"The Ring of Contrariness causes the wearer to became unable to agree with any idea, statement or action which some players seemed to be equipped by default." I feel personally attacked
I'll never forget the alchemy jug, since it got one of my friends into D&D. He asked me, jokingly, if mayonnaise was a magic item (imitating Patrick Starr's "Is mayonnaise an instrument?"). I said yes, and he was completely shocked and baffled.
Never forget the party that created the "Head of Vecna" (literally just an appropriate looking head) and left it for the GM's other party running in parallel on a different night. Total party kills trying to make it work were stupidly high.
Great video. Boy, D&D has really changed. I used to do campaigns back in mid-late 80's when I was a teenager. Totally loved it. Since then I have never found anyone who either wants to play or have ever played... Both weren't even interested!!! Most of the magick equipment and peoples mentioned I have NEVER heard of. So yeah, I guess it has changed some in the last 35 years haha
14:30 an elephant you say? that would be really weird if that happened to someone while battling a blue orc while in an ancient underground building made to be a jail for a mischevious diety who has escaped previously and is the patron of the groups warlock
Mate... I can't even begin to say this... but I am hooked on your channel! I have watched your D&D videos, your SCP videos, and your History videos! Your voice is mellow and keeps everybody feeling engages, and you explain things with perfect clarity! I stayed up until 3 AM on a school night listening to the Ouroboros cycle one, and I'm always looking forward to when new videos come out. Keep it up!
In our campaign we we were all granted magical items, instead of a “Decanter of infinite water” I chose “Decanter of infinite bees” this is one of my favorite things I’ve ever done. Almost killed my self via bee stings as I attempted to throw the jar at an ancient demon we were fighting.
So you get a demon ally but a devil enemy For those that don't know demons and devil are two different things Devils are lawful evil while Demons are chaotic evil
I have in one of my games a very good item: the Treecaller Greatstaff. It has three talismans on it that can be used once and then are gone until the next day, but for each remaining talisman it gives +1 spell DC to the attuned user. Thanks to that, I have a spell DC of 20 on my level 11 character.
The Handy Haversack is smaller than a Bag of Holding, but it's faster to get the item you need/want out of it: in combat, you'd have to spend a full 6 second turn (drawing Attacks of Opportunity from nearby enemies) to retrieve something from a Bag of Holding, while the Haversack has the specific item right on top (letting you get the item with a single action on your turn without drawing AoOs).
LOL the rogue putting on the cursed ring is literally how the campaign in which I ended the multiverse started. he wasn't supposed to put it on so that and how we reacted to do it started a chain of events that took the story right off the rails and had our dm improving for more than a year. also its why we have a dread wraith pop up from time to time called Urza the centuple damned.
For my seventh grade history class, our teacher set up a d&d without magic items and stuff based on Ancient Rome. I had the great idea of building a snow fort to defend against 20:1 odds, and another class somehow made a nuclear weapon and nuked Ancient Rome. My friend was mostly responsible for this as he sold an avacado for sixty coins and a nuke for five.
General rule of thumb for any DM: don’t invent items that create an infinite amount of something; you are just asking for the players to break the game.
My berserker character was turned into a statue once, and my party stuck me in a bag of holding for easy transport. I spent like 3 or 4 sessions being carried around in that stupid bag before they found a way to bring me back. Bag of holding memories, I tell ya what.
add in reduce person or reduce object (preferably both) and then you have a great way to transport npc's. evacuate a village, easy! take BBEG's minion captive for questioning, easy! sneak a group of assassins into the big event at the heavily secured palace, easy!
don't forget the 'a dragon ate me so i activate my immobile rod as it is flying around the battlefield' incident. see also how to build a floating castle on the cheap and instant ladder kit for uses for multiple rods(3+). if you cheap out on building your floating palace, remember the weight limit and NEVER EVER chance the button being pushed after you start laying the foundations.
