New Feats in Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos | Nerd Immersion
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Strixhaven: A Curriculum introduces two new feats: Strixhaven Initiate and Strixhaven Mascot. While they're both specific to the Strixhaven setting, I do think they could be used in any game. They also set a new standard for "branching feats" as well as showing us what a future updated Magic Initiate will most likely look like.
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I have a Fighter in the party who's backstory is that he went to wizard school but failed out so he became a fighter instead (Rune Knight.) This is just perfect for him. Think we'll be rebuilding his background.
Damn he couldn’t even be an Eldritch knight? He truly is a dummy lol
@@TVMAN1997 Don't think you need to call him a dummy. He went the way he went. There is nothing wrong with his character.
@@BrianGeringer
I didn’t realized you were talking about your own personal character
Now I am the dummy and meanie
How the turntables
@@BrianGeringer I believe he is talking about the character being a dummy not the actual person playing the character.
@@TVMAN1997 I believe he thinks you were talking about the actual person playing the character and I also have no clue where you got the ideal that he was talking about his own personal character, its one of his players. The amount of misunderstanding between you two is almost comical.
The really cool bit with the fractal familiar is that a Chainlock can get the investment of the chain master invocation, which gives families a flying speed, meaning that your level four character could have a huge flying mount
as a DM I might specify that you would have your "warlock familiar" and your "feat familiar" because yeah that isn't happening unless I make a higher level magic item
@@kitnal4143 RAW you're fine, but as a DM you're fine to make any adjustments you want. What do you think is so dangerous about it though? I mean everyone and their mom gets flight these days. Just one level later the warlock gets the fly spell, and two levels later the genie gets free flight. Not to mention there's plenty of flying races these days.
@@rdchris6556 multiple people being able to ride a flying creature is a lot. the Fly spell is concentration and singular. most DM's agree races that fly are extremely powerful as well. Flying is just powerful, granting that to multiple people at once is also very powerful- although it would make travel fun.
@@kitnal4143 I just don't really see it that way since 1.) It's really easy to either send flying enemies (like stirges, vultures, etc) 2.) It's really easy to give enemies ranged attacks 3.) If everyone already can get flight super easy, then it's not a big deal
4.) Also just cuz the part can all fit on the familiar doesn't mean the familiar can carry all them. Carrying capacity still applies to creatures
@@rdchris6556 ah I don't use carrying capacity in my games because it sucks to play with, I just use common sense with it. I also don't like choosing enemies to counter players, the story comes first and if that means they see fighting fire elementals I won't pop a skeleton to do range attack. Also I don't agree that flight is "easy" for most PCs. Fly spell has many disadvantages. The only other option is two races?
I really hope you could get Shillelagh using this feat. I guess people will continue multiclassing into hexblade for that sweet charisma mod
I would love to see more feats that are directly connected, I loved that in 3/3.5. It's also nice to see some buffer familiars.
Rogue with the mascot feat and the inkling familiar could actually be nuts. Both you and it can Stealth, you can swap places, you can always see from it's eyes with blindsight and it can blind things which means you can get sneak attacks
So I go to a gnome/halfling/goblin lorehold cavalier fighter riding on the statue. I think that would be fun.
Spirit statue familiar has proficiency in history and arcana, and can talk.
There’s some oddness with the art elemental mascot’s death burst and what happens to a familiar when it gets to 0 hit points. Familiars don’t actually die when get to 0 hit points, and instead disappear back whatever dimension they came from. The death burst specifies that it occurred when the mascot dies. So, your familiar would never really die, and the death burst would thus never occur. Is that the intention? Perhaps the wording on the death burst should reflect the mascot going to zero hit points rather than it specifying it dying.
familiars can die from things like Power word kill, since in Pok, hit points aren't part of the equation, they just die, so it could work then
@@bleddynwolf8463 I mean… sure, but I don’t think the intent is for the death burst ability to come into play when an NPC uses a 9th level spell to target just your familiar. I suspect that when designing familiars for players to use, they wanted the abilities to be used with some frequency. But then they just word it poorly so that by RAW, it doesn’t work. I think most people will use the RAI, but there will be those tables that prefer RAW.
@@Negeta yeah, i just find it funny, like the lich casts PoK, and the art elemental just goes Splut
the fractal mascot can stay INSIDE people unlimited and objects temporarily. it'll take damage if it ends it's turn inside an object, but isn't shunned out.
