Edit: I’m learning that alot of people don’t know that bloods and crips exist outside of L.A And a lot of people don’t ? K know that Gangmembers aren’t all unreasonable? Feels kinda weird but! To All the people messaging me about my DnD With Gangbangers Story. Thank you for the support my dream is to make content. I Post a video everyday. I’m going to answer the most common questions. 1. “ Do you know you should be famous why are you just now starting?” Thank you for your support. My life has been hell and torture I’m going to make my trauma sound funny for entertainment so stay tuned. 2. “ why do you have clown hair” My hair is red and blue the blue is faded I enjoy looking as powerful as possible my hair is my soul. 3. “Is the story real or are you just s great story teller?” Sadly the story is real I grew up in Detroit and whatever you’ve heard about Detroit ( I still live here) it’s worse. I am good at telling stories I’ll make a video explaining how to make anything entertaining soon. 4. “ how did you learn dming so fast” if you join any stream I ever do you will learn improv is my bread and butter. 5. “ can you share your homebrew?” I was 14/15 when I did this im 27 now this was before everything was recorded for fun I barely had a phone back then. I also DUMBED down DnD deeply one day I’ll play it on my twitch. Much more to come Im at dreamcon rn so I’ll be back to streaming soon but the overwhelming support is making my soul quake thank you all!
I'm willing to believe you're telling the truth. What little I know of gang recruitment leans into the lack of agency many have in life, that even those who drive themselves to rise up by "the rules" hit a brick wall because you only surpass your predetermined "station" in life with permission from those who are invested in making sure you end up even lower than where you started so they can justify being the ones making the decision where your station is. Games like D&D run properly are worlds where your actions matter. They don't just reinforce a narrative or else get ignored if you lack the sheer power to make others cater to your will, what you do isn't just taken from you, the world responds to who YOU try to be and the ills of life have a solution by design rather being intentionally permanent. That tiny freedom can alter your entire outlook when your life has been completely deprived of choice outside of "do what is expected or get your ass beat, and what is expected of you will still get your ass beat but it's worse when you flinch" even when you far exceed what is expected. And when you exceed what is expected the reprisal is even somehow worse. Okay, maybe I'm getting preachy. But what you did? It's a small step towards changing everything. Because every step is a step to change because it's a step beyond what someone else says is all you can hope for in life. And when someone sees you take that step they follow in your wake hoping for something better. Even if only for a better way to spend their time.
I was a DM in prison and had a few gang members as players. It was a really good campaign. Went on for years. When I was getting out, I gifted them the books and all my notes (over 1000 hand-written pages) so one of them could continue the game. I hope they're all doing well, wherever they may be.
I’ve thought of doing this as well, though I’m not in prison. Think this is possible, for an outsider to come in and get one guy from each gang & a guard to play?
@@icevariable9600 While certainly an interesting idea, visitation and external programs are far too limited to allow something like that, and guards (referred to as "corrections officers") are highly discouraged, if not outright forbidden, from interacting with detainees in such a manner.
@@icevariable9600 I suppose you could always ask and see. Don't let me be the one to shoot down an idea that could enrich the lives of others. The worst they can do is say no, so give it a whirl!
I unironically think DnD would be great in prisons. Helps inmates socialize, work together, and also have fun, and if there is one thing you are starved for in prison it is fun.
Like i know dnd has been a great thing in the profile where there allowed to play but i can also imagine the warmest aren't I've the fairness and randomness of the spinners@@MykeCzumak
Former inmate here, DnD was actually banned where I was incarcerated unfortunately. As I was given to understand, the administration for the state prisons here is concerned about the chance aspect and the possibility for that to encourage arguments if somebody had bad luck taking it out on somebody else. For similar reasons, gambling and other games involving chance were similarly banned. All other inmates I ever talked to about it thought it was bullshit and really arbitrarily decided. Anybody of a mind to get into a fight over a die roll is the type of person to get in a fight over some other petty thing regardless, so on balance the only thing anybody felt it accomplished was taking more fun away, and possibly creating more hostile situations rather than less because of the ability for DnD to bring people together and have a constructive activity that among other things encourages cooperation. My own friend group while I was in and I had an illegal game going for a little bit but it got discovered and what materials the DM had were confiscated. That sucked but at least we weren’t as far in as we could have been. Will not elaborate on what state I’m in or other personal info, just thought I’d contribute some perspective on that subject.
