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[@ZacSpeaksGiant]

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[@CosmicAggressor]

Why are you advertising thus junk?

[@macdjord]

Okay, I'll forgive you for the RSL sponsorship given you did it in Gilbert and Sullivan.

[@euanthompson]

Hard pass on scamming shadow legends thanks.

[@kugikvist]

please never talk to those scammers again

[@nyafu_uwu]

the economy of that game is so fucked from giving everyone coins that a 'sponsor ship sign in reward' is 500 THOUSAND fucking coins

[@Kelrisaith]

You missed the other half of the scuba vampire post, wherein someone points out that WE DON'T KNOW what's in the deep ocean, and thus leads to the vampires sprinting back out of the water essentially going "nope, do NOT go down there". That's an old tumblr post chain.

[@MorrahaDesigns]

That's where my mind was going while he was talking. "Yeah they don't breathe but they're technically still flesh. Something BIG is gonna get curious about how they taste.

[@ObservingLibertarian]

0:41 "Intelligent nature with weaponry" - otherwise known as: humans. That's literally what humans are.

[@ZacSpeaksGiant]

Wait, yeah

[@thecursed01]

Idk... humans being inetlligent is a bit a wild concept ,even for a fantasy setting.​@@ZacSpeaksGiant

[@abcdefghij337]

People forget that humans are part of nature.

[@floofyratboi]

i don’t know about that intelligent part buddy… but ok…

[@devinwhite5064]

@@floofyratboi We are intelligent. it's wisdom that we lack. "can we build a weapon capable of eradicating life in an area for decades?"

[@ZeldaboyOG]

So fun fact about cowboys and samurai. There was a large population of Christian Japanese people who left Japan and went to Mexico. So historically Samurai and Cowboys/Banditos did factually interact.

[@samueljo7910]

And this fact produced our beloved Sam “Jetstream” Rodriguez

[@kinorris1709]

​@@samueljo7910 Samuwuel Rodriguez

[@leonardorolingstella8554]

@samueljo7910 I thought Jetstream Sam was Brazilian

[@samueljo7910]

@@leonardorolingstella8554 ... I have made an oversight

[@NightWink129]

It's plausible, I guess, but considering the types of loyalty oaths samurai took, I doubt samurai would leave their country with the Chriatian Japanese folk.

[@blankadams3120]

There is an unfortunate, little known bit of vampire lore in which they cannot cross bodies of moving water.

[@dorping_Wolf]

as long as they don't leave the water on another side, they never crossed it.

[@blankadams3120]

@@dorping_Wolf I'd allow it, but I have no idea how mythology would rule that...

[@NotTheChosenOne3.14]

Does the ocean count?

[@Wanderer0981]

​@@NotTheChosenOne3.14 last I checked, the ocean has currents.

[@drunkdogwithagun468]

I thought they couldn't cross "over" moving water. I feel like it doesn't say that they couldn't cross "under" moving water. I'm probably miss remembering though

[@bensonofthunder9229]

Snow White and Cinderella unleash their hoard of forest creatures on their enemies. Enemies: Then we realised they weren't hiding from us. They were sparing us!

[@leyrua]

Writing prompt: Snow White the vampire, and Cinderella the werewolf.

[@nickster5207]

One of my party members once took down a dark lord by convincing every single one of his henchmen to unionize and depose him.

[@Mary_Studios]

Gotta love creating villains to unionize

[@modernmajorgeneral4669]

My very first campaign, I was the leader of a union movement, during which I coerced the leaders of some kingdoms to unionize. I even deposed a king and instated a union-friendly king. And that’s how I created a Kobold-Goblin Union Army.

[@xenird]

that's right, fuck ionized mfs

[@utubeiskaren7796]

Reminds me of how, at school in Music class, on a certain day of the week we would play "Drummers & Dragons," and it was pretty silly, one example being how I, Trogdor the Burninator, played my theme song that was so awesome it got the goblins to unionize against their Goblin Queen and want to do their own things instead of what the queen wants. They ended up forming a cheese business.

[@SystemofEleven]

One of my players played a sorcerer who Definitely Wasn't A Necromancer Guys! Hilarious thing, once he gained the Detect Evil spell and discovered that Evil is not only a metaphysical quality (rather than a philosophical theory) but ALSO a *quantifiable* quality, he immediately cast it into a mirror. Horrified at how *Not Neutral* he was, he panicked, and tried to think of the most Good thing possible to do could be, determined to do that as much as possible. Because he didn't want to be evil! He just liked to recycle! He decided that the Most Good action is to build orphanages. So every time he got access to an unalive body that he didn't Need Right Now, he would raise it anyway and give it the command Build Orphanages. The random encounter table had an ever-increasing chance of coming across a horde of zombies and skeletons wandering across the countryside, building structures labeled "Orfenij". We all joked that he was "running on a treadmill away from his alignment".

[@adamloga3788]

Can you imagine how confused all the law enforcement and clergy in that world was? This man was basically setting off a small undead apocalypse but instead of feeding off of the life-force of the living, they were all just building orphanages in random places across the world.

