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- Опубліковано 12 жов 2021
- Wild Beyond the Witchlight is here, and we're giving you our first impressions of the newest Feywild official WoTC Dungeons and Dragons release! What do you think of this D&D adventure? Plus, our takes on The D&D Celebration reveals!
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My hype for the fizbans review is indescribable and my happiness you guys continue reviewing wizards project makes me very joyful and glad to be a part of the community and I am curious has Pruitt seen the latest race ua?🪐☄️🛸👽🛰🚀
Also are you all at web dm curios about the call of the nether deep module and excited for that at all since some far realm involvement at the bottom of the ocean?
Totally agree with Jim about a group with “humble beginnings”.
If your story is about WONDER you gotta start with some characters who have pretty mundane or simple worlds that get blown away by a new reality. How lame would it have been if Charlie Bucket was just another rich kid who got to go into Wonka’s Factory?
So tired of pc's on an epic quest for vengeance from the onset of an adventure.
Best way I got my players into the feywilds was them rolling a nat 1 to find the feywilds. Instead of actually finding they feywilds they got lost in the woods and just sort of stumbled in.
That's a really nice way to handle that situation
A harengon clockwork soul sorcerer would literally be the White Rabbit. And he could be obsessed with getting to this unknown location, and the other players are getting dragged along while he runs through the feywild!
I went low magic for this very reason. Being enveloped in magic while being a grounded hero is a classic archetype that works incredibly well for this. That said, I think having a few humans/half-elves/half-orcs/ and then one or two magical characters who are witchlight hands would work great on a narrative level.
Yeah i feel like that's how the Witchlight Hand background is best utilized narratively. Just one, maybe two, who can serve sort of as guides.
I am currently reading through the adventure myself. Almost done, but I like to read a bit and give my brain a day or two to percolate on it. So far I feel like this is the first DnD adventure written for my particular playstyle. Everything about it felt so familiar and I was almost giddy with how it felt like I already knew what was coming next. Glad to see some new approaches to ttrpging besides "kill everything and take the loots!" Thank you two for shining a light on this super adventure.
Wild Beyond the Witchlight? That's my favourite Yngwie Malmsteen song!
Not that I'm upset, but are there plans for you guys to get back to studio together soon? The new audio setup is super good, but it's not the same as you guys in the same room. The chemistry is better. Love you guys!
Yeah, this would really be nice.
Me too. There’s too many “most definitely’s”, and Jim chuckling at random things. The in person chemistry is much much better.
The ultimate D&D homies back at it again
woot
The Ultimate DnD Homies is the best and most accurate description of this show.
Excited to go through the looming glass with y’all!! ALSO **** yeah Monte Cook games. What a fantastic group of creative and twisted minds!
Yes, they rock!
I love your ability to avoid the elephant in the room.
Great call back to Deep Space Nine the episode was Treachery, Faith and the Great River. It focused on Nog and Chief O'Brien creatively solving supply chain problems. The river being the great material continuum which was the Ferengi view of supply and demand. Very good comparison to the bartering for favors in Wild Beyond the Witchlight.
The grounded human beginning gives me huge Stardust vibes. I’m here for it.
Y’all look happy today.
Not sure if it’s just me, but I’m glad to see the magic back
I bought the guts of the book without the adventure. And I kinda just want to talk about some stuff that inspires me.
1. Chromatic Roses captivate me greatly. A magic item I can freely give that's expendable, requires tactical judgment, and is thematic as a magical token of beauty, love, and sacrafice
2. Races. I see alot of Monks, Wizards, Artificers and Barbarians being played with both races for the same reasons you see halflings and gnomes played. You can easily make a medium harengon into an anthro kangaroo if "kangaroo boxer" inspires any odd nostalgia or reverence in Australian in you.
As for fairies, I'm hope both people are happy, and hardcore power gamers do some real madness with butterfly wings on their back.
3. Monsters added are mostly are mostly evocative NPC and adorable creatures, and highly chalanging bosses that can be reused/reskined pretty well.
