Brennan Gets Whomped By Aabria 

Used the spell wrong but ok

@@springtrapnibba how so?

@@2GoatsInATrenchCoat it activates only once per turn. Do keep in mind that that doesn't mean once per round. This means If you have 5 allies who bat your victim on each of their turns you deal a total of 10d6 off of it. But them moving 60 feet on their turn provokes only 2d6, any movement after is safe because you've already taken the damage this turn. It's actually less effective on falls than you might think. Players in d&d fall FAST: according to Xanathars 500 feet per round(83 feet per second) meaning you're not getting much damage from the thorns. Grasping arrow works better when your opponent uses feather fall, but it still isn't great(feather fall reduces fall speed to 60 feet per round or 10/s). it can help you eek in some extra punishment: while your opponent avoids 20d6 of slamming into the ground you can get 6d6 in from their involuntary movement which is more than you would have otherwise. It's not exceptional by any means, but it can make for some really cool moments.

@@expertoflizardcorrugation3967 Oh, I didn't see the full ep so I thought Hippo Crate meant that something in this clip was wrong. Like, I thought they were saying that the spell could not have been used in this context at all. Are you saying that they calculated the damage wrong in the full episode? Thanks for your response btw.

@@2GoatsInATrenchCoat I dont know the health of the harpy at the time, but it was just that the damage may have potentially been miscalculated

Sounds like some good humiliation porn

@@katherineminor3402 what?

@@tzeechgodofchange3197 that

@@katherineminor3402 I'd watch it

Ahahaha lol Jesus Truuuuuuue

Love this comment

That’s really funny and I hope it was an actual quote

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I couldn't help but laugh when I read this 😂

RIGHT I love Aabria sm

I mean rules as intended it is only for intentional movement, so it makes sense for that to be the standard for most DM's

I mean, if the player did 80d6 because something fell from 40ft up with this spell on it, I’d be massively deflated as a DM. It is all being brought about from a very specific interpretation of the wording that does not hold up on how the spell is supposed to work, which is why I wouldn’t allow it.

@@SmawCity yeah I can totally understand that, especially if this is meant to be a big boss type of character. It's the same issue with Nat 20's, at my tables Natural 20's usually make you succeed but its not a sure thing

@@Lordgrayson I'm pretty similar. I typically interpret natural 20s as best possible result, rather than absolute success. For instance, if a character rolls a nat 20 seducing Tiamat, it would make no sense canonically for her to immediately abandon her utter hatred for all inferior creatures and lay with a bard, but maybe the performance amused her so much that she'll spare them for entertainment. Malleable rules and varied gaming experiences are what's kept DnD around for 40+years

@@dylancarter9290 exactly, I once had a character who ended up getting the party in a really stupid fight against a group of guards for no reason (the rogue decided to pickpocket one as they ended this town that was essentially under martial law) they got fought over to the side of a cliff and through some pretty unlucky rolls 2 players had gone down(group of 4 level ones against 6 guards) the rogue decided he was gonna jump off the cliff and flap his arms as hard as possible, hoping he would roll a Nat 20 and be able to fly or have feather falling or some shit. I was a new DM so I let him roll the acrobatics after some debate, he rolled a nat 20. So I describe as he leaps over the side of the cliff and dies his best impression of Wile.E.Coyote before he fell the 60 feet down and took 3d6 damage(half damage cause of Nat 20 seemed fair) he went down and then died to death saves as even the guards couldn't get to him unlike the other 2 people who went down who they saved and brought in for a trial. It's still a story I tell new players at my table to let then know how I treat natural 20's in my games(my games are known to be pretty comical at times, I've had a literal God watch the party and heckle them like statler and Waldorf for a couple sessions after they killed one of his priests)

This would have been filmed after Misfits & Magic after COVID restrictions eased. They're still distanced here but they're allowed more people in the room.

