D&D: Using Feats for Infinite Knowledge!
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Dr. Stone Original Soundtrack OST #03 - Beginning
Dr. Stone Original Soundtrack OST #04 - From Zero
Dr. Stone Original Soundtrack OST #05 - Senku & Taiju
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Even though Keen Mind doesn't directly raise your intelligence, it gives you special skills that can let you stockpile infinite knowledge. In the right situations you can abuse that fact to raise your INT (not the stat) into infinity!
Honestly half the video is describing what 'Intelligence' is as a stat and how Keen mind can let you raise the stat artificially. I agree the original title was misleading, but nothing about what I covered was blatantly wrong.
And for anyone wondering, you can get 'Keen Mind' at level 1 if you choose 'Variant Human' as your starting race.
He’s gone.
No anime in dnd I guess.
Do dr stone in d&d
Danny Sangree But... this... is...
@@richardgibson8403 Gotta love the enthusiasm.
Also assuming it's the running joke going on and not an actual request xD
"keen mind is garbage"
XD more like a free "hey DM whats that thing that happened 3 weeks ago the players forgot but my character remembers"
Play a conjurer wizard with the keen mind. Not only can you conjure any cell key that you see on the guard's hip or keyring, and if you read your spell book cover to cover at least once a month, you can effectively shut down any sadist DM's.
@@andrewpenn1145 except for those DM's that claim that it doesn't matter what you can remember because there is magic to the writing of the spells so you can't just copy spells from memory, even though it is explicitly stated that the materials and time are needed to copy a spell due to the need to decipher other spellcasters spells.
Mr1991bbk To put it another way: you need money and time to copy down your *own* spells. It would be harder still to put them into your mind permanently.
@@andrewpenn1145 this is exactly what i do
Or use prestodigtation to generate any key or other object you saw, use it for the action you have it to unlock a door.
Blaine: "Keen Mind is garbage."
*Caleb Widogast has entered the chat*
I never realised how awsome the keen mind is until i watched CR.
Keen Mind is a wonderful skill if you are a wizard. You only need your book once a month to prepare spells, you are the best teleporter ever, because you remember exactly how a place looks or in which direction you should teleport, and you are a living clock.
The dm takes your notes
The problem with keen mind is that the mechanics as explicitly written are circumstantial at best. What CR shows is that with a player and DM working together to interpret the roleplay implications of the feat it becomes far more than the sum of its mechanics. Caleb you understand immediately that the implications of the feat transcend the mundane ...
You beat me to it
So basically: "Hey there's this one D&D feat that'd be really useful in this one anime."
Nope that's not the point. Read the pinned comment.
It wasn’t even that useful then
Nicollas Squillante I don’t now if you ask me that seem to be one of the main topics of the video. Sure it’s also teaching about the skill but it’s doing it by putting extreme emphasis on that one anime
It's exactly what it is, even then it's still absolute garbage, any person can do what he did in the show and just count to remember what year, season, month, and day it is. You could easily find north by examining where the growth of moss is mainly at, or even more simple, if you're on the surface just look at the position of the sun.
Xavier Faust I mean I think you’re forgetting the fact that not everyone is a nature survival guide, not everyone knows about Moss grows on the north side of the rock, and no one could even micromanage the amount of time that had passed over the period of years. People lose track of time when they’re in the minutes category I’m expecting a human bean to keep track of years without a device to measure is simply absurd
My DM: You should take notes because tracking informations is very important in this campaign.
Me: Keen Mind
keen mind doesnt free you from being a decent pc...
I'm very confused about whether or not he means "int score" or "int modifier" since they seem to be being used interchangeably in some parts of the video, but otherwise very well made and I look forward to more.
They're basically the same thing, but sorry about that xD
Intelligence Score and Intelligence Modifier are connected with each other and can be used to say what the other is. Intelligence Score is your number of points in intelligence, and your Intelligence Modifier is the number your spell casting, saving throws, and skill checks are increased by that use intelligence, based on your Intelligence score. Basically, for every 2 points of intelligence over 10 you have, you get +1 more to your intelligence modifier.