Thank you for reading my comment, hope it was useful
There is the "Lost Things" session 0 adventure that gives a whole adventure hook and "how do you characters know each other". (oh, you talk about it at 11:00. HA!)
I wish you guys had your videos with timestamps. I know its some extra work but I would personally appreciate it greatly.
Thanks for the review, I wasn't sure if I wanted this book but you've sold me on it.
I'm a few sessions in to my run of it. Just finished the carnival chapter last weekend. Love it so far.
Awesome!
I still watch these guys' videos. They're a trove of great info.
the best thing that whatever they do in 2024 could do is add back in the explicit hexcrawling and dungeoncrawling procedures to give actual procedures for actually running those parts of the game
The Great River of the Material Continuum. I f*cking love that episode, too.
Love that stinger!!!
Glad to hear you have the*correct* stance on the Large PC race debate lol. ;p
Definitely been missing my weekly Jim & Pruitt time
I like the rabbit folk race because I had recently listened to Jack Vance’s Lyonesse trilogy (which is full of fairies being tricky and magical), and there’s a minor character named Grofinet who is like a rabbit folk. He even get fixated on funny projects like trying to construct wings to fly and build a pyramid when he learns about the ones in Egypt. True fey-brained character.
Oh wow, I watched "For Want Of A Boot" last night. I agree, it's a great example.
Just woke up. So this is a nice treat.
Good morning!
@@WebDM always appreciate a good wake-up video. Thanks folks!
Tiny Fairy Barbarian, Totem of the Mosquito.
ive been developing a small/tiny dream party every since this and the last UA came out. Every single character is against type. may through in a paralyzed goliath wizard who is wheeled around by the autognome untill he gets some way to levitate for flavor.
Do you think Wild beyond the Witchlight is a good book to pick up if you don't want to run it? Like to get some Fey lore, good NPC ideas, magic items, etc... Really interested in running Fey stuff and specifically the deals and such, but not really interested in running a pre-written campaign right now.
Probably! There's tables and stuff that are useful, but like most published adventures, you'd have to dig around to find what you need and have to put in some elbow grease to adapt it.
For a darker less Disneyesqu feywilde, check out the Shadow of the Demon Lord book Terrible Beauty. Adaptable to any fantasy game with usable tables and ideas.
Great video as always
Yay They are covering the fey book
They are!
This is the first 5e book I've actually wanted. I like playing Cypher and OSR and was checking out an old Dungeon mag to look at Warduke stats and then when I did some googling of the name, the new Feywilds book popped up. Since it has Warduke and other old, early 80s people in it, that suddenly became very interesting. So I'll be buying it and probably using it with Numenera and cypher rules. 8-)
PS: I've requested it to be a Xmas gift (just like how it was in the early 80s).
Great trek reference. I steal so much material for my game from DS9. It's the most gameable show I can think of.
Oh, there you are, Shadow ;)
My brother is doing the haregon samurai lol
Yes 🙌🏻
Thanks.
You've certainly made me more interested in Wild Beyond the Witchlight. I love the Feywild, I don't really love WotC's written adventures though. As for AD&D 5E or 5.5E or whatever we're calling it. It's time. I don't think it will be very different either. I think WotC just wants to get away from certain elements of the core 3 books being outdated. Probably making Tasha's Cauldron stuff (like fixes to the ranger and racial stat assignment) baseline to the edition now since they're fairly well received. *himbo strength elves unite!*. Still the same math. Just streamlined elements.
I personally am not a fan of the new racial stat stuff especially since they kept saying it's optional only to make it the law of the land for all their UAs after that,
I'll elaborate further but before I get to heated I'll say I'm a fan of himbo/Adonis style elves as well
it just homogenises all the different races to the point that they're all just humans with pointy ears or with a beard.