[@SystemofEleven]

@@adamloga3788 I mean, they were already on the brink of an apocalypse anyway, so a solid 50% of that confusion involved trying to figure out how the prophets and god-touched "missed" this step in their Ragnarok prep book and how it related to literally anything else going on... XD

[@tsukiaquamooncat2041]

What's an Orfenij?

[@SystemofEleven]

@@tsukiaquamooncat2041 A really bad misspelling of "orphanage"-- because he was not raising *intelligent* undead. :p

[@ace_r_ola]

This may very well be the first Raid: Shadow Legends ad that I actually enjoyed. Well done kind sir 😂

[@Hion_in_brawlstars]

Agreed

[@kindaander4088]

Best one i seen

[@speakingwithoutnet]

Same. I actually didn't skip it.

[@ZacSpeaksGiant]

Look, if I'm going to put an ad in front of you, it's got to be either entertaining or I need to embarrass myself a little - I think I achieved both

[@RyanNerdyGamer]

@@ZacSpeaksGiantThis must be what it’s like to roll a Nat 20 and a Nat 1 concurrently, and it is _glorious…_ Well played, good ser! 👏🏻👏🏻😂

[@Chriss_Workshop]

That ad was next level haha. I mean i still wont download raid but i appreciate the effort

[@joshmeyer8172]

😂

[@modmaniamadness]

"Hey wanna take this sponsor deal?" "Nah, someone already took it."

[@AllHailTheKang]

Honestly… fair

[@spiteberi2686]

I think it was a parody of the Rottmnt song lol

[@conduit64]

@@spiteberi2686It was a parody of the song, "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General" from the Pirates of Penzance.

[@Pendragon1400]

Okay, but if a woman offered me 10+ of sleep and no deadlines, I'd be dead to 😂

[@MemoristCed]

I like to get around the whole "heart's desire" thing by invoking pareidolia. They're just making noises that sound kinda like speech, but your brain's being stimulated to think about things you want and then you impose those words onto the noise.

[@paradoxalpl5666]

​@@MemoristCedWell, they got magic. Why would they need to use science thing that is not as efficient in that case

[@MemoristCed]

@@paradoxalpl5666 Well, if they're gonna pull out a nonmagical "butbutbut I get a special exception", then I'm gonna explain to them why they don't. You can go with "it's magic, I ain't gotta explain shit" if you want to and that's fine, but I like science.

[@MrLordLowbob]

​@@MemoristCed any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. so basically magic = advanced science stuff

[@MemoristCed]

@@MrLordLowbob Sometimes. If the magic is based on hard-coded rules of the universe, then it's just Another Science. If magic is intended as a violation of the hard-coded rules (like a sort of reality hacking), then Clarke's Third Rule doesn't apply at all. Either is fine for fiction.

[@Novastarsss]

Sirens are probably annoyed by people with ADHD because they’re gonna have to constantly change what they’re singing about just to keep them being lured in and even then it’s not a guarantee even if they failed the roll.

[@tsukiaquamooncat2041]

LOL, sirens must hate me then! 😂

[@shii5795]

Them: Sing the adhd song. Me: No Them: Do it. Me: Fine. Also me: ... Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television ...

[@familytablet6453]

@@shii5795 Me: *immediately begins singing We Didn't Start The Fire*

[@EraidFreefire]

*snickers* cue "This is The Song That Never Ends" or "99 Bottles of [drink] on the wall"

[@CosmicAggressor]

Come to think of it scuba vampires would also be immune to garlic (due to th water effectivley trapping in the smell), steaks (due to the fact that wood floats and you can't move fast enough underwater to stab someone with one), and religius objects because you can't see it. But of course the best part of the scuba vampire scinerio is that they do need blood so you can just imagine dozens of vampires scuttling up the beach to costal towns like lobsters.

[@orko714]

What happens if you bless the ocean turning it all into holy water?

[@Wanderer0981]

​@@orko714 that would need to be a STRONG blessing

[@Anisty-ext]

@@Wanderer0981 “Get the pope on the line! We need to fix our vampire problem!”

[@Wanderer0981]

@@Anisty-ext xD

[@alanherlan3429]

@@Wanderer0981 Not really canonically if you add a single drop of holy water to normal water it all becomes holy the same thing happens if you drop a holy relic into the water all the connected water becomes holy (might take a bit for it to spread in either case)

[@Kartoffelkamm]

The idea with the doctor necromancer is somewhat similar to Akiko Yosano from Bungo Stray Dogs. Her gift, Thou Shalt Not Die, lets her heal any injuries of fatally wounded people. So, she works as a nurse, but in order to activate her gift, she usually has to rough up the patients a bit more. Like, you come in with a broken leg, and she just stabs you 37 times in the chest so her ability works.

[@Dagroth]

How is she still not fired and/or arrested? :o

[@Kartoffelkamm]

​@@Dagroth She has a license, and works in a company with other people with abilities. Also, she's really good. Sure, it hurts like hell, but the fact remains that you'll walk out of her office in perfect condition. Not to mention that this isn't even the weirdest stuff in that anime. Sir Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, a major villain in the second season, can increase his strength and durability with money. Edgar Allen Poe can trap people in stories they're reading, usually using his own mystery stories. And yes, every character with a power is named after an author, with the power relating to one of the author's works in some way.

