JamJamSlam ah you beat m to it

I looks like that was a mistake of thier part. (M)

Other 'M' My favorite Metroid game

If you guys are not casting “M” you’re not really playing D&D

@@DungeonDudes That explains why I keep getting telegrams full of nothing but the letter M. They're trying to cast Mage Armor on me remotely.

*Todd Howard enters the chat*

I have a multiclassed Hexblade/Divine Soul Sorlock who has known spells dedicated to Feather Fall, Lesser Restoration, See Invisible, Aid, Catnap and Greater Restoration in addition to the usual heals and damage, shoehorned in. I also love the buffs! Some great arcane hybrid options.

King crimson also just works

Huh. That makes me wonder...for an enemy spell caster, which of you they should try to Counterspell...? EDIT: I know that isn't really a concern according to RAW, but...maybe it should be?

@@chrisw3024 The way I see it, Counterspell actually negates the magic in the area instantaneously thus countering the spell. So it doesn't matter if you can target the caster itself.

I have a improved mirror image spell I made. It makes 1d2/ spell level, but they make their own moves and "actions". they don't do damage or make the spell effect, but if you have 8 mages doing things from boxing you, fireballing you, lightning bolting you, and casting Azzer's Wonderful Allies again, on top of every time you do hit the main mage he teleports to another place. Yeah it makes fighting him a nightmare.

Simulacrum and Mirror Image. 🤔

The ground at a high speed lmao

"The ground at high speed" made me chuckle

Druid can use Barkskin on themself before shifting to get (usually) higher ac though, as most combat beast forms have really sucky dex.

@@Klaital1 Barkskin is still concentration, so there is the chance it will fall off while in beast form

But don't most beasts have "natural armor," would that cancel the spell or does the spell override? This is an interesting interaction I have no thought of before.

@@C3Squared Barkskin makes your AC become 16 if it's lower, so if you have a natural armor of 13 it becomes 16 when Barkskin is in effect

​@@C3Squared Barkskin and natural armor are both ways to calculate a creature's AC. The creature picks one or the other way to calculate their AC. Bonuses add to any base calculation for a creature's AC. For example, let's say a druid with 14 Dex (+2 modifier), leather armor (AC = 11 + Dex mod), and no shield casts _barkskin_ on themselves to set their AC to at least 16 instead of their normal 13. They then use their Wild Shape feature to transform into a giant lizard that has both an AC of 12 and natural armor. The druid can choose between _barkskin_ 's AC of 16 or the giant lizard's natural armor AC of 12. If the party's paladin then also casts _shield of faith_ on the wild shaped druid, the druid then adds the +2 bonus to AC from the spell regardless of which base AC they chose to use. If the party's wizard then also casts _haste_ on the wild shaped druid, the druid then adds the +2 bonus to AC from the spell regardless of which base AC they chose to use. The total bonuses from _shield of faith_ and _haste_ now equal +4, which is added to the druid's choice of AC 16 or AC 12. If the party's cleric then also casts _warding bond_ on the wild shaped druid, the druid then adds the +1 bonus to AC from the spell regardless of which base AC they chose to use. The total bonuses from _shield of faith, haste, and warding bond_ now equal +5, which is added to the druid's choice of AC 16 or AC 12. Etc.

In a campaign I'm playing in, my Life Domain cleric threw Aid on herself and the two wizards in the party. She also used Inspiring Leader to give everyone in the party another 13 HP. One of the wizards had 25 hp. Giving him +5 max HP and 13 temp HP put him at 43 hp. During the party's journey we were helped by an NPC. This NPC helped us sneak through a town full of hostile enemies, but she got caught as we were leaving and had to flee. My character sent her a couple messages to figure out if she was ok, found out she was very much not ok, and told the wizard to go back and get her since he had Dimension Door. He went back, found her, cast Invisibility on the both of them and ran back to be within range to DD on the far side of the town. Just before he got to where he would be able to make it back to us with a second DD, he took a critical dagger hit from a rogue who had Truesight and saw him coming. *42 damage.* Without me having cast Aid and using Inspiring Leader on him that morning, our wizard would have been rolling a new character. And my character would have felt like absolute garbage for getting him killed.

*Jared Fogel intensifies*

Scorpious187 *LIVED ON ONE HP*

Whenever I play a cleric, I almost always drop AID at the start of an adventuring day using one of my higher level spell slots. I *never* regret it, and I've had people limp out from a fight on 3 hp without having fallen over all the time with this spell. Really effective at keeping people up, they can heal into it on a short rest, and it doesn't take concentration. Super effective.

