Now give that boi a Sunblade lol

Add the Alert feat so you sense the disturbances in the force too

I would have gone green Grung if my DM allows "One Grung Above" (which they do)...you get some crazy jumping. Also, try to pick up a Sun Blade :)

@@kaiyamazaki1684 I told my DM I either start with a Sunblade, or I dropped it and that's my personal quest lol.

goblin

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Not worth a feat. You could take anything else... And carry a potion.

@@lautaromoreno3916 level 9 cure wounds and a non class cantrip? Seems worth a feat to me. Especially given the martial bias most feats seem to have. As a wizard there aren't a huge number of feats you're competing against. It's definitely better than some people are suggesting, certainly a flavourful pick of nothing else.

@@lautaromoreno3916 the biggest weakness the wizard has is how squishy they are. being able to use one of their many spell slots to heal themself is actually very powerful, particularly considering they wouldn't have to come down to the ground when Flying, or can cast it on themself while in a globe of invulnerability is actually pretty big. as to carrying a potion, they are basically the only class who wouldn't. most of their gold (should) go to putting spells into their spellbook. the cheapest level 1 spell is roughly on par with a single potion, and their later scrolls and spells cost often magnitudes more. when you mix in that a free cure wounds is also equal to about a healing potion, but it's every day, it also adds up. the biggest trade off is not increasing your other stats, but depending on the party comp (which does mean niche), it can really pay off.

リス It’s just ok honestly, not really “worth” a feat. Of course, any feat is “worth” it if you like its flavor for your character, so I can only assume we’re talking about what is “worth” taking over +2’s from a character-optimization perspective. As far as having low competition with other feats goes, I’m not sure about that anymore. The new Telekinetic feat, along with the other Tasha’s half-feats, are actually pretty ridiculous for a Wizard: - +1 INT so you don’t lose stat progression. - You get a useful, *resourceless bonus-action* (something that Wizards otherwise lack) that pushes or pulls an enemy using your INT from range. Can be used to disengage by pushing enemies away from you/your allies, move enemies into/through AoE spell effects, push them away from your PAM user so he can set up a reaction attack, etc. - You get an invisible mage hand with improved range, and it doesn’t require somatic or verbal components. Useful for lots of out of combat stuff. The other Tasha’s half-feats (Fey Touched, Shadow Touched, Skill Expert) are legitimately pretty great for Wizards as well, because again, you’re gaining nice tools without losing stat progression. Shadow Touched and Skill Expert are the more niche choices, but still nice. The thing is, *Artificer Initiate just pales in comparison to the Artificer 1 dip,* but it’s still a fine and flavorful choice. Certainly not a complete waste, but really not “worth” it. When you consider that Wizards are probably going to pick up Resilient (CON) or War Caster, that means they need their remaining 4 ASI’s (or 3 ASI’s and a half-feat) to max out INT and CON. _Edit_ : Now what _is_ a _very_ strong new option along the same lines is just starting off with 1 level in Artificer and then going full Wizard. _Without losing out on spell slot progression,_ the Artificer 1 dip gets you: - Medium Armor + Shield proficiencies, CON saving throw proficiency (which also frees up a feat) - 2 extra cantrips (guidance says hi), as well as your INT modifier worth of extra level 1 spells known/prepared (Cure Wounds). So you’re netting 4-6 level 1 spells (3-5 from your INT modifier, 1 from not needing Mage Armor!) - Magic Tinkering - 3 tools proficiencies

I have a bard scorcerer(devine soul) who has transmute spell. Well now my shatter is also a fireball. It is also a lightning ball. Let me tell you environment is always favourable to me

Inflict Wounds is a great one, there's no save so you can guarantee max damage, by level 2 you can do 30 damage, an insta kill on almost anything you hit By 6th level you're doing 50 lightning/thunder damage twice a long rest

IIRC, fireball isn't on the cleric spell list though, and tempest clerics don't have it on their expanded spell list?

