History WebAnimation / DingoDoodles

* VillainHasAPoint: [[spoiler: Although his accusation Stella's Children could regress to lack empathy is a generalization, Episode 29 drives home that Xanu isn't wrong about the Old Society foreclaimers If their leader is anything to go by, they are unnervingly cold and lack empathy to a ''[[TheSociopath frightening]]'' degree. It's little wonder he wants to commit genocide on them.]]

* AnArmAndALeg: Sips gains sentience and magic powers at the same time as having his right hand cut off and replaced with a cursed crocodile hand.

In February 2023, Cryodon Games (the Canadian video game division of Fool's Gold Inc., led by Felix Irnich) released a demo for a DatingSim VisualNovel based on the "Fool's Gold" campaign: ''Fool's Gold: Dice, Death & Dating''. Said demo is available to download via itch.io, UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, and Hit Point Press.

* BalefulPolymorph: The swamp village of Alchemist Quarry, besides being a town where everything is magical, is home to a number of people that Quinn-Ora has turned into anthropomorphic animals. She tried the same thing on Sips in the past, and he is understandably [[{{Understatement}} a little upset]] about it.
** Also, Sips accidentally curses Gorthan into a Ythrak for a while. It actually lets him save the day at one point.

* AwfulTruth: Implied. In episode 15,[[spoiler: when Sips tells her about the vision he saw, Gothi starts to remember the events that lead up to her memory loss. ...Only, she theorizes she might've blocked her memories in order to cope with her past. And one cannot blame her when it's revealed '''[[JustifiedTrope her face was carved off]]'''.]]

* BadassNormal: Bouclaire/Potato Girl, a 10-year-old human girl who managed to put up a fight against Gothi. (Granted, this was [[CloudCuckoolander Old Gothi]], but still.)

* BarbieDollAnatomy: Or in [[spoiler: Xanu's]] case, Ken Doll Anatomy. Sips is disturbed to see his illusion [[NakedPeopleAreFunny naked]], regardless of this trope.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Gothi is the only person [[spoiler: Xanu]] is willing to spare from [[spoiler: his intended genocide of the Foreclaimers, because her [[TokenHeroicOrc “defect” of empathy]] led her to befriend him.]]
** In episode 26 Xanu cites this reason for why he will give Gothi an opportunity to convince him not to [[spoiler: unleash his vengeance on the descendants of the Foreclaimers]]

* {{Crossover}}: She has several longer videos, mostly [=Q&As=], with other D&D youtubers, like Ben from WebAnimation/PuffinForest, [[WebAnimation/AnimatedSpellbook Zee Bashew]] and WebAnimation/JoCat. For the holidays of 2018 and Halloween of 2019, Felix ran a oneshot with her, Ben and Zee.
* CrystalSpiresAndTogas: Emphasis on the "crystal" part for the Foreclaimers, who used [[PowerCrystal Power Crystals]] for pretty much anything.

* FaceHeelTurn: In a flashback in Episode 15, [[spoiler: Gothi experienced this first-hand at the hands of Goddrick.]]
* TheFaceless: Gothi is never seen without her trademark wooden mask, with any hints of her true face being quickly covered up. Come Episode 15, [[spoiler: her status as this trope is revealed to be ''[[FacialHorror disturbingly literal.]]'']]

** In Episode 5, when Quinn-Ora's chanting causes Sips's curse to grow, Dingo mentions the chanting has something to do with "the God of the Second Sun", before Sips is overtaken by an agonizing pain in his head. [[spoiler: The god in question turns out to be Xanu, a being created by the Foreclaimers (the race the gang has been searching for for most of the campaign) from the energy of a sun. And the pain likely came from the huge chunk of Xanu's crystal that Quinn-Ora had placed in Sips's head the night he was awakened in the hopes of controlling the god. None of this gets revealed until ''at least 10 episodes later''.]]

** When Sips begrudgingly decides Erina should be the one to kill Bouclaire, [[spoiler: he mentions "Now, as much as I'd like to rip that girl's heart out..." Guess what he does in the next episode to Bouclaire's corpse.]]

** Vicky claiming with child-like abandon that ''she'd'' commit genocide on the Foreclaimers on the innocent grounds of protecting those she loves foreshadows how [[spoiler: she becomes Sip's reason for deciding to go through with the Foreclaimers genocide in order to [[PapaWolf protect Vicky]] (as it's theorized the Foreclaimers would eliminate her for being "defective").]]

* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: Xanu's plan to commit genocide on the Foreclaimers isn't just out of spite or even simple logic. He was created by them, and in wake of his existence, they enslaved and experimented on him, making his every waking moment torturous.]]

* {{Irony}}: In episode 14, [[spoiler: when Gothi and Sips figure Bouclaire has her crystal inside her, Erina turns down the idea and says it's probably on her person. Not only does Erina learn first hand that Bouclaire's crystal wasn't in her crown, but the next episode reveals it '''was''' within her heart.]]

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: As Xanu so pointed out, the Foreclaimers prided themselves on perfection and creating the perfect technology. Using his ability to create souls and control them, Xanu used the Foreclaimers' "perfect" war machines to begin the genocide.]]

-->'''Erina''': I didn't know our dm was this evil!\\
'''Felix''': ''[[EvilLaugh [Evil chuckle] ]]''

* LackOfEmpathy: Actually ''[[EnforcedTrope enforced]]'' by [[spoiler: the Foreclaimers. Turns out things like ethics and empathy stand in the way of things like [[ForScience scientific progress.]]]]

