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The Open Spores Druid + Monk: d4
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ส.ค. 2024
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Intro/Character Concept:(0:00)
Level 1:(9:27)
Levels 2-6:(14:39)
Levels 7-9:(36:30)
Levels 10-13:(42:47)
Levels 14-17:(47:39)
Final Thoughts:(51:56)
Outtakes:(55:06)
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"powergamer whose favourite class is underpowered" is probably my favourite trope in dnd powergaming content
I absolutely love hearing my dms say “I cant believe I’m saying this but how can I nerf your monk.”
@@johnpharis5708 Yeah, despite it being completely false, I've convinced my group that monks are op rather than objectively low powered.
@@johnpharis5708 i usually respond with like: your inability to plan for a legal character shouldnt result in a punishment for the player. Lol
@@johnpharis5708chop an arm off! :)
I like this small serie of "what do we do when our class doesn't scale well"
Pair it with another front loaded class.
@@Aidscapade71 do it while we still can lol
The man admits it. His voice is calming and insists on naps
I feel oddly validated
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Colby D4 ASMR when?
@@topherior look for it in the early videos, colby does a 30sec asmr somewhere and it left us wanting more ever since ^^
@@DnDDeepDive Here is my spike growth build BM fighter3/Swarm Ranger5/Monk3
Action cast spike growth on the enemies, then action surge and extra attack with Pushing Attack maneuver x2, each attack can push enemy 15 ft. Then furry of blows with open hand, one blow push enemy 15 ft, then use ranger's swam bring back enemy 15 ft, then the final blow push 15 ft.
So the target will get push around 75 ft back and forth in the Spike growth (2d4/5ft) total 30d4 dmg, not even counting the 4 attacks' dmg or crusher feat.
For the race, I suggest any flying race, like Hexblood with Owlin Ancestral Legacy to get fly speed and Hex spell.
@@wandrilleturle36 Here ya go :) th-cam.com/users/shortsOjY5lcibluk
Nothing makes me prouder than a D&D channel that knows the difference between “radius” & “diameter!”
Wait is that common for people to not know
Or a game that knows the difference between a circle and a square 🙄
@@piRatCaptain funnily enough all circles are squares in dnd aoe wise
Y’know guys, I was pretty sure back in 8th & 9th grade that failing to learn that crap wasn’t “going on my permanent record!”
But I still learned it, in case I was wrong. I wasn’t wrong. I’m never “wrong.” This is the only place it pays off for me. I need this!
My fellow DMs, if you love your monk players, give them an Eldritch claw tattoo early on. It doesn't break the game and it makes them feel awesome and useful.
And then give them an insignia of claw on top of that
You shouldn't even have to ask. If the fighter and barb are finding magic weapons, the monk should find his martial arts equivalent. Sadly proper gear doesn't make the monk awesome and useful by itself. It would be nice if the monk's only problem was that their "weapons" of choice were not covered very well in the treasure section of the DMG.
That's the first magic item I bought for my Monk.
One thing to note: all dwarves get proficiency with battle axes, which are just a 4lb longsword functionally speaking. In light of this, you could instead trade your armor proficiencies for proficiency with something else like a whip or longbow to make yourself more versatile. Or calligraphy supplies. No judgement here.
I'm imagining a monastery deep underground who grows "special" mushrooms to eat and open their minds and become one with the universe around them. A very trippy backstory for a spore monk!
Fun fact: there are alcohols in real life made with mushrooms. Moreover, yeast is used to make beer, ale, etc, and is a fungus.
Like Black Panther kinda?
Monastery of the "Stoned" Hand😂
I feel like this character and Treantmonk's Aberrant Mind Stoner build would be best friends
Definitely
Wow lmaoooo
I just love how listening to Colby at 1.5x is just like listening to everybody else speaking normally lol. Anyway, thank u for the video, love Monk/Druid builds, keep up the good work.
Ok so real question I watch all videos at 2 to 2.5 times the speed and colby 3 to 4 times speed. Am I insane?
I think 1.25 is more like normal talking, 1.5 is those youtubers who try and be over hype.
