I think the point is that it’s a fairly generic concept that is entirely locked to a single class instead of simply being a mechanic. It’s the same as power attack being putting more force behind an attack in exchange for less accuracy, something that should also arguably be a generic option. Ideally things like reckless attack should be generally available but specific classes get abilities or passives that enhance the effect or remove weaknesses. For example, reckless attack as a non-barbarian could also reduce your movement on your next turn to 0 as well as give attackers advantage. Then barbarian gets to keep full mobility alongside features like rage reducing the incoming damage. This still makes them the best reckless attacker on average but allows anyone who wants to “attack recklessly” to do so.
@@MonochromaticPrism Lots of stuff is dumbed down to reduce the number of dice rolls. Almost like people play this purely for the combat so to not have 16h fights they dumb it down so it only takes 8h.
I have, but it always takes a skill check to not blow up the can. It isn’t very high, but if you fail you take 1 slashing damage and 1d4 fire damage from the can exploding. I haven’t failed yet, which is why i still have the average amount of fingers.
@@PaulGaither D&D surely suffers from trying to impose realism upon the martials while casters can break reality, they should be doing anime things like lifting houses, jumping tens of meters, lanching Air blades and hitting crowds with a single Slash.
Honestly, it's not a bad thing to try. If they can pull of things - completely untrained - that level 1 characters can't, then the rules are actually kind of restrictive. They're both in difficult terrain, and can still get full movement and two attacks in 6 seconds.
@@CertifiedDocthe thing to keep in mind is that there is a difference between attacking fast and attacking fast with precision. Think of someone randomly flailing their arms without putting any real force behind it. They can get in like 5 hits in a second, but it'll do no real damage. Now think of a boxer like Mike Tyson. He's really fast and trained and can get like 4 hits but they hit SIGNIFICANTLY harder.
The problem with dex representing defending yourself with your weapon is that your AC doesn't change when you get disarmed unless you have one of those specific features.
It makes sense. Castles in medieval times were made in a way where a right handed person would have a very hard time fighting while going up a set of stairs, but a very easy time going down. This was on purpose to make defending the upper floors easy. That's what narrow spiral staircases are for.
The thing about the tree is, most trees in america (like the one in the vid) are comparatively younger than something like a 7 century old behemoth in medieval fantasy, so 5 foot around trees actually make a little more sense.
As a fencer and HEMA practitioner, only with a simple attack (1 tempo attack directly at the target) would one swing of a sword be one "attack". If you're counter-timing, for example, the "action" will be a false attack (or other provocation) that draws your opponent's counter-attack, which you then defeat and strike him. That whole exchange would be 3 tempi or more, but it would be "one action" on your part ("attack by counter-time"). TL;DR: Its more complicated than "1 swing=1 attack in D&D". One "action" would encompass multiple movements, which is why it might take several seconds. Could even take six seconds, if you count the footwork to set up an attack.
I always think of it as 1 Attack = one Opportunity to hit. Fighters don't just "attack faster", they find more openings, wich is why they get more attacks.
@@isur4k Yeah but 5e move and attack with 4 attacks and action surge for another 4 is like, the opponent has to actively not defend to get that many good hits in. Getting rid of the full-round action requirement to get all your extra attacks was a massive mistake.
5:35 Those under-the-crotch shots have ended many a powerful Wizard's bloodlines. That is why the Magi decided to don the Robes, to alleviate the temptation... and 2:50 "Why isn't my AC equal to how good I hold my sword?" It is, as Dexterity Bonus for light armor.
I think what helps with the realism a bit is that AC is both Armor and ability to dodge. Like yeah, you can hit someone around a tree, but they'll probably see it coming
It is an interesting way you think about it. You're essentially representing the percentage chance a person or creature will be injured given X assumptions. Reminds me of the "survivability onion". Is there a good reason hit and damage are two separate rolls, though? Is there a meaningful difference between an arrow missing and an arrow bouncing harmlessly off of a character's armor? I might add a supression mechanic where every roll below a 3, let's say, but that is not a critical failure subtracts from the target's pool of "fortitude points" (FP). When those hit zero, a target either flees or is pinned. This represents the only significant difference between a hit and an injurious hit, which is the fact getting hit is scary. What do you think? I've only ever played DnD once.
