Our Top Ten Feats in Dungeons and Dragons 5e 

Thank you God. I really don't want ot listen to them go on and on about the most basic shit lol. You are an absolute legend.

Not all heros wear capes.

Yeah I like Alert, Crossbow Master, Magic Initiate, and Skilled. I pissed my DM off with that last one because I built my character to have proficiency with over half the skills in the game at level 1.

Thank you kind

Pin this comment

🤣

They did! :)

Last week I realized that there hasn’t been any indication of them being a couple despite that being an obvious fact in my mind

they are vary good together for some reason this channel is actually petty

Looks like lovers to me...

I feel it

My dm is giving us free feats at lv one and an additional free feat every time we get an asi. He says we're gonna end up fighting some seriously difficult and epic fights. My level one character already has +4 to charisma so... The damage output our party deals will be incredible but I'm frightened of whatever the DM has in store for us

@@konankunoichi94 Our DM likes to create custom feats in addition to awarding feats that fit our character. Was awarded Keen Mind for my character simply because it fit his backstory so well and he also created and awarded Mind of the Wild Warren that allows the party to speak to each other telepathically for one minute as long as they are within 500ft of my character. Uses a bonus action to activate it. We try to keep away from meta gaming while we are playing so now we can talk to each other in combat without it being too meta gamy.

Laughs in Custom race

Laughs in tasha’s custom lineage

They want that *in game* vibe. 🙃

Our 11th level party had a healers feat character and a warlock with Inspiring Leader. Between them they really kept magical healing needs under control.

🤔 Isn't "the number of the character's hit dice total" just their character level? If so, I wonder why they worded it so obtusely.

@@bigdream_dreambig most likely because you might use it on a creature and they don't have levels

@@bigdream_dreambig the feat has it worked a " ...plus additional hit points equal to the creature's maximum number of hit dice."

YES! I'm planning on taking this feat for my Ranger, their stats are already pretty decent, with an 18 dex and 16 on all of their mental stats. And I want them to be a partial healer, so... yeah

Mobile also cancels out Sentinel's "no disengage" advantage, so it's clearly far superior.

@@asherandai1000 Put Mobile on a monk. Give that monk a couple levels of rogue and fighter. Keep up with the Flash.

@@khzhak No need for rogue, monks can bonus action dash. 2 levels of fighter for action surge, make it a tabaxi, and break the sound barrier with some magical aid (haste and longstrider)

@@asherandai1000 Last I checked, monks gotta use a ki point to bonus action dash. what lets them bonus action dash without a ki point? because otherwise expeditious retreat is a useless spell.

@@khzhak What? Who said anything about Expeditious Retreat? I literally have no idea why you're trying to use it as an argument because it's completely irrelevant here, not even related to any of the classes mentioned. And yeah they need to use a Ki point to bonus action dash, but so what? We're talking about pure speed here and if you take 2 levels of rogue to get free bonus action dash, on top of 2 levels of fighter to get action surge (which only 1 use anyway), you lose 5ft of base movement speed. 5ft less base movement speed translates to 20ft less speed when using move-action-action surge-bonus action, 40ft less movement speed when adding the Tabaxi ability, and 80ft less movement speed when adding haste.

If you play a monk, take alert and sentinel, and drop the polearm master because you automatically get an equivalent at level one. Then choose another feat that really fleshes out role play aspects, or even have some fun with a monk that can cast magic. Trust me, monks can be beasts in battle, and can have some quite diverse role play aspects

My only question with polearm master is why does the pike get only the opportunity attack but not the but hit of the staff, while a halberd gets both. The pike, halberd, and glaive are a 1D10 the difference is that the halberd and glaive are lighter and more costly despite also being classified as heavy. Weight-->weapon-->cost 6 lbs. glaive 20gp 6lbs. Halberd 20gp 18lbs. Pike 5gp WTF SERIOUSLY

Use Tunnel fighter fighting style (infinite reactions) + Polearm master at lvl 4 then Sentinel. NONE SHALL PASS THEE. Later on combine with Great weapon master + Alert and your DM will despise your existence

Pikes in the real world can be a dozen or even almost two dozen feet long (the Macedonian piles were 20 feet long), so spinning them at all would be incredibly unwieldy.

