Worst thing that ever happened to me was with Strixhaven: two senior students were demonstrating their abilities to impress the freshmen, and one of the players just went, "I bet he's the leader of an undead cult in the school." Nothing dangerous or ominous had even happened yet, and the only thing about the student that had been revealed was that he was very confident. And yet, for all practical purposes, the senior student in question was, in fact, leading a vampire cult.
That;s when you determine that the senior is leading the cult, but HIS boss is a professor pulling his strings from behind the scenes. So the player turns out to be right, but there's a twist. Also, bonus if the professor seems like he's helpful to the PCs...though being too helpful may be enough for a smartass OC to guess the Professor is evil.
Yah it’s funny how players will read the module to get meta-game knowledge, this happened with two different players in a tomb of annihilation game I had
@@pillarsofsnow7940 you cant assume its meta, ive personally had moments like this where ill intuit something and ruin it for myself. I tend to blame tropes
Fun fact: since Silvery Barbs only has a verbal component, and it's castable by sorcerers, they can cast it with silent spell and dominate every social encounter in the game.
@@federicopalacios7439 it’s only 1 sorcery point so it’s definitely worth in social encounters In fact, a level 6 aberrant mind sorcerer can cast it as a subtle spell with only the 1 spell point and not expend any spell slots
that was the purpose. Silvery Barb makes you reroll, it doesn't give disadvantage. He failed the roll and then got silvery barbed and succeeded the second roll.
@@Darthquackius no, the target reroll and must use the lower value. "You magically distract the triggering creature and turn its momentary uncertainty into encouragement for another creature. The triggering creature must reroll the d20 and use the lower roll." He succeeded both rolls, so he did the backflip.
@@atocanboi409 I like how ever single video with The Wizard in it gets claimed to be his origin story. The cause and effect are as muddied as Chaos in FF1.
@@atocanboi409 I thought his origin story was that he was a barbarian who couldn't do anything. He then went on to kill his party's wizard and spam fireballs
- Insight Check - Silvery Barbs - Counterspell - "Uh, how does she know I'm casting the spell? I'm just going " - "How would you know she's doing an insight check? She's just going 🤔" - Would have been a great response
My response would've been: Oh right, since you are a wizard and therefore strictly bound to formulas/incantations, your incomprehensible blargh-gibberish has nothing to do with what that spell requires you to say. So you either now say the correct verbal component (which lets this spell be identifiable by other wizards) or the spell fails :)
@@faselfasel2864 defeats the entire purpose. An incantation can be literally fucking anything. You can assume their gibberish is a spell sure, but you cant assume their gibberish isnt a spell component if it doesnt give you anything to work with other then vocal components. Fucking over your players like this is just stupid. I bet you dont even have an idea of what the actually spell incantation would be, you just want to justify saying no in the worst way possible.
A wizard who's experienced enough to teach magic would recognize many people's styles of spellcasting too - especially with how many different spellcasters there are. So it wouldn't be unreasonable that that gibberish would register to her as his style of spellcasting in this case.
@@faselfasel2864 That would lessen the ability to actually distract someone because certain sentences wouldn’t work. Now, if you instead made it to where every time you Verbal Component a spell your voice is amplified or has an ethereal effect put onto it, that would allow one to identify it as a spell and still allow the caster to be versatile with a spell like Vicious Mockery and Silvery Barbs.
@@scribesorcerer4967 It wouldnt. Vicious mockery is strictly a bard spell and their verbal components would fall under a completely different casting paradigm. Silvery barbs on the other hand can be used by bards, sorcerers and wizards so that would make identifying the spell harder for people not of the same spellcasting class. (At least at my table). A sorcerer would distract different though than a wizard or a bard, but they are still bound by the casting paradigm of their class, which would make it identifiable.
I'm convinced this is how the wizard sees the sessions go in his mind. It'd make sense as for why he looks more epic and his party looks more excited and supportive of what he does instead of questioning him or being dead inside.
Yeah and I mean did you hear that last sequence? He actually did something cinematic as fuck and use MORE THAN ONE SPELL. Dear god, he is actually growing as a character.
What's hilarious to me is that Jacob has a lot of friends and family that he can use to play the other characters in this video but he still chooses to play every character himself
I made a 6th-level character concept I call "infuriate the DM." Divination Wizard 2/Clockwork Sorc 2/Fathomless Warlock 2. This build could cast Silvery Barbs 11 times before a short rest, 3 more after the first short rest, and 2 more per short rest thereafter. It would also be able to negate advantage or disadvantage 3 times per long rest, and could choose the outcome of 2 rolls per long rest. Meanwhile, the warlock side uses Repelling Blast and Lance of Lethargy to potentially knock back a creature 20 feet AND reduce its move speed by 10 feet, while also having three tentacles per long rest to potentially reduce the movement speed by another 10 feet.