[@Switchell2]

Here's a story of my favorite character I've ever made, Duke the Deku, in a Zelda-themed D&D session. Duke was a chaotic evil murderous merchant who *literally* worshipped money. Not a god of money, just money itself. I also repeatedly (with the consent of other players in the party, that's important, don't make your chaos unfun for other players) repeatedly put the party in active danger, or made multiple attempted murders against important quest NPCs. I got to a point where the villains were scared of how evil my character was, and the party only kept me around because, despite my antics, I did prove consistently useful to the party (even if I did attempt to summon demons to attack our party just for the fun of it). Fast-forward to around midway through the campaign, and our party gets lost in the desert having no idea where we're going. I decide to pray to my rupees to try to see if they can guide us out of the desert. Get a nat 1. DM says I now realize money is nothing more than a social construct. This completely shatters my character's entire core, and thinking of what the most chaotic thing I could do in response to this, I tell the DM and party "aight, I'm lawful good going forward". And I committed. This resulted in me rediscovering Christianity (which we found out is canonically a real religion in the Zelda universe going by the Japanese versions of the games), handing out food to the poor and hungry, taking on every quest I could to help people, and trying to right every wrong Duke had ever done. The party was suspicious that this was some extremely long con, but no, it wasn't. That desert geuninely changed Duke. Unfortunately Duke was killed in battle before he was able to fully carry out his mission, but the party made him a proper grave to honor his attempt to right his wrongs, and in the afterlife, he was forgiven for all of his crimes.

[@MemoristCed]

Very nicely done.

[@elliotgandersen]

Epic.

[@izuku3111]

this. this is the most chaotic evil thing i have ever seen changing you aligment in the middle of a fucking desert because of money

[@iamsongforsomeone994]

Duke is literally just Paul from the Bible minus the prior religious extremes Paul had as Saul.

[@miragedown]

Zach needs to read this out. It belongs here

[@DerekIcelord]

They actually kinda did the SCUBA Vampire thing in an episode of Angel. In a flashback, he's press-ganged by the US Navy to board a U-Boat while it's in the Atlantic. He just holds a heavy weight and crawls in though the torpedo tube.

[@ZacSpeaksGiant]

That episode is based on a true story: The US military really did conscript vampires, war is hell, dude

[@thecursed01]

​@ZacSpeaksGiant lots of canned food for that submarine boarding vampire though.

[@twilightknight93]

Angel is the spin-off series of buffy vampire slayer right?

[@mina9e]

@@twilightknight93 sí.

[@insaincaldo]

The Volkihar of Elder Scrolls is described in a book to live under haunted lakes

[@frostbite0707]

"I speak for the trees. The trees speak Vietnamese."

[@Kinokoumori]

The Origin of Xenus the Changeling Drow My partner: *buys me Monsters of the Multiverse for my birthday* Me: *notices that Changelings are listed as 'Fey' instead of 'Humanoid'... idea happens... I text my partner, the DM:* "Hey, if Changelings are classified as Fey in DnD, would you allow a Changeling PC to use the same kind of magical antics that Fey traditionally are known for?" My partner: *doesn't text back for awhile, presumably to consult the relevant handbooks, then... 15 minutes later:* "There's nothing that explicitly says they *can't,* so if it falls within the canon lore and what is widely accepted, I don't see why they couldn't do that, so long as you, the player, are clever enough to pull it off with the right words." Me, grinning: "Sooo, if my Changeling went up to a real Drow and asked 'May I have your *bloodline?'* with the implication of simply asking for a record of their heritage/pedigree, and the unsuspecting Drow said 'Yes', could that be ruled as my Changeling stealing the Drow *racial traits* to use in tandem with his Drow Persona to make it seem more realistic and believable?" My partner: *moment of silence before finally texting back:* "I guess! But he would only be allowed 'access' to whatever racial traits he steals while in the appropriate form, and would lose them when switching to a form he *doesn't* have the racial traits for. I'll let you *start* with the racial traits for the Drow, but with the implication that the Drow you stole them from is angry and now on a revenge path to kill you and reclaim what was theirs." Me: "Deal." The other party members had no idea, and I made my Changeling a Druid, so whenever someone tried to polymorph him - there was this one pixie that was HELLBENT on exposing him - he would simply Wild Shape into the form demanded, and play it off as if he couldn't change back, not until the Cleric 'wasted' a spell slot to cast Dispel Magic (the DM never actually marked the slot off as spent though, and played it off as their God granting them a 'free' spell as reward for their devotion). Finally, it happened... my Changeling went down and failed his saves, officially dying and reverting back to his true form... but the other party members assumed it had something to do with him being Circle of Spores, and his obsession with the death and decomposition part of the cycle of life that made him change, and so they went to the local 'all-powerful' priest to bring him back, and he quickly played into their assumptions like "Oh yeah, the spores like to feed off of everything, turning even their Master into a ghostly gray corpse, Yup! But uh, I can command them to reinfuse that vital essence back into my soul!" and in a flash of light he's back to being a Drow and things continue on as normal, until finally my partner wised up and had the pixie try to Polymorph him into an animal he couldn't Wild Shape into (I was hoping to get to a high enough level for Flying speed before then 😅) and with a couple of unlucky Deception fails everyone realized "OH, W A I T-" and he had to have the obligatory awkward explanation and the broken trust and all that, that they eventually recovered from and now he just uses his Changeling nature and Fey powers to fuck with people, having canonically stolen things like an annoying goblins voice ("Can I have your word?" while 'negotiating' a promise) and the literal legal rights to a Bard's choreography ("May I have this dance?" to the Bard, under the guise of an admirer). He's fucking hilarious to play XD

[@CaeliSterlingtheFirst]

That is epic

[@familytablet6453]

Epic indeed.

