Lets just call it the peasant transporter.

Hold shit, yeah!

The peasant railgun attempts to argue real life physics with something that can not possibly work in real life.

@@schwarzerritter5724 Exactly. It's "I would like to use the strict rules of the game, ignoring real life physics, until an exact point of my choosing, when I would like to switch to using real life physics and ignoring the rules of the game." It's completely inconsistent and makes zero sense.

Yep. It still can be useful though, such as with the artificer's spell storing item. Each person in the line can produce one of the spells before passing. You're not likely to ever run into a scenario when you can make use of this rule abuse (unless your DM allows you to have tiny servants pull it off. Then you can set up a mini-turret with one spell).

You only get affected by 1 Dis Adv roll even if you have (ex) "10 dis adv events applied to you". Thus, if your class WANTS that Dis Adv. Go ham... Barbarians.

Nah I don't think having a "Swim Speed" is the same as being able to swim since you can swim through the water just fine without a swim speed but each feet of movement costs 2 from your movement speed. Basically without a swim speed, you're swimming is half as fast as your running. I think that makes sense. Having a swim speed makes you basically semi-aquatic. You're not JUST good at swimming, your swimming puts semi-aquatic and marine creatures to shame, especially if you have more than 30ft of swim speed. Having a swim speed doesn't make you a gold medalist swimmer. It makes you freaking Aqua Man

@@Zulk_RS Warforged Eldritch Knight with Eldritch Initiate Feat for Misty Step: "Instant Teleport... Instant Teleport... Instant Teleport!... Instant Teleport!!!" The fishes of the deep: "And here we see a living log trying to swim, but instead, it mastered Misty Step..."

You're not horses though. Even if they're half horses they're half magical creature horses. Which means the centaur can climb up if the rules say they can. Get out. Doors over there for anyone who disagrees. Walk through it and off the cliff

Presumably, having a full swimming speed implies you're adept at moving and fighting underwater. So a Triton, for example, isn't pigeon-holed into a narrow band of weapon options, just because they want to exploit their amphibiousness for underwater adventures.

Hilarious

technically if you're a race who doesn't need to sleep the full 8hrs like elves who only trance for 4 and warforged who go inert for 6, you can still use the spell because RAW states you change your spells at the END of the long rest, so you can still cast them during the long rest, spell slots also only reset at the END of the long rest too so no worries there

Rest cast it and keep it running 24/7.

For a long rest, Warforged do not need to sleep. They can just keep on working without getting the exhausted penalty from lack of sleep. They only need sleep to restore their resources. A monk, or a rogue can keep on going without having to worry about their resources. Once you managed to get a ring of regeneration, boom, never sleep ever again. @@DestroKind

@@DestroKind Just be careful that you cast before trancing.

True Strike has the advantage that people can not tell you are casting a spell, because the only component is pointing at your target. So you can cast it before the battle starts to gain advantage on your first attack.

@@schwarzerritter5724 Or you could just ambush and get a whole surprise round

@@Agamemnonoverhead Yes, True Strike is still very situational.

@@schwarzerritter5724 From 30 feet away.

@@MalloonTarka Like I said, very situational.

And distance, for that matter.

Chronurgy wizard: Hello there.

A tip, Shape Water can be used to extract water from plants. It's what I mostly use for my goblin to surf as I turn water into ice in the shape of a surfboard and I just move around . There is also a background that automatically lets you have water and food for about 6-8 people. Outlander.

*furiously writes down new (n)pc idea*

@ oh yeah, and Catnap makes you take a short rest in 10 minutes, so you can sling some spells, take a nap and do it again. If you can make a multiclass with Eldritch Blast/warlock, action surge + catnap + Eldritch Blast/other blast or cc spells becomes terrifying

I love when rules as written end up being more broken than the thing they were trying to prevent

This has brought about a few (virtual) table discussions and I get hit with the it's uses a cast a spell (action) and you can only use one of those a turn. Think the other players get this confused with multiattack or something, but I'm glad to see I wasn't the one being silly.

Action Surge says: "On your turn, you can take one additional action." So it's not "two spells as an action", you do use separate actions. Then, Bonus Action says: (once you cast a spell with a bonus action) "You can't cast another spell during the same turn, except for a cantrip with a casting time of 1 action". So - and this applies ONLY if you've casted a spell as a bonus action - even if you do have another action from the action surge, you only can use 1 action for casting a spell (and on top of that, the spell is restricted to being a cantrip). Otherwise if you wouldn't cast a bonus-action spell, you could use both actions (1 regular action + 1 action from surge) to cast two separate, leveled spells.

