Zee Bashew AWESOME MAN! Glad to hear it :)

Truly a cause for rejoicing!

Why would they demonitize this?

This system is busted.

Weird, wonder what demo'd it. If it was via copyright I could, in theory, understand that - given the character/setting/rules appear in published works not your own but damned if the copyright owner would have to be up their own arse to strike this.

Ground moon rocks are pure poison. He is deathly ill. Still, it turns out they're a great spell component. So now we're gonna see if casting abjuration spells can somehow leech the lunar poison out of a man's bloodstream. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

JoefishTheGreat ....and combustible lemons

@@wrath2509 Conveniently, combustable lemons are entirely within the purview of an abjuration wizard.

@@Joseph125 WRONG when life gives you lemons dont make lemonade. make life take the lemons back! i dont want your damn lemons what am i supposed to do withe these?! do you know who i am!? i m the guy whos gonna burn your house down! with the lemons. i m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustable lemon to burn your house down!

aaand of course i forgot a part in that quote...

Lineage or circleage? :D

@@lvd8122 I bet it is a nice woven pattern. "Abjurers are to weave" after all.

I think the problem with his family tree is the lack of unique issues (children), really.

Healer? just have a Transmuter give him the transmutation stone enigma of cure all. Gold not earned my (magic edit) he doesn't know the amount of villagers I had to rip of to get my wizards keep.

@@seanboyd2898 That's no tree, bruv, that's a family hedgerow.

Mance, The Holy Blade

Smooth move with the Bloodborne reference.

*trick weapon tranforms*

NEEEIIIIGHUUUHUHUHUHU

Good Hunter of the Church, Have you seen the light? Are my Church Hunters the honorable spartans I hoped they would be?

It may have been demonetised because you used a vowel.

@@archlorddestin I think it's that I called him "P Hawkrin" for space. My mistake.

Clearly this is the work of component vendors trying to stifle the revelation that moonstone is the superior ehhhhh component choice! *Laughs Snobbishly*

Must have demonetized because of "abuse against rich people"

i would rather say i smell a large paid cooperation with a moonstone mine owner.

It truly did

God bless 1.5x speed

@@zykeo371 it's a beautiful voice though

@@Firestar4041 *0.75 Speed*

777 likes, how lucky

My dentist would love this guy!

0:55 has me dying, reviving, rewatching, and repeating.

@@ChitenBugMan That is exactly how I feel about 1:45. I can't stop replaying that horrid gasp.

"I've rejected my humanity, Bashew."

Mf looks like the Hapsburgs if they had invented coke way back when.

I use crushed moonstone as a spell component and cast minor illusion on my eyes

Not sure you need minor illusion to see visions if you got crushed moonstone

So can unicorn horn dust

But is it practical for players to use moonstone dust as spell components? How hard to get is it?

that's character enrichment at its finest!

Loool

I fuckin noticed that too, fucking terrifies me lmfao

OMG I can't unsee it

What type of gem? Perhaps a moooooonstone?

@@CharalamposKoundourakis I love you

@@jerrin1528 Chaaaaarmed

I definitely thought about that a bit when I first drew the crazy jaw! Thanks!

Kept reminding me of Ren and Stimpy

TBH I kinda kept expecting him to have his jaw fall off / unhinge as he sheepishly pops it back into place mid sentance

I love super exaggerated underbites they can make a character look unnatural and monstrous and I often use it on my dragonborns

Pretty sure mister HAWKryn is designed after Stephen HAWKing I think

_And mighty Samson took the jawbone of an ass, and with it slew a thousand men..._

That bottom jaw can be an entirely new pc on it's own.

Same tho omg 😂😂😂😂

ben zur it makes it feel more comfortable and personal xD

And me of moonstone dust overdoseing.

It can also be used in conjunction with temp HP, turning you into a tank that can put a barbarian to shame

@@benbailey3106 Abjurer wizard with maxed con for concentration saves as well as the shield and max level False Life and max level aid. Go fuck your arrows, I am *going* to live and see this concentration spell through.

@@kylestanley7843 By the rules as written, having temp hp from multiple sources is a waste because you can't add to temp hp (you can only set it to a certain number, not add that amount). Also, damage to temp hp still counts as taking damage and therefore still requires a concentration save. Fortunately, the abjuration ward isn't temp hp.

I decided to play an abjuration wizard but my DM has a house rule (which I think is unbalanced but deal with anyway) that taking damage doesn't require you to make a saving throw to maintain concentration.

@@RyanSmith-sm9lj exactly, the abjurer's ward doesn't count as temp hp. I'm aware of all of this already.

And, it replenishes that aura you have been using to protect your allies on all your other turns.

