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"Stunned still lets you run around and use interactions"
"Stunned
A stunned person is Incapacitated, can’t move, and can speak only falteringly.
The person automatically fails Strength and Dexterity saving throws.
Attack rolls against the person have advantage."
Blaine is gonna pull at his hair for that one. Or he might get a stunning ammount of spam to correct him.
whelp I'm an idiot lol.
Basically no monster has stunned though, so to be fair party members never have to deal with it. I'll take invalidating half the comment, but also owe an apology
@@BlaineSimple No person with a techno plushie could ever be an idiot. Youre good.
@@BlaineSimplewait, you don't build PCs to fight your players occasionally?
@@BlaineSimple Bruh and a half for that one
I’ll do coffee late night for D&D. “Just go to bed” isn’t an option when you can only make once a month work lmao
Seeing your plushies was the best part and you can’t convince me otherwise (technoblade)
Rip.
O7 technoblade
Blood pig :)
We are all a fragment
Technoblade never dies.
My biggest problem with the argument that burrow speed is the best is that everything with burrow speed has restrictions on what they can burrow through. Don’t matter if you got 90ft of burrow speed you can’t dig through worked materials unless I let you
Exactly! Also somehow I recognize you and I know I've talked with you but years ago... also yeah burrow speed is useless. Hell, you better have fire and force resistance cuz pressure and heat are deadly undeground.
Just use earthquake to double the damage ;)
@@wolf2403 I also recognize you. Those wouldn't be a problem most of the time since burrow creatures tend to only be capable of going through dirt and similar materials stone normally stops them. Bludgeoning damage and lack of air would normally be problems sooner than fire and pressure.
@@dragonearth5456 True, though I don't doubt that at least a few fools would try to go as deep as possible and die because of it. Also now that I think about it the elemental plane of earth not requiring force resistance makes no sense since you have pressure from all sides equivalent to infinite mass bearing down on you... Oh yeah and the easiest way to deal with players burrowing too much is to invoke the fear of purple worms... Basically the players don't have a super efficient burrow method/form so although they're fast, they make a lot of tremors. Basically they're like a sonar buoy in the middle of the ocean, broadcasting their position for all to feel. Time to make a Kaiju sized purple worm, or a purple worm combined with a greek hydra (I forgot the proper name.)
@@wolf2403 I would like to point out depending on the version some dragons have burrow speed. That would scare any player to have a surprise dragon attack.
Blaine Simple: "Do you really want to be immortal in this economy?"
Me: "Yes! How else am I going to outlive it and enjoy the distant future?"
Yes your future of sitting alone just you and the heat death of the universe. Enjoy’s not the first word that comes to mind with immortality
@@ultimaterecoil1136 What a boring way of thinking.
Exactly!
@@ultimaterecoil1136incorrect me and all of my closest friends that are also cloned in my demiplane with me
@@ultimaterecoil1136 I don't know about the definition in DnD but my understanding of it is that most people define immortality simply as unaging. You can die to pretty much all of the stuff which people normally die from, however you remain physically in the prime of your life up until the point you well, expire. Which would be neat, I could get behind that and I will most likely die at some point long before I get tired of living.
"The DM suddenly gives you-" Pizza, but not just IRL. The party discovers the the wonders of pizza, declares their intention to share this knowledge with the world, and then goes about acquiring all the ingredients they need to make the best pizza in the universe. Incidentally, eating pizza for the first time levels them up, and it's also a magic item that gives them 1 inspiration point (doesn't stack with other pizza based inspiration points, and it only applies if they can really enjoy eating the pizza, meaning that they can't just scarf down a slice mid-combat). AKA, ALL OF THE ABOVE!!! XD
I was expecting the 5th one to be a new empty character sheet... I was disappointed.
@@wolf2403 ... Sentient Pizza Golem.
Lol
I was reading this when a pizza delivery came in, so they've already got a start with me.
> The party discovers the the wonders of pizza, declares their intention to share this knowledge with the world
our party now has an Oath of the Pizza paladin
> and then goes about acquiring all the ingredients they need to make the best pizza in the universe.
and a School of Pizzalchemy wizard
As a 5th level wizard you would prepare Fly, shield, silvery barbs, maybe mage armor, and some damaging cantrips and attack roll spells. If you go first and manage to avoid getting javelin'd to death in the first round, you're golden. (Unless the barbarian is an aarakocra and your wizard isn't, then you're fucked. Probably. Depending on the specific builds you might still be able to keep out of range.)
Remember: a cowardly wizard is an alive wizard.