Sad thing is... RAI and with the errata... If you are a Fighter/Bladesinger, then the Bladesinger's Extra Attack Feature cannot be combined with the Fighter's Extra Attack Feature. So... You have to choose between "Attack + Cantrip" or "4x Attacks". But at least the Eldritch Knight's features such as War Magic and Eldritch Strike does combine well with the Bladesinger. However, if you're building an Eldritch Knight / Bladesinger Multiclass. Go Dex Int... Unless you're more of a Support / Mobility Eldritch Knight who can go with 20 Str and 20 Dex. Downsides... You're Spell Slots may change since you're the Eldritch Singer.

@@absolstoryoffiction6615 You wouldn't be able to choose between attack + cantrip or 4 attacks anyway because 4 attacks is a lvl 20 fighter feature and you can't get level 20 with a multiclass. War Magic doesn't really combine because it states that if you use your action to cast a cantrip, you can make a single weapon attack as a bonus action. Bladesinger's Extra Attack allows you to replace one of the attacks made during Attack action with a cantrip, so they are basically the same features, but the War Magic wastes both action and bonus action while the latter only an action. I'd say just lvl 2 dip into bladesinger and then the rest into fighter

@@xRedivivus That's true...

@@absolstoryoffiction6615 I mean, for all practical purposes unless this campaign approached tier 4 it wouldn't be an issue. It takes 6 levels of Bladesinger to get their Extra Attack and 10 levels of Fighter to get 3 attacks per action, so that's a level 16 character. Not impossible, but unless you know this campaign is running long or it's starting high, it's not likely to come up when you're plotting out the character.

@@willieoelkers5568 True... It's kind of sad that WotC has never tried to design Legendary Campaigns that is actually meant for lv15+. The main reason why Multiclass is absolutely better than a single class (for some class choices) is that everyone knows the campaign will begin at lv1 to lv4 and end at lv10 to lv15. In the end... Why stick to one class when the table/DM knows that everyone will never get an Epic Boon in OneDnD? This is the problem that only WotC has to solve but I doubt it. Since 5e has always been more player given than DMs.

Then it heavily depends on the magic item wording. I'm not sure it would work with a ring of spell storing (DMG magic item that works similarly to what you described)

@@TheFuriousBrother yep, ring of spell storing would not work that way, but spell gems do.

Improvise, Adapt, Overcome!

Catnap with prayer of healing is great for any party especially ones with a warlock

@@Gentlemen3 catnap in a party with a warlock and monk is so broken

this one is a stupid rule. my dnd group agrees that as long as you have the action you can cast what ever spell you want to cast

this rule was obviously written out of a fear that quick sorcerers would break the game but all the other classes get slapped by it too for innocent things

And then you can also cast two leveled spells with Action Surge.

@@theprinceofawesomeness thank god that's not RAW that's so broken if you know how to abuse it

@@XerrolAvengerII yeah it should be a high level feature that they can cast 2 leveled spells

Wait until they can walk on walls as a monk, or are a Beast barbarian with a climbing speed.

Clerics have Create Water, thats usually enough if they remember to save a spell slot for it. a lvl 1 casting can create 5 gallons, enough for a party of 5, you just need 10 empty canteens to use it on. (to count as the needed container space)

This also of course assumes no more abusable spells aren't in play as well, like Goodberry or an Artificer's ability to pop out an Endless Jug.

yes, also, remember that without a light sorce, darkvision does not allow the peception of color, only shades of grey, if a puzzle of enviromental clue relies on seeing a particular color, they arent going to get in on darkvision alone (tomb of horrors hall of orbs im looking at you)

Yeah, outside of 60 ft, their checks are with disadvantage, however if creatures have a light source of let's said 60 ft. They gain a range of 120 ft. If the targets have a light source, the checks are not with disadvantage. I've seen people claim that even though there is a light source on the target, they are outside their 60ft. range so everything is with disadvantage.

​@@AnarchySystemare you sure that is how it works RAW? I thought you just had darkvision within your direct 60 feet, not an additional 60

@@theknight1573 I meant with a light source. You can increase your sight by a lot using certain spells or items.

@@AnarchySystem Ow like that. Yeah you can basically have infinite vision if you can get light there.

(captialization added for emphasis) yes exactly, because the CASTING A SPELL ACTION and the ATTACK ACTION are separate things, Extra attack does not give addition actions, it gives more attacks to the ATTACK ACTION. it has no effect on the CASTING A SPELL ACTION.

