Underrated But AWESOME 4th Level Spells
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4th level is a funny level for spells. 3rd level is hype af, 5th level is hype af, but 4th level is kinda hanging out in the middle not making a fuss, so let's shine a light on some hidden BEASTS of spells!
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Hmmm yes as a fellow British citizen i am also evil
Regarding Summon Greater Demon, do you think that the life of a humanoid could count as a listed cost?
okay but Disintergrate doesn't actually instant kill things dropped to 0 HP RAW
@@MrRukrio1 I don't think the fellas over at WotC anticipated having to specify that piles of fine grey dust can't regain hit points with a long rest.
Arcane Eye; it's even more useful than you let on. Build a cap or crown of Arcane Eye with permanency. Now you always have 360 degree vision with the eye that's active so long as you wear the cap or crown. No need to cast it with concentration, freeing up your normal spell casting ability. Furthermore, it is unaffected by spells or environmental effects that typically blind you. So even if you fail a save against a condition like blindness you can still see with the eye. Given that it's 360 degree vision, you also can't be caught by surprise.
Similarly you can cast it with Persistent Spell for a similar effect without concentration. On D&D Beyond (now One D&D) there are some expanded metamagic feats, one of which is a a variation of Twin Spell. It doesn't expressly state that the spell cast must be a damaging spell. With Metamagic Adept and Multimetamagic you can technically, with this version of the feat, cast two of these Arcane Eyes with Persistence, giving you 24 hours of dual omnidirectional points of vision.
Also, I think you meant the Hound sees into the Ethereal Plane. Seeing into the Material Plane...ain't that impressive.
Damn I wish my character could see into the material plane
Ah shit, as someone who is legally blind I always wanted to look into the material plane and now you’re telling me it isn’t special?
@@pigeon9298 you're not missing out on much. There are many parts of it I wish I could unsee
@APJ TV for the record, I'm not actually blind but what I am is mentally scarred from some of the things I've seen so yeah being blind wouldn't be that bad in some cases
Oh, your hound can see into the material plane? Yeah, well I can do that too!
Summon greater demon: requires murdered human blood. Reminds me of the interaction between the wizard and rogue.
Wizard: I need you to get me a human skull and not ask any questions.
Rogue: only if you don't ask any questions.
Wizard: deal.
Rogue: pulls out bag containing 7 humanoid skulls.
Wizard: ... I'll take that one.
Or just a spell focus fyi
Look carefully at the spell and the rules for spell casting focus. The blood is optionally consumed- so it is not required to cast the spell with a focus.
Component pouch will cover you as no gold cost is stated
the blood is really DM dependent. I probably would require it regardless of spell focus rules. Also humanoids really are a common enemy type and it adds a lot of flavor to need it as a component.
@@brgessner Which begs the question: If you have an ability/feat that allows you to Eschew Materials, is the blood considered to be of a value low enough to qualify?
The moment you said Gravity Sinkhole I had flashbacks to Caleb creating 2/3rds of a snowman out of armored guards.
Glad I'm not the only one. A good showing of what happens when the wizard gets to those later levels.
A friendly reminder to NOT take your wizard to the place of their trauma and let them lead the charge unsupervised.
Same!!!
My favorite episode of Critical Role
@@JohnRWF "RUN I BROUGHT A MURDERER"
Summon Greater Demon is also very potent on the DMs side as demons are inherently immune to the spell's downside
As a player I use it often as well, one of my favorite summoning spells
i think if i wanted an enemy to summon a demon i would just let them do it as an action and factor it into the encounter building
9:26: idk, I played a session where we are fighting a cult of Asmodeus and the wizard brought the blood wars into the material plain. He summons a greater demon that happily joined our side, plus the greater demon summoned another greater demon. It was epic
" Who dares summo... I smell... The Stench of cowardice!"
Infinite loop of summoning greater demons??
@@thehiddenninja3428 Some demons can summon other demons. However, demons summoned by other demons cannot perform demon summoning themselves.
Gravity sinkhole isn’t underrated because people underestimate it but because it’s part of the gravity spell list which often gets banned by DMs.
For good reason, IMO.