@@TheRealMuckluck you could always multiclass in sorcerer, you only need two levels of tempest for a one off big time amount of damage In fact at high levels meteor swarm does 120 lightning/thunder damage + 20d6 bludgeoning

​@@LaneyStudios5 Good point. Since it comes back on a short rest, you still get to use it fairly often. Shame you can't transmute necrotic damage, or Circle of Death with that huge AoE would have been siiiick.

I really like this idea, as long as your careful with the feats you give unless you don't mind the OP character builds (which I usually am cool with running games for)

As a player please don't give me feats, throw this rubbish book in the bin and give me something I will value.

I received the Tough Feat as a "reward" for making a deal with a demon-thing my barbarian has contained within his body/mind/soul(?)

@@dr.lexwinter8604 Alot of other players, including myself enjoy feats. They're optional rules, if you don't want them as a reward just talk to your DM.

I normally do that as a DM, but only if they make sense in character. A player who trained with someone in their free time with great weapons for a few times might earn great weapons master (rough example)

epic

You forgot: "your stealth checks automatically succeed while the creature you are attempting to remain hidden from is having sex."

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You also get misty step as a bonus action. How else does he get ahead of people or catch up to them so fast when they are running and he just walks lol

Either that or tree stride at will.

I’m currently playing in a crazy game where the GM has us pick a feat with every ASI. It’s a little ridiculous, and we’re crazy overpowered. Of course, everything is balanced to match so we’re going to die. It really enhances the ‘grand swashbuckling adventurers’ tone

@@blainewheaton9679 I love goofy stuff like that. I'm currently running a similar kind of intentionally broken 3.5 game, and it's a lot of fun to see my 3rd level party going toe to toe with CR 6-10 encounters.

Yeah, the pick between feats and an ASI is a pretty hard choice, which is why I like it. On the other hand, I do give all of my players a free feat at the start of the campaign, which would let Variant Humans take two Feats... If any of my players played one. Oh well.

I would think you could give a feat at levels where you don't get anything, no ASI or class feature.

@@duartecruz5635 I like that houserule a lot.

it's poop

I love it for its flavor

@@AngelCanseco1 I agree with the flavor. But it makes most sense if you want the +1 ability score increase to raise you ability to an even number to increase attack bonuses, spell, DCs, etc. If the +1 isn't helpful and the HP + flavor is what appeals to you, and your Charisma is already 13 or higher, you could take inspiring leader and tell your DM you would like to flavor it as inspirational meals. Then you probably are helping your party more. I guess there are a few conditionals in the statement, but it might be a better path for some to pursue.

This is a feat you as your DM if you can just have after a timeskip, it's fun for flavour but you're not breaking the game getting it for free

Different people with different opinions, gasp. One doesn’t like the mechanics while the other digs the flavor.

Only 1 attack per turn, though. The Swarmkeeper and Genie Warlock stuff is only once per turn that they add that damage. That said: For that single attack per turn, they could indeed benefit from all 3 of the weapon damage feats. Which is pretty neat.

@@DragonKnightJin ... this is exactly the type of stupid build I want to play in a one shot

Thats a great fucking idea

This also 100% negates every grappler, as long as it moved them out of their reach. Since the grappling rules are scuffed, the grappler gets no save or contest or anything if the grappled target is removed from their range. This feat can give you a 100% guaranteed out of grapples in many cases, and as you say remove them from opportunity attack range, and if you put this on a class with few bonus actions like wizards it's also free.

@@Travus Rules as written maybe, but lets be real every gm ever would make it a contest ^^

@@Travus No DM with any kind of common sense would allow that. This debate about voluntary or involuntary movement is kinda pointless beyond semantics. Unless there are active effects in place that somehow works around different states of mind or will, movement will be movement. If im the dm i would still rule it that you cant just remove the grapple by just yeeting someone away, because it wouldn't make sense. Same goes for opportunity attacks. Combat in dnd is dealt with in rounds, but there is no time stop in place that would deny opportunity attacks, just because someone doesnt use his own movement. Otherwise you could just as well physically shove the person away and have that remove grapple and opportunity attacks. And if we would go down that road, i would make damn sure that my evil dudes would shove each other through every prismatic wall your wizard would cast, because involuntary movement wouldn't trigger any of the 7 layers of effects :)

@@faselfasel2864 Realism is fun when magic is around, init? let's yeeet the enemy out of the four martial character and trigger every single opportunity attacks, rogues sneak attack your heart out!

