I really do enjoy playing the "utility" spellcaster more than a nuker. Keep one damage cantrip, then fill the rest of my slots with nonlethal goodies.

There's also the famous"Cleric's Feather Fall." Namely, let the dude land, then, if he's still alive, use the appropriate healing spell.

Feather Fall: The spell nobody wants to have taking up a spell space, until they... suddenly really wish they HAD it.

The sweetest application of Feather Fall I've ever seen was when someone used it to make their paper plane glide for far, far further than any paper plane had any business being able to glide. Thanks to house rules enabling the spellcaster to reduce a little weight with the spell as they level up, we eventually got to use it to spread an antidote to an entire capital city within an hour using nothing but pouches crudely stitched from a curtain and 30 sheets of fraudulent loan contract paper.

"Featherfall: You won't need it until you'll REALLY need it."

Your sorcerer player seems like one clever bastard, I'd love to see what other trouble he's bailed the party out of in your future videos.

This spell is a prime example of "it's better to have it and not need it, then to need it and not have it"

Holy shit, those two NPCs were going at it for 100 rounds... Fight of the century.

IMPORTANT! If you are playing pathfinder, feather fall only targets one person. Please realize this before you tell your party to jump off a cliff

Feather Fall is the sort of spell that even if it NEVER came up once during the entire campaign, I'd still keep prepared just in case. Fall damage is real nasty unless literally everyone is a Monk...well even if that is the case actually.

my bard used Featherfall to save himself from the vengeful Strahd, who tried to drop him off the highest tower of the cathedral. this surprised both my DM and him, since he didn't know/remember I had that spell in my book. That was my 5 minutes of glory, as I mockingly shrugged at him while gliding away to my teammates over there.

"Are you ahead of me yet?" He casts magic to move the crowd under them to break their fall!

Feather fall is one of those spells you never think you need till my god do you need it, gravity is the greatest foe of any PC in D&D

Feather Fall is the spell that you'll always pick and never use, but if you ever DON'T pick it... Well, you're certain to regret it.

A duggers tome is instantaneous communication. Beyond light speed comms. It creates a temporal paradox.

People who hate the max of 20d6 fall damage because certain beefy mid-level characters can survive a fall at terminal velocity seem to forget that this spell exists for squishy level 1 wizards.

this spell sounds like it would be situational but almost always ends up being used in something cool so many style points for exit through feather fall

I sneezed right at the end right as his face changed, and it looked like I just offended and dissapointed him by sneezing at that exact moment

The aesthetic of this episode is so awesome I love the music!

The higher level your party gets, the greater the chance and frequency that falling from a great height is going to become an issue. Because it's a classic epic tropey wild shenanigan, and that's what higher level play is all about.

I'm a first time player, currently playing a wizard in my first campaign, and this spell has earned a permanent preparation slot. It was one of the first spells I learned, as I saw its usefulness immediately upon seeing it in the PHB. We're only level 8, but so far I've managed to use it to save every single one of my party from hefty falling damage, and one point saved all of us from certain death after causing a castle to fall out of the sky.

I had a wizard in the party who once grabbed a boss, and dimension doored straight up and then used feather fall to not kill himself

My party's Wizard decided to use Feather Fall + Gust of Wind as a pseudo-jetpack. Couldn't say no to that.

I once let a wizard player of mine use feather fall to extend their jump range- they were on the back of a carriage moving at speed, trying to jump to the carriage behind some distance away. They used feather fall to give themselves enough hang time to let the second carriage move under them. Unfortunately they flubbed their dex save to land and missed the carriage, gently falling to the ground, watching the caravan move on without them haha.

Had a cool Feather Fall moment myself once. My Barbarian was on an airship being raided by pirates. We managed to capture one and found they were carrying single-use totems of Feather Fall. The pirates had a massive, chained, wooden harpoon lodged in the airship and were pulling it down. I faced our Druid and said: "Fly with me, bird-man!" and dove off the airship and Feather Falled onto the harpoon and, with the help of the Druid that had wild-shaped into a crow, started hacking away at the harpoon. With the final step from our Sorcerer's ice spell, who had won over an enemy gryphon to help us, we broke it and went into freefall. The gryphon just barely managed to save all of us at the cost of its life. As soon as we made it to civilisation, I found a blacksmith and had him carve a gryphon symbol onto my handaxe and wrapped some of its feathers to the handle.

