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in this video our protagonist realizes he's actually a That Guy
hey, at least he realized it.
if only you said that man, I could make a sol badguy joke.
Hopefully he fixes that and stuff
There needs to be an isekai like that… the main person is so pumped up, and so sure everyone loves them, then they realize they or even their power is basically That Guy, that no matter what they are the That Guy, maybe sometimes it can be in a good way rarely, but normally its just the nobody actually likes, or wants, or cant stand strangling you That Guy. Lol, and he uses the powers from the epic story of heroes type of That Guy to deal with the problems of the other side, that or deals with them with only the powers of the scummy That guy… maybe the villain is the good version of the That Guy… and he has to face the normally considered superior powers and personality and stuff with his joke abilities and hated stuff.
@@ConnorSinclairCavin ...shield hero?
Just to shed light on it: JoCat is the animator and Twitch Streamer, while JoCrap is the character he plays in his Crap Guides.
No your thinking of jocats monster, jocat is the scientist
Also the character in the crap guides is based off an armor set from monster hunter. the hed is the wiggler head
"An evil act would be chopping their nipples off."
"That is oddly specific,'
A reminder that JoCat made this video _way_ before the _Death and Debts_ campaign where this actually happens. A lot.
And it did happen in the Unexpectables. Because they wanted to trade their Kenku's nipple flowers.
No I will not explain.
Was that the first one with Vtubers?
@@BreakerX42 _The Fall of Arcadum_.
@@citizen_grub4171 i think the issues with him came up in the second all-vtuber campain
This also nearly happens in the stage play "The Lieutenant of Inishmore".
Where the antagonist of the play, an Irish terrorist named Padraic, was in the middle of torturing a drug dealer, and asking him which nipple is his favourite, and that he'll cut off the other, before getting interrupted by a phone call.
It's a fun read.
+10 stat modifiers: For when you actually want to TRY to give Tiamat a swirly.
Or ANY God or Goddess really. Good luck shoving Thor in his locker.
"that is a lot of plus" 😆
Epic boons say hello
@@RedwoodTheElf But Tiamat specifically because five heads.
Don't forget that proficiency is added. So at level 14 (the literal end of Rise of Tiamat), it's +15
Step #1 is admitting it, Airier.
Also, Level 20 Barbarian can break the 20 limit on Strength and Constitution stats. With their new limit being 24.
@@thegloriouswizard5270 my god
In regards to the ‘Can is use a wand inside a sword’ question, as with most things in DnD, consult your DM. The rules as written are more like suggestions to have a balanced game.
You could on 3.5e, just had to pay more gold for a special sword for it
i mean personality, ideal, bond, and flaw section isn't that useless if your character is more than just a one dimensional murder hobo meme character
Hello, police? I'd like to report a murder!
This! this right here! you nailed it buddy, far as im concerned you wiin the internet today. also DMs may like to add something knowing what and how to mess with your character and these help build up things as well as allow for said messing with.
@Alexander Ph
and can help with your character's character development..
i.e you can make you once lawful evil character to a lawful good character
though slowly changing your goals and bonds ideals
It's useless to me because I much prefer to show a character's personality in roleplay, and find it boring to write it down. Also, I've found that I create my character's personalities through roleplay, so I almost never have it set in stone at the beginning of the game.
@@PlayerZeroStart It's not there for gameplay purposes. It's there for a quick reference while roleplaying. They're cliffnotes for your character.
I'm playing a Lawful Evil character in a party with two LG players, three CG characters, two NG characters, and one CN. He is the leader's right hand man. He acts like everyone's demanding but well-meaning stepdad. He constantly tries to get everyone to mind their manners, do their chores, repairs the ever-deteriorating wagon and sews their clothing. He sees his place in life as making sure things run as smoothly as possible for his people. He recently got everyone a bag with a 500 gp diamond and some odd and ends to wear around their neck so that they may be resurrected easier.
He also conducted a highly illegal abduction/torture session on a slaver, shot a man in front of his family for dishonoring the character's dead parents, and has taken contracts on relatively innocent people for money. He's intimidated witnesses, used wounded enemies as bait, and has no compunctions at all about using violence on anyone or anything provided they're between the party and it's goals.
That is an awesome character.
Same, a warlock that is helping the good party because the current BBEG wants to destroy the world and that does not fit into my plans.
I had planned something like that and the DM went "nooouuuuuu! You can't play an evil character in a good-leaning group!"
@@Merrsharr Your DM needs to watch 007 movies, because even though James Bond is one of the Good Guys, he is not a Good Guy.
I always just translated LE as "evil but not immoral" meaning they'll do some truly despicable things but they have lines or people they won't cross.
