Karsus, absolute legend. Casted the only 12th level spell ever. The equivalent of the person that finds the ultimate exploit in a game and gets it patched immediately.

@kirgan1000

4 жыл бұрын

What hapen to Karsus? Did the gods slay him becuse he try to take ther plays or what?

@loganhawkes9521

4 жыл бұрын

JR the gods essentially made him into a rock, but that rock bleeds for some reason, and it never stops bleeding. He also became a great old one, so you could sign a pact with him as a warlock if you wanted.

@kirgan1000

4 жыл бұрын

@@loganhawkes9521 New question what is a "great old one"

@Gamingkid630

4 жыл бұрын

@@kirgan1000 basically Lovecraftian gods, ancient beings, Cthulhu for example.

@FreedomAndPeaceOnly

4 жыл бұрын

The player Karsus overloaded the server. He was banned immediately. And the exploit was fixed. Thank you for playing Forgotten-Realms and enjoy your magic.

"enemies are magic resistant." "can pick litterally any god to fight them" "I'll pick the magic god."

@arsenelupin5424

5 жыл бұрын

Well,if handguns don’t work may as well try nuking the enemy instead

@milkncookie

4 жыл бұрын

resistant doesn't mean immune. =D watches on the sideline "Go my Magical Godly Beast!!!!"

@ferociousmaliciousghost

4 жыл бұрын

@@arsenelupin5424 "If a handgun doesn't work, then use a bigger bullet!" - A player

@KC-zc8ic

4 жыл бұрын

A Random Rock I love alchemical rounds.

@KatsuhiroHebi

4 жыл бұрын

I would have chosen the god of beasts/nature and attacked with swarm tactics.

"Why not make 10th level spells more powerful?" "But these go up to 11"

@haloelite439

5 жыл бұрын

They go to twelve actually, with Karsus' spell.

@MisterSweetProductions

5 жыл бұрын

Vorpal Vox what a rare reference! You have my respect!

@noaharmitage8469

5 жыл бұрын

Dude props to you for the Spinal Tap reference holy shit.

@redhawkfour

5 жыл бұрын

That was the spell that turned him into a god for a little right?

@Paltheus

5 жыл бұрын

"Guitar Amp of Power" Spell (Turn everything up to 11)

Patch 1.1 *Rebalanced magic system Hi everyone, Mystra here. After the unfortunate passing of the previous magic designer, I have been given their shoes to fill, and boy are they big shoes! Now I know that a rebalance of how magic works is going to cause a few waves in the community, but we found out that so many players were using magic to exploit the system that our servers simply can't keep up! The people up top didn't want anyone to know just how hard it was to keep running maintenance, but it has reached the point where we need to let you know that things need to change out of necessity. I hope we do you proud with this new system!

@josephmorse3089

5 жыл бұрын

Things you read in Jeff Kaplan's voice.

@Aweman13

5 жыл бұрын

How does this not have more likes... Underappreciated comment.

@giraffedragon6110

5 жыл бұрын

Zrin the perfect comment doesn’t exi-

@UrielFlame

5 жыл бұрын

Zrin Magic 2.0

@donellefrance9071

5 жыл бұрын

If the gods were d&d devs lol

One of the best examples of Epic-level spells is the "Familicide" spell from the Order of the Stick series, which automatically kills all those who share a bloodline of any kind related to the target. It was used by a wizard to a Black Dragon (old or so in age) and it killed nearly 1/4 of the Black Dragons of the entire planet, from true dragons to half dragons. Good old times.

@fpngan

5 жыл бұрын

Yael Martínez loved that scene from OoTs!!

@curtisholsinger6023

5 жыл бұрын

The scene where the Wizard found out the true consequences of that spell was incredible, too!

@Sgrunterundt

5 жыл бұрын

The dragon's age was ancient. Epic teleport was a decent spell too.

@royplatt455

5 жыл бұрын

Vaarsuvius

@Erick7Greenday

5 жыл бұрын

@@Sgrunterundt Didn't catch that the dragon was ancient. Well, it makes more sense for the consequences then.

*_" Have you ever heard the story of Archmage Karsus the Wise? He could become a God but in the end he could not safe himself from dying and destroying everything he tried to protect. "_* *_" But ain't there are a way to learn these powers? "_* *_" Certainly there are. But not from a Cleric. "_*

@bluesap7318

3 жыл бұрын

Don’t worry I’m the *D M*

@pst5345

Жыл бұрын

Mysthic Theurges, True Necromancers and Ultimate Mages object. And Ur Priests quietly observe taking notes.

@paradoxglitch1108

Жыл бұрын

Star wars reference

@MonsieurJo

8 ай бұрын

Wish to cast karsus avatar 😂

tfw you caused the 5e spell nerf trying to save a city

@flamenami

3 жыл бұрын

@@morgothable imagine how op wizards would be being able to spam Fireball at 9th level

I want a campaign with six party members, all wizards, who all follow quests to become liches. Once undead, they come together and perform a six-way co-casting of the Wish spell, sacrificing themselves with it in an effort to restructure/revert the universe in some way. Of course, they are all liches, so they would not be permanently killed by this ritual.

@zichithefox4781

5 жыл бұрын

I'll go make my wizard right now.

@nicapp984

5 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure permeant death would be required to fundamentally restructure the universe. If I was DMing I'd make their phylacteries spell components probably. I mean, it largely depends on what they're trying to do, but just going "I'm a lich, so I can sacrifice my life to cast epic magic without actually dying!" seems like kind of cheating. Then again, liches usually sustain their life via consuming souls so if they had enough souls in their phylacteries they might be able to survive it. It would take a LOT of souls though. Again, depends on how big change their trying to make. Just thinking out loud here. I like your idea, and I wanted to give my take on it.

