Which youtubers do you find thoughtful, insightful, or helpful when it comes to TTRPGs? Obviously Wargamers are all welcome here. Lore youtubers are welcome. Maybe some that aren’t as popular as they should be. I’ll start.

Bandit’s Keep- He’s got an OSR slant, but many of his ideas are applicable to many games. Discussing things like overland travel rules, dungeon design ideas, urban design ideas, etc. He’s calm, thoughtful, and I always enjoy listening to his videos.
Desks and Dorks- A self-described “eurocentric historian” by training, he discusses various historical concepts in roleplaying games, low fantasy, and has really improved my ability to introduce verisimilitude in my campaigns.
Black Lodge Games- Probably the most well known on the list. A little inflammatory and culture-war-y, but I agree with a fair bit of their larger points (e.g. how roleplaying is different than acting and how popular let’s plays like Dimension 20 and CR create a misrepresentation of the hobby). I think their best work, though, is in discussing games they enjoy playing such as Mythras and Vampire (their Vampire content is really interesting).
Power Word Spill- The one 5e guy on my list. More bearable than most 5e content creators and I really enjoy some of his more system agnostic content (such as props to give players, which I think is really a lot of fun)
Shonner - Rest in peace to this legend. You might not agree with him and his videos are a slog to get through at times. But, by god, his philosophy on roleplaying and immersion has changed the way I play games for the better. His whole
Me, Myself and Die!- I don’t love all his stuff, but his series on designing his current RPG (Broken Empires) has been incredibly useful for me and his ideas are really interesting (particularly how he approaches social situations and roleplaying mechanics to support social encounters)

No actual plays, please

>>95932165 (OP)
Alexandrain is okay breddy good guy

>>95932165 (OP)
Matt Colville, Dungeon Craft, XP to level 3, Questing Beast, captcorajus

>>95932165 (OP)
I don't really know if he's done anything annoying or been involved in drama or whatever, I just enjoyed Seth Skorkowsky's videos when I saw them.

Dungeon Dad

>>95932165 (OP)
I just can't digest that sort of information in video form. Give it to me in writing, for God's sake.

>>95932488
eat food while it plays out, dude

>>95932362
hes got a good voice, I've fallen asleep to his videos a lot. Not trying to criticize him, I work a physical job

Ginny Di

Codex Compliant is good, or at least inoffensive if you're not the type who's grossed out by fat girls. That one Australian 40k guy is alright, too.

>>95933578
I actually do enjoy Codex Compliant, but any time they switch from voice overs to talking to the camera this comes to mind.

>>95932165 (OP)
>Bandit’s Keep
great
>Black Lodge Games
good
>Me, Myself and Die!
started well, but I don't like what he plays
>>95932343
>Alexandrain is okay breddy good guy
he made a good book, but he's a lgbtf supporter, so fuck him.
>>95932360
>captcorajus
based
>Dungeon Craft
liked him more before he started shilling Shadowdark and do videos on WotC D&D drama
>Questing Beast
liked him 3-5 years ago, now is always shilling nuosr and other shit books (like Dungeon Craft)
>Matt Colville
can't stand him
>XP to level 3
some early videos were really good, but now it's overplayed his hand. Also, he plays modern D&D, which I hate.

>>95932362
Seth is the best one. I really appreciate that he doesn't review modules or games he hasn't ran. Too much review material for our hobby in general and on YouTube specifically are just like "yeah, this has really good art, the book is nice, the mechanics seem cool."

His skits are fuckin' funny too.

Not directly game related, but there's a channel called A Tanker's View where this guy who apparently served on a real tank crew reviews a bunch of fictional tanks, including several from 40k. I found it pretty enjoyable, but I'm not a tank expert myself so anybody who's a veteran and/or a mechanical engineer may have differing opinions.

What does /tg/ think of Sandy Peterson's videos? Myself, I never really got into CoC so I mostly know him from the old Doom games.

>>95933622
They're good, but less in a practical way, and more in a "fun Uncle Sandy is gonna tell us some stories," kind of way. I wish he'd talk more stories about old campaigns and shit, I find grognard war stories fascinating.

Currently my favourite is Lord of War games and hobbies. They're two shop owners with decades of experience in the hobby and the tabletop industry, they talk more about the business side of things and shit on kickstarters and Trench crusade.

>>95932165 (OP)
I enjoy Seth Skorkowsky and Ginny D's videos.
The first one because he knows what he's talking about, the second because blue haired bitches will be the end of me.

Going to shill some lesser-known youtubers.

Laughing Dragon Inn's Beyond The Wall actual play. It's got a charm that grows on you and it's just an actual, normal group. I re-listen every so often.

