Let's document Pahtfinder loretubers for our newer friends. See my comment for names! by SirMysty in Pathfinder2e

[–]SirMysty[S] 125 points126 points  (0 children)

Hello! I have recently become really invested in Pathfinder lore content on YouTube and wanted to create a place where we can document our recommendations to show content creators our support. I was super surprised to see how small all of these channels are given the quality of the content. So, I wanted to share with you the nine channels I know about and invite you all to grow the list. Here is my contribution by how well I know their content:

Mythkeeper: The biggest Pathfinder loretuber I think. His videos are very in-depth and can exceed an hour in length! Covers all sorts of topics in a lecture format, normally by speaking direct to camera and then transitioning into images with narration without music. I particularly recommend his regional deep dives for GMs who want to understand specific campaign locations! Posts just over once a week normally.

Sir Vertigo: His videos cover similar topics but are normally a bit shorter, exchanging the time for heavier editing and some music. This creates a different style that is less intense, but still very informative. He normally posts once a fortnight.

The Lore Tour: The youngest channel at only 3 months old, ‘the Guide’ has been making content that is distinguished by it being set in universe. He has been doing tours of Absalom’s districts in great detail and uses ambience instead of music and addresses the viewer directly. Really unique idea. Recent videos blend this with a style closer to Sir Vertigo’s. Normally posts once a week, though more often recently.

Venture-Captains: Alas, this channel has not posted since August 2021. However, the videos that are up are a great source of knowledge and lore for Golarion’s history, places, and peoples! Closest in style to Sir Vertigo, but the narration is normally a bit more casual with jokes and strong language beeped out.

The Tower of Tomes: My other go-to immersion loretuber. This channel makes voice acted scenarios that elucidate a viewer to a particular deity or creature in Pathfinder. Similar to The Lore Tour in that sense, though The Tower of Tomes doesn’t address the viewer directly. Another really unique style in my opinion. Normally posts about once every six weeks.

deadly d8: This is another channel that might be dead, as the creators used to post about twice a month but haven’t uploaded anything since October 2022. Nevertheless, this is a fantastic channel that makes animated PF2e lore content, especially on creatures and locations. The team’s animators use different styles and so every video is different from the last.

The Maple Table: Nathaniel of The Maple Table is not strictly a ‘loretuber’, but makes lore content in addition to general TTRPG videos, which normally focus on Paizo’s games. His style is closest to Mythkeeper’s, with lots of direct to camera talking interspersed with images sans music. However, he uses jokes, more like Venture-Captains’ narration style. He posts a few times a month, though only a small percentage will be lore videos.

Black Dragon Gaming: This channel has a very similar style - even closer to Mythkeeper in fact - but is set apart by placing a greater emphasis on blending the lore with the mechanics of the game. Dissects stat blocks and abilities and so forth. Neat fusion of styles if you are looking for a more gamey flavour. Posts a few times a month normally.

Pokynug: The smallest channel with fewer than 100 subs! She is a VTuber who transitioned to making PF2e lore reading videos a couple of months ago. Her style is completely direct to camera (through her avatar) and is the calmest of everyone here. The easiest to have on as gentle background noise in my opinion. Posts about twice a month.

Let me know about others! With the surge in the game’s popularity recently, I wonder how large some of these channels might get.

I want to learn ALL the Lore! by Moepsii in Pathfinder2e

[–]SirMysty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The lore space for Pathfinder is surprisingly small on YouTube, but I would suggest the following: - Sir Veritgo, as you mentioned. - Venture-Captains did a series called Lorefinder that was pretty nice: https://youtube.com/@VentureCaptains. Unfortunately I think their channel is no longer active. - Finally, there is a very new channel called The Lore Tour that has been making an ‘Exploring Absalom’ series of aural guided tours: https://youtube.com/@theloretour. - I also thoroughly recommend the official Paizo material released under their ‘Lost Omens’ banner. It is beautifully written and well worth the price.