And Chronurgy which is Top 3 broken classes so that one's also banned usually
what are you guys talking about ? How do you want to play a graviturgist without its spells and which spell exactly of the gravity ones are op at all ? I never even heared of any dm banning them lol@@Landis963
If anything you ment the dunamancy spelllist which arent available for every class. The gravity spells are completly fine. Saying anything else is just insane
@@Maximum7077 they are indeed on the Wizard spell list, but bards can grab it as well with Magical Secrets. And yeah I forgot what it was called “Dunamancy: Graviturgy” and I’ve seen them getting bundled in with Dunamancy: Chronurgy and getting banned because of it.
In an extreme pinch, just prepare Banishment for the demon summoning spell so you have a backup instant removal effect!
we are a 7th level warlock at least, i think we can manage a barlgura:)
I'm a forever DM, but the one long campaign I got to be a player in saw me as a straight-class Wizard. I absolutely broke the game with Arcane Eye and my familiar. It was too much scouting and made ambushing the party impossible. Every dungeon was fully mapped before entering.
The DM asked me politely to stop using the spell, which I did because D&D is about everyone having fun, and I was dramatically overshadowing the Rogue and the Ranger.
You know the problem of scouting entire dungeons is very easily solvable by just putting some doors in your dungeon. Like, they don't even need to be locked or hidden or anything. A regular ass door.
yeah i am also kinda shocked of that story XD@@THEPELADOMASTER
shadow of moil is seriously underrated since truesight cant see through it like invisibility as well
Yeah, I once used it in a fight with an enemy that thought they had me because they could see through magical darkness. I was just like, "That's cool, but I'm still 'heavily obscured', which is technically a standalone effect. So, yeah, you still can't see me."
Great Video! If i can add another great perk to the spell Psychic Lance is the fact one of the best anti-caster ever. The Icapacitated condition not only makes you lose your turn and your reaction but it breaks immediately the concentration of the target. This one of the best way (like banishment) to remove a magical effects and the turn of an enemy caster.
Except it's an intelligence save which casters are the most likely to do well
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I never looked twice at M's faithful hound, you have opened my eyes to its diabolical application.
On the topic of bypassing entire dungeons, you may want Stone Shape. It can also be combined with fly or spider climb to drop a big piece of ceiling on someone's head.
I don't think you can move the invisible dog created by _Mordenkainen's faithful hound_ even with a floating disk. It stays in the space it is summoned to for the duration, period. As you noted, nothing prevents you from conjuring it in the air. Move the _Tenser's floating disk_ you summoned it onto out from under it, and it remains in its square anyway.
Still, good observations on _gravity sinkhole._ The forced movement is stronger than I was imagining it being.
In my group, Summon Greater Demon is my Signature Spell. I take it if I can and summon my signature Barlgura~ I appreciate it
An Honorable Mention should definitely be Sickening Radiance. Not only can this spell be comboed with something like Wall of Force or Forcecage to just microwave your enemies, but there's a special trick to it. You see, if a creature in its area of effect succeeds on its saving throw, that creature suffers none of the effects caused by the spell. At first glance, this seems like a downside designed to balance out the spell. However, if you can apply the Careful Spell Metamagic, either through being a Sorcerer or by taking the Metamagic Initiate feat, you can cast Sickening Radiance in the middle of the battlefield whilst guaranteeing that your own party is immune to its effects. Then just watch your enemies melt.
Honestly, I'd even argue that it should be in the top five, if not taking the top spot from Summon Greater Demon. Repeated forced exhaustion is just evil.
This is a list of "underrated spells". Everyone knows the value of sickening radiance.
@@carsonrush3352 I don't know. Personally, I've seen SGD used far more often than Sickening Radiance. Not to say that that's indicative of the entire 5e player base, but it's my experience.
I know they're in 3.5 and not 5, but Explosive Cascade and Blistering Radiance are some of my all-time favorite 4th-level spells.
Explosive Cascade is Fireball but it hits a long chain of contiguous squares instead of a big sphere, which means you can spam it point blank and weave it all over through battle, only hitting who you want.
