Had a campaign one using that and a guy with a weird sword attached where his hand should be and a 'loud magic wand' who came through a portal. Was fun, was back in 3.5
@@flamestoyershadowkill doesn't a reference have to be intentional to count? i mean, it's clearly supposed to be a telly-tubies reference, the green sun part was probably just an accident. if it IS intentional though, i'd friggin explode with joy and....hope.
Water genasi get +2 Con and +1 Wis for racial ASI’s, right? I’d say that’s a pretty solid choice for a cleric based on that alone. Lord knows how many cleric spells require concentration!
@@immortuipraebibo910 Well of course, you gotta get to level 5 to use fireball! Kidding, I didn't get to really use it in my campaign. Death domain is definitely one of my favorites as well.
@@masked_katz2450 First time playing dnd i first played a halfling bard, and my DM was and dick and told me after the session started that we are going to a haunted mansion. I got destroyed in the first 3 sessions. I asked if I could respec my character since i was practically useless against ghosts and all undead creatures. So i picked a cleric, a light cleric... I instantly went from dead to great. My bard had a habit of setting off traps and i set off a petrifying room ( every round all players had to make wisdom saving throws or become petrified ) full of giant rats that switched between statues and rats, that almost killed the entire party. Everyone hated my bard but my DM was having a laugh at my gut constantly going down and getting his arm chopped off from our half orc barbarian. I said that guy is dead and he is missing an arm so my DM said either A: I keep the bard and permanently get a negative modifier to my char and str, or B: make a new character. After a few nights of looking at characters and studying, i made a drow light cleric. At this point everyone is level 1, so my DM loved seeing everyone die and almost die due to starvation and constantly get attacked by ghosts which we used fire to ward off. I knew that the stats didn't match what a cleric needed, but i wanted to have fun and even though i wasn't made perfectly, i still nearly beat every monster my DM threw at me. Ghost, burned, zombie destroyed, final BBEG was a wyvern which kicked our asses because only me and 1 friend showed up that session. After a long rest i managed to kill it by constantly blinding it and casting Radiance of The Dawn my channel divinity. It became the party meme. After we left the mansion and took a wand of wonder, we left a mansion that was destroyed and almost collapsed ontop of us. My DM left us starving and half dead. I was sick of fighting so the first bandits that attacked us we slaughtered them with no mercy! Turns out those were noblemen's kids that liked to kill peasants for fun, and the town noble arrested us and took all our money, gear, and magic weapons and we started with some seed money to buy low end gear and fight some bandits as Level 3 adventurers. At this moment my Cleric has been beaten and is sick of people. In the middle of the night we were ambushed by 13 goblins in a thick forest where darkvsion didn't do squat. I used radiance of the Dawn, after a bright flash of light the next thing i knew 7 goblins fell from trees dead. 6 goblins attacked us, another channel divinity and they were all dead. We did this same trick against a camp of 30 bandits, 14 instantly died as my DM described that the enemies flesh and eyeballs were all melting. Did the same against a bandit leader, and then on our way back we were ambushed by a dozen cultists. I rolled max damage and every cultist died. On our way back to town we were arrested and taken to an arena were we had to fight dogs for the attention of the noble. The next day we faught 2 dozen cultists and a bearded devil we slaughtered them with radiant energy fire blasts, and holy light. My DM then proceeded to make the noble man hide and cast spells on our weakened party to kill us, i rolled a nat 1 on a death saving throw and promptly died, my friends were sacrificed to a demon. My DM said to us from now on light clerics are banned after that session. He made a very cheap death after all my Apollo light cleric Drow went through, my DM said we had to roll a nat 20 or 25 on a perception check to fond out were the nobleman was. After another game i left since he hated the fact warlocks get all their spells back on a short rest wich i abused. I never played another dnd game with patrick the DM ever again after he made 10 mimics grapple my entire level 4 party to death.
8:32 - "Guardian of Faith" Cleric: i, a Light Domain Cleric have a dream! and that's too *STRIKE DOWN ALL THAT IS DARK!!!* Dark Elf Rouge: *"SpongeGar Meme"*
Corona of light makes sunlight, so it can kill vampires. Also giving disadvantage on the saves against nearly all damaging cleric spells is pretty dang good for a subclass looking to blast enemies.
*Logan's uncontrolable burping* 1st level enchantment Carsting time: 1 action Components: V(a burp) Range: 15ft When you cast this spell, you force all creatures in range to make a Constitution saving throw if they succed nothing happens, if they fail they imediately give a loud burp and suffer disadvantage on their next attack roll or social roll due to embarrasment, the spell automaticaly fails if the creature doesn't have a mouth or is incapable of feeling embarrased
Cleric: "There is SO Much Darkness in the world these days, I plead you! Grant us Relief!" Light God: "Nah! You can do it though!" Cleric "You would grant me such power??" Light God: "Yeah, just like, go out and uhh... Destroy Everything out there that's Dark!" Cleric: "That... Seems a bit Racist, don't you think?" Light God: "What?? No! you're putting words into my mouth! I'm saying go out there and uh kill everything that hides in shadows and does crimes." Cleric: "Holy SHIT! That's messed up!" This basically sums up the relationship of Angels and Demons in Shin Megami Tensei.
I love how you showed Heliod, I hope they make more MTG planes into D&D settings. That story arc, at least, made Theros Beyond interesting. The Sun God believes he should be the only God, and so he turns kind of evil until the other's just punish him. Imagine the players as they help to take down the light tyrant. They'd feel as if they took down a massive problem-in-waiting. But now that there is no God of light, and the Titans are escaping the underworld, what happens?
Obviously. you also bring in the Ravnica rulings and give them an NPC Elspeth. Also, Ixalan and Mirrodin/Phyrexia is on my wishlist for mtg settings, hbu
@@nicholasvandonkersgoed3758 Well there are the Plane Shift PDF articles for quite a number of other planes. I mean they're more Unearth Arcana than official.
"My servant, you must kill all the Dark things." "Uhhh.. You mean like, Orcs and Undead and stuff?" "Son, it's the Middle Ages. Everybody here is super, and I mean really super-duper racist. I said what I meant."
Bout the only black people in Europe during the dark ages were the moors who regularly raided Europe (iceland included) for slaves and slaughtered them when they resisted. (The moors were in turn working for the caliphates of the middle East who had conquered them) they were kinda justified at the time to not like them.
I feel like Solaire is more of a Paladin. He does use some Magic, especially in the form of Lightning Spears and similar spells (he carried me in the Bell Gargoyle and Gaping Dragon fights with his lightning). You could easily reflavor Guiding Bolt to do the same thing. Maybe if Guiding Bolt were a Paladin Spell?
