>tfw it's a D&D episode
>>84180848
These episodes are boring since none of the players do anything terrible that gives you a look at what kind of person they truly are.
>>84180848
Have they ever made a good D&D episode? In any show?
What's the verdict on the Gravity Falls episode?
>>84180935
Not /co/ but Community's D&D episodes are pretty good.
>>84181014
That episode didn't make any sense to me
>That guy only made one character and used it for every game he played in
>DM's somehow approve this while other players are level 1
>DM rolls for everything, players just say what they want to do and DM determines based on his own rolls
>>84180935
That from Dexter was actually fun and what made my want to play it.
>>84181013
It feels like someone tried to play but wasn't capable of finishing their character sheet. The worst part is that the episode is basically filler, I was expecting way more from one extradimensional shenanigan.
>>84180935
The episode where Finn and Flame Princess explore dungeon is all based on D&D, with Finn as the DM.
>tfw no Pony gf
>>84181013
Didn't feel like the writers played for the most part. Not D&D but South Park's World of Warcraft ep, it really felt either like they played or good research.
>>84181013
trash of the highest caliber
it completly missed the point of D&D, so much so that the writers had to come up with the most contrieved and forced of "conflicts" to come out of dipper wanting to play the game. it singlehandedly managed to drive me away from the show
it didnt understood the most basic thing about dungeons and dragons, the put it as this thing where imagination rules and you can do and be anything but the fun of the game is precisely in the opposite, in the constraints that force you to be clever and problem solve, also in being part of a story.
>>84181013
it was more of a comment on the d20 system and math/probobility in general. Neat, but it limited the audience even more.
>>84181013
you could tell they had no idea what they were doing by the emphasis they were putting on the board and miniature aspect of the game.
right in the picture they show the game coming in a box like is fucking monopoly or some shit
>>84181336
t. lvl 23 sperglord elf ranger
I've always felt slighted. They focused on the numerical aspect as something that is inflexible. At best, they were good players with a shitty, vindictive GM, at worst it was a petty jab at 'them nerds o'er there!'
> tfw always wanted to try D&D, but I don't know anyone around me who would play it.
>>84181417
I'd invite you to try it online, but the only group I'm in is LEWD Eclipse Phase.
>>84180935
Does this one count?You know what? Fuck it. It's better.
>>84181417
You might be able to find a group on meetup.com for it. Seems like a good way to make friends too.
>>84181417
It's not worth it unless you do it yourself since the DM will 90% of the time be an asshole. They seem to be the only once who have to the time to run games.
What's the name of this one animation, where these two guys that hated each other find a map, and go on an adventure for the treasure, slowly becoming friends during the course of time?One of the guys loses his hand, I think.
What's the verdict on that?
>>84181804
The Reward?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cw7aAFS5oc
>>84181882
EXACTLY. Thanks so much, man! It's been itching the corner of my mind for some time.
>>84181064
Abed was... special.
What about the SECOND D&D episode, though? Everyone got real into it that time.
How many people do play D&D still though?
TFW Yu-gi-oh season 0 had a D&D episode but no one watched it
>>84182078
Plenty. Even if you don't count stuff that is basically D&D like Pathfinder or Adventurer Conqueror King.
>>84180935
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko4QlchTaKI
Don't know what they're saying but it at least looks nice.
>>84182112
It was a two-parter and the original series finale before they switched to primarily card gamesand whatever the hell Dungeon Dice Monsters was.
>>84182078
Subject. Verb. Object. It's not hard.
And more than ever. Between social media making it easier to find people who also like to play and online shopping making accessibility a non-issue, games like D&D, Settlers of Catan, and Warhammer 40k are in a golden age right now. And I
>>84182112
didn't watch it, but i did read it. it was actually a lot more interesting than before it got turned into a card game series. i just wonder where it would have gone if it didn't go down that path because it was much darker.
>>84181605
nope, that was larping a completely different thing, is just as nerdy but not the same
>>84180935
China, IL has the best one solely because Babycakes has to RP jacking off a literal mountain of dicks.
