@@AlphagnomeTV Rolled a nat 20 on the persuasion check on that cat (I don't understand any of these words I just pretend to know D&D despite today being the day I decided to get into it)
@@BlenderWeasel well, yes but actually no. "Bioluminescent" isn't really the right word, it's just that everybody glows in infrared because of body heat.
I picked a Dragonborn for my first DnD campaign and was very surprised when most of the people in the game (including the DM) said they'd never had anyone play a dragonborn. It surprised me because...its a freaking dragon. This is a game where the only limits are the dice and my own creativity, of fucking course I wanna be a fucking dragon!
I always took the Dwarf/Halfling poison resistance as existing because both races drink heavily in most fantasy settings. Basically became resistant to alcohol poisoning.
The fact humans actually have quite decent night vision (after 15-25m of adapting that is) that can discern movement at about 300ft of range in darkness is hilarious given the whole darkvisiov differences 😂
Honestly Darkvision in DnD is more magic than biology, considering a character with Darkvision can still see even in pitch darkness. Humans and a lot of animals are adapted to see in low light, but there must still be SOME light.
No there are situations where you have ZERO light. Such as in a cave with no bioluminescence. Or just a couple hundred feet under water. With no light darkvision would work fine. Those races with darkvision still see better than humans cause low-light conditions, like you described at night with moon and start light? They'd see as if it were bright light.
I want to offer my appreciation for the music choices behind the different races. Hearing the Runescape Gnome Stronghold music when describing gnomes and the music from the Barrens in WoW for half-orcs was a wonderful touch.
Im just starting to get into D&D for the first time and i found your channel literally today!!! You make things simple but not too simple to the point where i have actually no idea whats going on. Doing great keep up the good work man!! Im staying tuned thats for sure. + bonus points bc ur hillarious 💀
I love that in my world (Campaign) Haflings are a miracle, they born from any race in a rarely occasion, people believe that they're somehow a divine blessing, that does not turn them a demi-god but do turn them into something that most people adore and want around because it's a honor to be with one, more for those who get married with them
I'm a new dnd player and having these videos is super cool to learn as well as your fun personality making it all interesting to watch. Keep up these awsome videos
I had a player choose half orc for dragon of icespire peak Where one of the sidekicks’ entire personality is based around despising orcs She ended up attacking him and being killed the second they entered the tavern Probably wasn’t wise to allow races that weren’t in the icespire peak book
Im honestly surprised to hear dragonborn arent very common, i totally thought they'd be one of the most popular. My Dragonborn is a descendant from silver dragons.
22:22 You know, kids, back in my day, intimidation was based on strength, not charisma. Which makes complete sense. You’re not intimidated by someone because they’re charming, but because you look at them and realise they could really mess you up. It was also the only dialogue skill that was based on strength at all, so that was a nice change - rather than having the one character with high charisma do absolutely *all* of the talking.
0:10 that didnt prove you can't see in the dark, you merely said you couldnt see, which is different than not actually being able to see... I'm onto you...
you are AWESOME! I’m about to start my first campaign and have been terrified of creating my first character, but your videos have made it so much more fun and simple. Thank you thank you THANK YOU! Keep making content please😊
Loving these videos! I've been sending them to my friends who've never played before to help them make their first character. If you wanna make more of these types of videos, I'd love to see one on Backgrounds or Ability Scores to help with the other parts of building your first character.
i just found your channel and i thought i would find so many videos because the quality was so good ! the fact that you just started posting not even a year ago is crazy impressive! please make more dnd content 😭🙏🏼 i love the way you explain things !! it makes so much sense
For humans +1 to all stats is 6 not 5 (sorry just nit picking) but you also left out the overcompensation Variant human with +1 to 2 stats , 1 skill proficiency, and a starting FEAT (caps for a reason)
I’m new to DnD and I love your channel! By far, your videos are the easiest to comprehend compared to all the other guide videos on RUclips. Please keep it up!!!
It’d be cool to see Aasimar and Eladrin too (my own current races)! I see a lot of dislike toward Aasimar but it’s been a lot of fun so far. Tabaxi would be cool too, I had a friend that played a Tabaxi Tiefling rogue in our last campaign, which was a menace lol.
This was really insightful! I’d love to see another video on D&D races. I’ve been trying to build a Kenku character lately, so I’d love to hear your insight on them
9:20 you forgot to mention that all elves in D&D are a little bit smaller than humans, they’re still skinny, but they’re shortly than humans; the drow are on average 5 feet tall.
You're videos really helped me understand how to create a character more! I'm just beginning to get into D&D so it's overwhelming rn and your videos are a nice place to start
hm i think this video is epic awesome so i did some research and it turns out that everyone likes this too. Thanks so much for everything you do for society
It would be cool if there were more half-breeds. Imagine a character that's half-Drow and half-Orc! Come to think of it, that sounds like something Ganondorf would be.
