Dungeons and Dragons, explained 

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I lack the very first requirement of the game: Friends.

You forgot the most difficult part of DnD. Find a day that everybody can play.

I love the fact it started with him calling them “coworkers” and ended with him calling them “friends”.

Also, you say there's no winning in D&D... I disagree. You win friends.

I'm glad you made this. The game is referenced so much and never explained.

Reason 1,045 for playing D&D. I am 67 years old. My son, who is now 37, is very busy. My nephew I hardly ever get to see. And my young friend 27, I meant in collage last year, could have just moved on. I invited them all to come together to play Dungeons and Dragons in hopes they would say yes. We are now on our 10th game over 6 months and are level 6. This game has brought together those who most dear to me that I would otherwise not get to see very often. We are having a ball. Thank you Wizards of the Coast.

My classmate when playing tried to flirt with a giant, acidic, wasp in the game, but it failed. So she sang a song called "aLl StAr" and it made the wasp go away in a trance.

Who else wished they had nerdy friends who would play this with them :’(

"Should you play D&D?" *Rolls a 1 on video creation* "No" *Video abruptly ends*

"It was a total misunderstanding"

“The best part of D&D is creating a character” *laughs in forever DM*

All of the characters I've made and played (2) have both killed a entire race on accident......they were both neutral good

Our DnD sessions always starts in "brotherhood/fellowship of the ring"-style and ends up as Monty Python and Holy Grail.

I wish I could have played this growing up. Seems like a fun time.

Now I know why I barely know this thing for years. It's a social game!

"So... What do you do for a living?" "Well.... I am a coworker"

"Nobody makes fun of anybody." What bizarre edition are you playing?

Dude 1: I come in peace!! (Rolls 20) Dude 2: I also come in peace!!(rolls 1) Goblin:.. Goblin: Sorry, what??

i thought d&d was a "nerd" game but ever since me and my friends said "okay, lets try it out" we are always at my house having fun and enjoying time with each other and not sitting there playing video games

I had no idea it’s such an intimate game

Uh...I don't see any pizza. It's not D&D without pizza.

It’s basically a choose your own adventure video game, but the choices are literally limitless

Those 20-sided die though. I still get excited when I see someone roll one. Oh the possibility contained in that roll.

coworkers who D&D together, stay together

Shout out to the dm’s of the world, especially the ones who aren’t hellbent on killing their players

The GM should have outstanding imagination

IT's all good and fun until the healer said "im your daddy now" and the party argue

Paper RPG are absolutely amazing, most people don't know what they are missing out...

I’ve never clicked on a Vox notification so quickly. Sending this to my DnD group immediately!

I would totally play if I didn’t lack the first rule: Friends.

"We were slaughtering a band of peasants--- it was a total misunderstanding" is one of the most D&D lines I've heard. Lol!

Ok thank you Vox. I have NEVER understood how people play this. Great info.

Lol the DM’s Goblin impression sounds like Sméagol

2:55 I hand out pamphlets like a Jehovah Witness 🤣🤣🤣🤣

wont lie, d&d is my favorite game to get drunk and spend hours with the homies on.

First time I played dnd: rolled 3 natural 1's and missed an attack, slipped and feel into a portal to a water dimension where i drown to death

As a professional Dungeon Master, it’s good to see stuff like this where people are getting a competent introduction!

Remember the players handbook is a manual. It doesn't need to be read cover to cover. Mostly when a question pops up you can go to the back of the book and find out what page number your answer is on.

"the goal of DnD isn't to kill other players" What kind of campaigns am I playing then

This is the best explanation. Fought a bunch of dog monsters the other night. You know it’s bad when they start to levitate.

damn when you said it took a long time you should’ve added in the clip on mike (finn wolfhard) saying “i didn’t know the campaign was supposed to take 10 hours!” his mom: “YOUVE BEEN PLAYING FOR TEN HOURS?!”

I started playing 20 years ago, when I was 12. I was alone, sad and excluded, with no friends, and retrospectively...it saved my life. I play every week, different friends and different systems, and I owe this game everything I am today.

I got a quest for you all it’s the quest of finding me friends this will be a hard and dangerous quest but you will be paid one copper piece XD

I'm so glad that (a) 5th edition exists, since it's finally simplified enough for absolutely anyone to be able to play; and (b) that this D&D renaissance is happening right now! I got all my coworkers to try D&D about a year ago and they're all hooked.