Aaahhh. The damnable Deck of Many Things. I and a few friends had a game of Pathfinder going. We found the deck around like level 11. Foolishly we used it. I got the ruin card felt so defeated. One of a party members soul got trapped. One gained like 3 levels. It was an event of mixed emotions.
Seeing the thumbnail makes me think of the lore of Icewind Dale and how the elves and dwarves fought against a horde of orcs together, then got fucked over by a bastard Dark Elf named Nym who stole and sold items crafted by the elven/dwarven alliance.
As someone who has played since first edition let me say. you have no idea how NICE the current versions of the Deck of Many things are compared to the old ones. Especially if you had a bastard of a DM with Dragon Magazine #77, which had a FULL 78 CARD TAROT DECK version with 'reversed' effects if the card was upside down when you drew it. That's 156 possible effects. And it had a 4 card limit, so you couldn't try to draw most of the deck and negate the bad effects, 4 draws max if you were lucky, the Fool card gives you another draw but forces a beneficial effect, unless it was 'reversed' then the extra draw was always bad. And they are all like that,get it upright get something good, get it reversed something bad happens. Death was terrifying, the 'good' effect was you died. burst into flame and are reborn a randomly rolled race. The bad effect was you were permanently under the effect of a Slow spell, that required a wish to remove.
If the immoveable rod was used in real life, it would look like it would be flung away because the Earth is always moving, unless you could fix it in place in relation to the Earth.
So I once had a DM who ran a campaign through hell. My character borrowed a holy goblet from my church that instantly turned all water within it into holy water. Then I bought a decanter of endless water, cut a the bottom of the goblet off and mounted the parts to a crossbow frame. I now have the ultimate holy water super soaker. Come at me demons. Another item was an adamantine dagger, with the sizing enchantment, with an immovable rod for a handle. Activate immovable rod, change dagger size from tiny to gargantuan. Cut anything. Stab a flying dragon in the back, increase dagger size and activate immovable rod. Bisect a dragon.
w8 isnt the unmoveable rod inaccurrate cause everything is moving in space with immense speeds. So if you would stop the rod the galaxy , solar systems, planet would still move in huge speed so wouldn´t it be more like projectile with unknown direction. Which would shoot had 50% to kill the user. 50% Chance to go into space 50% to hit like comet? But if it stays same Position on the planet its not unmoveable object. Cause it moves with the planet.
We had a session where the dwarf fighter looked in his tankard as he lifted it.. perception check revealed a fire seed appear. He rolled a reflex and will check and froze... Then slowly lowered then tankard with out setting off the delayed blast fire ball... Our party sat frozen. Everyone in the inn knew they would die. My halfling thief won the initiative roll.. hopped up rolled.. bag of holding sucked up the seed.. closed off the bag and smiles. Session paused and two hours of debating went on... We got an official ruling from WoTC lol... Took a week. As the rules state yes, but what about the fireball? It was empowered and maxed (3.5 Ed) It would over fill the space inside three times over. Let's not go into what I had in the bag haha... Long story short, the entire in was sucked into a new plane. Ravenloft haha... Our pally wasn't happy, that in a world of evil, she shined like a beacon to the creatures there hahaha... I'm so wrong, still smile about that Just like a wall of iron.. sure but summon it at a 45° facing the enemy.. "ladies and gents... The juicer!!!!" Though the beaker of endless water. I love my new ocean thank you
yeah but that's like a dc20 climb check plus an increasingly hard con save every 5 feet you go up, if you use 3 of them it's a dc5 climb check so auto success outside of combat.
It should be noted that what would actually happen if a bag of holding were to be broken is that the spacial distortion within it would be unleashed and an artificial White Hole would be made.
GM let us do a deck of many things on the third session and I managed to get to level 7 and get a magic weapon or two without being turned into a lifeless husk by the void card
I played baldur's gate 3 and I kinda got dissatisfied with the magic items since I like playing TES games as an enchanter, no spells only enchanted scrolls and staffs or weapons
It depends on the DM. I've seen it ruled that the alignment changes to any of the non-neutral ones at random (my personal favorite). More often than not though, it is ruled as not doing anything at all.
