HOW TO PLAY MYSTIC 

Have you ever played rouge it’s pretty under whelming

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Would making a Mystic character, as an NPC, but with the sheet, be a good encounter for the PCs? Okay, so the Mystic would be the same level as the PCs, but there would only be one. I wouldn’t hold back, but I would give the Mystic an absolute crap AC. Would that be fun, yet challenging in your opinion?

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Question are we making level 20 pc builds?

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And that’s because we’re so cool.

Right? It's like someone took Mr Manhattan and all the psychic mutants from Xmen and made them into one character. Edit: Nvm, finished the vid, they are basically all the xmen mutants (I mean in it's entirety not JUST the X-Men) and Mr Manhattan

Yeah it's the same as any other spellcaster what is your point? Oh no you get cantrips, spells, a passive, and a subclass. Wow so it's a sorcerer.

I'm really new to D&D and only played one session. I barely know anything and most things go over my head. But thank you for trying your best to explain everything. It helps!

That Guy only play mystic in a campaign where you don’t know ANYONE, not your party and definitely not the DM.

Or if you want to get rid of all your friends since they’re uncomfortable To be around

My favorite is also level 0 so I can choose a different class

Level 0 ability is to have friends. This is lost at first level

It's also valid to play in a one-shot where no one has seen a mystic in actual play as well. Because then you can admit with everyone else that it's bulls**t and never touch it again.

NO NO NO STOP PLEASE IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE MORE BROKEN

*Halfling* Mystic with Lucky

*CASUALLY MAKES IMMORTAL ARCHETYPE MORE LITERAL THAN NEEDED*

This is how you win D&D... you lose your friends because you chose mystic.

@@ianmillam8793 it can never be too broken

If tails, get buddies to revive you. Can't wait for players to use this to teleport the mystic into *anywhere* on the plain.

It's not a coin toss, it's a 55% chance, which is better

"UUMMMMmmmMMMmmMMmmmM..... ACuLIy"

Technically, it’s 55/45 chance to not die, in favor of not dying

Flip a coin If heads? Don't die. If tails? *Never die*

Then gets told to change again

Donny da zombie somewhat hates stunning strike lol

@@VapricKnight undeservedly. Without it, monk might be the weakest class. My stun is only DC 13 at level 9, so it almost never succeeds

Why a monk ? I thought they would be super weak?

@@Maximum7077 monks are very powerful, granted you have to build them correctly but they are not to be fucked with. All you need is a high wisdom and dex score tbh, then be whatever you want. The only downside is that there arent much feats that benefit them. (Thats also the reason why i think they are the best class to start learning with)

To be honest the entire Fantasy of Monks and Mystics are really really similar

The problem is, is that a 50% chance to just say 'No, that's not happening' to Death is a complete narrative breaker. Especially because its only cost is time. Taking The Tomb of Annihilation as an example, why should a party of mystics be the least bit careful when even the most lethal of traps has a 50-50 chance of being a mild inconvenience at worst.

@@adamloga3788 I feel mystic players wouldn't rely on it. It is still a 50% chance to die normally (and who trusts their dice anyways?) so it would be more like a backup plan rather than the main plan.

@@intelligence14wisdom22 That may be, but it still makes it SO much harder to have stakes that stick on the DM's end.

Intelligence 14 Wisdom 2 your profile pic lol why is your intellengence so big

I'm currently a level three kobold intent on becoming a black dragon. I am a mystic, and I'm basically evil Yoda. It's going real well for the dm. I might die soon if he doesn't find some low sodium salt.

Was it not?

it kinda was

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Nice

Thats a very good one. Good job.

okay wow

I love science puns ;-; ....so much

I thought it would because they react violently but that's good too I guess.