Well, in Dark Souls, Clerics have a surprising number of melee options. Maces, hammers, not to mention the iconic Astora's Straight Sword. If you wanted to play a Paladin in Dark Souls, you would pick the Cleric class and look for a high quality sword and armor. Likewise, in D&D, Solaire would be a Cleric with decent swordfighting prowess, but he'd excel in holy magic. He can use the Sunlight Spear, which is a miracle exclusive to New Game Plus and was canonically used by the Lord of Sunlight to kill immortal dragons. You can only get that kind of power as a Cleric.
I usually get Contingency/Disintegrate, Project Image, Maze, and Wish/Time Stop. I most get Contingency if I don't get Disintigrate since, given it's description, would let you set up Revivify to activate upon your potential death or activate Power Word Heal on yourself should you fall unconscious, essentially getting a full heal. So "kill the healer first" won't work. They'll just mulch one health bar after taking a bunch of damage so you stop undoing his damage, try to celebrate how you're dead and they'll pulverize the rest of the party. Just for the Golden Wind theme to begin playing as you rise and use Time Stop to end them by buffing yourself and getting ready a couple good Spells off that'd normally take too long or to just be ready for them. Hope their ready for a MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA
First time playing dnd i first played a halfling bard, and my DM was and dick and told me after the session started that we are going to a haunted mansion. I got destroyed in the first 3 sessions. I asked if I could respec my character since i was practically useless against ghosts and all undead creatures. So i picked a cleric, a light cleric... I instantly went from dead to great. My bard had a habit of setting off traps and i set off a petrifying room ( every round all players had to make wisdom saving throws or become petrified ) full of giant rats that switched between statues and rats, that almost killed the entire party. Everyone hated my bard but my DM was having a laugh at my gut constantly going down and getting his arm chopped off from our half orc barbarian. I said that guy is dead and he is missing an arm so my DM said either A: I keep the bard and permanently get a negative modifier to my char and str, or B: make a new character. After a few nights of looking at characters and studying, i made a drow light cleric. At this point everyone is level 1, so my DM loved seeing everyone die and almost die due to starvation and constantly get attacked by ghosts which we used fire to ward off. I knew that the stats didn't match what a cleric needed, but i wanted to have fun and even though i wasn't made perfectly, i still nearly beat every monster my DM threw at me. Ghost, burned, zombie destroyed, final BBEG was a wyvern which kicked our asses because only me and 1 friend showed up that session. After a long rest i managed to kill it by constantly blinding it and casting Radiance of The Dawn my channel divinity. It became the party meme. After we left the mansion and took a wand of wonder, we left a mansion that was destroyed and almost collapsed ontop of us. My DM left us starving and half dead. I was sick of fighting so the first bandits that attacked us we slaughtered them with no mercy! Turns out those were noblemen's kids that liked to kill peasants for fun, and the town noble arrested us and took all our money, gear, and magic weapons and we started with some seed money to buy low end gear and fight some bandits as Level 3 adventurers. At this moment my Cleric has been beaten and is sick of people. In the middle of the night we were ambushed by 13 goblins in a thick forest where darkvsion didn't do squat. I used radiance of the Dawn, after a bright flash of light the next thing i knew 7 goblins fell from trees dead. 6 goblins attacked us, another channel divinity and they were all dead. We did this same trick against a camp of 30 bandits, 14 instantly died as my DM described that the enemies flesh and eyeballs were all melting. Did the same against a bandit leader, and then on our way back we were ambushed by a dozen cultists. I rolled max damage and every cultist died. On our way back to town we were arrested and taken to an arena were we had to fight dogs for the attention of the noble. The next day we faught 2 dozen cultists and a bearded devil we slaughtered them with radiant energy fire blasts, and holy light. My DM then proceeded to make the noble man hide and cast spells on our weakened party to kill us, i rolled a nat 1 on a death saving throw and promptly died, my friends were sacrificed to a demon. My DM said to us from now on light clerics are banned after that session. He made a very cheap death after all my Apollo light cleric Drow went through, my DM said we had to roll a nat 20 or 25 on a perception check to fond out were the nobleman was. After another game i left since he hated the fact warlocks get all their spells back on a short rest wich i abused. I never played another dnd game with patrick the DM ever again after he made 10 mimics grapple my entire level 4 party to death.
That many encounters constantly sounds like a total dick of a DM. Also 10 mimics is absolute bullshit because they're CR 2, fuck that would be hard for even a party of level 9 players!
@@empoleonmaster6709 yeah, and my DM said that we should have been smart and strong enough to take them on. 5 level 4 characters and the wizard was gone that day.
The thing about the "crown" of light is that it isn't a once-per-day cast. It takes an action to create and lasts for a minute unless you dismiss it using another action, but that's the only limitation.
I should add that the Silver Flame is literally a hivemind of coatl spirits who gave up their physical form to seal superdemons. And that the church currently has a literal child as their pope.
I love my kitsune Light Cleric of Bahamut. Warding Flare has been a life saver for my allies, turning a crit into either a normal hit or a miss. I've used Radiance of the Dawn to dispel magical darkness and wreck undead who are stronger than the CR that my Turn Undead can destroy, and of course, FIREBALL! It's not just for wizards and sorcerers. Also, he as the pervy personality of Miroku from Inuyasha, which makes it even better.
You could have easily taken a Game of Thrones reference with this. Like Lord of light cast your light upon us for the night is dark and full of Terrors
I’m currently playing a lizardfolk light domain cleric and it has been so much fucking fun. I have a troop of skeletons that follow me around and I initiate everything with fire. Also because if your video about lizardfolk the first encounter we had with a dragon I through myself down to my knees and did whatever they want. Absolutely fantastic.
Just gotta say, thank you Logan for putting outtakes at the end of your videos. Takes me back to the good ol' days when Pixar would make animations just to put them as outtakes at the end. Can't wait for Stibbles! Stay safe ya'll.
yeah this needs to be higher up, he used a power with light in its name.... i supppose one could argue those lightning bolts were closer to smite, but comon, the man praises the sun
Doctor Disco well, sun in darksouls appears to be literally made of lightning (and there is not a single account of “normal” lightning in the games/lore). All praise the Father Sun!
Not to mention the most powerful lighting spell the Sunlight Spear, which is made by giving Solaire the soul of an actual sun god: Gwyn. And its also classified as a Miracle, aka divine worship=magic power. Did we neglect most Miracles scale of a stat called Faith.
@@ivansterliagov6561 I think that the gwin has considerable (But fluctuating) influence of any light source. His main being lightning but his children got things like healing light and moon shine powers. If it was mainly from the first fire. (more so the Lord souls) (which caused everything to have disparity) the witch and co got the fire/heat part of it and neato and pygmy got the counter-parts of death, darkness and stuff (still maintaining the disparity theme). Although I think that is how they began it suggests throughout the ages everyone kind of mixed around so the subvarients we see in later games arrive.
