YMMV / JoCat

• Adorkable: JoCat certainly fits this category. A freckled and bespeckled nerd who just happens to be the most precious geek on the internet, considering his genuine and wholesome personality (unless, of course, he's playing JoCrap).
• Alternate Aesop Interpretation: A couple in the Dungeon Master episode of A Crap Guide to D&D.
  • The intended lesson is that players are as important to D&D as the dungeon master. As such, players shouldn't be subjected to Railroading. But the fact that JoCrap was clearly overwhelmed by trying to run D&D with around twenty players at once, one could also see the lesson being that one should limit the number of players in one game down to a manageable level for the DM. More than twenty players is the sort of thing that likely would require multiple DMs to manage, never mind so the session doesn't slow to a crawl.
  • Some of the requests from the players were just absurd, like one player asking to play a Tarrasque and another exploiting his multiclassing to do close to a dozen actions in one round, not to mention metagaming galore and players rolling out of turn. A middle ground to temper such issues could be this: Give a reason for why you don't want a player to do something instead of just giving them a flat "no" and saying that it's because you're the DM, and what you say goes. The latter will make you seem tyrannical, but the former will make it more clear that you're doing this out of care for the gameplay.
• Awesome Music:
  • The song going through the different Wizard schools. Helps that it is sung to the the Can Can.
  • The entirety of the Races episode, performed entirely in rap. It may be for a silly gag series, but some of the flow on certain lines and verses are legitimately fire.
  • The Fighter episode has "Fighter-Man", sung to the theme of the Spider-Man (1967) series that starts and finishes the episode.
  • The full version of "Spooky Slice" that initially appeared in FF XIV: Melee DPS is a good way to get into the spooky spirit. It even has a brief cameo from Luke Allen-Gale, reprising his role as Zenos!
• Friendly Fandoms: With a number of fellow D&D YouTubers, including Dingo Doodles, JessJackdaw, Tulok the Barbarian, Overly Sarcastic Productions, and more, all of whom guest-starred in "A Crap Guide to D&D: Dungeon Master". JoCat has also made guest appearances on a number of their channels in turn.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "Many are intimidated by this mighty thingie's magnificence, but mourn them ye shall not, for they be weak-ass bitches".
  • The song going through the different Wizard schools, set to The Can Can Song. It sees quite a bit of use on TikTok and other D&D fan videos.
• Most Wonderful Sound: The sound effect for Eldritch [BLAST] from "A Crap Guide to D&D - Warlock" is a mixture of alien and electrical and gets used all across the video, and has been uploaded for personal use by popular demand.
• Tear Jerker: JoCrap's meltdown at the players causes them to leave the game. While he takes a moment to stew over this, JoCat appears behind him and calmly talks with him on how to be a better Dungeon Master, making this moment a sad tearjerker and a happy one.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: A few of the players in "A Crap Guide to D&D: Dungeon Master" were behaving in ways that JoCrap, as the DM, was right to call them out on. Several players were making rolls without being told to, progressing the story without the DM's approval, criticizing the plot, trying to make things go Off the Rails, metagaming with out-of-character knowledge, and reading from the Adventure guidebook (basically spoiling the game for themselves). One player even gave themselves a gun. While JoCrap overreacted by shooting down everything and invoking Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies on the whole table (even if the player was behaving), it's easy to see why JoCrap snapped when so many of his players were behaving like jerks.

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