Hmm true, but what's cool is if your ward is up you can use it without blowing a spell slot. Or if your abjuration ward is down you can use shield instead! That's pretty neat (but Tomite yeah that's my oversight)

@@zeebashew Also counterspell is an abjuration spell. Why let enemy do something, when denying that saves your shield and makes you MORE POWERFUL! However I think I'm missing a joke here.

@@oxfy9694 I'm pretty sure the joke is reactions are usually used on attacks of opportunities. From a wizard. The last mage in my group had 5 strength.

Absorb Elements, too. Although the usefulness of that diminishes when you get the high level ability to just have Resistance to spell damage, but it's still useful against, say, a dragon's breath weapon.

I think you missed the point. He meant that giving others shield uses a reaction, which is ok, since the wizard wont get much out of an attack of opportunity anyways.

@@2MeterLP Yes, arguing that it's the only use Wizards will get out of their reaction, ignoring the two major reaction spells I mentioned.

Counterspell- pretty handy, only against spellcasters. Shield- +5 ac is legit, but high ac doesn't always work, especially in high levels. I love those spells too but they don't solve all problems. ward however, is more versatile, doesn't require spell slots and at level 6 you can bounce it between your buddies. Overall, you probably wouldn't want to blow your reactions too early and be more tactical with reactions than other wizards, thats it.

Naw he's a pompess entitled dbag, no one would dare call him ugly so he never knew his jaw was messed up.

It is a Bloodbone reference, Ludwig the accursed

why must you do this to innocent people

@@Starfloofle There are no innocent players. NONE.

Don't forget the raptor screech.

@@jamharry836 absolutely true, they may hide behind covers like, Lawful good or I'm a paladin, but they are all murderhobos at heart

Joshua Gilbert it’s only a matter of what will push them to go murder hobo, and this seems like it’d make anyone such.

pretty sure his mom is also his dad's sister...or something to that effect...

@@scaroe89 oh yeesh... probably lol. "My pedigree goes back for many generations" oh man do I love watching tribal and Outlander characters talk to people like this

The Local Cabildo Jungle Of Barbians was about to Call You a %&$# But then we Reewatch the video

LootWolf, If you have ANY barbarian in you, the mere mention of magic should make the Barbarian in you very uncomfortable.

@@jackielinde7568 I actually do have issues playing a caster sometimes lol. I finally got around to seeing the ADND Barbarian and it was full swoon.

Not their spells, divine intervention.

best we can do is a necromancer

@@jehovasabettor9080 Or just an undertaker. Do we REALLY need to reanimate him?

He needs to come back to Spain, Dead monarcs shouldn´t be going into DnD adventures allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/habsburg-jaw-of-charles-ii.jpg

Healing spells can't fix that freakish underbite!

Shields and armour are the best abjuration spells

I'm now making a Wizard specialized in Abjuration just for that.

I think I'll just duel wield shield as a pacifist paladin

Fighters can benefit from snorting powdered moonstone

@@paperbullet1945 I think that's more Barbarian than Fighter.

Never mind he's fine

“Choking noises” (“never mind it was a laugh”)

I think the trouble starts with his tiny, squished (but oh-so-fancy!) pug nose. He can hardly get any air through that little thing, so he needs to breathe mostly through his mouth. Mouth-breathing, though not particularly refined and graceful, can normally still be accomplished with subtlety and dignity and grace given practice, but _this,_ in turn, is complicated by his... broad... pronounced... and... _distinguished_ (and oh-so-manly!) jawline, which severely distorts the flow of air into, out of, and around the mouth, resulting in Master Hawkryn's need to _fully_ open his mouth and take as deep a breath as possible, in the hopes of getting _at least_ enough air down his windpipe to keep his ticker tocking.

Shining Valor How is he supposed to use Hamoan if his breathing is off, Jojo?!

@B T Hi innernet!

Is that a wild momotaros I see?

@@VikingSchism And an "Ore, Sanjou!" to you too!

I see no problem with that.

MadDemon64 good , I wants the only one thinking it had a familiar comedy to it

I uh... I did too...

@@VxV631 of course, aahaaaaaaahhh.

Based on this video, too much abjuration seems to cause horrible deformaties.