I’m a huge dnd player but I’d actually never heard of it. I’d totally love to use I though. My first idea is turning it into a rudimentary missle by going up somewhere high and loading it with that 8000 pounds and saying goodbye to whatever poor target you hit.
"The Ring of Contrariness causes the wearer to became unable to agree with any idea, statement or action which some players seemed to be equipped by default."
I feel personally attacked
Roll initiative!
Well quit arguing with everyone next time and you might de-attune to it. Lol
Well I don’t think you feel attacked!
No you don't.
@@TheXell I take offense to that statement
I'll never forget the alchemy jug, since it got one of my friends into D&D.
He asked me, jokingly, if mayonnaise was a magic item (imitating Patrick Starr's "Is mayonnaise an instrument?"). I said yes, and he was completely shocked and baffled.
This is basically a whole class of SCPs in its own right.
13:26 That's far too accurate...
What is?
@@lucbrown3091 13:20
Never forget the party that created the "Head of Vecna" (literally just an appropriate looking head) and left it for the GM's other party running in parallel on a different night. Total party kills trying to make it work were stupidly high.
16:16 ah yes... The legendary rope of climbing.
When you decide to send the 80 yr old wizard up the rope first to get to the top of the cliff you’ll be wanting it.
@@gargoyles9999 or have a DM that knows how difficult rock climbing and spelunking actually is with players that cant even identify a climbing piton
Great video. Boy, D&D has really changed. I used to do campaigns back in mid-late 80's when I was a teenager. Totally loved it. Since then I have never found anyone who either wants to play or have ever played... Both weren't even interested!!! Most of the magick equipment and peoples mentioned I have NEVER heard of. So yeah, I guess it has changed some in the last 35 years haha
I've always thought that this reality could use a little magic. Thank you for bringing some to us.
I love these D&D videos despite never having actually played D&D. Is that weird? 🤔
Same but I would be interested in playing it
That's how you end up playing
No
Its his narrative stile that makes you to listen
@@tunderstorm2769 yeah it’s great. Could listen to him reading the menu
14:30 an elephant you say? that would be really weird if that happened to someone while battling a blue orc while in an ancient underground building made to be a jail for a mischevious diety who has escaped previously and is the patron of the groups warlock
Yeah, weird
Love how you can just hear TES Passion about d&d in these vids
Very infectious even tho I never played it
Mate... I can't even begin to say this... but I am hooked on your channel! I have watched your D&D videos, your SCP videos, and your History videos! Your voice is mellow and keeps everybody feeling engages, and you explain things with perfect clarity! I stayed up until 3 AM on a school night listening to the Ouroboros cycle one, and I'm always looking forward to when new videos come out. Keep it up!
Really useful intro for people that are new and looking to get into D&D. Thanks!
Magic items are basically object type SCPs been tempted to home-brew an infinite pizza box into my D&D campaign for fun.
Why do the D&D videos have lower views than the others? These are just as great as the SCP videos!
In our campaign we we were all granted magical items, instead of a “Decanter of infinite water” I chose “Decanter of infinite bees” this is one of my favorite things I’ve ever done. Almost killed my self via bee stings as I attempted to throw the jar at an ancient demon we were fighting.
Loving these DnD uploads, super helpful for the campaign I'm running! Thanks!
The flames card actually makes a powerful devil your arch nemesis
You mean demon
@@shawnhall3849 No I mean devil
I wonder how the devil feals about that.
So you get a demon ally but a devil enemy
For those that don't know demons and devil are two different things
Devils are lawful evil while Demons are chaotic evil
I have in one of my games a very good item: the Treecaller Greatstaff. It has three talismans on it that can be used once and then are gone until the next day, but for each remaining talisman it gives +1 spell DC to the attuned user. Thanks to that, I have a spell DC of 20 on my level 11 character.