Vocal is still incanting a specific arcane incantantion that you would recognize if you knew the spell, or at least recognize as a spell if you knew spells or had heard them being cast before. Vocal is far from impossible to detect.
I've run into this before, the answer is, if the mage knows the spell themselves, they know what you did, also in the case of one barbarian who didn't know, he beat the offending mage into the floor for annoying him by yelling gibberish cause he could still equate getting distracted with something going wrong.
Even if they don't know the spell, I use the 3.5 Spellcraft rules for IDing spells (using Arcana for Spellcraft). DC 10+spell level to know what the spell is.
I think Silvery Barbs Vocal Component is just a verbal jab, some sort of insult or comment that throws a person off. Jolted with a bit of magic to really punch through their mental protections and throw them off. So I don't think the spell would be recognizable just by the verbal component.
@@ChainedFei By that logic sorcerers subtle spell has no reason to exist, since you can just hide any of your verbal components within your words and your somatic components behind your back.
@@Cr3zant or under the table, or hell wear a big cloak. Edit: Or just have a bard that mumble raps randomly. And noone ever find it weird they woke up 8 hours later 5 miles away from their house (suggestion). Or suddenly didn't want to strangle the sorcere (charm person). I mean shit you could argue for casting Blade barrier and noone having any clue where the wall of giant spinning swords came from
@@ChainedFei A master of magic would, you know... RECOGNIZE that they're being affected by a spell, and use their critical thinking ability to link it to the wizard's gibberish. If NPCs in tabletop gaming don't act like real people, it's just not fun.
I firmly believe that Verbal components are meant to be specific and not just rubberish to fulfill a noise requirement. Heck, you could've had the whole room of wizards do an Arcana check as a Reaction to identify the spell being cast (DC= 10+ spell's level). The rule is from Xanathar's.
2:40 Do you have the Subtle Spell metamagic? If not, (For example because you are not a sorcerer), you have to use the specific correct Words of Power for Silvery Barbs. Which the teacher knows. Unless you want to mask your spellcasting with a Deception roll by making some noise with other bodyparts. If wizard says yes, SILVERY BARBS on him.
That's just wrong. It's not the words that are the source of power, but the sounds. So it would be quite difficult to know if a spell is being cast if it only has a verbal component.
@@ashtonhoward5582 It may be difficult to know which spell is being cast. But a skilled spellcaster should be almost guaranteed to know that one is being cast. Otherwise Counterspell would be useless for spells without somatic components, which is not a part of the rules.
@@frantisekvrana3902 counterspell specifically says "when you see a creature" and there's an argument to be made that that excludes verbal only spells. For sake of ease of use, fuck that shit. Which, thinking about it, goes both ways. So, carry on, you're right. But now that the wizard has argued that a verbal component isn't obvious enough to counterspell, the next natural step is to make him regret getting pedantic. I mean, you can't tell Power Word Kill is a spell because it's just a word, right? And therefore it can't be counterspelled.
Barbs isn't inherently banned at my table but my players just know that if they get to use it, I get to use it. Paladin: "I crit against the Pit Fiend." Myself: "The Erinyes is going to cast Silvery Barbs with her reaction."
Which is basically if you spoil the odds of my carefully balanced encounter with that badly designed first level spell I will spoil your fun and make your character look hopeless. The spell kills fun I suggest you kill the spell not the player characters.
Older editions had checks to identify spells that other people are casting. Mostly came up when counterspelling (because you had to use the opposite spell to counterspell unless you specifically memorized a spell called counterspell that specifically only counterspelled).
I was DMing when the sorcerer of my game was using this spell all the time, but then he used this spell to try stop a nat20 from a sahuagin, and then it got nat20 again and I almost died laughing
Had never heard of Silvery Barba before Marsha used it in Critical Role and immediately I was like "oh that is stupid powerful." I just assumed it was a warlock subclass thing or something, I didn't realize it was a level one spell! I did notice a bit of a stinkeye from Matt once she attempted to use it for like the fourth time in the span of two fights
The opportunity cost is high for Silvery Barbs since you can't cast Shield/Absorb Elements or make an opportunity attack in the same round. Powerful, but only when you can negate a crit or something similar to that effect (in a social situation, everyone looking at you would know you cast a spell [RAW] even though it's just a verbal component).
