How to Play D&D part 3: Magic! 

"Don't look up a spell in the book during your turn, while other people are waiting for you." Ha, great advice. A whole video on game table etiquette might be a nice one to have in the library.

Me: I wanna pick up the chair "But... The spilt liquid??? The summoning circle???" Me: ç h Äî r

You are saving so many newbie lives. Thank you ^_^

I laughed uncontrollably at the fire immunity. This is great.

"What have you been doing in your bedroom, as you prepare for the day?" I've been practising that "magic wand" if you know what I mean.

I was thrown into being a DM for the first time today (despite only playing dnd a handful of times) and quickly realized I knew nothing. The other players didn't mind but these videos are going to SAVE me during our next meet. thank you so much!!!

'What have you been doing in your bedroom?' Hehe

This is by far the best "how to play D&D" series I've found! Thanks a lot Nate!

:D Cayleb levelled up between part 2 and 3.

Okay everyone... Let's not ignore the fact that they both rolled a nat 1 and a nat 20 on the same roll. That's fucking insane how that happened on cam

I played D&D for the first time yesterday (I was a human fighter, so nothing too difficult there) and man I'm hooked. We're playing again next Saturday :) Your videos really help a beginner like me to get a better understanding of the game. Thank you!

Hello, Nate! I'd like to thank you a lot for your work. If you remember I asked you a few questions about the starter set adventure about half a year ago, you were kind enough to help and... well now I'm running my own campaign in my own setting and we're having tonnns of fun. I already have great stories to tell: funny and dramatic and epic, and this is only the beginning. Certainly I've been reading and watching a lot of stuff about DMing, creating interesting NPCs and keeping players hooked. But WASD20 was a true starting point, an introduction, a "verge of endless worlds of adventure". RPGs and D&D in particular are unbelievably beautiful places to step into, but it sure is confusing for most people to discover. Your guidance reveals this old heavy carving door is but a curtain, waiting to let you in. I hope to see much more from you, your work is apreciated. Good luck to you, be happy and may the dice be with you!

Your son feverishly switching the dice is the best part of the video xD

Whenever I obtain a spell, I write the desc on a sheet of paper that I have handy for all of my spell descriptions. It's really convenient to not have to break out the book except when I learn a spell.

Just ordered D&D, wish me luck fellas

Wow, thanks man! As a novice DM, I'm already mid adventure with my group and as to now was unsure of how to handle magic and improvised it. Now I know and have to tweak all the PC's... Regardless, you've saved my game!

I'm so glad I found these! I played with my older cousins when I was younger. (Like seriously '85) and we didn't have anything super fancy. I was 10 to 12 years old when we all played and it was mostly my cousin telling me what I should do. haha! I played again in HS but it was 4 of us and 2 people just didn't want to keep going. It's so hard to keep groups together. Now I'm 48 and I really want to find a group I could play with!

Just a slight correction: You can actually cast any lower level spell at a higher level; specific instructions for casting them at higher levels are not necessary.

I watched 1 episode because of curiosity and now I'm ordering d and d in Amazon

Dude you're awesome. I love the disparity in your voice when you find out the imp is immune to fire hahah. love it man

Awesome job doing these tutorials! I learn much better watching an actual game unfold rather than someone just explaining the rules to me. Super appreciative for you making all of these! On to the next episode!

rofl. "Are we having a good time here? Better believe it!"

I'm learning so much from these videos. I just picked up the D&D starter set and I'm gonna try to DM my first campaign with some friends but I've only ever played D&D once in a one shot. All the dice rolling stuff went over my head at that time but I'm getting an understanding now thanks to these videos.

Great now I just need some people to play with

You have instantly cleared up my confusion on 5e spellcasting! Thank you!

Thanks so much for this series of videos. Some friends and I are setting up a group and only one of us has ever played before. I plan to play as a cleric so this video really helped me.

Basically not even a beginner but in Foundation level and thank god I found your videos .

