D&D Hot Takes That Burn Hotter than Dragon Fire
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- D&D Hot Takes always end up being 100% normal or, like, ABSURD opinions. What are YOUR D&D hot takes?
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Timestamps:
00:28 Best players follow the DM's plans
01:15 Barbarians should punch themselves
01:35 Paid DM's Overrated
02:05 Best type of D&D
02:38 Is the game Unbalanced?
03:16 Alignment the way to go
04:13 5E Warlock should be the standard
05:32 Monks don't make sense in mainline D&D
05:50 Follow the rules.
06:39 Half a page backstory?!
07:18 D&D 5E better than Pathfinder
07:58 Material components for spellcasting gone!?
08:34 Players shouldn't roll death saves
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What are your hot takes or controversial opinions on D&D? Let me know, and they might make it into a part 2!
You should be able to smite with an unarmed strike, slapping someone across the face and having a Thunderclap sound off would be a potent intimidation tool
"Excuse me while I bitch slap this man with the power of god."
If you do a second. Here's mine.
Wotc removing Half races and renaming ki to aura in the new dnd is not just stupid; but technically racest since mixed race couples and offspring is a thing irl.
Pathfinder is far better with diversity and to top it off. It has a far more interesting patheon.
Played dnd for a few years. Now having A BLAST in pf2e rn. It's honestly much, much more simple to dm and play. This simplicity, tho, comes only after a few sessions, cause there is a bit more mechanics.
I think both systems are great, each person will have their preference, but at the end of the day they're both fun!
@@twistedpinttavern again, not arguing with that. Everyone is playing what they want, but pf2e turned out to be simpler for our group to play and run.
Re: material components - did the OP not know what an arcane focus does? They’re the perfect object for dm and spell caster alike. You can ignore all the minor materials while still requiring a 300 gp diamond for revivify. It’s perfect
Exactly! It's almost like this has already been thought of, lol
If you like Checkers, play 5E but if you like Chess, play Pathfinder 1E/3.5/Palladium Fantasy!
Yes! This is a beautiful analogy.
As much as I love Fifth Edition, it's REALLY unbalanced (which is part of what people love about it).
Paladin is just a straight upgrade to Fighters, Tasha's new subclasses introduced some power creep, hell, the best build in the game is straight-up Peace Cleric 1/Chrono Wizard 19.
Peace Cleric's level one ability stacks with bless and effectively doubles your PB, for 10 minutes, without concentration, and can be used the number of times equal to your PB bonus (meaning you can dip just ONE level.)
That hot take at 3:01 IMO is hundred percent right lmao
Yeah, it's definitely got some balance issues lol
As someone who pretty much only plays warlocks I assure you’re they’re insanely powerful. I do splash sorcerer to 4 levels with most builds tho…… lol 🤦🏻♂️
Yeah, warlocks can definitely lead to some BUSTED builds
Here's my controversial hot take: This channel should have 100x more subs :D Congrats on 500!
Very controversial, lol. Thank you!
Attunement is garbage and I houseruled it out of both of my games
Ooo definitely a hot take
Luck should be a stat. Perhaps when the adventurers are looting the bandits someone’s “Lucky crossbow” could be a +1 weapon
I could get behind lucky weapons being a +1
@@twistedpinttavern also it’s unlikely that bandits have access to identify so they might not know that they have a magic weapon. They just have a weapon that hits more often
I actually love this take on low power magic items. "I don't know why, but with this crossbow I hit a lot more shots! Must be me lucky crossbow."
Dungeon Crawl Classics has luck as a stat and a ton of mechanics revolving around it. i’d recommend checking it out if you get the chance
I have players roll to me privately. Myself and the player knows.
My hot take is that you're not unconscious when you go down. You're just unstable. You can't take actions or anything, just like being unconscious, but as you drift away, on each turn I ask for a description of what you're doing - reaching out to someone? Remembering something you regret? Trying to falteringly plead for your party to flee and leave you?
It's mandatory. Tell the table what your character is doing, then roll to me privately.
Not knowing how safe your ally is, but having them broken and struggling, really raises the stakes.
I do like adding some tense drama to being knocked down, this sounds like a fun way to do it!
