D&D 101: Dice 

Aye I also have dyscalculia and this is exactly why I'm here. My bf was not explaining it well enough for my dumb learning brain to understand. This helped immensely.

This comment makes me so happy. I started this channel to help people learn how to play and hearing that these videos are so helpful for you makes it so worth it.

@@FitzTheGame Please keep making them! I'm a total noob at D&D but have wanted to learn for years. The handbook isn't helpful like the OG commenter said due to the shapes and numbers. Explaining everything with detail and telling the difference between the two D10 dice helped a lot. I actually just got done with my first D&D session and it went great! Thanks again!

I have trouble understanding. I'm trying to get ready for Baldur's gate 3. This video definitely helped me.

Happy to hear that.

You are very welcome. I’m happy you found what you were looking for.

Great tip, thanks for sharing.

Im happy you found the video helpful.

Thank you so much. That means a lot. I'm happy you find them helpful.

Thanks, I’m happy you got some use out of it.

I'm happy you found this video useful, the d10/100 can be a confusing pair. Congrats on starting your first game, it can seem like a lot at first but remember everyone is there for the same reason, to have fun.

Spoken like a true DM, don’t let the rules get in the way of a good time. One tip: try to remember that it’s a collaborative story telling game. Make sure to leave room for your players to aim the story in a direction they enjoy, always be willing to adapt and adjust as needed. Can’t wait to hear about your game when you start DMing.

Fantastic, welcome to your new favourite past time 😀

Cool. Let me know if they like it. I enjoy helping new players. It can be so overwhelming to start.

Fantastic! I’m happy you found it helpful. Hopefully you find further videos helpful.

Fantastic, I’m so happy you found the video helpful.

I’m happy you found it helpful.

Great reason to join a great pastime. I’m really sorry to hear about your loss, it’s never easy to loose someone close to you. Playing again sounds like a good way to relieve your time together and reconnect through your memories and nostalgia. There is a great community of people online, shouldn’t be too hard find a group. It would also be worth asking around at your local game store(s). They may know of a group looking for new people to play with. I wish you all the luck finding a group and thanks for sharing with me/us.

Thanks.

Thanks for watching

How inventive of you. Best of luck to you you go looking for players.

If you have any questions, or want a deeper explanation just let me know.

Thanks

You are most welcome. I’m happy you found it helpful.

I'm happy you found it helpful. You are welcome!

You are welcome for this.

You are welcome, I’m happy you found it useful.

Thanks!

Thanks for watching

Thanks!

Awesome. My plan is to break down the game, bit by bit, so players can just watch the video they want to learn about (not so overwhelming), or watch the full playlist as an introduction to the game(new DnD 101 video every Monday). I'm super happy someone found it useful.

Also, once I've broken down the basics, I want to do a live stream where I make a character and new players can follow along and ask questions as we go. Not sure when that'll happen, but if there is a want/need for it before I finish the basics, I'll go by demand.

Thanks, I’m happy you enjoyed it.

You are welcome so much

That sounds exciting. Happy I could help.

There are 2 different types of D4. If you lay the die flat on the table and look at one side of it there will either be a number at the top of the side you are looking at and two numbers at the bottom of that side, in that case the number at the top is the number you have rolled. The other style will have two numbers at the top of the die and one number at the bottom, in that case the number at the bottom is the number that you have rolled. I hope that clears it up, if not let me know. Either way I’ll see if I can take a of some dice and make a post in the community section of the channel. I think a visual aid would really help explain this better.

@@FitzTheGame i think i get it now! I was caught off guard with how it looked unlike the either die where the number on top is the one we look at 😅. Thank you so much 💓

@@IsaberuGuillz no problem, there is a picture on the community tab now, if you would like a visual aid. Thanks for the question, I guarantee you aren’t the only one asking.

You use the dice for things that happen in the game.

​@@pauldavis5665Yeah but for some people you need more of a specific explination (e.g examples like for the cenarios for D20 or another dice)

@@Your_Local_Loser Oh I see. Well in some scenerios you use the D20, in some you use the D12, in some you use the D10, in some you use the D8, in some you use the D6, and in some you use the D4.

You are correct. Rolling a 20 on the percentile die and a 00 on the d10 is equal to 20. That’s how it is in any game that I run and any game I’ve ever played in. That being said, I have heard of people using a different interpretation where they use the 0 on the d10 as 10, so they would add 10 to the 20, but I’ve only read about that on the internet and it doesn’t seem right to me.

@@FitzTheGame tysm I'm new to DND and was confused about the percentage die

No problem. Happy to help. Let me know if you have any other questions.

You are welcome

You are welcome. Try asking around local game stores, see if there are any groups in the area looking for players. Or let them know you are starting a group and are looking for players. Conventions can also be good for this. Also, look into D&D adventurers League(not sure if this is still a thing, haven’t heard about it in a while and it never happened near me) it’s organized D&D that a bit of a promotional boost for wizards of the coast to promote the product, they have a website you can search to find a game near you. You can also check Reddit or similar online groups on Facebook and see if anyone in your local area is looking to start a group. Best of luck in finding a group and happy hunting.

Thanks you and may all future games be TPK free@@FitzTheGame

@jonathandemint4739 thank you for watching. Best of luck finding a group. May your die always land on 20.

Good point, a coin comes in handy quite often. I keep one in my dice box at all time.

You are welcome

Thank you! I really appreciate your kind words and I’m really happy you found the video helpful.

Yes, that’s exactly what it means.