I can't believe I'm just now finding this. Super informative and helping a lot with my transition from 3.5 to 5th. And can we just take a second to appreciate how on point Caleb is when switching narrator/player dice? AND HIS ROLLS? Little dude's gonna be a legend. You're lucky to have such a great little assistant, pop! (Of course, now he's gotta be at least 9, almost 10!)

I've never played dnd and always wanted to recently just me and my bf trying to get into it so being a new player and having to lean to dm on the fly your videos have been very helpful 🖤

Really love this channel!

All the other videos made no sense! But yours did! Thanks!!

Been watching all your videos, thanks for all the great content... Incredibly helpful. Me and 6 friends realized on NYE this year that, at the ages of 35-45, none of us had ever played D&D... And when I revealed my hidden passion to become a DM, everyone got on board. It's been incredibly tuff, and a lot of work, but everyone had a blast setting up their character cards together (even though it took a while!), and we're going to attempt our first game on Sunday 🤘

Thanks for the great channel! Getting back into D&d after a 22 year hiatus. It has changed a bit. Lol

This is the best intro guide on RU-vid well done dude.

Thanks Nate for the helpful videos! My friends and I have been playing D&D so much! We watch your videos of we need help. Thanks again!

Thank you, I'm actually starting out in 2 days with 3 other guys and they offered to teach me from the basics but I wanted to come a bit more ready so I won't be the one holding everyone down :P

1:40 ...uhhh...you don't want to know...

Finally, the only thing i didn't understand yet

All of my family used to play this awesome game, so when i found this, i couldn't have been more happy. Thank you so much for making these videos.

Well done again and great job Caleb! I like the way you showed a picture of the specific printed rule every now and then. It links the font and layout with the description and will make it easier to look that up and understand it if I do end up buying these rules.

I love these videos, they are helping me out a lot, as I am both thinking of getting into DnD and have been trying to create my own, simplified DnD-like game. Thanks for the help! :D

Thank you, me and my friends are have a great time with D&D.

Thank you so much for your awesome videos! I am playing for the first time tonight and I am so nervous. But, your videos are really helping me a lot. I hope to make you proud and do well this evening!

Im learning a lot thanks you ! I have them saved as i watch them so I can back and look them over again till I get it right.

Recently got invited to play D&D and you saved me big time!!!! Love the channel and your awesome vids!

This is so helpful! I'm about to start a new campaign in a few weeks where I'm going to play a bard. I still have no idea how to do magic (I play a disgraced folk hero barbarian), so I thought I'd change it up! It's going to be fun playing the world's most annoying bard (She plays the accordion and bagpipes, plus everything she writes is to the tune of Hot Cross Buns) so I need all the help I can get.

thanks so much! I wanted to learn how spells work and i learned the basics on this video. Great job on explaining!

This is immensly helpful I'm a dm and my friends are watching this and learning in the fly thanks again dude. 👌

Thanks for a great series of videos Nate! Am new to D&D and having a ball playing with my friends.

Thanks for uploading this series. Top work, it has been really helpfull.

Thanks this really helped me understand magic especially with how known and prepared spells work

Nate, we all love your videos, and you're hilarious! Thanks so much for making these! They're a huge help.

Thanks Nate! I'm hosting a campaign and I needed a little clarification with magic in 5e. Learn something new everyday on your channel!

Thank you so much. I’m new and these helped a lot

"the rules don't matter as long as you're having a good time" Yah that's basically how me and my friends play. "a critical hit! tactical nuke unlocked!"

these vids are really helpful, thanks!

My big brother used to play D&D with his friends at a highschool back in the days, and i remember i was with him one day and looked at the game they had in play. It really wants me play it myself remebering this again. This guide is really helping alot!

Nate, I'm very new to DnD, but have done some other RP gaming over the years. Thanks much for your great videos; I've been looking at several things, but your approach for us newbies is outstanding. Thanks, keep 'em coming, I'll keep watching and learning!

