.
I would say he's also rocking some serious Divorced Dad energy. I dunno if he's married or not, but if he is, D-Day is surely coming.
@@0Fyrebrand0 💯
He looks like he’s cosplaying a cop. He’s the kind of nerd from the 80s that none of the rest of us liked. What a joke.
He seems like he yearns for the "good ol' days" when girls and black kids weren't allowed to play D&D.
He brought up the acid attacks because he's one of those types who believes anyone who thinks brown skinned people living in the west deserve to be treated like people must also be in support of oppressive and abusive religions and theocracies.
Ah, the _"Why does The Left™ love Islam so much?"_ bullshitters
Why is he acting like dnd isn’t a creative game where you can do literally whatever you want with your group.
Because D&D has a default and he doesn't see why what likes should change.
@@Youcancallmeishmaell - Strong "why won't they bring back 8 tracks?" energy
@@BillieVoss that is the wrong angle to look at it.
@@Youcancallmeishmaell - How? Things change. The people who create the games change, so do the people buying them. The default of D&D - in my lifetime - has gone from survival horror and wilderness exploration to something more story-based with an emphasis on characterisation, and that didn't start with Le Woke TM in 2019, it started with Weis and Hickman doing Dragonlance in 1st edition AD&D in what, '87? Just like the 8 track, things have moved on.
(Unlike the 8 track, you can still buy all the materials you need to run hexcrawls and wilderness exploration from DriveThruRPG)
Anyway, I don't see any Pinkerton agents bashing down doors and demanding I include "combat wheelchairs" in my fortnightly game of 2nd edition, so why the fuck should I care if young people want to play the game a different way to me?
"People are scared to be lame", no they fucking aren't.
it's literally history's best time to be lame.
I don't get how people like this think that "wokeness" is killing role-playing when BG3 lets you mix and match anything you want while simultaneously having every character be their own flavor of the ultimate bi nightmare, and it's pretty unanimously considered to be the best game of the decade
It’s because it’s a popular game that’s made a ton of money. And they know it will be a losing battle trying to complain about the “wokeness” in that game.
@@PlusUltraAdrian exactly. This is why the definition of woke is intentionally vague. Makes it harder to call out hypocrisy. It's about racking up "wins" not and coherent philosophy. That's why the Mario movie magically became "anti-woke" when it was very successful even though Peach was a girl boss instead of a damsel which they would normally gripe about. Hell, some even tried to claim the Barbie movie as anti woke once it became clear it was a success. They want to feel like the victor and the victim at all times.
Oh there is a small but vocal group of people that dispise that game, look at the stellar blade discourse. "Oh so sexy women aren't OK but you can have bestiality on your game? This is the rise of degeneracy..." Blah blah blah. It does make them look like a fucking joke though so that's nice.
Brother we’re four years into the 2020s, we might be jumping the gun by calling it the best game of the decade.
That’s like declaring someone the best artist of the year, two weeks into March.
The way he says "thirsty sword lesbians" with such vitriol is honestly hilarious
Thirsty sword lesbians? Shut up and take my money!
XD, Sounds like a 2000's alt-metal band.
Am I alone in wanting to see a concert by the Thirsty Sword Lesbians?
@@ExtremeMadnessXIt’s unironically a great game too.
That dude basically goes on about nothing with random strawmen. I bet he's at least 50.
I don't know why I enjoy watching angry, depressed men so much.
Complaining that D&D players aren't playing as humans.
Ded
fun fact: data from dnd beyond shows that human is actually the most common lineage choice and fighter is the most common class choice.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this guy was a featured on r/rpghorrorstories post.
I bet his gameroom door has a "No Girls Allowed" sign written in crayons!
I don’t think he know what a sociopath is… he fit the criteria much better than the people he talk about
I wonder if this boils down to "No one plays with me anymore after my character said the N word a few times".
My bet's on them getting more than a bit too into the lore-justified bigotries inherent in D&D and taking that as a greenlight to just make a full on ultra-racist against orcs or something.
"It's what my character would do, why are you mad at me!" 😂
He probably got kicked out of a few comic store tables for harassing other players that didn’t choose to be straight white male human fighters. Apparently that’s the only the only acceptable race and class to play
There's room there for a decent comedy sketch about a lefty who somehow inherited a character sheet from his alt-right uncle and isn't cool with the way his character is acting either
100 percent, it's a him issue. I shop/play at like 3 different game shops and they're all bigger, cleaner, brighter, better lit, and FULLER than any game shop I shopped at 20 years ago. when you're complaining about people making your hobby look good and attracting new people to it, you don't want a hobby for its own sake, you want a space to be bitter in and not get told off about your unwashed ass.