I watch normal people at 2× speed
The exceptions are Ben Crowe and Colby. Their voices deserve the 1×.
I listen to almost everything between 1.5 to 2x speed. But yeah, Colby is great to listen to. I always pause to admire Randall’s artwork though.
adhd moment
The Open Spores Druid + Monk: d4 #119
Level 1:(see above) [monk 1 & race]
Level 2:(see above) [monk 2]
Level 3:(@16:44) [monk 3 & sub-class]
Level 4:(@20:48) [druid 1]
Level 5:(@22:05) [druid 2 & sub-class]
Level 6:(@28:21) [druid 3]
Level 7:(see above) [monk 4 & ASI]
Level 8:(@38:05) [monk 5]
Level 9:(@39:56) [druid 4 & ASI]
Level 10:(see above) [druid 5]
Level 11:(@43:33) [druid 6]
Level 12:(@44:55) [druid 7]
Level 13:(@45:16) [druid 8 & ASI]
Level 14:(see above) [druid 9]
Level 15:(@48:11) [druid 10]
Level 16:(@49:48) [druid 11]
Level 17:(@50:23) [druid 12 & ASI]
Not gonna lie, as a DM, I enjoy it a little too much when my players use spike growth/ spell wall strategies.
'Cause even monsters understand a free battlefield hazard when they see it. My favorite one was when one of my larger monsters got trapped in by a Blade Wall, and just grappled a player and chucked him through it. Very memorable moment.
That ogre you're fighting? Yeah, he might take some damage, but when he grapples you and hurls you through your own Spike Growth, you'll realize that it's not a perfect strategy.
nasty! I love it.
Saying drunk made me think it was gonna be a drunken master monk build. I could see a dwarf spore druid fermenting mushrooms for alcohol and fights.
Whenever I tried to refer my friends to this channel I just tell them he is the Bob Ross of D&D
Happy little damage reports...
"Pick your favorite" definitely feels a lot like "happy little accidents," I can see the parallels
Happy little spreadsheets.
I think that a smoother build plan for this is to take your first 5 levels in Monk before going into Druid. I understand that the reason you did not was to make your level 6 build look better on the spreadsheet, but I believe a more practical approach would be to get the Monk levels first so that you get extra attack as soon as possible and play it like any other melee monk up until that point.
Your builds never disappoint, perfectly combining fun and strong gameplay with engaging roleplay opportunities/ideas.
Hey thanks so much!
I really like the Open Hand monk coupled with Crusher feat. You can first lift the creature 5 ft. up and then push it diagonally upwards 15 ft. with open hand technique, dealing 2d6 fall damage and knocking them prone.
Okay i gotta say: you were already the youtuber with the Most heartwarming Intro there is but the „its okay if you fall asleep - i wait here“ was the best even you ever did.
Thanks for your awesome content 🙏❤
Friar Briar? What an unexpectedly great combo
Looking forward to this one! Always been a fan of the Spores Druid as a concept.
I mean, all Dwarves have Dwarven Combat Training so they're all proficient with battleaxes/warhammers, which are basically just cooler longswords, so no need to swap armor proficiencies for that
27:25 that's why I as a DM threw in a fight where necrotic damage was one of the damage types that keeps the enemies from regenerating. Make the spores occasionally optimal.
I like how this build feels thematically and character-wise. Though I'm not a huge fan on all the assumed caveats that go with it. Thanks for another fun build!
I think I love monks almost as much as you! They have so many class features and this multiclass build makes the most of it. Thank you Colby!
I literally listen back to some of these episodes when I'm trying to go to bed lol
I threw together a background based on this build. Historically, European monks were often brewers of beer, so I took brewer's supplies as my dwarven tool proficiency. Then I borrowed from the game Dwarf Fortress and decided that my monk's monastery uses fermented mushrooms to make their beer. From there it's an easy jump to spores druid, and I've always had fun with characters who cook or brew as part of a party. Seems like a good time!
Edit: Of course that means a drunken master monk fits even better, but I'm only a few minutes into the build video right now so I don't know how necessary Open Hand is yet!
Don't forget the snails.
