Pick up a copy for yourself here: amzn.to/3jc7dN5 For reference, here's the Unearthed Arcana Draconic Options: media.wizards.com/2021/downloads/Unearthed-Arcana-2021-Draconic-Options.pdf

@oldsoldier4209

2 жыл бұрын

In the Draconic Transformation spell, I will keep the damage upgrade on the breath weapon. But, I will be scaling it back to the original 30’ cone. As you said, that’s still a huge area on a map. I feel that the 60’ cone is just too OP for this, even as a 7th level spell.

D&D just needs more elemental spells in general, so some of these are a great addition!!

@Codarius

2 жыл бұрын

Fire is way too dominant.

@Codarius

2 жыл бұрын

@Tyler Ford Lightning is my favorite

@TheClericCorner

2 жыл бұрын

@Tyler Ford exactly!

@4stringjoe2

2 жыл бұрын

@@Codarius I'll never understand why fire is SO dominant/prevelant in 5e. To the point where focusing on any other type just feels sub-optimal...

@Codarius

2 жыл бұрын

@@4stringjoe2 it's just the most popular element it seems.

This dragon transformation is finally a buff that you actually want to cast on a pure caster, BA breath, fly speed and perception is woth a 7th level for a class that does nothing with its BA

Ashardalon's Stride is now one of my favorites in 5e from a flavor standpoint. I love the idea of my character dashing through enemies, leaving a trail of flame in their wake.

You didn't mention that Summon Draconic Spirit has a different material component from the original, now just being an object in or engraved with the image of a dragon worth 500 gp

@Helthegrim

2 жыл бұрын

This is an important distinction, as the official listing has a much easier material component to aquire

@DrgnDrake

2 жыл бұрын

You could have a platinum-plated scale with an image of a dragon on it and meet the requirement for both Fizban's Platinum Shield and Summon Draconic Spirit with 1 item.

Can we all please thank Ted’s wife for that quite humorous interruption 😂

Got to love how limited wish keeps getting stronger with every new 1 action spell introduced. Also really good for arcane trickster and eldritch knights

I like Fizban's but yeah, I still want a Draconic Warlock.

@briegroncal1551

2 жыл бұрын

I guess we are stuck with reflavoring genie warlock

@CelticCubby

2 жыл бұрын

Or going Homebrew or Third Party content.

@Kelto28

2 жыл бұрын

How come the most iconic beings don't have a patron option? And is not like it hasn't been requested since 5e was a thing

Is it just me that feels like they just outright forgot about Artificers in this book? Like, they gave them one spell and that's it. They aren't even mentioned in the Heroes of the Dragon section

@alexbrown9622

2 жыл бұрын

You could say the same of Warlocks.

@barra193

2 жыл бұрын

I mean, at least we got a spell, I suppose. Clerics and Paladins got bugger all.

God I wish these spells were around when I was playing my draconic bloodline sorceress in OOTA. Rime's Binding Ice would have been my bread and butter

Anyone else mad that there's no lightning damage spells?

@nulllex0099

2 жыл бұрын

Always mad each time we lack more damage but fucking fire.

@Zane_Fukkatsu

2 жыл бұрын

Me. We need more lightning spells.

@dudemcfurgusson7179

2 жыл бұрын

My lightning sorcerer is always sad about the lack of options.

@videogollumer

2 жыл бұрын

@@dudemcfurgusson7179 *raises eyebrow in Transmuted Spell*

@VimyGlide

2 жыл бұрын

@@videogollumer transmuted spell is an absolute copout and you know it

Always nice to have more spells

Oddly, the new version of psychic Lance doesn't bypass cover like it used to, it just says that you can target the creature even if you can't see it. Personally I'm going to add that part back in, just makes logical sense that a Lance of psychic energy can pass through walls after you name the creature you target.

@VimyGlide

2 жыл бұрын

well, it isn't an attack, it's a saving throw, so i'm assuming cover just isn't relevant for the purpose of the spell

@Kyfeheartsword

2 жыл бұрын

@@VimyGlide It is, as you can’t target creatures or objects behind total cover unless otherwise specified by the spell itself, like in the spell Sacred Flame.