Blistering Radiance is a low-power Fireball that hits a COLOSSAL AREA and keeps burning for 1 round per caster level. Extra fun when you use Metamagic to double the radius. Good for clearing out monster camps.
mordenkainen's faithful hound: I'm not trapped in here with you. YOU'RE TRAPPED IN HERE WITH ME
That ghost of John Wick's dog is a fun combo....without thinking too much, I'm wondering if it can be dispelled?
The Hound can be dispelled (although Wall of Force can't).
I played a Demon summoning wizard in one of my campaigns. My DM, for some reason, gave me basically the demon unholy grail. It was a cup of black ichor that would summon a random demon (rolled from a d6) and wasn't concentration. It also gave any demons I summoned disadvantage on breaking my control over them. That, plus summon greater demon twice? I basically didn't have to fight because my demon squad did it for me.
What players hear:
"Alright! New ways to cheese boss encounters!"
What DMs hear:
"Oh my, these spells, in the wrong hands, could traumatize players for life... _it's best if I hold on to them instead._ 😈
Easy way to cause emotional damage. Counter a healing spell.
@@KnicKnac One worse; counter a Revivify.
@@derekstein6193 Honestly I want to do both of these things ONCE. The countering revivify would work if the player wanted to play a different character and talked to the DM. Countering healing just to show the enemy is smart.
As a DM I'm not going to let that dog/wall combo cheese a boss encounter, but for regular ones they can have at it.
@@StarWindEnergin how would you “ not let it happen” ?
I didn’t realize how many crazy combos are possible with gravity sinkhole. 🤯🤩 I’m totally going to build a character on it. Thanks for the inspiration man 🎻
Just check with your DM first if he considers it legal. As it is explorer's guide of wildemount dunamancy.
Because it's new, and busted.
when i first got into the game and my dm asked to make a lv20 sheet (for a dream sequence sidequest) and gravity sinkhole actually was my magical secrets pick - that was before my current character concept though, but i love the flavor of the spell
In my last campaign, we were actually saved from the BBEG's frankly unfair homebrew abilities by Gravity Sinkhole. The Wizard cast Gravity Sinkhole which ate up the BBEG and most of his minionw, then it nearly killed our Fighter. So I, Twilight Cleric, cast Banishment on our Fighter and he was sent to a harmless demiplane until the sinkhole went away so I broutht him back and we created a new Empire
Banishing your teamatebis one of my favorite things ever
@@Transplantuwu The DM was shocked, the players didnt know because I did it in secret for dramatic effect. The Fighter was aiming to become Emperor of the world and I was his best friend, mentor, and bodyguard so we had alot of secrets including ehat I could do, they all assumed I was just a healbot so they had no idea what happened when the Sinkhole was dropped and the Fighter was gone. Then I just announced my deity had saved him and I dropped the Banishment, boom my Deoty had saved our new Emperor, the miracle raised both our fame and expanded my religion overnight
The only thing I'd appreciate more about a vid like this is if you included which classes have access to each spell. Cheers.
Polymorph really is underrated. Recently I played a session where three of four PCs were definitely being followed. We couldn't tell for sure if I was also being followed. So I kept wandering until dark, then Polymorphed myself into a rat and scampered home. Wild Shape on a budget.
It's a really broken spell if you're in any kind of air combat. Just polymorph someone into a rat and watch them plummet to their doom.
Underrated? Polymorph is infamous for how broken it is. It's rated perfectly fine
@@coranbaker6401 Bro it's a joke.
@@nitro_dynamite18
Genuine question: What's the joke? All you did was say that it was underrated when it wasn't. I don't get what the humor there is.
I think it would be cool if you made a video about 9th level spells, but that doesn’t really matter because whatever your videos are about they’re awesome
For summon greater demon, the blood is actually preferable. You make a blood circle that the demon cannot enter. Put it in a doorway, and the demon is locked in the room. You stand in the circle, the demon can only tear apart your party ( unless they throw something to push you out, I guess)
No it's not.
You need to murder a humanoid every 24h to keep the spell prepared, which is not only an annoying chore, but can also get you in trouble with the law, to put it mildly.
Your party is kind of important for staying safe, plus they're gonna win the fight and then they're gonna be extremely angry at you. You're transforming a valuable asset into a dangerous enemy.