I'm doing social work for the red cross and I've seen the hardest, most traumatised and straight up violent guys sit down and argue about how to disarm a imaginary trap. I love voluntary work.
Me and my SO started pseudo organized play many years ago, and we have so many people who have said that DnD changed or even saved their lives, (lots of lonely, social inept, self-harmers). COVID-19 killed the organization, but many people still have their campaigns. That a nerdy fantasy game can make someone's life worth living is the true power of DnD and othe RPGs like it
@@cozybones4644 you know nothing about goku then. he never hated anyone. his worst enemies were always treated well by him. even when he killed buu he was hoping that they could be friends after all. Gokus biggest character trait was compassion itself
It’s only nerdy if you make it that way. All our D&D games were pretty dark. My favorite sort of setup was something along the lines of “you and the other arrived in town hearing of XYZ cool stuff, but then all the food and stuff from other towns (that this town really needs) just stopped showing up. That was awhile ago and you just watched a child eat a rat so you’ve decided it’s time to do something about it, now go”
@@TQFMTradingStrategies My favorite one to date was a slow unraveling of a town just outside our eyes. "Yeah, all the kids have been having bad dreams. Usually happens around this time of year, though. Don't mind them." "The kids love playing in the woods. They're usually back by dinner, though." ""Little Eliza, and her older brother Thomas, went missing a couple weeks ago... Their poor parents have to be beside themselves." This goes on for a little while, and more kids casually go missing, but (because we were dense and it was our first D&D campaign) we're like "Whatever, it's just a side quest. What's this shiny thing over here?" After awhile, even the townsmen start going missing and everyone plays it off like they "went to the town over", and "not to worry". Then the kids don't come back after playing in the woods for awhile, and we finally decide to get involved and go help a mother investigate. All the kids are dead, the forest is full of horrors beyond our comprehension, and all the women in the village are a cult of Witches (and the mother was a Witch/Cult Member that willfully dragged us into a trap). The men of the village were the only ones that weren't in on it, and they all paid the price for investigating too deeply into their wives' secret lives. The DM gave us all the hints, then outright punished us for ignoring them and getting involved in aimless shenanigans. I really liked their approach; we had all the information, we just had to act on it. It is easily one of the most memorable slow burns I've ever experienced.
@@oopsallchromosomes8994not really there’s a million ways to take a reductive approach and take the math and rng out. A good example might be Danplan’s dnd video where it was JUST die rolls.
@@oopsallchromosomes8994 depends how you do it. Traditionally it was more of a statistical choose your own adventure type of setup, you can get all sorts of little plastic minis and draw lots of fun maps but we generally didn’t. aside from a few rudimentary sketches to help describe stuff we were trying to explain it was all on note books and in our heads.
just realized this is basically a stand up session, down to the way you’re moving around, looking at the “audience” instead of the camera. Kind of a genius way to practice sets. Good shit🔥🔥
@@AspynDotZipvery true! Some people are so deep in their personal dark realities that they can’t even fathom another world where good things happen. They need the help of a good DM to see the light :,)
@@blksmagma The Broly chant in his theme in Super Broly is because the Latin American crowd was cheering like it was the Super Bowl during the Goku & Jiren fight.
"There was also a white guy there, but I don't wanna talk about that." My guy, when something truly odd, magical, or whimsical is going to happen, a white guy is always going to be there. That's just a law of the universe.
The real gangster of this story is the nerdy dude getting relentlessly bullied who was still strong enough to create a entire D&D session homebrew adventure that single handedly united the bloods and crips (of highschool?)
as the op said though he didn't have a choice. It was that or likely end up in the ER or a box...gang members are scum dont feel any emotion for them other than hatred and disgust.
