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I will say, definitely ask your DM before trying to pull up with strixhaven initiate or the knights of solamnia feats. Not all tables necessarily allow setting specific content, especially backgrounds that come with free feats attached.
yea mine told me i could just remove the free feat it comes with and just say the background gives me access to the knight feat. and i could always take that feat too if i wanted the stuff it gave.
It helps if your DM has an imagination and you can talk to them about reflavoring the faction based backgrounds for their setting. There's no reason not to use the Boros Legion in place of the Baldur's Gate Flaming Fist or the Dimir Syndicate in place of the Harpers. Each of the 5 Strixhaven colleges can be slotted into any one of a dozen magic libraries or schools in the Forgotten Realms. And if "this background has a feat" is the only complaint then it's a non issue. The feats tied to the Backgrounds in Strixhaven and Dragonlance are little more than ribbon abilities. Strixhaven Initiate gives you a choice of 2 cantrips from a list of 3, but one of those cantrips is always either light or prestidigitation and none of them are eldritch blast. It also let's you pick one 1st level spell from wizard, cleric, or druid. The offset of this is that the bonus spell lists in the Strixhaven backgrounds are 3 spells shorter than all the Ravnica backgrounds. If you're looking for combat cantrips Ravnica is going to help you more than Strixhaven. The most "OP" thing Strixhaven gives is putting both Mage Hand and Guudance on the Quandrix Initiate list. That and Lorehold can potentially give any caster Spirit Guardians. As for Dragonlance... the squire feats are less useful than half the ribbon abilities in the PHB backgrounds. The feats in the Strixhaven and Dragonlance backgrounds are nowhere near as powerful as polearm master, sentinel, crossbow expert, great weapon master, and warcaster.
@@CitanulsPumpkin i unno power of a feat is weird to measure as some may have other ideas on it, personally i have never used pole arm master when i have so many other options to do things, thats really only a specific build feat, so i tend to value more universal feats like observent. in fact i consider alert far more powerful then polearm master in this regard, no surprises is powerful cause allot of enemies like ooxes can gain that with ease. the precise strike from the salommnia for example has turned every weapon i use it with into a far more powerful weapons, and eachh of the things those feats give you work separatley, so at level 4 you could have 3 uses of the precise and 3 uses of the feat attack with sword for example, while polearm you have to choose to do the special attack and hope it doesnt miss the knights features does things even on misses, so it really comes down to ones perspective i think. sentinel is fine unless you fight things like rouge swash buckler and many many more that by pass the "disengage" action and just let you attack and run off not getting the proc for an AOO like flyby for example a few class features and spells too, still good in gen tho.
@@DrankoiiDo not care, I’m playing an Astral Drifter, swapping out Longevity for Wildspacer’s Wildspace Adaptation feature and getting both Magic Initiate and Tough granted to me by my background.
I need everyone to know about the telekinetic feat. Especially its 5ft shove. The amount of mileage that I have gotten out of telekinetic and especially that feature is insane. It’s literally free movement for my allies, bonus action disengage for myself, and occasionally shove baddies into bad spots. On any given turn that I am not using my bonus action to cast spells, I have the option to just move the battle wherever I want.
@@Klespyrian how exactly do you suggest you move away from yourself exactly? And in any case, is it even forced movement if you're doing it to yourself? So either you can't do it or you trigger an opportunity attack anyway. You are willfully misinterpreting the rules and taking advantage of your DMs innocence to abuse this feat. It's a balancing issue.
When you suggested pairing the actor feat with the telepathic feat my first thought was using it to imitate the person I was talking to telepathically to pass myself off as thoughts that they were thinking, pair this with the previous suggestion of following someone around and speaking to them nonstop and you could probably cause any person of your choice to go crazy
In my opinion the most underutilized feets are the two(most of the time) attached to your body. I played an Aven Monk and it was so fun to describe my combat because unarmed strikes doesn’t have to be a punch. I was doing flying backflip kicks, wing slaps, roundhouses. Then my DM would reward my creativity with an extra D4 damage
Or use the actor telepathy combo to mimic your targets voice, so they can't even trust their own mental voice. Edit, so one of the replies brought up the point that it only allows you to mimic voices you can hear, so if this combo is to work, then you would also need to use detect thoughts.
I DM, I use D&D in my school, I absorb and have thought of everything (yeah right...). I have not thought of this. Here's a gift back I've never come across in any of my research...... using the commonly known Devil's Sight/Darkness combo and a whip(or rope or whatever), cast Darkness on the end (or a small thing tied to it), so you can move the sphere of darkness around easily. It can help avoid teammates, cover more enemies, and honestly keep the DM "guessing" (whether they trust you to admit whether they hit the right space or require to know but run the enemies appropriately as guessing) where you even are within the sphere, so is it an attack at disadvantage or does the arrow fired in the space just fly through an empty space without a roll? I also like the idea of making the whip used by a paladin or rogue multiclass so it's useful and deadly with added smites or sneak attacks. Cheers!
I am planning on getting telepathic on my current character and one of the things I can't wait for is the detect thoughts without components effectively letting you read people's mind without anyone knowing
I mostly let my players take a feat at level 1 that fits to their background/backstory (just explain why you have that particular talent). I love to DM high-power games and my players got creative with this home rule. Once, for example, one player who choose monk for his class took the tavern brawler feat because of his 'drunken master' subclass. His weapon was a frying pan and he hhd the TF2 pan hit/crit sound effects ready every session😂
I do the Telepathy + Actor feat thing with my Halfling Soulknife, and it's so much fun. Especially for setting up Sneak Attack, since all you need is someone Hostile to your target adjacent to them. Imitate the target's voice in their head with a yo mama joke. Or rumormongering, forging Sending spells, or impersonating intrusive thoughts.
The double bladed scimitar restriction is because the only in universe way you'll ever see that weapon used in in the Eberron setting with one of the elven nations as a cultural weapon to make them stand out from the inevitable 'All elves are brilliant at archery' trope. Would be nice Sea elves & Triton got something like that with Tridents as you also rarely see those in a game and it would give more players an opportunity to give them a go.