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And he acts like wizards and sorcerers can't do the same thing

@@spacegamer267 ......they can't the closest thing I can think of to that ability is the clone spell which is only available for wizards and cost 3000 gold per use and with that you lose all your equipment uou had on you

@@jackmakila3776 contingency teleport to a safe place

@@spacegamer267 that requires you to spend 1500g every 10 days just in case you happen to die(which if your 20th level should not be something likely to happen even if your up against 2 tarrasque)

@Andrew Rios Perfect for roleplay lol

“I thought you died!” “Sadly yes...but I lived!”

And he's giving you a free drink...and you can see the real bartender bound and gagged under the counter...and your barbarian teammate says the free drink tastes funny ("wait you accepted the drink from him?")

I was like "WHAT THE FUCK?! I THOUGHT THIS WAS ALL LEVEL 10 STUFF?!"

same

Level 20 ability if you die cast Resurrection on yourself 1 2 3 days later

Imagine if he laid out all the benefits of the Cleric's subclasses at level 1. Cause that's what happened here

Yeah, that's because he counted every benefit for every subclass till level 20 under level 1

THANOS SPELL THANOS SPELL

THANOS DICE THANOS DICE

Thanos is a mystic confirmed

@Dicelord N Yeah, so is Jaune's sword

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How to make an immortal character: Get a high level wizard to cast Wish on you so you're immortal

@@purebloodedgriffin Big Brain Time.

How to achieve semi-immortality: Be a High Elf Druid or Monk, eventually achieve Timeless Body (and avoid dying in combat), then you get 7,500 years potential:) Another even greater version be an Astral Elf version as above then go back to Astral Plane!

I actually did that as a mystic, where all abilities I took were control, support, and battlefield manipulation sorts. Travel times were very nice as we could go places very quickly, but it usually left my character lacking for Psi points. Honestly the most powerful thing about mystic is the sheer variety, not the fact that it does things better than everyone else (it does not). It can just do everything to a very good degree, which is what makes it powerful and would essentially make bards obsolete. The problem? It can do everything. You won't remember half of the things you can do, as you essentially have 70~ spells on hand at level 20. Good luck remembering all of them. Homebrew rule that's pretty good for mystics is that they can only cast on a discipline they're focused on, meaning they essentially need to use a bonus action to switch to another 5 part spell list and cannot start incredibly stupid combos.

Meanwhile I'm here with my barbarian always forgetting those rage damage resistances... And the advantage from Danger sense. Pretty much half of my abilities.

@@mazzpsykoziz you think that’s rough? My favorite class is monk, imagine all the shit I forget.

@@supreme_king_obama1158 That you have fists?

@@damianrehbein3992 I forget that rather often as a kensei monk.

Don't forget that if the choose adaptive body, then they'll also be able to live without eating, drinking, sleeping, or breathing. And they gain the effects of a long rest by doing 8 hours of light activity (like reading or traveling). So with this you could shove a Lv.20 mystic into a bag of holding and leave them there forever.

I'm making mine in the theme of a vampire. With enough time he might be able to convince the world he is.

I explained I wanted an insanity mechanic when I rolled a 1 or any number dm says. If I get too many, up to the dm discretion, I start developing negative to stats and "quirks." I would have to go on a psychic journey to remove them or find a way to "purify" through dream quests or diving into the subconscious. I find it balances out the risk reward of using the powers.

OK what the fuck

Deathnotefan97 combo a LV.20 mystic with a high level cleric and you WILL NEVER DIE

would like but i gotta keep it at 69 though

Thanks for the love

Tim may be my spirit animals

That is the smile you make when you break the game so much that you break the DM

One time I played a mystic just to piss off my dm and at level one we found a goblin camp so I turned 10 feet tall and stomped them to death it was hilarious

To be fair, if your DM is having your level 6 party fight a 17th level boss, he deserved to watch it get wrecked by a mystic.

@@GhostWriter520 i think the DM had enuf bullshit from him and wantet to demonstrad the bullshit going on for everybody....

so that math seems real off

So that player basically made squee

that paladin became so powerful he became as powerful as the god they worship

The next thing they knew that paladin challenge his god saw his new legendary powers and committed suicide

Alternatively i was personally planning on a rogue/mystic multiclass, aka raz from psychonauts. Blindspot is powerful, yo.