I love that spell too, but I just can't stop calling it aids =(

I might have ruled that wrong, but I allowed an oath of the crown Paladin to get allies back up even after they went down to 0 with their channel divinity ( though this part of the unconscious condition makes me think it wouldn't work RAW: "unaware of its surroundings", so I probably buffed their channel divinity significantly with that ruling - which I'm OK with given the realtive negative reactions I see on reddit about Crown Paladins)

They can do it with Aura of Life also kind of, though it's slightly delayed.

If they already had Aid cast on them, I don't think I'd allow that-- replacing the previous Aid would subtract the HP buffed from that casting, and then give the new HP, leaving them at 0 still. And if they *didn't* already have Aid cast on them-- why not?? It lasts eight hours and is a great spell for casting *before* you get into any trouble, when your Actions aren't life or death resources.

@@MsNathanv The problem with your ruling is negative hp doesn't exist in 5e. So, yes, the current hp would be reduced from the previous Aid, but only down to 0, the lowest it can go. The new Aid then applies its own hp, and they are no longer at 0. "A creature's current hit points (usually just called hit points) can be any number from the creature's hit point maximum down to 0."

assuming you take the flat rolls that would be... 397 hp + 25 temporary hitpoints. you are a sponge.

@@Hazel-xl8in And if you are a totem warrior with the level 3 bear totem, your hp pool is basically doubled unless you're hit with psychic damage. You are *the* sponge

@@maid_of_heart3261 as of the new unearthed arcana, (draconic options) you can give up on the hill dwarf and be an emerald dragonborn instead to gain resistance to psychic

My divine soul sorcerer casts it on the eldritch knight, basically making him unhittable and the ultimate tank. Shield of faith is always added to that too, ofcourse

I used it on our sorc because demon lords kept targeting her. You have to be careful though with that spell but I love it as well. I say "wonder twins power activate" whenever I cast the spell.

I've heard criticism on useful application, but I still find the spell interesting, and would find the RP and tactical approach to be very appetizing.

(Very late response) Warding Bond is also perfect for some roleplay between the two characters; either being lovers, relatives, a powerful friendship or even a tragic bond, maybe they dislike each other and have no other option but to be strong together until the quest is finished.

Agreed especially since most class abilities of the paladin (lay on hands, the non-smite spells, etc.) are actions.

@@docnevyn5814 And you can always use the built-in smite you get for expending spell slots on a hit, thus not requiring any concentration.

@@mal2ksc I hardly ever use the Smite spells as a paladin. There's just other things I'd rather spend my concentration on, and you already have Divine Smite. If you really need the extra dmg and are set on using your concentration on it, I always go for Divine Favor. Lasts just as long, also is a bonus action, but dosen't drop the dmg after one hit.

Lance Mozzini I just said almost the same thing! My favorite spell is Find Familiar, and I love buffing familiars with touch spells. If you have a “backpack wizard” (e.g. gnome), you can have the familiar take all the risks. 😊👍🏻

Never thought of that! I’ll be using that in my game because my familiar could use the help. The way my DM plays it is every time my familiar dies he makes a DC to conjure them, it increases per death, decreases per “fun time” activity (it’s like having a toddler). It’s a fun house rule, it really makes me think about when/how to use him (Picklefarts is his name).

Isn't that one of the railroady ways to get a party to Ravenloft?

"Hey you, you're finally awake, my name is Monty Martin." "And I'm Kelly McLaughlin." "And we are the Dungeon Dudes!"

@@itsvairen334 I love the (nord accent) "you're finally awake" spin you gave it.

When you compare the groups it can cover, you get a healthy chunk of the monster manual keeping away from * insert vital team member, usually cleric *

I was playtesting a party where all three characters had PEG in their spell list. I found it was best to have them cast it on each other in a round robin rather than casting on themselves. That way when someone took a hit and lost concentration, the PEG that got broken was on someone ELSE, which helps prevent the death spiral that can result if you PEG yourself and then lose concentration.

fun combo if anyone sees this, divine soul to twinspell protection from evil and good and have another player who can then cast sanctuary on you. at low levels it can turn a squishy all casters party into untouchable gods when combined with more of the buff spells mentioned in this video.

ohhhhh... f in the chat

To be fair protection from poison is good if you know you're in a high poison environment, I recently had a game where it came in invaluable due to a variant purple worm we were fighting at 6th level. Absolutely would have been a tpk if we hadn't had the resistance 🤣

Laughter Laughter.... Ha.... Ha ..... Ha. -Warforged

*Hisses in Yuan'ti*

@@ashenwuss1651 I just started a monk yuan-ti abomination and a bard yuan-ti pureblood.

@@kanevivi Nice!

I think your reaction should be severely affected by blindness

Based off of super limited knowledge of multiclassing so if something forbids this, someone let me know, thanks I feel a cleric / other sorc subclass hybrids probably more effective due to the way sorcerers gain spells. Having cleric there let's you have all the spells, not just 2 a level which you cant really change much, and you gain another sorcerer origin and you can devote your sorcerer spells to different things.

