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Why are you lying to people? You said these were official and perfectly good for your games yet the first one was absolutely busted and all of these are uas
As a gunpowder-blooded American, I appreciated the effort to adapt the ad so that I could fully understand it. Thank you for making content. You are one of the gems of this community.
As an American who bleeds red, white, and blue, machine-gunning the word "freedom" into the side of a hamburger store is simultaneously the most offensive and most hilarious caricature of myself I've ever been blessed to hear. Thank you so much for this gem. Please keep being the heart and soul of this community.
BBEG: "Are you Insane, you'll also die If this works!" Revenant keeping him grappled In place: "I exist only for your fall, I shall drag us both down to Avernus myself If I must!!!"
Just wanted to add there's one other group of elves that behave differently to other elves. Moon elves like to party and travel and gamble if I remember correctly.
The urge to create a revenant human, named Jerry, and his reason for resurrection being he never got good at golf. He has been resurrected for the last 200 years now, and at this point, he doesn’t even care about golf, he only plays so that he can finally feel the sweet release of death. Until he does succeed however, he will need money and a lifestyle, so he adventures and takes quests for gold.
I had an Orc Scribe Wizard originally planned as a joke character who got killed by a Kenku and a flock of giant ravens. He came back with his vengeance being against all birds, which is broken for death purposes but hilarious in that he violently attacks all birds and bird-like creatures on sight with seething hatred. He was eventually revived when we saved Ythryn and joined the archmages there to study, his dream come true as a scribe wizard.
Tbh you could take any of the construct races and just theme them as a Scarecrow type race. Like a group of Gnomes made you for the purposes of a scarecrow that actually walks around and tends to the fields to keep birds and pests out. You can wear armor as they designed this construct as a more endo-skeleton, so your alchemical/magic/ steampunk bits are the skeleton. You've been given a basic set of commoner clothes and stuff with hay or cotton maybe sacks of leaves or pebbles? Because it wasn't built for war or battle your endo-skeleton is weaker so you need padding/stuffing to protect yourself. Which if you were a weird forgotten agricultural service project and using the baseline construct races with armor, you can say you start out with maybe an old hand-me-down armor or junk you found on a battlefield/somewhere. You can and should totally tweak races around to make them fit an idea when the rest of it is basically perfect for said idea. As it could be cool to HAVE to have this weakness to work around because youre just a robotic skeleton who needs to wear clothes and armor with stuffing to give you more hp or ac even. It may take a bit of DM assistance but a good one would probably let you do it especially if it works the same as the given race and flavor swapped. Or as a tweaked race that kinda has a detriment because you're like a unique Construct "variant" race of Auto-Gnome, Warforged, or Glitchling. I had never heard of Glitchling before though and they seem amazing, I love quirky, weird races even more so if they're short...
Good news! In "The Crooked Moon" campaign setting that's being built on kickstart they show a race of pumpkin headed scarecrow-ish race called "Harvest born" Should be something right up the alley you're looking for. :)
the reborn race from ravenloft mentioned that one option for the race is that you're stuffed with straw. you might be able to use that idea for some sort of "awakened scarecrow" concept where you're the monstrous version of a scarecrow but gained independence from your creator.
Fun thing about Grugach elfs is also the fact they are the only race ever in 5e to not start with language proficiency in common. A language barrier like that could be fun to roleplay, maybe communicate using sign language with the party and such.
I believe Grung also do not start with Common. My group played the One Grung Above module and on our next next campaign I joined as a Grung Mercy Monk with the archeologist background to pick up Common. When I was spoken to by the others I would tilt my head and act like I didn’t understand them. When we were fourth level and interrogating a hobgoblin they were getting nowhere. Suddenly I asked the prisoner a question in erudite Common like a prissy butler.
BBEG: "Y-You idiot! Don't you realize you'll die too!?" Revenant: "Death can have me... when it has earned me. It's not like I was truly alive this whole time anyway."