I really like silvery barbs being made a second level spell, that's the homebrew i use as well. just use the heightened spell metamagic as a reference, and remember that 3 sorc points = second lvl spell
He says roll a deception check and the wizard said 18 but here at 2:10 we saw that the wizard rolled insight and only rolled a 12+5 which is 17! So not only did he lie about the result of the roll but also he also rolled the wrong check!
How do you know it's the wrong check? Who says he doesn't have proficiency in deception through a background, and a +2/3 in charisma? Or just a maxed out charisma as well as intelligence?
Spell only having a verbal component to cast doesn't mean it isn't visually evident. This is a super important idea, since it both means you visually describe stuff like a purple shard of light piercing an enemies head when they get hit by mind splinter... And stops people from "sneakily" casting everything. Some spells it could work with. Maybe even allow an arcana check to control some of the visuals. But...not invisible.
Bingo. Everyone who is aware of you can tell you cast a spell (maybe not which spell, but they will know you cast *a* spell). Otherwise, Subtle Spell wouldn't need to exist. They *know* you cast some kind of spell. Which is why Silvery Barbs doesn't work well in social situations (and because of the opportunity cost, shouldn't be used in combat unless you're negating a crit or something because losing your reaction for Shield/Absorb Elements, or an opportunity attack can be huge). Silvery Barbs is a balanced spell. A *great* spell, but a balanced spell.
This spell really does seem broken (Not just from your video). It gets away with so much that other spells do at higher levels or with way more resources.
@@aprinnyonbreak1290 u cast banishment on my lich, it fails (roll a 4) and i use legendary resistence. "ok it saves successfully" u cast silbery barbs, i roll a 3.... the number doesnt matter cuz leg. resistens says the lich still succeeds, even if the roll is rerolled. also u dont have a reaction anymore, so the lich points at u, looks to it skeleton arcers and says:" kill her, her defenses are down"
@@aprinnyonbreak1290 it does not, it has been confirmed legendary resistance ends the stack, to borrow a magic term. if your monster uses a ledgendary resistance they save and thats it.
@@zinogrevz7389 What are you rerolling with a Legendary resistance, it just succeeds. If you homebrew things to be stronger than intended that is your problem.
"Guys, I think this spell might be broken" I cast Silvery Barbs. Reroll your Investigation check. "I can't see any way this spell could be abused. Actually, we should make sure every first level character can take it, spellcaster or not, let's add a background that lets a character take a first level spell from whatever list."
Honestly Strixhaven was super rushed out: They released the Unearthed Arcana for the Subclasses, immediately announced the book shortly afterwards, and then when the Unearthed Arcana flopped the book was left with not much besides 5 spells and a single new race that’s just a stealthier aaracorak.
The way I see Silvery Barbs is that the verbal component is something actively attempting to distract the target, so it'd be quite obvious if you were using it on someone, and just as obvious you were interfering in another persons duel if you then actively try to distract one of the people in it. The thing about spellcasting is that it is always clear you're trying to cast a spell, that's why metamagic's like Subtle Spell or psionic spell effects exist that remove verbal and somatic components. You can't just try to roleplay that you're trying to be sneaky at casting a spell and expect it to fly.
Silvery barbs has to compete with mage armour, shield, and absorb elements to name a few of the powerful/cool first level spells that are often a good idea to cast instead of saving all four slots to cast silvery barbs four times in a day. I'm mostly parroting the opinion that it's not op, treantmonk makes better points than me. Also the video was funny!
I used silvery barbs to great effect on an enchantment wizard to hypnotic gaze a dragon. I was right before it on the initiative list. It had to spend its first turn gawping at my kenku wizard while I gave its advantage to our paladin.
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"And she's the head of a magical school. She has the ability to use basically any spell in the book as an instantaneous reaction. Please, encourage her to demonstrate."
I started playing a Strixhaven game with a True Neutral Wizard. One of the players was randomly stacking chairs, in an orderly manner, in the study hall and got reamed by an older student for it. "That level of aggression is unnecessary..." I cast Minor Illusion, passed a Deception check (to conceal i was the caster) and he failed the DC, and the NPC spent time until his friends came in trying to unstack Illusionary chairs.
"I'm all 5 colleges." Of COURSE he is. This line's the most underrated in the video.
I came to say this
my reaction aswell
Complete Sentence
" Knocked out of, I'm all 5 Colleges From."
6 if you include their wizard school
@@Typical7 Nope! He is revered as God Of Evocation and is the founder Evocation School.
Worst thing that ever happened to me was with Strixhaven: two senior students were demonstrating their abilities to impress the freshmen, and one of the players just went, "I bet he's the leader of an undead cult in the school." Nothing dangerous or ominous had even happened yet, and the only thing about the student that had been revealed was that he was very confident.
And yet, for all practical purposes, the senior student in question was, in fact, leading a vampire cult.