A friend of mine played a Tabaxi Tiefling rogue in our previous campaign. An absolute menace. More diverse half-breed characters would be awesome to see.
The D&D 2024 playtest has rules for this. You pick one of your ancestors and use the abilities of that race. Then you can pick a background/feat/skill/class that represents the other ancestor.
Man, you are so wholesome and goofy. I love this shit. I'm pretty new to understanding D&D, but I've played a little bit since 2006. The cat comment, too. So good.
As someone who has never played D&D or even heard about it irl, because people in India are similar to people who live under the rock when it comes to D&D, even I haven't heard about it besides in 'the big bang theory'. So I dint think that I would be able to find irl people with whom I can play D&D, so I'm only left with online approach. But sadly I can't really find anything about how to play it online. There are videos explaining the rules and what not which is helpful but it just explains the rules and some suggestions, or they show an irl gameplay of one of the games, but never how to play it online even if someone did show it, none has done it properly. And the online sites gets too overwhelming for nevigtion(I've experienced D&D Beyond), and are of no real help for beginners. TLDR; please can you make a video with proper screensharing in incognito and starting how to play, mainly after the character creation part is done. + the website's navigation system.
All i could imagine when he talked about the drow was them wearing sunglasses in the sun to make it easier for them to see Now i can't get that picture out of my head
I enjoy the structure of this video reminds me of a comprehensive version of Jocats crap guides 😂 keep up the good work I’m new to playing dnd and got “the dubious honor of being dm because it was my idea to play with a group of friends that happened to say they were interested and even after 3 full sessions we have yet to have all 4 main players show up and has caused me to have to come up with some rules that apply in game so that I can continue to introduce them to each other” 👈 insert deep godly voice
Human ranger rogue monk. His backstory is that he was born into modest wealth as the son of an entrepreneur. When he was a young adult he got lost at sea and spent 5 years stranded on an island where he’d hunt to survive. One day he’d find a passing ship only to discover pirates. After sneaking on board and taking out the pirates he’d sail back home to find his city’s become a cesspool of crime and villainy. His appearance is that of a man wearing a green mask
I home brewed a green dragonborn dwarf named Pudding Snatcher. Most of her abilities were dwarven but my dm let her keep her breath attack and resistance. She basically just looked like a dwarf size dragon born and I love her to bits.
Tiefling by the name Kaileena, six horns reigning in her braided offensively red hair, skin the colour of some form of gold-copper alloy, on the whole curves in all the right places and her backstory is that she just quit her job in the palace of the third circle because gary from accounting kept foisting errands on her so now she's working off her debt as a barmaid/adventurer with only 50 gold plus tax left and intends on acquiring significantly more gold to open a tea shop and spa called heallion. (A pun on heal and hellion.)
Somehow my favourite race blends perfectly with my favourite classes. Tiefling with +2 to charisma helps so much with sorcerers and bards and occasional warlocks
Love your content! I hope there is more in the future! You are like a stand up comedian with the way you hold your mic, it's now who you are 😂 I am brand new to getting into roleplaying and made my kingdom map last night! Will you be covering non D&D brands too? I am trying to keep my options open with constructing my collection but mostly doing it via a tight budget. Thanks again for being yourself, it makes it easier for newbies like myself to ease our way in.
“Feel free to make an ugly elf.” In fact, in the Scourge of Worlds movie, a barbarian refers to elf wizard Mialee as “the ugly elf”, which I guess is just because the pre-made character had a charisma score of 8 (-1). But charisma is really more about personality (she’s the loner bookish wizard type, I guess), not about physical appeal - as evident by the fact that elves get a dexterity boost, not a charisma boost (speaking from 3.5 edition rules here, which were in place when Scourge of Worlds was made).
You should make a vid talking about the more Exoric Races and what not, im just getting into DND and my first character is gonna be a Goblin, I've been told most DM's dont mind stuff like it so.
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2:00 Note though that since Tasha's got released (2020) all races can distribute their ability score improvements in whatever way they want (except base humans). Mordenkainen's (2022) also allows many formerly medium-sized races to also play as a small creature. It's mostly for flavor, but note that a small creature can ride a medium one which might be important for characters who have some sort of an animalistic companion (battle smith, beast master, drakewarden) and a lot of fairly cheap medium animals can also be used as mounts and still go into dungeons.
had never played DnD before but wanted to get into it, designed a Tiefling Rogue and then I got BG3. Last minute when making her, I made her a sorceress and BOY did we have fun! (totally didn't romance a rogue or anything though *cough* *cough*) But honestly I loved Tieflings when I read up about them. I relate to them the most tbh.