Here's My hotake. Asimar and Teifling should be separate ancestrys of the same one race.
I actually really like this take. Would also allow a lot of really cool role play between the two, like distant "brothers" of sorts.
they actually do that in a few other systems, notably Pathfinder 2E, where IMO its done the best
@@homopopsie6622 It just makes sense.
If you are going to play a sword and sorcery game no guns!
Definitely a hot take. The gunslinger fanatics will not enjoy that lol
Ranger was and still is good, revising it and giving variant/optional features weren't necessary. They have great ranged and melee potential but also have decent damn half casting. Favored Terrain/Foe is really just something to further a story or bring a bit extra life to the character, work with the dm for that.
The Wizard's Necromancy subclass is op because you can make extra undead, buff undead, and heal with your necromancy kills. One graveyard or a handful of bandits and then the player has several zombies who can easily take down future enemies and have a higher likelihood of succeeding their undead fortitude.
I love ranger, it's a class that's viable in game and in role play
I agree on that ok ranger, but maybe the revision could be useful because brought simpler versions of the class (but the class in general got complicated).
About necromancy wizard though, if you really want to, you can make those infinite undead shenanigans with any wizard, I admit that buffing them is great, but that is ONLY 1 good feature, the last one is very situational
You forgot to rate one of them....
Whoops...
Fighter, wizard, artificer, monk and ranger are the most balanced classes and have the best design. It's only because of comparison to the OP classes do they look poor in design.
Since there is little difference in theme now, I would never choose a fighter over a paladin when I think about pure power.
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Hit points should not increase every level. Instead starting with a bulk amount and increases every time their proficiency modifiers increase
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You should not make attack rolls. Hit points are explained as a mix of fatigue and near misses until the final blow. A level 10 paladin could be a one man Army against a legion of goblins, at a choke point, for 16 hours of straight combat without rest. The way things are currently written.
Every round of combat should wear away your hit points by their proposed explanation of hit points.
D&D 5e is definitely a bit unbalanced, though at least you can't make PunPun or other similar crazy BS anymore. (not that that stuff is inherently bad, it's just examples of how insane 3.5e was) Honestly, though, this isn't nearly as much of a problem as it would be for a competitive game. D&D is a coop game and the DM can tweak things as needed if the players are above or below the curve.
Here's mine: multiclassing should be excluded, not even an optional rule.
Oh that's a rough one lol. I know some people really don't like multiclassing, though
@@twistedpinttavern If it were more like the character with two classes in AD&D first edition, I wouldn't mind it, but so many people just min-max with it.
My remedy to material components in my campaigns is essentially treating the component pouch like an artifact that has charges. When you go to a shop you pay to have it recharged (refilled with common components).
Does it work for all components, or just non consumed/valued ones?
Ok, honestly, the spell component balance issue is why, even with an arcane focus, RAW still requires consumables.
My current campaign doesn't do components and it's considerably more fun. Of course the whole thing is a big ol goofy clusterfuck where I play a Treant Bard who manipulated the politics of our main town so that a raccoon is now mayor, which violates the tenets of the trash treaty between the raccoons and crows, causing the crows to break the primordial totems of the crow god and usher in the Garbagemageddon/Trashpocolypse. It's a good time.
Well if the trash treaty has been broken, the crows MUST retaliate!
@@twistedpinttavern Yeah they aren't wrong, but between our party and a legion of raccoons piloting Iron Man style trash mechs they better bring their A game.
You could give me 100 tries and I would have never guessed how that sentence would have gone lmao
4:16 congrats! you've reverse engineered 4th edition
I’ll turn off the lantern on my way you don’t worry about it
Thanks! Next drink's on me.
Repelling blast should be allowed RAW
As in default work eldritch blast?
@Twisted Pint Tavern still an invocation. My group says pushing every blast with no save is OP. Tries explaining to them its about battlefield control. Shame to, warlocks would be so fun to play
Everything officially published is not a set in stone, ready to go material, but a skeleton you need to work with, no good DM runs 100% by the book, be it mechanics or lore. And expecting that everything someone publishes is going to fit 100% your world and preferences or it is bad is entitlement speaking.
Agreed, it's all just guidelines