When you are describing the Telepathic feat and how to use it offensively (in both sense of the word) all I can think about is the scene from Ghost with Patrick Swayze and Whoppie Goldberg where he follows her around singing "I am Henry the VIIIth I am" for HOURS until she agrees to help him LOL! From Wikipedia - the movie was in 1990 In the 1990 film Ghost, Sam (Patrick Swayze) sings this song on a continuous run in a bad Cockney London accent all night long, to Oda Mae Brown (Whoopi Goldberg) to annoy her into helping him.[5]
I love rhe telepathy feature of GOO warlock, like coordinating a surprise attack or luring an enemy into a trap, warn allies silently, or spice up the deception/intimidations
In a less, literal torture, approach to telepathy using the same setup with a spider familiar to be hidden while always being able to telepathically speak to someone and combining it with actor, replicate the target's own voice, and try to gaslight them with their won voice as if it was their own internal thoughts.
Observant is definitely very fun, in a Strixhaven campaign where I was working at the newspaper, I used observant not only to get the scoop on fellow students easier but also to figure out what a suspicious figure was up to!
Right off the bat... The Knight of the Sword, and the three other Knight of Solamnia feats are campaign specific to Krynn (Dragonlance Setting). Yes, yes, you can make up your own thing, but, it's something that you'd have to ask your DM about.
3:43 Pretend to have THEIR own voice So they would start to believe those are intrusive or subconscious thoughts, you can basically make them do what ever you want while they THINK they are doing it because they want
I'm running a game where my partner was playing a Ranger and wanted to play a deaf character, so they took the Observant feat for the lip reading and I let them take sign language as one of their language proficiencies. They were definitely a lot of fun to play with, though that character died recently. Their wolf companion is still traveling with the group, so I decided to bulk up the wolf a bit to make it a semi-functional member of the party on its' own, since the group only has three characters, so I gave the wolf some barbarian levels. Haven't had the opportunity to make use of that yet, but we'll see how it goes
i haven't had a chance to try it yet because i've been exploring all sorts of different classes, but i've got an idea in my head for a something like a bard or rogue that has high performance or deception to telepathically get enemies to start fighting each other by telepathically mimicing them to each other by insulting them. Or another idea i had in my head that used the telepathy feat was to play a high stealth rogue or a character that turns invisible and do that thing in anime and movies where a person is fighting someone and they turn invisible but their mocking voices are still heard.
I have a passive perception of 26 based on smell and hearing with a wisdom of 14 on my level 1 werewolf barbarian. Keen smell and hearing gives advantage on perceptions that are smell and hearing based perceptions which in turns give you a +5 to your passive in those areas.
I 'd let Artificers have Firearm Proficiency, but Gunner would give them all the other stuff it comes with. Maybe even have Artificers have a firearm of their choice as part of their starting equipment. I would suggest from either a Revolver, Hunting Rifle, or Shotgun. Strixhaven Student feats are pretty cool, allows even Arcane Casters to get a healing spell such as Cure Wounds or Healing Word. Scimitars, both regular and Double-Bladed, should all have the Finesse property due to their construction.
6:25 issue with observant is a lot of dm completely ignore passive perception and will force players to roll perception even in cases where passive perception should apply.
I do like Gunner because its just like Crossbow Expert with a ASI. I know there was a build talked about in another video where there was a Rogue/Artificer. I suggested going Artificer first if guns were allowed so you could get a gun as a Rogue, or 2 guns if you went Artilerist, but you could get this feat instead and open up your infusions. It is a good feat, I wasn't exactly sure if it could be taken if guns weren't allowed but even if you can't use a gun the ASI and getting rid of the penalty for close range is worth it for some builds.
I used Actor for a Great Old One Warlock in a One shot and used to speak telepathically in their own voice to some NPCs. Simply said " I should pay them more" during the negoation for example.
So i had a funny story with Observant. I wanted to play a relatively weak druid subclass Circle of Dreams. She was the party Mom of a bunch of murderhobos which went as well as you would have expected. I took the observant feat and the sentinel shield(wood of course) and got decent AC and more importantly advantage on perception checks! So the way passive perception works with advantage is you get a +5 bonus to the roll meaning pared with observant you get a total of a +10 to your perception! I wanted to break that so i went and triple dog down and got the Skill Expert feat to get myself Expertise in Perception! at level 8 i had +4 wisdom, expertise in perception, observant and advantage on perception checks with a grand total of a +20 to my perception checks! Nearing the end of the game when i was level 14, the DM asked me what my passive perception was. I said 35. The look on the DM's face will always make me smile to this day and i have been banned from using broken perception builds! XD
I'm playing a Kenku Soulknife and use the telepathy strategy. Kenku comes packed with mimicry, which gives you that utility of actor right away. Soulknife Rogue gives you telepathy, and therefore that combo, at level 3. Now when you hit 4 you can use the feat on Telepathy to gain an element of Arcane Trickster as well :)
Thanks to the Revenant Blade feet you can take duel wielder feat. Then be an Eldrige knight using the Weapon Bond on both weapons. Follow up by taking the Throwing Fighting style and you can boomerang the double-bladed seminars. ;) I have a character made for this but never got to play him. T_T
I love how you list THREE feats I love using. Telepathic, Observant and Strixhaven Initiate are all feats I love using for characters. Want to play a Druid who can talk via telepathy and use some wizard spells while reading lips from far away... take all three! lol
I really like observant. I made a Halfling Druid(Circle of Grasslands) build that had observant and skill expert feats. At level 10 the passive perception was 32. She's an amazing one shot character, though she really annoyed my GM. Immune to poison and being poisoned in a house filled to the brim with poison gas traps. I can't wait to see if I get to play her again.
the telepathy thing doesnt work because 60 ft distance requirement. They would definitely figure out it was you unless you can also achieve full day invisibility (like warlocks could in 3.5e)
I still prefer shield master for those proficient with shields - bonus action to shove someone prone is just really good, and it has great synergy with a rogue too! Play a Strength rogue with expertise in athletics and you're not a sneaky assassin, you're a brutal gladiator making your own sneak attack opportunities with your shield shove!