I just found your content! I hope you're okay and still able to make videos. I'm just getting started on my journey into DND and I'm finding your videos hilarious and helpful
im just starting to get interested in dnd and im playing a dragonborn in our campaign and lorewise they are very flexible and i got to admit they look awesome
Not being able to relate to a Dragonborn? I only watched the brief self-narration of the Dark Urge’s background story in Baldur’s Gate III, and his despair over his own actions, combined with the demonstrated will to do better, was enough to make me empathise with him. Completely different to how he comes off in game, when he’s largely silent (or, conversely, grinning in anticipation of the next act of violence).
14:44 I'm pretty sure depending on the interpretation, even the second 1 is rerolled. I believe the wording is "whenever" which wouldn include a reroll.
My only clarification here is all the stuff about which specific ability score increases specific races get is completely obsolete and has been for quite a while. All races get a +2 and +1 to whatever ability score the player chooses to allow for more customisation
hey i’m pretty new to DND and i have a question, if this is every single race, why do I see other ones on the 5e wiki lot Fairies, Changelings, Goliaths, etc? are they like not races you can actually play as or something?
In czech WotC approved DnD clone they reworked dragonborn ancestry, so there are 10 ancestries and 10 breath weapons. I always tell players, they can choose whichever rules version they want.
My first game of dnd was as a Dragonborn sorcerer which was spawned in max level due to the fact that I was put into a campaign that had been going on for a few months(also we never made a character sheet bc we were doing this through a voice chat on Xbox). Now idk the size scaling on what is considered medium or large but I made my character 6’4 but I was teamed up with another Dragonborn who was a monk standing at 8’10. Idk if that’s medium but I doubt it is. Also as a side thing when I was making my character my dm didn’t tell me what colors of the Dragonborn meant or anything about racial abilities(besides breath attacks and resistance to said breath attack elements)so when he told me to choose my color out of these 10 colors I went with black and he said “ok” and didn’t tell me that was an acid Dragonborn until I was in the game and he knew that I knew nothing about the game besides you can do what you want and roll dice. Then he told me that I’m not proficient in any armor but I do have a spell called acid armor so I went through the whole game thinking that if I get hit by anyone then I would die immediately (so pretty much a glass cannon). About 90% through the game I have been getting lucky on my saving throws and at most getting grazed by attacks until my rival character in the game stabs me with one of those blades that is shaped like a drill so I have a hole in my chest rather than a stab and due to my little understanding of the game and me not having any healing spells I thought that my character was going to die. Especially when I cauterized the wound but my dm said I was bleeding internally. So then a few in game hours go by and my dm tells me I’m still alive and I wonder why so I look up Dragonborn online and it says they have natural armor. I ask my dm about it and he says “yeah you have that” and moves on. Then while I wasn’t playing things were happening to my character still. My character ended up losing his wings and grimoire in a final war but still lived. Now we started a continuation to this but my dm did stuff to my character. He turned my full magic focused Dragonborn from a sorcerer into a warrior sorcerer and gave him a longsword which I’m still not proficient in and I still have disadvantage on strength rolls and I don’t have my grimoire so any spells I cast take extra time and never told me about spell slots bc I’d always win or run away or been pitied before they’d run out so then out of the blue he says I’m out of “acid reserves” and I say “well shit. Now I’m dead bc I have no spells left and no wings anymore.” And he just says “you still have your sword” btw I didn’t even use as many spells as I have ever before and he says I’m out of them so he obviously just wants me to roll with the sorcerer warrior thing but I want to stay magic focused. So then to be able to live I’m forced to use the sword and I managed to live. So yeah my dm is kinda shit ig
For drow ask your dm if you can get shades to get rid of the disadvantage,shades could be have a nice back story like if your a bard. Rockstar drow bard
Elves sound like they should have sharp teeth and claws, being arboreal humanoids who can see well in the dark, as well as across extreme distance, who are also very agile-- that's essentially a human leopard.
It's interesting how with most of the races you only chose the defult setting versions of them to mention. Eberron has variations of all the base races as well as the Critical roll setting and they're just as interesting as their FR and Greyhawlk equivalents. (Halflings who ride dinosaurs? What's not to love? Oh and Clan Borimar, the Halfling Mafia.)
I'm going to play D&D for the first time in the near future, and I was for sure going to go with Dragonborn. Seems like they're a bit weaker stats-wise, but they're just so cool.