1) Make a warlock with dimension door and eldritch blast. 2) Take the Spell Sniper feat and Eldritch Spear invocation 3) Have a friend with feather fall 4) Cast dimension door on yourself and your friend (going straight up 500 ft) 5) Have your friend cast feather fall on himself and you 6) Profit as you cast Eldritch blast 500ft in the air unable to be hit by any melee attacks for about 8 rounds and most ranged attacks for around 6 rounds

I love the animation for the wizard narrator. No clue why it’s just great.

In a similar vein - Party was tasked to disguise themselves as a returning patrol, jam the gates of the gate house and keep the gates from closing for 10 rounds while the rest of larger force rushed to it and through. They broke the gates easily enough once they were inside, but instead of waiting for the rest of the force, three of them started an attack up onto the walls. They quickly got overwhelmed, and the minotaur player was knocked unconscious. The spell caster put levitate on the minotaurs body, and they leapt off the wall riding the unconscious minotaur to the ground.

My favorite use was against bolder monster that was going to drop onto a party member with enough force to probably insta-kill them, but because they were a creature I feather falled them an they slow floated back to the earth with much laughter from my party

Playing as a wizard gnome, I snuck up to the barbarian in our party while we were spying on a group of enemies. I told him to throw me as high as he could after I cast the featherfall spell, and from about 30 or 40 feet up I was able to spot all the hidden enemies ready to pounce on us. Then I floated down, informed the party, and our bard snuck away on his own to put all the hidden enemies to sleep. Meanwhile the rest of the party handled the outside enemies. Had a blast hopping on the barbarian shoulders, firing fire bolts left and right, and telling our barbarian, “you’re our tank, I’m your turret.” DnD is great. Thanks for your work on the animated spellbook, really inspired me!

We were one too many for the spell, but had a bag of holding. One of us got in the bag and held our breath while the rest jumped down a cliff. They then nearly forgot to bring the character back out. We go deep into role-playing, so the player didn't remind anyone else, because his character couldn't. Luckily, they remembered in time.

A friend of mine created a spellcaster "game" that he would chalenge other casters to show who had bigger "ion stones". Simply put it was feather fall chicken. You jump off roof, cliff or other high thing together... And the LAST ONE TO CAST is the winner. You can have multiple players and he used often to belittle other casters.

So far I've seen "How to exploit the hell out of cantrips" AND I LOVE IT

People say 'oh feather hardly ever comes up', and that's true... if you aren't *looking* for ways to use it.It's a tool like any other, that allows you to use verticality to your advantage in safety.

Imagine if the sorceror was a wild magic sorceror, and after casting feather fall he got a magic surge and casted fireball on himself. Lol that'd suck

Just a few sessions ago our party was being attacked by a creature that lobbed smaller creatures at us. When they landed they would die and explode dealing damage to creatures around them. I was able to use featherfall to stop them from taking bludgeoning damage when they landed, this preventing them exploding. Since the spell doesn’t need a willing creature to target our DM allowed this. I always enjoy finding odd and niche uses for spells.

I always take feather fall because I've had a few DMs that were always keen to remember that giant/flying creatures can grapple you and throw you a distance.

I have a player who uses the spell in order to pull off superhero landings. Although he has saved the party with it a few times. I always forget he has it.

"This shouldn't have worked but it was hilarious" kinda sums up DnD.

I love how much trust they had in the sorcerer.

Could you do just a video series of awesome stories like this? I’d love to know just how they started that fight, or why and how they even got security alerted in the first place! But I love these videos so far

Meanwhile monks: "I'll just walk off the cliff, thank you."

What kind of potionary has a shindig on the second floor in the middle of the night? Why, the best dang potionary in town!

In the swedish rpg drakar och demoner, there is a spell "Trip" which is fairly cheap but does exactly what it says. You trip one creature in range, making him fall down prone in a direction of your choosing. You can boost the spell with mana to affect more people at once, but this makes it more difficult to succeed casting it. Trough a somewhat generous ruling of the rules by the gm, I managed to combine this spell with the monks class ability in that game, which is to concentrate for up to sixty seconds to get a +1 for every five seconds concentrated to a skill check. (A spell is a exactly like a skill, except instead of a skill value it has a spell value). By concentrating, I could then lower the difficulty enough to offset the extra difficulty from the boosted spell. Once our party was ambushed in a ravine and held at crossbowpoint by a number of orcs. While the party tried to fast talk their way out of it, I closed my eyes and started to concentrate. As negotiations broke down, I snapped my fingers. Bam, seven orcs tripped forward, and fell to their deaths. The fight was afoot! Then the remaining seven orcs killed me. Then they killed the wizard. Then the wizard, in a last dash of suicide empowered arcane might used his specially crafter, super charged magical staff and blew up the mountain. That killed the rest of the party. But for a little while, it was awesome!