Another option for race/spell is hexblood. It gives hex (which, being a bonus action, can be used along with symbiotic entity) as well as getting separate +1s for a three-16s-three-8s spread and two skill proficiencies. Tried to build it out in the past, don't remember much specifics though. I wanted to go Mercy monk for flavor, but getting to the level 11 for flurry of blows compatibility was unreasonable.
So agree that the entire 5e format could look at character creation process and every ability to see whether an ability properly scales for One DND.
Bro for real! Every time I have a day off and I watch your builds I crash. But then I wake up and watch again. Gotta get those views!
I'm playing with the idea of combining this with Bladesinger. At lvl 6 you can use one of your attacks on your action to cast a cantrip. So you cast Spike Growth, push them 15 feet into it, then cast Thorn Whip and drag them back another 10 feet towards you. Play a Bugbear and you can even reach 10ft into the Spike Growth and hit them again, and you get an extra 2d6 each turn if you're before them in initiative (good chance as you'll have a decent DEX).
The extra AC from Bladesinging also stacks with Unarmoured Defence.
I played in a campaign with a rogue named "Charity". She was always encouraging people to "Give to Charity". They all did, eventually. Occasionally voluntarily.
She really played up that pun. But it was great fun for everyone. I miss that campaign, lol.
My son directed me to your channel because of your really nice builds and I must say I'm impressed and appreciate the work that must have went into this
What martial art does a Druidic Monk of Open Spores know? Kung Fungus. I'll see myself out.
edit - made my comment before the video started. Colby makes same-ish joke during the preamble. High five!
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What do you call it when an Open Spores monk seizes power? A fung-coup. There are probably good jokes in there somewhere, but that wasn't one of them!
Another soothing dnd character build video sign me up
Also I put these on and listen through mud work and the cheese grater had the same nucleus joke and was just as well executed. Man of simple tastes I am.
"Way of the Open Spores"
That is disgusting.
I love it!
I once knew that combat was going to start because the cleric (or the paladin) ran forward and smacked the high level necromancer.
We had a life cleric, a vengeance or devotion paladin, an evocation wizard, and a spores druid (me) in the group. The wizard and I were backing away because the necromancer told the whole group to leave now. Then the cleric or paladin hit the necromancer in the face. At that point, I knew combat was going to start.
Great video as always.~
Huzzah, Colby has built a Sponk!
Looks like someone may have taken inspiration from the "Penicillin Pugilist" concept I mentioned a few builds back. ;)
Btw, Hill Dwarf could also work for this since you don't actually need to have those armor proficiencies for the purposes of swapping them for weapon proficiencies. That's because all Dwarves already get Dwarven Combat Training, which gives them proficiency with Battleaxes, Handaxes, Light Hammers, and Warhammers.
If you prefer the flavor of a Longsword over a Warhammer or Battleaxe, you can use that same Tasha's rule to swap out one Martial Weapon proficiency for another.
I only recently stumbled over your videos while searching for character builds to potentially use in BG3 and just wanted to say that you have a wonderful way of talking and teaching!
People often yell or make crazy edits jumping all over the place, but you're calm, coherent and to-the-point without unnecessary "flavor" to spice it up.
This video for example instantly made me switch from monk/cleric to monk/druid because you explained it so well with all the options I'd have which is great for a noob like me! So thank you and please keep making more videos like this :)
From theory crafting and my brother playing with this rule, the best homebrew fix for monks is simply to double the martial arts dice to 2 dice.
This fixes a lot of Monk abilities that use the martial arts die that feel underwhelming as well as makes your attacks hit as hard as normal weapons do for most of the game, then gives you better weapon damage than base weapon damage later on. You still don't get great feat options, but the small amount more damage helps offset it a little.
Double is huge!
2d4 is already better than 1d8 right out of the gate, 2d6 is heavy weapon damage after the first scale (and better than the final scaling of martials arts RAW), 2d8 onwards is straight better than any (non-magical) weapon. Not saying you shouldn't do it, whatever works for each person's table ofc.
A similar idea but a bit more conservative is to increase the size of the martial arts die by 1 all across the board (so it starts at a d6 instead of d4 for example, and when it hits what would be a d12 RAW make it 2d6 or 2d8)
@@eFRapidfire I have it as double for a few reasons.