@@faselfasel2864 If Involuntary Movement _does_ trigger an Opportunity Attack, then you've opened the tactic of using Telekinetic's Bonus Action Shove on the Foe to trigger Opportunity Attacks on your own Turn, which can get particularly nasty if the shove moved the target out of reach of multiple party members who get a turn before the Foe does.

WOTC lost the plot a long time ago. They're no longer fit for purpose.

I'm going to need a darkvision 300 feet for this to happen.

I hate WotC pushing multiclassing aside :c It's creates so many more possible character options, and enables far more potential themes. It's my biggest gripe coming from pathfinder and looking at 5e, and the reason I still play PF more. (pf1e)

How about I Multi-class anyway?

@@Night_Hawk_475 eh WotC probably just doesn't want it to be like 3.5 again, where it was easy to actually hurt yourself if you multied too much, I do miss it myself for the prestige classes though. The advantage is how much flavor and unique things you can do, but the downfall is the issues with balancing, it is much harder to balance when you are allowed to just do whatever. 5e is honestly a huge improvement on 3.5 in terms of balance, but I do sometimes miss some of the old stuff, and for that you can homebrew it back in honestly, it isn't terribly hard to convert to 5e form 3.5, just be careful what you let in. I still like to multi up to 3 levels at times just for the flavor of it, sometimes you can do some nice combos, for instance Bladesinger and barbarian lv 1, gives you unarmored defense plus while bladsinging it also adds int to AC, so AC = Con + Int+ Dex plus it lends itself nicely to using weapons that can also use Dex instead of Str so you don't have to literally focus everything but Cha and boom, a very tanky mage class who doesn't slouch in melee, toss in some spells like magic weapon and you can have some fun dance fighting.

Sorry, but Thieves' tools (just like Navigator's tools) aren't Artisan's tools... (PHB p154)

@@Firgart I noticed that later. Not nearly as fun.

Yeah.. I think (as a DM and player) it's really annoying how hard it is for a group to get Thieves' tools prof. without a Rogue, while most traps and locks in released adventures specifically ask for that proficiency.

@@Firgart Especially since Artificers explicitly get Thieves’ Tools proficiency, but the Initiate doesn’t. Well, there’s always backgrounds.

The real question I'd ask is; Do you need a +1 to charisma or wisdom? No? Then you don't really want to take chef because it doesn't provide much as a standalone. Yes? Then there are a myriad other options which do like 3x as much as chef does for the exact same cost, it feels kinda redundant. Telepathic, telekinetic, shadow / fey touched, observant, skill expert, resilient - all better options than chef.

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Abjuration wizard with armor of shadows was my initial thought

@@Kolohe_Senpai that is a good build, but it's no Loki, the real Loki, not the Marvel knockoff. The real Loki polymorphed into a female horse and got frisky with a stallion, gave birth to Odin's 8 legged horse. He also fathered Hel the ruler of Hell, Fenrir the wolf of Ragnarok, and the Jormundgarr worm. Loki the trickster god.

Illusion wizard with Mask of Many Faces and the Silent Image at will one.

Marvel's Loki perhaps myth Loki is more about Poymorphing.

THATS EXACTKY WHAT I THOUGHT

It’s okay, at the end of the day I vastly prefer DMing :)

@@DungeonDudes It does seem that DMing is a good fit for you, you can make lots of villains with all these crazy specialized character ideas!

@@chrislee8151 oh no. Those poor players

@@DungeonDudes Yeah me too. But when I actually plan to make a character it is mostly just stuff that pops into my head I want to use point buy and put everything in constitution and then start levelling intelligence and make a sentient brick, mainly just being silly.

@@DungeonDudes I too, prefer domming an- OH! You Dungeon Master. Nevermind then.

Yes. A must have.

I went Halfling ghostwise circle of the moon and it was hella useful to comunicate while shaped

@@BODELTOTE I had a wood elf CotM druid who took ritual caster (wizard) for find familiar, then chose a raven, who has mimicry. It's soooo much less convenient than telepathy :)

@@fessics I'm playing a Great Old One Warlock and I'm offended that one feat is better than my whole 1st-level shtick.