** Gothi’s backstory is teased through the videos from episode 2 onwards. Even after it is revealed in her eponymous episode "Gothi" that [[spoiler: she is a Foreclaimer]], what she looks like behind her wooden mask is kept unknown. We do see one eye when it breaks a little in episode 10, and finally get [[WhamShot a full reveal]] in episode 15.

--> '''Dingo:''' No joke, the thought going through my head at that moment was "So this is how I die? I'm okay with this."
* OffScreenMomentOfAwesome: Episode 7 of the Fools Gold campaign tells of the epic battle between the party in their mech-dragon versus the dragon Gresh, which Dingo refuses to animate because she is one woman so get off her back.

* {{Precursors}}: The Fool's Gold campaign has some, known as the Foreclaimers. The party has been hired to search for their artifacts. [[spoiler: Some are actually still around, unless Gothi is an isolated case.]]

* TokenHeroicOrc: [[spoiler: Gothi is this to the Foreclaimers, though it’s [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]] in that her sense of empathy is literally a ''birth defect'' by their culture’s standards. If not for her [[ReallyRoyaltyReveal rank,]] she would have been put aside, exiled, or worse.]]

* VitriolicBestBuds: The whole party is a group of these. Sips regularly pranks Sneeze, but hurting him is one of Sips' [[BerserkButton Berserk Buttons]]; Erina and Sips more-or-less communicate through snark and trolling each other but obviously care about each other; and Gothi tends to respond to her party's shenanigans with ultra-dry snark, but she'll still throw down to protect them.

** Sips has a moment of this when he sobers up after his apocalyptic karaoke session. [[spoiler: Gothi has an [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerated]] version when she has a Foreclaimer crystal inserted into her abdomen, asking Sips about what she did for the 'several years' her crystal was missing.]]

** And in the next episode, after she’s defeated, everything seems fine and dandy, until [[spoiler: Sips starts somehow dying from the same injuries Bouclaire just died of.]] And any hope of saving [[spoiler: him]] is dashed when Felix asks this:
--->'''Felix:''' So. What are [[spoiler: your last words?]]\\

--->'''Dingo''': As Sips describes to Gothi about what he saw - the destruction, the portal, the man - she starts to remember something. You see, she's heard of this before. Because in fact...[[spoiler: she was there.]]

---> '''Xanu:''' It's because... she has rank.\\

'''Erina:''' ''[[YouHaveGOTToBeKiddingMe Oh. My God!]]''

* YouAreNotAlone: Sips, of all people, says this word-for-word to [[spoiler: Vicki when he tenderly places his crocodile hand on her angry and afraid werewolf form to calm her down.]]

* NiceHat: Erina sports one which only gets snazzier when she transforms.

** Gorthan and Sneeze are unknown, but Sneeze's mannerisms and love of crime imply a Rogue of some kind.

** In Episode 5, when Quinn-Ora's chanting causes Sips's curse to grow, Dingo mentions the chanting has something to do with "the God of the Second Sun", before Sips is overtaken by an agonizing pain in his head. [[spoiler: The god in question turns out to be Xanu, the being who caused the Foreclaimers to disappear, since Quinn-Ora had placed the largest piece of his crystal in Sips's head in the hopes of controlling an artificial god. None of this gets revealed until ''over 10 episodes later''.]]

In 2021, Dingo and her boyfriend and DM Felix teamed up with Hit Point Press to give the world "[[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hitpointpress/fools-gold-into-the-bellowing-wilds?ref=8xfkc5 Fool's Gold: Into the Bellowing Wilds]]", a setting sourcebook for playing in the same setting as the Fool's Gold campaign..... Which was almost thousand percent funded within an hour. By the end of the month, it was the second most funded kickstarter RPG ever.

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Do not confuse]] with Creator/DingoPictures.

* BigEater: Sips and Sneeze gorge themselves on what they think is an extravagant feast.

* AmbiguouslyBi: Erina can come across as this. In episode 8, she practically leaps at the chance to flirt with the baron to act as a distraction for the rest of the party, while in episode 9 she specifically states her intention to date the (female) Abby. It can still be considered ambiguous, since in both cases something else could be thought of as the main reason for her actions. With the baron, helping the party with something she seems to find fun could be what she's really thinking about rather than actually trying to get anywhere with him, while with Abby it should be kept in mind she's a 3 foot tall anthropomorphic red panda that everyone finds adorable, so wanting to keep her around could be considered a natural impulse.

* IAteWhat: While exploring a haunted mansion, Sneeze and Sips eat from what they believe is an extravagant feast, only for Sips for barf everything out of his and Sneeze's stomachs when he realizes they were eating maggot filled meat that was illusioned to look like a delicious feast.

* HypocriticalHumor: Once Sips wakes up after getting his hand reattached, it is revealed that Sips' right iris has changed into a crocodiles iris. Erina, the magical girl in the party (who is confirmed to be a reference to [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure Jojo]], calls him weeb trash for this.

* IAteWhat: While exploring a haunted mansion, the group gets separated from Sneeze and Jawbone. When they find Sneeze, he's gorging himself on an extravagant banquet that Sips joins in on. It's only afterwards that they learn they were eating rotten, maggot-filled meat.

* WhamShot: In Episode 21, as Vicky [[spoiler: chains herself up in Sips' cabin, we see a shot of her looking outside with fearful anticipation, the window reflecting [[{{Werewolf}} the full moon]]...]]

* ShoutOut: Erina is explicitly stated to be a [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure JoJo reference.]] Most noticeable in episode 8, where she flirts in anime terms and outright references the anime that inspired her.