Funny how players can guess at the wierddest things lol
That;s when you determine that the senior is leading the cult, but HIS boss is a professor pulling his strings from behind the scenes. So the player turns out to be right, but there's a twist. Also, bonus if the professor seems like he's helpful to the PCs...though being too helpful may be enough for a smartass OC to guess the Professor is evil.
That player will get to pop the hell off with a “I FUCKING KNEW IT” moment.
Yah it’s funny how players will read the module to get meta-game knowledge, this happened with two different players in a tomb of annihilation game I had
@@pillarsofsnow7940 you cant assume its meta, ive personally had moments like this where ill intuit something and ruin it for myself.
I tend to blame tropes
Fun fact: since Silvery Barbs only has a verbal component, and it's castable by sorcerers, they can cast it with silent spell and dominate every social encounter in the game.
They would love to burn their ultra limited resources on that instead of just using their high charisma.
In conjunction with their high af charisma *
@@federicopalacios7439 it’s only 1 sorcery point so it’s definitely worth in social encounters
In fact, a level 6 aberrant mind sorcerer can cast it as a subtle spell with only the 1 spell point and not expend any spell slots
and a sor-lock gets every thing back in an hour lol
@@hippywill Does it work that way? I assumed you only get your 2 warlock spell slots back...
The best part is when the wizard says "Eighteen" and the DM looks down at Seventeen and just accepts it
Its the wizard actually rolling for insight what got me because at that point I too would just accept whatever roll they used
the best part was when he said Fireball
Not even the DM is immune to Silvery Barbs, my man.
@@thatguy8495 He has a 12+5+1? How that work?
@@__Stitchy Maybe had a ring of protection or something and didn’t put it down but remembered he did.
Just immediately, without hesitation, calmly Silvery Barbs'ing his party member's innocous backflip after encouraging him to do it.
i loved how he still succeeded for the meme
that was the purpose.
Silvery Barb makes you reroll, it doesn't give disadvantage. He failed the roll and then got silvery barbed and succeeded the second roll.
@@Darthquackius no, the target reroll and must use the lower value. "You magically distract the triggering creature and turn its momentary
uncertainty into encouragement for another creature. The triggering
creature must reroll the d20 and use the lower roll." He succeeded both rolls, so he did the backflip.
I use silvery barbs on this comment.
Counterspell
I feel like The Wizard would be the one Strixhaven supply teacher no-one would dare fuck with
nah dude this is his origin story
@@atocanboi409 I like how ever single video with The Wizard in it gets claimed to be his origin story. The cause and effect are as muddied as Chaos in FF1.
@@Shalakor he is literally in school
@@atocanboi409 I thought his origin story was that he was a barbarian who couldn't do anything. He then went on to kill his party's wizard and spam fireballs
@@gavinrock6 it is
I want to run a game where the players are a bunch of '90s movie bullies in strixhaven.
That sounds like a good time.
I feel that's somewhat against the theme of Strixhaven......Do it!!!!!!!!
yu yu hakusho but make it strixheaven
give me the karate kid, but magic
There should be a hexblade warlock with a switch blade pact weapon.
- Insight Check
- Silvery Barbs
- Counterspell
- "Uh, how does she know I'm casting the spell? I'm just going "
- "How would you know she's doing an insight check? She's just going 🤔" - Would have been a great response
My response would've been: Oh right, since you are a wizard and therefore strictly bound to formulas/incantations, your incomprehensible blargh-gibberish has nothing to do with what that spell requires you to say. So you either now say the correct verbal component (which lets this spell be identifiable by other wizards) or the spell fails :)
@@faselfasel2864 defeats the entire purpose. An incantation can be literally fucking anything. You can assume their gibberish is a spell sure, but you cant assume their gibberish isnt a spell component if it doesnt give you anything to work with other then vocal components.
Fucking over your players like this is just stupid. I bet you dont even have an idea of what the actually spell incantation would be, you just want to justify saying no in the worst way possible.
A wizard who's experienced enough to teach magic would recognize many people's styles of spellcasting too - especially with how many different spellcasters there are. So it wouldn't be unreasonable that that gibberish would register to her as his style of spellcasting in this case.
@@faselfasel2864 That would lessen the ability to actually distract someone because certain sentences wouldn’t work. Now, if you instead made it to where every time you Verbal Component a spell your voice is amplified or has an ethereal effect put onto it, that would allow one to identify it as a spell and still allow the caster to be versatile with a spell like Vicious Mockery and Silvery Barbs.