>>84181336
The only version I have ever played was 4.0, where the focus seemed to be on its messing around with a story. The only real limitations seemed to be the dice rolls and staying true to your character.
>>84181502
you didnt have to add lewd
it's eclipse phase
it's automatically lewd
>>84181064
its as if they were all playing for the first time or something
>>84181336
You're a faggot.
>>84181417
Same. I found a game shop near me that does weekly sessions, but I don't particularly want to roll up and go 'Hello, well established group of friends. Stop having fun so you can teach me how to play instead'. Seems like kind of a dickmove.
>>84182112
>Yu-gi-oh season 0
Yami Yugi was really fucked up in the concept. the guy just rapes people minds some episodes
>>84181014
Community is the worst show I've ever saw, boring shit with no sense. Chavy Chase makes completely no sense in this episode
What's the absolute worst depiction of DnD in cartoons, or in any kind of media?
>>84183128
Chevy Chase actively didn't want to be there so they often had to write around whatever he did and did not feel like doing on a given day.
>>84183134
> in any kind of media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aNUuGOUreg
>>84183199
So who watch this show exactly? for what demographic they are aiming?
>>84183227
definetely made for 9gaggers and ledditors
>>84183227
teenagers and young adults who think "nerd culture" is cool but are too lazy to dig deeper
>>84181122
A significant portion of adventure time is based on dnd
>>84182833
The first time I ever played D&D, I was 12.I made a ninja who dual wielded katanas and ended up having psychic powers
We rolled a single D20 for literally everything, but even that was closer to what they did. Keep in mind, that one guy in the episode had supposedly been playing for most of his life.
>mfw i liked this dnd episode
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu6nNG0THnI
>>84181064
I think the point is
>nobody knew anything about DnD so the DM had to handhold them throughout
>nobody cared that much going in
>the point was to cheer up Fat Neil, not to play for the sake of the game, so they bent the rules a lot
>>84181064
>>DM's somehow approve this while other players are level 1
I figured that was because they were hamfistedly trying to cheer the dude up, so they made his character overpowered compared to the rest so he'd feel special/important.
>>84181605
what show is this?
>>84183199
I think that's the first time I've seen people excited to play 4e.
>>84180848
Do MMORPG episodes count?
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x493c67
>>84183491
This show is just one big commercial for "nerd" products
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-Lz-HWMrlM
>>84181013
A lot of wasted potential for one of Ford's first episodes with Weird Al guesting.
>its an mmo episode
>>84180935
The Realm of Darthon seemed pretty solid
>would like to play a tabletop game sometime
>TFW no friends
>TFW TERRIBLE math skills and would probably avoid to not embarrass myself if I ever did get the opportunity
>>84183227
i knew this pretty badass guy who was fucking in love with the show. i could never understand why, i think he just had shit taste.
>>84183933
That's definitely one of the best Regular Show episodes.
>>84182112
I remember Tristan was a fucking magic gunman. Also Bakura is a cunt.
>>84180848
BE
AGGRESSIVE
B-E
AGGRESSIVE
Kim Possible did an MMO episode
Kim's race was called spritekin.
This is an extremely cute word.
>>84184265
B-E
A-GG-
R-E-S-S-I-V-E
>>84181417
>tfw I have the same problem, but instead of D&D, I'm interested in 40k Rpgs.
I just want to roleplay as a servant of the Omnisiah.
>>84180848
I forget, Dexter was being a little dice rolls cheating, railroading fag DM right?
>>84183120
Didn't some guy tried to rape the chick and he mind raped him to douse himself in gasoline and immolate himself in the mango?
>>84183308
>I made a ninja who dual wielded katanas and ended up having psychic powers
Sounds like a JoJo character.
Oh shit hold up
https://youtu.be/KPbZDez2rEs
The best D&D games are in harmontown
>you hear the gnashing of ivory on ivory
>>84183308
First character I made was a Paladin.
Couldn't afford a mount so I'd charge my lance at enemies on foot, usually getting three guys on me since everyone else was still behind.