This D&D guy seems like a geekier and quieter Razorfist.
Also this dude switches between "Narcissism and Sociopath" like he just learned those words from PeeWee's Playhouse.
"Where are the straight human fighters these days?"
OK, I'll be a human fighter, but straight is where I draw the line.
Who even plays as humans? I always picked scalies and orcs in my RPGs.
@@QuartzIsAnOxide Or at least something 'Not' Human. I mean, it's a fantasy game...let me play something else than what I live as every day. :)
*raises hand* My favorite class of all time is Archivist, but next to that, I like playing martial nobility.
@@QuartzIsAnOxide Main reason I've ever found to play humans are just a few race-specific feats that make them a bit more conducive to a given class, but even then I usually don't bother unless I'm min-maxing for something in particular.
Who plays D&D to unironically be the same thing they are IRL?
He's not got just the option for a "straight human fighter", but like 5-7 different flavors of it with how long fantasy has been stale on some of the same human-like tropes for so agonizingly long. You can play as the short grizzly miner humans with different stats called dwarves, the arrogant but graceful elf who are hippie humans with pointy ears, the other short humans we just loosely named halflings, or oh get this one... we took another short human and called them gnomes with different stats. Its totally a different kinda fae not-human basis, I swear. Wait, we're missing something here... oh right, dark elves! Oh right, we need something a bit more like monsters. But what if they were sapient, had more savage teeth, and.... ouch, I almost had an original thought, but don't worry guys we'll just make green buff barbarians and call it a day with orcs.
You can try forcefully calling it "furry", but last I check going the extra mile to come up with something badass and interesting like living gargoyle's, or a cool lore and story for a character that had a different upbringing starting from an egg, is all pretty different from googly eyed con costumes. ... and if you do just want straight up fox people, or Captain Klaw of the tiger pirates, fine I'm still more interested and hooked on your story already than generic elf dude acting like a one-dimensional prude or somehow just being born magically gifted with archery
I googled that Thirsty Sword Lesbians game, saw the cover and realised I wasn't the target demographic. So I harnessed the power of being a normal fucking person and moved on with my life. Imagine if this dude did that instead of whining nobody will cater to the poor straight white man. (Even though plenty of media still does)
Why do these anti-woke weirdos always get mad at mere accessibility OPTIONS (keyword there) like fans n devs aren't forcing u to use these things, they just want to give players more OPTIONS in a game already chocfull of em
"Who runs games where you can't die?"
It's actually something that's growing in popularity, though this is a very simplistic way to look at it. The idea is that there are so many ways losing a fight could lead to negative consequences that *depending on the style of game* death doesn't have to be one of them. A lot of newer games are allowing more player choice over if their characters actually die when a fight is lost, or if something else happens. Sometimes it's because it fits the style of game better, but also sometimes it's just because this is a fun game about telling stories and sometimes you're not ready for your character's story to end yet, and that's okay.
In Fabula Ultima, just as an example, if you're defeated in combat you decide if your character dies or if you instead suffer some other significant loss (a favorite item, the loss of a companion, or something like that). This works specifically because Fabula Ultima is trying to evoke traditional console RPGs, and the main characters of those games don't generally die unless it's a big part of the storyline... so instead of death, other consequences are used for failure.
In our games, you really have to screw up and make bad decisions to die, and usually that's after you've been asked several times, "Do you really want to do this?"
Fantasy Flight Games' Star Wars RPGs have death be the result of rolling a 150+ on a d100 critical injury table, or literally falling through a planet's atmosphere or into a star at the GM's discretion. Unless you're making extremely bad decisions like throwing yourself into combat while heavily wounded or fighting phenomenally lethal critmonsters (which the GM probably shouldn't be throwing at you) the chances of actually dying are quite low.
Even Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay seems lethal but looks a lot more dangerous than it is: you can sacrifice body armour to stop hits that'd inflict crippling injuries, or burn Fate points (basically a pool of reroll points) to survive something that'd fell someone who isn't one of the protagonists of this particular story.