@@iivin4233 well i mean like this mainly came up during the tree discussion, and it was where they were discussing that it was easy to hit around the tree
@@iivin4233what the hell are you talking about This is a video about the funniness of dnd, and I just added another way to think about a question they had
It would be interesting if dodging and armor weren’t combined into a single number. If AC was broken into AC and EV (evasion) for example. Having a high AC and low EV would mean you almost always get hit, but the hits do less damage, while having a high EV and low AC means you don’t get hit often, but when you do, you take a lot of damage. I sometimes play a rougelike that works that way, though it also has SH to represent your ability to block attacks with shields.
"any time one of your turn starts its a hear me out" dudem my DM whenever i send a "i got an idea" he has nightmares, one time we were in session and i said "yo i just thought of something" and he was holding back tears.
An old tumblr post said it best, "Wizards need somatic and verbal components to cast spells, so the best way to beat them would be to pin their hands to the wall and makeout with them sloppy style to prevent them from casting anything"
One thing important about the number of attacks is that it is not, at least in 3.5 and Pathfinder, that you are swinging more times. You are actually swinging way more times in a round than your number of attacks, but most of them are getting parried or blocked. Your number of attacks is the number of openings you see in your opponents defense, and thats why when you level up you get more of them. You become more skilled at noticing openings, not faster at physically swinging your weapon. Its also why iterative attacks have progressively worse penalties to attack. You are noticing smaller, harder to exploit openings that less skilled opponents wouldnt even see, but theyre still hard to exploit.
3:00 "why isnt my ac how good I can hold my sword" ive actually pictured that as a reflavor for barbarian rage, so skilled with a sword your deflecting half of the damage youd take by deflecting blows
Something about everything with this video felt like a much welcome return to form of the youtube format. Reminded me of the original charm of people just going out to have fun and share it and that's it; SUBLIME! Reminded me and when my friend and I would sword fight on a trampoline. Thanks for this wholesome charm of what TH-cam used to be.
So I feel like something that is often overlooked with the "5ft square" thing. Is that when people measure a 5ft gap and then test to see if they can reach eachother, you're too close. Characters are assumed to occupy the "center" of their respective tiles, with attacks simulating lunging, binding, and parrying. This means the distance between two adjacent squares is still 5ft when measuring properly center to center. Another problem is that the number of "attacks" thinks of "how many times can I swing?" Rather than "how many times can I find or create an opening to actually strike?" With the attack roll determining how well your character created their opening and whether they actually succeeded in scoring their hit or if their opponents reflexes and armor defeated the strike. Getting more attacks simulates gaining more skill that you can use to create and strike at these openings. Edit 1: Spelling.
8:40 cover does indeed apply to melee attacks, alot of people don't know that, but like, yes, if you are trying to hit someone behind a tree, they have half cover
tbf most material costs are covered by the spellcasting focus. The most important part here is the Naruto signs for sure. Always liked the Anti-Magic barbarian though who puts his fist in the spellcasters mouth.
“Disengage should not be an action” But you disengaged from the combat by walking backward, which is not going to be as fast as going forward New idea: everyone gets bonus action disengage, but for non-rouges, your speed is cut in half when doing so
ObiAni technique is OP and is banned at all the tables I play at as well as RL fencing tournaments. Also nothing wrong with two bros fighting with their wands alone in the woods.
For dexterity based characters, your AC is based on how well they can use a sword! But letting strength also define your AC seems like it would even the gap slightly
An attack roll =/= one swing. It’s an abstraction. Your attack roll represents about 6 seconds of combat- however that may look like for a character of your skill level. So what does 6 seconds of combat look like? Probably several swings, feigning, juking, parrying, blocks, and hopefully something that gets through in that 6 seconds to do some damage 😂
the wild sword swinging parry is a battlemaster maneuver and costs a superiority die: "When another creature damages you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction and expend one superiority die to reduce the damage by the number you roll on your superiority die + your Dexterity modifier."
Honestly, I agree with you on the sword AC thing. I think Parry to add 2 to your AC when hit with an attack to potentially turn it into a miss as a reaction should be baseline for everyone wielding only weapons (wizard staff counts as a quarterstaff).
the way i view attacks in dnd is that you’re locked in a back and forth combat whenever you’re adjacent to an enemy. the amount of attacks you have in a turn is the amount of times that you’re able to find or make an opening to deliver an attack to the vitals.