Quick equation: Intelligence Modifier = your Intelligence Score minus 10, all divided by 2 and rounded down to the nearest whole integer.
So Intelligence Score of 10 is equal to an Intelligence Modifier of 0, 12 is equal to +1, 8 is equal to -1, etc. etc.
Edit: this applies to all stats
@@clickpause8732 I just tell everyone, you get a +1 for every 2 points over 10
"keen mind is garbage"
Well you sir have never played a necromancer wizard managing an undead army.
If you can't pin point the exact time you cast that create undead spell, as well as how long it's been since then, you might turn around to find your whight second in command has gone rogue, eaten the bard, and is coming after you with the crack skeleton team you set him up with, the ungrateful bastard.
You don't make that mistake twice.
Keen Minded Loxodon
Cause elephants never forget
Brilliant!
My tiefling wizard has 24 int, got blessed with deck of many things and i won a dice poker tournament for a lesser tome of intellect.
two party members drew before me, one got a stat increase and the other got a keep that magically sprang into existence with their name on it. I decided to draw twice (deck was throughly shuffled) aaaand got the same two cards. Fourth guy drew and instantly died and went to the abyss. We had to find a way down there to get him back, it was a whole arc on its own.
DakkaNoms That’s why I’m very skeptical/cautious about the Deck of Many. So very tempting, but has so much potential to ruin literally everything.
@@infinitemind3719 it was a great adventure nonetheless! We got to fight a Balor demon and got his character back, and he got a respec out of it haha
In my campaign I made magic that temporary gives you knowledge in a field for an hour. Uncommon gave you proficiency in a skill, rare proficiency with an item and very rare a feat.
It worked very well for thing that are situational.
The smart dude knew when to get out by counting each and every second so that he knew the right season to get out
Great video! Really amazing and top quality. Super awesome to have someone do a deep dive into the rules to make these awesome short vids!
Senku literally kept himself busy by counting. I'm sure he just figured out through mathmetics what the season outside was.
Keen Mind is not garbage at all. It's a FEAT, that lets you be immune to SPELLS. Don't believe me? Modify Memory and Feeblemind. Two of the most powerful villain-manipulation spells in the game. Either of these could reasonably prevent you from remembering things normally, but Keen Mind is a blanket statement. Even if your mind is altered through Modify Memory, you could argue that the feat protects everything you remember from the last month, which if true would INCLUDE knowledge that your memories were tampered with. Even Feeblemind doesn't break this, meaning you can remember who you were for the past month and potentially think of ways to fight back and break the control of the spell. Not directly in either case, but perfect memory can be a huge advantage against similarly smart opponents, since villain high Int creatures are likely villain spellcasters and villain spellcasters LOVE these spells. Doesn't protect you from everything else they have though.
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It IS bested by Linguist though. Still +1 Int, but you get extra Languages and cipher-making skills. Not as vital in the situations it's used in, but much more commonly used. Intelligence in general is a stat that is rarely of consequence outside of spellcasting but has huge repercussions in the rare moments outside of that in which it's used, so Keen Mind is a lot more in line with that philosophy with the stat.
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"Simple minded," and "Intelligence-based spellcaster" is a paradox. Wizards are good at magic because they learned a complicated system of rules and methods that allow them to alter reality at a fundamental level. That's not simple minded, but I imagine it was a sarcastic jab so whatevza.
Dude, you literally answered your own question because he literally COUNTED time
I am a huge fan of taking Keen Mind on Illusionists, or even on people who like using _minor illusion_ a lot. The perfect memory means you can perfectly create images of things you've seen, removing any chance that you might get details wrong. Or, if you do get them wrong (perhaps your DM requires artistry checks), you know you got them wrong and can try to explain it to others.
