INFINITE XP IN D&D
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- ↓ My D&D Homebrew Packs! ↓
/ blainesimple
⚬ Music Used
TheFatRat & JJD - Prelude (VIP Edit)
Sans. by Toby Fox
Cautious Hero - Bustling town
Cautious Hero - In the shop
Cautious Hero - Easygoing
Cautious Hero - At leisure
Subscribe or the crabs will outnumber us. We need everyone on deck to fight!
Also BIG number error: We only need 355,000 XP to reach level 20. That means we only need to murder 35,500 crabs. The future's looking bright!
Ok
BLUEGA CHAKA CRAB GANG
The crabs are coming!
But what if no
ok aye aye sir
DM: "What does your character like?"
Me: "Her cats, she's kind of a crazy cat lady."
DM: "Ok cool, what's their motivation."
Me: "Infinite xp."
DM: "..."
You: "Emphasis on crazy."
DM: ok so now i've decided cats and crabs give no exp
@@baxter4486 lmao exactly i have run every game with my brother that always comes in to it trying to "break" my game hes told me this to my face. so when he trys bull shit i ex machina that shit fast lol,,, its like my own little war of escalation
@@baxter4486 then farm hospitals its spawn camping and gives xp
_sobbing, sword in hand_ "the grind never stops"
Blaine: How to get Infinite EXP...
Another TH-camr with a crab avatar: Anime is ok in D&D but not the best place for it.
Blaine: KILL ALL CRABS!
i wonder how a Re:Zero inspired campaign would work in DnD...
@@MABfan11 probably high danger campaign(like too many wrong moves and death is certain, if not nearly certain from the get go) where you go back to a set point in time if you die. It'd probably be better as a single or two character campaign but you could just jack up the danger to the extremes for larger parties.
I play monster girl encyclopedia dnd so I gotta protect my crab waifu.
@@jamesfreeman3617 unless they're basically a crab, I think you're good to crab smash(not serious) lol
@@Mr1991bbk Complete crab body with complete human upper body as well down to the knees it has most of stats of the giant crab just higher INT and CHA plus a posion bubble attack. Monster girl encyclopedia ripped of so much of dnd that it was easy for people to adapt think his reviewers episode but done a lot earlier mindflayers somehow are even scaryer than they are in pathfinder
"Ok, guys we are going to be using the original Level Up system."
"Oh hey! This will be perfect for our Cat Farm!"
"Aww! How cute!"
"And the meat could help substitute having to purchase Rations!"
"wait wut..."
Cat meat is pretty shit as far as I know. How about a fish farm?
@@Dracef2135 I think a certain stereotype disagrees lol
CR0 creatures would not give any experience after maybe level 3.
If an encounter does not pose a threat to the PCs, it does not give any Experience.
@@Max_G4 you mean you don't get more effective at a task the more you perform said task? That's the way experience works after all... now granted I don't have access to any DM books thus don't know of any "X exp based on party level"
@@kian3289 (Sorry for slight typing errors as I am writing it on a phone at 2AM) I mean, do you get any more experienced at walking after you turn 4 years old?
Do you get more experienced in cooking just by turning on the oven again and again without actually putting anything inside?
Can a person play in a pro soccer league just by playing only against 6-year-olds for 20 years?
What the video suggested is basically these things.
You don't get more experienced at fighting and surviving interactions with enormous, deadly beasts just because you can stab a crab trapped in a cage really good.
The Hero Is Overpowered But Overly Into Cat Genocide
And crab genocide too
What -_- is that how they gained levels
Isn't there an anime coming out about a witch that lived alone killing low level slimes all the time, finding out how high her level was after that?
@@chaoticclonestudios Well, how many cats did you see alive in the show? I rest my case.
@@Max_G4 yes, she maxed her level killing just slimes
An idea from somewhere else:
A: become executioner
B: become friends with evil king
C: profit
I'm just imagining butcher's pest exterminators and farmers being ripped af. 30 years on the farm and they can fight a dragon.
Do you get Exp. if you don't have a class? Become an adventurer and get to level 2 or so THEN 'retire' from questing and come back a decade later.
"Anime style characters don't work in dungeons and dragons."
Tiefling oath of vengeance paladin: *heavy breathing*
"Turns out, there are a lot of crabs in the ocean that die in one hit, and they each give 10 exp." -BlaineSimple, probably.
And yet, RAW as mentioned in a Taking20 video, a Crab can also easily kill a Commoner. Is it dumb? Maybe. Can it be made somewhat hillarious? Potentially.
farming crabs is all well and good until a hulking crab appears
reminded me of that certain episode of southpark... yes indeed, how do you kill someone who doesn't have a life?
The Anime Crab wars of Dungeons and Dragons has begun
What the Frick did I just say
I don't know, but I like it, and so does Blaine.
it makes more since the battle of the bag of holding
@@JoelFeila I'm new here, what's that?
