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The jokes in this video poking fun at some of the feats are in the sake of good fun. Most of the feats are seriously awesome and this dumb video shouldn’t stop you from considering them.
IDK how you didn't even mention Keen mind A feat that lets you tell which direction is North and gives you a good memory which wouldn't matter if you just keep good notes.
@@chukolance in many situations such as exact time keeping in time based puzzles where it can get hectic and players can easily forget how much time has passed without obvious meta, you can simply ask your dm with keen mind exactly the amount of time that has passed.
I actually gave my Wizard the actor feat. Because he was the serial killer that my own party was hunting down and i needed to fake my persona litterally all the time. It worked so good that I was killed by a monster before i was ever caught
I see that as a loss and a win. also my character's a serial killer too. I just haven't murdered my party yet. I still Lie in wait... grasping the large knife that I found in sombody's kitchen when I got a natural 20. I also have a spell that summons tentacles.
@@katherineminor3402 The only rolls where 1 and 20 are treated differently are attack rolls and death saving throws. If you roll a 1 on a Dex save but your modifiers brings you up to the DC, you are fine.
Ah but together would be a good combo because it gives you Adv on Deception & Performance Checks which Alter Self alone doesn't give. Alter Self to disguise and combing the voice changing part of Alter Self with Actor can set-up for some interesting situations that can cause issues for NPC's. Same with Actor & the Changeling Race, or Actor & 2 of the Eldritch Invocations
I always knew there was a reason for those warnings. (did you know that there is a sign in IKEA next to a picture of a giant cinnamon bun that says: "not actual size of cinnamon roll" there has to be some sort of history behind that one.)
My favorite feat is the tough feat...especially on classes that you'd think wouldn't have them "Okay so I fireball your level 7 wizard twice you take 60 damage and you're down" "Im not down." "How you're a wizard" "I Have 73 hit points because I not only took the tough feat but I have an 18 in Con" "Why?" "Because buff wizard thats why"
Tough is a good Feat to have, even for those with d10 Hit Dice and even for a Barbarian. It's definitely useful for Wizards & Sorcerers whom don't get to even wear Light Armor, outside of MC &/or Feat. Them making it so Sorcerers can't even wear Light Armor anymore is up there with them removing the Familiars from Sorcerers in things that I hate that got removed from older editions of D&D into 5E.
@@thetimebinder It gets better if you're a Hill Dwarf (+1 HP every level). [I know that there are 1 or 2 other Races that does the same, but I can't remember them off the top of my head]. So once the Hill Dwarf gets Tough, they now get +3 HP every level after the initial 2x their Level (which becomes 2x Level +1 when they pick up Tough).
Tough is a good "I have nothing else to do with these ASIs" feat. If you do not have 20 con though its statistically better to take the +1 to con. Your HP number on the character sheet will be a bit lower, but your actual effective health is much higher.
@@Aplesedjr the point is that you get advantage on rolls to convince people that you are someone else, which is huge for a changeling if your dm doesn't already give you advantage
I mean they can be good in certain situations (Inspiring leader from level 10ish upwards and Dungeon Delver if you're playing a heavy dungeon campaign) but both are very situational and/or something else can easily replicate the effect (False Life and anyone with good Investigation), which makes them mechanically inferior to the other feats
@@Guille2033 False Life would be your equivalent for Inspiring Leader? IDK for level 4-10 getting an extra ~50-90 hp for the party everytime they short rest seems pretty decent. It's like having an extra tank in the party. It is definitely one of those feats where the difference seems small until you work out just how much you are saving in spells, healing items, and action economy. And that is without getting into the fact that you can do it multiple times to inspire other creatures. I'd rank it as a fairly top tier feat assuming a Cha of 16 or higher.
That means you probably have an excellent DM that doesn't handwave travel time, encumbrance and other things away like most DMs do, thus nerfing a lot of the intended design of 5e.
@KanedaSyndrome I wouldn’t say that handwaving is bad necessarily, a lot of the time your not on a “hard” time crunch where stuff like travel time would actually be a factor. -encumbrance is a different issue, which you should atleast explain why your handwaving it, like maybe you have a caravan for storage idk- And either way, you could reasonably just add in the use of “inspiring leader” to the handwave time. Making the ten minute use time a non-factor
Same. Imagine the DM's reaction when I told him I had advantage in convincing a group of gladiators that I was the owner of the arena, that I was down in the battlefield during combat, that I had just happened to shrink 3 feet, and that they should surrender.
@@vicentetemes5793 That's a "milage may vary by DM" situation though. Sure you have advantage but the DM needs to decide if a deception of the sort being tried is even possible and if so what's the DC. Alot of "actor is great" comments I've read here are really just DMs being super lax on social situation DCs.
Actor is decent on almost anyone but it's especially potent on Warlocks and Changelings in particular (especially a Changeling Warlock) because they have features which work with the Feat instead of being redundant. It's very strong in espionage campaigns in the hands of a skilled player because you are using pure skill to be anyone you want which means you could, theoretically, convince a high level cleric in an anti-magic field that you are a depowered avatar of their deity in dire need of aid. That was one of my more notorious schemes known in my group.
@@FormerRuling Actor Feat works exceptionally with Mask of Many Faces invocation. It also gives 1 char, so it can be used to even out a odd ability modifier. My warlock has a whole set of personas that he can change into at will. Can sew some division by convincingly impersonating the look and sound of important figures at the drop of a dime that implicates them later.
Inspiring Leader is actually good, though. That’s saved the lives of my party numerous times. It’s like have 1-4 levels of HP for free at the cost of 10 mins.
Ye at level 4 on a CHA class that might have 16-18 CHA, it's bonkers. Especially with a full party of 6. You're getting 42-48 free HP for the entire team which is VERY hard to beat at level 4. Even at level 20 you're getting ~150 free health assuming you capped on CHA which is better than an average cast of Mass Cure Wounds (or equal to an average cast of MCW at 6th level.) totally resourceless other than time, which you can roll into a rest.
@@Takapon218 You can add an Aid Spell on top of that, thats 30 extra health on top of the party, plus Inspiring leader, you can basically double the health of some of your characters depending on class early on.
Seeing the “5,000 gp reward” for the wizard on his shirt made me think that it might actually be really fun for a party of adventurers to be paid to track down and kill this seemingly unkillable character.
I used Actor for a Vhuman rogue with the charlatan background, he was pretending to be a celebrity for most of the campaign. It's fun but definitely situational.
I did the same for my College of Whispers bard. Expertise in deception meant +16 to deception with advantage when using the mantle of shadows. It was beautiful
The first feat i took in my first DnD character was Inspiring Leader. I remember writing paragraphs of inspiring speeches to use it. My first speech was received very well. But next session when i was about to use it again, the DM cut me off and said “dude are you really gona waste people time with speeches?”. I never took that feat again And no, i was making sure that speeches wouldnt take too long. They took like 4 minutes. I remember that after my first speech the other players clapped and cheered me for it as they liked it very much. But the DM was kinda a guy that only interested in moving the game forward. He wouldnt give players much room for roleplay or goof around. As this was my first DnD game ever, i couldnt really do much then obey the DM basically. We were playing Rise of Tiamat btw and my character was a Oath of Conquest Dwarf Paladin. Halfway through the game, he purposefully killed my character saying that “if you cant do a proper dwarf/scottish accent then dont bother playing as a dwarf”. Yeah he was a massive dick...
Pro tip, if that was really what the rest of the group thought, find another group. If only the DM found that annoying, maybe change DM. You weren't doing anything annoying for anyone so why would he stop you from having fun playing the game?
My 1st speech was Glory [Morgan Freeman] and then i tried Any Given Sunday [Al Palcino] ... after that i did like 10 seconds Inspiring leader while we have have breakfast. Yeap its a out of scene feat that you use after a long rest.
I have a home rule for the 'Inspiring leader' feat. You either say "I make an inspiring speech". and that would take 10 in-game minutes (or less because- well the video said it best). OR, the player can roleplay their speech, and they do NOT have to take 10 minutes to do it.