Moreover, as long as you keep reviewing your memories - perhaps with journal entries or illusory walls of text - you can make sure that you have things from months ago that you've re-experienced in the last 30 days.
While I agree with most of this, one thing I have to comment on. "The human mind can only track so much information". This may be true, and it may not. We still haven't discovered the limits of our capacity to retain and understand our surroundings. Some people speculate that if we'd remembered every single thing in out entire lives, in a picturesque perfection, we could remember 140 years of it. But, no one remembers that much, first of all, and second of all, that's just that. Speculation. No one has ever lived that long(that we know of), much less someone who had perfect recall. In a state like this, where your five senses are shut off, I'd reckon we could increase that number very substantially. But my point is, we don't know the limits of the human mind. We don't know what makes it tick, precisely, and we only vuagely understand some of its capabilities. Add magic and other fictional races to the mix and the possibilities are endless.
Summary of video:
If your stuck in a stone prison that makes you immortal you can count how long you have been stuck, you can then try to argue with your DM that because your counted the number of days and keep track of your thoughts during this process you have become smarter.
Sure. Good luck with that.
Keen mind is like any of the survival focused stuff in 3.5. Whether there is any point depends on who your DM is.
Keen Mind is VERY powerful when used with the right spell. Like, say... Scrying or Detect Thoughts.
Alternatively, be like Senku and know because you are keeping perfect track of how many seconds pass and remember the time it was when you turned to stone. With this knowledge, you can then divide out the seconds to figure out what time of day it is and what time of year it is, both of which let you more or less tell when sunrise and sunset are and can give you a general idea of if it will be cold or hot. Obviously you can't know the exact weather, but if your calculations show its the middle of winter, expect it to be cold, at least for your area, and if you normally get snow, expect there will be some on the ground, if it isn't snowing. Inversely, if you live in a hotter climate and know its going to be the middle of summer, you know its probably going to be unbearably hot, unless there's a thunderstorm. And with that knowledge, which way is North is pointless until you escape, and your perfect tracking of time helps you figure it out when you do escape by looking at where the sun (if its day) or North Star (if its night) should be at that time
One thing about keen mind is: if you are led through a labirinth blindfolded, you can just count your steps and you have a pretty accurate idea of the way you took.
This is absurd levels of weird, at this point just
'you predict that the gods may attempt to strike you down if you continue'
'you have been struck by one lightning bolt per point of intelligence simultaneously, consecutively, per point of intelligence'
'the universe says no, you cease existing'
It's also perfect for wizards... you only need your spellbook once a month with this feat
Nice vid
Me playing a wizard with 20 int while having an actual intelligence of 8
Me: Is infamous among anyone I've played D&D with for making characters that don't need a high intelligence intelligent anyway, and constantly making intelligence checks and to solve or get an advantage in any basically any situation ever, resulting in everything from weaponized chameleons to a wizard SOMEHOW knowing EXACTLY what traits male crabs find attractive in female crabs, to a ranger somehow winding up as the biology, anatomy, and medical expert in a party that contained two wizards and a life cleric.
Me, after watching this video: Well then. Now I know what feat to give my character next time I get the option to pick one up! :D
If you were in this type of D&D campaign, you wouldn't even need to put points into INT, if you grabbed keen mind, since as your intelligence grows with every passing day, you could even take points AWAY from INT, and put them into something else, yet still gain hyper intelligence.
We have been bamboozled
Ok. My character is a Druid, and as soon as they are turned to stone, the wild shape into a bear and break the stone.
I honestly don't get how nobody seems to think of the basic and arguably OP ability keen mind offers if you're a wizard. Think about it. RAW you can basically sneak into a wizards room. Flick through his spell book. Put it back and STILL go off and copy them all down without anybody even knowing you looked at his spell book.
Variant title: This feat it so useless it takes an incredibly specific apocalypse scenario to be helpful!
There is an ingame way to raise your intteligence to infinate but you can only raise it by 2 every 100 years.
