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

[darjr]

Weird D&D will never die!

Them: no, it’s the trend that is weird.
Me: oh, that’s not cool.

 

[nyvinter]

It's boring pin-ups in a way that makes me guess it's a game made for the people still on Twitters.

 

[TheAlkaizer]

I don't approve of the whole 'fixed that for you' thing, but doesn't this sentence work fine without "for TTRPG?"

Every topic or hobby has low quality content on YouTube. But I've got other hobbies and interests where the quality and amount of genuine quality content is incredible.

In the end, it boils down to money. "Staying visible" just means having enough views and engagement for that adsense money and sponsorship money (or free adverts if you sell your own product). People change stuff for business reasons, cause some of the creators turned their yt channels into full time jobs. I understand creators that would rather change to keep up with algorithm than get regular 9-5 job.

Everyone understands that. It doesn't mean it's OK. If you reach a point where you're like "I can keep working my day job and have a little side-hustle where I'm making quality videos that people enjoy OR I can start getting clickbaity, rubbing my face into every bit of drama and lowering the quality of my content to leave my job and do this full time" and you choose the latter... it speaks a lot about why you're doing this and what you value in life.

To be fair, Colville isn't full time Yt content creator, nor is YT his only or even main income stream.

But he had the opportunity before him. Very early on his videos caught on, he could have went in that route and try to make a living. But he didn't. And he's been vocal about it very often when talking about the gaps between his videos, about how he has nothing to say at the moment, or the script he's written is not good enough to his standards.

 

[FrozenNorth]

He acts as if the current version of D&D is bland. Well, I am happy we have an inclusive system that has a lot of stuff that we can choose to include or exclude, but it doesn't have awful sexist art. Yes, that's PDM's kickstarter that is a gritty D&D-like. Wow, I have NEVER heard of a gritty version of the game before! Almost like half of all kickstarters try to make the same system.

I really wanted to disagree with you, but that art is pretty dire.

 

[ersatzphil]

Yes, Dungeon Craft is meaningless drivel made to accrue views for personal gain, nothing more. He's not going against the system, he's part of it. That's what is sad about all this.

He recently offered a 'review' of Mausritter, where he got every single rule he mentioned wrong. I sincerely doubt he bothered to read the (40 page!) book, but apparently felt confident enough to offer his review as an 'expert'.

 

[Parmandur]

It seems like appropriate (for the genre) Frazetta/Boris style art? It’s not my preference, any more than pink baby beholders are, but I’m all for creators doing what they like. I wish more people could dislike art without needing it to be a moral judgment.

Frazetta was kind of never appropriate, and this feels more like a flat parody, not achieving Frazetta's hard edge but retaining the questionable sexist depictions.

 

[Parmandur]

Weird D&D will never die!

Them: no, it’s the trend that is weird.
Me: oh, that’s not cool.

Weird D&D going strong.

 

[Parmandur]

He recently offered a 'review' of Mausritter, where he got every single rule he mentioned wrong. I sincerely doubt he bothered to read the (40 page!) book, but apparently felt confident enough to offer his review as an 'expert'.

Uh, that is an unfortunate escalation, even.

 

[Afroconan]

It seems like appropriate (for the genre) Frazetta/Boris style art? It’s not my preference, any more than pink baby beholders are, but I’m all for creators doing what they like. I wish more people could dislike art without needing it to be a moral judgment.

I'm all for creators doing what they like just as I am all for having whatever opinion I want and to voice it wherever I'm allowed to.

As for it "emulating" Boris or Frazetta's art style... If it is the case then it grossly misses the mark.

As @Scribe commented they were going for a certain esthetic that even though some of it can be questionable by today's standards it sorta gave it both ways... Plus it was another time.

Even though, the sexism argument isn't grounded in the women wearing skimpy outfits and having suggestive poses.

The sexism is in the contrast.

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

Seeing the Battle Nun under that context how do you imagine the Battle Priest's attire (if there's one)? At the very least like a Space Marine Chaplain by that metric.

What about the genders swapped version of any other class for that matter?

That's the sexist part.

PDM and his artists are as free to create the product they want as I am to not buy it and criticize it.

 

[Libertad]

He recently offered a 'review' of Mausritter, where he got every single rule he mentioned wrong. I sincerely doubt he bothered to read the (40 page!) book, but apparently felt confident enough to offer his review as an 'expert'.

Professor DM was the dude who stanned Elon Musk and defended Gary Gygax's comments about sexism and in-game rape, so besides the factual inaccuracy he's not a guy who I'd vibe with in terms of overall values.

Edit: Relatedly, he gave a positive review of 5e: HARDCORE MODE, which is actually quite godawful. The only people I've seen give that sourcebook positive reviews are ones that...aren't being honest or don't actually cover what is in the rulebook.