Make a rogue npc that has illusion spells and the telepathic feat, with the actor background, and have him go around doing that first thing to people and also to your players 😂
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I find it interesting that he brought up that you don't need to play in a Strixhaven campaign to take the Strixhaven Initiate feat, but makes no mention of the fact that the Squire of Solamnia feat needed to take the Knight of the Sword feat specifies as a restriction that it's limited to Dragonlance campaigns. Even the Knight of Solamnia background that gives Squire of Solamnia for free specifies that you need to be in a Dragonlance campaign as a restriction.
I saw Liam O"Brien using a ridiculous Perception via Observant and I had to take it with my Dark Sun Ranger. It's ridiculous and really useful for the DM to be like "Oh, here's what you notice."
I disagree with a lot of comments on this. First, I think the heavy property is a good one. I think it could be reworked: Heavy requires Str 15 to use with 2hands, 20 to wield one handed, and if it was meant for a size larger than you, your STR needs to be 2 more per size difference. This way, yes smaller creatures COULD use larger weapons, but keeps some form of rationality. Masteries as a whole are generally what people had asked for, innate abilities to a weapon that you can use if trained. And the idea of switching weapons IS a fighter thing...The pt of being a fighter is to be able to use multiple weapons, deciding what is best per the situation. I do think they could be strengthed, but I think one per weapon is good idea, as it then causes players to decide what extra feature they want to use. Though for Fighters, I think they should be able to apply multiple and have them stack. For action Surge, I want the Magic Action back. And in my games it will work like it has. No need to punish multi classing. I dont think restrictions are bad. I just think that they need to be reasonable.
I actually like the race lock on Rev Blade. Because locks in this game are about as secured as my breadbox and all rules are suggestions. It plays pretty much exclusively into the lore of the style of weapon and I don't know about you but uh.... that smells like character flavor to me. You could be the standard elf yes, but what of a drow? Did the half-elf learn it from their father? Did the dwarf swallow his pride and choose the carry on the weapon of his previous adventuring companion, just to keep the memories of ol' knife ears alive? Did the bladesinger learn it as part of their studies or were they complementary to them? Could there be an entire order of elven warrior mages dedicated to the mastery of this weapon? THE POSSIBILITIES ARE (fairly limited but its those limitations that make the possibilities so interesting).
Honestly, Conquest pallies *really* need more ways to induce fear. The only ways built into the class are a Channel Divinity that you only get once per short rest and spell slots that you're probably burning in smites. Shame you need 2 feats to get it, on an already MAD class
Longswords should be finesse weapons... and they should also be dedicated two handed weapons... The makers don't know what longsword is, or a lot of other weapons for that matter.
I have to agree about letting non-elves use the blade. Same with a lot of the racially locked feats tbh, unless they are ones that require the particular races physiology. But that aside, I have loved the strixhaven initiate feat since it was added :) As for the Knight one requiring the squire of solamnia feat, sure that feat isn't the strongest - but it comes "free" with the background, which is a good background. 2 decent skill proficiencies, and 2 languages and this feat. In fact I find all the new feat including backgrounds pretty decent - not necessarily S tier or anything, but certainly above average, with so many providing 2 profs, 2 languages or tools & some flavoured free lodging.
The hell, how is the Squire feat mid? Free advantage proficiency times a day, that adds a d8 to the damage if it hits, and isn't burned if you miss? That, at worst, is solid. If you were to take it as a regular feat, I could understand being bothered that it isn't a half feat, but for something attached to a background, it's good.
So that Knight of the Sword feat also has a prerequisite that you are playing the Dragonlance Campaign, as well as being either a Fighter or Paladin Class or Knight of Solamnia Background. I think that's why it doesn't get talked about too much. I'm currently playing the Dragonlance adventure and going with "Initiate of High Sorcery (Lunitari)" + "Adept of the Red Robes" on a Watchers Paladin 7/Swords Bard 4 build.
This is also crazy. It's finesse, so STR or DEX. Whether you use it as the 1d6 spear melee, or the 1d4 sling ranged. 1d6 melee finesse, sure, that's fine. 1d4 ranged strength? hearty kek
@@g80gzt lol yea, spear tho? i thought it was a q staff so it can also be used as a magic focus haha (sage advice says a staff and a q staff can be the same object) but yea str based sling is neat never even thought about that part haha, barbs gonna get a boost now
I don't think so @@nicolastracz3793 . Awakened mind lets you talk at people, but not hear them; telepathy feat is the same right? I was in a party with another GOOlock, the DM let us text each other when we were speaking telepathically
@@BouncingTribbles Nice! I just started using Awakened Mind for pulling out bullshit or just trash talking NPC'S. It's also pretty handy for sharing information. I usually have to state that I'm using it tough; since I'm the only one who's psychic and there's no reason for using text messages.
I'm so glad you brought up the fact that the Gunner feat has applications outside of people who want to replicate Percy de Rolo. It works on bows, too.
Quill from "High Rollers" has abused the Observant feat ever since he got it. He would regularly read people's lips and get information the party wasn't intended to get so easily, and one time skipped an _entire plotline_ with his ridiculous Passive Perception. Strixhaven Initiate has been vital for my Owl House character builds.
I use a Revenant Blade with my Protector Aasimar Profane Soul Blood Hunter 😁 it's great! And my DM has even allowed me to modify/enhance it to have a +1 AC when wielded normally, but then also being able to split it upp to two Scimitars making it loose the +1 AC but instead lets the Bonus Action Attack deal 2d4 damage instead of the normal 1d4 😊
Telepathic is a must-have on a druid, because of wildshape sure, but also because (as a wisdom-based character) you're likely to be one of the best in the party at Insight checks. You can silently inform the entire party if the NPC you're talking to has hidden motivations or if you suspect they're lying. (Then again, your component-free Detect Thoughts might be able to reveal this as well!)
