Know Your Player: Actor

[@XPtoLevel3]

oh hey, it's me.

[@c_hale]

XP to Level 3 Who?

[@jeom3808]

Where?

[@alllga]

How?

[@thepineappleyempireofsuper9612]

Pasta?

[@frostyarmor5364]

It's the rogue

[@TheCrispAlien]

"I am your father... and your wife, I divorced her" the best plot twist ever

[@dirkloid4261]

And you’re car keys I soled them on ebay

[@elnidodetravis1375]

As an actor player my party was very surprised when in of the sessions I wanted to try something new, so I didn't pick a bard, but instead I made a Lizardfolk warlock named Larry, they all thought it was gonna be a very generic warlock of demon or something like that, turns out he was Warlock of the Celestial pact, that has a patron that guides him to do good things, but as a Lizardfolk he doesn't know what good things are, so when he sees somebody in struggle he really doesn't know wherever heal them or eat them, so basically because of my DM that is an actor everybody laughs a lot with my character and my patron interactions Best quote from my patron: "You are a Lizard Larry" I love dnd

[@connorjohnson8590]

AWESOME!!

[@nedwardnobqop6568]

I think we all have a bit of Larry inside us

[@milkman9247]

"convince me not to do the bad thing" "I rolled a nat20 on my persuasion roll"

[@thealmanancy9020]

"my saving throw was a 20, +8, +2. you didn't persuade me"

[@appa609]

Elijah Groves Doesn't nat 20 just succeed?

[@pedrodarosamello64]

@@appa609 Only if it's a attack, nat 1 can succed if your bonus is high enough and nat 20s can failt if it's low enough on saves or checks

[@OsvaldoChannel1]

@@appa609 on a skill check involving only you, yes. Against another player, it depends on the DM, but usually unless the opponent makes a way higher roll than you, you should succeed automatically. (It's still up to the DM) I would do it like this: if you roll a nat20, and the other one rolls like a 17 that adds up to 22, I would rule that the nat20 wins, but a nat20 against like a 31 loses. Also if they have similar modifiers, nat20 should win almost every time anyway

[@The_Joemance]

@@OsvaldoChannel1 Rules as written, only attack rolls automatically succeed/fail with Nat 20/1. Ability checks can still fail with a Nat20 or succeed with a Nat1.

[@FatalKitsune]

See, this is why my Tabaxi Bard is always smoking "something" out of his pipe. When I play him in character he's just a mellow guy who's easily distracted by shiny things or wandering off if he sees something fun. Rogue: "Ok, Bard, you listen at the north door, I'll listen at the south one. We'll meet back here and report what we can hear." Bard: "You got it." Rogue: [moments later] I turn to Bard and ask- DM: He's gone. Rogue: Come again? DM: He's gone and the door to the north is open. Rogue: What? DM: You see the Bard in the room to the north. He is sitting at a table with three bandits. He is playing dice with them. Rogue: He's playing dice with the guys we're here to kill?! Bard: The DM told me my character heard them playing dice. DM: He rolled very high on his Charisma checks.

[@bioniclink3026]

MEEE

[@Matt-jn6qv]

Dude, I have a bard who's almost the exact same exept he's a halfling.

[@itstherealbrace6424]

My Dragonborn is addicted to gambling and we beat the bbeg in phandelver from the starter set because made a bet with him on which of two goblins I kidnapped would be able to better damage the beholder

[@IrvingIV]

I love hearing about bard impossibilities. "You did what?" "I seduced the dragon." "Did the dm-" "Nat 20 perception, it was definitely a she." "What did your character say?!" "DM said I promised a lifetime of free scale polishings." "So it was a silver dragon?" "Red."

[@coronal2207]

Is it skooma?

[@gilleskoning]

I am an “actor” I try to NEVER break character. One of our other players is an actual actress... We have a third actor who takes it even more serious then me. Then we have the dude that gets frustrated with us. And then we have the dm... He is an actor too xD

[@simonsonian8977]

Gilles Koning Can I join your game? I'm an actor!(Just kidding, I am an actor, but I would never be able to play, waaaaaay to busy)

[@theblazingcrusader6322]

Sounds like a real party man.

[@elvenlemonade]

hey, why don't you make a vid of your games like Critical Role does? I would love to watch that.

[@Mega2chan]

wish i had this party tho

[@madisonb8163]

Dude, that sounds awesome XD

[@DGM2500]

“Sup-“ *gunshot* My type of quality content.

[@intertenera]

*dislikes the video sorry man its just my alignment no I didn't actually do it

[@warlordofvideogameglitches]

Even though they could kill villagers that is not part of the story as his alignment other than killing the party.

