D&D HOT TAKES: The Reckoning 

It's almost like people acting like, their experiences matter, Like there are consequences for your actions. But that's silly, we should be able to do whatever we waaannnttt.

Luckily you have a previous save, right?

I love the fact you actually made your name BigDickWizard69

Now you have Arsonist as a second class

Oh dude, I hate it when that happens.

Why does this make the commentary so much better

​@@unbanrofellos5786 cause in this context, you're now more involved, I think, and it also creates an air of suspense? Like, you came with this purpose....but this is chill, so you are waiting, you listen. will you be convinced to spare him? Like, it takes it from being a youtube video filmed in a slightly unusual place, if cozy, chill place, to this bizarre scenario, and things are playing out in an unexpected way *given* the unusual scenario.Like, Hey, why is he chilling here, all relaxed, giving you his hot takes? Has he accepted his fate, and spilling out his feelings for all to see? Does he hope to change your mind by being calm and accepting you, the assassin into his home, and treating you like a friend, regaling you with his personal thoughts? *will* you take him as a friend and spare him?

But before I begin, let’s talk about Grim Hollow!

i rolled a nat 1, i'm kind of stuck here

No one man should that high of a charisma stat 🤔

As a rogue, who could be within a 3 mile radius of fire capable of burning the universe to nothing, doing a backflip lets you not get burned

@@spiceyicey as a fighter I can Slow down time, getting in multiple swings mopre then any other Martial character can. with the limited ability to get mutliple actions done in the span of 6 seconds. and can cause wounds to suddenly close on the spot, these abilities are availble to me again after sitting down for about an hour.

As a wizard I am dead

see my "issue" (although its not much of one since you know its make believe) is that functionally monks dont make sense, like how if you have a bad guy holding someone at knife point and then someone speaks up and says that knives only deal 1d4 damage. in the game that person should survive the attack probably despite getting a knife to the throat but thats not how itll probably end up going because that doesnt make sense. i view monks similarly to this situation game whise theyre cool and fun but when you actually try to picture what is happening it doesnt add up. like i said i dont feel to strong about this because dnd is make believe, but its still my view point non the less

@@tacolord2561 what doesn't make sense? He just punches really really hard. It's nothing different then any other weapon, except it's called a monk. It's just a human with good spirituality who trained in martial arts.

"Yeah, I'm a long-ranged monk."

@@seigeengine so sunsoul

In one game we were faced with a bored witch who said she'd help us if any of us could overcome her magical defenses to move her from where she was standing with any form of magic. After several failed attempts, the monk walked up and said "I cast fist." And decked her in the face with his ki enhanced fist. After a fairly lengthy debate of the party bard convincing the witch that ki does in fact qualify for the definition of magic, she begrudgingly agreed to help us.

Cool batman

I honestly dont get how people think swords are THAT MUCH more realistic than punches, specially talking about dragon. The thing's got teeth bigger than most swords

If you are a very well trained monk and you punch a dragon when it has 1 hit point I believe you can kill it

2 things: they are magic punches and usually magic weapons when you are at a level to fight big dragons. So they do a lot more damage than a mundane punch or slash. Further, there is a reason gargantuan monsters have a ton of hp. A single blow won't slay it and it takes cumulative damage to bring it down.

I had a DM who didn't like ME personally playing monks. Because I was the only monk player he had ever met that knew the rules to disarming and sundering objects. First game I played with them It was 3.5 I had just joined a lvl 5ish game in progress and we were going up against a big meaty armored mini boss with a obviously magical mace. I would like to disarm him. DM just looks at me squints, "is it going to be like that?" Me, "I can read rules."

haha unarmed boi go brrrrrrrr

I didn't know Markiplier was a monk IRL

Now I want to play a monk just so I can be Po from Kung fu panda. And I don’t even play monks😂

@@theyoutubeidiot6203 Is there a panda people race?

Sylph if not I will home brew that shit just for this character

"if you used protection, you have advantage on the roll"

“7.” “You’ve contracted “red dragons crotch fire” take 3d6 fire damage focused on the groin after every long rest, or once every three short rests.” “…” “Now roll again.” “…2.” “Oh, so you’ve also got… oh no, “tadpole taint”, get ready to figure out how mindflayer/player-race hybrids who can survive off of brains or regular food are born.” “But I’m a male?” “I know.” “…Oh dear.”

In my world states won't be as bad and will arrange for priests to cast cure disease on everyone infected before it becomes an epidemic

Not to stereotype but you guys haven't slept with many people have you? 😅

@@kholtonthebarbarian2590 Tadpole taint I honestly thought was going to be more Slaad based.

My character is a human fighter but they are made of silicone instead of carbon so their limbs are easier to break but they grow back

They're not boring, they just suck compared to custom origin. Having darkvision is such a boon it completely overshadows being a pure human. I mean honestly, do you want to have to give up using a shield or a two handed weapon to carry a torch? On what planet is that considered optimal?

I’ve always thought that fighters are like plain oatmeal. It’ll keep you full till lunch like a breakfast food should, but it’s not very flavorful. However the lack of flavor means that it doesn’t conflict with the flavor of stuff you want to add to it, so you can mix in some berries, or cinnamon and sugar, or maple brown sugar and it’ll all work. Fighters have good mechanical weight to them, but are bland. You can add feats, an unusual race, a little spellcasting, a couple levels of multiclass, etc. to make them more flavorful and the fighter class doesn’t really disagree or conflict with any of it. Fighter is a class that is highly receptive to modification and additional flavor, which is why vhuman, the race most able to add in modifications and additional flavor is the most commonly played race among fighter players.