I always wondered why wood elf didn't get a cantrip like high elves, neat. Makes sense why they had to basically add wood elf magic to the base species lol
because high elves are more magical whereas woodelves are more martial. if i remember right, in past versions of dnd the high elf's "favorite class" was wizard whereas the wood elf's "favorite class" was ranger.. and rangers dont have cantrips in 5e
@@darcraven01 I mean the PHB says a few times that elves are magical as a blanket statement, not just in reference to high elves lol. It just felt odd that high and dark elves got a cantrip and wood elves didn't, now I know why - there was another elf that did have it at one point
@@PunknPixels yes, they're all magical. it manifests in passive effects like resistance to charms, and in semi-active effects like trance letting them rest without sleeping.. but certain races are *more* magical. like dogs.. all dogs have fur and paws and are generally "dog-like" but chiwawas usually full of aggression while golden retreavers are more loving goofballs.. they've got different attributes (i know, not the best example.. but im busy and cant think of a better one off the top of my head so thats what im going with)
Elves are a product of their time. Races that were made to me minimal. If they were made in todays meta, I bet they would naturally get certain spells as a race feature and/or the race-locked feats like elven accuracy and fey teleportation. Without having to take special classes or feats.
I played a short DnD game (like maybe 2 or 3 sessions) where the plot twist was that one of the NPCs we were helping was a revenant, and we helped them get their revenge so they can move on.
My wife is playing a glitchling artificer named Ikswozaw. Has little wings and collects wingnuts because they look like her. With one eye and wings. She's playing the artillerist and rides around her cannon while wearing weird hats and says "tally-ho" when she fires it off. She also plays as very gullible character and makes it fun.
I'd happily play a revenant at like a level or two lower than everybody else. Maybe even starting at level 1 when everyone else is level five. I love the hilarity of my character dying over and over again and coming back. I'm sure I'd catch up in XP eventually and the RP of playing a weak character who can't die seems like a great opportunity for shenanigans. It reminds me of my favorite druid... The reincarnation druid.
Coming from Georgia myself, I'm going to use this exact voice and the phrase "machine-gunning the word 'freedom' into the side of a hamburger stand" the next time I need to impersonate a Texan.
I think the Glitchling would have been more popular if they had just stated it was a rogue modron considering that was what all the lore and mechanics were pointing to anyway.
Super fun thing to do is to go back through all the old dragon magazines and looks at the items spells and playable races that they added for old school adnd
So I think that was my favorite introduction to one of your promotions yet. As a plus I am now aware of a bunch of cool races that I wasn’t before. Keep up the good work
Finally, a video talking about the Glitchling I love the goobers. Made a Glitchling character earlier this year (she sits among my other back burner characters, until I have an excuse to use her)
vianshino in mtg are now errata into lizards/lizardfolk (we just got a ton of lizard support and they wanted it to work with the old vianchis), so with that change i would allow players to take the tail counter in exachange for one proficiency as a lizardfolk
A problem with Revenants is what if they were originally killed by a God or similar? That means for example until they kill Tiamat they are functionally immortal. It encourages power gamers to choose something unkillable as their Nemesis, so they will never end their curse.
@@StillNotJonor the Dm just assigns the Second in Command BBEG of the campaign. That would be a great hook I think. How do we keep the Second alive AND finish the campaign.
@@MichaelVeurink DM: No, that isn't how this works. Your nemesis isn't the god, but their high priest. There, power gamer foiled. Power gamers only work when the DM either doesn't care or is new. These types of people are insanely easy to corral with a little forethought.
Creating a glitchling right now, its everything I want in my artificer. A little klepto who likes tinkering around. I just felt like gnome would be to predictable. As for the flying, I'm thinking of flavoring it as week boosters.
I do like that a lot of the UA races do make it in to the game in some form. I honestly would like to see more events where they showcase a new race for a good cause like cancer research. They did that with Locathah and Grung. It could be a good platform to introduce variants for races as well. Having more options is never a bad thing.
None of these are forgotten they are just setting speific and its up to the DM to even allow them as Viashino, luxodon, leonin are Ravanica, GIff are spelljammer, etc. Just don't be surpised if the DM says no you can't use them.
First cool video i know nothing about dnd in the clinic i learned about it and now 5 years later i just started bg 3 and suddenly youre vids are all over my page
I'm just glad I made it through the whole advertisement without closing the video. LOL. I grew up in Montana and while, OK, yeah, there are some people like that...well.... 😁
A note on the Glitchling: Having an unarmored AC of 14 + Full Dex Mod is equivalnet to them coming prebuilt with Serpent Scale Mail installed. And we all know how much people complain about that. Enjoy!
