Davvy's Guide to Wildemount
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Take *Fighter* , then go *Echo Knight* , then dip into *Bard* .
Congratulations!
You are now a one man band!
Mr.Satterday *WE ARE NUMBER ONE INTENSIFIES*
@@BoredTAK5000 *I AM NUMBER ONE INTENSIFIES*
Also wizard so you can rise the dead as backup dancers
Echo knight dip into shadow monk = Ninja, Noob Saibot
Echo Knight + Paladin Vengance Half elf Drow or Half orc Great Sword
= Ganondorf
Multiclass as Necromancer and Bard for some THRILLER NIGHT
Brennan Lee Mulligan weeping over his copy of Explorer's Guide to Wildemount is one of the best photos I've ever seen.
I love BLM, and I had to put it in the vid when I saw him post it to Twitter.
where?
edit: 5:33
@@olivesantos1840 5:34
Yeah, now let's hope we get a Teenager's Guide to Spyre
They were Canonised. _Literally._
and shot out to the public in a cannon.
“This book has literally every race released”
*cries in Triton
*pats back in kobold*
Ngl, even if the Ravnica shot was a joke I feel personally attacked. Ravnica is still imo the best setting released so far.
*Sorrowfully trembles in warforged*
@@malmasterson3890 ikr? It's so unique from most other fantasy worlds
@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 It doesn't follow any normal tropes and instead takes on these two unique concepts and blends them into one. A massive cityscape that covers the majority of the plane, and an alliance of guilds carrying their own individual weight & influence to the city. It's like if the Hunger Games and Coruscant came together in a high fantasy world! The amount of replayability, ease of use, and variety of possible MTG inspired adventures truly sells it.
All that said, Eberron is a well fleshed out world with a great mix of Steampunk & high fantasy, and Wildemount is like the darling child of 5th edition and the celebration of our success as a hobby over the last half decade, so neither of them are far behind,. Theros is going to add to that ever expanding list of grest settings too with a Greco- Roman god & demigod focused setting. Needless to say, 5th edition is in a really good spot right now.
If you successfully pull off a time warp around a Baby Dragon it’ll age into a much more powerful Thousand Dragon. Such is the power of the Time Wizard.
good reference
That Dark Sage trick though... 👌
Be a warforge time wizard.
@@Lord_Xonaz Throw in Clockwork Soul sorcerer for all the timey wimey machinery bits and bobs. 👍
@Matt Greczy Or toss the dragon into a Sphinx Lair and wait for it to come out. Seriously, how does no one EVER talk about the Sphinx and it's crazy Time Lair?! ITS UNTAPPED RP POTENTIAL!
Davvy Chappy: "The HC only concerns itself with aspects of your backstory that are likely to make a direct impact on your game."
*laughs in favorite food*
Dude, if your favorite food doesn't come up in game, your roleplay is not hardcore enough.
All my players have signature foods, the best being the goblin's tea, because no one knows where it comes from or how it cooks so quickly.
@@blindbeholder9713 I think we all know where their tea comes from...
@@lukewilson-green5710 of course! They get it from Caduceus!
Favorite food of course comes up. Like it always should.
That might have been added for Laura Bailey alone.
The Orc Warrior charges towards the armored, warhammer wielding Dwarf, ready to strike with his twohanded sword. Getting ready, the Dwarf takes a stronger stance, almost clenching his free Hand to a fist around the reddish glowing Orb he conjured in his Hand, before throwing a fireball at his enemy. The Orc evades the attack with a jump, getting almost blown off his feet by the following Explosion, before staring dumbfounded at the Dwarf.
"How you do that?", he asked.
The Dwarf, not sure how to react to this, nervously fumbles with the shaft of his warhammer. "Er, what... What do you mean?"
"How you throw magic?"
"W-well, I'm a wizard, so I should know how to use spells."
"WHAT?!", the Orc shouted. " You Wizard?! But you wear plate armor and swing big warhammer! Wizard can't do that!"
"Well, I can, because I'm a Dwarf. My people are naturally trained in the use of some weapons like warhammers or the use of light or medium armor."