With everything I’ve seen from SCoC, Quandrix has consistently become my favorite college. Their theme really appeals to me with the whole mathematics/physics vibe and connecting that to nature. Their signature spell, Vortex Warp, is the coolest one in my opinion for what it offers as a tactics or problem-solving utility spell. Their Strixhaven Initiate spell options are really nice, and the Quandrix Student spell list is fantastic with Enlarge/Reduce and Haste, etc. The Fractal Mascot seems like an amazing utility option despite not having flight; it’s bulky, can become Huge (Gargantuan if you have Enlarge/Reduce), can have advantage on attacks that deal force damage, and can go through walls and then be teleported with. Even the UA subclass was really up to my taste. Building a tactician / problem solving wizard, bard or sorcerer seems extremely feasible with everything this college has to offer!
Inkling gives me Morph from Treasure Planet vibes.
Life Cleric + Witherbloom Background to get Goodberry is AMAZING!
Notice that the Strixhaven Mascot feat does -not- use the same language as the Pact of the Chain feature:
"When you cast the spell, you can choose one of the normal forms for your familiar or one of the following special forms: blah blah"
It simply says, "Your familiar can take the form of the mascot associated with the college you chose for the Strixhaven Initiate feat: blah blah".
A DM may interpret it more broadly, but you should have that conversation.
but whats the difference, like, linguisticly, their identical
@@bleddynwolf8463 They are different in that the Pact of the Chain ability allows you to choose "one of the normal forms for your familiar", the Strixhaven Mascot feat is missing that inclusion.
Some people may assume that is implicit or included... but that's only an assumption. They're just reading what they want to be there, but isn't. A conversation with your DM is likely in order.
@@OrbitalBliss are you aware of how the word "can" works. "your familiar can take..." is synonymous with "may". if it was what you're implying it would say "your familiar must take..." but it doesn't
@@bleddynwolf8463 Yeah, i'm aware. Also aware of how they word all the rules in this game. You can agrue it all you'd like, you'll still be wrong.
@@OrbitalBliss ok, i still don't like understand your thought process at all, and you haven't explained why i'm wrong, just that i am.
HUGE love for the fractal mascot! 😆
Mutliattack, familiars, fighter, distance... improving Arcane Archer?
Man...the pest got nerfed. In MTG it was weak but you gained a life when it died. It should have had a "death burst" to heal its master or an ally, in addition to the climb speed and a better option for damage output.
Fractal and inkling are both really cool though. The elemental should have given a bonus to damage spells cast through it.
This ain mtg though, and healing self for a first level spell plus damage and utility is really strong.
@@orionar2461 but you can't get the pest until 4th level. A high roll on damage takes it out for the day. And at 5th Fireball becomes a thing you have to watch out for, especially in a Strixhaven game.
@@johnquiett1085 its the same for the other strix familiars, so I dont know why you complain about this one specifically
Hey Ted, X/Day on monster stat blocks means a special ability can be used X number of times before a monster must finish a long rest to regain expended uses (in the Monster Manual introduction and explantion on how to read stat blocks). It's not a mistake.
Yeah, basically "X/Long Rest" is for players "X/Day" is for Monsters.
The Statue ability can stack with Guidance and can be used within 10 minutes. It also has some pretty decent int stats.
Iirc with size comes extra carryweight. You could use it not only as ride but also as Beast of burden for a carriage.
Sadly you can only deliver touch spells and not cantrips. Shocking touch would be so cool.
Cantrips are spells. When a rule mentions casting a spell as a trigger or prerequisite, a cantrip counts towards that unless a specific spell level is mentioned.
@@NRMRKL Realy? Neat!
So would a Strxhaven student who is an Echo Knight be really broken? (I know of one DM who has banned the Echo Knight because he feels it is too strong. This mascot ability seems like it would make an Echo Knight even stronger, by having the mascot fly somewhere out of reach, switch places then summon an "echo" to do all the fighting.)
You already do that with echo tho. Since it can move ANY direction means it can "fly"
@@The_Yukki right, but your Echo Knight cannot so it is harder to put its "real body" in a safe location, which this would allow.
@@BLynn you put your echo on let's say a roof, then swap places with it.