This guy, casually admitting how he managed to pull off what was essentially a ceasefire among lethal gangmembers with the power of friendship. I really hope this story is true, because it is honestly inspiring.
hey man, end of the day that's what it's all about: community. I'm sure that deep down that's (at least partly) why gangs like these form in the first place, so that people who don't feel like they have a community because of the circumstances can make their own
It’s definitely not true for a variety of reasons. 1. How the fuck can he start selling weed days after moving in (where tf does he get it from??) 2. Bloods and crips don’t have beef anymore. The beef in neighborhoods in specific gangs at this point. There’s gangs with sets of crips, bloods, whatever. And there’s no such thing as “crips” and bloods” anymore even. For twenty years it’s been “bloodhound brim bloods” or “insane baby crips” - sets of gangs. And 100% of the time it does not matter if they’re blood or crip or not! PJ Watts Crips are allied with Bounty Hunter Bloods, and they both kill grape street Crips! Or for example in my city of NYC, a gang such as OY from Sugar Hill, Harlem has members of sets such as the Rollin 60z NH Crips, Makk Balla Family, Gorilla Stone Bloods, Grape Street Watts Crips, Rollin 30z Harlem Maniac Crips, 62 East Coast NH Crips, 66 East Coast NH Crips, and Trinitarios. It’s not cut and dry. Individual gangs and even sets mean close to nothing these days So yeah long story short this definitely did not happen. I find it kind of embarrassing he didn’t even sit down to do the research for a story as simple as this
A good D&D campaign can unironically change your outlook on life. My first long term D&D campaign took 3 years to complete and I still remember the car ride back from my friends house from the last session (my friend was the DM). We had this deep emotional ass conversation about legacies and the meaning of companionship and it formed a huge part of how I view relationships even now (that was like 5 years ago).
This sounds like one of those reddit stories that just makes you think "Either the person writing this is a creative idiot looking for clout for thinking this fairytale was at all a plausible story, or I am an idiot for doubting this masterpiece."
Honestly same. I don't even care if this is fake or not. I just find the idea of these two notorious gangs coming together, saying "this is fun" (obviously paraphrased) And proceding to not fight each other, just playing some random DND that they didn't even know how to play a few moments ago.
Something I've learned over the years is that fact, at times, is indeed stranger than fiction. This could absolutely be true. Or it could be false. We may never know for sure.
Can’t speak for this story, but I personally can vouch for there being a whole lot of super nerdy guys in gangs. Went to boot camp with a guy who was hit with “military or jail time” by a judge for gang shit and he was DEDICATED to anime lore. Also played D&D regularly with a several guys who were deep in gang shit in their misspent youth. This absolutely tracks as a legit story to me.
I imagine one of the gang members getting called to do some sh*t like traficking or sneaking someone and then he goes like: "My bad bro, i gotta go play D&D with my homies"
@@DeathnoteBB He said the leaders were there though and if they were thinking it was a gun fight then they brought their best fighters. What's errand boy number 5 who wasn't even invited to the gang fight gonna do about it?
@@QueenViolet5 This is what I was thinking. If the head honcho and his enforcers quit, who tf is gonna tell em no? If you're some small fry it'd be way smarter to just let em go and fill the vacuum.
I love the way this sounds like a cartoon episode. Guy gets bullied, introduces bully to nerdy thing, bully gets bully friends together and through the power of friendship and nerdiness bullying is no more! Though Im pretty sure Tom continued to get beat up 😅 poor guu
"Now he couldn't get away from us, I was bullying him, and he thought we were friends. Which I appreciate." Like... this describes so much of school I don't know where to start.
I got a group of 7 felons to play a custom made Naruto Tabletop with me. When one of them died, he got so mad he flipped the table and the other 6 told him if he didn't stop ruining the story they'd jump him. LOL.
I don't know about DND or table top but I am so interested in this custom made...are ppl's character grouped up in three? Tasked with a ninja mission? Have genjutusu skill in their characters?