3d6 Down the Line: Arden Vul megadungeon AP. I will catch up, eventually. Solid AP, but long.

Abby Absinthe: writes and performs songs based on their groups exploits, and that level of creative dedication should be encouraged.

Anvil of Doom. Paints oldschool GW minis and terrain. Fun.

Battlin' Barrow Gaming: currently running a tableop Pirates of Mystara game, recaps and miniatures.

Dr. Faust's Painting Clinic, still around and active! A classic, still excellent painting tutorials.

James Atherton. Simple solo play skirmish battle reports. Nothing flashy, but solid battle reports in a short time.

MJ Hobby Corner. Impressive scratchbuild miniatures and battle reports.

Page 121. AD&D, Traveller, lots of stories and anecdotes.

The Dungeon Minister. Anglican Priest plays OD&D with his kids. Wholesome.

>>95934079
These are actually glorious recs. I haven't considered any of them.

Take a cool bit of real life terrain- The geothermal sulfur fields of Dallol Ethiopia- as inspiration for worldbuilding for taking the time to post something excellent.

>>95933928
I genuinely think Ginny Di is ruining part of the hobby.

Terrain tutor

>>95933928
>the second because blue haired bitches will be the end of me.
Not blue-haired, but same general genre: Check out Corkboards & Curiosities. That woman makes me want to go feral.

>>95934649
>Ginny Di is ruining part of the hobby.
By doing crafts with character sheets or what?

>>95932488
Same here, all the youtube shit always gives me cancer. I hate podcasts too.

>>95932165 (OP)
>Black Lodge Games
Their video about the way WoD Vampire games were meant to be played as a mafia was actually really interesting. That made the whole concept click a lot better than any of the games I ever played with those systems.

The fact that they suck off Shadowdark so much makes me second guess their credentials, however. The game isn't bad, but it's nothing special and it doesn't actually offer anything so amazing that I could understand why these no-nonsense dedicated RPG bros would feel the need to shill it constantly, and hinge part of their career on making content for it.

I don't know if this counts but there's this dude called 5header just making funny little dudes. He kinda does 40k Orks and Fantasy "chaos" but honestly it's just an excuse to do his own thing and I'm all for it.

>>95932360
>Matt Colville
I think people mistake his ability to say a lot in a single video with the ability to say things of substance and intelligence. I find him incredibly boring because he'll blather on for entire minutes without making a point, then make a different point to what he was just talking about, and then reach the end of the video and conclude something entirely different.

>Dungeon Craft
He's had some good videos in the past, but I think he's gradually becoming less of a hobby channel and more of a shilling and e-drama channel. More than half of his videos are "THE [BLANK] SITUATION JUST GOT WORSE" kinda shit.

>XP to level 3
He's... Fine. Inoffensive. A bit too much of a D&D fanboy for his own good, but he clearly genuinely enjoys his hobbying and I can't hate him for that.

>Questing Beast
He's okay, I guess. Most of what he posts is actually pretty well done, thoughtful presentations of games and adventures and other material. He's getting a little clickbait-ty with his titles, though. He's also a Shadowdark shill, which is more confusing than anything. He's read more OSR and OSR-adjacent systems than most other RPG youtubers, so you'd think he'd be less inclined to promote it all the fucking time.

>captcorajus
Never heard of him

>>95932165 (OP)
I like notepadanon. He used to make the monthly game design general (and probably still lurks).

>>95935378
>notepadanon mentioned
Insane

>>95935378
>t. notepadanon

>>95935330
>Professor
Yeah nah he's definitely gone. His main issue is that, ultimately, he frontloaded. All of the good points he could make, he's made, and now he can't really think of anything else that he hasn't talked about- which is weird, given he's got decades in this game. He's openly admitted in one vid that he's doing it to stay relevant because Clickbait is what it is.

A recent defence he came out with:
>I did like three *actual* vids recently, you want me to make 'em then watch 'em.

>>95935378
His videos are fine, but there's a retard here on /tg/ who rages incoherently whenever he's mentioned. A lot of what he makes videos about would not be remotely interesting to the majority audience of faggots who only play 5e while complaining about 5e.

>>95935330
>he'll blather on for entire minutes without making a point
that's what I enjoy about him, the interjections with a lot of personal experiences as an aside
>more of a shilling and e-drama channel
also, it helps me discover systems I never would have known of
>He's... Fine. Inoffensive.
he actually inflamed me before when he made a snide comment about counter woke culture. besides that I find his skits to be fun, but his actual videos comparable to the others lacking.
>He's getting a little clickbait-ty
I don't care if people clickbait or not as long as the video is entertaining and substantive
> Never heard of him
You're in for a real treat. Pretty much the only OSR guy I listed.