"Easy to get taken out, hard to die" is a game dynamic I definitely vibe with.
They want that do or die experience.
@@tommahkunthey don't.
They want that do or die experience.
@@Youcancallmeishmaell The Blade Runner RPG is, to my mind, the most lethal RPG I have ever ran. I only ran a single combat scene in it and a PC caught a rifle round in the head and died instantly, meanwhile I ran a whole campaign of the same publisher's Alien RPG with only a lost ear, a drink problem and an android needing his head reattached by the end among the party members.
You want do or die, you can't get harder than that. But then, that's a setting where combat is discouraged and firearms being drawn is seriously ramping up the danger.
That thicc Lara Croft in the guy's thumbnail is kinda 🥵🥵🥵🔥🔥🔥🥴🥴🥴
From the thumbnail, I thought this was Tommy Tallarico for a moment and was like; 'yeah, he seems like he would become a grifter.'
“His mother is very proud”-Joey
Human fighters are still the most common characters made in dnd. What is this guy smoking?
Imagine calling people "sociopaths" because their taste in entertainment is different than yours. Dude really needs to get a grip.
Lara Croft he always been anti colonialism and she helps locals and minorities
Yes it’s been a lil ham handed at times but it’s always been there
Say you haven't played a tomb raider game without saying you haven't played a tomb raider game. Lara has always gone looking for artifacts for academic reasons, usually to prove her father's was right in his archaeological and historical theories, except for the originals which her motivations and character were extremely underdeveloped..
Also being so bad at the sneaking around aspect of her job that she paradoxically had to become more dangerous than an entire squad of Rambos just to compensate for her clockwork failure of stealth rolls.
I was barely focusing on this guy but Jake and that orange stole any bit of attention that existed.
I hate it when dudes wear sunglasses inside all the time. Why are you trying to hide your eyes bro? Are they bloodshot or what? I know the reason why you're probably wearing a hat all the time.
Tbf... some people wear then while filming because the direct light hurts their eyes.
No idea about him...
They're bloodshot because they've been crying all day about having minorities in games.
My money is he's too uncomfortable to edit the video if he can see his own eyes, but he's trying to play it off as he's a cool dude from like 2002
" live play " - bro who has irl shit that ain't compatible with his online posturing
It's interesting how these people claim the hobby is dying, when TTRPGs are more popular now than they've ever been. _By a lot._
Nothing is more pathetic than old/er people who cannot cope with the present. Things are changing, because society develops. Deal with it or live in the basement in the past, this whining is embarrassing.
He knows he can make his own setting right?
Jake, I just want to say, that shaving your head like this guy did is not part of why I dislike him. So lets just say if someone who liked corn and was a great streamer had to say, shave their head soon or within the next few years etc, I hope they know its not a bad look and Bruce Willis made it cool!
it’s just so odd hearing someone complain about other people’s games. u don’t like them, then don’t play them, u dink.
2:52 I was just thinking about that clip. Glad I could find it online, I don't think I saved it to a 20 year old CDR somewhere.
I think you need to tune into his live play. He seems like he'd be the worst kind of DM
Does anyone remember Razorfist (now rageaholic)? Is this his dad or something?
Anyone wanna launch a Dungeons & Diversity tabletop game where all the elves and dwarves are obscure ethnic minorities?
**accidentally goes on to build the largest entertainment franchise in history and win the admiration of overlooked peoples all over the world**
Dragon Age comes to mind (it also has tabletop game)
"Lara croft fighting colonialism is bad"
Don't know to break it to him, but lara did that in the last 2 entries of the survivor trilogy.
I don't want to baselessly accuse him, but I think he might be a fake fan of tomb raider.
I think he's constantly wearing the sunglasses not because he's particularly shy, but it makes it easier to just be a public corkboard for every nonsense boomer propaganda helicopter joke. There's no room for an actual personality when he's aiming for peak patheticness. Dude's an American whining about anti-colonial rhetoric in a video game. Americans are supposed to be anti-colonial, that was the whole point OF AMERICA.
Dude is actually British sympathizer Dennis in that one episode of It's Always Sunny.
America anti-colonial? Are you sure about that? Native Americans would disagree.
@@ExtremeMadnessX I think they're referring to the initial conceit and stated ideals of the nation, not what we actually ended up doing as raging hypocrites.