I took Skilled for my wildfire druid to make the rp for multiclassing scout rogue and twilight cleric make sense. I got really good at turning the lights out for my dark vision party.
Having more proficiencies is almost never a bad thing, especially when it can be tools or skills. Anything necessary like investigation, perception, etc. that you don't have can be yours now.
Inspiring leader is actually very good. It’s an almost resourceless boost the the parties hitpoints, potentially multiple times a day. It’s almost like taking a half effective tough feat, but then also giving that same HP to the party. Can potentially be placed on summoned steeds, familiars, planar bound allies, and any angry mob you incite in a towns courtyard.
You can only put it on 6 creatures so sadly the mob would not work as well as you'd like HOWEVER it is a cool feat! Put it on my redemption Paladin and never regretted it.
Agreed, it’s a cool way to boost everyone’s HP a bit. If your party has six party members including yourself, two uses of Aid and Inspiring Leader can give everyone a pretty big damage buffer.
A level 4 character with inspiring leader and 16 cha would give 42 temp hp per long and short rest, 84 if one short rest is used, 126 if two is used. That's a huge amount at level 4 for a 6 size party. At level 12 with 20 charisma inspiring leader creates 102 temp hp per rest, 306 if two short rests are used. That's an insane amount of damage mitigation.
Inspiring leader is genuinely one of the best feats in the game. I took it as a wizard with a +2 charisma mod on my very first campaign at level 4. We're level 9 now, and it's saved both me and other party members multiple times. It also gives some very cute charming roleplay potential with the speeches, it's my favourite feat in the game.
A member of our party successfully grappled a lich for 4 turns, limiting them to verbal spells and allowing me, the party paladin, to wail on them freely. R.I.P. Omega, the world would have been doomed without your sacrifice.
Yo Inspiring Leader is actually really good. You can do it at the end of a Short or Long Rest and nowhere does it say you need to stay still to give the speech, so you can apply it while looting or travelling. The amount of Temp HP might not seem high, but if you're reapplying it throughout an adventuring day the number of free Hit Points adds up. Say you're a level 12 Bard with a +5 CHA mod and you're using it on 4-person party. That's 68hp, effectively a whole extra person's worth of hit points to chew through in a fight. You getting your two expected Short Rests per day? 68 more HP every time, for a total of 204 extra hp per adventuring day. At the very least it blows Tough out of the water.
It should be noted/clarified that in the above example it would be 17 Temp HP per person not 68 total that all 4 gets to use. And no, it doesn't blow Tough out of the water because Tough affects the actual HP adding a total of 40 HP by level 20. 2x the level when you take it & an additional +2 per level after. So if you take it at Level 4, you gain +8 HP that you DON'T have to roll for & +2 HP per level after that you don't, again, have to roll for. Even if you take it last at Level 18, you'll gain an extra +36 HP (that you don't end up having to roll for), then +2 HP at Levels 19 & 20. So if you have a 10 Con [........... why?] & you take it at Level 4, you'll be getting 1dHD + 8 HP [min 9 HP - Max depends on Class] & then at each Level after you'll be getting 1dHD + 2 HP [min 3 HP - Max depends on Class] (Never dump-stat Con...... ever...... never ever have your Con be your dump-stat).
@@Altyrell Touch sucks, it gets you twice as much hp as taking con, but since it doesn't increase con you don't get an extra +1 healing from your hit dice, which at lvl 20 is also 20. So tough basically doesn't give you more effective hp, while reducing your Con stat by 1. Inspiring leader though most likely gives you over 100 extra hp each day, and some 500 more spread over other creatures. It absolutely decimates Tough as well as probably every other feat in the game.
@@DutchDread Tough doesn't reduce your Constitution by one though. It's just a bonus. At level 20, you have 40 more max HP than if you never took the feat. And yes, Inspiring Leader can technically give you over 100 extra temp hp per day, so long as you are max level with a 20 in Charisma to get the max temp hp (25), lose that temp hp, take another short rest, use the feat again, lose the hp again, take yet another short rest, and then keep repeating that cycle. Temp HP doesn't stack, remember? So in between each short rest, you have an extra 25 in HP, which is just a bit over half of Tough's increase.
@@MrSnom-pd7gx but you're taking the feat instead of the stat increase, so you're better off taking Con than Tough. Tough sucks. Shielding your actual health pool (with a temp hp buff) will always be superior.
Inspiring Leader is a good feat for NPCs, like a Guard Captain or General. Like say a town is under siege by a band of Orcs or something and the part is teaming up with the town guard to defend it. And the captain has this feat. Inspiring Leader is a good way for the DM to go “Hey guys, this is a huge fight coming up, so here’s a few more HP.”
@@xellanchaos5386 rogues already get enough skills as it is and have other better choices for feats (Mobile, Sharpshooter, Crossbow Expert, Alert and any racial feats like Prodigy or Elven Accuracy) than to have 2 more skills. It just isn't worth the ASI or feat chance to waste to say I GET TWO MORE PROFICIENT SKILLS
Inspiring Leader has come in handy on my Glory Paladin, in Tomb of Annihilation. But, you're right. No one will listen to you speak for 10 minutes. lol It's a good way to RP with NPCs, though. They really appreciate hearing about my heroic exploits in Chult.
Wait... But inspiring leader is Actualy good feat, cause you can use it as a part of a short or long rest and it gives a pretty good HP boost fow low and mid level pa... Aaaaa. Nobody will listen HIM for talking 10 minutes! I got this =)
It's just mechanically inferior and not that prioritizing when compared to the other feats. You might as well have 2-3 casters using False Life on the upfront fighters and you're just as good
@@Guille2033 So, instead of a free action, you waste 3 Magic Missiles? Man, Inspiring Leader MUST be useless then, since it's worth 3 different casts of Magic Missile. If only there was a way to buff the ENTIRE PARTY for FREE, without having to spend 3 uses of one of the most useful 1st-level spells in the game. Shame we don't have a feat that lets you do that as a free action, every day, with no downsides or penalties, and something that Variant Humans can just start with, as well as being a Sorcerer/Warlock/Paladin who already were super reliant on their Charisma stat anyway. Damn shame nothing like that exists.
If old school dungeon delving rules were used in 5e it would be a better pick. Wandering monster checks every 20 minutes, torches burn for one hour, lanterns for three. The party de facto wastes 10 minutes of every hour, searching a 10’x10’ area takes ten minutes, you need food and water and sleep, etc. Then hustling through a dungeon makes sense, but none of that structure exists in 5e by default.
@@aaronhamric7679 But... torches do burn for one hour. Lanterns got their time doubled to 6 hours per pint of oil. You need rations and sleep otherwise you risk exhaustion which in the long run can kill you. Searching areas takes time (even if the amount isn't written down, so it's up to DM's discretion). All in all, either these rules exist or they are common sense to apply? If anything, 5e simply isn't as dungeon focused, but it still can be.
Aranor this is true. However, 5e does little in the way of pointing a DM towards how and why to utilize such rules, in addition to wandering monsters and other dangerous time pressures. The 5e default encumbrance rules let you bring a pile of torches and a larder full of food anyway. Unlimited-use light generating cantrips and most races having darkvision skirts around most of the visibility issues in a dungeon anyway. Dungeon exploration rules used to be a spelled-out mechanical cycle that drove the party’s expedition. That explicit structure does not exist in 5e core rules.
@@aaronhamric7679 sounds like people just aren't running dungeons in a dramatic way. If you can take your time, rest and restore as often as you like theres no tension. If you need that spelled out for you in a rule to implement those mechanics as a DM, you need to hand the screen to someone else at your table. As an aside, I know that published modules dont allow for wandering monsters very often, which is why you should use them for inspiration only. I haven't read a good module since red hand of doom
Inspiring Leader id argue is greater than the others you mentioned, like way better. A feat that scales? Your level plus charisma in temp hp on short and long rest has worked out really well for my group. Then you can flavor it as tell stories over fires or prepping group meals. I could be biased since its worked out well but free temp hp seems like a weird thing to down play.
If your party is about to enter a tournament, then the Inspiring Leader thing could be you & them either having sparring sessions or the ones entering having a sparring session with you giving tips before the tournament begins. Bam, you & they have Temp HP going into the tournament.