Yeah without it so many Acestries, Dedications an Class combinations would be broken lol don't mind me just gonna hit 6 times no downsides an then flee in one turn lol
my favorite part of dnd combat is how if someone is prone and you make a ranged attack within 5 ft its still disadvantage. i feel like it should be advantage because if you are shooting someone lying on the floor directly in front of you with a bow or spell or whatever it should be much easier to hit them and much harder to avoid, unless one is to assume that the ranged user is scared of being poked in the shins and the melee user is really good at barrel rolling to the side to avoid point blank arrows, which, yeah i guess is see it. but it feels a lot more goofy than having the "knock them over and then execution" work. actually i think the issue is that there should be a difference between "lying prone to get cover" and "lying prone due to being knocked over" where one gets advantage against range and the other gets disadvantage
About radius damage, when my PCs dodge the fireball or lightning i describe this as they rolled or jumped even if the didnt use movement. Sometimes i confuse an older exp DM but i think its worth it.
this has the energy of two 11 year olds play fighting after school and arguing about if hitting a leg means you have to stand on one foot now
yuh huh
The LARP I played for over 20 years started with rules like that.
They later transitioned to hit points.
literally us 😂😂😂
Yes. And it was GLORIOUS.
It does.
Can't believe they invented real magic just to test this for us.
Last time they invented real fights, now then invent magic
"You leave yourself open. Why is that not a mechanic?"
*Cries in Reckless Attack*
I was thinking the same thing. 🤔
and battle master riposte
I think the point is that it’s a fairly generic concept that is entirely locked to a single class instead of simply being a mechanic. It’s the same as power attack being putting more force behind an attack in exchange for less accuracy, something that should also arguably be a generic option.
Ideally things like reckless attack should be generally available but specific classes get abilities or passives that enhance the effect or remove weaknesses.
For example, reckless attack as a non-barbarian could also reduce your movement on your next turn to 0 as well as give attackers advantage. Then barbarian gets to keep full mobility alongside features like rage reducing the incoming damage. This still makes them the best reckless attacker on average but allows anyone who wants to “attack recklessly” to do so.
I think the question was considering all classes, not only the Barbarian.
@@MonochromaticPrism Lots of stuff is dumbed down to reduce the number of dice rolls. Almost like people play this purely for the combat so to not have 16h fights they dumb it down so it only takes 8h.
I can't even describe how Jacob runs. It's like nothing I've seen. It feels like he's simultaneously in a half G and 3 G atmosphere.
I grant you a point of Inspiration for that description.
It's kind of a gallop kinda gait
It's like if a T-1000 tried to run like a Georgian Gentlemen Thief.
It's like a centaur playing a human with their back half edited out.
“How realistic is dnd combat” dude I don’t know I haven’t gotten the update that gives me burning hands yet
Well, do you know the spell/are a race that has it? :O
Have you tried aerosol can + lighter?
@@TheSteam02using this technique summons the hidden Fire Fighter subclass
@@felixamari157 i dont think any race has burning hands, do they?
I have, but it always takes a skill check to not blow up the can. It isn’t very high, but if you fail you take 1 slashing damage and 1d4 fire damage from the can exploding. I haven’t failed yet, which is why i still have the average amount of fingers.
jacob went 25 feet and didnt realize the brush was difficult terrain smh
To test what athletic and/or magical adventures could do, we got two guys with zero combat experience in a field. As the scientific method intended
@@PaulGaither D&D surely suffers from trying to impose realism upon the martials while casters can break reality, they should be doing anime things like lifting houses, jumping tens of meters, lanching Air blades and hitting crowds with a single Slash.
Honestly, it's not a bad thing to try. If they can pull of things - completely untrained - that level 1 characters can't, then the rules are actually kind of restrictive.
They're both in difficult terrain, and can still get full movement and two attacks in 6 seconds.
@@CertifiedDocthe thing to keep in mind is that there is a difference between attacking fast and attacking fast with precision. Think of someone randomly flailing their arms without putting any real force behind it. They can get in like 5 hits in a second, but it'll do no real damage. Now think of a boxer like Mike Tyson. He's really fast and trained and can get like 4 hits but they hit SIGNIFICANTLY harder.
@@phelps6205that's not everyone's vibe though
@@PaulGaither5th edition was not in anyway made to go to 10th level nor was any DnD edition. literally everything you said is wrong.
