Handbooker Helper: Advantage & Disadvantage 

I don't get the joke. Why would you even roll there?

@@thehiddenninja3428 It's a reference to a Runesmith episode

@@thehiddenninja3428 just because youre on the ground doesnt mean its an auto hit.

As a dm, this physically hurts me

@@nikolaykomissarenko7822 Not _on_ the ground You're trying to hit the ground itself

That drawing is awesome!

He just looks so!!! Fbsjcjsjj!!

I like the one where it’s taliesin with two fingers on his head

Oh, you kids, spoiled by getting to roll 2 d20s...Back in my day when we did the classic D&D circa 1986-92, we had to roll ONE d20 and LIKE IT! We had to hope our bonuses were good enough to boost a bad roll, because that was all we got! :P And Woe be the day the dice were not your friends because that meant your session could be easy as "quick in, quick out because you're dead too quick!"

I play a Lightfoot Halfling Ranger and, being a Halfling, I cannot roll a Nat 1 unless I roll a Nat 1 twice. This has led to a bunch of really frustrating moments where I roll a 2. Which has been pretty often. #TheDiceHateMe

You'd think rolling 2d20 is great... until you roll two ones.

@@theodorehsu5023 Pffft. Exept for the (optional during checks) critical fails and successes, the old/Pathfinder way actually PREVENTS you from failing (kind of like how passive checks do) because of how rediculous the bonuses can get.

One might say, this was Advanding! .. no? allright, must've been disadvanding then.

Pedro Scoponi What did I miss? Where is a bonus DING?

@@stella1996able 0:45

I believe you mean Critmas came early (*rimshot*)

That's at 1:51

I believe the proper title is Bigby's Gesturing Finger of Enragement.

@@nekoali2 I thought it was Bigby's Insulting Gesture. I seem to remember a Dragon Magazine back in the 1st Edition days having an April Fools issue with all kinds of goofy cantrips and 0 level spells like that. Another fun one was Purify Food 1/2, which involved pouring lots of ketchup and pepper on spoiled food on the assumption that enough ketchup and pepper will make anything taste better.

And bountiful luck

I feel a Disturbance in the Force, Like a thousand DM's screaming in horror and then silence.

@Joshua Mcclung Build Murray.

For a more expanded version - toss in some Lore bard (for cutting words, X times per long rest, where X is your Cha mod, and at 5th level of bard it becomes short rest, instead of long) and if you really feel like messing with every roll, get 6 levels of Grave Domain cleric to be able to degrade enemy crits to normal hits (X times per long rest, where X is your Wis mod). Very MAD build, and can be obnoxious and frustrating to your DM, as many of your abilities (Lucky (halfling racial), Bountiful Luck (halfling feat), Lucky (feat) and Portent (divination wizard ability) all don't use a reaction, so you can spam those). You'd only burn your reaction on Cutting Words (lore bard) and Sentinel at Death's Door (grave domain), and possibly Counterspell (which you definitely should take with this build, because at that point, why not?). And for the spells, other than counterspell, invest heavily in enchantment, so you can shut hostiles down with your action as well! A simple Command can really mess with people... And then dread the day when your DM starts to use that kind of a character against you.

*laughs in DM* By all means my pretties, build a character meant to break the game. I am eternal and there are plenty of rockslides.

Many DM's outright ban the lucky feat because of how it works with advantage and disadvantage.

From what I've read from sageadvice marisha explained it the right way

@@SuperSannylu From what I remember (this is a year old) she didn't point this out, which is why I did. I don't think she actually explained this specific detail. But I might be wrong.

@@christofferhougaard the gist is disadvantage and lucky you roll 3 and pick whichever of the three you want

@@SuperSannylu That doesn't sound right to me. So with the Lucky feat you suddenly get to turn disadvantage into Elven Accuracy? I'm pretty sure it's, the lowest of the two first, OR your roll from Lucky. I guess this would be up to the DM.

Stares in triton*

*cough* Kraken *cough*

Yeah! Totally not because they might end up with a sailor in their party! pffft!

@Walt Aistir nah. Since I have many players(6), my bossfights have many monsters too so even if they do manage to stack up adv and disadv on the boss the rest are still a threat and an obstacle that stops them from blowing the boss up. It turned out to be a cool way to avoid the "oh...it has adv so I guess I won't use this spell...uhm...idk let's hit with a cantrip" that my players kept saying with a disappointed face.

Fourleafclov I don’t like that ruling :(

It's made to make the game move along quicker. Once it is estabiled there is at least one advantage and disadvantage in the mix, no further discussion is necessary.

I didn't like the ruling at first but it really is in favor of the player and super simplified. nothing like the advanced chess that was 4th ed

Exactly. If you have multiple things giving you advantage - you still only have advantage once since they don't stack. The same goes with disadvantage and so if you have multiple forms of both they all cancel out.

@@emmote77 That's much clearer phrasing for this.

Would you say you have to "put fate in your hands take a chance roll the dice"

@@zazi5305 Are they 'bout to be dead?

