Gigachad DM Rulings 

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I know its not that funny, but the finality with which he said "I'm gonna play a dragon. RED. ADULT."

I would personally prefer playing as a dungeon.

DND gigachad just sounds like spending an unhealthy amount of time on DND homebrew to give your friends what they want and ohhhhh, I already do that.

I will say…I did a Strahd gothic horror campaign where the DM was VERY strict with classes and races, and we all had to play as humans. It ended up being one of the most immersive and coolest campaigns I’ve ever been a part of. Then again I also played another strahd campaign where we were complete wacky weirdos, attended a wedding for rats, had a fashion show in Vallaki, got absolutely blazed on an in game drug and pulled about a dozen cards from the deck of many things, hilarity ensued. so through that I became a fan of both approaches, not just the “anything goes” direction

DM: "How does everyone feel about Jacob playing an adult red dragon?" Bard: "..."

Jacob (sneak attack) hitting the griddy in excitement for Jacob (Bugbear) big story moment rules, and then hitting that gwiddy even harder at the end rocks.

I love seeing the Wizard's antithesis. This time, we get to see some real DM action from a guy who can make anything work!

There is no way that "Batonk the Bugbear bonk" was a one take line.... I needz the bloopers for this!

I think the best part is that the player sneaking at the end is the one playing the red dragon

I had a player want to play as a snail... After some homebrewing a Escargonian was born

Imagine Gigachad DM being your first DM ever. You'd become a player for life

He would give Wizard an an entire arc focusing on their relationship with the Shadow Wizard Money Gang shadow government

i think the dragon example is a great showcasing of a gigachad dm that shows care for the players concern and tries to accommodate. HOWEVER it's perfectly valid as a DM to say no to something that requires that much prep work and reworking, as the DM you're also a player, your concerns around the narrative matter and if you don't want to run the game with someone playing a character that disrupts that story you're perfectly within your rights to say no to that.

Loved that moment when the Gigachad had them roll initiative. One player's roleplaying victory does not have to cancel out the big combat for the rest of the party - you can have both!

It’s not about giving the players anything they want it’s about making a great story, for them and for you, together, the books and rules are just the tools to help that happen.

I'm a therapist and DM for teen clients, and we're doing homebrew campaigns with therapeutic aspects to them so my focus is on making sure the therapy part of the narrative and world remain intact; anything else is up for grabs. Which means I absolutely feel the first part of this video; A wants to play this D&D meme character, B just wants to be a wizard and doesn't know or care what races are, C wants to play a changeling who randomly cycles through races with each one having their own stats based on what's appropriate for that race, and D wants to play a mech with a dark unicorn animal companion. We'll make it work, you just gotta give me a sec to think real fast.

Gigachad DM with the rules: "They're more like... Guidelines than actual ruuules"

In 2e there was a setting called Council of Wyrms that came with rules for playing as a real ass dragon. If I remember correctly, the book said “everyone should have a regular character and a dragon character”. Your dragon took forever to level up but I still think it’s cool.

I will pattern every future campaign I have in reverence to Gigachad DM. Anything is possible, mutual respect, fun, and one hell of a chin line.

God I had a guy play a plasmoid in strahd once. I didn't let him do it because I didn't have spelljammer. But once we were going to do it again I did have the book and he changed his mind and picked a DIFFERENT race from a DIFFERENT random book I didn't have.

I have a friend who loves your channel. I introduced him a while back and his fondness for your videos outgrew even mine, which was awesome. I was happy to see him find something he liked so much. He's the DM for our group and lately he's been doing stuff like this. I asked him where he's getting his ideas and he said, "Gigachad Jacob" and I literally laughed so hard. You made him a better GM by literally creating a character. That's pretty sick man.

bro dropped the hardest jacob edit

I would like at least one video where giga shows the proper way to have boundaries because like, it's legitimately not fair to DMs to act like the only way to be amazing is to deprioritize your enjoyment.

I think there is something very important here that could easily be overlooked. Not only is the DM trying to make it possible for one player to play a dragon, BUT the DM is asking the other players what they think about one of the group having such an unusual concept. And that's very important and something I've never seen on a role-playing table before. Often characters are even made secretly (with the DM) and other players don't know who is playing what until you sit at the table for the first session and you realize what a colorful and absurd group this is. And every time I think to myself, "Can't we talk a little bit and roughly agree on a topic?", and when I express these thoughts, I always hear the same answer: "Don't worry, it'll be okay." When I DM a game and we do a session 0, I also make sure that the players know each other who wants to play what and whether everyone is cool with the different concepts

Gigachad DnD content gives me life.

Gigachad is my favorite character you do. It's so natural for you!

That brings up a very good point that I will be taking with me. When a player wants to do something, I as the dm think is too wacky, ask the players how they feel and find a way to make everyone happy

Giga Chad DM strikes again. He is not afraid of your characters convoluted back story.

