Editing Recommended Web Video Channels (section)

==D&D and Pathfinder Creators==
Channels that just do readings of stories taken from [[Reddit]] and [[4chan]]'s [[/tg/]] don't count.

===[https://m.youtube.com/c/DNDWizards Dungeons & Dragons]===
This is the official channel for D&D where the creators discuss new products and the game's lore and you can see the official product trailers.
===[https://www.youtube.com/c/DnDBeyond D&D Beyond]===
The official channel of the D&D Beyond app, which includes interviews with the creators of D&D and with famous D&D players and dungeon masters.

===[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCDWmgX1kc_tEXOd0OJmF_Q/ Adan]===
A less popular but still worth checking out animator who does D&D videos, both based on his campaigns and short skits that make fun of the [[That Guy|typical players]] and events you will likely encounter while playing D&D.  Also makes a few songs about D&D.  He also has recently started making videos that poke fun at [[Final Fantasy]] XIV.

===[https://www.youtube.com/user/AJPickett AJ Pickett]===
Another guy who did videos on D&D lore. Has recently been trying to branch out to other settings and creatures besides D&D due to the disastrous fuckup that was how Hasbro tried to undo the OCL, leading the Paizo spearheading the creation of ORC.

===[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Je57UJURMIx6lrXr3zO4g Blaine Simple]===
Another less popular but worth checking out animator who does D&D stories and videos on how to make character builds based on popular anime characters. Also creates homebrew rules to further make it easier to make anime characters.

===[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDY38N7kqibfYXX7jSbJNsg CaptCorajus]===
While most D&D channels focus on D&D 5e, Corajus here focuses on the old school rules ranging from the original Little Brown Box to AD&D 2e with videos covering not only the rules but also reviews of a lot of older adventures such as The [[Keep on the Borderlands]] and the [[Against the Giants]] line.

===[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpXBGqwsBkpvcYjsJBQ7LEQ Critical Role]===
The show where a bunch of nerdy-ass voice actors sit around and play Dungeons and Dragons. A Twitch live-show (episodes are later uploaded on YouTube) where DM Matthew Mercer guides fellow voice-actors in adventures in the land of Exandria. Their 1st campaign is being turned on an animation aired on Amazon Prime. [[Critical Role | For more details, they have their own page]].

===[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfPUcG3oCmXEYgdFuwlFh8w Dingo Doodles]===
Another animator who rivals Puffin Forest in popularity.  Mostly makes videos telling funny stories about her life and D&D.  Her main campaign story is Fool's Gold, an epic and extremely wacky adventure staring her character Sips, a badass chaotic good uplifted monkey wild magic sorcerer full of [[RAGE]], who constantly is breaking the campaign, much to the frustration of her boyfriend Felix the DM.

[[Hit Point Press]] ran a Kickstarter campaign to fund the release of a 5e campaign setting based on Fool's Gold, which will be titled "Fool's Gold: Into the Bellowing Wilds".  The initial goal was met almost instantly and raised close to 2.5 million dollars total.

===[https://www.youtube.com/c/theDMLair the DM Lair]===
Makes videos on running the game for DMs.

===[https://www.youtube.com/c/DontStopThinking Don't Stop Thinking]===
Another great animated channel that does videos discussing D&D and other RPGs, as well as telling D&D stories.

===[https://m.youtube.com/c/DungeonDad Dungeon Dad]===
Makes videos about adapting various monsters to 5th edition D&D, including providing stat blocks.  Most monsters are from earlier editions but he occasionally does monster from pathfinder or other media.

===[https://www.youtube.com/@edgreenwoodofficial/ Ed Greenwood]===
Surprise, surprise. [[Ed Greenwood]], the man responsible for [[Forgotten Realms]] actually has a Youtube channel so he can discuss about some of the finer points of the lore.

===[https://www.youtube.com/user/repsesper Esper the Bard]===
Most famous for his videos where he does rankings of D&D monsters and classes but also has campaign videos, tutorials on how to draw maps, original stories, and more.

===[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtC2kdNPkYf9LNgD44PhGgA Hidden Nerdy Side]===
Makes videos on ideas for encounters with different monsters that you could include in your campaigns and also videos on how to be a better player and DM.

===[https://www.youtube.com/houroftheraven/ Hour of the Raven]===
A Brazilian channel in both English and Portuguese.  Gabriel focuses on in depth various aspects of the [[Ravenloft]] Campaign Setting. 

===[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRDVE5L1LTWhmPAKKbUBGtg JoCat]===
An animator who makes self-described [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDnRMnDDjAzK5uZLidDUtHtD1iN06Qe0G crap guides to D&D] in the style of [[Zero Punctuation]]. Technically more well known for other content (particularly his Crap Guides to Monster Hunter), but his D&D  stuff is what makes him known to /tg/.

===[https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC0GmsDkaPerh1VdAfpWaaKA Jorphdan]===
The PH is silent.  Yet another popular lore video maker.

===[https://www.youtube.com/user/MrRhexx MrRhexx]===
Does lore videos on D&D and other games.

===[https://www.youtube.com/c/thehgw Mr. Welch]===
The legendary [[Mr. Welch]] himself has a YouTube channel, where he reviews RPGs and discusses the [[Mystara]] setting.  Expect a few tongue in cheek jabs at the [[Forgotten Realms]] setting here and there.

===[https://www.youtube.com/c/Nerdarchy Nerdarchy]===
Has a massive number of videos on playing D&D with everything from suggestions on what monsters to use in a campaign, to what the best character builds are for different races, and more.

===[https://www.youtube.com/c/NerdImmersion1 Nerd Immersion]===
Does reviews of D&D products and [[DM's Guild]] modules, top 10 lists, advice on playing the game, updates on D&D news, and more.  He also uploads videos of a campaign he plays in called Scale Bound.

