Even though Keen Mind doesn't directly raise your intelligence, it gives you special skills that can let you stockpile infinite knowledge. In the right situations you can abuse that fact to raise your INT (not the stat) into infinity! Honestly half the video is describing what 'Intelligence' is as a stat and how Keen mind can let you raise the stat artificially. I agree the original title was misleading, but nothing about what I covered was blatantly wrong. And for anyone wondering, you can get 'Keen Mind' at level 1 if you choose 'Variant Human' as your starting race.

@richardgibson8403

4 жыл бұрын

He’s gone.

@richardgibson8403

4 жыл бұрын

No anime in dnd I guess.

@dannysangree6304

4 жыл бұрын

Do dr stone in d&d

@richardgibson8403

4 жыл бұрын

Danny Sangree But... this... is...

@BlaineSimple

4 жыл бұрын

@@richardgibson8403 Gotta love the enthusiasm. Also assuming it's the running joke going on and not an actual request xD

We have a house rule that if a character has an intelligence score of 30, they become self aware of the game they are in.

@beywheelzhater8930

4 жыл бұрын

Your characters then complain that you rolled a natural one before complaining that you are complaining about yourself using fictional characters

@deleteduser4634

4 жыл бұрын

And then the character gets tired of you playing them and decides to swap place with you Now your the character

@armaggedon390

4 жыл бұрын

Shouldn't that be wisdom?

@pal1d1nl1ght

4 жыл бұрын

@@deleteduser4634 he his gonna have to deal eith alot of negative modifiers then

@cheeseymann

4 жыл бұрын

If a player seeks to become hyper intelligent in my games I'll usually allow it but it comes with downsides as most PC's are mortal. At a certain level of intelligence they begin to go mad/insane. The pc begins to see outside the game and it's usually played as an existential crisis slowly driving them crazy as noone else around them can see what they can.

So basically: "Hey there's this one D&D feat that'd be really useful in this one anime."

@nicollassdossantos

4 жыл бұрын

Nope that's not the point. Read the pinned comment.

@corbinbarron8772

4 жыл бұрын

It wasn’t even that useful then

@empireyouth5791

4 жыл бұрын

Nicollas Squillante I don’t now if you ask me that seem to be one of the main topics of the video. Sure it’s also teaching about the skill but it’s doing it by putting extreme emphasis on that one anime

@xavierfaust9417

3 жыл бұрын

It's exactly what it is, even then it's still absolute garbage, any person can do what he did in the show and just count to remember what year, season, month, and day it is. You could easily find north by examining where the growth of moss is mainly at, or even more simple, if you're on the surface just look at the position of the sun.

@empireyouth5791

3 жыл бұрын

Xavier Faust I mean I think you’re forgetting the fact that not everyone is a nature survival guide, not everyone knows about Moss grows on the north side of the rock, and no one could even micromanage the amount of time that had passed over the period of years. People lose track of time when they’re in the minutes category I’m expecting a human bean to keep track of years without a device to measure is simply absurd

Blaine: "Keen Mind is garbage." *Caleb Widogast has entered the chat*

@dekkard4982

4 жыл бұрын

I never realised how awsome the keen mind is until i watched CR.

@leewolffe7050

4 жыл бұрын

Keen Mind is a wonderful skill if you are a wizard. You only need your book once a month to prepare spells, you are the best teleporter ever, because you remember exactly how a place looks or in which direction you should teleport, and you are a living clock.

@bellowjello8873

3 жыл бұрын

The dm takes your notes

@nicka3697

3 жыл бұрын

The problem with keen mind is that the mechanics as explicitly written are circumstantial at best. What CR shows is that with a player and DM working together to interpret the roleplay implications of the feat it becomes far more than the sum of its mechanics. Caleb you understand immediately that the implications of the feat transcend the mundane ...

@tyrant4397

3 жыл бұрын

You beat me to it

"keen mind is garbage" XD more like a free "hey DM whats that thing that happened 3 weeks ago the players forgot but my character remembers"

@andrewpenn1145

4 жыл бұрын

Play a conjurer wizard with the keen mind. Not only can you conjure any cell key that you see on the guard's hip or keyring, and if you read your spell book cover to cover at least once a month, you can effectively shut down any sadist DM's.