I gotta say I think one of the appealing parts of this channel has to be the fact that there is always a story, he doesn’t just explain the spell (Edit: grammatical error)

I just want to hear your buttery voice tell me D&D stories. Please be my dad.

I used featherfall to airdrop from an airship. It was passing over a Point of Interest, but not stopping there. So we payed for full passage and just jumped off over our destination. Turns our 60ft per turn for 1 minute is 600ft of falling, which is about what you go in 1 round falling normaly. This gives you plenty of time to get of this reaction spell regardless of initial drop height. At worst you can use multiple spell slots, but its a first level spell so its not to hard.

I've long since switched to keeping 2 scrolls of featherfall on any character capable of casting spells. Featherfall is INCREDIBLY useful, crucial even, for an extremely niche circumstance. It's not worth tying up a prepared spell for, those need to be kept free for things that get used on a daily basis, but when it does come up? ABSOLUTELY worth the 10-35GP that a typical 1st level scroll costs.(as per Xanathar's Pricing for consumable common item) or 25GP and a day to scribe it directly. If your DM is super anal, you may want to specify that you invest in some sort of springloaded scrollcase or something, so you can pull the scroll out as part of your reaction that is used to read from it. It's a lot like a fire extinguisher, you wouldn't want to just clip one to your belt, but it's always nice to have one within arms reach wherever you go.

I don't know what it is, but every time I see a new episode of this, I just get really happy for some reason

I much prefer my method of casting deathward while in free fall

As a bard, I used this spell on a fellow Kobold player. You see, there was a rope bridge that was destroyed in an encounter previous from a group of monsters that pursued us, but we needed to go back across to study some ruins that we were tasked to explore. So we had a Fighter with a very high strength and Athletics skill. After having cast Featherfall, the fighter tossed the light kobold rogue animatedly high into the air, well over the distance of the gorge, and he screamed, forgetting that he was simply floating towards the ground and softly tapped his snout into the dirt.. It was a fun experience, and its interesting to see how people can cleverly use spells and abilities to overcome obstacles and certain deadly encounters.

I love these videos. They cover something so simple but you put a lot of effort in to make it look and feel nice, and it really shows.

when i created my bard and see that spell i immediate thought " this is going to save somebody ass " , but i was not expecting to use it on the first encounter!

Our group managed to weaponize Feather Fall once. We had a rather large and strong Fighter and a very light Monk and a utility-focused Bard. I think you can see where this is going. Big cave, spiders descending from the ceiling. Fighter grabs monk, bard casts Feather Fall on monk, fighter throws monk into the air and monk gets in range to throw his darts at the spiders well before they are in range of attacking any of us, then he just sails back to the ground. We got 3 good rounds of damage in that way before the spiders could counter it.

I have maliciously abused feather fall so many times. Uppercut a squad of orcs into the air, turn myself into a ballista projectile to one-shot a titan, cling to a ceiling while everyone yelled, the options are nearly limitless.

That dead stare at the end...

In one encounter with bulettes, I used a crafty featherfall to neutralize their Deadly Leap, an attack that has them jump 15ft into the air and body slam what was at the time my orc wizard. Another party member, inspired by this, did some quick math to figure out his carrying weight. After taking in his very high strength score, his feature that let him carry as if he was a size category larger, and with the aid of the Enlarge spell, we convinced the DM that it was possible to catch another of these feather falling land sharks and hold it grappled over his head. With some amazingly lucky rolls, he held that bulette over his head the entire fight.