My brother plays a Battlemaster/Hexblade and it's righteous!

@@mizu_shujinsatticclutter536 What the...?

Beowulf gang

Oh no my sword broke. Guess I’ll have to stab it with my fists

I mean, to be fair even Beowulf thought it was a bad idea to fight a dragon without weapons despite the dragon being (technically) unarmed. And he was right.

To be fair, he was in his 60s or 70s when he fought the dragon.

Yeah. He literally stripped buck-naked at one point just so a fight would be more fair for the monster.

I agree, wildshape is stupid. "Your turn wizard. What do? Ok. Thief, you're up. What do? Cool. Fighter, what do? Cool. Bear, what do? Of course you do."

Also.... A longsword is quite possibly the worst choice against a dragon, realistically... Longswords are designed to fight humanoids, using such a weapon against a dragon is dumb. The dragon might not even bother fighting back. It's not just dragons, many dnd monsters would be essentially immune to sword strikes... If you're going to call realism in DnD, you should just discard the idea of ever using a longsword.

... in the frames of D&D realism. You look at it through the lenses of the real world.

@@kapitan19969838 Seeing as how D&D Monks use ki to empower their attacks, I still don't see how it's any different. In D&D the Monk is basically the "create your own shonen anime/martial arts movie protagonist" class. In fact, most monk subclasses basically mimic a particular show or movie: Astral Self: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (part 3 and onward) Drunken Master: Drunken Master Four Elements: Avatar: The Last Airbender (not an anime per say, but it's an anime-inspired series) Kensai: Rurouni Kenshin Long Death: Not sure. Kinda has some Bleach-esque themes to it but it doesn't actually match anything mechanically. Mercy: Another way of playing a healbot without playing a cleric. Open Hand: Fist of the North Star, One Punch Man, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (parts 1 and 2), most martial arts movies Shadow: Naruto Soul Knife: Zamasu from Dragon Ball Z Sun Soul: Everyone else from Dragon Ball Z Tranquility: Another healbot Anyway, once you take into account both the mechanics and lore of the Monk class, you can definitely see that they aren't just some average joe trying to punch things.

@@VestedUTuber Impressive, but it all seems kind of lame. Like this whole ''ki'' idea was created for the sole purpose of justifying Monk's existence in D&D

I feel like somebody hasn’t fought before. When it’s all out, you’re gonna find it’s a hell of a work out. It’s really hard to push your body that hard without the fight-or-flight motivation.

@DeruwynArchmage dude, its still not the same as a proper workout routine. Why do you think boxers/wrestlers/MMA fighters still train in the gym. Doesn't matter if you've got adrenaline going, a minute long fight isn't gonna do the same as deliberately working different muscle groups for an hour plus a day

@@theunloadedrpg1376 that’s not what I meant at all. (Also, I wasn’t actually meaning you specifically. And I very much was not meaning it as a dig. I apologize that I came across that way. That’s my fault.) I guess what I really meant is that the kind of “fight for your life” type of things gives you an extreme workout. It’s why boxers, who, as you rightly pointed out, work out a ton still get absolutely exhausted during a fight. And that’s not even true f.o.f. type thing anyway. Once they’re experienced, they’re not panicking anymore. It’s not really scary for them anymore, just competitive which isn’t the same level. When you think you’re gonna die, your body ends up removing a ton of your limiters that keep you from hurting yourself all the time. So now your muscles are pulling as hard as they can. They tear themselves and damage themselves in ways they normally wouldn’t, even for someone who trains a lot and has reduced the level of limitations below the levels that a sedentary person would have. So my point was that the extreme levels of damage that your body would cause in a terrifying situation would more than substitute for a regular workout, despite it’s brevity. At least afterwards, it’d be a bad idea to then go work out as your body would need time to repair. Regular exercise will reduce the amount of damage you’d take in those situations, reduce recovery time (healing, reabsorbing lactic acid, and returning to baseline resting heart rate), and make you far more effective when it happens. And the even more core point I was really trying to make is that no amount of exercise truly substitutes/prepares you for that level of exertion. You just can’t push your body that hard during a regular workout; and for very good reason, since you’d almost certainly injure yourself and not just stress your muscles (etc.) so that they respond by building up in preparation for future exertion.

Uh yeah, I guess that makes sorta sense. 100% agree.

@@XPtoLevel3 Evocation takes up way too much of the spotlight. I have no clue why spells such as light, tiny hut and more are evocation when other schools suit them far more.

Transmutation would also make more sense than evocation. Regenerate is already transmutation. Purify food/drink is, too. Also, transmuters can cast panacea using a philospoher stone. You're changing (transmuting) damaged cells into healthy ones.

My thoughts on why healing magic should be necromancy instead of evocation is because you’re manipulating the life forces of different creatures.

@@blturn Why are Wall spells evocation instead of conjuration or transmutation?

Nat 1 "The IRS is at your door for tax fraud."

@@neog8029 My group actually has it as an official table rule that if anyone ever rolls a natural 20 for taxes, they successfully _get away_ with tax fraud and receive 1d100 gold from the IRS, regardless of whether or not they were actually trying to commit tax fraud. It hasn't come up yet, but our hopes are high.

@@incognitoburrito6020 you did your taxes so good you committed tax fraud

It's the tax that gets you.

