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Playing every role, Zach borrows from Halloween III as his Dungeon Master discovers what is making the players act strangely.
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When Your Players Same The Same Jokes | DnD Short
The dragon isn't the problem. ZachTheBold's Dungeon Master has barely introduced a sleeping red dragon before a player announces his intention to seduce it, and the table erupts into hysterical laughter.
In "When Your Players Same The Same Jokes | DnD Short", Zach plays the increasingly alarmed DM and the players falling under the influence of recycled internet jokes. Eric's contribution is the familiar declaration that he'll cast fireball regardless of the room's size. The culprit turns out to be a wizard-costumed video creator whose captions practically command the audience to laugh.
That sends the sketch into Halloween III: Season of the Witch territory, with the DM desperately calling to get the video stopped. Viewers are identifying the film reference, while one shares a wonderfully specific tabletop predicament: a DM who stopped describing hands and feet as "bare" because the players kept turning them into bears. Even the title's repeated "Same" has become its own running joke.
The sketch drew roughly 556,000 views, making it the most watched of the week's two uploads. The other, "When Your DM Isn't Good With Horror | DnD Short #ad", is an advertisement built around another horror-at-the-table premise.
Older Shorts are doing more of the daily work: "Homebrewing A Balanced Bossfight | DnD Short" and "When A DM Tries To Plan For Everything | DnD Short" both draw more daily views than either new upload. Channel-wide viewing is comfortably above its usual pace, and the week brought 13,000 additional subscribers.
Among nearby tabletop and anime channels, Dimension 20 also has elevated daily viewing, while Rhymestyle is quieter than usual. ZachTheBold recorded the largest weekly view gain in this group, with boss-building and overprepared DMs keeping its back catalogue busy.
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What viewers say
A Halloween III reference is unexpected but very welcome
@DoctorTheoSee it on YouTubeMy DM has chosen to retire using the word "bare" to describe feet or hands because every time he'd say something like "you hear the sound of bare feet all around you" or "the man rushes at you with only his bear hands" everyone would always respond with, "were surrounded by bears?" Or "the guy has bear hands!?"
@madcap3450See it on YouTubeHE USED THE WIZARD COSTUME FROM THE PODCAST!! :D
@mlindquist8942See it on YouTube
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The videos drawing views on ZachTheBold right now
- Channel
- ZachTheBold
- Subscribers
- 817,000 ▲ 13,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 18,253,116
- Videos published this week
- 2
- Video published
- October 31, 2026
- Video views so far
- 556,026
- Views on its first day
- 366,910
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Which spell does Eric insist on casting in Zach's sketch?
Eric interrupts the DM's tactical setup to announce that he casts fireball regardless of the room's size.