Underrated comment
this is why the arena matters so much
@@PandaKnightsFightingDragons Yep. If there's a ceiling that is lower than 120 feet then the javelins with +8-+9 to hit are still going to take you out faster than you can kill the barbarian, even with disadvantage. But if you can go up further than 120 ft. then the only weapon a barbarian could semi-reliably hit you with is a longbow, and not many of them carry one. Every other ranged weapon would have disadvantage at that range, and at maybe +6 to hit vs. the wizard's mage armor and shield (or vs. your tortle's shell and the occasional shield spell, you cheesy little munchkin), that's not gonna cut it. You, on the other hand, can still fly in range, use firebolt, and fly out. (Or take spell sniper and stay 200 feet up, making even the longbow have disadvantage.)
Of course it's entirely possible to build a level 10 barbarian for that fight that _can_ take out a flying wizard (say, vhuman + Fighting Initiate with the Archery fighting style, Sharpshooter, and a high DEX with dumped STR) but that barbarian is going to suck during normal adventuring. And if you're going to face that with the level 5 wizard, you might as well go full cheese yourself and go with the tortle bladesinger.
@it really is interesting how the context of location, distance, turn order, etc. changes a lot about who is more likely to win. Even something as simple as "You both are building the character to beat the other and nothing else," changes a lot
@@homerman76 Though it also highlights the versatility of casters. A wizard built to destroy said barbarian (e.g., a tortle bladesinger with the spell sniper feat) is going to be a viable build for the rest of the game with the ability to eliminate basically any monster that doesn't have extremely long-range attacks and/or a high flying speed. In fact, you wouldn't even notice that said wizard was built to defeat a level 10 barbarian, only that that wizard is a minmaxing munchkin. (Another popular option is the halfling divination wizard.) But a barbarian built to deal with a flying wizard is going to suck as a barbarian in general.
(If it was about a level 10 fighter vs. a level 5 wizard then this fight would unambiguously go to the fighter, simply because a DEX-based ranged fighter is a completely viable build for the whole game. You don't even need to be an arcane archer, in fact a crit-fishing champion might fare better here.)
And we haven't even touched on magic items. Giving the barbarian winged boots or wings of flying is going to change the fight again. But so would giving the wizard('s familiar) a spell storing ring, or a wand of web.
if I had one nickel every time Jocat was mentioned in this video, I'd have 2 nickles, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice
I once had a (human) character who, at one point, died, we used reincarnate to revive her, and I was ready to see what race she would become, what I didn't expect, was for the number I rolled to correspond on the DM's reincarnate list right back to human, but specifically male... the greater impact on my character from literal death was just magically transitioning.
Sounds like a wild development, meme worthy
-The adventuring life is rough (He said in a gravely voice)
-I don't know you seem pretty fine to me
-I was a woman when I started...
-dufk!?
lol
Blaine… You know the pizza box doesn’t have to be put on the table your playing on. It’s easy to manage a pizza slice on a paper plate especially if your just talking and rolling dice!
I have an anecdote about long breaks in levels, think it might provide insight.
One of my DM’s makes us do downtime in a city in order to level up, reason being that we gotta be able to relax and train safely to level up.
We were in a (self imposed) time crunch, going multiple sessions without a short or long rest sometimes. When we finally gotten our break, it had been 9 sessions without a level up! We all had fun, trying our best to clean house on limited resources and time, but GOD did we want that level badly. An experience I recommend only once, as it’ll make you think and play differently.
That sounds like a really fun concept and makes more sense in universe (you know instead of the whole party randomly getting brand new skills/abilities and knowing exactly how to use them).
@@flameofmage1099 It is loads of fun! It lets us talk to NPC's we'd normally skim past as they help us learn in exchange for helping them out (with gold, labor, etc.). My old character, a wizard (RIP), went with the barbarian as he's a monster hunter and I wanted to try out new spells and features. It was a brief encounter, but it allowed two characters who normally have little in common share a story together.
Why... Why did that person think swimming fast made you breathe underwater?
Maybe because of Sea Elf and Gift of the Depth
I expected people's "newest" characters to be very high level considering how hard it is to find new D&D sessions to join, so your "newest" character could have been made a couple of years ago and be sitting somewhere 15+.
I think "I didn't realize this was for D&D" also explains why restrained has so many votes...
Unconscious actually worried me a bit. 😅
🤨
10:00
Playing through strahd my teifling, battle smith, artificer was reincarnated. I came back as a stout halfling. My steel defender was a medium sized dog in shape. It became my mount for much of the campaign.
Not what I expected, but the change gave me some useful benefits at the cost of my initial design. It worked though, and added some thematic, character elements too, as well as strategy.
Would only recommend this to people who are willing to try such a thing, and are experienced in the game.
We were experimenting with a custom wand that augments spell effects based on which items you put in the wand (the DM has a whole spreadsheet). The Minotaur put in some of their fur then casted a spell on the Lizardfolk just to see what happened.