This was deff one of the best Vox vids. I was already curious about D&D, but actually seeing real ppl play has solidified my choice 100%.lol I wanna play sooo bad.lol

this is so awesome! I'm a digital artist, and in my hunt for clients, I've been approached by several people who wanted me to illustrate their DnD characters - enough that it made me want to actually learn more about this game and why so many people like it, and now I think starting this year, I'm going to be a lot more involved. This all looks and sounds so epic!

That moment you realize that you've been playing a smaller version of D and D your entire life. Wow.

Never played d&d but it sounds fun

I lost it at Mother Teresa...

Why favorite words in dungeons and dragons is “everyone roll initiative”

play DnD is considered cool and fun and educational but when i played 8 hours a day of WoW for the same exact reasons "i had a problem"

*Grabs Dice* Ok Vox, lets see if you can do D&D justice. Edit: Yes. Yes You can.

Perfect 10 stars excellent video all the way around! Very well did! D&D for life!

You made my half elf Knight cry, He doesn’t want the oath of vengeance anymore 😭

Hey man, just wanted to say thank you! This video convinced me to get the starter set when I first saw it a year or two ago. Flash forward to today and I'm planning my SECOND campaign. This hobby is amazing and I'm so grateful you introduced me to it! Roll well my friend!

@Vox, please review the Greek subtitles i have contributed for this video and add them as soon as possible! I'm standing by in case you disagree with something and want it changed, eventhough i am very confident in the work i did which derives from my huge love for this amazing game we play! Please add the subtitles so more people in my country can enjoy the great work you did here! Thank you!

Perfect timing, i just got invited to a D&D game based around politicians (i'm jeremy corbyn) and i wanted to play but didn't know how

“I handout pamphlets like a Jehovah’s witness” haha!

i love how you explain such a detailed concept in simple words

I finally understand D&D and I laughed and smiled a lot while learning about it. Thanks for the fun vid Vox!

Wait, Vox Like... *Vox Machina*

It will be the first that I get to play D&D with my Long-Time Friends it's a Reunion!!! During the Christmas Season!!! I'm so fired up! And Excited!

This is one of my fave D&D RU-vid videos. The connections and the fun of D&D are shown better here than any other vid I can think of.

i died laughing when she said, "Carrying pamphlets like a Jehovah's Wittness" LOL XD

Lots of people associate D&D with "nerds". While it does have a strong helping of the nerd/geek contingent, it is also very popular in the military. And ultimate anti-geek actor Vin Diesel (yes, of Fast/Furious fame, as well as being the voice of Groot) is a huge D&D dork, has played in online streamed games, and even wrote the forward to the D&D 30th Anniversary Book "30 Years of Adventure"!

WOW! You've completely sold this to me! Nicely explained, clear guidance... now, where are my mates to play some D&D!

I am a DM for one group and a player in another. I love finding videos like this to share with people to show them how much fun and connection they can find in a game. Thank you.

Okay, so you've given me a reason to write about the first time I've played D&D. My character was a tortle (toad people, but this one was hexed into one) with a rock-like skin posing as a rock in the middle of a tavern. Then one of my friends tripped over me, so I had to lash out a little. I rolled a 2 and knocked over a couple of glasses. I got in a situation with the barkeeper, who pulled out a crossbow. Then I dragged all my friends into the situation to end up escorted to prison by the military. We broke out using trickery and I went to get our stuff. I then wanted (or at least acted like I wanted) to sell the other player's stuff at the market. Then another player didn't like it and smacked me on my head with a staff. I ran away and started a little solo adventure finding a treasure. I found a dead troll in a cave and smeared its manure over myself in order to hide my own smells so the dragon (dragon noises were heard) wouldn't find me. I then went to my friends' encampment and I sneaked up on the player who smacked me with his staff, dealing 8 damage to his 10 hitpoints. I considered the matter settled, but my friends wanted to take all my stuff. I then tried to escape to the cave, where I fell unconcious due to my own hunting trap I set in the cave. My friends then took me to their encampment and they took my weapons. I survived the ordeal but I was keen on getting my weapons back. They told me they'd give me my weapons if the dragon appeared. So I tried to call the dragon and I rolled a 1 so the dragon came and he ate me and one of my friends. Such a waste of 1 inspiration point due to the trollmanure. We had to make 2 new characters. 10/10 would play again.

