Important things to know about elves: 1. They are attractive. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

“Legolas! What do your Elf Eyes see?” “A map, strange stones, and another fellowship.” “...did you get into the mead again?”

@monhunterz5430

4 жыл бұрын

may you please tell me the significance of this vision?

@eclatshwartzbaumcybertune2063

2 жыл бұрын

@@monhunterz5430 roll for perception… 😂

the eladrin forms are also based around emotions! spring = joy, summer = anger winter = sadness and autumn = content, I like the idea of changing forms every rest based on your characters mood, OR rolling a d4 every long rest to spice things up B)

Sea Elf is best Elf. Plus I really feel like it follows the pattern that most Elf Subraces should (Being associated with an aspect of nature) tying into the races origins as beatific nature spirits. At one time there where Sand and Snow Elves too.

@Yoshwayy

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah but then the Triton showed up and now Sea Elves aren’t picked again

@justnoob8141

2 жыл бұрын

I heard like 500 footstep and piss-of warcry from the distance

@altheaudaku5932

2 жыл бұрын

@@Yoshwayy but sea elves are so much better

@fumarc4501

10 ай бұрын

Elder Scrolls Snow and Sea Elves are very interesting.

So what I've learned: Elf souls are just jelly beans

@sashmiel6566

4 жыл бұрын

And Eladrin are jelly beans made by Bertie Botts. Vomit jelly bean anyone?

@patrickj9246

3 жыл бұрын

Jelly belly is profiting from Elven souls

What’s that? Our next campaign is in Borovia where there is no natural sunlight? Dark Elf time!

@JoshMorgantheNinja

3 жыл бұрын

When you say Dark Elf, I think about the Yu-Gi-Oh card. Lol

@saeedrazavi4428

2 жыл бұрын

Praise Kurtlulmak I hope someone at your table plays a Kobold!

I didnt know there were sea elves, and now that I do I'm never playing anything else.

@CannibalLemonsFromMars

4 жыл бұрын

Esmeralda Cooper sea elf swash buckler?

@SpectreCiNW

Жыл бұрын

I just thought they were Tritions

"Elves are my least favorite race." *gets blocked on social media for blatant racism*

Ehh, everyone rags on elves as Mary Sue incarnate but that's only because everybody copypastes Tolkien's elves without really understanding what made them work in the original story. Their immortality made them tragic, not gifted - it's even hinted that elves in Middle Earth have no afterlife and if they are killed in battle then their spirits just float around for eternity, whereas humans croak and then move on. Also the reason every elf in the story is a paragon of virtue is simply because the bad ones all died long ago as their arrogance caught up with them. Ironically the only real elf race I like is half-elves. Not too fantastical like dragonborn, not too mundane like humans, they are just right. It also helps they are amazing mechanically.

@niknak2150

6 жыл бұрын

to be honest humans are bread and butter of fantasy settings and all the other races are like your fillings, you can just have cheese, lettuce, tomato, mayo, whatever else on it without the bread you need some normal in the group tbh, and I just like being a regular human so I can become fantastical with my actions

@comicsgeek3729

5 жыл бұрын

yea, half-elves are my favourite race in DnD, they're just..amazing.

@alithanar8

5 жыл бұрын

Personally I don't take Tolkiens elves directly, I strain those through the filter of Warhammer and use the resulting mixture as a High Elf of Ulthuan. All the superiority complex, none of the mario-ness of The Hobbit.

@patrickbuckley7259

5 жыл бұрын

It's impliued Elves Reincarnate in a distant land in Tolkien, but yeah they don't get to hang out with Illuvitar and aird in the creation of the next world like the race of Men do. Well aside from the rare few that fall in love with humans, then they get to be their Bea's plus one.

@nicolasreinaldet732

4 жыл бұрын

@@patrickbuckley7259 Dont the silmarilion explicit that the only elven to be a +1 wased Luthien ?

I recently started playing D&D, and my friends love my DM'ing. But without these videos and other guides I would've been such shit! Thanks for the easy to understand explications and lore, it really helps!

So technically speaking, is there a population maximum for elves? Like if that soul jar has a finite amount of souls, what happens when a new elf is born and there's no soul to give it?

Your gm might also let you bypass drow sunlight sensitivity with certain gear, such as long body-covering robes, light filters(eg, sunglasses or black veils) or a parasol. I had a concept of an overly pompous and sadistic drow sorceress that would use her parasol as her spell focus.