I'd let sleeping dogs lie and just ignore it but with the latest stuff they've done with races making them literally all just humans in all proportions it just feels crazy for me. It takes planet of the hats to new levels
To me it is a nice alternative, but I would prefer if racial bonuses were still a thing and you had a choice between strong but set racial bonus or weaker bonus to whatever you want.
As if: you can either pick just +1/+1 to any stats you want, or something like +2/+2 to specific racial stats
@@nihili4196 that is a interesting compromise, I like it although I'd probably throw a -1 to another stat for the strong racials might be a pain to balance either way in practice and might be a hard sell to either side.
Puns are the quickest way to make a morass out of yourself
A large Goliath? Never heard of it :)
When you try to appeal to everyone, you end up appealing to no one.
I would like to see the PHB arch. get rebalanced so they are actually a viable option without feeling like you are shooting yourself in the foot. Maybe tweak a few problematic spells that are OP. Most of all I would like more DM support, I have been playing for years and got tons of books to help me out, new players aren't so fortunate and have been left hanging thus far.
I love this stuff
What's your thoughts on the cupcake damage
When I heard that WotC was going to do a 5.5 the first thing I thought was “finally, they are going to subscribe ways of rewarding xp for social interaction and other aspects of the game other than combat. I’m excited to see them add to the tool box. I have a concern that homogenization will happen but its promising that they are taking their time on this expanded edition.
A very detailed and informative review, great stuff!
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Did you guys see thaco the clown?
Everyone's going crazy about playing a tiny fairy PC...but I say why not want to play a GIANT fairy?? 👀
Gold 🏅
I'm a sucker for a found family story
This family potential is 💯 for me
Med sized
But they're SUPPOSED to be tiny. So they were bullied & outcast 🤣
the fairy race in it aren't tiny there Small
@@si2foo fairy ability of enlarge/reduce makes them tiny
The way I'm play a heregon. Is my farm was attacked by werewolf and my daughter curse with lycantropy by a Wolf of Malar. And the only one that I belive can free her from the curse is silvana
The puns are especially bad today. The rest is great as always, thanks for the video! :)
Technically "happily ever after" is a modern take on fairy tales...
Jim needs to embrace the puns. Let them flow.
I feel like a whole campaign that you can go through without ever getting into a fight renders certain classes entirely useless. A huge chunk of class features are based on combat.
But all other campaigns are great for those class features - as long as the table knows what kind of game they are getting into, this is an amazing option to have as a DM. This one really emphasises that you need a session 0.
Well, they said you can get into fights, but it'll be a TPK most of the time ... lol. I'm really, really interested to read the book. I guess you could always nerf the TPK scenarios. I'm probably going to be playing it solo with Numenera characters and there will be violence, by God... hahah.
....and the milestone leveling in "Wildemount"? - 27:16 ua-cam.com/video/va1Mlj6nw_Y/v-deo.html
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I want to know..what is you guys's opinion on this being a campaign that ends in the mid-tier? shouldn't we have more campaigns ending at level 20??
Yes. Yes we should.
Honestly in our experience it rarely happens and a lot of vtt data we have supports that it is rare too. It's probably not a good or bad thing and not a question of should we make it to 20 more or not. Better questions to ask might be why it doesn't and whether the campaigns are enjoyable. We spent a lot of time getting down in the dumps about it in our earlier gaming years, and things got more fun (and we actually got to max level more often!) when we let that go.
Hail and well met! Im the 500th like 🥳🥳🥳
I want a dm book for new / optional rules for just magic just combat and basically dividing things up
How within the hour are there always 3 dislikes?
I'm convinced it's the same 3 people.
Warp Riders is a pretty good album yo. Also, Wild Beyond the Witchlight sounds pretty dang dope.
I'm probably mildly disappointed we got chonky faeries and shetland pony centaurs, but medium minotaurs? Come on. As for the future of DnD 5e? When it comes to getting a re-done DMG, I would much rather just have a supplemental DMG, so I don't feel like I'm spending the money for the same book, but better. Also...