Иван Стерлягов « sun in darksouls appears to be literally made of lightning » It’s more like Gwyn’s Lightning’s are extremely pure forms of light. They aren’t your regular electricity. And in the fight against gael, the lightning in the area is blue, and much thinner, which makes me think it’s supposed to be normal lightning... although it’s of course possible they just didn’t care wether or not it made sense and just thought « meh, they’ll find an explanation or die trying ».
You forgot Amaterasu, the Japanese goddess of the sun & empress of heaven. Also the 5 Aztec sun deities, because they have a habit of either dieing or getting fired for causing an apocalypse. Also Yu, a Chinese archer deity who destroyed several suns (might explain the situation with the Aztecs).
@@devilsadvocate6381 and even then, I was a Life Domain cleric that had the highest kill count in our party. I kept giving people this speech about how precious life was and how they should reconsider trying to do us harm. Yet kept having to kill them using Toll the Dead which the DM ruled drained the life force right out of them when I used it. So all sorts of flavors of pacifism is what I'm getting at.
I made Brother Donovon, he was a monk/cleric multiclass of ilmater, he was a 2e character and he was the Buff/Support priest who would throw down in combat and was usually the MVC, monks in 2e were fun.
Just wanted to point out that corona of light doesn't mention any amount of uses per long/short rest, so you can activate it whenever and as many times as you want (using an action). It's basically an overdrive button for your domain spells that has no virtual limit on uses, which proves invaluable in itself and even more so when you also have other spellcasters in the team that can provide radiant/fire damage spells (which require saving throws)
I’m totally making your example god my Light Domain deity, if I ever get the chance to organize a game again. One that has next to no idea what he is doing.
And then there's my 16-year-old, C/N, tiefling light domain cleric who's L/G wisdom goddess gave her fire powers to stop a cult from burning books--and it is quite true that the little purple pyromaniac has never once burnt a *book.* This is my campaign's healer.
Me: "So I just got done brainstorming with the group and we’ve all decided to play Shifter Light Clerics." DM: "Okay, why are you all doing this?" Me: "Because… *We bring fire, sing fire* *Scream fire and forgive* *Forgiven the liar, by fire we live* *We bring fire, sing fire* *Scream fire and forgive* *The last of the blood we will give*
Oh wow, AP Exams are starting? I'm in college now, but I still remember them. Hell, I got like 28 credit hours out of those boys; probably saving me a ton of tuition money. I wonder when my brother's are... iirc I'm fairly certain he's taking at least one. Does anyone know when the US History one is? I think he has that one. To everyone taking them: good luck; they'll save you some very precious time, effort, and money if you get credit for classes that are required for your major (if you go to college; they're pretty useless otherwise). I wish you all well!
A lot of Beholders are atheists. Y'know how each Beholder assumes that it is the ultimate life-form? The pinnacle of existence? Well, because of that, many refuse to believe in deities, because that implies that they are in fact NOT the pinnacle. When they do believe in deities, they're constantly scrambling to find ways to one-up them in some way.
@@BJGvideos I have two concepts for characters with basically this idea. This comment ended up being super long so be warned before you head in. . . . Both reason like this: Every other planar being seems to be full of immortals and when they die, they just go back to be reconstituted. Us material plane-ers though? We get kidnapped when we die, either by a god who found us sufficiently like them to take into their realm, or by another force if no god will accept us. And it is a kidnapping, according to these characters, since the afterlife MUST somehow stop you from leaving, or else literally any 15th level Wizard could come back at their leisure, VERY easily, to make daily trips even (store a material-plane tuned tuning fork (or multiple) in your demiplane and keep Demiplane and Plane Shift prepared at all times so you don't need your spellbook). Sending also works from plane to plane (albeit with a failure chance, but it's a small one), yet no one's ever sent one to the dead and received an answer, or better yet, received a message from someone in the afterlife. So, since it would be so easy, but there are no cases of any high-level wizard just teleporting back to life, there must be something stopping them. Either 1) they're stripped of their magic, or their power is limited, thus trapping them in an afterlife they might not want, or 2) they're changed, and they do not want to return, even to visit. Depending on how changed they are, this is either brainwashing, or literally just making a new person who is not you. Both are very much not okay. The Sending thing kind of implies the latter. Oh and also the only bring-you-back-to-life spells that truly bring you back to life are reserved to be only used by those with enough commitment to these extraplanar entities. Where the concepts differ is in their applications of this belief. The first one is a necromancer wizard. His goals are to 1) achieve immortality by any means necessary (including killing people who try to stop him, see airplane oxygen mask protocol), and 2) stop the endless kidnapping of dead people from the material plane. Might sound all evil and "I'mma become god of this realm worship me and your afterlife will be here instead" and all, but nope. He believes that if you want an afterlife elsewhere, you're making a mistake, and will try to persuade you, but won't stop you. He's also a big advocate for undead rights, so long as they don't engage in the soul trade. And he's actually a vegan and won't raise the corpse of anything without its owner's fully informed consent, because he believes that both the consumption of something from your body and the binding of your body to servitude are just physical versions of the soul capturing, and only marginally less bad. The owner might come back and need it, after all. He doesn't wish to rule, he wants to give everyone the option to not be kidnapped, as he sees it, and is willing to use necromancy to do it. As for gods, devils, demons, elementals, fey, and whatever else messing with mortal affairs? Unacceptable. He makes concessions for stuff that actually helps people, like gods or their worshipers healing people or bringing them back to life or in other ways preventing/reversing deaths. Both are good things in his view since they save you (if momentarily) from the soul trade. But both also act as propaganda pieces for those gods. He'll try to stop the propaganda afterwards. The second concept is a Circle of the Land Druid. He came to the conclusion that the others have what they have because they're of the plane's essence. Our matter might be of the material plane, but our souls aren't sufficiently intertwined with it. His hypothesis is that with enough devotion to the world itself, you could achieve the same. He's much less militant, and believes that just by minding our own business and focusing inward, we could become *of this plane* enough to stay forever, and to even come back to be reconstituted if we die elsewhere. Having druid powers certainly has increased his conviction, since magic powers are what most extraplanars also seem to have. A promising sign, he thinks. He won't try to stop you from worshiping if you do, though. He thinks that whatever the gods have in store for you is probably better than what devils and demons have to offer, so he sees himself as willing to take the risk for others in case he's wrong. However, if you don't worship or if you follow something from the lower planes, he will try to convert you to his cause with the reasoning of: if I'm wrong, your fate doesn't change from your current one, if I'm right you'll be on the path to achieving eternal planar independence. He will also try to stop extraplanar beings from messing with the lives of mortals when he witnesses it, and will also be more lenient to messery that actually helps people. He's less likely than the necromancer to try and convince resurrectees that resurrections are propaganda fodder for gods, though. So if both were living in a land colonized by someone (say, the British), and wanted independence, the necromancer would want to stage a revolution and take it, whereas the druid would want to build a community and ignore the colonizers until their 'rule' becomes meaningless, of course also fighting where necessary to defend people because the extraplanar entities (Brits) won't just let people undermine their rule.