"That not fair!", the Orc shouted angrily, stomping his foot on the ground and throwing his sword at the ground. " Dwarf can learn fancy spells and use weapons and armor like warrior! Even squishy Elf knows how to use swords when they go being wizard! But me? Nooo!"
"What are talking about?", the Dwarf asked, irritated.
"Me say that no fair! You goody people can use weapons and magic, but me Orc, me has to be warrior to wield sword!"
"What?!", the Dwarf shouted. " You're joking, right?"
"Me wish I was", the Orc exclaimed with hanging shoulders. "But without being warrior, Orc can't even wield butterknife."
"Nonono, that can't be right", the Dwarf said. "You're a Orc, the terror of the free lands, created by a cruel Wargod to fight against the forces of good, and you tell me, without training as a warrior, you can't wield any weapons? I don't understand that!"
Sorrowful the Orc sank to his knees.
"You know what?", the Orc asked, lifting his face to Dwarf, tears welling in his eyes, "Me neither."
With that, big tears started to roll down the Orcs cheeks. The Dwarf, not knowing how to react to this whole Situation, walked a few steps forward, laying his Hand on the shuddering shoulder of the Orc in sympathy.
I have no idea why you wrote this, but that sounds like the makings of a future orc Eldritch Knight
@@MelandBLT
I wrote this mainly as parody of the fact that elves and dwarves have weapon proficiency as a racial trait, while orcs, taking their stats as player race from Volo's, who have that image of brutes and warriors, have nothing like that. As elf or Dwarf, you can still wield some martial weapons if you play as caster, while as an Orc playing as a caster, by choosing that class you litelally learn how to use a butterknife/dagger. Without multiclassing, that probably the closest a Orc caster comes to a martial weapon.
@@derskalde4973 It's why I homebrew their proficiencies personally, but you're not wrong. Wizards needs to wise up to the fact that the "monstrous" races are popular to play and they should be treated like the base races in terms of what they can and can't do.
@@ethanhorn6093
Yeah.
Two things I personally would homebrew:
1. give orcs at least the same weapon proficiency as dwarves.
2. give dragonborn a natural AC similar to lizardfolk, and give them a recharge of their breath weapon at a 5 or 6 on a d6, like Dragons.
@@derskalde4973 there's a feat for the AC
Funny Valentine exist
Matt Mercer: write that down
Nice to see jojo references.
A surprise to be sure, to see a jojoke in here, but a welcome one
act 3 three freeze!
I feel like Pucci would use dunamancy as well, but I’m not sure if he would be a time or gravity wizard.
Dirty Deads Done Dirt Cheap
"Summons a vestige of itself from an alternative timeline"
My heart and actions are utterly unclouded
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THERE IS ALSO A NEW GOBLIN SUBRACE, DUDE! A woodland Goblin who are actually good hearted and in commune with Nature. It's also on Adventures with Muk, but hey, YOU CAN TALK TO SMALL BEASTS, DUDE.
Im not seeing it under goblinkin what page?
@@MechanicBovine weird... I can't find it too...
I know it's on Adventures of Muk, but I'm not finding on the book...
@@Specter053 the book is only on the DMs guild page
I think you mean halfling
@@IamWalkingDead1 no, goblin, the dankwood goblin
I put like four Naruto references in this one. You're welcome weebs.
You edit these?
@@berendkooiker3538 yup
Was that Witch Hunter reference intentional or nah?
@@jovandubuisson1389 I don't thinks so? Can you link the timestamp so I can see what reference I accidentally made?
@@emmaallard5500 8:05 - 8:08
I know this will probably get buried but, how good is this book for someone who isn't a CR follower?
I haven't gotten around to watching it (I will eventually...) but is this a good book for more than just wide-eyed CR fans?
Because, it sounds *great* for them and more power to them, really.
But I'm curious as to if there's enough meat here for someone who doesn't follow the show.
underthepale it’s a good setting with good adventures, it’s made to notnspecifically tie to the show, just the world it takes place in. A good portion of the book is about the continent, it’s locations, cultures, and things but it includes 4 pages of normal magic items, new one forged from the gods of the world, subclasses as he said and spells. The races can fit well in any setting. The book is good for anyone who will enjoy a new setting, or new subclasses, or new spells, or new magic items, or less so interesting new monsters, or a few sub races. I’d recommend it if you like any of those things.