Also I'm pretty much an unlucky son of a bitch so I rarely actually did damage.
>>84182914
You. You're thoughtful and considerate.
I like you.
>>84180848
>There will never be a Risk (world conquest) episode in any cartoon ever
>>84181417
>Tfw have group of friends that play DnD
>TFW everyone but 1 player and the DM are shit heads
>One person is a basic "Good guy Paladin" who always asks the DM what he should do and doesn't even role play
>The other is trying to "Win" DnD by making his character Min Max as possible making everyone else useless
>2 others just steal the loot rolls and don't show or tell anyone what they have
>Everyone constantly trying to fuck each other over
>Everyone has to have some kind of Special Snowflake shit that the DM has to take care off
>DM has to keep track of so much shit that stuff gets overlooked
not to mention they kill every NPC that even looks at them funny
>>84181882
I used to fucking love this thing, man. Takes me back...
>>84181804
That's The Reward, and it and its prequel (The First Hero) are both amazing.
>>84180848
Tell me more about it, OP
>>84185585
>The whole show is about that kids got sucked into rollercoaster
>Not into D&D board
What kind of fucked up marketing is that?
>>84181064
>That guy only made one character and used it for every game he played in
That was very common in the early days of D&D, when it was less about an overarching story and more like a series of modules to be beaten. People had characters that they transferred between games. Sure, feels a bit dated, but remember they're playing 2nd edition for some reason.
>>84183199
>>84183491
I remember when I first started play 4e in High School with friends as my first DnD sessions, then I saw this episode shortly after and got super mad how they shit all over everything that makes DnD, DnD.
>>84184023
Math in tabletop is super easy, episically the d20 system, it's just basic addition/subtraction plus the odd multiple/division stuff. It's shit you should be able to do if you managed to get past primary school
>>84184023
1. online
2. play a rules-lite game
Unless you're dyscalculic, you shouldn't have problems playing any RPG. The most complicated RPGs are like that not because of difficult calculations, but because they have a million tiny little interlocking rules systems or features that you have to keep track off (HERO, Rolemaster, GURPS...) Steer clear of those and you'll be fine.
>>84183199
I know the show is shit.
But I would a Bernadette
>>84184581
Yea dude, actually happens in both the manga and anime too
Yu-Gi-Oh was pretty batshit crazy when it started
>>84182914
Same as well. I wanted to join some people but they already had an established 4 person group.
>>84181064
They let him use the over powered character because the point of the game was to make him "a winner"
I just figured Abed rolled all the dice because he didn't trust some of them not to cheat. That or maybe they just had one set of dice
>>84185346
>>Everyone has to have some kind of Special Snowflake shit that the DM has to take care off
Ha! With me is the opposite, my player ALWAYS choosing the same classes and races, Ad I have basically to beg for them to explore a little more all te options that they have.
>>84181417
Same here, thought being horribly shy probably isn't helping anything.
>>84185585
That show was surprisingly good once it hit the second season. Pity they barely even tried to connect it with D&D stuff, but what we got was fun
>>84186275
>>84184581
>>84183120
Actually, according to the creator his major inspiration and feel for Yugi Oh was fucking HELLSING.
If you look carefully you can even notice the influence on the art style. He wanted to do a brutal horror comic about the King of the Games being a super powered evil side, that slowly becomes a good guy.
The idea was to have him playing always different games on each new arc, but them the card games became too famous and profitable, all the manga had to revolve around it and be kidified for the mainstream audiences.
>>84181013
>implying a dungeons book would put actual audience on the cover
That episode of Community as great.
>>84182112
I read it in the manga but Season 0 never aired in the states so I had no idea it existed and I didn't start torrenting anime until I grew out of shonen anime.
Best D&D Episode?
Got back into DMing after a long, long hiatus, 5e is good stuff, 4e was vidya game-style garbage.
3.5 and Pathfinder are fit only for min-max obsessive autists.
>>84186275
Kazuki should have stuck with this concept instead of pussing out.
