If I was the DM I would give them to a powerful optional enemy, but Monthy knows better than me, I started DMing because I had him as a model after all.
No, I think that's too simple. Plus, Wilhelm's just tooooo...human. And there needs to be a serious response to Kelly shaving the tiniest part of his beard to make that cool mustache. So the answer to all these issues is... the Belt of Dwarvenkind.
Let him earn the goggles. Sure he could steal them from somewhere, but you could also have it as a random drop on a large enemy... Who just so happens to fall on them and crack the lenses when it dies. Now he has to go on a side quest to get them fixed before he can use them.
Goggles of Night (Cursed) The goggles are enchanted with a variant of the Arcane Eye magic, that allows the BBEG to see what is being viewed by the PC.
The lack of magic bows and polearms in the DMG is a serious oversight. I could understand not having a magical whip, but ranged weapon users are a huge percentage of fighters, rangers, and rogues.
Ranged is already quite strong. The quiver magic item and the oathbow seem to be enough to keep the power of the bow in check. Furthermore, the introduction of the artificer basically give normal bows +1 and unli ammo with part of the crossbow expert feat. ...but damn...the clear bias towards casters... *looks at you wizard*
I believe that 'The dragon of Icespire Peak' has a unique magic bow in one of the dungeons, whenever you miss on a ranged attack with it, your to hit bonus goes up., with some limitations.
I actually homebrewed a bow for my Ranger: Emerald Archer's Bow Longbow, Legendary Item gifted to the first Ranger, from Queen Olivia of the Star Lands. The magic weapon has 5 charges for the following properties. It regains 1d4+1 charges daily at dawn. Grappling Arrow. You may expend 1 charge to transform an ordinary arrow into a slender but durable grappling hook. You may fire the grappling hook at bow range, and a thin gossamer rope will magically uncoil behind it, matching the distance of the arrow flight. If you successfully secure the grappling hook (DM to determine difficulty), the rope is strong enough to support 1000 lbs. of weight. After ten minutes, the grappling hook transforms back into an arrow and the magic rope dissolves into nothingness. Smoke Arrow. You can use an action and expend 1 charge to fire an arcane arrow, which lands at a point within range and starts to emit a cloud of smoke. One round after it lands, the smoke creates a heavily obscured area in a 20-foot-radius. A moderate wind disperses the smoke in 4 rounds; a strong wind disperses it in 1 round. Torch Arrow. You can use an action and expend 1 charges to fire an arcane arrow at a point within range. Once loosed the arrow erupts in to flame similar to a torch. Once landing the arrow burns for an hour and otherwise acts like a standard torch.
3:12 Weapon of Warning 4:35 Slippers of Spider Climbing 6:12 Cloak of the Bat 8:12 Cloak of Displacement 9:15 Oathbow 10:45 Dancing Sword 12:05 Animated Shield 12:39 Luck Blade 14:06 Cloak of Invisibility 16:06 Sun Blade 17:43 Hat of Disguise 18:54 Figurine of Wondrous Power 19:57 Goggles of Night
One more bit about the sun blade: shocking, the light it emits is counted as sun light which sorta makes it the bane of vampire and under dark dwellers with sun light weakness as well.
@@Dennis-vh8tz see I cracked that code for kolbold at least. Just have find familiar, pack tactics and sunlight sensitivity cancel out and you just roll normal.
"STEALTHY LIGHTSABER!" I can absolutely imagine rogues sneaking up on someone, shoving the hilt into their back, then activating the Sun Blade while yelling that.
Glamoured studded leather is often overlooked in favour of the hat of disguise, but is actually a really useful disguise item. You can change it to look like any type of clothes or armour, meaning you could disguise yourself as a noble, or as a knight in full plate, or a simple peasant in rags. It comes in particularly handy for changelings who can change their body but not their clothes and would normally have to take a minute to get changed, but with the glamoured studded leather they can change their clothes immediately to match their new form.
I have an Aasimar Druid in my home game and they're constantly activating Radiant Soul as an action and Wildshaping as a bonus action... Flying Cavebear... And now that they're lvl 9, it's flying Giant Scorpion... My bain as a DM 😆
Agreed. Ive always wondered why giving Rogues magic items is a thing unless its something that lets them hide their presence from enemies at will, even while in combat so that way they can get more than one sneak attack off.
That's why you give them role play or non-combat items, if they use them in combat that it is creative and fun and they born some action. Nevermind that the thief is actual made as a subclass to work with magic items
@@dungeonmasterdummies7050 I personally love giving them an immovable rod. It can be very powerful, but if used in a good way can be very fun, or something like the cloak of useful things and stack it more with utility things (nevermind that you can hide some interesting plot hocks in there), Gloves of swimming and Claiming, maybe some items that allow them to spy easier, like something they have to place somewhere or on someone to use a clairvoyance spell trough it. Be creative, maybe some kind of magical improved ball bearing or caltrops
I like the idea of a Gloom Stalker using a Frostbrand sword. Not onlt does it add 1d6 cold damage and give you resistance to fire damage, but it can also be used to put out all non-magical flames in 30ft once per hour. Combat starts and it's lights out: Let the Umbral Carnage begin!
Interesting alternative to the Googles of Night, I just took a one level dip into the Shadow Sorcerer from Xanathar’s for 120 ft of darkvision for my Halfling rogue. I got some nice utility cantrips, booming blade, shield and featherfall out of it too.
The way I do Rogue/Sorcerer multiclass is to start Divine Soul 1 Hexblade 2 into Arcane Trickster 9. This way I get Medium Armor, Shield, Shield of Faith, and Shield spell/Absorb Elements for defense. For offense you get Booming Blade, Greenflame Blade, and Eldritch Blast. For nova you get Hexblade’s Curse into Magic Missile. For control you can Wrathful Smite into Booming Blade, then next turn Cunning Action disengage into Eldritch Blast + Repelling Blast, and the target can’t get close to you. Because Hexblade allows you to just pump Charisma (leaving DEX at 14), after Arcane Trickster 9 Magical Ambush you can go straight into Sorcerer with maxed out casting stat and save DC and always get disadvantage to saves against spells you cast with Cunning Action hide.
@@M0ebius The Hexblade is probably the best 2 level dip in the game for any character that has a CHR primary. It rips MAD out of things in a crazy way.
For Rangers, give them some Dragon Scale Mail for +1, an extra dmg resistance, advantage against Dragons Breath, and sensing others Dragons of that type. This is especially cool for flavor if you're going the dragon slayer persona, which Rangers can totally do.
Great vid. I like the Sun Blade wildcard, but you didn't mention of of the best features, which is that the Sun Blade does radiant damage instead of slashing or piercing. Very few things are resistant to radiant and a good number are radiant vulnerable or at least can't regenerate if hit with radiant damage.
Note about the animated shield: The penalty for using a shield when you lack proficiency isn't dependant on "using" a shield but "wearing" it so rogues, who lack shield proficiency, make good use of the animated shield
One common magic item from Xanathar's Guide to Everything that would be useful for a human, or anyone without darkvision is the Moon-Touched sword, which can be placed on any sword (or any weapon/armor with homebrewing). Basically, in darkness, there's bright light for 15 feet around the unsheathed sword, and an additional 15 feet of dim light past that. Useful in situations where you need to see but are unable to use a torch.
I love the Quiver of Ehlonna for my Gloom Stalker Ranger. I've found that I can very quickly run out of arrows with a standard quiver, especially when fighting multiple enemies.