L i f e s t y l e

Good, i'm not alone in hearing that lol

Oh yeah it is.

God yes. Best jazz song of our times, next to the steel samurai jazz version.

@@Facesforce next to Dancers5 that is.

That's my go to to play if I need a generic jazz song to play it fits everything, romance? Yea, vibe? Ofc, saxophone? Duh

"even though I spent an hour preparing it" And that's a mood, lol

@@irok1 "Nights in white satin".... also a mood.

That and they're covered in scales that are harder than steel AND they can fly.

Punching dragons is stupid. Especially when you can kick them in the balls or RKO them xD

For some reason it isn't pointed out more, but every character in DnD is magical. Why can a banneret fighter perform an aoe heal without a spell or divine assistance? Or perform 8 powerful attacks at level 20 within 6 seconds? Why can a rogue dodge all damage from a fireball that fills an entire enclosed space? Why can a barbarian survive a fall after reaching terminal velocity and get back up like it was nothing? Why does everyone, no matter their level of mastery, have a 1 in 20 chance of failing spectacularly AND succeeding profoundly (seriously though imagine living in a world like that)? It's because everyone in the setting is magical. I don't know what the official universal mechanics are, but everyone has inherent magic that is refined and increased through choosing a class and leveling up. Same thing with how skill checks work, particularly charisma. Everyone is some flavor of low end reality warper (except high level casters) and that is why all these things, in the world of dnd, are reasonable.

@MonochromaticPrism That's one of the many reasons old D&D is better. Only some people were magical, the rest were just skilled at fighting.

​@@MonochromaticPrism This. This is something that is a really huge inonsistency in D&D. For me it creates a ludo-narrative disonance. To explain simply, the things that are implied by rule set and core gameplay are usually so different than the narrative of the game/campaign that it brakes my immersion. Rules often imply that every character is "magical" in some degree. Adding overabundance of magic items and artifacts etc. and suddenly im starting to think like "Sooo... why are there peasants? Farmers? Blacksmiths?" If getting your hands on a magical item sometimes requires so much effort as killing a bunch of goblins, climbing a mountain etc... why isnt this community fixated on it? Why would anyone choose to live in this world as a lowly pig herder instead of wandering the world in search of power? And we can go even further. How is it possible for example, that this king... who is not a magic user... not a skilled fighter, is still a king? You want to tell me that for his entire life, in his kingdom of thousands of people, there was noone who would say "Hey, if we use this magical ring that supposedly is in this cavern, along with Bob's magical charisma, we can overthrow him" This also creates a problem that, nothing is scary, nothing is particularly hard. In first CR campaign you could see this issue, altought not so evident at first glance, and never named. When main characters aquired the means of teleportation, along with 2 (!) strongholds, nothing was a really huge deal. Oh, we have a problem, we are bloodied etc. aaaand we have a really important news that, if late, can lead to a catastrophe? Well, good that that at least 2 of our characters can either teleport us thousands of kilometers away, or communicate on those distances. And then we get to the powercreep issue. That sometimes the group gets so powerful so quickly, that the challenges you have to prepare are ridiculous. And you get to a situation that in a particular area you have barbarians, giants, dragons and manticores (all seeing themselves as apex predator) living so close to each other that its mindboggling. Also, the overpowered items. I am more than convinced that (SPOILER FOR CR CAMPAIGN 1) throwing Percys turbo-omega-op gun into the acid, or destroying the blade that Grog used was NOT a pure out of the blue player choices. Those items brought a huge imbalance of power in a very short notice, and i can bet that it was planned between Matt Mercer and others to destroy them. Not hating on Mercer, still amazing narrative skills, but you can often see that he stumbles when it comes to planing the huge encounters. Y know, a group that has problems with dealing with a group of goliaths, wiped the floor with a dragon. Maaan thats a long comment.

Have fun carrying a torch through a dungeon rather than wielding a two handed weapon or a shield. After all, that's more fun than playing custom origin and having all the same benefits of a human player except you also have darkvision. Honestly, humans suck. The sooner you admit it the better off you'll be.

@@theraven5850 oooooor... you can say to the dm that you are holding the torch in your mouth, or ask a blacksmith in an rp centred session if you can buy a custom torch holder for on your shield. think creatively, cus thats how humans would think too

@@theraven5850 lol I'd hate to be you like seriously I'm so glad I'm not you holy shit

@@theraven5850 Yes, I am holding the torch, or as I like to call it, my magical club that deals bonus fire damage.

@@theraven5850 you do realize darkvision is *not* pure night vision, right? You still have a disadvantage on perception, your passive perception drops, and you can't discern color in the dark. This means enemies have an easier time using stealth against you, and traps are harder to detect. Darkvision races still benefit from torches and light spell. The rulings do not imply darkvision races just never need light. I'm tired of people ignorant in this concept that darkvision races are purely superior. It's beneficial, yes, because disadvantage on perception is better than no perception, but that's the only benefit of its perk. Youre still better off just using a light source. Again, it is *not* night vision. This is why humans are still a completely viable race. And they can get a feat, at that. If you want night vision, play a warlock and get Devil's Sight invocation.

Oops what’s that character development as my gremlin child arin comes to learn that not every orc is evil despite one tribe destroying his village

rofl y first ever tabletop game i was a half-orc in an elven restrictive city. I went around in full armor, gloves hood and full face mask at all times

You can't hate a race because some of them do bad things *Chuckles nervously in elves opinions towards literally every fucking race in the game, including but not limited to, drow, orcs, goblins, kobolds, ogres, bug bears, occasionally things like humans too*

@thunderdrae I thought they hated dwarves too?