"What do Light Clerics get at 17th-level?"
"Demonetized."
Is youtube really censoring corona? If so that's a new level of stupid for youtube.
@@UlimateSlayer Apparently, talking about "current events" gets you demonetized on TH-cam...and Corona is the most current event today.
No its censors the shorter form with the minus prime number
@@TheCoolerDrilis but corona literally means ring of light,
@@dylanflynn1895 Ring of light of light. You can get one from the automated transaction machine machine.
Probably not the best place to put this but:
The necronomicon? More like, stibbles codex of less nice companions
jorge wyles ha gottemmmm
Are you implying that stibbles wrote a book so wretched and vile it drives people insane from trying to read it ? sounds legit
What? Did you forget the acronym S.M.A.R.T.
S.keletons
M.ake
A.
R.eally good
T.eam
@@canaldojoaodebarro5856 Stibbles writing the necronomicon is one of the most blursed things imaginable
Had a campaign one using that and a guy with a weird sword attached where his hand should be and a 'loud magic wand' who came through a portal.
Was fun, was back in 3.5
Light Cleric: "I cast Fireball."
Wizard: "...that's *my* line."
Light Cleric: "Oh sorry, I cast sphere of flames"
Bigdickwizard6969 approves of this.
FIIIIIIIIIIREEEEEEEEEEBAAAAAAAAAALLL
Can’t wait to see the warlocks face when I steal there move
when you gotta lich-slap a heathen at 5 but gotta heal the homies up and tuck them into bed at 7
Homies heal homies
Lich-slap, lmao.
"I wanted to play an evocation wizard but the party said they needed a healer"
"And the DM wont let me use arcana clerics cause he dont like the SCAG"
Evocation without sculpt
@@jadesapphira4325 Even though, Arcana Clerics are pretty dope IMO
They so are, thanks to way mechanics combine, you can use a arcana cleric to get your Wis mod x2 on a staff attack
@@jadesapphira4325 How so?
I love that his green screen is still green when it's meant to be the sun
it makes the sun a reference to homestuck
@@flamestoyershadowkill I don't think so but ok
@@flamestoyershadowkill doesn't a reference have to be intentional to count? i mean, it's clearly supposed to be a telly-tubies reference, the green sun part was probably just an accident. if it IS intentional though, i'd friggin explode with joy and....hope.
Flamestoyer pretty obviously a Teletubbies reference
What about the Smash Bros Pokémon arena or the Cursed Jojo reference?!
Light domain: because even clerics like watching their enemies burst into flames
to me the part about pissing on them is even more tempting
Especially when they get Hellish Rebuke once per long rest as a second level spell for free. Thanks, Infernal Legacy!
Ok hear me out.
Light cleric. Water Genasi.
Rainbow cleric.
I'm interested
Too bad water genasi is boring and shitty.
@@BennyFNV calm down
@@lunaticlurker7932 I am calm, water genasi are just really bad.
Water genasi get +2 Con and +1 Wis for racial ASI’s, right? I’d say that’s a pretty solid choice for a cleric based on that alone. Lord knows how many cleric spells require concentration!
Ahhh, warding flare, also known as yelling "FLASHBANG!" at the DM every time an enemy wants to turn off the night light cleric
*Night Light Cleric*
T h r o w i n g F l a s h b a n g
I shout “WARDING FLARE!” the exact same way the characters of Dragon Ball shout “Solar Flare!”
Light cleric: when you wanna worship the God of FIREBALLS
Have you heard of our lord and saviour giant meteor of deeeeeeeeath
o - o
@@XPtoLevel3 lol even the master replied.
The firewall is a nice bonus early game
So . . . JoCrap?
STAND USER: Runesmith
STAND NAME: 「Let The Sunshine In」
@@GKplus8 Or [Sunshine On My Shoulders] (makes me happy)
@@chrishubbard64 or [I'm riding on sunshine]
Ok, I know I'm answering to a three years old comment, but do you know the name of the song at this part ? I really like it
@@Octopie055 Il Vento D'oro, i believe
Cleric: "My lord, I seek the power to banish the darkness from this realm!"
Some light god: "K here's fireball, make me proud."
I love it.
"Solaire only fights with his sword"
Me, first time I summoned him to fight Gargoyles: Holy shit, this guy throws lightning bolts
"I saw your ears look away"
I spent far too long trying to rationalize that
"Just go kill undead and tolerate everything else"
*_"I CAN DO THAT!"_*
Best quote I've ever heard.
Entire domain in one sentence ahem..... MY EYES!
But I thought King Neptune was just a deity of the sea?!
XD
BALD! BAAALD! BAAALD!
in 1981-1983 Pepsi-colas slogan was Pepsi's got your taste for life
PepsiFacts thank you, North Carolina pride
Thank you, PepsiFacts
That sounds threatening
I didn’t know that
@pepsi facts i love you
Logan is the Teletubbie's Sun Deity and he has a Stand, that explains so much and yet it raises so many more questions
My first character was a light domain cleric, and light clerics have been my favorite characters since - thanks for covering this
Masked_Katz same my party need a healer and I have loved it ever sence
I tried a cleric for the first time, light domain, and he died so quickly.
Tried a death domain after that, he was so strong.
@@immortuipraebibo910 Well of course, you gotta get to level 5 to use fireball! Kidding, I didn't get to really use it in my campaign. Death domain is definitely one of my favorites as well.
@@immortuipraebibo910 Death Domain is an optional subclass, it is in the DMG not the PHB so a DM could not allow them.