Long story short we have two Minotaurs now
My absolute favorite co,ment in the poles was: To get a good job, I don't need to be smart, I just need to convince you that I'm smart. They ask; "do you have a degree in theoretical physics?" I say: well I have a theoretical degree in physics.
Have the wizard cast fly on themself, and boom. They win against the barbarian, assuming they're in an open area.
until the Barb decides to yeet a boulder at you
Fly, Rope Trick, Levitate, Shield, or Expedious Retreat for defense and Hypnotic Pattern + Portent Dice/Silvery Barbs for control. After the Barb is incapacitated, just use mold earth or some other set up to end the Barb once they regain control. Unless the Barbarian wins initiative and drops the wizard round one, the Barb is unlikely to win. Also, any half good wizard would throw on mage armor/mirror image before a death battle further increasing their chances.
the burrowing speed thing is reminding me that my Warforged Barbarian has the claws of the umber hulk, which grant a 20ft burrowing speed. And I rarely use it. Maybe I should do that more
I used the arc milestone method: we play 3-session long arcs, in the end of which the PCs Lv up. It works.
While ragebait videos tend to drive engagement, this had a degree of relaxed wholesomeness that I enjoyed more than any controversy. Thank you for these 15 minutes, Blaine
5:20 If you can fly, then climbing is redundent.
If you can fly, walking is also redundant.
@@dontmisunderstand6041 It's much more of a choice though. Do you fly and walk at 30 feet? Or do you forgo flying and walk at 60 feet?
In terms of leveling I think its best to ramp up the infrequency the further you go like in video games. Like you get a level per medium encounter easy and a bonus for any cool moments but after 5 it takes more and 10 maybe double that. Leveling up early is a good way to get people invested and try out new stuff. Leveling later is when you’re comfortable with your build and make minor tweaks in addition to adding more utility, damage and more health to signify taking on more dangerous threats and such
As person who has played a homebrew race with a burrow speed, I can confirm: burrowing is broken.
*tower in the background collapses after causing a massive sinkhole with **_mold earth_** and **_earth tremor_*
7 months late but in one of my old tables, the DM added a feature called "Wall pen" which was essentially a way for people to target a solid object or surface like a box, a wall or the ground and if they rolled above the objects AC +6 then they penetrated it and could hit what's hiding behind it, this was primarily used to counter burrowing monsters and it allowed us the players to get items that gave us that speed type.
13:53 Technoblade :(
I knew I was forgetting about something. Can we do another one of these sometime?
Nah i stan the coffee night sessions. Me and my friends love drinking a bunch of caffine at midnightish. Especially if we got plans
i cant believe i was in a UA-cam to be insulted and i guess i misunderstood the rules there's a magic item that says it gives both so i guess i got that item mixed with the rules
Don’t worry man we all get confused
i have 3 things to add to my comment here
1. i worded that comment in the poll very poorly even if you remove that i was wrong i just wrote it very annoyingly
2. i think the item was like a ring of frog or something like that which makes sense because frogs can breath both above water and in water
3. there was a third thing but i forgot what it was
The burrowing arguments are on point, it's like one step removed from incorporeal movement and basically a swim/ fly speed for land, the one thing you're almost certain to have around anywhere that doesn't demand you can swim/ fly, and which outright is [one of] the obstacles you'd otherwise be navigating any time you're in a cave or dungeon. It enables bypassing so much that it's overly easy to abuse, but can get difficult to explain away "why do they not burrow?" with in character arguments when it would work. And much like how having a flying speed means the map has to account for air space and can't be just a top down 2d on ground experience, burrowing also forces maps that were fine being basically 2d and only surface level into being 3d to account for your moving through the ground, as well as raising the question of "what's in that ground you dig through?". It's really strong but adds a lot of strain for the DM because it makes places that didn't matter into somewhere the PC is likely to go, and unlike flying it's all space full of "stuff" rather than mostly open air.
Become a D&D class in real life?
Well, I’m studying environmental science and biology to hopefully get into a conservation career, I’m on my school’s archery team, I was in scouts for half my life, and one of the jobs I’m applying for this summer is literally park ranger.
So obviously I’d want to be a monk
Yaaay! Discussion of the poll results!
10:40
I’d actually love this. I’m imagining a cursed item that basically casts true polymorph on the holder the first time they use it, and then can’t do it again
In this way, you can get back if you seek out the spell, a scroll with the spell on it, or some kind of anti-magic
6:17 I would choose swim because I actually can breath underwater, but I can’t swim. I just sink and someone has to fish me out 😞
11:55 both make good points, i agree because we play from different time zones, so it sometimes gets hard to play so we gotta make those moments last as much as we can
With your last poll about "Party Role". I have 6 different lvl 1 characters and none of them properly fit in any of those roles. The nearest would be 'Utility', but that still isn't perfect.