@@kogarashi_kaito it's not better? Awakened Mind works with all languages, Telepathic has to match languages both ways.

His name is Gourm....? Ayyyy

Beware the lizardfolk with the chef feat...

correction, once per hour. warlock spell slots restore on a short rest

@@khaaneph7311 While this is true, I meant that once per day you wouldn’t have to waste a Warlock spell in order to use the feat spell, since you can only use the feats spells once per long rest each

@@jamilortiz1 oh

Fey touched is also great for bard because you can take Misty step now without secrets and you can take something like bane or hex or bless which you normally don’t get because they’re level 1 spells. I would say it’s better than telekinetic because you do use your bonus action as bard quite often.

This here is a big thing for Warlocks. Any feat that can let you cast a good utility or defensive spell without using a spell slot is great, entirely due to your low amount of them. I wanna save a spell slot for when I am ready to deal damage with something other than Eldritch Blast, not just so I can get a few feet away from a guy.

It also let's you use the tool as a spell casting focus for int based spells. Which is big for Eldritch Knights and Arcane Tricksters. Also GUIDANCE

So two subclasses would find a good use for it. Thus niche. Which is exactly what they gave it.

@@lordhawkeye Combined with bad mouthing it (and saying it was bad ranked, before on screen giving it niche) and discouraging people from taking it, unlike every other feat they gave niche where they bother to tell you what the value is in taking it.

@@fortello7219 I don't think getting access to those spells as a wizard is worth a feat.

In general I find Magic initiate has more potential. An extra cantrip goes a long way.

Not to mention you're now lugging along a 25lb chest that's not exactly small, either.

@@DragonKnightJin put it in the Bag of Holding.

@@DragonKnightJin Tenser's Floating Disk. Also, screw adventuring, I'd run a taco truck with that combo.

@@Halinspark TFD only lasts an hour, so you better have 24 spare 1st lvl slots, or be prepared to spend 16.6% of your time ritual casting it. (I'm aware you wouldn't need it 24/7, this reply is tongue-in-cheek :o) )

This is such a cool idea especially if the player plays into it and begins asking for somewhat more rare cooking reagents. They bought extra-hot spices in town before journeying out into the frozen wastes? Thematic spicy food that staves off exhaustion from arctic travel!

Dang, that's a hecking good combo right there!

Holy shit that’s really good-

Unfortunately, the way I'm reading it, each casting of Mage Armor would only heal the ward for 2 hit points, not two plus twice your wizard level. Now, you could still have a fully charged ward at the start of every encounter, but it isn't quite as game breaking as on first thought.

@@nonsenseking That's still pretty strong though, making sure your Ward is topped up each fight gives you quite a bit more effective HP.

@@nonsenseking of course you wouldn't cast it in the middle of a fight - that would be poor action economy. But you would start every fight fresh because it would only take about 2 minutes or less to recharge (depending on the total). Normally the shield only recharges by burning spells or taking a long rest. Considering it can also be projected to party members, that seems like a solid feat for that subclass. Eventually at Wizard 18 you can do the same thing with Spell Mastery but it's almost like having a 3rd Spell Mastery for utility at an early level

As a Divine Sorcerer, I'm ashamed I've never thought of that use of extended spell before. Props for the idea!

That's not free though. People often phrase it like that, but the only time that is actually free is at the end of downtime. Otherwise you are saving up the same two slots to use at the end of the day, instead of casting them at the beginning of the day. End result is the same in terms of slots used. Of course if you're campaign involves adventuring for 1 day and then having a day off right after then sure, go nuts, but I would argue most adventuring takes place over the course of many days/weeks.

@@Kipex if you need the slots the next day, you use them. How often are you using every single 2nd level slot and above before you take a long rest?

@@mikeclementecard Depends on the tier of play and how many encounters the DM is throwing our way, but quite often especially for lvl4+. All I'm saying is that outside of downtime your idea requires carrying spell slots around, which could have been used to cast the spells normally without a feat. Now, the feat gives you a second metamagic option so you might pick something like subtle as well, but two sorcery points is rough. I just think there are many far more useful feats. As a sorcerer (divine or not) I would love to find a reasonably competitive use for extended spell, but it's just painfully bad.