@Mr1991bbk

4 жыл бұрын

@@andrewpenn1145 except for those DM's that claim that it doesn't matter what you can remember because there is magic to the writing of the spells so you can't just copy spells from memory, even though it is explicitly stated that the materials and time are needed to copy a spell due to the need to decipher other spellcasters spells.

@clickpause8732

4 жыл бұрын

Mr1991bbk To put it another way: you need money and time to copy down your *own* spells. It would be harder still to put them into your mind permanently.

@PilliamWilliam

4 жыл бұрын

@@andrewpenn1145 this is exactly what i do

@stm7810

3 жыл бұрын

Or use prestodigtation to generate any key or other object you saw, use it for the action you have it to unlock a door.

Keen Mind is very useful in games with more realism. Caleb Widogast, from Critical Role, has the Keen Mind feat, and it's benefitted the party a lot due to Liam O'Brian being able to just ask the DM everything he, as the player, forgot.

"And so you see DM, that is why my intelligence score is actually functionally infinity, and why therefore my magic weapon attacks should do infinite damage." "Alright that's all fine and good but on the other hand no." *immediately regrets own intelligence*

@SeventhSeraphOfficerRevolver

4 жыл бұрын

You ever heard of the nuke wizard build? You build a wizard with 20 intelligence+ chaisma and then choose evocative once you get to level 17 you put one level into hexblade warlock for the curse. You could fill up the last 2 level with cleric. Finally grab war caster and magic missile. You see magic missile summons 3 darts which are just solid damage but you only roll for damage once. Each dart does 15 damage at max with no save. Also there are 11 darts at a maximum. My DM was running a campaign where we started at level 10 and fought various god's. All of us were using this. He gave up.

My DM: You should take notes because tracking informations is very important in this campaign. Me: Keen Mind

@BahamutEx

3 жыл бұрын

keen mind doesnt free you from being a decent pc...

Dr. Stone: Variant Human, plus to Int, and Con, Gourmand and Keen Mind feat Languages: Common (Japanese), and.... uh what ever mess is English. Artificer/Ranger; he is excellent at re-inventing things from our time and similarly great survival skills

@fishyfishyfishy500akabs8

4 жыл бұрын

English would be abyssal because it is that maddening

@ChibiKami

4 жыл бұрын

@@fishyfishyfishy500akabs8 We have a ton of weird exceptions and rules, true, but we can also also tell what you mean when you mess up the grammar. Many other languages don't afford that luxury

@AliceIsSleepy

4 жыл бұрын

@@fishyfishyfishy500akabs8 english is really freaking easy compared to a lot of other languages.

@jimbeam7636

4 жыл бұрын

English would probably be Trollspeak

@chaosandbunnies8291

4 жыл бұрын

@@AliceIsSleepy English is literally the most difficult language to learn

Keen mind is actually really good if you're a wizard. Perfect memory means you can remember your entire spellbook, or reproduce anything with minor conjuration and prestidigitation.

For those of you who don’t know, he kept count. He counted every second. For a thousand years or so

@Max_G4

4 жыл бұрын

Actually for more than 3700 years. And he calculated the seconds that are used for leap years, the earth slowing down very slowly etc.

@alexanderchippel

3 жыл бұрын

That's stupid. Why go through all the trouble of counting when you could find out the passage of time a lot easier and just work backwards?

@caapii2072

3 жыл бұрын

@@alexanderchippel what?

@SoloAxlion

3 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure even with epic levels of intelligence if you tried counting seconds going on days/months/years/centuries, you'd go insane at least once. Cause that's a lot of counting.

@Max2ds

3 жыл бұрын

SoloAxlion it may have had an opposite effect for him. Counting was like breathing at that point, something he was incapable of doing while petrified. Just became a sort of... auto pilot thought process to fill the several thousand years of silence and stillness.