@zichithefox4781

5 жыл бұрын

I made it.

@benvoliothefirst

5 жыл бұрын

@@zichithefox4781 I'm in!

@Fry3211

5 жыл бұрын

KnowDude Gaming Show homebrew allowed? 🌚

Villains usually use rituals sacrificing a lot of 1st level acolytes.

@user-ik4nc8ob8h

5 жыл бұрын

Thats how mafia works

I always preferred Mystryl over her successors. As far as I can see, she remains the only magic deity to have truly embodied the nature of magic. Mystra and her ilk turned magic into something far more harsh and mechanical- certainly good for stability, but a great loss as well. The fact that magic remains known as "The Art" in some circles is undoubtedly a holdover from Mystryl's days, rather than the result of her successors.

@talitaoliveira6543

5 жыл бұрын

I believe this applies even better to the first Mystra, the one who chose Elminster. The third, Mystra - Midnight deity doesn't represent The Art for me as well.

@felicitywark6045

5 жыл бұрын

i actually brought mystryl back in my game, which loosened some of the restrictions on magic

@Nyrufa

5 жыл бұрын

I agree! I mean, I understand why Mystra implemented the changes she did. It's probably not a good idea to let mortals go around stealing the powers of gods just so they can win a war. But if that's the case, she could have just banned magic of rank 12 or higher. She didn't have to cut off 10th and 11th rank, too. Also, she didn't have to make it so that only the sufficiently talented were able to use magic, because I think that would have actually INCREASED the risk of magical abuse! She took a power that was freely available to everybody, and restricted it to the hands of only a wealthy and educated class of people, or those who were born into a special bloodline.

@Toreens

5 жыл бұрын

People seem to miss the fact that whoever is the Deity of magic at the time, has to fix weave every time someone uses that kind of magic. New Deities just made it so their job is easier and less likely to backfire due to lesser creatures greed for power.

@the11382

5 жыл бұрын

Toreens It’s hardly greed when you are fighting a war with magic eaters. It’s human nature to do pretty much everything they can in order to survive the war.

7 out of 10 comments in here are about my mispronunciation of "epitome" xD I have learned my lesson guys

@Leaf-E

5 жыл бұрын

MrRhexx Hello my child I see your making good content

@Atariese

5 жыл бұрын

even tho its a mispronunciation, it sounds epic like that. But we can easily tell what the word is thru context and your pronunciation. I kinda wish that was a different word.

@MrRhexx

5 жыл бұрын

Hello dad, just giving it my best

@Leaf-E

5 жыл бұрын

MrRhexx ok now go back to what you were doing

@TheNewton

5 жыл бұрын

META: for this category mispronunciation is ez mode content creation and increases engagement.

These are great but they need a disclaimer. *Heads up for any new D&D players watching these videos: THIS IS JUST FORGOTTEN REALMS LORE.* Keeping that in mind, Forgotten Realms is just one of very many possible mythological settings and your GM might use a different campaign setting, such as Dragonlance, Greyhawk, or even their own universe.

@Zaudunyani

5 жыл бұрын

and even if you use one as a basis for a campaign, if you and your players want spells beyond 9th, make it so. D&D is not beholden to what's written down - do what makes everyone most happy.

@honestbenny

5 жыл бұрын

Don't spells above 9th level officially not exist for player in 5e because you can't officially advance beyond 20 level anymore in 5e as mortal? From what I know- in 5e there are no more epic levels at all. 20 is just maks what mortal can achieve.

@andrewthemaroon8608

5 жыл бұрын

I recently re-read Drangons of Autumn Twilight and magic was OP as fuck. Raistlins low level magic missle was just straight killing people who hadnt been touched yet. But it also took a toll physically. After reading through the books its obvious that the rules for magic in Krynn differ then the rules of magic in forgotten realms :/

@lucianite0

5 жыл бұрын

I was about to make a post stating the same, thank you.

@Humble197

5 жыл бұрын

@@honestbenny After level 20 players get to take boons if the dm allows which is supposed to be the equivalent of a level

Imagine a council of wizards casting Fireball together at 9th level

@shinkicker404

5 жыл бұрын

Tsar Bomb.

@HuchiaZ

5 жыл бұрын

I bet that's how they made proof of concept for Meteor Swarm.

@Mordaedil

5 жыл бұрын

Evasion no damage.

@Fry3211

5 жыл бұрын

Mordaedil I HATE THIS COMMENT 😂😂😂

@djtigon

5 жыл бұрын

Kinda underwhelming when considering the possibilities you could achieve with a council of 9th level casters. Like.... Transporting a continent to another plane

Can we stop for a second to appreciate how awesome that pic at 0:45 makes Magic Shield look ?

@lichbard3930

5 жыл бұрын

I think that's an abjurers ward. Looks dope as all hell though.

@KalaamNozalys

5 жыл бұрын

@@lichbard3930 Looks very close to magic shield in Pathfinder Kingmaker (tho in game it doesn't stay visible for long)

@lichbard3930

5 жыл бұрын

@@KalaamNozalys Ooooooh I've never played pathfinder only DnD.

@KalaamNozalys

5 жыл бұрын

@@lichbard3930 It's a nice variation. I like playing both. It's based on 3.5 as you probably know. What I prefer in pathfinder is how deep the customization is (compared to 5e) and all the different classes you have.