@SaviorOfNirn thats okay its free temp regardless and apply to the whole team. If its being compared to other feats then it has competition, but saiying its just not that good doesn't mean anything
@SaviorOfNirn Yep, & if by chance you're already getting Temp HP from something else, you'll have to choose. Which means, (as an example) if you're a Warlock using Armor of Agathys, you'll have to choose between AoA & the Inspiring Leader Temp HP, and if you choose the IL's Temp HP then you'll lose AoA in its entirety because the Cold Damage part of AoA is tied to the Temp HP from AoA.
@@Altyrell so... Don't have a Warlock that happens to be using that particular invocation take the bonus from Inspiring Leader that gives a solid bonus to the entire rest of the party on every short rest, essentially being a free top up of health? Like it's not that complicated.
As someone who has really only ever played bards I LOVE inspiring leader, not only do I get to give my party a bit of a boost before difficult challenges, I also get to lean into the role-playing and communicate to the players that I see what they contribute to the party and believe in their abilities to succeed. It just feels so bardic, standing up in front of your friends and using encouraging words to help them along :)
My dad actually found a use for the grappler trait as a warlock! His whole build was just to cast create bonfire, grapple a creature, and hold them onto the bonfire.
Grappler is actually an amazing feat. For martial classes. Particularly combined with tavern brawler. Nothing infuriates a DM more than watching the Barbarian put a giant in an inescapable toe hold while the party just stands around stomping on it or having a monk/rogue capable of pinning the big bad and getting the sweet sweet sneak attack headbutt while you can't roll less than a ten on the athletics you have expertise in.
@@ferrariofantioch2865 That's why on my Warlocks, I love the Invocations that grant the At Will Spells that don't cost Spell Slots. And even then, the only Invocation that I will take that gives a Spell to use with a Spell Slot is Signs of Ill Omen because Bestow Curse can be good as it is slightly better than the Hexblade's Curse.
I'm a Wizard and got Magic Intiate (Wizard) at level 4, no regrets whatsoever. I got 3 new spells and 3 new cantrips just by leveling up that way. The extra CC and defensive spells are absolutely more than handy after having nearly died several times in previous sessions, Wizards be squishy.
Many people hate Inspiring Leader because some DMs have you actually speak for 10 minutes straight. I love it because of that, purely because I love the sound of my own voice.
Inspiring leader and healer make a great combo for any character. Have your cleric/druid use some actually good spells in combat, while you patch the party up afterwards. Also, if you play a low magic swords and sandals game of 5e (lol) then they’d be clutch feats. Grappler would be ok as a fighting style available to classes that get one if it didn’t restrain the user or take two actions. I miss my 3.5 lockdown monk. Just get the most dangerous enemy into a full Nelson and have the party stab it to death. Spellcasters never stood a chance.
I was not expecting the g-fuel to the face. Nice. Also yeah, some of the feats are really bad. Happily there are some great ones to make up for the bad ones :D
Devil's advocate time! Actor is great with its "having advantage to pass as another person". My players usually make use of it when they need a person's attitude, more than their actual being. For instance, in some formal event, they act as a noble they know, gaining advantage at it. Inspiring Leader usually works fine for short rest heavy parties at earlier levels. Rogue + taking Skilled a million times = Never roll under 10 for any skill check ever Grappler... I will never laugh at grappler after seeing an enlarged bear barbarian goliath restrain a hydra in a 7-for-1 headlock Dungeon delver sucks tho
You get to mimic another person by just listening to it for 1 minute, the amount of ways you can abuse that... Go and listen to a king's speech and voila, you get to sneak into the castle by ordering the guards to royally piss off, no spell usage, no "X times per day" bs, straight up become a clone at will
@@rompevuevitos222 I doubt that Guards and other people in the palace would mistake you for they own King just because you can perfectly copy his mannerism and speech(this is gonna be HELLUVA high difficulty, they regularly see him after all). For this you would need sufficient make up, atleast.
@@darakkuunobelu7584 ofc you still need a disguise or some other spell to mask your appeareance, bu there's plenty of those, for voice mimicry however, not so much And since you're the king, nobody is gonna go "i'm gonna check if he's real or not" because they know what would happen if you where actually real ("you dare touch me? off with your head") You can also just tell everyone to fuck off from the room you wish to be in for that matter
Actor can be easily replicated with proper RP or Alter Self False Life for the upfront fighters and you're just as good as with Inspiring Leader Why have a Rogue wasting his valuable ASI chances with Skilled when you can have a Bard who is innately able to do the same thing? Grappler is decent only for characters with high Str and then you might as well let them take Sentinel, Great Weapon Master, etc while the casters use Hold Person/Monster Not saying the feats are inherently bad (except for Skilled and I'm letting Insp Leader of the hook bc I'm generous), they're just inferior to the other feats when mechanically compared
@@Guille2033 Even if you're a god at RP, you still have to roll CHA as per RAW (or the DM doesn't really care) Remember that Actor doesn't allow others to even TRY to look trough your disguise unless you fuck up in some way, which considering that anyone who would know who you are impersonating would get to make a WIS check just by looking at you, Actor is pretty damn good and almost the only way to reliably disguise as someone without some other feature I mean, what other feat allows you to straight up prevent enemies from making checks? Grappler is ok, the issue is that the book itself allows you to do exactly what grappler says you can without actually taking said feat, it's only useful if your DM decides to not allow you those "alternate" grappling rules
Honestly though grappler can be pretty useful. Comes in handy when the party is fighting one strong thing and you can just hold it down for most of the fight.
I love grappler feat as a monk. Use the grapple advantage to shove then pin the downed opponent. Sets you up for some beautiful MMA ground and pound that doesn't allow the opponent to stand up because of the restrained status, while giving you advantage due to them being stuck prone due to previous shove. That being said make sure you are covered as you cannot move in this.
Take a second look at it. The pin restrains both characters, putting disadvantage on them anyway. There's still some good uses for the feat but your combo can be accomplished by just grabbing and shoving without it.
@@graveyardshift2100 only use pin to let your guys pound at a priority target. Never really on a normie. So to clearly summarize yes usually you tend to utilize the first bullet of the feat more than anything. Shove>grapple in order to prevent their standing>Pound away. If a priority target is in your grasp add a pin and let the party wail on them. Due to the fact that prone adds disadvantage to ranged attacks and restrained status adds advantage to all attacks you essentially allow the party melees to wail with advantage and ranged to attack at norm.
@@kurossive5150 and as I just learned the pin is an entirely separate grapple attack and not the bonus action i thought it was. For five years I have misread that part, so has everyone i played with irl, and i now have to scrap my cool warlock wrestler concept because it would now take three consecutive turns to pull off the combo. 😑😔
Fellas, I'm tellin' ya. KEEN MIND + Illusionist wizard. You remember everything you've seen or heard in the last 30 days. You can flip through a book just making sure to glance at every page. Later, you conjure an illusion of the book and read it at your leisure. You can make illusion perfectly replicating what you saw in a dream or what you saw while looking through your familiars eyes. My character had a morning routine where they would look through the pages of several illusory books every morning and he effectively had a mind library of 300 books of a variety of subjects with him at all times. All he had to do to copy spells was glance at the formula in another spellbook or scroll, then illusion a copy of it to transcribe. Most recently our party heard maddening screams within the under dark that can madden and disable people. Guess who made their CON save and can perfectly replicate those screams with illusions at their own leisure? That's right folks KEEN MIND is one of the most underrated feats if you think creatively.
Why lose +2 to your casting stat just to have more range when you could simply walk towards your target before casting your spell? And what attack spell are you casting that desperately needs a range bonus?