===[https://www.youtube.com/@pointyhatstudios Pointy Hat]===
Makes videos on putting new spins on classic elements of D&D, such as interesting new subraces for races that he finds boring, like less Mary Sueish elves and Halflings who have bad luck instead of good.  He has a whole series of videos on creating interesting [[Lich]] variants based on different classes.  For example, his version of a [[Bard]] lich, which he calls an Intoner, puts their soul into a song and is immortal as long as there are living people that remember the song.

===[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUpkp-6fXuG9dqfoJ99XTmw Puffin Forest]===
Probably the number 1 most popular D&D animator on youtube.  While his animation is far from being the best (his art style is worse than [[Order of the Stick]]), he more than makes up for it with his great sense of humor and amount of content.  He mostly talks about D&D, but he occasionally does videos about [[Call of Cthulhu]] and other games and more recently has started doing videos on [[Magic: The Gathering]].  Most of his videos tell funny stories about stuff that happened to him during tabletop games (both as a player and a game master).  In others he reviews tabletop games and gives advice to players and game masters.  He also has started doing longer video series where he retells entire campaigns in more detail but with without animation, starting with a (relatively) serious [[Curse of Strahd]] campaign.  Because of how popular he is, he frequently has crossovers with other D&D youtubers including Zee Bashew and Dingo Doodles.

He is a bit [[Skub]]by to some because many people on /tg/ find his funny stories to be too unbelievable or find them to be cringy instead of funny because he comes off as a [[That Guy]] in some of them.  He enjoys making ridiculous characters and has admitted that he used to frequently do stuff that would sabotage his party [[Loonie|just because it was funny]] in his early games and as a DM he sometimes can be a little too sadistic.  His defenders argue that he is purposefully making himself look worse than he actually is for humor.

He really doesn't like 4th edition D&D, mainly due to having several bad experiences with it playing with bad DMs, but then again he is definitely not a good DM of 4th edition either, as can be seen in his let's play he ran where he just flat out did not know the rules and forced a huge group of newbies to the system to play the game in an absolutely horrendous fashion before going into a long chat about how much they dislike the system based on how it was played. Seriously, the guy took a group of like 10 people and made them roll up level 8 characters (something the DMG says you shouldn't do) and then threw monsters at them that were better suited for parties in the Paragon Tier. Even with the 8 characters the math doesn't work out and then they complain that the game is too hard while he insists "I'm just running it rules as written."

===[https://www.youtube.com/c/RebaDerps Reba Derps]===
Another D&D animator with a style similar to Dingo Doodles.

===[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCweFJojRAFuxyYxe4KHL8vw Runesmith]===
[[Runesmith|Runesmith’s]] yet another guy who makes D&D lore videos. He has also delved into writing encounter guides, creating supplements on [[Kickstarter]], and recently also recapping old folk tales Internet Historian-style with some friend.

===[https://www.youtube.com/c/SethSkorkowskyAuthor Seth Skorkowsky]===
Does reviews of RPGs and RPG modules, gives advice on running games, and his videos on table etiquette are all really good.  Has several great videos giving reviews of older AD&D modules. Focuses far more on other systems such as ''[[Call of Cthulhu]]'' and ''[[Traveller]]'' and is also an author as well. His tastes are rather limited (he's never touched a [[dice pool]] game and can often be relied upon to criticize any system he examines that diverges from the ''D&D''/''[[Cyberpunk 2020]]'' /''Traveller''/''Cthulhu'' rules and style he's familiar with ''for'' diverging from it), but his style is generally warm, friendly, and non-confrontational about matters of taste, and his RPG philosophy videos usually contain good advice that focuses on the right things.

===[https://www.youtube.com/user/TtheWriter T the Writer]===
Unlike most channels that tell D&D stories, this guy does longer videos telling about his campaigns in detail.

===[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5EfKWar21WkaYUSOwPWakg Tulok the Barbrarian]===
Makes videos on how to make Dungeons & Dragons characters based on popular movie, anime, video game, and comic book characters.

===[https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDrModnar XP to Level 3]===
A good non-animated channel that does videos on D&D, telling interesting stories and giving useful tips on playing the game. And also video sketches on the shenanigans of a certain Wizard. Besides the obvious series of videos starring the fireball obsessed Wizard, two of his serieses are "HOW TO PLAY (insert class here)" in which he discusses the rules and features of the classes and subclasses; with humor based on what they are and "(insert topic) is Dumb" in which he describes gripes with 5e; such as the lack of true Flanking due to it granting Advantage (rather than being a separate mechanic or bonus) and it being too easy to use and Intelligence's lack of uses. Also discusses homebrew to an extent; both solutions to some of the (insert topic) is Dumb videos and separate homebrews. Also known for hating [[Tomb of Horrors]]; [[Skub|believing it to be a dungeon designed purely around fucking with the players and taking them for a ride rather than being a legitimate challenge and ignoring that D&D was a pretty different game in the early days and, contrary to the adage, most of the times it was in fact players vs. DM.]]

===[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCXR2kCo7Lcw_BKwWxo09kw Zee Bashew]===
An animator who makes D&D-related animations on how to use spells, run games, and just general D&D things. It's fun and worth a look if you're new to D&D. His most notable series is the Animated Spellbook; which as the name implies, goes over a multitude of spells such as Magic Missile, Haste and Feather Fall. These videos generally are more than showcasing the immediate "gameplay" implications of the spells and more roleplay and even strategic implications. For example, Good Berry is criticized and homebrewed to consume its material components due to its insane power during survival stories; while [[Magic Missile]]'s entry is kind of a history lesson regarding how far back in DnD's history it went, with speculation that it may have been named as a homage to [[Chainmail]].