@@tidalshores I mean it does say, "Including but not limited to", but either way, elves don't have dwarves *that* much. But now that i think about it, Dark Elves quite literally hate every race that isn't Dark Elven, with the tiniest exception of them respecting Illithids.

depends on how smart your players/DM are lol

@@jackdiddles4304 Also very true. Though, that can be said for Intelligence as well.

I think one of the main things is that some people don't know that proficiency in a tool also comes with some passive bonuses. Or, at least, should come with MORE passive bonuses. For example, the Mason's tools allows the PC to deal double damage to nonmagical stone objects, as well as where to detect weaknesses in such a place. I think that's a really fun buff because there's a lot of stone stuff in DnD, and having an option to "break through a wall" is fun. I think tools should emphasize this a lot more than it does right now.

@@austinpire That sounds amazing.

It's hilarious you didn't mention thieves tools

"I'm lawful good!" *super hero voice* DM: "You're a lawful DICK"

That does not sound like healing, but like... something different.

@@creativedesignation7880 Oh, damn. He's right tho, positive energy in D&D heals living beings (and used to hurt undead too, but they changed that), and spells that use any kind of energy usually fall into the evocation category... _except_ for negative energy, which is so intimately linked to death and the undead that it falls into the necromancy category. There's a high chance you already knew all that, though.

@@CidGuerreiro1234 well there's also transmutation which has a lot of energy based spells

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Didn't cure wounds used to be necromancy? I know DDO classified all the healing spells as necromancy

Lord of the rings is far more realistic and believable than D and D is though, so I don't think that is the best example.

@@CyberJellos cool, the genre is still FANTASY

Realistic doesn't mean it can't be fantastic. However 5e is just not the system for people who enjoy realism in their fantasy games. Wounds recover overnight and barbarians can survive falls from orbit, among other crazy things. For harsher realism, they should try pathfinder 2e if they want something similar to D&D, or GURPS if they are willing to give something new a try to get all those harsh realism rules going (I actually love GURPS, it has a lot of optional rules depending on the style of game you want). 5e just isn't a one system fits all sort of game.

@@WolforNuva Pathfinder 2e can get pretty unrealistic in higher levels. Legendary athletics and acrobatics can let you climb smooth walls like a lizard and balance on a sword's edge.

@@amberjones4067 Wait they are adding the epic level stuff from 3.5 in 2e? Thats it, I'm sold

Spells I think are the best reason for homebrew. As long as you balance it to be on par with spells of its level it is stupid to rely on just the "approved" spells since as you've cited its really limiting and also in universe SOMEONE has to come up with these spells so why not add another.

@@justaredpanda3283 exactly, especially since you can't straight up kill the person you're trying to help. Positive energy always heals the living, while the arrow bit I have seen kill quite a few times before the healing can take effect. Unless we do older ed rules and too much positive energy makes you explode

Yeah actually you are right, this is also why you can harm undead with it. Just like you can imagine a fire spell draws its power from the plane of fire, healing magic would work on the same idea.

I would like to meet this fellow but I fear the sheer radiant awesomeness from name alone will blast me away

i hope you googled that, you crazy bastard

Just by the name I'm interested.

@@reptilprinceoflizardpeople5797 if you have time on your hands go check out Critical Role campaign 1. It's a livestream D&D show.

@@asf8648 Here friggin here. Such a good thing.

Obviously, it’s just kind of boring when that’s where you start for the third campaign in a row

Adventures starting in taverns is an escape fantasy for alcoholics.

I just started a game in a tavern....I burnt the tavern down with a dragon but it did start in a tavern

@@jazzburrell8870 depends on execution. Each time it can be fun, unique and refreshing if your DM is good.

Good alternative, prison.

It used to be Necromancy in 2e

Yep, that's the logic cure wounds uses. You're deluging the target in positive energy. Which is pretty close to necromancy until you realize no necromancy spells actually use that particular technique. Correct me if I'm wrong, there are a ton of spells. Also, yeah, spell schools are more so defined by the technique and mindset used to perform them effectively.

LOL

As a DM I agree this would work until you cheese a boss fight with it, then it's a no go.

@@SuperNerd9695 Oh don't worry the nonmagical sickle of healing was completely balanced Even if he managed to land a hit with -3 to hit, he had to roll a 1d4-3 for damage. That's -2 damage (or +2hp) at minimum, and 1 damage max. Fair and Balanced.

@@Spahki hmm I didn't do the math, but you have a point, it probably wouldn't be that overpowered.

I can imagine a bystander seeing a group of mercs bloodied from a major fight while one of them is just *hacking away with a fucking sickle*

OMG yes please

Never say that again

...or Master Roshi?

@@thothrax5621 a Dragon turtle is just a turtle with levels in draconic sorcerer. Now the real question is, where did they get their powers from... 🤔

@@addweirdo8659 ur mom lol

@@PUNishment777 First time I’ve cringed at a username, ngl

Humans aren't basic really~ it just depends on how theyre made But even so. Why should anyone care? They're having fun so just dont chastise them for it~

Fancy that, starting with a blank canvas instead of a more or less premade box with implicit directives isn’t always a bad thing (I’m saying I like where you’re coming from)

That's why you use a huge sword that weighs at least 30 tons.

excuse me sir, Beowulf would like a word, and the word is "aaaaaaaah"

Right? Like, sure a sword is sharper than mundane punches, but against something like a dragon it still probably ain't doin' shit. Good luck parrying a claw swipe from a claw that's as big as you are. Basically any attack from it that hits should "realistically" send you flying. After which you should need to pass a high DC fort save or have a severe concussion, and a further, lower DC save to avoid long-term minor brain damage. People who claim to want """realistic""" games have no idea what they're talking about.