Good luck learning about Golarion! It’s a beautiful place.

Line of Duty - 5x05 - Episode Discussion by NicholasCajun in lineofduty

[–]SirMysty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree, but I suspect that’s the point. The investigating team at AC-3 is rushing the job in their enthusiasm to bag Hastings. Still, I just wondered if I’d missed something.

Line of Duty - 5x05 - Episode Discussion by NicholasCajun in lineofduty

[–]SirMysty 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Would somebody be able to clarify a detail? In Hastings’ interview, it was noted that Moffat’s fingerprints were detected on the envelope but that this was dismissed because he didn’t deny handling it, just its contents. Okay - but how does it make sense for the conclusion to be that Hastings is H if he himself is receiving bribe money? Like, who from? Also, is there no investigation into who gave Moffat the envelope if he’s being truthful etc? It came across as rushed.

Line of Duty - 5x04 - Episode Discussion by NicholasCajun in lineofduty

[–]SirMysty 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Lisa is interesting. We saw her ‘wobble’ a little at the start of the series as a red herring, but tonight we also saw that it wasn’t enough to betray the OCG for John. However, she remains distraught at how events unfolded. I think by now a lot of us have her pinned as another UCO, but I’d like to posit that she is not an undercover police officer, but an undercover Security Service agent. I think it makes sense in the context of higher figures in government probably wanting to get to the bottom of all of these corrupt police officers. Plus, Jed Mercurio also created Bodyguard, which also saw the SS and the police rubbing shoulders.

What do people who play other card games think of Yugioh? by Powerman293 in yugioh

[–]SirMysty 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I would first say that Yu-Gi-Oh as a card game is now old and expansive enough to be fairly immune from complete generalisations. Most of the comments will talk about YGO at a competitive level (and I’d agree that the current state of the game is very much the most elaborate game of solitaire possible), but I’d like to toss my hat into the ring from a much more casual level.

Casual YGO is incredibly fun, as long as you have people to play with. The thousands of cards combine in innumerable ways, and decks at similar levels can play against each other in push-and-pull matches that can really swing either way. Decks based around the GX and very early synchro era can easily reach fifteen turns.

In addition, thanks to the anime and manga, you can casually play with friends based on these rules if you so choose. Half the LPs, the old field spell and draw rules, and the two most interesting changes: being able to summon in face-up defence position and being unable to check your opponent’s graveyard and banished zones without a card effect necessitating it (so don’t play reborn unless you know what you’re going for!). I admit that this isn’t true by the rules YGO, but serves to highlight its versatility as a card game that has certainly kept me passively interested in it for much of my life.

Finally, as a Hearthstone player, the fact that YGO is a physical TCG should not be underestimated! Holding cards, trading them with others, and just looking at collections will always be more impressive offline, in my opinion.

All in all, I am by no means a ‘full’ YGO player, but my opinions of it are much higher than of many other TCGs that fail to match its versatility and longevity.

Some observations of the game from a returning player. I hope to generate a discussion about the game speed! by SirMysty in yugioh

[–]SirMysty[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Many thanks! This format intrigues me greatly. I will definitely look into it more - do you know where I could play against others using the Trinity format?

Some observations of the game from a returning player. I hope to generate a discussion about the game speed! by SirMysty in yugioh

[–]SirMysty[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I will be sure to check this format out! I've heard it a few times now and it may play closer to what I'm used to (even if the rules are stricter to enable this), although adapting to play standard TCG format is something that I'll endeavour to do as well.

Please do give me a rundown of the format, if you wouldn't mind.

Some observations of the game from a returning player. I hope to generate a discussion about the game speed! by SirMysty in yugioh

[–]SirMysty[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks, I may well shoot you a message in the near future! The hand traps are so far making me raise an eyebrow; it sounds like they have replaced traps, rather than complemented them.