Exactly what my divine soul drow sorcereress is doing every day before going to sleep... and she just sleeps 4 hours, with 12 hours left of pure goodness....

Intelligent chef tools that constantly swear at you

@@MrSteveK1138 WHAT ARE YOU? WHAT ARE YOU?

@@Hazel-xl8in an idiot sandwich

Did you guys just put Gordon Ramsay as a chef set?

@@draxthemsklonst Yes *attacks undercooked chicken as it springs to life and runs away *

I was gonna play a variant human undead pact warlock and take fey touched until I read the shadow touched spell list just in case and saw inflict wounds I already planned on playing a bit of a tankier melee warlock, but take crossbow expert and cast some touch spells and battlefield control spells if I need them and that spell is just too perfect. So much damage, and the one hard part is it’s a spell in melee range but like I’m already there so why not? The only reason I wouldn’t take it is if I decide that being able to cast hex once a day for free is better than a butt load of damage (tbh if there’s a paladin or a cleric that takes inflict wounds I might take fey touched) plus decide the utility of misty step is better than invisibility, which I never would because if I really want misty step I’ll just take it.

So much this. My Swarmkeeper Ranger took Hunter's Mark for the free cast plus freely knowing the spell. Rangers get so few spells in the first place, any little bit helps.

I think you're right this is really good for warlock. Probably a must have especially since hex doesn't scale well with levels so if you're going full warlock you'll fully drop hex

@@chrisvelo2595 It scales okay with slots if you can keep concentration(which as a warlock you should aleady be focusing heavily on) because upcasted hex lasts the entire dungeon or the entire day. But I definitely agree its nice to have the non-upcasted version for singular big fights where the duration is wasted.

@@j.a.6310 Yeah but I just look at higher level spells you can cast and would prefer to use my concentration for them. That being said after those two-three spells are used then hex is always good

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@@chairflipper4313 omg lol

@@chairflipper4313 there's even more gold inside the dragon ;)

It's not Dwarven. It is Draaaven.

I was building a character like this except it was with dual wield Morningstars instead. Seems fun

I always pick tool proficiencies too, and I never use them

@@thebrutusmars I'd recommend checking the Xanathar rules for toolkit components and possible things you can do with them. Also thinking creatively with the given resources. Again though, I mainly pick them because it fits the character and has fun avenues for roleplay.

@@illoney5663 I haven’t been a player in a campaign in a while anyway so there isn’t much I can do but thank you!

Tools are like side quest hooks for pc arcs. Pc have something to do on downtime and it leads to...

This vid gave me an idea: maybe you could homebrew-rule it so that you gain some of the weaker feats for free with a tool proficiency. Chef for Cooks Utensils, Artificer Initiate for Tinker's tools, Poisoner with the Poisoner's kit, Keen Mind with Cartographers Tools. Maybe Artificer Initiate could work for every Tool Proficiency, since Artificers can cast their spells from any tools. I wouldn't give anything to Thieves Tools and Disguise Kits, since they are already pretty strong. Also you would have to make Languages really important in that campaign, since otherwise everybody would get 2 Tools with their background just to exploit that. Edit: On second thought, maybe this isn't such a good idea, since it would take away from the flavour/roleplaying element of tools, if everyone just went after them for the feats

Why "rip Fjord"?

Or when the Barbarian runs into Fireball range...

Well the DM may decide that opportunity attack can still happen

@@anindyaambuj If DM don't want to follow the rules, which say that you do provoke opportunity attack, if you move via your movement speed, so no attacks if you're thrown, falling, shoved etc. but jumping by yourself still uses your movement

@@LucasSchons I assume it's a reference to Critical Role

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Especially Inflict Wounds- even at low levels you're dealing 30-40 damage with this setup, and at higher levels you're easily dealing 70+. Brilliant.

@@Alex-mp8dp Can't do it with Inflict Wounds - that's necrotic damage, not acid/cold/fire/lightning/poison/thunder.