I don't think it's the most powerful option by any stretch. It's low level spells are quite good, especially when cast by low level characters. AC 13 without having to put it on is a big deal, and shield is always great. Do it if you want to, of course, but I feel like it's a bit of a letdown because it's level 2 and 6 school bonuses BOTH rely on you actually casting a lot of high level abjuration spells, especially in combat. I don't feel that that's easy to do as you increase in levels. It seems to be very hard to find good abjuration spells in combat that are not counterspell, and counterspell feels like it's both kind of the "anti fun" spell but also is at risk of being hard countered by DM bullshit if you overuse it. But there isn't a lot of other good stuff I have found. Also, the mage armor scales very poorly. If you get ambushed and you need to armor someone up who doesn't have time to don full plate.... at level 1, 13AC is great. At level 10, 13AC is.... not at all the same thing. Honestly, I feel like there is a ton of overlap between what a transmuter does and what an abjurer does, and I don't feel that's to the advantage of the abjurer. They both buff their own team quite a bit, but the transmutation stone is pretty versatile and powerful and only takes up the level 6 arcane tradition, not the 2 and the 6, and doesn't rely on you devoting a lot of spell levels per turn to casting transmutation spells, like the abjuration ward does. Abjuration, almost as much as evocation, seems to rely on constantly casting high level spells of your chosen school, but one of those traditions has fireball and the other does not, and there is a real risk of your dm just saying "enough of your bullshit" if you do nothing but cast counterspell all day every day.

@@timmietimmins3780 Pro tip without DM bullshit - you can counterspell a counterspell with another spellcaster.

@@2MeterLP I think that's more a function of too much moonstone exposure.

@@timmietimmins3780 As someone that has played an Abjuration Wizard to 20 I have to disagree with you here. Sure, Abjuration does not have too many powerful spells at end game, but you really don't need a lot of Abjuration spells in your arsenal. By level 20 I had shield, counterspell, dispel magic, alarm, mage armor, and Otilluke's resilient sphere and that's all I really needed in terms of abjuration magic. I also feel like the ward scaled very well. By the time I was level 20 I had 169 max hp and my ward was an extra 45 on top of that. Not only was the ward worth nearly 25% of my max health but it also technically gave me more max health than our group's barbarian and paladin. All of this combined with magic resistance, shield, mage armor, and Otiluke's made me easily the tankiest member of the party. On top of that the improved counterspell and dispel magic means you pretty much just hard shut down other casters to the point that they basically can't do anything. I don't remember the exact numbers but by level 20 I think I only needed to roll an 8 or higher with counterspell to shut down a 9th level spell. Also, according to sage advice if you're concentrating on a spell and your ward takes damage but you don't, you don't need to roll for concentration. This makes them incredible for things like casting invsibility or fly on the whole party without having to worry about losing concentration and everyone dropping out of the sky.

Inbreeding

IllogicalBear he's awful close for someone in magi-crusading distance

@@cerberouse1 YOU DAMN RIGHT

He was referring to Wizard specifically, since they generally don't hit very hard without spells. He's still wrong, though, since Shield and Counterspell are both reactions.

That would be awesome to see! I second this statement.

And less air.

And more Moooooonstone

It is a Bloodbone reference, Ludwig the accursed

I'm not gonna lie, I fucking love Nigel Longtooth

The ward saves Hawkryn from the stab, but he dies from a stroke anyways.

And I now know what wizard wont be abled to counterspell gameending magic fuckery. You. Your are that wizard.

Necromancers are just wizards that are bad at abjuration. If at first you don't succeed...

@@dxjxc91 who needs to protect from traps and enemies when you can just overrun them safely from a distance with fodder? Hallway full of suspected traps? "Oh Jeff, be a dear and walk to the end of that hall..." *Zombie groan.* "Good Jeff."

@@2MeterLP Well... as an evocation purist, I can say we have our own way to deal with these spells. Cinders and ashes can't really do spellcasting now, can they?

Personally I actually really enjoyed this character. The slow speech was somehow very calming. Can see how it would be annoying though.

That's the joke. It's a play on the sort of in-bred rich country club goers on the east coast. See 'James William Bottomtooth III' in Family Guy.

Yes. Please experiment to find out what works and doesn't work. This is food for thought for what misses the mark.

@@quizzlie I get where the character is from. The issue wasn't why that character but that the character didn't work for me.

Hah! Ah Austria trying to conquer Europe by sleeping with EVERYONE.

Ye... And yellow subtitles on yellow background. This is just bad.

The captions r fine and the voicing was just different not "painful to listen to" like what

Ya like literally I hate this new character

I just stopped it half-way through. Way too obnoxious.

It is a Bloodbone reference, Ludwig the accursed

The Goddess of Magic is represented by the Moon; so it makes sense that if you use it you will become one with it [it is likely part of the LVL 12 spell "Avatar"].

@@adolfodef Is she? I guess Selûne has some connection to magic, but Mystra's schtick is more stars. Anyways, Moonstone is a kind of gemstone that, according to the Forgotten Realms wiki, really can replace spell components.

Level 2 Warlock with infinite Mage Armor+Level 18 Abjurer Wizard. Bc Abjurers is fun like that

Evan Scott Farshadow And with infinite Shield from the level 18 wizard ability.