When the drow becomes the bbeg for the next campaign...finds a pair of glasses that were cursed to make it dark as night when wearing them. He proceeds to destroy your players' party and leaves with the peter dinklage line from pixels. I owe everything to these b****in' shades. Idk just kinda my first thought about their debuff
Oooo gosh it's hard to chose I love the aspect of the gnome where they are happy go lucky but are smart and forest gnomes sounds so cool cause YOU CAN TALK TO ANIMALS LIKE HELLO THAT'S SO COOL but however tieflings sound coooool for customization with the wide variety of skin colors BUT dragonborns sound so cool 🥹 Like you can be a giant walking lizard that breaths fire and intimadates people So uhhh idk what to chose but I can't wait to draw my character and create a backstory once I choose what race....
You've heard of tieflings, but have you heard of *feral* tieflings? My beloved Savita is a feral tiefling, she's a pyromancer sorcerer. She was born and raised in a tiefling exclusive nomadic tribe. At the age of 10 a wildfire wiped out her whole tribe. "Coincidentally" she's a pyromaniac, most of her spells are fire based, because of this she reeks of a campfire. She's spent her whole teenage years living in the forest. She's foreign to politeness and doesn't pick up on social cues, given her upbringing.
I’ve never played DnD mainly cuz I don’t have a friends that would play with me to be able to do so but race wise I feel most drawn to Elf, Tiefling, Tabaxi, & somewhat DragonBorne Class wise I’m most drawn to like wizard, sorcerer, paladin, rouge & Druid
my cat walked up when you said "unless you're showing this video to your cat"
i have that effect on cats
@@AlphagnomeTVit also worked on my baby sister, I don’t know what that means 😢 maybe she’s destined to be a d&d player
@@AlphagnomeTV Rolled a nat 20 on the persuasion check on that cat (I don't understand any of these words I just pretend to know D&D despite today being the day I decided to get into it)
@@IzzyKindaFizzy or a therian >:3
Meow
The second he mentioned pointy ears I was distracted by his ears the whole time, they're pointy
SAME
@@milo_is_silly09 why are they so pointy
@@jookie8469 obviously hes a half elf
Yea, it's like they became point after he mentioned Halfling
@@christianottley8542 of course, my mistake
The intro reminded me of this fun fact: Humans are bioluminescent but the light is too weak for our eyes to see
How do you know this?!?
@@poliwhirlswirl I just know alot of random obscure facts
Yup, it's called black body radiation. Some of the energy our bodies create is emitted as infrared light. Source, am a physicist.
I’m bioluminescent?
@@BlenderWeasel well, yes but actually no. "Bioluminescent" isn't really the right word, it's just that everybody glows in infrared because of body heat.
every time i choose a race for my char i black out and then wake up with a tiefling
Tieflings are simply the epitome of peak performance
I picked a Dragonborn for my first DnD campaign and was very surprised when most of the people in the game (including the DM) said they'd never had anyone play a dragonborn. It surprised me because...its a freaking dragon. This is a game where the only limits are the dice and my own creativity, of fucking course I wanna be a fucking dragon!
I play Dragonborn because it is cool and that Tabaxi aren't in 5th edition.
@@luckytheprotoboi826tabaxi are in 5e…
Same but I picked it because it reminded me of the argonians from elder scrolls
Completely agree
Same exact thing happened to me bro
I always took the Dwarf/Halfling poison resistance as existing because both races drink heavily in most fantasy settings. Basically became resistant to alcohol poisoning.
IRL Celts have this as well and require about 20% more anesthesia for surgery.
Because as Irish lore says we found out what all the plants do...
"Every single D&D race explained"
Me, playing a Kenku: Fascinating.
As a Kobold, I agree
same, im playing a kenku as my first character ever
Another kenku here 🫡 we make great rogues
As a Loxodon, that's so damn frustrating.
As a Minotaur, intriguing.
I'm gnot a gnelf, I'm gnot a gnoblin, I'm a gnome. And you've been gnomed.
The fact humans actually have quite decent night vision (after 15-25m of adapting that is) that can discern movement at about 300ft of range in darkness is hilarious given the whole darkvisiov differences 😂
Honestly Darkvision in DnD is more magic than biology, considering a character with Darkvision can still see even in pitch darkness.
Humans and a lot of animals are adapted to see in low light, but there must still be SOME light.
@@gebdemedici yeah but the Extremely limited range of dark vision when humans can see about 300ft in quite the dark environment.
There is a reason why its called dark vision and not night vision, since at night everything is actully in dim light not darkness
@@estaveler3288 i mean sure but even the underdark, which is meant to be, dark has quite a bit of light
No there are situations where you have ZERO light. Such as in a cave with no bioluminescence. Or just a couple hundred feet under water. With no light darkvision would work fine. Those races with darkvision still see better than humans cause low-light conditions, like you described at night with moon and start light? They'd see as if it were bright light.
Why, oh why, is this guy rizzing up my cat?