I've found most games don't worry about ammo counting anymore. In mine I quit making my players track ammo and the only time a "reload" mechanic comes into play is if you roll a natural 1 on a ranged weapon. In the case of a bow the string snaps or the dodge roll you performed to avoid getting hit spilled your quiver. Usually I just make it cost a bonus action on your next turn to restring or collect your arrows. That way the ammo is present but isn't as tedious.
I see the dice ad just minutes after discovering role playing dice sets at DOLLAR TREE. No joke I grabbed a bunch of sets to give out to new players or loan out to anyone who forgets theirs.
I have a Lv 5 Character (Lv 3 Gloom Stalker Ranger/Lv 1 Rogue/Lv 1 Forge Cleric). She is a Harengon, so she has the ability to rabbit hop (jump) up to 5x her proficiency bonus w/o provoking opportunity attacks. This works really well when trying to get out of aggro range of enemies, and even stacks with the Jump spell for an additional x3 to the distance (so with Jump spell activated, she can hop up to 45 ft away at Lv 5 as a BA). She also managed to find some Night Foot Boots (the DM roles available magic items randomly from a very large list every in-game week). These boots give her advantage on all Stealth rolls (even against magical vision) and render her footsteps silent (even when unattuned). When combined with the Umbral Sight feature, she can travel in complete darkness (with 60ft darkvision) and be invisible to any creatures that really on darkvision. So when in darkness, her enemies (or allies) cannot see or hear her at all. I also took Blind Fighting as my Fighting Style, and have already used the feature twice. I would like to make use of the Fog Cloud spell to sneak up on enemies and attack them with this feature. She has +8 to initiative rolls, as well as advantage. Hare-trigger allows you to add PB to initiative. Dread Ambusher (Ranger) allows you to add WIS modifier to initiative. And Natural Explorer (Ranger) gives you advantage to all initiative rolls. Her other major attuned magic item is a Silver Spatula, that applies the effects of the Heroes Feast spell (6th Lv) to any food prepared with it. This gives anyone who eats the food advantage to WIS saving throws, Immunity to poison and being frightened, and an extra 2d10 to the HP maximum (that lasts for 24 hrs). It also heals all poison and disease. As she is a Cleric of a Lawful Good deity, I would like for her to start using this item to start healing diseases that usually seen as incurable. I put her 2 Expertise in Investigation and Perception, and Revised Ranger gives her advantage to tracking all humanoids (Survival). I have already used the combination of several of these features on 2 separate occasions. The first was to track the 1st major boss (by myself) from the tavern (following only faint muddy bootprints left about 1 day from the seen of the crime), through a crowded town, to an abandoned rickity shack where the boss was by himself with his dog asleep. I ended up accidently waking him up and managed to escape after seeing him by dashing across the room, hopping to the top of the stairs, dashing across the yard, and then leaping onto the roof tops in order to break initiative. The 2nd time I tracked people, I ended up following the footprints for an hour until they led into a pitch black sewer. I managed to keep the trail, and came upon a cult performing a ritual to animate a corpse using worms (this cult is a major part of the story/plot of this campaign). I watched the ritual until I failed a Wis saving throw, and something possessed my shadow (a Dust Wraith) that had been following me for awhile. I managed to get the High Priest (as a fellow Cleric, I had connections and woke him up in the middle of the night) to banish the creature from my shadow, but if it hadn't been for my Blind Sight, I wouldn't have even known it was there to begin with. Overall, I am really enjoying this character. This is the first time I have played a Gloom Stalker Ranger, and currently plan on taking 8 levels in Cleric and 11 levels in Ranger total. On the next Level, I want to take the Eldritch Adept Feat (for Mask of Many Faces) because with the Cult theme and in a campaign that has several themes from the Horror genre, there are going to be several towns that I need to enter that are not friendly to Fey creatures (like Harengon) and the ability to cast Disguise Self at will will be very useful. I am a small creature (3'2'' tall, or 3'8'' tall with my ears upright), so I plan on mostly disguising as Gnomes or Halflings. And to make the disguises more believable, I am going to carry several changes of clothes for certain occasions, and then use the Disguise Self feature to change the colors of the clothes, rather than the type of clothes themselves. I will also be wearing clothing that covers the majority of my fur, so that they can't feel it if they touch my hands or arms, etc. I also want to take the Crossbow Expert Feat, but am not decided yet on the other 2 feats/ASI's I would like to take yet. What do you think about this character build so far? Does it sound interesting to you? Any comments or suggestions on what other Feats you think would be useful for me to take?
Alchemy jug. The sustainably is a very on point for a ranger, and the on-tap oil, acid, and poison is super useful for those who engage in creative play, and is an excellent tool to add to the bag of tricks. Though not a literal bag of tricks.
Did anybody else notice the titles? Scritches and Rat Prince Total throwback to dungeons of drakkenheim and having to deal with the Rat Prince and being Ghosts for the Rat God
One possibility that is admittedly trickier to implement than the figurines is the Bag of Tricks. The randomness of the creatures spawned each day makes it harder to balance encounters, especially at lower levels. This is definitely an item you give at mid-level at the earliest, because speaking from experience, the person you give it to will love the little scamps and they *will* spawn all three critters at the first opportunity. Probably works best with campaigns focused on dungeon crawling.
I have just gotten the Sun Blade in our campaign! I'm a Ranger and this is my first campaign ever and I'm having a great time. The DM had a really cool way of bringing the sword into the game. One of the cool ways I've used the sword was to open a barred door for a teammate. I lined the hilt up with the bar through the crack in the door and THEN turned on the blade so it erupted inside of the bar and severed it.
The Cloak of Displacement is very nice in an arcane trickster using mirror image with the sentinel feat. I played a campaign where my character used this combo to somewhat effectively Frontline for a short period as well as getting some virtually guaranteed kills.
My 1st character was a multi-class Wood Elf Ranger/Rogue. He did have 2 of the items mentioned: ▶Slippers of Spider Climbing ▶Goggles of Night Other useful items I had: ▶Gloves of Missile Snaring (if you don't like getting shot at or shit thrown at you, you can potentially catch the object and shoot or throw it back of the enemy!). ▶Efficient Quiver (3 extradimensional compartments Small holds up to 60 arrows or bolts, Medium up to 18 javelins (or similar), & Large up to 8 spears (trident, bows, etc). For a ranger or Rogue that shoots or throws things, it's helpful! ▶Blinkback Belt (Pathfinder Item: Can hold up to 4 small weapons and if you throw such weapon, it automatically teleports back to your belt at the end of your turn.) Rogues love their daggers, so this is invaluable! Because I had so many items, I made a specific set for Ranger only, Rogue only, or a mix depending on the environment I was in.
I agree with Kelly that winged boots are a massive pain for DMs. It's hard to balance an encounter when your warlock says "I'll just fly really high and start eldritch blasting them with spell sniper."
I would say: Bracers of Archery- It is a great magic item that I am surprised you didn't say, an gives a giant bonus to hit. Cloak of the Bat (great choice Monte)- Exactly what you said. Oathbow (again Monte!)- I know it's a kind of a paladin weapon, but it's an amazing bow that any ranged combatant would love using. Luck Blade(MONTE!)- It is a amazing sword, that has some lucky properties, and if you are lucky, you might get one with a Wish spell.