I once played an elf that hated the celdaryn. And all other eleven gods, seeing them as nothing but bickering children with powers. They wanted to know the primordial and sought to seek the ruins of aboleths, dragons, beholders, and even the caches of other gods. All to pursue knowledge that the elves either ignored or scoffed at.

*BROOKLYN RAGE*

@theredrighthandproductions

5 жыл бұрын

Nyehhhhhh

@hermitpurple3224

5 жыл бұрын

Not a furry

@JoshMorgantheNinja

3 жыл бұрын

Wah, wah! Baby Pharaoh wants milk!

I love your descriptions of everything. I'm so glad I found your channel.

I was already enjoying your video but when you got to the half elf portion I lit up. I've been debating a drow character (bard or fighter) for an upcoming campaign for a while, but that sunlight sensitivity kept getting in the way. I'd forgotten about that Sword Coast half elf variant. Too awesome! Liked and subscribed!

"trees are the epitomy of wisdom" i will take this to heart

While your videos are more comedy, they really are a pretty great crash course for stuff. Also, the Archfey warlock Eladrin is now something I really want to do now. I can just see so many fun shenanigans a character of that sort could get up to.

Just wanted to say these videos are awesome. I was watching the necrohunt and figured I'd check out your channel and I'm not disappointed at all. Thank you for work!

Given the lore presented cant you answer the half elf problem with a simple question? Do they have trance? If trance lets them relive past lives as children isnt this proof?

@dairoleon2682

4 жыл бұрын

That's the assumption I was going with, and no, they don't. Functionally speaking, worshipping the Seldarine doesn't benefit the half-elves any more than does worshipping any other Good deities.

I'd really love to see a similar video or videos about the planetouched races, ie Tieflings, Aasimar and Genasi. I'm certain you'd be able to communicate the histories and traits of these very different races really well! Thanks for making great videos!

Step one: be elf Step two: pick rouge Step three: profit

@JasperForge

5 жыл бұрын

Are you rouge with the blood of your enemies

@stevemcfatman1663

5 жыл бұрын

Step 1: pick orc Step 2: put every point you can into charisma Step 3: when "sneaking" into a building walk up to gaurds and Step 4: scream that they did not see you and intimidated the gaurd so that they don't report your arival

@scottbruckner4653

5 жыл бұрын

Step 1: Be Eladrin.

@snappedsquire8479

5 жыл бұрын

step one: spell rogue correctly

@scottbruckner4653

5 жыл бұрын

@@snappedsquire8479 What if he wants to be red?

There is one forgotten race. Briefly from 2e. The Rockseer Elf. My personal favorite Underdark elf.

The way I do Eladrin Half-Elves is you pick a season, you keep that season You either take their Fey Step or you take a specific season to look like

Teiflings, or I cry. ;w;

@DkKombo

5 жыл бұрын

There could be such a thing as a tiefling half elf genasi you know.

@ImperialCoffee769

3 жыл бұрын

I would like but the tiefling video is already out and it is at 69 likes

@floofyproofy9374

3 жыл бұрын

@@ImperialCoffee769 same here

I'd love it if Davvy made a background, gear, and alignment guide. If nothing else just to see his ideas and general input on them.

Make more in depth race vids, i loved this

The minute I heard you say “Brooklyn rage” I knew I had to subscribe

I would love a segment on Pallid Elves

Why the reupload? Btw love ya work ESPECIALLY THE WIZARD really liked that episode

@quintmarcelis2691

6 жыл бұрын

elven sideboob

I'm eagerly waiting your hinted Drow video! :-)

I like your take on the elf gods motivations. I remember thinking that they were just petty jerks when I first read about them. They still are, but at least this way they're more relatable.

Wow, I actually caught your video pretty early, even if it was not the first time you uploaded it. Still, pretty cool

>elves are mary sue >not half elves i shiggy diggy

So in 4e we got the higher-than-high elves, but in 5e we also get the gothier-then-goth elves. I guess in 6th edition we're going to need a new subrace that's an elf that accidentally creates magic items with every long rest and another elf subrace that literally can't be seen by anyone without darkvision.

In 20 years Wood Elf Zealot Barbarian was the most fun I’ve ever had.

Orc boi next? Or Tieflings, mayhaps?