They didn't really trick the goblin. They just kinda became homies with him

This was an amazing video! I wanna play D&D with these folks. My 2 sons (ages 10 & 13), my wife, and I started playing D&D last fall, and we love it. Sometimes the rules get overwhelming, but we just (literally) roll with it. So much fun, and this video NAILS it. I also love the part about when they talk about WHY they love to play. Wonderful video.

My character is a cowardly orc which is afraid of bananas

Should you play D&D? Yes. *Video Ends*

I can see Dunkey as being a great DM

This was beautiful, bought a tear to my level 3 peasant goblin

This is an excellent encapsulation of everything which makes table top RPGs special. Thank you so much for making this video.

1:36 My friends would be like: "Are you sure about that"

I made a math version of this in the 8th grade. And I based the characters off of our unit grades and injuries were done in cross sections of the cardboard pieces we had.

My friend at school wants to play D&D. I've never played, but I do now after watching this.

This video make me happy. I don't have any friends to play with, but watching people having such a good time is really beautiful. Make more videos with so much heart like this one, please!

I've played this game since the early 80s. I've yet to see a video that introduces it so succinctly & sweetly as this one. A+++

What a good thing. Your explanation of D&D's purposes and mechanics are spot-on. Sure, you could have added that its mechanics are the basis of many, many other FRP games and other games including card games like Magic the Gathering and even pokemon, but what you chose to do was really good. I've had some marvelous DMs over the course of my career in FRP games who provided superb visuals and even game-system crossovers leading to games like Cyberpunk and Shadowrun and seeing someone talk about FRP games and what they really are (not what the conservative religious or the jock contingent need them to be to mock them) just leaves me stoked. Game on!

I'm so pleased :) I have been researching D&D stuff for a while and I would very much like to play sometime soon.

7:57 really hit me in the feels

Really good explanation of not only the mechanic of tabletop storytelling, but the experience that we all know and love so well.

My current dnd game I am playing as a paladin/bard from the future who got sent back in time during a civil war reenactment that basically worships America. Think tf2's soldier but... no that's basically it. Also through a long series of luck nat 20 rolls, I have a sentient flying blob of horseradish that somehow has more hp than my actual character at this point. My DM has a pretty wide tolerance for shenanigans.

3:13 a tiefling rogue motivated solely by money? 11/10 accuracy

“There’s actually no ‘winning’ in D&D.” Au contraire! There is MUCH, MUCH winning!

This video helped make the game play seem alot less intimidating. I am trying to get a group together, and i am excited to start soon!

And a bunch of early RPG titles like Baldurs Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Icewind Dale etc. basically took this and attempted to make video game versions. Where at 4:40 some games attempted to prevent railroading with games like the original Fallout games, where how you build your character and choices made can radically change outcomes and endings.

DnD is truly a great game. Been gaming with the same group in the same campaign for 2-3 years now. We've laughed and there has actually been a few tears too. But it's not the actual game that is the important bit, it's the friendship. The players in our group decided to thank our DM for all the time and effort he puts into the game and story for us by telling him what the game meant to us and how it's changed us. To quote one guy, "I finally have a reason to keep track of what day it is now.". Aaaand on top of that, I have some rad good-night-stories to tell my nephew :D

I remember as a kid playing this dressing up and having "quest" in the woods..I miss those days....

Been playing with almost the same group of people for over 10 years now. We all meet in college and starred playing. Now even though we work full time jobs, got married, and have kids, we still get together every week or every other week and play. This game brings people together and creates real magic, friendship!

Where my Critters at? Let's spread this around!

“There’s no winning.” Isn’t winning finishing your campaign by achieving your ultimate goal in the game?

This video is wonderful. I've never played D&D and now I want to. Thank you.

This is the best explanation so far of what is roleplaying games, and always makes me happy. I even translated it to spanish for my students to see it.

I would love to play D&D however i don't have enough close by friends with who i can sit down at a table and play D&D with..

d&d is responsible for all the awesome rpg's i play. rip gary gygax

Greetings @Vox, please review and activate the Greek subtitles i submitted 10 months ago. I'm always at your disposal to clarify or correct anything you want, just as long as we can share this with the big D&D community in Greece and even more importantly with the many people that dont know what they are missing! Please take a look at it and make us happy! Thank you as always.