I had a Swashbuckler Rogue a while back who absolutely loved his Sun Blade . I currently have a Wood Elf , GloomStalker Ranger , Assassin Rogue with Goggles of Night ......... 150ft of Darkvision . At night most things don't know what just killed them .
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Cloak and boots of elvenkind, Ring of Mind Shielding, Amulet of Proof Against Detection and Location some of my favorite magic items for Rangers and Rogues
One thing to think on, for the Ranger, it uses a d10 for its hit die, and can wear half-plate armor which, with at least 14 dexterity, can grant the wearer 17 ac, the same as Splint armor (although for stealthy types, Breastplate might be a better choice, for one less ac, and half the price). Also, Rangers can use shields, meaning that an Animated Shield would be useful, as the Ranger could say "Animate" or whatever the command word is, and then draw and use their off-hand weapon, while still getting the protection of the shield for the next ten rounds.
I recently made a Hat of Disguise for the Forge Cleric in the first campaign I ever joined. From what we've gathered recently, the kingdom seems interested in potentially abducting her and forcing her to make magic weapons and armour for them. So we've taken a small group of us away from our home on an adventure to look into a prophecy we were given, as well as trying to look for any ruins of my people. I made the Hat of Disguise for her so she could protect her identity. Also, as far as decent magic items go, since Rangers have proficiency in Medium armour and are generally squishy, I think a fairly decent choice for bumping up their AC (which wasn't around at the time this video went up) is the Serpent Scale Armour. An uncommon magic Scale Mail that lets the wearer use their full Dexterity Modifier for the AC calculation (like a piece of Light Armour or Mage Armour) and doesn't impose disadvantage on Stealth could be a pretty valuable asset, and it doesn't even require an attunement slot
One useful item for rogues might be the eversmoking bottle. Mutual blindness leaves you without advantage or disadvantage, which means you still get sneak attack if an ally is next to your enemy or if you attack from hiding. Blindsight is very rare, so the smoke will blind almost everyone you encounter as well as yourself. This could be especially good for a rogue with the mobile feat, who can attack, move away and then hide as a bonus action. This situation is even better for the rogue after 14th level where you have blindsense. And just as an added bonus, the heavy obscurement is a good counter to creatures with gaze attacks.
Another good thing about the Sun Blade for more underhanded characters is that it's just a longsword hilt until you want it to be a sword. This opens up interesting possibilities for sneaking it into places where you wouldn't normally be *allowed* to carry a sword. The average town guard is not necessarily well-versed in Arcana, so with a little bit of bullshittery like "this is just a sentimental item and a lucky charm to me" or "oh, I still gotta take that to the blacksmith to get it fixed" you might get them to think it's just a broken weapon not worth confiscating.
Currently playing a shadow monk with slippers of spider climbing. Using shadow step combined with the slippers in exploration and combat has been really fun. Shadow step and then using the slippers to hang upside down on the ceilings and then just using slow fall for when I want to come back down
I think you've overlooked a rogue item, amulet of proof against detection and location. If you are going up against spell-casting enemies, this provides you a quick, always-on method of defeating their scrying and true sight spells. (although it doesn't work against natural true sight, technically, unless your GM is exceptionally lenient)
I just got done DM-ing Curse of Strahd and my early decision to make the Sunsword attune to the Rogue ended up having a lot of good moments! Good call Monty
Kelly should absolutely have the opportunity to get the Goggles of Night! I feel his pain as a halfling rogue, but I bugged my DM long enough that a set showed up in a shop eventually. I'm broke, but my wealthy party companion hooked me up. I'm also currently petrified at the bottom of a lake in a giant air bubble. Time will tell if/how I get restored.
For me, one of the best uses of the Sun Blade on a rogue is as a beacon for held actions, especially for other party members that don't have dark vision. Say a human wizard holds a spell for when your rogue in stealth/invisibility goes behind enemy lines to sneak attack the right enemy, to suddenly no longer have disadvantage on said spell. Can be a devastating combo for picking out ranged/squishy enemies.
Love you guys, keep up the work. Do have to say though Rangers have the same hit dice as Fighters at 1d10 and with light armor a Dex class only has 1 less AC than a heavy armor wearer with plate armor. Goes down by 2 more for rogues if the person is using a shield but ranger has that option too. Not saying the item was a bad choice though, cloak of displacement is amazing.
for me, the best items for a ranger/rogue are common, the Pole of Collapsing. you never know when a 10 foot stick will be useful, and there's no guarantee you'll be the one carrying the bag of holding. uncommon, the Luckstone. they're likely to be more skill heavy, and going off "alone" means they might need to do more skill checks, so getting that +1 is nice, as is the save, to make sure the party aren't forced to sprint in blindly when the rogue fails their save. alternatively, the Robe of Useful Items, for basically the same reason as the Pole. a ladder, horse, pit, rowboat, etc, can all come in handy when you're pulling shenanigans. Rare, a Ring of Spell Storing. as characters who generally don't have magic, being able to have an ally dump a spell in gives them HUGE potential. getting a Misty Step in the ring for a one off teleport, or Darkness/Silence to cover their tracks, Fly, Shield, Faerie Fire, Counterspell, Haste, or any number of other powerful spells. it's really powerful being able to give a front liner (or an ambusher) a Healing Word for them to bust out when the time comes. Very Rare, yes, the Oathbow is nice, but I'd rather a manual of quickness of action, for the permanent increase to Dex. Legendary, the Ioun Stone of Mastery is my top pick, for a similar reason to the Luckstone earlier. in addition to attack rolls, it also affects saves and all your skills, particularly if you have expertise.
For our current campaign, The Wild Beyond The Witchlight, the GM permitted a single magic item that wasn't a weapon. For my Half-elf Gloomstalker I selected Nature's Mantle for sheer flavour.
Goggles of the Night to the only party member who doesn't have dark vision is a god send. The entire party with dark vision will mean zero torches/lanterns. Gloom Stalkers love that, surprise you're fighting a gloom stalker group. I had adapted the ancestry feats from PF2 for my 5e campain, while I had to write up some for the players that wanted a race that wasn't in the PHB for PF2 I did give them ancestry feats to make up for that(mainly the Warforged). One of the party members is a Gloom Stalker Ranger, I am looking at creatures that negate the feature where they're "invisible" to things that use dark vision so he doesn't have that safety bubble in the event he would pull more aggro from the tanky character.
'Flight opens up many options' *looks at my Aaracochra and my Raven that, many times after performing actions, got the DM to say 'shit, I forgot you could fly'
Re googles of night. My DM customed an item based on someone’s eye, it was like Eratz or something with a double S. Maybe Sseth’s he made it sentient and a requirement was you had to gouge out your own eye with it watching before it would let you attune. Then, if you pissed it off, it would crawl out of your socket in the middle of the night and leave. If you want to give him night vision but not go easy on him, you could do something like that.
I've been going back and forth on giving the rogue in my campaign slippers of spider climbing, and if it's not going going be useful or maybe even too powerful. I'm glad to know it"s a good choice!
Haha. I am currently playing a human rogue with the goggles of night. They are very helpful. I would say that once you hit 5th level is a good spot to get them. The player has had a little while using torches or just plain not being able to see that they will really appreciate the item.
A great Uncommon magic Item to have for Rogues and Rangers is the Quiver of Ehlonna/Efficient Quiver. Store extra weapons and a crapton of arrows. And unlike with the Bag of Holding, you don't need to take an action to pull something from it.