The song played at 1:23 "The Manual by Ballpoint"

My favorite character that I’ve ever DM’d is that I’m running a pirate campaign right now, while we’re all thinking up characters one of my buddies comes up to me and says “I’ve got an idea, and you can tell me if it’s stupid.” I say, “what’ve you got for me?” He says “Can I be… the ship?” I say fuck yes dude. He is the Bloody Bastard, the ghost ship, the scourge of the seas and it is fucking awesome.

I must say that I would hate if a DM robbed me of a good fight and potential victory in order to spin a story. But to each their own.

Oath of the Nord: Channel Divinity: Private Connection: as an action you can use your channel divinity to create 5 ephemeral clones within 120 feet of you for the next minute, afterwards you can use a bonus action to teleport to one of your clones, leaving a clone in your place. If you are within 5 feet of a clone, you have advantage on Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saving throws Channel Divinity: Virtual Protection: as an action, choose any amount of creatures equal to your proficiency bonus within 15 feet of you or a clone of yours, split any amount of temp hp between the targets equal to twice your paladin level , additionally, each target that gained temp hp from this effect gets the effect of sanctuary. Aura of Encryption: At 7th level friendly creatures within 10 feet of you are immune to effects that would read their mind, as well as being immune to telepathic communication unless the target allows it. Faster Connections: At 15th level you can swap places with an ephemeral clone once per turn instead of a bonus action. Master of Networks: At 20th level you can use a bonus action to allow your clones to each gain the auras you currently have with a 10 foot radius for 1 minute, this aura does not stack with you nor other clones summoned by you. you can use this feature twice per long rest. Oath spells: 3rd level: Shield, Disguise self 5th level: Protection from poison, Mirror Image 9th level: Protection from energy, Glyph of warding 13th level: Mordenkainens private sanctum, Aura of life 17th level: Antilife Shell, Passwall (this is probably unbalanced as hell and half baked but enjoy)

"Im gonna play a plasmoid artificer!" "In curse or sthrad?"not even 4 seconds in and I had to pause the video to lose my shit. I was dying laughing💀💀💀💀

That last one reminds me of something my DM does. One of my characters (our DM lets us switch them out if it's story appropriate and we want to) was raised to inherit her mothers position in the fey court, so she is naturally trained in politics and a particular way of saying things in a deceptive manner such that they're technically true, but imply something else. My DM often gives her the opportunity to make use of this skill, but they never make me roll for it, preferring to let me hard-skill it and just roleplay out those scenes outright. I much prefer it that way because that kind of wordplay is extremely fun for me, and it makes for some really tense scenes. Even though they would be justified in making me roll deception checks, they choose not to because it's more fun for everyone at the table if we just don't roll. A great DM knows when not to roll dice, and it really elevates the game. Most recently, by the way, my character convinced the queen of a nation to effectively put her in charge of their military munitions production, which she fully intends to completely sabotage. She did not lie once during the conversation, but managed to convince the queen that she was going to improve their production when in fact her plan is to ruin it utterly. Not a single roll was made in that conversation, but the entire table was so tense. Amazing moment.

Jacob's chad-face is the best monetization strat he has found in years and I'm all here for it

0:03 This clearly takes place after BG3 came out. Before BG3, no one would've actively wanted to play as a Githyanki.

First sponsor ad in a while I was genuinely entertained by. Beautiful segue!

These videos are the best. It's so good to see someone focusing what makes the experience at the table wholesome and fun and supportive. Inspired.

As someone who is literally playing a young red dragon in disguise, with a githyanki in the party, this video is amazing!

As a DM I learn a lot by watching these. Thank you.

I love this so much, I just made a Plasmoid Artificer and feel called out now.

THE LEGEND RETURNS

You are legit my favorite RU-vidr, everything you make is such an amazing balance of humor and wit.❤

Masterclass in acting, editing, and music. Love it.

Love these giga chad DM videos, wholesome and funny and educational.

That’s so funny, I’m getting back into DnD and so rewatched the Gigachad videos today and now you posted a new one! Cheers

Yoooooo! I've been binging all the Gigachad videos like just yesterday, this is like a personally hand crafted gift from Jacob to me

"Protect those who cannot protect themselves" THESE WORDS ARE ACCEPTED Jacob suddenly begins to glow and leech a blueish fog.

Player: I roll to hit my backstory antagonist. DM: Nah you just hit him and kill him. Player: oh...

Stumbled onto your channel by accident but this was honestly hilarious, I even watched the full Nord VPN ad you brilliantly threw in there. well done well done.

These videos motivate me to prep harder and try to up my game voice acting and story telling

0:26 the "adUlt" got me good

Jacob is true CHAD for making great content. Cheers mate.

I love the GigaChad centered videos. Theyre always a mix of wholesome and hilarity.

YES. Honestly love the gigachad vids man

I really enjoyed this video. Overall every Gigachad video is awesome. I like the positivity. And if I'll ever be able to play DnD with someone, I will try to do everything to replicate the atmosphere.