22:00 I've never went from "Wow, your DM hates you" to "Wow, your DM loves you guys." This quickly
Our DM is complicated (doesn't help we have three DM's bouncing ideas off each other to see who can pull the biggest stunt on the party while remaining in a theoretically possible state).
@@Airier who knew your dm is literally a hydra
AirierGames: Are i the Baddies?
Rest of his party: YES!
also there are a TON of ways players have mounted wands into other things over the years
I really really hate these people that don't give any consistency on a character.
@@ianesgrecia8568 what is consistency
@@tpxt-rexpredatorxenomorph9200 regularity; smoothness; repetition; reliability
airier: "am i the bad guy?"
me: YES! He said the thing!!!
'A barbarian with a bow?'
Some of these videos do reference The Unexpectables & Borky is a barbarian with a bow now... admittedly he does forget because it's simpler to just suplex and use the big magic talking sword instead.
Dont forget our lord and savior gripples
I am still three years behind on that show
it's time ....
I don’t know about putting wands inside of swords, but I do know that a warlock with the pact of the blade can use the eldritch invocation “Improved pact weapon” to allow them to use their pact weapon as an arcane focus. This means that they could cast spells from their pact weapon as if it was a wand. This means that a warlock could point their sword at an enemy as if it was a gun, and shoot eldritch blast out of the tip. Not only that, but thanks to some other eldritch invocations that buff eldritch blast, you could essentially turn your sword into an eldritch blast sniper rifle.
Artificers can also infuse spells from their spell list into a simple or martial weapon, said spells being able to be used a number of times equal to the Artificer's INT mod doubled (minimum of two)
So you can just infuse Fire Bolt into a Longsword, point it at an enemy like a gun, and boom
@@apossiblyhereticalalphaleg3595 Cantrips cannot be Infused RAW
@@ShankMugen Either way, they still get other leveled damage spells, and if sub-class spells count as artificer spell list (I don't think they do but yeah) you could technically just put Fireball in if you're an artillerist I'm pretty sure
@@apossiblyhereticalalphaleg3595 Subclass Spells specifically say they count as Class Spells for you if they are not already your Class Spells, for all Classes, so they can be Infused, and no you cannot put Fireball because the Spell Storing Item only allows 1st and 2nd Level Spells, and Fireball is 3rd Level
There is in fact a Feat called Spell Sniper, so combining that with Eldritch Spear would give you a 600 foot attack range, while ignoring half and three-fourth cover.
When I saw the bard in a fur suit I just imagined my rogue character awkwardly walking up to some guards *roll charisma nat 20* "me am guard" and the they like "ok he gotta be I mean he said so"
As long as everybody has fun, who cares how you play. As long as your memes don't actively cause other players discomfort, you do you.
Fun Fact: Originally Alignment was just lawful vs chaotic, good and evil where added later.
More specifically; it was originally Good and Evil, but they called it "Law" and "Chaos" to riff off of Moorcock.
@@JohnRaines why does that somehow sound better than fourth edition method
@@empireyouth5791 Because 4th's was literally just "Good, Evil, Super Good, Super Evil, and None Of The Above"
@@JohnRaines Fairpoint
These were also the times when Elf, Dwarf, and Halfling were classes.
Yes! Airier said Gobbo!
ONE OF US ONE OF US ONE OF US ONE OF US
The ideals bonds and flaws can be very helpful but it depends, mostly it seems to me to be for when you build a character from their backstory up instead of from their class up
Yeah, it helps me turn concepts for my character into actual characters.
I Very much Suggest Checking out his "Crap Guide to Dungeon Master"
Tis Beautiful
It is a work of art, and a very ambitious cross-over on the scale of Endgame.
Soon, my friend, soon
NOBODY CARES, MATT MERCER!
“ aww man... “
@@TheUnholyHandGrenade even made him drop his pool noodles...
Concerning the personality traits, flaws and bonds, I always considered it something meant more for the DM than the user of the character. A bond is a powerful tool for a DM to exploit and pull a player character in a certain direction, while personality traits are used to offer opportunities for the players to easily earn inspiration upon following through with the trait when the DM attempts to railroad characters in a certain situation. Flaws I personally think is a good reminder that your character isn't perfect and that you can't always play for the most meta option, but have to deal with certain things that differ between you and your character. Unless, of course, you share a flaw with your character.
So again it is useless... way to go 5th edition
@@jackthorton10 It's cliff notes for the DM that don't get buried in all the other notes that a DM has.
@@leadpaintchips9461 Oh.... my bad
@@jackthorton10 Ya, delegating some of the note taking (specifically for the PC's own characters) is a good way to help out a DM.
Some DM's don't need that, just like some players don't need notes on their own character. It's as useful as the group needs it to be.