>>95936257
He has cancer and he might not make it, be considerate when you consider him trying to stay relevant for now.

i quite enjoy Deficient Master, the mystic arts and "We love ttrpgs!"

The Glass Cannon Network

>>95934665
Okay. I looked her up and I wasn't impressed until she started talking.
She's got a pretty sexy voice.

Any good Savage Worlds youtubers?

>>95935279
I think part of the broader shift to shilling for it is trying to capture people away from 5e towards not-dogshit games that don't burn GMs out making railroaded stories
Shadowdark seems to be to be kinda fun and not a ton of effort - i.e. what people think 5e is, and what it probably is for a lot of normie players, but not engaging for veterans and awful on the people running games. Bait them with the hook of Shadowdark, and reel them in to the broader world of good gaming

I can't speak for them but I imagine Mythras and WoD hold better places in their hearts, but SD is good enough, easy enough, and there's a hype train that isn't fully disingenuous behind it

>>95932362
I've always liked this dude. Super entertaining skits, he plays his on screen characters quite well. I honestly considered buying some of his merch, which says a lot because I am quite poor.

>>95932165 (OP)
Alexandrian, Seth Skorkowsky, Deficient Master, Mystic Arts and Dungeon Masterpiece are all good sources of information and advice in my personal experience and I would recommend checking them out.

I also enjoy Notepadanon, Davvy Chappy, Pack Tactics and Theatre of the Unaligned.

>>95932362
Seth is great.

>>95936342
Jeez, really? I'd heard he was sick but didn't know it was that bad.

I thought that Lorica Clothing channel's review on Cathay design stuff was interesting. I know a lot of people here aren't really keen on the newer stuff, but at least she seems to know what she's talking about.

>>95934665
>Corkboards
I want to be on a spy mission with her talking in my earpiece and telling me stuff about intel.

>>95935330
>Matt
I must be equally retarded because I've never found the right words to explain my disdain for his videos, thanks anon.

>lvl3
I'm stuck at right down the middle, maybe leaning on disliking him. Hes annoying when hes spouting retarded opinion shit and sucking DnD dick, but genuinely entertaining outside of that.

The two biggest examples of his retardation though.

>making an almost hour long video defending the OGL when it first dropped, asking his audience if they were 'hit by a feeblemind spell' because he cant say retard. Only for WOTC to confirm everything like a day later.

>Defending "cyberpunk edgerunners in 5e!!!" Type shit because learning new systems is hard so just play 5e forever.

But even then, hes at least admitted he was wrong on the first one. Still wont unboil my piss when he called non 5e games "third party table top games"

>>95945407
I was never subscribed to Matt and filtered his videos out of my feed, but somehow one got through a couple months ago about the Forever DM problem, and I thought
>okay this guy is kinda popular and he's got his RPG coming out, let's give him a second chance
And I was baffled that after 35 minutes of him talking nonstop, he had completely failed to address the topic that was initially the point of his video, and also that the solution he proposed conflicted with the things he had said minutes prior. I walked away with no clear understanding of what he thought the problem was or how his ideas to fix it made any sense.
>The forever DM is the guy who gets stuck running the game for his group because no one ever wants to run and will not volunteer and would rather play nothing than run a game for their friends
>35 minutes later
>And that's why the Forever DM should just have other people run games and then he won't be the Forever DM anymore!
And the comments were full of people sucking him off and calling him so wise for his insight.

Quinn's Quest - Reviews a lot of non DnD games. pretty comprehensive, nice production values in his video. comes across as a little pretentious sometimes though.

ZachTheBold - I like his skits, more focused on humor than anything else. But he's nice, a little too DND focused. Recently played on critical role, which may be a plus or minus depending on your views there.

Mystery Quest - Actual play show. They play a wide variety of games, all done really well with a good blend of humor and playing it straight. The DM, Angory Tom is actually really cool and runs another channel on video games I also enjoy. They focus on exclusively non-DND systems (MorkBork, CoC, Mothership, Free League games, etc.)

DM Tales - his channel is almost like listening to your dad or awkward uncle talk about TTRPGs. a little dry at times, but he always has something interesting to say.

Bob World Builder - chill guy and very approachable. I think most people know about his channel, as he seems pretty well liked in the TTRPG space.

Elder Goblin Games - Channel mostly focused on promoting indie RPGs and introducing people to new spaces.