@@scribesorcerer4967 It wouldnt. Vicious mockery is strictly a bard spell and their verbal components would fall under a completely different casting paradigm. Silvery barbs on the other hand can be used by bards, sorcerers and wizards so that would make identifying the spell harder for people not of the same spellcasting class. (At least at my table). A sorcerer would distract different though than a wizard or a bard, but they are still bound by the casting paradigm of their class, which would make it identifiable.
I'm convinced this is how the wizard sees the sessions go in his mind. It'd make sense as for why he looks more epic and his party looks more excited and supportive of what he does instead of questioning him or being dead inside.
So, that's where the wizard's been this whole time. He finally found a gaming group he can gel with.
Backflips! Backflips! Backflip! Backflips!
Yeah and I mean did you hear that last sequence? He actually did something cinematic as fuck and use MORE THAN ONE SPELL. Dear god, he is actually growing as a character.
What's hilarious to me is that Jacob has a lot of friends and family that he can use to play the other characters in this video but he still chooses to play every character himself
Maybe since he started spamming silvery barbs he has lost those friends and even his family don't want to play with him 😉
His crippling G-Fuel addiction has strained his relationships and torn his family apart. Don’t do drugs kids.
@@InquisitorThomas lmao this video is more of a PSA and warning than anything
@@nicka3697 such a sad and unfortunate story 😞
oh that is a great idea, i want to see his family play as the characters
The wizard actually helping the party? That right there is character development.
He realized he could antagonize the DM even more if he used his powers to allow the entire party to be obnoxious instead of just himself.
@@JackgarPrime He learned what the power of Friendship truly means, now he is unstoppable.
yes.
DM: "She's gonna cast counterspell"
Wizard: "is that on the stack mine is split second"
I love that you slipped in that magic reference
I was just about to make the comment. This had me losing it in public!
Mtg!
It makes sense, they're in Strixhaven.
The wizard also turns into a Yugi-Oh character at the end.
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I made a 6th-level character concept I call "infuriate the DM."
Divination Wizard 2/Clockwork Sorc 2/Fathomless Warlock 2.
This build could cast Silvery Barbs 11 times before a short rest, 3 more after the first short rest, and 2 more per short rest thereafter. It would also be able to negate advantage or disadvantage 3 times per long rest, and could choose the outcome of 2 rolls per long rest.
Meanwhile, the warlock side uses Repelling Blast and Lance of Lethargy to potentially knock back a creature 20 feet AND reduce its move speed by 10 feet, while also having three tentacles per long rest to potentially reduce the movement speed by another 10 feet.
Sounds like pure evil to me XD
as a DM I hear this and I just think "ok so 12 ranged enemies per encounter is probably balanced"
And that's when the DM casts "9mm" on the player
@@Aredel More like 7.62x39mm
Sounds like 3 failed Deathsaves to me
Funny enough, skipping classes and doing backflips instead is exactly how I flunked out of college the first time.
Silvery barbs is rough, but the platinum barb is just brutal.
*Electrum Barbs*
Adamantine barbs
@@AlexPBenton ehhh seems everyone just ignore that one these days tbh
*Plutonium Barbs*
And backflip is even worse
Vocal is still incanting a specific arcane incantantion that you would recognize if you knew the spell, or at least recognize as a spell if you knew spells or had heard them being cast before. Vocal is far from impossible to detect.
Right. Everyone who can hear you would know you cast *a* spell. And at a magic school, everyone would know what it was.
Have we considered casting in a language the enemy doesn't know? @@Kylora2112
@@Kylora2112 Especially if it's good.
I've run into this before, the answer is, if the mage knows the spell themselves, they know what you did, also in the case of one barbarian who didn't know, he beat the offending mage into the floor for annoying him by yelling gibberish cause he could still equate getting distracted with something going wrong.
Even if they don't know the spell, I use the 3.5 Spellcraft rules for IDing spells (using Arcana for Spellcraft). DC 10+spell level to know what the spell is.
I think Silvery Barbs Vocal Component is just a verbal jab, some sort of insult or comment that throws a person off. Jolted with a bit of magic to really punch through their mental protections and throw them off. So I don't think the spell would be recognizable just by the verbal component.
@@ChainedFei By that logic sorcerers subtle spell has no reason to exist, since you can just hide any of your verbal components within your words and your somatic components behind your back.
@@Cr3zant or under the table, or hell wear a big cloak.
Edit: Or just have a bard that mumble raps randomly. And noone ever find it weird they woke up 8 hours later 5 miles away from their house (suggestion). Or suddenly didn't want to strangle the sorcere (charm person).
I mean shit you could argue for casting Blade barrier and noone having any clue where the wall of giant spinning swords came from
@@ChainedFei A master of magic would, you know... RECOGNIZE that they're being affected by a spell, and use their critical thinking ability to link it to the wizard's gibberish. If NPCs in tabletop gaming don't act like real people, it's just not fun.