Jeff B huh I didn’t know that, I don’t think that’s the case in D&D though because if it was then it would’ve had the special mention in the hand book like it does about lances. Maybe they forgot about it?

Draeckon when people mention homebrewing in dnd, adjusting rules and customisation they always make me chuckle. You brought tears to my eyes, sir. 😂

OtocinclusAffinis what?

Tommy Margaris , this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-41JOLC3vlBQ.html

They did. They use the Hammer Master feat as a poor example of a homebrew feat, and offer the Fell Handed feat as a better designed version. Both are from unearthed arcana feats.

Talon Greenlee Oh really? I haven’t been following the UA much so I wasn’t aware that was a thing.

Laschic Valisca if you want to be MAD and have a decent CHA add in swashbuckler as well for their charisma bonus as well

And then warmage to add thier int mod too.

Laschic Valisca I love that idea!

I also like the idea of Crossbow Expert with Gloomstalker, just for the thematic effect.

@@alanschaub147 ... ... ... Why... Why is it that I suddenly remembered Wil Wheaton shouting that from the game he played on Geek and Sundry channel when he played, "Paranoia"? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oWEDpT1gByI.html

Any range honestly.

I mean. If you have an off-hand crossbow, sure. I'd say the 2 feat investment just maje crossbows as useful as a bow is a bit wasteful. Like... Especially now, with that 2d6 heavy bow wizard's just made. 2d6+10 on every attack? +12 if you have the archer fighting style? Yeah, no. You can keep your hand crossbow.

@@brosephnoonan223 where did they add that?

@@kennethstiennon206 Players Advantage - Barbarian

@@brosephnoonan223 Is the heavy bow a magical item or just a new type of bow? Because a +12 bonus on your attack damage is not possible without magical buffs. With a dexterity of 20 (+5 dex modifier), you would get a +10 to attack rolls (with a lvl 15 character) and a +5 to damage rolls. Likewise, the archer fighting style adds a +2 to your ranged attack rolls, but not to your ranged damage rolls.

Lucifer yang III the bugbear only gets it on an attack on their turn sadly

It's not really as good as you think, because if you are the one moving towards the enemy it doesn't trigger and once they are within 15ft it is unlikely they will leave your reach so you're actually losing your AoOs for them leaving your reach.

Bugbears only get +5 reach ON THEIR TURN. For opportunity attacks you have the same range as everyone else.

I’ve also pondered the idea of a Bugbear dual wielding whips. 😆

@@ataberkdedemen9802 wait really??? bug bear sucks then lol. in fact all the monster races suck except for yuan ti pure blood. wtf....

I only ever used it with one character, but I could also feel it edging out the path to Death Saves 3 hit points at a time.

Same here, my great weapon EK has watched the sword and shield paladin get near brought to the floor while I"m still up at near max health. It's not the best scaling feat but it is low key in the background always doing work for you.

I agree. Everytime Ive mentioned that aspect of the feat at the table, even very experienced players seem suprised to hear it. Then at low levels or simply with swarms of small creatures, this -3 can often do more than damage resistance from rage. Its a powerhouse.

It's very helpful, especially at low levels. If you picked it up at level 1 with a human it makes low level encounters way easier

Yeah, combine HAM with the Tough feat for extra HP, on a Hill Dwarf for even more HP (+2 Con, +1 HP per level, and resist poison is nice), and there you have a meaty tank! Throw on a shield and the Defense fighting style, get a uber high AC to boot! You'll be nearly impervious to most melee attacks! :) Some people believe it falls off late game, which is true... but still, that negates a LOT in the long run. If we wanted to make it scale, just make the damage negated equal to proficiency bonus. :)

Yeah, like a classic headshot. They're hard to hit, but worth it

@@Murmaider4 then you use it on a door and the door blows up

Thats how called shots used to work

@@fairystail1 You hit a hinge or a lock....

You shooting for the eye which is vulnerable but if it goes a little high you miss. Aiming for the heart is more likely to hit somewhere but will be protected.

Pretty much a must have for clerics (or other healers).

@@troodon1096 "a must have for clerics (or other healers)" Healing spells don't uses concentration. Do you mean buff spells?