Zee Bashew - One of my favorite channels. He makes animated explaining how certain mechanics in DND work, and also tackles a lot of aspects of tabletop culture. really enjoyable to watch.

I like GFC's DnD.
I would like it more if he posted ever again. On his blog or the Youtubes.
Please.
I know you read these.

I have found the one guy that does GURPS videos
I will mention him solely because he is the one guy i have ever found that talks about gurps
It's a youtube channel called dungeons and gurps.

how can you people stand watching some bald fat guy with glasses talk to the camera
If I wanted to see a bald ugly disgusting fat slob talking I could just go look at a mirror.

DingoDoodles

I almost want to suggest Miscast, but the guy posts so infrequently and whenever he does it's either a life update blogpost or it's like
>hey so I made this weird little guy and like my friend built this huge piece of terrain and I'm thinking about art a lot lately anyways okay bye

>>95945407
Xptolvl3 strikes me as somebody who only ever says whats agreed/acceptable. Maybe I don't watch enough of his content, but everytime its just shit like "Did you guys know there's no way to play DnD wrong?" followed by his next video "This guy played DnD wrong and is totally a freak because he described his female character as having fat tits" ending it off with praising that one tiefling vtuber who's entire gimmick is drinking dragon cum and being double teamed by them.

If by some insane miracle, the entire view on something like railroading changed abruptly, I'm sure he'd be there the next day with "Railroading is actually AWESOME"

>>95932165 (OP)
Henkerin Ferinale from Drunken & Dragons (renamed Runehammer a while ago actually I think). By far my favorite content creator back in the day. He kind of fell off though.

>>95935330
>I think people mistake his ability to say a lot in a single video with the ability to say things of substance and intelligence.
I think a lot of people who say this about him don't actually watch his content, instead just distill other people's opinions of him into baseless strawmen.
I think the people who do like him are modern TRPG fans who don't yet know the surface level information he shares, or just enjoy his crafted persona combining "quirky old man" and "elder gaming statesman" personas.

>>95949304
I've watched him. He talks a lot and says very little. He's not special, he's not intelligent, and he's not entertaining. This is not a controversial opinion.

>>95949417
>This is not a controversial opinion
Except that it really is, since its an opinion that only exists here on /tg/.

>>95932165 (OP)
Shonner old channel, the one from before the old Youtube RPG Brigade and its implosion, was Great.

>>95949635
Reddit and twitter are 80% bots and feds by volume. Enjoy having your retarded beliefs validated by the dead internet.

>>95949684
do all the bots and feds also buy his kickstarters?

>>95949839
Yes.

>>95932165 (OP)
Holy shit you fucking troglodyte scum. Are you incapable of forming your own opinions? Do you need someone to defecate into your skull? Just play the games yourself! It's not that hard and it's actually super fun! My god...

>>95932165 (OP)
Enraged Eggplant, a very good GURPS youtuber who's created some actually pretty amazing resources for the community, specifically his sorcery library.

Probably doesn't count, but I follow the Tilea-s Troubles stories.

>>95932165 (OP)
I've seen some guys who looked like cool people but videos about ttrpg in general are really boring. I don't see the point. The only one I liked was the first season of that one popular ttrpg show with Mercer and the voice actors, I forgot the name. But everything else on that channel is trash or uninteresting at best.

>>95957754
2/10, trying too hard.

>>95957754
7/10 not trying enough

How dare you bastards not watch Aten, the Gen X Goth dude.

His most "controversial" video on BDSM safe words in D&D:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucQOlG-Bsw8
His normal channel:
https://youtu.be/i2o5j7EKnoA?si=7aCi8q5hSFL4fEuW

>>95960556
I see a gen x man who dresses like a vampire IRL and I just know he has a sex dungeon full of either twinks or 19-year-old girls.

>>95932165 (OP)
Seth Skorkowsky and sometimes Sandy Petersen for RPGs.
Yes, Call of Cthulhu is my main game, how can you tell?
I use Miniwargaming as background noise whenever I'm building/painting models. I like their narrative campaigns, though their average batreps are hit or miss for me.

>>95935378
>>95936283
FYI, notepad is also part of the rainbow brigade. He loves gay stuff.

also,
If your name is Matt and you have a /tg/ YT channel, you are overblown and no-good.