I want to offer my appreciation for the music choices behind the different races. Hearing the Runescape Gnome Stronghold music when describing gnomes and the music from the Barrens in WoW for half-orcs was a wonderful touch.
I love the music at the beginning. Legend of Zelda skyward sword
Im just starting to get into D&D for the first time and i found your channel literally today!!! You make things simple but not too simple to the point where i have actually no idea whats going on.
Doing great keep up the good work man!! Im staying tuned thats for sure.
+ bonus points bc ur hillarious 💀
thanks! i just want more people to play D&D with tbh
It's rare to see such a high quality channel so early in its development! Loved the video, hope to see you prosper here on RUclips!!
God damn that intro joke broke me, didn't expect it and burst out laughing. So happy you made this channel for dnd. Cheers!
I love that in my world (Campaign) Haflings are a miracle, they born from any race in a rarely occasion, people believe that they're somehow a divine blessing, that does not turn them a demi-god but do turn them into something that most people adore and want around because it's a honor to be with one, more for those who get married with them
I'm a new dnd player and having these videos is super cool to learn as well as your fun personality making it all interesting to watch. Keep up these awsome videos
In my current dnd campain. The main kingdom has a kill on sight order on tieflings.
I'm playing a tiefling....
Playing on hard mode I see! Respect lol.
The correct way to play!
That's actually a pretty cool concept.
I had a player choose half orc for dragon of icespire peak
Where one of the sidekicks’ entire personality is based around despising orcs
She ended up attacking him and being killed the second they entered the tavern
Probably wasn’t wise to allow races that weren’t in the icespire peak book
Remember: tiefling is the right answer
Tiefling is the worst answer possible.
Tiefling: For those who want to be edgy but are so unoriginal and edgless in reality that they have to pick the "demon."
Aasimar* is the right answer
@MoonManMoonMan lol Evil Aasimar is more clever than a good tiefling.
@@Deadly_fox512 Exactly
Im honestly surprised to hear dragonborn arent very common, i totally thought they'd be one of the most popular. My Dragonborn is a descendant from silver dragons.
22:22 You know, kids, back in my day, intimidation was based on strength, not charisma. Which makes complete sense. You’re not intimidated by someone because they’re charming, but because you look at them and realise they could really mess you up. It was also the only dialogue skill that was based on strength at all, so that was a nice change - rather than having the one character with high charisma do absolutely *all* of the talking.
0:10 that didnt prove you can't see in the dark, you merely said you couldnt see, which is different than not actually being able to see... I'm onto you...
Longest lifespan
Warforged being technically immortal
you are AWESOME! I’m about to start my first campaign and have been terrified of creating my first character, but your videos have made it so much more fun and simple. Thank you thank you THANK YOU! Keep making content please😊
you should do a video on races like aasimars, tortles, ogres, giants, satyrs, etc!!
Yes make another video now that the new phb is coming out!!
I am a newbie and my first character is going to be a fighter Goliath!
Loving these videos! I've been sending them to my friends who've never played before to help them make their first character. If you wanna make more of these types of videos, I'd love to see one on Backgrounds or Ability Scores to help with the other parts of building your first character.
Highly underrated, this guid is amazing for new players.
i just found your channel and i thought i would find so many videos because the quality was so good ! the fact that you just started posting not even a year ago is crazy impressive! please make more dnd content 😭🙏🏼 i love the way you explain things !! it makes so much sense
For humans +1 to all stats is 6 not 5 (sorry just nit picking) but you also left out the overcompensation Variant human with +1 to 2 stats , 1 skill proficiency, and a starting FEAT (caps for a reason)
But where is githyanki I love martial prodigy on warlocks sorcerer or wizard
I’m new to DnD and I love your channel! By far, your videos are the easiest to comprehend compared to all the other guide videos on RUclips. Please keep it up!!!
Will there be a video on other playable races?
(I admittedly want to see more videos on owlin)
It’d be cool to see Aasimar and Eladrin too (my own current races)! I see a lot of dislike toward Aasimar but it’s been a lot of fun so far. Tabaxi would be cool too, I had a friend that played a Tabaxi Tiefling rogue in our last campaign, which was a menace lol.
This was really insightful! I’d love to see another video on D&D races. I’ve been trying to build a Kenku character lately, so I’d love to hear your insight on them
“Gnome’s have an enthusiasm for living”
Ya if I wanna relate I won’t be playing a gnome 😭
9:20 you forgot to mention that all elves in D&D are a little bit smaller than humans, they’re still skinny, but they’re shortly than humans; the drow are on average 5 feet tall.
You're videos really helped me understand how to create a character more!
I'm just beginning to get into D&D so it's overwhelming rn and your videos are a nice place to start
12:12 AYOO WHAT THE HELL DID U JUST TELL MY CAT??