[@darkdruidsvale]

this sounds like a nightmare as someone who hasnt played much D&D, but man would i love to be a fly on the wall during this campaign

[@ShadowReignhart]

Was not expecting a Raid themed rendition of Modern Major General, but hats off for making a good ad.

[@heatherweir8726]

Sirens singing about how they have hot cocoa weighted blankets and soft fluffy kittens.

[@SpitfiretheCat16]

I'll never play RAID, but I want you to know, that was an impeccable performance

[@tzisorey]

Regarding vampire scuba divers: Since adding any amount of holy water to any amount of 'normal' water will turn the entire thing into holy water, just pour a bit of holy water into the ocean, and solve that whole problem. I'd be surprised if that hasn't already been done, even accidentally. In fact....maybe that's WHY vampires can't cross running water - all water connected to the ocean is automatically holy water - only freshly fallen rain is safe

[@jonathonellis5604]

Unfortunatly thats not how it works, holy water can only be made with pure, desalinated potable water, since the ocean is full of salt, fish pee and countless other things, the ocean can't be made into holy water...unless you got like a whole truck load of priests to constantly cast Purify food and drink on the water, but you could probbly only guard a coastline at most

[@Dagroth]

There's a story by a Polish author (unfortunately not translated to English, I think) about Jakub Wędrowycz, amateur exorcist. He was captured by devils and dragged off to Hell. They wanted to place him in a cauldron of boiling water. He had two things: A small vial of holy water (and like you wrote, it turned the whole cauldron of it into holy water)... and a grenade. I will leave the rest to your imagination. ;)

[@justafan13]

Technically speaking, because of the water cycle, not even the rain is safe

[@RequiemPoete]

​@justafan13 I would argue, just for sake of sanity that Holy Water loses its holy status once it changes phases. So as water evaporates into a gas, it's no longer holy so the recondensed clouds an subsequent rain are not holy. Likewise there would be no Holy Icebergs.

[@alpha4935]

​@@justafan13But then wouldn't that mean that blood plasma is also holy since it would be produced from consumed holy water?

[@AM_Lurking]

I feel like scuba vampires is how some mermaid/siren population could have evolved.

[@wandering_fairytale]

Right? Both are beautiful, and hunt humans

[@Sindmar]

speaking of scuba vamps, i been on a World of Darkness/Vampire the Masquerade lore binge lately and i recently discovered that a subset of one of the vampire clans (Gangrel, hillbilly survivalist vamps) actually prefers to live in lakes, rivers, and the ocean. they drink fish and whatever humans sail out their way, supposedly most sea monster sightings are actually them shapeshifted

[@KirillTheBeast]

I'm currently playing a sequel chronicle set in Barcelona. The city is ruled by our sires, who are the our PCs from the previous chronicle. See, we took over the city in a VERY violent way, but we immediately reached out to everyone we could in order to establish diplomatic channels and hammer down pacts and alliances. In case you're not familiar, Barcelona is encased by a river on each side, the sea and a mountain range; all four of those mean Gangrel presence, and three out of those four mean Mariner Gangrel presence, so it was in our best interest to get along with those. Flash forward to the current chronicle, in which the Mariner Gangrel around the city are probably our most useful asset. Anyone tries to come or go by boat without permission? They get jumped by a bunch of bizarre sea monsters. Our quarry tries to cross a river in order to leave our jurisdiction? Good fucking luck with that. Some fucker runs for the hills? Better make sure they can navigate those more efficiently than the shapeshifters who live there and whose only obligation to us is not letting anyone out without previous authorisation from our bosses (our sires). We keep showering these kindred with all kinds of gifts and favors (and formal boons, of course), to the point where they've become territorial and don't let any more Mariners settle in "their" waters because they see this as a very beneficial setup and they don't want us to think they're taking advantage of us "land lovers". Bonus fact: I'm playing a ported "Old Clan Tzimisce" with three dots in the Way of Water school of Koldunic sorcery, so I can walk on water, meld with it and paint images or text on it in order to comunicate with the Mariners in our coast, which makes me the perfect liaison for this particular diplomatic relationship. This means I'm always the one reaching out to them either to tell them what their payment/reward will be or to physically deliver it to them. Those fuckers love my character to the point where one of them told him "you're not bad... for a Fiend...". Probably the highest compliment that character's ever going to get, in-game or otherwise.

[@MusicBlik]

2:24 THIS IS MY FAVORITE AD READ OF ALL TIME

[@benjaminacuna8013]

You can’t convince me this man isn’t a bard

[@allfunandgames1976]

Oh my god that's the best sponsorship segment I've ever seen, im both amazed they allowed him to do this and incredibly impressed.