What was the Multiclass build?

I'm watching a movie as I read this and one character started screaming 5 seconds after I read this

That's hilarious

Bards be like

MSOGameShow saddness

Homebrewers 103 days later: ... *no*

Have you seen the UA Psi Classes? Redonkulous. No DM should allow them either It's like they just won't stop making Psi Classes and Psi Theamed powers OP for absolutely no reason. I get trying to make Psi Powers different, but they should'nt be all that different from Spells.

Behold the newest class Mystic 2

@@alnu8355 Mystic wasn't even broken, it just had too much to begin with. 5e is just poorly made honestly lmao

Yolo Jocolo he was just going through archetypes, monk has 10+ archetypes

Yolo Jocolo I don’t see why everyone hates mystic so much

not really, they gain most of those abilities at later levels. It was just a summary of each mystic subclass

Mystic is kinda similar to cleric now, where they pick their archetype level 1 and get extra damage 8th level.

Yeah you get a lot but at 1st level you have max of 4 psi points and can spend a max of 2 on any 1 discipline. And you don't get anything back till long rest. Most of their stuff is a minimum of 2 pain points anyways.

Raz from psychonauts.

Wwwwwhhhhhhhyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!

If I saw this and I was dming I would get 1000 mindfleyers and have them get you under 100 hp and then use power word kill Edit: also make sure pc get sent straight to the ninth level of hell

@@ColdspaceDog where he starts to be the new ruler :D

It's because he litteraly went through all mystic subclasses. This "lvl.1" would be litteraly 100 times longer with all wizard subclasses

@@Maximum7077 maybe it's because wizards have to pick and stick with it while it seems mystics can change it like a wizard prepares the spells of the day.

@@nathanschubert3048 mystic has to stick with his disceplines aswell and cant recover spellslots on a short rest or change his disceplines. They also are way weaker in the later game.

@@Maximum7077 ahh, I see. So the worry is more with the multiclass potential for min-maxing then.

You forgot paladin & cleric.....

Haha. Wings. Funny.

@@zionthedragon8866 Paladumbs: The frog to be disceted.

​@@zionthedragon8866 Cleric: child of the teacher

@@shotosynthesis312 I guess?

God i want to know more about this

@@GamerTowerDX We never finished the campaign, and the mystic was pretty powerful. The mystic was also a race which could fly, and the mystic would constantly use this stupid abbility which would switch two people, so she would switch with the enemy while in the air

@@timolanlau7454 LOL, that's hilarious, thanks for explaining.

@@timolanlau7454 can I ask which ability that is? My DM allowed me to play mystic and I want to shock him (I don't think he had any Mystics in his session before).

You need a better friend.

"Fuck you I'm the DM now." -mystic

Yeah... that's basically what happened. It took awhile because I'm playing a mystic that's all support and mobility accept for Crown of Disgust. So most of the time I just made the fighter and the barbarian kill things faster or did fun things with Baleful Transposition. Then we hit lvl 9 and I could use World of Horror...and everything went down hill from there... Now I've embraced his hatred and picked up Mastery of Light and Dark. MUHAHAHAHA!

A DM in one of my games allowed it and halfway through the first game he regretted everything.

Knowing it was my first time DMing a fellow DM unleashed this bullshit on me. The ultimate betrayal.

Funnily after people just babbling about mystic how wtfopitis instead of playing one, wait.. that happened long time ago with shaman in wow!

Im happy Psionic Soul is being published in Tasha's albeit in a form we've yet to see. But I was scared they wouldn't be bold enough to go in on Psionics in this book.