My lvl 4 rogue just won a cloak of elvenkind in a fight, and let me tell you - having advantage on every stealth check I make while everyone else has disadvantage on perception checks against me is *chefs kiss*
First of all I played as a rogue that enjoys misdirection. As an arcane trickster I came upon a deck of illusions. I took a deck of illusion and upgraded the enchantment to have a physical form deal damage and do my command. It's quite fun to get a random ally or distraction.
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Even better on the weapon of warning. You don't need to be holding it. It just needs to be on your person. So a Dagger of Warning stashed in a belt or boot still gives its bonus.
Monty should drop several hints about where some Goggles of Night can be found (only one of which turns out to be true), for stealing, NPC interaction, combat, however the party decides to roll.
I am playing as a changling swashbuckler at the moment. My DM allowed me to acquire goggles of the night. Really useful and allows my rogue to scout ahead of the party, falling into traps etc. Go on. Give them up. Hilarity will ensue.
Two other common magic items are Armor of Gleaming, which never gets dirty - useful for fastidious types, such as Nobles, or for when you don't want any messy evidence to expose any wrong doing, like mud and blood, and whatever that foul-smelling substance was back in the sewer, and then Smoldering Armor, which has harmless wisps of smoke coming off of it - no real effects, but perhaps you could use it like Blackbeard did when he'd shove lit cannon fuses under his hat to give him an advantage on his intimidation checks, and might be useful on say a Tiefling who is trying to use his infernal heritage to give him an edge on something.
9:20 Someone else might have written it, but the Oathbow is a longbow, which is often not available for a rogue. Great video as always folks! Watching everyone of them for a year now :) - do join their patreon folks!
I think the Cloak of Elvenkind is definitely the best uncommon magic item for rogues, with the Boots of Elvenkind coming in at a close second, and the Bracers of Archery are 100% the best uncommon magic item for rangers. It's also worth noting that, if you're playing a character with Sunlight Sensitivity, such as a drow, the Eyes of the Eagle, another uncommon magic item, can completely negate your disadvantage on perception checks that rely on sight while in in sunlight. Also, Kelly's mic was turned up a little high in this video.
I gave my party a hat of disguise after rolling it randomly on a table after a random dungeon. The rouge of course grabbed it and it became an iconic part of his outfit... he also may have used it to sneak into an elven palace and sleep with the princess which certainly led to some interesting events
You don't have to be "holding" a weapon of warning in order to have advantage on initiative or for any of its effects to take place. The description states "on your person" meaning so long as you have it on you either equipped on your side or in your bag it's magical effects will still take place. I highly recommend this item as even for higher levels it still becomes useful even if you are not using it to damage your foes.
I always love to have a professional and scripted your content is (in a good way) but it's so nice to see you guys fly off the cuff with mentions of your campaigns and pleas to your DM for magic items. Lol
I play a Rogue (Scout subclass) in our campaign, and although it doesn't really tie into the standard rogue play style, she gave us a Decanter of Endless Water and I use that at every possible opportunity.
The figurine is indeed an interesting choice. I am currently running a character that is essentially a combination of rogue and ranger (with a level of monk on the side), so to her that would indeed be a fitting addition in more ways than one.
We spent a fair portion of gold in our campaign to acquire 5 sets of Goggles of the night, one for every member of the party who doesn't have dark vision.
Don’t give Kelly the Googles of Night - let him steal them like a proper rogue.
If I was the DM I would give them to a powerful optional enemy, but Monthy knows better than me, I started DMing because I had him as a model after all.
No, I think that's too simple. Plus, Wilhelm's just tooooo...human. And there needs to be a serious response to Kelly shaving the tiniest part of his beard to make that cool mustache.
So the answer to all these issues is...
the Belt of Dwarvenkind.
Compromise: give him the Goggles of Knight... or Goggles of Night(mares).
Let him earn the goggles. Sure he could steal them from somewhere, but you could also have it as a random drop on a large enemy... Who just so happens to fall on them and crack the lenses when it dies. Now he has to go on a side quest to get them fixed before he can use them.
can´t wilhelm just order those from the amethist academy???
Goggles of Night (Cursed)
The goggles are enchanted with a variant of the Arcane Eye magic, that allows the BBEG to see what is being viewed by the PC.
That is sneaky, underhanded, and down-right distasteful. I love it!
Or sentient, and capable of casting phantasmal force.
The Goggles of sharon
But not cursed. Cursed makes it obvious! It's regular in all aspects except and the second enchantment is completely hidden.
They're peril-sensitive sunglasses that go dark any time the wearer is in mortal danger.
The lack of magic bows and polearms in the DMG is a serious oversight. I could understand not having a magical whip, but ranged weapon users are a huge percentage of fighters, rangers, and rogues.
I don't know why they do not address this ever since either. Quite sick of weapon of warning
Ranged is already quite strong. The quiver magic item and the oathbow seem to be enough to keep the power of the bow in check. Furthermore, the introduction of the artificer basically give normal bows +1 and unli ammo with part of the crossbow expert feat.
...but damn...the clear bias towards casters... *looks at you wizard*
I believe that 'The dragon of Icespire Peak' has a unique magic bow in one of the dungeons, whenever you miss on a ranged attack with it, your to hit bonus goes up., with some limitations.
easiest way around this is just take any magic sword/hammer/axe and make it another weapon. Longbow of Wounding, Dragon Slayer Lance etc.
I actually homebrewed a bow for my Ranger:
Emerald Archer's Bow
Longbow, Legendary Item gifted to the first Ranger, from Queen Olivia of the Star Lands.
The magic weapon has 5 charges for the following properties. It regains 1d4+1 charges daily at dawn.
Grappling Arrow. You may expend 1 charge to transform an ordinary arrow into a slender but durable grappling hook. You may fire the grappling hook at bow range, and a thin gossamer rope will magically uncoil behind it, matching the distance of the arrow flight. If you successfully secure the grappling hook (DM to determine difficulty), the rope is strong enough to support 1000 lbs. of weight. After ten minutes, the grappling hook transforms back into an arrow and the magic rope dissolves into nothingness.
Smoke Arrow. You can use an action and expend 1 charge to fire an arcane arrow, which lands at a point within range and starts to emit a cloud of smoke. One round after it lands, the smoke creates a heavily obscured area in a 20-foot-radius. A moderate wind disperses the smoke in 4 rounds; a strong wind disperses it in 1 round.
Torch Arrow. You can use an action and expend 1 charges to fire an arcane arrow at a point within range. Once loosed the arrow erupts in to flame similar to a torch. Once landing the arrow burns for an hour and otherwise acts like a standard torch.
3:12 Weapon of Warning
4:35 Slippers of Spider Climbing
6:12 Cloak of the Bat
8:12 Cloak of Displacement
9:15 Oathbow
10:45 Dancing Sword
12:05 Animated Shield
12:39 Luck Blade
14:06 Cloak of Invisibility
16:06 Sun Blade
17:43 Hat of Disguise
18:54 Figurine of Wondrous Power
19:57 Goggles of Night
Nowadays they do it themselves but thank you for your service
thank you
One more bit about the sun blade: shocking, the light it emits is counted as sun light which sorta makes it the bane of vampire and under dark dwellers with sun light weakness as well.
So it's the *perfect* magic item to give a drow or kobold player character.
@@Dennis-vh8tz see I cracked that code for kolbold at least. Just have find familiar, pack tactics and sunlight sensitivity cancel out and you just roll normal.
I have a Way of the Sun monk with a Sun Blade. Thematically it works great!