Wait Really? It does? Good to know!

Blindsight for the win. Especially if one or more of the players have it.

i mean if everybody is equally hindered it all eqauls out - it does make a weird sort of sense - I had a scenario running Out of the abyss were I got to use sight rules like that to my advantage - every time the Drow caught up to us the DM had them drop darkness on themselves, and then pop in and out of it on their turns to take pot shots at us. I was playing a tiefling Cleric/Warlock, and when i had the chance i took devils sight as an invocation. next time the Drow did their whole Darkness cover trick... My tiefling did it right back - and she didnt need to LEAVE the effect to hit them with eldritch blast.... good times

This is one of those things that if you had started much earlier, would be apparent. In older editions, many things cost XP to do...like crafting for example. Modern DnD doesn't use XP as a resource in the same way, so it's less apparent.

Fantasy Egypt paladins would have a nile equivalent wouldn't they? Learning to swim would just be standard as falling into the river and just drowning on a pleasure cruise would be embarrassing. Although drowning in the nile is the least of your concerns normally if you fell into it.

@@spacehitler4537 Osirion doesn't have a comparable river to the Nile, no.

@@AGrumpyPanda You mean the Sphinx River? You cannot have a civilization without a river or water bro.

@@spacehitler4537 They have rivers, but not one massive river that connects the whole thing Nile style.

are you sure they didnt just attack action afterwards? as you can absolutely use a bonus action BEFORE your action

I found it very odd that Arcane Archer was slapped as a Fighter option instead of a Ranger option. That on top of the Fighter bonuses for choosing Archery make them drastically better at being a Ranger than a Ranger. - That's basically what the argument has always been: anything a Ranger can do, some other class can do better.

@@noneayourbusiness5149 The arcane archer is among the worst subclasses on the game though, you only get two uses of your special featureand most of the arrows are not even that impactful, if you want to play a fighter archer you can just go with something like battlemaster or specially samurai and even if you want to do a magic archer very specifically I would argue an eldritch knight with a bow is still better

@@kevin8499 It's definitely not the most powerful subclass, but it's way beyond the worst. I think you either misread some of the details, or maybe they released updated content between its original release and when I first came across it a couple of weeks ago. But it still proves my point that a Fighter focused on Archery is better than a Ranger at Archery. The same goes for Dual-wielding. Which is probably why so many people play Beast Master - because it's the only thing a Ranger can do that is even remotely unique (even though it's not all that unique when you look at combos other classes can pull when it comes to companions - like the Battle Smith Artificers)

​@@noneayourbusiness5149​Ranger also gets Archery Fighting Style and they also have something better than a Fighter: Spellcasting Features. This already makes them more powerful via acces to some of the best spells in the game like PWT, Goodberry, Conjure Animals...

@@Sir-Pleiades Fighter gets nearly equivalent spellcasting levels but access to far more spells with the Eldrich Knight option. And that's if you don't just multi-class Wizard.

milestone are the way to go... why wouldn't you want getting rid of all the hasles that come with keeping tracks of xp ? No need to worry anymore about the party levelling up in the middle of a dungeon because avoiding a fight or a puzzle last session made them "miss" a bit of xp....

But in the other hand 2 levels in fighter and x sorcerer. 3 fireballs in one turn with quicken spell.

@@AnarchySystem or 4 fireballs if you quicken both spells :) + a bonus cantrip

​@@AnarchySystemunless this is a one dnd thing I am unaware of, this doesn't work, quicken spell lets you cast a spell as a bonus action, so you can't fireball with both actuons if you bonus action cast the spell. Agaun if this is about one dnd ignore me

how are you gonna choke something without a neck?

How do you choke a creature that doesn't have a neck?

@@MethosJK9 barbarians always find a way, also he has to have some way of breathing

@@Nutellla they're aberrations, which are from a realm outside reality, so they don't necessarily have to breathe.

People who think the bladesinger and eldritch knight features are core features.

Those who don't realize the level scaling for cantrips are the equivalent ability for casting there

Yeah, Extra Attack is big negative. But Action Surge? That's a double Fireball Bomb.

@@darklordmathias9405 or if you somehow manage to play a lvl 20 char: delayed blast fireball + time stop

@@TheFuriousBrother And these are just SOME of the things you can do with Action Surge and spellcasting. Lol.

Unless your a Bladesinger... But Eldritch Knight / Bladesinger multiclass is interesting.

You probably wouldn’t hear him.

Roll a Stealth Check...