"I have +5 AC right now" is the most relatably nerdy sentence I've ever heard
"Ah, but I _also_ have +5 AC. The tree is a neutral boon."
Alternate title: Jacob and Colton goof off in a field with swords for 10 minutes
You just described dnd combat
_"Why isn't my AC equal to how good i can hold my sword"_ - So you want to play a Bladesinger Wizard...
Or take defensive duelist or play swords bard or take dual wielder or play battlemaster fighter or play pathfinder
Dex bonus basically accounts for your weapon skill. Two weapon fighting gives some AC along with Kensai for having a weapon too.
I’ve thought about that before but I always thought it was just part of your dex.
@@GreyfauxxGamingDex accounts for moving out of the way
The problem with dex representing defending yourself with your weapon is that your AC doesn't change when you get disarmed unless you have one of those specific features.
Tree giving diagonal cover in melee is actually gigabrain
It makes sense. Castles in medieval times were made in a way where a right handed person would have a very hard time fighting while going up a set of stairs, but a very easy time going down. This was on purpose to make defending the upper floors easy. That's what narrow spiral staircases are for.
@@pal1d1nl1ght a design that was only useful for people using a sword and shield though
@@blackwingdragonmasta kinda hard to use a polearm in a narrow stair case.
@@blackwingdragonmastaYeah,let me use my Xbow on the staircase,of course your using a shield it's like an entire wall on those conditions.
@@pal1d1nl1ght That's actually a myth that got debunked.
The thing about the tree is, most trees in america (like the one in the vid) are comparatively younger than something like a 7 century old behemoth in medieval fantasy, so 5 foot around trees actually make a little more sense.
depending on your local druid population you could have trees in your campaign 10 to 15 feet across
Oh shit, the bois got tape measures out. They WARGAMERS now!
Tape measures are just straight-up better than the square grid.
@@ClockworkBees That's why wargamers use them over a grid system (Heroclix and Battletech don't count)
@@ArtFord I’m aware. I made that comment because I’ve thought about this, and I’ve had time to think about this because it’s not new information.
_sensually maintains unit cohesion_
@@ikaemosno Slaanesh content here, this is a family rated channel!
As a fencer and HEMA practitioner, only with a simple attack (1 tempo attack directly at the target) would one swing of a sword be one "attack". If you're counter-timing, for example, the "action" will be a false attack (or other provocation) that draws your opponent's counter-attack, which you then defeat and strike him. That whole exchange would be 3 tempi or more, but it would be "one action" on your part ("attack by counter-time").
TL;DR: Its more complicated than "1 swing=1 attack in D&D". One "action" would encompass multiple movements, which is why it might take several seconds. Could even take six seconds, if you count the footwork to set up an attack.
I always think of it as 1 Attack = one Opportunity to hit. Fighters don't just "attack faster", they find more openings, wich is why they get more attacks.
@@isur4k ohhh that makes so much sense
@@isur4k Yeah but 5e move and attack with 4 attacks and action surge for another 4 is like, the opponent has to actively not defend to get that many good hits in. Getting rid of the full-round action requirement to get all your extra attacks was a massive mistake.
Every time they revert to monkey brain I’m reminded that adults are just big children and thats beautiful.
5:35 Those under-the-crotch shots have ended many a powerful Wizard's bloodlines. That is why the Magi decided to don the Robes, to alleviate the temptation... and 2:50 "Why isn't my AC equal to how good I hold my sword?" It is, as Dexterity Bonus for light armor.
But you don't need a weapon for the AC bonus though. And blocking in plate armor is possible aswell.
are we not gonna talk about how funny the "drop item" joke was ???
2:06 “Ok 25ft we can pretend that I’m a halfling”
“We have to Pretend”
“SHUT”
Thanks missed that joke
@@jvandep hefty hefty hafling
My thought: why not assume it's difficult terrain lol
Nearly spat out my tea at that comeback.
I think what helps with the realism a bit is that AC is both Armor and ability to dodge.
Like yeah, you can hit someone around a tree, but they'll probably see it coming
It is an interesting way you think about it. You're essentially representing the percentage chance a person or creature will be injured given X assumptions. Reminds me of the "survivability onion".
Is there a good reason hit and damage are two separate rolls, though? Is there a meaningful difference between an arrow missing and an arrow bouncing harmlessly off of a character's armor?