@@planetfall5056 healing spirit for rangers, druids and possibly bards. But yeah that's an exception

I only take Warcaster for characters who generally have their hands full in combat, most commonly clerics who use a one hander + shield. For non-melee casters, like wizards, I much rather just take Resilient Constitution.

@@Klaital1 Resilient con is a good one too, though it doesn't help with concentration as much as Warcaster until you get to 9th level when your proficiency bonus increases again. Advantage is roughly equivalent to a +5 bonus, for a large part of the game your proficiency bonus is only +2 or +3.

"This is Sparta!" to the max. But with actual, tactical sense.

Spear is not a reach weapon under normal rules.

@@Raistlin2k That just means I don't really want Sentinel, it's still great with Polearm Master.

@@401martin Polearm Master doesn't affect spears.

@@nastalgiclectue It does as of the 2018 errata to the PHB. New printings of the book, D&DBeyond, etc, all official rules sources should now include spears in PAM.

The unfortunate downside is now you have a disadvantage against them and you can't use any spells requiring you to see the target, and the other side can still get advantage from other effects while if you get advantage would just cancel out from the dis. Good idea however for a high-level rogue that gains Blind Sight of 10ft. (perhaps a nice dm will give this effect early on and make it 30ft once you gain level 18, or even replace expertise with a new ability that gives blindsight 10ft, then you gain expertise for the first time at level 6 or replace it with another blindsight increase.)

I might take alert with my war mage. DEX + INT + Alert for a max of +15

@@stevemonte9299 Blindfighting exists now!

@@stevemonte9299 I had some schematics for a blind character, variant human with alert, pact of the chain warlock with gaze of two minds and voice of the chain master and something else, at level 4 metamagic adept quickened spell for bonus action on first turn while you use voice of the chain master to see, advantage on hearing checks (at dms discretion)

@@bigloser5104 that is a pretty cool idea! With the new blind fighting style I've made a Kobold Samurai Fighter (Or the monster hunter UA if DM allows it) with Beast Master Ranger levels, emphasizing getting the alert feat and another fighting style useing the new feats to do better with thrown weapon. The blindsight helped keep my little kobold from getting disadvantage from sunlight and not relying on sight. It was fun cause it made nets pretty viable with out needing to get crossbow expert or sharpshooter. Especially getting a nifty eversmokeing bottle one session.

Something they don't discuss with the ranged damage feats, (they discuss ranger and fighter) is just how useful they are on a rogue. Sneak Attack can be triggered on ranged weapon which is especially useful for supporting your front liners who have an enemies attentions. With both crossbow expert and sharpshooter, you can dish out some serious damage. Make an attack with hand crossbow on a distracted enemy while declaring the sharpshooter damage bonus, hit, add sneak attack dice. Assuming you started as a level 1 human using the variant rule to take a feat instead of an ability modifier at 1st level, at 4th level you can have both of these feats. At 4th level your rogue sneak attack dice would be 2d6. So a 4th level rogue making use of this can easily do 1d6 damage for hand crossbow + 2d6 sneak attack dice, + 10 damage for a minimum of 13 damage and a maximum of 28 damage. This is without any critical hits or additional attacks. Then you get to add the additional attack from crossbow expert for another chance at 1d6 + 10 damage. Sadly, the sneak attack bonus can only be added once per round of combat, but this gives ranged rogues a chance for extra attacks and to make those extra attacks do quite a bit of damage. Sorry for the wall of text, I just wanted it to be known that these feats are great, even for a character that does not get the archery bonus that fighters/rangers get.

Lazy much?

@@omecronrodneydheel349 a$$ hole much?

Might as well take magic initiate and get guidance and bless too!

The main issue with Mystic is it gets to do a hell of a lot of things for very little investment and its too versatile at early levels. Just grabbing 1-3 Mystic levels would make any character exponentially more powerful.

AuthorReborn I agree, I houserule Mystics with the rules that you cannot mulitclass, you have to only take disciplines from your order, and no soul knife. That’s when I play them, because I don’t want to be too OP and take away from the rest of the party.