And may I remind you that the circle only protects you from the demon, not from literally anything else. Your party doesn't need to throw anything, they can just physically push you out and feed you to the demon.
This is an incredibly foolish plan.
Do humans killed in self defense count as legal blood fodder for this spell? Because I know some extra violent cultists and bandits who I could approach in the spirit of "aggressive defense", and then we can knock out the rest of them once we've got blood from one of them.
@@carsonrush3352
It says "killed", not "murdered", so self defense does count. But you can't really rely on being attacked/having sufficiently evil humanoids to kill every day, so you should still carry an arcane focus that you can use. Also, again, the ring only protects one person, and your allies won't be happy about being stranded outside with a raging demon. Just use a focus.
You can't cast banishment from behind total cover, even if you can see a target via a magical sensor. The effect doesn't come from the eye, it comes from you. You could do it from behind total cover if you were using Invoke Duplicity, but not with Arcane Eye
Demon summoning used to target caster after it broke free in older editions, as I recall.
The demon is under the DM control. The rules don't state in what order that the demon attacks every, just that it attacks everything. If the DM decides that the demon wants to attack the caster, that's just the way it happens sometimes. Demons are chaotic like that.
@@lordzaboem well it does say "the demon spends its turns pursuing and attacking the nearest non-demons" if you were further than some creature you would not be considered nearest
Keep up the great content, I just wish tier lists had its own playlist. But you are always helping me learn new things.
Summon Greater Demon + Nystul's Magic Aura for some shaky RAW funtimes
10:59 neat part about that is that Component Pouches contain every material component without a cost, regardless of whether it consumes after casting. This means it technically has infinite of any material component that is consumed, and it perpetually has the blood of a humanoid murdered within the last 24 hours, and presumably all the previous 24 hour blood. And always is the same size and weight.
Not on my watch.... 😂
If I were DM, I would allow it, but the players would wish I didn't. Component Pouches contain but do not create anything. The blood still has to come from somewhere. After ten or so uses, the bloodhunters are going to show up and attack the party for (unknowingly) serial killing nearby innocents and magically draining them of blood.
The PCs will likely win the encounter. Their honor will be trash. Their patrons will be angered. Their allies will shun them. If they try to argue, an patron god will answer, "What exactly did you think the word MURDERED meant?"
My DM HATED my use of Gravity sinkhole when we ran Avernus. So many shenanigans were had.
I believe you can do the Hound Combo with Resilient Sphere at a lower level, and then take Wall of Force later to make it better
Problem with Resilient is that comes down to DM interpretation since it targets and encircles a specific creature (up to large so also smaller), also it can save to negate... but it is a good poor man's choice for those 2 lvls the casters don't have Wall of Force.
Adding to the greatness of SGD, Dybbuks (CR 4) can Dimension Door at will. High risk, high reward teleport.
Babaus can cast Dispel Magic at will. For when you need a lot of magic dispelled.
I am fairly sertain that you don't need blood to summon the demon, it says in the spell description that it is optional to create the protective circle made out of blood.
Correct you need a focus, the material component is optional. He didn’t say otherwise but also didn’t go into the material component being an option to protect yourself
That's why you need the focus, unless you make the protection circle. If you make the protection circle it consumes the blood so a focus can't replace it
@@Karak971 Yup! There's a tweet from the lead game designer confirming this, cementing that an arcane focus doesn't substitute for the blood.
The hound spell makes see invisibility a lil less bad since we can use it to see the dog kill something
Watch out with setting only spells, not every dm will allow them. Especially the gravity/chrono spells.
They are generally way stronger than regular spells
Arcane Eye: Requires an action to move, and is a concentration spell. Not the greatest use of action economy if you have to move it around.
But also, you can't curve spells around total cover if it targets them. The rules state "To target something, you must have a clear path to it, so it can’t be behind total cover." It doesn't matter if you can see them, you still need to have a clear path. EDIT: Same situation with Psychic Lance. It requires a clear path to the target.