@@zazi5305 With a DM to guide you, they'll rise from the flames for the battles ahead.

@@zazi5305 Waiting for inspiration, just rise up without thinking twice.

@@zazi5305 You missed your turn to roll.

@Lars Dols nope :D I can still adore people I don't know really, can't I?

I think we ALL do

And Wild Magic Sorcery to give yourself advantage on it in the first place

remember "rules" in D&D can be changed to suit the needs of the players. Always discuss any rule changes so it doesn't blind side during combat or story elements. It will keep the game flowing and overall the players will have a better time if you, The DM, lay them out before hand. Been DMing 5th for a good 3~4 years and i have swapped and stripped some rules i didn't like. I have a quick print out of homebrewed rules I hand to my players on the session 0 so they can understand what rules at the table.

I'd imagine the main CR crew is gonna do any new classes they didn't do last campaign, ie Marisha will do Monk, Travis will do Warlock, Liam will do Wizard, maybe Taliesin will do Blood Hunter(oof that'd be hard to watch). That just leaves Paladin, Sorcerer, and Fighter, which coincides with us still having Laura, Sam, and Ashley still needing to do a second quick build video. Though maybe Mercer himself will do one/some/all of them.

PLGRN8R they probably won’t do blood hunter since I don’t think that’s in the PHB

Taliesin already did Fighter.

This is a fair point! Stacking advantages and disadvantages aren't RAW (rules as written), but like any other rule in D&D, you can change it in your own game if you want to. Although I suggest discussing it with your party first, if you're changing any rules. Most of the groups I know of have various homebrew rules at their tables :)

@@MsCunningLinguistic I imagine that stacking mechanic of opposites is purely there to make it manageable and quicken play. Perhaps the stacking of dis/adv is there to reduce the likelihood of absurd stuff happening. I'd be pretty salty if the enemy had a triple advantage against me. You're right, it's down to the DM and I hope the DM is aware of the consequences of the rules they choose.

House rules and "rule of cool" can dominate all else. As long as it's fun!! Sounds like your custom rule works well!

The thing is, there's a rapidly diminishing return on stacked advantage. If you look at the probability of rolling 11 or above, that's 50%. Advantage takes it up to 75%. So that's cool. Double advantage only takes it up to 87.5%. But if you look at the probabilities for rolling 15 or above, the same progression goes 25% (1d20), 43.75% (2d20) and 57.81% (3d20). You just get much less of a boost the more you stack dice. Which _does_ mean you can add stacking advantage/disadvantage to your game without breaking the math. That's not the problem and that's not why they don't stack in RAW. Firstly, people are really crap at understanding probabilities (take it from someone who used to run a Keno game back in the day; people will bet an astonishing amount of money on the most idiotic assumptions about what a randomised computer algorithm "owes" them). Stacked Advantage seems intuitively like something that's worthwhile to chase, despite it rapidly becoming less and less of an influence as DCs go up. So players are going to blow all their resources on chasing that extra die roll for not much benefit like a problem gambler trying to get their rent money back. But second - and more importantly - the whole _point_ of advantage/disadvantage was to streamline things. Allowing them to stack puts you right back in the 3e/PF trap of having to account for a snowballing number of variables. RAW advantage/disadvantage just lets a DM eyeball a situation and easily determine if it's advantage, disadvantage or just a straight roll. Then they just call for the roll, and everyone gets to get on with playing D&D.

@@nickwilliams8302 Stacking advantages does considerably reduce the chances of getting a Nat1: 1/20=5% (1d20), 1/400=0.25% (2d20), 1/8000=0.01% (3d20), 1/160000=0.0006% (4d20). Also the stats you wrote are for getting equal or higher than 16 not 15.

That rogue would still have disadvantage so they could not use sneak attack

I'm update. I helper a click, I handbooker!

MsCunningLinguistic, even the name gave me a slight 'the fu-..' moment.

The would be logical, and a fine houserule. But I do not think that is how the rules are written

@@MasteJonjon1 It is as far as I'm aware.

@@Shero1337 No, Marisha says you do get to choose from the 3 dice, and she's right. Search for "lucky" on this errata document: media.wizards.com/2017/dnd/downloads/SA-Compendium.pdf (It does include an optional interpretation that looks similar to what you said but is statistically significantly different.)

Okay, let me rephrase that. You are wrong and Marisha are right. Here is a link to Sage advice: dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/sageadvice_feats/

That would make luck a little more balanced. Removing disadvantage (or adding advantage/super advantage) 3 times a day is overpowered

Just ban it at that point.

^this

They work in exactly the same way as advantage / disadvantage. Vulnerability makes the creature take double damage while Resistance halves the damage. In cases where a creature would have both the two cancel each other out and the damage is just normal.

Not according to Jeremy Crawford at sage advice: dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/sageadvice_feats/

Yeah, a lot of people won't run it this way but this way was confirmed as the ruling.

Lucky is clearly broken.

The mean is 13.82

I don't think I have ever been this early

Not how that works. You can only roll with or without advantage. Advantage do not stack.