>>95932165 (OP)
>Black Lodge Games
The authors name sounded familiar and after looking on the old deepfreeze archive, it seems like before venturing into slinging TTRPG slop, Matt "Ginger Fraiser" Pritchard had done business making an asset flip game that he never delivered on back during the gg days the ea build pulled from steam.
He also seems to have scrubbed his old gamedev channel on March 6th, 2023, around the same time the old BLG channel was purged of most of its Youtube RPG Brigade conent before the rebrand the following week.
Seems it wasn't the first time with the grift, as he was also on Anders channel woodwwad, over a decade ago now where he was getting griftstarter funds for a video production in austin that also didnt deliver

>>95933916
They're faggot Trump haters. Won't stop making anyi-tariff propaganda. If you enjoy that slop, you're a tranny

>>95932165 (OP)
Neckbeardia has been fun though they are kind of winding down due to the main guy just had a second kid.

Guardbro is also pretty good and his Veil Riders TTRPG is great if you wanting a modern combat TTRPG, and it has war crimes you can commit and be graded on.

Me myself and DIE! is a great channel that also has a fun TTRPG coming out with Broken Empires.

Black Lodge Games is another big one that is making things for Shadowdark and other systems.

>>95960704
>He loves gay stuff.
Never noticed that in his videos. Idk how faggy he is in his discord server.

>If your name is Matt
Literally who?

>>95932165 (OP)

>Games Night, Mystery Quest
I have a soft spot for the Yogscast. The Yogpod was my first introduction to trpgs. Some of the newer members are pretty annoying tho.

>The Informal Game
Old school gaming stuff.

>Bandit's Keep, Bandit's Keep Actual Play.
Good advice. Nice voice.

>>95960704
Is he just gay or is he pozzed? Because there's a difference.

>>95960752
Somehow, that is the exact vibe I got out of him and his friends without ever seeing the previous grifts he fucked up. They have the aggressive confidence and attitude of people who have been desperately grasping at different personas to try and find a niche for themselves.

>>95963517
BLG was doing alright when they were just trolling on livestreams. their takes on vampire are mostly rehashed old head WoD wisdom. They've gone downhill fast after sucking up to the osr crowd and their books are just supplement stuff. They are chasing clout, and the culture war stuff makes them fucking boring.

>>95933916
I actually live a couple towns over from them. I keep thinking about visiting the store but the ol' pile of shame is already too big for me to justify buying anything.

>>95932362
Seth is full on woke, unfortunately. He compared removing porn from libraries to Nazi book burnings.

Surprised nobody's mentioned AJ Pickett/TheMightyGluestick yet. His lore videos are some of my favorites to listen to while I paint

>>95964903
>removing porn
Man, I didn't know Seth was a Burzum fan.
Based
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw0yi60Qllg

>>95932165 (OP)
None.

>>95960752
They've always seemed untrustworthy to me, although shitting on Pundit with receipts is always appreciated. Let's be real: Austinites are inherently less trustworthy because it's a city of people too ugly to make it in LA or NYC, or to brainlet to make it in the Bay or NYC.

>>95966435
trying a little too hard "anon"

>>95966481
It all runs off the Austinites like water off a raincoat, but say that they're only there because they were too incompetent to make it where they actually wanted to be working and they they will recoil and shrink back. "I've been found out."

>>95966693
>t3hsauceposting

>>95932360
>Fatt Coville
Most boring, entry level advice, drawn out into a 30 minute video. Only good thing about him is he has a decent voice and looks fairly well put together, but he is utterly vacuous in his ideas. Also every normalfag D&D player sucks him off which makes it even more annoying.

>Dungeon Craft
Typical "reformed" OSR storygame boomer who says "lol just ignore the rules to make the game go as fast as possible like some group jerkoff improv session" but at least he makes cool terrain.

>XP to Level 3
Fat dysgenic fuck who makes stupid meme videos. I feel bad for his wife, there's no way she's actually attracted to him. Only good thing him about him is if I hear him brought up IRL I know to immediately silently blacklist that player from any of my games.

>Questing Beast
Paid shill for nice-looking art books that occasionally have some value, except 90% of players don't have the talent to contribute anything to a roleplaying game about post-apocalyptic Arthurian England or whatever the hell.

>>95932362
Seth Skorkowsky is okay.

>>95932592
>Ginny Di
LMAO the bitch that didn't read the Dungeon Master's Guide for 10 years and got paid $5,000 to run a D&D session then had an anxiety attack and cancelled it? I'd be pissed if I'd paid for that to happen. But then if you pay to play D&D with some airhead e-celeb you get what you deserve. Fuckin simps.

>>95934079
>Page 121.
Based boomer grognard

>>95936740
Savage Worlds isn't a good game so why would there be good YouTubers for it?
Also it's not even like there's much to discuss.

>>95962586
>Neckbeardia
Dysgenic mick trash with his ugly Tunisian mutt wife, who ruined this board because no one wanted to post stories anymore, knowing they'd be fined by two fat irish fucks for money.
>Guardbro
Ugly faggot furry porn artist. Drew porn in front of his wife's daughter, so his wife is now divorcing him. Typical frea/k/shit.