For one monks also have limited access to magic items and other damage boosting feats due to the limitations on their weapons. This means even with a boost further than normal weapons they barely keep up.
Second double really isn't a lot. As you mentioned 2d4 is slightly better than a d8, which I'm fine with because that makes monk as good if not worse damage wise compared to other martials.
2d6 is greatsword or maul damage, getting the same weapon damage as other martials got at level 1 again I don't think is a big deal.
Past that it still isn't a lot more damage, and bear in mind this scaling happens when other martials get damage boosts, namely paladin improved smite and fighter extra extra attack. so at level 11 getting 2 extra average damage per hit isn't a lot. And at level 17 you're competing with full builds, 9th level spells, crossbow sharpshooters and polearm great weapon masters. Even with this damage boost monks still don't really compete.
Third, doubling it makes other monk features worth using. ki healing becomes useful. ascendent breath weapon is good damage. mercy abilities get stronger. sun soul stuff gets better. All these things that aren't worth doing normally become more worth it.
Overall though, monks are severely underpowered as is. Even if they were great in combat they have little use outside of it. As martials go they are squishy and are forced into combat based builds and going in melee no less. If I gave monks a damage boost that made them the best dps in the game they would still be bad. Doubling the martial arts die doesn't even let them compete against half built characters let alone fully optimised builds with loads of options. There is no need to be conservative when it comes to monks. Try it at your table, see if it breaks anything. Guarantee you you'll still feel like you barely compare to the other martials at your table, and it'll feel balanced, if not weak.
My solve is to separate stunning strike dice from the rest of the ki dice. You get stunning strike dice equal to wisdom modifier+proficiency. You can convert one to the other at a rate of 2:1 either way. (2 Ki dice to 1 stunning strike die, or 2 stunning strike dice to 1 ki die). It makes 4 elements monk functional.
@@AllHailSp00nRiver What are you talking about? Ki doesn't use dice. My post is talking about the martial arts die and I think that is a more important and easy fix than Ki is.
I can only assume you mean having two pools of ki points to as you say make 4 elements work. Ki is a big problem for monks, but I think it's a bit more complex to have a good solve for. 4 elements also just has a lot of problems, personally I just remade the abilities for the most part and doubled ki points per level. Tho Ki is kinda debatable because of how often you short rest, and equally some people want to limit stunning strike others just want more overall ki to get to choose what to use.
@@deathtoexistance an alternate idea and one I've played around with a bit: rather than scaling the dice size faster or doubling the dice amount, scale by number of dice! So d4, or maybe 2d4 at first level, and each level that would scale up the dice size, you instead add another d4.
Colby, your voice is amazing. I often listen to your videos as I go to sleep and it’s very relaxing. Thanks for all the work you do.
I made a dwarf spores-druid who got lost in a cave after taking magical magic-mushrooms, and then became one with the fungus… I love him dearly 😌
I've been waiting for you to realize this would work ever since you made the Spore Beast. Had not considered the Spike Growth, nice vid.
The combo of title and thumbnail suggest I am going to enjoy this a lot!
Man, i really love your channel. I aways share your content with my players and co dms.
Tks for everything and Hello from Brazil
The plant is thriving, just like you. Thanks for showing some more monk love! Keep up the good work.
The proficiency swap from armor to longsword was a slick move, but I feel like there was a huge missed opportunity here to have a 2h Warhammer wielding Mountain Dwarf Monk. Then maybe Crusher could be squeezed in there somewhere so that all of your weapon AND unarmed strikes could make use of it. Plus, if it's a Druid multiclass you can get down w/ some Shillelagh shenanigans!
i love this character so much! thanks Colby! as a character concept, i envisage a dwarven farmer as obsessed with the mushrooms in his underground cavern as the Hobbits of the Shire. personally, to stick with the farmer theme, i would choose a sickle (a reskinned scimitar) so he can harvest souls as eagerly as he harvests and nurtures his fungi, and i know that would slightly reduce his damage, but it would be so worth it! he spends most of his downtime teaching locals how to grow mushrooms better on the surface, once he has understood the perils of sunlight! I would ask for a homebrew version of Transport via Plants when he gets there, called "A Short Cut through Mushrooms". I love the idea that he momentarily shrinks the party down very small so they can teleport through a toadstool!