The book was made specifically with people that don't know critical role in mind. It does a great job explaining things that before were barely explained in the show
All of the D&D races gathered in one book, a new setting with well written guides and three new subclasses? This is going above Volo's and Mordenkainen's for must-have books.
I feel like this is an amalgamation of a lot of DnD adventure books rolled into one and made more user friendly.
It still has new sub-races, sub-classes, backgrounds, monsters, and magical items, so I would say yes
5:33
Davvy: shows a picture of Brennan Lee Mulligan
Me: Sees Brennan Lee Mulligan
me: Smiles
Me: Imagines a similar book about Spyre or Candia
Me: Frowns in disappointment because it'll never happen
Is almost like it was made from a dude who actually play DND
Like most other books- no scrap that. All of the books
You say that as if the other setting books aren't. You looking to throw hands boyo?
"made *from* a dude"
Ah, yes, my copy is bound in Mercer-hide
@@NathanTAK hmmmmmmm slurp
@@NathanTAK he learned how to cast clone out of game
2:28 : happens
Me, running a Ravnica campaign: *sobs*
Ravnica is good
And then he used a bunch of Ravnica art anyway.
*pat pat* it’s ok, we appreciate Ravnica like anyone else SHOULD.
Me planning a Ravnica campaign: no u!
I appreciate the setting
To anyone thinking the Gravaturgist is underpowered, get jump plus adjust gravity on and have your barbarian grapple and launch enemies into the sky or suplex them, trust me, doing an extra 6d6 damage with a grapple attack at level 2 is nothing short of ridiculous, especially when you can catch the barb coming down with feather fall,
the only issue is that jumping uses your speed, so the barbarian would only be able to reach a height equal to their remaining movement speed. Assuming your character had a strength score of 20 you would be able to jump 8 feet in the air with a running long jump, this then gets doubled by adjust gravity to 16 feet, and finally tripled tripled to 48 feet. If this is at level 2 though you could only reach a height of 20 feet, since it takes 10 feet of movement to preform a running jump and you cannot move higher than your speed during your turn
you can use the Dash Action to jump the whole 48 feet up, but that does give your grapple target a round to try and break out, and for every 2 points of strength below 20 you have you lose 6 feet of jump distance, so a level 2 barbarian with 16 strength can only jump 36 feet up in one round
PieManiac dude, imagine Tabaxi Barbarian with Mobile. They would be sent into the STRATOSPHERE.
@@tenacityxl if they could get their jump height maxed out, which is 288 feet before factoring in gravaturgy, so you could in theory jump up to 576 feet in the air as long as you had at least 586 feet of movement per round and had every stacking jump buff simultaneously
Dude, Imagine using Adjust Density with Enlarge/Reduce. See a chandelier over an enemy? Just enlarge it and increase its gravity. And Adjust Density would double the enlarged weight of the object. Or Reduce the size of a boulder then reduce its gravity and yeet it. Also at 10 Lvl Adjust Density affects Huge or even smaller objects or creatures.
Could you use Adjust Density on an enemy spell? What would that even do to Fireball? How would that affect a bubble?
“It’s D&D, D&D beyond”
Chrono-mancer warforged, time to make Noximilien the watchmaker a thing in D&D.
I did the same but took a dip into artificer to explain built in abilities www.dndbeyond.com/profile/bwest14/characters/27442751
Ah yes... the voice Jotaro Kujo, Hit and Kiritsugu emiya made time magic... neato.
Even if you dislike the show, you cannot deny the impact they have had on the popularity of the game
Keen to learn the limits of the Graviturgy wizard. Theoretically I just want to be able to lower the weight of a huge monster and scare it by being able to push it away.
It's funny how me and Davvy have the opposite opinions on the wizard subclasses, I find the chronurgy wizard to be quite good but it's abilities have such a long cooldown, with some parts lacking when compared to divination wizards deciding fate. But graviturgy I just love it, all the abilities are low impact but you can keep throwing them out constantly (my love of cantrips may be coming out) Also the level 2 ability while only being a single feature includes 2 different effects which both can simultaneously buff and/or debuff a creature depending on a situation, I just love it.