I might add a supression mechanic where every roll below a 3, let's say, but that is not a critical failure subtracts from the target's pool of "fortitude points" (FP). When those hit zero, a target either flees or is pinned.
This represents the only significant difference between a hit and an injurious hit, which is the fact getting hit is scary.
What do you think? I've only ever played DnD once.
@@iivin4233 well i mean like this mainly came up during the tree discussion, and it was where they were discussing that it was easy to hit around the tree
@@iivin4233 i have only played dnd once, isconfident to give mechanical and design advice truly a master of the system at hand here folks
@@iivin4233what the hell are you talking about
This is a video about the funniness of dnd, and I just added another way to think about a question they had
It would be interesting if dodging and armor weren’t combined into a single number. If AC was broken into AC and EV (evasion) for example. Having a high AC and low EV would mean you almost always get hit, but the hits do less damage, while having a high EV and low AC means you don’t get hit often, but when you do, you take a lot of damage. I sometimes play a rougelike that works that way, though it also has SH to represent your ability to block attacks with shields.
Melee attacks are affected by cover. This becomes important to know when one of your players is a polearm master.
I'm tired, I read that as 'a pokémon master.'
Excuse me while I include a bunch of pesky goblins hiding behind stalagmites in my next session
@@ZenFr0g check out "bec-de-corbin" if you have full plate wearing players, lol. It's affectionately nicknamed "the can opener"
"any time one of your turn starts its a hear me out"
dudem my DM whenever i send a "i got an idea" he has nightmares, one time we were in session and i said "yo i just thought of something" and he was holding back tears.
Please show a real game combat that lasts over an hour, then play it out in real time and realize only 42 seconds passed
3:01 "What does this do? What if I did this?"
....
That's gonna be a fireball from me, dawg.
An old tumblr post said it best, "Wizards need somatic and verbal components to cast spells, so the best way to beat them would be to pin their hands to the wall and makeout with them sloppy style to prevent them from casting anything"
Might also work with some sorcerers with access to metamagic anyway, somehow
Don't let the bards know. They would be unstoppable.
I did that once kinda
Most campaigns usually don't allow sexual assault like that, so...
@@gazelle_diamond9768 emphasis on most...
One thing important about the number of attacks is that it is not, at least in 3.5 and Pathfinder, that you are swinging more times. You are actually swinging way more times in a round than your number of attacks, but most of them are getting parried or blocked. Your number of attacks is the number of openings you see in your opponents defense, and thats why when you level up you get more of them. You become more skilled at noticing openings, not faster at physically swinging your weapon. Its also why iterative attacks have progressively worse penalties to attack. You are noticing smaller, harder to exploit openings that less skilled opponents wouldnt even see, but theyre still hard to exploit.
I love that this is essentially two adults playing swords in the backyard. HARD SCIENCE is being done here.
"Why isn't my AC equal to how good I can hold my sword?" I mean, that's kinda what the Duelist fighting style does.
yea but why should that be a class-specific ability? any guy who knows how to use a sword also knows how to block
No, but it *is* what the Defensive Duelist Feat does.
@@isaacaliengot them mixed up, thanks for correction!
Jacob and pals waving around plastic swords at the park??? NOW THIS IS WHAT I'M HERE FOR!!!
You go up right? And you hit stuff, swing, swing swung then sing and swing and one last swing and there! That’s it you’ve got it! WIN!
When he comments on the video but doesnt post it on Discord
3:00 "why isnt my ac how good I can hold my sword"
ive actually pictured that as a reflavor for barbarian rage, so skilled with a sword your deflecting half of the damage youd take by deflecting blows
There's a feat called defensive duelist that literally let's you block with a sword
@the_netherqueen yeah I know that but that's only once per round
That's a really cool reflavour!!
2:10 “We have to pretend?!” 😂 … crit emotional damage right there!
That'll be 1d4 psychic damage and disadvantage on your next attack
Something about everything with this video felt like a much welcome return to form of the youtube format. Reminded me of the original charm of people just going out to have fun and share it and that's it; SUBLIME! Reminded me and when my friend and I would sword fight on a trampoline. Thanks for this wholesome charm of what TH-cam used to be.
"I couldn't hit you in a million years" (when talking about cover)
"I cast magic missile."