Im happy that in tasha's theres a lot of Psion subclasses now. Rogue even got the mystics Soul Knife

This is my Mystic REWORKED Nerfs NO 50/50 REVIVE AT LEVEL 20 LV 20 Instead has a Mystic be able to slowly restore hp like the lv 2 skill. Mystics CANNOT choose another discipline. Mystics CANNOT regain the same amount of Hp by using powers, they will only restore hp by half the pp used. This is a lv 20 skill. Mystics can only sacrifice their HP to use powers when they run out of PP; naturally this will not restore HP. PP now acts like a second HP pool, it can only be regained if: You get Temporary HP or heal more than max HP, which heals PP for the respective amount, this means you cannot get Temporary HP unless you have FULL PP You take a short rest, which heals like HP where you roll a second set of Hit Dice to determine PP restored. You take a long rest, which restores all PP If you try to substitute a stat check for another check, you now must spend PP Many powers cost more a bit more PP Each Path has a bit more versatility to choose from to compensate for 1 path only Some smaller Powers are made universal, such as weak damage powers and weak support Some Powers are buffed, others are nerfed Mystic has a slightly increased max PP Mystics gain a slow flying speed at level 12

@@apollyonnoctis1291 I read PP as peepee. Just because of that you get a 10/10!

@@apollyonnoctis1291 FULL PEEPEE! I’m dying! I know it means psi points but this is comedy gold if read right!

no you dont

All the players: Gets into a little circle to talk about what to do next All the players: "We get on a line, side by side, and start dancing and singing Macarena." Universe: *FUCKING EXPLODES*

Oops, nothing but Mindflayers.

run them through tomb of horrors. without telling them.

If i am the dm they would die, like in the first sesion

You must have one cool DM to allow you to make Mystic even more OP than it already is.

Epic monsters?

Just multiclass and pack it with variant human but at this point why not just home brew being a god I mean u fuck

Your DM is a fool and I pity him for the pain you will surely put him through.

@@theawkwardpotato1973 Well, that campaign is over. Besides, when I took advantage of Mystic being OP, it was always for the good of the party and to help others rather than for my own personal glory. I had turns in the spotlight, but I never denied anyone else theirs.

Yes. I want jacob to fucking go kung fu fighting some fools.

No "How to play *FIHGTER* "

Orc Monk OP. Enhanced movement speed of the monk class + the Orc's Aggression Class Bonus feature means that whatever the enemy is, the Orc is gonna chase it down. Add this plus the Orc's ability to grapple enemies a size difference bigger than it. Plus the monks ability to stun/knock down and move enemies with flurry of blows. Orc Monk's are fucking terrifying when abusing terrain damage or just sheer gravity.

Oh, and also with the aggression+movement speed, a certain point Monks get the ability to walk on water and walk up vertical terrain with no difficulty check. So yeah, that is terrifying. A giant burly Orc(which mine has 20 str and 20 Dex) is sprinting up the side of the mountain to kick an archer square in the face. The archer lets loose an arrow. Monks have ability to grab melee ranged attacks and use them as a monk weapon with a ki point. My Ork Monk Uram, ran up a mountain side, the assassin archer let loose his arrow, Uram caught the arrow with his foot, while continuing the run up the mountain. Once at the assassin, Uram Dolphin kicked the assassin in the chin WITH the arrowhead imbedding into the guy's throat. Then Uram feather fall'd down the side of the mountain.

I wanna see him go all Kung Fu Panda.

I thought they came from 3.5e

@@alienbastard55 they actually first came into concept in go dnd (0e) and where also broken their, the only time they balanced psionics was in 4e do compared to what we have in 5e know a days mystic is not that broken in comparison to a optimized character (ie take a crap ton of feats)

"But how?"

@@lorekeeper685 multiple things Psi-limit Low psi-points Gets hit relatively frequantly Has low health Has no surviveability unless the party protects him Dicaplines max out at about the power of level 5 spells The mystic has many spells dicaplines that use the bonus action and because of that can't use it to heal Focusing only gives minor and very specific benafits

Mystics don't die

@@ravendoesart4243 They do

@@yaronsinger7271 have the mystic team up with a bloodhunter and artificer.