Even if you could, a concentration spell like Banishment wouldn't work, because you have to drop concentration on Arcane Eye to be able to cast Banishment, and dropping concentration would also mean you could no longer see the target to properly cast Banishment at it.
he's addressing firing spells through heavy obscurement, not through walls. he uses the phrase total cover completely wrong later in his explanation. and you are correct about banishment.
well here is the issue the arcane eye can't see through total cover. Basically it can bypass cover as long as there is a way to get around the cover if something is hiding behind a big ass rock it has total cover from you. However if your arcane eye is high enough to see over that rock it no longer has any cover from you because you can see through the eye from the other side of the rock meaning now you ignore the total cover bonus because its not hiding from you on that side.
@@caseykits He's addressing both. You wouldn't really need to "curve bullets" if it's just vision obscurement. He's obviously implying it can go around physical obstructions. In his Psychic Lance explanation, he says just like with Arcane Eye, you can throw out attacks from behind total cover while not being able to be targeted yourself. But since you're casting a spell that targets, it requires a clear path, which total cover blocks.
@@tazman2253 Cover is a physical obstruction between you and something else. Arcane eye doesn't let you cast from the eye. Just because you can see around it does not mean you can go through the obstruction. There is no clear path from you to the target because the obstruction is blocking it.
@@shadowfate05 right. honestly this is why i don’t watch this channel. one moment it’s common sense the next it’s implying you should break the rules and common sense.
To target something you must have a clear path from the caster to the target. Arcane eye wouldn't allow for you to target creatures from the eye itself or target past total cover, though you can still use it to target provided that there is a clear path to said target.
Ref: PHB pg.204
Full concealement from spells like Sleet Storm still allows for a clear physical path, you just can't see the path there. Arcane eye bypasses the "can't see the destination" part.
I had a DM who had a dungeon that they had built years prior to the session that they used it.
The knowledge cleric had JUST leveled up and gotten access to Arcane Eye, and chose to use it for the "exploration of the entire dungeon" effect.
The DM asked for the writing of the spell, and then asked if the player really wanted to do that, and the player said yes.
Turns out that the DM had made a trap room that, upon seeing an altar in the room, would give a temporary (random) madness effect.
The cleric "sees" the altar, loses ALL of their memories, and in a fit of terror, flees the party and runs into the trap-filled dungeon.
One of the other PCs ended up dying, and the cleric refused to heal them because they believed that the party was hostile to them
My sorcerer loves the psychic lance spell. Twin spelling it is fun, but so far I haven't been able to incapacitate two targets. I'm sure the day will come when my DM rolls low for both targets.
Silvery Barbs or Heighten Spell??
Off topic but I’d love to see some Spell lists specific for expected purposes or needs. Like for Druids, expecting to be traveling or interacting in a city or dungeon delving or monster tracking etc.
05:45 dragons have truesight, your invisible doggo doesn't get the advantages of being invisible in this situation
I’d add Sickening Radiance to the list. 30 foot radius, and whenever someone enters or starts their turn there, on a failed Con save (not an ideal save for a spell to have, but other aspects make up for this) they take 4d10 radiant damage AND a level of exhaustion.
At six levels of exhaustion, you’re just dead. Which for most spells, can be kinda tricky to have a target go through six failed saves. But here’s the thing- the concentration on Sickening Radiance lasts up to ten minutes.
So if you’ve got another caster who can throw up a wall of force or something, you’ve locked them in a magical microwave, and are just cooking them. For ten minutes. So it doesn’t matter how good their con saves are. Because somewhere in the SIX HUNDRED saves they’ll have to make, they’re going to accrue six failures.
Thanks for this video bro
That greater demon has shredded some encounters i made. Especially in close confines with the party positioning themselves with the demon on the other side of some enemies. I usually have the demon be after the one who tried to bind him, but if there's others in the way it will fight them too.
I have to agree with your #1! I have a warlock about to hit lvl 7 (per dm's "syllabus") for our campaign's finale. Plan using both slots and just standing in the back, eating popcorn and enjoying the show.
Thank you for the video.
Gravity sinkhole is only available to graviturgy and chronurgy wizards, since it is is a spell with the star next to it in the book saying it is special for those subclasses. If a caster is given a scroll or learn it some other way with help from the DM.
Yup, the only downside of summon greater demon is that it makes Infernal calling weak, expensive and redundant a lot of the time in comparison.