OH, I'd didn't realize we needed to track poop. I guess we'll have to go back through the records and make sure that we did everything right... I hope my players are cool a poop session
You know, @DnDShorts, I bought the Ryoko’s Guide, and one race I’d love insight into is the Isetsu (crab people). Their illustration doesn’t do a great job of conveying how one can be a player character. How do they wear armor? How do they have… dexterity? How do you explain them getting a new piece of gear that was… conspicuously designed for… a crab person? I can’t wrap my head around how to comprehend a player being an Isetsu. By the way, I loved the satirical ad for Americans. We do, in fact, love machine-gunning “Freedom” into the sides of burger joints. And anywhere else “captivity” currently exists. lol but seriously, that was hilarious! Yee-haw!
Absolutely love the idea of a villain fairy who can just harass the party with flying bears who can escape anything! Great video, I like hearing about more diverse options of races that can spice stuff up in different ways.
Imagine fairy hexblade. You just chill in your home, with locked dors, on 5th floor, and out of nowhere, through smallest openning in the window, a hunk of armor manifests in front of you and nukes the building with smite filled multiatack. Cobination of unrestricted fly and being able to fit in any crack in the walls is just terrifying for any DM.
I am currwntly near the end of a 7 year Curse of Strahd game where i am playing as a Revenant Hexblade. I literally made Raziel from Soul Reaver, with Strahd standing in for Kain. I drove Esmerelda's wagon into aan army that was attacking Valaki, and missed the rest of the battle. Cool on paper, but I forgot that i had a magic item on me that connected me to my patron, who was also the one keeping me alive. Strahd got it and basically split my soul in half and put the other half in a flesh golem made from what was left of my body, Izek's body and my original character who died early on in the campaign's body.
I have never had the chance to play a DnD campaign, but now I would love to play a Glitchling that's a little .. broken. He likes to collect things.. but because he's broken, he likes to collect whatever is at hand. So he's a kleptomaniac, as was said in the video. He also has a own bag of holding. This, like him, is also broken; so whatever goes into it, can never be removed. He constantly struggles against his desire to steal things in reach (a check against a dice roll, similar to VLDL's Baradun's wild surge check). If he fails against the struggle, he tries to steal the object. If he succeeds he puts said object into his broken bag of holding. This happens even if the object belongs to a friend, or ally, or is needed to save the world. The struggle is real.
When I was in high school, my friend and I made Grugach elves based on the brothers from the Barbarians (1987) movie. It was fun. The DM hated them. :)
My very first player character was a viashino assassin, our DM allowed me to add the "Finesse" tag to the tail attack and I used the character like a xenomorph, sneaking into buildings and assassinating people one at a time.
12:02 Just a little side note here: _faerie fire_ does not end a target’s invisibility, it only keeps them from gaining any benefits from it. It’s a fine distinction, but an important one: if you drop or lose concentration on _faerie fire,_ the target is still invisible and can gain the benefits of invisibility again.
About Grugach Elf - "There is no race in the game that gives free access to a druid cantrip except this one" 😉 What about PlaneShift races - like green merfolks from Ixalan, Emeria(Wind) Creed Mefolks from Zendikar and Vahadar Elves from Kaladesh? They all also gain a druid cantrip
I’d love to see a video like this on races that should be playable in the game. Like troll or half troll, mushroom people (mycel) or spider people (arachnids).
Autignome make insanely good sorcerors. With a bloodstone, an uncommon magic item for sorcerors only, you can recover all your metapoints by casting the mend spell, wh8ch can be converted to spells.
I would love to see some cover for all the Plane shift material, There are playable Nagas and (basically harpys) and like... actual straight up vampires.
That revanant sounds so cool, it already gave me a character concept, (which I'll probably never play 🙃) that being an Oath of Vengeance Paladin who's back from the dead to avenge her slaughtered clan and especially her dead daughters.
I’ve actually played a Viashino before. The physical description screamed ‘Alien’ to me so I made it a Path of the Beast Barbarian and made a wall climbing monstrosity.