Banned the echo knight? Why that. I mean i understand chronurgist, twilight and the other tashas domain, but echo knight?
@@CaitSith87 If you're referring to the fighter subclass from Tasha's, then you are thinking of the Psi Knight, the Echo Knight is from the Explorer's Guide to Wildmount book WOTC made in partnership with Critical Role, and it can get quite ridiculous depending on the creativity of the player.
Hmmm. The Pest combos really well with Vampiric Touch.
Would have been nice if witherbloom was druid or warlock list, but these feats are pretty powerful, so I'm not sure I'll be needing to worry about them in any of my games.
Since Witherbloom is connected to necromancy, I think they went with wizard rather than warlock, but I agree... it would have been nice to have at least one with the warlock spell list
@@andrewduncan2258 I understand this isn't magic, but in Strixhaven, each other had a specific spellcaster type tied to it. White - Cleric, Black - Warlock, Blue - Wizard, Red - Shaman, Green - Druid. And since Witherbloom is BG, I do think warlock would have been nice. But I get your point.
what the bonus of the fractal mascot becoming huge? how about we combine it with the mounted combatant feat. advantage on all attacks against creatures smaller then huge with a mount that you can take anywhere. (honestly i kind of what to play this arcane cavalry)
Honestly a standard Owl familiar is probably better than both the Statue and the Pest mascot
wish we got more feats and spells tho but the abilities of the familiars work well vampiric touch on pest could be used to heal yourself or ride a fractal so wish we got more but these familiars are fun
That blind sight is op. Screw ambushing the party I guess
COULDN’T YOU RIDE THE FRACTAL MASCOT?!?!
None are worth taking two feats but if your dm gives you a free one at lvl one or something quandrix and silvirquill are worth it.
Feat trees are great fun and make for an interesting specialization option, instead of the current often boring cherry picking that's in line with the whole "everyone is awesome" approach the 5e has.
anything bigger than 2 would be too long for 5e due to how few feats a character can have in 5e
We've played around with feat trees in our home brew already. One of them has to do with two-weapon fighting to actually make that a viable option. But I like them. I agree that you don't want to go too deep with them because you only get so many feats, but I think they can be really interesting if they can be additive to mimic specialization.
Loving the hat looks good.
These are fun options for warlocks and eldritch knights.
Fractals can stay inside a creature, this is very good to rogues!
It's weird that some of the feats give you access to cleric spells considering cleric was the only full caster not featured in the UA
In the magic set, but Silverquill and Lorehold both have a lot of clerics. I think the reason it wasn't included was because cleric subclass abilities are very specific when compared to other classes (channel divinity, divine strike).
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you can ride the fractal one
In under 20 min XD
2d4 is objectively superior to 1d6. You're doing nearly 50% more damage, doing it more consistently, and with a higher minimum.
But which caracter has a worse attack then 2d4? So who would ever use that? Even cantrips do significantly more damage. Maybe not bard but as he first needs the iniate feat he probably could have gotten a ok cantrip.
@@CaitSith87 2d4 is still objectively better than a d8 . 5 avg dmg with a min of 2 and more consistent vs 4.5 avg dmg and min of 1. If your character uses a long sword, they're doing worse base damage.
@@IronicCliche but in case of a weapon its not only d8. You also add the dex or str modifier. So that would be 3.5+3 (minimum i imagine at level 4) not to mention in case of other damage feats. (Sharp shooter, great weapon master, later magical weapons….)
Even a wizard does 6.5 at 4th level with toll the dead and 13 at level 5. as this feat can‘t be taken before level 4 at the earliest. I would even argue almost no class gets enough asi to get this feat at 4. For example as a wizard you want more intelligence cause your to hit increases by 5%, skills and you get another additional spell known. So if you get this feat at level 12 the damage is so bad you should probably do something else with your action?
@@CaitSith87 that's a perfectly fair point. I was speaking more in the broad sense, but the details of the feat do seem to be where the problems lie.
14:30 call me nitpicking but why did mtg take something so specific for a mascot and then didn’t even google what it means?
Hear i now for the fourth time and still annoys me. Weird work ethics.
This book left so much to be desired. It’s a magic school, where are all of the new magic spells, items, and feats? I’m sure the Hogwa… Strixhaven story is good but this seems a little light on options for a whole setting of magic…
Man the power creep is getting out of control