This is probably the most intense episode in the wizard saga yet
Nah. That honor still belongs to the Barbarian episode
I firmly believe that Verbal components are meant to be specific and not just rubberish to fulfill a noise requirement.
Heck, you could've had the whole room of wizards do an Arcana check as a Reaction to identify the spell being cast (DC= 10+ spell's level). The rule is from Xanathar's.
2:40 Do you have the Subtle Spell metamagic? If not, (For example because you are not a sorcerer), you have to use the specific correct Words of Power for Silvery Barbs. Which the teacher knows. Unless you want to mask your spellcasting with a Deception roll by making some noise with other bodyparts.
If wizard says yes, SILVERY BARBS on him.
Just standing there doing armpit farts to conceal your spellcasting.
That's what I was thinking. Subtle-spell that thing.
That's just wrong. It's not the words that are the source of power, but the sounds. So it would be quite difficult to know if a spell is being cast if it only has a verbal component.
@@ashtonhoward5582 It may be difficult to know which spell is being cast. But a skilled spellcaster should be almost guaranteed to know that one is being cast. Otherwise Counterspell would be useless for spells without somatic components, which is not a part of the rules.
@@frantisekvrana3902 counterspell specifically says "when you see a creature" and there's an argument to be made that that excludes verbal only spells. For sake of ease of use, fuck that shit. Which, thinking about it, goes both ways. So, carry on, you're right.
But now that the wizard has argued that a verbal component isn't obvious enough to counterspell, the next natural step is to make him regret getting pedantic. I mean, you can't tell Power Word Kill is a spell because it's just a word, right? And therefore it can't be counterspelled.
Barbs isn't inherently banned at my table but my players just know that if they get to use it, I get to use it.
Paladin: "I crit against the Pit Fiend."
Myself: "The Erinyes is going to cast Silvery Barbs with her reaction."
Yeah, the idea of a spell that can, effect the luck of any action feels weird
Which is basically if you spoil the odds of my carefully balanced encounter with that badly designed first level spell I will spoil your fun and make your character look hopeless. The spell kills fun I suggest you kill the spell not the player characters.
'Rolled a 20 on my death save!'
'Silvery Barbs.'
@@nicka3697 it doesn't kill the fun. What does though are players that think only they get to use cool broken spells.
@@doms.6701 It's not a DM vs player game. The DM facilitates the fun for everyone.
Older editions had checks to identify spells that other people are casting. Mostly came up when counterspelling (because you had to use the opposite spell to counterspell unless you specifically memorized a spell called counterspell that specifically only counterspelled).
I have three Silverquill students and not a single one of them has thought to cast Silvery Barbs. Each and every day I count my blessings
The Wizard was finally aiding his friends consistently even. The DM was just asking for it.
I was DMing when the sorcerer of my game was using this spell all the time, but then he used this spell to try stop a nat20 from a sahuagin, and then it got nat20 again and I almost died laughing
Sometimes, the Dice Gods just make their will known, and there isn't anything anyone can do about it.
And god said, "get crit on, bitch"
RNGesus giveth, and RNGesus taketh away. He especially taketh away of it will result in a TPK.
I love how the wizard went from annoying party member to supernatural a-hole to life of the party
2:48 "and she backflips away"
"Silvery Barbs, that's an Acrobatics roll"
"She falls on her face and dies"
Had never heard of Silvery Barba before Marsha used it in Critical Role and immediately I was like "oh that is stupid powerful." I just assumed it was a warlock subclass thing or something, I didn't realize it was a level one spell!
I did notice a bit of a stinkeye from Matt once she attempted to use it for like the fourth time in the span of two fights
The opportunity cost is high for Silvery Barbs since you can't cast Shield/Absorb Elements or make an opportunity attack in the same round. Powerful, but only when you can negate a crit or something similar to that effect (in a social situation, everyone looking at you would know you cast a spell [RAW] even though it's just a verbal component).
I honestly did not expect that sudden transition into Yugioh, great job as always, love your skits
2:31 the verbal component is canonically "animal crossing noises" now
I really like silvery barbs being made a second level spell, that's the homebrew i use as well. just use the heightened spell metamagic as a reference, and remember that 3 sorc points = second lvl spell
Doesn't that just let them wind up casting both Shield lvl 1 and Silvery Barbs lvl 2 free/at will at high levels? like 18-19?
He says roll a deception check and the wizard said 18 but here at 2:10 we saw that the wizard rolled insight and only rolled a 12+5 which is 17! So not only did he lie about the result of the roll but also he also rolled the wrong check!