@@justafan9206 s group once ran a game where all the bags of holding connected together and that lead to a war for all the stuff in the world that people were storing in their bags of holding
@@JoelFeila so if someone in, like a vault were to turn a bag of holding inside out, they'd get anything stored in another bag?
DM: Why are you trying to hit level 20 on the first day
Me: I'm role playing as ainz ool gown from overlord
I picked eldritch knight, blame wotc for locking cast and smack to lvl17.
In Hackmaster you could level by stomping on an ant hill, getting 1xp for every ant. The down side was the renoun hit from embarrassment if someone caught you. It was in the rules even
Fck yeah, hackmaster! It's so weird and I love it!
On your way to your easy lvl 20 be sure to pick up the Chef Feat and on top of being lvl 20, you'll also be rich from all those crab cakes you've been selling on the side. :)
What if you did the biggest natural height you can get with official rules (such as race and class)
Get a character that's 9 feet tall, be female, become a vampire. Boom. Vampire Lady from resident evil.
Was about to say use potions and stuff like that then I realized you said natural
I mean permanent effects.
Also, I’m not sure vampirism increases height.
31.7 ft do you require math? (Requires TCoe and XGtE so if you're running the old AL rules it won't work)
You could always do the Witch of the Highlands method to becoming OP, literally just be immortal (in the ageless sense) and leisurely kill a few slimes a day for a couple hundred years. Make it part of your daily routine between gathering herbs and relaxing should make it easy.
As there are suggested traits, like ageless, that you can earn on level up for 20+ it could work
is *that* an anime reference?
@@mohammadsaleh1998 Yes the sauce is I have been killing slimes for 300 years .
Player: uses wish spell to attain level 20.
DM: Great you are now level 20 and become a NPC under the DMs control, roll up a new PC.
alternatively "congratulations your character has been teleported in time to when they reach lv. 20 do you want to play someone else while we wait for them to reappear?"
"Alright then, you are now a multiclassed Artificer 1/Barbarian 1/Bard 1/Cleric 1/Druid 1/Fighter 1/Monk 1/Paladin 1/Ranger 8/Rogue 1/Sorcerer 1/Warlock 1/Wizard 1 and all your ability scores are 13."
@@Felixr2 But that's Abserd.
@@Felixr2 Why give an extra 7 levels in Ranger and permit some combat ability? If you're the DM you can totally OK homebrew class levels: Farmer 1/Cook 1/Chauffer 1/Maid 1/Secretary 1/Sidekick 1/Accountant 1 - they don't even need to have any special traits or abilities.
@@stevdor6146 Fair enough, but you might as well do 7 levels in Ranger because, let's be honest, that still doesn't do much
When you get level max at the first dungeon:
Me, a DM who uses that exp system: Fine. But every time you kill a cat, one God will become ever so slightly annoyed at you
Edit: The God of cats obviously
"As you kill your final cat and reach level 20, you feel a disturbance in reality. Something changed, something big. You hear the sound of a feline deeper and more guttural than you ever thought possible, and it seems to be reverberating across all of creation. The increased Investigation score you gained as you levelled tells you the nature of what has occured: The cats you killed have all returned as a single revenant. Its power rivals that of gods, and it wants *you* dead. Roll initiative."
Is it a different random God each time, or is it a single specific God?
@@aldar8240 Honestly, that would be a cool one off
@@DolusVulpes at 35,500 dead cats to reach max level, it doesn't really matter
@@aldar8240 wow
instructions unclear: I've been killing slimes for 300 years and maxed out my level, now what?
Hmmm
I know that sentence from somewhere
@@_____Neo___ I mostly copied the name of an anime I'm watching right now, It's great and I would recommend it.
@@Somber_Knight Too bad most slimes (or rather oozes) in D&D are pretty strong, live in hard to reach places, and would most likely easily kill a level 1 adventurer.
@@backonlazer791 That's what i was thinking when i made the comment. Wotc should really make more official oozes of various cr.
was gonna say this sounds like a light novel title.... but does this actually exist?
My players once used the wish spell to get to level 20 using a ring of 3 wishes. Ended up blowing up the world. Don't ask how the two incidents were related. It's a LONG story.
Tell me
yes Tell us
You tell us to not ask, so of course we will ask. Please explain.
Tell us
Tell us
Isn’t... isn’t it just 355.000 to get to level 20
My logic: You don’t become “less” experienced by leveling up and milestone says you should level up every few sessions
Yup, level 20 is achieved at 355,500 total xp. Blaine assumed that xp resets every time you level up, I think
@@RonDPrelate it's in the millions if we're talking D&D 2e
@@BrutusAlbion damn that sounds like a lot. I never played anything else than 5E. But older editions gave xp for retrieved treasure right?