"People see a dragon being torn to pieces by nothing"
"That's just a 'fun' upside"
Ok
I literally just bought the 0-5 monster cards. Great timing.
One of my favourite uses for Arcane Eye is that, if it's high up enough in the air, you're basically immune to being blinded or effects that affect you by eye contact. Medusas, Basilisks, Blindness, even darkness for a non-dark vision race - you're all good to go!
Nah, it uses concentration, so you basically invest your whole spellcasting potential ( except for pure blasting ) into the spell.
It would be 10 times better with something like "when you drop concentration it fades away for next minute", but practically it is more like "DM, I burn 4th level slot, so give me a map of the dungeon" 9/10, and sneaking/spying in social encounters for the rest 1/10.
@@Ant3rn i learned a very valuable lesson with arcane eye, use doors, i made a dungeon that was a cave with a bunch of off shoots so the wizard used arcane eye and the party knew the dungeon, ut even 1 well placed door screws that up
@@TheAciddragon069 The doors! The most powerful enemy and the bane of the adventurers. Critical role confirmed.
I'd say a VERY underrated 4th level spell is Death Ward, it has the ability to NEGATE instant death! Also can prevent someone from dropping to zero HP (instead puts them at 1). I've NEVER seen it used by any of my players over the years. Never understood why...
Our DM pit us against an invincible legendary bear, and our task was to escape. It took a while to figure out what we were doing, but the bear never got to damage us because I rolled highest in initiative and spammed Psychic Lance three turns in a row. The bear didn't take any damage, but it was unable to do anything for the entire battle.
Remember players: start pulling off shenanigans like this too often and the DM will too. And the DM makes the world, so you'll likely find it a lot less fun.
(I am not a killer GM, I tend to base my tactics based off the players tactics. If a party decides they want to toss a giant off a cliff, they shouldn't be surprised when another giant tries tossing them off a different cliff later)
Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
-a purple titan
This channel has built an audience which absolutely does want to read that. Players cheesing the game is the entire point of the channel.
Channels like this one creates books like “the monsters know what they’re doing”. As a DM i will employ the dirtiest most effective monster tactics against min/max players.
@@rashakor dont get me wrong, i love stuff like this. Just feel like it needed to be said for the newer people to dnd. (which, considering the DND movie and all the ogl drama, there are a lot of new players coming into the community.)
A neat trick is to summon a dybuk , and then planar bind it.
I've always thought Disintegrate is a straight line, that can not be curved. Not sure you can cast it while being behind cover
I feel like you should mention that the Gravity Sinkhole spell is limited to the graviturgy subclass of wizard
Gravity Sinkhole is dunamancy. You only get access to it if dunamis energy is a thing in your campaign, and only if you find it in a spellbook or you're a type of dunamancer.
Shadow of Moil, Armor of Agathys, and Fire Shield is my favorite Gish combo, lmao. Swords Bard, Lockadin, and Sorlocks can all make use of it to some degree. I love Shadow of Moil so much. It's hard to access because only decent Warlock investment can teach you it (outside Magical Secrets), but it's such an amazing spell for a front-liner.
One thing not mentioned is that the faithful hounds aren’t concentration so you can pull up with multiple. Triple pit bull death barrage style.
My bard locked down the bad guy we had been chasing all campaign with Psychic Lance. It was super cathartic to see them useless while the rest of my party focused on the other threats they had summoned. Amazing spell! One of my favorites.
I'm well aware that it's not a 4th level spell combo, but Wall of Force + Scatter is really good too. Scatter is high key one of my favorite spells in the game along with Transmute Rock and Sickening Radiance. But Scatter only has one stipulation about where you can teleport creatures to... They need to be on a solid surface. That's where Wall of Force comes in, which can be use as a walkway and extended into the air or... I don't know... off cliffs. Be a class that can cast both spells, take that 2-level dip into fighter for Action Surge, summon the force wall, extend it off a cliff enough that you can fit up to 6 creatures on its length, use Action Surge (Which has been confirmed allows you to cast a second leveled spell), cast Scatter, TP them to the force "wall" path, end concentration on the Wall of Force, and watch as up to six helpless creature plummet to the ground below, potentially killing them, if not doing massive damage.