Oh my god, imagine being Dollar Store Jeremy Griggs.
D&D 1st edition wasn't a roleplaying game it was a small scale conversion of a war game and it's fucking garbage
It was a role-playing game.
I'm sure the "jushay" propaganda is a real and serious issue from a dude who in no way wants to capitalise on outrage without knowing what the heck that word even means.
Wait till this guy knows that DnD and Forgotten Realms poster child for the last 30+years isn't human fighter... But a ranger dark elf guy who was outcasted for not fitting into his society. And who also deals with rаcism and xеnophobia despite being a hero.
Evil hats amazing love blades in the dark such a unique game.
Did
Did he say like nothing at all
Like not even a point, or a suggesting or like, anything of substance?
laura craft super lesbian coded
variety and accessibility makes shit fun. fuckin hate boring campaigns where everyone and everything is the same. i want the motivations to be shit i care about.
I'm tired of the leftist agenda to *checks notes* have a tail, infesting my tabletop roleplaying games! >:{
Who TF is 'Lair-uh'
Anticolonialist tomb raider story? Cool! I've always wanted to see that in action.🙂
It does NOT belong in a british museum.
Don't you dare talk dirty about Bartolo Colon. He is our god in baseball.
I mean, I agree on one thing with him and it's that Powered by the Apocalypse is being overused and abused for what feels like lazy assetflips.
Ever tried pathfinder?
My man looks like Tom morello but shitty.
RUclips wants me to watch Jakes content
So, he whines about diversity? What about dragons?
Huh, wonder how that "no, you are the racist" would apply to talking about dragons. jk
Soulless comment for the algorithm
Why on earth would you play a role playing fantasy game, and willingly confine yourself to a normal straight male fighter?
What a weirdo though I would like to correct that OG Lara Croft was 100% about the profit. She was the opposite of Indie. She sold artifacts for profit and murdered her way to get them.
XD, frankly the least believable thing about Tomb Raider games is the game's ongoing conceit that Lara is some kinda "thief-type" of protag.
Jason Voorhees on meth isn't a much of a walking natural disaster as Lara Croft is, her KD:R is on par with the Black Plague. Worst thief ever, but someone get her on the Avengers.
...that's why she initially turns down Natla's offer in the very first game she's in and says it's not about the money, right? Damn.
The guy in this video (Jake, I assume) looks almost as old as the guy he’s making fun of. A guy in his forties making fun of a guy in his fifties. In ten years, he’s going to be that guy.
Yes, Jake, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, FATE, PBTA, and Tomb Raider: Shadows of Truth are all mobile games.
They're all mind-numbing, interchangeable, idle clicker slop that you can safely play without any fear of feeling something or having to think. Dungeons and Dragons is the one only game that requires your full attention, as it's the only game that the players at the table can modify in real time.
The hair thing always reminds me of the time a guy told a woman derisively that he didn't find her hair color attractive and she replied _"Good, that means it's working"_
I don't even understand why men feel the need to go out and tell someone's they're not attractive to them??? Like?? Okay?? What is that supposed to achieve for you??
@@deathdragoncat it's because reactionary men place the value of women solely on their "fuckability". It's their way of deeming someone worthless.
Its really funny that they all prove how sensituve they are anytime theres inclusivity in anything
They are actual triggered special snowflakes.
Complaining that everyone else ares “narcissists” while also saying other people playing rpgs of imagination need to play the game the way he want🤦♂️
This went from funny to sad to very pathetic really fast.....
I'm in my 40s. I've been playing D&D since the 90s. This guy expects me to be on his side. My games ALWAYS had diversity. I'm also a furry, they always had furries. Right now my active characters are a half-hound-archon bard who adventures to support his wife and kids, and a half-arcanaloth sorceror who wants to study ancient tomes to figure out how to build the perfect city.
As a musician, I appreciate the attention to detail and realism of your bard character having to also have another job because he's probably not getting paid on time, if at all.
@@BaronVonQuiply he also works with a band of others he splits the loot with even though half the time they don't all show up.
Based and furpilled 🫡
as someone who's been playing in a game of Girl by Moonlight, one of Evil Hat's newer games, their ttrpgs are a lot of fun at the right table. And these guys are so busy gatekeeping they don't realize they're stuck outside when they could just come in and party with us
Story/narratives games do not produce the experience that they want.
