Heat Metal. So underrated it doesn't even make underrated lists.

@BaronSengir1008

5 жыл бұрын

It came in very handy in ToA... Lol

@TheGrizzlo503

5 жыл бұрын

you mean HOT METAL

@ethanbailey6075

5 жыл бұрын

Our bard in ToA uses it quite often.

@dylanneal9281

5 жыл бұрын

I think it's really wired that bards and druids are the only ones to be able to use heat metal though, fristly because why would a master of nature have the ability to manipulate metal to some degree even though they won't even touch it willingly, secondly I don't see why a wizard or sorcerer shouldn't be able to get it and thirdly I think it's over looked because of the lack of casters that can use it but the spell it self is super good

@agilemind6241

5 жыл бұрын

@@dylanneal9281 Depends how you imagine it working. I always envision Druids hating metal so much they cause it to heat up to 'punish' those who use it. Similarly using a big fighters own weapon/armor against them in very in theme for a trickster Bard. Whereas wizards focused on pure magical ability should eschew spells that involve weapons/armour or uncivilized ways of combat all together. Sorcerers are in the same camp as wizards though I really like the idea of nature/elemental themed sorcerers or sorcerers with magic driven by emotions so I could be swayed as a DM to let a player have it if it was in character.

I used catapult with a carrot It did 43 damage

@moleman1211

4 жыл бұрын

Explain yourself, heretic

@joppe.dictus

4 жыл бұрын

joshohmygosh well I don’t remember the details but our dm told us to be more creative so i said i use catapult with a carrot and it was very effective

@PhailRaptor

4 жыл бұрын

@@moleman1211 Rabbitkind are ready to retake their rightful place as fuzzy overlords

@nickharrison3890

4 жыл бұрын

I got my dm agree to let me use catapult with a dagger of venom dealing piercing damage from the spell pluss the poison damage

@Jonahfishfighter

4 жыл бұрын

lol technically it should be a 5-10 lb object, but my dm let me do it with a fork as my gnome wizard ducked under a table for cover and it was dope

"Aren't you Lawful Neutral?" "Yes?" "But you're using Glyph of Warding to hold an entire city hostage to weaken the Cult of the Dragon?" "It's for a good purpose" "You're pure evil!" *Bane voice* "I AM NECESSARY EVIL!!"

@josiahgibson6373

4 жыл бұрын

This is Lawful Good, and if you disagree Covid-19 would like a word with you.

@Stettafire

3 жыл бұрын

Neutral or Evil, not good.

@Juneish_

3 жыл бұрын

The fun thing about the "lawful" alignment that is often overlooked is that you don't have to follow the laws of a city or realm, for example, it just means you have a moral code/ set of rules that you stick to. It could even be something as "classic evil" as kill every puppy you come across, its still well within the "lawful" alignment.

@andtalath

3 жыл бұрын

​@@Juneish_ Honestly, the only sense I've ever made between law vs chaos is collectivist vs individualistic. Evil vs Good is egotism vs altriusm. SO: LG=For the Good of all. NG=Let's make the best out of this situation. CG=Every individual should be happy and free. LG=For society to prosper, there must be clear rules. NN=Reality is complex. CN=Anarchy is the only true path forward. LE=The masses should be made to serve those that have will to lead. NE=Let's make the wors out of this situation. CE=Why should I care about anything outside my own interests? All of these are fundamentally moral codes, it's just quite different ones. Also, they don't correlate at all with any reasonable moral philosophy.

@jacobwiens659

3 жыл бұрын

@Mekal Covic Lawful can also mean order, so this fits with LN if you’re imposing order on an otherwise chaotic town.

Catapult not being picked? Rename it Power Word: Yeet

@TheRealDeadRock

3 жыл бұрын

Oh man this is good.

@henrikt.183

3 жыл бұрын

I got my DM to rename it trebuchet. Sadly it still cant launch a 90kg projectile over 300 meters.

@iododendron3416

3 жыл бұрын

@@henrikt.183 That's a 9th lvl spell. Deals 90 kg worth of D20s.

@lukiverse

3 жыл бұрын

New verbal component: yeet!

@kubabski

3 жыл бұрын

,@@henrikt.183 0,,, 00,😁

5:00 literally missed the most important benefit to catapult - its utility. Need a grappling hook somewhere? Catapult. Want to damage your enemies AND drench them in acid? Catapult a vial of acid. Enemy gets disarmed? BBEG has his wand, staff, spellcasting focus, or key to the world's destruction knocked from his grasp? Catapult. Just last week, my character tied a rope to a ballista bolt and fired it into an attacking creature with catapult - instant harpoon gun.

@camclemons

3 жыл бұрын

Need a grappling hook 90 feet away from you, you mean?

@jiiaga5017

3 жыл бұрын

@@camclemons Catapult

@Wenzel368

3 жыл бұрын

Tie several alchemist fire together and catapult the rope.

@wildankautsar7148

3 жыл бұрын

Well although with this spell, the grappling hook or the harpoon would take 3d8 damage as well so it might get destroyed.. so yea

@kylesimone6140

Жыл бұрын

@@wildankautsar7148 use mend

The most underrated spells are every cantrip a Warlock has that doesn't start with "E" and end with "ldritch Blast"

@captainnwalps6689

4 жыл бұрын

Warlocks have other cantrips?

@sakykBzz

4 жыл бұрын

@@captainnwalps6689 whats a warlock? ive only heard of eldritch blasters

@captainnwalps6689

4 жыл бұрын

clouds they are really shitty clerics

@Endershock1678

4 жыл бұрын

Imagine using spells as a Warlock that isn't Smite. -This Post was made by Hexblade Gang.

@xxenchanteddemonxx5222

4 жыл бұрын

As a Hexblade Warlock, I find my Reaper scythe (polearm) is much more effective.

12:01 Glyph of warding doesn't work that way. You can't gift anyone an item you used glyph of warding on. The spell specifically says "if the object is moved more than 10 feet from where you cast this spell, the glyph is broken and the spell ends without being triggered."

@jonathanshaw6784

4 жыл бұрын

WillfulVisions yes. Still plenty of room for creativity

@dragula131

4 жыл бұрын

Ok, so you cast it on a book for example, in an office that no matter where an individual goes in there it isn't outside that 10' range. there are ways around all the "restrictions" on the spell

@bubbakelly3066

4 жыл бұрын

Actually, you can cheese the spell. If you use it on a surface, there is no distance restriction. put it on a wall (preferably something flexible), take the part with the glyph on it, then attach it to an object.

@Dylan_Thomas1

4 жыл бұрын

@@bubbakelly3066 This would come down to a DM deciding what the subjective spirit of the spell is and making a ruling. When does a wall stop being a surface and become an object? I say when you break a piece off. It is now a piece of wall or a piece of wood. The spirit of that exception you're mentioning seems to apply for instance when you teleport a whole building that has a glyph of warding somewhere inside.

@adamxue6096

3 жыл бұрын

By RAW it always works. Since it states "an object that can be closed" therefore essentially any "thing" you cannot "close" is NOT under the restriction of being destroyed while moving. Therefore, well, do you think you can "close" a wooden table for example? Can you close a shield? Maybe you could argue you could close a plate armor, or you could close their helmet. But anything that cannot be closed, doesn't fall under the restriction. Note, this is obviously by RAW. RAI, it is obvious that you shouldn't be able to move anything.

