Doesn't glyph of warding specify that the spells will target whoever triggered the glyph? Doesn't that mean the coins will all be launched at whoever opens the bag?
@@TommyLapointeBlondin "You decide what triggers the glyph when you cast the spell." is the specific wording followed by " You can further refine the trigger so the spell activates only under certain circumstances or according to physical characteristics (such as height or weight), creature kind (for example, the ward could be set to affect aberrations or drow), or alignment."
Thing is, i've wanted to do this in my own campaign, however, within the spell, it states you cannot move the glyphs. Its a glyph of warding, meant for defense and cannot be used offensively in say, a gold coin being thrown. So, rules as written, its impossible.
@@BlueToadPerson The glyphs can be moved so long as they are put onto a surface. The spell specifically states that if you choose “an object” (an object being “within an object” such as within a book), the object cannot be moved more than 10 feet without the glyph breaking. However, the spell doesn’t say anything about the movement breaking the glyph when cast on a surface. At the end of the day, regardless, you can just cast the spell inside the bag of holding because the extra dimensional space isn’t moving, just the opening for it is.
I'm playing a troll named Lugg who screeches all the time. His brother Grugg (another player) is another Troll who is actually kinda smart. Our backstory is (We were one, now we two)
@@Ven0mancer Just have some edge to make him kind of dark, but add a cool enough backstory and actual dialogue to not go into the cringe area known as edgelord. Which means, you need to actually THINK. Might take some more time than normal but should be pretty fun. I recommend bloodhunter.
@Elijah Feuerstein If I make an “edgy” character it’s not so much as they are “darkness” it’s mostly just social anxiety and a bit of paranoia. Just prefers her space, but isn’t unwilling to interact. She does keep to herself but not so much to a detriment. She does little talking unless it’s necessary.Currently she’s unwillingly the face of the party...she does it as she seems the most qualified (the bard is high all the damn time), at the end of the night however, she goes to her room alone has a bit of a panic because all that faking just takes a toll. Gradually though she’s getting more used to it.
@@anaccident12 Well, to be fair, almost all people you find in a public whatever pen n paper session are the ones you don't want the meet ever again. Our group tried that out two times cause our usual DM wanted to take part as a player for once. Both times, the DMs we got were fucking horrible strictly-by-the-book people with giant egos. They forbid EVERYTHING that was on the dark side of humor. I tried to play a well-spoken doctor with a split personality, who used the shrunken head of his mentor as a kind of ventriloquist's dummy to hold conversations with himself (much like Mr. Garrison from Southpark) and the DM absolutely lost his fucking mind over that. He called me a psychopath and forbade me to play a character with a background like that, so I had to cut the mental illness part. Both DMs went on to simply ignore very expensive stuff from character creation that changed the outcome of their campaign in a way they didn't think of beforehand, so they pulled something completely out of this world out of their arses to stop that from happening. For instance, I managed to become the personal doctor of a town mayor (had to deal with a lot of dumb bullshit from the DM to get into that position). When the DM became unhappy with me for having a reliable source of income for our group, he just let the mayor drink a cup of poisoned wine handed to him by one of his arch enemies without even thinking twice, who had tried to kill him MULTIPLE times before at this point. When the mayor was lying on the floor in pain puking out blood, his bodyguards wouldn't let me through to him to give him the antidote I had prepared just in case, because "the antidote could've been poisoned". Didn't matter that I put almost all my points into being good at persuading people, cause the bodyguards were "too stubborn" for something like that. No throws were allowed. After that, I got sued by the mayor's wife for not saving her husband and I had to pay back twice the amount of money I had earned in that job, which coincidently had been about as much money as our group had in total at this point, so we couldn't afford what we were saving money for all this time anymore. At the end, they wanted some feedback from us. We listed all the incidents with extremely faulty logic and also added that we felt like there hadn't been enough freedom for the players and too much sudden bullshit happening just to artificially bring us back to rock bottom. The answer was "Accepted. Next time you can simply be the DMs yourself. Bye." We don't play that often, but fuck me, I'd rather set myself on fire than having to deal with those idiots in public sessions ever again.
@@anaccident12 Yeah, I asked the DM something along the lines of that as well. That whole situation was so absurd that I kept my mouth shut for the rest of the session out of frustration.
boys and girls, this is why we play with 2 classes max and only subrace if it perfectly fits our character and wizards are broken already, only glyph items in emergency situations, unless your game is not a RP game then make your shotgun bags of holding
The first time me and my group played dnd one of them was the dm but also wanted to play. His character was essentially a demigod with really high stats. It was then that me and another in the group knew what had to be done. Perform a kumbaya, which was our code word for "we have to kill this teammate". The deed was done. It was everyone's first time playing and eventually we got the hang of dnd and had players that got into dming. Still a group today, though covid has meant that we couldn't play in person. So for anyone that believes making an op godlike character is a good idea, watch out for kumbaya.
My character is Dave from Accounting. He had a healthy childhood and got good grades, graduated with a Masters in Business accounting. He goes to the gym every morning, and has a healthy love-life with his wife and is a good father to his kids.
In a Halloween one-shot we played where we were going to Strahd's castle, we were greeted at the entrance by a bunch of vampire spawn who demanded we solve a riddle before we could enter. The changeling in the party morphed himself to look like a vampire spawn himself, went up and was all hey I'm one of you, let me in. Vampire spawn asked who he was. Response: "Richard, from accounting." Succeeded his deception roll. The vampire spawn decided to escort him "to management." Then suddenly I (human fighter) riding the centaur cavalier charged the straight line the vampire spawn made, hitting all of them including the changeling. Then the druid decided to wildshape into a giant squid through a misreading of Moon Druid's rules, grab another player, go down the 80 foot cliff "moat" to offer the unfortunate sacrifice to the kraken down there saying "I've come to bargain." We set a kraken on a vampire lord and ended up killing them both. We were level 3.
Try being lawful good where the rest of the party wants to just loot and steal and leave people to die unless its their "special interest" character. Fuck my party are idiots sometimes.
Yeah, I like playing good characters trying to be heroic, while everyone else wants to be a murder hobo, with tragic pasts, and inability to trust others. Half the game is secret note passing. Why am I with this group again?
Demon:"hey wanna burn down a village for me" Skyrim player:"ok" Other player:"why would you that" Skyrim player:"because I need the exp to level up" Other player:"but you're max level" Skyrim player:"what's that"
@@somethingclever4297 I became lvl 300-400 on Skyrim without mods.... How was the gameplay? Very very very similar to what thanos would have done if he got all the stones at the end of end game
@@dovahchicken935 There are 2 Infinity Gauntlet mods, one balanced, and one less so. Just gonna put that out there, and let you make your own conclusion.
Two thoughts came to my mind while watching this video: First of all, the character just spent 10000 gold to glyph all of those coins. If the player wanted to spend that kind of money to kill a single mind flayer, I totally would have let them because that's hilarious. Second of all, the prisoners were BEHIND the mind flayer, which means that every coin the mind flayer dodged would have slammed into the acceptable casualti....prisoners.
I was really hoping for that... I'd have been the guy to point that out and start laughing at everyone else's shocked faces... " Hey DM...... roll damage 😈🤣"
Yeah if the player has 10k gold, I suppose they could spend that on a bunch of rare items and potions, or kill a mindflayer, I mean its kind of whatever at that point, I'd always rather the magic items, I mean, reusable and stuff
True; but, if we dig deeper than we really should, we'll see that the DM never rolled for the dexterity save. This implies that the mindflayer chose not to dodge meaning that every coin hit it's mark, meaning that the acceptable cas... I mean prisoners are untouched if we ignore the mind tadpole situation.
@@merlintym1928 I don't think there's any D&D setting where there's a legal barrier between the interbreeding of races, but there's definitely room for individuals and cultures of any race to frown upon it if that's what you wanna do.
Bro, do all half elves have loving parents, my character is the same way (nevermind the fact he tortured them as his slaves as a pirate) they're a happy family!
Too mainstream for Death Bloodmoon the 14th of the Silvery Moon Platoon and 12th in line for the dunadine and the house of Ghendor, a Half-Kalashar/Half-Aasimar Bloodhunter Artificer Wizard with the Haunted One background and the Hollow One trait from the Explorer's Guide to Wildemount who doesn't run from evil because of that haunting but also hates divine beings because all the gods sent him down after killing numerous mortals barring him from his divine power (basically a god before the campaign but it doesn't really matter all that much) and hates them all for locking him into this mortal coil and also refuses to be a victim and always helps those in need while not feeling compassion for the dead (as they are the lucky ones)
They could have done it in far less time because of Arcane Recovery plus a high enough level. Now, as for that actually working (catapult out of bag of holding) I would say: no, that would not work.
imagine being a mindflayer like "yeah im finna eat some adventurer brain tonight" and then one of them turns their bag of holding inside out and 5000 coins launch themselves into your body in a fraction of a second, killing you instantly.
That's not even happening, what happened was each coin basically simultaneously unleashed the "catapult" spell on the mind flayer, so it was catapulted 50 times in one moment. Aka a very very extremely large force yeeting it all at once.
@@nitrogenFox catapult can't target creatures, so no, the coins are catapulting themselves into the mindflayer, meaning it is basically a 50 coin shotgun
@@sachinstanislaus3856 But it encourages this kind of mindset, if not the specific character. All that matters in AL is the rules b/c you're playing with different people most every time (and total strangers at that), you don't really roleplay much (in my AL experience), so it's just rules.
"I hate divine beings...I was basically a god before this but that doesn't really matter." I am getting some VERY unpleasant flashbacks right now. Flash backs of a game where THREE PEOPLE (out of five,) somehow came up with the idea of being of some secret divine heritage, and I was busy so of course I didn't ask what their background was before the game. I just facepalmed for a bit before saying, "Should we just play Exalted? Because this is just bloody Exalted right now." We ended up playing Exalted.
You're lucky. When I play fantasy half my player want a gun and when we play cyberpunk none play a gun. They're either hipster or just want what's not allowed. I might try to prohibit flail just to see how they'll react.
My current campaign has four players who all went with run away nobility of some sort as a character, and none of them knew the others had done so. Three are from the same country.
The spiel he goes over about his character's motives is just, absolutely perfect. Role-playing brings out so many parts of people that they project into the thesis/core of their characters. Great vid c:
A good trick I saw for role-playing a party's meeting with a god is that the god meets with them seperately, at the same time. "The party walks into the Cathedral and feel a calming presence ahead. Looking around, each of you realize that the rest of the party is missing, and that you are by yourself. Ahead, each of you see Asmodeus sitting by a table, wearing tiny little glasses and reading a profane book. He snaps it shut and turns to look at you.
You can take this key and immediately go back to the cathedral or you can hit this button that kills one person but you gain 1 100,000 gold. (Hitting the button kills a teammate or the person who hits the button)
DM: So the Mind Flayer activates Ultra instinct and dodges all those coins, taking zero damage. Thats what you get for using a save or suck spell, should have stuck with fireball.
Yeah, your right. It's only a 1/700 chance (at worse) of that happening. I'm sure the dm can beat those odds. Edit: Wow, I was really off on the numbers. 1/700 is way to good for this odds.
@@MrWarriorace eh, its going to be wayyyyyy less likely than that. assuming a dc of 15, that means the mind flayer needs to roll 14 or higher per coin. so theres a 13/20 chance of missing so its actually 0.00000004422% chance of happening. assuming they evade all 50. This is as opposed to 0.14% that you gave (1/700) Now obviouly the mind flayer will be able to take some hits, but still its a lot to handle and basically not worth rolling edit: ps im aware the mind flayer has advantage on savings throws, so instead of 13/20 for a roll, its roughly 5 less, so 8/20. either way. this isnt going to keep the mind flayer alive, still very much doomed
@@MrWarriorace to be fair, probability of 1 in 700 is 10 times higher than rolling 20 three times in a row, and many of us seen that happen. But the odds being 1 in 700 seems way too high. Even if we calculate it having 80% chance to pass each save, it ends up as 0.0015% (roughly 1 in 700 000).