The other two are okay.

>>95969010
>I feel bad for his wife
why when she is a dysgenic fuck too

>>95936740
There are some good SW podcasters, although there names are escaping me right now and I'm not going to look.

>>95969010
Yeah, I remember being really confused hearing that XP was not only married but apparently has a kid? Is it actually his? I'd honestly be surprised if he can have kids, he looks like he has some kinda hormone issue. Like, he's not even offensively ugly, just completely absent of any features women are normally attracted to. I guess is hair is decent looking, but again, that could be a low-T thing.

>>95945407
Anyone who pushes for people to not explore other systems and just use 5e is a corpo stooge or a fucking tourist. I fucking hate that guy because he has some of the most dogshit opinions you could have about tabletop or even DND for that matter.

I remember he gave advice saying that he doesn't give his bosses hit points and just decides when they die after they all the players did something cool like their fucking toddlers. Shit like that boils my piss.

>>95969010
>LMAO the bitch that didn't read the Dungeon Master's Guide for 10 years and got paid $5,000 to run a D&D session then had an anxiety attack and cancelled it? I'd be pissed if I'd paid for that to happen. But then if you pay to play D&D with some airhead e-celeb you get what you deserve. Fuckin simps.
OP asked about enjoyment, not competence. Only reason to get mad at her is if you paid those $5000.

>>95970260
nta but I'd say it's pretty unenjoyable when someone who positions themselves as an insightful, informed voice on a hobby, who has garnered large amounts of wealth and fame from her videos about a hobby 1) hasn't read the fucking books she's doling out advice for, and 2) can't fucking run the game she's giving advice for.

>>95969926
Despite having been working on a game that is explicitly meant to compete with D&D or offer and alternative that addresses D&D's problems, Fatt Colville is extremely eager to tell people that it's totally fine and great to play only 5e and use 5e for everything and that it's wrong and stupid and mean to tell people they should try something besides D&D. I don't even know how you get that mind-broken over such a mediocre edition.

>>95969018
counterpoint: 5e is shit and there are tons of youtubers for it.

>>95969010
>
LMAO the bitch that didn't read the Dungeon Master's Guide for 10 years and got paid $5,000 to run a D&D session then had an anxiety attack and cancelled it? I'd be pissed if I'd paid for that to happen. But then if you pay to play D&D with some airhead e-celeb you get what you deserve. Fuckin simps.

No fucking way, did people get refunded at least? Did she just go "tee hee I'm just a silly girl!" and make off with 5 big ones?

>>95969806
nah she's not as ugly as he is. Honestly dude looks like he's looksmaxxed lately cause he used to be REALLY fuckin gross looking. And his voice is nasty. She's clearly there for the betabux and honestly best of luck to her cause I was never gonna fuck her anyway.

>>95971112
5e is a better designed system than Savage Worlds

As bad as Spoony can be, the first 3/4ths of Counter Monkey have served me a hundred times better than any Matt Colville video ever has. Shame he didn't just make more videos talking about party tactics or DM cliches instead of reading books for an hour or playing shitty board games by himself.

>>95932360
>Matt Colville
One of the first vids I saw was Colville smugly explaining why fudging dice is good and bragging how he does it all the time. It may or may not have been the same video where he says Lord of the Rings is poorly written and boring ("why are you telling me about the candles in Bombadil's house? That's boring. I know what a candle looks like.")

>>95975540
>54 KB JPGAs bad as Spoony can be, the first 3/4ths of Counter Monkey have served me a hundred times better than any Matt Colville video ever has. Shame he didn't just make more videos talking about party tactics or DM cliches instead of reading books for an hour or playing shitty board games by himself.
Fat Colville is the epitome of the Modern Reddit DM, but I still will disagree about Spoony offering any useful advice. Every one of his stories was clearly a massive exaggeration if not outright lie that always made him out to be the clever one in his group.

However, I agree his initial popularity stemmed from him being the Real Deal Nerd. If I'm going to watch someone talking about D&D or any hobby, I want someone like Spoony who takes it seriously. I don't need layers of irony or winks at the camera "hey, I know this is silly shit don't get it twisted that I take this seriously". He was an unabashed dork who was semi-articulate and intensely enthusiastic, and that's what made him popular.

>>95975587
>Colville smugly explaining why fudging dice is good

He did this same shit with his Deck of Many Things video where he intentionally would put cards he wanted them to draw at the top. I had liked a lot of his videos but that just ruined the whole mystique to me. Fudging dice, rigging outcomes, and changing monsters mid-fight like Colville does just takes away from the reality of a game world and cheapens a lot of the players' actions.