I thought I was playing dnd wrong this whole time
@Jace Jonas Europe exists my friend, and they write numbers differently to you. In that system, 6,0 is only six. while 355.000 is three hundred and fifty fife thousand.
Thanks. As a gm I now know what to watch out for and I can now start to plan to stop it lol
Mocking goddess: what are you gonna do become a crab fisherman.
Blaine: Actually yes.
Me: is that critcrab over there!
It talks kill it that sucker has to give out extra xp.
If I was a DM, the character that attempted to kill cats to become a level 20 character would become a level 20 villain with evil alignment instead.
Why aren't farmers who raise and slaughter cows, lambs, pigs, and even more fantastic, fictional creatures like giant snakes evil then?
The crab thing is literally the plot of "I've been killing slimes for 300 years and maxed out my level"
There is also the bludgeoned strat of become someone with spare the dying, then punch nonleathally still getting the xp from knocking out
That works just a bit better than my sleep spell method.
The best way after you hit lvl 5 I would say is farming fire elementals if you have access to a source for them
Tidal wave has so much water it instakills fire elementals, and you can hit 3 with a single one
Each one gives 1800 xp base and at lvl 5 you have two slots for tidal wave, allowing you to farm 10800 xp per long rest
If you can move to farming greater fire elementals after some time
And there're plenty of ways to summon fire elementals.
Quickest way to Level 20:
1)Be a Sidekick.
2)Join a Level 20 Party.
Who would win in a fight?!
A CR 3 Knight who spent most of their adult life and a decent chunk of their childhood going through rigorous training and risking life and limb in numerous battles to achieve the status as a mighty warrior of their kingdom!
OR!?!
An 11 year old kid who hung out with a high level party for a few weeks?
@@curnott6051 Knights should probably be a higher CR.
@@eric_moore-6126 or lower CR with sidekick levels.
@@curnott6051 clearly the 11yr-old with their Eldritch Blasts.
@@eric_moore-6126 Eh, I half agree with that. A CR 3 Knight is roughly equal in power to a decently built LV.5-6 Fighter, which (according to the DMG)is considered a fairly well know figure throughout the kingdom. Though, it's weird when you consider that a Gladiator is CR 5, which is odd considering you'd think the average Knight would be tougher then your typical Gladiator, even a stronger one. So yeah, I agree the CR's for Gladiator's and Knights should probably be switched.
That said, if you want to throw in some elite knights, guards, warriors, ect. in your setting. Volo's gives us Champions and Warlords to use, which are CR 9 and CR 12 respectively (roughly as strong as Lv.12/16 Fighters).
Though I wouldn't mind another CR 6-8 "Fighter"-ish creature, maybe one that incorporates some maneuvers from the Battle Master Archetype.
Guess i'll share my favorite EXP cheese methods:
1) Chicken Slayer: A single live chicken is worth... 2 measly copper pieces. Since it can technically hurt you by pecking, it should be worth 10 exp per kill. Every first level character should have at least 5 gold pieces, so just buy out all the chickens in your local village for an easy 2500 exp! - that's almost level 4! And once you do a quest and get 200 gp in rewards... you see where this is going.
2) Summon Slayer: Summoned Monsters give EXP. Simply summon something, order it to stay still and do nothing, and kill it. A conjuration Wizard can potentially do this at level 2 by repeatedely summoning a Familiar and using minor conjuration to get the 10gp worth of incense and charcoal for free. Rinse, Repeat, you're level 20 in less than a month of in-game time!
3) PvP! PC's are roughly equivalement to a monster with a CR equal to half their level (or a quarter at lower levels). Simply beat up your party, making sure you use NONLETHAL damage on every attack, and you can quickly grind each other up to level 20. Just make sure nobody attacks you while you are battered and bruised.
4) Gambling! This is something i actually did on a boring night - i made a Rogue with lots of CHA and WIS, and a skillset that is perfect for the "Gambling" downtime activity from Xanathar's.
After rolling the dice for several hours, and having to restart once due to getting unlucky, my character became filthy rich within 1 year while his party died to goblins. He then used his riches to buy the deck of many things, and used that to get the exp to level up (Fates cards were used to avert undesirable results). Level 20 and maximum OP-ness without ever leaving town!
5) Guard Trick: Be a Rogue, go to the town guard barracks, convince them to do sentry training: your goal is to sneak past them unnoticed and steal an item, and they have to find and catch you.
In other words, you can turbo-stealth your way to the objective and back several times per minute, getting EXP for "getting past the obstacle (guards)" every time.
6) Arena: If there's an arena where killing is a no-go, congratulations, you're golden! You might as well do method #3 at that point as well.