@ManlyPicnics

2 жыл бұрын

Since it is an Intelligence save, the cover is irrelevant if you know their name. Cover's bonus is only conferred to Dexterity Saving throws.

@Kyfeheartsword

2 жыл бұрын

@@ManlyPicnics Again, it used to bypass *total cover* and total cover prevents any targeting.

@billturner5908

2 жыл бұрын

@@Kyfeheartsword , I get your meaning, but I feel that the new wording, "...even if you can't see it" , implies what the UA version said about cover. Therefore, I feel that your adding back the original wording about cover would not change the WAI, but WOULD provide clarity.

Rime's binding ice is really powerful. Compare it to "the fireball of second level" shatter, and a 30 ft cone is a better shape (according to the DMG it's expected to hit 3 enemies vs shatters 10 foot radius hitting 2) it does the same damage on the same save and inflicts a debilitating condition that prevents movement basically for free. Also, no verbal components so you can use it in fog to avoid counterspell and you can use it in silence I don't see why it would do the same damage as shatter except for power creep. It should have been 3d6

Fizban's Platinum Shield wouldn't be available for Paladin's anyway, it's a 6th level spell and Paladin's cap at 5th level spells That being said there is still a way to cast it but only through one of the hoard magic items. Speaking of which, note all the spells that require something 'worth 500 gold pieces' in regards to the magic items when you cover those.

"Pour one out for the Paladins and Clerics" 🤣🤣

Honestly the fact that Warlocks and the NEW DRACONIC Ranger each only have access to a single spell given in this book is complete B.S. "OH umm yea we won't give you dragon subclasses but here's some spells" and all of the classes who don't have a draconic sub class get litterally nothing. The only good thing is that Arcane Trickster rouges and Eldritch Knights now have awesome dragon spells

@videogollumer

2 жыл бұрын

The Drake Warden gets basically a pet dragon. Cool it a little; will ya?

*door opens a creak* *package slides across the floor* silent special delivery incoming

a tabaxi bladesinger wizard with haste casting ash stride..would be amazing!

Would you as a DM allow a draconic soul sorcerer to choose one of the new gem dragon types for their draconic ancestry?

@NerdImmersion

2 жыл бұрын

Yup

@oldsoldier4209

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, absolutely. Also, as the 3 original dragons are worshipped as deities in some worlds, I would allow their Paladins and Clerics access to some of the spells from this video. 🤠👍

The Mischief spell isn't that good for wizards but its great for Bards! 3 out of the 4 aren't charm effects. Something that isn't reliant on charm for bards deserves a few looks.

What are your Top Ten Monsters for Halloween D&D?

First one to the video! Love your content! Thanks for keeping it up! Best place for D&D info and content!

Nathair might not be a powerful spell but seems pretty fun, especially if you give it to a wild magic sorcerer as an extra spell

@videogollumer

2 жыл бұрын

Well, Faerie Dragons are the weakest of the 20 types of dragons discussed in the book, but the mischievous nature of the Spell is befitting for the Faerie Dragon Deity. Also, if the Wild Mage had extra spells, Chaos Bolt would definitely have to be one of them.

Come on Clerics want dragon spells too!

@videogollumer

2 жыл бұрын

Technically, the Arcana Cleric can learn Fizban's Platinum Shield and Draconic Transformation, but I know what you're going to say; that's at 17th level, way too late into the game. Still, you can always play a Divine Soul Sorcerer, there by having access to all of these spells as well as the full Cleric Spell List.

The cover ignoring only works via name. You could argue it only works with True Names. As such, I think it's completely fine to keep the original UA Effect because of how niche the trigger is. Ted's wife MVP. And fuck yeah we're mad about their cop out; we wanted draconic subclasses everywhere, but especially warlock!