>>95975609
I absolutely agree about Spoony lying in his stories but there's a lot of useful advice in the videos. The videos about adding interesting terrain, making fights memorable through unique enemies or mechanics, monsters fighting smart, and all the disease and sanitation roleplaying really upped my game as far as DMing goes. He's definitely flawed though, his later CM videos aren't even watchable they're so awful and he definitely has a complex about needing to be important in every game he plays. My exposure to the Matt Colvilles of the world just made my opinion of old Grognards a lot higher than it otherwise would be.

>>95949095
>Henkerin Ferinale from Drunken & Dragons (renamed Runehammer a while ago actually I think). By far my favorite content creator back in the day. He kind of fell off though.
His early stuff was virtually unique for giving practical, at-the-table-stuff-you-can-actually-use, suggestions I'd never heard before. He was also the only one secure enough to openly say he's running a game where the focus is overcoming defined challenges and they don't do much role play, no funny voices, etc. All rolls made in the open, extensive use of timers, etc. Something like the timer is great and I've never seen it mentioned in any other game, ever. "Roll 1d4+1. A 3? Ok, the ceiling starts to crumble and you can tell you don't have more than 3 rounds to get of here but 2 ogres are still blocking your path."

Sadly he's gone extreme far left / TDS in recent years. As always, the root cause is envy and dissatisfaction with one's position in life. I caught up on his vids recently and he had a long one where he openly rambles about being disillusioned how he missed out on the big kickstarter $ vs guys like Colville, Shadowdark, etc. I can empathize with that natural emotion but I have contempt he took it to "I'm unhappy therefore white people with more $ than me are bad."

>>95932165 (OP)
None.
80% of them are DnDrones that try to sell their "knowledge" of DnD as universal gaming truths
15% of them are pretentious political activists, regardless of their alignment, and deserve the rope.
Of the remaining 5%, which is still far more valuable than the remaining 95%, we've got the more or less equal split:
- people who keep re-making the same stuff non-stop, because they have nothing new to say, but like money
- people who make extremely long, blatantly padded for commercials videos, because they like money
- people covering obscure games, which they received as free sample and that's their main gig, rather than money grift (as if fucking share threads didn't exist)
- people who make extremely low quality videos about the most inane things that cover nothing in particular

There is nobody good in this field, and there is no real point of following anyone. There is literally ONE guy that isn't a complete shitter and he run out of material ages ago - that's Skorkowsky and he still has his own issues (like projecting his bad personal experiences as universal gaming truths and harping on them, too)

>>95975540
>As bad as Spoony can be, the first 3/4ths of Counter Monkey have served me a hundred times better than any Matt Colville video ever has.
even the counterymonkey videos that had the absolute WORST signal-to-noise ratios are still a hundred times better than the weekly drama/shill videos from queefingbeast, fat lodge games, and dungeon assblast.

colville's older stuff is fine for beginner DMs, and the videos he has that discuss older editions (like his 'let's make a fighter' series) are useful in understanding the core of d&d and bridging the gap between new/old. currently i have little need for tips on how to run my own games, but videos on old/forgotten modules or adventures are always useful since they can spur new ideas in my home games.

>>95932165 (OP)
>Matt Colville
Best advice in terms of using the medium and general narrative/world building
>XP to Level 3, Zach the Bold
Funny for skits, I prefer the latter
>Alexandrian
Good system agnostic advice for running/structuring the game.
>Angry GM
More good (largely) system agnostic advice. It's long-winded but realistic advice that isn't sugar coated like most other advice tends to be
>Dungeon Masterpiece
Good worldbuilding advice through geo-politics, pretty interesting
>Seth Skorkowsky
Interesting reviews, I don't know much about the GM advice, but he has good videos for learning Traveller
>Mystic Arts
So ass like 90% of the time. These videos rely on editing and camera production. The only time I think he's saying anything of substance is when he is regurgitating Alexandrian, yet it's done poorly and you come out with no information.
>Deficient Master
There is some good advice to be had here
>Bob World Builder
5e slop advice. I don't think I've seen this person say anything practical or of use
>Spoony
This is not advice, they're stories
>Point Hat
youtube version of 'system tricks you into reading author's homebrew lore'. you can disregard most things said
>Map Crow
Nice advice for creativity and inspiration. This is difficult to quantify as it is intuitive rather than analytical

>>95963509
NTA but it's usually one and the same

>>95950064
I have a hard time understanding what he's saying.