My Cleric is a Female Drow Feylost background Death Domain Cleric sworn to the Raven Queen, she is more of a blast enemies to pieces type.
My custom Race Half-Moon Elf Half-Frost Giant Planar Philosopher background Female Barbarian; she could tank a little bit but more of a tactical type who tries to avoid being in the center, would instead charge in at crucial moments to smash the enemies to bits.
My Male Mountain Dwarf Runecarver background Wizard planning on School of Necromancy, he prefers to blast the enemy but eventually wants a horde of Undead to do the fighting.
My other 3 are similarly more like any of those other 3 mentioned who avoid being the exact middle.
Here's the things Martial classes lack:
Consitent control
Constient hits
Utility
AoE
So how do we fix it?
Simple... give them more tools to these things.
Or make something else happen if they miss.
For example.. you smack someone with a huge war hammer and miss or get blocked "Something" is gonna happen regardless.
Maybe you hit the ground so hard it tremors the ground near it, forcing everyone near by it to make a dex saving throw to not fall prown.
Make misses more exicting then just a "Miss"
Yes! Miss = Anticlimactic, not fun.
In addition to what you said, a “miss” might cause a saving throw or fear condition. Or push the target back 5ft. Or damage their weapon/armor.
@@peterbillings3276 Indeed... This is what a game like Final Fantasy Tactics do.
Martial users tend to be able to break weapons... where as magic casters well... they can miss their self heals -.-' but let's be real... Giving martials something to add to their utility is what they need the most.
Martials just kind of lack everything, don't they? No healing, no control, no utility, no AoE, and the ST damage they get to do is at best slightly better than what the party wizard can put out.
Love what UA has done to rogues with Cunning Strike, wish WotC thought about why it's so popular for like 3 seconds and decided to add something similar to other martial classes as well. Hell, half-casters could benefit from something like that but in spell form, too.
Best TTRPG snacks are dry cereal by far. There are plenty of options that don't mess up your hands, everyone can have a bowl to munch on and refill, it's super cheap to get a lot, and you can use it to make map markers in a pinch.
I'm so glad that I held back writing my comments on the polls, no way that my takes would've been seen in a good light.
It took me waaay too long to realise I was hearing Long Way From Home as your background music. My friend mains Zentaro for Pete's sake!
Charisma is a dump stat?! As a Noble Draconic-Bloodline (Red) Sorcerer I am offended!
*Casually threw a Fireball at your general direction*
So me and some of my friends have been working on a modified version of D&D 5e for a couple months now. Basically overhauling some of the classes, and races as well to allow for easy custom hybridization. We basically removed half races, and put features on a point system and reworked some of the features especially the game ending ones like Locathah straight up dying after going 4 hours without water. One of the things with martials that was done was making maneuvers a normal fighter thing instead of just Battlemaster and I threw in the idea that Rogue's get something called Cunning Strikes which are basically different techniques they can stack on to sneak attack to do stuff like blinding or disarming an opponent so it's not all about just dealing one massive damaging hit and hiding again. Gave rogues some more variety. Paladins also get there own picking features thing, where they can chose from a few extra abilities every few levels like being able to use Shield once/long rest or granting other creatures buffs. And now Rangers get some serious buffs when they are within their favored terrains like damage resistances and movement options. Barbarian only had slight changes since its already really strong imo.
I like these ideas I definitely would want to see more on your version so I might be able to make my own someday
… why not just play a different system?
Pathfinder 1e
Burrowing actually was actually very handy in the last pathfinder session I played. My druid character turned into a badger to burrow into the ground to scout out the source of a tectonic disturbance after fighting some scorpions, and as a result, I helped lure out a colossal black scorpion for the party to fight, away from its home territory
You Have really good game master! It's one of most valuable skills for design of sessions, to design encounters where specific abilities of player characters get spotlight.
The thing about burrowing is that it can be overpowered only if the enemy fails to anticipate a countermeasure. Ready your action to attack when they emerge. If they attack from range use ranged weapons, melee for melee, and if you can't tell what weapon they use then grab weapons that can be thrown like daggers, hand axes, or spears. They are safe underground so long as they stay under ground. Additionally just because you have burrow speed doesn't mean you have the ability to sense what's above you. For that you need tremor sense.
15:50 I think the biggest problem that prevents people from playing druids is the inability to talk when wild shaped. Yes the charges refresh with a short rest, but still...
Leaving wild shape, to be able to talk, seams wasteful of resources, but staying in wild shape removes you from most of the RP sections. You could just hand wave the communication within the group, without relying on rapidly pointing with your claws, but it would still exempt you from interacting with NPCs. So its either playing suboptimal ("wasting" your charges) or reducing your RP to a minimum. Its just... complicated
Little tip, use the telepathic feat to communicate
be a moon Druid and use it for combat, or just make jokes OOC
Message cantrip?