7) Valhalla!: Step 1: TPK heroically. Step 2: Get your souls to Ysgard. Step 3:As long as you still retain your will and ability to grow (SUPER unlikely, by the way), or if you just used planar travel, you can just fight here with reckless abandon as you revive every morning after death for free anyways. Plus, Ysgard is totally the one place where you can find an eternal warzone with billions of orcs and other forces swarming to the battlefield in an eternal battle, because there's so many people and orcs in the two base camps that they respawn faster than they die. With an infinite supply of orcs and revival at hand, this is perhaps the best place to level up in the higher levels. Especially if you get Epic Boons every 30k EXP!
"alright that's it ya min-maxin' hooligans."
*changes the game to milestone progression*
The truth is, 5e is very flexible and most variations can worth, from Anime to Lovecraft horror, classic horror to fairytales, comedy or romance, sci-fi to (proto)superheroes. And, with the changes TCoE opened up, there can be more possibilities. A lot is in the DM and their story telling.
Ever since I learned about carcinisation I see it everywhere. Crabs truly are the ultimate liveform.
Blaine: "No, killing lots of small monsters may inconvenience us and get our new armor a bit dirty"
Witch of the Highlands: "Say that again"
i haven't read the whole 5e DMG, but i remember a section in the 2e Dungeon Master Guide, said as a DM that you should not award a player any xp if they kill something that's not a threat. they used an example of a level 7 character being only 65 xp away from level 8. and it says that character can't just go find a couple of kobolds a murder them, because they aren't a threat to a character of that level
You know that, from the dm handbook, no encounter thats 5 or more level under the pc give xp right? And that the multiplication of CR can add up to 4 times? They explain it with and example too (something like 1200 orcs should make a cr of 11 but they say that any level 11 character could kill them all with a simple fireball wand so it apply to characters up to CR 6 only + 60 of them make a crit so you either make no xp at all or you are dead)
Reminds me that a couple of friends of mine exploited the AD&D 2E rules where 1 GP = 1 XP by burning down a forest and selling the fertile land to farmers. They also got a ton of XP just for killing all those woodland creatures. Went from low-level to character retirement in the course of one game.
How come buying fish the forest made it their land?
@@AbyssalDragon42 I assume your autocorrect meant "burning down" not "buying fish," so going by that assumption...I do not remember. I wasn't there; it was a story my friends told me, and that was like 20 years ago or more. There could've been a reason, or maybe the DM was just a dumb teenager who didn't really think things through when they thrust that plan on him out of the blue. I do know the two of them really liked to screw with the DM to the point where he wound up throwing The Predator at them just to try to kill their characters.
@@SamWeltzin aight. Thanks for letting me know what you do know.
@@AbyssalDragon42 Sure thing. It's one of those things where I wish I was there, 'cuz even just the secondhand story was funny enough to remember all this time. :)
@@SamWeltzin thanks
Crabs give 0 to 10 EXP and it takes 355,000 points to achieve level 20, not millions. I cast Wish and wish that Blaine did more research
Anime: I farmed slimes for 300 years and maxed out my level
Blaine: Why'd it take you that long?
- Speed Sushi
- Trans Rights
- Minority Rights
- Breaking D&D
That's 4 things, not 3
Trans and minority rights are 1 thing since you need them both together for a cohesive ideology.
The overly cautious hero really does deserve some more attention
Love the thumbnail for that exact reason
I run an xp based campaign. But xp doesn't reset after level up, you just amass more until you hit the next level, which is 8 times more efficient than resetting every level. I also don't split the xp among party members, all xp is universal xp because everyone was there to experience it which makes it 4 times more efficient and therefore 32 times more efficient over all. Also it's very easy to nullify experience from farming, by the time you gain proficiency in the act you are no longer experiencing anything and I can reduce the experience gained in the first place on the basis that the danger was taken out of the act so you never had to learn how to survive better.
Also it just plain gives players a feeling of better control over their characters, so if they want to they can go grind and actually feel like they're earning something instead of just waiting for dm to grace them with a new level. Story based leveling just doesn't let you prepare and over prepare the way experience leveling does. Yes, story is important. No, it doesn't have to be a fair fight most of the time really. Set a pre leveled encounter, and allow the diligence of the players to determine how hard of a fight it really is. Use tactics and supplies to make up for weaknesses as much as possible. If your bad guys get too outmatched, play underhanded tricks and give them schemes to present a much greater danger than they could in a head on fight. The enemies should be alive and the victory should feel earned so that it can be satisfactory.
"Anime in d&d works and these packs are proof of it" and all i see is plot armor almost broke out laughing
Congrats Blaine Simple on declaring war on crabs 🦀.
This reminds me of that one time a single Giant Crab tpk'd a party of lvl 2 characters. that was the beginning of a "DM Liq" rolls ridiculously.
3:17
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this a common misconception? Doesn't it only take 355,000 xp TOTAL to obtain Lv20? I.e. it takes 50,000 xp to go from Lv19 to Lv20 (not 355,000 xp)
isn't this just the training montage of the WoW south park episode?