I just had a campaign where I was playing a sorcerer and the party encountered a masked man who was the guardian of a forest. We had just beaten up some bandits when he came in, thanked us, and then moved in to finish them off. Being "lets not kill unless absolutely necessary" types, we didnt want that, but the way the DM described this guy, it seemed like he was pretty high level and we probably wouldnt have gotten out of fighting him unscathed. I came up with the bright Idea to have our paladin and barbarian grab the guy, and throw him into the air, from which point I could cast feather fall, which would make it so that he would hit the ground safely, but *very slowly,* giving us enough time to grab the bandits and run before he could kill them and/or us. It worked. I love spellcasting.

Feather fall and fog cloud, the perfect "bail out" combo

That 3D effect while falling. You put a ridiculous amount of effort into your animations!

I once allowed the use of Feather Fall to stop a Bulette's deadly leap

Featherfall could also (in 3.5) be used for maximum laziness with the Boots of Gravity in the Planar handbook. Decide that gravity for you goes 'that way', have a ring of feather falling and you don't even need to walk anymore. Just fall towards your destination at a sedate pace of 60ft/rd.

This is why I always try to keep spells that don't seem super useful at first in my lists. The times I did amazing things with grease and color spray were too much fun to risk passing up; and I'll always hope to get that magical feeling again.

One of my favorite uses of featherfall was offensive. My target was fleeing and jumped out a window, so I cast feather fall on him, then jumped out myself, taking the fall damage and catching him when he landed.

I love the jazz BGM in this video. Very fitting for the heist storyline.

My players once had to get a feather from a bird rock nest high up on a cliff. They cast feather fall on the halfling bard, making him really light and bound him to a makeshift kite to fly him up there. He had a spell ready to talk with magical creatures and just politely asked the bird for one of its feathers. Darn that was a better solution to the adventure than I could have ever imagined or was foreseen in the adventure (it was serpents skull, book 2).

I once used this spell to essentially eliminate a whole group of pirates in a single round! They were boarding our ship by using ropes to swing across the gap separating the vessels so I took the opportunity to cast my newly acquired spell on them. This resulted in them overshooting the deck and falling into the sea on the other side of the ship. They didn't climb back up...

I dont even play 5E, I just like the stories mixed with useful tidbits, especially since spells like Featherfall are pretty common across most tabletop RPGs. The animation is filled with easter eggs and the yellowed color scheme adds a nice parchment aesthetic.I just picked up on this series this morning but I'm looking forward to the rest of season two.

The only bad thing about Feather Fall is that it is basically mandatory, someone in the party absolutely always needs to either have it prepared or learnt. You may never use it, but you never know when you'll need it. My wizard saved the party from dying twice so far with it

It's *extremely* useful. I (18 wizard) used it to save a rogue in our party when he triggered a pit trap with spikes while exploring the Tomb of Horrors.

I ended up learning levitation instead. I mostly use it for stairs, because my character has a low strength stat and is lazy.

My GM homebrewed å high CR old school humungous Sword Spider who had managed to climb above the party and would get a nasty manylegged multi attack with its 8 sharp swordlike legs. As the bastard dislodged itself from the roof ready to bring falling impaling death to the party, my Mountain Dwarf Wizard shouts Feather Fall and he rules that the Sword spider gets his attacks but without the the extra falling impalementt. In effect two caracters took 24 fewer hitpoints each. Saved both characters since that left them at positive hp. The whole party and GM laughed heartily at my creativity. Proud moment!!

Personally I always take feather fall. It's rare that it's used, but when you need it, you really need it

Feather Fall is by no means a great 1st level spell. It's the BEST 1st level spell. Once stopped a player, who was actually one of the final bosses in disguise, from killing the whole party with it. Then I later wrestled the 2nd boss off the floating temple to a 1000ft drop and lived with my last level 1 spell slot. This was not even the most impressive session I've used the "I don't die from ledges" spell.

I want to see one about one of my favorite spells, Rope Trick. It is incredibly useful.

Zee, Dude, each video keeps getting better and better. Thoroughly enjoying this series.

So during a skype campaign one of the players disconnected, the dm said that their character was unconscious here's the twist, we were free falling because of the dm's story. So the entire party was falling from the sky and one of them was unconscious meaning that feather fall had no effect on him. So i asked the dm how many rounds i had before we hit the ground luckily it was just enough for me to cast spiritual weapon and golf swing the party member towards me, and finally i casted feather fall. And he didn't die

First vid I saw of yours. The sheer *STYLE* is bowling me over! The artstyle! The movement! The jazz! And the spell highlight!

