D&D General Weird "DnD Is Dead" Youtube Trend??

Scribe · 2026-03-24T20:14:01+0000

Afroconan said:
Why does the female version of Deathbringer wears a Chainmail bikini with prominent underboob while the male version is clad in Medieval Power Armour®?

Yeah, again, I'm totally fine with the chainmail bikini, but you gotta have the near nude Olympia Arnold 'Conan' to go with it or else its just too obvious, which for me I'm afraid, that product is so far. Lets appreciate the physical form in its fantastic excess and exaggeration, its Fantasy after all, but it cannot cut only one way.

ersatzphil · 2026-03-24T20:22:14+0000

Parmandur said:
Uh, that is an unfortunate escalation, even.

Hearing him talk about 'rolling to hit' in a game based on Into the Odd was a real mask-off moment for me. Dude, the rulebook is 44 pages! 44 A5 pages!

doctorbadwolf · 2026-03-24T20:26:12+0000

Greg Benage said:
I mean…it’s not as good. But those guys did plenty of pieces with just women (or just dudes in loin cloths), typically with one or more monsters threatening them.

In any case, that’s the intent, right? “Deathbringer” is supposed to make me think of Frazetta’s famous “Death Dealer,” right?

Except every dude is covered, every woman is very much not, the thief is posing like a pinup, every warrior except the one with a female-oriented title is male and looks like serious fantasy art, and the women are representing the weaker or underhanded or batcrap crazy classes.

The battlenun is literally just a nun fetish.

Frazetta had more class in his most cheesecake works than all the art shown in that kickstarter. Just look at the cover art compared to the i.age thst is clearly the female version. One fully covered in practical clothes and armor, the other not.

Hell i might give a pass if even one female character was depicted in actually armor or adventuring clothes or if any of the male characters looked like Conan!

Greg Benage · 2026-03-24T20:32:03+0000

Greg Benage said:
I wish more people could dislike art without needing it to be a moral judgment.

Ah, well, nevertheless.

doctorbadwolf · 2026-03-24T20:37:51+0000

Greg Benage said:
Ah, well, nevertheless.

Art isnt neutral.

Greg Benage · 2026-03-24T20:40:25+0000

doctorbadwolf said:
Art isnt neutral.

Well, the moralizing seems to have been a rousing success, so I’m sure it will continue.

UnplayedRanger · 2026-03-24T20:45:53+0000

Since youtube channels are getting named here, I've recently come across Zach the Bold. He doesn't seem to do click bate, and seems to actually enjoy DND as a system.

jayoungr · 2026-03-24T21:10:20+0000

There are days, getting more and more frequent lately, when I feel that allowing monetization of YouTube videos was a mistake.

Scribe · 2026-03-24T21:21:57+0000

Greg Benage said:
Well, the moralizing seems to have been a rousing success, so I’m sure it will continue.

My ignore list is vast, I'm not seeing much moralizing. I just think if you have a vision, apply it equally.

I still need to commission my "not Red Sonja" to go with my unarmed Conan, maybe some of my tax return will go that way...

Benjamin Olson · 2026-03-24T21:24:50+0000

jayoungr said:
There are days, getting more and more frequent lately, when I feel that allowing monetization of YouTube videos was a mistake.

YouTubers would just do more monetizing by shilling VPNs and the like, selling merch, having Patreons, etc. Fundamentally the incentives for content creators to get more views, subscribers, etc. remain the same whether YouTube directly throws some cash their way or not.