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Mage Slayer, huh? I'mma make a rule that only I am allowed to take that feat... Only I may use magic!

“This is Spencer, my fiancé” and “FIREBALL” are the most used words on this channel

I've had this character concept sitting around for a necromancer wizard with the healer feat who's basically a really sketchy doctor who builds frankenstein monsters in his basement

Step 1: Play a Warlock and take the Mask of many faces invocation (This allows you to cast disguise self at will). Step 2: Take the Actor feet( This allows you to mimic voices). Step 3: Become every NPC.

"Take keen mind" "The feat sucks" *laughs in Caleb*

Flavour idea for the Warcaster feat: You cast spells through your feet instead of your hands. Like, you’ll just hacky-sack a firebolt into the air and kick it at someone.

I like taking the tough feat in campaigns that start at level 1 because it gives the unique ability of not dying in the 2nd combat

Keen mind is code for "i should know this but my player has lower int than me" Also magic initiate is just my "i want a familiar and the dm can't stop me" feat.

"Take keen mind." "No! It sucks!" *Flashback to Avnia* "Whoa, keen mind is good in a dungeon?" "A feat is good in a dungeon? In a game called Dungeons and Dragons?"

Oh boy, has Borky the Orky from "The Unexpectables" gotten his mileage out of Tavern Brawler. He's suplexed _so many_ things to death, and once (technically) used a _steam boat_ as a weapon. A note about Mage Slayer that people often miss: its second perk states "when you damage a creature that is concentrating on a spell", not "when you damage a creature within 5 feet of you that is concentrating on a spell", meaning the feat is still useful for characters that use ranged attacks.

Unpopular opinion: Sentinel feat is amazing cause it’s my job to beat up cowards who try to run away

Having the healer feat and being a thief rogue means you can bonus action heal with fast hands.

"You're risking a lot not taking that +2 to Charisma." *Laughs in variant human.*

Never underestimate the variant human, now your cleric can start with a 20 in wisdom and read lips.

11:20 "It is a great way to be a healer without being a cleric." Me: Sad ranger and druid noises

I love War Caster, one of my characters was a Knight who dual-wielded lances on horseback while blasting spells at people, it was great

Magic Initiate: when your cleric or paladin whips out eldrich blast then does 10 prayers of forgivness

One of my favorite characters was a Rogue Inquisitive with the Healer feat. He had no stealth skill and all of his skills revolved around being a doctor. His sneak attack was due of his superior knowledge of anatomy.

My entire party is alive purely because of Heavy Armour Master: we faced literally 100 Kobolds over the course of the dungeon (in groups of 4-16) and I got hit a LOT. The damage this Feat soaked was nothing short of incredible.

"Take Keen Mind" "The feat sucks!" -> Wizard in my game just took it. That said, this is an astronomer wizard who really cares about looking at the sky. Plus, it's still more int.

Lol the slight nod by Spencer when he says "random idiot"

I remember Mage Slayer. My Thief got a unique homebrew variant where she would instead attempt to slap casting components out of a nearby spellcaster's hand as a reaction, potentially interrupting the spell and wasting their action entirely. This was mostly allowed because she was overall quite weak due to being far more utility than raw damage, and it required them to be super close to the spellcaster, which usually meant going out of my way to put her into that position, usually by avoiding combat for a bit to close distance through stealth. Generally just super fun to imagine this little halfling girl jumping up and slapping beads, bones, jewels and other magical items out of peoples' hands in slow-motion, wiggling a tiny finger at them with their other hand.

i looove the linguist feat one of my characters got it while we levelled up in the feywild and one of the languages i got was sylvan and basically in-character he was just like: didn't everyone suddenly learn sylvan as soon as we entered the feywild?

Got sharpshooter and elven accuracy on my arcane archer, and I've been happy as a clam ever since. The first encounter after I got sharpshooter, my initiative was pretty garbage, so by the time I got to shoot, all the bad guys were entangled in a melee mess. The DM said "alright, you're gonna have disadvantage on that shot . . ." No, sir. I think I won't. Drilled a hobgoblin in the middle of it all and popped my arcane shot, blasting all of his buddies. The paladin mopped up and good times were had by all. Except the hobgoblins. They died.

take a shot everytime you hear anything that rhymes with wheat

I swear these two never look bored when they're together.

Magic Initiate: Perfect for when you are playing a religious character and wants to pick up a couple Cleric Spells without having to multiclass.