>>84186577
>>84186624
It wasn't pussing out, it was cashing in
>>84186624
It's nice to do what you like, but better to pay the rent and have money left over to party with.
>>84186520
it feels really weird reading the old yugioh stories. yugi behaves like a tool most of the time, gets bullied for it and then he becomes this super cool awesome dude who gets revenge in an overly edgy way. And the girl loves him.
Maybe it's just me, but it feels like the writer is compensating for his own childhood where he got bullied. The villains for example are written in such an unnecessary evil way that they feel more like straw men than legit characters.
>>84186557
i picked up seasons 2,3 and 4 of community the other day at a yard sale. 1 dollar a piece and they were still sealed.
>>84180935
There are decent D&D related comics, at least.
>>84185336
Wait, you mean the board game Risk? And bot some identically named RPG?
Because Undergrads did a fucking great episode with Risk, complete with the game exploding into everyone being cunts because the game is lasting too long
>>84182112
f.g.d. is basically Tiamat
>>84185336
Not a cartoon, but there was a Seinfeld episode about Risk
>>84181013
It was total garbage. Felt distinctly like none of the writers had ever played DnD
>>84186153
>but remember they're playing 2nd edition for some reason
>for some reason
OSR you doofus.
>>84181417
/tg/ usually has game finder threads if you want to poke around there.
Jake and flame king talk about flame princess in a dnd manner.
J: if someone that was good started to hang out around her would she start to be good?
F:well she would have an experience penalty for acting out of alignment but...I suppose.
>>84186649
He could have done that with his original concept, if he wasn't a lazy coward.
>>84187962
YGO would not have sold as crazy world-wide if it was about a psychopathic murderer instead of kids playing card games and talking about friendship
>>84183314
> Needing miniatures instead of using the theater of the mind.
What a bunch of plebs. No wonder they are shunned.
>>84188179
Theater of the mind doesnt work for every system.
>>84186275
1- fire on the lighter
2- wait for the bottle to end then move your hand horizontally
>>84181013
>Listen, here's all these super convoluted rules for making a character.
>OK, now when you're playing the game everything is made up on the spot
>>84187400
Malcolm in the Middle, too
>>84188179
It's better than everyone swearing they were close enough to hit a target 50 feet away with their greatsword.
>>84184581
And two chapters later he played table hockey on a stove using a puck made of ice and nitroglycerin. You read that right.
>>84189081
just use pen and paper to keep track of that is not that hard
>>84181013
the nadir of the shitfest that was Gravity Falls Season 2B.
>>84189105
Yami was a fucking Psycho. I've always wanted a writefag to make a crossover where Jigsaw gets him and immediately regrets it.
>>84181381
>>84182870
>lol ur a nerd ur argument is invalid lol
Alex Hirsch pls go.
Even with the inaccuracy aside it was still a garbage episode with a contrived problem, just like the rest of S2B.
>>84182761
4th ed works best as a tactical Miniatures game. The way each game plays depends massively on the GM though.
>>84183199
Is it really necessary to have a laughtrack after every single line of Dialogue?
>>84189081
Use zones, moron. It's not hard to remember who's in what melee.
>>84185336
Bruh.
https://youtu.be/md7t4bszbog
>always want to play a game like this
>everybody says they would do it but I would have to organize it
>I don't want to DM, I want to be a player
>would have to look outside of my circle of friends to join a game I guess
>I really don't want to associate with the undesirables that play these kinds of games
>>84191171
>On /co/
>readind comics or childrends cartoons
>I really don't want to associate with the undesirables that play these kinds of games
I'm bathing in the irony
>>84191244
I dont even do those things anymore, coming here is just a habit at this point
Was Recess's version of this good? I don't remember.
>Dumb character keeps rolling 20s.
>>84191291
>I dont even do those things anymore
You really should bathe at least.
>>84191171
>too lazy to draw a dungeon on graph paper and use pregenerated monsters
>too much of a coward to meet people who play
>everyone else is the problem
>>84191346
It was pretty ok.