[@panpan3303]

The start of a new monster Personthatsaysitswhatmycharacterwoulddo Medium humanoid, Chaotic Evil

[@SteelTyrant527]

But I did

[@britishninja]

Dm : "describes somthing" Normal player : oh so it's like a "thing that dosnt exist in dnd world" ACTOR WITHOUT FAIL EVERYTIME : What's a "thing that dosnt exist in dnd world"

[@Cpt.Croissant]

"My spell Is basically like a shotgun blast" "WhATs a SHoTguN?

[@idiotcube]

I do that because I enjoy anachronistic hijinks!

[@neonsuns1]

"Oh yeah it was in a play I saw once."

[@Scarletraven87]

It's only annoying if they're annoying at a million other different small things. If they are that person then you want to kill them with a steam roller.

[@Dehalove]

Lol

[@THELAZYSKYRIMIST]

I personally love that the two of you have separate channels now! I get to support you two individually instead of one person getting all of the credit. I love both of you guys and completely agree with the decisions you have made. The collabs make the videos unique but the solo content makes the channel what it is. I with the best of luck to the both of you!

[@RPanda3S]

What's the other channel? There's nothing about this in the description and I'm new to Runesmith.

[@Dracobyte]

@@RPanda3S "xp to level 3".

[@RPanda3S]

@@Dracobyte thx

[@killerspawn6299]

I’m definitely a light actor but it comes across strongly in my party cus everyone else is so quiet and I’ve had to take the role of the leader constantly asking for advice, despite my own thoughts, on what we should do which has done well to spark conversations between characters so far.

[@kc-ip2vc]

A light actor is just a good d&d plAyer

[@killerspawn6299]

duck boi What about a good dnd player who’s also a bit of a rules lawyer? I try not to but sometimes my dark side gets the better of me and I just want to know why my lvl 1 spell doesn’t make me god... I mean... why not?

[@kc-ip2vc]

@@killerspawn6299 when did I say about lvl 1 spells being op

[@mirkusliz1930]

"sorry man, that's just my alignment"

[@Mrryn]

Yeesh, that triggers me just reading it. Take my like.

[@LupineShadowOmega]

Or the "I'm just playing my character..."

[@Mrryn]

@@LupineShadowOmega Oh fuck me. Anyone who feels like they have the say that, 9 times out of 10, is just using it as an excuse to be a dickweasel and/or screw over the party.

[@odd9740]

Mirkus Reuven your profile picture makes this comment even better

[@flimpeenflarmpoon1353]

Anarchist left is Chaotic Good confirmed?

[@avidarois5505]

"DM, since I broke my mask in the vision, did I break it in real life?" "Do you want to be dramatic?" "I'm Ari, the spinner of songs, dammit, of course I want to be dramatic!"

[@awhitet-shirt4792]

I love the bits of behind the scenes messing around. Would honestly watch an hour of that without getting bored.

[@Fallenmonkd20]

My favorite time handling a character who was doing something was I had a player who for whatever reason couldn't buy a map form A regular shop keeper he already met and had to look around this small back wood town for a map making npc To mess with him I made a map salesmen who completely hated his job and was very short answered. My player kept rolling insight and could never figure out what was up with him. When really all it was was he hated his job, and his boss who made the maps who made him stand around dressed up as a map selling maps to adventures. Literally everytime he came through that town he reinvestigate the sales guy thinking he was hiding something huge lol

[@Micras08]

This is how you DM :D haha n1 mate, think Ill borrow the basic concept ^^

[@Fallenmonkd20]

@@Micras08 go ahead! It resulted in some hilarious moments for me lol

[@bibbobella]

Ah players thinking there is something huge to something tiny is freaking hillarious. I had one player who found out a few people had disapeared from different houses. He found a teleportation cirklet and could tell that whoever was in there had suddenly disappeared. It was one of the lords. He later found all of the lord's men, waitresses and guards dead behind a fake wall in the basement. Now it is kinda obvious what happened right? He was kidnapped and everyone else were killed..the thing was..for some reason he was never able to put two and two together and guess that being able to teleport from one location to another would also make you able to teleport back the other way around.. So he started believing the whole city was actually infiltrated by these people and that it was a huge plot that involved all the guards and even the other Lords since they hadn't seen anything. He investigated it for days before he finally saw someone teleport in then grab something and teleport out again before he just went "O..ohh..right..." It was fucking hillarious.

[@droidixbacon]

Fallenmonk d20 that sounds fun

[@jacobelgan5196]

I'm totally an actor. I'm the kind of guy who plays a character in order to allow other players and especially the DM more playable options. I don't care about power, minmaxing, or even of the lifespan of my character, so long as it's fun and offers new options for the rest of the people on the table. Heck, my current character is a half orc fighter who used to be a poetry teacher because he was a failed poet.