@@leadpaintchips9461 I see
Ranger became playable faster than Airier became self aware.
I'm currently playing a LE character... and I'm also the moral compass and leader of the group
....'-' well
... I see nothing bad happening with that at all. 🤣
I describe my character as a mixture of Agent Smith from the Matrix and Grand Moff Tarkin and the party somehow decides I'm the one to be consulted on moral matters.
@@Malroth00Returns lol nice. Mine I'd describe as a mixture of Nico Machiavelli and Grand Admiral Thrawn. Unfortunately the rest of my party went full murderhobo so opportunities to do political machinations to manipulate friends into fighting enemies and my weaker enemies into fighting my stronger enemies were few and far between
Sword Wand/Staff/Spell Casting Focus:
Short answer: depends on DM for most classes.
Long(er) answer: when making a character you can choose to have either a casting focus [wand/staff/gem/book/etc.] Or spell components [Bat Sh*t & Sulphur].
Most classss specifically say you can use certain items as your focus [Wizard: spell book, Cleric/Paladin: holy symbol], but depending on your DM you can have say a stick be your focus.
As for the sword, the Bard Subclass "College of Swords" has a specific feature that let's you use your weapon as your focus, meaning you'll now be able to use your Scimitar as a wand or a short sword as seen in the Video.
And Now you know how to use a sword as a spell gun; you're welcome.
Yup the DM in the end is the person who actually makes the rules
Or you can be an artificer artillerist who literally creates gun wands in game as a spell focus.
@@DndBirb8659 You mean like Constanze from Little Witch Academia?
30:15 that's called a Ruby of a War Mage. Stick it to a weapon and it becomes your casting tool.
Or just be an artificer and attach a GUN to your melle weapon...
Mosquette strat.
Hello again, I'm going to support you somehow and you can't stop me.
You madman
I don't know about putting a wand inside a sword, but in one of our current campaigns, the DM gave my druid a homebrewed staff called the Angels Tear that acts as essentially a spell sniper rifle where it allows me to cast touch spells at a range of 15 ft. and increase the range of all other spells by 1.5x.
in the Star Wars expanded universe, there was a Jedi who made a sniper rifle that used lightsabers as ammo; it had an interplanetary range but only managed a handful of shots before the lightsaber was burnt out and completely unusable; the Jedi Council excommunicated them for treating lightsabers like that
@@CorvusCorone68 Considering that most personal 'armor' in star wars is about as effective as butter, that seems needlessly complex for anything other that starship.
@@linkblade0 i think that librarian Jedi tried to use it to snipe the Emperor, only to be defeated by Vader
A living person can be a random, meme-y weirdo but as the game goes it should be expected for them to change. if they stay the same person the party will get sick of the bit and the character will realized they have nothing but the jokes
1. "OMG! I'm THAT guy"
Well, realizing it is a step in the right direction, right?
2. "Personality, Ideals, Bonds, and Flaws just take up space."
...oh, wow, you're THAT guy.
Two ways to do the Sword thing that I know of:
- See if the DM will let you make/buy a wand/staff in the shape of a Sword, just make sure to tell the DM it’s a cosmetic option and won’t be used as a melee weapon. Then it’s just down to the DM to see if they’ll let it through.
- Become a class that can use weapons as spellcasting focuses. These usually need a subclass to do so but once gotten, you can use a (usually) melee weapon as your wand/staff. The plus side here is that going into these abilities means you’ll be given some extra abilities on top to make sure you don’t die so easily as a spellcaster with a Longsword.
I know in some editions of D&D there are magic items called Songblades, which Bards csn use as spell focuses.
Airier the Paladin is just vaguely disappointed in her wife dw.
JoCrap would be an epic drill sergeant
You are in for a wild ride with JoCat's DM video
30:00
Heya, Dungeon Master here.
I would absolutely allow you to do this, if you can modify a sword to attach a wand to it. There's just a couple things to keep in mind.
First and foremost, attunement.
If the wand requires attunement then you may have trouble justifying your ability to properly wield it if you're not in direct contact with it when you try to use any of it's effects. If it's just a wand that anyone can use then no problem.
Second, this will not give you additional actions per turn.
Using an object counts as taking an action, and you (normally) get one action per turn in combat. So you will not be able to swing the sword (attack action) and use the wand (use item action) in the same turn.
LE is one of my favorite to play honestly; the classic mob boss archetype is REALLY fun to play with a mostly Neutral or Good party lol
As far as I know, the only creatures with a stat higher than 24 (which is the max STR for level 20 barbars) are indeed high-end monsters like the Tarrasque, Tiamat's Avatar, Ancient Dragons, some Adult Dragons and certain Giants
Players can get their hands on special books that increase certain stats and that's stat's cap by 2. Granted after being read the book takes 100 years to recharge, so you will need to find multiples, or play a very long lived race/class.