Dude thanks!! This is the first time I feel like I understand gameplay. You are a great teacher!!

my new favorite channel!

Enjoying this, good helpful series as a refresher or for new players

I love your videos man! Thank you.

Thank you so much for this excellent tutorial.

Dudee thank you so much. These series are helping me so much!!

Superb tutorial Nate, it's really helping me prep for my first game soon. But man, that DM voice. As soon as I heard "a couple of vials had been tipped OVAH", I heard Broken Matt Hardy and cannot unhear him as the DM now 🤣🤣🤣

Great great job! Thanks a lot for this.

These tutorials are awesome, thought it would take forever to understand D&D but these tutorials help, especially with an example of how they would work. Can't wait to start playing some games, thanks :)

just started playing two days while improvising all the rules, bc the rulebook and everything is so information dense - your series Saved us!!

So I’ve playing second ed. for 28 years and I actually been running a 5th ed. while on aircraft carrier for last 7 months. I actually never really learned the rules to 5th just leaning on my past experiences and my players who understood the rules. It worked fine. many campaigns were ran and much fun was had on the high seas. Now, I’m back and I’m actually going to play in 5th Ed for the first time and this has been super helpful series with getting some of X and O figured out. It weird situation learning a new edition while having over two decades of playing and running games but this is awesome.

Great video. We just had our first session last night with me being the DM. One of the players is a Wizard and I had know idea how to handle spells had they chosen to use them. This really helped. Thank You.

Yo this stuff is great! Just played my first game yesterday! Wish i saw this earlier!!

You so an awesome job simplifying things. I don't use Minis or battle maps but they work well for walking though things like this. As a DM, you have really helped me be able to explain things to my PCs in very simple ways

9:51 Same feeling. xD Always makes me laugh. lol I still make the best of it like you did, because the DM still has the final say on everything. I just figure that he's an unusual imp with some quirks if anyone is saying he is supposed to have fire immunity and we all forgot until the last minute. xD

Love your helpful content.

Good work, I like watching your video's!

I still have to play d and d for myself but so far you are clearing things up for me so thanks!!!!

you are amazing I started a camphene with my friends and I learned a lot from you. :)

You knew Infernal, you could've talked with the Imp! But NO you had to be all fireball first ask questions later... poor little guy. Seriously quality video, I've been learning a lot from these videos and look forward to playing DnD with my family. Though, I probably will have to get a new Player's Manual since my old one from years back disappeared mysteriously.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who uses wrapping paper to draw maps and areas

I don’t even like d and d but you're great, what an excellent teacher. Maybe I do like d and d...

This is an excellent guide for new DMs in particular, which is something that is surprisingly lacking in terms of a guiding hand. Thanks for making these vids!

u are awesome i am young and u have been helping me learn play d&d very easily u are awesome and i will continue watching your channel :)

D&D made simple. This is the easiest it gets.

Your a good teacher Nate.

I've gotta leave a comment. You have inspired me so much and helped me tremendously. I have searched the entire web looking for information on D&D , Pathfinder and other RPGs. It is so hard to come by good easy to follow instructions. this is clear and I am actually understanding rather than quitting because I'm so confused. Thank you so much for your time that you've put into your channel. I am actually creating my own RPG (basically D&D + Pathfinder and a little bit of me..;)) because I don't have enough money to buy anything but dice and have nobody to play with but my family. so I am making it have the ability to play solo more easily. Your channel has brightened my month. Thanks again! May you have lucky dice!

I love those little hands and those little whispers!!! Your son is adorable!! ^_^ Apart from that, your videos are very helpful for somebody who has never played dnd before, like me :P Thank you very much!!! Waiting for your next videos!! :D :D

Great Tips. I'm Soo Green. Thanks again.