As a DM, I use milestone leveling because I don't have to keep track of XP, but also because my players level at the same rate, making it that much easier to balance encounters. This video just gave me one more reason.
and thus you give out levels like candy for the players doing roughly nothing
milestone XP was in the game since AD&D it was crap then it is worse now
From now on we should call anime in dnd haters crabs
I actually agree with the message of this video. I like CritCrabs content, but every time I see a title like "Cringey anime catwoman" Or "Weeb ruins game" it just makes me sad. Yes, those exist. But that isn't even remotely true about most of the anine fans who want to transfer stuff into dnd. You can't imagine how hard of a time I had finding a campaign where a DM would let me play a stand user class, not because of imbalance or "no homebrew", but because of stereotypes. I'm tired of this, anime adventures actually transition really well into dnd, and you can't prove me wrong
A wood elf ranger with Goodberry, an arcane focus, a fletching kit, some rats, and a deep pit. A mistletoe patch if your D.M. is strict. All spell slots using Goodberry every 4 hours, maybe some calorie math on maximum population for the food provided, and hail of thorns every time you reach that limit.
Walk back into town 2 years later a lvl 20 ranger, lvl 20 ranged fighter, lvl 20 monk.
There are so many things wrong with this that I can't just let it slide
1) Rangers use druidic foci, not arcane.
2) Trance does not reduce the duration of a long rest, only the amount of it you need to be sleeping for.
3) You can only take one long rest in a 24 hour period.
4) 20th level is the maximum a character can reach total, not per level.
5) CR 0 creatures only give exp if they pose an active threat to the character/party.
No Challenge = no XP’s.
The remaining 180,000 cats will get you nothing except pelts.
And the enmity of the Cat Gawd.
Me allergic to shellfish. My time has come.
Another reason why the XP system sucks is this: Townsfolk give XP. This means murderhoboing everyone you meet is a viable way to level up...
I want this to happen in a game. My players need to know the horror of geese and you need tier 4 for that
The crab idea put me in mind of "I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level" xD
A few backfires for wishing to be high level:
Unaging. You gotta put in your own effort.
Your prof, HP, and lvl number increases. You get no other benefits because you haven't actually trained in your class.
A high deity comes down to fight you to the death. If you win, you get the XP for your desired lvl
Your char is warped to a hyperbolic time chamber for (insert time until rest of group is lvl'd) They returned, a maddened powerhouse because it's been decades of training.
This was 5 mins of thinking. If anyone else has any ideas as to why you shouldn't try wishing for power/lvls, please say, cuz wish backfires are fun to read.
You become level 20, but are then sent out on a quest that results in your death.
dude rats its the key to get lvl 20 the faster way , just one rat give us 10 xp so one couple of rats in just one year can breed into became 1250 rats this is like 62400% of growth rate in just one year ,so if you let this rats in an island or a place that you like in no more then one and a half year you will get lvl 20 just by yourself . boom rats
"I wanna open a cat farm to breed cats for infinite XP" DM: after a month, you figure out the best way to breed and tend to these animals. The art of cat breeding has no secrets to you, and therefore doesn't give you anymore XP"
*starts killing the cats.*
I actually use a ranking system lol...once you hit level 4 you can't level up with anything with less then cr 1
That seems really stupid. A deadly encounter could give you absolutely nothing.
Hey, someone who does it vaguely as it is recommended by the actual books themselves, not giving out any XP for enemies(or "enemies") that do not pose a threat.
I believe "anything with less than CR 1" includes a single goblin, even if it is part of a group of 1000. 1000 Goblins should give a party of level 4 adventures lots of xp
It doesn't actually take over 2 million xp to reach level 20. That chart you showed at the beginning with xp to levels isn't how much you need to gain for each level, it's how much you need to have total to reach each level. At the very least, that's how it works on D&D Beyond.
Yep
355,000 total Xp for level 20
RIP 35,500 spiders.
Ugh, the milestone system is bad. The XP system is way better, I partner it with a training need, players in my games need a week of training after gaining XP to level up. Also, I give the experience points, it doesn't matter if you killed thousands of kittens, only relevant encounters give XP.
I only make an exception in SciFi games, since there players can just download the next level once they are ready. They can still train but generally an internet conection is not hard to find.
Huh. I'm glad my current group switched from XP to Milestone. Now, we can consider not solving all of our problems with violence. Sometimes we sneak around enemies, for example. Or disguise ourselves and try to con our way into places. And the players don't sit around trying to work out how many encounters we need to have in order to level up.
@@FentonHardyFan The game rules do not say that you absolutely need to *kill* the enemies to gain Experience.