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You should try again, the campaign books do a lot to help a new DM when guiding a player through the game. As for players all you need to worry about is having fun, good thing is you get to define what that looks like so creativity doesn’t have to be a major factor if that’s not your thing. I’d recommend having a look at a local game store or geeky convention if you are looking for people to play with. Quite often there are people just like you, wanting to play but not having a group. You may be in the right place at the right time and snag that “group of nerds”.

@@FitzTheGame I actually went to a DnD themed roller skating event just last night to try meeting some people! I'll have to see what conventions and stores are around me, thanks for that rec :) I think i'll get a players handbook to learn the basics, and look into what makes a good DM to see if I could handle that at some point. thanks for the tips and encouragement!

@@foolgazer great idea. You can get the basic rules on the wizard’s of the coast website for free if that helps. There are lots of great resources on RU-vid for DMing, watch a few and some live play channels to see who’s style you like.

Welcome to the game. Grab a character sheet and some dice and enjoy.

I have played some MTG in the past. You end up with quite a few and really d20 spin down dice. Just make sure you don’t bring them to the D&D table, they aren’t a proper randomized balanced die, some people may not want you to play with them. If you come over to the D&D side you’ll have lots of new different shaped dice in no time. They are addictive lol

@@FitzTheGame can imagine, I’m already on the d&d dice side of tiktok , just gotta find a group lol , hoping to find at least someone once uni starts and I meet some new people !! :D

Should be able to find a crowd there. University age is perfect for D&D. If you have any questions about the game please feel free to come back and ask. I don’t post videos very often but I like to stay on top of helping people learn the game if there are any questions.

You are not the first person to bring that up. Wish I would have mentioned it in the video. I did a community post after being asked about it before. I wish I could paste a link to it in the description but I don’t have the option.

The way I see it: since rolling a percentile die and a d10 technically give you a number between 11 and 110 but you are rolling on a chart that’s between 1 and 100, you can’t get over a 100 value so you don’t count the 100 of you roll the “00” on the percentile die and you don’t count the “10” on the d10 if you roll “00” and “0” (maximum value on both die, representing the highest roll available) at the same time. So 00(100) + 0(10) = 100 because you have hit the maximum allowed value. If you roll 90 + 0 you have exceeded the maximum allowed value in the 90’s so you disregard the 0(10) roll. If you roll 00(100) + 9 you rolled 109 which exceeds the limit so you drop the 00 because you need to be able to roll between 1 - 9 because that’s how the numbers are set up on the chart. Same as any other rule though; it’s up to the DM to decide how to use the d100 roll at their table. If you run your game different from other people that’s fantastic, just make sure players understand before they roll.

Also, I want to make sure you know that I’m not saying you are wrong, I just see it differently. This is a fantastic topic for discussion. It’s great to see other people’s point of view, D&D is such a fun game because it gives you the ability to customize any aspect you want and play in a way that makes sense to you and your players.

@@FitzTheGame yeah this can be confusing, as your technique now introduces a third way of calculating. So if we go by your way. on a percentile check of 50% where 50% and lower is a fail and 51% and higher is a success. There is now 40% chance of failure (anything between 10-1 and 40-0) and 49% chance of success(anything between 50-1 to 90-9) and 11% chance of getting a critical success by rolling a 100. (90-0 and anything between 00-1 and 00-0) The question is how do you determine a critical failure roll of 1%, probably just say that rolling 10-1 is the worst as it is lowest on the scale. But yeah talk to your dm first, and usually as a player you dont roll percentiles that much anyways, its usually a DM rolling percentiles to figure things out on random tables.

Yes, a phone can be a great tool. I have a few dice rolling apps. Plus it’s always in my pocket. Can’t beat the feel and sound of some dice on a table though. 😁

So true. Every time I see one I think about how it feels to step on one lol

Nope. It’s 1 to 100.

It’s actually a cube, which is a 6 sided 3D object. The 3 was just the side showing when I held it up to show which one I was talking about, I was showing the 3 on purpose, it was just change that it was held towards the camera.

@@FitzTheGame it’s ok I. Thinking to get dungeons and dragons sometime but if I shan’t to start playing different storylines for the game does that mean I’ll have to buy different widescreens for different games? The widescreen you see the dungeon master have in front of him? Can I play it on the internet? I, a bit of an introvert and an only child so I only have myself to play it unless I ask my parents and ,y parents aren’t into that stuff.

The Dungeon Masters screen can be used from game to game, they have made different versions for different game book releases , but they aren’t needed to play each campaign book. You can even make your own (tutorial on my channel 😁), or not use one at all. My first DM Screen was the box that the D&D 5e starter set comes in. To start playing there are some was to find a game online, like using the looking for group feature on Roll20.net or places like Reddit. If you are young please make sure you have permission to do that and please be safe when talking to people online no matter where you are chatting with them. I was very introverted as a child and still am in a lot of ways, especially when it comes to sharing my interests, so I know how hard it can be to find people to play with, but going to a local game store and asking if they host new player friendly games can be a great way to start playing. If you live in a large or mid size city there very well could be an official D&D Adventurers league game you can join. I was 31 years old before I allowed myself to come out of my shell and start playing D&D, not because I was ashamed of it but because I was terrified to talk about it and too shy to ask anyone to play with me. I missed out on a lot of good gaming years. Other then that you may be able to scratch the itch and learn more about D&D by watch people play, reading the official novels or playing games like Baldur’s Gate and Neverwinter nights. I have also heard of solo D&D games, ones where a book essentially DMs for you, but I’ve never actually seen one before. This wouldn’t give you the same experience but it could be fun.

@@FitzTheGame thanks for the info I just needed to know, I’m not 40 years old I appreciate being called young been a while since someone called me that lol, well if jus came after a bad case of the cold I guess I could do with a compliment.

Hopefully you are feeling better, a young person like you has no time for being sick.