@@Ashtari Oh yeah I forgot about those books, so theoretically a Gnome could probably get 30 in a stat if they have a book from a very early age, as an example since Gnomes are one of the most long-lived races
Ranger here, got one word: Magic.
Seriously there's so much you can do with the kit, especially now. For sure the vanilla PHB version was lackluster, but that's old news. I'm tempted to say Gloomstalkers, Swarmkeepers and the new Beastmasters can overthrow most Fighter builds and a bunch of Rogue builds fairly simply.
Also, as for your hidden wand pondering... technically you kind of have to be wielding it in the first place, BUT as most D&D problems can be handled, talk to your DM, maybe you guys can make it work, maybe you won't but at least you have better odds if you talk things out.
What no one ever recognizes, because the core abilities are lackluster, is that rangers, even the phb ones, are mechanically better than pretty much any non caster and have advantages over some other classes which are mechanically better, such as paladin. Like the fact that their abilities tend to work both with ranged and melee builds, even though ranged is usually the better option, for example.
@@josh-mf7lt I can't say for sure how general that would be, but the fact alone that at my table, even when players pick a caster, they play them very martial. Like the Cleric will only really cast Shield of Faith, the Paladin refuses to cast any spell (like dude, you got Hold Person, I guess you don't like auto crit smites?). Warlock can ONLY cast Eldritch Blast and so on. It would be one thing to say play for the memes, but it's like when they get upset that the Ranger is actually outpacing them... like sorry bud.
The party pitied me at first and gave me a free Wolf (thematically it makes sense I guess) and even joked about making it a Dire Wolf... next session they were asking me to leave it behind (and actually got him killed themselves) cuz we were ripping through like like 4 orcs and an ogre on our own while the rest of the party was struggling to just stay standing.
But then of course they'd value critting on a 19 and Action Surge once every now and then when 95% of their actions are "I hit with the sword"
Here’s how I make a D&D character:
I choose from one of my OCs to become the poor soul under my D&D Beyond wrath (because I’m too lazy to write this all on paper) and then start researching what type of character they should be (the only exception is my first D&D character, Leaf-I didn’t know what an essential kit was so I just trusted all my knowledge to Jocat’s crap guides without research since I was a lazy shmuck 😀)
Actually Rangers just got a whole new overhaul of abilities and stuff haven't read what they've done to The Beastmaster skill yet but can't wait to read it 😎👍
The Beast Master Upgrade is amazing. I play it and it is so much fun
your spirit beast choises now dont die as fast and the damage is consistant. basicaly much much better at combat and adaptability in terrain cause you can change form, at the cost of utility and pasives that your chosen beast companion could have. still weak if dm just focuses your pet
Airier's 'Learning Face' is cool to look at lol
People's "Learning Face" is the whole reason I want to be a Teacher.
Alignment matters if you want it to matter. Some people feel like your putting your self in a box but it's just setting your characters mind set.
that's kinda how I've thought about it. But then I usually view alignment as an internal metric as opposed to some of the other people I've played with who view it as how everyone else should view the character.
Scoping with your wand(gigity) is flavor. When you make an attack or cast a spell, you describe how ever you like it to happen, hit or miss, succed or fail.
Have fun with the results of your roll.
If you want to shoot magic out of a weapon you should take the warcaster feat. Normally when you cast a spell you need one hand free to hold some kind of spell focus and the other hand to do somatic the component of the spell (AKA fancy magical hand movements). This is why most spell casters can not cast spells and hold weapons or shields at the same time. However if you have the warcaster feat you can do the somatic component (fancy magical hand movements), even with a weapon or shield in your hand. Basically this feat will free up one of your hands to hold other stuff like a weapon or a shield or whatever. It has a couple more really good effects, but I’m not talking about those right now. Plus if your spell doesn’t need a focus even better now you got two free hands to wield a shield AND a weapon, or even join the legendary buff-guys-only club and use a TWO-HANDED weapon! This way you can effectively shoot magic out of your weapons. This is because you can really choose to shoot magic out of any part of your body or things your holding, but now, with this feat, you can also shoot magic from the weapon you can now hold in your newly freed hand if you want. The warcaster feat is great for castors that use a lot of somatic and focus related spells who also want to get in on that weapon action. Also a must-have for eldritch knights (I used this feat along with the spell sniper feat to turn my greatsword into an incredibly effective 240ft range magical sniper rifle).
Hope that made sense!
I don’t know about putting a focus into a sleeve or imbedding it into a weapon. It sounds cool but I think you might have to be touching the focus in order to be attuned or use it. I think it’s really up to your DM to determine if, and how that could work.