Looked through your awesome build list for this exact multi-class combo. Using in BG3 and it is great!
As someone who always plays mid-level one shots. Thank you, I always get to try out new builds and character concepts with d8fferent voices for each one.
Agree a thousand percent about scaling, would love to see it more consistent. Methinks if this happened, the need to multi-class would diminish greatly. I personally would rather play a straight class and not feel underpowered!
I really appreciate the references you make throughout the video. Wuxi finger hold and wombo combo are top tier
Really wish this vid was out before I started playing my current spores druid. Seems like a seriously fun character. Think the damage numbers are criminally underrated considering that you could apply most of the mid/late lvl tactics to control damaging multiple enemies with plant growth/insect plague/spores or similar combo. Then just knock em back with your sword monk every time they near the border of the control area. That monk foundation really lends itself to any controller build and acheives that scalable monk flavored fun that you talked about. Makes me think that a legit druid flavored monk subclass would be dangerously fun. Really unique and well-rounded build. Love it.
The outtakes, oh dear, they are gold! 😂
Recently found this channel. Love the spreadsheets!! 😂
Couldn't help but think of Toad from Mario for this build.
I’ve tried so hard to (unsuccessfully) make spore druids to work better. So I can’t wait to hear this later.
I actually had this same multiclass idea and was gonna try it for Bg3
And then I found ur video off of the Dungeon Dudes xD
After watching the the vid ive decided on 6 monk 6 druid seeing as the game caps out at lvl 12. Many thx good sir!
Kinda thought you would squeeze a little Ranger in there. Swarmkeeper Ranger is a great way to replicate the effects (Once per turn) of Open Hand Monk without spending Ki. Loved the build/video as always!
The synchronicity is strong! I built a Spore Monk over the weekend, as well. A Witherbloom Plasmoid Astral Self Circle of Spores (based on Murf from Star Trek Prodigy). Simple build, Monk 1, Druid 2, then Monk the rest of the way. Tops out with five attacks dealing 1d10+5 force + 1d6 necrotic per hit, and an additional 2d4 necrotic on a reaction. Sustained damage averages 75 per round, which is terrible for a d4 build, but pretty darn good at most tables I sit at. And the additional Cantrip attacks for range with the ability to heal and be useful out of combat makes it feel good.
Ah, this was a build I loved years ago. Glad to see it getting done by d4!
Glad i’m not the only one who uses these to fall asleep
I’ve tried watching this three times now and only get to about 9 minutes….in a good way. Thank you for fixing my circadian rhythm.
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I really did not expect this one, nice work and get well soon!
I actually on my own stumbled on a very similar build a few months ago taking advantage of the AOE damage and additional on hit damage that the Spore Druid provides and comboing that with any number of the Monk subclasses. Also taking advantage of spell slots to supplement the monks otherwise resource intensive utility
I feel like flavor wise, and isn't too shabby mechanically, Mercy monk and spores druid would make a beautiful multiclass. Life and death, Heal and Harm. Very synergistic
That's a good one. It has the potential to be creepy af.
@@jbark678 Like a mostly good guy doctor, but out of a Tim Burton or Guillermo Del Toro action movie. Chaotic Good on the alignment chart lol
I did play a pretty similar character some time ago, and I'd say Way of the Astral Self does fit a lot better this concept:
- Arms last 10 mins per ki point, so you can spend less levels on monk
- Arms also allow you to grapple people with advantage, and you could in theory grapple up to 4 people (5 some races) and drag them into the beam (2 of them up to 10ft)
- You can kinda invest less on dex
I also picked telekinesis for more options to push people, it is very fun to use.
Nice build, as always!