Your videos where you look for the fun side in things most people look past (like suboptimal feats & multi-class combos) are my favorites. Keep up the awesome work! 😀
i wanted to play so many characters but all the DM's i played with were so lame and p*ssys and crybabies because "Strixheaven isn't allowed because to broken blablabla" and "that feat works well just for that race so you choose it like that or choose another feat". i wanna play with you!! you are way cooler and creative than any other DM i ever seen!!
Colby over at D4 used the Revenant Blade feat for the Blender half of his Battery and Blender team build. The Blender was a Wood Elf Barbarian/Rogue that was able to Rage and Sneak Attack at the same time. While Rage and Reckless Attack only work with Strength, Sneak Attack only states that you must be wielding a finesse or ranged weapon, not that you must be attacking with Dexterity.
Ever since I learned of the telepathic and telekinetic feats. I have been plotting on how to include them on several of my character wish list. My favorite is my Changling Djinni-lock. Built with utility from the pact of the tome. I also went with the actor-telepathic combo for shenanigans. And with telepathic, they gain more things to do aside from Eldrich Blast. Knight of the Sword(with Squire of Solamnia) and Revanant Blade are feats I never even heard of. But damn, do I want to use K.o.t.S. on my fighters and conquest paladin. And Revanent Blade is fine with or without the Elf only restirction. I have considered Observant. I would love to take it on a character with an espionage campaign. Gunner is my goal when the DM allows it on my G-onks. I have about a dozen characters with Strixhaven initiate as one of their feats. That is some amazing content and I would love to find a DM who would let me use it to the fullest.
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I theory-crafted around Gunner once. Fighter Rogue multiclass. Fighter 8 rogue 12. Took the Phantom rogue and Samurai fighter Subclasses. Sharpshooter, at advantage because Of samurai's fighting spirit. Half elf race, Elven Accuracy. Guns also deal piercing damage. Piercer feat. Bonus action, Fighting spirit. Two attacks, action surge, two attacks. The gun (musket) attacks deal 1d12 damage per hit. I attack 4 times. At triple advantage. Adding an aditional die when I crit meaning 3d12 not 2d12. Plus sneak attack damage. This character did so much damage it was gross. And thats before wails of the grave letting me deal half the sneak attack damage to an additional target. For build, start fighter. Half elf race. 15+2 dex 14+1 Con 13+1 Wis 12 char 10 int 8 str Fighting style archery. Level 3 Samurai subclass. 4 take Gunner. 5 get extra attack, 6 Elven accuracy, 7 elegent courtier, 8 Piercer. 9, rogue 1. 3 take Phantom. 4 Cap dex, increase con. And just build rogue from there. I could see also taking crossbow expert for when fighting spirit runs out having a bonus action attack as well.
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I will say, definitely ask your DM before trying to pull up with strixhaven initiate or the knights of solamnia feats. Not all tables necessarily allow setting specific content, especially backgrounds that come with free feats attached.
yea mine told me i could just remove the free feat it comes with and just say the background gives me access to the knight feat. and i could always take that feat too if i wanted the stuff it gave.
It helps if your DM has an imagination and you can talk to them about reflavoring the faction based backgrounds for their setting. There's no reason not to use the Boros Legion in place of the Baldur's Gate Flaming Fist or the Dimir Syndicate in place of the Harpers. Each of the 5 Strixhaven colleges can be slotted into any one of a dozen magic libraries or schools in the Forgotten Realms.
And if "this background has a feat" is the only complaint then it's a non issue. The feats tied to the Backgrounds in Strixhaven and Dragonlance are little more than ribbon abilities. Strixhaven Initiate gives you a choice of 2 cantrips from a list of 3, but one of those cantrips is always either light or prestidigitation and none of them are eldritch blast. It also let's you pick one 1st level spell from wizard, cleric, or druid. The offset of this is that the bonus spell lists in the Strixhaven backgrounds are 3 spells shorter than all the Ravnica backgrounds. If you're looking for combat cantrips Ravnica is going to help you more than Strixhaven. The most "OP" thing Strixhaven gives is putting both Mage Hand and Guudance on the Quandrix Initiate list. That and Lorehold can potentially give any caster Spirit Guardians.
As for Dragonlance... the squire feats are less useful than half the ribbon abilities in the PHB backgrounds.
The feats in the Strixhaven and Dragonlance backgrounds are nowhere near as powerful as polearm master, sentinel, crossbow expert, great weapon master, and warcaster.
Yeah, lol. "You don't need..." you certantly do, unless said otherwise.
@@CitanulsPumpkin i unno power of a feat is weird to measure as some may have other ideas on it, personally i have never used pole arm master when i have so many other options to do things, thats really only a specific build feat, so i tend to value more universal feats like observent. in fact i consider alert far more powerful then polearm master in this regard, no surprises is powerful cause allot of enemies like ooxes can gain that with ease. the precise strike from the salommnia for example has turned every weapon i use it with into a far more powerful weapons, and eachh of the things those feats give you work separatley, so at level 4 you could have 3 uses of the precise and 3 uses of the feat attack with sword for example, while polearm you have to choose to do the special attack and hope it doesnt miss the knights features does things even on misses, so it really comes down to ones perspective i think. sentinel is fine unless you fight things like rouge swash buckler and many many more that by pass the "disengage" action and just let you attack and run off not getting the proc for an AOO like flyby for example a few class features and spells too, still good in gen tho.
@@DrankoiiDo not care, I’m playing an Astral Drifter, swapping out Longevity for Wildspacer’s Wildspace Adaptation feature and getting both Magic Initiate and Tough granted to me by my background.
I need everyone to know about the telekinetic feat. Especially its 5ft shove. The amount of mileage that I have gotten out of telekinetic and especially that feature is insane. It’s literally free movement for my allies, bonus action disengage for myself, and occasionally shove baddies into bad spots. On any given turn that I am not using my bonus action to cast spells, I have the option to just move the battle wherever I want.