Best part is watching Air get personally attacked over and over and realize he is the bad guy. 29:30. The look of dawning realization his face is so adorable. Also at 4:54 for a single frame he slipped in another disclaimer about not taking it seriously.
I had a pact of the tome warlock who had the shillelagh cantrip, his club looked like a combination of a cricket bat and LOTR elf sword, with a slot in the back for his tome. The tome had a slot in the spine for a wand of the war mage, which acted as a scope for his ELDRITCH BLAST.
I'm glad we had this talk too XD
“That is a level of fetish I am not okay with comprehending”
Sounds about right
To your wand question, as DM I say it depends on the make, if you're clever, and if the 'holder' has an 'exit' for the spell. Otherwise you're blowing your own spell up inside the cover.
My two requirements would be One you must have an area where your hand touches the original item. And the place where the magic bits comes out exposed. Otherwise you'll either not be able to fire it, or blow it up in your hands.
"Is the bard hiding inside a furniture owlbear?" It's called disguise you uncultured swine!
Ja of course, I love your content ❤
he said fursuit; as in a costume made to look like an animal, specifically referring to the ones "furries" wear, furries being people who are sexually attracted to anthropomorphized animals, animals with human characteristics
@@CorvusCorone68 Furries always have overly cartoonish designs out of Disney and Looney Tunes while fantasy and sci-fi races that happens to be hyper evolved animals tend to have a more 'grounded/realistic' design.
I think the wand idea works so long as you find a way to be holding it at the bottom of it. Maybe integrating it into the grip or the hilt.
I love how JoCat refers to the ability scores section of the character sheet as a “tower of pimps that dictate everything you do in the game”
“Oh god +10”
Me who was allowed to play a class that let me infinitely add asi’s to my str
*LAUGHS IN 32 STR*
Concerning the question at 30:30. No, you could totally do that if you wanted to. You'd have to okay it with the DM, but there's no hard rule saying you can't try to conceal a wand. You could also use illusions if you wanted.
They are now called Gobos
Airlier: I'm that guy.
Everyone: You're the baaad guy.....
Duh.
When my fellow DMs and I set out to make our own gaming system for our homebrew campaign setting we based it on AD&D 2nd Edition... First thing we did was chuck alignment straight out the window. LoL :)
I use that chart as a DM (ideals/flaws, etc.) To guide giving inspiration out. Since players, cant bother and tend to meta, however shortly after forcing the players to think that way, all the meme'ing and murder hobo stopped.
The fact that you didn't get the lemon tree joke shows your innocence.
The only true way to be chaotic is to be chaotic neutral and roll for everything. Are you going to enter the tavern? Flip a coin. What are you going to that turn? Roll a dice
So, Airier... Chaotic Stupid or Neutral Stupid?
I’m betting chaotic stupid
Ive actually played a Lawful Evil character before. Was one of my more fun ones. Was part of an assassin order, and tended more towards "lack of empathy," over "active menace," for flavor of Evil. Played her as a bit of an indoctrinated young idealist who kinda believed she and the order were doing necessary work ("necessary," for a sort of balance. Not necessarily "greater good.") Eventually she started slowly shifting away from the Evil side of things, but she was fun as hell to play, considering i rarely stray from genuinely good/caring characters.
Don't know anything about wand covering, but there is the Ruby of the War Mage, a common magic item that allows you to turn a weapon into a spellcasting focus.
Concerning covering a magical focus, I believe there are weapons that come with a slot for magical foci in place, so you can place a wand inside of a real sword.
Airier watching the video: “Maybe I am a Monster”
I like the alignment chart, but only because my first exposure to DnD was from the MMO, where your alignment was like a pokemon type and let you use some nifty equipment.
In older editions there were a lot more direct interactions with alignment. Like instead of “Detect Good and Evil”, which just gives a vague sense of alignment and only for INHERENTLY good or evil creatures like demons and angels, old-school clerics had spells like “Know alignment” which did exactly what it says on the tin, without doubt, for anyone it was cast on. And a lot more artifacts and beings explicitly cared about your alignment and would react differently to differently-aligned characters. I didn’t play enough DDO to remember whether it was more or less important there than in the tabletop edition (3.5) it was based on, but it was much more important even on the tabletop back then. 5e’s design team decided that it was too easy for the party murder hobo to say “okay, I’ll wait to kill them all *until* you check their alignment and prove that they deserve it” to avoid real moral dilemmas, so they toned it down significantly.
I think JoCat has joined an online campaign being DM'd by Arcadum.
My favorite part of the charisma caster group image is that, while Pally is face palming you can see her smiling behind her hand.