In my opinion, the few benefits of being a sorcerer (twinned spell abilities, quickened spell abilities, distance-enhancing abilities, etc.) are far outweighed by the standard Cleric subclasses. For example, a Grave Domain cleric can cast Spare The Dying at a range of 30 feet (which means it actually makes the spell useful). Clerics get more powerful spells to add to their arsenal, and they get more of them. I compared the DS Sorcerer to my Life Domain cleric because I was considering playing a DS in another campaign, and the cons of doing so far outweighed the pros. (Ended up playing an Arcane Trickster rogue instead, since we had a bard who could do heals.)

@@Scorpious187 personally, my interest in playing a divine soul sorcerer is largely for roleplay purposes and for fulfilling the archetype of a radiant/fire damage dealing caster who sometimes heals. If you're familiar with the Fire Emblem series, I'm building a character similar to Micaiah from Radiant Dawn. I'm prioritizing roleplay over mechanics for the class choice, but within the class I'd love to know about some of the tricks and tips.

@sum body 1 level cleric, 19 sorc

@sum body or 3 cleric 17 sorc

Long may the sun shine. 🍻

It says increase maximum hit points and current hit points go up and it's no longer at 0 hit points and the rule is Falling Unconscious If damage reduces you to 0 hit points and fails to kill you, you fall unconscious. This unconsciousness ends if you regain any hit points. The last line is the important part you regained hit points so your now not unconcious

I've used it like that, its sound RAW.

I would say if you're ruling strictly according to the wording in the manual it would work, but I would also understand every DM who wouldn't allow to cheese the spell like that. Just make sure to communicate stuff like that beforehand to avoid TPKs happening because the players rely on that tactic.

@@achimsinn7782 how is it cheesing the spell? Aid is heall spell on top of being a buff and completely RAW

JMD Ikonix A really good defensive buff caster is the Divine Soul Sorcerer! 👍🏻

You mad man

@@giant1033 you think that's mad? My character has the tough feat too and wish for simulacrum!

I guess that's TECHNICALLY RAW, but absolutely not RAI. Not that it matters much since 16 hours of Aid is PLENTY.

Is it a spell or an ability?

Blue Zombi I had a Warlock win a duel using A.O.A. I missed every time I swung my quarter staff to hit my opponent, even with Polearm Master, and they hit every swing. I won because they took more cold damage from attacking me than they delivered. 🥶

One of these days, I will play the support warlock again.

Why would aid stack?

@@SuperSixel you can cast it multiple times, sorry I wasn't clear with that

I'd say Aid doesn't stack, like other multiple castings of the same spell.

@@AVJHalonen It doesn't stack but increases your max hp so it doesn't stack in the normal sense but you can cast it multiple times. Unless it says otherwise you can cast this spell multiple times and increase hp each time

@@lockskelington314 It's a general rule, spellcasting section in the PHB, page 205. You can upcast it which would replace the previous effect or combine it wit stuff like False Life but casting Aid on top of Aid just replaces the previous one.

Nowadays sleeps really only good for the first couple of levels if that, you want to control, damage deal, or Support, find familiar is a grate scout go owl and pair it in combat with your party Rouge to give them advantage Tasha's Hideous Laughter Is good against your good old dumb big bad and silent Image for a environment change especially if you clue your party in using a code word can be an amazing battle field control spell Healing ward allows you to pick back up that guy who just got dropped as a bonus action, bless is one of the best supporting spells in the game and I've found catapult to be fun especially if my dm let's me fling a vial of acid, Poison, oil and other fun toys and tools tanglefoot bags and later things like sovereign glue, or bombs, crushed glass in lightly closed bags

It takes some time but the Blurred Mirror Image combo is really when pulled off

what is a palicer?

@@aldoushuxley5953 Paladin/Sorcerer multi class. I'm playing an Oath of Devotion, Divine Soul Protector Aasimar. I'm RPing as a celestial sent to the mortal plane by Pelor to save humanity from the encroaching darkness that threatens to destroy the mortal plane. The bread and butter of the class is Spirit Guardians, a divine angel with a flaming blade(Green flame blade) with his fellow Angels of War by his side as he protects mankind.

@@GM_Ryu Ah that's cool :)

Eyy I'm also playing Paladin/Divine Soul Sorc, though I went with Crown instead. Though it's a 3 man party, and we don't have another tank lol Also, Shield of the Faithful - as far as I know, that's a Protection Cleric's ability, not a spell Edit: Hmm.. I guess you're referencing Shield of Faith: A shimmering field appears and surrounds a creature of your choice within range, granting it a +2 bonus to AC for the duration. It's a decent spell, I wouldn't be able to access it until level 6 though.

@@AbyssArray yes you are right I blame autocorrect lol