Who's to say he doesn't know the rule? It could very easily be something he kept a little bit changed after going to mostly book rules for c2

Flaw: It doesn't say anything about how it reacts to other things. Say you cast your air bubble, then I target you with a cloud kill spell, making sure to target your head as the source of the cloud. Which spell works, and which doesn't? Not explaining how it interacts with external things, like cloud kill, or gaseous poisons or illicit substances, or even water. It never says you can cast it, then dive to the bottom of the ocean, for example. It creates air in a bubble. But air bubbles float in water, so technically you can't use it for that, it doesn't say it "removes all dangerous gasses from the area", so my cloud kill would fill the air inside the bubble. Gotta be worst spell ever, due to both how situational it is, AND how under-explained it is.

​​@@darklordmathias9405 I said that it was a very situational spell. It's Spelljammers specific for going into space. And with what you said, it's going to be a DM call. I can see an argument for not allowing Cloud Kill to have an effect on a creature with Air Bubble just as well as for why it should work. Same with allowing and disallowing for it to work with going underwater. 5e dropped the ball with the spell on explaining what it can and can't do because of them expecting for people to read about air quality in the book. It would have helped better if they explained it even in the book to begin with. But a situational spell is still infinitely better than True Strick.

Instructions unclear, made a party of rangers all using Tasha's rules.

question to the water weapon rules: i hear them the first time. which sourcebook are they from?

@@zinogrevz7389 Dungeon Master's Guide pretty sure that or PHB

I'm fine with the Dis Adv on my dual wielding or great sword attacks... I'll just treat the two rolls as one role with my +5 from 20 Str or Dex.

Although true, you have the 2nd level spell 'Alter Self' which offers 3x the utility along with even better underwater versatility: Aquatic Adaptation. You adapt your body to an aquatic environment, sprouting gills and growing webbing between your fingers. You can breathe underwater and gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.

Curse of Strahd makes daylight very useful since vampires are weak to sunlight. It ends up causing them radiant damage.

The worst part is, it literally doesn't explain how it interacts with almost anything. It never mentions how it reacts to poison gas, sleep gas, being submerged in water, or anything, so it seems to be one of those "ask your Dm" kinda spells. Smh, WoTC. Smh.

@@darklordmathias9405 it talks about preventing suffocation, meaning you are effectively holding your breath, negating anything that would be negated if you held your breath normally

@@braedenmclean5304 But that's ALL it talks about, and not every poisonous gas causes suffocation. And also, if you're "holding your breath" it does nothing, since you aren't breathing.

@@IIIGioGioStarIII from what I know, RAW it doesn't (it's nothing mentioned in a spell description about it producing sunlight, and there are spells that do mention it, so it's not clear if this part is just missed or they intended it not to produce sunlight). My DM told me it didn't, but we only have a few stuff affected by sunlight as well (and it doesn't do that much), so it's not such a big deal.

exactly, and even if that's not enough, the fact that they get one of the best subclasses of the game, Gloomstalker, automatically makes them above a lot of classes.

Actually, there is--RUN!!

Sure there is - Conjure Animals is a concentration spell. The monk can disengage as a bonus action (Step of the Wind) to get away from the animals and just punch the ranger a half-dozen times, each hit requiring a concentration save, and possibly also land a stunning strike which guarantees concentration is broken. Also, monks can use shortbows with the Dedicated Weapon optional feature, so they don't even need to get close to the ranger to fight, and can deflect the arrows the ranger shoots at them (possibly even throwing them back), which offsets the extra damage the ranger gets from Favored Foe. The monk's move speed is high enough they can outrun the animals, so they will never be a substantial threat while the monk runs around and shoots at the ranger. Depending on the monk subclass, there may be other options available as well. Shadow monk can create magic darkness and teleport around in it or cast silence to keep the ranger from casting the spell. Long Death can just stomp on one of the conjured animals to get temp HP and then ignore the rest to beat up the ranger until their temp HP are gone, then step on another critter. Kensei can be proficient with longbows and Sun Soul can just hurl ki blasts from range. And as terrible as the subclass is, the Four Elements monk has many AOE spell options to deal with the conjured animals.

@@daltigoth3970 You do realize a monk has to hit the ranger first for them to even need a CON save, right? The ranger can simply hide, run into difficult terrain (rangers ignore non-magical difficult terrain), fly up (race or subclass permitting) or raise their AC sufficiently high (just pick up Shield with Magic Initiate and you can get up to 25 AC if you invest in it). Also, even simply discussing PHB subclasses, Hunter has Multiattack Defense, which makes hitting them even more of a futile endeavour. Also, if we're counting optional features after all, a 10th level ranger could very easily spend the entirety of the fight completely invisible, thanks to Nature's Veil, or simply climb up a tree with Roving. Hell, we can disregard Conjure Animals completely. A well-built melee ranger has more HP, a higher AC (up to 20 with max Dex, a shield and Defense fighting style), and more damage than a monk of the same level. What do you want to do about that?