Ironically this is how my last dm responded when I multiclassed rogue and barbarian to make a viking. Like chill dude Im not tryna be half tarasque half dragon, I just want my orc to be a viking who has a will they/wont they with the local blacksmith
I opted for a shadow monk/rogue for a sort of mystical stealth assassin vibe. My DM refused to inform me that you can't teleport in the Dungeon of the Mad Mage.
Oh, i just played him as rouge with five other people inside his mind, he fervently believed them to be real but whether they truly were or not was up to the dm
My fellow players: "Hi, I'm Death Blood moon the 14th of the Silver Moon platoon and 12th in line for the Dunadine and the house of Gendor, what's your name?" Me: "Bob"
I've made two long names in my time playing, one was a barbarian who had his clan and tribe attached to his name, the other however, was raised by hobgoblins, so his name was rank, name, banner, legion, and possibly some other stuff.
Don't remind me. We have a high elf wizard in one of our campaigns called Bob. We were coming up with names for our characters and his player couldn't think of one so I suggested Bob as a joke..... Joke's on me now. >:(
I made a human fighter called John Smith once: Brown hair, brown eyes, plain features, no substantive mental qualities outside of charisma - strength and con were ok, but not amazing... Also, I played Lawful Neutral, because his only thing he didn’t like doing was breaking the law because it was a hassle if you got caught. Literally the most fun I’ve ever had playing the straight man in a crazy word surrounded by freaks and psychos.
@@Jabberwokee I played a Mike Normalson as a normal human / martial artist in Vampire. I played Vun Lee Bartender in Flying Swordsmen....with a stunt dice He could make a hell of a cocktail.
Honestly that sort of thing really depends on your party. I think there should be a nice in between; you should be able to make creative characters that aren’t perfect, and a little cheese with jankness here and there can be fun, but too bad or too good (unless the DM and the others at the table are on the same page) do make things less fun.
@@kirstenc6221 I think you can have it any way but all party members should have more or less the same "power level". If you have on person going for optimal build while the other takes whatever they fancy for fluff, the latter will eventually feel useless/powerless. Also, the nightmare for DM o balance encounters: either the Optimizer steamrolls over everything or the Suboptimals get smashed. Played like this - never again. It is possible ot have an optimized build with lots of character, but somehow they're often viewed as exclusive (hence: "I will not take the good trait because I am all about RoLePlAy" attitude). If you have an Optimizer in party, they will usually happily help others to build their fluffy chars in a way that works well mechanically at the same time. I play with someone who's really good at builds so I just say "hey, I want to do xyz" and he tells me my mechanical options. I get to play my dream whatever-it-was AND am more effective at that! Double fun.
@@CaliaShade at the end of the day, what matters is communication at the table. If a table has (an) optimizer/s, talking and figuring out what can be done is 100% a good idea! Though not every table is going to have that, so again, communication is key.
Me being a Ganzi Sorcerer- Ah yes I am a chaos child with no good offensive spells... I have a spell that makes me drunk, or hallucinate, or asleep..... Oh yes and spark, as the village is now on fire. Yes, and now sir, because you time traveled and split the timelines and now there's two of me, which makes you responsible for us both. Now Benrill the great has to deal with two Charzis, who I now refer to as "Thing one and thing two"... The best spell they have is snapdragon fireworks, and shield... They have the shapechanger bloodline, so honestly they're just trouble.
I like that bunches. My first and current character is an artificer with an alcohol problem. We're in the underdark right now and my DM wants us to make wisdom saves before a long rest. I haven't been able to sleep properly with my -1 wisdom modifier. My warlock buddy had the idea of burning incense to keep his character grounded to avoid the disadvantage on the wisdom save. I asked the DM if I could get inhumanly wasted to try and sleep better. I figured I'd just collapse after a good hour of demolishing my liver. She wants me to make a constitution save. Im doing Chadaficer build so I have +3 con modifier. Nat zero so I end up on a very smooth and solid 3. I am mythically fucked up from all the drinks I slayed and next session carries over into a boss fight. Which is pretty in line with how my character is meant to operate.
@@actualteddybear891 it's dope playing characters with alcohol problems. My PC's name comes from a local liquor similar to the tequila, and had the possibility to drink as much alcohol as he wanted and not getting wasted during daytime, but after 7 pm even a single drop of water would get him drunk af due to the plot. I didn't have any Stat penalization but were forced to take stupid decisions when drunk. My DM, in order to keep the things spicy, made me make a constitution roll to determine if my character drank anything due to being thirsty. It all depended on my impersonation on a super drunk guy, but it was fun. English is not my first language, just in case.
my first troupe was like this. i can't play with them anymore since i try to run more story driven games vs dungeon crawls all the time. so my current troupe is much better.
Goblin rogue who flings philters of love into the big bad’s mouth from the shadows, while the Druid stands in front of him using charm person is the only way to win
@@jamesdosdall8391 It's not "murderhobo" if you do it as a job! Sounds like his character picks up the "hunt x" bounties, prepares properly, and turns in the ears (or whatever) at sufficiently regular intervals to keep his pockets nice and golden. You know... a park ranger! (The kind that specializes in removing invasive species)
Here's the thing with "half" characters getting all the traits of each half: if someone is only half aasimar or half kalashtar, would it not make sense that they would only get *half* the traits of each? Or even all the traits, but half as effective? Or even hardly any of the traits, because their lineage is too thin on both sides? I can see a half-aasimar essentially just being a slightly glowy human and a half kalashtar simply being a telepathic human. Not a super soldier with all the best bits of both. Someone I know played a half-elf half-dwarf (a dwelf). He had all the WORST traits of both races rather than all the best. He was short, but not sturdy. Skinny, but not dextrous. Bearded, but not impressively bearded. He was weak, light-sensitive, and honestly a really lousy father to his adopted daughter (although I don't think that had anything to do with the race). I'm not sure why I brought it up, but I will say this: I'd rather play in a party with a dwelf than a kalashamar.
Yeah, I did this with a drow /tiefling character. They where basically just a drow but had the tieflings spells instead of the normal drow ones, and I got rid of the trance and natural perception proficiency feature since half-elves don't normally have access to those either.
Jacob: "So the mindflayer has prisoners behind him. Everyone: "Hmmmmm" Me: "Welp it's up to God now, there's still a shit ton of coins that are going to make these people look like Al Pacino."
Bro I made a Warforged Paladin who named himself the "potato guardian". He would go up too merchants selling potatoes and free them all from enslavement, and would use potatoes as a improvised long range attack by throwing them.
@@feritperliare2890 I mean yeah but at that point it becomes a dm ruling on whether or not it counts and I would have to go with that it still counted as moving but that's just me
The person has very diluted blood, so god decided to send one of his really shit angels who is there for guidance sometimes, but he usually just spends his time drinking and complaining on reddit.
Aasimar aren't even a normal race. If an aasimar mates with a human, elf, dwarf, half-elf, etc. the offspring will be whatever the other parent is, not half aasimar.
Me being DM and a character: a wizard who stole scrolls from his college and is a bit too boastful. My friends character: a undead human who came from a tribe of gnomes that saved him since he was attacking a goblin and is now seen as their chosen one, all while having amnesia an a backstory being slowly revealed to him, and who is also a blood hunter.
good. you as a character and dm should be way less important than the rest of the players. be important but not the show like the rest. no one likes watching the dm play with themselves during game time. its fucking boring as fuck and is as bad as when a dm lore dumps on people and all you wanted to know was the guys name you were talking to.
@@joshshin6819 that's what I go for; the player first, ever since I had a horrible DM that wanted us to "roleplay right" ever since then I wanted to be a player first type of DM. I just find the contrast funny.
@@TheMrsmartass13 i hate the reversion of this. My first dnd game was 3 of us watching the DM power up his character at lvl 1 while the rest of us doted a long like lost puppies with basic gear. His big story reveals were about his character so anytime they dropped we were all like...oh. So why are we here? It got so bad that 2 of us walked away from the table to play Castlevania on the ps1 and said when ever you are ready to include the rest of us in your story let us know and we will play.
I used to DM for a group of 5 who were only ever about combat and only rarely interacted with the story despite my best efforts. They could never make a decision and nothing ever happened if one of my characters wasn't involved. It was frustrating as hell.
I don't know why not; Sokka got to experience the entire ascension of the Avatar, saw the world, dated quite a few lovely ladies, became a master tactician, assisted in the invention of several world-shaping devices, learned one of the secret arts of the Fire Nation while at war with them, kept up with several benders despite having no bending ability or real talent for kung-fu style fighting, and befriended several powerful members of nobility and underground influence by the time the war with the Fire Nation ended, all in the span of one year. He literally became a Level 20 character after starting the series as a Level 1 Commoner.
@@casono Sokka is basically the new-to-DnD guy who created a Fighter at the beginning. Tried to act serious and all, what with his "must defend home" thing. As the story took off he got more comfortable RPing and the DM liked it so he kept getting him into more zany adventures until he ends up dating a literal Goddess.
Sokka actually has way more going on than Aang over all. During the first episodes he has his self-appointed duty towards his community, throughout the series he has his occasionally rocky relationship with his sister, severe daddy issues, an inferiority complex due to being the only non-Bender in the group prior to Sugi joining, a second, lesser inferiority complex concerning his martial abilities due to being left behind at the village by the raiding party as a kid, two romantic relationships, one of which fails spectacularly when the girl becomes the moon by the end of the first season, a full arc of self discovery without any ancient spirits or sages or animal companions to help him out and he uses humour to cover up his insecurities. On top of all of the he is probably the most intelligent and tactically minded member of Team Avatar.
Remember how Jacob’s older videos gave you actual tangible advice on these things instead of just being skits. To be fair the skits are still amazing and admittedly some of them still do have a message in them, too, but I do kind of miss this.
i think it's "players who try to make overpowered characters." making characters overpowered just requires you to know which options to pick, but this guy was clearly meant to not be very knowledgeable about the game (reading the Haunted One description word-for-word) and just crammed together every single option he saw and thought "that's overpowered!" his character wasn't actually overpowered, he tried too hard to make it so, and ended up with a mess of a character that even he didn't know how to play
Yeah, that was my experience in AL, just everyone throwing every new build they found at the wall until it breaks from the sheer weight of everyone's bullshit.
I understood that too when a player asked to be a vampire human devil angel hybrid with a bonus to pretty much every stat, had +3's to abs'. Everyone felt really useful in that party when they were outdone in every skill and check by a character that couldn't be bothered doing anything because of how edgy they were.
AL is literally the only place where YOU decide how strong your character is and what classes he takes. I can't imagine asking your DM if you can multiclass or bickering with your team who gets the item. AL is fair.
I love people with goblin characters that have the simplest of backstories. I even made one where his entire backstory was "he liked a tree so much that when it was cut down, he was exiled from his home for stealing all the cookies."
...I like this backstory descripton, but I'm not connecting the tree with the cookies. Did he steal the cookies because the tree was cut down? Did they make the cookies using wood from his beloved tree, and so he stole the cookies so that he'd have something left that was caused by the tree's existence? I'm confused. :P
...I like this backstory descripton, but I'm not connecting the tree with the cookies. Did he steal the cookies because the tree was cut down? Did they make the cookies using wood from his beloved tree, and so he stole the cookies so that he'd have something left that was caused by the tree's existence? I'm confused. :P
Kalashtar: Totem of the Bear Barbarian, Circle of the Moon Druid, turn into a Bear for themes, and you can be a bear resistant to all damage, if that bear dies, you then turn back into a barbarian that is resistant to all dance, which could choose to turn back into a bear a bear on your turn, and repeat the cycle, and this is all only at level 5
Or alternatively, Goliath Bear Barbarian with Bolt and Tackle. At lvl 20 you can carry 15×2×2×4×24=5760 lb. Or push 11,520 lb. At this point, you should be able to go to the lich's tower and push it down. Traps cant work if the entire building is now a wall.