I'm pretty sure you're not allowed to shove yourself with telekinesic
@@nacl4299"you can try to telekinetically shove one creature you can see within 30 feet of you"
I think I'll have to agree with you
@@rayzerotYou ever looked down before? You are a creature you can see.
@@nacl4299 No you can. It's broken and powerful.
@@Klespyrian how exactly do you suggest you move away from yourself exactly? And in any case, is it even forced movement if you're doing it to yourself? So either you can't do it or you trigger an opportunity attack anyway. You are willfully misinterpreting the rules and taking advantage of your DMs innocence to abuse this feat. It's a balancing issue.
When you suggested pairing the actor feat with the telepathic feat my first thought was using it to imitate the person I was talking to telepathically to pass myself off as thoughts that they were thinking, pair this with the previous suggestion of following someone around and speaking to them nonstop and you could probably cause any person of your choice to go crazy
In my opinion the most underutilized feets are the two(most of the time) attached to your body. I played an Aven Monk and it was so fun to describe my combat because unarmed strikes doesn’t have to be a punch. I was doing flying backflip kicks, wing slaps, roundhouses. Then my DM would reward my creativity with an extra D4 damage
Or use the actor telepathy combo to mimic your targets voice, so they can't even trust their own mental voice.
Edit, so one of the replies brought up the point that it only allows you to mimic voices you can hear, so if this combo is to work, then you would also need to use detect thoughts.
This is the way
I DM, I use D&D in my school, I absorb and have thought of everything (yeah right...). I have not thought of this.
Here's a gift back I've never come across in any of my research...... using the commonly known Devil's Sight/Darkness combo and a whip(or rope or whatever), cast Darkness on the end (or a small thing tied to it), so you can move the sphere of darkness around easily. It can help avoid teammates, cover more enemies, and honestly keep the DM "guessing" (whether they trust you to admit whether they hit the right space or require to know but run the enemies appropriately as guessing) where you even are within the sphere, so is it an attack at disadvantage or does the arrow fired in the space just fly through an empty space without a roll?
I also like the idea of making the whip used by a paladin or rogue multiclass so it's useful and deadly with added smites or sneak attacks. Cheers!
Or make them take decisions you want by letting them believe they are listening to their own internal monologue 😂
@@Walthanarsounds like the Gov't and 5g towers.
Yeah I thought about fucking with clerics like this.
I am planning on getting telepathic on my current character and one of the things I can't wait for is the detect thoughts without components effectively letting you read people's mind without anyone knowing
I mostly let my players take a feat at level 1 that fits to their background/backstory (just explain why you have that particular talent). I love to DM high-power games and my players got creative with this home rule.
Once, for example, one player who choose monk for his class took the tavern brawler feat because of his 'drunken master' subclass. His weapon was a frying pan and he hhd the TF2 pan hit/crit sound effects ready every session😂
Ah, your player is the green soul from undertale
I do the Telepathy + Actor feat thing with my Halfling Soulknife, and it's so much fun. Especially for setting up Sneak Attack, since all you need is someone Hostile to your target adjacent to them. Imitate the target's voice in their head with a yo mama joke. Or rumormongering, forging Sending spells, or impersonating intrusive thoughts.
The double bladed scimitar restriction is because the only in universe way you'll ever see that weapon used in in the Eberron setting with one of the elven nations as a cultural weapon to make them stand out from the inevitable 'All elves are brilliant at archery' trope. Would be nice Sea elves & Triton got something like that with Tridents as you also rarely see those in a game and it would give more players an opportunity to give them a go.
When you are describing the Telepathic feat and how to use it offensively (in both sense of the word) all I can think about is the scene from Ghost with Patrick Swayze and Whoppie Goldberg where he follows her around singing "I am Henry the VIIIth I am" for HOURS until she agrees to help him LOL!
From Wikipedia - the movie was in 1990
In the 1990 film Ghost, Sam (Patrick Swayze) sings this song on a continuous run in a bad Cockney London accent all night long, to Oda Mae Brown (Whoopi Goldberg) to annoy her into helping him.[5]
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I love rhe telepathy feature of GOO warlock, like coordinating a surprise attack or luring an enemy into a trap, warn allies silently, or spice up the deception/intimidations
Can confirm about actor + telepathy: combined with a good deception roll, it basically gave my warlock a no-resource jedi mind trick!
In a less, literal torture, approach to telepathy using the same setup with a spider familiar to be hidden while always being able to telepathically speak to someone and combining it with actor, replicate the target's own voice, and try to gaslight them with their won voice as if it was their own internal thoughts.
Observant is definitely very fun, in a Strixhaven campaign where I was working at the newspaper, I used observant not only to get the scoop on fellow students easier but also to figure out what a suspicious figure was up to!
GUN KATA! OMG! EQUILIBRIUM IN DnD!
Thank you for giving me the feat I never knew I needed. GUN MONK will be had.
Right off the bat... The Knight of the Sword, and the three other Knight of Solamnia feats are campaign specific to Krynn (Dragonlance Setting). Yes, yes, you can make up your own thing, but, it's something that you'd have to ask your DM about.
the best telepathic torture is to sing "Henry The Eighth, I Am" repeatedly.....forever.
In Pathfinder, telepathy has another benefit: if someone casts Phantasmal Killer on you and you succeed your Will save, you can turn it on the caster.
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Pretend to have THEIR own voice
So they would start to believe those are intrusive or subconscious thoughts, you can basically make them do what ever you want while they THINK they are doing it because they want
As soon as he said « the creature is frightened of you » I was like :
New character ! Variant human Hexadin of conquest... now !
I'm running a game where my partner was playing a Ranger and wanted to play a deaf character, so they took the Observant feat for the lip reading and I let them take sign language as one of their language proficiencies. They were definitely a lot of fun to play with, though that character died recently. Their wolf companion is still traveling with the group, so I decided to bulk up the wolf a bit to make it a semi-functional member of the party on its' own, since the group only has three characters, so I gave the wolf some barbarian levels. Haven't had the opportunity to make use of that yet, but we'll see how it goes
i haven't had a chance to try it yet because i've been exploring all sorts of different classes, but i've got an idea in my head for a something like a bard or rogue that has high performance or deception to telepathically get enemies to start fighting each other by telepathically mimicing them to each other by insulting them. Or another idea i had in my head that used the telepathy feat was to play a high stealth rogue or a character that turns invisible and do that thing in anime and movies where a person is fighting someone and they turn invisible but their mocking voices are still heard.