How did you go about this? Because I might just do that myself.

Please share your homebrew I have always loved the idea of Psionics but always hate how absolutely overpowered it always is.

No joke, please post your rework on Dungeon Master’s Guild, it would be so useful because I wanna play Mystic but I don’t want it to be OP

Cool profile pic

In order to reword, you need to first even understand the class. most likely you didn't understand said class and had totally wrong view about it.

Lol if you truly think that this is overpowered you should playtest. Mystics are only broken if you remove the psi limit and hive them infinite psi points.

Yaron Singer yah they’re busted dude

@@nicholas3141 I play mystic in my adventure and they are not overpowered.

Haha yup

By level 11 death is usually more of an inconvenience than anything, so it's not a *huge* deal at 20

Oh lol epic

Dungeon masters nice

Mystics are not that powerful and are relatively balanced

@@yaronsinger7271 -a mystic player

Monk: Wait until I'm level 17 you little shit

Dude that's exactly what I wanted to do! Did you took 3 levels in mystic?

Cause they are halfcasters

@@Maximum7077 This was a while ago so I’m not 100% sure but 3 levels mystic dose sound about right

Chronurgy wizard is a class from UA. Not homebrew :D. I think we think of different ones.

Actually in a game I played with my sister, she was teleported close to another player before we all met, and she convinced him she was a god, and that he should worship her. That was quite interesting to see.

Hahahahaha I regain health every time its my turn as a bonus action I should never be below 100 health

Or even better you kill me and I come back 3 days later

**Rolls D20** 15.

you know power word kill doesnt actually ever kill anything right?

@@Xenibalt yeah it's mostly for pesky goblins or obstinate or when you really want to demonstrate your power

Like fifth time just for the dis track

"Rebuild body through sheer force of will?" Oh god... A 20th level Mystic is just Doctor Manhattan!

Answer: Depends on how they view the world.

You could say the same thing about wizards and their schools, but noone ever mentions that, not even the video did

Tony Favilla yeah Psionics need to be categorized better they kind of get everything so there are no archetypes and there should be 100%. DnD in essence is balanced around archetypes and labels they're a part of a classes identity.

Jason Cheng that’s because wizards really aren’t that great.the only thing they really have is arcane recovery, but tbh idk why you wouldn’t just play a sorcerer because they’re just, better

No. It got put on DM's Guild. It's official.

Doesn't mean its AL legal

It being put on DMsguild doesn't make it official. There's a lot of homebrew on there.

It's on DM's Guild FROM WOTC. So it's the same level of official as the Ebberron guide, i'd assume. The nice thing about D&D however, is that you can change and shift around what's official at your leisure.

Just because its "official" doesn't mean its AL legal. Per AL rules you are allowed to use the players handbook plus one other officially published book. Mystic hasn't appeared in any official books (as far as I'm aware of) so its not AL legal. You can do what you want with your home game but dont dont think you can bring that to a game of Adventures Leage.

@Tyler Durden nah It should just be called "fuck you DM"

Not fun for the DM im gonna tell you that

I guess I now found the class for my Greek myths inspired campaign.

@@GamerTowerDX homebrew cr32 wizard that can cast power word kill and meteor swarm in the first round and have infinite 1st to 3rd level spells

@@GamerTowerDX just any homebrew could be a challenge now that i think about it

Or a Multiclass Party, gains a Mystic level every 4 levels.

Yep, but blue people better than the second series of avatar.

@@zionthedragon8866 _There is no second series of Avatar._

Well, yeah. That's the one people A. Like, and B. Have heard of.

It's not ridicilous. Why? That is because you don't know for sure what sort of encounters you will have during the day. However I find it hilarious that you guys don't find paladin's aura as OP....