Sleet storm is actually the spell that I've seen kill the most people at once. And I've only seen it once. My party recently attempted to break into a heavily guarded magical prison, where the darkness contained many tiny insects that would eat people alive. (We later learned that the darkness did the same damage as lava). Of course stealth is hard, if the darkness can you and all, and we were far too outnumbered to fight our way through. But that meant that the guards had to worry about light too. We distracted them and brought 80 guards into one place...and then sleet storm turned out all the lights. It turned out the lights, knocked them down, and made it difficult terrain as they were eaten alive. Their screams haunt our characters to this day.

@gregorygarrison572

5 жыл бұрын

Sorry about 2 months later but... your DM sent Vashta Nerada from Doctor Who at you? That is terrifying.

@justas423

3 жыл бұрын

...That story is less of a case for how underrated Sleet Storm is and more of how terrifying your DM is.

@elgatochurro

3 жыл бұрын

@@justas423 sleet storm is amazing though I once had an oni being an army with the players over a large spike pit trap, then cast this, anyone still alive was being swept into more of the pits walls and spiked rocks. Adult White dragons using this get to freely move and stealth in it's winds while players outside it have trouble hitting it As a player this can fuck over any large army or area of people

A player in my campaign decided to use Catapult on a net...filled with vials of acid...so that when the net hits the target all the vials would break from the force. I allowed it but told him there would be diminishing returns on the acid at some point, need to reward this kind of creativity somehow though.

@Taking20

5 жыл бұрын

Good DM is good.

@JayDawg591

5 жыл бұрын

I like your style

@MonochromaticPrism

4 жыл бұрын

Good intuition on the diminishing returns. Once you hit a target with enough acid to completely drench them, additional acid would simply end up as a puddle around their feet. You could probably make up a damage chart for small-medium-large creatures and the number of vials it would take to drench them if the player wants to keep using that tactic.

Admits to having a knife on camera. Demonetized

@quinnbell2388

5 жыл бұрын

Hey, everyone needs he 4 knife starter set: 1 for steaks, 1 for butter, 1 for letters, and 1 for occasional kobolds.

@silvertheelf

5 жыл бұрын

KZread algorithm = demonetizes everything!

@anderspettersson7490

5 жыл бұрын

@@silvertheelf algorithm claims actuall person has reweived the content

@silvertheelf

5 жыл бұрын

Anders Pettersson, claims, they don’t actually review it, otherwise there would be less content demonized, it demonetized anything it misinterpreted. You could say knees hurt and it could hear knife, if it were a person they would have heard it but people don’t review it until the algorithm is reported

@waveman0

5 жыл бұрын

@@silvertheelf I have EDC'ed a pocket knife (actually I carry 2 folders, one in a multi tool and another in a dedicated folder, which is currently a WE 801 Minitor) for going on 40 years, there is nothing wrong with that, it is an atavistic trait that is carried through our genes from the stone age. Knives are among our oldest tools, EVERY man should carry the ability to cut, start fire, and *SURVIVE* on their person at all times....anyone who doesn't isn't a human in my mind.

The really cool thing about wrathful smite is that while it is a Wisdom save to avoid being frightened it is a Wisdom check to end. And since while frightened ability checks are at disadvantage this becomes awesome.

The wizard in my game murdered a ghoul with catapult with a pillow. I let it happen for the memes.

@rustyshackleford6650

4 жыл бұрын

For what memes?

@thechosenone9361

4 жыл бұрын

@@rustyshackleford6650 This bitch empty! YEET!

@nyrnfangthesabertoothicedr7441

4 жыл бұрын

Speaking of using catapult, I got a spell scroll for it And before that I had gotten a vial of adult green dragon poison breath. That’s all just context for this, there was a giant lava yeti that was walking around eating big rocks. I rolled to catapult the vial into the yeti’s mouth, and got an eighteen I think. One of my party members then summoned giant crabs to attack the yeti.

@nyrnfangthesabertoothicedr7441

4 жыл бұрын

@Viktor Magnusson Ranger.

@oldschoolprince4714

4 жыл бұрын

A softer death than it deserved😂

I love plant growth. I charge farmers alot for guaranteeing double crops.

@anoneamose4866

5 жыл бұрын

homunculus7 ooooh. Smart.

@anoneamose4866

5 жыл бұрын

Also you could pass yourself off as a saint in small farming towns ignorant in the ways of magic

@darkdragogameing1729

5 жыл бұрын

You are evil... I like it

@homunculus7

5 жыл бұрын

@@darkdragogameing1729 This also depends on the Dm but ive stuffed a seed, water and mulch paste into chest locks and destroyed the locks by making large thick vines grow from inside the lock

@randomlygeneratedname

5 жыл бұрын

This beats charging people for zombie slaves

I think armor of Agathys is a particularly underrated spell. It’s first level and warlocks only. Most people read the spell description and say “oh it gives 5 temp hp and deals 5 damage. That’s not worth an action” but this is actually incorrect. It deals the entirety of that damage every time a creature hits you while you have those temp hit points. While this isn’t all that great at first level, it gets much better when upcasted. At 5th level, the highest level a warlock can upcast to, it gives 25 temp hp and deals 25 damage to anyone that hits you. Because you have more temp hp, the likelihood you deal all 25 points of damage to multiple creatures increases dramatically. The damage is dealt without a save and is incredible for disincentivizing opportunity attacks. If you were fighting a large number of creatures that deal a little damage a lot of times, you could easily deal about 100 damage per casting. Just cast the spell on yourself and run right through enemy groupings to provoke opportunity attacks, getting hit by each one once and dealing 25 damage to them. It is a little situational and falls behind when you deal with single targets and heavy hitters, but for crowd control it’s amazing, which is good variety for the warlock that’s good at using bestow curse, hex, and agonizing blast on one target.

@sanguineaurora8765

5 жыл бұрын

Armor of Agathys with Blade Ward please..

@kappaross6124

5 жыл бұрын

Had a barbarian that's the one tiefling subrace that lets you cast Armor of Agathys once per day. It is... magnifique.

@erinhurley5121

5 жыл бұрын

Heck yes! Armor of Agathys saved my life and my warlock is only level 2!

@onemisterfranko

5 жыл бұрын

I love the spell armor of agythis and I would defiantly take it on a warlock or even a combat based bard. Just throwing up those exstra HP can save you from damage mitigation plus the damages delt back its a sold choice. I like mitigating damage over having to heal it personally and this spell has that and damage so its wonderful.

@leonardoconde8930

5 жыл бұрын

Heck combine that with blade ward snd ray of enfeblee and you get good value agains any kind of melee atacker. Btw im pretty shure you can cast it at level9 as an warlock if you want to play around

One of my personally favorite spell is Enlarge/Reduce. Enlarge is great for allies in combat and intimidation checks, reduce is great for stealth and debuffing foes... but the real fun is when you use it on objects. Gate blocking your way? Not anymore. Need to block a passage? Done. Trying to steal something? Easy as pie. Enlarging acid vials, fireworks, and other things that burn or boom is always fun. I had one player want to shrink a ballista bolt to be fired by his buddy's Kobold Archery Fighter and returning it to normal size after it's sticking out of someone. Squick. I don't know if it's underrated, but not many folks talk about it much. It's just useful, in and out of combat.

@jonathanshaw6784

4 жыл бұрын

Charles Edwards there is also no limit to the size of the object that can be targeted. Does a castle count as an object?

@elgatochurro

3 жыл бұрын

It's amazing yeah

I'm a big fan of Speak with Plants, myself. Ask plants anything that happened in the past day, have them move anything on them (branches, leaves, vines), and even have them restrain nearby targets. Plus, the spell lasts an hour.

