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@ColbyPoulson

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Nerd, Dad, Husband. Reluctant dog-owner. Book lover. I like to create characters for Role-Playing Games and make videos about them.

Farmington, UT
Joined July 2020
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1 year
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Squeee! I love you guys.
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Dear DM's: every once in awhile, maybe just once a campaign even, please oh please give your 5th level Clerics a room full of 1/2 CR undead enemies to fight. Bonus points if you act like you kinda forgot about Destroy Undead. Sincerely, your favorite Cleric players. #dnd
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When I started this channel 3 years ago, getting to 100k subscribers seemed like a pipe dream. I’m not gonna lie, getting there feels pretty awesome. But I never would have dreamed that the people who made up that 100k would be so kind and lovely. ❤️❤️❤️
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1 year
*cackles in Magus* #Pathfinder2e
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So shiny!
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I honestly never thought I’d ever have a video hit a million views. Thank you all so much! I can think of no better way to celebrate than with my two favorite dudes ( @dungeon_dudes ) at the *amazing* nerd heaven that is Storm Crow Manor in Toronto. @KaiInRealLife @montycmartin 🥰
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1 year
Apparently a lot of people want to see some #pathfinder builds? Guess I've got to start working on something for two weeks from today! That feels... exciting :).
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9 months
I spent so much of my life believing that love was something I had to earn. That it would only come if other people thought I was what they wanted me to be. Learning that I am inherently worthy of love has been transformative. Oh and guess what? You are too ❤️.
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5 months
I couldn’t be more excited for my favorite Dudes about this! Also: can’t wait for Sebastian Crowe’s to come too so I can more easily make my Arcane Hand and Serpent Monks 🥳🥳🥳
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5 months
BIG NEWS EVERYONE!!! Dungeons of Drakkenheim is coming to D&D Beyond!
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1 year
Just in case you were curious, here's what happens to your subscriber count when the @dungeon_dudes randomly mention you in one of their videos 🥰 @KaiInRealLife @montycmartin
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After *weeks* of trial and error I feel like I’m *finally* nailing down the lighting and color of my new little recording space and it feels soooo good.
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Nice.
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I literally just saw a YT video and thought to myself: “I need to watch this.” Then I literally said, out loud: “Oh it’s an hour long? Never mind.” The hypocrisy is real. Ima go watch it RIGHT now. (On 1.5x, naturally.)
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5 months
I wonder: If we all broke our piggy banks and pooled our pennies, could we buy #wotc from #Hasbro ? Let's make a co-op! Who's with me!?
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7 months
16 years I held out. Despite all the begging and pleading from my kids. Today, I finally threw in the towel. It was a good run. Welcome home, little Ewok. Your Kung-Fu skills are impressive.
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@DnD_Shorts Devil’s advocate: I got to hang out and laugh with a cool, bearded man from the UK for several hours chatting about D&D - I can think of worse ways to spend an afternoon! 😉 Thanks again for sacrificing half of your day 😂
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In my first ever character build for #Pathfinder 2e, I try to create a stealthy, sneaky, silent but deadly Monk, and *spoiler alert* - in Pathfinder, Monks are freaking awesome.
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2 years
DMs: if one of your players has fireball, please PLEASE just throw an encounter at them at least once of tightly packed ~30 hp enemies. They will love you forever ;). #dnd
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You guys totally ruined my juvenile 69 joke. In a single day! Thank you for saving me from myself 🥹
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1 year
Thanks WotC. Not planning to stop making #dnd content. Also, still planning on making more #pathfinder content :).
@DnDBeyond
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1 year
Over the past few weeks you, the community, have made your voices heard. And we’ve listened. OGL 1.0a will remain untouched AND the entire SRD 5.1 is now available under a Creative Commons license.🧵
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Me: Uploads a #dnd video Many of you: “Finally, not another #BG3 video! Yay!” YouTube: Never do this again 😡 Ha ha don’t worry D&D-only people, I’m not going anywhere. Thought this might give a little perspective and a laugh 😉.
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9 months
So, obviously Karlach is the best ever ( #BaldursGate3 ) But I've kept her out of the party because *I'm* already taking up the "destroy everything with big sword" role, and I wanted to keep her rage intact but duh! Now she's a fire mage! I love respec'ing! I love this game!
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This is just to say... I have played with the Bladesinger and 5e spells mods in #BaldursGate3 and... it feels like all of my wishes have come true. Holy crap is it good. (Artificer is almost as fantastic btw... Armorer is living up to all of my Vi fantasy expectations ;) )
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1 year
Her: helping me decorate my office so that it's warm, cute, and super feng shui. Me: buys this lamp I think I may have lost her future assistance but I mean... it's a dragon! Perched on a dagger! What am I supposed to do? Just *not* buy it!?