"STEALTHY LIGHTSABER!"
I can absolutely imagine rogues sneaking up on someone, shoving the hilt into their back, then activating the Sun Blade while yelling that.
dont you mean
*SURPRISE LIGHT SABA!*
You mean like what Kylo Ren did?
@@fuzzygreentiger no what Kyle Hill dose
@@joeking3282 the hell you talking about
@@joeking3282 no one is talking about drugs here except you
The moustache is looking great, I'm getting serious Dorian vibes from Dragon Age, I love it.
Hell yeah dude that mustache is kick ass
Glamoured studded leather is often overlooked in favour of the hat of disguise, but is actually a really useful disguise item. You can change it to look like any type of clothes or armour, meaning you could disguise yourself as a noble, or as a knight in full plate, or a simple peasant in rags. It comes in particularly handy for changelings who can change their body but not their clothes and would normally have to take a minute to get changed, but with the glamoured studded leather they can change their clothes immediately to match their new form.
I can confirm that it's super useful. I have this armor on my changeling rogue/bard, and it comes in handy during pretty much every session.
Plus it's +1 studded leather armour, so as good as full plate if you've maxed your dexterity!
My changeling Arcane Trickster thanks you for this wonderful piece of information.
Playing broken races isn't cool imo. Play the normal races provided by the players handbook plz more realistic
@@Cornholers playing casters isnt cool imo. play normal class that have zero magic plz be more realistic
Our current campaign has a Rogue with a Cloak of the Bat, and it has been very useful and entertaining.
Bat of the Cloak, 1d4 charges per day /
When you attack an enemy with this weapon a cloak materialises on them entangling them magically for 2 rounds.
So Dr Stranges cloak haha
So they're Fantasy Batman, nice!
Well, the idea of Batman came from an old movie called 'The Bat' about a thief, so it's fitting
@@capile2 no it didn't at all get your facts straight
OH MY GOD! Kelly's moustache is absoloutely GLORIOUS! I could not take my eyes off it all video
I second this Kelly is part of a small percentage of individuals that can rock a mustache and not look creepy but look awesome instead.
I'm not gay, but I'd go gay for Kelly!
@@gumballthechewy I’m gay, and the mustache makes me go even gayer for Kelly! 😜
Never give a rogue anything. Make them take it!
Take 4d20 meta damage.
And all this time I thought the sun blade was just a sword that glowed with sunlight. Damn thing is a light saber?!
So at least one magic item hasn't changed from it's 2e roots.
Keep the moustache, it looks badass.
Mustache looks great, I agree
Slippers of climbing on a druid.
Wildshapes into bear, walks to the ceiling. Jumps off ceiling onto enemies.
Tada, Drop Bear lol
Dm would have to be pretty generous to let the slippers work in wild shape
@@Virixas_ BUT even if the DM doesn't allow bear slippers, the transformation will still cause a Drop Bear
@@Virixas_ walk on ceiling, activate wild shape, Drop Bear nevertheless
I have an Aasimar Druid in my home game and they're constantly activating Radiant Soul as an action and Wildshaping as a bonus action... Flying Cavebear... And now that they're lvl 9, it's flying Giant Scorpion... My bain as a DM 😆
Bears don't wear slippers.
Giving Rogues magic items, how could that ever go wrong... Rangers however could be aided greatly this way! Love the video guys, you teach me so much!
Agreed. Ive always wondered why giving Rogues magic items is a thing unless its something that lets them hide their presence from enemies at will, even while in combat so that way they can get more than one sneak attack off.
@@cptrevenant4088 but do you really want that though? Rogues are allready often very powerful as they are!
That's why you give them role play or non-combat items, if they use them in combat that it is creative and fun and they born some action. Nevermind that the thief is actual made as a subclass to work with magic items
@@grinnylein great point you make there! What magic items would yoh give them for example?
@@dungeonmasterdummies7050 I personally love giving them an immovable rod. It can be very powerful, but if used in a good way can be very fun, or something like the cloak of useful things and stack it more with utility things (nevermind that you can hide some interesting plot hocks in there), Gloves of swimming and Claiming, maybe some items that allow them to spy easier, like something they have to place somewhere or on someone to use a clairvoyance spell trough it. Be creative, maybe some kind of magical improved ball bearing or caltrops
Wilhelm has one eye, what’s he going to do with goggles? Give him a Monocle of Night
Lol. One eyed willie. The first goonie.
you mean, a eye patch of night?
Great video. Give him the goggles of night!!!
Yes.
Never, give him a Monocle of Night
I like the idea of a Gloom Stalker using a Frostbrand sword. Not onlt does it add 1d6 cold damage and give you resistance to fire damage, but it can also be used to put out all non-magical flames in 30ft once per hour. Combat starts and it's lights out: Let the Umbral Carnage begin!
Sword of warning...
In my head:
" i waaaaarrnnn youuuuuu!"
Cursed sword!
"Something bad is going to happen...." *Stubs toe.* "Told youuuuuuu."
Puffin forest
lolol
Interesting alternative to the Googles of Night, I just took a one level dip into the Shadow Sorcerer from Xanathar’s for 120 ft of darkvision for my Halfling rogue. I got some nice utility cantrips, booming blade, shield and featherfall out of it too.
Omg I got excited about doing that...and then remembered my rogue’s dump stat is Charisma. Oh well, next time
Do what collin did, pick spells that don't rely on your charisma hit DC or spell save to function. Seems pretty airtight otherwise
I would, except I can’t even multiclass into it. My Charisma is too low and I have plans on feats.
The way I do Rogue/Sorcerer multiclass is to start Divine Soul 1 Hexblade 2 into Arcane Trickster 9. This way I get Medium Armor, Shield, Shield of Faith, and Shield spell/Absorb Elements for defense. For offense you get Booming Blade, Greenflame Blade, and Eldritch Blast. For nova you get Hexblade’s Curse into Magic Missile. For control you can Wrathful Smite into Booming Blade, then next turn Cunning Action disengage into Eldritch Blast + Repelling Blast, and the target can’t get close to you.
Because Hexblade allows you to just pump Charisma (leaving DEX at 14), after Arcane Trickster 9 Magical Ambush you can go straight into Sorcerer with maxed out casting stat and save DC and always get disadvantage to saves against spells you cast with Cunning Action hide.
@@M0ebius The Hexblade is probably the best 2 level dip in the game for any character that has a CHR primary. It rips MAD out of things in a crazy way.
For Rangers, give them some Dragon Scale Mail for +1, an extra dmg resistance, advantage against Dragons Breath, and sensing others Dragons of that type. This is especially cool for flavor if you're going the dragon slayer persona, which Rangers can totally do.
another good one is the serpent scale armor, 14 + dex is really good
-No googles of night - it's the price he pays for that human "free" feat!-
On second thought, give him _cursed_ googles of night.
Great vid. I like the Sun Blade wildcard, but you didn't mention of of the best features, which is that the Sun Blade does radiant damage instead of slashing or piercing. Very few things are resistant to radiant and a good number are radiant vulnerable or at least can't regenerate if hit with radiant damage.
7:24 Honeeey where is my super suit?
Whhaaa?
*WHERE.IS.MY.SUPER.SUIT?!*
Nice mustache, bro!!
Give Kelly the goggles!!
Me before clicking on video: "Weapons of warning better be on this list"
Monty: "Weapons of warning!"