I have a passive perception of 26 based on smell and hearing with a wisdom of 14 on my level 1 werewolf barbarian. Keen smell and hearing gives advantage on perceptions that are smell and hearing based perceptions which in turns give you a +5 to your passive in those areas.
I 'd let Artificers have Firearm Proficiency, but Gunner would give them all the other stuff it comes with. Maybe even have Artificers have a firearm of their choice as part of their starting equipment. I would suggest from either a Revolver, Hunting Rifle, or Shotgun.
Strixhaven Student feats are pretty cool, allows even Arcane Casters to get a healing spell such as Cure Wounds or Healing Word.
Scimitars, both regular and Double-Bladed, should all have the Finesse property due to their construction.
6:25 issue with observant is a lot of dm completely ignore passive perception and will force players to roll perception even in cases where passive perception should apply.
thanks for mentioning observant, my dm loves and hates my inquisitive rogue with 30 passive perception
I do like Gunner because its just like Crossbow Expert with a ASI. I know there was a build talked about in another video where there was a Rogue/Artificer. I suggested going Artificer first if guns were allowed so you could get a gun as a Rogue, or 2 guns if you went Artilerist, but you could get this feat instead and open up your infusions. It is a good feat, I wasn't exactly sure if it could be taken if guns weren't allowed but even if you can't use a gun the ASI and getting rid of the penalty for close range is worth it for some builds.
I used Actor for a Great Old One Warlock in a One shot and used to speak telepathically in their own voice to some NPCs. Simply said " I should pay them more" during the negoation for example.
Observant can give you 21 passive perception at level 1 as well, if you choose rogue.
So i had a funny story with Observant. I wanted to play a relatively weak druid subclass Circle of Dreams. She was the party Mom of a bunch of murderhobos which went as well as you would have expected. I took the observant feat and the sentinel shield(wood of course) and got decent AC and more importantly advantage on perception checks!
So the way passive perception works with advantage is you get a +5 bonus to the roll meaning pared with observant you get a total of a +10 to your perception! I wanted to break that so i went and triple dog down and got the Skill Expert feat to get myself Expertise in Perception!
at level 8 i had +4 wisdom, expertise in perception, observant and advantage on perception checks with a grand total of a +20 to my perception checks!
Nearing the end of the game when i was level 14, the DM asked me what my passive perception was. I said 35. The look on the DM's face will always make me smile to this day and i have been banned from using broken perception builds! XD
I'm playing a Kenku Soulknife and use the telepathy strategy. Kenku comes packed with mimicry, which gives you that utility of actor right away. Soulknife Rogue gives you telepathy, and therefore that combo, at level 3.
Now when you hit 4 you can use the feat on Telepathy to gain an element of Arcane Trickster as well :)
saw the jorogumo based monster..i can tell you using player mechanics its HILLARIOUS to play as.
A monk with the gunner proficiency sounds like John Wick.
I actually use the hell out of the innate telepathic speech my gem dragonborn gets! It's such a godsend for being clever with things
Thanks to the Revenant Blade feet you can take duel wielder feat. Then be an Eldrige knight using the Weapon Bond on both weapons. Follow up by taking the Throwing Fighting style and you can boomerang the double-bladed seminars. ;) I have a character made for this but never got to play him. T_T
I love how you list THREE feats I love using. Telepathic, Observant and Strixhaven Initiate are all feats I love using for characters. Want to play a Druid who can talk via telepathy and use some wizard spells while reading lips from far away... take all three! lol
I really like observant. I made a Halfling Druid(Circle of Grasslands) build that had observant and skill expert feats. At level 10 the passive perception was 32. She's an amazing one shot character, though she really annoyed my GM. Immune to poison and being poisoned in a house filled to the brim with poison gas traps. I can't wait to see if I get to play her again.
the telepathy thing doesnt work because 60 ft distance requirement. They would definitely figure out it was you unless you can also achieve full day invisibility (like warlocks could in 3.5e)
I still prefer shield master for those proficient with shields - bonus action to shove someone prone is just really good, and it has great synergy with a rogue too! Play a Strength rogue with expertise in athletics and you're not a sneaky assassin, you're a brutal gladiator making your own sneak attack opportunities with your shield shove!
What's funny is I actually have a Revenant Blade build with Artificer + Rouge booming blade for a one shot we have going on today!
I'm running it with Charger + Swashbuckler too so getting that +5 attack ontop of it all.
Make a rogue npc that has illusion spells and the telepathic feat, with the actor background, and have him go around doing that first thing to people and also to your players 😂
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Le me guess the crafting system in Ryoko’s guide to the yokai realm works like Grim hollow where you first have to have a tools proficiency to then be allowed to make a skill proficiency roll further making tools useless?
I find it interesting that he brought up that you don't need to play in a Strixhaven campaign to take the Strixhaven Initiate feat, but makes no mention of the fact that the Squire of Solamnia feat needed to take the Knight of the Sword feat specifies as a restriction that it's limited to Dragonlance campaigns. Even the Knight of Solamnia background that gives Squire of Solamnia for free specifies that you need to be in a Dragonlance campaign as a restriction.
I've always liked Telepathic but you have made me want to make a Bard who uses it to sing nothing but Nickelback and Smash Mouth to annoy people.
I saw Liam O"Brien using a ridiculous Perception via Observant and I had to take it with my Dark Sun Ranger. It's ridiculous and really useful for the DM to be like "Oh, here's what you notice."
Not having footage from Equilibrium while talking about the gun/monk combo is a real missed opportunity.