I play as that kind of divination wizard and I have a mystic in my party ;)

@@estevanruiz8735 I recently rolled up a Soul Knife that I flavored into a Dragonball z Saiyan, because its that good lol. I renamed all the abilities and changed the psychic damage to radiant to reflect ki blasts. It's a pretty fun build. Is Mystic good? Yeah. But lets be honest, we can make any class broken if we want. Mystic just lets us have more fun with it lol. dnD is a game and like any game us gamers are going to exploit the hell out of it for fun, so might as well have the most fun you can with it. Just imagine a soul knife muliclassed into mystic. My God.

Add minor illusion for subtitles of weird languages.

I use Dandwiki for shield master feats because i think the ones in the official book arent good enough when compared to feats like Lucky, or the one that gives advantage on damage rolls. Some feats are just so good and others just arent as good, so I like to give my players enhancced feats that improve as they level up to keep them useful throughout all levels instead of them just sucking after level 6 lol.

Unarmed fighting Fighter can get D8 unarmed dice. Or just play a minotaur for A D FUCKING 10, T E N, UNARMED. That and bonus grappling.

It’s a very fun feat for sure but it’s definitely not the best. Then again it depends on the Dm cause I took it with this one character and with this character I was throwing mauls (and shields) across the battlefield. The DM ruled that since I had a 20 in str that I could do that and it would be considered improvised but instead of going down to a d4 it would do the weapons normal dmg and I actually ended up going 2 lvs into artificer (the Dm let us get half our overall lv into a another class of our choice so that’s what I choose) and I put returning on a maul and a shield so they were +1 weapons that returned to me. I was also a rune knight so I could go big and at one point I got to choose a magic item that was rare or below and I choose boots of flying. I’ve never had so much fun with a character before and my friends called me the avenger. My character was a gladiator and that ended up being my stage name (or whatever u call it). And yea I know this is 3 years old but meh.

@@g80gzt Pretty sure the playable Minotaurs only do a d6 unarmed (even with their horns which are also considered not only unarmed but also natural weapon attacks which opens a lot up since it counts a both). It’s one of the only ways to divine smite while unarmed for example (even tho your using your horns). And because it only does a d6 and their horns are considered unarmed u can get that up to a d8. I played as a Minotaur once but it wasn’t a normal one it was a minitaur (like the size of a halfling). This reduced my unarmed attacks with my horns to a d4 but I took the unarmed fighting style to bring that to a d8 (making it better then a normal Minotaur completely getting rid of that penalty for being small). But in return for having that penalty for being small (which again I was able to disregard) I also had my horns be finesseable (makes sense even tho I still used str) and when I get that bonus action attack I instead can make 2 attacks using that bonus action. But he also gave the regular Minotaurs the powerful build feature (which they definitely should’ve had already cause that’s dumb they don’t and he agreed). But being small of course I don’t have that. He made being small so powerful but it was an op campaign where everyone was kinda broken (which the Dm wanted).

@@g80gzt He also gave all Minotaurs (small or normal sized) darkvison cause it’s bs they don’t have that.

Everything changed when the Dragonborn Monk nation attacked.

Imagone if you had given him magic initiate with Dragon Breath as the wizard spell

@@YouGottaShootEmInTheHead Sadly, a level 2 spell, so not an option unless the DM lets you modify it's numbers to make it balanced as a level 1 spell.

My experiance with monks is they also take a good amount of blows. Hex is iffy on frontline combatants as they tend to lose concentration. The xge mink subclass that gets to disengage when he flurries works tho.

Kinda need War Caster if you're trying to maintain concentration on Hex while up in the enemy's grill.

It's not that great because you have to spend your bonus action to not only cast the hex but also to move it to a new target, which means no flurry of blows on any of those turns, making you actually LOSE damage by using the Hex in most situations.

1monk with magic initiate hex 2mobile feat 3profit

Goliath Fighter or Barbarian with Tavern Brawler. "Yes, I wish to grab Goblin #1 by the ankle and use him as a bludgeon against Goblin #2." The old "Beat a mofo with another mofo" thing. I love it.