"Why would you waste a Feat on Keen Mind when a simple Survival check would do the trick for most of what you get?" "Because I find playing an abysmal Wisdom score to be hilarious, and I don't have the Survival Proficiency anyway." :P

I'm very confused about whether or not he means "int score" or "int modifier" since they seem to be being used interchangeably in some parts of the video, but otherwise very well made and I look forward to more.

@BlaineSimple

4 жыл бұрын

They're basically the same thing, but sorry about that xD

@jukesdtj656

4 жыл бұрын

Intelligence Score and Intelligence Modifier are connected with each other and can be used to say what the other is. Intelligence Score is your number of points in intelligence, and your Intelligence Modifier is the number your spell casting, saving throws, and skill checks are increased by that use intelligence, based on your Intelligence score. Basically, for every 2 points of intelligence over 10 you have, you get +1 more to your intelligence modifier.

@clickpause8732

4 жыл бұрын

Quick equation: Intelligence Modifier = your Intelligence Score minus 10, all divided by 2 and rounded down to the nearest whole integer. So Intelligence Score of 10 is equal to an Intelligence Modifier of 0, 12 is equal to +1, 8 is equal to -1, etc. etc. Edit: this applies to all stats

@lazerbeams2536

4 жыл бұрын

@@clickpause8732 I just tell everyone, you get a +1 for every 2 points over 10

Alt title: How to have 189 IQ in D&D edit: okay, 189, happy?

@aimaedac

4 жыл бұрын

You mean 189

@BlaineSimple

4 жыл бұрын

@@aimaedac *1* *8* *9* Also I personally agree. Changed

@tropical_flak

4 жыл бұрын

Im confused

@pierocaramelli1493

4 жыл бұрын

since 100 IQ is average IQ and 10 inteligence is average inteligence in dnd i think 1 point in inteligence translates to 10 points of IQ

@RasmusVJS

4 жыл бұрын

@@pierocaramelli1493 That isn't exactly how IQ works, because the difference between 100 and 110 is larger than that between 110 and 120.

"keen mind is garbage" Well you sir have never played a necromancer wizard managing an undead army. If you can't pin point the exact time you cast that create undead spell, as well as how long it's been since then, you might turn around to find your whight second in command has gone rogue, eaten the bard, and is coming after you with the crack skeleton team you set him up with, the ungrateful bastard. You don't make that mistake twice.

I'm going to do this, just to see how my DM justifies why I can't do this.

@vertonimal

4 жыл бұрын

World building and how your character fits in. These will most likely be his answer. Please tell me if I was wrong or right.

@pufflesfox

4 жыл бұрын

@@vertonimal *She* said that it didn't make any sense for why a character would do this, but she couldn't stop me as long as I was able to keep track of it. 🤣🤣🤣

@Vouru

3 жыл бұрын

@@pufflesfox ya but 2 problems: 1: How would you set your self up in such a way that you were sealed in stone for say 1000 years 2: This video failed to do so, how would keeping count of the number of days you were sealed make you smarter?

Keen Minded Loxodon Cause elephants never forget

@segevstormlord3713

3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant!

me: an intellectual who has seen dr. stone.... he counted.... a LOT

@BahamutEx

3 жыл бұрын

And that's what makes one smarter? I don't see the logic in that.

@kenzostaelens1688

3 жыл бұрын

@@BahamutEx it's a reference to the anime dumbass, never said that it was the thing that made him smarter

@harvex7966

15 күн бұрын

Thank you

if caleb has taught me anything,keen mind is a must have,especially for magic users. (my wizard will 100% get this and also maybe lucky if l can get away with that.)

Obtained beyond maximum intelligence. Cthulhu has entered the chat.

@Fedico7000

3 жыл бұрын

_Grant us eyes on the inside!_

If you add on age bonuses being petrified in stone while awake for thousands of years, keen mind let's you keep your sanity while accruing all those sweet sweet int boosts. And when it wears off, your body is still as limber and nimble as when it was petrified

@unwithering5313

3 жыл бұрын

Technically yes

I like how you spend all of two seconds explaining how you max out your intelligence, but then 4 minutes about how to avoid waking up in the Summer or Winter.

since warforged can theoretically live forever, and a tome of clear thought can be used once every 100 years, an eons-old robot sentry with an intelligence stat in the thousands or even millions is possible

Keen mind definitely gets a lot of shade, but In the right scenario it can be invaluable. Any adventure in the underdark or some kind of skyless mega-dungeon and this feat is already worth its weight in compasses, clocks, and sextants.