@@zorak9379 :( this makes me very sad, but to be fair it'd be a _bit broken_ if that worked.

you mean magic mushrooms?

Yes.

There's a rule with lizardfolk and drow food: you don't ask what's in it, you just eat

strange mushrooms offered to me by a friend in the party? you better believe i would

Fuck telepathic. All my homies hate telepathic. Telekinetic though ;)

@@dim-flower what's wrong with telepathic?

@@wanderingshade8383 it’s just a bad telepathy option IMO. Niche to a high degree. Take telekinesis 10x more than telepathic

@@dim-flower Oh totally, take Kinesis more than pathy any day of the week, but why is it a bad option? there's not many ways to GET telepathy so they're all cool. And this is better than Goolock so...

After the temp HP from Inspiring Leader have been depleted, but you don't have a chance to take a short rest and replenish them, for instance. The definition of "niche", but still nice. Also, the d8 from Chef and the die from Song of Rest stack together. Plus cooking with Cook's Utensils during a short rest provides +1 hp restored per hit die spent during that short rest with the same 'restriction' as the Chef feat's d8 bulletpoint. Which is also nice.

Alternatively, if you start your monk off with- a single level of fighter at level 1, this gives you more weapon proficiencies that you can pair with the new optional Monk feature Dedicated Weapon. This means instead of taking Unarmed Fighter, you can now use a wider array of weapons as your monk weapon, choosing one weapon a day. As long as it’s not two handed or special, that means you can use things like Longswords, Warhammers, and Battleaxes. That frees you up for choosing any fighting style without losing out on damage (aside from your bonus action attacks). You can use these weapons as part of your optional Ki-Fueled Strike feature as well, should you spend a ki point as part of your action. So that’s three long sword attacks a turn at level 5 if you stunning strike once a turn. Not bad. Obviously some of these weapons don’t work with Crusher, but you can use a Warhammer this way.

Good point about increasing monk damage. Honestly monks need the boost

I gave my party's monk a magic club, she then immediately took fighting initiate: duelist so she didn't lose any damage from using a club over a quarterstaff

I really dislike the Unarmed Fighter style for this exact reason. It's made it so Fighters can get an unarmed strike that's as powerful as a level 11 Monk's at level 1! At this point if you want a tactical unarmed character, go Battle Master Fighter and dip 1 level into Monk. You still get 1d8+DEX punch and a BA unarmed strike, but now you also get all the versatility and fun of Battle Master to enhance it!

I would make chef a rule and make a new version that boosted what this one does. Maybe let them get the effect of hero’s feast by spending gold or materials for the cost of the meal equal to the spell

Except you only get the feat at level 4 unless you're varient human

@@meme0taker87 that's true, but instead of taking that 3rd Sorc level you can take your 4th X level, is the example I was going for

Some multiclass types "waste" 3 levels in sorcerer only for metamagic; u can take this feat and just level your warlock or paladin for example as normal

@@MrEvans1 If you try sorcadin or whatever with metamagic adept you can only quicken or twin a max of twice a day maybe only once.

@@MrEvans1 taking 2 levels and the feat instead of 3 levels will leave you with more points plus the 1st level features, which can be very useful now that there's so many to choose from. Also you get don't of magic to convert for spell slots

Agreed, I was worried I was going to have to wait awhile to hear other’s opinions but they’re awesome and already got multiple videos out about it!!!

That's sick. I love it.

This hits on something I already felt about the invisibility spell part. IMO a big strength of spells like invisibility and disguise self is there low level, meaning you can use them super freely during exploration, intrigue and right before entering a hostile area etc. 1 disguise self for the entire day doesn't feel that good to me. Same with 1 invisibility. Just my opinion though and I know a lot of people do far fewer encounters per day so maybe it doesn't come up at all for them.

Also Ray of Sickness. Inflicting Poisoned is really good.

yeah. also they dont seem to be taking into account that the feat helps with short rest healing (add 1d8 if any Hit Die are rolled). the other thing this does is help players get into a RP mindset during short rests. many times my players just say "im short resting" then roll hit dice. now i can say "do you want to cook your treats and your special meal?"