[@firetarrasque4667]

My party has a lot of issues with player killing. I've been *trying* to correct it. But for god's sake one of them just keeps freaking doing it because they're siblings. It's rather infuriating.

[@Dijas]

I have never had that problem, because at session zero I just disallow it. If they want to PVP, let it be a non-lethal brawl. I homebrewed it to make brawls a mini-game of sorts, so it's quite fun when it happens.

[@thefracturedbutwhole5475]

have you tried in-game consequences? are there laws in your world, is homicide legal or illegal? send some detectives and investigators after them . . . . you are the DM, you could crush them if you wanted

[@thefracturedbutwhole5475]

@@Dijas you disallow a player killing a player? that is lame, in the right context and if it isn't a regular occurrence it can be fun . . . . . . what happens when 2 players decide to use lethal force on each other? do you just kick them out of the game?

[@Dijas]

​@@thefracturedbutwhole5475 Yes, I do disallow it, and it works. If someone considers that lame, that's ok. Everybody is free to not join the table. That's the reason I say it during session zero. This was also in reply to 3.14 Dragon, who mentioned "issues with player killing", and it is a perfectly viable alternative, just like the one you presented. TBH I must say, In my experience as a player and GM/DM, I am yet to find anyone who would have fun in getting a PC killed by another. Even when we were teenage newbs, testing the possibilities of an RPG, and PVP'ing whenever we had the slightest chance, killing each other would result in frustration and in-and-out of character drama. Thing is, if you kill a PC in a session, don't be surprised if someone accuses you of being a d1ck.

[@MissFeatherstone]

You could make all of their characters plot essential, and then every time one of them dies it sets the party back to the point that either: A; they stop needlessly killing each other Or B; the rest of the party bands together to stop them, either by force or guile.

[@ethanotoroculus1060]

_"You could essentially play anything."_ *Kenku?*

[@Freezo90967]

wick

[@BigBossTussBall]

Kenku?

[@dianarojo-jewell6091]

You act like actors wouldn't learn sign language or gesture with the utmost passion to be a kenku

[@ethanotoroculus1060]

@@dianarojo-jewell6091 I mean, I can relate, but...

[@The_Joemance]

I play at a Westmarch table with a Kenku player. We all have a blast with the strange friendship that developed between us, despite his lack of communication skills and my painfully dweeby gnome archeologist.

[@cadecook8067]

Fun fact, I have 2 actors in my game and both hate my character

[@MerryMaddMen]

*Raises eyebrow and smirks* More details please.

[@chainer8686]

I'm immediately invested in this story

[@julierose689]

There is one actor in my game, he likes doing voices but he is quite respectful for the other people in the group and doesn't hog the spotlight. It's another two players that seem to do that with their arguing and one of them keeps on trying to screw over the party. With his most recent character he keeps trying to lead us into big fights that will TPK is. I've already warned him that if he tries anything stupid in the next couple of sessions I'm going to throw him off the mountain lol.

[@Luksed12]

oof

[@erikwilliams1562]

Julie Rose that’s not an actor, that’s the instigator!

[@Painfulldarksoul]

"Your favorite football team?!" "Yeah?" "I ate them!" "Nooooo!"

[@firetarrasque4667]

I'm an actor who's really, really bad at acting! Yay! (I used the wrong whose didn't I.)

[@aaronwhite4564]

As far as I can tell, you used the correct who's. Because, if I remember correctly, it'd be read as "who is". By the way, this was sincere and I didn't mean to come across as rude or a prick if I did.

[@firetarrasque4667]

@@aaronwhite4564 Nah, you're fine.

[@MaxHimbigger]

Who's = who is Nope u got it right

[@marcar9marcar972]

3.14 Dragon no

[@bray2964]

Who's defines what one is Whose defines what one owns

[@irok1]

‘ASSIST!’ got me there.

[@azathoth7587]

This was my favourite series on the old channel. Glad to see it back!

[@noah9942.]

Never played dnd before, and i cant stop watching your (along with others) videos. Subbed!

[@joshuafender9969]

"I actually hate myself" 10/10

[@greedkingcobalt200]

1:" it's his oath" 2:"..." 3:"..." me (not the DM): "... Roll Initiative"

[@robertmask3407]

I kinda love actors. And hate them.

[@lafken2]

I have one in my party, and they're... a lot. Bad at social queues, too. But this has been very illuminating on how they work and how to better work with them. This is true edutainment, folks! Love these videos

[@Arthreas]

I love the pure chaotic energy you were all exuding at the end of the video. Its harmonizing.

[@milleh1912]

I've played with people who actually do acting and it's the most fun thing EVER.

[@zakjumah]

Please make Larp videos. Please.