@@birthdayzrock1426 Perhaps their Casting Stat was already Capped. Rolled good on the initial Stats & the Race gave the remaining +2 to raise it to 20. Not to mention Spell Sniper gives benefits beyond 2x the spell's range. How about ranged attack spells ignores 1/2 & 3/4 cover. Perhaps it was a Bard or Sorcerer that chose Warlock to get the Eldritch Blast Cantrip. Or maybe it was a Warlock that really wanted to be able to Snipe using EB by making its Range 600' [Spell Sniper combo'd with Eldritch Spear]
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Actor comes in so clutch when you're doing the good old "kidnap a cultist, take his robes and pretend to be him to infiltrate the evil temple". It doesn't cost a second level spell slot or concentration like Alter Self AND you get a +1 to charisma
You suffered for your art, but it was art indeed. Never have I seen the wizard look more wizardly. His face matched his beard! IT WAS LIKE THEY WERE ONE
I have a lot of fun with Inspiring Leader. I have a Sorcerer-Cleric (playwise he's a priest with Metamagic) who uses Inspiring Leader to give surmons X3>
Actor Feat with Disguise self makes for a really damn good way to escape anything really. Just change your look, bust out a random voice, and you're good.
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The jokes in this video poking fun at some of the feats are in the sake of good fun. Most of the feats are seriously awesome and this dumb video shouldn’t stop you from considering them.
Dungeon delver is trash anyway
Can I just say that y’all are legends
I agree. However, some feats are definitely more thought out than others.
IDK how you didn't even mention Keen mind
A feat that lets you tell which direction is North and gives you a good memory which wouldn't matter if you just keep good notes.
@@chukolance in many situations such as exact time keeping in time based puzzles where it can get hectic and players can easily forget how much time has passed without obvious meta, you can simply ask your dm with keen mind exactly the amount of time that has passed.
Any dm that actually makes a person talk for 10 minutes to use inspiring leader is a monster. Just throw out some opening lines and leave it at that
nAH, make them suffer and regret their life choices.
longesrt I've gone was 5 minutes lol
I assumed he meant the PCs wouldn't want to listen to his PC talk for 10 minutes
Worried of this, I had ready in my phone speeches of famous politicians. After 2 minutes they stopped asking me to do it
@@kmoustakas well yeah, I only did my speech once, the others were opening lines and then huzzah
I actually gave my Wizard the actor feat. Because he was the serial killer that my own party was hunting down and i needed to fake my persona litterally all the time. It worked so good that I was killed by a monster before i was ever caught
Legend
the absolute mad lad!
What a shame you died before you could marry one of them
I see that as a loss and a win.
also my character's a serial killer too. I just haven't murdered my party yet.
I still Lie in wait... grasping the large knife that I found in sombody's kitchen when I got a natural 20. I also have a spell that summons tentacles.
@@elainasynranelt tentacles? are there any females in the party if so, well ive seen hentai before
I only take the "Lucky" feat so I can turn my 1's into 2's.
This hits me in the feels
But you might hit or save with a 2 but always will fail with a 1
I take Observant and Alert because... well they're the best imo
Katherine Minor untrue
@@katherineminor3402 The only rolls where 1 and 20 are treated differently are attack rolls and death saving throws. If you roll a 1 on a Dex save but your modifiers brings you up to the DC, you are fine.
"You could just do that with Alter Self."
Which I would have... If all the good spells weren't gone!
Ah but together would be a good combo because it gives you Adv on Deception & Performance Checks which Alter Self alone doesn't give. Alter Self to disguise and combing the voice changing part of Alter Self with Actor can set-up for some interesting situations that can cause issues for NPC's. Same with Actor & the Changeling Race, or Actor & 2 of the Eldritch Invocations
Also, what if I'm a Fighter? Oh and I can do it without pinging on detect magic.
@@Lurklen Exactly
@@Altyrell changeling with actor amd those 2 eldritch evocations. It'd be terrifying
@@addisonshepard333 True, especially since they're "At Will, without using a Slot" Invocations.
It stung MY eyes when he threw the G-fuel in his face.
I had to go get a napkin to wipe up tears lmao
I thought he was gonna eat it dry.
I was wrong.
@@Autonym Same!
@@Autonym That would have been so much more reasonable...
>Read this while watching video
Me: What, it's just some drops of water wi-
>Proceed to throw dry powder to eyes
*OH MY GOODNESS!!*
Inspiring Leader is good at the beginning of the day at higher levels NGL. It's not like you need to make a 10 minute speech in real life.
Even at low levels it's still good if you have a good CHA mod. Like at first level 4 temp HP is pretty good
Yeah but if you don't RP the speech are you even RPing?
@@dsfridley The feat's really good as a Hexblade since you're probably investing in just Charisma anyways.
@@thesmashor4396 IL is like one of the best feats. :| +20-40% HP to everyone, doesn't cost anything and can be used again after short rest.
It’s fun for 10 minutes
I think you have now become one of those specific weird warnings on packages
"do not put g fuel in eyes"
Store in a cool, dry place away from children, pets and wizards.
"If you get G Fuel in your eyes, rinse thoroughly with water and seek medical attention"
Seriously. You could do permanent damage to your eyes or something. All for a bit in a TH-cam video.
I always knew there was a reason for those warnings.
(did you know that there is a sign in IKEA next to a picture of a giant cinnamon bun that says: "not actual size of cinnamon roll" there has to be some sort of history behind that one.)
@@toshomni9478 but hey! It makes good content!
It kind of de-feats the purpose to have these around in the first place...
*wizard Sans laugh intensified*
Dude I love your name
You are a wiz at making puns
Im guessing Lucky was super banned.
You could say making puns is his greatest "feat"!
My favorite feat is the tough feat...especially on classes that you'd think wouldn't have them
"Okay so I fireball your level 7 wizard twice you take 60 damage and you're down"
"Im not down."
"How you're a wizard"
"I Have 73 hit points because I not only took the tough feat but I have an 18 in Con"
"Why?"
"Because buff wizard thats why"
Tough is a good Feat to have, even for those with d10 Hit Dice and even for a Barbarian. It's definitely useful for Wizards & Sorcerers whom don't get to even wear Light Armor, outside of MC &/or Feat. Them making it so Sorcerers can't even wear Light Armor anymore is up there with them removing the Familiars from Sorcerers in things that I hate that got removed from older editions of D&D into 5E.
"YOU try messing with the fabric of space and time for a living; fucking thing might tear me apart at any minute."
In Tyranny of Dragons, our level 12 wizard had more HP than my Paladin because of Con 18 and Tough.
@@thetimebinder It gets better if you're a Hill Dwarf (+1 HP every level). [I know that there are 1 or 2 other Races that does the same, but I can't remember them off the top of my head]. So once the Hill Dwarf gets Tough, they now get +3 HP every level after the initial 2x their Level (which becomes 2x Level +1 when they pick up Tough).
Tough is a good "I have nothing else to do with these ASIs" feat. If you do not have 20 con though its statistically better to take the +1 to con. Your HP number on the character sheet will be a bit lower, but your actual effective health is much higher.
No one:
Jacob: I'll use wakeup powder as makeup powder
Underrated comment
*_Criminally_* underrated
Brock reference?
Wow, guest director Quentin Tarantino did a great job with this video.
Actually I don’t see Samuel L. Jackson so this isn’t a Tarantino Movie.
If he thinks grappler is worthless he obviously has never seen your tifa video
nah, it's his brother Tentin Quarantino
@@GoblinLord is it his evil twin?
Foot fetish, not feat fetish
"Grappler takes two turns and restrains you as well"
This is why god invented Touch Spells, Jerry.
Touch? Why not take a feat that allows you to 'blow kiss' like a succubus?
Now I envision the wizard grabbing some dude by the throat and repeatedly slapping the shit out him with burning hands.
I love actor, i take it to round off my charisma as a mask of many faces Warlock :)
Yeah, actor is really good, especially on a changeling.
Actor can be quite good in good situations. It saved my bard’s ass one fateful night.
DrDecidueye they kind of already get it by default. Unless the dm says you aren’t able to mimic voices when you change shape.
@@Aplesedjr A changeling wants the advantage on Deception checks to pass themselves off as other people.