@mikesands4681

4 жыл бұрын

TheXanondorf A potted plant in the kings council chamber becomes..... a plant (spy)

@social3ngin33rin

3 жыл бұрын

Should DMs include non-plants to be affected by this spell, such as mushrooms and other fungi. I think the intent was for it to affect non-sentient/animalistic "natural/nature" growth.

@jakepullman4914

3 жыл бұрын

My DM nerfed this spell with the logic "Plants are dumb. They don't understand anything that humans find important. " Sucks to waste a spell slot like that.

THANK YOU for specifying that radius means "from the center, to the edge". So often do I see players and DM's who mistake radius and diameter, severely limiting the area of effect of a spell. I've actually been told that I was wrong when I tried to explain that radius (in relation to the spell) means "from the targeted point of origin, to the edge of the area of effect". It seems like it would be something so obvious, but so many people confuse radius with diameter.

@Vol7ar

5 жыл бұрын

Wow, that's like middle school geometry...

@ayoutubewatcher2849

5 жыл бұрын

In this day and age with Google, there's just no excuse

@alexanderticonuwu7591

5 жыл бұрын

Wait, there are people that doesn't know what radius is?

@XoRandomGuyoX

5 жыл бұрын

Yup... So, if you cast a spell with a 60 foot radius there are DMs or teammates who won't believe you when you say that the spell from end to end is 120 feet.

@MrBottlecapBill

5 жыл бұрын

@@XoRandomGuyoX I think everyone in these cases is confused.....sort of. When you cast a spell of say a 60 foot radius, that's outward from the point you cast the spell. So even though the diameter of the spell is 120 feet, it still only affects creatures 60 feet outward from the focal point(centre). Since most spells create an instant effect, that's what players are usually worrying about. Which baddies or party members are going to be hit by the effect of the spell. This leads to a mental lapse where people start to picture 60 foot lines from the centre to various characters and further lapse into thinking that 60 feet is the size of the effect. Which it is for most practical measuring outward purposes, but it isn't for all practical purposes. The only reason you care about the 120 foot diameter is if perhaps you cast a lingering spell with no characters in it and you want to visualise or represent the entire effected area. That's my take on things. If they think the 60 foot radius means a total distance across of 60 feet then we should just feel sorry for them. :)

A list of timestamps for each spell would not go amiss.

@Tristan1062

5 жыл бұрын

Thomas Hirsch a profile picture from this century would not go amiss

@joeykulhaups

5 жыл бұрын

Video doesn't really start until 3:30

@feudaltrinity7831

5 жыл бұрын

Silver Bear disappointed that chaos bolt did not make it

@joshuadickens7006

4 жыл бұрын

Thomas Hirsch I want to like this but it’s at 420 so I can’t.

@Mega_Mikey

4 жыл бұрын

Hop to it champ

Personally I've been using catapult alongside my paladin-sorcerer to make Thor. Catapult hammer at enemy, catapult back to hit an adjacent enemy

@nemo_xs3200

4 жыл бұрын

w8, how??

@RogueHippie13

4 жыл бұрын

nemo_xs Twin Casting, maybe?

@camclemons

3 жыл бұрын

Catapult doesn't work on held items, and it stops when it hits a solid surface, so it would stop when it hits the enemy on the way "back"

@bumple3

3 жыл бұрын

@@camclemons Well, it could work if he dropped the weapon before casting. Making it return would also work with a bound weapon.

@camclemons

3 жыл бұрын

@@bumple3 Sure, but that's a drastically different visual than throwing a returning hammer lol. Not to mention, the Catapult spell notably deals its damage to both target and item, so you'll probably want a damage resistant magic weapon.

3:48 I am 27 years old, still stuff like this makes me chuckle way more than it should.

“The best insects to summon are bugs that are not insects”

@tomkerruish2982

5 жыл бұрын

By definition, all bugs are insects. Spiders are arachnids and centipedes are chilopods.

@doglover7641

5 жыл бұрын

Actually it is different if you look at the animal classification An insect is in kingdom Animalia Phylum Arthropoda Class Insecta A spider’s Class is different

@tomkerruish2982

5 жыл бұрын

Sorry, let me write more clearly, now that I've had a night's rest. Bugs are members of Hemiptera, an order of Insecta. Examples include cicadas, aphids, and bed bugs. Colloquially, the term bug can refer to any number of creepy-crawlies. However, I'm being technical, like any good netizen should. :D

@RokuroCarisu

5 жыл бұрын

Considering that, it's a bit odd that you can't transform a crab into a giant crab with this spell.

@MrHidethecheese

5 жыл бұрын

@Waverly Saturday it's always good practice to allow these things in my opinion. Creative thinking allows for the best adventures. And it helps further my dream of wizards finally acknowledging my favourite custom class, The Crabomancer

Sleet Storm is no joke. I was a nonbeliever until I slapped this on my ice-based sorcerer, thinking I'd never actually use it. This thing simply ENDS fights. It's so weird because there are so many things and situations that you could think of that would get around it or make it suck, but it just doesn't seem to matter. It's not even bad if your teammates are inside it when you cast it, because from what I've experienced, it actually ends up protecting them more than harming them. And when it starts to be a problem, just drop concentration, easy peazy. Bonus points because we have a fire-based wizard in our party who sometimes forgets that their fire spells can set off forest fires; not a problem with my boi SLEET STORM

@xindlepete8316

5 жыл бұрын

My favorite part of Sleet Storm is that it imposes concentration checks on anyone in the area concentrating on a spell. I played an abjurer wizard who focused on being the ultimate counter-caster, and Sleet Storm is perfect for that: breaks line of sight, forces concentration checks, and imposes Dex saves which no full-caster is proficient with. Upcast Counterspell to stop spells from ever happening, and Sleet Storm any casters concentrating on spells that were already cast. Devastating.

@beargrills3508

5 жыл бұрын

@@xindlepete8316 and also warcaster only applies to checks made for damage, so the sleet storm checks are without advantage and without proficiency unless you're a sorcerer or some shenanigans.

@joelhickman5226

5 жыл бұрын

If you have a second spell caster to cast moonbeam as well, it sticks 20 feet higher than sleet storm. Its just like stirring a bowl with a spoon!

@dustinwilson4815

5 жыл бұрын

@@beargrills3508 I take Resilient [Constitution] EVERY time I play a caster that hits level 4. Even before raising other stats...

@justoneman13

5 жыл бұрын

I'm not a huge fan of Sleet Storm. In my opinion, it's kind of a failure as a control spell because of friendly fire. Kind of hard to control the battlefield when you're fucking your guys up just as bad as the other guys. In fact, the massive AoE works against, imo, because it makes it even harder to put it just where you need it.

Fight begins, "so Mikey... is he wearing any metal armor?"😈😈😈😈

Misty Step. A short range teleport spell you get at a low level is very useful just in and of itself. But because it's a bonus action, its also extremely useful as an emergency save-ass spell.

👏spell👏review👏

@ConnorS-gy3pj

5 жыл бұрын

Imaginary Calmness liked the video before even watching because of that

Glyph of Warding specifically states that if the object is moved more than 10 ft from where it is cast the glyph breaks and the trigger fails to go off. Are you hanging out in the mayor's office for an hour casting this in the book you're gifting him? Are you going to go unnoticed around Neverwinter doing all these hour long castings to hold the city for ransom? I get the rule of cool, but the spell directly states it doesn't work that way. And for good reason. If the glyphs are mobile, this spell gets ridiculously broken. Just carry around glyphs with concentration spells, and they last their full duration, no concentration needed, no limit to how many you can have going at once. A few days of downtime, and your whole party could have haste, blur, fly, and protection from energy simultaneously, with no chance of losing concentration on any of them, and all activated with a single item interaction.