[@Willow_I_Guess]

bro really made me listen to and actually enjoy an ad. Like, I aint gonna download it, but that was cool.

[@PLScypion]

2:22 is the only time ever I did not instantly furiously smash right arrow key to skip 5 seconds however many times needed until forsaken advertisement for something I absolutely do not care in the slightest is over. Congratulations, you did the impossible.

[@Jeshika_Bakugou]

1:36 Wizard walking away: I wonder why he had so many skulls. Rogue appears behind Wizard holding a knife to Wizard's neck: I thought I told you not to ask.

[@Jan_III]

Imagine the DM plans out the whole campaign over the scuba Vampires and how they are infesting the whole ocean world and how the players should be the saving heroes of the ocean in Aquaman style but then the cleric accidentally drops his bottle of holy water (disguised as a beer bottle) In the ocean and purifying the entire ocean killing multiple hundreds of thousands of vampires. I can see the pain on the dms face as he says "Okay guys screw you for ruining my plans. ... You all leveled up to lvl 16 btw"

[@jonathonellis5604]

Unfortunatly thats not how it works, holy water can only be made with pure, desalinated potable water, since the ocean is full of salt, fish pee and countless other things, the ocean can't be made into holy water...unless you got like a whole truck load of priests to constantly cast Purify food and drink on the water, but you could probbly only guard a coastline at most which if you had an inpending scuba vampire invasion would probbly be a good defence tactic

[@beardiemom]

Only level 16 for a vampire genocide? laaaaaame.

[@Dagroth]

XPs are for actual practice, and, well, experience. Have they actually learned anything by doing that?

[@Jan_III]

@@beardiemom the bosses have a bit of holy resistance that's why just lvl 16

[@beardiemom]

@@Jan_III ah, fair

[@crazydonuts4781]

The d&d one shot I was at was crazy. For instance we drive at an office and the dm specifically told us that the door was unlocked and we could walk inside. One player was playing as French barbarian and had the genius idea to kool-aid man threw the door. Keep mind he was Google translate the whole time so he had have a translater which was the one that said this for him. He rolls like a 16 and screams, "oh ouais" French for oh yeah and busts down the door. The woman sitting at the desk pulls out a pistol and fires off 2 shot which both miss. She then goes "oh God, adventures again".

[@Twilarose77]

My most unhinges thing happened recently: I play a female gnoll barbarian in our campaign and there were people attempting a night raid on our docked ship. In order to distract us, someone cast Sickness (or some other similar spell) on everyone, and EVERYONE passed except me. Just before we could roll initiative: Me: "XD I wanna throw up on him." DM: "Uh... sure. Roll... uh... fuck it, roll a d100." Me: *rolls a 92* "I projectile vomit all over him." DM: "The guy goes, 'WTF, EEEEWWWW!!!' and runs off and with their only spellcaster gone, and faced with a bunch of undistracted foes, the others run off too."

[@DewoftheDutch]

I get that Zack is just vocing posts/comments others have made. But man, does he know how to deliver it!

[@ZacSpeaksGiant]

I realised you lot are funnier than I am so...

[@TheUkuleleTim]

It's 50% that and 50% Nosebleed Section playing quietly in the background for me 😂

[@ZacSpeaksGiant]

@@TheUkuleleTim It just goes so hard

[@Cobalt...]

Bro just became the "Very model of a modern major dungeon master"

[@Imperial_Squid]

Honestly best ad spot I've seen in a long time, 1000% respect for composing it to the model of a modern major general song!

[@spicywaffle_]

6:14 vampires and running water don't mix at least in 5th edition, maybe a lake?

[@leyrua]

During one session I had assassins attack the players while they were separated. It was really interesting to see how they each handled it. The Warlock simply Dominated the assassin and ordered himself to turn himself in to the guards. The Sorcerer was offhandedly decimating his assassin using only bonus actions while he checked to make sure that his lab assistant was alive and stabilized. The remains of the intruder stood frozen in the hallway. And the Artificer? Oh gods. He took exactly one hit, and then turned around, locked the door to his lab with both of them inside of it, dropped the key down his tunic, and then spent the next five rounds doing nothing but activating each of his magic items and spells that added more and more layers of armor to himself until he was functionally invulnerable (imagine Iron Man suiting up). Then he started EXPERIMENTING on the poor guy. His assassin had three full rounds of just sobbing curled up in the corner as he awaited whatever fate the Artificer had in store for him, as he watched his target keep standing there, adding more and more excessive buffs to himself.

[@pandoratheclay]

“They can legally drink in the nation of Australia” Get the necromancer from the previous post, I’m dying here

[@that_one_kitsune9365]

No joke, the spontaneous singing for an ad read is perfect for your content. I love the originality for it.

[@duaelfilms]

2:20 Gilbert & Sullivan meets 'Raid: Shadow Legends' was a completely unexpected but very well executed surprise. 👏😁

[@rebeccab719]

I hate Raid ads as a principle, but I thoroughly enjoyed the performance! Well done! The rest of the video was great as usual; I enjoyed you reading people’s comments and additions.