@@masked_katz2450 First time playing dnd i first played a halfling bard, and my DM was and dick and told me after the session started that we are going to a haunted mansion. I got destroyed in the first 3 sessions. I asked if I could respec my character since i was practically useless against ghosts and all undead creatures. So i picked a cleric, a light cleric... I instantly went from dead to great. My bard had a habit of setting off traps and i set off a petrifying room ( every round all players had to make wisdom saving throws or become petrified ) full of giant rats that switched between statues and rats, that almost killed the entire party. Everyone hated my bard but my DM was having a laugh at my gut constantly going down and getting his arm chopped off from our half orc barbarian. I said that guy is dead and he is missing an arm so my DM said either A: I keep the bard and permanently get a negative modifier to my char and str, or B: make a new character. After a few nights of looking at characters and studying, i made a drow light cleric. At this point everyone is level 1, so my DM loved seeing everyone die and almost die due to starvation and constantly get attacked by ghosts which we used fire to ward off. I knew that the stats didn't match what a cleric needed, but i wanted to have fun and even though i wasn't made perfectly, i still nearly beat every monster my DM threw at me. Ghost, burned, zombie destroyed, final BBEG was a wyvern which kicked our asses because only me and 1 friend showed up that session. After a long rest i managed to kill it by constantly blinding it and casting Radiance of The Dawn my channel divinity. It became the party meme. After we left the mansion and took a wand of wonder, we left a mansion that was destroyed and almost collapsed ontop of us. My DM left us starving and half dead. I was sick of fighting so the first bandits that attacked us we slaughtered them with no mercy! Turns out those were noblemen's kids that liked to kill peasants for fun, and the town noble arrested us and took all our money, gear, and magic weapons and we started with some seed money to buy low end gear and fight some bandits as Level 3 adventurers. At this moment my Cleric has been beaten and is sick of people. In the middle of the night we were ambushed by 13 goblins in a thick forest where darkvsion didn't do squat. I used radiance of the Dawn, after a bright flash of light the next thing i knew 7 goblins fell from trees dead. 6 goblins attacked us, another channel divinity and they were all dead. We did this same trick against a camp of 30 bandits, 14 instantly died as my DM described that the enemies flesh and eyeballs were all melting. Did the same against a bandit leader, and then on our way back we were ambushed by a dozen cultists. I rolled max damage and every cultist died. On our way back to town we were arrested and taken to an arena were we had to fight dogs for the attention of the noble. The next day we faught 2 dozen cultists and a bearded devil we slaughtered them with radiant energy fire blasts, and holy light. My DM then proceeded to make the noble man hide and cast spells on our weakened party to kill us, i rolled a nat 1 on a death saving throw and promptly died, my friends were sacrificed to a demon. My DM said to us from now on light clerics are banned after that session. He made a very cheap death after all my Apollo light cleric Drow went through, my DM said we had to roll a nat 20 or 25 on a perception check to fond out were the nobleman was. After another game i left since he hated the fact warlocks get all their spells back on a short rest wich i abused. I never played another dnd game with patrick the DM ever again after he made 10 mimics grapple my entire level 4 party to death.
8:32 - "Guardian of Faith"
Cleric: i, a Light Domain Cleric have a dream! and that's too *STRIKE DOWN ALL THAT IS DARK!!!*
Dark Elf Rouge: *"SpongeGar Meme"*
Meanwhile, my Drow Light Cleric of Eilistraee be like:
um, I'll be over here far away
"go kill undead and tolerate everything else"
me(looking at my 2 undead party members):....ok
Was that from transformation or homebrew race
Corona of light makes sunlight, so it can kill vampires.
Also giving disadvantage on the saves against nearly all damaging cleric spells is pretty dang good for a subclass looking to blast enemies.
The Knight and Sun bit was quite outlandish. Never change tall man, never change.
*Logan's uncontrolable burping* 1st level enchantment
Carsting time: 1 action
Components: V(a burp)
Range: 15ft
When you cast this spell, you force all creatures in range to make a Constitution saving throw if they succed nothing happens, if they fail they imediately give a loud burp and suffer disadvantage on their next attack roll or social roll due to embarrasment, the spell automaticaly fails if the creature doesn't have a mouth or is incapable of feeling embarrased
In summery:
“Ah My Eyes!!!”
"Hunt down the dark things."
Meanwhile with my Drow Light Cleric who worships a Chaotic Good Drow goddess of moonlight.
-Hi, I'll be over here.
Aint one of the purposes of Ellistrae to.. hunt down bad guys? Idk
@@returnofthechickentendies2844 Well, normally a Drow would be on an average Light Cleric's "List of dark things to hunt" you know
Ellistrae
Cleric: "There is SO Much Darkness in the world these days, I plead you! Grant us Relief!"
Light God: "Nah! You can do it though!"
Cleric "You would grant me such power??"
Light God: "Yeah, just like, go out and uhh... Destroy Everything out there that's Dark!"
Cleric: "That... Seems a bit Racist, don't you think?"
Light God: "What?? No! you're putting words into my mouth! I'm saying go out there and uh kill everything that hides in shadows and does crimes."
Cleric: "Holy SHIT! That's messed up!"
This basically sums up the relationship of Angels and Demons in Shin Megami Tensei.
SMT? Hell yeah!
@@IrvingIV not the best wording for smt my dude
ATTACK SHADOWS OF OBJECTS
ONE MORE GOD REJECTED
I’m just waiting for him to cover ancestral guardian and then the whole thing will be a jojo reference.
He did it
8:33
@@gibbous_silver
What is that song called?
@@twilitlloyd7167 If you write Giorno's theme into
the TH-cam search bar it should be easy to find
"Go kill anything that's dark"
"That's a bit racist, dontcha think?"
Such a simple joke but dear God I lol'd.
Light Cleric does to monsters what the sun does to me when I leave my house
light domain, also known as burn everything to the ground!
Also Vampire repellent
@@somerandomsatanist597 also known as hamon
@@Moths05 Hear me out, light cleric plus Astral Self monk
The last place I would have expected a JoJo Reference. Bravo sir.
JoJo is inevitable
Dark Sev. aaaaaaaaand you ruined it
@@NamelessFacelessWhoa Thank you, I try.
"This is no time for a JoJo's Reference"
"There's always time for a JoJo's Reference"
Light clerics are basically hamon users
8:32 Giorno wants to know your location!
you´ll never reach the location
I thought your picture was a hair on my screen, You evil person
@@uvealpear7749 yay
@@Ben-jl2rh Ok, you got the reference, what's the name of the song, I've never watched that show.
@@IrvingIV song is called i'l vento de oro ( Golden Wind in English )
I once had a Drow Light Cleric... My DM hated me!
What
@@moblinmajorgeneral HOW TO SPOON
@@moblinmajorgeneral Yeah... Long story does anyone want to hear it?
@starshipeleven yeah my DM hates light clerics and warlocks... I played both and both were banned because of me.
@@Ben-jl2rh Please tell me more
I love how you showed Heliod, I hope they make more MTG planes into D&D settings. That story arc, at least, made Theros Beyond interesting. The Sun God believes he should be the only God, and so he turns kind of evil until the other's just punish him. Imagine the players as they help to take down the light tyrant. They'd feel as if they took down a massive problem-in-waiting. But now that there is no God of light, and the Titans are escaping the underworld, what happens?
Obviously. you also bring in the Ravnica rulings and give them an NPC Elspeth. Also, Ixalan and Mirrodin/Phyrexia is on my wishlist for mtg settings, hbu
@@zyibesixdouze4863 I really want to see Innistrad above all. Specifically a sandbox campaign, since there's just too much stuff going on.