-Sighs heavily-
2:08 Guards! Guards! There's been a murder!
just a couple of adult men playing with swords and tape measures in the middle of a field.
And it was glorious
Honestly based behavior. Simply embrace the cringe and you shall become free.
@@brandonogden3498true, sometimes cringe is based and that needs to be recognized more
The editing really made this video.
Cracked me up everytime there was any memery. Good shit.
So I feel like something that is often overlooked with the "5ft square" thing. Is that when people measure a 5ft gap and then test to see if they can reach eachother, you're too close. Characters are assumed to occupy the "center" of their respective tiles, with attacks simulating lunging, binding, and parrying. This means the distance between two adjacent squares is still 5ft when measuring properly center to center.
Another problem is that the number of "attacks" thinks of "how many times can I swing?" Rather than "how many times can I find or create an opening to actually strike?" With the attack roll determining how well your character created their opening and whether they actually succeeded in scoring their hit or if their opponents reflexes and armor defeated the strike.
Getting more attacks simulates gaining more skill that you can use to create and strike at these openings.
Edit 1: Spelling.
Yes, you get it!
That's a good point about attacks and extra attacks.
I Tested DnD combat on my 3 year old brother!
I Think it worked cause he hasn’t moved in hours!
Oh
Oh no
@@ZenFr0g let me test it on you Next!
Fun fact: if you want to cast fireball, turn on the gas in your house, wait for a while then strike a match
Colton's heartfelt, "You're a hostile combatant" was so earnest I died laughing
2:07 Glorious.
8:40 cover does indeed apply to melee attacks, alot of people don't know that, but like, yes, if you are trying to hit someone behind a tree, they have half cover
personally as someone who is exactly 5ftx5ft I think it’s very realistic
Are you a gelatinous cube?
@@outcastedOpal …no comment.
@@TrueKingOfDucks
Unrelated question: do you like to slowly move through dungeons and eat all organic materia?
You are forgetting that to cast spells you must use material components, naruto ninjutsu signs AND scream
tbf most material costs are covered by the spellcasting focus. The most important part here is the Naruto signs for sure. Always liked the Anti-Magic barbarian though who puts his fist in the spellcasters mouth.
Dwayne! Dwayne, them two pale fellers is in tha field swinging swords at eachother again!
This has the energy of two brothers playing outside and arguing about their play pretend rules 😂
Two friends goof around a tree for ten minutes and twenty six seconds straight
I love the idea of putting trees in between squares. It could add a lot of interesting dynamics into fights.
8:36 Literal opportunity attack in action, you saw it here folks
I love that this was just a vidoe of playing in the woods
One channel I love is just dudes being war nerds out in the wild with airsoft guns
me: I can always expect the highest quality content from XP to level 3.
XP to level 3: 5:26
Watching Jacob's excuses to be a child playing in the forest again is always great
Man, i forgot how much fun it is to just fuck around with the boys in the yard.
So many ticks receiving reactions in this video.
The entire turn is 6 seconds so if you use your action, reaction, bonus action, and your movement can be very fast running 30 feet in 1.25 seconds
*we have to pretend??*
Was CRAZY DUDE😂😂😂😂
“Disengage should not be an action”
But you disengaged from the combat by walking backward, which is not going to be as fast as going forward
New idea: everyone gets bonus action disengage, but for non-rouges, your speed is cut in half when doing so
You make this video every two years and I love it
Ahhhh love this! The old combat videos were some of the first videos that drew me to this channel years ago!
ObiAni technique is OP and is banned at all the tables I play at as well as RL fencing tournaments. Also nothing wrong with two bros fighting with their wands alone in the woods.
"I've got extra attack... with a foam/ plastic sword that weighs under a pound"
Longswords weigh 2-4 lbs so him maybe getting one attack out is also kinda on the money.
@@Medul759 I came to say this. If my opponent is not providing threat, I can easily throw a cut per second.
Jacob has discovered the power of disarming attacks
8:18 Have you never seen a Redwood tree! Those are Gigantic!
For dexterity based characters, your AC is based on how well they can use a sword! But letting strength also define your AC seems like it would even the gap slightly
I think all classes should add WIS to AC and only DEX if in light armor. Maybe Monks get resistances like a barb?
Nah, that would be weird. Like, what will be the point of heavy armor then?
An attack roll =/= one swing. It’s an abstraction.