Me: "Thanks Monty, you're awesome"
Note about the animated shield: The penalty for using a shield when you lack proficiency isn't dependant on "using" a shield but "wearing" it so rogues, who lack shield proficiency, make good use of the animated shield
One common magic item from Xanathar's Guide to Everything that would be useful for a human, or anyone without darkvision is the Moon-Touched sword, which can be placed on any sword (or any weapon/armor with homebrewing). Basically, in darkness, there's bright light for 15 feet around the unsheathed sword, and an additional 15 feet of dim light past that. Useful in situations where you need to see but are unable to use a torch.
I love the Quiver of Ehlonna for my Gloom Stalker Ranger. I've found that I can very quickly run out of arrows with a standard quiver, especially when fighting multiple enemies.
I've found most games don't worry about ammo counting anymore. In mine I quit making my players track ammo and the only time a "reload" mechanic comes into play is if you roll a natural 1 on a ranged weapon. In the case of a bow the string snaps or the dodge roll you performed to avoid getting hit spilled your quiver. Usually I just make it cost a bonus action on your next turn to restring or collect your arrows. That way the ammo is present but isn't as tedious.
Monty keeps looking at Kelly whenever he mentions a Rogue making poor decisions with a wish. There is a story there.
There are *many* stories there!
I see the dice ad just minutes after discovering role playing dice sets at DOLLAR TREE. No joke I grabbed a bunch of sets to give out to new players or loan out to anyone who forgets theirs.
Give him the goggles you monster!!!
As a human rogue at level 5 with no magic items, i feel the pain
I have a Lv 5 Character (Lv 3 Gloom Stalker Ranger/Lv 1 Rogue/Lv 1 Forge Cleric). She is a Harengon, so she has the ability to rabbit hop (jump) up to 5x her proficiency bonus w/o provoking opportunity attacks. This works really well when trying to get out of aggro range of enemies, and even stacks with the Jump spell for an additional x3 to the distance (so with Jump spell activated, she can hop up to 45 ft away at Lv 5 as a BA).
She also managed to find some Night Foot Boots (the DM roles available magic items randomly from a very large list every in-game week). These boots give her advantage on all Stealth rolls (even against magical vision) and render her footsteps silent (even when unattuned). When combined with the Umbral Sight feature, she can travel in complete darkness (with 60ft darkvision) and be invisible to any creatures that really on darkvision. So when in darkness, her enemies (or allies) cannot see or hear her at all.
I also took Blind Fighting as my Fighting Style, and have already used the feature twice. I would like to make use of the Fog Cloud spell to sneak up on enemies and attack them with this feature.
She has +8 to initiative rolls, as well as advantage. Hare-trigger allows you to add PB to initiative. Dread Ambusher (Ranger) allows you to add WIS modifier to initiative. And Natural Explorer (Ranger) gives you advantage to all initiative rolls.
Her other major attuned magic item is a Silver Spatula, that applies the effects of the Heroes Feast spell (6th Lv) to any food prepared with it. This gives anyone who eats the food advantage to WIS saving throws, Immunity to poison and being frightened, and an extra 2d10 to the HP maximum (that lasts for 24 hrs). It also heals all poison and disease. As she is a Cleric of a Lawful Good deity, I would like for her to start using this item to start healing diseases that usually seen as incurable.
I put her 2 Expertise in Investigation and Perception, and Revised Ranger gives her advantage to tracking all humanoids (Survival).
I have already used the combination of several of these features on 2 separate occasions. The first was to track the 1st major boss (by myself) from the tavern (following only faint muddy bootprints left about 1 day from the seen of the crime), through a crowded town, to an abandoned rickity shack where the boss was by himself with his dog asleep. I ended up accidently waking him up and managed to escape after seeing him by dashing across the room, hopping to the top of the stairs, dashing across the yard, and then leaping onto the roof tops in order to break initiative.
The 2nd time I tracked people, I ended up following the footprints for an hour until they led into a pitch black sewer. I managed to keep the trail, and came upon a cult performing a ritual to animate a corpse using worms (this cult is a major part of the story/plot of this campaign). I watched the ritual until I failed a Wis saving throw, and something possessed my shadow (a Dust Wraith) that had been following me for awhile. I managed to get the High Priest (as a fellow Cleric, I had connections and woke him up in the middle of the night) to banish the creature from my shadow, but if it hadn't been for my Blind Sight, I wouldn't have even known it was there to begin with.
Overall, I am really enjoying this character. This is the first time I have played a Gloom Stalker Ranger, and currently plan on taking 8 levels in Cleric and 11 levels in Ranger total. On the next Level, I want to take the Eldritch Adept Feat (for Mask of Many Faces) because with the Cult theme and in a campaign that has several themes from the Horror genre, there are going to be several towns that I need to enter that are not friendly to Fey creatures (like Harengon) and the ability to cast Disguise Self at will will be very useful. I am a small creature (3'2'' tall, or 3'8'' tall with my ears upright), so I plan on mostly disguising as Gnomes or Halflings. And to make the disguises more believable, I am going to carry several changes of clothes for certain occasions, and then use the Disguise Self feature to change the colors of the clothes, rather than the type of clothes themselves. I will also be wearing clothing that covers the majority of my fur, so that they can't feel it if they touch my hands or arms, etc.
I also want to take the Crossbow Expert Feat, but am not decided yet on the other 2 feats/ASI's I would like to take yet.
What do you think about this character build so far? Does it sound interesting to you? Any comments or suggestions on what other Feats you think would be useful for me to take?
Alchemy jug. The sustainably is a very on point for a ranger, and the on-tap oil, acid, and poison is super useful for those who engage in creative play, and is an excellent tool to add to the bag of tricks. Though not a literal bag of tricks.
Why do I always expect the intro of Nerdarchy, whenever you say "we are the Dungeon Dudes"?
They are equally awesome, so your big brain is foreseeing the greatness of a Nerdarchy Dudes collab
Weapon of Warning is almost always my first choice when it comes to acquiring a magic item. Advantage on Initiative, and can’t be surprised? Amazing.
I came expecting comments about magic items. I found comments about Kelly's mustache. So...his mustache is magical?
Of course.
Did anybody else notice the titles? Scritches and Rat Prince
Total throwback to dungeons of drakkenheim and having to deal with the Rat Prince and being Ghosts for the Rat God
One possibility that is admittedly trickier to implement than the figurines is the Bag of Tricks. The randomness of the creatures spawned each day makes it harder to balance encounters, especially at lower levels. This is definitely an item you give at mid-level at the earliest, because speaking from experience, the person you give it to will love the little scamps and they *will* spawn all three critters at the first opportunity. Probably works best with campaigns focused on dungeon crawling.
I have just gotten the Sun Blade in our campaign! I'm a Ranger and this is my first campaign ever and I'm having a great time. The DM had a really cool way of bringing the sword into the game. One of the cool ways I've used the sword was to open a barred door for a teammate. I lined the hilt up with the bar through the crack in the door and THEN turned on the blade so it erupted inside of the bar and severed it.
The Cloak of Displacement is very nice in an arcane trickster using mirror image with the sentinel feat. I played a campaign where my character used this combo to somewhat effectively Frontline for a short period as well as getting some virtually guaranteed kills.
My 1st character was a multi-class Wood Elf Ranger/Rogue. He did have 2 of the items mentioned:
▶Slippers of Spider Climbing
▶Goggles of Night
Other useful items I had:
▶Gloves of Missile Snaring (if you don't like getting shot at or shit thrown at you, you can potentially catch the object and shoot or throw it back of the enemy!).