Oh man, I've been looking for a way to port my Hero System character over to DnD. He's a floating metal sphere, glitchling sounds like it could be a great option
Let's not forget that every stat block 1/2 or under is totally playable as of Tasha's. Side kick classes are low powered Variant options that a player can use with DM permissions. This opens some totally insane and wild options...such as playing a Flying Sword...or a pixie with a racial polymorph...or a blink dog...
Fun story. My D&D character is a 24 feet tall Storm Giant Barbarian (path of the zealot) lvl 14, with a ac of 30. He has disadvantage on Stealth checks, but a +13 on Stealth and Sleigh of hand. Oh, and a +13 warhammer that can control stone.
Don't forget about the avariel class, otherwise known as the winged folk. While granted, it's normally an elvish subclass, it can also be applied to other classes, including humans, if players are so willing.
Has anybody else looked at the shadow arcane tradition wizard subclasse from the book of ebon tides. If im not mistaken the Dark Transfusion ability lets you cast up to 6, 9th spells at 17th level and 9 by level 20. Am I wrong because I've seen no one else talking about it?
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I can't find the fairy race you mentioned
Will this be available on dnd beyond? I'd pay for it, but I play digital
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Why are you lying to people? You said these were official and perfectly good for your games yet the first one was absolutely busted and all of these are uas
As a gunpowder-blooded American, I appreciated the effort to adapt the ad so that I could fully understand it. Thank you for making content. You are one of the gems of this community.
As an American who bleeds red, white, and blue, machine-gunning the word "freedom" into the side of a hamburger store is simultaneously the most offensive and most hilarious caricature of myself I've ever been blessed to hear. Thank you so much for this gem. Please keep being the heart and soul of this community.
Gunpowder blooded? Well I guess if you start burning to death you won't live long enough for it to be too painful then
@@henryhereNice job going full aut there.
It's good to see reg'lar folks in ads instead of those European sissies tryin' to sell us stuff.
Agreed. No notes.
"I'll believe that when pigs fly."
That one damned fairy:
BBEG: "Are you Insane, you'll also die If this works!"
Revenant keeping him grappled In place: "I exist only for your fall, I shall drag us both down to Avernus myself If I must!!!"
Awesome final words. Do you mind if I steal this for my game?
@@thecontentguys1043 Go ahead
1:34 With the limited fly time, I would give him the Quirk of a crippling fear of heights. He uses the fly ability, but screams the entire time.
I just heard a Wilhelm scream sound effect when I read this...
@@ChaosMind10531 I heard Goofy
@@AnarchistHamster I heard R2D2's
@@funnysuperbr9462 screaming sun from "Rick and Morty"
Grugach elves evolved when a bunch of standard elves walked into a tavern brawl and decided to settle there.
Just wanted to add there's one other group of elves that behave differently to other elves.
Moon elves like to party and travel and gamble if I remember correctly.
Wonder when they will make elves that can actually sleep
OG Grugach from 1e were very obviously meant to be Wendy Pini's ElfQuest elves.
Revenant + Way of the Long Death: Monk = The Crow!
You just gave me my next character concept.
Make sure to take Magic Initiate to gain Find Familiar, so you can have a crow (raven stat block) familiar.
@derekstein6193 agreed! Take guidance and maybe shillelagh for the cantrips
Out of my head! 😂
ooooo... what does way of the long death do?
The urge to create a revenant human, named Jerry, and his reason for resurrection being he never got good at golf. He has been resurrected for the last 200 years now, and at this point, he doesn’t even care about golf, he only plays so that he can finally feel the sweet release of death. Until he does succeed however, he will need money and a lifestyle, so he adventures and takes quests for gold.
I'm a revenant, look at me!
I have to ask: is his mount an invisible garbage truck?
@@Hoshimaru57 nah his mount is just a Mr Meseeks guy
Thought he would be a Bard and just grateful to be undead
Me thinking i'll at least be aware of all of these
Glitchling: shows up as the first race
I had an Orc Scribe Wizard originally planned as a joke character who got killed by a Kenku and a flock of giant ravens. He came back with his vengeance being against all birds, which is broken for death purposes but hilarious in that he violently attacks all birds and bird-like creatures on sight with seething hatred. He was eventually revived when we saved Ythryn and joined the archmages there to study, his dream come true as a scribe wizard.
Your thumbnail got me, I thought there was going to be a cool construct scarecrow race and I was all for it 😢
ahh bro I'm sorry, it was the best art I could find for the Revenant that wasn't just a random zombie!!