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6 months
Our new puppy is a Golden Retriever / Poodle mix. Most people call this specific breed a “Golden Doodle.” Makes sense, but I much prefer the alternative: “Poo Retriever.”
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Super excited to welcome my friend @dallin_rogers to the d4 "team" - he's going to be helping me out with video editing and channel member benefits, among other things. Please everyone, make him feel welcome :) (And let us know your thoughts on the editing improvements tomorrow!)
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Today I'm joined by @KaiInRealLife and @montycmartin from the @dungeon_dudes to talk about their new book, "Sebastian Crowe's Guide to Drakkenheim," and do a build for one of my favorite subclasses from it. Get comfy 'cuz this one goes loooooooong ;).
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10 months
A wish for #onednd : get rid of some classes requiring two ability scores at 13 to multiclass into/out of. Those “hybrid”-like characters *already* encourage us to have a strong ability score in a non-attack stat. Let that suffice and let the player have more freedom please.
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1 year
@Nonat1s Me: I really need to reach out to Nonat and see if he'd want to do a collab sometime... Nonat: I'm just a super cool guy who says kind things about people out of the goodness of my heart :) 🥰
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This feels… better.
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Let's talk about the path forward.
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I just finished reading the final book in #TheWitcher series. And you know what my one, aching, over-arching desire is now? To play the games again so I can set the record straight on this whole Triss/Yen nonsense. “Love” forced from a Djinn isn’t real love. #TeamTriss
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Today is the last video I'm doing inspired by the   @DungeonDudes  multiclassing Tier-Ranking series. Here's a spoiler warning: we go out with a BANG!
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You want to multiclass a Cleric in D&D with a ... Monk? Ok but I mean... hang on a second... this is freaking *good*! (thanks again @dungeon_dudes 😘)
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In #pathfinder 2e, if you want to be a melee damage dealer who can pretty much ignore Strength to focus on finesse, there is one best option: the nimble, backstabbing, lockpicking but hard hitting Rogue Thief.
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They’re finally putting out One #dnd UA for the monk and I’m on vacation!? /flip table
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2 years
Best brother ever.
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6 months
Huge thank you to @Wizards_DnD for the Planescape package - the special edition books are gorgeous! Can’t wait to dive in :).
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2 years
The perfect T-Short doesn’t exis…
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7 months
Today, we make a Warlock Gish or Spell Sword for #dnd that's... wait for it... NOT a Hexblade. And, spoiler warning: they do *fantastic* damage.
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Part 2 is up and much shorter :). Are you interested in learning how to play #Pathfinder ? Are you wanting to know all the major differences between PF and D&D? Time for a PF Deep Dive!
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I told you guys this was going to happen… #dnd #tabletopcandlecompany
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@KaiInRealLife Squeee! Kelly retweeted one of my tweets! ;) Wait... Re-exed one of my... exes? smh
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Today I'm breaking down everyone one of my "sustained" damage builds (DPR) I've ever done, giving a brief synopsis of each, and ranking them. According to a not very qualitatively useful and overly-simplistic mathmatical formula ;).
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1 year
My happy place… #newgame #everdell
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Happy Holidays my friends! My wish for you: goodness, kindness, happiness, and lots of shiny new dice :).
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I was super excited about my tacos, until I got my order number 😳
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So, Will from @DnD_Shorts and I spent half the day reading, reacting to, and pontificating all about the new UA for D&D 5.5e that dropped today so, if you haven’t read through the gargantuan 50 pages yet, WAIT! Watch us go through it tomorrow morning after I’m done editing :).
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Anyone else out there a little Pathfinder curious…?
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I run current and future #dnd YouTuber friends @ColbyPoulson @ChrisHonkala @TabletopBro @DombleB and @SwingRipper through a #pathfinder2e "shortshot"! See the trailer for this series on my channel (link in profile). (We will do five more sessions!)
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2 years
Happy #N7Day everybody! #Femshep
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You want to be an expert melee striker *and* you want to cast spells in #pathfinder ? Look no further than the Magus: conceptually, my favorite Gish ever.
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I am so in love with #Ahsoka Hey, um, @dave_filoni … I don’t suppose there’s any way you could just, like, do a complete remake of Episodes 1-9? Maybe a live adaptation of Clone Wars and Rebels? 😬 kthx you’re the best!
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2 years
Someone just commented on one of my videos asking if I could do a Hexblade Warlock build. I can't tell if they're trolling me, but if so, it was well played. #dnd
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@ChrisHonkala from Treantmonk's Temple and I take a Deep Dive into the Unearthed Arcana Monk from One D&D Playtest 8. Spoiler Alert: It's freaking fantastic.
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Can we build a #dnd character who does respectable damage using *only* Cantrips? What if we exclude Eldritch Blast and Booming Blade?
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6 months
Have you ever wanted to play a Bladesinger in #BG3 ? How about an Artificer? Join me as I show you how to mod the game and make some builds for them (spoiler alert: they're so good I immediately started a new playthrough after recording this :) ).