"Get over here" actually IS the verbal component when my EK casts Lightning Lure. Lv7 + War Caster feat, so I still get an attack afterwards. Good fun when I'm 10 feet short of getting close to the enemy.

Wouldn't Thorn Whip do the trick?

My DM does the bonus feat to start, but I like the additional one as well.

The hell with it, the GM has all the arsenal of the core books and the rules at his disposal, he has all the power and options, the players don't. Let them have fun, give them power and options and adjust accordingly. It's fair

Yeah I give my players a feat at level 1 since it makes for a more fun character, since a lot of PCs never get a chance to take a feat.

@@lukeclassen3325 How WoTC has determined how/when characters get feats and ASIs is one of my biggest gripes with 5e. Getting a free feat at the beginning of the campaign is a great way to get around that and to provide a better starting point for the players.

In Theros everybody starts off with a supernatural gift listed in the book or an extra feat to represent how epic and heroic the PCs are.

My Ghostwise halfling Way of the Open Fist monk just added another weapon to his already insane arsenal. I wonder what DM's think of this feat. Guess I will soon find out lol.

Crusher on a Half-Orc Champion. Lvl 15, crit on 18-20 (15% roll) with a maul. GWM obviously. Crit damage is 5d6 + Str + 10, re-roll 1-2. If you crit on your first attack against a boss, you can now make your attacks, action surge attacks, and GWM bonus attack with advantage and have a ~27% chance to crit on each. Absolutely savage.

Crusher on anyone with booming blade. That way they get pushed as soon as you hit them and if they are melee enemies they have to either move and take the damage or waste the turn. Also If you take a level in dao genie warlock then any weapon does bludgeoning damage.

@@andrewmcmillan229 Booming Blade never triggers with forced movement though ;)

@@Ateka9 the idea of this is that you push them out of melee range so they have to move to get back to you, though if you are taking a feat for synergy with booming blade then you could also do spell sniper and use a reach weapon for a similar effect

Probably blind fighting.

@@timothybelleci3554 Especially if Shadow Monk. Don't need to worry about blinding myself or needing darkvision if I can just get within 10 feet of them.

Felt the same way. That's how you know it's a first impression though. As these feats get older and the options are explored I'm sure he will have better reasons for everything

Came here to comment this lol

Lol, yeah. I came here to make this comment. It's a way to get int based cure wounds on a wizard.

Yeah, I had the same thoughts with Artificer Initiate. A wizard can get the Guidance cantrip and Cure Wounds. The benefit it has over Magic Initiate (Cleric) is that while you get one fewer cantrip, you can both apply your INT modifier to those heals and you can cast Cure Wounds more than once per day, which is significant. You also have the option to upcast it. So yeah, still pretty niche, but that's enough of a change from Magic Initiate to warrant conversation.

But you could also play as a monk with fighting initiate to start out with the high damage unarmed

Damn. I wish Monks were good lol.

Making immunity into resistance and resistance into normal damage would definitely improve it.

I think granting the ability to make an elemental infusion of acid, fire, poison, or necrotic damage that ignored resistance would sidestep a lot of the immunity problems. Have a Utility Belt of damage types!

Rinings: Pretty much my thoughts exactly.

The problem with turning immunity into resistance is that most of the time it doesn't make sense to have them take any poison damage at all, with that you could poison walls, constructs and poisonous frogs. Sure, it's fantasy, but you can only suspend disbelief so far

@@kearbillings5719 but now you end up with a trap for newer players who think this sounds amazing, only to have it just be so meh

Dip 3 in fighter for Action Surge and Champion (crits on 19)

My group did similar last week. Cast wall above the weaken and used reverse gravity on it.

Arcane tricksters already have an invisible mage hand

Legerdemain gives them that as a bonus action at level 3. Its their defining feature besides casting in general.

The Dungeon Dudes didn't mention that Telekinetic increases the range of Mage Hand by 30 feet if you already know it from another source.

Also its important to mention: Casting mage hand with this feat require no components at all. So... you cast invisible mage hand with just your own thought, no blabering arcane words, no waving hand. None can ever notice you cast it if they can't see invisible things, and you can do things with this. Roleplay options are awesome too, just mess with others making items fly around house, poke them on back of their head? You can almost everything.