Alright listen, I’m too lazy to do the math but I know the solution without taking this awful feat. Measure breathing room. Stone expands, even just a little in heat, and contracts in cold. Therefore you can measure the season via how squished you are. Now you might say “but you can’t feel so how would you know.” Well you see the answer is so. We have a couple of other senses than the main five. One of them is the ability to know where you body parts are even with your eyes closed and stuff. And assuming that your brain. And assuming your brain is still working we can assume that at least some of the nervous system is working. So you might be able to feel a bit anyway. This concludes my ted talk.
This is exhilarating.
BIG BRAIN
Your back
nice
All keen mind as done is annoy the dm.
2:03 Druid craft
2:08 there are 20+ senses not five
He ment the main 5
I know but if you’re gonna talk about the senses how about talk about them all
Personaly in my games if player has higher int than 25 I allow them to know about DM as a kind of this higher entity and talk with me as I am dm but other ppl may precive it wierd
i would have to say, my int stat varies from -5 to +10, dependent on the situation
I have literally never used an ability score increase for anything other than feats.
Pretty epic
Senku counted seconds 3000 years
I always look at Int like an IQ score 80-100 is sposed to be average so
1 or lower is so low that the IQ test can't calculate it so u always get 0.
2=1-9
3=10-19
4=20-29
5=30-39
6=40-49
7=50-59
8=60-69
9=70-79
10=80-89
11=90-99
12=100-109
13=110-119
14=120-129
15=130-139
16=140-149
17=150-159
18=160-169
19=170-179
20=180-189
21=190-199
Starting at 22 Int the IQ test just gives 200 cuz it can't give a score higher.
Also another thing that would make this simple be a ranger or Druid
Wait, couldn’t you perceive ambient temperature in that stone shell?
Heck yeah,’dr stone
Oh yeah this is big brain time
Goodberry and break out whenever.
Smart boi
Soul eater in dnd
Jason Bourne in d&d
I actually have the model of the compass at 3:35 home
I thought it was a Senku build, but Ive been amazed with the video anyway
Big brain time
I use int to get lore from dm
Yo spoil alert for anime show I was gonna watch it
Or just be Dr ston conting every second
but having all that knowledge would drive you mad.
eh, it's DnD, Caleb from Critical Role has this feat and is a wizard, and he ended up just fine
Can someone give me the reddit post with like the int negative and positive modifier cheat sheet?
Why I am not on the video image. Great channel!
30 in a stat? In 5e?
Consider, keen mind let’s you remember anything you've read perfectly for a month. Does this apply to written spells?
Also I have a Wizard who last year hit +7 INT after reading a Tome of Clear Thought and using a clutch Reflect spell to Dominate an Elder Brain and commanded it to ‘show me everything’. Drank that brain like a juice box, and I didn’t get Crystal Skull’ed because I made the saving throw. Honestly it saved the party because that fight was going south fast, but after the brain died the rest of the mindflayers suffered from psychic backlash and their thralls were freed. It was honestly a best case scenario
lol, this was made on my birthday
so celeb
This is one of those things I think got ruined by 5th edition's oversimplification, back in 3rd edition the rule for something to be sentient was to have a minimum score of 4 in each intelligence wisdom and charisma. But feats are still a mixed bag, at least there's not as many filler ones.
C'mon, that's not infinite knowledge... Maybe virtually infinite limited intelligence, but not knowledge
I've seen people say they have their wizard characters carry libraries in their minds by looking at books without reading them (they could look at the pages, recall the arrangement of the letters and read their memory of the page) and then conjured a copy the book by memory once per month to refresh the memory. Makes me wonder if it would be worth it to get a way of printing and reprinting text at the same sheet or rolling scroll so they don't have to flip through the book and just conjure the scroll and have a invisible servant or mage hand roll your library for you star Wars intro style
So Aqua has -1 Int...