@42ndguardian

5 жыл бұрын

That is an illustration of Harry Dresden of the book series The Dresden Files using his shielding spells.

This also explains why sometimes the wish spell would disappear permanently after cast under certain conditions. Mistra probably saw that person as a possible liability and took the spell from them.

So mistra just swung the Nerf Hammer at everything?

@kennethultimate02

4 жыл бұрын

Same thoughts

From my knowledge, Karsus' Avatar killed Mystral due to the massive strain it caused to both her and the weave. In addition differing accounts depict Karsus as a power mad megalomaniac or a man pushed to the brink and left with no choice. Apparently his soul still exists and can be made a patron.

@MannyBrum

5 жыл бұрын

No the video is correct, Mystryl sacrificed herself so magic would fail and Karsus would not have access to the weave.

@Vance_Danger

5 жыл бұрын

@@MannyBrum where is that explanation found? I got my understanding from mostly word of mouth. Is there a specific book or article with karsus' folly?

@MannyBrum

5 жыл бұрын

@@Vance_Danger Grand History of the Forgotten Realms

@zacharyhawley1693

5 жыл бұрын

@@Vance_Danger forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Karsus%27s_Folly

@sgshaday

5 жыл бұрын

Actually I got that same info.

From what I remember of the Cormanthyr book, Karsus was called something like ”the ape who could fly" by the elves. And then I read in the romances how Evermeet was created and thought "you guys have no right to point fingers!"

@andrewlong9799

5 жыл бұрын

Yea, I like the Elves alot, but they are such hypocrites at times. In our d&d games their arrogance sometimes tread the lines of stupidity: "We are fully aware that a 'dark god' has been awakened, but we have decreed that it is not for us to intervene in." There was another time where we recovered an elven artifact from a lich, and they demanded we hand it over or they threatened to go after one of my party members; of course it was the half orc wizard that really got under the skin.

1 step guide on how to do 10+ level spells 1. Be The DM

@samlevy9897

4 жыл бұрын

Nah That's 20th+ level spells

Guys the true epic level spell is conjure animals. Why? Lizards don’t have a cr. So you can summon literally infinite lizards. They are all under you commands and each do 1 piercing damage per round. That is infinite damage each round, and a massive lizard army to ride on in a single giant wave.

@kilroy6429

5 жыл бұрын

Ori Haber you’re like Fidel Castro executing my fun.

@A-Duck

5 жыл бұрын

@@kilroy6429 Infinite lizards couldn't all simultaneously attack a finite surface area. That's right, I'm the guy who talks about the logistics of infinite lizards.

@kilroy6429

5 жыл бұрын

A Duck ever heard of a fractal?!?!?!?

@drsatanrx

5 жыл бұрын

You obviously never tried the clown apocalypse spell have you?

@iamvigant

4 жыл бұрын

@@kilroy6429 not fractal, more like that lizard tessellation pattern

i love how they use the Forgotten lore to change the game mechanics

@kamikazechipmunk

5 жыл бұрын

I hate it because every edition change means they have to fuck up the entire world AGAIN. 1st edition started with Karsus' Folly, 2nd edition was the Time of Troubles when the Gods were cast down to Toril, 3rd edition may be the only one where everything wasn't completely fucked up but it did bring Bane back and the Shadovar, 4th edition was the worst (the Spellplague never happens in my game), and 5th was the end of the Abeir-Toril merged world nonsense.

@zichithefox4781

5 жыл бұрын

WoTC did the same with Magic: The Gathering. Though in a different way.

@aduffyguy

5 жыл бұрын

@@zichithefox4781 Ah yes, the "end" of the phyrexian invasion.

@zichithefox4781

5 жыл бұрын

@@aduffyguy Yep

@kearbillings5719

5 жыл бұрын

I thought the spellplague was amazing, and by extension, the spellscars, to the point where our dm is gonna try and work it into our 5e campaign

if you're interested in epic level magic look up larloch, he's a lich from netheril and has access to such magic and has an army of a few hundred lich servitors and other powerful undead under his thrall, he's also pretty chill not doing very much except killing people who call him a warlock close enough to hear, studying and making more magic and magic items

@zyibesixdouze4863

5 жыл бұрын

This lich sounds like a mood

@theapexsurvivor9538

5 жыл бұрын

This sounds like the kind of lich you meat up with to smoke a bowl from the pipe of greater tranquility. Total bro.

@a0point0of0view1

5 жыл бұрын

@@theapexsurvivor9538 he might just do that, if he isn't annoyed at you and sees it as a learning experience, though he might not if it will trigger one of his many contingencies spells, oh yeah he's from a time when you can have more then one contingency spell, just don't touch him directly else his automatic curses will be inflicted on you by accident, I mean he can remove them but it could be rough going for a bit and if he is annoyed at you he might send you on a quest under a geas for him to remove the curse on you

@theapexsurvivor9538

5 жыл бұрын

@@a0point0of0view1 so what I'm hearing is: run around having plenty of adventures in the multi-plane, chatting with Gods, killing tarrasques, playing tag with greater ancient red dragons, and finding relics. Then give one such relic to him as a gift (using a nubile slave boy to give him said relic lest someone touch someone else in the wrong way), then offer him access to the rest of your relics to study, and to share what little information you gained on your adventures over a nice hit of astral Kush...