Finally a great cold spell

Ashardalon's Stride is a bit silly in some situations. A Tabaxi Sorcerer with the Mobile Feat has 40 ft movement speed. For fun, lets say you upcast this spell at 9th lvl. That is 50 extra movement speed while the spell is active. And 7d6 dmg to each affected creature. So now the Tabaxi has 90 ft movement, they can still Dash, and use feline agility. Totalling 360 ft running speed (could be higher still with other people buffing you, or magic items) Lets also assume you get Elemental adept Fire, so the minimum dmg is 14 You can run around intelligently and affect 726 creatures in one turn? that's a minimum of 10164 fire dmg (726 creatures*14) Which wouldn't be resisted :P. Very Niche i know. But if we assume an evil campaign or an enemy army of goon, you could literally burn them all in one turn. Scary visual. And then next turn, you can burn the next army (only half the size cause feline agility is ofline)

@bouboulroz

2 жыл бұрын

Instead of elemental adept, dip 2 levels into Tempest Cleric, transmute spell the damage into lightning or thunder, then max out the damage for a nice 42 damage per affected creature.

@yetidoodles

2 жыл бұрын

@@bouboulroz If we're going that way, getting to lvl 7 cleric, is going to add some nice chaos, throwing everything around 10ft xD

@yetidoodles

2 жыл бұрын

@@bouboulroz Though sadly i just realised Destructive Wrath wouldn't work, as its a channel divinity use for each instance of dmg. So 42 for one target (or more if you have more channel divinity uses)

@bouboulroz

2 жыл бұрын

@@yetidoodles It affects only one roll, but the spell isn't clear on whether or not you roll only once or for each creature/object you approach. The rules on AoE and multi-targeted spells are usually to make only one roll. But the wording "When you move within 5 feet of a creature or an object that isn't being worn or carried, it takes 1d6 fire damage" seems more like the damage triggers everytime the condition is met than an effect that applies on everything you crossed by... Guess that's going to be a JC twitter case.

Regarding Psychic Lance, I'm struggling to figure out whether it is a better option than Phantasmal Killer. Obviously Phantasmal Killer includes the frightened condition and a similar damage output, with a wisdom save instead of an intelligence, but Its concentration for 1 minute, with the ability to deal damage on additional saves per turn. My question is whether you'd rather deal multiple instances of damage to a frightened enemy over the course of a minute, or would you rather deal one instance of damage that incapacitates the target for a full round, that doesn't have to be in line of sight if you know the name of the target within range. Of course a wizard could pick both up, but with the spell being available to other arcane casters as well, Its likely to be a case of one or the other for a lot of people.

@NerdImmersion

2 жыл бұрын

Well remember, in the UA it was save or no damage. Now the damage is less but the save is for half damage

I feel like Nathair's Mischief could both be a Druid spell, and Fizban's Platinum Shield could be a Cleric spell... curious if people feel I'm way off here.

@ventrue7

2 жыл бұрын

I think most of the time druid and clerics don't really use spells made by other people.

@dungeonsanddisclaimers4950

2 жыл бұрын

@@ventrue7 That checks as a fact of 5e, so is that a difference in Divine and Arcane magics then? Not sure if this should be thought invoking or just taken as a coincidence, good take though.

@ventrue7

2 жыл бұрын

@@dungeonsanddisclaimers4950 I guess so clerics can learn 4 spells like that all subclass spells and druid has only 1 with melf's acid arrow from land druid,so.

all i see is bladesinger buffs

I'm a little disappointed we only got these spells, but not surprised since it wasn't the focus of the book. I actually love them all but hate how much they nerfed Rauthalim's Psychic Lance from the UA version. Its definitely not worth a 4th level slot now

i missed a draconic warlock

You'd think that the Ranger would get some love in the spell section, but nope. Also, you'd think that there would be one more elemental spell for the Monk class.... Why does WotC hate the Monk and Ranger classes?

@alexbrown9622

2 жыл бұрын

Monks don’t have a spell casting ability in the first place, so no: I wouldn’t think that.

@kennashey

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexbrown9622 The Monk subclass Way of the Elemental Master does, so does the Way of Shadows subclass. So, yeah, I'd think that maybe they'd get some new spells....