@destroyer8000

5 жыл бұрын

1217 BC Thought I was gonna have to be the one to break it to em.

@heisenburger2212

5 жыл бұрын

1217 BC psch... rules are for fools.

@MrTonypace

5 жыл бұрын

You can still lure them in in, but this is a needed limitation. I bet most parties could get the hidden evil mayor to come to touch something.

@1217BC

5 жыл бұрын

Oh, it's still a really nice spell, but it's more situational than this. I'm a firm believer that guard stations should have numerous glyphs set up to buff and/or heal those stationed there.

@hamptonhansen6498

5 жыл бұрын

It says you can choose an object or a surface and only applies the 10 foot restriction if you choose the object, so you couldnt glyph a book but you could glyph a specific page on that book.

One time I was DMing for a group and the local temple hired them to take on a necromancer in the town's graveyard. They snuck up on him, a rogue threw his knife, and I let the wizard add the catapult spell to it. That was 1d4 + 3d8 before the battle even started.

The most anime spell in the game: Steel Wind Strike

@ryanparker260

4 жыл бұрын

That was my EXACT thought reading it! It's literally the scene where the samurai is surrounded by 5 dudes, and he reaches down, barely unsheathes his sword, and then suddenly he's behind one of the thugs, and all 5 thugs fall over, dead. It's literally *teleports behind you* "Nothing personal, kid"

@apexkonchu2234

4 жыл бұрын

SUTEELO WINDO STURAIKU

@DanielC01000100

4 жыл бұрын

this spell is super awesome!

@venomouspixel

4 жыл бұрын

This became my opening attack in almost every encounter as a Bladesinger... DM started to introduce many ranged and separated enemies, moved onto Tensors Transformation... good times

@flrs5858

4 жыл бұрын

Tim Crone right, I know what my bladesinger is doing when he gets to 9th level.

familiar + dragons breath = awesome, fabricate + papermaking = fortune from trees... might be considered cheese though by some, unseen servant + order "feed me this healing potion if i am ever knocked unconscious due to damage" = heal bot

@rinconusmc

5 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't unseen servant diapell once ypu loose consciousness?

@xstarsky

5 жыл бұрын

@@rinconusmc nope, unseen servant isn't concentration

@silvertheelf

4 жыл бұрын

😂 general genius.

@thechosenone9361

4 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't unseen servant do anything you say anyway if it's not too complicated or an attack?

@tennesseeponderer3146

4 жыл бұрын

I prefer having a character with a black smithing/ armor making, that plate mail that sells for 1500 gold takes ten minutes to make and the material cost is only 65 pounds of steel, steel is 4gp per pound so it’s a profit margin of 1240 gold per cast

I must not understand something -- why would anyone judge you for having a knife? Doesn't every household everywhere have a variety of knives for different things?

@mtvandamme

5 жыл бұрын

He mentiined the size, must be a dick reference or sumthing. Idk

@jamesforgie6594

5 жыл бұрын

Cos lots of people are idiots. But I might be biased, as I have a collection of knives, some of which are not quite legal. But hey, what the cops don’t know won’t hurt em. Well, it might, but I won’t be wielding it if it does.

@neuromantic4313

5 жыл бұрын

youtube sometimes gets wonky with content including knives

@artro398

5 жыл бұрын

Vaks! I didn't expect to see you here. Though I'm not particularly surprised.

@jamesforgie6594

5 жыл бұрын

Marlon Adams if this weren’t public, I’d be fine with that. There’s a decent chance you’re in a whole different country, and they aren’t in the house, anyway. Rest assured, though, I won’t use them on people, and the only other people who know about them are the shopkeepers I bought them from and whoever has read this thread.

My use of catapult, get javelin, use catapult with javelin, get the damage of catapult and javelin, hotel, trivago. (Also usable with bombs)

And then when you consider what more you can do with the Catapult spell: hey, that bottle of Alchemist Fire is less than 10 lbs...

@Hadaron

4 жыл бұрын

Coincidentally, a bottle of Alchemist’s Fire can be tied to two flasks of oil with enough rope, and the entire creation of rope, fire and oil will weigh under five pounds.

I think you skipped over one of the best parts about Wrathful Smite, and that's the fact that it takes a Wisdom CHECK and not a Wisdom SAVE. So now, not only does the enemy not get to use it's proficiency bonus if it has it, but it has to make the check at disadvantage now because it is frightened.

@mortalLP

5 жыл бұрын

What the crap?! That's the strangest feature I've seen in a description, and it's apparently entirely rules-legit and verified. How bizarre...

@affegpus4195

5 жыл бұрын

That almost sounds like a typo

@AZDfox

5 жыл бұрын

It's especially good for a Conquest Paladin with a reach weapon, because it reduces their speed to 0 when in 10 feet of them, and because they're frightened, they can't approach. Just stop them dead and hit them from a distance.

@dustinwilson4815

5 жыл бұрын

Yeppers. And if you're fighting a Paladin with his Charisma bonus to saves, or any opponent with magical gear that adds bonuses to saves, those bonuses do NOT apply to ability checks. As a DM, I keep that in mind when I use spells against my current 17th level party. You have to look for the small things to screw them out of all those advantages and put them on edge...

@justoneman13

5 жыл бұрын

On a conquest paladin, it's great. On literally any other paladin it's a hard pass. One, they don't get that many spell slots, and getting fear on one enemy isn't usually worth it when you could just smite for guaranteed damage. Two, it's concentration, and, you'll almost always have something better to concentrate on. Three, a paladin will rarely want to make enemies afraid of them, since, generally, paladins want enemies to stay close to them, not run away

Lining up enemies for catapult is a point I hadn't considered; good use! I'd like to add that, past attacking, it's a great creative utility spell for early levels. Notice how it has a range of 60 feet and goes in any direction you choose? Yeah, the item doesn't have to be on or near your person. You can definitely get close to the quest item on the pedestal and, as enemies brace for combat, go "yoink!" and send the item flying right by you into your fighter's hands. Or launch explosives. Or create distractions by throwing things through windows or down stairs in the opposite direction from where you need to go. Or just get satisfaction from smacking people upside the head with environmentally-appropriate items. Like hitting a rival wizard with their own reference book.

@jamesforgie6594

5 жыл бұрын

Dragoeniex smacking a wizard with his own spell book sounds like lots of fun. Not to mention the other hijinks I’d get up to if I could do this. And what I could do with prestididitation! (Did I spell that right?) oh the possibilities! And yes, I’m chaotic evil.

@neroblack2704

5 жыл бұрын

Use it on a market vendor's stuff when he's not looking and throw it into the streets, instant chaos as every bum in the city rushes in to grab that shit.

@eldardrakeson

5 жыл бұрын

I'm thinking catapult, plus pint jars of mixed pitch and oil, followed by a flame type spell after there's a nice big mess.

@Dragoeniex

5 жыл бұрын

@@eldardrakeson Now you're thinking with portals.

@Dragoeniex

5 жыл бұрын

@@neroblack2704 Extremely valid!