So as I understand, fuckin’ Dracula Flow in a hat over here is mad that people are playing a game where you can pretty much play any kind of character you want and doing just that? (IE: making any kind of character they want)
Naw man this chode wishes he could have one ounce of charisma that Dracula Flow has.
yeah, the definition of the word 'fascist' definitely contains the words 'bill' and 'clinton'
we are dealing with an intellectual colossus here, fellas.
DnD players would rather make an entire youtube channel based around shitting on DnD, it's players, it's creators, Matt Mercer and defend Israel than try a different system.
To be fair if these guys pivoted to most other systems they'd blow a fuse. I've seen one or two try to pivot to pathfinder and then get deeply upset.
I'm impressed that he can shave despite never looking in a mirror.
If he looked in a mirror, his shades would form an infinite recursive loop that would draw him into the Astral Sea.
I love how this guy’s moaning about how different games are now, yet he’s not giving us an idea of what games supposedly were like back then. Probably because he doesn’t have a good defense on what they were like.
"Where are the straight human fighters" my dnd character is a straight human fighter-druid muscle himbo wym
does he think the Pre-made cover art characters are the only type of characters you can play in a ROLEPLAYING GAME? buddy you can make a character ( note im talking about angry cop man not papa jake whose looking very thicc today
I just woke up the day after watching Furiosa, a movie in a series of some of the greatest and most long-beloved action movies of all time, and which is a series of PURE IDEOLOGY. Entertainment and ideology are not at odds.
Has this fella ever played a D&D game where the characters assassinate an evil king to restore peace to the land? How is that not politics?
I run a table that's incredibly salty (language wise), un-woke, unafraid of really edgy jokes in small doses, and we'd kick Diversity and Dragons insufferable ass out in an hour tops. I'm one of those OG geeks and I'm still here.
Did this guy really quote Paula Cole? Man, I was like 8 when that song came out. I had actually never seen a woman on TV with unshaved armpits. I didn't realize women grew hair on their pits before Paula Cole. Doesn't seem to mesh with the rest of what hes saying does it?
"Gatekeep your hobbies." And watch them atrophy and die as you and other hobbyists "age out" of those hobbies. Never growing a healthy community or keeping newbies that may have an interest. These grumpy dudes are so self defeating, no wonder they're always mad.
I mean look at what happened with G.I joe. Like does anybody even CARE about G.I joe anymore? This is probably not a good example, but that's what immediately came to mind when you mentioned decaying hobbies.
I like me a Xena-esque human character but idk about the straight part.
My man literally thinks it's more likely that the TTRPG community is dominated by hyper evil mentally ill super villains rather than come to grips with the fact he's just weird.
Terry Pratchett had a book with a literal combat wheelchair. Don't think you can call him a zoomer
Ive been playing D&D for 35 yests. I started with a red cardboard box as a thief with 1d4 hp. And you know what i like where my hobby is going
Im not a huge fan of wizards these days but thats the business bs they pulled a year ago that ticked everyone off not this whiny douche bro "your having fun wrong" bs.
You know im not a big tomb raider fan and douche bro convinced me... gonna buy a copy of the game that hurts his feel feels.
I have played D&D since the late 70s and have never played a Human. I played elves, dwarves, hobbits, and others, but never a human. They were just too boring to me.
I have been playing since AD&D. Have never played a human fighter. Of course, have rarely played fighters.
I think everyone who's met him identifies him as a sociopath narcissist so he just uses it as just an insult
9:17
Paizo have been "woke" since their inception. Cry more.
This guy is on echo chamber life support... ._.
Bro forgot the u in laura croft and it low key bugs me
Her named was never spelled with a U it was always Lara
The tragedy of this situation is that Diversity and Dragons has been running a 2nd edition Birthright campaign *continuously* since it's release in about '98 or so. He has tried to gush enthusiastically about it in it's own videos, but being one of the most obscure settings in D&D history barely anyone watched it.
Instead, he leaned into reactionary culture war bullshit because it attracts clicks and views from assholes that unironically watch theQuartering. That became a loop, farming outrage and angertainment for viewership. To be clear, this man DOES NOT play 5th edition, HAS NEVER played 5th edition, and as a result has no idea what he's talking about when he rages against "combat wheelchairs" or "players wanting to be furries" - he just knows there's an audience of morons who lap it up and clap like circus seals. 🦭