My dm in my first game of dnd allowed a player to be a cursed hammer that is actually a demon trapped in a hammer. It had a bunch of homebrew abilities like turning the wielder (which was an elder dwarf blacksmith) into a super powerful anime girl and some other shit. Its a shame that we have sessions every like 4 months or so

I love You. You make me laugh! I've been subbed for years. *That ad read made me wanna kick you in the chromatic orbs.*

Lmao you’re having too much fun with the gigachad music. Love it

Love Gigachad Jacob and love the Nord VPN tie in 😂

I do have a couple older players at my table, one seems okay with some RP but the other one almost pouts when we have cinematic story moments. And not because he isn't in them, but cause they're happening at all. I was playing a character in a Gothic horror setting whose family had been killed by a local count. So, because he wasn't strong enough to stop his family from being killed, he fused his vital organs to a robot he had made (becoming a warforged vengeance paladin). And we eventually get to the boss fight, and I start to converse with this Count about how I'm getting revenge, and this other player just goes, "I shoot him, does a 22 hit?" And it's always like that. We try so hard to get him to roleplay, but he's still stuck on ADnD or something.

This video made me feel great. Good job

4:40 when a dm does this its the closest thing to an irl cutscene

Forgoing rolls for the sake of the plot is the absolute chaddest

I don't know how much I could like Gigachad if they were an actual DM of mine. I feel like having all the players be catered too so much and in such a dedicated way would...isolate the group. and the power fantasy is just...not what I go to ttrpgs for. Although ive been dumped by about 4 or 5 dms in a row so far before games started so he would win by default as someone who could dedicate large amounts of time to the game

Love your videos dude, everytime I feel like I have some new takeaway that I want to implement into my games.

Easily the best ad I've seen in years. I usually always skip them, but that was perfect.

ahhh same as when my friend wanted to be a warewolf, like not having the curse, just being a warewolf good times

Our Chadlord Jacobfrey returns at last

Dude you are friggin hilarious!!!! I found you probably cause of BG3 so glad I did. Subbed, keep up the awesome work bro bro

This is probably one of your best!

1:40 you do realize you just explained "Oath of the Watchers" for an Ad lol.

LET"S GOOO CHADS IN DND

The Gigachad DnD skits will never get old. I love this so much!

THE ADD WAS PERFECTION! That was just sweet.

Player: "I want to play as an adult red dragon" Me: "Sounds cool! Who's your new DM?"

Griddy - 4:44

the transition to the ad is flawless

The video I didn’t know I needed ❤

Ok I loved the Vee P. Enn paladin from the Nord oath, that's the type of character I love to see.

Yeah, a DM's gotta be a Gigachad to just hijack your character and act out their thoughts, actions and feelings, and still have you thank them in the end, instead of just, you know, saying 'You can forgo the roll, this is your moment.' and let you play out your character moment instead of taking it from you. :D

I got goosebumps and chill after chill on those last moments, SO GOOD :D

this one made me laugh a few times, nice work, loved it.

tbh the whole "story above gameplay" thing is what turns actual games into a movie-like experience, which is not for everyone

What did he mean by if the dragon can still talk to people? It's an Adult red dragon. It can cast 9th level spells. Of course it can talk.

I’m going to need more Chad DM videos. Thank you very much!

This was great. More Gigachad Dm, please 🥺

The whole "You don't even need to roll because what you just described is was very cool" is such an underrated GM move. I GM for vampire: the masquerade very often, and I have a lot of fun with the "devil's bargain" rule, which for those who dont know, its a rule from the VTM that says that a player who didn't get a success on a role, can still be offered the oportunity to "succeed at a cost", where the GM will let they succeed on what they tried to do even though the roll failed, but it will come with a narrative consequence. And it makes the whole rolling and failing SO MUCH more interesting.

Wait Dragon was a race option? Well now I got to go create a new (homebrew) character!

I subbed on the first Gigchad video....lol Keep em coming ;)

I love the action dance shots that are super campy. They are great.

That's not gigachad dm. That's pushover dm. Now, if a gigachad player pitches me a detailed character concept around being an adult red dragon scaled down and backstoried up to fit the campaign... sure. But if you just walk up like "imma be an adult red dragon" I'mma be like "Red dragons are for gigachad players. Do your homework, get good grades and play nice with your friends. Then we'll talk."

Definitely going in my DM playlist

this was hilarious lmfao more of these plz

Wow, these rules are really bad yet you shade as good ones -_-

I.....would never want to play with the "gigachad" DM. Do not accommodate players that have stupid ideas.

LOVE these Gigachad skits!

i died laughing at the end, thank you for being incredible jacob

Absolutely adore your videos and love the content. You make me want to find a group of friends to play DnD with but I don’t know who! Also, that NordVPN sponsor was so obvious😂 Keep up the good work bro!