It didn't really mock the nerds.
Later today, I would totally be down for running a game for some of the gameless dorks in this thread.
Probably using skype, if anyone is interested of course.
>>84191346
Legit thought that TJ would be a pale kid for a few minutes and have to get the rest of the gang to rescue him.
>>84191346
Too bad there isn't any art of these guys 'initiating' TJ into the kind of fun they usually have behind locked doors.
>>84180848
It's a shame D&D has such a social stigma around it. It's incredibly fun and 100% of the time if someone is like "EW THAT'S FOR NERDS" and I can get them to actually give it a shot, they love it.
>>84180935
Futurama.
>>84191825
Feels bad, but at the same time it's easy to see which people are actually cool if they can try out dnd without being an autist.
>>84183933
>all the figures looked the same
that will never not be funny
>>84181064
>GM rolls for everything, players just say what they want to do
That's actually how the game wad originally meant to be played, and was played back in 1rst edition. The players roll for everything convention came about since most GM's couldn't be bothered to memorize or write down everyones character sheet, so it was easier to have each player do their own rolls.
While it may be hard to trust in a GM to that extent, I would absolutely recommend playing a game with that kind of convention, it's actually pretty cool. It keep secret perception checks secret, keeps failed knowledge roll results secret, and really makes metagaming near impossible.
>>84191825
My biggest problem is probably the normies that come in thanks to big bang theory and just make Rick and Morty jokes the entire game like a sperg lord
>It's a magical realm episode
>>84193247
>mfw I met my best friend from /d/
>When not playing normal games we play /d/nd
>>84183227
Parents who think this is what their son does all day.
>>84181013
I thought it was just OK. The "cheap plastic case" for the infinity-sided die is an alright one-liner joke, but it was way too stupid to be a plot device.
>>84185346
Lack of party cohesion is the worst.
>be bow ranger
>druid positions himself, and necromancer positions undead, in line of fire all the time
>druid casts storms almost every battle
>-8 to ranged attack rolls all combat every combat
>go into melee to try and do something
>get aoe'd by other party members
>>84183491
>Entire party goes out to buy 4e books
>Get home and open them up
>Instant disgust
We tried having fun but everything from character creations to fights seem to be all about funnels and bottlenecks
For the people in this thread who want to play a role playing game but have no group to do it with, just go to your local game store I guarantee they have something similar to a beginners night. Or check online for a convention near you, lots of times at a convention the people playing haven't played that specific game before so you would fit right in. If anyone happens to be in western Washington there is a small convention called Go Play Northwest that is geared towards people playing boardgames and role playing games for the first time.
>>84181174
>she is on the ropes and asks for mercy after being a huge bitch with DnD and killing off his guy
>Could you really take that away from me?
>....YEP!
>Babycakes decapitates her and she gets BTFO
>>84193282
>Playing a pretend game of cock vore with someone you know by name
Is that relly awkward, or have you just lost all shame at this point?
>>84193223
When has that ever happened?
>>84194936
I was playing a 5e one off and we had a guy start singing "get shwifty" in the middle of combat
Guy was a faggot
>>84195059
yeah better to play with huge nerds who spout internet memes all day long
>>84189550
No one is arguing that the episode is terrible, they're just pointing out that you're a huge autist if you got bothered by the inaccuracies.
>>84183128
I'd say after season 3, it fell apart for me. Didn't help that they booted the original show runner, and fucked it up even more to what felt like a completely different show. Didn't Dan Harmon came back, but he was all disenchanted, and shit?
>>84183150
If you read up on Chevy Chase, he's super difficult to work with, and in this case, the was oppose to Pierce being shit, since it is know that he would often ad-lib his characters to make them better.
Also, nice thread. I don't know much about D&D, or ever played it, but reading people get hype over it, always makes me hype over it.
>>84195561
Season 5 was actually pretty good. They booted him again for season 6, which was worse then season 4.