With Observant and a Sentinal Shield, I got my Rogebarian to 30 passive perception at lvl 5, I can literally see reality vibrating
As an inquisitive rogue with a 20 in int and wis I can agree that the observant feat is broken. At lvl 8 I have a 32, 32, 27 passive
Love the revenant blade too; I keep looking for a DM that will let me use it without being elf
Observant would be good if people though passive investigation existed. Or you know didn't ask you to roll for perception checks anyway.
I disagree with a lot of comments on this. First, I think the heavy property is a good one. I think it could be reworked: Heavy requires Str 15 to use with 2hands, 20 to wield one handed, and if it was meant for a size larger than you, your STR needs to be 2 more per size difference. This way, yes smaller creatures COULD use larger weapons, but keeps some form of rationality. Masteries as a whole are generally what people had asked for, innate abilities to a weapon that you can use if trained. And the idea of switching weapons IS a fighter thing...The pt of being a fighter is to be able to use multiple weapons, deciding what is best per the situation. I do think they could be strengthed, but I think one per weapon is good idea, as it then causes players to decide what extra feature they want to use. Though for Fighters, I think they should be able to apply multiple and have them stack.
For action Surge, I want the Magic Action back. And in my games it will work like it has. No need to punish multi classing.
I dont think restrictions are bad. I just think that they need to be reasonable.
I have a revenant blade Drakewarden Ranger i love it.
I prefer to let each lineage keep their specific feats/background/subclass. Gives them some distinctiveness in this world of homogeneity.
I actually like the race lock on Rev Blade. Because locks in this game are about as secured as my breadbox and all rules are suggestions. It plays pretty much exclusively into the lore of the style of weapon and I don't know about you but uh.... that smells like character flavor to me. You could be the standard elf yes, but what of a drow? Did the half-elf learn it from their father? Did the dwarf swallow his pride and choose the carry on the weapon of his previous adventuring companion, just to keep the memories of ol' knife ears alive? Did the bladesinger learn it as part of their studies or were they complementary to them? Could there be an entire order of elven warrior mages dedicated to the mastery of this weapon? THE POSSIBILITIES ARE (fairly limited but its those limitations that make the possibilities so interesting).
hear me out: telepathic whispers bard and power word: kill (or something funny)
(or just be a ghostwise halfling)
Is it really underrated if its campaign specific?
Sorcerer (not aberrant mind) with telepathy and subtle spel: undetectable suggestion without language limitation...
"Yes, its unethical sure, but its really funny"
Thats just the dnd experience
Honestly, Conquest pallies *really* need more ways to induce fear. The only ways built into the class are a Channel Divinity that you only get once per short rest and spell slots that you're probably burning in smites. Shame you need 2 feats to get it, on an already MAD class
I wonder if it would be possible to add an underrated encounters video to this series.
Can you make the revenant blade your monk weapon and now have 2D6, 2D8, 2D10 damage with it? If so I think that makes for the best monk feat ever.
I WANNA PLAY THE GUN MONK SOOOOO FING BAD NOW!!!!
you could take telepathy and actor and perfectly mimic the targets own voice. you could act like someones conscience
for the first one, just take sentinel. Lets you stop people moving too and doesn't make you take the previous feat
Knight of Solamnia
Prerequisite: Dragonlance Campaign
Longswords should be finesse weapons... and they should also be dedicated two handed weapons... The makers don't know what longsword is, or a lot of other weapons for that matter.
I have to agree about letting non-elves use the blade. Same with a lot of the racially locked feats tbh, unless they are ones that require the particular races physiology.
But that aside, I have loved the strixhaven initiate feat since it was added :)
As for the Knight one requiring the squire of solamnia feat, sure that feat isn't the strongest - but it comes "free" with the background, which is a good background. 2 decent skill proficiencies, and 2 languages and this feat. In fact I find all the new feat including backgrounds pretty decent - not necessarily S tier or anything, but certainly above average, with so many providing 2 profs, 2 languages or tools & some flavoured free lodging.
The hell, how is the Squire feat mid? Free advantage proficiency times a day, that adds a d8 to the damage if it hits, and isn't burned if you miss? That, at worst, is solid. If you were to take it as a regular feat, I could understand being bothered that it isn't a half feat, but for something attached to a background, it's good.
What are those animations that play randomly throughout the video
I thought his left eyebrow just got really long outta no where
4/6 of his "underrated" feats are just objectively powerful popular ones, with one of them being from the book of broken content (strixhaven).
my dnd group has observant feat banned because its too good lol
Drow Half Magic
Bard w/telepathy... follow someone around using Vicious Mockery...
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Cast's revivify on dead angel
I dread to think what's going to happen once the alphagamers get a hold of these... the powercreep in this game is becoming utterly terrifying...
لا تنزل مكان تحت منطقة العشب الان لان خطير عليك هو لبعدين
Wow some good feats
No way to stop telepathic?
*Laughs in Ring of Mind Shielding*
So that Knight of the Sword feat also has a prerequisite that you are playing the Dragonlance Campaign, as well as being either a Fighter or Paladin Class or Knight of Solamnia Background. I think that's why it doesn't get talked about too much.
I'm currently playing the Dragonlance adventure and going with "Initiate of High Sorcery (Lunitari)" + "Adept of the Red Robes" on a Watchers Paladin 7/Swords Bard 4 build.
yeah, it's not that the feat is underrated, there's just too many restrictions on it ^^
I am running this campaign right now. My group is lv 3. As a lv 11 how have you enjoyed the campaign module so far?
@@LoreFoundry sorry, we're at lvl 3, too. I've just planned my PC out to 11. So far so good though.
@@goodgulfgas ah, so I imagine you are in Voglar right about now. Maybe enjoying some festivities?
Double Bladed Scimitars aren’t the only 2 handed finesse weapon anymore, the hoopak from Dragonlance now also fits that niche
def a fav of mine, the sling on top of it too mmmmm
This is also crazy.