"[Experience Points] are most often the reward for *completing* combat encounters" (DMG, p. 260)
"You decide whether to award experience to characters for overcoming challenges outside combat"(DMG, p. 261)
@@FentonHardyFan I mean, if the Master was only awarding XP for killing stuff then he/she/they was doing it wrong. XP is given when a challenge is overcome by the players. Okay, maybe if it is done in a manner that can become problematic later on or it isn't truly solved, just postponned, then, as a Master, you can give less XP. Plus, this allows you to reward any random behavior that you like. For example, if you really liked a scene that the players pulled out of their asses you can give them experience for that.
Plus, as a player, not having any idea when will you level up means not really caring about leveling up at all and kind of makes the whole leveling up idea kind of pointless. I don't like the milestone system as a Master, but I really hate it as a player. Even the XP for murdering stuff is better (although that one is kind of bad, too) since al least as a player I do kind of know how much it takes for the next level and that a lot of time has happened between adventures.
@@Ditidos There is a module that specifically states dealing with an encounter in any way exept fleeing give the xp as killing them would. Meaning negotiating, sneaking, tricking them, and killing all give xp while running doesn't.
Recently got a player who has watched all your videos and started being a pain in the ass at the table. He wanted to become immortal and unkillable, derailed the campaign trying to time travel for no reason, and kept trying to get me to approve unbalanced homebrew to he could play as an anime character.
Thank god I do milestones.
That sucks man
@@spectraljerk330 yeah, it's no Blain's fault or anything, just thought people would find it funny. I talked to them about it and explained that everyone else was planning on playing a different type of game, and that maybe down the line we can play something a little more in-line with what they wanted.
They agreed, and we continued on with our game. They later contracted lycanthropy defending an NPC (who was meant to contract it instead, causing the part to quest to cure them) and enjoyed roleplaying it a lot, I ended up letting them keep the curse using Grim Hollow's rules.
The other players played as monster hunters, and having an actual monster in the party made the player stand out from the others, which in the end it seems is what they really wanted.
All's well that ends well!
Yeah... Cats won't work. Because the Cat Lord. Rabbits or bunnies maybe?
More exp! I love these surprise.
Couldn't you have a necromancer and be a cleric so you snap em and they raise em
That last point sounded like something a Dwarf Fortress player would do
Was this video by chance inspired by the anime "I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level"?
1:52
whoah that was unexpected, but extremely welcome
thanks Blaine :D
Right?
@Jace Jonas all they said was trans and minority rights. If other people having rights angers you then you may need to rethink your viewpoints.
@Jace Jonas so what your saying is "I'm not against trans rights, I am against other people mentioning in any way that they have rights"
@Jace Jonas it's just trans and minority rights, it isn't that big of a deal to get upset at at a channel for mentioning them. It's like you are getting upset at someone saying "human rights"
@Jace Jonas but I wouldn't just shut them off for it and complain in the comments if someone did
This video took me way too long to get to. But bro, have you read Exterminator yet?
"And horror story free material..." Blane not afraid to shoot the shade back.
I bring pizza; I give the players the choice of the magical items they'll get; I value the PCs backstories; I use XDM's Roll to Cast rule, so casting classes can cast spells as much as the dice allows; I will fuck up what you get when you cast Wish.
Roll to cast rule?
@@techpriestemily the book XDM (aka homebrew made by ppl who know D&D as well as the folks in WotC) brought a different system from the Ventian one used by D&D.
instead of using slots, you have to roll against the DC of the spell level (d20 + casting ability + proficiency >= 8 + spell level) to cast spells. if you beat the DC, the spell is casted; if not, the turn is missed. the catch is that, if a Nat 1 is rolled, a bad thing happens to the caster:
a) they must roll on a Wild Magic Surge table;
b) they take the damage correspondent to that spell level, on which there's a table in the DMG (it tends to be 1d10 per spell Lvl, but I lowered it to 1d8), which is the one I prefer; or
c) the caster is unable to cast spells for a certain duration, which tends to be 1d4 rounds.
the Professor DM has some videos abt it on his channel Dungeon Craft.
@@techpriestemily you are proficient with the spells of the level you would have slots for. if you don't have proficiency with that spell level, you can't roll to cast it.
@@techpriestemily yes, using this system, the caster can become a spell machine-gun, but it also allows for a Cleric to "miscast" a healing spell & for a Wizard to die from casting their 1st spell of the game.
@@jgr7487 Interesting. I might have to give that a try.
I know it was just a small tidbit in the video that didnt even matter, but as a trans individual just you saying that our rights matter brightened my day a whole bunch
same!
Funny you mention XP as my first 5e DM doesn't use it while my favorite DM use it.
Guess I check out the Anime in DnD next month :)
Just in case my PC and backup pc dies
so basically all crab fisher man the party finds in a adventure will be level 20s. is that correct? i feel like it is.
Nope, at most level 3, since crabs are not a threat after that, giving no experience.