@candiman4243 RAW it requires a verbal component, which you can't provide, because you can't speak. But I guess you can be talked to and answer, and they could relay that
@@candiman4243can’t cast spells on wildshape :(
can we just talk about how the person who commented about eating up civilization destroying lasers had a quagsire as their profile. Much respect to you and the king of the mud bois!
for the poll on +30 movement ... I love druids and earth elementals have 10' reach and a burrow speed. Ive never pulled this on my dm as it is broken beyond repair. but attacking creatures with 5' of earth between us is scary. to be fair no dm has pulled that on my group yet
Being unconscious is actually nice, feels like a 3 sec dream, and then you wake up on the floor of your classroom with a concussion.
16:28 god the nostagia... I remember when there were only 3 drawn characters on the boat.
2:06 ahem actually as a part-time quantem & astro physicist for fun, new thoughts & ideats DO actually pop into your head, and it is really fun to reilize what you thought was all wrong in some crazy way. my dump stat (in real life) is stregnth.
My group play at a pub so we get dinner before and just drinks during, but when we play at someone’s house we usually get crisps, popcorn, that kind of stuff, but after an incident last year we now all use chopsticks for snacking, no fingers touch food and the game without being cleaned first
My experience with magic items:
Player A) "I want to buy this magic staff."
DM) "Sure, you go to a magic shop in town, and they have it for 50 gold."
Player B) "I'm really hoping to find silly magic item at some point."
DM) "Yeah, we can work that in at some point!"
Player C) "I think this magic item would be a great fit for my character, can I have it as a starting item?"
DM) "Sure, we can make that part of your backstory."
Me) "I feel like I'm falling behind in the damage and magic item department, could I get just a simple +1 sword or something?"
DM) "Hmmm, I can start you on a quest for a magic item, but it's gonna take a while before you actually get it."
Me) "I'm literally the only person in the party without a magic item."
DM) "Well, I'll make sure it's a great item, then. But you're still gonna have to wait a while."
wisdom is the best dump stat
I don't get it
Someone has dumped Wis
As someone who has dumped it with a PC before, it *does* result in some hilarious situations though er. You probably shouldn't also dumb Con at the same time like I did as the combo of the two results in one's character near constantly being the perfect target for being instantly KOed by ambushes and that can get old fast XD
6:30 The 20th level campaign I'm in has a moon druid PC. I can confirm that burrow/earthglide is OP.
there is one way I know of to hard punish anyone trying to use burrow speed, but it requires a 9th level wizard/a 5th level spell scroll of Transmute Rock and a lot of water. you can poor the water into the dirt pre-fight or wait until the fight has already started, but it needs to be enough to make the area into mud as opposed to dirt. then you wait for the person to dig into the ground and cast the spell turning the mud to stone. burrowing speeds do not confer the ability to dig through stone a seperate ability is required to do so. this means the offending party is now encased in a stone prison however thick they decided to dig down up to 5ft at its worst. you do get to make a save to get shunted to the surface and you can break the stone, but in my own games the 25hp and 15ac is per inch just like it works for stone wall. you can also just make them fight other creatures with a burrow speed and then they have to deal with the fact their character isn't built for living in the earth and has few if any means for detecting creatures in the earth, but they don't have the same limitations. finally if you are the player just grab the person with a held action if they are melee and hold action to shoot them if they are ranged.
You can roll your dice on the pizza box, especially practical if you have metal ones and a nice table (that you want to stay nice)
10:14 Depends on the character. I mean, sometimes their abilities are core to the story you are creating (for example, I have a halfling who is a rascal with too much luck for their own good, which makes them a bit overconfident, so, the reroll mechanic that halflings have feels so on point with it). Having something from that character's identity taken away can be done well, but it should also be with the permission of the player, or maybe just be temporal, like a mini arc for the character to see things from a different perspective (like for example, a drow that is a fervent follower of Lolth getting to see the world outside of the underdark without the downsides of being a drow before transitioning to wanting to run from the underdark and take shelter as an Eilistraee follower to get the rest of the drow the oportunity to experience what life outside the Underdark can be like). Also, if I have asked for a comission for the character, only to have it become a different race all of a sudden, I'll admit I would be quite pissed off, not gonna lie.
15:00 Plot hook. With me it's the opposite. My DM tends to be super chill with my characters, and usually gives them plot points that go more on the wholesome side (I always say that he goes a bit soft on my characters, because I tend to give them tragic backstories and personalities.). Had my character almost die chasing a character that was too powerful for them, and it led to a beautiful moment where he thought that he couldn't even do that, only to be told by his adoptive father "At least I still have my son" (which is also really telling about the father, who used his links with the criminal world just to find a doctor so his son could walk again, and even took a break from his work trying to find the one that did that to his son and make him pay. Like, he was a really protective and supportive dad for my orphan halfling). Those words cut deep like a knife, because the poor guy had been getting into so much danger trying to keep his family safe, that he forgot that he was also valuable to them, and having the person he looked up to say that he was important was wholesome and made him change his ways and try to act a little bit less recklessly.