@@Aplesedjr the point is that you get advantage on rolls to convince people that you are someone else, which is huge for a changeling if your dm doesn't already give you advantage
If i played a dwarf, one of the only feats i would take would be tavern brawler so i can use my beard as a improvised weapon
When I play a Goliath, I take tavern brawler so I can use the smaller races as improvised weapons
HA you ain't been in a bar fight until you hit somebody with the door, not the door frame, THE DOOR!
silent Alpha and one better say
”Let me show you the door”
@@rattvisa 😂😂😂🎯
…use g-fuel as an improvised weapon…
Resilient Constitution to improve your chance at not going blind when you snort G Fuel through your eyes
Ah yes I too breathe with my eyes.
It requires some concentration to snort like that, this feat definitely helps.
"Inspiring Leader and Dungeon Delver Bad"
*panic due to having both in our campaign that lowkey have carried our asses*
I mean they can be good in certain situations (Inspiring leader from level 10ish upwards and Dungeon Delver if you're playing a heavy dungeon campaign) but both are very situational and/or something else can easily replicate the effect (False Life and anyone with good Investigation), which makes them mechanically inferior to the other feats
@@Guille2033 False Life would be your equivalent for Inspiring Leader? IDK for level 4-10 getting an extra ~50-90 hp for the party everytime they short rest seems pretty decent. It's like having an extra tank in the party. It is definitely one of those feats where the difference seems small until you work out just how much you are saving in spells, healing items, and action economy. And that is without getting into the fact that you can do it multiple times to inspire other creatures. I'd rank it as a fairly top tier feat assuming a Cha of 16 or higher.
That means you probably have an excellent DM that doesn't handwave travel time, encumbrance and other things away like most DMs do, thus nerfing a lot of the intended design of 5e.
@KanedaSyndrome
I wouldn’t say that handwaving is bad necessarily, a lot of the time your not on a “hard” time crunch where stuff like travel time would actually be a factor. -encumbrance is a different issue, which you should atleast explain why your handwaving it, like maybe you have a caravan for storage idk-
And either way, you could reasonably just add in the use of “inspiring leader” to the handwave time. Making the ten minute use time a non-factor
...if that's whats carrying you, you need better players. lmfao
Actor feat was clutch for my espionage warlock.
Same. Imagine the DM's reaction when I told him I had advantage in convincing a group of gladiators that I was the owner of the arena, that I was down in the battlefield during combat, that I had just happened to shrink 3 feet, and that they should surrender.
@@vicentetemes5793 That's a "milage may vary by DM" situation though. Sure you have advantage but the DM needs to decide if a deception of the sort being tried is even possible and if so what's the DC. Alot of "actor is great" comments I've read here are really just DMs being super lax on social situation DCs.
@@FormerRuling He did reply that I'd also get disadvantage (for a neutral roll) but he made the DC doable; I passed in the end.
Actor is decent on almost anyone but it's especially potent on Warlocks and Changelings in particular (especially a Changeling Warlock) because they have features which work with the Feat instead of being redundant. It's very strong in espionage campaigns in the hands of a skilled player because you are using pure skill to be anyone you want which means you could, theoretically, convince a high level cleric in an anti-magic field that you are a depowered avatar of their deity in dire need of aid. That was one of my more notorious schemes known in my group.
@@FormerRuling Actor Feat works exceptionally with Mask of Many Faces invocation. It also gives 1 char, so it can be used to even out a odd ability modifier. My warlock has a whole set of personas that he can change into at will. Can sew some division by convincingly impersonating the look and sound of important figures at the drop of a dime that implicates them later.
It kills me whenever jacob and co just break out laughing in the middle of a skit
It's like having the bloppers in the middle of the movie
I like it.
that's murder, they shouldn't do that
Inspiring Leader is actually good, though. That’s saved the lives of my party numerous times. It’s like have 1-4 levels of HP for free at the cost of 10 mins.
Ye at level 4 on a CHA class that might have 16-18 CHA, it's bonkers. Especially with a full party of 6.
You're getting 42-48 free HP for the entire team which is VERY hard to beat at level 4.
Even at level 20 you're getting ~150 free health assuming you capped on CHA which is better than an average cast of Mass Cure Wounds (or equal to an average cast of MCW at 6th level.) totally resourceless other than time, which you can roll into a rest.
@@Takapon218 You can add an Aid Spell on top of that, thats 30 extra health on top of the party, plus Inspiring leader, you can basically double the health of some of your characters depending on class early on.
Seeing the “5,000 gp reward” for the wizard on his shirt made me think that it might actually be really fun for a party of adventurers to be paid to track down and kill this seemingly unkillable character.
I used Actor for a Vhuman rogue with the charlatan background, he was pretending to be a celebrity for most of the campaign. It's fun but definitely situational.
I did the same for my College of Whispers bard. Expertise in deception meant +16 to deception with advantage when using the mantle of shadows. It was beautiful
So you are basically Hanna Montana now, i guess
But Charlatans already get to have a second identity, what did you use actor for?
@@oliverholm3973 the advantage on Deception checks to pass yourself off as someone else
@@cuffedjeans7320
Yeah but if you only played one other character, that being your charlatan background, you don't need Deception checks
The first feat i took in my first DnD character was Inspiring Leader. I remember writing paragraphs of inspiring speeches to use it. My first speech was received very well. But next session when i was about to use it again, the DM cut me off and said “dude are you really gona waste people time with speeches?”. I never took that feat again
And no, i was making sure that speeches wouldnt take too long. They took like 4 minutes. I remember that after my first speech the other players clapped and cheered me for it as they liked it very much. But the DM was kinda a guy that only interested in moving the game forward. He wouldnt give players much room for roleplay or goof around. As this was my first DnD game ever, i couldnt really do much then obey the DM basically.
We were playing Rise of Tiamat btw and my character was a Oath of Conquest Dwarf Paladin. Halfway through the game, he purposefully killed my character saying that “if you cant do a proper dwarf/scottish accent then dont bother playing as a dwarf”. Yeah he was a massive dick...
Shit dm
DM could've addressed the long speech thing alone with you if they thought it was too time-consuming
Pro tip, if that was really what the rest of the group thought, find another group.
If only the DM found that annoying, maybe change DM.
You weren't doing anything annoying for anyone so why would he stop you from having fun playing the game?
My 1st speech was Glory [Morgan Freeman] and then i tried Any Given Sunday [Al Palcino] ... after that i did like 10 seconds Inspiring leader while we have have breakfast. Yeap its a out of scene feat that you use after a long rest.
That's so sad. Those would be so dope! I'd love to have someone like you that gives a shit.
"the only way I can become powerful in this game is to consume pure raw energy"
me: Don't you dare
It typically ends poorly.
These videos are made so much better by Colton's acting (or lack thereof, as the case often is)
In very much enjoyed his award-winning performance as the Pseudo-Wizard.
@@MisterSmith00 Now THAT was an actual masterpiece
but I think he is acting
his role is Bland DM, he even gives interesting scenes but doesn't roleplay them
AKA, me
@@hugofontes5708 Oh, most definitely
@@hugofontes5708 He just acts as DM dead inside because of his players
All feats can be used in some convoluted way to ruin a storyarch~
Keen Mind
**abuses the tough feat**
Ah yes. Weapon master. Ruins campaigns and stories
@@sewpkan1297 Hard chice get 2 con or get 4 con worth of health what should i Pick?
@@leventevirag1653 2 con is almost always better since it improves saves and stuff as well
I have a home rule for the 'Inspiring leader' feat. You either say "I make an inspiring speech". and that would take 10 in-game minutes (or less because- well the video said it best). OR, the player can roleplay their speech, and they do NOT have to take 10 minutes to do it.
Inspiring Leader was really good for my Lore Bard in my 1-20 campaign. I wrote a little tale for each time I used the feat and everything it was fun
I left a like because he suffered for us this video. Blindness sponsored by G-Fuel
This this the first time I have seen a Wizard deliberately cast a Debuff Spell on themselves.
He's not blind, HE'S DRINKING THROUGH HIS EYEBALLS
Thanks
XP to Level 3 You are a monster. To yourself.
@@BobtheJill I can't find xptolv3 in the monster manual or volos guide, is it in mordenkainens tome?
watching Jacob rinse his eyes whilst concluding the G-Fuel ad was f'in hilarious.