The shows are almost always filmed in order of release so this was definitely after mismag

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I think Calamity was revenge for this move

@@nikkiruthe6768 And poor Travis had to go through that, too.

HHAAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAAH we're all here for it

Possibly even revenge for choosing the name "Kelmp" in the first place.

@@spencerw2467 WHEEEEZE

Citizen Doctor Abraham Mehermblur …

@@MorganBondelid this is payback for making the mage killer uncomfortable.

"My phone dosen't have a screen" - E. Kelmp

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Each foot of movement is definitely not how that's designed. Every TURN they move away from you more than 1 foot, they get damaged. Not every foot

@@vanessaasman8047 I mean that was pretty obvious. Depending on how high up in the air the enemy is they'll take fall damage regardless, and are currently entangled, and it made for a better story.

@@vanessaasman8047 That's less fun though. Alternatively if we use your rules lawyering, how many seconds do you think it would take the harpy queen to hit the ground. A turn is 6 seconds right?

@@xero1134 According to Christopher Perkins (who works for Wotc), falling speed is approximately 500 feet per round. Idk how high up they are, but that would be the difference of 1000d6 of damage (PER ROUND) vs the actual rules of 2d6 every 500 feet in the air. Wildly different damage, to the point that throwing this spell on any falling creature with any challenge rating at all would get punctured to death by the time they go 6 seconds in the air.

@@vanessaasman8047 I don't know where this part became important, I more meant normal fall damage not applied from the spell/ability. (Like every 10 feet you fall is 1d6 damage or something like that)

This comment made me laugh aloud in delight. God, what a fun campaign.

Love using that combo

yeaaah man banner saga rocks.

Man I gotta finish Banner Saga

@@FlareDarkStormGem totally worth finishing

@@FlareDarkStormGem Getting halfway trough the 1st one should get you enough hype for the plot to finish the game entirely. And then from there, get enough hype to do the entire trilogy. For me, it was all about Iver vs Bellower

Her time on CR was so great! Her style is so different than Matt's, but I love it. I signed up to Dropout to watch Misfits. But definitely sticking around for everything else.

AH! THEIR BEAKS ARE MAGIC! THEIR BEAKS ARE MAGIC!

her giddy clapping is simultaneously terrifying and adorable

@@PrismariLaura yes

​@@PrismariLauralike a chaotic toddler who delights in breaking things lol.

because a Good Story is always its own reward

18 fight.

About to comment this lol

This

It varies with each case. Spike Growth, for example, does damage regardless of whether the damage is forced movement or not.

@@normal6483 Specifically, I believe Grasping Arrow to be a case of the former as mentioned by OP, but I also agree with the rest of their statement. Given the feature's description and the general nature of how someone might do a lot of flailing while falling, it might not be the RAI, but it still makes sense to roll with it in this way for their adventure.

I seriously doubt it. Effects in 5e do exactly what they are written as doing. If a feature only triggers when they willingly move, such as Booming Blade, it says so in the description. The Grasping Arrow reads ‘the first time on each turn it moves 1 foot or more without teleporting.’ It’s worded much closer to the Spike Growth spell, which triggers the damage when they move regardless of if they were willing or not.

@@normal6483 Spike Growth with a Warlock EBing targets through it like a yo-yo...

According to Sage Advice, Grasping Arrow does do damage on forced movement

It's not even "getting around the rules," it's "bending the rules in your favor," which is even better.

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Once per 500 feet (max fall speed per turn)

Yeah, and falling isn't so much you moving as it's intense. If you're still while falling or not flailing I'd say it's not doing anything that would make the vines damage her.

@@rubber924 Yeah, true. As much as I agree with the whole "forced movement should trigger the on-move damage effect" argument, I think that thrashing against the vines is supposed to be the source of the damage. Then again, if your options are a) thrash against the vines, or b) fall & be splattered upon the mountainside, then yeah - maybe we can assume she's thrashing. So it kinda balances out, as long as you only apply the 2d6 once per round.

What series is this