How to achieve this WITHOUT a feat. Step 1 > Play as a Grung (frog race from Volo's Guide to Monsters) Step 2 > Wait upto 7 days. Step 3 > Say "It is Wednesday, my dudes"

Finally I can ace my exams

@michaelhedrick589

4 жыл бұрын

But only if you’re trapped in stone for 3000 years

Keen Mind's biggest effect is making it so your DM takes notes for you. Your character remembers it even if you didn't write it down, so you get the benefit of notes without having to write anything down.

Great video! Really amazing and top quality. Super awesome to have someone do a deep dive into the rules to make these awesome short vids!

Nice to remember that some player knowledge helps to rise that stats, like being creative and other things that comes from the mind of who is interpreting the character

That character knew the season because he was counting every second. yup, he perfectly counted for centuries.

Well, this was disappointing.

The smart dude knew when to get out by counting each and every second so that he knew the right season to get out

But if you had high wisdom you'd be good enough at survival that it would not matter when you break out of the stone because you can survive in any season.

This is kind of clickbait. It's really how to do the boring bit of Dr Stone in D&D and ignores the main issue for the anime which is the fact one loses consciousness fast if one doesn't focused.

@tropical_flak

4 жыл бұрын

To be fair if someone were to be that determined and had a keen mind that problem would be solved

@palikia3233

4 жыл бұрын

@@tropical_flak Over thousands of years in full sensory deprivation and full consciousness, and person would go completely insane. Determination and keen mindedness, I know that's not a word, can't help you from the growing sense of insanity that would fully take hold.

@suurlohe9599

4 жыл бұрын

@@palikia3233 it seemes you are wrong. The Dr did it

@neintienaitefororwell9994

3 жыл бұрын

@@suurlohe9599 lmao, he's not real

@richardgibson8403

3 жыл бұрын

Neintienaitefor Orwell dnd isn’t either

My tiefling wizard has 24 int, got blessed with deck of many things and i won a dice poker tournament for a lesser tome of intellect.

@DakkaSap

4 жыл бұрын

two party members drew before me, one got a stat increase and the other got a keep that magically sprang into existence with their name on it. I decided to draw twice (deck was throughly shuffled) aaaand got the same two cards. Fourth guy drew and instantly died and went to the abyss. We had to find a way down there to get him back, it was a whole arc on its own.

@infinitemind3719

4 жыл бұрын

DakkaNoms That’s why I’m very skeptical/cautious about the Deck of Many. So very tempting, but has so much potential to ruin literally everything.

@DakkaSap

4 жыл бұрын

@@infinitemind3719 it was a great adventure nonetheless! We got to fight a Balor demon and got his character back, and he got a respec out of it haha

So, you’re telling me a kenku with keen mind is basically a month long tape recorder! This is giving me some interesting ideas...

@xavierfaust9417

3 жыл бұрын

Kenkus can technically use any voice they heard in their entire life.

_[takes the Keen Mind feat]_ I FINALLY UNDERSTAND WHY KIDS LOVE THE TASTE OF CINNAMON TOAST CRUNCH!

Dude, you literally answered your own question because he literally COUNTED time

Couldn't you use Keen Mind to make Shawn Spencer from psych and become a fake psychic?

So worth noting: keen mind synergizes with getting textbooks/lorebooks, as such as long as you set aside time within each month to refresh the reading you did you can keep the bonuses they give to your skill checks, grabbing enough of these to cover every subject actually makes for some serious mental power boost as you can have all collected knowledge under your belt forever. In a similar fashion if you happen to get any of the stat increasing artifact books you would be about the only person ever to actually be able to remember what is in the said books and thus would be able to at least attempt to recreate it even if re-reading it from memory didnt work as the training itself causes the effect in theory.