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I already bought the dang book, I don't want to buy it again, and I would rather avoid getting rid of or putting away the supposedly inferior book.
If Wizards wanted to sell me the same crap over and over again, I'm already into Magic the Gathering as an avid Commander player. I would really HATE for Wizards to turn into Games Workshop, needing too many new rules sets and having too many of their models becoming obsolete. I'm already slowing down on MtG because Wizards screwed up one of my most favorite tribes, werewolves, and Wizards is pushing way way way waaaayyyy too much MtG product. Not to mention, besides such a monkey wrench thrown into the gears of collectability, they also got rid of the Fat Pack supplemental booklets... but I digress.
As for the rest of the future of DnD...
> I would like Wizards to do 5e books for Spelljammer and Dark Sun, because I never got to play with either in previous editions.
> I would like something else besides The Forgotten Realms, so DnD can explore the other realms Wizards might as well have forgotten about...
> ...such as Greyhawk and Planescape.
On a side note, I've got cabin fever something fierce, but the pandemic's ever-so-subtle post-apocalyptic effects aren't being too kind to me. I really need to get back to a table so I can start rolling dice again.
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Great video, as always. Thank you again for your insight.
So, here's a question for the team/ audience: not trying to rile up anybody, but isn't Thaco the Clown... kind of a shot at the Grognards in the hobby?
I can respect a soft dig and I fully accept "don't whine about a bad shoe if you don't believe it's made to fit your foot", but IMHO a lot of old hands are already migrating to the OSR and this only deepens the rift.
Probably is, but I doubt anyone is going to care. I don't think the grognard types are going to bother paying attention, and the people who like smug back-patting will smirk knowingly like a White Wolf World of Darkness player circa 2000-something about "TRUE ROLEPLAYING!!1!1" and move on.
@@DrakeBarrow , sounds about right. ✌🏻
I've barely scratched the surface of the content out there after playing 5e for 3 years now, its kind of worrying to hear about a new edition coming out.
you know they're genuine about liking this book because of how much they eviscerated the past few dnd books
Trigger Warning: Intended Puns
"The game's pretty old" ...
How is chess supposed to feel?
I have to massively disagree with "we know the other games exist". Most players do think D&D is the only game.
So far we have been playing for about 6 hours and I find it terribly boring. But that's just me.
Yeah, ill be honest - im pretty damn disappointed in the fairy race, not least of all because fairy has historically been not a specific creature and always referred to a large swath of Fey species
So the kobold lol
@@Ravens_Craft_Cosplay No, the Fairy
No I mean kobold are vastly different in every edition
@@Ravens_Craft_Cosplay That’s not what I’m talking about though. Historically, “fairy” is a group of different creatures, not one singular race
Also, im not sure what you even mean because even if skills and stats vary, Kobolds have from BECMI til now have always been a (mostly) evil race of small draconic “lizard people” who are cowardly and use traps. Like, that’s not changed
Why are u people still seperating, it's almost 2022
So far as an update in 2024, I'll say it, I'll be that guy.
I want individual spell slot preparation for the Wizard and Artificer and an uncapped spell points system for the Sorcerer. I wand Bards to be Wisdom casters and Clerics to be Intelligence. I want an overhaul of ritual casting.
I said it, and I'm not sorry.
Wizard = Wisdom (practice and experience)
Sorcerer = Intelligence (assimilation of new data with no formal training)
Cleric = Charisma (attracting followers and having a strong sense of self)
Druids don’t need to change but i could see an argument for Charisma for them as well.
Paladins are fine. Warlocks are fine. Bards… hooboy. Let’s just leave them alone; it’s safer.
@@foghammer9767 I like the way you think! I think under your paradigm, Bards might have to be Intelligence casters, with... Wisdom-based class abilities?
I like this homebrew.
They need to change the way to earn xp, they need to go to a xp per successful skill/spell/attack actions which will increase ways to play without defeating monsters or just lvl them when you get so far, I dislike both and this alone could change our game for the better.