A N I M A T I O N. Animate the ball bearings. Ton of damage. That porticullis that won't move? Animate it an make it raise (only to slam it on your foes if they start charging through). That rug under the enemy's feet? You guessed right ANIMATE IT. It's utility and combat spell all in one.

"Ugh... a mid video sponsor" *presents an actually useful product* "oh I... I actually like that"

Fabricate. So good, especially as you gain proficiencies. Your ranger will *never* be out of arrows. Making a boat to escape across a lake from those enemies chasing you. You have some down time? Build the golden gate bridge in a manner of months across some large river previously blocking trade, set up tariffs, profit.

@charless1145

5 жыл бұрын

You never gain proficiencies in 5e after class creation, unless you UA feat into them, or have a campaign and dm that allows downtime

@codyrhodes2473

5 жыл бұрын

Charles S Not true, plenty of subclasses grant proficiencies. However tool proficiencies aren’t amazingly useful for that spell, because apart from glass blowing for profit there aren’t many reasons to burn a fourth-level fucking slot. No wizard would burn that on arrows for the party Ranger. Tyler is also forgetting that you can only make Large things out of relatively light materials like wood, and only Medium things out of heavy mats like stone or metal. It’s nigh impossible to assemble a bridge using this spell because of the Medium and Large requirements. You’d have to invent some kind of interlocking bridge design and pray that it doesn’t storm too intensely in the region.

@brokenlord4056

5 жыл бұрын

@@charless1145 Also, you are forgetting the PHB Feat: Skilled. You instantly gain 3 proficiencies. It isn't just a UA thing.

@charless1145

5 жыл бұрын

@@brokenlord4056 ok. Yeah, but that's still not a natural part of progression in the way it was in previous editions...

@charless1145

5 жыл бұрын

@@codyrhodes2473 let's also not forget the amount of time needed

Actually. I like the idea of using Mold Earth, Catapult, and a donkey. Donkey holds a sack of 5 cubic feet and you hold a sack of 1 pound rocks. So. Mold earth creates a cube of half cover for you to hide behind with the dirt from the donkey. Then Catapult uses the rocks you dumped on the ground. Boom. You are an Earth bender siege unit. Edit: First off yes. This is based off of animated Spellbook. Second. There’s a misunderstanding of dirt here. 1 cubic yard of dry dirt is 1 ton. A simple google search can tell you that. Therefore 5 cubic feet (0.185185 cubic yards)weighs 370 lbs. The donkey can carry up to 420 lbs of dirt seeing that the donkey/mule is considered large when calculating encumbrance. This can also be seen in the handbook table for mounts. You will likely need to use barrels though instead of sacks. That or you can overcome that with ease via a cart. Third. The idea is to be a siege unit. So REALLY, the donkey is only needed in areas where dirt or fortification isn’t already available. Fourth. I’ve played PLENTY of wizards with magic missile and warlocks with eldritch blast. If I wanted to be optimal, I would do so. But the idea is to do something fun and interesting with underused spells.

@cmckee42

5 жыл бұрын

That seems like entirely to much work to have what is essentially a worse version of Chromatic orb, which is itself worse than magic missile. If you like the flavor of catapult, that is fine, but it is a lot of work for flavor.

@cmckee42

5 жыл бұрын

Also, 5 cubit feet of dirt is too heavy for a donkey to carry.

@garret1930

5 жыл бұрын

@@cmckee42 how heavy is that in dnd?

@cmckee42

5 жыл бұрын

@@garret1930 no weight given, so assume the same weight as in real life.

@cmckee42

5 жыл бұрын

@@garret1930 rough estimate~ 4-5 tons

The implications of the 'flock of familiars'. As a DM I hope my players Don't see this XD

glyph of warding with thunderwave cast onto a floor is hilarious dude steps on a rug fails saving throw now he's unconsious or prone because he just flew up, hit the cieling, and came back down even funnier if you chain them in a way that if one goes off, the creature in question will likely set them all off

@Mr_Maiq_The_Liar

4 жыл бұрын

JN Baker or knock them off a balcony

@TheFuriousBrother

3 жыл бұрын

Chain reaction glyph of warding is just pure evil, and the reason I never again give my players a scenario in which it can be used to the extent of dealing 100d6 in total...

Fellow nine-year-olds playing D&D. This is great.

@frost-phantom1961

5 жыл бұрын

I'm 11 and I'm a elf ranger

@stakefr0mjatefarmvods534

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, gunna go watch some Fortnite steams, cause my cOcK iS hUgE

@Jess-ul5ho

5 жыл бұрын

What the fuck

@codypatton2859

5 жыл бұрын

@@frost-phantom1961 Nice! Ranger was the first class I ever played, though mine was a human. ^.^

@alguldandoce7982

5 жыл бұрын

@@frost-phantom1961 r/wooosh Idiot

My Warlock once avoided a boss fight with Prestidigitation. It truly comes down to creativity.

@spookynoodle6377

5 жыл бұрын

How

@alessandrod.306

5 жыл бұрын

How ? 😂

@rhadiel

5 жыл бұрын

@@spookynoodle6377 Answered below :)

@rhadiel

5 жыл бұрын

@@alessandrod.306 Homebrew campaign. My party was wandering in a Plane which manifested famous literary characters or villains. We came across a certain... rabbit, the kind that is white, in a tremendous hurry, wears clothes, carries a poketwatch and stamps its foot. Of course it tried to blame us for his lateness. When the party went quiet with shock and the DM asked for initiative rolls, I asked if I could just try one small thing. DM said yes, so I prestidigitated the poketwatch hands to show as being 1 hour ahead of what's currently showing, so that the blasted rabbit was no longer late. He mumbled something about his missus gifting him a cheap watch and buggered off. Then the DM showed us its stats after the session. That was one encounter we were happy we did not get XP for!

@spookynoodle6377

5 жыл бұрын

@@rhadiel fair nuff

Beginning was amazing! I just recently got into DnD maybe a month or so ago and your videos have helped me a ton!! I know I haven't been here for your entire journey but I am so thrilled I get to be with you now and hope I get to see that video one day of you hitting 1 million subscribers!!! Thanks for all your hard work and dedication it is truly inspiring!

I get it: Unseen Servant material components (string and wood) are a joke about marionettes.

@benjaminwheeler7055

3 жыл бұрын

I was today years old when I got this joke.

@Marionette_Doll

3 жыл бұрын

I feel nothing but shame that, despite how often I use Unseen Servant, that has never once dawned on me.

Dragons breath plus find familiar A teleporting flamethrower with only 1 bonus action

@torinsmith9867

5 жыл бұрын

Familiars aren't allowed to make attacks.

@ethantidwell2453

5 жыл бұрын

Torin Smith, I think he’s referring to the fact that you can cast touch spells through the familiar. First, the breath is not an attack, as in you dont have to roll a 20 for it. Yes, you can attack a creature but its not an attack action. Secondly, the familiar can be used to deliver an attack if its a range of touch.

@greenelephant...ofdoom5527

5 жыл бұрын

@@torinsmith9867 Technically it isn't labeled as an attack. It just says that as an action they can unleash the breath. Actually if anything the rules SUPPORT a familiar being able to use it.

@reubenfromow4854

5 жыл бұрын

Jeremy Crawford has confirmed during sage advice that the “flamethrower Familiar” works!

@greenelephant...ofdoom5527

5 жыл бұрын

@@reubenfromow4854 You have to use a Pseudodragon though (style points).