@a0point0of0view1

5 жыл бұрын

@@theapexsurvivor9538 OR you just find some Astral Kush and talk about wanted to smoke it with him a lot eventually on of his servitors will be scrying at the same time as it watches. going on an extraplanar adventure has the disadvantage of not being easily observed since scrying only works on the same plane, and there being many threats on the outer planes that could put you out of commission for good like spending to long in Elysium or soul destorying/stealing enemies, though if you are looking for an artefact he would be interested in he's always looking to finsh his collection of the nether scrolls (magic scrolls which posses nearly all magic knowledge within them and teach the readers (more) about magic)

Back during the FR novel period, the War of the Spider Queen had an instance of High Magic use. A group of wizards used a HM spell to make the entire world forget Kiransalee’s name snuffing the goddess out on the spot.

@ohsnapcrackelandpop

9 ай бұрын

Thats metal

i love how this 5year old video gives me some much needed context for the stuff thats going on in Baldur’s Gate 3 shows the love and handy work putninto the game and the world.

8:50 Tarrasque blood as a material component? By the time you're even considering epic magic that's really a trivial issue. There's plenty of blood in your average tarrasque, they regenerate at a healthy clip and can be tapped basically forever, and if you can't find one locally to play donor, just hire a spelljammer crew to go get one from that one planet where they're the ecological equivalent of sheep. Very large armor-plated sheep. :)

@micah2288

5 жыл бұрын

While it may be trivial to someone attempting epic magic, it may suck for the rest of the world while they trample around the planet killing everything.

@steelrarebit7387

5 жыл бұрын

@@micah2288 The spelljammer crew could tap the tarrasque on planet Falx and just ship the blood back to wizards who would buy it.

@IONATVS

5 жыл бұрын

I’m pretty sure there’s a classic module where an entire city is built around a tarrasque that was immobilized by some epic spell centuries beforehand, steadily mutilating it at the same speed as it regens to get as many super-powerful magic items and material components as they can and sell them in major interplanar markets. IIRC, it ends...poorly...for the city when the gods trick some adventurers into infiltrating the city and releasing it. And it ain’t a pretty sight when a Tarrasque is a few centuries behind schedule on its whole “destroying the world” bit.

@Legohaiden

5 жыл бұрын

If you are considering a Tarrasque as a "trivial" monster even at max level, your DM is either portraying monsters wrong, or you are cheating at D&D to make your characters never die and always win. Every Monster, even low level fucking goblins, should STILL be deadly to your character in the right situation (or wrong depending how you look at it)

@Legohaiden

5 жыл бұрын

Too Many DM's these day play carebear, friendship is magic style.... AD&D was the Original "Rogue-like" you should be going through new characters at a fairly normal interval

Don't forget about the lost realm of Miyeritar and how the sun elves literally nuked it which left the area a ravaged wasteland for eons to come and it is still visible on the world map. This might be a contributing factor to the abandonment of the art, even if a great many high mages united to eternally curse the survivors of the disaster and their Illythiri allies. Of course, it wouldn't surprise me if the art was kept alive in the underdark with the ambition of the drow. Twice in recent centuries have followers of Eilistraea and Vhaeraun woven such rituals with remarkable results and in the latter case the art seems to have been modernized.

@craigtucker1290

4 жыл бұрын

That was elven high magic, not wizard arcane magic.

Iolaum's longevity: start massive ant farm, cover self with honey, wait, cast, profit.

@poseidon4g

3 жыл бұрын

Do ants have souls tho?

@AlyssMa7rin

2 жыл бұрын

@@poseidon4g I would say they do. They make homes, work for the survival of their families, and will defend their home when threatened.

Imagine someone figuring out time and space magic in a universe with an infinite multiverse. You could create a spell linking to limitless different versions of yourself at the exact moment they cast a certain spell in their timeline making it possible to redirect an unlimited number of all available spells in all versions of reality at your target and borrow the combined magic potential of all your other selves to do so.

@lordgod9958

Жыл бұрын

Zelretch front Fate basically. Not quite that op but at least up to the borrow power from parallel universes bit

Welp I am now going to make a wizard with the goal of surpassing the limit.

@anthonyjackson6319

5 жыл бұрын

Oooh, me too. But a Sorcerer instead. :D

@irontemplar6222

5 жыл бұрын

@@anthonyjackson6319 magic must be free.

@djtigon

5 жыл бұрын

You'll be met with a lot of resistance, not to mention... Don't screw up that spell. You'll never know what will happen in consequence

@irontemplar6222

5 жыл бұрын

@@djtigonthis is how I imagine it going Ot "you dare defy the gods!" Me "from where I am standing their is only one Deity the overdeity of creation, the others however I care not. They can either help me, appose me, or stay out of my way." Ot "you must be insane, dont you understand why their is a limit of magic. Why we cant have that kind of magic." Me "understand? Yes I do. I just happen to disagree with the conclusion." Ot "why are you trying this, it's impossible" Me "than I guess I will just have to make it possible. I will take the rules of reality and magic and change them. All of them if I must. I will not be held back because of the mistakes of a single man, nor will I be stopped until magic is free." Ot "...you play a dangerous game, you know that right?" Me "is their any other kind of game?"

@djtigon

5 жыл бұрын

@@irontemplar6222 i never mentioned Gods

Now it makes sense why the wizards of the coast won't make epic level handbooks. Is in the lore, and was possibly implemented due to homebrew canpaigns being savagely destroyed. This taught me a lot

@Mooshkajoe

5 жыл бұрын

Check out Pathfinder. Notably the Mythic Adventure book. It's super high tier play that offers Mythic Tiers that take PC power way beyond lvl 20, boosting all sorts of classes to insane levels of abilities. Mythic versions of spells included. Paizo doesnt disappoint, as there are mythic bestiaries to provide a challenge. Having been in these mythic fights, you really need to know your character and critically think in combat and out. All this is accomplished well, and doesn't break the game.