Saving the timestamp: 3:14
Skilled is actually one of my favorite feats for fighters since they get so many ASIs, so using one for flavor stuff is really nice
I took Skilled for my wildfire druid to make the rp for multiclassing scout rogue and twilight cleric make sense. I got really good at turning the lights out for my dark vision party.
I took skilled for my artificer to get to 20. Can't take half an ASI and I already had fey touched.
Having more proficiencies is almost never a bad thing, especially when it can be tools or skills. Anything necessary like investigation, perception, etc. that you don't have can be yours now.
One of my players got it for their druid and they have become a jack of all trades able to compete with our bard in terms of utility.
Used it for my paladin and a potential multiclass for Bard.
Inspiring leader is actually very good. It’s an almost resourceless boost the the parties hitpoints, potentially multiple times a day.
It’s almost like taking a half effective tough feat, but then also giving that same HP to the party.
Can potentially be placed on summoned steeds, familiars, planar bound allies, and any angry mob you incite in a towns courtyard.
Took this as a Paladin. I think I was the only one who took real damage when we fought a chimera, since they temp HP absorbed its breath attack.
You can only put it on 6 creatures so sadly the mob would not work as well as you'd like HOWEVER it is a cool feat! Put it on my redemption Paladin and never regretted it.
@@Takapon218 So then you spend another 10 minutes for another 6. Just can't use it on the same creature again until they finish a short/long rest.
Agreed, it’s a cool way to boost everyone’s HP a bit. If your party has six party members including yourself, two uses of Aid and Inspiring Leader can give everyone a pretty big damage buffer.
A level 4 character with inspiring leader and 16 cha would give 42 temp hp per long and short rest, 84 if one short rest is used, 126 if two is used. That's a huge amount at level 4 for a 6 size party.
At level 12 with 20 charisma inspiring leader creates 102 temp hp per rest, 306 if two short rests are used. That's an insane amount of damage mitigation.
Inspiring leader is genuinely one of the best feats in the game. I took it as a wizard with a +2 charisma mod on my very first campaign at level 4. We're level 9 now, and it's saved both me and other party members multiple times. It also gives some very cute charming roleplay potential with the speeches, it's my favourite feat in the game.
A member of our party successfully grappled a lich for 4 turns, limiting them to verbal spells and allowing me, the party paladin, to wail on them freely. R.I.P. Omega, the world would have been doomed without your sacrifice.
Colton: "Im pretty sure none of your videos are even 10 minutes"
Actually Jacob has quite a few that are
but a whole lot that arent
Jacob maybe have some. But this was "The Wizard"
@@jakubzegarski7533 Fair point, bigdickwizard6969 doesnt have any videos
Afaik youtube has moved the cutoff point to 8 min as well so eh
2:36 cocaine wizard
Useless feets?
Yes I know them quite well after my character's legs were broken by boulders.
Did a seagull poke your knees?
Yo Inspiring Leader is actually really good. You can do it at the end of a Short or Long Rest and nowhere does it say you need to stay still to give the speech, so you can apply it while looting or travelling. The amount of Temp HP might not seem high, but if you're reapplying it throughout an adventuring day the number of free Hit Points adds up.
Say you're a level 12 Bard with a +5 CHA mod and you're using it on 4-person party. That's 68hp, effectively a whole extra person's worth of hit points to chew through in a fight. You getting your two expected Short Rests per day? 68 more HP every time, for a total of 204 extra hp per adventuring day. At the very least it blows Tough out of the water.
Good math!
It should be noted/clarified that in the above example it would be 17 Temp HP per person not 68 total that all 4 gets to use.
And no, it doesn't blow Tough out of the water because Tough affects the actual HP adding a total of 40 HP by level 20. 2x the level when you take it & an additional +2 per level after. So if you take it at Level 4, you gain +8 HP that you DON'T have to roll for & +2 HP per level after that you don't, again, have to roll for. Even if you take it last at Level 18, you'll gain an extra +36 HP (that you don't end up having to roll for), then +2 HP at Levels 19 & 20.
So if you have a 10 Con [........... why?] & you take it at Level 4, you'll be getting 1dHD + 8 HP [min 9 HP - Max depends on Class] & then at each Level after you'll be getting 1dHD + 2 HP [min 3 HP - Max depends on Class] (Never dump-stat Con...... ever...... never ever have your Con be your dump-stat).
@@Altyrell Touch sucks, it gets you twice as much hp as taking con, but since it doesn't increase con you don't get an extra +1 healing from your hit dice, which at lvl 20 is also 20.
So tough basically doesn't give you more effective hp, while reducing your Con stat by 1.
Inspiring leader though most likely gives you over 100 extra hp each day, and some 500 more spread over other creatures. It absolutely decimates Tough as well as probably every other feat in the game.
@@DutchDread Tough doesn't reduce your Constitution by one though. It's just a bonus. At level 20, you have 40 more max HP than if you never took the feat. And yes, Inspiring Leader can technically give you over 100 extra temp hp per day, so long as you are max level with a 20 in Charisma to get the max temp hp (25), lose that temp hp, take another short rest, use the feat again, lose the hp again, take yet another short rest, and then keep repeating that cycle. Temp HP doesn't stack, remember? So in between each short rest, you have an extra 25 in HP, which is just a bit over half of Tough's increase.
@@MrSnom-pd7gx but you're taking the feat instead of the stat increase, so you're better off taking Con than Tough. Tough sucks. Shielding your actual health pool (with a temp hp buff) will always be superior.
Inspiring Leader is a good feat for NPCs, like a Guard Captain or General. Like say a town is under siege by a band of Orcs or something and the part is teaming up with the town guard to defend it. And the captain has this feat.
Inspiring Leader is a good way for the DM to go “Hey guys, this is a huge fight coming up, so here’s a few more HP.”
I love how you couldn't even joke about Skilled being the best feat in the game with a straight face
It is for a Rouge.
@@xellanchaos5386 rogues already get enough skills as it is and have other better choices for feats (Mobile, Sharpshooter, Crossbow Expert, Alert and any racial feats like Prodigy or Elven Accuracy) than to have 2 more skills. It just isn't worth the ASI or feat chance to waste to say I GET TWO MORE PROFICIENT SKILLS
@@Guille2033 Never get below 10 on dice for any check. And Swashbuckler makes Mobile worthless.
*Wait, was this all a setup for a G-fuel ad? Well done, sir! XD*
it's always been
@@jgr7487 Excellent meme, my friend! XD
@@jgr7487 *I love that meme too XD*
Most of Jacob's Wizard videos are. Ever since the "Evil Campaign" one I believe
Inspiring Leader has come in handy on my Glory Paladin, in Tomb of Annihilation. But, you're right. No one will listen to you speak for 10 minutes. lol
It's a good way to RP with NPCs, though. They really appreciate hearing about my heroic exploits in Chult.
What kind of asshole dm would make you write a 10 minute speech
@@ravensflockmate
Too many I fear
The speech is part of a long rest or short rest. It costs the PC's literally nothing to listen to the speech. They gain temp HP for free.
@@birthdayzrock1426 The issue is many DMs ask the PLAYER do do a 10 minute speech.
@@CanisMythson that honestly sounds like shit game overall even without this feat.
"make me horny to seduce the npc, Anon"
Wait... But inspiring leader is Actualy good feat, cause you can use it as a part of a short or long rest and it gives a pretty good HP boost fow low and mid level pa...
Aaaaa. Nobody will listen HIM for talking 10 minutes! I got this =)
My DM just does time jumps, so I just write an intro and an end so then, when I say the end sentence of the speech, it sounds so random.
It's just mechanically inferior and not that prioritizing when compared to the other feats. You might as well have 2-3 casters using False Life on the upfront fighters and you're just as good
@@Guille2033 If 3 characters use several spell slots, it can be a (much worse) version of a feat? Whoa.
@@Guille2033 So, instead of a free action, you waste 3 Magic Missiles? Man, Inspiring Leader MUST be useless then, since it's worth 3 different casts of Magic Missile. If only there was a way to buff the ENTIRE PARTY for FREE, without having to spend 3 uses of one of the most useful 1st-level spells in the game.