One great way to utilize Catapult spell is to have your fighter disarm the enemy and then use Catapult to shoot their weapon away from them. No more useless disarming where picking up an object while within 5ft. of a hostile creature doesn't cost the disarmed enemy creature anything, and now their fighter hits you with 1+STR punches instead of that nasty +3 Greatsword +1d6 fire damage +10 damage from their Great Weapon Master feat. It's also a great strategy for Action Surging Eldritch Knights.

@fuglekorn

5 жыл бұрын

hello

@Deltajugg

5 жыл бұрын

@@fuglekorn small world

@randomlygeneratedname

5 жыл бұрын

Ohh I might try this one you could also go full captain America with a shield of returning

@jago668

5 жыл бұрын

You can interact with an object for free once per turn. So provided you didn't draw your sword, open a door, etc then when you disarm you can just kick the sword away.

@Takapon218

5 жыл бұрын

People always forget to kick away the sword LMAO. No need to waste a spell slot when you can just do it yourself.

Catapult is one of my absolute favorite spells of all time, and it's SUPER underappreciated. 3d8 damage on a dex save, +1d8 for each level above 1st. It has a range of 60 ft. and from that point it flies for 90 feet, so it's one of the longest-range spells available to any caster at a total of 150ft (at least at early levels) Technically it's a line spell, so even if your initial target makes the save, the object keeps flying for 90 ft. so you can angle it to hit another enemy. ONLY WEIGHT IS THE LIMIT! You can easily improve its damage by tossing acid or oil flasks at enemies. It's an absolute beast and has no business being so damn good for a 1st level spell.

A friend of mine had an incredible idea for a fellow pc. She played a tiefling and told her to use thaumaturgy to appear as a devil with flames and shit against an cemetary man to scare him to death it was cool.

Catapult, vials of acid, alchemists fire, etc. You're welcome.

@Jakobman76

5 жыл бұрын

Catapult only works on items that weigh 1 pound minimum, vials weigh a lot less.

@lord6617

5 жыл бұрын

@@Jakobman76 And are easily attached to rocks, daggers, bits of junk, etc.

@keowintersthewarden1406

5 жыл бұрын

Kegs of oil. Then watch them burn when it is lit

@MrZriael

5 жыл бұрын

@@Jakobman76 Technically maybe, but the system isn't that accurate, Acid Vials/Alchemists Fire are listed as 1lb in the PHB. Regardless, whats to stop someone just tying them together until they weigh 5lb? 5 acid vials in a bundle = 3d8 (~13.5) Bludgeoning from Catapult + 10d6 (~35) Acid (avg ~48.5 damage total) Ofc that basically adds a 125gp consumed, material component to a 1st level spell, so expensive af, but certainly worth the spell slot ^~^

@Takapon218

5 жыл бұрын

Alchemist’s Fire officially weighs 1 pound, as do acid vials. Catapult away, friend.

3:48 Save or Suck means that if the target fails the save, they'll suck. This is used to describe many debuffs. (The others are Save or Die and Save or Lose.)

@cshairydude

3 жыл бұрын

What he's describing would be "save and suck".

@TheRockOfShame

3 жыл бұрын

@@cshairydude Yeah but that's literally every spell that targets one creature.

@cshairydude

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheRockOfShameTrue, though there's a few that are "save for half damage", such as blight.

@TheRockOfShame

3 жыл бұрын

@@cshairydude Yeah but that's like... A participation trophy. You just wasted a whole spell slot to do bad damage.

My personal favorite Unseen Servant use is with Light. 2 1st level spells that give you a walking flashlight. It's a pretty cool combination and my darkvision-lacking party has used it to great effect. A glowing silhouette is also great for terrifying the townsfolk.

@YoungOneJim

4 жыл бұрын

Light is a cantrip so only 1 1st level spell ;)

Melf’s Minute Meteors level 3 spell, the fact you didn’t include it proves that it’s underrated

@jeanluca01

2 жыл бұрын

made a slightly modified version where you have ice shards instead of meteors and would have spell attacks that target a single creature instead of small area meteors with saves. Its my favorite spell to prepare before a fight.

Congrats!!! I actually just found you on my Google recommended news.. this was great..thanks!! My hubby runs D&D but we're still newbs..haha

Goodberry: 1st it feeds your entire party (and then some) with 10 berries, but that's just the icing. Let me explain the cake: it heals 1hp per berry, which is in line with Cure Wounds, no big deal... until you consider how death works. No negative Hp. You cast the spell & distribute 1-2 berries to your party (familiar's too if available). When someone hits 0hp feed them it, they're at 1hp, they take any amount of damage short of their max Hp, back at 0hp, repeat for 10 rounds. A familiar can be a better deliverer so it doesn't impact your action economy . Past 1st level and it's a safe tactic.

@sweetcornwhiskey

5 жыл бұрын

This is definitely not underrated because it's super common. In every group I've played in, someone has had Goodberry bc it's just so good. Pair it with 1 level in life cleric and you can heal 40 hp with a first level spell slot over a period of 1 minute

@jcohasset23

5 жыл бұрын

Except if the person at 0hp gets hit twice before someone can feed them a goodberry that character is dead due to each hit causing an automatic fail of 2 death saves. It's a valid emergency tactic but a player at 1hp is probably going to get knocked down again so eventually the player is going to get unlucky and be hit with a multiattack or by multiple creatures in a row trying to finish off a player and then that character is dead. That "whack-a-mole" healing is technically abusing the system and good DMs are only willing to tolerate that so long.

@Gegi1992

3 жыл бұрын

I'm not usually that fun-killing DM but after having goodberry being abused as hell in many campaigns, usually by just casting it several times before a long Rest, effecticly giving each party member 20 goodberry as no cost, I started to rule it like this: Goodberry specifically says that a single berry is nutritious enough to feed someone for an entire day. Therefore, eating more than just a few of them throughout a day causes bad effects. No idea if there is any scientific prove behind this but I call it overnutrition. The effect depends on how terribly they abused it. In the last campaign they stopped after half of them had terrible issues with pooping and the one that still refused to stop using them as free health potions got a permanent effect that caused him to need fives times as much food and water as anyone else because his body got used to the overnutrition. When the Druid died later on he spent half of his day searching for food, which was kind of hilarious.

Wrathful Smite is good, but Command is funnier. A Palandin in one of my groups regularly commands people to _sit_ a la Inuyasha...

@jeohranalfhir8366

4 жыл бұрын

I love using it on my Knowledge Cleric who messes up people's minds

@FrostyTheSnowPickle

4 жыл бұрын

One of my players likes to command "Copulate".

@martijnvanweele6204

3 жыл бұрын

@@Kuwagumo I think you've replied to the wrong comment, but I'll try to answer as best I can; catapult can affect an object within a range of 60 feet, so you don't need to touch it. However, it also has a casting time of one action, so you can't deflect it midair as it is flying at you. That would take a reaction. You can however easily cast it at an object catapulted at you or something else on a previous turn when your turn comes around.

@Kuwagumo

3 жыл бұрын

@@martijnvanweele6204 ooo yes, wrong thread, sorry XD

@XTheCrystalBeastGuyX

3 жыл бұрын

Subtle Spell to make it like a Geass Command from Lelouch after he went emo is a hilarious combination. I'm about to make a BBEG do squarts or start howling.

Sleet storm is insane, as a DM my party used this to lock down a custom beholder-kin boss combined with call lightning it was amazing, I'm always so proud when they come up with fun combo strategies

Been wanting to play dnd for quite some time. Finally got into it about a year back or so, and now I'm trying to put my creativity to use and DM for a group of new players who also happen to be some long time friends. Definitely enjoy the content and I've been drawing inspiration and ideas from your videos. First adventure starts tomorrow!