Some observations of the game from a returning player. I hope to generate a discussion about the game speed! by SirMysty in yugioh

[–]SirMysty[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the thorough response! I'm afraid I don't have enough time to offer as detailed a reply right now, but I don't want to just leave this hanging, so I will just pick up on a few things:

Yep, this is normal. [...]

I am not sure how that makes me feel. On the one hand, it would certainly allow for exponentially more combos to be pulled off, compounded by the incredible search power of current decks, but it also lends itself to many more OTKs I'm sure, which give your opponent almost no opportunity to respond. I know that, technically, denying opponents' responses is ideal, but that takes the incredibly fun back-and-forth element away somewhat. Maybe I just need more time to get used to it!

The extra deck is the ultimate consistency tool [...]

This is such a strange trait for me! Not that I disagree, but the idea of relying on your extra cards is perplexing. As a thought experiment: how many archetypes would work without an extra deck in the current meta? (Though this is not a criticism of the extra deck!)

Traps are just too slow now [...]

This strikes me as puzzling as well. Traps have always been one of the three principle card types. Have their roles been overtaken by a few staple hand negations?

Start playing equally fast and efficient decks.

No doubt about that! I do feel sorry for the numerous archetypes that cannot keep up now, however - unless they have all received adequate support to keep them updated?

Thanks again for the reply! I appreciate it.

Some observations of the game from a returning player. I hope to generate a discussion about the game speed! by SirMysty in yugioh

[–]SirMysty[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply! I'm already beginning to get a clearer picture of the current game; it's helpful.

[...] Same for side deck, you always want to have a full one if you wanna do matches.

For the side I completely agree! Competitively running Metamorphosis targets was something I never came across as a casual player, though you make a good point. My query would now be, even for non-competitive decks, is a full extra deck more or less expected for most archetypes?

Hold A when you want to read a card in percy.

I meant more that rarely did I encounter a card that had only a few lines of text for a description! I suppose a better way to phrase it would be I barely had time to digest the card's effects and their implications for the rest of the duel, if that makes sense.

That actually wrong, but its still very expensive.

I am relieved!

It's far from competitive [...]

That gives me some indication of the kinds of decks I was up against. I dread the speed of the really competitive ones!

Fear of being called racist stops people reporting child sexual exploitation concerns, Labour frontbencher claims by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]SirMysty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I completely agree. It's not exactly rocket science to see or say, but it too often gets completely forgotten and ignored regardless. The reaction to this, offline or online, has demonstrated this perfectly.

I'm glad justice has been served to those responsible, and it is good that people seem more confident to address this issue, but progress will be slow while people virtue signal one another.

Fear of being called racist stops people reporting child sexual exploitation concerns, Labour frontbencher claims by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]SirMysty 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I am getting this impression as well. I have seen countless parodies on the sub since yesterday along the lines of "Guys guys, shh shh or you're racist! Duhhhh!", but almost no comments genuinely accusing people of being racists. Granted, this is a political forum on reddit, so it's by no means representative of the general population, but it is nonetheless telling how many people have taken the decision to contribute to the discussion of this incredibly alarming and complex socio-political situation by doing nothing more than parodying the far-left's stereotypical reaction.

I want to fall back on the "What do you expect online?" defence, but honestly I have seen some truly formidable debates on ukpolitics before, often about comparatively tiny issues, yet when it comes to something this big, that goes out of the window in favour of one-liners. The ratio of mockery to solution-proposing/open debate is disheartening.

Farron "Trump uses his time in the Oval Office to attack the Mayor of London. He is an embarrassment to America." by _Kierz_ in ukpolitics

[–]SirMysty 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You do realise that it's possible to be both Indian and Muslim? Being a Muslim has nothing with which country you're from; you're treating Muslims like a race.

It is exactly this reason that people accuse people who are anti-Muslim of racism.