Honestly this is a great story. It’s sad to think that a lot of dudes grow up only knowing about gang life so that’s the other they go down. Good on you for helping them realize there was more to life brother
DM: "so the bloods and cribs meet, persuasion to get them along" Cero: "um 7?" DM: "yeah they pull guns on each other" Cero: "can i get advantage" DM: "why" Cero: "um... I have... cooks utensils" DM: "okay, incoporate it into the scene" Cero: "I go 'WAIT WAIT! I HAVE GRILLED CHEESE!'" DM "okay. you get a reroll" Cero: "NAT 20!"
Why the fuck would that give advantage? And you need to roll for initiative before combat starts. This DM just lets whatever he wants to happen just like God.
I just imagine the local police being extremely confused why all gang activity appeared to randomly cease for an entire night every so often around there 😂
'they finished a campaign' is a testament to honoring your commitments. In nearly 40 years of playing I've never found a group that could/ would do that.
Hey there, i am 1 year into my first campaign as dm and i am very sure that we are going to finish ours. I have a few ideas for you: 1.find people that want to play dnd (duh) and talk to them beforehand. Make sure everyone knows how much of a commitment it is going to be. 2. Play at fixed times (we for example play every 2nd sunday) if people do not have time at that day long term you know that sadly it will not work with them 2.5 kick/dont let people join who cant/dont want to play long term or plan them for just a short while 3. Play shorter campaigns. You can do alot in 10 sessions. I hope that you will get that campaign finished one day :)
Reminds me of my year in prison. We did a lot of D&D. Never let a mentally unstable lunatic DM your game. It's fun but it's also terrifying. I hated that goat...
hey y'all, just here to let you & the English language know that, "it was amazing, my mom didn't know where the bread went" simply refers to earlier in the story when he made grilled cheese for everybody as a peace offering.
“There was a white guy in the group.. I don’t want to talk about that” made me crack up 😭 but fr this story will probably remain in my brain for a long time this story is actually amazing and inspired me for some reason, awesome dude you have a new sub
Crime in poverty is not a symptom of evil spirit but of need and hunger. Gangs are communities. Flawed and often violent, but communities none the less. Give the people community and security and gangs have no need to be.
I'd say that's how it starts and can sometimes stay. But then you get people who join later on just to be in the gang and/or do violent things with that little bit more acceptance from people doing the same. There are the people who do it to survive, and there are the people who do it because they're bored.
I disagree, I believe that poverty is no excuse for violent crime, and if you rob or shoot at someone then you automatically have an evil spirit. Poverty just makes it much easier for someone to be corrupted into that sort of lifestyle, so someone can have a great spirit at first but over time with the people they hang out with and the things they see they become evil. These new gen gang members are ruthless compared to back in the day.
the reason i know this is true is because the first session went terribly, even in the most inspiring story there's no world where a handful of people trying to play dnd, taught by someone who just learned about dnd, goes not horribly
To be fair to me and my friends, our first session wasn't horrible, it was simply slow and clumsy. But we had had a taste of roleplaying, and that was enough to get most of us hooked. And yeah, I DM'ed after just having played my first session with some experienced people 🤣
That'd be like Arnold Schwarzenegger vs Danny Devito in a wrestling match. The strongest dnd player vs the weakest gang member would be more entertaining. Takeshi 69 vs Vin diesel would be half interesting.
reminds me of a story of a guy that managed to run a D&D game for a group of bikers. They saved a kidnapped girl from some goblins, and when the father tried to reward them, they told him to keep the money and let him know if any thing tried to give them any more trouble. It was a pretty wholesome story. I also recently read that apparently ttrpgs have some popularity in prisons, too.
I know a guy who spent three years locked up for selling, and he got into a prison D&D game (never played before) that featured players from three rival gangs. Which is why I tend to believe this story, as insane as it is!
@@BigSeth1090 Man we gotta get N & S Korea militaries & leaders playing D&D together lol. Wonder if we could get the middle east to ceasefire with D&D XD
I know a pretty good number of people who have been to prison and can confirm- dnd is extremely popular in prisons. some prisons don't allow you to have dice (gambling reasons) so instead there's a bunch of different ways to make paper wheels to spin instead. everyone I know who has been in prison has come back knowing significantly more about dnd.