@Taking20

5 жыл бұрын

Good luck!

"Save or Suck" has a noteworthy competing use in the D&D community: it is used to refer to spells that are like "Save or Die" spells, but they don't kill the target, they just make the target suck. (Here, he uses it to refer to a "Save Negates" spell.)

Conjure animals (lvl3 spell) has always been a super versatile fun favorite of mine. I have a bunch of owls swoop in and attack or do reconnaissance, create a small stampede of elk to run over one or a group of opponents, have two dire wolves or brown bears corner enemies together... and something quite sinister, create a bunch of sharks while opponents are in the water, or even 8 snakes that all try to constrict and grapple a single enemy (also especially deadly in the water) Create giant spiders with web attack just like he was saying in the video but with a level three spell. ✨🤘. Love your videos, great energy, great advice ✨⚡️

congrats on the 100000 subs! you tips have really helped me. thank you

Magic Mouth is just insane when they’re used properly. Create a line of them to open their mouths and whisper quietly when activated, and command them to activate whenever a Magic Mouth within range opens its mouth, and you have a wire between any two points within 30ft of each other with only whispers (or just a mouth being opened silently if the DM allows it) to give them away. They can also act as logic gates and be used as the activation condition for Glyphs of Warding, meaning you can activate a Glyph from any range, as long as you set up a wire beforehand. Set up Mouths and Glyphs throughout a village and give a command word, and you can have them explode whenever you like. Better yet, have the Glyphs activate whenever _a creature hears a specific Magic Mouth talking,_ and you can have the Glyphs target those creatures directly. If simultaneously Fireballing several villagers in different corners of the village with a single word isn’t an overwhelming display of power, I don’t know what is. The best part? It’s a 2nd level spell. Get to a high enough Wizard level, and you can cast these without even using spell slots. Same with Glyph of Warding, once per day. With half a week’s prep time and a bunch of gold (which is moot if your DM allows you to cover the cost with Minor Conjuration, since it doesn’t specify that the conjured items are valueless and it could be argued that you’re just temporarily bringing them to you rather than actually creating them, so they already existed somewhere in the first place), you can wire a place to explode on your whim and still have spell slots to cast with if anyone catches you in the act.

That clap at the start made my day love your videos my dude

Excellent list and commentary. It opened my eyes to a couple of them.

Taking20 is my bard and I'll always be inspired

You forgot mind spike + divination wizard for combat spell regen. Thank you wizards for this!

@jago668

5 жыл бұрын

You magnificent bastard. Halfling divination wizard is now my next character.

@richardommundsen2417

5 жыл бұрын

@@jago668 dip 2 in Grave Cleric for Sentinel At Deaths Door to make your DM kill themselves from frustration

@jaredfieseler6654

5 жыл бұрын

N1njaman3 ! I don’t get it,isn’t this just a good way to track people and acquire information?

@MrDargorian

5 жыл бұрын

Isn't divination a cleric spell?

@TriangularPrism

5 жыл бұрын

@@MrDargorian The School of Divination subclass for the Wizard, not the Divination spell itself

I used to use unseen servant as a bard to help in my performances. Releasing alchemich smoke or fireworks. Or helping to set the mood for stories. And in dungeons I used him to sweep for traps and hold lights up and away

@Zthewise

5 жыл бұрын

Unseen servant to be a one man band. Get animate object be a one man orchestra.

Thorn whip. Druidic cantrip. It can be used as a lasso and a restraint as well

@granular_quality8011

3 жыл бұрын

Love using this to pull an enemy and trigger Attacks of opportunity.

Here’s some I like: *Prestidigitation* The ultimate creativity spell. It looks at first glance like just some useless spell, especially because it’s labeled as a practice spell. It has so many possibilities, though. A friend came up with the idea of using it to make parchment blank again by cleaning off the ink. It can be utility by lighting or snuffing out candles/torches/small fires. It just has so many possibilities because of that long list of things it can do. *Minor Illusion* Powerful illusion cantrip. You can use it to whisper in someone’s ear from far away, you can imitate someone else’s voice, or even a visual illusion. It lets you create either a sound from whisper to yelling volume, or a visual illusion that’s up to the size of a 5’ cube. You could make someone hear voices in their head with whispers. Also just the fact that it’s a cantrip makes it so much better. *Disguise Self* One of my favorite uses I came up with is you can make yourself look unarmed. Either as yourself just without weapons or as someone entirely different. Nobody will expect it when you pull a weapon out of thin air (great for Arcane Tricksters with Sneak Attack). You also could use it for a more traditional use such as getting in somewhere that you couldn’t otherwise either by looking like someone else like a guard or because you in particular aren’t supposed to/it’s unsafe for you to be there. These are just some low level spells that are super useful. These are just some spells I like as Arcane Trickster because of the creativity that can be had with them.

@hlibtarabrov8387

5 жыл бұрын

Can't you do the same thing as Disguise Self with minor illusioning your hands? They are not likely to be more then 5 feet apart and it's way cheaper

@Mr_Maiq_The_Liar

4 жыл бұрын

Alexis Harper hardly underrated all all are quite popular

@agent00puffball

4 жыл бұрын

Prestidigitation is one of my favourite spells in the entire game. You can do so much with it and I have seen people get real creative.

Gigant Insect Also known as: annoy your dm because now he will have to manage 10 extra characters on his table (or 20 If you realy wanna piss him off)

@antoniobarreto6552

5 жыл бұрын

@Sean Fisher, the dm was the stupid one. What would you expect to happen after HE gives me the staff of swarming insects?(btw a wonderful magic item to have)

@Alphadog2064

5 жыл бұрын

I annoyed my DM recently because I had a pet, conjure woodland beings, a staff of the python, and a bag of tricks Edit: gotta love Druids

Ooh I love catapult. My Warforged wizard has it, coupled with a magic returning dagger it's essentially a railgun

Nice vid, this is espectially useful as I'm new to 5E. Friend of mine is planning to run a game to test the module he's writing for 5E. I am making a warlock hexblade, and almost took wrathful smite. Now I realize watching your vid that I did miss something on it. That if the opponent is affected they need to use an action to try a new save. Reconsidering my spell selection as I write this.

Cingrats! Really happy for you and your success!

"Alright Jimmy, show us on the doll where the D&D KZread man touched you." 😂😜 CONGRATULATIONS ON 100K! You deserve it!

5:00 It has the potential to quickly move a light item. That can be useful for other things than harming enemies. You could, for example, use it to get something over a high wall by Catapulting it over.