Senku literally kept himself busy by counting. I'm sure he just figured out through mathmetics what the season outside was.

Summary of video: If your stuck in a stone prison that makes you immortal you can count how long you have been stuck, you can then try to argue with your DM that because your counted the number of days and keep track of your thoughts during this process you have become smarter. Sure. Good luck with that.

Or as Matt Mercer calls it: the DM's bane feat!

It was decided that anyone with anything below 10 wasn’t sentient... turns out my character had a 9

I cast fireball

Dr stone is so good

Him: wizards and artificers need it to spell cast. Me: Cries in arcane trickster and eldritch knight.

Keen Mind is not garbage at all. It's a FEAT, that lets you be immune to SPELLS. Don't believe me? Modify Memory and Feeblemind. Two of the most powerful villain-manipulation spells in the game. Either of these could reasonably prevent you from remembering things normally, but Keen Mind is a blanket statement. Even if your mind is altered through Modify Memory, you could argue that the feat protects everything you remember from the last month, which if true would INCLUDE knowledge that your memories were tampered with. Even Feeblemind doesn't break this, meaning you can remember who you were for the past month and potentially think of ways to fight back and break the control of the spell. Not directly in either case, but perfect memory can be a huge advantage against similarly smart opponents, since villain high Int creatures are likely villain spellcasters and villain spellcasters LOVE these spells. Doesn't protect you from everything else they have though. . It IS bested by Linguist though. Still +1 Int, but you get extra Languages and cipher-making skills. Not as vital in the situations it's used in, but much more commonly used. Intelligence in general is a stat that is rarely of consequence outside of spellcasting but has huge repercussions in the rare moments outside of that in which it's used, so Keen Mind is a lot more in line with that philosophy with the stat. . "Simple minded," and "Intelligence-based spellcaster" is a paradox. Wizards are good at magic because they learned a complicated system of rules and methods that allow them to alter reality at a fundamental level. That's not simple minded, but I imagine it was a sarcastic jab so whatevza.

I actually built a variant human Artificer/Wizard which started with Keen Mind and got Observant as their first feat and yes the character's raw mental acuity does often break the game.

Senku Enough said

You can get infinite int with tomes this applies to any stat manuals for phsyical stats too but people hate reading so hm

@BlaineSimple

4 жыл бұрын

The manuals have their limits, and it's pretty impractical to own more than a few at a time lol

@andresalvarado2019

4 жыл бұрын

@@BlaineSimple Why is it impractical?

@Mr1991bbk

4 жыл бұрын

@@BlaineSimple The only limits the manuals have are that they only regain magic every century. The fact that it is very rare doesn't even limit it much, might be hard to find but there isn't a limit to how many "Tomes of Clearthought" you read. If your character is ageless then he could literally horde all them that he finds and every century go up more and more.

@lorekeeper685

4 жыл бұрын

its impractical but limitless

@justincaviness

4 жыл бұрын

Assume that an elven druid is 50 when their lifespan gets increased. That leaves them with 7000 years. In that time, they could increase each ability score by 70. Assuming Wisdom was already maxed out, by their death they'd have a Wisdom modifier of +40 (unless of course some god saw the clear issue with this and killed her while they could). That's a save DC of 54 and an attack bonus of +46. If they already maxed out their Constitition, then even with only one hit point per level they'd have 827 hit points. If they just take the average, it's 903 hit points. The max is 960 hit points at the point of death by old age.

Basically, Keen Mind and access to knowledge on a topic allows you to pull a Rogue on any Intelligence checks on that topic in the past month and just automatically succeed.

While I agree with most of this, one thing I have to comment on. "The human mind can only track so much information". This may be true, and it may not. We still haven't discovered the limits of our capacity to retain and understand our surroundings. Some people speculate that if we'd remembered every single thing in out entire lives, in a picturesque perfection, we could remember 140 years of it. But, no one remembers that much, first of all, and second of all, that's just that. Speculation. No one has ever lived that long(that we know of), much less someone who had perfect recall. In a state like this, where your five senses are shut off, I'd reckon we could increase that number very substantially. But my point is, we don't know the limits of the human mind. We don't know what makes it tick, precisely, and we only vuagely understand some of its capabilities. Add magic and other fictional races to the mix and the possibilities are endless.

