Deborah Ann is an Exceptional DM while teaching Jon Bernthal Dungeons & Dragons

exceptional do Masters know that their best spell is their speech it's the ability to launch a narrative with Incredible and memorable experience for the players Deborah an here does that exceptionally well watch how fast she Cates Jon's attention to DND D I don't know what do like I don't it's like a game but like you imagine you're like in the game right yeah kind of I mean it's just just yeah it's just a collaborative storytelling with some characters and you tell the story yeah I'm a dungeon master so generally I've written an arc and created a world and then players explore it and I make calls as to like how difficult it is to climb a wall or fight a monster or that kind of thing and so if you say this is a real difficult monster to fight then you've got to come up with a different way of fighting it yeah or you know either it'll I mean it can just be like how hard you hit it and how long the thing goes but it might be how do you negotiate your way out of it if you can't actually kill a dragon but it's going to eat you how do you tell it not to um so there are other kind of checks that you can do Persuasions and deceptions and intimidations and all and then you decide whether you beat the drag the person drag yeah there are stats there's a lot of math involved that can make that happen but like God damn you want to play D and D I mean I'll try I mean what do you think to do literally right now now look at his face what do you mean you're going to play DND right now there's not any item that can help us right now there is no table there is no dice the way she does it it's incredible sure all right so you what do you see you've got a bow strapped to your back a sword and a dagger at your Hilt right so you're walking through the woods it's dark it's at night almost no Moonlight is coming through you hear a crack off in the distance something large stepped on the branch what would you do first thing mhm and then he makes a question that will make anyone say there he's a natural for it how far away is the crack give me perception check so then you roll dice and we'd see how perceptive you are let's say you roll 13 okay and you're pretty perceptive so you have a plus three to that that's 16 so I know okay 16 that's pretty perceptive you think it's about 20 feet away okay it's about 20 ft away mhm I think I take out my my bow first take so take a bow you're Reed you're aimed you're right at where where the spot's coming yeah okay slowly creeping towards you suddenly into view a little bit of ey shine in the darkness you see an owl bear this is a a 10 15t tall monster it looks like an owl but it has the body of a bear it opens its beak and squawks at you what do you do have I ever met an owl bear before like our owl Bears see another Bullseye question we could do a history check so this is D and D you're playing D and D you mean a history check so a history check would be like in your past in your history have you experienced so how do I check yeah you roll a dice let's say you have a low history you roll a 13 but you have a minus three that's a 10 so no you've never met of an owl bear in your life you have no idea whether it's threatening or not but it is squawking at you I'd be like yo are you my friend are you my foe fantastic you speak to it yeah I try give me an animal handling check so you'd roll another one so this is what we kind of see based on your character sheet that you've created you're going to be good and bad at different things who I create the sheet you could or I could or you could get a pre-made sheet why don't you make your sheet that you're great at everything Boy again why the hell to make a sheet that by every game's def would be something that we call OB de's answer is genius because you know if you're a wizard who's in school studying books to learn magic you're probably not spending that much time in the gym versus if you're you know a knight who goes out and slays Dragons you know maybe you're you're socially awkward and don't know how to talk to people so your your interest to like not be great at everything you want flaws like one of my favorite characters my friend Tommy played Vos he was a prince and the idea was that he was very you know he'd been kind of pampered his whole life and everyone always laughed at all his jokes and said that he was wonderful and handsome but he's actually not that funny and he's not that handsome he just has been sheltered so when he got out in the world and started investigating he thinks that he's This Charming Suave individual but his stats his like literal Charisma stats are very low so he would fail constantly and part of his story throughout the campaign was him learning that he wasn't as Charming as he thought he was um so flaws are great flaws make good story but is the go to win no what there goal is to tell a great story tell a great story to tell a great story perfect it is a balance of details with all the senses visual immersion through the narrative with sounds smells and even tastes making the world come alive so that the story can be lived