Your attack roll represents about 6 seconds of combat- however that may look like for a character of your skill level.
So what does 6 seconds of combat look like? Probably several swings, feigning, juking, parrying, blocks, and hopefully something that gets through in that 6 seconds to do some damage 😂
3:05 College of Swords Bard defensive flourish
4:39 my man summoned a car
5e? Not at all, you can swing a halberd or cast a spell while someone is actively wrestling you. 3.5? Phenomenal.
If thats youre only problem, you can homebrew
@@gorgit No, there's mountains of problems with 5e. See, it's not a roleplaying game, 3.5 is
Can I just say the graphics in this were fantabulous. Also was kinda hoping the dash would be like the knight from the Holy Grail...
Mom: "Go play with the neighbors kids"
the neighbors kids: "could you hit me with a fire ball"
Despite the multiple explosions, no Coltons were harmed in the making of this video
THATS THE HANDLE! *Worms Voice * Oh no! *Boom*
Jacob really went hard on the edits this video huh
You raise a good point about being within 5ft of another magic caster, I guess you both get disadvantage so it evens out.
“We have to pretend?!” I snorted out my yahoo there 😂
This is the dumbest video I've watched in weeks and I loved every second of it.
the wild sword swinging parry is a battlemaster maneuver and costs a superiority die: "When another creature damages you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction and expend one superiority die to reduce the damage by the number you roll on your superiority die + your Dexterity modifier."
absolute madman.
he actually touched grass.
Honestly, I agree with you on the sword AC thing. I think Parry to add 2 to your AC when hit with an attack to potentially turn it into a miss as a reaction should be baseline for everyone wielding only weapons (wizard staff counts as a quarterstaff).
the way i view attacks in dnd is that you’re locked in a back and forth combat whenever you’re adjacent to an enemy. the amount of attacks you have in a turn is the amount of times that you’re able to find or make an opening to deliver an attack to the vitals.
I love these realistic tests done by people who would at most have an 8 in physical stats. And 0 actual proficiency in either weapons or martial arts.
One of them is a power lifter. I think that's more than an 8.
I love that Jacob just starts impromptu blade dancing partway through, then immediately devolves into the most awkward defensive stances ever. XD
“You leave yourself open. Why’s that not a mechanic?”
Reckless attack
Only barbarians leave themselves open?
Any action that isn't Dodge is automatically leaving yourself open.
2:05 Best Roast In D&D TH-cam History
Jacob is now canonically a halfling 😂
Your sounds effects and animations are wonderful. So funny.
The long awaited sequel is finally upon us
2:45 may actually be a decent explanation of why there are multi attack penalty's in pathfinder.
Yeah without it so many Acestries, Dedications an Class combinations would be broken lol don't mind me just gonna hit 6 times no downsides an then flee in one turn lol
I want an edit of this video where every time they fight, battle music plays.
my favorite part of dnd combat is how if someone is prone and you make a ranged attack within 5 ft its still disadvantage. i feel like it should be advantage because if you are shooting someone lying on the floor directly in front of you with a bow or spell or whatever it should be much easier to hit them and much harder to avoid, unless one is to assume that the ranged user is scared of being poked in the shins and the melee user is really good at barrel rolling to the side to avoid point blank arrows, which, yeah i guess is see it. but it feels a lot more goofy than having the "knock them over and then execution" work. actually i think the issue is that there should be a difference between "lying prone to get cover" and "lying prone due to being knocked over" where one gets advantage against range and the other gets disadvantage
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I am so happy you guys can make a living of of this. This is 200% wholesome content.
There's a lot of perfect out of context moments here
Let's go!! They went outside again for the first time in over a year!
3:00 As a THEATRICAL combat performer, I am embarrassed by this.
Missing an attack and being left open to an attack is kinda how the Riposte on Battlemaster Fighter works.
you look absolutely insane doing these
plz more
Dude I was just thinking about these rules videos where you guys are putting it to the test outside.
About radius damage, when my PCs dodge the fireball or lightning i describe this as they rolled or jumped even if the didnt use movement. Sometimes i confuse an older exp DM but i think its worth it.
this make me want to try find out my my irl dnd stats are, and then go out and do some LARP
The Obi-Ani spinnies was literally a mechanic in AD&D 2e for one of the Bard kits. Baldur's Gate 2 had it for Haer'Dalis.