The Handy Haversack is smaller than a Bag of Holding, but it's faster to get the item you need/want out of it: in combat, you'd have to spend a full 6 second turn (drawing Attacks of Opportunity from nearby enemies) to retrieve something from a Bag of Holding, while the Haversack has the specific item right on top (letting you get the item with a single action on your turn without drawing AoOs).
Can I just tell you I love your channel. It got me into 40k and has provided hours and hours of fantastic content.
How long have you been playing d&d, Exploring? (And everyone as well)
10 yrs
Played as a kid. When 2nd edition was hot off the press!
would be curious on this as well. Would we see an Exploring campaign-webcast ever?
Know about it for 20 years. First session was at the beginning of the Covid Crisis. Now we play every 2 week. :D
I've known about it for some time, but have never played it. I want to though-
..and then theres the Deck of Many Things.
I love that damn deck so much. My players on the other hand
We hate you. We hate you a lot.
I love all of your videos. Been watching for awhile. Started with you scp videos I start my Monday morning with you uploads
LOL the rogue putting on the cursed ring is literally how the campaign in which I ended the multiverse started. he wasn't supposed to put it on so that and how we reacted to do it started a chain of events that took the story right off the rails and had our dm improving for more than a year. also its why we have a dread wraith pop up from time to time called Urza the centuple damned.
10:53 That Damnation art is freakin' fantastic.
I thoroughly enjoy all exploring series episodes. Whatever the topic they always entertain. Thank you
Ho yes, the music of the Draenei starting zone .
i love that music.
Hypothetical idea: Decanter of endless bees
Bruh
Not the bees!
Dear God.
You monster!
For my seventh grade history class, our teacher set up a d&d without magic items and stuff based on Ancient Rome. I had the great idea of building a snow fort to defend against 20:1 odds, and another class somehow made a nuclear weapon and nuked Ancient Rome. My friend was mostly responsible for this as he sold an avacado for sixty coins and a nuke for five.
I have never played this game but even before I found this channel and this series I’ve always wanted to play. When I found this I got really exited
General rule of thumb for any DM: don’t invent items that create an infinite amount of something; you are just asking for the players to break the game.
My sigh during the pause after he said "the deck of many things"
My berserker character was turned into a statue once, and my party stuck me in a bag of holding for easy transport.
I spent like 3 or 4 sessions being carried around in that stupid bag before they found a way to bring me back.
Bag of holding memories, I tell ya what.
add in reduce person or reduce object (preferably both) and then you have a great way to transport npc's. evacuate a village, easy! take BBEG's minion captive for questioning, easy! sneak a group of assassins into the big event at the heavily secured palace, easy!
@@marthachampagne316 that’s actually brilliant.
2:44 First edition? Or as we used to say, AD&D, emphasis on the "A". This is gonna be good.
Ye ol’ Immovable Rod, one of my favorites. Destroying castle walls since 2017.
don't forget the 'a dragon ate me so i activate my immobile rod as it is flying around the battlefield' incident. see also how to build a floating castle on the cheap and instant ladder kit for uses for multiple rods(3+). if you cheap out on building your floating palace, remember the weight limit and NEVER EVER chance the button being pushed after you start laying the foundations.
I've used the immovable Rod to save party members from falling into a fast moving river
If you are falling and grab or activate the rod, it's just going to rip your arm off.
We were only beginning to fall. Plus my character had really good strength to hold onto the rod and another party member while they grabbed the other.
13:25 and you say you have no sense of humor, we’re on to you
I could listen to you talk about magical items for another 5 hours
Super cool stuff. I'll be sad when this series is done.
Aaahhh. The damnable Deck of Many Things. I and a few friends had a game of Pathfinder going. We found the deck around like level 11. Foolishly we used it. I got the ruin card felt so defeated. One of a party members soul got trapped. One gained like 3 levels. It was an event of mixed emotions.
Bag of Holding: Origin: Mary Poppins' carpet bag
Set 1: Get bag of holding.
Step 2: Get portable hole.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit.
@Michael Johnson I see you've also found "The Keyboard of CAPS-Lock +1". Very nice.