@@carpedm9846 lol true, you can get get a lot of different things depending how far you plan on taking each level for the classes but if you focus on barbarian, choosing Totem of the Elk at 6th level will double your walking speed and your party, and at higher levels choosing Totem of the Eagle will give you a flying speed equal to your walking speed, so you can be a super fast flying bear that takes half damage to everything
@@adamkaris Oh yeah, thats right, i forgot it wasnt walking speed too, Thanks for the reminder! in that case going bear again would increase your strength more, so you could also go the goliath route and just become a living bulldozer! anyone else got a good race combo other, for either side of the classes?
Whereas I want to play a Space Clown in Spelljammer that is just a typical clown with sorcerer spells that reflect that but also happens to be a chaotic evil cannibal, or a Space Clown bank robber like the heisters in PayDay
@@kingdonut8272 I know, I'm just messing about. I like homebrew stuff, just because it adds more to the game, but sometimes people don't check to see if its balanced and it ends up being super busted.
Don't. Glyph of Warding blatantly states that if the surface the spell is cast on moves more than 10 feet while holding the glyph, the effect is dispelled. No turbobombs for you mate, sorry.
@@weebwhacker6217 Right. So in order for this to work, you'd have to cast it from WITHIN the bag as the location that the spell was cast in wouldn't change (being a pocket dimension) which is doable by the BOH's description of being 4 ft deep/64 cubic feet. Ideal if you are one of the shorter races, but still doable for those taller when you cast enlarge/reduce on yourself first since Glyph of Warding doesn't require concentration. Looking at catapult's description though, it does mention that the objects in question can't be worn or carried. The DM may argue that you are carrying the coins in your bag of holding but my opinion/thought on that is that the BOH is merely an entry point to the extra dimensional space which is it's own location by itself. It's like a portable door that always leads to the same storage unit, it just FEELS like a really deep bag because you aren't able to access this storage unit through any other means other than opening it to get there so you just think of it as the inside of the bag. The icing on top of this filthy cake is that since the spell glyph requires you to use 2 spell slots for each casting (the Glyph of Warding AND the spell you want stored on the coin), you could choose to up-cast each instance of catapult at 3rd level instead of 1st since that's the GOW's base level limit for the pairing and get an extra 2d8 on each of the coins, upgrading this combo from the original 150d8 damage (3d8 * 50) to 250d8 damage (5d8 * 50) and that's not even talking about how you can choose to up-cast the glyph spell to a higher level itself and increase the spell slot level you can cast to go up to maybe an 8th level catapult at most? If you were an evocation wizard specialist that was at least level 14, you could use your overchannel ability, cast catapult at a 5th level and should a coin hit the target, it will always do max damage 7d8 (56) per coin to a max of 2800 damage should every save be failed for all 50 coins (cut to the opening scene from Robo Cop) . Paralyze, petrify, stun or knock someone unconscious for that If you were an Order of Scribes Wizard (Tasha's Cauldron of Everything) you could change the damage type of the spell based on the damage type you might need at the time. The funds/resources to do this could still be a hassle to acquire depending on the DM and campaign setting but this is still a really neat idea to try and pull off.
@@sh0gan914 Nah.. I would never permit this on RAW. I can't imagine why anyone would consider this neat or fun and besides, if such exploit nonsense was available to the player then it will also be available to the players adversaries.
"Now I understand Adventures League" Thank you acknowledging that AL is a great place for new players and new DMs to get started because it makes a lot of the really complicated and/or super powerful stuff impossible to play. Meaning it makes the game feel for balanced for everyone.
Yeah.....it wouldn't work because if you move the glyph farther 10 feet away from where it was cast the glyph is broken...there's not really a way around it, because the inside of the bag of holding is a different dimension so once you drop a coin inside, the spell is broken. If you stipulated that it's still in the same reality, then once you move it further than 10 feet, the spell is broken. Even if you jump inside the bag of holding to cast the spell (thus not moving the item further than 10 feet away from where you cast it), once you've removed the coin it would be farther than 10 feet away from where you cast it......and the spell would be broken.....he also got the rules for Catapult wrong.
@@devildham And the bag of holding only has 10 minutes of air in it. And the spell takes an hour to cast. So you suffocate well over half an hour before the spell is done
@@devildham Ehh, restrictions on movement in dnd always refer specifically to using movement. As in like a character's speed, if the object or person themselves are not actually moving a square, it doesn't count as movement. And last I checked, dimension hopping doesn't inherently use up movement.
@@devildham the spell wouldn’t break once dropped into the bag though. Cast the spell near the bag then put the coin in the bag. The coin hasn’t moved 10 feet away from where the spell was cast, it’s only been moved a few feet at most.
When making a character, I generally start with one trait about myself, crank it to eleven, and then build a personality around that one thing. Slowly, it just writes itself until there's a whole character, at which point I just fill out the sheet.
I'm a half-Aasimar, half-Tiefling, half-Dragonborn, half-Aarakocra raven who looks human, but has black wings, golden draconic eyes, has the power to transform, has lycanthropy, siphons soul energy like a vampire, and- Wait... why did my character suddenly explode? Was he not *enough* of a hybrid?
Other Pcs: big elaborate backstory and character motivations Me and my dwarf barbarian:hehe gonna whap em with my club edit: thanks for all the likes dudes also fyi my character does have a pretty in depth get simple backstory it's just when it comes to the combat nothing beats a good Whappin!
The only complicated thing about Yasha is the insane amount of takes on what the fuck she looks like. Her backstory is plenty simple. Heartfelt and well done, for sure, but simple nonetheless.
This is honestly great character development for an edgelord. Eventually their own edge was their hubris and they edged out of existence. Reminds me a little of how Ungoliant ate herself.
I was actually thinking of a Skald character who was just a fighter or barbarian but sang ballads about the party's exploits. I'm sure you could just do that.
This is actually my reason for somewhat disliking bards. They’d be cooler to me if the class was something like “magic college graduate.” As is, it feels like the game is trying to say “this class only for entertainers backgrounds!” Rogue is a bit better. They’re sort of tied to criminal backgrounds, but so many other archetypes exist.
@@skycastrum5803 I don’t think bards are tied to entertainer backgrounds. It’s all backstory. My most recent bard had the acolyte background, as he was in training to be a paladin, but decided to leave the church and pursue music, much to his parents’ dismay. Another bard I played was basically just a farm girl with a flute. She didn’t have the entertainer background either. A bard could also have the soldier background, but have left the military life behind. Or, since bards don’t have to be young, they could have the sage background and love to sing and dance, so they became a bard.
@@willieearles3151 It's not so much the mechanical background (what you write on the character sheet) as entertainer in general. Bards are pretty much always tied to music. Rare exceptions will be dancers, or some other form of entertainment.
"I was listening to this dude's music while writing it--this Travis Savoie guy. IDK but now my Rime of the Frostmaiden character is irredeemably edgy but also epic."
“I’m an alien robot possessed by the soul of a U-boat built by Nazis on the moon who was sucked through a black hole after a plucky American teen and his hot older girlfriend destroyed the moonbase in the 1960’s, who then found himself crashing headfirst from orbit into an elder mage in the forgotten realms who just happened to be casting a memory destroying spell, so now he remembers nothing of his backstory other than that he is a robot and he hates teenagers.”
This is why all my characters recently have been human Warriors with both parents alive coming from a very loving supporting household, fantasy at its finest.
@@spikem5950 not exactly stereotype yes, but never realistic we are talking about a world with gods and dragons, the background of my parents are farmers but I'm the descendant of a lost hero it's plausible, also my uncle bought my a sword turns out I'm really good using it so I will become an adventurer can be possible and realistic as well. A magician in his 80's loves to read books and now wants to go on adventures tu find new kinds of magic and knowledge before dying also realistic
Quick, someone tell this poor soul that the book contains optional rules that they don't have to use! It's not like we haven't all been told that 599 times.
All the rules are optional if you want them to be. But if you believe the Ilusion that they are optional go look at the CF that is Adventures League season 10. They went even further.
Me before watching the video: I bet the example character breaks so many rules Me after watching the video: I think Catapult's damage is the only rule that was actually followed Remember, DMs, don't blame a player for powergaming if you say "yes" whenever they want to "homebrew" in a super OP way
Character has: -Half races, definitely homebrew for 5e -Hallow One boon, explicitly DM-given Setup has: -Glyph of Warding: requires 200gp of incense and diamond dust per cast, which would be on the DM for giving that PC a way to get not only 10k gold, but a means by which to buy all that incense and diamond dust -Again, Glyph of Warding. Even if one is generous and doesn't count plane shifting (putting in the bag of holding) as "moving more than ten feet from where you cast this spell," the instant the coins re-enter the prime material plane more than ten feet from that spot, the glyph is 100% broken.
@@godminnette2 In addition, the spell targets the one who triggered the glyph of warding, so all of the coins should be targeting the person pulling the bag inside out.
@@adrianroed2178 Or at least half of them. Since he likely only glyphed one side of the coins as they flip into the air from the bag, so statically half of them would be facing him. Make him roll 25 dex saves and instantly splatter him on the first failed. (Even though you would only get the 3d8 on a failed save so you would need to count the number of fails then adjust damage, but probably more than his character can likely handle.) But as Godminnette2 said, the spell is invalid after moving ten feet.
@@neerdowell6687 The 10 feet rule doesn't matter if they were inside a bag of holding, as the inside of the bag is on the ethereal plane and does not move. The problem is that putting a glyph into or removing it from the bag will move it more than 10 feet, so for this to work you need to inscribe the glyph inside the bag and trigger the glyph inside the bag. When a glyph is triggered, the spell it holds will always target the creature that triggers it, and since the glyph can't trigger after leaving the bag the only creature it could target would be the one attempting to remove it from the bag.
@@hugotrojanovsky7667 Pitch meetings is the most recent place I saw it, but I also know someone who does other D&D skits in their intros, and that was a trick they used. It seems like it's good info that's getting out there!
And then there's me, playing a Swashbuckler Rouge and a Battle Master Fighter at the same time. Wearing magical plate armor and basically being a dodge tank. He was a fun character to play, cracked jokes at everything, his main flaw was that he didn't take anything seriously, had a hatred for magic wielders because they seemed to make things too easy, and despite being a rouge, didn't sneak at all. Had an ego more massive than the sun and basically wielded a light saber (Sun blade). Literally everyone was just baffled at this combination, and I made the character work somehow and people actually liked him.
You can't move glyphed items more than 10 feet without the glyph disappearing. Maybe a DM might allow a bag of holding being carried around to not count as "moving", but I would consider that moving.