@@Shenaldrac “minor” brain damage? I reckon a dragon could slap so hard that even if you don’t go flying, you’re brain just got disintegrated

the monk *breaks fingers* the fighter *breaks sword*

Or Heracles. So much wrassling!

IM BEOWULF!!!!!

He straight up fought Grendel buck naked with no weapons because "it wouldn't be fair otherwise"!

@@kendromeda42 not only that, he ripped Grendel's arm off and beat him with it

@@kendromeda42 I thought it was because a bunch of people had already tried to kill grendel with weapons and it didnt work so he was just like "well weapons or no weapons it'll be the same outcome, it'll just come down to skill and strength, so Imma just strip down and fight him nude cause why not"

'according to all known laws of aviation, a dragon should not be able to fly' I hate myself for doing that

It would be funny to have a bunch of tiny, vicious, handheld dragons in a fantasy world

@@chrisyoung5254 Dragon bees!

@@StateBlaze1989 oh my god yes 😂😂 imagine dragons that die after breathing fire and live in a hive with a dragon queen who has grown so big she's become grounded

and the answer to both is: magic.

Oh, I always thought of healing as manipulating blood cell to heal a wound faster or speeding up time around the wound, thanks for the clarification.

SaviorOfNirn I didn’t say it was, that’s just how I thought it worked. Like some sort of necromancy.

@@ghostya5572 if it worked like that then it would be transmutation.

Pally Dan Oh.

@@pallydan893 @Ghost Ya Some healing magic does work like that, and those ones ARE transmutation. Like the 7th level transmutation healing spell, Regenerate. Other healing magic used to be necromancy. Back then inflict wounds and cure wounds were the same spell with an invert modifier. (Standard spell customization from back then makes 5e meta magic feel like an insulting joke.) At some point they started calling it not necromancy for absolutely no raison.

*nine times in six seconds Just wanted to correct that, since a game turn is six seconds and the highest number of attacks a fighter can get in one round is nine, four per action and one more from his bonus action. Other than that i fully agree with the point that reality has little bearing on D&D.

@@Daredhnu Haste. It only allows one more attack, but that brings you up to 10.

@@videogamegang1797 also reaction 11

With a great sword no less. Spoiler, that shit is pretty unwieldy at high speeds

@@Daredhnu I think in pure theory crafting you can pull off 22 attacks in one round

That sounds flippin’ awesome!

JOIN MY GAME, I NEED YOUR CREATIVITY!

thats an example of using an abnormal race and class combo and actually making it interesting

That's actually beautiful. I had a Kobold Warlock with a similar yearning for self-acceptance, but one of the other players killed me by selling me to a succubus. That was a fun session.

@@thebutterscotchkid2481 | I'm always down to play D&D.

Ooo, that sounds awesome!

I concur

The dragon swipes the battlefield with his tail, all the 20 soldiers within 30 ft. of him are thrown away and fall prone Oh, but the party that consists of angery-man, the lord of the vegans and your average thief somehow manages to kill it

Ballistae, nets, trebuchets, catapults, and accuracy through volume

Euron Greyjoy with one ballista gg

@@Neirean Unless there's only one left. Than even 1000 ballistas will miss.

ps: this also goes for EVERY VIDEO GAME I HAVE EVER PLAYED because my life just likes to make me stay at 1 hp way too much lmao

"Just keep going! You can do it!" "Ignore the continuous low health sound"

@@theunknownmax6571 hears beeping "Huh, wonder what that is?"

Sounds like God likes having you in a constant level of unnecessary stress

My now 6th lvl Paladin has been unconcious during or at the end of battles more often than not. But when he stays concious he is almost full live at the end of every fight.

From Phoenix Wright? where?

@@spencerkim692 its the jazz remix from turnabout jazz soul. i love it

I was thinkin that myself what a bop

You can smell it in the air

That's kinda how they are moving towards it in the 2024 rules.

Kensai monks feel like shoulin(I’ve probably miss spelld this terribly)

And that sword isn’t going to do much better against a dragon anyways

I love this so much. It sort of implies that a lot of the schools of magic are classifications akin to animal families, and I really like the more scientific aspect of magic for wizards

Personally I think they should be transmutation spells. Evocation is blasting energy and necromancy is sorta negative energy. Neither of those help with a stab wound, unless ig you cautarize the wound with Firebolt...

@@jamieadams2589 well there are necromancy spells that have to do with taking and giving life ie “vampiric touch” and “life transference”. This makes me think that necromancy is less a spell of undeath and more one of life and death. But yeah as you said it could equally be transmutation.

@@jamieadams2589 Agreed. In my own personal ttrpg system I have made healing magic a specialization of the transmutation category. It just makes sense, repairing damage to the body is changing the physical form of the wound.

@@caseolum There is a transmutation spell called regeneration. It really depends how the spell heals the wound tbh. Evocation spells create positive and pure energy that almost instantly heals a small or medium wound, bruiser burn. Necromancy spells are about life and death, so they manipulate the energy of life to heal a wound, no matter the size. Transmutation stimulates the tissue around the wound to divide, heal and regenerate. Every school of magic can heal, but they do so in different styles depending on what the school specializes in.