That moment you finally figure out that YOU are, in fact, “That Guy”
36:34 I think it’s more of a way to display to the DM how you are going to RP them and give something the DM to use. Plus, it helps flesh out the concept of the character when you are making them, helps you work out how you want to RP them when you first start out, and creates a stronger bond between you and your character since the more you design an character, the more attached you get.
The Proficiency Bonus part is part of why JoCat hyped up Bard with Jack-of-All-Trades and Expertise, as Proficiency is the "I know what I'm doing, genuinely' bonus to anything you're skilled at doing.
Just to break it down and give you an idea:
- Jack of all trades (which is at lv2) adds half your proficiency bonus to anything you don't have proficiency in already, so right at lv2, that's +1 to everything that's not already getting +2
- Expertise (at lv3, then again at lv10) lets you pick two skills you're proficient with and double the proficiency bonus, so at lv3 that's two skills going from +2 to +4 instantly, and 4 skills with a whopping +8 at lv10 (assuming your base modifier would be at least +0 before that)
- With College of Lore (lv3) you can pick 3 skills to become proficient with, meaning you can gain 3 new proficiencies and immediately super-charge two of them with Expertise.
- With College of Eloquence (Silver Tongue, lv3), any Persuasion or Deception check made with Charisma treats any rolls of 9 or below as a 10.
"are there rules against putting a wand or staff inside of a covering?"
Boy, do I have a spell for you: Shillelagh!
30:30 - Not sure about rules for newer editions but, I've been a DM for over 30 years and I'd say it depends on the spell. Any spell where effects just happen to a target would be fine. But for spells where a power is released from the casting source, the "target" would be whatever is covering your wand. Spells like fireball could be particularly devastating to the group.
Really, it also depends on what kind of DM you have too. All of my old DMs I had as a kid would say "Your character doesn't know" if asked this question. So you'd be forced to trial and error your way to an answer. x_x
The reason we use both saves and modifiers on the sheet is three-fold:
First, Saves can get Proficiency Bonus, but the base Stat Modifiers can't.
Second is that some things (skills, spells, Feats, etc), can add permanent or temporary bonuses to saving throws, but not stat modifiers.
Third, stats (and thus, modifiers) have an effect on literally ANYTHING you want to do, whereas saving throws are mostly for those 'oh s&!%, move!' emergency moments.
The short answer is that the modifier is the most-important and least-altered number (at least in a round-to-round basis), so it gets its own top billing on the character sheet.
Usually using an item means holding it in your hand. If dm allows it, then sure, this sword will count as both
The character traits and alignment chart are really for the players who actually roleplay in a roleplaying game.
Sometimes they develop or change over time, usually gradually or suddenly if a serious event changed you. For example by Tabaxi Monk/Cleric "Plate of Copper (Copper)" wasn't initially enamored by magic, and especially magic *fire* until shortly after the campaign began and used kobold grenades and then later his fireball necklace.
Also I didn't know what feline trait to give him, but slowly I realised how I behaved when things were trying to run away and I realised that one of his key traits and potentially flaw is he cannot resist the urge to give chase (or at least the first attempt). From the fleeing survivor from an orc ambush to kobolds retreating to alert their allies to a metal man running from the scene of a crime, if it's running away you can be certain Copper *will* chase it.
Eldrich knight uses a sword with spells, but cannot use a spellcasting focus, instead requiring a hand free to grab materials. Xanathar's has a magic item called "Ruby of the War Mage" that can be added to a weapon and allows Eldrich knight and arcane tricksters to use it as a casting focus despite not normally being allowed. So you can get the ruby, affix it to a sword and then aim it as you wish... Another idea would be having a wand of (insert spell) made to be a sword hilt grip panel, then having it put onto a custom sword xD
The fact you like cheese and mayo explains so much
They are my defining character traits. 😁
In fairness, just because you're That Guy doesn't mean your group is mad about it. Sometimes That Guy energy makes the table more fun for others (yes, even for the DM).
Worse, our DM is a THAT GUY but for the enemy bosses (he decided to see how far he could push a party of eight lv 26 adventures. Six hours later he admitted we beat the first phase).
@@Airier I feel your pain, my last DM was also a That Guy for his bosses, and then he'd always engineer the "perfect" escape plan for them once they got low, and if it failed, they would immediately turn around and start one shotting party members until they got away anyways. 🤣
Damn it, now I wanna build a Barbarian with a bow who hits people.
I like to make my own bad jokes when designing DND characters I'll never play because I have no friends. Like the elf bard who's actually a human pretending to be an elf; an elvish impersonator.
This is making me think of something I want brought back in 5E, my favorite class from a 3.5 Kingdoms of Kalamar splatbook: Cleric of Merciful Fate.
Comparison between regular clerics.