Also you have a take into account the utility potential of making that indiana Jones Boulder lighter or heavier
The orc printed here is the same as the one on Eberron I believe
Yup. Besides the lore but fuck wildemount race lore anyway
@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 unless you're actually playing in wildemount or wildemount inspired settings.
@@Mr_Maiq_The_Liar I still don't prefer it to any other setting
Eberron also take out the -2 to int for Orc.
I thought it was only ever -1
Can't wait for "How to play Funny Valentine in DnD" with this new fighter subclass
I wish clerics had a Time Domain. Worship a time God get dunamancy.
2:29 I think they didn't do it to make Ravnica unique (my favorite DND setting besides my DM's homebrew and the Forgotten Realms actually) and because those Races are actually unique to Ravnica.
Chronurgy wizard: You're a wizard, Barry
Honestly I love the idea of having the 8 strength wizard bench more than the 24 strength barbarian
No Ravnica support.
/Cries in Vedalken
NO JOKE! I literally JUST got my Wildemount book out of the postal when I got your notification. The gods smile upon me this day!
Considering I haven't been able to watch CR for months, that ending hurt me...
I’d guess the primary purpose of the reprints was for AL. The PHB + one book limitation or whatever really has begun hamstringing things. So reprinting everything into on book makes this book a good point for new people to get into the game (only need one book) and allows for more options in organized play. Someone else probably posted this already. So props to them for being first.
Keith Paff I really feel like it was made to be a compact book that is still beginner friendly in order to allow more people, veterans and newcomers, can enjoy it.
Wildemount is the first Strictly DnD setting introduced to DnD since Ebberon came out in like 2002
Not sure why Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica gets a lot of hate in the D&D sphere, i think its a great setting and was a cool addition to the D&D settings options.
Youre telling me i can use D4C with the echo knight?
Damn
The Echo Knight’s ability to summon echoes of their self reminds me of the concept of the Time Remnant from The Flash
Ouch, My Ravnica
Ok I’m picking up wildemount when I have money
Davvy, the Orc lost the Int penalty in the Eberron book.
This came out literally a few hours before I'm scheduled to DM one of the adventures from this book. And I'm with ya, Davvy; this book is amazing! There's so much content and yet doesn't feel bloated going through it! I love it so much!
Remember, the greatest magic of them all...is chronomamcy. -Arthur Aguefort
you could make a great Dave strider with the rune knight. just putting that out there.
When youre so early there are no good comments
Echo Knight just sounds like I need to create Jamie Madrox from Marvel Comics.
I love playing Echo Knight. My character's an archer to boot so he can be sitting in safety, pissing his pants while the echo takes and gives the hurt. Oh, the echo got hit? Boo-hoo-nus action. Oh, I'm grappled? No, the echo's grappled. The echo is immune to status effects anyway so it can't be grappled.
Triton's, lizardfolk, kobald, and yuan-ti pureblood are not reprinted in the book from Volo's. Also deep gnomes weren't reprinted as well.
Matt is a fan of you Davvy. You, me, Matt, the whole cast of Critical Role and everyone else know it!
Ps. Getting rid of the intelligence negative to Orcs makes me happy
2:09 it's GARfield the DEALS warlock
Why does this not have 2k likes??
Not a CR fan, but I did pick this up... mostly for the Echo Knight, given how Luna was using it to tear through stuff in Necrohunt.
Personally, I'd reskin the echo knight (like Jo and Shelby did) to fit the game. And I LOVE the setting info. It reminds me of the gold standard, the 3e Forgotten Realms main book.
Echo Knight: D4C
Chronergy Wizard: The World
And I guess you could say the Graviturgy Wizard is some combination of Echoes Act 3 and Jumpin' Jack Flash
Overall, it's an amazing book for dnd. I particularly like the arms of the betrayers which are magic items that upgrade themselves as the game goes on. That's super neat and saves me from having to to figure out what the players can do with their old +1 magic items when they find a new +2 one.
My only disappointment was that they didn't include Bloodhunter as an official class or gunslinger as an official fighter subclass. This stings especially bad as they did include a Bloodhunter in the bestiary and they were mentioned several times throughout the book.