It's in an extradimensional space so it wouldn't be moving. However if the Glyph was taken out of the bag it's new position might then cause it to dispel. In this example, the spells shot out of the bag like shooting through a portal
@@elf-lordsfriarofthemeadowl2039 something to consider is the interior of the bag is 64 cubic feet ish so moving inside the bag is a risk, and then moving outside the bag will most probably be more than 10 feet dispelling the magic
@@elf-lordsfriarofthemeadowl2039 Well he described turning the bag inside out to empty them from the bag. Maybe if you count the inside of the bag as the original casting location? Not sure how to judge distance from inside-of-bag to outside-of-bag with it technically being two different planes. Maybe you trick an enemy into looking into the bag? 😂
My character kind of has this type of edgelord background with a lot of details, but the empire he served was destroyed by a demon and all of it means basically nothing, so when he walks up to someone and says "HOW DARE YOU SPEAK THAT WAY TO AN INQUISITOR OF THE VALE EMPIRE!" everyone just goes "The _what_ empire?" and then he starts crying inside. It's actually really fun because the rest of the party are a bunch of goofs with him being the only serious character, and his seriousness is constantly undercut by him being a wandering Crown Paladin with no crown to serve and no empire to protect, so he's a literal Hobo Knight who goes around shoving the doctrine of a dead empire down everyone's throat with everyone telling him to shut up and stop being such a mudstick. My group loves it. One of them compared him to the President from Rick and Morty. Always trying to be the baddest ass in the room, but constantly getting pantsed.
I'm taking that a step further on a westmarches ghetsalt discord server. 20 levels in wild Magic Sorcerer/at least 1 level in every other spell casting class in the game, and a Mizzum Apparatus. DMs would literally kill me if I decided to grab expertise in Arcana. I guess good thing this is a meme build.
@@alexbarrett2984 Lol idk much about ghestalt, but as a wild magic sorcerer try to get a fey wild shard. Makes it so you get a wild magic surge every time you use a metamagic for maximum meme
@@mindlessscientist3772 That sounds perfect. I am building this character to be the literal embodiment of magical chaos, so that totally fits the theme.
@@Belthazar1113 Lol I really wish they would have done a proper, non-op version of the mystic. Did ypu mean the Kibblestasty homebrew psion class? Good possible replacement for mystic if you didn't mean that and wanna look at it
why? they are quarter angel. they could be pretty much anything. thats like saying a child of a tiefling would be a warlock automatically because the child woke up one day, took a shit and made a pact with some other worldly being.
I just want to compliment the tattoo, its such a unique idea that really embodies how d&d feels. Its just a dice game but there's so much too each campaign and those dice really do feel like a weapon.
“You have so much... character... over there” my sides are in orbit
It was an apt description.
Honestly such a good joke too. Any dnd player has been a game where they've said this.
God, I hope for a day when I can say this to someone.
@@DexteroExplosion Idk, man. Sure it's funny in a skit, but it's obviously an insult.
Oh shit you're right xD
I love how his character's traits were just him reading off of the 'Haunted One' description
"My character is really detailed" AKA I copy-pasted the whole traits table onto my character sheet
It was just all of them
Wait...YOUR RIGHT...HOLY SHIT.
His 'evil runs from me' and 'I refuse to be the victim' thing near the start of the video.
There'e nothing wrong with using the pre-written traits if you actually roleplay them
Character aside, the "Glyph of warding all my coins with catapult and then turn the bag inside out" is actually a deviously clever idea imo.
Doesn't glyph of warding specify that the spells will target whoever triggered the glyph? Doesn't that mean the coins will all be launched at whoever opens the bag?
@@TommyLapointeBlondin "You decide what triggers the glyph when you cast the spell." is the specific wording followed by " You can further refine the trigger so the spell activates only under certain circumstances or according to physical characteristics (such as height or weight), creature kind (for example, the ward could be set to affect aberrations or drow), or alignment."
Thing is, i've wanted to do this in my own campaign, however, within the spell, it states you cannot move the glyphs. Its a glyph of warding, meant for defense and cannot be used offensively in say, a gold coin being thrown. So, rules as written, its impossible.
Better yet, upcast Glyph of Warding to level 5 and have it contain Animate Objects to deal a whole lot more damage
@@BlueToadPerson The glyphs can be moved so long as they are put onto a surface. The spell specifically states that if you choose “an object” (an object being “within an object” such as within a book), the object cannot be moved more than 10 feet without the glyph breaking. However, the spell doesn’t say anything about the movement breaking the glyph when cast on a surface. At the end of the day, regardless, you can just cast the spell inside the bag of holding because the extra dimensional space isn’t moving, just the opening for it is.
Meanawhile, my recent character is a goblin with backstory "somehow survived to the age of 10"...
*GIVE THAT GOBLIN A MEDAL*
I play a Goblin with the back story of "A frost giant stepped on my village And now I'm free to do whatever I fucking want!"
I'm playing a troll named Lugg who screeches all the time. His brother Grugg (another player) is another Troll who is actually kinda smart. Our backstory is (We were one, now we two)
@Gorkdork _Is your character now having a midlife crisis?_
@@arcanecontent LMAO
"Unfortunally for you all, I am too edgy" There's a lot of people I wish admitted that before.
i want to make a edgy character so much but i dont want to be disruptive to my tables
@@Ven0mancer it's hard but it isn't impossible. You have to be very creative.
@@briancaro196 Yup, make him just the right amount of edgy but not to the point were he is basically a edgelord.
@@Ven0mancer Just have some edge to make him kind of dark, but add a cool enough backstory and actual dialogue to not go into the cringe area known as edgelord. Which means, you need to actually THINK.
Might take some more time than normal but should be pretty fun. I recommend bloodhunter.
@Elijah Feuerstein If I make an “edgy” character it’s not so much as they are “darkness” it’s mostly just social anxiety and a bit of paranoia. Just prefers her space, but isn’t unwilling to interact. She does keep to herself but not so much to a detriment. She does little talking unless it’s necessary.Currently she’s unwillingly the face of the party...she does it as she seems the most qualified (the bard is high all the damn time), at the end of the night however, she goes to her room alone has a bit of a panic because all that faking just takes a toll. Gradually though she’s getting more used to it.
I just love how Jacob’s taking EXACT quotes from the backgrounds “I feel no compassion for the dead... they’re the lucky ones” etc
*I just love that
@@kapitan19969838 🤓
@@kapitan19969838 🤓
He's also reading that one straight from his phone
@@kapitan19969838 Both are grammatically correct lmfao 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
my overpowered character worshipped hexagons, he was the first priest of hexagonalism and wanted to revive hexagorn the 6 sided god
This is brilliant
Well hexagons *are* bestagons
id allow it but youd fuck up so badly you would only revive a 4 sided god instead of a 6 sided one. because that would be funny.
@@joshshin6819 It would be a cube, since he misread the 6-faces part as 6-sides in the resurrection ritual.
So would he just have been paralyzed in awe if the DM busted out a hex grid map?
I would pay money to see someone animate a mine flayed being eviscerated by a pile of gold coins
"He" also paid money to see the mind flayer get eviscerated.... about 50 gold worth :P (not including expenses, but whos counting)
I think they made an anime about that... A Certain Scientific Railgun.
@@elorran That would mean he had at least 10,050 gold, what with the consuming of the diamond powder.
isn't it mind flayer
not mine flayed
@@angelusuriel8312 you are correct, but it was probably just autocorrection they didn’t notice
I tried to play a public dnd session once and everyone in it was basically like this.
well i guess there was a reason they played in a public session, none of their friends could fuckin stomach them i guess lmao
@@anaccident12 Well, to be fair, almost all people you find in a public whatever pen n paper session are the ones you don't want the meet ever again.
Our group tried that out two times cause our usual DM wanted to take part as a player for once. Both times, the DMs we got were fucking horrible strictly-by-the-book people with giant egos. They forbid EVERYTHING that was on the dark side of humor. I tried to play a well-spoken doctor with a split personality, who used the shrunken head of his mentor as a kind of ventriloquist's dummy to hold conversations with himself (much like Mr. Garrison from Southpark) and the DM absolutely lost his fucking mind over that. He called me a psychopath and forbade me to play a character with a background like that, so I had to cut the mental illness part.
Both DMs went on to simply ignore very expensive stuff from character creation that changed the outcome of their campaign in a way they didn't think of beforehand, so they pulled something completely out of this world out of their arses to stop that from happening. For instance, I managed to become the personal doctor of a town mayor (had to deal with a lot of dumb bullshit from the DM to get into that position). When the DM became unhappy with me for having a reliable source of income for our group, he just let the mayor drink a cup of poisoned wine handed to him by one of his arch enemies without even thinking twice, who had tried to kill him MULTIPLE times before at this point. When the mayor was lying on the floor in pain puking out blood, his bodyguards wouldn't let me through to him to give him the antidote I had prepared just in case, because "the antidote could've been poisoned". Didn't matter that I put almost all my points into being good at persuading people, cause the bodyguards were "too stubborn" for something like that. No throws were allowed. After that, I got sued by the mayor's wife for not saving her husband and I had to pay back twice the amount of money I had earned in that job, which coincidently had been about as much money as our group had in total at this point, so we couldn't afford what we were saving money for all this time anymore.
At the end, they wanted some feedback from us. We listed all the incidents with extremely faulty logic and also added that we felt like there hadn't been enough freedom for the players and too much sudden bullshit happening just to artificially bring us back to rock bottom. The answer was "Accepted. Next time you can simply be the DMs yourself. Bye."
We don't play that often, but fuck me, I'd rather set myself on fire than having to deal with those idiots in public sessions ever again.
@@GodlordBazi "THE ANTIDOTE COULD BE POISONED" WHAT THE FUCK DID THEY THINK WAS GONNA HAPPEN, HE'D BECOME MORE POISONED AND DIE EVEN HARDER?????
@@anaccident12 Yeah, I asked the DM something along the lines of that as well.
That whole situation was so absurd that I kept my mouth shut for the rest of the session out of frustration.
boys and girls, this is why we play with 2 classes max and only subrace if it perfectly fits our character
and wizards are broken already, only glyph items in emergency situations, unless your game is not a RP game then make your shotgun bags of holding
The simplest character i have ever playing in dnd was a warforged "puppet themed" bard who wanted to make puppets because he was lonely
That concept gives me the creeps
Im sad reading this
My first character was like "me barbarian, me exist"
My first character is technically my most complex, because I kept evolving her and rebooting her with a new backstory until I got where she is now.
My first character is a dragonborn paladin.
I didn’t need to be called out like that.
Yes you did
Us min-maxers are finally being talked about
The first time me and my group played dnd one of them was the dm but also wanted to play. His character was essentially a demigod with really high stats. It was then that me and another in the group knew what had to be done. Perform a kumbaya, which was our code word for "we have to kill this teammate". The deed was done.
It was everyone's first time playing and eventually we got the hang of dnd and had players that got into dming. Still a group today, though covid has meant that we couldn't play in person.
So for anyone that believes making an op godlike character is a good idea, watch out for kumbaya.
You really do... Most op thing I do is half-dragon Goliath cause lore wise it makes sense and I only put it on a character for a lvl 20 campaign
You REALLY needed to be called out like that.
My character is Dave from Accounting. He had a healthy childhood and got good grades, graduated with a Masters in Business accounting. He goes to the gym every morning, and has a healthy love-life with his wife and is a good father to his kids.
In a Halloween one-shot we played where we were going to Strahd's castle, we were greeted at the entrance by a bunch of vampire spawn who demanded we solve a riddle before we could enter. The changeling in the party morphed himself to look like a vampire spawn himself, went up and was all hey I'm one of you, let me in. Vampire spawn asked who he was. Response: "Richard, from accounting."
Succeeded his deception roll. The vampire spawn decided to escort him "to management."
Then suddenly I (human fighter) riding the centaur cavalier charged the straight line the vampire spawn made, hitting all of them including the changeling.
Then the druid decided to wildshape into a giant squid through a misreading of Moon Druid's rules, grab another player, go down the 80 foot cliff "moat" to offer the unfortunate sacrifice to the kraken down there saying "I've come to bargain."
We set a kraken on a vampire lord and ended up killing them both. We were level 3.
@@spikem5950 You sir are a genius.
@@Wallguardian I wasn't the genius, I was but a mere participant in the madness spawned by a crazy Moon Druid with an insane plan.