It's funny how in other settings, like Dragonlance and Greyhawk the appearance of Sun and Moon elves are swapped....so like your common, every day adventuring Elf in DL...a Qualenesti looks more like a Sun Elf but has Moon Elf traits and personality while your not so common, I hide from the realms of Men type of Elf...the Silvanesti look like Moon Elves but have Sun elf traits and personality. When I first started playing Forgotten Realms back in the 80's that through me for a loop. Same kind of deal in Dragonlance....High Elves more common than Gray Elves. Despite the name "Valley Elves" doesn't mean that they say stuff "like fer sure, that 32 inch 8-topping pizza is gnarly!"

Talking about elf God divorce with Solas and Lavellan on screen. Nice job

I really like your stuff

Well, time to roll up some Eladrin because holy FU-

I thought that the aasimar was the most marysue of races?

@spritelady4669

4 жыл бұрын

Kal-El 702 Same tbh. Although I thought elves were until this too, but now...... holy shit I had no idea elves had this much. Darn. Lore! Which more than makes up for how overrated they are sometimes. At least to me, anyway! XD

@biohazard724

4 жыл бұрын

Tieflings.

@dairoleon2682

4 жыл бұрын

I made a half-elf whose halves were Aasimar and Shadar-Kai. Mechanically though, he's just a half-elf, and his stats are more or less balanced rather than min-maxed. I have him multi-classing Hexblade 3/Divine Soul 10. He's super Mary-Sue and also kind of not. Really, he got a lot more out of making a Blade Pact with the Revenant Captain's greatsword from Curse of Strahd than he did his bloodlines.

I said this in the other upload, but now I'm waiting for videos on the Dragonborn, Tabaxi, Tiefling, and Aasimar

Brooklyn RAGE Also, I just finished reading Mordekainens Tome a few days ago, and then you upload this. Welp.

Oh rip my dude I hope people rewatch

Hey Davvy Chappy. I have seen your work recently, Love your barbarian guide. I'd be interested if you could do a dragonborn or half-orc guide.

you removed the best part!! Elven Sideboob!! whats the point of this video then ?

@reembaho7508

4 жыл бұрын

Pls explain all the sideboob talk, am very in confusion

@isabellagold4114

4 жыл бұрын

Reem Baho yo samee

@ImperialCoffee769

3 жыл бұрын

@@isabellagold4114 @Reem Baho the original video was taken down because of it showing sideboob

@ImperialCoffee769

3 жыл бұрын

@@reembaho7508 the comment above explains the sideboob talk

Elves are the best. If I have to choose which subrace, I would choose either a High Elf ( specifically the Moon/Night Elf ), an Aquatic Elf or a Half-Elf. I really like the Eladrin.

my friend's elf is named leg and she picked it cause she said she heard they were tall, honestly a 10/10 solid decision

@coralia.i9702

4 жыл бұрын

I wanted to be a sea elf but then I was convinced to be a tiefling

Wow! Elves sound like they're born to be bards or wizards to experience things that they can take into the afterlife and their next reincarnation.

i need to start playing dnd but rn half elf and dwarfs are my favs

Definitely going to try making a sea elf as a pc

6:21 - Hey Davvy, that you in the green, there?

When you play Shadar Kai, you have to embrace the edginess, or do a complete 180 and make a unemotionless person but who is nice because thats what society should be.

So a good spin for half elfs would be: the half elf doesn't have part of an elf soul as much as it has a piece of the parent elfs memory. Giving them their elf "heritage" while keeping the elf soul on loop. If a half elf goes into any trance they will see their parent (hopefully if they were responsible) and their own lives. Only. Never really getting the full scope beyond the given memory and their own half elf lives. The elf parent soul now has a blank, where that given memory was, and that blank can be interpreted as the "memory" of their child's (half elf) birth. This would also put a unique pressure on non adult elfs to not even try having kids before adulthood as they may give away a memory of an old elf seeing elves don't have their own memories till adulthood. Would also confuse a half elf in a trance when they go to see a parent and see some other random elf in their place due to the parent elf not having their own memories to give at the time the half elf was born. This way you still have the stigma and taboo of "half elfs are oddities" but explain them a bit more so they are easier to except in elven culture. "So your a half elf eh? How old was your parent when they convied you? Hmm?....oh you don't...well when you trance do you see your parent or someone else? ....ah I see...well that explains that." Responsible parent: "well at least they did their die diligence in raising you well." Young parent: "*scoff* I see... Did they at least tell you it was their irresponsibility as to why you see a stranger in your dreams!?

Brooklyn rage sold me

Can you do the elves of other D&D worlds like Mystara?

Honestly this single video made me change from hating elves to loving elves and hating elven players

1:16 nice futurama reference.