You can get the bloodhunter subclass on dm's guild. I think it's a pay what you want pdf download.
edit: same goes for the gunslinger I think
I’m surprised Matt didn’t add the Cobalt Soul Monk into the book. I like the idea of a lore monk that used INT (I like playing high INT characters lol). Makes me a little sad.
And it’s Davvy’s turn,
Davvy’s turn
Davvy’s turnnnn...
TO ROOOOOOOOOLL!
I realized while watching this video, but not because of this video. Dunamancy is where you get your magic from or rather a sub type of magic. There is Arcane that is gifted through the study of magic in its raw form, Divine Magic Selected and then gifted to Mortals by their Patron, And now Dunamancy the study of how to filter Magic specifically to alter reality.
“The Heroic Chronicle has things that will actually be useful.”
Yes, I will use what my favorite food is.
I love this book, except for hollowed One. A 16 or higher to come back to life with 1 hp is ridiculous (If I allow this in the game I have to start double taping players.) Other than that I'm glad wizards of the coast have been supportive about fan made settings becoming published books.
Yeah, its a bit overpowered. As a DM I would scale it up to 18-20 or even 19-20, In case a player wanted to play one.
1:06 tfw a Ravenloft Darklord shows up in my Davvy video about Critical Role
Echo knight: exist
All other fighter's subclasses: -Yeah, Yeah fuck me
Yes. Just glad to be here
the best book ever, sure
While im not a CR fan im glad both them Acquisitions incorporated got canonized.
I'm not gonna lie, that Echo Knight subclass seems pretty sick. I think I might use that the next time I roll up a Fighter.
I love how you’re literally pulling a version of yourself from a different timeline into your own timeline to help you kick ass.
I played my centaur echo knight last night for the first time. It's a lot of fun. My DM spent this morning figure out what I can and cannot do and how to stop me. Me: I'd like to hit it, hit it, and them my echo will hit it, action surge, I hit it again. DM: :( And that's at level 3.
Yeah man. The Echo Knight is awesome. When I roll a fighter I'm definitely playing one.
It does! Imagine multiclassing with it. Also at lvl 7 gives you Echo Avatar that transfers your consciousness to the Echo Knight and let's you see and hear through it as far as 1,000 feet from your body.
I good way to use Echo Avatar would be your party is in danger and you have your Echo write a letter needing help and go to a place within 1,000 ft, and it takes no action to use Echo Avatar. Or use it to go talk to a villain from a safe distance.
This makes me want to see your take on the Acquisitions Incorporated book
Be an echo knight
Use a shield
Get your echo to jump on your shield and boost up
Swap places with your echo
Slam down onto your enemy
Or use a grappling hook
I really believe narratively that your character should die in the Blight Shore or Wastes of Xhorhas for Hollow One to make sense.
Explain. Why do people hate Ravnica?
I think its something to do with mtg
I wanna believe that the Wildemount book and the Exandria book are compatible with each other, sans the blood hunter.
They are... they're different continents in the same world
Arthur Augefort is the best Chronogy wizard of all time.
Time Wizard is broken AF. Give bead with Tiny Hut to familiar. Have familiar cast it in fight and the entire party can duck in and out of the hut as much as they want.
Enemies readying an attack? Go out the opposite side where they don't have line of sight, you'll have disadvantage but they arguably can't trigger their attack.
Cool, I was unsure on whether to get this book but now I'm sold. Wizards really gave their all into making this as comprehensive as they can. I might be able to use this for all my campaigns regardless of setting.
Wizards?
Nooo more like Matt, and the four other free-lancers that worked on the book with him! Wizards mainly just did the editing.
Dude, I didn't know this book was this brick shittingly cool. Well looks like I'll be giving it a shot
So basically echo knights are stand users
"You fool JoJo, no one can beat the might of my stand!! Black person, shape, thing... Its ability let's me hit you..." Proceeds to get pummeled to a pulp.
I actually really like that idea, might seriously make it...
Just thought multiclass into astral self monk.
ehhhh more like the new Way of the Astral Self Monk. They literally made Jojo stands. Go give it a look. I'll wait.
Way of the Astral Self monk is the real stand user. Specially because they go full ora-ora-ora
Everyone talking about Astral Self (Which is just Star Platinum), nobody mentioning the Shadow Sorcerer's Hound of Ill Omen, AKA actually just Highway Star.