@@spikem5950Some fine people you play with 😆👌
@@Wallguardian Yeah if only that crazy one kept playing hahaha. His next character was great, but he flaked sadly.
"Can I just help the people?.."
As a neutral good character player usually mixed in with lawful evil/chaotic neutral characters, I feel that. So much.
Try being lawful good where the rest of the party wants to just loot and steal and leave people to die unless its their "special interest" character. Fuck my party are idiots sometimes.
I mean the risk of mindflayer tadpole infection is very genuine.
I mean, I have been the one playing the pacifist non-lethal neutral good guy in a bloodhungry group. It's... Harsh.
@@BGrimoire It's like being the only sane person in a group of mental asylum inmates
Yeah, I like playing good characters trying to be heroic, while everyone else wants to be a murder hobo, with tragic pasts, and inability to trust others. Half the game is secret note passing. Why am I with this group again?
These were the guys who pulled “gun” or “god” in Rock Paper Scissors
Nuh uh, my scissors are made of diamond and can't be crushed by a regular rock
@@kaldo_kaldo Diamonds are brittle, you can shatter them with a hammer or rock.
@@libertyprime1614 Perhaps, but these are diamonds +1
@@libertyprime1614 These ar Minecraft diamonds
@@ZeFluffyNuphkin impossible
Meanwhile me playing a goblin seductress with 6 charisma:
Goblin seducTRIES Lol
Danny devito
This made me think immediately of Critical Role.
Is this goblin seductress has a +6 to charisma or just flat out 6 charisma?
@@KilterNazkre09 flat out 6 charisma lmao
This is basically the player who thought dnd is just boardgame Skyrim
Demon:"hey wanna burn down a village for me"
Skyrim player:"ok"
Other player:"why would you that"
Skyrim player:"because I need the exp to level up"
Other player:"but you're max level"
Skyrim player:"what's that"
@@somethingclever4297 I became lvl 300-400 on Skyrim without mods.... How was the gameplay? Very very very similar to what thanos would have done if he got all the stones at the end of end game
@@dovahchicken935 There are 2 Infinity Gauntlet mods, one balanced, and one less so. Just gonna put that out there, and let you make your own conclusion.
@@lukakatunaricskaro I pick the more broken option, the cheat room mod
Is it not?
Two thoughts came to my mind while watching this video:
First of all, the character just spent 10000 gold to glyph all of those coins. If the player wanted to spend that kind of money to kill a single mind flayer, I totally would have let them because that's hilarious.
Second of all, the prisoners were BEHIND the mind flayer, which means that every coin the mind flayer dodged would have slammed into the acceptable casualti....prisoners.
The ones he didn't dodge probably tore straight through and kept going for half damage.
That is pretty hilarious I didn't even realize that!
Just imagining the face of realization from the players would be priceless
I was really hoping for that... I'd have been the guy to point that out and start laughing at everyone else's shocked faces... " Hey DM...... roll damage 😈🤣"
Yeah if the player has 10k gold, I suppose they could spend that on a bunch of rare items and potions, or kill a mindflayer,
I mean its kind of whatever at that point, I'd always rather the magic items, I mean, reusable and stuff
True; but, if we dig deeper than we really should, we'll see that the DM never rolled for the dexterity save. This implies that the mindflayer chose not to dodge meaning that every coin hit it's mark, meaning that the acceptable cas... I mean prisoners are untouched if we ignore the mind tadpole situation.
Meanwhile my character backstory: half elf with loving parents
Holy shit dude, calm down on the edginess. Why aren't you an orphan from a long line of orphans?
Is miscegenation legal in fantasy land?
This is lowkey super interesting
@@merlintym1928 I don't think there's any D&D setting where there's a legal barrier between the interbreeding of races, but there's definitely room for individuals and cultures of any race to frown upon it if that's what you wanna do.
*UNTHINKABLE*
Bro, do all half elves have loving parents, my character is the same way (nevermind the fact he tortured them as his slaves as a pirate) they're a happy family!
Not going to lie, I was kinda hopeing for fireball as the gold coin spell.
But if he chose fireball it would blow up in his face, also Glyph of Warding already has an option that gives you a 5d8 built-in fireball.
Too mainstream for Death Bloodmoon the 14th of the Silvery Moon Platoon and 12th in line for the dunadine and the house of Ghendor, a Half-Kalashar/Half-Aasimar Bloodhunter Artificer Wizard with the Haunted One background and the Hollow One trait from the Explorer's Guide to Wildemount who doesn't run from evil because of that haunting but also hates divine beings because all the gods sent him down after killing numerous mortals barring him from his divine power (basically a god before the campaign but it doesn't really matter all that much) and hates them all for locking him into this mortal coil and also refuses to be a victim and always helps those in need while not feeling compassion for the dead (as they are the lucky ones)
fifty fireballs
instant nuke
I mean there is a bit of wizard in there
If someone actually spent 50 days of rp setting up that attack, they have my begrudging respect.
They could have done it in far less time because of Arcane Recovery plus a high enough level. Now, as for that actually working (catapult out of bag of holding) I would say: no, that would not work.
@@arcanecontent if they came up with it on the fly, I might say no, but if they spent many, many sessions preparing it I might let them do it.
@@littleblueclovers
*opens bag of holding in enclosed space, activating coins*
*gets crushed to death by 50 catapults*
@@Styrac You do know catapult is a spell that just launches the object, right? He didn't actually dump 50 catapults on the floor.
@@SapphireDragon357 Ah, well, you see... no. I did not know that. Still like my version more tho
imagine being a mindflayer like "yeah im finna eat some adventurer brain tonight" and then one of them turns their bag of holding inside out and 5000 coins launch themselves into your body in a fraction of a second, killing you instantly.
That's kinda like a DnD shotgun lmao
I want to do that
That's not even happening, what happened was each coin basically simultaneously unleashed the "catapult" spell on the mind flayer, so it was catapulted 50 times in one moment. Aka a very very extremely large force yeeting it all at once.
@@nitrogenFox catapult can't target creatures, so no, the coins are catapulting themselves into the mindflayer, meaning it is basically a 50 coin shotgun
That's rough, buddy
"now I understand adventurers league"
Dude. The pain is real.
yep. it's why my house rules are barely away from the books but i do have a few house rules. shit people come up with can ruin games.
I really hate Organized play because it seems to foster this kinda of "Play to win/game the system" type of player.
@@MerlinCross13 well the adventures league PHB + 1 rulebook rule would prevent this character
@@sachinstanislaus3856 But it encourages this kind of mindset, if not the specific character. All that matters in AL is the rules b/c you're playing with different people most every time (and total strangers at that), you don't really roleplay much (in my AL experience), so it's just rules.
@@sachinstanislaus3856 AL no longer has a PHB + 1 rule
"I was basically a god before, but that doesn't really matter."
I had a visceral reaction to that. Too real.
"What's the worst that can happen? We're basically gods"
proceeds to describe in greater detail why it does matter greatly to him.
“...Get off my table.”
@@TheYabashiri I polymorph into a goldfish
His character is so paradoxical that he blinked out of existence irl.
"I hate divine beings...I was basically a god before this but that doesn't really matter."
I am getting some VERY unpleasant flashbacks right now. Flash backs of a game where THREE PEOPLE (out of five,) somehow came up with the idea of being of some secret divine heritage, and I was busy so of course I didn't ask what their background was before the game. I just facepalmed for a bit before saying, "Should we just play Exalted? Because this is just bloody Exalted right now."
We ended up playing Exalted.
You're lucky. When I play fantasy half my player want a gun and when we play cyberpunk none play a gun.
They're either hipster or just want what's not allowed. I might try to prohibit flail just to see how they'll react.
Or city of myst
I had a player ask me if since another player was playing a bounty hunter if he could play a mandolorian.
Good on you for switching off 5e for the right theme ^.^
My current campaign has four players who all went with run away nobility of some sort as a character, and none of them knew the others had done so. Three are from the same country.
He contradicted himself out of existence.
"I accidentally proved that god doesn't exist"
--Guy who has actually met god before that
I read this just as it happened lol
The poor man zero summed.
Impressive not even Christianity could do that.
I wonder how many people knew the "guy" in question in my quote is just Homer Simpson? 🤔
The spiel he goes over about his character's motives is just, absolutely perfect. Role-playing brings out so many parts of people that they project into the thesis/core of their characters. Great vid c:
The "I have to explain everything pertaining to my backstory and personality everytime I do anything" player.
AKA the anime character
I feel attacked...
Or the character that needs a detailed reason in order to justify doing anything regardless of how trivial it might be.
@@xvx_k1r1t0_xvxkillme2 you should
I dissed on D&D players and anime in the same comment. Legend.
Mmm yes accurate
2:16 That one player who has memorized every title you gave your character.
"Antlers
Little Elf Boi
Little Elf Girl
Percival Fredrickstein von Musel Klossowski de Rollo III."
--Taryon Gary Darrington, 811 P.D.
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"Hazzah!"
Yeah, and then the guy gets annoyed about the one little slip up at the end.
@@sadiemcc9363 Korollo*
What a good friend.
A good trick I saw for role-playing a party's meeting with a god is that the god meets with them seperately, at the same time.
"The party walks into the Cathedral and feel a calming presence ahead. Looking around, each of you realize that the rest of the party is missing, and that you are by yourself. Ahead, each of you see Asmodeus sitting by a table, wearing tiny little glasses and reading a profane book. He snaps it shut and turns to look at you.
You can take this key and immediately go back to the cathedral or you can hit this button that kills one person but you gain 1 100,000 gold. (Hitting the button kills a teammate or the person who hits the button)
oh god oh fuck non-euclidean god meetings oh god oh fuck
And I will be stealing this
I don’t know why you didn’t roll those dex saves, the mind flayer could have made them all
DM: So the Mind Flayer activates Ultra instinct and dodges all those coins, taking zero damage. Thats what you get for using a save or suck spell, should have stuck with fireball.
Yeah, your right. It's only a 1/700 chance (at worse) of that happening. I'm sure the dm can beat those odds.
Edit: Wow, I was really off on the numbers. 1/700 is way to good for this odds.
@@MrWarriorace 1.427248e+195 in 1 chance of getting nat 1s on all of those. Doable.
@@MrWarriorace eh, its going to be wayyyyyy less likely than that. assuming a dc of 15, that means the mind flayer needs to roll 14 or higher per coin. so theres a 13/20 chance of missing so its actually 0.00000004422% chance of happening. assuming they evade all 50.
This is as opposed to 0.14% that you gave (1/700)
Now obviouly the mind flayer will be able to take some hits, but still its a lot to handle and basically not worth rolling
edit: ps im aware the mind flayer has advantage on savings throws, so instead of 13/20 for a roll, its roughly 5 less, so 8/20. either way. this isnt going to keep the mind flayer alive, still very much doomed
@@MrWarriorace to be fair, probability of 1 in 700 is 10 times higher than rolling 20 three times in a row, and many of us seen that happen. But the odds being 1 in 700 seems way too high. Even if we calculate it having 80% chance to pass each save, it ends up as 0.0015% (roughly 1 in 700 000).
Me making dnd characters: "hehe bird man cast fire ball"
SAME
Crossfire Hurricane!!!
@@danilocarvalho8419 Jojo reference
Mine is just “pop culture reference for brrr”
I like making low intelligence half orc barbarian girls obsessed with being a pretty princess
"You encounter a wizard. He casts a spell that turns you into a regular dude." There you go, problem solved.
Specifically, he casts True Polymorph to turn you into an average human.
@@evannibbe9375 but that can be fixed by dispel magic
@@unlimitedpower1385 not if the wizard casts no takie backsies
@@Steve-eq8iz aka counterspell.