4:37 Okay im confused and nobody looks like theyre asking what's up with the picture here

@ismaashawsome4685

3 жыл бұрын

Elven sideboob

can you do a video on yuan-ti purebloods? currently playing one in a campaign

*sips in Half elf supremacy* Half elves for the win

Ironically, in Dragonlance, its the Sun Elves, Qualinesti, that are the more down to earth and friendly elves, while the Silvanesti, moon and star elves, are the mysterious snooty ones.

Elves are the most interesting race in D&D

So what do you think about the half elf half orc (Orf) it’s the best of both but shunned from elf kind

Brooklyn rage? Nyeh, nyeh, nyeh, nyeh!!

Kinda have an idea for a half elf shadar hai or half wood elf mercenary now. Dunno sounds like a neat idea

As i said before. Oh elves are actually interesting! good to know... again...

Hey Davvy Could you go into detail about Dragonborn since i am playing a DB cleric in my friend's campaign

The amount of references in these videos is amazing you're referencing Yu-Gi-Oh abridged Futurama and everything else amazing

Story idea, Corellon is running out of jelly beans

Being a little prick here, but mordenkainen did a background for the Shadar-Kai and it's VERY different from the video. It involves the birth of the Raven Queen, the Nagpas and a BIG spell missfire

Any idea what the "crick elves" from NADDPOD would be homebrewed from?

I have a question concerning Drow who worship Eilistraee. What would happen when they die? Eilistraee willfully took the exile from the Seldarine in order to guide the Drow as a nurturing mother would. I have read online and the Seldarine are counted among her allies. Do Drow that worship Eilistraee get reincarnations then, or do they get an afterlife treatment like every other Drow?

Sea Elves are interesting. You can create character named "Retiarius", who joins this adventure because he wants to be "arena warrior", but is in fear about dying in his first duel, so he needs to be stronger and get more combat experience.

Tiefling race guide!!!

Hey Davvy! If you were going to make a Half Elf character because I agree...they are awesome (and say you come in at 2nd level) for a Spelljammer game set in the Rock of Bral, what would you make...okay...we know it would be a Half-Elf...but what else? Would you play Native to Bral (or Wildspace) or just a character who just got here after getting on a galleon in Waterdeep and then going "WTF...wait...we...are...FLYING!!!! Waaaait a minute!!!"

Half-Elves are the best, son

Will you be covering weird races like aetherborn ???

Every subrace except Wood Elf, High Elf and Drow in this video is in Mordenkaimen's Tome of Foes, right? Also, what about half-Eladrin and half-Shadar-kai?

Where did he get the info on elven souls and how they work?

6:25 Have you heard of the High Elves?

Yo king Davvy

Gnomes! Gnomes! Gnomes Next!

Can we BS sunlight sensitivity with clothing

Could you do a Half Elf vid, next? 🤔

I need to make a campaign of NOTHING but elves. Task? Find the last dwarves.

Mean while in my game world Half-Elves are often half Lizardfolk half-elf.

Sea elf basically an elf and a triton who liked eachother a lot

Brooklyn rage!

Do fey next! I'm going to be playing a glamour bard but i'm iffy on the "fey magic" part.

Hey we're do you find sea elf

Play a drow half-elf and make some tinted-glass goggles.

Kestra Vestigal Goddess of Moonlight (often labelled Goddess of a Moonbeam but she ignores them) looked on in confusion. "So who did dad sleep with this time?!"" she asked her Aunt Sehanine Moonbow who shrugged. "How about find a way to remove curse that artefact Mother's become addicted to? You know the one that Tharrizdun fellow keeps muttering about before they chained him up" "How do I know about that?" "I'm a Knowledge domain deity, it's my job to know and no I'm not touching that artefact not after witnessing what it did to mum!" (Sorry couldn't resist!)

I had an elf monk who decided to grapple the main enemy then jump off a cliff.

I looked up dnd 5e how to play a dirty bastard and got this lol

Just came off of the Dwarf video owo... ...what elf hurt you, Davvy? XP lol!

Sea Elves sound kinda cool if you ask me.

I see you are a LARPer brother, friend!

This was really cool and stuff, but from what I've read from the Unearthed Arcana page for the Eladrin and Gith, you either have the cantrips wrong for the four seasons, or I'm reading from the wrong source. Where'd you read about the Eladrin anyway?

@Cendar

5 жыл бұрын

Probably mordenkainens tome of foes