I use alignment as a conversational guide to player and npc intentions

just this, alignments are determined by the characters actions and beliefs, not the other way around

I use alignment to tell others what to expect from characters. This dragon is CE don’t piss her off

I have a partymate who's a Half-Orc Bard. He was neutral good, but ironically as his name began to get more popular, he began to shift pretty dramatically. He didn't start as chaotic neutral, but it makes so much more sense when you accidentally convince the barkeep to kill his unenthusiastic wife; setting the tavern in heavy disarray and going on an adventure where a dragon inflates your ego. Coupled with the doubts he used to have about his playing ability, all this served to make him shift completely on the alignment scale. Likewise, just have your characters hold themselves to their own decisions. I think the only alignment-heavy focused class might be Order of the Crown-Paladin, but even then they're usually exercising correctness unless they're getting lessons on how to steal from their local Rogue or something. AND EVEN THEN, it's not like doing one semi-contradiction immediately makes the Paladin go "welp, guess I broke my oath".

yeah, alignment is descriptive, not prescriptive. it describes your actions, it doesn't define them.

Personally, I really hate this approach, because, imo, the flavour should come from real differences in these spells, not it just being a different color spell. Like, making a fireball an iceball may as well just be "well my fireball is blue, and different things are weak to blue magic, now what!??!?!" I want spells for different elements that are all viable spells, but are best in different circumstances, like how lightning bolt will wreck a hallway of enemies, but fireball is better for open spaces. That's a small difference, and I personally think fireball should be reduced to only a 15 foot radius anyway, but it makes them different and have different vibes. Like, maybe fire magic is really good at AOE damage, but not so good at point damage, whereas lightning magic can do TONS of damage, but only to one target. It may also do AOE, but not as well as fire, like maybe it'll do weak sonic damage. Ice maic could be awesome for controlling the battlefield by slowing enemies, freezing them in place, creating obstacles like slippery floors, but not do as much damage. It could also be used for protection, like creating a wall of ice to block attacks, idunno. Maybe poison/acid magic could do weak but persistent AOE or persistent point damage, but have that only pay off over a long term, maybe as an area-denial focused magic. You feel me? I want real differences. Not just reskins.

I made a 4th level spell called Psycho Bomber. It's pretty much Faerie fire mixed with Fireball, and the damage type is psychic

I think that if you only want to tell stories where everything revolves around you, maybe you need to play less D&D and do more talking to a therapist. I strongly prefer worlds that feel like they exist regardless of the PCs. The PCs may be cool dudes, and may be doing something important, but, if they weren't around, things would still go on, and other shit would still get done. The world almost never hinges on the PCs, and there are more powerful characters out there in the world doing their own stuff. It's just important to still be having your OWN story where your PCs are still, in some regard, the heroes of that story. There's nothing bad about, say, a story where there's this big epic continent-spanning war with epic characters doing awesome shit, and you're just playing some dudes in some local part of it having your own challenges and triumphs as part of that bigger picture. That doesn't undermine the PCs or a good story. At most, it undermines juvenile power fantasy. Plus, one of the benefits of persistent worlds like this is that they can exist across campaigns. So the players, in your next campaign, can see the marks they made on the world, and, if there's a time gap, what's happened since. By weaving a greater narrative in the world like this, you can have campaigns at various different levels, and still have a gradual sense of progress and achievement. Like, maybe you play an epic campaign where you are the heroes in some grand war, and depending on the outcome, different places might be destroyed or saved, then maybe you play a low-level campaign in one of the towns that might have been wiped out if the players in the prior campaign didn't do X cool thing, and if the PCs save or don't save that town and it's struggles, then maybe in a third mid-level campaign, that town might have either developed into a small city, or been destroyed. Even small things like that can make a big difference if they're recognizable and persistent, and motive not just the characters, but the players to action. Like maybe in a prior campaign they got attached to characters in that town, so now in the next, even though the characters don't know them, the players have a personal reason to be invested, and I think that's important, because the players are not the characters.

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When getting realistic a trained swordsman also tries to keep a certain distance from his opponent. Below that certain distance he's either going to back off, switch to a smaller weapon, or go for an unarmed strike to force the opponent back. Which is something Cody is conveniently ignoring.

@@Quandry1 As a skilled swordsman myself I was going to say exactly that, thank you. Getting "inside" your opponents strike distance is absolutely a thing.

Yeah, the moment you start crying about combat realism in a world with magic, you lose all credibility. Realistically if combat magic was even possible, that'd be what everyone uses. If you can't do magic, you find a different profession, simple as that.

Exactly! How else would the book be able to describe a monk deflecting arrows that are speeding at her faster than she can run?

@@gethsemanegamespublishing8274 what you gonna do when a dragon starts blasting

I was just thinking this as an explanation nearly word for word. I've noted a lot of dms will say healing magic can let you recover from a cuts, scrapes, and burns quickly. But, if you broke a bone or any other major injury you would actually need to take time to recover and healing magic would not help you all that much. With this in mind it would make perfect sense for cure wounds and other healing magic to be evocation based.