D4C!!!
ah ah ah. Not quite every 5e race. It lacks the Yuan-ti pureblood and eberron races, except for the Orc.
8:06. You can't fool me, Chappy! I know Witch Hunter when I see it!
Love you for the Brennan shout out!
Gravity is a harness.
*I have harnessed the harness.*
Echo Knight has got to be the best summoner class in the game.
Seriously, reflavor the echoes to be all sorts of random summoned creatures, have their different attacks use the stats for all the different weapons you carry on you since you're a fighter, pick up a scholarly background to theme yourself as a researcher who found a tome of forbidden eldritch summoning lore, and maybe take a 2 to 5 level dip in war wizard.
Just for the defense trick at lvl 2 and a few key buff spells. Only go to level 5 if you want haste and can't get it from a caster in the party filling your ring of spell storing with haste and shield.
0:28 Davvy acting like he's not a Chad
Specially the WIZARD
I gave a warforged echo knight a test run in a campaign…. And I broke my DM with how many shenanigans I could pull off with it with all the aggro manipulation, mobility, and damage output it gave me as the tank as the rest of the party was squishy.
I love the fact that I liked the Sword Coast Adventure. My friend asked me if that was true and I looked him dead in the eyes and said: "Yes but also no." Book is so dull. I like the content but getting that content out of that book is like squeezing a rock and praying for the rain.
I never: BUT VIDEO GUY anybody. But video guy, you forgot the Halfling hippy subrace! Good video man
I love the idea of Dunamancy, but I really wish at least one of the subclasses was for Sorcerer. I'm so tired of fighter and wizard subclasses, mainly because those are some of my least favorite classes flavor-wise.
I can finally play as Magneto in D&D. Great video.
All races...
Except Kobold. They forgot the cute li'l scaly rats.
And there's some others missing, but I guess Tortles are officially canon now.
I saw a Kobold Knight in the Patron list. Huh.
Guess I'm not the only one that loves the little blighters! FIGHT ON, KOBOLD KNIGHT!
theyve been canon a while now. or are you just talking about exandria canon? because theyve been D&D canon since ToA.
Echo knight is straight up just Dave Strider... also the capstone ability for the ocean paladin is Vriska
Chappy is a switch hitter 👌
wow... those echoknights are just Dave Strider
It doesn’t have yuan-ti or lizardfolk. Not to rain on the parade or be the guy that complains. Just informing people that it’s not every race in the game.
So I just checked and although the book has a lot of races previously released, DnD Beyond doesn't take them as options for your character builder. Only the "Exandria orc".
You know, just in case you're like me and enjoy having everything digitally and were thinking of skipping Volo as a sourcebook and just get this one...
Not gonna lie the echo knight is the coolest sounding thing in the world
"everything"
*cries in warforged*
Wait...I can mess with time...and gravity...?
*Rhinoceros Beetle, A Ghost Town, Pear Tart, Giotto, Angel, Via Dolorosa, Rhinoceros Beetle, Singularity Point, Spiral Staircase, Singularity Point, Rhinoceros Beetle, The secret emperor, Hydrangea, Rhinoceros Beetle!*
Prime numbers...think prime numbers...
GURETO DESUYO
Yo you should really take a look at mage hand press's book dark matter. It's not official but it's the best 3rd party book I've ever seen and more ppl need to know about it.
I wasnt expecting Davvy to just say "I'm a bottom!" like that
No one being should ever be able to control the tops and bottoms. It is a forbidden power too great for mortals to manipulate.
Yuan-Ti purebloods (who rule and are awesome and great) and Kobolds (who’s stats desperately need a re-hash) aren’t in Wildemount. And Kobolds at least should’ve been because they do exist in Wildemount and it is possible to play as one.
Lord Vaust
Ah, Spurt. The memories...
the final chronurgy thing is basically Dr. Strange searching through all 12x10^Too-Many to find THE ONE that succeeds
Fun fact. Graviturgist is the ultimate troll. The best way to play it is to set up area hazards and then constantly force the enemy back into them. Combo with an ally and you can basically be the bully that every wizard wishes they were able to be back when Chad the sorcerer was being a cock back in school