There’s something really funny about how the gangsters dismissed the fantasy setting of D&D as being too nerdy and childish And then the second campaign was set in Candyland
They were no longer gangsters by then, just fans of the game. But for serious I do get that, takes a certain level of willingness and familiarity to be willing to play in more weird silly stuff
when u just enjoy and be immersed you no longer care where the fk is it if it's just good fun I remember watching D20 where the premise is basically Game of thrones But candy and food theme the show was called crown of candy and it was so good
It makes sense too, hanger (hunger anger) is real. And a good grilled cheese and tomato soup is delicious. Also there’s a psychological effect of people breaking bread together as a mean of bonding. Basically Ceros stumbled into how to keep the peace
DnD always has this effect on people who grumble about "nerd shit". Then they're the ones who are clearing their schedules and yep, wearing the elf ears at Ren Faires. You're a great storyteller. We use our pain sometimes as a vehicle to help us create. You're great.
I believe this story because playing D&D is very common in prison, its even been played by people waiting on the death-row by passing notes to each other. D&D is a game that brings a lot of people together
@@maulmemes I imagine it's more akin to a "choose your own adventure" or "point and click" game. You don't roll or have stats, but the DM asks you "you come to a crossroads, there is a bandit there. He looks at you and demands a toll. What do you do?" And depending on the answer the DM invents a course of action
If we're talking about the name for the unified session of Bloods and Crips, then we probably want to avoid mentioning either of them by name to avoid offending the other group. So Dungeons and Durags definitely seems like the best one to me.
I hope some of his old DnD buddies reach out and in a few months we can see a bunch of former gang members start a DnD live play stream. I think that’d be kinda funny and wholesome
I’d really wanna hear the conversation between the ones there and other gang members. Like I’m just imaging them getting asked to do some shady stuff and being like “Nah I can’t, it’s DnD night, I’m supposed to bring the snacks”
@@ChangesConstantNah it makes sense to me. People love games, and DnD is the epitome of make-believe for adults. Not much else to do in prison. Humans need enrichment
If this is actually real I wouldn’t be insanely surprised, it wouldn’t be the first time I hear of gang members realizing how childish all of it is after stepping back
I ran with the crips in my town. I sold, stole, and did drugs, but I was only in it for the money. Some of the people I hanged with got to deep in the streets and just ruined their lives. I got 3 friends in jail, 2 dead, and when I graduated high school I realized this aint the life for me. I bought a camera and a car with the money I made and using the connections I had from sellin, I record music videos. Sellin dope and jumpin niggas aint cool tbh. I thought that shit made me so gangsta, but doin what im doin now is way cooler than allat. I try to talk to my old friends but they all to deep and it hurts me to see them wasting their lives away
As a former trap nigga that plays dnd every week thank you for this video ppl need to see we are more than where we came from and even in the most gangsta situations were still humans with personalities and niche interest 💯💯 I just subbed bro bless up and plz continue we need you
My idea of what happened is when the session ended one day, one of the members was like "Ngl, this shi kinda childish." Ceros: "Ik but we can get thru it dw" Member: "Nah this gang life shi. Ion even know why we still doin this."
Getting a random dnd video about some bro with a giga level IQ who ended up uniting two gangs with warlocks and barbarians. Edit: Yall, I wrote this while high enough to palm God in the taint. How in the mother of moor did this get popular?
This reminds me of the fact prisoners, even inmates on death row, have found ways to play dnd through signals, diy spinners, all the works. Im truly glad ttrpgs have done what they have for the world
Thanks for the wholesome story. Brought a smile to my day my dude. Back in the 90s D&D was considered counter culture in my country due to all religious leaders condemning it.
@@captain_clark868 Brazil. For some reason neopetencostal church leaders spend a lot of time and resources in TV shows condemning trading card games, role playing games and the act of honoring the nother of Our Lord in prayers and images. TV in the 90s was wild my dude!
Brazil. Neopentencostal church leaders used to spend a lot of money and time on TV campaigning against trading card games, D&D and the mother of God. Man 90s TV was wild!