@@HunterTracks Monks have enough move speed that the difficult terrain doesn't matter - at most it evens things out. Flight is also on the table for monks, as is the Shield spell. Multi-attack defense is the only thing the hunter is bringing to the table that is potentially problematic, but that can be offset by a stunning strike or a few other options available to different monk subclasses which either give the monk advantage on attacks or don't target AC. Nature's Veil only lasts until the start of your next turn and can only be used PB number of times per long rest. There is no reason to assume the monk is going to stick around once the ranger turns invisible, though, and the ranger has zero chance of keeping up if the monk decides to leave. By contrast, at level 18, monks can become invisible for 1 minute in addition to becoming resistant to ALL damage except force and the effect doesn't end when they attack. A monk with max DEX and WIS has a 20 AC also. The ranger does not have more damage than the monk since the monk can use most of the same weapons. At most, the ranger deals 1 more damage per attack on average (from d8 weapons, assuming the monk isn't using Dedicated Weapon and isn't a Kensei), but doesn't have flurry of blows, which gives the monk one more attack than the ranger gets until level 11. So the only way the ranger out-damages the monk (using regular attacks) is with Hunter's Mark, which is another concentration spell. The optional feature, Favored Foe, only adds an extra 1d4 to the first hit in a turn, so it isn't going to stack up against the extra hit from flurry of blows.

Only bladesinger gets this, Eldritch Knight gets to make a bonus action attack when they cast a spell with their action. Also, Bladesinger can only replace one attack with a cantrip, so it's still basically true.

CR also doesn't mean shit when Shadows are CR 1/2, Quicklings are CR 2, and Flaming Skulls are CR 4 despite the fact that they cast cast fire ball.

CR also assumes that you're a party of four and have no magic items. Also CR doesn't mean anything anymore if you use more then one monster, sice the calculation and Playtest (haha) only were done for single monster encounters. (Yes, Xanathars guide on this is somewhat decent, but it doesn't always work)

@@TheFuriousBrother maybe multiply the CR by the square root of the amount of monsters?

@@ScorpioneOrzion If we ignore AoEs for a second, Lanchester's Square Law implies that we should multiply the experience value by the square of the number of monsters in the encounter (rather than adding them up, as per the normal rules). If your party has a lot of casters, that number definitely goes down due to AoE, but like... rare is the occasion where 10 goblins at once is less threatening than 10 goblins one at a time.

Fighting 6 ogres all at once is a completely different beast to fighting one ogre at a time six times. Action economy is stressed in fights for very good reason. I shouldn't need to explain why as applying any level of critical thinking to the scenarios should let you know how much worse one is than the other. That being said the level of experience of your party and the magic items they have access to can quickly bridge the gap and an exceptionally competent party is usually able to "punch up" pretty high over their projected CR for a single encounter adventuring day.

Where in PHB says you start with a 15?

@@RottenRogerDM If you don't pick ability score 14 and 15, you have 13. Assuming you pick a race that gives +2 to your primary ability score, that makes 15.

@@schwarzerritter5724 I just checked the PHB not seeing it. Point buy 8 cost 0 pts , 9 cost1 pts , 10 cost 2 pts, 11 cost 3 pts, 12 cost 4 pts, 13 cost 5 pts, 14 cost 6 pts , 15 cost 9 pts With 27 points being the standard pt buy.

@@RottenRogerDM Every step of Customizing Ability Scores costs 1 point, with step 14 and 15 costing one point more than the other steps. The video advises not taking the more expensive steps, because that way you will end up with lower average ability scores. But if you only take the cheap steps, you will end up with, at most, 15 in your primary ability score, which is only a +2 modifier.

@@schwarzerritter5724 Um. WE are not communicating. The A 14 stat will cost you 6 pts. And 15 cost 9 points. Are you using "Step" to mean + modifier?

War Caster does other things, too. Opportunity attack spells are _amazing._

I hope you just mean the damage and to hit roll is unaffected.

The peasant Rail gun doesn't work in general because the first peasant in the 1.2 billion line would be too far away to be considered in combat, and thus not subjected to the time rules of combat, or the mechanics.