>>84195342
but is not just a few autistic details that they got wrong, they missed the fundamental core of what the game is even about, i dont think is too autistic to be bothered by that
>>84194838
Well, we're talking about knowing someone on the internet, their steam avatar is an anime grill, and we both know we go to /d/ so it's pretty fine.
So I guess lost all shame.
Borderlands 2 had a whole DnD campaign.
Was pretty good
>tfw the only D&D game you play is a magical realm variant with a bunch of online perverts
>tfw you want to play an actual game with people who aren't all sick in the head
I don't expect many people to relate to this.
>>84197131
>tfw that guy who rolls to rape/kiss an orc
>game derails as we now have to deal with his decision
>>84197167
>tfw you want to play an actual game with people who aren't all sick in the head
Let me know when you find a group like this. I've never had a tg game that didn't have at least 2 dudes who weren't creeps.
>>84186577CHOKE ON MY ROD
>>84191825
Break them in with a simple superhero RPG. Everyone has imagined themselves with some super powers at least a few times in their life.
Once they get over their "RPGs are for nerds", you can then move on to D&D or whatever else you enjoy running or playing.
>be a kid
>Think D&D looks cool on shows
>Don't know it is based on a real game
>be about 16 and find out it is a real game
>sadness
>>84193127
Actually, player rolling for obvious stuff they would know about (ie, combat to hit roll) was done to keep the players interested.
Remember, originally D&D had a "caller" who had to tell the DM what each party member would do. This meant the players had to tell the "caller", who would then tell the DM. This controlled the general team talking at once going on, and made sure that only "official" actions the caller approved of would be actually done.
That is boring as hell.
GM rolling for secret rolls like perception checks and other things? That's been the way since about forever. Core part of 2nd Edition for sure, and mentioned in some of the 1st edition supplements IIRC.
>>84180935
Not a D&D episode, but as a D&D scene, season one of Venture Brothers has a pretty good one. It's a flashback to Rusty in college. The DM is a nerd obsessed with a girl named Leslie Cohen, and builds a bunch of shit into the campaign around her. Encountered with a "Leslie Golem", Rusty refuses to fight her, and instead does a charisma roll to seduce her. He succeeds, which pisses off the DM.
Seems remarkably similar to situations I've been in. DM forces some personal shit onto the group, the group refuses to play along, pisses off DM.
>>84201125
Never played the game, but is this specific type >>84193247 of DM, really that common?
>>84183128
He does, it's just that Community has something of continuity. Or at least, it did, I stopped watching after the shitfest of Season 4.
>>84186749
You got ripped off. Should've just gotten S1.
>>84201373
I'm not sure how common it might be compared to the other kinds of DMs, but i've seen plenty.
Usually more can keep a lid on it and you might never be able to tell what their fetish is until you've played multiple games with them which each have a female centaur NPC.
There's also the autist types where you'll be able to tell instantly, they're less common probably.
>>84201373
Not in the exact way in manifests in VB, but to some degree? Yeah, in my experience.
DM gets obsessed with Dragon Age: Origins, new campaign is built around an obvious rip-off of The Fade, and an NPC exactly like Zevran.
DM reads a bunch of Anne Rice books and half-way into a running campaign, it becomes all about vampires abruptly. DM tries to finish campaign as fast as possible to convince everyone to play Vampire: The Masquerade.
DM gets into zombies, zombie hordes everywhere. DM gets into anime, decides to have a "beach episode" in the campaign. DM obsessed with puzzles and shit, forces everyone to go through some elaborate puzzle lock bullshit, angry when he forgets that the fire mage can just melt through the lock. Etc.
DMs making campaigns or individual sessions all about the media they're currently consuming is a problem I've had with numerous different DMs.
>>84201708
>DM gets into anime, decides to have a "beach episode" in the campaign.
Clearly that's something I should do now
>>84183438
Motorcity.
>>84202712
But yeah, that was more larping then straight-up D&D.The overall writing, at worst, was flimsy and repetitive, but the visuals/designs were 10/10, and it even showed promise at the end with the plot.
>>84180892
yup