@@nicholasvandonkersgoed3758 Well there are the Plane Shift PDF articles for quite a number of other planes. I mean they're more Unearth Arcana than official.
"My servant, you must kill all the Dark things."
"Uhhh.. You mean like, Orcs and Undead and stuff?"
"Son, it's the Middle Ages. Everybody here is super, and I mean really super-duper racist. I said what I meant."
Bout the only black people in Europe during the dark ages were the moors who regularly raided Europe (iceland included) for slaves and slaughtered them when they resisted. (The moors were in turn working for the caliphates of the middle East who had conquered them) they were kinda justified at the time to not like them.
I hate americans so fucking much
@@zabaszatana6319What does that have to do with anything that was said?
@@zabaszatana6319 Did anyone order a non-sequitor?
@@zabaszatana6319 Don't worry, we hate you too. Ass.
"I'm sorry if you came here to learn." I mean... accurate description of the series? Love it don't ever change, Logan :D
"Divine pearly knob you're gonna slob."
Amazing.
I feel like Solaire is more of a Paladin. He does use some Magic, especially in the form of Lightning Spears and similar spells (he carried me in the Bell Gargoyle and Gaping Dragon fights with his lightning). You could easily reflavor Guiding Bolt to do the same thing. Maybe if Guiding Bolt were a Paladin Spell?
That could also make him a sorcerer
@@sgtrazorclaw3205 SORCERIES?!
WE ONLY USE MIRACLES IN THIS HOUSEHOLD
Well, in Dark Souls, Clerics have a surprising number of melee options. Maces, hammers, not to mention the iconic Astora's Straight Sword. If you wanted to play a Paladin in Dark Souls, you would pick the Cleric class and look for a high quality sword and armor. Likewise, in D&D, Solaire would be a Cleric with decent swordfighting prowess, but he'd excel in holy magic. He can use the Sunlight Spear, which is a miracle exclusive to New Game Plus and was canonically used by the Lord of Sunlight to kill immortal dragons. You can only get that kind of power as a Cleric.
"I'm sending feet pics and that's for you."
THAT'S when I lost it! 🤦🏽♂️😂😂
Arcane Domain is funny when you get to it. At 17th level, Clerics get Force Cage, Clone, and Wish. Thats pretty strong xD.
I usually get Contingency/Disintegrate, Project Image, Maze, and Wish/Time Stop. I most get Contingency if I don't get Disintigrate since, given it's description, would let you set up Revivify to activate upon your potential death or activate Power Word Heal on yourself should you fall unconscious, essentially getting a full heal. So "kill the healer first" won't work. They'll just mulch one health bar after taking a bunch of damage so you stop undoing his damage, try to celebrate how you're dead and they'll pulverize the rest of the party. Just for the Golden Wind theme to begin playing as you rise and use Time Stop to end them by buffing yourself and getting ready a couple good Spells off that'd normally take too long or to just be ready for them. Hope their ready for a MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA
Nobody: Says Nothing
My Light Cleric: "I worship the Teletubby sun baby"
"Just.. go kill undead-and tolerate everything else" LMAOOOOO
First time playing dnd i first played a halfling bard, and my DM was and dick and told me after the session started that we are going to a haunted mansion. I got destroyed in the first 3 sessions. I asked if I could respec my character since i was practically useless against ghosts and all undead creatures. So i picked a cleric, a light cleric... I instantly went from dead to great. My bard had a habit of setting off traps and i set off a petrifying room ( every round all players had to make wisdom saving throws or become petrified ) full of giant rats that switched between statues and rats, that almost killed the entire party. Everyone hated my bard but my DM was having a laugh at my gut constantly going down and getting his arm chopped off from our half orc barbarian. I said that guy is dead and he is missing an arm so my DM said either A: I keep the bard and permanently get a negative modifier to my char and str, or B: make a new character. After a few nights of looking at characters and studying, i made a drow light cleric. At this point everyone is level 1, so my DM loved seeing everyone die and almost die due to starvation and constantly get attacked by ghosts which we used fire to ward off. I knew that the stats didn't match what a cleric needed, but i wanted to have fun and even though i wasn't made perfectly, i still nearly beat every monster my DM threw at me. Ghost, burned, zombie destroyed, final BBEG was a wyvern which kicked our asses because only me and 1 friend showed up that session. After a long rest i managed to kill it by constantly blinding it and casting Radiance of The Dawn my channel divinity. It became the party meme. After we left the mansion and took a wand of wonder, we left a mansion that was destroyed and almost collapsed ontop of us. My DM left us starving and half dead. I was sick of fighting so the first bandits that attacked us we slaughtered them with no mercy! Turns out those were noblemen's kids that liked to kill peasants for fun, and the town noble arrested us and took all our money, gear, and magic weapons and we started with some seed money to buy low end gear and fight some bandits as Level 3 adventurers. At this moment my Cleric has been beaten and is sick of people. In the middle of the night we were ambushed by 13 goblins in a thick forest where darkvsion didn't do squat. I used radiance of the Dawn, after a bright flash of light the next thing i knew 7 goblins fell from trees dead. 6 goblins attacked us, another channel divinity and they were all dead. We did this same trick against a camp of 30 bandits, 14 instantly died as my DM described that the enemies flesh and eyeballs were all melting. Did the same against a bandit leader, and then on our way back we were ambushed by a dozen cultists. I rolled max damage and every cultist died. On our way back to town we were arrested and taken to an arena were we had to fight dogs for the attention of the noble. The next day we faught 2 dozen cultists and a bearded devil we slaughtered them with radiant energy fire blasts, and holy light. My DM then proceeded to make the noble man hide and cast spells on our weakened party to kill us, i rolled a nat 1 on a death saving throw and promptly died, my friends were sacrificed to a demon. My DM said to us from now on light clerics are banned after that session. He made a very cheap death after all my Apollo light cleric Drow went through, my DM said we had to roll a nat 20 or 25 on a perception check to fond out were the nobleman was. After another game i left since he hated the fact warlocks get all their spells back on a short rest wich i abused. I never played another dnd game with patrick the DM ever again after he made 10 mimics grapple my entire level 4 party to death.
Sounds like a horrible GM
@@hunterskidmore1672 he was my physics teacher.
@@Ben-jl2rh that makes it worse
That many encounters constantly sounds like a total dick of a DM. Also 10 mimics is absolute bullshit because they're CR 2, fuck that would be hard for even a party of level 9 players!
@@empoleonmaster6709 yeah, and my DM said that we should have been smart and strong enough to take them on. 5 level 4 characters and the wizard was gone that day.
The thing about the "crown" of light is that it isn't a once-per-day cast. It takes an action to create and lasts for a minute unless you dismiss it using another action, but that's the only limitation.