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@JeremyECrawford I don’t love the ruling, but am thrilled to have one regardless. Time to eat some humble pie in front of my viewers :)
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I have yet to play a one shot for #dnd where I actually played the character for even half as much time as I spent creating them. For the record: not a complaint :) Just me? 😬
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Wanna be a Pirate in #dnd or #BaldursGate3 ? How about just a really fun and potent Paladin/Rogue? Bring on the Swashbuckling. (and yeah, this is another @dungeon_dudes inspiration 🥰).
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It’s been a loooong time since I’ve upgraded my gfx card for a game but… #Diablo4 and #BG3 at roughly the same time? I couldn’t resist…
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Also, this showed up as a Facebook memory today. Felt serendipitous :). (Knox is my son)
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Now @KaiInRealLife and my wife can be twins :).
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The more episodes I watch, the more I realize the truth: I am, like, 90% Bluey’s Dad, and the other 10% wants to be 100% like Bluey’s Dad. #Bluey
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Today I was exploring the Musée de l’Armée and discovered Napoleon’s favorite sword. I couldn’t stop thinking about how to recreate it as a Homebrew magic item in #dnd . Help?
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Pure genius.
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10/10, genuinely cathartic to transform the hate directed at you into something beautiful, or profound, or even just funny. 🫶 Thanks to @criticalmrs for sparking this idea.
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This was so dang cool. Glad I got to witness it :)
@dungeon_dudes
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We dissect the lessons we learned, and the fun we had while preparing , writing, and running an epic D&D event for 60 players at Gen Con 2023.
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10 attacks in a single D&D turn feels like a lot for a martial character, right? Come see how we get there! (And thanks as always to the @dungeon_dudes for the inspiration on this one 🥰)
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"The best Rogues in D&D never take more than 3 or 4 levels in Rogue." So goes a popular idea about 5e. Today, we're going to put that theory to the test. (And big thanks to @dungeon_dudes for the inspiration again this week! 😘)
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Today we're building a War Cleric for #dnd . Ok, fine, it's *mostly* a War Cleric; regardless, they're definitely bringing the Good Word of their God to the masses via... a big huge hammer.
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Or maybe just the #dnd ip if we can't *quite* come up with the hundreds of millions required? 🤔
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Which class is the best controller in #dnd ? For my money, it's the Sorcerer *if you build for it*. Here's why :). (And big thanks again to the @dungeon_dudes for pushing me on this one!)
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Remember how we all used to wish that Sony would relinquish their rights to all things Marvel so Marvel Studios could "get it right"? Yeah, I'm starting to rethink that theory now. Unbelievably, #AcrossTheSpiderVerse managed to be *even better* than the first one. 🤯
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Our D&D character build this week takes my two most popular character builds (The Bladesinger Wizard and the Hexblade Warlcok) and tries to combine them into one character. Is it the Ultimate Gish, or too MAD to be effective?
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Should WotC change the rules in #dnd so that, when you're grappling a creature, you actually share their space? It would remove some cheese around grappling and dragging through spike growth or cloud of daggers etc. As much as I love using those tactics in builds, I'll admit.../1
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Generally speaking, the people who watch and comment on my videos are kind, supportive, and lovely. Here's the best of the worst of the rest though, in case you needed a laugh today :). #dnd
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@KaiInRealLife I am also proud of you! But also, for more than just this! For everything you are and do ❤️
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Today I combine a couple of things I've been wanting to play with on a Monk - 1: Armor, and 2: Shadow Blade. The results are surprisingly effective :).
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@Critical_Mrs There needs to be an “I like this because I want to support you but I *don’t* like that this happened to you” button on this thing. That little heart doesn’t quite tell the full story.
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@Nonat1s 12 hours in to writing my Magus build vid, looking at all 11 pages of it, realizing I’m only level 5. Crying. Time to start cutting!
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Just saw #DnDHonorAmongThieves with @dallin_rogers and @prestonbfarr and I’ll say the movie’s biggest strength, imo, is that it captures what it feels like to play in a D&D campaign pretty well! Was a fun show. We recorded a full review and will post in a few days!
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And this feels… even better.
@Wizards_DnD
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Starting our playtest with a Creative Commons license and an irrevocable new OGL.
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2 years
Trying to decide if I should make this comment the pinned comment of the video... "I don't like your videos because they're way too long. You talk way too much my guy." :)
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You want to be a SAD Bladesinger who's attacks are based on their intelligence? Fine. But what if we could freeze our enemy in place while we were at it?
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Our D&D 5e character build this week is both an incredibly durable Tank and *also* a fantastic Healer. If you enjoy both playstyles, you'll love the Cleric Tank.
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Our #dnd character build this week is a Rogue/Barbarian multiclass that reliably gets sneak attack twice every round... but at a cost...
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