@Mooshkajoe

5 жыл бұрын

Most notable was 4 lvl 20 tier 10 players taking on Cthulhu himself (he has a stat block, CR 30, Bestiary 4) at the end of a Lovecratian style campaign filled with occult stuff. Lots of qlippoth. Took an hour. Barely made it.

@cadennewcome3775

5 жыл бұрын

Well, if you go back to good old 3.5, they did actually produce an epic level handbook. It is literally titled as the Epic Level Handbook

Mystra, the Goddess of Game Balancing.

...Is it bad that my first thought when you explained Ioulaum's Longevity was "What is the range, and could I deplete an entire city with one casting?"

@halfjack2758

5 жыл бұрын

Why not just use a couple anthills?

@andievaldez6476

5 жыл бұрын

Halfjack Why not just go into a swamp and wipe out the mosquito population and do everyone a favor?

@BYERE

5 жыл бұрын

I think it has to be a being of equal type to the user (ie, another humanoid) for the spell's effect to work. You might get an entire year out of a single anthill, but not one for each ant... or indeed a mosquito. The problem with the mosquito one is that you wouldn't be wiping out the mosquito population, just a fair portion within that swamp (and you'd likely miss some, which would then breed like crazy and re-populate). You'd also be killing off a bunch of other creatures too.

@TheKazragore

5 жыл бұрын

If Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is anything to go by...yes. Yes you could.

@BYERE

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheKazragore It's a great thought, but I have no want to meet God... or be condemned to live behind the doors of Truth...

still not a match versus the combo of Greater Hardening and Penetrate Up.

@chairulimran9205

5 жыл бұрын

Greater dexterity

@Dimizar

5 жыл бұрын

@@chairulimran9205 but your hardening won't be great nor your penetrate would go up, smh

@jezreelmartinez9800

5 жыл бұрын

What?

@stefanomartinelli7344

5 жыл бұрын

Is this an Overlord reference?

@StarboyXL9

5 жыл бұрын

Ahh, I see you are a man of culture as well... ALL GLORY TO AINZ OAL GOWN! ALL HAIL THE SUPREME ONE!

10th level spells have been in D&D. They were in 2.5 and called true dwemers. They were crazy powerful and could destroy or save worlds.

@nicapp984

5 жыл бұрын

The lore is to explain the balance changes in new editions.

@kimramsdell4666

5 жыл бұрын

2nd ED. Dark Sun.....pre 2.5.

@syrrix

5 жыл бұрын

in darksun 10th level spells were psionic enchantments ie mixture of psionics and magic

@craigtucker1290

4 жыл бұрын

No, true dweomers are something different and they were a default setting type magic meaning they could be introduced in any setting. Officially, in Forgotten Realms, there is true dweomers, 10th level, 11th level, and the one 12th level spell. In addition there is elven high magic and dwarven rune magic capable of similar feats.

@Qwerty95ish

4 жыл бұрын

@@craigtucker1290 What about what I said wasnt true? You listed facts that dont argue with why I said. There were 10th level spells, they were crazy powerful, they were called true dweomers. Edit: They were in the 2.5 magical supplement book, listed as 10th level spells and called them true dweomers, can't remember the books exact name but it was the one with the wonky magical duel rules.

Context as well as 10th level Spells are Psionic Enchantments in Darksun and Immortal Magic Elsewhere The Weave inteface is actually unique to Forgotten Realms as well causing All kind of problems for plane hopping spellcasters from there used to "Mystra's training wheels" if I remember correctly

Aang and Zuko at 4:00 lol

I have been dealing with writer's block for a campaign I was writing. Now I have inspiration again. Thank you very much. If anyone would like to know some of the details I would be happy to share.

@BLHLF

5 жыл бұрын

hell yeah, hit me with the deets

@anthonyvilla3608

5 жыл бұрын

Sure I could always go for some good ideas, inspiration off of inspiration only spreads.

@Dyundu

5 жыл бұрын

I concur! Regale us with thy deets!

@DarthBoberEXMinMaxMunchking

5 жыл бұрын

Hit my inbox or something too, I'm DMing a heavily homebrewed world with theoretical access to lvl10+ spells at some point, somehow, so hit me up if you have more ideas to share.

@crystalmarks4532

5 жыл бұрын

I'd love to hear your ideas! I'm putting together some enemies and possible 10th level spells that will be possible for my players to find, and one day cast (if they're lucky). It's always great to hear ideas and get some new inspiration

My DM used these spells but you would have to use multiple spells slots adding up to the level of the spell plus 10 to be fair though we also had levels past 20. My character (a level 20 bard level 7 sorcerer) casted karsus’ Avatar to become grumsh and kill Vecna

@rantcasey498

Жыл бұрын

That's awesome

Wow, I remember when this series started and my first time watching this video, now there's 100 vids in the D&D lore playlist. Best Dungeons and Dragons lore on KZread. Keep up the great work brother

Glad to see Karsus getting talked about! I’m actually playing a Binder that shares his name and bloodline in a 3.5e game, and it’s so fun mantling vestiges.

What an awesome video and a way to tie each successive D&D edition mechanics with the reality-altering events such as a death of magic deity! Keep up with the D&D content, I've just subscribed as well!

managing the weave just sounds like game design with extra steps

Great video. Thanks for this. It explained just what I wanted to know. Nice use of illustrations with the in-depth commentary explaining the lore. Well done.