[@rickrose6881]

Anybody remember that one movie the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen? The one with Dr. Jekyll, a disgraced Victorian Doctor hiding out in France, Tom Sawyer, a wildcard Western Gunslinger, and Captain Nemo, who was straight up called a pirate in the Movie? Not quite a French privateer, I suppose, but added his own flare for sure. They also threw in an aging British explorer to Africa, a vampire from the Dracula debacle, and someone who copied work from the Invisible man. Don't forget Dorian Gray himself. And, someone who knows better, was the "M" giving the quest supposed to reference the same one, or same position, that gave James Bond his assignments? Anyway, great movie. Now, if only they'd worked in the Samurai...

[@tsukiaquamooncat2041]

2:50 Why does his singing voice remind me of the guy who sang, "The perfect human fighter,"?

[@michaelw5633]

At the Battle Nexus Draxum found himself the perfect human fight-er. He was the greatest champion;

[@kingofbudokai]

It's true that vampires in most lore do not need to breathe. They are not, however, immune to the immense pressure exerted by the ocean itself and would be pulverized into paste long before they reached the bottom.

[@drewholmes7356]

6:01 Scuba vampires would be downright terrifying. Imagine: You're in a submarine exploring some uncharted cave, and you see humanoid figures start to surround your vessel.

[@stuffie5175]

Fresh and river water unfortunately is harmful for vamps But that doesn’t rule out cannibalistic teenage ninja vampires

[@drewholmes7356]

@@stuffie5175 You didn't say Ocean water.

[@stuffie5175]

@@drewholmes7356 Apparently running water is too pure for vamps, but I’m not sure about oceans

[@quinnlevy8996]

3:33 That is 100% a mixture of Bob Marley and Jack Sparrow. Like, I am 100% sure that is the intention, it was definitely the pitch to whatever caused the art to be drawn.

[@LunarisArts]

"I will NOT song about feet again!" Must be the funniest thing I've read and heard this year.

[@MatthewMorales-ji3zg]

Why is he so good at singing?

[@ZacSpeaksGiant]

He isn't.

[@xornoth]

@@ZacSpeaksGiant liar you are good at singing trust me

[@haldon12]

Your videos are fun, but I liked and commented for the ad spot. 11/10, no notes. I would stop skipping ad spots if they were this innovative, fun and related to the style/content of the presentor. With that out of the way - the closeted necromancer and secret assassin both trying to convince the paladin to kill the other one out of misplaced fear of discovery and murder, only to have it revealed that the paladin is an oathbreaker in service to Vecna. They finally have a quiet drink after everyone confesses their backstory, and get 1-shot TPKed by the wizard, the last survivor of the family Pristine.

[@Sarafimm2]

Best Raid commercial I've ever seen.

[@denki-kaminari2]

Correct

[@LadyVineXIII]

I now need an adventuring party where a group of scuba vampires team up with sirens, selkies and merfolk.

[@shieldgenerator7]

0:21 omd that imagery is amazing! a deer with crossbows mounted on its antlers xD

[@jjcrow007]

Siren: getting ready to sing Pítate: don’t even start, shut up, I’m coming in the water whether you like it or not. Siren: * confused * You need Therapy

[@xornoth]

dang what if the siren starts giving the pirate therapy tho?

[@L3m0nMan_]

I had a character made it an hobby to collect, crush into a fine dust and store bones in a bag of holding. We got a scroll of resurrection because the DM was worried one of us might die against the bbeg. Instead of reviving somebody with it I started the final battle by dumping out about 300 pounds worth of bone dust from the bag of holding then using the scroll of resurrection on the pile creating a amalgamation of like 30 goblins a dragon and a bunch of other stuff. The bbeg died about halfway through the battle and phase 2 started with the amalgamation absorbing the bbeg's body and soul so now we had something about 3 times worse than the bbeg to fight

[@michalkriklava3417]

To be fair, from a different IP TTRPG, marine/underwater vampires are a thing for the exact reasons mentioned: they live deep underwater so the light doesn't reach them or hide in caves, they shapeshift into aquatic animals, and are extremely resilient to withstand the water pressure.

[@c0r3theta]

5:13 It popped in my head like that but I can see a scene where you have the English Gentleman and the Cowboy at the table on the porch of the house, just shouting between them and moving the arm around (really sibling vibe around them) about proper table manner. And you just have the samurai, just looking on the side the discussion, stuffing his face with American and English kind of sweet treats the Mamie just brought up on a plate because he don't understand jacksh*t of the two speaking english but is interested in the discussion.

[@boomeronet7888]

The trees can't be harmed if the Lorax is armed

[@Watch_DogsFan]

"RAID SHADOW LEGENDS IS A-" Me: "ARE YOU SHITTING ME!?!?!?"

[@vuittonangel]

0:50 The thing is Sirens will use ANY means possible to lure you into the water, its not always about wanting something it can also be out of desperation like nothing is stopping them from appearing as your pet then feign drowning and you'd have to fight that urge to save them, I think that would haunt me 😮

[@JerichoDeath]

*frantically googles Australia's legal drinking age*

[@ZacSpeaksGiant]

It's true, when have I ever steered you wrong, Jericho

[@justafan13]

​@@ZacSpeaksGiantit's 18...