I wouldn't say this helps with making a draconic warlock seeing as how warlocks only get 1 of the new dragon themed spells

@videogollumer

2 жыл бұрын

You can homebrew a draconic warlock or look for a homebrewed one. A notable feature of Warlock Patrons is that each gets access to spells that aren't already on the Warlock Spell list.

The dragon spirit breath weapon in not recharge, just saying

What classes can use each spell.

@onewhoeatspie

2 жыл бұрын

1:17

@ashelred

2 жыл бұрын

@@onewhoeatspie yes for one spell and not fully listing all the classes for that one.

@TheMrkevik

2 жыл бұрын

@@ashelred That timestamp has both the official and UA list for all the spells, that have school, concentration, ritual and class

When is the fizbans giveaway?

Not going to lie, if we'd gotten a fighter or barbarian sub-class with a dragon flavor like how the Rune Knights drew from Giants I'd have been all over that.

@barbatosmcmurderton4209

2 жыл бұрын

@@DaDunge Honestly, I'm not really sure. Giants have the the whole rune magic thing that made it pretty easy to mix in, but I can't really think of how one could do that with dragon abilities. Unless it was something like Skyrim esque shouts in draconic, each drawing some sort of conceptual power from a different type of dragon. But that doesn't sound exactly right.

@bleddynwolf8463

2 жыл бұрын

@@DaDunge the barb chooses an element cuz dragon 3rd- scales which boost armour class, claws for natural weapons, all attacks do 1d6 chosen element damage- all during rage 6th: immune to frightened, resistance to chosen element 10th: attacks damage from 1d6-2d6, Elemental breath-line chromatic, cone metallic, 4d8 chosen elemental damage - maybe only usable whilst raging-not sure, maybe bonus action 14th: 30ft fly speed when raging, immunity to element when raging

Flame Stride was a better name, fight me.

@videogollumer

2 жыл бұрын

Ashardalon just might. ;)

Really disappointed in cleric and paladin not getting any of these when they literally are the ones that can most directly receive their powers from the divine sources of the gods of dragons and one of the spells even tries to invoke bahamut’s scale as imagery. Also felt like it was another huge miss to not give sorcerer any unique spell list love to diversify it when dragon blood is one of the most iconic types of the class. The spells are cool but this was the weakest chapter of the book in terms of thematic choices for me personally.

@videogollumer

2 жыл бұрын

Wizards delve into arcane lore, and draconic lore is rich with it; so of course it makes sense that all of these spells are accessible. Besides, the Sorcerer has access to all of them as well, which also makes sense because of the Draconic Sorcerer.

@Exaltable

2 жыл бұрын

@@videogollumer It was just an opportunity to give sorcerer another unique spell since they have been given all of 1 in 5e compared to the other full casters. Not arguing that wizards can't justifiably learn these spells specifically but maybe another spell more focused on the blood would have been a great addition.

@videogollumer

2 жыл бұрын

@@Exaltable Who knows? Maybe we'll get a revision of the first three Sorcerer Subclasses in the future, probably in 5.5e.

Why is wizards so scared of outdamaging the dammned fireball? That lance used to be a good alternative to single enemies

@alexbrown9622

2 жыл бұрын

Because fireball is more powerful than it should be already as a nod to previous editions so it’s not meant to be used as the standard that it’s evolved into. If they released new spells scaled as good or better than it then that further draws relevance from other spells that are power scaled correctly.

@graydragoon874

2 жыл бұрын

But everyone picks fireball anyways, that's just stupid not to include more powerful damage spells