@@DnDShorts fair enough man. Humanity restored ❤️
Tbh you could take any of the construct races and just theme them as a Scarecrow type race. Like a group of Gnomes made you for the purposes of a scarecrow that actually walks around and tends to the fields to keep birds and pests out. You can wear armor as they designed this construct as a more endo-skeleton, so your alchemical/magic/ steampunk bits are the skeleton. You've been given a basic set of commoner clothes and stuff with hay or cotton maybe sacks of leaves or pebbles? Because it wasn't built for war or battle your endo-skeleton is weaker so you need padding/stuffing to protect yourself. Which if you were a weird forgotten agricultural service project and using the baseline construct races with armor, you can say you start out with maybe an old hand-me-down armor or junk you found on a battlefield/somewhere. You can and should totally tweak races around to make them fit an idea when the rest of it is basically perfect for said idea. As it could be cool to HAVE to have this weakness to work around because youre just a robotic skeleton who needs to wear clothes and armor with stuffing to give you more hp or ac even. It may take a bit of DM assistance but a good one would probably let you do it especially if it works the same as the given race and flavor swapped. Or as a tweaked race that kinda has a detriment because you're like a unique Construct "variant" race of Auto-Gnome, Warforged, or Glitchling.
I had never heard of Glitchling before though and they seem amazing, I love quirky, weird races even more so if they're short...
Good news! In "The Crooked Moon" campaign setting that's being built on kickstart they show a race of pumpkin headed scarecrow-ish race called "Harvest born" Should be something right up the alley you're looking for. :)
the reborn race from ravenloft mentioned that one option for the race is that you're stuffed with straw. you might be able to use that idea for some sort of "awakened scarecrow" concept where you're the monstrous version of a scarecrow but gained independence from your creator.
Fun thing about Grugach elfs is also the fact they are the only race ever in 5e to not start with language proficiency in common. A language barrier like that could be fun to roleplay, maybe communicate using sign language with the party and such.
I believe Grung also do not start with Common. My group played the One Grung Above module and on our next next campaign I joined as a Grung Mercy Monk with the archeologist background to pick up Common. When I was spoken to by the others I would tilt my head and act like I didn’t understand them. When we were fourth level and interrogating a hobgoblin they were getting nowhere. Suddenly I asked the prisoner a question in erudite Common like a prissy butler.
One that wasn't mentioned, but was in 4e and in a 5e UA, is the avariel elf, which is the only elf that can fly.
All elves can actually fly of you throw them hard enough
A type of elf that seems really familiar to people who have played BG2
@@Silesia-official it's not flying! It's just... falling with style!
@@gabrote42 bold words for someone within grabable difference
@@Silesia-official If the launchpad can throw two creatures with the same action then I have other problems XD
The Faerie expansion is British because it deals with British folklore. And it's American because you get a FREE PDF.
Did someone say Free? - USA 🇺🇸 🥧 ⚾️
BBEG: "Y-You idiot! Don't you realize you'll die too!?"
Revenant: "Death can have me... when it has earned me. It's not like I was truly alive this whole time anyway."
I always wondered why wood elf didn't get a cantrip like high elves, neat. Makes sense why they had to basically add wood elf magic to the base species lol
because high elves are more magical whereas woodelves are more martial. if i remember right, in past versions of dnd the high elf's "favorite class" was wizard whereas the wood elf's "favorite class" was ranger.. and rangers dont have cantrips in 5e
@@darcraven01 I mean the PHB says a few times that elves are magical as a blanket statement, not just in reference to high elves lol. It just felt odd that high and dark elves got a cantrip and wood elves didn't, now I know why - there was another elf that did have it at one point
@@PunknPixels yes, they're all magical. it manifests in passive effects like resistance to charms, and in semi-active effects like trance letting them rest without sleeping.. but certain races are *more* magical. like dogs.. all dogs have fur and paws and are generally "dog-like" but chiwawas usually full of aggression while golden retreavers are more loving goofballs.. they've got different attributes
(i know, not the best example.. but im busy and cant think of a better one off the top of my head so thats what im going with)
Elves are a product of their time. Races that were made to me minimal.