Shame we don't have a feat that lets you do that as a free action, every day, with no downsides or penalties, and something that Variant Humans can just start with, as well as being a Sorcerer/Warlock/Paladin who already were super reliant on their Charisma stat anyway. Damn shame nothing like that exists.
3:26 That was quite the burn.
Dealt at least 8d6 fire damage, I'm certain.
Wait, who's this Jacob they called the wizard at 2:26?
No idea. The awfulness of the feats must have made them confused.
@@BigDickWizard6969 maybe the actor feat worked and they thought it was jacob
@@BigDickWizard6969 Well, now we know who they are, BigDickWizard6969.
Wow who takes feats to devel dungeons in a game about dungeons that might have dragons
If old school dungeon delving rules were used in 5e it would be a better pick. Wandering monster checks every 20 minutes, torches burn for one hour, lanterns for three. The party de facto wastes 10 minutes of every hour, searching a 10’x10’ area takes ten minutes, you need food and water and sleep, etc. Then hustling through a dungeon makes sense, but none of that structure exists in 5e by default.
@@aaronhamric7679 But... torches do burn for one hour. Lanterns got their time doubled to 6 hours per pint of oil. You need rations and sleep otherwise you risk exhaustion which in the long run can kill you. Searching areas takes time (even if the amount isn't written down, so it's up to DM's discretion). All in all, either these rules exist or they are common sense to apply? If anything, 5e simply isn't as dungeon focused, but it still can be.
With how dangerous traps can be, dungeon delver is a serious game changer.
Aranor this is true. However, 5e does little in the way of pointing a DM towards how and why to utilize such rules, in addition to wandering monsters and other dangerous time pressures. The 5e default encumbrance rules let you bring a pile of torches and a larder full of food anyway. Unlimited-use light generating cantrips and most races having darkvision skirts around most of the visibility issues in a dungeon anyway. Dungeon exploration rules used to be a spelled-out mechanical cycle that drove the party’s expedition. That explicit structure does not exist in 5e core rules.
@@aaronhamric7679 sounds like people just aren't running dungeons in a dramatic way. If you can take your time, rest and restore as often as you like theres no tension. If you need that spelled out for you in a rule to implement those mechanics as a DM, you need to hand the screen to someone else at your table. As an aside, I know that published modules dont allow for wandering monsters very often, which is why you should use them for inspiration only. I haven't read a good module since red hand of doom
You can see the exact moment that Wizard regret throwing the G fuel in his eyes.
Being an inspiring leader is the most clutch feat if you're riling up a group of zombies. You just haven't seen it in play.
I too yeet cupfuls of Gfuel into my eyes. It's how I wake up.
High Charisma Rogue with the Actor feat, Then EVERYONE will believe you're the owner of the house just using the bathroom
Isn't that just a sneaky Kenku Bard?
Was anyone else also quietly hoping that, just like with useless spells, he'd actually list a few examples of when those feats are good?
The look of pain in his eyes when he threw it into his eyes
Inspiring Leader id argue is greater than the others you mentioned, like way better. A feat that scales? Your level plus charisma in temp hp on short and long rest has worked out really well for my group. Then you can flavor it as tell stories over fires or prepping group meals. I could be biased since its worked out well but free temp hp seems like a weird thing to down play.
If your party is about to enter a tournament, then the Inspiring Leader thing could be you & them either having sparring sessions or the ones entering having a sparring session with you giving tips before the tournament begins. Bam, you & they have Temp HP going into the tournament.
Inspiring Leader and Healer I believe are the only two feats with features that scale with level
@SaviorOfNirn thats okay its free temp regardless and apply to the whole team. If its being compared to other feats then it has competition, but saiying its just not that good doesn't mean anything
@SaviorOfNirn Yep, & if by chance you're already getting Temp HP from something else, you'll have to choose. Which means, (as an example) if you're a Warlock using Armor of Agathys, you'll have to choose between AoA & the Inspiring Leader Temp HP, and if you choose the IL's Temp HP then you'll lose AoA in its entirety because the Cold Damage part of AoA is tied to the Temp HP from AoA.
@@Altyrell so... Don't have a Warlock that happens to be using that particular invocation take the bonus from Inspiring Leader that gives a solid bonus to the entire rest of the party on every short rest, essentially being a free top up of health? Like it's not that complicated.
Funny thing is I write speeches for my character with the inspiring leader feat.
it’s very fun to be the worst inspiring leader
@@sulk7080 I did this, but every speech was just the speech from Independence Day slightly changed to fit the circumstance
As someone who has really only ever played bards I LOVE inspiring leader, not only do I get to give my party a bit of a boost before difficult challenges, I also get to lean into the role-playing and communicate to the players that I see what they contribute to the party and believe in their abilities to succeed. It just feels so bardic, standing up in front of your friends and using encouraging words to help them along :)
My dad actually found a use for the grappler trait as a warlock! His whole build was just to cast create bonfire, grapple a creature, and hold them onto the bonfire.
"I'm oretty sure none of your videos are even 10 minutes"
*GOT EM*
When you injure yourself in the product placement with the product.
Grappler is actually an amazing feat. For martial classes. Particularly combined with tavern brawler. Nothing infuriates a DM more than watching the Barbarian put a giant in an inescapable toe hold while the party just stands around stomping on it or having a monk/rogue capable of pinning the big bad and getting the sweet sweet sneak attack headbutt while you can't roll less than a ten on the athletics you have expertise in.
Colton going "THE PROCESS, THIS IS A TRUE MASTER AT WORK" gets me every time, so good.
Getting magic initiate and choosing the spellcasting class you chose.
If you're warlock an extra can't rip and spell is alot
Oh yeah, it's big brain time.
Depending on the Class, that can actually be a good thing, especially for Warlocks & the limited Spell Slots.
@@ferrariofantioch2865 That's why on my Warlocks, I love the Invocations that grant the At Will Spells that don't cost Spell Slots. And even then, the only Invocation that I will take that gives a Spell to use with a Spell Slot is Signs of Ill Omen because Bestow Curse can be good as it is slightly better than the Hexblade's Curse.
I'm a Wizard and got Magic Intiate (Wizard) at level 4, no regrets whatsoever. I got 3 new spells and 3 new cantrips just by leveling up that way. The extra CC and defensive spells are absolutely more than handy after having nearly died several times in previous sessions, Wizards be squishy.
"consume pure R.A.W. energy"-
well actually there aren't any systems in place for that; we might need to create a house rule
That's a very brave decision, putting chalk and lead in your eyes.
Many people hate Inspiring Leader because some DMs have you actually speak for 10 minutes straight. I love it because of that, purely because I love the sound of my own voice.
2:41 G-fuel turned him into Alan Moore
Well, The Wizard is a grumpy, conceited, know it all. He's mostly Alan Moore allready.
Inspiring leader and healer make a great combo for any character. Have your cleric/druid use some actually good spells in combat, while you patch the party up afterwards. Also, if you play a low magic swords and sandals game of 5e (lol) then they’d be clutch feats.
Grappler would be ok as a fighting style available to classes that get one if it didn’t restrain the user or take two actions. I miss my 3.5 lockdown monk. Just get the most dangerous enemy into a full Nelson and have the party stab it to death. Spellcasters never stood a chance.
When he threw the powder on his face he became Theoden.
YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE!
Another useless feat: showing up early for a video, but having low charisma, so I can't think of anything clever to say
Sounds like someone who uses true strike would say
You got more CHA than the smoothbrains who roll up to say "First"
I was not expecting the g-fuel to the face. Nice.
Also yeah, some of the feats are really bad. Happily there are some great ones to make up for the bad ones :D
Devil's advocate time!
Actor is great with its "having advantage to pass as another person". My players usually make use of it when they need a person's attitude, more than their actual being. For instance, in some formal event, they act as a noble they know, gaining advantage at it.
Inspiring Leader usually works fine for short rest heavy parties at earlier levels.
Rogue + taking Skilled a million times = Never roll under 10 for any skill check ever
Grappler... I will never laugh at grappler after seeing an enlarged bear barbarian goliath restrain a hydra in a 7-for-1 headlock
Dungeon delver sucks tho
You get to mimic another person by just listening to it for 1 minute, the amount of ways you can abuse that...