@Michael Johnson Ctrl+Mouse Scroll or pinch to zoom. I am also old man and legally blind, worse than 20/200 eyesight.
*"Abra-ca-f**k you!"* -Taako from TV
Could be fun playing a thief who usses magical objects to screw around with everyone and everything
More please! I love d&d
*OH BOY! IT’S....NOT 3AM?!!*
I play DDO a lot and started collecting quarterstaffs with unique names. I got witching hour and luminous truth.
I love the World of Warcraft Wintergrasp score
Thanks so much I've been waiting for more DnD videos
Hear me out.... origins of magic items video? :P Great video, keep up the good work!
Another good looking video.
14:35 the wabbajack for sure lol
Seeing the thumbnail makes me think of the lore of Icewind Dale and how the elves and dwarves fought against a horde of orcs together, then got fucked over by a bastard Dark Elf named Nym who stole and sold items crafted by the elven/dwarven alliance.
Hell yea been waiting for more DND content
Yes! Finally! Keep making more DnD videos!!!! I'm so tired of the SCP stuff!!!!!!
Very Alluring ... just like the Magic in the computer game "Master of Magic"
As someone who has played since first edition let me say. you have no idea how NICE the current versions of the Deck of Many things are compared to the old ones. Especially if you had a bastard of a DM with Dragon Magazine #77, which had a FULL 78 CARD TAROT DECK version with 'reversed' effects if the card was upside down when you drew it. That's 156 possible effects. And it had a 4 card limit, so you couldn't try to draw most of the deck and negate the bad effects, 4 draws max if you were lucky, the Fool card gives you another draw but forces a beneficial effect, unless it was 'reversed' then the extra draw was always bad. And they are all like that,get it upright get something good, get it reversed something bad happens. Death was terrifying, the 'good' effect was you died. burst into flame and are reborn a randomly rolled race. The bad effect was you were permanently under the effect of a Slow spell, that required a wish to remove.
Cant wait for more of these to come out
Fascinating!!!🙂❤👍
3:54 D&D players invent the Vortex Grenade/Distort Cannon
After hearing this, my confusion about the mindflayers refusal to use such an obvious ability is even more cemented
Mind flayers are mindless servants of the elder brain
If the immoveable rod was used in real life, it would look like it would be flung away because the Earth is always moving, unless you could fix it in place in relation to the Earth.
Karen's benevolent blade is a sword that can shoot beams but always deals nonlethal damage
My campaign's main evil villain (who started as an ally) now has the book of vile darkness and the hand and eye of Vecna. So.....that's a thing.
So I once had a DM who ran a campaign through hell.
My character borrowed a holy goblet from my church that instantly turned all water within it into holy water.
Then I bought a decanter of endless water, cut a the bottom of the goblet off and mounted the parts to a crossbow frame.
I now have the ultimate holy water super soaker.
Come at me demons.
Another item was an adamantine dagger, with the sizing enchantment, with an immovable rod for a handle.
Activate immovable rod, change dagger size from tiny to gargantuan.
Cut anything.
Stab a flying dragon in the back, increase dagger size and activate immovable rod.
Bisect a dragon.
The "Immovable" Rod moves with the planet, right?
yes basically it's magical effect locks it in 1 place but will follow the planet if it is used on a setting that used a planet as it's core world.
the earth is flat nerd
Feather tokens. Used the swan boat to kill a group of cultists and there are 1001 uses for an instant tree
w8 isnt the unmoveable rod inaccurrate cause everything is moving in space with immense speeds. So if you would stop the rod the galaxy , solar systems, planet would still move in huge speed so wouldn´t it be more like projectile with unknown direction. Which would shoot had 50% to kill the user. 50% Chance to go into space 50% to hit like comet? But if it stays same Position on the planet its not unmoveable object. Cause it moves with the planet.
You could easily do an entire video on artifacts. Some artifacts have enough material to do an entire video based just on it.