Blaine: infinite knowledge through feats me, who had a +4 from level 1 and maxed out INT at level 4: laughs in smart

Can you make Maple from BOFURI in DnD? I understand that's quite the task given what Maple is, but still.

@tornadix99

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. I want to see this.

@fadisuleiman7197

3 жыл бұрын

You wanna never get hit? heres how start as a shifter paladin, level 2 multiclass sourcerer take the boar shifter for +1 AC and the plate heavy armor with a shield so far thats 19 AC choose shield of faith as a paladin spell and you get +2 AC when you get sourcerer take the shield spell and wham! total of 26 AC at level 2

Will this give me a dumb high IQ of 189?

In my campaign I made magic that temporary gives you knowledge in a field for an hour. Uncommon gave you proficiency in a skill, rare proficiency with an item and very rare a feat. It worked very well for thing that are situational.

I am a huge fan of taking Keen Mind on Illusionists, or even on people who like using _minor illusion_ a lot. The perfect memory means you can perfectly create images of things you've seen, removing any chance that you might get details wrong. Or, if you do get them wrong (perhaps your DM requires artistry checks), you know you got them wrong and can try to explain it to others. Moreover, as long as you keep reviewing your memories - perhaps with journal entries or illusory walls of text - you can make sure that you have things from months ago that you've re-experienced in the last 30 days.

Alternatively, be like Senku and know because you are keeping perfect track of how many seconds pass and remember the time it was when you turned to stone. With this knowledge, you can then divide out the seconds to figure out what time of day it is and what time of year it is, both of which let you more or less tell when sunrise and sunset are and can give you a general idea of if it will be cold or hot. Obviously you can't know the exact weather, but if your calculations show its the middle of winter, expect it to be cold, at least for your area, and if you normally get snow, expect there will be some on the ground, if it isn't snowing. Inversely, if you live in a hotter climate and know its going to be the middle of summer, you know its probably going to be unbearably hot, unless there's a thunderstorm. And with that knowledge, which way is North is pointless until you escape, and your perfect tracking of time helps you figure it out when you do escape by looking at where the sun (if its day) or North Star (if its night) should be at that time

One thing about keen mind is: if you are led through a labirinth blindfolded, you can just count your steps and you have a pretty accurate idea of the way you took.

100 likes, 0 dislikes. Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

Nice vid

Me playing a wizard with 20 int while having an actual intelligence of 8

I always found the INT scaling on monsters to be... weird. Take a Beholder: this cosmic abberation is playing 5D chess with the world itself, launching infinitely intricate schemes and having like 500 contigency plans for everything you can throw at it, yes even your army of summoned angels or that Gate spell you connected to the core of the Sun Itself. The only beings it fears are other Beholders. So what's it's Intelligence score like? *17* Yes, my party's wizard, who is worse than our 10 INT Barbarian at solving puzzles and riddles, has 20 INT. Buuut if said wizard's player was just as smart as his character, who also happens to have 18 WIS, then someone with 16 INT would already be considered on par with Albert Einstein, and your average lv8 Wizard would be so incredibly smart that they could easily figure out a few surefire ways to beat a Beholder at 5D chess, or succesfully raid it's lair to kill it. 20 INT Wizards would be absolutely terrifying with schemes and strategies that put the hyperintelligent Beholders to shame.

@epigone1796

3 жыл бұрын

This is some doctor Strange stuff here

No new information was learned through this video... so if I had Keen Mind right now I wouldn't be stockpiling anything... right?