I see what you did there

I took it for my Bard to get Eldritch Blast. He channels it through his drop-tuned lute as a monster power chord

Magic Initiate can be a bit of combat power for Bards, Paladins, and Rangers. Though Rangers a bit less so. But for the most part, it's just so dang flavorful. One of the backup characters I have is a Variant Human, with Magic Initiate and Guild Merchant. Spells: Find Familiar, and the Prestidigitation and Mending cantrips. Vocation: Scavenge battlefields for armor and weapons that are left behind after fights, and sell them on in the next town. Pays for drink and food. And a built-in reason to travel with the party: Lot more loot to be had if you've there when the fighting happens. First on the scene, you get the premier scraps! And it works with any class the party has need of.

Nice. Mine is the son of two wizards, but he’s always struggled with magic, so he trained with the college guards. He’s out traveling because it was the guard captains dying wish for him to see the world.

Anti Retard Equation took fire bolt, prestidigitation, and find familiar.

Yes please!!!

Agreed

Why do people want bards? I have only seen 1 played right. That is right, most people SUCK AT PLAYING BARDS and it causes most of my characters to never enter a bar just so the "cutting words brawl" does not break out. And Bardic Teiflings? thought those were as welcome as "half jerks" (half orc) in some bars or onstage. I am never again rescuing one of those from trying to seduce the mayor or his wife!

Besides which, people have to have the "buff and support gene" and know when to cast "enhance ability". Like I said, this is the most misplayed class, like "lawful stupid" Dirk The Daring paladins were back in the day.

My personal favorite to take is Create Undead and then I become a bard NECROMANCER!

You ought to check out the UA tool-based feats. I'm seriously considering Gourmand.

Not to mention actor and keen mind give an ability bonus. Let's your DM only allows standard array and you're playing VH bard. Insta 16 CHA.

Weston Chambers The Gourmand looks pretty fun, from a RP perspective. I could easily think of a dozen ways a character with the gourmand feat would spend their downtime hunting down rare ingredients. A good GM would even be able to include it in parts of the campaign. I kinda want to do a chef character, just bribing the other players with delicious food, so they'll help me gather ingredients for my next recipe. Side note: I would likely talk to my GM about adding the option to hide poisons in food. If a person can detect it by inspecting it for 6 seconds, they should be able to find a way to hide the scent/look/whatever of it Destroyer Inazuma Diplomat is the same. My 4th level lightfoot halfling bard took it, bringing his Cha to 19 (17 from rolls). Then at 8th level I'll take the actor, bringing his Cha to 20. So even scores are usable with these as well, if you can find two feats that improve that ability and suit your play style.

@@86Kadi There's a Gourmand feat? that's awesome!

@@westonchambers3483 You could RP as Quina from FF9, wielding a battle fork and eating opponents to gain their powers.

It’s a better version of Prodigy that any character can take. And expertise is a strong mechanic. And the fact that it doesn’t have to all be the same ability is amazing (like u can boost dex, gain proficiency in perception, and expertise in persuasion). It would suck if u boosted dex and your proficiency and expertise had to be dex and the same skill (which would mean u could only get expertise in something u don’t already have proficiency in which would suck but I feel is something they could’ve done but thankfully they didn’t).

Not only did Galven survive to reach the status of polearm master... Venomfang thought he was about to enjoy a half elven snack, until he took an opportunity attack/divine smite to the face!

@@joshuakraft7835 surprise smites are best smites

Shield Master works really well on a Barbarian, thanks to the Barbarian's advantage on strength checks. Getting advantage on your bonus action to try and knock someone prone when you already probably have a higher strength means that your foe is almost certainly going down. And then you'll have advantage on all your primary weapon attacks against them, as will any of your friends who swing at them that round. You don't really think about barbarians with shields, but shield master really combos well with a raging barbarian in 5th edition.

Or Phoenix Sorcerers

Gotta like inspiring leader, war Caster, and lucky with Soul Sorcerer

Yep just started a new campaign and gave my paladin this feat. More smites for me ! Save those spell slots.

I'm not sure why you're calling it "almost unlimited healing", considering that it both consumes a use of the healer's kit (costs 5gp per 10 uses) AND it can only be used on a creature ONCE per short/long rest, regardless of how many characters have the feat (if Bob and Joe both have Healer, one of them using Healer on Dave means the other can't). Those are both pretty limiting.