I should add that the Silver Flame is literally a hivemind of coatl spirits who gave up their physical form to seal superdemons. And that the church currently has a literal child as their pope.
Okay then
No one:
Light Clerics: "Praise the Sun!" \(T)/
I love my kitsune Light Cleric of Bahamut. Warding Flare has been a life saver for my allies, turning a crit into either a normal hit or a miss. I've used Radiance of the Dawn to dispel magical darkness and wreck undead who are stronger than the CR that my Turn Undead can destroy, and of course, FIREBALL! It's not just for wizards and sorcerers. Also, he as the pervy personality of Miroku from Inuyasha, which makes it even better.
You could have easily taken a Game of Thrones reference with this. Like Lord of light cast your light upon us for the night is dark and full of Terrors
I’m currently playing a lizardfolk light domain cleric and it has been so much fucking fun. I have a troop of skeletons that follow me around and I initiate everything with fire. Also because if your video about lizardfolk the first encounter we had with a dragon I through myself down to my knees and did whatever they want. Absolutely fantastic.
3:37
Hmmm that statue is a little inappropriate, glad you covered it up there
8:31 I’ve been waiting for someone to make this joke for a long time, and I was NOT disappointed!
"He's really just a warlock is a clerics skin."
Thats a bold statement for someone in lightning spear range
Just gotta say, thank you Logan for putting outtakes at the end of your videos. Takes me back to the good ol' days when Pixar would make animations just to put them as outtakes at the end. Can't wait for Stibbles! Stay safe ya'll.
Waiting for the DM to start, thanks for helping eat up time!!
This is one of my favourite videos just because of the sketches
skinny-ass logan in a knight's costume is perfect.
The Teletubbies sun face with Enchanter Pumat Sol voice is KILLING ME my guy
"go out there and kill everything that hides in shadows and does crime". holy shit that was funny
10:55 I love how the camera person got so enchanted by the jumping spider that they took time out to film it.
Solair straight up hurls lightning when you sommon him so I have no clue what your talking about
Lighting is the power of sunlight
yeah this needs to be higher up, he used a power with light in its name.... i supppose one could argue those lightning bolts were closer to smite, but comon, the man praises the sun
@@ReeperRiopel Praise the sun!
I've watched that skit of the clerics first communion with his God over a dozen times and it cracks me up every time.
11:17 when you keep clicking your pawns in Warcraft 3
Ra and Horus are awesome tho
And what about clerics of concepts? My Ravnican cleric boy barely knows what a "god" is, and he's a Knowledge cleric!
I had a knowledge domain cleric with amnesia, I miss that boy, too bad campaign got cut short
Solaire doesn’t just fight with a sword he casts miracles too
I love at 10:55 when it sounds like all the dialogue options in a conflicted video game character
but rune, solaire has lightning spear a sign of the covenant "way of the sun" he gains power through worship!
i think of solaire as a tempest cleric because gwyn and any other faith users end up with a lot of lightning
Doctor Disco well, sun in darksouls appears to be literally made of lightning (and there is not a single account of “normal” lightning in the games/lore). All praise the Father Sun!
Not to mention the most powerful lighting spell the Sunlight Spear, which is made by giving Solaire the soul of an actual sun god: Gwyn. And its also classified as a Miracle, aka divine worship=magic power. Did we neglect most Miracles scale of a stat called Faith.
@@ivansterliagov6561 I think that the gwin has considerable (But fluctuating) influence of any light source. His main being lightning but his children got things like healing light and moon shine powers. If it was mainly from the first fire. (more so the Lord souls) (which caused everything to have disparity) the witch and co got the fire/heat part of it and neato and pygmy got the counter-parts of death, darkness and stuff (still maintaining the disparity theme). Although I think that is how they began it suggests throughout the ages everyone kind of mixed around so the subvarients we see in later games arrive.
Иван Стерлягов « sun in darksouls appears to be literally made of lightning »
It’s more like Gwyn’s Lightning’s are extremely pure forms of light. They aren’t your regular electricity.
And in the fight against gael, the lightning in the area is blue, and much thinner, which makes me think it’s supposed to be normal lightning... although it’s of course possible they just didn’t care wether or not it made sense and just thought « meh, they’ll find an explanation or die trying ».
...but Solaire cast miracles in combat. He just wants to have all the sunkissed juices in his veins.
Video starts on 1:06
The proud way that he pointed to the sun and said "I did that!" really made my day
That JoJo bit had me laughing so hard
You forgot Amaterasu, the Japanese goddess of the sun & empress of heaven. Also the 5 Aztec sun deities, because they have a habit of either dieing or getting fired for causing an apocalypse. Also Yu, a Chinese archer deity who destroyed several suns (might explain the situation with the Aztecs).
Stereotypical Pacifist Clerics discuss your cookie cutter characters in this thread
That's life Domain
@@devilsadvocate6381 and even then, I was a Life Domain cleric that had the highest kill count in our party.
I kept giving people this speech about how precious life was and how they should reconsider trying to do us harm. Yet kept having to kill them using Toll the Dead which the DM ruled drained the life force right out of them when I used it.
So all sorts of flavors of pacifism is what I'm getting at.
I made Brother Donovon, he was a monk/cleric multiclass of ilmater, he was a 2e character and he was the Buff/Support priest who would throw down in combat and was usually the MVC, monks in 2e were fun.
I did adapt Madoka Kaname from "Madoka Magica" into a life cleric. Sayaka Miki is a paladin, human or merfolk. Kyouko Sakura is a rogue.
@@LupineShadowOmega True Pasifism
Just wanted to point out that corona of light doesn't mention any amount of uses per long/short rest, so you can activate it whenever and as many times as you want (using an action). It's basically an overdrive button for your domain spells that has no virtual limit on uses, which proves invaluable in itself and even more so when you also have other spellcasters in the team that can provide radiant/fire damage spells (which require saving throws)
Giorno’s theme on guardian of faith made me laugh.
2:19 He also looks hard which is… uh, fun?
I’m totally making your example god my Light Domain deity, if I ever get the chance to organize a game again.
One that has next to no idea what he is doing.
And then there's my 16-year-old, C/N, tiefling light domain cleric who's L/G wisdom goddess gave her fire powers to stop a cult from burning books--and it is quite true that the little purple pyromaniac has never once burnt a *book.*
This is my campaign's healer.
3:41 Ra: Don't talk to me or my son Horus ever again.
Me: "So I just got done brainstorming with the group and we’ve all decided to play Shifter Light Clerics."
DM: "Okay, why are you all doing this?"
Me: "Because…
*We bring fire, sing fire*
*Scream fire and forgive*
*Forgiven the liar, by fire we live*
*We bring fire, sing fire*
*Scream fire and forgive*
*The last of the blood we will give*
A “tad controversial” nice
6:12
Tasha's Cauldron of Everything added an optional parley mechanic. Good to see it in action.