[@Budew-ef6tr]

LARPing a Druid, Thunder Sorcerer, Ancestral Guardian Barbarian, and Arcane Trickster Rogue?

[@The_Bird_Bird_Harder]

@@Budew-ef6tr ALL AT ONCE

[@ninjawiz7932]

The extended live action bits at the end were fantastic. I think this might be my favourite video between Runesmith AND XP to level 3!

[@formicus6717]

I think I'm a little of an Actor, though Storyteller describes me much better. But my friend is a 100% actor. He's now a ranger, and he already said long ago that he may actually decide once to kill someone of us. He even caused a war between our characters over a dragon wyrmling, because his backstory says he hates dragons. But I think it's awesome! It makes our whole campaing so much more fun. So Actor is a dangerous, but awesome player, in my opinion

[@BlackMew13]

I cant get enough of your little roleplaying sketches, they're just always hilarious and fun to watch! XD

[@thesmallcat]

"mommy, why are those people acting weird?" "oh dont mind them sweetie, there youtubers."

[@cakeinyoface6]

The acting in this video is top teir. 10/10 beautiful plot twists.

[@Viperspider1]

So glad I found this channel, even more content featuring yourself and Jacob! Also; I loved Jacob's Sidious impression 😂

[@silvercandra4275]

When you're the only actor, among a group of people, that don't actually care about the game... It hurts... Update: I am now stuck as forever DM, because after my halloween one shot, noone else wants to DM, because I'm "the only one that's doing it right!"

[@syd6654]

silvercandra then don’t play with them if none of them care

[@silvercandra4275]

@@syd6654 i don't have anyone else to play with

[@beckett746]

I feel you, some people in my party refuse to get the PHB saying “I don’t have to get EVERY SINGLE BOOK” when they don’t have anything except for their dice. They also said they didn’t have to make a personality, telling me their personality was “Lawful Good” Sometimes actors are just trying to spice up the game.

[@silvercandra4275]

@@beckett746 Half of them don't even have their own dice... and one keeps forgetting to bring their character sheet.

[@Pandora_The_Panda]

Play online or by play-by-post.

[@dougtong6524]

I love your videos! I hope you can always make videos as enjoyable as these. :)

[@jordank6961]

"This is my hat now" Just gonna stealthily steal that for a future session

[@Jhakaro]

The problem with a lot of "actors" in this sense is that they're not actually actors and therefore play super one dimensional characters believing them to be filled with depth just because they made some elaborate backstory but they never actually stop to think of the small things like, what the character finds funny, their favourite foods, drink, pastimes etc. that give you more of an idea of who the character actually is and how you should play them than "My entire family was once killed by Orcs so now I hate Orcs." Just like with the Devout Paladin example. Devout Paladin is perfectly fine. What people fail to understand in playing them is that if your god or your order believes something, even if it's not true, then you may end up doing bad things but believe them to be good. This is where alignment fucks up everything in D&D and makes literally no sense. Your order might think all Tieflings are devil spawn and abominations against nature. Therefore you, an otherwise Lawful Good Paladin, might kill them without any qualms because you believe they are evil and think you are doing good even though they're completely innocent, normal people like everyone else deep down. That's how real life actually works. Very few people do evil things for the sake of being evil. The problem with the Actor type is as I said, they actually can't act well and really put themselves in that person's shoes. They just have one dimensional ideas of how the character should act and therefore their responses to situations in-game are usually super over the top caricatures of how someone would actually act. They won't just be disgusted by Necromancy, they'll be like "If you use necromancy I'll have to kill you, it's what my character would do," but in reality it's not because if they did it, they'd have 2 or 3 other party members to fight then. People aren't generally idiots when it comes to stuff like that. Being Good does not mean you can't do bad things. Believing in redemption doesn't mean you try to save literally every monster and npc you encounter. Same goes for Rogues. "My role is to steal stuff, I steal stuff." And that's were the acting ends. It's just a one dimensional, shallow representation of some base trait. So they'll make out like their character would always try to steal and always be stealing everything in every store or from every npc etc. That's not how a real master thief operates. They're generally a lot smarter and more subtle than that. Pick their targets carefully. Run long cons etc. So the actual problem with the Actor type is often that they're not good at acting and just play silly, over the top caricatures that take everything literally and don't allow for any sense of nuance or change in their character as they play. It's a "My character is like this or believes this and that's final" outlook believing that that is good roleplaying when it's in fact the exact opposite. People change over time. Their views change through experience and exposure to the people that surround them.

[@n.m.dimmick194]

This. An actor who knows how to create a good character is a fantastic asset to most games. One who doesn't is nothing short of frustrating.