Cons: CoMF cannot use piercing or slashing weapons, they cannot coup de grace, they can’t use medium armor or heavy shields, and they have D6 hit die.
Pros: Can use any “Conjuration(Healing)” spells 1Spell level lower than normal. Using Cure Light Wounds as a Cantrip/Orison/Level 0 Spell, use Neutralize Poison as a Level 3 Spell, etc.
Domain and unique feat add more to how much a CoMF will heal with Cure spells/healing spells in general.
Alternate Channeling: Feat allows a use of “Turn Undead” to be used in a religion specific way. CoMF AC: All allies in 30ft add the CoMF Charisma Modifier to ALL Saves and Skill Checks for 15 minutes.
The first is the most important, because in 3.5, it actually makes it reasonable to use Metamagic as a Cleric, because otherwise it’s too expensive. I was able to be EFFECTIVE in battles (my goddamn dice hate me) by becoming LAZER JESUS.
Proficiency does not determine tiers.
1-4 is tier one, 5-9 is tier two, 10-14 is tier three, and 15+ is tier four.
The proficiency chart has 5 sections.
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It really Really depends on your dm and how they will rule it. (and how you pitch it)
regarding the 30 min covered wand thing, if you become a hexbalde warlock and take pact of the blade you can use your sword as the wand (you can use your pact weapon as your spell focas)
30:10 The War Caster feat allows you to cast spells when your hands are otherwise occupied (by a sword or shield) and there's some class options (cleric, paladin, druid and hexblade warlock) who can cast through a shield or weapon.
Grabuljean, remember from Druid JoCat vid?
"Cool animals, like my OC, Grabuljean, the Nocturnal Giant Toad! DON'T STEAL!"
“But mourn them ye shall not, for they are weak ass bitches”
Always cracks me up
There has been talk in Viva la Dirt League D&D game of replacing the barbarian with a sound board. "I hit it with my axe" "Rage" Etc...
thanks for point out a loop hole in wand use, all wands in my game will now require somatic components to prevent Concealed Carry wands.
"You're evil."
"No, because alignment is subjective. Y O U don't get to decide who is good or evil!"
*I do.*
"Wha-?"
*I do*
"...But... You're a god."
*Yes... And I get to decide who is good and who is evil. Because that is my job.*
"...Oh."
There, solved your alignment issues. Nobody gets to decide alignments, except for the Gods.
Actually, in DnD specifically, that's an interesting question. Considering how the portfolio system works, do the gods get to choose their own alignment, or did the local overgod (AO in the forgotten realms) hand down these roles? 🤔
@@Airier The highest ranking God pertaining to alignments decides who is what, overall, in my book. In homebrew, its up to the DM, but... I'd say probably the local Overgod, or the God specifically assigned by said Overgod to be the God of an Alignment.
Though, personally, I go for more of a "The Alignment system is how society/NPCs and the Gods have judged your most recent actions and overall behavior". Because I keep getting wannabe philosophers in my games, trying to argue that they're not evil, because evil is subjective.
Look, just because you don't think its evil to gut that noblewoman because she was a bitch to someone in the party doesn't mean your action wasn't evil.
Knew one player who made a character that claimed to be an evil mad scientist, but what he considered "evil" was leaving the toilet seat up after using it or throwing cans into the trash instead of recycling.
30:20 the ruby of the warmage item lets you designate one weapon to use as a wand, and the Improved Pact Weapon eldritch invocation does the same automatically for any weapon summoned with the warlock's Pact Of The Blade pact boon.
As an artificer, you can use any magic weapon you're attuned with as an arcane focus.
i've played neutral evil before. was a pretty fun character, who actually ended up dying to save the rest of the group. we have also had what i call the "chaotic stupid" player, who was trying to also be neutral evil. attacking guards and/or town leaders because they were our ultimate target, but with no thought for consequences. walking up to the leader of the contenent and saying "i'm the one who wiped that town off the map" for no apparent reason is not a good idea. he actually asked the group if he should change characters. the consensus was that he should shift how the character was played moving forward (i did similar with my first evil character), but also realize that if his character did something stupid, the group wouldn't feel super obligated to bail him out.
I'm gonna point out for sorcerer, you only get a fistful of the spells available to your class, but they are all always prepared. you can change a spell out any time you level up, and up through around level 12 you gain another spell every level or so. so early on you could change a spell out AND pick up a new spell. i play a fair bit of sorcerer.
OH! also Referring back to my First Comment if pay Attention to the Beginning the little Part where you see all the Figures in the Guide to dungeon Master you can see the Paladin and Bard Holding Hands-
The firt step is realization, it is fine. You learn as you live
The only way to get a score above 24 is to attune to a belt of giant strength and the hammer of thunderbolts, while wearing gauntlets of ogre power.