I think maybe the tragic backstories are _why_ the DM goes soft on your characters. Poor kid's been through too much already, let their adventuring career be where their life takes a turn for the better, type thing.
@@FlameUser64 Knowing him, you might be right. He tries to compensate the bad past with a better present, while still giving them trials to improve as a person.
And yeah, the poor one had it rough, since many of his reckless actions are because of his fear of abandonment, despite how many times he is told otherwise (I mean, his father told him he was like the son he never had and entrusted him with a secret that if it was public would cost his father greatly, since his adoptive father is actually a rakshasa in disguise, in a city where demon cults are forbidden, so, if he was found, he would be inmediately killed). It's quite bittersweet, but in the end, I hope he can get a good ending, because he deserves it after all he's been through.
re: 15:00 _freaking relatable,_ the last GM I had that actually gave player character-based plot hooks literally at all tended to play off the characters' backstories in painful ways, _without_ asking player permission. Such as, for example, party had an ifrit samurai who hunted down and killed his own dad for being an abusive deadbeat and eventually abandoning mom to die, and this was all backstory, so now he's wandering aimlessly trying to find some sort of purpose and deal with the trauma from his upbringing + his mom's death that didn't get resolved at all by his successful revenge quest. The GM had the aforementioned samurai meet his daughter from a hypothetical future, who… hates her father (him) for being a deadbeat and leaving her mom (MY character, an aasimar vampire hunter) to die of a combination of loneliness and illness. And I'm pretty sure the GM did _not_ ask permission out of game before doing that, since at the very least _I_ never heard about that before it happened.
12:15 honestly ,i wouldnt have been able to answer to that post seeing as ive only played 1 character so far, which was a sorcerer
(grappled & Prone) hands down the best ''condition'' not mentioned on the list.
'Grapplers' are the only builds cantered around a condition that are reliable in play.
'Frightened' & 'invisible' conditions you can make a build around but not easy to pull off requiring class investments from other options.
I have to give a nod to the Exhaustion for that at level 3 exhaustion gives Disadvantage on attack rolls and saving throws spiralling lv5 zero speed then death at lv6.
I their was a reliable build for inflicting Exhaustion it would be brutal.
Of the 5 mentioned I'd pick ''restrained'' as it is the easiest from say the spell web as example to pull of against multiple targets.
Charmed from say Hypnotic pattern tends to target wisdom save which is more reliable to hit mind.
The 5 conditions you gave only 2 are really worth considering hence 60% of the vote in ''unconscious'' & ''restrained''.
My mom had a character get reincarnated as a different race (Wood elf to Drow I think.) Was one of the stories she told me as a kid that made me want to play.
Re: caffeine at the table, my party is all people with busy work/study lives who can *only* meet at night. We'd never get to play without sweet mistress Caffeine flowing through our veins.
6:30 In caves, especially if the back's sealed, you might run out of air. It would be more generous than swimming, though.
11:33 Those are weird pigs in blankets, though I think I've seen them before.
Personally. If I gained a class from dnd that applied to real life. I'd definitely be a magic user (physical abilities are fine and all. Until you realize how difficult it could be to hide that physical ability). From here there are some potentially good options (any cleric would require there deity to exist. Any wizard can learn to manipulate reality at some point (though it could raise questions about learning new spells outside of leveling up, not to mention you'd need to be careful about ingredients so you don't attract attention). Any Sorcerer gains a magical bloodline. Any warlock can gain the ability to learn basically any ritual and starts with some form of connection to a higher power, ext ext). In terms of the best options (at least in my opinion) celestial warlock (regardless of what being it is. You confirm the existence of an afterlife. And if you play your cards right, you basically pre ordered having a good afterlife) illusion wizard (while each wizard subclass has something going for it, illusion magic is going to be your best friend that helps you keep your secret) shadow sorcerer (it grants a bonus to the checks that decide if you can still live. You get a shadow hound that does your bidding, eventually you get not just a form of teleportation you also gain a limited version of the abilities of a ghost) almost any Clark domain (not only is it very easy to hide in plan sight. You are required to have a divine being to warship, the only exceptions are some specific domains) moon druid (lets be honest. Shape shifting is arguably the main reason to chose druid. The spore option would just lead to an apocalypse. The land options are just too circumstantial in a lot of situations and lately some are becoming harder to find the correct environment for them. The others aren't often going to be that helpful) lore bard (if you have to chose a bard. This is probably the safest option), the option I'd pick is an illusion wizard (mastery over illusions would be helpful for hiding my powers. I could really mess with some people. Halloween would be amazing. Any party's would benefit from decorations that don't need to be put away or thrown away. Eventually when I get wish I could become a deity, I'd be hiding in plan sight with illusions covering my tracks)
In terms of level up, i think both us players and our dm have a pretty good grasp on how much time/how many events are appropriate between level ups. We are playing very slowly, and while we wanted the first five levels quickly, just so we are able to do stuff, since level 5 its been 6 sessions, and i dont feel like wee need a new level up anytime soon, because we just dont do that much in a session. Would be nice soon, but not necessary.