It really helps a life Cleric with Aura of Vitality get that extra bit of healing to keep a party up.

It would also allow you to negate a charge since the AOO would cancel their remaining move before they got to melee range.

animefan3794 Yep! It even gives you a spell!

But the main part of Sharpshooter is the +10 damage, not the ignoring 3/4 cover part. Spell Sniper does not get that.

Elijah G. No, that’s the bonus that people notice because it has to be actively used. Spell sniper and sharpshooter both have the same main draw. Range.

@@animefan3794 spell sniper range only applies to spells with attack rolls, when most of the heavy hitters use the spell DC. This, in my opinion, is what makes it so much less than sharpshooter

I love the Tough feat. A Barbarian with a 20 con and tough feat. That's 15HP per level.

@@williamsterling609 24 con when they hit lv20, 26 if they find a con book along the way... 10+1d12hp per level or 17hp per level if you don't roll for it. Not sure how you got 15hp per level though... if you're using the standard its 7+5+2=14hp per level. Unless you meant to say a Hill Dwarf Barbarian, Hill Dwarf adds +1 per level as well.

Mobile is such a great feat, I was definitely surprised too when it wasn't on here.

Sentinel + Polearm Master on a character with Tunnel Fighter style. Using your bonus action with Tunnel Fighter, you can freely opportunity attack without using your reaction, Polearm Master allows you to opportunity attack anyone entering your range, and Sentinel forces them to stop 10 feet from you if you land the attack.

@@Kopenich didn't knew about Tunnel Fighter. It's a powerful feat :o My polemaster is a barbarian, though.

W B thoughts on totem warrior barb with polearm master and sentinel?

@@Ebola419 I play it as a dragonborn with Eagle totem for the possibility to reposition myself and have a flying dragonborn. Very fun. Maybe not the most proficient choices but it fit well my character.

Add GWM and you will make your DM cry.

Yea and it makes the wizards and sorcerers have as much health if not more then something like a fighter in your group. I played as a bladesinger wizard once and not only had the highest ac (cause Bladedingers are amazing 😂) but I also had the highest health in the party due to taking this and I had 2 Paladins in the party.

@@davidstratton696 Amulet of health and tough on a four elements monk made that boi damn near unkillable. Loved running it

The paladin in my game has it and the party is level 4/5. It constantly keeps party members from going down and saved the party's NPC goblin from getting straight cooked by a fireball.

It’s a great feat but not something I would pick early.

Christian Adams especially considering how many other casters also use cha.

Imagine getting Eldritch spear too :) (Warlock invocation)

Eldritch Blast isn't really anything special unless you have the Agonizing Blast invocation also, taking it for another class is only marginally better than firebolt (and not enough better to be worth a feat for sure).

Also, since it wasn't mentioned... and it's such a great feat... if you're playing an unarmed Monk (or really any melee class who fights unarmed), you have GOT to pick up Tavern Brawler. It makes things so much more interesting. Heck, it pretty much turns you into Jackie Chan =3

Generally it's treated as the character taking one hand briefly off the two-handed weapon to cast the spell.

One doesnt need 2 hands to hold the weapon, but 2 hands to wield it and use it properly to attack.

clerics and paladins can already sword/shield if their holy symbol is on their shield (though I think there's still occasional shenanigans with additional components). Not that war caster isn't beneficial to them, mind you.

@@mortalLP holy symbols take away the need for material components not somatic(hand movements) you still must use your interaction to move your 2 handed weapon to 1 hand or 1 handed weapon into your shield hand

@@evangregory14 I'm glad for these discussions, as they remind me to double-check my understanding of rules and rules interactions, so thank you for the opportunity. I reread the Sage Advice [v2.3] section on Spellcasting for clarification, and found only *some* clarification. For divine casters wielding shields as their [required] material component, the shield hand can also function as the somatic component hand as long as the spell *has* a material component. IF, however, there IS no material component required of the spell, then the caster needs a free hand for the casting. The rules (at least the ones of which I'm aware) are surprisingly silent on the matter of spellcasting with 2-handed weapons. In reading the options for Interacting with Objects, it's not specifically stated one way or the other, and I can interpretations going either way. My inclination would be that releasing your grip on a 2-handed weapon, and then gripping the weapon wouldn't use an interact-action for somatic casting purposes; but that interacting with a spell component *becomes* the item-interaction (drawing and wielding), and that the weapon-grip/-release is incidental. Otherwise, you'd have to use some kind of action economy to release 1 hand from the weapon, another to draw the component, another to store the component (if not consumed), and yet another to grab the weapon anew. Perhaps that 4-part action extravaganza is the design intention, but I don't see it that way. In any event, I wouldn't turn up my nose at a player or DM who ruled either way, and again, it's been an instructive journey through the rules. Thanks again.