I think he just tried to hit on my cat
He’s getting rizzy with the cats
hm i think this video is epic awesome so i did some research and it turns out that everyone likes this too. Thanks so much for everything you do for society
thanks?
I don't do this for thanks I do this because I must @@AlphagnomeTV
@@omegaonion thanks!
It would be cool if there were more half-breeds. Imagine a character that's half-Drow and half-Orc! Come to think of it, that sounds like something Ganondorf would be.
A friend of mine played a Tabaxi Tiefling rogue in our previous campaign. An absolute menace. More diverse half-breed characters would be awesome to see.
The D&D 2024 playtest has rules for this. You pick one of your ancestors and use the abilities of that race. Then you can pick a background/feat/skill/class that represents the other ancestor.
Gnomes are the most underrated race in DnD & Baldur's Gate 3.
I'm brand-spanking-new to dnd and this video has helped a ton. Thank you 😊
Dragonborn are my absolute favourites, I'm always hesitant to try any other races cus i love them too much
great vid! you gonna do the races from other sourcebooks?
Man, you are so wholesome and goofy. I love this shit.
I'm pretty new to understanding D&D, but I've played a little bit since 2006.
The cat comment, too. So good.
I'm really excited to pull my dragonborn over from BG3 to our homebrew campaign.
As someone who has never played D&D or even heard about it irl, because people in India are similar to people who live under the rock when it comes to D&D, even I haven't heard about it besides in 'the big bang theory'. So I dint think that I would be able to find irl people with whom I can play D&D, so I'm only left with online approach.
But sadly I can't really find anything about how to play it online. There are videos explaining the rules and what not which is helpful but it just explains the rules and some suggestions, or they show an irl gameplay of one of the games, but never how to play it online even if someone did show it, none has done it properly.
And the online sites gets too overwhelming for nevigtion(I've experienced D&D Beyond), and are of no real help for beginners.
TLDR; please can you make a video with proper screensharing in incognito and starting how to play, mainly after the character creation part is done. + the website's navigation system.
All i could imagine when he talked about the drow was them wearing sunglasses in the sun to make it easier for them to see
Now i can't get that picture out of my head
I enjoy the structure of this video reminds me of a comprehensive version of Jocats crap guides 😂 keep up the good work I’m new to playing dnd and got “the dubious honor of being dm because it was my idea to play with a group of friends that happened to say they were interested and even after 3 full sessions we have yet to have all 4 main players show up and has caused me to have to come up with some rules that apply in game so that I can continue to introduce them to each other” 👈 insert deep godly voice
Human ranger rogue monk. His backstory is that he was born into modest wealth as the son of an entrepreneur. When he was a young adult he got lost at sea and spent 5 years stranded on an island where he’d hunt to survive. One day he’d find a passing ship only to discover pirates. After sneaking on board and taking out the pirates he’d sail back home to find his city’s become a cesspool of crime and villainy. His appearance is that of a man wearing a green mask
Damn.... You look so much like this other dude, Idyl!
You should check him out... He is the president of MMORPGs!
I enjoy your videos!
I hope they can do a collab together soon!
I home brewed a green dragonborn dwarf named Pudding Snatcher. Most of her abilities were dwarven but my dm let her keep her breath attack and resistance. She basically just looked like a dwarf size dragon born and I love her to bits.
Of all my favorite RuneScape/DnD RUclipsrs, you're definitely my favorite.
Would love to see another video coming other classes, like I understand what lich is, but is that it’s own class or a subclass?
Also what stats do😮
Tiefling by the name Kaileena, six horns reigning in her braided offensively red hair, skin the colour of some form of gold-copper alloy, on the whole curves in all the right places and her backstory is that she just quit her job in the palace of the third circle because gary from accounting kept foisting errands on her so now she's working off her debt as a barmaid/adventurer with only 50 gold plus tax left and intends on acquiring significantly more gold to open a tea shop and spa called heallion. (A pun on heal and hellion.)
Somehow my favourite race blends perfectly with my favourite classes. Tiefling with +2 to charisma helps so much with sorcerers and bards and occasional warlocks
Fun fact -Most dnd races can move only 2 feet per turn due to the fact they only have two feet
This is honestly hilarious why are you not making more??
Love your content! I hope there is more in the future! You are like a stand up comedian with the way you hold your mic, it's now who you are 😂 I am brand new to getting into roleplaying and made my kingdom map last night! Will you be covering non D&D brands too? I am trying to keep my options open with constructing my collection but mostly doing it via a tight budget. Thanks again for being yourself, it makes it easier for newbies like myself to ease our way in.