It's finesse, so STR or DEX. Whether you use it as the 1d6 spear melee, or the 1d4 sling ranged. 1d6 melee finesse, sure, that's fine. 1d4 ranged strength? hearty kek
@@g80gzt lol yea, spear tho? i thought it was a q staff so it can also be used as a magic focus haha (sage advice says a staff and a q staff can be the same object) but yea str based sling is neat never even thought about that part haha, barbs gonna get a boost now
also note that a hoopak is for a Small critter, so get one for a Med critter--1d8/1d6.
@@thekaxmax i cant find where that info is can you point me to the page or info?
Telepathy + Scrying, + being an Elf (only needing 4 hours of long rest a day) = target dies of exhaustion? Awesome.
Telepathy for evil/pranks? Yes please hehehe
I played an old one Barblock because it came with prank whisper, I mean telepathy...
Imagine combining this with actor and/or a changeling, you can imitate their inner voice and give them intrusive thoughts
Bonus points for getting everybody at the table to take telepathy so that you can effectively DDOS the bad guy once you get him in sight. LOL
I don't think so @@nicolastracz3793 . Awakened mind lets you talk at people, but not hear them; telepathy feat is the same right?
I was in a party with another GOOlock, the DM let us text each other when we were speaking telepathically
@@BouncingTribbles Nice! I just started using Awakened Mind for pulling out bullshit or just trash talking NPC'S. It's also pretty handy for sharing information.
I usually have to state that I'm using it tough; since I'm the only one who's psychic and there's no reason for using text messages.
I'm so glad you brought up the fact that the Gunner feat has applications outside of people who want to replicate Percy de Rolo. It works on bows, too.
Quill from "High Rollers" has abused the Observant feat ever since he got it. He would regularly read people's lips and get information the party wasn't intended to get so easily, and one time skipped an _entire plotline_ with his ridiculous Passive Perception.
Strixhaven Initiate has been vital for my Owl House character builds.
I did the revenant blade feat on an Aasimar Paladin. It was a blast. Especially when you add Devine Smit to every blow
I use a Revenant Blade with my Protector Aasimar Profane Soul Blood Hunter 😁 it's great! And my DM has even allowed me to modify/enhance it to have a +1 AC when wielded normally, but then also being able to split it upp to two Scimitars making it loose the +1 AC but instead lets the Bonus Action Attack deal 2d4 damage instead of the normal 1d4 😊
Divine. Devine is italian for "of Wine"
....Do you mean REVENANT? Learn to spell ffs.
@@smashbrandiscootch719 Thank Webster
@@smashbrandiscootch719 🤨 why so bloody hostile? Everyone can make mistakes and not everyone has English as their first language. CHILL ffs
Telepathic is a must-have on a druid, because of wildshape sure, but also because (as a wisdom-based character) you're likely to be one of the best in the party at Insight checks. You can silently inform the entire party if the NPC you're talking to has hidden motivations or if you suspect they're lying. (Then again, your component-free Detect Thoughts might be able to reveal this as well!)
Your videos where you look for the fun side in things most people look past (like suboptimal feats & multi-class combos) are my favorites.
Keep up the awesome work! 😀
i wanted to play so many characters but all the DM's i played with were so lame and p*ssys and crybabies because "Strixheaven isn't allowed because to broken blablabla" and "that feat works well just for that race so you choose it like that or choose another feat".
i wanna play with you!! you are way cooler and creative than any other DM i ever seen!!
Combine the unsleeping + telepathic + familiar combo with vicious mockery, and you can talk someone to death from anywhere ☠️
The range of that cantrip is 60ft
The range of telepathic is also 60ft, whats your poiny here?@@d_andrews
Colby over at D4 used the Revenant Blade feat for the Blender half of his Battery and Blender team build. The Blender was a Wood Elf Barbarian/Rogue that was able to Rage and Sneak Attack at the same time. While Rage and Reckless Attack only work with Strength, Sneak Attack only states that you must be wielding a finesse or ranged weapon, not that you must be attacking with Dexterity.
Ever since I learned of the telepathic and telekinetic feats. I have been plotting on how to include them on several of my character wish list. My favorite is my Changling Djinni-lock. Built with utility from the pact of the tome. I also went with the actor-telepathic combo for shenanigans. And with telepathic, they gain more things to do aside from Eldrich Blast.
Knight of the Sword(with Squire of Solamnia) and Revanant Blade are feats I never even heard of. But damn, do I want to use K.o.t.S. on my fighters and conquest paladin. And Revanent Blade is fine with or without the Elf only restirction.
I have considered Observant. I would love to take it on a character with an espionage campaign.
Gunner is my goal when the DM allows it on my G-onks.
I have about a dozen characters with Strixhaven initiate as one of their feats. That is some amazing content and I would love to find a DM who would let me use it to the fullest.
You're a monster for using that spider animation. I can't believe you've done this
I cannot stress enough how much I love this channel. Your content is 100% my favorite DnD related content that's not Actual Play. Thank you very much for what you do!
I theory-crafted around Gunner once. Fighter Rogue multiclass. Fighter 8 rogue 12. Took the Phantom rogue and Samurai fighter Subclasses. Sharpshooter, at advantage because Of samurai's fighting spirit. Half elf race, Elven Accuracy. Guns also deal piercing damage. Piercer feat.
Bonus action, Fighting spirit. Two attacks, action surge, two attacks. The gun (musket) attacks deal 1d12 damage per hit. I attack 4 times. At triple advantage. Adding an aditional die when I crit meaning 3d12 not 2d12. Plus sneak attack damage. This character did so much damage it was gross. And thats before wails of the grave letting me deal half the sneak attack damage to an additional target.
For build, start fighter. Half elf race.
15+2 dex
14+1 Con
13+1 Wis
12 char
10 int
8 str
Fighting style archery. Level 3 Samurai subclass. 4 take Gunner. 5 get extra attack, 6 Elven accuracy, 7 elegent courtier, 8 Piercer.
9, rogue 1. 3 take Phantom.
4 Cap dex, increase con. And just build rogue from there. I could see also taking crossbow expert for when fighting spirit runs out having a bonus action attack as well.
Lol monk goes point blank with a double barrel shotgun then uses the butt of the gun as a quarterstaff