@@Max_G4 i don't care. in all my games, crab fishers are now level 20s.
Two monks and a cleric, training montage.
DM: You've over-fished the waters and caused crabs to go extinct, also as they are CR 0 you are awarded with 0 xp, their smashed corpses are not salable so you get no money from selling them.
Just a dumb take overall. The very definition of, "No, but" improv.
For starters, if you broke the rules of the game to give your players 0 XP on a 0 CR creature 'just because', then you're far worse than the player in question. The player is attempting a valid method for leveling up, all according to RAW, and you're taking XP out of the enemies for literally no reason, pretending like the number 0 is a justification. You might as well remove the XP of goblins because they're less than CR 1, right? Or wait no, my players went out of their way to hunt down a lower CR Cloaker, might as well remove some or all of the experience just because.
Secondly, by assuming your players aren't ever going to be competent enough to kill a crab without destroying it and mandating that there's zero demand for pieces of crab, you're taking skill checks for preparation out of the equation entirely. Just, don't roll dice, don't take skills, don't play the game--you lose. Very good, oh excellent choice.
Second, no players would continue fishing an entire genus of animals to extinction for no CR and no gold, and that's even assuming it was anywhere near realistic to think that a single fishing vessel could do that.
By the point in the game this comes up, your players will have:
- trained in operating a sea vessel
- learned how to fish and manufacture fishing tools
- hunted out crab filled waters
- purchased, loaned, or negotiated for some kind of mooring space on land
They will be spending much of their time roleplaying as one or more fishermen, up to and including possibly meeting people to talk crab prices, working on getting some storage and work space in a nearby town, and if your adventure involves anything else outside of downtime, this will just be a side hustle one or more of them runs between fighting monsters and saving kingdoms.
To punish the players putting in all of this work and absolutely destroy the fundamental spirit of the game in both a creative and mechanical sense just because you disagree with the methodology is in my opinion the worst way to DM that there is.
Instead of challenging them with hard business meetings roleplaying sessions, sea monster battles, spirited engagements with rival fishermen, and a need to integrate adventuring into the workplace in order to earn favor in town and get special treatment fro nobles and royalty, you decide to shut the door on them completely, waste everyone's time, and seal an entire sector of play off from them.
@@Levyathyn holy shit did you just write an essay for a fucking joke?
I think you need to chill the fuck out.
Wait... Blaine was a Vampire?
Always has been
i.
Hate.
VAMPIRES!
GYAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Thank you for that trans rights comment! Genuinely made my day.
That's the reason I sent this vid to a friend lol
I feel like you should get into D&D 3.5e, Pathfinder 1e or Pathfinder 2e. Those editions have way more weird gamebreaking stuff.
2,148,400 exp? I think you misread the level-up part of the sheet:
"As your character goes on adventures and overcomes challenges, he or she gains experience, represented by experience points. A character who reaches a specified experience point total advances in capability. This advancement is called gaining a level."
This means when you hit 355,000 exp (still a lot considering the EXP values of each monster in the MM and other books), you will be 20th level
Edit: Formatting and to clarify that you don't "spend" exp to level up, it is essentially a milestone to let you know that when you accumulate 6500 exp, you are 5th level, not that you need 6500 exp to get from level 4 to 5
He already addressed this in the comments dude.
I'm confused as hell, milestones are a variant in 5e right? Has everyone been using milestones this whole time? What??
So what i take away from the intro:
The LGBTS+ community gets to go first when there is a sushi buffet on the dining deck....
what a day to be bi >:3
This day the sushi is ours!!!
Best dnd monster ever... Giant rats. Seriously they have like 8 babies at a time, breed every couple of months and are worth something like 7xp each. You also feel far less evil than killing kittens.
The DM decides if you get exp even without milestones. So bribe the DM with food. In addition cats and crabs are 10 exp OR 0 exp. This is due to a rule regarding exp.
Things have to be a threat to you to be worth exp pretty much, that's why the DM still decides. There is a reason commoners are so low CR. If killing inconsequential housecats and crabs made one stronger they wouldn't likely need you.
is there anyway to get every resistance/immunity and if so how soon
how about bunnys
they reproduce faster irght
Being carried by a high level party isn't actually that dangerous. Just pay for resurrection. You know, take the realistic approach, solve the problem with money.
With how the spell Regenerate(lvl7) is worded they could just carry you around in an airtight steel box at a suspended animation state where you can survive on the little oxygen in there for days, just cool it down enough so you don't take permanent brain damage. Dead limbs can just be cut off later and regrown.
That way you don't die in one hit and can still soak exp all the time.
Because remember no matter how mangled you survive that, that's nothing one level 7 spell slot can't fix in a few minutes.
Huh, this might work if the DM is okay with using the XP system RAW, but they would have be a truly literal RAW DM for it to work. If one of my players tried this, my reaction would be simple, "No, that doesn't work".