I had an epic level caster back in 3e who created an origin of species epic spell... Nobody wanted to mess with a guy who could create a Tarrasque. He was promptly retired.

Wait, dragons are not allowed in waterdeep? Then what about the Waterdeep dragons, the Steel dragons?

@greengoblin48

5 жыл бұрын

You can choose which dragons to allow into Waterdeep with the magical item that blocks them. It's a staff, I'm trying to remember what it's called, I'll type it later.

@greengoblin48

5 жыл бұрын

It's called The Dragonstaff, and it's held by Aurinax the Dragon in Waterdeep at this time, but it's hidden.

@WarnarI

5 жыл бұрын

@@greengoblin48 ah

@halonut96

5 жыл бұрын

@@greengoblin48 good to know cause my group just started a waterdeep game

@Leaf-E

5 жыл бұрын

Blue eyes white power you want me to give you big tips?

The most powerful spell I've seen was from an expansion. It was a level 9 Evocation / Necromancy and created a magical fire that grew, lasted longer and did more damage the more people it killed. It costed 1500 gp per casting and was about as devastating as the most powerful conventional bomb.

Literally taking so many notes. Holy shit this video literally saved me. I needed this so badly, and this video just handed me everything I could have asked for. I'm trying to create a lot of big ass lore about old magic and having this canon information helps me SO much. Awesome video!

Just a suggestion, but I think you should cover how Ioulaum went from being a Netheril Arcanist, to a Litch, then an undead elder-brain called the Oracle of Ellyn'taal, also I love listening to your videos!

I love the ideas the tenth and eleventh level spells have given me. I created a mithal in my campaign. Essentially when they first arrived there the city wide magic did two things. Keeps all things out and forbids violent urges or actions

First of this guys videos i've watched. Seriously fascinating and excellently delivered

This was excellent. I look forward to watching more of your work.

@MrRhexx I was trying to find an explanation for a world ending food in my campaign and you have delivered it thank you!

When I heard the bit about multiple people casting wish at once, I couldn't help but think about being a wizard, casting simulacrum on yourself however many times, then having them all cast wish for you

In the lore of my world, there are three types of magic; Mortal, Draconic and Celestial. Beings of mortal souls can access tiny fragments of the force that moves all the celestial spheres and channel it in different forms, their bodies and souls too weak to channel vast amounts at once, putting a cap on what they can achieve. That is Mortal Magic. Beings of powerful souls can channel more energy and draw upon the power of their own soul, accessing extremely high level of spells. Dragons are the founders and most proficient users of it. That is Draconic Magic. At the dawn of time, Old Gods created a clique of angels, whose power was second only to their own. These angels could grow vast wings of crystal feathers, each one possesing enormous magical energy. Single tiny feather could be used to cast a powerful Wish spell. Each Angel had tens of thousands of them and could always grow more. Power beyond imagination or reason. That is Celestial Magic. During the rise of the first Abyss Overlord, demon powerful enough to rule the infinite layers of Abyss, make Demon Lords it's minions and threaten the Multiverse as a whole, all but three angels were killed by the Overlord itself. The Old Gods had to give their ego to cast the most powerful Wish in existence, so strong, even the demon could not resist it. Old Gods became forces of nature and the remaining angels disappeared or were killed in the millenia to follow. Their magic became a story. Story became legend. Legend became myth, which was then forgotten. Crystal feathers still exist, as well as ancient devices that use them as power cores. One feather is worth a fortune. The one who finds a way of producing them will rule the world.

@tobyharrison4702

4 жыл бұрын

MizantropMan that is a really cool backstory for your world, good job dude! Did your campaign go well?

@MizantropMan

4 жыл бұрын

@@tobyharrison4702 Sadly, my group fell apart after 3 sessions. Friends from uni got jobs, girlfriends and better things to do. I still develop the lore of my world as a pet project, but it's going to become a book or a comic before another D&D group rolls over.

@tobyharrison4702

4 жыл бұрын

Dude that sucks. I hope you at least get that into a cool book at least because that sounds like a really nice background for a fantasy world dude.

@CakeSlime_

3 жыл бұрын

So, hows the book going

ive forgotten how much I love your videos. I played them in the background while I was studying. I didn't get much study done lol.

I started a D&D campaign with some friends recently, so these lore videos are really great for someone without much knowledge of the world.

Man thank you for telling us this amazing lore. I'm speechless

An in-lore explanation for a nerf

This is literally a lore I was craving for. Thank you!

Great narration and thanks for this fascinating piece of lore I never heard of. I loved this video, you explained tough concepts in a very understandably way. Well done.

The "Bonfire of Insanity" is my favorite epic spell.... it just has all the right chaotic notes for an unhinged caster who wants to watch the world tear itself apart. (its the one that has rain drop that causes undead plague, anyone touched by the rain becomes undead, it raises up undead from the ground, anyone bit by one of these undead becomes undead, etc. Basically a zombie plague to go) its of course not even an evil spell... its beyond that, its classified as "Vile" so even evil casters would be like "WTF bro, not cool"

Very interesting, not the reason why I clicked this video but still, I did learn a bunch. Was kind of hoping "10th level spells Revealed" was about an official announcement of actual 10th level spells coming to 5e. But now I know who to blame for the whole spell slot nonsense, and it is a very interesting story/lore. Epic spells in Neverwinter Nights were like my favorite things to use/play. If I remember correctly I used the heck out of Epic Spell: Hellball.

Request: spellscale been watching you d&d videos for 2 days straight now. and love every moment of it. excellent lore and perfect enthusiasm for the subject :)

Loved this lore video. Thank you. Earned a sub. Looking forward to more like this

9:23 Ohai Lunar Cultists. Didn't know Terraria was part of the Forgotten Realms, haha.