@@Tespri It is ridiculous, if you notice a pattern of what saves you're dm is mostly using, like dex, con and wis are incredibly common saving throws throughout encounters and adventures. so if you're character is able to switch their saves on the fly by simple going and taking a power nap or just sitting down for half an hour, enjoy some rations and blamo, dude is now able to get proficiency in saving throw of choice. That at level four is really good. Maybe not broken, but incredibly over powered for early level gameplay.

@@NoManLP It's DM dependant, also paladin gives save bonus to literally every saving throw. And again... Mystics are not able to switch their saves on the fly. They cannot do it during the encounter. They actually need to have a long rest before doing so. Geez... Only people who don't know how to build strong characters and don't know much about the classes and game rules get butthurt over mystic. I can build far more powerful builds from official materials than mystic.

@@Tespri Except Jacob has said he dislikes the aura abilities Plus Mystic gets it at level 4 Meanwhile Paladin gets it at level 6

@@dgmbomb Again, mystic can't change it on the fly. And paladin provides the same protection to every party member who is close to him. Also I don't care does Jacob like it or not, it's irrelevant. Mystics are just too complex for lower IQ people so they end up overhyping it.

Hahhah me to!

Nat 20 on the dex check?

me too. in our campaign we play as historical figures from our real world but they can be any race. im playing as mystic Rasputin. I don't do anything game breaky or overtly op just be a real douche and persuade and deceive with my high char and convince them im not a bad guy when im neutral evil and just drink and fuck and the occasional party healing/ buffing to be likeable and needed. its hilarious I don't do anything just plant ideas in my followers heads to take out or remove opposition npcs lol, mean while I don't do anything I just sit back act like "what? what did I do?"oh yea I role play this all in the thickest, deepest Russian accent lol

To be fair, with a 1 in int, you would have to basically roleplay someone who is braindead. I still think it's totally unusable tho

I believe he was referring to the Modifier and not the Score

Nope, I was talking about the score. And that character was very much brain dead. He was essentially just an Ork from 40k.

Eh, not really, an regular Ork from 40k would probably have an intelligence of 5-6, since they're able to speak. An intelligence of 1 would be a beetle, specifically a Giant Fire Beetle, or a Swarm of Beetles. A 1 intelligence isn't brain dead, it would be like being under the Feeble Mind spell but without the Charisma debuff. Your response to a Wall would be to either go over it, through it, or around it. All without help of any tools, since using tools is a smart thing to do. Playing a Intelligence 1 Mystic wouldn't make the class all that weaker, but it'd make a weak as hell character. Cause you ain't out thinking ANYTHING. Except maybe a rock, though that would quite be challenge.

Depending on your DM, I probably would've ruled that because your Int was 1, you wouldn't have been able to any of the Telepathy ability since Creatures with an Int Score of 2 or lower are incapable of speech. Not to mention, once you hit level 14, you would be subtracting 5 from any damage roll you make for a psionic talent. Not to mention you're Discipline DC would be weak/s**ty & you would be relying heavily on the d20 roll for Discipline Attacks because until you get to Level 17, your Discipline Attack Modifier would go from non-existent to "1" as it's your Proficiency Bonus + Int Modifier. Because your Discipline DC (8 + Prof Bonus + Int Mod) would progress as: 5 -> 6 -> 7 -> 8 -> 9. So unless the NPC's/MoB's roll just as equally as s**ty to combat your very low Discipline DC, they'll pretty much pass it a majority of the time. Honestly, I'm curious as to what your other Stats were at as well as what Talent(s), Mystic Order, & Discipline(s) you took for that initial Session, especially if you started out at level 1 for that initial Session.

Yes but wizards aren't nearly as OP as mystics

Would probably help if say for divination there wasn't like only 6 spells. The archetypes of magic are really limited and it makes more sense that this is more their spelization. Meanwhile for mystics... That sorta excuse doesn't exactly work as well.