Still helping people to this day. Thank you 🙏🏾

These videos will save me

Caleb moving the dices for you lmao sooooo cute

Best spellbook ever is the 5th edition spellbook app (the mint green one with the open brown book, white pages and little red squiggly lines for letters) 4.5 reviews (don't listen to it... I give this 5 stars easy) 4k+ reviews for Samsung (sorry Apple users). If you download this you will never need to buy one of those decks for any character in the game and the app is free and the cards are identical. The other best app that no D&D player should be without IS for Apple (sorry Samsung users) and it is called Fight Club 5 (for 5e). It is pretty much an electronic character sheet, but it is sooo much more than that. If you are a new user, it is brilliant for double checking your numbers and modifiers, it offers counters, you can plug in your back story, character and race and it will auto-fill in your stats for you, so if you are like me and you art instead of math, you don't make mistakes as long as fill in the other stuff right and don't accidentally fill in the same stuff in different areas like I did by accident the first time I tired it. You can upload an image of you character, take as many notes without running out of space, have more than one character going if you are a DM and want to fill in PCs and Monsters, offers a dice roller, helps you with filling in your level ups and even has a place for multi-classing. The learning curve on a scale of 1-5, one being the slowest/hardest to learn and five being zoom through it with ease, I would give it a 4. The ProD&D initiative tracker and other products are nice, but you won't save any money and the ideas in the book are better. The Complete Reference for 5E (Green dragon and a 5). This one is probably one of my top three. I love it. Especially for running campaigns. That's about it for apps. I just wanted to share. Most of us don't have a lot of play money. This has saved me a bundle and it is super easy fast and convenient during in game. Goes very smooth. Have fun with it! Hope this helps. :)

I appreciate the info provided in these videos. I am just returning to playing D&D after a very long time... I first played in the mid to late '80s. I had a pretty massive collection of original edition, 2nd edition and some newer sets and books. I wish now I still had them... I did have a question about the plastic bases and cardboard "NPC's" You used in the videos, where are they from? I just bought the 5th Edition Starter Set, Essentials Set, Player Handbook, Reincarnated DM Screen, Druid Folio, several sets of Dice. Also bought an assortment of miniatures, and a massive "Skeleton Dragon" plus D&D Logo LED Light for display. I would like to get back into DM'ing after I learn more about all the changes to the game after all these years and Editions.

This is great!

you are a Genius. will love to play with you.

9:41 I was expecting that. Just intuition. Inferno spell, inferno creature, it has fire in it ;)

thank you. im a new DM and i have no idea what im doing, but you saved me. SUBING

Caleb rock & roll 🎲 😉👍

Thank you so very much

I've been into dungeons and dragons since I was like 13 years old but grew up in a time where it was almost extinct... Especially in the rural area which I live! So I am now 27 years old I own a few DM guides and Player/Monster guides. Read them all front to back and honestly know most of the rules. But have never been able to DM an actual game or even play a full quest/campaign with others. I have played a few for a couple days and even ran with some over the course of months even years. But honestly never sat down with more than 3 people and played regularly. But finally at almost 30 years old I can play Dungeons and Dragons! This weekend I will be DMing my first game with a set group who has planned to meet once at minimum and sometimes twice if everyone agrees weekly. Over the past few days I have been watching a few of your videos as a sort of "refresher" on the basic rules so I am not too clunky while running the game. Sure I know I won't be the DM wizard of the East Coast or anything. But hey I already know we are in for a great memorable experience and I am more excited for my friends than myself because they are going to be experiencing dungeons and dragons for their first time mostly and I plan on hitting them hard and immersing them so they continue to enjoy it. Here's to hoping! Thanks for the great videos, super glad I stumbled across your channel because it ended up being geared perfectly for a situation just like this. Don't ever feel like what you're doing is being done better by someone else on here... Because everyone who is doing videos of this type could appeal to a different person. Just so happens you appealed to me more than the other channels. Rock on!

Omg, thank you so much, understand how spells work now