If they were made in todays meta, I bet they would naturally get certain spells as a race feature and/or the race-locked feats like elven accuracy and fey teleportation. Without having to take special classes or feats.
I played a short DnD game (like maybe 2 or 3 sessions) where the plot twist was that one of the NPCs we were helping was a revenant, and we helped them get their revenge so they can move on.
My wife is playing a glitchling artificer named Ikswozaw. Has little wings and collects wingnuts because they look like her. With one eye and wings.
She's playing the artillerist and rides around her cannon while wearing weird hats and says "tally-ho" when she fires it off. She also plays as very gullible character and makes it fun.
Last name Ikam?
I'd happily play a revenant at like a level or two lower than everybody else. Maybe even starting at level 1 when everyone else is level five. I love the hilarity of my character dying over and over again and coming back. I'm sure I'd catch up in XP eventually and the RP of playing a weak character who can't die seems like a great opportunity for shenanigans.
It reminds me of my favorite druid... The reincarnation druid.
As a Southern American your accent was on point, but uncalled for.
Coming from Georgia myself, I'm going to use this exact voice and the phrase "machine-gunning the word 'freedom' into the side of a hamburger stand" the next time I need to impersonate a Texan.
*lists off the Fairy abilities*
"Yeah, this seems on brand for something from the Feywild..."
4:24 wow, he knows us so well. USA!USA!
I know, right? So accurate.
I think the Glitchling would have been more popular if they had just stated it was a rogue modron considering that was what all the lore and mechanics were pointing to anyway.
Super fun thing to do is to go back through all the old dragon magazines and looks at the items spells and playable races that they added for old school adnd
Faerie sounds like a FREEDOM filled book, probably worth getting
4:14 This man just Out-American'd me
I feel called out...
So I think that was my favorite introduction to one of your promotions yet. As a plus I am now aware of a bunch of cool races that I wasn’t before. Keep up the good work
Bought Ryokos and it's so amazing. You can feel the love in every page. Thanks for that and for the great content.
Finally, a video talking about the Glitchling
I love the goobers. Made a Glitchling character earlier this year (she sits among my other back burner characters, until I have an excuse to use her)
Just discovered the channel!!!
Thank you sir!! The info to anger DM's is well worth it!
Loving the content, keep on keeping on dnd shorts ❤
I played a Viashino, it was my second ever char, and was very fun to play as a Warlock.
Could have just showed us a video of pouring tea into the harbor. We would have been good with that
vianshino in mtg are now errata into lizards/lizardfolk (we just got a ton of lizard support and they wanted it to work with the old vianchis), so with that change i would allow players to take the tail counter in exachange for one proficiency as a lizardfolk
I LOVE ALL DnD Shorts videos! Because Will is a REAL American.
A problem with Revenants is what if they were originally killed by a God or similar?
That means for example until they kill Tiamat they are functionally immortal.
It encourages power gamers to choose something unkillable as their Nemesis, so they will never end their curse.
Being unkillable, and unbeatable are two different things
@@Gallacantyes, but a power gamer will choose that they have to kill their nemesis and then pick something that can’t die
That's when the DM says "No, Choose another nemesis."
@@StillNotJonor the Dm just assigns the Second in Command BBEG of the campaign. That would be a great hook I think. How do we keep the Second alive AND finish the campaign.
@@MichaelVeurink DM: No, that isn't how this works. Your nemesis isn't the god, but their high priest.
There, power gamer foiled. Power gamers only work when the DM either doesn't care or is new. These types of people are insanely easy to corral with a little forethought.
Creating a glitchling right now, its everything I want in my artificer. A little klepto who likes tinkering around. I just felt like gnome would be to predictable. As for the flying, I'm thinking of flavoring it as week boosters.
There is 1 more liniage, found in wildmount… the hollow
This is the best ad you've ever done
I do like that a lot of the UA races do make it in to the game in some form. I honestly would like to see more events where they showcase a new race for a good cause like cancer research. They did that with Locathah and Grung. It could be a good platform to introduce variants for races as well. Having more options is never a bad thing.
I only watched this because I saw the recent D&D episode with VLDL. I shall now proceed to watch more of your stuff.
My gods your ad bit was amazing!