I'm glad you mentioned plant growth, grabbed that spell on my college of valor bard once she hit 5th level, and used it next session to great effect against a herd of ogres, with our druid casting spike growth as well, making them easier targets for spells and ranged attacks while my bard stands on the opposite side of the area of effect for Spike growth giggling at the lumbering brutes moving slow-mo through the field of spikey plants, and making them take even more damage with a thunderwave knocking a few of them back through the spikes. XD

My hands down favorite class/subclass is tempest cleric. As such I've found so many uses for sleet storm. It's fantastic

I feel like alot of people miss out in Life Transference. Can drop 40 hp heals at lv 5 while you stay healthy and far away. Then drop cure wounds on yourself while safe

I find dream highly underrated in my area. Everyone thinks it's just a fluff RP spell (and it is amazing at that) and forget. Badguy kidnap a PC/NPC and ward them from scrying? If they sleep no problem. Is there some official stopping you behind the scenes? Kill him with nightmares. Being trailed by some organizations bloodhound? Exhausted \people are not good at tracking. Your friend going into a life or death duel against some offended nobles champion in the morning? tip the it in their favor without the need for poison or risking casting spells at the duel

@Choomy8542

5 жыл бұрын

Dream is indeed the best serial killer spell against commoners and the like. Undetectable and untraceable. Great for evil PCs muahahaha

@allangrant651

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you could have Freddy Krueger as your BBEG using this spell

And here a year later you’re over 250k! I’d say that’s great growth!! You deserve it, Cody! Also, catapult spell. Had a Wizard who would collect up alchemist fire and just launch them across the battlefield!

I love the bane scene that you put on there! I am a die-hard Christian bale batman trilogy, so I really liked that.

I was in a party that everyone could fly, plant growth, sleet storm, and confusion was the first round every time. Bard, Druid, Wizard comp. Our poor DM spent many a battle doing nothing.

@iskandarthegreat0487

2 жыл бұрын

Lol this is me. These are my players😅

You forgot to mention something with wrathful smite, to end the spell requires a wisdom CHECK. Because the creature is frightened of you it has disadvantage on this check, plus possibly a much lower bonus than a saving throw making it even harder to escape from this spell.

Congratulations! you have a great channel and i hope to see you continue growing and making content we love !!!! keep up the good work!

Hey Cody, I'm new to your channel. Nice work. I'd love to see this topic with 2nd addition.

Absolutely in love with Catapult. Even at 1st level, you can fling something 1-5 pounds. Nothing saying you have to use rocks. I've hurled flasks of oil, acid, alchemist's fire, holy water, bags of ball bearings, and bags of caltrops. Do that base damage from impact, then secondary damage (or effects) from what's inside!

@eldardrakeson

5 жыл бұрын

and, if you're inside, you don't catapult in a straight line at them.. catapult the flask of nastiness at the CEILING. imagine a gallon jug of oil slammed into the ceiling of your standard 10x10 corridor... directly over the opposing party/gang of goblins that's behind cover. follow up with a spell or other item capable of lighting it... (not needed if it's acid/jug of some nasty ooze type monster, etc) oh.. some of that stuff'd damage the ceiling as well? woot! crumbling/falling debris as well!

@browncoatkevin

5 жыл бұрын

Taking a Level 1 Wizard with the scholar's pack, they get a little bag of sand. Catapult that, and you should add on a Dex save vs. blindness. It's also super easy to refill it.

"did his office explode?" the most important question.

Great vid and great advice. In past editions rope trick was a favorite of mine between safe rest spot, non scalable sniper posts of defense or offense, anchors to secure bind a creature's bindings to, and cover from delayed blasts. I am saddened that 5e has limited the ability to snipe from within it.

I'd love for you to do a video on underrated Cantrips. Like cool, you're a warlock spamming Eldritch Blast, but what about the Archfey Bladelock using Poison Spray right in enemies faces? Or a bard using Dancing Lights to confuse, and distract guards while the party escapes past.

Arcane lock off staff of magi making it unlimited and free is amazing, we circumvented whole keep worth of fights by scouting and locking all the doors The spell I am surprised more people don use is sickening radiance. Amazing areal denial spell and even better if you can stack it on a control spell like black tentacles or lock them in with arcane lock. The stacked exhaustion can completely destroy anyone. Basically if they don’t escape in 5 moves they are basically dead. Maybe they will save once or twice but with the disadvantage on saves and then the zero movement they are gone

Pass without trace is really good for stealth quests

Great video! Thanks!

Animate Objects and 10 Arrows from my quiver - Yondu Bard with 10 x 1d4+4 damage (as my GM ruled them as Tiny objects)

@lipeeefl

4 жыл бұрын

I just throw some coins or some cards

@MrCross-ho6fr

4 жыл бұрын

You should tip all your arrows with wyvern poison. Its cheap and does 7d6 per hit.

@MrCross-ho6fr

4 жыл бұрын

Oh, and twin it as a sorc

@social3ngin33rin

3 жыл бұрын

And if someone has a DM that says arrows are too big to be tiny, use handbow bolts lol

Prestidigitation is huge. There is just so much you can do with it. The cleaning component is great for first aid, for clean up after a muddy adventure. Use it to warm your bedroll before going to sleep for just that much more comfort. Instant fire on or off is good since 'small fire' is still a significant amount of fire. Small mark that disappears after an hour offers a bunch of subtle and nasty options in a political campaign where a single word in a contract that is seen, but then disappears from the written contract is potentially very nasty. "harmless sensory effect" can be a great complement to a bardic perform, creating the smell of the sea, or the hint of perfume, or an eerie cold breeze. A 'hand sized illusory image' could be a "have you seen this person/object" tool. I liked Unseen Servant in 3e a lot because for one slot you could have a whole host of magical effects, so a wizard could show off their wizardry without exhausting spell slots. Now, cantrips allows for the casual demonstration of magical power, but you can summon an Unseen Servant with Ritual Magic, which is a savings on spell slots again.

@eldardrakeson

5 жыл бұрын

I love prestidigitation/cantrip wizards! when you're creative and curious, you can accomplish so much with 'small' things. after all, it only takes a small pebble to start an avalanche. (not to mention, being able to come up with 'non-magical solutions to things) everybody wants to do things the hard way. door is locked and too complicated for the thief to pick, and too hefty for the fighter to bash without being noisy as hell? which side are the hinges on? can we take out the pins? dump a vial of acid on the hinges? hinges are on the other side? ok, cool, how about the nails run through to hold the hinges in place? or even the iron straps holding the door? all that's impossible? wood door, though? cool, pass me that useless rug down the hall, we wad it up at the bottom, dump a bit of lamp oil on it and burn the door off.

@BaronSengir1008

5 жыл бұрын

You can make a bland porridge taste like the best meal on the plane, or make the noble's steak literally taste like shit... I once used it to give dinosaur meat a Cajun flavor...

Lol went into this thinking I might have new spells to try but turns out I have used all these many times. Especially plant growth it saves lives.

Hey!! Congratulations Cody! That's quite an achievement bud! Thanks for the great content!

I ran a shadow Sorc with catapult and the cantrip mold earth. You get a rapidly made trench and it makes finding rocks easy. Put the rocks on the top of the mound that makes the front of the trench. You end up with a 3/4 cover defensive position for your entire party in seconds with ammo to spare.

So I realize I am late to the party but the 5th level spell Animate Objects can be a ludicrously devastating in combat spell. 10d4 +40 potential damage per round on top of everything else you do?! It is just amazing.

@MrCross-ho6fr

4 жыл бұрын

I used animate object. Twinned it, and used it to animate 20 arrows (each tipped with wyvern poison). This allowed 1d4 + 7d6 times 20 damage. Fight ender in 1 round.

@mke3053

3 жыл бұрын

I like to use it with daggers + wyvern poison... That's 10d4+40+70d6 (or 35d6 if save is successful). Did it with a friend dming and he whas really surprised of its power.

Don't forget you can twin cast catapult :D

Thank you for the help you've provided for DnD!!! You're great!!!

Another great video Cody! But again, I'd love subheadings up during each section. Spell name, level, which lists, source book.... It will make it easier to follow, though I've had to watch this 6 times, so maybe you'd rather have the views? lol