Go and listen to a king's speech and voila, you get to sneak into the castle by ordering the guards to royally piss off, no spell usage, no "X times per day" bs, straight up become a clone at will
@@rompevuevitos222 I doubt that Guards and other people in the palace would mistake you for they own King just because you can perfectly copy his mannerism and speech(this is gonna be HELLUVA high difficulty, they regularly see him after all). For this you would need sufficient make up, atleast.
@@darakkuunobelu7584 ofc you still need a disguise or some other spell to mask your appeareance, bu there's plenty of those, for voice mimicry however, not so much
And since you're the king, nobody is gonna go "i'm gonna check if he's real or not" because they know what would happen if you where actually real ("you dare touch me? off with your head")
You can also just tell everyone to fuck off from the room you wish to be in for that matter
Actor can be easily replicated with proper RP or Alter Self
False Life for the upfront fighters and you're just as good as with Inspiring Leader
Why have a Rogue wasting his valuable ASI chances with Skilled when you can have a Bard who is innately able to do the same thing?
Grappler is decent only for characters with high Str and then you might as well let them take Sentinel, Great Weapon Master, etc while the casters use Hold Person/Monster
Not saying the feats are inherently bad (except for Skilled and I'm letting Insp Leader of the hook bc I'm generous), they're just inferior to the other feats when mechanically compared
@@Guille2033 Even if you're a god at RP, you still have to roll CHA as per RAW (or the DM doesn't really care)
Remember that Actor doesn't allow others to even TRY to look trough your disguise unless you fuck up in some way, which considering that anyone who would know who you are impersonating would get to make a WIS check just by looking at you, Actor is pretty damn good and almost the only way to reliably disguise as someone without some other feature
I mean, what other feat allows you to straight up prevent enemies from making checks?
Grappler is ok, the issue is that the book itself allows you to do exactly what grappler says you can without actually taking said feat, it's only useful if your DM decides to not allow you those "alternate" grappling rules
Honestly though grappler can be pretty useful. Comes in handy when the party is fighting one strong thing and you can just hold it down for most of the fight.
The uncontrollable burst into laughter right before the cut to eye-washing made me burst into laughter too. Such a good cut!
i just want to know how hard it was to get the gfuel out of the beard
At this point the G Fuel is infused into the beard. It powers the wizard's frenetic energy. When Jake puts on the beard, he *becomes* the wizard.
I love grappler feat as a monk. Use the grapple advantage to shove then pin the downed opponent. Sets you up for some beautiful MMA ground and pound that doesn't allow the opponent to stand up because of the restrained status, while giving you advantage due to them being stuck prone due to previous shove. That being said make sure you are covered as you cannot move in this.
Take a second look at it. The pin restrains both characters, putting disadvantage on them anyway. There's still some good uses for the feat but your combo can be accomplished by just grabbing and shoving without it.
@@graveyardshift2100 only use pin to let your guys pound at a priority target. Never really on a normie. So to clearly summarize yes usually you tend to utilize the first bullet of the feat more than anything. Shove>grapple in order to prevent their standing>Pound away. If a priority target is in your grasp add a pin and let the party wail on them. Due to the fact that prone adds disadvantage to ranged attacks and restrained status adds advantage to all attacks you essentially allow the party melees to wail with advantage and ranged to attack at norm.
@@kurossive5150 and as I just learned the pin is an entirely separate grapple attack and not the bonus action i thought it was. For five years I have misread that part, so has everyone i played with irl, and i now have to scrap my cool warlock wrestler concept because it would now take three consecutive turns to pull off the combo. 😑😔
@@graveyardshift2100 it's okay just have fun with it.
@@graveyardshift2100 it works fine if you manage to get action surge
Fellas, I'm tellin' ya. KEEN MIND + Illusionist wizard. You remember everything you've seen or heard in the last 30 days. You can flip through a book just making sure to glance at every page. Later, you conjure an illusion of the book and read it at your leisure. You can make illusion perfectly replicating what you saw in a dream or what you saw while looking through your familiars eyes. My character had a morning routine where they would look through the pages of several illusory books every morning and he effectively had a mind library of 300 books of a variety of subjects with him at all times. All he had to do to copy spells was glance at the formula in another spellbook or scroll, then illusion a copy of it to transcribe. Most recently our party heard maddening screams within the under dark that can madden and disable people. Guess who made their CON save and can perfectly replicate those screams with illusions at their own leisure? That's right folks KEEN MIND is one of the most underrated feats if you think creatively.
the g fuel sponsor ships honestly feel less like sponsor ships and more like a running gag in the wizards saga
It's obvious he should've taken Spell Sniper and War Caster. Double range for all spells and somatic components become obsolete.
Not to mention the Advantage on Concentration Checks
Why lose +2 to your casting stat just to have more range when you could simply walk towards your target before casting your spell?
And what attack spell are you casting that desperately needs a range bonus?
@@birthdayzrock1426 Perhaps their Casting Stat was already Capped. Rolled good on the initial Stats & the Race gave the remaining +2 to raise it to 20. Not to mention Spell Sniper gives benefits beyond 2x the spell's range. How about ranged attack spells ignores 1/2 & 3/4 cover. Perhaps it was a Bard or Sorcerer that chose Warlock to get the Eldritch Blast Cantrip. Or maybe it was a Warlock that really wanted to be able to Snipe using EB by making its Range 600' [Spell Sniper combo'd with Eldritch Spear]
@@Altyrell Because combat always starts with the enemies 600 feet away from the party.
@@birthdayzrock1426 Ship to Ship combat, slow down pursuing Ship.
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Actor comes in so clutch when you're doing the good old "kidnap a cultist, take his robes and pretend to be him to infiltrate the evil temple". It doesn't cost a second level spell slot or concentration like Alter Self AND you get a +1 to charisma
I'm sorry, but I love the fuel in the eyes bit. You can practically hear the gears in his head churning as he realizes how big of a mistake he made XD
You suffered for your art, but it was art indeed. Never have I seen the wizard look more wizardly. His face matched his beard! IT WAS LIKE THEY WERE ONE
2:20 "Ni-i"
Inspiring leader is my favorite feat, I play a necromancer and use it to buff my skeleton's HP total.
I seriously thought he was going to snort that energy drink
Grappling is fun though
I love suplexing my opponents of off high ledges or into lava or the ocean
Yeah I can play zangief if I want too
When you need to take out the bbeg and want to play a new character
I never knew it took two actions.
Why does it take two actions
@@zeeee8305 one action to grapple, one action to restrain.
If you have Extra Attack you can do both in one turn.
@@bAd12cheZ yeah i always thought the bread and butter of Grappler was the advantage while grappling anyway
I have a lot of fun with Inspiring Leader. I have a Sorcerer-Cleric (playwise he's a priest with Metamagic) who uses Inspiring Leader to give surmons X3>
I thought Jacob was going to straight up eat(?) the G-fuel and I was horrified. Then he threw it into his face and I was even more horrified.
Actor Feat with Disguise self makes for a really damn good way to escape anything really. Just change your look, bust out a random voice, and you're good.
i took the actor feed for the and than my PC always tells the story of his adventures in the tavern
2:33Dumbass throws energy powder into his eyes.
That hyper cut making the g fuel was a lot funnier than it should be.
it hurts having your favorite feat, inspiring leader, be called useless
The power hunger wizard character is actually amazing. He is the perfect power player, arrogant and narrowminded. It's too fun!
Fun D&D ideas: making a new character and putting Mobile on a Way of the Drunken Master Monk Swashbuckler Rogue just to trigger your party members.
Anyone who is mature wouldn't get triggered by that.
2:33 now what did we learn Jacob?...
I just gotta say he makes the most entertaining G Fuel promotions in his videos. Love this content. I played D&D 3.5 in prison for 4 years. Most of his videos are so accurate it hurts lol. Thanks!
me, playing ranger: a useless feat for a useless class ...this seems fitting.
2:50 is g-fuel just cocaine?
"Actor" & Changelings go together like Half-Elves & "Prodigy".
That was great, I love the barely restrained laughter