(Character is in a bar, casually sipping a beer) Me: I'm going to pick that guy's pocket DM: the guy at the bar? Me: the guy at the other bar DM: what other bar? there's only one bar? Me: the bar in the bar across the street DM: (counts quickly) that's 50 feet away! Me: cool, I got 10 feet to spare. Let's see what he's got... (profit)

Let me just tell you, as long time Divine Sorcerer... Having spells like Cure Wounds on an arcane caster sounds useful on paper, but in reality you have MUCH more important uses of your actions in combat. Sure you can heal out of combat quite well, like if you are having an RP day in town and the fighter stubs his toe, you can heal him, etc. But the thing about healing in combat is due to action economy you usually only cast heals mid-combat in extremely dire situations. Wasting your turn to heal someone for 9 hp (average 1d8+5) isn't going to do all that much when they are getting hit for 20+ damage per round. Now you're thinking: "Oh but I can upcast it! If my wizard casts it at 4th level, it will heal over 20hp!". And while that's true, you know what else you could do with that 3rd or 4th level spell slot? Polymorph them into a huge creature that gives them 150 bonus health as an emergency 'heal'. Or just upcast Hold Person and hard CC everyone attacking them so they are no longer getting the crap beat out of them. That's always going to be a hell of a lot better "healing" than having your wizard casting Cure Wounds. And besides, why are you even worried about healing on your arcane caster? You have better things to do with your limited actions. You are the nuke that your party is counting on to clear the room, and your DM probably balanced the fight around the expectation that you are going to Fireball, Wall of Force, Chain Lighting, etc, and remove half the enemies from the battle in one round. If you spend your turn healing a single person for 20hp, your team is just going to get overrun. You can't heal in one round, what all the enemies are going to hit you with in the same round. A dedicated healer can help stop the bleeding, but they are just buying time for you, as the offensive caster, to kill off a lot of the attackers to help win the fight. Trust me, I've had Cure Wounds on my Sorcerer for going on three years of a weekly campaign, and I use it in battle less than once a year. It's just not a great use of your round in combat, even if you have quickened spell to bonus action cast it.

Yeah.. you woldn't use it a lot, but you can save someone with your familiar sitting in their face and cure wond them at range.

@@trapical I dont think the argument was for the wizard to suddenly not be a blaster anymore and only cast cure wounds now in combat, it was more about the wizard now suddenly has an emergency (or a few if you use slots) heal for the healer or any other character that goes down that the healer couldn't get to in time. Sure it takes an action but if that person was gonna die otherwise I think its pretty useful, not to mention you can use a familiar to cast it making it ranged for you so you don't have to be right next to the downed person. Also your argument about never using it on your divine soul feels weak because of course you never use cure wounds when healing word is right there instead. This wasn't an argument for someone who already has healing taking this, this was an argument for someone who doesn't have healing to take it in case of emergencies lol. Also before you mention polymorph again, cant polymorph an unconscious creature.

What if you’re healing the healer 20 hp so they can stay in it? Great points everyone; just saying.

I can totally agree. I was in a campaign where there was only one person that any healing magic. When that guy went down, which happened often due to low AC and HP, the fight got four times as hard. I multiclassed my fighter into cleric just to have that emergency, "Nope he is back up." button. Having a emergency button on a wizard is awesome.

Yea. If you are in a low level campaign where monks never get above a d8, this is literally the best thing for them. Its ridiculous

I dont think it should work AO creat creatures where crusher says when u hit. And also its olny once per turn

My bard was considering it to take Command.. Until the bard spell list got expanded to include Command.

I know your pain

Well, this one was completely broken. But I wanted that too hahah

What did it do exactly?

@@datalysjr3339 -you could take the help action as a bonus action. -your help action range was increased to by 5ft -when you used the help action to give an ally advantage on their first attack roll against the target, your help action also now gave advantage to a 2nd allies first attack roll against that same target.

@@binolombardi Damn sounds busted, no wonder they got rid of it, though how would you tweak it?