Low hp Polymorph is great. Polymorph someone into a frog with 1 hp and no viable attacks. Grab the frog, shove it in a bag or satchel, and command your flying familiar to fly up 200 feet then drop. The enemy will take 20d6 damage and all leftover damage will carry over into its true form. You can even have the party prepare an action to attack your enemy once landing for safe measure. The power word kill RAW should work with polymorph, but 99% of DMs are going to errata that combo once you poly+silvery barbs+PWK the BBG. Great ideas, keep them coming!
We killed an Elder Brain using the WoF + Faithful Hound combo.....with a transmuted psychic damage Cloudkill for extra oomph
I had a player overpass the petrifying stare of a basilisk by being blinded while looking through his familiars senses, keeping the familiar away from the basilisk and then using the familiar to know where the basilisk was to target it! I think Arcane Eye might be even more efficient than this!
Right after gaining a wizard level. Neat
The DM told me about psychic lance because he wanted to mess with the glass canon ranger or rogue who kept hidibg. I might take it to spite him
4th level spells? you mean polymorph slots? (also greater invisibility is still as valuable as shadow of moil in combat since you can cast it as a massive buff to martials)
the cost for summoning a greater demon can be a bit high, depending on your group.
Raulothims psychic Lance gave me a cool idea of combining it with polearm master and warcaster,, someone approaches you and you ruin their day
6:21 welp,found my new favourite spell, can't say no to a puppy
If the DM allows the UA chronomancer wizard subclass (which is pretty broken imo) then there is actually a way to pull off the hound + wall of force combo in 1 turn as the chronomancer has a workaround to the only 1 leveled spell per turn rule. I did this but instead of hound I used radiant sickness to potentially stack exhaustion on everything inside.
Tensor's disk + Hound is amazing. Not sure it would work RAW ( rather nope ), but definitely by the rule of cool.
I remember using Arcane Eye with Misty step to teleport past a magically locked door, since it was an area I could see.
The dragon could also keep the dogs mouth closed by squishing it's face between it's thumb and its pointyclaw.
Or squish the doggo against the wall, face down. 😊
Great use of a Pratchett animation.
I didn't know gravity sinkhole existed, but now I need to make a character that can use it
Polymorph version 5.0 saved my Party. My Sorcerer used Twin Spell to transform myself and another P. C. (we where both seriously injured ) into T-Rex's, with new creature HP for the enemies to get thru .. my T-Rex got a critical bite attack for a impressive 80 points damage !
I am in a campaign where both the party, and our enemies, each had a boat. The enemies were also weresharks and had a large slow but powerful ship, we had a smaller faster ship (that could also fly?) Anyways, we would abuse Summon Greater Demon by dropping a demon or two on the ship and driving away. The DM wasnt happy.
Dang, I'm surprised the DM didn't use the same tactic against you after the second time. Your DM did you a solid.
10:53 I mean, if there is one thing, a DnD-party has a constant supply of, it is human blood. Most partys just don't bother to harvest it properly ...
Nice Video!
Just want to point out with incapacitated you cant use any actions or reactions!
Bonus action would be available, but luckily monstern usually dont have any. But misty step which my beeg has would work👌
"anything that deprives you of your ability to take actions also prevents you from taking a bonus action." -PHB p.189
While the incapacitated condition doesn't refer to bunus actions, bonus actions are inherently reliant on actions
@@thomasgeithus3996 damn didnt know that! Thanks for clearing that up!
Gravity sphere is great in certain locales.
Toward the end of the final fight in tomb of annihilation, I had Acererak use this to drop survivors into the lava.
It was brutal
If I can slap Gravity Sinkhole on my Gunslinger/Forge Cleric, I will effectively have a black hole gun and I live for it
If it removed my comment because of link, heres one without the link:
Gravity Sinkhole cannot lift targets into the air any significant amount. If it is 10 feet off the ground, it is only going to be able to grab enemies within 10 feet of the center. If it's 20 feet up, it will only be able to grab one target, the one it is directly on top of. That's how spheres work.
Arcane Eye doesn't let you "curve bullets" at all. You just shoot straight through the heavy obscurement area. You could accomplish the same thing with a mirror on a stick.