One of my favorite feats that often goes overlooked is Skilled. Yes, grabbing a few extra skill proficiencies is a big quality of life boost for most classes, but the REAL treat is using Skilled to pick up Tool Proficiencies, which you likely can't pick up any other way except through your background. Tools are SO horrifically underused and have SO many applicable uses that using Skilled to pick up a handful of tool proficiencies makes you a literal MacGuyver. Check out the nonsense you can get away with using just Carpenter's tools, listed directly in the book: "Build a temporary shelter", "Design complex wooden structure", "Find a weak point in a wooden wall", "Pry open a door", all this and more because you have a hammer, a saw, and some basic knowledge of architecture and engineering!

I'm currently running Grim Hollow. All I can say is its like a fresh breath of dark air to me and my players. Amazing book. Amazing world building. Amazing everything.

Imagine this, you are a monster fighting a dragonborn wizard with war caster. Suddenly he opens his mouth, and 6 magic missiles shoot out of it, and kill the guy next to you

I love heavy armor master. Put it on a bear totem barbarian and then take tough for your next feat and you've got one CHONKY boy. Extra shoutouts of you play a Goliath and count as one size class larger for certain actions. I had a Bear Totem Goliath who once pulled up a nearby tree and shoved an animated armor's sword under it so it couldn't get it back. He could lift things 3200lbs. He was amazing - he also only communicated by grunting and flexing, and the DM and I agreed that was just giant speak.

Jacob: "And now you dont need to be a cleric to be a heaeler." Bard, Druid, Paladin, Radiant Sorceror, Celestial Warlock: "Am I a joke to you?"

I was playing a wizard a while back who's mom was a bard, and so he took magic initiate (Bard with cure wounds, vicious mockery and mending) and became the backup healer for when our actual bard went down. It did give our bard a bit of an identity crisis when I also started singing to heal people but eh...he lived

"Mobile and Sentinel are OP!" Meanwhile, favours the Sharpshooter feat, a feat that completely destroys any damage-per-round balance, along with Great Weapon Fighting and Crossbow Mastery...

I love the face of the wizard at 4:10

Tavern Brawler almost feels like a fighting style instead of a feat, honestly.

"anything can be a weapon if you're holding it right" - I did not think I would hear a Ludo reference in the year of our lord 2020. A+

"Anything can be a weapon if you're holding it right" Was not expecting to hear some Ludo today, but I'm glad I did.

"That shit overpowered." "I love the Sharpshooter feat."

I like alert on my cowardly character. Technically they would be the first ones to run from any danger. The +5 to initiative helps with making sure I go first do I can blind them with pocket sand, set caltrops or disable the enemy's before moving away. It's a cool way to incorporate your roleplay into combat

Thumbnail Knight, * gets three arrows shot into helmet's eye holes Knight: "I see."

I'm starting to realize, Jacob has no idea how to use furniture.

I love the healer feat with a rogue. field medic who can disengage and get to another player.

Rogue: thief, fast hands, healer feat. YOU’RE A GODAMN DOCTOR

The Healer feat, or as I like to call it: reliable 10 gp healing potions that scale with your level.

Just saying, Keep Mind's recall ability can actually be pretty good. My favorite moment was when I was sneaking through an enemy strong hold as an assassin, and I kept overhearing conversations while sneaking about a place, but they were in a rare language I didn't understand. I made it back to the group and told the caster to cast comprehend languages. Everyone was confused but caster did it. I then used Keen Mind to perfectly recall every word I head, and impostor to perfectly mimic the pronunciations. Sure there are other things we could have done to prepare for that scenario, but we didn't realize we'd be in that scenario and that's the advantage of Keen Mind. That perfect recall can prepare you for many moments you didn't prepare for. I also used the keen mind frequently to stay in crowded areas listening to idle gossip and conversations, and be able to recall if anyone said anything about X thing for some info, especially when shadowing a man I planned to impersonate. "Oh did anyone say anything while I was shadowing this guy about...*thing I am being asked about*"

Enemy boss: *Tries to summon more demons into combat Wizard with a ton of high lvl magic missiles and Mage Slayer: Imma end this man’s whole career.

One of my players has a crazy strong wizard with tavern brawler, he's the typical wizard but super buff. The robes hide just how built he is and anyone getting too close finds themselves crushed.

Martial Adept be like: I have trained in hand-to-hand combat for years among my fellow warriors and I now posses such advanced fighting techniques that nobody can get the upper hand on me in a fight. Lucky be like: lol ability checks go nat 20 now haha

"Complains about Overpowered feats." Sharpshooter is first listed favourite feat?

Fun feature of magic initiate, you learn the spell so, if you take magic initiate for a spellcaster class you have levels in, you basically get an extra learned spell and a single free casting of said spell

You can pair parry, heavily armored, and the Goliath’s stone’s endurance to negate a maximum of 23+your constitution mod. Goliaths get +1 to con automatically, and constitution is an important skill in general. Don’t forget you can also take the martial adept feat to get parry as a non battle master or non fighter. Shield master also exists.

