Awesome Ego: Tandem the Spoony. While Noah is aware that Tandem is intended as a Jack of All StatsMaster of None (which is why he chose to play as a Bard), Tandem proudly declared that he was "the greatest swordsman in the world", and through luck and skill, managed to live up to that claim on numerous occasions. His exploits include:
On the journey to Wonderland, he rescued his party from a Compelling Voice with some quick thinking and an oft-forgotten bardic skill, won a duel with a twentieth level monknote Which Spoony misidentifies as the Dormouse, it's actually the March Hare in the published module, and slew a lich at the end of the journey.
When Spoony played with a character who was a kensai (a Master Swordsman), in-character they took offense to Tandem's boast and challenged him to a first-strike duel. The kensai botched and threw his sword several meters away, while Spoony rolled an eighteen; the player roleplayed it as Tandem disarming the kensei. The player them talked Tandem up to others to get him into fights, all of which Spoony bested, culminating with him single-handedly slaying a ten-foot, tree-wielding gladiator troll.
Broken Base: His "3d6 In Order" video and mindset has its fans, while others strongly disagree with an old-school thesis that, by Spoony's own admission, doesn't really work for any version of D&D after Second Edition. Similarly, some agree with his assertion that the use of other systems of stat generation that result in generally higher and stabler stats caters to powergamers and munchkins and encourages a toxic mindset of play, while others complain that using Honest Rolls Characters frequently screws over players who come to the table with an idea of what class they want to play, since the chance of rolling up stats completely opposed to their concept is high. Notably, an Honest Rolls Characterhas a less than one percent chance to qualify for some classes even in the editions of the game more friendly to it, including classes Spoony has stumped for in the past like the paladin.
Christmas Rushed: Spoony's review of 5e was done after a mere 24 hours of reading the PHB only, and it shows. He rails against a small selection of mechanics, only touches on a handful of classes (half of which aren't even mentioned), and spends most of the time comparing the book unfavorably to previous editions as a whole, when again he had only read the Player's Handbook and not the Dungeon Master's Guide or the Monster Manual. He also staunchly keeps the opinion he forms from this minimal information, even when the other books that were released at the same time as the PHB and were intended to be read with it contain things he enjoys from previous editions, like the DMG detailing how to use a grid map or listing a potion miscibility table.
Hilarious in Hindsight: He recounts in "Tandem's Last Ride" that he dislikes when players refer to each other simply by their classes and/or race. Many years earlier in the board game Dragon Strike that he reviewed, the game itself does not assign names to the characters other than the villain and the king; they are simply Warrior, Wizard, Thief, Elf, and Dwarf.
Half-this half "embarassing in hindsight", at the age of 10 he created a D&D character named Lance Stormshield.
In "Thieves's World Part 2", when discussing how to kill Tempus Thales, he quotes an NPC who asks "How do you want to do this?" Fast forward a few years and that becomes another DM's signature Pre-Mortem One-Liner.
In the Thieves' World saga, after Tempus Thales skullfucks an innocent woman and Love Interest to death through her eye socket, the PCs decide to make their rebellion against the Prince a bit more brutal. So much so that Spoony himself is wary of his companions' mental stability.
The leader of the Shadowrun: The Code group executes two hostages to Prove I Am Not Bluffing, and then executes the rest once he gets the information he wants, hurling the bodies outside, purely on grounds to Leave No Witnesses because "They saw our faces." What's worse, this was the plan all along after the burglary went awry. A horrified Spoony promptly cracks the Godzilla Threshold and sends a highly-trained kill team to slaughter them all.
Mr. Fanservice: As a character, Tandem the Spoony generally portrays himself as a dashing, swashbuckler type. In the ConBravo D20 Live game, the party is tasked with escorting their host's daughter - an attractive young woman - around town. Spoony's reaction? Without saying a word, he removes his hat and shakes his hair down.
All of "The Toilet Pizza." To whit; a tale of a pizza he mysterious found wedged in the back of a bathroom stall that was so stale that it had become solid. And then he tricked another player into taking a bite. Spoony even admits in the video where he described it that it was the worst thing he had ever done to someone, and it was "really bad" in a way that he still feels bad about.
He spends a fair time of "Vegan Steve & The Djinni of Jengai Fomogo" discussing how the group usually ordered pizza from a Peter Piper Pizza next door, because none of them wanted to leave the game for very long, except the pizza they made was extremely greasy and disgusting, to the point the slices were limp in their hands and toppings would slide off. He claims he once put a napkin on top of a slice and it dissolved from the grease. He also calls attention to the fact that a benefit of having pizza for their game was that it could be eaten cold; thankfully he does not describe what pizza like this tasted like after it had cooled.
Once Original, Now Common: At the start of "The Jedi Hunter", Spoony says that he hesitated to tell the story for this reason, remarking that his character's anti-Jedi tricks seem a lot less clever nowadays because later Star Wars media like Knights of the Old Republic popularized a lot of the same ideas.
"Stop Having Fun" Guy: Spoony can be hard to watch when he gets into a grind of shouting about how spoiled modern gamers are and how much less challenging modern games are... even though cooler heads would generally say this is because modern tabletop games are better-designed rather than simply easier.
They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: For better or worse, Spoony is firmly a child of AD&D second edition. Many of his complaints about modern versions of the game sometimes struggle to stay on-topic and avoid going into great detail about how modern players are mollycoddled babies who don't have to earn their fun.
, including classes Spoony has stumped for in the past like the paladin.