▶Efficient Quiver (3 extradimensional compartments Small holds up to 60 arrows or bolts, Medium up to 18 javelins (or similar), & Large up to 8 spears (trident, bows, etc). For a ranger or Rogue that shoots or throws things, it's helpful!
▶Blinkback Belt (Pathfinder Item: Can hold up to 4 small weapons and if you throw such weapon, it automatically teleports back to your belt at the end of your turn.) Rogues love their daggers, so this is invaluable!
Because I had so many items, I made a specific set for Ranger only, Rogue only, or a mix depending on the environment I was in.
I agree with Kelly that winged boots are a massive pain for DMs. It's hard to balance an encounter when your warlock says "I'll just fly really high and start eldritch blasting them with spell sniper."
I would say:
Bracers of Archery- It is a great magic item that I am surprised you didn't say, an gives a giant bonus to hit.
Cloak of the Bat (great choice Monte)- Exactly what you said.
Oathbow (again Monte!)- I know it's a kind of a paladin weapon, but it's an amazing bow that any ranged combatant would love using.
Luck Blade(MONTE!)- It is a amazing sword, that has some lucky properties, and if you are lucky, you might get one with a Wish spell.
My wildcard is the Wand of Web- You can use start a fight, and then if it goes bad- Web! Now you can run away while they are stuck.
It doesnt give a bonus to hit, but to damage dealt. Probably why they didnt mention it
@@DasWarVorbestimmt thanks didn’t realize that
I had a Swashbuckler Rogue a while back who absolutely loved his Sun Blade . I currently have a Wood Elf , GloomStalker Ranger , Assassin Rogue with Goggles of Night ......... 150ft of Darkvision . At night most things don't know what just killed them .
had an imperial mo for 20+ years (early receding hair), top tips, stop trimming short above the top lip and let it grow out, this can be swept sideways and help support the manly curls and give well needed bulk. Hairgum extra fort from France is a great product, a non setting heavy gel that holds really well, smells posh, yet retains flexibility. wax once in the morning and strut ya stuff. No paraffin: too drying and clunky. May your pursuit of the hirsute be rewarding.
I used a cloak of the bat to do a death from above drop attack. It was pretty fun, didnt even mind splitting the fall damage
Cloak and boots of elvenkind, Ring of Mind Shielding, Amulet of Proof Against Detection and Location some of my favorite magic items for Rangers and Rogues
One thing to think on, for the Ranger, it uses a d10 for its hit die, and can wear half-plate armor which, with at least 14 dexterity, can grant the wearer 17 ac, the same as Splint armor (although for stealthy types, Breastplate might be a better choice, for one less ac, and half the price). Also, Rangers can use shields, meaning that an Animated Shield would be useful, as the Ranger could say "Animate" or whatever the command word is, and then draw and use their off-hand weapon, while still getting the protection of the shield for the next ten rounds.
Much respect to the stache. Not too many of us on UA-cam with the curly stache.
I recently made a Hat of Disguise for the Forge Cleric in the first campaign I ever joined. From what we've gathered recently, the kingdom seems interested in potentially abducting her and forcing her to make magic weapons and armour for them. So we've taken a small group of us away from our home on an adventure to look into a prophecy we were given, as well as trying to look for any ruins of my people. I made the Hat of Disguise for her so she could protect her identity.
Also, as far as decent magic items go, since Rangers have proficiency in Medium armour and are generally squishy, I think a fairly decent choice for bumping up their AC (which wasn't around at the time this video went up) is the Serpent Scale Armour. An uncommon magic Scale Mail that lets the wearer use their full Dexterity Modifier for the AC calculation (like a piece of Light Armour or Mage Armour) and doesn't impose disadvantage on Stealth could be a pretty valuable asset, and it doesn't even require an attunement slot
One useful item for rogues might be the eversmoking bottle. Mutual blindness leaves you without advantage or disadvantage, which means you still get sneak attack if an ally is next to your enemy or if you attack from hiding. Blindsight is very rare, so the smoke will blind almost everyone you encounter as well as yourself. This could be especially good for a rogue with the mobile feat, who can attack, move away and then hide as a bonus action. This situation is even better for the rogue after 14th level where you have blindsense. And just as an added bonus, the heavy obscurement is a good counter to creatures with gaze attacks.
“and I like seeing that happen”.
It is great to give a magic item to a character assuming they will make poor choices, very devious Monty.
And this is especially true with "clever" players. The old saw about giving enough rope comes to mind.
Another good thing about the Sun Blade for more underhanded characters is that it's just a longsword hilt until you want it to be a sword. This opens up interesting possibilities for sneaking it into places where you wouldn't normally be *allowed* to carry a sword. The average town guard is not necessarily well-versed in Arcana, so with a little bit of bullshittery like "this is just a sentimental item and a lucky charm to me" or "oh, I still gotta take that to the blacksmith to get it fixed" you might get them to think it's just a broken weapon not worth confiscating.
Currently playing a shadow monk with slippers of spider climbing. Using shadow step combined with the slippers in exploration and combat has been really fun. Shadow step and then using the slippers to hang upside down on the ceilings and then just using slow fall for when I want to come back down
I think you've overlooked a rogue item, amulet of proof against detection and location. If you are going up against spell-casting enemies, this provides you a quick, always-on method of defeating their scrying and true sight spells. (although it doesn't work against natural true sight, technically, unless your GM is exceptionally lenient)
Give him the goggles but make them cursed with displacement so he has disadvantage on stealth, bumping into things, and attacks
So...drunk goggles essentially?
No, drunk night vision goggles!
Or they're broken and only the left side works
Being drunk makes it work normal
Ha ha ha!
I just got done DM-ing Curse of Strahd and my early decision to make the Sunsword attune to the Rogue ended up having a lot of good moments! Good call Monty
This has bright me so much joy. Sending this to my DM for my leaping gloomstalker archer elf
Kelly should absolutely have the opportunity to get the Goggles of Night! I feel his pain as a halfling rogue, but I bugged my DM long enough that a set showed up in a shop eventually. I'm broke, but my wealthy party companion hooked me up. I'm also currently petrified at the bottom of a lake in a giant air bubble. Time will tell if/how I get restored.
OMG this is the first time I have seen the Kelly stache style. That rocks man good on you, looking great with that stache!
Just started DMing a campaign 2 weeks ago. These videos are great for planning out what to give my players.
For me, one of the best uses of the Sun Blade on a rogue is as a beacon for held actions, especially for other party members that don't have dark vision. Say a human wizard holds a spell for when your rogue in stealth/invisibility goes behind enemy lines to sneak attack the right enemy, to suddenly no longer have disadvantage on said spell. Can be a devastating combo for picking out ranged/squishy enemies.
Love you guys, keep up the work. Do have to say though Rangers have the same hit dice as Fighters at 1d10 and with light armor a Dex class only has 1 less AC than a heavy armor wearer with plate armor. Goes down by 2 more for rogues if the person is using a shield but ranger has that option too. Not saying the item was a bad choice though, cloak of displacement is amazing.
for me, the best items for a ranger/rogue are
common, the Pole of Collapsing. you never know when a 10 foot stick will be useful, and there's no guarantee you'll be the one carrying the bag of holding.
uncommon, the Luckstone. they're likely to be more skill heavy, and going off "alone" means they might need to do more skill checks, so getting that +1 is nice, as is the save, to make sure the party aren't forced to sprint in blindly when the rogue fails their save.
alternatively, the Robe of Useful Items, for basically the same reason as the Pole. a ladder, horse, pit, rowboat, etc, can all come in handy when you're pulling shenanigans.