R's Psychic lance is so completely unbalanced it's laughable. Psychic lance is so poorly worded in the first part "You can utter a creature's name." is actually a problem, what constitutes a name? An honest question if this was in your world, I can guarantee no adventurer ever would tell you their real name, they'd always give you a nick name if that could protect them from this effect. It's hard to say but this spell opens up a long and annoying argument about what is and isn't a name. Secondly it's psychic damage on an Intelligence save. That is a premium spell. Psychic damage is almost always better than other types except maybe radiant and force, there are few things that are resistant or immune and those things are generally obvious. I think many constructs are immune to psychic damage because obviously they don't think/talk/have minds. I can't recall but I think there are some Aberrations that "like" to take psychic damage. Intelligence saves are most frequently the worst save on the majority of creatures, again it's kind of obvious the ones that have good Int saves like wizards and other very smart monsters. Without any meta knowledge, you know when it's a good time to use this spell, it is just a legit premium spell for it's damage type and save type alone. Finally it imposes incapacitated WITHOUT imposing another conditional effect. From what I've found there is 1 major creature that is immune to incapacitated, Warforged Colossus in Eberron. I don't know of any more but the WfC in Eberron are iconic creatures that can be the core story element of an entire campaign. Trying to find one and reclaim it. There are other conditions that can also apply incapacitated such as Petrified, Unconscious, Stunned and Paralyzed. There are many creatures who have various immunity to these conditions. There are a number of aberrations, fiends, undead, constructs and elemental creatures that have various immunity to these 4 conditions. This book introduced 2 spells that can do this, easily apply incapacitated without some level of qualifying feature. There are only 4 other spells that can incapacitated an enemy creature. Tasha's hideous laughter which comes with a qualifying clause "A creature with an Intelligence score of 4 or less isn't affected." Banishment and Banishing Smite which comes with several qualifying clauses that prevents the creature from being targeted while it is incapacitated. Symbol of Pain which takes a full minute to cast making it a poor in combat option and requiring at least some time to set up an ambush. Imprisonment, which doesn't actually state it incapacitates a creature so I may be stretching the definition a bit but it "effectively" incapacitates a creature. 3 out of the 5 options send a creature to a space, where it cannot be interacted with and it cannot escape of it's own accord.

Im sorry, i just dont feel like many of these spells are balanced as a DM. When you spoke about draconic transformation, you said that the buffs that they gave it were needed, but if you actually go and compare it to other spells of 7th level like mordenkainens sword, this is way stronger. Then theres Ashardalons Stride. This is still really powerful. Its AoE heat metal that the enemy can do nothing to stop. If the spell had scaled every odd level, maybe it would have been fine, but idk, it just feels too strong to me It upsets me cause all of this content seems really cool, i want to use it, my players want to use it, but everything from tasha's and onwards has just been so OP, it drives me up the wall. Theyre forcing the new content into relevancy but outclassing the old content. I know that 5e has never been a perfectly balanced system, but the content they have released recently just takes the piss. [And just to be clear, im not mad at Ted for covering the content or being excited for it, im mad at WotC. Im looking for a discussion]

@theindiefox347

2 жыл бұрын

Mordenkaines Sword is a bad 7th Level Spell, Ashardalon's stride is only procked once per turn per target. It's fine.

@Calavid

2 жыл бұрын

@@theindiefox347 Its just that if you look at a spell like heat metal that also has no save, it is restricted to a single target and they can avoid it if they can drop the metal item. Theres no way to avoid the stride and hits multiple targets. Even if you relegate mordenkainens sword to the "bad spell" catagory, draconic transformation has a big DPR with a massive AoE on a bonus action (its almost a bonus action cone of cold every turn), so you can still cast instantaneous spells like fireball with your action.

@LemonMoon

2 жыл бұрын

@@Calavid you actually can’t cast fireball because RAW you can only cast one leveled spell as a bonus action and a cantrip as an action in one round

@Calavid

2 жыл бұрын

@@LemonMoon actions from spells do not count as casting spells. On the first turn when you cast draconic transformation, you wouldn't be able to cast fireball, but for the rest of the minute you could

@crushcommando8637

2 жыл бұрын

@@Calavid Eh I honestly don't see it as great in standard scenarios. Unless the enemy is bunched up ( and even then) you're not going to hit multiple enemies without absorbing a lot of AOO's, not to mention it's only a d6 which isn't a lot; sure it scales well but you're still a caster (or half caster) zooming around enemies putting yourself at risk for an unmodified shortsword of damage. Maybe it's early strong but i feel even by mid game the spell will see barely if any use.