But the way you word it makes it sound as if you could curve a Fireball around a wall to hit an enemy behind it which is not the case. The PHB very clearly says that you must have a clear path to the target. Having sight on it does not equal having a clear path to it.
This has already been ruled on by Jeremy Crawford.
Also, heavy obscurement does not provide total cover.
Also, Wall of Force does not work on an adult red dragon, as it is a Huge creature and would be too large to fit in a 10' radius sphere (try it on a map, the corners of the Huge cube will always poke out.) Even if it could, there would be no room for the dog inside, as you would be compressing the dragon into part of every space inside the sphere. And the dog does not have a fly speed, so you would be unable to angle the sphere to get both inside it in the first place.
Every one of these videos gets less and less accurate. You're literally ignoring RAW and Sage Advice at this point.
Yeah he messed up with some of his points in this one. I will dissagree with you in regards to the Faithful Hound + Wall of Force combo.
While a 15ft square can't fit inside a 10ft circle I don't think it needs to. A huge creature isn't necessarily physically 15*15ft. A human (medium creature) isn't actually 5*5ft. Even if we go by strict size categories, a creature can squeeze into a space one category smaller than itself.
In regard to the hounds space, the spell doesn't state that it occupies its space. It does need an unoccupied space to be summoned, but once there your fellow wizard friend can cast Wall of Force once the dragon is standing over the hound.
You can also cast invisibility on arcane eye
Managed to nearly tpk with gravity sinkhole 2 months ago. Good times.
Oh yeah, I LOVE using gravity sinkhole! It's metal af 🤘
Someone has probably already said this, but the murdered humanoid blood for the demon summoning spell is only required for the protective blood circle, and not the actual summoning of the demon.
Actually thats not true. You use it regardless. You have the option to use the blood to make a circle but the downside is that this use results in the blood being consumed.
@@ferencfeher2647 Jeremy Crawford himself tweeted about this spell, and said that you need the blood to create the circle, and not summon the actual demon. It says that the blood is used as a material component for the circle as part of casting, but it only becomes a component if you want the circle. The wording itself is confusing but Crawford said that its for the circle only.
The opening line of the dad fucking got me god damn 😈🇬🇧
Sorrcer fighter multi class can fire psychic lance can action surge and twin spell to to cast it four times in a single turn or a enchantment wizard of tenth level with action surge can as well with no other resource requirements other then action surge (Provided you put two levels in fighter.) (Level 12)
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Storm sphere is also pretty cool, concentration 40 foot diameter sphere of damaging difficult terrain, and you get an advantage lightning strike on anyone inside of it as a bonus action, anyone with less than 40 foot movement in the center cant get out, put it between your party and a group of enemies and its pretty good
Getting blood from a recently murdered human is super easy with my playgroup for some reasons...
For the benefits it gives, I am surprised that freedom of movement is not concentration. It's a pretty good spell to give on your frontliner or even the squishy casters
Arcane Eye Does not let you shoot spells through full cover. While it allows you to see a target, the spell originates from your player and must have an unobstructed line to the target. Through fog, yes, through a wall, no.
Thinking of concentration spells, I found a feat to rival the exceptional strixhaven initiate. The tal'dorei campaign guide has a handful of feats as well, but the Duel-Focused feat can be game breaking at 4th level, and I wouldn't blame any dm for banning it. Long story short it allows you to concentrate on two different spells simultaneously, the caveat is when you do you have to make a Constitution saving throw at the end of every turn or risk loosing both spells (the DC is the sum of both spells' levels +8); however when you have make a roll from taking damage, you make the concentration check twice, once for each spell. The only requirement for this feat is the ability to cast spells . . . and it doesn't even specify it can't be cantrips. I let my players use it since it encourages them to build bulky instead of dodgy and they rarely go for the abusible combinations, but in the hands of a wargamer it would be insanely exploitable.
As the DM, I once gave spellbook which allowed a Warlock to hold two concentration spells. The player complained a little, and I wanted to see what would happen. You know what happened? Nothing. The party kept ending every combat before the Warlock could cast the second concentration spell. The potential things that DMs fear rarely come in game play.