so we rolled our stats and our wizard in real life is an idiot but he rolled max int. in a fight in a dungeon this guy chases a orc and proceeds to get stuck in a bear trap that nearly kills him and I have to spend two turns getting him out
I thought 0 was supposed to be average
But you can't take a feat at level 1 so you actually can't have this at level 1
"Keen Mind is garbage"
I'm sorry, what?
keen mind is garbage
@@hexidecimark A feat that lets you not need notes to have your character remember everything they've seen or heard in the past month is garbage? A feat that allows you RAW to ask the DM anything that you yourself forgot because your character experienced it, is garbage? Unless your DM is extremely lenient about you forgetting things, Keen Mind is actually very useful for recalling important information.
Yes, it is.
@@corbinbarron8772 Are you going to provide a reason for that claim, or address what I said in response to the last guy who stated this?
@@artificerprime4154 You should just take the notes you need
*He had us in the first half, Not gonna lie.*
Dude. Its just a feat, not like a super complex build. I don't really think it needed this much explaining.
I mean, I only briefly explained how it works and why it fits the general theme.
Why does he look like diluc from Genshin?
We have a house rule that if a character has an intelligence score of 30, they become self aware of the game they are in.
Your characters then complain that you rolled a natural one before complaining that you are complaining about yourself using fictional characters
And then the character gets tired of you playing them and decides to swap place with you
Now your the character
Shouldn't that be wisdom?
@@deleteduser4634 he his gonna have to deal eith alot of negative modifiers then
If a player seeks to become hyper intelligent in my games I'll usually allow it but it comes with downsides as most PC's are mortal. At a certain level of intelligence they begin to go mad/insane. The pc begins to see outside the game and it's usually played as an existential crisis slowly driving them crazy as noone else around them can see what they can.
Keen Mind is very useful in games with more realism. Caleb Widogast, from Critical Role, has the Keen Mind feat, and it's benefitted the party a lot due to Liam O'Brian being able to just ask the DM everything he, as the player, forgot.
"And so you see DM, that is why my intelligence score is actually functionally infinity, and why therefore my magic weapon attacks should do infinite damage."
"Alright that's all fine and good but on the other hand no."
*immediately regrets own intelligence*
You ever heard of the nuke wizard build?
You build a wizard with 20 intelligence+ chaisma and then choose evocative once you get to level 17 you put one level into hexblade warlock for the curse. You could fill up the last 2 level with cleric. Finally grab war caster and magic missile. You see magic missile summons 3 darts which are just solid damage but you only roll for damage once. Each dart does 15 damage at max with no save. Also there are 11 darts at a maximum.
My DM was running a campaign where we started at level 10 and fought various god's. All of us were using this. He gave up.
Dr. Stone:
Variant Human, plus to Int, and Con, Gourmand and Keen Mind feat
Languages: Common (Japanese), and.... uh what ever mess is English.
Artificer/Ranger; he is excellent at re-inventing things from our time and similarly great survival skills
English would be abyssal because it is that maddening
@@fishyfishyfishy500akabs8
We have a ton of weird exceptions and rules, true, but we can also also tell what you mean when you mess up the grammar. Many other languages don't afford that luxury
@@fishyfishyfishy500akabs8 english is really freaking easy compared to a lot of other languages.
English would probably be Trollspeak
@@AliceIsSleepy English is literally the most difficult language to learn
Well, this was disappointing.
Alt title: How to have 189 IQ in D&D
edit: okay, 189, happy?
You mean 189
@@aimaedac *1* *8* *9*
Also I personally agree. Changed
Im confused
since 100 IQ is average IQ and 10 inteligence is average inteligence in dnd i think 1 point in inteligence translates to 10 points of IQ
@@pierocaramelli1493 That isn't exactly how IQ works, because the difference between 100 and 110 is larger than that between 110 and 120.
For those of you who don’t know, he kept count. He counted every second.
For a thousand years or so
Actually for more than 3700 years.