I have a fighter that’s basically fantasy mandalorian: bounty hunter background with crossbow master, heavy armor master and sharp shooter feats.

I love Keen Mind. It's that kind of feat that defines your character. My Inquisitive Rogue with it and Observant is basically Sherlock Holmes with a sassy attitude.

I love the direction your heading with this video it kinda feels like were hanging out and your just excitedly talking about some thing you love witch is fantastic.

I have a Dragonborn Sorceror who’s an asshole, so I gave her Magic Initiate solely so she can have Vicious Mockery. So far she’s only used it once... on a clockwork dragon... which was immune to psychic damage.

I like that these are your favorite feats, and not just "the most powerful" feats.

I very much enjoy the videos with both Jacob and Spencer cause it just has... a good feeling to it. This applies to videos where there are other guests with Jacob. This channel really introduced dungeons and dragons to me, this I love how much the channel has evolved!

"Mage Slayer is really specific for a campaign that you're playing in" IDK, the be party usually has at least one spellcaster in it. 😈

I had an idea for a war medic that was instead a rogue, and flavor that his sneak attack comes from his medical knowledge.

7:14 "you can have sword and shield" The Alarm:'Atention Jocat has been summon'

Spell sniper makes me happy. I laugh as I take lt and eldritch spear.

I need the alert feat on my -1 paladin that always goes 10th in a 4 person party

One of my favourite things about Mage Slayer is that the improved concentration disruption works with spells, so you can Fireball an entire army of wizards and they all have disadvantage on their concentration save.

These two are so cute separate and just cuter when they're together.

Magic intiate is awesome for an (Varient Human) eldritch knight, it’s super good for some backstory depth and also if you take warlock as the class, you get hex and also ELDRITCH BLAST, that plus a super fun role play spell/cantrip, it’s a good time

A GWM fighter with magic initiate for bless to counteract your attack penalty is one of my favorite build concepts.

The best way to use Magic Initiate is with a Lore Bard. You'll get to dabble in magic from almost all the caster classes.

Sheildmaster: Bash people to the ground *before* you attack to gain advantage.

"You are so talented" "I know"

I was quite pleased to be watching an informative video and then hear Jacob start singing Ludo. It's my wife's favorite band, and Broken Bride is her favorite album of theirs.

The feat sucks Spencer: NO!

Once, I interrupted the BBEG's escape plan by having the Sentinel feat. Yeah, that shit is overpowered.

*Spencer enters shot* "FEETS WERE GONNA TAKK ABOUT THEM" definitely not the video I expected lol

Wasn't expecting to hear a Ludo reference but I guess Jacob is a certified pretty cool guy

"My first favorite feat is Sharpshooter" Ah, a man of culture I see

I took alert and found just how broken it was on my Yian-ti Sorceress. While the rest of my part was looking a room I went across the hall, into the next room and got ambushed by 3 goblins by myself...Cept I wasn't surprised, won initiative and ended the fight with a sleep spell in an instant.

I loved using Mage-Slayer as an Eldritch Knight with War Caster. The enemy mages would try to cast a spell while this heavily armored, shield and sword-bearing knight is breathing heavily in front of them, only to be slapped with a Booming Blade so they can't even panic-run away without hurting themselves. Eventually, I also had the character take the Sentinel feat, but it was for roleplay reasons, I swear. He was the "old-man mentor" character in the group, and he was always trying to protect everyone he could, so I felt the Sentinel feat really helped solidify that personality trait into a mechanical part of the character.

The healer kit goes well with a wizard proficient in the medic checks along with the hermit background to the herbalism proficiency where you can craft regular health potions for 25 gp per day or through the garden and have find familiar and tie two health potions or more to their torso to deliver potions to downed allies.

The Gourmand feat isn’t the greatest, but I love it for the flavor- pun intended.

For healer one of my favorite combinations is with thief rogue, cause fast hands lets you use the healer's kit as a bonus action