Me watching this holding the Character sheet paper in my hand
i love that you played durotar/barrens music for half-orc
My cat got so scared of that meow
“Feel free to make an ugly elf.” In fact, in the Scourge of Worlds movie, a barbarian refers to elf wizard Mialee as “the ugly elf”, which I guess is just because the pre-made character had a charisma score of 8 (-1). But charisma is really more about personality (she’s the loner bookish wizard type, I guess), not about physical appeal - as evident by the fact that elves get a dexterity boost, not a charisma boost (speaking from 3.5 edition rules here, which were in place when Scourge of Worlds was made).
You should make a vid talking about the more Exoric Races and what not, im just getting into DND and my first character is gonna be a Goblin, I've been told most DM's dont mind stuff like it so.
2:00 Note though that since Tasha's got released (2020) all races can distribute their ability score improvements in whatever way they want (except base humans). Mordenkainen's (2022) also allows many formerly medium-sized races to also play as a small creature. It's mostly for flavor, but note that a small creature can ride a medium one which might be important for characters who have some sort of an animalistic companion (battle smith, beast master, drakewarden) and a lot of fairly cheap medium animals can also be used as mounts and still go into dungeons.
YOUR NAME IS ALPHAGNOME! THOUGHT GNOMES WOULD BE YOUR FAVORITE
I'm currently playing a Wizard turned into a fabulous ladies handbag in my D&D campaign. Race unknown... to the rest of the party.
'French Designer Bag'
had never played DnD before but wanted to get into it, designed a Tiefling Rogue and then I got BG3. Last minute when making her, I made her a sorceress and BOY did we have fun! (totally didn't romance a rogue or anything though *cough* *cough*)
But honestly I loved Tieflings when I read up about them. I relate to them the most tbh.
I just found your content! I hope you're okay and still able to make videos. I'm just getting started on my journey into DND and I'm finding your videos hilarious and helpful
im just starting to get interested in dnd and im playing a dragonborn in our campaign and lorewise they are very flexible and i got to admit they look awesome
Not being able to relate to a Dragonborn? I only watched the brief self-narration of the Dark Urge’s background story in Baldur’s Gate III, and his despair over his own actions, combined with the demonstrated will to do better, was enough to make me empathise with him. Completely different to how he comes off in game, when he’s largely silent (or, conversely, grinning in anticipation of the next act of violence).
14:44 I'm pretty sure depending on the interpretation, even the second 1 is rerolled. I believe the wording is "whenever" which wouldn include a reroll.
My only clarification here is all the stuff about which specific ability score increases specific races get is completely obsolete and has been for quite a while. All races get a +2 and +1 to whatever ability score the player chooses to allow for more customisation
hey i’m pretty new to DND and i have a question, if this is every single race, why do I see other ones on the 5e wiki lot Fairies, Changelings, Goliaths, etc? are they like not races you can actually play as or something?
In czech WotC approved DnD clone they reworked dragonborn ancestry, so there are 10 ancestries and 10 breath weapons. I always tell players, they can choose whichever rules version they want.
My first game of dnd was as a Dragonborn sorcerer which was spawned in max level due to the fact that I was put into a campaign that had been going on for a few months(also we never made a character sheet bc we were doing this through a voice chat on Xbox). Now idk the size scaling on what is considered medium or large but I made my character 6’4 but I was teamed up with another Dragonborn who was a monk standing at 8’10. Idk if that’s medium but I doubt it is. Also as a side thing when I was making my character my dm didn’t tell me what colors of the Dragonborn meant or anything about racial abilities(besides breath attacks and resistance to said breath attack elements)so when he told me to choose my color out of these 10 colors I went with black and he said “ok” and didn’t tell me that was an acid Dragonborn until I was in the game and he knew that I knew nothing about the game besides you can do what you want and roll dice. Then he told me that I’m not proficient in any armor but I do have a spell called acid armor so I went through the whole game thinking that if I get hit by anyone then I would die immediately (so pretty much a glass cannon). About 90% through the game I have been getting lucky on my saving throws and at most getting grazed by attacks until my rival character in the game stabs me with one of those blades that is shaped like a drill so I have a hole in my chest rather than a stab and due to my little understanding of the game and me not having any healing spells I thought that my character was going to die. Especially when I cauterized the wound but my dm said I was bleeding internally. So then a few in game hours go by and my dm tells me I’m still alive and I wonder why so I look up Dragonborn online and it says they have natural armor. I ask my dm about it and he says “yeah you have that” and moves on. Then while I wasn’t playing things were happening to my character still. My character ended up losing his wings and grimoire in a final war but still lived. Now we started a continuation to this but my dm did stuff to my character. He turned my full magic focused Dragonborn from a sorcerer into a warrior sorcerer and gave him a longsword which I’m still not proficient in and I still have disadvantage on strength rolls and I don’t have my grimoire so any spells I cast take extra time and never told me about spell slots bc I’d always win or run away or been pitied before they’d run out so then out of the blue he says I’m out of “acid reserves” and I say “well shit. Now I’m dead bc I have no spells left and no wings anymore.” And he just says “you still have your sword” btw I didn’t even use as many spells as I have ever before and he says I’m out of them so he obviously just wants me to roll with the sorcerer warrior thing but I want to stay magic focused. So then to be able to live I’m forced to use the sword and I managed to live. So yeah my dm is kinda shit ig
Newbie to D&D here, and I think your explanation videos are really helpful!