@@UnifiedGod777it can mean yes. A typical French conversation may be like: " -On dit pain au chocolat -Non ! - Si!" Basically if you’re re-asserting something someone else has contradicted, you say Si instead of Oui
This is reminding me of stories about how the Good Friday agreement got signed. "Everyone in Ireland has a mother, and there isn't a single mother in Ireland who will let you get away with shooting someone in her nice clean sitting room."
“It was amazing, my mom was wondering where the bread went” lmao I imagine she figured some disappeared bread is a lot better than someone ending up disappeared
but honestly this makes a lot of sense. like. being in a gang gives you both a sense of safety and a sense of community. this act right here engendered a sense of community and connection that gave them the chance to realize they didnt need to get it elsewhere. im really glad that things aligned for these people to take a turn in their lives and i wish that chance to come to everyone in the same position!
If even one part of this story is true, then it is insane and wonderful And if it's all a lie, this guy is still a good storyteller (mic issues be damned)
I think the reason why those guys quit the gang is because they realized that your “silly” D&D nerd game, they were playing in real life in their gangs and it made them feel silly to do all that stuff, so they quit. I mean I’d quit too if I was able to have what they wanted from being in a gang inside of a safe but highly interactive game instead, no needing to put my life on the line like that. I hope the gang life let them be afterwards, I know that sometimes it doesn’t.
Peacemakers come in the most unexpected of places: Unsung, unappreciated, far too rare and precious in a world that seems bent on making people draw lines between each other. If this story is true it's inspirational. If it isn't? It's still something to aspire to, as we don't make our hopes reality until we deny this hopeless reality.
@@trippyinsomniac3667 well if I have to spell it out I’ll try. He’s referring to the colour of the bloods and the crips clothes as an example of skin colour among races and the prejudice we show to people that are denoted as other, even in a minimized instance of what DR king was talking about. That it can happen to everyone and anyone. There is humour in the way he says it, but he’s serious, so when you say ‘just a joke’ and profess he’s confused. I think you might need to take a minute a think that yes he did mean it, yes he edited the video and left it in, and yes it is a satirical remark (a joke I guess)
@@dornanplays bruh I deadass didn’t ask. I was making a joke playing off the joke bro made in the video. But congrats on wasting however much time you did to type out that fuckin essay
Bro's an absolute bard, the way he turned a potentially deadly situation into an amazing game that literally changed lives. I really love seeing how D&D can have such an incredible impact on people, whether nerding out or homebrewing it. It's one of the few ways my own neurspicy self can socialize, at this point, and I've hoped to meet more people some day through new campaigns. So many amazing stories we all create, both in-game and out, whenever the tabletop games come out.
This is genuinely magical to watch! TTRPGs are such an incredible way to make stories with people, and there’s always something wonderful about watching people experience it for the first time! I really hope you all get back together to play more games, there’s so many options out there even just beyond dnd. There’s dm-free games about protecting campers from lovecraftian skinwalkers (Sleepaway), there’s narrative driven games where you roleplay as young justice league style superheros (Masks: A New Generation), there’s games about being a bunch of mech pilots with eldritch reality warping AIs and shitty memes (Lancer) or just playing as some random dudes trying to make their way as traders in the vast galaxy (Traveller). Wanna love out your anime fantasies? Big Eyes Small Mouth. Wanna play a bunch of federal agents investigating cuthulu? Call of Cuthulu and Delta Green are both open choices! You wanna play a one page system anyone can pick up and run about being a bunch of bears running a heist? Honey Heist is right there. You want that same pick up and play experience but you’re a bunch of highschool girls that turn into Kaijus? Kaiju Girls. If there’s a story you wanna tell with people there’s a system for it and it’s great and wonderful! And even just DnD, for all the shit I give it sometimes, is a wonderful system with so many places and stories to tell! Even just with it alone, you can make whatever story you like! You all play off each other incredibly and I genuinely can’t wait to hear what stories you all make next! Please, keep this going if you can! It’s gorgeous!