[@flinfake]

The conversation on alignment begins with a definition of what the axis mean within the context of D&D and your table. My definition is that evil is something which is harmful or undesirable. Good is something that is beneficial or desirable. Order is a generalist mindset. Chaos is a situational mindset. The paladin in your example committed an obviously evil act by deciding to kill as a method of problem resolution. This would be true regardless of who or what the paladin killed. Many people who fight for good causes irl kill for a greater good while still recognizing that by doing so they are committing an evil act. Killing Hitler does not get you good karma points, objectively speaking, as you are just purging evil, using evil methods, not doing good. You don't get to decide the morality of your actions based upon the results, it is decided by their inherent merit. If you are unwilling to sufficiently define alignment of course it won't make sense.

[@corbinbarron8772]

You play with shitty people

[@Jhakaro]

@@flinfake there's no such thing as good or evil in the universe. It doesn't care one way or the other. Things are only made so by how we humans perceive them to be. In the past, eating meat on a Friday was a full on sin and could send you to hell according to the church. Now nobody gives a shit. If a paladin is good aligned and his entire order sees tieflings as the spawn of devils sent to earth to do their bidding, spawned by unholy deeds then of course that lawful good paladin will murder tieflings without much thought whilst also still technically fitting to be lawful good because what they're doing is considered good by them and perhaps by the greater world. Hence why I say alignment is dumb and messes things up because in dnd it's a factual thing that exists, not up for debate but yet it still is up for debate depending on the DM and players in question. If someone does a bad thing for a good cause but that thing is still bad as you say then no character in dnd should ever be of a good alignment as they murder countless creatures. Whether it's justified is all down to individual perception but in dnd it's not, it's supposed to be cut and dry except it isn't and we keep going in circles.

[@Jhakaro]

@@corbinbarron8772 me? The examples I gave aren't as much people within my own groups. More so just traits I see all the time in groups in general.

[@witchBoi_Connor]

6:05 I have this exact foam dagger. Bought it at a Spirit Halloween while worked there.

[@vedadtr3509]

I freaking hate KZbin and I am enjoying this channel way too much

[@BrianWilkersontheAuthor]

Roleplaying is the better part of fun for me, but I'm not actually as much of an actor as I would like. I'm too cautious at the moment. That part about interacting with NPCs? That's me, but if the DM isn't into it then I don't press for it. The Star Wars parody looked like fun to do.

[@DramakilzU]

"And that last piece of cake that you wanted out of the fridge... I ate it!" "NOOOOOOO!!!"

[@Burori1]

Yep. This is me at our game. And proud of it. I love getting into character as Luctan (The) Evenchord, Tiefling Fighter /(Diving into) Sorcerer. The party and our DM really seem to enjoy whenever I go into a speech in-character and I, in turn, love roleplaying all the more in turn o u o.

[@xabigv00]

The best part about having an actor at your table is that they don’t mind terrible things happening to their character as long as it makes for a good role playing moment

[@ThePoshestEgg]

I appreciate the Burger King crown and goblin slayer References. But why not... Combine the two?

[@Xenibalt]

LOL

[@macware5892]

I love these vids. They are of super high quality.

[@therealx1ras453]

0:48 Villain: Give me a reason not to do so Actor: I'm about to end this man's whole career

[@Knevix711]

Best part about being an actor player: inspiration for days.

[@thealmanancy9020]

my DM doesn't give out inspiration, so we have no motivation to roleplay

[@Eric_The_Cleric]

"It's treason, then" best line 10/10.

[@mittri1990]

I am the D and D with a campaign that treats the main quest as a side quest since I want each character to strive for their own goals whatever that is aligned to the main quest or something completely different. This causes a lot of drama in character and makes the experience really interesting as people get emotional about things that effects the character also it's really fun for everybody in the groups since they love making a backup character so PVP conflicts are not an issue XD

[@mittri1990]

P.S They all know shit could go down if goals collide.

[@rhealastname266]

I'm an actor but I've found ways around some of my flaws. For example, as an actor I often love to try to talking before fighting. Sometimes this doesn't work out because my party members hate it. So I always work my characters so that their personality can be shown in combat too. Like my paladin I played recently, even though he often tried to talk out conflicts beforehand sometimes the barbarian would NOT be into that. So we came up with a system, I would always say a prayer to my goddess before killing. Occasionally I wouldn't even fight at all, during the battle I would just kneel and pray for forgiveness to my goddess. And as the game progressed this happened less and less because my paladin grew to trust his party members as much as his god. Later in the game he murdered someone in cold blood, not something he was supposed to be doing. He actually REFUSED to apologize to his goddess and stood up for his friends and party members choices as well as his own. He told the goddess quote "take me or leave me." She respected this honesty and loyalty so much that she bestowed a blessing on the ENTIRE PARTY! What I'm trying to say to my fellow actors, combat is: 1) combat is important and it CAN be filled with amazing roleplaying 2) don't kill your party members, find some other type of outlet (unless the player and DM have okayed it) 3) let your character grow and change with circumstance. Seriously, dnd is about making a living breathing world so don't let your character become static. 👍