None of these are forgotten they are just setting speific and its up to the DM to even allow them as Viashino, luxodon, leonin are Ravanica, GIff are spelljammer, etc. Just don't be surpised if the DM says no you can't use them.
The hydra combo + this fairy = unstoppable
First cool video i know nothing about dnd in the clinic i learned about it and now 5 years later i just started bg 3 and suddenly youre vids are all over my page
The Vahadar Elf also gives you access to a Druid cantrip.
I'm just glad I made it through the whole advertisement without closing the video. LOL. I grew up in Montana and while, OK, yeah, there are some people like that...well.... 😁
A note on the Glitchling: Having an unarmored AC of 14 + Full Dex Mod is equivalnet to them coming prebuilt with Serpent Scale Mail installed. And we all know how much people complain about that. Enjoy!
I played a dryad for a fewshot. Plant Growth + Spike Growth + Thron Whip + Tree Step + forrest map was quite fun!
As an American, the ad definitely worked.
I love ALL DnD Shorts videos!
I wasnt expecting to hear Mean bean Machine in a DnD video today, but im not complaining.
OH, I'd didn't realize we needed to track poop. I guess we'll have to go back through the records and make sure that we did everything right... I hope my players are cool a poop session
7:28 that song is called "nagman trance/waltz" for anyone wondering. It's form Granado Espada.
The ad made me shed red white and blue tears 😂
You know, @DnDShorts, I bought the Ryoko’s Guide, and one race I’d love insight into is the Isetsu (crab people). Their illustration doesn’t do a great job of conveying how one can be a player character. How do they wear armor? How do they have… dexterity? How do you explain them getting a new piece of gear that was… conspicuously designed for… a crab person? I can’t wrap my head around how to comprehend a player being an Isetsu.
By the way, I loved the satirical ad for Americans. We do, in fact, love machine-gunning “Freedom” into the sides of burger joints. And anywhere else “captivity” currently exists. lol but seriously, that was hilarious! Yee-haw!
ah yes the UA fairy, I remember thinking about wild shaping into a gargantuan flying brontosaurus and then squeezing through a keyhole
Fun fact: Viashino in MtG were recently given an errata to make them all just plain lizards. They no longer exist in Magic either :(
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Absolutely love the idea of a villain fairy who can just harass the party with flying bears who can escape anything! Great video, I like hearing about more diverse options of races that can spice stuff up in different ways.
Grugach were always my fave elves, I've used them in every edition of D&D since B/X
Imagine fairy hexblade. You just chill in your home, with locked dors, on 5th floor, and out of nowhere, through smallest openning in the window, a hunk of armor manifests in front of you and nukes the building with smite filled multiatack. Cobination of unrestricted fly and being able to fit in any crack in the walls is just terrifying for any DM.
I am currwntly near the end of a 7 year Curse of Strahd game where i am playing as a Revenant Hexblade. I literally made Raziel from Soul Reaver, with Strahd standing in for Kain. I drove Esmerelda's wagon into aan army that was attacking Valaki, and missed the rest of the battle. Cool on paper, but I forgot that i had a magic item on me that connected me to my patron, who was also the one keeping me alive. Strahd got it and basically split my soul in half and put the other half in a flesh golem made from what was left of my body, Izek's body and my original character who died early on in the campaign's body.
As an American, I can confidently vouch beyond a shadow of a doubt, 100% that is how we all sound.
From sea to shining sea, we are all Texans at heart.
Me, a 23 year old from New York: 👁️👄👁️
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@darklord161 how is 23yo old? His brain hasnt even finished developing
100% sat through the ad for the diss on Murica xD
I remember the Grugach elves from the old dragon magazine, decades ago. love that its in the game proper.
I have never had the chance to play a DnD campaign, but now I would love to play a Glitchling that's a little .. broken. He likes to collect things.. but because he's broken, he likes to collect whatever is at hand. So he's a kleptomaniac, as was said in the video.
He also has a own bag of holding. This, like him, is also broken; so whatever goes into it, can never be removed.
He constantly struggles against his desire to steal things in reach (a check against a dice roll, similar to VLDL's Baradun's wild surge check).
If he fails against the struggle, he tries to steal the object.
If he succeeds he puts said object into his broken bag of holding.
This happens even if the object belongs to a friend, or ally, or is needed to save the world. The struggle is real.