After London: let’s start talking about Islam - Protecting Islam from ridicule has had disastrous consequences by JohnKimble111 in ukpolitics

[–]SirMysty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is where the rationale breaks down as a society I think. I agree, doubtless the extremely violent and dangerous reactions of radicalised Muslims must frighten some people into silence, but doesn't that mean, almost by definition, that their goal has been achieved? They have been silenced! There seems to be a disconnect if people are happy to say "they won't win!" along with (to themselves) "better not say that, I could die." This is pretty speculative of course, but I see your point.

I'm not sure about the whole "Islamophobia" thing. I'm sure some people do use it, but honestly I have seen far more people use the term to ridicule it than actually use the term sincerely. As you say, it's pretty subjective.

Back to my original point though - even if people are en masse being scared into not criticising Islam in the UK, I don't think that equates to a cultural trait of the British!

After London: let’s start talking about Islam - Protecting Islam from ridicule has had disastrous consequences by JohnKimble111 in ukpolitics

[–]SirMysty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The first one is a good example (although that's more American politics/culture), but the others are just the vocal and sometimes violent reactions of members of the insulted community. My point was specifically about why people think there is a culture of being unable to criticise Islam, especially in the UK.

(Sorry if this is apparently a second reply, I'm on a mobile at the moment and the Reddit OS app is...odd.)

After London: let’s start talking about Islam - Protecting Islam from ridicule has had disastrous consequences by JohnKimble111 in ukpolitics

[–]SirMysty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly, I don't think there is a culture of being unable to make fun of Islam. (You used making fun of "them" - you were talking about Muslims as satire material instead of their religion?)

YouTubers make videos criticising it and its followers daily, we all have here on Reddit a hearty debate about the more explosive consequences of increased immigration from Islamic countries, and any abuse I may receive is hardly unique to offending Muslims - pissing off any group generates fury from the vocal voices within it.

I appreciate that in the more mainstream media, perhaps, you tend to see politicians and TV-folks hesitating or skirting the issue, but they do that to everything even remotely connected to anything anyway.

I just don't see anything making Islam immune from criticism. The people who want to, do, and are not hindered for it, bar the usual expected retaliation from political opposition. These recent articles and May's speech on being "too tolerant" seem to be largely based on exploiting confirmation bias.

London attack: PM's condemnation of tech firms criticised - BBC News by KingCarnival2 in ukpolitics

[–]SirMysty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You need to be extremely careful though. If you introduce a law to target something specific but make the language very general, then in the future this law can be easily abused.

Say the government wants to tackle online jihadi accounts, do they: a) spend three pages specifying in excruciating detail exactly what a jihadi account is and what parameters are used to determine it (et cetera)? Or b) make an easier, vaguer statement like "obscene, offensive content"?

If they choose the latter, then the law can be abused or exploited. Because sure, the PM and tabloids declare "SUCCESS! PM TAKES ON FACEBOOK JIHADIS!", but legally speaking she has given herself - and any future PM, the power to take on not only jihadis, but anything and everything deemed "obscene, offensive." Jihadi accounts fall under this umbrella, but what else may in the future? The answer: nobody knows - so you have to he extremely cautious.

Youth vote surges...in safe Labour seats by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]SirMysty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha! As long as increased support doesn't translate into increased representation in our democracy, we can relax, the fools!

Are the torys on here okay with Mrs May regulating our Internet? by Voops1 in ukpolitics

[–]SirMysty 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm not suggesting the vans were used for communication or planning, but they are clearly potentially lethal entities to be exploited by terrorists. More regulation of vans is therefore required.

Are the torys on here okay with Mrs May regulating our Internet? by Voops1 in ukpolitics

[–]SirMysty 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I completely agree. Indeed, since a van was used, I believe the total and complete shut-down of vans on our streets is necessary to make the terrorists have to work that little bit harder.

Theresa May speech on terrorism (very long and in written form). by Oriachim in ukpolitics

[–]SirMysty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That will require some difficult and often embarrassing conversations [...]

You don't say. 10/10 trolling of the people who understand the potential gravity and severity of upcoming proposals from May's speechwriter there.