[@emilygordbort7300]

Guilty as charged. I try not to kill a character unless it's like... they attempted to kill me or another party member first but i play this game for the roleplay and couldn't break character if I tried without feeling guilty about it

[@papereatingcowboy4363]

HOLY SHIT!!! Every shot with u guys in the woods has wild grapes or moonseed grapes (don’t eat the moon seed grapes) That’s all I wanted to say

[@GloomyGoth13]

I’m just thinking about the people who probably see you dorks and wonder, “What the hell are they doing?!” I mean… I would totally want to join in but I can’t help but giggle.

[@tristankendrick2582]

I love how this series has a video about each of my characters 😂 *Oh god I'm a list of obnoxious stereotypes*

[@bigbabymustache9284]

Nothing has made me laugh this hard in a while, thank you!

[@itstherealbrace6424]

I have "I wish I was playing a different class/race" syndrome so my favorite thing is when the actor asks if he can kill me

[@craniifer]

A lot of Actors in my group. It's actually really awesome.

[@nerrorr6033]

Last 5 seconds were 👌🏻

[@crassiewassie8354]

"no encounter is always more fun than no encounter at all" This is amazing advice for dealing with a player like this

[@MerryMaddMen]

As long as it doesn't hurt others or the atmosphere, be the best actor you can be.

[@Hallasammal]

My party has an Actor rogue, and honestly both the character and his player are a delight

[@mattgreen7692]

2:50 I literally had my paladin bow out of the Speak With Dead part of Dragon Heist because his Oath of Vengeance is against Necromancers in last week's session.

[@ckw777]

You make me wish i had friends. Good video.

[@MerryMaddMen]

I'm an Actor, I play d&d to play a character. I come up with a character concept, and I try and make a d&d sheet out of it. And I get pissed off by characters that don't take roleplaying seriously (I can't describe it, it's like you have 1 quirk but no personality and your choices are actually the player's decision, not the character's knowledge), though I won't say anything, it's more of a pet peeve. Edit: JESUS FOOP!!! 30 LIKES, THAT'S THE MOST LIKES I HAVE.

[@benhramiak8781]

Same, the bard messed with me becuase the player said she was a cow when she was tired.

[@johnmcintosh918]

I know what your talking about. Cause when I play, my party always just jokes and screws with stuff in the campaign and honestly it's annoying to me and the DM. I mean I understand having fun but they cross the line, all the time!

[@atomstorm7539]

I love actor role player they give me so much happiness in dnd, i see dnd as characters developing, epic moments of granger and story telling with each person having a unique backstory and unique choices so having a actor is the best thing. So as a dm i thank you guys for being actors because you make this game more fun.

[@MukuonChannel]

2:17 I had literally got the same guy who continually doesn't let us pass through a passageway through a mausoleum. It got to a point that he even argued with the DM, so the guy beside me talked to me about kicking him out of the play but in-story. My party just ended up turning against him then just killing him with a well-placed poisoned dart to the head.

[@capincmmd5299]

I love actor players. They can cause an unintentional challenge which spices up the campaign

[@feedthemultiverse]

I had answers for all of those hypothetical questions asked by the 'actor' in the shopkeeper interaction IMMEDIATELY. Guess I should be DMing. My improv skills be on point.

[@darklordthomaspie6293]

I love the actor archetype

[@Roozyj]

Our whole party and DM are actors :) Best party I've been in

[@sonofthebearking3335]

8:43 staple father/son relationship. *thumbs up* thank you

[@aaronfleischman5093]

I'm kinda in a group of actors, I get real into character (to the point where I concerned my DM because he thought I was really mad when I was roleplaying mad) and when we started we debated, are we an rp group? It was a back and forth but after some time and getting more comfortable at the table (this group is a mine and most of the others first game) and after going multiple strings of sessions without combat with lots of rp and plot development we finally accepted that we're kinda a group of actor players.

[@gamernbihldorf5464]

I fit into the actor area well, I've been in a play and want to be more, my first character was a paladin named Nathani, I do what I can not to be a toxic player, and the rest of my party loves him. they've told me out of game that they love my character and role-play.

[@TheNightfulKazk]

I like having actors and storytellers on when DM-ing. As long as theyre good to their fellow players you can be as in-character and intrigued in the details as you want. As long as youre not wasting time, then the shopkeeper himself might interrupt you speaking to his assistant and get on with it

[@wickan7333]

As an Actor who plays alongside 5 other Actors for the same Acting school and the DM is not. BOI IT GET FUN!