"Yea restrained is probably my favorite"
A minute later
"Oh you meant in DnD"
Huh. When he says to like and subscribe at the end, the subscribe button below the video actually lights up. Thats really cool
Burrowing Speed - potential counter : Earth Tremor : " a 1st-level evocation spell that causes a tremor in the ground within range and knocks down any creature that touches it. See the spell's rules,"
okay, so, for terrain spells like this, I have them affect the entire 5ft cube they affect, and not just the "top" that we all stand on
there's also no rule I'm aware of saying that Shatter cannot be aimed into the ground
I find with a little flexibility, and a lot less "META" (META in this sense being "META Gaming", as opposed to Most Effective Tactic Available) , you can counter creativity
Basically, I sacrifice a teeny tiny bit of the NPC's Theme, for practicality of the world they live in, and the things they may face
6:25 Burrow speed problems? Stone floor as: "A monster that has a burrowing speed can use that speed to move through sand, earth, mud, or ice. A monster can’t burrow through solid rock unless it has a special trait that allows it to do so." Most caves are also made primarily of stone and therefore couldn't be burrowed. Just use less dirt, and if they use a shovel just make the tunnel unstable to new digging, use extra floors (sure would suck to tunnel down into a pit full of some scary monsters) or... worst case, tell them to stop. It's not impossible to deal with and while i provides total cover unless the burrowing creature also has like tremorsense they are blind to the battlefield too. It's a two way street.
6:30
"Make an atheltics check"
"Why?"
"Because you were on a think plank and by burrowing under you roll not to fall to your death because there is no ground underneath"
"*rolls nat 20*"
"*sigh* as you burrow into the plank below you, you quickly notice that there is nothing beneath you and climb on top of the ceiling to your destiation ready to burrow out from."
Alternative:
"You fell to your death in the bottomless pit, here is your character sheet."
If they have flight:
Just change bottomless pit to an area full of flying monsters and make them trigger and get out of there to attack, but make the player roll a stealth check to be fair. ^^
Look, as someone whos doing a campaign where we are literally in the middle of a tournament arc between the 5 PCs and the other 19 students at the school they're at and 7 of the students in the top 8 are either pure martials or half martials, I think they're more than strong enough. At least in the case of single target enemies. Albeit the Warlock PC did manage to entirely dissassmeble the Rogue PCs entire ability to do basically anything to him and gang stomped him with summons, but even with that the Rogue killed one of their summons, nearly killed the other and got the Warlock down to about half HP before that happened.
So yeah, idk, martials seem pretty powerful to me in 5e.
Lol the leveling thing had me rolling we have been stuck at lvl 10 for almost a year now
for the role, I honestly love tank. A point for me is that last session my Furnorce forge domain cleric took a cannonball when they couldn't dodged and just proceeded to 1v1 a berserker right afterwards
Me as artificer: *Conjures gun without the trigger being visible or accessable* "Here, evil mastermind, point this at yourself, it's completely safe and gives you super powers" *Boss points it at himself* "There's no trigger, how do I work this marvel of technology?" Me: "You don't pull the trigger mate, I do" *Manipulates the inside the grip that has the trigger inside of it head-shotting the boss for 38D66 damage*
Fly speed - get shot or end up in a plane engine, burrowing - troll people with metal detectors and accidentally end up in hazardous material
Max level DnD strength sounds INSANE. Dude you could *jump* across the width of a football field
Cool, I wanted to find the most recent video, to hopefully get an answer...
Regarding the "Anime Themed TTRPG Materials" - Are all the newest aid products eventually going to be combined into one physical version, for example, "Mega Collection 2".
Also is "Silver's MGM" going to be added to the "newest aid products" section once finished, and in turn going to be added to said, "Mega Collection 2"?
As somebody who's very first system was my dad's old copies of Advanced 2nd Edition, I'm appalled that this wasn't on the numbers poll.