Also... Are you a half-elf in disguise with those pointy ears of yours🤨?
For drow ask your dm if you can get shades to get rid of the disadvantage,shades could be have a nice back story like if your a bard. Rockstar drow bard
Elves sound like they should have sharp teeth and claws, being arboreal humanoids who can see well in the dark, as well as across extreme distance, who are also very agile-- that's essentially a human leopard.
"Every Race!" (Sees nine races.)
Lies! Deceptions!
I have a tiefling character with sad backstory and I am looking forward to play with him 🥳
Hey, great content, I'm gonna begin my first character with half orc.
My first character is a dwarf. Got the Boots of Striding and Springing...BAM! 30ft. of movement!
Still going for a Gnecromancer for the puns
It's interesting how with most of the races you only chose the defult setting versions of them to mention. Eberron has variations of all the base races as well as the Critical roll setting and they're just as interesting as their FR and Greyhawlk equivalents. (Halflings who ride dinosaurs? What's not to love? Oh and Clan Borimar, the Halfling Mafia.)
I'm going to play D&D for the first time in the near future, and I was for sure going to go with Dragonborn. Seems like they're a bit weaker stats-wise, but they're just so cool.
D&D is more than stats. It is primary a role-playing game. Don't think only about min-maxing
@@koutouloufas7 I just said I'd play Dragonborn despite it being weaker, doesn't that suggest that I think roleplay is more important anyway?
@@Voxdalian yeah, i agree with you. You should not even mention stats, RP is what matters
@@koutouloufas7 That sounds like strange advice. I'd still like to be okay at whatever I'm doing.
@@Voxdalian you will be ok if you enjoy the game.
When the drow becomes the bbeg for the next campaign...finds a pair of glasses that were cursed to make it dark as night when wearing them. He proceeds to destroy your players' party and leaves with the peter dinklage line from pixels. I owe everything to these b****in' shades. Idk just kinda my first thought about their debuff
Oooo gosh it's hard to chose I love the aspect of the gnome where they are happy go lucky but are smart and forest gnomes sounds so cool cause YOU CAN TALK TO ANIMALS LIKE HELLO THAT'S SO COOL but however tieflings sound coooool for customization with the wide variety of skin colors BUT dragonborns sound so cool 🥹
Like you can be a giant walking lizard that breaths fire and intimadates people
So uhhh idk what to chose but I can't wait to draw my character and create a backstory once I choose what race....
Would love a background video... your videos are awesome and informative.
Half elf and elves are convenient if you wanna incorporate ancient practices into their ancestory. Because they live longer less generations pass.
I pick Malaysian!! 🇲🇾 🇲🇾
6:10 I…. I thought I just wasn’t aware of an Elf remake with Butler instead of Ferrell coming out at some point
Why build me up just to knock me down?
I see a opportunity to make a half orc an passifist
It would be beautiful
Babe, wake up! Alphagnome just made a new video!! 🎉. Jkjk nice video though man :>
I think his ears are pointy, he must be like at least a half elf
You've heard of tieflings, but have you heard of *feral* tieflings?
My beloved Savita is a feral tiefling, she's a pyromancer sorcerer. She was born and raised in a tiefling exclusive nomadic tribe. At the age of 10 a wildfire wiped out her whole tribe.
"Coincidentally" she's a pyromaniac, most of her spells are fire based, because of this she reeks of a campfire. She's spent her whole teenage years living in the forest.
She's foreign to politeness and doesn't pick up on social cues, given her upbringing.
I’ve never played DnD mainly cuz I don’t have a friends that would play with me to be able to do so but race wise I feel most drawn to
Elf, Tiefling, Tabaxi, & somewhat DragonBorne
Class wise I’m most drawn to like wizard, sorcerer, paladin, rouge & Druid
the intro is sus. you could be a halfling.
3:40 ... How did you exactly pin my 1st character idea there?
I literally had no idea Idyl also had a D&D channel! 👀
Will you be going over the differences with the new players handbook?
My main charcter is a half tiefling half angel thatcan change forms
My first campaign was a changeling Druid
I always looked different
This would be awesome if you would cosplay every race while talking about them 😂