And he calculated the seconds that are used for leap years, the earth slowing down very slowly etc.
That's stupid. Why go through all the trouble of counting when you could find out the passage of time a lot easier and just work backwards?
@@alexanderchippel what?
Pretty sure even with epic levels of intelligence if you tried counting seconds going on days/months/years/centuries, you'd go insane at least once. Cause that's a lot of counting.
SoloAxlion it may have had an opposite effect for him. Counting was like breathing at that point, something he was incapable of doing while petrified. Just became a sort of... auto pilot thought process to fill the several thousand years of silence and stillness.
me: an intellectual who has seen dr. stone.... he counted.... a LOT
And that's what makes one smarter? I don't see the logic in that.
@@BahamutEx it's a reference to the anime dumbass, never said that it was the thing that made him smarter
Thank you
"Why would you waste a Feat on Keen Mind when a simple Survival check would do the trick for most of what you get?"
"Because I find playing an abysmal Wisdom score to be hilarious, and I don't have the Survival Proficiency anyway." :P
Keen mind is actually really good if you're a wizard. Perfect memory means you can remember your entire spellbook, or reproduce anything with minor conjuration and prestidigitation.
This is kind of clickbait. It's really how to do the boring bit of Dr Stone in D&D and ignores the main issue for the anime which is the fact one loses consciousness fast if one doesn't focused.
To be fair if someone were to be that determined and had a keen mind that problem would be solved
@@tropical_flak Over thousands of years in full sensory deprivation and full consciousness, and person would go completely insane. Determination and keen mindedness, I know that's not a word, can't help you from the growing sense of insanity that would fully take hold.
@@palikia3233 it seemes you are wrong. The Dr did it
@@suurlohe9599 lmao, he's not real
Neintienaitefor Orwell dnd isn’t either
I'm going to do this, just to see how my DM justifies why I can't do this.
World building and how your character fits in. These will most likely be his answer. Please tell me if I was wrong or right.
@@vertonimal *She* said that it didn't make any sense for why a character would do this, but she couldn't stop me as long as I was able to keep track of it. 🤣🤣🤣
@@pufflesfox ya but 2 problems:
1: How would you set your self up in such a way that you were sealed in stone for say 1000 years
2: This video failed to do so, how would keeping count of the number of days you were sealed make you smarter?
if caleb has taught me anything,keen mind is a must have,especially for magic users. (my wizard will 100% get this and also maybe lucky if l can get away with that.)
How to achieve this WITHOUT a feat.
Step 1 > Play as a Grung (frog race from Volo's Guide to Monsters)
Step 2 > Wait upto 7 days.
Step 3 > Say "It is Wednesday, my dudes"
Finally I can ace my exams
But only if you’re trapped in stone for 3000 years
Obtained beyond maximum intelligence.
Cthulhu has entered the chat.
_Grant us eyes on the inside!_
Couldn't you use Keen Mind to make Shawn Spencer from psych and become a fake psychic?
If you add on age bonuses being petrified in stone while awake for thousands of years, keen mind let's you keep your sanity while accruing all those sweet sweet int boosts. And when it wears off, your body is still as limber and nimble as when it was petrified
Technically yes
Can you make Maple from BOFURI in DnD?
I understand that's quite the task given what Maple is, but still.
Yes. I want to see this.
You wanna never get hit? heres how
start as a shifter paladin, level 2 multiclass sourcerer
take the boar shifter for +1 AC and the plate heavy armor with a shield so far thats 19 AC
choose shield of faith as a paladin spell and you get +2 AC
when you get sourcerer take the shield spell and wham! total of 26 AC at level 2
But if you had high wisdom you'd be good enough at survival that it would not matter when you break out of the stone because you can survive in any season.
Keen mind definitely gets a lot of shade, but In the right scenario it can be invaluable. Any adventure in the underdark or some kind of skyless mega-dungeon and this feat is already worth its weight in compasses, clocks, and sextants.
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Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.