I'm disappointed that they didn't put spell sniper on the list.

@@Quandry1 Spell sniper is good, we don't see players choose it nearly as often as the others in our list.

@@DungeonDudes That doesn't surprise me. I don't think as many people see the immediate value in it as some of the other feats. I think it's because they dont' see the automatic damage increase on it like it's other counterparts. Without realizing that it doesn't need that extra damage since it's inherent in not only a lot of spells but in increasing the range that firepower can be used. But then I'm also one that finds Witchbolt useful and have seen the fun ways that spell sniper and that spell can interact for an efficient and worthwhile combo.

Illoney Ritual caster is nice to have but not really powerful enough to build around like the other feats listed.

Quandry1 Spell Sniper is hard to use in a lot of campaigns because combat doesn’t generally start at two ends of an open field, especially for tables that play with theatre of the mind, and constantly asking the DM for range checks really bogs down the game and disrupts the flow. In my opinion too many hoops to jump through for a marginal benefit.

How?

@@TalkativeHands it removes the disadvantage on ranged attacks when attacking in 5ft range.

Spider-sense?

@@teacupkoala175 or gloomstalker ranger

Try a shepherd druid who dipped a level in rogue and 1 in life cleric who at level 20 (we got that high) could heal upwards of 170 health without the heal spell and had a passive perception of 40. The character came after his last one opened a portal in the plane of fire in the city of brass, a portal of the fire prince he absorbed (elemental evil campaign tied to his fore gensei's story) and misty stepped when our characters couldn't reach him in time, causing reality to tear and pulling a bag of holding in bag of holding trick. Anyway, the character had a natural passive perception of 28 (only druid rogue at this point) and had a sentinel shield (is what I think it's called, the one that boosts perception) going to 33 passive perception. His passive was so high our DM gave him true sight to 5 feet, bumping it up to 30 or 60 or whatever when he hit 40 (got a boon to wisdom).

@@jemm113 Errr... what? I must be missing something because that math doesn't add up. passive 10 base +5 for wisdom +6 for proficiency +6 for expertise +5 for observant Total Passive of 32... not even close to 40. What am I missing here?

Cant use Booming Blade with reach weapon.

@@lowellarnett3172 You can with Spell Sniper, since it doubles the range of your spells. Booming Blade 5ft range melee attack becomes a 10ft range melee attack, covering the reach weapon range and applying it to your shenanigans with Sentinel 😉

Shirotora Godsbane UA like tunnel fighter is OP trash

No sane DM is gonna let you pick Tunnel Fighter. And if a DM allows it, it will regret it.

Tunnel snake rules!

@@KhristianBolano Not if your DM is creative. A DM has to be flexible. We had someone with this build and a 15 foot reach, and the DM still found ways around it.

That style is broken: it's very overpowered.

That sounds interesting. Yes, I think I understand. They are limited in the spells they can cast on hand due to their limited arcane training. However, given enough time they can cast like a full wizard. They just have to long-form it. Is that right?

So they enter your range, you can attack them and their movement stops. Leaving in 5 feet away. That is correct. You then must back up so that they must enter your range again. If you stay at that range on your turn, then they won't have to enter your range a second time. But in theory you could back up and restart the process over again. Forcing them to use ranged attacks or two at least necessitate they have more than one person to attack you. You'll find a lot of large monsters that you will encounter by themselves have reach anyway so they can get around that. It sounds baller but it really only works against human-sized opponents that you can fight solo. But it's still a Slick Trick

@@FuckingBored hey thanks for answering, what you said makes perfect sense to me.

Out of your range unfortunately...