This is very much a Forgotten Realms setting. Dark Sun also had level 10 spells but those were psionic/spell hybrids

Yes more lore videos! I'm so happy to see this! Back to watching the video :P

Lots of potential stuff to pull from this video for my campaigns. Ideas were exploding in my head as I watched it. I would love to have a quest surrounding one of my current groups to replicate a 10th level spell and create a Mythal around their town, since they are starting a city.

Summon barrel is the most OP level 11 spell

4:08 i love the smell of burning trolls

Enjoying this during bg3 playthrough. Thank you for this

Thank you so much for your videos. I'm a huge fan of lore and you are nailing it. Thank you so much for the enlightening

The thing is: a being like a Great Old One could cast a 10th+ level spel?

@Nyghtking

5 жыл бұрын

Probably, supposedly Astral Dragons could cast 10th+ level spells since they lived in the astral sea so I don't see why an entity roughly equal in power to a god couldn't cast 10th+ level spells.

@Charlie.G506

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for answering, i was thinking about it because the main antagonist in my campaign is a Great Old One (tbh i don't actually know if Hadar is an actual GOO or not :P), the thing is: Hadar would be bringen to the material plane by a long lasting ritual, being "manifested" in a alien like body/vessel, it's because of this situation that i want to know if the vessel's capable of such thing as casting level 10+ spells. Ps: sorry about the bad english.

@atomicash2475

5 жыл бұрын

Well their on same tier as gods, which can cast what ever the hell they want

@TheTrivek42

5 жыл бұрын

@@Charlie.G506 Whether or not he'd be able to in the material plane is a good question, whether or not you should allow it is an entirely different one. I would advise, for balancing reasons, to not give him this power. At best, you could give him the ability to do this once as a settup for the story, but letting him cast such such spells would otherwise mean you'd need your party to really power up high. Since you're asking whether it'd be possible, I'll assume you play fairly lore friendly, and I don't believe your party would stand much of a chance against someone able to cast 10th level spells. If they had to defeat him, there'd only be three plausible ways: Either make the party unbalanced, which is pretty lame and will make it all feel forced. Secondly they could look for a way to weaken it, but what stops him from stopping them from doing so. And lastly, they could try sending it back to its plane, which has the same flaw as option two. TL'DR: I'd recommend you max at 9th level

@Charlie.G506

5 жыл бұрын

It'd be something like this tbh, like levitate the entire tower or something like that.

Except for artificers... they just shit out magic items cuz they are awesome

@akreid4614

5 жыл бұрын

Edmond666777 artificers are shit on so many levels...

@Silvershield88

5 жыл бұрын

@@akreid4614 well someone's never played artificer well

@normknapp4404

5 жыл бұрын

@@Silvershield88 3.5 "you remember when we actually HAD rules for creating magic items" the artificer was the proverbial SHIT cause it was AWESOME!!!! the idea of breaking down and re creating magic items was ALL a party EVER NEEDED. if you took ALL the feats that revolved around magic item creation the reduction of price, time, and needed XP, you could really make out using low level items to break and rebuild better and NEEDED items without breaking the game!!!

@Takapon218

5 жыл бұрын

Artificers bind the weave to their items with enchantments so they’re still bound by it

@akreid4614

5 жыл бұрын

@@Silvershield88 oh, no wories - i played them right. I had my fare share of fun. But they are mechanically bad and illogical on SO MANY LEVELS. You can have fun with it - You can have fun with everything. But Artificer (as he is for the moment) neither has the right amount of damage, of utility, or mechanicaly interesting things imo. Sorry, if what I said previously was... well - rude. I just meant, that while he is called an artificer, he is more like a child of a sorcerer and a wizard.

HOLY FUCK. RHEXX. I'VE BEEN WATCHIN YOUR LET'S PLAYS FOR AGES BACK IN THE DAYS THEN LOST ANY CONTACT WITH YOU (Your Videos). Now this Video pops up in my KZread feed, made my day alot sweeter. Glad you're still around buddy.

This was some really cool lore I didn’t know. Thanks! Great vid!

I have a feeling you may be able to access Epic Magic through fiendish pacts, it would definitely require the souls of others and your own soul but I’m sure Asmodeus has some ways to skirt around Mystras restrictions.

@HeabSaysNo

9 ай бұрын

Idk. Asmodeus is a lord of the hells, but mystra is literally the god of magic. She controls all aspects of, and access to, the weave - she can stop anyone from casting if she wanted to - God or no.

How can any elven tradition or craft go extinct if all of them are constantly reincarnating and re living their memories from past lives

@a0point0of0view1

5 жыл бұрын

the point is that they avoid re living those memories of past lives via tracing, I mean maybe dying to the ritual is insanely painful and though might be tolerated as a once time only, every time you go back to remember how the magic tore at your being, it's no wonder elves don't sleep, also going by the scope of the power the spells might destroy the elf's soul and therefore render the user beyond their natural reincarnation

@Darknight4434

5 жыл бұрын

Or they soul is destroyed and they can't return

@theapexsurvivor9538

5 жыл бұрын

@@Darknight4434 nah, might erase that particular lifetime, but elves souls are literally just a fragment of a God, so it'll keep being reused to create new elves, even if it gets broken apart or dissolved it just re enters the hive soul.

@Darknight4434

5 жыл бұрын

If even the gods can die, why a part of its soul can't?