[@24601st]

"dew it. *dew it*. its treason, then. AAA"

[@95DarkFire]

This whole paladin skit reminded my of my Techpriest character from our long-running Dark Heresy campaign. He was the only one in the party that didn't have any corruption. When the final boss came up to the team in order to barter with them, and the rest of the team played along for time, my character just attacked the boss because negotiation was out of the question.

[@kimderijk6605]

I made a pretty interesting Paladin character. Itwas a warforged that was a Paladin of the Crown that devoted itself to whoever it served, following there ideals and trying to become a good friend of it's master

[@greyscaleadaven]

I fit this archetype best out of all the ones discussed, but here's the thing. I often break character unless there is a roleplaying moment to have (If I'm just describing what I do, I don't see the point of doing that in character, but I'll sometimes mix the two to keep things flavorful). I don't try to be the center of attention, even as a bard (My characters are in depth and have pages of backstory, so I usually have some more flavor then your average bloke when describing what my character does, but I try to hold back for the sake of having fun). Honestly, I feel more like a storyteller, but with more flare and without all the bs that some people restrict themselves with. Following oaths, alignments, and pacts to a tee just makes a character boring and one dimensional. Try thinking like your character but through a grey morality lens instead of a "This is how it is" lens. That way of approaching being an Actor opens things up a lot, and that's honestly what the goal of DnD is. The game is not scripted, it's mainly focused on improvisation and roleplay, based upon a more open ended system with guidelines to help both DMs and players understand what they're doing. If these players were real actors, they'd know how to improvise and say "Yes, and" instead of restricting the situation.

[@artyomsaveli9681]

Bards with Guitar Guns are the best thing yet. 1:42

[@indigoblack396]

As someone who really likes to get into RPing during tabletop games I just wanted to give some quick advice. One big thing to keep in mind if your The Actor: Make sure that you don't cut down another player's fun. It's great that you want to be heavily invested in your character and the DM's world, but make sure you give the rest of the party time to shine. Don't overtake the spotlight on someone else's moment. You can defiantly help assist in that player's moment and help make the event feel really memorable, but don't overtake it. Not everything is gonna be about your character and that's ok. Also, it's important to understand the type of party/players your playing with. If you want to make a super rough, angsty rogue that's confrontation with others double check with the party and DM to see if they feel comfortable rping with that type of character or if it would even be a good fit for the party. Same goes for if you want to make a righteous, law full good paladin in a heavily evil campaign. It's better to be polite and cautious as a player than just rushing in and not paying heed to the other players/party your collaborating with. Finally, if your interested in making bold character decisions then you need to make sure that everyone at the table understands that whatever you do isn't personal, especially if your playing with your close friends. Don't take this as an excuse to be a dick 24/7. This is more to make sure no one personally gets hurt in the role play experience and that relationships aren't damaged in the long term. Communication and tabletop etiquette are key, especially in RP situations like D&D. So, it's always important to talk and establish role boundaries before hand. If something goes wrong in the RP or if the player doesn't look ok after an event then you need to stop, back out of the game, and talk about it. If you can't talk about it immediately then wait until the gMe is over and discuss it in private as soon as you can. You don't want negative feelings like that to be bottled up and linger in the game. That's the kind of thing that can build up over time and destroy role playing groups. Other than that have fun with your character! It can be really fun to get really invested in your character and rest of the world around them. Just make sure your being safe and considerate along the way.

[@jaspermooren5883]

I very definitely an actor-type, luckily basically everyone at our table is :). I basically made one of the other characters get in a house of redemption of Sarenrae (which effectively put that character out of action) and he was totally cool with it (after all that player is an actor-type too). That happened after he (while he did it and was the main instigator for us getting there in the first place, we all got there so it was sort of we, not really he) accidentally woke up an ancient dracolitch while we are 6th level... The dracolitch murdered one of the largest towns in the world and I basically told one of the most powerful wizards (I knew he was insanely powerful, just an hour before that he polymorphed into a fucking dragon to stop the dracolitch) and part of the council of the republic we were in that we awoke him. Yeah he didn't like that so we got a trial and it was all insanely awesome. Suggestion: if you are an actor type, play with other actors (preferably the DM as well), and it will be the best game ever! Edit: And yes I am a bard, of course, I am a bard. A half-elf lore bard with a 1 level dip in knowledge cleric for pure roleplay reasons (I basically became the head priest of a religion that effectively died outside of very few basically immortal beings, that we happened to meet). That's also why I told, I'm a cleric of Oghma (very heavily modified for our homebrew world) and he's all about the truth in everything, so he told them the truth because he felt he had to. Also, most of our sessions are like 5 hours of roleplay and maybe 1 half an hour combat, if any at all. I wouldn't be surprised if I literally made more persuasion and performance checks than any other type of roll in the game combined. Of course my bard has expertise in both :).