@@unlimitedpower1385 i think you can clone yourself after true polymorph to remove that, or was it magic jar and clone? idk shenanigans are possible
Ironically this is how my last dm responded when I multiclassed rogue and barbarian to make a viking.
Like chill dude Im not tryna be half tarasque half dragon, I just want my orc to be a viking who has a will they/wont they with the local blacksmith
I opted for a shadow monk/rogue for a sort of mystical stealth assassin vibe. My DM refused to inform me that you can't teleport in the Dungeon of the Mad Mage.
I gotta know, your viking and the blacksmith: Did they?
@@kaldo_kaldo rip you my good friend
Some people think mutliclassing at all leads to this, and it's just not true.
I'm new to this, and I already don't like the idea of multiclassing. I feel like just doing that throws of the balance...
Wow, the last time I played a character with the haunted one background, I just burned down an orphanage.
Oh, i just played him as rouge with five other people inside his mind, he fervently believed them to be real but whether they truly were or not was up to the dm
I played a warlock who had killed themselves 4 times but came back each time due to their pact.
@@leahbeah1585 thats incredibly cool
These orphans are getting destroyed - Technoblade
Wtf jajaja i don't know if the background has something to do with hahahah
"I was basically a god before that but that doesn't matter much"
I loved that XD
My fellow players: "Hi, I'm Death Blood moon the 14th of the Silver Moon platoon and 12th in line for the Dunadine and the house of Gendor, what's your name?"
Me: "Bob"
I've made two long names in my time playing, one was a barbarian who had his clan and tribe attached to his name, the other however, was raised by hobgoblins, so his name was rank, name, banner, legion, and possibly some other stuff.
Don't remind me. We have a high elf wizard in one of our campaigns called Bob. We were coming up with names for our characters and his player couldn't think of one so I suggested Bob as a joke..... Joke's on me now. >:(
I made a human fighter called John Smith once:
Brown hair, brown eyes, plain features, no substantive mental qualities outside of charisma - strength and con were ok, but not amazing...
Also, I played Lawful Neutral, because his only thing he didn’t like doing was breaking the law because it was a hassle if you got caught.
Literally the most fun I’ve ever had playing the straight man in a crazy word surrounded by freaks and psychos.
@@Jabberwokee I played a Mike Normalson as a normal human / martial artist in Vampire.
I played Vun Lee Bartender in Flying Swordsmen....with a stunt dice He could make a hell of a cocktail.
i made a fallen aasimar wizard named Pigeon, so mundane name gang?
And its sequel: "players who make intentionally bad characters for 'character reasons' to the detriment of the party"
Honestly that sort of thing really depends on your party. I think there should be a nice in between; you should be able to make creative characters that aren’t perfect, and a little cheese with jankness here and there can be fun, but too bad or too good (unless the DM and the others at the table are on the same page) do make things less fun.
Following by the why they gm have now a list of things that not going happening in the game
@@kirstenc6221 I think you can have it any way but all party members should have more or less the same "power level". If you have on person going for optimal build while the other takes whatever they fancy for fluff, the latter will eventually feel useless/powerless. Also, the nightmare for DM o balance encounters: either the Optimizer steamrolls over everything or the Suboptimals get smashed. Played like this - never again.
It is possible ot have an optimized build with lots of character, but somehow they're often viewed as exclusive (hence: "I will not take the good trait because I am all about RoLePlAy" attitude). If you have an Optimizer in party, they will usually happily help others to build their fluffy chars in a way that works well mechanically at the same time. I play with someone who's really good at builds so I just say "hey, I want to do xyz" and he tells me my mechanical options. I get to play my dream whatever-it-was AND am more effective at that! Double fun.
@@CaliaShade at the end of the day, what matters is communication at the table. If a table has (an) optimizer/s, talking and figuring out what can be done is 100% a good idea! Though not every table is going to have that, so again, communication is key.
Me being a Ganzi Sorcerer- Ah yes I am a chaos child with no good offensive spells... I have a spell that makes me drunk, or hallucinate, or asleep..... Oh yes and spark, as the village is now on fire. Yes, and now sir, because you time traveled and split the timelines and now there's two of me, which makes you responsible for us both. Now Benrill the great has to deal with two Charzis, who I now refer to as "Thing one and thing two"... The best spell they have is snapdragon fireworks, and shield... They have the shapechanger bloodline, so honestly they're just trouble.
And there's me, a cleric so drunk that can't remember his deity. Beautiful
I fucking love this idea ahahaha
I like that bunches.
My first and current character is an artificer with an alcohol problem. We're in the underdark right now and my DM wants us to make wisdom saves before a long rest. I haven't been able to sleep properly with my -1 wisdom modifier. My warlock buddy had the idea of burning incense to keep his character grounded to avoid the disadvantage on the wisdom save. I asked the DM if I could get inhumanly wasted to try and sleep better. I figured I'd just collapse after a good hour of demolishing my liver. She wants me to make a constitution save. Im doing Chadaficer build so I have +3 con modifier.
Nat zero so I end up on a very smooth and solid 3. I am mythically fucked up from all the drinks I slayed and next session carries over into a boss fight. Which is pretty in line with how my character is meant to operate.
@@actualteddybear891 it's dope playing characters with alcohol problems. My PC's name comes from a local liquor similar to the tequila, and had the possibility to drink as much alcohol as he wanted and not getting wasted during daytime, but after 7 pm even a single drop of water would get him drunk af due to the plot. I didn't have any Stat penalization but were forced to take stupid decisions when drunk. My DM, in order to keep the things spicy, made me make a constitution roll to determine if my character drank anything due to being thirsty. It all depended on my impersonation on a super drunk guy, but it was fun.
English is not my first language, just in case.
Your god must be really loving to still give you a portion of his powers despite that 😂
@@verbfrombonsai8852 That's what the deity wanted
Bruh, I just realized my whole group is like green shirt guy.
my first troupe was like this. i can't play with them anymore since i try to run more story driven games vs dungeon crawls all the time. so my current troupe is much better.
Even in our homebrew GURPS my friends are like this.
@@igorvaz2164 holy shit, someone else who plays GURPS
"Unfortunately for you all, I'm too edgy."
Relatable
Goblin rogue who flings philters of love into the big bad’s mouth from the shadows, while the Druid stands in front of him using charm person is the only way to win
My characters be like “uh yeah he has a sword and yeah he stabs monsters for a living”
That's exactly my Blood Hunter's lore
Why is that just that one dude from castlevania
Nooooo don't do the murderhobo
@@jamesdosdall8391 It's not "murderhobo" if you do it as a job! Sounds like his character picks up the "hunt x" bounties, prepares properly, and turns in the ears (or whatever) at sufficiently regular intervals to keep his pockets nice and golden. You know... a park ranger! (The kind that specializes in removing invasive species)
So, a witcher?
Here's the thing with "half" characters getting all the traits of each half: if someone is only half aasimar or half kalashtar, would it not make sense that they would only get *half* the traits of each? Or even all the traits, but half as effective? Or even hardly any of the traits, because their lineage is too thin on both sides? I can see a half-aasimar essentially just being a slightly glowy human and a half kalashtar simply being a telepathic human. Not a super soldier with all the best bits of both.
Someone I know played a half-elf half-dwarf (a dwelf). He had all the WORST traits of both races rather than all the best. He was short, but not sturdy. Skinny, but not dextrous. Bearded, but not impressively bearded. He was weak, light-sensitive, and honestly a really lousy father to his adopted daughter (although I don't think that had anything to do with the race). I'm not sure why I brought it up, but I will say this: I'd rather play in a party with a dwelf than a kalashamar.
Your dwelf seems to be describing: a halfling.
@@phelps6205 Jesus fricking christ. Im dying. So true.
@@phelps6205 Should I make it canon in my homebrew setting that halflings are actually descended from dwelves? Probably not. Will I? Yes.
ExistentialOcto But consider this: You should
Yeah, I did this with a drow /tiefling character. They where basically just a drow but had the tieflings spells instead of the normal drow ones, and I got rid of the trance and natural perception proficiency feature since half-elves don't normally have access to those either.
“Sometimes simplicity is best” best way to describe an eldritch blast gattling warlock
He tried to achieve CHIM but zero-summed instead.
Destruction increased
All roads lead to Vivec.
Damn you, I was gonna make that joke.
that's exactly what i was thinking
He achieved N'wah
Jacob: "So the mindflayer has prisoners behind him.
Everyone: "Hmmmmm"
Me: "Welp it's up to God now, there's still a shit ton of coins that are going to make these people look like Al Pacino."
Half-aasimar half-kalashtar cheesemeister: "Had."
I was thinking the same thing. Dude just shotgunned Gold Coins in that direction XD
Yeah, thats the thing with catapult, if it doesnt hit the first target, those behind have to make saving throws until it hits something.
Id have called that the player targeted the mindflayer with all of the coins...whoopsiedoodle 😊
@@Awes0m3n3s5 no need to aim, just hit something and let the dice decide what/who got hit 🤣🤣🤣
Bro I made a Warforged Paladin who named himself the "potato guardian". He would go up too merchants selling potatoes and free them all from enslavement, and would use potatoes as a improvised long range attack by throwing them.
Sounds like an episode of that old Archie cartoon
My current characters backstory is “was a bear, now is an adventurer”
thats umm... cool. so much story as a DM i wouldn't ever have to create for this background character. shew.
Mine is a tiefling that was yeeted into a forest to hide her mother's affair with a demon, and got adopted by a bunch of travelling barbarians.
Abandon Human. Return to Bear.
Sounds like this Polish Solder
The tale of Sir Bearenstein?
Glyph of warding costs 200 gp to cast...
This seems awesome but he blew 10000 gp on this move + 50 gp for the coins.
And it was one mind flayer
All that for a single mind flayer overkill.
Also the glyphed item can't move more than 10 feet away from where it was cast so this doesn't actually work
@@VioletTentacles well he could maybe cast it while inside the bag of holding thusbcarring the location with him
@@feritperliare2890 I mean yeah but at that point it becomes a dm ruling on whether or not it counts and I would have to go with that it still counted as moving but that's just me
"Can I just help the people?"
"Yeh..."
"How many of those G-fuels have you drank"
"4"
No wonder he's so powerful
Pewdiepie Gfuels as well.
4? Must be 9am.
I think a classic "yes" meme would have enhanced the joke.
Yes.
How can you be half aasimar?
Just play aasimar.
The person has very diluted blood, so god decided to send one of his really shit angels who is there for guidance sometimes, but he usually just spends his time drinking and complaining on reddit.
I think Aasimar being a half-breed race without the "half" prefix is the joke.
Aasimar aren't even a normal race. If an aasimar mates with a human, elf, dwarf, half-elf, etc. the offspring will be whatever the other parent is, not half aasimar.
@@thewonderfullymadejaraid7015
Or aasimar with traits from the other parnet.
Like a teifling.
@@Zarsla I'm pretty sure there's a word for that
maybe half-aasimar?
no that can't be it
Unironically that plan with the gold coins was an awesome and watching something like that get animated would be a dream
"simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" - some greek philosopher dude
That’s why I play a human most times xD
@@sadisticsalmon7323 human fighters are honestly the best to play.
@@kelnhide hell yeah
Da Vinci: Apparently I'm greek now
@@gamechanger8908 that was unintentional but I'm leaving it because honestly I think it's funnier that way
Me being DM and a character: a wizard who stole scrolls from his college and is a bit too boastful.
My friends character: a undead human who came from a tribe of gnomes that saved him since he was attacking a goblin and is now seen as their chosen one, all while having amnesia an a backstory being slowly revealed to him, and who is also a blood hunter.
good. you as a character and dm should be way less important than the rest of the players. be important but not the show like the rest. no one likes watching the dm play with themselves during game time. its fucking boring as fuck and is as bad as when a dm lore dumps on people and all you wanted to know was the guys name you were talking to.