@SweetSylvie

5 жыл бұрын

@@Darknight4434 Because even the Gods can be reborn as well

If you go back to the old Greyhawk setting there was reference to the Rain of Colorless Fire which destroyed everything it touched, ground included. Also Invoked Devastation, no description. These were used by two great empires to destroy each other before the time of normal gameplay.

This Soo builds some of my story for my campaign

This video gave me a brilliant idea for my next campaign.

@ElectroKinesisMan

5 жыл бұрын

What is it?

@ShadowMage

5 жыл бұрын

@@ElectroKinesisMan I would tell you but fellow members of a D&D discord group that I'm in would see it because one of the members posted a link to this video in the discord an hour or so after I made the comment.

@unfunny-penguin

5 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah it does

@Cy3qi

5 жыл бұрын

@@ShadowMage it's been five months, is it time to tell us yet?

@ShadowMage

5 жыл бұрын

@@Cy3qi **sighs** Sure, I might as well. The idea that I had was to have a great evil from another plane of existence try and trick the party into killing the descendants of an ancient, and secret, order that sealed the aforementioned great evil from the world. The descendants of this order were tasked with casting a wish spell as a group to ensure that the seal doesn't break, but the players would have attacked/killed them during this ritual, causing the great evil to be unleashed upon the world once more.

I love how all the part on Mystral sounds like an angry dev nerfing every class to prevent exploit that causes server lags.

12:34 "You could raise an island from the sea" *Shows Moses parting the Red Sea*

I appreciate your use of Harry Dresden when talking about above level 9 spells.

As someone who poured through the Epic Level Handbook, I enjoyed this video but the ELH says there are no spells higher than 10th Level, because anything stronger than a 9th Level spell is simply 10th Level, regardless of power. From Epic Mage Armor which grants a +20 to armor class to Genesis, which creates a new living creature, it is all considered 10th Level. They are separated by the difficulty in working such magic, often overcome by involving multiple spell casters, sacrificing additional spell slots, making the spell take far longer to cast, the caster (or casters) taking magical backlash damage, or some combination of these effects to make the spell easier to cast. I don't recall reading about sacrificing the lives of casters, but maybe I just missed that? I'd be interested in your source lol. Seems like an interesting read.

@connorschultz380

5 жыл бұрын

This is 5e not 3.5

@connorschultz380

5 жыл бұрын

And apone futher inspection this comes from a 2E book.... I'm as confused as you now actually

@shadowlord1418

2 жыл бұрын

@@connorschultz380 no its not. its the history throughout dnd almost all the information he uses is from previous editions

@connorschultz380

2 жыл бұрын

@@shadowlord1418 i find mixing lore from multiple additions more often then not comes out with gibberish unless your following a specific setting

@shadowlord1418

2 жыл бұрын

@@connorschultz380 its dnd my world is completely different to these settings but i sometimes take things i find interesting

This being all specific to Forgotten Realm, what about other settings? D&D in general? Birthright had amazing spells in Realm Magic.

Imagine how cool it would be to have a D&d campaign centered around obtaining the components and spellcasters to cast a level 10 spell

Awesome video!!! Super interesting keep the good work!

Loulaums longevity seems easy to glitch out... Get a few hundreds of ant colonies... Cast it... Puff, there you go?

Ee-pit-toe-mee.

@ruskerdax5547

5 жыл бұрын

Eh-puh-TOAM.

@formorianify

5 жыл бұрын

Eep-it-tomi

@EvanFarshadow

5 жыл бұрын

Eh-pit-ohm

@Tzunamii777

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, that splinter had to be removed.

@chriswright8114

5 жыл бұрын

ee-pit-oh-mee

This is gonna help with my campaign so much.

Very inspiring video as a DM!!! Thanks broski!!!

Knowing my character.. (she's based off of Megumin from konosuba).. She'd probably just cast a massive near world ending *EXPLOSION!* She would probably die happy

@Oznerock

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like my usual evoc wizard

The most powerful spell is not talked about or known because it was used to go back and remove it before it was created. It's a time spell allows time to be go forward backward or stop altogether. It can also be used for instant teleportation etc. It was so powerful the wizard who created the time spell decide to go back and never have made it afraid if it ever got into the wrong hands.

Thanx for the upload!!!! Very helpful

The thing I love the most about DnD is that my personal desire to attain these levels of magical prowess can and will directly translate themselves into my character.

Old School D&D had the immortal rules. (Golden Books). 1st edition had mortal magic and then Immortal magic. Even some off shoot stuff in Role Aids had Level 10 to 16th Level. Then Oriental Adventure had the Wu Jen. They had Wish with no ill effects to the caster unless you worded it purposefully wrong. Also you have the ability to create your own spells with research in a development in a school of magic or on your own as a mage or Arch Mage. Getting into beyond in several levels to become a Lich or actually immortality. It of coarse also depends on your Game Master/Dungeon Master beyond just Hack and Slash. There is still more...

I would just like to clarify that this is Forgotten Realms Lore, not general Dungeons & Dragons Lore. Even though Forgotten Realms is now the official setting for Dungeons & Dragons, the game itself is not limited to this setting, and until 5th edition came out, this setting was not even the default setting for D&D. So, this lore video applies to this specific setting only. Just something to keep in mind, I'm not judging the video itself.

@professord6968

5 жыл бұрын

Sadly a lot of people forgot the other settings(Ravenloft,Planescape,Mystara,Greyhawk and lastly Dark Sun)

Wow nice lore!! Thanks for creating this! The Only Sheet

ahhhh the good ol' days, I used to play D&D. I liked this video, bravo!