This just seems like a fun way to build a character. Combining this idea with the video I saw elsewhere for a Princess Peach build using the same two classes and sub-classes results in a lot of options, toughness, and versatility in a class pairing that you would not think would have so much synergy on first inspection. And oh JOY the flavor. If this character somehow ends up as the main healer of a party, good luck bringing them down as any strategist would be wont to do. They can always just NOT get into melee and have plenty of other options to just keep enemies off of them while doing other druid things, and they don't have the typical back-liner weakness to archer-types, having a fair hit die, good ac, as well as the all-important deflect missiles. An important note as well if your monk/druid is being swarmed, they can use wild shape in conjunction with martial arts to potentially be even tankier, or mobile, at the possible cost of constant damage output. It just seems really strong to me regardless of whether the main plan works, just because of the sheer number of options you have for if it doesn't.
Another thing I forgot to mention: Spike Growth is amazing defensively. You can center it around yourself and if anyone wants to get to you while you sling spells or summons, they have to slog IN through it and risk getting pushed back OUT through it, just to have to do it again. As long as you don't move within it, it doesn't hurt you either. If they fly, then they have a big target on them for the rest of your party, or those damage spells druids have access to.
Additionally, while I like the flavor of a longsword monk, as others have stated, Dwarves get battle axe proficiency already; but more importantly there's a must-have magic weapon for Druids called the Moon Sickle. It may only be a d4 for damage for some reason, but it's a pre-built monk weapon so you can replace that d4 with your martial arts die depending on your monk levels, and it gives a sweet +1/2/3 to your spell save DCs, spell attacks, and melee attacks and damage. You also get an extra d4 healing any time you cast a healing spell. AND if you have a lenient DM, you could even convince them to let you re-flavor it into another weapon type like a battle axe or a long sword. I played Ace Ventura as a post-When Nature Calls Druid with Rafiki's (yes, from The Lion King) staff as a re-flavored +2 moon sickle in quarterstaff form as an example.
An interesting build. Conjure animals and Conjure woodland beings are tricky spells to use but they can be really interesting if the players and the dm talk about it beforehand.
I am using this to respec Halsin in BG3. With a salami. That should work.. In my headcanon, Halsin, during his centuries-long studies of the Shadow-cursed lands, has gained appreciation for solitude (and loneliness of being one of the rare few survivors of that war) and the unnatural rot due to the curse..and consequently how he appreciates natural decay (and undeath).
I just got halsin as a companion, and stumbled on this as well while trying to decide what build to make him.
@@WormHunter it works quite well. If you stack the items that add spellcasting modifiers to attacks and if you did the moubtain pass and exploited the morninglord buff of radiant damage by sending him to camp then taking him in again each day to refresh the buff, this halsin will be a monster. Mine took half the hp of the final form of the act 2 final boss in a single turn with the help of portent dice and crit threshold lowering items.
Damn I was just about to comment about staying awake to your soothing voice when you yourself mentioned it :D
18:23 here we are 11 months later and monks somehow seem even worse in the one d&d avatars
My table has an open hand monk. It synergizes super well with our conquest Paladin. The Paladin’s aura drops enemies’ speed to zero. Then the monk knocks them prone and they can’t get up. Then they use just wail on the biggest thing on the battlefield while it’s groveling before them and they have advantage to melee attacks or let the cleric just stand next to them with spirit guardians.
Danica Banadeuce is the best monk in the DND verse imho. Fell in love with the monk class when I read the Cleric Quintet as a kid and saw what she could do with no weapons.
Yes! I have been working on this build but folks keep telling me it's not viable! Fingers crossed, about to watch the video
I played a monk for many years in 3.0/3.5, all the way to level 25 (epic level handbook). My quivering palm never worked (you could do it once a week), until the final boss battle against a horde of ancient dragon avatars (those are gods, sir) where I instantly killed an ancient black dragon avatar with the first hit of the battle! That truly was epic
I think part of what I liked about earlier versions, there was very little that scaled at all. Hit points, spells and sneak attack damage in 2e were the main considerations. Made it a lot easier as DM to gauge how well PCs will perform against various monsters.
I'm currently playing a version of this build with Barbarian instead of Monk in the Call of the Netherdeep module. I have made homebrew subclasses for every class in 5e and my DM let me use my Barbarian subclass: Path of the Muscle Wizard which allows we to concentrate on and cast spells while in rage. That combined with being a Winged Tiefling allowing me to rake my enemies across Spike Growth is just so much fun!