A variant human rogue with the skilled feat can have ten skills at level one

I really really love the Fey/Shadow Touched feat(s). I think they're great on just about any character considering that they give a boost to a mental stat, and they give you 2 free spells per day, one fixed 2nd level spell that is really useful for just about anyone, either Misty Step for a bonus action teleport, or Invisibility for well, invisibility, and then you get a 1st level spell for free from a decent selection which can be great cause you can get stuff like Bless or Heroism or whatever from Fey or things like Inflict Wounds from Shadow. On Spellcasters it gives you 2 extra spells per day and boosts your important stat. And it can give you access to spells you might not normally get. If you're a warlock or an Artificer and you want a few more spells per day this gets you that. For non-casters having the ability to cast these kinds of spells, even once per day, can be a huge boon. The Fighter could teleport as a bonus action then do their full attacks without needing to be an Eldritch Knight or whatever. A Rogue can just straight up cast Invisibility once per day as early as level 4. A Monk could bless the party before running in and doing a flurry of blows with a bonus to hit in the same turn. It's not the widest selection of spells in the game but there's enough to give a good option or two to just about any character outside of a barbarian who is directly adverse to casting spells lol. You could also argue that this feat makes Magic Initiate retroactively better as well because after these feats were introduced people asked if they would errata feats like Magic Initiate into letting you use spell slots to cast the spells you learn with it and most DMs agree that you should be able to. Though it also is potentially very good in combo with Magic Initiate for a non caster if you want to play a sort of Magic-Adjacent Martial Character who doesn't wanna multiclass or things like that, but still wants some spell options. Both feats together get you 2 Cantrips, 2 First Level spells, a Second Level Spell, and +1 to a Mental Stat (presumably the one you're using to cast these spells). That's pretty good imo on a Fighter or something especially when you get extra feats anyways.

Let's face it, the Tavern Brawler feat best use is to take it as a paladin, and smiting people smashing chair and barstools on their back.

I've been heavily considering taking the healer feat as my monk character next time because with my movement capabilities I can rush to any KO'd party member and get them back in the fight.

My favorite feat is actually Inspiring Leader. I was actually a DM before I was a player, and my only experience in the game prior to running it was combat with my uncles group. Because of that, my groups DMs typically abide by the rules of fun. If you want to make a character because of an aesthetic, theme, or backstory, and because of that, the character ends up being bad at what it does, the DM pucks up the slack. I typically run the hard campaigns, ones where the players decide they want to make powerful characters and be challenged, and my friend Ethan runs the loose campaigns, where we are just doing gimmicky stuff and having fun. Anyway, my first time as a player, under Ethans command, I played a Changeling Cavalier Fighter with 1 level of Hexblade Warlock. Basically, my plan was to create a Changeling Melee Fighter with Strength as his dump stats. Since I got 7 ability score improvements, eventually I just didn't need stat increases anymore. So I started taking feats, and among them was Inspiring Leader. It gave some amazing roleplay opportunities, and definitely made the boss fights more impactful. My favorite part of this character was how much I started using Eldritch Blast, it ended up being my go to for beginning rounds when I was too far away to melee and needed some damage output. The worst part about this character was Intelligence, though. I put score improvements into Con, Dex (For armor, low strength) Charisma, and Wisdom. My intelligence was pretty low, but I thought it was funny. Super charismatic, wise, and defensively able, yet stupid, skinny, and frail. But Inspiring Leader made him so much more fun to play, because he just said stupid bs and as long as he sounded confident, Ethan just laughed and kept going.

I am currently playing an Eldritch knight in a campaign where the bad guys have a lot of casters among them and man, having both warcaster and mage slayer has made my character the tankiest, most buffed, unstoppable caster-buster power house.

You two are so cute together..

I remember Taking20 mentioned the Healer Feat in their list of the best Feats to take. He mentions how a lot of people overlook it, but that first ability from Healer where you are able to get someone back up to 1HP is *just enough* for them to get another hit in on an enemy before potentially getting knocked out again. Better that than to simply stabilize them.

I loved the mood you two created and the music went great with it. I had a great time watching this, keep up the great work!

WHen he fell he turned into the wizard for a second, listen to his voice. I guess to bring out the wizard one must first be concussed.

Mage Slayer is my favorite. Love the idea of making mages have panic attack when my fighter is near.

8:35 BOY, IF ONLY THERE WAS ANOTHER FEAT THAT DOES THAT BUT IN A WAY THAT IS SO MUCH MORE USEFUL OUTSIDE COMBAT AND JUST MORE USEFUL IN GENERAL, *OH WAIT, HELLO RITUAL CASTER!* This goddamn feat is so underrated, and I don't understand why

I was caught off guard when you sang Save our City by Ludo at 9:13. I fucking love them. You're a cool guy yourself.

Ritual caster is a great feat. Took it for my divine soul sorcerer and it really rounded out the character. Plus he was masquerading as a cleric so being able to actually do a prayer of healing went a long way with the locals.

I really like the Observant feat. Especially on Wisdom based characters but its also good on anyone. Because thwarting the DM’s traps/hidden treasures by having a 17 passive perception as a Monk or other class is great.

I love the mental image some of these give to mind. My personal favorite is mage slayer, which gives me the image of a guy seeing a mage prepping a spell in front of him and then WHACKING THE MAGE ON THE HEAD AS HARD AS HE CAN.

That Ludo "Broken Bride" reference felt like getting rear ended by a truck. I've literally never run into that in the wild. 10/10 excellent reference.