Rare, a Ring of Spell Storing. as characters who generally don't have magic, being able to have an ally dump a spell in gives them HUGE potential. getting a Misty Step in the ring for a one off teleport, or Darkness/Silence to cover their tracks, Fly, Shield, Faerie Fire, Counterspell, Haste, or any number of other powerful spells. it's really powerful being able to give a front liner (or an ambusher) a Healing Word for them to bust out when the time comes.
Very Rare, yes, the Oathbow is nice, but I'd rather a manual of quickness of action, for the permanent increase to Dex.
Legendary, the Ioun Stone of Mastery is my top pick, for a similar reason to the Luckstone earlier. in addition to attack rolls, it also affects saves and all your skills, particularly if you have expertise.
Monty's nickname is in this video is Scritches? That may be a reference I'm missing but it's adorable either way.
For our current campaign, The Wild Beyond The Witchlight, the GM permitted a single magic item that wasn't a weapon. For my Half-elf Gloomstalker I selected Nature's Mantle for sheer flavour.
Goggles of the Night to the only party member who doesn't have dark vision is a god send. The entire party with dark vision will mean zero torches/lanterns. Gloom Stalkers love that, surprise you're fighting a gloom stalker group.
I had adapted the ancestry feats from PF2 for my 5e campain, while I had to write up some for the players that wanted a race that wasn't in the PHB for PF2 I did give them ancestry feats to make up for that(mainly the Warforged). One of the party members is a Gloom Stalker Ranger, I am looking at creatures that negate the feature where they're "invisible" to things that use dark vision so he doesn't have that safety bubble in the event he would pull more aggro from the tanky character.
'Flight opens up many options'
*looks at my Aaracochra and my Raven that, many times after performing actions, got the DM to say 'shit, I forgot you could fly'
Dice!
Tiny little caltrops!
Adorable little squares!
And all the rest! I NEED MORE DICE!!
Monty give Kelly the goggles of night! Humans are too rare as it is.
Re googles of night. My DM customed an item based on someone’s eye, it was like Eratz or something with a double S. Maybe Sseth’s he made it sentient and a requirement was you had to gouge out your own eye with it watching before it would let you attune. Then, if you pissed it off, it would crawl out of your socket in the middle of the night and leave.
If you want to give him night vision but not go easy on him, you could do something like that.
I've been going back and forth on giving the rogue in my campaign slippers of spider climbing, and if it's not going going be useful or maybe even too powerful. I'm glad to know it"s a good choice!
Great Kaiser Wilhelm mustache! Also great stuff. Thanks for posting!
Haha. I am currently playing a human rogue with the goggles of night. They are very helpful. I would say that once you hit 5th level is a good spot to get them. The player has had a little while using torches or just plain not being able to see that they will really appreciate the item.
A great Uncommon magic Item to have for Rogues and Rangers is the Quiver of Ehlonna/Efficient Quiver. Store extra weapons and a crapton of arrows. And unlike with the Bag of Holding, you don't need to take an action to pull something from it.
My lvl 4 rogue just won a cloak of elvenkind in a fight, and let me tell you - having advantage on every stealth check I make while everyone else has disadvantage on perception checks against me is *chefs kiss*
First of all I played as a rogue that enjoys misdirection. As an arcane trickster I came upon a deck of illusions. I took a deck of illusion and upgraded the enchantment to have a physical form deal damage and do my command. It's quite fun to get a random ally or distraction.
Hey, just a comment on audio. It's better to keep the voices in the center or only slight to the side. That's because if you are not listening on earplugs which is common, you actually get less volume, plus it's Tiresome on the ears. Also the sides are inverted haha. Loving the channel, the videos and thanks for all your work! And hit me up if you need help with audio!
Even better on the weapon of warning. You don't need to be holding it. It just needs to be on your person. So a Dagger of Warning stashed in a belt or boot still gives its bonus.
Monty should drop several hints about where some Goggles of Night can be found (only one of which turns out to be true), for stealing, NPC interaction, combat, however the party decides to roll.
I am playing as a changling swashbuckler at the moment. My DM allowed me to acquire goggles of the night. Really useful and allows my rogue to scout ahead of the party, falling into traps etc. Go on. Give them up. Hilarity will ensue.
Two other common magic items are Armor of Gleaming, which never gets dirty - useful for fastidious types, such as Nobles, or for when you don't want any messy evidence to expose any wrong doing, like mud and blood, and whatever that foul-smelling substance was back in the sewer, and then Smoldering Armor, which has harmless wisps of smoke coming off of it - no real effects, but perhaps you could use it like Blackbeard did when he'd shove lit cannon fuses under his hat to give him an advantage on his intimidation checks, and might be useful on say a Tiefling who is trying to use his infernal heritage to give him an edge on something.
9:20 Someone else might have written it, but the Oathbow is a longbow, which is often not available for a rogue.
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Kelly the mustache rocks brother. I rock the handle bar myself 👍
In playing a gloom stalker aarkocra and it’s awesome these items will go well with him
Fun fact: Googles of Night stack! The more pairs you have the farther you can see in darkness.
Gloves of Thieving are AMAZING for Rangers even if they don't have Thieves Tools Proficient they can fill in that slot
I think the Cloak of Elvenkind is definitely the best uncommon magic item for rogues, with the Boots of Elvenkind coming in at a close second, and the Bracers of Archery are 100% the best uncommon magic item for rangers. It's also worth noting that, if you're playing a character with Sunlight Sensitivity, such as a drow, the Eyes of the Eagle, another uncommon magic item, can completely negate your disadvantage on perception checks that rely on sight while in in sunlight.
Also, Kelly's mic was turned up a little high in this video.
I gave my party a hat of disguise after rolling it randomly on a table after a random dungeon. The rouge of course grabbed it and it became an iconic part of his outfit... he also may have used it to sneak into an elven palace and sleep with the princess which certainly led to some interesting events
Cannot stop looking at Kelly's mustache. It's a great facial hair art piece!
You don't have to be "holding" a weapon of warning in order to have advantage on initiative or for any of its effects to take place. The description states "on your person" meaning so long as you have it on you either equipped on your side or in your bag it's magical effects will still take place. I highly recommend this item as even for higher levels it still becomes useful even if you are not using it to damage your foes.
I always love to have a professional and scripted your content is (in a good way) but it's so nice to see you guys fly off the cuff with mentions of your campaigns and pleas to your DM for magic items. Lol
I play a Rogue (Scout subclass) in our campaign, and although it doesn't really tie into the standard rogue play style, she gave us a Decanter of Endless Water and I use that at every possible opportunity.
The figurine is indeed an interesting choice. I am currently running a character that is essentially a combination of rogue and ranger (with a level of monk on the side), so to her that would indeed be a fitting addition in more ways than one.
THANK you for mentioning drizzt when you brought up the figures
We spent a fair portion of gold in our campaign to acquire 5 sets of Goggles of the night, one for every member of the party who doesn't have dark vision.
I’m imaging a whole swat crew with helmets and flip googles like Rainbow Six
Actually, the ring summons Nazgul to your position which will arrive in 3 d4 days.
AWESOME mustache. My last ranger character had the same. Very robinhoody feel