I'm building a Thri-Kreen Spore Druid for a spelljammer game because having an ant looking character covered in those zombie fungi would be hilarious. This sounds like the perfect build to do it with.
I built this character but he was a drow, came from an evil monastery in the underdark that had a connection with a nearby fungal druid grove. Very cool character
Colby needs to make a background/build all around his neighbor's "D&D emergency" 😆.
Maybe an ongoing plot thread in multiple videos.
I made a character similar to this, but I went Astral Self monk and just went full Wisdom. I would pair it with Guardian of Nature for bonus to melee weapon attacks. Only issue, like you mentioned in the video is getting everything on and prep rounds. It does however let you punch things with lots of added D6s. The crazy thing with these builds is when you are unable to do monk stuff, you still have crazy druid spells to pull from.
my first character is a little gnome pirate druid from a swamp who (at first) fought with a quarterstaff and was obsessed with the cycle of life. wouldve been fun to play her as this!
The Open Spores Drunk? Is this the first build where we use the changing your subclass option from Tasha's to retrain our Monk partway through from Open Hand to Drunken Master? Hold on, I need popcorn!
I hate to disappoint, but…
Now I need to know what the D&D emergency was! I have no doubt you managed with ease lol
I really like this idea, and a really neat way to re-flavor a spores druid is to make them like a vampire character. Replace spores with blood and you're basically done. Wild shape into a bat or wolf, get extra necrotic damage, cool combat and utility spells that you can also flavor as vampiric abilities. It just works
These videos come out at 7 pm my time. I listen to them after reading my daughter a bedtime story, while waiting her to fall asleep. I take an evening nap every single time on the floor next to her bed. That voice..
Awwww!
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Man, your post-cold voice plus the fact that I've got myself a new pair of headphones today… it is so soothing and goosebump-inducing at the same time. 😩 #nohomo
#okaymaybealittlebitbuuut
Seeing the Open Hand Monk's ability to push a target 15 feet away, on a failed Str save, gives me an idea for multiclassing Open Hand Monk with Swarmkeeper Ranger.
Swarmkeeper also has the ability to, once per turn, push a target 15 feet away on a failed Str save after hitting them with an attack. So a build that forces the enemy to make TWO Str saves, possibly pushing them 30 feet if they fail both, sounds like it could be kinda fun.
I totally did fall asleep to this but then got jump scared awake by your neighbor haha
I had an idea for a pseudo-necromancer using Spores Druid and Twilight Cleric. You can use the channel divinity on zombies and Aura of Vitality surprisingly doesn't state that it doesn't work on undead.
Super excited!!! Love monks and spore druids
You can also sepend it on a grappling hook and net. Both are situational but can be very useful when it comes up
I'm getting over a cold now too. We could sing some Johny Cash duets. Also, I have to admit, I have fallen asleep more than once listening to your soothing voice.
I'm rolling at the Nacho Libre reference! My friends and I quote that movie all the time.
I'm wishing you to feel better... but it's kinda hard now that I want you to always sound deeper like this 😍
Id argue, part of the reason why its ok that SE is a action is that its features are not actually tied to the temporary hit points unlike e.g. Armor of Agathys which technically can last as a active spell for way longer than it has any effect. So at least by RAW, just having 1thp from something else when activating SE and choosing not to overwrite the existing THP means you never gained (per phb text on THP) and thus cant lose those THP, so it is just a 10 minute long (or shorter if you wildshape again) buff.
I like what someone said a little ways down get crusher feat to bump them 5 feet into their air and then use your flurry of blows to hit them another 15 feet up. They fall prone take 2d6 damage and you use your second flurry on them while they lay prone. A really cool upper cut high kick combo
The jumpscare at the end was very cute!
Yeah nice build man love the synergy
spores monk reminds me of Fungal Wastes from Hollow Knight. A calm, serene, cute little fungal jungle where our Open Hand monk practices meditation. A Sanctuary, if you will. :)
also hooray new video! My schedule is such that I can't really keep track of when the videos drop, so when they do it is always a pleasant surprise.