[@LiamGers-cx1kn]

Either this is part of the Sirens post, or you got this confused with the different drinking ages of the various races.

[@AztecCroc]

The US is the only non-Muslim country with a drinking age above 18.

[@alphateam6580]

I lost it at your "Model Major General" parody, good on you to actually put in effort for your sponsors

[@oreolaw9911]

that is the closest a raid shadow legend ad has gotten to making me want to play so congratulations Sir congratulations

[@jonathonellis5604]

Gods imagine a side quest in a monster campagin thats about helping a Siren getting over her fear of singing because the first time she encounterd an adventurer and red his mind about the kinds of things he would like, it was so trumatizing the siren lost thier voice...."NO NO NOT THE FEET NOT THE FEEEEEEEET"

[@DarkonFullPower]

3:51 This was, no joke, my first ever D&D character.

[@TheGreyTurtleEntertainment]

And the award for most clever Raid ad integration goes to- *Checks hand* Dnd meme guy, wait his name is ZacSpeaksGiant? I need to watch his longform more than the shorts.

[@themechabomb]

Been watching your shorts for a while, so seeing a longer video is nice, but holy dang, i applaud that sponsor section, of all the different ways promote raid, i never expected singing

[@mkitsie1780]

Normally I'd skip the ads, but the singing and lyrics are perfect.

[@supriseddragon6737]

Honestly, I'm just impressed with what he did with the raid ad, you did well with the singing

[@chaostails7]

This is the most acceptable possible way to shill Raid Shadow Legends, I guess

[@beatrixkaelin5120]

Wouldn't Scuba Vampires be impossible, because technically the Ocean is running water? Alternatively, Cinderbricking a Vampire's feet and throwing them into the ocean is a pretty neat Vampire Society Jail system. "Go down there and think about what you did" is really potent if you can't cross the water running all around you, so you have to wait there until someone fishes you out.

[@p2jnyoom]

Nobody asked, but the weirdest thing I've done was turn a velociraptor into a competent enough swordsraptor to be able to stall the final boss' plans for a few minutes, and they even severed one of the BBEG's arms

[@modlich_303]

NOO!!! ZAC DIDNT GET THE "Anyway, that's how I lost my medical license" REFERENCE!!!

[@EhoftheVoid]

If a siren offered me garlic bread I would sacrifice my party and bring that feast to Denmark for a victory meal

[@EhoftheVoid]

Also the sirens must not get scuba vampires...

[@penguinsentinel8508]

Okay, an advertisement sung to the tune of "modern major general" was not what I expected today. Well done sir!

[@jimhormann6085]

Ok you win. The 'I'm a very model of a modern Major General' riff got me.

[@AzaloonyToons]

I swear if I hear someone yell out in the middle of the night “EXTRA LARGE CHEESE PIZZA” I’m gonna risk dying

[@benjaminwoods126]

That is probably the best Raid ad I have ever seen. I love me some Gilbert and Sullivan.

[@ZacSpeaksGiant]

Or as I like to call them, Gil 'n' Sully

[@knight_link7082]

Will say, that raid song was the first truly original bit of advertising for that game I have seen in YEARS!!!

[@KainuTrash]

Kinda wanna add something to this. I was playing a variant human ranger in a big ol one piece dnd and i had a dragon companion. one of my team members was a giant, and in the middle of fighting a giant snake, after beating it, he went unga bunga and ate it's heart. i thought that was pretty cool. Since i didnt have a devil fruit or anything i wasnt exactly the strongest on the team but i kinda wanted to test my luck. so at some random festival there was this poison frog armor, which had a poison gland attached to it giving it the ability to be MORE resistant to poison. i was kinda resistant to poison because backstory. The following convo went Me: "can i eat the poison gland?" DM: "....what?" Me: "Im kinda resistant to poison, maybe ill get more resistance to poison if i just eat it. or cool poison powers." DM:" DC 19 con save" Rolled a 20, and was able to secrete poison from my hands. helped a LOT in impel down (not really, almost got TPK'd but thats another story)

[@hungrymusicwolf]

This is the first raid shadow legends ad I actually enjoyed. I'd like to hear more of you singing like that.

[@PizzaMineKing]

I need to borrow that highly armed forest idea for one of my campaigns so badly...

[@MigratoryWhimbrel]

That was absolutely the best sponsor segment for raid shadow legends that I’ve ever seen. Was not expecting the modern major general

[@lordhuntington5704]

Three things First, cool video as always. Wish you did more of these longer videos. Second, that was one of the more creative raid ads I've seen so props to you but Third: After that song I am convinced that you're the click only exclusively for DND content.

[@justafan13]

He's a few hundred plushies short of being the Click

[@niceguyofgames9490]

Had a Dwarf that essentially read a Gimli with a complex. Whenever he was challenged to do something he would do it WITHOUT fail. This story takes place in a town of missing people. Party goes to investigate to find that the town’s ruling bodies are corrupt and in service to a murder cult. My Dwarf gets captured and brought before a Police Chief, who goes on a monologue, capped off with “and there is no way for you to escape.” Me: “Oh yeah? I jump out the window.” DM: “What?” Me: “There is a window in the office, right?” DM: “Yeah.” Me: “I jump out the window.” I then proceed to NAIL my reflex saves and Athletics checks to land on the ground THREE STORIES BELOW with half damage.