But it makes no sense from a lore perspective. The Mystic Orders made their disciplines specifically for their own order, so it makes no sense that any Mystic from any order can learn any discipline they wanted. It would be like a Sun Soul Monk being able to take abilities from the Four Elements subclass because g a m e p l a y

Honestly i'm just gonna address the 3 replies i got on this since they had a lot of good points, Yes a lot of Mystic disciplines are absolutely insane, Psionic weapon being able to do 7d10 is ridiculous, and a lot of them need to be nerfed hard. Also, there are about 3 Nomad disciplines and 0 soul knife ones, I'm sure that if they balanced out the amount of disciplines between archetypes, the "There are no divination spells so this argument is invalid" thing would be a bit more correct. And finally, the different archetypes gain different abilities, and that's where the choosing of archetypes comes in, their also more proficient with disciplines of their archetype, like how Wizards can cast spells of different types, but they're more effective with a certain school, so they *can* take spells from different schools of magic, but they are more effective with a certain type. And it's the same reasoning for why Mystics are able to grab more of archetype specific disciplines. And though there are definitely a decent portion of disciplines that should be archetype specific, like how Brute Force should be able to be used by the tank Immortal mystics and doesn't really make sense for Awakened ones, that doesn't mean all of them need the same treatment, kind of like Warlock Pacts.

Except that wizards can’t really be tanks... or healers. Or stealthy bois. Not like mystics can. Mystics can do whatever they want.

Orange Pancake idk, maybe he just wanted to make fun of Mystics. Would watch it though.

I have a player whose an Artificer. I would like to see him cover it.

Virgin with no friends vs Chad Druid whose death brings tears to the eyes of the party. Lets be honest its a damn celebration full with 100 dollars worth of champagne, and chocolate cake when a mystic dies

Wish you would know how wrong you are.

I have, however, I have severly limited it's ability because I like my friends

honestly same

Rip

Tell him I said no.

It’s a very creative way to commit suicide.

Oh boy you've gotta share the co murder suicide story

the answer is no

Yeah, the true Hero Class... TEST YOUR METAL!!

You don’t know how to play Fighter?

Tyler of course I do. Its my favorite class

Tyler I just play pathfinder so dnd is different

Tony Favilla hoorah!

That ability is beaten entirely by a 13th level cleric plane-shifting themselves back from the after life because fuck you, the rules don't say I can't do it

Happy birthday hope you find a good group

@@ryanrhino2318 Thank You!

I found a good group on roll 20, or try you local game store for adventure league.

@@ryanrhino2318 Hey thanks for telling me about that roll20. I was just checking it out and it looks awesome and easy to use Thanks👍

I started again last fall at 48 after not having played since I was 10. I found a great group on Meetup and am having the time of my life!

Imperatoris not exactly, he explained the different orders which are like the mystic subclases but yeah mystics are front loaded

Well, there is a D&D jedi class...

@@Nparalelo THERE IS???

@@RadiantJo just look it up. Not sure if it's official, but it exists. Someone made it.

A lot of the Avatar disciplines are pretty close to some of the Jedi mind tricks And one of the Wu Jen disciplines is literally called "Mastery of Force", and if you want to go Sith, Wu Jen's "Mastery of Weather" lets you shoot lighting

Quick thing, you choose where you respawn.

Right it doesn't mean that your party will be there though for all you know since you died the party got TPK'd since you were the only thing keeping such weak infants alive at this point as you take out waves of enemies yourself.

You're absolutely right just a maths error there. It's a 55% chance, since it says 10 or higher. 1 through 9 is a failure, making 9 possibilities for failure. 11 through 20 is a success, making 11 possbilities for success. Total 11 in 20 or 55% chance of coming back to life.

So just on side, normally if you would want something like that you would have to sell your soul to Levistus and then it would be a one time use. So you basically get 55% of the times you should die, the power from a leader of one layer in the nine hells

Actually you also get resistant to all physical damage and you gain immunity to poison and disease

When you want to play the X:COM board game but your friends won't let you.

mystics have been part of DnD since the first edition.

Tespri And?

Tespri A lot of other dumb shit was in first edition.

@@Tespri that's nice. Still fucking aids class