@@joshshin6819 that's what I go for; the player first, ever since I had a horrible DM that wanted us to "roleplay right" ever since then I wanted to be a player first type of DM.
I just find the contrast funny.
@@TheMrsmartass13 i hate the reversion of this. My first dnd game was 3 of us watching the DM power up his character at lvl 1 while the rest of us doted a long like lost puppies with basic gear.
His big story reveals were about his character so anytime they dropped we were all like...oh. So why are we here?
It got so bad that 2 of us walked away from the table to play Castlevania on the ps1 and said when ever you are ready to include the rest of us in your story let us know and we will play.
I used to DM for a group of 5 who were only ever about combat and only rarely interacted with the story despite my best efforts. They could never make a decision and nothing ever happened if one of my characters wasn't involved. It was frustrating as hell.
When he faded out of existence, my sides actually left me. I was enjoying the skit, but that moment I lost it- well played. Earned a subscriber.
Sounds like everyone one in the comments want to be Aang and no one is willing to be Sokka.
Sokka dated a moon spirit. Can anyone say the same?
I don't know why not; Sokka got to experience the entire ascension of the Avatar, saw the world, dated quite a few lovely ladies, became a master tactician, assisted in the invention of several world-shaping devices, learned one of the secret arts of the Fire Nation while at war with them, kept up with several benders despite having no bending ability or real talent for kung-fu style fighting, and befriended several powerful members of nobility and underground influence by the time the war with the Fire Nation ended, all in the span of one year. He literally became a Level 20 character after starting the series as a Level 1 Commoner.
@@casono Sokka is basically the new-to-DnD guy who created a Fighter at the beginning. Tried to act serious and all, what with his "must defend home" thing. As the story took off he got more comfortable RPing and the DM liked it so he kept getting him into more zany adventures until he ends up dating a literal Goddess.
Sokka actually has way more going on than Aang over all.
During the first episodes he has his self-appointed duty towards his community, throughout the series he has his occasionally rocky relationship with his sister, severe daddy issues, an inferiority complex due to being the only non-Bender in the group prior to Sugi joining, a second, lesser inferiority complex concerning his martial abilities due to being left behind at the village by the raiding party as a kid, two romantic relationships, one of which fails spectacularly when the girl becomes the moon by the end of the first season, a full arc of self discovery without any ancient spirits or sages or animal companions to help him out and he uses humour to cover up his insecurities. On top of all of the he is probably the most intelligent and tactically minded member of Team Avatar.
@@PhileasLiebmann imagine how worse the show would be without him
"I feel no compassion for the dead - they're the lucky ones!"
lol!
Says a hollow one
Simplicity is good. One of my favourite characters I played was a gnome druid who just kind of forgot where his home was and wants to figure it out.
The Feywild does awful things to your memory.
You should get on the writing team for game of thrones
meanwhile my fighter: Hey I'ma drink this haste potion and use all my actions surges in one turn okay?
Can you use multiple action surges in one round? I never considered that
@@NaskaRudd You can't.
@@NaskaRudd depends on the dm. An action surge is at will.
@@MsLielani "Starting at 17th level, you can use it twice before a rest, but only once on the same turn."
@@sunname6252 dm is God
Gendor is the greatest bootleg LotR kingdom ever.
Remember how Jacob’s older videos gave you actual tangible advice on these things instead of just being skits.
To be fair the skits are still amazing and admittedly some of them still do have a message in them, too, but I do kind of miss this.
His character would actually be pretty sub-optimal. This video should really be called: "players who make edgy characters."
i think it's "players who try to make overpowered characters." making characters overpowered just requires you to know which options to pick, but this guy was clearly meant to not be very knowledgeable about the game (reading the Haunted One description word-for-word) and just crammed together every single option he saw and thought "that's overpowered!" his character wasn't actually overpowered, he tried too hard to make it so, and ended up with a mess of a character that even he didn't know how to play
Ackshually
yea its not like hes a hexblade/shadow sorcerer
@@user-ut5ki2fi6b Lol I try not to be that guy but I always end up saying "actually" more than I'd like
Abserd
I like making powerful characters, but they MUST have some weakness.
But only if that weakness is phycik damage
They're asthmatic for a weakness
@@tatersalad76 Gro'thnar the Barbarian. Invincible in combat, yet crippled by a brisk walk.
His character did have a weakness it was he incapable of making his own decisions
SAME
"Look, it's just my personality"
“I now understand Adventurer’s League” That killed me XD
EDIT: A thousand likes in six hours? Thank you all so much! ^w^
Yeah, that was my experience in AL, just everyone throwing every new build they found at the wall until it breaks from the sheer weight of everyone's bullshit.
@@CartmanTuttle as player of 3.5, it's either all of them or none of them lol
I understood that too when a player asked to be a vampire human devil angel hybrid with a bonus to pretty much every stat, had +3's to abs'. Everyone felt really useful in that party when they were outdone in every skill and check by a character that couldn't be bothered doing anything because of how edgy they were.
AL is literally the only place where YOU decide how strong your character is and what classes he takes. I can't imagine asking your DM if you can multiclass or bickering with your team who gets the item. AL is fair.
that is one of my favorite lines
I love people with goblin characters that have the simplest of backstories.
I even made one where his entire backstory was "he liked a tree so much that when it was cut down, he was exiled from his home for stealing all the cookies."
...I like this backstory descripton, but I'm not connecting the tree with the cookies.
Did he steal the cookies because the tree was cut down? Did they make the cookies using wood from his beloved tree, and so he stole the cookies so that he'd have something left that was caused by the tree's existence? I'm confused. :P
...I like this backstory descripton, but I'm not connecting the tree with the cookies.
Did he steal the cookies because the tree was cut down? Did they make the cookies using wood from his beloved tree, and so he stole the cookies so that he'd have something left that was caused by the tree's existence? I'm confused. :P
@@EG-cm5th you're confused because you're not thinking like a goblin.
@@ezotheripe7340 LOL
@@EG-cm5th you ever hear of people eating ice cream when they're sad?
I like how he reads his written character traits as answers to a question
Kalashtar: Totem of the Bear Barbarian, Circle of the Moon Druid, turn into a Bear for themes, and you can be a bear resistant to all damage, if that bear dies, you then turn back into a barbarian that is resistant to all dance, which could choose to turn back into a bear a bear on your turn, and repeat the cycle, and this is all only at level 5
Or alternatively, Goliath Bear Barbarian with Bolt and Tackle. At lvl 20 you can carry 15×2×2×4×24=5760 lb. Or push 11,520 lb.
At this point, you should be able to go to the lich's tower and push it down. Traps cant work if the entire building is now a wall.
@@carpedm9846 lol true, you can get get a lot of different things depending how far you plan on taking each level for the classes but if you focus on barbarian, choosing Totem of the Elk at 6th level will double your walking speed and your party, and at higher levels choosing Totem of the Eagle will give you a flying speed equal to your walking speed, so you can be a super fast flying bear that takes half damage to everything
@@heroofmajora9986 Elk totem at 6 increases your *travel* pace. Not your walking speed. It has no in combat effect whatsoever
@@adamkaris Oh yeah, thats right, i forgot it wasnt walking speed too, Thanks for the reminder! in that case going bear again would increase your strength more, so you could also go the goliath route and just become a living bulldozer! anyone else got a good race combo other, for either side of the classes?
The mighty Bearbearearn will never die!
The gold coins ricochet around the room collapsing the ceiling and rocks above the celling fall on everyone end of campaign.
Whereas I want to play a Space Clown in Spelljammer that is just a typical clown with sorcerer spells that reflect that but also happens to be a chaotic evil cannibal, or a Space Clown bank robber like the heisters in PayDay
Half elf gunslinger, and half every other race hehehe
Then it's not half.
@@kingdonut8272 I know, I'm just messing about. I like homebrew stuff, just because it adds more to the game, but sometimes people don't check to see if its balanced and it ends up being super busted.
That was a fun party!
@@jakespruce1459
“I’m half-vuman and 1/50 Loxodon, 1/50 Half-Orc, 1/50 Aasimar... aaaand finally 1/50 Locathah”
@@saintpoli6800 Ah yes of course.
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Alright, sorry, but my Wizard about to steal this idea.
Your wizard has over 10000 gp lying around?
Don't. Glyph of Warding blatantly states that if the surface the spell is cast on moves more than 10 feet while holding the glyph, the effect is dispelled. No turbobombs for you mate, sorry.
@@AnotherVexium BUT it is in a bag of holding, which does create a pocket dimension...inside the bag. So technically the comments aren't moving.
@@weebwhacker6217 Right. So in order for this to work, you'd have to cast it from WITHIN the bag as the location that the spell was cast in wouldn't change (being a pocket dimension) which is doable by the BOH's description of being 4 ft deep/64 cubic feet. Ideal if you are one of the shorter races, but still doable for those taller when you cast enlarge/reduce on yourself first since Glyph of Warding doesn't require concentration.
Looking at catapult's description though, it does mention that the objects in question can't be worn or carried. The DM may argue that you are carrying the coins in your bag of holding but my opinion/thought on that is that the BOH is merely an entry point to the extra dimensional space which is it's own location by itself. It's like a portable door that always leads to the same storage unit, it just FEELS like a really deep bag because you aren't able to access this storage unit through any other means other than opening it to get there so you just think of it as the inside of the bag.
The icing on top of this filthy cake is that since the spell glyph requires you to use 2 spell slots for each casting (the Glyph of Warding AND the spell you want stored on the coin), you could choose to up-cast each instance of catapult at 3rd level instead of 1st since that's the GOW's base level limit for the pairing and get an extra 2d8 on each of the coins, upgrading this combo from the original 150d8 damage (3d8 * 50) to 250d8 damage (5d8 * 50) and that's not even talking about how you can choose to up-cast the glyph spell to a higher level itself and increase the spell slot level you can cast to go up to maybe an 8th level catapult at most?
If you were an evocation wizard specialist that was at least level 14, you could use your overchannel ability, cast catapult at a 5th level and should a coin hit the target, it will always do max damage 7d8 (56) per coin to a max of 2800 damage should every save be failed for all 50 coins (cut to the opening scene from Robo Cop) . Paralyze, petrify, stun or knock someone unconscious for that
If you were an Order of Scribes Wizard (Tasha's Cauldron of Everything) you could change the damage type of the spell based on the damage type you might need at the time.
The funds/resources to do this could still be a hassle to acquire depending on the DM and campaign setting but this is still a really neat idea to try and pull off.
@@sh0gan914 Nah.. I would never permit this on RAW. I can't imagine why anyone would consider this neat or fun and besides, if such exploit nonsense was available to the player then it will also be available to the players adversaries.
"Now I understand Adventures League" Thank you acknowledging that AL is a great place for new players and new DMs to get started because it makes a lot of the really complicated and/or super powerful stuff impossible to play. Meaning it makes the game feel for balanced for everyone.
"Now I understand Adventures League."
Not gonna lie, if I ever play a high level character I'm gonna steal that gold glyph bag of holding minigun trick
Yeah.....it wouldn't work because if you move the glyph farther 10 feet away from where it was cast the glyph is broken...there's not really a way around it, because the inside of the bag of holding is a different dimension so once you drop a coin inside, the spell is broken. If you stipulated that it's still in the same reality, then once you move it further than 10 feet, the spell is broken. Even if you jump inside the bag of holding to cast the spell (thus not moving the item further than 10 feet away from where you cast it), once you've removed the coin it would be farther than 10 feet away from where you cast it......and the spell would be broken.....he also got the rules for Catapult wrong.