Keen mind is really good especially if you're a player that is really bad at remembering details waking the critical role campaign 2 Caleb remembers everything in it comes in handy so many times

what about having other low ability scores like Wisdom Charisma etc

@stm7810

4 жыл бұрын

STR 1: you struggle to muster up the strength to swallow or sit up STR 20: you learnt violence can solve almost anything if you hit hard enough. DEX 1: after years of practice you now are coordinated enough to open and close your mouth. DEX 20: everyone around you seems to be moving and talking slowly, you've grown to dislike movies as each frame is left on the screen for too long. CON 1: you must stay in a glass sterilised room with doctors ready to help you in case you develop bruises on your feet for standing up. CON 20: You once got shot in the head with an arrow and didn't even notice until someone pointed it out, you felt a little ill for 5 minutes after taking it out, guess someone put some powerful poison on there. INT 1: you are not the sharpest knife in a drawer full of wooden spoons. INT 20: You got bored of the outside world so you simulate your own universe in your head to explore with thousands of tulpas, to keep you company, and to calculate the best move to make at any time. WIS 1: you could be doing calculus in there or in agony, no one knows since you are yet to learn there's such a thing as reality. WIS 20: you can read a newspaper behind your shoulder with your eyes shut and wish that the mouse 3 blocks away would stop chewing so loudly, you're trying to sleep. CHR 1: you remember the ugly Barnicle who was so ugly everyone died? they're a step up from you. CHR 20: you can no longer risk telling people to kill themselves in case they're willing to do so just to make you happy.

Ok. My character is a Druid, and as soon as they are turned to stone, the wild shape into a bear and break the stone.

There is a homebrew race on reddit that adds +2 to Str Con Cha but reduces Int and Wis by 3.

cus of this video I got hooked on Doctor Stone!

Variant title: This feat it so useless it takes an incredibly specific apocalypse scenario to be helpful!

This is absurd levels of weird, at this point just 'you predict that the gods may attempt to strike you down if you continue' 'you have been struck by one lightning bolt per point of intelligence simultaneously, consecutively, per point of intelligence' 'the universe says no, you cease existing'

Keen mind is like any of the survival focused stuff in 3.5. Whether there is any point depends on who your DM is.

This is exhilarating.

It's also perfect for wizards... you only need your spellbook once a month with this feat

You must simply have the *SmRT*

being aware of everything and be trap , i think by the time your character would be free youd be nutz.

Hmm if u use keen mind recall ability can u try mimicking the spell casted by another? Or remember more than normal?

Pretty epic

If you were in this type of D&D campaign, you wouldn't even need to put points into INT, if you grabbed keen mind, since as your intelligence grows with every passing day, you could even take points AWAY from INT, and put them into something else, yet still gain hyper intelligence.

I honestly don't get how nobody seems to think of the basic and arguably OP ability keen mind offers if you're a wizard. Think about it. RAW you can basically sneak into a wizards room. Flick through his spell book. Put it back and STILL go off and copy them all down without anybody even knowing you looked at his spell book.

When I saw North, I immediately knew it was keen mind lol

Also the eldritch invocation that lets you see through walls

It’s BIG BRAIN time. :)

Keen Mind is VERY powerful when used with the right spell. Like, say... Scrying or Detect Thoughts.

Literally Anyone: Keen Mind is useless Caleb Widogast:

when you said dr stone i went and watched all 24 episodes on season one of it and then came back

Neat.

nice

There is an ingame way to raise your intteligence to infinate but you can only raise it by 2 every 100 years.

This went off on a weird tangent really quickly.

Can you do this as a series with the other stats?

hey, i was really intrigued by the reddit post you showed, could you please provide a link?

We have been bamboozled

I just recently made a character that I was planning on being high intelligence that's not a magic user. So I rolled stats and got an 18 which I gave to Int, then I was a Rock Gnome which raised my int to 20, Gave him sage background so my History Ability was +7, The Artificer Lore Race Feat ment in certain situations History Checks we're Doubled. And I took rogue which the feat expertise meant If I wanted I could make my history Check +28 whenever I was checking a magic, alchemic, or tech item.

Anyone who says keen mind is a bad feat, has clearly never used keen mind to use the DM as your notes.

Oh my god I love doctor stone

SENKU JUST COUNTED

Your back

When I first looked at this video, the guy looked like he lived in an insane asylum!, 😂