He lost the check against his own deception
“Silvery barbs!”
How do you know it's the wrong check? Who says he doesn't have proficiency in deception through a background, and a +2/3 in charisma? Or just a maxed out charisma as well as intelligence?
do uk the name of the application/ website he used?
@@THEPELADOMASTER its at 2:04 dude it literally was the conversation and joke
"is that on the stack, mine is split second" - I LOVE That call out.
“How silvery barbs derails campaigns”
is... is that... the Wizard? no way...
This is the greatest "I cast Fireball" ever uttered by Man,
3:34 no one gonna talk about the perfect song choice?
“Oh man that’s crazy every enemy just gained the ability to case silence at will”
Wizard was giving me Yugioh anime vibes from 3:47 onwards
Silvery barbs is the most powercreep spell added to D&D so far lol. Way too good.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Silvery Barbs is one of the best spells in the game
My rogue just multiclassed into bard and has it.
Easy sneak attack :D
Eh, I prefer goodberry, since it has some really broken combinations.
@@williamwontiam3166 okay, PLEASE elaborate! :P
Easily the best by a pretty decent margin
@@thedizzytuna Nah Gift of Alacrity is still better
"I'm just spouting some nonsense from the sidelines."
"Alright." [Whips out the wild magic surge table.]
There is no better defining moment to me for the Wizard than "I'm all 5 colleges."
_Average Yugioh Card Text: __1:10_
weather painters be like
"Silvery Barbs!"
"I think you're out of spell slots, buddy."
Just saw a dimension 20 vid where 3 pcs had Silvery Barbs.
Had to come back and rewatch this vid
Spell only having a verbal component to cast doesn't mean it isn't visually evident.
This is a super important idea, since it both means you visually describe stuff like a purple shard of light piercing an enemies head when they get hit by mind splinter...
And stops people from "sneakily" casting everything. Some spells it could work with. Maybe even allow an arcana check to control some of the visuals. But...not invisible.
Bingo. Everyone who is aware of you can tell you cast a spell (maybe not which spell, but they will know you cast *a* spell). Otherwise, Subtle Spell wouldn't need to exist. They *know* you cast some kind of spell. Which is why Silvery Barbs doesn't work well in social situations (and because of the opportunity cost, shouldn't be used in combat unless you're negating a crit or something because losing your reaction for Shield/Absorb Elements, or an opportunity attack can be huge). Silvery Barbs is a balanced spell. A *great* spell, but a balanced spell.
"lajdf"
"See you wouldn't know I was casting a spell"
Anyone going to talk about how The Wizard turned into a Yu-Gi-Oh! character when he used his 2nd level spell to cast Silvery Barbs?
*_The Return of the King_*
This spell really does seem broken (Not just from your video). It gets away with so much that other spells do at higher levels or with way more resources.
Not to mention.
It burns legendary resistance at a crazy rapid pace, too.
@@aprinnyonbreak1290 it does nor burn legendary resistance.
@@aprinnyonbreak1290 u cast banishment on my lich, it fails (roll a 4) and i use legendary resistence. "ok it saves successfully" u cast silbery barbs, i roll a 3.... the number doesnt matter cuz leg. resistens says the lich still succeeds, even if the roll is rerolled. also u dont have a reaction anymore, so the lich points at u, looks to it skeleton arcers and says:" kill her, her defenses are down"
@@aprinnyonbreak1290 it does not, it has been confirmed legendary resistance ends the stack, to borrow a magic term. if your monster uses a ledgendary resistance they save and thats it.
@@zinogrevz7389 What are you rerolling with a Legendary resistance, it just succeeds. If you homebrew things to be stronger than intended that is your problem.
I feel like everyone at one of the colleges would immediately treat the uttering of gibberish as evidence that you're casting Silvery Barbs.
That fireball yell at the end was metal
Silvery Barbs is one of the most powerful and most hilarious spells in DnD
Meanwhile when I cast Silvery Barbs, everyone just rolls the same exact numbers again.
"It's on the stack I have split second- wrong game "
Had me dead 😂
Yea, I have no clue why Silvery Barbs is first level.
I'm surprised you don't get your +1 (wife/fiance/girlfriend) in on these more often. These little skits are hilarious.
Hope you're all doing well.
Hey! This is the 5e era now. We don't do +1 anymore. She's his ... er, advantage.
"Is that on the stack, cuz I have split second." Split my fucking sides.
The dread of watching your party get distracted by backflips. Yep, I feel that.
How did this spell go past QA
"It's TOTALLY balanced, I promise." -Jeremy
"Guys, I think this spell might be broken"
I cast Silvery Barbs. Reroll your Investigation check.