@@devildham And the bag of holding only has 10 minutes of air in it. And the spell takes an hour to cast. So you suffocate well over half an hour before the spell is done
@@devildham Ehh, restrictions on movement in dnd always refer specifically to using movement. As in like a character's speed, if the object or person themselves are not actually moving a square, it doesn't count as movement. And last I checked, dimension hopping doesn't inherently use up movement.
Actually, it wouldn't work for several reasons. Both how glyph of warding and catapult are written prevents this.
@@devildham the spell wouldn’t break once dropped into the bag though. Cast the spell near the bag then put the coin in the bag. The coin hasn’t moved 10 feet away from where the spell was cast, it’s only been moved a few feet at most.
When making a character, I generally start with one trait about myself, crank it to eleven, and then build a personality around that one thing. Slowly, it just writes itself until there's a whole character, at which point I just fill out the sheet.
I'm a half-Aasimar, half-Tiefling, half-Dragonborn, half-Aarakocra raven who looks human, but has black wings, golden draconic eyes, has the power to transform, has lycanthropy, siphons soul energy like a vampire, and-
Wait... why did my character suddenly explode? Was he not *enough* of a hybrid?
But it’s so much fun to make a character that can just pop baddies
Especially when they don’t know that they’re minmaxed and are then horrified
“Unfortunly im to edgy” im dying!
Other Pcs: big elaborate backstory and character motivations
Me and my dwarf barbarian:hehe gonna whap em with my club
edit: thanks for all the likes dudes also fyi my character does have a pretty in depth get simple backstory it's just when it comes to the combat nothing beats a good Whappin!
Barbarian is for when you can't be bothered coming up with a complicated backstory and just want to smash face.
@@Icipher353 Yasha would like to speak with you.
Nono Orc Barbarian
The only complicated thing about Yasha is the insane amount of takes on what the fuck she looks like. Her backstory is plenty simple. Heartfelt and well done, for sure, but simple nonetheless.
@@JayfroC as this video says, simple can be good, Yashas backstory is unique compared to a lot of barbarians.
Look man, I roll threes on a good day. I need that powerful character just to balance it out.
@@alexanderthompson7164 Or roll low for the entirety of combat and roll an 18 afterwards for eating a pine cone.
This is honestly great character development for an edgelord. Eventually their own edge was their hubris and they edged out of existence. Reminds me a little of how Ungoliant ate herself.
Last time I was this early the bard was a roleplaying option for other classes.
I was actually thinking of a Skald character who was just a fighter or barbarian but sang ballads about the party's exploits. I'm sure you could just do that.
This is actually my reason for somewhat disliking bards. They’d be cooler to me if the class was something like “magic college graduate.” As is, it feels like the game is trying to say “this class only for entertainers backgrounds!”
Rogue is a bit better. They’re sort of tied to criminal backgrounds, but so many other archetypes exist.
@@skycastrum5803 I don’t think bards are tied to entertainer backgrounds. It’s all backstory. My most recent bard had the acolyte background, as he was in training to be a paladin, but decided to leave the church and pursue music, much to his parents’ dismay.
Another bard I played was basically just a farm girl with a flute. She didn’t have the entertainer background either.
A bard could also have the soldier background, but have left the military life behind. Or, since bards don’t have to be young, they could have the sage background and love to sing and dance, so they became a bard.
@@willieearles3151 It's not so much the mechanical background (what you write on the character sheet) as entertainer in general. Bards are pretty much always tied to music. Rare exceptions will be dancers, or some other form of entertainment.
It still is. One of my players is a rogue/wizard multiclass, but in character he is an aspiring young bard, as in, musician.
DM : How edgy is your character's backstory?
Player : Yes
The character sheet gives paper cuts, from the flat part.
"I was listening to this dude's music while writing it--this Travis Savoie guy. IDK but now my Rime of the Frostmaiden character is irredeemably edgy but also epic."
“I’m an alien robot possessed by the soul of a U-boat built by Nazis on the moon who was sucked through a black hole after a plucky American teen and his hot older girlfriend destroyed the moonbase in the 1960’s, who then found himself crashing headfirst from orbit into an elder mage in the forgotten realms who just happened to be casting a memory destroying spell, so now he remembers nothing of his backstory other than that he is a robot and he hates teenagers.”
This is why all my characters recently have been human Warriors with both parents alive coming from a very loving supporting household, fantasy at its finest.
How unrealistic.
@@spikem5950 but so much better than the I lost my parents and I have a huge trauma and anger issues
@@rockxion But that's the realistic backstory!
@@spikem5950 not exactly stereotype yes, but never realistic we are talking about a world with gods and dragons, the background of my parents are farmers but I'm the descendant of a lost hero it's plausible, also my uncle bought my a sword turns out I'm really good using it so I will become an adventurer can be possible and realistic as well. A magician in his 80's loves to read books and now wants to go on adventures tu find new kinds of magic and knowledge before dying also realistic
@@spikem5950 and I can go on with a lot of examples of realistic and more "boring" backstories. Can be good without being such a drama queen
Tasha's caldron of everything is going to wreck your day
Quick, someone tell this poor soul that the book contains optional rules that they don't have to use! It's not like we haven't all been told that 599 times.
Quick, someone tell this poor soul what a joke is
All the rules are optional if you want them to be. But if you believe the Ilusion that they are optional go look at the CF that is Adventures League season 10. They went even further.
Not gonna lie, I thought this video was exclusively clowning on Tasha's
Tasha's custom lineage is just human variant with darkvision you don't get a bunch of abilities.
Me before watching the video: I bet the example character breaks so many rules
Me after watching the video: I think Catapult's damage is the only rule that was actually followed
Remember, DMs, don't blame a player for powergaming if you say "yes" whenever they want to "homebrew" in a super OP way
Character has:
-Half races, definitely homebrew for 5e
-Hallow One boon, explicitly DM-given
Setup has:
-Glyph of Warding: requires 200gp of incense and diamond dust per cast, which would be on the DM for giving that PC a way to get not only 10k gold, but a means by which to buy all that incense and diamond dust
-Again, Glyph of Warding. Even if one is generous and doesn't count plane shifting (putting in the bag of holding) as "moving more than ten feet from where you cast this spell," the instant the coins re-enter the prime material plane more than ten feet from that spot, the glyph is 100% broken.
Yep. The DM is responsible for this madness. Multiclassing is fine (but an optional rule), but half-races? A boon (which he was given by the DM)?
@@godminnette2 In addition, the spell targets the one who triggered the glyph of warding, so all of the coins should be targeting the person pulling the bag inside out.
@@adrianroed2178 Or at least half of them. Since he likely only glyphed one side of the coins as they flip into the air from the bag, so statically half of them would be facing him. Make him roll 25 dex saves and instantly splatter him on the first failed. (Even though you would only get the 3d8 on a failed save so you would need to count the number of fails then adjust damage, but probably more than his character can likely handle.) But as Godminnette2 said, the spell is invalid after moving ten feet.
@@neerdowell6687 The 10 feet rule doesn't matter if they were inside a bag of holding, as the inside of the bag is on the ethereal plane and does not move. The problem is that putting a glyph into or removing it from the bag will move it more than 10 feet, so for this to work you need to inscribe the glyph inside the bag and trigger the glyph inside the bag.
When a glyph is triggered, the spell it holds will always target the creature that triggers it, and since the glyph can't trigger after leaving the bag the only creature it could target would be the one attempting to remove it from the bag.
Fun trivia fact this man spent 15000 on 1 mindflayer
The GM’s fearful ‘What’ had me busting up laughing.
Loved this.
I assume this advice comes from Pitch Meetings? :D
@@hugotrojanovsky7667 Pitch meetings is the most recent place I saw it, but I also know someone who does other D&D skits in their intros, and that was a trick they used. It seems like it's good info that's getting out there!
And then there's me, playing a Swashbuckler Rouge and a Battle Master Fighter at the same time. Wearing magical plate armor and basically being a dodge tank.
He was a fun character to play, cracked jokes at everything, his main flaw was that he didn't take anything seriously, had a hatred for magic wielders because they seemed to make things too easy, and despite being a rouge, didn't sneak at all.
Had an ego more massive than the sun and basically wielded a light saber (Sun blade). Literally everyone was just baffled at this combination, and I made the character work somehow and people actually liked him.
Oh I was just listening to arcane arcade and I see this pop up nice
You can't move glyphed items more than 10 feet without the glyph disappearing. Maybe a DM might allow a bag of holding being carried around to not count as "moving", but I would consider that moving.
It's in an extradimensional space so it wouldn't be moving. However if the Glyph was taken out of the bag it's new position might then cause it to dispel. In this example, the spells shot out of the bag like shooting through a portal
@@elf-lordsfriarofthemeadowl2039 something to consider is the interior of the bag is 64 cubic feet ish so moving inside the bag is a risk, and then moving outside the bag will most probably be more than 10 feet dispelling the magic
@@kendaar9002 thats only a 8 foot square room. i don't really think that would be a problem
@@elf-lordsfriarofthemeadowl2039 Well he described turning the bag inside out to empty them from the bag. Maybe if you count the inside of the bag as the original casting location? Not sure how to judge distance from inside-of-bag to outside-of-bag with it technically being two different planes. Maybe you trick an enemy into looking into the bag? 😂
@@myrz1551 it’s actually a 4 foot square room. It should be impossible for them to move too much while in the bag.
My character kind of has this type of edgelord background with a lot of details, but the empire he served was destroyed by a demon and all of it means basically nothing, so when he walks up to someone and says "HOW DARE YOU SPEAK THAT WAY TO AN INQUISITOR OF THE VALE EMPIRE!" everyone just goes "The _what_ empire?" and then he starts crying inside.
It's actually really fun because the rest of the party are a bunch of goofs with him being the only serious character, and his seriousness is constantly undercut by him being a wandering Crown Paladin with no crown to serve and no empire to protect, so he's a literal Hobo Knight who goes around shoving the doctrine of a dead empire down everyone's throat with everyone telling him to shut up and stop being such a mudstick.
My group loves it. One of them compared him to the President from Rick and Morty. Always trying to be the baddest ass in the room, but constantly getting pantsed.
"What are you playing again?"
Me:".....Vedalkin Loremaster wizard with a Mizzium Apparatus?"
*screams as the Dm throws me into the sun*
I'm taking that a step further on a westmarches ghetsalt discord server. 20 levels in wild Magic Sorcerer/at least 1 level in every other spell casting class in the game, and a Mizzum Apparatus. DMs would literally kill me if I decided to grab expertise in Arcana.
I guess good thing this is a meme build.
@@alexbarrett2984 Lol idk much about ghestalt, but as a wild magic sorcerer try to get a fey wild shard. Makes it so you get a wild magic surge every time you use a metamagic for maximum meme
@@mindlessscientist3772 That sounds perfect. I am building this character to be the literal embodiment of magical chaos, so that totally fits the theme.
not nearly as bad a reaction when I look up with puppy dog eyes at my DM.... "A psion?" REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
@@Belthazar1113 Lol I really wish they would have done a proper, non-op version of the mystic. Did ypu mean the Kibblestasty homebrew psion class? Good possible replacement for mystic if you didn't mean that and wanna look at it
.... I can’t help but feel the child of an aasimar would just be a divine soul sorcerer
why? they are quarter angel. they could be pretty much anything. thats like saying a child of a tiefling would be a warlock automatically because the child woke up one day, took a shit and made a pact with some other worldly being.
@@joshshin6819 do you even know what a sorcerer is?
I just want to compliment the tattoo, its such a unique idea that really embodies how d&d feels. Its just a dice game but there's so much too each campaign and those dice really do feel like a weapon.
This is what being a dm felt like the first time I did it
Shit, I wish any of my players my first time gave half this much of a fuck about their character creation.