My best moment with feather fall was when we had a giant spider jumpscare us from above. I feather fell it and we got an extra round for ranged attacks and positioning.

Also, if you get yourself a Broom of Flying or a Flying Carpet - or just want to use the Fly spell a lot - keeping Feather Fall prepared is also a wise choice. It's all fun and games, until some scum-sucking archer manages to peg you from 100 feet away, and you end up falling off your mount or losing concentration. Icarus probably wished he had Feather Fall.

I love these video's, your animation style blends really well with the content. Keep it up dude. Also a great way for a newb like me to lern spells and mechanics.

Guess what was the one spell I decided not to have and that ended up in our ranger dying after I threw him out of a window unconscious in attempt to save him from hags.

It would be cool to see magical special-forces units sky-diving into a secret facility and landing silently with featherfall.

I was a paladin with a ring of feather fall. An army of skeletons were beseeching this town we were in, and across the battlefield my wife was being crucified. So I did the most reasonable thing: I summoned my horse, loaded us both into a catapult, and launched myself as far as I could into the middle of the battlefield. The DM asked how I was going to avoid taking damage. I told him about my ring. He was all, "Cool, but what about your horse?" "Share spells," I said. He was clearly not expecting this, but went along with it as I gracefully landed... surrounded by an army of skeletons. This also proved futile since I was able to dust the lot of them with my ability to turn undead. The rest of my allies, including the soldiers we had with us in the town, took this as the signal to attack. I led an army through an evil horde, dusting undead as I moved through the crowds, and the enemies had no idea how to handle it since they were expecting a frontal assault. It's the single most badass moment I've ever had as a player, as it literally played out like some action movie scene 😎 Thank you whichever wizard invented the feather fall spell. I owe it all to you!

I once played a rogue who permanently contracted lycanthropy when our wild mage sorcerer cast feather fall on me. Wild magic can make even utility spells get even more wacky.

feather fall is also a great way to betray someones trust "come with me, i need to get you out of here!" dimension door 5 hundred feet straight up cast feather fall on self after having fell 300 feet watch them fall the full 500 feet taking 49 d6 falling damage and cleaning up the mess from range cause you got a few rounds to chuck fireballs down there without issue

It's one of those spells where 99% of the time it's uneeded, and if you're paranoid enough to have it always prepared it's just going to be a waste of a preperation. However, when that 1% cernario comes up where you *DO* need it, it's literally the most useful spell in the game, and if you don't have it prepared... Time to roll up a new character!

as soon as i saw them on the rooftop i was like OMG FEATHER FALL. shame i never got to use it as a bard

This is such an amazing series always makes me smile

I know it's not really a part of the video but a Duggers Tome is a fucking awesome homebrew item, simple and easy to understand but legitimately useful

It's also fun to use it with spells that can teleport you into the air as a sort of 'pseudo fly' spell in open areas. Dimension Door 400 feet into the air, Feather Fall to slow the drop, and use your longest range spells to stay useful, or use the broken line of sight as an excuse to make a stealth check to hide, in midair.

I had a player cast it on the enemy ambush jumping form the trees as a reaction. Allowing the party to move out of the way in time.

What's funny is 5d6 damage (about 17 damage on average) is completely survivable for most characters of lvl3 or higher.

That Duggers Tome sounds awesome. I'd love to see/learn more about this homebrew item.

my best use of feather fall was as a bard during a concert, I did a stage dive, with no one to catch me, I used feather fall, followed by a shower of fireworks from prestidigitation then boom the crowd goes wild!

The important thing about Feather Fall being a first level spell is that any class can pick it up with the Magic Initiate feat.

Featherfall is something you want built into a magic item. It isn't expensive, and doesn't have to be constantly active. It just has to activate when you fall further than 10 feet. It's like having a secret spy parachute built into your armor. I've seen certain higher level characters eventually replace their emergency feather fall item with a fly spell activated the same way. Dive off a cliff and fly away.

I play a fighter who is going into Artificer, just one level so far, but already this is my most used 1st level spell. More used than Cure Wounds, Absorb Elements, and Expeditious Retreat. If you ever find this on your spells list, take it!

This is the best thing that has come out on youtube this year. Possibly this decade.

Back in second edition days I played a halfling wearing a ring of feather fall and boots of striding and springing with a 19 dex... Batman as a hobbit