It could be something like cautarizing a wound with a fire spell or restarting a heart with a lighting spell

It definitely makes sense for Healing Word to be Evocation. BUT WHY IS LESSER RESTORATION ABJURATION?! lol

@@godspeedhero3671 It's in the same way Protection for Poison is abjuration. Abjuration is a protective kind of magic, and Lesser Restoration is a spell that removes the effect of being blinded, deafened, paralyzed or poisoned. One of the results of abjuration spells is removing harmful effects. Makes sense to me.

You used to do that back in the way older editions.

@@kendromeda42 Yeah, but you’d pick your class after rolling your stats

Oh do you not do that? ...Whoops.

Some of the funniest shit I’ve ever seen at a D&D table has been the direct result of splitting the party.

Hot Take: Sorcerer should have some kind of short rest ability; all other casters do besides them (until level 20, but really even then they only get the equivalent of 1 3rd level spell slot back per short rest and that’s insanely late in the game.)

I think that if that happened to the sorcerer it would just end up with what the Mystic was trying to be an I'm not sure if that is really the type of meta sorcerer is going for? Like I do think they should lean in to their sorcerey points more because oddly enough in subclasses it really feels like an after thought in a lot of them, so like whenever 6e comes around I think maybe if there was more points per level and more verity in metamagic or subclass abilities using those points that could feel that sense of their magic is different and more flexable even if they have less spells. Also any class abilities between level 6 and 10 would be real good to have because those levels are a real drought

The problem is that spell points isn't a system that works in 5e well. If you give Sorcs spell points they automatically become the best caster.

Birbology Not sure if they’d be the best considering how few spells they have, no access to ritual casting, & no short rest abilities. They do have the largest amount of cantrips, but spell points don’t change that at all. I really don’t think it’d have too large of an effect especially because sorcerers could already do the thing that spell points set out to do by converting spell slots into higher level slots by using sorcery points as the in-between.

@@Birbucifer I play with spell points for my sorcerer with a wizard and a bard in the party and I never really feel OP at all. Like yea I can do some really crazy things if I only have one combat big boss battle a day, but I still have limited spells, I dont have ritual casting, once my points are gone I can't even cast spells anymore for the day. It balances out really well in almost every game I played. Well I say almost because sorcadin with spell points varient is broken af and if you love your DM or your charcater you shouldn't try it.

Who would probably break their fists when hitting someone with plate armor? Yeah.

@@IoanCenturion martial arts isnt just hitting people with your punches really hard lmao

@@Bawinni I know. Won't keep you from breaking bones. A lot of real martial artists say "The question if you're fighting a guy with a knife isnt whether you'll get stabbed. Your skill just decides how badly you'll get stabbed." Then apply that to armor and longswords.

While I agree, I also feel as though a mace/warhammer and a sling would be good weapons for a Monk to use against an armored opponent, as those are armor-combating weapons. Likewise, against an unarmored or modestly armored opponent, a spear/javelin/shortsword and a shortbow would be the most ideal weapons

@@IoanCenturion monks can use monk weapons for a reason lmao. And for reference, a monk's unarmed strike is not limited to punches only, it can be kicks, headbutts or any other strike you make with a body part. When you kick someone in the head, it's more of a "leg strength vs neck strength" instead of "leg toughness vs plate armor toughness" scenario. Armor offers protection but doesn't make you invulnerable. Not to mention that DnD monks are semi-mystical ki-channeling living weapons.

THIS!!!!!! “bland” race/class combinations can be fun. “weird” race/class combos can be boring. and the other way around can go JUST as easily. i genuinely think it does not matter, as long as you add SOMETHING personal that makes your character stand out from what they are on paper.

Note: Chaotic aligned characters may find this advice useless.

@@futuza And neutral

As far as alignment goes, reverse it. Pick the alignment that your character fits into, don't try to fit your character into one of the alignments. Alignment can also change as you play, based on character development stuff like that

@@futuza I disagree. When you're a chaotic good character you still don't act like a murder hobo. You just don't take the laws seriously down to the letter like lawful characters do. You might also steal from any characters you don't particularly like who are selfish.

Chaotic aligned doesn't mean you don't know what they'll do. Like Raven said, chaotic good is more about bucking the system; do the right thing even if it gets you arrested. I recently played a rogue that I referred to as 'alignmentfluid;' they don't really know what their morals are and change their mind a lot depending on who they're with or what they're doing. Some people said that's just Neutral but I feel like it's more nuanced than that, in my heart.

Much like the fabled orc rogue?

I like weird race/class combos too. My weirdest is probably Haughilde my half-hill-giant astronomer, thief and healer. The wide hills opened her eyes to the stars, and she thinks of life forces as quite like the little sparks in the sky. And she doesn't believe people own things, since we are so small in the vast universe, how could we possibly pretend such importance. So she takes without guilt (and gives without loss), and gets away with it by having a lot of skill in a body nobody expects that skill to reside in.

We have what we call the Concrete Halfling in our game. It was a campaign I ran to get my new players into the game. I let them start at level 7 and be whatever they wanted from the base player manual. One of my players ended up picking a barbarian but for some reason ended up having to play a halfling (because that was the only barbarian mini he could find I think) and said he felt like a halfling would make a poor barbarian because you could punt them... but after he finished his sheet this was the tankiest fucking halfling that it would be like kicking a block of concrete. Aka The Concrete Halfling. He went on to become a legend along with our grifting cleric who charged for his services (sometimes causing harm to make money for healing) because he worshipped a god of wealth.

@@CW-xn1ot Orc Rogue? How about... Loxodon Rogue.