Bro turned into the prospector for Toy Story for a little bit. As an American I loved that 😂😂
When I was in high school, my friend and I made Grugach elves based on the brothers from the Barbarians (1987) movie. It was fun. The DM hated them. :)
American DnD Shorts isn't real, he cant hurt you.
American DnD Shorts: 4:13
My Dm once let me play as a Koforged.. it’s a worse Warforged that is modelled after a Kobold. I loved it.
My very first player character was a viashino assassin, our DM allowed me to add the "Finesse" tag to the tail attack and I used the character like a xenomorph, sneaking into buildings and assassinating people one at a time.
Bring back the claps at the beginning!
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Just a little side note here: _faerie fire_ does not end a target’s invisibility, it only keeps them from gaining any benefits from it. It’s a fine distinction, but an important one: if you drop or lose concentration on _faerie fire,_ the target is still invisible and can gain the benefits of invisibility again.
Great video I like that viashino made the list
About Grugach Elf - "There is no race in the game that gives free access to a druid cantrip except this one" 😉
What about PlaneShift races - like green merfolks from Ixalan, Emeria(Wind) Creed Mefolks from Zendikar and Vahadar Elves from Kaladesh? They all also gain a druid cantrip
Mvc2 music in the background I see you Mr.shorts 👀
3:14 the level 14 berserker feature!
I’d love to see a video like this on races that should be playable in the game. Like troll or half troll, mushroom people (mycel) or spider people (arachnids).
7:23 Wasn't this introduced in Guide to Wildmount? It sounds very similar to the "Hollow Ones"
Autignome make insanely good sorcerors. With a bloodstone, an uncommon magic item for sorcerors only, you can recover all your metapoints by casting the mend spell, wh8ch can be converted to spells.
I would love to see some cover for all the Plane shift material, There are playable Nagas and (basically harpys) and like... actual straight up vampires.
Nanomachines son.
They harden in response to physical trauma
The American accent was spot on though!
That revanant sounds so cool, it already gave me a character concept, (which I'll probably never play 🙃) that being an Oath of Vengeance Paladin who's back from the dead to avenge her slaughtered clan and especially her dead daughters.
One of my players played a revenant warlock. Her tie to the living was the power to take revenge
There's been a multiple versions of witches over the years especially back in 2nd edition AD&D
Fey passage was honestly my favorite trait they had
I’ve actually played a Viashino before. The physical description screamed ‘Alien’ to me so I made it a Path of the Beast Barbarian and made a wall climbing monstrosity.
American DnD Shorts isn't real, he can't hurt you.
American DnD Shorts:
The most powerful thing about the UA fairy is that your creature type is Fey
Oh man, I've been looking for a way to port my Hero System character over to DnD. He's a floating metal sphere, glitchling sounds like it could be a great option
Mmmm my man, you used Chopin in the background, while talking about revenant and for that you gained my vodka infused respect, cheers from Poland
Let's not forget that every stat block 1/2 or under is totally playable as of Tasha's. Side kick classes are low powered Variant options that a player can use with DM permissions. This opens some totally insane and wild options...such as playing a Flying Sword...or a pixie with a racial polymorph...or a blink dog...
@5:30 "American stereotype thing"
What stereotype? It was a very accurate portrayal of us.
Fun story. My D&D character is a 24 feet tall Storm Giant Barbarian (path of the zealot) lvl 14, with a ac of 30. He has disadvantage on Stealth checks, but a +13 on Stealth and Sleigh of hand. Oh, and a +13 warhammer that can control stone.
Sounds like a pretty fun high-power game. What kind of enemies does the DM throw at you and your party?
Don't forget about the avariel class, otherwise known as the winged folk. While granted, it's normally an elvish subclass, it can also be applied to other classes, including humans, if players are so willing.
Has anybody else looked at the shadow arcane tradition wizard subclasse from the book of ebon tides. If im not mistaken the Dark Transfusion ability lets you cast up to 6, 9th spells at 17th level and 9 by level 20. Am I wrong because I've seen no one else talking about it?
I am aware that most DM's would not let you play the subclasses outside of the plane of shadows seting
Was hoping the saurials would be brought up. Been thinking about making a homebrew race of dinosaurborn, then I learned about the saurial
The sonic colors ost in the background is mmmh perfect