13:53 bro is flexing his pushiez that i will never be able to get
No way he has the Technoblade plush
For that one person, the Amphibious, Limited Amphibiousness, and Underwater Adaptation traits allows player characters to breath underwater. Only the Grung, Locatha, and Symic Hybrid respectively get those. There are non-breathing races and some lineages like the Warforged and Dhampir that can also survive underwater but they don't breath it. Swim speed also doesn't necessarily allow you to deal with extreme pressure changes.
Tritons get amphibious as well and I think sea elves and water genasi can breathe underwater.
@@kiranaun9593 Oh right. I forgot those three existed.
How to take out creatures with a burrowing speed should be how its handled in Pokemon.
If you dig under ground, you take double damaged to all earth trembling spells.
I am usually the DM and group cook. I don't do snacks. I normally plan meals where I can cook and DM since my twin can check things when I need full focus. My top snack when I go to other's place is pizza bombs. I take cheap canned biscuits flatten them, put two pieces of pepperoni and a cheese cube inside, fold close and put into a raised side pan folded side down. Lightly brush with butter and spinkle with either oregano or italian seasoning. Put into oven for the standard time on the can of biscuits. Serve with marinara or choice of dipping sauce. I made five five gallon tubes of these and my group of six destroyed them.
"Pick your role"
My paladin: *Yes*
I like how you explained one of my main gripes about milestone leveling so simply. You need a progression system even if it is just getting more options. Otherwise, the game feels stagnant. Even if you play an epic 6, you can still gain allies, gold, and items.
Edit: that laser beam reminded me of Ainz taking his first damage ever
OH MY GOD TECHNOPLUSHIE I AM GOING TO CRY BUT I'M ALSO SO HAPPY
I tend to favor utility type characters, but I had a lot of fun playing a Warlock that was simultaneously the healer and the tank. One of her main roles wound up being setting off traps, either deliberately to keep the squishier party members from doing it, or accidentally because her dexterity stat was a 6, and the DM was just kinda slowly losing it as this tiny little Kobald barely took any damage - if any at all - from every single trap. I also had our Wizard (who had the highest strength stat in the party) throw her over a chasm to get closer to the unconscious Rouge to heal him because it was the fastest way to get her there, and I knew the fall damage from the impact of landing wouldn't do much to her...she was fun...
''Or y'know, become a cat for the rest of your life''
**Gets run over by a car and turns into a full grown adult man**
Uhhhhh
I like about once a month for level ups personally so usually once every four sessions
10:01 Had this happen in one of my campaigns to a specific character. Our Barbarian did something stupid and let loose a curse that was gonna wipe our team one after the other, our Barbarian died first, then our druid, but before I died, I used part of the dragon hoard nearby to cast Reincarnate on the druid because I liked her more. The curse then killed me. We avoided a team wipe but only our druid survived and she turned from an elf into a human. She continued on until she was killed 6 levels later. I made a new character. That specific campaign has been really deadly. I’m on my fourth character.
Level 3 - 9, I was a Bard
Level 9 - 15, I was a Barbarian
Level 15 - 17, I was a Ranger/Monk Multiclass
Level 17 - Present, I am a Wizard
It would have been nice to keep the character all the way through, but I like the story so far. We are in the endgame now.
In the campaign I'm in currently, we level up every ~8 sessions because it goes by quests
I feel like i need to make a questionnaire before dming a campaign. So much fun depends on player input so i feel like getting a feel for players by asking some questions would be a good idea.
It's called session 0 and lots of people recommend it. I tried it with a new group recently and although it felt a little guidance counselor-y it was actually really beneficial and I was best pleased and everyone appreciated it.
My reaction to 13:55
YOOOO TECHNOBLADE PLUSHIE! I DIDN'T KNOW THIS GUY WAS A FAN!
And now Im sad...
How to deal with burrow speeds?
Give an enemy earth tremor, or mold earth. Mold earth would make them loose cover, and earth tremor would do double damage because their completely surrounded by the earth.
As answer to burrow creatures . If Pokémon taught me anything is that earthquake deals double damage to underground creatures
I was mostly talking about the fact that higher IQ is pretty strongly correlated to higher mental illness rates, particularly depression. But yes, smart people also tend to be very douchey.
Must be because of having to deal with all of the idiots.
@@SockieTheSockPuppet I think it's more that society is built around the median; It's extremely difficult to interact well for outliers, regardless of direction. It doesn't help that all that extra intelligence always seems to come at a disconcertingly high price somewhere else.
Honestly I just like playing whatever role my party needs. It’s more fun when you work together :)
Before BG3 my favorite class was Cleric. But after BG3, I realized that my tables resting after every encounter kicked the legs out from under my warlocks. But in BG3, while Gale and Shart are begging for a break, I'm slinging Eldritch Blast after Eldritch Blast, clearing my 6th combat encounter of the day.
10:42 I love how the guy who said he gets custom art’s profile pic is that😭
Becomes dnd class. Becomes a crab fisher