[@Randomfactsofwar]

That Druid: I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees, and if you don’t get running, they gonna break your knees

[@triton6008]

2:55 anyone remembers the very model of a cartoon individual?

[@Phoeboi]

I’ve only played DnD once but it was fricking amazing. I was a Aarakocra druid. Since direct combat isn’t a Druid’s main strength, I tried to think of creative ways to do well in fights. Plant-growing spells with vines, flying to avert attacks, etc. My most genius idea was when I learned thunderclap. See, I need my hands to hold my weapons, plant seeds, and so on. So instead of having to free my hands to perform thunderclap, I simply clapped my cheeks. The GM added psychological damage to every thunderclap performed in the faces of enemies.

[@AllOrNothing_]

That bit with the late necromancer healer- I made a D&D character based on that concept about a year ago and I love them dearly

[@solarprophet5439]

5:51 "Hello, we've been trying to contact you about your carriage's extended warranty..."

[@fermitupoupon1754]

The weirdest thing I've ever been part of in a DnD campaign was unknowingly being the BBEG. My cousin was the DM for his group of friends and told me he was writing a new campaign and wanted me to test it as an evil character, because all of his friends would generally play as lawful or neutral good characters. So I made a chaotic evil kobold bard using a cursed bagpipe and began my quest to take over the kingdom, and to force them all to listen to my glorious music. After a few times of playing he told me the locals had taken to calling my character the doom singer and some other little things like rumours of a party being assembled to come and confront me. This prompted me to start to try and move faster between locations and to start basically destroying everything and everyone my character felt was spreading the bad rumours. This then lead to the kingdom sending more troops after me, and because we'd made the mistake of going with kill based XP my character's level quickly went out of control. When I reached level 21 my cousin gave me the option of taking a feat that allowed me to shapeshift into a copper dragon. Much hilarity ensued. I would do nasty things like attack an inn in dragonform and then travel to the next village as a kobold in order to spread false rumours about myself. It wasn't until 4 or 5 months into the campaign that my cousin asked me if I could play with him on a Saturday night for a change, kind of inconvenient with a 9 hour time difference, but not impossible for a one time thing. So I got up at 4 in the morning to "play test" the grand finale of my cousin's new campaign. Nope, turns out he set up his laptop on the gaming table with his friends that night. As it turns out the rumours I had heard about this party coming to confront me, were the exploits of his friends chasing after me. As they then found out, I did not turn into a bronze dragon, nor was I a halfling. The fight itself was very anticlimactic, my cousin had misjudged the level difference (25 vs 17). Combined with his friend's party having the wrong spells prepared and the wrong protective gear, it was a very short, one-sided fight. Though they were in no small part to blame for that themselves, apparently they took rumours of eye-witness accounts for being accurate and didn't bother to look at the damage I left behind. Asymmetric campaigns are great fun, but a lot does ride on the DM managing to balance both parties especially in double-blind plays, where only the DM knows about both parties. It's easier in a setting where the BBEG knows it's an asymmetric campaign, mostly because the BBEG tends to kill more and well XP is a thing. The soft-PvP element is really fun. It was always very funny to hear the other players tell about their frustration when getting somewhere to hear that I was there "last week" or in the best case "just this morning" and had left again.

[@chuckhouse5179]

Dude the Raid song was OP. Like, no way you had to go that hard but as a Raid fan I loved it. Thank you.

[@jkldfghjlksdf]

I somehow knew that was a Raid: Shadow Legends ad the moment you sang "there comes a time in every youtubers life" lmfao, but this is the first Raid ad I actually watched lol

[@ShiaraMoon]

Bravo for finding a way to start a Raid sponsor bit that I actually enjoyed!

[@johntheherbalistg8756]

Ok, that ad read was actually good. I only rolled my eyes a little when I (finally) realized that it was Raid: Shadow Legends

[@Azogan_the_elderlich]

Him : “raid shadow legends just turned 5 year old and they can now legally daring in the country of Australia” Me taking a sip when he said this: “cough cough cough, what the fuck” lmao

[@darcraven01]

talking about scuba vampires reminds me of the Nightlord book series. the main character is a vampire who is dense (mass wise) enough that he literally cannot swim. hes too heavy and sinks to the bottom. the biggest problem is his species of vampire turn 'living' during the day (so they're more humanish and need air) so he has to get out of the water and empty the water out of his lungs before he needs air and thusly drowns. not being able to swim/float means he has to walk across the bottom of the ocean if hes at sea or get help out of a pool if hes in the deep end.. very dangerous (especially since, while hes able to survive in sunlight due to being 'living', sunrise and sunset can roast him due to the transformative nature of day and night)

[@moonagain4594]

The Model of a Major General parody ad was very fun djdjd

[@MemoristCed]

4:37 This is pretty much every MMO right now, tho

[@keypiece9764]

4:10 Medic meant this as a joke.