Why doesn't it work? Because killing normal cats is not going to make someone a better fighter or caster or whatever. That is what doesn't make sense. If I recall correctly, the 5E DMG says something along the lines of how doing something repetitively does not merit XP. Also, certain pre-written adventures like Dungeon of the Mad Mage states in various places that players only get XP for defeating NPC X once.
However, I support your choice of crabs as the target of the harvesting. It sounds like more adventurous work then breeding cats.
Also, the Cautious Hero is a perfect avatar for zero-risk level grinding.
Or, do it by the exact wording of the 5E DMG. Doing what the DMG describes as an "average adventuring day" every day, for 35 days, fighting level appropriate challenges you and your friends will reach level 20.
If you breed Giant Rats which give 25 xp you only need to kill 14,200, and normal rats have 8 - 18 babies so if you take 2 Giant Rats and they have 13 babies and so on. It would only take 4 generations to get enough xp. Also, rats only take 10 - 12 weeks to mature meaning you only need 8 months.
In theory during 3ed edition you coudn't get XP's from encouinters higher or lower than 8th levels apart from you to prevent the "yes I know I was 3ed lvl last time we saw.. but I've been fishing crabs during the next entire sentury in a timeless plane, so I'm 17th right now.." or "I was 5 level but hung around good aligned epics during a turnament, camped during the fight with the Ecatoquiros, but gave some 23th lvl rogue a simple cure light wound and cause of XP equitative exact assignation.. so that's how I became directly to 9th lvl now!!"
"Waiting for the DM to give you a milestone is too unreliable"
"use a wish spell" XD
I think wish is in the top 3 of things I will never do in dnd, together with pulling from the deck of many things and selling my character's soul
Me: Ok, hear me out on this, I wanna trap making rogue with skills in sailing, fishing, and cooking....
My DM: Oookkayy ?
~~1 week later~~
My DM: We need to talk about your character
I think my friend watched this video because they were using milestones SPECIFICALLY because he thought we would crab farm.
Sorry Blaine, but there are two misconceptions in this video:
1. You only need a cumulative of 335000 XP to reach level 20, as XP does *not* get reset to 0 after leveling up
2. XP is not to be awarded if an encounter had barely any or no risk at all, so fighting a crab at level 15 would not give you any XP.
And I think that is a fact that too many people oversee before qriting XP off as being stupid and encouraging murderhobos.
I think a good guideline for that is that anything below an "easy" rating would not give you any.
Blaine: *is angry against crab who is correct.*
*MEANWHILE*
dani is getting wow!cubes on synergism
I hate the experience system. We had a party of five, where the two of us were level 11, two were 10 and one was 8. Not very cash-money. And the two of us at 11 were still leveling faster than the 8. So we switched to milestones.
And just in case someone asks, we were a Blood Hunter and Bard, and the other 3 were Wizard, Rogue and Paladin. The Paladin was lvl 8.
I mean as a DM I think xp is more than agreeable. I give xp as quest rewards also.
I usually compare it to the encounter chart in the DMG for random encounter xp thresholds.
In general if the quest takes a long time to complete then its worth double deadly xp per person.
Also if an encounter is below the easiest level on this chart then it's considered too easy and worth 0 xp in our game.
However if an encounter is above the deadliest level on this chart then it's considered hardcore and worth double.
I've made it clear to them from the start that they will level about as fast as they want to in this campaign.
They have been enjoying mid tier play for a while, done a lot of personal character growth between levels 9 and 12.
They're almost 13 and that's a big milestone, level 7 magic.
As far as written rules go, there is no defined way to gain xp as downtime.
Right in the dmg they tell you, downtime shouldn't negate the want or necessity for adventurer's to go adventuring.
If you want passive xp farms go play minecraft, XD.
lol... I mean... I don’t really need this... my dm is very inexperienced and basically gave me a hell forged inventory which incinerates enemies and the armour is pretty much infinite (regens 10-15 ac a turn) I should um, probably take over lol
So, I watched this while playing Skyrim on my PS3 (I couldn’t use my PS4 to play it because something ate all my house’s internet data), and I’m noticing how much infinitely better the AI is in the PS3 version compared to the PS4 version.
Just, everything is better: the path-finding, the reaction time (granted Alduin’s reactions were a touch slow in the opening scene, and I haven’t gotten past there with this character yet), the NPCs actually keep up with me as I go through the opening as fast as I can (I’ve played the game maybe a “bit” too many times), and the NPCs talk at closer to their scripted times.
Edit: please don’t hate me for bringing up a Bethesda game in the comments of a D&D video. I have no idea how people in this community feel about Bethesda games.
I played a thief once. While the party Adventurers Assembled & geared up, I pickpocketed Everyone in town. I was level 3 before we hit the first dungeon. Only got caught once & fled the city watch.