We had a session where the dwarf fighter looked in his tankard as he lifted it.. perception check revealed a fire seed appear. He rolled a reflex and will check and froze... Then slowly lowered then tankard with out setting off the delayed blast fire ball... Our party sat frozen. Everyone in the inn knew they would die. My halfling thief won the initiative roll.. hopped up rolled.. bag of holding sucked up the seed.. closed off the bag and smiles. Session paused and two hours of debating went on... We got an official ruling from WoTC lol... Took a week.
As the rules state yes, but what about the fireball? It was empowered and maxed (3.5 Ed)
It would over fill the space inside three times over. Let's not go into what I had in the bag haha...
Long story short, the entire in was sucked into a new plane. Ravenloft haha... Our pally wasn't happy, that in a world of evil, she shined like a beacon to the creatures there hahaha... I'm so wrong, still smile about that
Just like a wall of iron.. sure but summon it at a 45° facing the enemy.. "ladies and gents... The juicer!!!!"
Though the beaker of endless water. I love my new ocean thank you
One immovable rod can be used to climb any distance if you're strong, dexterous, and well practiced. Ever seen a salmon climb exercise?
yeah but that's like a dc20 climb check plus an increasingly hard con save every 5 feet you go up, if you use 3 of them it's a dc5 climb check so auto success outside of combat.
Can you do horrors like Lycans, Banshee, Dullahan in DnD or other races/classes
Good video
Time to make a gnome or halfling that uses a Decanter of Endless Water to rocketjump.
I was In a game where we TPKed on session 2 when we used a bag of bean to create a chuul
I love that you threw shade at awful contrarian players.
11:03 1st graders when they put a bunch of markers together
It should be noted that what would actually happen if a bag of holding were to be broken is that the spacial distortion within it would be unleashed and an artificial White Hole would be made.
@Michael Johnson do you have caps lock on? Also not nearly as theoretical as you think
And they let Grog have the deck of many things wow
You should do exploring videos on Star Trek.
Remember kids, when playing a murder hobo, don't be too Murdery or to Hobo-y.
Can I draw all of the cards, what's the limit exactly?
Some Magics are too volatile to be wielded so they are contained within the artifacts.
But what did the ring at the beginning do??
I notice a certain....specificity to your choice of items.....have you been reading Critical Failures? And if not....you really really should! 😎
GM let us do a deck of many things on the third session and I managed to get to level 7 and get a magic weapon or two without being turned into a lifeless husk by the void card
You should try DND magic lore.
I'm going to draw all twenty-two cards from the Deck of Many Things.
Worst Idea i've seen this year!
I've been told I have a magic staff and sack.
I love how your borrowing from critical roles Repertoire of items. It’s a good show, but I haven’t gotten to watch in a while.
sword of greater stabbing
Mundane sack. Hehehe
I played baldur's gate 3 and I kinda got dissatisfied with the magic items since I like playing TES games as an enchanter, no spells only enchanted scrolls and staffs or weapons
I played a campaign where I had an alc jug and used the mayonnaise to bribe homeless ppl to form a gang w/ me
God i love/hate the deck of many things. Probably need to ask my dm for one to have on waterdeep
@Michael Johnson oohh. Sounds fun, will do thanks.
What would the balance card do if you’re true neutral
It depends on the DM.
I've seen it ruled that the alignment changes to any of the non-neutral ones at random (my personal favorite). More often than not though, it is ruled as not doing anything at all.
3.5 ruled equal chance of LG, CG, LE, CE for new 'opposed' alignment.
Minor Artifacts unlike Major Artifacts, don't have to be unique. Deck of Many things is an example. They just have be impossible for PC's to make.
im sorry i thought your thumbnail is kael and the dwarft in world of warcraft
All great players know that an Immovable Rod has 1,001 uses.
I’m a huge dnd player but I’d actually never heard of it. I’d totally love to use I though.
My first idea is turning it into a rudimentary missle by going up somewhere high and loading it with that 8000 pounds and saying goodbye to whatever poor target you hit.