"I can't see any way this spell could be abused. Actually, we should make sure every first level character can take it, spellcaster or not, let's add a background that lets a character take a first level spell from whatever list."
Honestly Strixhaven was super rushed out: They released the Unearthed Arcana for the Subclasses, immediately announced the book shortly afterwards, and then when the Unearthed Arcana flopped the book was left with not much besides 5 spells and a single new race that’s just a stealthier aaracorak.
"Silvery Barbs is now a 2nd level spell."
Heckin' fair.
"Let's just do backflips" got me
I love Silvery Barbs and see no problem with it. Its the first spell every casting NPC learns in my games lol.
"Reign FIRE"
"But sir, the troops"
"Do it!"
Fun fact, there's actually a post by the creators saying verbal components are customizable. So yes, gibberish would actually work.
Yeah even as a second level spell, silvery barbs it busted
“Is that on the stack, mine has split-second.” I love it and as a rules guy I love how right it is.
I love the Wizard's little miniseries. I've never even played D&D and it's still so great.
This spell reminds me of time magic from Shadow of the Demon Lord. The ability to force a reroll is very strong.
The way I see Silvery Barbs is that the verbal component is something actively attempting to distract the target, so it'd be quite obvious if you were using it on someone, and just as obvious you were interfering in another persons duel if you then actively try to distract one of the people in it. The thing about spellcasting is that it is always clear you're trying to cast a spell, that's why metamagic's like Subtle Spell or psionic spell effects exist that remove verbal and somatic components. You can't just try to roleplay that you're trying to be sneaky at casting a spell and expect it to fly.
DM: "Silvery Barbs is a second level spell now."
Wizard: "-And I took that personally."
Silvery barbs has to compete with mage armour, shield, and absorb elements to name a few of the powerful/cool first level spells that are often a good idea to cast instead of saving all four slots to cast silvery barbs four times in a day. I'm mostly parroting the opinion that it's not op, treantmonk makes better points than me. Also the video was funny!
"Is that on the stack? Mine is split second."
"Wrong game."
My favorite line. 😂😂😂
This might be my favorite skit yet.
That fireball at the end made me laugh
The return of the king
"The Avatar of Blood" with Mohg's theme, nice 👍
Silvery Barbs is the D&D equivalent of bringing a vuvuzela to futbol
I'd just have to say "No. They are a wizard school, they know what that sounds like."
That Split Second joke was very appreciated, fellow Mono Blue Counter Wizard.
I used silvery barbs to great effect on an enchantment wizard to hypnotic gaze a dragon. I was right before it on the initiative list. It had to spend its first turn gawping at my kenku wizard while I gave its advantage to our paladin.
DM is just having a game session. Wizard is playing fight the DM.
Hey I just tested positive for covid (which sucks) but your videos always brighten my day. just wanted to thank you for putting out some killer content
It is a damn good spell though. No matter what else you might think of it, it's fun to use.
great stuff. i love this running gag of the wizard who always uses that one spell
In my games, it’s a bard only spell. (They deserve a reaction spell) but besides that, it’s banned. It’s just too polarizing
even on a bard is basically a nuclear weapon
@@marcogenovesi8570 agreed. I just think it is a very bard sounding spell. I may make it 2nd level and bard only.
It's not even very good. Highly minimal impact, only good for situational clutch moments.
@@HeroKiro erasing crits is strong. It just takes a lot of the danger out of combats.
I love this channel
Vocal components is still like an incantation of sorts. Not just random shit
I will never tire of that wizard's sass.
"I'm all five colleges" killed me.
"Wrong game" fuckin had me 😂
epic
"I still had a 2nd spell slot left!" Proceeds to use 2 more 2nd level spells then throws out a 3rd level just to flex a little more.
The godskin apostle or noble theme from elden ring suddenly playing had me in stitches 🤣
That backflip bit is probably the best bit in any of your videos. I loved it!
I like to imagine when someone casts silvery bards, they just spout a random profanity.
wizard is one of those guys that lurks around the school and goes to classes and stuff but never actually enrolled
"Is that on the stack? Mine is split second." 😂😂😂
"And she's the head of a magical school. She has the ability to use basically any spell in the book as an instantaneous reaction. Please, encourage her to demonstrate."
I started playing a Strixhaven game with a True Neutral Wizard. One of the players was randomly stacking chairs, in an orderly manner, in the study hall and got reamed by an older student for it. "That level of aggression is unnecessary..." I cast Minor Illusion, passed a Deception check (to conceal i was the caster) and he failed the DC, and the NPC spent time until his friends came in trying to unstack Illusionary chairs.