@@MSOGameShow Centaur rogue. C L I P C L O P C L I P C L O P

Technically speaking, you should be fucking dead the moment you get hit with anything that’s more than 10 hp and you don’t get death saving throws, you only have a timer to be stabilized based on how bad you got hit. Don’t bring realism into why Monks don’t work when your characters survive so much anyway.

Currently doing that now. Also currently waiting for my bastard to be the only one to betray them cause LE and they don't give me respect

I played an LE character who was friendly and personable to all his allies in the party (Because why wouldn't he? They're helping him.) Except the warforged, because it isn't a real person so it doesn't count. Sadly the campaign never got far enough for this to change... I honestly don't know if I would have.

YES

Or don't and create an interesting dynamic

Had that happen between a goblin paladin and a dwarf wizard. The wizard was old and kinda shitty about it, but he learned over time and grew to be BETTER

r/unexpectedhermitcraft

Yes

Exhausting yes...increase in cardio no...increase in quick release atp yes. Good for short quick bursts but nothing substantial....i like snacks

the honesty at the end of this comment was a nice surprise for a youtube comment section

Carrying 50 lbs of equipment is part of the training regimen for military boot camp lol. Though the exact weight varies based on what you're expected to actually do once you're in the military, but yeah, carrying 50+ lbs of gear IS the exercise, theoretically. At least part of it.

Just to stay healthy, it's recommended we get ourselves to heavy breathing for at-least 20 minuets a day. If you're actually looking to _maintain_ crazy strength, you'd need even more.

I mean in general all adventurers that are martial focused would typically have to be somewhat fit but that is something i imagine almost no party really does much of and thats training, long travel and occasional fights wouldn't be enough for most melee classes to stay in top form and keep those high strength scores

Just a question, why is your profile Matthew Perry

@@kvalvag5934 Maybe he IS Matthew Perry

@@blankflank3488 vvwaaatttttttt

@@kvalvag5934 short version: I thought it would be funny long version: because I had the image on my phone years ago for something and then when I wanted to change my pfp I decided to use it.

@@Lenny-ue8hk fair enough 😅😅😅

Fighter as a class gives you so many options to build them exactly how you want, you get all the armor and weapons in the game, more feats than anyone else and variant human gets an extra one. How can something be vanilla boring when they have so many options? Echo Knight, Arcane Archer, Eldritch Knight... hell Battle Master's whole thing is giving you options. How can anyone say it's a bland and boring class when you have all of these options and chances to build exactly how you want to play? I don't understand the sentiment from both a mechanical point of view or a roleplay point of view. It's just kind of stupid.

A great example of this is Percy from Critical Role. Percy is a human fighter with a backstory about wanting to avenge his dead family. Literally the most basic DnD character ever. But they made him interesting, just due to good character development, interesting story, and just being creative with the character

In other words, characters aren't character sheets

A friend made a non-variant human champion fighter with point-buy stats and optimized build. According to the "vanilla" argument, that _should_ make his character the most boring thing ever. Rom was an escaped slave-gladiator from a distant desert of crimson sand. He often regaled the party with stories of that strange place (which he filled a 40 page word document with) and recounted unique perspectives he'd picked up, having spent 25 years in captivity. He would sometimes griped about his "chatty" wife, who waited for him in the desert. It was later revealed that his wife was in-fact a legendary 7-foot dread-warrior who barely spoke a word, and indeed it was actually _Rom_ who did all the talking in their relationship. Suddenly his comments about how she'd "kill him" if he didn't have an anniversary gift took on a more literal meaning. Rom was a simple man with simple ideas and simple goals. He was an optimized human fighter, and he was the most compelling character I've ever encountered.

My favourite character was a scumbag human fighter who was pretty much just a highly functioning sociopath whose soul purpose in life was to drink, be slutty and progress the plot

He's awesome of course, though he's a bit of a Warlock in fighters clothing :P

@@ParadoxicWasHere Yeah, he's not really a fighter.

You sound like my brother

He’s a gunslinger. Yes I know it’s a fighter subclass, but it was a subclass made based on a full class from pathfinder/3.5 (can’t remember which). And, also, this is an extremely flawed argument. I’d argue fighters are mechanically boring, any character can be fun to play if you’re good enough at roleplay. In an AL game where RP is very low, my halfling banneret Fighter wasn’t fun. I couldn’t RP much because of the railroaded nature of AL games, no matter the skill of the DM, and that left me with fighter features and very few skill proficiencies. I was making basic weapon attacks and had nothing else to do. Fighter is defined by its subclass, and there’s at least two bad subclasses to choose, banneret and champion, and they SUCK to play.

@@witchBoi_Connor that is a fair point but you said any character can be fun to play then go on to dictate that champion (and banneret) are "bad" subclasses and quote "suck to play"

Just because they're dead or a blob doesn't mean they don't have feelings.

Manuel da Costa undead are dead on the outside,not dead on the inside

@@arsenelupin5424 until you cast Vicious Mockery

@@Aredel touche

Vitriolic sphere

Assuming it's not already covered by another monster, you'll probably have to mix in some acid spells. (... Why are poison and acid even different damage types, anyway, if there's going to be so few poison attacks?)

@@TheHellspawnHero Acid and Poison are very different from each other, there just should be more of both spells

Vitriolic sphere does acid damage, you might be thinking of cloudkill though, which is the second addition to my list!

And I can't really mix in acid damage as I overdid that a few weeks ago. I'm probably going to make use of other things like suffocation and conditions