>>95979476
A gay just wants to fuck other men. Pozzed people wish to corrupt and spread faggotry, or destroy anything that cannot bear the burden of such hapless retarded faggotry.

>>95979716
Your confuseing Pozzed with Gift Giver, not to be misconstructed with the Gift Givers of Whitewolf Werewolf.

>>95960934

They're Canadian and their livelihoods are involved, for me the videos they made about the topic were interesting, even if I don't necessarily agree with their position.

>>95964829

Ask if they stock trench crusade.

>>95979333
>Bob World Builder
I forgot about this guy. He has the vibe of someone who wants to be a somewhat quirky intellectual youtube essayist, but he has nothing of value to say about anything. He copies a lot of the presentation of other essayist pseudo-intellectuals, but missed the part where he was supposed to have a coherent thesis, or something of somewhat minor interest for the audience to mull over. Like standing in a forest and reading his script while occasionally making little remarks about the small interruptions, as if that's somehow more endearing and natural.

Corvinus wargaming is a cool channel, the guy mostly posts about his 15mm armies for ottomans, safavids and other very niche armies. He is also able to read Arabic script and ottoman Turkish, so he'll occasionally go through some ottoman manuscripts and translate them. He also never shows his face nor uses clickbait thumbnails and titles. The production values are very low and he has a mumbling, monotone voice, which shows that the channel is a real passion project.

Obscurities in miniatures is also a useful channel for checking out sprues, scale comparisons etc. Before buying any more stuff.

>>95969926
As bad as 5e is, personally I don't think adapting other stuff to a system you already know front to back instead of going to the trouble of learning a new one is necessarily a bad thing in and of itself.

>>95979827
>adapting other stuff to a system you already know front to back
I'd agree with you, but there's a small hitch: Most 5e players and DMs barely know the rules as it is.

>>95932165 (OP)
I like Geek Gamers, but she's only for people who have taken the /solo/ pill.

>>95980174
>Most 5e players and DMs barely know the rules as it is.
good thing i'm not like most players, then

>>95979485
Yeah, the accent is simply incomprehensible. Whoever told him to create a channel should be ashamed.

>>95932165 (OP)
>you just did this for views

Why else would you make a video?

I've been watching a ton of videos from this channel called "Brian's Channel" lol. Scottish(?) boomer doing AD&D/Traveler/RQ solo-plays.

>>95932165 (OP)
Dawn Somewhere

>>95980300
And since you aren't, you can understand why telling most players to stick with a single system they refuse to learn, because it's too complex for them, is a bad advice.

>>95932165 (OP)
>Shonner
his gaming architecture vids were sanity inducing

>>95932165 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZgv1IvMKxadbL27YbH52tQ/videos
DM James / cagesuperfan and his brother Hungar the Starvarian are a couple a good ole boys and seem to be able to draw in gamers across both sides of the isle to their front porch gaming & minis/terrain painting streams.

>>95945603

>Are we wasting our lives posting on /tg/ and trying to have a discussion about content creators in our hobby while five different people argue politics in such a way you're not sure what anyone's position is?
>Or are we on a Mystery Quest!?
>jaunty jingle

I am almost tempted to get a channel membership to see the before and after game discussions, but not quite.

>>95932165 (OP)
Steve over at Condors Games Blog who also has a channel that changes handles every couple years, has been around for a long time, and has alot of content in and around the hobby.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z354F8XAc0k

>>95932165 (OP)
Guarbro has been pretty good, his field desk page on youtube anyway. He's made an entire game system, wrote a bunch of really good stories, really rounded out into a good content creator.

>>95969092
>guardbro
>ugly
I know you are coping, but be real, he mogs 90% of /tg/

>>95964903
He's entitled to his opinion and makes great videos. Given the wider TTRPG culture he's relatively moderate.

>>95989830
>>95989837
Oh shit Guardbro saw his Google alerts and decided to come post in the thread.

I know OP said "no actual plays" but I'll ask here anyway instead of making a new thread

Any good channels for actual plays that play things other than DnD? Ideally something that can be listened to without video.
Personally I'm most interested in Blades in the Dark but I'll take anything that's interesting and fun.

>>95990593
Mystery Quest does a variety of games. They're also available in podcast form.

>>95990593
Norfolk Wizard Game is a pretty good live play of Mage the Ascension

>>95989837
You really don't.

>>95932165 (OP)
Why is it that people who used to be part of the old Youtube RPG Brigade from the early 2010s cant help but get into the poopoo?

>>95960934
>anything that I disagree with (based entirely on vibes btw) is propaganda
Based retard