Logan: "Why is bonus cantrip "light"?
Me: "Many PCs can't see in the dark"
It was a joke and you over thought it
? Why would you right this
I mean, why is darkvision a spell when light exists?
@@uvealpear7749 because not every spellcaster uses the same spell list
Ummm, greyscale only.
8:34 I, Solaire of Astora, have a dream
"Ow....That hurt somehow"
Famous last words
Outtakes reminded me of "I wills spread buttery justice over your darkened toast of inequity!" and such. Gotta rewatch that
I hope that those clips at the end become widely used, they've got meme potential.
I’ve been having a bad day and honestly that last scorching ray image made it much better. Thank you Runesmith.
I just took my ap exam and I’m gonna heck
Ethan Long mood
I took my Bio exam. :^)
I failed trig
Oh wow, AP Exams are starting? I'm in college now, but I still remember them. Hell, I got like 28 credit hours out of those boys; probably saving me a ton of tuition money. I wonder when my brother's are... iirc I'm fairly certain he's taking at least one. Does anyone know when the US History one is? I think he has that one.
To everyone taking them: good luck; they'll save you some very precious time, effort, and money if you get credit for classes that are required for your major (if you go to college; they're pretty useless otherwise). I wish you all well!
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Live action skits are my favorite form of comedy. Always enjoy these
Did... Did Runesmith make a goddamn JOJO REFERENCE?! Best channel ever.
Love it! Please do all of the domains!
8:32 is the time stamp for the jojo reference
Welcome to Runesmith describes the basics of the most vanilla subclasses.
You show me an atheist in DnD, I’ll show you a smoking crater.
A lot of Beholders are atheists.
Y'know how each Beholder assumes that it is the ultimate life-form? The pinnacle of existence? Well, because of that, many refuse to believe in deities, because that implies that they are in fact NOT the pinnacle.
When they do believe in deities, they're constantly scrambling to find ways to one-up them in some way.
How about misotheists? They believe that gods exist but that they're unworthy of worship
BJGvideos Canonically speaking, Asmodeus eats their souls once they die as part of the contract he made with the gods.
@@alexdiaz155 Well that's all the more reason to oppose them, now isn't it?
@@BJGvideos I have two concepts for characters with basically this idea. This comment ended up being super long so be warned before you head in.
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Both reason like this: Every other planar being seems to be full of immortals and when they die, they just go back to be reconstituted. Us material plane-ers though? We get kidnapped when we die, either by a god who found us sufficiently like them to take into their realm, or by another force if no god will accept us. And it is a kidnapping, according to these characters, since the afterlife MUST somehow stop you from leaving, or else literally any 15th level Wizard could come back at their leisure, VERY easily, to make daily trips even (store a material-plane tuned tuning fork (or multiple) in your demiplane and keep Demiplane and Plane Shift prepared at all times so you don't need your spellbook). Sending also works from plane to plane (albeit with a failure chance, but it's a small one), yet no one's ever sent one to the dead and received an answer, or better yet, received a message from someone in the afterlife.
So, since it would be so easy, but there are no cases of any high-level wizard just teleporting back to life, there must be something stopping them. Either 1) they're stripped of their magic, or their power is limited, thus trapping them in an afterlife they might not want, or 2) they're changed, and they do not want to return, even to visit. Depending on how changed they are, this is either brainwashing, or literally just making a new person who is not you. Both are very much not okay. The Sending thing kind of implies the latter.
Oh and also the only bring-you-back-to-life spells that truly bring you back to life are reserved to be only used by those with enough commitment to these extraplanar entities.
Where the concepts differ is in their applications of this belief. The first one is a necromancer wizard. His goals are to 1) achieve immortality by any means necessary (including killing people who try to stop him, see airplane oxygen mask protocol), and 2) stop the endless kidnapping of dead people from the material plane.
Might sound all evil and "I'mma become god of this realm worship me and your afterlife will be here instead" and all, but nope. He believes that if you want an afterlife elsewhere, you're making a mistake, and will try to persuade you, but won't stop you. He's also a big advocate for undead rights, so long as they don't engage in the soul trade. And he's actually a vegan and won't raise the corpse of anything without its owner's fully informed consent, because he believes that both the consumption of something from your body and the binding of your body to servitude are just physical versions of the soul capturing, and only marginally less bad. The owner might come back and need it, after all.
He doesn't wish to rule, he wants to give everyone the option to not be kidnapped, as he sees it, and is willing to use necromancy to do it. As for gods, devils, demons, elementals, fey, and whatever else messing with mortal affairs? Unacceptable. He makes concessions for stuff that actually helps people, like gods or their worshipers healing people or bringing them back to life or in other ways preventing/reversing deaths. Both are good things in his view since they save you (if momentarily) from the soul trade. But both also act as propaganda pieces for those gods. He'll try to stop the propaganda afterwards.
The second concept is a Circle of the Land Druid. He came to the conclusion that the others have what they have because they're of the plane's essence. Our matter might be of the material plane, but our souls aren't sufficiently intertwined with it. His hypothesis is that with enough devotion to the world itself, you could achieve the same.
He's much less militant, and believes that just by minding our own business and focusing inward, we could become *of this plane* enough to stay forever, and to even come back to be reconstituted if we die elsewhere. Having druid powers certainly has increased his conviction, since magic powers are what most extraplanars also seem to have. A promising sign, he thinks.
He won't try to stop you from worshiping if you do, though. He thinks that whatever the gods have in store for you is probably better than what devils and demons have to offer, so he sees himself as willing to take the risk for others in case he's wrong. However, if you don't worship or if you follow something from the lower planes, he will try to convert you to his cause with the reasoning of: if I'm wrong, your fate doesn't change from your current one, if I'm right you'll be on the path to achieving eternal planar independence.
He will also try to stop extraplanar beings from messing with the lives of mortals when he witnesses it, and will also be more lenient to messery that actually helps people. He's less likely than the necromancer to try and convince resurrectees that resurrections are propaganda fodder for gods, though.
So if both were living in a land colonized by someone (say, the British), and wanted independence, the necromancer would want to stage a revolution and take it, whereas the druid would want to build a community and ignore the colonizers until their 'rule' becomes meaningless, of course also fighting where necessary to defend people because the extraplanar entities (Brits) won't just let people undermine their rule.
10:49 those spiders are super cool. They'll observe you and try to understand what the hell you are.
Ahh yes, Dr. Light PHD, important research when making a video on the Light Domain.
Also, the name of a DC villain.
Solaire is an Oath of Succession Paladin, 100% committed and devoted to the act of replacing the ideal he observes
On this episode of things I will never get around to playing!