[@imaginarycalmness7596]

Actors are kinda annoying but at least there not murder hobos

[@sithlord5190]

*sigh*

[@sithlord5190]

I perfer magic hobo

[@holykonchu7250]

@@sithlord5190 *MAGIC HOBO WHO USES GERMAN SUPLEX WITH LEVITATION* It's time

[@countsnowyofgwainn3996]

As a real life improv actor I take offense to this .lol all joking aside, I think im the type of "actor" that really gets into my role tho I don't actively trying and steal the spotlight, I just tend to get into situations where the center of attention comes to me. Due to playing odd and sometimes stupid fish out of water characters

[@The_Joemance]

@@countsnowyofgwainn3996 as an improv student, I'm in the same boat. I actively try not to overshadow anybody, but a few of my parties actively try to have me be the one to interact with NPCs, or push my characters' buttons. One of our most enjoyable sessions was when our rogue was disguised as a member of my Paladin's order, trying to get me to go into a forest with no weapons nor armor. He rolled amazingly high deception, so I yes anded it to the point where I got into an argument with another party member that was trying to convince my Pally that the situation was suspicious.

[@afterfauve8291]

Not only was I a newbie but also an actor and my DM knew it. , I played a fighter and drunken soldier, DM threw a Lady of the evening at me, turned out to be a vampire, rest of the party is waiting for me to go into combat. my thoughts, he is a soldier and he did pay his gold. rest of the players said good by, nice knowing you. DM says you wake up with 2 puncture wounds in your neck, minus 10 hit points and half your gold isgone. I asked did he have a good time ? DM said role for it . I critted. Rest of the players thought I was crazy. DM had me tagged by the vampire hooker, she became a spy, I was her mark. instead of trying to kill her for following me, I seduced her to the good guys side. She helped us win the campaign. Acting !!! Thank You !!!

[@HunterSentinel]

That last five minutes actually made me spit beer out my nose. I’m in a great deal of pain right now.

[@Denizu]

Being an actor is fun, I played an undead once and had to act nervous and jittery whenever our Cleric who I just meet was around. I learned later he didn't mind undead but before I knew that it was so fun jumping in trash cans when I saw him coming towards me to hide.

[@SmoothEnigma]

Not all Paladins dude. Not all Paladins... ok maybe most but not all >.>

[@jeffyboy4532]

9:06 That reminds me of a time when I burned down my church that was a couple 100 miles away by trying to set a rust bug on fire. I'm just as surprised as you are.

[@mistergiraffe9425]

I found my "know your played" video! Boi did I flavor the Warlock the Fiend. It came to the point of muscle memory, in a diff. campaign a PC talked about leaving the city to escape tight rules I nearly said "Join me in baphomet worship to break from the rules". As a sorcerer DIVINE SOUL

[@leopardbunny]

I miss the live action segments, they always make me laugh hysterically. Whatever happened to them?

[@2Infinit2]

I love my actor players and I love being an actor as a player and a DM lol

[@connor5187]

Where do y’all live with all these cool places to film?

[@biornr.4031]

I had a bout of non-lethal pvp, which worked great. A party member was not very descreet about a murder, so I and another player beet them to about half health and bound them. We solved it, and this worked great. Our logic was that we were both lawful, so going full vigilante wasn't really in character, but we wouldn't just sit back and ignore the crime

[@BaronElBardo]

I really prefeer to play like an Actor with other actors. I mean, D&D and other role play games are... Role games, narrative ones.

[@archellothewolf2083]

And here I thought this was going to be a video about the COMPLETELY OVERPOWERED Actor Feat. Seriously, toss that on any rogue/warlock/bard and you can pretty much walk around as whoever you want. Got 3 separate guard captains imprisoned by convincing their guardsmen and one time their king that they were the fake and I was the real captain. Made my party's stay in the city a little bit nicer. xD

[@skilledwarman]

yeah im the actor in my group. chaotic druid and his menagerie of pets (a platypus I had at the start, an eagle bought and gifted by the paladin, a rat named after the god of the paladin and the fighter, and an ever changing number of spiders in an ever changing number of jars). lots of arguing with myself and trying to make the rest of the party laugh. i dont take pride in alot of things, but when i get texts after a session saying that i made the down time fun I feel happy

[@HowlingFullBlood]

I am an actor, and my party seems to love it actually since we are all actors. We are always more involved with roleplaying than combat. It's the way we love to experience the game. I do agree on the fact you have good actors and just.. annoying ones. Have experience with those too and oh boy did it a actually make me consider not acting anymore in games for a little while.