One Piece D&D is an Actual Play Web Video Series by Youtuber Rustage
and featuring other Youtubers as players, played on the 5th edition of Dungeons & Dragons and based on the world of the One Piece franchise.
Set shortly after the execution of Gol D. Roger and the start of the Golden Age of Piracy, the series follows the adventures of the Devil's Luck Pirates, an upstart pirate crew who banded together to follow their own individual goals. The crew includes:
- William Emanon (Played by Tekking101: The crew's captain, a chaotic rogue with a mysterious past and a penchant for gambling
- Duros (Played by Lost Pause): An honorable man in heavy knightly armor and the tendency to invoke The Power of Friendship a lot.
- Ragnar (Played by Briggs): The crew's shipwright, a huge, eyepatch-wearing man who desires to become the strongest man in the world]])
- Verona (Played by 2Spooky): The crew's sniper, a stoic man who constantly covers his face with a mask and goggles. Has a variety of powerful trinkets and bullets at his disposal.
As the series goes on, more and more crew members join the Devil's Luck Pirates in their travels that may take them through the Grand Line and towards the fabled treasure of One Piece itself.
Ending after over 70 episodes, the series would be followed by the sequel series, One Piece D&D: Marines.
The whole series can be found here.
The series provides examples of:
- Adaptational Wimp: Users of Logia Devil Fruits are still very dangerous opponents to fight, especially without Haki - however, they're not the unstoppable juggernauts they are in the manga proper. This is mostly down to two factors: while Logias can No-Sell physical attacks like in the manga, due to the restriction of the game system they can only do that once each turn, with only being able to passively halve the damage instead of outright absorbing it, and Haki is introduced into the powersets of the players relatively early in the campaign.
- Armor-Piercing Attack: This is how Armament Haki is adapted in gameplay - on top of dealing extra damage, attacks coated in Armament Haki bypass all damage resistances, most importantly both the passive and active damage resistance of Logia-type Devil Fruit users.
- Badass Normal:
- Chuck, one of the Commanders of the Timber Lord, is simply a big lumberjack with a big axe - he still provides a decent challenge to the entire Devil's Luck crew.
- All of the Eight Flames except Valentine are relatively mundane humans by the standards of the setting, with no Devil Fruits of their own or even Haki to make up for that difference, but their personal skills and their animal familiars make up for that.
- Bears Are Bad News: Very early on in the series, Ragnar obtains the Bear-Bear Fruit Model:Grizzly, allowing him to shapeshift into a huge grizzly bear that augments his already impressive strength.
- Bloodier and Gorier: Rustage and several of the players have described the series as 'Seinen One Piece' - while the happenings tend silly and absurd like the series its based on, Anyone Can Die and the Devil's Luck Pirates have no qualms with brutally destroying their enemies, be they mooks or big baddies.
- Call a Hit Point a "Smeerp": Due to the lack of proper 'magic' in the setting of One Piece other than Devil Fruits and Haki, some D&D concepts were readjusted to fit better with the setting - Cure Wounds potions were remade into Medikits, or Arcane Archer's (Verona's class) arcane arrows turning into 'Special Bullets' with the same effects.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Bullet is a mercenary who sometimes acts as an ally to the crew, but they generally view it as Unwanted Assistance due to her past.
- Gang of Hats: The Starter Villain faction, the Steam Pipe Pirates, are all based around Steampunk-esque aesthetics, such as electrical cybernetics, steam guns, and pipes - fittingly, Eustass Valve, the crew's captain, has a Steam-related Devil Fruit.
- Gun Nut: Rear Admiral Jefferson, who sports FOUR Gatling guns at once, and that's just the beginning of his arsenal.
- Man of a Thousand Voices: In good ol' D&D dungeon master fashion, Rustage voices every NPC in the series, including the non-player crewmembers.
- Master of None: William's Devil Fruit, the Roulette-Roulette Fruit, allows him to gain the power of any Devil Fruit, including ones from canon One Piece, giving him potentially unlimited utility - however, not only is this completely random (meaning he may get an insanely good fruit or an absurdly useless one), he can only use each fruit for a limited amount of time, thus not allowing him to gain the mastery over their power like the original wielder would with enough time, and the sheer amount of Fruits means it's very unlikely he'll be able to get the same result more than once.
- Meaningful Name: William's initial last name is 'Emanon' - No Name backwards. this is because he was raised by a thief and never had a real last name.
- Murder, Inc.: The Eight Flames are an organization of hired assassins indoctrinated into almost cult-like loyalty, ranked from 1 to 8 - the larger the number, the more powerful the assassin. Each member (other than Number 1 and Number 8) are also given a companion animal to assist them in their assasination work. They are the primary antagonist/allies of the Eight Flames arc.
- Mysterious Middle Initial: Both William and his long-lost brother Trevor have the middle initial 'D.', making them both inheritors of the Will of D.
- Pest Controller: Na'nuut, a member of the Aeons with the ability to transform into a swarm of locusts.
- Reduced to Dust: During the fight with Valentine, Seventh of the Eight Flames, Duros stabs his heart with his blessed sword, causing the assassin to scream out in pain and turn into a pile of ashes. Rustage admits it doesn't make sense since he's a Blood Logia and not a literal vampire, but it was too cool to pass up.
- Running Gag: Several:
- Verona accidentally shooting allies.
- William killing old people - specifically old men.
- Ragnar failing Perception rolls so spectacularly he barely percieves what's around him.
- Louis LeClock turning inexplicably monochrome and 'sad French music' playing whenever he is sad or moping.
- Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Slavery and selling slaves is considered unacceptable by every single member of the Devil's Luck crew - villains who partake in that have particularly gruesome fates.
- Super Weapon, Average Joe:
- Cyril is a complete rookie marine cadet who ate the Water-Water Fruit.
- With the context of reveals from later in the One Piece canon, Long John Magnum retroactively is one, as he is a nobody with no skill whatsoever with the power of a fruit that grants the user the powers of a God.
- Wake-Up Call Boss: In the initial South Blue arc, most 'boss'-type villains that the crew encountered didn't tend to last long enough to be a threat - this changes when "Not Steve"/Taco of the Eight Flames jumps on board of the ship and proves that there are far, far stronger characters than them. When he is properly fought inside Tarako Kingdom's prison, he is by far the most dangerous opponent fought up untill that point and almost outright kills William, which sets the tone well for the upcoming fight against Captain Marrow and Eustass Valve.