Nope, there's special manuals that if you read them (takes 48 hours of reading spread over 8 days) you will get a +2 in the stat that the book is for AND your maximum stat possibility also increases by 2. My DM rewarded my rogue with one after a tournament arc so my rogue has a dex of 22. That being said, to get another increase she'll either have to find another manual or wait 100 years for the book to recharge. That being said..she's a high elf so not impossible.
@@Ashtari The Tomes and Manuals only get your score max to 22, and from what I understand you can only gain the benefit of each once. The Book of Exulted Deeds can get you to 24, but beyond that a combination of magic items is the only way to get to 30, and it's Strength only.
@@leonielson7138 Odd, it doesn't mention that in the item description I've read. And I didn't know about the Book of Exalted deeds. That sounds like a pretty cool item.
@@Ashtari It's elsewhere in the DMG. I'm not completely sure it applies to the Manuals and Tomes, but you can't attune to items with the same name - you can't dual wield sun swords or rods of the pact keeper.
@@leonielson7138 the manuals/tomes aren't attuned so you read them and you're done with them.
Asking bout a covered magic item:
My technomancer - hexblade - had a cybernetic arm that integrated to her whole body through nano machines and fibers.
Her casting focus was her cybernetic eye that gave her devils sight.
Trying to play an extraterrestrial and mingle in the middle ages equivalent where people saw your technological improvements as magic was a good challenge.
The above base concept can be copied for sorc or wiz as well as their abilities fit thematically.
Don't forget your wiz book can look like anything...like the item people confuse with a nipple piercing which is actually a DNA lock for the bio crystals that store the knowledge and need a recharge when expanded and you can insert them into your cybernetic arm for the daily prepared "spells".
For rituals you "summon" your Omni tool and copy the quantum patterns to create a reality that is desired.
Want to cast commune cause you're a time lock or a divsoul? Cool, just do probability Schroedinger calculations overflowing your integrated cyber RAM.
Also I made a hexblade vampirate. When she shot her pistols - ELDRITCHBLAST - her pistol manifested in her hand and after the shot it turned back to smoke - was good for intimidation.
Also her being a vampirate was the reason she could be a hexblade and I pushed my GM to give me dramatic and morally grey situations. He didn't like it at first but the party was so invested in what actually happens in my stories they behind my back - in game and irl - made a plot to free me from my vamp lord and still get to keep my powers. How a character concept and a little convincing - I have after all been playing RPGs for 23+years - can make for the best of stories. Don't get me wrong the main campaign was also awesome for the GMs 2nd one, it was epic, but the big runner up was my characters story.
I've also had paladins or fighters with magic initiate for my sister of battle or space marine themed characters. The EB was the bolter.
Theme your stuff however the GM lets you.
To answer the question about the wand in a sheath, maybe? Technically anything goes as long as your DM will allow it. Personally I think it may qualify as a problem for a spell’s somatic component (that means any physical movements or gestures that are needed to cast the spell, which is why most wizards need one or both hands free while casting).
Why do you have 12 Dex, when only the +1 mod is relevant 99% of the time?
To quote the musical: TRADITION!
Back in yon olde editions, each stat didn't just have one modifier, but rather multiple derived stats: from raw +to hit/damage with missile weapons to more specific cases like 2nd edition's percentile-based "bend bars/lift gates" strength derived stat. the raw stat number was also used if the GM needed to check something that wasn't particularly covered by the derivatives through a roll under system. You want to know if you succeed at that brain puzzle, Mr.Fighterman? well you better roll under your 7int with a d20 to not look like an unpitiable fool, so hope for the best.
Another thing to note is that even though rolling was the general method of the time, the modifiers and bonuses weren't linear, but rather more skewerd towards the extremes of a bell curve, with the middle-ish numbers being very workable. the differences between a 7 and a 14 in 2e for example are less pronounced in play then say, a 7(-2) and 14(+2) in 5e. 7 was less of a detriment and more of "not a boon", it's only at the extremes, 16-18 or very low 5-3, you start seeing things like exceptional strength, where upon getting 18str you rolled again to determine how even more badass your strength combat mods were.
It's from 3e and forwards, we largely just use the derived mod+skill/attack bonus/whatever and hope you roll good, and honestly, we can do without the base stat since all it does is derive the one number we do use. We still see the base stat used in things like feat requirements or "you must STR this good to not suck with full plate", but that can be simplified again to use the modifier like everything else, truth be told.
You neglect Flaws?
They put spice in your campaign!
I had a Wizard who's Flaw was "gain knowledge no matter what", she got gifted a Necronomicon by a 'friend' of the Party, she them MC'd to GOOlock.